skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I'd opine the most impactful and negative aspect that impacts today's social landscape though is still the telecommunication act of 1996.
Am I missing something that's exceedingly lethal to van dwellers but not traditionally-homed humans?

Worse case, you drive to the nearest ER. Worst case, call 911 or stumble out onto the street and ask someone to do so. No different than if I had a heart attack in my house.

Reacting to this so negatively is ignoring the billions of humans around the globe who live in much more rustic conditions and (largely) manage not to die.
Interesting list, but as someone who has seriously struggled with productivity at many points in my life due to ADHD, I cannot relate at all.

> 1. I don't care about the work

This was a problem in school, but not in my career. I built my career around problem domains that interested me, and often times the work I'm struggling to get going with is work that I chose for myself and prioritized accordingly. Also, I have a financial interest in the company I work for, so that's another reason I care about the work.

> 2. I'm not sure how doing that work will take me to the next step

I guess I'm not a "future-minded being", because this has never crossed my mind. I think about next steps when I'm planning or strategizing, I don't do either of those things when I'm trying to execute.

> 3. I'm not sure what I would do after I finish that work (what the next step is)

Same thing as the second one, I'm really not thinking about the future most of the time. In fact, I have the opposite problem. Once I've fully defined the problem domain, designed everything and done the challenging work, the really obvious next steps which will let me get it out (cleaning things up, writing good messaging and docs, tests, deploys) are just tedious noise. I'd always prefer to build a new system to automate boring things than do them, which can be a good or bad thing depending on time constraints.

I read somewhere that for people without ADHD, Importance, Rewards, and Consequences are the big motivators. However, for ADHD folks, the only things that matter when getting stuff done are: Interest, Novelty, Challenge, Urgency.

That's been 100% the case for me. When I'm stuck with tedious things, I NEED solid and close deadlines that I am accountable to (to create urgency). Another thing I do is find novel to-do systems to organize it all and follow. I use Bullet Journals, GTD, Sticky Notes, Pomodoro Timers, etc. I can't actually stick to any of those for more than a few weeks, but jumping between and finding new systems keeps me engaged enough to make progress.
Companies pay thousands for logos that are culturally flawed, or just, y'know flawed. OGC was a big example a few years back [the logo version looks rather like a person playing with their penis].
Many are located in Georgia and WA (honourable mention goes out to Labrador), which have cheap hydroelectricity.
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>does that page have zero explanation of wha Scrivener 3 actually is

The most famous word processor/editor for writers.
Microsoft GVFS name change GitHub issue
That’s not new. Right now that number is 100%. People just accept it as status quo.

But people would be outraged by the 30% number.
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What is a ledger cold wallet?
Here's one:

http://vandogtraveller.com/
Become an ISP

https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/becoming-your-own-isp-just-f...
We can't change history, only improve the future. There are three levels of defense, precisely because until now there's been no way to robustly detect a fork(), but it will be nice to nail that for 4.14 and beyond and fleets can move surprisingly quickly to newer kernel versions and get the benefit of that.

I think we have a high bar for a code readability and that the code isn't screaming goto fail. Though we do hate ifdef's and goto's and that file is one of the few places we have any, again precisely because of the ickyness of the challenge prior to 4.14. But if it helps reassure you, we also have a test case to make sure that the fork detection works:

https://github.com/awslabs/s2n/blob/master/tests/unit/s2n_ra...

The test checks that a child and a parent really do produce different random streams.
I am talking about treating it like a public utility which is what Tom Wheeler did under Obama.
Ask HN: Do you think ETH could be as valuable as BTC? Why or why not?
Traffic in a city gets bad; voters are upset at wasting so much time driving. The city raises a bond, builds a couple more lanes, and $400M and two years later, the problem is solved. So those voters move further away from their jobs because they don't care about distance, but commute time, and they move out to their pain threshold because the further you move out, your money buys more house. But everyone does it, and the number of miles driven per person goes up until traffic gets painful again.
I’m not arguing it’s perfectly logical. If people behaved that way the sunk cost fallacy wouldn’t exist.

I think it would be a real problem. If the death count becomes non-trivial before the death count from people becomes relatively trivial I think there’s will be a big mess in the media.
I recently started the Whole 30 diet (paleo), and it's nearly impossible to avoid sugar, corn starch, and dextrose. Almost all fooeds seem to have one of those. Often for no reason: why put sugar in beans and bacon, or corn starch in turkey?

