skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still believe that for a vast majority of humans, the automobile is their private abode, that takes them to places. We are explorers by heart and ever since the invention of the wheel, we have coveted vehicles. They are our private sanctuaries that propel us from one location to another. No other mode of transport, be it a bus, train or god forbid a plane, provides this level of comfort.

I think this is a cultural artefact of a car-centric society.

Cars are not really viewed in this way in my culture (Denmark). They're just another mode of transportation, nothing special about them compared to bicycles, busses, trains, etc. People go with what is most convenient. If you need to get some office work done remotely, then being a passenger in a train saves more time than driving a car. If you want exercise built in to your commute, bicycles are better. In an urban setting, cars are in fact seen as a hassle. They're mostly loved by people in rural areas.

I don't deny that cars have their place, but the kind of exploration potential that a car offers (relatively infrequent, longer distances) can easily be served by rented cars. There is no reason to own a car just to go on infrequent car trips.
I generally agree with all of your points.

> Scientific models are good when they are predictive, and powerful when they are simple. [...] every day scientific models are tested, refined, expanded, and simplified [...]

It seems to me that dark matter goes directly against this. The current model of gravity can't explain certain observations, so we come up with a form of matter and energy that we can't observe in any way, and doesn't interact with anything, except with precisely the one thing we need for our observations to match the theory. A theory that hasn't even been reconciled with quantum mechanics yet!

Smells super fishy to me. But as I say, my knowledge of physics and astrophysics is super basic, and I wouldn't call myself "someone who studies physics" in any meaningful way. I understand your feeling that it's unreasonable for me to criticise the status quo because dark energy looks wrong, as I have no idea about the underlying math.
Neat, didnt know about CUE, this looks very interesting. Im working on my own wrapper framework (that can also do IaC, but not exclusively), and it supports optional input type specification and validation, to a point. Wish i had known about CUE when I started...

Ended up with a few of the features you mentioned, but not as nicely designed than CUE seems to be, esp. the data injection... Maybe another rewrite is in order... sigh
"Hindsight is 20/20."

Said someone better than me.
There’s definitely a very fine distinction between, “here are a bunch of observations that make it seem as if there is a bunch of weird matter that we can only detect by measuring its gravitational effects” and “there is literally a bunch of weird matter that we can only detect by measuring its gravitational effects”. One being a hypothesis to explain the other.
The specific point is that we are using linear averages (over large collections of objects, such as galaxies) to model a non-linear effects (General Relativity interactions between individual objects).

It may be accurate to use those averages, or it may not be if for example the chaotic nature of N-body problems causes reality to diverge significantly from the simpler model; we don't know how large the error actually is and currently don't have a way to measure it.
Can you please comment?
I immigrated to the Netherlands. I lived in Denver, Cleveland, new haven, NYC and San Diego. I love them all.

That said, the Netherlands truly does many things better than America. It is such a great place to raise kids. America will not be great if it doesn't steal good ideas where they exist.
Honestly, I'm in agreement with you.

You're right, and the Google is wrong.
And yet we have regulations about what you are allowed to do on public roads, such as which direction you travel, how fast you go, restrictions on open wheels versus having covers, sound pressure levels at various distances, visibility at night, appropriate indicators to allow other road users to be advised what you are planning to do, controls on emissions from vehicles, regulations about how close you can get to the car in front while moving, licenses allowing for drivers to be disqualified from driving, etc.

What similar controls do we have for social media? An institutionalised system for silencing people which is euphemistically called “suspending users reported for harassment” which is just a formalised lynch mob.
I was very active in the Ingress community around that time and while I appreciate their efforts, I don't think they were very successful in this regard. Using IITC (3rd party Ingress planning suite) we could track people's paths pretty well, to the point where you could easily see how others ran their routes and could intercept them if you wanted to say hi, or something more nefarious. I know at least one woman in the community changed their account because of a stalking problem.

I didn't totally mind the lack of location privacy since the game made it pretty clear you could run into people if you really wanted, but I wouldn't give them flying marks on the privacy issue. For Pokemon Go I'm sure they were far more careful, but Ingress really felt like the Wild West.
Richard Wrangham wrote a book on this "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human"
Yes, interesting way to look at it. Calling it dark matter/energy also implies the issue is with the theory - we found something that the theory (or equations, as per the article) forgot to accurately account for.

It kind of implicitly throws out the notion that there could be an issue with the measurement process/tools.

