skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Worldwide, an estimated 24,000 babies were born with thalidomide-induced malformations. An additional 123,000 stillbirths and miscarriages were due to thalidomide, according to conservative estimates." [0]

"New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage" [1]

It's a balancing act. Bad drugs kill people. Unaffordable drugs kill people too. Is there any evidence that the balance FDA has chosen leads to less deaths than the balance EU regulators have chosen, or a third point entirely?

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/thalidomide-explainer-1.44347...

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...
Go to a psychiatrist and get some benzos.
Love this! 58 bytes of css... and it's typographically better than Wikipedia and many other "styled" websites!
> Even some advocates of the change admit that it has downsides for inmates and their families. Ryan Rickert, jail administrator at the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center, acknowledged to The Commercial Dispatch that inmates were disappointed they wouldn't get to see family members anymore.

> inmates were disappointed they wouldn't get to see family members anymore
Milk is slightly acid though. You'd think as a rinse it would be somewhat less ideal than water.
am i missing something about costco?

the article says it got 3.1 billion in fees, and only 51,600 members (which seems really low). that means each member on average paid around $60,078 in yearly fees? that doesn't seem right?

maybe they meant 51,600,000 members, which then works out to the more reasonable $60.08 in fees?
I think they could have added one more twin question to all for clarification. Do you expect... and Do you want... (are pleased that, okay with)...

I think people expect them to take those kinds of liberties but would rather they did not take those liberties.
Great blog post! First one I've seen with good comparisons to the other options. I would recommend adding Xapiand too: https://github.com/Kronuz/Xapiand
I do like slightly changed selection colors, but I disabled f.lux and found the yellow too bright and jarring, something a bit more muted is what I prefer.
There is a CSS rule for everything lower case. If Google gets a snippet of your page and puts it in the less casual results it looks silly in lower case. The content needs to be written with capital letters and punctuation and styled to be casual.
Sure, the Lightning DAC performs well. But there's better-performing DACs already out there, that I assume cost the same. This is objectively a downgrade, unless you're using super low impedance IEMs.

Regarding volume matching, with the SE headphone jack I could put the iOS volume around 40% and very much enjoy the sound. With the dongle I lost a lot of low and high end at 40%, and to bring them back to my typical volumes required iOS volume to be around 60-70%, and caused distortion around the low-mids. Yes, I tried another dongle.

I'm perfectly comfortable with trusting my ears, since that's the whole point of audio - making my ears happy.
My understanding was about a decade ago, they were designed for 5ish years of average use
Currently only text search is supported.
Mobile Lending App Branch Partners with Visa, Announces $170M in Funding
Hey sctb, yes it's avaliable for the community to try it out! We are in private beta. If you go to the webpage and email me I can add you on our beta list.
This is pretty interesting, especially for me since I just turned 60, but you whippersnappers might want to look into it as well because the study says "“It’s a superb first step” toward demonstrating a way to improve mental performance"
Sorry to break it to you, but women chose you not because you're suddenly more attractive than your friend, but because they've had 15 years or so to learn that your friend won't settle down and their biological clock is ringing real hard in their 30s.

It's quite cynical, I know.
>The majority of their economy has for decades been built around enabling the rest of the world to burn fossil fuels.

I just had this mental image of a drug cartel trying to go legit and leaving their criminal past behind.
I really wanted to work for the USDS for a while. I'd still like to, but the invasiveness of an SF-86 which is required for some reason even if you don't need a security clearance, drug testing (I'd pass, but I'm not okay with requiring one anyways), and the fact that I'd have to move to D.C. make the sacrifice a big thing to weigh against the public good you'd be able to do. It's a tough call.
It was in fact a Samsung TV
كلمات اغنية مقدرش عالنسيان عمرو دياب مقدرش ع النسيان
Unfortunately, optimizing for profit still puts too many people in a position where they go bankrupt or die because of lack of funds. It's not theory, this is happening today in the United States. We need reform.
Right now I'm sitting at:

- Slack 1.08GB

- Safari (11 tabs) 4.50GB

- Chrome (5 tabs) 2.17GB

- Outlook 1.13GB

These are ludicrous numbers and, frankly, the only reason why I need 16GB+ machines.
What do you use now, looks like you don't use LM any more ;)
I noticed the same. I've wondered for years why it happened and sometimes when I'm frustrated I try to think about it. But I am not entirely sure that the degradation in search results for me happened only in the past 5 years. Maybe, but I'm not sure.

