skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the existence of a centralized credit system increases the cost of not participating in the system. The lack of real competition (eg. for middle class credit) is what essentially leads to a polluted industry.
> Most ads isn't about manipulation, it's just about getting your attention and reminding you that this product exists.

That is manipulation. If they weren't actively thinking about visiting one or actively looking for things to do and your advertising convinced them to do it then you've manipulated them into doing something the otherwise wouldn't have.
The Wikipedia page on Algebraic structures is rather more detail than I usually want, but the page "Outline of algebraic structures"[1] is a great quick reference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_algebraic_structure...
LambdaScam: A Loan by Any Other Name
How about like, urban farming? If I was to grow my own tomatoes and peppers and onions, like, to make a badass salsa, is that helping sequester carbon or no?

I admit my front lawn is like...embarrasing. It's nothing but grass and one single tree. If I was to really go nuts on it, would that help?

It wouldn't be such a bad future if everyone's lawns were required by law to have a few trees.
All the good stuff seems to be happening on personal blogs/programmer's own websites and tends to be hyper-specific/technical. More general philosophy seems to be lacking and mostly the domain of writers lacking substance (the stuff on medium for instance). Unfortunately I don't really have anywhere to point you right now but if you pay attention to forums (subreddits for programming languages etc.) and the twitters of writers/programmers you stumble upon you might start to find more interesting content. There is no central place, but there are a lot of interesting people doing interesting work out there.
Well, no, I wasn't trying to claim that the STEM imbalance is because of discrimination. (Or, as you mentioned, because of issues in school, which is not the fault of hiring managers.) I was trying to poke at people who claim discrimination for the STEM situation, but see no problem with the social subjects being very one-sided on the liberal/conservative axis. I was suggesting that, if they are so sure that it's discrimination in the gender case, they should consider the same explanation in the conservative case. (deogeo correctly stated my point.)

Do I think that the gender gap in STEM is because of discrimination? My guess is no, or at least largely no, but I'm not sure I know enough to be dogmatic on that subject.

Do I think that the gap in the social sciences is because of discrimination (or at least bias)? Given the liberal/conservative gap in school administrators, it seems to me that it would be almost a miracle if that wasn't at least part of the reason... but I have no concrete information.
The manner in which employees leave is rarely going to have any meaningful signal in white collar organizations. The vast majority of employees will give reasonable notice (1-2 weeks) and they will not be forthcoming about all the real reasons for departing. Their colleagues are also unlikely to grant any insight.

The truth is employees leave for reasons of salary, growth, and because they lose trust in their managers to be effective. These things are rarely something management is interested in hearing about much less doing anything about. And being candid about the reasons only has the possibility of harming the person leaving: they gain nothing because the employer certainly isn't going to care and they risk offending someone and burning a bridge.
We’re not even close to having the tech for bulletproof clothing that’s the same weight as jeans. Most level 4 body armor is either ceramic plates or steel plates. For level 2 (9mm), there are vests as light as 5 lbs. Midweight jeans typically weigh around 1 and would likely weigh 10+ lbs with the lightest level 2 available and be much thicker and stiffer.

Along with the invention of new tech, the price point seems at least an order of magnitude off for the foreseeable future.
I had a scare and took PeP this year. I had to ER shop. First one denied me coverage and made assumptions. I ended up getting care at a cost of ~$6000 to my insurance. I paid $270. I have great healthcare but this is obscene. I don’t want to get sick and die. I was being careful but accidents happen.
> If you make a perfect sail that blocks all the air from the fan, it will not move at all.

It should push the fan and the sail apart, which could result in a structural failure.
Cigarettes have cost $6 a pack in the US for over a decade and nobody bootlegs these. Same for beer, at $6-12 for a 6-pack.

Bootlegging is generally a short term response to diminished access. But soon after the controls arise, demand generally shifts elsewhere to less inconvenient alternatives.

I can think of no examples of continuing bootlegging in the US, aside from piracy of media, which is another kettle of fish.
To put this into perspective:

Equifax/Revenue

3.36 billion USD

2017
epoll only works with file descriptors and is therefore not equivalent. The whole point is WaitForMultipleObjects works with many different types.
You don't exist to be happy, you exist to survive

Speak for yourself. You exist to survive apparently, and what a meager and sad existence that seems to me. Good thing there's no authority telling us why we exist and we're each free to decide for ourselves.

What would we have accomplished as humans if...

What would we have accomplished if we survive until eternity without being happy?

The world does not have infinite resources. We have to be careful how we use them

"All fun must be productive" doesn't follow from that.
You’re probably right that half-baked psych and biomedical articles show up in the media more, but I think it’s a mistake to extrapolate from that to the actual work going on in the field.
Looks like Auckland NZ is planning on following this trend by building two tram lines over the next 10 years (CBD down Dominion Rd to Airport, another CBD to West), 60 years after following Sydney's lead of tearing out the trams (first replacing them with electric trolley buses, then removing the overhead lines 20 years later).

