jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Basic research is mainly government funded. Pharma companies build on that research to do the final phases of drug development and they fund the trials in exchange for a monopoly if the drug pays off. Shkreli wasn't interested in funding research. He looked for drugs he could buy and jack up the price of, so he was just a parasite.
How is it bullshit?

There is plenty of science to backup the claim that intelligence is heritable [0]. From there the rest of what I said is basic population genetics statistics.

0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29335645/
Am I the only person left who still uses Expose? I feel like Apple is going to kill it off, they already rolled it into "Mission Control" and removed all the keybindings.
Reading the article, I was honestly surprised that the restrictions were only put in place in 2019 - I distinctly remember some introductory training when joining a US company years ago, which mentioned basically what I understood as: "any business with Iran is forbidden". Anyone has a clue why it wasn't an issue for GitHub earlier?
Don't worry, no one is ever that interested in men being happy anyway.
> cargo conversation

I guess you mean "cargo conversion"?
> It’s also not the case in 99% of US claims. [...] Surely, there are mistakes made, but there is no standard operating procedure at insurance companies to deny healthcare.

This is so out of sync with the experience of everyone i know that i wonder if you've interacted with the healthcare system at all beyond checkups and occasional antibiotics.
It is not a circular argument to show that a statement is not correct: ECB never said there is no inflation in the first place. ~2% is not "no inflation"; 2% is the target that the ECB aims at.

In addition to that, I added an explanation why such a number seems lower that you could expect.

Please note that ECB does not define the HICP, the European Commission does it: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/hicp/faq
I read just the first book in the "Book of the New Sun" and found it quite boring.

And my books are quite similar to yours with few exceptions:

- Martian Chronicles - interesting concept but eventually it goes into some ecological + anarchist sci-fi which I'm not a fun of

- Earthsea - good, but it is mostly for teens, young adults (I read it as a teen and loved it, reread it years later and it was so so)

- Dune - the whole series, each book is unique in its own way

- Kurt Vonnegut - never read anything by that author

- Hemingway - I read just The Old Man and the Sea (or actually was forced in school to read it) - and this was a short novel about basically nothing, boring as it can be

And books I really liked that are not on your list:

- Cixin Liu - Three Body Problem and the rest in the series - I loved it, never read anything like it

- Anything by Naomi Novik (so just two books right now)

- Vernon - A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep

- N.K. Jemis - Stone Sky and the other two in the series

- Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice (but only this, the other book was worse)

- (Almost) Anything by Philip K. Dick

That's from my recent reads (so few last years).
Got my 6 year old to write a python program.
He was so excited the computer did the homework for him.
This is a fun way to introduce programming.

Example session:

>>>number_of_passengers_travelling=672

>>>number_of_passengers_got_down=21

>>>total_remaining=number_of_passengers_travelling-number_of_passengers_got_down

>>>print(total)

His only question was, do I have to type so much and I said yes. There is no way I am letting my kid name variables v1 and v2 :)
I’m not sure much has changed in regard to the anecdote you shared. Kitchens are under a lot of pressure to get food out quickly and finish all of an order at the same time.

I worked at a restaurant in the 90s as my very first job, and one day someone dropped a steak on the floor after it was done. I said oh dear, I’ll get another from the fridge. The cooks told me no, just wash it off and serve it, reasoning “If we bring out every else’s meal and they guy who ordered the steak has to wait 10 minutes, he’ll be mad”. My guess was that he would be angrier to know that he was served a steak that had been dropped on our filthy floor and given the choice, would probably prefer to wait for a different one.
I find this to be true. I find that while I work with people who are perfectly capable of becoming experts in a given category, they protect their brains from having to hold unnecessary information that isn't relevant to their current course. This is a very important survival tactic in our field as one can get easily distracted.

I can count on one hand the number of people I could walk up to in a hallway with a random article and geek out for 3hrs--like a mental foodie. A rare profile indeed.
> In a area on the North American continent that was never touched by slavery

Ignoring that slavery touched the entirety of the continent, I'm going to guess that means your German ancestors ended up in the Midwest. Probably on Native American lands.

