skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 0.1% includes newborns, the distribution of hiv is definitely not uniform. What are the chances if the person in question is a gay man that uses the test before unprotected receptive anal sex with newly met strangers?
Personal space in Perth is much better than most places. The glut of replies you're getting is more representative of what people in general will put up with on public transport. There's some nice trains in Madrid's metro and england though if you go outside London.
Yes, China has been cracking down on foreign names for the last few years:

>In Bid to Protect ‘National Dignity,’ China Cracks Down on Foreign Place Names

>Li Liguo, China’s Minister of Civil Affairs, said that the move will target “exaggerated, foreign, bizarre and repetitive” names, as well as those that cause inconvenience to citizens, Xinhua reported.

>The ministry is particularly concerned about names “that damage sovereignty and national dignity, are against socialist core values, deviate from public order and good morals, and raise strong concerns from the public,” Xinhua cited Mr. Li as saying.

https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/03/23/in-bid-to-pro...
Do you have any argument at all against what they mentioned?
Being offered whether actually planning to buy on credit are different things. I'm German and would never buy furniture for which I don't have the money (exception maybe if the oven breaks and I don't have enough at hand) - but I'd never buy a sofa paying as instalments.
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For the “structure long messages” bit, i was taught to use the SCRAP mnemonic:

Situation:
x has broken

Complication:
dev is on lunch

Resolution:
wait for dev to return from lunch and request investigation and thoughts on fix

Actions:

@dev finish lunch;

@teamlead inform @dev when returned from lunch;

@dev investigate problem and report to @teamlead;

@teamlead update @me on progress;

@me inform clients on issue

@me setup meeting to discuss potential fixes with @teamlead & @dev.

Politeness:
have a good lunch everyone
Umberto Eco would have added ;-):

13. Don't be repetitious; don't repeat the same thing twice; repeating is superfluous (redundancy means the useless explanation of something the reader has already understood).

http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/2010/02/umberto-ecos-rules-f...
Perl more than any other language I know depends on the self-restraint of the programmer to write readable code and not be overly clever with their syntax. I’ve worked on some large Perl codebases in the past that were as readable and maintainable as, say, Python.
From one of the other comments here: Adding support for standard GraphQL
There are other heavily trafficked areas that doesn't have any investment. Esp the poorer western suburbs, with overcrowded trains and few busses.

The tram and light rail investment benefits the property and businesses along the route, but the taxes are paid by the silent majority who derive little to no benefit.
Even enternal security?
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This logic doesn't work if you intentionally let it eat the other fish so you can eat the salmon.
How is product development different for native and cross platform apps?
For those who don't know Hadley, he's one of the heavy contributors to the R-ecosystem - in terms of development of packages and tools and books about them. I'm sincerely so happy that he received this!
Can any Chilenos chime in on how close ‘hueón’ is to ‘jawn’?

In Chile I heard it used to mean a person or a thing, or whatever really.
Bear in mind that Mauna Kea is only one of two excellent locations in the northern hemisphere... the other being Gran Canarias in the Atlantic. Chile is equally as good as Hawaii with stable ocean air and dry conditions making for fantastic seeing conditions, but it covers a very different part of the night sky down south.

I can’t imagine UH doing what the protectors are asking and simply plonk the TMT in a completely different ocean.

TMT is the only planned 30m class telescope in the northern hemisphere at the moment.

Longitudinal placement is also important for tracking transient phenomena such as FRB’s and NEO’s. this is why Hawaii is such a critical location for doing optical observations.

I would not be surprised if the Chinese build a thirty meter class telescope at some stage. Not sure where though?
>No national ID, so identity theft is easier

We don't want national identity cards; the Blair government tried to introduce them in 2006 and failed due to massive public opposition. We think it's a bit weird that other EU nationals are so tolerant of the government having a massive centralised database tied to a single token.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006

>For a long time, no pin code on credit card, so that theft is easier

Most of our debit card market is Visa/Mastercard, so we switched to Chip and PIN in 2006 - the same time as most international markets. Some European markets had their own local debit card schemes but these schemes were far from perfect.

>Basically they keep the stuff which trick the consumer, whereas in Europe they make law to protect consumer.

Last time I checked, we were still in the EU and still subject to EU law. We implemented the GDPR (and our regulator is one of the most proactive in actually enforcing it), we implemented the Consumer Rights Directive and we were well ahead of the curve in many areas, particularly distance selling and consumer finance.
> 2) Is ubiquitous

On which systems do you have Perl readily available but not Python?
Well, right now, it's being advertised to a large number of computer programmers with disposable income, on HN.
Actually, I wonder why the author decided to use a monospace font for his examples. I mean, isn't it one of the less disputable facts, that monospace fonts are harder to read?
Now with WASM, a good way to go through this paper is to generate WASM instead of the suggested Assembly and use WASM constructs as macros.
"The number of IBM employees has fallen to its lowest point in six years, with 350,600 global workers at the end of 2018 -- a 19% reduction since 2013."

