skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Source? What definitions are being used for severity? How is the sample of events selected? Is there a statistically-significant effect or might it be random variation?

These are great questions that any good skeptic / data scientist should always be asking. Here are some summary opinions based upon meta analyses with varyingly stringent inclusion criteria.

( I had hoped that the other top-level post I posted here would develop into a discussion, but these excerpts seem to have bubbled up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20919368 )

"Scientific consensus on climate change" lists concurring, non-commital, and opposing groups of persons with and without conflicting interests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...

USGCRP, "2017: Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I" [Wuebbles, D.J., D.W. Fahey, K.A. Hibbard, D.J. Dokken, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 470 pp, doi: 10.7930/J0J964J6.

"Chapter 8: Droughts, Floods, and Wildfire"
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/8/

"Chapter 9: Extreme Storms"
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/9/

"Appendix A: Observational Datasets Used in Climate Studies"
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/appendix-a/

The key findings in this report do list supporting evidence and degrees of confidence in predictions about the frequency and severity of severe weather events.

I'll now proceed to support the challenged claim that disaster severity and frequency are increasing by citing disaster relief cost charts which do not directly support the claim. Unlike your typical televised debate or congressional session, I have: visual aids, a computer, linked to the sources I've referenced. Finding the datasets ( https://schema.org/Dataset ) for these charts may be something that someone has time for while the costs to taxpayers and insurance holders are certainly increasing for a number of reasons.

"Taxpayer spending on U.S. disaster fund explodes amid climate change, population trends" (2019) has a nice chart displaying "Disaster-relief appropriations, 10-year rolling median"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/22/taxpayer...

"2018's Billion Dollar Disasters in Context" includes a chart from NOAA: "Billion-Dollar Disaster Event Types by Year (CPI-Adjusted)" with the title embedded in the image text - which I searched for - and eventually found the source of: [1]
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2018...

[1] "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Time Series" (1980-2019) https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/time-series
I tried this but found the shift between desktops far more jarring, people would definitely know you were up to sow thing if all of a sudden multiple monitors jump to a whole different set of windows, compared to just hiding one or two small ones.
i think this is what people mean when they say "corporate socialism"?
GitHub is the #65 most visited website in the world. Is that "webscale" enough for you?
According to Wikipedia, hydro power was in use for some time, but electricity was relatively new. The generator opened in 1881, just two short years before this was written.

Not enough time for its full usefulness to be seen directly, but plenty to stoke the imagination.

Living during the advent of electric power must have been a fun time. So much that was impossible was now possible, a big door just opened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls#Hydroelectric_po...
> We have not yet escaped the preponderant use of fiction though we have diminished it since your day. It used to be 75 per cent. Thanks to our training the school children in good ways it has fallen to forty

The dreams of yore...
The single payer could force it to be cheaper. Much cheaper. In Poland we scrape by with 5% PKB which is 26 billion USD. But there's not enough doctors and nurses.
I came to post the same thing. Is it a new edition of the same book, or has that article grown and grown into a new book just coming out?

It's interesting that the story from 2016 has the link to the new amazon book at the top.
Yes, that is true. But now the telcos have adapted into an oligopoly. Additionally, that action was initiated by the Feds, not state AGs as in this context.

I would maintain the position that prosecutors often look for attainable (low risk) fruit. It certainly depends on the prosecutor, but the federal level has been quite reluctant in the past (e.g. how did at&t become so large?...).
Totally agree on the ecosystem being problem number one. A ton of modules that depend on a ton of other modules, poorly coded, not maintained, not tested.

Put on top the fact that NPM doesn't want to deal with version conflicts and installs 173 versions of the same package and you get a huge directory full of security warts.
>Robots.txt isn't something that bars access to information. It's just a notice that the administrator does not want large amounts of queries against certain resources.

Many times Robots.txt are implemented with the interest of barring access to information.

This works by relying on scrapers respecting the file, but it's no different than a no-loitering sign which itself cannot actively stop someone who is loitering.

Google doesn't have a Robots.txt disallowing search because it can't handle a large amount of queries against a resource...
From reading the opinion, I think the argument goes something like this:

> First, LinkedIn does not contest hiQ’s evidence that contracts exist between hiQ and some customers, including eBay, Capital One, and GoDaddy

> Second, hiQ will likely be able to establish that LinkedIn knew of hiQ’s scraping activity and products for some time. LinkedIn began sending representatives to hiQ’s Elevate conferences in October 2015

> Third, LinkedIn’s threats to invoke the CFAA and implementation of technical measures selectively to ban hiQ bots could well constitute “intentional acts designed to induce a breach or disruption” of hiQ’s contractual relationships with third parties.

