skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a side note, I wish people would stop prefacing their comments with "At the risk of being downvoted..." or "Unpopular opinion here, but..." Just state your point as clearly as you can and allow your arguments to stand or fall on their own. One of the things which drew me to HN was the lack of this kind of language, and I feel like I've seen more and more of it recently.
Dosage matters. Many things that are completely destructive or toxic are not a problem and even beneficial and enriching in small dosage.
Tourism is most definitely one of those things. Typically it benefits a very few in the host location while externalizing the destruction of the culture, the environment and the quality of life for the many that have these places as their home.
So it is not about 'you' vs 'the others'. It is about the quantity of people exceeding what is a healthy balance.
Full title:

The anti-vax movement is effectively reversing decades of progress in disease prevention. WHO no longer consider measles to be eradicated in the UK, Albania, Czech Republic, and Greece.
Forcing personal responsibility would be great; but I don't see that ever happening in this political climate.

I foresee that situation playing out and then we will have legislators grandstanding that not doing something is "taking food out of children's mouths" or something similar. Over time that will lead to more and more programs being reinstated as no legislator will want to be seen not helping children/women/etc and then we are back to where we started, but with the overhead of UBI causing more pain.

> It's only people under welfare who seem to need a paternalistic moral guardian.

Generally when people ask for a handout from society, society wants to make sure that handout is being used for the things they said it would be used for. There is nothing wrong with that IMO.

If you want a blank check that's fine, but you have to be willing to let people starve as a consequence to their actions, with 0 exceptions (from the government) to make it work. Otherwise it will be gamed just like every other program we currently have.
Which prior company?

I could swing a referral for you if it wasn't Amazon.
I was wondering how the Comet Interceptor could accelerate to follow the same path as some comet thing. The short answer is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_electric_propulsion. It's a pretty cool technology in space, but you wouldn't want to use it for your commute to work here on Earth.
> So even if US is gaining nothing from it the alliance will continue as long as Israel needs it.

The US (and the rest of the Western economies) gains two very important things: first of all, an allied democracy with real military power that is sitting right next to Arabic dictatorship states where the US are, at best, viewed as the ultimate Satan - thus ensuring the US gets and keeps (!) access to cheap oil. The second thing is that all the military hardware Israel buys or gets "donated" as military aid by the US secures American, French and German jobs in the defense industry.

> If you try to end it, you'll be called antisemites, Holocaust deniers, etc. until you submit.

If you're really claiming Israel is the boss / "secret ruler", you don't need to complain about being called an antisemite. The trope of Israel / "shadow Jews" ruling the world is one of the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theories in history.
> Survival of the fittest.

Right, which is why the only rational approach to life is to literally try your best to kill everyone that isn't you.
I think if we were starting to see these physical card packs now we would probably have a similar reaction as we're having to loot boxes but since they're older and a more normal part they're not getting as much scrutiny. Digital packs can do a lot more skinner boxing though with sound and visual cues going along with chest opening and the little dopamine hit for getting a rare item.

One thing I will say is there is a big difference between the digital version of these loot box/card pack mechanics and the physical ones; it's way easier to just keep buying the digital packs, especially for kids who may have a loose grasp of money matters anyways. There's no total racking up where they can see it and their account will generally be link to their parents card where if they want to keep buying physical packs it'd be their own (probably physical) money.

As for limiting that spending some places make it hard to limit the amount spent on child accounts until quite recently.
It's an issue with Firefox, try it with another browser for now.
> “read and comprehend and applied“

To quote my prior comment, this basically says it takes more than reading. But reading is the root of it. These days “reading” encompasses everything from books, internet, and even YouTube style videos. Basically individual leaning content.

It’s very possible if you’re motivated and put in the time. College is forced motivation.
> Is it really "parasite SEO" if CNN decides to use their domain name clout with Google to make a (substantial) profit promoting coupons?

CNN doesn't. Somebody else "rents" the subdomain from CNN, and they are the parasite that is feeding off of CNN's brand.
> it does not suffer from the pointer aliasing faults C has.

There's a `restrict` keyword in C99.

> const really means const, where in C the compiler has to assume any pointer-to-const might be use to write through

Lookup what `const int *const ptr` does in C.
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in my experience, most people want bytestrings most of the time, and the main effect of changing the str type has been to drive a lot of traffic to SO when they have encoding errors trying to deal with strings that used to "just work" in 2.7
I've spent a decent amount of time in the parks in South Africa and the people doing stupid and dangerous things were either American or Chinese.

