skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~15 years ago they handed out prescriptions pretty easily. Most reputable places are pretty stingy with them now though. Last time I was in for pain they gave me a prescription for ibuprofen.
This particular case has not set such a precedent.
>"Our times are different" thrown around without care is a very widespread cognitive error.

Absolutely right. The Book of Ecclesiastes talks about this at great length. History repeats, no-one will remember those of us alive today, and the people who follow us will also be forgotten by those who follow them.

>even if you do believe in one of them the rest must be concluded as millenia old fake news

A religion would not last thousands of years if there were nothing to it, and there's far more commonality between religions than meets the eye. Read the things that Jesus Christ said, and then read the Tao Te Ching. It's astounding how closely they agree on quite a few things. The "Test of Time" works subtly but powerfully over thousands of years. The old religions that still exist today contended, in their time, with hundreds or even thousands of competitors. Those competitors all faded away.

"Sons are seldom as good men as their fathers; they are generally worse, not better." ~Homer, The Odyssey

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away." ~Jesus, The Gospel of Matthew
Stainless steel seems to be working well, though much too expensive for most projects. Maybe part of the problem is that because stainless steel is a proven alternative where it matters, it's hard for other alternatives to break into the market, either at the low-end where there's zero chance your crews are going to apply the new procedures properly, or at the high-end where conservatism and greater access to cash make stainless viable.
>Intel has a huge variety of different models. They are experts in market segmentation. They could do that. But they won't, and there are few who could do that.

That's true, but the way they do that is in a way that requires minimal changes. In terms of the management engine, that means not including AMT module (software) but keeping the rest of the ME (hardware). After all, it also does some essential things like power management and the bootloader. Removing it completely would also mean re-implementing the essential functionality.

The best you can hope for if you want to use mainstream parts is something like me cleaner where the management engine is only there for the boot, but is disabled afterwards. Something without an management engine would certainly possible, but would be limited to niche products like the librem.
Preferring to have nothing at all if things aren't exactly how they like them is quite common in that ideology.

As long as there are no good alternatives that fit their perfectionist ideological worldview then no one can have fun or live their life without constant disruption.
To be fair, and not to hate on H-town, but Houston’s concrete sprawl is not exactly endearing, and it’s relaxed permitting may have played a roll in its increased impervious cover and flooding.
If you were worried about wealth being passed on to heirs, you’d be focussed on estate taxes rather than just trying to tax people who just want to live in their own homes.

Also, what about all of the other people lives you’d destroy? I live in Oakland in a neighborhood where most homes are either rented, or owned by families that are neither boomers, nor high income tech employees.

Any honest discussion about this has to admit that these are would be hardest hit and their communities decimated so that beneficiaries of the tech boom can buy them out.
What a sad, pathetic comment. Apparently you have no appreciation for the interesting, important history of this app and how its original author decided to bring it back to life. If NewNewsWire 5.0 doesn't work for you, don't use it and keep your snark to yourself.
The one defined in the standard.
It's still in the footer. From the screenshot I thought it was directly around the quote but it's actually closer to the edges of the screen when in desktop view.
He’s complaining about the news. I’d say the news has gotten even worse. Now the President of the United States also does it. There must always be an enemy. It’s currently the Squad? Socialism?

“We need to start seeing the media as a bearded nut on the sidewalk, shouting out false fears. It’s not sensible to listen to it.»
> Not a native english speaker, but this seems like a nitpicky non-issue to me. How is it not the same as "could you please pass me a glass of water" vs. "would you please pass me a glass of water"? Both indicate a request rather than talking about actual physical ability to perform the action.

in the case of something like the glass of water, "could" makes the sentence more indirect, and more polite.

the original post is "it would be great if [huge task undertaken by unspecified persons] could be done". this native speaker would not attempt to polite-ify a request for something like that (and i don't think other native speakers would either), so the original post can't be making a request. it is expressing a hope that the thing is possible. mburns (reasonably) then explains that it is possible. then codesushi42 sort of goes on the rails, and i can't figure out what they're attempting to convey at this point.
I remember seeing a write up about solar shingles in an engineering magazine back in the 90s. The idea has been around for as long roof installed solar panels.
Excuse me, please, are you living here? Do you really think there is a possibility the majority (or even 10%) of voters will vote digitally?
It's so out of character of Russian voters, that I honestly suppose you're a Prigozhin's troll.
Some Japanese are also really good at the craft: https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.lexpress.fr/styles/saveurs/l...
Looks like they're getting model 3 production setup up at Gigafactory 3.

https://electrek.co/2019/08/26/tesla-gigafactory-3-leak-imag...

And in the process of getting battery supply secured.

https://electrek.co/2019/08/23/tesla-battery-supply-deal-lg-...
I would argue that two major factors are really affecting the market on both sides-- one is that cost of living in many places is extremely high, and the other is that businesses are demanding people with deep understanding of complex technology from day 1.

