skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but they have their own agendas. I think I have seen one comment piece that was from a pro brexit point of view over the last three years. During the Irish abortion referendum run up, it was the same. It was as though the right to have an abortion was self evidently as much a human right as free speech.
The guardian overall is too black and white for me.
The 3% tax on my dividends didn't even come close to SALT.

Personally I'd like to see the government stop spying on US citizens, more protections for digital privacy and free speech, reduced military spending, curbs on an an increasingly militarized police force and privatized judicial system, and policies designed to protect the American middle class against increasing globalization. It's hard to draw a meaningful distinction between parties on any of these policies and they matter much more to me than the ones you've listed.
Yep. There are a lot of people making good money off the current system. They see no need for change unless it makes them even more money.
I just did the same thing for 2.5 months. I got really lonely ..lol.
> Nowadays, even someone who cares 100% about performance and 0% about data integrity (And is somehow still using a relational database, yeah. So what? It's MY hypothetical.) still has good reason to default to something like 3NF

That's just... wrong.

Best practices with database design are to start with a totally normalized schema because it reduces scope for errors/inconsistencies.

And then to intentionally denormalize where required to increase performance, in order to reduce lookups from joins or computing aggregate functions -- at the cost of having to manually ensure duplicated data remains consistent. Query optimizers can only do so much.

(If it weren't to increase performance, I can't really think of any reason why you ever would denormalize on a single database server, unless you have some extremely complicated calculations that SQL isn't capable of expressing?)
Ours were going up sharply before too, at Matasano (2005-) and before we started Matasano, our health insurance at my previous employer also got slashed (2001-).
The approximation holds true for the heavy elements, with similar atomic mass. I wonder if the power density of any similar half-life lighter nuclei would be significantly greater, or whether the energy of decay reduces roughly proportionately with their mass.
Would be really nice if some TLS/certificate information was added. That would make this tool complete for me.
The essayist seems to agree with you, writing:

> I write this essay as both a long-time organizer, writer and speaker for a single-payer (the older name for “Medicare for all” system) and a strong supporter of Senator Sanders.
I'm sure PRs are welcome: https://github.com/docker-library/gcc

It's community maintained.
The Undefined Podcast – Like Joe Rogan but for JavaScript
The big issue with opinion sections is in the era of newspapers, it was obvious you're reading the opinion section. You might get a tease on page 1 to "Read Bill Clinton's views on Bernie Sanders' presidential chances on page 4" but it was clearly in the Opinion section, separated from 'real' news.

In the era of online news, opinion sections are blended with news.

Even The Guardian falls prey to this: go to https://www.theguardian.com/. Click the Opinion tab. Click any of the opinion pieces. The primary navigation reverts to having 'News' highlighted.

Worse, in reader/mobile view modes, the label "Opinion" does not show anywhere.
Unless her employer's insurance plan excluded her based on the pre-existing condition of being pregnant. (which it certainly could have)
Ask HN: With a single site per comment, which sites do you visit regularly?
That way, you can upvote your favorites instead of posting a new, unique combination.
I believe it is shunned because it points the blame back mostly on the sufferer. Since it's a "choice" it's often deduced (incorrectly) that it's similar to choosing something menial like what clothes you want to wear or what you want to eat for lunch.

Instead, if you want to think this way (that depression is largely a choice) then you need to reflect on the fact that one can make a series of choices in order to better control one's mood and outlook. A sustained series of choices over a period of time can elevate the mood and mental state.

This isn't ignoring the fact that some should seek professional help, or chemical aides in getting this done. Depression is simply a spectrum (like everything else these days) which may or may not require more outside sources to circumnavigate.

In that way it's a choice, and becomes less of an issue with "someone is broken, but they choose to be". Their selective consciousness is controlling their outlook.
> But you'll spend the money on rent.

Bingo! That's exactly what the linked article is about. How much extra are you paying in rent? How much are you saving on transportation? What are total costs of [rent + transportation] in both cases? How much time is wasted on transportation when you're paying lower rent? These are questions that need to be asked.

Why would you not want to "craft" your living situation to give you the optimal setup? No, you can't have everything, but a "crafted" lifestyle that avoids need for transportation may be preferred by many, and may in addition in some cases be cheaper _and_ provide higher quality of life. Maybe not, maybe not for everyone; but those are questions that need to be asked, not simply have, "What are housing rental/purchase costs?" be taken as deciding question of what places have higher cost of "housing".
I'm reminded of the Perry Cox quote:

> I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called "Bring back the porn!"
Adobe acrobat reader has been atrocious. I'm so glad I switched to sumatra this year.
It is, but the internals of any filesystem or database will be complex. That doesn't make them difficult to use.
> The only people I know that still use Facebook are old people.

