skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is likely the core of our disagreement; Healthcare is not essential, it's a luxury that has been afforded to us by those who were willing to study and learn how to do it in an advanced manner. No one has a 'right' to a healthcare professionals time and effort, same as no one has a right to my programming ability or an uber drivers driving capabilities. To phrase that in the positive light, everyone has the right to the product of their own labour, including healthcare professionals, regardless of the social cost that brings.

Leaving healthcare to 'market forces' is nothing more than leaving doctors alone to do healthcare as they please and for a profit that they earn, rather than using government to force prices down and make them work for less than they're worth.

I'm not opposed to a health care option provided by government, but it has to be optional both to pay in and use in order to be a morally sound imo.
So Tesla competes in the premium market segment and outsources support, partially, to Google search, YouTube and do it yourself-tutorials? Doesn't sound very premium to me. Cars the age of the average Tesla are supposed to run. And for that price tag customers can and do expect prompt service.

But I have to admit, marketing vise Tesla and Musk are even better than VW. Which is an achievement.
Philosophers can have a long discussion on ethics. There is no universal truth to the subject. You can turn God, the gods, and many other philosophers. Take your pick who you follow, there is no universal law saying you are right or wrong.

The average person in our society has decided that killing other humans is generally unethical, so it is. Most people have some sort of exception to that rule. Some people allow the death penalty for various crimes against their ethics (no universal truth of what is a crime exists). Some people allow for some area on the scale of where someone needs medical care for their cells to live. Some people allow killing before birth. Most people allow war in some part. I have my own opinions on the above, you do as well, but they are not the point. I'm sure we disagree on something.
Alabama Lawmakers Vote to Effectively Ban Abortion in the State
Does this mean that Google's disappointing lack of dark mode support will change? It's pretty disappointing, given that they themselves have admitted that their omnipresent white drains device battery life faster.
I did know PHP. I was actually pretty good at and wrote non-trival software in it. Even then the relationship was pretty abusive. Even when I was writing bug free code the author of a library I was using wasn't or a co-worker wasn't.

It may in fact be that PHP has improved to the point that the relationship isn't abusive anymore. But I'll never go back to find out. PHP and me were done years ago.
Same here, indeed. And for 3 decades too.
Here's my humble contribution to provide a clearer explanation, and a simple live demo with source code, of client-side prediction, entity interpolation, and server reconciliation: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.... It's a relatively popular alternative source to Valve's (excellent) documents.
Actually it isn't obvious. It only seems like it is obvious because most of us share some values.
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING

if TYPE_CHECKING:

import whatever

def foo(param: 'whatever'): ...
I installed Kiwi Broswer and have been super happy with it, a fork of Chrome with no tracking, ad-block and built in nightmode
One great thing about macOS is that Apple provides a couple of tools to extend existing apps. The other really great one is Automator Services/Quick Actions.
Yeah, I am disagreeing with the choice of a market solution for something which we want to make available to people who can't afford it.

That's not what markets are meant for or good at, especially not the deregulated free market that is often meant by questions like yours. As for a tightly regulated market with lots of requirements about coverage and price, some states already have that, and it's exactly those tightly regulated markets which the "let insurance sell across state lines" proposals want to disrupt.
>I always assumed I'd have kids, but I've changed my mind, at least if I stay in the US.

The US is a terrible place to have kids. It's not just the family court system; this is a country where you can be arrested for letting your child run around outside without supervision, where you have to worry about your kid being killed in a school shooting, where you can't let your kid walk to school, where college costs are astronomical, where the teen suicide rate is very high and rising, I could go on and on. It's just not a healthy place to raise children. If you want kids, you should move to a better country for it, like any place in western Europe.
Imagine sitting 8 hours in front of a screen.
Lots of little details.. Do you know how tarantulas mate?

When a male has his ultimate (final) molt and reaches sexual maturity he is a completely different spider. During this ultimate molting process he obtained his sexual organs, which are bulbs (emboli, plural; embolus, singular) on the end of his pedipalps that are used to transfer sperm from his sperm web to the female. In many species males also have tibial spurs, which are "mating hooks" on the underside of the tibia (or long segment) of the first pair of walking legs and are used to engage the female's fangs during mating.
taken from here: http://www.tarantulas.com/sexing.html

So the males dig a little hole, lay a sheet of silk over it and deposit their sperm in this little 'bowl'. Then they suck it up in what is effectively syringes that
are developed at the end of their pedipalps. They use those to transfer the sperm to the female
In capitalist societies with high socioeconomic mobility (where your socioeconomic status is only loosely correlated to your parents’), there are good reasons to believe high socioeconomic status correlates to some sort of genetic fitness.

