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I never realized how much people depend on their vocation as their primary social connection until reading these blog posts about loneliness that have sprung up lately. Can an office job really give you all the deep personal stimulation you need in life? I like my coworkers and feel they are my true friends and still I would feel lonely knowing they go home to families and following a personal purpose if I went home watching Netflix every night. Life is easier having a purpose, so if you’re struggling with loneliness that you attribute to working away from a water cooler, then you might benefit from some deeper soul searching. Source: I’ve been working mostly remotely for 10yrs.
I have used postgres for so long that a lot of the baked in functions and features that were super convenient for me.

I recall wanting to change a data type in my query and having to actually use the cast function. Also it was mentioned but when I was using it CTEs were not implemented yet. However, they weren't with postgres until 9.x as I recall either.

Regarding performance, I mean, that is as much design as it is rdbms choice. Also i'm no DBA.
The American Founding Violence That Never Ends
It feels weird to think that this kind of content might be safe on PornHub. To teach people how to secure things, they need to appreciate attack vectors.
"I don’t know the stats off the top of my head but I’ve heard many times that men’s health issues are under-studies relative to women’s — ie breast cancer versus prostate cancer."

I think the actual metric is extremely complicated. By and large, symptoms of diseases and illness are based on male patients. Drug trials often exclude women (due to pregnancy risk) and many exclude pregnant women (forcing pregnant women to go without necessary medication to protect the fetus). Certain women's cancers like breast cancer recieve significant income but other issues like endomeitrosis recieve little to no research. Women are statistically forced to wait longer at ER and have their pain dismissed more regularly as not indicating anything serious.

So in some ways men are considered 'default' for drug trials, clinical health profiles, their pain and health are considered more seriously, etc. On the other hand, there isn't a lot of money for mental health geared towards men in particular, certain cancers that are male specific are ignored, and there isn't as much pressure for thinness and health on men as there are women socially.

So I don't think there's clear lines that by far X gender is oppressed on all levels in the healthcare field. It would be more accurate to presume that there are many different systemic failures correlated with different demographics, and this affects different demographics differently.

While I agree with you that class has a massive influence, I would hesitate to agree with you that the country's problems should be considered primarily class based. We are still only a generation past (less than a generation? arguably still ongoing?) purposefully refusing to lend or perform economic deals with people based on their race or gender. This would show up as class stratification but has a racial/sexist cause, so it may be inaccurate to presume that solely economic solution would resolve all other societal stratification issues.

(But I really do agree with you we need to remove barriers of economic class transfer.)
I'm not going to give you my personal details if you won't front up with basic information like a price, shipping costs and whether or not you'll ship internationally (and where). Interesting device, great marketing, but hell no.
Off-topic, on Mathpix' site, the image of a Mac contains a battery icon. Didn't know they now make Mac's with battery backups :)
"Nazis and fascists are using your platform to incite hate and violence" - everyone

"Let's ban nipples n' stuff" - Jack
No. The terms specifically says it does not affect breastfeeding mothers.
> That being said, don't you solve that problem by teaching your kid about virtual machines or docker?

You can't reasonably expect a child to understand hardware virtualization, can you? Much less how to use something like Docker. Maybe if Docker was perfect and there were no version or dependency incompatibilities, and the Docker service behaved predictably, and a bunch of other things. Hell, I would've bailed a few minutes into the build process as a child. I get bored waiting on it as an adult.

Also real-life hardware can be super interesting, even if you're not hacking at it! I found much joy just cracking open the family's old Windows machine and having a look. It's hard to quantify the effect something like that has, but it's got to be greater than zero.
> Rather than, as you suggest, taxing every dollar that is spent exactly once (thereby ending up with a VAT), you could instead tax every dollar that is earned (by a real person) exactly once.

One of the problems with income tax is that there are a lot of things you don't really want to tax. For example, suppose you don't want to tax childcare. With VAT, you simply don't require childcare providers to collect VAT. With income tax, you need every individual taxpayer to file a tax return at the end of the year identifying how much childcare they paid for, and they have to accurately predict ahead of time how much that will be or they may overpay or underpay their taxes.

It's also an invasion of privacy -- you end up having to tell the IRS all about your life in order to get the tax deductions, instead of just not taxing those things to begin with.

