skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Rails API and whatever Javascript front-end you want is the best possible option out there. It's fast to develop, it's well documented since Rails has been around forever, Ruby on the backend is sooo much nicer than Javascript, and you still get access to the front end trickery you need from modern Javascript.

I have three languages I use. My web sites are done in Rails because it's fast and logical. One site has a Vue front end, only on a couple of pages where I need the JS fancy stuff. Most of my pure APIs are done in Flask because it's lighter weight. I use React Native for my native apps. I tried using Express.js for the APIs backing these apps but I could never get it all working right. I ended up rewriting it in Rails and now it's rock solid and fast as hell.

I'd also like to mention most web development out there is still right in line with even old school PHP and does not need React or Angular or anything fancier than Rails. YAGNI.
Presumably your physician was still paid, and there are plenty of programs in various countries that compensate physicians for following best practices like this (this is generally a good thing).
Any way to get invites? :)
This should explicitly be allowed under the law. Right now parents can exempt their children from lifesaving vaccines. Kids should be allowed to override that.
Pali. Usually if you want a precise word to describe something psychological, there is a word in Pali for it.
There is an currently an outbreak of Measles in Washington.

Yet the anti-vaxers are still out in force, against any move by the government requiring vaxination.[1]

People with children too young to be vacinated are running scared[2].

its odd. I really wonder sometimes what is driving the anti vax movement. It seems like something that exists with nothing for anyone to gain. I'm all for questioning things, but it seems people aren't able to make the rational decisions and are endangering others.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/08/washington-...

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/it-wi...
That's a pretty funny analogy considering the same tree appears to be the inspiration behind the design of the aptly-named "Bed of Chaos" from Dark Souls: https://66.media.tumblr.com/02253f537ab15bd946d55cdb9b0b7b41...
https://librivox.org/the-machine-stops-by-e-m-forster/
Something i was told was to use the lefthand page for rough work, it [leftpage] was to be considered an appendix or attachment of sort and was not considered for scrutiny. it was highly advisable to use pencil on the left page in wet solvent conditions [water, alchohol, benzene etc.]

The right hand side of the note book was a final and standing statement of your notes and was to be indelible ink with bracket and single cross through in the case of transcription errors. the right hand page was the "final answer"
This.

It’s amazing most people have no clue that they are mapping their mood state onto their own interpretation of someone’s text messages. We evolved to read non-verbal communication.

Key and Peele have a great skit on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo
Of it's generation, fortnite was the first to really nail the aesthetics and "How do you do, fellow kids"-elements. The gameplay is almost secondary.

PUBG is almost intimidating, fortnite is the opposite.
The folks at Basecamp, Github, AirBnb, Hulu, Kickstarter, MyFitnessPal, Twitch, or tons of other Rails-powered sites must not be "real developers" either...
surely there are methods of concealing patient identity? We do this with lots of other confidential personal information...
Wouldn't we consider the way that most people use webpack to be as an app, not as a library?
The paper is annoyingly undated; the highest year that occurs among the citations is 1999, so I'm taking that to be its date.

The discussion on garbage collection of these vlists is noteworthy. The paper admits that their aggregation causes retention of garbage ("Large parts of the unused list structure may not be garbage collected."), and since they have heterogeneous sizes, fragmentation also. But, oh, that's totally okay, because all you have to do is make your collector copying to compact these things and you're good!

cons cells cause no fragmentation whatsoever (they can be placed in a dedicated cons heap in which everything is a cons of the same size), and an unreachable cons cell is always reclaimable.
> Because it's a definitional thing. A "scalar" is routinely defined as a real number, not an integer.

Well, this is totally untrue. A scalar is defined as a non-vector quantity, a single element as opposed to a multidimensional list of them.
Sounds like the guy is an ass. I would not be surprised if he mislead the developer and when “cooperating” with cftc made it sound like he knew that software broke the law.
It’s a complex issue. It’s a mix of crazy people and politically powerful religious groups.

You’ll never crack the religious people as communities that push this crap isolate people.
I don't think Fortnite is a good example of Epic "knowing what they're doing".
The game was stuck in development hell for many years during the closed betas and they really didn't seem to know how to fix the game (it took them 6 years to release the primary game mode as "early access", which it is still labelled as). It never really took off until a small part of the team spent less than 2 months on replicating PUBG's battle royale mode into the game as an experiment. That's not really "knowing what to do", that's more some kind of luck or serendipity.
I'm happy to believe they're sinister 100% of the time. What they clearly aren't is stupid. If they are spending money to incentivize behavior, it's because that is in their financial best interest. In this case, it just so happens that their best interest (not wanting to pay for care) aligns with mine (not wanting any more care than I have to have).
I do like these https://learnxinyminutes.com/ very much
Apex Legends is really good but it strikes me as more of a pubg-type game not fortnite.

