skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://chriskresser.com/when-your-normal-blood-sugar-isnt-n...

In this study, people with FBG levels above 95 had more than 3x the risk of developing future diabetes than people with FBG levels below 90: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(08)00231-3/fulltex...

This study showed progressively increasing risk of heart disease in men with FBG levels above 85 mg/dL, as compared to those with FBG levels of 81 mg/dL or lower: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16207847
In the light of the recent story on how YouTube and Google Docs put up banners about not working with IE6, I would not put it past them to do something similar any time the user did something that Google did not like.
I spoke imprecisely and I appreciate the opportunity to be more specific.

You're right that the Nation promotes the inherent superiority of black people. I didn't mean to endorse that view.

Many of the narratives that describe worlds where black bodies are "lesser than" white bodies are written by people who believe in white-supremacist ideas (even if they don't support the philosophy explicitly - Thomas Jefferson comes to mind). These are not "white supremacist" texts, but they assist in shaping a world view that a white supremacist likes.

The texts and ideas promoted by the Nation are generally explicitly founded on black supremacy (which is unfortunate) but also portray black bodies as superior to white ones - a rare trait. If I can see the good, lofty goals of the US Constitution "through" slavery and the designation of black people as being only 60% the value of whites, I can also appreciate the Nation's work through its own incorrect racial hierarchy.

I also think that both white and black people can appreciate the heritage they come from[1]. The struggles of black americans against all odds are, to me, unambiguously heroic. The innovations and inventions of white americans' European (or American) ancestors are, I think, also worth celebrating.

[1] This gets very tricky because, of course, people who want to promote white people as inherently superior often take this tack. Culture is hard and messy and I think we probably come down a little hard on celebrating European history, but I think we should be far, far, far more celebratory of the the insane stories of various African Americans. Check out this dude! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls

Edit: Also we must keep in mind that the magnitude of the problem is related to the amount of power the particular group has. If a prisoner is espousing a philosophy that makes prisoners superior to other humans, even if it's incorrect, it's hard to argue we "need" to crack down on it. Narratives of white supremacy are so harmful precisely because white people have been in a position to ignore the welfare of other groups.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/ was just updated, showing "Network Infrastructure" is down across the board.
You're welcome, and congrats to y'all on the launch!
Might just be the fact that they are quickly getting dated, especially the models with less than 100 miles of range new. Like back when you upgraded your computer every 18 months.
From the Documentation page[1]:

> Robust - behavior is correct even for edge cases such as out of memory.

> Optimal - write programs the best way they can behave and perform.

> Maintainable - precisely communicate intent to the compiler and other programmers. The language imposes a low overhead to reading code and is resilient to changing requirements and environments.

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/
You're right - Article 3 of GDPR defines the scope as applying to any user residing in the EU. If the users are not logged in then you don't know where they reside (IP address != residence), meaning any international company that operates in the EU needs to err on the side of caution for non-logged in users everywhere.
You can judge programmer's ability in 60 minutes. Can someone program? 60 minutes is way more than enough. How great of a programmer are they? You're going to need more than 60 minutes, unless already had a chance to look at their prior code base.

What's difficult to judge is, are they organized? are they hard working? how do they handle stress? how's their communication and attitude? do they write great documentation? do they test their code? are they a great team player? how creative are they?

Due to time constraint of an interview, someone might be more sloppy than usual. Their might be the interview stress which is different from regular work stress, interview stress can impact their communication, etc. But if we focus plainly on technical skills, you can flush that out in 60 minutes.

I'm a hiring manager, and I have never failed in hiring someone who didn't have the required tech skills. Technical ability I can always hit spot on, the tough one is determination and soft skills. Some of the folks I took chance on, who displayed terrible soft skills during interview turned out to be champs, communicate great, work hard, etc. A few that were very eloquent during interviews were a disappointment, sloppy in development, poor communication in practice, etc.

People also grow, so someone that was a bad fit/interview for you, could in a few years grow and become great. Potential is also difficult to spot.
Indeed, I've put together a simple example of using puppeteer with faast.js in this repo: https://github.com/faastjs/examples/tree/master/aws-puppetee...
Someone better tell the South Side Irish to call off their 2020 parade.
So can you on Linux. Libraries are installed with their full version in the filename (e.g. /usr/lib/libpurple.so.0.13.0) so you can keep lots of parallel versions.
I'm wondering if a tipping point will be reached where so many people will be deplatformed that users will start to flock to uncensored sites (think of Gab, but it doesn't have to be Gab) en masse to be able to read what they want to read, to the point where those sites will have enough "normal" users that they won't be complete cesspools like Voat is.
> No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be.

