jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is roughly the fix in place in other systems that inherit from the English system.

The McKenzie Friend rules says if you proceed pro se you can nevertheless have somebody who may or may not be trained as a lawyer present to help you by taking notes, prompting, and giving advice not so different from the way a lawyer might use assistants.

You have to do all the actual talking, most weight is on your shoulders - you can't use this to basically keep all the advantages of pro se (courts give people proceeding on this basis more leeway because they may not know and understand the rules a lawyer must master) while having a lawyer do everything, but you can at least have somebody to help you and it can be someone legally trained.

In the UK this principle is named for a Mr McKenzie who lost a divorce case because the lawyer sent to try to assist him after he lost funding for a "real" lawyer wasn't qualified to appear in front of that court (an Australian lawyer, in an English court), and the court reasoned that lawyer was thus prohibited from attending except to sit in the public gallery. On appeal a higher court concluded that nothing clearly prohibited this lawyer being present as "a friend" of McKenzie and so that's the McKenzie Friend rule.

Since they aren't a "real" lawyer it can be a paralegal working for cheap, somebody who has done a year's law school and dropped out, or even just your actual friend who is better at reading and thinking than you are. It all helps.
The good news is that these require a successful phishing attack, which is the number one way of getting hacked. Best to never click on any links in email.
This looks quite a bit more believable than the fake (dubbed) Nixon speeches in "For All Mankind".

Deepfakes could have legitimate applications in film & television production.
Wow. The interactive examples make for one of the most impressive tutorials I've ever come across. Great job, amitp!
Forgive me for being so glib, but I'm not sure you know what you're talking about.
Because the specific client might put unnecessary load on the tracker, or might falsify upload/download ratio to get site karma. That or the admins like making arbitrary decisions.
Do you just count the prefetch for what it is... a "maybe" page view. Or when the browser shows the prefetched page can it send a "view" (or load it again in the background - but that seems wasteful).
It's OK if your choice is Python, it's my choice too, for now at least.

But regardless, if you haven't worked with badly written Python code that makes you want to switch career, that's just luck.
Upvoted. That be wisdom, lionhearted.
I've worked in the medical / pharmaceutical industry for 5 years, had a lot of close contact with all kinds of medical professionals and surgeons and let me tell you - they will hate this idea and most likely not spend any time taking in any of the (potentially useful) data on there.

More and more you come across notes in a patient file that say mention the patient read something on the net and is convinced this is his problem, countering what their doctor is telling them and as a result being a very difficult patient. I'd imagine most doctors absolutely hate pseudo medical websites because of this.

There have been some stories in the past of parents taking the medical care of their "undiagnosable" child in to their own hands and coming out successfully but the stories are few and far between.

Just recently I was reading on a forum about a small medical issue of my own and the amount of crap advise was unbelievable. People will feel that their doctor is "wrong" if he doesn't give them enough attention, regardless of whether or not he is. Getting dozens of replies to your described problem may be encouraging but my opinion is that a medically trained professional is far more likely to be "right" compared to "the crowd".

You can get round liability issues by making users comply with the terms and conditions but I'm not sure that as a developer I could live with the potential guilt of misguiding hopeless patients with an app I wrote.

Having said that the OP's situation must be very frustrating and crowd sourcing could be a good strategy, in this case. One success story was a post on reddit where someone with bad acne was almost completely cured after a redditor suggested ditching all the meds and simply sleeping on a different, clean pillow cover every night.

So "simple" solutions to complex medical problems do exist. I'd certainly give Vivtek's original post a try, you have nothing to lose.

Good luck to you OP!!
I totally agree with you. I'm the farthest thing from an Apple fan boy and have a lot of problems with their policies but it's obvious that Jobs has a vision. Instead of this guy admitting that he messed up, he's making it look like Jobs is the one that made the wrong choices in life.

Money is not the only measure of success but it is one of the measures. It allows you the freedom to see your visions through. If your vision is to have a nice house and family then you can be truly successful with little money, just enough to fulfill your needs. If you have a vision to change the world of computing then yes, there are things that you can do with 200 million that you can't do with 100 million.
There is a very low chance of a house burning down, but most people still take out insurance policies. Unfortunately no one will sell you insurance against working for two or four weeks and then having it all go useless because some droid at Apple is having a bad day or because Steve is rethinking user experience today.

edit: wait, _the_ Dieter Rams? I'm honoured.
My god,
thanks for that, I found this link: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right... ...it could be the solution to a major problem of mine!
Have a look at Wappalyzer if you're interested in usage statistics for web based applications. It also lists the most popular websites per app.

http://wappalyzer.com
Any idea what the battery life is like on the 14" ultrathin?
Some of those issues are just a lack of common sense. Of course no stopping implies no parking. Reminds me of an episode of Parking Wars where people were trying to argue that they didn't know what "No Standing" meant so it was ok to park there. I don't understand why you wouldn't apply the principle of caution she's invoking and not park somewhere if you're not sure that you understand the signs.

