skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Always found hospital gowns dehumanizing and never put them on when given instructions to during yearly physical exams

They seem especially weird for a physical exam where the doctor is going to look at you anyway. My doctor leaves the room while I undress and put that thing on, then returns and looks at my body! I asked her about that once and she said many people don’t like to sit around naked even if thenpoint of showing up is to be looked at. Must be some weird cultural thing.
Funnily enough we don't actually use the built-in non-determinism all that much. Often the layout tasks that HTML and CSS demand require us to build our own, bespoke algorithms, for performance and control reasons. We still get a bunch of leverage out of the type system and data modelling power of the language though.
As someone who has used propranolol on and off over the past few years, the thing that intrigues me here is that propranolol works well in this instance due to crossing the blood/brain barrier as opposed to other beta blockers that do not.

The use of beta blockers in anxiety is commonly associated with reducing the effects of stress on heart rate and blood pressure, not necessarily on affecting the brain directly which appears to be happening here. That is, beta blockers are usually a band aid rather than a fix, so this discovery is exciting.

(As an aside, if you suffer from unusual levels of physical response to certain stimuli while intellectually remaining calm or indifferent, propranolol may be worth investigating for you as it has helped me a lot. At your own risk, of course.)
just wear a liquid cooling vest
Even though the discussion is not valid in the context of the article that clearly limitates the use of memory reconstruction to basic forms of emotional memory, we could very well picture entities abusing higher forms of memory manipulation to political ends.
Transhumanism has delivered zilch, absolute complete empty promises, already postponed. Talking with bona fide researchers involved in cancer and senescence, there are horrendous computational challenges to even begin to understand exactly what's going on in our "nature": cells full of stuff racing inside colliding at actual 20 kilometres per hour (not scaled, actual) proteins changing shape in unknown ways all the time. Just bring a decently detailed human biological pathways diagram to a transhumanist, and ask him (it will be an arrogant him I bet) what he would change, where, why, how!
Our "achievement as a species" is mostly maximizing an entropy gradient thanks to the sun's fusion power contained in an high-energy hydrocarbon one-off windfall.
This is a despicable article full of bullshit, too much to list, just look for keyword like "and reason", or "solar power and fusion" (lol!) or the notion that environmentalism is directed against the poor when it's the ones who cannot afford distant vacations that suffer the most from PM10 & PM2.5 polluted air in cities courtesy of failing environment regulations.
If you can read this article and not get angry, then I think you need to learn yourself a bit of rationalism and critical thinking.
> I'm sure this is awesome, but there's no code examples until I download a read a PDF tutorial.

Yeah, I definitely think this is something that could be improved - Mercury tends to come from a more 'old-school' form of OSS where the importance of marketing and design was less well understood. I hope they get around to fixing this!

The biggest thing that Mercury brings to the table is types, a mode system, and performance. This makes it viable for large scale software development.
> Sorry for my ignorance, but my impression was that in the native spaces the consesus is that Rust is the only reasonable choice for any new code.

Please tell that to the many millions of C/C++ programmers writing new code every day, who are only vaguely familiar with Rust if at all. If by consensus you mean "consensus amongst the vanguard of Hacker News" then yes. If you mean "consensus" as in the "consensus of the software development industry" then absolutely not.
> That is, you cannot borrow someone else's money and try to run with them to a different country? Seems only logical.

And you can not complain about any random company nuking your credit rating to zero after failed automatic payment. Seems only logical.

Had a friend who ran into that after Bell Canada billed his closed account. I was like "and what so?," but the guy was almost moved to tears.

Before that, I never gave regard to people telling that "you should be very cautious closing a bank account"
Google Admits That They're Tracking Us Even with 'Location' Turned Off
IMO, it's cheaper and (importantly) better to do it in the cloud. Better in there's steady improvement to customer experience with zero customer interaction, a cleaner developer "apps" marketplace, and each local device can be smaller, cheaper, and lower power.
Remembering the Day the L.A. Library Burned (2012)
Uh... it’s all around you!

All voice recognition and text prediction is a result of nlp. Every time you search on google, or say “hey Siri/Alexa”. Every time you call an automated service and it asks you why you’re calling and connects you to the right department. When you type a text message and it completes a word and predicts the next one. It affects what ads you get shown. It lets companies automatically block negative reviews with sentiment analysis (not always used for good). Or to quickly find where supplies are needed in emergencies by parsing twitter feeds in all languages. Etc.

