skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just money? No. Money doesn't ever solve problems. The effective use of said money does. You can't find effective uses for money without trying to see what works. Most cities have homeless if some sort. My small city has a homeless population and it took my church guaranteeing to donating time just to keep people alive in the winter. The mayor here routinely destroys places where the homeless live and takes all their resources in the middle of winter. Does our effort help? It keeps a lot of them stay alive over the winter. We also have a community meal on Saturdays to give people community and companionship. No government here helping, but it does require a lot of time and money.
> Hasn’t all of this stuff been obvious forever to programmers?

I don't think so, considering all the devs who called others "paranoid" before for raising these issues.
As much as people like to hate on Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd had positive things to say about the changes she made. He gave her a lot of credit for laying the groundwork for things that eventually worked out.
This post is missing lots of information and explanation. It doesn't mention any of the solutions to the problems that he describes, and most of them have variety of solutions.
How USians see Aldi..
https://youtu.be/mXHJN1nsJ1Y
When we talk about clinical trials, we are often interested in answering (1) a primary outcome, which is articulated as a specific yes/no questions based on a measurable clinical outcome, and then (2) a series secondary outcomes, which are answers to auxiliary answers. Clinical trials are usually designed to answer a specific question for a specific population.

Many (actually, most) children born with myelomeningoceles will develop hydrocephalus, which is a mismatch between spinal fluid production and resorption. This is usually treated using a ventriculoperitoneal shunt -- a shunt that diverts fluid from the brain to the abdominal cavity. Shunts can be life saving, but most eventually stop working and need to be surgically revised.

The MOMS trial compared the need for VP shunt and mortality between pre-natal surgery and the standard practice (i.e. post-natal surgery). So: unfortunately, the results of this trial do not generalize to your situation.

However, many academic medical institutions with neurosurgical and rehab departments have ongoing studies related to spinal cord injuries. There are a variety of surgeries that can help people with spinal cord dysfunction who have specific clinical problems (e.g. bladder control, contractures, etc.).

There are also clinical trials that have looked at restorative neurotechnologies for people with spinal cord dysfunction. For instance, check out:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30382196

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30462658
I don't think someone deserves to be destitute just because they have a fragile worldview and are sour at their poor prospects. Material security is a great way to deradicalize people and keep them from getting there in the first place.
If you do it in a very public way then other people also have a right to very publicly call you out for that. Nothing personal or binary, just typical public character assassination
This looks related to something that's mystified me for years about Safeway.

Background:

- Safeway rotates every product through "sale" and "full price" periods. It's a strictly calendar-based thing; every sale price is going to recur if you wait, and every product will spend a lot of time at "full price" and a lot of other time at two or three different "sale" prices.

- Triscuits come in a variety of special flavors.

All triscuit varieties go on sale together. If triscuits aren't on sale that week, you can get whatever flavor you want. But if a sale has happened, the Parmesan Garlic flavor is probably sold out. This happens, reliably, every time triscuits go on sale, and affects only the Parmesan Garlic flavor. To get that flavor at a sale price, you need to be in the store near the beginning of the sale period.

To me, the diagnosis is obvious: Parmesan Garlic is more popular than every other flavor, and Safeway should stock more of that flavor than they do of other flavors. But though I've observed this for years, they don't. All flavors get the same shelf space, Parmesan Garlic always sells out quickly, and Safeway appears to be happy to forgo the lost sales of Parmesan Garlic triscuits that they could have made if they'd just had them in stock.
As an admitted traditionalist concerned more about consumer comfort than company, some of these are the reason I don't and wont shop at Aldi. It's funny because depending on who you talk to, some of the same things that are seen as inconveniences to some are seen as beneficial to others. It's also funny to watch some of the same people laud inconveniences in one company and bemoan some of the same inconveniences in another.
Why does it matter if it's real work, versus just resembling real work?

At some companies the work may be of a nature that it's easy for someone to jump right in and do $500 worth of work in a reasonable time. At other companies, identifying the work, scoping the work, vetting to work, finding an owner for the work, etc adds up to enormous effort and is not even close to worth it. For those companies (by far the majority I would guess), it's going to pay off to have one or a few projects that they give everybody.

To the candidate, it doesn't matter. Whether they see it as a waste of time or an investment depends only on whether they end up getting the job.
Serverless analytics to capture and query clickstream data
The unfortunate thing is that Facebook uses their outsized, monopolistic assets to purchase competitors. So, at this point if you want to avoid Facebook, you must essentially avoid all popular social networking online. In my line of business, attempting to market without using Instagram is like tying a slab of concrete to my leg.
They would just reduce the price until it does sell.

