skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really the top rated comment? sigh, I think we can do better.

> We owe no consideration to deliberately-destructive trolls...

Oh man, here we go. Look, there are trolls and there are populists and fascists and neo-Nazis and anarchists and racists and scumbags and dickheads and all of those NAMES out there. Yeah! Fuck those NAMES! BURN!

..it fixes nothing to piss further into the pool. And then to turn around and call it fixed, or not fixable. How does that fix anything to be nasty right back and then convince yourself you can ignore them? That by ignoring them you are ignoring all this nastiness? Don't you think your nastiness validates their nastiness, even if you think anti-nastiness nastiness will make things better? That's a trap. We're all devalued when we inject even more bad karma into this crap ball.

We need to define ourselves by what we want the culture to be, not by the people who think are our political enemies.

So, how about instead: we actually define what is acceptable in our culture and where the line is. And then when people step over the line, we don't demonize them as bad people who seek to wreck all that is holy and good, we point out how they violated the acceptable cultural norms in a non-aggressive, non-offensive way. And then we consistently return to actions and words and not assumptions of motives and further othering of people. That way, instead of the dialog being about people's feelings and motivations, it's about how they violated the norms by actually doing something that is in direct violation of our acceptable norms, e.g. personal insults.

> Breitbart, OTOH, is precisely a harmful entity seeking to undermine all that is decent and good.

See. You are getting precisely nowhere with this, unless you consider polarization to be somewhere. I mean, seriously. What the heck do you expect? This is no dialog. They're just all bad people who hate, hate, hate. So you hate them back. Cycle.
European Commission proposes ending DST in March 2019
Completely agree. I'd like to see more governments doing this. I believe India has created generics for their internal market for expensive drugs.
You misunderstand. Way more than 5% go to college, but for some highly sought after educations and institutions, only a select few get accepted. But most people wouldn't apply to these programs to begin with. And those that do, and do not get accepted, can study different subjects, or even the same subject but at a different school.
Developing a publishing platform for 9M users on your own
> Kids prefer those to beer.

Inexact. A lot of young women prefer those to beer and are getting hooked on alcohol through them. Much to their detriment. (Alcohol consumption causes cancer, especially breast cancer in women.)
The course "College Algebra" has the highest fail rate among all university courses in the US; this course covers roughly what you already should've seen in high school. A lot of time is spent e.g. practicing arithmetic, plotting polynomials, solving linear equations, and so on. See this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:College_Mathematics:_Alge...

For many students, this is the only mathematics course they take for their degree and they fail/drop multiple times before finally succeeding. For those students, their mathematics course in college is quite literally a repeat of high school.

It's worth noting that many colleges have even more remedial mathematics courses, which (no joke) cover elementary school stuff. E.g. the standard algorithm for division...

So in some sense I would agree with Dowwie's concern, but also point out that we already have this problem anyways, so there isn't much to lose.
The most common point of conflict of this sort IME is "I prefer a quiet environment, people talking / listening to music around me disturbs my concentration" vs "I prefer to be around conversation / banter / music, a quiet environment makes me feel lonely, miserable and lethargic"
Why would American college staff be so hilariously bad, compared to European staff?
The opposite side, with its “very fine people”?
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Isn't VB for Applications (Office) a different thing than VBScript?
Nitrofurantoin was discovered in the 50s, and generic versions are widely available.

But this particular change is more complex. First, the manufacturer is producing an oral suspension, which is substantially more expensive than equivalent generic tablet formations. Second, the price increase seems to have come about due to a shortage in supply, in turn due to unspecified "new rules on impurities from the FDA".

So I guess there's some argument that a limited number of suppliers in the market has pushed up the cost. But the drug is still 3-4 times more expensive than the equivalent oral formulation in the UK, so the definite impression here is "absolutely shameful price-gouging".
I'm sorry, but I fail to see how this relates to what dowwie wrote.
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The Definitive Guide to Express, the Node.js Web Application Framework
LogDevice uses SSL for authentication. This can be enabled for both clients and servers [1].

