skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those unaware, phthalates are linked to decreased testosterone and potentially other health effects. 1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate#Endocrine_disruption
Security lines are shorter than airports now because public is not relying on trains in the US for travel as much as airplanes yet, if that happens what makes you think there won't be TSA all over train stations making you take your shoes off before boarding?
> Articulating your thoughts into a sane logical structure (aka code), with sane names and motivation examples and conceptual units, saves you time even in the short run.

If you think he or she is only talking about pretty code, you don't understand the distinction to begin with.
Do other states earn tax revenue from billboards? Why did those four states ban billboards?
Those records are protected by HIPAA which requires they be encrypted, and epic logs anytime a person views patient information.
In a restricted lane (dedicated to only self driving vehicles), we have had this capability for at least 15 years.
I agree with you on the long runs. However there are a handful of densely populated runs where I think it makes sense.

For example:

1. Detroit - Chicago

2. New York - Philadelphia - Washington DC

3. Tampa - Orlando - Miami

4. Atlanta - Nashville

5. San Antonio - Austin - Dallas

6. Portland - Seattle

7. Los Angeles - Las Vegas

8. Cleveland - Columbus - Cincinnati

All of these are 70-90 minute journeys at 200 mph. Faster than driving and if you include everything in the journey also faster than flying.

Now that it's legal for us to use European train cars perhaps the French (or the Chinese) can build it for us :<)
It never occurred to me that someone might disagree with that. Obviously sw development is not harder, more complicated or more important than any other trait.
Tragedy of the commons happened to Quora. Its just the new answers.com at this point.
> The nearest to contemporary documentation for Socrates is writings of other philosophers probably dating from shortly after his death

Socrates is lampooned in Aristophanes’ Clouds, so in this case we actually do have some contemporary documentation for him, not just after his death, even if Xenophon and Plato remain the main sources for him.
The Biggest Benefits of a Stock Market Meltdown
Is it okay if I tip you some BATs?
Cashiers job and no financial responsibilities.
Build small parts of the network first
Larger portions later
Britain is tiny in comparison, with a nationally embarrassing rail service compared to our European neighbours. It's been deprived of adequate investment for decades.

Yet the sleeper services to Scotland are still going as a daily service. Even though the rolling stock must be some of the oldest on our railways. New rolling stock due next year.

10 hours HSR service to LA is the perfect time for a good night's sleep and a good full breakfast in the restaurant car. Arrive in LA fully refreshed ready for a full day.

How can that not be competitive and appealing? I'd take that over a 4hr(?) cattle class early morning flight, with an hour or so in airports each end, every single time. Your size is a point in favour of HSR not against. There must be countless viable HSR routes in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_sleeper
The "3 hacks" is much closer to what the article is about though. The subtitle arouses curiosity and has more power to get people to click, but is less relevant to the content.
I would say that it's less about some kind of absolute truths about existence, which are often things that we have long heard about (be kind to your neighbor, etc) but rather more about the characters and the experiences that they go through in order to arrive at these truths. He strikes me as a person who actually lived through the things that he writes about and he bases his characters and their experiences on them.

Some writers may have some truth that they want to convey in their book and so they create characters that are simply vehicles for these ideas and not much more (ie Ayn Rand). Dostoyevsky's characters are not simply posterboys for some moral agenda but are more like personality archetypes that you would actually come across, that's what makes his writing so relatable and believable, and the interactions between these characters so lifelike.

Some of it does get lost in translation, there's something about Russian dialogue that it translates very awkwardly to English.

PS: Another example where his insight was pretty accurate was his book The Possessed. It was published over 40 years before the communist revolution in Russia but it definitely offered some very on-point commentary about the nature of the people who lead these kinds of movements. It was prescient in many ways, really. It's a lesser known book but I highly recommend it, in many ways I think it's relevant to what's (still) happening in politics today.
Why just 200mph
This is really just your own confirmation bias. I’ve travelled quite a lot, and can assure you that everywhere you go, you’ll find people that lack knowledge that you think is common place.
It's only 2hrs 15mins if you go the longer way via Crewe, the more direct services via Stoke with fewer stops are around 2hrs 5mins. It also depends on your definition of high speed train, the original definition is 125mph, which the Pendolino definitely is (and is actually the max speed of the British train called the High Speed Train). We keep redefining what High means... HS2 with a max speed of 186mph will be 67minutes.
At some point I thought I wanted to become a VC, but I realized that I have too many nihilistic tendencies to ever want to live a life where my entire schedule is meetings.
That was a great talk! Wish he had more time.
If a package was opened inside his friend/neighbors own house, how did he not recognize that?
you read those passages and reimagined their intent and delivery? I don't think any christian I've ever met has come to such conclusions. I think generally they see the miracles as proof of his divinity
Sorry mate, but your terminology doesn’t line up with other English speakers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age

The dictionary definition of happiness is not something that can be measured and compared between groups of people.

