skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you can't care for your child, you shouldn't have one. The natural order is that children from unfit parents die. There are too many humans on this planet as it is.

So... wow, thats one hell of a logic leap. Ignoring how close this is to progressive attitudes in the early 20th century, what about "happy accidents". This is a rather to be blunt disgusting attitude to our fellow humans.

> If you're impoverished in your thirties, it is probably the result of a long history of poor life choices. You can get dealt a horrible hand with lots of tragedy and disadvantages and still be able to make it on your own in your thirties, as long as you're moderately intelligent and hardworking.

I get the distinct impression you have no clue what you're talking about and have never worked paycheck to paycheck in your life. One bill can cascade into exactly what your saying is "a long history of poor life choices".

The attitudes such as this are exactly why populist messages are winning a lot of disaffected people. If you're telling them: improve or die, or just die if you're not useful to companies, is it any wonder they're rejecting the worldview wholesale?

I hate politics but the attitudes espoused in the parent post do nothing but blame people for the lives they tend to have been born with irrespective of ability or life choices. As someone that barely escaped things only by dumb luck at picking computer nonsense as a profession, the lack of empathy and understanding by people that have never seen what life is like in survival mode is both astounding and saddening.
There are some minor and major things wrong with this attitude:

1. it wastes energy, increasingly a non trivial share of total energy use by humans

2. it often manifests itself as the user (me) having to wait for things that should be instant.

If the latter never happened, I would be mostly on board with what you are saying. I strongly wish we could improve the state of software such that you could achieve the same productivity we have now, with only a factor of 2 to 10 slowdown vs optimum instead of the 10x to 1000x we accept now. I think that should be possible. As a start, we can make first class jits for languages that are usually interpreted( python / ruby ) and possible, come up with statically typed languages that people find as nice to use as they find dynamically typed ones. I think this should be possible with techniques like type inference. Doing those two things can improve the efficiency of a lot of code without any downsides imho.
"Fallout" also seems like a particularly bad choice of name to sell this vulnerability by, since the game series is so well known.

(I would also prefer descriptive names rather than this kind of marketing, but these are the times we live in.)
... It might be a bit late for that.
If it doesn't matter, why go to the job at all?
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I've been running email servers for my personal and business email for nigh on two decades now. It's "an hour or two of maintenance a quarter", on average, and is nowhere near as big of a deal as many would make it out to be. Is it 100% perfect? Certainly not. Would it be 'easier' (FSVO) to just give my email to gmail/O365/fastmail? Probably. However, I feel "the net" was meant to be (and works best as) a series of decentralized systems. Feeding my data into a 'just this side of a walled-garden' ecosystem does not help the net, so I don't do it.
The methodology is described here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ne0s04q4wfhuih6/19UW_ALICE_Project...

The standards they use are not lavish (renting an efficiency apartment for a single person or 2BR for family of 3 or more, home daycares, "thrifty" meals), but there are some statistical quirks that make this headline a little misleading. They set the housing budget at "the 40th percentile rent", health care at "average health care expenses", and transportation at "average transportation expenses". This is like saying 40% of households are below the 40th percentile, which is kinda duh.

In practice, families that don't make a lot of money (or that do make a lot of money but want to save up a shit-ton and retire) make do with a bunch of cheap alternative living arrangements. Instead of paying full rent, multiple families double-up or triple-up in a housing unit. Multiple generations live together. Grandma takes care of the kids instead of paying for childcare. They shop in budget produce markets. They just don't go to the doctor and hope it's not serious. They walk to work, and the kids take the bus to school.
I don't speak for Phil, but I do work with him at Lumi where we use PureScript for almost all frontend. It's been really fun to show that PureScript can be used successfully in production.

You can see some of our tutorials and open source projects here: https://www.lumi.dev
"You need to take care so the synchronization isn't eating your performance wins though. I know you wrote "in a sensible manner", so you probably already thought of that."

Like I said, I haven't gotten too far into it, but one of the other ideas that keeps coming to mind is to have some sort of cost model in the language, because one of my other I Have A Dream elements of a new language is the ability to make assertions about blocks of code like "this code is inlined" or (in a GC'ed language) "this variable is stack allocated", or in the case of crypto code, "this code is optimized only to constant-time operations". These assertions wouldn't make the thing they are asserting happen, because experience over the decades shows that that doesn't work (witness the way that inline pragmas have gotten consistently weaker over the years to the point that I believe they're no-ops in many environments), but they'd be signs to the compiler to say back to the user that if the constraint is violated, here's a clear message explaining why.

The idea could be adapted to something like "this block of code only copies the data to the GPU once" or some variant of that claim (a given byte only copied once).

