skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant. It is an organophosphorus compound, specifically a phosphonate, which acts by inhibiting the plant enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase. It is used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses that compete with crops. (Wikipedia)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19596458
It's actually worse than that if you look at median equivalised net income: http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=ilc_...

Remember that Norway and Switzerland are part of the EEA, so geoblocking affects them too. Although I am somewhat skeptical of those lower numbers, but the difference is there.
Can you please not post dross comments to HN? They break the site guidelines in many ways. It would be great if you're review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart.
I've been together with my wife for 18 years, married for 14 and I met her playing the original Everquest.
Technical debt within a working codebase is a much, much better problem to have than not being able to launch or even demonstrate your product. It's really overrated. I left a huge pile of it in my previous company (amassed over 18 years of programming in Perl) and guess what: it's doing great, more profitable than ever before. The code has been slowly enhanced, some of it refactored. Code quality (as in "beauty", not correctness) is the least of your problems in a startup, although it will look bigger for those who have to work on it (pity them but don't overemphasize).
The khipu code: the knotty mystery of the Inkas’ 3D records
Ask HN: Data scientists, how are you being evaluated within your company?
I've worked places of different sizes as data scientist (from start-up to mega-corp), and I've seen different ways to evaluate employee's performance (think yearly performance review). In my experience, it's ironically often difficult as a data scientist to demonstrate what you have or have not achieved during the year in a quantitative fashion. I would be curious to hear your input, what works and what doesn't in your opinion. Evaluation methodologies I have often seen are:

- Demonstration of impact on business: In this case it's up to the data scientist to justify as best as possible what business decision (or internal milestone) was made because of an analysis performed. In theory it makes sense (= your focus should be on impacting business), in practice I don't think I've ever seen a single analysis changing the course of anything; decisions are driven by many factors, your analysis being only one of them.

- Tool usage: I guess some programmers are evaluated the same way; basically, you develop a tool for co-workers to perform analyses with. The more the tool is used, the better it is for you (it's assumed that high usage = high business relevance). In this case the usage is sometimes easier to track and more impartial, but it's often difficult to develop a data science tool covering many use-cases, and one frequently ends-up with a niche product with low usage.
But TV is dead and the social appeal for networks like this isn't filtered or delayed content.
AFAIK FFXV had a much better story planned out; but they were pushed to release it half-baked, so they cut out a bunch of content to make it smaller-but-semi-coherent, planning to add all the extra context back in the form of DLC. But then the first DLC didn't sell amazingly well, and the rest just got cancelled :(

(Pretty much the same thing that happened to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, also by Square Enix...)
it's more than just a traditional ORM layer. They run a server (prisma) between the client and the database.
Why don't they use the bike path? One country I've lived in is similar to how you describe, but there's hardly any bike paths there. Where I am now there's plenty, and everyone bikes on the bike paths.
I've reported actual child pornography with hundreds of likes and comments and got that reply from Facebook.

On the other hand, a Facebook group I created for my CS course with a few hundred members and just a bunch of helpful course material and questions vanished for a few months without any sort of warning or notification, and showed up like it had never been gone in the first place. I tried to contact Facebook, even finding a form specifically for groups that vanish, and got no reply whatsoever. I still don't know what the hell happened there.
I'm not sure that the USPS parallel works completely, but I do get your point.

I agree that it couldn't work in the way it currently does, but that's what I'm getting at - that maybe it shouldn't be able to work in the way that it does presently. I think that it is much more like a broadcaster than a 'platform', but I know not everyone agrees with that.
I think having 50 people meet up at a community center to go volunteer is way more feasible than redesigning urban infrastructure.

I agree forcing is not nice but tell that to all the children who don’t want to go to school haha
>>For instance, I think we would find that the rate of young men playing video games and watching porn are much higher than for young women. I'm not saying that young women don't do these things, but I don't believe these things are engaged in at the same rates as young men.

I don't know about porn, but data strongly disagrees with this when it comes to gaming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Demograp...
I would much prefer a land value tax and relaxation of regulations preventing new construction (in London you can't build in certain areas/over a certain height because of Protected Views [1], which seems utterly bizarre, as if maintaining views is more important than sufficient housing)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_view
The stabilising effect of monogamy isn't to prevent wars between nations and societies, it's to manage violence and conflict within a society. It works too and is not just a small effect. Of the 20 most unstable countries in the world, all 20 are very to somewhat polygamous[0].

[0]https://medium.economist.com/big-love-and-big-war-exploring-...
> Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.

> Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I feel like this is on-topic? I feel that the flag button is not there for "I found this uninteresting", because at any given time a significant portion of the articles on the front page are uninteresting to me. I don't go around flagging those because I'm sure others do find it interesting and it's possible to have a valid discussion about it without devolving into flamewars.

> See for example the 2014 Isla Vista massacre.

FWIW, this was not covered by Hacker News.
Would C# programmers have any trouble understanding what uint32 etc. are? Whereas, although having long experience with C++, I still feel I always have to reach out for the particular OS's docs to find out what are the specific lengths, again? (For unsigned long, etc.) In other words, I believe explicit naming like uint32 is just universally trivial and ergonomic (including for C# programmers), while short etc. is kinda probably ergonomic for experienced C# programmers (I suppose beginners don't remember it well yet, and also have to consult the manual), while strictly wasting time and brain cycles for programmers coming from other languages :( Please — like, pretty please!...
Honest question: is there any skill difference between ethical and black-hat hacking?
Try out anvaka's projects: https://anvaka.github.io/pm/#/?_k=bk8ot0
I think the whole point is you'd want both IPSec and TLS, and just TLS might not be enough. A good VPN impl provides better protection when you're connecting over public networks you don't trust, for protocols that don't use TLS.
> But the fact that you (and presumably plenty of others) seem to be having a great time with functional programming in TypeScript leads me to believe that there might be something I'm missing

I've noticed "functional programming" turned into an umbrella term.

For some people it means Haskell: strongly typed lazy evaluation with a focus on ADTs and functions that operate on them (i.e. methods) to achieve composition. Heavy use of pattern matching.

For others it means Clojure: dynamic language that favors raw duck-typed data manipulation. Heavy use of macros.

Then there's the pointfree crowd: very little use of literal functions, most of them are just composition of curried/partially-applied primitives.

For many it just means "I use map/filter/reduce".

And for most, it's just a mix-and-match of subsets of all those.

My experience matches yours: Typescript is mostly fine with map-filter-reduce and that's it. I'd love to be proved wrong though.
" I mean, if you owned an apartment that could rent for $3000/mo, then keeping it empty is a direct reduction of your income by $3000/mo."

That depends on the secondary capital effects of the reduction in supply. If you keep that and several other apartments empty in an area then you force up the rents and capital prices on the ones you do let out.

Just like De Beers drip feeding diamonds onto the market, or the Saudis drip feeding oil.
I think we’re conflating learning and producing when we discuss quantity and quality. During learning time, quantity is what you want to focus on. During work mode, you want to slow down and think carefully. Only when you are very sure about the selected solution that you start going quickly. Applying the story of James Joyce in a broad stroke might be misguided.

If I have to pick, I’d err on the side of doing more than trying to slow down and write perfect code. When you’re junior, your definition of “perfect” code might be very different from others’. You might be reinforcing bad habits rather than learning. I’ve seen junior SWEs insist on spending hours eliminating a couple lines of duplicated code by pulling them out into functions to achieve their perfect code. At the same time, they neglect basic coding hygiene, put defensive nullptr checks everywhere, and not design for readability and testing.
How would the Fediverse solve the issues mentioned by the New Zealand official?
It actually doesn't matter because you can always rewrite a working product. If you never have a product nothing helps.

In the end, all code is debt. The only thing is whether you earned anything from the debt. If you never earn anything it doesn't matter that you didn't take on that much debt.
All of the things mentioned are ways that bad programming can "allow a competitor to win out". Programming is competitive because markets are competitive.

Now, markets aren't always zero-sum. But they are often competitive.

> When I write better code today than I did yesterday, you, my teammate, will be happier, not sadder.

That's also true in football...
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To get back a meaningful result for the car example, c=1 does not really help.

It is much easier to plug in u and v directly into the simpler equation that contains c^2.

Otherwise (the indirect method), to get fractions, first you do a substitution a=u/c, b=v/c, arrive at:

c * (a * b) / (1 + a * b)

Then you convert the car speeds to fractions, only to multiply back by c=299792458.

Curiously enough, this sort of thing rarely occurs in the original publications, so they are usually easier to read than obfuscated textbooks or blog examples.
For learning, produce as much as possible. For production, produce as little as possible.
This, 1000x times. Experience throwing code does a lot in my experience (~7 years programming, 4 professionally). Learn the best practices, and know when they break. Heck, purposely break them and see if/when/how they bite you back!

A very good rule of thumb to recognize the former group is to simply ask "when is this best practice not valid"? This will tell me whether they are consciously proposing it or mindlessly adding complexity. For every single "best practice" I can find you a case where it's not valid, and if you cannot then there's something very wrong.
If men in the bottom 20% want sex they can take steps to increase their position including losing weight, hitting the gym, working on getting a better paid job.