This is DEMONSTRABLY untrue. I highly recommend actually hanging out with and chatting with autistic people.
Right on queue, Azure is currently having some pretty massive issues. All our deployments are having issues.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/
The problem is these people will have quit their previous job and maybe moved.
They aren't self-anointed. We anointed them by using their platform. They're only gatekeepers because we user keeping choosing to walk through their gate instead of choosing any of the many other paths onto the Internet.
I haven't had a full panel of biomarkers tested since the fast. I will post here when I do.

The only obvious changes have been
1. Smoother, younger looking skin with fewer blemishes
2. I look ripped
For what it's worth it's even worse than this, since I count 629 references to other IRS publications in that guide.
We’re probably all better off because some people have autism. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an evolutionary explanation for its prevalence. However, there are so many consequences to being “abnormal” that most neurotypicals would refuse to be reincarnated as autistic if given the choice. If you have autism, the traits conferred by the condition have become part of your identity. You very well may not see it as a disease the way that some people do. There’s no escaping society’s judgment though. Many social interactions are worse, and if they’re not it’s because you’re expending energy to hide yourself.

We must all become more accepting of each other and broaden the range of “acceptable behavior.” I was at Starbucks yesterday and overheard 2 friends dissecting everything they didn’t like about other people for over an hour. The subjects of gossip didn’t seem to have wronged them in any way. Why is this a normal thing in America? Do we have nothing better to do than judge others?
One problem is that the lack of ability to express empathy oftentimes come across as cruelty. Not always, but quite often.
Singular "they" still sounds wrong to me every time I see it. Which is a shame since it would be very useful.

Perhaps more importantly, I don't think singular "they" would be considered proper in formal writing.
A jet exhaust would change noticably as the aircraft rotates. If it is only racing away on a fixed line, maybe not, but otherwise I would think so.
How did you get on Azure to begin with?
> The whole idea of free speech rights rests on the assumption that speech can cause action.

No, free speech is a natural right. The recognition of free speech is not contingent on any outside factors aside from the recognition that humans speak just like they breath.

> There have been quite a few recent shooting sprees where the perpetrators either explicitly referenced online personae, or the investigation revealed they consumed these sources predominantly.

So? Did these shooters also go to the grocery store? It's ridiculous to ban Coca Cola because a shooter predominantly drank diet coke. You're a) inferring a spurious causation simply because you want there to be one, and b) even if there were a causation, that does not entail that the online personnae are in any way responsible for the shooter's actions.

> The idea that people aren’t influenced by what they read seems somewhat indefensible, anyway.

Who's defending that? The issue I'm raising is who's responsible for someone's actions. Speech is not action. The most widely recognized limitation on free speech is treating incitement to violence as violence. That's perfectly reasonable. Is that the case here? Doesn't seem like it, because if it were, they'd be charged with crimes.
Finally! I was playing with using code-server or live share to do exactly this a few weeks ago. I love this. I used to have TRAMP in emacs and thought that was an absolutely killer feature. Yet another reason I am finding myself (as a die-hard Linux user) saying I like Microsoft more and more frequently.
This is how many of the countries around the world treat it. You can thank the folks that lobby the government on behalf of tax prep companies for this convoluted mess we have. The more confused we are, the more money they make.
No, it cannot be. Publishing, and only publishing classified documents is protected under the first amendment[1]. However, Assange helped Manning gain access to and procure the classified documents which is illegal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
For the first time in history, it is now possible to be obese and malnourished simultaneously.
So someone asks for a nexus between Milo and white supremacists, and someone linking a source with a video of him serenading neo-nazis with their arms stretched out gets voted down?

The it’s-about-free-speech-not-alt-right-sympathy shtick really needs some update...
Yes.

> Editor’s Note: We wanted to clarify something for you after today’s news: Rocket League is and remains available on Steam. Anyone who owns Rocket League through Steam can still play it and can look forward to continued support. Thanks!
Thats it, Im only going to support intel from now on. /s
I want to really love this post. But I am not smart enough to know why it’s awesome. Anyone care to give a digest for mere mortals?
"Editor’s Note: We wanted to clarify something for you after today’s news: Rocket League is and remains available on Steam. Anyone who owns Rocket League through Steam can still play it and can look forward to continued support. Thanks!"
That's a backwards interpretation of demand. Buying a good has the effect of increasing scarcity and thus increasing price.

You could just... decide not be in the market, despite being able to afford it. Market price is defined by what people are willing to pay for and sell for. If you are not willing to pay anything for a luxury condo, that reduces the price for everyone by making it less scarce.