I think a similar thing could be used for some interesting network/cloud transparency, too, where the language permits wiring up function calls/messages/whatever transparently, but you can use labeling to make compile-time (or possibly start-up time) assertions about how expensive the result is going to be. I've tossed around the idea of making a function call not necessarily be the fundamental primitive, but maybe have something weaker than that be the cross-module default, like an Erlang message pass. One of the reasons networks are such a pain to work with in conventional programming languages is the mismatch between function calls and network operations; it would be interesting to expand on Erlang and see if we might be able to address that via weakening the function call across modules.

Anyhow, like I said, I'll never get to any of this, but I do sort of feel like there's a surprising amount of room for a new language out there that doesn't get explored very well because people keep remaking Python or something like D over and over again, just with slightly different spelling.
Related, I wrote a Python library[1] that takes MD/HTML/TXT as input and gives you estimated read time for that content. That combined with Flask and you've got a great blog with read time calculated going forward, while exporting from Medium looks to only preserve read time for past posts not future ones.

1. https://github.com/alanhamlett/readtime
The most robust way to deliver new bacteria to your gut is with a gastro-resistant capsule (so it bypasses your stomach acid). Food will introduce it too; fermented foods contain more.

Introducing the bacteria is only part of the problem though. If you want to have a diverse community of gut flora, you need to have a nutritionally balanced diet.
This mostly seems to be required because banks don't provide usable data properly. There should be a way to tie together authorisations and finalized transactions. Any API/interface that doesn't permit this is just broken.

Monzo's API includes a unique transaction ID as well as a timestamp to indicate when (if it has happened) the transaction 'settled'. The open banking APIs implemented by the CMA9 include a BookingDateTime and Status (Booked or Pending) and an immutable transaction ID. It's surely just common sense to do this.

Why is there no regulation to require banks expose a usable API in NA?
World's Smallest Landing Page – Is It Worth It?
Never send an email you wouldn't want forwarded. We all learn this lesson, eventually.
That is an excellent way to put it, I'm going to steal that if you don't mind.
A person on the internet is arguing that a landline with caller ID, call waiting and voicemail is sufficient.

> You also don't need payphones to be abundant, From 1990 to 1999 (ages 5-14) I used a payphone maybe a dozen times and nearly all of those were to have discussions with friends that I didn't want my parents to hear so I rode my bike 2 blocks to Little Caesars

Ah yes. The needs of a child/teen are surely the needs of a grown person who will need to communicate with potential employers, banks, landlords, schools etc. which are all becoming almost exclusively online.
Just because there's a name doesn't mean it's a critical condition - it's literally just the term for more than 5 drugs at once.

>In a Day one or two tablets is used as dose for adults

Was there a thought to follow this?
Define consent. Because I’m pretty sure the only outcome of this will be some new language tucked away in the fine print of every customer’s monthly bill giving consent unless they cancel service or something like that.
Yeah, but dig into the specifics. OP's link allocated $586 a month for food - my family is bigger than the example, and we spend about half of that on groceries. We'll eat out to make up some of the difference, but if we're getting fast food once or twice a week, I wouldn't say we are in a "survival" scenario.

Child care is also assumed here, but is not necessary in a two-parent home. Take that off the board and you free up around $15k, as well as some of the tax money as well. And does that tax estimate include the $2k/kid child tax credit?

What is "Miscellaneous"?

The hourly wage assumes a 2000-hour work year. So theoretically two people could work $15.50/hour jobs and meet this requirement, or you could knock the food budget in half, drop child care, and get the total hourly wage down to $21.50 an hour. That could be one parent working 20 hours a week at $10/hr and another working 40/week at $17/hr. Or someone could earn extra hours to get some spending money. I do that to supplement my family's income.

I dunno. "Survival" is such a strong word, and I'm really skeptical that it applies here.
I think it’s fine to look on the bright side, as the “bad thing“ in this case seems to be something we’re stuck with.

It simply isn’t possible to make transistors infinitesimally small (just as a horse’s metabolism could never keep up with the relativistic muscle movements required for faster than light travel.)

Sure, that sucks. But realistically, the only way to progress is to design better architectures, or think of new computing paradigms, or deepen our understanding of the laws of nature.

All of those, if realized, could be very good things.

I sometimes get bummed out about the end of Moore’s law, but I try to remind myself to be grateful and appreciate what we have. Computers are wonderful, and it’s amazing that we have them at all: the universe didn’t owe us computing; we figured it out in order to solve problems. Now we have another big problem to solve.

Ultimately, we will see huge investments in pushing the boundaries of computing. Whether it’s biological, quantum, or just massively parallel, I’m excited to see what we can come up with in the years ahead.
> TransferWise handles everything (0.85% or less).

TransferWise doesn't do settlement. You still have to pay a merchant with a card who then needs to settle. No actual money is being settled through TransferWise.

