skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to jump in on this because of the hookworm topic as I'm located near Alabama.

The Huffington Post article on Hookworm cites a homeowner that pays a mortgage for a mobile home on land that has a broken septic system. Unfortunately for the inequality argument, the article cites utility and mortgage costs that are higher than if the homeowner were to move to a different (newer or more permanent building on a different lot.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-low...

Rudolph has a $611/mo mortgage payment and $300 electricity costs -- on a trailer on a "campsite" (non appreciating asset, especially when considering the hazmat of broken septic systems).

Perusing Zillow, there are many newer, larger, permanent structures, on land, ranging from 20k-150k (read $150-$600 month mortgages on appreciating property). Alabama also has a 3% downpayment step up grant program for households w/ less than $97k of income.

Is this an affordable option on $1,200 month income (plus social security in 3 years,) maybe not, but it's probably more affordable than fixing a septic system on land she doesn't own and a house falling apart - and indicates rentals, especially between Lowndes Co and Montgomery or Atlanta would be viable, healthier options.
Dijkstra makes an interesting argument for 0 based indexing in EWD831.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
You might consider an ultrasonic glasses cleaner. They are pretty cheap (around €50), and clean without touch.
I think he was talking about the very beginning of Robin Hood, as in a no-commissions stock trading app, not the recent Robin Hood savings account debacle.

That said, Robin Hood will now forever in my mind be painted as "the company who didn't check with their lawyer before they started a bank."
Anyone have real-world experience with this killer 1435 wifi card in Linux? I'm hesitant to give up intel wifi's linux support.
The article says that salary isn't the most important factor for enticing potential employees but I feel like that's a meme would be employers like to buy into. Maybe you could convince a junior engineer to work for less with the potential of rockstar teams or mission driven culture. But there's always immediate need for senior engineers in highly functioning teams with plenty of upward mobility. I've had several job offers and compensation has been the show stopper. There isn't really a shortage of great teams. There's a shortage of great teams that pay really well.
Success story of TEP Wireless
If you tax capital gains then no one will invest unless things are 100% guaranteed. Your winnings need to cover your losses.

Capital gains aren't wages
I have been buying glasses from Goggles4U for a decade or so here in the USA. I enter my prescription plus my PD. I get very good glasses for $20-40 all in. Recently I moved to progressives which actually cost a bit more ($20-40).

For comparison, last year my wife added me to her VSP. For $200 + $500 paid by VSP from a pocal optometrist/eyewear store I got glasses that might be a tad more stylish, but the progressive prescription is worse - fewer areas are in focus. What a joke.

Always buy online. At these prices you can trade a movie night out for a set of spare glasses. I have single focus distance, reading, sunglasses and progressives for about the price of the copay on a VSP.
Depends on your doctor.

In NJ mine always dates a year, so I got fed up and found a supplier to buy from that doesn't give a shit what my prescription says.
I'm not an IA expert in any way; I just merely started learning some basic stuff, but so far the only thing I see from all the algorithms I have covered so far is that IA, deep learning, ML and so on are just statistical databases or sets, so to call them. They don't learn anything, they just repeat. From that I can say that IA is limited only to the data you can label and then feed it.
When did particle physicists promise you fusion? Those are largely separate areas of research.
I split my development time between a 2015 rMBP and a Precision 5530 (pro model of the XPS 15). I still can not switch fully to the Dell because of a few issues:

- The touchpad is just garbage compared to the MBP, to the point I have an even more keyboard centric setup on it than my desktop, because I want to drop it out of a window every time I use the touchpad.

- Fans. I've accepted that most laptops will run active cooling more than any radiative chassis MBP, but the issues are that while the fans run constantly, they also change speeds constantly in both Windows and Ubuntu. They'd be far less annoying if they ran at a higher, but steady RPM by averaging response over a large time window. Manually managing fans feels like 1998. Also, for a $3.5K laptop that runs fans constantly, these are some of the jankiest, most rattling prone fans I've heard. Most colleagues with XPS 13/15 have sent them in for fan replacement at least once.

A more niche gripe is that 16:9 is the wrong aspect ratio for a professional laptop.

Pros:

- Screen quality and brightness.

- Keyboard (why I can't just get a new MBP).

- Hardware configurability.

- Many hardware issues at first, especially in linux, were quickly and effectively fixed by Dell driver and firmware updates.
It's better if you disable JavaScript by default and gradually change your habits to avoid websites which work poorly.
I would love a 2-in-1! Especially if the keyboard could be disconnected.

But then you don't have the option of a matte screen. And that is essential for me.

I am waiting for the day we have matte touchscreens.
Next time you're involved in a group project and end up doing all the work while the rest of your team receives the same grade, get back to us on what you just wrote.
What are you talking about, google support is absolutely "some rip off percentage". If you are saying it isn't you clearly aren't working with it at any sort of scale.

