skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice fonts for Code
To each their own. I love how it looks as is.
The fact that the state does not have to sanction land ownership is pretty cool. I did not even have this in my mind as a possibility of existing in an advanced country. I wonder what other countries have this situation. It goes in line with the idea of common law (law is just made of what people find customary and when there are serious conflicts, a judge with a jury sorts it out[1]). I learned about the Magna Carta in high school history in the US, but I didn't know that the anti-authoritarian roots in England were so deep. No wonder people who live in places with corrupt governments prefer to own land in England and other places where culture and law descended from English culture(Australia, Canada, the USA, etc.)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juries_in_England_and_Wales
The fact that I don't use "on" is just syntax, it doesn't change the query. The following query is equivalent.

select tbl_1.A
from tbl_1
left join tbl_2
on tbl_1.A = tbl_2.A

I don't think this is a special complex example. It's about as simple as you can get.
But how did they get one of the streetview cars onto the ISS? That's the story I want to know
JS doesn't have classes and doesn't have methods. Only objects and functions exist in JS.
You tax it at the point of enforcement. If someone wants to avoid paying the tax, then everybody gets to copy their stuff for free. It seems straightforward to me.
> .. proves that it's all just a political ploy.

Security maintenance, keeping databases up, monitoring the various systems, risk of DDoS, answering to users' inquires, bandwidth... - it requires real money to keep any production site live.

Given that these folks are basically working without pay, I don't blame them for wanting to put a cover page saying "Sorry, we're down", and call it a day.
My guess that it is due to authoritarian nature of any ideology in Russia. Vladimir the Great[1] made some research into modern (to him) religions, selected christianity, and ordered his people to believe into Christ (not Islam because "Drinking is the joy of all Rus'. We cannot exist without that pleasure"). It was all about politics and business, and christianity from the very start in Russia was a tool in a hand of a ruler. Bolsheviks killed priests and then ressurected religion: they were unable to trust to Ortodox Church, so they destroyed it, and then built new trusted Ortodox Church. Top-down approach, you cannot be fully serious with beliefs that you was told to believe.

The other guess is a family, which is important in Russia and to maintain tradition is like to honor ancestors. One of the traditions is to drink vodka at the graveyard with dead relatives. Come with your family to show to dead grandparents their grandchildren. Drink vodka and leave a glass of vodka and a piece of bread to the dead to show that your life is good and you can afford to buy food and entertainment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great
I tried pasting the cross join and inner join into a colorblindness simulator [1] and the only issue I found is that the A and the 2 in the cross join look similar if you have monochromacy. Looking at the monochromatic version, I don't think this really affects the clarity of the cross join diagram.

The inner join is already perfectly distinguishable by how dark the squares are, and anything other than monochromacy preserves the distinctions that the color adds in the cross join, unless the site I used is misleading.

[1] https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simul...
Odd. Since the container is so easy to shift from a vehicle to another, compared to smaller units of transport like barrels or pallets, it should have made multimodal transport more profitable, not less.
I remember about 8 years ago when I was founding a company to repair cell phones. The local municipality had a program where I could meet with a mentor to help me set up a company. Create a business plan and estimate costs and revenues, which could serve as input to a loan application with a local bank.

In this scenario, the bank charges interest and does not get an ownership stake nor input into how the company is run.

Whatever happened to this way of doing things? What is it about VC that is so much better than small loans from a traditional lending institution?
The first line recommendation is always diet and exercise. Pills are second line.

Some docs burn out and just start giving pills first line because 99,999% of patients do not ever do the diet and exercise, even after repeated counseling rounds.
I think your problem is not lack of organisation but either lack of action or wanting to do too much at the same time, or both. There are only so many things you can do in a given day/week/month. Hence it's much better to not scatter that time across a wide variety of different activities and just focus on a few key ones.

Having said that, there are always things that pop up that I would ideally like to do at some point. I keep track of these in various lists on my notes app (recently switched to Notion) and sometimes look at those lists when I am at a point where I have the ability or feel ready to start something new.

Having said that also, I believe that good shit sticks anyway.
AMD Radeon VII, FP64 Not Dialed Back – 6.9TF of FP64 for $699
Nice summary

It usually goes as "Vitamin D is not useful for healthy individuals" which is a nice example of circular reasoning (probably because they get enough sun exposure or have good levels of Vit. D from other sources)

Oh yeah and tests checking Vitamin D's effects on things it was never claimed to help, like "found no impact on cancer, heart disease, or stroke." (Maybe cancer, but still)

You will still get some Vit D through sun even with sunscreen on

> Yes, but skin cancer kills surprisingly few people: less than 3 per 100,000 in the U.S. each year.