> EFT transfer to Interactive Brokers, FOREX exchange ($20 per million), withdraw via SEPA to Croatian account. They allow you to link both AU and Croatian accounts.

EFT transfer to IB isn't instant. SEPA requires you to be using Euro. SEPA does handle settlement, but you still need to do settlement with both the EFT transfer as well as within your IB account. IB does have programs to allow early withdrawal before your account is settled if you quality, but again that isn't settlement.

> Open an HSBC account in both places and use the online instant account-to-account global transfer tool (rates vary, ~2%) and send a SEPA payment.

Again, SEPA requires you to be using Euro. Additionally, you would need to do settlement on the initial transfer to HSBC.

> Wire money (pricey).

The company you're using to wire money needs to handle cross border remittance and settlement, so how do they do it?

Just to reiterate... you've done a fine job explaining how a consumer can send money across the globe. You're not wrong to say that as a consumer there are perfectly acceptable solutions that can accomplish what they need. What you've completely failed to do is explain how to accomplish "cross border remittance and settlement" using Fiat in a way that is fast, doesn't require vostro account (i.e. illiquid reserves), and is scalable with the number of possible banks you'd need to transfer money to/from.
What a delightful turn of phrase!
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The cat's out of the bag. I think you'll need to try a different approach.
I don't know what this site has against jokes, but you can have my upvote.
I've suspected this myself, but I think they went too far. Even minor incidents are prone to breaking a micro-USB connector where a mini-USB would tough it out. But there's a bigger chance of damaging the mini-USB port. All in all I think the micro-USB connector could have been made a little sturdier without excessive danger to the port.

On the other hand, I've never fatally damaged a Lightning cable OR port, despite some fairly bad accidents (drops that land on the connector for example). The only failures were a couple where the outer coating started to come off right past the strain relief, the connector itself was always solid for me.

The jury is still out on USB-C for me. I just don't have enough datapoints, but it does seem more robust on the surface and finally (finally!) the cable can be inserted in either orientation.
> One positive is that it changes the criteria of success in the market from "who can provide quality internet at a low price,

Since only one ISP is available in my (and many other's) area, there is no pressure to provide quality internet at a low price at all.
Could you please stop posting so much on the topics of schools, elites, and elite schools on HN? It's excessive:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:akhilcacharya%20school&sort...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:akhilcacharya%20elite&sort=...

I get how strongly you feel, but it goes against the spirit of the site when people keep posting so repetitively about one particular issue that they feel strongly about. HN threads are supposed to be driven by curiosity, which is a quite different motivation.
> and produces timber which is not nice and desirable timber, to avoid the temptation

Why is this necessary? Wouldn't using it as timber still capture the carbon, albeit not as completely as the scenario above?
The text for an upvote is “unvote” and for downvotes is “undown”. So if you check that you’ll see which you did.
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‘Limbic Capitalism’ Preys on Our Addicted Brains
Read the title, thought it's about natural languages and got VERY excited ;(
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There's one issue with the formatting of the tags? Cool your jets.
If you really end up believing you’re “smart”, you may not be so smart after all. A good definition for intelligence doesn’t exist. You believing you are its epitome speaks to your impressionability rather than your intelligence.
Afaik in "modern times" at "modern companies", ie. startups, everybody does their own emailing. I worked at Facebook, maybe Zuck/Sheryl has somebody helping them with email (I don't know), but they're obvious outliers.
How is basketball different from indoor volleyball? They're both played indoors on a wooden floor court, both have two teams in opposition, playing simultaneously. Both have in bounds and out of bounds. Both have a ball. Both involve passing a ball. Both have scoring dictated by placement of the ball.

I mean, we can talk about things that make things similar all day, it doesn't make them the same thing. Is a hamburger a sandwich? Sometimes, the whole is greater than the parts, not everything is perfectly decomposable in life.
Symptoms of heart attacks in men and women are different. All the commonly known symptoms are male symptoms to the point that even medical professionals can not realize that a woman is having a heart attack.
Maybe we should actually be collecting usage and outcomes on all medical things and actually have a process for reviewing the data; even for grandfathered treatments.

That would allow outcome based decisions about keeping that approval or comparing new treatments to the actual efficiency of existing treatments.
There's plenty of similarly priced alternatives out there that aren't as abusive as the big ad companies.

The problem isn't just that poor people are money poor. It's that they're also time poor. They're too busy making ends meet to care about this stuff. That Google collects so much of their data would probably not even be on their list of things to care about.
> This is a very loaded conversation at the moment

And your choice of words to describe the situation certainly aren't helping. In fact, they're causing more harm than good, as you present one side as good and kind, and the other side as evil incarnate.

