skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as the story pains me as Bulgarian, I'd like to provide some more facts rather than emotions.

Before the end of communist rule in Bulgaria everything was distributed rather evenly across the country and believe it or not the majority of people were content, there was work and some pay and most people got the same. The exceptions were not visible. After this the country "reset" and places with critical mass of well-educated people did well and the rest not. This is one of the latter ones. It had the bad luck to be close enough to the capitol (50-100km) which basically has zero unemployment rate and good salaries. It is nevertheless not so well connected so you can't easily commute there to work. The population is not enough to have critical mass to attract good investments. There are no universities in this part. Then Bulgaria joined EU and it became even easier to have better life quickly. It's one of the negative effects of globalization if you are not on the winning side.

In contrast, there are places in Bulgaria that are doing great. Plovdiv sports 150+ factories with Magna, Airbus, Liebherr and is currently the European Cultural Capitol. In Sofia you can find pretty much any IT company - HP, IBM, Paysafe, SAP, etc.
> We don't need to eat meat or fish at all to be healthy

I think you will have to back that statement up if you want to be taken seriously. I for one am certainly not going to stop eating fish and meat, I have been a vegetarian for over a year and I did not fancy it.
Packing and Beverage Machine,Water Sachets Suppliers – Keyopacker
French president Mitterrand was known to consult a fortune teller... [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lizabeth_Teissier
+1 for Perl 6 shout out. Also there are increasingly nice things for use with Postgres like https://github.com/CurtTilmes/perl6-dbpg with https://github.com/FCO/Red
I agree this is a bit disappointing. It basically makes this phone a smart phone that is just pretending to be a dumb phone, with negative implications for battery life, stability, and security (larger attack surface).
Robots everywhere, as in “I, Robot” (the movie).

And so much automation on the software side, so administrative tasks that are done today? Yeah, ALL of those jobs will be gone. Including jobs that create the automation.
Show HN: Devilbox v1.0.0 Released - docker LAMP/MEAN stack
From the pdf "3 Worstsort: the final solution"

Reminds me of a German statistics professor that taught me the basics of contemporary statistics. This guy would often say "final solution" with a thick German accent, which was kinda funny to hear. But after a couple of lectures I did discreetly tell him about the cultural annotations behind this term. Afterwards he was a bit more modest in its usage.
Picture clearly shows plastic bags though
Somewhat controversial, but I like it: Minion Pro :)
Quite well. From Rails 5 there’s an API only init flag which removes the view layer and then you can just return JSON from controllers. Chuck nginx in front to proxy backend requests and serve your static front end bundle and you’re golden.
Western world throws insane amounts of food away:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/02/no-time-leftover...

There are other real problems than plant-based diets.
You might look at a real data processing system, like something from the Apache projects
The stochastic terrorist is the person who is responsible for the incitement. For example they go on radio or television and stir up hatred toward a particular person or group.

one might add that, inaction (failure to condemn an act) can be as powerful a signal as action (calling for a specific act). This lack of condemnation has the signature of the current political elite all over (Trump's failure to condemn Christopher Paul Hasson, or saying "there is blame on both sides" in Charlottesville are very real examples).
>All this advanced tracking/planning stuff from companies like Atlassian seem to me like some kind of weird, dystopian "C-Suite-Porn."

no matter how good the software is , the people using it can make it suck , especially something like communication software

Ive said that things like jira are all about clarity , organization and making process strict. If you dont have that then the tickets become a bunch of unproductive threads.

Also with enough determination you can turn an excel/google spreadsheet into a good bug tracker

I think their software is pretty good , but bad PMs bad process and it doesnt matter. If you managers cant decide a consistent way to run a sprint youll never be able to efficiently record and track it.

Its like we are putting the cart before the horse. Before we can create a good organization tool we need people that want to be organized.
Those wrapped cucumbers last longer on the shelf and at home.
Pure CSS Architecture
That sounds like bad advice which has been used to stigmatise/marginalise disabled people and people suffering from chronic diseases over the years. Imagine telling Stephen Hawkins that. Imagine living your life only focused about your health and never trying to achieve your dreams. That is worse than any sickness IMO. Yes they may be at a disadvantage, working slower with many distractions but then a solid idea eventually requires a team.
Its not the worst solution. Problem is a load of it doesn't make it to the bin and everywhere that isn't carefully cleaned daily is covered in bits of plastic.
In the article's words, "its 9,196 light-passenger vehicles in 2018".
I love that Rails is flexible enough for me to both agree completely AND be thrilled to not use Trailblazer, because I prefer interactor, state_machines, rolify, pundit and draper. Considering the talk about how heavy Rails is in this thread, I feel like I have all of the options in terms of customization and in a very mature ecosystem that still values developer happiness.
Other than in the article, the only other instance I found of the term was from this event at Columbia University, [0] at which the co-authors were both openers. So the term seems to be specific to them and pretty new. Still, in the OP article, the sidebar does solicit readers to submit their candidates and it hints that the list might be published, so something to keep an eye out for.

