skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, you may be right, but even that still makes the report valid.

Let me tell you what I hear as a business person if you tell me my letter to you was misdelivered: "My mail delivery is unreliable so it's your problem."

Well, no, you didn't tell me it was unreliable, so I couldn't adjust my risk perception or take special precautions. And if you ever want to do business with me again, you're going to come in and execute the transaction on site and not leave with the goods until the bank confirms it's cleared.

On top of which, most billing contracts specify that payment is due whether or not you were notified. You are supposed to keep track, too.

And yes, this is okay, because until we have a proper socialist system, it is, in fact, our responsibility to pay our debts. Don't like it? Don't incur debts.
Congratulations, you weren’t indoctrinated by an extremist religious group.
If I could pay $400 for bulletproof knifeproof jeans - that are as comfortable as regular ones, I probably would. It isn't necessarily a rational decision, but it would offer a small amount of peace of mind plus a cool factor.

Woodworking, gardening, kitchen - several activities would be slightly safer with some extra stab/slash-protection.
This after they were already pulled once this year for faulty brakes that sent multiple people to the hospital: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/15/18311243/lyft-electric-ci...
> who exactly are their intended customers? Home invaders?

Sure. That is, SWAT teams.
The Placental Microbiome Should Be a Cautionary Tale
I could be mistaken...I thought there was a clause allowing you to claim up to $125 without having to provide detailed breakdowns of the time and expenses.
Oral History of Chuck Peddle
Not really, if you've had a short career your 'optimizations' are anything but.

Seriously, what you think is causing slowdowns will not be at all. Everything you'll be pushing for will save nanoseconds or 10s of milliseconds, pointless, unnecessary complications.

Generally in a crud app performance problems are caused by a single sql statement or a silly, unnecessary, loop within a loop.

Source: 15 years crud app dev and a lot of fixes for clients of their slow apps.
> statistically, you

Is an oxymoron. Statistics exist when "you" is unknown.
The damage in excessive sugar intake is unequivocally identifiable as well.
If you paint a lane red and make it buses-only, that gives commuters an alternative to driving. Traffic might still be terrible and congested, but commuters have the option to skip the traffic and take the bus instead.

Uber-style minibuses don't work because the human bus driver is expensive. Once you're already paying for a driver, it makes sense to make the bus full-size so that you can maximize the number of riders per bus.
The light green may have an origin in submarine vehicle internal paint model, chills captive people.
Keep in mind that Melbourne is a planned city and Sydney isn't. That makes a huge difference on the viability of modes of transport. So it's not really a good experiment at all.
This is very much not true. Look at Venus, which was (we believe) subject to a runaway greenhouse event. Also, the Permian period ("Snowball Earth"). Climate change can be catastrophic whether it occurs fast or slowly.
I don't understand why this is cool or what it would protect you from? A dress shirt maybe but who's stabbing or shooting legs?
Well, PrEP is a miracle drug that has gone criminally underutilized in the fight to eradicate HIV. It would be nice to see governments really push it hard for a change.
You also believe the stock market is nonsense, because valuations fluctuate?
On the one hand I’m very intrigued by this. It’s absolutely true that meat production, and in particular beef production, has an enormous environmental impact, so if this article is correct it could be huge.

But on the other hand I have some questions that I’ve not seen addressed. I’m a small farmer. My wife and I raise sheep. Ruminants can be raised on land that isn’t really productive. Maybe in some cases beef production is taking away land that would be otherwise farmed, but in my experience that’s rare. So, if we transition to plant-based meat, where does the farmland come from? We’re already losing productive farmland at an incredible clip. If we suddenly need to put millions of acres into new soybean or pea production, where does it come from?

And second, at least in theory, mixed animal/crop production systems can be closed loop. If done properly, with fallow periods and crop rotations, you don’t need external agricultural fertilizer production. Granted, that’s not the way most crops are produced now, but a lot of us are arguing that it should be - we should have local agriculture, with less centralization and more intentional closed loop farming practices. If we really do go mostly to a vegetarian diet, that possibility dries up. Agriculture becomes more and more reliant on external chemical inputs. Small producers are even more marginalized than they are today. Are we sure that’s what we want?
That sounds positively awful. They'll just chop off the lower end and let people in developing nations die. They're not a huge revenue source anyway.
FYI, there are some already

https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu
"Prejudice against offshore workers and a light sparkling of racism"

How many H1Bs and outsourced workers can attest to this fact ?
A glass bridge opening next month in China will be the world's longest
Found a demo video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgJJtkb3Fr4
A cautionary tale about linking school choice and segregation
It's one thing to price default into the risk of a note (this is cost of business as a lending institution). It's entirely another thing to price in egregious, arguably fraudulent business practices such as not properly verifying who you're lending to.
Doesn't sound out of place for some NHS hospitals
When I make a burger for myself, that's often (30% of the time?) how I eat it. But yeah, being a solid base to build a heavily flavored "burger" around is a significant use case, to be sure.
> Also, why does an infinitely powerful, just and benevolent God allow his chief rival to fuck with us so much?