> Fourth, the contractual relationships between hiQ and third parties have been disrupted and “now hang[] in the balance.” Without access to LinkedIn data, hiQ will likely be unable to deliver its services to its existing customers as promised.

> Last, hiQ is harmed by the disruption to its existing contracts and interference with its pending contracts. Without the revenue from sale of its products, hiQ will likely go out of business.

> LinkedIn does not specifically challenge hiQ’s ability to make out any of these elements of a tortious interference claim. Instead, LinkedIn maintains that it has a “legitimate business purpose” defense to any such claim. ... That contention is an affirmative justification defense for which LinkedIn bears the burden of proof.

So the real situation is that you can't go out and start blocking access you knew about in a way that would interfer with third party contracts without a legitimate business reason to do so. The burden of proving the legitimacy of that business reason is on you.

edit:
TLDR;

> "A party may not ... under the guise of competition ... induce the breach of a competitor’s contract in order to secure an economic advantage."
> supplying first class integration points and supported plugins for other best-in-class tools

If they did this I wouldn’t want to use it any more. The whole point of Gitlab is that it does everything. To prevent the need for any integrations.
not discussed is autofluorescence fundus imaging, which I have been meaning to try with a color cube beam splitter

(eliminating reflections while capturing as large a fraction of the original light as possible is hard geometrically because light rays are reversible, unless irreversible processes like fluorescence is involved)
The definition's a working one, and subject to modification, but I feel it's a good start.

I've been collecting / compiling / commenting on similar veins for a while.

There's Robert Ewashuck's paging philosophy (Google SRE):

Pages [alerts] should be urgent, important, actionable, and real. They should represent either ongoing or imminent problems with your service. Err on the side of removing noisy alerts – over-monitoring is a harder problem to solve than under-monitoring....

(The list continues.)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa...

I've come up with a hierarchy of failures (or alternatively: success kill chain) in problem resolution, starting with "being aware there's a problem":

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2fsr0g/hierarc...

There's the Japanese awareness and response following the bombing of Hiroshima. Short version: the first indication of the 9:15 am attack was a cessation of all communications. Military command wasn't aware of the scope of damage until an overflight was arranged, in early afternoon, and didn't know the actual cause until told by the US the next day.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wf9yc/on_disa...

The missile strike on the HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War played out similarly:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2ab25z/on_disa...

In many large-scale natural disasters, an ominous sign is no reports, especially from outlying areas.

Initial responses to disasters often follow early stages of the Kubler-Ross stages of grief model: obliviousness, denial, sometimes anger. My sense is that grief is another form of major world-model collapse: that some reality that has been internalised and is often a sense of identity is shown to be wrong or inoperative.

Again: it's not that catastrophes and disasters are similar to grief, it's that grief responses are a response to catastrophes and disasters.

And finally, a quote from a ... modern Cupertino ... mystic, Adyashanti:

Make no mistake about it -- enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or becoming happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ5LECwss0AC&pg=PT126&dq="...

There's a lot of meat in that, I think.
It’s typically called “corporate welfare,” but, yes.
Code search is not good at GitLab.com at the moment. We're working to enable ElasticSearch for GitLab.com to improve the situation https://about.gitlab.com/2019/03/20/enabling-global-search-e...
I agree, otherwise the OP is just describing Burning Man.
If the performance is good and if network/service errors can be handled and recovered easily and gracefully, I might consider it.
I don’t think it’s a free pass quite like that.
> and some for skeezy bachelors who want to track multiple women

Isn't this crazy - the amount of work people would put in just to have occasional unprotected sex. People are animals.
Yes, the ChiComs are clearly the real victims here. Stay woke.
Compliance with robots.txt is and always has been voluntary, and many crawlers have long ignored it, including Archive.org.
Why does everyone want to police what I put in my body? I personally think vaping is beyond lame, but I support any adults right to injest what they wish. The prohibition of thc is the reason for the bad carts in the first place. Your attitude created this.
Like you connect anything to anything else. You use a myriad of Inter-process communication techniques from memory maps to named pipes to socket protocols to databases.
Yea seriously. Seems like something that could potentially be abused to intercept calls.
The way we pay for medical care in the US is screwed up.

That said...

I’ve always thought it weird that people feel entitled to free (or massively discounted) medical care.

