skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Linux for the last two years, having switched from macOS, and I haven't had a single weird problem. Not one.

I use Arch Linux, and a combination of KDE and i3 so one would expect me to have a ton of rediculous problems. But I haven't had a single problem. It took me a single day to set up my computer how I wanted it (I've used Linux before) and I haven't had to touch a config file since.

Part of this might be that in using a Dell XPS DE, which is designed to work well with Linux, but I think it might just be a YMMV situation. And I do a lot of back end, applications, web and front end development (mostly in my spare time), so I think I've hit a lot of programmer use-cases.

Also, I get 15 hour battery life streaming 4K video on my 4K touch screen, and more doing other stuff.

I also used an Apple Magic Touchpad or whatever over Bluetooth with it, including gestures and it worked really well. Better, actually, as far as Bluetooth, than my Mac. I only stopped because it wasn't good for my hand and wrist health.

Just adding my anecdata. Overall my experience with Linux has been hugely positive.
Pwn Adventure 3 – Pwnie Island
Would we like to know how these drugs work? Certainly, as it might help us to develop better drugs. Do we need to know how these drugs work? Absolutely not - given a choice between a mystery drug and having surgery without anaesthesia, I'm choosing the mystery drug every time.

Phrasing the need for understanding is a bit tricky. Certainly, a person can live with, must live with, some knowledge-without-understanding in their life. But a proliferation of things beyond our understanding in many ways undermines our position, our feeling of power in the world.

It seems like the broad progress of humanity, since the age of ... reason, has come through an increase in both raw data and broad understanding. And while understanding is tricky thing to describe, it seems like the rise of AI is actually helpful in describing what it isn't. Understanding is a kind of knowledge that humans can take into many domains and apply in many ways - mathematics is a prototypical example - the laws of physics, put in mathematics, can applied in a multitude of ways. In contrast, trends extracted from raw data may give us successful predictions and not tell us the reason.

Suppose we have a psychiatric drug that is a pure "black box", we know that consuming this drug changes a person's behavior in somewhat predictable fashion. But it doesn't tell you whether this consumption returns someone to "normal" or simply suppresses a person's other abilities - if we're treating symptoms, we learn nothing of mental illness (given our real minds remain black boxes too).

Moreover, it's not true that we deal with other people as black boxes. Rather, "folks psychology", our implicit understanding of each other's motivations, is a key part of our interpersonal relations [1]. This process may not be correct in scientific terms but this doesn't mean it can be dismissed as a key component of our experience.

And overall, the proliferation of knowledge-without-understanding produces the problem of lack of broad control of the world, akin to a tool chest.

Edit: Ironically, "tool box reasoning", the ability to have a group of tools available and use them as appropriate and in combination, is a pretty uniquely human ability one that gives a person a wide range of options in the world. It is itself very much a black box on a meta-level but we know quite well exists (so suppose that's a useful piece of general black box knowledge).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_psychology
Perhaps you could make your production capacity small enough you won't need return customers, at least until you've earned enough and slowly reduce production as market saturates?

Would need to resist a lot of temptation for short term gain.
Maybe if legal weed would be certified 100% non-poisonous, organic, etc.. there could be more traction for legal. The government should be able to enforce this.
If you don't trust the financial system surely you don't trust gold certificates either.

Dig it down ... atleast I would.
Blender 2.8. It's been fun so far.
Honestly, I don't even know what to say to this. It just makes me sad.

I'm sad because it seems like your reasoning is based on an extreme corner case – a hypothetical fee if you hypothetically moved and hypothetically lost your job and hypothetically couldn't find insurance. I'm sad because no one should have to worry about that anyway. I'm sad that this loophole exists and hasn't been fixed. I'm sad that you're blaming and not supporting the people trying to fix health care. I'm sad that those people didn't do a better job fixing it. I'm sad because I'm pretty sure you're going to make it harder to fix in the future. And I'm sad because I don't know how to have a constructive conversation on this anymore.

