skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This only serves to express your view (or rather, ideology) that we're living in a post-ideological world in which battles are no longer fought over beliefs but only material access to resources.

I said no such thing. I also note the use of ideology as a subtle dig, as if I’m some extremist.

> This is only valid as a pretty bad caricature of Marxism, in fact.

The idea that my post was anti-Marxist exists only in your own head.

> The left not only opposes capital but tyranny too.

I know this is probably shocking, but a one sentence summary wasn’t intended to be a complete explanation for an entire system of political thought.

> If you've read any leftist works after the year 1920

I’m not sure where accusing someone of being poorly read is an acceptable debate tactic, but it’s not one here. Stop.

> you'd know that most of them deal with various 'gross' ideas.

The hilarious thing is that I’m encouraging people to engage with these ideas, and you’re attacking me as if I’d said the exact opposite.

> What you're saying seems to imply we must abandon (i) any and every plan towards a better society (ii) any superindividual critique of totality, because both are doomed in failure due to the human condition. This is known as the 'human nature' argument against social projects and it's not very convincing.

What you imagined to be your grand coup de grâce is rather soiled by completely misunderstanding my original point.

At no point did I say that improvement is impossible, that’s an obvious and shoddy strawman of an argument. My point is that politics comes from humans, thus any attempt to completely eliminate politics is doomed to failure. This is an encouragement for people to engage with political systems and political theory in order to improve our existence.
Marlboro's parent company Altria is in the process of buying a 35% stake in Juul.
There are many horrors that can happen, and the issue which caused the current governance discussion for Python was not "design by committee".
Totally understood; that's one of the ways that it's not a perfect analogy.

Conversely if someone told me to setup Wordpress and that I could only charge $50, I'd change industries in a heartbeat.
It's ok if you think of it as such, the veneer over that actually isn't that deep, and that's ok.

The trick is there are some norms you want to express in the language, things like handlers and such, and if you write directly at low level python every time that can be sometimes difficult to maintain a level of consistency (IMHO).

Here's where it's NOT just a collection of python classes - https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2018-12-18-mitogen-opsmop.html
There's a couple dotenv nuget packages...

using DotEnv = dotenv.net.DotEnv;

But I wish the usage for the default load scenario was better. Here's how I'm using it.

public static void Init()
{
var levelsToCheck = 4;
var currentDirectory = new DirectoryInfo(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());

for (; currentDirectory != null && levelsToCheck > 0; levelsToCheck--, currentDirectory = currentDirectory.Parent)
{
foreach (var fi in currentDirectory.GetFiles(".env", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly))
{
DotEnv.Config(false, fi.FullName);
return; // found .env file
}
};
}
> Isn't some of that cost the healthcare provider's expertise and service?

In theory maybe. Usually I would say these things are not exactly top priority and you are not getting your money's worth in the premium there. At best, of your list, you're paying for the instant availability, but what about the times where it's not instantly available? You're not paying for a guarantee of it.
I agree but the war on drugs and deciding that someone should be convicted for using or buying drugs is based solely on someone’s personal belief about what someone else should do with their own body.
Ask HN: Can I download my HN data?
Github recently announced the ability to download all your Github data[0]. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google all offer similar services. Is there a way to do this for my comments, votes, and submissions on HackerNews?

[0] https://blog.github.com/2018-12-19-download-your-data/
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23proto.html

48% of dot-com companies founded after 1996 survived until at least 2004.

My own incomplete knowledge of these companies include Amazon and Ebay, as well as a handful of Chinese tech companies such as NetEase, Sohu, and Sina.
What world are you living in? The soda tax has been a hot issue for the last 10 years. Schools went from having soda sponsorships in sports to, "the horror"
Well, my wife uses MailChimp, so maybe you'll have saved her business :)
>a certain amount of fiction to make a story more coherent and enjoyable is - at least this is my perception - common practice

For a serious newspaper, new magazine, TV news show, etc. that's purporting to report a news story absolutely not. For example, the Boston Globe has suspended or fired columnists over the years who were found to have fabricated some facts in their columns.