The Penetration fortnite has had across ages 10-20 is almost surreal. Anecdote: I was playing Apex (and Siege, for balance...) and I can hear my friends younger brother playing fortnite with his friends - across the room -through the chat.
> However I am a little concerned with adding a script from another website... it requires a lot of trust, doesn'it?

Not if you use the `integrity` attribute like the page recommends. If the file hash doesn't match the one given in the tag, the browser won't run the script.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
Refusing to vaccinate children should be considered abuse and endangerment. Other than some rare health conditions there are zero legitimate reasons to not vaccinate.
Most large Open Source projects are maintained by paid developers, employed at considerable cost by companies that benefit from their time. This is an "actual money" investment of considerable size.
herd immunity, very low density population count

pick one
Why a number of people still insist IQ is purely genetic
(^^)$ UFC 234 live streaming TV
https://www.gapyear.com/boards/topic/ufc-234-live-streaming-tv-131

https://www.gapyear.com/boards/topic/ufc-234-live-stream-tv-3

https://www.gapyear.com/boards/topic/ufc-234-live-streaming-free-tv-10

https://qiita.com/rugbytvs/items/a719315b903056f274f7

https://qiita.com/takai_sob/items/8d95f291ecb3491293eb

https://qiita.com/maula_tv/items/9b02fa51d28c341ed075

https://qiita.com/sirajud_dawla/items/74c07f9a473436c66449

https://qiita.com/rugbytvs/items/cd9f1eb0a714ccf663a7
Though everything works in practice, it seems like this ECS organization in C++ is encumbered with all of these issues, some as simple as issues with new entities occlusion with currently looping iterators. I admire what they did, but it just seems so unpure and not pristine.

Is it just the nature of the area of development..gaming? Or is it just because C++ is pretty much defacto for perf, and no large company is going to rock the boat?
Fortnite is a really well made game, I've never had any issues with the core gameplay/ game engine. Less consistent than CS:GO, but more consistent than siege (A game with a very very strong "competitive" contingent)
Fwiw it's 9KB, not 9K SLOC.
The CDC schedule is designed to minimize the risk of infants contracting preventable diseases during periods when they are highly vulnerable. In addition, clinical research and experience is based on the recommended schedule, so once you’re off the schedule you’re in terra incognita. Since research hasn’t shown any clinical benefit to going off-schedule, and because of infants’ extreme vulnerability, pediatricians aren’t generallly going to volunteer to change vaccination frequency, as it would contravene the patient’s best interests (medically speaking).

As far as payers are concerned, your insurance may incentivize certain physicians based on overall (covered) patient immunization rates; this isn’t anything new, going back at least a few decades. From the insurance perspective, immunizations are a financial firewall — vaccinated kids means fewer seriously ill (read: expensive) kids. However, there’s no evidence that financial incentives materially change vaccination rates, just the quality of documentation (less of an issue with EMRs these days).
open source is not a sure-fire way of catching all bugs, but it's still better than closed-source. We're talking an improved situation, not a perfect situation.
New Feelings: Ungoogleability
I don't know if Google gets a huge cut now but they certainly didn't start that way. Originally when Android shipped Google took 30% but only got 5%, the other 25% went to the carrier. The fact that they only got 5% apparently meant they were barely covering costs.

That maybe have changed in the last 10 years but I don't think it has. The help on it says

> The remaining 30% goes to the distribution partner and operating fees.

In other words Google is not getting 30%

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

> But really we should move away from these app stores.

Agreed
It's important to realize that lab notebooks (in professonal academic research labs) are quasi-legal documents with specific requirements, in that they must document every modification made to an experimental setup, and every measurement made. It's similar to a ship's log (I presume, not being in the shipping business). This is not about keeping a personal notebook, although there's nothing wrong with applying the rigorous standards of a lab notebook to personal notes. "Lab notebooks" in student lab courses are meant to familiarize students with the practices of genuine lab notebooks, but are obviously much less stringent.
"You don’t know which neighbour has committed the crime but you are linked to each other by the street you live on and therefore you are ‘associated’ to that neighbour. As a result, you are also arrested for the crime and you are guilty by default! There is no unbiased court case or appeals procedure because the decision is final and you cannot find anybody to contact to get your case re-heard!"

That kind of shit happens all the time.
Yeah, I'm waiting to see if when a child dies due to a disease that could've been vaccinated against but parents refused if a state prosecutor will try to slap them with criminal negligent homicide. I guess that will be the real test.
Possible, but I doubt it would tell the actual story. I knew two of the coauthors in the Ninov paper (one of my closest friends) and two of the guys who did the computer forensics as it turned out, so I kind of had an inside view.

