skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently moved my ledger entries to an org-mode file - attaching metadata and things like file links are much easier inside org - chunking them by date and using org-babel to tangle them out.

It pretty much works as expected, except for the fact that (at least on my emacs) tangling ledger blocks is much slower than other languages (18+ seconds for 151 blocks, vs <1 s for a comparable amount of elisp).
I think it's easier to be a jerk online so it's more prevalent here but, in my opinion, the ways in which people weasel out of their conversational responsibilities are no different than most in-person encounters of the same nature. If I care enough about the person or the cause, it might make sense to stick around and hold their hand. It does get tiresome.
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because fastmail is better than the free one. Just as good in the common use cases, they don't make me the product, and when in the rare case where I have a tech issue their support is responsive. There are a couple other paid email providers that I'm told provide services that are good.
Any success stories from taking second tier part time management school?
So, I'm currently in a situation where I'm team lead in a team, I manage 1-on-1s, kanban, planning etc, whilst coding(50/50).

I've just turned 30 and since finishing University(degree in Comp. Sci), I've tried to begin a masters in business administration but I had to drop it as I've moved to another country. I know a lot of people who doesn't have any degree at all and are into VP/CTO positions. In tech, it seems like those things are even frowned upon. I've read many books about management, those "MBA books" etc and quite get even accounting as I like investing in stocks.

Is there anybody that felt that studying in a "second tier"(as of, not those full time very expensive MBAs) part-time management course was of any value?
>If you have been in Israel you know that Tel Aviv is as much a warzone as NYC, and much less than Paris

How so? Is the whole of Israel Tel Aviv? Is there not daily violence in Israel? Is there not a whole nation locked in a ghetto inside its borders? Is that not Israel? Only Tel Aviv is Israel?

Great that you feel so safe near Israeli soldiers, I myself will never set foot in the country.
I suppose the problem in all this is that the dictum that you should 'criticise the best possible version of your interlocutor's argument' does not specify how to identify the argument in question in the first place.

Take the following example. Suppose you claim that the meat industry is bad, advance three premises, and infer from them the conclusion that it is indeed bad. Now, if I use the dictum 'criticise the strongest version of your interlocutor's' argument, that could mean many things:

1. I might think that all the premises were unconvincing and argue against entirely different premises in favour of the same claim.
2. I might offer new premises in addition or substitution for the premises provided, or a different conclusion.
3. I might interpret the specific details of the premises or conclusion differently.

One could plausibly say that all of these strategies offer a different version of the 'same' argument, but the first would have almost nothing to do with it, and the second would be majorly different. Also, note that if I switch around the premises, and argue against that amended version of their argument, it does not at all follow that 'dismantling the stronger version already handles the weaker interpretation'. Defeating a strong argument does not falsify an entirely independent argument, even if it is weaker.

I personally would say that this conversation is based on an unhelpful conflation. We should both strive to understand one another as accurately as possible, and to move the conversation in as constructive a direction as possible. They need not be in tension. The problem arises if I take the latter - the desire to make the conversation constructive - as an interpretive principle.
That's an excellent article. Thank you for sharing. I love the way you formalized the propensity for internet arguers (mis)apply first principles using Kant's Categorical Imperative.

You articulated something I've noticed before but never really expressed as concisely. If you have the time and inclination, you should write more longform pieces about this. I'd read them.
I think those typically go for quantity though, and won't engange in actual prolonged discussion.
45% of US prisoners are drug offenders [0]. That's disgraceful.

[0]https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
> Elected people in government or not so elected entrepreneurs.

I'll pick different entities competing with one another over a monolith.

> Violence is a consequence of many factors, and in a decent democracy having it monopolized with the governement we have elected is probably a good thing.

Never said it wasn't. But the entity that monopolizes it should be as small as possible.

> Why is the worlds most happy nations also the ones taxed the highest, and as such have the biggest government influences?

Same reason you would probably find the biggest tumors in people with the healthiest lifestyles: they would kill others at much earlier stages.
Not having a highschool degree will probably come back to bite you. How do you have 3 years of highschool left if you're 17?
Just to clarify. The source of the energy of this earth quake was not man-made. It was pre-existing gravitational potential energy.

Similarly, a low-energy scream in the montain can trigger a high-energy avalanche.
And capitalism enables occasional charity, if you want. So I'd say it's a pretty good parallel for our nature. Certainly though it's not the "root of the problem" when it comes to self-serving behaviour.
Are there any options available that utilize h264 as the screen delivery protocol in the browser? I’ve always just found VNC to be so finicky and laggy.

