skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of that land is mountains and swamps and desserts and national parks.
I hope not. I actually miss seeing the karma count on individual comments, it made skimming a lot easier.
INSID'ER? BARELY KNEW HER!
Nice question! The main thing to keep in mind here is that unlike companies such as 23andMe who collect dead saliva cells, we are able to preserve living cells which are far more valuable for drug discovery efforts and therapeutic development. We are currently working with two labs at Harvard and one at Stanford to advance our therapeutic and disease modeling pipeline. We're making tech that will allow us to model complex diseases completely in-vitro as well as therapies to replace damaged or lost tissue!

However, I want to make it clear that our focus will always be towards our users and their privacy. Users will always be given the choice if they want to contribute their sample to our research initiatives. Samples will not automatically be used for research unless there is explicit consent. Users will also have the ability to remove their sample from our research pipeline at any time. We take privacy and consent extremely seriously.

Additionally, we are currently setting up infrastructure that will allow users to get rewarded if they do contribute their sample to research. We believe it is our right to reward those that contribute to our research efforts. Stay tuned for details.
There was a Geocities like web creator called Neocities https://neocities.org/ I think it is still up.
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Where does your dog or cat go to the bathroom on an overseas, international flight?
Right, right, but that's the same as with the land example usually trotted out. Nothing is ever zero-wealth-creation. It's just that the majority of .org's reputableness comes from the organizations using it and the tenure of the orgs using it. The majority of the growth in .org's wealth will be due to the fact that true wealth creators are participating on it.

It's textbook economic rent.
The devil will never expect it and beg God to get rid of this ruffian, troublemaker layabout.
I got the mechanics of your response (the literal answer being funny because it's true while also agreeing on the "he's not") and even found it funny (let's say 56% funny).

But I considered it premised on being an (actual, regardless of if being done as a funny quip) correction of the grandparent at the same time.

Let's analyze this further, it's fun!
Some chemotherapy drugs cause white hair too.
Your statement has unquantified "enough, "many" and unqualified "in fact". It also completely misses the point - it is the proportion of unethical decision makers that matters. Not the absolute numbers.
That's their reputation for sure, and their marketing plays up the whole "vapor transport" thing, but make no mistake, Paramo is in pursuit of the same holy grail as everyone else: a fabric that's both breathable and completely waterproof in all conditions. Like a duck.
am I correct on the I2C use cases?

- reduce number of wires / overall length of cable runs
- more sensors/actuators than GPIO pins
Legacy software like pretty much all of GOG's installers when you click the "Download" button on one of the embedded ads that show during installation :-P
What about those messages before the signal protocol was adopted?
"Encrypted" is a weasel word. There are many examples of "it's encrypted" even when encrypted refers to 8192-bit keys, where the system is not secure. Examples abound.

So claims of "encryption" are meaningless.

Instead, claims of "only X, Y and Z could access to this" are meaningful.

"Could" is a strong word because it includes unforeseen circumstances such as writs and court orders.
Everything in moderation, right? Including games we play for imaginary Karma. I must say, though, I generally like the way HN does it. It isn't nearly as in your face and I don't find that motivates my behavior very much.
I have some combination of OCD and generalized anxiety disorder. In general, pets make me very uncomfortable, so your argument cuts both way too. Others' emotionally support animal is my emotionally distressed animal.
Similar/same experience here: Friends are in Europe, I'm in SEA / Singapore. We randomly have the robot voice or people cutting out and then start the 'switch region' dance. Which might fix the problem for a while, but messes with the latency quite a bit then.
This cannot be understated. You can conceivably get a house with 5% down. There is no other instrument that allows a retail investor to get 20X leverage - especially at that price. Even leveraged ETFs are basically capped at 3X because anything else is too volatile and was deemed a market hazard.

Now imagine a 20X ETF that invests in a single property, with high maintenance costs, extremely low liquidity, zero diversification, and high transaction costs. That is basically what some of these mortgages are.

It is absolutely intoxicating when the asset price goes up and I am not surprised in the least that people love it as an investment. Even if it explodes, you walk away and your losses are minimal. You only risked 5% of the price and sure you made some payments along the way, but the risk asymmetry completely rewards being as reckless as possible.
Remember when American Media tried to extort Bezos with dick pics? In the terms they tried to force him to agree to, this line stands out:

4. AM affirms that it undertook no electronic eavesdropping in connection with its reporting and has no knowledge of such conduct.

https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146...

And note this all happened after the suspected hack. Curiouser and curiouser -- it looks like the Saudis were the source of the images, which also explains why AMI was trying so hard to stifle Washington Post's reporting regarding the Saudi murder of Khashoggi.
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I think it's an implicit read, that is, given that anyone commercial should be using .com, anyone using .org should be non-commercial (and likewise non-educational, non-governmental, non-military).

