skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By that definition explosives are chemical weapons, and you know that isn’t what’s meant by the term. Napalm is an incendiary and equally effective against military and civilians. Agent Orange is a defoliant, and while it’s long term effects are horrendous, it’s not effective as a chemical weapon; you don’t want to sit around and wait for people to develop cancers.
The relatively low number of casualties owes a lot to sacrifices made in a cleanup operation which also abandoned an area of land the size of Luxembourg and resettled all the people who lived there. And the casualty numbers rise if you start using the noisier estimates used to estimate fuel fossil deaths.

Of course, fossil fuels have killed more people, but if we used nuclear power with the same ubiquitousness and slapdash approach we've used fossil fuels, I'm not sure any of us would be alive today....
Re Patents (Just get rid of them entirely!)

Please prove me wrong that they aren't effective and are a myth.

Processes of how to do things often come down to engineering and math; if given the same goal a solution is likely to be similar at it's core as for any given problem there is probably an ideal bound and variations of effort will produce similar results or results optimized slightly to different circumstances.

(Yes, this is copied from a different post I made last night with respect to all sorts of intellectual property issues.)
"Proof of counting" is part of making a poll auditable:

While you cast your ballot, there are trustworthy observers who keep an eye on the transparent ballot box, and have been doing so from the moment the poll opens until when it closes. They then watch as the box gets opened, and overlook the shoulders of those who count as the votes get tallied. Depending on whether there are enough volunteers around, there can be occasional or systematic spot checks to boot. And when it's all tallied, the ballots are put in a sealed box and stored in the event anyone requests a recount down the road, making the entire process auditable.

This process is meant to avoid things like the box arriving pre-filled with some ballots before the polls open, voters stuffing multiple ballots in the box, the box getting replaced during or after the vote, votes being ignored or misrepresented during the count, etc.

And just for clarity, I've little idea of how it's working where I live, because I'm not entitled to vote there. But this is how it's supposed to be working, and having worked in the sector a bit I'd want electronic voting to offer a similar set of guarantees before accepting it as a viable alternative to paper ballots.
> Julia is not a scripting language, it's a language for mathematical analysis.

Ok, this clarifies the matter a lot. So julia is not intended to be a general-purpose programming language. Are you involved in julia development?

(Besides, I strongly dislike the design tradeoff of not being a good unix citizen.)
They are also the holding company which owns Indeed.com
> I think it could happen if the incentives are set up differently, otherwise right now you spend time and effort training people only to have them change jobs in 2 years at a better company.

- Can't you simply make a contract that binds them to your company for a longer time? (I don't know about the law in the US)

- Focus the training on technology that is rather specific to your company so that other conpanies are less incentivized to poach the employee because the training that you gave him/her is much less of use for other companies.
While they may be held back by Japan’s insular culture, that very weakness is also a moat.
ICANN Warns of “Ongoing and Significant” Threat to DNS Infrastructure
When I search Julia questions on Google I always restrict the search to the past year or six months. You are right that there is an enormous amount of irrelevant info out there from earlier versions of the language.
$100K Mario Seller: “It’s Probably the Wrong Move, Long Term, to Sell”
that's why i like pair-programming. it makes me as a senior more productive. so even if the output of the junior is 0 at the beginning, my productivity rises from 1.0 to, say 1.2. that means the junior effectively adds 0.2 in productivity.
Oh, it's also cheaper? Nice!
I genuinely do not understand your position.

Let's say a U.S. company spends a billion dollars creating a chip design. You think that it should not be illegal for other companies to steal said chip design and manufacture it because it is just "copying data?" So the company that invested to design has to compete with a company that stole it, and therefore can price it lower because they don't have to recoup that investment?

Just because something can be copied more easily now than when it required a bunch of photocopying doesn't mean it isn't (or shouldn't be) a crime.
> Why would the assumption be that most people would want to move away from their homes because their current employer wants to save money?

If the company were willing to give their share of the saved money to the employee, the situation might be different.
We provide you with everything you need. It's super simple to set up, just turn on the VR headset we send you, launch portal spaces and start inviting people to your VR space.
But here's how it's not working:

https://jasonkitcat.com/category/voting/
At Rubyconf a few years ago, I saw a talk about writing software for controlling drones. As I remember it, the speaker configured the drone to "lock on" to his face & follow his movements. It was more unsettling than I expected.
Countries all around the world, including the United States armed forces, are using Microsoft software in things "designed to help people kill" for years but now the US Army under Trump has a contract with Microsoft it now becomes a problem?