Meanwhile there are a lot more individuals than businesses, which increases administrative costs and overhead.

If it's all the same in the end anyway then why choose the wasteful complicated invasive one?
Popular Node packages now comes with job announcements
He didn't say: Mr and Mrs So and So need to be attacked.

But he repeatedly painted a picture of a staged event where the participants were doing it to in order to take away your fundamental rights! They are lying to you! They want to take your freedom! I'm not willing to let that happen! People, America as we know it is about to die, and we can't let that happen! (weeps crocodile tears)

Then when it became known that many of the parents were being followed and harassed, Jones tacitly approved it by not telling the harassers to stop.
If we let other people's principles guide ourselves, we will end up as the absolute worst of society in no time.
One behavior I like about Matlab is that functions are functions. Arguments are passed by value and there's no way a function can modify its arguments (well, except perhaps objects which are less common).

Matlab will try to optimize and avoid a copy if the function does not modify the argument. Matlab is also (sometimes) smart enough so that A=f(A) will modify A in place instead of making a copy.

This is what I expect from a math oriented language. Maintain the illusion of referential transparency but optimize under the hood if possible.

Also Matlab has a reasonable JIT compiler. And a good debugger.

I no longer use Matlab but it is a very productive environment for scientific computing (simulations, exploration).
I'm very much in favor of this principle as well. The problem is that legality is often disputed and not even the biggest platforms have the capacity to resolve all those disputes without taking down the content as a first (and often only) step.
Well, pound for pound, and calories for calories, a pound of vegetables is more expensive than a pound of 85/15 beef. And a 2L of Coke is even cheaper (and heavier and calorific)... So, there’s that as a starting point.
Heard some rumors that China might have something to do to this, related to the Hong Kong protests, but they're just rumors.
Less views means worse discovery. Basically, if they start to push their viewers to another platform, they'll be recommended less on YouTube. Like it or not, 99.999% of their potential viewers are only on YouTube, which means growth will stagnate. Worse than that, their videos will be shown less even to current subscribers so they'll lose income.

There really isn't a good solution that I can think of...
If plants have no consciousness does that make them any less worthy of care? Consciousness is nice, I'm glad I have some, but it's just one among many strategies that may help us replicate. Like flight or teeth or roses. An unconscious organism is different than a conscious one but not necessarily lesser in the way that matters: genetic survival.

It may be that consciousness is a net positive to us in that it lets us adapt to conditions more quickly. Our genes may last longer than plant genes as a result. But it also burdens us with destructive tendencies that threaten our survival. The jury is out.
Health insurance costs have increased faster than inflation for decades and is responsible for the total increase in compensation[1].

Workers are not getting more or better benefits. They're getting the same or worse benefits, it's just that health insurance costs for the same plans increase each year at a rate that vastly outpaces inflation.

[1] https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BF-AU065A_INSUR_9...
Take the fruits and vegetables from your own garden/farm by yourself, you won't pay a cent on it. Take it from someone else who worked to make it happen and you're paying taxes on this added value. This doesn't sound too foreign to me.

Healthier, more "bio" food is more expensive because efficiency is lower and the scale and choice of harvesting means don't allow it to be cultivated at the same rate, so the base price is higher. VAT is not playing any role in making it more or less expensive.
“Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffectual.”

Boris Beizer, Software Testing Techniques. Second edition. 1990
A move that will achieve little other than to damage Google's image further.

There are other prevalent video upload/streaming websites who will not as actively enforce their content restrictions. The impact of YouTube's aggressively purging cybersecurity content will be minimal in a practical sense.

In a philosophical sense, the internet has no intrinsic governing body, and as such content restrictions are placed in the hands of content hosts.

It is when the content hosts are so massive that they are effectively dictating law (not to say that YouTube is forcing a precedent on other hosts, but rather by placing restrictions on such a massive traffic volume) that the "Big Brother" scenario is unsurprisingly brought up.

I think if Google tracked everyone who uploaded and/or watched said content and then transmitted their information to the authorities, this would be Big Brother level. And they may very well do this already, I lack the knowledge on the topic to say.

But content restrictions are theirs to impose. I think most of us will judge them by the execution of the prohibition of said content.