Thank you for engaging with me. I hope I'm wrong – I hope your political effort and strategy is able to help the people you care about without hurting others.
Yep, same here. Gave up reading because it was impossible to read.
I checked and there's a visible capacitor in the AGC's power supply with the Kemet name on it. So maybe your dad had a part in the AGC. Here's a photo by Mike Stewart showing the Kemet capacitor: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iWcWNqt1UzUzyeAz9
The condition "diverse multinational cohort" is very important. The primary driver of population level variance in dairy consumption is lactose tolerance. For example Northern Europeans have much higher lactose tolerance than Aboriginal Australians.

So, we have to be really careful that dairy consumption isn't just proxying for ancestry. Because there are huge genetic variations in CVD mortality across different sub-populations. For example African-Americans have signficantly higher CVD, BP and diabetes risk because of higher rates of APOL1 polymorphism.

[1]https://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/26/2/247
I understand the nudge, but my comment was qualified by a statement that is essentially "savers are already joint investors in the operations of a bank." On principle, receiving a guaranteed negative return for providing an investor your own capital is very unnatural.

With regard to fees: the only reason banks charge them is due to the fact they believe that the possible returns from low income customers will never match their cut of the investment. The fact that this interest rate also applies to high income customers exposes the "what about fees" argument. This is about incentivizing moving capital out of the safer investments that bank make (homes, relatively light personal loans, modest business loans) into equity markets. As true "savings" rates in the form of completely unallocated capital is low, my guess is this is pushing on a string.
True on the supply side too. I have a home in Calaveras county where pot farms were banned by referendum (“you wouldn’t want one next to your vineyard, would you?”). Funding for the referendum came from...the illegal growers who didn’t want the competition.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/aftermath-of-a-ban-...
Don't electric bikes basically solve this problem another way?
Just tried to be technical, since 'affordable' is debatable. What I'm asking is how would building houses for no reason help in the current circumstances. Wouldn't the house also erode in value?
What are your favorite resources for learning about these things?
Oof, same, coming from python/Go and having some knowledge of C, I can say I love it.

But I work with C++ developers who are adamantly opposed to taking a jump because rust is harder for them to grok (as they suggest that they have to unlearn patterns).
I don't experience this hate at all. I'd consider myself more multi-modal than anything, and I do have a car. I do, however, use Lime bikes pretty often, and when I'm on one, I don't get any hate at all. I've never heard of anyone I know being jeered at, much less being pelted with rocks. I don't think the experience you describe is typical.
So I work in this industry.

A few of the problems:

- Taxes and really tough regulations. As mentioned by the article, taxes are stupid high, upwards of 40% in some counties in California (CA).

- Lax enforcement. The risk of growing illegally has diminished significantly. Other non-legalized states provide a giant market. People grow at scale where it's safer in CA/OR/WA and then send nationwide.

- The transition has been more or else outright reckless. Before 2018 in CA, most dispensaries and growers operated under medical licenses. Regulations were pretty relaxed. Taxes were low. Customers just had to spend $25 and 20 min on a website to get a medical card. On Jan 1, 2018, something like 85% of dispensaries went out of business. They couldn't handle the change in regulations. Everything from taxes, building renovations for security/fire, re-zoning. Lots of problems. Do you think these people just gave up? They had customers and supply chains and then you take away their legal way to sell. You also took away enforcement for selling illegally.

- Time. Weed was 100% underground (or at least medical) before 2018 in CA. Now it's like 75% underground. It's going to take time for the transition to happen. Like if you're in college and you buy weed from a friend. It's good stuff and he sells it cheaper than the dispensaries, are you going to stop? Probably not. You were doing it before it was legal. Why change now? Most new customers use dispensaries. You have to provide the existing people a reason to switch.
Except they don't. The little bits of nonsense people glean from them live on in swapped bar room factoids and water cooler smalltalk. I still hear rubbish about "death panels" from memes about Obama care from when he was in office.