[0]: https://english.columbia.edu/events/undead-texts-grand-narra...
Farmed fish is mostly fed with industrially caught wild fish (the species and sizes that don't fetch a good market price for direct consumption), they are not a solution to overfishing or the feeding of billions at all. Traditional farming of freshwater fish fish is an exception, but I don't see carp reaching global mass appeal any time soon (and it quite likely either would not scale or it would turn nasty as well from scaling, just like everything we touch in search for excessive yields)
“A Modified Ponzi Scheme”: 78% of Tesla Operating Cash Is from Customer Deposits
In Australia they banned single use bags and now most people bring their reusable ones back to the store to reuse.
True, but:
1. Any serious quantum computing course/book will have Shor's algorithm in the first few chapters (in fact there are not a lot of quantum algorithms which have clear advantage over classical ones). One can teach quite a bit of useful classical algos (sort, binary search, tree/graph-based) without going into mathematics like FFT or jpeg coding.

2. Again valid, but IMHO measurements (and PoVMs) can lead to deep rabbit holes, and I found myself digging in much deeper.

Probably I should read easier expositions to see how effectively they teach. (I come from a EE+physics background, so I do gravitate to math-heavy rigorous explanations)
From the point of view of the worldwide public, suing over twitter posts looks ridiculously funny.

So better that than something else. That will train Musk a bit for later.
I'm kind of curious who's behind this Ciro Santili guy.

He(?) seems to be doing a ton of interesting github repos, a great deal of informative stackoverflow answers and who knows what else.

Also, some anti-CCP stuff in the profile?
http://menuetos.net/
This is the daily mail. Expect there to be a lot of details missing and sometimes flat-out lies so that they can make people angry
The Untold Truth About Hiring Well in Startups
It works both ways. They bid high because they expect to be able to made back that investment, but having bid so high, they also need to meet that expectation, or they're in trouble.
A dream I've had for a long time is to make an application that you boot into, which is the only application on the computer, for maximum optimization. Upgrades would be easy, just reboot the computer and load the new software. Wouln't write everything in assembly though.
Azure Data Studio also stores your credentials in plaintext if you tick 'Remember' (on Linux at least – it does not use the system keychains)
Anything less than the following is just displaying lack of morality in our whole society:

Elizabeth Holmes and her boyfriend Balwani are absolute psychopaths without remorse or conscience. We should not give them this much attention. I can't help but feel that we are doing something wrong by talking and writing about them, as if they are something special. They should be in jail, and the facts of the case should be made public, and that's it - end of story.

If we portray them in any other way, we are just doing disservice to everyone.

For further reading, Carreyrou's book is OK-ish (can be read in a day) but really - it's a bunch of stories about how psychopaths lie to stay in power. It's a nice book, but in the end we are talking about people that pathologically lie, and even dumber* investors that throw money based on signalling/stories and not facts/prototypes/verification of any kind of anything. That's pretty much it.

Much better literature would be 'Snakes in Suits' and 'Without Conscience', both by Robert Hare, the guy that has created the psychopath checklist (the tool used to clinically diagnose psychopaths, like a psychopath test). I highly recommend both of the books (especially 'Without Conscience'!)

* that's just my opinion: throwing millions without anything close to a prototype that works AT ALL is just something that an imbecile could only do. Goes to show what kind of people hold capital in the millions. Remarkable.
I already implement most of the points mentioned there. The most useful (and new) tip for me was however the rasterization part. I normally like to have pdf figures for my LaTeX papers, but last time I had some graphics with some thousands of points plotted, which were taking too long to be printed if you did that from windows (in Linux there was no problem, that's why I didn't catch the problem earlier). At the end I decided to save the plot as png, but was not happy about it haha. It would have been good to know the rasterization trick earlier.
> Is this fake recycling happening on any kind of scale?

Guess who will be the lowest bidder?

Even if there is some actual recycling and the trash can be sold for a positive value, chances are that someone who only picks the easiest valuables and then illegally dumps the rest will be able to outbid a more responsible competitor. It's just the natural outcome of a disposal market and it is incredibly difficult to regulate away from that outcome.
I think that your perspective is fair and balanced. I'd just like to say that nobody is forcing you to use method_missing or RSpec.

Anyhow, definitely peek at https://gist.github.com/andyyou/834e82f5723fec9d2dc021fb7b81... which I consider to be something of a missing manual for the bleeding edge.

