skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father died of liver cancer. A piece of me died in those weeks of his misery, and pain right up to his horrid death.

My father was not a kind man. He was petty, selfish person, but I still would have done anything for him.

Looking back, he was under medicated while in Palliative Care. He was at home, but that shouldn't be an issue? No one in the family could figure out why he wasen't given more medication. He saw a Hospice Doctor once, I believe, and a couple of nurses dropped by.

Getting him pain meds, and benzodiazepines was a battle. It's such a stressful situation, and getting meds should be difficult?

He never seemed to have enough. I look back, and don't know what the problem was with the lack of strong medication. Maybe the doctors didn't want too much around? I don't know?
They should alleviated his pain better though.

I understand no cures, but alleviate the misery with drugs. We do have drugs?

There were times, I felt like, if I knew where to buy it; I would have bought him heroin.

I accept death. We can make patients comfortable when they are dying with medication? Maybe we were the the family that wasen't vocal enough? I don't know, but in my dads death; Hospice did a terrible job.

Hospice has a lot of money. I was surprised, because I heard they were a good organization.

(I didn't want to read this post. I had a feeling it was Peiter. I don't know the man, but truely admire his courage.)
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Well, turns out your tool is exactly what we were looking for a few days ago.
We can send satellites into space, which while more expensive than building terrestrial telescopes, seems like it doesn't have any other advantages. Since this is apparently sacred land that was stolen from the original inhabitants of the island, why aren't we considering alternatives?
I like the honesty. I look at it as that he has automated the most frequent stuff and that his allotment of time can go to further unique cases of customer service. Automated surface breadth allows deepness with finite time.
Maybe we Europeans just have less faith in the goodness of corporations. As it stands, they seem like the perfect opportunity for a scam - they'll freeze you up, then after some years they'll say "unfortunately there's still no cure", and your family can then opt between paying a large annual sum in perpetuity or killing you. While I hope my descendants would have the guts to tell them to burn me up, I can't in good conscience force them to make that choice.
Ah, but consider the support lag you get for most products, and the person from whom you receive a reply to your email (and their ability to actually do anything about your issue).

So yeah, you might have to wait until the next day for a reply. But that reply will be to say that your issue has been fixed (by the guy who built the product) and that no further action is required on your part.

People seem to like that. (And a guy can only really climb hard a couple days a week without injury, so it's entirely possible you'll find me in front of the keyboard.)
I disagree on that distinction. Pedestrians have not introduced the primed-handgrenade of the automobile into the situation. All dangerous consequences that flow from that introduction are the responsibility of the introducer.

Many highway codes explicitly recognize this principle: drivers are supposed to conduct their vehicle as though someone or something may run out in front of them at any stage.

It is true that in practice this implicit morality which reflects the widespread outrage which greeted the introduction of the motor car is now ignored, but that is at the base of many the codes.
Nice work so far. I have used/worked on similar projects in the past, but more focused on financial analysis specifically. HF's try these types of things all the time as you may know.

I think the potential here is very cool and may be interested in helping if I can.

But if I may ask: What's the future goal for this? More so, what do you mean by "actionable conclusions"?

(Like in finance the actionable conclusions were something along the lines of risk management/buy/sell/hedge it)

I'm all for better info and getting the true full story about events; but curious what actionable conclusion means here.

Happy to chat offline about it if more appropriate. Again, great work.
Do I ever know if I will or won't need support?

The conditions predicating the technical success of this tool aren't immutable.
I think it's cultural, UFO sightings may be just if not more common with people regularly flying drones. People just care less. I have seen plenty of flying things I can't identify, I just never assumed Aliens.
Like many others, I've never met him, but he has touched my soul.

I enjoyed his writings on community building most. He himself being a very approachable person, taught me everything we do is about people, not software. I'll definitely miss him in the days to come.

Peace Peter.
I like how you phrased this. I have a similar feeling about this but I couldn't express it so clearly.
Whether or not you agree with police violence, oversight, or power, body cameras are the best way we have right now to document exactly what is going on.

If the courts decide to change how the police interact with the public, it will probably be on the data of thousands or millions of minutes of body camera footage. At that point the court can make a very clear decision: Do we want this to continue? Because with the footage it will be (more) clear exactly what is going on.
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When it comes to cars, nothing is stopping some yahoo not paying any attention from careening into you no matter how careful you are.
> We're professionals, after all, and TypeScript and React were not build by some teenage hackers.

