skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that, although I once tried hard to google it. What I do know, though, is that for me these orange-tinted blue-light-blocking safety glasses (which I learned about from somebody else on this very forum discussing this exact topic a few years ago) work way better than any screen-modifying software I have tried.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90/ref=oh_aui_sear...

They look a bit silly but if you are just at home, who cares...

(I no longer use them, because in the intervening years I produced three young children, so I am now exhausted at all times and can fall asleep instantly whenever the opportunity presents itself. However, I still do use Night Shift / Night Mode / f.lux / Windows Blue Light Filter on all my phones and computers, because I came to strongly prefer it after getting used to it, even in absence of sleep issues.)
Lawmakers should be asking Zuckerberg these questions
I don’t think HuffPo is “agenda-setting”, or really any opinion pages. I’d say the agenda is actually driven by real reporting (not op-Ed’s) in the NYT, WahPo, sometimes WSJ. The current hot topics in US politics, for example, are the VA nominee, the EPA head’s corruption, and the Macron visit. All those are actual news.

But the FT is rather good, indeed.
No, there are two separate points being argued here.

You first implied that there are plenty of rules that are completely pointless - mitigating no negative externalities. I challenged you to provide an example of a start-up whose business was based on breaking those kinds of rules - since usually the reason you can make money off rule-breaking in the first place is because you're externalizing the costs onto the rest of society.

I then said that rule-making is a trade-off, and that you don't get to unilaterally decide those trade-offs are illegitimate because you want to make money. In the case of medical marijuana, yes, obviously, there are negative social consequences to selling marijuana and there are people who would vigorously argue in favor of federal drug laws. But these clinics are not unilaterally operating in defiance of federal drug laws; they have the backing of the government of their states.

Of course, there are also plenty of profiteers who just break the law and then reinvest the profits in the task of forcing communities to accept their social irresponsibility and lawlessness as a fait accompli (AirBNB, Uber).

If you really want to think seriously about these issues, you need to move beyond just name-dropping 'logical fallacies' to try and win arguments.
I know this is really fucked up but this inspired me to come up with presale of human organ: ie, You sign to give up your organs when you decease, and get paid while you are alive.
> (a down payment is needed though)

That's the thing though, isn't it? If you have the money for a down payment you are probably not in the group of people most affected by rents spiraling up.
Transition costs are only paid once, and if everyone is learning together that's probably a lot less intimidating.
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The magnitude of the change is quite large. And I think it is quite plausible that op-eds only 'preach to the converted' or only persuade those who are already persuaded. This article shows good evidence that people do change their minds -- especially as these articles covered topics on which the treatment group had views on.
Net income is not that useful of a metric since both companies are still growing.
> I'm currently in Japan and can assure you that about 126'000'000 Japanese definitely don't share your opinion.

I think the OP was talking about Waze, the company (so about Google, which owns it). Looking at Japan I can see that the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the company behind the Fukushima nuclear disaster, hasn't cared almost at all about this famous Japanese "social pressure".
The YC credo is to encourage these companies to think of themselves as judges of what is and is not acceptable lawbreaking. That's the problem.
I did. And it seems awesome.

I just dont see people with "software engineering" background taking any serious liking to it. So it creates DIVIDE between the "software engineering folks" (that want regular-looking-OOP-and-basic-FP architecting feature for APIs and stuff) and "data science folks" who just want to focus on the algorithms.

The litmus test for a "truly general purpose language" to me would be:

(1) write some algorithmic code in it (with not much concurrency and parallelism)

(2) write some (purposefully heavily overengineered) GUI or web-app (full-stack) code in it in a team of 3+ including at least one guy who's both really junior and another guy who's really sloppy

(3) write something making heavy use of networking, concurrency and parallelism

If all three feel EQUALLY natural in a language, than you've got a truly general purpose language. If not, look for something else.

And I know, people hate general purpose solutions just as much as they hate "expert generalist" people, and they have good reasons too, as we've all (or most) been burnt bad by contact with both such "solutions" and with such self-labeled people in the past. But just because we generally suck at "general purpose" doesn't mean we should stop trying!
If it can be proven that LendEDU or any other student loan company profited from their statements, this is a picture case of wire fraud. 18 U.S.C. §1343 [1] for reference, states that "whoever devised or intended to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations [...]"

They did not disclose their connection to LendEDU and if LendEDU profited from their fraudulent pretenses or representations then there you have it.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343
Some very impressive and practical performance gains... Main repo for the project with further details:

https://github.com/ronomon/crypto-async#performance
Global supply chains involve a number of superpowers who are at proxy wars with each other and a vast number of countries of which the majority have deep corruption issues. Who do you designate as the trusted 3rd party?
I'm all for seeing items with random distribution inside as gambling too. I recall the monetary value of some pokemon cards caused my school to ban them. This didn't really have any effect other than to allow the school to say, "well, they are banned," if there was any fights or thefts relating to them. I think they probably had a net social negative amongst my friends at the time. In fact the only social positive I saw from them was in getting people, who wouldn't otherwise interact, interacting -- which wasn't always a good thing.