You don't have to buy all the luxury condos in existence to eliminate the market. If people decide not to buy them, there is no demand, by definition.
Don't forget the crazy complications of multi-state taxes. One year, I ran into the issue that one state (of which I was nonresident) wanted me to compute the state taxes of my state of residency before I could compute its taxes, while my resident state wanted me to compute nonresident state taxes first. I only broke the cycle by noticing that one of the extra schedules had listed in the instructions to use that schedule if you were trapped in said situation, but such information was not listed elsewhere in the instructions.

To be fair, though, I think my situation was the single worst possible pairing for multi-state tax situations.
He's a rabid anti-semite and has been for most of his career. His hate for jews is on the same level as Alex Jones' hate for gay frogs
That works until someone gets really mad because you are ignoring them (and you are, actually, ignoring them for a couple hours).
Cost of living too high.

I've currently plenty of space and a half hour commute. That wouldn't be possible in Munich even if I got paid much more than now.
Battle Creek? It's not Salt Lake City or Clearwater. The Adventists don't comprise an overwhelming majority of the town by any means.

Whether you, an outsider, would want to move to a mid-size dying industrial town is also a question worth asking.
In internet discussions, people say "write fizzbuzz" because it's a well known trivial problem.

In an interview, they ask you to print the numbers 0..n to the screen, while replacing numbers divisible by 3 with the string literal fizz, and numbers divisible by 5 with the string literal buzz. The biggest trick or gotcha is that they will also specify that numbers divisible by 15 should be replaced with 'fizzbuzz', but they'll probably say 3 and 5 instead of 15.

If your list of accomplishments is really as impressive as you say, you can write a loop, a conditional, and use the modulus operator. And honestly if someone couldn't figure out modulus, they might still be able to pass. (But I'd be VERY curious about their background)

Fizzbuzz is not a trick question. It's not a difficult question. It's not meant to make you look stupid if you know how to program. It is only meant to check whether you understand conditional logic and looping. It's intentionally chosen to be the lowest of low bars, because there are so many people who literally can't program but apply anyway. All it's meant to do is weed out the people who have never programmed in their life.
Safetyism

I'd highly recommend the book "The Coddling of the American Mind." I just finished it and it talks a lot about our current cultural migration to seeing words == violence. Words are NOT violence. Violence is violence.

Eric Clanton, a UC Berkley employee hit a trump supporter with a bike lock, causing a skull fracture. He got three yeas probation. I'm not a fan of Trump either, but he could have killed that man, and should have gotten at least 3~6 months in jail for assault.

Violence is violence. Words are not dangerous (with the exception of specific calls to violence--which are not protected under US speech). New Zealand is fining a man $10k NZD for distributing the recent shooters manifesto; which honestly just makes that Aussie loon's words even more valuable in the eyes of many.

As far as the article and social media, who cares. Maybe this will finally get people to start paying to host their own stuff again. Big centralized social media is the opposite of what originally made the Internet awesome. The big players are focused on money, making us cattle, and their services have been shown to make us more anxious and depressed.

FB can do what they want with their platform, and if these people are calling for specific violence (Jones sometimes does cause he's just a moron; the others listed are fairly careful though), well that's not even protected under free speech laws in countries that have them.

I extract my Facebook events via the ical link and use the messenger with 3rd party apps. When I do log in to Facebook, I go directly to my profile page and I have 50+ notifications. I want to try to hit 100.
Ask HN: What Happened to HARC?
https://harc.ycr.org/

It was launched by YC a few years ago, but appears to have vanished entirely without so much as an announcement. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
Y'all is often singular. Y'alls and All y'alls are plural.

There's also youse, seen in Irish english. (at least in the Dublin dialect, can't say I've heard it much in the north)
Functions need to be idempotent, so you have to assume they will be retried. Faast.js will proactively do retries in some cases where it thinks a function is slow, to reduce tail latency.

If a function fails to execute for transient reasons and exceeds the retry maximum (a config setting you can change), then it will reject the return value promise. You can catch that and handle with another attempt, or report an error, or just ignore it and report less accurate or complete results.
True. However there is also this perspective: https://sivers.org/kimo
Jones never promoted the harassment of victims of crimes. Can you support your statements with some direct quotes? Or are you promoting the harassment of Jones with unfounded lies?

