skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally - wages are up in the UK considerably, and property prices are down a little - which is exactly what we all want to hear when thinking about 'affordability'.

Wages are stagnant and prices are down significantly in real terms. GBP won't go very far when you leave this island, and it's not like the island produces much worth purchasing.

I'm acutely aware of this since I foolishly bought a house 6 months before the vote. I expect to emigrate within the next few months after a refinance and pay off much more easily with foreign currency.

The UK has never created barriers and does not want barriers.

Mind, of course, that so much talk of EU barriers to trade are actually required for trade: standards and international law, and further to prevent social dumping and races to the bottom in social provision. If you think the UK will do well without social provisions, you haven't seen how nasty the underclass is getting. I've had to change my commute to avoid getting attacked, I've had three scooters stolen in the past year, and almost everyone I know knows someone who's had a phone stolen.

The UK is a deeply broken country; if it was a company, only the south-east would be worth keeping. The education system isn't fit for purpose, and the mass of the workforce is not going to make it in global competition.
I've seen old Apple devices get really slow and sluggish as they get upgraded to new software versions. But you're right, it's better to get a 6s instead of a 7. At least you get full functionality.
Sure, like they were successful because of the logo :-/

I don't know why we have to always take the most improbable one-in-a-time cases like Facebook, Amazon, and other huge corporations and compared them with regular folks (whom are the ones who would use this tool).

In this case, what does that prove?
Large salaries for the CEO aren't really that surprising. For a non-profit like a hospital, they base CEO salary on comparables in the industry.
The charge is that hospitals are not creating more residencies in order to collude to drive up doctor salaries. Even if residents were profitable, but less profitable than experienced physicians, it would still be a rational business decision—rather than improper collusion—to hire physicians instead of residents.
Email me - jon@calhoun.io

I'll see if there is a way I can help you out :)
Well known from the airline industry decades ago that you just don't talk about safety vs your competitors.
FYI, HN will mercilessly downvote you if you ask why you're being downvoted. :)

Here are the guidelines if you haven't already seen them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
or GED as we know it. Auth: Hofstadter - "Godel, Escher, Bach"

Belting read.
| I am saying that we should be curious at why they are doing it this way.

If you hand a caveman a machine gun, he will club you to death with it. IOW, the casual ability for domain experts to screw up a spreadsheet is enough of a reason to decide that excel is a terrible solution to this problem.
I hate Excel, can't quite put my finger on why, but I'm a big Google sheets fan when it's used with their apps scripts. You can do a lot using the sheet as a data store combined with functional JavaScript.
I've never heard of a Reality TV character who is as trashy as Ignatius but has also read the Great Books and earnestly believes himself to be a Great Man
Here’s one of the members of the 1970s guidelines:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/01/20/...

“Dr. Mark Hegsted, professor of nutrition at Harvard University and one of the three nutritionists who helped write the report, said: "There will undoubtedly be many people who will say we have not proven our point; we have not demonstrated that the dietary modifications we recommend will yield the dividends expected.

"The question to be asked therefore, is not why should we change our diet, but why not. "What are the risks associated with eating less meat, less fat, less saturated fat, less cholesterol, less sugar, less salt and more fruits, vegetables, unsaturated fat - and cereal products - especially whole-grain cereals? There are none that can be identified and important benefits can be expected."”

I find the history of that fascinating since the Nixon administration felt pressure to do something about the then-dramatic obesity crisis on a time-scale which was too short for the scientific process. They had some of it right (eat your vegetables!) but the big mistakes with fat and salt made the problem so much worse.
Even peanuts become candy under your definition.
I've also done the untitled tabs in Sublime thing.

Workflowy (https://workflowy.com) is worth a try.

It's still very lightweight. You have one doc which has one master root. Then, you can create arbitrarily nested lists of things and zoom in and out of the overall list. You get a daily email of your delta from the day before. There's an okay mobile client but the desktop one is much better feature wise.

I've been using for it everything from an inbox to blog post ideas lately (I just start drafting the post inside Workflowy).
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is one book that changed my life a lot more than I expected when picking it up. In many ways, it left me a different person.
Thunderstorms Observed Triggering Nuclear Reactions in the Sky
Use of Hand Sanitiser Can Seriously Mess with Breath Alcohol Test Results
I'm a programmer so I see both sides.

The reality is both programmers and doctors have a highly technical skill. A high school can build an "app", but they likely don't have the depth of knowledge to build it properly and reliably.

