skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they identify people using Tax ID, obviously. Plus birth date and other information. So if they need to go after an account holder, whoever they find with the matching Tax ID is "it".

And then it's your responsibility to prove that you're not "it".

But turn it around. How else would they identity people? I suppose that they could collect fingerprints, iris scans, DNA samples, etc. But for >99% of cases, that's overkill. And too expensive.

In a way, this just reflects the fact that anyone can sue anyone. And if sued, you must defend yourself. So basically they're just using Tax ID to decide who to sue.
That fatality rate could be the difference between "Meh, I'll probably die anyway and there's nothing anyone can do about it" and "Get me to the doctor asap!" in people's minds -- especially if it is known that early treatment dramatically increases the odds of survival.
For the same reason that so many writers do not know bookbinding.
That's a nice solution now that we know the engines need fixing. What about when they were first released? Are planes required to have one old-reliable engine?
A Tesla owner implanted the RFID chip from her Model 3’s keycard into her arm
Its also not the same fuel so comparing mpg is apples to oranges. LAX covers south LA in damaging small particulate pollution that you wont find anywhere not downwind of an airport.
"Llama Fury" was a week-long Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) training exercise

It's notable that the more obscure/technical the task, the more likely it is that amusing random combinations will apply. For more politicized things it's always names that 'just happen' sound super-patriotic like 'Valiant Shield' or 'Enduring Freedom'. I guarantee that if the invasion of Iraq had been called 'Llama Fury' there would have been a proper exit plan on a sensible timeframe.
Indeed, it is like putting the word human in there, though the prospect that it may goad a few racists to think they can do better, has many positive outcomes.
> To fix the problem it would be better to address the causes of the stress instead of trying to just treat symptoms.

The effect of depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental illnesses is that they prevent you from taking steps to address the addressable issues in your life. To start exercising while depressed, to start socializing while suffering from anxiety, etc., are some of the hardest things to do. That’s why medication is typically paired with counseling - the medication prepares you to take the steps the counseling guides you into taking.

To put it another way, anxiety disorders (and depression, and ADHD, and more) take away agency. The purpose of medication is to reintroduce agency. The medication (for most people) won’t fix their problems, but it will help them fix them.
I would say this article is making the case that sanity is the ability to correctly perceive what society conceives as real, while hypersanity is the ability to correctly perceive things outside of societies norms.
Does innovation come without sacrifice, without yearning, without labor, without constraints? A sincere question.

We enjoy innovation, progress, because it seemingly makes our lives more enjoyable. At least I think I do. I think I would take this life over 19th-century farmer.

The point is that there appears to be a tradeoff - disparity, constraints, entice us to create solutions. And adopt a certain amount of stress in obtaining that solution.

Or we accept everything as-is. Unchangable. Zero stress in striving. But no progress.
Yeah, the focus was on "might", not on typically (and an electric car, not a gas car). The comment I was replying to was that bicycles were infinitely better.

tl;dr: diet is also very important, and human labor is not necessarily a good substitute for machine labor.
How are you defining efficient? Airlines are time efficient but obviously not environmentally efficient.
I'm not being an asshole here I'm Fucking SERIOUS: Why is it "Black Beekeepers..." And not Just "Beekeepers" (And yes I saw the pic of the author who is presumably American of African descent). I fear America will Never shed its segregation roots as long as we keep referring to each other in terms of color. Me, I'm adopted, and when people ask me where I'm from, I'll usually say Earth. Peace.
In my Eastern European country it's the same deal, basically everyone has their own washing machine (often washer-dryer in one unit). It's usually fitted in the kitchen or bathroom rather than a separate laundry room.

Some buildings are five stories without an elevator, yet the residents at the top still have washing machines. Unlike Germany, it usually comes as part of the apartment when you rent it.

Thinking about it now, I don't even think I've ever seen a laundromat in my city...
I don't understand–I quite enjoy reading a well-formatted plaintext email that sticks inside an 80-character line width. Any mail client worth its salt should be able to display that.
Airlines Are Defending 737 MAXs from the Ravages of Corrosion Insects and Time
Is This 1966 Book Worth $400?
Why Are We All Paying a Tax to Credit Card Companies?
Trump’s paid Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s surveillance network
If I may be so bold as to inquire, what was your path to stop drinking? Do you find you replaced it with another coping mechanism?
The government has the task to know what it procures and also should have the resources for the task. However a single person doesn't always. Even for the government it is difficult. We all know stories about government being fleeced by providers.
Hah! I did this one at a call center job back in the day, not believing that their sysadmins would possibly leave it open.

I was wrong. I did something like "NET SEND lol" and it sent out a popup to every workstation on the network. Hundreds of them.

Good times.
The day it stops is the day the important 60% + of people walk out. I theorize that IBM taking the same approach that a modern company does with an open source company. They're probably doing community management.

