skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reduction of sun exposure is vicious -- for white people, especially pasty-white hackers like me, it can only take a few minutes to burn. So the medical community recommends we stay inside and lather up to stay pasty. And take a "pharmacopoeia" for the resulting depression, hypertension, cancer, reduced disease immunity...

But if I spend time outdoors year-round, my skin takes on an olive tone, my freckles get darker, and when summer comes around I can enjoy the sun without fear of burns. But that's free health care, and the medical industry makes money hand over fist with that pharmacopoeia.
First of all, thanks, your summary is literally better than the article itself :-)

P.1 is not correct (it correctly reflects the article contents, but not factually correct). Research mentioned states vit. D supplements doesn't seem to reduce risks of cancers, and cardiovascular diseases - which doesn't mean they aren't useful.
USSR was a state-wide-corporation, and society model was state capitalism. Just one big corporation where government is just a board of directors really.

Same is China now.

In fact as larger US company as more of those stuff from USSR in it. That was my biggest surprise when I moved to North America from USSR in 1999.

Imagine establishment of one big "USA, Inc" and you will get an idea how it could work. You will get planned economy on its next day, exactly what any corporation do these days - planning to minimize operational expenses.
They don't at least allow small fridges and microwaves? We used to rent the fridges from the dorms? While it's not a stove, you can do quite a bit with a small microwave. I remember eating a lot of sandwiches and fruit. I rarely ate in the dining halls. Mainly dinner and sat morn breakfast.
Archive mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20000424210912/www.bmug.org/news...
It also seems to be a pitch to pay the government money :-)
Note that legally speaking you didn't actually need to do that -- if they're there with your consent, it's not adverse possession.
I doubt the ceo will accomplish any goals without employees. if you want them to align with the company’s goals you have to help them achieve their goals, otherwise you might as well outsource the work.
Yes, this is what I was alluding to. Freedom of expression was essential for the fight against racial segregation in the US. And for the fight for homosexual rights.

And yes, it's true that the Constitution only applies to government action. So private individuals have more freedom to discriminate and censor. Those rights are generally limited, however, for those who provide public services.

For example, if you're seeking a housemate, or inviting people over for dinner, you're free to discriminate. Even over protected categories, such as race, religion and gender status.

But if you're renting or selling an apartment or house, or running a restaurant, you are far less free to discriminate. In particular, over those protected categories. Indeed, you will be required to accommodate needs of those with differing abilities.

The relationship of discrimination and censorship is admittedly complex. In most of the US, for example, shopping malls cannot legally discriminate against protected classes. However, they can freely censor speech. And exclude people who say or do stuff that's against their rules.

Given all that, Patreon is indeed free to censor and exclude. Just as shopping malls are (except, as I recall in California). But even so, there is the expectation that operations that are effectively public spaces (even though they are not governmental) ought to respect rights to free expression. That was typically so for newspapers. And there's been considerable litigation over protests in shopping malls.

So can Patreon legally discriminate and censor, based on politics? Yes, clearly. But can they legitimately be criticized for doing so? Also yes.
Invention and comprehension through Socratic guidance are different tasks, with wildly different levels of difficulty. It's just not accurate to pretend that students are expected to "come up with" these theories in anywhere close to the way that (eg) Newton did.
It's fairly clear that the doctor did not mean that all people with Down's syndrome are happy. When talking about large groups in that manner, the average is implied.

"The dutch are tall" does not mean that all dutch people are tall, but that on average they are taller than ourselves.

Yes, talking about large groups of people can devolve into prejudice and discrimination, but in this case we're dealing with a group of people who are substantially, physically different. It is rational to point out the impacts of those differences.
> APUE is good, but I believe it has now been superseded by The Linux Programming Interface.

Nice. I'll check it out.
Likewise, but I have just come to accept that although I don't care what font I code in (just disambiguate the look-alikes), lots of others do, in nauseating detail. So I just lurk on the conversations as I might on plenty of other nuanced tech fascinations that don't fascinate me.
Problems with crypto market capitalization metric and potential solutions
Plus Smoothies and Protein Shakes. There's clearly a pattern here :)
Prior to the planning the scrum master informs us about the 3-month-average of story points per sprint. We don't do any normalization on the raw story point value like reducing for vacations etc, we rely on the average.

