skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that the comment you replied to was meant as a joke.
I guess anyone reading such a technical article already knows this, but I didn't have even the vaguest clue what SAML was—my first thought was some dialect of ML—and skimming the article only slightly clarified for me. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Lang...), it's the "Security Assertion Markup Language", and the discussion is about implementations of Single Sign-On.
What vs. how was what made this click for me.

Apparently, there was a method to invert the screen

>>>flashScreen
self invertScreen.
self delay:sometime.
self invertScreen.

There was also the requirement to have a "visual beep" to accompany an acoustic beep. The way the visual beep was to be implemented was to invert the screen.

Now you could have just put "... invertScreen." where you were supposed to do the visual beep.

Or you could add a method:

>>>visualBeep
self flashScreen.

Before, I would have said this method is completely superfluous, after all it doesn't really do anything that isn't already in the system. However, the service it provides is giving something the correct name. This is highly valuable.
Plaid is a great product that can provide alternative paths to credit for people with poor credit scores, but the fact that they give developers access to all your banking activity for months after using it once is pretty scummy. The ethical thing to do would be to provide a one-time snapshot unless the user is made explicitly aware of and agrees to allow the developer to access their bank transactions whenever they like.
I cannot agree with this enough. The building code is wildly out of whack with reality.

Noise: All of my neighbors should be able to have active, stomping, marching band in each of their units, and I not hear a single peep. Contrast with reality: In every apartment I've ever lived in normal /quiet/ walking, sink use, and even bathroom fans were audible in other units.

Air quality: Smokers, "Marry Jane" users I think all who don't smoke can agree with; but I also dislike vaping, perfumes, and dryer scents. They make it hard for me to breath and irritate me (I think in both the medical and psychological sense). Scrubbed, negative draw exhausts are required for all of those things. Have a designated smoking room. Also have designated clean air intakes that supply positive pressure to the hallways and units (in that order) and proper door seals.

Also, yes, build a TOKYO grade subway that connects to parking silos in the outskirts. Then go ahead and ban (most) cars from the city. But ONLY in that order. Don't ban the cars first.
That's not the only solution. The other solution is don't live in the valley, don't live in these places where there's no affordable housing.

Should we make cities denser? Should we force people shoulder to shoulder? I don't know if we should and I never see the "wisdom" of the denser city questioned.

Instead Google and other groups should give money to residents who would be amenable to living elsewhere. $1 billion for freedom of choice instead of perpetuating that everyone must live in the same few square miles.
Young people want to go to Berlin but people with money want to settle away from it.
This is silly. Your counter-argument is basically also meddling in the market.
Caster Semenya isn't trans.
Re-Use is the way to go, I generally check in at the re-use centre in our town, the scrap yard and the local auction sites before buying anything new.

Its a shame everything electronic is basically landfill due to either lack of circuit diagrams and parts or software that no longer works.. Ditto for new cars :-(
This is about Caster Semenya and attempts to mandate that she take testosterone-reducing medication in order to compete.
Linux and FreeBSD: Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173830
> There isn’t a pilot alive...

Wouldn’t you have said that after the first MAX crash? I mean if you’re a pilot and a 737 crashes, wouldn’t you be ALL OVER every detail of that crash?
Staying fresh has its own costs, and those would have to be made absolutely clear and transparent and clients must pay them. That's actually very difficult to do politically, especially when you have lowest-price bidding schemes.

Code is legacy the moment it's put into production. Keeping technical debt from piling up, and keeping on the bleeding edge to avoid costly maintenance of old systems is extremely expensive. And the costs escalate very quickly when you're talking about airplanes. The cost of dealing with legacy becomes acceptable very quickly.
That is exactly what happened with San Francisco though. Then those fraction of people in Berlin become entrenched in local politics, prevent any further housing or development and the end result is a city that's nigh-unlivable. Last I checked, SF gets a lot of criticism for that reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsina_Strada
I bet there's a science fiction novel about that
> then that's the end of women's and girls' leagues

So what? Why should we have "women's hockey" and not "lightweight hockey"?

This would insure that everyone can compete in their division independently of gender. This is pretty much already what's happening but with a naming system based on gender. The ability to carry children or lactate is pretty much useless as a differentiator of skills.

Some athletes would probably also push themselves to reach the division above their current one as if often done in boxing and this would results in interesting sportsmanship. Again, this is my merely my opinion and I'm sure that this would require more thought than the few minutes I've spent pondering the question.