Edit: I'm being downvoted but it's true, if you need enterprise support you're paying the same percentages you would on any other cloud service.
It is somewhat hard to get right. I did it with a marker and old glasses, and I still got it wrong (and couldn't return the glasses that I ordered).
I read this as "GDPR: A new era for migraine treatment"

I need a vacation!
It doesn't hurt to ask! The last time I got my eyes examined was at some cheap lenscrafters-type store which had a promotion for 2 pairs of glasses and an eye exam for ~$60. The PD wasn't on the prescription, but the doctor made the measurement after I asked about it.

There was a very limited selection of glasses that were available for the 2-for-$60 promotion, and they really tried to upsell me to more expensive frames and lenses. Luckily I was able to resist their sales attempts and bought a nice frame and lenses from Zenni Optical. I keep one pair of the cheap glasses at my office and the other in my car.

As an aside, being able to get inexpensive glasses online has been a huge improvement on my life. I remember growing up when I only had a single pair of glasses (and a "backup" which were with my previous prescription). I had to be very protective of my glasses, and getting a scratch on the lens meant that I was stuck with it until my prescription changed. Now I can get my favorite glasses from Zenni for $25, so I have backups if the lenses get scratched or the frame get bent. I also have prescription sunglasses for the first time! No more dorky clip-on shades!
Again, I'm not talking about all of the businesses that have ever etc. But there are certainly corporations whose non-existence would have made the world a much richer and brighter place.
> It does not seem to me that governments will spend assets better than the best of the wealthy elite, just move it to someone that is much more unaccountable.

It seems to me that history shows that a wealthy "elite" will spend assets in order to, directly or indirectly, increase its own wealth; and will do this without answering to anyone, many times not even the Law.

Whereas a democratically elected government will/should spend assets to increase its society/voters' wealth, and answers to its voters regarding how their money is spent. What's tough about this system is that it requires voters and taxpayers to be active in monitoring their government.
Which brings up another benefit of using an online eyewear vendor: they let you type your own prescription in. If you are personally fine with using a two-year-old prescription, do it.

When I ordered glasses a year ago, I also played around with the idea of eliminating astigmatism from my prescription by adjusting the cylinder value to 0 (it was only .25 in one eye and .50 in the other) and offsetting the sphere value by half of the difference. Because their buy-one get-one free sale, I got one pair with astigmatism and one without, and got to decide which I liked better.
Badges on GitHub seem to be getting more popular, a manual way to show this information in project readme files: https://github.com/badges/shields
> For some reason universal notifications of casting devices stopped coming up on my Pixel

You should be able to re-enable them; if you want to enable them just on your phone, you can go into Settings, then the "Google" category, then "cast media controls" and then toggle the setting there. If you want to enable them for the chromecast as a whole to all phones, you can go into the Home app, click on the device, click the "settings" gear on the top right, and then toggle the "Let others control your cast media" setting.

(My roommate has a Chromecast, and I had to disable the notifications on my phone because I occasionally accidentally paused or unpaused what he was watching)
The security of package managers is something we're going to have to fix.

Some years ago, in offices, computers were routinely infected or made unusable because the staff were downloading and installing random screen savers from the internet. The IT staff would have to go around and scold people not to do this.

If you've looked at the transitive dependency graphs of modern packages, it's hard to not feel we're doing the same thing.

In the linked piece, Russ Cox notes that the cost of adding a bad dependency is the sum of the cost of each possible bad outcome times its probability. But then he speculates that for personal projects that cost may be near zero. That's unlikely. Unless developers entirely sandbox projects with untrusted dependencies from their personal data, company data, email, credentials, SSH/PGP keys, cryptocurrency wallets, etc., the cost of a bad outcome is still enormous. Even multiplied by a small probability, it has to be considered.

As dependency graphs get deeper, this probability, however small, only increases.

One effect of lower-cost dependencies that Russ Cox did not mention is the increasing tendency for a project's transitive dependencies to contain two or more libraries that do the same thing. When dependencies were more expensive and consequently larger, there was more pressure for an ecosystem to settle on one package for a task. Now there might be a dozen popular packages for fancy error handling and your direct and transitive dependencies might have picked any set of them. This further multiplies the task of reviewing all of the code important to your program.

Linux distributions had to deal with this problem of trust long ago. It's instructive to see how much more careful they were about it. Becoming a Debian Developer involves a lengthy process of showing commitment to their values and requires meeting another member in person to show identification to be added to their cryptographic web of trust. Of course, the distributions are at the end of the day distributing software written by others, and this explosion of dependencies makes it increasingly difficult for package maintainers to provide effective review. And of course, the hassles of getting a library accepted into distributions is one reason for the popularity of tools such as Cargo, NPM, CPAN, etc.