Schizophrenia is not a “modern mental illness”. It’s been around forever.

>Simply repeating the fallacy is not going to accomplish anything

Then why TF did you do it?
Then why is there so much harsh criticism of America from Europeans? Seems like Europe should be the top destination for immigrants seeing as it has superior healthcare, workers rights, gun control, drug policy, etc.
Similar maps work for the us. East and west coasts are dense, so too the boarder with canada (the great lakes cities). Every developed country has population centers around ports. There just arent any ports in the north. (That may one day change.)

https://wywing.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/us_population_den...
it takes until 2029 to build a railway in between SF and LA

SF to LA has had rail service for over 140 years.

The failure of HSR in CA has nothing to do with "the US" and everything to do with graft internal to CA.
> Using one term, genetic modification, for several completely different processes doesn’t hide the truth, it just confuses people.

That’s exactly what the article you linked to does too. The takeaway is that any alteration to the genome of food is bad.
Coz coding server the existing way require upfront provisioning and a ton of waste, plus a load of devops nannying (oh no my game is down because of logs again). Keeping servers running is a constant game of wack-a-mole of edge cases, sometimes introduced applying regular software patches. Stateless ephemeral compute is so much easier, if you can offset the latency tax.
Classic cherry-picking logic.

If, on the contrary, let's cherry picking the good things said by Pewd, then anyone can come at the opposite statement.

I am really disturbed by this line of thinking, which bases conclusions on top of unfounded claims in the first place.
I think a lot of the parts in that book that seemed to be all over the place would have later come together into something more cohesive by the end of the second book.

It was supposed to be the first part of two books but he died before he wrote the second. Which is why I think there was much more to the plot and there may have been some more twists beside what was already revealed in the first.
Over 40 percent of Americans don't pay ANY Federal income tax.

So, by natural law, doesn't any tax cut not benefit them?

This includes most of the countries poorest citizens.
It depends, some C++11 features are widely used, like smart pointers. I agree that most of the features are seldom used and add tons bloat to the language.
Last time an article about Flutter was posted, several users showed concerns that this is a campaign to promote the product.
I'm starting to lean into this theory more and more.

Articles like these bring nothing to the table and look out of place for HN.

Putting on my tinfoil hat, I'm concerned about the ratio of likes and comments as well.
Have you ever worked a support role for an application?

Regular users have amazing blind spots. Also you’re not giving slack enough credit for their smooth onboarding process.
Course description seems to cover fewer topics then the Flask Mega Tutorial: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...
And learning something new about a loved one by talking to them.
Speaking Risk, Rob Reid wrote an interesting series of articles, one of which was on global risk that this topic made me think about
https://medium.com/s/powertrip/the-50-50-murder-a3832f587bee
Previously they used pulverized mica. Mylar is cheaper and more manageable.
I like Rust, have dabled a couple of times in it, see a possible great future for it in the next couple of decades, given that it is being adopted by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Oracle among others.

However I will keep writing C++ to go along my Java, .NET, nodejs production code, for the time being.

Rust is still lacking in IDE support, mixed language debugging, OS SDKs I generally use, integration with binary libraries, not everyone on the teams is willing to add yet another language to the mix, NVIDIA GPUs are designed for C++, and newer features make it easier to write safer code, in spite of its C underpinnings.
I used to republish scam marketing videos for binary options trading scams on YouTube.[0]

I recently got an email saying they had received a claim from the copyright holder, which seems strange as it is unlikely that the copyright holder would wish to identify themself.

The so-called "copyright holder" was actually a music publisher, and there was music in the video at various points, so I assumed it must be about that.

But I looked at the identified time section, and there was no music at all. It was just a guy talking. I have no idea why it matched.

I submitted an appeal. It gives you several options for why you want to appeal, but notably absent is "the video does not contain any of the claimant's material", so my "appeal" had to be submitted on the grounds that my (non-)usage of the claimant's audio is fair use...

YouTube's copyright system is laughable.

[0] If you're interested, this is one of my favourites: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BeeUXNF1H8s
Security lines are shorter because you can’t fly a train full of jet fuel into a pair of skyscrapers.
Probably not the most impartial author on the topic though, as as he is a theist and self-proclaims himself as a "genuinely committed disciple of Jesus of Nazareth".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Aslan#Religious_views
That system is incredibly efficient and dynamically stable.
I hope no one is working or sleeping in those lanes.
Define "tax cut". A tax credit would benefit those who already pay 0.
Are you in Canada? Google showed me a few reddit threads where Canadians had their order canceled a few times when trying to pay online. OP in that thread said using Paypal account eventually worked for them.

