skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While PDF uses different syntax, it is conceptually similar to the IFF file format from 1985 (the basis of which is still used in some file formats like PNG and AIFF) in being a format that can contain multiple types of data. PDF is a little bit more focused on being an object-based file format in specific, but one could have made PDF fit into IFF boxes easily in an alternative universe.
1700 addresses for USA-based government ArcGIS servers
Anyone looking for government GIS data is welcome to use the list of ArcGIS server addresses that I curate. The list is focused on ‘root’ addresses for USA-based government ArcGIS servers. The list currently has 1,700+ server addresses from the federal level down to the city level. These are individual server addresses, not layer addresses.

Note that the list is mainly focused on ArcGIS servers, not portals. Anyone that has additional addresses for USA-based government ArcGIS servers is invited to send those addresses my way so they can be included on the list. I am looking for root addresses ending in "rest/services". Here is my contact page:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer-about-contact.html

Any link that goes bad is promptly fixed or removed from the list. Each link on the list is automatically scanned once per week by my own code. I review the report produced by that scan and make any needed tweaks to the list. I expect that most weeks there will be an updated list posted mid-week with at least some changes.

The list at:
https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-state-county-city-GIS-servers.pdf

A text file can also be downloaded by changing the file extension to txt. So far I have not produced a csv or json file. I might at some point but there is lots of higher priority work to do first.
Your last words are ironic. Anyone writing on the subject at the time would have ended with "we're being left in the dust by Japan".
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The first one is an online gaming meme. It was a hilarious (and highly inappropriate!) clip from H1Z1 where a guy starts shouting “Taiwan number one” at some Chinese players. If you google it you will find it as a first result. Nothing nefarious with that ssid

Edit: here is the clip. Skip to 1:30 https://youtu.be/xN0vUlljX0I
Agreed. Went back to watch the "US of secrets" on Netflix last year, gone. It was on Kanopy last I checked at least.

WTF does public television think its doing with this strategy? Makes me want to pull funding.
I'm more in the data oriented design camp where you use objects all the time, but also hate what seems to be flagrant abuse of OOP by many programmers.

Casey Muratori had a good quote with regards to it (paraphrased): "Having objects in your code is fine, it's natural. We've been doing it since before OOP was a thing. It's the whole phrase 'object-oriented' that's the problem. You're orienting your thinking around objects, not functions. It's the orientation that's bad about it, not whether you wind up with an object."
For wholesale it's difficult to position yourself differently than anyone else, you need to get stuff at the right price. I'll have suppliers with thousands of products and I only buy ten of them, have to be very selective.

Other people buy from stores at discounted prices, or any number of different sourcing methods.
“America's lucrative drug market funds research which allows the rest of the world to benefit at no cost to them.”

I think it’s more likely that it funds higher profits for the companies and all the middlemen. This is just self serving propaganda by the pharmaceutical companies.
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The implication you were deriving from the title is still erroneous.

In any case, how exactly do you know what they didn't do that they could have? I don't see where you get enough information to derive any such conclusion. Considering that the doctor writing the article was just an intern, chances are he doesn't know everything they tried; how can you possibly claim to know?
> A fearless internet for passive consumers means they won’t run across this ungood content

That's one way to generally interpret "fear" but not in its context of a right to privacy. "Without fear" in this context must mean fear of what happens when you don't have privacy, that is chiefly: embarrassment and persecution.
> Pot. Kettle.

That was my point. You have one view I have another.
Brain zaps boost memory in people over 60, study finds
What about the touchbar?
Really interesting to see the re-rise of challenger banks. IIRC Simple was one of the first and did OK never hit the valuation that these new ones are getting.

My hunch is that these are doing comparatively better outside the US because basic banking elsewhere is relatively worse than here. In my experience with at least Chase and Capital One the "big banks" have invested pretty heavily in their UI/UX and I haven't had any issues getting CX questions answered when I need to.
I have a lot of doubts on... any Edge features actually surviving into this Chrome reskin. They've decided not to implement eBook support, which yes, meant they couldn't sell eBooks anymore, but also effectively removed native EPUB support from Windows entirely, which was a pretty nice feature to have.
I don't think your parent said Go's std lib was special. Just that Rust could have learned from it.
Disagree, it does distort the market because it increases the monopsony power of the overseas purchasers.

With zero frictions between the cross-border trade in prescription drugs, a drug manufacturer would have to set a uniform worldwide price for their drugs. Otherwise if they sold to France cheaper than they sold to the US, then US consumers would simply import the drugs from French vendors instead of paying the US list price.
Companies are going to, and should, maximize for _something_. The most natural thing for that to be is profit.

