skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a service that aims to help enterprises plan their strategic projects and workstreams. The service provides business leaders with additional insights into the current status of technical projects and gives them insights into the bottlenecks, risks and dependencies of these projects.

These are not words I would expect a journalist to spontaneously generate. This is presser fluff.
I don't want to downplay it too much (I've seen my grandmother go through benzodiazapine withdrawal, and it took the best part of a year IIRC), but I would add withdrawal is highly personal. I've quit drugs that I was told (by my consultant) that would be "worse than quitting heroin" and stopped cold turkey, and didn't feel a thing. I also now take regularly take benzodiazapines, and can stop taking them during good periods without any noticeable effects (which has the bonus of limiting my tolerance increase).
They used to have it years ago in K2, a dynamic GUI that updated as the values updated. Arthur's brother wrote it.

It used an interesting idea that exapanded on the ideas of dependencies and triggers to also include GUI updated. There were some special attributes that described the layout of the variable, and you did `show$val to display it. As the value of val changed (and all other values it touched or included), the GUI would updated for you.

Think Excel merged with K and you get the idea.
Not a dumb phone, but I would recommend the Unihertz Atom[1]. It packs Android into the same form factor as a flip phone. The advantage is that it supports most carrier bands, including Verizon, and modern standards like VoLTE, Wifi calling (dumb phones are generally carrier specific and rely on 2G/CDMA bands for calling).

The great thing about this form factor is that browsing and extended typing are very difficult, so you end up using your phone to get notified and for utilities like navigation, music playing.

Privacy-wise it does not solve your concern because it runs Android and it does not track the latest security updates as well as the Google branded phones.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Unihertz-Smallest-Smartphone-Android-...
We are changing our gun laws here in NZ and likely doing it this week, although what that change looks like isn’t clear to me.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/385081/christchurch...
so what you're saying is that as more people are dis-enfranchised, they will resort to more and more violent means to try to enact change.

I don't think this has anything to do with white supremacy or nationalism - but that those ideologies are easy to use as justification.

So in the end, the only way to solve this problem is to prevent dis-enfranchisement of the poor and vulnerable. UBI is my go to solution.
> Some diseases are not a big deal for most children but can outright kill others.

And some vaccines are not a big deal for most children but can outright kill others.

Don't you think a scientific view of the cost/benefits of vaccines should be common narrative?
At my clients, they swear by jira workflows (that's the name, right?). The mindset of "customize everything" seems to be impossible to impact. A strong second is managerial heaven plugins with unlimited ways of clicking and visualizing other peoples clicks. Not sure how to compete with that; it's basically disagreeing about the curvature of the earth.
If I got a tablet/laptop hybrid I wouldn't use it with Windows. Linux is a great development environment.
I still run the Confluence 3.5 version (off the open net). The WYSIWYG runined Confy. It's an awesome, easy, fast wiki if you just stay at 3.5. And you edit it all in text.
Would be interesting to get a little robot to walk a building and sample air quality to find dead zones where there isn’t good replenishment.
> You can replace soda with la Croix.

This Is Why You Should Stop Drinking LaCroix
https://www.eatthis.com/la-croix-healthy/

Why Your LaCroix Obsession Isn't So Healthy https://www.health.com/food/why-your-lacroix-obsession-isnt-...
Fleet of what? NY runs school buses that wouldnt look out of the ordinary in a third world countries in Africa, over 1 meter ground to floor clearance like they expect them to cross rivers and mud traps.
Indeed, wild what people will say on the inter webs.
Reflow is great for novels and similar narrative prose fiction, and for documents that need referential accessibility, explicit semantic outline structure (e.g., case numbering or similar) is reflow independent and superior to page numbering.
All media houses have great intention in the beginning. But the moment money enters, corruption also enters. Today we can confidently say that none of the media is neutral or fair. Everyone is working for someone else, indirectly become propaganda machines.

There are two ways you can avoid that.

1) keep the media 100% free. Only get money from individual charities. And publish who gives the money.

2) if you want run a for profit org, publish all finances such as who is sponsoring what articles. At least the reader will know the motivation behind it.
2,891 Murdoch Media Stories Trashing Islam in a Single Year, Study Reveals
Couldn’t this same argument be made that anyone hosting their servers on AWS or any other cloud provider are also suspect? They own the hosts, so they could extract any TLS private keys they want from the guest OS. Or even worse if you are using an ELB and having that terminate your TLS.

Very few companies run their own servers in their own datacenters these days. They trust their vendors, which you have to do. Even then, they most likely use certs granted by a third party, who could easily grant the cert to someone else, too, and allow your traffic to be snooped.