That said, the context does matter. Certainly there's no shortage of books based on some experience of the author's that merge characters and otherwise make changes to improve the narrative flow. But these aren't presented as reporting.
Exhibit A for why "free market healthcare" is an oxymoron.

I have yet to hear a coherent explanation for how anyone can reasonably expect for price discovery to even pretend to function in a market where the consumers can't even guess the prices until after they've already purchased and frequently couldn't reasonably be expected to refuse service even if they did believe it was overpriced.
Seems to me that it was more of a "who cares" oversight than an accidental one.
It's not clear to me that you're saving much of anything by using, for example, a washable duster versus a disposable duster. It takes a lot of water to wash things at your home. It doesn't take very much water to make a box of disposable dusters. Etc, etc.

K-cups are decidedly bad, because they waste plastics which are non-renewable. Dusters could be made, today, using only renewable resources.
That's the UI that I remember from that time. Nothing in the auth dialog mentions access to Messages.
My hunch is that the goal is to spur regulation. Old and new media are battling it out and I'm curious how this will pan out for 2020.
None of this makes sense.

ORMs have existed for decades so developers can use a SQL database just fine without knowing the language. So it's definitely not this.

It's more likely because Mongo is (a) is extremely fast, (b) the easiest database to manage and (c) has a flexible schema which aligns better with dynamic languages which are more popular amongst younger developers.
Ask HN: Information on the philosophical nature of developing software
Hey HN,
I’m interested in the philosophical side of software but what I’m currently looking for is slightly different from the standard ‘philosophy of computer science’ information and I don’t know how to word a search to find what I want.

What I’m interested in is information regarding the language implications of trying to translate others requests into our understanding and then from our mental understanding into software which actually does a thing. I’m interested in the loss and friction that exists between each transferral of understanding.

Does anyone know of any information, discussions or research around this? Taking someone else's ‘intent’ and translating it into a ‘thing’ that ‘does’. I can’t think of many industries where this happens. A few that seem surface similar might be translating novels into another language or architecture but even those result in a ‘thing’ that ‘is’ rather than ‘does’ like software.

Anyway, I’d love it if anyone could share anything they might have found around what is effectively multiple layers of translation. Even anything on the lossy nature of translating our own mental models from an internal language to written code would be fascinating.
Show HN: Where would you go if flights weren't expensive? Email alerts to save $
They were trying to be l33t......
I'm guessing you tell your clients, "I'm not really the right person to set up WordPress for you. I can do it, but it'll be incredibly expensive. You can probably do it yourself with a good online tutorial."

Hospitals aren't telling their patients, "We're not really the right institution to give you ibuprofen. We can do it if you really want us to, but it'll be incredibly expensive. You can just go buy some at the store for like ten cents." In fact, I bet that even if you have the presence of mind to decline their ibuprofen because you'd rather get your own, they'll strenuously argue against it, or even start treating you as not following medical orders.

In any case, it would be a lot more palatable if they'd charge marginal costs for marginal items, and charge overhead separately. It may well cost them something on the order of $60 to give someone ibuprofen, on average, but it does not cost them $60 more to give one more person ibuprofen. It would be more honest to charge two cents for the pill, and separately charge your fair share of the cost of the staff that obtains, vets, distributes, and administers that pill along with everything else you're getting.
> We’re already in the process of reviewing all our APIs and the partners who can access them.

Translation:

chmod 777 *
>If you've been wanting to blog, stop pissing around, open a blog on wordpress.com and start writing. That's my first advice to anyone. Don't waste time on the technicalities, just write. You can move your blog to another platform later.

Terrible advice. If your blog proves popular, it'll be impossible for you to move away without losing your position in search engines. Lock-in.
Anything that interests you is usually a good idea. Do you have hobbies outside of tech? Do something with that.

