skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, arsenic concentration in rice is a consideration. However, this is not germaine to the discussion of what constitutes a healthy rice intake from the carbohydrates:fiber ratios.

Edit: arsenic concentrations in rice has more to do with where the rice is geown than the type of rice. For example, I don't buy rice from Arkansas.
Punishing those in privilege is how you achieve equality. They can't give up that inequality voluntarily, and wouldn't if they could.
Sure but no company is going to be perfect and I’d say their track record of maintaining tech is better than Google’s right now.
It’s halfway through the month and I’m blocked by Medium. It is a bit frustrating.

I’m not sure about this comment though:

“Learn to market yourself and your content. Quit being lazy waiting for Medium to do it for you.”

Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps.
How do you suggest solving a problem that comes down effectively to 'some people have more money and free time'?

Not everyone can afford high quality tutoring, and high quality tutoring clearly has an impact on test scores.
I would need some very heavy proof that traveling (aka vacations where you instagram breakfast with a view) and eating at restaurants makes someone a well rounded individual, not to mention someone who “adds” to an educational institute.

I would put my chips on someone who has at least proven themselves academically.
They are saying they will get a real divorce but just live together after.
Where? On a message board of leftists? People are self sorting into subgroups with their own distinct overton windows.
How does one determine how large the correction should be? Since the system is all opaque and political, what prevents one from setting a correction factor of 10x, making sure no child of --bourgeois-- middle-class parents will ever set foot in an university? Such a policy was implemented in Eastern Europe under occupation by Stalin's armies in the aftermath of WWII. The economic and social results became quite apparent a few decades later, when the whole system collapsed.
Age is a proxy for putting value into such concepts as "ethics". When you're more or less senior and have your basic needs met, then you can afford to be picky on what you work. Fresh grads might not care because it takes to know evil to know good (see the story of the original sin and Tree of the knowledge of good and evil), and work experience is like a separate life experience.

Heck, I've heard a theory that you should only be counting programming years as life years, i.e. if they haven't been programming for 18 years, then they aren't adults in the world of software. And the funny thing is, once you're at least a teenager by this definition, then you start thinking that they might actually be onto something...
Y’all need to read Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker.

Life is better than it ever has been, and there’s an embarrassing amount of data backing up that claim.

We’re depressed because our brains didn’t evolve to live in this kind of society, but that doesn’t mean our civilization is falling apart.
I've been amazed seeing some folks I think of as good web citizens who are thoughtful about the web, web development, and etc.... keep using Medium, or at least have recently.

Some of these people would get plenty of attention posting on a personal site and just tweeting it out, but they choose medium, and I wonder why.

Folks less well known, I get it it assuming they somehow get more attention on medium.
When the term was first coined it had a clear meaning - someone who was a statistician, and a programmer, and a subject matter expert.

Someone who could, for instance, write code from scratch to calculate maximum likelihood estimates, and use it to make predictions on real world data.

The term got coopted by snake oil salesmen pretty soon after.
You can also give resources to those who aren't in privilege so they are able to succeed academically, and don't need to have their admission average artificially lowered.
My (apparently unpopular?) opinion: this is an excellent move. Colleges already try to take adversity into account in admissions. Now they'll have a more uniform, clear, objective, and standardized way of doing so. I do wish it was more transparent--i.e. that students could see their own scores--but this is clearly a step in the right direction.
> No, it is not. Nobody should be able to influence air traffic in that way just because she/he understands the transport layer.

I hear you. But it is the reality of the world. There comes a time when everyone realizes that the boundary between civilized behavior and uncivilized behavior is just a convention. I think of it as the final stage of moving from childhood into adulthood.

For example, you could go into the hardware store and buy a couple of bags of fertilizer, some stump remover, a bag of charcoal for the grill, some food for the roses, and six quarts of motor oil. Are you going to do some gardening and grilling over the weekend or going to blow up someone's house? The materials work for either activity. Maybe you rent a moving van over the holiday weekend. Helping a buddy move? Or mowing down tourists at a crowded venue?

People who choose to be evil will be evil. There isn't anything you can do about them but you can build defense in depth on various other ways.

In the case of air navigation you have a pilot in the cockpit who is supposed to be paying attention. They can takeoff, navigate, and land with nothing more than their eyeballs, a compass, and some paper charts. All the other gizmos help certainly but they aren't essential[1]. When people actively interfere with the other gizmos, whether it is intentionally by transmitting on restricted frequencies, or unintentionally like the delivery truck that shut down Newark Airport because the driver used a GPS jammer to keep the home office from seeing they were taking a break while he watched the planes, it has effects. The rest of the system reacts to minimize damage and risk and the actions themselves bring attention to the people involved.

