skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. And that's actually how the .org sell was justified. From http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191127_why_i_voted_to_sell_o... :

"This transaction will put that bigger mission on a solid footing — so that the Internet Society can provide much more substantive help to nonprofits than merely leasing domain names, and with more continuity over time. While it's true that running .org provided a relatively steady income stream, it effectively staked most of our revenue on a single business, and required a certain amount of our resources to be spent managing that business, distracting from the broader mission. Especially as PIR has grown over time, this situation has become increasingly untenable. Establishing a more diverse portfolio of investments will allow us to have more predictable revenue over time, and to take a longer-range perspective when it comes to achieving our mission. "
> Schools in East Asia, alongside pushing STEM topics are still also vehicles for pushing the philosophical and cultural views of the state through the teachers and curriculum, so I'm not sure why this is befuddling as such.

Schools in the US, at least in theory, don’t teach the philosophical and cultural views of the society. This is a concession to the fact that the US is a multi-cultural society, so teaching values as such would be inappropriate. Kids therefore get some instruction in US history, civics, and government, but you can get through the whole sequence without learning anything about Christianity or Western Europe.
The regulations which are the only thing allowing many people to still afford their lifelong houses die to rent inflation and gentrification? The regulations preventing many areas from becoming ugly skyscraper apartments? Which regulations are you talking about?
That's what I do in C++ with Eigen or boost::ublas or any other library. Operator overloading is not a feature limited to Fortran.

Fortran gets its performance from prohibition of aliasing, which is something that C++ admits as per the standard. One could enable the same performance boosts with a non standard compiler flag, but this breaks a lot of codebases, including the Linux kernel AFAIK.

Aliasing is a pox upon the world. There's a lot of work gone into stuff like UBSan for C++. I think aliasing should be added to stuff that it checks for. Dunno how much overhead that would be though.
I would imagine in the latter case that the doctor would not be pleased to hear that their friend told you this story, as something like that could be grounds for disciplinary action on their license. Totally unacceptable to sign false documentation and seriously calls into question their professional integrity.
how "medical" is the data? HIPAA medical?

if so this is actually a decent opportunity for any relevant state attorneys general to annihilate this company and show some teeth when it comes to data breaches.

otherwise i'm so numb to this i'd just roll my eyes at 30K, i mean, there are probably 30k individuals exposed per hour at this rate.
And this is why everyone in Russia speaks french to this day!
> people who didn't get a decent education in maths and science

Guess who teaches our kids?
That's $125 and you have to keep the dog locked up in a bag the entire flight, so I don't see how it could affect their cleaning.
I’d guess this is the case for 90% of the animals on planes.

I’ll rarely see a real service dog that’s actually trained and wearing a real vest. Most are fake ESAs (fake in the sense that there’s no real regulation or standard and it’s just to give the appearance of being official or service dog like so people are afraid to deny the pet).

I think this is unethical and makes it harder for people with real service dogs, but I find a lot of dog owners get angry when I’ve mentioned this and blame the airlines for making it hard to fly with pets.
I had an ESA certificate for a while and may get one again soon. I never lied to get one, either. That said, the online certification basically amounts to a long-form version of needing to answer yes to two questions:
1 - does flying stress you out?
2 - does your dog make you feel better?

I never once used it for anything but flying, because things like bringing your dog to the groceries or the movies or a restaurant is just unnecessary. If you find yourself splitting your time between two cities that are >1 day drive apart, you have only a few choices:
1 - Don't have a dog over 18lbs
2 - Leave dog half the time
3 - Risk dog's life and guarantee a Very Bad Time under the plane
4 - Get ESA certificate

I think airlines are leaving money on the table and should just have a relatively expensive travel-certification obedience course and charge a boatload for it. I'd happily pay $500 per year to have my dog authorized to fly in the cabin without an ESA (which incidentally cost less than half that).

To pre-address the typical objections (and to steal from my own HN comment almost 3 years ago):

"People are allergic!" For $100 a tiny shedding dog can ride in a very-not-dander-proof container. My dog is non-shedding.

"They can be noisy!" So can your toddler. So can above tiny dog. Mine isn't.

"It's like parking in a handicap spot!" No silly, my dog takes up my foot space, no one else's

"The airline is losing money!" My dog & I weigh less combined than plenty of people who pay the same fare. I've also offered to buy a seat for my dog and leave her in a large crate on the seat. Not an option.

"The guy next to you doesn't want a dog around!" See answer 1. Also, 90% of people are happy to be distracted from the horror of flying. Anyone who isn't can easily trade seats, since most people are happy to sit by the pup.
Am I missing something? It seems like "adoption speed" really isn't something you want to over optimize.

