skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I say the government is too big - it's trying to do too many things, and does most of them badly. Markets are better at selecting for efficiency than a single centralized entity. Each 'ministry' or whatnot should be a distinct entity, and should operate like a for-profit business. If one ministry is performing poorly, it could be replaced with a different company in a free market. The threat that they could lose such a contract would force them to perform. No performance, no job - like the rest of us.

This is just passing the buck. Right now the government bid out the creation of a bathroom and it was done expensively. But you are arguing that if the government bid out the entire parks system it would be done really well? I don't follow the logic. In my experience the more complex the RFP the more the sophisticated parties(the bidders) are going to fuck the unsophisticated party(the government). It's easy to specify what a bathroom should be and take the lowest bid. It's way harder to do that with the park's department.

And not everyone thinks the Swedish model is a success. Lots of people blamed them for causing Sweden to have some of the fastest dropping test scores in the world. And I'm not arguing privatization is always a failure. I'm just arguing that it's not always a success, and that it's success and failure is dependent upon how it's done. I'm not sure why you are so privatization is always a success every time when clearly the historical record says it's a mix of successes and failures.

You argue the government should be smaller. 5/6ths of the government is insurance(medicare/medicaid/social security)+military and then 1/6th is everything else. That includes education, protecting the environment, funding research, parks etc..

I would love the government to be smaller, I don't think we need to spend so much on the military but I do like social security, medicare, and medicaid. I don't want to be in the position where I have to decide between mortgaging my house or letting an elderly relative die of cancer. And it's really nice we don't have to make those decisions.
Found this, The Hydrogen atom in Bohmian Quantum Theory[+]

If the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics is considered in
the case of the hydrogen atom, it leads to a prediction that "normal"
quantum mechanics does not make. That is the existence of a distance of
closest approach of the electron to the proton. This distance of two
hundred fermi is of the order of the Planck length, a region where the
"normal" laws of physics are thought to break down. If the probability
density of finding an electron inside this region could be experimentally
measured, that would thus be a definite test to differentiate between the
two interpretations of quantum mechanics.

[+] https://www.academia.edu/483415/The_Hydrogen_atom_in_Bohmian...
If you’re the “average person”, you have nothing to worry about. Trust me.

Non-competes really only matter for people with exceptional knowledge of something.

From a business standpoint, the legal resources to build a case against a single “average person” who signs a generic non-compete are not a good investment.

But like I said, it’s a judgement call. Anyone in the possession of that exceptional knowledge should be able to determine the risk.
Microsoft was all about backward compatibility. They might have changed with windows 10, but before then they tried their best to make sure you could run an old app on windows.
Is there a consumer market?

A quick search on Amazon reveals UVB lamps are mainly either expensive ($250) and for people with skin problems, or else cheap and low-powered ($30) for reptiles.

There doesn't seem to be anything for a kind of full-body health use?
The services that dorms and dining halls provide are not luxuries yet, they are what the student has taken for granted throughout childhood. Freshmen entering challenging academic programs have a lot of learning and adapting to do; they do not need to be thrown into the deep end on all fronts at the same time. Moving out in year 2 or 3 after getting used to the general framework and finding some allies is a reasonable system.

Maybe students should learn to live independently before starting full time academic programs, but there is also an opportunity cost to delaying entry to their professional fields.
XMPP and Matrix are at least two
To be fair, people in these positions do get sent to ridiculous bullshit.
Well, to be fair, the first sentence is

Ok, I won’t make a habit of doing these kinds of posts, but here are the best answers from a reddit question of teachers.
New Fund Aims to Make Investment in Vice Attractive
I is actually both. If it would be just a fallback then the time it uses would be at most 5s, more realistic 3s.

The think is, if you are on a internet connection where you have frequent loading time of 3s for the _basic_ content, then you are used to seeing partial loaded pages and you likely love it if the connection happen to load the content you care about first, potentially leaving the page before it's completely loaded when noticing that it's not what you are looking for.

The choice of 8s looks _a lot_ like they where looking for the highest time they can chooses without making it look obvious deliberately but which is long enough to make many "causal" users stop using the script blocker.

I.e. 10+s would look way to obvious as a intentionally long choice. 9s still looks big as we are used to see 9 as nearly 10 from product prices to some degree (e.g. 9.99€). So the highest number which doesn't look obviously high is the 8. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's certainly easier to start out that way. But there are also a lot of pitfalls, that systems like what's described in the article are designed to solve.

For example: let's say when component A or component B get rendered, they need to fetch users in order to show something about them. You only want to make the request if either of these components is actually rendered on the screen. What if they both get rendered? Is something going to know to reuse the inflight request so you don't have two identical requests? Or is it just naively going to make unnecessary requests? What if some other thing already fetched the user list earlier, are either of them still going to make the request anyway? Or use the data that's already there?

