skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it takes up to 2 days for the system to send the first email then I think it's fair it takes up to 2 days for the system to send the last email. To some reasonable limit of course (i.e. just setting 1 year queue latency isn't a fair play).
While I think you make a lot of good points, I just want to point out a fun fact.

> When a small company in New Mexico with no experience tells you they're going to revolutionize computing, just walk away.

This is a perfect description for Microsoft in 1975, which was founded in New Mexico.
So you’re criticizing Apple for not releasing a product in a category that was a spectacular failure, but they don’t get credit for products - the Apple Watch and even AirPods - that are successful and profitable?
Thiel is despicable for co-inventing the abomination that is Paypal. Not for destroying a business that made millions from destroying reputations (particularly through the use of homophobia).
There is nothing wrong with GC. There exist plenty of network stacks in production that are written entirely in Go (See Docker/Kubernetes et alia). There are also operating systems that have GCs, such as Oberon or the few C# OSes written by MSFT and others. As long as care is taken to isolate hard real-time requirements when needed, a GC is perfectly fine. There is a real advantage to Rust's style of explicitly marking no_std. After all, what's the point of using stuff like tinygo (other than for performance/resource reasons) if it cannot run most of the existing Go libraries?
Trump is trying to show he is a big boy and can do business. His track record says otherwise.
Off the top of my head, timers?
I love it! Skin in the game.
LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store
What P. T. Barnum Understood About America
>My digestive system got wrecked trying to be on a mostly vegetarian diet over several years after the housing bubble popped. The gist of it is that the lectins (and other defense mechanisms in the husks) of legumes and nightshades disrupt the mucus lining of the intestines, which leads to leaky gut and stool getting into the body cavity and blood (leaky gut), which may lead to autoimmune diseases like colitis and arthritis.

Umm...did you cook the plants before eating them? Cooking destroys like 99% of lectins.

>Something about animal protein heals this lining, probably because humans evolved as scavengers eating leftover kills and carrion from top predators.

This sounds like total pseudo-science new age woo. No organism EVER directly incorporates foreign protein into itself. Its always broken down completely first, so the structure or origin of these "animal proteins" doesn't matter.
I started doing web dev in the late 90s... I remember those times. Thankfully we live in a better world now. :)

The only problem we've found so far is Edge not doing CSS animations properly on SVG elements. Otherwise everything has been going smooth.
Yes, it does. You don't get to choose how much sugar is in a can or fountain drink when you buy it, it's pre-made.

You could buy reduced-sweetness soda I suppose, but I don't know where you're going to find that. Even the boutique brands are very sweet.

You can also buy artificially-sweetened soda, but lots of studies are now showing that crap isn't any healthier for you.
English Usage Controversies
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Alexander Zasypkin, in comments broadcast on Tuesday evening, said he was referring to a statement by Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian chief-of-staff.

"If there is a strike by the Americans then... the missiles will be downed and even the sources from which the missiles were fired," he told Hezbollah's al-Manar TV.
"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russia-...

I am aware of what the source is. This did happen though, and you can find more sources if you want. If Russia had no intent, it shouldn't have bragged.
Summarized from the settlement[1]:

- Compensation for time spend ($25/hr); capped at 31 million (different pool from the $125)

- Reimbursement for up to $20,000 in documented losses per person.

- Cost of Experian credit monitoring for those who choose credit monitoring instead of the $125.

The size of the fund created for these benefits is $380.5 with the possibility of expanding by another $125 million for cash compensation.

[1] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1484-proposed-equifa...
If you read the full thread that is a bit of a red herring and beside the point (thats why I said the conveyance of the performance implication was poor)... indeed window WFMO only supports 64 objects per call. They mention that the fd issue is due to leaking objects in many windows programs..which was an odd mention and a little off the main subject. The main motivator is performance. If eventfds performed better it would likely be better to fix the fd leak issue with a cache.

Again.. eventfd and epoll covers the same use case as WFMO and EVENTs.
Not being the worst is not the same as succeeding.

Following that logic the Burj Khalifa is a space elevator because no one has been able to build a better space elevator than that.

I have general objections to this sort of underwriting assessment being an ethical business for a private organization to begin with due to the immense amount of possibility for discrimination it opens up.
So you start Apple Maps and look for fun to do. You know the data in Apple Maps does not contain spam. Even the local tourist center might have information available. Or you ask around on an escape room subreddit or escape room community forum.
there is no such thing a good credit unless someone can verify it.

I can give all of my current credit cards in a background check, but what about the past ones I defaulted on???

Are you saying credit scores should not exist? Is it because you are a fraud that defaults alot and likes to steal money?
Anecdotally I think that the population of Muslim or Arabic workers in Beijing and china is quite large. Last time I was there I was surprised at the number ir halal stands, Arabic lettering and other related accoutrement.

