skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is nonsense. Lots of population lives in places with zero fruits in the winter.

Inuits live in the north of Canada. Their ONLY food source is seals all year round. They are fine in terms of health. Their health declined with introduction of modern foods brought in by researchers and other visitors.
Yep. I keep <15 apps on my phone.
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Sure, popular election of senators is at least a little problematic. But maybe what we really want is a return to the original model, where members of the House are elected by the people, while senators are chosen by state legislatures.
Sure. But this was not the case with Szemeredi's work. It was recognised as great immediately, and Szemeredi was below 40 at the time. The problem was that his combinatorial approach was not considered to be deep enough to merit the medal.
This sounds like an issue with medical/financial literacy or possibly mental illness,
which are also serious. The self-pay price is discounted and can get really low with the manufacturer coupons/rebates or the one pharmacy chains scan for you if you’re uninsured. Generics are available; they are not as error-proof as, e.g., Tresiba, but they would have saved his life. Switching from pens to vials saves money.

Please be kind if you reply; I am diabetic and have spent time trying to save money on a really high prescription copay. I’ve caught myself doing what this person did, rationing or going without when there were ways to get medicine. Thankfully I didn’t live alone and someone snapped me out of that thinking. I would like to see the FDA stop the stair-step method to keep generics from being widely prescribed but if you’re waiting for that, please don’t — there are temporary solutions in the meantime.
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> I don't disagree that I haven't created any types, but to someone who doesn't see the declaration of meter or centimeter, it can be difficult to know that.

We definitely agree here. Better would be to use a library such as Boost Units, rather than naked aliases.

void* is definitely problematic, and I kill it every chance I get, but it persists in a lot of code due to C libs and unfortunate legacy dependencies.
I may have misunderstood the readme, but what I got was

> integration of services is hard because not everything uses grpc.

> this assumes everything uses grpc
The question isn't whether lossy means "lossy," the question is whether lossy means "audibly different." Years ago Stereophile published an article called "MP3 vs AAC vs FLAC vs CD" which was really meant to argue for the superiority of lossless compression, but actually does a pretty good job of explaining both subtle differences between AAC and MP3 at the same bit rate and how high bit-rate lossy encoding pushes artifacts down to inaudible levels. You can put up an AAC/MP3 frequency graph compared to a FLAC/CD frequency graph and have it look absolutely horrifying, until you notice that the junk on the AAC/MP3 chart is all at -100db and below. Unless your listening room is an anechoic chamber, you're just not going to hear it. (In most cases it's probably below the noise floor of your reproduction equipment.)

I often think I can hear the difference between lossless and lossy, but IIRC, the last time I did ABX testing on that, there was only 1 out of 5 tracks I tried where I could tell the difference at a statistically significant rate. (And I'm not sure I'd be able to repeat that.) The best argument I have for storing music in FLAC (or ALAC or some other open lossless format) is analogous to the argument for storing images in a lossless rather than lossy format if you have the space: if you ever have to transcode the file to something else, start with the highest quality possible.
My main worry Is that my resume contains a lot of sport stints in the last few roles, so I would love to spend a couple years somewhere so that it looks like a better resume for the next position.
I would suggest that quite a few people write mobile applications because their managers tell them to do it. This is totally independent of whether the use case requires a mobile application.
Also, unless you have big plans for an in-home 3d printer, there is nothing wrong with getting access to one via a friend, coworker, library, or maker-space and essentially just paying for filaments. I wouldn't be surprised if in-home 3d printers sit idle for 95+% of the time.

I was about to drop about $1000 on one for some hobby projects, but then found out my local library had a $6000 machine which I could use for essentially free(I'd be paying for filaments regardless), so long as I scheduled my prints a week in advance.
Is it really plausible to think that stopping cell and tissue degeneration is synonymous with curing ageing and transforming the human body into a perpetual self-repairing machine?

We have evolved to acomodate these senescence mechanisms in various way, so shouldn't we expect that halting them should have unforeseeable consequences that evolution couldn't have prepared against? Shouldn't we expect the genome itself to have embedded within it some notion of the organism's age ? (as opposed to a limited development to a mature, final state that could go on forever in the absence of celular ageing)

I'm thinking, for example, at the limited number of female gametes available at the start of life. There was never a need to evolve regenerating gametes so the reproductive lifetime of an immortal woman is still limited. How many such innate limitations could there be in a genome after a billion years of evolution from mortal organisms?
If you have a static IP address at home, that IP address can be searched in public geolocation databases online. Try it. It will list a number of possible physical addresses.