Decades ago, cost of living was lower, and apprenticeships or "learning on the job" was tolerated.

These days the landlord wants 30k a year, and the employer wants to pay bargain basement for "10+ years of reactjs experience" :)
So, is this the same javascript that has an average of 1930 items in the complete chain of all dependencies?

Yeah, I'm not so sure that deserves a lot of love. Unless you mean tough love, by which that number gets brutally chopped down by an order of magnitude or more.
Those are projected to underperform and are vulnerable to mismanagement in a way that owning your own home is not.
The market had already priced in all the future judgments, it's not like these lawsuits are a secret.
"Essentially low tariffs make it hard for local industries to get themselves above the price floor."

This applies to both countries.
So what are the gender cues in PHP?
Blipvert
Over 800k people are watching WoW Classic on Twitch
I have solar panels on my roof. The were installed on top of regular roof tiles, since my house was already built by the time I was ready to install solar panels. But if you are building a new house, I think it makes a lot of sense to use Tesla Solar Roof. The roof looks great, you get clean energy and the warranty is for the lifetime of your house, or infinity (whichever comes first). From a personal standpoint, I wish these had been available when I built my house.
As for the gamle on Tesla/Musk part, I would say that this is a long term, strategic move. More an more energy will come in the form of electricity. The solar panel market is full of chinese panels to put on top of your existing roof tiles. But in the future, when the "normal" will be to generate your own electricity, people will want the cool roof that looks like a normal roof. Not then weird "add-on".
I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel) [video]
the very point of esperanto is that nothing is of “similar difficulty”, so even comparing to spanish is disingenuous
Women being less likely to volunteer as speakers at conferences in general, for whatever reason?
That’s from 2006 and extrapolates to 2020. Has anyone updated it?
I got a pi 3b+ as I romanticized the idea of it, but it struggles a bit with SM64. I just use OpenEmu on my higher-powered laptop and HDMI out instead.

Pi format is still fun to tinker with and I encourage you to get one if you're at all interested. The 3b+ just wasn't the right tool for the job in my case. I haven't tried the pi 4, however.
>his type of rhetoric directly lead to the political environment we have now

Indeed, his examples are comically telling: CNN and MSNBC but not Fox which had equivalent and bigger audiences.

But for our present time, I presume the point of resurrecting a 17 year old speech from a fiction writer is to further reduce confidence in a press that dare criticize the ruling party.
So how to find women who decided not to apply to the conference?
IMO, let's start with the biggest one up front -- it's called Windows 10.

Let's remove that one first, and then I think all the rest will be a lot simpler.
And the apt command is much nicer anyway, with a proper progress bar and a unification of all the apt-* commands.
Yeah it really doesn't make any sense that it's not that way. I'd very much like to add the fcpca cert for .gov addresses and dod cert for .mil addresses, as I sometimes use these TLDs for work, but it doesn't make any sense to enable them globally. In fact I would like to ban all other CAs from those TLDs as they would be obviously fraudulent. I wouldn't have an issue adding cnnic for .cn either.

While I'm at it, why can't... Nevermind. The certificate authority system is so damned broken I could sit here for hours. Arrrg.
If you're downvoting me, tell me what I am getting wrong cos I do this stuff as part of my day job and I'm very much open to better workflows.
design flaws can't be fixed by bacteria, so will not be stopped from using this concrete.

Predictable maintenance is already factored into decision making.

Fixing mistakes in structures you have to take apart gets very expensive quickly.
So there are basically 2 possibilities.

It is possible for Huawei, and Chinese companies in general, to build a successful alternative without using American technology (for the purposes of this post, I'm defining successful as equivalent to their American tech using competitors).

It's not possible.

What the actions on Huawei have done, however, is ensure that if that possibility exists, very significant chunks of Chinese resources will be devoted to finding it.

It appears China had decided this wasn't completely necessary, and were happy to rely on Americans for software, and core hardware. But that is obviously not true anymore, and the biggest long term effect of these actions are Chinese state resources being poured into directly combating and threatening American tech's competitive position.

And seeing that the tariffs and capricious action has not been limited to China, it won't even be surprising if some other nations join in to help, especially from the EU and/or India and Korea.
One very cool thing that you can do with it is to use binfmt_misc to tell the kernel to use `qemu-arm` to run ARM binaries, then you can chroot in to an ARM device's filesystem from your x86 workstation, and all of the ARM binaries just work.
Yes - your computer analogy conflated me (a human person, existing in the physical world) with a nonphysical intelligence, of which we have no evidence and which isn't even characterized in a meaningful way - it's just a placeholder for "mystical stuff I feel but don't understand".