But I do see a few tiny differences in general between loot boxes and physical items like trading cards:

1. the packet does contain physical items which cost money to produce, whereas a duplication of a virtual item is effectively the distribution cost.

2. Retailers made a profit on physical items too. With virtual items sold by developer-publishers like EA and Valve, it's really just one party.

3. There is typically no limit on the number of loot boxes you can purchase. With physical items there is the stock of the shop.

4. Loot boxes can in some cases be purchased with other people's (usually parents) cards by default and without their immediate knowledge.

5. It isn't routine for somebody to give you a pack of physical tradable items for free to go and feel what they are like. If you go and buy them, there is a small amount of honesty in terms of what you are getting. With loot boxes, you are presented with them through in game events and then provided with the opportunity to buy more.

6. With physical items, you don't know how things are distributed but you can be reasonably certain that they can't be targeted at you. If you're looking for card X, the shopkeeper usually has no way of knowing what pack contains that and withholding that pack from you to maximise profit. You have no idea how the loot boxes are distributed. It is entirely possible for developers to detect when somebody is "hooked", work out what they are after, and attempt to maximise profit by withholding the desired item.

The only thing that could prevent such abuses is to regulate loot boxes as gambling as several countries have now done and respond with immense penalties where regulations are violated (a multiple of what would be made * estimated chance of being caught or a fraction of published turnover).
we will need a lot more than "tech fixes" with the current situation.
Kudos for the researchers for publishing their data and the R scripts to reproduce their findings.

A minor complaint I have is that the variable names aren't very clear. What's `dv_flat_agree_w1` etc?
> Clearly, building more roads doesn't work

There is a great video[1] by Wendover Productions about how to fix traffic, explaining exactly this effect. tl;dr: The more road capacity you supply, the more traffic will come since potential demand will "always" outstrip supply.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4PW66_g6XA
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I think that .NET Core have a stable UI kit.

Else, my favourite solutions are Kotlin/TornadoFX/Java/JavaFX.
Well, I'm personally doomed, as are we all, sooner or later. So far, anyway.

I agree that industrial civilization is very likely doomed. Or at least, except for the wealthy. There's just too much momentum from CO2 already in the atmosphere. Even if no more were released, starting today. And then there are all the potential, arguably likely, positive feedbacks. Such as melting of permafrost in northern Canada and Siberia.

But I disagree about the mass extinction aspect. Earth is in the midst of an anthropogenic mass extinction. But collapse of industrial civilization will mitigate that, I suspect. Climate change will drive some species extinct, but overall diversity will do better without so many people.

As you say, CO2 levels were higher in the past. But damn, when they were, the Earth was a tropical hothouse. But what's bad about rapid CO2 increase is that evolutionary change can't keep up. Species, even entire ecosystems, will get sucker punched. And even so, having less people will help.

I doubt that humans will go extinct, either. We're tough bastards. Maybe there's a population bottleneck coming, but that's often a good thing, in the long term.
Why was she even taking her beer with her to the bathroom?
I can confirm your experiences. I've been a long time Linux user, yet I still struggle to change to "natural" mouse scrolling on the latest install of LUbuntu. I finally had to resort to "magic" incantations on the command line and restarting X. Even then it all reverted when I rebooted the machine.
The salty parents would ask why you think it's ok to oppressively surveil everything that your child does, and say that you should be able to leave your child playing a game without risking exposing the child to tobaco, alcohol, ro gambling ads.
Imagine if using CUDA/C++ with OpenMP for crypto!
Calling what Theranos did "being creative" is pretty creative by itself.
My experience with Kinder Surprise is that is impossible to get all the advertised set. Sometimes is so rare that it makes for collectors quite a huge difference in value. I remember hunting with my kids a certain figurine and after spending quite some time/money on this, we gave up.

Chocolate was good, though.
ISIS desires to create an authoritarian regime and commit acts of violence and destruction against most of the world's population.

The Falun Gong desires to exist.
Parts of it is ;) [0]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116225/
Once you adjust everything for income, you obviate the entire purpose of having an income. If a raise doesn't actually get you anything because your expense are pegged to your income, you don't have an incentive to get a raise. Society runs on incentives for performance.
Um, I think Microsoft made a point of mentioning that developers had a door.

It will never be “obvious” to CEO’s that limiting interruptions to developers makes a difference if their mental model won't allow them to consider it.

