skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mom found videos on YouTube Kids that gave children instructions for suicide
I don't quite understand why the microbiome should matter so much. Shouldn't it adapt to your diet if you stick to it long enough?
Oh how I miss Ted Dziuba posts. He's was a treasure trove of pragmatism for the industry.
You can see the impact of that crackdown in their tax receipts and tax to GDP ratio. Government revenue from Double Irish tax arrangements was fully 5% of their GDP.

https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm
Using React Hooks to Simplify Complex Forms
Lol, proxy all my file uploads through your servers, no thanks!
Indeed, proper diet is no secret, and you don’t even need to do exercise (not that you shouldn’t, but it’s not a strict requirement for weight loss at all). It seems that it’s easier to keep blaming the “solved problem” so yet another product can be sold.
Unfortunately because of compiler optimizations, memory models are important even on uniprocessors.
microbiome is ephemeral & adaptive.
So I guess the typical node is the beefiest you could get in order to justify the license price?

I had this conversation with a colleague who offers VMWare managed Windows VMs for his clients and he told me similar thing, but on the other hand, he was shocked of the prices of our hardware (approx. $6k per server) and was seriously considering migrating to the OpenStack.
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The problem is that European politicians and their sympathizers have gone to great lengths to make you think it is tax evasion that they are policing. Tax evasion is illegal, these companies read the rules and follow them, but in the EU they are still in jeopardy in the courts, because the courts are arbitrary.
Are you guys going to use this in your blockchain?
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A cost reduction of less than 50% for something that the Russians have been doing routinely with 1960s technology is akin to Magellan setting sail? I like SpaceX but man the spin is blinding.
The wang-sucking dynasty champs have arrived.
"Siri of thousands of years from now, exactly how did the conditions which eventually prompted the Butlerian Jyhad begin?"
Hello, CEO of Trail of Bits here -- we performed the security review of the Bitcoin Cash / Bitcoin SV code. Your characterization of the issues as "bandwidth denial of service" is incorrect and does not properly describe the impact.

The most significant findings in our report detail ways for messages to waste a victim’s CPU and network resources without triggering any of the denial-of-service mitigations that normally detect and ban misbehaving peers. We also discovered a variety of edge cases that enable similar denial of service potential where exploitation was not straightforward. These included specific code security issues. (I'm being intentionally vague, sorry)

The plan is to fully disclose our entire report at some point in the future, when the remainder of the Bitcoin clients have more fully implemented our recommendations.
Have you read it? It would mean, for example, the end of OpenWrt.

What about the rest of recent terrible regulations and laws?
maybe because they can be used for many nefarious purposes?
I must have missed that made up rule.
Anyone following French news already knows they are hurting for money and screwed long term. Same story with Britain. Hell, the same story with most of the world.

Nobody can pay for all these massive social programs, the tax base is simply not big enough. Too many people are freeloaders. Migrants are also a huge issue. The working class and middle class are tapped out.

Just look up the yellow jacket protesters in France. Look up Brexit. These are all symptoms of the same problems. Europe is going to see a huge influx of African's during the next 50 years. Their society is on the brink.
The last 2 seasons are pretty great. It's too bad the show got sacked. Enterprise is my second favorite behind TNG.
Also this feels like an ugly interaction with the right to repair. Old devices will become even harder to update and patch due to legal requirements.
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Being competitive at policy debate is genuinely impressive, just as getting really good at the racing on pogo sticks is impressive. It takes a lot of hard work and skill. But if you want to learn to persuade people outside your little subculture do parliamentary debate. Real debate is rhetoric, it engages in pathos and ethos as well as logos. Given its size and education levels the US should be crushingly dominant in debate, not competitive. Policy debaters don’t persuade people.
It's worth $250M now, but if he's been stealing from his customers, it could have been worth a lot less than that when he stole it. He might have even "borrowed" some to cover some minor emergency, then bought back in when crypto was high, and now he's massively in the hole.
You could focus on links that aren't in Google's cache, or links that match some numerical pattern in a set cookie, etc. Cookies are probably a whole thing on their own in this space too.
Transcripted interview with Elizabeth Holmes at Stanford (2015)
In France, taxes account for an ever increasing proportion of a stagnant GDP. Nobody stops to ask if a "Digital Tax" makes any sense: are they saying that digital properties make use of some public resource without taxation, or is this just basically a tariff?

[0]: https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm
I would just like to remind everybody that nuclear war is still a major threat! It didn’t evaporate with the USSR, despite how people act. The US and Russia still have thousands of warheads ready to go at a moment’s notice. The numbers are down substantially from their peak, but the arsenals are still large enough to thoroughly wreck civilization.

I’m constantly baffled at how everyone acts like nuclear war is a historical curiosity.

