skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a very US centric view though. If you live in France in a lot of middle-size cities, it’s both cheap and cute. And don’t pretend like California is void of strip mall either, most of the Bay Area is boring-as-fuck strip malls and single family houses.
Fidel Castro and Oliver Stone at the Latin American School of Medicine (2011)
I'd like to know more about that. It sounds like a great idea!
The practical effect of what you suggest is that I have to suffer from overtaxed infrastructure because individuals around me made poor judgements. Which is exactly why these rules exist. The planning process is how society manages its infrastructure.
To frame this another way; it’s voter supression.
Yeah, still called them milko's in the 80s, even though milk was delivered to your door. By the 90s both the milk runs and the milko's were gone.

The only ones i remember surviving were also takeaways. Which now that i think about it, is probably also a colloquialism.
Waitbutwhy has some interesting posts about what they see as the role of each company. The Neural link one summarises them at one point (though is an enormous article, and a great one).

https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

As an aside, they have some really wonderful long form content. I love the 1 to Graham's number posts (a two parter) https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/from-1-to-1000000.html
Capital One Announces Data Security Incident
That's HN for you. If you can listen to me, don't correlate HN karma points with your worth.

It's a measure of how closely you correlate with the typical HN reader and that itself changes over time.

I have made more friends just through HN than the 200 odd HN karma points I have.

Have learned infinitely more thanks to HN.

As a person who believes that gun, healthcare and education are unalienable rights, people have a very tough time agreeing with me on all things, and me with them!
That's not really scalable though. A few people might be able to get away with those schemes, but a few people generally isn't enough to swing an election.
Man, bodies are weird.
Doesn’t Uber also lease cars to drivers? I was surprised to see in the Bay Area that so many drivers had fairly new cars. I asked one about it and he said that Uber leased it out. Presumably a portion of the driver’s income goes directly towards the car.
Two words: Trump University.
If you're willing to use PHP, there's also "the award-winning" SimpleSAMLphp (https://simplesamlphp.org/), which can operate as IdP or SP. I can tell you that many big names in the TV Everywhere space are using it.
I sincerely hope that this is not our government harassing someone because of their gender transition, or because they look weird, etc. The indictment appears to lay out what might appear at first sight to be an iron-clad case against Ms. Thompson, but we haven't heard from her defense yet, and prosecutors love to go after people who don't fit in. I feel that Judges should always consider leniency in these cases, remembering that the DSM-5 has listed gender dysphoria as a serious mental illness since 2013.
Jim Corbett was a Brit in India who had the job of hunting down a number of man-eating tigers, lived to tell about it, and wrote several books about it (recommended). He talks extensively about listening to the jungle as a tiger detection method - the monkeys freak out and call to warn each other about the predator, birds freak out and then disappear, etc. He paid attention to both unusual silences and unusual noises. There were still several occasions where he almost became tiger chow.
Diamonds burn.
Natural gas is methane. The pumping and transport of methane involves leakage. Methane is 30x worse than CO2 in terms of heat trapping.
> Pricing in externalities is a part of that adaptation. It literally is "getting on with it".

> It's unclear to me what you mean by this.

I thought it was very clear:

> If your farm is on fire, maybe you lose a room. OK, so you adapt. Perhaps you'll never earn enough again to rebuild it properly. You might be a bit traumatised - maybe you buy more smoke alarms, cameras, sprinklers, stuff like that.

> What you don't do is set the whole thing alight, burn it to hell, and adapt to the changes having contributed to your life savings going up in smoke.

They're arguing against something like fining the person whose farm caught on fire.

