skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experiences in the US in 2015 and prior:

* Took exams, but didn't receive PD (pupillary distance). Had to take another exam and specifically ask in order to receive that.

* Frames from most places except Walmart were disproportionately expensive, and walmart's styles... were lacking. Only select styles were reasonably priced.

* Nowadays my family in the US uses Warby Parker. Last time I used it the prices were reasonable, one just needed their pupillary distance measurement and an eye exam taken within one year.

* For both Warby parker & brick and mortar shops, you had to wait for the new glasses to come in.

* The process for contacts was better, but still quite expensive. I had to drive to the eye exam so I couldn't do the enlarged pupil process.

My experience in Korea in 2018:

* I walked into a random glasses store, picked out a pair of frames, gave my old glasses to the clerk in order to scan them, waited 10 minutes, and then walked out with thin, good-looking, strong-prescription glasses for $80. Couldn't have been easier or more straightforward.

* This year I plan to get contacts to see what the process is.
> I never understand why “tax the ultra wealthy” is always deemed a hard choice, or thought of as untenable.

I think part of the reason is some of those "ultra wealthy" have spent some of their wealth promoting ideas and policies that are favorable to them, though think tanks, etc. I suppose it's kinda like taking out an insurance policy.
And yes, taxpayers have 100% control over where the excess funds they contributed go.

E.g. You make $1000 annually, and you pay 10% in federal income taxes. 5% of that goes to the basic federal budget (labor for all government agencies, and minimal operating costs). The remaining 5%, or $50, will be allocated to you. You can give $50 to one agency, or $1 to 50 agencies.

Essentially, the people choose the budget, and in theory something like the “Wall” either happens or it doesn’t, but citizens choose if they want it by funding it. Basically, put your money where your mouth is.
wtf. I call bullshit. Source? I regularly see people of all sorts of skin tone as oracle has an office visible from my window. Maybe it's a US thing
Very interesting!

I am actually wondering if it would be a good fit for someone(like me!) who is building his developer screencast business on the side.

The only worry I have is that that kind of job would take too much bandwith and leave me with 0 available time / energy fir my side business
Nah, more like a farce.
It works for some people, not others. Reasons unclear, but there is published research which explores this topic at length, especially with techniques that can be monetized, such as special contact lens for myopia treatment. In some Asian countries, it is a national health/economic priority due to high prevalence of myopia.
Jesus Christ, that's terrifying.

After 18 hours without sleep, you're functioning at the level of a person with two drinks in them. It only gets worse from there. We trust these people with our lives.
When you say Debian has nicer wifi UI than OpenBSD, isn't that dependent on the DE? You never mentioned which DEs you use. If you run the same DE on both, does it look noticeably different?
List includes quite recently added (Jan 13th) article - "Turkish History Thesis" which implies that the Turks are responsible for the development of culture in the Old World. I never heard about that before.
If someone wants to see
Last year survey result analyis on kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/nulldata/so-survey-insights-who-s-lef...

Disclaimer: It's mine and top-voted kernel. I didn't win the prize money though ;)
It was definitely a thing to run multiple screens in a "one-per-task" kind of setup - the real difference is that hardly anything back then networked or multitasked, and so you had to design the workflow you wanted to use specifically around the idea of using all your displays. In the context of any specific application(coding, document editing, CAD etc.) the possibility of a custom tailored solution existed - it just wasn't the highest priority most of the time. You could get a lot of multitasking mileage out of more antiquated technologies like printed documents and pens in tandem with your computer. "Code review" meant literally printing it out and going over it with highlighters like an exam grader. I'm sure it still does in some shops.
We, Java men, got used to it long ago.
I guarantee you that someone says this about every job in the world, including yours.
Does magma compile down to highly efficient code?
Russia set the standard in interfering in the US elections and therefore the world...
There's a quote along the lines "the surprise isn't that politicians can be bought, but that you or I could afford them."

Searching now, I can't find the quote. I did find "It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought." by Timothy Noah at
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/08/bob-ney-characte... .
Actually, American geographical mobility has declined significantly in the last twenty years with little end in sight. Obviously there are multiple factors but the significant difficulty of renting and finding a job in most place has to be one significant part.

This article talks about the consequences but that there has been a decline is a given.

https://equitablegrowth.org/the-consequences-and-causes-of-d...
I'm only one person, and my team is only one team, but we have been completely satisfied with Azure and DevOps so far. But then again, we are a small team and tend towards many smaller projects rather than fewer large projects, so some of the issues mentioned here w/ caching and missing stats, for instance, may just not apply for us. We don't really need to see stats of how many pull requests each dev has made when there's only 4 of us doing backend work.

