skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doctors?

Seems to be a huge reluctance for anyone in politics to place the blame on them. But I'm pretty sure they make far more in the US than anywhere else in the world.
The whole point of allowing people to deduct their state tax payments was to solve exactly this problem. Let the states that want to tax more and provide more social services do so without harm to their citizens.

Of course that deduction is gone now, which just further solidifies government power.
Wow, thank you very much !
It’s bullshit because the govt makes these meaningless gestures but when it’s time to open the wallet, all of sudden they are out of respect.
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FWIW, Aiven PostgreSQL (http://aiven.io/postgresql) runs latest PG versions and is available in HIPAA compliant configurations on AWS and GCP. We don't charge extra for it, but have a minimum monthly commitment to justify the small setup overhead.
> Oh wait, that was too reductionist... maybe the US does a lot of good by sending food aide around the world but also causes problems... maybe the rest of the world is the same, being good sometimes and bad others, and no one nation is some beacon of light and purity that all others are constantly sucking[1] the productivity out of.

I never claimed America was a beacon of light. I merely claimed that many non-American countries benefit from American global hegemony. That is an observation (which perhaps you think is wrong, but I don't see any generalized counter claim), not a value judgement.

> [1] The analogies used above were pretty weird and awkward,

Perhaps, but that doesn't take away anything from the main argument.....
Safari is still a thing and still under active development.

All iOS browsers use Safari WebKit under the hood.
As a nine-year old, I watched commercials on our black and white TV showing famous baseball players claiming they "smoked Camels." I knew then that smoking was dangerous, and that it was unlikely that the players "smoked Camels," either. So I don't get this influencer crap. I mean I really do not get it.
Hi Michel - You're working on a GraphBLAS Postgres implementation [0] -- here's an open question I've been pondering...

[0] Postgres GraphBLAS https://github.com/michelp/pggraphblas

Now that we have SOTA linear algebra models for graphs [1], logic [2] and the lambda calculus [3] that are being optimized for vectorized parallel compute on modern CPU/GPU/TPUs -- do we have the makings for a unified linear algebra model that obsoletes the relational algebra model in relational DBs?

[1] Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra (2011) https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9780898719918

Mathematical Foundations of the GraphBLAS (2016) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05790.pdf

[2] A Linear Algebraic Approach to Datalog Evaluation (2017) [pdf] https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00139

A Linear Algebraic Approach to Logic
Programming (2018) https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/faculty-of...

[3] Lineal: A linear-algebraic Lambda-calculus (2017) https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0612199.pdf

The Vectorial λ-Calculus (2017) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.1138.pdf

Simple λΠ-interpreter for matrix computation (2017) http://cs242.stanford.edu/assets/projects/2017/nykh.pdf

Algebra and the Lambda Calculus https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/lambda.txt
What's your browser? They're using a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate. It works for me in various current browsers but also in Firefox 3.6.27 for Mac (from 2012).
“The US agrees” may not be that much of a confirmation.

Thing is, the military industrial complex wants to portray enemies as stronger, as it is the way to get larger military budgets.

Examples from history are the bomber and missile gaps of the cold war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap) and Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
NYT Reporter: Facebook Seeking $1 Bln in Venture Capital for Crypto Project
Great search engine resources. Thanks.
> I can't even imagine myself being offeneded by that (Is author a child or what?).

"Offended" as in perceiving the speaker to be giving offense; that is, perceiving the speaker to be intentionally not respecting the listener. Being able to pick up on that is quite adult, and the exact opposite of childish.
it's a little bit lazy to blame it on nature. Not all communities function like this. As one of the users above points out, the degree to which abrasive language and behavior tends to pop up in OSS / linux communities is definitely grounded in a "usenet" culture.

There's a long history of excusing aggressiveness as honesty and throwing "RTFM" responses around, or turning the smallest disagreement into a flame war. Now that OSS projects are really large and not dominated by in-groups any more, it has become a significant problem. This sort of thoughtless communication only works when the people having the conversation know each other.
Except the voters who don't need any of those things, and who feel that those programs should be eliminated in their entirety.

