skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to HL Mencken

“Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

It seems that Puritanism is still alive and well in America.
Of course colleges want students from wealthy families. There's a reason Marx noticed class warfare, class is the primordial hierarchy.

However, among the fraction of the class that's accepted for reasons other than wealth, it seems like colleges play ethnic and gender favorites: https://twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/1140063678345011200
I couldn't bring myself to even click on those. The media has cried wolf for so long with Trump, if I see a headline saying "Trump to start WW3", I'm just going to think, boy, the NY Times just keeps hitting new lows and not even click it.
>Your post seems to say

I think it clearly does not. It was descriptive, not prescriptive.
People have been making their own vape liquids at home for at least the last five years, probably closer to the last decade.

It isn't difficult, a guide to making vape liquid is basically a lesson in measuring liquid volume and a handful of links to flavoring merchants. I don't see how that could be dubious...
> more of this translation could be automated

It seems to me that when creating a visual programming language for a particular class of programs, you probably find that making this translator is the same hard mental work that would let you make a text-based programming language instead. Once you have a good mapping from thoughts to code, the visual part doesn't add much. I was talking to a non-programmer recently who had tried Scratch and gotten tired of the visual layer very quickly. It's rare to see a visual -> code mapping that retains value after you've used it the first time, i.e. value beyond teaching.

I like the general idea of going the other direction, from code to diagram. I'm not interested in editing the diagram, but it's great for reading the code and sanity checking. But it doesn't have to be the actual code. A great many projects would benefit from having a GraphViz generator instead of hundreds of printlns. I was talking today about adding a GraphViz .dot visualisation to the salsa-rs incremental computation database, because I was reading the documentation on garbage collection and just wanted to see it in action. I know the rustc folks have been doing this for ages.

I think in addition to generating graphviz, it would be cool to have a log viewer that can render it.

$ my-program
normal logs
viz:"digraph {\n0 -> 1..."
more normal logs
^C

$ my-program | logviz
normal logs
more normal logs

... and a window pops up that animates changes between each graph that appears in the logs. Or even better, a tool that takes regular printlns of edges, nodes, etc, interprets them as an append-only variant (with deletion, etc) of graphviz, and assembles them into a graphical representation that changes on the fly. So you don't need to have a graph implementation in every language you want to do it with.
I 100% agree with you as long as we ban all advertising in TV news and online news.

A million forces tell you what to do, very very few of them are telling you to do good things.
Adrian Kent has a lengthy and detailed overview of MWIs pre-2009 which may interest you [0]. He discusses Wallace's formulation, contrasts it with other formulations and touches on branching indifference. He also has a more recent (and much more brief) article which refers to the Self-locating Uncertainty arguments [1].

I have previously come across Deutsch's formulation in terms of information flow [2], along with what seemed like a very strong criticism from Wallace and Christopher Timpson [3] that his model was not gauge-invariant.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0624.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1944

[2] https://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/9906/9906007.pdf

[3] http://users.ox.ac.uk/~bras2317/dhshort2.pdf
That seems more like a difference of opinion on how to handle a bad string than an example of python 3 being bad. I'd argue failing silently is worse, as in programs outside of your toy example you might end up storing badly encoded data etc. Broken data is way worse to deal with than a crashing app
I don't know why you've been downvoted. This is the standard outcome from prohibition - the same argument applies to the war on drugs, and people trying to ban abortions. It's better to have a legalized and regulated marketplace than an illegal one
I can feel the panic that the author describes as he runs out of the office. I can feel it in my chest. Before kids this would have been a story to read. With them, reading this is me falling apart at my desk.
Like it or not your decisions have an impact on other people’s lives and vice versa. Public health is important, we know the general public will not look out for their best interests on aggregate (see smoking or the opioid epidemic). As individuals we’re not equipped to defend against profit seeking products that are bad for our health, hence we need action from our elected representatives.
Also, in some cases like small RNN/LSTMs, CPU's can be faster.
"Facebook has announced it will launch a tool for users to stop apps and businesses sharing their data with the social network."

What a joke!!
UBI is an interest concept but it wouldn't solve this. If you go from e.g. $5K/month (job) to $1K/month (UBI) you'd still have to adjust your living standards (and if people expect to lose their jobs, even with UBI, they'd still make more cautious decisions which would still trigger the same indicators).

UBI and other social safety nets are "good ideas." But they aren't a one size fits all solution to every problem. It won't restore consumer confidence.
Doesn't always matter. Some states even impose mandatory reporting requirements on computer technicians (at least as far as victimization of minors is concerned).
Has anyone proposed making e-cigarette devices prescription only? Seems like if the manufacturers are really saying "we only want addicted smokers to use our device" that requiring a prescription from a doctor to oversee you through some addiction recovery program would make sense as far as regulating its use goes.
It should be called 3ddit.com
So if we don't support the insider self dealing of management and complete lack of discipline or board governance then legitimate cos will all shut down?