The same goes with medicine. A nurse, WebMD, or other resource might get you the correct answer, but that's not really the name of the game. Medicine is about both getting things right and not getting things wrong. It's easy to teach the first, it's very hard to get the second.
I don’t think the fact that the big 5 are doing well means we’re not in a bubble. Tesla is far from alone in holding a lofty valuation without profits to justify it, and we’re in the middle of an irrational mania over cryptocurrencies.
Peanuts are candy. Just look at a snickers/payday/Mr. Goodbar or 50+ others that add peanuts with say caramel/chocolate/etc. They can be fine as part of a larger dish, but really don't make a heathy snack on their own.
> inventing your own little dialect of the language which is opaque to any 3rd party reading your code unless they take the time to unravel your macros.

I meant that a whole bunch of specialzed functions can also be a dialect, which are opaque unless one takes the trouble to look into them. You can write very confusing code, unless it matches up closely to a domain (and even then, you need to be on top of the domain). Of course, the "unraveling" is easier, (and less literal) than for macros.

I was just trying to say it's a difference in degree not in kind - if you measure in terms of power and usability.

I take your point that it's not just syntax, but differences in (basic) guarantees, so there's less ability to treat it as a black box (information hiding within a module). But any module (e.g. a fn) can behave differently from how you expect.

tl;dr macros vs fn is a difference in degree, in terms of outcome (i.e. confusion).
I'd argue this might only be helpful in an area where the margin between the two parties is slim and hotly contested. That's an exception. For the most part you'll get some canned response to make you feel like they heard you, and things will proceed however their big time donors wish.
Why does that matter? The parent will eventually return from the signal handler and resume execution. What does fork have to do with anything? arc4random (or whatever you want to call it) isn't marked signal safe.
surely that's a reason to turn off the stupid microsoft search, not to get rid of libreoffice
This is a very interesting read. I wish it was longer so I could keep reading more on the topic. I really want to give Austin a visit.
I based it on her Biochem degree. Many of her peers who decided against medical school went into medical related fields like pharma and medical engineering.
The NRA would be all behind this the first time someone reports a 'suboptimal experience' when trying to access their site to become a member, or order ammo from some random M&P gun shop.
We're measuring performance of computing devices with benchmarks for at least 20 years now. Most of the scenes still do it that way, for example comparing PC performance to Xbox or Playstation. AMD vs Nvidia. Nobody questions that a significant difference in benchmark results means a difference in real life performance.

Except for some people living in the Android world. Why is that?

I think it's a bit like people that are denying climate science. They keep looking for new kinds of benchmarks until they find something that fits their predetermined outcome. Some glacier got longer instead of shorter? and boom see no global warming. Some YouTube dude has a video that makes your phone looks fast? and boom look no further. Benchmarks suck!
Yes. I am simply accepting the premise given and trying to explore from there. I am aware of the generalisation.

But, your answer does help us move ahead. It basically says that there is a way to produce a high quality code base. It is not impossible. The right set of circumstances seem to be:
1. No deadlines
2. Focus on code quality

The "no deadlines" part I take to mean that within OSS projects there is time to refactor to perfection. There is time to design, comment, document and indent to perfection.

So, your point is it is possible. But it seems like within the context of a company, it almost never happens. (Nobody has still posted here to saying that their code base is not a mess. A lot of people have now seen this.)

When one thinks about that, it is just weird right? The people who get paid to make software do things that make their work un-productive. And the opposite is true for good OSS.
No specific deal here but a casual reminder that Amazon markets some Black Friday deals as being better than they really are. Always remember to check the item's price history on CamelCamelCamel (https://camelcamelcamel.com).

P.S. Tower is amazing. I use it every day and it's one of my top 5 favorite apps alongside Sublime.
The Token Market Is Maturing and Business Is Getting Done
But that is the essence of Bitcoin, and indeed of any encryption: ultimately you're responsible for keeping some sequence of bits secret from everyone else in the world. Encryption doesn't help with that ultimate problem, because the key to decrypt must be held in cleartext. If you keep the data online, you're simply moving the responsibility of protecting those bits to another set of bits (your passphrase/OTP for the online service). If you keep the data on a machine-readable medium such as a USB drive, you're trusting that the flash memory's floating-gate transistors will keep their state longer than you need. If the medium is a spinning drive of any kind, you're trusting that the moving parts will still work. If it's a less volatile medium like a CD-R, then you're trusting that you'll still have a device capable of reading the physical medium and the filesystem in the future.

Today, your fortune is either (1) bits you protect through physical custody (including your password manager's master passphrase that you have memorized (or "buried" in the mattress/back yard of your brain, if you will) -- and what are you going to do to pass that passphrase on to your successors when you die?) or else (2) trust in institutions such as your bank, your employer, your county recorder, and Coinbase that they'll honor your claim to the rights/property they manage for you. Bitcoin gives you the _option_ to eliminate (2) and rely only on (1). You're right that you don't need to eliminate (2) if doing so doesn't interest you. But even if you do choose to rely on (2), you still have no choice but to use (1) as well for at least _some_ of your secrets.