Arguing for pricing in externalities is more akin to arguing for the fine, trying to make people change their ways so such fires are less common, while giving no thought to the people affected directly (unnecessary extra costs on top of recovering from the fire), or who couldn't avoid it (lightning strike causing fire / infrastructure not in place to avoid the cost and it getting passed to the consumer instead of dealt with).
Don't worry. It doesn't make any difference where you're from.
Algorithmic bias does not have to be an intentional "hack" to have drastic effects.
All we'll really know is that Trump bragged a great deal about how good of a deal he got on the settlement.
> if you say you want quality software but reward people for pushing out barely functioning rubbish, people are smart enough to figure out you don’t really mean that

It's even worse than that in a lot of places. Sometimes, you know your management doesn't understand quality to the extent that they would prioritise it over their other desires. However, they say that quality is the most important thing. The programmer thinks, "OK, maybe I won't be rewarded for quality, but since they say that they want it, I'm just going to do it. I want it, and that is good enough". But in reality, the programmer is often punished for implementing quality above what management thinks is necessary. You sometimes get into a situation where management no longer trusts the developers because the developers are working on things that management doesn't understand (quality related). Management then resorts to micro-management to force the developers to do what they want.
A Conversation with My 35-Year-Old Chatbot (Part 1)
This is honestly ridiculous and typical sales tactics.

In the end you're happy to pay $1000 for a 6 hour stay...

Anywhere else in the world if they tried asking $1000 for that they'd get laughed out of the room, $11,800? Heads would roll.
Hmmm.

> Lambda, Inc. of California, doing business as Lambda School, operates as a school. The School offers course such as computer science, software engineering, machine learning, web developing, and java script learning programs. Lambda School serves clients in the State of California.

> SUB-INDUSTRY

> Educational Services

> WEBSITE

> www.lambdaschool.com

So far so good.

The address does appear to be wrong, judging by the entry for "LAMBDA INC. WHICH WILL DO BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA AS LAMBDA SCHOOL" at https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/

But,

> Entity Address:

> 5820 STONERIDGE MALL RD STE 212 PLEASANTON CA 94588

sure seems to suggest that you've got a physical presence in California.

I was under the impression that extant businesses have some value purely for their history of being extant businesses, and are sometimes bought and sold for that reason, so it didn't seem impossible that Lambda School was technically the reimagining of some now-dead shell corporation founded in 1983.

Bloomberg's phone number for Lambda School appears to be right, or at least appears to be a phone number once controlled by an Austen Allred in his capacity as executive officer of a company in Utah. Now I'm pretty curious where the Bloomberg information comes from.
There are a lot of Teslas that do not have the hardware necessary to do the training required. Additionally, Waymo cars are driving all day long while most Teslas are still commuter vehicles.
I have a question. If these painful, legalistic processes of local government didn't exist, do you think your bad neighbors would just stop bothering you, or do you think maybe they'd just shoot you to get rid of the problem?

All these things you make sound "bad" are exactly how we solve interpersonal problems without violence.
The old joke.. "DDon't worry, the NSA made a backup for you"

But now its more like "Don't worry The 5Eyes have made back for everyone"
And you call yourself woofyman because of that? Or you always called yourself that and it's a terrible coincidence?
China disrupting world’s diamond sector, tapping sophisticated technology to produce cheap synthetic alternatives
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3020399/china-disrupti...

Seems pointless for a country to have foreign exchange used to import carbon crystals when they can be made locally.
Why does anyone need permission from The State to teach? Seems like a violation of the first amendment.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m grudgingly considering a Win10 install for gaming, and the mandatory telemetry is a hard pill to swallow.
In London Uber is unravelling already. Here Citymapper is the default transit app and Uber is just one of the options listed. The transfer cost for a customer changing app is 0. We keep saying we’re “not sure” whether Uber will have customer retention... no, of course it won’t! Unless they change their model, they’re the biggest VC folly in recent times. Just proves how overheated the market become when F/A/G acquired everything in the market that competes with them, leaving ridiculous Vc money to flow to dumb ideas like Uber.
"Is there any reason not to make discounted rates for insurers illegal?"

Flat pricing for all is possible and workable under single-payer.
I am not from or in US, I am from and in Europe. We see "equal" as it in the dictionary, not bent backwards.
1kWh of li-ion batteries has a carbon footprint of around 110kg CO2[0].