[1] https://logdevice.io/docs/Settings.html#security
FWIW I'm closer to the L2 Comcast tech than programmer and I was introduced to HN by my dad, a DBA. I thought HN was for the intellectually curoius, not just the coders and programmers of the Valley?
According to Apple, the neural engine can perform 5 trillion operations per second—an eight-fold boost—and consumes one-tenth the energy of its previous incarnation

Sidenote, but the claim by Apple seemed to be that those apps that use CoreML will see such an efficiency boost in their ML tasks, as CoreML did not use the neural circuitry on the A11 Bionic, and it was restricted to system tasks. Not sure if the opening of the A12's neural processing means that CoreML will be altered to also use the A11's functionality.
Err, no, you really don’t understand the EU legislative process at all.

This Directive, once approved by EU parliament in the spring (this is just rubber-stamping, it extremely rarely goes the other way), member states will be required to implement the directive. That too is just rubber-stamping at the nation level: there’s sometimes some wiggle room in phrasing and details, but everything the directive clearly spells out has to be implement exactly that way.
Before the Internet, What People Asked New York Public Library's Librarians?
> In practice, lack of support means students who come from more affluent, educated backgrounds have a large advantage over first-generation college students.

I'm pretty sure poor students would prefer no support and no debt over a bit of support for huge debt.
Not sure where you’re getting the numbers to back up your 50% claim. At most it is around 15% in UK, 30% in the US and somewhat higher in the Eastern European countries.

Alt right conservatism is not a mainstream ideology anywhere in the world. Nor will it ever the way things are going.
Uber's reckless manslaughter happened just a few months ago. Nothing else is necessary to know they still need to change.
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I was homeless for nearly 6 years and an active participant. I'm also not a programmer, though I have a Certificate in GIS and, these, days, make part of my money as a "webmaster."

There are a lot of IT people here. This, unfortunately, sometimes convinces some individuals that that's all there is here, which is an inaccurate assumption.
I suppose the original article is https://press.f-secure.com/2018/09/13/firmware-weakness-in-m...

But even that is very light on details:

The attack exploits the fact that the firmware settings governing the behavior of the boot process are not protected against manipulation by a physical attacker. Using a simple hardware tool, an attacker can rewrite the non-volatile memory chip that contains these settings, disable memory overwriting, and enable booting from external devices. The cold boot attack can then be carried out by booting a special program off a USB stick

I suppose they attach something JTAG?
> The fact that Beast allows you to go low level if required, is one if its strengths.

Yes. But the key moment is "if required". With Beast you always have to initiate read and write operations. Just look at Vinnie Falco's code: https://github.com/vinniefalco/CppCon2018/blob/293bedbd5204d...
You perform request processing and then you write the response manually. Even if there is no need to do such low-level operations in that task.

> And moreover, C++ is generally used in projects where such control is required.

Not only. For example, Wt framework is used for Web-interface for smart devices and you don't need to have an extreme performance here.

Another case: we created HTTP API for old C++ code, but this API was used inside a big application only (application was divided into several parts, something like microservices approach). And the main problem was not a performance of HTTP-related part, but the big response times from old C++ code (it takes seconds to process a request).
The Discord engineering blog post this week has a fascinating sentence on this topic, perhaps much more interesting to me than the engineering itself:

> Every audio/video communication in Discord is multiparty. Supporting large group channels (we have seen 1000 people taking turns speaking)

https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-handles-two-and-half...
I am/was in the same boat as OP. I moved back to Germany after almost a decade in the US (mostly Silicon Valley). Closing your eyes does not make the problems go away. Even if you don't care and avoid the tens of millions of left-behind people, for myself, looking at things like health care was enough to give me second thoughts. It is nice as long as it is nice. I had a colleague, enterprise sales, very good income, who ended up living in the streets in the Bay Area due to a few turns of bad luck that could happen to anyone. Health care cost issues were part of it, but it only got really bad because of a the self-reinforcing feedback loop since there was no help available early (and the very late help was privately organized from people who knew him once they became aware of his dire situation). I venture to claim that he would have been okay if similar bad luck had befallen him in his native Germany.

I'm not sure how seriously other people take this, but I find it curious that a huge part of entertainment in movies, shows and games made/consumed in the US is about violence horror, and/or the end of society or even the world (oh and "heroes" of course - always coupled with violence). That is not a global phenomenon, or it only is in as far as Hollywood has always been exporting culture. It also is not normal, I can say from my own (almost half a century) life experience (first part of it on the Eastern side of the German border).

