skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a beekeeper and I have not had a colony collapse since I started treating the varroa mites with oxalic acid solution. Colony collapse is a generic term for hive failure and not a specific disease. Varroa is the main reason why my hives failed. The oxalic acid seems to fix this. I treat them after I harvest the honey in the fall. The varroa infestation dies down and the bees do well.
The crisis in beekeeping is largely a misrepresentation of the facts by the press. Bees are doing well and the count of total hives is increasing each year in the US.
I am going to order some Saskatraz queens, but mainly because they sound like an interesting hack.
Universal Postal Union: http://www.upu.int/en.html

"With its 192 member countries, the UPU is the primary forum for cooperation between postal sector players. It helps to ensure a truly universal network of up-to-date products and services."
Why Is the Sky Dark at Night?
In esports, piracy was essential for the Starcraft: Brood War competitive scene. Players around the world, and specifically PC Bangs in S Korea, installed pirated copies of the game on their various machines, allowing numerous patrons to play at once. This piracy was part of a multi-factorial exponential growth in the popularity of the game there, and led to fame/success for Blizzard's SC2 release a few years later.
Illegal immigration is different because often the entire family commits the crime together. Further an irregular border crossing is a misdemeanor not a Felony. We don’t take kids away from parents for misdemeanors.

But even if you ignored the cruel and unusual punishment aspects - deporting the children separately is unforgivable. In some cases they didn’t even bother to record the family connection before separating them.
Probably, the person writing that piece actually got official notification that the termination would occur on September 30 or the end of September, and miswrote, though that kind of error in an official notice is not unheard of.
Declarative Schema Management (Postgres and MySQL)
That's easy to solve. Just charge the market rate for street parking too. No reason to give away the use of valuable land for free.
> Moreover, for me to send any parcel (even very small ones, like 2 oz.) outside the US costs a small fortune these days, again because I'm subsidizing the Chinese shippers.

International shipping was expensive before China flooded the market b2c.

If you sent a pkg to China, the US would only have to drop it off in China, the last mile delivery cost is mostly up to China. The actual air freight cost to USPS is about $5/kg.

I think what’s really happening is that USPS (and Canada Post!) are using international shipping as a profit centre because there’s little competition and they need to subsidize legislated activities (6x/week door-to-door service for 53c or whatever it is).
One byte used to cost a dollar
What you've described is a community center, not a library...
Yes.

I have the feeling it occupied a weird place in the language ecosystem.

TypeScript was less ambitious and closer to JS so it got more momentum.

Dart is not as close to JS as TypeScript, but doesn't offer things like Reason while still being as far away from JS as Reason (Own language semantics, with own toolchain, etc.)
I don't understand - what is the dumb meme? The link of high cholesterol to heart disease seems to be very well supported by numerous studies, and so are the benefits of reducing high LDL with diet or medication (statins).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol#Hypercholesterolem...

According to the lipid hypothesis, elevated levels of cholesterol in the blood lead to atherosclerosis which may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. Since higher blood LDL – especially higher LDL concentrations and smaller LDL particle size – contributes to this process more than the cholesterol content of the HDL particles,[68] LDL particles are often termed "bad cholesterol". High concentrations of functional HDL, which can remove cholesterol from cells and atheromas, offer protection and are commonly referred to as "good cholesterol". These balances are mostly genetically determined, but can be changed by body composition, medications, diet,[69] and other factors.[70] A 2007 study demonstrated that blood total cholesterol levels have an exponential effect on cardiovascular and total mortality, with the association more pronounced in younger subjects. Because cardiovascular disease is relatively rare in the younger population, the impact of high cholesterol on health is larger in older people.[71]

Elevated levels of the lipoprotein fractions, LDL, IDL and VLDL, rather than the total cholesterol level, correlate with the extent and progress of atherosclerosis.[72] Conversely, the total cholesterol can be within normal limits, yet be made up primarily of small LDL and small HDL particles, under which conditions atheroma growth rates are high. A post hoc analysis of the IDEAL and the EPIC prospective studies found an association between high levels of HDL cholesterol (adjusted for apolipoprotein A-I and apolipoprotein B) and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, casting doubt on the cardioprotective role of "good cholesterol".[73][74]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercholesterolemia#Diagnosis

Higher levels of total cholesterol increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly coronary heart disease.[33] Levels of LDL or non-HDL cholesterol both predict future coronary heart disease; which is the better predictor is disputed.[34] High levels of small dense LDL may be particularly adverse, although measurement of small dense LDL is not advocated for risk prediction.[34]

