skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly true, GM had $51 billion in losses in the 3 years prior to the 2008 recession. Factories in Michigan were being shut down long before that with operations being moved to lower cost locations -- locations that were lower cost specifically because they were either overseas or right-to-work states. Claiming that unions had nothing to do with the automotive crisis is to misunderstand the automotive industry. The financial crisis was traumatic to the auto companies because even with a shift away from union manufacturing, the overall drop in worldwide demand was the straw that broke the camel's back. The auto companies were on life support before the global recession.
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In addition, the "transport" and "security" portions are the least-HTTP-related parts of an HTTP stack. Far more than HTTP runs on TCP and TLS.
It's great to see this approach to core API design, and I wish other platforms adopted it. There are many advantages to having a rich ecosystem of third-party libraries, but composability becomes a problem when they define different types for the same concepts. This is the best of both worlds - you get multiple competing implementations of the interesting bits, but everything "just works" with any of them.
The entire point of my comment is that I believe treating it as a crime will prevent it from happening to some extent. You may disagree, but I'm not offering punitive measures instead of preventive solutions. I'm offering punitive measures as preventive solutions.

I think you're falling victim to the common fallacy where I advocate for A, you believe that A has consequence X, therefore you believe I'm advocating for X. But I believe A has consequence Y, and so I'm not in any way advocating for X.

I have great sympathy for parents who fall victim to this. But I'm more concerned with reducing the incidence of it. If treating it as a crime helps, which I believe it would, then it's well worth the tradeoff to me.

Coming at it from a personal perspective, if it ever happened to me, I can only imagine that I would be so distraught that I wouldn't care what the law did to me.
In case you haven't noticed, there are some other countries in this planet beside the United States :P. Voter fraud is a major problem in many developing countries, and electronic voting (if properly implemented) could help tremendously in making elections a great deal more transparent.
Okay, so nothing of the magnitude of the Hoffa days that's recent...when most unions were corrupt. Sure, you'll find some notable issues with any collection of large organization of any type. My point is that some opinions on unions are still based on that era.
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Who actually uses the official reddit mobile app? RIF is king on android, baconreader is decent. Alien Blue reigns on iOS.
"Yes, ideally we would run every possible test on any patient that walks in with a stomachache. But there are limits to our economy and to doctors' time. It's a complex problem."

The problem isn't necessarily economical, a lot of those tests are actually very cheap.

The problem is that most tests have high false-positive rates, which you account for by using bayesian inference: the probability of having the disease when you have both symptoms and a positive result on the test, is very high, even if the test itself has a high false-positive rate.

But if you just run all tests in a healthy patient, you'll get back a lot of false positives.

https://people.ucsc.edu/~abrsvn/intro_bayes_1.pdf
Plenty of environmental groups would be pretty happy to curb emissions in "just" US, Europe, Japan, and China...
i disagree. for instance, algorithms and heuristics that are used in screening candidates should be subject to fair hiring laws (even if only indirectly, as a result of the existing legal framework). algorithms and heuristics for dealing with personally identifiable info in e.g. financial and medical settings should not allow an end-run around personal privacy regulations. neither of these examples is even close to being "strong AI". they're "mere algorithms". but they should certainly be the subject of regulatory scrutiny, IMO.

i do, however, agree that if strong AI is achievable, there are a whole other set of ethical considerations that come into play, namely the subjective experience of the AI itself, and the rights that might be entailed by possessing such a subjective experience. and i do think that strong AI is achievable, and i do think it is thoroughly plausible that it'll have subjective experience (that is the very definition of strong AI for some people). whether people will achieve that, and whether they'll achieve that in our lifetime... i dunno. but i'm definitely in the camp that says that conscious experience is a result of certain sorts of complex stimulus and information processing, and i don't think humans, or animals on earth, or carbon-based life, or meat computers in general have a monopoly on it.
Where I live, the trash company is the same as the recycling company, so it's very likely the recycle (at least some portion of it) ends up in the trash. Better to just avoid the plastics, which is actually pretty impossible for some items.
> "Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proved to work? Medicine." - Tim Minchin, Storm, 2008

I've been a big fan of Tim Minchin's, and thanks to living in one of the cities where he built much of his early fame, I've seen and enjoyed much of his work.

But I feel like a form of Godwin's Law should apply to this quote.

It's been done to death, it contributes nothing of value to the discussions in which it is cited, it minimises and trivialises the horrible predicament of people (like myself) who experience illnesses that mainstream medicine can't/won't recognise or treat, and serves only to promote a sense of smugness among people who think they have mainstream medical science on their side.

The point that people sharing this quote don't understand is this: For mainstream medical science to 'prove' something to work, it requires huge commercial and/or political incentives to do the research. If a pharmaceutical company or research institution can't reasonably expect a study to result in the development of a drug that can yield hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, it doesn't get done. That leads to a vast gap between what has been "proved to work" and what can actually work for people who take matters into their own hands, as I've done very successfully.

