skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's got to be a dollar amount that it's worth to them to have fully funded liabilities, and if it's as high as you seem to be saying then I'm pretty sure they could have gone to an investment bank or insurer or something and gotten them to write a custom product to cap their liability. I thought a good part of investment banking business consisted of corporate finance deals to shift miscellaneous risks like this off their clients' books.

My guess is that it's just the sheer cost that American balked at, not the uncertainty in exactly how much he would cost them.
There was no magic longevity potion those of means had. All they had over the common class are the things we all have and take for granted today - protection from the consequences war and mostly stable access to clean food and water. The upper class of times back then arguably less so on both accounts than even a lower class individual today. This was the whole point. It's not like you could attribute their longevity to sophisticated medicine, because it literally did not exist at the time.
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It's likely they don't get mocked because their lifestyle choice doesn't imply proselytism.
Step 1) Find a language that can do that

Step 2) Compile it to WebAssembly

Step 3) Validate those input fields

Step 4) Profit
telekom and vodafon cap at 100gig and O2 was just found to be cancelling contracts with "abusive use" ...
I agree with you.

And while I am quite sympathetic to this gentleman's story myself, and while I also don't even think the revocation of the AAirpass for him was morally warranted (or at least there we go into the fuzzy details of the suit), I just wanted to add that the brief "FRAUDULENT USAGE" excerpt does not at all create an expectation to my "IANAL" eyes that there were any advance warnings to be expected. So, while I can see a legal argument over the validity of the cancellation, I don't see it over some demand of having to be warned ahead of time. But again, IANAL, just a guy.
For sure this is more of a western preoccupation. Check out this popular English ballad about roast beef! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTH5gnluOVg
Some down voters, but no counter arguments?

So you all basically think sanctions are going to work and the hardliners are going to cave in and agree to a new deal and not try to crush dissent?

Have you seen state of Venezuela? US threatened to go in and supported an opposition. And the result is failure and real tragedy for the people. Now they are blaiming Cuba.

You don’t need a majority to create a revolution that succeds. You need an enemy which is lacking morale and the means. The Iranian regime supporters now have morale (US dropping out of deal, and allies which can’t stop US influence) and they obviously have weapons to crush the resistance which have none.
http://archive.is/N7blH
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It might be relevant even if we disagree with (parts of) it.
I always tell my non vegetarian friend to give up meat but I don't ever recall this being a social mocking or something anywhere. NVs do mock vegetarians about eating grass and not real food all the time though :D

There are strict vegetarians in India who do not want any non vegetarians living alongside because of the smell and all that. I am not sure if I belong in that category but I have never experienced it being cooked near me, only served.
Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Core App
Kudos for last point. Analogous to -
https://m.signalvnoise.com/habits-always-form/
Algebraic effects are similar to Common Lisp restart handlers, but in addition, they also receive the continuation of the invoker. This means, you can use algebraic effect handlers to implement higher-order control features like coroutines, probabilistic programming, and nondeterminism (which you can't in Common Lisp).

However, what most people get wrong: you do not need higher-order control if you just want to resume after an error. This is demonstrated by Common Lisp, which doesn't have coroutines, algebraic effects, nor continuations, but _can_ resume after an error.

The main example of the article could be done just fine in Common Lisp, because it doesn't use any higher-order control.
There's a good Citations Needed (podcast that does media analysis) covering this phenomenon https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-80-animal-rig...
Here is a tentative explanation:

Dual numbers introduce a constant `eps` whose purpose is to cancel out anything second-order and more. A dual number a + eps * b can be thought of as encoding a tangent vector at position a, with velocity b. Everything plays nicely so that one can extend regular functions to dual numbers using derivatives: f(a + eps * b) = f(a) + eps * df(a).b (try it out on product, inverses and so on to see how it works)

The same idea can be applied to rotation matrices to get dual rotation matrices R + eps * dR, where dR is the derivative of a rotation matrix at R. As such, dR is a matrix that can be decomposed using the spatial velocity or the body-fixed velocity, which are both 3-vectors.

Now when you compose rotations R1, R2 with spatial angular velocities w1, w2, the spatial angular velocity of the composition is w1 + R1w2, which is the translation you get when composing rigid transformations. In other words, if we encode a rigid transformation (R, t) as a tangent vector R + eps * dR where dR has spatial velocity t, then we can compose the encoded rigid transformations by multiplying dual rotation matrices.

Dual unit quaternions are simply the implementation of this idea using unit quaternions instead of rotations, but the principle remains the same.

