skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hegel aims to discover the fundamental structure of everything from pure reflection alone.

Ok, so after his navel-gazing was tested against observation, how accurate was it at describing life, the universe, and everything?

The problem with linking small pieces of science to large works of metaphysics is like finding shapes in the clouds or "Five ways TV shows predicted the future!" If you have enough material to sift through you can draw a circle in it and decide this particular piece of the morass is significant while ignoring the rest of the meaningless unfalsifiable piffle.
As decided by the cartel of med schools
Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science
They tried the standardized tests thing in Ontario when I was in school, so I guess the 90s. All it led to was teachers teaching to the test.
I have the feeling that most developers these days suffer from too much tooling in every area. And would be 2 to 10 times more productive without it.

Most friends that I watch doing their deployment would be way more productive by simply using rsync for file changes and raw database queries when the DB needs a change.
Emergency departments basically never make money. When they are economically viable, emergency departments effectively function as a loss leader to get patients admitted to the (sometimes profitable) inpatient facility. You therefore can't really build an emergency department unless there is also demand for inpatient facilities in the area.
Because OP has an incentive to continue supporting his library
Firefox Lockwise – Take your passwords everywhere
Vitamin D deficiency actually really common, especially with dark skinned people living at higher latitudes. Most office people could do with a bit more UV.
Email. Matrix. XMPP.

All of these have a very important aspect in common: you can choose your application you want to access the network with. I'm tired of needing to use The Official®©™ App, and Signal is no exception. It's also a single entity thus being a single point of failure.

If you really want to make a difference please try to make people to migrate to something open. Quicksy[^1], DeltaChat[^2], something. But not another, essentially closed platform.

[^1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...

[^2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.delta
You have to go pretty far down the development scale of nations before you get to undrinkable tap water.

I didn't have any problems drinking the tap water in Bangkok for a week, for example.
My friend knifed his baby's finger open at a backyard bbq in Mountain View and we had to wait six hours for a couple of stitches in Palo Alto on a Sunday evening starting at 9pm. Extrapolate that wait time to poorer areas, to people who don't have health insurance, to people who have other obligations...
Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. I seriously doubt that there is an innate barrier against regulating your consumption at least a little bit. If you blame external factors exclusively then you will obviously never change anything about your life and never discover what was inevitable and what wasn't.

You can try your best and still fail, but what you can't do is pretend that you don't have a choice presented to you from the outset.
That and inventing exotic financial instruments which benefit an infinitesimal fraction of the population.
Because I didn't write one before, I made a new one with the projects I remember: https://github.com/youknowone/ring/tree/feature-table#featur...
Hi - I'm Jon, creator of "Flaptastic" (https://www.flaptastic.com/) and passionate advocate for unit test health.

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Flaptastic is a test suite plugin that works with a SAAS backend that is able to differentiate between a unit test that failed due to broken application code versus tests that are failing with no merit and only because the tests are not written well. Our killer feature is that you get a "kill switch" to instantly disable any unit test that you know is unhealthy with an option to unkill it later when you've fixed the problem. The reason is this is so powerful is that when you kill an unhealthy test, you are able to immediately unblock the whole team.

We're now working on a way to accept the junit.xml file from your test suite. We can run it through the flap recognition engine allowing you to make decisions on what you will do next if you know all of the tests that failed did fail due to known flaky test patterns.

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From the article you linked:

> Eating more red meat under the Paleo diet paired with a lack of whole grains results in higher levels of a biomarker linked to heart disease

WITH A LACK OF WHOLE GRAINS. Does that mean that red meat is the cause or that the lack of a balanced diet is the cause?

> The places in the world that have the best health are the ones that eat fewer animal products.

Where's the evidence for that claim? If we look at the life expectancy for each country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

The US ranks at #30 out of 180 which is quite decent despite their huge consumption of animal and more importantly processed foods. The countries which are at the bottom are there not because they consume animal products but because they have poor living conditions and little to no health care available. Meanwhile Japan is at #1 and all kinds of meats including raw are a frequent part of their diet.
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I honestly can't tell if:

a) you've failed to parse the prose you quote and think that it's complaining outright about universities allowing in applicants from "disadvantaged backgrounds", when in fact it is complaining about allowing in applicants specifically because they are from disadvantaged backgrounds who would not meet previous merit-based admissions criteria, or

b) you genuinely mean to imply that advocating for the ideal of meritocracy is not merely flawed but somehow equivalent to supporting a policy of explicit racial segregation and class-based admissions, or

c) something else entirely

I'm downvoting, primarily because the ambiguity about what you're trying to say makes this comment impossible to substantively engage with.
Yup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
probably...like...