That being said, it's not like .org has, in practice, ever been exclusively for non-commercial entities or non-profits.
Snopes doesn’t indicate this is likely to be true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mh370-patent-disappearance...
I think positive cash-flow rental property is an interesting hedge for this problem.

Rents are unlikely to decrease substantially, even if house prices do, since they've historically been much less volatile.

If rates go negative, house prices will likely increase A LOT. You're in for a HUGE windfall.

If rates stay low, house prices will likely track inflation. Even if they track inflation, you're leveraged. You still have a very high yielding bond.

If rates go up, you're stuck with the property, but you still have a decent yielding bond.
Different things, definitely.

Better? Depends on what you need!

I use Amazon Japan because I live here, though.
Yep, this is how the Unix `bc` tool works; all numbers are internally simple decimal but have a `scale` and `length`.

Scale is the number of dec digits after the decimal point and length is the number of significant figures.

See `man bc`
> QE has impoverished us all (except for the fat bankers).

What is with Americans who continually fail to understand that there's a world outside of America?

The link is about global housing, not just the US. That means an explanation can't rely on US-specific excuses.

What's your explanation for how US quantitative easing drives up house prices in Sydney, Hong Kong, and London but doesn't affect Singapore, Berne, or Munich?
Even if you want nothing to do with iCould, you must still enable it for these features:

- Mac-to-Mac copy/paste (shared clipboard, continuity)
- iPad sidecar

Once you enable it, it immediately begins uploading your contacts, photos and passwords to Apple. Then you need to disable those specific things. Even after you delete those things, every app on your phone can silently and without your explicit permission, start loading data into iCloud.
You can use this to select which pets to put on a platform. For instance, no-kill shelters have to decide which animals they intake since they have finite room. They can save more animals if they pick animals that are likely to be adopted quickly. Obviously, kill shelters have a similar calculus when deciding which animals to cull (and indeed, animals that don't fit in the no-kill shelter go to the kill shelter).

I'm not sure how this website manages "inventory", but they might have similar problems.
This jumped out at me like an easily solvable problem because of what you describe; we could have dogs complete an obedience test to earn the service dog designation.

I didn't even think pets could be "upgraded" to service dogs, I figured they all came from licensed training camps.
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
Was this previously called iFunBox or something else?
I’m really interested though. Obviously location data on a map. What about interests?
Fun fact, my mom was the 15th child of 16. My only sister and I worked it out, our grandma was basically pregnant 12 years of her life if it would have been back to back and exactly 9 months each child.

So far nobody has been able to beat my late grandma for children count. Also soup, she made the best soup around.

Just thought I’d throw that one out there. They were spaced out a fair amount though so not like she needed to bus all 16 around at the same time. By the time 16 was not in the oven the first few were already out of the house.
I continue to believe this is today’s equivalent of “red mercury”: crazy pseudoscience given the imprimatur of the U.S. military to distract and confuse adversaries.
Sonos sunsets several smart speakers’ software support
The credit card details are pulled from your account automatically and put into the form. I had to give Tesla my credit card number to place a deposit for my vehicle so I suspect nearly every Tesla owner has their credit card on their account unless they removed it after purchase. For owners who purchased without free unlimited supercharging, they probably want to leave the credit card on their account so they can use the supercharger network (the superchargers identify who you are when plugged into the car and the credit card on your account is billed after use, there is no payment mechanism on site). That’s why the “pay with credit card” “button” with no additional validation of user input in combination with a preloaded shopping cart with all options selected is dangerous in this instance. It is literally three misplaced clicks.

I think this could be solved by making the user input the expiration date of their credit card manually in the checkout screen. This is very common practice in ecommerce for this very reason. I also don’t understand why the pay with credit card button doesn’t look like a button. That’s just bad UX.

All that said I do think some of these reports have to be buyer’s remorse because I don’t understand how this extremely particular series of accidental inputs (pocket or otherwise) could have happened to as many people as are talking about it online. However, it does seem possible that Tesla could charge you up to 10K without your consent which should be fixed immediately.
Now I can write dank front ends to my awesome monte-carlo simulations!
Houses keep getting to be better quality. 30 years ago, houses were smaller, built with shittier materials, cost more to heat and cool, didn't have as many bathrooms, appliances, or wiring.

None of this is free.

Houses should be outpacing inflation under these conditions.
Well… linux already has similar ability to do that.

They are apparmor and seccomp.

The apparmor can limit file system access.
And the seccomp limit system call.