If you own a smartphone, you interact with nlp technologies dozens of times per day. So yeah, it’s good and useful.
Smalltalk is like this and so is SBCL with Emacs Slime mode.
Cheers, that's great.
I also thought before reading the article that it "just" relieves the person of the stress response happening elsewhere in the body, disconnecting it from the perceived danger.
Could you explain or point to any discussion on why would that be.
I believe normal people like me are still wary of danger, and even have physical responses (tensing up, moving gingerly, holding your breath) when under the illusion of danger even when logically knowing there's very little danger, such as when standing on a transparent balcony floor or walkway of a very very tall building, or preparing for a drop from a tall roller coaster. I think that's all the physiological response one needs without getting psychologically crippled, paralyzed, making rash decisions, or just generally having a bad time when presented with these situations.
In some countries/regions touching is part of the local culture and withdrawing or wincing after being touched is perceived as being anti-social. It contributes to the perception of certain nationalities and cultures as being "cold", which is not a criticism but merely an observation. In the West we appear to be slowly but surely moving to a non-touching culture.
I love Rust, but there are so many places it isn't feasible (yet). Most microcontroller don't support it for a start.
Waaaaaat. There's so much in Haskell's type system that is also in logic programming. Like Hindley-Milner type inference and type class instance resolution.
This is also pictured in NOVA: memory hackers on Netflix (last accessed in Brazil, in case it is region locked). It documents the process of treating arachnophobia in a patient that clearly has an extreme aversion to spiders and it is incredible.
Are there rules for eye contact? Some people are uncomfortable with eye contact.
The terminology of first-order logic is indeed quite different from that of Prolog. A key reason for this is that in FOL, we have to distinguish between the syntactic entities and their interpretations. So, in FOL, we have predicate symbols that are assigned to relations by an interpretation, we have constant symbols that are assigned to domain elements by an interpretation, we have function symbols that are assigned functions by an interpretation. In addition, many theorems also require that we distinguish between countable and uncountable signatures.

In contrast, Prolog is confined to a single kind of interpretations, namely to Herbrand structures, where each term "stands for itself", and where we only need symbols that already occur in the clauses we are considering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbrand_structure

So, in Herbrand structures, the interpretation of a term T is simply the symbolic representation of T, i.e., "T". Importantly, one can show that a set of clauses has a model if and only if it has a Herbrand model.

This also has important semantic consequences: For example, due to the compactness theorem (and its consequence, the upward Löwenheim–Skolem theorem), one can show that important concepts such as the transitive closure of a relation, the class of connected graphs, and the natural numbers with only the intended model (up to isomorphism) cannot be expressed in first-order logic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactness_theorem

Yet, we can readily express these things in Prolog, and in fact almost every Prolog program also does that or needs them!

Why? Because Prolog (implicitly) only considers least Herbrand models, so we do not need this layered syntactic view, and also do not run into these semantic issues when programming in Prolog.

An argument can be made that in this case, what at first seems like a restriction in fact extends the usefulness of the language. A similar argument can be made also for several constructs within the language.
The Founder Behind Warby Parker and Harry's Founded 2B Dollar Companies
Quick note: FOMO vs. legacy tech
Such a consensus does in no way exist (even if you assume that there's a consensus on "we need to replace C and C++", which there also isn't, Rust isn't the only "better" native language), and "all new code must be Rust" is mostly a meme by overly enthusiastic enthusiasts. Rust is a tiny sliver of native code written today, not to speak of the orders of magnitude bigger collection of existing code bases and tooling existing outside of it.
The article is behind a paywall and I thought this snippet properly summarized it.
Just noticed this, wondering what is the cause behind a downage this serious - they rely on being constantly up and have huge investments in infrastructure to avoid this. Possible attack or a large change gone wrong?
Or even, third possibility - their research lab experiment gone wrong?
It's a barrier to entry. It doesn't come with python, and I'd be most random developers wouldn't know of a "python-aware" option.
Firefox change breaks key navigation in web frameworks including Eclipse RAP
And some people are uncomfortable with avoidance of eye contact. Or with the use of a veil or similar covering. Or with the non-use of such a covering.
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This hits very close to home. I would consider my father to be a kind and gentle person at heart, but he has spent years imbibing corrosive ideas and conspiracy theories on social media. This makes discourse with him practically impossible and it saddens me to know that he now sees within me a lot of what he believes is wrong with the world.

The most painful part is highlighted in the title of this piece: this dynamic is the consequence of a concerted effort by bad actors. Some groups have intentionally driven these wedges between families and friends for their own personal gain.

In terms of gaining ground and reversing this, I personally believe the key is a strong effort to improve media literacy. We are drenched in media but the vast majority of people lack the ability to critically evaluate what they consume. We must ensure that everyone has the capacity to develop independent judgements about what they see.