I think that most folks would be completely shocked to realize that they can run a command like: rails new future --skip-sprockets --skip-coffee --webpack=react --database=postgresql

Although, I would argue that they should check out StimulusJS instead of defaulting to React... it pairs up beautifully with Turbolinks 5. All preconceived notions about earlier versions of TL need to be discarded because it's actually pretty awesome now.
What sort of things are you referring to?
There are tools for analyzing server logs. I played with a CLI tool for that, but here's first result for regular folks from Google search on "server logs analytics":

https://matomo.org/feature-overview/
I'd like to know this as well. The only solution I know is to buy everything at a local farmers market and make everything yourself which seems extremely impractical for most people.

How for example do I not end up with waste shampoo bottles? Its not like I can reuse them because I don't have any way to get shampoo without another bottle.
This is a great news. Fighting aging is one of the most important challenge of our time.

This is also encouraging:

"Gazette: Are there regulatory hurdles? When we've spoken in the past, you've mentioned that the FDA considers aging a natural process and therefore won't approve drugs to treat it.

Sinclair: I've been part of a group that talked with the FDA, and they are willing and also quite enthusiastic about considering a change that defines aging as a disease."
How about Hiccup?

Some examples here: https://reagent-project.github.io/

It's not haml, but I'd argue it's awesome.
The plastic in the ocean is mainly fishing nets that are discarded there because its easier
Angular 7 is though.
Imagine-this is how thermites started. Wood, undiggestable cellulosis in the tract.. and then one day. Fungi.
What are your views on the environmental impact of regular deliveries for small goods?
Its where most of the jobs are.
> The one thing you learn in high level science is that nobody really knows what they're talking about, paradigms shift, and further study is required

When you wrote that, what were you thinking of, specifically? I don't know what you are referencing. Also I'm curious, are there any big mysteries left in the field of biochemistry?
Losing the people in that way - people that were part of a bigger community and people who contributed to that community - is very tragic, it causes so much pain.

But when you say every person is valuable - can you define valuable.

What about people that are more like psychopaths, just take, abuse and exploit... what is their value?

For example, I don't really see myself as particularly valuable to this planet - I don't contribute anything meaningful, nothing that advances us forward in a positive way.

All I do is try to reduce the damage I do on this planet (climate change etc).

So how do you define valuable?
Why renewables can’t save the planet
it was not, china paid to buy plastic and recycle it.
Then, oddly enough, it sold it back to the west.

The current situation is that they stopped doing that because it's not economic anymore (and some "green backlash").

If they were just being payed to buy plastic and dump it in the rivers there would be no problem in continuing to do that.
From reading Bad Blood, it seems that Holmes and Balwani were behaving in comical extremes from the beginning and constantly made personal enemies over a decade. They threatened people like mobsters, and it worked for so long because the employees were so junior or unconfident.

I suspect that had Holmes and Balwani just been a little bit nicer, Theranos would have quietly deflated, maybe turning into an entry-level lab automation equient supplier or something. Instead it seems like they went out of their way to make enemies and act suspiciously.
Can you link to any material?

I really don’t think any nutritional scientist would claim it’s impossible to be healthy as a vegetarian. Whether it’s easier with meat or feasible for all people is something else
I was vegetarian for 20 years, vegan for 7, yet I started eating meat and fish about a year ago. Here are my thoughts:

- I started eating animal products again for health reason; I believe many people can thrive on a vegetarian or vegan diet, but I couldn't. It makes me unhappy, but there I am.

- Similarly vegetarian and vegan for a long time, my wife started craving animal products the minute she got pregnant. And after birth she became very ill, and survived on chicken broth. In short, there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

- There is no reason for anyone to eat meat twice a day; and above all there is no reason for heavy subsidies so that everyone can eat meat cheaply twice a day.

So my preferred solution: animals raised humanely and sustainably to allow for healthy, limited consumption of animal products, with products priced at actual cost in order to eliminate over-consumption.
A fantastic app. It saves your preferences across all embedded video formats too (bar a very select few - looking at you Crunchy Roll) which means which means you don't need to reset your speed to 2x every time you delete your cookies/cache, or visit a new website!

I watch all my videos at 2x speed now and I was shocked how much time I saved. It no longer takes me most of the night to work through my YouTube notifications, and has left me so much more time for project work during the week.
If you're talking about React-style routing via navigation or whatever, then yeah, you need to evaluate what's best for you.

One reason I love Stimulus + Turbolinks 5 is that you don't have to think in terms of client-side routing.
> I think you will have to back that statement up if you want to be taken seriously.