> This takes time

This happened in a few months. Granted, I'm a programmer and my only exercise is hiking.
Can insurers think bigger with their heads in the cloud?
Libra likely to be Vice Coin for gambling, porn and pot industry, says expert
Our planet needs to be viewed as and felt as a living entity. There needs to be a shift so we care for every living entity. Every plant, animal, human. Our values need to shift from material pursuits and those as a benchmark for happiness and success to how we treat one another and also other living beings.

Is there a website i can go to and check earth's health as a whole? Like we can check our own health. It would be good to have a place that lists our planets health against a bunch of vital signs
Right, but she does have XY chromosomes - which is what sparked this whole debate
Thanks for trying it out and for the really useful feedback.

I'll look to make improvements in some of the areas you mentioned. Right now at least, I'm just targeting individual users who don't require collaboration. I realize that many users have requirements that go beyond that, but I'm going to focus on handling the simplest use cases well to start.
Last I read, the structure of the thing actually is not meant to fly, and they had to add a software workaround to make it fly (hence the MCAS), given the way they placed the turbines and due to their size.
At least according to the article, it's something usually seen in older people with "long-term poor posture and significant stress loads"; the intended implication—doubtless at least somewhat alarmist—seems to be that regular smartphone useage does as much damage to young people in a short time as was previously only done in a lifetime.
There is, however the concept of Privately Owned Public Spaces, which this is very close to, and given the government outsourced existence of the Public Access Channel, I'd be inclined to favor.

https://cooperativecity.org/2017/11/01/privately-owned-publi...
Yes. But The tax needs to be high enough to capture most of the value not created by the landlord. As I am no property owner I am not too deep into this, but right now I think we are far from that.

Property tax is just now being redone in Germany. Unfortunately it seems that it might end up depending on the square meters of the house, not the underlying property.
I totally concur with the approach of building your own internal tools like this. There is a lot of technical value (and also some unique risks) with DIY tooling that is not usually apparent to the business owner. Being able to expose new APIs and interface things together with other parts of your business in new and open ways is a very powerful and compelling capability. Just knowing that you can do these things in the future is a powerful tool, as it keeps developers' minds more open to consider new integration and automation possibilities. Sure, most turn-key solutions offer some degree of an API and integration options, but if you control the source and CI/CD pipeline of your tools, it's a completely different ball game. I am sure most of us are acutely aware of the downsides of relying on 3rd party APIs at this point.

Also, Sqlite is a database engine to be seriously reckoned with if you know how to run a few magic PRAGMAs on your initial connection. I am still in awe of what can be achieved in terms of throughput and latency by a single connection on a WAL-journaled Sqlite db. If you don't need your app or service to scale beyond a single process per logical deployment, I cannot see any justification for using another engine.
Can you clarify what problem you are trying to solve with this proposal?

No one is obligated to rent a property from someone else. You rent if you believe it's in your interest to rent, instead of buy. Why stop two consenting people from entering into rental agreements, both of whom believe it's in their interest?

Some people prefer to rent: they don't want to be obligated to live somewhere for 10 to 30 years. They prefer to be free of commitments and loans (and/or don't have enough cash to buy). I wanted to live somewhere for a medium period of time (a few years) with no significant commitment or risk, then move on. I had just moved to the city and wasn't sure where I would ultimately want to live long-term. Landlords can also rent properties to people who have far worse credit and far fewer assets than would be required to buy the same property. I was able to rent a property much nicer than I could have afforded to buy at the time, since I had income but little wealth and credit. (The landlord in that case is taking on unsecured risk that I will default on our contract.)

Landlords also provide useful services to their tenants: they are responsible for all upkeep associated with the property. When I rented, I was glad not to have to deal with any of that. Landlord takes care of all the yard, or common spaces in an apartment, and if something breaks I just call the landlord. If you own appliances and real estate yourself, then you are potentially on the hook for significant costs if something breaks. Maybe the refrigerator breaks and you need to buy a new one: the landlord needs to budget or purchase insurance for that, while a renter does not. Landlords also assume liability for their property: if e.g. asbestos is found on the land, they may be responsible for paying for the cleanup.

Property owners are forced to tie up their assets in the real estate. Renters don't have to. Let's say that I have $1 million in cash, and I want to live somewhere. I don't necessarily want to have to invest all of my cash in real estate - not even a down payment on a mortgage. Renting might be a preferable alternative so that I can use my cash for other higher-value investments or to fund a business.

Lastly, landlords assume risk. If they can't find a tenant for their property, then it sits idle and they take a loss. When you own property, you can lose a significant amount of money if the property depreciates, as happened during the last recession. When you're renting, your risk is capped - you owe the rent but that's it.

