skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting problem we're dealing with: Truvada potentially makes it harder to identify HIV+ blood donors (as their antibody titers fall naturally over time) and raises the question of whether HIV+ individuals will be more likely to attempt to donate in order to "prove they're safe". It is a well-known fact in their community that men having sex with men are deferred from being blood donors for 12 months from last male intercourse, and there is at least a vocal minority in the community which feels this is unjust. Presently, there is no approved question for the donor questionnairre along the lines of "Are you using Truvada?" but it is a hotly debated topic among blood bankers.
How Virtual Addressing Works
I've never understood why youtube started autotranslating video titles (it's probably in an A/B test as it doesn't always happen). If I can't understand the video title, what's the point in translating it? I wouldn't understand the video either.
prior to C99 adoption char was usually how you got a int8_t. ascii characters are technically 7 bits, so should the extra bit be sign?

That's all just having fun, I like the consistency argument and the fact (is it a fact?) that char is signed on most platforms.
Even if they are willing to give you a discount if you don’t have insurance, those ibuprofen pills are still going to be charged 10x or 100x over their cost. Health industry knows nobody can shop around and get quotes and regulators are unwilling to protect patients. It’s no wonder we are in the mess we are in.

My locality has a ballot initiative up this year that would put a % cap on what hospitals can charge over their costs, and boy oh boy are the industry mouthpieces out in force to oppose it! They are having a field day with patients’ wallets, they know it, and they don’t want it to end.
There are legitimate times when scrolling is needed. But in my experience, in many circumstances, what is needed is more thought about surfacing what’s relevant.

Google gives you the best of both worlds. It’s normally not necessary to scroll, but if you absolutely must, the capability is there.
Larry was also super helpful in identifying the underlying issue and very polite in his emails.

Would definitely write another security vulnerability into my code again if I knew that Larry would report it. ;)
The more inaccessible UIs like this I encounter, the more I'm convinced that the future of accessibility is going to have to be something based on machine learning, that can work with nothing more than the pixels on the screen, as opposed to today's screen readers which have to be spoon-fed information through an accessibility API. Think OCR plus some kind of shape recognition to identify common UI elements.
I really don't think "struggle porn" is the best term to use, since there is actually such a thing as "struggle porn" that is in the category of consensual, kinky, BDSM porn... The kink.com people made porn of people tied up and tickled, etc.
When did porn become synonymous with rape?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care
"struggle porn" specifically is a category of porn simulating rape. The problem isn't the word "porn", but rather both of the words used together when the pair already means something particular and broadly upsetting.
The operation to blow up the heavy water plant, as well as a lot of Roennberg's other work, is covered in The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943 by James Holland.
In my mind "porn" is the perfect word. I don't think it's inherently linked to rape. It's more that it's an unrealistic caricature of something, meant to excite the consumer in the basest way.
I have been using Go recently, and I do almost all my development with it offline. The docs are included and you can run a local doc server so everything you need to look up is as close as localhost:6060. It's also an ecosystem that encourages building on the standard library, unlike some other popular languages I could mention. I absolutely love the productivity and focus that this setup allows.

I also have a ~/research directory full of academic papers, saved copies of web pages, for anything I want to implement or play with. When I don't feel like programming, there's plenty waiting for me to read, rather than needing to get online and probably distract myself.

There's something very satisfying about being able to sit down and do productive work with what you have locally, and not needing to worry about losing productivity because the coffee shop wifi dropped out.

On the other hand, unplugging in general is good for us and I agree with the other commenters' encouragements to get out in nature or talk to people face to face. If I'm on a train or plane, I'd much rather put my laptop away and engage with what's around me.

Constant access to computing systems and networks is very new, and we know it is changing us, but we don't have the perspective to know how. The precautionary principle suggests we should spend as much time away from these systems as possible, especially for those of us who make our livings with them.
I have been often annoyed at infinite scroll, and never at any of the other options offered. It's part of a general anti-pattern of pages loading new content when I didn't ask them to, but by far the most prevalent and annoying. I dislike infinite scroll, and I believe I am alone in that, and perhaps not even in the minority.
Yup, I've had this happen to me in Firefox as well. It's almost as if someone was doing an A/B test and didn't want to bother with putting thought into the selectors so they just said fuck it in Firefox we will do A and B in Chrome.
For a breakdown on how this could happen, please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18267309
You're definitely not a Wantrepreneur. You're trying things. So I think you've definitely got what it takes to build something great.

As a developer who has built a few decent side projects and turned down some investment money -- if I can give engineers any advice, it's:

Stop trying to build services on your own.

Sure, if you're REALLY passionate about something SaaS-y or if you're REALLY determined to be a billionaire, I guess starting your own VC-funded SaaS is the way to go.

You seem to be like most people who just wants to build/run your own thing and make a decent living, maybe a living a bit better than what you have currently.

If that's the case, I really recommend trying to sell a product instead (and not a software one). It's not quite as satisfying, but it's much less time-consuming and the odds of generating a meaningful profit in a reasonable amount of time are MUCH higher.
There's nothing in the article to suggest that this is due to virtue though. It may be just that USV has the luxury of raising from only top tier LPs given their relatively small fund size ($1bn across 6 funds).
Most sighted persons really don't like thinking about blindness. It's not because they are bad people, it's just deeply scary and relatively uncommon.

This is an area where Apple really doesn't get enough credit. VoiceOver has absolutely revolutionized blind persons' ability to interact with consumer tech.

For more technically demanding applications, the Unix philosophy is inherently open to being made accessible. https://pjb.com.au/blin/.

As an aside, I personally really enjoy accessible websites, because they focus on clear communication in the presence of a serious obstacle, rather than assaulting the visual cortex with attention grabbing nonsense.

Edit: Also one could argue that ed(1)¹ is the pinnacle of accessibility.

¹https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Amazon customer service is now quite terrible. Anecdote: I know somebody who has an office that is literally within a 2 block radius of Amazon HQ in Seattle (the new Doppler and Day One buildings). Getting Amazon's third party delivery contractors to successfully deliver to their office suite door, in a high-rise office tower, has been an amazing struggle.

Deliveries get sent back as "rejected" all the time, when the delivery person has actually not even bothered to sign in at the lobby and go up to the office suite floor. More than a half dozen phone calls and chats with Amazon customer service, requesting that they edit the delivery info for the building, have been pretty much fruitless.
Facebook destroys billions of dollars of shareholder value with their OSS
GP was booking an appointment for a routine procedure which has a known scope, effort, and bill of materials. There is nothing in this procedure that even remotely resembles refactoring a legacy codebase.
Wow. The Facebook groups mentioned in the article have 87,000 members, who are offered full reimbursement of product costs in exchange for writing five-star reviews on Amazon. The only way to describe this is as a large-scale effort to deceive and defraud mass consumers. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
There's the old Jubilee system (redistribution of land): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)
At Costco, they sell box type non-dairy milk as room temp and shelf stable, while other almond and coconut milks are in half gallon form and refrigerated. Not sure whether the latter actually require refrigeration before opening.
Agreed on everything.

However, nobody new (read: young) will want to learn a language that is not able to receive a major version bump. (notable exception I guess, Python).

A language that can't receive major version bump will be (is?) perceived as a dead language.

Perception does matter. Ads, marketing, etc etc, the world is run by perception.
I think it's basic economics that when there is increasing demand and an increasing shortage, that the cost of the decreasing housing will go up in price, and I think that is what happened in Vancouver. This article suggests that it's very likely decreasing house prices has been pushing apartment prices down, because housing is more available b/c it's cheaper [1] "he's willing to suggest that declining property sales could be leading many real estate speculators to rent their properties out rather than put them up for sale." which is connected to more houses available and thus less demand on apartment. That seems pretty clear.

I'm not pushing an agenda for the government to intervene, I'm just reporting on the basic economics - demand went up, supply went down (more people moving there, and also houses bought but not on the market) led to higher prices.

Also, on my second point about neighborhoods losing their commercial infrastructure because of empty houses, isn't that obvious too? I honestly feel like you were replying to another post and accidentally used mine.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/are-vancouve...
Our political system caused (or at the very least was complicit in causing) the problem.
Your claims are simply erroneous and your link doesn't support them. From your own link:

> The House GOP bill that has emerged as the leading option to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act includes no added price transparency provision.

So the bill that McCain helped defeat didn't contain improved transparency according to your own source. And the GOP hasn't introduced significant legislation since to address the problem, therefore Democrats supporting (or not supporting) it is all hypotheticals based on no actual legislation.
I have some bad news for you: 'the grind' is most of life, and most of work, and if you don't get used to it, you don't have much of a future unless you can convince someone to pay you for your 'gifted talents' - and I can't even think of a single job wherein that is the case.

There are basically ZERO jobs that don't involve mostly grinding.

Even the most creative jobs - like author, painter, composer, athlete - do you realize they are just as much of a 'grind'? Authors wake up at 7 am, sit down and force themselves to bang out 1000 words a day - often if they don't, there's no book. Do you think it's enjoyable every day? No - it's work.

Bach wrote a piece for almost every day of his life. Quincy Jones spent all day every day for decades arranging and arranging music. You don't think he found that tedious quite often?

Professional composers will tell younger aspirational composers that they need to learn to work quickly and bang stuff out, or it's not going to work.

Do you think pro baseball players, who play a game every day for 3/4 of a year, for 20 years straight are 'in the zone' every day? Or maybe it's a grind for them as well?

That said, your lack of motivation might flip when you start working and you can see the material impact of what you call 'tedious work'.

Uni work assignments are not busywork, and I suggest strongly that if you're not doing most of the work, that you're not getting the most out of the experience. Those assignments help you internalize the knowledge in a better way than otherwise. And your professors may seem bored but hey, they have more interesting things to do like their own research. 'Teaching' is a secondary function of Profs. Many of them hate it.

If you are there simply to 'ascertain some knowledge' then maybe you should do an online U, or skip Uni and just read some texts. I'd advise against it.

Your perspective will change as you enter the workforce, have a career for some period, do a lot of hiring, and especially get exposed to Uni recruitment.

I would advise any University student (even my younger self) that if they enjoy the subject material at all, or if they have any affinity for it ... then 'that's as good as it gets' and to just do the work and move through it. You will get a lot out of it, and be a better person for it ... it may not seem like it right now, but it will with hindsight.
Two years ago I went on vacation after having downloaded a bunch of the US Census and ACS datasets. I spent my days by the pool drinking Bahama Mamas and poking at the data, which was in a local Postgres instance.

Some people like reading a book by the pool. I like looking at demographic data. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That BBC article is rather poorly related to the topic. A precedent needs to be a court document.

The first case. The owner of a sick pig buried on his land, then another person dig it and sold the carcass, in the 19th century. It's hard to tell if he was prosecuted for digging the land, or selling a diseased carcass, or theft.

The tesco case is equally poor. It doesn't say what is the result of the trial. Most likely because there wasn't one or it didn't go the way the article wished.
There are plenty of people who need medications not because of poor diet.
A heuristic that I've used quite a lot recently is to look at three-star reviews and see if the reviewer's gripes are relevant to me. Works quite well, but I guess it is only a matter of time and we'll soon start seeing fake three-star reviews.
> That ship already sailed ...

That doesn't prevent launching a new ship.

> and changing it now would just massively add to the confusion ...

There are two types folks who care about Perl - both are in dwindling numbers. The old-timers -- they never have and will never be confused and clearly understand that there is urgency for that "ship", now more than ever. The new-comers and those have deserted the ship and looking for an opportunity to come back -- they are massively confused as hell right here right now.

There is only one real reason for not launching that ship -- Larry Wall has taken that sailed ship long ago and will not come back (admit his mistake).
Damn.

I'm definitely a wannapreneur.

Time to get out there.
Investment opportunities (which VC firms get the money, what deal flow they have, what investment opportunities the VC has) are most certainly not fungible. So I think it's helpful to think of the deal flow in reverse - even though "someone else can take the Saudi money", that "someone else" most likely does not represent exactly the same investment opportunity to the LPs.

FWIW - I do think your assessment of oil is correct (since oil and money are both fungible). But for venture capital, one side of the investment (startup talent, VC skill and network, etc.) are not fungible.

(elaborated a bit more in a twitter rant: https://twitter.com/ericjang11/status/1054115724996694016)
It's not the same. The nurse, the doctor was not a surprise. Bet you given 20 cases of people coming to check for strep, chances are their bills would have been around $400 too not $60. So they should use that amount.
In most cases, TOS are super-vague and allow to ban for things like "hateful conduct", without defining what it is. Criticizing anybody could be defined as "hateful conduct", and so is participating in any political controversy - after all, if you say some politician is a bad person and should never be elected, doesn't it mean you hate him?

So if you search for "twitter bans conservative", get literally dozens of results, you can always claim they are banned for "violating the TOS", not for expressing their views. And since there's almost never a specification of what caused the ban and no process that allows to know it, and frequently not even any notification beyond "you've been suspended, goodbye" there's no way to resolve this question (e.g. twitter suspended one of my accounts which I used to post completely innocent non-political non-offensive jokes, I still have no idea why and there's no process to find out, I don't care because I stopped using Twitter shortly thereafter anyway).

So you can always claim this is because all these people were racist, hateful and doxxing. I have no means to prove otherwise to you, there's no force in the Universe, beyond God Almighty and maybe NSA, that could prove particular twitter account never posted anything bad, especially after it's been blocked. But I can see the pattern. Especially when obvious hateful conduct on twitter (like a notorious antisemite Farrakhan) keep using Twitter for spreading their hate without any problems.
Why don't hexapods gallop?
Totally forgot about images. I just dug little further and found this:

"The size of the media files in Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias was described as well over 23 TB near the end of 2014"

Considering 30 TB hdd costs around 1500$, still interesting.
Also, in America, doctors will always have you sign an agreement before they see you and before the price is known, that essentially says, “you agree to be responsible for paying any amount the doctor asks for, without any limit.”
In keeping with the site guidelines, we often rewrite such titles to something less baity like "Problems with". I've done so above.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"it looks messy and unhealthy"

Lots of popular foods in American cuisine are messy and unhealthy. Nor sure how that'd be a problem for poutine.

The actual answer to the question of "why ain't poutine more popular south of Canada?" is because it sounds French (which - unless that Frenchiness is tied to being from Louisiana - typically implies something fancy and expensive). It needs better marketing.
> 'Secret' purely internal use of modified GPL software is not a violation - if the modified software is never distributed publicly, there's no issue.

As the parent pointed out, purely-internal isn't what he meant. Distribution can be non-public, which is distribution nonetheless. Such distribution would require availability of source, but that availability wouldn't be public, if the original distribution wasn't public.

The parent seems to be focusing on "theft" (GPL violation) by relatively-unknown companies, which didn't necessarily occur. It's plausible that it did, but, even if the violation were corrected, since that correction doesn't require public release of source code, is likely irrelevant to the overall discussion.

You seem to be focusing only on publically-released software, which may or may not be the majority (by whatever measure).

I have no "side" in this, just trying to understand the points, which I've failed to grasp. Are you talk past each other?
> Actually Trump and the Republicans ran on a platform of price transparency, but Senate Democrats can block and have effectively blocked (assisted by now-deceased McCain) any non-taxation-related changes to Obamacare

This is a bizarre summary of the failed repeal of the ACA with a bill that wouldn't have even included the proposal they supposedly wanted.

Reference: the article you linked to
My steam backlog =)
its just a joke/fun thing I decided to do.
Couldn't you post a five star review, get reimbursed, and then change your review to an honest one? Asking for a friend.
This title is misleading and should be changed. At least use the "YouTube is now ALTERING our comments?!" or something,,,
It is a sad thing but there is no standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation.
I understood what you are saying, and FWIW I'm very glad Khashoggi is getting all this attention.

But that doesn't make the parent wrong that Khashoggi getting attention disproportionate to similar crimes (and it doesn't demonstrate a conspiracy; IMHO he simply is more prominent and in many people's minds he is effectively an American journalist and/or represents American values).

I assume you must be aware that horrible things like this happen to many people in many countries - and I wish they all got this level of attention. Just off the top of my head, in China there are people in Xinjiang in labor/re-education camps, people who disappear when they go to Beijing to petition the government, dissidents who the Chinese government kidnaps from foreign countries, etc. That's just one country; there's N Korea, Myanmar, Russia (all the murdered and imprisoned journalists and political opposition) and so many more.

I'm not sure what you're really trying to say. Is the crime in Khashoggi's case qualitatively different? Because he was killed? While not everyone in every example I named was killed, certainly many are.
I don't work on this full time, so it necessarily need to be professional. Although I think I might cut down on the emojis.
As a soon-to-be-regulated financial institution in the UK, we have to be careful who our investors are (and that includes getting into who the LPs our in our investors' funds). It's very easy to take cash, but nobody wants to have that hard conversation with the regulators 6-12 months down the line when they ask you to fully look up your cap table and you realize a quarter of your company is Russian oligarch money / from the middle east / from questionable shell corporations / etc. As regulators around the world get more serious about money laundering, this will become an increasingly important question for venture-backed firms.
Agree 100% (hence my “rather depressing”). The advocates are definitely out there, though.
This reminds me a bit of my own giant techco bugbear: for the longest time, Google Maps mishandled my home address - literally across the street from their local office - because it didn't recognize the 1/2 in the house number. It would direct users to 1 Fake St rather than N 1/2 Fake St.
Smalltalk on the JVM
FOI is a law mandating these public records be provided on request -- with various exemptions and allowances for redacting information that could be reasonably seen as a violation of privacy. It's not about being "somehow better", because legislators have deemed that bureaucrats cannot be trusted to decide whether transparency is a good thing.

Consider the example you brought up -- it is against the law for a state employee to send a friend that kind of information, and I imagine that that law exists because politicians feared that kind of murderer scenario. How exactly does that murderer use a cache of email metadata and redacted messages to go after his victim?
No, it's just normalized data. See the legend: "Throughput/latency improvement over glibc 2.27".

Rather than show the new metric and the baseline, they showed all metrics as a function of the baseline. All of them are an improvement.

This is a common idiom for compiler benchmarks -- IMO it's not misleading at all.

> making the improvement look bigger than it really is.

They even highlight the 1.0 line. IMO it would be confusing for them to start the y-axis at 1.0.