If they successfully keep their filters narrow enough to remove content that is uploaded for the purposes of causing damage/harm to others, I do not think many of us would judge. There are those who speak of freedom of speech, but if I had a list of user credentials for an internet banking website or GMail, I do not think my transmission of them to the masses would be a responsible thing to do, and neither would I think that freedom of speech obstruction would be a valid defence of my actions were I to transmit everybody's user credentials to the masses for anyone to play with.

People are not simply recruited as pentesters or similar straight out of school, they are typically required to have qualifications or at least core competencies and I imagine an attitude appropriate to the sensitive work and material involved.

It's not as simple as many contend. Many are content with videos about murder, child abuse etc. being prohibited. They talk of their content options being dictated, but look at prior mediums. Television never included these things, because it was considered improper and/or illegal to disseminate material instructing or capable of instructing people to commit or get away with committing acts of crime. The internet had no such restrictions because people are the content producers, not studios.

However, the internet has not changed. If you desire freedom of speech, put your own website up as we all did in the beginning, rather than relying on a mainstream host whose legal obligations are proportionate to its mass and its media presence. If you use YouTube, you sacrifice your freedom for convenience and access to traffic volume, just as you would if you were to broadcast on TV or Netflix.
Press "help" in that popover and you'll be shown "Please wait, there are 459 people in line".
Drug companies also spend more on marketing than R&D, and given that marketing drugs is largely banned in other nations, the bulk of it is also spent in the US.

Further, that R&D is often more production development of drugs or drug families first identified in public research efforts. The pipeline for which has been drying up in recent years because of gov't austerity - and in response the billions per drug brought to market number has been going up for the commercial drug company efforts.
Automatic HTTP(s) Interception and Debugging for Node.js
I think he tried, but didn't succeed. Still, it's interesting to see how things look to a very experienced Matlab user.
I agree Pittsburgh is more Appalachia than ATL; it’s Appalachia proper.

But Atlanta is really close. at the “Piedmont” of the if you will ;)
> we do not serve any mobile visitors at all

> > How is that possible

> These are adwords landing pages. We're in super MVP-mode

In your specific case, google pagespeed ranking is probably irrelevant.

If you truly have 0 mobile visitors, and these are just adwords landing pages, then people are probably not "Googling" your company, so search ranking is probably totally irrelevant at this point too.
Regular reminder that Hacker News automatically removes content the community doesn't like. Think about that before complaining on Hacker News about YouTube removing videos.
We literally have fairytales relevant to this situation: the boy who cried wolf. If PV ever does uncover something real, they will have only themselves to blame when the rest of us ignore them. Making misleading videos is their entire game.
> This basically bypasses all privacy safeguards that clients would enjoy at a regular bank.

Once again a shift in technology is used to throw away old privacy safeguards and consumer rights and protections.
Matlab's hook is the domain specific toolkits which don't have polished open source equivalents.
That site is wrong, lock picking tools in all those States are still legal to possess for non-criminal purposes same as all the other states. They just consider possession of such tools to be prima facie evidence that you have criminal intent. Prima facie evidence is basically evidence that if not disproved by the defense is by law sufficient to convict.

So that means it's still legal to possess such tools in those states. But if prosecuted for criminal possession you basically lose the presumption of innocence and must prove you had no criminal intent rather than the state being required to prove that you did.
I think income and race/gender are too intertwined to characterize it as ignoring the income issue. I agree that income is strongly correlated to many outcomes, health or otherwise. When it comes to solutions, though, you can't raise income without addressing the racial and gender biases today.

The same resume with a Black sounding name gets far less traction than a stereotypically white name. Income and race are, unfortunately, coupled.

I think economic justice and racial equality and gender equality all come hand-in-hand.

When you hear people talking about racial injustice, while you advocate for economic equality, I think both are ultimately advocating for the same position.
Show HN: Distributed Randomness Beacon Client
https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548 has some interesting discussion and context around this, including a response from the author: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548#issuecomment-...
A good reminder that NYC decided that viewing adult content on computers at city libraries was protected by freedom of speech and is therefore allowed:

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/25/watching-porn-at-nyc...
Well there is zero doubt that suicide rates are correlated with poverty rates! That isn’t quite the question though, is it?

If poverty rates explained the recent life expectancy drop and concomitant suicide rate and overdose spike, we are wasting a lot of time in this comment section.

