skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from Germany I found it interesting how much the US culture depends on ingesting substances to make you feel better. Be it painkillers or “superfood” or other things. That makes the US really vulnerable to all kinds of addictions. As a kid I remember only a few occasions where I took any kind of medicine but today’s kids know a ton about all kinds of drugs and it seems pretty standard to take some.
And they may even be OK with some of their heaviest customers being money-losers, so long as the marketing/sales advantages of having a fixed rate outweigh pay-as-you-go pricing.
These street drug networks are pretty sophisticated and hard to crack down on.

For example a typical street operation like openly selling baggies outside of a legalized injection clinic or to a homeless camp is often done by the addicts themselves, who will always only be holding just enough so they don't see much jail time if they are arrested. Security of this street dealing is overseen by very obvious looking prison gang members who hold no evidence and make sure to never take the money from the street addict peddling their baggies of heroin or crack instead there are drops coordinated with the huge prison goon nearby to prevent any robberies. Resupply is done through complicated handoffs and drops with a network of a few dozen addicts who've been recruited to sell for the gang. The gang themselves are buying off other mid level gangs who in turn are buying from higher level/cartels.

You can try to put a cop on every corner and disrupt the handoffs, or harass these enforcers off the street, but soon your police force is going to run out of overtime money, not to mention the other factor which is gang violence "management". The police know if they decimate the current street gang controlling the street trade that a dozen other gangs will immediately start fighting to be the successor meaning there will be high profile shootings going on in the media, which in turn puts pressure on city hall, which in turn puts pressure on the police chief to do something to stop the violence which eventually means relaxing enforcement on whatever gang currently controls the homeless drug trade so long as they stay in their lane and don't escalate their street violence into the media or against people not involved in the trade. It would be nice to arrest and stop the midlevel and high level suppliers but nobody has figured out how to effectively do that with limited enforcement resources either.
This is great.

I would prefer that browser compatability is mentioned, for my own purposes that would be IE11.

Perhaps set a baseline of what browsers are considered in the intro and then highlight deviance as it occurs.
I don’t perceive there to be growing interest, from my perspective it’s been in decline. Why do say increasing?
Same way MS didn't need to support common HTML/JavaScript since they had ActiveX?

If Apple would have acted properly, instead of their usual "eat our lock-in" mentality, they could provide Vulkan support, and then build higher Metal-style abstractions on top of it. But no, it's Apple for you. Eat Apple only Metal or get lost.
> GCC being a GNU project is less likely to have developers who could be pressured to insert malicious code.

I'd agree with this, since GNU projects tend to have at least some devs who are in it for the ideology.
Who is profiting from your healthcare records and how
Same for unemployed people and depressed people who have fallen on hard times?
The article points out a correlation between "being addicted" and "being homeless" but does not provide any evidence that there also is a causation.

With the same evidence one could write an article that says "increasing prices drive out the most vulnerable first".
Around me a large portion are formerly employed who got injured, and then were prescribed pain relievers that turned out to be what I think were legal opioids. Then they couldn't get them when the prescription was done, and they started using others' prescription. Then people started selling extra doses from their prescriptions on the street. From there, the not so legal stuff came. All the way up that ladder to homeless heroin addict.

It's just kind of a ladder they all climbed to the strongest, least legally available variant of what started out as simple pain relief prescriptions.

One really underhanded thing that's happened around here is that there are these new apartment buildings that are "affordable". (But not really.) But if you're a homeless vet, there is a provision where they are obliged to give you a place in these kinds of buildings.

One caveat though, it's not open to substance abusers. Which most of the homeless vets are. To add insult to injury, a lot of them got on the ladder because they were prescribed pain relievers by the VA. Now a lot are differently abled because of being wounded. Hooked on opioids due to climbing up the ladder I was talking about. And homeless to boot.

