skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do you often meet people with weapons in public in the US?

In many US states you can assume that people you walk past may well have a handgun under his jacket or in her purse.

> In fact, I met much more people with firearms in public in Israel.

In Israel 1) conscripts don't keep their weapons loaded (you can often see the ammo kept hanging separately outside), and 2) anyone with a weapon has received strict training on weapon safety. Gun ownership in Israel is not really comparable to the USA.
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Branding is ok.
What I think is not OK but totally normal, is branding combined with advertisement. The name of the brand combined with all the perfect, beautiful and fun things of the world, so your name associates the brand with all the nice things. That is lying to me and I hate that it is the norm.
Er no these are Salaried - Exempt Employees so hours worked doesn't count.
A bit more context. We created a price comparison for attraction tickets, in-destination tours and activities. We were surprised to lear how much you can save by choosing the best provider (check out New York City).
Wouldn't that make you the manufacturer?
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I assume everyone who uses mobile networks has their location data being stored, shared, and sold by the mobile network companies. I assume government agencies and other people in positions of power can easily get identifiable information, and advertisers or other businesses can purchase "anonymized" information. At this point, I'm not sure what else is left to protect.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/verizon-and-att-...

They claim they're stopping, but I don't see why I should believe them.
> trying to understand it.. at a "beginner level" is almost pointless.

Starting at the beginner level is where everyone starts when they want to learn something. By definition. Hardly pointless.
Somehow I managed to skip a word when I wrote the comment. It should have been “a government can print money to pay its debts exactly once.”

Obviously governments can pay off debts as often as they want, and there was a time when that was common. But a government that runs up big debts and pays them by making the currency worthless soon has a hard time finding anyone willing to lend it money.

But sometimes they manage. Russia is notorious for defaulting on its debts (which isn’t the same thing as paying with devalued currency, but should be a lesson to future lenders), but they still manage to borrow money. But they do have to pay higher interest rates than other countries to make up for the higher risk of default.
Eating withoout washing hands is a huge taboo in south asia. I am sure students are not representative of the whole population.
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And even if you don't need it, the people surrounding you (friends, family, co-workers, people you share a seat with in the tram) are probably in a better general state of health, which is also good for you.
They already do it: first of all, by controlling of import/sales of equipment, and by incentivizing citizens to tip police. Also, there are frequency control inspections which keep maps of radiotransmitting activity. It's easy to spot any new transmitter.
Or maybe some MC-21s from Irkut?
The US has HIPAA which while not perfect would cover any medical data sharing and does have decently sized fines behind it.
+1 for your Haskell comments

That is what I do: I use a subset of the language, don’t dive too deeply into the theoretical stuff, for anything imperative I find an example to follow, and just enjoy writing pure code in a comfortable interactive environment (VSCode or Emacs).

It is possible to just use Haskell ‘lightly’ and enjoy it. The only problem for me is that it can take me a while to understand other people’s Haskell code when I read it.
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In fact, the US has a higher rate of generic drug use and lower generic drug prices than Europe.
This repeated millions of times across society, it is no wonder we don't classify them as a criminal profession.
Worth noting that historically the Windows console’s colours were pretty terrible for people used to Linux consoles. There’s a fix which works since late 2017, which is to run colortool[1].

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-the-w...
When less than 45 years old and married with a spouse covered by public insurance, it may be worth taking a year off work (e.g. a sabbatical; must earn less than EUR435/month) to undo that damage.

(Details:

You can go back once you're covered by public insurance for 12 months, no matter through which status, so family insurance helps get these months. For family insurance your income needs to be below EU435/month + some exceptions.

The outcome changes a bit when you're older than 45 because you need ~20 years (in raw terms: more than 90% of the second half of your working life) in total in the public insurance scheme to be able to apply for the "public health insurance for pensioners" system when you retire. That complicates matters.

Even more details for people not used to the German health insurance system:

By default people are in the public health insurance system. Exceptions are self-employed folks, public officials and people with income beyond the cap mentioned upthread: they can choose whether to use the public system or some private health insurance.

The reason why you can't just move from private insurance to public insurance is that otherwise the private insurers would try to get ahold of all the healthy youngsters and their (usually significant) money while offloading them to the public system as soon as they start to cost more than they bring. That would break the economics of the public insurance system.)
> "Particularly, there is a sense in which bank account balances are a separate currency"

You can define "credits" and "debits" in a currency to be a separate currency, but since that has been in the lexicon for millenia, you'd have a very long road ahead for acceptance of terminology like that.