Tell that to people in Australia or some other country directly below the Ozone layer hole

But the news that production of NO is more important than Vit D is certainly interesting
I wonder what action Apple is going to take towards United in response to publishing this sign
Hence why it's not practical.
I think the law would be on your side regarding theft of the boxes. You still might be punished for misuse of public space.
Years ago I saw somewhere that an estimated two million bikes are stolen each year on a population of (then) fifteen million people. So that averages out to once every seven years if everyone rode bikes, but if we remove the really young and old that's probably closer to once every six years.

This does not represent my experience at all, I've had bikes stolen once every three years on average. It won't surprise you that students learn to buy very cheap second-hand bikes with very big bulky locks really quickly here.

On the plus side, I've never been worried about junkies mugging me. They steal/sell bikes for drug money instead, and I honestly wonder if that is a uniquely Dutch thing.
An update for the curious:

I reduced the total running time of ~60 hours to ~3 hours by connecting my PC and my server directly with an ethernet cable :)
Yeah the comments about pills in this bit were really perturbing.

"There’s a pharmacopoeia of drugs that are extremely effective at lowering blood pressure, so to draw the conclusion that people should expose themselves..."

Feels like we are one step away from, Don't risk your health by eating fruits and vegetables, take LIPITOR® instead!
It's an old and long tired adage that the "pure" knowledge, especially mathematics, is only "important insofar as it solves someone's problem." This is wrong on at least two accounts. First, the pure mathematics, for example, like art, is interesting, valuable, and perfectly happy to exist for its own reasons and does not need any permission from anyone to do so; second, it has not been a secret that the pure knowledge routinely turns out to be tremendously useful at some point - even if centuries later.
Same in the UK, one of the reasons that it annoys the hell out of me that local government isn't taken more seriously by the electorate.
Well, for starters, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses “what percentage of people with qualifying conditions get the right pill” as a quality measure, which reduces your income as it goes down.

Docs can’t fight CMS. That’s not “western medicine,” that’s the US government.
There are a couple of components that make up Auth.

* Authorization - How do I confirm who this person is?

* Identity - Everything about the person. Think name, email, address, tenant_id

* Permissions/roles - What can this person do?

I'm going to discuss this with the assumption that you're using some sort of relational database. If you're using something else, you should be able to adjust accordingly. Keep in mind that your web framework probably has libraries for all of these and standard practices since every app that requires you to sign in had this..

Let's start off with roles and permissions. Typically, most companies will want at a minimum an admin user and a regular user. This usually ends up expanding to include specialized roles such as accounting, who would only have access to billing information, auditor, which would be a read-only role.

Identity - Unless you're just starting a project, this has probably been implemented already and may be called users, customers or employees. This can be one table or a set of tables and would include the relevant information about the person logging into your system. At the very least this includes name, email, and tenant_id.

Authorization - Typically this will start out with username/password login combinations, but is often expanded to include 2FA-login flows, single sign on (OAuth flows using SAML or Active Directory/LDAP authentication). That there can be multiple auth workflows is a good reason to keep these as separate tables from your user table(s).

A good open-source example is Discourse (https://github.com/discourse/discourse). It's a good case because it does have SSO options
Show HN... $CashPay$

$CashPay$ is a pivot on the Offering Plate employed by the church and by beggars for millennium; cash.

FAQ

Q: As a content creator, how do I accept payment for my work?
A: Content creators disclose a PO Box address.

Q: As a patron of content creators, how can I support them?
A: Patrons can send cash, pre-paid debit cards, money orders, etc. in an envelope to the disclosed PO Box address.
Maybe you didn't read the article? He presents a pretty nice visual alternative to Venn diagrams.
I had always been taught that inheritance is an anti-pattern and my experience has been that it makes code more complicated. However, I don't have a lot of first hand experience with it. What would the argument be for why you would want to use "this" to implement prototypal inheritance?
Socialism is literally a proposed alternative to a market economy w/ private property in capital goods, substituting centralized control and planning of all production. "Communism" is sometimes used as synonimous with socialism in a political context (e.g. "communist party", or "communist countries") but economically it meant something quite different, namely the expectation that socialism would ultimately result in something like post-scarcity, where even government itself would not be needed.

Anyway, what's up with people linking mises.org here? It's extremely tendentious, it's not an intellectually-rewarding site - or even an intellectually-honest one, IMHO - even if some of their policy positions make sense.
For some demographic groups, labor force participation is significantly lower. This is what I’m referring to.

Unemployment only factors in labor force participants.

Data: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip...
I went from individual contributer to manager, then back to individual contributer. But I believe the decision is dependant on the quality of work and the team you're managing.

