skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how you'd rate a film. 3 stars for something that's fine, five for something that blows you away.

Plenty of people see 3 stars = Average, 5 = Amazing, but companies have decided that 3 = Bad, 5 = Acceptable.
You can do that to and it'll be fine. Some people are truly assholes and they get bad ratings.
It doesn't matter? Regardless of how people distribute their scores, as long as there is some overall correlation to quality, then there would be a cutoff at some point (as long as Uber decides to remove drivers below a certain cutoff). It just so happens that based on the aggregate data that they see, it is 4.6. It could be any arbitrary number, and anyone's personal anecdote on how they rate drivers doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
The example link above works for me, interestingly enough.
It seems like you may be onto something here.

When I query "weight loss tracker", what's interesting is that MyFitnessPal comes in at #4 which has a subtitle of "Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker".

I also get 0 results for "predictive weight loss tracker" even though that matches the app's subtitle. Seems weird.

The Happy Scale app itself does look really well done though. Looking forward to giving it a try.
4.5 is not bad. Stop panicking. Some people have 2.0
Why is there a rider rating at all? If I'm paying someone to drive me somewhere I don't care if they don't like me.
> Suppose index funds collectively own 80% of the shares. If they don't vote or do something that causes their vote to equal the other shareholders, someone else can buy 10% of the shares and effectively have majority voting power, or even fewer than that since most likely some of the other non-index fund owners wouldn't vote either.

Instead, they vote the board recommendations, disenfranchise all the individual shareholders, and rubber stamp almost anything the board wants. I'm not sure that's any better.
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You certainly would. I had very good results on clients' sites using a combination of varnish, cdn for images, and firewall to block any external probing - basically allowing only clean url GET requests to predefined set of urls, and blocking admin area access to anyone except whitelisted IPs. It's just as fast as a static site would be, and almost as secure. It takes more maintenance and costs a lot more to setup, but you get the benefits of CMS that all content authors/editors know how to use, so clients didn't mind it.
> I think password managers could be easier to use, but that the fundamental problem here is, well, fundamental. [...] To get specialized passwords for all your accounts, you have to be able to reliably use the password manager on all your devices, which means not only configuring it and regenerating passwords the first time, but getting it to work again and synchronize it on every new device you use.

All of the major password managers pretty much have the "work again" (use of a saved password) and synchronize part pretty much nailed by now -- good enough for government work anyway. (that's an old US idiom for non-US or millenial folks.) It's really just the first time (enrollment) problem that is the UX bugaboo. It could be solved. So I wouldn't call it a fundamental problem, in the sense that it can't be overcome.

I think a solution hasn't been pushed because being able to more thoroughly decipher enrollment forms is a competitive edge. And as long as it's a problem everyone (all password managers) have, that edge can be honed. Password managers are companies also. They need revenue and market share, not universal solutions that also make the job easier for their competitors.
Give yourself a promotion (career advice for starting tech engineers)
> This does not constitute an industry. Industries are defined by product space.

And you're back to arguing that brick and mortar retailers in Florida compete with ones in California because they sell largely the same products.

> The Pixel and iPhone compete in the same industry. The Play Store and the App Store compete in the same industry. There’s no question around this.

By this logic, if Samsung announced a competing phone platform that nobody uses and a competing app store that only works on that platform and has no apps but charges 5% fees, everyone could switch to that app store and sell/get all their apps there even though it has no users and no developers.

> This completely ignores the concept of a physical security model. The owner cannot be trusted. Enabling the owner to modify their device arbitrarily introduces physical security bugs.

The vendor cannot be trusted. The owner is you. If you can't trust yourself then you've already lost.

> Case in point: Android and the Play Store which directly compete with iOS and the App Store.

So you expect that if Google Play reduced their fee from 30% to 15%, developers would switch from distributing their apps on iOS to distributing them on Google Play? How is that even possible when they already distribute them on both?

> You cannot claim that Android and iOS compete while simultaneously claiming that the App Store and the Play Store constitute different industries.

Suppose that two companies make power plants. They all burn carbon to make heat to make steam to make electricity. One company's burns coal, the other natural gas.

When you're buying a power plant, there is competition between them. You can buy either one and they both burn carbon to make electricity.

But suppose, Standard Oil style, that the company making coal fired power plants has a monopoly on coal and the one making natural gas fired power plants has a monopoly on natural gas. Then those are two separate markets -- once you've bought your power plant you're locked into one or the other. Trying to combine them into the "fuel market" only works if you can switch from one to the other without replacing your very expensive power plant, but you can't. Which is why they're two different markets.

> This is no different from me not being able to transfer my purchases from the Play Store to the Amazon App Store. No platform is obligated to give you the tools necessary to switch off said platform.