It's sad.
I think that is indeed the point pron was making, or at least similar. You can't actually ignore soundness, but JVMs sometimes go farther than I'd expect. (Example: don't check for null, just handle SIGBUS if null is "very rare")
What’s this xfinitywifi network and why do I keep connecting? (2016)
if you can do one per second that's just over 6 hours.
Is there a spy in your pocket?
It's like spam emails. They are ridiculous exactly so that they only deal with people who have already fallen for the con.
Having a good idea of what kinds of internet speeds people have around the world is no doubt hugely useful for all sorts of things like planning Stadia[0]. But moreover, Google is a member of the M-Lab[1] project that runs the speedtest servers, so why not add the feature?

[0]https://stadia.dev/

[1]https://www.measurementlab.net/
I think Void's is faster. Less ergonomic though.

Would be fun to see some benchmarks.
I can't imagine how complex the development of the UI must have been. Can you tell us a little bit about the technical implementation? What languages and frameworks you might have used, things that were particularly difficult?

Edit: looks like the client is hand-written with jQuery. I guess the next time someone makes a joke about jQuery you can send them this site. :D

Edit2: Just to preempt it, let's not have a debate about the state of JS frameworks here, there are enough of those already. :)
> Evolution would never favor a trait that would allow a population to live be 100 instead of 60.

It would. Grandparents care for grand children. In fact, they seem to have an uncanny ability to inculcate them with the desire for having more children, of their own. Hmmmm ;)
Reminds of a story from 5 years ago [0] about a biologist that caused his parents to get divorced after he shared the results of his genetic testing.

His lesson: 23andMe kits are essentially an advanced form of paternity testing.

[0]: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-...
It seems as if most of the risks are derisked. The satellites are cheap and planned to be replaced often. If you lose a batch on the pad due to a vehicle failure, you just setup another launch. If you have a technical deficiency, your satellite lifetime is already expected to be low; you’re going to push a new batch out anyway. The launch vehicles have already been paid for by lift clients; they’re free besides sunk ops, refurb, and fuel costs.

As long as deorbit on command works, the only risk is buyers not buying the service. SpaceX is going to print money with StarLink.

Disclaimer: SpaceX investor by way of a Fidelity fund.
Google Project Zero was able to remotely own devices via a Broadcom vulnerability: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-expl...
The difference is the ability to privilege a medical establishment that is in control of the clinical setting. Doctors don't like competition. There's really nothing inherently better about randomized control trials as a way of knowing; that's why it is wrong so often.

In my experience body workers outside the medical establishment (like massage therapists for example) have a lot of ad-hoc knowledge about the body and its ailments from years of observation of their patients.

This kind of knowledge is actually a lot like most of the real knowledge employed by doctors - the knowledge of the hands and lived experience rather than some study in a journal.
And the original Greek word in the New Testament (the New Testament's original language is Greek) is also arsenokoitai:

https://www.crossway.org/articles/what-does-arsenokoitai-mea...

"It’s a compound word: “arsen” means man and “koite” or “koitas” or “koitai”—depending on a verb or a noun—means bed."

But there are different interpretations about what that "those who sleep with men" meant:

https://www.gaychristian101.com/what-did-paul-mean-when-he-u...

"Despite what some scholars allege, arsenokoitai is never used in any extant Greek literature with our modern meaning of homosexual. The best evidence available today indicates that arsenokoitai described shrine prostitutes. That is the learned opinion of Philo, a contemporary of both Jesus and the apostle Paul and one of the most widely read Jewish intellectuals in the first century."

"Because the Jewish view was that Lev 18:22 and 20:13 (Deu 23:17) prohibited shrine prostitution, it is highly unlikely that Paul would have used arsenokoitai with a meaning unfamiliar to most of his readers.

And because arsenokoitai is never used in any extant Greek text from AD 57 to AD 1450, to refer to two men or two women in committed partnership, it is highly unlikely that Paul would have used arsenokoitai with that meaning, which would have baffled his first century readers."

