skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone here climbed Everest? What drove you and what it's like up there? How did you feel afterwards?
Except they are tiny compared to a cloud. The amount of sky they "cover" is a tiny percentage for a short time and even then they're not very substantial unlike regular clouds which can be que thick and dense. It just doesn't seem plausible.
Something you did not notice about 2001: A Space Odyssey
I work at a bank that has a vendor that uses client credentials in order to html scrape their account pages. Most banks refuse to generate consumable methodologies for other financial services to use their data, so they go about it the hackiest way possible.
Indeed, I'm pro this idea.
I love the scrolling transition at the beginning of this article. It really feels like an excellent piece of internet art.
Yes - that is why I ended my post with /censorship_apologist - to indicate it was meant to mock common arguments for censorship.

Arguments that are only invoked when the speech being censored is unpopular.
What "is still fine"?

I've been reading a bit about quantum state diffusion, continuous measurements and quantum trajectories. My superficial understanding of the subject is the following. Let's say that you have an open system described by a reduced density operator evolving according to some master equation. The system will be in general described by a mixed state.

You can have an alternative representation with the quantum state changing in a non-deterministic way according to a stochastic equation. In this representation the quantum state remains pure for one "trajectory" but to describe the system you need to consider the ensemble of realizations. So you still have a mixture and the same density matrix as before.
Yeah, this is pretty reasonable.

I'm curious, when you start getting into how to educate children in a way to have them fulfill their potential, how we measure whether or not we're succeeding. I definitely do not think we are (in the US). I also perceive a "will" to succeed, but everyone disagrees on how to make that reality, and I don't believe that this sort of list, while reasonable, does much to help in the way of solving the problem. I'm not saying it's a bad list or I disagree with it, it's just not prescriptive in terms of, "This is how you help children reach their full potential."

(And then we start getting into questions about what is full potential? If we're thinking in a short-sighted way, full potential is probably limited to their usefulness to the economic system balanced with their own relative mental health.)
They don't get gore in my house like a snap trap does yet fit in the same places where a catch-and-release trap would not. The mouse still lives and I get maybe two of them a year, in the fall as the temps cool. I really don't think it's a big deal.
I use xyplorer, which has a toggle feature for always displaying the folder sizes, and a keyboard shortcut (shift-F5) to display them for the current folder until changed.

This combination seems to work just fine, I don't usually need folder sizes, so I keep the toggle off, and just hit shift-F5 if I really need to see them.
Kind of needed in the cloud war where many actually question if the mysterious Google supermacy in global infrastructure is really true.
Shortly after ZuckBucks launch next year
Have you ever seen mike monteiro’s “fuck you pay me” talk?

Assuming that your contract leaves you with copyright until you’re paid you could always have dmca’d them when they deployed. But that’s the vindictive side of me :D
I think that more comes from their society aging than being credit card debt levels of spending.
I think the intention was that by building an audience of apartment renters, that he could pivot into a related idea with this audience.
Eat Your Own Dog Food
As someone who is kinda a minimalist when it comes to code (prefers simplicity and less libraries and excessive moving parts) I've often wondered about this.

The problem is that unless we're just talking about simple charts that act as a debugging/REPL tool, you'll have to redo them for writing reports which is then twice the work.
My sense in Los Angeles is that traffic laws mostly go unenforced. This allows persistent, continuous safety hazards for pedestrians and compliant drivers.

We have a situation where running stop signs and red lights, speeding, reckless driving and gridlocking behaviors are rewarded and very, very rarely penalized. State laws require revenue from traffic violations to flow to the state of California rather than to the locality so the LAPD's incentive to spend costly officer time on traffic enforcement is quite weak.

In this particular situation, automated enforcement measures would seem to be worthwhile.
There's something to say about how statistics can be interpreted.

Using their their own data on Houston [1] when the cameras were in operation there were 10 fatal accidents, and with them banned there were 13 fatal accidents despite there being over twice as many overall accidents reported.

That's plenty within margin of error or normal variance which doesn't say much about the red light camera's effectiveness as far as fatalities are concerned (the article says "people will die").

Says nothing as to why people would run a red light as well. Are there new distractions between 2010-2014 that weren't as common in 2006-2010? Are they distracted by cell phones? I don't know, but there's more variables at play than just "is there a red light camera here" when it comes to people running red lights.

[1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/08/12/crashes-doubled-after...
Well, the fact that banks traditionally allow reverting fraudulent transactions is becoming more and more of a unique selling point.

So it would seem obvious that they want customers to give out their passwords so they become victims of fraud, only to then learn that the bank has excellent fraud protection (contrary to let's say cryptocurrencies).

That is pure speculation of course. Hanlon's Razor would suggest "banks are too stupid to implement good auth", which, having worked both outside and inside the banking industry, I would strongly agree with.
Word salad is remarkably similar to a low quality markov chain.

