skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The REAL ID is a mix of both state and federal. It is "optional", except that they won't let you fly or enter a government building without one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

"Starting October 1, 2021 (originally scheduled for October 1, 2020 but was postponed a year due to a global coronavirus pandemic[6]), every air traveler will need a REAL ID–compliant license or another acceptable form of identification (such as a U.S. passport, U.S. passport card, U.S. military card, or DHS trusted traveler card, e.g. Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI, FAST) for domestic air travel."

Apparently the government is gravely concerned that terrorists might fly from Boise to Twin Falls, so we need to make them generate at least 3 to 4 forged documents, to force them to get the super duper secure drivers license.
With the advent of easy to use docker containers, this is really easy to do for most backing services, right on your machine during tests (and in CI).

If all your app needs is rabbitmq (or some queue), redis, and postgres you can run all of them in the background and give out databases/exchanges to your app as you see fit. This also does something interesting -- it turns you away from tools that don't do badly in containerized environments or who are hard to set up, which is a benefit in my mind. It also turns you away from proprietary cloud solutions that you can't run yourself (which isn't always possible but meh).

I trust my E2E tests a lot more when they're not built on mocking. I'm almost tempted to say that mocking is pointless in this world -- just test the real thing.

[EDIT] Since most people will know how to run redis/postgres/rabbitmq easily, one of the high value things is smtp testing. Here are a few projectsfor that:

- https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher (https://mailcatcher.me)

- https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog

- https://github.com/maildev/maildev (http://maildev.github.io/maildev/)

- https://github.com/remko/smtp-http-proxy (this is more for turning SMTP into HTTP but it's cool)

- https://github.com/flashmob/go-guerrilla

Remember, for a lot of these projects don't be worried if you don't see updates for years -- once you've written a reasonably working SMTP server, it may not need to change much.

I might take one of these and try to build a MailTrap[0] competitor eventually. $10/month is twice the cost of a digital ocean droplet running one of these pieces of software (and I know that I can run the instances for even cheaper).

[0]: https://mailtrap.io/pricing/
>Imagine it costs $20 billion to have a 90% shot at coming up with a cure. You might spend a ton of money and come up with a cure, but it's also possible that you'd spend all that money (which could have been spent on more immediate/important issues) and end up with nothing.

On the other hand, it is an indictment when that's a concern, when a private company trivially spends comparable amounts for buying things like Instagram and WhatsApp to push more ads, milk more personal details, and poison more minds with BS and waste more personal time...
A lot of stuff magically happens when there is absolutely no other alternative. See – all the companies that weren't bankrupted by employees working from home even though for years executives have said that would be the case.

The problem is really of incentives and risk aversion. When there's a tough decision to make without enough clarity on the outcome, people will always prefer the status quo.
The morning paper: The Tail at Scale
I wonder if filesystems should be designed to store the MIME type alongside the file. Web browsers get MIME types alongside the data (and they do make use of that info).
lol David Gerard, you must be really sour your bets against bitcoin failed

Ignore this guy, he has a financial incentive for cryptocurrencies to fail
Dang, is this a normal feature? Since when are users able to retroactively change the profile that made the comment? This looks like covering up a YC founder's past comment, but the archive still exists. According to snapshots it was modified over 2 years later.
One worry is that if a vaccine allows for transmission but doesn't generate anything when it comes to effects from the virus, it'll let the virus evolve more dangerous mutations without becoming an issue. This could be potentially dangerous to people who are unvaccinated or if it manages to get past the vaccine. I'm probably pretty in favor of keeping the common cold as it's never killed anyone and helps train the immune system
UK gave the world its traditional breakfast, USA gave the world the all-day breakfast
I was initially concerned about what this meant for Radiotopia and PRX, but he actually addresses this later in the thread.

There's a lot going on in podcasting, and in one of the linked articles Roman actually addresses it - "What does it mean that Facebook is getting into audio? Or that Apple is changing the ‘subscribe’ button to a ‘follow’ button? I don’t know and I don’t want to figure it out. I feel at sea in this business in a way that I haven’t up to this point."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/arts/siriusxm-99-invisibl...
Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology
Protease inhibitors have more of a track record in humans than mRNA, having been used widely as a treatment for HIV. Maybe we're more comfortable with our understanding of any possible long term side effects?
I can't imagine SV producing anything better.

Remember - you're the product, not the customer of the credit agencies. You aren't a first party in that relationship - it's a service about you, not a service for you - which is why the agency's interests are not remotely aligned with yours.

The only way to make it aligned with yours is through regulation, which forces your concerns to be taken into account. Unfortunately, in the valley, that's a dirty word.
A friend of mine is a software engineer in a conservative industry, and their company brought out the same "no politics at work" last summer. Their benefits package has some language specifically referring to only extending health insurance coverage to hetero spouses, and only permitting time off for a new child if the employee gave birth to it, so nothing for adoptions, fathers, or surrogate births.