I like pokemon so for a educational project I'm making a pokedex with a mysql, golang, react stack. If you're into birdwatching make a bird encyclopedia/blog combo site. Maybe somewhere fellow birdpeople can share their bird stories, and experiences.

If you can't think of any way to connect your hobbies into a project, then make a clone of a site or app you use a lot. Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, Linkedin etc. You could also make a resume/profile site.
And there are quite a few DIY options out there to augment your Nespresso experience. The Nessie Press pod recycler (https://www.nessiepress.com/) and Recaps stainless refillable pods (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XG2N6LT/) are two that come to mind.
> Whatever happened to purpose of prison being rehabilitation?

You can't change someone's behavioral tendencies against their will. The criminal has to choose for himself to change and to be rehabilitated. The most you can do is to provide the resources and support he needs to carry out that decision once he's made it.

What you can do is (a) provide a disincentive for committing crimes and (b) separate people with a known tendency for committing crimes from the rest of society. Prison and the death penalty both accomplish these goals, but prison is cheaper and more reversible.
Is there any strong evidence that dietary HFCS is consequentially different than sugar? HFCS is 55%/45% fructose/glucose vs 50%/50% for cane sugar.

That's a mere 5% difference, plus the fact that the gut doesn't need to cleave the fructose from the glucose using sucrase. But AFAIU the cleaving happens readily and rapidly.

It wouldn't be shocking if HFCS was consequentially different, but it seems unlikely. HFCS just seems like a misleading distraction outside arguments about agricultural politics. Worse than a distraction, actually, because relying on flimsy and unnecessary arguments makes it easier for those defending the arguably excessive use of sugar in the food supply to inject FUD into the debate.
> I know $60 Ibuprofen can seem like a lot, but is anyone arguing that you're literally paying for only the pill(s) with that $60? Aren't you paying for the instant availability, the insurance that it's not expired (do they even expire? I really don't know), and confidence that your healthcare provider has signed off that XXX mg of Ibuprofen is a.) OK to have with your current medications and conditions and b.) sufficient to do the job? Isn't some of that cost the healthcare provider's expertise and service? Would it be better if they prescribed morphine and charged you a magnitude more when ibuprofen would have done the job?

It's hard to argue the 600x markup is there to cover overhead when they literally have a facility charge there to cover overhead.

You also have separate line items for each of the things you mentioned -- doctors, nurses, staff, etc. You are paying for that expertise, often many times over, in addition to a $60 pill that retails for $0.10 at the local Walgreens (who also manages to make sure that it's not expired).
Hello world,

I am working on putting together the beta for http://TripFate.com and thought it might be a good idea to share the story and motivation behind it.

I met my wife exactly 4 years ago - all thanks to being on the right flight at the right time. Funny thing is, I wasn't really supposed to be on that flight to Rome. As much as I loved traveling, I was a poor college student and I couldn't really afford the expensive flights.

And then it happened. I was looking for flights to random destinations after wrapping up my project report at 4 AM, and I found a round-trip ticket to Rome (from NYC) for ~$110! It was crazy because the usual prices are at least in the $350-400 range.

I got super hooked! After I returned from my trip, I registered on a bunch of websites to get alerts if there was a price drop. I did get some good deals, but nothing was as crazy cheap as the one I had found for my trip to Rome.

Long story short, I created a service for myself over the years that'd look for flights from across the internet that really were 'great' for their price. In the beginning, it simply sent API requests and had a bunch of if-else statements. However, over the years, I've added a bunch of Machine Learning and Deep Learning tricks to the algorithm.

Moreover, I have instances of my 'smart travel finder' running on around 14 different servers around the world (who knew looking for a flight from India is cheaper sometimes!).