Sometimes I question consciousness.

And then I realize people demand so little that entertainment could be entirely automated in ten years.
It's also a very misleading and dishonest journalism, as many of YouTubers displayed in the final stages have nothing to do with the alt-right.
Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re realizing they’re full of errors
I don’t use Android; but Google does have far more privacy options if you pay. You can disable various tracking / mining functionality.

My guess with that is that they’re using Google Analytics for click stream data. Welcome to like 50% of mobile apps out there.
Such pesticides and other toxic chemicals not only cause cancer, but they also explain the increasing infertility in the West as explainable by germline damage in both men and women. This should worry you a lot. Please refer to:

[1] Assessment of Glyphosate Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Pathologies and Sperm Epimutations: Generational Toxicology. (2019)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011160

> The transgenerational pathologies observed include prostate disease, obesity, kidney disease, ovarian disease, and parturition (birth) abnormalities. Epigenetic analysis of the F1, F2 and F3 generation sperm identified differential DNA methylation regions (DMRs). A number of DMR associated genes were identified and previously shown to be involved in pathologies. Therefore, we propose glyphosate can induce the transgenerational inheritance of disease and germline (e.g. sperm) epimutations. Observations suggest the generational toxicology of glyphosate needs to be considered in the disease etiology of future generations.

[2] Environmental toxicant induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of ovarian pathology and granulosa cell epigenome and transcriptome alterations: ancestral origins of polycystic ovarian syndrome and primary ovarian insuffiency. (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30207508

[3] The epigenetic impacts of endocrine disruptors on female reproduction across generations. (2019)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31077281
The idea behind the thing seems to be to initiate a wire transfer (which cannot be refunded as easily as direct withdrawal) and provides the merchant with an immediate confirmation of the same. I've never used Sofort for pretty much that reason that they want your online banking credentials and then automate stuff behind your back.

I've sometimes used giropay, though, which does the same, only directly through your bank's online banking interface. So you're interacting with your bank, not a third party; but that third party gets confirmation about the transfer. Still more of a hassle than direct withdrawal ...
I thought it also prohibits commercial use, so the client would have to publish the source _and_ not sell access?
Hi Kevin,

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

You are right, it is on the expensive side. We just wanted to showcase the best CS college degrees were someone to decide to make the commitment to college (most are relatively expensive). But you are absolutely right in that there are definitely other options that are less expensive.

Would you maybe like to see a tab or something that would show more college options?
So I'm guessing this is US based, is not getting paid and then going "ah well" a common thing there?

I'd just take them to court if an invoice followed by "fuck you, pay me" didn't work.
I have! https://www.standard.co.uk/beauty/do-you-have-vegan-face-how...
I personally feel that driver assistance systems (unrelated to red lights) provide a substantial increase in driver safety over revenue generating traffic camera systems. Red light cameras increase accidents[0], and currently only serve to generate revenue. Redflex[1] is a notorious offender whose CEO is actually serving time[2] for his company's malfeasance.

Excerpt from the executive summary of [0]:

"The results do not support the view that red-light cameras reduce crashes. Instead, we find that RLCs are associated with higher levels of many types and severity categories of crashes."

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253044721_A_detaile...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redflex_Holdings#Bribery_inves...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-redflex-ceo-sent...
Then came a stage I was not prepared for. "Faceprint is required for security purposes," it said.

I was instructed to hold my phone up - to "face front camera straight on" - looking directly at the image of a human head. Then told to "Read numbers aloud in Mandarin Chinese".

My voice was captured by the App at the same time it scanned my face.

Afterwards a big green tick: "Approved"
Yeah the whole time I was there every time I had to use bigtable or Spanner I always muttered to myself “I wish I could be using some free software garbage instead of this proprietary Google stuff right now.” Every Googler secretly yearns for the performance, reliability, and elegance of MySQL.
Everest has become a freakshow.

Humans are not built to climb that high, even with supplemental oxygen there is a non-trivial risk of brain trauma from blood vessel leakage even if you don't die from it. When the final push from camp 4 to the summit is a human traffic jam, the risks multiply. Because of the logistical difficulty of getting there and preparing, and the perceived (not real) "accomplishment" of reaching the summit, people take excessive risks rather than quitting when they start having cognitive impairments, the weather turns, or they're moving too slowly or using too much oxygen on the ascent, making the risk severe during descent. It's not a good situation.

Anyone with a death wish should take on one of the other peaks in the Himalayas, without all of the route prep that goes on on Everest and turns it into fast food mountaineering.