It's notable that all the comments here seeking to refute Mz's comment are doing so by exaggerating or outright misquoting what she said.
Good advice I got once: not every surface is a slippery slope.
One of the major goals of the USA is to make corporations (and their owners) obscenely rich.

Unions are one tiny attempt by the common-man to even that out a fraction, and is therefore evil by definition, because it goes against the above point.

Anyone against unions is either a) an obscenely rich owner who doesn't want to share, or b) has been tricked into thinking making rich people richer will help them in some extremely obscure way.
I may be interested :) You can message me at e@ericwaldman.ca
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Too many mods can be just as destructive as too few. Look at what happened to SomethingAwful.
That's a tautological argument though. It's useful because we import it.
Sounds like some dodgy graphics driver on your old iMac
https://github.com/saarraz/static-print (not mine) is a compiler patch that adds the kind of print you're looking for
I hope they keep the old design and prioritize on fixing the implementation from a resource-usage perspective.

Reddit pages use a ton of RAM and CPU compared to sites like HN. Some of that is understandable considering the features they strive to support, but some of it is honestly just something that can be better engineered.
The precise definition of defamation tends to be along the lines of "false statement of fact", "maliciously made", and "damaging to the reputation" (exact definition will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but these are the universal elements).

Creating a video faking someone's statement of opinions would almost certainly qualify all the elements of defamation.
I don't understand the last part of your comment. Good parents almost never (note: "almost"!) leave their children alone in a car. Cracking down on it would not noticeably increase the ability of the police to selectively prosecute people.

Looking at what gets treated as criminal negligence, one site mentioned that a nurse failing to feed a patient who can't feed themselves, and who subsequently starves to death, would be criminal negligence. You seem to indicate that this couldn't be criminal since it lacks intent. Is that example incorrect?
Ha, thank you.
complete guess, their doc generation system used this by default, now racket visual identity is tied to it
This particular announcement is about defining shared API types between libraries for which (I think) the things you've listed would be a concern. It's not a full HTTP implementation AFICT.
I agree. Moreover, like the examples in the benchmargame, usually for code that only crunch numbers Racket is 10x-20x times faster than Python. For code that use a lot of strings or hash-tables, Racket is usually slightly slower, 20%-50%. YMMV.

It's also important to compare the idiomatic version of the code in Racket versus the idiomatic version of the code in Python. If you make a line by line translation, you can get an awful performance.

Also, remember that by default the DrRacket IDE use the mode "debugging" and "preserve stacktrace". They are very handy for debugging but they make the code much slower. The recommendation is to run the benchmarks in the command line. But if you disable "debugging" and "preserve stacktrace" the results are quite good.
If it's a matter of degree, then here's my take on your remark.

Your comment has not merely crossed the line into "I-know-better"-land, it is days into that territory, is lost without a map, is desperately looking for water and shelter, but is still having terrible trouble admitting to itself that it might have made a horrible mistake.

> Let's say, for example, that you, as a patient, have been reading the literature on inflammatory systems and have become convinced that

Uh-oh.

> PhD has a very convincing scientific case

That is the point where your physician had to stifle a giggle, I'm afraid.

> Why should you, as the patient, have to get the approval of a physician to go through with it

You don't. If you can perform the procedure on yourself, it's perfectly legal.
I don't see how there's much Apple can do here they are a technology company not a world power
That is correct, for what it was worth IBM's legal team came down on the side of 'assume deny' and Google was (at the time I was there) 'assume allow.'
There's actually a big difference between coolant-based explosions caused by runaway reactor heat and a nuclear weapon. The process is not the same, even when they are both driven by criticality. And where the difference lies in terms of time-scales and pressures involved, and thus our ability to contain and protect against them, equating the two in this context is not honest. You may as well be comparing grenades and firecrackers.
Basecamp is the only one I can think of - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3856-the-big-rewrite-revisite...
It's usually not so much the number of packages itself, as it is the degree of maturity or support. It is indirectly connected to count in a sense that, say, you might have a dozen packages doing the same thing for Java or Node, of which three have more than one maintainer, and one is mature and stable - and so you can use that latter one without worry. Whereas in smaller ecosystems, you often end up with just one package being your only option, and so you just live with the fact that it has a single maintainer (who can decide to quit for whatever personal reasons any day), and has been version 0.x for years.
Don't sleep on your Erlang literature: Learn You Some Erlang, Erlang in Anger, Design for Scalability with OTP. Also Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook is pretty short. I haven't read it yet, but Elixir in Action is supposed to be very good, too.