To this day, Native Americans are 20 times more likely to lack indoor plumbing than Whites. Roughly fifteen percent of the Oglala Lakota County, containing the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in South Dakota lack indoor plumbing. Meaning this year they likely had to piss in buckets as the outhouse was too dangerous.
The original Joel Test is here:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
It's a tight-rope for any search engine. Either you rank/filter nothing and everything showing up at the top is stuff abusing SEO and spam, or you try to get rid of the junk and ultimately piss someone who values it.
http://shader.kaist.edu/mtcp/

http://www.openonload.org/

There's also some work showing that you can achieve very high performance with kernel TCP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...
Start suing them.
Well, plugins are allowed to run Javascript on the page, what other kind of "special API" would you need?
you say that, but in practice Intel is still 5-10x off ARM when it comes to idle power.
please see my response to brandonhsiao below.
Indeed, the post you replied to is not based in actual reality. The entire foundation of the adblock industry was an aggressive attention-war plied by the ad business, where soon webpages were an armed conflict of aggressive ads each imposing even more of a tax.

No one expected the cure to be worse than the disease. I couldn't believe it somewhat recently when I had to use an older laptop to find that simply running Chrome was completely untenable if ABP was installed.
Actually, now that I'm at home, I just tried it... and it does default to the EDITOR variable. Just tried it by setting the variable to vim and then to nano.
It's a problem in my far-off Chicago suburb, too. Distracted driving is a major problem - I wonder if it's the same in other countries?
That's not true at all. Hypothetically if the government of Pakistan were to conduct drone strikes against the US and hit only military targets then the US government would certainly not label that as terrorism. Countries are labeled as state sponsors of terrorism when they — or non-state organizations that they support — use violence for political reasons against international civilian targets.

http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2010/170260.htm
I would argue the culture around education and what it takes to be successful in China is more of the driving force around the enormous pressure students face with the "gaokao". Although it is true there are way too many students than available spots at top flight universities, the perceived notion of success will never change in China unless success is redefined by something other than either having a really good education or making tons of money.
We do a lot of custom tokenizing, indexing and scoring logic right now to (for example) make method name searches work like you'd expect: you can (mostly) search for a common method name in activerecord, and the right thing will come up, as opposed to one of the many different forks. This is a constant game of whack-a-mole for us.

That said, we have more features planned than time to implement them...we've got a method-body search working internally, but we're not yet happy with the quality of the results. We'd definitely like to do something with signals coming from the AST to improve that. We also have signals in place to help rank based on usage across all the code we know about, but those could be a lot more robust. We're also going to be doing a pass in the near future to deal with some noisy results that have been leaking in since we opened up to all GitHub repositories.

We're open to suggestions, though...do you have an example of something you'd like to see us implement?
One of the things that draws me to functional programming* is the relative freedom from side-effects. A poorly designed, tightly coupled system begs to be rewritten, but doing so would come at an enormous cost. If a system is designed to snap together, with easily interchangeable parts, it's easier to be satisfied with evolving the software one piece at a time.

Then, when the urge to rewrite something strikes, you can just rewrite that one component, knowing that everything else should work just fine.

* I haven't actually built anything substantial in a functional language, other than my blog (in Clojure), so I can't back this up with experience. But I think it's true.
... I find it hard to believe they are concerned by the tune of $50million that TweetDeck would create a viable competing service.

That said, I find it hard to believe TweetDeck is worth anywhere near $50million. Based on what revenues and how?
>It's trademark... No you can't go on individual features, like being rectangular, or a grid of icons, or thin, but once you put that all together in a certain way, you start getting into design trademarks.

If it is the trademarks, it's really no surprise that Apple is suing. In order to keep a trademark, you have to maintain it. So Apple probably had to sue to keep their iphone trademarks.

Google has the same issue with the use of the word "Google" as a verb.
Another thing about TweetDeck that might be interesting to other HNers: Max Howell, the creator of Homebrew, works for them.

http://www.methylblue.com/
I'm curious what other cool things does CLOS/Lisp do that you can't do in the standard Ruby object model.
> I'd probably go for C or C++ if you're teaching data structures.

Hmm perhaps if you are interested in the technical working of a data structure, but even if you use Python you'll have to mind your memory and CPU usage. They have to implement things like the traveling salesman problem and get the correct answer to a reasonable number of cities.

Python is slower than machine code by definition, but not so much that it becomes much harder to do the same calculation. They have to think of speed regardless of the language, and doing that is much easier when you pass around lists instead of pointers to pointers of doubles (double * *, added spaces to avoid markdown).
Am an LP in a couple of tiny funds…a lot of the funds have verbiage to the effect that the GP will not reveal any information about LPs except as required by law (I'm not saying that's what happened here, and the firms should have just responded that they don't disclose information about their LPs rather than ghosting you). There's also typically verbiage restricting what LPs can reveal about the fund, a recent one requires divesting from the fund if the LP becomes subject to FOIA, for example.
Depending on the impounded area they can (in some cases) be worse than fossil fuels for greenhouse gases.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/not-all-h...
A few different English dictionaries include "on the left" as a current definition for sinister.