Anyone without a deathwish can find plenty of challenge on more convenient mountains elsewhere, climbing only when weather and avalanche risk are very low, since there's less pressure of feeling, like many do on Everest, that it's a once in a lifetime opportunity and they've paid lots of money to get there so they have to keep going. Or take up rock climbing. Excellent technical challenge and strength training, lower risk (with rope and prudence).

Everest used to be at real challenge. Now it's more of a contest of luck and whether you have the money. People climb it for the status, but look at the damned lines! That's not status, people. That's being a lemming. Wake up.
It’s a question of an addressable market population, sadly :(
I really don‘t get it. Most countries don‘t have red light cameras and nobody is stating that it‘s less secure.

Red light cameras sound for me like a „solution“ for an effect which is happening but not the cause. Are really so many people driving on red lights? Is there some other problem like a very short phase of yellow light like someone already stated? Anything else?
So what is the safer alternative to Glyphosate?
Yeah. With diving an abort is not a big deal. Just do it again tomorrow. With Everest you have already put in a lot of effort and money and you may never get the opportunity to do it again.

Also, when you do stupid things there is often a good chance to get away with it. I have done things I shouldn’t have done but I have fond memories of overcoming the hardship.
Because of how it is sold by some of the expedition organizers. Climbing Everest gives you the distinction of climbing the highest mountain in the world and if you have money it can provide good safety to you. So, a lot of people who aren't particularly well trained also try it. Everest is definitely made easier by sherpas compared to some other mountains.

Kanchenjunga, Annapurna and K2 for example are much harder and have high fatality rate despite attracting experienced climbers mostly. If memory serves me right, they have a fatality rate of about 30%.
As someone who grew up in the country where all of my neighbours were farmers: there's a huge difference between killing an animal and killing an animal in a cruel (ie unnecessary suffering) manner. Killing a mouse with a trap that does the killing quickly, I don't have any problem with, but these traps just pin the creature in place so that it cannot get away and slowly dehydrates to death.
Thanks for writing this. Saving is not storing money. It is delaying your right to “use” it, thus allowing others to “use” it now (which is why you expect a return interest).

That is why banks are not evil. On the contrary: they are the basis of a healthy economy.
As a freelancer, always get a 50% upfront payment before starting a project.
But it's incredible amounts of luck combined with having a partner who works for a series of big well paying public companies.

Being able to buy a house and rent it out for more than you pay is /hard/ because it's based on luck. No one in a major tech hub could start and do that right now. Houses in the bay regularly sell for $10k/month in total cost but rent for $5-6k. And then immediately say goodbye to 40%+ of your rental income to taxes. It's just not hard - it's luck.
No Open-Source license forbids commercial use.
How common as a ballpark percent? I’m asking because I’m trying to decide whether to try some contracting this year or not
Because human interaction (whether human to human or human to machine) rely heavily on trust. Humans implicitly trust other humans more because we've evolved to have empathy. It makes it easier to predict what will happen with another human because we can model their behavior by putting ourselves in their shoes. That's also why we are so uneasy around those who we cannot empathize with (e.g., socipaths).

While validation is a proxy for this trust, it's not the same because the modeling may be incomplete or we don't have the same evolutionary heuristics to understand aberrant behavior. So we tend to want to interpret the model explicitly.
I read the article and it mentioned that in the past year YouTube started recommending videos from left-leaning creators.

"IN 2018, nearly four years after Mr. Cain had begun watching right-wing YouTube videos, a new kind of video began appearing in his recommendations.

These videos were made by left-wing creators, but they mimicked the aesthetics of right-wing YouTube, down to the combative titles and the mocking use of words like “triggered” and “snowflake.”
Seems to be a payment platform, where landlords would register their rentals (apartment info, rent amount, etc) in order to charge renters. The platform owners would then take that data and use it to build a rental listing site (like Airbnb but for long-term rentals).
Hi,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We could not agree more. It is super hard to really find out EXACTLY what your path should be (or at least an approximate path). This is why we are exploring our personalized learning guide (https://courseroot.com/cs-curriculums/tailor-made/). The goal is to recommend the best path (or paths) based on the students background, goals, current situation, expenses, etc.

Would love to hear what you think of this.

Thanks again for sharing.
It allows commercial use.

Here's more info: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/
You definitely picked a good tech stack! Code is ideal.
I suppose it should be
<- GPL
Ah, a radical, so basically anyone who questions leftist orthodoxy:

- questioning climate alarmism as a means to take more of your money;

- questioning feminism as a force of havoc on the nuclear family;

- questioning vaccine safety, a class of drugs that suspiciously never undergo double blind placebo safety testing;

- questioning the expanding welfare state as possibly not a social good but a crutch;

Etc.

