skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that the liberal arts majors subsidized the more expensive STEM majors, but your comment made me question that. So I took a look at my Alma Mater's financial statements and it turns out that the subsidy is less that I thought, but still significant. Facilities are a pretty small part of the university budget, dorms turn enough profit to cover utilities and maintenance. Most of the upfront cost of academic buildings is paid for by donors (may not be the case everywhere). 60% of the University expenses are salaries and about 20% of the staff are faculty. However the majority of the employees work in revenue-generating parts of the university. Room and board mostly covers the salaries for low-wage positions like food service, security, building maintenance. Athletic revenue mostly covers the cost of coaches and athletic staff. So the remaining number of non-revenue generating administrators (bursar, registrar, etc.) is about equal to the number of faculty. Since STEM faculty are generally paid more that liberal arts, I would estimate the cost premium of operating a STEM class over a liberal arts class to 10% at this particular school (NE USA, Private, D1).
The rhetoric in that linked article sounds like a fetishization of work, the old-school Communist praise of the labourer as the ideal human being. That is, the authors call for creating more jobs and building factories. That is a turnoff to those socialist-minded people who feel that work sucks, it is something our modern society ought to be avoiding by increasing automation.
Easily Migrate Your JVM Code from Maven to Bazel – Exodus
OK, added. Thanks! We could also try “token”, which seems more precise in context although more ambiguous on its own.
Private APIs are understandable. It takes a while from when you make an API to when you can figure out the right kind of security model for that API. I just think that there should be a roadmap for those private APIs to become public, with some exception.

I'd say the reason why sandboxing on the Mac isn't as compelling is for a few reasons. One of them might be if you haven't personally experienced a ransomware attack. The other factor is that the sandbox is being added after-the-fact to an existing system, and it's completely opaque.
Do you honestly believe that the people tying people to fence posts or dragging people behind a truck are going to go search for names on pastebin to find their victims? That doesn't make a lot of sense. If that's really what they want to do, they'll just wait outside the bar and grab whoever comes out.

I agree it's a problem that people do things like that. I don't think that worrying about a name in a database has anything to do with preventing it.

I'm really struggling to find any credibility in this scenario:

Mr. Bigot thinks Jeff is gay. Mr. Bigot then goes to search on pastebin to see if there's any evidence of Jeff going to gay bars before beating him up.

In my experience people like Mr. Bigot are not real big on fact checking.
> riders ... are now at risk of deactivation if their rating falls significantly below a city’s average.

Of course that raises the average which therefore exposes a new cohort at the bottom to being below the average.

I understand the idea of removing people who won't get picked up anyway, but this seems like a bug.

Also: what factors go into a rating? I have relatives (thankfully not uber drivers) who would downrate a customer solely on racial grounds.
I think combination of type annotations and pattern matching actually works pretty well. Yes, it's not Rust though:)
Many noncoding DNA sequences must have some important biological function. This is indicated by comparative genomics studies that report highly conserved regions of noncoding DNA, sometimes on time-scales of hundreds of millions of years. This implies that these noncoding regions are under strong evolutionary pressure and positive selection.[47] For example, in the genomes of humans and mice, which diverged from a common ancestor 65–75 million years ago, protein-coding DNA sequences account for only about 20% of conserved DNA, with the remaining 80% of conserved DNA represented in noncoding regions.[48]
I think the Scots might object to assuming the entirety of the UK makes precisely that association:

http://www.tartansauthority.com/highland-dress/modern/flypla...
This has an old, ugly history. We are pretty much exactly recapitulating actions taken against religious leaders who were doing these things in the early 80s, and who were prosecuted under Reagan. They won by losing, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_movement
>> They were taking notes while I was talking which was okay. However if anything went to court, or for it to go to court I would have had to had a video statement.

>> Since nothing was recorded not much could be done.

That's where you are incorrect. The cop was taking notes. The cop can take the stand to testify as to what you said. During that testimony he may refer to his notes. Hearsay rules are complicated but it is safe to say that anything said to a cop can, one way or another, be used in court.
Look at how well competition works in our broken healthcare system. Our costs are the highest in the world yet our life expectancy and infant mortality isn’t all that great.

Or look at education at all levels, where costs have also skyrocketed and public options keep getting cut because bureaucrats from “competing” private industries try to push their agenda (you could argue this is even worse in healthcare and pharma).

Competition and profit motive hasn’t been proven to work so well for public goods, in my opinion, but would love to hear of examples where it worked. This is why for some things we still agree we should pay for at a government level (local or national), such as firefighters, defense, mail, etc, etc.

