skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The political implications are pretty interesting. It doesn't seem like rural areas are "replenishing" at all, thus, getting older, which seems to coincide with being generally more conservative and typically more "protective".

Also, rural areas don't seem to see much positive economic development these days. Thus, it's likely that the rural vote will become even more distrusting of central authority and extreme in general.

It sure seems like the political divide in the US will only deepen further, and be susceptible to even more external manipulation.

What I didn't consider previously is that the opiate epidemic may also be adding fuel to the fire.
Yep, that was one of the things that I got working early on. It's used a fair bit in the codebase, though it's not necessarily all that apparent if you don't know where to look.

As mentioned at https://github.com/mruby-zest/mruby-qml-spawn/blob/master/mr... the properties form a dependency graph, so the property bindings should stay up-to-date when you change dependent properties.

This is one of the features of the overall framework which may be a bit under-tested at the moment. I've fixed a number of bugs in the system, though you certainly can get into odd edge cases when updating bindings during widget creation or destruction.
Agreed. I looked at core on MacOSX at some point, don't remember exactly when, and it wasn't quite there yet. Glad to hear that progress has been made and am very curious to check it out!
imho it's baked into anglo individualist enlightenment philosophy - if there is no dogmatic truth, and individuals are allowed to make their own decision, you are being an overarching papist to insist that there is a right way, and further more that we should listen to it.

so instead, 'be nice', because 'respecting others opinions' (even if delusional) is the true virtue

besides, insisting on a 'correct way' for the group means that individualism itself is flawed, and so is therefore heretical..
Yes, and you'd have health insurance.
ProTip: Avoid any organization that promotes living arrangements other than monogamous pair bonds residing in their own homes.

Source: extensive reading about cults.
Should I move up the ladder or stay low and technical? – part 1
Posts like this always make a little sad, because at work, we use Microsoft SQL Server[0], and for private programming, I usually prefer SQLite. Still, in some ways, Postgres feels like somebody invented a time machine and brought back a database engine from the future. Sigh Maybe I will find a good reason to use Postgres one of these days... ;-)

[0] Do not get me wrong - if you can ignore the price tag, MSSQL is a great database engine. It has never given me any trouble I have not asked for, and it has some very nice features of its own (e.g. the Service Broker).
Well, perhaps the illusion (which is pretty permanent, nirvana and psychedelics aside) can be manipulated.

It is a trash article, though.
Yes, that's correct - a very worthwhile read, regardless of your profession.
One thing Oregon has spent a ton of time dealing with is how to test pesticide levels, THC, and CBD. There are apparently technical issues that make testing difficult and it sounds like it is still needs improvement. Apparently heavy pesticide use is almost universal in growing marijuana and quite a bit remains in the final product. Developing better pesticides would be one thing a national legalization might help with.
You can be genuine without being emotional
I agree that profit motive is underappreciated and often is the real reason for consolidation, formation of ACOs, etc (many ACOs dont form for getting share of cost savings, rather they try to increase volume through partnerships).

However I think it's odd to point out primary care as a culprit. Prices in the US are higher across the board, so just highlighting primary care salaries doesnt tell the whole story. Better metrics are 1) ratio of average salary of specialists to primary care and 2) total supply of specialists compared to primary care. The US lags on both metrics [2]

Hospital care is the number one driver of spend in the US (over 30% of spend) [1]. A day at a hospital in the US is twice as much as in comparable countries (can dig up source if interested). Pretty sure the U.S. spends more on inpatient care as % of total spend than other countries. US is middle of the pack in terms of drug spend as % of total HC spend. Hospitals have increasingly been buying primary care and specialty practices. When an independent practice gets bought by a large system, they can instantly charge more for the same procedure, bc they're now under the large system's contracts with payers. Literally nothing changes but negotiating leverage. If you want to find a big cause of healthcare spend inefficiency in the US, look there

[1] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...

[2] https://www.milbank.org/2017/07/getting-primary-care-oriente...
It's interesting reading the comments here. People with no background (I assume) in healthcare describe the guy as "brilliant" and "the perfect choice".

People with years of experience in healthcare question think he's a poor pick and just a famous name.

It's amazing what a good public relations strategy can do for someone!
>As I watch the news I can't help but think maybe this isn't such a bad thing.

Is this a round about way of saying 'if all the white people died it would fix our problems'?

I personally don't think it's a very helpful sentiment to say things like "If this group of people didn't exist, we wouldn't have a problem".
And how is that going for the goat herders? The US may not be "winning" in Afghanistan, but they certainly aren't losing as much as the Afghan people are. Their nation has been utterly decimated.

The idea that the American people could make an armed stand in conflict with the US military is about as foolish of a notion as can be dreamt up.
In the future, will our excuses be the same as those who were silent then - because it did not affect them?