Also, packaged food like this typically last at least several months, if not a year or two.
I deleted my Facebook about 5 years ago but hung on to my Instagram. I was never very active, but about a year ago I noticed a similar trend to the behavior you describe: I’d post something and wait with bated breath to see how many likes it got. Didn’t like how that made me feel, so IG got deleted too.
I wonder if Quake will happen.
What have you added other than to change "I" to "we"?

How does one determine what values are pertinent to "we"?

"don't enable harm" (ahimsa) would seem to be a "we" universal, but how to scope it?
That's why I advocate using UT1 in programming (like Julia), where all of the above is true. The cost we pay for that is that a UT1 second is not exactly a SI second, but I don't see how that matters except in GPS etc.
For example to check inventory/stock before going there.
Yeah totally. Building a website is exactly the same as giving hundreds of thousands of people lung cancer.
Couldn’t agree more. Though I don’t dismiss Facebook and its primary products so easily.
Sorry, but that's not a vcf. It's a tsv of genotypes. Here's the spec for VCFs: https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/VCFv4.3.pdf
At my previous job, "Formatting" task was the first thing pipeline did. It was really simple - it ran the same "make format" target you could run locally, except it was configured in a way to fail if running "git diff" afterwards resulted in any changes when running on the build server (git diff -s --exit-code). Of course, when this failed, none of the other tasks in a pipeline ran so it forced you to format your code correctly if you wanted to see build results. You could just commit the next commit with "formatting" message but the idea was to just change the history since commiting was happening on dev branches - only when everything in the pipeline passed things could be merged on stable branches.
I tried to, but it's impossible to resist temptation to rearrange stuff in the bags on weighing platform. The machine then seizes with complaint about unexpected stuff in bagging area. So I gave up on that.
I think they do have them. They know phrases like "Unexpected item in bagging area".
Actually, after thinking about it, I do agree with you on platform-wide permabans, they just encourage trolls to find ways to create throw away accounts.

Timed bans (with exponential increase for reoffenders) or permabans with a process to lift it are better. Then trolls who can be beaten into submission would be, those who can't will get effectively permabanned eventually and public places can be kept one step away from being toxic cesspools they would otherwise turn into.
For other stores, generally to ask if a product is in stock. For a grocery store, all I can think of would be to ask if it's open.
2013 MIPS on Cavium as big endian -vs- Intel x86-64; appeared to work, did not. Page size not an issue, appeared to work, occasionally crazy with dumps containing values that are recognizably scrambled.

It's been awhile since then, but that was our experience. I don't have access to the records or email from the time. Maybe it's been fixed.
Ohio State team doctor sexually abused 177 students over decades
IIRC, it's not so much abandoned as in what the author considers a finished state. I still use it and actually just paid another year's subscription.

Like you say, there are some missing features, but it does what I need it to perfectly.
> But after a couple of times, such mistakes graduate from “oops” to negligence.

Once again I think when you are dealing with a very large number of transactions there will simply always be screwups. To insure zero defects would raise the cost of the good or service to an unacceptable level. It's bad but my opinion is it's not criminal.

What's interesting though is that the tech business (and software in particular) is probably the most vocal (say here on HN) when mistakes happen in some other business (or a software business that is not theres) but at the same time for what they do (their own product or service) they regularly turn out non perfect products and experiences that regularly annoy, aggravate and create problems for users. Now none of this gets people picked up by the police but who says that that in particular is the gold standard of 'bad thing to happen to someone'. I wouldn't want to be picked up by the police obviously but then again some companies crappy software can actually create much greater aggravation and harm than that police event.
I agree. I think problems would be more likely if they started a directly competing product with HPC in the name, but an unofficial acronym for the joint name of 2 merged companies? I don't see it.

On a related note, would they be more complimentary or competitive to HPC Server? Both Cray and HPE seems like they're more focused on the hardware and possibly userspace applications than a proprietary OS. I'm pretty sure modern Cray's are Linux-based, and I don't know if HP-UX is suited to running a supercomputer, but even so it doesn't seem like it's core to HP's business - just one of the products in their portfolio that can fit where needed.
Making sense of CHAMP, the silver bullet miracle missile that isn’t
Also in the rare case that a cart is abandoned someone will quickly bring it back or use it themselves. The person abandoning the cart basically pays the finder
Thanks! Glad you found the site useful. Unfortunately, we were too far ahead of the time in lots of regards--processors were slow, screens were bad, battery technology iffy, no mobile data service that normal humans could afford... These days an iPhone costs just as much as a Magic Cap device did, and you can definitely see that that's what we were trying to accomplish, but there was no way for General Magic to stay in business long enough to see it realized.
Let’s Not Put the Government in Charge of Moderating Facebook
They aren’t free if you don’t have a quarter on hand.
Not on this particular bag, but I don't find it to be a problem. When I'm traveling in Europe, I'm often walking enough to want it (train station to hotel, etc). My wife always uses the hip strap - when the bag is full, it's not light.