We plan sprints by at first discussing team availability, which includes time required for trainings, off-time for vacations etc.

Next we discuss the backlog items considering who will probably work on which items.

After that we estimate how many story points we will probably manage, both by gut feeling as well as based on the probable task distribution.

This works quite well for us, we usually complete the sprint goals and only seldomly have to add new tasks into a ongoing sprint. If we don't manage to complete the sprint goals it is mostly caused by unexpected events or technical difficulties.

We are in the SaaS business.
I ran my own Tiny RSS server for a while but found it was just enough hassle when updates would occasionally break minor things. I switched to paying NewsBlur $2/mo to deal with the backend and am much happier.
This! - and looking at the demo - there could be some attractive elements (no pun intended;) ) there to learn from & fork to hack on.
I use Iosevka (in Notepad++) and M+ (in Emacs), both very nice at rather small sizes.
The TSA have a thankless job for good reason: it is a useless, ineffective waste of money. Why would I be thankful to someone for harassing me?
Iris.vim: A simple mail client for Vim
>Everything you can do [...] //

It's not necessary that the number of actual paths available is reduced by the imposition of "no layoffs", it can actually be increased. It seems counter logical. A restriction can lead to greater innovation that is stimulated by the restriction, there were I'd warrant far more places to get an alcoholic drink under prohibition than prior to its institution.

>you have less options, and therefore less paths to success //

A priori it seems right, but the successful paths aren't randomly distributed; perhaps there is a key employee who leaves under layoffs and the business fails (another business succeeding).

You can apply basic set theory to chaotic and complex psycho-temporal interactions.

But I agree, as I think you surmise, that we can't simplistically mathematically impute the "best" route will be with(|out) layoffs.
It's again a good time to plug the best programming font, the open secret to many - Dina:

https://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/

Including its two TTF versions (which are separately notable for using obscure TTF fearure to achieve a proper pixelated look):

http://chrisrickard.blogspot.com/2010/05/geenatcom-dina-ttf....

http://www.geenat.com/?p=66
Just gave it a whirl, purely default Mono settings. Did not feel right. I agree with the sentiments of the curly braces feeling too curly. Maybe after a longer adjustment period it'd be fine, but compared to my years of Roboto Mono, it feels squat.

Also just gave IBM Plex a spin and it too doesn't feel natural. To me Roboto Mono just feels clean, almost clinically precise.
There is increasing abuse of leasehold properties in the UK developers are trying to sell new build leasehold - with spireling ground rents that increase massively.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/25/leasehold-hous...
RunJS
A tool to help you savescum by backing up saves when they are modified
Fair enough, but I don't think avoiding "this" altogether in order to pretend Javascript is only a functional and not also a prototypal language helps. Doing so is just going to make the language more confusing than it really is.
hmm. So they could be losing money on each launch? But, why would they would they choose to sell at a loss when they could beat the competition at twice the price?
> What sources do you need to back up the "claim" that home ownership and health care are qualitatively more important in many ways than consumer goods? You can get all the "stuff" you want, but if you can't get a home or pay for health emergencies it will be hard not to live in some level of fear, always scrambling for slightly more security and feeling precarious.

You can live comfortable and securely without owning a home. I do, and have been for the last half decade. Plenty of people in European countries with high standards of living rent for their whole lives. It's common among more densely populated countries, and as the US population is becoming more urban this is shift towards less home ownership is one that is likely going to happen in the US.

By comparison, you can't survive without food, water, heating (in many parts of the US), and other basic necessities. Plus, there are plenty of consumer goods that people would prioritize over home ownership:

If I told someone they could own a home but you had go without:

* A car

* Internet access

* Electricity

* Running Water

* A computer

* A cell phone

For many, even just not owning a car would make it impossible to live effectively. I'm willing to bet that most people would not take that offer even if they were deprived of just two things on that list. So it follows that these things have higher priority than home ownership in our hierarchy of needs.

> The area of my town that I live in for example, is full of homeless people, many of whom have computers or cell phones (many more don't). It is disturbingly frequent that I see one of them start to have escalating health issue, and eventually just "disappears". Disconcerting. I have no way to know if it was always this way, or if it getting worse...but certainly disconcerting.