Consider the case where some business could sell you a product or service that might add years to your life. How much is that worth? Why is it somehow unfair or immoral if someone buys such a product or service, without considering their ability to pay, and bankrupts themself?

Yes the issues are more complex here in the US due to the opacity and arbitrariness of medical billing, but if we set that aside, how much is your health worth to you?
Not sure I can read the article 9/11 was a traumatic experience for me. I remember vividly where I was and what I was doing and who I called and virtually everything about that day. I almost joined the military in response such was my reaction.
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It's not using the TX and RX sides to form a beam, it's using a ToF distance sensor.
It's nice!

I was struck by how rolling back 150 million years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass (that is, the Atlantic Ocean had disappeared) but the British Isles was still separate from Europe.
"You are being shown this ad because:
- assumptions made probably by men"
I looked up our wiki direction and the ideas is to allow WYSIWYG collaboration, see https://about.gitlab.com/direction/create/wiki/

I'm surprised that this wiki bug that two people here mention has only one upvote https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/48641 I'm not sure if the complaints are over multiple issues, if the wiki doesn't get a lot of usage, or something else is going on. The bug sounds legitimate.
interesting to see that artistic style they have made the guy with the hammer attacking the protesters in is a very obvious and unflattering stylist "Chinese" man.

Shows they really see this as an "Us vs Them" situation...
Unions, organized crime, greedy capitalists, environmental and worker safety regulations, and/or Baumol's cost disease, depending on who's answering the question
• Bread freezes and thaws really well, with little or no loss of texture and flavor. If I had found this out 35 years earlier, I probably would have replaced thousands of visits to fast food restaurants with sandwiches made at home.
Same reason why there are no pictures showing how they attack people who are speaking Mandarin: because certain news editors and online journalists have decided a narrative and feel those pictures detract from it.
Interesting, seems like a worthwhile read in this context. Any particular suggestions?
I've found with most hospitals that finding out a patient's location is as simple as asking.

Maybe some people get identified as "VIPs" and it's not so easy. Dunno if every random gun-shot victim makes that, but if your "hit" was more an "accidental" car wreck, you can probably ask and find out where they are.
Been following this language for a while now. Good to see them hit 1.0
The Government Won’t Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, so I’m Suing (2015)
> Running two production applications on 5.1.5.

I believe there are security vulnerabilities in that version. consider updating to a secure version: 5.1.7 is the latest revision of the 5.1.x series.

https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6...
There are other ways to split the coins. The simplest one would probably be to send a small amount of BCH to the address (which only exists on that chain), wait for it to confirm, and then move all the coins including the BCH making the transaction only valid on that chain. You can then do the same on the BSV chain, leaving the BTC chain untouched.
If he gives them a stable, fast API with a subscription fee, and the scrapers are truly from hedge funds, he’s going to make a lot more than $100/mo.
The second week of the protests involved them hunting down middle aged women who had the temerity to dance in a public park, because said middle aged women were mainland Chinese. This is a localist, nativist protest through and through.
I don't have a technical explanation, but I had a few weirdly misconnected calls and even a call that changed to another person in the middle of a call in the analog cell phone days.
Oooh. "ChiComs", what's next, yellow peril?
I'd trust EPIC series more, even though it's not RCD. They showed J-curve for all cause mortality and morbidity with best inflection point around 1500-2000 IU. The curve is somewhat flat above this.

One of the findings (there's a summary somewhere): https://epic.iarc.fr/highlights/vitamindcolorectal.php
If an analogy requires more explanation than the original concept what purpose does it serve?

I think in this case at best the analogy grossly oversimplifies the issue. If it really were just a “screwdrivers” problem as explained then the 2 to 3 migration would have been mostly trouble free and would have happened. Clearly it did not go that way so that analogy can not possibly be appropriate.
They enforce it when you buy something real with the coins. A torrent is the thing you want, it isn't a currency to buy the thing you want.
> In Ballerina, every program is a sequence diagram that illustrates distributed and concurrent interactions automatically. The diagram is the code. The code is the diagram.

I'm not sure it's a feature I'm missing in current languages, but I sure am curious about this. Maybe "ballerina by example" should implement a toggle between diagram and code views?
Facts can't be copyrighted, so such things as whether or not a person worked for a certain company, or went to a certain school, are unprotected, and with this ruling can be scraped, at least in the U.S. Others things common on LinkedIn, as you rightly point out, are protected--but by copyright law, not the CFAA. So a scraper acting in good faith would have to be careful about what they used if they wanted to respect copyright, but it's a separate issue from this ruling.