This bag is really intended to be a true do-it-all pack. I've seen other brands with removable straps, but I've found those tend to be very minimal straps and not all the useful. I have other lightweight packs without waist belts.
lol, I know what the term means, thanks.

Anyway, a 100x tracking surface area is pretty accurate and not an exaggeration in the least; if anything it is too conservative of an estimate. Just Android, search and analytics on their own are easily 100x the tracking surface area of everything Facebook does, that's without considering:

gmail, home, docs, amp, drive, maps, hangouts, chrome, chrome os, messages, voice, ads, gcp, youtube, firebase, music, waze, play-store, places, wallet, domains, duo and so many more. I don't understand how this isn't completely obvious.
Creating a Chat Window Using React, Material-UI, Hooks and PubNub
Does Cray manufacture their own silicon? I did glance through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray including reading the lead, and did the same Google search... while I'm sure I could dig deeper, maybe it's fun to let people here say what they know :)
I've bought two pairs of boots from Aldi - one pair about a decade ago and are still my favourite pair, and another steel-toecapped safety shoe that I wear whenever I need to go to one of our manufacturing sites. Super comfy. And I think they were about £20 a piece.
To find out something about the store; hours, events, product availability, etc
It would be nice if the US Aldi stores were similar to the current stores in Germany and Scotland I have seen. The ones I have been to in the LA area feel like how Aldi was 30 years ago in
Germany. Super cheap but crappy products. Not like the European stores where you can find cheap high quality stuff.
I'll add that you could have figured out that there must be exothermic ways to sequester CO2, since CO2 naturally is scrubbed from the atmosphere by some process. If this process were not exothermic, CO2 would just accumulate in the atmosphere until the Earth resembled Venus.

https://skepticalscience.com/weathering.html
Open API Spec is just a format for documenting HTTP APIs. It has no opinion on how you design your API, whether it be RESTful or not.
I've always been a double-quoter, in contrast to most Python devs I know/work with. After we standardized on black, I got some satisfaction seeing all of my coworkers bend to my will (/s).
Their duffels are nice, but be sure to check the dimensions. They tend to be longer and narrower - while they'll probably squish into an overhead, they aren't optimized for that usage.
https://man.openbsd.org/unwind.8 uses libunbound; it detects whether local DHCP DNS is working, works correctly with captive portals, and supports opportunistic or strict DNSSEC.

This was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738313 in April
This is perfect, there is little fun in having to deal with HDMI and, especially, USB. Impressive, too!
FB was the primary tool of RUS Intel Agencies' Active Measures attack against the US 2016 elections, against the Brexit vote, and against multiple EU elections.

They utilized Cambridge Analytica, Russian 'Internet Research Agency', and thousands of paid & unpaid trolls to micro-targeting voters for their specific psychologically tested anger trigger points, with billions of impressions of the same in the US alone,

FB at best ignored/minimized the entire episode, dismissing it for many months afterwards.

These attacks are in no small part responsible for the current administration, and at the very least for their inhumane anti-immigrant policies that have resulted in multiple deaths.

The administration, along with the Russians, is actively working to undermine every independent democratic and law enforcement institution that will not act as a support of the rule of them as an autocrat, vs the rule of law.

FB may well go down in history as the key element in the destruction of democracy itself.

That alone is a far larger consequence to the smoking epidemic (& I lost my grandfather to that).
E-commerce will be shaken up by EU PSD2 in 2019
Notes on High Growth Handbook – Elad Gil
Yield of explosives is generally measured in kilograms of TNT, that's why.
There is a theory floating around that part of the benefit of SSRIs is that they make the user feel differently, and by feeling different it is easier to change behavior. This is independent from whether the way SSRIs make the user feel is a more adaptive state to remain in continuously over long periods. If this is true, the "therapeutic delta" would wear off as user acclimates to that SSRIs effects.

SSRIs can cause unpleasant and even dangerous withdrawal symptoms when discontinuing long-term use, so there are real benefits to minimizing overprescription.
I work in computational science. Not sure how I feel about this. HP has not had a great track record as of late and I don't know what this means for continuing support of Cray systems already in use.
Will Smith He Knows ( Ana Robertson)
I've never seen it anywhere. I have heard of it, but in the two regions I've lived (Northeast and Midwest), never seen it.

I wonder why it hasn't taken off. My son used to work at Walmart after school making around $15/hour to do little more than round up carts in the parking lot and bring them back into the building. Considering how cost conscious Walmart is, I'm surprised.