It’s a bit like the use of torture, studies show that it isn’t effective but that doesn’t stop people from employing it and believing it is effective.

A company with big shared tables for developers is sending the message that the company doesn’t think of devs as “chefs” but as “code monkeys”. Developers should consider this when choosing who they work for.
I don't actually like retina displays for tech work. I think it's purely cosmetic, and it generally slows things down. But worse than that are glossy screens. The 1080p x1 screen is perfect for me at 13", no scaling required, it's matte, and it's still in HiDPI territory so plenty of screen real estate. You can also get the 1440p screen if you want more pixels.

Ram-wise, 16Gi is plenty for me. The nvme ssd more than makes up for any issues. I regularly run multiple IntelliJ/Goland windows, docker containers, VMs, etc. without a problem. If I need more, I have a proper desktop. Laptops are meant to be portable.

The carbon is half a pound lighter than the comparable macbook pro, and better in all respects that matter to me - keyboard, weight, battery life, repairability, durability, linux compatibility.
The problem is that the company?/agency? paying for your organs can't know that they will be usable or even that you will die in a way that your organs can be retreived. I had a discussion with a medical student, where she explained that not all deaths results in a body that from which organs could be used. The discussion was prompted by a recent law that made citizens of our country organ donor by default (if you don't have a card stating you're not an organ donor or if you haven't registered as not an organ donor, you're considered one) and she said that death where the organs could be used where way less frequent.

Edit: yes, the family/relatives are consulted before
> I take measures to make it easy for them to do that. I wear reflective gear and have lights at night. I bike in an easily visible space. I signal where I'm going and move in a consistent, predictable manner.

Because you're on a road. If you don't do those things, you may die. Pedestrians don't expect to get hit by vehicles on the sidewalk to the same degree. I'm a fast walker, I somewhat know your pain, but you're not entitled to tell people how to walk around, unless it's putting other pedestrians in danger.
The goal of transportation infrastructure is to move people to their destinations quickly. It turns out that adding road capacity moves more people, rather than moving the same people more quickly, but that's still a success case.

If we should reject road expansion because it fails to decrease travel times, then we should certainly reject a shift towards public transit, which actively makes them much worse.

"Congestion" is a non-problem. You get no points for "solving congestion" by kicking everyone off the road. It's quite likely that a highly congested road is still delivering better end-to-end travel times and user experience than a realistic bus system.

"Solving congestion" is great for you if you can afford the congestion charge, but it's not clear why a democratic society should let the rich kick the poor off the roads for their personal convenience. Really the only angle under which it's a coherent goal is reducing carbon emissions, but then you don't even need to talk about induced demand - it's sort of obvious that more road capacity means more driving.
The key element of this piece is its recognition of the social, political, institutional, model-and-frame, and epistemic roadblocks to addressing the hyman predicament.

People, writ large, don't want to hear this. Happy stories are far more compelling. Complex stories with unhappy endings, not so much. And all systems stories are complex. (They don't all have to have bad endings, though many do.)

Politics, particularly large-scale democratic systems, hew away from intellect and sophistication. Aristphanes wrote of this in ancient Greece, The Frogs. One of the most accessible and concise developments I've seen is H.L. Mencken's 1926 essay, "Brayard vs. Lionheart", on the Coolidge-Cox U.S. presidential race. Highly recommended.

https://amomai.blogspot.com/2008/10/hl-mencken-bayard-vs-lio...

Our institutions, cultural, governmental, commercial, and otherwise, can address the situation at best poorly, and often directly contribute to the problem. I don't have a handy argument as to why, though I'm thinking much on that. The "P Literature" -- Parkinson's Law, the Peter Principle, Putt's Law, and Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship seem to form part of a core. I'd add the Jevons paradox, Gresham's Law, and John Gall's Systemantics as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successfu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

Broken models and frames -- theory and ideology -- contribute hugely. I've been focusing particularly on economics and its general failures to properly address both costs and value. (The realisation that "cost", "price", and "value" are three distinct, and frequently only tenuously-related concepts, is a breakthrough in understanding.)

And failures of understanding, communication, and processing of information -- our epistemic system -- are another wrench thrown in the works. Not trivially addressed, and perhaps best considered a fundamental system constraint rather than a bug.
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If you get a tax refund, you're actually losing money
You could take this one step further and just say NO devices or TV at night or after 7pm, period.

I can honestly say it's been game changing for me to do this. I just read paper books now, taken a while to get into the habit but my sleep has improved so dramatically since then.

Also, my phone charger lives in the kitchen, so my phone doesn't come to bed with me, also a dramatic improvement.

