skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its unclear if QAnon is (was — 8chan is gone) someone close to Trump. It wasn’t necessarily a parody.

Indeed, Anthony Comello, the man who murdered Gambino boss Frank Cali allegedly believed that he had “protection” from Trump. However, this could just be a creative defense derived after-the-fact, supported by Mr. Comello’s interest in the QAnon movement.

The murder was apparently related to some dispute about dating Cali’s daughter.
Lived just a few blocks from the Ark Lodge and loved going to see films here. Unfortunately I just don't see it surviving for much longer without some form of additional help as mentioned in the article.
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You are correct, my typo.
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Yes sounds like a company with rigid hierarchies "you cant have a chair with arms on as your not the right level".

Or rules about what the wood a managers desk furniture should be made of and how many square yards of carpet "he" was allowed - note the use of the male pronoun.

These are examples from a company I used to work for in the UK.
I couldn't find the link, but some years ago I listened to a talk on the Cato Daily Podcast (https://www.cato.org/archives/type/multimedia/category/9390) from a doctor, describing his experience with opioids. The doctor said that, having read medical literature, he believed that exponential increases in opioid dosage were an appropriate response. So (exact mathematics aside) if a dose wasn't sufficient for a patient, then you double the dosage. And double it again, and again, and again as necessary. This was not the conventional wisdom, so he was prescribing much much higher doses than was typical.

Was this approach to dosing correct? Maybe? It was unclear to me if people eventually reached an appropriate dosage and then held steady.

From there of course patients sought him out for their pain management, people who had constant chronic pain, because he was willing to offer a treatment other doctors were not.

Eventually there was concern about opioids, and this doctor's very high prescriptions quickly became noticed. He was shut down. Without access to the pain treatment he was willing to provide (and other doctors were not) several of his patients committed suicide.

I still don't know what I think about the whole story. What is a manageable amount of pain? Are individuals able to identify the boundary between pain management and... whatever other experience we consider to be an inappropriate use of opioids? Because you could be "addicted" to opioids while only using them for pain management, i.e., only trying to achieve a comfortable existence.

If we believe individuals can self-determine the boundary between appropriate and inappropriate use, how then do we trust individuals to report on this? Especially if we believe that addiction makes a person untrustworthy, maybe even to themselves.

And how do we rate pain, when for so many cases it is genuinely subjective? Like, we have no way to see what pain a person experiences except for them to tell us, maybe relating it to a more objective experience (like: does this hurt more or less than a bee sting?) (Does everyone even have shared experiences that cover the necessary range of pain?)

I don't really buy Cato's relatively extreme perspective on this (that we should let people do whatever they feel is right, and that all the harm is from restrictions that lead people to dangerous substitutes). But there's clearly some hard philosophical questions here to consider.
The issue is that it doesn't show in my Battle.net launcher. After I downloaded the game I was asked to enter the Key. Anyway I've purchased a key from a 3rd party seller/marketplace(g2a).
Totally, just like so many bands were better young, clubs, beaches and restaurants better before they got popular, etc. Unfortunately it's just something that happens when things get mainstream, you can't reverse the process.
Please explain how 5G would overcome the obstacles to 1ms ping better than 4G. Higher bandwidth does not reduce latency for minuscule packets with low contention.
Are we looking at the same charts? Go and C# are practically on top of each other for smaller batch sizes, then C# pulls ahead significantly.
Having ads doesn’t mean the context has no value. Otherwise why are you visiting any site with ads?
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Amazon still has quite a ways to go. Consider that Microsoft had:

- 96% of worldwide OS marketshare. Even Amazon doesn't come close to this level of domination in retail or cloud.

- Forcing OEMs to purchase Windows licenses for all PCs sold regardless of whether or not customers wanted a PC without Windows.

- Not only pre-installed IE, but provided IE with inaccessible and undocumented Windows OS APIs to give it functionality that just wasn't possible for Netscape to implement (like ActiveX).
> Why would the company promote them your getting l2 performance for l1 pay.

Only temporarily. They'll probably find a job somewhere else, and now you've lost a great employee, need to find someone else that good and train them up again.
a threat is only as good as your willingness to execute it. If they don't actually intend to, the threat is meaningless.
As much as I want to agree with the conclusions of this study, I have a hard time believing them. Anecdotally I do feel like social media has weakened a lot of social relationships (although they do persist longer than they would have in the past, so maybe thats a plus). I feel like these relationships have weakened because people have started using their online relations as substitute for their in-person ones. In addition to that, I actually feel more anxious/depressed when I spend more than an hour or so on social media, mainly because of FOMO. There have been multiple times in the last few years where I was sure I was addicted to social media and would get anxiety because of it. During these periods I've had to turn my devices off and leave them at home for extended periods of time to "reset" myself.

