skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My go-to is "so what do you do?" and it works pretty great for me.
No need, IANA does that for you, and via that, ARIN etc. I don't block Google like that myself, but some clients wanted such provisions (sometimes with exclusions which makes it somewhat pointless), just like some do for Facebook etc.

If you have a network that is specialised enough, it becomes a lot easier to do this, you turn it into a whitelist instead of a blacklist.
Tiny Brains Grown in Labs Produce Electrical Signals Like Premature Babies
It’s an informal social program. The rich subsidize everyone else.
Just drop a dozen or so megaton bomb on the Yellowstone caldera and the rest will be taken care of.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16302821

Google bot is stupid af and their support is even less helpful.

TL;DR: Google just scans you site even if it always gets 404s for millions of requests.
market competition leads to better manufacturing techniques that avoid the tax. Local optimization leads to global optimization. To argue otherwise would be to argue that taxes overall have no effect on business behavior, which is clearly false.
No, it fine the way it is. Losing karma because of a comment is not the end of the world, and there is usually an obvious reason. Maybe because the comment was too absolutist or similar. Sometimes because people misunderstood, and sometimes because people simply disagree. Sometimes it's just the dynamic of the thread that results in a down-vote. Sometimes it's just impossible to understand, without assuming that some people use their down-voting privileges frivolously, but it's all part of the socialization process here to try and understand which, and just deal with it.

For this reason I sometimes wish that people could stop complaining (with varying level of irritation) about being down-voted without been given reason, a fairly common occurrence. OTOH, helpful people will sometimes (probably not the down-voter) provide a reasonable explanation, which is OK too.
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So, I didn't say I didn't need to use JS - what I'm saying is that I often don't need to expose all data as a client-consumable API and render data using JS.

> why are you using ASP.NET in the first place

Because I need to do normal shit with backend systems - databases, message queues, APIs, ERP systems and the like.
But... you have to know what a derivative is for in order to be motivated to learn how to do it. If it's all just mindless manipulation, how will one know whether to apply this or that mindless manipulation?
So you want to learn Bookkeeping
> at which point a boatload of repressed childhood trauma began surfacing.

Can you describe this? How did they surface, how were you able to identify the repressed trauma?
This is still one of my favorites...

https://soundcloud.com/marak/marak-the-node-js-rap

Lyrics here

https://github.com/Marak/node-raps/blob/master/The%20Node.js...
if you believe in genetics/evolution it's not luck. The smarter and stronger side wins. Is it luck that you weren't born as a squirrel or some other animal?

My family members fought in wars, paid taxes, and helped build up the country so their descendants could have a better life, calling that nothing but luck is disrespectful to the sacrifices they made.
> Mercurial has a few properties that make this easier than in git. For example, there is no concept of detached head / garbage collection; when you save a commit, it is simply saved forever unless you choose to forcably remove it. (I have never found myself wishing for Git's refs and heads; they are just straight up unnecessary.) But I could imagine a git wrapper that had these properties too (e.g. when I checkout an old revision, it automatically creates a new branch with a special name that refs the commit I'm leaving behind).

I don't get it. What does mercurial have instead of refs?

HEAD in git is just one kind of a ref; differentiated from a branch only by when the tooling updates it (ie. when you create a commit in the checked out branch, or when you check out another commit)

"branches" are mutable references. "remote" branches are just refs pointing at the commit that was the remote branch the last time you fetched it to your local repository. They're all the same thing in the end, though.

The way Mercurial branches seem to be a special thing instead of a property of the structure of a repository is partially why I prefer git.

In git, the fact that a "named branch" is actually just a ref to a particular commit that gets updated occasionally makes perfect sense to me. The way mercurial does it has never clicked; why does a branch have to be something special?

I mean, in git, a branch that has no ref pointing to it is still a branch, but if you have no reference to a commit, why would its existence matter? Sure, you can end up "losing" commits when working with rebase, but no-one actually leaves their repo that way if the commit was important; you just look it up from the reflog and give it a name again, and it won't get garbage collected.

And after a branch is merged, why would you keep around a named reference to a branch head that no longer matters? IIRC mercurial has a feature to "close" branches, but I don't understand why that even needs to be a thing? In git, you just delete unnecessary branches (that is, refs), and you're done.

Maybe I misunderstand how mercurial works, but I've not found a source explaining the rationale behind why it works this way.
Because it would mean facing their own issues and actually understanding psychology instead of thinking that there's such a thing as a chemical imbalance which can act as an original source that leads to disorders like OCD, bipolar, etc., rather than it operating in the inverse direction (past action leading to internal state). In other words, it's hard for those who maintain positions by claiming to know, to admit that they don't know.
Nice, I never thought of this. Thanks!
Still, does that make the developers actions non-ethical? Again, it sounds like the company is the non-ethical one.
TUSD, USDC, AOA, PAX and QKC: Crypto’s Biggest Price Moves of the Week
Its such a crass perversion of incentives..
The Principles Behind Differentiable Programming – Erik Meijer [video]
Go make some, and shoot it into yourself.