Not even going to get into how inflationary ubi would be, instantly driving up costs due to “rational” economic behavior.
That's totally fair, but that's more about where you are in life than it is about the education system. I thought this thread was more about people getting out of college with the wrong skills, at which point new skills are still very much achievable.

I'm at the point in my life where I'm regretful the other direction. I wish I could go back in time and double major or minor in creative writing. I have the money and decent career, now I'm working on getting good at something I'm passionate about.
I'm not against taxes. Tariffs and excise taxes that pretty directly support the commerce enabling activities of the state are totally fair. Income taxes in particular are theft.
Also this gem

> Spoiler alert - I am incredibly skeptical, and am short $BYND

So...sells his own bullshit superfood, and is short on BYND. Welp, I'm convinced that he's completely unbiased and only interested in the greater good.
I found this radio documentary about The Missing Migrants Project interesting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01v5sq8

> In Pima County, Tucson, anthropologist Robin Reineke works on identifying the deceased, piecing together clues found among the personal effects found on the decomposed bodies found in the desert. Her goal is to trace the dead migrant's family to inform them of their relative’s fate, and ultimately return the body home for burial.
Sidepact 2019: start a company with a full-time job
IE, not Netscape. And didn't history show that shipping a default browser in the OS (which can be used to install additional alternate browsers) wasn't so bad after all?
AI researchers in China want to keep the global-sharing culture alive
Isn't underfunding a form of inefficiency?
Up until three years ago there was "an adult in office" and not all that much was actually being done. Sure, more than now, but it's not like they had plans for shutting down all coal plants or something of the sort
Dataset is my favorite dumb wrapper on top of SQLAlchemy. https://dataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Yes, I agree. For simple to low complexity queries AR is hard to beat, especially if your SQL knowledge is limited, and it allows for arbitrary SQL statements as string arguments.

My biggest issue with AR is that the arbitrary SQL cannot be combined or reused in a way which leads to compositional queries. An example would be to break up a large SQL statement into several smaller statements and then recombine them in different ways, safely.

What I found with Ecto and ROM is that, while simple to low complexity SQL was about the same as AR, maybe 10% harder to understand, complex to very complex statements were about equivalent to their SQL counterparts and could be composed together. That was a major win over AR for non-trivial queries.
A star rating is a bad way to measure - as a driver you wouldn't make the 4.6 grade mentioned if you got equal amounts of 4 and 5 ratings

Better to to ask 'would you ride/drive with this person again?' with a simple yes/no answer, and if no then ask for a reason - if people aren't given a reason why they got a lower rating then how are they expected to change their behavior?

The only time I wanted to give a bad review I couldn't - the driver left me waiting in the cold for 30 mins and then 'cancelled' without ever picking me up
Yes, my point was that both claims are logically equivalent, to point out that they are both fairly poor arguments.
> They exist because they have great brand recognition far better than most third party products.

Your claim is that Athletic Works (a Walmart brand for athletic apparel) has better brand recognition than Nike and Great Value cola has better brand recognition than Coca-Cola?

> And the reason they are cheaper is because they sign bigger, low margin deals with suppliers who would be scared of undercutting their existing products.

Again, your claim is that Great Value brand sells more cola than Coca-Cola?

What's your explanation for why many people nonetheless buy the more expensive non-store brand?
I don't see Beyond Burger talking shit about Justin Mares.
That sounds good, thanks. Although it seems like the terms are fixed, and it's only smallish amounts for already-attending students, but still a great start.
Thanks! I see what's happening now: news.google.com is loading AMP links in a width=100% height=100% iframe. This means your scrolling affects the iframe and not the page. Chrome, however, uses scrolling of the top level page to determine whether the address bar should hide/show. So this gives two weird things:

* If you click on an AMP link without scrolling down enough to hide the URL bar, the URL bar remains even as you scroll through the AMP article.

* If you click on an AMP link after scrolling down enough to hide the URL bar (the case you saw), the URL bar stays hidden even if you scroll back up (unless you scroll all the way to the top, at which point you're scrolling the outer page).

I agree this is bad UX, and it happens because the Google News site is loading AMP pages in an iframe. Web Packaging fixes this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-amp-real-url/

(Disclosure: I work at Google on unrelated things, speaking for myself and not the company)
That's an extremely short-sighted and ignorant comment. I would figure you, as someone who is a well-respected technologist, wouldn't be so flippant and would have more vision.
It's not just Trump. Read the article: this policy is being enforced by countless CBP agents, sheriffs, the judiciary, and other government workers at all levels. Clearly, a very large portion of the American populace is in full agreement with these actions.
Capitalised? I'd be surprised.
How exactly are students suppose to know what they don’t know? If colleges can’t teach them that, what’s the purpose?
You’re joking, but I used to have a bank account at Poste Italiane (the Italian national post service... don’t ask). You
couldn’t access anything on the website, not even your balance, between 22 and 6. We’re talking about 2010. Not sure if things have evolved since then (I closed my account soon after that, and it was an odyssey... but that’s another story).
Some communities have made it a crime to feed homeless people. I like the angle of "sincere religious beliefs" - I think the Religious Right have no idea of the scope of the can of worms they've opened with that clause. Talk about your unintended consequences...
It still perplexes me that people believe that Uber needed to convince anyone about Taxi mafia. The taxis in US are amazingly backwards -- for example, there were no online tracking, no pre-defined fares, and no online ordering.

