skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is equally true that there can be no "cure for cancer" in the sense of a cure for all cancers. Just like with bipolar disorder, "cancer" is just a broad description of symptoms. There is no shared physical cause that underlies all cancers. That's why some cancers are treatable and others are still basically a death sentence.

That being said, while "bipolar disorder" is clearly a disease, or like cancer, a set of diseases, it is true that the mental health profession has an unfortunate long history of making non-majority personality traits "mental illnesses" -- homosexuality was considered a mental illness until the mid 1970s, for example.
I did not know this, but I also didn't grow up in the US.
Was hoping for a bit more diversity in Singapore - Seems only seven VPN nodes - leaseweb and M247.
The software planes use is reliable.
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True, but that's part of the issue. Volatility affects people's lives, and they need to be paid extra to deal with it (assuming they have other options). Moving around a lot, living in the middle of nowhere, inconsistent income due to changing markets, these are all negatives that need to be compensated for in the wages.
Nobody could ever argue that the US is green.

But many European countries have wind farms, and decent solar. Europe is way greener, energy-wise, than the US - still has a long way to go, sure, but for sure electric vehicles stand a much better change of a green-source advantage in most of Europe over pretty much anywhere at all in the US.
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> There's a dangerous perspective held by a conservatively-minded minority of more people who say mental illness "isn't real" and you just need to "suck it up" and "have stronger character"

I don't think most cases of depression are an illness for the same reason that I don't think that hunger is an illness. It's the body and mind's natural response to a life which it wasn't evolved to cope with. Which isn't at all the same thing as telling people to suck it up. If everyone is forced to take drugs in order to thrive in what civilization has become, it's not the depressed person who is sick.
It doesn’t have to be function calls though. Conceptually it’s a nested model, that’s it.

It could quite easily be a series of nested objects. The point is not that it abstracts functions it’s that it abstracts nested nodes.

Anything else is a library implementation detail.
Eric S Raymond reflecting on his new found wealth due to the VA Linux IPO: https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/12/10/0821224/esr-writes-...

Not sure what it was eventually worth when he could cash out.
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That's funny because STS-1 was actually made in an iterative way. If it's good enough for a shuttle, I guess it's good enough for about anything else.

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/journals/J90.pdf
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I'm not sure if I misunderstood OPs comment or if your comment is in no way related to the topic.

But yeah, thanks for the ad. I guess... ;)
You should definitely check out a Vitamin D supplement for your daughter. Where I am from we have reduced sunlight during winter months and it is something all the pediatricians have recommended and asked if we are doing because of the lack of sunlight.
I am the only software engineer at my company so here are my tl;dr;

1. Pro: I have ownership and gaining experience in multiple areas ranging from networking, QA, Testing, design architecture where at bigger companies I may only be in one of those foci.

2. Con: No Coding Reviews. I cannot bounce ideas of someone and trying my best to produce the best codes but I believe I need a Senior/Prinicpal above me to help me on this front.
Finding a bug made these guys rich, then Vegas made them pay (2014)
Bron, I do (kinda) take backups of my FastMail account via an Outlook sync occasionally, but I'd really much rather you also had a Takeout-esque "one and done" download that included calendar and contact data and all. For my major online accounts, I like keeping an archive of these, compressed and dated.

Is there any chance FastMail will implement this anytime soon?
Mildly amusing related aside from this. Because of this, glass is completely opaque in the UV spectrum. Looking at the world in UV [1] is quite interesting! Such a reminder that how and what we experience of the world is so largely a product of our physiological composition. What is perfectly transparent to us would be a great hiding place from the perspective of something that only saw in UV.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9K6gjR07Po
I use airvpn.org. Not the fastest but I like their stance on net neutrality, privacy and censorship.
The alternative is paying people to moderate it all day every day. With the mental damage this causes to people who are desperate for a job.

Just blocking it yourself seems like a better solution. You dont have to be fair in what you block yourself and (surprise surprise) you dont need to watch it in the first place.
I am curious how do you take notes while using audiobooks? I have been trying audiobooks but somehow I find it distracting. And the notes taking process to be cumbersome too, as I need to go back and replay something over and over again. So for now I prefer ebooks/hard copies.
How can you make that claim with a straight face? If you don't know the size of the node/folder/dir and need to compute it, never ever ever ever give a definitive answer that is wrong, give an in progress answer. There should be no "edge" case. We've been writing file managers for 40 fucking years. Sorry, this is just nonsense and pisses me off. There is such a thing as defensive coding.
The fact that front end has to deal with 3 different languages (JS + HTML + CSS) is a problem nobody has completely solved.

