skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indeed. Perhaps people aren't arguing with paid operatives directly, but there are a lot of people repeating positions that were injected into the dialogue by paid operatives.

The term for them is "useful idiots." But you definitely shouldn't engage with them like they are bad-faith actors, because often they're good-faith actors who've been mislead.
Are travel costs more expensive and/or imprisonment costs cheaper back then? I'd think that a one time boat ride was cheaper than holding someone for a decade or more.
That's a great point. The Bushwick neighborhood in NYC is a prime example. Although even some of those murals are being co-opted by brands! :S
I've noticed something similar with a lot of the game remakes from a few years ago, particularly the N64 Zelda remakes on 3DS. The remasters look how you remember the games back in the day, but if you compared them side by side the remakes look vastly better.
Dart was rescued from being completely dropped by AdWords team, while key designers like Gilad abandoned the project not happy with how things were going.
Moving to a World Beyond “P &lt; 0.05"
It's a good quote!
> I could probably pass the highest level actuarial exams at this point

You must be an exceptional intellect, then. Actuaries famously devote thousands of hours and years of their lives to passing the exams.
Yes, you cant pre-pay specific people not to commit a crime.

I do think a UBI (basic income) would reduce crime enormously, if it were confiscated when they are in prison. It would be a powerful economic incentive.
That one payment is legally a tax and another is not has no bearing on whether it is economically a tax, any more than the culinary distinction between fruits and vegetables bears on the botanical one. Botanically a tomatoe is a fruit. In the kitchen it’s a vegetable.
Polymorphism yes, but there is no class structure to combine state and behavior. I suppose OO is pretty subjective and I should say most folks wouldn't consider Julia to be OO in nature.
Nonsense. Capitalism is when people make money for doing nothing. People have been paid for work they produce for all of time. The innovation of capitalism is that you can be paid for the work other people produce.
Mobile network location data is much more coarse than GPS data, so there's "that" to protect.
Only several hundred million dollars? This is not some software startup we are talking about here. The reactors are going to cost several billion dollars so it doesn't make sense to let startups just "wing it". Even if the R&D costs are 10 billion you could quickly amortize it by simply building multiple reactors with the same design. At least that is what the pro nuclear lobby says will happen.
Mock Executions? Real Screams and Blood? Just Another School Shooter Drill
Classic Google Sites will be discontinued in 2021:
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/google-sites-im...
I don't think the new generation knows what Mosaic was.
Also much lower IQs in the US prison population compared to Norway's. Combine that with the gangs in the US that effectively rule the prison system - is there such a thing as a shot caller in Norway ? - and there is no hope for any sort of rehabilitation to take place.
At least it gives an opening to someone else to try to fill the need if it was useful.
What is actually terrible is that they are paid a dollar an hour, even if they are fighting fires and dying from it.
I personally use Prism https://www.prismmoney.com/
Helps me make sure I have enough money for bills without me having to input anything (after initial setup).
yes. but sprites (i.e. enemies and weapons) are the primary method of interaction with Doom.

Grass and particle effects are secondary....

How many FPS AAA titles today use sprites for enemies and weapons?
> I think it's debatable, after generations of experience, that prisons make people more criminal. At the very least, rehabilitation doesn't work very well

I agree until this point you made.

We know the "modern prison system" is a very loose term dictated by "where" much more than just an abstract idea. In places like the Netherlands they have so few prisoners they had to close down prisons.

There are certainly a group of people who cannot be easily re-introduced to society: People who commit premeditated murder, rapists, pedophiles, serial killers, mass-murderers, terrorists. But this accounts for a fairly small percent of the prison population.

Most prisoners can fall into a few categories: Stupid, No other means of decent survival, Drugs.

I'll tackle these in order of ease:

- Drugs - This has been shown to be the easiest to solve. Giving prisoners the option of avoiding their entire sentence in exchange for rehab and support group attendance has been INCREDIBLY effective.

- No other means of decent survival - A.k.a. poverty. This feeds the drug problem too. People need: Food, Shelter, Entertainment. Boredom is the cause of too many kids, drug use, and theft of goods. Giving these people a decent base education and job placement programs can be orders of magnitude more efficient.

- Stupid - This can cause the other problems too, but I include in here a lack of self control. Many times this can be solved with education, job placement, emotional control education, etc. There are ways to rehabilitate these people into society.

Instead of everything I said, we treat marijuana arrests in the USA worse than many cases of murder, rape, fraud. We need sane laws here.

Furthermore the real criminals that cause a ton of subsequent crime is financial fraudsters. We call it "white collar criminals" who get at best a slap on the wrists -- Steal 20 mil? Go to jail for a few years. Have a bag of weed? Go to jail for 10 years. These white collar criminals are the ones that need punishment the most. They cause so much subsequent crime, and they always believe they both deserve what they do and can get away with it. These are the ones we need to lock away for the longest of times.