Again, all anecdotal, and likely this study was very thorough, these are just my own experiences.
16-Core HoneyComb LX2K ARM Workstation Looks to Offer a Decent Performance Oomph
That "effect" is just Michael Chricton co-opting a Nobel laureate to one of his rants. It has nothing to do with Gell-Mann, the physicist.
What's really behind improvements in solar and wind efficiency? R&D work. It doesn't matter who pays the bills if the goal is greater efficiency and incentives are aligned to reward it. That capitalism rewards power generation efficiency is more of a side-effect than a feature. If it was more profitable to improve energy extraction then the R&D funding would go there instead. It can be strongly argued that this literally happened; we got fracking before we got cheap wind power, despite the technology for efficient wind being available for decades (quibbling about computer modeling acknowledged), and we still flare methane from oil wells instead of capturing it. That capitalism rewarded clean energy efficiency instead of, say, dirty risky cheap nuclear fission efficiency is entirely due to regulation.
Great work..
I liked.
And i want to and going to learn program language.
Also running a solo company - https://fitloop.co

I'm primarily a front-end dev so I keep things pretty simple on the back end side.

Stack:

Meteor, managed hosting on Galaxy
MongoDB, hosted on Compose
React
GraphQL / Apollo API
There would be 20 fewer lines of C?
The craziest thing is that the first stable release of portable openssh is almost twenty years old: https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-1.2.2p1
You’re assuming nothing bad ever happens with the “name brand” product, which is patently bullshit. Every consumer product I. The shelves is cost engineered to death.
This person was engaged to the caricature of Neil DeGrasse Tyson than Jordan Peele plays in Key & Peele.
This is misleading though because energy projects produce returns over a much longer timescale (i.e. decades) than the typical tech project (a year or two?). In addition, the typical big tech firm is running a lot more projects than the typical large oil company (which maybe operates a count of oil fields in the hundreds). So it's very much expected that the capital investment per project will be higher in oil.

But the fact of the matter is that Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft have double the market capitalization of the largest private oil companies. So yes, they're objectively better capitalized taken as a whole -- even if the typical tech project has less investment and consequently working on tech projects as a low- or mid- level employee feels smaller.
>Google prioritizes certain websites/results when I enter queries too, it doesn't mean I'm required to click on them.

I would like to call this "an appeal to free will". It's true that individuals can choose what they click, but there is also going to be a statistical reality of what people "choose" to click more/most often.

Because of this, imo the big deal is absolutely gargantuan. Google for example handles several billions of searches per day. To your point of continuing to hunt for the right results, just adding a few seconds per search increases the amount of aggregate time spent searching on a scale of centuries per day. I would argue it's a similar case with Amazon; the service is so large that a minute changes can have tremendous impacts.
You can already do whatever you want on your own site, like a paywall instead of ads, so what’s the issue?
AFAICT This is a "GO is great" article not "GO Vs. Rust" article as the title suggests.

It is OK to love and propmote a language. GO is terrific and we have been waiting for it for a long time.

But so is Rust.

If you want to say GO is better choice than Rust ("Why GO and not Rust" is the title after all) listing featurs of Rust ("...Go doesn’t want unused variables or imports...") is not a convincing way to proceed.

Horses for courses and we should have stopped language wars in 1995!
I think the point people are trying to make is that while revolutions can be good, most of the time they have been bad. Very bad. From the Reign of Terror, to the November Revolution, to Pinochet, to the Khmer Rouge, to Rwandans in central Africa, life has not been good for commoners during and after revolutions. (And I'm being kind by not listing the really bad ones.)

Add to all this the fact that they fail with alarming regularity, and America's collective lack of enthusiasm for that option is perfectly understandable. I mean, historically speaking, for the average person, revolutions either failed, and you were worse off. Or revolutions succeeded, and you were worse off.

It's so bad that, again, people are even a bit skeptical even of low risk options like tax reform and stronger unions. Right now, people seem to view anything that even appears to move away from the status quo as dangerous because of the admittedly horrid track record of revolutions, combined with the off the wall proclamations and actions of certain groups opposed to the élites. (Believe it or not, you don't allay peoples' fears of a reign of terror by shooting up churches and Walmarts for instance.)
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Well, then you have at least an answer to the question why those managers get stuck at some point ... ;-)
https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

The gp post is correct. When given the option between an ad, adblock, or tipping, people overwhelmingly choose option #1 or #2.