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

The lipid hypothesis (also known as the cholesterol hypothesis) is a medical theory postulating a link between blood cholesterol levels and occurrence of heart disease. A summary from 1976 described it as: "measures used to lower the plasma lipids in patients with hyperlipidemia will lead to reductions in new events of coronary heart disease".[1] Or, more concisely, "decreasing blood cholesterol... significantly reduces coronary heart disease".[2]

An accumulation of evidence has led to the acceptance of the lipid hypothesis by most of the medical community.[3]
Olduse.net: a Real-Time historical exhibit
Not every person fits into a political bucket. Please do not bait politics here.
I was thinking of core vehicle usefulness, as in cars haven't made any great leaps in usefulness outside of safety improvements, so perhaps people were holding onto them for longer. People were very excited for power steering, air conditioning, all wheel drive and safety features. Most cars are really great at being cars now, any from the last 12 years would do the trick so long as it's still running.
Resources aren't copied and value-added products like steel aren't either although techiques to produce or grow may be.

Please cite some examples of geniune products. China is known for making existing products cheaper. The techology area is mostly copy-paste.
Not sure why everyone thinks this is a good thing. If the Chinese government wants to subsidize shipping so that US consumers can buy products for less money, what is the harm?

The reason postage is expensive in the US is because there is a legal monopoly on first class mail, and very little competition for premium services (which is why Amazon decided that launching its own shipping carrier would be highly profitable).

So the blame for high US shipping prices rests with the US government, certainly not with anything China is doing!
There's a good Planet Money episode about this: The Postal Illuminati (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...)
Linux Kernel Development By Robert Love and Operating Systems Concepts by Silberschatz are great resources.
There is no vendor lock-in if you use standard, battle tested web technologies with a few exceptions. If you use the browser as a UI platform, then OP is right.
It is funny how this can be clearly observed about the OK gesture deal. I would say most people see that as your regular OK gestures, while some see it as final proof of subscription to a particular ethnic related ideology.
FAA: Please don't weaponize your drone
> But for the idealistic morons out there who create for the sake of creating, this wouldn't stop them in the least bit.

You'll notice the bait-and-switch modern society does here. We're supposed to value and respect artists, because they're "morons (...) who create for the sake of creating", who want to express their feelings and communicate their thoughts. And then we're given "artists" whose primary purpose is to make money through their creative works. I think we shouldn't be calling these two groups of people using the same word.
This looks nice!

On https://www.polibyte.com/ I'm happily using https://github.com/johno/pixyll which has a similar aesthetic.
> Are you arguing that it's unfair that a business needs to sell something that people are willing to pay for

I argue against that media companies are using goon squads (police, judges, industrial-prison complex) to rob people who pirate their money or their freedom.

The fact that pircay exists exactly does show that their exist people that do not want to pay.
Mass transit is usually subsidised too. Very few mass transit systems survive on fares.
Yes, I have benchmarked it in the past which is where I got the 4-6x figure from. Maybe it's worth a revisit, but unless the compiler is doing something special with the byte version, I would be surprised if the speedup was much less.

You may have to unroll both to get max speed.

If you could share your benchmark I would be interested to look at it.
This is fine for an end date. Any duration should be specified as half-open, t₀ <= t < t₁. This way it's clear that September, even its last day, is in the period and October is not.
This is mentioned in the article along with a way for spammers to get around it.

"There is an option that states “No, only show invitations to which I have responded”. This prevents the first method of injecting events from working. However, BHIS found that it is possible to set the target’s response status to “Accepted” using the Google API. This effectively bypasses this security setting."
Sure, but the original question was about software jobs in general. Most software jobs are for bespoke software developed to support a business, internally (LOB apps) or externally (web sites). Very few software developers work on products.
>Unconsented Germ line genetic modification of humans cannot justified

How are you going to get consent from a human that isn't even conceived yet?
Although I like the initiative and encourage it, the use of "getting fair prices" grinds my gears a bit.

A fair price is whatever a seller and a buyer agree upon, not the rock bottom value that you get when applying sustained pressure to a price point, collectively. You may get a product cheaper and cheaper but probably at the cost of the stability of the seller, which is also of value to a buyer. You may find that if you pay more you are more valued and a seller will do more for you in the future. Or you may be the last to close an important target of a sales person and get a below market price, at least for a while. What's fair? IDK. Just keep thinking and occasionally reopen negotiations in a respectful way if you think you can get more for less. Or switch to another product.
Some of my friends in NYC were ordering single screws for various electronic devices for < $.20 that were shipped from China with no shipping.

I always found that funny...
> This is great news for U.S. sellers, especially eBay sellers.

Exactly the intended consequence. Why should US taxpayers subsidize shipping costs for products to come from China? It made no sense at all in today's economy unless the only thing you care about is paying less for your goods regardless of the consequences, which I don't think is a majority position of adults today.
So you would agree then that someone caught with a gram of marijuana deserves over a decade in prison?