For whatever that set of secrets is for (1) -- especially when the question of inheritability is addressed -- ink written on paper is a very good solution.
Go away. Austin is full.

;)
Antifragile. Poor Charlie's Almanack.
DJI Mavic: quiter and more fun
Type 'upda' to get Windows Update, but instead it shows Java's updater.

Type 'updat' and all search results disappear completely.

Type 'upd' and now it shows Windows Update but not the Java update.

Type fast and get different results than if you type slow.

Type the same thing a third time and get different results than the first two times.

And now Cortana keeps bugging me with lame notifications. How do I turn this off?
The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism translated by Keith Dowman.

I've read many books about meditation, but this is one of my favorites. I wish I could read the original text to get the rhyme scheme!
Highway Through a Building in Japan
I'll present "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett as foil that notes that one should be really careful about what happens when one presents a foil to a (any) religious based offering.
I've heard good things about the new DOOM remake, which seems to be in that direction.
Good point, and there is another twist I realized: sugar is used as filler (e.g. for removed fat in low-fat stuff), so Erythritol might not work because same volume of it would make it unbearably sweet.

Personally, I'd prefer they just kept the original fat and call it a day as there seems to be absolutely nothing wrong with it health-wise.
It's never sent to the server; the key is derived from your passphrase, so it's never sent anywhere.

It's still possible for a sophisticated MITM to replace the JS code so that is DOES send the key somewhere.
Why ASLR stops ROP attacks
One app search engine I deal with: type “remo” and hesitate a heartbeat. System fills “remove”, meanwhile I finish “ve<enter>” and the system searches for “removeve”.
The M-21 was the most bad-ass of the bad-asses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
The odds are stacked against us. Working in the nutrition and fitness space has really opened my eyes into how poor nutrition over time really starts impacting lives. Even people who don't eat 'bad', still are having lots of health issues. So much sugar and other stuff in foods that are typically billed as healthy.

I'll have to check out those books, they sound really interesting. You might want to check out the book "The Case Against Sugar", it tells the story of sugar and is really interesting.
Intentionally unleashing Zalgo in the browser, with synchronous Promises
+1. boxing gopher even brings up his right hand to guard his face :P
GP is refering to Russia.

Whether a superpower we can debate, but they still have massive influence.

> Is not being part of a superpower a necessarily bad thing?
So long as you have NATO for defense and EU for free trade, then yeah, what is the difference?
Blockchain technology can provide lawyers with an authentic, secure ledger
This is indeed the site I used to fix the issue :)
It's likely processed foods and junk wasn't quite as prolific yet, and it also takes time to put on weight.

I imagine people were also eating much more whole foods as well, so saturation could have been lower regardless of what was in the junk food on the shelves at the time.

A study linked on HN recently also showed that sugars relationship to obesity snd diabetes may be that it changes your metabolism over time, and that change to your metabolism is what has you put on fat.
Do any of us actually want to live in the Bay Area?

If you like cities then New York is bigger, denser, more diverse, less poop, has a public transportation system that actually works, and yet somehow the rent is cheaper. If nature or beaches are your kinda thing there's Oregon and Hawaii not far away. Want urban sprawl and traffic? Los Angeles has San Menlo Alto beat (but not by much).

But, for those of us in tech, the opportunities here are unlike anywhere in the world. And, despite all the drawbacks of the Bay, there's just something inspiring about being here with the leaders and top experts in our field.
Bitcoin's blockchain technology being used in business, finance and contracts
Electron is Harmful
If you're looking for novelty, travel to some foreign country or buy a pair of fashionable jeans. Don't change the tools you've trusted for 27 years; a new tool is not going to make you a better, more creative, or more organized writer, especially if you're already using the most configurable one in existence.

As a data point, Donald Knuth uses a minimalistic Ubuntu setup with FVWM2 and Emacs (with a lot of custom keybindings), and that's enough for writing his big volumes.
> I would argue that the most commonly used programming language is Excel. But few of the people using it realize they're programming.

Indeed, I'd also argue that the most commonly used database is Excel. Although few people using it realize they're designing schema.
Noted. Thanks for the feedback :)
Apple scientists share rare peek at autonomous vehicle research
Here's some data for you: no home/business ISP in any country in the last two decades has offered anything like what is being proposed in in the headline (TV style throttled internet packages based on the website).

