skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making it harder to do things makes it hard to do dumb or bad things as well as good things. Not everything government does is good. Americans generally prefer be protected from bad government at the expense of making good government less effective rather than enable good government to do things quickly and risk that it does things they consider bad.

I'm not sure how can you look at the US government and 2018 and say we need to enable these people to get more things done. I think the current administration is a relatively harmless (compared to alternatives) lesson in the importance of checks and balances and not concentrating too much power in one branch of government.
Is Mastodon good now? I've never been able to have a conversation on Twitter that isn't with people I already know, yet people apparently do; I don't know how they do it. Mastodon has always seemed like an even bigger mess than Twitter was with the same issues but it's "federated," as if that's supposed to solve any actual issues.
It would be fair to make choices in the sense of picking a longer treatment that doesn't force you to stay home from work, vs a shorter treatment that would. And of course "another round of chemo" or "I can't be f*cked anymore" are valid choices.

But really, when things like opiates are involved patient input is rarely useful.
I would just like to see more education about addiction. Society definitely doesn't handle addiction properly, but it's not a disease and it's not a clear cut moral failing (though it takes strong morals to overcome). The roots of addiction go deep and many people don't properly understand that the roots have to treated lest the addiction sprout again in some form.
Common Lisp, Typing and Mathematics (2001) [pdf]
TinyWM also needs all of this code:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/

~500,000 lines of code that wlroots does not depend on, but who's counting.
Maybe one of the following? These are a couple of takes of that attitude from a few slightly different viewpoints.

* Removal of agency from the patient in relation to how their body is treated; anti-individualism.

* Decision making power assigned to an agent who does not have skin in the game; anti-system-thinking.

* Attitude runs counter to having a strong sense of personal responsibility; anti-some-morality-systems.

* Imposition of doctors value system overrides patient values; not-sure.
I'm extremely out of my depth and have only survived thus far using the 'Quiz and Recall' method of learning, where I take Cornell style notes of everything assigned to us and then go through my notes trying to explain (out loud, to nobody) each concept they're trying to teach us that week, such as 'give two equivalent definitions for expander graphs' and if I can't explain it without repeating myself or stumbling words I then read material and work examples until I can. I also search Google Scholar for survey papers on the subject and often just a well explained introduction will click some understanding.

At first this was a miserably slow process where after each lecture I noticed I couldn't explain anything properly and thought I was doomed but after a few weeks it gets easier. You also have access to TAs and office hours you should use them as you're paying for them.

Something else I try is active reading, as I'll just turn to autopilot through a long chapter not retaining anything and need to stop and ask questions to myself about it or try and model whatever it is in emacs using any language.
In the latest years I've seen a trend towards syntax-lightweight languages.

Developers are already well served with their powerful programming languages, able to express very complex concepts and relations with terse syntax. But those high-level languages have very complex grammars, and each token must be carefully placed with respect to their surrounds to make sure that it compiles and expression types are well matched.

There's an unmet need at the other side of the complexity spectrum, with languages that can't express complex concepts, but which accept simple terms expressed with extremely simple syntax and grammar; to the point that non-programmers may be able to create and edit those files. For building documents we first had BBCode and now have Markdown as the emerging standard; but things like templates and simple scripting needs require a language which can express some computations and relations.

Developers first wrote ad-hoc parsers for their configuration files, and are now well served with JSON for structured data serialization. But that format is still too complex for casual use by inexperienced users. Something like eno could work for them in a context where defining data structures and assignment to variables is needed.
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Also look at Korean and Japanese builds that were record-breaking in terms of being on time and on budget. Nukes are hard to build the first of, but once you serialize their construction, they're quite reasonable. Especially given their unique ability to produce full-time carbon-free energy.

Renewables are indeed doing great but they're in an environment where the grids can handle the variability due to high-tech natural gas turbines. As penetrations increase towards 30%-50%, this gets much harder with wind and solar's 35% and 25% capacity factors (US average). You have to overbuild like crazy and then back it up, sometimes for weeks at a time, in either methane-producing reservoirs or massive chemical batteries. These costs aren't factored into renewable's price yet so it's not quite a fair comparison.
you actually went and did it! not that I doubted it ;)

thanks, your contributions to the community are invaluable! this looks like a pretty awesome way to learn wayland :)
> 2 months worth of oxy for getting wisdom teeth pulled kind of thing

I saved mine after wisdom tooth/root canal combo and used them as mood enhancer later.

