skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The statistics that claim the US is still largely religious are hallow. People wear labels of their religion as a means to exclude or silently signal 'better-than-you', when the purpose and message of those religions has nothing to do with that.

Among people younger than about 60 or so I've noticed the reverse being far more true. People don't broadcast how religious they are. People are much more likely to broadcast things like what you're saying which is fairly insulting. You're message basically boils down to "most people who believe they are religious are just in it for the virtue signaling and therefore are doing religion wrong" which is pretty insulting to anyone even remotely religions.

I personally don't think religion has a large effect on opioid use or suicide but if it does have one it's a positive one. Nobody ever got hooked on drugs or attempted suicide because their life was fulfilling and on a track to get better. People do drugs and kill themselves because they are in despair and feel like there is no way out of their situation. If anything religion would act as a positive outlet for those feelings.
I thought many great writers started writing after 40, Trollope, Montaigne..
Oh. Wow. That's just awful.
I would argue that it's expensive because it is private and unregulated.

The amount of anger the healthcare system can cause in the US is unbelievable. Example, I had a surgery that was pre-approved. Then, I received a bill for $20k. I called the insurance and they said the company wanted to charge them to much and they could not come to an agreement, therefore, they are not paying. So, I call the surgery place and told them there is no way I am paying that bill.

I kept getting bills for 4-5 years, till they settled with insurance company and send me a bill for $500. At that point, I decided just not to pay it, because it angered me so much.

Doctors are under pressure now too. There is pressure to see many patients in a day. Push drugs, vaccinations and so on. It is terrible for everyone involved except companies who benefit financially from it.
Seems their comment is gone too. I’d love to have been given the chance to downvote them.

To me this all boils down to what you’re saying, but I’d like to just add mention that i think the bigger disease in the US that enables situations like this is the acceptance of misinformation. As you pointed out, many many many of these cases are started by a medically issued prescription, and it kills multiple times more people than recent wars or terrorist related acts, yet anyone who drives action here is often labeled as “helping junkies that don’t deserve help”.

In the very near future when climate change has destroyed our way of life, and one of the few nations that was capable of doing something is finally and certifiably recognized as having sat by and done nothing, i hope the world takes note. These are the kinds of acts of neglect that make Nero famous, and while i don’t want their names remember, i do want the world to move on from the US being seen as the worlds police and freedom fighters. If Kama is real, the US should be concerned, and as someone that is a close neighbour, it terrifying to think how that will flow on to impact the rest of us.
I tried to use Nim in an embedded context (ESP32). Since one of the bullet points is that it "compiles to C", I thought it'd be a good option.

In practice, even once I was able to compile basic Nim, there were a lot of glibc and other POSIX dependencies for any of Nim's standard libraries, some of which weren't available in ESP-IDF.

That's totally fair, but many of those dependencies aren't available when compiling to JS either, though, so I was surprised. In the end, delving into the code I found that a lot of stuff was gated behind the equivalent of "platform=JS" switches throughout the stdlib. It seemed like adding support for another platform would be a major pain.

This was all preliminary investigation and I didn't reach out to the Nim community, so perhaps I missed something. Maybe this kind of portability isn't even a goal for Nim. It would definitely be nice to have, though.
> your app can launch the camera app, and get a callback when the user has taken a photo, with access only to that photo

I did that on an Android app I had to build for a client. It was quite a nightmare to make it works on different phone because many manufacturer added their own camera apps. Some were giving a full size image, other were giving a tiny thumbnail, but you were able to get the full size from the file system, but some didn't returned anything at all, so to actually get the picture, I had to scan the gallery pictures beforehand, scan it afterward, and take the new one. It was a long time ago though, near 2011, Honeycomb was just released, so maybe it's different now but I seriously doubt it.
Based on personal experience, I strongly believe that people with the same nationality, religion or gender do share the same a lot of the same challenges and hardships. That's the entire point of those groups.

That was my direct answer to atom-morgan's post who said: “I find the "hang out with people who look like me" mentality to be really weird”.