If this site is to be believed then China has a Muslim pouplationof over 24 million
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-large...
It doesn't seem that complicated to remove a single entry from the e-mail distribution list of millions that's going out in one to two days. Harder problems have been solved. This doesn't adequately explain it.

The reality: it's financially a waste of time for a company to create an A+ off-boarding experience. Getting 1-2 extra emails isn't the end of the world: it's good enough for the company, you get off the list, they don't have to think about that unprofitable problem any further.

Most companies don't put much effort into off-boarding. Some go out of their way to make it even less palatable. But for removing yourself for a mailing list, I don't consider this to be the worse. Things surrounding payments are much more important: if I cancel service, you better not continue charging me.

Most people don't consider the full lifecycle of anything, and I wish they did. We've created a society, for example, that consumes disposable plastics, as an ordinary daily activity, and that ends up in our waterways as microplastics. It's easy to make things. It's an order of magnitude more difficult to manage the full lifecycle of the thing.
I suspect the bank they are talking about is most likely Nationwide.

They are based in Swindon. I am quite surprised their in house tech is this bad because their online bank account is one of the better ones.
They are coming summer 2020, for about $2200. (I think it's been delayed a few times). They look cool. But for my personal use, not $2200 cool.
That was something subtly different. The banks more or less knew they were taking poor risks, the problem is it wasn't their risk to take. They quietly packaged these bad mortgages along with others and resold the mess to less sophisticated investors (like pension plans). Then the bubble burst, the well dried up, and banks started collapsing. It wasn't a mismanagement of risk, it was criminal fraud writ large.
N.B. Crazy idea follows:

I wonder if there would be a away for the government to allow people to purchase land at a reduced cost and tax-free (sales and property taxes) for the sole purpose of planting trees. Land purchased this way would be legally protected against the government's power of eminent domain/expropriation [0]. Sale of the said land would be restricted in the same way. If someone did want to develop the land, they would be allowed to do so only if they paid the difference that would have been accumulated over the years in taxes compounded with interest. The whole thing would sort of be like a U.S. 401k or Canadian RRSP, but for the environment.

It would sort of like what this Brazilian politician asked for here except the ownership of the land would be transferred, so it wouldn't be a sort of one-sided, long-term extortion [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/11/10/455432704/rich-nations-should...
Normal human users will/should almost always be members of the 'input' group.
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I’ve tried these burgers and they are decent. But there are far better veggie burgers out there that don’t try to resemble meat at all. For some reason fast food companies stick with their garbage soy-based ones, so I’m happy to see them at least get some better veggie options.

But for reference, quinoa burgers, chickpea burgers, mushroom burgers, black bean burgers, sweet potato burgers, beet burgers - all taste great and are more appealing for most vegetarians/vegans.
Capital One Breach Shows a Bank Hacker Needs Just One Gap to Wreak Havoc
Yes, I think sometimes the reductionist approach misses a lot of context. Regarding your beans example of the pressure cooker, people in my family always let beans soak in water which is then discarded. I think this kind of tradition had a function --> for example, remove the excess lectins. Can glutamine be vegetarian sourced?
I found it tasted like a frozen burger - like the kind sold in 40 packs and sold at charity barbecues. The texture seems too smooth. And the aroma was unpleasant (as someone else commented). I too would prefer either a real meat burger, a black bean burger, or just some tofu (if you freeze it to drive out more moisture, you get a chewier texture - non traditional, but can give good texture.)
They are paying their competitor, Experian, to provide the first four years of credit monitoring. They then provide an extra six years of credit monitoring themselves, but they do not get paid anything from the settlement fund for this.
We may have agreed to allow a financier share our data with Equifax, but did not agree that those Equifax etc could be negligent in their handling/ release of it.
Why does it even matter how much they allocated? If I allocate $10 to pay my rent, that doesn't mean my rent check will need to be adjusted.

They need to allocate more, and if it puts them into bankruptcy (it won't), there are legal processes for handling their liabilities.
The honest don't like being treated like thieves.
> ended up with it because they distrupted their gut flora by eating, say, the glyphosate in oats

This sounds wrong. Glyphosate targets an enzyme in plants. The residual levels in human food are extremely low, so why do you think those levels would affect our gut biome?

I found a relevant paper: "administered at up to fifty times the established European Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI = 0.5 mg/kg body weight) had very limited effects on bacterial community composition in Sprague Dawley rats" from paper titled "Glyphosate has limited short-term effects on commensal bacterial community composition in the gut environment due to sufficient aromatic amino acid levels": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974911...

Can you refer to any papers that contradicts that?