Tesla batteries put in cars are estimated to last 800-1000 cycles to 80% capacity[1].

Given these figures batteries add around 138g/kWh of CO2 on top of whatever source was used to charge them(say wind at 14g/kWh).

Meanwhile natural gas plants emit around 550g/kWh. The battery would have to last less than 250 cycles to match that.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...

[1] https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...
I quite agree with most points of this nice explanation of the debt-based monetary system being a con, I think the explanation of money time preference rate is confusing cause and effect. The reason why I prefer $1 today to $1 a year later is because my lifespan is limited, so if I want to use benefits of that dollar while I'm still able I'd better do it now. This, of course, is the most extreme basis for time preference, but the milder cases (I want to enjoy my purchase now instead of year from now) is just the consequence of that same fact of limited lifespan. The existence of natural time preference along with risk discount (risk is growing with time) is what creates natural interest rate (which offsets time preference rate and risk).
Soviet Union has collapsed, Russia is supposedly a whole other country, yet nothing changed. Lessons of Chernobyl are still not heeded.
This aspect of gifs has bugged me for years, thank you for doing something about it! I think I'll run every gif served from my NAS through it.

I don't get why software like browsers, which play both videos and gifs, show progress bars for one and not the other. Particularly now that tiny videos without audio tracks are beginning to replace gifs, and browsers still show progress bars for those. The only software I've ever seen display gifs with progress bars is mpv (and I suspect that was an unintended consequence of their system, not a deliberate design decision.)
That's why you uncheck "update add-ons automatiocally' in the add-on manager.
Oregon has a scheme to allow you to replace your mailed in ballot is why.

And this is a real issue, vote buying and cohersion has historically been the most common voter fraud mechanism in the US. It's a major part of how the Boss Tweed and his associates ran New York.
> If you wanna be a senior sys admin for bed bath and beyond, you 'll be probably getting one.

How does that clear the Employee Polygraph Protection Act?

https://www.dol.gov/whd/polygraph/
> Uber operates in 600+ international major markets.

.75 persons per market? While I'm sure that cost ads up, in terms of "human resources" it's relatively minor at best.
"entitled" is starting an alarm to me. I know and lived some history.
> How do you define reasonable?

The courts do it. And they’ve been doing it ever since the ADA was passed. It’s a system that seems to work quite well.
It was all in one repo on that team, yes.

Offhand, it seems like linking all PRs in all repos back to the bug, and linking the bug to all of the disparate PRs might help. A version (possibly) of the "many PRs" problem that we sort of had was that it often took many PRs to close a bug. Our goal wasn't to minimize the number of PRs, and in fact we encouraged small PRs. Rather, the goal was to get engineers past the commit and PR to the underlying motivation and design.
> You start out with higher level primitives

Those aren't primitives, though. Primitives are the lowest possible level; that's what makes them primitives. If something can be decomposed further (or is in turn composed of other things which are visible to the language without e.g. dropping down to assembly), then it is definitionally not a primitive.

I think the word you seek is "components".

> By procedure I mean a list of procedures of instructions.

That's a circular definition, and does not in any way clarify what you mean by "procedures".

> What does it mean to compose steps One through five with steps six through ten?

In the context of procedural programming, it would ordinarily mean to perform those steps in sequence (that is: the output of steps one through five would be the input to steps six through ten), or to define a procedure which in turn calls those procedures in sequence.

> You cannot define a singular function compose(step1, step6) = step4 like I described in my definition.

In pseudo-Forth (with punctuation turned into something more reasonable, and a couple imaginary procedures for creating (anonProcedure) and executing (execute) function pointers):

procedure stepOne anonProcedure finely chop end end
procedure stepSix anonProcedure pan add stir end end

\ [pop] is imaginary and purely illustrative of the idea of
\ taking function pointers off the stack.
procedure compose anonProcedure [pop] [pop] end end
procedure stepFour stepSix stepOne compose end
chicken stepFour execute \ equivalent to: chicken finely chop pan add stir

Looks pretty composed to me.