And finally the privatization of prisons. So much on that. But basically, if you run a prison as a business, it is 100% not in your interest to prevent future crime, but rather to ensure the prisoners (your cash cows) never leave.
Normally I would agree, but Microsoft and Sony especially have similar services and they seem to be doing well enough.
Everyone talks about functional programming as if its this great new thing. I'm coming from a strong C# background, and to me this reads exactly like OOP.

> the output value of a function depends only on the arguments that are passed to the function, so calling a function f twice with the same value for an argument x produces the same result f(x) each time.

OK, that's basically a static method in C#. Is that wrong?

The piece goes on to say

> Functional programming, therefore, is programming so as to avoid these side effects wherever possible.

So functional programming should never handle state? Do you just move that logic into another framework (Angular, React, etc)?

Maybe there's some obvious stuff I am missing. Why should I use a functional language (like F#) over an existing OOP language?
Are you suggesting capturing the energy of the earthquake?
Nice Scotsman there.

> If you use an ad service from a shady company

And what if they aren't shady? Something large from a well known, non-shady company, like Twitter? Because that's who is mentioned in the article: Twitter's MoPub.

And is the reverse true? If you use these shady companies (Twitter and MoPub) are you contributing to the success of shady companies?

Bad advertisers are real, and they really exist. But trying to say that the person who relies on that software equally responsible as everyone down the pipe is a bit of a stretch. Otherwise, I could make the same extreme arguments about pretty much every tech company, big and small, and all the people that use them.

Even you.
I thought path tracing was just ray tracing with additional random scatters traced, is it not?
this is awesome, thank you for making this. there is a distinct lack of materials to help with learning just risc-v assembly, without going to c and I look forward to playing with this.
Possibly don't think about being poor in the context of just "needing more resources".

Think about it in the context of having much different risk/reward calculations for all activities, much higher stress levels, much worse access to health care, much higher levels of self-medication, higher sense of futility and unfairness in the world, possibly cognitive/emotional impairments due to unaddressed physical health issues, etc.

Unless you've been poor yourself, especially poor in a rich country, or unless you've worked directly with poor people and learned from them what it is like to live their lives, assume that it's far more difficult to simply /exist/ than you can imagine.
The `putty-256color` terminal description (like most terminal descriptions) is hand-made by the ncurses maintainer, for maximum compatibility with ncurses. What problems have you encountered?
Most of the top health insurers in the US are publicly traded. The only thing you can expect from them is for them to return as much money as possible to investors.
> this generalist thing is utter nonsense

By your own description, you sound like a generalist with ability to dive deep into the areas needed. You seem to refute the core premise of the article but your description says otherwise.
FYI: The majority of insulin these days is human insulin produced by GM bacteria or yeasts.

Just because there's more than one obvious problem doesn't mean that you can ignore the others.

More to the point, this isn't just about a single disease or drug, the same story applies to a lot of medication, including those that have zero lifestyle causes.

EpiPens are another example mentioned in the article. In the US if your child is born with a deadly allergy you have to carry around very expensive EpiPens that can cost hundreds of dollars due to co-pay and whatever. In Europe these will cost you directly less than $10 and even to the state will cost a lot less than it does to many US patients. One of the company's responses to hiking the price from $50 to $600 for profit reasons was to introduce a cheaper generic version, which as this article points out, is BS.
Its a definition game, but in philosophy and political economy free is "free from other people" not free from nature, as that is impossible.
3D-Printed Self-Adhesive Hydrogels: Modular Use in Actuators and Microfluidics
> How much do you pay for your email?

$50 year because I actually decided to put my money where my mouth is and actually pay for a service I use. I don’t regret it one bit.
It’s why Fraud advocated cocaine use for hysteria. The work he did with Fliess is worth looking into as it’s relevant to you point about pathologies being revealed by the use of medication, cocaine in their case.
Exactly. The hardest part about martial arts in my opinion is the state of mind necessary to react to a situation appropriately.
The thing is that then the warden sells of the inmates to make money on himself or through the state.

California paid inmates fighting fires a dollar an hour.
This has made news a few times but I will not use them for my domains.

It's been a few months since launch, but I still can't use my own nameservers for the domains.

While the registry-pricing can often workout cheaper, some registrars negotiate nicer deals with the registry. I have a .me domain for 8 years that I never paid the registry standard price, it has always been sent discounted rate.
>Nguyen, 55, pleaded guilty at Old City Hall court to beating three baby raccoons with a shovel, probably killing one and breaking another’s foreleg, because they were destroying his garden in 2011.

He beat the living tar out of living creatures instead of dealing with them humanely - yeah, that should be punished.