The data does indicate that it is, on average, less bad than it was before. Even if it is not the case in your individual town, one counterexample is not sufficient to disprove a country-wide trend.

> Some of the people who seem to be pushing back on your "scientific rigor" may be just wanting to not forget about the actual hardships people are going through.

I don't deny that people are going through hardship. Whether or not someone thinks their life is difficult is their own opinion, and I respect others' opinions. But to claim that life is on average harder than it was before is no longer a statement of opinion, but a statement of fact. And it is not a statement backed up by the evidence that we have.

This is not just needless nit-picking. If the erroneous belief that the country is on a downward course takes hold, then people often become more willing to make drastic, irresponsible shifts in direction. I consider the Trump Presidency one such product of this erroneous belief in American decline. Think about this slogan, "Make America Great Again". In order for such a statement to be appealing, it effectively requires that the listener assume that America is worse in the present than it was in the past.
It sounds like the hapless doctor was merely trying to offer encouragement. You're ever so slightly twisting his words by inserting an "all" in there, and then trying to make his sentiment somehow culpable, even if in small part, for society's mistreatment of disabled people. That's neither fair nor practical. If even casual, well-meaning platitudes are forced to bear the full scrutiny of your substantial life experiences and associated emotional reflexes, then I fear that anyone who isn't you is better off just avoiding the topic altogether.

So, dare I ask, how should our apocryphal doctor rephrase his encouragement so as to not run afoul of these rules against sweeping or outdated expressions?
Isn't it so... exclusive... that you have to dig the file out of the Xcode.app or Terminal.app bundle to be able to use it in other applications, even on macOS?
> see what the fed wastes money on

Yes, there's tremendous waste in the public sector.

But I've worked for large private enterprises most of my career, and there is astronomical waste there too.

I'd bet a year's salary that the waste in large private organizations is far greater than in large government organizations.
Python write list to file
> I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Always negotiate severance up front as part of any job offer, and consider 4-6 months as an absolute minimum for junior or mid-level employees, and at least 12 months of pay for senior employees. Simply turn down job offers when a company won’t offer this and take a longer time to find an offer at one of the (many) companies that will.

Have you put this into practice? It'd be a nice contingency to have in place but seems like it'd put a damper on the tone of the negotiations ("I'm already thinking about being let go and want to make it really expensive for you to do so").
The word that immediately comes to my mind is ‘Toxic’.
It's fake outrage.

One sentence, by one doctor at a time the father could not possible remember correctly exactly what was said.

And the reason blacks are faster runners and whites are faster swimmer is because they have a different center of mass, possibly.
When I was consulting, I would cite this scene often, both referring to how I would prefer people to treat me, and how we should treat other independent contractors professionally.
I think DuckDuckGo still has the clearest, most to the point, privacy policy I’ve ever read.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

But as an employee, I’m biased. :)
I'll answer both your questions here:

> Were you raised with discipline in mind – as in, were your parents/guardians promoting discipline within you? Did you get to it yourself?

Good questions. I think I was raised with less forced discipline than most kids. I say forced because there was necessary discipline. My family didn't have much so when I was old enough to want money to buy things that meant finding a job. With that said, external discipline never lasts. IMO, that's more like motivation. There is a reason discipline is almost always called 'self' discipline. It comes from within.

> How do you get to that point, mentally? What do I do?

Understand that there is no end point. If I reached my goal today, I would just make another goal farther out. The goal becomes less important than the process.

Also understand it's never easy. You may think you have no discipline right now, but in reality I might be a half step closer than you are. I fail at my self discipline all the time. Good, it gives me something to work on.

What you need to do is simply start. IMO, exercise is so important not just physically but mentally. Powerlifting taught me so much about the grind and pushing forward when your body wants to stop. It took months one time for me to add 5# to my dead lift.

So workout - right now. Get up do some burpees, push ups, sit ups, and squats. In 20 minutes, workout one is done. Set your alarm for 20 minutes earlier and do the same tomorrow and the day after that. Ignore whether or not those 20 minutes are meaningful (do you ponder the meaningfulness of watching a single TV show??), just do it. Embrace the strain of putting in this tiny bit of effort to get up and workout.
If given the option for a $2M toilet where "the locals are engaged", and takes 4 years to build, or a $300k toilet which is built in 6 months, which do you think most people would opt for?