Sometimes this type of unconscious framing directs all our minds down the same path making us miss an obvious detour to an insight.
Interesting, the term dark is also problematic, first used when little is known about something. Later common usage shifts to something backwards or even non-reflective. See “dark ages” for another example.
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Packt Podcast finds it's new home at Player FM
Ask HN: Does job advertising for new grad is age discrimination?
Job ad like this "New Grad Machine Learning Engineer (PhD)(https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1499352217/)" blatantly discriminate by age. Is this legal?
That booklet is fascinating reading. It's a little bit wild to see these on opposite sides of the same sheet of paper:

> The true American believes in Liberty, Equality, Justice, Humanity. [...] The true American believes that "All men are created free and equal." [...] The true American believes in his own ability, but holds that the other fellow is as good as he and should have the same chance to life and happiness. He believes in equality of opportunity.

> Persons not belonging to the White or Black Race, Anarchists, Polygamists, Criminals, Insane, cannot become Citizens; they will not get First Papers.
Buying three year old kids tablets for Christmas is already a fuckup imo. They're not even able to have logical thoughts, don't feed them digital heroin already!
A literacy test in early 20th century would already exclude a lot of poor people by definition. not sure why you make it sound like it was a formality.
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Aaaaaand, the wait is over :)
So if a Facebook profile or article inside an app has a donation link it should get de-listed? All of Facebook fund raising should get burnt as well?!!
Doesn't it have to do something with the "average" primate body plan?
I really like highlighting the running aspect, since we truly seem to be record holders in endurance running, which was largely enabled by sweating. And since the primate body plan has upper limbs with significantly more freedom of motion compared to "running on 4" animals like deer, primates have to actively use many muscles to be able to put its weight on them (I am only familiar with the human skeleton in detail, but I assume primates have a similarly free scapula, while horses' are much more restricted, their first legs connect nearly vertically into it, making standing basically energetically free)

So, isn't bipedalism simply the energetically better way of locomotion for the primate body plan (look at other primates, they semi-walk on their lower limbs, only balancing with their hands - but they are not great at running and live mostly on trees so climbing is more important there)?
Mammals swim other news in 10, we are terrible at it, babies have a pretty good buoyancy due to their mass to size ratio and fat percentage they however aren’t good swimmers what so ever and they don’t swim under water without training you can teach infants to swim but it’s not like they do freestyle out of the womb.

Shellfish have pretty much no omega 3 in them, cold water fish do which are hardly easy to catch in shallow waters.

Nuts and seed however are much richer in Omega 3 than most fish.

Again the aquatic ape theory does not stand up to any level of scrutiny pretty much any claim it makes can be disproven or attributed to other much likely factors it is pseudoscience in its purest form.

The truth is that AAH doesn't match the fossil record (or the fact that apes have been observed swimming even in the wild since it was proposed, the fact that in captivity apes develop similar or higher subcutaneous fat deposits to modern humans, and the average ape still has a higher body fat percentage than a human athlete).

Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) circa 3.5Ma was bipedal, Australopithecus anamensis 4.2 Ma was bipedal as well albeit with primitive features for the upper body, Ardipithecus ramidus which is about 4.5 Ma had both habitual tree and bipedal adaptations (e.g. could stand upright and likely walk pretty well but had opposable big toes for grabbing at branches).

The earliest clear signs of modern bipedalism (as in a walking gait similar to that of modern humans) is around 3.7 Ma and it's not a skeleton but rather the Laetoli Footprints in Tanzania.

For the most part we had direct and "in-direct" ancestors for about 5 million years with varying degree of bipedalism, we likely haven't been eating seafood at for more than 200-300,000 based on remains found at various sites.

Lastly Shellfish which would be the easiest food source for the shallow water Aquatic Ape is one of the most common food allergies with 3-4% of the population suffering from it, and it causes Anaphylaxis in almost every case unlike other allergies which vary in severity. If we count in seafood allergy in general which includes finned fish then about 2.5% of the adult population suffers from it.

It's quite unlikely that a common food source that impacted our evolutionary path so greatly would have a fairly deadly allergy tied to it.

On the other hand humans are not allergic to mammalian meat (unless they are bitten by a few species of a tick and develop and Alpha-gal allergy) at all, and only in extremely rare cases are allergic to poultry.
American cities are strange because you usually have the spiky, tall central districts and the extremely low density suburbs, but nothing in the middle.