I remember having to use "car services" just because the taxis were so unpleasant.
Devastating natural disaster. Fukishima handled the earthquake fine it was when (i believe) their generators were washed away that the problem started.

I would never advocate for a nuclear power plant on the side of an active volcano. at all.

You put the right technology in the right spot.

Also, I'm really hoping to see thorium get more time in the sun because it doesn't go critical and cause a catastrophe. They melt down but don't explode (from what I've been able to find).
You think an undergraduate degree in neuroscience was a waste of money..
that might be true for you but not universally.

You could have used it as a basis for a career in pharmaceutical research, medicine, investing, venture capital, science journalism, psychology, machine learning, etc.

If you had an engineering degree, you could say that is useless because your current job as a stage actor doesn't utilize any of those learned skills.
I think that sufficiently advanced sarcasm is indistinguishable from Trump support.
If you want to list the same assets as everyone else with the same interface in the same markets, then yes, it's hard to compete. However, we see a world of tokenized assets coming online that will need unique markets for exchange. Something like Radar Relay (https://radarrelay.com/ for ERC-20 commodities) is totally different from Veil (https://veil.co/ for prediction market shares) is totally different from BoxSwap (https://boxswap.io/ for trading collectibles). Even within ERC-20 commodities exchange, there are many different models of exchange within different markets that are sufficiently differentiated.

We think of 0x more like Stripe: an under-the-hood technology that allows entrepreneurs to move more quickly and easily add exchange to their product. The concept of "tokens" and "exchange" will become very abstract in the near future.
That's the point. Republicans want immigrants to suffer, they want women who have sex to suffer ("pro-life" is anything but), they want anyone who isn't a straight white christian man to suffer.
Naming collisions for open source software are the norm rather than the exception. At some point you just have to start living with it.
I don't think "unbiased" sources exist, that's a technocratic myth as well. And I think your second concern is only valid for bad public versions of this. The state is perfectly capable of whatever product planning our handful of car companies do.
> People say Apple care about the user, but they don't, they care only insofar as ensuring lock in. They don't care if you hate Apple, just so long as you keep giving them your money. As long as you don't hate them enough to leave, they've done enough

Welcome to every service platform ever.

If you build the platform, there is no reason you should not have control over it and profit from it. You are not providing a public service. You are providing a private storefront on a private platform.

This is like if I had a lemonade stand in my backyard, and people walked in and started complaining that the lemonade I sell is marked-up and too expensive, and that they should be allowed to build their own lemonade stands in my backyard. And that I should provide them with the tools to do so.
San Francisco Assemblymember Chiu wants to ban towing cars
SPAs aren't classic websites, they are web applications and should only be used when you need to create a web application. If a SPA is created for every usecase a regular website would do is a bad management decision but nothing wrong with SPAs per see. And yes, in this particular case is a waste of resources.
Maybe we should encourage illegals to stop placing their lives at risk breaking the law, and crossing the border illegally?
Seems a lot like a typical prisoners dilemma. Everyone treating each other hostile would give a worse overall outcome, but individually it seems like the best strategy.
Different jurisdictions have different compliance requirements. Not sure, but my guess is the goal of this project is to allow regulatory arbitrage with a single unified interface.
You can directly compare the overhead for say US 401k plans vs Social Security. Even in the US such public vs private comparisons generally favor pubic options as significantly more efficient. Replacing the VA with private insurance would cost vastly more for example.

Though public options are often heavily restricted so context is important.
I've sent a few friends home in Uber/Lyft and I'm always worried their behavior will represent me. I'm not friends with jerks, but sometimes my friends have had a little too much and need help getting home. I hope that we, as a society, care about others above ratings. There are always two sides to everything.
> Why would it be useful? Most employers don't care about if their employees are also bar patrons and going to bars doesn't mean you're a heavy drinker.

Most don't care about your personal life.

But some care incredibly deeply about it. There are Christian employers in Canada and the United States, who will fire you, if they discover that you, say, had pre-marital sex at some point in your life. Others will fire you for undergoing a medical procedure.