In the end it all boils down to how the Euclidean group somehow arises from the tangent bundle of the rotation group (both 2d or 3d). It still looks kind of magic to me, but maybe the construction above always gives the semi-direct product of the Lie group by its Lie algebra.
Please keep regional slurs off this site. Imagine if you were one of HN's readers in Vancouver WA and read this comment. Not nice, and quite unnecessary for your point. Ditto for "the flunkie at the counter". We don't need comments here that think they're that much better than other people.
I'm not sure there's any way to talk about people in aggregate whilst keeping a compassionate tone.
People mock vegans because of the sanctimony you often hear as the justification, and because of perceived superficiality.

If you hear someone is vegan because of some religious reason, there's a long cultural tradition behind that and there's a degree to which people cannot escape their culture.

But the vegans that are mocked are typically the upper middle class urbanites who

- Have no idea what they are actually eating instead of not eating meat

- Would like to signal to the world how good they are

- Have no real time / money / convenience constraints on whatever ethical choice they decide to choose

- Seem sort of juvenile in that their deeply felt convictions may quickly change to some other deeply held position

This is not to say all vegans are like this, or that veganism itself is actually wrong, but the caricature is the stuff of comedy. Who doesn't have a friend that's dabbled in some ethical choices that only they could see the necessity of?
Yeah but why doesn't it go to the ceiling? I don't want to make eye contact with my pooping neighborhood when we both stand up. And, the smaller issue, why are there gaps around the door?
The usual. Find out how the concept was successfully implemented before, learn from these implementations' mistakes, and leverage all of that knowledge in your current work.
Apple Maps is based on OpenStreetMap, and they use OSM in many countries. I believe they use OSM for turn-by-turn routing in Denmark (or was it Netherlands) (source: Apple gave a talk at the OSM conference (SotM) in 2018, but required it not be recorded).
I think you're just jealous that he learned to boulder L10 in a few months from scratch AND gets to number one in video games!
This is correct and congruent with what science knows as of today. I sometimes wonder how the world will look like when we would have evolved our science to (perfectly) control the ratio of chemicals inside us.

Imagine, happiness on a click. Something like quick dopamine release without side effects.
A previous submission on Picat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16563349

Not sure why the older posting wasn't picked up when I submitted the link.
Ah, that really sucks. I don't understand why the mobile provider landscape is so fucking terrible in Germany.
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It may be different in different parts of the world, but where I'm from vegans tend to be middle-class/upper-class people who are blissfully unaware of how class barriers dictate the way you eat. And instead of trying to engage with it meaningfully (i.e. understand and propose ways for poor people to live on a vegan lifestyle when $$$ is tight and calorie intake needs are bigger) they just believe that anyone can live the same way they can afford.

My personal pet peeves are that a) some of the arguments for veganism try to convince me that I should not eat animals because they're sentient beings and since the 70s we've started to see evidence that the concept of "sentience" is very very ephemeral and that plants also exhibit intelligent behaviour. I think this argument is incredibly homo-centric and I honestly find it a bit insulting to my own beliefs.

b) the concept of going vegan being environmentally friendly is fine to me, but it's not just about not eating cattle. It's also about reducing carbon footprints of industrialised food production (i.e. going back to eating seasonal veggies!). Most vegans just eat whatever has the "vegan" label (i.e. quinoa) regardless of the fact that for it to get to their hands it had to be transported in a non environmentally friendly way.

c) the biggest environmental offenders are companies. Instead of focusing on who's eating meat I'd rather start prosecuting companies with large carbon footprints.
You can look for that info on https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/ As far as I can see there is 1 GitLab employee currently working from Japan.
Can you give examples from the article of this?
Yep, I have this and often just teather up piles of people. Never have to think about usage. Now that I mention teathering, I don't think there are any Irish service providers who attempt to monitor or regulate teathering, which is nice.
You know when you cross a beggar on the street, and you don't give money ? Then sometime, you feel irritation toward the poor guy ?

It's the same thing. You are not a bad person for not giving, but your brain notices a problem, and you do not act on it. Whether it makes sense or not makes no difference: it makes you feel bad, and your mind associates this unpleasant sensation with the person you crossed path with at that moment. Then you react: mocking, irritation, etc.