Undermining the public trust of institutions is alive and well in the discourse of the US president, who openly erodes trust in the media, the FBI, the DNC, and the IC (including limited support of anti-vax views https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/44952526852981555...). Should the president enjoy protection against de-platforming when others get banned for less?
This is how I interpreted it's usage too. We've all started an instance on DO/AWS/GCP/ETC for some batch job were we wanted 32 cores or whatnot. This lets you use lambda's for the scaling instead of the cores directly. How efficient this is performance wise I have no clue.
Expensify! I work as a remote engineer, but we have remote employees all over the world (Europe, Asia, North America, Australia) that don't have their salaries adjusted for COL.
"For living-room players, Scrabble is about language, a test of vocabularies. For world-class players, it’s about cold memorization and mathematical probabilities. Think of the dictionary not as a compendium of the beauty and complexity of the English language, but rather as a giant rulebook. Words exist merely as valid strings with which to score points.

A Scrabble board after two top players are finished playing on it might look, to the uninitiated, as though they had played in Martian. Here’s a taste: In a single game in last year’s Nationals, Richards played the following words: zarf (a metal holder for a coffee cup), waddy (to strike with a thick club), hulloed (to hallo, to shout), sajous (a capuchin, a monkey), qi (the vital force in Chinese thought), flyboats (a small, fast boat), trigo (wheat) and threaper (one that threaps, disputes).

Top players tend not to be novelists or poets, but more often computer programmers or mathematicians."

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-nigel-richar...

Sidenote on replacing Q and Z: "Qi" and "Za" are common and useful ways of using q/z which also readily support replacement. In my experience, this is the first "rules change" that one encounters when going from casual Scrabble/Bananagrams/etc to something slightly more competitive. Enabling or disabling these two two-letter words in particular has a huge impact on the game.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-qi-and-za-changed-s...
The reason for the high rates for mobile homes is due to the depreciation of the home, the difficulty in being able to reposses it as well as the low credit ratings of most of the borrowers who live in mobile homes. It's not just rich billionaires trying to rip poor people off, there are many factors at play in the industry that need to be addressed. Another issue is how to appraise/value a mobile home. There are currently no standards for appraising the value and most appraisers are inexperienced in mobile home valuation. Not only that but the fact mobile home values are effected by lot rents by the parks makes it even more complicated.
I'm guessing he inherited it. I'm guessing most people on this thread are in that boat.
I'm very interested in building an MVP that completes federal w/ appropriate schedules. Crowdsourcing state-level rules would be possible but you need some really passionate developers willing to do mountains of exceptionally boring work (imo) for free. Best to initially skip e-file and export PDFs users can cross-check and mail out on their own.

The only thing working in your favor is that you're building against a fixed spec. Unfortunately the specification is deliberately confusing and you'll probably never be able to scrape or parse those rulesets programmatically.
Consider the following scenario:

Two threads both want to MMAP a file / catch SIGSEGV for different pieces of code.
Moreover, these threads come from different modules of a system maintained by different people.
All of a sudden, these modules become coupled because we need some system for delegation of signal handlers between them.
Or, we need to introduce a custom signal-handler module to deal with our delegation.

I would not call that 'playing nice with threads' nor would I call that sloppy thread programming.
Colleges aren't good because of prestige or acceptance rates, they are good because they have good faculty. Everything else is a result of having sought after faculty.
Does anybody know why in the world Wyden was behind this? I thought he had a pretty good grasp of things until now.
I don't really want or need an SF salary, but I do expect a company to compensate fairly and not based on where I live at any given time. I can understand a reasonable adjustment based on the different compliance costs and payroll expenses for a given political jurisdiction.
"They is having a great time."

It does sound wrong for some uses of he/she.
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> Where do they find these people?

The article explained that...former police, prosecutors, and spies. Usually retired gov trained lackeys with questionable morals, high fees, and plenty of useful connections with some utility to the private world.
Lebanon used to have vast forests of cedars, but they were all cut down in ancient times.

I guess there aren't too many logging jobs now in the middle eastern deserts.

Once you cut the old growth down, what regrows is not the same landscape. I know most loggers don't care about this, but many of us do.

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-cavernous-world-u...
Secretly recording people is legal in many states and from public property in most. Paying off sources is usually legal. “Hacking” is too broadly defined, some of it is legal in some situations, most isn’t. Stealing by definition isn’t legal.
Met police’s facial recognition technology ‘96% inaccurate’
A new car would make my life better. Will you buy one for me with your paper money?
I always burst out laughing when I hear this. Mostly because the people saying it assume that themselves are not mediocre but good/great people.

Reminds me of the anecdote when a Google hiring committee in Kirkland was tasked to judge each other's original (anonymized) interview feedbacks and everyone failed everyone else.
Is that a word for poor quality control?
It's May 2 here, am I in the future?
it looks like CreditKarma registered the tax version Tax Karma https://taxkarma.com (the WHOIS https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search/whois/taxkarma...)