I started getting lots of really interesting flights: ~$170 round-trip to Cancun, ~$230 to Paris, ~$340 to India... and so I decided to share it with family and friends and friends of friends. Once the list grew to over 200, I thought maybe people would be interested in paying for the service, and that's how http://TripFate.com was born.
This narrative that high schoolers are all about cotton candy and mangos, but when given menthol they find it disgusting, is absolutely hilarious and so clearly woven by old men in a government complex somewhere. Kids were smoking long before ecigs popped up, and they'll keep doing all sorts of drugs as long as they exist.

Taste means practically nothing. But it sure does sell better to worried mothers.
it took me until the 5th chapter to realize this is a parody of "The Little Prince"
There was a big discussion about this on the Git ML recently: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180417191549.GA1199@helen.PLA...

I.e. whether the argument that you're exempt from deleting data under the GDPR just because it's inconvenient for your storage format is going to fly in the EU. If not there's scary times ahead for Git.

Here's a good example of a 4 year old using (presumably) her full name committing to the kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/690b0543a813b0ecfc5...

If that kid grows up, moves to the EU, and wants Microsoft (GitHub) to stop publishing that content, will they be able to just say "no"?

How about if the kid has had their personal data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain?

Interesting times indeed.
Have you tried the Aeropress? It's incredibly easy to use and takes about a minute of work every morning - great coffee too.
There's no reason adults would want to vape juice that tastes like shit. Why not going after retailers that illegally sells to minors instead of fucking over consenting adults? By this logic, you'd have to ban sales of peach schnapps to be anywhere consistent.
First off, it sounds like your playbooks sucked - sorry about that, with great power comes great responsibility. Even as I wanted to make things simple, all things could be abused, and in adding more flexibility I've seen some evil things done in my name :)

So as immutable systems grow - that's a damn good thing. I personally think the docker ecosystem is a trainwreck currently, but that's only my opinion, and doesn't really affect anyone else. But the same concepts have been around for ages in EC2 in immutable systems.

What typically happens is people use the CM tool to provide a higher level abstraction than Bash for describing the image build, so they get features that should have always been in docker files but never were (templates are the biggest one for me).

Further, there is always a need to deploy the "undercloud". Even in heavily containerized microservices setups, there's a need to handle all the magic upgrade fun of upgrading a Mongo cluster, a Cassandra cluster, or a Kafka setup.

Whether we call it configuration management, app deployment, or just a structured way to push scripts around and see what failed, we're going to need those tools.

I believe immutable systems is a fantastic philosophy where it works. It doesn't work everywhere. And CM tools still have a niche for those that want to use them in the build process.

If folks want straight docker files instead, I'm also cool with that.
Using Gmail auto-complete emails on your friends is just wrong, sorry
You can put the image tag URL into your browser's address bar and it'll redirect to the Cloud Console page listing tags for that image, e.g.:https://marketplace.gcr.io/google/ubuntu16_04

From there you can go up a level to see all images in the /google/ namespace: https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/cloud-marketplac...
Statistically, but it is a shallow translation, with no modelling of what is said. This works astonishly well for translation, but gives the false intuition that it is meaningful; whereas it is in fact orthogonal to advancing in systems that comprehend a text so as to be able to reason their way out of winograd problems.
There are more alternatives than just drip machines. Convenient ones. That's what I've been pressing.
I wonder what healthcare bills would look like if they were itemized so that things like Ibuprofen were literally billed at cost ($0.25 per?) and there were line items for services/labor that captured the real cost of being a medical professional:

- Emergency room wait: $0.10 for lights

- OTC eyedrops (4 drops): $0.20

- Triage by on-duty nurse: $100 (@ $300/hr)

- Consult by on-duty physician: $220 (@ $600/hr)

- Late-night convenience fee: $100 (between 7pm and 7am)

etc. I made up all the numbers, I have no idea how healthcare professionals calculate their hourly rate.
Also: https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering
They sell vehicle trackers that can be hidden anywhere, the only expensive part is the data plan really
According to the US Census Bureau, poverty in the US has been on the decline since 2010. It's still not below the 2000 levels, but is still declining.
Reminds me of California's labels in that way. Everyone mocks them, but some of them are legitimately useful e.g.:

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/veena-singla/want-avoid-toxic-c...

