skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's a whole 'nother issue when you have "blacks-only water fountains"... And having rights means you can do horrible things cause it's your right.

The idea would be that the federal constitution would be amended when two thirds of the states agree to something, only with that larger majority would it then be ok to force all other states to honor the new will of the people.

Let's look at civil rights as a first example. The 14th amendment gives equal protection to all and served as the legal basis for the federal government to overrule those states that didn't agree, passing supporting legislation and even sending in troops where necessary.

Let's also look at national health care. This should be a state issue until enough states agree to pass an amendment, which would happen eventually. The constitution was never intended to allow transitory slim majorities in the federal government to make such drastic changes. Look at the mess created when every couple years that slim majority changes their mind and the law of the land.
The change from the last ice age to the current climate took thousands of years. It was still fast enough to eradicate a good chunk of ecosphere. The change we're causing will happen at least ten times faster.
Even some metals have to be sorted. For example, you don't want to mix some different aluminum alloys, since the presence of some alloying elements precludes some uses of the recycled metal.
All PR requests should require the comment “I’ll be back”.
He had some great observations as a young man. I studied physics decades later but the attitude was still the same.

The professor got up for the first session and said look to your right, look to your left, one of you won’t be here next semester,” he said. “I found that to be the attitude of physicists towards students: to cut down the number of students as much as possible and deal only with the ones that they wanted to. I just did not find that a very humanistic thing.”
30% makes it a common misconception? I did find this part interesting because I can relate somewhat to it. A good portion of the population isn't getting the necessary support in their upbringing is what I get from it. Although much of the self reported data seems to suggest they just cannot afford a home.

> survey data reveal that young people who identify as LGBTQ+ represent up to 40% of the approximately 550,000 unaccompanied youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in the United States. It is estimated that 12% of SanFrancisco’s population identifies as LGBTQ+; 27% of survey respondents identified as LGBTQ+. Among survey respondents identifying as LGBTQ+, 55% identified as gay, lesbian, or same-gender loving; 29% as bisexual; 13% as transgender; 3% as genderqueer/gender non-conforming; and 5% as questioning.
Compared to respondents who did not identify as LGBTQ+, respondents who identified as LGBTQ+ were more likely to report having experienced domestic violence (48% compared to 27%). Respondents who identified as LGBTQ+ also reported a higher incidence of HIV or AIDS related illness (14% compared to 4%). LGBTQ+ respondents were also more likely to report first experiencing homelessness as a youth or young adult than non-LGBTQ+ survey respondents (58% and 40%, respectively).
Are there features specific to Cerberus that you're looking for in another product?

I switched to the standard Google Find My Device and I've heard the Apple one is good too.
I guess it's that some discussions lean strongly one way, while others lean strongly the opposite way. Sometimes there is a debate.

Here, so far, nobody seems to be siding with Booking.com. Small sample size perhaps. Unlikely to be herd-mentality.
Aside: are there non-binary and/or non-large blobs? I'm thinking along the lines of ATM machine / PIN number but maybe BLOB no longer implies "binary large" without being explicit.
The study doesn’t mention the use of female only models. And from factor description, it seems like multiple sexes were involved.
Just because I have savings doesn't mean I have income.
The article is light (and confusing) on details, so it's hard to take it seriously or draw conclusions from it. For example:

"State-chartered banks like his have the regulatory and compliance framework in place and the lending licenses necessary to originate loans. Most fintechs do not and thus rely on banks for funding."

If the fintechs have a lack of cash money then they might need to rely on banks for funding. But there's no reason a lack of licences or processes would require them to rely on banks for funding.

Also, I'm not sure why the need to mention 'FDIC-insured' a couple of times. FDIC insurance has nothing to do with consumer lending (the subject of this article). FDIC insurance protects retail deposits, but these fintechs aren't generally offering current/savings accounts.

I wish the article would explain why it's difficult to become a lender in the US. It mentions LendingClub many times, but a quick online search showed me that LC has dozens of state consumer credit licences: https://www.lendingclub.com/legal/licenses

So why don't the other fintechs apply for these licences? Is it hard to be approved? Are the regulations very difficult to implement?
While all that may or may not be true, that is irrelevant to this study.
> I use it to remind myself that very few people think like me, and making things to my liking (straight and to the point) will get me nowhere.

There are many people that like straight and to the point. Most people would actually say they like it, although more are susceptible to these sales tactics than would like to admit.

