skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it's related to the "default" diet that we consume. You can be healthy by eating a healthy diet, but that takes a conscious effort and we know that the food that's most pushed in modern western countries is full of sugars and carbohydrates. Most people eat the default diet, and for the modern person that might be microwave meals or takeout. Presumably in previous generations the default diet was more healthy, because people had to cook due to the lack of quick-and-easy options like oven-ready pizza and chips.

Overall it seems like a fundamental issue with the "food ecosystem" we surround ourselves with, and the types of food that it encourages us to eat. You could even include in that the inclination to treat eating as a chore to be performed instead of cooking and food as part and parcel of a fulfilled life, leading to products like soylent that promote themselves as a least-inconvenient meal.
You say "sorry that's not how art works" but then immediately talk about an art movement that did just that? You're contradicting yourself.

I get what you're trying to say. That sort of thing isn't common in contemporary art, especially not in a gallery setting. But that's a tiny portion of all the art in the world.

For example - I know an artist in Tuscon who drinks his own piss. That's the performance. He might have a personal meaning behind it, but he doesn't explain it to anyone. And he does plenty of other meaningless things intentionally.

He's not world renowned or anything, but he is known among some artists in Tuscon, he considers himself an artist, and thats how he makes his living. He also has an art degree.
It's openly a desired/considered goal for Elm to compile to wasm.
Now that the MacBook Pro 2015 has been discontinued, the MacBook Air, while dated and all, is the only laptop they have on sale (new) that does not have a butterfly keyboard, so it can definitely get worse.
Buffer overflow in Rust standard library v1.3-1.21 arbitrary code execution
Now they can afford the Dialpad.com acquisition they have been after.
We're going to work hard to moderate the community to prevent that from happening. I think Hacker News itself shows that it is possible to run a large community site that's open to everyone and still keep the content interesting and non-spammy.
Not really unless they changed their systems recently. They were mostly a php stack last I heard and they even got hacked in 2015 [0] which is why my last company refused to use them.

[0]: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Third Party Apps: The Next Big Data Sharing Scandal?
They are widely abused recreationally, too, typically in higher doses.

Half-life of Xanax varies between 6 and 29 hours, averaging 11.5 hours. A “pill” is an arbitrary amount and that’s not what I’m referring to. It’s the proportion that still affects you hours later and how long it lasts that matters, including that dosages can overlap.

It’s also important to note that tolerance develops of these drugs. Half a pill to you might be two for someone who is taking them every day for years. Tolerance to various effects develops to different extents, and perceived, subjective tolerance to dosages and impairment may be exceeded by measurable motor skill and judgment reduction.

If you take half a pill, you’re still on more than a quarter of a pill when you wake up the next day. If you take another half pill, you will be on more than a half pill.
Yes, I have stopped using both, the Slack app and the rocket.chat app at work since I was definitely seeing the effect of them in my RAM usage.

I don't use an application tray in my desktop, so having browser windows open for the chats is basically feature-equivalent and saves me RAM
> If they're letting literally anyone in, it's no more useful than every other founders mastermind group on FB.

We made a major mistake with the admissions emails – which I still feel terribly about. However, while that mistake moved up our timeline drastically, a more open process was directionally the way we were going with Startup School anyway. In fact, the first iteration of Startup School we ran a few years ago was intended to be open to all applicants. We had so much interest that we had to cap the number of accepted companies to the number we had projected would apply, to ensure our infrastructure and organizational ability could handle everyone.

For the Startup School founders forum, we'll be building in extra moderation features before the course launches next week to ensure we don't get into a tragedy of the commons situation. We'll keep iterating on the community management to ensure the quality of discourse remains high, and relevant to the very best companies (luckily we have in-house expertise we can lean on in the form of the incredible HN team!).

It's true that accepting all applicants will decrease the value of Startup School as a credential. But credentialing was never our intention. Our goal with Startup School is to improve the long-term chances of survival for every participating startup, and we believe that we'll be able to do a great job of that, even with the limitations imposed by serving 15,000 companies with a finite number of resources.
Isn’t this commonplace in government contracting? You have a preferred vendor already, but must show the appearance of an open, fair bid, so you put your RFP out there—but is made as specific as possible, matching your preferred vendor’s product spec word-for-word, so only they can meet the requirements. This is kind of standard, run of the mill corruption that I thought was well known.
With all the complaining and name-calling, I'm quite surprised that nobody has proposed forking the project and maintaining a tracking-free version. Certainly, it would appear as if there's a demand for such a project.
salvia still is legal in most states. and it is far from a typical psychedelic.
Well, they do compete in Eurovision, I guess that's kinda the same thing?
Have you tried propranolol? The research shows it’s quite effective for this kind of thing
Wow, do I feel this pain. As both an author[1] and a book-lover, I've been on both sides of this divide. People just don't consume books the same way they used to.