Memes come and go but the effects linger and shape culture.
You don't see the difference between Chess and trying to be famous for being famous?
I was thinking the the same thing. My city (Chicago) and I assume many others, have pay per use subsidized bike sharing. How does liability work with that if someone falls on one of those?
True, too much watching Bloomberg lately :)
Do they mean public official?

Lots of interest rates are influenced by markets, where lenders and borrowers base their activity on available rates (if no one borrows at a given rate, a lender may seek business by reducing the rate...).
There are several other important points that your summary misses:

* A history of harassment by CBP towards inhabitants of the reservation which is driving people away.

* CBP is abusing this surveillance technology to monitor protestors.

* CBP lends its surveillance technology to other law enforcement agencies in a way that seems to have insufficient oversight and large potential for abuse.
You need a DB of all of the dead entries that need to be deleted, and that’s a fine thing to have.

There are lots of problem spaces where deletion is expensive and so is time shifted not to align with peak system load. Some sort of reaper goes around tidying up as it can.

But I think by far my favorite variant is amortizing deletes across creates. Every call to create a new record pays the cost of deleting N records (if N are available). This keeps you from exhausting your resource, but also keeps read operations fast. And the average and minimum create time is more representative of the actual costs incurred.

Variants of this show up in real-time systems.
Alternative interpretation: Government's ability to dictate what people put into their own bodies continues to falter.

Essentially the state was lured into removing the blanket illegality, from a desire to take a large cut of those prohibition-era street prices. But that blanket illegality was the primary thing maintaining the high prices! Now a veil of prima facie legality gives the free market operations a new avenue to cut costs.

Let's hope this trend continues. Simply giving up on "the war on drugs" is a better outcome than boot-kissing "tax it" distributors entrenching another corporatized regime like for alcohol.
The #MeToo movement seems to care more about dismantling "patriarchy" than actually reducing sexual abuse. If they actually cared about abuse, they wouldn't be using tactics that destroy innocent people. They wouldn't be saying things like "#YesAllMen".

I have never raped anyone. I have never sexually assaulted anyone. I have never pressured or coerced someone into sexual contact. Plenty of times, I have met with someone with the mutual intent to copulate, and once meeting things didn't go as swimmingly in person as they did online, and so I left. Yet many of these #MeToo and #YesAllMen people would paint me with the exact same brush, merely because I have a penis and identify as male.

Yes, women have been systematically abused throughout history. But that doesn't mean that every single man is responsible or shares guilt. I share zero guilt in anything to do with sexual assault.
Why price of storing electronic money differs in between 1$ or 1000$ though? Only difference is a few bit flips in a bunch of databases.

Generally you already pay for a fee for your account/credit card.
Elixir - Because it is awesome

Product Management - Because it is challenging

Security - App, Asset, Container. Because it is a must
The original comment mentioned the gold standard, which is just gold certificates used as everyday currency.

If you don’t trust that sort of stuff then the gold standard is totally irrelevant anyway.
Ebike rentals aren't pennies. My last ride was $4 for about a mile. I was surprised.
Australia’s a pretty big place and what population it has is mostly clustered in a few coastal locations. There are tons of spots that haven’t been visited in thousands of years, and possibly ever, despite 60Ky of inhabitation.

Visitors find it hard to grasp. Imagine if half the population of California inhabited the “lower 48” states. Where would they live?
> So, it doesn't really seem we are disagreeing, it's just a matter of terminology. You seem to want to call every interacting thing 'physics', which you are free to do, but then I'm not sure what the value of the term is.

Everything that interacts with matter is in the domain of physics. So if your concept of a "soul" (or whatever makes you a "dualist") can at least in principle be observed, we can count it in. It's then not "beyond this universe".

It would also raise a lot of questions: Are souls "individuals"? If so, does every organism afford a soul? If so, where do new souls come from when the amount of organisms increases? Where do they go if they decrease? Is there really only one soul spanning all organisms? How can we test for any of these things? What are the consequences?