Cool demo!
and https://www.givero.com ;)
This is precisely the issue, as far as I know, but I have had this tangential question tugging at me: The 737 already has an Elevator Feel and Centering Unit which "provides simulated aerodynamic forces using airspeed (from the elevator pitot system) and stabilizer position" [1]. I wonder why, if the issue is stick forces, this would not be the place to make a change. The answer is probably in the details of the system, but I also wonder if the reasoning was in part that, by changing the trim, the MCAS system is simultaneously and proactively reducing the possibility of a stall.

[1] https://www.737ng.co.uk/B_NG-Flight_Controls.pdf page 8.
People have asked us why we use PHP in 2019, sometimes scoffed at us.

This is why.
It is an energy income method, albeit not the best. In reasonable amounts it strengthens social bonds in group. And there might be few more. There ya go. Wanna grab a beer?
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The "20K joined" is probably untrue for a brand new service and if so should be removed. It's a default in the website template (another website using the template: https://increaseengagement.com/)
https://mosaicjs.netlify.com contains a lot of broken links. If you really want to promote your library, fix them! Otherwise ppl will focus on your broken windows instead of the value of your product. Thanks for sharing Mosaic.
You might. You might not.

It's easy to look at your own tax receipt and think it's expensive but a) it's a boatload cheaper than it would be (cite: US healthcare atrocities) and b) not everybody earns enough to pay tax in these countries.

The people in group b still get treated. Equally. You're not left to suffer and die of readily treatable chronic conditions if you can't afford tax.
Are people not understanding how drug prices work?

Intellectual property law is a way for government to grant exclusivity to one firm. This whole "you can get it for x in Canada and y in Germany" is a silly conversation. It's not like it costs 1000x to manufacturer the drug here vs there. The R&D and marketing costs are amortized over the period of exclusivity. Saying "you can just go to Canada to get it" just means "im going to circumvent intellectual property law." It's kind of like, but not quite, piracy. You're choosing where and when which laws apply to you. It also kicks the can down to the rest of the people buying the drug, because we know the pharma actuaries arent going to price their drug at a loss. And then on top of that, like you say, these prices people pay AFTER insurance arent what the cost of the drug is to the population, its an already subsidized price.

Germans and Canadians are getting the drug cheaper not only because they have different laws, but because the R&D recovery isnt evenly split between country, they take their money where they can get it.

Insulin SHOULD be generic by now (the patent on long-acting synthetic insulin expired in 2014), but the companies continually improve it and always sell the latest variant. And of course Doctors are going to prescribe what works best.
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It would be nice if the owners of IRIX (whomever that is now) would release it as open source, so we could run it on our open source MIPS system. I miss my old Octane.
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And likely not his first offense. GP mentions he was already in the juvenile system. Chances are he had a few other adult minor offenses already also, and when he got caught again, this time in a clearly planned and deliberate ongoing burglary ring, he got the book thrown at him.
there was a strong model of the world in AlphaGo, which allowed it to accurately simulate games that followed the rules.

that is quite a lot of domain expertise, much more than in most ML systems.
Abolishing prisons used to be a fairly mainstream view in American politics. Maybe we should reconsider it.
Abolish prisons.
The $5 market is probably better served by those "AI logo generators".
Lol, Did we have the same dad you sound like me talking to my kids. It is because we love them we don’t sugar coat it. But the issue I have is why are these ad companies even allowed to siphon information from a tablet my “child” is using. I know one needs to watch the internet that small children use. But if I have a tablet solely used for my kid to watch shows and perhaps play some educational games or coloring, what business does any company have sucking up data from that tablet. Surely just by the list of apps installed, all children’s games, indicates immediately that a kid owned the tablet but I suppose that Is just another data point they have and like.
Exactly. It would make very little sense if a power plant meant to extract energy from the ground somehow inserted a lot more instead.
AI can improve health care. It also can be duped
I'd say worry first about whether you should take part in an unjust war, the specifics of your actual role in the inevitable atrocities seem more like a secondary concern.

I mean, clearly his individual crimes aren't as bad as say those of soldiers raping a 14-year old. But he does willingly and knowingly take part in, and help perform, the the larger crime that is the poorly justified invasion and occupation of Iraq.
>If that’s true for you then you’re either a freelancer, not a consultant, or you’re not charging enough/not in enough demand that they’re willing to work with you one on one.

I think they were speaking to the OP, who seems to not yet be a consultant, as they are considering "Becoming" one
So one of the neat things about Analog computers is that you get a lot of kick out of "simple" circuit designs. All you need to reproduce everything in the handbook is a bread board, a power supply, and an oscilloscope for output. You can get the individual components from Ada Fruit, Digikey, Mauser, and more. Depending on where you live you can even pick them up locally. Fry's and Microcenter being the two biggest chains that still stock opamps and the like.

