skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but a large and valid function of luxury goods is wealth signalling. You might find this lamentable but it has practical social utility.
I'd love to hear the parents' perspective on things... "The boy spent 57 days in the hospital and racked up medical bills of more than $800,000." All that pain and cost, and they still didn't want further vaccinations: "But despite an “extensive review” of the risks, and the benefits of vaccination, the article said, the family declined the second vaccination — or any other recommended immunization."
I put everything in my Dropbox folder. Then split by various categories, sometimes things spill into the root but hey.

I use Hazel to automatically move files into a "review" folder to keep thing either saved or thrown away. Just check it periodically.
I would assume because the tournaments are sponsored by (or at least tolerated by) the copyright holders of the cards.
Sorry, copy-pasted from anotger comment without checking the link. Here’s the proper link: http://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RI_...

The HBM partner report seems to somewhat confirm some of the findings in the report I linked and quoted:

- 50% of drugs come from outside “Big Pharma”

- Less than 50% drugs developed in-house (mostly coming from licensing and acquisition)

Also:

- 58% approved drugs are orphan drugs.

Orphan drugs may mean government incentives, funding, public policy.
Every switch a pilot touches inflight is shaped differently
I agree with the thrust of this and suggest taking it further by using SQLite for the underlying file format.

The advantages of SQLite are too numerous to list, and it has a built-in compressed format so there's no bloat to worry about vs. ZIP files.

As an example, this should make it practical, given a few iterations, to store multiple snapshots as deltas, deduplicating identical content. It also obviates having to base64 encode images and other binary assets.
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What are you doing posting here? Go do something about it instead of lamenting the end.
... which was on Hacker News several times, including at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336512 where it garnered the most discussion.
You didn’t work with a C# ASP.Net WebForm dev who before that was a WinForm dev trying to grok ASP.Net MVC.
Oh ok, I misunderstood you... sorry
Replace half of the meaningful sentences that you were about to say with some random bullshit (with the appropriate buzzwords), and you are good to go.
Man or men?
How did we come to this imbalance?
If you're interested in the mathematics underpinning parallel models of computing, and their relation to dependency graphs, I recommend looking at 'trace theory'. It's built on the abstract algebra of trace monoids.

Trace theory seems to have fallen out of academic fashion. I have a feeling it may have a resurgence of interest in coming decades, as it is useful for analysing concurrent systems.
Téléphone-Pliable.ovh
Animated series about a group of young Finnish hackers in the mid-90ies
Ethiopian Airlines: Boeing 737 Crashes on Way to Kenya
If I were to make a decision such as this, I would make a snap preliminary decision, then review it to see if there were glaring errors. That seems to fit with the results.

The results don't seem to be stating anything new or non obvious to me. Am I missing something?
most programming language designers
are not familiar with type theory.

SPJ, Odersky, Leroy, Hejlsberg, Syme et al are familiar with type theory, it's not rocket science.

parametric polymorphism

There are well-rehearsed reasons for excluding PP. I don't agree with them, but those choices were not made from ignorance.

I have not worked in the software industry

I invite you to change this, and once you have a few years of industrial programming experience, to reconsider.
Ask HN: How to Get Good at Sales?
In Sam Altman's recent blog post, "How To Be Successful", he talks about "Getting good at sales":

Self-belief alone is not sufficient—you also have to be able to convince other people of what you believe.

All great careers, to some degree, become sales jobs. You have to evangelize your plans to customers, prospective employees, the press, investors, etc...

http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Other parts of the post resonated with me, and this one does too, as something I want to work towards as I build my company.

Looking online, all advice on "sales" is centered around actual sales scenarios, rather than what Sam is referring to. I was wondering if anyone came across any books etc. or had good advice on where to start with "getting good at sales".
How to Write Buffer Overflows
Best link I’ve ever seen on HN. It’s getting late now, but pouring hours into this and I haven’t even come close to 10%. So many interesting fields and ideas. I’m excited for some more fun reading this week. Thanks!
Should an infertile couple have a right to a surrogate mother
I have seen this in my own example.

I usually would say "To run website for customer X, we have to setup separate database server because their requirement is not having multi tenancy".

What I found out, it is something you can communicate to fellow engineer when all tasks are signed off. It is technically correct, and I did not understood why it would not be valid statement.

When you are in meeting with higher ups planning roll out for that customer, there is no "we have to". There are only options and maybe that customer was just shooting from the hip with those requirements and if we tell him what the price is we won't have that customer or he will reduce his wish list. So it would be "To run website for customer X, one option is setup new server but it will be 100$ a month and one person working on it for 2-4 days to have configuration working and tested".

