skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was acne free as a teen, but was put on Acutane anyway. (Ah, the wonders of middle America being the testing bed and profit source of Pharma)

Remained acne free until suddenly getting cystic acne in my early 30s.

Here's what helped me:

- Do laundry more often ( Increase the rate you clean your: sheets and pillow cases!, face cloths, clothes. If this is impractical you can simply buy more pillowcases and swap out clean ones more regularly; especially if you're a prone to sleep drooling or have greasy hair. )

- Stop washing your face with soap ( Just use water and a wash cloth on your face; use firm pressure to get into pores but light enough to avoid giving yourself 'rug' burns or tears. This is great for exfoliating dead skin and removing surface oil. Do this twice a day; morning and evening. Buy multiple face cloths and use newly cleaned ones regularly; every 2-3 days. )

- Apply moisturizers twice a day; morning and evening ( My skin had an amazing response to Sea Buckthorn: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438513/ . Its coloring is very intense so for my twice daily moisturizer I cut it with Rosehip Oil usually only putting 5-10 drops per 2 oz of Rosehip; experiment for your skin color. To increase my skin's recover time and the effectiveness of the Sea Buckthorn I will take a regular long bath where I apply it directly, almost like a mask, and wipe it off after the bath. It has proved great at reducing redness and blemishes as well as healing open wounds such as exfoliated dead skin and bleeding pores. )

- Spot care for cystic acne with pure Salicylic Acid ( Only rub this on cystic pores. Avoid trying to pop any pores without a clear white 'head'. )

- Cold showers ( Or at the very least end the shower by holding your face under cold water to close your pores. )

- Exercise ( General health will aide skin health. Also great for hormone balance which can be a cause factor for acne. )

- Wrangle your hormones ( Through masturbating less, and eating a hormone nutrition informed diet. For example, if male, eat more cruciferous foods for Testosterone maintenance. )

Hope these suggestions can make the difference they made for me for you too.
> Perhaps if you backed off for a second and considered the amount of wealth this person had to create...

It's possible that amount is zero, if they're just spending their parents' money. Plenty of multi-generational wealth sitting around.
These cars are technological marvels. They may have only one owner but they inspire millions of people. And some of the things found in these hypercars can find their way in your future car. It is like an experiment funded by a billionaire.

And when someone pays for one of these cars, he does pay for the education and medical bills of everyone involved in making this car.

These cars are not made from blood diamonds and the skin of endangered species. They are made by well paid, highly skilled workers and engineers. And they are proud of what they are doing.
In the 90s/2000s we were taunted with a nefarious “permanent record” that recorded all our evil deeds. Do they still use that on students? It even came up in a few Simpson’s episodes.

Somehow I haven’t seen anyone actually be negatively affected by this supposed record.
Mobility is where the Gold Rush is, OBD is the shovel everyone is fighting for
Long-time Linode customer here. What were the security screwups? I tried a couple searches but didn't turn up anything.
> I haven't tried to use applescript/automator with it so i can't comment on whether or not that works

It doesn’t. They don’t have a dictionary.

> but that doesn't seem like the biggest issue for most users, or even most developers.

I specifically said (emphasis added):

> But what kills it for me is their crippled AppleScript support.

Though I’m sure I’m not alone, because I have several users (of tools I’ve built that interact with browsers) and fellow developers that share the same complaint.
So easy for you to be sanctimonious from the comfort of your internet perch. How about you post the entirety of your purchasing history for the past year here and we will pick through it and decide which of your transactions are "absurd and obscene"?

Or maybe you can realize that moralizing about what other people do with their own money is the absurd and obscene thing.
Timing the release of relevant information for maximum impact is exactly what any self-respecting media organisation should do.

Your statement only makes sense if Wikileaks had similar information regarding the Trump (edit: or other conservative) campaign and refused to release it.
>Sometimes the Amazon protocol comes up (before a meeting, the organizer submits the topic in writing, everybody has to read it before), and I always cringe - in my experience most people just can't write a clear 2 page document [or can't be bothered]. I would love it tough.

At Amazon the protocol is to read during the start of the meeting. Typically this can be the first 30 mins of a 60 min meeting.
BlackBerry Messenger Shuts Down
I mean, the radius is half the thickness of the connector - it couldn't really be anything else.
Mental Models for Software Engineers: Occam’s Razor
This is wasted labor. These people could instead spend their time more productively.
Anyone who puts things in terms of Warhammer 40k armies probably knows a great deal about spending large amounts of disposable income for little to no actual benefit. :-)
> we’ve currently fallen back to interval based polling to refetch queries.

