skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am simply saying that if it isn't appropriate for an individual to use the threat of violence, then it isn't appropriate for the government to do so.

So. Was it, for example, reasonable for governments to regulate production of CFCs to attempt to stop the growth of the ozone holes at the poles? I presume you wouldn't go out and smash the face of a person for selling a fridge. I presume therefore you would be against any kind of environmental regulation.

Are you really going to argue that you beating a fisherman for hauling in too much cod is exactly comparable to the government setting fishing quotas to avoid a species pretty much extinct?
I don't mind interacting with people, but basically every company with which I'm a customer has made this a painful and inconvenient experience. The exception being physical things like buying groceries or getting a massage. All interactions with ISPs, banks, etc. involve spending tons of time on hold and then talking to multiple clueless undertrained call-centre staff.
Actually usefulness isn't enough, unfortunately. When software is really good you hardly think about it because it stays out of your way and does what you want without a lot of fuss. I myself have been guilty of not donating to projects from which I derive significant value unless prompted, namely: qBittorrent, VLC, Paint.Net, KeePass, etc.
And how is this is different from the credit card companies? They’ve been selling transaction data forever.
The incentives don't seem to align in that direction. What would be the point for Facebook to create a promote such a currency if they can't control it at some level?

I fully expect that even if the core of the cryptocurrency might actually be decentralized and not directly controlled by Facebook (and I don't believe that either, for the record) the practical implementation of this will give Facebook more than enough weight to shut anybody down if they so desire. A bit like how email is supposed to be decentralized but if these days gmail decides it doesn't want to play with you you're effectively screwed.

Facebook (and other tech giants) have absolutely nothing to gain from decentralization and privacy when their entire trillion dollar business model relies on siphoning as much data as possible. Anybody thinking that Facebook is somehow going to usher the golden age of cryptolibertarianism and the decentralization of money is frankly shortsighted. Then again, shortsightedness is a common symptom of libertarianism (or is it the other way around?).
Sure does! And then the middle rack is my master buss chain: Chandler Curve Bender EQ [1] (the best EQ I've ever heard), Chandler Zener Limiter [2], and then the SSL Fusion [3] - which is a new box from SSL which does lots of lovely things.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUv9GtMlUwA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agTPMwbL8A

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0-Qvkr1UU
>> 65 to 70 hours

Then, most likely you are being assigned 250% of the work! and that's probably not good for the long term, ymmv.
I use lastpass. It's very reliable, I can use Duo 2FA with it, works perfectly on OSX/Windows as well, AND they have an open source [CLI](https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli) for linux that's blazing fast to use. Wasn't super popular here b/c of the parent company, but their security seems to be great and it "just works".
This is just good web design in general. Bravo.
Part of the problem is that many people who are passionate about battling climate change see the "no (significant) impact on ordinary people's lives" as a really bad thing.

I've come across this time and time again. "Electric cars/planes are not a solution because it keeps lifestyles the same! There MUST be lifestyle change to battle climate change."

It's baffling because it's so tone-deaf to the general public. It's as if there's a complete lack of understanding that wide acceptance of climate solutions is necessary for gaining the political capital to actually fight climate change.
Microsoft product life cycle:

1> Microsoft sees successful tool and decides to copy it
2> truck loads of marketing money is spent
3> the product captures 5-10% of the market
4> most people either don't care or mock it
5> at some point articles come out about how the product is mostly malware
6> Microsoft quietly kills the product 2 years later
The obligatory reminder like in similar threads before - in most other first world countries it's not done because it's forbidden; mass media advertisements of prescription medicine is a practice specific to USA and a couple other places.
Awesome Sauce! I'm looking for Udemy courses for guided learning, but another way to practice is great - thx!
They don't "suspend applications". They can prompt an application to serialize an image of its "core" memory for storage on the flash media and to subsequently restore its state from the serialized memory dump, but very few applications are written to do the job properly.
This article seems to be making the claim that the Libra blockchain will not be viewable by anyone other the validators. This is counterintuitive - even if only validators can confirm new blocks I expected the chain would be public, there would be explorers, etc. Does anyone know if this question has been answered somewhere definitively?
Hey,

Not sure what you mean by "no impact on ordinary people's lives." The evidence we see seems to suggest the exact opposite.

We're seeing a massive uptick in the amount and intensity of "once in a century natural disasters." These disasters destory homes, destroy crops and cause serious life loss and economic damage to everyone directly affected.

But these disasters also lead to the downstream effects:
We're seeing significant inflation in food prices and insurance prices. In Canada last year, vegetable prices increased by ~16%. In comparison, inflation was ~2.5%. Throughout the world we see higher prices in food - this makes everyone poorer. Especially "normal" people.