People have been trying to bring these issues up to HR but they get immediately shut down, "That's politics. Stop trying to force the company to pick a side. Please refer to section 7(a) revision 2 of your employee handbook".
Apparently Sorrento Therapeutics already has a cure that’s bogged down by testing. I guess they don’t have the connections to fast track it.
I don't own a car, so I only ever really drive on holiday... or in extreme situations.

The last time I drove was taking my rabbit to the vet at 2AM on X-mas day, where the vet said due to Covid I would have to wait outside. Not really practical when the temperature is below zero, so I used Zipcar!

Besides that, mainly if I'm going somewhere for a week with poor public transport and high distances to cover (impractical to cycle/walk).
Huh, that’s nothing compared to an average keto diet.
I have no quarrel with the assertion that reading is important. I'm suspicious of the need for pre-reading (letters)

If a child shows great initiative with letters, they'll do well with reading. But why not just start with reading?

Russian children don't start with letters on an IPad. They start later, immediately tackling classic literature.
I assume they mean (and I agree) that society should try to prevent bullying (that is, criminal harrasment) by reporting it to the police, not by engaging in vigilante 'justice', which is what any school discipline for off campus activity (and really, cancel culture in general) amounts to.

If you believe your vigilanteism is justified (because, and only because, the police won't or can't do their jobs) the onus is on you to clearly communicate that your actions are because the police won't or can't do their jobs, and to support that assertion with resonable evidence, in every single case.
Mantic Monday: Predictions for 2021
What do you think the material impact on students of this will be?

ie Was anyone harmed, or is this just preventative? Seems like the latter, but just want to make it clear for people.

Was it previously a gray zone on the dischargeability? Did something change in the law? Was Lambda just being cautious in saying it ::may not:: be dischargeable? Something else?

I remember hearing that ISA case law isn't very deep, so I can imagine that there may be more gray zones.
Thanks for linking me to this. From a high level it sounds pretty reasonable. The private sector likely wouldn't be able to implement an in-person verifying service at a national scale.
> I know I would have been benched or cut if I talked about throwing a game or not trying my hardest and those statements

Do you think you'd get a years suspension as a 14 year old if you'd said "fuck this team" to a friend after losing a match? And do you really think that would have been an appropriate response?

You can't compare her venting to threats of throwing games or intentionally under-performing.
That's about a third of the daily calorie allowance for the average adult. Doesn't sound all that extreme.
Look at this mail from the Python Steering Council:

https://marc.info/?l=python-dev&m=161652621725348&w=2

Similar rants from last year have been deleted.

Whenever someone posts the evidence you ask for, it is usually flagged instantly. Perhaps that is why evidence is rarely seen.
> Personally, I think for the extra $500/month, buying is a better choice than renting; at least for me.

Let's do the math. Nobody is getting a 1.1million mortgage for 3k/mo, so let's pick something conservative but more realistic.

According to zillow, for a 3k/mo payment you can get a 520k loan with a 20% (130k) downpayment, 30 years with an average 3%. You'll be lucky to keep it to 3% for the next 30 years but we'll let that stay. This 3k/mo payment includes estimated property taxes etc., but no home maintenance costs - there's going to be 50k or so of that over the 30 years.

So after 30 years, you've got a 650k house + whatever appreciation it has over that time, minus the 50k expenses. Historically house appreciation is about the same as inflation, so if we stay in today dollars that washes out. After 30 years, you walk away with 600k (todays dollars). If we pretend it won't cost you anything extra, 650k

What if you stayed renting and invest that 130k? Stock market long term average is about 7%, net inflation about 4%. So lets use that, I'm cheating by stating in 2021 dollars and you just keep investing the $500/mo difference.

Take 130k today, invest for 3% with a 500/mo contribution for 30 years.

Result is: $601,000 (again, sticking in today dollars as i've zeroed out inflation)

Do the same thing at 4%: $760k

Base on historic market, you're likely somewhere in between. Looks like it's not a huge difference, which shouldn't surprise you. This means that pretty minor differences in your life circumstances can push you one way or another, but nothing is obviously compelling.

(Ok one thing jurisdictionally dependent I didn't mention, there can be tax implications of this or not, depending on where you live. Ymmv.)
This just sounds like the complaining of every older person since the dawn of time. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love...

Such complaining disregards the fact that most humans are strongly driven to procreate, and thus present themselves as fit mates with jobs, status, income, and prestige. Humans are also driven to create, and will create beautiful art in the medium that best presents that art. We are also driven to explore, love, and experience life. These things are all alive and well in people who otherwise have and use a mobile phone daily. The empty mental calories of yesteryear were: gossip, tavern attendance, radio, fighting, plays, etc. Those weren't any "better" than mobile phones are today. Assuming that civilization is going to collapse because the empty mental calories are a little more accessible is a tad extreme.