These days the solution usually falls into 3 camps:

1) Write everything in JS like React.createElement or Mithril. No build setup but a pain to use.

2) JSX. Requires a build setup which might become complex as the project grows.

3) Templates. Probably the less elegant of all 3 but the most pragmatic and easy to use.

Someone attempted to solve this and created a new language called Imba. It's like a mutant Ruby with HTML that compiles to JS.

http://imba.io/

It has a lot of productivity benefits compared to previous attempts at solving the same problem, but goddammit it's ugly.
Ask HN: Does our app make you feel uncomfortable?
Hi guys, I'm the creator of Greypad, a PDF reader that uses the front-facing camera to detect when other people are looking at your device and then blurs the contents of your screen when it does.

Greypad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greypad/id1450783054

We've received some great feedback from our individual customers (people who found us through the App Store), but a few users from our corporate clients have left us mixed feedback. Negative feedback primarily having to do with feeling uncomfortable using the app when the security mechanism is active.

I've tried to alleviate their concerns by reassuring them that all facial computation takes place within their device, and that they can test it themselves by turning off their wifi and data; but it seems that knowing that a camera is watching you is an inherently difficult mental hurdle to overcome for some people.

How do you guys feel? Would you use Greypad? Would you protest if your employer made it mandatory to use it when reading sensitive/confidential documents in public?
I'm probably in the minority but I wasn't willing to sign up just to see a demo. Maybe put a video or something on your site?
> The sort of person who thinks a few dollars a month per email address is too expensive is going to be high maintenance.

I have to disagree with this. Any email service that costs several dollars per mailbox per month is way too expensive for most people who tend to have more than a few email addresses, including shared ones. In many cases these may not be conducive to be trimmed down using aliases.

Take a look at Posteo.de, mailbox.org and Runbox.com. All of them are highly privacy focused, been around for several years, and also provide email for a low price. With prices of hardware going down, even those prices sometimes look high when you see the storage quotas, the low number of aliases (except Runbox), etc. (I concede that hardware is just one part of the solution, but see what Migadu.com says on that front).

Setting up a family of users even on Fastmail’s lowest tier (without own domain support) would soon become quite expensive, not to mention the standard plan.
or just go outside with your baby. humans are pretty resilient, especially the rubbery little ones and they are really good at telling you when they are uncomfortable.
One of my favorite drinks is the "Champagne Julep". You muddle mint and superfine sugar, add crushed ice, add cognac and yellow chartreuse, top with: seasonal fruits, a sprinkle of superfine sugar, and a float of Rhum Agricole. Since you don't mix the drink before serving, the woody/grassy flavors of the rhum mixed with the sweet fruits hit your tongue first.
ES modules with relative URLs have shipped in browsers, and when import maps [1] land, it could become viable to not bundle or transpile for local development and only do so for production builds.

1: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps
Tax avoidance doesn't have to be unintended or unfair. You can avoid income tax in the UK for example by investing in official schemes like SEIS. Or in this case he could accept crypto but forward it to charity and argue the money was not his but customer charity donations.
I think you missed my point: all those things can be tools for accomplishing a just society, but they are not sufficient or an end in themselves.

Slavery was ended by war. Labor rights were achieved by fatal street battles. The civil rights movement was legitimized by a growing threat of a domestic insurrection. Marriage equality was established by an unelected Supreme Court. Basically every time significant positive change has happened in this country has been the result of extrademocratic leverage being found and exercised, not going hat in hand to ask an uncaring majority for what you are due as a human being.

Finally, as a moral being with obligations to others I absolutely get to decide who is a bigot, just as you do.
The greatest draw for me in looking at purchasing a System76 machine is coreboot support. My understanding is that coreboot is supported (sometimes) on older hardware, but not much modern hardware aside from Chromebooks. Ideally I'd like to build a machine myself, but it seems difficult to do at present with recent hardware and full coreboot support. Am I correct?
I've got a surron electric bike which does 45mph or about 70kph on flat ground. It's a bike that can be registered as a moped (with DOT lights added, some places option them already for this) or used as an electric bicycle (it can be optioned with an janky crankset, but it's more for appearances than pedaling).