Myself, I can empathize with scenarios of the post-apocalypse as shown e.g. in "The Last Of Us", especially the violence and distrust between surviving groups - imagining myself in the area of the US in such a world. I can't imagine the same scenario in Europe, at least not on the same dystopian level. I would feel significantly safer in Europe after the collapse of civilization (said this commenter before getting murdered an hour later by another desperate European end-of-society survivor, haha - yeah, sure, can happen, it's just my gut feeling).

I have to balance my post by saying I still feel strong and positive about many things in the US. I'm not a "dark side only" guy when it comes to the view of that country. Still, even if I were rich I would not go back to live there, I don't feel good about the overall direction, even if a lot of things were to improve. All this darn celebration of violence and "heroes", for example, and as was pointed out here, science (so many immigrants holding it up), economic policies, politics (result of a feedback loop with economics and business policies, e.g. incentives for the media - what kind of news sells? Plus incredible concentration in a few hands).
That link just goes to their homepage.
The overall business impact on using php vs any other language is clearly huge. No other language is split into a separate market for developers and VC capital. JS hate couldn't stop its use completely for any company that needs a website, Java will likely be running something whether you develop your API in it or not, only php hate combined with php's only role in the stack being high but substitutable can eliminate it from businesses and developer mindset with prejudice at some companies and make it the dominant language at others.
I would like to know what HNer’s think about RAISE act, which directly affects legal immigrants.
It is one rubber-stamping, always done, step from becoming law. Closed-doors tri-dialogs always reach a compromise in practice. The parliament always rubber-stamps the outcome (“always” as in there was one case of compromise rejection in years).
Testing LCBs (Lithium Ceramic Batteries) || the Future of Battery Technology?
(Disclaimer: I am not a physicist)

Probably they would just explain it with the normal Copenhagen interpretation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation

In terms of quantum theory, the behaviour of a quantum computer is not fundamentally any different to the behaviour of any small scale particle or collection of particles.

Even buckyballs have been shown to self-interfere in a double-slit experiment, and that doesn't _prove_ multi-worlds over the Copenhagen interpretation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120331115055/http://www.quantu...

There might be other philosophical reasons to believe in many-worlds, and I am partial to it myself, but experimental observation of this form would not to my understanding contribute to that argument.
It truly is a cognitive burden for people who care about how their words are perceived and understood. Logically, I see two ways to succeed in communicating to large groups.

One way is to tune down your level of awareness of, or your psychological attachment to, how your message is being perceived; i.e. turn off the filter and just talk, public perception be damned.

The other way would be to improve your mental approximation of how people are perceiving and emotionally responding to your message, taking the integral of emotional response like some kind of social calculus. Perhaps this consists of bucketing people into groups, the way politicians do, only in more of a real time fashion? I'm not sure, but I do find it interesting.
>You don't need a computer to do CS at all.

I am sympathetic to the idea that CS is not a vocational subject, but it is a practical discipline. Purely theoretical CS is like studying physics with without ever performing an experiment. There is a role for theoretical physicists, but to complement and inform the experimental side otherwise their theories could never be tested or confirmed. You need both to make it a complete discipline.
This looks great! It's really awesome to see more tools like this arise for the Gatsby ecosystem. I switched my personal website over to Gatsby (from Ghost) earlier this year and have been really pleased so far.
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That's a fine reason to discount bugs, and realize nothing is set in stone. But this is an intentional feature, and the problem is the intent itself.
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50 million voters in US only with above average income/education. The fact they voted for Trump doesn't mean they would share all his faults, and it doesn't even mean that you can describe them before you can critizice them, call them offenders, and a long list of "very fine things".
Sure, but it's still a number of people that is significantly less than everyone. And everyone in Denmark is again significantly less than everyone in the US.

So saying "Hey if we can pay for a few hundred thousand people to go to college, why can't you pay for tens of millions of people to go college?" is not really a fair comparison.
Some would. But if you come out of it with no degree because of a lack of support, "at least it was free for you to get nothing" may be cold comfort.
It helps to be aware that anyone could hear it and to account for that. It's not perfect, but it reduces problems.

It also helps to be aware that some parts of what you are saying will be entirely missed by some people and this not only isn't a problem, it can be a feature.
Just want to point over to the CFML Slack channel: https://cfml-slack.herokuapp.com/

I've found it a great developer community. We're containerizing some Lucee apps and they've been really helpful.