From American Heritage Dictionary 4th Ed. (En-En)

> sinister

> sin·is·ter (sĭnʹĭ-stər)

> adj.

> 4. On the left side; left.

> From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate 11 (En-En)

> sinister

> a. : of, relating to, or situated to the left or on the left side of something; especially : being or relating to the side of a heraldic shield at the left of the person bearing it
We live on different continents
“Best” needs to be qualified here. The simplest/fastest way to get money to poor people is to just give it to them.

If you do that, what happens that’s good and what happens that’s bad?

Another route is to support private employment (what trickle-down seems to be seeking).

If you do that, what happens that’s good and what happens that’s bad?

Unsurprisingly, people who prefer the government to be more powerful and more directly involved in economic outcomes of people tend to prefer the former. People who prefer a government with less power and less direct involvement tend to prefer the latter.
> the spirit of open source, where criticism comes in the form of patches and forks

Criticism in the form of words is healthy, and this poster is beating a dead horse.
Or you could maintain the current version number on the Wikipedia page for your app. Your app could then request its wiki page over HTTPS as a check for updates.

Then the only useful logs would be held by Wikipedia. And more broadly, requests to that page would be utterly lost in the noise.
The main problem with this being a “mode” is that I don’t want it in 100% of cases. For instance, on the Mac it was originally possible to darken only the menu bar but now that is only allowed if everything is dark. Frankly, in many cases it makes more sense to mix these effects, e.g. it might also be nice to have darkened sidebars in lighter windows.

Another reason I don’t want it on all the time is because a lot of things still have really terrible Dark themes, to the point of being eyesores. It is amazing how much more the choice of colors matters in dark themes, and if this is wrong it is almost unusable.

Some web sites had long used primarily-light or primarily-dark themes, and it is now weird that some of them try to “adapt” to your dark/light “mode”. Frankly, it usually looks worse when they switch to their less-refined alternative and I would rather they either put a lot more effort in to both themes or just keep the original look in all cases.
Thanks as well, it's macOS-only for but we're working on other OSes. It should work on anything that runs macOS Mojave and higher and at least on 5-6 year old Mac Books.
Here’s a tip to colleges: Get out of the rental business (dorms), the entertainment business (concert halls), the sports business (stadiums), the travel business, the retail business, the financial services business ... Maybe focus in one thing: Be the low cost leader for producing graduates using disruptive technology.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm...is it?
That's seems dumb since they taste so good in a proper bbq sauce and a good Chianti on the side.
This is extremely misleading. A typical package looks something like:

year 1: $150k cash + $100k bonus + $10k stock
year 2: $150k cash + $80k bonus + $30k stock
year 3+4: $150k cash + $110k stock

The bonuses vest linear, daily, so there's no clawback if you leave during the first two years.

Realistically, it means that you only get into stock comp if you've stayed for a few years and have decided that it's where you want to stay. Otherwise, you just get a nice big pile of cash each month.
Why does it matter if "anyone cares?"

Because the future of the platform is important if you are betting an application on it.

Now Java isn't great at doing the fancy platform integration, the Mac menu and windows tray support seem a bit fragile and the interest has been low enough that it doesn't have a ribbon menu and various modern animated UI components can be a lot of work in Java. Depending upon what you need the client app to do though it still seems like a totally viable platform. If it does what you need, what does any of the other stuff matter?

It doesn't do what I need, and it's direction as a platform indicates that there is no point working on the things I need myself because then I'd have to support them for ever.

For most of the major scripting languages (Ruby, Python etc) there are pretty decent libraries for platform integration, and they are being actively used by multiple developers. If I need to patch something then there is every chance that patch will be accepted back into a broadly used library.

With Java, the ecosystem of client side developers isn't very large, and there aren't any big companies putting resources into it either. It's just stagnant, and that isn't good enough.
A. Being single for 2+ years and then getting into a relationship with someone you genuinely like being around pretty much all the time.