This is such a mainstream statement that it seems to me entirely reasonable to omit a source. You can find dozens of them by looking up "vegetarianism" on wikipedia and navigating to the "health effects" section.
Some discussion about v1.0.0 can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/az54a2/announcement_de...
I am not advocating for US mobile operators. The world is vastly broader and greater - US cell phone carriers are just that, US carriers.

My argument was the economic utility which the infrastructure a telco provides to society. Both with pipes, technology and know-how of how to operate critical infrastructure 24/7.

I cannot wait for SpaceX' Starlink to become operational and we will see some disruption happening in (this) space.
> Did you remove the browsers and app store as well?

It's possible with adb or root, but buy a $500-$800 device for removing basic apps? Failed logic IMHO.

> Not sure about Apple.

You can't.
This looks nice but as I expected it's built with Electron.
I personally use https://tableplus.io/ . It's native and has great UI and features.
If Google isn't fully utilizing GA data it's because they tried it but found it had no impact or even a negative impact on their ad revenue so they ditched it.
"the people/businesses who can afford $10K/month are by definition more economically productive"

They are richer, not necessarily more economically productive. Making money by hoarding assets isn't my definition of economically productive.
I'm doing my first proper project with VueJS, enhancing a traditional web app with components. I picked Vue because a year ago when I first started experimenting it seemed much easier than React to enhance parts of existing pages with. That story has changed since, and the React docs are beter about how to use components within pages.

I echo the issues with the attribute syntax. I found marshalling data from the server into components to be painful. I ended up with the following:

<activity-form action="/admin/applications/edit/1001/ajax-activity"
:staff-member="1"
:staff-member-options="[{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;First Person&quot;},{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Second Personki&quot;},{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Third Person&quot;}]"
:activity-type-options="[{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;note&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Note&quot;},{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;reminder&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Reminder&quot;}]"
:is-super-administrator="true"
@new-activity-log-entry="addActivityLogEntry"
>
</activity-form>

For enhancing existing server-rendered apps, is there a better story for passing data into components?
Lots of planes have had terrible design flaws that were fixed.

Sure, but none of those planes (in the last 30 years or so) had two full hull losses within month of each other with brand new planes.
If you have any specific questions, fire away :-)

Homepage + social media links from there should give a good idea of who I am: http://www.cirosantilli.com
Towards the end, the article suddenly states:

> That is where the real power of annealing lies

From context, it seems he means 'quantum annealing'. Nowhere in the article is it explained what this is. I vaguely recall hearing something about D-wave not building the kind of quantum computer we've heard about (i.e. the kind that can factor numbers). Is this 'quantum annealing', and what makes it different?

Is it better, worse, or plain different from the usual quantum computer?
It's not. The American Dietetics Association states as its official position that a vegan diet is healthful and adequate for all stages of life:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864

There's currently quite a bit of debate over whether or not plant-based diets are better than other diets, but not over whether or not they are healthy.
It's the official position of the largest association of professional nutritionists in the US. It's hardly controversial.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864
If you were actually tech-savvy you would have no problem with GDPR since it's actually really easy to implement properly.
Yeah it’s just analytics data. I trust every shady website I’ve ever visited with what I click on, why should a government service (provided by the government to me in the public good) be any different? What could they possibly get from that the census bureau doesn’t have? The tax authority?
A more recent account from the same author: https://www.vuemastery.com/conferences/vueconf-us-2018/how-w...
my parents and all the wider family where (hardcore) Catholics, a lot of kids, in church 3-4 times a week, 2 cousins became priests, 1 a nun. I was an altar boy until 12 spent my holidays in Catholic summer camp nearly every year. Catholics they way I experienced them in my childhood, aren't any less prone to showing extremist tendencies.

Ask a Croatian women how they feel about having an abortion (legal in Croatia) performed without anaesthetics simply because the nun-(nurses) feel they should suffer, ... the abuse I have seen the Catholic church get away with (in places like Austria, Ireland, Croatia, Czech, Italy, ... to name my favorite backward Catholic extremist places in Europe) isn't any less violent or "backward" than Islam.

Nobody who is devout will at all accept even partial critic such as "opposing some aspects of <their religion>". Religious criticism is always total and considered an attack when it comes from somebody out of their faith group. It can only be discussed (respectfully) with people from the same religion (if at all). I haven't met any (Catholic) who would accept probing or questioning from an outsider.

If somebody says "yes but Catholics don't go blow up people", they're wrong. It happens/happened all the time in places like Indonesia or Ireland or when they are a minority that is under pressure. It doesn't matter what religion, if you push people hard enough they'll snap. Even more so if their homeland is bombed and they've already lost half their family.
Citation needed. 8 million tons of plastic waste enter the ocean every year. You're telling me there's 4 million tons (8 billion pounds) of fishing nets every year? Nope.