A slow boil the frog.

Or maybe the job will get so skillfully done,unopposed and complete we will get away with it without needing to answer to history? We have now already improved on Korematsu in
leveraging infliction of family pain as a deterrent like the mob.

I write this under a throwaway, as a legal immigrant.

Now, give your silence too.
Having high test coverage (especially in dynamic languages) has been industry standard for years. I haven't worked at a place that accepts poorly covered PRs in a very long time.
The reality, at-least for me is that it is a productivity tool. After meditation, I just do things I normally would procrastinate on like its not a big deal. Chores don't seem like chores etc.
praise-criticism-praise
I have never heard anything from Gawande that made me question his judgement. Whereas I have heard a lot from the MAGA guy that made me question his.
>is more suited for enterprise development than both typescript and JavaScript.

What makes you think this given the library and tooling situation? Is this strictly a "worse is better" thing where lacking modern language features is a plus (at which point I'd argue for Java) or is there a Dart feature that makes you think it's actually an improvement over TypeScript, Kotlin, .NET Core (both C# and F#) or Rust (just to avoid adding more languages to what you mentioned) for enterprise development?

I'm frankly astonished at seeing how something that I see as an extremely clear step backwards as far as languages go is getting so much traction; not sure if it's just because Flutter is that good a tool (in which case I'd think we should be aiming to make the native core available to other languages) that people are willing to root for the whole package or if there's something else.
Walgreens replacing GE on the Dow
This immediately reminded me of Chögyam Trungpa's book "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism".

Wikipedia: "He uses the term [Spiritual Materialism] to describe mistakes spiritual seekers commit which turn the pursuit of spirituality into an ego building and confusion creating endeavor, based on the idea that ego development is counter to spiritual progress." [1]

Very interesting read, a good friend of mine gave it to me early on in my path on meditation. I think it's really a necessity for anyone seeking deeper meaning beyond using yoga & meditations as an ego pursuit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_Through_Spiritual_Mate...
None. This is not a Rails problem or a Django problem. If you're coming to that conclusion you haven't been building software long enough.

You can architect clean software in any language. What happens is this: you learn a new framework (or sometimes learn a new framework AND the corresponding language it is build in). You don't know what is idiomatic. You haven't made mistakes yet. You're making progress on your idea and getting shit done though, so it doesn't matter. Long story short: you don't know any better. Hindsight is 20/20!

Next time around you try something new and blame your old woes on the framework. This time around you've learned a thing or two about how to properly organize your code. You've been bitten by a third party tool that stopped being maintained. You've grown and learned and become more wise. But... you still blame your past issues on the old framework.

At some point you've been doing this for decades and you start to learn about abstract patterns that are not coupled to frameworks: service-oriented design, domain-driven design, CQRS (command driven systems), event buses and event systems, clean architecture, separation of concerns, SOLID principles, etc... ONCE you are at that point, you will begin to realize that NONE of the frameworks are going to solve these issues and NONE of them are more or less prone to causing tech debt.

Long story short: keep building software and focus on principles not frameworks. Read up on SOLID. It just takes time to get better and to start building things that don't encourage debt.

Another thing to note: tech debt is not bad. People throw that term around all the time and use it as a proxy for "messy code". Nothing in life is free. Everything is a balance. Perfectly architected software vs move fast and prove the business and make a profit? Pick one. You're going to acquire some amount of tech debt along the way. It's like real debt... sometimes you gotta accrue monetary debt to make progress elsewhere.
This could just be written “The baby boom are dying”. The baby boom was always a one-off event, not a sustained change in behaviour. And given the ridiculously poor choice they’ve made, whilst we’ll undoubtedly miss those we love, collectively they will not be mourned.

The Baby Boom was not the greatest generation.
In this example:

fn collect<B: FromIterator<Self::Item>>(self) -> B where Self:Sized;

I thought this was universal, not existential like the podcast claims. It would be existential if you instead wrote:

fn collect(self) -> impl FromIterator<Self::Item> where Self:Sized;

The latter is what got added in 1.26, whereas the former was already available before that.

And really, you wouldn't want to use the latter in this case because the user wants to choose the type that's being generated (this is not a case where you want the callee to choose the type). So the second signature wouldn't make a whole lot of sense even if this API had been stabilized post-1.26.
I can't drive my car as soon as I run a red light. The punishment seems harsh.
Ironically, the biggest evidence of this here might be the idea that the ego should be kept as small as possible. Whether or not it's a real thing, it still needs maintenance (arguably a huge benefit of meditation), and there's probably a healthy size (though I hate this spatial metaphor; people are far more complex than that).
Which armed citizenry overthrew government by themselves, without another government's assistance?
It's largely popular because because people gravitate towards simply explanations. It makes them feel good.

