skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a political cartoon that shows that shows how torture is used. I didn’t cite it as a research paper. The studies I referred to were described in the main article
Brene Brown's Daring Greatly made a huge impact on me! From what I understand it's very similar to The Power of Vulnerability.
I don't know what is there to cheer about the introduction of a feature that offers nothing new.
Hackers and Painters. PG gets a lot of hate, but his ideas are pretty original.
Atlas Shrugged.

Not so much the conservative part, but more of the glorifying intelligence aspect.
For the vast majority of web apps, you’re going to need state that changes over time. Making individual components immutable is a nice architecture choice for several reasons, and hooks doesn’t really change that. Hooks just provide a way to plug state (which can change over time) into your components, which is something you already had to do. Where you were previously using class components, HOCs, or render props, you can now optionally use hooks, which have some well-documented advantages.
Weak references turning nil is perfectly expected.

But you should never access a weak reference. When you need to access a weak reference, you should attempt to take a strong reference. That will either fail, and should be handled, or will succeed, and then will not be nil, and won't 'turn nil'.
It makes financial sense by being a loss-leader product, which the make up with tshirts, ticket sales, lunch boxes, and whatever the kids buy from singers these days...
The Denial of Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.
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Have you read the book? There’s really not much about it that’s fringe or controversial.
Ask HN: How do you prefer to structure web APIs?
I've seen people use the full suite of HTTP verbs and headers, and follow REST principles down to a tee. I've seen others send everything as a Post request (to prevent caching) with a JSON payload that contains all the needed info to execute the request, including in some cases, an authorisation token as well.

So, people of HN, how best do you like to structure your web APIs?
Maybe that's just the only place they could get data
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/O...
Evenly Distributing Points in a Triangle
Those are called admins, not moderators (which are all unpaid).
Awesome :) Thanks a lot!!
That gets you a single instance, but the whole point of React components is that you can use them lots of time and each will do its own instance of the thing.
The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. This is a non-popular example, I found it because I like the series.

The book introduces the context of the scientific revolution and the thinking from which the ideas that we think of as science developed. It tells a very different story than the "dark ages to enlightenment" narrative and shows the seriousness and depth of thought at the time and also of subjects that many dismiss even without thinking, such as astrology.
I don't even know what's going on with Apple Retail here in Japan. Rather than expanding, they've actually closed Apple Stores in two cities, leaving you with the absolutely terrible Authorized Repair Partners. Getting a MacBook Pro repaired here is a trial in patience, it's a really poor experience - if it wasn't for macOS I would have no reason to buy Apple in 2019.
Not to nitpick:
Fertility rate (FR) in Germany is at 1.50 (2016), up from 1.24 (1994).

Other than that you're right.

One thing I keep hearing that actually worked better in Eastern Germany were the government funded expenses to make sure, women stayed financially independent from the father (and family), if need be (as indicated by the fact that Eastern German women that experienced the GDR are usually immune to today's extreme forms of feminism).

One thing in particular was that in the GDR day-nursery coverage was at 80%, in cities at 100% and they were completely free (except for the food). FR was higher than in Western Germany during the whole time GDR existed.

Note: This is not an endorsement of high government spending or communism. The US trumps all of Europe with their FR while having assumably a far looser social security net [1]. In GDR there also wasn't much choice for where to put your kids and the methods of caring for them were certainly blind to trends like "montessori" etc.

I guess, much of FR is due to economic predictability and less to the height of income you predict.

[1] For now, since US FR is declining, against the trend in Europe. Also of interest: How much of that rate (US or EU) is inflated by migrants?
Yes, we're based in Berlin. Should put the link to https://nextjournal.com/imprint back into the footer.

You can read about how Sauspiel – a community for the German card game Schafkopf – allows us to build Nextjournal on https://nextjournal.com/about.
Something that I really like about React is that it is easy to reason about the state of each component, with functions there was no state, with classes, you can see everything that touches the state there in your class.

I am not sure how having various functions (hooks) that trigger state changes and so re-rendering is going to pan-out in practice.

Here comes setInterval and counter packages, no I don't believe I can simply avoid using them, everyone depended on leftpad, indirectly.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

No limits, Jonathan? he thought, and he smiled. His race to learn had begun.
Vape pen kills man after exploding in his mouth
I refuse to use the new design with the same contempt as I refuse to pay for picking my seat on an aeroplane (P.S. Ryanair: my girlfriend is not happy about this... but at least I get some peace and quiet right? /s).