Renting isn't wealth extraction. Like staying in a hotel, it's commerce, an exchange of money (rent) for services (temporary right to occupy a property). If you want to buy a property from its current owner, instead of renting it from them in a landlord-tenant relationship, then make them an offer, and if you both agree then you can do that instead.
It’s a poor wording, trans people don’t choose their gender either
As someone who agrees with your suggestion as to how serious climate change is, I've come to think asking individuals to change their behavior to fix the problem is actually counter productive.

People generally want to do the right thing and they want to matter whereas in my experience the average person is not a great systems thinker. So people are very receptive to calls to "be better" because it let's them fight for what they believe set in a framework where their actions matter at least to some degree.

The problem is, these are problems of scale and systems, and once people think they are fulfilling some responsibility they aren't going to pursue other solutions, at least as aggressively.

If we straight up told people: you are going to experience extreme pain within your life time due to climate change, and the only single thing you can do that matters is to put pressure on your government to attack these problems systematically, I think we'd get much better results.
Yodlee had direct data api access to bank databases before Plaid was a sperm in an investors pocket. Its been more than a screen scraper for a long time.
And who would build new rental properties under those conditions?
I agree with nhooyr's analysis. The interface{} will anyway transparently "contain" a pointer-to-the-[]byte, in other words, the []byte value itself will be heap allocated.

(Note for anyone new to this that the "[]byte-value" - we say "the byte slice" - is a distinct thing from the "values stored-in-the-byte-slice", which is a heap allocated backing array)
Manifest observable behavior is just an evidence-based way to determine breach of policy[0]. It's literally the most rational way to go about enforcing policy.

Insofar as suspensions seem "random" because they're done by fast and loose algorithms (which are the only enforcement mechanism that scales), I agree though: that shit sucks, and it affects many sides. Many sides.

When Zuckerberg was in front of Congress, he was repeatedly scolded by Congresspeople for not doing enough to remove bad stuff. He responded by saying that there's too much bad stuff for humans to keep track of, and that Facebook is working really hard on AI capable of handling it. Yay.

0: https://youtu.be/YmcK6GvgVPs?t=172
My guesstimate is that if you already have 1.6 million followers on Youtube, you probably make enough that you won't need a loan to buy a Tesla.
If birthdays are assumed to be distributed symmetrically. If you were born in august you'd need ~12 fewer people and for April you'd need ~12 more.[1]

Not sure how that looks for the worlds population probably averages out pretty well regardless.

[1]: https://www.panix.com/~murphy/bday.html
How a map at +4 or +6 degrees may or may not look is pretty far from "grade school", and definitely requires sources. I agree that the map in the parent comment doesn't meet my standards for scientific accuracy, due to lack of sources, but that doesn't mean I'd discount it. It's not exactly implausible, extrapolating from current desertification. Seems like the map is from a book (https://www.paragkhanna.com/home/2016/3/9/the-world-4-degree...), so presumably that book would contain explanations. Your Smithsonian map is quite bad, too: It contains no legend, an no explanations at all, although based on the coloring it would seem that there's less desertification than in the parent comment map. But then, it also looks like due to continental drift, the majority of landmass was on the Southern hemisphere. I think it's pretty silly to draw too many conclusions about desertification in the next century from a picture of the earth 170 million years ago, with a completely different distribution of land mass and weather patterns.
I'm not aware of massive subletting going on but in general if you sublet without letting your landlord know about it you risk losing the apartment entirely, and most landlords won't let you sublet for longer than six months. Of course sometimes it does happen. A couple of friends of mine have been in the same sublet for the better part of a year but they're also looking to move to a more stable place. The renter has basically moved out but is keeping the flat around "just in case"
I kind of agree with your first two points, but fail to see how Facebook's coin could ever be hoped to achieve this. In what fantasy universe will it be independent of Facebook's control? In what world is the inevitable accompanying tracking of all financial information, cross-referenced with a huge social database by a modern surveillance giant a good thing?

> Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or control facebook derives isn't done through force, it's by making a coin better than all the other coins.

It may not be done through sheer force, but when people are making their local decisions, they usually do not have a complete perception of the global ramifications of their actions. The end result might therefore still be something very undesirable for ~everyone.
A little research on the author shows she is:

> an "American sociomedical scientist whose research focuses on sex, gender and sexuality, as well as the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS"

and her own profile says: https://womensstudies.barnard.edu/profiles/rebecca-jordan-yo...

> "I am an interdisciplinary feminist scientist and science studies scholar whose work explores the reciprocal relations between science and the social hierarchies of gender, sexuality, class, and race."

This author is less of a scientist and more of a sociologist that is using data points to leverage an agenda about gender, sexuality and sports. Putting 'feminist' before 'scientist' implies a host of biases.

This is politically expedient propaganda that can be used to leverage the idea that trans-women (biological men) should continue to compete in women's sports because "it's not all about testosterone."