I don't see either line making a financial return on the investment, but the NZ government is financing it all by plundering the NZ Super Fund, which was originally intended to provide super payments for NZ's over-65-yr-old retirees. Of course, they're framing it all as "the Fund is making a long-term investment in the country's transport infrastructure", making the eventual huge losses some other goverment's problem.
I'm having an issue seeing why would I use this. I mean, given the high resource and bandwidth usage, why would I opt for this rather than a zerotier'd network of consul/etcd/zookeeper/something distributed on a number of tiny instances between many regions? It also looks like it's write-once which makes usage non trivial. Also it gives you the usual blockchain fun of: now you're hosting whatever you're given, have fun defending yourself if you ever get sued.

So... What's the realistic use case for this? (In both public and private network variation) Zerotier's network seems like one of the very few projects where this makes sense.

(From the tech point of view, this looks really cool though!)
Thank you for your note on LinkedIn. I hope one day you'll come back and share your non-traditional story as well!
Thanks, I will check it
I actually like that Apple moves at its own pace and doesn’t wait for standards to evolve. If you are willing to adopt the Apple ecosystem, it’s a bliss. If you can’t then just ignore them. I’ve been on both sides of the fence during the last decade.
Why? Why feed into it? This is the mentality that kills me.

Why double down and try to make something that is already being gamed? The very definition of insanity is doing The same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

There is no right to operate a business that exposes everyone to risk they have no choice in whether to accept or not. Centralizing excessive amounts of data with obtuse and dubious control mechanisms/capacity for redress is a disaster waiting to happen.

Publicizing the risk, and privatizing the profits at it's finest.
Could LF be used to replace the SKS keyserver network that's hopelessly borked?

https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d695...
Understanding the Crisis – Markets, the State and Hypocrisy (2009)
Tokyo, Manila, Cebu, Bali, Chiang Mai

I personally enjoy emerging economies - money goes far, people are fun, and you could loop yourself into a fun investment or two.

Tokyo/Japan is not emerging, but the language, culture and identity are fun parallels.

China is a maybe, even now, I would love to go to a Confucius Instuite and pick up Chinese.
The reason I brought up the matter of global climate change is that once it was discovered it was a danger, it was also clear that the human race needed to get off ICE's and on to EV's, and do so as quickly as possible.

The problem was the EV's at the time were not remotely up to the job. Where Musk comes in is that, thanks to his brilliant efforts, we are getting there many years earlier than we would have otherwise.

The people who nonetheless are screamingly angry at Musk and Tesla seem to fall mostly into three classes. One is global climate change deniers who think we should stay on fossil fuels forever. The second is shorters who don't care if the world goes to hell, and only want to make money. The third is haters, by which I mean people who are not happy unless they have someone to spend their life hating.

My impression from your comment is that you are in the third class.
> I never found the buses to Randwick to be _that_ terrible, but I never rode them in peak hour on a daily basis.

It's very difficult to get a bus towards the city in the south east if you live closer to the city than UNSW - there's no standing room so they don't even stop. Getting a bus home at night after 10pm is a similar story so I end up walking back along the route past Hyde Park since that's where it fills up.

You can also add the stadium to the infrastructure corruption stink-list.
Most times I've seen mammals eating other mammals, they consistently leave behind what looks like the stomach and maybe some guts. Often it's very cleanly removed, and piled with other inedible bits like tails and paws
No, I think Germany'a bureaucracy is quite efficient along the dimensions you describe, like PDF forms, but it still is generally a longer wait, and a lot of unhelpful unresourceful, unmotivated, personell. But on paper they appear more efficient.

My point was that just because Japanese processes look inefficient they aren't necessarily so.

You can get a lot of stuff printed out and processed by the Tokyo city halls in a matter of minutes (they look up your details in a DB). They also have a lot of paper piles, but that hasn't affected my experience.
The way it was explained to me is: you use the Gilead card to pay you copay, and that counts toward your deductible. So, my last post was wrong to use the word “reimburse”.
Major difference between the 90s and now is the market dominance that Apple has with their iOS platform. As a company having a closed ecosystem which they can push in their own direction. The most important piece is that it drives their revenue either from app purchases, in-app purchases, subscriptions, and Apple services.

I'm speaking mostly about their mobile platform... Mac laptops / desktops are another thing... Specifically, I think the lack of a reasonably affordable desktop solution for developers is kind of a bumper. We need upgradability and openness for drivers to make it viable. There are use cases for a less expensive desktop that developers would buy.
Confirmatory Aspect-Based Opinion Mining Processes
I wish this site support reader mode! Hard to read on my iPhone.
A government has power only if it does exercise it. If all government employees sat around all day and did nothing, the government would be powerless. The more a government exercises power, the more power it takes away from others (like the people).