Why do you single out Cloudflare and not those other service providers?
In general, municipalities are not allowed to run a deficit in Canada. Since high taxes which would result in having a surplus are politically unpopular, usually municipalities get just enough tax to fund their programs. That is when they are writing their annual budget, they define their total expenditure E, the total assessed value of all properties within their municipality V, and set the tax rate for the year by dividing E/V [1].

Because of how inflated the values of homes in Vancouver are, V is huge. So E/V is much smaller than the rest of the country. In 2018, the tax rate for residential properties was 0.246826% [2]. A 1% surtax would more than quintuple the amount of taxes owed.

[1] It's a bit more complicated than that. Residential and commercial properties have different tax rates for example. But not too much more complicated. Municipalities are not allowed to charge sales or income taxes like they do in some other countries.

[2] https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/residential.a...
If you want to do almost whatever you want, buy a property outside of a city.

Or you can just pay to make up for the economic damage your wasted space causes. You're not going to get jailed.
Great idea, those automated chat windows are incredibly annoying. It's also kind of insulting that they're presented as an instant chat with a human...
Well it's your personal responsibility to protect yourself with NoScript or Greasemonkey.
I felt the same way coming to React from Angular. It's basically just writing functions:

function HelloWorld(props) {
return <h1>Hello World from {props.name}</h1>;
}

function App() {
return (
<div>
<HelloWorld name="Sara" />
</div>
);
}

ReactDOM.render(
<App />,
document.getElementById('root')
);

That's pretty much the whole thing.
That seems likely. These horrible people lie constantly; why wouldn't they lie in this document?
+Yes. The obvious answer is probably correct: it was just a front to fund more contras.
> Wonder how all this granularity works together with the search functionality.

Having implemented a similar system, I too greatly wonder that this.

My guess is they keep it in memory (e.g. ElastiCache) and populating the cache would require the keys.
It categorically seems much more innocent if that's the case. Effective sure, but it just doesn't feel as advanced as as injecting subjects with brand new chemicals or exploring some advanced technology.

My point is, I am pretty sure that's not the flagship project at the CIA or NSA.
Which just gets reflected in the purchase price of the land so the one who let it go vacant to start with is the real loser.
It would be an effective way to commit illegal discrimination.
Regarding point 3, Carreyrou mentions that the numbers for prothrombin time from Theranos equipment were completely worthless. Patients had their anticoagulants adjusted by essentially throwing dice, and some may have died of stroke or infarction.

The whole Theranos affair goes just against all medical ethics that people in the medical field in fact observe. But that's why it was enabled by Silicon Valley financiers and Washington politicians. They are trying to foist a new kind of ethics on us (meanwhile they themselves avail themselves of boutique physicians), and we must not let it happen.
What about doing A/B testing with say $5 vs $7.5 for a product? The people who bought it for $7.5 will feel cheated when they find out it cost someone else $5. But at the time of purchase the product was seemingly worth $7.5 to the customer who paid for it. Isn't it fair to pay in relation to how much you value a product?
I'm sorry ! It has been online for 4 years now, I simply never thought of sharing...
I can only speak for my area (in California), but in many cases the properties are owned outright (no loan), and have their property taxes essentially fixed at rates that were set decades ago due to Proposition 13, with only small adjustments thereafter.

Therefore, the owners have little imperative to offer the properties for rent, with all the associated hassles, to meet their limited expenses. The properties are often poorly maintained for this reason.

They can instead treat them as stores of value, which they might even be able to leverage into cash flows via other financial instruments.

I think this is more the case for commercial properties than residential, but the problem exists to a degree in the residential market also.
I call it "throwing your hands up." If you run into a problem, or notice that something isn't working, what-have-you, if you throw your hands up instead of working to fix it, or find the person who should fix it, you are on my shit list.

My problem with this is that everything is always not working, or barely working, and nobody wants to hear about it. You're going to say "of course I mean important things", but wherever you look, if you look for problems, you see problems, there aren't a few things which are problems, there are oceans and oceans of problems and potential problems.

The only coherent response to this is blinders - do what everyone else does, and pretend everything is fine - until an incident forces people to face it. Then face the smallest possible case of it, and reassure each other it's fine now. I think you really mean "intuit the same judgement of importance that I have", but either you're so used to not-seeing-problems that you don't see how many there are, or you aren't willing to say that outright because it leaves the person with an escape from you putting the blame on them, and you don't want them to have an escape and you need someone to shitlist for .. I dunno what reasons. Why /do/ you have a shitlist instead of a "training" list?

"Everything broken, or barely patched together" is the norm.

