skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There really is no need for that. All you need is for the growth in number of susceptible people (usually roughly birthrate) be slow enough that the threshold for an outbreak isn't reached for a couple years. One reason for this could be a previous large outbreak so the growth is starting from a low baseline.
I vividly remember the outage I caused by changing a struct field name, only to find out it was implicitly a critical part of the API "contract" when serialized to JSON.

Lack of unit tests for serialization can be deadly for projects where the serialization format is defined implicitly via the application model. I've seen enough projects bitten by this to be convinced it's worth writing ser/des unit tests for every API object. For some reason it's a form of testing that even gung-ho unit testers tend to leave out. Arguably it should be covered by integration tests, but integration tests usually only test round-trip serialization, which rarely breaks when you're testing a codebase against itself.

But I think the issue you faced was a documentation issue as well. It should have been evident which objects defined the API. In some projects the objects have to be heavily annotated to make ser/des work at all, which makes it obvious, but when it's possible to separate concerns and define ser/des separately, there should be documentation or naming to make it just as easy to see.
Spotify criticized by musicians for “tone-deaf” ad promoting free trial
>Not OP. Microsoft gave away windows 10 for free

Correction: Windows 10 upgrade for free. If it's a new system, you still need to buy a license, and OEMs still have to pay.
Both. It’s both highly click-baity and easy to produce.
Circumcision does nothing to protect against herpes, hepatitis, chancroid, HPV, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis etc.

So the child is being exposed to risk of death or disfigurement for a hypothetical benefit for one STI where there are existing better protections for that, and other STIs.
i would expect a default to always gain, people get worn down constantly changing default settings, and new users dont know about it because it isnt well advertised.
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Makes sense to do it when you can hack together a quick prototype that will teach you more about the problem and will be fun.

We needed a sensor data capture platform at work. There were a lot of odd requirements, like consuming data from embedded hardware, severe bandwidth restrictions, and high-precision (GPS) timekeeping. We hacked something together in python + flask in 2 weeks, and it was easy to experiment on the analysis side by just writing another flask route and generating some html with plot.ly and leaflet.

We're also evaluating thingsboard and the elastic stack, but setting those up, experimenting, and extending them was slower, less fun, and harder to debug. At some point we'll do a shootout between all the platforms and pick the winner if this is something that gains significant users, in which case the community and active support of the platforms will be a big advantage.
With remote work becoming more mainstream, I still wonder why so many companies close their doors to distributed teams.

Of course, not every remote worker is created equally, but I do ponder the disconnect between companies looking for people that "think outside the box", yet won't hire people who are literally living "outside of the box"; ie: pioneering a new way of living/working.

I'd be interested to hear from people on both sides of the argument: do you hire remote workers? If yes/no, why?
France, from whence fuselage, empennage, aileron, longeron.
You may know of Louis Blériot, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot,

but also "Pilot Flies Through Arc de Triomphe" (1919) https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/first...

and "Airbus and Cricri battery-powered planes make historic journeys across English Channel" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airbus-cricri-battery-powered-p... (see the Cristaline launched from a biplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdu8PV_ulQg)
Farmers in Austria (where glyphosate was recently banned) are worried that without glyphosate erosion will accelerate due to the lack of reasonable chemical alternatives. This will be interesting to see unfold.
This feels like people are starting out with simple apps (kind of like YouTube started with stupid pet tricks), and will be interesting to see if they start to get better at it.
If the benefit exists, which is doubtful, it only exists for one STI and has no protective effect for the rest.

> I’m really not interested in ideological battle here.

You're defending zero-benefit mutilation of children, in the face of overwhelming medical advice. It's hard to see that as anything other than ideological.
> If the way one dresses, or the cost of one's watch, or the firmness of one's handshake is the best signal they have to communicate their stature to a group, it's because they don't have anything more tangible.

What other ways are there to communicate stature to a group? For one-on-one interactions there are lots of ways, but when you walk into a room, appearance is about all you have.
It’s a good question, but one I could think of is something relating to success of new products. Ideally you never launch an outright flop, Apple’s had maybe 2 or 3. You can take their strategy and “be right most of the time” or you can reinforce the importance of product market fit and understanding instead of spaghetti model. There’s always an opportunity for research and understanding prior to development, and hiring people who have launched similar successful products. That doesn’t require a pivot just a bit more investment early on and the return can be tracked as a function of success of new products.
This really feels like a cat and mouse game, with Google not actually trying to solve the issue. The proposed additional security "features" will give a false sense of security.

Any way for 2 apps to communicate together will be exploited for the same purpose in the future. Google would have to fix the issue in a more fundamental level, which requires better understanding of users habits and wishes in term of privacy.

