skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I was agreeing! But sadly I am seeing more than a little but of jingoism here, which I think is 80% right, but like anything you can take it too far. "Every generalization is false," etc.
The article is really bad. What is preventing nanobots, for example, from completely eradicating the problem of cancer at some stage of technological development? It's like the author wants cancer to have some mystical power over us forever and is fitting all current endeavors to that narrative.
Former smoker here and guilty of throwing many butts on the ground even though I find any other form of litter unthinkable.

When I was much younger I believed that cigarette butts biodegraded in a couple years. No big deal, right? I distinctly remember reading this on a sign at a campsite when I was about 18. Turns out, that's an ideal scenario and butts can take up to 10 years to break down naturally, and even then various "degraded" toxins are still present in the environment indefinitely.

But that campsite sign was enough to fuel 15 years of cognitive dissonance that allowed me to toss butts on the ground like they were pieces of old lettuce.

That, and the mind-bending power of nicotine addiction, which is vastly more powerful than most people realize.
writing articles that blame pharma and biotech for stealing people private data is the hot thing now. It increases page hits. Same with blaming google, facebook for stealing user data; it's the fear du jour.

While there are legitimate concerns, 23&Me is pretty good in terms of privacy practices and their founders/employees are working in good faith to improve the health of humans. It's kind of sad that gets twisted into "compabnies are profiting from your personal data", because while that is true, it's not nearly as invasive or gattaca as people seem to think.
Agreed, this more about familiarity than "wotds from everyday language". If it weren't, the same people who complain about iota would also complain "lambda functions".
Show HN: An isomorphic, configurable JavaScript utility for object deep cloning
The number of butts littered in my city in general and at public transport stops in particularly decreased very significantly ever since most public trash cans where upgraded to have a built-in ashtray (whereas previous trash cans explicitly said not to throw in "hot ashes"), and there is a lot more trash cans in general (which also reduced the general amount of littering drastically).

Approaching a tram/bus stop, you can always tell from a bit of a distance if the trash can is full, because when it is the immediate area surrounding/beneath it is a sea of cigarette butts. Even then, it seems, while most smokers will NOT take their butts with them and dispose of them properly elsewhere, they will still not just litter everywhere and anywhere, instead "placing" their butts next to the full trash can, maybe to make a statement that at least they tried...

The amount of butts littered in the downtown area with all the historic buildings and historic cobblestone streets - but also very busy with most of the bigger item shops there - is extremely low by now, virtually non-existent in most areas, not just because there are ashtray-ized trash cans there too, but also because there is city officers regularly patrolling there, making sure people don't litter in general, beggars/musicians stick by the rules, bike riders don't use the pedestrian only areas, etc. Those patrols will fine you for your flicked butts, EUR 35 on regular streets and EUR 80 when you litter on harder to clean cobblestone IIRC.
I have a more informed perspective. First, Finland introduced a browser (Erwise) two years before the W3c browser. Second, the U.S. is stumbling in terms of getting beyond analytic and ANN designs, and AGI is an area where few in the U.S. work. I have worked with Finland on cutting-edge tech in the past, and I wouldn't be surprised if they made some serious breakthroughs. It does not take a lot of researchers to excell in AGI, it only takes one bricoleur. (source, inventor of the Internet browser.)
I can't remember to be honest. It's been a while. At a guess I think it would just be really unusable - everything being needlessly clunky or impossible to discover. Case in point - you followed tutorials. With something like Solidworks I think most people could work out how to do a lot just by experimentation in the program.

I would definitely recommend using either SolveSpace or Fusion 360 (free for hobbyists) if you want to learn CAD (or pirate Solidworks if you can be bothered). After that you could try to use something like freecad and won't get confused by it.

Same for electronics. Don't try and learn from Kicad or Eagle. They have ridiculously awful interfaces. I would recommend Designspark PCB or pirating Altium.
The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution says "No person shall […] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Since the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, that provision trumps anything that the president or Congress can do short of passing another amendment to modify that.

Denying a US citizen the right to travel without telling them why and preventing them from having any recourse to challenge it almost certainly violates that provision.
> This is not usually true in monorepos or polyrepos, and is quite a dangerous practice that nobody should use and hasn’t got much at all to do with what type of repo you use.

I guess compilers must work differently for you.
Thanks! I didn't even realize there was a documentation section. Looking closer, I probably missed it because it's called "Features" rather than "Documentation". I'll definitely use this for my daily SQLite work!
I’ve never used Stimulus, but I can concur that Turbolinks is magic, at least for the simpler Rails app I made. It took load times from over one second to feeling like a native app, didn’t require any changes on the backend (it’s enabled by default in Rails), and the site works just fine without it, for those of us who like blocking third-party JavaScript.
23andme uses genotypimg and not sequencing, so you won’t be getting those rare mutations. That’s how they can keep the price so low.