Another example: you've got your result from the users endpoint. Now you fetch some user information from the "blog author" endpoint. Information about the same user is in both responses. What's the authoritative client-side source of information about that user now? Are you now going to potentially be displaying stale/conflicting info about that user in 2+ different places?

etc.

You can always just keep things simple if you want, and people in React and GraphQL land are happy to do that, too. But a lot of people are also focused on building complex applications. This is just to give you some perspective on the "why" here.
> Stuck with Source Code Pro for many years and even today, not sure any other aliased font looks and works as well as Source Code Pro at almost every size, from the smallest onward. It just looks clean to me.

This has easily been my favorite font for a long, long time.
Also consider flems.io , a similar evaluate-as-you-type but for JS, HTML, and CSS.
> The first line recommendation is always diet and exercise. Pills are second line.

It would be nice if this were true. We've started to get soft industry press-pushes suggesting putting statins in the drinking water supply about every three years for the last decade.
That's troubling. Which doctors have you been speaking to? I've always gone to see endocrinologists specializing in diabetes and have never had a doctor give me overtly bad advice.
Props to amazon for their frustration-free (and shipping cost friendly) packaging effort.

I have seen a marked reduction/elimination of clamshells the past decade of buying from them.

I'd love to complain to retailers nearby: "see this, I'm returning it and buying it from Amazon right now because of your consumer-unfriendly packaging"
OT - two weeks ago I was snowshoeing in the Assiniboine park (border of Alberta and BC) for photography and saw their fresh tracks. At first I thought it might be a wolf. Their front paws were as big a my hand - Photo:

https://twitter.com/salimmadjd/status/1084260050615455744
No need to realign manually after renaming variables, we are programmers after all. Use a beautifier for your code. Wrote my first one in STOS Basic on the Atari when I was tired of forced line numbering and wanted to code with function names instead of Gosub 950.

Now the beautifier is often already built into the editor.

I get a lot like this:

$data = array(
'a' => 5,
'boom' => 25,
)

And having the values nicely aligned makes it much easier to read when it's 15 variables in that array.
That's pretty cool but the guy's conclusion is that it's not a chemical explosion, it's just from the water turning to steam. But I'll concede that we shouldn't drop a molten salt reactor in a lake.
+1 for Ubuntu Mono. IMO it has just enough styling that rest all feel like, too dull or trying too smart or plainly inconsistent.
Firefox defaults to remembering where you last downloaded a file for each site. This is useful for things like image sharing sites when you always want to drop pictures into your pictures folder, but you can disable it and always use the default downloads folder.

In about:config, set 'browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite' to false (you may have to create the preference), set 'browser.download.useDownloadDir' to true, and set 'browser.download.lastDir' to your preferred location.

More info - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/887248
> ... hoops people in the React ecosystem go through just to send a request boggles the mind

React Hooks (currently in alpha for the next release of React) finally clean up that component lifecycle complexity I think you're referring to. Nader Dabit has a great post [0] on how to use React Hooks with GraphQL.

[0]https://medium.com/open-graphql/react-hooks-for-graphql-3fa8...
I have heard of hiring companies dropping new hires because they had a non-compete. They didn't want to take the risk so the company that has the non-compete doesn't even have to do anything for it to have an effect.
While the Iranian regime’s elite bash US, their children reap its benefits
You can rent a Uhaul for $20/day + gas. The problem isn't the delivery. It's that a lot of buyers don't want to wrestle a washing machine into and out of a truck. If you don't move stuff that big or bigger on the regular it makes it harder.
Things Ember Data's `findRecord` does:

* Checks if you already have the resource to prevent sending an unnecessary request (can be forced)

* Retrieves the resource based on a convention for the URL

* Parses the JSON based on a convention

* Stores the resource in the "store" for use in the app

Batching is also very simple thanks to a plugin from Netflix:

https://github.com/Netflix/ember-batch-request

The reason the Ember community doesn't talk about any of this stuff is because, from the developers perspective, nothing interesting happens, which is why developer productivity is high in Ember.
Unix is indeed ubiquitous, but it would be nice to have a personal computing system whose core metaphor is something other than a teletype.
That seems reasonable if the goal is to not pose an impossible hurdle to any potential acquisitions involving companies with employees in California.

Seems more reasonable than locking employees up as part of hiring
Making Your Own Photographic Paper and Prints
Transatomic claimed to get as much energy from uranium as a fast reactor, without actually being a fast reactor. I never understood how that could be possible and wasn't surprised when it turned out it wasn't.