> The media won't even tell you the animals name or anything about him.

Why would you need his name? Has he even been found guilty yet?
UCC minister tracked by U.S. government preaches love
Arguably the equivalent work that artists can do as compared to what other professionals can do is to have their work commissioned for some other project. You know, jingles, soundtracks, creating atmosphere (i.e. live performances), that kind of thing.

I guess what I'm saying is that following the state of typical labour markets, having somebody produce something that they have their name on, that is an artistic work of its own right and actually getting paid for it is actually pretty extraordinary. Only a very tiny fraction of people get to work that way (probably because of the limits of attention as much as anything else). In many respects it's not surprising that it's fragile.

While I don't disagree that it would turn out to be bad for music to lose its professional art for art's sake, I also don't think the comparison with other professionals holds.
My mother was a programmer in this era. She got her degree in math in 1954. Rather than being a teacher, she went to work for Union Carbide in Buffalo to work on "this new thing called a computer". I have a great Union Carbide PR photo of her up on a stool, moving a jumper cable on a room-sized computer. I really need to digitize that.

She learned FORTRAN shortly after, and was a FORTRAN programmer for her entire career, later working at Calspan and then a spin-off defense contractor. She used FORTRAN for her entire career.

I fondly remember her making her grocery lists and taking notes on the used punch cards that she'd bring home from work.

My first internship in the late 80s was at another defense contractor, and I had to program a GUI in FORTRAN (!!) on a VAXstation. I remember coming to her for help, since I knew C and Lisp, and the whole FORTRAN column number thing threw me for a loop.
Since my beloved Zeit has decided to go all Lambda, I need to move my hosting somewhere. It struck me that even though Google is a very big player here, I am worried that they might do something similar so I am much more inclined to look at AWS or Azure. This, I guess, is a price they are paying for this culture of exploration and pivots that I otherwise consider healthy in many ways.
Your loss. It's a great article, with a researcher's results woven in with the author's personal experience of it as a (fairly compelling) "worked example". What you describe as "rambling" is 2 sentences of introduction to the former, followed by 2 sentences of introduction to the latter. If your attention span can't handle 4 perfectly relevant introductory sentences, that's not the article's fault.
I went through a very similar situation 10 years ago. Got a high paying software developer job at 16 and had to pick between dropping out and leaving the job. I ended up dropping out, and had to finish highschool few years later. If you think 3 years of highschool is a nightmare now, try doing it when you are 22.

Also, no matter how good current job is, it will end eventually. Without a degree you will have much harder time getting the next job, while fresh graduates with 0 experience will get picked over you.
As a bald man, I approve!
This is exactly my experience.

I tried to create a simple tool to retrieve a JSON reply from an API and display the results. Piece of cake, right?

Took me a day of debugging and hitting my head on several objects before I figured out that none of the half dozen tutorials I found were made for Swift 4.x.
That's a really cool article. Are there any lists of incubators that are open to the "rent-a-CTO" idea? It's really an interesting way to get your foot in the door.
I use Python asyncio a lot and I agree with the parent's opinion.
YouTube unboxing and how it is changing the toy industry
I would guess most developers get "very far" without any of those. If you would please, perhaps give some examples to demonstrate what you mean?
It seems that FP zealots have a hard time appreciating that there’s both a value and a cost to FP adherence. I find that FP forces too many contortions in the name of some ethereal value without a consideration of cost.
Which wouldn't have mattered with the other protections in place.
as in, they come from the webapp store?
The difference lies in the means you have at your disposal to settle the membership question.

Even within "Set Theory" (as an umbrella term), there are several axiomatizations of sets that define in different ways what a set is, how sets come into existence, what it means for an element to belong to a set, and what are the allowed ways to conclude that it does or does not.

The link posted in a sibling comment by @empath75 goes into more detail.
Mastodon doesn't use [GNU Social] OStatus protocols as much anymore. Most of Mastodon federation work has moved to the ActivityPub protocol, which as in the nature of most such standards some proponents see as the natural successor to OStatus and others as an incompatible fork.
On a related topic, what are people's thoughts on most lucrative niche / products to consult for? Salesforce, Oracle, Atlassian, etc? I feel like being a general programming / web development services consultant isn't going to get you the big bucks unless you really excel in that field, and you'll still probably need a niche.

