skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is pretty terrifying. I remember reading that prions might also be communicable via optical equipment.

There's no cure for prions, and they all kill you in nasty, interesting ways. Most involve driving you slowly insane and causing your body or brain to decay. The best possible treatment is antibodies, which we don't really have yet.

I remember reading that a population of people on a pacific island had high incidence rates of kuru due to eating each other's brains after death. I also remember that after a few hundred years of doing so, some had developed a resistance.

Seeing as prions mis-fold other proteins, might something like Folding@Home be able to contribute here? I would appreciate some insight from a person with knowledge of this area.

Edit: Corrected pacific island disease from mad cow to kuru; thanks noir_lord
Immer.js (a library to work on data structures, not a framework) uses a similar concept, using Proxies.

The gist of Immer is that your framework needs immutable structures, but you want to interact with them imperatively.

It's very interesting, and a reversal of the traditional "functional core, imperative shell" architecture.

https://github.com/immerjs/immer
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Do you think language adoption in a company is anything other than "political / culture / habitual"?

But in any case, Go is a very straightforward language if you're already familiar with popular languages like C/C+, C#, Java, or JavaScript. You basically just need to learn the concurrency features (goroutines/csp/select keyword). Elixir is a much larger conceptual leap in that it is functional and the currency toolset is a lot more to grok. Deploying code with Go is also easier than Erlang/Elixir. Static typing is also pretty huge (dialyxir seems more like a bolt on).
H&R Block try to get you to pay at every other page while you are filling your return... But I still went with them because the last 2 years I filled the forms online at a couple different companies and H&R Block was getting me more back.
Creator here. We get this question a lot, and should probably dedicate a blog post to it.

It's true that the incremental cost per-component is higher than with some frameworks. In theory, you hit an inflection point. In practice though this doesn't really happen, because by the time you get there, you should be code-splitting anyway — and each of your code-split chunks have a hard minimum size which is the size of the framework.

This article reinforces that finding by testing the 'RealWorld' project: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-realworld-comparison-of-fr.... It's based on an outdated version of Svelte but the broad strokes will be unchanged.

Of course, Svelte is about far more than just bundle size!
It’s especially egregious since the IRS will give you a transcript for free.
Definitely the money. I can think of several career paths that likely would likely have made me happier but I didn't pursue them because I was able to do computer programming and why throw that potential money away.
I believe the difference between our comments is that I have never had to discard her words before; thus I'm sharing them and trying to illicit a response which is either contradicting or confirmational.

your comment:

> My (also single) dad says that men are smarter and more ambitious than women, that womens' place is at home, taking care of the children and that society is broken because women are trying to do the things that men are naturally better at doing and don't want to do what they're good at.

Men are smarter at what exactly? Mathematics?

Although the question of whether there is a gender difference in math seems like a simple one, the answer is complicated. Overall there are only small differences in boys’ and girls’ math performance; those differences depend on the age and skill level of the student, what type of math they are attempting and how big of a dissimilarity is needed to say that boys’ and girls’ math performance is truly different.

Ambitious? Again, Ambitious at what? travelling the world? starting and sustaining a family? or is it solely on what dollar amount is ascribed to an hour of your day?

A womans place is at home is about as sexist an argument I have ever heard. By that logic my "place" is running around the jungle with a spear? please don't argue such bad faith.

If I were to try to dig into what your argument actually is then I would assume you dislike my comment because it leans heavily on what my mother said.

We're I arguing in bad faith I would probably say that you're rejecting her logic so outrightly because she is a woman.

But I'm going to try to argue something else.

I'm going to ask what smart and ambitious mean mean to you.
Yep, and Svelte <3 Immer — they work nicely together.
I think it's not mad cow disease (or the human variant CJD) you mean, is it perhaps Kuru?
I'm excited about the updated Svelte. Although it is currently nowhere near being in the top handful of frameworks by adoption, it has some very forward ideas. Most prominently, look at the first main value proposition on its website:

“Write less code”

Svelte has a ways to go to catch up with the leaders on popularity and future breadth, but it is focused on the right problem: reducing the cost/size/effort of making things.
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It's a tradeoff between money/convenience, or money/time. Of course no one NEEDS to pay the $49 for TurboTax. They do it because it is easy.