If you want to say you believe what you do on faith, or that it's your own spiritual belief and therefore none of my business, I won't begrudge you that and I won't bother you about it. You seem to be asserting, however, that there exists empirical evidence of non-corporeal souls (though you didn't use this word). I disagree on that point, vigorously.
I'm a millennial and I'd be kinda bummed if I have to move out and sell my car. Don't know why I'd sell my car though, kinda need it to get around.
It's arbitrary in the sense that it's not grounded in anything objective or measurable. This is an old historiographical problem you can find argued about at length under the heading 'periodization'.
< I didn't want to succumb to group think. >

It's unavoidable, but compartmentalization of Information and focus can help. You don't always have to mix fragments of known things (Do you think you know everything or almost anything you know?) with possibly new ways of providing products functionality or a completely new product consciously, but many times you are putting an "additional" cognitive effort when you try to predict if someone else would do it the same way you do it, or will go through the same thought process, and get the same results. Of course, that "additional" can overload you.

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I do wonder how much speculation, opinion and general exposure to ways of thinking shape our thoughts in subtle ways. I'm generally afraid of a future where this phenomenon becomes better understood and weaponized.
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Those phenomenons are being exploited from centuries ago but they have different causes and taxonomies according to the discipline you look at them.
Yeah, but we're talking about the military, where bullets, bombs, and missiles are stuffed in every conceivable crevice of your person and vehicle. Carrying around violently explosive material is what they do.
Ask HN: What's your opinion on modern PHP?
Just curious, because I worked a PHP contract writing PHP7 a while abck and have considered picking up laravel, but have heard that it's a red flag to see PHP on a resume if you ever want to work on anything serious.

What do you think of modern PHP (PHP7, the standard tools, and modern frameworks)? Is it worth picking up / listing as a skill?
I found shipit so amazing. I went there to order like 5 discs and the form came back saying that hey, actually the discs are pretty cheap and our main cost is postage per shipping unit so why don't you order like 15 more just in case? :-)
They often sell low quality baguette along with the high priced one.
"There are unique challenges that come with working on these cars. You might have to rebuild a circuit board one day, and fabricate a new hood the next day. Actually, if any body parts are damaged, you'll have to fabricate them. Tesla doesn't sell parts to anyone, so Medlock has taken to fashioning new panels out of carbon fiber himself. "

Didn't expect to see circuit board rebuilding until ~2023 (15y is my recollection for MTBF curves starting to climb).
the complexities of road construction depend on all sorts of factors from weather, subgrade composition, labour and material costs, traffic weight, total traffic, availability of capital, willingness to take risks, etc etc.

Most likely the roads are not being "rebuilt" but rather getting microsurfacing, and occasionally a mill and inlay of just top layers of the road surface. Fully rebuilding roads is more time consuming.
Quote of the day:
"lol the JVM does access security checking at run time, if global warming was actually a thing it would be responsible for like 50% of it and method overloading would be responsible for another 20%."
As an outsider to me the worst was targeting people that were paranoid (also not in some technical psychological sense, again as an outsider) while violating agreements and exploiting that for elections.
I started programming in the summer of 1982 (between my Sophomore and Junior years in high school), on a Commodore Vic-20.

In the time from that point until now, I can assure you that I have never, ever before heard the term "scotch file" or heard of any one describe such a thing.

So, two data points over 35+ years does not constitute a wall of fact, but I do believe it tends to cast a bit of doubt on the claim.
We might be living in a very different country and world if the New York Times had refrained from speculating on topics like Whitewater, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Benghazi...
Designing Continuous Build Systems: Docker Swarm Orchestration
Honestly I've never heard any explanation for why something as dangerous as OxyContin is ever prescribed.

There's lots of safer alternatives. There could be some niche cases for it but as a general pain killer it should never be used.
I think this is actually a good outcome, at least from a standpoint of avoiding a technical monoculture (especially in hardware). It's probably also good for general innovation as a whole.
Sorry to hear about your situation and impacts! Definitely sounds like a lot of stress!

Is the uncertainty because of eminent domain that the city is planning to use to force the relocation? If that’s the case, I don’t know that all that many on here are arguing in favor of the government forced sale.

It doesn’t sound like you’d be forced to sell because of the potential appreciation in property alone, as that would be somewhat in your control.
I've used this to `apt-get upgrade` a netboot Raspberry Pi installation from the server way faster than you can do it on the Pi itself.
Well, there wouldn't be once data is already copied into Uncomplicate data structures. But surely you can't just pass a pointer to the guts of a Java array, and do have to copy data back and forth to get it into Uncomplicate data structures in the first place, don't you? Otherwise, how does the C/Fortran/whatever code deal with the fact that the JVM's garbage collector reserves the right to move data around?
> how could he have participated in the study but publish a blog post that contradicts the primary conclusions of the study?

