skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Epoxy resins may very well have created the Diabetes epidemic, with genetic data backing it.

That’s a ridiculous claim. The reason for the diabetes epidemic has much more to do with the increase in sugar consumption than anything else, even if other factors might have contributed, like vegetable oils or the decrease in salt consumption.

Throughout history people have gone to great lengths to exonerate sugar when the evidence is there in plain sight since early 1900s.

No, it’s not the plastics and the diabetes epidemic isn’t that new ;-)
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Is It Really Better in AR?
CppCon 2018: Debugging Linux C++ [video]
So you think we should duplicate R&D that's already happening in the private sector and increase taxpayer costs?
"but how many books are in their household is a positive predictor of future reading ability."

It will be interesting to see how this updates over time. My children are not physically surrounded by books, but they've got Amazon Freetime and nearly blanket permission to use it, which they take advantage of quite a bit. It's a lot more easy access to books than I had at their age.
I'm not trying to nitpick, but UML is purpose-first, not solution-first. The language always allowed for varying levels of abstraction (i.e. linguistics, not layers), and it was always possible to describe the domain instead of classes+methods, but one is always creating diagrams not code. For example, a collaboration diagram can specify domain concepts and use plain language for activities and artifacts; it is not necessary to consider functions and arguments and exceptions. Oh my.

Your anecdotes are more common with object-oriented languages and poor object-oriented design approaches. Any fool can claim to have discovered a OOD pattern, but a good programmer will not claim to have discovered anything. Instead, she will use the software to express the user's activity and desired outcomes.

That being said, some software languages take more skill and experience to implement a solution than others. Sometimes it is necessary for developers to consider the choice of HashMap over List<?> or worse MyCollection which implements List<?> over an array. These considerations may have created to more types of diagrams (UML, OOD, etc.) that describe software in more an more detail, but what is necessary to express a solution is really subjective and rarely universally understood. You can't sit an inexperienced developer in front of a C++ program and expect them to understand that they are looking at code for a text editor anymore than you could sit them down in front of a collection of DDD diagrams and expect them to build a perfect representation in Java.

We (the royal "We") are looking for a proper balance in design and implementation. That is a work-in-progress: it is the point of this career and won't be captured by single checkbox on one's resume, e.g. "knows UML or not".
What do you recommend to the younger or ambitious devs who want to grow in their career -- do you send them to training or let them have a side project of some kind so that they still have a somewhat valuable resume, or is it more a question of trying not to get junior devs (who need the resume building badly) in the first place?

I'm curious because I work at a big company but not in a maintenance or operational role so I'm not sure what an "ideal" resume or career track looks like for such people.
You have to explicitly turn on a setting to have it run the corrected command without confirmation.
I've always blamed the licensing. Lots of people adopted BSD and Linux in the early years.

The Linux users gave back (often because they had to) and the BSD users often didn't.
Leaving aside the poor science of this study, I wonder if there is any impact to the fact that I have a large collection of books that sit on my kindle. Living in my parents house I was surrounded and influenced by their books. My children read a lot, but they may not be as aware as I was of what their parents are reading. And there is a lot less of that social signaling that happens when a guest sees a book on the bookshelf that they read or are interested in.
Your business model is probably not going to be providing something useful to an end user. The tool will be a pretext so you get incidental access to data your surveillance system will exfiltrate.

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The term "Tech" is malleable to mean both a business vertical, or the software-related division within any a company in any business domain. Expect strategic equivocation between the two.

Any bad action or decision from the non-technical people in a "tech" company is suddenly the fault of the nerds, they'll feel the heat and are expected to fix it (even if the problem is by definition not their problem to fix). Credit flows in the opposite direction, regardless of where it belongs.
Previous discussion (from four years ago -- many commits since then): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396116
In the Middle Ages the serfs always had the opportunity to run away, they could decamp to a city or a competing lord. Besides, the Church and later the rising merchant class provided a counterweight to the excesses of rural gentry. They may have preferred absolute power, but they couldn't have it. If you are an oligarch in Russia it seems you still have the opportunity to run off to London or Vancouver, so history repeats itself even now.
I kept hearing the claim that the US Post Office was losing money on items shipped by Amazon.

So I asked the Postman delivering my Amazon package on a Sunday, and he confirmed that indeed the Post Office was being paid far less on a per package basis for Amazon deliveries than the regular rate.

In the case of this Postal Treaty, it seems like the Post Office is losing money on delivering these <= 4 pound packages from China.

The US Post Office is struggling enough, I think pulling out of this treaty is a good thing if it can help them.
> It’s one of the most famous and surprising findings in all of social science.

Kind of makes sense in a way. Only anecdotal, but I’ve learned to read at 5 years of age almost all by myself (my dad had taught me the letters a little time before that) only because I was bored as hell while I was vacationing at my grandparents’ house and there were a couple of books around. I picked one and started reading it loud while I was alone, and that was it. I’m no genius, mind you, that’s why I think that my experience is not unique.
Fairly certain the Spanner service wasn’t available then.
Humanitarian Highlight 10/18: International CU Day
Don't think that security comes at no cost, though. OpenBSD goes a heroic distance to get it's reputation.
I'm pretty sure that produce stickers are safe to consume (and thus biodegradable), at least in the US: https://www.advantagelabel.com/products-services/prime-label... (couldn't find a better source)
I guess this will hurt businesses like Alibaba and etc?
I'm a fairly casual PG user but I have these issues:

Lack of case and accent insensitive collations is inexcusable at this point. Is there anyone that enjoys sprinkling every bit of SQL with upper() comparisons?

Non materialized CTEs. I like materialized CTEs sometimes and wish MSSQL had them as an option but I also need it to work the other way.

Native point-in-time recovery out of the box. This looks like it might be possible but the process doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence.

Better connection scaling.

Ability to load custom TS dictionaries in user space (for hosted postgres on google/aws/etc..)
That's the whole point - there is research supporting the point that "how many books are in their household is a positive predictor" not only of future reading ability but also a bunch of other things, but there seems to be no research supporting that "Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind". These are very, very, very different things.

In essence, a very likely explanation for the observed "childhood books vs adult success" observation is that growing up surrounded by books is an indicator that your parents may have higher socioeconomic status than average, or that they have an above average educational background and IQ, or possibly all of it, and for those things it's well known that they have hereditary (both nature-hereditary and nurture-hereditary) effects that indicate that the kids are somewhat more likely to be successful in most aspects of life.

That observation (both in your link and in the studies described in the main article above) is not a reason to assume any causal relationship; the original studies don't claim that, but the article we're discussing does try to imply such claim without any appropriate justification, and that is inexcusable pseudoscience.
Yeah, but why not adopt it? GNU has done a lot of things right.
> It's unfortunate that Linux has become so popular even though the BSD's are so much better. A bad historical accident.

I'm not sure that's fair.

Linux has snowballed, whereas OpenBSD hasn't. Linux is a much larger system. Is it surprising you find OpenBSD to be tidier?
If both sides are bad, then helping either side accomplishes nothing good unless it ends the war sooner. If the side you support is enforcing a blockade and causing harm to civilians, that is a bad thing while it lasts.

In reality, the Saudis have no realistic plan to win in Yemen, so helping them will not end the war anytime soon. In the meantime, Yemen has the worst famine in the last 100 years.
I had a job in the past that snuck in a non-compete into the non-disclosure agreement, which I stupidly signed. Fortunately, the company went bankrupt before they had a chance, but they sent me an intimidation letter when I quit that any work I do is subject to their approval, with a photocopy of the NDA attached. It was horrifying.
> The next generation is far less materialistic than generations of the past.

Ehhhh, I dunno that I'd go that far. It's just different shit. I think we all know plenty of people lined up the second a new iPhone or Pixel is announced.
SEO for SaaS: A Content Marketing Guide for Startups
lol SF never had 1/10 the vibrancy NY had, or has.
Problem: are two points in the same polygon?
Solution: a line drawn between those two points has an odd number of intersections with the polygon if they are both in it (or outside of it), and even number if they are not.
> > Generally speaking yes, but it's not clear when exactly that will happen (if at all).
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> It's still enabled by default in 12/master. I'd expect it to stay that way. But reports for v11 will obviously influence that.

Sure, but that's a development version, and I'm not sure it'll stay like that at the time of release. I hope it will, but my understanding is it's enabled mostly to get exposure from the developers by default.

>> Firstly, at this point JIT requires LLVM, with may or may not be available when building (so it depends on the packager). We might add other JIT providers in the future (e.g. GCC) but that's not done yet.
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> I see very very little point in adding another JIT provider to core pg. If somebody wants to write an extension that does so, ok, go ahead, but why would we maintain two nontrivial pieces of code in core? Also the GCC based stuff isn't even close to being competitive.

Yeah, unfortunately the state of JIT in gcc is a bit sad :-(
That place is ferociously biased, consistently
THIS IS SO INTEresting, i reme.....
I haven't read either, but O'Connor sounds more on the right track. The value of idleness is not that it will make you more productive or better at your job after you stop being idle; it's valuable in its own right. Work is important, but I think it's pathological to vaunt it as we do in our society, just as it's pathological to completely shirk it and live in squalor.

Basically, I just want to take a nap, much like O'Connor apparently. There is a note of desperation, perhaps nervous disavowal of death, in our society's insistence on always doing, always improving, always producing.

I haven't read either of these but I did enjoy "How to be Idle" by Tom Hodgkinson years back: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Idle-Loafers-Manifesto/dp/0060...
Thinkpads are VERY well supported - pretty much everything works, except bluetooth and fingerprint reader. I just ordered a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen as a replacement for aging Macbook to use as a main home machine.

You can search NYC*BUG board, where users submit their dmesg(8) output, e.g. there is a submission[1] for Dell Latitude e7270.

[1]http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3466
So where does it stop? Should software developers expect a tip if someone uses their service? Does it matter how mich money they make? I bet some restauranteurs make so much that they can pass some down to their employees.

I am completely against tipping unless the service is exceptional. If restaurants in Europe can afford to pay their employees living wages, it should be possible here as well.
>cities with reasonable public transport

Does NYC qualify? I think you can still hit theoretical under-half hour times if you manage to get the subway right as your train comes in and don't have to walk too far from the stations to the doors. But if you live in New York the psychological barrier of dealing with that crap is big enough that people tend not to do it outside of commuting. It's a chore to get someone in Brooklyn to come into the city to hang out unless it's right after work. And vice versa.
As a guy living in Eastern Europe: definitely not the case around here.

It's just that life is way too uncertain and everybody is fighting for scraps. Many couples either decide they don't want to bring a child in such uncertain conditions -- like me and my wife -- or they risk it and end up providing very subpar support for their kids. You should see two parents crying and hugging each other and their kid in front of a store because they cannot afford to buy it a $50 LEGO set... It can break your heart and give you a new perspective on the perceived notion of "the world, globally speaking, gets better".

We the people adapt quite well to basically everything, I'd say. But the developed world you speak of is basically the smaller part of the civilized territory on the planet. Go ask people in Nepal, my country Bulgaria, or Hungaria, or Serbia, or Brazil about the average living standard and what miracles many parents achieve just so their kids get decent education, are well-fed and have some small entertainment budget on top of that.

I mean we are most certainly both correct for the respective filter bubbles we are living in. But I still wanted to offer you another perspective.
There is no point competing on desktop apps, even Linux has a very hard time there. BSD variants have always lagged behind in that area, you could have probably written the same comment 15 years ago by just moving Openoffice etc to the “Linux only” group.

The areas where OpenBSD can compete (in addition to the ones it already fights in, like routing and network-edge roles) are cloud deployments and orchestration. If it were as easy to run OpenBSD for development as it is a containerized Linux, people would pick the more secure choice. They could also make prebuilt appliances for the most sensitive components in a deployment (databases etc).
This is the theory I subscribe to.
Why add a rock to your food just to enhance taste? Sodium is naturally present in all plants and meat no need for extra intake and besides that huge quantity of sodium that is taken from the salt that is added in every non sweet food messes up your body at cellular level

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%2B/K%2B-ATPase
In the 90's I went to a small middle school, the 8th grade class was 21 people. Once, the school had a contest in the indoor gym, we each designed paper planes and the one who flew it the farthest won a prize. We argued with teachers over an allowance for a little bit of tape, which some of us used just as nose weight. However, each kid was the one to "fly" his own plane, a big oversight.

Almost the last kid, when it was Sam's turn to "fly", he stepped up to the line, crumpled up his design very tightly into little ball, and hurled the paper mass as far as he could.

Strangely, I can't remember what happened or who won! But his genius observation of the rules stuck with me.

The plane I designed is not among these designs, but a totally square design that I had learned earlier from an origami book. This is the closest one: https://www.foldnfly.com/17.html#The-Square-Plane
On top of that, the factor under consideration was self-reported:

'Respondents, who ranged in age from 25 to 65, were asked to estimate how many books were in their house when they were 16 years old.'

It's very likely that avid readers will overreport the books, while reluctant readers are likely to underreport.
I'm very excited about the JIT query compilation stuff finally making it into postgres! A big win for OLAP queries, although it looks like they compile specific expressions within the query rather than the whole query operator, but that could change. I'm very curious to see how this interacts with the query planner (e.g. when it's worth the overhead or not).
I've lived and grew up in NYC for almost 30 years and I agree with the author.

Manhattan has become an unaffordable ghost town. Walk down West Village, Union Sq, Flatiron, etc.., you see rows of closed stores that have gone vacant for a very long time now. In contrast, I was in London recently and that city was thriving compared to Manhattan, it was lively and beautiful.

In addition, NYC Subway and transportation is a disgrace. It is on its way to becoming a third-world country equivalent. This was due to mismanagement and corruption. You won't notice how Manhattan has deteriorated until you leave the U.S. and visit other cities in Europe and especially Asia. Even Thailand's subway system is a hell of a lot better than the NYC subway.
This is very unscientific, but fade-outs are the most boring way to end a song. I don't see why we need them.
Naturally it is all anecdote data, I am not asserting that it is always like that.
You should reconsider this stance before you miss out on too much deliciousness.
> in a fast rising market

Everything I've read about New York real estate has suggested that it's slowing down considerably and pretty buyer-friendly right now.

Granted that's mostly about residential real estate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same with commercial as well, and would certainly explain the reluctance to sign short-term leases.
Is AFM the same as AFP? At least with AFP, it was always believed to have come from a reverted polio virus https://youtu.be/S8ixbGlHTTI?t=2459
They actually legally couldn't? Or they merely believed they couldn't? Big difference.
It's A Real Mystery
You are correct. I generalized this as "roughly sorted by security". Some in the list, like Tox, have notable design flaws, but this list is binary and does not account for implementation quality.

This is mostly for discovery of options to consider diving into.
A Q&A with Micron Technology’s Memory Mastermind
> Nobody else can do this because nobody else has "infinite money"

Apple has a higher market cap than Alphabet, Inc.
In my limited experience with other programming games, it is rare for one AI to defeat another AI 100% of the time. So for a submitter, the claim their own red tank is stronger than the blue tank should be qualified with a 3 out of 4 wins or similar criteria.
Ugh, Green Bubbles Apple’s iMessage Makes Switching to Android Hard
Why is JS removed from the HN title?
Even if we assume the information in that video is correct, just charging the extra $1 or so for delivery would not cause any significant number of jobs to the US. Firstly, the movement of jobs from the US to China pre-dates consumers wide availability of ordering packages straight from China. Secondly, factories in China shipping a lot of products aren't going to be sending their entire inventory in the small $2-$3 packages mentioned in the video, they'll be making larger freight shipments not involving the USPS at all. Thirdly, the cost of shipping is just one thing that's cheaper for China, their labor costs are also so much lower, that just charging an extra $1 per package won't make it cost more than it would to make in the US.

Lastly, the assumption the video makes is that the USPS loses $1 per shipment, without backing it up with any evidence. The exact amount it costs the USPS to deliver a package is competitive information and likely very closely guarded against public disclosure. If you pause the video where they show the US vs China price chart, you see the China cost is about $1 less for each. So it seems they assumed the US cost was the exact cost with no margin. The other way of assuming, is that the China cost is the exact cost, and the US cost is just extra profit to the USPS because the market will bear it. And the $1 the USPS "loses" is just extra profit they didn't make. Additionally, other countries also benefit from the same price China does, but it has not benefited them as much as China.

So there's a lot more to the economics than just $1 per package that the video seems to lead to.
I would say the large majority doesn't care about net neutrality in any meaningful way. Personally, I researched it and couldn't find any reason to a have a stance on the issue.
I hope kids are still making paper airplanes and getting off their phones occasionally. Some novel designs here for me. Looking at these, I think I have been making my elevators too large all these years.
An AGI could say the same about humans.
Technology is our God nowadays.
Startup idea for anyone so inclined: Create a podcast distribution service where podcasters pay the current cost of a postage stamp per listener to push podcasts onto devices. If the recipient listens to the podcast, the money is refunded to the podcaster. If they delete it or ignore it for 30 days, they keep the money. The podcasters are allowed to see anonymized metrics for who listens to what. Listeners can use their earnings to tip their favorite podcasters, or just cash out.
I can almost hear a Scottish accent in that argument.

IDk if a thought experiment about a desert island conducted inside a mind that is already thinking in terms of economic dynamics is... There are plenty of examples in the real world. It's pretty rare that little societies have dynamics like that.

Small groups of people usually share instead of trading. Power structures usually emerge from violence, religion or someone becoming chief. Power built by the sweat of one's (scottish) brow is something more characteristic of modern, monetary, large scale industrial and post-industrial societies.

Pharaoh wasn't pharaoh because his ancestors were marginally better farmers.
I’ll hold my breath, wait for the causative agent to be identified, and dna compared to polio and the like.

Given AFM seems to occur more frequently in places with lower vaccination rates it seems plausible that existing vaccines are impacting it. Which of course implies it is a variation of an existing disease
For almost all of us.

Companies extend the BSD OSs with proprietary additions, then abandon the work and it gets lost. With Linux, everyone is forced to play nice and release under the GPL, and the work gets to live as long as people value it.

Hence the Linux kernel snowballing and taking over the world, whereas the BSDs have not, despite being at least as strong technically.

The better Linux gets, the more people target it, and the virtuous cycle continues.

Additionally, as it grows bigger and bigger, the more of the proprietary competition it crushes underfoot (sorry Solaris), and the more traction FOSS gets.
Either an outright ban, or taxes that gradually increase. However, what's also needed is an alternative that's readily available and not ridiculously overpriced. With produce stickers, I'm actually thinking: are stickers on produce actually useful/necessary? If we really care to tag products, could we just laser engrave them quickly?