Edit: I just read your first link on lectins: maybe Gundry has a point, but the crass commercialisation ("Dr. Gundry developed that are sold under the GundryMD brand", affiliate links to Amazon) of that article really detracts from it. It seems obvious to me problems with lectins could only affect a small percentage of people, given that the foods Gundry says to avoid are eaten commonly or staples in some populations for a long time. Note I very strongly agree that we should try a variety of different solutions to health issues (kinda scientific but not!), and I admire that you have found something that is helping you. I do dislike prosyletising of information without balance, and some of what you say is veering towards misinformation IMHO.

Edit 2: For completeness: some bacteria do have the enzyme affected by Glyphosate, which has been investigated to see if it affects bees via their gut biome. And the paper showed an effect on gut bacteria with 50x legal dosage if there were insufficient aromatic amino acid levels. The question is: does the maximum legal dosage affect the gut biome enough to be a problem? Given the crap our gut biome handles, and the fact it is a breeding ecology, I am sceptical.
It's only logical that it will be undefined if it's never assigned. With var you can just declare anywhere. While with let it feels like a chore when you have to declare in a parent block, eg. outside the if-block for it to be accessible within another if-block. Lexical function scope works very well in an async language with first class functions, as you deal mostly with functions, which can access it's closures at any time, etc. makes it logical that the function should define the scope, not if-statement or for-loops.
Yes, and you have to cobble together an event implementation out of eventfd and epoll. There are two problems (specifically talking about multi-platform software)

1. You'll likely get it wrong and have subtle bugs.

2. This is significantly different than the Windows model where you wait on events. Now you have two classes of events - regular ones, and ones that can be waited on in multiple. The second class also comes with its own event manager class that needs to manage the eventfd for this group of events.

You end up with a specialised class of event that needs to be used whenever you need to wait in several of them at once. Then you realise you used a normal POSIX event somewhere else and now you want to wait on that as well, so you have to rewrite parts of your program to use your special multi-waitable event.

It's mostly trivial to write a event wrapper on top of POSIX events that behaves the same as Windows Events, except for the part where you might want to wait on multiple of them. I would expect that once this kernel interface is implemented we'll get GNU extensions in glibc allowing for waiting on multiple POSIX events. I absolutely do not want to roll my own thread synchronisation primitives except for very thin wrappers over the platform-specific primitives. Rolling your own synchronisation primitives is about as fraught with peril as rolling your own crypto.

To be honest, WaitForMultipleObjects will probably become not very useful in the near future. We're getting 32-core workstation CPUs today, it's quite likely there will be CPUs with more than 64 cores in near future workstations making it impossible to use this classic Windows primitive, but I suspect Microsoft will provide WaitForMultipleObjectsEx2.
I believe you are being downvoted because this seems more like a 12 year old’s attempt to be clever than it does a genuine attempt to contribute to the conversation.

If you are in fact twelve... well, stop it anyway.
Given that it's extremely likely that the number of people who opt out will be quite small, it's hard to imagine such an undertaking getting off the ground.
No, their settlement with the FTC calls for a $31 million CASH pool of money to pay out to people affected. This is not for "paying" for credit monitoring.

Let's assume 20 million people have already made a claim against that $31 million. So they expect checks to be about $1.

So they're offering 10 years of credit monitoring instead of getting a check for $1 without credit monitoring.
Its a cat and mouse game but easy fact checking is the enemy of all the marketing examples you gave, including MLM. If I learn that MLM is a pyramid scheme where the word ethics does not exist, I look up the company name and run away.
so..... lessranchesplease?
Nice answer.

The bosses I have been most happy to work for had such systems in place.

Scrum/Agile (while sometimes derided) if well executed can help with this. If the team is 'self-organizing'.

Although you had little to do, I imagine you probably have to nudge things in the right direction every now and then.

Another aspect I think is important is hiring good people. Hire bad people and you will be a busy manager!
no one reads in socal , they are too busy with orgy parties and doing drugs
I haven't read or heard of these but they sound interesting. I'd like to hear what you have to say about them
I believe buses are almost universally better than any kind of city light rail. Please no more light rail in cities, more buses.
It's offered as part of Apple News+, but I can't figure out if that means all the articles are offered or only some bastardized "curated" subset.
> This would do two things: it would bring down the cost for US consumers, and it would increase the cost for consumers abroad -- effectively reducing the free-rider effect we currently see in Europe.

In most European countries, a government regulator fixes the prices with industry. It's not freeloading in that case, they have the choice between negotiating a fair price or not having access to the market at all. And because they're not idiots, they choose to have access to the market.

