skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov

Vavilov's work was criticized by Trofim Lysenko, whose anti-Mendelian concepts of plant biology had won favor with Joseph Stalin. As a result, Vavilov was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death in July 1941. Although his sentence was commuted to twenty years' imprisonment, he died of starvation in prison in 1943.

The Leningrad seedbank was diligently preserved through the 28-month Siege of Leningrad. While the Soviets had ordered the evacuation of art from the Hermitage, they had not evacuated the 250,000 samples of seeds, roots, and fruits stored in what was then the world's largest seedbank. A group of scientists at the Vavilov Institute boxed up a cross section of seeds, moved them to the basement, and took shifts protecting them. Those guarding the seedbank refused to eat its contents, even though by the end of the siege in the spring of 1944, nine of them had died of starvation.

The article also indicates his reputation was rehabilitated posthumously:

In 1955, Vavilov's death sentence was posthumously reversed at a hearing of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, undertaken as part of a de-Stalinization effort to review Stalin-era death sentences. By the 1960s his reputation was publicly rehabilitated and he began to be hailed as a hero of Soviet science.
Ahhh, apparently the ring of rational fractions on R means the field of fractions on R[x]. I did mean R(x).

Why don't I have a "plug in x=1" (partial) function R(x) -> R? And what do you mean by "promote"? An equation in R(x) "is" a (set of) equations in R[x] right?
The Human Leukocyte Antigen complex is a protein complex that immune cells use to determine self from non-self cells. There are many many many possible alleles, some of which are thought to be defective and contribute to auto-immune disorders. The most notorious (for medical students studying for standardized tests) is HLA-B27.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-B27

Specifically, check out the section on disease associations.

And

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leukocyte_antigen
It's a little different in my state.

A pharmacist is required to fill any prescription, paper or digital, except if the pharmacist has a religious objection (birth control, morning after pill, etc...). This came out in a recent court case.

It's the state that decides if prescriptions for controlled substances (like your Vyvanse) get rejected through a centralized database that works off of your driver's license/state ID scan* to prevent abuse.

There was much chaos a few months ago when the state imposed tighter restrictions on the number of opioid pain pills that could be dispensed at one time. You might have a prescription from your doctor for a 90-day supply, but you could only pick up five at a time. (Not an exact number, as I'm not on opioids.) For months, the lines at the pharmacy were backed up for hours as thousands of people ran into the new rules and took them out on the pharmacists.

* Amusingly, one of America's largest supermarket chains, Albertson's, isn't using the computerized driver's license scan. It keeps records in paper binders where the pharmacist writes down your DL# and you sign next to it. They don't even record what it is that you filled, or how much. Good job, Albertson's!
I dunno.. whenever I read ‘don’t do this in production’ I spend ages trying to really understand why - only when I feel I’ve got a real handle on what the pitfalls are would I go forward. I’ve done that ever since I started programming over 20 years ago and I still do it now. Sometimes it takes me longer to code a solution but I do feel I spend less time figuring out why stuff breaks.

It’s not just experience. It’s about hiring curious and diligent people.
the real question is, is it intentional as a means of social control? I noticed that the messenger app intentionally delays messages at a rate that is linked to dopamine ups/down -- when another person sent me a message, and I went to another area of the website, and paused, there message would "appear" right when I lost interest, re-engaging me into facebook -- so there is some kind of thought put into creating a feedback loop to stay addicted to the platform. That, and the facebook scientists who were caught screwing with people's minds via social experiments years back and actually openly published their results, with zero ethical considerations, leads me to be concerned that this might also be some kind of sinister plot to control dehumanize subjects on their platform.
Same here.

I'm already annoyed lately by the stuff Netflix tries to push me to watch, by automatically playing stuff... like the intros when i open the netflix app on my Tv or when I've finished watching the last episode of a show.

"Thou shall consume more."

I only need a little bit more of that crap to cancel my subscription...
I am surprised. Is it hard to get a car inspected in the US?

In France, every used car sale must be accompanied by a recent inspection certificate. Go to any inspection center and they will do it easily for a fixed fee.

Note that inspection centers can only offer inspections, no repair of any sort, to avoid the obvious conflict of interest.
How WeChat became China’s everyday mobile app
I wonder, why Netflix doesn't buy some legacy entertainment companies to build up more of a back-catalog? If they've got so much cash to spend on new content, why not spend some of it to own old content too? Part of the strength of the existing media conglomerates is their rights to the accumulation of decades of output. Not everyone is so interested in new stuff (myself, on average I'd rather watch 80s films than new ones).
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O solitude, my sweetest choice.
Places devoted to the night,
remote from tumult and from noise,
how ye my restless thoughts delight!