All radical ideas to even think about. Shhhhh!
USSR was not abiding it’s own laws. There was even a common saying by dissidents reading exactly ‘abide your own laws’ :(
The letter I got in Oregon had a zoomed in photo of my face squared also with an algorithm, a pic of my license plate, and a link online of a video of the actual rolling right turn and the state of the lights in the video. I had no out after seeing it.
I think you’re underestimating the difficulty. No moderately fit person can do it. You have to be very good but even then it’s still a big risk.
France is ahead in fashion and few other art forms. America is ahead in popular art because LA is the silicon valley of culture and has the population of Europe.

After a certain point it's a language and population thing, and France has a language barrier compared to english.
+1

If you do not have the time, it does seem indeed best to focus on practical experience, so you can really just get stuff done quickly.

Thanks for sharing.
It seems like an absolute win for consumer welfare, to be honest.
Surprised nobody else commented but there's a bunch of studies that suggest red light cameras greatly increase rear collisions.

This is because the second the light turns yellow people freak the fuck out and stand on the brakes. I've even seen times in NJ when we had the pilot program... someone would slam the brakes on, be concerned they were still sticking out too far into intersection, then throw car into reverse. Now imagine if I'm the guy following behind on a motorcycle. Yeah, I can probably stop as fast, but I'm not going to get away from them backing over me.

Example of some studies: https://www.motorists.org/blog/red-light-cameras-increase-ac...
And employees should also be informed, just like Android informs them.
> Assuming that your contract leaves you with copyright until you’re paid

Why would this matter? If he's not paid, what validity does the contract have?
Of {home, fence, big SUV, sports, iPads, android phones, extra cars}, half of those don’t seem in the same league as the others...
> Google Brain’s researchers wondered if they could keep YouTube users engaged for longer by steering them into different parts of YouTube, rather than feeding their existing interests. And they began testing a new algorithm that incorporated a different type of A.I., called reinforcement learning.

> The new A.I., known as Reinforce, was a kind of long-term addiction machine. It was designed to maximize users’ engagement over time by predicting which recommendations would expand their tastes and get them to watch not just one more video but many more.

It saddens me that so many of our smartest engineers are working on stuff like this.
If people have that attitude then it will most certainly be the case.
I would check with a lawyer in your jurisdiction before assuming that non-payment voids the contract. See, for example, the judgement in this UK case:

> Finally, although the First Assignment records both that Mr Dichand and Dr Spaziante were to receive one US dollar as consideration for the assignment of the PCT Applications and further records that they both acknowledged receipt of the dollar, it was never paid by HTI. Mr Edenborough argued that as a consequence the contract was void for lack of consideration. I think the consequence is that Mr Dichand and Dr Spaziante may or may not have a claim against HTI for an outstanding debt of 50 cents each.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/IPEC/2018/1142.html
This piece of "journalism" is very biased towards the left. I have noticed that the left has increasingly declared traditional right-wing values as "extremist" or "alt-right" to attempt to whittle down what being right-wing means.

An example of this is abortion. No matter how you feel about it, saying that abortion is murder and should be banned is now, in the NYT's opinion, "alt-right" and "extremist" even though about half of America believes so and this has always been a Right-wing value.

Not only this, but this type of article is why the Right calls NYT "fake news." Not necessarily "fake," but the bias is boldly visible. It doesn't help with media credibility - and then the Left wonders why the Right doesn't take newspapers seriously. For the record, I think "Fake news" is overused - but I do understand, reading this, why the Right loves bashing NYT.
Great to hear you like it! Mind sharing what you think is great and what could be better?

Thanks for sharing!
Radios in phones are an underappreciated feature. I just moved and didn't have internet access at my new home and I got a lot of use out of the fm radio in my moto g6 since I didn't want to use up my data.
You can use UWP controls in Win32 apps now, and still distribute via the Store. Look up XAML Islands. It’s how the new Windows Terminal works.

I’d recommend pursuing that route if you’re frustrated by UWP app limitations or performance.

Full disclosure: I work at Microsoft on the Windows team.
That sounds pretty much like what the first chapter of getting to yes deals with. Understanding the emotions, focusing on how you can, listen to what they need to create a win win situation that won't make the other party feel duped (like the classical sales tactics).
It's rare to climb without supplementary oxygen. Weather/avalanche/seracs fall in the objective hazard category and are unrelated to how fit you are (beyond moving through danger zones faster). Everest is not a major achievement, it's a high-altitude walkup.
famous left wing youtubers are people like Hbomberguy (known for helping trans charities)

famous right wing youtubers are people like Prisonplanet (white genocide propaganda, Brexit)

there's no comparison between the two outside of rise in popularity
NLNet grant approved to fund development of a libre RISC-V and 3D GPU chip
Just increase the yellow light time in the name of safety and everything else will follow. I know when cities were installing red light cameras in California they would decrease the yellow light time in order to ensure revenue to pay for the cameras. Then the state raised the minimums and many places dropped the cameras because they become too expensive.