The reason Intuit has been able to make so much money is that no one wants to waste hours poring over verbose IRS instruction publications, which are not trivial for a layperson to fill out correctly.
This is not at all viable in real life, unless you have overwhelming motivation to do so, it's your one priority in life, and you are willing to lose out on a lot of things to do so.
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https://twitter.com/mackenzief/status/1118509708673998848

Already happening. In the replies JetBlue says it's a DHS program. More information http://mediaroom.jetblue.com/investor-relations/press-releas...
The #metoo movement was largely borne out on social media, Twitter specifically. Twitter has really started to worry me for the reason you said. It seems like it is really effective at forming angry mobs. I remember reading an interview that Girard did somewhere where he talked about social media's influence and he said we should be working to prevent mobs, not form them.
TurboTax has a pretty troubling history of working against the best interest of taxpayers, from stuff like these dark patterns to their constant lobbying to ensure that the IRS won't offer any taxpayer services that would be of wide benefit to people.
> Normal is a pretty shitty heuristic for being good.

A few counter examples doesn't mean that the heuristic is bad. Heuristics will always have counter examples, that's why they're heuristics, not rules.
>it is more well-known as 'vikram and vetaal'.

Right.

>vimshati = 20

Good to know.
FPGA’s consume heck lotta power. Totally not Indian.
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Yes, this is the correct fix (well, not the part where everybody else has to rely on California but the rule that if you can sign up by method X you can cancel that way too)

My ex-employer was surprised that when they were obliged by law to stop routing everybody though a retention call center customer satisfaction improved. Too much of their own Kool Aid had been drunk, they'd persuaded themselves that customers wanted to be reminded of the benefits and offered other deals by a human so much that they'd hate even having the option to just press "Cancel" on the web site and leave that way.

It's an old Joel Spoelsky lesson, if you make leaving a pleasant experience that customer may come back some day. If not you're never going to see them again.
Ya, that’s what I would do. More to the point, the interface for more more advanced debugger features generally don’t make them worth it (eg intellitrace). Debugging is a heavily constrained usability experience.
quite true, but I feel like the "mother at home" cultural artifact still feels older in modern (european/american) human's psyche. It wasn't the best system, but it feels like the system that most of our societal changes have been seeking to rectify.

Your point about the 19th century is also interesting as its (mother at home) origins in that time period may explain why it's so ingrained and also deemed the default. It arose during the time of the biggest jump in human technological advancement (industrial revolution). Most of the propaganda for it references this correlation and uses it as a justification.

I don't agree with this sort of connection, but it is interesting to note.
Just read through the blog post. it's absolutely nuts.
Why is demo displaying black horse on a black background? Even sample screenshot shows that. Am I crazy? Is this some kind of meta joke? I don't get it.
Most human beings have not taken up arms to make war on behalf of a genocidal regime led by a fanatical anti-Semitic tyrant.

Too many people in 2019 are caught up in groupthink and outright hate, but camouflage it and justify it to themselves as a worthy cause. This is what happened in Germany prior to WWII, and it is something we need to look out for.

It’s okay to look askance at those who did.

Yes. So long as you view them as individual human beings and the particular facts. So long as you're not responding to a shallow label and taking action with little thought. That is the underlying philosophical mistake which is the foundation of the very wrong you would hold against them.

I too would look askance at them. But if you treat them as fungible and disposable, then what exactly did our side fight for?
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They (third party) received all the benefits of prime without having to pay for it.
> Best feature that GDB has, for me? The ability to script what happens when a breakpoint is hit.

Conditional breakpoints in chrome could do this for a while by having your conditional be a call to a logging function, and it was recently made more discoverable and user-friendly as "logpoints".
>> “Lions, for example, do not eat a lot of impala, but impala fear lions more than any other predator on the landscape except humans,”

Probably explains why lions don't eat many impala.
You're right, I appreciate the correction.

For any one curious, here's more detail on the resistance that has been developed: http://www.virology.ws/2015/06/12/resistance-to-prion-diseas...
sorry about the repetition of your point. I recently hit my head.
Because corporations are just groups of people operating as one legal entity as is required for many ventures which would be too expensive or risky for one person to take on by themselves. Do you think corporations like the New York Times should not have freedom of speech? Do you think the government should be able to arbitrary power against corporations like Planned Parenthood? Should governments have arbitrary power to limit what information corporations like your local internet service provider can transmit? Should whatever political party who is currently in power be able to steal all the money from the opposing parties corporate entity?