There is a reason why we define M1 as different from M0. Trying to say that bitcoin is some newfangled currency that demands M0 and M1 be equal? Good luck with that.
seems until very recently it still had delay slots[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture
(see mips64 release 6)
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> FRB is essentially a form of "double spending"

This is nonsense. Loaning money that you own is not "double spending".
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Nothing to do with charity, poverty, socioeconomics, etc. I simply lost interest in her article after it began to read as a self-serving 'look at me, I donated to charity!' post.
As far as I know the bulk of insulin for human use is produced using bovine/swine cattle.

And my point still stands that preventative measures will have both a positive impact on peoples' health and on the demand for insulin.

Price gouging is definitely a problem that has to be addressed, but it's not the only one - yet seems to be what everyone focuses on first while glossing over the terrible lifestyles/habits of the population.
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I'm not the OP but I just wanted to say that it's not paranoia, as I've known of media agencies in my country (EU and NATO member) which had been hired to post favorable online comments on specific political candidates. That was happening about 5 or 6 years ago. I'm pretty sure that phenomenon has only gained momentum in the meantime.
I think it’s great too, but a lot of the community implementations somehow mess up the color codes in practice.
That’s just the legacy of acquisitions. A lot of Roche’s revenue (40%) comes from Genentech, an American company they acquired 10 years ago.
Unfortunately if you go to prison in the US, odds are you will also get beaten and shamed.
Well, I have general sympathy for the privacy topics discussed here just as any other average Joe, but painting sugar addicts as some helpless victims is a bit of a stretch to be polite.

At least we can agree it is something negative. But I fail to have much sympathy for people who simply have to buy ice cream, chocolate, soda etc. You put the products in the shopping cart yourself knowing well it harms you, you use your cash/card to pay for it.

Sugar addiction is real, but it doesn't make you a zombie without any free will. If you want to paint yourself as pathetic weakling without your own will, that's your own personal choice and be clear about this with everybody, especially yourself. But you are not describing sugar issues, but your own underlying mental issues that can and should be tackled by professional.

Man up (or woman up), own your shit and have some respect for yourself.
this site has tons of trends and is probably more up to date:
https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/programming-language

they have tons of other metrics. To summarize PHP and Wordpress absolutely dominate the web.
But there is a lack of trash cans on the streets mostly. The stations usually have a few at least.
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It's 14-15%, but half of that is covered by the employer (outside your gross pay).

So if you earn EUR 1000 (just to have a nice round number), it's EUR 150 for health insurance, of which EUR 75 come from your gross pay, and another EUR 75 are itemized as coming from the employer.

That makes the 14-15% look scarier than they are (for the employee).
A lot of people hold that position
Ever consider how that might change if treated?

It was the introduction of the war on drugs that introduced the need to push drugs, to pay for the habit. When clean heroin and needles were available, along with treatment for those who wanted to quit, there was barely a problem at all.

Many nations had successful history of tolerance without problems of junkies. The the US was determined to export their war on drugs globally. The hysteria of Harry Anslinger who gave the world the Reefer Madness mentality, and faked acres of evidence, was the US representative for the newly formed UN committee on drugs. It was his swan song resulting from Nixon's public enemy number 1 initiative.

India, The Netherlands, Britain and others had almost no drug addicts prior to this. There were of course some - but they were still productive members of society - yet orders of magnitude fewer than in the USA under prohibition. No police connected drugs with crime or anti-social behaviours.

Now everywhere is in a similar boat to the US, drugs outlawed with enough organised crime that going back to the old ways is probably impossible.
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It doesn't say "business intelligence" anywhere in the article.
Since the article is from 2017 php 7 was kind of newish then. I think its seen pretty rapid adoption (mainly because additional speed means fewer servers.).

PHP has adopted a strategy of rolling version upgrades with defined end points. They probably should have some "LTS (Long Term Support) type releases.

http://php.net/supported-versions.php

5.6 just reached eol. I think they've put out a securtiy patch since then so its (not quite) completely abandoned.