I had no idea about Hummingbird though.
I took the parent comment to be saying, "look, there are all these preexisting sans typefaces, why not just take one of the ones on this list". The answer: because they'd have to arrange to pay, and to source them from the commercial services that make them available.

I agree that there are other typefaces they could use! I was mostly commenting on how a list of faces that includes Avenir, Univers, and FF Meta was probably not the best summary of the available options.
> He also pleaded guilty to charges brought in the District of Columbia and California’s Central District related to hoax bomb threats. Those charges allege Barriss placed bomb calls to headquarters of the FBI and Federal Communications Commission, and to high schools, universities, shopping malls and TV stations to emergency numbers in 16 other states and Canada. In the California case, Barriss pleaded guilty to 46 counts.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/11/15/18096749/call-of-duty-swa...

"Barriss pleaded guilty to 46 counts" and who knows how many others not presented in court. Surprised he wasn't banned access to electronic devices and phones.
The Fury over the Epic Games Store, Explained
Seriously helpful article. Looking forward to the sequels.

we can map each syntax tree to an interpreter

Maybe I'm being dense but I'm not sure what you mean by map here. A map is from set to set. I'm not thinking of an interpreter as a set.
DC22? iirc those ir LEDs were pretty directional
The numbers don't make sense:

>Do you expect Google to collect data about a person’s activities on Google platforms?

>Do you expect Google to collect and merge data about a person’s search activities with activities on its other applications?

The second got 10% more "yes" responses than the first, but answering "yes" to the second question logically requires a "yes" to the first one.
I use Plaid, but I'm not paying them (and not planning to) so I don't have much trust that they won't pull the rug out from me.

Maybe it's niche, but the number of programmers in the world continues to grow and if there was one that would be a powerful differentiator among that audience.
Yes, the incredible slow rollout of thefacebook.com killed that one, too.
I imagine just the government's code contributions would be public domain, and public domain code should be GPL compatible.
Amazingly, three hours after your post, this hacker news comment is now showing up in the top 5 for the Google query. Wow.
To clarify, in case it hasn't been made clear already: This is not a new service, but rather some tools built on AWS. So AWS is the platform, and you get all the benefits of Amazon's scale when using Serverless.
I have an old Linode with 4-5 personal sites running off a single Apache server. Until recently, it was running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

It took me a few days to safely upgrade to a new Ubuntu version with a new enough Python to successfully run letsencrypt, without also breaking the weird custom apache configuration rules that had accreted over the years.
Max-width is the correct setting for the desktop, where windows are resized to enable proper reflow. Printing web pages should be quite rare, no?
You can see some evidence that suggests it when you search for a specific software or ebook to download.

Piracy is gone, but you will find hundreds of automatically generated credit card phishing sites full of Google Ads, sometimes promising pirated versions but serving a trojan, sometimes showing a credit card form. Some of them are on the first page, sometimes before legitimate websites.
I have a really hard time grokking their lead-in "Do you expect...?" What does that mean exactly? Or more importantly, what does it mean to the respondents?

> "Do you expect Google to collect data about a person’s locations when a person is not using a Google platform or app?"

I have a feeling many people read that as "Do you want Google...." Saying "Do you expect" feels like a cynical "Do you think Google will do something you don't want them to do but are helpless to prevent, because they are a huge, uncaring, profit-obsessed corporation?" in which case, all questions can be answered "Yes" regardless of topic because the underlying cause is the same to the respondent.

