skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ethos ... could use its power to sell the browsing data of users of .orgs

Is this possible? Can all top-level domain name owners view all browsing data on their domain?
This contest was probably BS anyway. Google wanted to solve an analogous problem, not pet adoption. As such, both parties cheated.
Love the comment.

As long as one powerful entity is weaker we are all stronger. In reality no matter who wins we all lose in different ways. A weak Saudi makes Iran stronger. A weak Bezo means lobbying and laws that will affect us in someway.
If we fly home for a few weeks for the holidays we'll often bring our dog with us. We pay $125 to bring them in the cabin and they must remain in a carrier under a seat for the duration of the flight. Cheaper than paying a kennel/dog sitter and just easier for everyone all together. No problems at all so far after years of doing this.

The last time I was checking in at special services (due to the dog), the employee told me she registered her dog as an emotional support animal to bypass the fee. This was the airline employee giving this advice. At that point it was clear this was just a big joke. From what I understand now you need to have a doctor's note from a mental health professional and a bunch of other paperwork in order to bring your emotional support dog without a fee/carrier. I figured that would stop a lot of tom foolery, I guess not.
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Except, well...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-where-teens-rule-and-pa...
I'm not going to defend Pleskov but organizers shouldn't have put out the competition with money attached that can simply be solved by scraping data. Good ML competition in fact should even invite cheats because the end goal is not ML for the sake of ML but rather cracking the prediction problem by whatever shortest path possible.
A member of my family is a medical professional and they told me that they frequently see people who either come in because they want a work excuse (that they don't really need) or want their animal classified as an emotional support animal. I think the most absurd one I heard was they wanted their chicken classified as an emotional support animal. It's definitely time to draw a line.

EDIT: They told me that 99% of the time they say no to the latter request and will only give a work excuse if that person is genuinely sick. They also told me that they work with plenty of providers who just don't care and hand out the work excuses and emotional support certifications upon request.
With severe enough issues, it's not necessarily a matter of confusing skepticism with dismissal, it's that either one is extremely anxiety inducing on top of the main issue. I've known people with serious anxiety disorders, and for them, one of the worst parts about going out in public was not dealing with their anxiety, but dealing with how others would react to their anxiety. The last thing they wanted or needed at the time when their issues were flaring up was an interrogation from some stranger, especially if that stranger was in a position to deny or delay them access to the help they needed.

ESA abuse definitely makes it harder for people with real issues and real ESAs. And while I understand the issues it causes when people abuse the system, like most "public outcries" over abuses, I worry that we're going to overcorrect on this one.
Out of curiosity is there a way to know the general split between how much Discord is used on a phone relative to a computer?
That is not even the only fake birdfeeder I've seen on Amazon! I'm in a couple bird nerd fandom subreddits and people discuss counterfit birdfeeders and anti-squirrel feeders on the subs weirdly frequently. Basically Chinese firms reverse engineer the designs, swap out for bottom barrel components and profit off the price arbitrage.

At least when you go to the faux-product markets in real life on the streets of NYC and SF you know you're getting a "Kate Slade" bag not a Kate Spade bag etc. But on Amazon you're just fish in the barrel and not even getting a good deal for buying the sketchy or off-label item.

It's a bummer and I wish Amazon would deal with it.
Yeah...OP's comment doesn't make sense to me either. And frankly, MBS is far more powerful than Bezos is. It's a battle between a billionaire living amongst other billionaires in a republic, and a multi-trillionaire who's an absolute monarch leading a great power.
I'm not really sure how to explain this any better, but let's try:

Our cast of characters: Service A, Person 1, and Person 2.

Person 1 makes an API request to Service A. It's done over HTTPS, and Person 1 trusts that the response received is genuine, because it came over HTTPS, and certs were verified and so forth.

Person 1 sends the text of the API response to Person 2. Let's say Person 2 is a journalist, and Person 1 is a potential source. Person 2 doesn't know Person 1, and so logically doesn't blindly trust them. But Person 2 wants to report on some factual thing about the API response. How can Person 2 be sure that Person 1 hasn't modified the API response before Person 2 receives it?

If the API response is signed somehow, Person 2 could go retrieve Service A's public key (directly from Service A) and independently validate that the API response was actually received from Service A, and that it hasn't been tampered with.

I'm not sure I agree with the original author that this is a critical problem that needs to be solved, but that's the gist of it.
FWIW, JavaScript fixed its scope problems with modules, which default to strict mode.
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I was in San Francisco last week, and the car rental agency "upgraded" me from the compact I had requested to a full size SUV.

Fortunately we weren't staying in the city, but that thing was definitely no fun headed up Hwy 1...