But the apparmor requires root and can't be trigger from process itself.
And the seccomp requires you to handwriting filter chain that I believe most people can't do.
They probably don't have a way to measure that reliably, and adoption speed might make more sense to their bottom line.
Latin and the Romance languages are indeed very different, but their similarities are much stronger than just vocabulary. The Romance languages have lost noun cases and gained prepositions, fixed word order, and definite articles, but they retain noun genders (though without neuter), remnants of the case system in pronouns ("je", "me", "moi"), many of the same verb tenses, and the subjunctive/indicative moods, to give a few examples.

Anyway, my point is that it's an error to say that Latin "stopped changing". Other languages have changed similar amounts: modern Americans can't understand Beowulf, modern Greeks can't understand Homer, and modern Chinese people can't understand Confucious, but nobody would claim that English or Greek or Chinese died and stopped changing. The fact that people call Latin, but not English, a "dead language" is purely due to the fact that the different stages of English all happen to be called "English".

In an alternate world where Latin was exactly the same as it was in the past, and Italian is exactly the same as it is now, but Latin had never spread outside of Italy, I suspect that we would today call Latin "Old Italian" (or perhaps we would call Italian "Modern Latin"), and nobody would be having this discussion, despite the scientific/linguistic facts being identical to what they are in our reality.
It looks like the shelter has limited capacity, and too many dogs to be taken care of, therefore the faster dogs are adopted, the less need to be euthanized.

Also what you are writing are extremely sparse and weak signals compared to adoption speed.
The solution to leaking private information has been known for a very long time: Don't collect beyond the bare minimum required to render a service.

Microsoft should not have collected anything beyond an email and a password. Payment information should only be held temporarily.

Personal information is a toxic asset. It baffles me why companies willingly hoard it.
If I get too many positive karma posts in a row I start worrying I'm censoring myself too much. Positive karma usually means I'm just saying the most mainstream thing and that's boring.
If only some organization has a large dataset of ML algorithms and identified cheaters...
I've seen panic buying of face masks in Palo Alto and San Jose, mostly by people who appear of Chinese ancestry. I was doubtful on its efficacy, but it appears there is some benefit combined with hand-washing. It's probably a good idea to have hand sanitizer and face masks on-hand rather than waiting until they're sold out.
it's a mere scripting language, but I love the similar way powershell does this also, get-help [some-command] -examples
Misleading title. Actual service dogs, like seeing eye dogs for the blind, are still allowed.

Other, self-declared "emotional support animals" are banned.

> "The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday proposed giving airlines the power to bar emotional support animals from cabins and limit the definition of a service animal to a trained dog."
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People often confuse skepticism with dismissal.

Regardless, we do not have the means to accurately disagnose someone else's mental health without relying on their own assessment. We know mental health problems are real, but anyone can get themselves diagnosed with almost any mental issue if they're a convincing liar. What can we realistically do about it?
Rust 2020 Roadmap
>Anyone who claims to know the specific skills required for the jobs of tomorrow is just blowing smoke. They are wrong and they have always been wrong.

Well, historically they have been more right than wrong. For millennia jobs were more or less constant (farming, the trades, commerce, mercenary, etc) so it was even very easy to predict. And for the best part of the industrial era, "more STEM" would be both easy to predict and an easy win. As would be "more office/services jobs" in the mid-20th century, and "more IT jobs" in the 80s and on. All of those existed as guesses and were correct. So where are those guesses that "have always been wrong"?

>Anyone who claims to know the specific skills required for the jobs of tomorrow is just blowing smoke.

That's also a bad argument. Nobody claims "specific skills".

A STEM education is not just some specific skills, it's a very wide range of skills, that have been useful to the best job positions for centuries.

Don't see that changing, unless widespread general AI (not the crap we have today, with task-oriented NN models) takes over most technical and scientific jobs renders poetry and painting and music playing the only jobs available to people. Which I don't see it happening in the next 50 years or so, if ever.
Its quite a blow to the credibility of this article, if Elon Musk is listed second as "climate change billionaire". Since when is building electric vehicles preventing climate change? Where do people think where this energy comes from? If we even have enough resources to furnish every living soul with an electric car, the electricity for that is certainly not coming from solar panels or windmills.
Unless it's a totally no-kill shelter, the results would presumably help determine which animals to euthanize.
What did rms use? GDB?
> You're lucky if you get any snacks though these days.