The language is by no means dead.
Tangentially related: There's an excellent documentary from BBC about a hospital during London's Westminster's bridge terrorist attack. They were there to shoot a planned documentary when the attack happened. Not anywhere at this scale, but it gives a pretty good behind-the-scenes look at the doctors and hospital staff preparing for the victims of a mass-causality incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pjUNZSajuE
Why buy a self-driving motorcycle?

I understand self-driving cars, some people really enjoy the idea of doing things in a moving pod (trains and buses are too lower class for them?), but a BMW motorcycle is something you buy because you like the idea of piloting an engine while being exposed to air and the elements, battling physics and -unless you bought a BMW because you want to show off- owning a vehicle that can be very reliable on extremely rough terrain.
Oh man, I'm always glad to hear I'm not the only one who got the Monty Hall problem wrong. Here is my embarrassing MH story.

Like Paul Erdős, I resorted to experimentation. Very much unlike Paul Erdős the computer program I wrote contained a one-off error in its PRNG that coincidentally confirmed the wrong result. I then spent a day or so on Usenet insisting stubbornly on the wrong solution until some very kind person on sci.crypt made a complete truth table as a proof. That exhaustive proof immediately convinced me of my idiocy.

Lesson: If a bunch of smart and educated people tell you that you're wrong, then you're probably wrong.
> there are a billion Indians

That is true... but only 10% of Indians can speak English. It might appear higher because visitors are likely to remain in urban or tourist-y areas, where the percentage of English speakers is much higher.
This is true but whether it was profitable is a separate question. On which see Weber 1905 and the recent economics literature!
> Let the receiver evaluate the information

This ignores one of Google's primary missions. As jlebar posted in a different comment

> evaluating trust on the internet using computers (call it AI or not) is literally Google's core competency.

This idea that we should pretend as if there is no problem to solve seems incredibly strange to me. Particularly when we know unreliable information is being weaponized by bad actors to influence entire populations of people. This is a very real problem which needs solving.

Humans have limited time for research and we value reliability. Consider all of the hype around the recent severe decline in trust of authenticity and reliability of products purchased through Amazon. We tend to prefer shopping at places where we know the products we purchase will be of a certain standard. We go to trusted sources (as amazon was previously) because we don't have the time to carefully evaluate each of the many many items we purchase every week. We choose a store we trust will have already done that quality check.

It seems as if Google believes it is important for it's business that the information it prioritizes has a certain quality or reliability level. Google prefers their information be more like a Target store than a back alley tent. And if the amount of people who shop at Target stores over back alley tents is any indicator, I'm guessing Google is probably on to something.

I'm certainly skeptical about who should be able to decide what is "true" on subjective issues, but I don't see how we can pretend as if there isn't a very real problem of actual provably false information being weaponized.

I for one am fairly busy and just as I don't have time to do a deep dive of research into whether or not the shampoo, deodorant, milk, cereal, orange juice, whiskey, dish soap, cold medicine etc etc etc are fake; I also don't have time to deep dive research if the 30+ articles I skim everyday are provable outright lies. Not only don't I have the time, I don't necessarily have the inclination.
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Having built my own brush out of a (deceased) fox tail hair made me appreciate the skill and patience it takes to produce an usable, precise tool
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I think if the story is worth reading then Breitbart deserves credit for breaking it, whether or not you think they are bad guys.
go back to good ol' Nokia?
I work at Pivotal, arguably one of the most test-obsessed companies in the world.

Tests and types are not direct substitutes. My view these days is that types become more valuable as a codebase grows. I have worked on Ruby on Rails codebases where, quite frankly, I found myself wishing it out loud was Java on Spring Boot. (Many of my peers in Labs are flatly enthusiastic about Kotlin on Spring Boot, FWIW)

In the same genus as the "just use tests" argument is "business logic only belongs in the app, not the database". Yeah, well, it turns out that no amount of testing is a substitute for constraints and transactions.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971516
No idea, sorry. There are ways to install gpedit on Windows Home, but the articles I've seen include some shady download.
how can i get started on this path? any guides or helpful links? are u open to pms and more questions?

thanks!
How much Amazon sales figures dropped since they started this?
It's this sort of behavior that has caused Intermountain and other health care companies to join together to make a non-for-profit Civica Rx pharmaceutical company to provide essential generics.

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/intermountain-and...
If roughly the same percentage of people end up with a college degree, then what would be the advantage of the US changing to that system? If it produces the same result, it's not really better. It's just a different way of accomplishing the same thing.
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