We have a word for that in the dictionary, it is called hypocrisy.
Domestic burning of household waste is illegal where I live, I would have thought it would be illegal most places in the Western world by now. Burn paper = CO2; shred paper = more paper.
Do you apply this standard to all beliefs you have? It’s interesting that you wrote what you did when you could have done a search and found some answers. From the third link below:

Meanwhile, Americans’ international peers enjoy more efficient and reliable services, and their public investment in infrastructure is on average nearly double that of the United States.....The United States generally lags behind its peers in the developed world. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report, in 2016 the United States ranked [PDF] tenth in the world in a broad measure of infrastructure quality—down from fifth place in 2002. That places it behind countries like France, Germany, Japan, and Spain.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=37562

http://theconversation.com/measuring-up-us-infrastructure-ag...

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure
http://web.archive.org/web/20040927081520/https://www.michae...
Dive down the rabbit hole:

https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org

The Interstate 35W Bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis 2007, I used that four or more times a day on average shortly before its demise. The story was similar throughout Minnesota and proved poisonous to the then-governor who wanted to starve the state.

For us, we based our decision not on infrastructure alone but rather total system health. We need to be able to adequately commit to maintenance and future-proofing our societies, not kicking the metaphorical can down the road.
EDIT 2: Let me re-phrase my comment as follows — I highly recommend you explore a therapeutic diet such as carnivore which has helped many people heal issues such as Crohn’s.

Here’s an updated link worth exploring — http://meatheals.com/category/crohns-disease/

EDIT: wording
>Hence you will hear about people who have smoked a pack a day yet lived into their 90s without cancer

At least for this, it's thought to be specifically linked to cyp p450 polymorphism. As the enzyme breaks down the carbon molecules from smoking, it creates free radicals which can cause cancer. People who express less of the enzyme experience a lower frequency of cancer from smoking, hypothetically.
I'm surprised they didn't mention it in the article, but Alberta (a province adjacent to British Columbia on the east side) is mostly rat-free (infestations per year at 0 or in the low single digits since 2000. It is entirely land-locked though. As far as I know there have been no adverse effects. They started aggressive rat control in the '50s.
Sure, I've had a few bosses, who don't call me more than a few times a year, and they certainly don't complain if I don't answer outside working hours.

I have friends and family who call me much more regularly, but react just fine if I get back to them one or more days later.

I'm guessing a spouse would be annoyed if you just disappeared without notice for a day, but then again I doubt this wouldn't be true even before phones.
I think to a large degree eroticization is compensatory. Check out Lodge Kerrigan or Harmony Korine for (English-language) relatively-accessible movies without the kind of clarity of dramatic structure you describe.

In other words, it isn't essential at all. Spielberg could have made a movie that represented only the helplessness, misery, and horror and left it at that.
Wouldn't the issue be solved if you added a tracker to it?
You of course are correct. My mistake!
John Von Neumann
>India mostly allowed free access to US tech companies for a while.

Tech companies allowed it as well because they wanted to capture Indian mindshare which would eventually become their largest customer base.
Personnel doesn't last long, no more than ~10 years for infantry. So if the damage doesn't impede combat function over the expected useful lifetime of the person...
Towards the end of Ruskin's life, the famous critic wrote a scathing review of a painting by James Whistler (of "Whistler's Mother"[1] fame):

"For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face."

Whistler, who was in dire financial straits at the time, sued Ruskin for libel, saying that his reputation was seriously damaged and asked for 1000 pounds and court costs as compensation.

During the lawsuit, artists, most prominent among them Edward Burne-Jones (one of the greatest artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and a pupil and benefactee of Ruskin's), were brought in to make pronouncements on the worthiness of Whistler's art.

The lawsuit was a rare, perhaps unique, and certainly the most famous example of a trial which hinged on the definition of art.

Ruskin stood for the more traditional view of art as representation of reality, and Whistler for a more modern "art for art's sake" where the artist's sensibilities were more important than how true a representation of reality the artwork was.

Whistler, who had a wit to rival Oscar Wilde, defended his work with dignity, humor, and clever turns of phrase which often drew applause from the audience.

In the end, Whistler won the case, but was awarded only one farthing (1/1000th of a pound) in damages.

Whistler went bankrupt, and remained embittered against Ruskin, publishing acidic pamphlets against art critics and a book called The Gentle Art of Making Enemies[2] which contained a retelling of this case.

Ruskin, whose mental health was already in decline (so much so that the trial had been delayed a year because of it, and who couldn't be present at the trial itself), suffered a nervous breakdown and resigned from his post at Oxford, saying "I cannot hold a Chair from which I have no power of expressing judgment without being taxed for it by British Law".

More about the case can be read here: [3] [4] [5]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler%27s_Mother

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentle_Art_of_Making_Enemi...

[3] - http://people.loyno.edu/~history/journal/Landry.htm

[4] - http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/jamesh/ruskin.whistler.h...