It is fortunate in my experience that that 90+% of the people in the world are too lazy or simply not wired to be curious about how things work the way they do. You may have noticed from the article that they didn't say how you would interfere with navigation with a "$600 SDR", they just said that you could. Most people reading that will say, "Oh dear that's dreadful! Oh look here's a picture of a funny puppy on the next page."

As I get older and meet more people, it amazes me how rare genuine curiosity really is. The persistence to follow that curiosity in order to develop understanding is rarer still. Life doesn't have a safety net, and trying to give it one to eliminate danger completely is pretty futile.

[1] Ok the pilots in the group are going to jump up and say, without an artificial horizon, an airspeed indicator, and working altimeter and you'll be sorry but even without those you can do pretty well.
Really? Care to elaborate?
I don't understand why a person would say his cars will be fully self driving within a year when they still run into semi trailers. I guess it's because he wants people to give him money. It's sad from all directions.

And let me pre-empt the replies by saying yes, what matters in safety is the statistics, not a single data point. And let me pre-empt the replies to the reples by saying yes, but the statistics on self-driving cars are not at all encouraging.

I suspect Autopilot's running-into-semis rate is worse than humans', for three reasons:

(1) Tesla has been cagey about their Autopilot safety stats. If Autopilot was clearly safer, I think they'd be less cagey. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence. This is just speculation, of course.

What concrete data they have shared is summarized here: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

Teslas with Autopilot on crash roughly once every 3 million miles. To their credit, that's really good! However, they don't say: (1) how often Teslas crash on freeways with Autopilot off, or (2) how often drivers have to take control to prevent Autopilot from crashing.

(2) The fatal crash in 2016 was also with a semi trailer. 2/4+ fatal crashes having this failure mode suggests this failure mode is especially high for their vision based system. Not a good look.

(3) Pretty much all self-driving companies have disengagement rates way worse than humans. Waymo is leading the pack - by far - at something like once every 10,000 miles in California. There are tons of caveats in interpreting these numbers, and they should probably be treated as an upper bound, since it's at the discretion of the company to only self-report disengagements that would have led to crashes, I believe. But human crash rates are something like once every 300,000 miles. So even lidar based systems are an order magnitude away from humans, by one super rough measure.

Lastly, a small correction to the title: This is the third known US autopilot crash. I believe there was a suspected autopilot crash in China some years back as well, and I'm not sure about other countries.
At least in places where rule of law exists the use of rubber-hose cryptanalysis is significantly restricted especially for powerful authorities.

Strapping someone into a fMRI with a loop that says "YOUR PASSWORDS FIRST CHARACTER A B C ..." isn't (yet) so obviously restricted.

Rubber-hose cryptanalysis can also, at its extremes, be resisted by denial (potentially at the cost of disfigurement or death) at least by some people. Mind-reading cryptanalysis may require that you commit suicide in advance of being questioned to protect information. They aren't equivalent.
Now THAT is racist attitude against asian-americans (well the stereo typical asian).

So how about kids from single parent family or poor neighborhoods who cannot eat out and/or cannot travel because of lack of money? Are they less rounded kids too?

Just because you are asian and do 'Racquetball, violin, AP calculus' doesn't make one asian same as the next asian. How damn racist of you.
We (Republicans) are often opposed to this stuff not because we are against infrastructure, but $200 billion being spent on a 500 mile train. If it were cost efficient and managed correctly, more of us would be on board. We watch as massive infrastructure projects such as the Second Avenue subway and other similar projects turn into boondoggles. If a private company can build rockets and go to space, why can’t a private company build trains? XpressWest and Virgin have been interested in an LA-Vegas line. We in California were told that this train would be profitable: if that’s the case, then why the need for hundreds of billions in taxpayer money? My California taxes are high enough and they can’t even fix potholes in the freeways, and they expect us to trust them with an ultra-expensive train? My dad just visited and was amazed at how bad the freeways were compared to Texas. What does California spend all those tax dollars on?

California had total Democrat control of the government from 1999-2003 and from 2011 until now. So in the last 8 years of Democrat control, the train problems are somehow Republican? That’s nonsense. The rail project wasn’t even approved by voters until 2008 and construction didn’t begin until 2015 — years after Republicans had any say in state government. The project has been in an almost continual “environmental review” — certainly not at the behest of the Republicans. The rail debacle isn’t Republican: they haven’t had any power since 2011. And Gavin Newsome was the one that postponed everything except the Merced-Bakersfield line. If Republicans ran the state, taxpayers would be billions richer and we have exactly the same amount of train we have now.
I tend to agree with the obituary described about what I.M. Pei's explanation:

He argued that his glass pyramid was merely an updated
version of a traditional form, and that his redesigned
courtyard had been influenced by the geometric work of the
French landscape architect Le Notre. It was rigorously
rational, in other words, and in that sense classically
French.

> but it's a little disgusting how proud of where it was placed.

