skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view it is that combined with the welfare reform act. Once welfare was limited to 5 years people moved to SSDI to receive payments, opiate drugs became more popular and now we have a system when the government will pay you and give you heroin if you jump through the right hoops. As we have effectively subsidized addiction it shouldn't be surprising that it has increased dramatically.
I am not sure this qualifies as 'story'. It says 'in association with Corteva agriscience' and looks like a piece of native advertising.
Thanks for that. It made my day.
I was fascinated by your X-ray example. Here's a link for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
A software engineering manager guide to measuring an engineer’s performance
I am a trans woman who was taking Propecia before switching to stronger anti-androgens. Propecia destroyed my libido and made erections difficult to achieve - yes, more than having a testosterone that is close to zero. I constantly felt weak, as if I was about to faint.

These were also some of the darkest months of my life. I was constantly having sudden suicidal thoughts, the kind that jumps on you even when you're healthy. I'd go on with my day and my head would ask me "should we die?" to which I would have to answer "no". There was no voice of course, I'm describing feelings.

All symptoms I've never had before and have never had since.

Reducing testosterone has stopped all hair loss, so I no longer need to take Propecia anymore.

I am not saying that those side effects are common, merely that they exist. Could it be that the people you met online were also telling the truth and that there is no conspiracy?
Other countries that are not in the Schengen area do have access to the SIS. Their access rights were given by them signing various agreements (the status is quite complex, you should check the SA status[1] for more details).

Yes, the title should be millions. Of mostly missing or wanted persons or lost passport and national IDs. Not sure how you would propose to ensure the security of a zone without a massive database of people that are not desired in that zone or documents that should not be used because they are reported as lost by their owners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
Then you need to see a doctor about that.
Joe Rogan (51 years old) also speaks openly about being on TRT. I've always been the type of person who'd rather leave things to nature, to the point where I'll tough out an illness with rest and fluids where others will reach for antibiotics, but sometimes I think about trying out TRT when I get older. I mean, aging gracefully is all fine and good, but if you had the option to have the speed and power of a 25 year old into your 50's and 60's, why wouldn't you consider it?
Sure, in a simple textbook supply-and-demand model, but we all know that in the real world that isn't how it works.

Most people have very limited choices, and all those choices engage in essentially the same user-hostile practices anyway. The only “choice” is to leave it altogether, which is visibly happening now there is an alternative to cable TV, but not having an internet connection isn't an option for most people.
> UK has been actively acting on USA's interests for decades

can't one say this isn't the other way around?

bretton woods was basically a joint us+uk project,
most macroeconomic policy & related geopolitics in the west (including EU) post wwII stems from this..

us is basically fighting iran overtly or covertly on behalf of the UK, and vietnam was massively in the french interest as some 'small' examples..
I find my stress reactions are still coloured by a long past sustained period of stress, about twenty years ago. That's despite a life fairly free of it in the intervening period, and no remaining symptoms of that time.

With hindsight I should have walked away long before I started questioning my situation.
Brain stimulation increases monkeys’ ability to quickly perform tasks (2017)
Most opinions are not stated in a way that reads identical to a claim of factually superior rank. If I say "Emacs is my favorite editor" that is not challenging anybody. "Emacs is an excellent editor" is not challenging anybody either. But "Emacs is best without a doubt" leaves no room for any other editor to be best, and leaves no room for dismissal of the statement as just subjective opinion, so it is a direct challenge to all competitors.
Or you know, every smartphone and tablets with a hard glass cover touchscreen?
There's a helpful disclaimer section that states "Bias: I posted the poll on my personal blog, which could bias results in favor of my proposals."

Another bias all voluntary surveys are prone to is prone to that's not listed is https://www.quora.com/What-is-voluntary-response-sampling-Wh...

So basically, don't use this data to make decisions :)
Your point is that since it wasn’t able to work before, it’ll never work? I mean, Leonardo Da Vinci wasn’t able to build a working flying machine, does that mean the Wrights were dumb to think they would succeed where Leonardo failed?
it's like having a referendum for "Do you want lower taxes" without saying exactly how

There's no reasonable way to ask voters complex questions, which is why most countries have representative democracy and not a direct democracy. The only possible way to ask the voters those types of questions has to be a very simple choice, and than let government/parliament sort that out.

As an external observer, it looks to me like its the UK political class which looks most ridiculous here, more than voters of either persuasion. Parliament has so far voted against all possible options for the UK (including another referendum), the equivalent of putting fingers in their ears. Nothing good can come from that, not until they say what they do want.
>The content gets scrubbed after a week. No sharded storage is necessary. But due to the license, others can persist content they like.

This is what a * chan does. N pages of content max; anything more, and the oldest thread will be "dropped off" the site.

Combined with anonymous-by-default posting, it works fairly well.