This is not to take away from climate change, which is also a major threat. It’s not either-or, we should fix both.
Leads are having the responsibility. Most of them are good and know there shit.

So I wouldn't worry to much. All other small companies who have people who don't know better, don't have too much technology inside anyway. Or at least often enough.
This is an interesting plot point in Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought science fiction series. The "net of a million lies" has been astroturfed and boobytrapped by living beings and AIs for generations. Programmer archaeologists sometimes try to extract useful information at great risk to their entire societies.
The difference between avoidance and evasion is only relevant if you have tax law interpreted to the letter only.

Tax law should be interpreted by the lawmakers intention and companies should be ready to be fined or uptaxed if authorities find they pay less taxes than is reasonable given global profits and relative turnover within their jurisdiction.

Constructs such as paying “royalties” to parent companies, or taking very expensive internal loans to effectively move all profits to tax havens (using Dutch BV’s etc) should simply be outlawed. Countries simply shouldn’t recognize these as acceptable practices.

This obviously leads to what companies like to call a “hostile business climate” - so a country will need to be pretty attractive in other aspects to not scare off international business.
Wow, that's some wisdom right there :) +1.

Whole new meaning to "best code is the one that doesn't exist".
Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication
Complaining about the philosophy aside, I'm trying to figure out the tech here. How was blood glucose monitored? A continuous blood monitor, or something over the skin?
CHIP-8 brings back memories.

There's a pile of COSMAC-VIP magazines somewhere in my parents' basement. Writing an emulator and typing them in seems like it would be a fun project.
While this is not the specific answer you are looking for, the WELL was the first real online community of significance.

https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/amp
"Extremes" need putting into perspective. Around the dawn of human civilization (12,000BC), Britain was connected by land to Europe via Doggerland and the Nile was completely dried out. By around 6000 BTC, the Nile was flowing and Doggerland was completely submerged under 120m of water. A quick math suggests that if the sea level rose by 120m over 6000 years, it must've rose by 2cm/year on average.

When you put the scaremongering into this perspective, and we're worried about sea level rises of a few centimeters over the course of a century, it just makes us look like idiots. The earth has had far worse extremes that we can't even comprehend.

There's the idea that we're adding to the natural change of the climate, and so those effects will be compounded, or accelerated, or delayed. Putting again in to perspective, this will have an effect on humans in centuries (or millennia) to come. Imagine if the humans who initiated civilization had decided they weren't going to burn wood fires because "it might have an effect on the climate for other humans in 12,000 years." Yes, it is that absurd. We are dumb cavemen compared to the humans that will be around in a thousands of years to deal with any problems we think we're creating for them.
There's still time to oppose this.

> Yet another reason why I'm glad for Brexit.

If you think that Brexit will stop this, I hope you are right – but I very much fear you are massively underestimating the UK government's appetite for bad laws and bad process.
One place installed a Hadoop cluster. Some of us suspected that replacing a regex monstrosity with Lex/Yacc might have given the speed needed to process the files.

EDIT: Lex/Yacc that is some faster parser generator, I'm not too knowledgeable on that.
Yeah. It's kind of embarrassing as a human to see this stuff crop up over and over.

If you walk into a supermarket, ignore the processed food, and essentially eat as much as you want of everything else, you'll be mostly alright.

Theoretically someone could gorge themselves on a million avocados or solely eat pork fat or something but they're not going to do that.

Almost all of this stuff comes about because people treat non-food as food.
I believe the author probably understands that fully and is instead referring to the situation where the optimal solution is a little bash script and somehow the developer designs this horribly complex solution that isn't any more performant, but seems more fancy. Sadly, I think developers sometime do this just to learn new things and keep their resume up to date. It's rough out there from what I read (glad I'm not a developer).
I am saying that you need to compare alternatives - in this case an (often authoritarian) anti-EU party.
You can define monads in OCaml just fine using the module system, but there's no do-notation. I think there is a PPX extension to give that, though.
The UK has some of the better weather records. Eg

"The oldest ongoing instrumental record of temperature in the world is the Central England Temperature record, started in 1659." [1]

So while they may not be very good, they're some of the best we've got.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/climatechange/2009/03/since_recor...
I think that's extremely unlikely. Radioactivity doesn't really work like the spider in Spider-Man.
The most vital overlooked nutrient in the Western diet is controversy. Start from there.
Suggesting the use of a recreation drug to combat addiction is very dangerous territory. I'm glad it helped you. I am no stranger to recreational drugs and have witnessed some friends suffer from addiction. One particular friend had a coke problem. That person managed to quit coke and became a drunk. Then eventually was able to quit drinking and got addicted to downers. Through out this person's life they took lots of random psychedelics so that certainly was not a cure for them.
in my younger years, up till about 26, i could get drunk and show up to work at 9am the next day, ready to go.

i’m almost 30 now and i literally can’t drink a single beer without feeling hungover the next morning. if i drink 3 or more, i might as well call in sick. as a result, i just stopped completely. there’s other ways to have fun that don’t make me feel terrible.
True, but I can stream process 20GB of data on my tiny 2GB RAM home server as well.