Is there directional data to suggest a connection? Sure. But there have been plenty of theories like this that have turned out to be complete bunk.
Microsoft acquires Bonsai to help with its artificial intelligence push
> Facebook only cares about resolving their own issues

One could argue that Google suffers from this weakness as well.
I wonder how long we have had what is politely being called a "tent city"[1] for children in Texas. I mean, they aren't gassing them, but last year our esteemed president had a cow about the psychological damage that Kathy Griffin was doing to all of his children, not just his actually still-a-child offspring, but including his adult offspring in his assessment that she had gone too far and was sick.

Yet, somehow, having what is essentially a concentration camp of kids isn't the president going too far and being sick.

There is in my mind zero justification for the current state of things and I don't care what argument is used to try to claim there is.

I don't plan to participate further in this discussion. I think I have made all the comments I can make while complying with HN guidelines. This situation is just beyond the pale for me.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/06/photos-a-tent-city...
Hasn't seemed to stop investment in new companies yet!
I know several good people that have been locked out of Coinbase permanently - without any explanation of why - for over a year despite repeated unanswered requests to have accounts reinstated. I watched those people turn from advocates for coinbase into critics. Just a simple explanation would have helped prevent that scenario.

This company is a terrible example of how to do business. It's as if they watched how Google handled AdSense publishers in the early days and decided to copy that model for customer service.

I wonder how well that strategy will play out.
> When students were evaluated in the hour after their yoga class, they showed significantly higher self-enhancement, according to all three measures, than when they hadn’t done yoga in the previous 24 hours.

I wonder, is this what ego means in Buddhism? Also, is this what ego historically meant in Buddhism? For a long time, people in Buddhist communities would call you crazy if you meditate. Having followed one theological course on Buddhism at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, I am convinced that whenever you study meditation, you need a theologian specialized in Buddhism next to you in order to see if you're comparing the same constructs.

I also wonder if only meditation is supposed to have an effect on diminishing the ego, according to Buddhism. Buddhism in general is much more than only meditation. It's probably analogous to teaching people to pray and through prayer they'll figure out the 10 commandments. The result is interesting in the sense of how meditation affects someone from a western culture (someone like me). But it is dangerous to imply that this applies to Buddhism. They could've easily circumvented that by putting the scientific terms in the title.
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Is this kind of robotics investment happening in the US?
I agree, but I understand where the "speak no evil" tactic sprung from. See my comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356507

The parent comment I was replying to seemed to be basing his position on one piece of anecdata and little else, thus my comment. I don't see what in my comment elicited your response but I do agree with your general thesis, with the caveat that I see it as a potentially-necessary response to counteract extensive demonization/fear-mongering by the state and temperance league style organizations. That said, the time for that tactic I feel is over, as the public is now beyond the "reefer madness"-style knee-jerk anti-cannabis bias.
I use it extensively in my current project and it is a joy. Different strokes for different folks.
Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are unfortunately not available today to discuss this topic in the HN forum so you're stuck debating the pros and cons with us [fellow?] peasants, sorry.
MySQL High Availability at GitHub
Failure to pay employees is "wage theft" in the USA.

The Netherlands sounds a bit employer friendly in the UK mess up at all in firing some one you automatically lose even if the employee is as guilty as sin and was caught bang to rights
GitLab isn't still hosting the content. They too have taken it down.
Nvidia's Project Denver also attempted something similar. It shipped in the form of the HTC Nexus 9, but it wasn't any faster than the competition in benchmarks (where you'd expect a JIT to shine). In the real world it's even worse because JITs are not good for responsiveness, particularly JITs that are not scheduled by the kernel and are unable to be scheduled behind important work. The CPU just randomly stopped running code to run a JIT instead.

But I was more just talking about things like branch predictors. You can be informed by runtime data without being a full on JIT, which is the world very nearly every modern CPU lives in these days.
Sounds like the EU will have to invite Nintendo to go fuck themselves for disabling resellable devices. The other thing they do that's pretty nasty is requiring their permission to buy a developer kit instead of something like wifi or a USB cable.
"It's the law" never justified anything.
We have found service broker to be one of the most brittle things. But I agree that the engine is really great. At the startup we use Postgres and as a former sql server DBA I love it. Auto sharding in 11 will be awesome.
Would you buy a console without turning it on?
Table inheritance seems like a natural one for devs working with a lot of class oriented languages. But also, composition over inheritance seems to be a more frequent watchword. Any experiences using this one?

Also, triggers seem pretty controversial in the discussions I've been privy too, most devs seem to hate them. Any positive experiences with them?
Illegally crossing the border is a misdemeanor, not a felony.

Besides, ethics are more important than laws.
> perhaps it's best to have people on-site manually approve any destructive steps.