That said, the signs are an improvement and are pretty nice. It's a bit harder to deal with issues like school days - maybe there needs to be a number or web site on the sign that you can use to check school days?
Seems to be quite a bit of buffering on my 100 meg connection, anyone else having issues watching this?
> I will say that the Arch wiki page on i3 is a treasure trove of info

I think Arch docs are the best Linux docs I've seen. The FreeBSD manual is the only thing I've seen that's comparable. I've only ever ran Arch for a day or two a few times (no complaints), but Arch docs always deliver for me.
I like the idea of a site where the admin has assured that they will not interfere with you unless they have to.

If an admin chooses not to interfere, that does not absolve them from the responsibility of what happens on their site. If they had the power to remove it, and did not, they share in the blame for the consequences.
I think probably more to do with managing parking availability and traffic than revenue. If it were just about revenue wouldn't making it paid parking all the time bring in more money?
For anyone interested in learning more about JavaScript for OSX automation

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/javascript-os-x-automa...
Slightly OT but has anyone tried Marionette + React as a combo? Would be very interested to hear how smoothly (or not) it went.
It is publicly owned though.
Ummm...fight for your rights?
Thoroughly agreed. As a developer who spent a lot of time studying humanities, arts and other disciplines requiring constant writing for grant submissions, essays, etc. a lot of skills required to be a good developer become invaluable for a dissertation and the other way around.

> A core skill in both disciplines is an ability to think clearly. The best software engineers are great writers because their prose is as logical and elegant as their code.

Personally, I found that combing through my text again and again and again to cut down on unnecessary words, combining similar ideas ideas and clarifying points made a huge difference, and was very much akin to optimizing software. It was generally something other students didn't really bother to do and their writing greatly suffered from it.
This is just ridicilous.Why would they do that?
The overblown rhetoric used makes this piece hard to read.

For example, charging a rate that the market will bear for a product like payment processing is simply the free market, not some kind of 'evil' practice.
I found the "getting started with Launchpad" material from TI also very helpful: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with... - it is a bit of PR for TI products, but yet much is valid for other platforms too.
I will agree that discussing programming language design decisions in the open is something we have to work on. IRC unfortunately is not ideal but it is where most of these discussions take place. I am personally trying to encourage people to write RFCs on Github or on the Nim forum and there are some already there (https://github.com/Araq/Nim/labels/RFC).
I think you only think that you disagree. But I could be completely wrong.

The method that you describe is used in exploring mathematical landscapes, including CS. But, still, some people (like me) find it useful to distinguish between mathematics (including CS) and science, by which we mean empirical science. But I would agree strongly that the boundary is very fuzzy.
> Rachel searched for the username that her husband had used. It led to a video uploaded to the world’s biggest porn site, Pornhub. In that video, it shows her, in her own bed, obviously unconscious. She says her husband’s hands can be seen reaching in to move her, touch her and sexually assault her. The video titles include “while sleeping” and “sleeping pills.”

Isn't this a massive crime? How horrible.
Does there exist such a thing as a life threatening allergy to dogs?

The rules are pretty clear that an allergy isn't a good enough reason to deny service, but it says that Uber should try and accommodate employees that don't want to be around dogs for whatever reason: https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm
Which can be changed by Twitter at any time.
They have absolutely not wanted to ban him since day 1. He brings in millions of users and clicks.
Why can't it be both on principle and practical?

Also, impeachment would disqualify him from ever running for public office again.
Yes, I think this is actually it.

After he basically commanded them to "Stop the Steal", I said that Facebook and Twitter would ban him. I also said that nuclear war was also on the table. If he is so unAmerican that he would actually tell his mob to attack the Capitol buildings, he really doesn't care about America at all. Being as petulant as he is, nuclear war is very much on the table. That's how crazy this situation is.
They have bent over backwards to keep him on the platform...
First they came for the narcissistic sociopaths and I said nothing.
I think the first tweet is a good argument. I personally think second tweet is not only a stretch it's the exact kind of tweet POTUS should have been using Twitter. He just says, in a normal manner, "I won't attend X" without SHOUTING or using weird adjectives like "nasty woman" or whatever.

I think it's important to understand that Twitter needs to be very conservative here. All social media banned Trump, and twitter really is the last place his voice can be heard (via a famous privately-owned social media organ). Well, if Trump tweets "I'm gonna nuke Iran" tomorrow they don't want to be the place Trump announces this.
>That Russia helped Trump is generally agreed upon.