It seems that package managers, like web browsers before them, are going to have to provide some form of sandboxing. The problem is the same. We're downloading heaps of untrusted code from the internet.
Pedantic, but: you don't pipe to /dev/null, you redirect to it.
Uh, the graph in this very article shows rail ridership increasing from 1% in 1991 to 25% in 2016. So, if that's what "don't use it" means, ok, I suppose 25% is still less than 50%, so perhaps most trips aren't taken using rail. But It sure seems like progress to me, if we assume that a train can hold more people than a bus, and so do better at peak times.

This seems like an article trying to hold off an increasing support for transit rail, perhaps worried by the fact that urban support for it (in L.A. at least) seems to be increasing.
I think there's a happy path between bootstrapping your own company and taking millions in VC funding, where you can place your customers ahead of delivering investor returns but not have to design your products and roadmaps due to financial limitations. On that note, TinySeed is open for applications until 2/15 :) https://tinyseed.com/

(I'm not affiliated with them, but I read Rob Walling's "Start Small, Stay Small" and it was the best book out of 70ish books I've read in two years)
anyone who spends excessively on glasses should consider a laser-correction
And then monitor the tons of weird ass encrypted traffic coming in and out of it, hoping that those requests to AWS are some program getting updates and not the contents of your L2.

Firewalls are great, and you should have one, but you have to constantly watch and understand everything coming in and out of it. Works ok as a full time job, terrible when you have other things to do.
To be fair, I've had 'scratch proof' lenses from an optician that I have ruined in 2 months doing exactly that. And the addon coatings upsell is something many retail opticians do as well, unfortunately.

Although that doesn't excuse the practice, it still feels shady to me.
Dead code elimination would require all code paths to be compilable by the compiler being run.

That need not be the case, and typically isn’t. If you do

#if USE_FOO
#include <foo.h>
#endif

the foo.h header only need to be present on platforms where USE_FOO is defined, and need only be compilable on those platforms (it might use nonstandard compiler extensions, for example containing assembly instructions)
I was not aware. Thanks for letting me know - will look into it. I am wondering how GitHub got around that issue.
gtk.org, the active and current homepage of GTK+, says right there on the homepage:

> GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project.

GTK+ development does take place on gitlab.gnome.org, but it is still part of GNU (unlike the rest of GNOME, which did start out as part of GNU, but hasn't been run by GNU for years and years).
Vyvanse is a prodrug, which means that dosage largely controls duration of effect rather than intensity. I suspect you eat a high protein breakfast or otherwise have a physiology that turns the prodrug into dextroamphetamine more quickly than expected. If Vyvanse doesn't last as long as the manufacturer assumes and comes on more intensely than you need, it's likely a good idea to switch over to dextroamphetamine with an actual extended release mechanism (and don't defeat the mechanism, of course). The combination of the effect being too intense and not lasting long enough is pretty rough to deal with, psychologically.
We're very much in agreement, I should have said "only value add".
As a counterpoint, tests are your application, and thus should run at the exact specs of your average consumer. And you don't get to compensate for the test suite itself either unless your 100% sure the average customer is only going to be running your app.

This is also a good argument for running tests on a separate dedicated machine
Ask HN: Rails or Flask for new API project in 2019?
For anyone curious, the actual link is zennioptical.com
beware of cheap hearing aids, hearing loss is almost never uniform, so if they aren't adjusted properly they can be far too loud in the parts of the audio spectrum where hearing is less damaged, and can in fact cause further hearing loss.

Not that this is any excuse for them costing $20,000, but its something to keep in mind, cheap abibaba ones likely just make all frequencies louder.
In NL you have a couple of good and affordable options now, such as Ace & Tate and Charlie Temple where you'll get glasses for under €100. Lots of movement in the market the last couple of years.
It varies by retailer and also contacts vs glasses.

If I remember correctly, thr Warby Parker storefront near me accepted a glasses prescriptions given out less than either five or ten years prior.
Continuous snap delivery from Travis CI
This doesn't happen with medium or large sized orgs that use a reseller.
Could you expand on your comment; I thought a (small?) majority of theoreticians were, shall we say, "super-realists" such that they view the Many-Worlds Interpretation as actuality rather than merely a model?

When you say "intuitive models" do you mean ones that echo somewhat Newtonian/Classical physics?

Perhaps part of the problem is that schools follow a method of teaching physics where they teach what is easy to teach, knowing it's wrong, and then teach something a little more complex, knowing that's wrong too, etc.. Perhaps we need to start off teaching that the world is non-Newtonian, that it has Quantum weirdness and relativistic effects (according to our best models), and allow that to underlie our intuitions.
I wouldn't say "insanely cheap", from what I understand the production costs are something like $50-$150 per unit (not per pair!) and that's with cheap overseas labor, although cheaper devices exist. They are not complicated devices inasmuch as we don't consider circuits complicated, any more. There's a lot of R&D that has gone into making those things work the way they do.

