skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start a cooperative enterprise, owned by the workers at all levels, not just the techno-elite founders. With all given an equal vote. Establish small limits on pay disparities (say, never more than 2:1 to compensate for different schooling/certification requirements for doctors or the like).

I second the open source suggestion.
The greek alphabet has different glyphs.

What I'm talking about is when the glyphs are identical, i.e. homoglyphs. Homoglyphs should be removed.
> Perhaps the pain doesn't need to go away. Perhaps it's there for a reason.

Pain is indeed useful most of the time (to prevent damage to the organism) but like all warning systems, it has false positives or activates when the cause of activation cannot realistically be remediated.

Those are the cases where opioid or cannabinoid medication can be useful; because having protective mechanisms like pain activated chronically and for no good reason can be debilitating.
A few things:

- They didn't pay contractors for months of work

- They gave no hints to anyone that they were running out of funds

- They agreed to stop looking for acquisitions while in discussions, without requiring a bailout penalty clause in exchange

- $45m for a lock? Where the heck did it all go? Elon Musk's initial investment in Tesla was $6m in 2004.
Yeah the range thing got me too.

At some point I tend to just ignore the second part of the range and only use the index...

and then after that I just switch back to a damn for loop like god intended.
>- using a mutable object as default value or in a class attribute

Python noob here. Can you expand on that a little? Or perhaps link a post? I can't think of an example or how it'd impact memory
Great point that isn't often made.

I also had an incredibly painful back problem and spinal fusion. My doctors were aggressive about minimizing opiod use... almost excessively so. I probably had about 5 rounds of hydrocodone in a 5 day hospital stay.
clang is pretty big. There's about 55 MB of binaries on that page. When served from localhost, it takes about 10 seconds to load and compile a source file on my machine.
i admire what you're doing but I wonder why spend any significant amount of time on most if not all points on this list? if the goal is "couch -> working developer" then I don't think they're relevant to getting ramped up and working as a programmer/dec/swe who can deliver value. the black boxes you talk about might be better off taught in a lazy fashion so to speak.

a lot of these seem devopsy. I've definitely delved into a lot of these as an extracurricular activity over the years or have had to learn for work reasons (like being the only guy willing to take on the devops type work) but I'm not sure it belongs in a boot camp type curriculum.
Yes, with all this drama about the opioid crisis (sequel to the meth crisis, sequel to the crack epidemic, sequel to LSD crisis (Charles Manson), sequel to the reefer madness, sequel to the original Prohibition), people miss the point that they have very valuable uses.

What youngsters and middle aged folks like me don't really grasp (I'm starting to) is that getting old fucking hurts, sometimes a lot. Having a managed opioid addiction is a hell of a lot better than being bedridden, both physically and mentally.
This very thing happened with rats in French-occupied Hanoi in 1902: all you had to do to claim a bounty was turn in a rat’s tail. Rats without tails can still have babies and soon people were breeding rats for profit instead of killing them.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-190...
It certainly proves nothing of the kind, and your use of the phrase "belief" is disingenuous. It implies an element of faith that is entirely lacking from any of my assertions. My statements are made based on direct observation of 35 independent newsrooms and direct access to the AP wire over a period of three and a half years. Fox is an outlier in the industry.
Sounds like Elon.
The biggest help is to not need work. When you have a financial cushion, it's much easier to say no.
There are some bugs in that part. I saw the knitting hint and clicked on bella's knitting pin. But it didn't appear in the inventory for a loooong time. After about 5 minutes of exploring all the rooms, it showed up.
Do you have evidence to support your accusation of affiliation with the people involved with "catbot"[1]? Or is this libel?

> criminal

Writing unauthorized software modifications for commercial software is not illegal, making your accusation of criminal activity doesn't make sense. Unless the bot also made copies of the software, this is a civil matter and probably at worst a breech of contract.

However, even if someone authored the bot, unsubstantiated accusations have no place in civilized society. If accusations are being made, you need to provide evidence 0of the actual bot, not hearsay based on merely an account name. That evidence needs to be presented with at lest some amount of due process where the accused has the opportunity to face their accuser and rebut the claim.

[1] Or any other unauthorized 3rd-party utility software for games published on Steam.
Well, I'm not sure there's any definition that's going to come straight from first principles, but I see a wealth tax as something closer to the way we tax corporations, which is to tax "profit" not "revenue". A personal income tax is more of a revenue tax - even if someone has to spend every dollar they make on kids, health care, rent, etc - we still tax it. We try to fix this a little, by offering deductions that we think make sense. But a wealth tax seems like a more direct way to get at this idea. Levy a tax on the money that people are able to accumulate, not on the money that flows through them.
What about all the people in other countries that use drugs?