We all do it all the time. It's not about being veggie, or giving money. The topic has no importance at all. In fact, morality has no importance at all. It's the same thing when you don't take the garbage out or have a huge pile of emails, except you got a person to blame other than yourself.
We here flush a little, put two cuts of paper so it gets wet, and then all your production slides down leaving no mark. Your date is safe now.
I believe by now that there is something like "childhood wisdom". Things we learn as kids that is explained to us as natural: owning cars, eating carcases, drinking the fluid that is originally intended for babies of another species, breakfast as the most important meal of the day, sitting with wet hair in a breeze gives you the cold, ...

as soon as you question these you have a discussion with their inner 6 year old (using the logic of 6 year old) instead of an rational thinking adult.
That's where a dynamically typed language with optional typing gets handy, when a
compiler supports it...

In Common Lisp, the SBCL compiler would be such an example:

* (defun foo () (let ((i 10) (s "20")) (concatenate 'string s i)))
; in: DEFUN FOO
; (CONCATENATE 'STRING S I)
;
; caught WARNING:
; Derived type of I is
; (VALUES (INTEGER 10 10) &OPTIONAL),
; conflicting with its asserted type
; SEQUENCE.
; See also:
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Handling of Types"
;
; compilation unit finished
; caught 1 WARNING condition
FOO
*
I’ve actually thought about an extension to hide that box as it’s also a rather constant source of distraction for me; more than I’d normally like to admit at least.
People should just mind their own business, that's why.
Eat what you want, sleep with who you want, believe what you want - I don't care.
The moment you start teaching me how to live my live - I have to ask you to fuck off.
This is a general principle: applies to vegans, religion, politics, sex, etc.
The origin of "algebraic effects" appears to be this paper (Plotkin and Power): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A102306490896...

Unfortunately I don't speak monad.
Sure, less strict languages have more production use, but they’re typically older too. That doesn’t mean that conversion bugs aren’t a problem or aren’t hard to find, just that the burden is pushed onto the test suite.
This is not obvious at all, especially the effects on health.

Mental health - ok, that might be something that you can deduce based on examples (grumpy old solo grandpa that yells in the air - mental issues).

But can you really conclude just from common sense that human relationships have effect on your _physical health_?
I may be wrong on any of these points, but:

1. Keeping up with latest technology (graphics) is important for games, as those create the first impression. It is difficult to market a game built on outdated technology.

2. The above means that making games gets more and more expensive, probably faster than the market expands (if it is still expanding).

3. Multiplayer games are more profitable than single-player games.

This means that getting funding to make a single-player game gets more difficult, as it may provide a very poor return on investment, if at all. Only exceptions are low-risk existing franchises, which is why we mostly see those in the single-player scene. The original Deus Ex, System Shock 2 or even Metal Gear Solid would be nearly impossible today as those projects would be considered to be too high risk / low reward.
But how real is that? What you see happening is this archetype that probably only represents a minority of vegans, and it gets blown up out of proportion and all of a sudden this is what you're talking about whenever you're talking about "vegans". You see it time and again, whether it's coeliacs, environmentalists, vegans, or any other out-group that goes against the grain of established ways of doing things.
The use case would be for the teaching and learning of French. Just as this website is for the learning of English.

Yes, we can all look up a few words in the dictionary.
Get some chickens and a coop. Let the chickens free roam. They'll eat the ticks. You can eat their eggs.
You may be like me. I discovered when I did a teaching gig that I love being at the centre of attention. If you have an opportunity to try giving some talks, you may find that you really enjoy it. Having a schedule where you have to show up and do that kind of thing helps (or at least it does for me). Speaking of which, I really need to find some place to give talks around here...
Plot twist: Original comment was also the CEO.
* You are forgetting multiple things: reduction of the number of warheads, continuous enhancement of ABM systems by the US, this super-fuze upgrade giving enhanced anti-silo capability to submarine-based missiles which can reach targets in much shorter time, enhanced capability to track road-based launchers, overwhelming advantage in the number of fighter jets vs the number of Russian nuclear-capable bombers, disparity in the number of submarines. These things taken together in a couple of decades can end MAD.

* Giving the overwhelming advantage of the US and NATO in conventional weapons, the US doesn't need to actually commit a first strike to reap benefits of this capability. Nowadays the US and Russia are afraid to engage in a conventional conflict for fear of it escalating into nuclear war that would destroy both countries. After achieving first-strike capability, the US will know that Russia will be afraid to escalate by using tactical nukes against American carriers and troops.
Ultimately, this will mean that the US will be able to do
towards Russian allies or Russian expedionary forces whatever it feels like.
In Denmark, anything over 2000 USD has to be depreciated.
I really think we didn't change that much in depth. Just reading Marcus Aurelius quotes gives a hint. That said cultural context seems to matter deeply too. Some guy told me that no matter how educated they were, a high % of migrants will become impatient, selfish and violent after a month of struggle. All in all you'd have to factor in their lifestyle. Small village in a calm and abundant enough area ? probably very similar to us. You can see african tribes living in isolated places.. they're not different. They sit around, care for young ones, listen and rebel against elders, clean and cook. They have near zero fancy distractions though (they make their own I suppose).
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"This is not a bond I want to make."