I'm over 50, and the only people I personally know who uses Facebook are business owners.

Nonetheless, I think that you're right. My daughter told me a few years back that "Facebook is for old people and businesses". That gave me hope.
This is arguably the best distinction I've heard described between "mad" and "genius".
There was plenty of hardcore porn tumblr. But I agree, many of people posted softcore on their main blog, but it was rare to see hardcore reposts on someone's discourse blog.
One of those mysteries in life.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HX4KKkSKZAY/maxresdefault.jpg
Could you please review the guidelines and stop posting comments that clearly break them? They include: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"noone would ever fire a pregnant woman for no reason"

Companies do this all the time. My sister worked at a major oil company that laid off all the pregnant women and new moms out on maternity leave within her department. (To be fair, they also laid off about 1/3 of the rest of the company as well.) It's totally illegal, but if you've just been laid off and have a new baby on the way are you really going to have the money or energy to fight a lawsuit? And even if 10% of people affected did, it's cheaper for the company to settle for $500K or so than to pay the salaries of all the people they fired.
They publish opinion pieces from people holding quite different views.
How much should they be allowed to earn?
I think the thought process behind this is generally good, something like "change the incentives of public school funding to help the worst off segments of our population get a better education". This is something we should spend more effort on.

The problem is I think the author making this specific suggestion on how to achieve that is having a hard time understanding the implicit statement they are making on the other side of this coin: "you don't have the right to decide how your child should be educated, a committee will decide intimate details of yours and your family's lives, where they go every day, what happens when they get there, what the curriculum is, what happens if it doesn't go well, what values should be encouraged, what narratives will be portrayed'.

For reference I'm not some radical libertarian I'm fairly centrist and progressive, but the ability to have autonomy in deciding what is getting blasted into your kids head every week day for the first 17 years of their life is not something to scoff at. If that means not every single person gets the exact same opportunity I'm ok with that (and outside of possibly this person's utopic vision that would be true in the other scenario as well).
You stated the US does not get a say on what is allowed and not allowed content...the US already regulates what speech/content isn’t allowed (Each platform can further restrict what they allow, but they can’t override the law and host illegal speech) and can order the platforms to take down said illegal speech.

It’s probably the single most extreme example but consider the US drone bombing in Yemen to kill a US citizen...while we don’t know the basis of the decision, because the kill list and threshold to get put on said list is not disclosed, most legal scholars believe the basis for this incident are the deceased’s YouTube videos.
I thought it's gonna be some cruel recommendation like threaten the baby... it turns out just threaten the parents to take care of babies. That's a relief.
The compiler can choose which implementation to generate based on the actual expected performance gain in the happy case, the performance loss in the not happy case and use the probability to decide whether its actually worth the trade off
By all accounts we have a good PPO available but this is exactly why I haven't even evaluated leaving Kaiser's HMO. Not that I don't like them. It does have positives and negatives but I've been happy so far. I just can't even consider it.
> the best way is to change the job in such a way that people will want to take it

This isn't a change, it's what we have now. The problem is that the kind of people that want to take it are not the kind of people you actually want doing it.
That was exactly my point. The Guardian casually drops anti-white bigotry in articles as random as a superhero movie review.

If that statement had the word black instead of white, the next day the author would have been fired and an extensive apology published on the front page.
Dashcams are mostly wideangle and not that high resolution. Good to record bright meteors with long tails, but not good to record aircraft.
I seem to be the only one that thinks this way, but I view health insurance as a plan to cover catastrophic events. I view it kind of like auto insurance. I don't use auto insurance to get my oil changed or to replace the wipers or to add a rack to the roof.

So the high deductible plan I get at work is perfect for me because it has a high deductible, yes, but it has a lower overall ceiling. Meaning that if I get in an accident or I come down with a disease I won't go bankrupt because after a certain value things are covered 100%.

I do use the HSA, since my employer basically puts money in my savings account if I agree to put so much into it. So it's both an incentive to save and free money at the same time. I do use it on tests and appointments occasionally, but I often go a year or more without touching it.

Of course, I have the luxury of doing this because I don't have a chronic disease and don't have dependents to worry about. I understand that.
PDF is the perfect tool for maintaining document formatting but the worst tool for maintaining document data. The format is not concerned the the actual data of document. Programatically extracting data from the simplest PDF is an exercise in patience. I find it kind of odd that this was chosen as the standard all things considered
well CalPERS net IRR investing in private equity is 10.7%... so yes

Also to the two cerberus funds in which it has invested are have produced 14-17% IRRs

https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/asset-classes/pr...
Is there a reasonable, standard, lightweight way of making fillable PDFs? In theory it does seem like a reasonable extension of PDF (people send me xls spreadsheets that have been abused as forms, and I want to stab them) -- is there any non-toxic way of doing this? Perhaps with LaTeX?
Funny this reminds me of Ahmed Mohamed Clock Incident, where the kid exploits his popularity to get internship at twitter, google and a trip to nasa and white house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident
Self-promotion[0], but as a physicist dad, I never found the pattern:

> Unfortunately, while physics problems have solutions that are constant, baby-related problems have solutions that are random and change from day to day. What had worked yesterday will not work today. Maybe it will work tomorrow. This is the gist of the Baby Universe.

