skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be advertising content paid for by Oracle masquerading as an editorial article.
Eh? What's manipulative about it? I'd call it descriptive and evocative, even.
It has to be, right? I mean, moving about with a pogo stick is fucking dumb. Why would anyone do it?
Hiding bugs that bad actors likely know about is morally bad in NY book
Before it was cool to hate on fb it was cool to hate on reading the news: attention grabbing amygdala stimulating headlines keep you coming back for more.
Nah, it's pretty much prop 13.
> a mindless algorithm which behaves according to a pseudorandom number generator no more has free will than one that uses quantum noise for it's RNG

Absolutely! It's the mindful algorithms (such as humans) that have it .
I have <common last name>@gmail.com and it's unusable. I've had it since you could only get a gmail account via invite. I've mostly stopped using it except I have a quite a few android apps purchased with the account and you can't transfer them.
This is an important distinction in general. Many of the ills Aldi attempts to combat generally are non-existent in other grocery stores in some places, thereby only serving to inconvenience those customers for no gain.
This is pretty much “running a Kickstarter with several stretch goals.” Although I guess having a one-stop shop that handles making the printing and shipping happen could be a thing.

My experience doing small press stuff via KS is that it’s probably not gonna be anywhere near worth doing until you can print at least a thousand books at once, though. There are economies of scale to deal with.
He did get people to pay before even launching, so I don't know if reading this would have swayed him much. He had a considerable amount of positive signals. The lesson may have been how much these signals were skewed by the source of the signal (e.g. fans of his podcast).
This assume there is such a thing as chaos, and not just a state with so many variables it seems chaotic to our limited eyes. I'm open to it, but let's not pretend we have certitudes.
They have something called Medicaid, you should go read about it before you fall for the NYT agenda. It’s the people in the middle that get screwed, and it’s not just a republican issue
His Wikipedia page has some very interesting context. The "Policy positions" and "Management style and resignation" sections are very interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Jaczko
This doesn't only effect undergrads, this is also horrible for graduate students. I'm going to be directly effected by this tax this year if the law doesn't change. It will tax my fellowship stipend (used for living expenses such as rent, food, and transportation) equivilant to an ESTATE.

It's basically like saying that grad students are not "earning" this income and thus they don't deserve to be taxed on it as if it was a wage.
Interestingly enough, that’s also a principle of behavioral interviewing. Hypothetical questions allow the bullshitters to shine, but specific targeted lines of question about what the interviewee did in a specific situation is frequently enlightening.
Well it's not just that, your medical coder must try different related codes to see if the insurance will take a different code if the first proposed code isn't accepted by the health insurance company. 98765 not covered? Try 98764, that might be a covered procedure...
I don’t debate that. My answer was to the original question.
The government got back the money from the bailout with interest, so there's no debt left from it for future generations to pay back.
OTOH, something like this looks fine also, and is internally consistent with GP's single-block example:

zipped = zip({
apple.stem
for satchel in satchels
for apple in satchel
}, {
apple.core
for satchel in satchels
for apple in satchel
})
If the automatic checkout counters even look like they have a scale I won't waste my time. Not once have I made it out without the machine requiring an override, no matter how carefully I place and scan items. Thankfully it seems the scales are becoming less common.
The difference isn't that great, though I personally prefer to shop at Lidl/Rewe. Locally there is an ALDI, Lidl, Rewe and EDEKA within a 5 minute drive, by experience, ALDI is the cheapest of them but I usually prefer shopping at Lidl since they provide more higher quality stuff (ALDI doesn't always stock actual parmesan, it's very often just generic grated hard cheese). ALDI offers everything but only one of everything, Lidl has more a bit more variety.

99.9% of my Saturday grocery run can be satisfied from any of them however, so there isn't much reason to prefer any of them over the other in my area, other than EDEKA, the prices are mostly the same.
I’m afraid that line of logic is going to lead the democrats to lose 2020 if they keep blaming Russia, Facebook, etc instead of trying to actually appeal to swing state voters.
I went to Stanford and yeah much of the time was learning the material, then preparing for tests by reviewing material and studying. There was also doing projects, researching, and writing papers arguing various positions and analyzing things. As well as some novel research.