For the latter transition, I got some sideways looks at first from people asking "you realize your taking a step back in your career, right?" My reply was twofold:

A.) I replied "I'm still getting the same pay and benefits, right?" The answer is yes.

and

B.) As an individual contributer I don't have to waste my time (which I could be using to actually work on creative and interesting projects) trying to fix the work/quality of complacent and mediocre engineers.

So, for me, if I get to manage a team of highly competant engineers, then I will gladly take that management role because the team actually extends my ability to accomplish more than if I worked independantly. However, if you want me to manage a group of half-ass engineers who have little-to-no passion for pushing the envelope, then I'd much rather work independantly as an individual contributer.

Life is too short to waste on menial tasks that do little to improve the world.
I was quoted $15,000.00 in unnecessary repairs to my BMW by the local BMW dealer. A local shop with a generic name fixed the problem for $200.00. The dealer installed new spark plugs with improper gaps and charged me to replace fuel injectors and coils but the installed parts were revisions that had been obsolete for years. Either the dealer installed the wrong part or did no work at all.

BMW dealers are NOT inherently trustworthy.

Agreed on needing to find a new dealer, I will only buy another BMW if I move to a state with a trustworthy dealer. Unfortunately Washington has none.
It's reasonable to expect it to function until normal wear-and-tear breaks it. After that, it's reasonable to expect it could be repaired at some cost.

However, it depends on a Google service — it won't work without a working Internet connection. This idea is fairly new for consumers.
Been using Deja Vu for such a long time, hard to change. Seeing as this has a slashed or dotted zero really makes this a contender. So many “code” fonts don’t seem to get the zero right.
Absolutely! You can put a hamster wheel in a field, and wild animals will use it for fun. The 24-hour record for a wild mouse is 19 miles!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamster_wheel
Clearly. If people want code written by people with a lot of domain knowledge but not a lot of software engineering experience, look at the code written by electronic engineers who just need to write a little software (typically for microcontrollers) to interact with the hardware, the true focus of their craft.

Some of the most horrendous, fragile, unmaintainable spaghetti code I've seen in my life was written by electronic engineers. And some of them were true masters of their crafts, it's not like they lacked the cognitive abilities to write good code, it's just that they didn't care at all, it just had to accomplish the function they needed. Meanwhile I'd see them spending a lot of time making sure things were routed nicely and PCBs looked nice.
Yes. I use it all the time. What's the best is that you can extend existsing prototypes and add your own functions even to native/host objects. And with a use of Symbols it's quite foolproof.
I agree with this as well. Reading this book really helped me get organized.

Some of the information on it is getting a _little_ bit dated. In particular, it talks a lot about the different 'contexts' you have your tasks to complete, like at home, at work, at a coffee shop, etc. I feel like this holds up a little bit less nowadays, because almost the entirety of all my work can be done if I have my laptop with me.

This book is a great foundation for you to build off of and make your own 'system'.
The preview is the 'Narrow' version - were you trying the regular version?
As someone who lives in a sunny Mediterranean country, there's nothing wrong with a few minutes' walk without sunscreen in the midday sun, but the hours of sunbathing (even with sunscreen) don't look very pleasant to me.
Helen Caldicott's book (linked above) has quite a bit about this. One aspect of nuclear that's never brought up is that the mining process is carbon-intensive (all gas powered machines) and very dirty. It pollutes the surrounding environment terribly. The entire process of producing uranium pellets is really toxic and unsafe.

Another aspect that's never counted in the costs of nuclear power is decommissioning. This gets passed onto the consumer in the form of rate hikes -- after the plant has been turned off! There has never been a real assessment of the costs of nuclear power that includes all these factors.
If you want to be a C programmer, you need to learn how pointers work. If you want to be a C++ programmer, you need to learn STL and templates. Java, Python, every language has its idioms. Javascript is no exception ... it's a simple, untyped language that only has floats, uses prototypal inheritance and, yes, "this." These aren't bugs, they're features.

The web would be a better place if Javascript developers put all of their effort trying to write code in the language they would rather be using into writing better code in the language they are using.
Presumably, one doesn’t want to prune a spaceflight organization quite as aggressively if it jeopardizes mission safety...

Could also be that they consider themselves “done” with major design phases of the heavy, while the people mover stuff is too far away to engage mid level designers with effectively?
I did read the article and I don't find what the author thinks is a "nice illustration of a cartesian product" easy to grok at all. Similarly, I think I would have found the the diagrams further down hard to understand versus a Venn diagram.

But that wasn't my point; if other people find these illustrations helpful, that's awesome and I wouldn't want to stop someone inventing something new and useful. My point was that I violently disagree with one-size-fits-all proclamations like "Say NO to Venn Diagrams."
I've seen this a lot, although personally I've come to prefer a functional programming style with closures for state (i.e. a poor man's Scheme), which means I also happen to avoid using "this", but not due to any love of OOP/C#/Java/etc.
> imagine they were 'robots'

No. Don't.