That’s not really ‘big data’ in my opinion.
There may be a perception that trucks will happen sooner because you could focus on interstate highways only, with "ports" of some kind near on/off ramps. It would have value, and still keep the vehicles on high quality, well marked and maintained roads with few intersections.
Nice work. Since you can't easily pull request an excel sheet, I'll propose a change here:

After the text "If you include retirement funds, also subtract early withdrawal fees." I'd add something like "Most experts suggest not using retirement funds for anything other than retirement." or similar discouraging of that action.

(Those people who really ought to use retirement funds to bootstrap something will find a way to blow through whatever caution you put there; most people shouldn't, and I'd rather they at least see/feel the small speed bump...)
parsing text is what a lot of these scripts/mini-pipelines do.

the key argument for *nix tools is that they do one thing and only one thing extremely well. at a meta level these tools are units of functionality and you’re actually doing functional programming, on the command line, without realizing it.
> [...] Many of the most brilliant human beings of that era worked for very modest salaries, and seemed content to do so.

IMHO this is so obvious -- cost of living, especially housing, healthcare, and higher-education.

A modest salary back in the 80s was good enough to raise a family on. A modest salary these days rarely does. Let me present some actual numbers:

My father purchased a house for ~30k USD. His annual salary was ~30k USD. He was always insistent on working at non-profits and did that for decades as an accountant/auditor/comptroller.

Today, I cannot easily afford the same house even on a mid-high-end salary because the affordability ratio is enormous 2x or 3x. Forget about affording that house on a non-profit org salary.

Further, Bell Labs was a very safe job, you didnt have to worry about layoffs as much back then. So you could further afford things by making a bet on an affordable suburb. That is a harder bet today -- you move to some affordable suburb (which still isnt as affordable as it used to be) and suddenly you've lost your job. You better hope it is close to a commutable metro area.

Same thing with healthcare. Same thing with higher ed. I joined finance, and later tech, because I saw the writing on the wall -- not because I was "pursuing wealth" but because I was pursuing the same exact lifestyle my dad had as a default.
One thing I never thought about with the intro is that, at the time it was produced, the ISS didn't look like how they represent it, but now it does look pretty close to it. They must have gotten some idea from NASA of how it would probably turn out to look.
There's a talk by Greg Young regarding this topic called "The art of destroying software" [1]. It's a fairly interesting talk about designing your software with deletion in mind.

[1] https://vimeo.com/108441214
Love the calculator, it’s very useful. In my view it has never been easier to build a technology business than today. The public cloud makes it so you can start small or free and scale as needed and almost everything has been open sourced. All you need is the idea and the will power.

My only beef with the calculator is that I’d like to recommend another approach, that is you don’t actually need to quit your job to make, that is the end goal shouldn’t just be to quit. The costs of starting tech business have never been so low to get a an idea off the ground you can benefit from both a job and the other thing your working on. Steph Smith has a great post on this

https://blog.stephsmith.io/you-dont-need-to-quit-your-job-to...
Proof: https://youtu.be/Uz_0i27wYbg
Sure, and the article discusses that. I was thinking at the instruction level. I tend to think of convincing the hardware to do what you want and convincing the compiler to do what you want separately as an effect of writing code before the languages had specified memory models.

EDIT:
Though as I think about it I'm having a hard time thinking of a system in which those compiler optimizations are problematic on a uniprocessor system. It is definitely true that optimizations that are safe on a uniprocessor break on a multiprocessor, but I can't think of any systems that don't (effectively) have a memory barrier when switching between threads. SMT wouldn't see a problem because both threads are on the same processor.
Why remote culture will be better than centralized companies
How about this proposal - Carbon tax. Over 30 years it scales up to the cost of carbon-scrubbing. All of the tax collected goes to purchasing scrubbing (within the US only, and monitored for accountability).
This only applies if you’re a single person. How is someone supposed to start a family and afford to live anywhere near that area?

I think we are reaching a really depressing future if only the wealthy can afford to have a family.

Bay Area is the most extreme example but we see it everywhere with no government mandated leave policies and childcare costs are insane. Again, only the wealthy get these services because they work at companies that use them for recruiting purposes and to retain talent.
If you are interested in negative emissions this is the best review paper I've come across so far that covers all various negative emission technologies, from trees and oceans to bio-energy with carbon capture storage (BECSS) and direct air capture (DAC). Highly recommended.
is there any evidence that mixing alcohols or drinking cheap booze is worse for you?
That is indeed a lot of money.