Actually, don't, you'll probably injure yourself.
Info: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/027046761770707...

And the paper itself: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0roqfsrx4tz4nd/Powell-2015.pdf?dl...
Twitter bans misgendering and deadnaming in pro-trans move
Shout out to bandcamp where you can better support artists often.
We have a worsening situation and no realistic option to stop or even reverse things.

I think this is where we probably disagree. I think things are going to get pretty bad, and many will needlessly suffer and die, but we'll switch to renewables and start doing large-scale geoengineering in the 2030s or 2040s to reverse some of the damaging effects of climate change and eventually stabilize things. Likely not before we've had some devastating wars and lost many species, but I personally think most of the predictions of civilization collapse are way overblown.

It's also possible that sometime in the next decade, all the nations of the world join some kind of super Paris agreement, but I'm not hopeful.
On one of my obscure but public domains I always have fun seeing Chinese traffic guessing the admin password of the VPS at least 3x a day. I guess somebody is continuously poking at vulnerabilities to get root access to as many domains as they can, then later maybe selling them to their "customers"? One doesn't have to be paranoid these days...
> Unlike physical goods which can only exist in one place at one time, it is conceivable that with a powerful enough computer, the solution could be found entirely honestly by a third party simply doing some math and stumbling upon the answer at random, or by asking the right questions and exploiting some as-yet-undiscovered weakness in the implementation.

This really isn't hypothetical - a multitude of poorly designed and implemented key generation algorithms (brain wallets being one of the worst examples) have made it computationally feasible to find private keys. I have the private key for 13Yk7NTC64VEfrBL9KE2NNHDrorcJ3SQbz, which currently holds a few thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin (and various forks). I found it by using an algorithm to generate many candidate keys and checking whether they'd been used. I've previously found much more substantial amounts, and in some cases have been able to track down the rightful owner.

As far as I'm concerned, finding a key through clever use of computing power does not entitle one to use it from an ethical standpoint. Legally... well, I've talked to quite a few lawyers about it. There is no agreement on the answer, and as the article mentions, it's unclear who would have jurisdiction.
As AvE would remind him: cut toward your chum, not your thumb.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518407
> Nobody can know how this will pan out, but I think a reasonable guess is that as QE is allowed to unwind we experience recessionary forces that we are no longer willing to accept or able to withstand - given the increased fragility and interconnectedness of our economies. And so we will see QE3 and QE4 and so on, with related ZIRP[2], until we finally see a deflationary collapse.

It seems like the flaw is in the assumption that QE be required to "unwind" at all.

When the fed creates/destroys money, there are at least two things it can do with it. One is to buy/sell treasury bills, the other is to lend more/less to banks (who use it to make loans to consumers).

We currently have two problems: 1) too many loans to consumers, 2) too many outstanding treasury bills. So why doesn't the Fed set a near-zero interest rate for treasury bills but a higher interest rate for banks? That keeps them from having to destroy the money entirely and cause deflation to get consumer debt back to a rational level, while at the same time removing treasury bills from the market and reducing the interest rate the taxpayer has to pay on the outstanding debt -- solving both problems at the same time.

The result would be for the Fed to hold trillions in treasury bills indefinitely, but so what? The "harm" is that it allows Congress to borrow money more cheaply. That seems like a benefit provided they don't abuse it to the point of causing too much inflation -- which certainly doesn't appear to be happening in practice. The debt numbers would continue to grow on paper, but if it's all just going to be held by the Fed using created money, and the amount of money being created isn't causing hyperinflation, are we not good?
That's happening.[1][2] A group of big hospitals is creating their own generic drug company to supply routine items at better prices.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/06/6449359...

[2] https://civicarx.org
Turning FAIR into Reality (FAIR Data Expert Group Final Report) [pdf]
I think I do it terribly when I pair with someone. It doesn't feel natural, far from it, sometimes even feels tortured. But it still works wonders..

1. You stay focused

2. Often it turns out that me and my pairing partner are out of sync on either what should be done or how it should be done. And in those cases, often, the truth (for the lack of better term) is in the middle.

3. Doing quality peer code reviews is hard and takes discipline. If you lack it, pair programming is a good shortcut.

4. You get immediately two people owning (or, rather, invested into) the thing. So the effort is less likely to lose steam.

I'm not denying though that there probably are other ways of interaction (async or not) that may still bring these benefits.

EDIT: more things.

5. Having someone in peer code review question what you have been busy with in the last couple of days hits harder, compared to when someone filtering out what you put in the code as you explain your ideas.