This fancy "subscribe to events when the results of this query change" system boils down to just polling the database...
That's a good question - if your business has no presence in the EU, then I would think the GDPR is toothless? But yes, I don't like such laws in general.

Although the attempt is certainly not the same, as I don't think you can get extradited for GDPR violations.
I am curious, what shady dark patterns, and what cavalier things have they done with the data? I know there was a data breach but anything else?
the whole point is that NASA isn't documenting this. go get a job in the industry and ask around after a couple of years.
>The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them.

I know this is medium's pitch to bloggers, but is it actually true? It is for youtube, but i'm pretty sure i've seen some blog posts about people having migrated away from medium with minimal change in readership.
Disagree. Yes, I am more libertarian here where I think anyone should have choice to consume ANY drug legal or not.

But even from a more mainstream viewpoint, there are lots of examples of for-profit medicine where a drug company pays for an on-label use via a study where off-label use is cheaper and similarly effective. For example Ketamine and Esketamine. One is very cheap and widely available one is very expensive and not widely available.

I hope we can address the fundamental problems with for profit medicine, I think this is just one negative externality of our crazy system.
Wars are bad (assuming they are usually started by "the bad guys" - an unreasonable aggressor). But, in order to stop the bad guys from taking over the world, the good guys need to sacrifice their lives.
Tracking.js – Computer vision library for the browser
Technically the democratic process is when the larger number gang tells the smaller number gang what to do.
New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications
Most likely not only are they aware but they have probably paid 10’s of millions in taxes, donated 10’s of millions to charity and created jobs for 100’s if not thousands.

The idea that they get money for nothing and spend it all on luxuries is very misguided.
For less common diseases, sometimes all medications are off-label, because the market is small enough that nobody will fund studies to get a new indication approved. There are approximately 100,000 human diseases known to science. Who is going to pay for new approvals (costing tens of millions each) for every single one? Should every patient with one of these diseases be yanked off their existing medication indefinitely, even if it works for them?
glibc has a reputation for being bloated. Here's a post from 2002 of Linus complaining about it, for example: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2002-01/msg00079.ht...

Independently of that glibc also has organizational issues. You see this in some major projects flipping back and forth on it, like Debian switching to EGLIBC in 2009 and then back to glibc in 2015. You continue to see this with the very slow (or outright rejection) adoption of new syscalls: https://lwn.net/Articles/655028/

It's important to remember glibc is not libc for Linux, and distinctly does not behave as such. If your platform is unapologetically Linux to the core, wouldn't you want something else that tracks the kernel API better?

And it's not like Android was unique in not using glibc, either. The *BSD's don't, either.
AI experts draft algorithmic bill of rights to protect us from Big Tech
Thank you. I was hoping to post these!
I think a real takeaway here is to avoid going all in on one hosting provider. You should always have "off-site" backups for mission critical data.

Yes, it sucks that DO did this. But this is hardly the first time someone got screwed over by some poor AI automated security. Backing up your data to backblaze or AWS would be the cheapest insurance policy you could buy.
That is the second most important thing why I'm using Firefox, I sync my passwords via my own instance of the sync server https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15. I don't even trust Mozilla not to do something stupid with my passwords (by accident) and Firefox was always the only browser which allowed to use your own sync solution.
Inflation moves money from the rich (who have assets) to the poor (who have debt). Can't have that...
Triple hosting costs?

Literally just push a postgres dump to S3 (or any other storage provider) once a night as a "just in case something stupid happens with my primary cloud provider". It'd take a couple hours tops to set up and cost next to nothing.
It's a common trend but I don't believe it's a growing one. Indignation comes up as a fast reflex response. Thoughtful comments are reflective and come more slowly. That's all one needs to explain why negative comments show up first.
Apple Plans End of iTunes
As a supporter of open source software, I wholly support Oracle's fight to catch Google trying to evade the GPL. I'm not sure how an open source supporter could really be supportive of your employer lifting from the paid version of a product to avoid having to comply with the GPL. Google's actions here pose a massive threat to anyone who has developed open source software funded by a commercial licensing option.

What I find dubious is not that Oracle might try to make a mobile OS (your argument against this is the subjective opinion that it was "awful"), but Google's claims that their use of the Java API was "fair use". Building a non-interoperable competitor for commercial licensing based on their work doesn't come anywhere near the terms of fair use. By Google's own admission, the choice to do this was an attempt to leech off of developer familiarity with Java rather than any sort of compatibility need.
It is impressive when you compare it to all the buildings built from wood framing.
Just do the needful and send your cash.
This is probably unwanted advice that you’ve heard before (I’m also assuming that you don’t cook as a result of inexperience, not just because you don’t want to), but I would recommend learning to cook for yourself at least a few times a week. It’s better for your health and your wallet, besides being a useful skill. You can make thousands of meals only knowing how to boil water.
Don't think of a Bugatti as a car. Think of it as a piece of art, because that's closer to what it is. Many of their customers will either never drive the car or drive it a half dozen times or less.