Such economies typically have strong public education, fair hiring practices, low barriers to entrepreneurship, and a strong social safety net.

The US had such an economy in the post WWII years, but economic mobility has dropped in recent years. (Probably because we gutted the educational system, and bankrupt people that get sick. Also, WWII trained an unprecedented number of mechanics and engineers in the US.)
Classic Mistakes in Software (1996)
Some of the less corporate coworking spaces still offer this sense of a working community with people from diverse backgrounds, minus the public masturbation (I hope).
I always try to get the first appointment of the day. The thing that annoys me to no end is that doctors are already running late by that time. Sometimes I think there's a basic lack of respect for their patient's time.
Old PHP projects can be upgraded in the present because backwards compatibility exists, as i metnioend in other comment I done such a small upgrade and I hat to change only 1 deprecated function with a different one.

If this would not have been possible the project would have still be running on an old version without security fixes and slower(eating more electricity so bad for environment)
I was a FF on android fan for year but wouldnt take the initial super long page loads anymore. The first webpage of the day was taking 10+ seconds to load, almost like it was fighting with DNS. I switched to Kiwi Browser and have been super happy. Fork of Chrome, lets you use any extension you want, no tracking and nightmode
I'd suggest thinking through the Usenet model. What it was, what worked, what did not.

And the design and flaws of HTTP basic auth.

Keep in mind that FB are now deleting ~1m accounts/dy, employing over 30k reviewers.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FY_NtO7SIrY (at about 10m50s).
I a developer on FortressOne - a still actively developed continuation of the original QuakeWorld Team Fortress. We have an extremely active community with games taking place nightly. It's a testament to Carmack that his code from 1996 is still widely used in 2019.

https://www.fortressone.org
Wow, so Musk used one of his companies, SpaceX, to fund one of his other companies, SolarCity. And when the latter one was going down the drain he used his third company, Tesla, to buy the failing one and save both his own and his first companies investment. Nice.
I love watching Rust progress. But the #1 thing I'm watching is the RLS and vscode plugin. Maybe I'm weird but I work with so many languages that having to manage multiple editors is a non-start. So any time I have a little personal project that could be done in Rust (for learning) I end up using Go or Python instead because the vscode support is still quite buggy.

Naturally others will say you don't need IDE-like support and that's fine. It's just the way I enjoy learning. Autocomplete is an amazing learning tool.
Not even bill murray?
sorry it wasn't a gotcha point. I've heard ppl say that but I could never get a good answer what exactly makes 'genetic modification' more dangerous method vs 'breeding' method.
Can you believe it you've already finished C, think you can do Matlab?
You actually have to make it deliberately slow if Google's js is disabled? that seems a little malicious...
-minority of owners will experience Tesla "service hell"-

Just make sure nobody crashes into you or damage your bumper!
That's a flour, and applies to the Bob's Red Mill product you linked elsewhere. Food industry products are very often significantly processed. Again, think tofu, not soybean flour. Your soyburgers don't taste at all like edamame, either.
Three privacy-focused browsers in 2019
> No one is saying we shouldn't have new generations. We should stop growing the population. This means the number of births and the number of death each year would be about the same.

The problem in the west is not a growing population, but a decreasing one.

> The max population of the earth is debatable, but the fact that there is a limit is not.

Yes, but here we are talking about the US population of $327 million decreasing. The population on earth is 7.53 billion and it is growing elsewhere. Are you arguing that a reduction of the US population serves some larger purpose so we should not be concerned about our culture?

> As far as fewer inventions, why focus on giving everyone a good education? Then we would have more than enough people to give us the technology needed to survive.

I'll focus on higher education since in the US other levels are both free and mandatory.

Access to personal growth opportunities is very important. However, data indicate universities are often not the answer to that and it is also questionable if universities makes someone more creative [1]. Regardless 60% and increasing of the US population has taken some college.

In addition to this it is worthwhile considering what the less creative people are taught to follow in universities. Universities seem to be the center of our cultural decay and an anti-intellectual attitude of not teaching core ideas have taken hold in many schools.

Why do you think higher education would help create more innovation?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/d...
See for yourself:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=Diffraction+&_from=R40...
How ?

~ php --version
PHP 7.2.17-0ubuntu0.19.04.1 (cli) (built: Apr 18 2019 18:01:25) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.2.17-0ubuntu0.19.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
~ cat test.php
<?php

echo strlen("ùé");
echo "\n";
echo mb_strlen("ùé");
echo "\n";
~ php test.php
4
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You've already experienced it yourself. Once you find yourself in a situation that needs more than what is offered by the device you find yourself trapped. A dedicated NAS device, even a really basic one, wouldn't have the issues you have.