Why do they still have such huge numbers? Can't they make the company work with just 10% of those?
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Eating animals isn't the problem. The problem is industrial farming. We shouldn't be eating this much meat every single day and as a consequence we have to treat the animals like prisoners and maximize their suffering. 200 years ago there wasn't a huge ethical problem, because back then the animals had more uses than just eating them. They pulled the plow, carried the harvest, etc so there was a reason to treat them well and keep them healthy. Nowadays we don't give a shit.
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Is it inspired by this [0] xkcd by any chance?

[0] https://xkcd.com/2183
I used to remove apps but I'd end up re-installing them after a while. Unlearning a habit (aka forming a new habits to replace the old one) is about having a cue. The fake app acts as a cue/signal to remind you about your goal and boost learning the new habit of not visiting the app randomly based on the habit.

By installing the fake app, you'll be surprised how many times you unconsciously you open them, although you are aware that they are fake apps. It feels like our brain is on auto-pilot, once we're hooked/addicted to unconsciously open addictive apps.
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In my country lower income people usually save money first (even if they need to save for a long time, like a year or two), then buy expensive items, like furniture.

Typically it works like this: people simply try not to spend their whole income, and save at least some part of it. Then, when they arrive at a significant amount of it they sit down and think: what can we do with those money? buy a new car? redecorate our living room? And if they decide to redecorate they buy furniture or whatever is needed with cash. Buying stuff on credit is pretty much unheard of.
But that scenario makes the test pointless: there are a wide range of things to be prevented and safer sex is a better solution than testing.
The headline would suggest they don't need to because people already do. To counter your anecdote, I no longer use plastic bags at all.
In today's world of geopolitics, restricting access to decent silicon processes can have a massive knock on on other industries.

If Taiwan/China have better silicon manufacturing capabilities now, they can restrict export of those chips, to effectively capture the phone/server markets too...

Could be a big part in the nail in the coffin for USA tech dominance.
> "and need to be reused circa 7.100 times for non organic"

No. The conclusion in that study is flawed. They compared across a range of different dimensions, and then took the worst dimension they could find and used that scale only. That's bullshit. Miljøstyrelsen took some flak over it.
It is not just the FAA that Boeing has to convince right now.
What server costs are you talking about? How much does hosting this run you? $5/mo?
Sucking carbon out of the air is no magic fix for the climate emergency
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Yeah I learned Perl in 2013 or so and I almost exclusively use it as a better shell+sed for text munging, which is where it excels. In my experience Python is super bad at this compared to Perl or even shell
This september 2012 release was kinda huge for me. It brought venv, generator expressions (event loops) a-la nodejs at the time, sped up a lot of things as well. It was a great release and a step in the right direction. Perl6 was still a myth at the time.

I did not start using python3 until last year, but I was aware it was evolving quickly to one day become usable.

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html
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The ESP32 has deep sleep, but it uses about the same power as the pizero when running. The ESP32 is a really power hungry:

http://www.geekstips.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/esp32-po...

vs

https://raspi.tv/2017/how-much-power-does-pi-zero-w-use

Considering that he pi as way more ram, an SD card and a GPU, and is running 4 times as fast.

the important take away is that they have different use cases.
@faeyanpiraat described it very well:
"It can put an icon on your homescreen looking like an app that you want to stop using. Then when you try to instinctively open for example twitter, a simple page comes up that counts how many times you tried opening it. To make it work open the page, click a popular app click the install button then follow the instructions."

We're far from having a good UX, so please feel free to provide your suggestions, or contribute directly to the repo (it's open source).
I think the idea is that out of habit people will open the app and be greeted with a reminder of there habits.

Uninstalling can just leave you searching for the app before you remember.

I don't really know if it will help any more than just uninstalling but I suppose for some it could.
That is not normal.
I am considering the 'click on thing, see result' perception loop, which is far slower than the 'see one thing happen and then see another thing happen, and not be sure if they happened at the same time or sequentially'.
They don't have to believe it. But I think many do (Whether they are lying to themselves is another thing). Most sales/marketing folks I've worked with actually do believe their product is superior and the best.