Cynical people reading this, give a couple of minutes thought how many things you've experienced just today, which aren't right or could be a problem. I bet you'll pass a dozen in that time, right?
I don't think it's a joke that they could patent their special version of ketamine, I think it's a joke that despite the fact that we've been using ketatmine for generations and despite the fact that it's anti-depressant qualities are well attested to in the literature this brand of s-ketamine is the only one doctors are allowed to use. And there's research[1] showing that most of racemic ketamine's effect is from the r-ketamine, not the s-ketamine.

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009130571...
Andrew Yang, a presidential candidate who’s attracting support from Millennials
Nicotine is an emetic.
Everyone is a person with a story, but living life with that awareness is unnecessarily burdensome. Self-awareness is more important than the awareness of others’ stories.

Obsession with other people’s life stories leads to hero worship and constant comparison with them, making you unhappy because you couldn’t check off as many checkboxes as them. This is another form of unhealthy thinking, the inverse of narcissism.
I actually agree with you. I was objecting to the parent's implication that a Macbook with touchscreen == iPad Pro.
> Well, Aristotle is still studied

Didn't Aristotle basically say a projectile will move in a straight line until it basically "runs out of gas," even though everyone who's ever thrown something can see that's not true, just because he thought it ought to work that way?
What's the problem with GA? I'm kind of left feeling a little puzzled by the hostility towards Google Analytics in the HN comments on the topic. I assumed HNers would be big fans of something like Google Analytics.
I like the developer excuses chrome plugin. There have been quite a few times I've opened a new tab while working with someone and the excuse basically matches what was just being said.
Only available in the US though, I have one but it's not easy for anybody outside the US to get one.

Just a few things:

- It does filter out all the spam (I get maybe a random call once a year and a random text once every 6 months)

- There is no SIM card, so it has to go through the internet, which is much less reliable

- You can call anywhere in the world very cheaply (US is free)

- The phone apps are barely usable (Hangouts on iOS for instance) (Google Voice one is blocking non-US users)

- It's a life saver in emergency situations and just when being abroad in general, and for that only it's the best provider out there.
I need to be able to use it one handed, Samsung has gestures to enable this which is helpful but feels like a hack - I really dont need a longer phone. I feel the Nexus 5 was the perfect size for a phone - with pixel densities now I will be very happy keeping it at 1080p - no need for 4k in a phone!
I don't know how its done in US or other countries. But in my country (some small island in west side of Pacific Ocean), some properties just left empty for very long time since no one can afford that piece of thing.

At night, you walk through that place, its quiet like abandon for very long time, and there won't be any retail stores / business nearby since only ghosts and wondering dogs/cats will be there.

But I also wondering, if the city mayor decided to make this bill work, he need the local city council pass the bill, will this make him lose in next year's election?
Illegal Immigrants
Illegal immigrants are ruining America and are pouring out of southern California.
And eventually took ownership of them after seven years.
Property tax increases are regularly gamed using empty properties as examples.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/11/property-tax-dark-sto...
A little while ago, I set up a Repetitions (repetitionsapp.com) deck with a list of cognitive biases pulled from Wikipedia.

It's not foolproof, but being aware of cognitive bias means you can do more to minimize bias in your every day life.
Raw facts are meaningless without models, theories, or even, ideologies. Without meaning you can't do anything useful with it, or anything "that works." You always have to have a theory in order to predict the future based on facts and then have experiments to verify the predictions. No meaningful experiments can exist without a establishing theory.

All facts are alternative facts in the sense that facts are only accessible and made meaningful through theories and there is no one true theory.
I reject the idea that all tools can be made simple enough for people to use them without understanding what they're doing.

Yes, of course we all want our tools to the best they can be, but that involves making tradeoffs in features because the maintainers don't have an infinite pool of time.

Postgres is a sufficiently advanced tool that if you're using it for any serious work you need to read the documentation for it. Ideally cover to cover, but at least skim the whole thing and pick out the important parts. The Postgres "Routine Database Maintenance Tasks" documentation [1] describes in great detail everything you need to do to keep your database working well.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/maintenance.html
You may find this interesting:

http://www.nahaiwrimo.com/home/why-no-5-7-5

Seems like the syllable count does not make much more sense when applied to the English language. haiku form does not
Don't worry about good code at a startup. Worry about building something people want. Once you hit hockey stick growth you can hire the technical talent.
They ran a bunch of clinical trials on it.
I don't think so. Sugary treats that taste good and give you a rush don't need marketing to get people to try them. They need marketing to stand apart from the competitors.