Overall correct

> The reason is that we started to build complex applications instead of enhancing grandma's blog using jQuery.animate, get over it.

And this is where we disagree

Complexity is needed sometimes, needless complexity only brings the overall value down

If I want to do a website using Django I need to get: Django. Period.

I may need some other libraries, but they're much fewer than any basic node.js project, even with things like Flask

I have one package manager: pip. It works

With express.js you need a library to parse an HTTP request body ffs. https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser
If harnessed properly, a mass-switch to renewables could generate millions of jobs at very little cost for the public purse: installers, maintainers, manufacturers, auditors, developers for smart grids, etc etc etc... but you'd need a smart government writing smart laws to push people down that road.

The current bunch finds it so much easier to just cut a huge check to EDF and China to build an obsolete, centralized big-ass plant. Benefits to occupation levels will be zero outside of Hinkley. We have no sustainable solution for nuclear waste, and one more terrorist target. Facepalm.jpg
And again others just accept that their death will have come to them, they’ll sort their lives out, tie up loose ends, and, feeling they’ve done everything worth doing, having lived a fulfilling life, just embrace death.

Cryonics is a very risky, and, with current technology, likely unreversable procedure, so relying on it to tie up your loose ends someday is silly. It’s almost religious in the unreasonable belief that someone higher – here "future humanity" – will be able to help you.
Self driving cars are going to beat up on trains too
Probably because it's quackery. http://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein
Because the occupants of the cars want to get to any and all places where there are non-occupants of cars. The conflicts are inherent. Car use is fundamentally an irrational application of technology that appeals to the lazy.
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If only there were a free POSIX-ish OS that did privilege separation and chroot for daemons by default. Perhaps some enterprising Canadian developer could base it on the BSD kernel.
My guess was that it was due to fewer people filing frivolous complaints, knowing that there'd be video evidence.
You have no idea. Try googling for "deep dream porn".
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I really enjoyed the writing style :)
As part of this mission, we have always endeavored to contribute software plumbing toolkits back to the community, following the UNIX philosophy of building small loosely coupled tools that are created to simply do one thing well.

Great stuff. Coffee just shot out my nose.
“Can't we just drone this guy?”
I made a plane and threw it, then tried to catch some and the net wouldn't catch anything, then I tapped See Your Planes and it said I've made 0 planes. I'd say this was a resounding success.
No, that's a line. I mean filling the curve, as in 2D, i.e. instead of using a solid color, using a pattern.
Nishimura is the founder of 2channel, the Japanese website than 4chan began as a direct clone of. He is known for doing sketchy stuff in order to make a buck, and when he bought 4chan, many users speculated that he would mess with the site in some way to make a profit. I don't think anyone expected him to flat-out suggest malicious ads to his users, though.
I'm seeing a bit of Niel Postman's Technopoly criticism of media. We get these little news snippets, originally by wire to select locations, now anybody via Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or HN. I see Pieter's notice sandwiched between police complaints / cameras, and the Nobel prize in physics. One out of two ain't bad.

Information, writing, and media have the ability to convey information totally unrelated to our present reality from anywhere on the planet, and a few points beyond. But leave us with having to contextualise all of it.

It's quite jarring. Not the first time I've received a death notice by (nominally) social media. Still carries a shock.

As for the "after he's gone" -- that's what death is, so far as I've realised. Life for the deceased stops, for the rest of us, it goes on. We have experiences, and conversations, and reminiscences, in which the dead are only memories.
Some tools are "simple and powerful", other tools are "complex and powerless"¹.

The first set is normally seen as "hard", because it is very easy to shoot oneself at the foot with them, and because experts tend to be attracted by them. The second set is often seen as "easy" because the complex features are normally there to stop novices from harming themselves.

The unexpected thing is that "simple" is much easier to learn than "complex", independently of what other adjectives come bundled with them.

1 - Yes, the other 2 combinations exist. "Simple and powerless" does not make the headlines, and "complex and powerful" is very, very rare.
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If you plant a NIL commit in your repo before doing anything else, and tag it as NIL, then absolutely all git commands that take a ref (including ones you don't even know yet) will Just Work without any special arguments or modifications for the root case. You don't need to memorize yet more special cases for yet one more corner case in git.