Finally, a relevant Simpson's: https://youtu.be/BGrfhsxxmdE?t=6
So how did this work when the ‘amplifier’ was just a giant horn?
Like the old Cauzin Strip Reader.
> Kids aren't reading the Washington Post Courts & Law section.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.

I remember as a kid we were occasionally given homework to find an interesting current events newspaper story and bring it to class to read out loud. I remember going over all the news sections when looking for a good story, not just the sections you would have expected an ~9 year old to be interested in.

I remember once finding a story in the international news section about a legislator in some other well known country that all of us kids would have heard of who had yelled during a session that some other legislator was a son of bitch, and then a fistfight broke out between them.

When I brought that and read it aloud to the class and got to say "son of a bitch" in front of everyone and not get in trouble for it was the highlight of my week, and earned the admiration of all the other boys in class.
Engineer's Guide to Career Stages
They already do this. Most common is the drivers license. If you don't need to drive, there is still a state ID that can be issued.
This is hypocritical by David and Jason who are super political on Twitter all the time. Here's what David tweeted just a few months ago [0]:

"Imagine thinking that you have to appear apolitical to lead a company rather than simply not advocate for shitty politics, like overworking employees, putting students through hell, stealing identities on Instagram, or controlling bot armies? Anyways..."

Guess politics is only ok when it fits the ambitions of the bosses. Man does Basecamp and its leadership seem lost these days.

[0] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1213249811538944000
Might be reporter's paraphrase of "healthy adults" i.e. not obese, hypertensive, no regular/heavy alcohol or drug use, no chronic conditions, etc.
> The new chromecast is pretty good and $50, and until very recently the ATV was pretty out of date and overpriced. The chromecast stutters sometimes in the main screen, but actually playing videos is just fine.

I can understand "overpriced", but on the other hand, the apparently-not-out-of-date chromecast stutters? WTF.
OP was being a bit hyperbolic, but driving in Mexico (and most of Latin America) is much different than in the US. I lived and overlanded with motorcycles in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and Chile for the last 12 years and could talk for hours about how the mentality of driving in the US doesn't translate to Latin America.

Blinkers can mean something different at different times, depending on context, while traffic lights and signs are treated as a suggestion. Speed limits and their enforcement are non-existent (outside of expensive toll road), and lane lines aren't something that have meaning. Pedestrian traffic (or hell, animal and farm traffic) is unexpected and unexplainable, as are public transportation options (imagine giant school buses flying through roads, playing leapfrog to get in front of one another to be able to pick up the next people waiting for a ride).

The consequence of these differences for self driving cars will be a very, very difficult problem to solve unless the majority of the vehicles are self driving, which is not a solution that will happen anytime soon in Latin America.
Grid is not a replacement for Flexbox, it compliments it. Flexbox excels when you are only concerned with one dimension, grid excels when you're concerned with two (ie, a grid!) And yes, there is overlap.
Time: The Free Market Is Dead
"Probably because one of those two is a religious statement, while another one is a political statement."

Why would biological facts be considered "political statements"? (assuming gender = biological sex, which is the usual usage from regular talk to identity papers throughout the world).
> I just mean that the law isn't obvious here

Are you seriously arguing that it is plausible that Lambda School has a good faith mistaken belief that they were qualified to participate in federal Title IV financial aid, but somehow made no mention or use of that qualification other than falsely claiming debts to the school were “qualified education loans” with limited dischargeability in bankruptcy?

Or are you claiming that it is not obvious that Title IV financial aid eligibility is a requirement for loans for a school to be qualified education loans?

That...strains credulity.

> "Lambda made a false statement about the California law"

Actually they broke California law by making a false statement of federal law. (“qualified education loan” is a federal-law category that determines both if the loan qualifies for the student loan interest deduction and if it has the “undue-hardship-only” discharge rule im bankruptcy.)
AI currently does lots of useful things in all sorts of industries. It just can't do everything that humans can do.
Yes. Fat is generally non-polar molecules so has a different solubility profile. This in turn may significantly change absorption, and the location of absorption (stomach v small intensive v large intestine etc).
Out of curiosity, is there a difference, work load aside, in the end result of the two processes?
It's already been observed in countries with a low infection rate. In the second half of 2020 Australia's death rate was below average [1]. Some people died from COVID, but more people lived due to due to anti-COVID measures reducing influenza.