The amount of money I'm spending on food jumped by 3x. It seems accurate to say that if you're poor, you're almost forced to eat sugar for economic reasons.
Thanks! I found this site a year or so back, but lost it in a browser crash (of sorts). Haven't been able to find it until now, so you're a (figurative) life saver!
Ask HN: What geopolitics/IR organizations hire software engineers?
I am interested in applying software engineering to the domains of geopolitics and international relations.
Did you purchase things using bitcoin with some kind of computer other than a smartphone? Or have you discovered a way to use bitcoin without any sort of connection to the internet?
Hey I couoldn't find any citation or reference. Could you please find a citation for that claim.. it is very fishy.
Died, continue to die, and are going to die. This is an on-going problem.
The point I am making is that you can pay less and get the value I mentioned in my original comment.
Since the IMF is measuring in Dollar terms, Britain became the 6th largest economy the day after Brexit, solely as a result of the devaluation of GBP.

And apparently, this is news.
I'm still curious why it's priced by the watt-hour instead of the Joule
The people who voted for Brexit are not going to be hit so bad for this - they weren't the one whos economy was growing and with the workers from Eastern Europe not being allowed in, they will probably get a bit higher salary.
Be lucky in who you end up friends with.
We humans step in to do the thinking and optimization for it, by way of greed. End result - more paperclips. (Or TW/h spent on mining machines.)
You kinda answered your own question: YouTube is the site for this & unless it’s really good (or spectacularly bad) no one cares about music from random people.
I’m pretty sure we have laws for that everywhere in the US
Ketamine is a pretty popular club drug in Europe, but isn't used much for that purpose in North America (outside of very specific "scenes").
Are you in for something even more somber?

Check this: http://archdruidmirror.blogspot.gr/2017/06/a-field-guide-to-...

http://archdruidmirror.blogspot.gr/2017/06/renewables-next-f...
I'm not sure what you intend on accomplishing by noting that doctor's salaries here are still more expensive than one of the most generally expensive western countries in the world.

Conspiracy theories about 'big pharma' on something from CEPR helps no one.
I didn't even realize it was abnormal until now (although I note there's some debate as to whether it is or not). My mother has this, too, and wears blue tinted lenses to filter it out.
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The law as plenty of experience dealing with sufficient nuance to distinguish a mistake from negligence.
They still bill a healthy profit on the procedure done by the resident by way of room fees, equipment fees, lab fees, imaging fees, diagnostic fees, nursing care fees, PT fees, and so forth.
Actually MS has had really consistent and great UX. To the point where any slightly computer-literate person would get an intuition about where something ought to be located and be almost always correct.

It is not as beginner-friendly as apples products, but far more user-friendly.
During the great recession, Europe decided to do austerity instead of Keynesian stimulus. Just like the textbooks say, this has led to weak growth and deflation.
UK to charge a 20% tax on companies' earnings held offshore from April 2019
Yeah, it's kinda weird that you can get the death penalty for killing one person, but the industry that kills several hundred thousand people per year with their products not only gets away with fines, but gets to continue selling the deadly product.
Maybe...

Why do we care about programming tech projects from random people, and nobody would care about music from random people?
I never heard of slippery slope fallacy before, but I read the wikipedia page about it. Thanks for the info! But I miss where it applies to the reasoning I shared. Maybe you can help me.

Do we really believe key people at FCC are persuaded to support the people with this decision? That is just a matter of showing the truth about those comments? I think it is just a farce and we are wasting our time and energy opposing the FCC. The bigger problem is the constant attack against our democratic process.
I am not holding my breath waiting for Ethereum Proof of Stake. When is the switch? What are the incentives for nodes and miners to switch?
Original title: Philip Hammond just declared war on tech firms like Amazon and Apple that avoid UK tax

Techmeme summary: Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: UK government says it'll charge a 20% tax on companies' earnings that are held offshore from April 2019, a move widely seen to be aimed at tech companies
Throwing computational power at a PoW system for hash collisions is significantly more wasteful than simply reducing the cost of electricity itself or depositing the energy into a storage system for use at later in demand times.

If free energy needed to be expelled and couldn't be stored for some weird reason, it could be used to grind wheat, purify water, or run scientific computing to contribute to curing diseases rather than attempt to acquire speculative database tokens.
What does a web without net neutrality look like? See this Portuguese isp
I'll write up a better About page later, but there's now one featured prominently on the landing page.
I don't follow any particular diet, but most of my meals are vegetables and a small amount meat / fish / eggs / chicken. I find it quite affordable.