Except the poverty rate is falling. [1]

Maybe the theory is that even though the economy has been getting better for almost a full decade, and the poverty rate has been falling, there is a segment of the population that is still in poverty or even coming out of poverty and yet still feeling more dreadfully helpless than past people in similar financial status.

[1] - https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-26...
So... what you're saying is that you don't want to hear the same song too soon after hearing it before?
Who are the highest income spenders?

I'm reminded of the Seinfeld reservation bit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM).
I agree that the probability of these occurring so close together is very unlikely.

Separately, this is a huge blow for Instagram/Facebook since this is one of the busiest social media sharing weeks in the US. I bet a lot of their engineers are answering pagers on vacation.
However image metadata service seems to be up, this is what I see for most images on FB now.

https://imgur.com/a/uC2L354
Personally honestly I don't have a problem with people saying what they want to say even if I disagree with it. My problem is that some people suddenly decided that platforms like Youtube are suddenly required to host any and all content when those platforms have always been privately owned and always had various rules which were subject to change.

People have suddenly decided that youtube is somehow quasi public property and seem to feel if they keep repeating that over and over then it will magically come true, it isn't and that's my issue.
Blame attaches to the last thing that changed. (https://www.imperialviolet.org/2016/05/16/agility.html) And to be fair, I don't think that's completely illogical. It's often the case that the last thing that changed is the easiest thing to change back. And the results of recent changes are generally more predictable than the results of changes from a long time ago.
I tried to do this about a year ago on an Ubuntu DO Droplet with a static public IP to point the NS record to and I never could get it to work. Even tried this fork which has a few more commits than upstream: https://github.com/advoryanskiy/iodine
So are you running this successfully? Mind sharing your stack and hosting environment?
But then we're not talking about functioning societies. What's the point of bringing "what if" extreme data points into the discussion ?
The stigma IT gets from society with regards to security is abundant.

The term hacker for a geek is not the definition the media uses - I often correct people and ask - should Burglars be called Locksmiths? Which is absurd, but then the term hacker has been subverted to mean a computer thief, vandal, burglar or any form of digital crime.

As for showing how to break into a compter - the legal and valid reasons outway the criminal ones and yet this is a blanket ban mentality taking the edge cases and projecting them.

Forget your password - well thanks youtube for banning all valid digital locksmith usage.

So by doing this, it is akin to closing down a road because somebody got caught speeding, or banning anybody learning to drive because somebody got caught speeding. An extreme comparison, but is it?

Bigger issue is such digital rules are automated in action, so less due process, more so with some companies whose support due process depends upon you knowing somebody at the company to `actually` look into the automated oversights.

So what next, p2p and the darkweb have already been demonised by the media. So any attempt to offer an alternative will get negatively associated, and deemed guilty of a crime they did not commit. Which is nice for the establishments in our digital age, as it protects their effective monopoly.
Technically you can.

In practice it’s playing the outrage lottery: you can’t complain not winning if you don’t buy into it, but you only have one in a million chance to have your issue blow up to any proportion, and then some more astronomically low chance it leads to anything.

I am still thinking about the Vox presenter Carlos Maza who painstakingly documented and published how youtube didn’t enforce its hate speech rules, gathered 20 000 retweets, got an official youtube account reply to assure they’ll look into it. And nothing (well, some more harrasment and hate speech)
Just watched the first video in that series. Great one, thanks for sharing.
Oh man, the media agreement had us looking at every napalm earth option with things like "if we disbanded the HOA, then what?" (because the language says "Community Name and successors," it'd have been a net loss to disband as anything we did to attempt to get out was as a group vs as individuals including the liability protections that a LLC can provide vs various individuals). It's kind of crazy how ingrained it has become as a concept.

In our town, supposedly (second hand info so grain of salt), one of the neighborhoods that sprung up without a HOA was pretty bad from the onset with poor maintenance on various houses (to the point of cardboard over broken glass windows) and the town somehow passed a requirement that all new developments belong to a HOA. Not sure the veracity of that (though I can confirm the spottiness of the neighborhood in question because they're adjacent from ours), but unfortunately it seems things are going more towards everything HOA route (outside of maybe buy a bunch of land on the outskirts of town and build a house. Which good luck with high speed internet and the like unless you're willing to pay to get them to install in your area).

I see pros and cons to HOAs, though even while the one I'm in isn't bad, I still am not a fan of them generally.