There is no profit to be gained from seizing Redhat's sales operations that I can think of.
The 70 year old pensioner in Jesus sandals and socks is not looking to make any connection with any local but the concierge of the resort.
>“Most neighbourhoods have somewhere – a local community centre, library, school or a church – with parking that’s empty at night, and these folks could use the revenue,”

Yeah that is what we need traffic / coordinating who parks at these gathering spots.....but just to change.
I suppose that was Hugh Hefner's brilliance. That if Playboy was seen as "tasteful porn", then advertising space instantly became more valuable.
How to Get Cheaper Car Insurance in the UK for New and Younger Drivers
Honey that bees have harvested from Rhododendron nectar would be one I know of and is recorded in history as the first ever chemical weapon.

Highly recommend this fascinating article about the subject: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/hidden-poison-rhododendro...
Historically, the (entirely reasonable, given lack of basic equity in property rights, body integrity, voting, law) discontent women displayed in western society which now expresses politically as feminism, was written down to hysteria, depression or other mental illness and thus it (mental illness in women) was used as a mechanism of control.

I would like to think this ended last century, but I am suspicious it lingers on. The medical profession advances at a snails pace, and it would not surprise me to find out that senior medical staff routinely apply mysogynistic models to womens health. I know politicians do, the evidence of this is abundant (reproductive rights)
A few observations which might also be false.

We can have arbitrarily nested monads:

monadicObj.bind((T value) => monad.wrap(monad.wrap(value)));

Remember, `bind` only unwraps one layer. Without it unwrapping one layer, programs would continue accumulating large stacks of monads in monads.

I would also point out that it only collapses abstractions of the same kind; Maybe's bind only unwraps one layer of Maybe's. If you have a Promise<Maybe<Foo>> where Foo contains potentially more monads as instance-variables, those don't all get collapsed.

I like the 'converting nesting to concatenating' observation.

Sometimes we do need parentheses though, because most languages are not associative 5 - 2 - 1 is not the same as 5 - (2 - 1). Basically minus does not form a monoid, so the parens matter.
Sure. Caveat Utilitor.

I'd rather have an internet full of dark and danger than a safe theme park moderated by corporate entities and governments.
You’re being generous. Most of that article was a pipe dream that never came to fruition.
I’m curious what was so great about it: when we did the comparison even the Atlassian maintainers picked Slack.
That's what testing is for, although I'm not sure how much I'd like to trust Boeing and FAA with testing these days.
>Thoughts?

Don't preempt people that might disagree with you by claiming they are in cognitive dissonance.
Right? People raise bees. The people may be black. They may be white. They may be yellow. Or Brown. The people might me muslim, or jewish, or atheist. The bees don't care, and neither do I. I have no idea why it matters.
I'm not sure that logic holds - swimming in the ocean isn't the same as eating swordfish with respect to mercury, for instance.
Ah, thank you. I wasn't aware that the Kotlin syntax automatically raced `one` and `two`. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I haven't thought deeply about it. My gut is kinda "meh".

In the spirit of getting it right, your code is missing an `await` and `join` is back to a function in alpha18. Here's the currently working (this time tested!) code:

#![feature(async_await)]

use futures::{executor, future}; // 0.3.0-alpha.18

fn main() {
let result = executor::block_on(async {
let one = async { do_something_useful_one() };
let two = async { do_something_useful_two() };
let (one, two) = future::join(one, two).await;
one + two
});

println!("{}", result);
}

fn do_something_useful_one() -> i32 { 1 }
fn do_something_useful_two() -> i32 { 2 }
A Man that steps aside from the World, and hath leisure to observe it without Interest or Design, thinks all Mankind as mad as they think him. – Lord Halifax (1633-95)
>cross the bridge

No one really wants that in any use cases of type-level numbers. Type-level numbers are generally used to do just opposite: silently (well, loudly, if you ask the compiler to check it) govern the structure in question, limiting, say, its arity or whatever. But if you want to "cross the bridge", I think it's still possible but tricky in case of Java. Don't get me wrong, I don't advocate for Java nor intend to write it, I just use it as a dummy trashcan language to illustrate concepts and their latency in a sense that you don't really need to use fancy X in order to do Y or express Z.

>20-30 static analysis tools

Too bad. I'm usually pretty happy with just plain compiler and a 80-char bar.

>huge value in gradual typing

Doubt that. It's actually a good safety net to stop a project from turning into a big ball of mud but it won't help unless used correctly and with the right intent.

>being able to explore interactively

Hindley-Milner type systems can infer your stuff so well that you usually don't have to worry about supplying type signatures at all. For instance, in Haskell you don't have to "add types" compared to what you do in REPL, you have them all the time and oftentimes you don't have to annotate anything, it's still static and usually done just to give an idea to other people what's doing what.

