skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your unfounded suspicions amount to FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. You have no evidence that people concerned about climate change would be more underhanded or less loyal to their employer than other employees. A company has no reason to fear working with another company because its employees exercise the right to free speech.(+) Claiming such a fear is rational... Well, I think you can see how that would cause people to shut up because they are afraid of being seen as a liability and fired. That would be bad, wouldn't it?

A similar situation existed in many Western countries during the Cold war. Communists were afraid to speak their mind because they would be labelled Russian spies and they would be blacklisted. There were of course lots of people that spied for the Soviet union though. But crucially, only one (that I know of) were a devout Communist. All the others were spying for monetary reasons.

+ - Last I heard an American senator recently proposed that the US should stop selling crowd-control equipment to China. If a politician can propose that, why can't an employee propose that Amazon should not host oil exploration companies?
One of the big asterisks with most D3 bone density studies(and is applicable to this one) is that they are studying older adults specifically, vs, say, athletes. There are bodybuilders, for example, who swear by high-dose D3.
Yeah, that the concept I am struggling with now. Picking my damn sacrifice (been struggling to quit cannabis, been using it as a crutch since I was teen)
What about those DNA companies that collect even more sensitive medical information - your DNA - and then straight up sell it to companies who'll use it against you (health insurance)? Why are these guys not facing billions in fines and being dissolved for egregious violations?

Edit: It seems that none of these are HIPAA violations because these companies aren't classified as medical organisations.
Child protection services are a deterrent, yes, but not as strong as one would think. Children usually just endure violence because they think it's normal, or they know child protection services will break their family apart. Abusive parents typically are denounced by other adults, like doctors or teachers.

Still, according to page 172 of this report, it seems you're right, because UNICEF puts more effort at developing countries, although their scope covers much more than just domestic violence: https://www.unicef.org/publications/index_74865.html
Back in 1988 I wrote a holiday/sick calendar app with basic reporting. The first thing management in EVERY department did was predict the sick days. I found that out 5 years after I had left.
The video was interesting and he comes across as a very reasonable and pragmatic guy who had good reasons for designing it the way he did. But those reasons and that design resulted in a not very excellent language - as the parent post (and Rasmus himself!) said. Convenient but problematic, intended to be replaced by something better.

That said, the improvements in version 7 look impressive. I still prefer a language that's not quite as ugly though.
I have had to take over multiple projects that were years out of date on multiple platforms/os/languages. It's a nightmare that one does not wish on anybody, it's possible but as the other poster notes, one has to have extensive testing suite to verify functionality before and after - or one has to make one to have any hope of succeeding (making a final product up to date and functioning correctly unless one just wants to make something just run.) It's never as easy as just changing the lib/imports since active languages/libraries are living things, to say nothing of dead libraries that one has to update or replace.
...and that's just GPT-2_medium.
Very recently there was a flurry of articles about Apple copying popular apps, among them woman health apps [1]. Although they were not wrong to voice their concerns about Apple, it's hard to cheer for the app makers when you later find out they don't exactly value your privacy and are not upfront with you, as a user, about that.

[1] washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-apple-uses-its-app-store-copy-best-ideas

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A Meta-Grammar for Peg Parsers
Removing the barriers to entry could be one path to fix the issue.
You mean to say Britain was so scared by China in 1960 that from 1960 to 1997 it could not grant autonomy, economic and political freedoms to Hong Kong. I am not sure what stopped them to democratically elect a Hong Kong CEO, which is an appointed head without any people involvement until Chris Patten in 1997.

Even during cultural revolution when China was going through famine, Britain could not do anything.

The declassified papers if you read whole, you will find that Britain did not fight for Hong Kong democracy because it will require economic contribution to Hong Kong and will impact Britain's economy.

Britain has never wanted democracy for India too the largest colonial example. It was its people who declared in 1921, quit India movement, they left because one can't govern person who doesn't want at any cost.

Indeed before leaving Britain did make sure India remains a divided country so that it does not challenge the Britain in future. India and the resulting Pakistan and Bangladesh still suffer the consequences.
To those who only read the HackerNews title and not the title of the actual article, it does not say that Vitamin D does not strengthen bones, but rather higher does don't seem to strengthen more than lower doses, not compared to not taking any at all as one would probably interpret from the HackerNews title.
Honest question: do you think there is a different solution that would work to prevent situations like these people in VA?

I feel like one of the responsibilities and benefits of living in a modern society is that you should be sheltered from these kinds of problems, and that comes with a cost, as you note, in higher taxes. It sounds like you don't feel that way, and that's fair, but I want to make sure there is not another solution you think would work where the OP recommendation would not.

But, I look around most US major cities and see the rampant homelessness and drug addiction and (often the same people with) mental health crisis, and it scares me for the future of our country.