It's only through action that power manifests (and the inaction of others to oppose the use and abuse of that power).
Its a cat and mouse game between airplanes and radars.

Radars are usually arrays of small radars now that can move the beam without even moving, chirp the frequecy and do all sorts of weird things. I wrote OS software to help control them years ago, which was interesting.

http://www.radartutorial.eu/02.basics/Stepped%20Chirp%20Rada...

its an interesting exercise in signal processing.
there are lots of books on the subject: And hey! my radar made a cover.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=radar&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
WaitForMultipleObjects is problematic for a few reasons:

* limited to 64 handles.

* passes the entire handle buffer to the kernel on every call. That is also a key reason poll is worse than epoll/kqueue. A better way is to let the kernel retain the list of handles across calls.

* when two handles are signalled, the one earlier in the array is always the one returned. So handle with a lower array index being frequently signalled can starve out your opportunity to process the later ones.

* since everything happens by returning an index, when multiple handles are signalled, you can only process one at a time, needing a new syscall for each.
I'm no expert at this but I think the efficacy of infrared detection would depend entirely on the elevation of the plane and its size in arc seconds. What's the resolution of your detector? Is the time it takes for the plane to move from one pixel to the next shorter than the time it takes for photons to gather on the sensor above threshold?

Don't forget the inverse square law of light, by the time the energy reaches a detector on the ground, the signal has weakened considerably.

Skimming wikipedia for infrared stealth gives me "Infrared Search and Track" systems which are plane-mounted, which makes a bit more sense to me -- if you're closer to the targets altitude and velocity you'll get much cleaner data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_search_and_track
Well, it’s a perspective from tech outsiders looking down their noses on Apple, I guess. Macs had a role to play in the 90s, albeit the most interesting platforms were Unix and Linux.
Julia: Come for the Syntax, Stay for the Speed [pdf]
It is, in a word, extortion.
if a candidate didnt get through the traditional method (including multiple interviews and code assessments) then maybe they're just not the right fit for that specific job...why prolong the process even further?
As long as the CEOs will get daily bonus checks.
Hawaii Extends Thirty Meter Telescope Permit Amid Protests
See also, "manufacturing consent"
I don't know where you live, so maybe your situation is that, but I've been on Comcast for years over multiple houses, and I've always owned my own modem and never have had any hidden fees.

It could be tech support lied to you. It wouldn't be a first.
I disagree with one part.

The 1990s was when Apple didn’t have Jobs for many years. Then Jobs came back and saved the company. Now Apple is without Jobs again for many years.

But saying Apple chose closed solutions? That’s classic Jobs. He ended the open clones program and OpenDoc etc. and brought it all in-house. The only thing Apple ever did that was really open under Jobs was probably bringing NextStep UNIX onboard!
Does the Mac Mini not satisfy this need? At least for the desktop requirement, I’m aware it may not satisfy your driver requirements.
This article reads like a hit propaganda piece to eradicate cats that paints the feline as the villain.

Australia has been on cat-killing binge lately, and writing like that aims to justify it.[1]

In reality, the undisputed #1 threat to all wildlife is human activity — in particular, loss of habitat due to construction.

Now, wildlife activists have reasons to be pissed. But it's way easier to kill a million cats (yes, literally) than to maybe rethink construction.

So guess which is done.

This also applies to Bay Area, where Google forced a volunteer-run TNR program, gCat rescue, to shut down, ostensibly to help burrowing owls[2]. #1 reason for owls' decline? Loss of habitat.[3] Google's next step? Massive construction.[4]

And while the volunteer-run gCat was criticized in NYT as a threat to the owls, it's all crickets when it comes to construction.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/magazine/australia-cat-ki...

[2]https://www.paloaltohumane.org/facebook/tell-the-mountain-vi...

Also, don't ask me how stopping neutering cats helps the birds.

[3]http://burrowingowlconservation.org/burrowing_owl_facts/

[4]https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/06/google-affordable-hou...
Hi gatherhunterer
Great feedback - I'll add a few links on to the docs on architecture and things like consistency of data (short answer is this a geo distributed data platform with consistency gaurantees).

Thanks also for the great point you made about "altering source of truth" - we will look into how best to provide those gaurantees as well. Our underlying data structures are an event source on an append only log - so we can go back to see the provenance of changes to make sure there was no cheating but we dont expose that externally.
This package doesn’t include the battery pack — that’s a separate leased item.
I do this by using the JIRA search integration with a prefix, and I have one prefix per relevant JIRA instance I have to talk to. 'j PRJ-12345' is what goes in the search bar and I zip right there.
> … Apple stores told customers that small repair issues would cost thousands of dollars to fix (to encourage them to buy a new Mac).