As for the points themselves I don't care, it's how the post slowly rose to positive and then hit negative in an instant that made me confused. But then again, perhaps I should put away my tinfoil hat.
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Maybe there's a very good reason why crimes and our court systems are public? Such as, so that people who choke their wife who is dying from cancer can be avoided and shunned by moral, law abiding persons.
Microsoft has a huge portfolio of application with SaaS versions (from SharePoint through to Dynamics 365 CRM and ERPs) - Google doesn't play in those spaces at all.
It was both: https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0806/

"In a remarkable feat of negotiating legerdemain, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs got needed cash — in return for non-voting shares — and an assurance that Microsoft would support Office for the Mac for five years. Apple agreed to drop a long-running lawsuit in which they alleged Microsoft copied the look and feel of the Mac OS for Windows and to make Internet Explorer the default browser on its computers — but not the only choice."
Not as common, as it clashes with using '-' for subtraction, but as that's never been a problem for Lisp, it's quite common there. Perl6 went that way, too, despite having infix syntax. But hey, it's Perl, we're used to syntactical warts.
I'm not sure how much of a "plot twist" this is - when I took my biology course decades ago, it was explained to me that both maternal and paternal mitochondria were passed on, but the Egg is so much larger than the sperm, that the impact of of paternal mitochondria, and amount passed on, was relatively minor. I guess the interesting detail here is that the amount present raises to the level of catching a DNA scan.
Add to this that financial institutions have very stringent regulatory requirements about archiving all their communications, including chat and email.

Trying to game those archives would get them into so much hot water with just about any regulator that I can't really imagine it.

Any bank may have dodgy employees that try to game the system. But without institutional support by a multitude of people and departments you could never erase such data. And I just don't see that happening.
Yes, but as a total of America its groiwng vanishingly smaller. Automation.
> This seems like a case of temporary circumstances and statistical creating a doomsday picture.

It's definitely intellectual fraud. This is a life expectancy projection for babies born in 2017 and it's assuming the opioid overdoses (the recent scale of which didn't exist ten years ago) continue unabated for seven or eight more decades.
Have you been living under a rock or is my definition of large public outcry vastly different? I hear about this more than I hear about climate change issues (but not as much as about gun violence, which causes far fewer deaths in the US).

But what causes far greater deaths than even opioids, is avoidable medical errors. It's quite difficult to stop a highly addictive class of drugs which is backed by big business (legal or illegal). But that many avoidable medical errors in 2018, despite the high barriers to become a doctor?

Maybe we shouldn't be treating this opioid problem so gravely after all. The more serious, more deadly, more costly problem of avoidable medical errors could be even the root cause of the addiction epidemic.

I spent the better part of my adult life as an addict, and yet not one doctor out of the many that I saw acknowledged or noticed. Furthermore, on the occasions I did muster enough courage to ask them if the drugs were causing harm (three different non-opioid drugs at different periods of my life), I was shrugged off, the doctors saying that my symptoms do not match up, or otherwise downplaying the situation. I needed hard evidence that what I was doing was actually harming me or I saw no incentive to quit. By the time one does enough chronic use to be at risk of death, I imagine the addiction and habit is far too strong to easily break. So I'm of the opinion that the root cause is with the medical profession's apparent limitations.

It's often very hard to get medical help in general until something is plain and obvious, highly common, or literally killing you, with the evidence needing to show up on examination or test. This is something that I could be vastly improved with AI doctors and open access to anonymized health data. But given how much of a fight the taxi cab driver union puts up (with self driving cars and even Uber), I won't hold my breath for the AMA to get behind the idea.
MK ULTRA was a Nazi program that continued in the CIA. The development of Agent Orange: same. Modern torture techniques? Yes, same deal.

The Nazi's escaped and made America their new playground. This is why we have had endless war and crimes against humanity being committed by the people of the USA .. for decades now ..
It wasn't just me, you see. If it was, I probably could have gotten this done in one or two. But, because we are a team, we had planning sessions where I needed my team to commit. There, the team had long heated debates about some of the cards. You see, several had a great deal of uncertainty surrounding them. No matter how far you'd zoom in, some of the requirements were not fine-grain enough to be understood. Ultimately, we came up with a few prototypes and a/b tested to get at the best solution.
They're looking at two people in their capacity as DB employees. DB is very much under investigation here.
Not that I agree with, or support war in any way, and it always makes me a little sick to my stomach to see brilliant people coming up with technology to make killing people simpler - but...

HoloLens has sure better improve by orders of magnitude before I'd ever want to see it used in any sort of field.

It's like looking into a postage stamp of reality.
This is kind of the equivalent of waiving your rights. For example, you've probably heard of contracts where you sign away your right to sue someone in civil court and agree to go to arbitration instead. That's signing away your rights. Similar story here. You are agreeing in advance, to waive your right to defend yourself in court. Since these are civil cases, the judgment is always in favor of the company filing the suit because you basically agreed to let them win if they ever decided to make such a filing. In civil cases, there isn't the same burden of proof as a criminal trial. It's more of a "which side does the scale tip to with the information at hand" thing. And since the defendant agreed to not defend themselves and conceded guilt in advance, the court always sides with the accuser.

