skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless I'm mistaken, it's fairly trivial to promisify the old-style code

Even if it was trivial to promisify request (though it seems it isn't according to sibling comments), the point is that the promisify utility is effectively a workaround for working with older libs & APIs in a modern idiomatic way. It's supposed to be a temporary shim to move into modern patterns, not something whereby you start a new project, choose new actively-developed lib, and expect to have to wrap that lib just to use it idiomatically.

Similarly, "upgrading" your popular lib to have a modern API just by wrapping it with the promisify util and leaving the internals using a legacy pattern not only adds overhead, but it also just a bit of a hack, and not very ideal. Especially when more modern alternatives to your lib exist which you could be recommending.
Would not anyone working in that sort of area not have been vetted and given guidance on what to look for.
if your leg suddenly started hurting badly you would go see a doctor. If your mind starts hurting you (this is arguably hurting you) why wouldn't you do the same thing? Only in this case it's a doctor of the mind not the body. I.e. therapist, psychiatrist, etc.
Allowing people to be there "strategically" because they are the sole repository of a critical chunk of knowledge or skill is a serious mismanagement failure.

First, it makes the entire company vulnerable to a single accident to any one of the critical people -- massively increases the risk to every other employee and the owners.

Second, if a person has deliberately worked to somehow create such a critical niche for themselves, I would make it a critical & urgent priority to develop workarounds ASAP, then fire them. Anyone actively working to create their own feifdom and point failure in your organization is not merely neutral, they have made themselves a direct adversary to the company and everyone who works there.

Management needs to rectify that situation, fast.
Not sure why this is downvoted, as it's accurate.

Private insurers are free to negotiate prices for Part D drugs on behalf of Medicare, which they do quite aggressively.
But what if they contain an actual word, like "cool"?

Did you try to use an emoticon to start your sentence and fail? Or was that a typo?

See my previous post on what emoticons are still legal on HN.
Use chamomile + sage tea (or oil) as mouth wash.
Yup. An article is only on part of any media campaign. I think it also safe to assume this HN discussion is being cataloged, if not actively manipulated, by those who created this article.
It sounds like we agree. I said this:

>> If you're a great-looking guy and you can't start or hold a good conversation, you can still get laid on the basis of looks. But if you don't look good, you don't get those grace points
Anxiety can be a symptom of some physical conditions, and maybe you have one that's exacerbated by air travel. Might want to get yourself checked out.
Fair enough. The policy question is should we be paying our tax dollars ($700 per dose!) to reduce people's stigma?

There was a similar example with anticoagulants where the generic (warfarin) required monthly blood tests, so the drug company developed a version that doesn't require the monthly blood tests, and charges $5k/yr more for it. Is it good public policy to spend $5k/yr per patient to avoid a monthly blood test? We don't have that conversation in the US, and it costs us.

Note that patient doesn't see the $5k/yr increase. They just pay the $35/mo co-pay instead of the $15/mo co-pay. However, the rest of us do pay that cost. Again and again and again.
Flossing also takes decent technique to be effective. Simply inserting and removing floss while better than nothing is only so effective.
Is "searching for images on a search engine" specific to the HN demographic? Your reply makes it look like search result spam is only a nuisance to HN people and everyone else is enjoying it.
If you are accepting liability as a HIPAA business associate you have done something tremendously stupid in your BAA.

HIPAA business associates only face direct liability for violating the security rule, improper breach notification, misuse of PHI, etc.

As a HIPAA covered entity you are still on the hook for everything else - if your cloud provider has a breach and you can identify that N records were accessed you still get the fine, unless your BA put some sort of liability transfer in the agreement (legal will not be OK with this, so I’m betting not).
Very easy to be green if you're rich. Teslas aren't cheap
Given all the many hardware problems Samsung has had -- exploding batteries!! -- if there was a flaw in their waterproofing don’t you think it would have been publicised by now? I haven’t heard any such reports.

If doing it “the Sony way” would involve making the phone 1mm thicker, okay, I can easily believe Apple would decide they need to rip it up completely and do something different.

Samsung and Sony phones aren’t exactly chunky, though.

I would have been really happy with just a waterproof iPhone 6. Then maybe they could follow that up with an iPhone X with a headphone jack. Still do AirPods, just market them as a completely independent product.
The Diagnosis Is Alzheimer’s. But That’s Probably Not the Only Problem
Can you search by any duration, like googler can, or does duckduckgo prevent you from implementing that? That's my biggest complaint about ddg: can't even search by past year
Implementing graphql, which you can only apply in a limited number of client-server scenarios, to solve a relatively trivial problem, sounds like the clusterbomb or a good 2,000 lb mk-84 general purpose bomb to me e.g. graphql is not a panacea
Would that include the Daily mails website :-)
When those companies want to fund research, they raise money from third parties.