The biggest problems are: we don't properly regulate monopolies, and price signals are broken because we don't properly price in negative & positive spillovers.

As a society, we are MUCH better off having healthy and educated citizens. And as of recently, funding in these areas is being viewed as a cost center, rather than an economic multiplier. At the same time, we're destroying the environment with carbon and subsidizing fossil fuels.

Capitalism only works when price signals work. And price signals won't work without competition, and they'll be inaccurate without spillovers taxed accordingly.
> We do not admit competitive medications from other first world countries without full FDA approval. Congress did that.

I don't see this as a problem. Even if I were to stipulate that all other first world countries have processes equal in safety requirements to that of the FDA, I still wouldn't see this as a problem. In a scenario without this, pharmaceutical companies would be able to pressure multiple government agencies until it found one willing to reduce its safety requirements. Then they could push all their drugs through that agency, making an end run around the more stringent requirements of the FDA.
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Medicare Part D is provided by private companies that have formularies and negotiate prices and so on.

That the government doesn't directly negotiate prices there is technically true and sort of beside the point.
Linux Mint MATE is awesome and runs really, really well on older laptops. I have installed it for many newcomers to Linux and it has served these people well.
Summary: Hosting videos is expensive. Especially when there is no revenue. The founder is Nigerian and I'm assuming the initial market was Nigeria where most people still prefer cash, face to face payment to credit/debit card payments. The fact that the largest eCommerce site in the country still has pay on delivery speaks volumes.

As said in the article, if they'd used Youtube as their host for videos, cost would have dropped dramatically and they could have survived for much longer, even become profitable with just sidebar ads.

If the founder is reading this, I recommend, trying again but this time, as a community and curation service for short films. Experiment with membership fees as a social network for film makers. And copy the Jiji model for prominent placement of videos on the site.

Business is a marathon, a survival game until you figure out income.
3D Touch to quick jump to a app with a notification buried in a folder is amazing
It's only baffling if you assume that the people in government are smart.

Somewhat less glibly, it's compartmentalization, basically. Take an ordinary, not-especially-intelligent person who has basically authoritarian intuitions, teach them liberal principles, and you'll get a person who espouses the liberal way only in the particular examples you taught them. (Or in other examples that someone else explicitly connects to those principles.) Most people are just really terrible at applying things they notionally believe outside the specific contexts they associate them with.
When you add asynchronous operations, whether they use promises or callbacks, they tend to spread beacause any consumer of an async operation probably needs to be async itself. That’s not specific to promises.

If you return a promise you don’t really need to support a callback because you can just call .then on the promise with a callback. i.e.

func().then(result => {
// success
}, err => {
/ error
})

Is equivalent to

func((err, result) => {
if (err) {
// error
} else {
// success
}
})

IMHO promise-based APIs are strictly better than callback/“errback” style APIs for many reasons, async/await support in the language being the nail in the coffin.
I also had this experience, as have many of my friends who now know what "Adaptive Touch" means.
Lethean VPN is the answer to that question... as there is no credit card, just pay with cryptocoins ;)
Ask HN: How do you debug performance issues in Node.js applications at scale?
Traffic = About 0.5 million requests/minute (HTTPS + WSS) and about 80K concurrent websocket connections with intermittent spikes in traffic.

Runs on managed infrastructure on AWS. Almost all the requests are Network (HTTPS) I/O intensive and about a third are Database (MySQL) I/O intensive.
This is the important point. CD's are not less popular because Sony or Toyota decided to stop supporting them - consumers stopped using them.

This headphone thing is putting the cart before the horse.

My wired headphones always work. Wireless has too many issues for me.

My $15 wired ear buds that just work VS $100+ wireless ... ill keep my wire.
The change how preexisting conditions are handled was huge. Before Obamacare it was really hard to get and keep health insurance for people with chronic conditions. Unfortunately it seems the current administration wants to go back to these “glory days”
It's not just the old web. Google's results for political content or content with political implications have become increasingly strange in the past couple years. I noticed this when trying to recall the story of a false rape accusation that occurred on my college campus when I was a student. This saga consists of three articles:
a) initial reporting of the reported rape](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/09/cornell-police-inve...)
b) [a police statement that they had irrefutable video evidence that the initial report was false ](https://cornellsun.com/2012/11/28/cornell-police-report-of-a...)
c) [an article defending the school's policies on sexual assault in light of a and b](https://cornellsun.com/2013/02/25/after-false-report-cornell...).
All three of these articles are impossible to find unless you search for exactly the right thing.

For example, if you search for "Cornell Police: Report of Attempted Rape on Campus Was False" on Google (the exact title of the second article), you find it. But, if you search for any variation (e.g. "Cornell Police: False Report of Attempted Rape on Campus") - the later articles (b and c) are impossible to find.