Regarding the word that the "Latin lexicon from 1483" apparently used to translate the arenokoitai word, the Greek language did have a specific word for that:

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

"The word pederasty derives from Greek παιδεραστία (paiderastia) "love of boys",[1] a compound derived from παῖς (pais) "child, boy" and ἐραστής (erastēs) "lover"."

So we can be sure that that Latin lexicon is wrong. If Paul wanted to mean "boys lover" he had an existing word for that, and didn't have to use "arsenokoitai" ("those who sleep with men").
I just don't see the point of this repo...
What’s the best resource (book, videos etc.,) to learn css these days?
Yes. Zero to working compiler on vanilla MacBook Pro.
Good grief, come on.
Huge Roper fan here since Worms Armageddon! It was all because the Team17 devs allowed to mod game maps and weapon configs so easily. Creativity then kicked in and roper games became a stable online thing! Also BnG and "Shoppa"
This understanding was still taught like that in the 90's, western continental Europe.
Excellent additions - thanks for supplementing/clarifying!

Another note or two:

1. Damages might be reduced on appeal but, if not, this will really sting for Oberlin. Why?

2. Its insurer apparently is denying coverage because the wrongs committed were intentional and that removes them from coverage.

3. The legal fee award approved by the jury is likely tied to a contingent fee arrangement and will likely add as much as $10 million to the final price tag.

Bottom line for the risk to Oberlin: $11.4 million compensatory damages; $22.8 million punitive damages; $10 million attorneys' fees = $44.2 million judgment, an astounding number for something the college could easily have quelled at or near inception for almost nothing. Again, this could be reversed or modified on appeal but who in the world would want to be fighting from that position?
As an example of exactly the sort of broken design thinking that will make cars unsafe, I'd like to repeat a comment I made in 2017:

In one of the talks at Google I/O last year a VP from Audi (or Volvo?) spoke in a thick and lofty German accent about how "ve haf completely oferhauled ze driver exzperienze". He played a sexy video clip showcasing their new Android infotainment system (something like https://youtu.be/h_7_fKJ0PNs), and the first thing I noticed is how they'd taken away my traditional temperature knobs and replaced them with digital touchscreen ones. They looked just like physical ones, and were in the exact same place you would expect (https://9to5google.com/2017/05/15/android-cars-audi/).
So, I've gained absolutely nothing, and now I have to take my eyes off the road and look down at the stupid console just to change the temperature.

TLDR: Tacticle feedback is a Good Thing(tm) and designers should cultivate - not fight - muscle memory.
Mac OS is its own operating system with its own kernel. It's neither Linux nor BSD.
I actually read a comment written by a mainland Chinese to his fellow Chinese, "How many of you truly trust the justice system inside the country? We've suffered under it enough already. Why subject others under it?" It was highly liked.
1. SELECT * FROM adsense_payouts ORDER BY amount DESC. If no results, SELECT * FROM search_results ORDER BY clicks DESC.

2. If y > x, where x = ((purchase price of company from #1) / 3) and y = (amount of payout) or y = (clicks * 1000) in #1

3. Clone MVP, remove company from adsense_payouts and search_results
Electricity still has limits based on wire gage. If the cost of maintaining the distribution network vastly exceeds the cost of generation, it may not be worth the billing hassle vs simply paying for the size of the pipe.

Arguably it’s simply another case where someone judges a technology by the wrong metrics. If fuel represented a similar relative cost in nuclear and coal power plants, nuclear really would have been vastly cheaper.
You can choose to believe either that people’s lives are bad because they are addicts, or that people become addicts because their lives are bad.
Researchers discuss the challenges posed by science’s embrace of English
> Judge Steven Barrett of the Bronx Supreme Court vacated Burton's 3-decade-old conviction, citing such work as the basis of his decision.

This worked in a subdivision of a single city, but may never work in rural Wisconsin or the other 30,000+ municipalities in this country which operate under 55 sovereign districts with completely different legal hierarchies.