If people aren't forced to upgrade their sites, they won't. So there is huge incentive to just keep running the older versions.
Yes! The same can be said for git-bash which uses mintty and doesn’t require you to install a new operating system (almost).
> Then you amend their argument for them, and argue against that, ignoring your interlocutor.

The problem is that language is ambiguous and easily misunderstood. You interlocutor also has context which you don't know about.

Being charitable means recognizing these facts and so reading their words to mean the strongest possible interpretation. If they intended some weaker argument, it doesn't matter, because dismantling the stronger version already handles the weaker interpretation.
> Loaning gold isn't performing FRB on gold.

It is, in fact, exactly what fractional-reserve banking means: Loaning a fraction of your reserves.

BTW: The exchanges are creating money by allowing margin: There is already a difference between M0 and M1 in the bitcoin economy.
Yes, but I remember you still had to use a really contrived way of explaining that 3d 'geometry' on the editor (BUILD.exe).

Basically you still drew in 2d but you could overlap rooms with other lines that wouldn't intersect with any already existing lines, and that would configure 'a room above/below the current room'. Then you had to slope the floor until it actually connected with the newer room.

It was pretty strange but yeah, some people built insanely detailed things with Duke3D :-)
I would argue that VR is the next step like this. Even taking an "old" title like Skyrim drives home that no matter how nice the renderer makes it look on a screen, it is still flat. With VR you are in the place.
Does the raytracing look really, really nice? Yes, definitely. Is it that much better? I don't think so (personal opinion, of course)...
Yes, you are forced to work and that's one of the main arguments in favor of a basic income.
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I'd be very surprised if the AlphaGo team didn't at least consult with a few Go players...
It occurs to me that when your program results in a situation where recidivism is "very low", it might become much easier to distinguish those who fell upon bad circumstances from the ones with more deep-rooted mental issues-- like treatment resistant compulsive behavior, or perhaps even more importantly, psychopathic traits.

In my view, these are the real dynamos of the 'criminal world', where predatory traits are baked into their behavior patterns at a lower level. There are compelling opportunities for more research here (https://modlab.yale.edu/news/can-psychopaths-be-cured) and isolating variables is a good way to help move things forward.
This focuses on comparing data from 2000 and 2016. From the article:

> Since 2000, the number of people in private prisons has increased 47%, compared to an overall rise in the prison population of 9%.

2016 things changed a bit:

> At the federal level, a 2016 Obama Administration policy shift to reduce reliance and ultimately phase out private prison contracts was reversed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in February 2017.

The article also answers whether this has any impact on the justice system:

> Changes in policy at the Department of Justice in 2017 that are likely to increase sentence length and expand prosecutions for drug and immigration offenses may contribute to the expansion of private facility contracting.
AFAIK putty.exe is tiny, standalone and runs from a usb drive / dropbox directory / network folder /... and on all windows versions ever. Almost.
Admins, this should say (2017)
Never charge by the hour, as it gives a ceiling to your potential earnings. Charge by the job/retainer/etc and then spend a lot of energy becoming more efficient.
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Have you never heard of the concept of "wage slavery"?
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> This fingerpointing points to one of the core problems of the ad industry: They created a system where nobody knows who's responsible for anything,

This sounds like a lot of industries...
What do you think happens to door handles that are used with unwashed hands after eating?
It goes further than that. If you want to arrive at the 77 cents on the dollar statistic you have to compare average earnings.

If you compare in the same jobs and hourly pay, the gap is very small to statistically insignificant. Women on average work fewer hours and lower paid jobs, but in those jobs they earn the same (or maybe even more) than men.

So now the question becomes why women are working fewer hours and lesser paid jobs. It's probably because of a multitude of factors. You have less societal pressure to earn money. An unemployed woman is a housewife, an unemployed man is usually considered worthless and is divorced. If you want women to work more hours and get paid the same you'd either need to take the pressure away from men to be providers, or you would need to increase the pressure on women to be providers.

Then we have the issue of different jobs. Why do women not get the same positions as men? It's also probably many factors. Again we have the pressure to provide which drives some people to become workaholics, which makes it more likely that they will get chances to advance in their career. Then we have interests. I studied 10 years ago and we barely had more than 5% women in engineering. Engineering pays better than a lot of careers chosen by women, even if you don't advance as much career-wise.