It's perfectly fine to explore such questions, but I am personally not convinced that something like a soul - within or outside the realms of physics - is at all necessary to explain life or intelligence as the phenomena we can already observe. That's what we disagree on.

> DNA sequences can be hundreds of billions of base pairs long.

Perhaps, but the simplest lifeforms alive today have on the order of hundreds of thousands of base pairs.

> So, if we could only depend on random mutation and natural selection, we'd need 4^10^11 attempts to hit a particular sequence, which is more trials than even a multiverse of universes can offer.

Yes, but DNA didn't just form spontaneously, fully assembled. It formed from simpler precursors, which formed from simpler precursors still, all the way down to proteins which formed from the simplest of molecules. Those precursors don't survive because they can not compete with their successors. They could be forming in the oceans right now, but they won't progress because they'll just get eaten.

There have been experiments done reproducing it up to the "protein formation" step. Anything more complex than that is likely going to take too much time to result in a new lifeform - especially one that could survive ex-vitro.
What I don’t get is why routes need to make money. This is a public service, sure it’s a good thing to have it pay for itself but the focus shouldn’t be on that.
Turn Curl Command to Python, Ruby, Node.js and etc.
Emotional Intelligence

Tips from Emotional Intelligence 2.0
http://redgreenrepeat.com/2019/07/12/tips-i-got-from-emotion...

Lessons from company's internal Emotional Intelligence training (from EIExperience.com)
http://redgreenrepeat.com/2019/07/19/debrief-emotional-intel...

Biggest win so far: hearing my wife say to me "Sorry I got emotional."
The only food/organic waste stream I've got here is the sewer, curbside pickup has trash and recycling
Arma 3 modding (C++ and their scripting language SQF). I want to remake the original Ghost Recon game (tactical realism) in the game engine. Seeing as it has a lot of the core combat, I just need to tweak it a bit.
Interesting. I suppose I'm one of the few holdouts who still love leather clothing (motorcycle jackets, you weirdos ;-)) and accessories (I have multiple Saddleback Leather bags, wallets, etc). I don't see those items getting cheaper any time soon, I guess that indicates their profit margins have gone through the roof in the interim.
This is an awesome book. I had no idea it was free when I bought it lol. It is also the only book that made Prolog seem pretty simple and not super confusing.

I just wish I had the kinds of problems where Prolog would be performant enough.
Good to see the list is short and relatively sane compared to other "banned function" lists. Unfortunately, "too easy to misuse" is a slippery slope, and gets(), which is probably the best example of a function which is really broken by design, isn't on that list.

I'm surprised that "complicate audits" is given as a reason, because isn't this something static analysers (and I mean ones that actually analyse data/code flow, not dumb pattern-matchers) can easily detect? It's really just asking the question "how long is this/can this be" and following the data back to its origin(s).
I'm interested in that simulator, it sounds fun!

I started reading 'But How Do It Know' a while back; I never finished it but I can say that it was a very fun read.

I've heard that 'From Nand to Tetris' [0] is also quite a worthwhile read. A quick look shows that it not only has a link to a book [1] but also some freely available notes/lectures as well as some exercises.

[0] - https://www.nand2tetris.org

[1] - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems
You can also use the DNS66 Android app for that without root.
"labor standards"

These exist EU wide you know.

Additionally money is allocated to poorer regions to develop industries, not welfare payments but still wealth redistribution.
Show HN: A better way to `await` in JavaScript
> The $3.2 million [...] so far, the service has exceeded Metro’s daily ridership goals and served up more than 70,000 total rides.

So far this has cost Seattle $46 dollars a ride.

Now, it looks like we're just 6 months in, so a simple projection would halve that number to $23 per ride after a year, potentially less if they scale up.