Other MSR startups are doing fine. Elysium, Moltex, and Terrapower's MSR actually are fast reactors. Terrestrial Energy and Thorcon aren't making those claims in the first place. Terrestrial Energy especially is making great progress with regulators.
30 usd a hour is not a fair wage for a programmer (considering 10 hours a week, 40 hours would be a different story) - you need to increase it. Please note your employer benefits from having an employee with decent living conditions. He knows, you know. If he's not willing to increase either your hours or rate I suggest to find something new.
Forever and ever, ramen? In South Korea, instant food is changing
What about threads? Mentions? Mentions across channels? Client-independent history? Search? File attachments? Interactive features like polls?

I'm glad that IRC works for you, but it's 2018. We can do better than slate and chalk.
Only if you're one of the executives.
I’ve been using my Libre with Miao Miao, Spike and Nightscout for getting a real time feed for a while now. It took some time to get a feel for how the sensors behave, but I’m happy with the setup - it’s certainly good enough for my goals.

I really like the real time data aspect which means I can access it easily on other devices.

I also still regularly use the official phone app to get a reading via NFC which suits certain circumstances for me and I find pretty accurate most of the time.
How would this be different than Slack?
Completely different.

This is like a car that tries to phone home every time you start it, so either you keep the phone service active and get a salesperson talking to you while driving, or you disable the phone and the car leave the immobiliser active for a minute each time you try to start the car.
They could increase the mass of the platter so that inertia helps with isolation. They say it's 2.2kg and to me that "feels" heavy, but my experience is only with retail-grade turntables and I don't know where that fits in with high-end gear.
> Many people here want to write about code in their chats so at the very least want to have an option for monospacing parts of a message.

Fair enough, but I would still argue that if somebody's posting enough code for that to matter, a link to a pastebin or a Github Gist, with syntax highlighting, is a better solution.

> Why do you need to insult other people’s work like that?

Because it's a poor choice to create a proprietary chat protocol because it allows Slack to control what people can say and how they say it.
amp is slower than full pages for me. No custom configuration.
Picked up an Oculus Go for Christmas as my first experience with VR. I've got to say its really neat.

Really enjoy watching high quality 3D videos or playing some games that quite literally take you away to amazing worlds.

Probably my only complaints would be the small battery (~2 hours use) and I really wish it had a 2 controller setup like the Rift. With ALVR you can wirelessly stream some SteamVR games but not many work and with the single controller the Go comes with, you'll need a gamepad.

Looking forward to trying out the Quest but the Go has a lot to offer at the low entry price of $199.
Because it would be using IRC, an open protocol.
Saying that social scientists need to be taught intellectual humility is tantamount to saying they are not scientists at all, which seems to be the real problem.
I don't disagree with what you are suggesting. I personally prefer react over all other frameworks. And, there are many blog posts with outdated suggestions referring to the items you've referenced. Knowing which of those posts to skip over now that the proper solution has been named is what's really challenging about React (and, of course, JS in general).

Probably the OP has seen two many of those posts and doesn't have the right frame of reference to know what to do, and Apollo looks like the same.
Non competes shouldn't last longer than your job. I once had to sign a year long non compete for a three month internship.
Noncompetes should be void if you are fired.
They should also only apply to salaried employees, or employees at a certain wage level. It is disgusting that minimum wage employees have to sign noncompetes
Pre-caching in those cases will cause other things to slow down and needlessly consume bandwidth which the user is paying for.

The real reason for AMP is to allow Google to watch everything your visitors do so they can sell your visitors eyeballs to your competitors.
Why would a UI framework know anything about records? Keep in mind that it's explicitly not React's goal to know anything about requests, routing, records, data, or anything like that. That's why you hear React people talking about how they achieve this stuff. Ember is a framework with a much larger scope, while React is a view layer.
The romaine/E. coli scare in November was first detected by doctors and hospitals who reported infections to the CDC, which is still open.

It might be harder for the FDA to track down the source of a similar outbreak now, since they are partially (but not completely) shut down, but we would know about it.
What, exactly, does your comment add other than complaining about some imaginary entitlement strawman?

Government jobs are far from secure depending on the department you work in and the fact that a lot of people are suffering because of pure political grandstanding is something I would hope anyone can relate to. Whether it's through having bad management hurt the workers, CEO nonsense or more. Of course anyone can lose their job and if you've ever gone through the pain of being laid off, you should be able to relate.
Books like SICP are touted -- if not by the authors, then by those who got a lot out of them -- as the one true key to knowledge. I think we all gravitate toward that ideal, and we want one book to teach us everything, but reality is often more complicated, and one person's steak is another person's ... not steak.
I totally read the title as "Morton Salt".
Disposables are only the better option when you move some part of the entire planet outside the system you are measuring.
It's unfortunate that Ruby doesn't get the push towards more applications like Python does. Especially for scientific computing and machine learning.
GraphQL removes a lot of the REST boilerplate on the backend -- you define the graphql schema, and the clients can fetch it in any shape they want -- especially helpful for supporting different clients that want the data in different shapes depending on what the view is. ie, a web vs mobile view, or a customer web view vs one that might be for internal tools, etc
Ember Data can be used separately from Ember itself. In fact, the official documentation treats them as if they are. It's even a separate project on GitHub:

https://github.com/emberjs/data
Creating Multi-Language Pipelines with Apache Spark
Anyone can fork DNS. Its just a (name, key) map. As long as its done with enough consensus, it can be done. Mismanagement of .com is serious enough to demand that kind of change.