There may come a time in the future where Bugatti makes cars that aren't even drivable. It won't matter. People will still buy them. They could make an engine block out of solid gold and sell it and people would buy it just for the novelty.
Also, "dark kitchens" that support various food delivery services exist: https://disruptionhub.com/rise-of-the-dark-kitchen/
With nicer connectors, and non-standard connectors, there's usually additional manufacturing cost involved that makes for expensive plugs and cables. As such the standards get driven by every manufacturer wanting to save a few pennies on I/O, while acknowledging that some applications might prefer quick removal or a secure lock.

I have a pair of high-end AKG headphones that uses a "mini-XLR" connection. This is a non-standard variant of the popular 3-pin XLR used throughout pro audio equipment. When the provided cable that converts mini-XLR to 3.5mm TRS started failing, I went onto Amazon and found a generic $11 cable, but within a week of use it became clear that it was poorly made, with a metal cap acting as the only source of strain relief.

I've ordered another adapter, one that adapts the plug to 3.5mm without a cable, and it also costs $11. Not as bad cost-wise as some Apple device cables, but fingers crossed.
Please don't use HN for political battle and please don't use uppercase for emphasis. These are two of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> Oh and that 'separate space' is quite literal. Separate HVAC, separate electrical, separate sewer plumbing to the lateral with separate cleanout, and 1-hour fire rated separation on shared walls and ceilings.

Sounds like you wanted to rent out a bedroom, not an apartment.
You get asked to accept a cookie once per site. The proposal above is way more annoying.
"Mostly used as a prison" is a mischaracterization of that essay. The paper identified analogues between prison social behavior and school social behavior, and hypothesized that this shows that these patterns happen whenever a population is put in a society without their choice.
And FP developers in general tend to push conciseness to an extreme, especially with this kind of shenanigan (from the very source you linked):

import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BL

It's ironic that after all this obfuscation, the author of the source still finds it useful to do ASCII art and align everything neatly. Talk about misplaced effort.
Hopefully the other way would be made illegal.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

Edit: it looks like you've done it a lot, and we ban that sort of account. If you're going to post here, could you please do it more thoughtfully from now on?
Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning
I would say that is for more of your small business bricks and mortar insurance. Try Rick Brown at 855-773-1100 he can find all of the business insurance you need.
I agree that we're not getting the full story.

On the other hand, completely shutting down all their services without a quick conversation...
Umm, I haul big buildings down the highway that are 14.5 feet tall. How high do those overhead lines need to be to allow the OVERSIZE loads to go under?
Did he change the article? Here's what I saw at the end:

>If monetarism goes, then the only peaceful political solution to the crisis will be a massive social Keynesian program like the Green New Deal. If this happens, those who hated Obama's mild stimulation packages will look back at those days with nostalgia. A brave New Deal will necessarily place democracy at the center of society, not markets.

The New Deal may have been heavily inspired by socialism, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it communism/socialism.

I think a bigger criticism of this article is that it's basically a derivative of this article: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2019/05/29/the-feds-da...
The person the team works for and who pays for it.

Now, sometimes the problem is to make that person understand that it is not possible to move faster and why.
That's something we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better. In reality class is an abstract concept that it also derived from status-seeking behavior and creating a distance from others through abstract metrics, or defending our egos from more powerful people.
> If an ID is required for all queries the docs should say so.

they absolutely should. It's not really needed every time, but when you have a queries with IDs and without-that's when the cache blows up. They even a have a snapshot test for this unfortunate behavior: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/blob/master/p...
You can google for it...both the lawsuits around misuse of user data and their notorious use of dark patterns
iTunes Expected to Be Retired After over 18 Years
Ostensibly.

Safari guesses what is privacy invading or not, and as such makes mistakes. I appreciate their effort, but I don’t believe it’s good enough.

This month we got reports of browser fingerprinting on iOS that happened via the phone’s gyroscope[1]. There was a way to not be affected: disabling JavaScript.

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/21/iphone_mems_gyrosco...
macOS app to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty
> estimated that 0.005% of U.S. visa applicants worldwide, or in the range of 65,000 individuals per year,

1,300,000,000 people apply for visas each year?!
This is a lesson on hyperbole.