Or, almost certainly cheaper, manually deal with the 1 in 10,000 case like yours.

In this case, a simple notes field in the request system would perhaps have sufficed. Perhaps there is/was, and it wasn't filled out because it wasn't recognized as being some manner of exceptional request. Perhaps if there was manual approval, removal of your stuff would still have been approved.

It's literally impossible to catch all of these, because human error will creep in. Sounds to me like your case was dealt with adequately. (Perhaps not from your personal perspective!!)
I own one of the traditional(think t420) thinkpad keyboards that are wired. My favorite keyboard to use by fare, but they don't really make them anymore. You can still buy them off of ebay.
> What is stopping hackers from purchasing one game legitimately and just spoof the data after?

If you mean "spoof" in the sense of duplicating the certificate/ticket: Because two consoles would try to use the same cart certificate/ticket.

If you mean "spoof" in the sense of making a fake certificate/ticket: The certificate/ticket are signed by Nintendo, so they can verify on the server side if it's fake or not.

If you mean spoof the console data: As far as I know, you require an NNID to go online, which the console is tied to. So the pirates would have to share login data and chain all the carts/tickets to that one console and login combination. That's probably going to be practically infeasible. Even if it wasn't, Nintendo could probably notice an odd amount of sign-ins coming from a single console, yet also all over the world.
The methodology seems strange. Questionnaires were compared based on whether yoga students had just done yoga, vs not in 24 hours (but presumably do yoga regularly). So essentially, there's a statistically significant correlation with time from last session, but it doesn't say anything about correlation with frequency of sessions.

And as usual, correlation is not causation. Was there a control group with another physical activity? Reading? Solving Sudoku puzzles? One could also postulate a perfectly reasonable-sounding theory that people's egos get bigger with any activity where there's a surge in endorphins, regardless of whether that activity is yoga or not.
The data is fascinating, but the conclusion that this is somehow apposed to Buddhism is just absurd. A healthy sense of self worth does not stand in the way of eliminating the view of a separate, persistent self for the betterment of all beings.
People with years of experience in healthcare are invested in the status quo.
I thought Trump got 304 votes to Clinton's 227? /s-ish

You are complaining because Trump didn't win the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. Winning states matter. Each state gets a certain number of votes that that state determines how to allocate to any candidate. Most states choose to give those votes to whomever got the most votes in the state.

It does not have to be this way.

Hell, we've had a president win the election that didn't win either the popular or electoral vote.
Berkshire, Amazon, JPMorgan Pick Surgeon to Lead New Health-Care Company
>The cruelty of both individuals and regimes that forcibly separate children from their parents, detain and imprison people they regard as "alien" or "unworthy" under horrible circumstances

I thought I was in for a nice long story about history but it's just someone on reddit calling the Trump administration nazis again.

No thanks, not interested. Not hacking, not news.

Not like I'm the arbiter of what makes it on this site but I don't come here for emotional bait and political... anything, really.
It is worth reporting in a scientific article though. Null-results, everything should be reported and accessible somewhere. The reproducibility crisis should be stopped, otherwise I can just claim whatever I want and be as wrong as the social scientists who have trouble finding any verifiable fact.

Regarding to what is news worthy and therefore publishable on news: whatever makes money, I wouldn't know what makes money in that regard.
That's an interesting claim. Do you remember the source?
Zero-copy substring classes are hugely useful for parsing. I first encountered this approach in the Zeus Web Server back in the early 2000s, in non-STL C++.
Proclaiming that something is not up for debate and refusing to engage meaningfully is an extremely easy way to lose the debate.
FDW is awesome and surprisingly useful. I really want Postgres 10's partitioning support to land in an AWS Redshift PG-reboot someday. Partitioning support is very manual and clunky in that old fork.
$3500+ for business travel UK/USA vs $800 for economy. I always get companies to offer the employee half the difference to fly cheap. Win Win!
Anybody who's used the array types care to share their experience? It's something that caught my eye reading the docs, but wasn't sure how it holds up in actual use.
... none of those voices are from the EU[*].

(Well, I guess Tim Berners-Lee still is until Brexit finishes.)
Where the orders comes from has nothing to do with anything in terms of who is held responsible. The person who acts is responsible. That they were following orders is not a valid excuse. This was what the Nuremberg Trials established for us. It doesn't matter if someone told you to do something, you still have the only capacity to make the decision whether you actually do it or not.

Humans are very quick to abdicate their own moral authority, and it is the most repugnant human impulse that exists. If someone puts a gun to your head, and tells you to kill someone or die, you are still responsible for whoever you kill. Others might consider your actions understandable, even forgivable, but you're still a murderer and still one who valued their own life above anothers.

If you do something because you were "just doing your job", that's even worse. That's exactly identical to doing something for money. Which is usually looked very poorly on by society.