We don't even have total transparency about who is even in most of these municipal prisons and under what circumstances.

The work in New York City - "the center of the free world" - is probably the most advanced, and the world's news organizations have barely scratched the surface about whats going on in Riker's Islands and its other prisons.

How can we really address this?
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/05/how-do-they-synchronize-powe...

Phase is monitored on both sides of the connection, and high voltage contactors complete the circuit when tolerances are met.
On the contrary, I'm the only one not judging this guy by his profession. As a result their mindset and platitudes look just as pitiable and silly to me than if he were to make a post saying that he works as a grocery clerk.

P.S. Sincere apologies to clerks, you deal with the shit and are respected. Just using as a point about perception and weird notions of what people wear as badges of honor.

Edit: I also don't believe Feynman or any other scientist would define his life by the uni he researched for just as I don't believe an artist would define himself by his job with coca-cola
oh good point, TIL only the posix and syscall layer is BSD. nonetheless it's not at all a linux.
>It’s nonsensical to call it a natural animal, and completely ignore the fact that they live nothing like an animal in nature, and have their population artificially supported while they decimate other species for sport.

What part of: "If you don't like cats hunting birds, don't own a pet cat, as to not sponsor the artificially inflated proliferation of domestic cats."

did you miss?
This is new knowledge to me, where do I read about this?
Capitalism will always win, no matter what they say in the conferences, because the socialist software developers do not know how to create a social network to organize production and redistribute the wealth.
Also check for the consistency of the person's story. Lying is stressful and you have to remember details you have invented and that don't match your own memory. This is difficult to keep straight, especially over an extended period.
I don't know how closely you're following this, but MoltenVK[0] which was formerly a proprietary option for Vulcan on Metal is open sourced now.

0: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/blob/master/README....
Which is not at all the same thing as providing "the Tor browser".
I am not saying “old people are useless”. I’m saying that there wouldn’t be evolutionary pressure to allow people to survive pass 60. It’s believed that we evolved to have stamina for long distance running to tire out our prey. The elders wouldn’t be the hunters.
Ow crap! I was taking that seriously and already PRing my favourites Ayn Rand's quotes.
In India, confessions in lock-up or to the police are not admissible in court in a criminal proceeding. I've always found that as the way to prevent innocent people from being convicted based on their confession.
A/B Test Your App on the App Store/Google Play
They're giving users what they want now. The reason we have antitrust laws is that unregulated free markets (i.e., "giving users what they want") have some well-known failure modes that produce happy customers and happy sellers until the entire market collapses and customers are no longer getting what they want.

Would you be satisfied if AOL bought out the internet, because that's what users wanted in the 1990s, and Google never had a chance to exist?
Sure, it's a workaround for the dumb Apple's refusal to support it natively. It's great of course to break the lock-in, but it only highlights the problem. Translation is always suboptimal to the native option.
I wonder what kind of creatures we would get if some group of eagles evolved into sea creatures over the years
Boeing Max 737 jet crisis: we should've been more open, says CEO
They obviously started writing Postgres in LISP, because "we soon realized that parts of the system were more easily coded in C" wouldn't make sense if writing a hybrid had been the initial plan.

They tried going all LISP at first, and failed. Was it them, or was it LISP?
Because we can do it every 4 years while they have to bottle it up for a long time
It’s humans controlling robots, remotely from places like Minnesota, to kill women and children in the Middle East. It differs from a gun in its range and ability to be operated remotely. A human pulls the trigger, but does so while looking at a screen instead of a human, which makes it a lot easier to kill without conscience since a drone strike is more analogous to a video game than a war zone for its remote human operator.
> Then it is a wrong societal norm.

This is an underrated point, but I hope you can see how prevailing factors in both the business world (Amazon's two-day shipping springs to mind) and the culture are seriously stacked against these mores.
A good full stack developer should have double the salary of a frontend/backend developer. Do you find this is the case? You need to be an expert at both roles plus have a third skill connecting them together.
So by your logic, 99% of existing jobs are inferior to being a farmer?