Its good to keep in mind corporations include a large class of entities like public colleges, newspapers, internet providers, charities, political parties, organized religions, public interest groups, and of course for profit businesses. Saying all these entities should have no rights is advocating for the state to have unchecked and arbitrary power over all of them.
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What a wonderful and sad article.
Timing is surprising. Amazon's Chinese business has just managed to set up everything right and find its niche.

Amazon in China was getting big in second tier cities underserved by big ecommerce brands.

Serving second tier cities make a lot of sense today when competition in tier 1 cities requires more ad spending than in America or Europe
>Aren't most mental disorders just behaviors that differ from the norm and make it difficult for those people to function in everyday society?

Yes. Exactly this.

>My point being that I don't understand where you draw the line.

When the person with the norm-non-following behavior is unable integrate with wider society.

I was lucky enough to study psychology under someone with a streak of playful contempt for the unwanted self-seriousness that the field has. His definition of "mental disorder" as deviation from norms made sense on the first day, the definition at the top of the "mental disorder" wikipedia page is just a rabbit hole of using words that need to be defined clearly and specifically for the definition to mean anything.

Defining mental disorder as an inability to integrate can feel unsatisfying because it's essentializes the current norms of one's societal context. We know them to be entirely flexible over a short timescale (for definitions of "short" that include a decade) and it drives a line between those who can't adapt but by chance happen to ingrate and those who don't. But if you think about it for a while, you'll realize: what else could it be?
That's amazing and I can't believe how much this sounds like what I'm trying to go for! I got my first two hives setup on Saturday and we finally moved our first group of 12 chickens out of the house and into the coop yesterday.

If you don't mind, how many hives do you have and how do you sell the honey? I was always thinking I would need more hives than I could ever manage to actually get enough to sell. My goal was to get into gourmet mushrooms and sell through the office or maybe get attached to a CSA or something.
Capitalism without limits is worse.
I used Free Tax USA this year, and it ended up giving me the same number Turbo Tax did (since you can do Turbo Tax for free until the end).

My taxes include a multitude of stock sales, losses (from calls and puts), as well as my W2.

It takes a little longer to fill out then Turbo Tax due to the lack of integrations with banks and what not, but I still finished the whole thing in less than an hour. It's free for Federal, and they wanted something like $10 for my state so I did it out of lazyness.
Wow, this is as blatant as it gets.
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Do they have the equivalent to a shopping mall that allows them to easily find smaller online stores?
Maybe it’s just me but I’ve never been happy with what pdb provides. My primary mode of debugging is to jump into a i python console and go line by line. If it’s django as mentioned above, I have to say I have learned so much about Django through the console that I don’t think I’d be anywhere at this point if I’d used a debugger.
I'm curious is this because jd.com is far ahead of American Amazon or because Chinese Amazon is far behind American Amazon?
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"But today’s technology works at a far higher level. Consider an example involving Facebook. In 2017, the newspaper The Australian published an article, based on a leaked document from Facebook, revealing that the company had told advertisers that it could predict when younger users, including teenagers, were feeling “insecure,” “worthless” or otherwise in need of a “confidence boost.” Facebook was apparently able to draw these inferences by monitoring photos, posts and other social media data."

Ironically, that's exactly what the NYT has started doing recently![0] I think they've realized just how lucrative selling these interferential insights can be; regardless of how accurate these metrics are, advertisers eat them up. How long until NYT writers start receiving pressure from upper management to produce content that maximizes emotional output from their readers? It's possible that proper restraint and separation of departments can be maintained, but I think history has shown that when profit motives are involved, greed often usurps ethics.

[0] https://investors.nytco.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...
Firstly, I would phrase the value as "People should not be restricted in the roles they can fulfill in society" (I don't think anyone serious(ly) argues that everyone should do exactly the same).

And no I don't think that this value is under threat from other cultures just because they reproduce more.

The value didn't get established in society because the people who held it reproduced more.
Also, those who oppose it won't necessarily continue to reproduce more forever.

Atheists have smaller fertility rates than any religion, yet atheism is spreading more and more
How do you convince founders, small businesses and startups to pursue this kind of ethno work? In my experience only big companies with dedicated consumer insight teams have the budgets and patience to do this kind of exploratory qualitative research. Just curious as to how you’ve ‘sold’ this service in to smaller organizations...
While I sometimes use one debug tool or another, I have never understood the aversion to print statements reflected in the title. Sometimes, often even, a print statement is just fine, and anything else is overabstracting it. Not saying other options aren't nice to have available, just that there is nothing wrong with using a simple print statement in many situations.
What I am not sure about from the above, is whether you maintain that:

(a) cops have a special grant in law to kill,

(b) or not.