This wonderful song was composed by Purcell on a translation of a French poem which was popular across all Europe in the XVIIth century. If you excuse the anachronism, solitude was already romantic.

--

After reading these summaries of the chapters of "A Philosophy of Loneliness", I'm not at all convinced of the quality of the book. Here is a sample of critic that I hope will be judged constructive.

1. First of all, this definition of loneliness is too convoluted. Being alone is objective, while being lonely is subjective, it is a feeling. That talk of "quality" of relationships and "life meaning" may have some truth in some cases, but it is not a generic principe: for example, I remember discussing with someone who avoided deep bonds and openly thrived for quantity. Some persons will never feel lonely as long as they know they have people they can chat with. I also feel it is rather pointless to introduce categories for something that has no clear boundaries, and varies so much across societies and individuals.

The "devastating effects that Loneliness can have on health" are a tautology, since loneliness is defined as the negative feeling of solitude. Any extended negative feeling may have a bad impact on the health. But, as far as I know, there is no proven correlation between chosen solitude and health problems. Considering the intrinsic experimental difficulties (how to measure "chosen solitude"? etc) I doubt anything conclusive can emerge.

6. Maybe the rejection of living with a partner is increasing, but the numbers of single persons and solo households are very misleading. Detailed investigations rule out that chosen solitude could be the main factor in their evolution. For example, in France (INSEE 2014), 16% of the households are made of a single person. But these 16% are the sum of 9% for people aged less than 65 and 7% for those above 65. It looks like the main factor for solo households is the raise of widowhood caused by longer lives.

--

I was much more interested by the personal comments in the right column. Some resonated with me: I looked for total solitude during most of these summer holidays, to the point my own voice surprised me when I had to speak again. Now that I'm back to work, I'll have to endure "the psychic costs of being around other humans". These past years, I've told my friends and family that I am more and more reluctant to endure that cost. But I don't feel really concerned by the rest of the quote: "They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."

Like the OP, I'm interested in the artefacts that have been used to fight loneliness. Rituals are one of those, as pointed by the excellent novel "Friday, or the other island" (M. Tournier) where Robinson Crusoe uses work, rituals and religion to keep his mind occupied and avoid loneliness or questions on the meaning of life.
You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. It's normal to comment occasionally on a politicized topic, but using the site primarily for this is crossing the line that the guidelines draw: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. There are lots of reasons why we draw the line there, but what it boils down to is that we can't both have a site for intellectual curiosity—the mandate of this place—and also have ideological warfare. The one destroys the other, regardless of which ideology you favor. Flamewar comments like the one you just posted are an excellent illustration of this.

If you'd please review the site rules and use this place as intended from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Not to mention Buckaroo Banzai:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/
I can't say if GoodRx is doing it, but Walgreen's seems to be selling information.

I was with a friend picking up his meds and I bleeped my rewards card to collect the points, since he didn't have one. Now I get offers in the mail to treat his condition.
I'm Lou and I'm the author of that article.

If you have any questions I'm happy to answer them.
"I can't really effectively talk hard numbers before I've even tried the commute out, which I'll do if we do an on-site interview."

"I haven't had a chance to check over how your health benefits work, so can't speak to any hard numbers."

"What's the range you're looking at?"

"I haven't even had a chance to meet the team and guage my interest in the company, so I can't speak confidently to what I'd need for this position"

"I'm not sure what the job entails exactly so I wouldn't be comfortable speaking numbers yet"

Edit: check later and I'll have added later-stage-strategies

"I'd be more comfortable talking numbers after having an idea of your range"

"What's your comfort level?"

"What are you offering for this position?"

"What do you typically offer for (job) at this skill requirement?"

"I don't like to get caught up in details without first knowing your comfort level"

"I don't come to the table with a hard salary requirement - tell me what you're looking at and I'm confident we can work it out"

"The end salary isn't nearly as important to me as good team fit. If you have a number you're comfortable with, let me know and I promise I'll be able to fit within reasonable expectations"

"I'm sorry, I don't give a number at any stage"
Yes, I was thinking it had to be 2, because 0 is a bit of an abstract concept, and you don’t really need 1 as a concept before you already have numbers. I assumed we were talking annoying abstract thinking interview questions.

I was quite confused to find all the comments going on about salary.
Wow, thank you for this. I complained to Netlfix support about the auto-playing videos and asked how to disable them. They never mentioned this option, just said that it was a test I couldn't opt out of.
Eh, it's a very limited study that basically says two sets of subjective effects are similar. Useless, maybe, but not pseudo.
> "where's Gerald? this module only builds on his laptop"

Of course, "Gerald" is an anagram for "Gradle".
edit: if this was recent, you should see an audiologist immediately. Google SSNHL.

it happened to me last month. Hearing hasnt returned after 6 weeks, so it's looking like permanent deafness.