I use Boost for Reddit (Android) and the old reddit style, and RES in my browser. I see why they are going towards the Instagram style route - people generally like what they are accustomed to; and I guess more people use Instagram than Reddit.
I'm sorry for the vitriol, but this is one of the most ignorant comments I've read on HN for a while. I read it three times and could only conclude your whole comment was just so you could spew the "couched in a faux constructionist" non sequitur at the end of it.

STEM in physical education: Biomechanics, kinesiology, nutrition science, sports psychology, probability and statistics, equipment tech.

STEM in art: physics, perspective, geometry, chemistry, music theory, acoustics, audio engineering, CAD, photoshop, Leonardo Da Vinci would like to have a word with you.

STEM in history: agriculture, Gutenberg, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Alan Turing WWII, industrial revolution, manhattan project, Apollo, telecommunications

Basically the entire tree of "advances in STEM" over the course of human civilization can be directly tied to salient events in art, sports and general history.

STEM advances humanities and humanities advance STEM. If anything the STEM movement is about trying to get STEM back on par with how other fields are taught. It's not a zero sum where if STEM wins, then 'humanities' lose. They complement each other and both win.
Isn't it a copyright infringement to pick up some radio signal, reassemble it to pictures and publish them?
> Therefore you definitely can't authenticate/authorize by MAC address.

I would be entirely unsurprised to see that the device is calling out to the API with it's MAC address as some kind of authenticator.

eg: http://foo.example.com/api/prizes?id=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
But that's not what the author wrote in context. He is pointing out that representatives from rural and suburban areas propose regulations and laws that benefit those types of areas and are often directly opposite of what people in a dense area need or want.

That's not being insulting; that's the expected outcome. People should advocate for what is suitable for the area where they live. (What that happens to be and how to implement it is always up for debate.) But for a representative of a rural or suburban area to insist that a city have the same rules as--and no more than--a rural area is not feasible.

That's what the author was getting at within the context of those two paragraphs. It's also the push/pull dynamic of cities and rural/suburban areas that's been going on in state governments since time immemorial.
I think the "catch" is that dataTask will retain self? Yeah, I agree that capture semantics with closures is a bit complicated to get right.
That's basically the stupidest assumption you could possibly make. On the one hand, you have thousands of years of anecodata compiled by billions of people. On the other hand, you have the fact that no white people have yet studied any Indian herbs. Not that they have studied it and didn't find anything, but just that they haven't gotten around to it yet (partly because there's not much profit motive). But somehow the default assumption is to shame people for recommending traditional treatments, even when the risk of trying something that doesn't work is very low and the potential to help people who are suffering is great.

Except that isn't even accurate analysis of what's going on, because tons of ayurvedic herbs HAVE been studied and they have been found to have powerful effects. Check examine.com for like the top 10 most prescribed ayuverdic herbs and you'll find a wealth of proven biologic activity and pharmacologic activity.
r/politics is definitely in the "orange man bad" camp. There are a few objective posters on there but they are not the majority.
I don't care if this story is true or not. It's horrifying, thanks.
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh completely changed how I look at life, death, etc. Basically how I perceive the world and myself and others.

I think any atheist rational person should read this, to get a more realistic view on himself/herself and the world around you.

Our society is too individual and self-centered, which is actually a wrong view on how the world works. I recommend this to anyone, especially when you lose someone or something big in your life.
>somewhere between 0.1 and 1 ExaFlop, we'll probability hit human-level AI

You mean we'll hit human-level processing power in a single computer. The software/modelling part will still be sorely missing.

A promising path seems predictive coding, as popularized in the book "Surfing Uncertainty". Reviewed for example here:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/06/predictive-processing-...
Teaching neural networks to use a paintbrush
About 10 years ago I read a book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". In summary, it describes a different way of thinking about money and wealth and the mindset of a successful person versus one who struggles with money.

For a long time I had wanted to start a business but after reading that book I truly believed I could. It was a long journey but I now run my own software business and I honestly would not have started on this path had my friend not recommended it to me.

To be honest, I'm almost embarrassed to admit it. It is not high-brow literature, and I don't even think it's considered to be a good book on being an entrepreneur, but it was a very important part of my story.
Anime are comparatively easier to encoder due absent of grain. And large blocks of colour do very well with improve h265 efficiency. Not to mention a lot of the psychological model imported from x264 had decades of Anime tuning in it.
Kurt Safari Co
You have missed the point. Nothing in the study mentions a higher rate of reported cannabis use than in the general population. The record scratch is due to implying generalisations based only on a non-typical population of infertile couples without any control.
Express Gateway 1.15.0 released
We did it again HN! We broke the database!

Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/https://divineontheroad.com/build-a-...
Journalists often have at least two objectives: conveying information and attracting an audience (which might be directly related to selling ads). Providing a deep historical context does help with the quality of information, but it won't attract a large audience. The reality is even worse: it costs more to produce deep reports, but many viewers/readers will avoid those, and ads are harder to sell on historical subjects.

Most Americans now use social networks as their main source of information, with TV on second place, so I doubt this show an appetite for a better quality of information.
Thanks for your detailed response!

> Keep in mind that the idea that animals are not fundamentally different from humans is a breathtakingly recent idea in human history.

We haven’t yet all understood the proper moral conclusion from that - that we humans and all animals suffer and can experience pain. Also the relative timeline of Darwin's ideas is irrelevant as their have been advocates for animal rights since Pythagoras.

> A crude answer to your question is that we're smarter and more dangerous than animals and bigger and stronger than many of them. If a fish could eat me, it would. But instead, I'm able to eat it, so I do.

What do you mean here by crude? You're probably smarter than a baby and the mentally handicapped, would it be ok to kill them? Or people who are bigger and stronger don't deserve more rights than the weak.

> I'm saving the people, with zero hesitation or regret.

This is a false dilemma fallacy. I.e. what happens in an emergency doesn't justify what we do day to day. Another way to see it is that if bus A has strangers and bus B has your family, choosing to save your family doesn't excuse killing strangers in the day to day. Choosing to save a human over an animal does not excuse the needless killing of animals every day.

> This doesn't mean that I think animals lives' are worthless. (My vet bills the past few months are sad evidence of that.)

But you probably wouldn't kill and eat your pet. That's because cultural conditioning tells people which animals to eat, and which to have as pets. I'm sure you've heard about the Chinese eating dogs. If you find that repulsive, ask why it's then ok to eat a pig, which is more intelligent and aware than a dog. Also consider the aspect of familiarity - someone might have a pet pig while continuing to eat pigs because their particular pet is familiar and close to them. This is analogous to xenophobia - if something is distant, it's ok to treat it differently. This is morally inconsistent.

> Cows are routinely commodified—undergoing forced impregnation, painful mutilations, and separation from their calves shortly after birth. Dogs, meanwhile, receive special treatment and veterinary care as pets. [1]

> We should do what we can for them, and cooperate with our non-human companions on Planet Earth when we can.

Yes, which is why everyone who is able should be vegan. There is no physiological need for animal products, so there is no need to take away another sentient being's right to live. We are out of survival mode. It is no longer necessary for our species to kill to survive. As humans we have the amazing gifts o awareness, intelligence and moral agency which we should use to reduce the suffering of all beings - human and non-human.

> But part of being a living thing is also competition, including competition for the most precious resource — the calories locked up in our bodies.

For humans, calories from plants will always be more efficient than calories from an animal.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism
I use ipython for similar task. It has wrapper for 'help' function ('?' symbol after function name), tab completion and syntax highlighting. Also it has special %hist command for easy copy-paste code.
A broad guess: Color distortion based on the filter used?
Is there a recommended order of Watts’ books, a fundamental one to start with? I’ve ended up buying a few of his books, but haven’t started on them yet.
My advice is: Use standards and don't reinvent the wheel. There are plenty of them...

https://jsonapi.org/

https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification

http://json-schema.org/

https://graphql.org/learn/

...

And for authentication and authorisation use oauth:

https://oauth.net/2/

and prevent states and cookies (!) - use tokens and headers instead.

There is no "BEST" option in my opinion, but https://api-platform.com/ is a good place to start for getting things done... and perhaps search for HATEOAS libs in the programming language of your choice.
"There isn't a configuration that is good, productive and cost effective."

I think you meant cheap. It's quite possible to have expensive, cost-effective configurations.
Only if you know that you haven't solved it already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19093677
How about buying either at the stores of branded goods manufacturers, or their certified outlets?

Buying very expensive brands from Amazon is an invite to get a fake since no reputable brand (in the very expensive segment) will use Amazon as a retail channel.

Even with lesser brands you run a super high risk of not getting the real thing.

This story[1] is a reminder of what you're likely wind up with. Upon reading it I was just shaking my head and thinking "I could have told you so"

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/count...
There is a blogpost from dan abramov about using setInterval with hooks: https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-r...
https://www.polymer-project.org/blog/2019-02-05-lit-element-... is probably a better link for context. These two lightweight libraries are building on top of browser advances.

And now I’ll start speculating, I’ve no inside baseball — but the way I see it, Polymer is having a bit of a re-think (3 times in a row now, if I recall correctly) because some early ideas on HTML includes and zip packaging are taking longer to become web standards. And having little market traction, with official Material components published for multiple JS frameworks, Polymer has to evolve and simplify to gain traction. These projects appear to be part of that evolution.