What about all the people throughout history that have used drugs over at least tens of thousands of years before the US was around?
What about packing up web assembly into a single file container like runtime designed to run server side web applications? This .war (Webassembly ARchive) file could include the application and all dependencies in a single installable that is JITd on load. Might be useful for the next generation of "serverless" cloud runtimes.
This may interest you: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/08/curing-the-incurable/
>But I will note not every society has needed to use so many pain relievers.

Vaccinations either, but the child mortality rates used to be a lot higher than they are today.
~20 sec in my Late 2013 MBP from page load to "The [cake] is a lie," in Chrome 63.

Sadly it does not work in Safari or Safari Tech Preview, but it works in Firefox 57 (known problem, see https://github.com/tbfleming/cib)
Well, if that's the problem with SPOF, that it's not a "single" point, then I fail to see how "one thing" makes a better term.
So the web browser is pretty much a mini operating system. Firefox and Chromium seriously feel like they have the longest compile time out of any package in Gentoo, except maybe Libreoffice. It has tons of embedded packages that it doesn't pull from the system/native (jpeg and png decoders and such).

So with a lot of these neat things where we compile stuff or run a Linux kernel in the browser, we've pretty much come full circle? It's like running cygwin in wine or an NES emulator inside of Windows 95 VM.
Organizations like this often simply end up as graft and PR.

I'm with Peterson: clean up your own room first.
Of course you're right. That should have read, "Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid adds up to US$1.97T per year," just as you say. Thank you for the correction!
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Shipping often just means you have a lot of chances to work out and automate that pipeline so that it mostly works. Shipping infrequently means every time you ship, it's broken.

I think this is somewhat independent of team size -- companies with large teams have large teams because the product is very complex and they want to iterate quickly; not only (or really?) because they want to ship every week.

That being said, I don't do mobile, but in terms of deploying a webapp, I want it to be reliable, very fast (<1m), and easy (type a command into Slack). If you have such a system, it lets you work however is convenient -- single small team, many (siloed) small teams, one large team -- it doesn't really matter. It's amazingly freeing when the act of merging and shipping code is just second thought -- something that just always works. Even shipping changes to the deployment system itself becomes very fast -- so you can iterate and constantly make it better as well.
Doesn’t fit on portrait iPhone 6 screen

I expected it wouldn’t be perfect and I’d have to wrangle left and right, but about an inch is missing off the left of the page even when you scroll.
For that matter, why store the chess board at all when you can just implement checkers?
Even mice - I discovered in a car that belonged to a family member who was diabetic, and hadn't driven for months, that mice had gotten into the glove box, where there were a bunch of insulin injection tips, plastic with needles, they had munched them to little bits, absolutely went to town on them. I have no idea why they would do that, but I guess rodents chew compulsively.
>But also often people's first response to pain at whatever level is to try to kill it without first trying to understand it.

I think that's an invalid assumption. I don't like going to the doctor and I usually won't unless something really hurts. I don't know many people who enjoy doctor visits. I suspect it's inline with dentist visits.
Seems likely that he was referring to this, further on in the interview:

> ...battlefield weapons that incorporate microwaves and things like directed energy beams.
Not having much of a savings, and moving to the bay area after getting a bay area job with a bay area salary (wow!!), only to realize that you also need to pay for bay area rent (WOW!!!).

If said person has animals, children, or a spouse it becomes even more complicated.
Not necessarily true, for example: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_fu...
Um... Smoking cessation is not an off-label use of bupropion (Wellbutrin), it's an FDA approved use and it's very openly marketed as such.

As far as the reason it seems to work, that was given as:

>Studies on mice had shown that instead of blocking the action of inflammatory proteins, bupropion appeared to lower the production of those proteins in the first place.

Bupropion also FDA approved for weight loss when mixed with the opioid antagonist naltrexone (brand-name Contrave).

No use "make sense" more or less than any other use use, it's a substance that has lots of effects on the body.
Agreed, also within reason. :)

I do note that opioids seem to be a particularly bad form of pain medication. You may start them to just fight some pain, but there are good chances you will get addicted. So, often it started to manage truly high levels of pain, but continues past necessity.

Similarly to most recreational risk taking of any kind. Social natures will move people beyond most risk heavy habits. This includes drugs. Addiction does exist, but it is not as simple as "this person is addicted."
These are also a good start:

> On September 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years.

> For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and people like you.

>Do you want to get involved? You can start by telling everyone about them. We’ve also put together a list of actions that you can take in your everyday life to contribute to a sustainable future.

http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-develop...
I use uwsgi when I wanna use the whole box. Now with k8s use gunicorn
Another way they prevent refactoring is by creating the work for you to implement the same type / number of tests on your new code so your code review doesn't look like it's deleting 100 tests.
The browser is gonna become like a front for a distributed OS.
what's wrong with just deleting these now-irrelevant tests?
One option might be to set closed questions to no-index.
No, that isn't what poverty is. Poverty is being at the mercy of people who don't care about you for your necessities to flourish as a human being before you die.