A while back I was at a company that specialized in Sun Identity Management consulting. Not sexy, sure, but they charged clients in the $250-300 per hour per resource (developer) range for projects that spanned several months. This was back in 2008-2012.
Nokia firmware blunder sent some user data to China
Amazing! didn't think I could get so hooked up to a stereogram renderer.... I'd suggest adding other colorful background variations, apart from random dots, as well. Thanks for sharing !
Child Exploitation of YouTube Unboxing Videos
Just been switching to beancount from ynab. Apart from minor annoyances it's so much more powerful. If you're up for some programming and customization it's hard to beat (your choice between beancount/ledger/hledger matters less).
I've used Simple https://www.simple.com/ as my primary checking for years and love it. I create "Goals" as buffer money pockets for things like "Savings", "Investment", and "Credit Card Buffer", and then use their expenses feature to automatically deduct certain bill amounts every payday. Their features are open enough to where you should be able to flex it to your needs. For example the "Goals" also has an auto-fill, but I just use them manually since I don't usually have a set amount I'm trying to save, just a certain percent per payday.
quite smart approach of having a nodejs frontend doing what it's good at (async) calling the backend via simple subprocess/stdio communication. they could almost say they invented CGI :)
Dissolve the vitamin pills into the ramen noodle soup?
Loosely related video, Star Trek actor talks about being bald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm_Iq8rFeg .

I'm linking it to remind that perceiving baldness as something negative (here: a criterion for removal from a photo) can be a cause of distress and loss of confidence.
Is Facebook about to bring millions of users to crypto?
Esoteric C++ Contest 2018
Open Steno Project: Bringing Stenography to Everyone
It doesn't matter whose fault it is; if it provides no mechanism for prepared queries, it should be replaced.

mysqli_ has prepared queries, so it offers an immediate improvement.
FYI: big scary SSL warning in (at least) Chrome when I click that link.

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

This server could not prove that it is www.f19n.com; its security certificate is from *.easyname.com.

And so on.

( that'll be $1,000 :-) )
And they weren't actually present at the time of recording either, they're a product of waves adding together. Those same waves are still added together when it plays from your speakers.
defaults, for example latest CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) --> PHP 5.4.16 (cli) (built: Apr 12 2018 19:02:01)

Also php7 breaks most old projects
Firefox Add-Ons Every English Learner Should Make Use Of
Xenophobia at the state level. I read some official policies yesterday, they are just malevolent.
And that mp3 renaming shell script probably uses orders of magnitude more CPU time than the most complex FORTRAN simulations in the 1960s did.
PC gamers haven't really ever owned their games in the whole Steam era. Most are too young to even be aware that buying a game anonymously and being able to resell it later was an ability that we used to have.

You're right about the latency being a problem. I wouldn't touch Stadia but I believe many will and it's one more compromise people will accept in exchange for convenience.
TIL Quake 2 is a sequel to The Addams Family.

Somehow... it almost works....
I don't think it's a bad thing for a company to try out new products and services to see what sticks, then kill off ones that aren't working, the alternative is to stagnate and slowly die out. It does sting as a consumer when something you use is killed off.

Some of these were killed off because the functionality was added to other products. I was an Inbox user until the app warned me it would be discontinued recently, but all the features were added to the Gmail app.
I know this was a joke but I still wanted to see more examples
Unbrick a Micro SD Card Using Tails and macOS Mojave
I had this problem just yesterday. A dev decided to update their XAMPP to a version that uses PHP7.3. Took us a while to understand why he was getting notices that no one else was getting. The compact function started printing notices of undefined variables since that version, it's a small thing, but I can see breaking a lot of stuff that is not expecting it.
Quit the circlejerk.

Yeah, Google shuts off unpopular, unsuccesful projects. So what? Most of the ones listed are literally useless and/or outdated relics of the past which have been replaced by something better. Google is a business after all, not a charity. They don't want to maintain an useless project from 2005 written using who knows what technology stack.

If Stadia becomes mainstream and acquires a lot of users, they won't kill it off as it will be profitable.
If it has an user count of 500 in two years, it will be gutted, why support an unprofitable product?
A lifetime of worry to varying degree, a seeming resolution, an absolutely unnecessary assault on a group of people who seem to embody exactly what the American spirit is all about.
> Prison startup?

We don't need another CCA.
The commonly-accepted wisdom among Unicode people was that UTF-8 is good for transmission and storage, but bad for in memory representation. It now appears pretty conclusive that this was wrong.
Definition:

- [In socialism]: the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Your claim:

- US insurance has a profit layer making it socialism for profit.

Question:

Which part of medical insurance in the US is produced, distributed, and exchanged by society as a whole?

The largest medical insurer in the US is a commercial entity UnitedHealth Group with a membership of 49.5 million people. It's 20% of the adults in the US, but still can hardly be called "society as a whole". And yes, these 20% have no say in how the insurance is produced, distributed, and exchanged.

Other insurers are, similarly, commercial entities, smaller in size, and people have no say in how the insurance is produced, distributed, and exchanged.

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Also:

- is car insurance socialism?

- is accident insurance socialism?

- are public roads, public schools, police, firefighting, army, coast guard socialism?
Lol this guy thinks that American authorities enforce antitrust laws
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