Alternatively they can offer a greater degree of commitment to female bottom 20%ers who presumably ALSO aren't getting a lot of casual interaction.
Do you have any guess on why people are doing that?
To be fair, I see plenty of folks in open office settings that DGAF about that and looks at memes or YouTube or Reddit on 30" monitors visible to any passers by.
I agree. Gofmt is an opinionated know-it-all jerk but a fair and consistent one at that.
I've been facing this in the past year after I started doubling my consulting rates. A part of me wanted to do 2x better work as well, and that just ended up in getting less work and lower quality work done.

Taking my sweet time is definitely not productive either.

I find the balance is to treat it like sketching. Instead of trying to "print" out code, well designed from scratch, from top to bottom. It's better to sketch out the main "lines" of it. It involves a lot of erasing past lines and old code, or even making redundant code at times. You definitely need a lot of scaffolding and placeholders, especially early on.
Blizzard Forbids Okay/WP Symbol in Overwatch League Arena
It is also being linked to celiac disease and gluten intolerance more and more
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/
Not currently, no.
There are people who recommend obese people adopt diets that induce ketosis. These people are not suggesting diets that should be followed by everybody. However there are also people who say that carb intake should be greatly reduced across the board for everybody, that even something seemingly extreme like a 90% reduction of carbs in the average diet wouldn't be enough to induce ketosis but would nevertheless be far healthier.

However the current size of the human population is incompatible with anything other than the vast majority of people getting the vast majority of their calories from carbs. For that reason, people recommending a large reduction on carb intake across the board will almost certainly continue to be marginalized, pushed to the sidelines in most mainstream discussions.
The were kinda rude about it though, ”why on earth” is not the humblest expression to prefix a question, especially when asking outside ones domiain knowledge.

And the answer is simply that they are ill informed about r^2 being the best fit to all the data, popular talks just use rotation curves as a simple to explain justification and don’t bother with structure formation arguments and the like.
Yes! Though Ronaldo is also known for how hard he trains - he is not relying just on his (massive) talent.

Experience gives you exposure to other solutions and can give insights and alternative ways of approaching stuff which as you say can make a huge difference. Sometimes you do just have to grind things out though.
> I am starting to truly believe that we are slowly poisoning ourselves without realising it and then blaming the wrong culprits for it.

I have a background in hospitality, so I used to think about this all the time. I fully agree with you because I have no idea where all these allergies came from. It doesn't help that the problem is exacerbated by restaurants bending over backwards to fill chairs -- many of those allergies are just diets with parlance that cooks easily understand.

The fear for me is that we, as the affected mass, can be cognisant but remain powerless. We still go to the same brick and mortars and that's our only participation in the process. The changes that happen to our food are already delivered by a fully functioning system, at a scale unlikely to make swift changes, before we get any or notice it's bad. Only when we die are changes made, like seatbelts, but tasty.

I watched Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams last night (Crazy Diamond). "What would happen to our local economy if everyone grew their own food?" <-- Chills, man. Won't be long.
We don't do #2. We do downweight flamewar threads, i.e. threads in which people aren't following the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
On what basis do you make that connection?
> Most phone plans are unlimited or have data capable of watching movies. On Google's own Fi plan "less than 1% of individual Fi users ... use above 15 GB".

I use Google Fi and I use less than one gigabyte a month: not because I'd like to, but because I don't want to pay for mobile data when I don't have to.
They are considered hate groups because they admittedly hate women. Their diagnosis could be right, though.
UK government proposes fine or block if website fails to tackle “online harms”
Are the non-monogamous societies today that can rival the monogamous societies in their developmental state?
Users flag them, and sometimes flags win the tug-of-war against upvotes; also HN has software that penalizes overheated discussions, which tend to be flamewars. But we also monitor the list and sometimes take penalties off a story when both it and the comments fit the site guidelines.
> A simple, minimalist reader friendly design

Not anymore :(
>Seems like a contradictory message. He just got through telling us how most of the web is now end-to-end encrypted with HTTPS. So why does he need a VPN at the airport? Is he checking his email? I can't imagine that he's using an email service that doesn't use HTTPS.

Because the Internet is more than the stuff that lives on port 443?

What does the author do about UDP packets?

It’s interesting that you mention email. SMTP can use TLS of course but I know of plenty of POP3 email providers that still send unencrypted and even if it were, it’s not using HTTPS.

What about DNS requests too? Those are still often sent in cleartext.

Even with actual HTTPS with a browser, the domain itself is visible.

In short - the Internet is not just the web.
"you all" or "youse" can work as reasonable alternatives. I haven't tried "tons" since I've never actually heard it "used in anger."