It's true that how much it costs to avoid this — if it can even be avoided with money — depends on where you live; here in Buenos Aires, I don't need a car to get around, because I can take the bus anywhere in the city for €0,44, or a taxi for perhaps €8 if I'm in a hurry. There are plenty of cultural events that are free or very cheap. When I lived in the US, I had to have a car, and that was more expensive. (I did try commuting by bicycle and public transport, but it wasn't very practical.) Public universities here are free, but few people can afford the time off work to study.

Poverty is vulnerability. Poverty is helplessness. Poverty is weakness. Poverty is not a lack of money; it is a consequence of a lack of money in a money-driven society.
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Dude, your job looks awesome. I have been thinking a lot about the ramifications of chemestry computation since last year.

This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16027737 about how to get around NP-hardness made me go "Oh, can you even ask such a question? Can you expect to solve getting around this kind of problem?" and so I went researching.

I found the paper Complexity of Protein Folding https://www.gwern.net/docs/biology/1993-fraenkel.pdf and chapter 4 exposes two possible realities: either nature solves NP-hard problems in polynomial time or it functions in a classic Turing machine model. I was like "Welp I guess when you put it like this, talking about nature working within a machine model I suppose it sounds rather silly, yes. It may be that nature just does her thing in her own way somehow." The paper says a protein with 100 amino acids may assume 8^100 conformations and nature solves for that in 1 second. Also the spin glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_glass model is apparently some other thing that nature solver eerly fast.

Can we chain these natural occurances in order to calculate a function with inputs in record time?
I'm actually glad you posted this response, because it's a topic that needs to be addressed.

I recently watched a video of a Columbine survivor giving a TED talk about emotional pain and addiction, and he said something along the lines of: "If you want to heal it, you have to feel it." Basically this commonsense idea that the best way to heal from trauma is to face it.

It sounds right... but is it? The guy giving the talk had been addicted to opioids for 10 years before getting sober and confronting his emotional pain. The implication is that he could've saved himself 10 years of drug addiction if he had just confronted his pain after the shooting instead of medicating it. However, he doesn't seem to consider the possibility that he might've been unable to process his pain immediately after the shooting, and that he was only able to overcome his trauma after a certain amount of distance (time-wise) from the incident.

So this is the question: is it always the right move to confront one's emotional pain in full? Is there ever a circumstance where numbing pain via medication (at least temporarily) could lead to better outcomes?

I don't know the answers. I'd love to know if there have been scientific studies done on this issue... I actually asked this question on /r/AskScience a month or two ago but it didn't get much attention. Curious to see what the research says.
My room is clean. You’re right that non-profit or charitable organizations sometimes waste money or aren’t effective. If you have ideas on how to improve that, or improve transparency and efficiency then please share.
> Yet there is no damn evidence for this.

This is blatantly incorrect. From the Violence Policy Center:

"Using the NCVS numbers, for the three-year period 2012 through 2014, the total number of self-protective behaviors involving a firearm by victims of attempted or completed violent crimes or property crimes totaled only 263,500."[0]

In other words, about 87,000 defensive uses of a firearm per year. This is up from the VPC's previous numbers, which totaled ~67,000[1].

> Also yes sure you can say schools are “safe” because it might not happen at yours.

They're "safe" because 4 deaths out of 50 million is safe. Similarly so with the other venues.

I will say, though, I respect your position on gun control much more than the folks who think we'll solve our gun death issue by banning characteristics of firearms (i.e., "assault weapon" bans).

[0]: http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable16.pdf

[1]: http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable15.pdf
They mention why in the article. Data compression in markets where data is slow and expensive. As well as a small storage footprint leading to more space on their phones for other stuff (which possibly also means a lower memory footprint so it may work better as well).
Just curious why that would do anything? Isn't it the same byte stream coming out that then goes into the other one?
Magic's price point, for Modern and especially Standard, is still a bit too high for most people...the most popular MTG YouTuber (Tolarian Community College) firmly believes current entry prices for all the popular formats should be lower (except Pauper) and has been talking about it for months or years now.

I love the idea of LCGs; I thought Epic or Ashes: Rise of the Pheonixborn could be new Netrunners (which I missed completely) but they didn't end up getting popular. So lately I am more interested in trying standalone board games, and MTG draft/cube.