[0] https://medium.com/@philshem/life-in-the-baby-universe-f5256...
I fly between Germany and UK pretty frequently, and whilst the UK doesn't check the passport on the way out, Germany do check it on the way out (you get checked again when entering into UK).

I have heard of friends of friends who overstayed a visa and get found out on the exit gate (usually bringing a lawyer/embassy official to talk through things). This can lead to a (temporary?) travel ban to Germany and a fine.
You're agreeing with my point.
> Along with songs, the text suggests parents rub dust from a significant street, doorway, or even a grave—perhaps representing an ominous, ultimate silence—on a wailing baby.

[...]

> Scholars believe these words likely originated in folk poetry that had been transmitted orally for years before being written down sometime between 500 and 300 B.C.

So the sandman myth is not Northern European folklore after all but originated more than 2500 years ago in the Middle East.
I know the rules, and I don't mind getting banned. It's easy to make a new account. I am sick and tired of toxic insane leftist morons getting all the non-leftists banned / deplatformed everywhere, just for having opposing views. This backwards third world shit needs to stop.
This hybrid approach still requires purchase and regular operation of an entire personal vehicle, which will not be entirely attenuated by simply driving half as many miles. So if [driving] and [public transit] both cost x, the hybrid solution will definitely cost more than x, up to 2x, which means most people will only do one or the other.
COBRA is cheaper for me than ACA.
Every discussion on healthcare payment structures in this country is completely asinine.

Healthcare is best managed as a risk pool. The bigger the pool, the cheaper to be in it. The biggest risk pool is everyone. Therefore, we should put everyone in a single pool.

How we manage this is a separate discussion. Private, public, maybe a federally chartered non-profit like the Fed.

But as long as we keep ourselves fractured into thousands of different risk pools, all these discussions about deductibles and HSAs and whatnot are just chasing our own tails.
As the article points out, that's not normally the case in SQL Server, it's that there are certain steps like sorting that require blocks of preallocated memory.

SQL Server is probably like that because varchar(max) is relatively recent; I'd expect as their support for it improves that issue will go away.
I'm finding this to be the case as well. You're trying to detect complex patterns that can take a good week to suss out and influence, and yet which are changing on approximately that same timeframe. You're continually behind the bus.
w/r/t "almost no politician has focused on this contradiction," I've heard Andrew Yang talk about it tangentially through the (probably a/b tested) talking point of "job loss to automation."

Then when I looked more, I realized, he _wrote explicit policy on his website_. :O

https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/ , hop into the question that's:
> Why does Andrew Yang want to implement Universal Basic Income (UBI) in America?

This might be a stretch. It's where my mind went, and I think it's interesting, so I hope this comment is in good taste!
Helms-Burton Act: US firms face lawsuits over seized Cuban land
I'm all for free healthcare, but this is a legitimate concern due to exorbitant education costs. Doctors often enter the field with high 6 figure or low 7 figure debts, with the expectation they'll make enough to pay it off quickly. I can't see a fair path to lower salaries without subsidizing outstanding debts.
I wholeheartedly agree. That and employer-based access to health insurance. Imagine if you had to change auto/life/home/rental insurance every time you changed jobs.
For most people, there's no such thing as liking or disliking "driving".

There's how you feel about "driving and finding parking in rush hour in midtown Manhattan" and how you feel about "driving down beautiful back country roads with no traffic".

Without discussing the context of where and when, giving opinions on driving is almost meaningless. I mean, here in Manhattan during the day, the subway comes often enough that you don't need a timetable, and you can get most places on a whim a hell of a lot faster than you would in your car.
You forgot to qualify that with "for all residents". If you live in the inner suburbs of Minneapolis and work downtown public transit is pretty good for getting you to work. You will still need/want a car for grocery trips but one car will cover the entire family so you won't need a second. Thus in Minneapolis public transit is subsided transport for the rich - from the perspective of those who do not have a job downtown. (of course the poor also ride public transit, but they don't live in the suburbs)
Artificial neural networks can be used to drive brain activity
> In IT, if you take a tree and remove the root, the result is a forest. Biologists don't agree.