Queens is 2.3M people, but they're mostly in low-rise, <5 story apartments and houses of various sizes. Fresh Meadows, NY is hardly suffocating levels of density, and yet this kind of neighborhood is simply not available in most metropolitan areas. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7337074,-73.7813407,3a,75y,3...
IBM circa 1936: Don’t discuss politics at work, just keep building that database we are being paid to build.
In many places across the world, there is barely any government to act on these things. A functioning government is limited to a handful of countries
>If ICE has violated the law, he argues, there are legal processes to deal with that.

Well, problem solved then. It's a good thing that the law is always right, and that it is regularly applied in full force to punish law enforcement agencies guilty of wrongdoings.
If only there were some sort of regulatory body commissioned to investigate the exchange of securities that could take things farther than a magazine best known for its Hollywood elite photo spreads!
The problem wasn't so much about "taking stuff down that wasn't illegal because somebody screamed." More problematic wa sthe fact that, in the case of Facebook, their algorithms promoted content that was more "engaging" (read: controversial), so basically the whole system turned out to be optimized for fake news.
Not exactly. Independent experiments that check completely different things find the same total distributions of masss and energy. So the mass-like and energy-like deviations from the observed mass and energy are always pretty much consistent.
I really believe that no one ever said it
The new war on naturalized citizens
I agree. Naming parts of your code is important.
An alternative to named local vals is to either use named functions instead of lambdas: people.filter(olderThan50) or (I use Kotlin) use named extension functions: people.countOlderThan50()
Seattle Designed Neighborhood Plans to Inhibit Inclusivity
all process is manually done
I believe yours is the standard response that the author of the article was referring to, and taking issue with.
I think you're confusing game design with learning curve.

Computer games have evolved towards minimal learning curve, because it sells more games. Back when computers were mostly used by nerds, those people weren't bothered by having to read long manuals. The average computer user today IS bothered.

This is in stark contrast with board games. Board gamers must fully know rules to know how to play. When you play a board game, you have a higher initial learning curve, but once you do know, you immediately perform actions you want to make. In a typical modern computer game, you'd have to go through a sequence of menus.

BTW this is the definition of a game I subscribe to. A game is a set of rules. By this definition, most Call of Duty games are the same game.
Ebola is not transmitted as easily as you seem to believe. It is much less contagious than many other disease, but it is a lot more deadly once contracted.
This has actually been the law in i.e. Germany and I think many other countries as well. As long as the platform doesn't interfere with the content (§ 8 Abs. 1 TMG) they are directly accountable for the content (Which doesn't mean that they don't have to take it down in case of an infringement for example). But as soon as they moderate said content they are legally liable. And this is exactly what social media platforms have done and that is one reason why they are responsible for their content now.
This is of course only one part of the truth, because at the same time there has been a shift in perception of these platforms and other laws (i.e. Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz) have been specifically aimed at social media platforms to hold them accountable.
> so we come up with a form of matter and energy

The current top comment by superqd[0] probably deals with this best. Maybe there is a literal dark energy and dark matter, but the thing that is manifested is a 'correction' term in the way we use these equations, and it so happens that using those correction terms makes these equations more accurate.

I'd almost go so far as to say the uncorrected equations are a model that is broken at the edges, and dark energy and dark matter are simply a quantification of how broken they are (with the added benefit that adding them to the equations makes the model better).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21279200
"why does the word semi-annual exist"

Your parent already provided the counterpoint, Biennially.

Additionally I'm not convinced by your bicycle => 2 => bi annual logic.

You could equally argue it leads to 2 times a year, because it doesn't happen a half every year just like a bike doesn't have half a wheel.
My humble iphone6 ain’t got the “features” required for this app
> The problem with at least Facebook and Twitter (and possibly Google) in this analysis is that their attention-grabbing model requires them to analyse and interfere with the data which is coming through their systems.

Not to mention a completely different topic - ads for scams. When I create a new ad on FB, they keep it in review for at least a couple of hours. But every day I see dozens of ads that are obviously dishonest. Some financial scams, ads for some fishy schemes, some of them badly translated.

When you are a publisher and accept an ad, obviously it's very tempting to claim all responsibility is with the advertiser (it is not, although details vary between jurisdictions). But even if you didn't have any responsibility legally, it still feels terribly wrong from the ethical point of view to get rich by helping scammers cheat some poor chaps of their money.
>No roadmap to be seen. No high-level goal. No security policy in place. No offboarding process. No onboarding policy. No central auth server. A few different job schedulers. Few different container orchestration solutions. etc

Have you asked about these things? Maybe they are there, just not visible to you. A 500-employee company is pretty big already.
Nowhere near the limit, and hasn't been for a while:

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h
Interesting approach. In general, I always prefer 'Infrastructure as files' as the article calls it. I think if that's not possible in any specific scenario then we just didn't create the right abstractions yet. In the devops space I think we're still a far way off, so tools like the one mentioned in the article can help us get there. But I would not think they should be the ' user interface', so to say. That should be a data structure of some sort, ideally as small as possible, typed and validatable.
I certainly applaud business leaders who are willing to make commitments like this - though is it just me, or is it kind of sad that in the current business environment, a 1% pledge is considered ambitious?
I'm in my early 20s now :) Do you have any concrete tips/things you wished you did differently?
Legitimate question for all US citizens: At what point do we stop the grifters from gaming the system?
The expanding balloon analogy is often used with the wrong audience and badly misleading there: the surface of the balloon is a 2d analogy for the universe and it's expansion, rather than the interior of the balloon being a 3d analogy.
I don't mean to be glib but this is a surprise to who exactly? I only know Niantic from Pokemon Go (which requires your GPS to be enabled, presumably) and they're owned by a company whose entire business model is data collection for targeted advertising. I'm not sure this is a particularly surprising outcome for a 'free' game if I'm totally honest.
Yeah but it's mostly about immunizations. You can still immigrate if you're disabled but have a caretaker.
Nearly all browsers have a native date/time control, true. Also true - many browsers do it quite badly. So eventually I always end up using the JS solution...

e.g. There's no way (by design!) to override in CSS the browsers' date format detection - and the method differs by browser/OS combination. Some customers can't manage to configure it, so end up with the american format when they want the european format. Also more than a few native browser date controls are very underfeatured (e.g. current Edge).
I've not seen much of Sydney besides the inner city for travel got worj, the Northern beaches are beautiful but not for many years.

I'll be sure to check it out.
This is a dumb comment.
"Life will find a way"
There is no choice to stay inutero.
Given the choice would you suggest a person from somewhere such as Venezuela keep their personal savings in Bitcoin or Venezuelan bolívars?
is it me or did the entire article repeat three points all the way through.
> How do you think America is malfunctioning compared to other countries?

Apparently many people are upset with their housing cost and commute situation, which I understand triggered the original post on making more land. Having lived in the Bay Area for a while, the housing/commute/living cost situation there definitely seems dysfunctional.

> US has a lot of ‘desert’ in the middle? Pray do tell..what is the name of said desert in the middle of America?

Most of the west is arid, as you can see on the map here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_States#/...
Here's a list of the deserts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_deserts

In the context of this conversation, "desert" was meant as a placeholder for "sparsely populated" though. Here's a map of population density in the US:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=49471c6646...

As you can tell, the arid/desertified areas from the first map match to low population density in the last one, as you'd expect.

> I have never seen anyone trip over to try and immigrate to Netherlands.

I don't think that's a useful argument. Migration is a complex, many factor issue, with affordable housing presumably being a minor point amongst many. Your personal impression might also be colored by the people you happen to know.

Data suggest the EU has a net immigration rate of ~5 per mil, with the US at ~15 per mil. Given higher population in the EU, in absolute numbers that's 2.5 million vs 5 million immigrants over the last 5 years. So apparently a lot of people do try and immigrate to Europe. But again, it doesn't seem like a useful argument.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.NETM
When making a double entry accounting database, the users should only have INSERT and SELECT privileges to the table, so in order to correct a mistake you make another insert.
There is really no scaling problem as the data is immutable. And at the end of the year you can achieve the ledger - so you don't have to map over it to check the account status - just put the sum of the last year as the first insert. A database service would still be useful though, in order to make sure you do not edit the values.
There is, actually, a definition of "open source": https://opensource.org/osd, which says nothing about how bug reports should be handled.

IANAL and I frankly am not interested enough to test WebKit's compliance with the OSD but I'm pretty sure handling bug reports privately is not a prerequisite.

There was a time when "free software" was about who can do what with a given code base and "open source" was merely a development methodology but the lines have been blurred. Back then, WebKit could have been considered "free software" (code available, adequate licensing), maybe, but probably not "open source" (transparency, development in the open).
Awesome, thanks :-)
If the side project could bring in money maybe it’s too harsh to regret it. It could have meant spending less time in a job and more time with the kids.
Helicopters, hovercrafts and yachts also have this appeal. Nobody's saying cars will go away, just that the entirety of human infrastructure might not be constructed around them.
> about an initiative for women devolving into flamebait and arguments about reverse sexism, I think one cannot say it's non-political. As most things are political.

More specifically, an initiate that explicitly excluded non-females elicited comments that said this program was sexist and exclusionary.