They then complain about ads, if they chose #1, and about adblock naggers, if they chose #2.

And, of course, all three sets of people lose their mind when they run into a paywall.

There is no non-legislative solution to this problem.
Go to any college. Most people there buy Macs for simple note taking.
Password-exposing bug purged from LastPass extensions
Shopify is not enterprise ready. It’s designed for smaller self-managed stores. We recently looked into the platform to run a few large E-commerce stores. Two of the biggest issues are:

1. Payment processing. You’re forced to use their Shopify Payments. There’s no flexibility for managing that via API. Once something goes in there it’s stuck. Our particular requirement entails tokenized card info. And we needed to access the tokenized card for recurring orders. Shopify told us that was impossible. And want us to use one of the handful subscriptions app, which btw, also have no flexibility. We then hired a 3rd party to see if they can extend the cart...nada. So, if you already have an internal recurring/subscription system - trust me, Shopify will not work for your e-commerce platform. Dont waste your time.

2. Most of the apps are shady. We spoke with two regarding upsells and cross-sells, they couldn’t give us a clear answer if our customer data they collect will never be shared or sold.

The platform is for small self managed stores.

It definitely has an A+ front end, but the backend needs to be more flexibility for the enterprise.
Primary source: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/15/california-tech-pr...
Waymo’s robotaxi pilot surpassed 6,200 riders in its first month in California
> Pseudoaddiction exists. But actual addiction also exists, and it's more dangerous and more likely to happen.

Many people kill themselves over chronic untreated or undertreated pain. I've seen studies showing that people with chronic pain kill themselves at twice the rate of those without chronic pain (even that seems low to me) [0] and various other similar studies. Assuming this is true, and that the two are causally related, then opiate deaths and suicide deaths due to chronic pain are in the same order of magnitude.

If you any of you are unfortunate to end up with a condition that causes significant chronic nerve pain, you'll quickly understand how this can be.

0. https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2702061/chronic-pain-amon...
Ah, my bad. I thought that was meant to be a rhetorical question.
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You’re describing a monopoly and the proper tool to deal with it is anti-trust, not entrenching it by pretending it’s a public utility.
ehem "officer class" is the norm for all professional development roles - its a social class thing.

Its not obvious but the laundry files occasionally has a few mentions that might pass unnoticed by a non brit.

I have worked at an ex civil service place and there was a direct mapping between grade and the equivalent rank in the forces.
That is a fair point. Do you know what the law says if the assets were supplied by a third party, or were purchased from one of those stock image sites?
This is an excellent analysis. I'm in that "far right" crowd so I am just not seeing this at all.

> I think that leaves you with the beginner crowd.

The problem with that, is ... well ... $$$.
Funny, this has been the same argument since books were first published.

If your child went to the library every day would you have the same view point?

All I'm trying to convey is most of these issues are over hyped, on both sides.

Everything is good in moderation, if you abuse something, you will get diminishing returns.

You drink too much water you die.
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Using containers without k8s is much much simpler if you need a container.

Learning system packaging and how to rebuild src packages is much much simpler than managing a container ecosystem

Think about this... if it was so easy to manage containers why does redhat still ship its operating system in packages ?
It's also fascinating that someone could look at those graphs and say that "Go was faster until batch size was > 16 then C# took over," when Go was barely faster but C# was significantly faster.
Writer.

I don't know, though. I actually have running code out in the field. If I wrote, would I have books that anyone read? The odds are against me.
The only reason I have an iPhone SE is because it's the only small-ish phone that's actually supported. I don't even like all this Apple iOS crap, but I just want a small phone for the 9 apps I use + phone and camera. I previously had a Sony XZ compact, but they stopped making those too :-/ (I got a the SE secondhand a few months ago).

This article calls the SE "tiny, aging, probably almost obsolete throwback", but I don't see what so bad about it? It works very well, IMHO.

I'd get a budget Android phone, but they're all freakin' huge.
In conclusion, why not do nothing instead of doing something for the sake of it when you don't have long term goals
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Password manager recommendations from Tavis Ormandy, who found the bug:

"KeePass and KeePassX are both good choices. If you really must use an online one, at least LastPass are responsive to researchers and have a competent security team, I would use them."

He adds about Lastpass:

"I consider them competent, I've reported some pretty complex issues and found they handle them well. Attack surface is definitely massive, I always recommend KeePass or just use a book if that's too complicated"

(source: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1167311357957435392)
People aren't willing to make individual sacrifices to solve a tragedy of the commons, and with good reason: it doesn't actually solve the problem. This is not specific to CO2, it's part of the definition of tragedy of the commons. People are, however, far more receptive to collective sacrifices, such as a carbon tax, or its more PC name "carbon price".