Now, consider how the above is impacted in the wake of Citizens United where $1 == 1 vote, and Corporations are People Too.
He was also fired after the Secret Service criticised security at Mar a Lago, so we've got a few candidates to choose from in working out the real reason.
The thing that no one seems to point out is that just about any normal person carrying around a windows USB stick is likely to have malware on it. Just possessing a bad USB stick doesn't seem to be particularly incriminating by itself.
From the OP itself:

> So, I'd suggest re-framing the question. "Will playing Fortnite cause my child (or me) quantifiable harm?" is not the only question we should be asking. Given what is usually meant by that question, the answer is almost always "no." But, in addition to that question, we might also ask how playing Fortnite figures into our pursuit of the good life, individually and as members of distinct moral communities. Answers will vary, of course, and they will most likely be conveyed by narratives rather than statistics. I suspect they will also be less sensational and more nuanced than the answers the first question tends to get. Moreover, the latter question and the answers that follow will not elicit simple and programmatic action points, rather they will elicit the deployment of practical wisdom.
In my opinion there's a relevant distinction between the development of a technology that caused incidental and largely unforeseen environmental degradation, and an act of deliberate alteration of the environment that resulted in entirely foreseeable degradation.
“The US agrees” may not be that much of a confirmation.

Thing is, the military industrial complex wants to portray enemies as stronger, as it is the way to get larger military budgets.

Examples from history are the bomber and missile gaps of the cold war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap) and Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

We’ll probably only learn what the USA really thinks of this threat decades from now.
Repeat business.
No.

Both countries do not benefit from it, otherwise they would view these wars as just and support them. The political machines in both countries support these wars and force the populace into them - in part (in the US at least) by being a two party system without any way to politically express a desire to not go to war, one party is more hawkish but both parties are full of hawks.

As an American I am happy to say, "Please, America, stop messing up the world for everyone with your endless economic wars." A bully cannot neutrally justify their own actions, they are biased in approving of the path they have chosen.
There is `vh` as well, it works the same way, but instead of working relative to viewport width vw, it works relative to viewport height vh.
> From a purely evolutionary viewpoint, we cannot reproduce virtually (yet!)

Sperm donation and IVF is quite virtual already.
Looks promising for a Web Development quicky.
I am concerned about the UI for this that says "Apple has checked it for malicious software and none was found".

How does Apple check against malicious software? What is even considered "malicious" software? Software that someone might consider benign might be considered malicious by someone else - it isn't a black and white thing.

The UI just provides a false sense of security. I assume they check it for known malware, but it wouldn't do anything against a targeted attack where the malware is custom made and only ever used once. In fact, it would facilitate the attack by giving the user a false sense of security that everything is OK.
We're a Hong Kong-based media organization, meaning no government, Chinese or not, dictates to us what we can or cannot report on. Our website is blocked in China. We do not censor our content and have reported on Tiananmen. For example: did you know that China just sentenced several men who put the image of the Tank Man on baijiu (a kind of hard liquor) bottles as a form of protest? https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/activists-who-put-tank...
Rocketlab Expanding into Satellite Manufacturing
In this case we kind of do. The USB stick was recovered from a woman who was visiting Mar a Lago. Trump conducts government business there a lot, in a break with pretty much all advice. It's an incredibly insecure location.
All of the internet was built on FOSS. If you want to understand what the world would have been like without FOSS, you need to look not at the internet, but at the competing technologies that were duking it out at the time. Novell Netware for the bare backbone and Compuserve/AOL for services. Keep in mind that these services charged per hour for usage. Even when we talk about grass roots systems like BBSes (the vast majority of which were FOSS, BTW), the task to connect them up together was ridiculously expensive. I remember paying $4.50 per hour plus 1 cent per bit transferred to interconnect my BBS. It's one of the reasons I switched to Usenet and UUCP email as soon as I knew what it was.

Back then there were gatekeepers who made sure you paid to play. The internet broke that because it allowed anybody to connect for free as long as you found a way to do it. The gatekeepers used proprietary protocols and software to lock you into their paywall. The internet used FOSS to make it easy for you to connect. That was literally the difference.
> Hilariously, I did a search for "How to pronounce $my_last_name" and each result I checked mispronounced it the same way English speakers always mispronounce it.

Probably because they insist upon using dictionary respelling schemes instead of IPA, so they can't even notate the phonemes English speakers have trouble with. Of course, trying to learn how to pronounce a phoneme your native language doesn't have without one-on-one instruction is a doomed endeavor for most people, and I daresay you likely mispronounce any number of English words, given how idiosyncratically large the English phonological inventory is.
I've had good results with chlorhexidine moutwash and toothpaste (curasept).
Researchers develop way to reduce noise in Quantum Computing Hardware
The Coinbase Conundrum: Providing Accurate Tax Information to Users
My own suspicion is that we got rid of that because government wants to harm the citizens of certain states. That's likely one of the benefits of having federal power, the ability structure the system to perpetuate your hold on it. In the US, our politicians do this all the time.
Even ostensibly twitch based games have a lot of strategy. 2D fighters have tons of strategy, so do games like * Souls. Stealth games also require good strategy and spacial reasoning coupled with strong execution.
The 6th amendment provides the right "to be confronted with the witnesses". The wording clearly implies a face-to-face meeting. The problem with video testimony is that the jury's ability to observe a witness's demeanor is severely limited. And even with two-way video, the witness wouldn't really be testifying in the accused's presence as he/she could see mainly just the questioner.
> Hell, they mispronounce common, one syllable American names like "Lou" more than half the time.