It's very strange to hear people here saying all these things are dumb or foolish or something, and good colleges are not like this at all and this is a "poor educational experience". OK, well, what was their school like then? They don't say. Details and names of schools are omitted from the posts of the critics. Are they talking about the drinking and sex at party schools? Or maybe the football games they attended? That is all fine but I don't usually include that when talking about the academic experience per se. Right, studying, learning and preparing for tests is not about those things, true. But so?
There's a continuum of "forced" versus "willing": raising the cost of rent beyond what someone can comfortably afford, but maybe they could manage if they didn't buy anything else and ate only beans and rice is only slightly less coercive than raising the rent beyond what they can afford at all.
I like Aldi but I wish they got rid of the weird weekly non-food stuff they have in the middle and used the space for more food.
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At the top left the article it shows:

Perspective - Perspective Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences

Honestly, I think news sites should make clear when an article is opinion piece, and therefore should be read critically. That's regardless of what you think of media bias.
IIRC not tax/dependency status; in order to be free from parents’ income you need to be above 24, emancipated from your parents, a ward of the court, etc..

source: https://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles/federal-finan...
Some of your examples are unsupported by research. E.g.

Uuniversal healthcare wait times:

https://theconversation.com/wind-farms-are-hardly-the-bird-s...

Wind bird strikes:

https://theconversation.com/wind-farms-are-hardly-the-bird-s...

And of course UBI = laziness is a moral judgement, not a rational argument about how humans should spend their time in a highly automated planetary economy.

If you research the source material for these points, the rhetorical slants are obvious.

The first is to encourage emotive responses ("bird strikes are bad and windmills cause them") while taking them out of context ("windmills kill far fewer birds and cause less migratory change than many other human activities").

The second is to exclude important contextual information and cherry pick figures to make a point.

E.g. Canada's public health care system has long waiting times - which are clearly bad. But it's misleading to compare them directly with the shorter median waiting times in the US - because that excludes the >500,000 families bankrupted by the health system in the US every year for whom the waiting times for future treatment are effectively infinite.

Decades of these kinds of distortions have made informed public debate very difficult. Building up a contextual and robust picture of the trade-offs of any activity takes a while, and the picture is only useful if it compares like for like across as many dimensions for as many competing possibilities as possible.

That rarely happens in public debate - and it should.
Thats the gist. The main problem is the lack of distinction between finincial aid or graduate fellowships and other forms of "unearned income". This lack of distinction leads to a graduate student's only source of income (a fellowship) being taxed as if it was a gift handed down by a rich parent.
Looks like a company out of Sweden. Maybe pogo commuting is a big thing there.
This would be more credible from a less hyperbolic website.
What do you mean by "reading" here? How did you think, as an IT person, things like those nice flight displays in Inbox worked? The assistant delivery notifications? Some script had to read those, didn't it? Not to mention do spam classification?

Or did "reading" in your post mean that you think people actually read and manually type in those lists?
> I wonder what aspirational thing we hold dear today will in retrospect become something more the opposite in the future.

One approach I use in thinking about this is where we go from scarcity to abundance. If you're on the scarcity side, abundance seems like utopia, but it brings its own problems.

An obvious example is food. For most of history, too little food was the problem. It still is for a too-large chunk of humanity, but for a lot of people the problem is now too much.

In my youth, my big problem was too little to read. Now I use all sorts of tools to manage the abundance and limit my exposure so I still at least occasionally read as deeply as I did.

Connection is another one I think about. In the age of the letter or telegram or long distance call, people were desperate to build and maintain connection. Now with ubiquitous connectivity, we get abundance phenomena like FOMO andalways-on work culture. And of course, we've made it easy for maladjusted people to connect and self-reinforce their awfulness, leading to more things like the Santa Barbara and Christchurch shootings.
This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently. It seems to be an impossible task to build a startup in this area as most supermarkets are far too large and have their own (seemingly sloppy) teams to do this stuff. Experience has taught me that there's probably a reason for things being the way they are.
I really wish there was not so much fear mongering around nuclear energy.
The problem with counting them altogether is that there are many in that group, even a majority that can be rehabilitated to not being homeless. And lumping them altogether and then labeling solutions which are applied to the entire group as having failed because they did not help those who could not be helped gives us a convenient excuse to not help those that could be helped.

Also someone who is initially down on their luck may be helped, but if you let them continue in this situation they may soon become someone beyond help. Immediate intervention is needed if someone becomes homeless to see if you can get them out of it as quickly as possible, before their bad luck multiplies and they become a lost cause. Someone on the street for a month is still employable, someone on the street for 2-3 years much less so.
They tax it to get money from addicts.
High standards and tight margins? Sounds like Apple.
Yeah Convoy and Flexport seemed to be the only ones pretty good at it in the startup space.
This is obviously a joke, but even so, the site looks dead serious (except for the video which made me laugh with the gratuitous use of slow-motion). Usually those 'fake' startups have a we-are-only-being-sarcastic disclaimer somewhere, but couldn't find one here. At least, for their sake, I hope it's a joke.
Mozilla soon moving out of IRC
I'd say treat facebook like Compuserve or Iomega.
Just give those numbers some context.