[1] https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/measuring-excess-mortality-a...
I have a (newer) Shield TV, and it works fine with Emby. That is, assuming you're talking about the self hosted Emby.
One of my favorites. You can really make things tight which is such an advantage when tying things down.
So why does it need to be federal? Make it a responsibilty of the states. Either way, it will be mismanaged, so might as well make it as complicated as possible by having 50+ mismanaged things.
The Coming AI Hackers
When I'm in charge of some software platform that I know has reliability or security problems that no one is willing to prioritize, I have a foolproof strategy. One, write down the list of biggest problems to solve. Two, wait for an inevitable disaster. Three, when leadership is in a panic I present my list and ask for top priority.
Still seems like caching is the only real issue.

The complexity of dealing with headers seems easier than the complexity of routing constantly changing urls.
I mean, off the top of my head he claimed 1 million robotaxis on the road in 2020, and that the car would be able to drive LA to New York by itself, charging and all, in 2018.

Who are you trying to fool?
I have been saying this for at least 4 years now that Uber and Lyft shouldn't be doing FSD tech at all. Finally it materialized. After Uber sold their unit, Lyft selling theirs is just a matter of when, not if.
I just want to point out. This was first a religious belief prior to it being a political view.

Therefore, it is an assumption to say the individual is conveying a political view. It very well may be a religious view that is being challenged in the political arena.

Some doctors would also state that it is a scientific argument. ( not protected I know but just showing it isn't entirely political )
hahah I know! +400 reviews
which is essentially what's happening here?

Something they know is potentially dubious is negatively affecting your score but you need to subscribe to their service to have it actively reviewed.
I'll admit to a little frustration with people who act like current law (usually the first amendment) protects people from "cancellation" by private actors. But I'm more open to arguments that we should create new employment law that makes it harder to arbitrarily fire people. I don't think this is a good idea, for the record, but it is a reasonable argument to make. Many other countries have much stronger worker protections, which work well for them. I don't personally think they would fit with all the other interlocking policies in the US, but it's definitely not a crazy thing to discuss. But it's also not the case that it's a first amendment issue.
Ok but can't you do exactly that? And how is it different if by paying for "credit monitoring" they make fewer "mistakes"?

Isn't that just a protection racket?

"Nice credit score, it would be a shame if something happened to it."
"People" come in a lot of shapes, sizes and other activity levels. One-size-fits-all recommendations tend not to fit very many.
Still easier to harvest if you have the rows though.
They are impressive for what they are, yes, because it's a hard problem.

But it's non stop interventions...
In that "naturally growing" number are women who suffer from PCOS or other hormonal disorders. So the number is smaller than 7% for women that naturally grow hair absent some kind of disorder. And of those that remain, many grow hair but it would not be classifiable as a beard. So I would stand by my statement that this only affects a small percentage of women.
You are taking that phrase out of the context of the sentence it is in, which obscures the meaning, apparently for the sole purpose of having someone to debate with about something that is completely irrelevant to both the comment you have extracted it from and the issue that comment is addressing.
This is a common practice in media and politics. There are more "Klan" members than there are anarchists, yet supposedly those anarchists burned down every urban business in the nation last summer.
I meant a digital ID. For verifying with these services.
The world is already largely running on AI, just not the version of it that is in people's heads by watching sci-fi movies.
Yeah, if I said that, I could see myself being cut for that season (year). I think that could be appropriate depending on the circumstances. To make it similar to this case, it wouldn't just be a friend who heard it, it would be the majority of that school. In which case, I can see that as reasonable.

"You can't compare her venting to threats of throwing games or intentionally under-performing."

You seem to be missing the fact that these are one in the same for her scenario. Dragging down school spirit and pride through her comments is exactly the opposite of the cheer squad's function. Note that she was not kicked off the softball team.
Americans have one of the highest co2 footprint per capita, it's well known and self explanatory.
I think racketeering might be closer? From Wikipedia:

> Originally and often still specifically, racketeering refers to an organized criminal act in which the perpetrators fraudulently offer a service that will not be put into effect, offer a service to solve a nonexistent problem, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket.
I like grid because it eliminates the need for any elements that
exist purely for layout. This makes markup cleaner which makes it easier to change in the future.

But as I stated in elsewhere in this thread, grid is not a replacement for flexbox. There is overlap, they both have their strengths.
Wonderful, so how does a natural-born US citizen without a dual citizenship get the right to live and work in Europe?

The only ways I am aware of are having a work sponsor, the Dutch-American friendship treaty, or taking advantage of a country that offers citizenship to descendants of emigres, like Greece
If it happened that means it was inevitable.
It's crazy that you can unlock a Samsung with your face OR an in-screen fingerprint reader, but you can't an iPhone.

I don't think it's crazy when one considers that Samsung will put that stuff on a phone, and whether it works or not is the customer's problem. We've forgotten Samsung's earlier "face unlock" attempts, haven't we? I haven't, it was bad enough to be one of the major factors in getting me to quit using Samsung phones (and Android in general). So to argue "well, Samsung does it", meh, maybe Samsung does, maybe Samsung lets the person that stole my phone unlock that phone with my photo.