I did not see any of that in Europe a few weeks ago, even in cities like Barcelona and Greece, situated in countries that have "bad" unemployment and "bad" economies.
It seems pretty clear to me by now that GPT-2 is not as dangerous as OpenAI thought (or claimed to think) it might be. (It may yet be as deadly as OpenAI believed it was, but we won't know until it's actually released). That's not even mentioning that it's entirely likely that it will become the first machine learning platform to win a Turing Award.

What do you think? Are you ready to get involved in the GPT-2 debate? Or do you already have your own AI platforms and don't like GPT-1? Or do you have questions and would like the community to shed light on them? Please join us in IRC at #gpt: http://gstreamer.freenode.net/?channel=gpt

Please refer to the #GPT4 thread at Wikipedia.

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It's considered one of the fundamental pitfalls of democracy[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
No offense taken, I've been downvoted a lot and I can understand people have very passionate beliefs on issues of this scale, I'm also passionate in my belief that talk, protests and walkouts, while they have an impact on awareness and of course the right people being aware of the issue may get us somewhere, does not get us anywhere in today's age.

Everyone knows of global warming, I don't want to see more talks, more protests and more blame, I want to see plans being enacted, laws being enforced, the world actually improving, but that's not what I see in this Amazon spectacle.
You can see the games here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQEBn4wORw
Thanks for your thoughtful responses!
If that price was arrived at by an official process and properly documented, then that's the system working as intended.

The questions is, intended by whom?
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The “majority of US residents” have private healthcare and don’t have student loans.
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Please cite your sources. I'd be very interested to dig into this data.
Really? Ed Sheeran is so good that he had 5 of the top 10 hits simultaneously?

If that's the end result, I think we need to bring back payola.
It was, though. Vinnik created it as a way to help people launder stolen / illicitly-gained cryptocurrency, perhaps in addition to providing standard exchange services. Cryptocurrency from large hacks appeared in Vinnik's personal BTC-e account on several occasions, for example.

BTC-e was perhaps "safe" in that it seemed to be operated competently from a technical standpoint, and it didn't appear to attempt to scam its users (both of which may not be true of Mt. Gox), but it didn't really need to worry about costs due to the absurd amount of profit they were making from their laundering hustle.

It wasn't that they merely turned a blind eye to the laundering. Vinnik personally assisted in the laundering, presumably by working with some of the exchange hackers.

>BTC-e was around longer than those exchanges.

I should've said "a cover to help criminals launder illicitly gained cryptocurrency". There were plenty of reasons to launder cryptocurrency before any large exchanges existed. He didn't help just with exchange hacks. But when exchange hacks started happening, business was certainly booming for him, since that was the easiest way to steal a lot of cryptocurrency at once.

The US government may have inadvertently stolen your money, and other people's, but they did it to reappropriate billions of dollars money stolen from citizens around the world, including American citizens. Vinnik helped intentionally steal money from ordinary people who used Mt. Gox and other exchanges, and pocketed a lot of it for himself. Hopefully some of the money the US government seized will be returned to their rightful owners one day, but who knows.
> rock phosphate is a finite resource and the biggest supplies are mined in politically unstable places

A similarity with oil? I think it's a forgone conclusion that politically unstable places are ripe for becoming stable under whatever guise a mining nation chooses. The profits must flow.
While the "major conveniences" are orthogonal to exceptions, constructors are not, and in many non-trivial cases constructors should be expected to fail.
I don't know about not being available in all of Europe, but here's a story from the UK a few years ago where a baby had a rare, but easily fixable, heart condition. There were no doctors in the UK who could perform the surgery, and the NHS initially refused to pay for the parents to come to the USA for surgery. The parents started a gofundme to pay for the travel and surgery, but the NHS eventually agreed to cover it after it became a big deal on the news.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40864598
Nobody is bashing, come on. People are allowed to like and not like things. Stuff like GP is not “hate” (not a word you used but one that gets thrown around constantly on here).
Not sure I believe that. I've watched Louis Rossmann talking about Apple's fuses.
Kiss CLIs Using Do v1.70 and Modern Perl
The comment doesn’t need to fit my requirements, it surprises me the Internet now feels like it needs to convince people to think a certain way.
The Lynx is one of my favourite machines ever. Satisfying and chunky, great sound and music, and some really impressive games like Warbirds which was a flight sim with with a polygonal world and pseudo-3D sprites.

Kudos to those involved with this effort (and the wider scene), but I've still got a unit that runs after all these years, and I'll be very sad when the actual hardware dies and only emulators remain.
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary.
> Paper burns.