It is only agreed upon when you don't talk to people outside of your own echo chamber. In 2016, people were just shocked that so many people could vote for a loathsome person like Trump. Dems were unhappy and looked for someone to blame, except themselves for running such a weak candidate. 2020 was just as fair an election, and Trump got even more votes than 2016.

>Sure, there are subreddits that commonly exaggerated the truth about the Russia thing. Should they should get banned, since r/donaldtrump got banned for supporting violence?

What is the standard? Misinformation is OK? Anyway, I don't think an argument here will change anyone's views. People will eventually realize that the Dems have been conning their supporters for quite a while now.
I mean, that's just rewording Evelyn Hall's restatement of Voltaire, isn't it?

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
You see no irony that, last year, thinking the NSA had implemented a comprehensive surveillance state would be an irrational belief that should be suppressed by active management of public discussion?
Amazing! I like it.
> No offense intended, but you're a little out of your depth here.

I wasn't trying to make any claims about how skin diseases work, I apologise if it came across this way. I just wanted to say that it sounds plausible to me that meditation could help with excemas, since to my knowledge some skin diseases correlate with stress.

I'm not saying that your exzemas were caused by stress. I also didn't say that removing stress would cure neurodermatitis -- these kinds of statements based on anecdotes are exactly what I'm trying to argue against.

(One interesting anecdote about neurodermatitis is that with all the people I knew it mostly went away at some point in their lives, and they don't know why)

> I wouldn't say this is the norm for alternative therapies.

I have a lot of relatives who are very fond of "alternative medicine", and almost all of it is total bullshit.

There's people determining the correct ingredients of a medicine using a pendulum, others determining food allergies by measuring electrical resistance of the skin, people who cure headaches with electric shocks, or those that cure epilepsy by taking specific "salts", and there's always some general purpose alcohol drops that help cure everything.

> alternative therapies should be taken seriously, and studied properly, before they are dismissed

So many people come up with devices that channel earth rays and complain that the establishment doesn't take them serious. If you try to make money with some made up treatment, it's on you to prove that it works. You can't just go peddle your cure for everything and then expect some scientist to come along and do the work for you.

If it's something sensible, then people do study it. Out of curiosity I typed the keywords "meditation" and "exzema" into Google scholar, and 5000 articles matched the query. I don't have any background in clinical research, so I have no idea how I'd go about to evaluate the quality of these articles, but it definitely does look to me like research is being done on alternative treatments.
John Cleese did a program about this, 20 years ago.

https://youtu.be/sHnz6KoYw_A

(TL;DR - He does the experiment at 16:30)

I took a wine class in college (my school had a Hotel/Restaurant Management program, and offered the class as a General Ed elective). Those classes are focused on the geography of the different wine regions and taught nothing about how to train your palate. And no one ever talks about the idea of Qualia and how that can be different for different people.
Another reason not to pursue university-style research is that historically a lot of scientific progress and even breakthroughs have occurred on the 'applied' side due to their access to reams of data and interest in process control and incremental refinement.
I wonder if they, like Pfizer, will take the opportunity to declare that they have shipped 2x as many doses retroactively (in Pfizer’s case it was an extra dose in every vial).
It sounds like the big issue for you and others is that this was a hit piece. Okay -- but it's not in general wrong to report the name of someone who has written a large body of influential work, especially when it wasn't unknown in the first place. You're exaggerating grossly.

Scott Alexander on the one hand is a practicing clinician, and on the other writes prolifically about culture war topics. This is majorly out of balance, and it's on Scott to fit these areas of his life and income together. Why would the responsibility be on the NYT to help him?
As someone who has had to make international payments in the US$20-50k range semi-frequently, Bitcoin is by far the easiest way to do it.

Your story about it being easy and cheap to do via remittances or whatever is pure fiction. Any traditional mechanism is at least two of slow, expensive, and onerous.
Wow. This looks like just the thing. Thanks!
Had I not been prepped by reading about the controversy here on HN, I wouldn't have guessed that the NYT article was a hit piece. On the other hand, had I not noticed that the article came from the NYT, I wouldn't have guessed that it wasn't just another blog.

Lots of blogs praise one another while also including disagreements and disclaimers that they don't fully believe their own writing, much less the writing of others. But they consider the articles to be worth reading anyway.

Some of my opinions are unpopular and may even make people uncomfortable. So I admit with trepidation that I still like the NYT and will continue to subscribe.
I have worked for companies in the past with horrible datacenter partners (one of them did not know that one of the two switches they routed our traffic through was completely dead), so I definitely agree with you on that.

On the flip side, I wonder how much better the support from a cloud provider is if it's an isolated problem and not something that's setting twitter aflame.