Edit to add: I understand you were using this as a thought experiment. Sorry for knee-jerking.

If you're employing people to do something robots can't, you need to understand that the way to treat them is also different. This goes double if your mission is to improve the world instead of outright capitalism.
The tone is a bit dramatic, but the criticism isn’t.

I bet the doctor doesn’t refer to a race as “they” along with a singular characteristic. Why would a disability be different?

It’s the same as when people expect all people on the spectrum to be savants.
This article gives a short, uncited and unorthodox summary of UVA vs UVB effects. Most chemical effects may be unknown, but a few are well-characterized like pyrimidine dimer related mutations from UVB that are also seen in skin cancer sequencing samples. UVB has therefore been thought to be directly carcinogenic (likely indirectly as well through other mechanisms), whereas UVA is often associated with photo aging (longer wavelength, penetrates deeper through epidermis into dermis leading to solar elastosis) and may have carcinogenic role that is less chemically obvious compared to the dimers.
I use a pen and a cheap notebook (A7, squared). I organize different topics (e.g. work, personal, etc) in different pages. For tasks I follow the basic bulletjournal ideas.

I tried to use technology before (particularly a smartphone), but the UX still sucks compared to the pen and paper. For long texts, typing on a screen is too slow. For small texts, the unlock-open the app-type cycle is annoying.
It's not just about solving the end user's problem, it's about anticipating future problems and features. If all code was write-and-forget you'd be right, but in general you have to maintain and upgrade codebases over a rather long timespan. That's where "implementation details" matter a whole lot.
The article states the causation right in the beginning. Sunlight -> nitric acid-> lower blood pressure.
Sure, because we don't have an asset tax. If we had an asset tax, you'd have to register your IP. If you don't register your IP, you don't get protection. Not too different from real estate; if you don't have title, you don't own it.

I haven't considered all the economic consequences of this, but it does seem like enforcement is a minor problem.
As a general principle, 7 does not seem valid (consider the case of sugar consumption). Life expectancy has increased and causes of death have changed. Cancer is now a much greater issue, while diseases of malnutrition are rare in the developed world.

Given that melanoma is so rare, it might be valid in this particular case, but it absolutely makes sense that sun exposure could have a mixture of positive/negative effects in prehistoric times, but a different mix today.

Another factor that's relevant to some of us: as someone of Northern European descent living in the southern US, I'm not in the environment that selected for my pale skin (and my ancestors didn't wear t-shirts in February). This effect might go in the opposite direction for dark-skinned folks living in Northern Europe.
The B-Sides PDX 2018 CTF is available to download and run yourself here: https://github.com/BSidesPDX/CTF-2018/blob/master/README.md
I run a gitlab instance and use issues and milestones.
> The next stage in automation is expected to make the work that most people are able to do completely obsolete, that's why many visionaries discuss basic income.

It is true: The Jacquard Loom has already replaced good loom working jobs. 


More seriously, I am with you on more wealth equality.
Hipsters, RIP
Nuclear is hardly renewable. Every uranium pellet has to be mined (a carbon-intensive and highly polluting process) and none of the reprocessing methods we've tried so far are viable (which is why we don't try it anymore.) Hydro? We gave up on that in the US a long time ago because of the environmental impact of screwing with the water flow.

I did see something a few years ago about a new type of hydro that worked in-line with the water flow using small turbines alongside a river. It put the water back into the river after spinning the turbines so as to minimize the environmental impact.
Fantastic effort, but as someone with a background in plant tissue culture and propagation, previous efforts on other species have not been so successful because the cloning process proceeding through tissue culture has been shown to modify the final phenotypic expression (the cloned plant does not necessarily show the desirable characteristics of the motherstock).

As evidence of this I would point to the commercial nursery industry where after tissue culture became all the rage in the 80's - - - years later many buyers were asking for written documentation and avoiding clones from tissue cultured lots claiming they did not exhibit desirable characteristics that conventional propagation methods did replicate.
Do you believe changing the world is a real goal, or a convenient phrase used to convince the naive to work hard and cheaply? Let's not give too much credit, it's a sales pitch and almost everyone knows that.
I have found that the best way to avoid any confusion over the use of ‘this’ is to use arrow functions.
> You can't just steal bikes because they've been left on public land

What is the anticipated solution when you leave your bike on my private land? I've seen loads of bird scooters left on private property, and I don't see what the property owners are supposed to do. Call the police every time?
Is Mathbot.com ALIVE?
Political correctness and identity politics have spread pretty much everywhere in large financial institutions. There is a justified fear of retaliation which means that employees become over-zealous.