But obviously, privacy-oriented users are the worst users for an ad network machine...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are publicly traded companies that deal with secondary mortgages.

The HUD does have multi family housing loans, rural loans, affordable housing loans and even loans for farm labourer dwellings.

A loan depends on the ability of the borrower to pay it back. Everywhere, land has appreciating value and the dwelling itself is a depreciating asset. It is obvious why because land is limited and we can’t create new land. Also given that the population growth is exponential, the value of land keeps rising and hence the cost of housing.

There arent tons of financing programs for co housing and group homes because lenders like to select only borrowers who have collateral that can be resold. The reason is that Americans don’t want Co housing or group homes. If there is a demand and trend of qualified borrowers who can build and hold and increase assured re sale value, there is no reason why there wouldn’t be loans for it.

Remember ..for a lender..to back a loan for a co housing project, he has to see a viability to sell it to more than one competitor. And there just isn’t demand because low housing stock and housing affordability is an uniquely tier 1 city problem. Middle America and most economically depressed parts of the country still have lots of land.

It comes back to density. I have looked at this every way possible. Although I can’t claim to have worked on this issue, my mother worked thirty years in the affordable housing sector. I spent most of my after school hours doing homework at her place of work in meeting rooms while listening in... Favoring high density at the cost of stressed infrastructure is desirable only in the United States. No one else who have lived in high density cities around the world will get it.

That’s because there is a difference between crowded and high density. Former is cramming a lot of people with fixed or diminishing resources. The latter is densely packing more people while allocating resources and infrastructure equitably to everyone to optimize sustainability indices. America doesn’t understand high density sustainability.

Property is the most desirable form of investment because as I mentioned before we can’t create more land. We can create more living space by building vertical etc but again, more land is more vertical value and this still operates on scarcity principle. The outcome would be housing unaffordablility.

Living with room mates is rather common in most parts of the world. One can’t modify a financial instrument like a mortgage to manipulate value of an appreciating immovable non replicating asset like land.

It’s an interesting problem, but it’s not a financial problem. It’s a cultural one.
Same for my Surface clone, I had to detach the keyboard and rotate to portrait. I ended up reading it in firefox reader view.
Most now aren't even done for religious purposes but just because everyone else does it.
Nuclear power is indeed quite cheap, especially if the operators have to pay neither insurance nor damages for the potentially catastrophic consequences of accidents. And most operators have totally understated/underestimated the cost of demolishing plants at the end of their lifetime.

In Germany in particular, the biggest actual problem would be waste storage. We just don't really know were to put it, and even if we knew we couldn't agree where.

So, in the meantime, until we know with absolute certainty what to do with it (so please no pie-in-the sky reclamation ideas or unproven reactor types nobody can build commercially), I prefer not piling up more of that stuff.
I have never seen a chart that doesn't split them.
How is this trust measure measured? Survey of owners?
There are numerous articles out there that will tell you not to roll your own rule engine and indeed there are lots of them out there. But unless you are solving a well known problem, I've always found the open source rule engines to be either opinionated or just too large/unwieldy. It's not THAT hard to make your own. You only ever a handful of chances in your career to implement a rule engine anyway - since they are usually the core of the software that a company sells. Make it right!
True, I had heard that before, but its not really what I was asking. Your example still has 10% addicts (the same number that I mentioned). Did these people become problematic to their wider community? The 10% who become addicted have caused plenty of problems in my city.
Even if wind and water erosion were eliminated, modern agriculture is fundamentally a form of mining.

Farmers grow crops that remove nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and a variety of other minerals from the soil. The crops are shipped to cities typically located on rivers or oceans. The crops are processed, eaten and the nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and other minerals are flushed into the rivers and oceans.

The elements can be replaced as long as supplies of natural gas to fix atmospheric nitrogen and reserves of potash and phosphate rock last. But it is ultimately unsustainable.
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One thing I'd love to see more studies about is adding charcoal to the soil. There is decent evidence that this greatly improves soil quality as the large surface area of the charcoal particles allows microbes to grow and stores water. It also has the added benefit of capturing carbon in a form that is stable for millennia.
NYC ships its garbage hundreds, and even thousands of miles in some cases:

https://www.freshairfortheeastside.com/latestnews/2018/1/22/...

There’s even a poop train to Alabama:

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/...
I just got a new PC. It is the size of a power supply. A300W with Ryzen 5 2400g. Seems to be able to handle everything and only cost $429 in parts total.

I am thinking about only buying mini-PCs from here on out.

I guess the next thing I want is a super light weight OLED monitor that rolls up.
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/switzerland/articles/switz...
Up to 1% of THC which is useless, according to the total absense of peer reviewed clinical trials on CBD and also no fun.