That sounds like a dialect, not mispronunciation.

> Americans are simply incapable of pronouncing anything even remotely foreign even if I enunciate it for them.

Ditto every other nationality, naturally.
That's kind of ingenious, but is sending temperature data over USB really such a hard problem in the first place? I'm not really familiar with the USB protocol.
we're also collecting alternatives here: https://ethical.net/resources/
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The use of the term "merit" in this context feels fraught with issue.

One could say that, almost by definition, the individual with the most ability to game the system has the highest merit.

If a poker player is able to read the opponents' faces where no-one else can - they win based on merit. The losers may well disclaim this as being some sort of 'hack'.

We are speaking here about some pictures on a small, rectangular screen held in the hand.
I've been trying to bring social change myself in my spare time.

I try to teach people about determinism and where free will is an illusion. How every event experienced is factored from the preceding event and where nobody has any control in life. The starting point being a person's birth is the key in how everything will play out. I think once people become educated in understanding determinism, real change can happen and where people will understand why people are ending up in these horror shows.

Society is fundamentally broken because of the finances being so diverse, the education system heavily dependent on where a person lives and parental abuse or poor genetics. Right now people are reading hogwash that makes them think they have choice in their life and continues to flourish the faulty system of what we have today. Allowing people to end up in the bottom of the barrel. Devoid of any true humanity. I thought I should share with you because you could have this on the list as well
I'm well aware that the money was dumped into the general fund and spent on other things. That doesn't change the fact that the money is gone, so saying that the trust fund has $3 trillion doesn't really help with SS's fiscal viability.
things only get worse the more we procrastinate. it is a compounding debt.
> to live like someone who makes quite a bit more than I do

That's kind of misleading, because it ignores the value of your labor. You work more hours, and you get a lifestyle improvement that can be measured in dollars. You're not preventing costs, you're changing how you pay.

If that's optimal in your specific case then great! But it's easy to imagine a person where it's not optimal at all. If Bob saves $X for every hour he spends on his house, and Bob makes $3X at his job, and he's equally happy doing either kind of labor, then Bob is a fool to do multi-hour household jobs himself.

Using time to save dollars is a tool, one that can be used or misused. You want to optimize lifestyle vs. effort, not lifestyle vs. nominal salary.
A good old-fashioned incandescent lightbulb with alligator clips is lovely. It's self-indicating if there's still work being done. :)
Before chip embedded credit/debit cards were prevalent, most magnetic strip reader (MSR) peripherals would often operate as a USB keyboard. It allows them to work with web app based POS systems without requiring things like ActiveX.
You may be wrong or may be right, but all I can say that after looking at the demo the text became significantly more difficult to read after the CSS coloring was applied to it.

Unlike you I do have a lot of experience in graphical stuff, specifically finer art. And I do understand more then the average person on color theory.

The thing to keep in mind with all of this is that black isn't black. White isn't white. White and black have tints. You can have cool whites, and cool blacks. You can have warm whites and warm blacks. What you will never have is white whites and black blacks.

Lowering color contrast is a trick that is used in art to make things seem far away or behind the more colorful pieces of art. Part of that is because reduced contrast makes details harder to see, which corresponds in people's minds to distance because distance makes details harder to see. (other factors are going to be things like that atmosphere has it's own colors and these begin to compete and wash out colors at a distance).

High contrast makes it easier to read text. But it needs to be the right type of high contrast.

If you try to pick the blackest black you can and the brightest white then that means you are letting the viewer's monitor dictate what the tinting will be. And mixing colors incorrectly results in a shimmering or 'vibrating' effect in the eyes. So depending on the user's settings it may be easy to read or it could be irritating. Which as a designer isn't going to be something you want.

I have a idea that the author of the "Web Design in 4 Minutes" is extremely good at writing CSS and not so hot at web design. Which are two different things.
I'm guessing that's because of AirBnB and how they got their start by essentially stealing posts from Craigslist.
Here's a simple way of looking at it: Norway has converted its resources into a $1 trillion pot of funds, while Australia has, to a first approximation and over a longer time frame, zero or less (the country runs a budget deficit). So it doesn't really matter if the input is 3 or 30 times bigger if the function converting it into output is broken.
Ask HN: Possible I'm just not good at being clever/figuring out algorithms?
So I know i'm not a stupid person, I have a Bachelors in Physics, Minor in CS, and Masters in EE. I am pretty decent at learning but I also feel like I am a jack of all trades/master of none as I never delved super deep into any one subject. I can do hardware design, FPGA stuff, firmware for micros, I've made small Flask apps with a React front-end, etc. But all these feel very superficial.