Booking.com is actually one of the best experiences I have with reserving places. It's quick for me to reserve something, and in my experience works better than most alternatives. Airbnb would be a far better experience but it targets different properties.
Windows XP IIRC shipped with a soft OpenGL that'd look like a hardware version. I imagine they's not doing anything special other than not having requirements that a soft renderer can't fulfill.
This is not new information. And it's been shown to be efficacious. The problem is patient adherence. Chemo is something that so long as the patient shows up you can administer it and they can go back home. A glucose free diet could only be adhered to on an in-patient basis. Which most patient / healthcare systems cannot afford.

There have also been studies showing efficacy of a compound which down regulates Glut1 in order to cut off glycolysis in cancer cells which rely solely on it for energy production.
> What’s the ideal rate then at what temperatures should change?

Ideal for what goal?
When diving (as opposed to using a submarine), your body reaches the same pressure as the water surrounding it so there is no differntial to feel.

The effects of that pressure can change the way that our bodies interact with the gases disolved in our blood.

Nitrogen/Gas narcosis occures (with a normal air mixture) due to the higher partial pressure of those gases in your blood and cause an effect similar to inhaling nitrous oxide.

At even higher pressures, oxygen (in standard air mixtures) reach a partial pressure in your blood that becomes toxic, can cause severe damage and trigger seizures. (Which at depth will likely be fatal.)

Drivers who go deep must switch between different air mixtures as they descend and ascend through different pressure. This "tech" diving can be very dangerous and requires detailed training and planning to do safely.

I am no biologist but would imagine that animals who dive deep have developed specialized metabolisms to deal with the changes in partial pressure of gases as they dive deeper. (Edit: it looks like diving air breathers tend to have mechanisms to reduce the gas exchange between their lungs and blood so that the partial pressure of gases in their blood doesn't go up as they go down)

Decompression is a different issue and has to do with how these high partial pressures of gases (especially nitrogen) work their way out of tissues without coming out of solution and forming air bubbles.
> "...were queried on their use of supplements at registration and during treatment..."

My concern as well. Self-reported is a red flag. Not necessarily fatal but it obviously has an unpredictable affect on the data collected.
Right on. Software OpenGL 1.1 works on XP (and other Windowses) and the render engine falls back to minimal features if it detects this.
While I know that I'll never be able to sit down with the intelligence analysts who looked at this video and sensor information, I really wish I could convene some sort of group to do just that.

I'd love to see some calculations on how much energy this UFO would have needed to perform the maneuvers it did. Whether there were any observable atmospheric effects like a wake even though there was no exhaust seen. Did it exhibit observable inertia, in other words did it move like bad movie special effects, or did it move like something real?

In the comments in the NYMag original article, one person wonders if it was the result of some advanced spoofing/decoy technology. I'm not sure what could cause what the sensors observed, but the idea seems interesting and brings a cause "down to Earth" so to speak.
Just to be clear, if you were in China and made these kinds of comments about Chinese police online, more likely then not you would end up in a much worse situation, if you didn't use appropriate counter measures.
The Architect of Modern Algorithms
This looks impressive. Can you go into how you implemented the immutable world state each tick a bit more?

I'm developing a game myself, and figuring out a good method of multithreading it took a lot of work. While I am content with the results, I wouldn't say I arrived at a good solution.

It sounds like you went with a purely functional approach? Did you rebuild the entire gamestate each tick, or keep a list of changes you needed to make to the relevant data?
Like I said, I agree with you that the H-1B program is bad precisely because of its restrictive nature towards employees who want to switch jobs. My point is that there are usually no available alternatives to the program for hiring immigrants, so using the H-1B program is not prima facie evidence that a corporation is intentionally seeking out a low wage employee who is shackled to them. This is evidenced by the fact that many (not all of course) tech companies have a policy of starting the green card process on day 1 of an employee’s tenure, which speeds up the process of freeing the employees
from the work visa handcuffs.

Yes, companies like Infosys exist, but the companies that pay their engineers 300k+ also have to use the same program to recruit immigrants because that’s just the unfortunate nature of how the US immigration system works.
Not old-time, but tenured professor for 10 years. I definitely saw this happen in my time. The university has a faculty legislature that at one time was the administrative core, but it's largely a symbolic gesture at this point, kind of like the opposite of the royal family vis-a-vis parliament etc in England.

I do think this is a problem everywhere, in academics, in medicine, and probably other fields that I have less knowledge of. I think income inequality problems are really less of a problem per se (although still definitely a problem) than the power inequity problems that income inequality reflects. Some of it is rent-seeking monopoly problems, but I think there's a broader trend societally (as reflected in right-wing authoritarian trends globally) toward a lack of skepticism about power differentials, whether the inequalities we see are really justified in the magnitude we see them, and whether other power structures would be better.

I personally think with academics it's particularly problematic because the endgame (supposedly) is acquisition of knowledge where we don't really know what's going on, and I happen to believe the best environment for that is one where it's everything goes, closer to a democratic-libertarian-deregulated kind of environment.