Lets say .com gets mismanaged. Community is infurious. firefox/chrome/etc demands that . remap .com to new more trustable entity. If . does not. firefox/chrome/etc then remap . to new more trustable entity, because .com must be as trustable as ., because .com is that important. New . give back ownership of all tlds to their previous owners. Except for .com. .com goes to the more trustable entity as intended. New .com then does again similar import of all good xxx.com.

In this whole incident, no one loses the ownership of their names except for .com and possibly . .

Now no gov can touch *.com. Though its different for cctld. Those are owned by their respective govs. Same goes for gtld. But no one gets to mess with . .com .org .net.
This framework doesn’t exist on my iPad. Either Apple has removed it from non-Face ID capable iPads, or dropped it altogether.
I was indeed thinking about the NaK (sodium+potassium) alloy (which is used in some molten salt reactors, but not this one). And indeed this reactor design uses LiF (Lithiumfluoride). However, LiF-based salts have the obvious drawback of their high melting points (pure LiF 840 °C, FLiBe 460 °C).
Google isn't "owning more of the time"; all ad revenue, analytics, and branding accrues to the original site owner.
>The whole point of living in a nice neighborhood is that none of your neighbors or friends are on food stamps.

Can you explain further? Because it sure sounds like you're somehow equating people being on food stamps as being bad neighbors or friends. I'd like you to explain your logic here.
I recently did a POC for my company on a mature Angular project to see what it would take to switch over to the Apollo stack. I ended up reducing LOC by 50%, adding caching, full offline support, and optimistic UI. I’m convinced if we had used the Apollo stack at the start of the project, our front end resource requirements might’ve been 30-40% less for the project. The things the Apollo team have done are really making a big impact on engineering teams that adopt their tools.
If even in Ember-land it's an entirely separate package, then why make the comparison to React at all..? (Ember + Ember Data) is more like (React + Apollo) then, no? But you're just comparing it to React without anything else.
Hm that is an interesting viewpoint. It seems like compilers are converging on it though? LLVM and GCC both use it.

I recall this talk being good:

GopherCon 2017: Keith Randall - Generating Better Machine Code with SSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTMvKVma5ms&t=1s

Go has built-in mutable containers, and no const, yet they still use SSA. Is there a real alternative?

I guess it is mainly for speeding up code that uses a lot of integers and doubles and so forth, and not code that uses a lot of strings and containers?
Imgur gets another point for loading images with (third-party?) JavaScript, so that it sometimes hangs on the fancy animated loading screen and I never see the picture unless I reload.

It’s unfortunate that so much work goes into UX design but at the same time the web has been going downhill for years.
Artificial intelligence re-defines reality and the self
Survivor type is incredible. One of those Stephen King stories that sounds great even in outline; but the story, as one would expect from that author, is just beautiful.

"I laughed at him. If this place isn't hell, what is? And the only mortal sin is giving up."

Beautiful. But the transcription you linked isn't great; it's collected in "skeleton crew" available in paperback or on the kindle.
Telling users to RTFM seldom works here.
> In the US they leave it at your doorstep so anyone can steal it, because in practice hardly anybody actually steals it. Who is going to risk federal prison or getting shot by the homeowner over a mystery box which is probably just a $25 bulk pack of shampoo?

Nearly 1/3 of of people in USA have experienced package theft and it is only a federal crime if you steal USPS packages not Fedex/DHL/UPS etc.

> That is why they require collateral. If you take out a mortgage they put a lien on the house. If you don't pay, they take the house. If you're on a beach in Argentina with a million dollars in cash in a briefcase, what does the bank care as long as the house sells for more than they're owed?

I can get a personal loan without any kind of collateral as long as i have X income. Credit cards doesn't have collateral as well.

Honestly, i feel that we live in different worlds - i cannot fathom not having an official ID as there are occasions where i must have it (voting, travel, banking as well as government e-services where you can use bank login or your ID card certificate to identify yourself). There isn't a lot of press or reports from Personal Data Watchdog about somebody doing monetary damage from using other people data, in fact our ID numbers (like SSN) in some cases are public knowledge. I am not saying that our system can't be abused but right now i feel like it works just fine and i wouldn't want it any other way.