Similarly, we're seeing insurance rates go up. This is for insuring farms, for insuring houses and anything else that is affected by climate. This is a real economic cost. Moreover, if your home is no longer insured from flooding - when that more frequent and devastating natural disaster happens, you're not covered!

We have all these hidden "taxes" from climate change that affect us all.
And if you're taken in to the ER, you're possibly not even ABLE to consent to charges. You're at the whim of the hospital staff!
Did you know they charge for 'chaplain time' for having a chaplain stop by and say hi (you don't get to say yes or no, and this is obviously not medically necessary)?
For one, you only get a single password per site, so you can't rotate them, or have multiple accounts unless you add the account name to the inputs.

Secondly, different sites have different requirements, so your generated passwords might not work everywhere.

Finally, a password manager lets you store more than just a password for each site, and it can let you store passwords and secrets for things other than websites.
Do I pay less to public education if I have no kids? Do I pay less to fire or law enforcement if I've had no fires or incidents with law enforcement?

So why would the inverse be true for healthcare? All the healthy people would pay less than the unhealthy people? If the system is designed correctly, we all would pay enough that we all get coverage. Full stop. If we didn't, it would basically be "for profit" even if it was government run. Or, at least as I inferred how you envisioned it from your comment.

This isn't a reflection of you or your comment, but it makes me think. I'll never understand why my neighbors in America seem so obsessed with a "fair share" and ensuring that no one takes more than them. They're so worried with people exploiting the system that they happily let people die whose only fault was getting sick. Ironic for a nation who claims to be the largest Christian nation.

I happily pay my taxes to what I believe are in the common good. Education and stability are huge ones in my mind. My neighbor has kids and I don't, but I happily pay to help his kids go to public school. Why? Because I want them to be educated, thoughtful and productive members of society. Not just for them, but for me as well.

Even beyond self good though, I just can't ignore the sick. That families have to suffer a fathers cancer while simultaneously wondering how they'll pay for it is sickening to me. This doesn't sound like something a "Great" country would do. Christians confuse me.
Exactly. In Canada you an only advertise either that a drug to treat a certain condition exists, or that a drug with a certain name exists, but not both in the same ad. Why advertise drugs to customers, they're not medical professionals - that's why we have GPs.
I'm curious; how do you generate your passwords?
Ah, the tragedy of the commons.

There are aspects of life where this philosophy is great. There are also aspects of life - in particular, items touching on exhaustible resources - where a community-level decision making process really is needed. Water rights in the West are a great example.
> Poor democracies have no incentive to sign up to a cartel without rich countries' wealth

Of course they do. The cartel will easily bribe them - whichever politicians need incentivized - to leave the door open. They don't require much of an opening.

Visa is now worth more than every US or global bank - such as JP Morgan, HSBC or Bank of America - and worth more than twice what the largest tech company in Europe (SAP) is worth. Mastercard is worth 70% more than SAP.

These types of massive companies can trivially grease any and all wheels to embed themselves deeper into the global economy. What else do companies like Visa and Mastercard have to spend their extreme brand-bullshit margins on? If you're those guys, the only thing worth directing your flood of endless high margin profit at is to get locked deeper into the global economy. They can afford to purchase infinite lubrication for all practical purposes. Take Visa as an example. They have 50% net income margins - laughably extreme - because they have absolutely nothing else to do with their business other than collect the cash as it rolls in, and then look at ways to ensure their parasite position is perpetual and continues to expand.
AI Models Predict Breast Cancer with Radiologist-Level Accuracy
From what I understand, it can be helpful to get people to think about themselves in the third person.

We can be much harder on ourselves than we would ever be on a friend, and if you can get her to think about her own set of problems as if they were yours, what sort of advice would she offer you?

We get wrapped up in a set of outcomes and every setback feels like a harbinger of doom. I saw a retweet recently from someone with chronic fatigue who wished they could go back in time and use their dwindling energy to set themselves up for the future instead of spending everything on trying to 'get back to normal so they could start their life again'.

Look at where you are. What could you do this week or month to get to something you could live with or even enjoy? Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

He says, realizing he needs to follow the same advice...
I have a live stream of my bee hives, the pi reads the stream from the camera and frame copies it to the correct format for YouTube live:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2E5s3LTU9ObXjiOL7K8KPg/liv...
Banking has existed for a few centuries, and state controlled money is something recent too, it used to be that multiple sources minted coins. And bitcoin which has existed for 10 years and is far more threatening to governments has not been extinguished.
The left/baby blue-ish color is 4th quarter 2018, the right/red is 1st quarter 2019. Q4 looks like 75%, Q1 looks like 80%.

That said the title doesn't really make sense "File share services being used to host attacks" should probably be something more like "percentage of increase in files that are malicious" or some such.
On one hand it is mostly bull. Apple has the benefit of having a “strategy credit” since selling user data is not part of its business model.