"Are you aware that Google does X" might be a less loaded way to ask these.
A typeface is a key part of an organization's visual identity.

A typeface expresses many things, you can imagine it as different sliders along, say, 100 different dimensions, similar to songs expressing combinations of feelings.

An off-the-shelf typeface will express things that are close to exactly what you're looking for, but almost never exactly 100%. Commissioning a font gives you exactly the visual identity you're looking for, zero compromises.

Additionally, distinctiveness/uniqueness has its own value too -- corporations commission typefaces so no other brand will share the same identity. For a large nation-state, that carries the same value.

(Although, unlike a company like Microsoft or IBM, I'm not sure if the US Government can prevent any private company from using it?)
What they mean is that once they stop in person visits you can opt for “privacy and conscience” of calling in from home for a fee vs. using the video terminal at the jail for free.

I had to reread this part to figure out that is what they meant.

This is a horrible additional punishment for the prisoners. Unless this punishment is reflected in shorter sentences (which it won’t be) this must stop.

What would a prison look like that is designed with the right incentives?

Can we give bonuses for recidivism rate declines?
Unless you're on a phone it's more likely than not to actually be 16 pixels. Otherwise it's based on your system's GUI scaling, which varies a good bit.
I got a few of those Dells for free and re-capped the motherboards with a soldering iron and some desoldering wick. If I recall correctly, the replacement mobos had a chance of having bad caps, too, so re-capping one yourself was the only way to be sure.

Bonus: I never had to re-seat any processors or swap out memory.
Agreed. I keep wanting to compare the differences between two steps.
Auto power environments are actually very rough -- 30% (or more!) swings in V+ a nominal 12V system, noise injected by the points opening/closing and the 30,000V coil generating a spark, the old mechanical-switch voltage regulators causing a giant surge, etc. Honestly, it's kind of amazing anything lasts in that world.

I go through an in-dash CD player every few years.

(source: restored loads of aircooled VWs over the years.)
Arthroprod: Clifford Algebra for the Theory of Absolute Relativity in Rust
In one his essays, Paul Graham, pointed out that the number one cost is hiring, so you're not wrong, because hiring bad people can be bad for business, hiring good people can be bad for business if growth stalls.

I guess the key is to hire in proportion to revenue and offer to pay more equity than dollars. This, Paul argues, has employees working harder for the startup, sticking around through tough times, and reducing the burn rate.

The second key thing is, either hire people who can code or can go out and get users.

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Medium's curation update April, 2019 Overview
Pushing Left, Like a Boss: Part 5.11 Authorization (AuthZ)
MS just recently announced closing of the ebooks store: https://globalnews.ca/news/5130521/microsoft-ebook-store-clo...
Ask HN: Stay in Engineering or Move to 'Product'?
I'm currently thinking about my plans after graduation, and I'm faced with the decision between going into some sort of APM program versus a more traditional software engineer/architect role.

If I'm broadly interested in being a founder and/or early employee at a startup, which experience would be more valuable to me?

Maybe to put it in @pg terms: which leaves me more upwind? ("look at the options available now, and choose those that will give you the most promising range of options afterward.") http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
> So to be clear, you can obviously see when I'm expressing my opinion, but due to semantics of English, you demand I express it in a way that doesn't offend you?

It has nothing to do with offending anyone. (Note that I explicitly said that rudeness was not the issue). It has nothing to do with how you presented what you said. It has to do with the substance of what you said--your accusation of lying--being unjustified.
While any kind of therapeutic relief for mental health problems is of course great news, the reasons behind the mental health epidemic seem to me much more environmental: lack of meaning, lack of opportunity, lack of community. Maybe we can change our brains to not need these things so much, but it might be better to get to the root of the problem.
Hustle as Strategy
Curious to hear if your group is still well supported budget wise?
First, here are the top two requests that we do NOT plan to implement.

