jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> This was where I first became aware of the scientific fraud that is the lipid hypothesis, and how wrong it is.

This fraud is being fueled by the billions being raked in by Big Pharma, through statin drugs.

Read more about it here, and visit the links at the bottom of the story for details:
https://medium.com/@petilon/cholesterol-and-statins-e7d9d8ee...
This would be my gut reaction, but for whatever it’s worth, and however they create this metric: Alexa says they’re #11 in “global internet engagement”.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com

(Again, whatever that means.)

But I think they have a few valuable properties. Sports. Finance. And for whatever reason, the old folks in my family love their Yahoo Weather app.
But it makes sense, Uber makes an app that offers a service or has to design the UI and UX of the app so that its customers can have the service that is required by the ADA. How they handle this with their contractors is none of the Uber customers' business.
They should sell that to a large tech corp, I bet they'd make a killing.
Search for "The carnivore diet"
Most workers in europe are unionized, but at least here in Italy, there is no union specific to tech workers. Tech workers fall either under the unions for factory workers or commerce workers, which have lower standards for salaries. So one reason salaries stay low is not so much that workers aren't unionized, but that a computer engineer is lumped together with an assembly line worker. As the european tech sector grows it would make sense for tech-specific unions to emerge.
Great post! I heard other large companies are using qpid for their message broker. Have you tried qpid?
And it is arguable that the science being done on the ISS doesnt have as massive of an impact on society when you compare it to what we gained with early space exploration. Just because it is called 'science' doesn't mean it's beneficial, there are plenty of useless scientific studies that are performed everyday around. For instance the 'Portable Glovebox (PGB)' that was on the ISS sounds like really amazing research being performed....
even Google -- famous for them -- acknowledges they're useless

When I interviewed at Google (four years ago now I think) there were no trick questions. Hard questions? Yes. But none that had "gotcha" answers that you'd either have to know already or be some kind of genius to come up with on the spot in an interview.
I use todo.txt for this. Works well across my devices. Besides, it's done by Gina Trappani (of ex-lifehacker) so supporting her is good too.
Why in Pascal and not in D?

EDIT: Ok, I see he's leveraging some RAD tool called Lazarus.
That's on its way!
Beware!

If you're running one-off queries, you probably won't have issues using recursion, but there are a lot of instances where you really don't want to run a complex SQL statement for each of the 1M users reading data from your site. Selecting the proper database table structure can help dramatically!

For example, take any data structured as a tree. If there are more writes than reads, it's pretty easy to put new data in place and your read becomes recursive. When you have vastly more reads than writes it's almost always better to "pre-order" the data. I've had good success with using the modified pre-ordered lists for tree structures but other table formats and processing can be used for other data types. Sometimes it's just careful but non-obvious indexing.
That's just bitcoin, isn't it?
I remember a similar site, or was it this one, also a 'live'-ish OSM showcase, where it showed the changesets being drawn, or appearing as they were submitted. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Edit: I found it! https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/

As is typical I couldn't find it until I said that I couldn't find it. There must be a term for this.
Newspapers can be legally liable when they knowingly spread false information.

Facebook is profiting from and amplifying hateful content and false information, causing civil unrest, sickness and death, and the services they put up for users to report harmful content are not properly staffed and maintained.
That was the point I was trying to make - "we" (society) see FOSS as a commons good, so it suffers from the tragedy. But to try and get some of the value following to the creators, we could make the path of companies easier to hand over cash - buying relatively small amounts of "access" ( it that has its own downsides)

Basically this is a hard problem and without a market solution it's unlikely to ever get within spitting distance of fair. But I cannot see the market solution.
I agree with it being easier, but I din’t think that a contribution of this form would be accounted for as a capital expense. It would a one-time operating expense if not a donation.
> I am really curious, who is actually using Windows containers in a way that's critical to their business?

Valid question, but not exactly what the article is about. .NET Containers != Windows Containers

From the article:

> . We publish updated .NET images for Alpine, Debian, and Ubuntu
I don't know which one is easy.
This Atlas Obscura article asks:

> How did this medieval civilization thrive in an environment that would be challenging for us even today?

Speaking of the 9th-15th century Khmer Empire [1] in Southeast Asia.