I think your point still stands though, your genotype is still identifying information and should be safeguarded.

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904600...
I am generally on your side of the fence- I think we forget smokers are also people- but where you choose to smoke is still an active choice. Most of the ire I see directed at smokers is for smoking around pregnant women, infants, and in public places they aren't supposed to be smoking. And for all the cigarette butts. All of these things are active choices.
The article says it's opt-out not opt-in, and purpose is to find drug targets and clinical trail participants.
My wife is a psychiatrist and sees a psychiatrist off the record because she’s afraid of the stigma affecting her career. It’s just one data point but I find it telling that a psychiatrist is afraid that other psychiatrists will know she takes med to treat a psychiatric condition. Hers is anxiety related.
So wait, I could have been an air force pilot after all, and their annoying eyesight and physical requirements are illegal?

That is absolutely ridiculous, the ADA doesn't imply that anyone with any disability needs to be accommodated for any job, just that reasonable accommodation be made. For instance, someone in a wheelchair will be unable to do many jobs, regardless of accommodation,such as framing carpentry and roofing.

As someone who has gotten ADA accommodations related to mental health, there are absolutely limits. Due to my hand tremors, no hospital in the nation would allow me to be a surgeon, regardless of qualifications. Ditto for police departments, due to said mental-health issues.
If you love emacs's functionality and prefer vim's key bindings, you may find http://spacemacs.org/ useful. Its org-mode support is amazing.
Tagged as 2007 but the article date says “Last updated: 2018-12-18.”
How were you mislead?

What difference does it make if it's a prescription stimulant?
In addition to the recommended CapsLock ⇒ LCtrl rebinding done on the OS level, there are also several things you can do within Emacs to edit and navigate comfortably.

For example, you can add this to your ~/.emacs:

(global-set-key [f8] 'view-mode)

This lets you quickly enable and disable view-mode, using F8. In view-mode, you can use SPACE and BACKSPACE for scrolling, which is useful for reading longer documents and files.

With a Dvorak keyboard, navigation is also more convenient, since for example C-n and C-p are at the respective locations of C-l and C-r on US keyboards, so that both hands are regularly used and not used.

Other than that, I recommend to also use search for navigation, and to occasionally read and re-read the first chapters of the Emacs manual: There are many useful commands that can help a lot if you know them and their prefix arguments.
Exploring Privacy Pass
100% agree with this. We see the same mental health epidemic in PhD students. Clearly, there needs to be a paradigm shift where we can enable people to achieve high levels of education (and hold them to high standards) without making it a nonstop do-or-die mission. Mental wellness training should definitely be part of the curriculum for medical students (and everyone).
is there anything working with helm in the similar way ?
Is it a touchpad? No.
I'd say actual human slavery - which I can easily imagine from extensive historical records - is probably worse.

Yeah, mysterious data centers logging everything you do is scary, but have you ever been beaten bloody because you lacked the physical ability to pick the required cotton quota? Whoever wrote this title needs a serious dose of perspective. And to rewrite the title.
Having easy access to decent food is by far the easiest way to maintain your weight. That is literally the first thing you should try to achieve if you want to lose or maintain weight. I don't even know what your point is if any at all.
I'd say the article is realistic, based on how oncology is currently done in the medical field.

As for the question of whether nanobots can completely cure cancer, that's scifi. Actually identifying tumors and removing them is a hard classification problem followed by a careful surgery. Generally this is done using advanced imaging, radiologists who interpret the images, guiding surgeons or doctors to either do tumor resections, or select chemotherapy. Nanobots are just a tiny version of the tumor resection, with the added problem that nanobots don't exist, they don;t' have the computational power to discriminate invasive tumors (at least, the current generation of "robot pills don't).

So let's focus on what is tangible in the near future: additional use of machine learning based on large training sets collected across hundreds of studies. That is in fact very likely to counter the author's hypothesis.
Interesting opinions, you might enjoy testing the strong-hold in winds of an anti-depressant related discussion - https://player.fm/series/philosophy-for-our-times/e123-minds...
> You can’t allow 9 hijackers to attack just to avoid not allowing one person to fly.

Yes you can, and should. That's the entire point of the idea that it is better to let 9 guilty people walk free than to unfairly punish one innocent person.
"diesel truck owners rolling coal on cyclists and people in hybrid cars".

What does this mean?
Could you help us understand why? I've always wondered about Chinese nationals true feelings regarding the censorship they're subjected to.