And then there's this lovely disclaimer by SA, as if to say 'we know...':

>"The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American."

Are there ANY medical doctors, chemists or biologists who want to weigh in on this, not just "feminist scientists" who have made a career in "science studies" via identity politics?
Or perhaps that’s ultra-hard mode. Multiple fantastically different independent intelligent species evolving on planets within shooting range of each other with basic industrial technology.

If you’ve ever played civilization, it is a helluva lot harder to get started in Europe than in North America.
It's a little bit of a grey area, but the answer to your question is generally yes.

That's why Europe's move to require a modern, unified API for banks, planned to start this fall, is such a great thing. https://www.openbankingeurope.eu/ Most banks' incentives are not aligned with giving data to third parties ever. This is a case where hands-on regulation to compel banks to participate, and thereby clearly assigning legal liabilities, is such a great thing. Otherwise, we know for a fact that providers like plaid will fill that gap in functionality, kindof like the economics of black markets.
How would we switch sports? Get together and sign a global treaty that bans any sports where men show an advantage?

Sports are incredibly ingrained in culture, traditions, and institutions around the world.
My first impression when I saw this news was that this would be about as 'decentralised' as Tor is. Facebook (and pals) will always maintain significant enough control over the nodes in the network to both maintain consensus in the blockchain, and also to subvert whatever consumer-friendly guarantees they'll claim to make. No different to Tor and US spy agencies controlling enough exit nodes to defeat the purpose of Tor.

Facebook and privacy are fundamentally opposed, so based on known behaviour the currency itself is most likely a hook into more of its users' lives.
Audio over Bluetooth: most detailed information about profiles, codecs, devices
I'm a little confused by the FAQ post in the linked article. Some of the questions make it sound like 32 bit software will also stop working? Are the compatibility packages going away too?

This would have some crappy implications for Wine and games in particular.
I allow myself to criticize Patrick Rothfuss though.

The absolute arrogance he displayed after publishing the first book of the series was astounding. He claimed the series was "already finished" and that each of the other 2 books would be released a year apart, simple as that. He wasn't like other authors, he assured us.

Here we are, 10 years later with Rothfuss literally doing everything except finishing the series (making tv shows, starting charities, making video games, board games, etc.)

My theory is that he painted himself into a corner and doesn't know how to finish it without it being a train wreck.
I don't think it's an inaccurate summary at all. You're objecting to the use of dramatic language, but the content is accurate:

Watts: "Only 350 million more urban dwellers will be exposed to severe drought and “deadly heat” events. Only 130-140 million will be inundated."

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15...

"Limiting global warming to 1.5°C instead of 2°C could result in around 420 million fewer people being frequently exposed to extreme heatwaves, and about 65 million fewer people being exposed to exceptional heatwaves"

Watts: "If we cut carbon emissions by half over the next decade, eliminate them entirely by 2050..."

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15...

"Limiting warming to 1.5°C implies reaching net zero CO2emissions globally around 2050 and concurrent deep reductions in emissions of non-CO2 forcers, particularly methane (high confidence) ... In comparison to a 2°C limit, the transformations required to limit warming to 1.5°C are qualitatively similar but more pronounced and rapid over the next decades (high confidence). 1.5°C implies very ambitious, internationally cooperative policy environments that transform both supply and demand "
It's not just Facebook but it's also backed by Visa.

These are the sworn enemies of cryptocurrency and privacy.

They are trying to cash in on the hype and supplant real cryptocurrency with their own mechanism of control and profit.
Ironically one of the factors attracting foreigners to Berlin is the cheaper cost of living.
The problem is the weather sucks everywhere else.
Try this see how good it works though.

https://www.onmoneygrounds.com/credit-karma-login-credit-kar...
> One bullet point from the slideshow spelled it out: “Expect to work 50-60 hour weeks.” Her presentation got cut short before she could get to the next part. The company’s work-from-home policy was being eliminated.

> The harangue stunned some of Cleo’s employees, who felt that it flew in the face of the company’s mission to create a better workplace for parents. One employee handed in the company laptop and walked out the door, quitting that afternoon.

So this CEO didn't believe in her company's mission enough to apply it at her own company?
>Through your business with AWS you are now funding a large, fierce, and direct competitor.

other than making you feel bad, is there any practical downside to this?
It's not impossible, but it does get unwieldy. The Paralympics, for example, has lots of categories. https://www.paralympic.org/classification There's a bunch of arguing about the categories and sometimes athletes will intentionally injure themselves to move into a lower category (like a boxer starving down to a lower weight class, but usually more damaging).

Seems like they face another binary choice: abolish categories, or argue about the categories forever.