Anyway, use a paper notebook. It's worth the trouble for lots of reasons. Also use analog chart recorders if you can.
Alluded to in the article is the importance of spending some time in silence.

For those that agree with the idea that long stretches of silence can be important for meaningful internal dialogue and mental health:

One amazing life hack that I have found to work almost anywhere in the world (e.g. when travelling - or not):
search ‘adoration times <city/town/location>’ and find some welcoming empty space to sit in silence ... and no one will question you.
Although it works 99% of the time, I'm not a huge fan of "Just run the tests" style of ... testing. Unit tests are important, but I feel slightly insecure if I don't think about the process mechanically rather than as a black box.

In this case your suggestion is a good one, obviously.
It also has a minimum time of hovering, so if you're going by it quickly it won't fetch anything.
> Actually it's fine if businesses actually move to Ireland.

It's really not if you're France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Italy, or any other major EU economy.

France has seen zero per capita economic growth, inflation adjusted, since at least 2003. They've had to sit by and watch as Ireland gets richer and richer.

Ireland now has a GDP per capita over $70,000, among the highest of any nation. Soon it'll be 100% higher than France, Germany and Britain. There's no way they want to see that continue, it's a humiliation to them while they all struggle to generate any growth at all. In nominal terms, Britain's GDP per capita has seen zero growth since 2004; you can imagine how much worse the inflation adjusted figure is. In that time Ireland went from $47k to $70k per capita.

Since 1990, Ireland has gone from a GDP per capita on par with Spain (with France ~50% higher than Ireland), to where Ireland is now 150% higher than Spain and 84% higher than France. In economic terms, that's extraordinary.

Here's what that looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/q99EtMk.png

No chance the other powers in the EU don't want to restrain that.
My physician is paid for any sort of checkup. I'm sure every one of them would happily poison their patients for the visit fee. /s
Thanks for the reply and the pointer!
The ultimate goal was to become database-independent as far as I understand (I was just a junior dev, this was my first job, so I'm guessing, I wasn't making decisions). To avoid Oracle tax I assume. It was very funny when mid-rewrite we learnt Oracle bought Java :)

But there were lots of other improvements - using jbpm for designing warehousing processes was a natural fit, much better than making persistent long-running processes with C++ using nested ifs in a while loop and serializing the state of the process with manual inserts and updates on each state change.

With jbpm you could see the whole state machine as a graph, move nodes around, insert new ones easily, and the persistence was automatic, including all the variables you use, which saved a lot of time and hard-to-track bugs (some combination of steps breaks the persistence the next time you enter this process - good luck fixing that and tracking what really happened on the warehouse before the process broke the persistence).

Regarding the speed we were actually slightly faster with the jbpm (mostly thanks to the hibernate 2nd level cache and optimistic locking). We measured the time on the portable devices between pressing a key and seeing the next screen, and because the bottleneck was PL/SQL procedures running selects to decide what to show and waiting on locks - the whole overhead of application server and jbpm and .net client was hidden in the savings thanks to the cache (and optimistic locking).

Also jbpm processes had versioning. Old versions were continuing to run and new instances were started with new version. Upgrading the processes with the C++ code was basically stop-the-world event.

We could have skipped the Eclipse RCP thing, though. The subteam that worked on that went a little over the top with architecture astronomy, there were like 4 sub-layers with 4 levels of configuration xmls :). And the framework built on qt we used previously for forms was quite nice already, arguably better.

And no - PL/SQL isn't arcane, and the whole team had lots of experience with it running the system for years.
Nor a page hit counter!!!
I encourage you to read up on the "duck and cover" before dismissing it. Many people feel as you do, but it is a deeply ignorant stance.
Working for a startup, working on mobile games. It was just me and an artist, and eventually another developer in a room, just working away, while the founder came by every 1-3 days and would look at our progress, brainstorm ideas for the game with us, and then go off and leave us alone.

Unfortunately he had too much of a "if we build it, they will come" mentality that infects way too many people in charge, and didn't put enough of an effort into marketing, or making sure we were working on a project that consumers wanted in the first place, so the games fell with a thud when they hit the market, but I was able to focus on making and learning, and I learned a tooooon in that period of time.

I haven't worked in a similar environment since. Big open spaces, lots of people and distractions, lots of people constantly wanting status updates, not much time to focus and really get work done, let alone learn anything.

Like at my current job, it's slowly gotten so bad that right now I have 3-4 hours of status updates most days (1 for devs, 1 for our department, 1 for our business unit, 1 for our data center, 1 for a specific upgrade project we've had for the past several months, and each lasts at least 30 minutes, usually longer) along with other meetings so my work day doesn't really begin until 3pm most days (and there's been multiple days when I was stuck on a phone until 10pm or later), and I'm still expected to make progress on four different projects and manage offshore developers and get development work done (that the offshore devs can't do) on top of all that. Things are slipping even with me working into the evening and a bit on weekends and those meetings are just drowning me, but I'm the only person in the department that has the domain knowledge they need (anymore, everyone else has left or transferred to another department) and they're stretching me beyond thin.