From my perspective as an American, I view the free exchange of ideas to be the bedrock upon which all other human rights depend. A government deciding which ideas their citizens can express is simply beyond the pale and indicative of evil and corruption.
Norwegian oil has a lot to do with this too.
Yes, but my salary depends not on the utility I create for my company, but on the cost of replacing me (labor market). It's just happened that very few people are willing+capable of doing my job.
I'm from the US but visited Norway as a kid. The open face sandwich is one of my biggest memories. "But how do you store it without making a mess?" "Wax paper". "But why not just add a second piece of bread?" "We don't do that here".
All the above. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Small government supporters argue that without the power to be held (i.e. small government) that you can worry less about corruption, because it's easier to see.
I don't know the answer to your question. In the US we already have people trying to use welfare as an excuse to mandate drug testing and control what people are allowed to eat. Maybe this sort of thing never happens elsewhere, but the US is often an outlier in how shitty we can be to people.

It's also my understanding that healthcare was a big part of what convinced people in the UK to vote for Brexit.
After using a Mac for a while, I realize how easy the cmd key combinations are to press. They are easier than the ctrl key combinations.

I think it would be useful for Emacs to swap cmd and ctrl.
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If you've a sufficiently decent input manager or a programmable keyboard, you can have Caps Lock play double duty as both. I am an emacs and evil user, so I have tapping caps configured to send ^] and holding it to ^. Best of both worlds!
I'd argue the 401(k) is more tax deferral than avoidance.
Winston Smith's job at the Ministry of Truth was basically this.
The article paints a pretty bleak picture, but it's even worse when we consider that even the author has bought in to privacy destroying narratives and technologies. I mean, the guy just posted an article on privacy inequality on a site that requires a third party login to discuss said article??? Don't even get me started on his belief that Elon Musk and companies like Tesla will be bulwarks against privacy inequality???

Keep in mind, this is a guy who, at least, knows that privacy inequality exists. And even he is given to almost naturally accepting narratives and technologies that are a direct threat to equality in this regard. So if even guys like the author are able to be seamlessly integrated into the future system of asymmetric privacy we're creating, then there really isn't much hope for most of the world's population who are liable to be a good deal less thoughtful.

All that said, HN User slfnflctd is correct, privacy inequality is bad, but there are much worse causes of suffering for humanity. Slavery does spring immediately to mind. Rape, Genocides. Etc. Privacy inequality might help to enable some of those things, but those things certainly exist with no help from privacy inequality at all.
I found the entire premise of the question weird - s/he asks about what people are using, and then states s/he wants to use two specific things.

"Waiter, what can you suggest for me, I want to eat a fillet mignon?".

As for your view - I agree mostly. I'm definitely in favour of making things entirely in the 'classic' web model, adding javascript to enhance things where it makes sense (some of this now is just polyfilling html5 form controls where they're not native).
The Value of a Fresh Pair of Eyes
> Yet... with many of the Apple technorati asking for one and saying it's a necessary next step.

No, what I see, is people that are always coming with excuses to not buy an iPad.

"Because it can only run one application at once" -> Apple implements that feature -> "it needs a real file manager" -> Apple implements that feature, and they will come up with more excuses of "why the iPad isn't a MacBook Air".
And possibly IQ too . There is a high correlation between national IQ and GDP per capita.
FUSE is not standard in desktops. And you can't get custom UI.
If simplicity and lack of migrations is the only advantage of MongoDB then there is no reason to use it in place of Postgres, since you can just use JSONB instead and not worry about any of those.
These days we call this approach 'lazyweb'
Scientists boost crop production by 47% by speeding up photorespiration (2018)
> Uuuuh not using YAML

That's not what it says. Maybe next time you can try to understand before you comment.

And YAML sucks, by the way.
> You can't change your DNA

yet
More like getting off of other's control.
I can imagine much more brutal things.
For several months i am taking my lunch to work for that reason - lunch break takes less time (also the food in those restaurants is so expensive and worst of all doesn't taste that good) Now I know that I am following progressive Norwegian best practices!
I take this as:

1,2: memorize
3,4, residency: poorly compensated labor
Did you click through to the course? Chapter 2 is about search algorithms and planning, albeit not in very much depth.
This article is a poorly written waste of time.
Why not just make the traditional site, and then add what, a dozen or so lines of JavaScript (or some backend frameworks will do it for you) to make form submissions/links into XHR calls dynamically.

Also - using WebSockets for a one-way communication channel is ridiculous. I know it's the cool kid way to do things, but that invariably means it's over hyped and has a more appropriate alternative. In this case, it's EventSource/Server Sent Events.
Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May is also an astrophysicist with a PhD
I find the matpakke thing to be agreeable, at least he way my Norwegian friends do it. Pack what you like!

In the US anyway, lunch can be expensive and time consuming if done at restaurants.