The real problem is government is too damn big that it becomes impossible to separate out such concerns from every other aspect of government, and each time government expands, it adds more inefficiencies.

A park should be a self-contained enterprise so that it doesn't need outside government spending. If you take for example, Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo, you need to pay 100 yen to enter the park. The park gets millions of visitors a year, and the money it takes can easily pay for the upkeep of the park. It could be completely private, but in this particular case it is inherited from the imperial estate and is run by the government. The fee has the additional advantage that it keeps out vandals and thugs - only people who want to enjoy the park will pay for it.

Highways in Japan are mostly toll roads too. They're operated as companies with the intent on making profit. Some are privately owned, although most are government owned. The "who will build the roads?" complaint is one of the most common attempts to retort the argument for small government.
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I should, but I haven't gotten around to updating the page yet. I've been busy with other projects.
Last I checked, grocery stores and restruants are still open and planes are still in the sky. The remainder are people who are on the invisible end of society.

This isn't to say that the shutdown isn't a big deal but it should be grounded in the reality of who and what it actually affects.

The typical American could, at this point, realistically not notice anything is happening if it weren't for the news.
“A JOIN is really a cartesian product (also cross product) with a filter.” It always boils down to this for me.
Open source Molten salt nuclear reactor design
Python-Awesome Tutorial as Part of a Graduate Program in Machine Learning
I mean sure, doesn't change my point (pedantically C isn't a subset of C++ either). That was just a metaphor.
No these days with the way browsers handle certs its effectively down.

I handed this for one of the major beverage brands recently it was flagged when GA showed a massive decline - luckily it was one of the smaller noncore brands.
5 is not quite right. According to the article, your melanoma risk does rise with sun exposure, but for some reason that is not explained, you are substantially less likely to die from it if you have more sun exposure. The article does not clarify how much the incidence increases though, and whether it offsets the 8-fold decrease in mortality.
Agreed. Fashion and perspective change with time, and the approach taken in SICP doesn't match up well with the cognitive impedence of 18 year olds today, some 40 years after the book was written.

Then, PCs were not yet integrated in university teaching. It was still common for students to sketch out new software in pseudocode on paper before sitting down at a terminal they'd waited hours to get access to. And of course, editors were crude, IDEs nonexistent, and the compile-run-edit cycle often took 15 minutes or longer.

Programming was more deliberate, involving absolutely no cutting and pasteing. Coding then was much closer to writing a proof, which goes a long way to explaining why SICP put more emphasis in principles, formality, and derivation than we do today.
Seems like a demo app to show ase wolkenkit, so I wouldn’t read too much into that.
damn - i wondering if this with marketing in order to find out where your audience hangs out.
US college students are young adults, 4 months removed from Highschool in most cases. They're also for the most part unsupervised in their dorms. I can recount countless cooking horror stories of dormmates that nearly burned the kitchen down. My personal favorite was cooking dry pasta without water.

Re: bad actors, it isn't just destructive tendencies. It's mostly just being a mess and not doing dishes/ not cleaning up after you're done.
Revisiting: Yes, all the time. The yearly plan would be framed at the start of the year, but new opportunities and personal ideas arise quite often and unexpectedly. If something can help me achieve my life goals better, the entire planning cascade gets reprioritized from that point on. I have done things like defer personal projects, drop ideas that turned out to be impractical after prototyping (an example of a wrong track), and renegotiate scope of client projects. It's a dynamic thing - the idea of the system is to force life goals to convert into concrete daily activities, but the goals themselves can and have changed.

Leisure time: Leisure time is very much part of the daily plan. I put tasks like jogging, workout, reading, going out in all my plans. Even have things like fitness annual goals and explicitly write them in my weekly schedule and daily plans. Anything that I should allocate time for goes into these files.

Missed goals: Yes, that happens. I'm quite bad at time estimation, and some ideas involve a lot of exploratory prototyping that may take much more time than anticipated. I mark incomplete tasks as [PARTIAL] or [SKIPPED], analyze at the end of the D/W/M what made me skip them, adjust scope if required, and modify my plans to correct the problem by next D/W/M.