Why not just subsidize Lyft and Uber rides? For these short distances, it'd probably be less than $5.
As a long-time 3/4-stack developer, learning CSS better.
I can highly recommend Nestorgames, the vendor linked from your second reference. Great source of affordable sets for Yavalath and many other interesting abstracts.
How to build – and manage – a self-improving team
Cowrie: a medium-interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot
Amazingly, Hedy Lamarr the superstar actress and Hedy Lamarr the technologist were the same person.
If I had time, I'd make a library (perhaps musl-based?) that implements "libc but without all the parts you're not actually supposed to use."
The destination of the goto is usually the clean-up code.
Reminds me of the writings of Jorge Luis Borges.
Finishing up the Introduction to Algorithms course on MIT OpenCourseWare. Interested in many of the WWDC 2019 releases too, but given that there’s over 100 videos I’ve focused on SwiftUI.
Buy an e-bike: they’re perfect for daily commuting without that one hill being a disincentive.
Personally I've estimated the quality of life I get from working on something fun and meaningful to be about 12-15k/yr. That's the gap between "dream work" and something like generic CRUD business logic type stuff. A huge part of that is the "dream work" also being 40h with decent flex hours, good coworkers, and good management. That 12-15k number is potentially upward of 40k if lacking those.

You spend too much time at work to not enjoy it. And I value my own time and enjoyment highly. I wouldn't want to sell it for less. The lower side of the software engineer payscale is still enough that I have more than I want day-to-day. The main limits it imposes on me are house/car/early retirement related things.
Calling something fashionable is just a cheap way to be dismissive. I’d respect you more if you stated openly which aspects of vegetarian efficiency, morality, pollution, health you think are nonsense. There are good arguments to be made there, but you’re hiding behind an empty insult.
C aliasing rules can very quickly make "following the data back to its origin" very difficult.
Fraud risk is higher, which means the cost of insurance is higher.

I think this cost actually goes up more than just proportionally, too. Criminals will preferentially target higher value accounts, and they’ll make off with more when they do, so the risk increases more than linearly.

In any case, not all costs are fixed.
Alpine. Slow in particular? I don't have the resources to profile everything in our codebase and find the root issue, but others have already benchmarked it: https://superuser.com/questions/1219609/why-is-the-alpine-do...
I also use Windows, Linux and MacOS, but mostly Windows.

The "Moby" VM on Windows is a bit annoying - it takes 30s or so to start the Docker engine, bind mounts/volumes are a bit pernickety, and resource use is obviously higher than without a VM. Having said that, once it's started everything works pretty well, with containers starting almost instantaneously.

I believe there are some IO perf issues if you're using WSL (I don't use it much, preferring git bash for most things).

Both of these issues should be fixed when WSL2 finally arrives. But unless you're on an Insider's build, I believe that's going to be 2020 (someone please correct me if that's wrong).
I believe forgiveness in this context refers to the Islamic concept of Diya (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diya_(Islam))
> sole focus on the investor does not, on the long run, lead to good outcomes for the investor.

This is something that the market can sort out, isn't it? Amazon is famous for being customer-focussed, not shareholder-driven, and they dominate the industries they compete in -- to the benefit of their shareholders. Nobody needs to pass a law telling companies not to focus on short-term shareholder gains if companies that do are naturally out-competed.

Nothing here is "contrary to the theory of shareholder maximization" in any way.

> As such, corporations are best structured and operated with the wellbeing of all involved stakeholders.

Grammar notwithstanding, the same goes for this statement. It is not clear that a focus on stakeholders benefits stakeholders. Maybe healthy, profitable and competitive companies better serve employees and consumers in the long run than companies that directly optimise for those people.
Are you aware of the schwarze Null? Germany has had a balanced budget for many years. It's almost a political religion in Germany.
So the bank levies a micro tax on all holders of the currency with the expectation that their investment in the receiver of the loan will yield a better return?
That east-west problem is not just Rainier Valley. That’s the whole county.

The light rail system needs to be shaped more like a ladder, so you have some options to go cross-town. It’s coming, very slowly, but it won’t be enough.