Once made, it's unbreakable though.
Not vegan but vegetarian, I recognize the anger and I regularly have people getting hostile and telling ‘last week I had a bbq and at 5 kilos of pork in one serving’ as if that would set me off or something. And it happens a lot (at least once a week in the summer). People are so crazy about their meat (I have seen people on HN say they would rather die than never eat bacon again...) and I guess they are afraid it will all end or something or that vegan or vegatarian-ism is contagious. The more educated of my meat eating friends raise their own animals (some slaughter them, some take them to the butcher), or, if they cannot afford that and cannot afford free range meat, when asked about animal suffering, say they just cannot care about that because they cannot live without meat. Same like people who smoke, drink, drive sportscars or gasguzzlers, eat sugar etc; they know it will kill them and/or the world, but they just cannot care about it. But personally (anecdotally) I do not see people so enranged as they are about meat eaters (in vegan circles: like I see in Berlin) or about vegan/vegetarians. I just see the reason vegans are angry about meat a lot more than the other way around.
That's a much nicer, forward pointing comment and it's good to know there's previous act. I've read some bitterness between the lines.
Ultimately, people don't like what is different, especially if it's proselyte. It creates a "us vs them" situation, the same type that creates xenophobia and racism.
I don't think that it is something that can be overcome without it coming from a central authority (religious or political). Something would have to be done on the same level as demonizing cigarettes to make people reduce / stop their meat consumption. (Lot's of advertisement explaining the moral issue, possible taxation on meat based on origin etc.).
On top of that, traditional cuisine is one of the most fundamental identity concepts. Asking people to stop eating like their ancestors is a hard thing to do, without the value of it being better tasting. Overall, in a country that would have the political will to do so, the following solutions might work:
- Heavy advertisement, like the one against cigarette
- Taxes on meat, based on origin
- Don't try to force people to eat healthily at the same time. While a ceasar salad without real chicken should exist, so should fat hamburgers and pizzas.
- Invest on meat / cheese alternatives so that they become cheaper. Invest on marketing for kids as well for those.
- Don't try to go all in at once. If all of the population reduce their meat based product consumption by 40%, it is a way bigger success than the current vegan movement.

But without doing that, and just by having vegan as a proselyte community, you force people to choose a camp, either vegan or not. They'll chose that based on their relationship with the overall community and own internal moral compass, which is not very efficient and creates a lot of conflict.
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Vegetarianism and veganism are two very different things: one is a diet and the other a lifestyle.
I have something in the works which is very similar - but is language agnostic. Pro: no need to switch to another language; Con: not high performance.

We are using this in production for now over 1 year, and it helps tremendously. We are currently only supporting a ruby client, but other languages should be more or less easy to bring into the mix. A wider release is planned for later this year - feel free to ask me anything via email!
oof. I see what you say about the LHS defining how the RHS is evaluated but that attaches expression evaluation to assignment. You can't do one without the other. Also the target type may be obscure to the programmer. What's the behaviour with

string s="This is a testing case";
println("i" in s);

But separately your example now looks even worse. It's quite reasonable to expect 'in' to behave the same way for both cases; that they both return [2,5,14] - now you've added another complication.

No offence but without some overriding principle, and a justification for that principle (that "things are demonstrably easier if you do it this way"), you've just dumped and extra load on the programmer which I do not need!.
In case anyone's wondering, it's explained in the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

We got a request the other day for an option to disable it on weekends.
I stopped reading at "Incorporating parts of noted _Windows emulator Wine_, it runs LibreOffice, [...]". It really looks like the author did little to no research on what they were talking about.

edit: plus the website is absolutely horrible from a user point of view, why anyone would visit this?
While I agree, even worse is that they were the final implementors of the supposed fraud. Their own booking concierge put every single one of those flights through.

They shot themselves in the foot thousands of times and then said it was fraud, even though he gained nothing.

It was abuse, but they didn't have an abuse cause.

Can't side with AA.
I agree with your argument.

I don't like the moral policing of any group. But there is always a choice to politely say no and go on with your live. Everyone has there own values.

I don't agree on the moral witch hunt that followed either. Take his private email, reframe it in the media. It destroys a person and I think that is very wrong.
It's not unique. Sardinia is another mediterranean island where people relied on cattles much more than fish for food.