What is strange about all this is that fluorescents, while not pleasant to use, don't seem to keep my up like devices do. In that I can have one on for 30 minutes before bed and sleep well. Maybe it's not the light but the stimulation that affects us?
Welcome to the Guardian ;-)
> Does anyone sensible think we're actually doomed?

It's been at least 2 decades since I've met or heard from one who didn't.
Same for me, never visited, using private browser, still no article to read.
I get that JSX is a DSL that ends up being javascript. But there are a lot of arguments why we don't write HTML directly between the PHP which still apply to JSX, even though it's not HTML. For me as a programmer it doesn't matter what happens under the hood.

Whether I type `return (<button>foo</button)` in react or echo '<button>foo</button>' in php, it's the same thing from my point of view as an application builder.
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I agree that AWS pricing and documentation can be incredibly obtuse in some cases and that it's often overkill for small personal projects.

Vultr and Digital Ocean are incredibly competitive from a performance per dollar perspective, while still offering a high level of flexibility.

With that said, AWS does offer some features that don't have any equivalent open source solutions (at least that I'm aware of).

The most apparent example of this that is commonly used are Autoscaling Groups, something that is difficult to replicate on Digital Ocean or Vultr unless you intend to write custom code (I believe Openstack or Cloudstack may offer something similar but that's a whole other bag of worms)

Cloudwatch is also an incredibly powerful solution for correlating logs and metrics that can be difficult to replicate without rolling your own solution, which can become quite complex (generally combining something such as Prometheus + ELK + Grafana).

In short, AWS allows you to utilize some incredibly powerful tools without nearly as much management overhead as rolling your own solution.

This is the area where I think AWS excels.
Nope. It's not as black and white. Following the laws to the book, but not being afraid of breaking the law in itself, but being afraid of crossing ethical lines and understanding the cost of breaking the law, willfully accepting what retribution comes back when caught. There has to be some level of human conscience at play in these decision making. There are hundreds of laws that are enforced while ethical lines are being crossed and laws are broken without crossing any. All we can ask as a society is that we train and employ our rationality and conscience.
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I agree this is a good default. But because of this, here in South Korea we have con artist pedestrians getting purposely "bumped" by cars and going off to lie in a hospital bed, leeching medical bills from the driver until he settles.
That's just being pedantic. Swap out "pressured the regulators" with "lobby the lawmakers" and his question is perfectly valid. Let's not pretend large corporations like casinos can't throw their weight around politically.
True. Mostly due to hold ups in the Stage 3 — Stage 4 process I think
The nazis used the remains of the Jew from extermination camps as fertilizer. So yeah, that's the kind of the things the nazis did.
I just wanted to show you a quick glance over the history of fiat money, and what happened after 2008 to the dollar.

> Most people don’t study history (or don’t learn its lessons) and as the saying goes, are doomed to repeat it.

Have a nice day.
As any new project that pops up in here, I wish you well and hope you guys make it.

However, as a IBS sufferer, I'm not sure I get it.

Yes identifying the foods that make you ill is a top priority for IBS patients like me, but I downloaded this app:

https://www.monashfodmap.com/i-have-ibs/get-the-app/

And within a week or two I identified the culprits, took them out of my diet and I'm back in business all for I think it was a one time payment of $6.99 and some willingness to make some changes. The app is fantastic.

I guess what you are really selling is the coaching and I'm sure some people do need it. Good luck guys
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And I think google and other big tech companies can lead the way. It really is good for humanity and earth.
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A chiller generates a lot of heat which is discharged outside (for example on the building roof). I would ask the engineer why they don't use this heat to reheat the dehumidified air.
Didn't you hear about the nationwide political purge he's just spent a few years doing? Or changing the law to remove term limit on the presidency (conveniently, himself)?
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also is it not near impossible to actually get an appartment like that without putting your children on the waiting list allready?
Most of the people responsible for the most vicious atrocities in history look, act, and speak like reasonable people. In the U.S., staid corporate lawyer types like John Dulles have been responsible for vastly more human suffering than outlandish super villain caricatures like Trump (not to say he's good). Recently I've been reading up on the history of lynchings and violent strikebreaking in the U.S. - one of the chilling things about that kind of history is the people who ordered or participated in anti-black or anti-labor death squads were usually reasonable, sober, responsible community leaders, businessmen, local lawyers and Chamber of Commerce types.

Always be suspicious of people with power, especially people with the power of life and death.
Who decided what constitutes a crime, and who gets convicted and executed? China isn't exactly known for the fairness of its justice system.

And the quantity, youth, and low latency of organs for transplant exclude every possibility except harvesting.
will this support the new upcoming Streams datastructure in redis ?

I'm looking forward to a lightweight, hosted kafka replacement using redis streams.