Seems like a strange and skewed view.
> The intended use of the proxy service is to shield HTTP/HTTPS requests from eavesdropping by edge network providers such as public WiFi hotspots. Avoidance of geographical restrictions on content access is explicitly not a goal.

> The Mozilla extension will always make a secure request to the Cloudflare network, regardless if the request is for TLS or plaintext

(From Cloudflare's privacy notice: https://www.cloudflare.com/mozilla/firefox-private-network-p...)

Now there's an interesting thought. Since the extension is routing requests at the application layer rather than at the network level, would it be possible to only route unencrypted HTTP requests through Cloudflare, while leaving encrypted HTTPS connections unaffected in order to avoid any latency penalty and save resources on Cloudflare's end?

I'd love an extension/VPN app that runs silently in the background and automatically routes unencrypted requests through a private connection, while simultaneously leaving encrypted connections untouched. Maybe even have a whitelist of trusted Wi-Fi networks where the system is automatically turned off.

Done right, a service like that could potentially allow users to use unencrypted Wi-Fi networks without having to worry about MITM attacks, without imposing any of the downsides that come with leaving a VPN running 24/7.
Forget the media, ask the former Federal Reserve president who literally wrote that "if the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome in 2020."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-27/the-fe...
Finally a service mesh that runs natively on K8s and VMs.

I wonder what dependencies they require for VM-based installations?
If they can find a way to do this profitably, it shows how unrealistic California labor laws can be

EDIT: Also, remember that neither Lyft or Uber have ever been profitable
If you fly, ever, business gold AmEx cannot be beaten. 4x points on the first $150k spent on two categories of your choice. Then, 25% off(!) flights booked with points at AmExTravel.com.

I will definitely be getting the Stripe card because the intro offers are so good. But, the airfare discounts alone at AmEx Travel are so good it will continue to be my go-to corporate card.
+1, it is the biggest bottleneck at times
I haven't gotten a chance yet, no. My recent projects have been tiny things in PHP, or large ancient things in Java. Looking forward to an opportunity to try it out, though.
Laser Tripwire Automatically Minimizes Your Tabs When Someone Walks By
Are you going to do any kind of basic background check on drivers?
That’s the whole point. Shorting at the right time is similar to buying puts while still compatible with your model.
Psychedelic Experiences and Mediation of Emotional Breakthrough
Not because of any value for human life. The economy only cares about human life insomuch as a person's productivity and spending power.
Not much of a leap though. We sell a much bigger majority of our waking hours to live. With less economic security, people constantly have to move away from friends, family and community to stay employed. End result, we end up constantly working and alienated from each other. When you consider that “human life” can and SHOULD mean so much more than “having a pulse”, I don't think the parent comment was inaccurate at all.
Interesting double take on the situation
If you are not in NYC, SF, SEA, etc you will have a much harder time getting those numbers. There are some remote roles at that level, but not too many. As above, the jobs are out there, but you need to be in the right location and have the right mix of skills and experience. Levels.fyi and Blind are useful resources for uncovering information on what companies are paying.
Apixu Is Now Weatherstack
I don't think it's accurate to characterize fracking as a geopolitical strategy. It is being done independently by oil companies who see it as an attractive way to produce oil - not on orders from the state department.
Linux on the desktop is pretty good. YoLotD may have already happened, IMO.

Now that Steam, WINE, and Proton are working reasonably well on a couple of major Linux platforms (Fedora, Ubuntu, and the Arch folks), there really isn't anything my Linux desktop can't do; gaming was the only holdout and that's mostly solved.

Graphics drivers, like the open AMD drivers and Nvidia's binary blob, are decent too.
Private Internet Access VPN has been blocked in Hong Kong
anyone else randomly got added to their mailing list?
this is an absolute gem to experience. my question: do you shard it off to different servers or some such thing? i only ask because trying to connect on both my mobile and my laptop, i can't seem to ever end up in the same apparent room as myself. but that's no but deal, just a minor curiosity.
Pretty neet! I recall an imageboard with a similar design.
Didn't the US have only about 330 million people or so?
Do you filter NSFW stuff by default?
We only found out about extent of the death camps after the military defeat of the Nazis. They were set to erase all traces.

So at this point, you don't even fully know what you're doing your whataboutism with.
But they are balanced out by von der Leyen who doesn't have the best record from her previous duties...
> As individuals we’re not equipped to defend against profit seeking products that are bad for our health, hence we need action from our elected representatives.

Just say no?
It sounds like we need something like Europe's GDPR. Of course, we'll never get that in America because it's anti-business.
Anecdotal counter evidence: All of my grand parents and their siblings smoked and drank alcohol and not one of them died of young age or a smoking releated disease.