It's not a matter of being obligated to help you switch. It's a matter of the switching cost being a barrier that segments the app market.
The article calls it natural gas a number of times, it's the quoted officials that are using fanciful language
> I was that kid

anecdata

> You're running on a theory with no evidence

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/19/increa...

Here an article reporting on a study by the OECD, but I'm sure you'll be able to find more scholarly sources if you just took the time to research it.

The truth is homeschooling is almost exclusively an American (maybe I should say anglophone) phenomenon, in most of Western Europe homeschooling is just illegal or allowed in extreme cases and under very high scrutiny from the public school system, because data has shown that it does more harm than good.
- deletes Uber

- installs Lyft

Wait, I did that a long time ago.
You're not exactly wrong... but the context of the quotes are around increasing export capacity to the world, and Europe specifically. It's not about increasing American energy independence, it's about providing an alternate LNG source to Europe.
>“Approval of additional LNG exports from Freeport LNG furthers this Administration’s commitment to promoting American energy, American jobs, and the American economy. Further, increased supplies of U.S. natural gas on the world market are critical to advancing clean energy and the energy security of our allies around the globe. With the U.S. in another year of record-setting natural gas production, I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world,” said Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg, who signed the export order and was also in attendance at the Clean Energy Ministerial.

Yeah, flag OP all you want, but its pretty friggin ridiculous.
Something I don't understand about fancy CEOs: why would you want a big salary that gets aggressively taxed? Past a certain level, $1 salary and stock options seems to make way more sense.
"2 dozen people were killed in a Freedom Gas explosion last night..."
I'm kinda ok with freedom fries as it is random restaurants doing whatever they want. It might be silly, but whatever.

Government goes copy and paste over natural gas... for some reason that creeps me out a bit.
I guess mobile PowerPacks with solar panels? Just deploy a few thousand outside the tunneling area and then automate the battery switching. Could run it 24/7 without anyone ever going to Mars even.
any vehicle with an evap system will. it's an emissions thing
It was a classic accounting control fraud, just like the S&L scandal. William Black wrote the book on them if you want to learn more.
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Seagate had all of its employees W2s phished because someone in HR messed up badly. If you have access to PII or other confidential information, phishing is a big deal.
You think nobody will bring their faith with them?
> That accountability has to be rigorously enforced from the outside.

I agree. But the reason that we don't have that right now isn't related to whether or not computers are involved, and introducing algorithms won't solve that situation.

The reason that police accountability is weak is political.
For public transit to work this is important. In the early hours of the morning few people want to get around typically. However the fear that you cannot get around if you need to holds people back. However if I know that should I need to there is an option that isn't too expensive I'm likely try it.

Minneapolis used to have a guaranteed ride home (might still do, I don't live there anymore) to cover people who took the bus somewhere, but had to work last.
> Khan Academy and Outschooling

If those allow you to outsource the entirety of your child's education, including personalization of the curriculum to individual needs, answering arbitrarily-deep questions about the subject matter, etc. then great, but I'm not sure I'd call that home schooling. That would be more like a (virtual) private school, with the same level of parental involvement. If you want to be more involved you need more training, simple as that, and the fact is that a lot of home-school parents don't even have an average education themselves.

Also remember, you're not the sample. You claim to have some expertise in data science. What do the data suggest, for a typical home-schooler and not just for you or the non-random sample of others in your neighborhood.
for when you get drunk and barf in their car.
The Pedogogy doesn't matter as much as you think it does, because you learn it from your kid what works pretty fast. Most of the pedogogy is crap and outdated and you have to choose one and stick with it for the class where with homeschooling you can try many different teaching methods without having to get approval from the school board, and even then you have the pick the one that works for most students but leaves out others.

People put a lot of stock in the intelligence of teachers, but consider it this way, most teachers choose a career that requires a 4 year degree plus certification that won't make enough to live comfortably or earn them over what a standard retail job makes much less pay their loans, this is something they think long and hard on (which is probably not much more than "I really like working with children") and make their decision on. It attracts the kind of people who think that's a good idea. Anyone more intelligent that wants to teach runs the numbers and decides against it except in rare cases. Any pedogogy those kinds of people learn isn't that advanced and can be picked up by most by reading a book on it over a month. These "professional" educators isn't exactly an advanced profession like that of a medical professional or a scientist, most of those people would struggle or fail out of such programs. The alternatives for most teachers is a communications degree, or sports/massage therapy. Altruism doesn't equate to being good at something, the proof is in the quality of education offered today.