The only time this has ever been done is in countries like Portugal to offer cheaper internet on limited mobile phone connections to people only who want Facebook/Twitter/etc for $5/m instead of a full internet connection for $20-30/m (typically also far cheaper than the US). It has never been tried to limit primary ISP internet connections.

Data requires actual numbers. I've repeatedly said in my comments I believe we should regulate things companies have done that are provably bad. Not hand wavy hypothetical things that sound like a terrible idea for any company to try.
Anything by "Barbara Cartland" - nothing she has written has influenced me in any way.

This is arikr's comment history: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=arikr

Read the original comment. Do they tally?
I'll just pretend I know all about boxing and it was intentional :)
Well, I guess you figured out the universe. Not much to do now except wait for the end, eh?
Have to agree here. It has a unique and valuable worldview.
Here’s why the next 100 years will be awesome
China only needs to pull their population out of poverty and build a middle class to be the biggest economy.

Shear numbers means that if they stay away from self-destructive policies, civil war, and climate change doesn't squash their resources they'll be the biggest economy.

Not per capita, but in total yes, and wouldn't it be unfair if they didn't... Consider how many people would live in poverty, if they don't grow.
I like the idea of using a crypto lib, but it will probably take some thought and experimentation to figure out what will fit into roughly a ~1hr exercise. That is always the hard part - not picking something too large.
How many of those deceased children would have survived the collision if no airbags were installed?

Self-driving cars preform predictably under a set of conditions. The primary problem arises when the car, for whatever reason, doesn't correctly detect that it's in an unfamiliar condition and continues moving as normal. Humans are intelligent enough to notice when something is "off".

For a machine as heavy, large, fast, and close as a car, limited intelligence is not enough.
No, just intuition. 70% of the primary care medicine appointments are "eh, it's a virus, come back if symptoms persist." [1] 10% is casts/sutures/I&D/debridement. 15% are "I'm telling you, these symptoms are all due to your diabetes and your diet will kill you if you don't take it seriously." Maybe 4-5% are really diagnosing serious chronic issues. And generally it's just referral to a specialist who makes the official diagnosis. A missed diagnosis here can be a serious consequence in some cases, but symptoms that can indicate those diagnoses are big red flags.

[1] http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/418/
I recall seeing at least one video in this series :)

I love the idea and your work here, but I'm a little skeptical of doing something so similar since it won't add a ton of value with Francesc's videos already out there.
Metal supplies will not limit battery manufacturing expansion
> 5) Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) masquerading as liberal open-mindedness. I'm as socially liberal as you get, and I find it nauseating how many topics or dissenting opinions are simply out-of-bounds in Silicon Valley.

I experienced this first-hand last weekend. My friend throws dinner parties where we discuss a different philosophical topic each time. The topic of last dinner party was sexual harassment and sexual agency. One person stormed off at the beginning because she got offended at the topic and ostensibly some mild language my friend used in a hypothetical situation. He was later crucified on social media.

When I was growing up, it was the right that constrained discussion while the left pushed boundaries. Now more often the left constrains speech. Rather than air positions in the marketplace of ideas, they would rather bully, shame and act offended at things they disagree with.
Just because there's a Sorites paradox doesn't mean the word is meaningless. This line of objections isn't constructive.
Never Split the Difference. It's about hostage negotiation. A lot of negotiation tricks don't work when dealing with irrational, desperate, insane people. It covers how to build rapport with these people, get them to talk themselves into supporting your argument, and just understanding people deeply enough for them to give you everything you ask for but walk away satisfied with the deal.
On semicolons, pseudo-technical and subjective arguments, revisited
100,000 signatures to save the internet
So, let's fail Spotlight on iOS too, because searching for tdbank never works for me to bring up the TD Bank app. Seems like such a simple thing, but nope. Can't forget that bloody space. And that seems like a bigger failure than anything the article was talking about.
I'd imagine it's because erythritol isn't absorbed, so it just sits there in your gut drawing water out osmotically. That will make you feel really uncomfortable really quickly.
One is inflationary while the other is deflationary when it comes to supply. Additionally, one was arguably meant to be used as a currency - as the names suggest - while the other was meant to be used as a gas for non currency things. This doesn't answer your question directly but it does give some good food for thought.
resistors store electricity? did you mean battery banks?
What is the slice of ints at the following URI about?

https://www.calhoun.io/hire-me/
Every time I read this kind of article I wish there was some snippet example.
They also consulted with original authors about their intentions, rather than pain over what they'd done blindly.
It just works for me. It detects it from my email. I don't have to do anything.
I only count 15 "disabled" opcodes on that chart, the majority are usable in P2SH transactions.

What specifically would you like to see done with Bitcoin scripts that can't be done?