Additionally, we are a non-profit, and MS works with us in a moderately generous way with pricing, whereas AWS wouldn't.
All of them have problems. The other 2 have nothing close to a devops product suite like this at all.
i dont see how that's true. in both worlds, a developer has to take the manual action to review published vulnerabilities and track down repos they own that are affected and upgrade the dependencies.
yeah i remember my cousin telling me about how she -an american citizen educated in private schools her whole life- had to study english for some reason as part of the requirement of becoming a doctor. the pre-med requirements are pretty much stupid garbage
Other countries found a way to oppose her without leaving the EU. There was a lot of bad press and name-calling back then, but they made their point.
> Think back to the last time you updated your resumé, CV, or an online profile on a job site. What is the PRIMARY reason that you did so?

Really needs an "Other" option.
Try a web search for neuroplasticity.
Kotlin is now an official language for Android development inside Google
The silver lining here is that Azure DevOps's code review tool is lightyears ahead of all other repos. I would like to see this support for github repos
Sequoia goes after early-stage with accelerator program in India and SE Asia
I'm confused as to how the travel ban (I assume you're referring to the "Muslim Travel Ban") has any relevance to contributing to StackOverflow?
it has always been illegal. the thing is these few jerks think they are anon and are in many cases(to extents). swatting too can happen from anywhere in the world. bringing them to justice will definitely make them think twice though.
> First of all, Obama's daughters are much more likely to be murdered, abused or falsely accused by police than they would be if they were white.

I don't think this is true. If you compare Obama's daughters against Bush's sons, probably. But against a random white person with no media exposure, unlikely.

> they would have been far wealthier if they'd been born to a comparably wealthy white family.

Again, why are we comparing against comparably wealthy white families? The reason why Obama's daughters were brought up in the first place is because we recognize that they are incredibly privileged compared to the general population, and they don't need more advantages. We don't care whether they are privileged compared to Bill Gate's children or someone comparatively more privileged.
How about another one: the "pee pee" dossier which was also released by Buzzfeed. Do "most people" still "seem to think" it's true or has it been discredited enough by now?
> whereas socialist/communist systems cannot, since they are fundamentally crippled without the price mechanism to inform resource allocation.

Socialism does not necessarily mean central planning.
There is a Use of Force Contiuuum, but reaching for one’s waistband can be a short circuit directly to the top. Police usually say it is too dangerous to wait until they’re sure you’re actually retrieving a gun. This comes up pretty frequently when police kill people (typically young black men) who turn out to have been unarmed.
VM Agent based builds are an obsolete model. A docker/container-based pipeline is the current state of the art and allows for very fast builds with caching built in and isolated stages with narrow responsibilities.
There are certainly many people who work for defense contractors and they are necessary. But, other people don't want to do that. If they join a company that's not a defense contractor, and it becomes a defense contractor, it feels like a bait-and-switch. That's not what they signed up for.

And it does seem like, in a large industry with many different kinds of jobs that need to be done, it's clearly not necessary for everyone to work in defense.

On the other hand, the funny thing about large companies is that they do many things, but by reputation they're treated as a single entity. So you get into a somewhat weird situation where people care what some distant part of the company does that has almost nothing to do with their work day-to-day.

I'm reminded of Paul Graham's classic essay, "Keep Your Identity Small" [1]. If you join a large company and identify with it, this is making your identity larger than it probably should be.

For better or worse, many employees of these companies feel responsible for things they have little control over. They feel good when the company does something good and bad when the company does something they don't like. So they decide the problem is that they need to have more control and this results in a rather problematic kind of company politics.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
I know that one but I don't think it applies here. In JS there really doesn't seem to be a comprehensive library. When I look at a lot of NPM packages they are simple 5-10 line functions. Consolidating them into a larger library would help a lo in my view.
It's good politics, if nothing else. More good-sounding* policies for the opposition to have to spend political capital removing. Legislative cannon-fodder, in other words.

*The actual virtue of the policies being mostly irrelevant.
I'm in training to become one. I've flown a sailplane a few times now.

I'm merely pointing out one method that would allow near-elimination of noise.

...and you can fly a sailplane at a younger age (13 for solo flight) than you can drive (usually 16). And driving has most of those concerns as well.
You'd think the shipyard workers' union could probably pony up that... maybe the politician could have an auction or something.
The incentives for the other forms of transport should be to make them better than the status quo, not to make the status quo worse until they start to look good.
Great. It’s already here. I remember Chris had to convince some commenter on HN about why would someone want to use ODEs and Neural nets together. NeurIPS best paper goes to Neural ODEs. Great paper, long live Julia.
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Wait, something happened with laser pointers?
Scientists Are Teaching the Body to Accept New Organs
That's a glider, but not really a sailplane...