Because it suits him? Partner sounds like a better description than rival.

Unless of course, you aren't talking about Trump and Putin?
If it's not, they're wasting money for no reason, and someone will come along and do the same thing without giving the credit bureaus any money. They're not actually legally obliged to use credit bureau data. They could just throw money at people in the street and hope they get confused and throw back more.
My threat model is less concerned about intentional violence, and more about accidental injury. If I can reduce my chance of accidental death by 1% for a few hundred bucks, that would be cool, if not necessarily economically rational.

Oh, I want the dress shirt too! Heck, I'd wear a helmet with a HUD if it was comfortable and socially acceptable.
Does it matter? The alternative, the credit monitoring, was only for 4 years for all 3 credit agencies. 10 years for equifax "monitoring" which is of dubious quality. You know, if you want the same company with atrocious security to tell you when things are going haywire.

This is for a lifetime of possible risk. Not to mention credit monitoring's dubious track record. So your tradeoffs were a meaningless product that would guarantee little in the way of safety and a small amount of money.

At this point, you should have your credit permanently frozen and leave it that way.
No landline has sounded anywhere near as good as FaceTime Audio to me.
After just giving scathing remarks to another database system, I'm pleasantly surprised by LF!

LF looks like a well-reasoned project with a solid direction that is unique and applicable.

I do disagree with some of its design choices (DAGs aren't very scalable, full replication versus partial/sharded, etc., and GPL instead of MIT - which my decentralized DB, http://gun.eco is MIT/Apache2), but for the problem it is trying to solve, it seem like you've made the right choices for LF and its use cases.

Congrats and keep it up! Excited to hear about this over time. :)
This is why PrEP is so important and everyone at risk should be on it. We need to spread PrEP use as far and wide as possible.
> It takes me 25 minutes to drive to work or 45 minutes (or more) on public transport.

Keep in mind that you only have a 25 minute drive because so many other people are taking public transport, if it was ripped out you'd have a much longer commute so it is very practical for you, albeit indirectly.

> That 40 minutes a day is very valuable to me

Depending on how crowded the tram/train is that 40 minutes can usable time with a smartphone or laptop, it's not in a car.
FWIW I got my first job through Triplebyte when I was 19 just out of high school with nothing on my resume but two internships, so it can still be extremely useful for new engineers.
It's very simple. Do you allow a low budget Chinese state sponsored hack to wipe out your country's blue chip company? Do you?
Now Even Funerals Are Livestreamed–and Families Are Grateful
Many of these parks are in or near quite remote areas. If you can't get a site reservation there's often some great farms or ranches around that you can stay at. For example, we stayed in a tiny, but full service cabin on a ranch in Southwest Utah very close to quite a few State and National Parks. It was awesome, there was literally nobody else for a couple miles around and the stars...my god the stars.
Los Angeles is significantly more dense than Houston, despite the cited zoning restrictions in LA.

Maywood is 23K/mi^2 with several other LA incorporated areas in the 15-20K/mi^2 density. Houston is under 10K/mi^2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Hmm.... But the site says this:

"In the past 4 days, the spacecraft has raised its orbital high point, or apogee, by about 2 kilometers. The perigee, or low point of its orbit, has dropped by a similar amount, which is consistent with pre-flight expectations for the effects of atmospheric drag on the spacecraft."

They also say this on the mission page:

"LightSail 2's attitude control system does not have the precision to maintain a circular orbit and continuously fly the spacecraft higher. Therefore, as one side of LightSail 2’s orbit rises, the other side will dip lower, until atmospheric drag overcomes the forces of solar sailing, ending the primary mission. The spacecraft will remain in orbit roughly a year before entering the atmosphere and burning up."
>We're all supposed to take it as just a fact of life now that we need a monitoring service

Yes. You do. Until China (in this case) and other nations stop hacking US companies.
> Yes, if you want to borrow money, the person loaning you money is generally going to insist that you opt into the system that helps them understand if you are a good credit risk or not.

That's not really what they care about. They don't even get to choose whether you previously borrowed money only from people who agreed not to report anything to Equifax et al.

What they really want is to be able to inform on you to their competitors as leverage in getting you to do what they want, like pay false charges instead of disputing them because then you refusing to pay them allows them to ding your credit score. Which in turn raises the interest rates on all your existing variable rate debt and can put your whole life into a downward spiral.

Whereas without it, lenders would be more wary to lend money, but that would be true universally. So the result would be that things like housing and education would be more affordable because it wouldn't be so easy for everyone to borrow money and bid up the prices, and people wouldn't be paying such a high percentage of their salary for loan interest.