Here is a reddit comment from an Oculus support staff acknowledging they are looking into issues Canadians are having ordering Oculus Go (from 6 months ago) https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/8mro5b/payment_refu...
In terms of "value for effort", this sounds like a cool idea.

I'd guess this approach also struggles with multiple-line input like if/else, loops, functions.

I'm reminded of https://github.com/jcartledge/sublime-worksheet
which is language-agnostic on the other end of things.
The two ideas might work well together in limited cases.
Perhaps, though I don't know where that number comes from. If it's purely gas mileage, then it doesn't account for cost of insurance, cost of the car, risk of an accident, cost of storing the car, cost of general maintenance, and, while sort of ancillary, cost the urban area if everyone relies on driving. If it's not pure gas mileage, I'd be curious how that formula works out, but there remain problems with that as a solution to anything.
I've only read Crime and Punishment, but this was exactly my observation of it. I really wasn't impressed with it, and then suddenly, almost exactly half way in, it kicked off and I was engrossed.
Instead of trains we're working on self driving cars. They better serve last mile and are better suited for private investment and innovation than huge infrastructure projects.
Come on, the train is already semi-self-driving.

Self driving car will never match the safety, speed, comfort, and social interactions of a train.
The most important part I got out of the article was the side link about the Third Wave (information age):

http://www.criticalthink.info/Phil1301/Wave3lec.htm

In order to remain in the Second Wave (industrial age), the following would need to happen:

9. Families will become non-nuclear.

Many say the family is falling apart today. They define the family as a husband-breadwinner, mother-housekeeper, and a numebr of children. This is the "nuclear family" which was created and idealized by the Second Wave. It is falling apart, because the Second Wave industrial complex system is falling apart.

If we really want to maintain the nuclear family, here's what we would have to do:

* Freeze all technology in its Second Wave stage to maintain a factory-based, mass-production society.
* Block the rise of the service and professional sectors in the economy. White-collar, professional, and technical workers are less traditional, less family-oriented, more intellectually and psychologically mobile than blue- collar workers.
* "Solve" the energy crisis by applying nuclear and other highly centralized energy processes. The nuclear family survives better in a centralized society.
* Return to mass media, and ban cable television, cassettes, local and regional magazines and radio programs. Nuclear families work best where there is a national consensus on information and values, not in a society based on high diversity.
* Forcibly drive women back into the kitchen. Reduce wages for those who insist on working. The nuclear family has no nucleus when there are no adults left at home.
* Slash the wages of young workers to make them more dependent, for a longer time, on their families.
* Ban contraception. This makes for independence of women and for extramarital sex, a notorious lossener of nuclear ties.
* Cut the standard of living of the entire society to pre-1955 levels, since affluence makes it possible for single people, divorced people, working women, and other unattached individuals to "make it" economically on their own.
* Resist all changes in our society which lead toward diversity, freedom of movement and ideas, or individuality. The nuclear family remains dominant only in a mass society.

This is the only explanation of provincial US populism, Trumpism, the Alt-Right, etc etc etc that makes any sense to me. I think that the yearning to go back to a memory of how things were is an instinctive desire deeply rooted in the psyche like sexuality, religion or political affiliation that can't be changed. It may not be mine, but I sympathize with aspects of that sentiment.

The great tragedy of it though is an inability to imagine something akin to the nuclear family in a post-industrial society. They don't imagine a coal miner doing subsurface work on the moon. This is why I think that the current hardline focus on escaping the reality of a changing world is going to be short-lived. At some point, as traditionalists get more of what they want, the idealists of the world will pull away to such an extent that their new normal will have the wholesome things manifested rather than just shadows of what once was.
It's actually a helpful example to support the conclusion. Why would the author provide a "better" example that supports his/her idea less? LA to Chicago may not be a commonly travelled route nor one that would lend itself to train travel best, but the author's point still stands, which is in the US on average distances between major cities are much longer than any individual country in Europe, hence the immense cost required to build infrastructure for trains. We might have bit the bullet and done it with highways back in the day for whatever reason, today the reasoning for doing the same thing may not apply and the cost unjustified.
Here, you're just talking about the operation of propaganda.
As some one with a lot of development experience - I don't see any problems with the authors comments.
Exactly. The TSA will do that, if rail ever becomes popular.
Spot on. Epic isn’t designed for patients or clinicians. It’s designed for up-coding patient encounters, that is, to maximize the amount of money a hospital bills insurance or Medicare.

When a hospital switches to Epic, they do so because they know it will result in more money billed per patient. This justifies the outrageous price.
> With any tax cut, the rich will benefit the most because they pay most of the taxes.