In other words, this is a complex situation, and you're part of the problem.
They have quite a good as on system as well don't they? A good ecosystem around a slick and open core might very well be a winning concept.
Though I don't expect it to happen in this case, I wonder if some kind of wood and metal composite structure couldn't be implemented?

I'm certainly not an architect or engineer; maybe that suggestion is currently impossible.

Ideally it would be interesting if you could do something almost akin to 3D printing, or maybe closer to how plywood is made, but using wood fiber. I'm imagining something like long fibers of wood, intermixed with stainless steel or aluminum "wire", and molded using resin binders in the forms and shapes needed for the trusses and beams, etc.

From the outside, it should look almost like regular wood, but with some of the strength characteristics of the metal (though now that I think about it, it probably wouldn't work in sheer or compression; tensile strength might be ok).

What would be even more amazing, though I can't think of a way to do it, would be a wood/metal composite where the metal was a 3D organic-like lattice with the wood in between; I can imagine such a thing, but not a way to manufacture it (at least not with today's technology).
1. Drug candidates seeking approval must show non-inferiority to gold standard, meaning they are not worse than the top choice for the same treatment. This non-inferiority is quite easy to game, as we all know statistics are fungible and may be manipulated. If all I have to show is no significant difference, and I can use one of 10 different outcomes or surrogates, well my job got a LOT easier than showing superiority on the primary outcome of interest.

2. Before approval, drugs are tested in non-representative samples, either because they are too small in sample size, the disease is too rare, or because there needs to be a VERY large (post-market) population to tease out rare side effects.

3. Doctors and geneticists should come together and provide genetic testing to ensure that patients and their drugs are appropriately matched. This could be done in cancer, for instance, as you can genotype the cancer and provide a drug cocktail specifically for it. Another instance would be depression, as some drugs do not work for people with certain neurotransmitter genotypes. Physically, this means that each of us may have slightly differently shaped receptors that different drugs bind to differently. This explains a lot of the difference in drug responses, whether it be SSRIs or alcohol or cannabinoids, people simply have different receptors/biochem.

4. Medicine has always been a battle between doing nothing, providing the placebo effect, providing beneficial treatment, and avoiding/minimizing harm. In medieval times, exposure to medicine was tantamount towards increased risk of death and complication (see leeching, blood letting, terrible hygiene in surgery/childbirth, etc). Even now in modern times, going into a hospital is risky: hospital-associated infection is a massive killer, never mind acute psychological stress leading to delirium. We demand improvements in healthcare, new drugs, innovations, and extending life, and yet that is a very complex and challenging process that we will work on for centuries to come.

Simply put, doing medicine well has always been very hard. We have many legacy treatments and practices which probably should be put on the back shelf, but as with coding practices and legacy code, it is very hard to stop practices with momentum and inertia, whether the field is energy (fossils dominate), medicine, coding, or anything.
Seems right to me. If you don't have housing, food, or healthcare, you're gonna die a lot quicker then someone that does. Sure, you can survive for a while homeless, or without healthcare, or even without food, but your definitely dying faster then people with.
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> Then it should be provided by the employer.

Unfortunately they don't live in should-be land. And when an employer asks them to send them a CV via e-mail, or to install the app which they use to send delivery pick-up/drop-off locations, "I didn't need these things in the 90s!" won't fly.
I would say communication overall which includes reading, writing and vocal communication.
> I couldn't quite work out of this campaign was done out of legitimate concern or was a cynical attempt to derail it?

I would bet on "cynical attempt to derail it", since it conflates two things that are not remotely comparable: providing internet service itself and providing a service that uses the internet.
Is anyone else seeing the irony of the poor writing in this article?
I've been told (by someone who has had C. diff and dealt with a number of gastro issues) that it can take up to 7 years for your gut to stabilize after simply taking antibiotics.

With that being said, some googling just now to make sure I'm not just spouting nonsense hasn't turned up a 7 year figure. But it has returned a bunch of articles pointing to studies that suggest it takes a long time. [1] says after 10 months there's still a disturbance.

[1] https://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/medication/long-do...
I think it's mostly job security. I've worked on many technologies that I really enjoyed despite the flaws that every tech has (Flash for example) that have 0 jobs 10 years later.
You can always de-anonymize data given enough resources so that argument seems bogus.

Anonymous data: Red car observed on Dawn Road at 23:34 on May 31 2019. DUI predictor - likely sober. Speed - 53 mph.

Can this information be de-anonymized? Sure can!

Police: "The suspect fled 7-11 Around 23:30 and either went on Dawn Road or Lost Haven Road. Let's filter all red car observation events that happened that night between 23:30 and 23:40 on Dawn and Lost Haven. Yup, found him"

So you are saying we have to scrub it further? You end up removing all information until there is nothing left.

"car observed on May 31"