skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's only true if you don't count depression and suicide as unhappiness or social dysfunction. Unlike that opinion article, I do count both those as unhappiness and social dysfunction.
This is demonstrably false. Here's one person's story (who I happen to know):

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/one-womans-ultimate...

And then here's the data on improved access to health care: https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer...
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The Tab s4 and s5e both have DeX mode on screen and can be proto-laptops. Also there exist lapdock implementions by favorite being the HP Lapdock which even supports wireless pairing (Although DeX still needs to enable wireless projection mode)
Thread link for better readability: https://threader.app/thread/1096822724217827328
I just can't see using violence against peaceful people, for whatever cause, as heartwarming.
Another very interesting long-form article on the C8 thing:

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-b...
A similar percentage applies to many Western nations.
Counter? Electricity meter?
Are you suggesting that taxation is equal to violence?

I'm confused.

If these are the opinions of Americans, then I think I have found out why the "US is a Rich Country with Symptoms of a Developing Nation". Viewing taxation as direct threat of violence 10000% will result in a crumbling society that is built on democracy and taxation.
Alive but not very healthy:

> In his mid 60s, he was sickly, with cataracts, and had been barred from re-entering the sarcophagus after years of irradiation.
The thing is that government doesn't reach everyone either. Often homeless vets don't seek VA help because why would you trust the government, which injured you and put you in the place you're in now (not to mention that the VA has a terrible track record of actually helping). The government also has a very terrifying incidents in it's history relative to providing healthcare, from the Tuskegee siphilis experiments, to offering healthcare in exchange for sterilization, and more recently, using a polio vaccination program as a cover to spy on bin laden.
As usual with such benchmarks, I miss performance comparisons over time. Did Fargate outperform the other two solutions because it's generally faster or because API Gateway was just slow during the few minutes that benchmark took?

What'd also be interesting here would be a price comparison. Without having done the math I'd expect Fargate to be significantly more expensive than the other solutions, which'd make a nice trade-off of cost vs. performance: If performance matters choose Fargate, if cost matters choose API Gateway as service proxy.
I only learned this very recently and it’s saving us like 95% off of the (really unreasonably high) API Gateway costs.
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So I do seem to have jumped the gun. It definitely appears that most the indie podcatchers are in wait and see mode. Almost all the "we won't support it" has a "yet" or "at this time" clause.

The big thing is Apple. Apple is definitely the big boy in the pond and NPR is in talks to get it working.

The thing is, if other podcatchers continue to refuse to provide data somehow, the advertisers are going to start refusing to pay for downloads and only for impressions verifiable on Apple, Spotify, and Google's apps. The end result is the closing off into walled gardens.

We already have Stitcher and Spotify buying up podcasts and keeping them exclusive to their platforms.

It can go either way but like...it's bad if it doesn't go this way. Either you're buying podcasts per episode or trapped on Google/Apple/Spotify's horrific podcast apps.

The apps are horrific. Google compresses audio to the point you get obvious quality loss and artifacting, even to my non-audiophile ears on $20 earbuds.

Apple Podcasts is a PITA once you've subscribed to more than 10 podcasts. It's really badly set up if you subscribe to a serial audio drama and have several seasons to catch up on.

Spotify thinks podcasts are just playlists in order from newest to oldest and wow is that a barebones and impossible UX for anything but a talkshow type podcast.
1 million legal immigrants comprises over 12% of our population? What exactly do you believe the US population is?

I can’t tell if I’m on Facebook or hacker news.
Even the seemingly wealthy or middle class still conduct crowd fundraisers for critical medical care, funerals, etc. We helped another American friend with one of these recently.

Just this week, a friend who is middle class with chronic but manageable health problems was expressing serious intent on leaving the U.S. precisely because of long-term bankruptcy from medical cost prospects.
Sleep.

Take a "digital sabbath" (google it).

Exercise.

The dividends those pay in the long run are huge.
but today is the weekend
What happens if you fail to pay your taxes?
I thought they were extremely restrictive with immigration? Your wife wasn't born there or anything?
Fix your diet and your symptoms will greatly improved, you won’t find the right advice among typical doctors either.

Check this guy out — https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJkJILA_8I/utm_source=ig_share_...

EDIT: If you’re going to downvote, at least have the respect to state why. My post is a serious one, I’m not trolling — people have freed themselves of Crohns with carnivore diets.
> If the paper comes with code you can simply run to reproduce the results, that's a stronger signal for correctness that whether it went through peer review or not.