1. Make Bleve a distributed index, or make Bleve into something that is a more direct ES competitor.

We have no plans to do this because we think that is better built at a different layer. We have hooks we introduce in certain places where we need to plug-in code that would otherwise violate the boundaries. And that is an arrangement that has worked well so far. There are multiple projects built on top of bleve that allow you to index/search across nodes.

2. Make an adapter for the XYZ key/value store.

This request goes back to the original bleve index which is serialized into a key/value abstraction layer. When users run into size/speed issues with bleve, many assume that just plugging in a faster key/value store will help. (Hey we thought that too when we built it this way)

But, we've now replaced that index scheme with a new implementation called scorch. Scorch is considerably smaller and faster, and manages it's own index on disk, without using any key/value store.

As for things that we DO plan to implement:

1. Size of the index still comes up a lot. Couchbase is a very performnace sensitive user of Bleve, so I expect they'll lead the way on this front.

2. Better (pluggable) scoring. Today our search result scoring is broken for several types of queries, and the stuff that does score right is too tightly coupled to the searching logic.

3. Overhaul index mapping. Today bleve uses a mapping object to describe how source objects/documents are indexed. One of the best ways we can simplify the mapping is to make things more explicit. I think we tried to embrace the concept of reasonable defaults, but we ended up with inheritance hierarchies that are difficult to reason about.

There are lots of miscellaneous things like adding a data type that supports IPv6, or more advanced queries (lots of variations on span queries).
Deceptive Political Ads Has Become Another Hot-Button Problem for Facebook
> words have meanings and death does not mean peace, in any sense of the word

That's your opinion. Other people have different opinions. You don't get to declare by fiat what the meanings of words are.
Pushing Left, Like a Boss: Part 5.12 Authentication, Identity and Access Control
The commenters point is that even typical SMT tantalums have leads:

- A/B/C/.. type cases have tiny leads going outwards

- more modern cases have metal sheet like leads bent down and inwards.

The thing is that tantalums capacity density is hard to beat, specially if you are cost-restricted (those polymers are pricey).

There’s also a lot of research from NASA about the safety of tantalums, and they actually think they’re fairly safe provided you don’t expose them to voltage ripple (so don’t place them on SMPS)
Right, that's what I was saying originally. px doesn't seem to mean pixels, which is confusing. Why is anyone using pixels to layout graphical content in the first place?
Pushing Left, Like a Boss: Part 5.10 Untrusted Data
Thanks (you can upvote it here if you want: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19605334 )

I've added a mention of Xapian/Xapiand as well now and generated new graphs that include data for those two projects.
Shouldn't GitHub put in some sort of warning for potential leaks when they happen?
What would be the benefit of that sort of restriction?
seems like this could be solved in the OP with something like "@media screen".
I did not said that dare or any other specific anti drug program worked. It is completely irrelevant.

Simply, young people take less drugs and also have less teenage pregnancies then young people in the past used to.
It's possible (probable, even) that the government would want to use a CDN for static assets (like fonts) for the same reasons that sufficiently-large private orgs would want to use a CDN for static assets.

In that case, it's also possible (probable, even) that some particularly-lazily-developed smaller sites would simply point to those same CDNs instead of hosting things themselves (much like how quite a few sites point toward CDN-hosted versions of jQuery and FontAwesome and such).

The only remaining step would then be for that taxpayer-funded CDN to cache any and all taxpayer-funded static assets.
"Teaching kids about open source? Don't forget to teach them ethics as well."

Just teach them about Free Software. That way they won't think that ethics is just an additional cost that you can discard while still being """open""".
Reading things like this, I wonder if there's actually a shortage of ethical understanding, that is, that people who do unethical things simply don't know that what they're doing isn't okay, that they perhaps never even had a thought occur in that direction. That could be solved by teaching everybody about ethics.