[5] - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-james-abbott-m...
Hmm, I wonder if this has something to do with Intel's upcoming dGPUs? Not necessarily a bad thing, but having a scenario with lots of code reuse among drivers and a common framework means easier/faster/better support for their new stuff. Seems like a win for both Intel and the users.
Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? Perhaps to Dazzle Away Flies
I highly recommend you try out a therapeutic diet such as carnivore which has helped many people heal issues such as Crohn’s.

Please don't make medical "recommendations" of any kind at all on the internet -- even if you are a doctor. It is a really, really bad practice that doesn't work at all and actively interferes with reasoned and serious discussion by people who are directly impacted by such conditions and in dire need of the ability to have meaty discussions about life, the universe and everything as it relates to their condition.

Signed: Someone with a serious condition.

Thank you.
People who use new communication technologies wrongly aren't the uneducated masses, they're often professionals and authoritarian with an agenda (see Facebook, Putin, Cambridge Analytica), or just smart profit seekers (Macedonian fake news mills)
Fair point on the tone, I added an updated edit to reflect this.

Most people’s diets ARE broken though, even 50 years ago we didn’t have hardly the level of autoimmune disease that we have today. The standard medical approach to chronic/autoimmune disease is to tell people the best that can do is manage it, not heal it.

There are plenty of people who have in fact healed themselves from autoimmune diseases and there’s a very common theme — avoid all processed foods, avoid most grains, avoid most sugar, etc. Focusing primarily on animal products (which is where the nasty majority of people got the majority of their calories over until just a few thousand years ago has been shown to ameliorate autoimmune — you have to test it out for yourself, if you wait until the medical establishment comes around you’re going to be waiting your whole life, it is completely against their incentive to find a dietary method of healing Crohn’s or any other autoimmune disease).
Ah, yes I read this announcement. I had the impression it would still require API-Gateway.
This is a cool idea but the utility really hinges on the quality and quantity of the data. How many companies are represented here, and how do they get on the list? Who decides whether they meet each of the criteria?
what movie
It's not bikeshedding because:
1) it is pervasive and fairly importsnt
2) it's kind of a deep indication that something is amiss. It's like a language written in 2019 that has default dynamic not lexical binding, not in terms of importance but in terms of it's an argument that was had and decided 20 years ago. If this is wrong then you can probably assume that lots of other things which are important, decisions which can't be "proven" correct but have both convincing arguments and weighty empirical evidence are wrong (I'm not having that argument here but google why 0-based makes sense by Djikstra).

I might have to learn Julia at some point but 1-based indexing was a fairly heavy indicator to me to hold off.
>> It turns out, when you write the code, you have a fair amount of power.

Best quote, and the same thing what I think all day long.
Like the operating system?
Kinda wish they'd gone with "bird mode". In addition to being cool, it looks like it would have been more accurate as well :)
Who said I made a medical recommendation?

Do you feel it’s a scientific approach to NOT test out something before concluding it doesn’t work?

I’m not a doctor and don’t play one on the Internet but everyone can think and test out things for themselves. A mostly carnivore diet is low risk to say the least considering that’s how almost all humans ate for thousands of years, the modern food supply and diet is what’s radical.
The biggest joke in all of this is that someone like Bezos or Zuck or Dorsey etc actually cares about shit like this. They don't. They live in a completely different world detached from 99.9% of the populace.
> Everyone talks about US politics as pay-to-play, it should be possible

You are assuming that if "everybody talks" about something, it must be true. Unfortunately, it is not often the case.
Their business idea seem original: put yourself between customers and services.
Either you're working or you're not. Any time not meant for work is strictly prohibited for doing any work.

I do not work unless I want to.

I am hardly productive in one sense because I know when not to work.

I optimize for problem understanding and lazy solving these days.
I was just thinking about that article the other day - do we know that a retraction was needed? I saw all the refutation but never saw Bloomberg back down, and honestly I'm not sure how these things normally work. I guess I'm just wondering why you're so confident Bloomberg was serving an agenda?
I've read almost every photo book at the Mechanics Institute... if there are gaps in my reading it's pre-20th century stuff. I guess it's famous if you say it is. Four downvotes. What a way to start a Saturday.
2 orders of magnitude seems high.

Assume a safe withdrawal rate of 4% [0]. With a windfall of 100x your anuall salary, this is sufficient to quit working and still quadruple your annual income.

[0] Historically, this is enough to maintain your inflation adjusted principle.
Stream Ring Theory – A Turing-Complete Stream Algebra
The Brits used to (and still do) capture indian mindshare and had them as their largest customer base - it didn't turn out well for indian national interest though.
Yeah, the system here is such utter shit.

I would like to see us start gradually expanding the existing system of "socialized medicine" in the US: The military medical system.