But I get your point. I pay a heavy tax on cigs though. I just hope the government puts that into a fund for cigarette relate health care issues instead of financing some wars in the middle east. Ah no, they don’t. They just exploit the addiction.
SA is heavily invested in US companies, they will have a lot of money and power for a long long time
This is glorious, I just found a friend and we nodded at each other for a good while. Then I walked through the next best wall and lured others out, since they can still see the beam indicating the direction of my view.

Thanks for this!
I'm looking through some other SoftBank investments. My guess is that Brandless, Wag (dog walking), Clutter (moving), and DoorDash are all in similar positions of having raised too much money.
From [c] - “Here is my central argument. There are only two priorities for a start-up:
Winning the market and not running out of cash. ”

This quote misses an important third option - don’t get so big that even if you win one hundred percent of the market, you still can’t generate a return.

Dumping a billion dollars into a company in a niche market is also a failure mode.
Yet Another Service Mesh.
Watch out, eventually every visit to Reddit on mobile will have half the screen taken up with:

See this post in:

Reddit 3d [ OPEN ]
Reddit App [ OPEN ]
Safari [ CONTINUE ]
Because we are near full employment and they now have jobs to lose? From this morning's Washington Post: "For the first time, most new working-age hires in the U.S. are people of color"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-the-firs...
Unemployment rate is an essentially-fraudlent statistic.

Changes in the labour force participation rate are more revealing: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
Remember that performative workaholism is poison to life. Every time you put in more hours over the weekend "just because", dial in to a meeting on your vacation, or get on Slack at 10 PM "just to check a few things" - you're shifting the culture to make it that much more acceptable to demand it of everyone. The parents in your meetings that run until 7:30 bitterly hate you.

It might seem OK when you're single, childless, etc. but once that time starts coming from your family you will realize what a prison you've built yourself.

STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW.
> Why should I pay more because you drinks coke, diabetic and smoke yourself towards lung cancer?

Why should I pay taxes for schools and roads and services I don't use?
> People who smoke cigarettes and otherwise have an unhealthy lifestyle overburden the health system and take away government spending that can be spent elsewhere. Why should I pay more because you drinks coke, diabetic and smoke yourself towards lung cancer?

Do you have a source? I know it sounds intuitively correct, but I remember reading the opposite. Basically it goes like this: end of life/senior care is a very large percentage of medical spending. Unhealthy people don't live as long and die faster once their health deteriorates. So they actually cost less to the healthcare system than healthy people.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5316444/
Really bravely written post.
Choice is a really funny word when it comes to employees. Most employees don't have a "choice" if you look a little further beyond the surface.
No I never tried WireGuard. I read the docs a bit a few months ago. The thing is that for my usage sshuttle is enough and with it I have literally nothing to setup. WireGuard can't beat that. I'll keep your remark in mind in case I need an actual VPN in the future :).
Enjoy yourself, its later than you think

Enjoy yourself while you’re still in the pink

The years go by as quickly as a wink

Enjoy yourself enjoy yourself its later than you think
Thanks for the pointers. (This is turning into quite the little rabbit hole.)
Sainsbury's reinstalls tills in till-free store
We Work has no place in anyone’s portfolio and Softbank was the greater fool.

It is a great story for founders and for closely held corporations. The investor disclosures came out and there is no oxygen here for investors.

WeWork best deleverage and just continue its rental business.

This can function in a vacuum.

Their grow with all revenue and no profits scheme has nothing wrong with it, its the governance structure and convoluted corporate structure that all but ensures investors are guaranteed nothing.
IMO, the best PG essay says the same thing differently http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html.

It has had a profound impact on how I think about everything, but especially the time I spend with our now 1 year old.

I'd recomend everyone read it, and internalize that you only get 52 weekends in a year. You also only get a handful of each holiday with your kids. His words are better than mine, and I encourage everyone to take the 2 minutes needed to read the essay, then implement a life strategy that gets you home with your family more.
I want music similar to Doom to go with this!
But domestic fuel is not cheap here (Norway). Petrol is nearly USD 2/litre, close to USD 8 per US gallon.

Electricity is slightly cheaper than some other European countries but that is changing as more and more HVDC interconnects are built and the prices are affected by the market.
The Mayan civilization lasted 3000 years
"told DPA.

Speed and the type of collision would have more influence than weight, he added. In the Berlin incident, however, the traffic light mast might have stopped a smaller car."
Still better than going from $5k/month to $0k/month.

No solution are one size fit all solution to every problem. What is your point?
The headline is slightly deceiving. All "private internet access" isn't blocked, just a single VPN called Private Internet Access VPN.
I think most people want the same ml minimum paid shift and notice rules that apply to on call work generally, which is not exactly the same thing.