1. Most peer reviewed papers do not come with code.

2. Many that do come with code don't work out of the box.
Buffet is famously behind the times on web developments. The company is stuck in the 90's because the tech does the job and it is cheaper.
>>The first time I moved to the US was in 1981. Coming from Germany, a lot of it was quite shocking and seemed like a developing nation even back then

Actually, the USA has been improved much since the 70's and 80's it's not even funny.

Large cities like NYC and SF were hell holes with tons of crimes and murders and poor people. They've really gotten rid of most of the crime and cleaned up the streets and neighborhoods. Watch a movie set in either city from 40 years ago compared to now. The pollution has improved drastically as well.
I sort of suspect the error wasn’t just about resources, since it continued after given gobs of resources.
I'm annoyed how the author never actually explained what Corium was. Just described it as "the most toxic substance" and hoped readers would go along with the ride thinking it's some new material.

All it is is an amalgamation of melted fission materials and reactor components like control rods.
Surely this is just normal for a big country. USA, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia. There are some outliers - Germany, Japan, France, but they're stagnant with falling populations as people want to leave them. There are also some smaller countries Australia, Sweden, South Korea that have done well the last few decades, but we'll see how much longer for.
There is an actual commenter here suggesting Flint is an example of "3rd world country".

You'd think in the age of YouTube people would have more perspective on the rest of the world. Seriously, one stroll down the giant open air landfills (which double as housing for hundreds of people) of Dhaka should be enough to be eternally thankful for what one has.
But you have to type `python3` which is 7 letters to 5, if we're counting :)

Seriously though, it's hard to write one manual which gives everyone the perfect on-ramp for their needs. I actually think it's fair to aim it low, make it easy for matlab refugees to get started, interactively. People who know how namespacing works in several other languages (and intend to write big projects) are the ones well-equipped to know how to dig deeper. Nobody has been victimised!
The Airpods article is interesting. Airpods seem to be changing the office as well.

People are doing their entire routine at the office with Airpods: going to the coffee maker, to the cafeteria, to the bathroom, going to meetings (then taking them out there, I hope!).

I'm not sure the people who do it want to portray the image of "don't you dare talk to me", but that's how I interpret it. If no one can talk to anyone without deliberate interruption, it seems like we'd lose workplace camaraderie.
> There used to people who said the Egyptian Pyramids were built by aliens

Still are - how many Americans watch The History Channel, thinking they are getting history? Talk about rot. They play Ancient Aliens Declassified or some shit like that all day marathons, doing their best to dumb-down America as fast as possible.
It's a famous enough that I've seen it before, and I don't have a particular interest in the history of nuclear accidents.
This post is so bad. I generally agree that most attempted uses of blockchain are flawed. The problem is that the reasons given in this post are even more flawed.

Most of the examples given could be adapted to work with blockchain if it were to solve it's core scalability issue. The repetition of "blockchain is not IoT" is a parody of the post itself. Reminds me of "MongoDB is webscale".

We should instead be discussing how each case could work with blockchain given a few changes. For example the supply chain one would work if we put tamperproof temp sensors in with the produce rather than the truck. The desires of the produce supplier and receiver of it are aligned so trust shouldn't be put in the truck. Even a little thought sheds light on the other straw man examples.
It was announced recently. It’s really convenient to slowly introduce lambda in a “classic” application.
Agreed, these discussions seem more like “America has a more disfunctuonal government than most Eurocentric countries” which feels valid. I get it, I almost took a job in France but we were worried our parents would never get to see their only grandson.

Comparing America to developing worlds can be done but it’s hyperbolic and can turn people off of discussing it.
People have gotten too comfortable. We no longer have the will to care for the things we are surrounded by.

We wait for government regulations and lawsuits to make things happen. That was not how this country was built.

Once you concentrate power in corporations or in politics, people just don't have the will or say anymore to do anything.

It takes too much time to build a bridge, and too many players involved and everyone seems to need more checklists and committees and regulations and vendors and contractors just to build a damn bridge. Private construction/ builders are only slightly more efficient because they don't run for election but due to monopolies or regulations they are ever more inefficient than before.

And everything gets amplified a million times through Twitter with not much substance but just generally shouting about things and not actually doing shit.
Oh, you've committed violence against your peers by depriving them of the money that would have been used to save them in the healthcare system? By not paying taxes, you're being violent to your fellow Americans? Is that the take here? Confused still.
Definitely interesting, and the examples look nice, but biased in that absolutely no evidence is given to support that LOP makes anyone more productive.
> Racket was developed by PLT Inc.

There's not a lot of information on PLT Inc. these days, so: Racket was developed under direction of Matthias Felleisen, with his students Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Robby Findler serving as the core development team. They also published the book "How to Design Programs" [0], and Krishnamurthi published "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" [1], which are both books that rely on Racket. (PLAI actually uses its own language which is developed in Racket, called plai-typed, but which relies on the DrRacket environment.)