Edit: They don't deserve contempt, but I'm saying if you increased teacher's salaries, the competition would be such the people that go for it now would simply unable to compete with the sudden competition based the altruistic motives plus pay. Altrustism only motivates you so much, doesn't last long when you're over worked and under paid and dealing with 30+ class sizes. Pedogogy be damned, you'd get people who would be able to actually teach kids on an individual level and demand more from administrators or have the conviction to walk out and move on to something else if they didn't.
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Yea? What about routing, forms, state, styles encapsulation, code separation to modules, http clients, etc. A lot of choices for new React project, zero choices for Angular === faster startup.
That off switch in your PSU is a conceptually sound implementation. Not the one at the front, that's broken too.
Over a decade ago, when Amazon wasn't the powerhouse it is today, I dated someone who routinely interacted with Jeff Bezos.

According to them, Bezos feels the same way. Amazon is basically a means-to-an-end, and that "end" is to get humanity into outer space, as an insurance policy in the event of a catastrophe on earth.
This is hilarious. /Ron Swanson America gif
That's the problem with Elon Musk's mars colony plan. There seem to be better alternatives closer to home. Even the moon would be better in many respects, but space stations make more sense.
I think this might be a case of selective bias, as people who are rewarded for their efforts would likely prevent large scale accidents in the first place if their management listened enough to promote them.

You likely don't hear about this, because for these cases the oversight works and it's just people doing their jobs.
Article 1, Section 9 prohibits direct taxes (which a wealth tax would definitely be) unless apportioned by state population. So it is unconstitutional unless every state agrees on an apportionment arrangement, which is nigh impossible as low population states will not receive much of the benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_tax#U.S._constitutional...
If you really don't want tailgating, put in a man trap.
Too much vegetable oil? Your ratio of Omega-3:Omega-6 fatty acids will be out of whack, causing inflammation in the body.

Too much soy? There are plenty of PubMed studies that cite soy's effect on hormones and the estrogenic activity that it can cause.

It seems to come down to balance.
> We run one of the largest microservices deployments in the world, with thousands of services that perform billions of requests per second.

Thousands? Does one truly need that many microservices, even if you are the size of Facebook? That is a lot.
If only it was just a typo.

> ... the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world ...

> ... that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world,” said Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg ...

"molecules of U.S. freedom"
I'd probably flat out rate these annoying passengers with one star or maybe even tell them to get a hike.
Climate and weather are different things.

I totally agree that it's terrible some pepole are "weaponizing" weather for political gain by claiming that occasional cold weather in the winter is a disproof of a warming climate -- is that what you are referring to?

Because that's terrible science. Even if it sounds skeptical.
Are you prepared to pay your employees a significant premium for the requirement that they engage in fisticuffs with random strangers who may try to tailgate into the building?

Tailgating is a problem for your physical security staff, not your run of the mill white collar employee.
Not to mention that they got beat into the dirt on price and quality.

If you want to be respected (as a “man” or whatever), you’ve got to earn it, and sometimes your ability to do so is a team effort.

The flip side of this story is the intense grind and self-sacrifice in places like Nagoya, Japan, where auto workers have something to be proud of, but are always aware of how tenuous their future is.
If an Apple employee connected to a competing app was able to remove the search result then that is suspicious.

This doesn’t sound particularly different than people who thought they were entitled to whatever search result position on Google due to their SEO effort and built their entire business around non-retaining users. I recall stories of companies getting sales to their e-commerce site, for free, from Google listings, and taking on long term liabilities and leases for warehouses or fulfillment locations only to end up bankrupt.

Who knows what is really going on here, but you certainly aren’t entitled to any search result listing save for your actual app or company name, presuming it isn’t generic.
And people are free to work on that. If Musk wants to take a shot at colonizing other planets, more power to him. We're blowing trillions of dollars on pointless wars or 'frivolous' entertainment, so even if you don't agree with his vision, Musk's efforts should be pretty far down on the list of things to criticise...
...which is why schools that opt for revenue share agreements and actually focus on matriculating students that have mastery of valuable skills are killing it in the market, schools like YC alums Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com).

Disclaimer: I've no affiliation with the school other than being one of the founder's friends.
> most teachers choose a career that requires a 4 year degree plus certification that won't make enough to live comfortably or earn them over what a standard retail job makes

Yeah, I know, it's not a "rational" choice by Randian standards. To some, that means they deserve contempt. To me, it suggests that they have other motivations that might deserve some respect.
With that logic just having your mail client/web mail parse a malicious mail from a nation-state level actor is enough to compromise your machine.
But wouldn't you reply to the address it specified instead of the source of the spoofing? I thought that was why most phishing emails include a link rather than asking you to reply.
That's a cool idea to cover those fringe events that aren't worth full time service, but you want to be there to help.
As well, you may need to use a fuse based implementation of overlayfs
> What we have today is institutional racism based on people’s gut reactions.