If it takes a cloud provider in the order of hours to get me back online, I could probably get the same sort of service from one of the better colos/hosting providers, especially if they were local and I had the ability to make a call to get support.

There are other conveniences to cloud providers of course, but I think I if I could find highly skilled ops people and pay them well, I would run my own servers every time. For the kind of games I've worked on, the money/CPU cost of cloud is ludicrous.

The trick these days is even finding high-level ops people who aren't already working 3-400k jobs for AWS/Azure/GCP
Which is what Financial Times does, publishing articles about "whiteness" while defending the rich.
I'm sure that would get some idiots, but alt accounts aren't difficult. If someone is actively going to the effort of buying, setting up, placing, and using an airpod to stalk someone they can go to the effort to hide their identity.
What did you publish? I mean can you give your book title? or tell us was it a tech book? fiction? kids? ...
I don't get why everyone is so upset at Google here? The guy admits to committing click fraud and then gets shut down. As someone who spends a bit of money on adwords I am pretty happy to see Google is active in enforcing these policies.
If it's a web site/blog that provides content to a specific niche, I'd recommend listening to some of what Gary Vaynerchuck (search on Youtube) has to say. More than anything, he just encourages you to market yourself, cold call, and really be personal with your visitors.

If you're building a web application, there's Don't Just Roll the Dice (http://businessofsoftware.org/ebook.aspx), which provides an excellent guide to software pricing. Unless you're serving a specific niche that advertisers will like, add a price to your application. Actually, even if you're serving a specific niche, add a price. If you're looking to sell eyeballs, you'll need a ton of eyeballs before you'll even recover your costs.

Your question was a bit vague, so I can't really give a specific answer. But assuming you are able to get hundreds of thousands of people flooding your site daily, you can slap some ads on it at any time.
Or he.
If you're really interested in Raytracing, get hold of the Book "Physically-based Rendering" by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys.

It's pretty-much the bible for raytracing theory at close to production level rendering, and has pbrt - an open source raytracer - which ships with it which is a relatively capable renderer, and an excellent example of how to design a renderer in an object-orientated way.
If there is any takeaway from the article, this is true. However you don't need to actually go to France. What you do need is a good native french speaker to speak with and tutor you intensively, at the least.
And another big online store like Target just won’t help in the case of an issue? I don’t believe that at all.

My credit card is enough assurance that a seller won’t defraud me.

I actually have found a number of products where Amazon is not price competitive with some other US stores like Target, especially considering everyone’s blind assumption that it makes sense to pay $12.99 a month to be in the Amazon club without even doing the math on how much that increases the price of each item you buy.

I always have people ask me “don’t you have Prime?” as if it’s assumed that the deal is a no-brainer. It’s totally not. You don’t need Prime to buy stuff on Amazon and people are just conditioned.
Covid-19 isn't the only pathogen around, there are many tougher pathogens. I suspect a few days of sunlight won't be enough for those.
Well, it seems folk weren't impressed with the technical aspects of your question, but I'll give it a shot and ignore the moral aspect entirely.

What would happen at "100 times that rate"? That's about 10cm a month, or four inches a month for Americans.

Firstly, the coast does not slope back at a constant angle from the sea, so you can't just move uphill a few yards and think that everything will be fine. Even if you could, try it now: try moving to an area that's, say, 20 yards uphill from where you are. Today. Do you see the immediate problem?

But let's say you're already a fair height above sea level, so you've got a few years, and you live in a coastal town. What is going to happen? Well, after a few months, you're going to start having issues with high tides. Sewers will flood, so you'll literally have a river of shite flowing in the streets below. The piers down at the harbour will become dangerous at high tide. Breakwaters will become ineffective. Warehouses will flood.

You've probably got a coastal road out of the town. With the higher tides, you've got increased erosion, so after a particularly bad storm, there's a major landslip, and you lose not only the road but the rail link out as well. Goods can't get in or out of your town now.

The higher parts of the town are now islands, and you don't have a functional slipway so it's difficult to even use boats. The shape of the coastline is now in constant flux; it changes with every tide as mud and sand gets sloshed around, which means that tides are completely unpredictable. Sometimes you get a massive tide as more water is funnelled in, and other times it's barely noticeable as mudbanks cut off whole areas of water.

Now, all this might even be manageable, if you have access to plenty of money to rebuild, but who is going to rebuild when they'll have to do it all again next year? And you're not going to get help from anywhere else, because this is happening to every coastal town all at once.

Of course, this is based on your extreme case of 10cm per month, so the real question is "at what stage does this become unmanageable?". Is it 10cm per year? 1cm per year over the course of a decade? Somewhere inbetween?
To the extent possible, I would even recommend being open with them about how counterproductive you feel this is.
Especially as the labor market is about to be flooded with devops k8s folks, looking to apply their skills.