I regularly drive ambulances and fire trucks, so I'm used to "aggressively" driving large vehicles, but that was a whole new level of stressful. California either needs wider roads, or to mandate narrower cars (it seems to have worked well enough for emissions...)
Want to bring it down to the biggest single issue? This is it: a tremendous fraction of the biological functioning of the human body is dependent on emergent complexity. This makes it very difficult to understand precisely how and why our systems work, and orders of magnitude more difficult still to figure out how exactly to make them work differently. When you're talking about "what multi-trillion cell bodies do", it's an enormous and chaotic possibility space where "make cells age in reverse so they don't die" could require vastly different initial conditions than "make cells grow".
Yeah, that new vantage is actually not that great looking, is it. I didn't look too closely, just grabbed a random shot off image search. The previous iteration of that car looked so good.
panama papers was a joke. while there was some meat in there that nobody pursued — not even the laughable conglomerate of teethless establishment journalism — its sole purpose was to focus the electorate on the most populist election topic: tax evasion. so, the boundary pendle-swings within the bounds of political correctness.
Use it with a team of about 10, for almost a year now. Interface with customers via email, SMS and chat. It is universally liked in our group. The internal discussion on different communication channels is wonderful. The API is well documented and quite permissive as to what you can do. Keyboard shortcuts galore. No direct IMAP connection now, but if you have GApps it works well. UI seems snappy, and I've seen no issue leaving the tab open for weeks straight.

I have been the most impressed with their response to feature suggestions. I raised a few points for improvment using the general help chat in the interface and to my surprise saw my suggestions released as a feature a few weeks later. Granted, they were minor interface items, but the fact someone actually took the time to consider it and slot it in for dev time means something to me, being on the other side of that usually.
True, not HELOCs. I was thinking of Medicaid spend downs there.

It's been a few years since I've looked at it, but if you needed nursing home care, the typical advice was to spend down your assets in a hurry to qualify for medicaid. And in some circumstances, medicaid could put a lien on your home for post-death repayment of services.
I think I overstated the gap in GPU support. I was under the impression that the amdgpu driver was still not in the default kernel (which in OpenBSD implies not really being supported), but it looks like they added it for 6.6. It's reportedly from Linux 4.19, which is reasonably recent. This should support the RX 500 series, which is the sort of thing that one might actually pick up at Best Buy today.
Change that first sentence to may kill around 30,000. The CDC knowingly cooks the books and lumps in Pneumonia and other illnesses with their numbers on possible deaths from the Flu. From their web site:

Why doesn’t CDC base its seasonal flu mortality estimates only on death certificates that specifically list influenza?

Seasonal influenza may lead to death from other causes, such as pneumonia, congestive heart failure, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
In all of those cases the inventions sounded crazy And no one had really tried it before. A lot of smart people have been working on plasma physics with the goal of controlled fusion for 70 years. HTS research has been ongoing for nearly as long. Suddenly one guy who speaks like a crackpot has discovered things no one else has thought of? Occam’s Razor.
have you tried (ana)conda?
You might ask who can touch the man with $100 billion? Turns out its the man with $1 trillion.

So that the amount of wealth one needs where you can truly be above justice and law under all and any circumstances turns out to be $1 trillion. With that wealth, one can purchase all of the available human labor in the entirety of a big city like Los Angeles for his sole purpose perpetually or you can maintain a human army that is twice as big as the US army! This is the magic level of wealth where you are not obeying the law but rather creating ones. You, in essence, become the law at that level of wealth.
You can't ignore that the problem of being mauled by a dog relies on the dog's capacity to do so.

I am not concerned with the terribleness of some Pomeranian owner, because a Pomeranian can do me no real damage.

In general, I am not concerned with people bending the rules for their non-shedding lap dog. What does concern me are dogs that can A. shed or B. easily kill a human being in a confined space.

Dogs are not humans, so we do not need to ensure equal treatment by pet-related policies.
You could teach some motivated fraction of children orders of magnitude more academic information but the goal of primary education is equally if not more to socialize them into being what the society demands of its citizens. Seeing foreign elementary schools hammered this home for me, what I’d forgotten or assimilated so much I didn’t even notice it- that teachers are constantly reinforcing their normative values about whats good and bad behavior. Because this varies so much by culture its wild to see for example a Japanese elementary school.
Actually from all technologies energy production has been the best predictor of number of people living on Earth, so I believe many people would die if those cars weren't distributed to save energy.
Good. It cheapens those with real service dogs and real needs. Taking advantage of the system with improperly trained “emotional therapy” animals who misbehave makes it harder for legit service dogs to have credibility in the real world. I have a friend with a legit service animal need who always gets crap from the public or employees at restaurants/businesses. My friend reminds employees of businesses about discrimination and then politely lets them know vaguely what the dog is for. But this is all because people are abusing the system with emotional ponies, therapy snakes, etc..