The admissible daily maximum intake limit for chronic toxicity glyphosate is 1mg/kg.

A typical impossible burger is 85g, which @ 11 ppb contains .000936 mgs of glyphosate.

Which is 106,000 times less than the admissible daily maximum intake for a 100kg person.

So even the hamburgler is safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
Size incompatibility is thought to have killed neanderthal women who paired up with non-neanderthal men.
Is it actually cash? That seems annoying having to convert it to digital so you can buy stuff online.
> or deploy to beta users.

And for God's sake: your users are NOT beta testers!
> Caring that your data is not being used to make opaque decisions in other products that you have no visibility or control over is something that people are allowed to care about.

Whether a product shows that data or not, it can still make those decisions if it has that data. Both Fastmail and Google have that data. It is certainly naive (if not stupid) to conflate data use with privacy and get suckered into spending money on that confusion. Data collection is what matters for privacy.
Heres the actual study

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yesmaam/pages/8069/att...
> It’s the people in the middle that get screwed

Medicaid doesn't cover even a majority of lower income or younger Americans.
You are corrrect. I guess I’ve learned to treat deviation from gofmt as error because of the go vim plugin. It runs goimports on save, which fixes a bunch of real errors (like unused imports).
Or way simpler: https://github.com/docker/distribution/pull/2906

Unfortunately the whole project seems abandoned...
Best deadpan spoof I've seen in a decade probably. 10/10, A+.
> I never saw this in NYC or anywhere else on the East Coast or in the Midwest.

Human beings have a tough time surviving when exposed to the elements, and winter lasts for 6 months in the North East and Midwest. It is difficult to live when you are soaking wet and it is 34 degrees outside.

Hope this helps.
I just got back from a week in Stockholm. Did not see any pogo commuters :P
Wow, only 11ppb? That might be the cleanest food you can find in America, based on this other totally-unbiased site that claims the average American's _urine_ has that level: https://detoxproject.org/glyphosate-in-food-water/
Sounds plausible. I have an extended family member who was born after a multi-day labor [in the 40s] where the doctor asked of the father “do you want the baby or your wife to go home, because they’re not both going to make it”. He picked his wife; his wife picked the baby; both went home, but my aunt had life-long deficits from the multi-day traumatic labor and a forceps extraction.
I was in the beta test for cangoroo. I booked 30 minutes, planning on going 2km in the time. When I was near my destination my cangoroo tokens depleted and the locking mechanism engaged. This caused me to abruptly stop bouncing and fall down, breaking an arm and causing large concrete scrapes. A bystander called an ambulance. My health insurance company is currently engaged in a legal battle with cangoroo and it looks like that is going to cause a downround as investors are cooling. /s
Interesting read for sure. On the one hand when it comes to wall street it is considered a failed IPO, however if you look at the amount of money that Uber raised and the valuations at which it did it, it seems like it was able to raise at over $50B for the past couple of years with promises of a larger valuation in the future. Then when it IPO'd below $80B still raising another large financing it basically equated to the smallest amount of dilution to the company and the largest amount of capital raised.

So from a money raising perspective it's been great. From a retention package for employees it's definitely a rocky start.

However, people put too much emphasis on the IPO anyway. Square IPO'd at $6B, went to $3B, and now is above $30B.
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is this a silly PR attempt? nobody ever said this.

what everybody said, and happened, was the other way around. And that's why google and everyone else encrypt even in-rack traffic.
> I wish it had done this, rather than essentially codify the author's style.

Yeah, I keep seeing people singing the praises of black and I'm really dreading the inevitable future where people start acting like this dude's opinion is Correct Official Python Style.
This sentence indeed doesn't make much sense, but it has a grain of truth in it.

Indeterminism at the physical level can't be translated to free will, it could be translated only to randomness, because if say your choice is affected by the way the wave function collapses, it is as much your choice as tossing a coin would be.

But there is one property of complex systems that looks very much like free will:

For simple systems like planets rotating around sun, it is easy to accurately predict the future behavior thousands of years forward by using a formula.

For more complicated systems like weather there is no analytical formula, but a simplified numerical simulation can give predictions for several days.

For truly complicated systems (like brain) accurate predictions are impossible for even short time spans. The only way to make accurate predictions is to have 100% exact simulation.

But since the simulations is exactly the same as the real thing, that means you are not predicting anything, you are simply waiting for the brain to make its choice and tell you about it!
Given that the federal government weasels its way into things by claiming "interstate commerce" in questionable circumstances, or threatening withholding things like federal highway funds if states don't comply, your argument doesn't hold much water with me.