I am not sure I am addicted to them though. I find this theory hard to believe that opioid overdose is an end result of series of missteps starting from wisdom tooth oxy prescription.
I mean, Boston is the economic engine of eastern Massachusetts and few in the greater Boston area are operating independent homestead farms anymore.
it still has the same flaw: think about how many people get off at a major stop on the subway. without the inclusion of any security apparatus whatsoever, there are still hundreds of people who are clumped up as they exit. the security apparatus doesn't prevent an attack.
I agree. I think we're sort of talking at this Dynamic from two different points of view.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17771720
I live in the South Shore and they do that to me too.
Hi Olivier!

I love that you want to help people understand carbon consumption. Some points:

1. Volume, not intensity, warms the globe.
2. If you have "no data available" for China, Saudi Arabia, Texas, ... you are missing a plurality of emissions.
3. As I write just after sunrise in California, it shows reddish. California is also, at the decade scale (the scale that matters) a leader in de-carbonizing.

You are measuring the wrong things and showing them in the wrong way to achieve your worthy purpose. I believe you should start over.

Respectfully,
Sam
By analogy, like with most standards, those formats and codes are syntax, the semantics are continuously debated.
We never managed to have a persistent venue in Iowa, as far as I know. The scene centered around a wonderful college radio show called "No Commercial Potential Radio" from some little community college. Gawd, those were the daze.
Sounds like Americans have had a marked decrease in mental and physical health over the time period analyzed. (1999-2016).

I think maybe easier access to healthcare, mental and physical, could help?

Also a lot of this might be signs of an overworked populace? (How many jobs are people working to make ends meet? Do the ends meet after all the jobs are worked? etc). So we should probably look at that as well.

But I think one of the biggest things we should take a long hard look at is our lifestyle. (I know that work hours are a part of that, but I broke that out on its own because it's at least a bit easier). What are we doing during our days? (A lot more screen time these days than there were pre 1999. How many hours do people spend checking reddit/facebook/TinderInstaChat? What impact does that have on physical and mental health?)

What are we eating and drinking? (This might have something to do with it?)

Are there any environmental factors that have arisen as a result in subtle lifestyle changes during the indicated time period?

Etc etc etc.

I guess, in short, I think a comprehensive trend such as the one outlined in the study likely requires a comprehensive look at possible causes.
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That sounds very anecdotal.
I would say because using S3 for static sites costs pennies instead of $20 :-)
You're absolutely right and I wouldn't suggest anybody to ditch their bike in favor of a car just because one factor supports this notion.

But this exercise shows one thing: when it comes to reducing our carbon footprint personal transport is actually a relatively low hanging fruit. Same for electricity really.

Food seems to be the hard problem here. I heard somewhere that a safe level of emissions is one metric tonne of CO2 per capita annually. Vegans do 1.5t.

Maybe it will get lower once transportation is cleaned up? I don't know.

EDIT: To be clear - my original write-up was a little bit in jest. This one is my serious position.
Same in MS Edge on Windows.

SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property 'mTexture' of undefined or null reference
>Whereas you in essence think that [imaginary pain] is an oxymoron

No, I think that there is such a thing as imaginary pain, just as there is such a thing as an imaginary elephant. You can imagine being in pain. You can imagine an elephant. But if someone said "imaginary elephants weigh just as much as real elephants", I would be confused (unless they just meant that the imagined weight of the imagined elephant was equal to the weight of the real elephant).
I assume the genesis of every regulation is either

a) some moron couldn't color within the lines or

b) some player wants to ice out competitors.
The idea (I'm not particularly for or against) is that a victim of a disease can seek help & compassion; a morally bankrupt individual can find only scorn. Then it just comes down to whether you think help & compassion helps people right their ways more than admonishment & ostracism.
You can’t find things like “<time” (HTML tags)?
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totally missing the point

edit: can't reply to you because of all the downvotes
If people are not deemed to be bad/evil/degenerates because their brain chemistry demands they seek out a certain drug, then we as a society can re-organize our efforts to helping them be safe and recover more quickly. We can provide clean needles and addiction treatments, rather than jail cells and criminal records.
I interacted a bit with OMS CS students that were taking Udacity courses (there is some link between Udacity personnel/classes and OMS CS), and they all reported being flooded with difficult homeworks/projects, often racing against the clock to submit things before deadline. Some classes even take >40h/week according to them. It doesn't seem to be anything trivial as you'd have implied; more like a proper MS from a Top-10 school. Imagine you need to get a lunar lander module landing on the moon in OpenAI gym via Deep Reinforcement Learning, write your own real-time Augmented Reality system as your final project in Computer Vision, beat real-world radiologists using the very latest Deep Learning research from Stanford as a final project in health informatics, write your own Swift-like compiler etc. Does that seem trivial? If anything, it's awesome people can learn those things online with the proper academic rigor and without dumbed-down curriculum.
Here I was always assuming they employed the types of people who read HN to build systems like this. I'd expect e2e crypto, perfect forward secrecy, perhaps something akin to tor, and maybe even the ability to use steganography to disguise the fact any comms were really happening at all.