Same thing here, because border specific stuff aren't worth the hassle, the lowest common denominator (in this case GDPR) becomes the new international standard.

Additionally some US politicians have proposed copying parts of the GDPR into US law which would pretty much make this a permanent staple.
Unless he's vaping juice without nicotine, there is still a cancer risk.

I used to chew nicotine gum to enhance my concentration but after reading research that nicotine by itself causes lung cancer I stopped.
> The value we are trying to add for composers is by giving them an original, 2-3 minutes long theme in seconds, that they can modify however they want

I actually like this a lot compared to AIVA's most obvious competitor (Jukedeck). Jukedeck promises a finished product in seconds, and their output always ends up sounding really, really tacky as a result. And I actually mean that it sounds really, really tacky for royalty-free music, so that ought to tell y'all something! Now, say anything about AIVA's existing output, but tacky it is not. In fact, it seems to show quite a bit of the "true", weird, serendipitous creativity that also occurs in openly-available, verifiably end-to-end systems (and that makes their output musically interesting), so there's clearly some real achievement here.
> People just don't know there's another way to make coffee than pod machines? I'm sorry, I just don't accept that premise. What am I missing?

Other than drip, that's what I'm saying. They aren't aware of convenient alternatives. Stands to reason if they did, they'd buy them.

> they're making it based on their personal priorities, not because marketing has deluded them into thinking there's no other way

I don't think you can divorce marketing impact from consumer choices. Keurig as a priority wouldn't have existed without the advertising effort a priori.
> The bill also doesnt address perpetual parole.

This bill is addressed to federal prisons. There is no parole in the federal system.
I have the opposite during warm weather. I have a 12-15 minute bike commute that takes 45 minutes by car and an hour by bus. I'm sure that's not the case if you don't have decent bike infrastructure though.
If you define dark matter as matter whose gravitational influence we infer but whose nature is still mysterious, then sure it is right now!
If they told me it would cost $60 for a simple Ibuprofen, I'd get out of bed and walk myself down the pharmacy on the first floor where they are regularly priced (in the SAME building), or send a family member down for that 10 minute walk to save $50 times how many you need to take. The pharmacists know the drugs I'm taking and interactions, yet the Ibuprofen isn't marked up a couple hundred percent.
You make it sound like learning SQL is like learning Assembler. It's not that hard. And ORMs exist in every language to abstract it all away.

PostgreSQL looks scary because it is a swiss army knife. It has a million different features and data structures. MongoDB does only one thing.
You are welcome! Yeah the thing I was worried about with that kinda went away.

Feedback would be welcome, stop by the forum sometime!
Have you tried to find it from the home page though?

It's under `/info`, which un-suffixed redirects to `/about`, which I _can_ find from the home page (it's linked in the _footer_) but I can't find this engineering blog from `/about`, or anywhere else I can get to from `/`.

I don't think it's so much a positive choice to use the same system as it is just using (a possibly separate instance of) what they already had, and still squirreling it away in a corner.
Regulations Might Force VW to Kick Electric Car Plans Up a Notch
> I started my project focused on one specific charge: the facility fee. I found this charge for walking through an emergency room’s doors could be as low as $533 or well over $3,000, depending on which hospital a patient visited and how severe her case was. I also learned that the price of this charge had skyrocketed in recent years, increasing much faster than other medical prices for no clear reason.

Is this why my local hospitals are advertising their ER wait times? The arbitrary profit from arbitrary "in the door" fees?
In Russia, "energy drinks" are forbidden for minors (< 18 years), but coffee, tea and coca-cola-like drinks (which AFAIK can have caffeine too) don't have such restriction.