My guess is that this isn't the case. People know that what they're doing isn't ethical, but they are doing it nevertheless because it gives them money, power, status, their desired partner etc. You can't prevent that by teaching them about ethics.
We were made aware of this in September:
https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve/issues/783#issuecomment...
Billionaires call for upgrades to capitalism, starting with higher taxes
Not arguing that there's no loss but Redacted, What.cd's successor, is currently at 840k releases and 725k artists. As far as pure numbers are concerned that's a decent recovery.
Auto wrapping code quotes.
Why does all this pointless opinionated political claptrap keep getting posted on Hacker News?
Facebook's video chatting device, whatever it is, seems like a perfect candidate for this market.
Thanks for the interesting report link. That report says 100 entities are responsible for 52% of greenhouse emissions. I wonder why the discrepancy.
Guide: Pandas DataFrames for Data Analysis
> you don't deserve to benefit from anything I have to say about death

You've already said what you have to say about death pretty clearly, so if I were going to derive any benefit from it, I would have already done so. But if it will set your mind at rest, no, I haven't derived any benefit from what you have to say about death.
The Darpa Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence
"expect" is a technical term, as in bug reports where you wrote Observed Behavior and Expected Behavior. It is confusing/misleading for survey respondents, though.
Roadstar.ai: The Rise and Fall of a Self-Driving Startup
It gets negative review from people who don't like dongles, and those people don't care about the quality of chips inside the dongle.
Depends how you normalize doesn't it?
A Dev's Guide to Meditation – Part 1
> you can obviously see when I'm expressing my opinion

Yes, exactly, which is why I keep objecting when you express your opinion but then treat it as if it were fact.
In other news, Man pulling a trigger gets promotion.
Fishing, unless you feel that the fisheries are being overfished, is in quit a different bucket because it's a renewable resource.

Metals is an interesting case because on the one hand they are definitely a non-renewable resource. On the other hand, it seems like there's a difference between exporting ore and exporting refined metals, in terms of whether it's "just" resource extraction or not...
I go through an in-dash CD player every few years.

Time to splurge on an aux input for your phone?
Canvas Texture Overlays
The numbers make sense. People don't make sense. Humans are notoriously bad at conditional probability
The netflix service gives people the flexibility of having a local file copy for usage [but no file]. The model seems to be so close to the pirateverse model as far as user modality goes, id say the only thing separating them is legality. I get it that a file creator wants revenue, and copy number controls, but the reason a lot of people download pirated content is about convienience, not "screw the man."
so netflix is convienient as a model, so is FB, and alphagoogle mostly, and that i think is why they all succeed, they are offering convienience in a sea of delays popups captchas logins and 2FAs .

I hope that netflix doesnt take the mentality that each extra view is a lost sale [old arguments re-spawn here ] most of those people would not buy netfix on thier own, regularily watch it in tandem with the account owner.

im wondering about the 14% claim. how many people as in paying users also have an alias to access netflix from outside of home, or to access a particular sort of content. How many analogue hole the netflix stream and save it so they can defer connection bandwidth usage to the benefit of the rest of the family. Im thinking at this point if you want to change your model and chase out the 14% "freeloaders" and disenfranchise the 86% of usage that pays, it doesnt make the sound or smell of a good practice.
From the paper: "GitHub recently introduced
a beta version of Token Scanning"

https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-token-scanning

https://github.blog/2018-10-17-behind-the-scenes-of-github-t...
People know about this, they just don't care. As long as people can't see the immediate consequences of their actions, like 9/10 people will take the money and run.
Wait do people not use .env files? I've aliased "gitinit" to make a .env file, .gitignore that ignores env nodemodules etc, then runs git init
The biggest problem with expecting the market to solve privacy problems is that the way companies use your data is not visible to the user. Even when companies do disclose it, it's often buried in hard-to-understand text.

While the 1% or 2% of us who care may focus on it, it's extremely unlikely the general populace will really grasp the full ramifications of how these corporations operate. A company is far more likely to lose public support from it's tendency to axe beloved products with regularity than from it's privacy abuse, even though the former is not an inherent societal wrong.