In existing old repos or other people's repos that do not have NIL, I don't need it, because I won't be rewriting their history (let alone all of it back from the empty state!)

It's handy, when a repo is brand new, to be able to massage the newly created master branch using the same workflows that are rehearsed daily, rather than special cases.
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Sigh.

>Annual mean precipitation over England and Wales has not changed significantly since records began in 1766. Seasonal rainfall is highly variable, but appears to have decreased in summer and increased in winter, although with little change in the latter over the last 50 years. [0]

>The results suggest that there have been trends towards more protracted high flows over the last 30–50 years, but that this could be accounted for as part of climatic variation rather than climate change. There is no statistical evidence of a long–term trend in flooding over the last 80–120 years. Thus, although climate change could be influencing floods, direct analysis of flood records does not yet provide proof. [1]

>The adjusted record shows no trend in reported flooding over time, but there is significant decade to decade variability. [2]

>A rising population, more households and greater wealth have led to an ever greater demand for water, putting the limited supply in the south of England under stress. [3]

So no, if we like an evidence based approach, climate change has not had any measurable effect on precipitation, flooding or water shortages in the UK. These are basically seasonal variations exposing infrastructure weaknesses.

[0] p12 : http://www.ukcip.org.uk/wp-content/PDFs/UKCP09_Trends.pdf

[1] http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/360/1796/1327...

[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.950581

[3] http://catchments.nerc.ac.uk/issues/crisis/index.asp
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They don't have to be right there by the star. They could be small ships just a few million miles away, maybe.
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And that's way I feel much more comfortable in Dart ecosystem:

- sane SDK and sane - not surprising - lang without this hell

- jquery like functionality built in

- one package manager and package repository

- can be used on server as well

- nice tooling (WebStorm-IntelliJ, VisualStudio Code)
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The ability to use pkg made customization much easier.

They are both good.
Thanks. I'd venture that the success rate is low.

I, and others, have asked questions [0] [1] about people's experiences/financial numbers in running an indie business and the HN crowd very willingly shared both. I doubt the freelancing crowd would be that much different in terms of sharing.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269425
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065355
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Maybe it's Slartibartfast's workshop.
Well, lattice has really nice defaults to reduce the clutter when printing. But it's still missing patterns for filling curves as any other library based in ggplot2 because ggplot2 simply doesn't have support for it. What is more strange, is that most modern libraries (plotly, bokeh, etc) also do away without those capabilities.

The result, is that they all look very nice on the screen, but when you have to print in B&W or low color resolution, they all fail.
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Also thought it was a good excerpt. If you can write a short story around it (or nanowrimo) I'd be interested too.
I appreciate this reply a bit more, though it's worth noting that this approach doesn't really scale all that well.

As you add customers, you'll eventually be stretched thin as you try to cater to different needs (assuming that's your goal—it might not be!). Assuming you eventually bring on other technical folks, I'd argue that you'd want to prevent this same language and mentality from persisting as a part of company culture.

But again, your goal might only be to reach a certain size and live comfortably. If so, then you're probably fine. I suppose my qualm was more with the image conveyed by your language more than anything else.
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Like DVDs, the name is kind of stuck. There, they switched from Digital Video Discs to Digital Versatile Discs. How about switching your mind from Graphics Processing Units to General-purpose Processing Units?
yeah, they have a really good portfolio of products in that space these days. Cheers.
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Nice site!

I was wondering, it seem ski-slopes and -lifts are shown on the map (given a sufficient zoom-factor). Is this on purpose? :)

If I had to guess, I would say it is because you public transport is included?
Better manipulation of axis is one. For instance, being able to add divisions and sub divisions just to the axis and do away without lines through all the plot area.
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It was working last night. And it looks like there are some problems this morning.
This brings to mind the Omega clouds from Jack McDevitt's novels, starting with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engines_of_God
WikiLeaks plans to release documents on US election and Google
Throw out the TV, for starters.
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In which European country do citizens starve because of immigration?
The point of flashing an LED with an Arduino is not to flash the LED, it's to get the tools setup and workflow working while learning the basics. It's the "hello world" of microcontroller programming.