Most of that money doesn't go to fund R&D and go back to their shareholders anyway :-)
My guess is they start asking people who already signed up for the $125 for the proof of their credit monitoring. The settlement agreement and the terms we agreed to when accepting the $125 allowed them to do this, and they would probably see the number of claims go down.
Doesn't Windows have timers that actually notify you via window messages or callbacks (like SetTimer())?
> Cats have been a driving factor in the extinction of most of the 34 mammals that have gone extinct in Australia

I wonder, how many mammals have gone extinct due to humans being the biggest driving factor? A quick search turns up:

"[Australia lost] 50 animal and 60 plant species in the past 200 years [with] the highest rate of mammalian extinction in the world over that period" [0]

According to the same article, main pressures faced by native plants and animals are:

- Habitat loss and degradation

- Climate change

- Land use practices

- Invasive plant and animal species

I suppose the "trapping, shooting, and even dropping poisoned sausages" to kill feral cats are aiming to address this last point.

As a cat lover, it hurts to hear this - but I also understand that 2 million feral cats can ravage the local ecology..

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[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/13/a-nation...
If you're paying 65k for insurance, the pieces are valuable. They could well be behind glass or protected in other ways.
It's not more parentheses than in a method definition:

func (a A) Foo(x int) (n int, err error) { … }

Also your line isn't formatted properly. It should be:

func Foo(type T)(t T) (t T, err error) { … }
Maybe they we will be able to detect a marble from hundreds of thousands of miles in the empty space with new radar/lidar tech.
I know. :) It's fun in two ways, in fact. In one way, I could say "See? New Mexican companies are all criminals!", but in the other, I can point out that Microsoft, while scrappy, was basically trying to sell something they knew they could build - and everyone else more or less did, too. They made something important, and evolutionary, but not revolutionary.

Any company that says "The revolution is here!" is suspect, but if they can't actually give you a device that brings major, practical, commercially important changes, it's probably bullshit.
Got to say that Kite is amazing, and it generates Swift code as well!
Think of the Google search results page. Currently, you have to scroll the content, then do another action to go to the next page of results, then scroll again, etc. Very tedious to quickly scan through the items. So infinite scroll would be better here (I used a plugin at one time that provided this), however it would also be better if the number of results per page didn't scroll of the screen.

Now the best infinite scroll implementation I've seen is one that has at the top of the window a number of page selectors. When you scroll past a certain point, the next page selector gets highlighted, and the previous content disappears from the DOM content.
Any evidence that this "10 years" of credit monitoring automatically renews at $125/year?
Grass is so terrible.

You need to maintain it and it requires so much chemicals especially from Monsanto. It's so much work and money just to maintain grass.

I like alternatives like moss or clovers. Even cactus gardens seem better suited.
If that is true, then where is the other 90+ million dollars going? Has Experian already been written a check for 90+ million dollars?
> I get that most advertising is not supposed to reflect reality

I'm not a lawyer but I'd strongly argue the other way around. Advertising something disconnected with reality is (or, should be) illegal. It's called False Advertising or Deceptive Advertising and it's unfortunately the status quo.
i just want to give you kudos for use of 'On the gripping hand'
Their job does not include notifying you of negative changes to your credit though.
Scheme?
The article is clear that Chinese have a problem with Muslims and Arabic texts based on religion associations, seems to be directed at halal, especially.

> Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an expanding national effort to “Sinicize” its Muslim population.

Officially seems to have “nothing to do” with the language.
> Sentient is (or at least aims to be) an omnivorous analysis tool, capable of devouring data of all sorts, making sense of the past and present, anticipating the future, and pointing satellites toward what it determines will be the most interesting parts of that future.

LMAO. My tax dollar being wasted in real time. In addition to going completely to the contrary of the unix philosophy, the massive inefficiency of the government and lack of talents will create a clusterfuck that would make Oracle Database look like best coding practice. The spokesperson judging by content know precisely 0 about how the thing would actually work (provide that it _will_ somehow work) technically.
Thank you for prolonging my enjoyment of meat then! I now feel like the celebrities promoting cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions while flying private jets all over the world. At least someone is getting to enjoy themselves.
Though most of the park is only accessible by snow cat or skis in winter, the fifty miles of road between the North Entrance at Gardiner and the Northeast Entrance at Silver Gate is maintained. Mammoth Hot Springs, Tower-Roosevelt, and the Lamar Valley are accessible by car (depending the weather).
> Does Intel (not to mention Google or Facebook) make “obscene profits?”

Nope but no-one dies in the US because they didn't get access to a 7th generation Intel CPU because they got replaced by a 9th generation that's 2% better and twice as expensive.
In other words, We just don't care about users that unsubscribe (and why would you, really, you only care about profit) so we (unintentionally, maybe) engineered our systems so that unsubscribing is one of absolute lowest priorities.