...I've flown a 2-33. It's not much better than the Waco! :)

Unfortunately, I haven't flown it with a winch.
You can't separate A from B in the above. For instance dark matter and relativity. Dark matter was invented (or at least expanded) precisely because certain rotational characteristics of distant galaxies seem to contradict what we'd expect based on relativity and gravity. But we believe these theories are correct, so there 'must' just be a bunch of matter there we can't see or measure. And it must be invisible to the point that it only interacts with itself and gravity -- dark matter by another name. However, another recent discovery now indicates that galactic rotational curves are fully explained by visible matter alone, which poses a direct contradiction to the dark matter model that can't be so easily massaged into it. [1]

The point of this is that 'something' is very wrong, and nobody really knows what it is. And this something could be something incredibly fundamental. If it turns out dark matter simply does not exist then we'll 'set physics back' (it would be progress, but the effect would be the same) many decades, but also open the door to an explosion of new knowledge and exploration.

Then there are question like why is the universe accelerating? As you mention the bandaid here is dark energy, but again A cannot be separated from B. There are even open questions about things such as the big bang. Why are things like the cosmic microwave background radiation near homogeneous, even in areas of space that should not be causally connected (light has not had time to go from A to B since the birth of the universe)? One explanation for this is cosmic inflation which in turn created it's own dark matter analog - the 'inflaton' that's even more bizarre than dark matter, but once again it's just a bandaid to try to explain something that goes against everything we'd otherwise expect.

There's an immense amount of room for progress in physics by removing these bandaids - either by testable physical explanations, or by providing better bandaids. And this is also just scratching the surface. There's so much we have no clue about. Even basic observations remain inexplicable, fast radio bursts, the rapid dimming of stars such as KIC8462852, and so on.

I would speculate that there are probably more 'known unknowns' in physics today than ever before. Of course all of the questions seem incredibly difficult to answer, but this is what it always looks like when you're at any given state in science. We only see the answers as obvious or easy once we already know what they are. And then the next questions are the ones that suddenly take the place of seeming incredibly difficult to answer, only for this pattern to repeat to seemingly no end.

[1] - https://phys.org/news/2016-09-spiral-irregular-galaxies-curr...
> I believe typically they don't allow to leave the country

They do:

> You can travel to the so-called Schengen states (Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania , Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary) without a visa, if you do not stay longer than three months and you do not work there. [0]

In the EU that's a moot point anyway as I haven't seen any border control in years. So at least travel-wise they're quite free to move.

[0] https://handbookgermany.de/en/rights-laws/asylum/blue-passpo...
By the title I expected the article to be about kitchen blenders, as they are called mixers in my mother tongue. Do native speakers have this confusion?
Sure. The point of those examples is to use familiar operations to help the reader understand how the notation works, and show the generality.
Microsoft's Bing search engine blocked in China
Reading comments like this makes me honestly entertain simulation theory. We have to be living in completely different realities, where what you’ve read and what I’ve read literally have different words on the page.
when i saw animals being mistreated it made me feel sick for eating meat.

if this alternative has all of the same nutrition and taste and texture as real meat then i am switching
iOS 12 Live Listen can use airpods to relay audio from the iPhone mike, a capability previously limited to hearing aids. Can be useful in a pinch.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/11/how-to-use-airpod...
Normal Burger:

Carbs : 0 g
Fat : 10 g
Protein : 17 g

https://www.nutritionix.com/food/beef-patty

"Lightlife Burger":

Carbs : 11 g
Fat : 2.5 g
Protein : 10 g

https://lightlife.com/sites/default/files/SmartPatties_Black...

Nope, not a substitute.

EDIT:

Apparently that is for a different veggie burger from the same company. Not sure where to get the info for the one under discussion here.
Julia is regarded as similar in syntax to python, or at least they have similar readability. What I love about it though (fyi not a CS degree person here) is the elegant way it handles types, and generics. User defined types perform just as fast as the built-ins, and I never seem to labor over design choices needed to generate fast computation.

Multiple dispatch is such a great way not to have to write boilerplate code for every method, somehow java seems very awkward in comparison.

Julia feels like a thoughtfully designed and carefully constructed language. I don’t havd the training to understand why exactly.
That's an even bigger argument for the point I tried to make. I don't want the see the film in a theater, which (in my case) would require about an hour of driving, overpriced drinks and all the other annoyances of a theater visit. Meanwhile I have a projector and good audio system at home, which is why I want to buy and download the film digitally to watch on my own terms.

And needless to say that it doesn't require a fancy projector to have a fine movie experience - most households have a big TV that comes close enough. For this kind of movie, however, audio/video equipment shouldn't be a concern at all.