No one that I've seen so far is saying they should have a system that is "muilti-site, fault-tolerant, self-healing, webscale that Google would be proud to have".

They are saying run a simple backup and keep it literally anywhere else.

I think we needlessly hyperbolize "do a backup once a month and keep it somewhere else" into some sort of NSA operation.

Its backups. Its 2019. Its dead-easy and very affordable.
They're adding more hurdles for prospective immigrants, and for those that get through the system to retrospectively invalidate naturalization because of incomplete information on a form.

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/04/denaturalization-case-ci...
What does the authentication method have to do with anything? You stated that if an app "takes your money", then you expect it to have unfettered access to all of your financials? That's absurd, regardless of what information you put in.

If I give a valet the keys to my car, it is very clearly for them to drive it to and from a parking space, nothing else. It is not blanket approval for them to go take it on a joyride through the city. To defend them by saying "well you gave them the keys, what did you expect?" would be similarly absurd as defending Plaid et al.
I'd rather spend those 7k by buying products where I live and helping my working countrymen than throwing it on some third world person, the ninth child of some ISIS supporter for all I know. But even when giving charity, I don't understand this urge to help people in the 3rd world, there are enough people around me in trouble, I'd rather support people who are closer to me, like the local heroin addict or homeless or poor person I actually see , than someone half way across the world.
He has 4300 followers on twitter. What if he had 50?
I've been on Linode for 8+ years now (moved there from Slicehost when Rackspace swallowed them up) and their service (not necessarily customer support) has significantly degraded. Not sure I blame them though. They've become far more popular since I started with them and are probably doing their best to grow... but I no longer recommend them as I used to.

Just my experience though.
Most of these products are vanity items that we should not even bother producing. For my part, I still purchase Gatorade in powder form. 8 gallons for $10 save both money and plastic.
Anything's possible. However, in the world we live in, it's more likely than not that someone with money earned it themselves.
I've been playing around with Plaid the past few days and they very clearly list the permissions during authentication:

https://i.imgur.com/xNPTIzy.png

They even link to a dashboard that displays all the information you are sharing with developers:

https://my-sandbox.plaid.com/account

That said, I agree that the average user won't realize the implications. Additionally, revocation/deletion of the data requires emailing them.
> It's copying the table of contents, but writing your own chapter text

That is a bit disingenuous. Using your analogy it would be the subject sentence of every paragraph in the book.
Here's a search that will help, look no further than the site you're already on:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=linode%20security&sort=byPopul...

They've had several high-profile breaches over the years.
I think you may have underestimated quite how fast computers are at maths. A $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, at 24 gigaflops, beats the combined performance of every American (continent, not country) combined, even if those humans were all calculating at the speed of the current world record holder, Takahiro Asano, who correctly added 15 sets of 3-digit numbers in 1.68 seconds.

(Against merely “average” human performance, a π0 would beat the entire planet by a factor of six).
> I think you're underestimating the average non-tech oriented user that simply uses.

While I certainly think it's possible, it doesn't echo with my personal anecdotes of friends and family. They all fit in with "I don't want to be tracked but I'm helpless to stop it!" crowd. All of my family, most of my friends.
There appears to be an increasing amount of evidence linking an unhealthy gut microbiome with various conditions (mostly psychiatric), including a few big ones like Alzheimer's and depression. This has gotten me wondering: how many people might be sick as a consequence of their poor diet? It's probably a good idea to carefully scrutinize your diet as a potential influencing factor if you have a medical condition. Maybe making a few tweaks could end up helping you feel better? In any case, always discuss things with your doctor!

Anecdotally, I began to regularly consume more fermented foods (e.g. plain Greek yogurt, kimchi, kombucha, kefir) about 8 or 9 months ago, which helped trigger a cascade of other positive changes and led to gradual but marked improvements to my health.
Hackathons happen on the weekend? Every company I've worked in has done them on weekdays. People tend to work longer on hackathon days than regular ones, but that doesn't seem so bad.

Most programmers probably enjoy what they do. To my mind, my employers aren't so much paying me be build stuff, I'd more or less do that anyway, they're paying me to choose what I build and to have control over the result.

If I work longer than a 7-8 hour day, 9 times out of 10, it's because I got wrapped up and lost in what I was doing.
On what exactly? I feel like we don't have a shortage of people able to execute, but rather a shortage of good ideas or ideas we are willing to invest money in.
Not according to the market
Witness gives bite-by-bite insight into Detroit airport kickback scheme
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're hoping for better signal/noise here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html