Oh look at this cute kitten picture, let me save it and then get the encrypted code out of it. That's great, let me upload this equally cute puppy riding a skateboard picture to the forum that contains my reply.
https://www.teamblind.com/article/Why-shouldnt-I-go-to-Amazo...

https://www.teamblind.com/article/Amazon-Culture-V5mEefBn
hate that rude thing people do where they mimic you. Don't do that.
The Chinese government has hands in every bit in the Chinese internet. My point was to illustrate that no matter where you do business, you are subjected to local laws. Put the Chinese government aside and pretend it’s EU. Some would argue EU is doing too much, interferring with business competition - Yahoo, AOL and MSN were big back in 2000s but hey, Google took them down too. So why aren’t everyone crying about EU?

To your final point: are you sure national security is not really a pawn for being in control, whatever government can get out of us? That donors could get their pay out? The only difference is here we have a trillion miles better freedom of press and speech thanks to BoR.
Oh, can you point me to a list of all the links google has censored in the EU?
How are the two things different?
it's 100 pages because it's double column and like 10 point font lol. but still a good concise survey. will indeed peruse on coffee breaks. also kudos on the efficiency pun :)
The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.[1] The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.[2][3] The Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed national legislature.

Quoting this because it's important to note it's not nearly as simple as that. Virginia was the largest state (and largest slaveholding state).
It isn't good, but it's sometimes fun. That depends entirely on who you're doing it to. If you're not careful, it could end up being just mean.
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Ask HN: How do you find time to develop multiple skills?
So, let say you're a developer, but also a pianist, 3D artist, polyglot, rock climber, writer, video maker, dad/mum. (pick a few)

How do you find the time to develop all of these skills in parallel?

There are too many things I would like to pursue, and I end up sucking at everything!
Technology does have implications for whether a country can effectively control something. Consider this for example:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

That's the UK government explaining how it's going to enforce a worldwide requirement for Age Verification on all sites with (what it considers to be) pornographic material.

Now regardless of whether you think this policy goal makes any actual sense, or whether a potential regulator would even try to do more than clamp down on UK porn companies that don't do age verification, the mechanism described has two halves to it:

1. UK ISPs voluntarily block non-complaint sites in DNS

2. Hopefully everybody uses their ISP's DNS servers

Why doesn't it say the UK government will make every ISP run all connections through a government-owned proxy to enforce these rules regardless of DNS? Because that would cost an eye-watering amount of money and "We had to raise taxes by 10% for our anti-pornography law" is a guaranteed vote loser. It would also be ineffective but let's see them spend that money first.
The Senate exists largely because smaller states' representatives at the Constitutional Convention wanted it to and because the US government was essentially a copy-and-paste job of the British one with an elected president in place of the king. I think it would be a mistake to attribute that much unique suitability, even in an 18th-Century context, to it.
And yet that's what the Supreme Court decided here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
Yeah the recent revelation of this episode certainly made it more difficult to stomach the various retired intelligence blowhards making the rounds of the news programs this morning to firmly declare risible canards like "Intelligence is about the Truth!" Somehow getting one's clearance lifted seems less draconian than overseeing the deaths of multitudes...
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As someone who did a bachelor's at GT, students constantly complained that none of the classes prepared you for Day 1 of a job.

GT's collective response was always that that wasn't their job. They expected you to pick up {new-js-library} while you were studying.

Their job was to "train you for the last job you'll ever have."

And there's a certain wisdom to that. I can learn a new library -- I'd be unlikely to learn the full networking stack, RDBS internals, the history of hardware / software development, or OS & processor memory handling.
> We can provide clean needles and addiction treatments

1. how do clean needles prevent overdose?

2. https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/state-funde...

We already have state funded addiction centers free of cost. I am not sure how well funded they are though.
Between the lines: it was Tor.

Deploys on computers. Web-based. Detectable through decryption or pattern analysis. Firewalls. It was a pair of Tor hidden services. The mistake was probably that they ran both on the same machine with only a firewall separating them, rather than physically different servers.
These numbers look pretty good compared to my experience with large corporate organizations.
The way I see it is that movie theatre owners don't want film enthusiasts. People who see a lot of movies tend not to buy concessions, all they do is take up seats which the theatre is basically giving away for free to the studios.