I have been reading through Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual and been doing almost all the problems. I started out looking up solutions pretty quickly after getting stumped but realizes this isn't helping me learn so I forced myself to really struggle with the problems. I have been doing okay and I am nearing the end of the book and wanted to start practice coding interview questions so i signed up for interviewbit and leetcode.

These basic interviewbit questions on arrays have been taking me a lot longer than I wanted. I am wondering if i'm just not clever as a person and i'm not going to be able to ever do well in interviews since it requires some creativity and cleverness to figure out the problems on the fly.

I know with more practice I will get better at recognizing certain patterns, but is it possible I never get to the point where I can pass an interview at - say - a big N company? or is this nonsense and i just need to really struggle to get there?
this is why when you hear billionairs call for higher taxes on billioniers you should understand they are after 2 things

1) they want to keep their competition down from other lesser wealthy billionairs.

2) they want to distract the public 99% from demanding a complete and total abolishment of payroll taxes.

they didn't become billionaires by being nice or honest. don't every trust buffet, dalio or others when they talk about tax policy. buffets entire fortune is contingent upon tax subsidies for the insurance industry, as well as compulsory mandates for his product (insurance) dalio makes his fortune by taking into account taxation of capital (front running buybacks of stock) and other tax surgery.

no one making under 50k a year should pay a dime in federal labor (income and payroll) tax. and no one, absolutely no one should pay payroll tax, it is a disguised poverty inducing tax and should be abolished as a form of slavery.

when so called socialists and liberals begin talking about abolishing payroll tax, before they all clamor like morons to disucss a federally mandated higher minimum wage, i might just take them seriously.
I clicked on the “search” button.

Then it sent 503 XHR requests:

https://i.imgur.com/R9D23iU.png
I wonder how well this sensation would be conveyed by viewing a lightfield capture in VR? This is meant to be the sort of thing that that's good for.
And they pay huge amounts of their income to malpractice insurance.

Hmm. There's that word "insurance" again.
I agree. I think in US you pay a lot of taxes to get pretty much nothing in return. You have no universal healthcare, students have to make huge debts to be able to study, there is no maternity leave, no support for childcare, seriously there is basically no welfare whatsoever. Not to mention property taxes (at least in California) that are outrageous.

And if you get seriously ill and lose your job you are pretty much ... done! oO
It's different because the private company didn't issue the securities itself. The equivalent for a private company would be creating $3 trillion in bonds, "selling" the bonds to itself, then claiming to have $3 trillion.
On a Hackintosh you have that choice, on Apple hardware you'll eventually have that choice taken away from you.

That is my point.
I think you can easily extend that to pretty much the entire EU.
I was looking at it and wonder if I can plug it to remote database, or any abstract mechanism to store index in cloud space, I want to run it on cloud.
Why can't I find any stories of that time Mark Twain and Walt Whitman tried to dig up the grave of Elias Hicks to make a plaster cast of his head? Is there a conspiracy of silence going on here? What good is the internet if not for tracking down obscure details of events like this?
For us, Vespa It is in a different league. Some quick things I remember:
- Native Tensor/ XGBoost support
- Automatic data partitioning and auto balancing( no need to set shards before hand)
- Jdisk (https://docs.vespa.ai/documentation/jdisc/) - This is the major feature for us. It enables us to create Distributed Applications that manipulate the search results directly on the nodes.

I'm not associated with the team, but I take every opportunity to promote it, as I think it is a very underrated project.
Ten years doesn't even go back to when google bought dejanews's archive, in 2001.
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An employee of mine once committed a keypair for our company GSuite, clearly labeled, in a Python script. I asked her to remove it from the repo, and she simply pushed a new version of the file with the keypair gone. Plus, she hadn’t configured .gitignore, so all the binaries were there too.
Zig 0.4.0 Released
> The shear number of typos

Your being facetious, right?
TokuDB won't release the allocated blocks (it will reorganize its internal blocks to achieve max compression but as far as I know and saw won't release what it has allocated previously, but I might be wrong :) ).
The fight I have never saw
https://youtu.be/VuAbIPJR8jw
Toyota robot can’t slam dunk but shoots a mean 3-pointer
Hackintoshes are not affected any protection Apple applies, they just work round it by modifying or re-implementing the software.