If you don't even want to hassle with all of that, then you can look into something like the Elenco electronic playground for $50 which has most of what you need mounted and then you just jumper, ala the old analog computers.

If you wanted to get really advanced, you would want to go to something like the guys at https://www.xmicrowave.com/ make, but that gets awfully spendy on a hobby budget.
It's unlikely that all of that energy was injected into the earth by humans. The high-pressure fluid injection generated cracks and lubricated the surrounding rock, facilitating a release of existing stresses. The area around Pohang is riddled with faults. There's a lot of energy down there just waiting to be released.

South Korea, like most other developed nations, is trying to increase the use of renewable energy. There are many hot springs in Korea, especially around active faults. Geothermal is an obvious candidate in those areas. Of course they're also doing wind and solar where feasible.
> Profit and healthcare are mutually exclusive

Did you live in Switzerland? Doctors make a nice salary, many hospitals are private, yet the system seems to work well (from what my friends who live there are telling me).

> When a cancer patient is literally refused treatment because a) their "health insurance" runs out or b) they cannot afford to pay, the system is morally bankrupt.

Then every system is morally bankrupt.

We have to face the facts: resources aren't infinite, tradeoffs are necessary, and we can't help everyone. That's why even most "socialized medicine" has limitations and restrictions about what kinds of treatments they offer and to whom (e.g. you can't get a free breast scan every year).
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> Acknowledging the huge amount of work that needs to be done for an alternative to be adopted is not defeatism, it's realism.

IMO this is bit of a "the chicken or the egg came first?" problem.

The industry had a lot of needs in terms of computing when computers started becoming physically small. The very first few things -- OS, any tech paradigmae, chip designs, shell architecture and what-have-you -- that seemed to do the job good enough got 99.9% of investments and mindshare and thus even if everything we currently use is ugly and barely working, there's no economic interest to revisit the other competing standards from the dawn of computing and see if there are golden geese hidden in there somewhere.

So when a carpenter tells you "I need a natural wood and screws because that's what works best" you really should be reading that as: "nobody tried to invent better materials and joinery techniques or tooling so I'll stick to what I know".

"Good enough" is not a slogan to follow.
I'm guessing, but I imagine the editor asked the author to remove his company as it doesn't provide much to article other than background on the author. That could be communicated in the author bio, rather than paragraphs 4-6.
One thing of note is that unlike centralized systems that completely kick them out, this systems merely sequesters them, so they can still talk among themselves and have no reason to actively fight against the system and constantly create new accounts.

Containment based systems work better for everyone involved.
There is an interesting podcast about ad fraud and different schemes, on Software Engineering Daily.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/03/12/ad-fraud-eng...
I've asked myself the same question. And the only plausible answer I can come up with is that the engineers working on the 737 Max view it the same way I view a lot of legacy code. They barely understand how it works; are kind of surprised that it does work; and have no inclination to try to change it.
It's the other way around; if you have specialist X and Y, and generalist Z, companies tend to get rid of X and Y and consolidate functions with Z.
Prison in the past wasn't very long term without any slavery - with agricultural scale having people not doing any work wasn't affordable. Hold until the judge gets there or they decide what to do with them unless they are say nobility elite wealthy or otherwise able to justify the expense (ransom or a hostage).

Egypt would be in a good situation for that given seasonality and nile flooding giving better yields.
It's a three pronged attack.

The advertiser who's paying for fraudulent impressions, the user who's battery life is drained, and the app developer who might be getting reports/bad reviews about the app draining battery life
It might not just be $1k, but the US is pretty obviously less economically efficient in how it deals with medical issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... shows the US spending much more per capita than other countries do, especially including Japan.
Languages don't need to keep up with trends to stay used. But updating languages is the fun stuff; there won't be a problem with volunteers for that especially at universities. All the hard work has been done, unless an update would require a complete rewrite of the compilers which, sure, isn't likely.

Flutter needs an update once a year at most, and is mostly cosmetic and a bit of wrapping. Again, the heavy lifting has been done.

Coding from the bottom up....has been done.

I think you may be overstating the 'commitment'.

What we need to keep in mind here, is the context, that dart/flutter is easy access - it's no Angular or Cocoa - and that no sane, mature dev programs in only one language and one platform unless it's legacy.

We're not talking about a massive commitment from a dev, so talk of 'being burned' by Dart 1.0 is already a bit of a headscratcher when google didn't drop it, rather changed up and arguably improved Dart. How can that be called 'being burned'. For instance, dropping the need for 'new'. So, sure, it makes the code slightly less readable, but it also opens Dart to neat code and even maybe DSLs. Then they added Flutter.
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"I have never had a problem to avoid getting drunk by switching very quickly to soft drinks, and this, even in several companies."