The whole point is to match abandoned animals with suitable homes. Adoption speed seems secondary to post adoption measures of adopter satisfaction and adoptee welfare.
Same. The repo doesn’t disappoint. It’s thorough and very well documented. I am really glad I started reading through the codebase when I did. My only regret is not reading through earlier.
That is a very shortsighted viewpoint.
Illustrated by none other than Scott McCloud, how to forget it?
These western romanticized talks of China like its some cute little network of farm villages while simultaneously calling people out for their "first-world takes" is really only showing your own ignorance. Wuhan isn't some backwater poor city, it's one of the bigger hubs for transit in China and fully developed. It has the money to regulate and maintain hygienic markets. I hate Shapiro but his "bigotry of low expectations" thing of not holding nations up to the same moral standards because you don't see them as on your country's level is bang on the mark here. The Chinese government can and should do better to subsidize here.
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You make me wonder if i know you.

I've never had one of my dogs "certified as a support animal" or any other official recognition beyond a rabies tag; but I've had a member of the pack who was "truck dog" and could go somewhere with me at need since forever. For all the reasons you mention, people who benefit from their animals presence are often worth tolerating, if not welcoming.

One of my standards is that a service animal should be at least as polite and pleasant company as the person its assisting. I've never met a (formally designated or not) "familiar" that wasn't.

There are however, folks who will do things like drag a terrified baby goat with them through walmart, because they just picked it up and they can say "service animal" ... I personally would like to do awful things to these folks, but thats why i have a truck dog with me, to remind me such things are impolite.
I studied (classical, not ecclesiastical) Latin for about 8 years, and I don't think it's accurate to claim that the Romance languages are in any meaningful sense "Latin".

The weaker (and more reasonable) claim is that learning Latin improves your ability to recognize words and (very basic) structures in its descendants.
Honest question, where is the boundary of reporting illegally obtained material from a source? If somebody hacked Trump's EMRs and told the world his risk of a heart attack, it would seem to cross a line that no legitimate journalist would pursue. But then you have Panama papers, etc, which in general are for the greater good. Are the standards codified somewhere?
+1 and I'm sure the article could inspire others to do the same with other stacks. I like how it compares to other similar stack where OS is CentOS, serverside lang is just PHP and some other layers added, like HAProxy and/or Varnish cache, or even Apache or Lighttpd instead of the omnipresent Nginx for the webserver
The Roots of TDD – From 1957
AIUI, viable room temperature superconductors are an existential threat to the coal & gas industries.

Worse / better yet, they'd massively disrupt the existing geopolitical power and wealth distribution.
The state assimilates children. It's the job of the parents to make them exceptional. That's the way it's always been. That's the way it has to be.
Yeah it should work. A few years ago i reimplemented in Free Pascal most of the OWL 1.0 API that shipped with Turbo Pascal for Windows and you can create some very small executables with it:

https://i.imgur.com/bFGIVSU.png

(that 82KB executable uses almost all of the API's functionality, including type registration, dynamic instantiation and object streaming)

Though i never did anything with it, i mainly wrote it for fun. The OWL 1.0 API isn't really that better than using raw Win32 :-P. But perhaps now that Free Pascal added support for Win16 in the trunk i could port it there.
Do they teach people like Foucault?
I think the original intent was great. And you can learn from it still. However, as the job market for data scientists heated up, Kaggle became something else entirely.
> The goal was to create an algorithm that could predict how quickly a pet would be adopted based on its profile details, from its photo to its breed, sex, size, age, and whether it had been vaccinated or not.

> These predictions would be used to optimize and tweak future critters' profiles so that they are adopted as soon as possible.

Sorry but, how is this useful? You can't just change the age of an animal to make it more likely to be adopted. The profile is meant to be an accurate representation of the animal so people know what they're getting. What exactly was the algorithm meant to achieve aside from being a predictor?
Such momentum is not so easily overcome. The roots of Chrome's codebase and LLVM are both significantly older than the very beginning of the Rust project, for example.

If Rust manages to actually supplant C or C++ it would very likely require decades and generational change.
I'm always suspicious of "modernization" types like yourself. Mainly because they're quite often fascists in disguise. Populism and libertarian principles go hand in hand, because ultimately they leave the individual alone to live their life as they see best. They don't need your help, neocolonialist.
Eeeeeeh. I’m not a big admirer of “taboo topics.”

If you’re close enough with someone to talk about intimate topics, say, sex, baby making plans are ok for discussion.

Back off if the person doesn’t want to talk about it.

But we are an open society, and part of that is talking about things.
> If we want to have a functional democracy we need educated voters, and they should have a broad base of knowledge including the liberal arts.