What theatre owners really want are the blockbuster movies that draw the general public. They love when a family of 5 comes in to watch the Incredibles 2 and spends a small fortune on food to keep the kids happy. This is why movie theatres have sold mostly junk food all these years.
> Recent events have demonstrated that they love them some censorship, when they do it.

I'm not sure that I would conflate running a business with loving censorship.

> I can't believe the tech press isn't picking up on a supposed cloud provider threatening to shut down someone's account unless they make their website behave in a particular way.

What would the headline be exactly? "Business drops client for violating agreement and bringing negative attention to their service."

Why does everyone assume that businesses have a moral obligation or imperative? When a company goes around saying "We value..." they're really saying "By uttering the magic phrase we hope to make more money off you".
seconded....spreadsheets are almost everywhere. Even small tweaks can be scripted.
It could also have been "scare-quoted" with "birth-control" since, IMO, there is not much "control" going on here. It's at best "birth-guidance" or something equally inefficacious (as compared to, say, IUD). Just my opinion.

Personally, I would never recommend this to my minor daughter, sexual partner or frankly anyone who wants actual control in their "birth-control."
Personally, I've always developed multiple skills. From 10, I've played piano and been into science and computers. The key, in my opinion, is to practice daily, maybe 20-30 minutes of good focused striving.

For new skills, it's very hard and requires dedication, for instance I tried to pick up the violin. It's very hard initially due to the challenge of bowing properly and the second challenge of locating fingers properly to create the right notes. Yet, progress is steady even after 20 minutes a day, my playing quickly became much more bearable over the weeks.
The Senate is directly responsible for lynching? Holy claims Batman, you should back up such an assertion.

They were, among other things, aping the British system, where a reactionary upper house was an old feature.
Even that I'm on the fence about. It can be perfectly appropriate to punish people for making poor choices while at the same time helping them overcome some of the natural consequences of those choices.

I don't know where I stand on the issue of incarcerating people for drug use. But on its face I am not opposed to putting people in jail for selling highly addictive substances to young kids. This is one issue I have with the pro-legalization theory. Alcohol absolutely destroys lives (my grandmother drank herself to death when my mom was 13 in order to have some mental escape from the physical abuse of my alcoholic grandfather). Prohibition didn't seem to work very well, but general acceptance also seems to be failing.

It's a complicated issue, and I don't know where I stand on every aspect of it. But on its face I don't think punishment and help are mutually exclusive. And the fear of punishment _can_ be an effective deterrent. (Education being, in my opinion, the best deterrent. I've never had a drop of alcohol both because of my religious beliefs and the growing understanding that I'm very likely a drunk trapped in a sober body.)
Normal offices have layoffs now and then, which in many cases target the latter third.
Let's say there are a barriers that formed over the last centuries, how do you plan to remove those quickly and effectively?
Everytime I read stories from privateinternetaccess.com, I feel very sad and disgusted.
I wish it called out the difference between males and females. Is the trend mostly with males?
That's another issue easily solved by DnD API modern browsers implement. And should probably be done differently with regards to UX depending on whether the clicky part was a button, or a larger upload area.

Frankly, I don't find the original UX of dragging files onto an upload button all that intuitive. So instead I add drop functionality to a larger container in my apps. So if I have dialog that accepts files, users can drag files anywhere over the dialog and the dialog highlights that it accepts drops while dragging.
Yes, but looking at the larger picture, the tidewater aristocracy's interests were protected by the disproportionate power given to the South up till the Civil War, so I think the claim you're responding to is compelling.
Yes, I read this sentence.

This is a problem with common ways of doing age adjustments.

The issue is somewhat subtle: if you partition people into age bands (45-56), at different times in history, the average person who is in that age group may be older or younger, because different years had higher or lower birth rates. This was a particularly strong effect when the baby boomers were in the 45-56 age range.

My initial comment was that this paper didn't make clear whether they addressed the issue. Having now followed through to the CDC link they have, it looks like it also uses somewhat coarse age bands.
lots of results for regexing basic auth tokens.
I use google's search app on Android multiple times every day. Its a one-click from the home screen to open the voice input and process requests that way. Opening a browser, pressing the voice input key, speaking, then pressing the search button is way more steps than using the native app for search.
Quick Google suggests they were convicted for espionage (under the Espionage Act), not treason. Though it's really unclear to me why espionage against your own country and for another would not qualify as treason.

edit: Sibling commenter had a view on it: "Technically, this wouldn't be treason according to the US definition, because treason is only possible in the context of a declared enemy of the USA (i.e., war)."