>There's next to zero value in looking up old posts. I don't know why this hasn't been done.

This is not really true; there's tons of good information that gets lost. On most * chans, this was recovered by screenshotting the thread and sharing the image around; today there are auto-archiving sites for the larger * chans, and people just link to that. But the culture still prefers sharing (edited, MS Paint) screenshots around.
>CSS and especially HTML are famous for their simplicity

I think that's accurate as for basic example use cases like writing an HTML file with an H1 and some text along with some minimal styling, but CSS and HTML can get surprisingly complex after a few steps.

It's not at all immediately clear what the advantages or disadvantages of say centering something are via the myriad of methods to do so, what methods work together and what don't, etc.

It's the old tutorial problem that I see all the time. "Yeah this tutorial shows how simple this thing is, but that's not how anyone does it, there's always more..."
Trump has the most stable approval rating of any president in the last 75 years
> The idea of trusting any institution whose naked reason for existing is making money is absurd. Neither employees nor customers should expect anything from businesses but a concerted, rational, attempt to separate them from whatever value they might be capable of giving up and as cheaply as possible.

Does this go for all businesses though? I know plenty of locally owned shops that certainly don't act in this way, and even some corporations like Costco aren't guilty of this, at least in my opinion.
> I’ve seen photographers edge further and further into the water – ruining the view for others, shouting at kayakers who “dare” to exercise their right to paddle around the lake while drifting into their shot

It's ironic that the author is defending the rights of kayakers to do what they enjoy in the lake, while simultaneously berating photographers and "instagrammers" for "ruining the view for others" with their mere presence.

The article does raise many good points. Fences, property-rights, and rules should be respected. But much of the article comes across as paternalistic virtue signaling. Anyone's choice of hobbies or livelihood can be psychoanalyzed as being selfish or narcissistic or parasitic. The author loves to shame instagrammers for being driven by "likes" and "attention", and I'm sure someone else out there would love to shame the author for profiting off of nature instead of toiling as an unknown environmental activist. Unless you're a psychologist or mental health professional, perhaps we should all just let others enjoy life in any way they want, without feeling the need to judge and condescend to them.
Well done posting that link. This topic seems to have brought out a lot of (unnecessary) confusion in the comments!
The thing I don't get: Customer orders a hamburger and DoorDash charges, say $15. The restaurant charges $12. DoorDash guarantees $9.87 or whatever to the driver. Generally a customer is not going to tip more than $4-5 for a $15 order. So how is this sustainable? But DoorDash obviously chose their model to avoid sticker shock of $12 charges on a $12 meal.
And with the presumed age discrimination in SV might be an issue for guys who are unlucky in the genetic lottery.
Do these people not realize that they are at someone's house, not a god damn movie set??? How could one be so obnoxious?
>If you play with a Pocket Operator, you don't learn very much of anything except how to use that particular Pocket Operator; the interface is too idiosyncratic, the details of the synth engine too effectively concealed.

For me, that's the fun part. I like traditional subtractive synthesis, too, but there are many ways to implement synthesizers, and there's no reason they all have to follow the same standards.
For some cultural reason C and C++ compilers for UNIX do it the hard way.

PC compilers always followed that path.

The same in Turbo C would be:

void init()
{
asm {
mov ax, 0x13
int 0x10
}
}
Didn't work out so well for Adam Trask :)
Megatrends in Big Data
The meditation app Calm was helpful for me. Meditation has common misconceptions around it, but it's really a tool that helps a person observe their self. That has a calming effect (resets current stress level) and a preventive effect (helps me understand when I'm getting stressed).

There's lots of other meditation apps, so shop around as needed.
so, you are saying: "clearly, those that disagree with me are misinformed and of lesser intellect" ?

isn't that itself intellectual capitulation?
> The idea of trusting any institution whose naked reason for existing is making money is absurd.

There is an entire ideology that believes this trust could be the basis for society :^)
I think you've misunderstood. I don't care about what you look like. The point is _you_ have a choice what weight you give it, you can choose to care less or more about it (at some level).

The reason to answer the "so?" question is to understand it for yourself, your answer doesn't matter to me in the slightest.

> find your insinuation that my caring about my appearance and style is "immature" a little offensive. //

I don't think it's immature to care about one's appearance; I do think it takes a particular development of character - that usually comes from maturity - to feel a desire to conform one's appearance to a particular pattern but look beyond that, and learn to accept it.

Along with that I'd note that appearance is often all-consuming for teenagers, and less important for most people as they age (things like functionality and longevity, say, become higher priorities than the simple look of a thing).

All that said, I'm not sure why you're so hostile to my opinion: as you say your life is not mine. If you're content in that then that's showing just the same sort of developed, mature, thinking.