It shreds too. This is a feature.
This seems a bit of a false equivalency:
If you get an "unexpected tax bill" due to a change in your liquid assets for a sum that exceeds several times your gross worth like some of these medical bills, then you are doing some really shady tax reporting..
Doesn't surprise me one bit. 5G won't be popular for years, and even then it'll only ever be limited to very high density areas ( think main streets of large cities, areas where super bowls may take place ).

Right now if you're in an area of relatively high pop density you can expect 4G LTE and decent speeds. In the future a new class of high speed will exist that only those who venture into highly populated areas will be able to enjoy. Stray off that path and you're on the lesser LTE version - a lot like going into the country nowadays ( unless you're on verizon )
And then hope they don't get new management.
Why would it be embarrassing to state "I currently have nothing to do right now, is there anything available I can help with." if you cannot figure out anything productive you could be doing on your own.

Are people's managers actually saying to them, "Yes, there is nothing you can do right now, just sit in your seat and do nothing until I come get you"? I've never had that experience, and is why I'm asking about it.
Great, finally. Don’t pretend the information is public and then block access to it.

It’s either private and inaccessible, or it’s free for all to use.
As they say...

Revenue is Vanity

Profit is Sanity

Cash is Reality
The USA is a pure capitalistic country and appears to have little or no sympathy for the poor and disenfranchised.
Show HN: Minimalistic Fullstack App Demo
You don't need a reflector in the majority of cases, shining an IR laser onto a wall/door frame a couple of meters away is usually a big enough bright spot to drive a phototransistor pointing at (nearly) the same spot.
But it was done poorly... Lisp-2, eq vs equal vs = vs equalp , multiple-value-bind, destructuring-bind, remove-if-not, etc... Python's PEP process seems to be a better idea...
Because they are exposing their website to the general public. If you don't want the public to have access and be able to scrap it don't make it public facing.
A job is simply the key to the building, what you do after is up to you
Unless there's more you didn't explain, you weren't burned by Django -- at most you were lightly singed by your own expectations. Everything you've described is more a matter of "I liked this one more than that one" -- things that are so minor or inconsequential to the actual hard work in building a SaaS app so as to be rounding errors. On the other hand, you haven't described a single area where feature parity is lacking, so it comes down to a matter of opinion and taste.
why would you want to introduce legacy from the get go?
One data point is the demographics of HN?
For sure, but they shouldn't be hypocritical about it. If they don't consider themselves content parasites, they shouldn't consider people scraping their site to be content parasites, either. (Some sites really are just parasites, though.)
Just make sure the slackbot is posting the standup in a channel that everyone is in. Problem solved. No rationalizations required.
This is trivial, when people talk about eBPF they are talking about the implementation, its like saying you could put lisp code in C, if only you modified the C compiler.
Note that NATS on it's own is just a pub/sub system and doesn't have any queuing or persistence. There is no "log". You need the NATS Streaming server for that which implements persistence while communicating over NATS.
It's great for marketing though. Having something so 'powerful' you can't release it to the public. Also ties in with the 'fake news' and Russian bot hysteria very well.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-26...

2/3 of people who don’t have Medicare have employer-paid insurance. Or put another way 73% have either Medicare or employer paid insurance. (Obviously Medicare isn’t private healthcare, but the two groups are for the most part mutually exclusive.) The remained are for the most part covered by Medicaid or through direct purchase.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/student-loan-statistics...

20% of adults have student loan debt.
webcam vibration changing the field of view could be a decent proxy for laptops.
> Your job payload should be pure data but Rails ensures that it is code.

Doesn't sound right to me. ActiveJob just serializes the arguments to the job. The job runners spins up the rails environment (i.e. the code) and deserialize the arguments before executing the job.

There is no code serialization as far as I can tell.
Are you in the US? While I've never personally done Norbert's Gambit my understanding is that it's extremely popular for Canadian investors to do if they want to get USD. Might not be vice-versa.

The most common use case I'm familiar with is within RRSPs, as there is sometimes a tax advantage to using US-listed ETFs within them. Most brokerages charge 1.5-2% to do currency conversion so it would be a lot better deal to do Norbert's Gambit to get USD trading funds.
COGS typically includes payroll for employees whose labor is directly tied to production but doesn't include 'overhead' employees and other categories like rent / legal / sales / marketing.

The best way to think about it: "If we had 0 sales, would this expense still exist?" If it wouldn't exist, it's COGS.
Exactly what I was thinking.

I remember being so confused by it as a kid when I saw it in games. Like, why do you need a key that displays a fake DOS prompt?
I could see real uses for these, but I'd want questions answered first such as whether they're specifically paired, where the programming is stored, what data passes wirelessly, whether there could be any way the receiver could act as an open HID receiver device, what the number of triggers is, etc.
I wonder if you have operations in Europe.