I think an extremely moderate position would be to expand medical benefits for life to anyone who has served on active duty, even if they didn't stay in long enough to retire. Currently, you have to stay in twenty years -- or be the dependent of someone who has done so -- to remain in the system. This screws over a lot of veterans and is a travesty.

The American military medical system is an excellent system with a lot going for it. We have no need to look at how other countries handle "socialized medicine." We have a perfectly functional system within our own borders already run by our own government. We just need to find a politically viable and practical means to start expanding access to it.

Another possible step: If you qualify for Medicaid/Medicare, instead of the current fucked up system, we move you to having access to the military medical system.
Localstack-Serverless – Testing Serverless Apps Entirely on Your Local Machine
Mypy intentionally does not check annotations inside untyped `def` statements. This is a feature meant to make it easier to gradually introduce types in code that wasn't intended to be typechecked. If you call mypy with the flag `--check-untyped-defs` or just annotate the function with anything at all, you will see mypy checks the inside of the function:

from typing import Any

def blah() -> Any:
...

I'm not sure what you mean by "there's not really such a thing as static analysis" in Python -- that's exactly what Mypy does.
Way more free time because of mandated holiday and a culture of taking it. Better maintenance of a rich social life post children because of a more handsoff attitude toward child rearing, and higher prioritization of "adults only" time. Less hassles in general because it's a less scammy and litigious society. The "default option" for many basics like health insurance and retirement just works, and is structurally simpler. Basically, more time, less hassles.
They trust post visibility controls to hide their posts from the government? Hell, I wouldn't even trust those to hide them from anyone, really. Too man bugs in software, too many bugs in UX, too many terrible business decisions ("we'll just remove these to expand user generated content and drive up enagegement levels"). When you give me "controls" I don't control, I treat them as if they are always set to the worst case possible.
Haber–Bosch process greatly supported the population explosion post war. Billions of people have better access to food because of his work.
Custom Struct Field Tags in Golang
Interestingly, Bing Maps uses the technically accurate "Aerial" term: https://www.bing.com/maps
Customers 'Dear Tim' Emails Have Big Impact Within Apple
I agree. This tripped me up when I first started using a fargate service behind an ALB. Easy fix.
Who said I made a medical recommendation?

You previously said -- and I already quoted it, above:

I highly recommend you try out a therapeutic diet

That's what I'm talking about right there. That right there is a medical recommendation.
Erlang is arguably the most object-oriented language in common usage. Actor concurrency is closer to the original OO model than everyone else's "struct with methods". I'm more inclined to agree with you overall, but Erlang might not be your best example. :)

Edit: never mind, you're obviously aware...
+ Raster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics#Geographic_inf...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthophoto
For students learning introduction to algorithms, I have implementations for 12 simple Bibonacci number computation algorithms at https://github.com/alidasdan/fibonacci-number-algorithms . A related paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07199 . Hope they can be useful.
Haven’t been affected by this issue but I’m dreading the future where a lot of hard work building my company is wiped out by people like this. Fairly demotivating as an individual and terrible for innovation based economies.
No, because legally fetuses aren’t children.
>or even 'surfing' as the internet was intended to be used.

The Internet was not intended for surfing at all. It was intended to be a network with enough reliability to withstand nuclear attacks. You’re thinking of stuff on top of it like maybe the World Wide Web (HTML links).
Basic systems will waste 4 gallons of water for every gallon of purified water depending on input pressure and temperature. Lower input temperature and pressure will increase waste and lower output.
Do you have an example of good integration of this? Interesting.
I certainly would. It's often about discovering the actual people in the company more than advertised culture or engineering skills.
looks great, but I hope they overcome the windows-look :)
I think you’re misinterpreting his point. He’s not saying there won’t be unicorns outside of the valley. He’s saying the cost/benefit of being in SV makes sense for unicorns but not for many 100m startups. As a result, you’ll still see a disproportionate number of unicorns in SV but more 100m startups will start moving away.
Not Scripting != Not general purpose
Thank you for taking the time to respond; this is insightful and informative.
DarkMatter Applies for Mozilla Root Certificate
> China is hardly starving, though.

Well, a lot of them were rather close to that before the revolution. I mean, it's one thing to "not starve" and quite another to have your living standards raised substantially. People are happy to give up freedom for better living standards. Imagine if you could live two, three wealth/social classes higher than your current one, and all you need to give up is your right to criticize the government. That's pretty tempting to me, and I'm sure to a lot of other people as well.

I think the best antidote is to steadily improve living conditions. Don't keep your lower class in intergenerational poverty and all that.
https://www.keyvalues.com/submit

It seems to be self-reported by the startup and curated by the Key:Values staff.