I typically avoid buying anything processed, those items rapidly ruin my budget.
The best thing about this is that earth's curvature can be seen on his video on his website. Aghhh!

http://madmikehughes.com/
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More vital information can be found here:

http://suspiciousvan.com
Airtable does something like this. I don’t know how excel-compatible it is, but the core of data types and something similar to primary keys are enforced in a pretty intuitive way, and basic formulas work fine. Haven’t done much advanced stuff with it.
To level-set,

- oil-based energy powered our global economy that was able to research alternative forms of energy

- both nutrition and science have always been an unfinished work, "we don't know everything" != "we know nothing"

- free markets, for their faults, are still better than any other base system we've come up with

- communications technology, I'd hazard we're still grasping with the repurcussions of this re: democracy and many other pre-existing systems. But the fact that I read about the Rohingya genocide by Myanmar again on the front page of the BBC this morning would indicate it has its advantages to the world too
This is somewhat true. It's a fact that a lot of the bandwidth on the web at present is unwanted garbage - perhaps Sturgeon's law (that 90% of everything is crap) is inevitable and innovations are just temporary departures from that mean. I'm regularly horrified by the amount of bandwidth employed to deliver me a tiny little bit of information in text form like a news story.

Anyone remember Hotline? it was sort of like a last-gasp implementation of BBS culture across IP for a time when the web was small but heavily curated, and people needed a simple, user-friendly, but unregulated channel to exchange content in private, though from what I remember a lot of that inevitably ended up being porn and other stuff which you now get on the dark web. It was not unlike Facebook in terms of the actual UX (eg easy to send text, very limited markup options), but distributed and client-centric.

Nothing would make me happier than a resurgence of Usenet, or a deployment of the web annotation protocol (anyone know of activity in this area?) that was scriptable and could allow federations of affinity groups to cooperatively filter and trackback bullshit on the web, as a step towards the eventual realization of the Infosphere.
Actually some Volvos do have pedestrian air bags!

(But your point still stands, of course.)
You're correct that doctors' salaries are not the biggest source of excessive health expenditure compared to other countries. But the article is right that medicine (i.e. physicians) behaves like a cartel in that it places rules to limit supply and force salaries upward, even though there's no legitimate reason for this based on safety or otherwise.

Your local family doc has nothing to do with this, but there must be some powerful interest groups involved (at least historically) to make this the case. So it's actually that NON-libertarian forces (i.e. illegitimate regulations) are increasing physician salaries. If we had more of a free labor market for physicians, salaries would fall.
Yup. As unionjack22 says, this is just a hit piece. For instance, hospital bureaucrats can make way more than doctors. This from a 2014 NY Times article: "The base pay of insurance executives, hospital executives and even hospital administrators often far outstrips doctors’ salaries, according to an analysis performed for The New York Times by Compdata Surveys: $584,000 on average for an insurance chief executive officer, $386,000 for a hospital C.E.O. and $237,000 for a hospital administrator, compared with $306,000 for a surgeon and $185,000 for a general doctor." -- https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/sunday-review/doctors-sal...
This is just an announcement for the new version. "Release notes". Click the product page or homepage for info on the product.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
OK Dr. Pangloss
Small businesses will be hit hard, though; e.g., farmers who won't be able to find enough workers to gather the produce off the land.
Honestly, I find that a lot of economic discussions on the media are highly speculative (and dissonant to what I've seen circulated internally), and things get just downright sensationalist on some topics, so I've been taking news about Uber with a large grain of salt.

> it would be a shame for a culture shift to coincide with the realization of one of them

I think everyone at Uber has at least some idea about the P&L situation, but there's no doubt in people's minds that we need to drop the go-fast-and-dubiously culture and embrace a do-things-properly culture. If anything, I think it's more likely that a major crisis would continue to drive home that idea.
What a load of complete waffling nonsense. You admit that the OP was correct that things were different under the Obama administration, then say it doesn't matter because Democrats get the country involved in wars? Please.

"The only way to fix anything is to fix everything" is deeply intellectually lazy and allows you to disengage from any politics until it meets your idealised standard of what politics should be. Lets you feel great while you achieve absolutely nothing. We can all do better than that.
I had this exact same question. I guess you can make sure the code that checks and reads from the rng state can't fork in the middle of it (or call out to user code). But that only helps in the single-threaded case, what happens if you have another thread that is accessing it at the same time as the fork? Even if you check before and after, the initialized bool could be set again by the time you check after even though you just read a bunch of zeros.

A rng-per-thread combined with initialization check before and after might cover all the cases I think...
Your landing page is very clear and easy.

One tiny thing: the screenshot window title is "Social Writer" but every other reference is to "Singular Writer".
So Citus is now ACID compliant? Do you guys have a whitepaper where you describe how you proved ACID compliance?

Thanks
> But this introduces extreme coupling between components that have no right being coupled, and makes evolving the code a nightmare (suddenly all your DRY-borne functions grow immense lists of configuration parameters to account for unforeseeable differences).

* A and B both depend on the same logic X.