That's available freely on the web. Hedge funds and others buying data from IBM can buy data from higher quality sources, including wireless carriers, financial institutions and data brokers.
DenseMatrix. Also, tensor implies something about how to interpret the data that is not usually appropriate.
The cars wrecked by US rules
Sadly for us that price will be increased to $699 in a few days. https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping/
Antidotal (likely an outlier) but I’ve slowly deleted social apps (Facebook, Twitter, insta) in favor of using their mobile sites. My reasoning is three fold: mobile sites are pretty good, it’s harder for companies to mine my data in a browser, and honestly storage on my 16gig iPhone is far too valuable for a 300mb app!! I’m 18 (aka young and woke) btw.

Side point: I still need Snap’s app but I’ve considered quitting altogether bc it’s barely usable on my 6S. If battery is < 10% my phone will die if I open SC
You don’t happen to work for a digital agency by any chance? I’ve seen multiple agencies botch implementing “management” after growing and needing to shift from a flat structure
i can't produce numbers but, anecdotally, the idea that 75% of international business travelers get to fly business seems...unlikely based on the people I know and even assuming my own terms are especially shabby. Very frequent travelers, i.e. greater than my own 75K miles per year or so, do get upgrades from time to time but the I dispute the idea that the typical tech business traveler is usually flying business.
A gentle introduction to phonetics and the IPA is let down by poor argument.

MAGA (rhymes with dagger or lager?) would never be pronounced with a soft G because 'ga' is only soft in such anachronisms as 'gaol' (modern spelling jail).

And it is hardly prescriptivist for the programmer that coined a term to define its pronunciation.

Opposition to the soft pronunciation is, at least in my country, because 'Jif' TM is a household cleaning product, so I'll continue to pronounce it wrongly for that reason!
Another K8S vulnerability: dashboard on custom URL exposes TLS secrets
I don't know what the solution is, but I do know that the current system is set up to enforce the will of the minority and ignore the majority.
One bit of evidence is that in the JHU studies, improvement correlated strongly with whether the person had a "mystical-type" experience. When you go through an incredibly cathartic experience of remorse and redemption and come out of it a more loving person, it's a good hypothesis that it was the experience that caused the change.
I agree that ad hominem attacks are overwhelmingly used to evade the responsibility of substantive debate. The problem is that policy debates are not purely objective and in reality people weigh presented perspectives and evidence according to the perceived credibility of a given source. As a result, information that speaks to the soundness of a person's judgement has a place in policy debate as a means of drawing conclusions in the absence of indisputable facts.

We're all placing faith in something that determines what we call truth and what we call lies or ignorance.
SpaceX retrofitted used rockets. That’s a big distinction from building new aircraft from scratch.
3. No, it's not.

If you go in for a wonky heart, and you get some kind of imaging done on your chest, and then spot something in your lungs, they SHOULD ignore it. Outcome-Based Medicine says that's what they should do. They CAN'T ignore it.

Cardiologists actively want the lungs REMOVED from the images they order, because they don't want to accidentally notice any lung nodules. That's crazy!

And that's just one example.

We don't know how to properly ignore the things we should.

And if something IS there, and there COULD HAVE been action taken on it, then the people who looked at the images are potentially liable in court. Or at least in settlement.

The whole thing sucks.
If this whole full stack thing came from a massive capitalist exploitation scheme, then why was JavaScript gonna be the chosen language for everything? There were far more languages "spoken" by more people who were already involved in web development - the typical backend languages - and JavaScript wasn't a particularly popular language either.

I do gotta say though that I don't have a better idea as to why things happened this way. I'm just guessing companies wanted to cut costs on frontend servers by only serving up static bundles and people hated page refreshes.
I doubt you'll find many people on this website who think Bill Gates's tenure at Microsoft was good for the world. He was a ruthless monopolist who lied, cheated, and stole his way to the top.
(I work for Google Cloud)

Many various GCP databases (most notably Firestore[0], and Datastore[1] before it) do this today. No provisioning, pre-warming, or capacity planning needed.

[0] https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/
[1] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/
> What is the environmental impact of "regularly" commuting on an intercontinental supersonic jet, compared to simply using video conferencing?

For any serious discussions, video conferencing is a garbage replacement for in-person meetings. If anything, the latter is becoming more impactful as lower-level functions get clearly displaced to the former. As others have mentioned, jet fuel doesn’t have to be carbon additive.
it is used as collateral for the money multiplier.
Someone please tell me this is a Godzilla reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ghidorah
> Taxing capital gains means that everything you ever own will also be taken from you in the form of taxes on inflated dollars.

No, it doesn't. Taxing long-term capital gains as normal income but inflation-correcting basis values so that you are taxing real, rather than nominal, gains is quite easily something that could be done.

> The reason this website exists, and all the startups that have gone through YC, is because the tax on capital gains is low.