As a reader, I find I have to slowly re-introduce deep reading -- even if I've just been away for a week or two. I usually do this by getting a physical book and a physical distraction device, usually my phone. I go to a place where there's nothing else in the room.

Then I read as much as I can until I feel "bothered" (beats me what the correct adjective is here. "Bored"?) At that point I pick up the distraction device and poke around: Twitter, Facebook, HN, and so on. I make an effort to put it down. Eventually I succeed, then back to reading.

Over a period of many cycles, my reading time gets up to close to an hour long. But it's a struggle.

I don't think I could do it with an e-book reader. In those things, they put the distraction stuff just a click away. Hell, they'll sell you more distraction stuff you can play the millisecond you get bored with the text.

What I'd like to know is whether I'm some weird outlier or whether many other readers are going through this same process.

As a book writer, I tried as hard as possible to plug into a feedback loop with my readers. I ran beta groups, I emailed extensively to find out what worked and what didn't. All of the communication, as far as I could tell, collapsed into some version of "Make it take five minutes so I can go consume more material" Hey, I'm with you, but some things can't be covered in five minutes. Some things require a narrative and background for you to make sense of it, dear reader. What to do then?

(Add: Had one beta reader assure me that he already understood all the stuff around the first third of the book and I was wasting his time. So I jumped him directly to the second third. He was completely lost. I thought about cross-indexing the book to show how each part was used later, but what the heck would that accomplish, aside from reassuring myself that the text was needed? It is a frustrating problem from both sides.)

1. Shameless book plug: https://leanpub.com/info-ops
I don’t understand what you’re saying. Diversity in the form of descendants of slaves didn’t have the negative effect you’re claiming back when the railroads or interstate highways were being built because slave imports were an act of war?
I use both and I find Discord to be much better, I don't understand why they don't release a "corporate" paid version that would basically be the current version but with a different skin and without all of the gamer nonsense.
You forgot the -sshole.

It's off-topic, but this is what succesful censorship looks like: when you get to the point that people voluntarily self-censor (even on a pseudonymous network), the mission is accomplished.
depends on which ones!
Yes, many apologies, I mistyped. I will correct now.
Germany Has Proven the Modern Automobile Must Die
I enjoyed long articles from the ye olde early days of the world wide web, when long articles were long because the author had a lot of interesting things to say. Now, too many articles are long just for the sake of being long. And often peppered with animated / video advertisements for products I do not want.
3D-printed gun activists set to face numerous US states in court
When I studied comparative politics in college, we were taught two types of corruption - centralized (generally meaning that the government is corrupt) and decentralized (generally meaning that every interaction is potentially corrupt). While both aren't great, decentralized tends to be more disruptive to the rule of law, as in centrally corrupt nations, it's easier to price the cost in and plan for it than decentrally corrupt countries.

The classic example was in centralized corruption, you knew that at certain points on your drive across the country, you'd hit roadblocks where the fastest solution is to pay a bribe to the soldier or civil servant. In decentralized corruption, those roadblocks might appear anywhere, created by anyone.
Some Thoughts about Productivity and the 40 Hour Work Week
how would you protect it so that only registered users could access the content?
His choice of the word "programming" is rock solid -- at the time, "programming" meant "planning a set of actions" and was already used this way in the military sphere. Computer programming is planning a set of actions for a computer to take. The latter use has taken over in the intervening half century, to the point where we no longer specify that we're programming a computer (what else would one program?) But at the time it was entirely reasonable for Bellman to choose "programming."

"Dynamic," on the other hand, was a masterful sales job.
I’m close to some aid workers in this part of the world. There appear to be a bunch of wide-eyed technologists desperate to foist blockchain on the whole crisis, from recording health records to this. That the “Rohingya are turning to it” rather than a few people are Really Excited About Blockchain is not well supported.
vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance
> see if your salary is still in the range.

From that angle, I believe I'm paid below market rate and you are right. I haven't clearly stated it in the Ask text.

> Finally, when I’m looking for a job, I have three priorities - technology, environment, and money in that order.

I completely agree. Technology and the environment are very good here, especially because I'm responsible a big part of the tech stack right now. My bosses listen to my arguments and do not oppose just because they can, i.e. we have healthy discussions on many levels.

BATNA is pretty good in my region because of significant engineer shortages even though I haven't talked to any other company while at this company. When I switched here, I had 6 offers lined up.
The father of C# also created Typescript and we now see the same level of language tooling support OOTB with the Typescript compiler.