Institutional racism is not based on people's gut reactions. Institutional racism is based on flawed algorithms. Not computer algorithms in this case, but bureaucratic ones.

I don't see how a flawed computer algorithm would be any easier to correct than a flawed bureaucratic algorithm.
There was also an article last month in Quanta Magazine with more back story and some spectacularly done graphics, if you’re interested in getting more visual intuition of the moire pattern appearing between the graphene layers: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-twisted-graphene-became-t...

Moire pattern: https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2019/04/Magic-...

and
https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2019/04/Graphe...
Modern firefox is an awesome experience. The only reason I use Chrome is because the dev tools are that good.
They are assholes. Why not simply say to the 99%, "You can eat cake and swim."

This is not about OPEC. It is about rejection of alternative energy development.
I'm using 3.5.1, the issue is I don't have very many files and it's in a Node environment where it transpiles the file to the output directory with no bundling or hot reloading included.

What are some of these tricks to skip checking or do async checking? I did a quick search and came up with a GitHub issue [0] for adding the option to skip checking, but didn't see anything myself.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/29651
Remember that Patton Oswalt bit on the KFC Famous Bowls and Double Down sandwiches? Remember when we naive souls thought it couldn't get any worse?
Not really. I don't have the ability to choose which car I ride in with Uberpool. I have limited ability to choose what car I ride in when I carpool the normal way via Bay Area casual carpool stops (I can refuse to get in the next car in line, and that's about it). And, in either of those scenarios, the most important factor (the driver) is essentially random as well.
That's not how small towns work. When I was a kid there was 1 bar, 2 restaurants, 4 community centers (arena, legion, golden age home, library), 2 schools and 10 churches.

The largest building the town was the middle school. The next 3 by size were churches.
It's the initial bolus of hydrogen to re-wet the Venus atmosphere and cool it off that's the megaproject. After that, the replacement rate is ridiculously low.

And if the lost hydrogen is never replaced, the terraforming-added hydrogen will still likely last longer than human civilization. Venus has been losing H2 and He for billions of years, and still has some left to lose. If we add enough H2 to precipitate all the CO2 out as mountains of C and oceans of H2O, and cool off the planet enough that the hydrogen stays in the water, the atmosphere will be fine for the foreseeable future.

One basic Venus atmospheric-terraforming equation is "2 CO2 + MgH2 -> C + MgCO3 + H2O", by multiple reactions at different temperatures and pressures. By mass, 4.6e23 g CO2(g) + 1.4e23 g MgH2(s) -> 6.3e22 C(s) + 4.4e23 g MgCO3(s) + 9.4e22 g H2O(l).

That produces an ocean about 12% the mass of Earth's, but requires roughly 4% the mass of the asteroid belt in MgH2, or a sphere of solid MgH2 with diameter 570 km--about the same volume as Pallas, Vesta, or Hygeia (but half the mass). Magnesium is the 12th-most abundant element in the solar system, and could be mined from olivine-plagioclase asteroids. (Calcium can also be used to transport H2.) About 17% of asteroids are S-type. Seems doable.

Alternatively, decompose the MgH2 to Mg and H2 in Venus orbit, and only send down the H2, sending the Mg back out to store more hydrogen. That's "CO2 + 2 H2 -> C + 2 H2O". By mass, that's 4.6e23 g CO2(g) + 4.2e22 g H2(g) -> 1.3e23 C(s) + 3.8e23 g H2O(l), which would make an ocean about 28% as massive as Earth's, but requires that some magnesium (or calcium) make several round trips just to carry H2, which is relatively light.

If you're going to do that, you could also just ship H2O to Venus, electrolyze it in orbit with solar power, drop the H2 down the gravity well, and ship the O2 back out to the comet wranglers for breathing gas. You'd need to move exactly as much water into orbit as you're eventually creating on the surface, so 3.8e23 g H2O. That's more mass to ship than the MgH2 answer, but at least we know that the water is easily found in comets, and on Europa and Callisto, and easily processed.

There's no reason why any of these should be mutually exclusive.
It goes both ways. I remember a conversation I had with a very nice Uber driver, a Muslim woman. She made a point of picking up female riders with low ratings, because she believed male Uber drivers would downrate them if they thought the women unattractive, or if they rejected advances.
The thing about the iron works is actually one of the main problems with scaling up nuclear power. Modern designs are very safe yes, but, building them requires steelworking ability that apparently only exists in (yes!) Russia and Japan. There is a multi-decade backlog of orders for the necessary metal, and learning how to work steel in the necessary way is ... not trivial. So it's not even like we could build tons of reactors if we wanted to, designs or no designs.