My impressions of the time I was tenured are very close to what this guy is saying, although I think it's the tip of the iceberg and a lot of problems are being brushed over (appropriately I admit given that it's not really the right piece for it).
When I give money to a merchant, I do so because they have improved my life. Whether it’s a gallon of gas, a gallon of milk, a car, a month of cell phone service, doesn’t matter.
FWIW, our codebase is of similar size to that and we estimated it would take around a year to migrate, which is why spending a bit more time and ending up with a Go-based system on the other end was appealing.
In the main station of the city I live in there literally are two access points called 2.4 GHz survey and 5 GHz survey.
They don't have to go bankrupt. Just sunset Cerberus and launch another app w/ similar features different branding and an easy one-click 'transition' w/ different pricing/etc.
> When rents get too high, normal functional humans move to another place, or take a roommate

That's ridiculous. Roommates are something for students, not for people working a full-time job.

If an adult working full time for minimum wage cannot find any housing options, the housing market is broken and needs repair.
Just to add a bit to this thought: Recent news about RSA keys and prime factoring seems to all be written as if there is pretty much no reason left to use encryption. But as jtms alludes, these important discoveries do have an immediate impact on weak encryption, which should be understood to mean decades-old outdated technologies. As far as strong encryption goes, quantum computing is still seriously far off unless a new discovery comes around to improve the results considerably.

Compared to the human life cycle, quantum cryptography is at the "on the verge of speaking in coherent sentences, but still prone to smearing feces on the wall" age and stage. You can sense that they'll grow up to be quite smart, but there's a lot of learning to go before you can hope for a Junior Einstein.
> 3. Max out 401k and IRA every year using automatic deductions from your paycheck/bank account.

> Pros: saving/investing on autopilot; lower taxable income

Does it ever make sense to do Roth 401k instead of traditional 401k?
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I like the idea (not of git, but a personal archive), especially if search is integrated.

However what'd make it really amazing for me would be the ability to share those archived versions with everyone around the world, so we wouldn't have to duplicate our efforts or would have a higher chance of having that specific version of one special page saved.

For now the best way to contribute to this seems to be centralization: Donate to archive.org.
Not questioning you. But do you have a link to the cancer cell and glucose connection?
>I managed to not get fired because through this whole thing I was talking shit about it.

I know it’s unprofessional to comment on other developers work negatively, but I do see it often in the work place and it does serve to distance an individual from the group that is failing.

It’s sad but true, and this is an example, employers say they want professionalism but they incentivize against it.
#1 assuming I am a he, you're already off to a terrible start. #2 seemingly believing that I am the only person who uses this service #3 the point is that it's not a useless service, and real people use and need it. turn on your brain.
China having worse systematic problems than the US inn this area doesn't change the fact that the US problems are systematic and (from the perspective of value systems around individual rights commonly espoused in America) serious.
It seems like the answer then is not to have more private banks but to have postal banking and making it easier for people to have access to bank accounts. They could completely get rid of paper banking. If you pay all your bills electronically via debit cards, the bank and the person/company you are making payments to would know you have the money and reduce the risk of overdrafts.

Right now, the second you use your debit card. It shows up on your account.
I read the Klong book [0] and for me it "clicked" in a way that J/K never had. The author did a really nice job paring down the language and cleaning up some of the ambiguities in a way that made it approachable. Also, after reading it I've found APL and J more approachable, which is encouraging.

If you'll forgive the style, I took a swing at implementing k-means clustering in Klong a few months ago [1]. While I did find a few slow-downs with a modestly sized data set (Fisher's iris data), I think Klong is built on a Forth-like VM using the core of a scheme implementation (all of which the author wrote!). It wasn't slow enough to really bother me, as I was more interested in learning about array languages and algorithms.

I'm a fan of Klong -- it's just fun.

[0]: http://www.t3x.org/klong/book.html

[1]: https://idle.nprescott.com/2019/k-means-clustering-in-klong....
> Also a lot of architecture is done using power point. Drawing a line in PP is easy, connecting the services in reality is often times anything else than trivial

From a lot of the "startup stories" I read on HN, I rather gather that often there simply isn't an architectural vision, PowerPoint or otherwise.
So much flack could of been avoided with a more sincere explanation and apology. Tell you customers you meant well but made mistakes. Ongoing costs are higher than anticipated and the business model is failing. Apologize again. Then give a grace period so people are not caught off guard with short notice. Furthermore give existing customers some added value not make them pay the same as new customers. Give them expedited customer support or a premium feature for free. Something. Lastly thank the customers for their time and state you understand if they choose another provider. At least then I would feel the people running the business are partly human hopefully doing their best.
The Warburg hypothesis should be a good jumping off point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_hypothesis
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>A glucose free diet could only be adhered to on an in-patient basis.