Short answer: Because the article doesn't contradict the study at all.

1) The rainforest is a carbon sink: It holds carbon that would otherwise be present in the atmosphere as CO2.

2) The rainforest is currently a net carbon sink: As an ecosystem it takes in more CO2 than it releases.

3) The rainforest (like most ecosystems) operates fairly close to equilibrium: The amounts of CO2/O2 consumed and produced tend to be pretty close.

4) Major ecological net carbon sinks depend less on the amount of photosynthesis in the ecosystem than they do on the sequestration of bio-matter into the ground.

5) There is ~500x more O2 than CO2 in the atmosphere. This means that the effects of the carbon cycle on atmospheric O2 are far less pronounced than on CO2.

6) net oxygen production of the amazon is effectively 0 (millions of years before a significant impact) because of 5) and 3)

In what way do any of these points contradict eachother?

The major reason (carbon cycle related, excluding biodiversity & global weather patterns & cooling etc) to care about about the amazon is to avoid releasing the CO2 already there. Purely in terms of net carbon sinking ecosystems, we should be paying more attention to our oceans as they do a much better job of sequestering that carbon into the ground.

Oxygen in the atmosphere is simply not an issue because we have so much of it.
This is why I always click Wikipedia articles linked on HN. Gold.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the way chickens use their eyes too. They're unable to move their eyes to account for movement so they instead repeatedly move their head once their body has moved more than a threshold amount, resulting in the typical strutting motion of their head.
Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight
The government has little to no say in who you rent it to. If I as a landlord want 100% of rental term up front, that's up to me and has no bearing on credit score, that is just a metric that helps me make a decision.
A lot of the financial innovation was about obscuring the actual costs (and potential cost/obligations) and benefits to consumers. For example, liens and potential maintenance obligations down the road. It was also driven by the tax incentives that existed for a time. I notice I don't get practically tackled by solar panel installers every time I enter Home Depot any longer.
The optimized implementation might use less power, though. With a slower algorithm, the CPU isn't the bottleneck, but it might still have more work to do.
I think everyone else would conclude that Musk is welcome to have the Mars monopoly.

There's nothing there you can't get on Earth without the hassle of climbing out of a gravity well, schlepping across in front of a 24-hr supercharged X-ray machine, then climbing back down into another gravity well, then gathering whatever it is you felt is worth a hundred billion dollars of investment, waiting 2 years for the planets to align again, climbing back out of the gravity well you descended into, crossing the same X-ray moat, then finally returning to Earth and discovering some cheap bastard got it all from a mine in Australia.
Apple Car(d)
I can't see this possibly working. It would really just fuel even more segregation by having those students go to private school.
Dragan, thank you for your continued hard work (and your well written posts!) I haven’t got the time yet, but I’m very much looking forward to reading both your series of “deep learning from scratch” posts and your books.
You understand perfectly: everyone got enough food to keep going, and they are equally dissatisfied with the result. I might take a step to the left by ordering known-unpalatable toppings and provide no further allocation instructions, but the effect is the same.
CA is one of the most regulated, least risky places, on Earth and yet has led the way in innovation in multiple industries for decades.

You are mixing cause and effect.

CA started off as an unregulated wild west. It became a center for innovation, and then added regulations. But retained critical innovation mass as it went. However the regulations came after.

You can verify this by looking at industries. Gold mining, no regulations except what the miners invented back in 1849. (And we are still dealing with the weird way of regulating water rights that they came up with.) Shipping because some idiots built a railroad across the country, and therefore Los Angeles/Long Beach was the cheapest way to trade with Asia. Hollywood moved here because lots of good weather, open spaces, and no regulations. Agriculture moved here because of the same plus some ambitious water projects. (Plus available migrant labor that nobody enforced wage laws for.) Aerospace moved here for the same. Silicon Valley started for a different set of reasons (see Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley) but I guarantee you that there weren't a lot of regulations when that got going in the 1950s.

In all cases regulation came later, often much later. And the result is that many industries that got going in California, such as the manufacture of semiconductors at scale, wound up moving elsewhere. But so far, at least, we've been lucky enough to dream up new ones. :-)
As an American who's seen and experienced "the bottom 20%" in our country, this was my first thought. People in America "consume" more economically because it's our only option. If our cost of living is higher relative to our average income compared to other developed countries then of course more of our money is economically "consumed". Notice there's no mention or comparison to other key economic indicators like savings, quality of life and upward economic mobility. Statistically most of America's "middle class" lives paycheck to paycheck. According to a recent article on CNBC 60% of Americans couldn't afford an unexpected $1000 expense.

"Just 40 percent of Americans are able to cover an unexpected $1,000 expense, such as an emergency room visit or car repair, with their savings, according to a survey from personal finance website Bankrate."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/most-americans-dont-have-the...