It's a lot of fun, I ride it more than my cbr, but it does blur the lines of bike and motorcycle which can be tricky.
Soda-lime glass transmits pretty much all UV ranges and is readily manufactured (it is used often in germicidal lamps.)
I don’t think A PR is the only attack vector. I would be suspect of the entire CI/CD pipeline and any production systems or distribution systems in employed
> However, since no off-the-shelf resolver provides an API to check if a domain is DNSSEC-signed, CAs had to roll their own solutions, most of which were wrong and insecure

So fix that problem then. If CAs are not properly checking DNSSEC in violation of the BRs, that's the real problem here. It's not a reason to avoid DNSSEC.
Greenpeace: AWS “turns its back on” renewables
In my experience, many companies that are writing software have no business doing so.
How is people not talking to each other an improvement?
The Sheriff's Office can be requested to serve evictions that might not go easy.
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I have seen new systems/software implemented just to isolate/remove parts of an organization. Worse I have seen it done when the existing system/software was just fine.
That's what I thought Julia did.

I'm proposing that you could probably get back a lot of that dynamicness if you could explicitly say "OK, I'm done being dynamic now", because in general, even Python programs that do things like introspect databases and dynamically create classes on the fly based on that still have a distinct initialization phase. Reifying that into something the interpreter/compiler (honestly, in this language design, that distinction barely matters...) understands might let you have both worlds.
There is so much to reply to in that comment.

Judging a community based on perceived motives rather than words and action is prime ground for problem. For example the Feminism movement is often being accused of misandry, while men's right movement is accused of misogyny. This make it is impossible for those two groups to have a conversation about eliminating stereotypes or that people should be treated as if all was equal, even if both groups share the exact same goal and only differ on how to reach it.

Going back to this study however, from a practical perspective all that a bad p value means is that there is a need to replicate the study if we still want to reference it. That is what the null hypothesis means. The data is indistinguishable from a random processes. The theory that blind auditioning is beneficial to women could still be valid, but this study doesn't really say anything to make it true or false.

If its not clear, I do very much believe that humans are all equal. Even from a gene perspective the difference are tiny and influence only a few minor traits. From listening to professors in neuro science and primatologists, it is a repeating pattern that where we thought there were biological difference between men and women that caused specific behavior, when tested it usually show that it almost always is caused by cultural factors. For example, men are not more prone to violence then women. Their higher physical strength and cultural preference to using their hands results in statistically higher damage, but the incident rates when studies tend to show identical numbers for men and women. While I have not seen a study to show it, I would expect to see the same result in regard to nursing and parenting. Breastfeeding causes a initial bias where women will statistically spend more time with the child, but beyond that it is all cultural.
What kind of ideas would you like to try? How much time do you think would need in order to build a MVP?
Quick and dirty is rarely quick and always dirty.

(Don't know if it has a name)
Actually, it's "nearly" $2.5k ;-)
I have heard that they and most other leads at FB actually do that
I think marketing plays a huge role here. Being told again and again that you "need/want" it might act on your subconscious at one point.

And people tend to trust the marketing and the big text on the label more than anything sometimes. The label says it's healthier, that promo on TV said cool young people consume it, etc. So you won't stop to "objectively" evaluate the product. Many blind tests for products turned over results that were completely the opposite of what the market was saying via sales numbers. Because without the label and the marketing driving the decision people had to fail back to good old fashioned taste (ex: this tastes better) and common sense (ex: this offers more for the same taste / price).
However Google isn't building that new many products, and their longevity is historically uncertain.
Many mental illnesses have been traced to underlying physical issues with the brain, especially the schizophrenia family of disorders.

Autopsies of mentally ill individuals (no history of drug use) and chronic drug users that developed mental illnesses have found many of the same structural defects in the brain.
Can you provide an example of rotten software?
> “Before we had four cross functional teams, working on a single application, everyone felt responsible for it, worked overtime to fix bugs etc, we had good communication between the teams.”

This actually sounds very dysfunctional, but with the type of positive PR spin that product / executive management wants, basically anyone who believes “cross-functional” is anything more than a buzzword.

Would love to know what the engineers thought about working in that environment (which sounds like a monolithic, too-many-cooks, zero specialization situation likely negatively affecting career growth & routine skill building).
From that url in September it was about half Linux "but sometimes slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux."

I'm not sure that is the win OP was looking for.
Or caused by programmer neglect. If your software compiles today and then fails to compile or run in the future, you could be doing something wrong. Unless your code got hit by cosmic rays and a bunch of bits flipped, nothing rotted.