Setting up separate server is not interesting part for business. Setting up server for me is interesting part because I have to put it in the context of our infrastructure, what rights should be assigned to that server, what packages I need to install on it.
Those would be called "proxy" cards in mtg, and they are occasionally used in casual play.

https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Proxy

But of course the whole concept of MTG is collectible card game, buying and owning cards is core part of it
I think it is best to take a wholesale view that the news as we know it is a religion. That sounds a bit odd given that a lot that is in the news is fact oriented and a lot of current affairs is discussed. But in a formal church there is mention and prayers for those caught up in actual events.

Fundamentally though the news requires belief. It is there for the 'capitalist flock' who have a world where the government, democracy as we know it and the laws we have define the world.

With normal religion the real things that happen with celestial bodies get interpreted in some narrative that has to do with some carpenter's son who died a long time ago. A whole new world of god is created which is an abstraction of physical realities. Rather than 'primitive sun worshipping' there is this new religion to believe in, the religion accounts for everything in its own special way.

If you could teleport 500 years into the future and learned about TV news and how people believed it then you would wonder how people disbelieved facts they observed with their own eyes and what they knew to be true by the calling of their own heart and their own sense of reason.

Therefore, at least as a thought experiment, see the news and the nasty things said about people outside capitalist countries as 'religion'. It all becomes clearer then.
I didn't flag it so can't speak of the motivation of those that did but my observation is that the vast majority of China-critical articles that have dropped in rank happen to be from bloomberg. I definitely wouldn't consider bloomberg a trustworthy source when it comes to analysis of china, so I could imagine that being a motivator.
Great service, especially with the addition of the monitoring features.

How do you store the data on your end?
Flight radar states that it was a 737 max 8 and the crash seems to have been shortly after takeoff. Seems a awful lot like the lion Air crash a few months ago.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/et-avj#1fc0cdb5
Yes they should. Because GDPR arose from blatant misuse and abuse.

> Making a website absolutely should not require computer science and law degrees.

Making a website absolutely should not require that you track your users and are careless with your users personal information.

Thank you GDPR for trying to be the common sense the internet needs.
Is there a better article we could link to? "Mother Nature gave RNA editing a try, found it wanting, and largely abandoned it" ... "it looks like cephalopods didn't get the memo" What is that supposed to mean?

The Wired article is slightly better: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/cephalopod-gene-editing/

The original Cell article uses lots of jargon: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30344-6
We said North Korea was behind the SONY hack.

We said Assad is bombing his own people with chemical weapons, which would make zero strategic sense considering he was already winning with conventional weapons and that was literally the only way to invite the wrath of the international community

We said Saddam had WMDs

And so on. So the word of the intelligence community for many would come with a huge grain of salt.

Meanwhile the Saudis are getting lots of weapons from the USA and we barely report anything they do in Yemen. They bombed a schoolbus full of children. Kashoggi was supposed to have had evidence they used chemical weapons. The exported salafist ideology and financed Al Qaieda, which attacked the USA on our own soil, but in declassified docs we learn the FBI helped escort families of the hijackers back to Saudi Arabia. The FBI under both Mueller and Comey blocked the families of 9/11 victims from getting information on Saudis. The 9/11 commission found it was systematically lied to by the army, and considered referring the matter to the justice department but ran out of time and was never renewed. Meanwhile a firefight in Benghazi has had 10 commissions.

Our foreign policy is simply crazy. We help Mujahideen in Afghanistan oust the Soviets, who were bringing rights and education to women as they had done in Uzbekistan decades earlier etc. Then after 9/11 we came back and occupied the country ourselves, and fought the Taliban for years, in order to — wait for it — help women and secular people the same as the Soviets were doing. And now we are leaving having spent trillions and the Taliban is gonna take over. Smart?

We help install Saddam, give him weapons against Iran, then fight him, then remove him and install an Iran-allied Shiite government. Despite spending trillions in our pentagon (which are never accounted for), we somehow “forget” to put locks our humvees and tanks and Saddam’s sunni baathist forces take them and defect to ISIS.

Somehow the Sunnis ALWAYS wind up with American weapons and the Socialists and Shiites are funded by Iran to defend themselves against Sunni insurgents. Is this a coincidence?
"Namely some labels for subjects are amenable to degrees of precision in definition while others with only conceptual referents will have their proffered definitions disputed, diluted, or otherwise hedged and seemingly imprecise."

It doesn't matter how contested a word is. You can nevertheless describe its main conventional uses. That would simply be an empirical observation.

Also, just a friendly suggestion: you are writing too much, and using too many long and unnecessary words. Simplicity is often better, both analytically, and to read.
Volker Diekert, Yves Metivier, "Partial Commutation and Traces
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d67a/c4c1e5967f7e114f390245...
The Things more important than Code
I've often wondered if something like this could be used with older browsers on retro platforms to give a rough approximation of a modern browsing experience (without all the ram and cpu time required).
I don’t. I have to work with these very people ever so often and I understand how hard it must to navigate in that environment.

