skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of, at least, another possible explanation.

Before birth control was available, there is not need for evolutionary effects in the willingness to have children directly, only for the willingness to have sex. You probably agree with me that sexual desire is pretty common, obviously we have evolved for it.

After birth control exist, sexual desire is not an appropriate proxy for evolutionary pressures, so, we could see an increase in the instinct to have children and, maybe, a decrease in the instinct of having a lot of sex.
And yet half the world wants to move to EU countries with high tax rates. It's almost as if the tax rates and the average quality of life were linked.
Kotlin has sealed classes which are basically the same as Rust's enums. It also has async / await in the form of coroutines and a decent module system. It also doesn't need manual memory management, which while unsuitable for many applications does remove another potential class of bugs.
Cool. This explains some other questions (e.g. when you buy a new car and suddenly everyone else starts driving the same model :D). However, I don't think this is the case here. We're using all of the services I've given as an example. We have experienced issues with them before but not in such short period of time.
This looks interesting and I'm going to play with it, but if you still still pipe PS into grep before killing, 'pkill -f' will do exactly what you want 80% of the time.
Ad: It does EVERYTHING!!!!

2pt font on page 14: Except this page of exclusions, and conflicting exclusions, and the fact the company can add any of their choosing at any time without notice.
It looks like these companies could branch out a bit and add small conference rooms (like a small KTV room), cafeteria areas (small stand up tables), or small booths. I’m a big surprised they didn’t find their card being used as love hotels on wheels, but that may be understandable if most are kei cars.
That sounds like normal procedure from a bank. If someone deposited a million to my account in error, the bank would (and should) most certainly just correct the error even if it means "decreasing the balance" on my account.

I expect them not to hide it though, i.e. I expect to see the transaction log to say "+1000 deposit -1000 correction", and I expect them to be open about the mistake IF I ask. I do not expect them to give me a call to explain what happened, however.

This is behavior I expect from any entity where I have an account with a balance, whether it's a commercial bank, PayPal, or anyone else.
> (and therefore miss out on certain IPv4-only services)

Such as github, for example. Something that really surpised me when I setup an IPv6-only virtual machine and then went to clone some projects to setup the host.
I'm surprised no one mentioned to use them for sexual activities...
Was hoping for electro too.
I find a petrol 'sports' car in 2019 just repelling.
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I am very sorry for your loss. It always sad to deal with the death of a pet, but it's especially hard when they're so young and it's so sudden.

I hope you will consider that this report is discussing early stages of research, not conclusive findings. I don't think it's fair to beat yourself up for "doing everything wrong" when there's still so much uncertainty.
Hi, Im the cofounder of this app I can also answer your question.

We do not have certificates like the traditional educational system and instead we have a resume-like profile page that shows the courses you have completed and the tasks if you have completed.

This way companies would know that you actually have the knowledge that you claim and can see your practical experience in completing tasks, which is something you won’t be able to prove with just a degree certification.

If you are an instructor you get paid when someone enrols in your course. We have 2 separate accounts for instructors and users for security reasons.

Also, since you’re interested could we invite you to sign up so that we can launch earlier.
I use it for three different storefronts. Maybe I'm an exception, but I've never had an issue with it.
> some projects primarily need to develop functionality quickly; others prioritize stability

But they get the ballance completely wrong. In Python, I can just write code that returns some object or None (Python equivalent of null). In Java/C/C++ I can't - I have to appease the type system (i.e. declare the return type), but there is also no way to even later tell the compiler that it can't be null!
I know the "logic" behind modern low password length limits for services like Paypal. Too many of their users are literally incapable of remembering their passwords and call/e-mail them bitching about how they're entering the right password and their account won't let them in and now they can't get to their money and bogus threats of legal action. So they encourage weak passwords and try to handle security on their side by flagging accounts for any reason and using 2FA. Recently they started requiring one number or special character in passwords, which puts them about 15 years behind the times when it comes to password policies.
Ha, nice! Played this to death in my young years :) Also: Shooting Gallery...
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10409507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572600
Automation takes this and a whole class of problems out of the interpersonal domain. Failed tests make the build fail. Who ever breaks the build buy donuts for the team. Easy, solved and no personal issues. Include a linter in the build, incorrect formatting fails the build. The team decided on the standard format (tabs vs spaces, 4/2 spaces, brace same line or next line etc). More donuts. No arguments because linting rules were decided by the team. New members adapt.
No, trees don't just regrow if you've cut them down on a large scale. The landscape changes permanently.
Lucky you. Other people have had very different experiences.

These new-monopolies all seem to have the same features: robo-traps that trigger problems for users, robo-support (or support-by-script) that doesn't solve the problems, and no apparent motivation to actually solve problems when they happen.