Once you have surplus assets to immediate needs, investing them for returns is natural, preferential tax treatment may increase the propensity to do so somewhat, but it doesn't create it; mostly, it just rewards those who are rich enough that they would be investors in any case.
> I think if you want a long term career in this industry you need to dedicate at least ~5 hours / week of your own time to professional development on an ongoing basis. If you work with C++ on a daily basis then spending some of that time working through CppCon videos (I like to watch at 1.25x speed) and other free online resources is a good idea IMO.

Then I know what I'm doing tonight.
I like the computational geometry aspect much better than the programming language part. The thing with C++ is very often the stuff you don't know sneaks up on you at the worst time when starting on a new library, or trying to reuse code more complex than you're used to. It's strange to think of it as something to study, but 5h/week is something I could do instead of more overtime.

>What I don't particularly like is people complaining about things they don't seem to have made much effort to understand.

The main thing I was complaining about was C++ takes (relatively to e.g. Python) a ton of work to understand accurately, but also to explain properly to other people. You must know that from answering on StackOverflow too. (There are features of C++ I don't use because I/my coworkers don't yet know them, and studying will help me with that, but I can't complain about them yet!)
StackOverflow is actually great for C++ though, so thank you for answering on it. Usually there's always an answer with a detailed explanation even for strange code samples. Often it's through reading the other people's questions that I can understand how a construct can be useful in practice.
I missed that and I am an idiot. Mea culpa.
Track record of software piracy?
Guilty. In 1988 or so I made a virus that attached to .com files, which would spread it to others when executed. It was never released into the open. On each infection, it incremented a generation counter. Upon reaching a certain value, the payload would trigger, causing a message to be printed.

What the heck was I using? MASM? TASM? I cannot remember.

IIRC, looking for other .com files was just using DOS's FindFirst and FindNext functions at int 21h. (I'm now naming them in terms of their Win32 counterparts.)

I think I didn't have a sanity check against duplicate infection in the early versions and added that during testing. 17 year old's programmer's "doh" moment.

I remember that I ran the experiments in a subdirectory called "petridir". :)
Please correct me on this though - I know I'm probably wrong
You're ignoring the possibility of a mass-exploit, meaning the kind of cheap exploit that affects multiple vehicles at the same time, possibly killing a bunch of people, destroying infrastructure, or stopping the flow of traffic. Your typical adversarial "single pixel" change that makes your network believe unreasonable things, but in the real world. The existence of such exploits has already been demonstrated.
For/Against Genetic Engineered Babies
Clicked on the link thinking it'd be the article about my cousin who went through the exact same thing about a year ago.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6415921/Mother-says...

RIP Jesse.
I was one of the idiots who didn't understand the Dropbox monetization strategy. Until recently, I thought the strategy was "whales" like in a casino would pay for everyone. I think I couldn't get past the idea that they were giving something that keeps costing them money away for free forever. What I didn't realize is how "sticky" something like Dropbox can be. I don't think I can get most people who use Dropbox and pay $80 a year to switch to Google drive and pay $50 a year. They have a workflow there.

I guess I'm trying to justify my reaction to Dropbox. Frankly, I still don't understand why Dropbox turned down acquisition offer from Apple. I still don't get it.

I don't remember laughing at Dropbox though. It was more bewilderment than anything.
Sure, it's similar (no coincidence, as you point out). Most people in the US don't directly participate in the ACA marketplace. For all the talk about freedom of choice, i'd venture that the majority of Americans have no real choice in what insurance they'll get (apart from their freedom to switch jobs or pay a higher price on the exchange by forfeiting their employer's contribution).

We also have a significant population (~15%) on a public system that has an influence on prices that everyone pays but no authority to negotiate drug prices.

I don't think that any one of these differences is an explanation for the gap between ~11% of GDP and ~17% but there are enough of them that it's hard for me to decide public vs private is orthogonal.
This argument seems very convoluted. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like Sovereign Citizen level of nuttiness.

The whole crux of the argument seems to boil down to the idea that using a statute to change apportionment in the senate avoids the Article V clause that prevents a constitutional amendment from changing senate apportionment without the consent of every state.

A statute would avoid Article V, it won't avoid Article 1 Section 3, which states that each state gets 2 senators. His "Senate Reform Act" would be unconstitutional without ever involving Article V. All his other arguments seem totally irrelevant; trying to interpret a mess of other amendments as somehow consenting to a loss of equal suffrage is ridiculous. Even if you tried to interpret the 14th amendment as changing the apportionment of senators (a novel interpretation to say the least), it would be clearly unconstitutional as per Article V which specifically forbids any amendment from changing equal suffrage in the senate without the consent of that state.

So either you try to change senate apportionment with a statute and violate Article 1 Section 3, or you try to change it with an amendment and run afoul of Article V.