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/

https://smile.amazon.com/Designing-Scalability-Erlang-OTP-Fa...

https://www.manning.com/books/the-little-elixir-and-otp-guid...

https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action
I don't know what most of this is meant to persuade me of, but I will say that when people estimate the value of the Vatican, they're not just basing that on the cash in the Vatican Bank.
You may not like it, but it is not necessarily a scam. Some of the posts by Bronte capital mentioned in the article

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/06/herbalife-very-lon...

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2016/07/herbalife-and-end-...
Yes, it was a great source of inspiration!
Reiterating my original comment, it would also be good to distinguish between the whole-lifecycle pollution generated now, with current electrical and transportation infrastructure, and the whole-lifecycle pollution you could achieve if you applied the "clean" technology to the whole lifecycle.

For example, solar panel production requires a lot of electricity. That electricity is mostly generated from fossil fuels. But if you supplied that electricity with solar panels instead, it would be way cleaner. Which is correct? We should probably present both numbers, if possible.
Don't the other social networks throttle http requests from certain dubious ip addresses? I think they all do this.
You got to love Carl Icahn:

ON WHEN ACKMAN CALLED HIM IN 2003:

"I'm telling you he's like a crybaby in the schoolyard. I went to a tough school in Queens, you know, and they used to beat up the little Jewish boys. He was like one of the little Jewish boys crying ..."

ON ACKMAN AS A FRIEND:

"He's the quintessential example of 'if you want a friend on Wall Street, get a dog.'"

ON HAVING DINNER WITH ACKMAN:

"As far as I'm concerned, he wanted to have dinner with me. I couldn't figure out if he was the most sanctimonious guy I met in my life or just arrogant and that's Ackman."

ON ACKMAN DONATING ANY HLF PROFITS TO CHARITY:

"He talks about charity. That's complete bullshit!"

ON ACKMAN SAYING ICAHN IS A GOOD INVESTOR:

"I appreciate you, Bill, calling me a 'great investor', but unfortunately I cannot say the same for you."

BONUS: ON WHEN SCOTT WAPNER ASKED HIM IF HE'S LONG HLF:

"I want to say what I want to say and I'm not going to talk about my Herbalife position because you want to bully me ... I don't give a damn about what you want to know. I want to talk about what I want to talk about ... You can say what the hell you want. I'm going to talk about what Ackman just said about me, not about Herbalife ... I'll talk about Herbalife when I goddamn want to ... I'm never going on a show with you again, that's for damn sure, OK."
Presuming otherwise is foolhardy arrogance that misses the profound interconnectedness and subtle complexity of body systems. And this is especially the case with endocrine and immune systems.

In my experience, people with chronic illness who take their own treatment into their own hands have a far better a appreciation for the "interconnectedness and subtle complexity of body systems" than do mainstream physicians.

My own recovery from chronic fatigue has come about because I developed a deep understanding of this and undertook an assortment of practices that enabled these systems to correct themselves.
I'd argue that all but the most extremely basic of HTTP options are far from universal, and defining sane defaults is the responsibility of frameworks and not a core library.
I'll repost my comment from the other thread that got flagged for being a dupe:

They absolutely stake out moral positions on issues like this all the time. The difference is they only do it in the West where rule of law prevails and they can actually exert influence.

They've done it with various anti-LGBT efforts that have taken place around the US, they've done it with the fight with the FBI and they're doing it right now in Australia [1], among others.

What they don't do is shoot themselves in the head in some misguided attempt at ideological purity.

Also this seems absurd to me:

>The company has not fully tested its political and economic leverage in China. It hasn’t tested the public’s immense love of its products. It hasn’t publicly threatened any long-term consequences — like looking to other parts of the world to manufacture its products.

If China's authoritarian regime is objectionable then do what countries have always done in history: isolate them economically, diplomatically or politically. Try to foment and support an insurgency or revolution or just invade them yourselves. I'm not sure anyone is willing to risk nuclear war to bring democracy to China but those are your options. Apple isn't a vessel for anyone's foreign policy objectives and it isn't a substitute for the state.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/07/20/apple-talks-australian-...
Agreed. And in particular, these kinds of types would make it much easier to write a framework-agnostic library that helps you handle caching correctly, built on top of these types, like Request and Response.
The rocket reusability race will halt unless it considers integration time
Okey, we will take this into account for the following updates. Thanks you!
The problem is that Gawker was served with a court order to remove the tape and decided not to comply.
In Dlang, where compile time function execution is the norm, you use the equivalent of what would be "pragma printf" -- eg. You embed compiler warnings into your compile time branching to debug.
Honest question: how the heck do you time a margin call for a whale like that apart from knowing someone on the inside?
As much as I dislike Apple, they made the right choice here. While it may be easy to praise Apple's stance against FBI backdooring the iPhone's secure boot and condemn their compliance with removing VPN apps from the Chinese app store, the latter policy is completely unlike the former for several good reasons. With the Chinese market, you need to choose your battles.