I've heard this process called "flow flushing". With things like FPGAs it can take days to go from nothing to flashing an LED. Because the toolchain is large, complicated and opaque.

It sounds like the Javascript world have built large toolchains for large projects and have then cargo-culted into using the same toolchains for tiny projects when they don't have to.
Exactly same story. We've been playing with my brother and classmates some "car racing" game on MK-61 before we've got custom ZX 81 attached to a TV (initially, "Yunost") and old cassette recorder AIWA TPR-830, where we could program the same on BASIC.
> and try to make a difference

The cynic in me assumes that with children and a spouse, you're most likely too busy filling out forms and applications that ensure that they will not be screwed over by insurance companies and medical providers.
i miss the days of Borland where the IDE would just run darn the thing.
Yes, but that's something a lot of people are arguing here and I agree. The "I could build in a week" is ridiculous, but "I could what this 1000 engineers company do that with a small team of 10, in a lean way in 18 months" is very frequent in the market.
Exactly.

When I read those comments on HN, I'm really curious to know how people think you can build, scale and maintain a web app like Facebook. Do they think you can achieve it like in 2006, with a single scrip.js containing 100 000 lines of jQuery soup?

jQuery is fine for any web site or small web apps, but as soon as you reach the 2000 LOC, it's crazy to continue with it.
and that's how you can use express.js to run a service that uses a different protocol to HTTP.

Express is one of the easiest libraries to learn in any programming language. It's certainly much easier to learn than Django, at least in part because it doesn't include the kitchen sink
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Sibling comment by 'icantdrive' is 'dead', but I don't see why because it is not offensive.
It's easy to be an idiot. Everybody does that sometimes. Kudos for your graceful reaction to being called on it. I think I'll borrow your approach next time I'm in a similar situation.
I mean it's just as easy to make a mistake in the first place with rebase -i. Even though one is theoretically possible to recover with rebase -i, it's going to be very hard to recover for a beginner. (You need to know the reflog command, etc.)
we could build own own dyson sphere, just (sic) start off by turning ISS into a solar collector and making it face the sun 24/7. then add more to it.
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The same kind of rant applies to things like automake, but only Javascript has this incredibly high rate of churn. Possibly it's easier to build a new toolchain than to understand someone's existing one.
It's quite strange that the article immediately jumps to the conclusion that is (only) the police that is behaving better.

Why don't they even pose the possibility that the people being policed, knowing there is a camera, either behave better or at least, knowing there is a camera, don't make false claims about police mistreatment, knowing that the police now has proof about what really happened?
As a back-end developer, I find it interesting that the default answer is a framework — the state of affairs that prevailed ten to twenty years ago in server development. Enterprise Javabeans, Spring, everybody assumed that big, overarching frameworks were awesome and you couldn't afford to do without them. Our experience with that mindset has pushed us to the opposite default assumption: everything is better if it can be done as a library than as a framework. We look for libraries that humbly strive to coexist with whatever other libraries we need. The few times I've dipped into web UI Javascript, I've felt like the developers of UI "frameworks" share this mindset much more than the people using their work; often they'll explicitly point out that the tool they've built (such as backbone.js) is a library rather than a framework, while the people recommending it to me will say "no no, it's a framework," meaning "no no, it's way better than just a library." Is that an expression of a real difference between back-end and web UI code, or is it just different phases in the tide of opinion?
Besides the misquote, people of color, and especially black folk, are regularly told to "calm down" to "get the message across better." But what happens when an athlete like Colin Kaepernick calmly and quietly takes a knee in protest? The dialogue explodes around his being disrespectful and not about the issues he is actually protesting.

This comic literally illustrates the hypocrisy of reactions to Black Lives Matter protests: https://www.instagram.com/p/BK8vHj4g1yb/

Besides which, responding to someone's call for help on life and death issues with "calm down" is patronizing to the point of inhumanity.
Humans game every system, it is our nature. Awareness of our behaviors is the first step in taking measures to alter those behaviors. A body camera, while it may be subject to the same human gaming in some regards, provides awareness of police interaction that has previously been unavailable. Additionally, identifying those individuals who are willing to game the system provides value as well.
No, that's where the money is. The value is in the actually good games.
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This article looks like some dialogue taken from Fallout 1. :)