What I'm trying to say is: Why screen the film at a very limited number of cinemas, which you might even have to pay when you could get paid by viewers directly?
Native speaker here and I thought the exact same thing. Was actually a little disappointed it wasn't about the kitchen appliances.
The sunk cost fallacy?
Yes, I thought that too hehe, Australian here. My friend uses a Thermomix in our kitchen to do everything - I can hear it now - they're absolutely a cult. :-)
Green or amber?
The economic definition of a perfect substitute is less about the literal definition of the phrase, but more about the way in which OP substituted it in (ha!)
I use Azure DevOps everyday and like it quite a bit. It'll keep improving but I've had no complaints. Microsoft is in a very enviable position, not just having one of the best IDEs but having control over potentially an entire CI/CD pipeline from Github to Azure, while having one of the major programming platforms in .Net to enable best-in-class integration. No one else can really say they have all of that, not Atlassian, Oracle or Amazon.

The CI component, Azure Pipelines, is the only hosted CI tool that supports all major platforms, at a minimum Windows/macOS/Linux.

The value of essentially fully automating out the role of DevOps engineers is a long time coming, and I used to do that sort of work but saw the writing on the wall with things like Azure DevOps. I think a lot of existing DevOps roles will transition over time to 'Cloud Engineer', specializing in setting up and maintaining hosted CI/CD platforms. There will also be a lot less of them as a result. It's becoming a commodity, MS is just one player there. I love what they're doing and eagerly embrace it, Microsoft has been knocking it out of the park. It works well for us.
Didn't occur to me for a second that it was anything other than kitchen mixers. Not blenders though.
I was interested to see where my KitchenAid fell in the grouping.
I mean, even all of those examples you listed aren't as crazy as the fact that you need a library to parse the cookie string and deal with individual cookies...
Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
You’re not comparing to the product mentioned in the article which clearly shows 20g protein in the image.
It isn't people can't afford kids; it's

a. The opportunity cost of having children is higher in rich countries. (E.g. If you are richer, you can say travel more.. but can't easily if you have kids! Also the income hit from having children is also much higher in rich countries)

b. Rich countries generally have higher social expectations for parental involvement. Kids cost more in rich countries because parents actually do more.
Yup, I do this with SD cards as well. To do this on the commandline, I just fill it up with big gigabyte-sized files. The loop uses "seq 1 16"; at least 15 files should fit on a 16 GB stick.

$ cd /Volumes/your_new_SD_card
$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.bin bs=10000000 count=1000
$ for i in $(seq 1 16); do cp test.bin test$i.bin; done

For good measure, you could run md5/md5sum on the files.
I run Arch on a XPS 15, it was relatively painless and I have no major complaints, I am very cautious about upgrading the kernel and only do so periodically. I would 100% consider switching to something else if they manage to solve packages as Arch has.
How's it devoid of substance? The issue is about the fact that the legal system distinguishes between manslaughter and murder, has different burdens of proof for each, and you've come back and said "well in my opinion it's the same". And that's nice for your opinion, but if you worked in the legal system in any capacity you'd know that the two things are distinct, and the reason they're distinct is there's a difference in burden of proof, and that the layman's wild-ass opinion on things rarely factors in.
GitLab is an Inc. :)

Still independent.
Online grocery shopping seems to be how stores ditch their lowest quality products. The produce is always on the verge of spoiling. You get the worst cut of meat, etc. And you pay extra for it. I never use it anymore.
That isn't an argument against proprietary software. It's an argument against software that doesn't provide its source.
Eyebuydirect will return/exchange any glasses within 14 days, lens included. Since they are owned by Essilor, the lens quality is comparable to retail stores. Some of their frames are good quality clones of designer eyewear costing 10x up.
I'll just go ahead and take the downvotes/burial/lectures/ridicule whatever but I need to say it anyway. I've been programming for thirty years and in my opinion effective code reuse with npm is one of the greatest achievements in the history of software engineering. It's not perfect but it should be appreciated more and the issues are being overblown.
> The company that basically owns the entire eyewear industry top-to-bottom is Italian.

That is in the US (and maybe Europe). In India I got my glasses with all the regular filters from Titan for about 50$ including the frame.

Titan is a brand owned by the Indian conglomerate Tata. Not by Luxottica. So your example is still US-centric.
Achieve your Desires – motivational – hindi video – Vastu – Dr Puneet chawla
To clarify, US prices include import tariffs and all other federal taxes, but not state taxes (sales tax, CA recycling fee when applicable, etc.).
For me, sanity is the main selling point. Make has meaningful space/tab distinction - that's quite enough to disqualify it as hopelessly mad in my book. And then autoconf is just baroque.

CMake only helps a little bit (it's still very old and has way too many warts). But Meson is very pleasant to work with.
Growing up my mum had a Kenwood. Massive beast of a machine. Fully analogue controls. Sounded terrible, but very loud. Could take your arm off if you weren't careful. Even had a mincer attachment.

Not really sure how you would make a non-rotary mixer TBH.