We can't trust in Facebook/Google to self-regulate. Their prime directive is growth which is achieved through user engagement, after all.
> Humans require social touch, but the rules that govern its deployment are not biologically determined...

On the contrary; social touch, with the ensuing spectrum between "discomfort/aggression/dominance" and "affiliation/friendship/social comfort" is actually found in all social mammals, it has nothing to do with society, gender, sexual undertones or anything human-specific like that! Even domesticated cats http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5962 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1771 have a basic, instinct-driven understanding of how the aforementioned spectrum should be carefully negotiated if one is to establish a genuinely-experienced social bond.

I'm sorry but yes, per the above, Biden's "touchy-feely" behavior with strangers has indeed been singularly clueless, even unintentionally creepy and disturbing, in neglecting these obvious facts. Biden is one of the major figures in U.S. politics and obviously socially competent - he has no excuse for this.
one day someone will tell bitcoiners that (a) gold isn't the basis of the economy any more, and hasn't been for quite a while (b) yes, gold mining is also an ecological disaster that should be stopped
>If you have ever tried creating electronic music with drum machines, synthesizers, midi loopers, etc, it would be a lot easier to appreciate his music I think.

Or if you merely like to listen to electronic music, like hundreds of millions of people around the world?

Seems like your comment comes from someone for whom "real" music is rock, jazz, etc, and they assume everybody starts like that.

But in electronic there are far more niche genres than Aphex Twin's. He was left of field in the semi-mainstream, not across the board.
>prescient writings from the likes of Orwell

While I agree some autocracies resemble Orwell's 1984, I hardly think western states fit the description. The powers undermining Western Democracies are a complex mix of corporate/state sponsored media, surveillance capitalism, and other more mundane forms of corruption and collusion. The fact that I can state these things without fear speaks volumes about the opposition to autocratic and anti-liberal forces. Bradbury's distraction based autocracy is a lot more interesting because it beats you over the head with a different type of control that in smaller doses could be used to disuade or control in a less Autocratic society.
Citations at all...In the late 80s the biggest worry was the Ozone Hole and nuclear winter. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Not to worry, Gen Zed is reaching late teens and early 20s now.
Using the search feature on part of the title works quite well eg https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Death%20by%20a%20Thousand%20Cl... shows nine submissions of Death by a Thousand Clicks.

though sometimes people have changed the title.
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Ghana. Whatsapp is fine but Facebook is down.
> So if I query for the A record of foo.example.com will it be answered by ns2?

Yes, if I understand your example correctly.

> If so can I assume that the .com tld server has entries for both example.com and foo.example.com?

No. The .com zone only contains NS records for example.com. The NS records for foo.example.com exist in the example.com zone (and, for consistency, in the foo.example.com zone), but not in the parent .com zone, which knows nothing about any sub-zones.
Apparently it became so for many Americans, who didn't have an "electronic music" in the mainstream in the 80s and 90s, and early "00s".

They'd use the term EDM now for anything, including Nitzer Ebb and Autechre...
Just my two cents but I would go against the first interaction with the user being find the bug, I didn't didn't find it and missed the point, granted I didn't take much time and I'm on mobile, but I guess that's the reality for many people if not most :)
The examples in the article are:

* "X, 23, from Sydney's inner west graduated with a bachelor of creative arts in film and television production from a private college in 2016. She wants to be a film director and actor."

* "Y, 23, studied journalism at the University of Wollongong and was warned it would be tough to get a job."

* "Z graduated with a degree in social research and policy from the University of NSW in last year said it took her a year to find a project management job."

None of these sound like STEM to me?
Lucky enough to see him at Reading Festival. Absolutely hilarious.
To add my anecdotes to the pile, my experience is that those going into software jobs as a backup plan make significantly less and do significantly different work. They generally just don't have the skill base nor experience to command the same level of salary.
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Do they guarantee that if a write is done one region, when completed upon return, is available when read in another region?
The Future of Serverless Is Functionless?
You can also just change your computer or routers DNS settings as such: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788410

This approach has way less overhead than pihole... But now someone else knows what you're browsing.

Edit: the top comment specifies the hostname incorrectly. It should be: dns.adguard.com (not .org)
These effects are due to the fact that it readily crosses the BBB because of its high lipophilicity. It is also responsible for various other CNS side-effects such as: brain fog, sedation, vivid dreams, sleep disturbances, and rarely, depression and short-term memory issues. In contrast, low lipid solubility is associated with a lower incidence of CNS adverse effects due to the fact that it makes it difficult to cross the BBB.