Or are we just going to argue that the law itself is moral and just, while ignoring the uneven application of said laws? Which is really the point here.
> Everyone is separated from their kids when they're arrested. This is a fake scandal.

Fake outcry. If a parent is sent to jail, the children are given to protective services not sent into internment camps without basic necessities. How about all the Europeans go back to their countries and the natives round up their kids in internment camps.
You can absolutely go to jail for misdemeanors.
A sweep targeting thousands of people nation-wide resulted in only 35 arrests: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-23/ice-ra...

The number on ICE's website are computed based on an Obama-era change where they can count turning away people at the border as a deportation.
It does, however, make you far more vulnerable, as any dirt found on you now reflects badly on your newly selected customer base, and they will react even more viciously in response. See the recent Soulcycle debacle for a prime example of that.

EDIT: Heh. For those who say 'we don't do that!' - yes, you do.
I think the issue was in mistaking China for a developing country for so long. It’s different from western countries, but not undeveloped. Its size, population, culture, heritage, and history all play a role in how the ethnocentric West misinterpreted it.
I agree! I took Andy's class that he wrote the book for and it was one of the most influential classes I have ever taken. It is also one of the few books I have kept over the years and throughout all my travels.
sure, but ivdep is supposed to explicitly tells the compiler that there are no loop carried dependencies between iterations, so iteration i-1 couldn't possibly write to a memory location read by iteration i.
There’s a really excellent planet money podcast about this. Back when the US was a major exporter the UPU was great for US merchants.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
Why your data scientist interviewer won't ask Pandas questions
Whats to solve though? You just phone them up, or email them in my experience. I think at least 3/4 cases when I drop some company an email I get a startup discount. Even if they weren't on this list, I'd still try my luck.
I think consulting in tech sometimes means custom software solution with a lot of engineers on loan, often deployed to the customer's site.

But despite Palantir's attempts to expand into the private sector, I do believe their government side has been more successful, so I think it's fair to say that Palantir is a government contractor first and foremost.
> Releasing a Linux version is pretty much never economically viable.

Maybe. And more to the point, even if it were often viable it might not be in a particular case, and the developers likely have a better sense of that then I do. Which is one part of why I'm not complaining.

> Planetary Annihilation made a Linux version and despite representing only <0.1% of sales Linux users accounted for >20% of bug reports[0]. That's pretty damning.

Damning of what?

Daming of the economics? Those numbers could hold despite it being tremendously profitable - it depends on how many bug reports there are relative to sales, how much you're spending per bug report, etc. It's fundamentally looking at the wrong thing. What portion of Linux users had issues? If it's high, maybe that's a big reason you didn't get more Linux sales.

Damning of the platform? Insofar as it's the fault of the platform. It's true that there's fragmentation. It's also true that less effort is often put into the Linux ports, and there are nonetheless plenty of games that I can play without problems.

Damning of Linux gamers? Submitting a bug report is a virtue, not a vice.

Damning of the developers? I don't think that's what you were saying.
Slashing and burning rainforest to farm cattle or raise crops are both bad options given how critical the Amazon is to maintaining climate and biodiversity.

Either way, the amount of land and water required to raise each lb of beef is an order of magnitude greater than the amount needed for a pound of chicken, which is in turn an order of magnitude higher than the resources needed for a pound of vegetables. The expanding demand for beef is ecologically unsustainable, doubly so if people are burning down critical environments to create cow pasture.
The problem here is an organization which has a right of regulating the market by setting artificial rates.
The shipping price should depend only on private companies their pricing policies.

Bad thing is that people blame China instead of the United Nation bureaucracy. :(
This reasoning for adding consecutive numbers is ok, but for some people the geometric reasoning (that you are adding half of a full square plus the diagonal) will be much clearer and intuitive. It also allows a visual generalization to higher dimensions, where the formula is not so evident.
No, I get a free pass because I didn't write an article defending my game's poor quality art and posted it on the Internet. If I wrote such an article and said that I have no intent to improve said art I'd expect people to criticize me for it. But I haven't done that.
I’m no Buddhist scholar and think highly of Buddhism, but didn’t Siddhārtha Gautama leave his wife and child on his path to enlightenment? Appreciate the perspective and agree you’re not present when you daydream, but your example might confuse its intended audience. To me, it says, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Not sure. I'ts an unfinished thought but something I've toyed with in my mind. Mostly because I prefer local and the movement of goods is unnecessary a lot of the time. Environmental reasons for the most part- moving unnecessary junk around the world is still excessive even if it's done efficiently.
The raids are efficacious, not in their legal purpose of securing the homeland and enforcing the rule of law but in their political purpose of providing media-worthy evidence to voters that the ruling party is aggressively protecting those voters from The Other.