If you want people to take your arguments seriously you should back it up with facts.
I think the opposite. The dual purpose of schools to both teach and grade should be separated into two separate types of institutions. Grades and pressure are detrimental to learning and only exist because schools double as certification authorities. If you think about it more closely, though, these are very different functions and there is no a priori reason why they should be done by a single institution.

How about we make schools about learning at your own tempo, because you want the knowledge? Schools should strive to be excellent at teaching, enabling you to learn easily, not forcibly push it onto you, making you die from stress.
> Earning money means somebody loosing it. It is only possible to earn w/o somebody loosing by either narrowing the definition of somebody, or limit the time frame in which the process is occurring.

That's absolutely not true and completely at odds with any kind of mainstream economics.

You're focusing on money, where what you should be really focusing on is wealth - and wealth can absolutely be created "from thin air". (Luckily, money can also be created from thin air to keep up with the new amount of wealth in the world, but that's a whole other topic).

The simplest example of new wealth creation is new technology - if I figure out a way to make the same product, only faster/better/etc, then I'll be able to offer the same "product" at less money, thereby making everyone better off. Assume for the sake of argument that I'm the only one creating this product - in the real world, this might hurt competitors in the short run, which makes sense - it gives me an incentive to create new technology! But technology propagates in the long run, so eventually everyone is making the prodcuts more cheaply, and anyone who buys them wins.
Librem 5 – End of May Progress
Towards a Kubernetes Native Future
I'm going to assume this is accidental, not intentional.
When there is effectively a religious commitment to the assertions you're making, why worry about justifying them?
If it's got CORS enabled you can do a hell of a lot more than ping your server.
> WHATWG is basically the browser vendors sidelining W3C to discuss what features HTML etc should have.

One way of looking at it is who has final say what ends up in the documents. That seems to be what you're discussing.

In the W3C, that's the Director, Tim Berners-Lee. Except, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, he has delegated all his decision-making powers to W3C staff. So ultimately it is the W3C CEO and the folks he hires.

In the WHATWG, that's the browser vendors (i.e., the WHATWG Steering Group). I find the WHATWG model to make more sense, as I think what ends up in specs should match what the implementers plan to do; that makes for a more useful spec ecosystem for everyone. When you diverge too far from that model, you get circa-20004 W3C, i.e. XHTML 2, XForms, XEvents, etc.

A different way of looking at it is who contributes to the discussion and development of features. In the W3C, that's paying member companies (https://www.w3.org/Consortium/fees, $2.25-$77k/year in the US). Although anyone can comment on GitHub, to contribute ideas that get incorporated into the specification, you need to be a W3C member, for IPR reasons. (Or invited expert, but that has its own problems; see https://medium.com/@tobie/w3c-doesnt-help-its-invited-expert...) In the WHATWG, anyone can contribute; the IPR concerns are taken care of by signing an agreement, somewhat like an open-source project CLA, but that agreement does not require paying membership fees.

Overall, I think the WHATWG structure, of being open to input from all (instead of pay-to-play), with the spec tracking what browsers intend to implement (instead of tracking what W3C staff deems good), is a pretty great model for standardization.
Okay, so they have added more people there than the last time I looked (which was pretty much all google except for 1 mozilla person). Thanks for pointing towards that link.

Still seems a pretty small group to control something so important, but I hope they keep improving and adding more people there from other companies and countries.
I had a serious complication of a medical problem a few years ago. After being bedridden and unable to lie flat for over 3 weeks, I developed a pilonidal cyst. This is a small abscess, usually from an ingrown hair, that expands into a cavity at the very base of your spine. I was in severe pain, had a visual lesion, and was almost unable to walk.

I went to an urgent care clinic. The friendly staff told me they did not take my insurance, but could do it immediately for $380 in cash. As I was hoping to find someone who took my insurance, I declined. I went across the street to the emergency room. The person at check-in heard "pain" and "back" and seemed to immediately decide I was a drug addict. 30 minutes later I talked to some decent check-in staff who told me they would give me surgery for it.