But on the other hand, I can’t help but think that a gay CEO who grew up in Alabama really cares about privacy.
"Safety Third"
PhpDoc2pdf: Create PDF Documentation for PHP Code
Did you built that with some sort of IDE-ish interface?

Or do you hand-code Max? The .max files look a bit more like configuration files than code.

First time seeing the Max language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software)
It wouldn't be hard except for FDA regulations around manufacturing/selling drugs intended for human use.

Ah, so we should just get rid of those regulations and let the little guy compete!

Not so fast. Maybe the first new market entrants are motivated by altruism as much as by profit. They do everything carefully but charge prices closer to cost. Patients pay less and there are hardly any downsides, except to the financials of legacy pharma companies.

But by year 3 there are people who have learned that you can buy barrels of technical-grade active pharmaceutical ingredients off of Alibaba and make pills from them without any quality control in between. Sometimes the products are contaminated with carcinogens. Sometimes they vary widely in potency across lot numbers. In the absence of regulations, fraudulent and shoddy products become widespread. It would be like the supplements industry, except that people actually die if they don't take real prescription drugs they need (this is less common for people who are sold fake herbs.)
We Wanted to Dry the Nazis Out
I think this is just extending the HMO model a bit further. So yes, they'd be competition.
I have a Pi connected to a BME280 breakout board that I got from Adafruit (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2652). It's also connected to a Dallas 18B20 temperature sensor. The sensors are outdoors in a small actively-ventilated enclosure I made. The Pi is indoors, and the wires run through the wall.

Why 2 temperature sensors? Turns out the BME280 runs about 2°F hot, and the 18B20 is right on, so I end up using the 18B20 as my primary temp sensor.

Every minute a cronjob runs and the Pi takes readings from the sensors and stores them locally.

Then, I have another Pi that, every minute, reads those values and stores them in a long-term database (I have about 5 years of weather data at this point). The long-term database is running a custom Rails app I wrote to report on the data and show graphs, compare weather over years, etc.

In theory this could all live in a single Pi, but for various legacy reasons I ended up with a dedicated Pi for data processing, and a dedicated Pi for data gathering.
> if you thought that taking individual action actually does advance the environmental cause, would you take the action?

That's a very general question. We were talking about merely modifying behaviour to reduce consumption. Now it seems that you're talking about something else. It depends on if you're asking me to modify existing behaviour or take some new action, the actual details, the cost to me (including social cost) for taking that action, and the quantified expected benefit to the environment.

"You deferred climate catastrophe by one year" would probably be worth doing. "You deferred climate catastrophe by 0.00004 seconds" would probably not - I'd rather have spent that effort convincing one other person to vote differently.
Couple Questions:

If the package got held at customs, who was liable UPS or (Sender/Receiver-- DDU v DAP)

Was this compliance check a service that was paid for, or something UPS did to minimize customer issues?
Another vote for this setup. It works on all of my devices, it's FOSS, and my passwords are stored in a regular file that I can synchronize however I want. I also like the user interface.

The one downside is that the iOS client is unmaintained. I know nothing about crypto so I'm unfortunately not in a good position to contribute.
Are MOOCs Good for Students?
Because there are still, over a year later, no reported cases of any spectre/meltdown vulnerabilities actively being used in the wild.
==My sister, a public interest DV attorney, and her husband, a local journalist, bought their first house there; as you might imagine, neither are wealthy.==

And I have two different co-workers and my tech company who have moved there in the past 5 years. These anecdotes aren't data, but show how personal experience drives perception.

==I think anyone who lived here in the 1990s would recognize pretty much the same Chicago in 2019, modulo the wifi in the cafes==

I think the data disagrees with you. Today, 39% of city residents have college degrees, in 1990, it was 19% [1]. The city has a higher percentage of residents with a college degree than larger, metro Chicago, the first time that has ever been the case. Other ways this can be observed is through the disappearance of the "Chicago accent". As more Big Ten graduates have migrated to the city from around the Midwest, the city's make-up has changed [2].

It relates to crime in the way these people have migrated. If the city was 1/3 working class, 1/3 middle class and 1/3 upper class 30 years ago; today it is more like 2/5 working class, 1/5 middle class, and 2/5 upper class. This mirrors what we have seen across the US economy. It reminds us of the quote, "Chicago is the most American of American cities."

This change has meant that previously working class neighborhoods have lost jobs, residents and investment. Those are the things that lead to increased levels of crime/violence. If we look at any Rust Belt city, we see high murder rates [3]:

>Out of the five metropolitan areas with the highest per capita murder rates, according to CBS News, four are deindustrialized cities: St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit and Cleveland.