I think Blizzard has a userbase satisfied with their DLC/loot box systems and the industry should learn from them
Very true. Also true that some doctors have prescribed opioids irresponsibly. I recall an article, of course can't find it now, about a police officer's daughter (or was it niece?) who got an initial 30 day script for a torn rotor cuff. Some time after, after he confronted her about her weird behavior, did she tell him what was going on and how the addiction started.
I believe that officially only the movies, etc., would fall into the public domain. But people can make derivative works of public domain items, so they wouldn’t be limited to literal copies of Steamboat Willie. They could show Steamboat Willie using a smartphone.

However, Disney also has trademarks on Mickey Mouse, etc., so using Mickey’s likeness in commercial ways would still be a legal minefield.
This is really slick. Clang took about 20 secs to load on my quad core MBPro. How does this change web development ? Do we need an Ecmascript equivalent for C++ ?
I'm actually more surprised to see original content on digg .. and to see digg for that matter, than the actual content of the article.
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Your last sentence is very important.

At least Chinese markets (and possibly Indian and others as well)do not seem to have the disdain for feature loading American markets do.

Weibo is one of the most popular apps in the markwt (if not most) and it’s practically an operating system of its own. I suspect it would have gotten nowhere in US markets because people would have complained about it being not focused and having a bad UI.
Tl;dr: Understand the difference between values and pointers.
“Goog” should be the new thing
My preference is for UBI to succeed so that I could spend 8 -10 hours a day pursuing personal projects and research instead spending 8-10 hours a day doing what someone else tells me to do in order to eat.

I am skeptical that UBI will work because paying people for nothing seems like it may be counterproductive by creating rampant inflation or by acting as a disincentive for most.

The rampant inflation argument, which most economists would use to argue against UBI, is interesting because most countries seem to be suffering from deflation. If deflation is a problem, then inflation created by UBI could be beneficial to an economy. But getting a government to start up a new UBI program to combat deflation does not seem like an efficient path for creating a solution because governments are slow, rarely do things correctly, and magnify their mistakes by taking years to correct initial imperfections.

Rather, focusing the brains, money, and technology of Silicon Valley on proving the idea with a cryptocurrency based UBI seems like a much more efficient approach to either 1) create a solution (the preferred option) or 2) settle the debate so that we can move on.
Native apps are often written in web technologies via Electron. It all depends on what you need and what access you can get. Plus, someone has to maintain the browser and its packages, so there will always be need for systems developers.
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I mean, if kids were being told about this, why such a surprise that the oil companies were being warned?
I've seen this with out differently on different code bases. Particularly on Rails code bases I've seen some of the symptoms you describe. On more recent Java projects I've seen the opposite where code that needed to change actually just ended up getting swapped out. The "only one reason to change"/open-closed dream come true. Old classes and unit tests just got thrown out. On those acceptance tests were the pain point when behavior was changed on purpose.

I'm still not sure how to get the good outcome every time. Maybe it's just well designed interfaces ‍️
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Mickey and Winnie the Pooh make Disney tens of billions a year.

They should trademark them, instead of relying on copyright.
Yeah, I agree that there is risk in content production but Netflix is a public company and there is nothing preventing any investor from selling their shares.

Unless you meant something else.
Those rust very quickly.
Everyone: thank you for trying it. She's on Cloud Nine right now!
One of my favorite quotes: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime".
Thats because antidepressant is just one of the many activities of such class of drugs. Its like saying that Viagra is a pulmonary hypertension drug, prescribed for something else. Indications are not binary things.
Clang is pretty big -- as a comparison, my Z80 IDE which uses SDCC (Simple Device C Compiler, i.e. no C++) loads about 2 MB of WASM + 2 MB of data and executes a compile/assemble/link cycle in about 0.5 sec for a small program:

http://8bitworkshop.com/v2.1.0/?platform=mw8080bw&file=gfxte...

Most of the execution time is spent in SDCC's register allocator, which was recently rewritten to generate better code but unfortunately is a lot slower than the old allocator.
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> Mocking introduces assumptions, which introduce risk.

This boils down something I've had on my mind a lot of late. Though, with a different spin. I write a lot of Go. I prefer testing interfaces while some others what to use mock generators. This quote captures part of my reasoning behind avoiding mocks. I plan to write a detailed post at some point full of examples. I think this quote will work its way in there.
Ok sorry, I didn't make explicit an important bit -- from my perspective these variables are initialized by the callee but are otherwise local to the function. From a C perspective imagine them as function local variables which are contructed by the callee's parameters.
Unique steam urls' have to be manually set and don't exist by default.
Seems obvious on all points, not sure why this is getting downvoted.
I don't like it, it reminds me of the time a colleague wrote 2 separate pieces of new functionality and wrote one single end to end test that used both of them, as the "most efficient" way to test it.
Cats can decimate local bird populations as well