However if you are professionally building and selling websites in the EU you probably should be aware of the consequences and side effects your decisions have.

Many (small business) webpages have no real need for cookies, cross site tracking, etc — they are probably better off with a fast static website than some sort of dynamic complexity monster. If you apply the principles of form follows function and data economy here you should get blazingly fast sites without third party trackers and any need for cookies and therefore automatically comply with the GDPR and have no need to display a notice which is another plus.

The reason why it is not that way, is because that professional who used wordpress with a ton of addons for the past decade, doesn’t understand how his decisions tie into it. They don’t understand that it is possible to build websites that won’t collect personal user data, because they don’t need to. They tell their clients they have to display these notices and they don’t tell them about the trade offs involved.

I understand that, if you used a mostly free tool and you never really cared about the privacy of your clients visitor, the GDPR is yet another annoying issue on your list of annoying issues — but if you mislead your clients like that, you are either not informing yourself propperly or you are misleading them willingly.

The educational environment surely is to blame for that too. Sure here is how easy you can include that facebook like button — but we won’t tell you about the consequences for the privacy of your users. Just use google analytics or google fonts or that captcha no worries, it is just a cool thing to include, everybody does it so it can’t be wrong.
Beware: Ukrainian Hackers Using Online Quizzes to Steal Your Personal Data
Most people's gripes about socialism are about central control. That's a vital part of the policies proposed by the left in the USA, especially the Green New Deal. And the worst aspect of Venezuela.

"Libertarian socialism" is practically a form of anarchy and has nothing to do with the modern usage. If you want to make it acceptable and frictionless for people to voluntarily offer their services for free, I don't think you'll get much push back.

Basically trying to lump both unrelated ideas under the umbrella of "socialism" does nothing except confuse people.
Why is that? GDPR reasons?
Honestly it looks like it needs to be split into distinct subfields given that lengthy list. Materials is going to be a major driver of innovation bin the 21st century alongside renewable energy.
> If you are evaluating someone's work and you can fire them, then you are their boss.

At least given the current job market, if an engineer isn't evaluating and at least prepared to "fire" her employer, she's probably misunderstanding the employment dynamics.

If the compensation, freedom to work, and growth expected aren't there, ask for them. If you don't get good answers and actions to back them up, say, "Thanks! I'll see you around."
https://resecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/wp_res2.sq... seriously?
One disadvantage is it introduces an application dependency. If the purpose of an archive is to preserve the data for future recall, years or decades later, having it in the most accessible format possible would be a priority.
I come from a very populous country and I am not impressed by the arguments made by high density proponents. In my lived experience, it degrades quality of life.

As a small acreage farmer, I see that the market forces don’t work for me due to economies of scale. Or lack thereof.

Having said that..the water and soil are really abused in rural areas. Ag must be distributed and especially in sub optimal land rather than prime fertile land. Good land should be returned back to nature as we reforest and bring ecological balance.

Now we have soilless Ag and indoor Ag and CEA. If every urban center is food self sufficient, we can remove ‘farm regions’ and help restore habitat and bring ecological balance. We need grasslands more than trees and forests to sequester carbon.

If people didn’t farm and food production is automated, they can do more productive work. Humans can be trained to do higher skill jobs. And fulfilling work that doesn’t crush them. Every ‘industry’ is detrimental. It consumes more than it contributes.

With farming(crops, not cafos in the original article) as an example, it’s not just the carbon released due to tilling but also the loss of habitat and erosion and chemicals and water. Add to it the distribution of food from farm gate to food hubs and the entire supply chain. And then the transportation and the refrigeration of perishables. Even the workers who need to drive to work and all the energy they expend. The math just doesn’t work out. How much are you spending in terms of calories and $ for a head of lettuce? The cost is too much for what we get back in return. It makes no sense.
That's why you get your custom shirt monogrammed. Bespoke and conspicuous, at least to the people you're signalling to.
Is it true that GCM is centralized and battery efficient, one push service per app will drain phones quickly? Or is that less of a concern nowadays?
Not only 10x people but also advanced machinery like the T34

The egregious waste of human life was ok because of advanced machinery?

the idea that they partied a lot - which is also one of the great story arcs in the book - does not detract from this. Think Wall Street, the Valley

I dunno, I did a fair bit of partying in Silicon Valley and I think the the fact that, however ill-advised and harmful, this didn't exterminate millions of people tends to detract from whatever 'this' is supposed to be quite a bit.
I seem to remember reading about experiments showing that some worms retain memory throughout the body.

Researchers discover flat worms retain memories even after decapitation [0]

[0] https://phys.org/news/2013-07-flat-worms-retain-memories-dec...
> Forcing Lyft to hire employees instead of contractors won't mean there will be more workers with a safety-net; it means there won't be any Lyft.

