skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens to all the pumps that break? Chances are that the mechanics break before the electrics, so there will be a bunch of broken pumps with intact electronics somewhere in the wild. Can they be had as freebies for reverse engineering? Many would get returned to Medtronic under warranty, but there would be exceptions?
Homeless people wearing barcodes to accept cashless payments
> am I censoring them

Yup

> Nobody's right is being infringed upon here

Of course not, who said otherwise? I just disagree wth the decision taken.

> absolutely relevant to what is and isn't censorship

You don't get to make up your own definition of the word. That someone blocks the speech is censorship, by definition, regardless of whether you can say it elsewhere and regardless of what you might want the definition of the word to be. I'm not going to condescendingly paste the definition here, but it's very clear Microsoft is engaged in censorship here.
The Oura tracker provides a lot of insight into sleeping patters, for example, last night I only got 1.3hrs of deep sleep out of 5hrs as the kids kept waking up so it wrecked havoc on my deep sleep.

But you are 100% correct, there is more to sleep than simply closing your eyes and preparing for a good nights rest starts as early as the time when you wake up.
The problem isn’t the “gig” economy. Having flexible part time work hours can work for some people if they want some extra money and they aren’t the primary bread winner.

Also $12-$14 hour is a livable wage in rural America, for full time hours, if you didn’t have to worry about health care.

The biggest issue with the gig economy is our insane health insurance system where the only way you can get affordable insurance is through your job.

But expecting college students to work for that amount is crazy.
It's got a nice crunch and doesn't have bitter flavor the way some other varieties can pick up (because it has essentially no flavor)
I feel like the choice of the name "serverless" is unnecessarily confusing/controversial, but I like the concept.

The ability to scale down to zero could certainly be useful for automated testing use cases.

As with anything on AWS it will take some testing to discover all the quirks and caveats, but I like the general direction this is headed.
Thank you - we appreciate the kind words!
Wow. Thank you so much for this perspective. My youngest has another issue where her uncorrected vision is incredibly bad, so I think at times she just feels like her body is trying to punish her.

I had never considered a camp. It looks like the Clara Barton program has wrapped for the summer but it or something like it might be just what she needs. Will continue to look at options like that.

I can see the weary in her eyes when things get out of hand and know she's at that point you describe. I like the idea of not being able to 'fix' it but to overcome it, and will start incorporating that. I've definitely backed off of handling things as much and am finding that I only have the 3 hr sleep cycle about once a week now rather than every day.

I'll also talk to her about moving back to MDI for a little while. We discussed it previously and she wasn't super game, but it might not be a bad option. Someone a while back said that they were surprised how much the fact that they were tied to a little device by a tube made them feel infirm, so going old-school for a week might help in a few different ways (will definitely have to work with our endo on that though)

Again, thank you so much for your words. They have been immensely helpful.
Has Microsoft identified similar posts on Gab in the past, and requested/obtained their removal -- or else? (is Gab acting as a sudden victim?)

If not, how is that possible -- since Gab was created to explicitly tolerate pretty much any kind of barely-legal speech under pressure in Twitter? are we to believe that this style of expression is completely new to Gab? (or did Microsoft just now notice?)
Over the weekend a friend of mine pointed out that while nicotine use has dropped, cannabis use has heavily increased. As if, the rise on tobacco prices has driven folks to alternative drugs.

I wonder (and if someone on HN knows how, please share) if you were to track use and abuse of pills, stimulants (including things like 5 hour energy), cannabis and other forms of what’s becoming not-so-recreational drug usage — what would we find?
too bad that the groups of people most responsible for “letting things get so bad” and the groups of people who are now “seeing some real effects” on the daily, are probably mutually exclusive
Whiteboarding or not, what are some good resources to prepare for a coding interview that worked for you?
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That's a special case where the universe's state never changes. Any universe that changes over time requires information to encode the current state.

Of course you could make a similar claim about a universe where coin flips always alternate--current state is merely a function of time and initial conditions, and therefore no information is needed to store it. But then you're saying that deterministic universes contain no information at all except their initial state. That's fine, but I personally wouldn't put an axiom like that on the winning side of Occam's razor.
Crypto is the GitHub of money
Are you just going to ignore the fact that the official Twitter account for Gab actively promotes white supremacist talking points? It only takes about 30 seconds of scrolling through their feed to see this.
A metric for what? It's obviously not a sensible or relevant metric for 'is Gab a white nationalist platform'.
Anything marketed to corporate inevitably gets bogged down with nonsense. With their current approach they can keep working on what the absolute end-user cares about, and this is how they avoid repeating Skype's mistakes. I think it's interesting how many ways they are planning to mimic Steam's features with moves like these, I still wonder how much traction it can actually gain. But everyone I ask seems positive about it.
This could be explained by women in developing nations simply having the least amount of money out of all of these groups and not be able to afford it- otherwise I could imagine women in developing nations would also smoke more than women in developed nations.
This is affecting people in their 50s+, a lot of our evolution people had and raised offspring before this occurred so there was no evolutionary pressure to keep your vision much past that. It was good enough.
Good guide, but missing Python 3's __next__.
In Android Pie, it's also one of the 9 shortcuts you get when you pull down from the top twice on your home screen, right next to airplane mode.
Assuming this hasn't changed since the preview started:

> The cool down period for scale-down is 15 minutes since the last scaling operation. The cool down period for scale-up is 5 minutes since the last scaling operation.
using a cloud server as your VPN? what made you come to that decision? how is that better then your ISP?
Maybe, in democratic countries at least the people in charge might feel some more pressure to do something (or make it look they are doing something etc)
To be fair I think most of the OSS languages are Cathedrals. Golang recently had an uproar over dep (community lead initiative) vs vgo (core committer). Ruby seems similar. With the recent departure of Guido as BDFL I think Python is the exception.

The low number of commits is somewhat intentional in that they actively avoid providing too much functionality in core and relative to Go which has the might of Google backing it there's fewer people with hands on who are incentivised based on innovation. It would be nice to see more frequent integration of commits from the community but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Teslas have been stolen in Europe, their high value for parts makes them well worth stealing. This is primarily Tesla's fault, as they refuse to sell parts to cars that have been in accidents.

Your Tesla is essentially scrap after a non-minor accident, which is why most US insurers refuse to cover vehicles made by Tesla. Its as bad as rolling coal IMO, Tesla has created a massive eWaste problem. Meanwhile, rebuilding any other manufacturers car is doable, even other EVs.

Source: https://electrek.co/2018/07/31/tesla-theft-tips-help-prevent...
I have anecdotally observed much higher rates of smoking among friends and on the streets in South Asia (mainly India) vs. USA, but interestingly the data seems to indicate the opposite.
What’s a riddle about that? You would calculate a monthly budget and 10 months out of the year your salary budget would be higher based on 2 pay periods a year and 2 months it would be lower. Most other expenses besides salary would be monthly. You would accrue a monthly liability for salaries even though you wouldn’t pay them out evenly. On the months with 3 pay periods, you would deduct from your “salary account”.

I’m probably using the words wrong, but I would understand the concept from two courses of accounting I took over 20 years ago. What business does anyone have being a CEO that doesn’t understand simple accounting?
I disagree. I would rather live with the freedom to express myself, be who am I, believe what I want, speak my mind and deal with consequences of it than deal with suppression and censorship. In the US its not that we're learning this is a bad idea granted I will say it is under attack. Its more that some people can't accept that people might just be different or have different thoughts than them and would rather say its a bad idea (easy way) than to engage them in conversation or accept that we're all individuals with different thoughts and backgrounds (hard way) or that being offended shouldn't be allowed.

Germany is not freer. They do not have Freedom of speech close in terms to the US. One easy example is Section 185 of Germany's criminal code which you can be punished for insults. Section 90 is also interesting and I bet people would dislike that one if we had that currently in the US. If you see those as freeer by all means have it in Germany. I'll stick with the 1st amendment.
Bad ideas certainly can diminish quality of life. Firstly because we can't all agree that they are stupid and move on - the flat earth trolls are actually gaining momentum, and we've been re-litigating creationism for over a hundred years. This re-arguing ties up an enormous amount of energy that we could spend far more productively.

And secondly, when the masses weary of arguing nonsense ideas, there is a danger of them becoming acceptable. If we all stop arguing when the trolls repeat yet again that jews/immigrants/women/gays are sub-human and should be removed, some people will take that silence as assent and the violence begins.

So what we need is some kind of snopes for ideas, where our brightest and best could weigh good and bad ideas, and the rest of us could just point to their results. But wait - that's what a university* is! And it's no coincidence that the trolls direct their fiercest fury at academics.

*Trump University excepted.
Academia has always been, and always will be, about new knowledge. The article laments the pursuit of citations but fails to note that it is today's primary quantitative measure of new knowledge - though imperfect.