I took an international flight a few months ago and overheard the flight attendant talking to a passenger and mocking how lenient our service dog rules are.
"Encrypted binary" is something that you'd say if you wanted to impress the mainstream media who can't tell a cipher from a hole in the ground. It can't run if it's fully encrypted. It'd have to decrypt itself somehow. If it can do it, it can be done outside the device, too.
You’d be surprised
"[The U.S. Transportation Department] also wants comment on whether it should allow miniature horses to serve as service animals."

Putting aside my instinct that this proposal is just too ridiculous to contemplate, has anyone considered the safety implications of a 70-180 kg strong-legged hoofed animal flying around the cabin in turbulence? Or running around after a crash?
Lofty goals but I don’t see how free and private expression will be humane and free from harassment. People believe different things and whether we consider that humane and harassing is totally subjective. Let’s tale HN as an example: someone promoting the MIT license to the detriment of the GPL is a reason to fight in this space. What about moral and political issues on which we disagree?

I like the spirit but it just doesn’t seem realistic. (Though if it threatens Facebook and Twitter I’m in favor of it.)
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a margin call is the same as a foreclosure. You prevent margin calls if you put in your own money (to boost the margin). A broker margin calls you because they no longer accept the raised risk, but it's the same concept.
The purpose was eugenics, on animals this time around.
One easy way to find out is to compare proneness to pedestrian collision—fatal and non-fatal—and see if the difference is nearly as great as when comparing only fatal accidents.

But I really don’t see why you’d even guess otherwise. Much larger and taller front compared to a smaller car means it’ll basically hit your abdomen instead of your legs. Higher weight means tha it’ll hit you with greater energy, and won’t brake as easily. In my mind, of course pedestrian accidents involving SUVs are more often fatal, so I wonder what goes on in yours when you say that you think they aren’t.
When the Fed prints money to give it to bankers (or whoever gets it), the recipient isn't constrained to spending it in the US. They'd invest the money where they expect to get the best returns.
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense”

Tom Clancy
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I like all the replies you get denying the obvious truth. Yes, every modern JS framework has autoreload. Use React, Vue, whatever, and the page will have reloaded between when you save your file and look at the tab. It’s not a secret, PHP heads! Your language is not as good for web development. JS sucked in 2000 but now it’s a way better language than almost anything.
> "Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats."

Isn't anyone passionate about center seats?
There's usually a limit of 20lb including the carrying case, which rules out most dogs from flying in the cabin unless they are registered as an ESA. See Mr Bentley for a good example.
Unfortunately this is a crummy situation for those who really need, say, emotional support animals, but sadly this is a situation where the bad apples ruined it for everyone. Two days ago I watched a “service animal” pee in the corner at Schiphol, and on a Delta flight I once put my bag under the seat in front of me, only to discover that I put it in a puddle of urine from yet another “service animal”. At this point it mostly feels out of control.
My boss who is a mother of three once told me they compared brain scans of women vs men when hearing a baby cry. She mentioned that the women had a certain part of their brain activated (I think the concern part of the brain) vs the men who didn’t have anything really activated. So yeah, there is some instinct hardwired into brains of different sexes.
you forget the capital costs (aka, opportunity cost) in your home.

If you paid cash for a house, you're losing the risk free rate of a treasury bond (or the rental rate). That's a cost most people don't count, but only because they dont know how to do financial valuations properly.
Remote work will let us reorganize our cities
I'm inclined to disagree.
They scraped data from the website of the org that wanted the results and funded the competition. That data was supposed to be unseen for the competitors and used to grade the models. This cheat was to use that scraped data in its training set and, beyond that, hard code some predictions.

It's looking up the answers in the grading sheet while taking an exam.
I believe they went through a review and passed. I'm not questioning that the process was followed, I'm questioning our standards that are applied in process.
Planetary only downloads content from your friends and their friends - it’s impossible for people to spam you

How does the look / work in practice?
ew Snopes, that site's a propaganda rag
> Making it appreciate is very problematic.

nobody is "making it appreciate" - it's a natural consequence of people desiring a home, and the supply not keeping up (whether by physical constraints, or by political/policy constraints).
> The link is about global housing, not just the US. That means an explanation can't rely on US-specific excuses

QE is not a US-specific phenomenon, either in origin (other central banks have engaged in it) or in effect when the US does it (given the US dollar’s global role.)
Which, lets admit, is just plain ridiculous. Prop 13 needs to be repealed or at least severely amended. Right now it is a wealth transfer program from the poor to the rich.
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As far as I know, there is no way to legally verify that an animal is a service animal. I remember when I worked as a bus driver we were extremely limited (legally) in the questions we could ask, basically just "Is it a service animal?". It would be very easy to lie although I never had problems with untrained dogs.