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/works-not-covered-copyright
Pagers are great.

They're a lot more resilient than the cell phone network, especially if there's a mass disaster.

They tend to work better in basements or deep in buildings.

They don't get annoying amber alerts (important in Canada where they're all sent as Presidential/ICBM), constant "IRS" or "Dell" call spam from your area+exchange code (ie: lookalike numbers that seem internal to your hospital) or SMS spam.

These are excellent features if you're on-call, but must respond to anything.
This reminds of the Outside Context Problem, from Bank's Culture series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/askvipendra; my proof: https://keybase.io/askvipendra/sigs/HjKGFO-ToUEba8nmKTGxr7ed... ]
This is millions of “spaces” we’re talking about. Advertisers can’t vet that many videos, and neither can Google. So they demonetize.
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don't you think you're succumbing to marketing a bit?
I'd say that part of the problem too is that the people in charge are willing to ignore the conclusions of good judgement in favor of graft.
Alongside focus on just osteoporosis, lack of control for calcium levels (other than blind supplementing with low dietary intake), phosphate levels.

Some people may be responding poorly to the supplement, especially at high doses and low calcium. Direct blood test for status would help.
What kind of bread? Homemade? Store-bought? Sandwich bread? Whole wheat? White? Does it matter?

Also, how do you thaw it?
How about research unencumbered by deeply held beliefs relating to the scrolls? Jewish scholars are hardly unbiased.
my friend, where are you? we might want to create startup to find partners
That’s like, your opinion, man.

I didn’t think it was the most amazing comment either, however, it was intended more to illustrate how things are rather than how they ought to be, I think some interpreted as a strong opinion in favor of the circumstances which was not intended. Based on how it scored (somewhat surprisingly) it clearly resonated with more than a few.
Of all the Rails projects I've been working on in the the last 15 years (all of them) probably only two needed rich text editing. One of them is the only Rails project I'm working on now. We're not changing the editor (ckeditor) but I could start a new project with the new default. I wouldn't mind installing it as a separate gem.
Hey, I'm Jason - the PM director for this area. I really do appreciate the pings - you can @ me at my username jlenny in issues that are important to you. It's true in general, even for features, but especially for issues a heads up helps us make sure we are prioritizing things in the right order.
I guess it depends on the definition of "rich". "Stable home life, good schools, good network, good attitude" usually attributed to somebody being in the "middle class" and is not necessarily considered "rich".
Don't hope. Don't guess. Use apps from F-Droid. There is still a risk at the app level but it is much lower. On iOS, there is no such thing so you can't do that.

At the phone level, there are still opaque binary blobs, so don't trust blindly.
This is exactly right. Copyright protects creative expression, not pure fact. Famously, phone books (remember those?) are basically not copyrightable except for the ads, because they're just lists of data. Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991).
Do you mind sharing briefly what you got out of attachment theory and schema therapy? Or why are they worth a look?
I've used rails back in the 3.2 days and after 7-8 years I still can't find the simplicity of rails in .net core and I really wish it was the case. I'll bet getting a rails 6.0 project from first scaffold to fully working site with admin interface and login system would take just one night of work without really remembering anything. With .net core, no idea how long. I saw some code generation commands for the most recent versions, so maybe there is some hope for .net core.
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There's a basic level that every human on earth deserves, especially in a bountiful country like the USA. If you break an arm, get food poisoning, or catch a virus, I think you should be able to get good treatment for free.

I don't think we should offer advanced and highly specialized treatments for free. It's just crazy that there's so much wealth here, but you hear plenty of stories of peoples' lives being seriously damaged by an accidental ambulance trip or hospital billing horror-story.
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Do you need to move away from Java?
This is what a dual license GPLv3/LGPL or some Creative-Commons license already solves. You can license the source under one of those licenses and also have a 'commercial license' that allows one to pay monthly to have the right to use your software commercially or close-source it. This allows the maintainer to be supported by their work and the company can use the software commercially. The Qt Company does this.

Licensing it under MIT or BSD essentially risks the maintainer for encouraging closed-source derivatives whereby companies are not required to contribute back or pay for any support, hence the maintainer is working for free.
In the case of China, hundreds of thousands of transactions is too many, but it is apparently routine for transfers of money outside China to be done in a large number of small transactions due to the legal per-person limit on transferring money outside. (And yes, since it's a per-person limit, not only do you need to do a large number of transactions, you need a new cooperator to put their name on each one.)