Unless it's Pando:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Good read, but AFAICT researches still don’t fully understand how birds fly, yet planes fly at higher altitudes and at faster speeds.
Computer vision is probably not going to mimic human eye that closely
Of course, another thing you could do would be to just use bicubic interpolation when you display the hash.
In many real world applications using common databases you do not always need “transaction safety”, in particular when reading data for statistical purposes.

Performance gains and not blocking the database for many other readers and writers will in many scenarios outweigh the possibly of reading uncommitted/dirty data.

Use:

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED

(whether you are are querying from within a transaction or not)

and you may be surprised how this may solve many of your performance problems in your application/service.
Beyond Meat is going to crash hard. The pop for this IPO is too ridiculous.
> You seem to be anthropomorphizing the neuron.

And respectfully, you seem to be ignoring the fact that the neuron is part of a living sentient creature.

That comment epitomizes the cliche of an engineer/scientist so excited by the technology that they are completely blind to its real world implications.
> it worked much better than any of the other approaches.

Only if you consider a million lives lost, and many more wounded, "better" than the solution other countries with slavery, like Great Britain, adopted: they paid off the slaveowners and freed their slaves without any violence at all.
I like Resolute's comment below the article:

I'm not sure Verizon's "buy high, ruin it, sell low" strategy is going to pay off.
40 minutes standing or even sitting on a hard plastic seat is not my idea of relaxing. I admit that you'll get more exercise, but no thanks; I'll walk somewhere a bit more pleasurable then downtown.

I find being in close quarters with that many people way more stressful then driving.
I had a total stranger joke "You're hired!" when I got her crying baby to sleep (after she failed) while she led a tour of her new custom home that included me in the tour. It was a party my sister took me to.

(shrug)
> A dev posting their own content for once should be some of the most welcomed content. It's usually accompanied by Q&A and insights into the design process, the rare opportunity to actually talk to the creator of a game on that subreddit. Sad to see so many people attack it because it's just obvious advertisement.

I disagree with this. There are thousands of Indie developers out there trying to win the game programming lottery, and the main tool at their disposal is posting on sites like reddit or spamming on twitter. The result is that most of this content is low quality and of little interest to the broader gaming community.

To put it differently, for every Vlambeer there are legions producing low quality spam that no one wants to see.
Ask HN: Founder? Seeking co-founder? (May 2019)
Similar to "Freelancer" monthly posts, but for people looking for co-founding partners.
Is there any legal basis for that or is that something negotiated by employers with the plan provider?
JFC tl;dr.
Actually it was the reverse, the MindGeek guys started buying out paysites, then studios after devaluing the content via their free tube.
Why are these insufficient? What abstractions should we building on?
How to just get the 'medicinal' effects of strace with no overhead (2017)
> I'm sorry, if you think people that it is acceptable that a lot of people in future generations get sick and die

Oh yes, because the contaminants polluting the Earth from solar panel manufacture are so much better[1]. And let's totally ignore that coal power is actively spewing radioactive soot into our atmosphere and water and food right now at this very moment day in and day out[2]. Who cares about that, right?

Oh, but surely we can bury those byproducts deep in abandoned mines where they're relatively isolated and quarantined... oh... wait... hmm...

If you think that it is acceptable that a lot of people in current and future generations get sick and die, because of our myopic and irrational fear of a power source the harmful byproducts of which are trivial to contain, I can't help to consider you as evil.

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[1]: https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt... ← In fairness the situation is apparently improving, and future technologies will hopefully make this less of a problem, but this is nonetheless a problem now, and unlike nuclear waste we're doing far less to try to contain these pollutants.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_co...
Thanks! We've updated the link from http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2010-07-17-what-to-know-b....
Ironically, sitting where I do (in the London bubble), it feels pretty uncontroversial to me that the right to have an abortion is self evident, whereas free speech is not clear at all--the competing interests of the individual and society have to be balanced. So, for me, the Guardian reflects the perspective it is embedded in rather than having an agenda which is pushed e.g. because of a wealthy proprietor.
This is anecdotal but I can speak for the high net worth individuals I work with in NYC.

Most of them will occasionally take the subway, depending on time of day and where they are traveling. However, all of them travel by car when more convenient (which is often). They also tend to schedule calls during private vehicle commutes (impossible on the subway) and they'll sometimes put up with longer travel times in order to do so.
Fast bitset decoding for “average” densities
yes, i wasn't suggesting it should ascribe meaning, only that it's particular artificiality does not allure me.
One of the Largest Dark Net Markets ‘Of All Time’ Falls to Police
Can't say it better.

I welcome your thoughts on swarmdb http://github.com/gritzko/ron-cxx

That is syncable RocksDB with CRDTs inside. Pre-alpha.