Also, there are small, quiet[er] NAS devices around. A bit of searching found me this: https://nascompares.com/top-5-silent-and-low-noise-nas-of-th...
App Development Cost: Understand Your Budget to Build Powerful Apps
You don't need to try to induce it in humans, you want to create treatments that work.

In this case the study in rats provides an interesting hunch, that food restriction and excessive exercise seem linked.

Then you can certainly run a trial where you either eliminate exercise or not, and see if it makes a difference.
I wonder did they try to hand it all off to archive.org first
Features, Things and Points Announced at Google I/O 2019. You Missed No. 45
Show HN: Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization
It raises a lot of questions, though. What does "moral value" mean? Why should something be "alive" to gain "moral value"? What has "life" got to do with "AI"? And what kind of "scientists" would get involved with this kind of waffle? Perhaps, with the current state of our knowledge, these questions can not be answered!
No. You are putting words in my mouth and accusing me of being extreme. I am NOT promoting one paradigm over the other. TLDR? I hope you read my stuff. I find it rude if someone just comments with a one liner and summarizes everything I said into a catchphrase that is a perversion of the truth. I feel like a presidential candidate.

Anyway, this is what I am saying:

If you use functional programming your code will be more modular and reusable because the paradigm forces you to be that way.

If you use Object Oriented Programming your program will automatically be less reusable and less modular but more object oriented.

This is all I am saying. Your mistaken statement that I am promoting one style over the other is based off of this assumption: Modular programs are better than less modular programs. This is not True.

Something like a physics engine is a better fit for OOP then it is for functional. Although your program will be less modular as a result, OOP is still a better fit because physical objects are easily modelled with OOP objects.

Trees, graphs and algorithms involving things of that nature are a better fit for objected oriented programming then functional because many of these algorithms involve mutating nodes. Again, if you follow this style your program will become less modular overall as a result.

The ideal program is one that spans the spectrum of both OOP and functional. When it calls for it use functional or OOP depending on context. Overall for complex web applications that most startups make, in my opinion, the program should be more functional then it is OOP. A web request is basically a function that takes in a request as an input and outputs a response. The form factor of a function better fit for this, and you get high modularity as a side benefit. There is no point in simulating the request/response paradigm in a stateful Object while losing modularity in the process.

For a game. OOP is better in my opinion. Gaming entities involve constant mutation of things with state so OOP is a better fit. UI is a better fit for OOP as widgets are better represented by objects (FRP aka react&redux, imo works well but is an awkward abstraction)

There is one exception to this rule. In general Objects in object oriented programming are not compose-able. However, Smalltalk is an object oriented language where objects ARE compose-able. Smalltalk is the language that coined the term "object oriented" and although it is no longer popular as it was before it is still a very robust language and learning from it has huge benefits.
I think you mean 2500 TB/kg, not PB/kg.
The conclusion is where the gold is at:

> One of the most useful things to come out of mystudy is a collection of the rules of thumb my friends use in their decision making. For example, one of my Ph.D. advisers, Fred Mosteller, told me, “Other things being equal, finish the job that isnearest done.” A famous physicist offered this advice: “Don’t waste time on obscure fine pointsthat rarely occur.” I’ve been told that Albert Einstein displayed the following aphorism in his office: “Things that are difficult to do are beingdone from the wrong centers and are not worth doing.” Decision theorist I. J. Good writes, “The older we become, the more important it is to usewhat we know rather than learn more.” Galen offered this: “If a lot of smart people have thought about a problem [e.g., God’s existence, life on other planets] and disagree, then it can’t be decided.”

> Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind, and you’re hampered by not having any,the best way to solve the dilemma, you’ll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No — not so that chance shall decide the affairwhile you’re passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you’re hoping.
They announced coming dark mode support like 6 months ago. Android Q has it system-wide.
I would take a look at all the jobs on our board in Broomfield, CO. Not all are Java or Full stack. We write the job descriptions for ideal candidates, but we are specifically looking for Sr/Principal level engineers, and will pay accordingly (10-15 years experience).
China-US trade war heats up: Reasons it won’t cool down anytime soon
It's cheap and works without the smartphone

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=Diffraction+&_from=R40...
Automation continues to reduce the fraction of people that need to work.

Also, we won’t need nearly as much new construction, which frees up a ton of workers.

I don’t think an aging population is likely to lead to labor shortages any time soon, at least in the US.
Certainly one day the system will be unsustainable. You can sustain growth for a little while with a stable population by increasing consumption, but once the succeeding generations have the same number of buyers or fewer, it becomes very challenging to find new dollars to buy more goods.