* You make a shared helper function X

* Requirements for A change, necessitating a change to x.

* You check if B requires the same change. If yes, change X. If no, fork X into X_A and A_B

Now you're staying DRY, and DRY has saved the day by forcing you to think about whether A's change should impact B.
If you had prematurely forked X, then X_A and X_B would drift without any sanity check on whether they should.
G-Sync and FreeSync have nothing to do with the available maximum refresh rate on any monitor. That is a property of the display interface.
"Crashes out of"? They went from 5th to 6th place. When seeing a phrase like that, I would've expected a sudden drop to at least the 10th place or so.
What's wrong with setting it DONTFORK and handling the page fault in the process? Someone can still prevent you from correctly handling the fault in the new process, but at least that keeps the RNG in an obvious broken state.

Right now, the <4.14 fallback seems strictly worse.

(Disregarding that this is mostly academic, and that whoever is calling fork() while using your library is unlikely to have spent the same attention to detail when it comes to stuff like ephemeral keys..)
DRY is not the same as adding layers of abstraction.
Lack of detail can often create stronger imagery because the reader/viewer's brain fills in the textures. With a lo-fi King's Quest I imagined gallant heroes on trusty steeds. The same way that cartoons can be more expressive than live action and how books can have more vivid imagery than movies. Who could possibly do justice on screen to the character of Ignatius J. Reilly?
Great tips, appreciate it! I’ve gone off and on pomodoro for years. I think the missing part is strict discipline on ending. Hard when there’s no one overseeing!

A work in progress!
I only upvoted you because Aspartame is such an interesting case - no other food that I can think of has had such vitrol thrown at it, yet every single scientific study has shown no effect on blood sugar, the chemical is simple, the two compounds it breaks down to in the liver are already present in the body and its properties are well known.

Yet people still hate it.
From what I can tell in their s2n code, the canary was/is already TLS.
You seriously think the 'basket of deplorables' fell for anything except right-wing populism and the Dems failure to reach the working class? If changing opinions is the goal, getting back in touch with the common people might be a good start.
Not really withheld, but I think underestimated is air pollution.

"Worldwide, ambient air pollution contributes to 5.4% of all deaths" source - http://www.who.int/
It's easier for a consumer running a 100 watt appliance for 2 hours to calculate the cost.
Had humans had 6 fingers on each hand, this news would not exist.
Anyone used scrivener and found it a useful tool for general note taking, a personal wiki, or getting things done?

From the website, it looks like many of their features would be useful as a general work support tool, despite the emphasis on writing.
I don't disagree with you, but I want to play devil's advocate. Unlike water and electricity, the internet is still kind of a luxury. If the electricity cuts out for a couple of days, all of our food rots, and we starve and die. If the water cuts out, we get dehydrated and die.

If the internet cuts out for a few days... well.. It'll suck. But nobody will die. If I recall correctly, 60% of the internet's traffic is Netflix, with the remaining diced up between Youtube, streaming, and social media. The internet, as it stands right now, is a global entertainment system. I know we do business on it, and it's a boon for communications, but it's not a life or death thing.

Aside from that, I'm actually still on the fence philosophically on whether or not the internet is "good" for humanity. It's allowed huge amounts of misinformation to spread. I think you could pin the spread of anti-vax ideas on the internet. We waste millions of hours playing video games and streaming videos. I am currently bored at work browsing hacker news, so instead of allowing that boredom to force me into improving our app, I'll just sit here quietly until somebody adds a ticket into my queue.
Example from the most extreme end of what people hate about what the repeal might mean: I have no problem if an ISP wants to offer an extremely affordable Internet plan that explicitly doesn't work with streaming video for low income families. I'd rather ISPs gate the content by type than cripple them with a 5 Mbps or 10 Mbps throttle like a general low cost Internet line today.

I really hate the current speed tiering model used by most landline providers, because it means ISPs have the capacity available but are intentionally reducing your service quality because you haven't paid them enough to justify providing the best quality they can offer.

I understand why Google and Netflix would be strongly against something like that though, it reduces their customer base for YouTube and Netflix.
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> So a "cheap" Android phone costing US$500 that came out like yesterday

See the second video, which shows a $300 phone of the previous generation beating an iPhone of the latest generation at the time that cost twice as much. I couldn't find a head to head comparison of the iPhone X against a cheap Android of the previous generation, but I expect the outcome to be the same.

> is really good at opening and closing applications.

The video doesn't show speed of closing applications. Opening communication applications is 90% of what users wait for when using a phone, and Android users wait less.

Your artificial benchmarks that measure gaming performance aren't much use to the 99% of users who use their phones more for productivity than for AAA games.