Additionally, these effects may actually elicit anxiety in some individuals (especially those who get anxious over changes in their mental state and whatnot), which in turn also affects its effects on the heart rate. In such cases hydrophilic beta-blockers would do the job. I prefer labetalol as it has alpha-blocking properties and counters the catecholamine-induced (from anxiety) alpha stimulation which contributes to the increased heart rate as well.
A fractal isnt a manifold. Discrete sets are an edge case. They are considered to be 0 dimensional manifolds to make them fit, but there is a not much that manifold theory has to say about them.
The cat is out of the bag, can we please let this piece of poppsych die? A surprisingly large number of manager wannabe type at a FAANG company made a point to try to pat me on the back in public. Please stop trying to symbolically stomp on people you'd like on your team, it's demeaning. Especially for yourself.
I had a roommate that reviewed porn. At our age it sounded like the best job ever, but he showed us his review sheets. He had to document the timestamp of every lick, rub, fart, moan, squirt, insertion, scene change, et al. He absolutely hated it.
Lost at Sea
There's always unsafe. With generics you can always implement these fundamental algorithms once and for all in an unsafe block and then reuse that. No need to reimplement quicksort for every data type.

But I'm not proposing to bring that to C (although it seems that generics are slowly creeping in by way of the macro system), I'm just saying that I think the changes proposed in this paper would make the language more complex without really making it easier to write C code 99% of the time.
After trying CosmosDB I put it down pretty quickly. I can't say I'd recommend it to anyone.

Shockingly poor perf. Is CosmosDB really that bad or did we have it misconfigured? We're not sure, the docs didn't help us understand.

Random failures when connecting. Random errors (or worse, no errors but unexpected results) when querying.

Largely undocumented.

Painful interop with non-azure proprietary offerings.

Almost zero developer community. Most of the coverage of CosmosDB isn't by developers, it's by various MS affiliated blogs such as this one, which are more advertisements than resources.

Unfortunately CosmosDB seems to fit the Azure MO of investing more into sales/marketing than into engineering/support. I don't know about the general atmosphere, but in the circles where I work, Azure and its various proprietary components are losing developer goodwill at a staggering pace.
Bureaucracy error?

You mean shitastic work by a credit agencies because they half ass everything and cut corners. If 99% of their records are correct, then who cares if they are somehow screwing 1% of error filled profiles. They got their pile of money.
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But we don't currently live in a world that's powered by renewable energy, we live in a world where the vast majority of energy is generated from fossil sources. Making that transition will require decades, billions in investment and a lot of challenging trade-offs.

Here in the real world of 2019, energy is the dominant factor. If we need to dig up landfills to recover materials in 2100, so be it - right now, we have a ticking clock to mitigate the worst effects of the impending climate crisis. We simply cannot afford to waste time on wishful thinking and idealism, we need to cut our carbon emissions hard and fast.
I've worked in startups for fifteen years and not once have I been in a situation with compulsory overtime. Maybe I'm just lucky? Maybe Boston area startups respect work/life balance more than most?
I agree that HJSON is better for config files than JSON5, because of its more relaxed syntax requirements that making adding and editing values quicker.

Link for HJSON: https://hjson.org/

Compare to JSON5: https://json5.org/
What I would love to see is a declarative object oriented language. It would marry the idea of FauxO from Gary Bernhardt's Boundaries talk [1] with the syntax of Elm.

Elm already allows for escaping into other languages. I would love to see that mechanism expanded and a bunch of "core" DSLs implemented using ideas from the "STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming" [2].

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
[2] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf
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Can we find the author's income taxes anywhere? Or is it as always people preaching stuff they would hate themselves.
It’s an interesting idea as it would make compensation transparent and eliminate a lot of unfairness.

In public sector, your salary is posted on a website. Everyone knows what you make, and thing like women and minorities getting paid less don’t happen. Outliers are known.
The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances

Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks

Public or private harassment

Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission

Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

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Yes, at least one of those will eventually happen. And when it does, the person should be pointed to the rules and told that they should have known it was unacceptable. What happens from that point is the question.

IMO, if they can't accept those rules, I don't want them around. They're pretty basic, IMO.

If they accept them, but continually violate them, I also don't want them around.
Nothing wrong with them, they can be manifolds.
The bug is that your SSH keys are in /home/bill/.ssh/. But I agree the first page really don't help sell the idea.
No one is forcing you to have one. Many people don’t use them. But more people do. And if you believe that the market is somewhat efficient, people are paying a fee (it’s a lot lower than 6%) because they feel it’s generally worth it.