However, Aldi is putting up a building across the street from my local Walmart, so we'll see what happens :-)
VGA and especially PS/2 are getting rarer by the day, if anything having extra ram can be handy for fully utilizing all the I/O a board has to offer...
boy do I feel the same. He recently tweeted something to the effect that 'all employees should worship entrepreneurs for taking the risk of starting a business'. Now apart from the fact that only a minority of people can afford to take such a risk, have the right personality for business, the right connections, education....just...what a condescending thing to say and coming from a man who has no 'skin in the game' himself.
On the other hand his work on unveiling the myth of IQ is laudable.
His writing is hard to read and his acrobatic algebraic manipulations are impossible to follow. He's a dick but I like him.
The VGA and PS/2 are bitbanged in software so it'd work just as well
3com, Phoenix Technologies, EDS...
I think it’s extremely important to know how many homeless are profoundly addicted and in a state of total collapse vs how many ar employed but at too low a salary to obtain stable housing. I don’t think this disctinction exists purely to judge, not at all.
This is a bigger issue than immigration, and the EFF isn't taking a position on immigration.

The EFF identified abuse of the CLETS system before immigration became relevant.

It's now relevant since a new California law prohibits use of state resources for federal immigration enforcement (except for prosecuting property crimes and violent crimes).

So using CLETS to support mass deportations of people who aren't wanted for property crimes or violent crimes is unlawful.

Are we a nation of laws, or is it just ideology all the way down? Do we expect law enforcement to follow the law, or can they break the law with impunity?
How narrow those two choices are! The correct answer is obviously to use single-quotes for keys and key-like cases and double-quotes for values. Make formatters impossible to write! (last sentence very /s, but that style actually exists)
It definitely can have the problem of making one group get less attention. However, the solution to one isn't the same as the other. Helping someone who's in the street because of a mental illness means providing them with treatment. Helping someone who's in the street because they can't afford it means more housing, more job, better minimum wage, whatever.

You want both to happen, but its important to know that there's two category of things that need to happen.
IMO the two major issues blockchain faces are 1) the oracle problem, and 2) competing with simpler legacy solutions.
You'd be surprised at what all counts as an "innovative" concept in the US. Coming over here from Europe as well, the country is 30-40 years backwards in many areas.

(We do have wheel clamps, though ;)
Agreed, and a quick shout to migadu.com for email. I’m a long time happy Fastmail customer but Migadu’s offering is interesting and different enough to have a look at.
Perhaps they did. I probably shouldn’t have been so certain in my wording. I likely did not check the Spotify playlists when I first got the service. It’s been a while now.
This is absolutely true. Another way of saying this is: at a population based level, a very cheap and effective way to decrease the incidence of spina bifida is by providing folate supplementation. However, some mothers are genetically pre-disposed to having children with NTDs, and certain medications interfere with metabolism and can increase the risk of NTDs.
I remember. I was in my early teens when he was murdered. I did not like his speaking style. It felt too elitist; distanciated / detached.
This was in reference to many other things going on at Google.

It was in Google’s interest if everyone went along with it. They haven’t. Perhaps the strongest opponents now are the webmasters who added amp support and then lost rankings, users, and as revenue.

For all that Google has, they have zero control over the platform the majority of the wealthiest internet users in the United States use — iOS. If Apple doesn’t like something, Google has to care.
I honestly didn't realize that Cray was still around.

My dad has told me that when he was in grad school, the Cray was the coolest machine out there, and it felt kind of like magic to him. Do they still do hyper-efficient vector machines?
Getting a fat car loan is much easier if your credit is good, you aren't in debt, and your income is relatively high. It's an indicator of relative wealth.
That was years ago. The HP that exists today is certain a place things go to die. I'm not sure what HP does these days but like IBM it keeps tugging along on its brand name without dying.
Psychologist here.

The arguments you're making could really be applied to healthcare in general. Others have pointed out the comparisons to insulin, etc. I think you've basically made an argument for single-payer government healthcare.

However, it's really not true that the typical mental healthcare user is a chronic user. The modal number of visits per outpatient therapy client/patient is 1. Many people feel better after one visit, or decide they don't need it, or it's not worth it (some of it is probably related to availability too, to be fair--they'd like to come more but can't afford it or can't get into the therapist's schedule). You can extrapolate outward from that. Many people come for a few sessions, and then stop without any explanation because they're feeling better but don't want to have an awkward conversation about stopping.

The current zeitgeist with therapy is to taper off or terminate as soon as possible, and reinitiate as needed, at least in the US. My sense is the pendulum has swung too far in the shorter end of the spectrum, and a lot of people would benefit from more sessions, but even when they can afford it, are being cut off as soon as possible by therapists who are afraid of being seen as stringing people along. In some ways this is a good thing, but therapy length should really be dictated by need (short or long).
Perfect! Now what about 3G/LTE?
Well, I think one group can be diverted towards receiving mental health treatment of some sort, while the other requires a higher salary and/or more affordable housing.
Well they aren't really for sale or rent either. Not sure what your point is?