I have code I wrote 20 years ago that still compiles and runs. I could check again but I don’t think any of it rotted.
To deny any progress happens under democratic rule, is going too far?
Since it is non-ionizing radiation I'm not worried.
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Just came across what is truly the worst SPA I've ever used and wanted to share it with someone.

https://acloud.guru/

Try and go through their sign up flow with Firefox, or any Adblocker enabled on Chrome. I dare you. Anyone care to explain how this was so poorly executed?
It's an entertaining read, but for those just interested in the bug, here's the TLDR: By changing game type in the interface before cashing out a big win, they could use any win at the new game type, using a larger bet size, to retroactively change their bet on the first winning hand to a much larger bet, and therefore a much larger win. Basically it made what should have been a local variable into a global variable.
> They stopped talking to each other because they didn't share any code, no issues... they stopped having lunch together

Was that accompanied by any growth in company size? I've found that this happens when a group grows past about 15 people even if the structure doesn't change.
Well, no, we do care if the data leaks to the US; the ECJ struck down the Safe Habour Decision, and there are many critics of the new "Privacy Shield".
The book "The Emperor of all Maladies" doesn't put it in those exact terms, but makes it clear that essentially the same is true of cancer. Cancer is a symptom of many kinds of health problems, not a single disease that responds to a single treatment.

If we understood bleeding as poorly as we understood cancer, then everything from R&D for better bandages to public campaigns to reduce gun violence would be lumped together as "treatment for bleeding."
Absolute beginners may not able to write an actual proof that their answer is correct, but at least they can verify that it satisfies the problem (depending on the actual problem).

In any case, since the study of mathematics is cumulative. Even if the student can't prove or verify that their answer to a specific problem is correct they will eventually reach a point, often within the same problem-set, where inability to solve a problem will force them to encounter their gaps/misconceptions.

The most important thing in a mathematics text, as with any other text, is lucidity of writing and the preparation of the student.
And further, a lot of microsoft's share of the browser market was defacto share (its the default in the OS) not mindshare - when you choose defacto the enterprises are going to line up behind that, and so edge always has a set of people who follow microsoft's lead regardless of quality.
> Evolution is short-sighted in a way that is hard to overstate. It exclusively cares about the current environment

This isn't quite accurate; while some evolutionary pressures are indeed exclusively short-term, not all are.

For instance, ability of eukaryotes to have multiple alleles of individual genes combined with sexual reproduction allow populations to maintain a large diversity of alleles and genes, which have the effect of allowing large-scale "split testing" and also "alternatives" for different current environments that may appear over time.
Doing nothing won't stop BGP attacks from breaking HTTPS. Widespread deployment of DNSSEC will.
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>was a world changer within days

Question, what were your health issues and what changes did you see that quickly?
They don't work as proxies when they're so different.

Healthcare is available. Incarceration rate won't affect you if you're not a criminal. Wages are the only serious issue and more related to global trade and changing industries than any country-specific policy. There are far worse conditions in other countries but my experience has shown people who list these complaints usually do not have any understanding of the plight of billions of poor around the world.

Nobody likes to pay taxes either and won't willing do so if we didn't have laws and enforcement, but it's obvious that it's needed and positive.

Yes, everybody has opinions. That's irrelevant to this discussion. If you really don't like staying in this country though, please do leave. Why would you stay? There are plenty of ways to raise the funds to move and renounce your citizenship, ironically many of which are way harder in other countries.
6 years old for me, TI 99/4A. Yay double-interpreted garbage!
Right, so you're not in that group. But there are people who literally write off every possible thing that's wrong with someone's mind as a character flaw and therefore that person's fault and something they don't need any professional assistance to deal with.
> Adapting mature software to new circumstances tends to take more time and effort than writing new software from scratch. Software people don’t like to admit this, but the evidence is clear.

Software people love rewriting things. In most cases where I have to maintain an old project I would much rather rewrite it, but it's usually not in the budget.
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Or look for another pediatrician!
No I guess the parent's point is consciousness is inherent to all things. But it's just that it needs some minimal amount of biological configuration for it to manifest in a way that is meaningfully observable.

Which explain things like eating food(above minimal configuration) and death(Some cells die, failing the minimal configuration criteria).
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It’s probably more like To Catch A Predator.
Deadlocks is a solved problem. Technically, they can't even exist in any concurrency model that doesn't share anything. What can exist is processes waiting for messages from each other, but that's not a deadlock, but a valid behavior and is only potentially problematic without timeouts. Asynchronous message passing with event-driven/reactive semantics farther enforce impossibility to block on waiting for a specific message. In practice strict event-driven semantics are not necessary for it to never be a problem.
They might become part of the API in a superficial sense, but if you broadcast clearly that undocumented behaviors are subject to change, then users can decide if they want to accept that risk and won’t have a valid complaint if they want the not-covered-by-the-contractual-API preserved or become surprised by a change.
You have a very limited imagination. Wireshark is regularly attacked -- it parses random data it gets off the network, therefore it can be attacked using deliberately malformed packets. See https://www.wireshark.org/security/ for more info.