Didn't read this particular article but read a different one earlier this week on this topic so not sure if it's covered here but it's a really old law/tool and has been outlawed almost everywhere. I believe it's outlawed in the entire country for personal dealings because of laws regarding due process and consumer protection. However, it is still allowed in a few states for business dealings which is why these loan places use this legal process exclusively for business loans. They don't have the same level of protection that an individual has, even though a lot of these businesses are run by 2-3 people who put up their own assets against the loan.
Not in any typed language. Its instantly called out as an error.
This would be cool to be paired up with a site using a Konami code. Do the code ("Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start"), and it changes your stylesheet to use this. Hahah Would be fun!
One might argue that React is clunky (but I completely get the benefits).
Yes and with portability you get Electron apps...

Developers want to produce cross platform apps that are not a good user experience for users.

There is a well known hierarchy when it comes to Apple: Apple first then users then developers as it should be.
I think that was a holdover of EBCDIC, an old IBM standard. In fact early IBM machines did BCD in their ALU.
It all depends if you own the whole space programme. Even the $10000 vs $500 per kg difference you named will make a small difference for the cost of a whole programme. The LV cost for a manned mission is 1/10th of the whole launch cost.
Hmm. The rules seem a little too strict - not only do you have to code every day, you have to code for at least an hour, publicly display your code, and blog about what you coded. Every day.

If the idea is to mimic NaNoWriMo, then the rules should be simpler. Say - just encourage coding every day, with a month-long objective. Blogging or talking about it should be encouraged but optional.
DN42 is very easy to get into, if you have some networking knowledge. If you're familiar with Linux I'd recommend Bird as a BGP speaker and using Wireguard for L3 tunneling.

Either way, get started here: https://dn42.net/howto/Getting-started
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Did you write type-unstable code? That brings Julia performance down and memory usage up, since things often get inferred to be Any. So, a vector of what you think are doubles could be turned into a boxed vector of Any. It will slow things down to the speed of Python. Fortunately, it's usually pretty easy to avoid this if you are aware of it.

Well-written Julia should always be within a factor of 2-3 of C, often less. Huge problems are done in pure Julia now. Pure Julia code has been run on HPCs to over a petaflop, something that only C/C++ and Fortran have done. 100 MFLOP is not a problem.
Please get all the courage you can muster and seek professional therapie.
I don't believe you can learn this from a book. It's a highly personal journey, depending on you, your family and your kids. Your kids educate you as much as you educate them, you are in this together. I understand you want to seek advice but I honestly don't think there's a blueprint.
I second this. I've spent a lot of my college days (UK) going through the Star Wars EU on the wiki. Just reading about things from Jizz, to some obscure planets or fights. I never would have spent that much time with Star Wars if not through this method. I do feel like is because a wiki article is not long enough to make me feel like I've taken too long of a break from work and yet engaging enough, to open up the next link. Rinse and repeat.
>The shuttle was kind of a solution in search of a problem;

I don't think that's entirely fair. At the time, when it appeared space may become weaponized, it made a lot of sense. A craft that could potentially fly up to space, take someone else's satellite and bring it home? Worth the cost and then some many times over.
I went (and indeed got married) in the Seychelles - absolutely gorgeous places. Surprisingly large granite mountains on the main island as well.
I can think of a few other causes like sickness being a potentially bankrupting event so people don't go to a doctor when they should or too late.

This apparently is a risk, even if you have insurance because you are at the mercy of insurers not tossing you out over such whimsical reasons as pre-existing conditions or other bureaucratic tricks they use to kill their customers rather than getting them cured.

There are also these mafia extortion schemes that are completely legal where you have to pay through your nose for insurance in exchange for the privilege of not being charged tens of thousands of dollars for completely routine stuff like broken bones or other things that can and will go wrong for most people at some point. This is not a thing in most modern countries other than the US. Even many third world countries tend to get organized on this front to the best of their abilities.

Then there is the widespread obesity because of corn syrup being a heavily subsidized food ingredient (got to help those poor republican voting farmers). Also it seems there is a whole legislative game around shameless advertising on products where products that contain obscene amounts of corn syrup are advertised as "fat free" instead of "don eat this you stupid fat F*".

The reason for the drug overdoses is decades of shameless attempts by big pharma to coerce the US government on not cracking down on their quite successful attempts at selling heroine disguised as pain medication roughly at the same time when the war on drugs was a big thing. This too is much less of a thing outside of the US where pain medication tends to be very strictly regulated and not advertised every 10 minutes on TV.

In short, the above is the result of decades of misguided policies, failures to regulate, and greedy companies getting away with stuff they shouldn't get away with and lobbying successfully to get away with ever more.
I think it depends on what "someday" means to you. Within our lifetimes? Almost certainly not. Within 100 generations? Still, probably not. But "eventually"? I could see that being likely, if:

* humanity doesn't extinguish it's own flame

* there isn't some freak, inescapable, immitigable cosmic occurrence before we've gotten out of our own solar system

* we develop technology for near-lightspeed or FTL travel

If the above were true, I think the only thing that would stop us from finding non-Earth-origin life some time before the heat death of the universe would be if there is actually no other life out there, which I think is unlikely.