Not sure why there are not more people doing it. I thought about it as well for years but still don't do it.
I have no idea what affinity or anti-affinity rules even are, much less how to set them up.

I didn’t really consider that, but that’s another thing.

Before you can use it effectively, you more or less have to learn to speak it’s language. Gradual rampup isn’t really a thing.
Climate change is a much better term. More CO2 means the atmosphere traps more energy. Truth is we don't know exactly what that will do. Some areas may become warmer, some cooler, some drier or wetter, etc. Its also possible that entropy goes up and weather becomes more extreme and less predictable.

As far as just warming goes polar warming is probably the most concerning as it could melt massive amounts of ice and lead to damaging sea level rise.
I'm not saying it is, i'm just explaining what is new about this mission and why I'm excited for it.

I think people are making it larger than it is because doing something and commercializing something are completely different things.

The first flight in a plane was awesome, but not if we just stopped there. Currently SpaceX is somewhere along the line between the Wright Brothers and the Boeing 707. It may be "only price reductions", but once those price reductions hit a critical mass, it enables a whole world of possibilities. SpaceX is already talking about using their next rocket in a similar way to airlines now. Launching a bunch of people from one place into orbit, then landing in another place on the same planet for extremely fast flights across the world. They are talking about creating Moon and Mars bases. Those are things that won't ever happen if we keep spending hundreds of millions of dollars per launch, because the economics of it just won't ever work out.

They still aren't done, and it's no guarantee that they will be able to ever get prices down low enough, but at least they are trying, and making good headway toward it.
I think in order to be fair we shouldn't use local weather as an indicator of general climate: for every "we had trees blossom in January" story they're will be a "we had ice on the lake in June, you, hoaxers" answer"
Google thinks a shuttle launch cost at least $450 million, for comparison.
If you're writing anything for the browser, then I'll solidly recommend Reason. It works out of the box and ReasonReact is much more ergonomic compared to vanilla React + ImmutableJS + Redux + TypeScript combo. And there is a growing community around that use case in the Reason world.

If you want to write a command-line application, you can choose either OCaml or Reason, depending on your taste of syntax - both compile to native statically linked binaries. If you're doing anything related to compilers, OCaml is particularly suited for that, and you'll be in very good hands with Menhir (see: https://pl-rants.net/posts/case-for-new-lang/). Another systems software written in OCaml is unison (https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison), which is a file synchronization tool with a clear specification.

But if you want to write database backed web application servers in OCaml, with sessions, background jobs, admin interfaces, ORMs, database migrations and all that jazz, then you might want to give F# a go, or Haskell which has a better story around it. I do have a tiny Node server written in Reason that I use as an API endpoint but if I were to build a full-fledged system, there is nothing yet in the OCaml world like Rails or Django.
If you can, maybe do some intensive talk therapy for the first month with a therapist, and then work from there.

I had extreme burnout from my previous company while on the job, and my therapist was instrumental in helping me through that process. The journey of self discovery in that room may help you decide how to use the remaining 11 months, or just help create the space you need to enjoy whatever choices you make.

Best of luck to you!
So can wheels.

You shouldn't ban general purpose technology because of particular bad uses.
i personally highly recommend f#. it is one of the most practically designed langauges but still does functional and oop programming fantastically. some functional programming nerds complain it doesn’t have features like ocaml or sml’s modules or typeclasses like haskell, but it has other things that those languages don’t have. to my knowledge, it has feature parity with c# regarding oop with the exception of maybe a feature or two that doesn’t seem to affect things (i don’t know c#). meanwhile, it does functional programming very well.

it has nice error messages and clean syntax. it is easily installable on any platform. i took dan grossman’s programming language course on coursera. the first part of the course uses sml, and i simultaneously used sml, f#, racket, and scala to do the homework in. f# had the shortest solutions by far if counting lines of code.

a unique feature that i really like is its active patterns. f# already has amazing pattern matching, but you can define your own pattern matching with active patterns very easily. it is sort of close to defining your own pattern matching dsl.

in my opinion, it is criminally underused and under marketed by microsoft. in a world where python is taking over, f# is very refreshing.
Very cool, great job! One bit of feedback: hover interaction doesn't make sense on mobile. Can tap to trigger hover as a workaround and use media queries to change instructions instead of telling user to hover.
> If you're not optimising all your life decisions, you cede to someone who does.

You're assuming that such optimization is done with a good fitness function. If the quality of the fitness measurement is poor, it doesn't matter how hard you try to micro-optimize, you'll be no better off than someone who merely puts some care.