Obviously not. You're completely ignoring that entirely new job categories are being created every year, and that the attractiveness of a job depends on many things which can constantly change, including salary, working conditions, geography, hours, etc.
Study shows labor unionization leads to a decline in risk of stock price crash
This is often a process issue more than anything else. For instance, our finance team spends insane amounts of time dealing with a variety of invoices with varying information and structure.There are a number of exceptions, rules and etc. However what's often ignored,is the fact that we are much bigger than any of our supplier and it would be pretty easy to convince them to invoice us the way we want instead the way they want. With some clever automations, I could easily replace a couple of my colleagues with software, however I would not be in a better situation at all,so no point of doing it.
If the low level gangs knew that cops would remain present on those corners, would the shooting wars erupt when there was a power vacuum? Looking at these gangs as rational economic players, it makes sense to fight over a limited, highly valuable resource(the street corner). It doesn't make sense to fight over it if it's value is extremely reduced(because cops will be stationed there all the time).
My guess is that they fail you.
Yes. My company (MixRank) downloads and analyzes mobile apps. Among other things, we determine what SDKs, APIs, etc, an app uses. We have 20k SDKs identified and track all of their installs/uninstalls.
I don’t know. I’m my case I think the reviewers had a hard time following how my extension operated. And instead of following their written rules around minification, they closed it down. I didn’t feel comfortable sending over all my open unminified code.
If you think the war on drugs is a failure then you're missing the point of it. Cops can't arrest homeless people because being homeless isn't a crime. However if drug use correlates with homelessness then making drugs illegal is an indirect way of making homelessness illegal.

Solutions to the housing, homeless and drug problem exist but the voters and politicians don't want them.
Thanks! We got a warm reception for our concept from online communities , but it is an uphill battle to have your voice heard on the Internet.
Mind blowing progress in the field of self supervised learning.
*highly processed or low quality carbs
It's an insane situation. I have a generally high opinion of Oberlin as a school (my daughter was accepted there, and would have attended had she not wanted to remain closer to home; several friendly acquaintances are faculty there). I also --- broadly and with varying levels of intensity --- share the prevailing politics of its community. But the school's conduct here seems so simultaneously mendacious and clown-shoed that I can't help but think something's fundamentally screwed up about how it's run. I'm glad Oberlin wasn't closer to Chicago to tempt my daughter last year. I hope they figure stuff out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/ has lots of videos of the events today, for those who want more than static photos.
You're not going to find the answer by looking for posters or explicit attribution.. it's a much softer concept than that.

Remakes, homages, ripoffs, reboots, mashups.. they are extremely common in film.
Every biology, molecular biology, and genetics textbook made for freshmen and sophomore bio majors. You can't pick a wrong one - this has been core material for at least two decades.
Does it matter that McCarthy won the Turing Award before Alan Kay? What a silly point.

Is it awful that functions are black boxes? That they are bundled in libraries?

Does it matter that for loops don't leave a stack trace? How can poor programmers debug them w/o a stack trace?

Can you imagine that overriding a method completely changes what a bundle of methods does in a class?

It is so sad that every time a new idea comes out, the "resistance" (programmers who often lack experience with it or experienced an inferior implementation of the idea) are the loudest to complain and hold sw dev back.
It was a joke. Read the comment to the end.
Hmm, makes me wonder if it is in any way related to the somewhat “lost” cooking culture in the states. My roommate in the States didn’t even know how to cook tea or how to boil an egg. And I am really not kidding. Might be a crazy theory but maybe...
I didn't know about this, for anyone else curious -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1967_leftist_riots
Clang has added a command line option for automatic initialization of auto variables to zero, hasn't it?

That by itself would be enough to make me choose clang over a compiler that didn't have that option. Gcc deliberately doesn't support that, right?