However... I do think that there's basically 0.0% chance of finding extraterrestrial life in the deserts of Earth, excepting in the case that the spontaneous generation of simple life is exceedingly common. But, I guess determining how common that might be is one of the goals of the search.
It would be cool if auth0 (https://auth0.com/) would offer free usage of their service, given the fact that they would only use basic features.
>used to be lashed to religious moorings, which provided some sense of purpose and moral grounding, as well as fending off pesky questions like "what happens to me when I die?"

I don't buy this for a second. There is a notable, consistent correlation with economic viability (lack thereof) and perceived/real economic inequality and the negative effects these have on a population. Drug use, mental illness, even infant mortality.

This is what is happening. People don't have good jobs, they don't have a good education (and in some cases their education doesn't net anything), and they don't have a "purpose." You don't need to invoke whimsical images of non-sense to guess at why people feel useless and/or are seeking drugs.

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652881/

* https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/drug-abuse

* https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/mental-health

We are actively wasting multiple nations' resources and people's own personal lives over absurd policies and to cater to a very tiny portion of the population who is already rich beyond anyone's dreams.
Yes, it is very easy to identify paternal mitochondrial inheritance in the current era. The catch is that a very low proportion of the population has mitochondrial genomic sequencing (currently). Typically, those who do have their mitochondrial genomes sequenced are those who are suspected of having mitochondrial disease and the prevalence of mitochondrial disease is very low. Of those who are sequenced, the overwhelming majority will have a mutation, that if inherited, is from the mother. I should also add that there are many 'common' mutations that cause the majority of mitochondrial disease and, as expected in a clinical diagnostic setting, these are the most frequently observed and identified molecular diagnoses. Paternal inheritance of mitochondria harboring a disease-causing mutation represents an extraordinarily rare etiology for an already very rare disease.
I got the impression that the author was talking about department run evaluation sheets rather than review sites. Student evaluations shouldn't be seen as an evaluation metric but a smoke detector that indicates a staff member might need some more direction.

Teaching is an art, just because someone isn't doing it well doesn't mean they can't do it well. In fact in some cases I imagine they are doing poorly because they would rather be working on their research area. Providing the opportunity to course correct rather than starve out is good.
The amount that Facebook makes from storing my PI is not exactly the same as the amount it makes from showing ads. Contextual ads are not completely worthless, they ran the web for years.
Yes, it's a major leap and the fact that you can't see it is concerning.

If you are enjoying someone else's tourment, especially after you inflicted that tourment onto them, then you are a psychopath.

People who take drugs aren't taking it for the hangover, they are taking it for the high. If you remove the tormenting hangover, 100% of users would be fine with that.

You should seek psychiatric help and I'd be happy if my tax dollars were used to help you with your mental problems.
Correct.

https://www.ft.com/content/8c6d9dca-882c-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45...
Looking forward to completing this year! Normally I'd grab ruby or js, but been filling gaps using C lately and tempted to keep pushing that.
If I remember correctly around '98 MS did invest a significant amount of money in Apple (purchasing non voting stock). I think they offered to rewrite the Mac version of office too.
a solution looking for a problem...
It's my impression that Microsoft is invested in a ton of different segments and Apple is only in a few. If the mobile phone market is Apples huge majority and it starts to decline it becomes a putting all your eggs in one basket problem.
It wasn’t a bailout. The monetary amount was only $250 milllion. Apple turned around and spent $100 million the same quarter to buy out Power Computing’s Mac license.

A net $150 million wouldn’t make or break Apple even then.
Yes you're right, my description of the scenario wasn't quite accurate. Personally I don't think this scenario is unethical (beyond your responsibility to disclose potentially being to the company's users, not the company itself, meaning withholding the vulnerability might be ethically dubious) but as I understand (IANAL) it is illegal. But the law doesn't always map well onto ethics.
100% agree. That's exactly the feeling I have every time I stumble across any thread on scifi.stackexchange.com
oh wow, didn't see that charge added there. We took the trip for free but that was six months ago.
I just realized that the most important card from the emergency column was missing from that photo. I've added that to the album.
Underrated comment ^^^
I agree on the value of delay. During childhood, we all wanted to be firefighters, police, the president, and astronauts. We don't start those children down a permanent path based on those choices, we (mostly) let them become adults before locking down career paths.

There are some exceptions to these rules, of course. One in particular is athletes. Society happily will fundamentally alter a child's or adolescent's body in pursuit of athletics.