The clinic I went to thought it might be an ear infection and gave me antibiotics. Didn't start the steroids until 8 days in. The audiologist said the effective treatment period for SSNHL is 2-4 weeks, with best results within 48 hours.
remember seeing these types of ads on Amazon Prime video and that certainly factored into my decision to cancel Prime. If Netflix does the same I'm pretty sure I'll cancel that as well.
As a Swede I really enjoyed reading this. It's not easy to pay attention to the idioms of a foreign language, especially when they are sort of jumbled up in your mind with all the Swedish ones. But it's just to drive on.
Our investigator documented that you have an employee food preparation area within your drug manufacturing area with no separation between open manufacturing equipment, cooking utensils, and personal-use items. The practices observed at your facility, which was observed open to the outdoors, increase the likelihood of your drug products becoming contaminated.
They cut his service for lack of payment, then charged him.
Hire a recruiting company. There are recruiting companies that have a staff of full time consultants that will bring in a whole development team and manage the product.

At some point, you want to bring that knowledge in house, the recruiting company will then help you hire people or let you convert some of thier contractors (not thier full time people) to fulltime.
I think when I was learning BASIC it was GOSUB/RETURN - somewhere around there I started to understand how the computer processed information.

My most recent:

If you are working on PHP associative arrays are the secret sauce, once you grok that with HTML forms, session storage, and DB fields you will rock.
Submitted my resume to a FANG online form a few months out of grad school. Recruiter contacted me, I did the screens and interviews, and got an offer.
Rather it only applies when there exists (and will continue to exist after the information is shared) a competitive market. All the arguments for a free market and information symmetry rely on the assumption of competition.
And if your response to an open and honest question is to immediately assume a whole bunch of stuff about the intent/etc of the people asking, i'm pretty sure they wouldn't want you.
"they aren't interested in better, they are interested in cheaper"

Or maybe they suck at sourcing candidates, but don't know it. So they hired the top 1% of their candidate pool, without knowing what good looks like.
I tried to figure out what subset of sml cake uses but wasn’t able to find that anywhere in their docs

But yeah, it’s definitely true that high assurance / high quality tools are still in their relative infancy (there’s lots of great stuff, but nothing I’d be comfortable using with colleagues at the drop of a hat for a quick project next week)
> a full stack developer that knows C# and React and all of the other buzz worthy front end stack and I only know .Net Asp.Net MVC and jquery (which is true)

Possibly Microsoft-land has moved on since I’ve last paid attention to it, but if you ‘know .NET’, surely you more or less have to know C#?
AV1 will win if torrents adopt it...
I always ask for $5 or $10 more an hour then I'm currently making. That works for me to get more money each time.
Nope, you're drawing a nonsense analogy about a business you don't understand. Netflix needs content in order to acquire subscribers, the content all has to be licensed and paid for, producers and rights holders of good content are good negotiators and have many channels for distribution. Therefore as soon as Netflix was proven to be a real business the rights holders ratcheted up the price. This is a completely different scenario from ISPs, and the only escape from it is to produce your own content.
I canceled my Netflix account about a year ago. Terrible UI changes, steady removal of great shows and movies (yes, I know this isn't technically their fault), and price increases made it no longer worth it to me.
The right to read
The rts is pretty nicely written c code. And folks on the ghc irc channel on frenode and mailing lists are all pretty helpful when you have solid questions
What you said is "I don't trust you so i'm instead going to assume you are out to get me and screw me as hard as i let you".

That has everything to do with trust.
It also contains no technical information about Disneyland or the Superbowl, despite their mentions.

Technical information about any of the three would be equally (ir)relevant to the article's topic: intellectual property law.

If you're really hard up for technical specs, the most cursory search might reveal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16796127 regarding
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/av1/demo1.shtml, or the part 2 follow-up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17417586 regarding https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/av1-next-generation-video-...
Just ask for a better signing bonus to offset any short term risk (i.e. if you need to quit because they're hiding something).
I mean, they’re welcome to the answer for this, but it’s not particularly applicable to the salary negotiation.
I wish they gave you the ability to opt out of specific tests rather than all tests across the board. That might actually be a good way for them to get feedback on which specific tests are upsetting their customers.
you just pay it for yourself

That used to be the way it worked. You'd go to the doctor and he'd charge you, say, $35 for a basic exam, and you'd pay in cash.

Since health insurance became widespread, now doctors charge crazy amounts. My doctor charges something like $210 for a basic exam, or $185 for the "negotiated rate" to the insurance company.