This is why cigarette companies didn't really mind the television advertising ban. If their competitors didn't advertise on TV, they wouldn't need to either and they could save money. People will still want to smoke.
The solution to this is never give out any PII when receiving a call. Ask what theyre calling about, then hang up and dial back. Yeah, you enter the hours long call queue, but you're not giving out your info to a potential spoofer. Also, don't call the number they give you on the phone. Look up the number for your bank (usually easy enough to find on the back of your debit/credit card). Same is true for any organization that potentially has info that could be used for identity theft. Hang up and call them back independently.
Last time I went to the US, I got a phone number from MetroPCS (e.g. T-Mobile reseller). I didn't give it to anybody and started receiving 3-4 spam calls a day. They are obviously reselling the phone numbers directly, which is illegal in most countries.
I appreciate your fact-checking. I do not mean to mislead anyone.
Re: figures in EPS. I think SVG is the way to go. It can be generated with matplotlib or even a simpler script (it's just an XML after all). It can be hand edited. It's viewable with a browser. And it can be converted to PDF with rsvg-convert.

I personally find matplotlib a bit unintuitive to use, so I made a 100-line script for generating SVG. It's great.
tea also has caffeine which is very addictive
It doesn't make sense to me why they'd WANT to leave them empty?? If I were a landlord, I'd be doing my best to keep the rentals occupied as much as possible.
You seem to still believe that Techcrunch is journalism? I thought everyone learned a decade ago that it is a PR content farm thinly masquerading as journalism.

Almost certainly the journalist for this is known to someone on the Atlassian media relations team[1], assured them friendly coverage in (unstated, quid pro quo) exchange for future access and exclusives, and then the PR team provided them some copy as "background" for the article.

[1]: We can check this guess by looking at his previously publications about Atlassian:

- He announced the "next generation of hosted Jira Software"

- He announced new & improved integration between Jira & Github

- He announced the acquisition of OpsGenie

- He announced the launch of Bitbucket Pipelines

He's almost certainly been "friendly" with Atlassian marketing for at least 5 years, based on his publication history. So they call him whenever they have something new to announce and he publishes some click bait. It is win-win. After all, this is the article that made it the front page of HN...not any other article about the acquisition.
I don't the the government should have any say on the matter.
I figured replacing sugar soda with plain soda works for me. Especially if chilled, it sort of gives the same refreshing feeling without the sugar.
I would like to work on a side project, but I'm in my late 20s, single, and need to date a lot.

I need advice from people who went through this phase. Should I focus on my career or finding a partner?
Finally, a use case for blockchain ...

Jokes aside, let the market figure it out. Authorized aggregators (Qualtrics, Nielsen) will emerge; ad tech will compete for your real data; correlations will continue behind the scenes between your behavior (the thing the companies actually own) and your data; maybe you never will, and we're back to guessing which half of your marketing is working.
I think the post did make a classification mistake there. I'm not sure exactly what is meant by professional, but there are a lot of jobs people can find fulfilling that are not in the classic defintion of "professional", like park ranger or dancer. And there are a lot of professionals who don't like their job and do it just to get a paycheck. I think otherwise the post does raise a very good point about the importance of having more to your life than just work.
It's still surprisingly common for comments from ex-Amazon people to say how shoddy their infrastructure is, and for real-world outages to happen. From the outside, that doesn't seem like the result of an environment "everyone takes responsibility, and fixes the root cause of every problem" working well, does it?
You don’t patent them, but you do get exclusivity with the FDA approval.

FDA won’t approve another drug for 3-7 years.
Yet another example of how our culture considers drug offenses to be deplorable while white collar crime is just someone being a little too ambitious. Not an attack on you personally, it's just a pattern I see a lot.

The comparison isn't even all that relevant -- one was people basing life-and-death medical decisions on a fraudulent device business built on fraudulent patents, on which the recently departed U.S. Defense Secretary Mattis sat on the board. And the other was... sports. Not that the culture of doping isn't bad for all the athletes in all sorts of ways, but there is a big difference when someone is making bad health decisions without your knowledge.
Websites Track You
One of the techniques used to eradicate malaria in the past was to spray the interior walls of houses with DDT. After feeding on human hosts who were infected with malaria, the mosquitoes would land on a nearby wall to digest the blood. If the wall was covered with DDT, then it would kill the mosquito before it had a chance to bite another person.[1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/07/02/the-mosquito-k... (I think, the article is paywalled.)
Ask HN: Which startups are fighting Cancer?
I don't have a medical background, but I'm an engineer and I would like to help contribute my skills towards cancer cure research or treatment.

What are the most impactful startups in this space?
How do React hooks work?
Are we angrily agreeing? Because I feel like we're angrily agreeing.
Creating a high performance data lake using Spark-Select and Minio