Do you think bosses like that give two shits about an employee splitting hairs as to what exactly constitutes living in sin?
> So, I’m just assuming, people can say anything they want, and you can’t trust them when they tell you how they decided to convert. But I’m supposed to believe you?

Not at all. I'm saying don't take my word for it. Try it out for yourself and come to your own conclusion.

> For example, there’s the fact that nobody anywhere at any time in history is known to have independently discovered any religion.

I don't see how you can assert this as a fact. What counts as "discovering a religion"? There are so many huge holes in history across all the continents over thousands of years.

> If it’s really possible to discover the truth through the process you describe, you’d think someone would have done it at some point and come up with the One True Religion despite never having been exposed to it.

I think this has happened - many times. God's true church isn't omnipresent throughout history. It's there sometimes, and missing other times. It gets established, and then goes off the rails due to corruption. I actually believe Judaism used to be God's true religion a long time ago, but has since gone off the rails and is no longer God's true religion.
First, using an arbitrary number of stars is part of the problem. Too much opportunity for legitimate differences of rating to come into play. Just make the question "would you do business with this driver/rider again?" and leave it at that. At the very least the rating should be market-specific, since there is so much cultural influence over such ratings.

Second, Uber should not be making the choice based on some arbitrarily chosen numerical value. Present the rating to the drivers, maybe with some comments, let them choose who they want to take. After all, if Uber isn't employing the drivers and is just the middleman, wouldn't they want to avoid being seen as a crucial decision maker?
> not capable of handling the responsibilities that come with nuclear power.

What responsibilities? If those are: not killing / harming people, and not destroying ecosystems, then nuclear appears to be favourable compared to other sources.

Fossil fuels cause great harm to health and the environment. Hydro requires flooding of large areas of land, often destroying habitats, and wind and solar are only currently useful as supplementary energy sources, due to the difficulty in storing energy economically. Renewables aren't statistically less deadly either.

You can be against energy consumption in general, but I think this equates to primitivism or antinatalism which would itself increase human suffering.

In high-income economies I admit there could be a substantive decrease in consumption without significantly harming quality of life, but much of the world's population is in the situation of needing to increase their consumption to reach what we would regard as minimal living standards.
Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems
That's terrible and really puts indie developers at risk. One small change on Apple's side and your business might not survive. Hope Apple fixes it quickly!
4 Thousand is based on the WHO findings.

So, let’s toss on the 8k instances of cancer from your source, and the 41k cancer rates attributed to Chernobyl by International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, and we are still well short of the actual deaths caused by one dam failure.

Yeah, Chernobyl is a tragedy; but let’s not pretend its worse than all the other power generation disasters.
It's even worse. Fossil investments are still growing in 2018 https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-iea-energy-investment-idU...
2.2.7 came out in May 2016. The switch to 2048 bits was in May 2014.

* https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/commit/30eb68d7...
Stability is the main reason. I've gone broke a lot in my life and hope to never do it again. Probably like 30-40% of companies won't care about a degree, but that still leaves 70-60% that might not even let you in the door. For 7k and 9 months it seems almost a steal to cement my employability and future stability.
Temporal context.

If I google "waitrose closing time" I want the closing time of my local supermarket today.

When I googled that yesterday, I got a different result, and that's what I want.
Fair Is Better Than Sensational:Man Is to Doctor as Woman Is to Doctor
If you want to be a first-party app for Maps, Mail, locations, etc, you have to demonstrate that you won't abuse that data, and have the right infrastructure to protect it.

How are they suppose to ensure that companies aren’t lying about what they will use your data for - are they going to pinky promise?

How is Apple going to ensure that there is an infrastructure in place to ensure that customers’ data is protected? A meaningless third party certification?
AWS SQS Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) Integrated with Lambda Requeue in Python
https://github.com/davidh83110/aws_sqs-dead-letter-queue-lambda-requeue

Requeue all jobs from DLQ back to the source queue with Lambda which is developed in Python, Also including Terraform scripts as well.
> [...] you could have rampant piracy, apps with illegal content or apps that siphon user data.

That's already the case today in form of the Web, yet obviously Apple is not restricting which websites a user can browse to.

In general, this whole 'third-party stores are a security risk etc.' doesn't hold any water under inspection. Security and privacy come from the sandboxed nature of apps running on iOS, and of course Apple themselves determine what APIs are available and under what circumstances an app can access what data about a device or user.

This is all independent from wherever a user installs an app.
I took a cab from the las vegas airport to my hotel recently as I was in a hurry and didn't know where the uber pick up area was. When we got to the hotel, suprise suprise, the credit card machine was broken and it took a 15 minute call for the driver to get things sorted and charge the card manually via calling his dispatcher.

I abhor cabs.