Standard here in Spain is 30 days off (including weekends and bank holidays).
Most companies just offer 22 working days. I worked for one that offered 24.
I was sucked in by Gitlab's feature list and marketing. But holy shit so many things are half assed and so many features are buggy and broken. Like their wikis would sometimes just straight up delete text and their webhooks would break images. I started a bunch of issues but they really have no chance of getting fixed anytime soon. Just shows how different your impression of something is after actually using it.
For perspective, I was seeing 50-200 pages/second sustained for PHP + MySQL on a single modest Linux server 20 years ago. We had clients get well over 6k hits within minutes of an announcement (IPO details launching at market open) and had plenty of headroom.
There are two ways to becoming wealthy:

1. Have wealth given to you.

2. Live beneath your means (aka save part of your income)

I get "penny pinching" can mean being cheap or something. But ultimately, saving is what makes you wealthy. And it's a much more accessible and in your control than winning the lottery of life by starting a successful business, or being some hotshot lawyer.

Side note: Warren Buffet enjoys not spending his wealth, which is exactly penny pinching ;-)

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/2...
Typedefs are nice if you do not want to write 'struct' all the time...
If you're already using the Redis protocol then Redis v5 has Streams as a first-class data structure.

It's fast, has consumer groups (like Kafka), and also supports individual message acknowledgement.
It's in those charts, ah maybe 4-5 down..
I'm always surprised by the mindset of the person you're replying to.

I learned a few years ago from some DEFCON video[0] that someone had figured out a way to do a (basic) port scan of the whole internet in ~1 day (or something like that).

Thing is... it really shouldn't have been that surprising. Although network latency isn't getting that much better year by year (c = c), the amount of data you can process in bulk, correlate, etc. is ever-increasing.

[0] At least, I think that was the conference.
> it's like defending water as being safe in when you have a patient who has steam related third degree burns

Or even closer, after they just inhaled a bunch of it and are now drowning.
Words have meaning, in specifics, historical meaning. Calling someone a "dolt" doesn't have near the impact as calling someone "f" comes with it the decades of violence associated with the word.
For those bringing up HIPAA I hate to let you know that none of these apps are covered by HIPAA, and none of them can be fined under HIPAA.

If your friend tells you they have a disease, and you tell someone else, are you breaking HIPAA? No.

In order to break HIPAA you have to first be a covered entity. An example of a covered entity is a Doctor (or provider).

If you tell Google or Facebook that you have some kind of condition, that information is not covered by HIPAA because they are not a medical provider, and therefore have no legal obligation to keep that information private.
If you were struggling for days with Django, I really wonder how you'd handle writing line of business logic for paying customers, which is orders of magnitude more difficult than picking one framework among several that have feature parity. This could be a place for you to improve as an engineer rather than being proof of a framework being bad or "burning" you.
Perhaps an arsenic bronze arrow head broken off inside of somebody could poison them slowly over time.
The problem is it's not about the productivity, it's the clarity and it's profound for someone with ADD/ADHD. So I started abusing nicotine at a young age (a very common ADD self medication) and I quit several times over the years and every time I quite my mind would be in a fog and never come out. I am not talking about 5-30 days, I am talking about 5 years later and I wake up every day feeling foggy. I tried everything, and at some point I just relented to the fact that I must have obviously damaged my brain with nicotine, I did not really think about how clear the first cigarette made me until I took recreational Ephedrine as a teen. The funny part is for people with ADD they don't really get that coke speed out from speed, they just get really relaxed and clear, but there is an energy to the relaxed.

So fast-forward to my 20's and I pretty much had ignored that speed makes me clear, when I have some issues and the doc tells me I have ADD, and wants to put me on meds. I opted to not do it, and just kept on abusing nicotine.

Anyways, in my late 20's I have kids and decide they are not going to have a smoker for a dad, and quit cold turkey and that is where things went to crap. I could not focus on work, could not get stuff done around the house and the worse it got, the further behind I fell and it started to look like depression which is what can happen with ADD when you get overwhelmed by not being able to get started on anything. I went back to the doc, they put me on a low dose Meth Amphetamine and it's night and day. I don't think I could have ever quit nicotine if it where not for ADD meds.

Funny part is, I am not really into speed, the few I took in my 20's I never really liked, I don't do drugs but I am pretty sure if I did, I would be a heroin junkie as the few times I have had to have morphine or other opiates (medically) where quite pleasant. Point being the lack of desire for speed seems to be a common sentiment among those with ADD/ADHD
Well yeah, but if they can’t have a unicorn then they’ll advise you to staple a horn on your horse rather than investing in a stable and some oats.
Please see the comment I wrote regarding HIPAA and covered entities.
Voluntarily submitting your information to an app that keeps a calendar of your period is not subject to HIPAA jurisdiction

and thats just the cynical response to make fun, so more specifically, it comes down to the company itself that releases these apps, and they are not HIPPA covered entities.