It's a fantastic initiative -- in such a short time we see many IDEs support consistent auto-complete, refactoring and so much more.
This. I really only bother touching languages with good to great IDE experiences which is why I basically concentrated on JVM tech for most of my career. The good news is that the tools story is improving across all languages these days.
Any upgrade guide? My 0.18 elm project doesn't seem to work with the latest version and the links it tells you to go to don't exist.

This is pretty much consistent with my elm experience, I've never found it professional enough to consider for a production application.
npm is used as one delivery system to get the elm compiler, but you can install it in other ways and it doesn't rely on the npm ecosystem.
Because lots of companies pay for it.
How can loss of status not be a thing to psychopaths when they are narcissistic?
I wonder what other pesticides are associated with autism?

You'd of course hope the FDA/EPA would research this [autism risk] before making a pesticide legal, but how could they? In actuality, they give a very high dose to rats/dags/rabbits for a short term and use that as their best approximation of safety[1].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/risk/human-health-risk-assessment
It's not just you, and it becomes a huge pain for those that do lots of deep JVM development with Kotlin. I run into multiple language issues daily, and many of them are just undocumented facets of the language that you find YouTrack issues for.

Many many corner cases are not accounted for, and the way Kotlin is under-spec'd and developed with so many of the IntelliJ libraries, you'll never see any independently developed implementation.

This is not to say the language isn't great, it is. It's only heavy development while focused on lower level aspects that this becomes a constant theme.
> This is almost never a problem since you simply use normal externs file for whatever library you are using.

"almost never" and "simply use externs file (which you may or may not need to write yourself)" does underpin my point that you have to take care. I'm not saying it is necessarily difficult or takes a long time to get right, but it does require that someone makes sure everything survives the advanced opts compilation.

This has burned me on a past cljs project, it's not even a concern on my Elm projects.
Thank you, I had no idea this term existed. A simple search brought up a number of options like Moodle and ATutor.
I saw this in Vietnam as well, extremely unattractive beaches covered in plastic bags and smaller plastic waste. On the boat to Quan Lan island I saw Chinese tourists throwing dirty diapers and any other waste overboard as if it was the most normal thing to do.
"There is no water filter that I know of available to the consumer public that is fine enough to filter out microplastics of under 3 microns or something like that."

Common, uninteresting point-of-use filters are .5 microns.[1]

Very inexpensive (the tap and the filter) and easy to add to your existing sink as a second tap.

They don't have the flow rate required for a whole house filter, but you can find high flow filters as fine as 5 microns. A whole house 5 micron chained to a .5 micron drinking tap is a pretty bulletproof filtration chain ...

[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-...
Being a PHP stack has nothing to do with their security.

Also, almost every large company has had a data breach at one point or another. What counts is how they respond to that issue and mitigate for the future.
Not just the 1990s and early 2000s. Read about what happens in present-day Angola (Louisiana State Penn.).
Show HN: Hall of Fame – Show some love to your contributors
In the UK the banks and property agencies are moving away from title deeds in a process called 'dematerialisation'

My deeds, dating back to 1949, no longer exist. They were shredded by Nationwide. I have a certified copy but they are considered of academic interest and 'proof of ownership' is now recorded by a database row. Which is terrifying, as a simple clerical error or a system failure could ruin so many lives.
I care. It's slow and terrible for accessibility.
> Is she predisposed to be okay with cold climates, or was she born so that her parents could handle the cold?

The second meaning doesn't make any sense, you could say "I was born to fulfil this destiny" for instance, because there's only one subject in the sentence, the singer.

> Romantic love or parental love?

"I'll be your X" is a clear indication of romantic love...

> Is she saying the last line, or is it her parents talking to her?

Where do her parents come into this? There's no ambiguity at all here: the singer isn't asking much of the person they're singing about, only that they sing along with them.

Given that the song is about famous country and western stars, two of which were married while the other two almost became a couple but one died before it might have happened, it seems like you've read ambiguity into it where there isn't any, and used it to fill in your own interpretation. Which I'm sure we all do at times.
A problem with reports like this is that we lack context. What are other countries doing to influence politics in rival or friendly countries? Does the US do similar in Russia?

Influencing political outcomes was what a lot of the cold war was. So, what are the actual "norms" these days. Are the recent Russian actions in the US new? Does it go both ways? Is it only the US?

It suspect that the main novelty here is how much publicity an otherwise secret subject is getting. I definitely could be wrong though, I don't know anything about spies.
For the _most_ part I don't see what was so toxic about it.