I ended up waiting in the ER for over 3 hours. When they finally did the surgery, it took about 10 minutes. Somehow, they messed up the billing. The charges were over $1,200 for the 10-minute surgery that the Urgent Care offered to do for $380. After moving out of state, I called multiple times to get them to properly charge my insurance. They failed to do so, and sent the entire bill to collections 90 days later.
After reading that book a couple of years ago I've wondered if psychopaths are a lot more common than previously thought. Am I one myself? I mean, how can you know for sure? We have no way of comparing our inner workings with other people. Even brain scans are not 100% conclusive, see the link below.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-a-psychopath-brain-look...
Back when school was hard we built the space shuttle. Now they it’s easy we built facebook. I agree.
Is it normal that they repeatedly mention in their status report/blog post that they've contacted the "FBI" ? Is that normal practice?
I hate this, though it is a kind of poetic justice for the way Windows 10 fights tooth and nail to keep you from switching your default browser away from Edge.
Assuming "success" encompasses "productivity"

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-your-iq-strongly-influen...
Container Tabs are so nice.

I honestly haven't run into slowdowns - maybe on Youtube where its known that Google doesn't play nice with other browsers.

There's also the whole issue of not letting Google control the web but that's for a different time.
> randomly disabled the modern YouTube experience

Sounds like an experiment designed to measure the effect of the new version vs. old version for the new browser.

> it’s very odd that Google would prevent users... from using the modern YouTube experience

Not odd; experimentation is very common.

> This is most likely an error on Google’s part

More likely author doesn't understand what they're talking about.
Basically Google doesn't allow development build Edge users to browse the preview YouTube?

Doesn't seem like someone at Google hates Edge, just looks like they didn't test their brand new YouTube on every browser yet so just limited it to heavy Chrome users.

Or am I wrong?
While that's true for a single dev, I think that quickly falls apart at scale.

The raw DB queries will invariably exist on someone's hard drive/in their head and be lost forever when they leave the team.

The rsync for file changes will result in developers stopping to ask each other "did this get rolled out yet?" multiple times a day.
Even People Without Mathematical Training Experience the “Beauty” of Maths
I think if there were more primary care doctors people wouldn’t go to emergency rooms. You shouldn’t have to go to an ER if you have fever.
been using https://www.react-spring.io/ with https://github.com/d3/d3-ease to good affect
Actually it is common requests from the users but it wasn't solved yet. I will check the project, thanks!
Almost certainly unintentional. They're likely confused by a new User-Agent string or some feature detection gone wrong.
Now we have two claims that are light on evidence (evidence that good teachers get better results is not evidence that this is the actual reason for increasing grades.)
Hospital complexes are large, distinctive, and attract a lot of traffic. Check your city’s zoning map - existing hospitals are probably in a zoning category of their own, and they’s unlikely to be any spare hospital-zoned land. At minimum it would take a big land use fight, before even getting into medical and public health regulation.
Your brain has seen them already, that is enough..
I don't want to pollute my mind if I can choose, ads are already omnipresent.
In military/spy discussions, “open source” means “doesn’t require a spy to collect” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence ).
The abuse by the Google Chrome team never ceases to amaze me. I feel trapped on chrome simply because of my reliance on Google drive/docs, which are handicapped on browsers like Firefox.
Folks may find the more-detailed blog post linked at https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/05/w3c-and-whatwg-to-work-toget... to be more clear.

Also, for the full details, here is a direct link to the agreement: https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html
Robot companions can make sex better, safer, and encourage sex-positivity
an "urgent care" can also do stitches for injuries like this
Given a comment on the article that user-agent switching seems to fix it, I'm going to assume the same. Just another overly-aggressive user-agent check, instead of using feature checks.
The polymer UI does seem to work perfectly if you set the user-agent to Chrome Windows in devtools -> network conditions.
Pretty checkbox – Custom checkbox and radio buttons in pure CSS
Where are the dead grad students?

Oh, there aren't any? Then there's no 'cold fusion' taking place.
50th seems a bit of an anomaly in your list? Otherwise there would be no stop between 42nd and Columbus Circle (I assume you mean the AC line?)
Not making a comment on the veracity of the article, but the source is "Animal Frontiers", the journal of "The American Society of Animal Science (ASAS)" which is "a non-profit professional organization for the advancement of livestock, companion animals, exotic animals and meat science" [1]. They are not agnostic in the meat vs vegetarian debate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Animal_Sci...
The Health Care Benefits of Combining Wearables and AI
They are illegal imports. The country, standing for the people, does not want buyers/sellers to have trash be imported through cargo containers. Drugs "imported" don't have be sold on if Malaysia doesn't want them, either.
Does rewriting git history to remove any trace of the secret not completely wipe it out from GH’s end? I know of a few secret-scrubbing tools that aid in this process.
I don't think grades convey a meaningful comparison of two or more candidates for jobs or any other activity where credentials come into play. In part due to grade inflation and also due to not being descriptive enough.