Which leads to the conclusion that the whole system is corrosive and we would be better off without it.

> Don't want to participate? Then don't ask for a loan.

It's a collective action problem. Everyone is better off if nobody takes a loan to buy a house and then the same people get the same houses but everybody pays less, but if you refuse the loan and the competing buyer doesn't, who gets the house?
The reason it takes a few days is because the next mailshot you're going to be getting in the next couple of days will be sent out by some third party to list of email addresses which was exported to a csv file and sent unencrypted to their gmail account yesterday.
But one should be able to opt out. The problem is that Sonic insists on bundling it in.
What are these "grave and hidden responsibilities" you're talking about? Paying your bills is hardly an obscure pastime.

As for your PS, I don't respond to conspiracy theories.
In that kind of conflict the carriers wouldn’t be in action. You might have some submarine and aerial stuff, but something that escalated that far would go nuclear.
These are what Equifax offers:

- $125 cash, or

- Free credit reporting (which is useless in essence)

Though I am affected by the breach, considering the inadequate options Equifax is offering I will choose to keep my rights in case I become a victim of identity theft in the future on account of this breach. I hope it doesn't come to that but you never know and if it does I'll sue Equifax to compensate my losses which is safe to assume will be better than either of the options they offer.

In order to opt-out of this claim and keep your rights, you need to send a letter to Equifax. Last day to do so is Nov 19th, 2019[1]

[1] https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/faq#q-23
> The contract you agree to for credit cards or other forms of debt you choose to take on will specify things like late fees and that it's up to the company's discretion whether they report you a late payment to the agencies. If they didn't have this clause, you'd just be complaining that they report everyone indiscriminately rather than giving people a break when it seems appropriate.

Thanks for making ridiculous assumptions and putting nonsense in my mouth. Nobody opined on anything in the first place. I was merely asking a legal question, because calling someone to demand an immediate payment to avoid direct harm to them sounds an awful lot like extortion, whether I like the approach or not.

If you want to know whether I'm impossible to satisfy or whether I think the company could in fact cut people slack while getting their $15 and avoiding potential extortion, you could just ask me. Yes, I think that's perfectly possible. Call the person up, tell them you'll waive the credit report if they make a payment by the end of the day, and optionally remind them that according to their contract, there is a $15 fee if they pay by phone. There. Now the person gets to spend more than 5 seconds thinking about it to make an informed decision. No need to put nonsense in my mouth.
Yes... thats pretty much exactly what I am saying. I would say that one thing she lacked is a consistent sense of self. Her work was stylistically diverse. Though some artists (e.g. David Bowie, Gerhard Richter) can get away with this, for her it comes across as an uncertainty of self.

Another thing was that she was very well trained in the academic tradition. This gave her a set of skills which she could not un-learn, but were at odds with the spirit of the time. Another artist mentioned in this article was Henri Fantin De Latour. He was similarly skilled, but was also deadly focused on still life as subject matter. Though he was never a hip impressionist, still-lives were very much in agreement with much of the impressionist 'project'.
What use is a bus if missing one means you're out of luck for the next 29, 39, or 59 minutes? It's not really 'refuting' it, but there are downsides to prioritizing point-to-point travel.

If you look at a map of Melbourne's frequent services (tram and bus) they pretty much all form a grid. https://melbourneontransit.blogspot.com/2019/04/are-you-near...

Auckland redesigned its transit network to have more frequent routes requiring transferring, and public transport ridership is poised to double in ten years. https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/111564109/aucklands-unbelie...
Take a moment to re-read what I said. Give it some thought. It will make more sense when you step back and think broader, and pay less attention to conventional wisdom
Sonic gig fiber is only $40 if you use thier fiber. Where they resell ATT fiber, it's $80/mth for the first year then jumps to $90.
I especially like how every time I state something specific, you respond with a vague generalization that, if acted upon, could be used to justify all kinds of bans, laws, and taxes... some of which, once again, you would not personally care to be subjected to.
"You" have statistics attached to you. Default rates, lifespan, cancer risk. Given people A and B in similar life and financial situations, A or B might defy the statistics that say they'll both pay or default, but they probably won't. The only way a bank or anyone can predict this is statistically.
Did you RTFA article? It is titled "The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry"!
Pretty sure you could check a email in a database more than 23 times per second these days.
Changing orientation is likely easier than retracting the sail. Even just rotation per orbit could bias the acceleration gain.

However, I suspect the goal was kept as modest as possible to increase odds of success and lower costs.
I've considered doing this. Isn't it an easy defence for them to say "there's no way you can attribute the leak to us, case dismissed?"

Actually asking because I had the same thought as you.
Socialism isn't going to help build the technology needed to help replace fossil fuels and curb climate change. This is why we need capitalism.
>Depending on how crowded the tram/train is that 40 minutes can usable time with a smartphone or laptop, it's not in a car.