Chicago has managed to avoid much of the population loss and economic collapse of these cities, but still saw both happen over the past 40 years.

==Neighborhoods are gradually gentrifying, sure. That's incompatible with the idea that neighborhood flight is worsening crime.==

Except there are 77 neighborhoods, so 25 can be gentrifying and seeing lower crime while 5 are facing de-population and increased crime. It's pretty obvious when you look at the 3 most violent neighborhoods (community areas) of Austin, Garfield Park and Englewood. They are each seeing population decrease and together account for 25% of murders in the city.

[1] https://danielkayhertz.com/2019/05/15/out-of-state-college-g...

[2] https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/04/why-city-accents-are-fa...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/cbs/why-are-murder-rates-so...
I too use KeePassXC, because I've used KeePass on Windows (and Android) for years and KeePassXC distributes an AppImage[0]. I just store the DB on Dropbox though. However, I've used Syncthing for projects at work and can recommend it as an alternative.

[0]https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/releases/downloa...
I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
> One of the things that is most protective to mental health is not to spend too much of our lives consciously obsessing about it.

That last statement is rather asinine and seems at odds with the rest of the article. I think it's fair to say negative emotions aren't the same as mental illness, but ignoring those negative emotions and keeping a "stiff upper lip" can lead to much bigger emotional problems down the road. There's a middle ground that involves accepting & experiencing the lows along with the highs as a part of life.
> the old MS joystick that had a throttle, extra buttons, and especially the yaw twist capability of the stick

The sidewinder? I don’t remember it having a throttle though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SideWinder#3D_Pro

Looks like there were relaunched and you can still get USB models from retailers.
Thanks for your answer. In all honesty and taking what you said in consideration, I still believe that the Medium model should die in a fire, I won't feel bad for not supporting you through it and I hope you consider other alternatives.
I just tried to get started with tclkit to try it out. The first result for "getting started tclkit" has links with 404. I was able to download a prebuilt binary for macOS which does run, but I can't find any clear tutorials for how to start building apps (the top result for "getting started" is from 2008).

I decided to try some example apps instead, so downloaded some .kit files and tried to run them:

% ./tclkit-8.6.3-macosx10.5-ix86+x86_64 fractal.kit
2019-06-25 12:14:12.541 tclkit-8.6.3-macosx10.5-ix86+x86_64[18970:1942703] -[TKWindow setCanCycle:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10023a910
2019-06-25 12:14:12.542 tclkit-8.6.3-macosx10.5-ix86+x86_64[18970:1942703] * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[TKWindow setCanCycle:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10023a910'

It crashes.

Hard to compare with the ecosystem and maturity of the web.
Better living through chemistry. Not at all what I was thinking when I wrote this post, but I love this take on it. I think if that is truly the drive behind the medicalisation of every day life we would be better off dropping the facade just allow people to live their best life through chemical augmentation, if they so desire.

My mind takes the wide application of this to a scary dystopian conclusion, but perhaps it doesn't have to be this way. Or conversely perhaps we are already there.
The increase in Germany was only temporary, though.

We hit a low point in '09, and a high point in '13 (but still below levels of '07). Coal usage has gone down ever since, and we're currently at a new low.
At least in crypto, that's why things like the Ledger or Trezor are really important, at least if you're storing any non-de-minimus amount. Protects against things like 0-days, etc.
>People complain about 20U$S copays on doctor visits that bill 400U$S to insurance.

Well if that’s the case...it’s because the $400 bill isn’t the real cost for the service and insurance actually pays $0 of the bilked $400.

What happens is the patient pays $20 copay gets billed ~20% of the $400, or $80...then everyone but the patient is happy, Dr. gets his $100 for the visit and gets a $300 tax deduction, the insurance gets its premiums from the patient and gets their 80% waived by the provider effectively shifting 100% of the cost to the patient while still being able to account for the 80/20 split on the books.
The Jews gained a monopoly over your currency in 1913. Zuckerberg is a Jew. If the government will not nationalize and seize total control of the privately-owned Federal Reserve then they certainly won’t stop this either.
Pricing transparency was already included in the ACA. What happened to that? Why did it fail?
If you can work from home (big if) then you might consider looking into a standing desk + treadmill.

There are some decent options available. The "Autonomous" desk is great, I purchased JUST the legs and use an IKEA top to save money.

Now, I'm looking at the "Treadly" treadmill. Technically, this isn't an "under desk" treadmill, but it's the thinnest treadmill on the market and can be operated without the bars upright. So it's perfect for going under your desk, and then under a bed or a couch when you're not using it.
Absolutely overkill for most of these things, but I've been managing linux servers for 20 years now and find it really easy and fast to get a Pi up and running to do what I want.

There's also some efficiencies from having everything on the same hardware platform.

But mostly it's just comfortable for me.