That's not true, the Keto diet is a big fad and it only works if your diet is basically glucose free.
Disagree. Theory is always interested in building better, simpler protocols, asking questions about lower bounds and possibility. See almost all of fundamental crypto research.
These are multi-million dollar machines built on billions in R&D for explicitly this purpose, with highly trained operators that spend thousands of hours in a simulator / live flight: Let them do their job.
> Because you are specifically supporting a narrative that declines to grant an arbitrary status to a woman

I'm supporting a narrative that declines to grant an arbitrary status to a PERSON based on a tech certification.

It is NOT sexist to say that CompTIA+ is insufficient evidence to be called an engineer. Not even CompTIA+ would say that. And I'm not pushing a narrative - you are pushing the narrative that if someone starts questioning a position, they must be sexist.

I don't think I'm changing my message - it's based on replying to the conversation. I'm not even saying she's not an engineer, just that people need to stop conflating tech certs with engineering. In many of these comments I'm still referring to her as an engineer, so now I'm not a sexist right? Good. Got it.

> technical organization I've ever encountered has to go and get every action stamped and filed by their manager to avoid being fired.

Yep, no engineer can or will get every action stamped and approved by management. They are expected to work independently. However, if you ABUSE that independence to bite the hand of your employer, you have absolutely no expectation of top cover. So if you are planning to do something dangerous like this, you better make sure you have it in writing that it was authorized. Because the burden of proof is now on you to show it was. Furthermore, if you go into a legal setting with your argument that engineers always act autonomously, you just sound like a bunch of cowboys to the bureaucrats that get to decide this.

If and when this goes to court, I agree we will see. But it won't. Of course that will be months and years from now either way.

Until then, if the goal was to inform her co-workers that it was safe to discuss union organizing without fear of reprisal, how's she doing at that?
It kind of still is a major player in the _film photography_ scene at least. Kodak Alaris[1][2] still produces film and development chemicals + other photography related gear and services. It just isn't that kind of big mammoth it was before the bankruptcy.

In addition of being still alive in one form or another, their film business is getting better as people end up more and more getting into film photography. They actually announced that they cannot meet the current demand and are raising film prices and investing into new capacity[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Alaris
[2] https://www.kodakalaris.com/
[3] https://kamerastore.com/breaking-news-kodak-to-raise-prices-...
The EU and the US have not made decent progress if you measure it by likelihood of staying under 2° of warming. Both have goals that are incompatible with the Paris agreement, and they're not even meeting those weak ambitions.
Are the arrows presented in the paper, something you think I should really familiarize myself with and use?

I did a deep dive into lambda calculus over the past year and I noticed similar limitations you mention. So this seems interesting.

I have seen arrows before but they just seem like a re-hash of the other lambda-like calculi. But maybe this paper's version of arrows is different?
Is this some kind of satire modeled after climate deniers?

I mean that's even less scientific than what climate deniers say.

Is this what the world has come to? You have two camps: climate deniers, and climate alarmists, neither party caring in the slightest about science?
I’ve been using tiller for a year now and it’s so nice
Yes 100%. Its not so much as how should we architect/build as we don't even know what problems we're solving and what is important before embarking on large projects/refactors/rewrites. I don't think unique to any org but many rewrites are done based on tech trends/popularity rather than actually solving a problem.

Even if the python rewrite didn't immediately fail what would success look like? What does failure look like? How to measure?
Dieting is notoriously difficult to follow 100%. And in this case that's important. In-patient, the intake is exactly what the dietician (and indirectly the doctor) prescribes. A better outcome could be expected.
Good that you have mentioned, I have almost forgot. I will never ever pay a dime for the software, that is running on a 3rd party servers. At the moment I havent found any software that I would need (or doesnt have an self hosted alternative) and needs 3 party server interaction.

There are multiple reasons for that but primary two, that are history proven are:

- I dont trust you

- I REALLY, REALLY DONT trust you

Credentials storage? Any data storage? Yeah right, I have my own server and dont have time to reverse and check your code each update (but I did on first use).

Immediately when you dont support self hosting of my data, you have lost a potential customer, regardless how "good" your application is (typically in this case, it is far from good, developer lacks the knowlidge of how to do it without some major lasigna code on server side or is predatory).

All of application that I have bought are running on complete lockdown from any server (including firebase and other unneeded services) that is not mine. And countless times it was proven as a very good practice.
Well, not being troll-y, that would, by definition compromise their honesty. That is, if they are that biased by that influence then they should not be considered honest.

Actions speak louder than words, and all that stuff.