I saw on television once that the reason we're in this mess has to do with WWII. With so many working-age people fighting overseas, finding workers was hard for companies, so they started raising wages. The government was afraid of war + inflation, so it put limits on pay raises. So, instead, big companies started offering health care benefits. And thus, an industry was born.

At least that's what I remember from the TV. I can't cite the show or channel, but I do watch a lot of PBS and virtually zero YouTube.
Ask HN: Help with building dynamic website
I am looking to build a dynamic website where the users can leave a comment/feedback to the original post. But I do not want it to look like the comments section at the bottom of the post.
Think of a circle at the center of the page. Let's call this hub of a wheel. If you click the circle, you will go to post and can read it. The comments to post appear like spokes to the hub. Clicking on the spoke, takes you to the comment section. But if there are comments/replies to a comment, then this becomes another hub and so on.
What are the best tools to implement something like this? React, D3.JS? I am new to web development and have never developed a web app before. Any help and direction would be great. If anybody is interested in working on this, I would be happy to discuss more and collaborate.

Thank you.
Really, I'm not entirely sure why the G-8, the G-20, or even just EU + US + Japan + SK doesn't just do this as a group. It's not like China has a feasible retaliation option if they did, and it's certainly not going to retreat back to pre-1980 style isolation.
Not sure how widely known or common this is for medications but I take PrEP (Truvada) and the maker has a free "co-pay" card on their website that basically covers $4800/year in copayments (well above the $50/month I would ever pay).

I see drug commercials all the time that say something like "Visit our web site, or call this number to find out how you can get ___ for little or no money." Perhaps this is the same thing.
Hmm. I wonder if shady car dealers have ever abused approval of that form. That would be interesting to find out about.

Because, considering it sounds like you bought the car outright, there's absolutely no reason for that form to need signing.
At every level of development when I really started getting serious about my career 10 years ago. I knew what I needed to know to get to the next level. That’s how I chose companies to work for. It would be really easy to tell if someone had more experience in something I had a passing knowledge about.

10 years later, I still know what I need to learn to get to the next level.
Yep, I don't know why they're pushing this view so hard either. Maybe it's just something we want to believe. As someone who has taken it - and knows people who have had NDEs and have taken it - I have not seen any evidence they're related. Also, DMT is found in the body, but not in the pineal glad as far as I've seen... I also don't think it is a healthy psychedelic.
Have you spent any time watching nature? Predation? Animals fundamentally consider each other such. Cougars consider horses food and horses "prosecute" cougars if they come close enough by kicking them to death. Killing threats is what any animal capable of doing does.

Animals are fundamentally incapable of grasping the concepts of rights and would not respect them. Applying human standards to them is fundamentally anthropomorphic chauvinism and absurd hubris.

Under human standards we should start hunting or capturing more male lions because they would happily commit infanticide to make lionesses reproductively available. Naked mole rats are incestuous pedophiles. It is important to remember that nature does not care about you and cannot care about you.
> Only the British and Americans weren't the same people (from a nationality perspective). Americans were merely British subjects -- from a hodge-podge of nationalities.

That seems like a distinction without a difference for this topic.
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> Many proponents of these methods have a religiosity about them.

Guilty as charged.

> Their method works; if you don’t believe this you are misguided, misinformed, or just antagonistic

Dismissing anyone's experiences as false, whether directly or by necessary implication, is bound to create a fair amount of ill-will.

I get lectured down to on Hacker News a lot by people who've had a bad time with scrum, or TDD, or pairing, or some version of these that they can imagine themselves disliking.

It's galling for everybody: here I am, telling them that I have experienced these things very differently. Here they are, telling me they have experienced these things very differently. Everyone subconsciously concludes that the other party is essentially calling them a liar and it kinda goes downhill from there.
New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Making a turn-based strategy game in C++ in 72 hours
I'm going to pretend, just this once, that I was clever enough to do it on purpose.
What would you say are the biggest pain points?

Someone probably knows of a targeted resource or two that may help.
You can visit other EU non-Schengen countried/teritorries with just an ID card. For example, Croatia.
China has nuclear weapons, so in terms of total war the direct outcome is not in question.

The issue is Taiwan is capable of putting up enough of a fight to make it loud internationally and painful domestically. The population does not want to join a poorly run country with 1/4th it’s per capita GDP. It would be able to retaliate and hit major Chinease cities making it an extremely expensive war etc etc. And after they won they would not have an prosperous nation just a huge and angry mess.

PS: Most interestingly the people on the ground in Taiwan with the most information are scaling back military spending. So, presumably they believe the threat of war is minimal.
I think based on the title and other comment that the intent may have been to link specifically to https://github.com/avilum/linqit rather than all of avilum's repositories?

Not sure though, just a guess.