Also, I.M. Pei himself considered JFK Library the most important commission of his life[1], not the Louvre Pyramid.
What he merely said was he didn't think he made a wrong choice in designing the glass pyramid. And there were quite a bit of background info and context in his choice in the wikipedia article.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei#/media/File:JFK_libr...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei#Le_Grand_Louvre,_Par...
Racket also has the GIL though. It's a problem in every dynamic language I've looked at. Last I checked it was true for Ruby too.
Yes, and refcounting creates false contention. For example, a global config object is constantly having its refcount bumped up and down every time someone dereferences it, even though the actual contents are read-only.

There are ways to mitigate this, but they’re complex.
I have yet to meet a single person who has willingly clicked on an ad, only to be converted into a real purchase.

I have yet to meet a person who actually pointed an ad out to me as a positive element in a page.

I have yet to meet a person who has had their opinion swayed by persuasive media campaigns.

I have yet to meet a person who consumed fake news or thought at least one fake news article was anything more convincing than a weird, quirky tabloid Weekly World News Bat Boy type story.

As far as I can tell, no one is that stupid.
See, this is kinda my problem with the whole push for nationalized healthcare in the US; it's not the nationalized healthcare part that's the problem. The Germans can do national healthcare beautifully. The Swedes can do national healthcare beautifully. The UK can do national healthcare... competently. But if the current US bureaucracy was put up to the task, than in a year we'll end up having serious articles about the resurgence of the plaque in Kentucky. I'm not sure how, but we really need to fix the current bureaucratic situation before we give them any more responsibility in the manner
I would consider the `Deref` trait as well as the liberal use of `Into` etc in libraries to fall under this category. Not _fully_ automatic, but generally not clear from the callsite (which, in the case of `Deref`, is the `.` operator).
People to seem to swear casually a lot these days. Swear words have an outsized impact compared to their literal meaning and I wonder if overusing them hurts our ability to express true shock and disgust. On the flip side people also tend to overuse positive words like awesome, amazing, etc. The holocaust was fucking awful, your junior developer’s code was just bad.
Depends on the nature of the build artefacts? Gems, jars and NPM packages get posted to a jFrog artefactory. Go and Cocoapods just use straight Git, so Jenkins actually makes commits for those (and in the case of Go, version tags) from inside the Docker container. For the EMR clusters, there's a step in the build script that uploads the files to S3.

Another way to do it would be to have the `docker run` / `docker build` script be given a mounted volume that maps to the system's, and then it would write the blobs to that volume, where (I think?) they'd then be accessible to the outer system.
After school programs, ensuring all schools have equal funding, getting better at determining which kids aren't succeeding, and spending more time with them to give them the one on one support they need. I mean it's a very hard problem, and maybe it's unsolvable, but I think we have a lot more things we can try before giving up and trying to put Band-Aids on the problem.

I think if class sizes are sufficiently small though, at least in grade school, a teacher should know every student, and be able to identify those who aren't getting the support they need at home. If they are a good teacher, they can act accordingly, and maybe work with the parents to help the child succeed.
The scar on the face of Paris.
And they’re a private company too !
Again, I am not arguing that censorship is "necessary", nor am I saying anything about bad people. I am saying that individual websites are not in a position to impose censorship unilaterally in a very effective way, and those who attempt it will lose users to those that do not, but that a cartel of a sufficiently large group of popular websites is in a position to impose censorship. This is true entirely independent of whether censorship is good, bad, or mixed. Furthermore, it doesn't imply that censorship is either inevitable or impossible, since the formation and continuation of such a cartel is an uncertain contingency upon which effective censorship is conditioned.

As to whether MLK's positions now being "centrist", I suspect you're one of those people who haven't read anything he wrote other than "I Have a Dream", and haven't even read more than excerpts from that, but all of that is irrelevant to the argument, because in my original post, I was talking about today's equivalent to MLK, who is by definition not centrist.

Your accusations of dishonesty — "You[]…attempt a pretty transparent sleight of hand" — are false and unfounded, and you need to withdraw them immediately.
They do not use the phrase exactly-once delivery as far as I’ve seen, they say “exactly-once semantics”. And this is referring to a specific set of Kafka features that you previously had to build yourself if you used Kafka. I have not seen any reference to them claiming their solution is somehow novel. In fact, it just wraps up patterns people were doing anyway.

Oracle claiming to support serializable transactions is also false (as you say), but calling it a lie is not the whole story. “ANSI serializable” and actually serializable are not the same thing. Oracle is “ANSI SQL-92 serializable”, as in no named anomalies from the spec. There just happen to be more anomalies like write skew which are not in the spec.
This article would benefit from harsh editing to cut down all the unnecessary prose. Just so much unnecessary talking. I felt like I galloped over multiple fluff paragraphs before I got to “git init” before it resumed again.
Then let's dispense with competitive admissions entirely and use a lottery. There is nothing more fair than a random draw.
Yes, they’re only 7.5 billion people on the planet, and only 1.4 billion in China.