I've never been able to find a satisfactory explanation for why the discoverability on these articles has been turned to zero. I think that there are some odious websites devoted to covering false rape accusations, and these articles may be inheriting the low reputation of the publications that link to them. Or, perhaps the hosting website (student newspaper) is doing something to de-rank the stories. In all cases though, it seems wrong that in response to a query "cornell trolley bridge false rape accusation 2012", Google's top results would be "Why false rape accusations are rarer than you think"
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There are so many good newsletters out there and for a long time, I subscribed to them all. Unfortunately, my email inbox started to fill itself with more than 20 new emails every day and I completely lost the overview over my personal stuff.

Houndmail solves this problem for me and hopefully for others as well.

I started houndmail as a side project two months ago and I am now eager for feedback and your thoughts :)
Try flying on a widebody sometimes instead of a 737 and you might feel human again.

The fact is that flying in a 737 is so bad you are better off if it crashes and it puts you outvof your misery.
And ~100 fewer mAh than the models mentioned above, which precede and follow it. Seems like Apple did use the space to increase battery size, then.
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This is a space that I am deeply interested in, but my team have not found a good pattern around this for MySQL. We currently use a combination of MySQL Slap and Jmeter, but we feel like there are better ways to do this.

Anyone have nice patterns for this around MySQL?
A similar startup called Afrostream was in YC years ago (https://blog.ycombinator.com/afrostream-yc-s15-makes-it-easy...) looks like they shut down as well.
Well they mention the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 passed by congress to try to limit runaway drug pricing.
I use the air pods now, so it works on every machine except my nintendo switch :(
As if you didn't need another reason to floss! Always.
> Niche directories are where it's at.

Agreed. And if we came up with a standard format for such lists you could make them searchable and we could end up with distributed searchable curated indexes that are not centrally controlled. And that is quite compelling compared to centralized fully algorithmic search systems run by mega-corps.
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Do you have a link where I could read about that?
How much money is wasted in duplicated efforts of two or more companies working on the same thing? There's merit, of course, to having different teams of people trying different approaches, but I assume even the learnings of failed attempts aren't shared between competitors.

How many medical breakthroughs are on the verge of discovery, of only someone had complete access to data that's currently spread in silos across multiple companies?
Based on a search for the keywords "time travel debugging" [1] of HN I'm not sure how innovative it is as there are a number of articles for other environments. Still, it seems like the inclusion in VS 2019 makes it easier to perform this, with the caveat that you're using Azure. I'm surprise that it's not available for a local production stack. UPDATE: I was wrong. This is available for a local stack: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/debugging-net-apps-wit... The announcement is more related to working with Azure VMs.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=time%20travel%20debugging&sort...
In the history of computers, I don't think Sir Clive Sinclair gets near enough credit for the number of programmers that resulted from his machines that had no chance to afford something more.
I really want to see trials with these $200+/week drugs where the control group gets catered meals managed by a personal nutritionist, weekly massages, physical trainers, yoga or free housekeeping or whatever. Trouble is you can't patent the result of such a trial, and it would probably often end badly for the people pushing the drugs. It seems like our whole medical funding model in this country is fundamentally broken.
Any chance you've had a recent shift in your personal life? The reason I ask is that I also didn't have a fear of flying until later in life and what I think is the source was meeting my wife (to-be) and then having kids.

This may sound silly, but before, when it was just me, without dependents, I didn't think as much about doomsday scenarios. Of course, I was still afraid of dying, but it just didn't cross my mind as much. After becoming a husband and a father, I started to (perhaps irrationally) worry about (a) not being there for my family or (b) the lives of the people I care so much about (when flying with my wife or kids). Fortunately flying is not a regular event for me, although I still do it when necessary (probably once or twice a year).
I fail to see why oil reserves found within a nation's borders belong to them. Why is that oil Australia's do you think?

We the people of earth depend on the rainforests of South America. Does that rainforest belong to South Americans? If you think that, please state your reason.

I'm so sick of nationalism. Where are all the globalists?
Monzo, Revolut and N26 (backed by Peter Thiel) are all splashing down around the same time in the U.S. to vie for the Challenger/Neo-Bank crown, where they will compete with:

-Simple/BBVA (https://www.simple.com/)

-Varo (https://www.varomoney.com/)

-Qapital (https://www.qapital.com/)

-Aspiration (https://www.aspiration.com/)

-Empower (https://empower.me/)

-MoneyLion (https://www.moneylion.com/)

-Acorns (Spend) (https://www.acorns.com/spend/)

-Chime (https://www.chimebank.com)

-Zero (https://zero.app/)

-Point (https://trypointbank.com/)

-Finn/Chase (https://www.chase.com/personal/finnbank)

-Marcus/Goldman Sachs (https://www.marcus.com/)

-Greenhouse/Wells Fargo (https://www.wellsfargo.com/greenhouse/)

-GoBank/Green Dot (https://www.gobank.com/)

-Square (Cash) (https://cash.app/)

-PayPal

-Apple (https://www.apple.com/apple-card/)

-(Maybe Amazon soon)?