> you are not composing two objects to form a new object

class Foo {
greeting = "Howdy"
hi = { puts $greeting }
}

class Bar {
farewell = "Adios"
bye = { puts $farewell }
}

class Baz {
greeter = new Foo
dismisser = new Bar
hi = greeter.hi
bye = dismisser.bye
speak = { hi; bye }
}

speaker = new Baz
speaker.hi # "Howdy\n"
speaker.bye # "Adios\n"
speaker.speak # "Howdy\nAdios\n"

Tada!

> When I refer to composition I am talking about how bricks compose to form a wall.

You're talking about doing it in a way that assumes you're only allowed to use bricks on their own, piled high with noting actually connecting them together.

Procedures and objects work great as bricks. You just need some mortar and rebar.

> Maybe someone knows what this primitive is.

Maybe you'd do a better job conveying your point if you just said the "primitive" you mean instead of being needlessly coy about it.

And regarding this brick-which-cannot-be-named-for-some-reason: yes, they happen to snap together remarkably well like Lego bricks, but people don't (typically) build their houses with Lego bricks, nor do people normally write their business logic in Haskell.
> You can also be prosecuted for lying, since the polygraph examiners are federal investigators.

That part is not true. Polygraph examiners are not sworn federal law enforcement officers. But they are happy to refer any of your admissions of guilt to federal law enforcement who may come ask you the same questions. Lying to them is a criminal offense.
My favorite thing about HN is that the votes don't matter that much and comments stand on their own. I would not look forward to that addition, unless only the receiver was aware of it.
He was voted in by the people, I see no reason he shouldn’t get reasonable accommodations.

If the people find it so objectionable that he can’t attend meetings in person, they have a remedy. They can simply vote him out. It’s not a lifetime appointment.
The bite was to my abdomen so they had to do a CAT scan in case an internal organ was damaged.

My care included a tetanus shot, intravenous liquids and antibiotics.

So yes, I considered the $1000 reasonable.

The ER doctor and radiologist were in-network so I paid the insurance negotiated price.

All-in-all, the dog bite cost me $5000. The ambulance was $1800.
ex-automotive-service might be the worst case provenances.

Would make sense if Tesla kept a life-time score of subjected G-forces and vibration for the pack so they could bin salvaged cells.
I was recently at an Indian restaurant with my girlfriend, and half to three quarters of the people in the waiting area weren't trying to be seated, they were delivery drivers waiting to pick food up. Most of them sat for upwards of 15 minutes.
The rating system is not at all fraudulent if done by one of the three biggest labs: GIA, AGSL, and IGI.

The appraisal system is often massively overinflated, however.

You won't receive anywhere close to what you paid for, much less the the overly inflated appraisal that you got, on the secondary market. Rule of thumb is maybe 30% or less if you bought it from a mall store. But there is a thriving second hand market.
It's more than just global warming and I didn't say the cause was corruption (though I cannot rule that possibility out). I just said California did not provide clean tap water for everyone. Nevertheless, governmental failure of one kind or another is a huge and important reason for California's tap water problems.

The fact that there is government provided bottled water in some places should not be looked upon as good management or a success story. It's a bandaid on a broken system and a statewide failure to manage and provide safe water resources and infrastructure.

The the appropriations bill you mention does not make up for the years of failure to provide clean, contaminant free tap water on an equal basis to all communities statewide. And even if it succeeds across the state in every community, it will take years to actually fix all of the tap water problems.

Five days ago, The NY Times reported As many as 1,000 community water systems in California may be at high risk of failing to deliver potable water — one out of every three — according to a previously undisclosed estimate by senior officials at the California State Water Resources Control Board:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/us/the-crisis-lurking-in-...