But compare it with the corporate response. Doing this kind of thing without warning to loyal customers and then being dismissive about it is also very toxic.
Click Bait, no models :(
Thanks for your time and commitment. I'm not even an applicant, but it is still quite an admirable thing.
Ask HN: Hacker news equivalent for data science
Does anyone know if there's a HN equivalent where the discussion topics revolve around data science?
You've never had docker do anything weird in production?

It didn't happen often, but we definitely had problems. We're running kubernetes clusters with several hundred nodes.

Caching is very crude. When building its based on lines in the dockerfile which means adding a dependency means redownloading everything. You also can't mount a directory for builds.

Multi stage builds are very limited in what they can do and often aren't powerful enough to implement efficient builds. You end up either having 20 minute builds or complex make files to work around the inefficient default workflow.

FWIW an intelligent caching mechanism should not require manual cleanup. Thankfully kubernetes does this for us in production... but the crazy 1 GB images you end up with for a moderately complex python app make it hard. (especially when people use :latest and then there are 12 versions of the app laying around)
Which is nonsense I get 50mbit sec to a server I host in Chicago from Hong Kong. 165ms latency.
Yep, this is the correct answer. It's fine to sell a stranger a house for $1. It's considered a gift subject to the gift tax (if you've exceeded the lifetime limit or expect to pay estate taxes) to sell a family member or a "related party" the same property for the same price. Trump is obviously going to bequeath his children more than the estate tax limit ($11m now, the $5m was pre tax reform) and yeah it should have been reported.

The property appraises at the same price so property taxes aren't the concern, just income taxes due on the transfer.
It's in the release notes, as with every other open source project: https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/upgrade-docs/0.1...
I've recently regained the ability to do in-depth reading. I attribute the final loss of my old since-childhood book habit to the Kindle app on my iPad... it seemed "better" to buy electronic books instead. But that meant the Internet was there waiting for me, after every chapter or pause, I could just go check Facebook or email, or... yeah.

So I started reading paper books again. The context switch into paper is relatively expensive, so I'd stay there, not cutting over to the internet. I started reading serious material again. From there, my spouse gave me her unused Kindle Paperwhite (she reads a ton on her iPad, so she doesn't use the Paperwhite), and I found the Paperwhite gave me most of the Kindle advantages without the multipurpose device disadvantages.

Next, I cut back seriously on my social media. I went cold turkey on Facebook for a bit (and on Twitter shortly after), and I consciously avoid bad FB habits. Nonetheless, it's an addiction machine, and when I do use it again, I realize that cold turkey is probably better.

Without social media apps on my phone, I find myself with a Kindle app instead. Much better!

When I was 20 or so and reading very heavily (I had a job that gave me four hours of sitting time in half hour chunks, so I read a lot), I started a self-control process of reading one fiction and one non-fiction book simultaneously - at that time, to make sure I read plenty of non-fiction. Now, I have to make myself read fiction instead. I seem to have settled that divide by reading fiction on my phone, and non-fiction on my Kindle.

Audiobooks and podcasts have been a change for me, too. I started with a serious audiobook on a road trip (The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli). From there, I blew through all 120 episodes of the Philosophize This! podcast. A new job has me on an ugly commute for the first time in years, so I'm filling that time in the car with Hardcore History (the monstrous six hour Celtic Holocaust episode about the Roman invasion of Gaul), and foreign language vocabulary study (Spanish).

Having a proper reading habit of an hour or two a day on average has me back to reading heavy things. I've read a lot of history this year, and I'm currently back to reading philosophy (Simone de Beauvoir and Herbert Marcuse). Plus, I'm managing to dig through a backlog of software industry books, mostly DevOps things I'd missed out on before.

It's so much better than social media.
That form works fine! We're keeping track of all the form responses from both the old and new emails we sent out, so your application made it in.
> What does being open source and being altruistic have to do with each other?

The "open" in "open source" is about encouraging cooperation and collaboration. And not using lock-in or patents or walled gardens to obstruct competition.

If the altruistic aspect is still not obvious: many projects encourage a gift economy by accepting donations.

Astroturfing is really not compatible with what you called "be transparent about the product design/intentions"
Yes I agree. We don't know why Docker did this. It's not a particularly helpful thing to do, but it's just not that major an issue.

I think many who posted on the Github issue will later regret the tone of their reaction. The treatment of the Docker employee was particularly nasty.
> Additionally I'm glad .19 finally came out. But 18 months was really long.
On the basis that nothing was actually broken 18 months is not that long. I think there are benefits to be derived from working with a language/platform/ecosystem that doesn't change every few weeks. Just think about how many changes Angular has had in that time...