> The answer, say archaeologists, is not that the Khmer were somehow ahead of their time... Instead, it was because Khmer urbanites came from a tradition of tropical city-building that looks very different from what we see in the more northerly regions of the Levant and Europe. For nearly 45,000 years, the Khmer’s ancestors were perfecting the techniques required to build and farm in the jungle, manipulating earth and water to make empires whose remains often melted back into nature, leaving very little trace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire
Interesting, so a little improvement there may lead to less ICU beds and sorter overall time at the hospital.
Wonder if that's possible.
Resident physician in NYC, not yet called as backup on the front lines. From comfort of home at this point refreshing my knowledge of ventilator settings. Also in spare moments have been considering similarities and differences between operating scheduling algorithms like multilevel feedback queues etc and heuristics used in crisis management, especially when there are both technical tasks like patient emergencies and managerial tasks like organizing staff and equipment going on at once. In a similar vein, comparing which process loads cause failures of scheduling algorithms, and which set of process loads would cause failure in various processing units of the hospital, some of which may be more obvious than others.
Imagine being this excited to stick it to the US so a totalitarian country could have access to a US-funded technology for use of genocide.
Don't do a rewrite until you have an effective grasp on what the requirements on both the old and the new system are/were. A running system is better than nothing, but it is no substitute for requirements engineering!
So any company without a union is abusing their employees?
I’ve always appreciated the humor of the fact that Win95 was so unstable that no one noticed this bug until years later.
Why not? Being inside the company you are in the best position to actually change/subvert it for real.
Related article in the same issue: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/americas-drift-to...
Leaving discussions about robot sentience aside, I think what it does for our own minds (to be angry and kick things in general). Even if robots can withstand the damage, the intention of our acts is important (to each one, if not to anybody else).
I recently read an article about the Stasi. I was strangely fascinated by Zersetzung - as I understand it, one of the main objectives was to supply other people with evidence against your own sanity. "[R]eplacing one variety of tea with another" - No really, that and other ridiculous things happened. Agents of the Stasi went into homes and did that. It is designed to make you seem like a lunatic when you try to explain yourself and get help. Imagine that, being subject to a procedure designed to make you feel utterly helpless and alone. You are right and everything is real, but everything real is now designed to seem strange to other people.

I wonder why wikipedia translates it as "corrosion" or "undermining". The term Zersetzung is more often used as meaning a biological process of degradation. It's dissolution. It's being eaten away by acid.
No business can be successful without a website. When it comes to building websites, this resource http://www.webbuildersguide.com/ is number one indeed. By the way, being non-technical person, I still managed to create a website for my business using a free website builder (Wix). The entire process was really easy.
No, I am sorry but as a developer you are the product, look at it this way, you can focus your development time on your own idea for free and retain 100% ownership. I never understood why developers accept 10% for building the whole thing, when they could work on their own ideas. I understand the need for someone who can sell, but it has been by experience that if you have a working product you can find someone to sell it, you only need someone who can sell, when you have something to sell.

Now in saying that there is value in finding a co-founder that has domain knowledge of the market you are targeting and if they can sell great, I personally would not go into a "I develop the whole thing" arrangement without at least 30% and 50% if there are only two of us. Anything less than that and they have to start ponying up a salary, it is just not enough equity to take the risk, when I can go build something myself with that time spent.

As well it sounds like you are dealing with people that feel that there is value in ideas. It has been my experience that those individuals (and their lack of experience, in start-ups) can feel like they did all the work they need to in coming up with the idea. This can create a sour environment where you feel like you are doing all the work.
From a legal perspective there's actually a valid point here: they're not conducting universal searches for evidence to use in criminal prosecution, which is mostly the sense that the 4th Amendment is interpreted as applying to. Rather, they're simply enforcing a mandate not to let certain types of objects enter a specified area. Effectively they're arguing that it's no different from, say, a courthouse which has a "No Firearms Permitted" sign on the door and guards and metal detectors to enforce that policy, and for the most part such things are widely accepted to be constitutional.

The main way to fight these "administrative searches" is to show that they are too invasive, or not narrowly tailored to achieve their purpose, both of which are criteria US courts have shown they care about.
and possibly bugged. I wouldn't live there without a complete sweep, and probably not even after that.
> such as emails and personal files of congress members and staffers

All of which is not of national security concern and most of which is already subject to public access via foia
Finalement, le Code Civil, c'est une partie du code source de la France. Et le code source, ca va sur un source control. Point.

Which means - correct me if I'm wrong: "The civil code is like a part of the source code of France. And then, it should be in a source control."
Recently been into Bukowski, alongside Shelley, Frost and Tennyson remain favs

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

– Percy Shelley

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.

you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.
Hi Beloch

I just read the arxiv paper, but with my limited QM understanding it's tough to really grasp the significance of this experiment. Would you be able to explain it in layman's terms (assuming basic knowledge of QM) or is it too tricky to explain?