As to your question about the snap... 3.5 billion would be an economic disaster and because people have fewer children it would take forever to rebuild that wealth.
8 seconds is not a reasonable delay, and AMP pages work perfectly fine if the JavaScript is blocked. Which is going to annoy users more -- a slight delay in a font's loading or an 8-second delay in the entire page's loading?

I suspect that Google is trying to get most users to not block their JavaScript by making their access to "the Web" unbearable if they do it. (For other types of user punishment, see the other article on that site: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/removing-your-site-from-amp... )

I put "the Web" in quotes, because a "standard" that requires you to load JavaScript from Google's servers, lets other sites serve your content while spoofing the URL, attempts to fundamentally change the way navigation on the entire Web works (portals) without input from other browsers, and that most people have to be coerced to use by reducing their traffic if they don't implement it, can't seriously be considered a real standard.
You sound just like a baby boomer complaining about how all music is bad these days. There's no new pattern here: good design, like good music, is remembered while bad design is forgotten. There were repetitive design patterns and lazy emulation ten and twenty years ago, just like there are now, but we don't talk about them much.

I personally coded way more table based drop shadows, tickers, and splash screens than I wanted to. Those ideas then, just as now, came from lazy product managers, small budgets, and general mediocrity.
> There's an issue with that thought, won't it be unsustainable after the population reaches a certain threshold?

Perhaps, but the hard limits set by physics are probably ludicrously high, and the soft limit set by physical and social technology can, in theory, improve alongaide population until they hit the hard limits.
> it's unethical to let people run themselves to death obviously.

It's also unethical to let rats run themselves to death, and it wouldn't pass an ethics review board if you suggested an experiment like that these days.
> I think it's just a cheeky joke. The point it underlies is rooted in truth - that it's really difficult to master both frontend and backend development in real life.

That comment on the post sums it up perfectly, in my opinion.
There's a Hole in Mars' Atmosphere That Spits Hydrogen into Space
my iOS phone freezes approx twice a day for 2 seconds whenever i type text. I remember playing with the keyboard buffer overflow sound when i was playing on my cpc464 (as in 64k of ram and 4Mhz cpu) in the 80s, and it took me longer than that to trigger it.

"The mess we're in" famous talk by joe amstrong should be transformed into a website listing all of those absurdities, as a way to public shame the culprits.
Do you know how tarantulas mate?

I know what they look like, but--as alluded to in another comment, I have a touch of the fear of spiders due to a horrifying experience playing in the woods as a kid.

The hilarious paradox here is that I find them incredibly interesting creatures to read and learn about. Just not look at.

So the males dig a little hole, lay a sheet of silk over it and deposit their sperm in this little 'bowl'.

Is this a reproductive process that's unique to tarantulas (in the arachnid kingdom, that is), this sort of "prepping" of the sperm before transferring to the female spider? I would guess it has to be based on what I recall--please give me the correction if I'm wrong-but most web dwelling spiders lay their eggs in webs, the tarantula likes dirt and soil, so their reproductive workflow demands a "dirtier" method? Sorry for the pun.
I think one thing overlooked with solar panels is their short lifespan and the toxic chemicals they leak into the environment when they are disposed of. There isn't much regulation on how to handle the material waste from solar panels, wind turbines, etc. And with the current threats to the oceans, fresh water, and soil from climate change, agriculture, and industry... it doesn't seem to me to be the one we should rely on.

Nuclear has been, and maybe should be, the way to go. Even with the horrible accidents that have happened, it is safer than coal and has caused less human harm as far as I can tell. I'm sure most people who are experts on this know more. Maybe we should bump nuclear from a footnote to the leading header: nuclear with a light mix of other renewables.

However none of this is useful if there isn't a unified push from all countries across the world to rally together and make this happen from policy all the way down. This is a problem facing humanity, not any one nation -- but people everywhere.
So glad to see a plug for Anki!

I use it quite a bit, for spoken language learning, programming language learning, and more.

I helped a friend get set up for Anki, and it was quite a pain, so I wrote a guide to using Anki for programming practice.

If it's helpful to anyone else, cheers!

https://josh.works/anki-spaced-repetition-system
40 minutes of an unpatched computer on that network was 35 minutes too long.

We'd also develop inside VMs. That is, we'd install Visual Studio, our product, Seapine source control...
Tangent (or OT), something I've been struggling with as a new macOS user, how do I get keyboard repeats working? I understand they removed repeats so that a long press can offer accent characters.

I've done `defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 5` or something like that and it kinda works but somehow doesn't feel "right" still. Am I missing something obvious?
This video shows how the Owen Gun works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5kW4sKd-sQ

I think the Owen Gun is not just interesting because it was a successful indigenous Australian design, but also because it was so clearly designed for reliability. The Sten Gun in comparison was designed to be extremely cheap to manufacture and did not have a reputation for reliability.