Portions can be large and that makes me sluggish. My biggest problem with it is the concept of choice - that eats up my time allotment more than the eating! And for social time I would rather talk with coffee than over mouthfuls of food.
Right, it moves the corruption to the private sector, where the now smaller government is (and by proxy those vote) unable to effectively police it
But if your DNA report reveals markers for some potential health problems, and you are aware of that and do not disclose it to the insurance company when you sign up, they can cancel your policy in the future for not sharing all known health issues with them, if they find out somehow that you obtained that report and did not share it.
I find it very hard to believe you would get "stern looks from colleagues" simply because you made yourself a different sandwich... It this for real?

If I had to bring a sandwich to work, I would certainly make it with something I do enjoy eating, colleagues be damned.
Yes, I'm using it in the budgeting webapp that I develop and here's one little component that I shared, a calculator for input boxes https://tomk32.de/2018/08/04/stimulus-component-calculator.h...

Really should add a gif or something.
For Ctrl, I recommend pressing it with the knuckle of your little finger. There's a photo of the technique here, about halfway down: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html

The main advantage of this over rebinding Caps Lock: it keeps the meta keys symmetrical, so you don't have to faff about rebinding Enter, or wonder about how you're going to solve the issue of hitting Ctrl with your right hand.

(Lee recommends not doing this, citing unspecified issues with the little finger. For whatever it's worth, probably not much in the face of that kind of argument, I've been doing this for about ten years now and haven't noticed any problems. I'm afraid you're just going to have to make your own decision here.)
I always had the option of warm lunch in school in Belgium (Hainaut, not really a rich part), maybe it's a regional thing.
Practically speaking, Chinese nationals enjoy freedom to exchange ideas on whatever they want, except politically sensitive topics in public.

On the other hand, people in US enjoy freedom to exchange ideas on whatever they want, except politically incorrect topics in public.

So basically in both cases, people are just hiding what they truly know/think in their minds instead of speaking them out.
Your argument already starts to show it's flaws when considering the Netherlands where a lot of people bike to work in all layers of the organization ... most notably our prime minister bikes to work, but so does everyone else basically if you live close by.
If that’s the argumentation then Postgres is over 22 years old which makes it over two times better? On the other hand Windows is over 30 years old and it still hasn’t fixed many issues which for me are the reasons why I don’t want to have anything to do with it.
the irony of writing it in medium.com
Actually, let me set ns-alternate-modifier, ns-command-modifier and ns-control-modifier, and see what happens. It sure takes some getting used to!
Like the other poster, I'm curious to hear your perspective. You don't find it a bit strange that "only government-owned websites and specially approved political blogs...are allowed to post photos of top leaders."?

You also think it's better to cover up events like Tiananmen Square? It seems like it's almost entirely forgotten even though it happened only 30 years ago. My country (US) doesn't have a great human rights track record either, but at least we're allowed to talk about it.
All fields have jargon, but math culture is at least "up to isomorphism".
AWS decommissions hardware like anyone else. While I'm sure their processes include a secure-delete, no process is perfect and things are missed. It's worth setting the flag, especially since it's free.
Bomberman is the original Battle Royale: Lots of players starting distributed around a map, farming and gathering powerups and making their way to each other until there's one person left standing. (Even including the map constricting in size as time runs low like the 'storm' in Fortnite and PubG.)
I understand that teachers in France used to be able to order a pitcher of wine at the cafeteria as well.
> Comments becoming stale is a real problem. But it is one that is solved by code review and culture, not by fewer comments.

Well, it can be both. Less code is easier to maintain than more code, and that applies to comments too. Finding the "goldilocks" point is the challenge of much code design, and it applies to comments too. There's such a thing as both more comments than you need (increasing maintenance cost and risk of outdated comments without providing enough value to justify), as well as less comments than you need (to decrease cost of understanding the codebase).
It seems the censoring has done its job then.
My cousin has the same point of view. He knows about May-35th and the other issues (eg. Xi's insanity) but doesn't really care. He's making good money right now (30K/month) and things are looking good for him (family, home, car, economy, etc).

Hell when I was working in China (left in 2016), I didn't care that much and still doesn't. Money is good and the benefits are awesome.
Of course they all use stimulants. I don't know how else they could handle the workload. The scary part is that it continues into residency. There are surgery residents working 24h+ shifts. We have laws against overworking truck drivers, but somehow the medical profession gets a pass.

And Johns Hopkins estimates 250K deaths a year from medical errors. I wonder how many of these are from lack of sleep.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahbinder/2018/11/09/ignored-a...
If he did buy at that time then he's lost a sizeable chunk of change on it. The price is the price.

He also bought Bank of America at all time lows, and now its a massively profitable company, so he is neither always right nor always wrong.