Not the big companies. R&D is funded through the sales of current products.
Facebook and Google have placed opeds and native ads to steer future regulations
Banking in the USA is a nightmare compared to the UK and Europe. Inter-bank transfers are instant and free in the UK. You use cheques. I rest my case.
It is usually a false choice. Unions don't stop layoffs but they can help to negotiate the terms of the layoffs and ensure that everyone is respected during the process.
Sometimes an article gets killed by flagging, but later gets revived by somebody "vouching" for it. In this situation, the article keeps the [flagged] designation, but is alive again (and comments are reopened).

If an article is dead due to flagging, you won't see it anymore (unless you have "showdead" set in your profile).
This is just another entry in the "Apple: a Dongle Company" narrative. Apple has long had a philosophy of designing things their way and making the consumer adapt to their whims, rather than accepting standards or designing for the way people like to use things.

If you're charitable, you can say that they design with the future in mind. If you're not, you can say they know they can squeeze out more revenue via dongles and be indifferent to consumer wants because they have the size and market loyalty to get away with it. Depends on how you feel about Apple, I suppose
Mine constantly produced crackling noises with my noise-canceling earbuds I travel with unless I fiddled with the headphones->adapter connection for several minutes until it was just so. Gave up on it and finally got some bluetooth earbuds.
That makes sense.

You get some Bloomberg stuff that just seems like really low effort spam / blog stuff.
The Promise and Perils of Resurrecting Native Americans’ Lost Crops
Ask him if he's talked to prospective customers and keep urging him to! The risky assumption in this whole venture might be whether customers have the problem and want their solution, not the technology behind the solution.
I'm pretty sure "catered meals managed by a personal nutritionist, weekly massages, physical trainers, yoga or free housekeeping" isn't going to matter much when you're dying of cancer.
Curious if this is just stimulating the brain and increasing blood flow.

A short burst of exercise will also improve memory:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/24/10-minutes-o...
An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
This is good to know. So in order to prevent the abuse of keyservers and increase the proliferation of them what should be done?

1. limit the size of keys (ECC or edd25519 plus hard limits fixes this, yes?)

2. provide a verified submission for keys and signatures (have users sign their submissions)

3. verify email addresses? (i don't care about this one)

4. disallow old, vulnerable, or insecure keys or cryptographic methods? (require new crypto as necessary)

5. Provide new open source key server software entirely? Update the old stuff because it's still salvageable?

I find it funny as hell that the author is worried about data retention policies when it's baked into the software and it's explicitly stated in many places that the keys can't be removed. Maybe I should just read https://gitlab.com/dkg/draft-openpgp-abuse-resistant-keystor... and just implement everything that doesn't seem like a big brother suggestion.
What you're saying isn't rational but it's 100% true. People's relationships aren't part of a market; rather the economy is placing constraints on their relationships. People work further from their homes so they don't have evening hobbies. People don't live close to their parents so single moms and dads are busy with childcare vs meeting each other. That sort of thing.
Reminds me of "I'm not really racist, but ...".

P.S. The first one is a meme in gaming community -- search the term you will see what it is.
iPhones still have charging ports and microphone holes. It's entirely possible to get ip68 with a headphone jack.
China’s US$10 budget phone maker seeks fortune in Belt and Road countries
>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.

Would completely disagree with this. I suspect, in the UK, they're doing better because regulators have recently become much friendlier towards challengers. The UK has also generally been pretty good with encouraging new technologies - faster payments, CASS, open banking, cheque imaging etc have all been launched with varying degrees of success.

It's well known that banking technology is generally worse in the US -- you only have to look at the roll-out of EMV and contactless to see how slow-moving things have generally been there. As far as I know there's no direct equivalent to the UK's Faster Payments scheme, either [1]. Do any of your banks even support 3-D Secure?

Companies like Monzo are able to differentiate on _much_ more than just UX and customer support. The tech stack has been designed from the ground up, so payments and notifications are (at least to a human observer!) instant. You have novel services like Monzo.me that allow external people to pay into your current account ("checking account") via debit card instantly.

[1] - No, same-day ACH doesn't count.
In the UK there's also:

- Starling Bank - https://www.starlingbank.com/

- B / Clydesdale & Yorkshire Bank - https://www.youandb.co.uk/

- Monese - https://monese.com/

- Metro Bank - https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/

Loads more too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_bank
Heads up, store.discferret.com isn't resolving.
It actually seems pretty manageable, I'm surprised the site died. You're running Wordpress by any chance?
They do spend some of their patient revenue on R&D, but they spend more on consumer and physician marketing.
Okay, so that's what I'm saying as well.