One less fraught, but equally confusing terms are "a couple" vs. "a few" vs. "a handful" (some believe "couple" = 2 whereas others treat it and the others as explicitly more fuzzy). Often it's best to just assume as little context as possible and be a little more explicit and verbose.
Probably not as in C# things like int, uint, long etc. are actually aliases for types like System.Int32, System.UInt32, System.Int64...
The first time I saw the death of someone close to me, I was tormented, too, by my own sense of the fragility of life. But especially my own life. I was afraid for myself, and tormented by the certitude of my own terminal existence, the fear amplified by the urgency of my circumstances and especially after witnessing (or participating in) the subsequent deaths of yet more close friends. But after some years of therapy (on a couch with a professional but also especially on drugs in the forest with amateurs), I've come to terms with it, and in fact I get some comfort out of the inevitability of my own death. It's one of the few things we can count on without any doubt, and being able to predict anything about life is a blessing. And actually, instead of being tormented by it, I'm grateful for the experience. I don't take much for granted, and I'm really thankful for every day that I wake up. I genuinely believe that I was given the greatest gift that I could ever receive. And even though it may seem weird to say -- and given that I'm interpreting your words in the right way, and also if you'll pardon my presumption for offering -- I honestly believe that you've been given the very same gift, but that you only don't know how to receive it just yet.
It's a shame there's so much pseudo-science around food intolerances, as I'd basically dismissed out of hand that I might be intolerant to some foods.

As part of a separate diet, it's become clear to me that bread caused the life-long indigestion I've suffered, and that eggs were causing my skin to be bad, neither of which were links I'd made before.

Also currently on a diet that isn't keto -- I'm eating a lot of vegetables, and the occasional rice dish, and not being careful with sugar in sauces -- but lacks white carbs, and getting many of the benefits people who are on keto diets are claiming. As per the article, my sleep is massively improved, largely because I've stopped getting up in the night 20 times to pee.
She leaves, and some also wealthy person gets to pay way more for it. The also wealthy landlord gets to get way too much for it. I'm happier to watch the owners of capital hurt for it.

Decommodify housing. Full stop, no rents. Housing by need.
Maybe pre-diabetes?

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/features/diabetes-lack-of-sle...
Hyenas are known to eat bone. The bearded vulture is the only known bird that eats bone marrow, and cracks open bones by dropping them on rocks from a great height.
As someone who has been on the sending the awful messages (as in what were you thinking, not too forwards) side, I would like to postulate that having (and starting) conversations on a dating app is very different than in person. I can usually start in person conversations and keep them going for much longer than on a dating app (some go better than others, but on the whole I do better in person).
I don't have the best phone with the largest screen. When I open medium, I an ready maybe one-and-a-half sentence between all their messages, menubars and widgets. Also it is slow.

On my computer, the site just doesn't work.

Please do not use medium.
started to feel changes in sleep patterns at the end of my 30ies as well... from what i know my eating patterns did not change over the past 15-20 years so much. what are scientific papers on the relation between sleep and nutrition? might be interesting to learn more on this for the future.
The difference is that they don’t need to attach their name to it. There are natural social pressures that prevent people/organizations from publically supporting unpopular or obviously self-serving causes, but then if no one knows it’s me...
The word is occasionally used to mean gay, although the meaning of small imaginary creatures is still much more common.
Do you drink? I gave up drinking for a few years for weight reasons, and my IBS fixed itself, and didn't come back when I started drinking again.
I think Japan is leading in this trend, or, that's what I'm hearing about; a lot of people who prefer to be stuck indoors, or work for most of the day. Actually I don't think they prefer it, but what is the alternative?

Anyway the result of that is a decline in birth rates which will eventually lead to stabilizing or decreasing population. Which I think, in theory, is fine as long as it's stable for a long period of time and evenly distributed among age cohorts (which isn't the case in Japan). In practice though, the current economy is trained for a constant population increase; a lot of countries rely on immigration to maintain said population (and economic) increase.
That study had roughly 3k participants, from the Boston area. In my opinion, the are more than probably many factors that influence testosterone production and that’s not sufficient evidence to declare a population-wide crisis.
You're onto something. The thing that got the United States out of the Great Depression and into 20 years of prosperity between mid 1940s and late 1960s was the Federal government's massive involvement in the economy, mainly during World War 2 and afterwards.

Surprisingly, Roosevelt's attempt to boost the economy with public works in the 1930s didn't help much. If you look at charts around this time, economic inequality was decreasing and the median wage was growing linearly with productivity. It was also during this time that rent control was implemented as a public policy (mentioned in the podcast).