And the women I do know in engineering usually start out in big corporate, highly paid jobs, whereas their male peers often need to work in small body-leasing companies for half the pay until big corporate takes them. This is because big corporate wants to fill quotas that are unrealistic given only a very small population studying these subjects. So at least at the start of an engineering career the job-gap is the other way around.

However men are still much more common in the higher positions in those corporations. It could be a glass ceiling. It could be self-selection. It could be more pressure to provide. I'm guessing it's a combination of factors. But the often touted inequality is probably not nearly as pronounced as the clickbaity media presents it.

http://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/
ahhh, didn't realise. Gun thing is mad
https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/salbutamol.html

£3.60?
My economics professor called it grandma inflation. Grandma hears that the busboy is making $70000 and freaks not realizing that it's close to $30000 in 1985 dollars. She still thinks that $70000 is a lot of money...
> The US has HIPAA which while not perfect would cover any medical data sharing and does have decently sized fines behind it.

Because HealthEngine looks like it has business relationships with providers, it would probably be covered by HIPAA through provider BAAs in the US.

But if it only had a business relationship with the consumer, ala Google Duplex, and handled medical bookings on the consumer's behalf that would not be the case. So even though the specific case would enjoy covered by HIPAA in the US, it is illustrative of a problem HIPAA may not be adequate to address.

HIPAA may actually be dangerous here, because what lay awareness of it exists seems to see it as protecting health data generally, when it only protects health data held by certain entities, and consumer-facing entities that don't have a business relationship with your health provider or insurer aren't covered, and there are plenty of them trying to vacuum up health data.
At least for universities this isn't correct. Oxford and Cambridge are just as high calibre as the top US institutions.
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Seems to be the same issue for Gmail backup tools, eg:

https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/issues/195

Frustrating, given Google's own takeout tool doesn't work on larger inboxes! This is basically going to destroy the tools that were papering over gmails cracks.
Women are given special treatment at every level in STEM just as they are in general life. I've been in science, engineering and programming positions and there's always a special effort to hire women, special courses for women, special sources of funding for women. Men just have to be good to succeed and if they're not they just have to get used to emptying bins or digging ditches or something.
How would they pay? your personal account. seems like a pain to change later.
Because they probably hadn't written specific error messages for "half the auth packets came back destroyed or missing".
I'm a huge fan of Manager too. It does the manual task of balancing the books very well, and exports everything as TSV so it's easy to port out if it no longer fulfills one's needs.

I'm a bit concerned that it stores attachments (receipts, invoices, etc) as blobs in its SQLite database, but users on its forum [1] seem to keep large databases without any problem.

Since it's one SQLite file per business, it's also easy to automate file backups on my end.

[1] https://forum.manager.io/
The font in those screenshots still seems pretty terrible to me. Does putty let you choose your own font? I know I've seen some fine font-rendering in some Windows apps, is there any reason certain apps would not render as smooth glyphs as the best?
Whether you blame drugs or see it as an effect, it still makes the situation worse and keeps whomever is trapped more trapped.
Absolutely. I feel that the motives which led to the situation are quite important though in the greater scheme of things.

To phrase it another way, without MCAS the 737 Max didn't meant the requirements of certification and so wouldn't have gone into production. The alternative wasn't to train pilots into how to handle the new stall characteristics.

Of course, the region of flight that MCAS was intended to activate in is also a bit of an edge case. Without MCAS we may have seen an aircraft flown into a stall, most likely around a critical phase of flight (landing or a go-around), but that would have involved a pilot ignoring numerous warnings (stick shaker activation, 'stall stall' oral alerts etc) and you'd be better categorised as pilot error than directly related to the handling characteristics.

Unfortunately, due to a terrible system design, MCAS appears to be activating in regions of flight outside of the design intent and with greater authority than it should ever have been given.
Except for the 5/24 apps that didn't share user data.
The NHS is paid mostly by taxes. NI only pays for about 20% of it.
>In the UK whilst there is free healthcare etc and its a country of 66m, the healthcare has been getting worse and worse.

This is largely a consequence of chronic underfunding, a deliberate political choice by the Conservative party.
They are, but they are also also very social beings who sacrifice themself for others.

Also, culture matters.
yeah the mysql_* function removal happened for no reason whatsoever. A library that did not need maintainance is something to keep , not throw away.