I do think that the prices are inflated, and will drop, I just also think that they're complicated devices that aren't so easy to make.
One word- Walmart. The most durable frames and AR coatings I have ever bought. The frames are a Chinese knockoff. This industry is completely automated and relies on CNC automated finishing and batch costing. Walmart evidently made a centralized investment.
Not a single car, but a lot fewer than Elon wants you to believe. We already know that the baseline technology being proposed works. Guided buses have been in use for a long time now. But there's a reason it's used with buses, not individual cars. And it's for a pretty simple reason: the loading process into the tunnels can't be fast. Much hay is being made about minimal surface disruption, but elevators are slow. As is driving into a guide tray that moves the car along.

donoteat01 does pretty fantastic video work about a number of urban planning topics and he's shot this one full of holes already. You should watch it if you're curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs
In ES6, every variable is "any" and implicitly nullable.

Typescript requires any for ES6 compatibility, but if your code is converted enough ("enough" occurring pretty early in conversion projects in my experience) you can set the compiler flag to forbid non-explicit usage of any.
Needing a prescription for glasses is a bit absurd to begin with. The worst case of wearing the wrong prescription is that you'll get a headache. I suppose it could be a bit dangerous if some drivers were slightly disoriented, but I can't imagine glasses being more dangerous than something like Tylenol.
Yes, this is true. I'm actually fortunate in that I'm completely deaf in one ear and "only" profoundly deaf in the other. That means I only have to spend $3000 instead of 2x that. It's ridiculous. My hearing aid is 6 years old and I'm sure it's about to fail, but I can't afford a new one right now. It's absolute insanity.
Good point, it's really 5-8% a year, historically it did double in 10 years, which is at 7% growth. I edited the original.
If you actually read the papers they cite, you'll notice they bring in probabilistic programming as well as other alternatives to deep learning.
It's more like anarcho-syndicalism than statist socialism though.
What are you looking to export?
This is my current routine:

I have about $5,000 coming into my checking account every month, which I then use to pay rent and several credit cards with % cash back bonuses. Whatever is remaining for that month, I transfer to Ally's 2.2% account.

Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, I don't think I would be better off switching to this card because my checking balance is volatile and is usually close to zero.
It's a trade off. Your OS had to play all kinds of games to manage those 150 or so IOPS you had. When you have 10,000 to a million IOPS you can drastically simplify the operating system.
You can just replace it with Intel one.
I personally had a great experience at Warby Parker. I probably saved $200-300 and didn't feel pressured to buy anything.
Not great work from Bloomberg, there simply isn't much new in this report. We already knew they aren't producing S/X 75 versions anymore, perhaps to both simplify production and to differentiate top spec-d M3 vs. S/X lower spec'd options. Now we hear they are focusing a higher percentage of their production hours on M3, though this Bloomberg report is vague on the details of those hour productions.
The bribery laws we have on the books do apply to lobbyists; it's just that what lobbyists do isn't bribery. Because corporations are legally prohibited from donating to candidates, the exchange of money is not part of lobbying. When you hear "Google spent $X million lobbying" that means they paid lobbyists $X million to make presentations and submit whitepapers and draft legislation to the staff of legislators. (How do you spend millions of dollars on a PowerPoint presentation? The same way you can spend millions of dollars on a legal filing.)
Ask HN: Any serverless WordPress companies out there?
WordPress Premium hasn't been worth the cost, so I'm looking to switch. I want something with no setup, and a lambda-esque experience. Create my account, have direct access in the browser to the php logic files, html, css, js, etc., easy ability to use a custom domain, along with shared SSL that just works without a lot of config.

Is there a company that does this with WordPress (not WP-specific could be fine if it has basic blogging capability)? A quick Google found me https://www.getshifter.io, which looks promising. Anyone use it?
It would be a huge privacy/tracking violation to send every URL you visit to the arbiter to find out if it's fake news.

What they could do is have a "fake news?" button that you press to find out if a particular article is bs, with a panel showing pro and con views so you can make up your own mind based on real information.
I'm not an expert, but I researched it a bit online since I found a charlatan who was promising people they could get rid of glasses completely.

Expert opinion is that this is not possible, myopia is a physical condition that cannot be reversed easily. It is possible to get used slightly weaker lenses, but this is mostly your brain learning to adjust to the slight fuzziness. This seems in line with what tianmingwu experienced.
We keep gps sattelites in a very precise orbit. Maybe that can scale up?

Also maybe the nodes could have some kind of magnetic ram scoop design to cover a larger area and funnel the particles through.
There is no shortage of jobs for someone working at Oracle. If someone feels underpaid, they can just jump ship. I have friends who work at Oracle and their salaries are fairly competitive. I am no Oracle fanboy but this just seems like a bunch of jobless federal employees dragging their feet around.