6. Bonding.
Just noticed you mentioned 2.1 and Homebrew installed 2.0. That is probably why I am not seeing it.
I interviewed for a week at a consultancy known for pair-programming a long time ago.

Each workstation had two chairs, a large iMac in the middle, and the developers had an individual macbook/kb/mouse on each side.

The code was on the middle machine, and either kb/mouse could control it. They also were using software named Teleport(?) that let you seamlessly interact with both the main iMac and your own laptop. I don't remember exactly what it did, maybe let you drag files between the two computers or something.

I got to pair-program with them on assorted real world tasks that week, a different employee each day. I was generally impressed with the workflow. There was basically zero downtime in terms of progress. I can easily them imagining at least getting a 2x productivity boost, but I'd imagine it was more like 2.5x or more.

Sheepishly, what I didn't like about it was that I'm the kind of person that likes to get a lot done and then work on my own stuff on the job, or have the freedom to surf HN when I'm ahead of schedule, and that was kind of impossible there without your teammate knowing it. :)

But I will say it was very stimulating and fun. The other developers were really nice and fun to talk to. I work remotely, but I would certainly consider that arrangement if I were to get a desk job again.

It's better than the sort of office job where you're languishing on your own and nobody has a firm grasp of what exactly you're even working on in precise terms. I've been there before and it's incredibly stressful when you fall behind pace and your work performance starts to suffer. I feel like pair-programming eliminates that kind of thing.
Unrealistic. Economics drive the internet and ignoring DNT / having 3rd party cookies is vital to monetization.
Dell sells enough laptops directly to consumer that it should be a good experience.
What kind of trauma results in the sort of mild addictions a lot of us have (like netflix, internet addiction)
Hopefully Flutter's popularity will bump the priorities of the other VM developers to improve code reloading.
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What hasn’t happened yet, and what invariably will happen as more and more cases hit the courts, is that someone will ask the question, “what property classification do we apply to Bitcoin – WTF is it that Bob actually owns?”
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Well - this question has been asked for taxation purposes. In particular it was answered by a Polish court in http://orzeczenia.nsa.gov.pl/doc/C8296DC8B9 - and the courts answer is that it is a 'prawo majątkowe' (google translate suggests "property law" - but I am not a lawyer - and it probably is not just 'property'), and that it is not money nor financial instrument.
Doubts about wage-led growth
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18504274
> they can claim the lost rents -- at the prices they set -- as taxable deductions

Can you provide a source? This doesn't seem right. A vacant unit produces no revenue, but the "lost rent" doesn't constitute an expense.
The Age of Compliance
“The Center for Disease Control has designated 100,000 ppm of carbon dioxide as life-threatening.” So, that’s a very long way past 4,000. The workplace safty limit is set at 5,000 for 8 hours which is considered a very conservative and safe estimate.

Honestly, if we where looking at 40,000 I would be very concerned. But that’s vastly above anyone’s projections. So, CO2 is not going to be a direct threat to us. It’s knock on effects that’s the issue.

PS: Remember people can survive with significantly reduced lung capacity. Breathing is really important in terms of evolution so the ‘safty factor’ is huge.
Well, there's always the saying "It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you." And DOS attacks of many flavors are employed early and often against any public site.

And regardless of the cause, someone at Google has messed up by either letting themselves be used or screwing up the crawling algorithms to create so much load against one fairly minor blog.
It's not available in 2.1 either. Last night a user reported this after release of 2.1. :)
Dr. Gabor Maté touches on many of these issues surrounding addiction. There is a very insightful interview with him on Russell Brand’s podcast:
https://www.russellbrand.com/podcast/053-dr-gabor-mate-damag...
Yeah, the focus and the full 8 hour work days is one of the attractions of it.
Investors invest because they believe there will be a good return. A drastically increasing ratio of people to homes can’t not drive up prices in a way that will deliver that return.

Sure there are many factors at play, interacting with each other in strange ways. But there is no amount of complexity that will let you settle 100 families in 10 houses.
No one said anything about moving away from server side templates. I don't know why .NET developers get so confused over this subject.

By modern I mean using a very popular language in a domain that specifically has that language as its primary and first most choice in that domain for every single aspect of that domain's development. From the pool of developers you can choose from, to where those tools and applications can be run, to how you construct your web applications.

On a new project that doesn't have historical roots in using the Razor view engine, again, what is Razorscript bringing to the table that other server side templating languages/frameworks are not? Why would you willingly choose to use a view engine and templating language that costs you in functionality, reduces the flexibility of your views, reduces the amount of programmers that can work with it, and causes really really bad start up times/cache miss hits (lol @ precompiling your views, so you can restart your app pool for tiny little changes)?

You don't need an SPA to move away from Razor. It's quite the opposite: you better have a damn good reason to continue to use the Razor view engine.
> I can only guess.