Stronger regulation might fix some of this, but generally there should be some obligation to act ethically and responsibly.

(I know I'm dreaming, but consider how we got to the point where this requirement might as well be science fiction instead of a realistic consumer expectation.)
If they were renting a car there is a very high chance that they didn’t have their own driveway anyways (detached house ownership is highly correlated with car ownership).
It’s been 5,000 years since the dawn of agriculture. If multiple births were fertility increasing they’d be, if not normal, at least common in some groups. You don’t even get 1 in 3. Single births are clearly not being found wanting by the Blind Idiot God.
A bit like chargeback without any consultation.

Planet Money just had a story from the other side, one of the producers made a payment on another service in error, and tried to get it refunded.[0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/736352315/episode-922-the-cos...

You could read one of these stories and come away passionately more pro or more against chargebacks, but the real solution for both situations is just more transparency and communication.

In SG's case, if they're right that the money ended up at the right place, fine, just let everyone involved know what happened, how PP came to that conclusion, and what options there would be for the parties to appeal in the case of fraud or mistake. It sounds like in the PM story that that approach would have resolved everything faster there too.

Transparency isn't going to kill you in this situation. You may be worried about privacy risks, but just make a clear policy as to what you can and can't say during the initial phases of disputes.

Transparency will resolve the easy cases, but there are real dilemmas here between buyer and seller rights. I feel like some of the tech that is taking over the roles of payment systems are just pretending these dilemmas don't actually exist. eBay definitely stumbled through buyer vs seller rights for a while, maybe still doesn't have it right.

Cryptocurrency is an interesting spin. In some ways its stance is that chargebacks are so anathema that they will design them completely out of consideration.
Multiple hypothesis I can quickly think of, I wouldn't know which ones are correct or not :

- "Don't be a dick" doesn't offer any advantage for one's genome transmission, meaning any genetic base to being a dick will get transmitted no problem.

- Being a dick propagates, while not being one doesn't, meaning the society has a whole becomes "dick-ish by default" (much like entropy, with dick-iness) unless this is actively acted on.

- Religions, culture, nations, companies... actively encourage people to being dicks to everybody not in their group, to preserve and expand the group, meaning we're actively trained to being dicks by our social environment

- Our brains default to "everyone is an enemy unless proven otherwise" , meaning people will tend to be dicks by default.

- Not being a dick makes one socially vulnerable, so it's only achievable in very safe contexts and not by default
I thought that dorms were usually
shared bedrooms or something;

AFAIK the one-room-for-two-people college housing model is unique to America.

Here in the UK, rooms in 'halls of residence' are almost always single occupancy. There's access to a shared kitchen, and toilets may be shared or en suite depending on price.
How is the statistic of lower dipping fertility rates inside Muslim countries of relevance when talking about:

> the "breeding like rabbits" image that politicians use to drum up fear among uninformed voters

The fertility rates of muslim immigrants are far higher than the natives which will lead to a decisive demographic and political shift, which is what those politicians are talking about.
> but I didn't realize they could write "olives noires" on the package and say "ingredients : olives noires confites". That seems very dishonest.

Exactly, and they also often define the iron gluconate as either a stabilizer or an iron additive, rather than a colorant. They sometimes go as far as putting “enriched with iron” on the front label, suggesting health benefits.
That maths don't add up. If 200 countries need to do 989bn, then they need to do 4.945, let's say 5.

If we consider countries with more population are going to plant more (so trees per capita perhaps). We could go with landmass but it takes money/people to do this, so let's go with capita.

Pakistan being a highly populated country and so needs to plan more than the 5bn average (they did 10).

But there is a very long tail of small countries in that list of 200 so many more small countries. Most will go below the average needed and so won't stack up.
I'm not surprised. I accidentally created a seller account trying to create a test account for a project I was working on. I never verified the account as I realised quite soon. I've never sent or received any money.

But can I close the account? Nope! I have to send official paperwork to prove it is a valid seller account before I can close it.The only reason I want to close it is so I can reuse the email address. But you can't even change the email address.

Their process is flawed and lacks common sense.
Agreed. I'll accept one inconvenience when going to a page, but I don't think pages that throw up both a modal popup and a push notification dialog deserve to make HN front page.
I looked it up. It takes about 15 trees to absorb 1 tonne of CO2. Which is used for a 10.000 km flight.
> ...the most effective solution is very simple...

No, definitely not simple.

These people have intrinsic deep-seated personality defects.

Sure, personality changes do occur in life but they take A LONG TIME, and barring trauma, aren't precipitated by any single event, especially something as as simple as people creating humiliation in a workplace. In other words, you can't "change" an assh*le or force them to curb their personality to the point where it's not noticeable.