Many thanks
I wish all legal proposition was supplied with a diff.
Sooooo... government favouritism and sketchy business practices. Who would have thought?
It's interesting to read this from a UK perspective. National rail services in the UK have been privatised for many years and all national rail services are run by private companies. Most of the UK rail franchises are European owned (Deutsche Bahn, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Abellio, SNCF). MTR own 50% of of the London Overground rail franchise - one of the better run rail services.

Overall, privatisation has been a disaster for the UK rail industry (in my opinion). Despite the fact that we have some of the highest rail passenger numbers in Europe, we also have the highest fares in all of Europe and poor to mediocre services.

Our rail services are incompetently (and greedily) run and the political will to change this is depressingly weak (across all political parties).
Maybe putting the musician at an elevated position, for the audience to see was the intention? I mean, you only see his back, but that would also be the case if the instrument would be turned upside down.
"I do think it's morally okay to trade one life for many"

So you're a Spock, not a Kirk.
I wrote that post when I looked at three things:
1) how much money I spend on music each month (currently more than $20),
2) how much time I spend listening to music each month, and
3) how much time I spend looking for new music each month.

Then I realized I spend a fair bit of time listening to music away from my computer (commuting, at the gym, etc). I figured it would be nice if I could use this time to find new music. You see, when I buy music, it usually isn't because it's what I set out to do. It happens because I hear a song that is good enough for me to stop what I'm doing and investigate.

If my phone had the battery life that allowed my to use the last.fm or pandora apps more or less continuously, that might get me pretty close. (I should probably give this another try.)

But here is what I find myself doing... There are a number of sites that scan the music blogs for mp3 posts and condense them down to a single source. I see those (passively) in my twitter stream. This makes it easy to sample songs quickly in my browser. Ones that interest me get downloaded and end up in a special playlist in iTunes. This playlist syncs to my iPod. These songs get cleaned out and moved into another playlist once a week. About once a month or so, I go through this playlist and look for songs that I've given high star ratings too or have played >N times. I then go checkout those artists to see if I should be buying their music.

I've found a lot of good artists this way. If this seems like a lot of work, it probably is. I spend 10 hrs a day coding at work and I have more fun doing that when I'm listening to music I like, so I'm motivated to spend time and money on this problem.
How about big musicians?
Sorry just noticed this, here's the link to the project: http://github.com/mjwillson/doze

Warning: rough edges, etc :)
In my experience, recursion is the hard part of teaching a functional language like Sch^H^H^H Racket.

I've often wondered if purpose-building a tool for visualizing recursive processes would help.

They could call it Ponzi.
How about:

do_tree([Value | Children], Fun) ->
[Fun(Value) | [do_tree(Child, Fun) || Child <- Children]];
do_tree([], _Fun) -> [].

sum_tree(NumTree) ->
lists:foldl(fun(Elem, AccIn) -> Elem+AccIn end, 0,
lists:flatten(do_tree(NumTree, fun(Value) -> Value end))).
iPhone developer here. There are plenty of ways to get around this.

* Wait another two days for OS4 to drop. I'm under NDA about OS4, but suffice it to say you can expect some api changes that will help.

* Just roll your own file handling; don't depend on the Photo database. The app can pull from a webserver, etc. and totally bypass the CCK. Check out www.eyefi.com - it's pretty easy to integrate with their products. Maybe a little pricey, but if you're market is pro photographers, they're not going to whine about a $150 wireless SD card. Plus, you have the "wow" factor of magical wireless photo import.

* Use one of your support credits. Apple has been known to waive restrictions for good apps in the past.

* Memory issues can be worked around, just do all your calculations on disk. It's slower, but it's not the end of the world. If you depend on Quartz or something, that might require a rewrite; not sure how the existing Mac software is implemented.
I thought (hoped!) this would be a full text database of Oleg's papers (http://okmij.org/ftp/), though of course the irony of constructing such a beast in Go would be overwhelming. As it was I found the website only a marginally less enjoyable read than "Finally Tagless".

I assume this is getting up-votes by appealing to HN's current infatuation with Go, but would be genuinely be interested to know other salient points of the project beyond its laugh value.
Why don't you try using quickbooks? Check it out at http://www.quickbooks.com
does anyone want engineeringparty.org? for free? plus engineeringparty [at] gmail DOT com?
Get a VPS with an unlimited bandwidth deal and set up openvpn, strongswan or even an SSH vpn (works under linux only). Get your default gateway to connect up permanently and route as much or as little traffic as you want through it. I use this for things like Hulu, so I can watch iPlayer in the UK and Hulu in the US from the same location.
I've seen people encounter this problem and say, "OO hierarchy is broken for programming." This is the wrong message to get; for many problems simple linearizable hierarchies are very useful.