If your lake is being overfished, you can stop fishing all you want, it won't change a thing. You need quotas or a tax.

It's a tragedy of the commons and we need to move together on this.
Nice! I've bookmarked it on https://www.saashub.com. You should verify it there :)
Look under the bonnet of any VW, Audi, Skoda etc, you'll find that all the sensors, valves, computers (and ECU software), filters and a large amount of the parts are made by Bosch.

It'd be interesting to know if they even had the skills in house to build a ICE car from scratch themselves. You can't knock it though, Bosch products tend to be excellent.
Family of MH17 crash victim reflects on coping with tragedy
As written, that seems awfully broad. For example, if a person who owns a farm in Merced county were elected to the legislature and then were to support any legislation that benefits farmers in general they would have run afoul of that law.

I assume that it is interpreted more narrowly than that. So, say, a farmer in the legislator trying to get, for example, a new aqueduct project approved to lower water costs for farmers in a large region would be OK even if they themselves would benefit from lower water costs, but that same legislator trying to get the state to pick their spouse's excavating company when awarding the construction contracts for the project would not be OK.
Ask HN: Is twilio too expensive in 2019
Does anybody think twilio prices are a little expensive these days for sending sms text messages?

anyone using the twilio alternative http://textita.com

or others?
I think you misunderstood. I was saying in a typical stack, time from POST to desktop is significantly overshadowed by userland bloat, not that Clear kernel is not worth the optimization.
Dear downvoter, how about you join the discussion and point out where I'm wrong?
It would be nice if apple let you have a personal iCloud on hardware you owned or a server you administered without uploading to apple in the first place.

This would be a way to have usable services without your videos on machines with privacy policies you might not agree with. Even encrypted videos and "differential privacy" are compromises.
> We deliberately cut relational features for now because they didn't mesh with our language. We want to add joins back

You're going to get caught in that age-old trap.

Try to make something to "make programming easy", then realize it meets the needs of very few due to lack of features, and then start adding features until it's not "easy" any more it's just programming.

And then you realize you're decades behind what people are already using to do programming.
excellent point, it's Amazon's choice, not yours
Currently running my a 1-person startup. It can be daunting to tackle everything on your own, but it’s not once you get used to the process. In the future, I hope to scale out a team. I’m working on some very awesome technologies that I haven’t had too much experience shipping (AR, AI, Automation). However I’m committed to learning and growing throughout my business experience!
Really isn't that about the top of the tree for NCO rank as it in the UK - as there are not that may RSM's or even warrant officer roles.
I actually think the point of the essay is that you should allow yourself to have needs and to be who you are. There are a lot of people in the world who want you to be who they think you are. My therapist once told me that "feedback is like trying on clothes. When someone hands you a shirt, the polite thing to do is to try it on and see how it fits you. But not every shirt is your style, and not every piece of feedback is true."
I think ultimately it (obviously) should be the doctor's call. But we've swung to such an extreme now that most people with severe chronic pain are undertreated or (more likely) untreated. I'm convinced that we're 5 years away from yet another backlash when we realize how many people with truly shitty, excruciating conditions are being forced to live in medieval medical conditions due to the current opiate hysteria.

Once again, the number of deaths from prescription opiates is dwarfed by the number of opiate deaths from illegal opiates. There's not even a comparison. And the vast majority of the opiate deaths from illegal substances are from fentanyl and related substances, which are notoriously hard to dose and/or frequently spiked and/or passed off as drugs of lesser potency. Imagine the deaths we could prevent if we (as in Europe) allowed addicts to dose themselves with supervised, clean, hygienic, pharmaceutical-grade heroin while offering them treatment to get off of them if they so desired.

Edit: I looked up current data and it looks like prescription opiates like oxycontin account for about 1/3 of opiates deaths. Maybe not quite "dwarfed" like I claimed above, but a definite minority of opiate deaths are caused by prescription narcotics. And given the current growth rate of deaths from illegal opiates, it could easily be only 10% in the next 1-2 years: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html
Sorry, I missed that in the discussion. Thanks.

I’m willing to bet if the stack enforced tighter tolerances for modern non-rotating disks, manufacturers wouldn’t be able to slip such shoddy firmwares into production.
From description:

"In this talk we explore the devastating effects using object oriented antipatterns in go while building programs in a monorepo. ... Unknown to most, Kubernetes was originally written in Java. If you have ever looked at the source code, or vendored a library you probably have already noticed a fair amount of factory patterns and singletons littered throughout the code base. "

So basically writing Java in Go lead to clusterfuck codebase.