"Improving society" as academia's objective will have its own set of misaligned incentives, potentially much worse than the pursuit of "academic kudos". How would this be measured?
Personally I'd love to see a CISC-V --- the world really doesn't need any more MIPS-lookalikes, and a formal spec of x86 would be extremely useful for everyone from emulator writers to maybe even Intel itself.
eQASM: An Executable Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
The cloud providers havent shown themselves to be scum like some of the ISPs that happily inject Javascript into your http traffic.
A lot of startups don’t have 401K matching.
It might be optimistic to think that people will recognize the real cause. Politically it can be pretty effective to simply blame the disastrous effects on the policy of your opponents regardless of what the scientific evidence says.
Here comes the Sharding-Sphere 3.0.0.M2
How is this front page on hacker news? Please, lettuce get back to tech news.
The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or FB, it’s “surveillance capitalism”
whiteboarding is essential when hiring for roles where development environment is not productive. there are still huge systems which take 5 minutes to link on fastest machine, or embedded, real-time and distributed systems where it takes so much time to debug that one's daily productivity would be close to zero unless he writes code which would be mostly correct before first run.

developing under such constraints is radically different from environments with high iteration velocity - i.e. browser or scripting.

that said, in many modern environments whiteboarding is completely irrelevant, as modern application level programmer productivity is often ability to do plumbing-and wiring- work between many components and quickly assess why something is going wrong, rather then creating a highly performant or memory-efficient algorithm implementation.
Smoking is scary on an individual level, not to mention expensive. Those other causes you mentioned aren't interesting if you don't personally need them. It's harder to get someone to make a short term sacrifice for other people's long term gains.
> If the government threw just as much money into civilian research, we'd likely get just as much good, without finding more efficient ways to kill each other.

Do I understand correctly, then, that if we continue throwing that money into military research, we not only gain the same civilian benefits, but also prevent the occurrence wherein someone else finds an efficient way to kill us before we find an efficient way to defend ourselves from it?
Here, have your upvote. #dadjokes
Trust isn't even that hard to earn (though it takes time), but insofar as one depends on intellectual sloppyness or even outright dishonesty for "legitimate" aims" (just think marketing, elections, etc.), then you cannpot attack those fallacious methods as such in those that use them for much nastier things. All that's left then is squabbling about those ends while leaving the means out of the frame, which leads nowhwere.
I gave a demo of my intro project after a month to my 100 person org at my last company and I was a new grad. In fact, when I was an intern, all interns did project demos at the end of their internship.
Yeah. I have also often heard westeners saying that "people in China(or Asia) smoke so much!" etc. which is probably true if we are dealing with absolute numbers.
When looking at the relative numbers however, there are more smokers in France than in China and smokers in Sweden consume more cigarettes each day.

Maybe smoking in public is more common in China/Asia?
Na, the Cable/DSL modems and LTE Modems we spec out usually come online a bit before the USG. Ubiquiti's USG and USG Pro take a solid minute to boot, much longer than the modems take. That was another nice feature of Lede, it is booted and ready in well under a minute.
Are we somehow surprised that investing, an inherently human and social endeavour, is dominated by people who are good social operators?
India has 4 times more people than USA and much greater density. Odds are greater that people around you will be smoking.
Organic solar cells set 'remarkable' energy record
"Others have posted great links. But one great aspect is how simple it is."

(generate new keys to manage, create new network interfaces, assign new IPs, run wireguard ...)

I would agree that this is relatively simple but only compared to the other mainstream options (namely, OpenVPN and IPSEC) but it is much, much more complicated than sshuttle[1] which distinguishes itself by allowing you to use any ssh server as a VPN endpoint.

No server side software install is required - all you need on the endpoint is an ssh login.

[1] https://github.com/sshuttle
I think the reference might be more in relation to OSS tooling such as docker, kubernetes, and a lot of the other stuff in the CNCF project catalogue which is often VC backed start-ups with OSS codebases.
Could they buy/sell options/futures that mature over the next 20 years to get some certainty about it?
From the FAQ:
Q: Why did you make this? A: I thought it would be funny.
looks familiar ;)
Yeah I am trying to take something optimistic away from this. Im just hoping that at least some sizable minority of the voting populace starts to see climate change as the cause for some of their problems and start voting accordinongly. I think we are seeing this a little bit(in the US at least) republicans on the coasts are starting to soften on climate change[1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/08/02/republica...

(apologies if you don't have access to the article)
I think they may have meant that the conspiracy theory that an interconnected federal government planned Ruby Ridge and Waco, and planned more such incidents, led to the OKC bombing. What the government did was wrong and arguably it was systemically predisposed to do wrong in situations like that. But it wasn’t planning more such actions, the OKC bombing wasn’t connected (I think), and even if so the belief that bombing, rather than protests, court cases and elections, was the right thing to do, was delusional.

But if I’m wrong and they think that it’s a conspiracy theory to think those situations were mishandled or shouldn’t have been instigated, then thank you for bringing up the facts; we shouldn’t be credulous and assume US Marshall and ATF agents are competent or just because we saw them on TV.
> Most academic work is shared only with a particular scientific community, rather than policymakers or businesses...