My own boss resigned because of this nonsense. He was the one that used to be able to shield me from this, and his replacement has just increased the amount of meetings I have to attend with his gung-ho, "fix all the problems this department has ever had" now attitude.

I really need to find another job.
> Steel industry employment nationwide increased by 1,000 jobs to 83,400...

That is tiny. Why do governments keep propping up small industries like this and coal mining?
How to grind your programming career to a halt in 20 minutes by buying in to a community that thinks metaprogramming, duck typing, monkeypatching, unsealing and resealing, and _everything_ done at runtime are good ideas, with no self awareness or ability to understand why other ecosystems left these terrible ideas behind.
> If I'm operating a service in eg Brazil, I have zero obligation to comply with EU law (depending on treaties of course)

this is not actually true. There are lots of examples, but the best two are probably:

Yahoo (a US company operating entirely in the US) being forced to stop users from selling Nazi memorabilia because it's illegal in France.

Kim Dotcom fighting extradition to the US from New Zealand, for Mega. Everything he did is perfectly legal in New Zealand, but that doesn't seem to matter to the US legal system.

If your service reaches EU customers, then the EU will apply their laws to your service. If you break those laws, then you may find yourself facing legal problems (extradition if available, from Brazil or any country you travel to that has an extradition treaty with the EU).
"As soon as Oil Co. understood the cost of externalities in the business, it had a choice - to add the cost of neutralizing to the product (and possibly close the business) or to get sued."

Since fuel is taxed, how do you know that isn't enough to compensate for the externalities? I once looked up the estimated costs of global warming according to the National Resources Defense Council and it seemed that using their figures the full cost of gasoline is probably on the order of the price it goes for in Europe. So I think that while Americans aren't paying enough, the true cost is not very high in the overall scheme of things. Certainly not enough to drastically change society and put energy companies out of business.
> The only hope is to out-crazy them.

Or use the scientific method to determine what methods of persuasion have the highest success rates for promoting behavioural changes, such as motivational interviewing?

https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1900

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-8804(02)80030-1

Or require parents to consult with local public health departments to obtain a waiver, which has significantly reduced vaccine exemptions in some cases?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/can-skeptical-parent...
because steel is necessary for war, and it's dangerous to rely on foreign nations to provide that
god, that's a terrible name
I'm glad monitors back then didn't have the contrast they do now. It literally hurts my eyes.
I for one am slightly underwhelmed by the irony of seeing "audiobook" in this particular context.
Obligatory 99pi episode link:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/atomic-tattoos/
Reminds me of what they did to import Spanish cured hams (ala Serrano ham) to Norway.

Norway has very high import duty on cured ham to protect traditional Norwegian cured ham production, which we have a fair bit of. Now, duties you have to pay when importing foreign goods into a country. However, at least in Norway, there is an exception for processing goods abroad. In that case you only pay duties on the actual work done abroad.

So, some clever folks started to transport the slaughtered, whole, pigs to Norway from Spain and import them into Norway. They were just plain (dead) pigs, and so the duty was rather low. Arriving at the destination just across the border, the truck was then told to turn around and go back to Spain. The pigs would then get cured in Spain, and then transported back to Norway.

Since the pigs used for the cured ham had already been imported into Norway the hams had thus been processed abroad, invoking the exception. Thus they only had to pay for the work done curing the ham, which was quite a lot cheaper given labor costs in Spain, as well as avoiding the higher duties.

I was told there were quite a few surprised truck drivers, being told to go right back with the same load after just having arrived in Norway. Not sure if customs cracked down on this or if they're still doing it. Not exactly good for the environment...
In the very first sentence, I appreciate what I think is an intentional use of five digit year formatting.

The Long Now Foundation isn’t getting caught with its pants down in an amateur Y10K bug!

“YYYYY” FTW
I think calling it deeply ignorant might be a bit harsh. It's a pretty common misconception, and it does intuitively seem like duck and cover would not protect against the most powerful weapon in human history.
Completely false. Doctors push vaccines because they work very well, and don't want to see you get sick. (I married a pediatrician.)

Any financial incentives that exist are because insurance companies are incentivised to have everyone vaccinated for very obvious reasons.

If you don't understand what the obvious reasons are, think about how much it costs to take care of someone hospitalized, versus the cost of a shot.
what a common agenda - claim to bring back jobs to an area if tax breaks are given, receive massive tax breaks, don't bring back jobs - only automation