I don't think it's really as black-and-white as your suggesting, though. In the "employee/employer" context: there are plenty of employees who do think they are the best person for a job. In most cases that's probably just not true, given the size of a candidate pool. Are they lying to themselves?
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I know, the truth is hard sometimes.
Totally agree. Sometimes I'll use a monospace font for highlighting things in a generic way without it looking condescending.
:-) I use reactube everyday. It is permanently open on my desktop and also as a home screen shortcut on the phone. :+1:
> I believe the point is that developers don't have a say in whether some 3rd party lib gets added

And even more so with tools like tagmanager... not only you have no say, you also don't know. And one day the site breaks or is too slow to be useful and someone puts the blame on you.
You might have been doing that, as was I, but a lot of people were not - and their flimsy bags were ending up as litter. This is what this policy is designed to prevent.
Hexane, a new hacking group targeting telecoms and energy companies
I don't buy this:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/oojamaf...

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/thingam...
With the advent of air travel most of these geographically distant places are less than 24 hours away.
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If there was no malicious intent in the first place you cannot really say they were playing games with human lives. Cutting corners happen everywhere, and in a space as regulated as aviation Boeing cannot be the only one to blame either.
> 4) Is normal (semicolons, braces etc)

What was your first programming language? Because what seems like normal to you mostly depends on you.
I'd guess that bin bags are more likely to make it to landfill (full of other things that need to go to landfill) than to end up in rivers, etc. Since we are still throwing things in landfills for the foreseeable future and bin bag usage is a) directly proportional to the amount we dispose of and b) relatively minor, it doesn't seem like a great loss.
What's the privacy policy around this?

Will the count be used later?
Yeah get those western suburbs solutions too! The second tram line can go there. I'm fairly sure casinos and unis pay taxes too.

I can't get into this base politicking about public services in such a crass way. I was sure Australia was above this nonsense. Go talk to your local rep! Bringing up corruption over not placing tram lines where you want them, is for the Americans. I'm not so easily persuaded that our pollies are that dumb.
They're writing down a model and investing mathematical properties of that model: there's no attempt to link it back to the real world.

Feels a bit like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
In many countries it's easy and relatively cheap the get. It's horrible it's only available with insurance and high costs in the US.

For those curious; in Australia, it's prescribed and costs about $50-60 p/month. In the UK, it varies; England and Wales are doing trails, and Scotland it's prescribed. Under the NHS, it's £9. In Canada, the generics cost upward of $300 per month.

(https://www.prepwatch.org/)
Because building telescopes is exactly like testing hydrogen bombs.
I was addicted to TV when I was in high school. After school I alwys lied down in front of a tv for few hours. Switching channels, getting a little bit entertained but more and more tired.

When I wanted to break that routine I asked my mom to put a parental lock on the TV.

Even though TV showed jo channel for me I still lied down in front of it, twiddled with remote. Sometimes for many minutes. My dumb brain gradually learned that TV is not fun anymore (not that it was much fun in the first place).

I think similar mechanism might help you shake off your app addiction.

Not sure if this tool does this but maybe you could even have you fake facebook app show you static screenshot of facebook and let you scroll up and down a bit. You might have additional twists like scrolling locking up after few minutes forcing you to abandon or restart. Or maybe screenshot might be blurred a bit.
If your page is static, it's even worth trying something like zopfli or advancecomp to maximise compression ratio in ways too expensive to do "online".
> 1) Works

Almost anything can "work"

> 2) Is ubiquitous

So is awk, don't write software in it.

> 3) Is stable

This will become questionable as Perl slips into non-maintained mode.

> 4) Is normal (semicolons, braces etc)

Perl syntax is very far from "normal"
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If you are planning to backpack to official Backcountry camp sites at any of the popular parks, you will need a permit. Expect to book roughly 6 months in advance, to the day, within minutes that your site is available to reserve. Not all parks offer 6 months in advance. Some are less.

Backpacking the national parks is a lot harder than tent camping at a campground but so rewarding. My shoulders can't take the weight for too long, though, and it's hard to convince family to tough it out to see parts of the park that few others venture into. Yet, doing so exposes you to incredible sights and animals that stay far away from people.
Thats all good and dandy but the Federal government has not just one mission but several hundreds of them. They also have to protect their citizen from foreign threats and Boeing is also huge in the military space. Conflicts of interests everywhere.
Existing thread on the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20576241
That's a big assumption that the doctor's decision was based on personal morality rather than the damage caused by side effects, etc
I don’t have a horse in the race but feel there might be more to it than “...a bunch of contrarians opposing the construction just to have something to feel self-righteous about.