The university where I am currently doing my PhD has a very heavy focus on the outputs of a PhD contributing something worthwhile not only to academia but also to industry or the world. It isn't a massively high ranking university but it does force academics to think practically as well as theoretically. We are required to have an industry (non-academic) advisor on our supervisory panel who helps guide the research so it can be useful and not just gather dust once finished.
``vector<vector<int>> grid{{1,1,0},{1,2,0},{0,2,2}};`` in C++
It's also a poor point because being gay isn't a choice and choosing to post neo-Nazi rhetoric is.
A Motherboard article appeared on HN about a rogue Tesla mechanic. Here is his channel to help you get started: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCfV0_wbjG8KJADuZT2ct4SA#
> if we narrow the problem

Cold Fusion shipped with a wizard to build web CRUD apps against SQL databases, which worked, and you could then continue coding from. It wasn’t bad, and came long before Rails or Django admin.

This feels like democratizing that.
The thing that "showed" that they valued the wages more was the fact that they quit over it, and that it was more difficult to hire people.

That's literally what the article says. That people started quiting because of it.
I did an interview problem like this a while back (was about combining CIDR blocks) and I found an answer on the Internet. I coded up a similar solution (I used a slightly different data structure with a slight optimization just to show I didn't copy the algorithm exactly). The place actually complemented me on my Google foo as they claimed they asked the question because they knew (thought?) people couldn't look up the answer. Of course, they dinged me by saying my code had too many comments (nevermind I was detailing WHY and HOW my algorithm was different from the Google results). I didn't get any love for the man(1) page I made either. Oh well, can't please everyone. :-)
A better analogy would be a potential campaign to reduce obesity. If US could pull off a public fat shaming campaign as successful and the one around tobacco it would be a huge benefit to individual people's quality of life as well as economy as a whole.
Still, the implementation has to internally do ABC(z - 1) + AB(y - 1) + A(x - 1), compensating for the pointless bias at every dimension.

It's just a wanton complication, like insisting on Roman numerals instead of a radix enumeration.
Whoa there buddy, there's other options for moderation besides media-priests || free market.

How about we just let the people who own the machines decide what data sits on their machines?

So I agree, decentralization will allow some communities to be total free market reddits and chans where anything goes, and I expect them to be very unpleasant places to hang out for some and not others.

I'll be over here in my private community where Microsoft can't read my discussions and anyone whining about the priest-media will be booted.
>> that life is not fair

Yes, this shouldn't be a surprise.

>> it’s all about connections

Getting anything done requires the help of others. That's how society works. The best way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. Focus on the people and you will be 100x better equipped to deal with anything than any amount of technical or operational knowledge.
> reduce their quality of life further by using one of the 2 expensive and limited E-Ink displays out there

Could you elaborate on above? I did not understand the logic behind the sentence. E-Ink displays by themselves do not generate any light as they don't have any backlight or light emitter behind the display. That's why they work in bright sunlight. Some products with E-Ink displays have frontlights for night time reading. Is that what you are referring to? If so, given this article, just turning off the frontlight and using non-blue light sources for lighting is sufficient to avoid this, right?
You'd need to be in a large city for Home Depot to pay that, and even then in places like Austin and especially Boise, many people make less than that per hour. $10 an hour after a bachelors degree isn't uncommon in economically depressed parts of the US.
This is great stuff. Makes me a bit nostalgic for the good 'ol Winamp days.
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People often think it’s Visual Basic for the web, or MS Access or FileMaker for the web?

Slick, and great landing page, I’d like to try it.
It’s ironic when the author describes a fear of food contamination by semen, that possible relief might come in the form of bull semen, that’s all.
Cash definitely matters more up to a certain point, since you can't replace essential needs (rent, food) with benefits. Plus at the rate they were paying (~$11/hr) employees would have likely been eligible for various federal and state programs anyways.
Toilet selection key points
I would describe Rust's error handling crisis more as:

1. I'll just handle all of the errors by having my functions return Result<T, E> where E is some type that encapsulates all of different error conditions that can happen in my function.

2. Function one returns Result<T1, E1> and function two returns Result<T2, E2>. What type do I use for a function that calls both and just uses `?` to defer handling on errors from either function? Guess I either have to use Box<Error> and do a bunch of ugly downcasting whenever I want to handle an error or I have to write a bunch of code to define another error type E3 which combines E1 and E2 and I have to implement From<E1> and From<E2> so now I have more code just for defining error types and conversions than I have for actually doing anything.

3. Create complicated macros like error_chain[1] or failure[2] to try to cut down on boilerplate in #2.

[1] https://docs.rs/error-chain/0.12.0/error_chain/

[2] https://docs.rs/failure/0.1.2/failure/
I tend to like butter lettuce better. It depends if I’m making a sandwich or a salad, though.
As a candidate, to me, that sounds a lot like, "we're going to do the same things we would normally do in a technical interview, but we're going to evaluate you based on random, arbitrary, subjective criteria that you will never know about rather than your actual level of skill."
CPAP changed my life