[TL;DR] So, I merely suggest you answer for yourself why "I enjoy looking good" and _consciously_ decide on the weighting that has in sartorial and other aesthetic decisions.
Reading the history of Westerners on the islands really broke my heart. Particularly this paragraph:

> Perhaps no one fell so deeply under the islands’ spell as Maurice Vidal Portman, a minor English aristocrat and amateur anthropologist who was made Royal Navy officer in charge of the islands in 1879 when he was just 19. For two decades, Portman made ceaseless expeditions to find the various Andaman tribes, who he would kidnap and transport to Port Blair. Portman was an enthusiastic practitioner of “race science,” believing that intelligence could be gauged by measuring a subject’s cranium with calipers. Poor science cannot explain Portman’s additional recording of the size of islanders’ penises, breasts, and testicles; his evaluation of their “lustfulness” (which he equated with willfulness); and his photographs of naked tribesmen in classical poses. But his ambivalence about whether his subjects lived or died is explained by the view, common in Europe at the time, that the beings before him were so distantly of his species, they were best categorized as fauna. “They sickened rapidly, and the old man and his wife died, so the four children were sent back to their home with quantities of presents,” Portman wrote of six Sentinelese he took to Port Blair. “This expedition was not a success. ... We cannot be said to have done anything more than increase their general terror of, and hostility to, all comers.”

I cannot even begin to imagine how terrified those people must have been. To be kidnapped and then poked and prodded by a bunch of instruments you've never seen before by people you can't communicate with or understand. The way they were treated was truly barbaric.
But why does that matter?
I happen to support commercial software, and belive in paying other developers for the tools that help me to get my own money, so.
I've made a breakdown on a daily basis as well (statistics on #commits/hour/day) :

https://gist.github.com/davidalbertonogueira/dfc1b114285523c...
I think for some people CSS is frontend's "C pointers". For some it clicks for other it does not.
This and also misleading notion that "CSS and HTML are simple" leads to many developers not actually learning these technologies and only having an vague understanding. And that's where the problems start.
US-Based Experts Need Not Apply for This US-Based Startup
Ah, I misinterpreted your response to them as a stand-alone point.
Physicists discover new quantum trick for graphene: magnetism
JavaScript Optional Chaining proposal just moved to Stage 3
Best Youtube video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg71lUolnqc

The footage from a lot of sites is pretty bad because of the fog obscuring it. It's in the middle of the night too =/
Comic Sans is really good for what it’s designed for — 9pt dialogue in comic speech bubbles.

It's really really really terrible for anything else.
Parallel Computing Models
> FoIA

honest question: Does this exist in EU or UK?
Firefox Reality
I.e. exploitation pure and simple - delivering value to customers is incompatible with company exploiting those customers. This deserves as much pushback as possible, even though it seems like a quixotic effort.
Those pictures look awful, I hope it will improve in the future :/
10 pages on trust and not one mention of digital trust or blockchain!
#define stupidHack true
Even after reading the full post, I had to research the site to figure out where the satire line was...
I used to watch this show when I was a kid too. It was fascinaniting to see food cook itself that came out of a toothpastelike tube or the time travel devices. It was a great show, I’ll try to watch it again and maybe even appreciate it more. Thanks for sharing
She does worse than she knows she can.
Okay, so most of us are aware of Unity vs Unreal battle. Are there any other engines which are being used or worth checking them out?

I heard a lot of good things about Godot Engine:
https://godotengine.org/

Someone also mentioned here Grid Engine (which I never heard of):
https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/
Apple and Goldman Sachs Credit Card Targeting August Launch Date
Helping publishers and users get more out of visual searches on Images with AMP
How do you support ligatures for monospaced fonts?
While this is bad and they should increase the security of this data, for now, I don't see how it would affect EU citizens.

Any ideas?

If you applied for a visa to the US, they already have your photo and fingerprints (hell, they had mine before my own country, before biometric passports). If not, what can they possibly do with that information?
I'm inclined to agree; I also think it's bizarre that people think that this research exists only in a vacuum, like the idea of being able to 3D-print stem cells couldn't possibly be used for something life-saving or more-directly pragmatic later.

Like going to the moon, sometimes arguably-useless things work really well as a means to develop technologies. By setting an arbitrary goal, you have clear "success" and "failure" metrics. I've reimplemented Conway's Game of Life about 13 times, not because the world needs another implementation of CGOL (let alone 13), but because it's a clearly defined goal that I can easily test, and gives me something to work for when learning a new programming language.
I have a video of a woman holding a dog out over the edge of the Grand Canyon and having their friend take a photo, presumably trying to re-enact the Lion King scene. The level of absurdity on display is much more impressive than yet another picture of the Grand Canyon.
A couple of things:

I said:

> Personally, I don't car (sic! also no pun intended) about any of this. However, academically (from an evolutionary psych. view, lol): yes, men are seen as a more desirable mate!