So? If lift fails a better business will come along that can treat employees well. Or someone will make a successful community run app (which gives 95% of fares to employees taking only overhead) will come along to replace uber/lyft since it would actually be treating them as contractors unlike uber/lyft
They have a habit of spamming this request semi-randomly, seemingly without underlying knowledge of an attempted fix - e.g. you get the same request, at the same time, on several bugs. Sometimes it’s obvious it doesn’t come from any knowledge of a fix, e.g. asking to verify if a feature request is still a problem when no such feature was added.

So you say no, it wasn’t (it never is for me) and the bug goes back into limbo.
If our educational complexes can't successfully hammer Algebra II into someone's head, why does this Wheeler fellow think they'd be any more successful hammering something else into it?

Compared to the complexity of just about anything that is real, Algebra II is like learning to crawl or use silverware.

Odds are, the educational system is failing just as badly on every other subject. It's just harder to screw up the metric on something as objective as mathematics.
Your resume reeks of someone who lacks focus.

1. Objectives on resumes are useless fluff. Yours doesn’t add anything useful. It’s so vague, I couldn’t even tell what type of job you are looking for. Project management? Test? Software Development?

2. Your whole summary of skills sections is word soup. I would completely ignore it. Anyone can list technologies they touched once. It’s too unfocused. In your experience section list how you actually used those technologies. Why put you know how to use source control? That’s like listing you know how to type. Why list 8 different languages? Could you handle a deep technical dive in all eight?

3. In your work experience section, you listed your accomplishments, but I have no idea what technologies you used to accomplish anything. You didn’t list the languages you used in any of your jobs since 2007.

I wouldn’t call you in for an in person or a phone screen based on your resume. You claim that you can pick up a language in a day or two but I can’t tell from your resume where you feel technically in any specific area. Again, it looks like you think because you can figure out the syntax of a language you’ve avoided learning the ecosystem, the tooling, the frameworks etc.

You can ignore picking up popular frameworks but you won’t be competitive with people who have stayed up to date.

If you came into an interview saying that you could advise on a technology based on “what you read” and you said you decided not to actually put it into practice, that would be a red flag.

I’ve been working for 20 years. I at one point had an encyclopedic knowledge of C and C++, that’s nowhere on my resume, neither is VB6, Perl, or PHP. I don’t want a job in any of those languages and I don’t want to discuss them.

My resume for the last 8 years has been entirely focused on telling the story I want to tell. I’m a backend C# developer/architect with some front end Javascript experience.

Slowly it’s been morphing into an architect who specializes in “cloud native solutions” with AWS and I’ve added Python and Node and hopefully will be adding the $cool_kids front end stack over the next year or two.
I used to dislike this too, mainly because they put the problem in your bucket.

The solution is to not let this problem end up on your side. "We will see what we can do, but since we didn't make any estimate on this, the risk of failing the deadline is on you. If you want to set a proper deadline next time for my team, consult me first so we can do a proper estimation. I hope it works out for you this time."

I also had plenty of cases where we had to reach an imposed deadline. Then 2 weeks later you ask "did they find issues?". "No, they didn't deploy it yet"
I find

"bit pattern would be

0000007b
"

To be confusing, bit pattern to me would refer to the actual bits, because they are intrinsically relevant eg as flags.

But I'm not a clean slate, so I don't know. All I can say is I didn't have problems learning the 'usual' way.
We most definitely need to see real evidence in these kinds of cases. It is not enough to be told 'the experts say it is so' - the case must be made public.

Too many times we are led into disaster and tragedy by secrets.
> Stalin's policy was 'Socialism in one country'

He started a war with Finland, signed a treaty with Germany to split Poland, helped communists in China and North Korea and set communist regimes in all countries that soviet Army freed from Germany.

Also some historians think that Stalin had plans to start a war with Germany, but Germany started the war several days sooner (For instance Mark Solonin talks about this).
So we shall overcome the flaws of meritocracy...by compensating the bad luck? How?
Answering my own question, Geany has "Sending text through custom commands" and ability to add custom commands via
"Send Selection to->Set Custom Commands"

But it looks like this just replaces the selected text so it may be more for formatting.

I prefer a new window to open so the selected text isn't altered.

I know I can program vEdit+ to do this, but that is not Linux.
Yup. Happens every now and then.
Either you've multiple wives, or you broke the three year rule, none of which is good.

Or maybe you had twins or triplets, that's also possible.
State secrecy being used as an excuse for violence.

A truly free people keep no secrets.
Cat Breed Identifier and Cat Manager in the New iPhone App
Really? That's what you get from this post?
> It appears that lots of people choose to drive for Lyft knowing they won't get those benefits. Why ignore their choice?

Because we live in a democracy that has some minimal protections for workers(not as much as we should). We have minimum wage laws and child labor laws and worker safety protections.