Europe would be perfect if literally anywhere got this sorted out

Sure, the general lack of life ruining prison sentences is ok and a stark contrast from the US, Middle East and South East Asia. And further decriminalization is ok. But where are the gummies! The edibles! Recreational highs from a convenience store are totally absent.

Hanging out with “edgy” people in Europe feels like high school 20 years ago. I really like the West Coast US culture of working professionals having weed and edibles casually.
> Looking at the formatting capabilities in Word for Android, it's so much more powerful. Amazing to see how far mobile app capabilities have come since then.

I'm in the business of making a powerful Google Docs alternative, Zoho Writer (https://writer.zoho.com). Our mobile versions were (are still) using native TextBox APIs to build the mobile word processor.

But interestingly, even with all the recent improvements, the native APIs to model complex formattings like background-color, tables and selections across multiple text-views are pretty tricky.

On the plus side, mobile OS's these days allow us to draw directly over a canvas which means we can get to those complex features by rewriting the app to render directly over a canvas. So yeah, we have come a long way indeed.

Also hey, you've helped me out with understanding some Redux stuff from time to time. Is there anything you haven't done? ;)

Thank you for all the effort you put in for the open source community.
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Because half of the security industrial complex and the USA would go bankrupt.
There is a difference, and that is being able to purpose time.

The homeless person is driven by basic needs and wants. The billionaire is not.

A person of modest means, who works very little to meet them has significant wealth.

Off grid type people, who are successful in their investments get the return of time, as another example.
https://withkoji.com/create
One could fuzz test the debug versions to ensure it's safe. And they really need the extra performance for prod. Perhaps they are confident that is enough testing? We know it can never be 100%
Over-edited my comment, should have been:

> C++ projects are so rare and monolithic that reinventing the wheel every now and then...

...does not hurt much.
Democracies often resist legislation that is proactive and instead react to a disaster
ES proposal: public class fields
Most people probably waste far more time than 90 minutes a day after work, HN posters included.
I would argue the first one is capital.
Hi everyone, co-founder/lead dev here. We've been working on Koji for the past six months or so, inspired by the idea of democratizing the creation of interactive content (apps, "mini programs", whatever you want to call them) in the same way that YouTube democratized the creation of interactive video. -- we're still in beta and there are lots of rough edges, but it's nonetheless exciting to wake up and see it on here :)

Happy to answer any questions!

PS - My cofounder (https://twitter.com/dmitry) and I met five years ago here on HN!
https://loosethreads.com/podcast/2016/09/27/loose-threads-po...

podcast with the creator of outlier.nyc one of the more interesting workwear/techwear brands

'Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear' is also good read
Over 95% of a plant is just hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon that it pulled from the air or water. Only a very small percentage of the material in a plant is actually from the soil, so most of the activity on a farm is not fundamentally a form of mining.
Tillage.
Well, in China nobody can tell you where you can stick the radioactive part of your "economy of scale".

Or the reactor facilities themselves, because in China it's relatively easy to use any amount of land, without regard of who owned it before. Then you really don't need to tailor the plants to each location...

AFAIK no democratic country with significant nuclear energy has sufficiently solved the waste storage problem, and it is a very active problem in a lot of countries I know.
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Not at all. Depends on your setup but it is absolutely possible to take 120 negs in picture in one shot.
they won't function as legitimate businesses. there's not significant money to be made growing legal crops or synthesizing simple, 100 year old compounds. their business is operating a supply chain that most nation states are busy trying to disrupt.
Is it better in Android?
The same OCD tendencies that are conducive to technical expertise can also be aimed at other aspects of life. I go through occasional boughts of dressing smarter, just for the satisfaction. And the nice shoes. Life's too short for boring shoes.
Also hard to read the text as it scrolled over a busy background. I gave up.
If you like to be extra generous, buy them a new pair of shoes or a meal of their choosing.
It references an article, not just an abstract. The conclusion of said article reads:

The broader application of this procedure to other areas of the world with different population, infrastructure and disease characteristics warrants further investigation.
Legalizing drugs is the best thing the US could do with respect to the cartels. Not only would it reduce profits, it would give producers an arbiter to go to when there are disputes rather than forcing them to rely on their own version of justice.
The profit is in enforcing the law. Defense contractors and prison guard unions don't make any money when something is nominally illegal but nobody is actually spending any money trying to stop it.
That only applied to Cannabis though, not to drugs in general, and it did not find that possession wasn't a crime, but that the state should not pursue indictments for personal use.
While spreadsheets usually display references as though they refer to a specific cell (i.e. A3, B2, etc.), but underneath, the references are relative (unless specifically made absolute, with $ in the case of A1).