You either grow a thick skin, avoid them, force them out, or what most orgs do, nothing-- just wait for their behavior/value ratio to cross a line that precipitates expulsion from the group.
Should they have to disclose that their phone system has an IVR before every purchase as well? That they use a third-party logistics provider to handle returns?
Aside from Stripe - who?

And sellers on larger sites like eBay can't easily use a competitor. It's a classic anti-trust pattern and should be treated as such.
But it is the customers fault, isn't it? There are lots of good reasons to fly somewhere, so I don't think it is unethical to offer flights, the problem is with customers flying unneccesarily. I think the best solution is to have some kind of carbon tax on these flights, so the cost of the pollution from them is accounted for, shaming people into avoiding flying isn't a great solution imo.
It's even more impressive when you see that his account is named 'sureaboutthis"
So the take-away for consumers is...what exactly? Don't use certain types of cables to power a RaspberryPi 4? And how does one identify a cable that could cause problems?
Who sponsored this research? Not qualified to dispute any results, but knowing where money came from can cast a different light to conclusions.
Almost all of the things I post to HN get buried and are never seen. Have a look through my submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jordigh

The fact that this one was seen indicates that there is an issue here.

I didn't create the issue. I am only drawing attention to it. If the issue weren't a problem, it wouldn't even be possible to draw attention to it.
Welcome to the Fifth Annual Californian Turing Test Chatbot Hackathon!

This time we've had to introduce some changes to abide by new state legislature.

Messages entered into the chat console must be followed immediately by the string " [I am a bot]", whether you are a bot or a human, but especially if you are a human.

Good luck and have fun!
Thanks! Those are all interesting questions -- and also quite hard to answer without a lot of research into each individual company.

One thing my fund will push for is more consistent and granular emissions disclosures across firms so that shareholders have a better idea of where firms are "spending" their emissions and identify inefficiencies.
> You do not understand evolution

Probably.

But although it is almost tautological that fertility is heritable, it doesn't follow that the first world infertility trend will reverse.

If whatever is causing first world infertility (1) actually profits from our infertility and (2) is some kind of evolving entity itself, we could find ourselves in an evolutionary arms race, and lose.
Reparameterizable Subset Sampling via Continuous Relaxations
As other people have mentioned, olive trees are native to the Canaanite region so they strongly feature there because that's what people were used to seeing. But to add to that, you'll also see a lot of mentions of Cedar trees (with some psalms and songs describing how the "voice of god" shakes the cedars in the mountains of Lebanon). Lebanon cedar was incredibly famous in antiquity for its resilience. Egyptians had it imported for buildings because they didn't have naturally growing trees that were as sturdy as Cedars.

It's interesting to note that Yahweh in the bible still holds that old thunder association that the original canaanite deity had, and that cedar seems to be to him what oak is to european thunder deities (oak is very much associated with Jupiter/Zeus/Tarannis).
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Why did this shake you so bad? You talked to a rep and they fixed it. That's what customer reps are for. If you have humans combing through records for malicious activity and reading off a rubric, you probably would've had the same issue.
This is why i really dislike the diversity-crowd (straw-man here...). The only result were some laws obligating people to explicitly name the minorities of the month. The only proponent of this is the HR department. Nah, not really, but they have to.

The diversity crowds achievement was to give corporations more power. If I were belong to a minority, I wouldn't dislike the diversity crowd, I would hate them with unrequited passion.

There is a difference between equality and equity. There is also a conflict between equity and freedom. But these are discussion that will never again surface in the next 10 years, because of the diversity crowd.

The straw-man I describe are giant assholes in my opinion. And I wouldn't want to have anything to do with them. Because they are also toxic.

edit: Further more, I think people defining an allegedly large and epidemic group of people as untenable, are probably assholes. Unbelievable...
bcrypt is has long been regarded as the "best" secure hashing function, and it limits input passwords to 50-72 bytes. Assuming utf-8 input a character can plausibly be 4 bytes, which turns 72 bytes into 18 characters max.

It looks like Argon2 is newer and doesn't have a max length but still it's likely most sites are using bcrypt.

There's also a kind of handwavy "more than 20 characters is likely to be malicious input." Which is a little bit of a cop out but also probably true in general.
The Art and Science of Software Estimation – Part 3: Yin and Yang
Japanese 7-11 take contactless just fine, even Apple Pay works. I guess they just wanted to add their own "flavor" to the already maddening mix of available payment and loyalty card options.
According to you the MWI cannot make any predictions about experimental outcomes then?
A cheaper rival to Uber launched in London promises higher fares
Generally unsaturated fats are considered more healthy than saturated fats. So if you get n calories it's 'better' to get them from non-saturated fats than saturated fats.

Humans need fat in their diet.

Humans don't need sugar as in fructose from fruits.