The Guardian reports that some Central Valley communities have water contaminated by arsenic, It’s cruel to be living in a state that’s so powerful, so rich, but we can’t count on clean water...:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/18/californ...

Maywood, a poor city in Los Angeles County, has had a multi-year contaminated tap water problem:

https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/project/assessing-groundwater-cont...
I gain a backbone. People with disabilities are a noble cause, but not an argument for inequality of rights. Consider that being equal is not discriminatory against any "arbitrary defined group of people", exactly opposite to your arbitrary rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
There are a few person to person markets that work pretty well, like diamondbistro and idonowidont.
Terrible coincidence. The upside is I’m a werewolf now.
How do you find a good jeweler/faceter that works with synthetic stones? All the downtown big name jewelers seem to work with natural.
Capital One Says Hacker Stole Data of About 100M People
Just don't be inconsistent.
Right, because there is no other option than to have the government get in everyone's business. Why should the government impose on my business because some asshole did something he shouldn't have? It's oppressive and we should fight it.
The problem with man made diamonds is that like any technology, they'll get progressively cheaper as the production technology gets better. We saw that in a huge way when De Beers rolled out their Lightbox line and undercut pretty much everyone.
I'm pretty sure you just described the first phase of every product's lifecycle. Everyone plays on the same field, early adopters start winning, everyone else follows... eventually you monetize it and it becomes clear that winners-win is a better business strategy than everyone wins. I don't know how to get around the business physics of this. Not sure anyone does. Tik-tok will eventually become the stagnant incumbent and it will try to suppress its challengers or it will die on the Vine.
A Simple Unpredictable Random Number Generator (1986) [pdf]
Right, that's why I'm suggesting it's an element of comparison between nuclear and "renewables". I really don't know which has a greater burden of resource extraction. You need a lot of electronics to build a nuclear plant, but you need a lot of discrete electronic devices to build wind farms, solar arrays and the like. That's an interesting question of environmental cost to me, but either tech there is still resource extraction going on and I just think it's frequently a missing element of the discussion in the context of environmental policy. For instance, people protesting the approval of new mining projects in the US - okay, but where are you going to get the minerals that are in demand? A place where the regulatory oversight is lessened? Is that really the most responsible approach to resource development or just a NIMBY attitude?
For Java, below are my favorites:

1. Jersey - https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jersey
2. Jetty - https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project
3. Guava - https://github.com/google/guava

Common theme is - Easy to follow, clean documentation & use of consistent patterns.
Capital One hack: Arrest after details of 100m US individuals stolen
Interesting, glad you are able to still operate how you like.

My wife is an instructional coach in a public district in Ohio that went from traditional curriculum to a personalized, mastery-based approach. The mastery model has taken a few years to get traction but seems to be catching its stride. One of the challenges is the loss of nuance in a binary grading system, another is the tendency to fall into retry loops with assessments and wasting lots of educator/student time.

The personalized learning is just starting and this past year their data in standardized testing took a hit across the board. My guess is that the teachers are just overwhelmed and its going to take a bit of time and possibly some technology to really dig deep into personalized learning.

The regs you are describing seem far too prescriptive. If you can define measurable goals it seems like they should back off one step in the regulation and try to find a way to just pin you to your promises.

Not sure if you’re in Ohio yet but it might be worth a look.
I was just tasked last week with implementing SAML auth for our applications and have settled on Shibboleth.

For the SP I just installed it from yum after adding the centos repos.

There is a repo config generator at https://shibboleth.net/downloads/service-provider/RPMS/ that I used.

It installs as an apache module and I am building a flow from my load balancers to hit the apache/SP and proxy some traffic to the application after authentication success so we can create our login session.

I have a PoC going now, but the documentation is not terribly clear to me and it is really confusing me about some options I need to tune.

For my initial testing, I built the SP and used https://samltest.id/ to test against an IDP.

Shibboleth SP docs: https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SP3/Home
AI Can Thrive in Open Societies