So first, I see evolutionary psychology as a joke and I don't care about the research because I think it's all lies anyway. I'm a bitter man when it comes to the promises of psychology being truthful about how humans think (the field has too many issues).

Secondly, I simply quoted research. And remember from point 1, distanced myself from that opinion.

Thirdly, in my experience I never needed to flaunt my wealth in order to attract women. I think the same is true for most if not all of my friends (both sexes). Disclaimer: I'm Dutch (maybe culture is a thing).
In Buenos Aires there's a beautiful old cemetery called La Recoleta.

One of my most jarring and bizarre memories from my time in Argentina was watching as hundreds of tourists took smiling/sultry pouting/peace sign selfies with the various graves and mausoleums.
A Dressing That Pulls Wounds Shut
> It's really really really terrible for anything else.

That's your opinion. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
> Cuban spent $20 million hedging his Yahoo stock with synthetic indexes

My understanding is that he used puts.

Either way, any derivative strategies he employed back then almost certainly violates any corporate stock agreement today.
okay then, I guess a better data point would be that Java UIs run on twenty year old desktops (500Mhz, 128 MB RAM)
the problem with ble/lora/zigbee is they all require extra hardware (radio)
again, radiation absorbed dose from cosmic rays is different from that radiation of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Cosmic radiation has been decreasing over time. Even a Mars mission at solar minimum would not expose the astronauts to significantly more radiation than they would have in orbit

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/DATA/bibliography/ICRC200...

Solar flare activity can be as hazardous to commercial air passengers

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/solar-flares-increase-ra...

In any event, we truly live in the goldilocks zone where a balance of cosmic factors enable us to enjoy life. Yet we continue to do our best to screw it all up because we can only think of one thing at a time. We should do more to increase the earth's ability to tolerate us.
Here in UK we have a few lavender farmers who does exactly that.

https://www.mayfieldlavender.com/mayfield-lavender-farm/
That's a very charitable view. Bretton Woods was the US (mostly Harry White's) rejection of Keynes' plan and the best that could then be agreed. As a result it has a very US flavour. Not especially surprising considering most nations were near bankruptcy at the time with the sole exception of the USA. What resulted in the shape of the IMF and World bank was far different to envisaged and provided none of the speculative and recession control.

History has mostly backed up Keynes' opinion, though it worked sort-of reasonably until Nixon abandoned the gold standard.

Edit: Far more of the last 40 years geopolitics and economics stems from the oil crisis and the chaos of the immediately following years than Bretton Woods.
As the wikipedia article and the report states, the USA's score has been steadily declining for decades and teetering on the brink for years, reflecting a fall in public trust in the functioning of public institutions. I guess you could call that "Trump anxiety" if you want.
To be honest, at least part of this sounds more like inane British "safety" bullshit to me. Jumping on trains is clearly wtf and unacceptable, but no tripods because "too dangerous"? Yeah nah.

If you're getting a lot of abuse then your system probably stinks, as, by and large, people aren't assholes or want to be angry. They just want to take their holiday snaps, you know.

So here's an alternative take: just let people take their holiday pictures. If you're really that worried about people getting stabbed to death by tripods or whatever then set of a "tripod area", or make sure it's at least 4 metres from the rail track, or whatever. So many more options than "no fun allowed!"

(Of course, all the British all really tired of being told what to do all the time, so give a British person just one iota of power and they will transform in to the most pedantic and inflexible person.)
The real question remains unanswered: why is this on the front page?
An Overview of Visa's Business Model
No, it's a completely different design with completely different priorities and objectives. Copying good approaches to tools (e.g. the dependency management found in Cargo instead of the current need for manually managed Python virtual environments and related inconveniences) is a good idea in principle, but compromising what you correctly call "core features" would alienate users who like Python for what it is without attracting new ones.
Initially I was in agreement, but.. I don't know. The iPhone's virtual click does have a strange feeling to it, but you really do get used to it feeling like a click, without it even moving. Maybe they could pull that concept off on a keyboard scale?
The best analogy of finished software I have heard is this:

> Software is done, like mowing the lawn is done.

We live in an imperfect world, if we want to keep ourselves safe and prevent bad actors out of our data/technology. Updates are a part of the process. You don't mow your lawn once, it has to be maintained. Which is the same as software.

This is something that we would be all better for if we could teach this concept to everybody so that updates are just a normal part of life.
> Cryptocurrencies offer an interesting balance between rent seeking and consumer friendliness.

Not when you include performance in the "consumer friendliness" side. Existing software is already way too bloated and keeps assuming it's the only thing users run; cryptomining would only exacerbate that effect. Especially that to earn a measurable amount of money over the lifetime of the product, your typical chat app using this model would have to run CPU and GPU at 100% load.