B. Being with someone now who's a constantly unreliable, annoying reminder of how you could do better.

Personally I'd go with A. (And yes, I think tools::relationships is a valid analogy.)
Offhand, I can think of Zoho Creator: http://www.zoho.com/creator/
From /usr/share/dict/words on OSX, I get the following:

whenceeer (probable corruption of whenceever, and hence not legit)

wallless

bossship

demigoddessship

goddessship

headmistressship

patronessship
Their Symbol Soup looks a little inconvenient to me...
agree with comments here that this is not real lost revenue - its mostly online window shopping - however on your ecommerce retail site we put flat rate shipping cost on the product page to entice people to buy and give them that crucial info upfront. also there is a typo on the infographic - it says US population is 309.5 Billion : )
> This is the biggest lie of our society today - that
> there is something out there that will fit perfectly
> with you and you will never have a bad day, require
> practice or fail at.

I think that you are misunderstanding the 'different strokes for different folks' mentality. The idea is that you should be able to find something that you love doing despite possible failures, etc. Something that you wouldn't want to ever stop doing even if you fail at it sometimes.

How many hackers would stop coding just because they hit a wall or found out that their solution was impossible? It's because they love what they are doing, even if they run into issues.
How do you handle version pinning? hash checking? CI? testing on multiple platforms? multiple python versions? deployment? credential management? package data? version bumps?

Sure, experts know how to do all these things because they spent many days learning them, but I'd rather outsource to a tool.
To be clear, because sports aren't open in most places and a video game streaming website changed their terms of service, there is no longer free speech?

Can you help make sense of your comment, because it seems to be closer to a cult chant than a connected chain of thoughts.
It's not alarmist. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm an environmental studies major and I have a genetic disorder. I'm getting healthier when that is supposed to be impossible and it's in part because I'm an environmental studies major and I think of the body as a complex ecosystem.

You kill one thing or change one thing and there are always myriad knock on effects. Always. Anytime you do anything that's actually at all effective, there is hell to pay.

I am getting better by trading short term costs for long term gains, the exact opposite of what Western medicine typically does. We monetize disease by trading short term gains -- that doctors can claim credit for, justifying their fees -- for long term costs which we politely admit to with multi-page warning materials included with all drugs and then normalize largely ignoring that stuff and taking it anyway. Then when your condition gets worse, they blame it on your genes instead of on the side effects of the harsh drugs they have been poisoning your system with for years and years.

It's possible to make targeted changes to an ecosystem, but it's not easy and even if you get it right, there are costs involved. Managing such change is hard and there tends to be hidden costs that the experts want to disavow responsibility for and they can generally get away with it because cause and effect can be hard or impossible to prove.

I hope they cure Sickle Cell. I hope they eradicate malaria. Parasitic infections are pretty awful.

I hope they do it in a way that doesn't involve millions of Africans being thrown under a bus so Westerners can feel like heroes while hand waving off the human costs for the locals which Westerners have a long history of running rough shod over on the excuse that we imagine we are superior to them or something.
Using a pre-built login form template and forgetting to remove the checkbox is my guess.
Political stance as protected class? Revocation of 230 under some conditions? Hell of a blunt tool, but the threat of that sort of regulation might sufficiently scare companies into providing spaces more healthy for speech.
I would assume more likely not since they are the patients own cells.
> with continued rhetoric that the election was stolen and that they had to march to the Capitol and fight.

None of which are proof of a planned insurrection. Of all the meanings you only picked the ones that fitted your predetermined conclusion.

Believing the "election was stolen" is an opinion that comes up every elections from both sides.

"Marching" most often means marches, which is a peaceful demonstration in itself, and the Capitol is not just the Capitol building, it's also the Capitol Grounds and the surrounding areas.

Fighting is a term often used colloquial non-violent way, as in "fight cancer" and "fighting for civil rights".
> Using solar grid-tie micro-inverters would probably work fine to join together a bunch of different packs.

No, they won't. The voltage range is all wrong for a full pack (microinverters work on one or two panels, so a normal working range of 30-80V, usually 50-60V per panel open circuit), and they tend to operate at their maximum power point.

You'd have far better luck with string inverters that can operate in that range (a typical residential string inverter will work from 200V to 600VDC which is just perfect for EV packs), and with a few modifications, you could get one that allows control over the output power (I expect some have that already, I'm just not sure which ones might).
My ideal machine looks a lot like this as well. I'm surprised someone hasn't built something in between the Pixel and the Samsung, and partnered with Canonical.
This is likely to consume more memory, because of copy on write pages (or lack of thereof).

Implementing the prefork model by spawning unrelated processes (by opposition to forking from a common parent process) is likely to consume more memory: each process is unrelated, and do not share copy on write memory pages with other processes.
It made me uncomfortable to watch.