That would be 10 billion fares.

So, the 2 billion yearly passengers probably include some repeated people.

You are being pedantic, not technical
Zero chance this non-disclosure policy lasts. Remember how much pressure Uber got to allow riders to see their rating? And that "score" has just about zero impact on anyone's life/future/potential scholarship opportunities.
Absolute bullshit. To say there are no studies demonstrating better effectiveness than placebo is a tired old meme. It is true that SSRIs don’t have a profound effectiveness over placebo like some drugs.. but that does not make them useless. Current understanding is that they are effective, just not very much.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This meta analysis has John Ionaddis as one of the coauthors (if you don’t know why this is interesting look it up).

Also nothing is easily “disproved” in medicine (or most science) so even if “neurotransmitter imbalance” is false, you’re still wrong nothing is on the way to being disproved. Furthermore, current understanding of SSRI effectiveness is not based on “correcting neurotransmitter imbalance”.
It's too bad the article doesn't have a timeline of when such surveillance became possible, and when it became widespread. Without that context, it's hard to evaluate this - it could just be rabidly-partisan rubbish, or even part of an influence op, designed to confuse everyone, and muddle the issue.
If we go to fully automated flying then there must ALSO be a visual check.

I don't think a visual check is needed (otherwise you would be much more limited in where/when you can land), but cross-checking some other data is. Turns out we're already there, and in an ILS approach the pilots should already be checking other instruments.
Nah. More like a clang-format pass. Refactoring would be more like rearranging genes on the chromosome.
I don’t see why children should have their opportunity limited by what their parents can or can’t do (or even refuse to do). How is that meritocracy or equality of opportunity? That’s just old fashion inheritance.
Finally, someone listens! I've been saying for years that not enough services are dependent on unreliable internet infrastructure! I can't wait to add single player games to the list of things I am unable to do when my internet provider has yet another massive multi-day outage.
Every "take home" challenge I've ever been presented with happens before the onsite interview and doesn't replace it.
> Does anyone have a take on how likely that consequence would be to happen?

Very probable, has happened yet. To fake a car kill is a well known alibi for crimes against endangered species like critically endangered Iberian lynx.

If people are allowed to retire the corpse and eat the animal, how the administration could look for evidence of illegal shooting or traps before the evidence is buried or eaten?. Anybody could just shoot, and then other people could use a SUV and have a free pass to violate any hunting law.

On the other hand, in most countries meat for human comsumption must be examinated by a licensed veterinary to avoid spreading diseases to cattle and people. Ill and confused animals are more prone to end as roadkills. Rabies, roundworms or Trichinose could increase amongst human population.
musk is not implementing anything. I find the consistency with which the asshole figure heads (musk, jobs) are idolized deeply troubling.

cool yeah, new tech, wooh. very exciting.

but you know what's more important than that? being a good, kind person.

which you definitely are not if you are heading a large organization designed to systematically squeeeeeeeze everything it can get out of its peons while giving them as little as possible in return. and also definitely if you like to do things such as publicly call someone risking their life to save strangers a pedophile.
True, but given that it's more difficult to change your weight than it is to find someone of a different weight, I'd rather live my whole life with a scale that might be reading (say) 5lbs high or low, rather than a scale that fluctuates between 5lbs high or low from measurement to measurement.
> Now, I could replay those games after some time. That improves my overall cost-benefit ratio from 60 bucks -> 2 hours of gameplay to 60 bucks -> 4 hours of gameplay.

Or someone has modded it, and you can play it again with different content, or altered content, or altered gameplay, or some combination thereof. And if it's owned and local, there's nothing they can do to really stop someone from doing that definitively. The first mods for games weren't because developers decided they wanted people to be able to mod the games, they were from fans diving in, reverse engineering and making changes. Developers embracing modding came later.

With a cloud based game or digitally verified synced content, some level of consumer control is definitely lost, and that's a shame.
I think it was "to have or not have CI systems"; yes; no.

It's the sort of thing you can "fix" on your own, but if you don't get any buy-in from everyone else, you're kinda SOL.
Placebo effect is better than no treatment. That's why the compare new drugs to placebo rather than compare to no drug at all.
I think this story is submarine PR paid for by Facebook to garner sympathy.
And there is a subset that is adversely affected.
And no one cared.
On the other hand, your body seems to want to eat more junk food.

So your body wants 1492 calories of fresh food, and wants 1492 + 508 = 2000 calories of junk food.

I also think there are obvious optimizations you can do.

compare whole food vs junk calories for say frugal lentils vs expensive chocolate and you might invert your formula.