The only argument in this entire article that makes sense is their idea of amending Article 2 Section 1 Paragraph 2. That can be changed, maybe that's where they should focus their efforts.

But if you really hate the senate that much, your best option is to amend away all their powers and turn them into a purely ceremonial body.
> The problem is, that there is no "sack the heads of all parties and start new without those problematic persons so we can get a new start" option to vote for.

Why not? New parties replacing established parties does happen now and again in various countries. Recent example: 358 city/municipal councilors, 4 mayors, incl. mayor of Prague, etc. by the Czech Pirate Party (founded 2009).

Even more often than that established parties tend to revise their positions when a new party threatens them, essentially trying to absorb some of their viewpoints and votes. Recent example: various right wing parties like the German AFD (founded 2013) or UK's UKIP have been hugely influential.

Either way it means voters are heard in some way.

Now you might be talking from experience about some specific country, but in that case it would be helpful of you to mention which one.
NHK World (my mother watches this) is definitely government propaganda. This is not to say that Japan is a horrible place, it's generally nicer than the US, but there's lots of societal malaise going over there. Also Japan sweeps a lot of poverty and soft corruption problems under the rug.
Yes, I still use it when it comes to scripting, and you have to manipulate files that are nearly gigabytes in size. It is also less battery-consuming, when it comes down to it.

Also, when I teach programming languages, ed is a useful enough project to start on. The editor is simple. So students can focus on language concepts for the most part, while still getting a useful software at the end (I assume regex libraries are available).
> The author comes from Pennsylvania, and so this article should be seen as nothing but self-serving.

Of course it's self serving.

But it's undeniable that the current situation isn't fair. One where the vote of a rancher in Wyoming with whom I have absolutely nothing in common politically has orders of magnitude more weight than mine. And the difference isn't only in the senate either.

CA: population per senator: 19M

WY: population per senator: 280k

CA: population per electoral vote: 719k

WY: population per electoral vote: 192k

CA: population per house seat: 746k

WY: population per house seat: 577k

It's indeed true that the situation for senators is by design. One could weakly argue that the situation for the house isn't too bad. But how do you defend a 4x ratio for electoral votes?

It seems to me that the only solution to mitigate this imbalance is to start dialing back the responsibilities of the federal government. (Which I'm not in favor of at all, but what other option is there?)
because I've been poor when they increased the minimum wage and it didn't do fuck all for me, I was a contractor, and all it did was increase the cost of living around me.
> missed connections and mandatory security checks which aren't things which can be cut with technology

Yes they can. Clear makes security a breeze. And small, efficient planes make direct flights competitive with connecting ones.
One metric I've found true about recognizing leadership is that a leader is someone you would follow. It seems trite but the thing to recognize is it's a property not defined by some quality of the leader but by all of the followers.
> First off, the field is heavily regulated (in the US anyway) and the penalties for violating regulations like HIPAA are incredibly high.

This is why heavy handed regulation is bad. The people on the end of the regulation have to deal with a ton of BS to the point where it becomes security theater. These systems need their own departments, experts, and even legal teams. The overhead is massive.You think a company is going to roll over and eat the costs without trying everything in their power to side step it? Loop holes to outright lies will be used. Anything to trim the fat.

Happened to a place I worked at. New regulations meant more overhead. During my tenure I watched the quality department grow from the side job of the head engineer to a department of three people (manager, assistant, engineer) and an outside contractor. I then watched the employee quality drop proportionately as they put more money into putting lipstick on a pig than actually fixing problems and improving quality. As long as you satisfy the auditor or customer you look like a well oiled machine. Just don't look under the rug.
Your HN Post title sucks, extension looks cool tho.
You're right, Gauss law only talks about magnitude, not distribution. I chose this example because it's simpler than explaining reversal of wave fronts, so the formula FF = Q / epsilon_0 is shorter. Note I mentioned "what those properties are is another matter".

The choice of analogy is less precise but hopefully easier to understand. The idea is just that there could be relationship between boundary conditions and internal conditions.
"The Dictator's Handbook" will be a nice read for managing roles.
I find it amusing that video game consoles like the Atari 2600 were shelved once and now we have emerging businesses like Nintendo trying to capitalize on that dead market.
Put two people on equal effort paths, the talented one is going to come out ahead. 100% of the time.
Yes! Real programmers use "cat".
If you are optimizing for pure caffeine delivery I'm a little surprised that they go through so many lengths to grind and brew boutique coffee when there are caffeine pills available. Much easier to deliver a proper dose as well.
That's just so sad. These medicines should be more available for people. We're living in yr 2019; shouldn't be this way!
If I were investing in this area - I'd buy shares in makers of highway striping paint and firms that make snow-clearing equipment.