Oh, not about our little conflict but about Python: does it have some form of traits/typeclasses/whatever? I mean, yes, it has them in form of mixins but can it, in modern days, put a constraint on some type variable, saying that it must have some properties that are described in different traits?
No I've read good code. At work you don't have the liberty to sit and understand every line of a library you're using does or some other teams work.

I did not say code should not be read, just that it shouldn't be expected to be read. Make it clear before you ever get to the code what's going on
Price is not a clear signal as you seem to be expecting. Remember, it's only a scalar that has to satisfy all of the constraints every person thinks is important.

Oil in particular seems to be unable to stay at very high prices. Historically we just get a recession and it goes down again.
Thanks, you never can tell when you're going to be muted, can ya? It's fun to watch your point total swing wildly up and down without being able to see any changes on the individual comments. HN's system is obtuse bordering on Cthulhoid and I often get the impression there's a finger on the scales.
To be honest, I don't know. All I can say is YAML parsers exist and it works well enough for many applications, although I do understand the issues with it. Sure, it isn't perfect, but no need to re-invent the wheel for marginal improvements.

I roughly agree with the arguments laid out in PEP 518, even though the array of tables thing is not at all "obvious" to me. And I actually do think an "official"/semi-official YAML subset would be great for loads of use-cases - yaml.safe_load already is that in practice.
No, they tried a build perfect, cost optimal system to maximize ROI. They ended up losing money. A solution you cannot implement isn’t good engineering.

Big changes that impact tens or hundreds of thousands of people need to be staged out to minimize impact. The Big Bang approach doesn’t work for problems like this — i bet a few thousand people would lose jobs over these schedule changes.
The youtu.be version was autokiled. Try resubmitting the youtube.com version.
What possible advantage does a “blockchain” have for a payments system controlled by a single entity?

The Federal Reserve doesn’t need to dupe dumb investors with buzzwords.
Not OP, but I had a similar experience. Getting to the root of things with CBT caused me to completely change my relationship with alcohol. At this point, heavy drinking has become a clear path to increasing my anxiety, and it’s easy to abstain.
Steam Security Vulnerabilities Fixed, Researchers Don't Agree
Yes, one big push in Rust is that you get to have your high-level syntax with your low-level performance.

See the sibling comment [1] where I actually tested and ran the code, finally. ;-). I was unaware that Kotlin would race two `async` blocks, so we had to use the `join` combinator here.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20682191
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This is exactly why I wanted to write this post. I feel like the pattern is valuable besides "we need it to have stateful computation." I have to mention this use for completeness, but I wanted to focus on using monads as another abstract software development pattern, because that's how it is applicable in non-FP languages (async/await for example).
He didn't get sent to prison for speeding. He got sent to prison for having the audacity to think he could pull a fast one on them and the balls to actually try.
> To the tune of putting approx $1 billion through the corporate paper shredder.

Arguably, that happened June 20th, 2013, the day the Tumblr acquisition was closed.
Kind of related. I cannot login to Teams from home. Some sort of infinite redirect loop in both IE and Chrome on my home PC. It is pretty horrible.
> Ebola is a plant's virus adapted to trees.

I never heard that and I can't find that in Wikipedia. Do you have a link with more information about that?
Very cool, good job.
This is a meaningless argument (FUD) against the Canadian position unless we can see the statistics before and after the policy was introduced.

It does sound reasonable to assume there is some upward pressure on n-month long contracts over full time employment given the policy, but unless it can be shown the policy has had a significant impact on full time employment, accounting for all other factors, and that we can show there is a net decrease in the overall life satisfaction and national productivity, then what you've written is just an opinion.

If we've got the numbers, let's go with the numbers. If all he have is opinions, let's go with mine:

Canada's fertility rate is estimated to be approximately 1.6 children born per woman[1], and I'm fairly confident in my guess that the people who have children in excess of the average are disproportional unemployable people on social welfare, given that is presently the state of the things in the very similar Commonwealth country I reside in, Australia.

Your last point is nonsensical. Pretty much every government agency employees a significant number of contractors because present day politico-economic ideology demands constant reduction in full time government employees because governments everywhere have a tenancy to prove themselves damagingly inefficient for a whole host of reasons.

1. https://www.indexmundi.com/canada/total_fertility_rate.html
> [Embedding PHP in HTML] obviously has maintainability and security issues.

Honestly, I'm not sure it does. The two main security issues in typical PHP software are cross-site scripting and SQL injection, and both of those could be solved with better API design. (For example, PHP could use something similar to Rails's `html_safe` to make it harder to accidentally include untrusted HTML in the page.)