The amount of "emotional support animals" at the local university is pretty ridiculous as well. I'm pretty sure students just lie so they can have a dog while they live in dorms.
> Are there ten popular micropayment services?

It exists just as much as your government monopoly. We're talking about a world where sites let people pay microtransactions, not the current state of the real world. I'm just pointing out that it is definitely not necessary to have government control to have really small transaction fees.

> Does it cost anything in time and effort to use them?

Whatever the government version you proposed would do, let's keep it simple and make them act exactly the same.

> Who do you trust to tell you which micropayment services are good and trustworthy?

I dunno, who tells you that visa or stripe or kofi is good and trustworthy? If creators flock to a site, they'll draw in users.
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These posts are starting to bug me. There was another new social network post the other day, also slating FB.

As much as it sucks, people aren't on FB for superior encryption or privacy controls - they're on there because their friends are on there. Solve that first.
No doubt he is brilliant. Many investment banks will be happy to have him. He will fit right in something like Merrill Lynch or Goldman Sachs.
You give people tools to handle issues.

You let them follow or block people. You allow them to join open or closed groups, groups which are okay with adult language or groups which encourage manners, some groups might be invite only, etc.

In most instances given those kinds of options people can manage their interactions.

You don’t have to shutdown people you don’t like on the platform, so long as they are not engaging in criminal activity.
Nit: I don't like the logo at the bottom near the link to the scuttle project, it is like a big red centralised node of power in the middle with a big target on it, what your trying to get us away from, probably just a me thing
The Priuses are smaller, but are so quiet that they sneak up on you... and then it's too late ;)
Even in someone who’s actively contagious?
The proposal is to see if site behavior changes as a whole when integers are removed. Individual opt-in doesn't permit such a test, nor does permitting opt-out.
I don't understand how this is supposed to work.

For example:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/contribute
shows:
> This repo doesn't have any good first issues, yet

But I have many open issues tagged "good first issue":
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
"Winning" by anything that can reasonably called cheating, as in this case, does not advance the general state of the art. Innovation is best served through appropriate rules and competition structure.
> It could be totally abolished tomorrow like such things have been countless times in past and present societies.

It could! There is even a legal mechanism for doing so.

> It's not a natural law or god given framework.

It’s even more important than natural law! It’s actual law.

> But nobody was asked whether we "do that" not. It's not that we don't do it because "we don't agree on what the alternative meta-rule should be" and thus we are fearful of doing it. It would have been that if we had voted about it, and decided so. But instead, it's not that we don't do it, but that we're not allowed to even vote on doing it or not (well, US citizens aren't allowed that is).

You and your friends probably never voted on whether to frame one of your group for murder, but it would be entirely fair for you to assume that such a vote, were it to be taken, would fail.

We proposed and amended the constitution 11 times in the 20th century (not counting one amendment that was proposed in the 18th century). During any of those times, if anyone thought there was support for more sweeping changes, such an amendment could have been proposed.

> I don't know about that, seems to work for other countries with no holy "founding father" dictums.

Those countries aren’t 50 separate sovereignties connected by a basic legal compromise.
I'm fairly certain mpesa and all other mobile money platforms just runs on top of plain ol USSD, which similar to SMS isn't encrypted as far as I know.

It's "secure" because the system requires a pin to authenticate the USSD session. So a SIM swop won't provide an attacker access to the victims account.

I suppose there's a possibility for doing a MITM attack but you'd have to do it between the tower and phone (GSM I think) or between the telco servers (SMPP or SS7), none of which I think are trivial or even possible in some cases
This is a straw man, and not an argument against the comment you replied to.
The most shocking thing to me as a consumer is just how difficult it really is to fly a pet somewhere. This summer, my wife and I plan to go to Europe for a while, and want to bring our dog, so we don’t burden a friend with him for a month.

I have gone on most major airlines websites, blogs, etc. and there is really no good source of information out there! In fact most US -> Europe airlines won’t even allow an animal in the cargo hold during summer months due to the heat. Okay, fine.

So let’s bring him in the cabin. Is he under 15lbs? Nope, you cannot bring it with you. Instead we are currently exploring this very loophole because there is simply no other alternative. When you cross oceans there is really no way get your animal there without the help of other people. I guess the reason a solution doesn’t exist is because it’s somewhat a niche problem, and airlines are focused on volume.

Any and all suggestions are welcomed. If you have a large dog that has flown internationally, please email me.
I never said there's anything wrong with never wanting to move. I just said that Prop 13 mainly protects incumbents who never want to move, and creates a really bad situation for everyone else.