But the title of the article insinuates so: "One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter".

So I wasn't sure if I had misinterpreted the article, or if the title was just confusing.

Edit: Maybe I wasn't clear. From the title, I got the impression that the observations ruled out both black holes and dark matter. But from the article, I only got the impression it ruled out the hypothesis that black holes were the force behind dark matter.
A great visual explanation on how Neural Networks work
> Completely ignorant of the context and causes of opioid addiction and overdose.

I think you're focusing on only a small part of the theme of the article, and even that small part is arguable.

The author has some decent points. The USA has spent an astronomical amount of money on wars that are certainly "unwinnable" in the sense that anything could get Iraq and Afghanistan into good shape. Further the ostensible purpose of the wars (Fight Terrorism) almost certainly didn't justify the wars, and the wars predictably didn't decrease terrorism. The "Fight Terrorism" aspect has been used by factions in the government to do things (dragnet surveillance) that won't contribute to anything good in the medium-to-long term.

The US DoD has a purchasing problem. This has been obvious over the last 35-40 years, really. The author cites the F-35, but he could have cited the complex F-22 debacle, the Littoral Combat Ship debacle, inability to replace the A-10, the A-12 debacle of the late 80s, and many, many others. This is not arguable. Further, the DoD's financial structure is so complex that it can't be audited. Realistically, nobody knows what happens to 54% of the US government's discretionary spending.

Inarguably, the author is correct about Trump.

These are worrying symptoms. Picking on the most arguable part of the article does allow us to ignore the article's points, but the problems exist whether we ignore them or not.
My understanding was that basic banking in the US lags most of Europe; contactless infrastructure is poor, mobile payments non-standardised, charges for basic accounts & general fees are all more common, more barriers to current (checking?) account switching (this is standardised in the UK by BACs & the current account switch service).

It is a better environment for the challengers outside the US because there is better infrastructure & standardisation which allows them to compete with bigger incumbents.
I always enable the "product improvement" analytics for companies I trust. And as it happens, I don't care about losing TRRS audio jack, losing the SD slot on Macs (I only have micro SD-using devices these days anyway), Type C (yay! -- and I don't carry any dongles), etc. Since I happen to be happy with these changes I obviously never complain about them.

Apple is famous for not doing market research (though I know they do a lot) and I wonder really if they don't probably know what they are doing with a lot of these changes. As far as demographics go, my kid (20) and my gf's kids and their friends (11-16 yo) don't seem dismayed by any of these changes.

I'm not saying that these are "get off my lawn" complaints, but the phone is the most mass market of mass market devices and every design decision affects some subculture positively or negatively. As for headphones specifically: iphone volume is high enough that the fact that lightning headphones haven't taken off suggests the headphone market isn't as big as one might think.

There are no shortages of boneheaded moves by Apple (I happen to like the feel of the butterfly keyboards but am not happy about how many I've had replaced: 4 since 2016) so this is no apology for a big company that can defend itself!
Africa's a tough one to crack: slow internet speeds, old android hardware, infrequent app updates, etc. On the flipside, one of the fastest growing markets (if not the fastest) in the next century.
It's a older problem than Instagram.

One reason why people don't trust experts is that they see fake experts like Cokie Roberts and Jim Cramer on TV all day.
It's not the same intro, but the globe intro and other intros used by these channels are reminiscent of easily searchable stock content: https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/61650429/red-and-white-n...
Very nice, thank you for sharing this!

Symbolic execution is also known as abstract interpretation. The program is being interpreted, with concrete values abstracted away, generalized to symbolic elements that often denote several or even infinitely many concrete values.

Logic programming languages like Prolog are especially amenable to abstract interpretation, since we can absorb the Prolog system's built-in binding environment for variables, and simply plug in different values for the existing variables. We only have to reify unification, i.e., implement it within the language with suitable semantics.

An impressive application of this idea is contained in the paper Meta-circular Abstract Interpretation in Prolog by Michael Codish and Harald Søndergaard:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.137....

As one of the examples, the authors show how abstract interpretation over the abstract parity domain {zero, one, even, odd} can be used to derive non-trivial facts about the Ackermann function.

In particular, they deduce that Ackermann(i,j) is odd and greater than 1 for all i greater than 1, by taking a Prolog implementation of the Ackermann function, and interpreting it with these abstract domain elements instead of all concrete values (which would not terminate, since there are infinitely many concrete values). This is computed by fixpoint computation, determining the deductive closure of the relation.
In the scenario of forcing speakers underground, those speakers have not been silenced (they may still speak to a large audience) but they will not speak to an audience which has not elected to listen to them.