Drop the 10% bracket to zero, increase the 12% bracket to, what, 15.25%. And you get a tax cut for everyone whose income is entirely in the 10% and (except at the exact top dollar amount of the bracket) 12% brackets, and no one else sees a change.
The article seeks pretty rambling and doesn't have a clear point, but I have friends in the sex-work industry and the closing part is true: like music, people don't want to pay for porn anymore, and it's making it harder and harder for non-megastars to make a living. Everybody I know making a living off porn is doing it through twitter, premium Snapchat accounts, patreon and the like, not traditional sites, and it's not easy.
You can't do that anymore with commercial aircraft either, since they started looking the cockpit door, yet we still act like every passenger is likely to try it.
Or what? You're going to shadow ban him like you do with the rest of the people you disagree with?
It is not common knowledge that a hunter gatherer lifestyle without medicine/food science/etc is better. It is not reported in popular media and it’s not backed by scientific research. It is an extraordinary claim.

>our modern lifestyle is good because we've only been worried about it killing us since we've had it?

Nope. It’s good because it’s provided us with abundance to the point where we are no longer struggling just to feed ourselves.
I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally. And so when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall comment or things like that, the question is not ‘Are you going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China?’ or, you know, ‘How exactly are you going to enforce these tests?’ What they hear is ‘We’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy. -- Peter Thiel, October 2016

I see no evidence of his being duped. That's a pretty good analysis of how many perceived the Trump immigration message.
These incentives exist but are not a good excuse in my view. I'd recommend reading this blog post about how "incentives" are used to justify all sorts of bad behavior in academia: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-inc...

Right now I'm nearly done a PhD in mechanical engineering. I've worked on several computational projects of varying levels of code quality from good (e.g., NIST's Fire Dynamics Simulator: https://github.com/firemodels/fds) to bad (won't give unambiguous examples for obvious reasons...).

I see clear incentives against uncertainty quantification and high quality model validation in my field. Those topics are treated superficially if at all, because people just want their model to look good, and if they do a rigorous job, that increases the chance that their model looks bad. As far as I'm concerned, if you don't do good quality model validation, you're not doing your job as a scientist.

A more specific example: Some codes are kept for a decade or longer if the software is sufficiently complex. One code I worked with was used by multiple graduate students over several PhDs and had very little if anything in terms of documentation. What did exist was far out of date. I spent a fair amount of time trying to understand and document the software, but other people treated me as if I was crazy for wanting to understand the black box I was provided. I don't think I ever actually understood that software fully despite the many hours I spent working on it. And I'm not certain that it provided correct results either. There were almost no tests, and the existing tests were hard to run and were consequently almost never run. The software produced several PhDs, though. The first few PhDs had it fairly easy. I had to pay their technical debt, and I couldn't pay it all back. It made me look bad as far as I'm concerned and did not save time in the long run. If anything, there's a long term incentive toward good software development practices.

Ultimately I think the solution would involve having minimum standard for scientific software quality, or else grant funding will be withdrawn. It will anger many people who have so far gotten away with writing low quality software, but beyond that I don't see many downsides.
Sure you can't do that exact thing but who would have thought of flying planes into skyscrapers before 9/11 except a few crazies anyway? We didn't exactly have a pandemic of people flying planes into skyscrapers for decades prior.
The article touches on this, but a big factor of Content ID is that it's not in any way tied to copyright law or the DMCA.

Yes, Youtube says users need to play by DMCA rules regarding what they own, but content creators are not entitled to disputes, fair use, or even the ability to sue over a claim.
You don't need to skip the ad. Just install uBlock Origin and optionally uMatrix and there will be no ads anymore, either on YT or any other site for that matter.
>Short

Proceeds to have 40 pages
While Epic produces the database/electronic health record system, the hospital or health system ultimately owns the data. AFAIK patient data don’t sit on Epic’s own servers outside of some research/pilot initiatives.

(Source: my personal experience working extensively with EHRs, including Epic products.)
Seriously? Author plots kilometers built absolute numbers for China and Italy onto the same graph?

Could someone politely inform said author that China is a little bit bigger than Italy.

The part about the US needing to wake up rings true though.
> at best it's reasonable option for places outside of denser areas

AKA 99% of North America.
i felt like the article describes a whole bunch of the details – e.g. covering the plastic with vaporized aluminum (i believe this is what "aluminum-metalized polyethylene terephthalate" means); making plastic iridescent by etching microscopic patterns into the plastic and exploiting the way light refracts off of those; maybe others that i can't remember now.

but to me that wasn't as interesting as the part where the glitter industry turned out to be weirdly secretive about the whole process.