As far as maintainability goes, I'm not sure what makes PHP uniquely bad in this area. It seems like you could write a bad, unmaintainable React app in pretty much the same way you write a bad PHP app -- by eschewing MVC and sticking everything in the components/templates.
Key finding #4 in your first link: "The present-day emissions rate of nearly 10 GtC per year suggests that..."
>Surprised nobody has yet mentioned Douglas Adams' "Wonko the Sane," who built an asylum turned inside out to house the whole world. Many comedians would qualify as this as well.

I'm also thinking of the Terry Pratchett concept of being "knurd". On the Discworld, the opposite of being drunk isn't being sober - sober is the middle ground on the drunk/sober/knurd scale. To be knurd is to be so completely aware of everything that one can't really function in normal society.
And at the time, HN roasted Apple pretty roundly for the decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494137

There was some great snark about Safari being next on the ban list.
AWS S3 Trigger to Lambda
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In any case anywhere if there is demand prices will rise if supply won’t.

Tourism is a paradox where suddenly you have demand but building enough supply to quench demand is often restricted for historic or cultural reasons, so ironically the locals who created this culture and history worth preserving are the ones who are pushed out of the limited supply as prices inevitably rise.
>"Identity theft" is just a clever name for "fraud" that shifts the responsibility away from the bank.

Indeed. Here's an analogy I like using (warning: ethical argument follows, not a legal advice).

Say, you give your car keys to a valet to park, along with the fee.

You come back to find no car. The valet informs you that they already gave away the vehicle to a homeless person that "kinda looked like you, man" because they asked for it.

You never get your car back.

Now, I personally think it is very fair to hold the company that employed the valet 100% liable for the damages.

The business of operating valet parking comes with certain obligations, one of which is to keep your vehicle safe, and return it to you and only to you. If they can't do that, they shouldn't be in that business. It's not your problem that the valet got high and fulfilled an authorized request. They owe you a vehicle.

Same with a bank. Allowing unauthorized (meaning: unauthorized by you) access to your account is the failure of a bank to do its job and fulfill its obligations to you.

For that, the bank is fully liable. The damages that the thief thus caused to the bank should not be your concern.

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TL;DR: a thief is guilty for stealing from the bank. The bank is guilty for letting someone else access your account. Both are 100% liable - for different things.
You don’t seem to able to wrap your ahead around the fact that driving appears to give you more freedoms only because you live in a city that was designed around cars, not because cars are inherently faster or more convenient. The convenience of the car is an artifact of city planning decisions, not a universal truth.

Example: do you realize how preposterous the idea of driving several miles to get groceries is to someone who lives in a real city? If I want to get groceries I walk to the grocery store two blocks away. If I don’t like that grocery store I walk to the other one four blocks away. Or the other other one five blocks away. It takes me less time to walk to the grocery store than it takes you to drive to yours. The counterfactual to a 10 mile drive is not a 10 mile public transit ride, because without car-induced sprawl everything would be much closer and you would have to travel much shorter distances to have access to the same amenities and see your friends.

Public transit is also not slower than driving in a city with proper transit. I don’t own a car and almost every single journey I take is either short enough to walk, or faster on transit than in a car. It takes me 10 minutes to get to work on the train, the same drive would take half an hour due to traffic.
Driving a 1977 Rolls established your wealth without question. Not only could you afford a Rools, you could afford three:

One you’re driving.

One in the shop.

One in the garage in case the one you’re driving goes to the shop before the other one is repaired.
I feel like you are completely ignoring the FMLA. It mandates 12 weeks unpaid leave within the first year of childbirth.
Pick a job that offers actual maternal leave (teaching's probably the best—time it right and you get the Summer, too, plus your daily schedule will be close to that of your kid so you'll have lower daycare costs) or otherwise is either fairly tolerant of people disappearing for a while for kids or is easy to get back into after leaving—I don't have direct knowledge of this but I suspect family-friendliness and relative ease of relocation to follow a higher-earning spouse, say, is part of the appeal of all of teaching, nursing, and real estate agent..ry? ing?

Or just take barely enough unpaid leave (or draw on other pools of paid leave, which are usually tiny anyway and may have been eaten into over various pregnancy-related issues and appointments already) to get back on their feet and head back in, leaving the baby with a cheap unlicensed daycare down the street (maybe fine, maybe, uh, not, but not like there are other options on a limited budget) or older relative or whoever :-/
Hi Ian, I pointed my job out in the first sentence of my first reply on this page.

I've also discussed how trademark information could be incorporated into verification markers extensively with Ryan Sleevi on Twitter. You should follow us both if you missed the discussion.
Awesome. And humanity got a little better.

There has never been a better time to be alive. We're so lucky.
This is great news. The headline here "Ebola is Now Curable" seems premature when the observed mortality rate is @30%.

What I am specifically interested in is whether the rate of new infections can be curtailed to below the self-sustaining threshold.