Conversely, if you're popular on Youtube, you will be suggested to people who are not looking for your speech.

The difference is subtle, and that was my original point. Such acts of government will indeed not silence speakers, but it may as well do, because it stifles their ability to reach a greater audience.
Might want to make sure the HN submission title matches that of the article: "Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today".
Technically yes, but the fact that a backdoor exists means American patent holders need to make the deal particularly sweet to Indian generics. Sure they still profit because they’re just licensing and getting economic rent. They could be making way more if this system were not in place.

It’s probably better for the world if they lean even further from patents.
Especially interesting since Apple doesn't make USB-C headphones. I can tolerate the iPhones shipping with Lightning headphones. For the iPad Pro I guess the only official solution is AirPods.
Are Natural Numbers Natural?
> Getting rid of DRM doesn’t do anything for the movie industry.

In the sense of paranoid control, it doesn't. In practice it will increase their profits, since they'll address the market that they currently ignore, switching some users from pirating to buying the same thing legally.
Breakthrough for hypersonic jet that could fly at Mach 25
You can. Please use the option `-t`.
Metro seems to be having some problems
> They will gradually die off, though...!

Don't worry a fresh crop of flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, or gold-standard fanatics will spring up to fill that particular ecological niche.
Absolutely. I come up with a lot of crappy ideas, but there's usually something worth exploring every now and then.

(1) I have an asana project called Ideas. Each task is an idea. I've set up a workflow where I can just send an email to the Asana project inbox and a task gets created. I've kept up this practice for more than a year and I have almost 300 ideas I've logged.

(2) Whenever I think 'alright, I want to work on a new side project', I go through the list of ideas and categorize them. A ton get categorized as trash, and a very small number get categorized as worth moving into customer discovery and validation.
Even at the time there were articles in Nature protesting this just like people do global warming today:

>THE curious associations with lung cancer found in relation to smoking habits do not, in the minds of some of us, lend themselves easily to the simple conclusion that the products of combustion reaching the surface of the bronchus induce, though after a long interval, the development of a cancer.

This is the first sentence of the abstract "Cancer and Smoking" published in Nature in 1958, by the father of modern frequentist statistics: Ronald A. Fisher.

Fisher published a fair bit on why claims that smoking caused cancer were preposterous arguing that "correlation does not equal causation". Fisher was already a very well respected figure in the statistics community and, despite being a paid researcher for tobacco companies, biographers suggest that his motives were person, he loved smoking and disliked puritanical views on how people should live.

So despite being one of the greatest statisticians of all time, Fisher still failed to properly assess the risks of cigarette smoking and cancer.
> Piketty has argued persuasively that conflict, chaos, and tumult are historically among the primary drivers of equality.
> fighters who would more properly be home rearranging this society toward more equal circumstances.

My understanding was that the poster was implying that conflict, chaos, and tumult would promote equality. I agreed that I thought it would, but implied that it wasn't worth it. I'd take an unequal society where more people are prosperous, over an equal one where everyone is equally miserable.

It seems to me there is a growing percentage of the public that want to throw it all away and start over, but I'd point out that for most of human history, most everywhere in the world, most people where either struggling to survive or living as slaves of someone or another. Neither is the case now, we're doing something right and I think a lot of people are just spoiled with how good it's been.
Solus and Elementary come to mind, though I agree I'd hardly call it a Cambrian Explosion.
I just started playing Xenogears last Friday and do agree with the first few paragraphs of the article.

Stopped reading before halfway through when I realized it was getting spoilerish, though.

Playing this and Kingdom Hearts 3 back to back makes me realize that the charm some of the classics have is not pure nostalgia, but I still can't put my finger on it. Saying that, Persona 5 is a recent JRPG that I thoroughly enjoyed like those I played as a kid.
OP and an editor of Inkstone here. Surely I don't think what we do is farcical. Happy to answer any questions you have of our work.
The true story behind the deadliest air disaster of all time
To clarify, the smiley makes condescending.
I will say it's "just in your head", because it is. Some person's mental illness shouldn't be a reason the rest can't build wind farms, vaccinate people or build 5G substations.
I think if anything dating apps are providing us visibility into changes which are more likely rooted in cyclical economic conditions. I'd be willing to bet you'd see these same changes occur regularly over many centuries.
It is around 25% of Alberta's GDP. Much of the service and secondary industries that derive profits as a result of that industry and are directly affected by it. So if that industry dies, there will be far reaching effects since there is nothing to take its place. The service economy which is a much larger part would be significantly effected.