I have never been in any train or tram that has anywhere near enough room to use a laptop. In peak hours I try to even avoid using my phone - there's simply not enough room to have a raised hand near your face without the hand also being in someone else's face.

The long-distance trains (like the Quiet Carraiges to Geelong) have more room, and in Perth I could use a laptop for the first ~30min of my journey before the train filled up.
But you're putting nonsense in the creditor's mouth. You don't know what the conversation was like, you only have the summary of one person who feels wronged.
No. No "blind faith" needed. Non-scientists can, and some do, learn about fields that interest them, sometimes even to a level that lets them participate in the scientific process. There have been new species of insects and new asteroids discovered by amateurs, for example. But to do so, they have to understand where and what types of animal or object are there for the discovery.
If the `x` in the example was a const, it would throw an error because the code attempts to assign the value of `y` to `x`. You cannot assign a new value to a const.
There's no proof Equifax or court can provide that my information was leaked from a source other than Equifax.
You could claim up to $20k due to provable loss in addition to the $125 due (if you had existing credit monitoring).

Edit: I missed my final line, “So you are right.”
English-Czech Systems in WMT19: Document-Level Transformer
I don't mean to be critical of the other startups coming out of YC 2019, but some of the problems they are solving are so niche that they don't even register beyond metropolitan cities like San Francisco.

This is a difficult problem to solve because we've heard 100s of times about how hiring is broken.

The problem also scales beyond software engineering jobs because shitty hiring processes exist across most industries.

I hope you guys succeed, just so that you can show the world that hiring doesn't need to be the shitty (and sometimes elitist) process it has become.
Banning poor from the roads really seems like no solution at all to me. Like one of those misguided solutions an AI comes up with like pausing Tetris forever to avoid the score going down. You alleviated congestion for a few without solving the real problem. Improve transit and traffic engineering instead.
Super cool tech!
It's perfectly reasonable if you know there's no downside risk because the government not only will not punish you, but taxpayers will bail you out. Welcome to what they call capitalism these days.
Not entirely. The abstractions are different between infrastructure deployment.... versus configuration yml of circleci.

The declaration of deployment state is a very BIG and hard problem that has had millions of collective man hours spent over decades. I urge you not to think of it as a simple configuration.

In fact it is so hard that AWS has to build a new language on top of typescript ..versus cloudformation templates that it already had.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/home.html

What you are building makes sense - I would drop cloudformation and surface Terraform right till the top.

So the way to use your tool is to install and use a new Terraform "provider".
The tech, i.e. solar panels and wind turbines etc. already exist. China already manufactures them.

For the record, socialism is working fine in western Europe. To start, they actually have stress-free healthcare there. Over here the doctors just like to maximize their billable appointments. To my knowledge, the percentage of renewable use is also higher there. Guess who has a higher life expectancy too.

Anyway, socialism or capitalism, the title of the article does hold true.
> The sharing of credit worthiness information is the cornerstone of your ability to get credit. It's not a hidden extra, it's not something you can choose not to get, there's no "opt out". It's a condition of doing business with the credit grantor.

No, this is only true because the law does not meaningfully restrict abusive contracts. Sure, a credit card issuer should [0] be able to ask some agency for information on your credit risk. It does not follow at all that the issuer should have permission to give information back to the agency.

[0] Even this is debatable. One might reasonably argue that the use of inscrutable conditions for the issuance of credit cards is discriminatory and should, as a matter of public policy, be disallowed. As a simple example of how this could work, all credit card issuers could be required to instead issue prepaid cards with identical terms, benefits, and usage from a merchant’s perspective, and credit could be an opt-in extra feature.
tl;dr they are shady as fuck

Have experience with working at a company where they (Huawei) had stolen IP.

That, and they give no fucks about following technical standards when trying to bring their hardware to market.

If I could give more detail, I would… but I cannnot.

Suffice it to say - when companies/people don't trust Huawei, there are a myriad of legit reasons for that distrust.
This is wonderful. Hopefully, I won't need to engage in as many of the obligatory endless internship applications.

Here's a some papercuts I found: some of the longer input field labels flow into the input text on my Moto G5 ("Explain a barrier...", etc.) as do some longer placeholders, and the save notification banners close fits neatly under the chat button. In addition, it took me a moment to parse the education section of skills: it isn't immediately obvious what a current student should put in the fields. It should also be possible to save filled fields in profile despite not filling out all mandatory fields.
One should not be surprised when their economically rational but morally reprehensible business practice is regulated away.
Looks great. Signed up as an employer. I couldn’t see it on the site on mobile, but is there any info on pricing or locations covered? (I’m in Chicago)

(And bu signed up I mean I followed the “contact us” CTA)
Please: native species to the location.