Hell, the REAL ID act is technically illegal, but the feds can use the "we won't let you board a flight without one" stick to force compliance.

The federal government gets its paws into whatever it wants to. It simply doesn't care about homeless issues.

I do agree that, on its face, homelessness seems like a textbook local/state problem. However, any city/state that tries to solve the problem with money and services will be a magnet for homeless people from outside the area, which can easily overwhelm the services provided. How do you fix that?
While it's nice that they are doing this. There is a possible slight problem. The asphalt is the is the road surface, but the problem is that fixing these potholes may cause people to not report road damage.

This can be particular bad if the road sub surface is damaged as this can lead to further road damage if ignored.
"Founder" is actually head of a creative agency - so assume this is a viral spoof campaign :)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-mikkelsen-5a32007b/
“Tiny WireGuard Tweak”: WireGuard Quantum Attack and Mitigation [pdf]
Are you saying that one divorced parent claiming me as dependent means that both of their incomes are automatically combined when applying, or that both likely claimed me as a dependent?

I haven't been aware of where my father is since I was a teenager, so it's entirely possible that he was in fact claiming me still. The fact that that disqualified me from any assistance is pretty sad. I'm very lucky to be where I am right now.

I recall us explaining this to admissions but there being no budge at all.
since when is being a poor kid trying to get an education a lack of responsibility? if anything, folks like that have more than enough on their plates without a bunch of jerks -- of any political leaning -- kicking down at them as they try to build a better life for themselves and their families. to your point down-thread, student aid packages tend to lift you over the very low threshold of medicaid eligibility last i knew. if you think being broke enough to be on medicaid or qualifying for need-based aid is easy street, you are waaaaaaay off base.
Is it bad that I thought this was a completely valid experience until the end?
It only defeats it partly. It's still your plastic coin. If you left the cart, you'd be handing someone else your stuff for free.
Self check-out seems even more common in the US than in many European countries.

No offense, but it sounds like you need to travel more if you assume that businesses everywhere work like in a few European countries. Consider the vast differences in many Asian countries, to start.
I called a few times to ask the pharmacy hours, which are shorter than the main store's.
and so does every email provider. heck one company even offers you a service to send this data (which they probably use for ad targeting already) to a 3rd party that automates back promotion claims with your credit card or something.
Aldis Checkout lines are always so long and everyone is buying a months worth of groceries when I'm there that i won't shop there most of the time. The staff are very fast but customers are slow to bag/move the items.

I don't shop in bulk, I buy groceries for one person and i buy a handful of items every few days.

The competitors in Australia (Coles and Woolworths) all have about 10-15 self checkout machines, so the chances that i have to wait for one to be free is small.

I accept that if i go to Aldi, I'll probably find most of the items i buy cheaper, but they are usually within 0-10c of the private label brands of the other supermarkets.

Aldis success has pushed down everyone's prices (to as low as they can get, while staying with their current setup). If you combine the faster turn around time, with the greater variety (I occasionally like trying new brands/items) of the "traditional" store, It's worth the ~10% premium (for me).

On a side note: Over here, Aldi designates only one lane (out of the two or three that are open) for purchasing of Alcohol. Can anyone explain why?
Automatic code formatting should be the norm in programming. Once you get used to format-on-save and CI enforcement (especially on a team) it's hard to imagine going back to having to think about how to format your code, or pestering collaborators to follow some nickpicky code style guide.
Can you think of an even remotely feasible solution? As long as we have the technology, I don't see this stopping.
External access to the bare metal is still possible and thus information can be leaked via Meltdown and Spectre
It looks like itunes has changed its ways in that regard.

However m4a files are lossy and thus not desirable for me. If I purchase music I want it in flac/alac format because I can transcode it to say, m4a if I need to in the future, or any other format. You can't do that with m4a without a degradation in quality.
This article is total trash. All the articles cited in this article are trash.
... and so we had the war on homelessness, which over time began to be called the war on the homeless.
What Happened to Hovertrains? (2018) [video]
Amazon currently does just above one quarter the retail sales of Wal-Mart. They’re growing faster, but not enough to overtake them within a decade.
Ok, And, criminals use cash as well, would you be infavor of a cashless society?

Somehow I bet you would, with understanding the complete ramifications of such a society
I just use separate apps. I generally use spotify but occasionally I'll just play my local songs via vlc or itunes.
Meanwhile, I don't have a common name, but there are at least a few of us out there.

So when I get something like that, I get to immediately go into "My credit card has been compromised mode".