It would require changes to how Uber/Lyft operate, becausethey would have to distinguish between available-but-not-yet-on-shift and on-shift workers within the app, and presumably would direct (not “offer”) new rides to available on-shift drivers and only offer shifts to available off-shift drivers if there was unmet demand (not just for a ride, but sufficient projected need to justify the shift.)
I played with Ballerina about 6 months ago. I wasn't able to sell it to my team, but I was extremely impressed. Type safety, brilliant Kubernetes deployment, and a very rich API for integration tasks made it appealing for 'glue code'.

If you're considering spending 5 mins to write a comment on why we don't need this language, please consider spending that time with their examples page instead. Its pretty impressive in breadth and depth.

I do think that the whole diagram bit is noise, and I could never really get it to work as expected in VScode. Its just a solid language for service development.
I'm writing a backend in Rust right now, and its pretty nice. The ecosystem of packages was the most important factor for me (as well as the ease of spinning up a dev environment).
You need to think like the leader of a nation, not like the leader of an advocacy group. This is a playing field most people can't comprehend.
Bloomberg likes the spotlight. Is this a way to keep the light on for the white house bid?
Maybe something akin to the “buy local” initiative, but on a national level. That said buy local has its issues like not all locales being able to “buy local” and sometimes subsidizing local producers is counterproductive (effort to overcome specialization is too costly), etc.

That said a framework which ensured some minimum requirements (like labor laws and environmental controls, work safety, etc.), could be a place to start.
Yes, I am not an audiophile. They still sound a lot better than the TV speakers the sound was coming through before and they are more than good enough for me. Some kids listen to music through the speakers on their phones.
Many places in Europe also organize themselves into castes based on education, and the second question will then be "where did you go to school". Some places will even triage your quality of hospital care based on what degree you have attained. I'll take the US approach, thanks.
From my understanding, many of the flavored juices contain Vitamin E, which we're just now finding out is potentially deadly when inhaled (hence the recent deaths). It's a largely unregulated industry already when it comes to safety of peripheral ingredients. Wouldn't it be very costly to start scrutinizing each manufacturer's ingredients? Do you know what you're really getting if you decide to buy some vaping products?
Not a front end dev at all just saw the call to innerHTML isn’t that a security hole?
You didn't see that the man literally drew an extra, obviously out of place circle on the official hurricane projection map to make his previous erroneous tweet seem correct? You're missing out. While the error itself is unlikely to start WW3 or tank the stock market, it certainly does cause one to ask questions.
Yes, but...

Because 3 is incompatible with 2 I evaluate the cost/benefit of using it compared against all other languages, not just 2.

From that POV, I find that e.g. Julia, Haskell, or Prolog are much more compelling than Python 3. Python 3 doesn't add anything radically better than 2.

(Most of the new language "features" to me seem like they should be libraries instead: fstrings, enums, dataclasses; I can't understand why people think asyncio is cool but ignore Twisted (which is a huge treasure chest of amazing capabilities!))

Since I see 3 as only marginally better than 2, the main difference between them is that 2 is stable and mature while 3 is in flux, and that consideration mashes the cost/benefit ratio waaaay over in favor of 2, IMO.
Unlike Istio, this is built to work natively with minimal dependencies on every platform, not exclusively on Kubernetes, which means it can support both new greenfield applications and existing VM-based apps, so that networking policies that would typically be available only on K8s for new apps, can be applied on existing workload today. That, and it’s meant to be easier to use, which is another big problem with existing Service Mesh implementations.
I feel of all the arguments against hooks, the whole “order of hooks” thing is the thinnest. You just learn about it and then it’s not a problem again.

I definitely get that there are some more complex cases where you have to jump through a couple of useRef hoops to do what you need. On balance though, I think the way the behaviour becomes declarative is worth the trade off.
Nah, you're not fired. That's why you CYA and get it in writing. It's the manager who decided that they didn't want to do a rewrite, it's not your problem they didn't listen to your advice.

Like it or not, there are a lot of teams that choose to incur technical debt to avoid what is seen as needless work on something that is working fine at the moment.
Financial compensation is an Islamic cleric and state compliant way to resolve deaths over there.

Of course you can read the book one thousand different ways.

The point is that it is nice they fulfilled that promise.

edit: remember, their religious clerics can say whatever they want and thats the law in a theocracy. English wikipedia is not going to describe that adequately
And this is a more or less useless comparison. Juul has only existed at all for about 4 years. Smoking kills huge numbers of people, but not in 4 years.

AFAIK, the data is consistent with vaping being more dangerous than smoking.

For what it’s worth, humans evolved in the presence of fire. Plant smoke, while quite dangerous, is something that mammal lungs have dealt with, in moderation, forever. Whatever chemical soup is present in vaping vapor is new. And saying “it’s just glycerol” makes no sense. Glycerol has very small vapor pressure at body temperature and boils well above the boiling point of water. Some websites suggest that the actual output from vaping is quite nasty indeed.