If it’s (a), I guess we should try to find it. If it’s (b), there are some questions to ask around the interpretation of the law with respect to cops.
It’s a hundred pretty mountainous miles from Las Vegas to Area 51. The cost of building a fast line along that route would probably pay for decades of these flights.
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Agreed. It's refreshing to not first need to open a handful of tabs in order to find my bearings.
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If your taxes are complex enough to warrant having a tax preparer handle them for you, I recommend avoiding H&R Block. Instead, ask your colleagues, friends, and family for recommendations for an independent tax preparer rather than a chain.
> Apparently a basic sanity check like "Are we already billing this card?" is not implemented at all

They most likely don’t store your actual card number.
> why Alibaba etc aren’t bigger in US or Europe given their far more aggressive take on offering huge catelog at lower prices with ultrafast delivery.

Alibaba is pretty big here in Romania. One could say that that happens because Amazon isn't officially present on the market, which is true, but neither Alibaba is officially launched, people use it because the stuff on their website is really, really cheap and the cost vs what-you-get ratio is pretty reasonable. I also wonder how come Alibaba isn't bigger in some Western European markets.
> No, to any sane, empathic, person, the meaning of equality is clear: you want similar outcomes for everybody.

Have you read Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron? Wanting similar outcomes for everybody is pretty much the diametric opposite of sane. It fails to acknowledge the statistical spread of abilities even within a protected category, let alone any that might exist between them.
There is pretty-print [0], which you could dump inside pre tags, or print to stdout. But honestly, depending on the framework, quicker options exist than (basically) printf debugging.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html#example
When I was visiting Pre-schools for my son to enter at 18 months I asked them how they handle discipline and behavior. They said that sometimes they have a class which is mostly boys and it’s quite chaotic. If the class is mostly girls it’s much more calm. That’s at 18-30 months.
We're beginning to run up against what I may not be allowed to talk about :)

But I will affirm that Cyc is fundamentally symbolics-based. We don't position ourselves as anti-ML, because it's seriously good at a certain subset of things, but Cyc would still be fully-functional without any ML in the picture at all.
Seems innocuous to me. It doesn't give false impressions in the way so many article titles do these days, just a hook for finding out what the predator is.
You can't say you make 3k a day without explaining your career path a bit so us lowly serfs can emulate.
Thanks for replying.

Recruiter mentioned that things have changed because of tax law changes in 2018. Any insights?
I bow hunt deer in New Jersey. Hunting is sacred to me and I do it for the meat. It's great to see this shared here. CWD can be contained. Most hunters are aware of it and are doing their part to fight CWD. If you don't hunt, a simple way to help is to call the police on the off chance you see a deer acting strangely.
I don't know what my dad meant by "smart" and "ambitious". I assumed he meant what most people do.

Conversely, I don't know what your mom meant by "how women think about things".

How do women think about things? I mean- according to your mom. You report her saying and seem to agree with it. Do you know what she means?

Edit: Do I really need to make it clear I disagree with my dad? I'm a woman. Is it very likely I reported here what my dad says to argue that I'm less smart and less ambitious than a man?
I feel like this happens often in tech but most offenders do a better job covering it up. This is pretty blatant.
thanks for the response! Interesting that this article you linked did not include Preact in its tests but I do see what you mean.

Keep up the good work! I think Svelte is really cool. Like I said before, I like the idea of it. I am going to promote it to the rest of my team and hopefully we can give it shot on one of our next projects.
Affiliate fraud maybe
That is something specific to gLinux, not Linux.

Also it's not even related to the kernel.

They're likely using some NSS configuration that does network lookups (maybe they're using NIS, LDAP or something else).
Ultrasound is actually something that requires training and The imaging quality is very operator dependent. This physician is definitely reading the scans himself and acting upon them; uploading might just be for some kind of confirmation and formal quantification.

You can't just hand someone a probe and expect them to produce meaningful images. Especially in this kind of context where presumably they are getting used in dozens of different contexts; it really does require some medical reasoning and anatomical knowledge.