There is nothing wrong with comparatively ranking individuals for selection, but what does a 0.25 GPA difference really mean? It doesn't tell you anything that helps you understand the candidate.

Instead of GPAs why not use cumulative scoring of major subjects to show total capability. For example, in math you learn to count, do basic arithmetic, algebra, etc. For each topic you earn a point on completing the concept which goes toward your total score. By the end of highschool you might have a score of 1000 points, by the end of a somewhat math heavy major you might have 2000, nd by the end of a math intensive PhD you might have 3000-4000 points. Then, when you're looking for talent you can focus on scores for the skillsets you need.
> That was a major focus of HTML5, as well, which was more successful at enabling that (arguably, it was more of the focus of HTML5, Which didn't try to impose major syntactic change as well, even though it also supported an XML form.)

I agree. Don't confuse my interpretation of the point of XHTML with some sort of endorsement. For the record, I think XHTML is an unnecessarily complex standard that results in more work for little added value. I do recognize, though, that the point of XHTML is unrelated to its success to that end.

Comparing HTML5 to XHTML is also a bit of a no-brainer. There are 14 years between their introductions, and HTML5 obviously had a history of lessons learned from XHTML to take into account.

> Semantic soundness in the strict sense has always been something of a niche concern, not something hat was a general web dev industy goal and then abandoned.

What is the strict sense of semantic soundness? I'd agree that few people care about semantic soundness even in a general sense. I frequently see documents where the presentation seems prioritized over content. But the ambition did exist at some point, and was more of a mainstream concern in, say, 2005 than it seems to be now, and the idea of a more semantic web was peddled by big names like Tim Berners-Lee.

> Table-based layout remains an accessibility problem, which is a more practical issue than abstract concern for semantic soundness (though related).

I'd say that they are strictly related. You improve accessibility primarily by improving the semantic representation of documents. I don't see semantic soundness as an "abstract concern" for this reason. The most useful screen readers unfortunately seem to rely on some level of guesswork to make verbal sense of documents that rely on spatiality to communicate element relationships.
I'm guessing you have no physical issues and don't think twice about walking 10 blocks. I (usually) don't either but that doesn't describe everyone and am able to just grab a cab or a Lyft if not.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. I am happy that Malaysia is taking a stand and is refusing to be a dumping ground for trash. I am sad that all of this plastic is coming back to the US where I am honestly unsure on what they will do with it. I am mad that it has gotten this far and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.
Read a paper: Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
> I am sorry, how is this different from Google recording my location data?

There is no difference. There is a fight for privacy against almost every big tech company. It became a norm for these companies to collect data in recent years. And we just realized how powerful and destructive it can be and everybody is fighting back.

Chinese are just under the spotlight because of the trade war and bold statements from Trump administration. Otherwise, many American tech companies are also accused of collecting data inside and outside the US including Google which is probably the worst.
Just a reminder that this isn't just Canada, it's an international committee representing countries totalling half a billion citizens. There's no question that Facebook does business in Canada or any of the other countries in question. Facebook is international and has set up satellite offices around the globe in order to have a presence in these countries. It was my understanding that their growth in these regions and others was hugely important to them.

I think this goes beyond the logistics of "is it reasonable for a CEO to bother meeting with legislators in every country in which it does business" and is a matter of whether Facebook is going to be answerable at all internationally, and what the optics look like of an American company doing business in other nations where it will not make top level executives available to answer important questions.

Does this mean that Facebook simply won't make its top level executives available to any other country? Is there a population threshold? Will Zuckerberg or Sandberg only meet with Presidents/Vice-Presidents, etc?

I can't help but feel like Facebook is held to a hugely different standard in these cases. I don't think people would think twice about expecting Mary Barra, for example, to travel to Canada to be answerable about GM vehicles being sold into Canadian territory if Canadian officials had concerns.

It also seems plain as day to me that Facebook's top brass simply do not want to answer these questions. They would rather send representatives to face the tough questions on their behalf, which are problematic on their own, leading to troubling and unsatisfying public exchanges [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI4cBp5DfZc
Is there any popular web based business that isn't a bait and switch?
Could be. I only know environments where every project has exactly one team member who can push to production.

Usually the version control happens in git. And the person who can push to production is also the person in charge of the master branch.

I always structure teams that way. So I cannot speak for other structures.
1) Vast amounts of regulation.

2) Liability.

3) Special interests (not just pharma and insurance, hospitals, doctors, nurses as well).

4) Supply constraints from the above listed reasons.

5) People who go to ER instead of primary or urgent care, some who can't afford it others just from ignorance or panicking.

Probably more reasons I'm unaware of.