Reference? That seems to be attributing malice when bad design (or design trade-offs) are more likely.
Hypermiling in space is an awesome concept. Would be so cool to have the solar race competition evolve from cars to spacecraft.
Takes time to sell your email
> it’s actually too risky for a business to promote you.

What if the person leaves the org?
no, not all things that are wacky are disallowed and that's the point. I chose examples that are hard to disagree with to show why regulation is already used and is necessary in the presence of market failure. This is market failure, clearly.

You can't take your business elsewhere if you don't like the provisions on account of the fact that they ARE wacky. You can't renegotiate wacky contract provisions. Market failure.
My attack on the prime minister is based on his belief in prosperity theology, not just because he belongs to a particular faith. If you want to dismiss that as “not cool” then knock yourself out. In the meantime we have a ruling class who believe that poor people are bad people and God has punished them by making them poor. This is demonisation of the middle and lower classes institutionalised into a religion.

The RoboDebt system has continually been refined but it is still broken, issuing debt claims that are wrong 20% of the time (where “wrong” is defined as “the recipient complained and upon review we found it to be an incorrect claim” rather than “we reviewed all claims and found that 80% of them were correct”). Nobody involved in the system believes it is fit for purpose, there is plenty of expert advice at all levels of government and welfare support stating that the system will lead to hardship and suicides. The government persists, so it can only be assumed that their intent is to cause hardship and drive people to suicide. This is not a matter of compromises being made, this is direction for the Minister that RoboDebt notices should be issued without review, knowing full well that doing so will have these outcomes.

Nothing that this government does is about efficiency and fairness.
Just because someone has unsubscribed from your mailing lists doesn't necessarily mean you want to stop sending them all mail. For example, we've got people who unsubscribed from our mailing lists but still submit support requests by email, using the same email that had been on our mailing lists, and they expect to continue to get answers to those requests.
It wouldn’t put anyone at risk if we held lenders to a legal standard of proof that YOU signed a contract asking for money. It might be inconvenient but not compared to being stuck with debts you never agreed to.
I worked at an ISP back in the late 90s. We were in the same building as our backbone provider and they simply drilled a hole in the floor and dropped an Ethernet cable down it for us to get our connection. We replaced our custom built dialup racks with something fancier and supported ISDN for the handful of customers who wanted it. The coming of DSL and cable internet was the writing on the wall to get out. The owners sold it to a larger ISP during a frothy period of mergers and acquisitions while the marketplace tidied itself up.

There used to be dozens of ISPs you could choose from in a big market. Sigh.
That's not a bad idea, but how does liability play out on a defective test, or a test used in a manner other than directed?

Would you bet the rest of your life on a casual test like that?
PrEP is hard to get, my doctor outright refused to prescribe it to me, they said they were not comfortable doing so
Could you elaborate the two different phases where you were on two different sides? What made you change?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-a...
Yes, _asserting_ something is possible is an assertion. And if your only intention was really to just point out the possibility of it and not suggest it as a likely alternative, you're not adding anything to the conversation. But it seemed to pretty clear be the latter.
Tuning Nginx for Better RPS of an HTTP API
How would 'some agency' have anything to say about your credit risk if issuers of credit weren't feeding them information about your credit performance?

What's more bothersome to me is that these companies are scooping up every bit of information they can about me and selling it to anyone. Did I consent to TheWorkNumber? I definitely did not with the first few employers / payroll processors who have sold out my payroll data.

I Google my full name and the first hit is some background check site that shows my birthday, most of addresses I've had since the mid-90s, every family member I've shared an address with since 1999, information on two vehicles I presently own and one former, and that's just the bait to get someone to pay for whatever else they know about me...

'Credit' information is the tip of the iceberg.
#What -- In several geographically distant third world countries HIV is becoming antiretroviral resistant in ~10% of cases.

#Why -- No one is _really_ sure. The most popular hypothesis is that it happens when people go on and off the medicine. Why would people do this? Shame, access, and some mothers that went on only during pregnancy. WHO recommended a pregnancy only treatment until ~2015.

#Impact -- These resistant breeds can spread, presumably just like the other varieties. The people with it have a much worse prognosis than those without.

#PrEP -- All the other parent comments talk about it. Sure, it should be used more frequently. It's a bit of a pipe dream to see it used in the 3rd world.
The new Mac Mini starts at $700+ and still requires a separate monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers etc. Certainly not meant to be portable, so if you're a developer and want a laptop (as many developers do) your next choice is a MacBook which is well over $1k.

You can buy some shitty Windows laptop to make Android apps on for $400. Will it be a good experience? Absolutely not; but at least you can get it done.