I wouldn't agree there. If you're a thinking human being, you have a horse in the race. Right now, a bunch of superstitious nitwits are swinging a hammer at its knees.
Dont be a jerk. There must be some other costs involved. It's a nice way for asking the donation.
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That makes me think: is there any instance that the rate of increase of packages or similar metrics ever went below zero (presumably due to removed packages)? I'm not sure if it is generally impossible in typical package manager models though.
My primary and overwhelming thought is "feature creep".

Try first to get a working prototype that measures the amount of water in the bowl.

Then worry about weighing the solid food, multiple bowls, weighing the cat, multiple cats, connecting the CCTV to power and network, automated cat identification, setting up OpenCV, doing a ML, and the User Interface.

Edit: I forgot sales and marketing, a common mistake :)
It is dismissive of stricter gun regulations, but not at all racist. Take off your racist-colored glasses and just look at history.
Though it's important to keep in mind that deep sleep can fairly long, if you use external triggers, you can go days or months in inactivity, which saves A LOT of power.

Though I do agree it depends on your use case, if you're plugged into the wall, a Pi0 might be the better option.
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That's a technical description of what it does. But what is the benefit, compared to just uninstalling the real app?

Edit: I can kind of see how it might work for some people: just uninstalling a 'toxic' app like Twitter doesn't always work for long, as you can usually still go on the website, or even reinstall it absent-mindedly (e.g. when drunk or low on willpower). Having a fake app on your homescreen might help as a sort of reinforcement tool in those situations. For example, when you want to go on Twitter, you open the fake app, and because it's missing the usual toxic notification dopamine hit, you can gradually unlearn the association. Maybe.

Edit 2: I made the above edit before seeing the replies :)
Which version of python?

Perl documentation online applys to versions of perl that are installed. Python stuff is all bleeding edge - you'll research why something isn't working and after 30 minutes find it's expecting python 3.7.

The whole concept of "virtualenv" gives me an impression of fragility I don't get with perl.
Other comments have addressed the questionable environmental benefits of plastic bags over multi-use bags.
However in terms of ocean pollution this is totally missing the mark. This is an unpleasant thing to discuss, but perhaps times are pressing.

Developed countries, including the UK, have modern waste management meaning that close to 0% of its waste plastic ends up in the oceans. The only contributing factor is beach litter. Plastic in the oceans comes from poorer countries in SE asia where the waste management systems are inadequate and open air dumpster sites are the norm.
[0]
In fact, "90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers" [1]

Our efforts should be directed there, financially and politically. It's not an easy problem since being harsh on poor counties and meddling in their internal affairs doesn't look good, but imo we have no choice.

An important contributing factor is that the West sends some of its plastic to be recycled by some of these countries which in turn simply dump some of it instead and it finds its way to the oceans. We can no longer turn a blind eye to that. As part of the effort, we must ensure that either these counties actually do the recycling (perhaps with our aid), or we don't continue to buy their recycling services.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
Neither of those work as a plural. However, 'shit' does.
Quick feedback on

>feel like a proverbial "code monkey".

I'm not implying it is easy, but launch something end-to-end.

Ideation -> validation -> code -> test & refinement -> deploy stable 1.0 (and maybe open source it)

If you havn't done this before, try to timeboxe it in the ~100 HR (+- 25%)

Those ~100H, if you arrive to later stage, will promote you by definition from code monkey (im not sure you are) to entrepreneur. That story will deepen your profile and opportunities should come with that new dimension.

feel free to reach me for ideation/validation process

cheers ! (and congrats on reaching our for help, your got yourself 25% of the entrepreneur mindset right there)
Languages are not just platonic, ideal things, living in an abstract world. They are also people, core developers and BDFLs, guidelines, communities, cultures.

The Perl culture is overall about being practical but also being clever and leaning towards code golf.

The Python culture is overall about being explicit and readable.

As usual, YMMV, but that's the impression an awfully lot of people get, so there must be some truth to that.
The only IBM product I recall that I am really happy with is their Model M, and my first IBM thinkpad (still happy with the thinkpads, but they sold to lenovo).
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They do and people are able to ask for them to use as boxes for moving house.
If you consider that study data bad so be it. But then accept that your data is equally bad at best. And I'm being generous here, you provided no "data" to speak of. No aggregate data, no study, not even a hint of specificity.

On one hand you talk about London (very specific), on the other it's "rural US" (97% of US!). Nothing about the actual job or its conditions, what you looked at to compare, etc.

I mean it's absurd to discredit a study with sources and actual figures but try to pretend your claim looks like anything more than an impulse comment.
While completely true, this viewpoint is a little cynical. The challenge in those instances is to think about how to lead these people positively to do the same?

How can you make emails seem like a gift? That's how I approach it when I write my best ones.