What's broken is relying solely upon this mechanism to express all relationships. When your only relations are "Has" and "Is", even English would be hard pressed to express things elegantly.
My impression is that the CR-48 is a reference for the absolutely lowest minimum spec. I can't imagine Google seriously believe that anyone will sell a machine with Chrome OS on a machine that struggles on huge consumer sites like YouTube.
The real takeaway from the circle-ellipse problem is that mutators and conversion methods are inappropriate for use in inheritance. Essentially these operations (including stretching) are merely a more complicated form of class casting.
Perhaps the worst offender of this principle is the toString() method. A class designer must not suppose that the string representation he implements should be the canonical representation of that class. Instead, he should provide the user with accessors and iterators, and provide an external string conversion function which generates the strings from these methods.
It seems as though they avoid that problem by resetting the experiment after the measurement. From Li's paper:

> Then we can use a global probe laser which is only scattered by the mark ion (state dependent ﬂuorescence) to measure its angular displacement after a time separation Δ t. [...] After the measurement, we can cool the ions back to the ground state and repeat the experiment again.
Great, so now when I buy a Whirlpool washing machine it'll be hardcoded to use <brand name> products with its reorder button. Gross, gross, gross.
Most definitely. It's kinda like technical analysis in stock markets - it works because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, people vote with their wallets. At the end of the day consumers don't really know what they want before it's marketed to them, as Steve Jobs has shown time and again.
Oh, wow, functional programming without the oddities of Haskell syntax! I'm definitely intrigued.

What's the current licensing situation? I would prefer a copyleft license, but if it already had a free license, I don't really care if it's similar to a BSD license or not.

Edit: Ah, found it:

http://www.shenlanguage.org/license.html

Wow, this looks awful. It's a vanity license with language that is very unfamiliar to me. Can a license declare something to be legal or not, isn't that for judges to decide, not licenses? It has a bunch of weird clauses that I don't want to try to understand, and Wikipedia claims this is GPL-incompatible and non-free software.

Yuck.

Yeah, ok, I'm kinda interested in a free license now.
Reminds me of this clip from Seinfeld: http://youtu.be/-Jy5R0XjKC8?t=1m30s
Cubes? Such luxury! I'm hard pressed to find software dev jobs that aren't fully open office these days.
House always wins.
I think push is better understood if you realize its an operator. At a higher level what is happening is you are adding "item2" (and another "item2") to the array @list. ie @list += ("item2", "item2")
Is the app running? I.e. can you see the Headphone icon in your menu bar (top right corner)? If the app is running and has detected that headphones are plugged in, it should show the Headphone icon with an empty plus sign. If it has additionally also detected that music is playing, the plus sign will be filled.

Maybe try changing volume through the volume keys on your keyboard. That usually triggers the Apple "click sound" to demo the new volume, so then you should see that the Apps icon switches from an empty plus to a filled plus sign.
I just copied a post from the Shen group: I've now begun collecting on the pledges. £2583.52 was pledged, but I'll honour my side as soon as I've collected £2500, which should be reached if people keep to their pledges. You can follow the progress on http://www.shenlanguage.org/total.htm.

All the money is being used to systematically upgrade stlib; instituting a series of monographs in computer science documenting the library. The first is in graph theory.

Mark
What is his favorite video game? Chances are there will be opportunities to mod the game / gameserver, which will really get his motivation up.
Thank you. This is true. I’ve stopped using all social media (except HN) a year ago. Not sure about HN. Sometimes I read interesting things. Sometimes it makes me anxious and depressed
Oh come on. Blaming Android for Verizon/Motorola's failings (and your own in not realizing what everyone was saying was _the_ advantage of the Nexus One) as well as rapid technological progress is pathetic.

Do you even remember the stunt Apple pulled a few years ago where they dropped the price of iPhone from $599 to $399? Do you intend to ping pong between Apple and Android whenever they announce such decisions?
Funny...the logo ("Spyder") on the side looks like it was ripped from the company that makes my ski jacket.
yay! an Indian startup with decent tech and great people. Must be a first here. If I weren't so busy, I'd have applied.
As much as I like to criticize Microsoft and Bill Gates, I am nothing but impressed with the way Bill, Melinda, and Warren purport themselves here.
I have a soft spot for The Castle of Crossed Destinies, whose imaginative structure I'm sure would appeal to any systematic kind of mind.