This is a shibboleth. A functional democracy, needs kids who know how to think in terms of statistics, cause and effect, and logic versus fallacy.
It's very much used in science for naming things, for studying old literature and also in the Catholic Church. We also had Latin courses in highschool. Also many words in many European languages, including Englush, have Latin or Greek roots.
Last time I did it (and it will be the last time...), it was $200 for the dog to go in a soft pet carrier under the seat and you could only check in at customer service so better be there an hour earlier than normal. I don't think our tickets were even that much. I can totally empathize with someone bringing a fake ESA in the cabin for financial/convenience sake.
For who though? I would hate to see the blame placed on some low-level database engineer. And there's no way you could blame the executives.
The unknown quantity factor of it is what's scary. How lethal and fast it will spread, etc.
There are three things you can ask under ADA (which does not allow ESA, and appears to be what you are talking about, FHA and ACAA have different rules):

0. Is this a dog or miniature horse? (only those animals are considered as potential service animals under ADA)

1. Is this a service dog within the definition of the ADA, i.e. has it been trained to perform a specific tasks to mitigate a disability? (cannot ask what the disability is)

2. What specific tasks is it trained to perform? (ex. seizure response, seeing eye, etc.)

However, there is no way for you to "check" if this is true. Service animals need not be trained by any approved company or carry any identification, and you cannot ask about this. The only way out is if someone admits to it not meeting the legal definition or gets caught in a lie while answering these questions.

If, after all that, the animal cannot be reasonably accommodated as it is not being housebroken, being vicious or harmful, damaging property, or making an unreasonable and excessive amount of noise, it can still get shown the door. Likewise, if allowing an animal is inappropriate under any circumstance for safety or regulatory reasons (ex. cleanroom, food service, nuclear exposure, hearing damage potential, etc), you need not allow it. The establishment owner is never responsible for feeding or looking after the dog or procuring one for the person with disabilities. You can expect that service animals be kept on lease unless brief exceptions are critical to job function.
> I think airlines are leaving money on the table and should just have a relatively expensive travel-certification obedience course and charge a boatload for it. I'd happily pay $500 per year to have my dog authorized to fly in the cabin without an ESA (which incidentally cost less than half that).

Love this idea.
Wasn't there some airplane crashes that had engineers on the flight that worked for Freescale or some other company in the superconductor market? Funny how those stories just faded away with few questions about how the airliner crashed. I am not trying to make a conspiracy theory, but they should have taken separate flights.

edit: Typo and clarification
Yes, title is somewhat confusing because I read it as "low fat and low carb are associated with mortality", whereas the article treats of correlation with the reduction of mortality.
No, the natural conclusion is that whether two varieties are "the same language" or "different forms of the same language" is a cultural question, not a scientific one that can be answered objectively.

(Tangent -- certainly not all languages are descended from a hypothetical Proto-World, since we have examples of brand new languages forming: any creole languages, or Nicaraguan Sign Language. Whether most of the major language families are descended from a Proto-World is very much an open question, and probably one that will never be answered, since even if say, English and Navajo are genetically related, they diverged so long before we had written records that no trace remains.)

In any case, there's a meaningful difference between a language gradually changing over hundreds of years such that the newer varieties are quite different from the old ones, and a language truly dying, because it has exactly one remaining native speaker, and that person dies.
What's a UVP? Organizations may be interested in hosting a form of this app on their own dns/maintain control of their own namespace. I think the incumbents can stand to make a lot of money by whitelabeling the existing services and selling access to domains (G Suite for Twitter, for example).
It's certainly got more information but that combined with the "exact" values makes it a bit overwhelming/hard to understand, especially if you're trying to get a feel for it the first time and the half and the double have the same number of digits on screen. It's almost made more for investigation of something you ran across or need to hardcode than gaining intuition.

But most importantly I think best feature of the one in the submission is something it doesn't even mention in the description - it has a "click and drag to write bits" feature that I think is much easier to use/follow than the 2 dragging section on that one.
Ask HN: Best way to explain/proof human caused climate change to someone?
What are the best resources and arguments you know of to explain that climate change caused by humans is a real thing?
>but this is what's so bothersome. why is human experience put above that of the mouse?

There is no argument anyone can make for preference or equivalence that reduce to an arbitrary ethical foundation. I, and I think most people, just care about humans more than mice.

That said, I would question what exactly is the cause of bother. Is it bothersome because:

A) People honestly believe that a human life is equivalent to that of a mouse, or a number of mice?

B) It brings to light an uncomfortable but ethically justified reality of the world we live in.

You make a an accurate observation that human stress is often self induced, but I don't know how stress free pre-modern society was. From my experience, it is human nature to identify threats and feel stress, under just about any condition. Furthermore, I can't imagine that a "natural society" was stress free, with food scarcity, low life expectancy, and high infant mortality.
Well, I'm not surprised about the "Everyone is willing to abuse the system to an extent for personal gain" part.