Or the snacks are pointless. On a recent delta flight they handed out baby carrots from a bag.
I have a small niche... a calculator that opens fast :-P

http://runtimeterror.com/tools/calc/calc.hta.txt

(yes, running an HTA "calc" is faster than the UWP Windows 10 calculator... and uses less RAM :-/).
You could invest into transportation firms along traditional land/sea shipping routes, assuming the market has priced an expectation of the Northwest Passage opening up and ruining business into those firms' valuations.
What I hope for, is that as the information economy continues to grow, its political power will eventually exceed that of physical industry. At that point, it will be possible to put in place policies like a carbon tax that will reduce environmental harms while further weakening the political power of the harmful industries. Ultimately we could cap and tax or cap and trade all sorts of environmental harms, not just carbon emissions. Wealth would accrue to companies that generate economic value while society determines the total level of allowable environmental harm (which could be negative).

I think other approaches like “rise up and destroy capitalism” would protect the environment faster if successful but have less chance of success.
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How to Search Through Your Upvoted HN Posts
taking is quite easy. the fact is that not only it is proprietary software, it has all the red flags - desktop application mining a shitload of metadata, everything unencrypted, no audits, hostility towards Free Software, and the owner also had a previous project that ended featuring a privacy scandal lawsuit. there is nothing preventing them from using people's information. it is abominable for communications software.
Theres a ton of treasure from the old web. Hope more of this stuff comes online.
I might just switch to Bing because of this.
Italy in exports is indeed successful
Except other methods will certainly cost more, bringing their cost of products up, and so someone's products who are better and known as such through word of mouth will have a competitive advantage on price.
I have noticed that it doesn't have much effect after a while. The students are like, meh, someone gets an award every week, and eventually it rolls around to my turn unless I really screw up.

The effect on parents seems bigger, which is a good thing, I suppose, since parents then give their kids to some positive feedback.
Animals defecating in supermarkets seems very different from a Starbucks allowing its customers to post pet photos in the cafe.
Just yesterday there was an article in my Apple News feed about an uncrated rabbit on an airliner.
Well, if you count math and physics as liberal arts, as the ancients did, then there's me. Granted, electronics and programming were my hobbies.
> Be very, very careful when you put a number next to someone's name. Because people will do whatever it takes to make that number go up.

Jeff Atwood on Coding Horror. (He can't be the first person to have said this, though.)
> I don't disregard animal life, I just place human life at the top of my ethical pyramid. If you value human and rodent life equally, and therefore human and rodent suffering equally, then I believe your ethical standards are as arbitrary as mine.

"On your current moral view, if all traits true of a given human (who has moral value) are switched to match those true of a given nonhuman animal (who doesn't have moral value), is there any point in the trait-equalization process where moral value is lost?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1Vvc6IQD8
The 2-dragging section is much more efficient if you want to roughly pick arbitrary floats, and gives a better spatial map of the range of possible floats.

The individual bit flips also can be useful. It really depends what you want to use it for.
A first non-technical guide on LaTeX: its pros and cons and its future
To go on a tangent, one very important topic (even more than STEM) that I don't think is formally taught at all is governance.

I think children should get a proper education formally and practically on how to balance and how to meet the political (in the sense that these are needs that are solved at the societal / collective level) needs of a group of people. It doesn't have to be a large group; along the lines of the entire school or talking about the needs of a district or city would do. I think that such education would go a long way to help people understand what is important in governance, and be more resistant to political ideology that is harmful to these things.
Update: these guys were great.

They quickly reached out to me with the fixed file and the output is really good.

This is the first voice synthed audiobook that I can actually stand to listen to at length, and it plays well using Podcast Addict on Android, and the voice speeds up well too (encoded at 93%, listened to it at ~1.7x)
Because exceptionalism requires knowledge asymmetry, relative to the mean. I think it's definitional that You can't have a macro-scale program that delivers exceptional results to all participants.

I don't think mediocre is unacceptable. But, I do think the country's achievement systems do. And yes, we should look for better systems.

I don't think funding will improve the education system much, unfortunately. Probably we would be better off spending that money reducing the number of single parent families. (Somehow...)
Although true, Western meat agriculture isn't similar but different: zillions of animals, stacked one on the other and humans going in to clean up after them getting all that waste all over them. Either way, it's a bioreactor for evolving a pandemic. This is likely how we acquired many horrible persistent diseases: smallpox, avian flu, influenza, measles and many more.
Not that I would do this, but, my dog would easily pass any of your service dog tests and he's only one year old.

While there's lots of abuse by people bringing obviously untrained and unqualified animals on a flight, there is just as much abuse by people who take well trained dogs on flights and simply don't want to subject them to cargo transport -- the abuse is just much less noticed for obvious reasons.

Personally, I would prefer to simply adjust the system so that any sufficiently capable dog can travel in the cabin for a fee, which would of course be waived for people with disabilities.
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