If you're an alcoholic or binge drinker, then you're in trouble basically. Some people can't just say no once they get started.

Hence my point stands, alcoholism is a large and accepted part of current day culture. In other countries I've lived and worked in, people avoided having work functions solely at bars for this and cultural sensitivity reasons.
Trade shows and catalogs are forms of advertising.

Also, regarding "pull not push", people sometimes don't know there is a solution to their "problem" (where "problem" might not be a real problem, per se, but maybe simply not even knowing that a given option exists).
"The results support the findings of a pair of studies published in Science1,2 last year, which suggested the plant as a likely cause of the quake."

"Earthquakes have been linked to geothermal power plant in other parts of the world. But the Pohang quake is by far the strongest ever tied to this kind of plant — 1,000 times mightier than a magnitude-3.4 quake triggered by a plant in Basel, Switzerland, in 2006."

If you take the word `purely` out of your statement, it is a political decision. Seems to be based on science though. Everything else becomes irrelevant. This also reminded me about the `fracking` debated in US. If I am understanding this link [0] correctly, it's not the fracturing of the rocks but the high pressure liquids that induces earthquake? I am still unclear on the detailed mechanism.

[0] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/myths.php
Should the title contain the year 2016[0]?

[0] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725
I have never used dart, but always thought it looked interesting. Can I ask what you don't like about it?
"This" being "everyone else is doing it"? Doesn't seem a great reason.
From the same page, “the logic that childhood trauma causes insanity has a serious flaw: If the claim was true, the abuse of millions of children over the years should have caused higher prevalence rates of mental disorders than the literature reveals.”

This is similar to the problem with cannibis which many psychiatrists view as the primary causal factor for schizophrenia and psychosis.

This is a methods problem in my opinion. See for instance this[1]. There are so many cannibis users and so many people who have been traumatized in some way, while the number of those developing schizophrenia is relatively much smaller.

But ask a psychiatrist how many of their psychotic patients used cannibis regularly and you get a pretty clear answer. The psychiatrists don’t get to talk to the millions of cannibis users that don’t develop schizophrenia and so they tend to form their own non-scientific opinions on the origins of schizophrenia. Same with trauma. How many people get to adulthood without some traumatic event occurring. Even on this board it’s got to be a small minority.

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/04/de...
I would add that systems languages usually need to be consistent and predictable in their resource usage. Often this will mean manual resource allocation. Even if resources aren't constrained, you will still need the ability to write software which manages them with precision, and that's what systems languages are needed for.
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no, there is quite a long list of countries that banned it. also a few counties and states in US have also banned it
So, is this a toxic person or just an edgy teenager:

https://i.redd.it/a30ktlbuann21.jpg

What do you think? And do you really want to go through life painting 60 million people with one brush?
Are Liberal speakers being kicked out for their opinion?
>In 2008, the [homicide] offending rate for blacks (24.7 offenders per 100,000) was 7 times higher than the rate for whites (3.4 offenders per 100,000)

Wow, why is that so high?
> that's the only business model that works at their scale and for what their offer.

Do you have any basis for that claim? Because my impression is that historically there have been and are plenty of other businesses at their scale that did/do not need this at all.
> "We're also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else's journalism."

NYTimes has appeared in Apple News for the last couple of years, so why hasn't this been a problem so far?

Also, if "being scrambled" with everyone else's journalism is undesirable, then remove yourself from Google search results.
They've just recently announced Stadia, a streaming gaming platform. Industry veterans immediately gave the product a 2 year lifespan.
Ask HN: How should we implement tracking as privacy conscious startups?
As a consumer, I use an adblocker because I care about my privacy. As a startup founder, I use tools like Google Analytics to drive my understanding of how to reach users and solve their problems. When I visit my own website, the irony is not lost on me that my adblocker blocks GA and other tracking tools.

I'd like to know: what are HN's opinions and/or solutions to this dichotomy?
>cognition and behavior are the result of neural computation

That's like saying if someone gets shot and dies it's because they merely had a faulty brain -- it's ignorant of the actual cause.

Neurons don't exist in a vacuum, they respond to social, environmental, and biological inputs.

How does psychiatry scientifically decide if a persons deranged mental behavior is due to mere deranged circuits or deranged social, environmental, or biological inputs?
> health care, higher education and apparently, prison system

These things are generally not considered to be operating in a free market. All are highly regulated and receive massive government funding or subsidies.