Removing VPN apps from the Appstore does not compromise the privacy of any Apple users, and does not prevent existing users of these apps from continuing to use them on their devices. I would imagine Cook fought pretty hard to protect the privacy of Apple users to get this concession from the Chinese censors. For comparison, on Android, China is forcing users in Muslim regions to install apps that scan for "terrorist content" and track user activity.

https://thinkprogress.org/china-muslim-surveillance-policy-c...
> Well, what do you want to happen? The doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you. Maybe someone else does; do you want the doctor to refer you to someone else who might be able to figure you out? Maybe no one does; there's a lot of things that go wrong with people and we haven't even identified them all yet, let alone figured out any sort of treatment.

I think the thing that I see missing most in medical treatment is a sense of empiricism. That's part of why I really value my doctor - he's less about "what particular disorder", and more about "how is your quality of life?"

If I go to him with a particular problem, we focus on that problem, but he's always referencing back to overall quality of life and management, rather than "fixing a problem" and walking away. Every time I see him there's a recheck on any existing or recently addressed problems, and usually a screening for something that they're trying to reduce on a patient-population basis (alcoholism, for example)
It is actually a good name! Maybe for the podcast...(?)
To be clear, I'm not at all saying that false negatives are acceptable. I'm sorry that your migraines went undiagnosed for so long and am happy to hear that you were eventually helped.

I just wanted to point out that it is a complex issue because there most likely are a significant number of patients who have pyschosomatic pain. And because of them it's, unfortunately, difficult to achieve comprehensive testing. (But I don't want to sound like I'm blaming this group very much. Stress can be terrible, especially when it's chronic. Though freeloaders are a different problem..)
I just don't trust that guy.
It's probably not very informative to think of humans as apex predators. Yuval Harari in "Sapien" puts forth the interesting point that we were catapulted suddenly from cautious foragers to extreme lethality by our harnessing of fire and other technologies. We likely never had the chance to grow into the role of most dangerous animal. Thinking along those lines, our cautious forager ancestors probably did a lot of responding to short-term and catastrophic risk.

My dog may well have better apex predator instincts than I.
> i disagree. for instance, algorithms and heuristics that are used in screening candidates should be subject to fair hiring laws (even if only indirectly, as a result of the existing legal framework).

But how will you even prove that an algorithm was used? What if the algorithm is executed by humans rather than by computers?

> algorithms and heuristics for dealing with personally identifiable info in e.g. financial and medical settings should not allow an end-run around personal privacy regulations.

Strongly agreed, but again: what are you going to do about it, these things are global now, and as much as I would like that genie to go back into the bottle my personal line of defense is to limit the amount of data flowing out to the absolute minimum knowing full well that no amount of legislation will keep my data safe. In fact, there is plenty of legislation to achieve the exact opposite effect.

As for part 2, probably not in our lifetime but it of course depends on the ages of the people conversing, if you're a newborn you just might see it happening.
> I'm largely anti-union

For that idea to be rational, you probably are the owner of some big enterprise.
'There are things worse than death': a cancer cure leading to brutal bioweapons?
This is still sort of the same thing. The blame can't be pinned on one single entity because it is so common.
I have first hand experience with this actually...

Over the last 6 months or so a good friend of mine has learned to code from scratch. After much deliberation I took a gamble and set him up with Elixir as his first language (largely because he wanted to code so he can work with me on some projects, which use Elixir).

I am really happy with this choice and so is he. Elixir is a language with very consistent ideas throughout and I think concepts like functional transformations, immutability, pattern matching and actor based concurrency are both extremely useful to learn early and very accessible to beginners in Elixir.

Edit:

I didn't think of it when I wrote this comment, but I think the single most helpful thing for beginners (and me!) in Elixir, is the 'h' function. If you run it with any function as an argument in iex (Elixir's repl) you'll get documentation and an example of how to use that function:

iex(2)> h Enum.map

def map(enumerable, fun)

Returns a list where each item is the result of invoking fun on each
corresponding item of enumerable.

For maps, the function expects a key-value tuple.

## Examples

iex> Enum.map([1, 2, 3], fn(x) -> x * 2 end)
[2, 4, 6]

iex> Enum.map([a: 1, b: 2], fn({k, v}) -> {k, -v} end)
[a: -1, b: -2]
i'm totally out of my depth when it comes to practical experience with the things you're trying to do in that project (the closest i've come is dealing with medical device validation protocols at my previous software dev job). but i love the high-level goal you're going for here.
> a sleazy website that convinces people to willingly provide personal information which they then turn around and sell at ridiculously high prices

I think you just defined a social network, unfortunately.
I'm one of the creators of the game - AMA.