(edit: links)
Steel tariffs are also a bad policy that does undermine competition. In a free market actors are free to be loss leaders. Calling that a "distortion" but the "fix" not further distortion is very strange.

Besides, steel tariffs just hand the global steel market to china and push companies that use steel out of the US. We should be taking advantage of cheap steel but instead we've decided to hurt every US company that uses steel.
Historically in America you could only make a joint stock company if there was some obvious common good component, such as the creation of a common canal to improve trade. The concept of a profit maximizing corporation is the creation of the late 19th century, at least in America. Prior to that most Americans held the independent worker in higher regard than the corporate salaried worker.
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It's an increasingly common issue with web news, yeah.

Editors titling stories without input from writers is an old practice, but pay-by-page-load has moved it from a way to have consistent tone to a horrible runaway optimization. It doesn't even matter that much if you read the article, as long as the title is click-worthy enough to trigger those impressions.

I assume Bloomberg is probably just slapping bad titles on stories, but I know Mic has been specifically accused of doing it the other way, like you mention; they'd hand a clickbait title to a writer and ask them to a fill in a relevant-enough-to-publish story under it.
That’s only because the government removed the requirement of corporations to have a social benefit in their charter of incorporation.

If we reinstate this it would make that “something” be identified and other than just money.
I see this attitude as reflecting the "terra nullius" origin of European colonization: Australia is completely empty and undeveloped (as long as we ignore the people who already live here of course!) so there are no consequences of our actions. Plus we're all far away from "civilisation", and nothing we do here interests people "back home" so presumably it doesn't matter what we do.

Add to that the unprecedented (truly unprecedented, world wide) growth of the economy (where "growth" is measured only against the things we choose to measure, i.e. GDP) thanks to being a mining colony of China and presto: we're great! A bunch of pollies were along for the ride while Chinese technocrats happened to channel a bunch of cash Australia's way, and decided that they were responsible for "success" they had nothing to do with. Why plan for the future?

I live now in the USA where the problems are really really bad. I still have hope that the lucky country will come to its senses. Australia has so much wealth to work with. Compare it to, say, Russia, also a primarily extractive economy: the two countries have roughly the same size of economy but Russia divides it over 5X the number of people, and has if anything an even less diversified, and far more corrupt economy.
Let's break this down a bit in more detail. The most common claim against the 77/79 ratio can be summarized as 'if you control for occupation, seniority (interpreted as "time-in-seat" as opposed to some sort of rank gradation) and preference for reasonable hours/schedule, you effectively reduce the 20%+ gender gap to around 7%.'

There are many reasons for this, and the argument is that not all of this can be attributed to direct 'sexist' (bad) practices, but are instead the result of preferences that are more common to women than men (while this is indeed gendered, the accusation of 'discrimination' is more complex - if you somehow convinced all women to share identical preferences to men, these 'preference' differences would effectively disappear)

[0] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bolotnyy/files/be_genderga...
> Some may argue that the home button is a moving part and can fail but personally I've never had any issue with them.

Asia wishes to disagree with you.

There are literally millions of people here who turn on AssistiveTouch on a brand new phone for no other reason than to not use the physical home button because they believe it will wear out/break.
Australia produces 12,010 bbl/day/millon-people

You should not look at just oil, but natural resources in general (in case of Australia, iron, coal and gold in particular).

Norway still comes out on top, but only by a factor of ~2 (cf https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nor/ https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/aus/ ).
As long as you have free and open competition, then profit-maximizing companies will always out-grow companies that leave money on the table.

It's the same concept as natural selection. It'd be great if organisms didn't struggle all the time to maximize their reproductive fitness. But any organism that falls behind will be out-competed. Even if every current organism decides to "play fair", it won't be long until a hyper-competitive mutant takes advantage of the lull to destroy his counterparts.
Congress doesn’t act in a silo. They did all of that because it’s what their pharma donors demanded.
Yeah, it was more a comment on the natural compromises that come about from trying to be all of the best things in your code. Perfect being enemy of good etc.

Agree entirely that they're all things that contribute to "good"
IME, it's not blackhats anymore causing the problem. It's (legitimate, but shady) marketing agencies and startups handling thousands of customers and with deep pockets to do SEO research.