I'm surprised about the above:

>It's a social taboo to question someone's assessment of their own emotional needs.

When common sense gave way to such a taboo about everybody's touchy "feelings", however far-fetched they are?
I just did the same thing!
Lots of pets die in the cargo holds. Nothing but luggage should really be down there.
I fly dozens of times a year. I've seen plenty of animals flying properly (in a soft sided crate, under the seat). I have never once seen an animal allow to run around the plane, and I imagine if someone tried to do that with their animals the flight attendants would put a stop to it quite quickly, given the obvious hazard that poses.
I usually bring up this research when talking about employee onboarding but there was a study done in 2015 (with Mozilla) that showed a “good first issue” approach didn’t actually lead to the intended outcome - having more folks successfully integrate into and continue to contribute to a project over a long term. To my knowledge there hasn’t been a ton of follow up or replication but still something to consider.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~rtholmes/papers/msr_2015_labuschagn...
I was on a flight from FTL to NYC and saw some guy bring a duck on the flight. The duck was classified as his emotional support animal.

It was a good idea, but once again people ruin a good thing.
Jobs of Tomorrow (World Economic Forum) [pdf]
I beg to differ. I'm not afraid to post humorous remarks, and it's relatively rare that the mediocrity police decide to brigade them out of sight. Timing matters: the US timezones in particular appear to penalise irony, absurdity, and parody, so I check the world clock first.
One thing that has always impressed me about these systems: I've never read a story about a corrupt manager of the deposited funds betting them on the stock market and losing them. That's something we in The States have had a hard time preventing and worked hard to legislate against. And still, in a very rough parallel, we utterly failed at it during the housing bubble.

So if my conception of the situation even makes sense, how have M-Pessa and equivalents avoided this pitfall?
I fly relatively frequently across a wide array of airlines and even before this discussion noticed the stark absence of peanuts. I can even picture the red Southwest branded packet of pretzels as the “default classic” option. Hmm, interesting.

Edit: Can confirm, no more peanuts on Southwest either: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/09/southwest-airlines-is-gettin...
I had some colocation in Exodus 1 next to the Geocities cage.

They used thousands of SCSI Lacie consumer drives connected to Sun workstations in a cage about 10'x10'.

And a large fan blowing all that heat into their neighbor's cage.
How do you know who has been in these breaches? Are websites like haveibeenpwned doing business with hackers to get a hold of emails and websites? And just because one person discovers an open server does that mean that hackers have also discovered and copied all the data? I'm just confused about the actual technical aspects about data breaches.
Mortgage interest rate deduction is much less important since the standard deduction doubled under Trump. There's lots of home owners will will take the standard deduction now.
Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
I've toyed with the idea of drafting a fake press release with Southwest branding announcing a program like this and just hoping to catch the wave:
fake news -> real excitement -> free PR -> real news

Alas my design chops are shit and I'm a bit over-committed on projects as it is.
Exactly my thought when I read this also, and I think it generalizes to a lot of cases where the value of trying to predict something is dubious at best, when there's nothing obvious you can do with the prediction itself.
Hint: the word rather

It's a preference not an absolutism.
tl;dr

Competive ML model grading with a common training set using unseen data.

Cheat was to scrape the data that would then be used as unseen by the organisers. Unseen is now seen for this model. Then, instead of training the model with the "unseen" data, which would have been cheating and an advantage it apparently wasn't enough of an advantage so they hard code 10% of the cases to boost metrics and win.

Having more data to train your model is google & facebricks competitive advantage. Their attempts to use that advantage for something actually useful to society rather than just as a method of selling ads seems to have been a complete bust so far. If that is wrong you know better, please link us up.

I'm suspicious that their predictive power to sell ads actually works for the people who buy those ads but I guess we aren't likely to know for sure. I do wonder "who dominated their industry segment in sales by being an early adopter of google ads" I don't know anyone. It's not a great metric but what else do we have?
Way more people have internet access than have desktop computers to run Delphi on. Like, by about a factor of 5.
In the past I've had a lot of issues with spammers and scammers using domain names that came from namecheap. namecheap made it difficult to report and resolve issues, spammer/scammers could create names much faster than they could be taken down. namecheap was not interested in tying one violation to another, they did not want to see that a few players were generating a lot of names that appeared to be from different people but all immediately started running the same spam/scam. If namecheap chooses to be a citadel for spammer/scammers then I'm sure not going to give them any of my money.
Neat, though I wish pledge and unveil included a string parameter to indicate why the process is needing the requested resource)s).
Thus way as the user of an application I have a hint for why a process is trying to access some resource. The code making the call could try to lie, but at least I’d have a hint about the processes claim med intent vs. what it does
I have a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics.