skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as most gains and profits go to a small percentage of people ("the top x%"), no sort of retraction/austerity measure will provide long term large scale benefit. It will only exacerbate the situation.

The first problem is measurement. Most current economic measurement methodologies don't consider history well enough - particularly where public funds have been used for infrastructure benefits.

Using the US as an example, the modern status quo of life is built upon the interstate highway system. That's just one (very big) example of how public works/infrastructure has benefited the entire society - especially the business owners who can be more efficient due to well-oiled transportation systems. Perhaps some other rail-based system would be even more effective, but that's beside the point.

But as humans are wont to forget the past, many people have forgotten that it took bold investment at a time when money was scarce to provide a foundation for the next 40+ years. So the fairly recent proclamations of small business owners that they built their own fortunes conveniently forgets that the entire population's investment some decades ago primed the situation that they find themselves in now.

Austerity says the reverse: we will not spend anything on anyone out of public funds (unless some powerful group deems it necessary... such as where military is concerned). But what it fails to recognize is that the more people you have dying around you, the lower your health becomes.

Ignoring ethical discussions, there are practical boundaries to questions of "how much is enough" for people on the upper end and "what is the minimum to live a better-than-horrible life" on the bottom end.

I do not enjoy paying practically double the tax rate in Netherlands as I did in the US, but I find daily life SO much better (and safer) here. Being a king of a ghetto is no life. I'd rather the people cooking my food and washing my dishes at the restaurant not be hating my existence because they're so miserable. In fact, I'd rather them feel essentially equal so that when I compliment them on the food or service they feel pleased to have a conversation with me. That is living.
How is the system good for cooking? Literally the first thing amazon echo was showcasing was unit conversions while cooking.
The actual debate among physicians is about the ethics of denying patients care to which they have a right. There is no law or legal fiat that forces physicians to do things they object to. We are instead held up to a standard of care by our professional regulatory bodies, which define how a physician should act in order to be considered a member of the profession. Most of the rules are around ethical behaviour. With regards to conscientious objection, our professional bodies attempt to balance a patient's right to access timely, effective, and legal treatment against the physicians right to practice their personal ethics. How most bodies reach that balance is to say that physicians are required to provide timely referral to another provider for any service that they are morally objected to. For example, if you don't believe that abortion is right, you are not required to provide them (not by the regulating body and definitely not by the law), but you also can't prevent your patients from getting abortions--you need to refer them to someone who can. We can't force our personal ethics on our patients. The linked article appears to be arguing that doctors should be able to just say no, and thereby prevent someone from accessing the care that they want.

Ultimately, the patient is the most important person in medicine, the doctor comes second. This is not the law, this is medical ethics.
Pre-registration of experiments seems the best answer. Then you are motivated to add something to the registration, such as a negative results, rather than just looking lazy.
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You are completely wrong. "Prohibition" was working. Smoking was dropping year after year, thanks to public policies like banning flavored cigarettes, packaging laws, ID laws, and taxes.

The main reason traditional smoking dropped was not because of prohibition, it's because of education and the fact that we had someone (or a lot of someones) who smoked and we had seen what it did to them. If someone is determined to get their hands on something, they will get it on the black market that you are proposing to create.

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What proposed regulation are you claiming makes it harder for an adult to buy e-cigs?

The removal of flavored e-cigarette devices / tobacco from convenience stores. E-cigarettes are already hidden away in most convenience stores and I've been to hundreds of them across the country on my travels. The FDA needs to stop using my tax dollars to lie to teens with their The Real Cost AD campaign because it is not factual. I would support it if they were not lying to teens and they pushed factual ADs (showing parasites is not factual or genuine). Any teen who has had a Biology or health class will see through that (unless you are proposing we stop factually teaching those things in schools).

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Nevermind that part of the FDA's problem is that e-cigarette manufacturers were able to resist regulation by claiming in court they were not a nicotine replacement therapy, but in fact a new tobacco product for people who did not want to quit.

You need proof to back up that claim.

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Besides that - obviously the existence of other problems does not prevent us from dealing with this one, now. The facts, according to the article, are that our tremendous progress in eradicating nicotine addiction has been dealt a serious setback: millions of kids are addicted, most of whom would not have been smoking cigarettes, and vapers are more likely to become future smokers.

More FUD and bullsh*t claims being made. The only reason vapers would start using cigarettes is if you made e-cigarettes / vaping products difficult to get. All of this could have been avoided if parents talked with their kids, administrators did their bloody jobs and stop lying to teens about the things we don't want them to do. I guess that I was lucky enough to grow up in a time where my parents somewhat cared and I had the freedom to make my own stupid mistakes without authoritarians like you proposing to move the bar of adulthood later and in life.
When the user triggers a change of the underlying data, I do a roundtrip to the server and re-render the current page. I keep the time needed to do so under a second. My users regularely express how WOWed they are by the snappyness of my sites.

I guess what other sites save on re-rendering html, they lose multiple times on bloated code.
I can attest to this - my 2014 Diesel UK Ford Focus returns (real) 62-64 MPG on my commute, I can get it over 70MPG if I hypermile.
Do HN threads get locked?
Show HN: Use Montera to manage and interact with your clients
EXCELLENT ARTICLE, THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS.
By ignoring the bullshit
Lincoln was in favor of maintaining the status quo in order to keep the country intact. However, the Southern states were planning secession prior to his election.
What were the Northern states planning to do to the South? What was the South defending themselves from?
Fiskars.

From a reputable vendor, no less.
This is the piece I love about HN. A comment refers to an accomplished person and he/she happens to be right there. And either supplying a correction or taking the feedback positively.
I guess some people enjoy the placebo effect. I can't seem to get my grandmother to stop wasting money on homeopathy.
Readlang is the extension you're looking for: https://readlang.com/

I've given it a quick try, and it seems to work fine with this site
> "We explore the universe for the benefit of our people"

lol how about just trying to get food, running water and electricity to most of them first?
Next you'll be telling the residents of Westward Ho! to get rid of their exclamation mark. And what of Six Mile Bottom in Cambridgeshire?

(I think London's Gropecunt lane did get renamed by Victorian Bowdlerisers though)
It would help to read your commentary on these.
It would probably be optimal to have a business that can sustain itself in the background so a researcher can be self-funded.
The Typescript support is by far the thing I'm most interested in. Lack of useful Typescript support is, for me, the only downside of Vue right now, and it's a big enough downside for me to use React instead of Vue in a lot of cases.

Do you reckon we'll ever see Typescript support in the non-jsx templates? I do really like vue templates for e.g. if-conditionals. I really don't like using ternary operators for template logic. And then the alternative being to hoist things out of the single JSX template breaks make code less linear to read which kinda sucks
That’s insane! We should really come up with some kind of standardized system, a world wide metric if you will.
I'd completely disable the audio -- for Spanish, at least, it's horrible. I like the concept though and think being able to switch to the language is nice.
'(works best with Google Chrome)'

Wtf. I thought we were beyond that now.
How do we know the failures aren’t due to incompetence. You can’t depend on a failure meaning impossible.
Heh, I thought I was maybe the only one.

I will pay hundreds of pounds less tax in the next tax year. It seems like an absolutely pointless tax cut. It will make essentially no difference to my quality of life. In the meantime, local services that I use are deteriorating – let alone the ones that people in much more need than I use – and the police force and health service are continuing to head towards an absolute meltdown. There are thousands of people in my local council area relying on charity-run food banks. It's a baffling state of affairs.
> How do I upgrade my OS if I don't know the difference between Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 and Linux 3.16.0-4-generic or some such? Or even the difference between Intel and AMD? Why am I picking "amd64"? I have an intel processor! (That was hypothetical don't answer that)

Are you using some arcane distro? In most you just tell it to upgrade, you never need to know specific package names or version.

> How do I buy a new laptop that all of the hardware just works like it's supposed to?

Buy one that says so?

> How can I upgrade a piece of hardware and be sure it'll work?

Buy one that supports Linux?

> Only macOS and Windows answer all of those questions.

People with Macs who can't run some Windows-specific app, or don't have drivers for some specific hardware, is a common occurrence in my workplace. Also Windows devs who can't test stuff in Safari.
I've found the concept of extensive reading with a 98% threshold (that is, you must be understand 98% of words on a page) to be pretty effective in picking up foreign languages. Less than that and I give up. You're right, starting to learn German through Kafka is going to lead to bad times. I tried that with Mandarin and a translation of an Orhan Pamuk novel and gave up some twenty pages in after a brutal slog.
Lockheed begins manufacture of X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft
After Friday’s SEC Actions, Experts Say ICO Party ‘Is Truly Over’
Why bother? Because Python 2 is EOL in a little less than 2 years.

The NHS chose not to upgrade to from Windows XP and 2003 and look where that got them last year: a massive crypto locker infection.
Nice idea. But instead of paragraphs it would be better if there was an option to select lines instead. A beginner has only the processing power of few words and paragraphs sometimes can be very long.
sweet, a cursed image generator.
Review: Intel’s 9th Gen Core i9 9900K processor hits 5GHz–just at a price
Maybe there’s a reason this is a “not-mentioned” point.
Regarding sleep, I also learned to "take it easy", so to speak. Instead of thinking "I have to get up soon, fall asleep already!!", I simply think "oh well, I might not sleep but at least I can rest my body a bit and think about stuff". I find that inventing things, be their stories, or imaginary programs, helps with drifting over from that into sleep.

As for creativity, I don't know if it's good for overall output volume, but I love to have a lot of things in the oven, on the backburner, and in the pantry, and switching occasionally. Sometimes I find that something I was burned out on excites me again, and other times I realize that something I was totally obsessed with for a short while after coming up with it isn't really that good, which is just as important.
I think they were just very content to not care about it. I imagine they were making money selling replacement parts or upselling new Jaguars every 3 years :\\\\

Personally I thought the shape of the X Type and S type was nasty, but loved the engine. Mine was sold to scrap when the reverse gear blew one day-- don't try to force the shifter into reverse if it won't let you for some reason.

The 70s XJS is a really cool body style and anyone with a lot of time, money, and or skill on their hands would be really wise to just knife a crate engine into it somehow and get all the reliability that Jaguar mechanical bits have never delivered, ever :)
You have to open up the JavaScript debugger console to see the interactive job ad, where you can interactively evaluate JavaScript expressions like: document.location = 'https://developers.nytimes.com/careers';

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NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf()
We're hiring: developers.nytimes.com/careers

To their credit, they've come up with an unobtrusive way around AdBlocker that selectively targets web developers.
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Yes of course, otherwise I would not have asked.
By refreshing the Google Store's Pixel 3 XL page hoping they are going to cut this ludicrous price.
Americans are pretty awesome.
"...those galaxies will escape their fate." --- I just found it odd that the author of this article anthropomorphized the galaxies.
Has anyone managed to do anything serious with HTMs yet? They talk them up something massive but no-one seems to use them for anything.
In RHEL 8, Python 3 is finally the default Python version:
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel...
Limited Availability of Spaces API in NYC3
This sounds very strange to me too, but I assume that in other countries history teachers also have to follow a curriculum given to them by some central authority, no?
I suspect that's an inequality thing - more people with second or third cars, not a growth in the number of households with a car.
What is a large amount?

Is it the quantity of chilli peppers that are eaten that is important on the heat of the pepper? So 4 weak chillis is the same as eating one very spicy pepper?
> How did it take years for them to figure this out?

They thought they could beat it by measuring over long periods of time. This didn’t work. Medical research and scientific envelope-pushing is hard. This was a risky project that failed; everyone walks away with superior knowledge and nobody was harmed.
You can try taking the recruiters fees out of my salary offer but if your offer is 15% less than the three or four other offers I usually have - good luck with that.

I’ve worked with local recruiters almost exclusively over the past 20 years. If I send you a resume directly, I have no way of knowing whether you looked at, how much of your job req is fluff, what the necessary and nice to have skills are etc.

When I work through a recruiter, they’ve already been debriefed by other candidates who interviewed for the same position and they can tell me what the interviewer prioritizes.

I’ve also worked with recruiters from the other end as a hiring manager (actually Dev lead), I would call the recruiter back and give feedback.
I once read original works of Sir William Rowan Hamilton and was amazed at the clarity of thought he demonstrated, a truly open mind to understanding nature.

Books by Max Born (Atomic Physics, and Theory of Relativity) are absolute awesomness.
Unfortunately it uses ES6 features.

As an aside, is that really a problem these days? All modern browsers now offer comprehensive native ES6 support. Unless you still need to support older platforms like IE or some of the legacy mobile browsers, it's mostly a non-issue.
It seems like quasars like this we’re a lot more common in the early universe— I wouldn’t be surprised if our own galaxy was the result of a process like that billions of years ago.
Politicizing history and the teaching of history is hardly an American-only problem, particularly where that history is contentious.
They're sold as a tool for enhancing the security of your children, but it's fairly trivial to subvert them to both not do the job they're sold for, as well as giving the attacker extra information they could otherwise have only got through proximity.

If there's a real risk (and while it might be relatively rare, real risks do exist) then the regular routine is hopefully already set up to mitigate the risk. The value to the attacker is in being able to take advantage of deviations from routine that would apart from the watch be invisible to them.
I agree. The author has no understanding of the history of the automotive industry. We've seen this hype phase before returning to reality.

The truth is that gasoline is still king because it is the fastest way to recharge your car. Manufacturing process and incremental improvements have made combustion engine far more efficient and cleaner. It's likely that this trend will not weaken, instead get even more boost more than ever because it offers a cheap alternative to electric cars.

Coupled with a low oil price, we aren't going to see combustion cars disappear like HN folks would have you believe, instead we will see consumers voting with their money.

At some point we will see combustion engine that approach somewhere a bit shorter than the 80~85% theoretical limit of combustion engine efficiency, but that is still an insane improvement to what we already have.

I don't disagree that electric cars will get more popular, but a cheap oil price and highly efficient combustion engine that is coming is not going to lead to an apocalyptic future where sportscar owners are banished to remote islands, free to cause all the pollution they want.

"but we have over 60% efficiency from our combustion engine!" they yell to no avail. The silence of electric cars whirring in the cities snuffs out Doug Demuro's fans.
Is online marketing means search engine marketing only?
I know little bit about marketing as operating traditional business, but now some of my friends are developing their business online and getting success in very short time. Even most of them are come on this market late after me. How could they do this earlier? Probably they are following internet marketing (https://www.marketing-lists-direct.com/internet-marketing/) strategy as per as quick profit generating and communicate with their customers. I am interested to know about the best process to attract customer and communicate with them.
I don't think that's accurate. Maybe for standing seam, but the screw-down panels aren't that pricy, and it takes less work than nailing shingles.
Someone really has it out for Protonmail. Was nearly a week of ddos not long ago.

And this just seems like a smear campaign, (paying $20 per tweet to raise awareness?) rather than a researcher simply trying to get paid.

They already have a bug bounty program:

https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-bug-bounty-program/
Maybe your fallen stars were secretly using grit before. Working harder than necessary ahead of when it’s needed seems questionable. yagni .
Why should you use data visualisation on the web?
HOW DEEP LIBYA MISSES QADDAFI?
Did I skim too fast? I didn't see any mention of where this electricity is coming from. Is it solar? If so, what countries / companies stand to benefit from this shift? Presuming the new boss is not the old boss (i.e., the oil producers in the Middle East), more importantly, what will this do to the socio-political power structure in oil producing nations?

p.s. The USA is also a top oil producer?
Are they noise dampened? What is their sound profile during precip?

Also, if your house is on fire and firefighters need in thru the roof, steel makes it harder for them to get in.
Story of a failed pentest
I suppose unless someone either forks it or keeps delivering patches outside the Python project. That wasn't really an option for Windows XP, but I'm quite sure if it had been then someone would be doing it.
It's worth noting that this article is about the SPARK programming language--a formally verifiable subset of Ada--and not about Apache Spark.
Of course I wouldn't be that stupid either.
And online shopping. It used to be normal to drive everywhere to just have a look, but today all but the most important purchases are done online and delivered. The efficiency of this is significant
Doesn't relate to your reply? I directly quoted the part of your reply I responded to.

My point is, to repeat myself, that what we consider the reality behind the way something is made, what it is composed of, etc, does play a role on whether we like or dislike it. Like or dislike extends beyond the final artifact.

We could even like something (e.g. a painting) and stop liking it, even though it's the same, if we find that it's e.g. an imitation and not the original, or that some romantic story of how the painter created it is not real, etc.

The same can happen when we discover a reductionist explanation of something we admire or are in awe of, that makes it less intriguing and mysterious. E.g. "you think love is some glorious connection to this particular person, but the feeling is just a chemically induced thing, and we can arbitrarily make you feel it for any random person if we inject you with this".
The poorest UK households have also seen their post-tax incomes rise faster than any other group since 2010.

https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/Post_tax_incomes.png
Interesting that they would fight for this, but yet they push malware, HTML5 EME, CloudFlare DNS, ADs with Pocket and to be the gate keeper of the truth [1]. Mozilla. The Mozilla Project and Foundation have become quite toxic and this two-faced stance that it cares about its useds is quite appalling.

[1]The Mozilla Information Trust Initiative : http://archive.is/jcJWg

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The idea that they are fundamentally different is also wrong, or did you think we don't need to service our debt?
For those who are reading this, let me stress that it is not that Prof. Hefferon's proof of Cayley-Hamilton theorem is bad (it is actually better than some really horrible proofs that appear in some well-received textbooks), but that Albert's treatment is superb --- it is far better than the treatments of the theorem in most modern textbooks, including Prof. Hefferon's. Also, I was certainly not commenting on the overall quality of Prof. Hefferon's book, and I thank him for offering his textbook for free.
Then why haven't we had it in the UK like the Mediterranean countries have?
You can look at what they did , learn from it and draw your own conclusions.
this is pretty cool way to learn. I learned English by memorizing Bambi as a kid.

My only complaint is that the Spanish AI lady seems to have suffered a stroke, see below:

http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=cac6e2c6-19fb-4c60-9fef-c4c39...
> Fire has no boundaries and no preference for where it burns

That's a weird thing to say: there are definitely places that are more fire prone than others.