Ergo, olive oil is healthier than sugar or butter. But the same argument can be said for most non-saturated fats.

Olive oil is not some miracle food that will cure you from all earthly ills but then again, nothing really is.

Empty calories are not healthy but that's a bit of a strawman if I may say so - people can overeat anything that has enough calories.
Thorium (U-233) is one way to solve the proliferation risk.
If you are truly trying to reduce emissions, it is probably far more effective to buy the $150 plane ticket, and then buy $300 in carbon credits, or solar power or something like that.
There's really no good reason for anybody to be asking people for their credit card number any more. 3-D Secure exists and all the major schemes have implementations.

Given two merchants, I'll choose the one that uses a credit card over paypal every day. At least with a credit card I've my bank _and_ the scheme on my side. With paypal, it's me (and my bank) against the world ...
What's interesting to me is that human creativity and input are indeed required for excellence in these jobs, but not basic competence.
Unlocking NHS service transformation with data
And the consequences for making the wrong decisions are…?

Ultimately, death by famine.
My “CTO” experience from idea to 400k uniques in two months
It doesn't have to be an old decision. I've seen new systems applying the same rule without any technical reasoning.

Google "(framework) signup form" and you'll find lots of examples. Third link for rails: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31105996/ruby-on-rails-w... - written in 2015, has artificial limit 8-20 characters without any technical reason.
How did you pick that up from what I said?
For people interested in applying Monte Carlo methods, here are some tools that make it easy:

- Causal: https://causal.app (I'm working on this, web app)

- Guesstimate: https://getguesstimate.com (no longer in development but very cool, web app)

- Palisade @RISK: https://palisade.com/risk (Excel plugin)

- GoldSim: https://goldsim.com (very technical, desktop app)
Most of the "problems" also exist in enteprise scale database server such as sql server and sybase.

If parent meant that sql server and sybase are no more than nosql data store, I beg to differ.

Those issues have been "fixable" in innodb for years using flags. This is getting old. I think people come in here to have accurate information.
Even in India once you've too much experience and are able to charge top dollars, you best make a consultancy and charge as a company.
> it's capital Chennai recently ran out of water

This casual statement made my eyes bulge. Like, what does this mean? How does it happen? Is water permanently gone? What are the ramifications?

I found a WaPo article on Chennai, which I see has about half a million more people than NYC.

> The city’s reservoirs and lakes are parched and its wells have run dry after two years of scanty rains here. Local authorities are trucking in water and desalinating seawater, but the supply is less than half the city’s basic requirement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/28/major-indian...
maybe wind energy indeed, it's always good to have alternatives. But the electricity demand is mostly when there's not much wind (start and end of day, same for solar) and it's not easy to store that energy

solar panels are generating a lost of toxic waste https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18018820/solar-panel-was... and are probably a hazard for birds and insects
That is correct. You can't posses their feathers even if you found them on the ground. In fact, in the U.S., hawks and owls are protected too.

"All hawks and owls are federally protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 USC, 703-711). These laws strictly prohibit the capture, killing, or possession of hawks or owls without special permit. No permits are required to scare depredating migratory birds except for endangered or threatened species, including bald and golden eagles."

"In addition, most states have regulations regarding hawks and owls. Some species may be common in one state but may be on a state endangered species list in another." Source: http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/HawksOwls.asp
Not having comments on anything personal is a good thing with zero downside?
I don't think there is any take away for consumers. This seems to be an explanation for why certain cables do not work and how to avoid this issue when designing electronics that accept USB-C power input.
Aren't those already illegal, but just a nightmare to track down for enforcement?
In Germany we have both types as well, the colored ones, in my experience, all say "gefärbt" (colored) on the front of the packaging (no idea if they have to or if the brands are just trying to avoid extra regulation). They are easy to distinguish by both taste and look (well, and price) from real black olives though.
Although the blog post is directed towards the Raspberry Pi Foundation, consumers essentially only have one option, use a "dumb" cable.
Yes, trees reduce particulates
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37813709

"A study by US-based The Nature Conservancy (TNC) reported than the average reduction of particulate matter near a tree was between 7% and 24%."
Well for now it is only attempting to read FDF or XFA forms, for which the metadata is pretty readily accessible. The tool will probably include a way to manually add/remove fields as well, but detecting form fields from basically an image is a level of awesomeness I have not yet set as a goal haha.
OP here. If you do NOT get a notification that some money were removed from your account you will NEVER know of the fact (unless you are logging in everyday to check the balance and the account movements) My bone is NOT with the valid/legal refund, but for the fact that Paypal did NOT bother notifying me. If that refund was somehow invalid/illegal/callitwhatyouwill, I will have never found out for months. TOO late to do something about it by then