Then you shouldn't say "Zero mystery here".. or you could trick yourself and become upset later.
It's just treated with borates. Wouldn't use it in wet locations or for direct ground contact because it's water soluble and that would hinder its protection, but it's far from toxic as you seem to be implying.

Meh, even if it was some random pet project, it's not the worst way for them to spend their money / time.
Technology improves but resources get more scarce. Oil is getting more expensive to extract, for example. The same is true of many mineral resources, as we're forced to move to lower-grade ores.

But your point is a good one. I basically see us as being in a race between technological improvement and environmental catastrophe. I'm not at all sure which side will win. It'd be nice if policy makers would help weight the race in our favor.
I have always just asked "so what do you do?" because I'm in my 20s in a college town so I always assume that many of the people I'll encounter at bars etc are students. Leaves it open ended: are you in school? Are you working? Both? Neither? Something in between? Secretly five groundhogs in a trench coat? And actually many times I've had people tell me in depth about their art/writing/music pursuits and only briefly mention their serving job or something, and honestly that's way more fun and interesting to talk about for both of us.
I always use Tor Browser + ddg for searching symptoms or embarrassing questions. But I am still worried someone can link those searches by deanonymizing Tor or some security flaw
Anybody with a gbit line will be able to easily bruteforce the entire internet, there are lots of people doing that.

This is just normal background noise on the internet, one has to be pretty paranoid to assign any significance to it.
It drives me crazy that people don’t see the very simple reason why tuition has risen so much: student loan debt is not dischargable through bankruptcy. Even if the student is run over with a bus the debt can be passed on to family members.

The lenders that give out these loans therefore have essentially no risk and are highly incentivized to give out loans to any and every person that wants one, regardless of their creditworthiness or future earning potential. Universities have responded to this glut of money and demand by raising prices.

The solution is to allow student loans to be discharged through bankruptcy. Banks will respond by properly evaluating the risk of each loan instead of giving them out like candy. This will result in less students going to college, but that’s a fair price to pay to correct this massive distortion in the market.
IIRC at the end of the book the fremen use their vast reserves of water to change the planet climate.

Although the film doesn't make it explict, it does show the reserves of water.
At any level of expenditure you can get a credit card (products targeted to people with no credit exist!) and pay it off like clockwork on a monthly basis. Which builds good credit. You could use it to spend $5 and still do this.
Can you check with your doctor and pharmacy as to the possible distribution of your data? If they both deny sharing your data and you fully believe them, the mystery is closer to being solved.
those are not mild addictions at all.

Avoidance is triggered when the mind is scared and it will grasp at anything external rather than go inside. Going inside will bring you to your self and this means ego death.

Try it. Next time you observe the mind when you reach for the phone. Wait just a tiny bit and observe the emotion just under the surface noise.
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Could you educate me on how this would be achieved?
I disagree with Chomsky here.

While the Israeli lobbying in politics seems "huge", it is done in the open. Everyone and their dog knows about AIPAC and the military aid that is provided to Israel so that Israel can buy US-made weapons (or, for that matter, the German aid for U-boats). That's not really a problem IMHO - it both provides jobs in the defense industry without supplying weapons to Saudi-Arabia at the same time, and ensures the stability and viability of the one true democracy in the Middle East. In addition, given the rise of antisemitism happening all over the world it is an absolute imperative that Jews do have a "safe place" in this world. That's what the purpose of Israel actually is and why it was founded!

The Russian meddling, however, is different: it is done covertly. Russian agents bribed politicians, financed or directly controlled troll campaigns on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. They directly or through obscure "loans" and "donations" finance far-right parties across Europe and destabilize democracies.

While I'm not a big fan of lobbying at all, I vastly prefer it to what the Russians are doing.
Reverse diabetes, or just get people off of insulin?

Can someone who has had their diabetes "reversed" via fasting then get normal glucose responses after eating sugar?

The N=1 study you cited states that the subject still needs to take Metformin. i.e., he still has diabetes.
I believe the technical term is “mild trauma.”

No, but seriously, like everything it’s a spectrum. On one end you could call it “somewhat lax parenting” like occasional neglect or emotional/verbal abuse when parents are stressed out. On the other end you have severe/chronic emotional abuse, sexual abuse, brainwashing, etc.

I would also caution against the term “mild addiction”. It’s either an addiction or it isn’t. I get what you’re trying to say though. Maybe “less harmful” or “less dangerous” would be more accurate at the risk of being less concise.
> Home prices vary inversely with interest rates.

This is true if all else is equal. In theory, however, the Fed is supposed to raise interest rates when the economy is heating up, which implies buyers are being paid higher salaries, which implies their income (step 2 of your chain) is higher. In theory this could neutralize some or all of the effect of the interest rate increase.