I suspect the next thing that might encourage more use of these sort of components and modularization would be the “never-slow” modes recently debated on HN, but there’s a push and pull. Sometimes browser-makers get web devs to adopt their new APIs or heed their warnings, other times it’s the browser-makers wondering if they can make virtual dom diffing more efficient, or effectively embed the core of React or Vue frameworks into first-class browser APIs. If so, these might be considered a first step towards newer API iterations. I’d really like the inside scoop on how web components are working out for Google/YouTube in practice, but for now these frameworks are just “yet another way of doing web components”, but with potential if Vue or other front-end JS frameworks adopt them down the road now that the API for these have hit a stable 1.0.
With ago also comes different perspectives. Yes, learning is important, but your scope of vision, so to speak, may be broader and more nuanced. You may not quite value the ability to learn some hyper-specific niche thing quite as much.
First. "no white people have yet studied any Indian herbs." directly contradicts "tons of ayurvedic herbs HAVE been studied".

Second. You know what studied and proven to be effective plants and herbs are called? Drugs/medicine.
The worst case scenario is also that fixed rate, lottery availability taxi is completely replaced by highest bidder availability.

Depending on your value system, this can be a good, or a bad thing.
Both Longjiang satellites carry a VHF/UHF amateur radio transceiver built and operated by the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. They've open sourced software specifically so radio amateurs can decode telemetry as well as image data: https://github.com/bg2bhc/gr-dslwp
What Europe Knows and Thinks about Algorithms
Related discussion following a similar question I asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939913
One's illegal.
Evaluation of Serverless Technologies at Jet
I quit reddit back when I quit facebook.
Best choice I ever made, I would encourage you to do the same.
This looks like the age-old issue in technical teams: Some people are 'made' managers when they actually don't really want to do that job (and often they also are not very good at it).

In my view, the overwhelming aim is to have good managers, not to try to dilute the job in order to placate managers who don't really want to do management.

One standard solution to avoid people thinking that they have to go into management to grow, it to provide a technical development path that provides status and money (so-called dual career ladder).
My experience in several German Apple stores is just like what barkingcat is recounting.
Well, there was some kind of ruckus about a pretty big change to the compiler that was met with a thanks but no thanks. I completely understand becoming frustrated by that.
They explained their decision I think it was in late 2017 or early 2018. Reducing bitrate of lower encoder time are not their priority. Even at the same bitrate x264 still beats x265 in terms of video quality. There are some problematic scene x265 just doesn't do well.

If they could reduce bitrate while getting the same quality, they would. If they could get even better quality while having the same bitrate, they would do it too. The problem is at their quality level requirement x264 is still king. And as of late 2018 that still seems to be the case. ( Tuning Encoder is a god damn insane job )
Show HN: A Linjat Solver Using Z3
Well they can, except that function needs state as a parameter or calls from lifecycle, which means changing many places inside the component to have that state as well as call that component.

A HOC previously served as a minimally invasive way to compose these behaviours (compose the HOC + use its param in render).

If you are writing a moderately complex animation, you can quickly end up needing state, willMount, and willUnmount, plus the render change plus the logic, thats five places in a class. If this animation applies to many components you abstract to a HOC and simplify dev overhead at a performance cost.

Using a hook lets you abstract that all into one function as you suggest.

Most of the HOCs I wrote had to do with just local state + store state + logic, so not as extreme (editable, updatable, draggable, deletable etc.); but when you have many, the penalty adds up.
You won't like my answer. I pay for the guardian. It's proper news. I would pay for the Australian but I refuse to pay Murdoch press. I would strongly consider paying for the washpo or the economist.
The encoding isn't, that is true. That part was about the team on the ground at the Dwingeloo 25m telescope. The (old) 25m telescope is now run by volunteers.
The Science Of Yoga by I. K. Taimni - A commentary on Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This might fall more on the religious side for many people but the author as well as the original scripture has nothing to with Gods in Hindu religion and describes how we perceive our reality and how should we proceed to understand it and ourselves further. I have read a lot religious scripture commentaries but this original scripture and author's interpretation of it is something next level for me.
Have you seen Hamilton?
Hotel booking sites to end 'misleading' sales
When I see a politician selling their constituents up the river to a special interest group that also happens to fund his re-election (or threaten funding of his opponents), I don't actually feel much different then if it were a regular quid pro quo corruption arrangement. It happens all the fucking time.

In fact, that they aren't breaking any laws when doing so makes me feel more incensed about it.