$47B to stay in power is a steal.
Somehow I doubt that this will lead to more affordable shipping in the rest of the world.
Bought a 3 bedroom house for $75k because I work remotely. There are cheap places to live in America, you don't have to fly out of country.
I'm not sure what you two are doing. My Windows 7 machine has no problem finding new updates in ~1 min and installs them just fine also.
how do you propose the mindset and techniques behind first people's husbandry sustainability can be scaled and applied to profit seeking "modern" farming?
Perhaps, but the price of fuel already incentives shippers to use less of it. It might be better mpg to ship by sea but by shipping such a huge distance much of that may be negated
Oh great, now I get to buy the same item from Walmart at 20x the price. If I can even find the one I need.
In addition to Amazon 3rd party sellers, this seems like bad news for Shopify. They host a lot of Chinese drop ship stores that work because of these artificially low rates.
Peace in the Middle East.
I do livecoding a lot. It’s a great way to build and audience, do branding, etc.

You absolutely need to then do something to monetize said audience. Selling a course is the common model. But that’s selling access to information which is what we’re trying to argue against here.

I have also been pleasantly surprised that you can sell access to a livecoding series. That’s sort of like tickets to a live show.

Workshops are another form of a live programming show that people will pay money for. Have also done those and it’s a lot of fun.

Most paid forms of these are in exchange for teaching. Access to intellectual property in your brain.
It's not really a subsidy so much as an underpayment by the foreign goverments[1]. There is no tax money involved, and all the subsidizing comes from the increased revenue from raising domestic shipping costs.

The UPU has been around for decades, but it's only been since 2010 that the USPS has formalized the process with the "ePacket" shipping.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...
My motto as a cyclist: "The pedestrian is king -- no matter where you encounter him." And those kids on skateboards? Be happy that they are not sitting on their butts playing a video game.
Generally, yeah. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Yes, but it is being shipped in volume containers. That is both more efficient all around, and much easier for the customs inspectors to find and divert counterfeits than in waves of individually packaged items.
For some reason (probably transparency), rather than using specialized docker images the GitLab auto-devops scripts install needed packages into a generic container. This really slows down the CI pipelines and is super painful

At least the ones where the generic container is Ubuntu/Debian based. `apt update && apt install -y` is really slow. But alpine based containers with the equivalent `apk install` are blazing fast.
The ISS shrinks by 1 um and Elon Musk makes 0.17USD
My immediate thought was to wrap them in some sort of diamondoid shell through some sort of mechanosynthesis process, but maybe a carbon nanotube would be stronger?
Yes, but try codifying that and you won’t get far enough to make that comparison. E.g. mentally or on a computer, ‘Date.Parse(“2019-09-31”)’ is an error ;)
Audio quality is obv important, but is hd video quality needed, beyond screen sharing? I think a lot of tools use too much cpu time (and thus hang) for hd video, where a simple 320x240 from the 90s would do
Given, I've not been involved in many of these large contracts for a while. But every time I've dealt with one of these before, at a size you seem to be mentioning here, its been under NDA.
Or you can use one of the many fonts under a free license, e.g. anything from Google Fonts. (Which, of course, you download and then self-host.)
It still seems insanely difficult to track calories and macros with all the apps out there to do it. Most of the content for searching for your food is "community generated" so if I try to add a "Big Mac" (example, not eating big macs...) then I get like 30 results all with different amounts of calories and nutrition amounts also with slightly different naming.

Maybe this exists somewhere??? But if someone can make an app to help me keep track of my food intake in an organized, managed (only one big mac when I search big mac and maybe options to add/remove toppings), fashion I would be slightly less insane counting my protein intake.

Yes, this is a difficult task with how much food is out there and thus it has great value if someone does it extremely well.
Except in a market with competition consumers will have the power to make choices.

I don't have the power to easily move to other cities or states. It costs thousands of dollars and takes a ton of time and stress. It separates me from my family. And if I struggled to find a job might not be able to move at all.
Yes more efficient than trains, though only by a factor of 2 to 3. 0.209 to 0.35 mJ/tkm for rail versus 0.11 for ocean freight. Domestic water freight (river barges) is 0.16.

Road freight is 1.3 to 2.4 and air freight is 6.9 to 10.5 waaaay worse than any of these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
This is a big one, but it’s almost too big. Perhaps better broken down into smaller (though still big) chunks: innovate in renewable energies, spur higher participation rates in local elections, research ways to deplete gases harmful to the ozone, etc
Literally every person I interview I look for a baseline understanding of sql. Nothing tricky, but just the core concepts. So key to basically every aspect of software today.
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