[0] https://htdp.org
[1] http://www.plai.org
I suppose it depends where you leave. 45min around my hometown would include something like ~100 towns. Many of them are blending into each other, but you still have quite a lot of variety and stuff to see
Exactly. That's why it's a stronger signal.
Maybe they build a fast flying car in the past weekends.
Worse case? About $1000/mo. Likely case with an established employer? <$400/mo. You're likely to earn enough more in the US to cover that cost.
I like that this shows BRK's historical volatility relative to the index and how that's basically going away, which is indicative of the firm's age/maturity and size.
The chance of a child dying from a vaccine preventable disease in the United States is far lower than from a car accident. It would be absurd to suggest we charge vehicle drivers with attempted premeditated murder because there’s a risk they might kill people on the roads they’re driving on.

(Yes, I’m aware this is due to herd immunity. I’m not talking about hypothetical situations where the majority of people do not voluntarily get vaccinated)
What, you didn't know that the entire population of California was illegal immigrants?
On HN, I use DarkReader with the Grayscale factor turned up all the way. The background is an ugly orange-brown with the default settings.
To humans, 01 is the same as 1. To computers, there's two integers separated by a slash.

While it's true that there's a leading 0 on the card itself, there's no reason not to just split on the / and convert both sides to integers.
http://traffic.swim.ai

Insanely talented team with a focus on performance and privacy.

https://www.swim.ai

Good background here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1OUesoYAok
It is an interesting view, but the accuracy of the model is important to me as well, as I'm interested in NaNoCoMo ie: computer generating novels as discussed at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/nanocomo/
> And in return for having you most basic needs like healtcare/education/food covered, why aren't people fine with paying some taxes for this? I thought I've had is that the nature of having states 'compete' against each other with lower taxes plays a part in this vilification of taxes. But surely this would only explain a small part of this problem.

Because certain people in government convince people that citizens can manage their money better than the government can. Forget about the purchasing power of pooling your money (by way of taxes). Then you have people like Mitch McConnell who calls programs for the less fortunate as "entitlements". The people who need these services don't feel "entitled". Not one bit.
I work at a big tech company. We had a group of maybe 30 people make such demands and it was all over the news as if half or all of workers were rioting.

Should tech companies provide assistance to the military is an important topic but this headline is Sensationalist clickbait garbage at best.
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Year over year a million immigrants adds up to 14.2% of our population as stated in this UN report:

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/d...

This is germane to the topic because many of our recent immigrates are from developing countries.
Guess we have different expectations for a first-world country then. This kind of sewage-borne disease should have been eliminated in any developed country, a hookworm infestation is soil-transmitted, you acquire it by walking through sewage.

The municipalities can't fix the sewage system, and the health authorities can't screen for intestinal worms and hand out medication worth pennies. It's shameful to see.
I believe that rats have come up toilets non-zero times in history, but it’s never happened to me, nor did anyone I told about our rat problem mention it having happened to them.

Rats can definitely squeeze into very small spaces. However, they cannot squeeze through packed copper wool impregnated with silicone caulk.
France is fundamentally broken.

Welfare is 31.5% of GDP and even at entry-level taxes will take up over half your labour.

You have a low-IQ non-European immigrant population growing rapidly with all of the attendant criminal problems.

France needs to kill the welfare state, and limit immigration of non-compatible cultures, if it wishes to make any improvement. Otherwise the future is just continual decay until some kind of another revolution takes place and the whole setup is violently upended.
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More than one quarter of the Swiss population is foreign-born (comparable to Australia, only Luxembourg is ahead among OCDE countries): https://i1.wp.com/oecdinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...
Parent comment made me think of exactly the same article! For those that don't want to click through: an ex-Mormon used targeted Facebook ads to "proselytize" to people they knew from the church, about problems with the church and reasons they should consider leaving it.
I lived in Tokyo, I find life in the US to be of much higher quality, though I live in Seattle now and Seattle is probably better off than most US cities.
Check the map for surrounding Waterloo Ontario. There's a ton of cities and towns.
Assuming you're an engineer and a decent one at that?

Move to SV, get a job with Google/FB/etc.