The common pattern in spreadsheets is to have a set of columns of repeated formulas. i.e.

| A | B | C | D |
|-----|-----|----------------|-----|
1 | | | | 0.12|
2 | 42| 42| =A2*B2+C1*$D$1 | |
3 | 69| 69| =A3*B3+C2*$D$1 | |

Where, you'll note, although the function and reference shape in C2 and C3 is identical, the text is not.

Whereas, with R1C1-type references.

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|-----|-----|----------------------------|-----|
1 | | | | 0.12|
2 | 42| 42| =RC[-2]*RC[-1]+R[-1]C*R1C4 | |
3 | 69| 69| =RC[-2]*RC[-1]+R[-1]C*R1C4 | |

The text of the formula is exactly the same in both copies.

This makes it a lot cheaper to deduplicate them, because we don't need to run the whole parser on the 400k+ formula invocations in our sheet, and then compare the ASTs rather than text; since in this form, there are only a few thousand unique expressions rather than a few hundred thousand.
Or 10 twitter accounts to rage about the article you just wrote but no one read.
If you follow your prescription and become addicted to an opioid, and your doctor received kickbacks for prescribing it from the pharmaceutical company, despite the fact that the pharmaceutical company knew it was addictive… you should be able to sue, and I'd even go so far to say as someone should be prosecuted.

It's not "my body, my choice" with prescription drugs, because I didn't choose. I just trusted my doctor. Which I should be able to do, not have to second-guess whether they're actually working on behalf of a pharmaceutical company that explicitly values profits over human lives.
This is why markets should make decisions about this stuff (with appropriate taxes for externalities) rather than politicians with their gut instinct...

"We're doing nothing for the environment" doesn't get one elected tho...
> Will the act of rolling your own library make your team more valuable? Will it make them too expensive?

Are you saying that developers should be kept ignorant and incompetent so that they'll have no choice but to stay at your company writing poor-quality software?
The mercury was for optimizing for density impulse: density x specific impulse.
Maybe this explains the explosion in “critical entertainment”, such as movie podcasts, YouTube video essays that dissect films, and TV Tropes. People can also enjoy examining the scaffolding, if not the original work.
Why? Kubernetes is already a virtualization layer on top of a virtualization layer. Do we need more virtualization layers? All it does is add complexity and degrade performance.
No/minimal till regenerative Ag would work.

We have to change design of farm Mach aka tractors. Good opportunity for automation in Ag to step up to the plate and create a new paradigm shift
You mean the market forces comprised of massive government subsidies and underestimated decommissioning and accident costs?
What does religion have to do with this? Religion bad?
> I’d expect cartels to welcome the change as they can do away with fighting the law (where they no doubt pour a lot of their resources into) and start operating as legitimate businesses.

Prohibition reduces competition which raises margins. It's the same reason why large corporations like regulation that destroys small competitors. The cartels don't want to have to compete with Joe Farmer in Iowa growing drug crops and selling them at the same margins as corn producers do.
Your Stadia "console" is a Chromecast Ultra and a Stadia controller. It also has ethernet and often sells for less than $80.
I don't think "HN exists because of LISP" is the reason that Lisp posts are popular on HN today.

Viaweb also used GNU's compiler, ran on FreeBSD, and stored all data in flat files -- but those other choices aren't nearly as popular here (or in general practice) today.
Indeed, for opiates the DEA makes it essentially impossible for addicts to get working treatment like Suboxone, basically guaranteeing they’ll continue to be arrested and/or OD.
Several of those are showing multiple year deprecation policies. I think the min from notice to shutdown is like 2 years?

If you really want to build something and never touch it again, you need to go in prem. Good luck with being 5 years behind in security updates.
Bio char. But it works in more tropical areas. Otherwise it has to be shipped. South America case studies plenty.
It launders an opinion that no one at the paper would be willing to put their name to because they would be expected to explain themselves.

The weirdest thing is when the tweets on those articles have < 20 likes/replies
The majority of people wanting a certain law doesn't work in the US anyway as Congress is dependent on corporations much more than it is on the people: https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig

Until corporate bribes are removed from electoral campaigns this won't change.
> Google isn't a startup and tends to shutdown services that are popular but on which they can't find a correct business mode

Yes this is true, If you visualize Google as an incubator, then instead of talking about service you can talk about startup, and then what is happening is just the real life of an incubator, some projects fail, some success.

People are quoting all the time "failure is good for success" but when Google is doing it, sounds like they disagree
If drugs were legal I imagine that other than the cartels would produce and sell the drugs. Maybe big pharma and the tobacco industry.
That's not what pg has said. He said lexical closures were critical to Viaweb's success, and no popular language offered them except Javascript, which was decidedly not a server language in those days.
It'd be an adventure debugging that...