If you're single, you'll have a max-out-of-pocket of a few thousand dollars, but that will more than be made up for by the increase in salary. And you will have good insurance subsidized by your employer.
On the other hand, I’ve been to the following places and thought they were pretty good (although the commonality of graffiti in Europe was a big surprise):

* Roterdam
* Amsterdam
* Köln
* Hannover
* Heidelberg
* Magdeburg
* Berlin
* Frankfurt (both of them)
* Suhl
* Zürich
* Nuremberg
* Strasbourg
* Luxembourg
* Bologne
* Venice (even outside the touristy bits)
* Barcelona
* Torrevieja
* Helsinki
* Adelaide
* Cairns

And yes, I know not all of those are in Europe; this is generically “nice places”. I’d name places in the UK if the UK government wasn’t currently digesting its own brain.

I’d give Budapest a miss thought. Even the street with all the embassies on is literally falling down and has barriers to keep the pedestrians safe from falling masonry.
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Where will you retire to?
Op never called out California by name and made it sound like they’re referring to the whole country.
> Paris, Marseille and Lyon suburbs often look like war zones and while the US has some similar areas, there are still plenty of places that don’t. [...] France has considerable decay and economic malaise.

Very true, but it is forbidden to talk publicly about the real cause of the economic, social and cultural impoverishment of the country. If we can somehow revert part of the last 4 decades of uncontrolled immigration, the country will improve tremendously on these points, in addition to better security.
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People pay for other people’s roads, fire fighters, police force...

When you buy car insurance, you’re not buying it for yourself, you’re buying it for everyone who has car insurance
You are forced to pay taxes under the threat of violence.
There is a big difference between a monitor that is off and a monitor that on, but every pixel is set to black. The latter gives off enough light -- particularly blue light -- that I definitely would get worse sleep if it were near my head. (This applies to monitors with backlights -- OLED and probably plasma monitors are a different story.)

One way to reduce the amount of blue light coming into the eye, it seems to me, is to add red light, which causes the pupils to contract, which makes it so that less of the blue light outside the eye will enter the eye.

I get the impression that the light coming from a black pixel has a lot of blue in it, and that turning on the red sub-pixel would decrease the amount of blue light entering the eye because the pupil-contracting effect I just described (even though it would not decrease the amount of blue light outside the eye).

My point is that using f.lux to dial down the color temperature as low as it will go (1200 K on my Mac after bedtime, giving the screen a pronounced reddish-orange hue) will result in less blue light entering the eye than making most of the pixels black would result in.

(Turning on a red light bulb would have the same effect, but f.lux is easier.)

A better way to avoid blue light would be to switch to an OLED display or to have a backlight that can be switched to producing only red light, but among the no-purchase-cost options, if the only displays available are LCDs with standard white backlight, making the screen mostly red seems to work better than making the screen mostly black.

(Neither is particularly good however if the goal is to avoid the effects of blue light on the brain.)

I don't know which colors are most effective at causing the pupils to contract. I don't have any hard data. But I'm sensitive enough to the effects of blue light on my brain at night that I believe it worthwhile to post here my subjective impressions of the relative effectiveness of f.lux adjusted (via its preferences pane) as red as it will go and a mostly black screen, which I achieved by making most things white, including a solid-white desktop, then "inverting the colors" using the keyboard shortcut control-option-command-8.

(It is possible to have both of the "interventions" or "settings" described above in effect at the same time, so I will add that once f.lux is as red as it will go, "inverting the colors" does not produce any additional benefit as far as I can tell.)
Same here.

FF and Safari don't work at all. Chromium shows something, but it isn't clear if I am seeing what is intended as the site has little to no information as to what it is.
Do you have ice storms in Germany? Certainly not in the Bay area. Inclimate weather reaks havok on the roads. Not such an issue in areas that don't get pounded by winter weather. We have issues in the US, but that seems a bit like complaining that the power went out for days during a hurricane, but when I went back to New York we never had issues.
yes: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
To the point of having something similar to defer in C. Gnu C has attribute cleanup[1][2] which is supported by both GCC and Clang.

Sure its not portable in the strictest sense but these two compilers offer wide enough support that may be sufficient for your use case. systemd uses it, for example.

glib is also a good general purpose library, you do not need to use GObject or it's event loop to make use of it.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes...

[2]http://echorand.me/site/notes/articles/c_cleanup/cleanup_att...
I went to the Berkshire Hathaway site back in the 2000s (still looked the same) and thought I had been hacked.
yes, but this is what people write when filling out paper forms, showing that they consider 0 suppression the norm.
This could also be phrased '[...] are increasingly reduced to numbers', in order to be rationalized by algorithms. How much wealth is counted multiple times by multiple models all recognizing the same qualities under different enumeration schemes?

I expect to see more and more references to Goodhart's Law as this increasing bias in favor of numerically digestible value amplifies the (often unacknowledged) premise that 'that which cannot be counted, doesn't count'