The locals were well known for drink driving and driving too fast (they treat it like the British treat the Spanish islands and Amsterdam).
The reason that supply is not meeting demand is because the market is not free to expand to meet the needs of the people.
No proof, no citations, no names. A lot of third person language. Anonymous "former officials". Great journalism right there!
Yes Haskell performance can be impressive. Check out this one for instance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison..., and don't forget to read the comments section.
LiveView makes basic functionality of websites only work if you have a constant, high quality connection to the server.

Even things like UI changes require the server connection.
Nodes: Reimagined web OS with composable apps
No, but I wouldn’t go into more details in a real handle. It’s good to see topics like this show up from time to time; I hope they chip away at the stigma that the US has towards mental and emotional health.

For those that struggle, a support network is critical. Lean on & spend time with family, whether that’s blood family or the friends you’ve collected who are that close.
Hanlon's rasor: Some idiot naively thought up this legislation and a bunch of people voted it in because it sounded "good". This was most probably brought into being by a bunch of bumbling fools trying to do good without due diligence rather than by a cabal of elite landowners.
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> Israeli ministers said on Sunday that Israel does not spy on the US president or defence secretary

OK so they don't spy on 2 very specific persons, what about the rest of the country?

Plus trusting anything what Mosad says is like trusting Israelis that they don't have nuclear bombs and don't bomb their neighbors from obtaining the same... doesn't make any sense at all
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If you're a resident of the US with not too complicated income then this is true.

Working in a different country means you need to know _their_ tax laws, how much you need to pay the US, etc. It becomes complicated quickly, and if you're trying to minimize what you pay in taxes it's another story altogether.
I think it's probably a convergence of relatively cheaper air travel and also network effects due to social media. For instance not too long ago, I was in a particularly scenic beach Italy, and was surprised to find that, while it had previously been a destination mostly for Italians, this year they experienced a large number of American tourists even though it's a bit complicated to reach and it's hard to navigate that region with English alone. I suspect you could trace that shift to a social media post or a travel blog.
As a team lead, one question I always ask in my 1-on-1's:

On a scale of 1-5 (low good, high bad), what's your stress level since we last met?

If my teammate says 4 or 5, I ask what we can do to bring it down to a 3.

We also address this as part of the simple assessment we do in each sprint retrospective.

My company struggles to define meaningful KPIs and OKRs. This is the one that's most important to me.
Hey there HN!

I want to share a project I've been working on. slickbit, the social code snippet manager

Features

- Cloud storage

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Why another code snippet manager?

When looking for a code snippet manager, I found many of them to be too expensive (~$100/year) or lacking the features I wanted like strong social and sharing features. I hope slickbit can become a place where we can focus solutions instead of problems while preserving public discourse and feedback.

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Yeah but a "common ancestor of humans" would imply some sort of convergence, which could have happened at any point
Christ, why even go to Mars? Even in the worst cases the damage we do to Earth will still leave it significantly more hospitable than Mars.
Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998)
Introduction to Python for Econometrics, Statistics and Numerical Analysis
They probably mean corporate income tax.
If it makes you feel better, for my first four years, I hopped around jobs about once every six months...Quit the first job, fired from the second, company went broke for the third and fourth, quit the fifth job, and fired from the sixth, company went broke for the seventh, did a bit of contracting work, then started staying at jobs for a bit longer term.

In my particular case, it was later determined that I am manic-depressive which I think contributed to my firings, but I haven't ever told an employer about this and don't plan to. Typically I find that a lot of people are pretty forgiving of younger people hopping around a lot early in their career.

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My point is, try to not get too upset over it; I'm sure you'll find something soon, and I wouldn't worry too much about a slightly spotty work history in your first couple years.
If I were designing Rama, I’d probably make the craft change directory and/or slow down on entry into a star system. This would indicate its artificial nature, give inhabitants a better chance at intercept, and protect it from collision.
It's interesting how sometimes what appears to be a prefix, isn't.
The whole reason that StingRay exists is that even GSM phones connect "anonymously-enough" that it is hard to track an subscriber by purely passive means and doing active MitM is simpler.

In GSM the cellphone did not authenticate the network in any way. UMTS and up has mutual network-SIM authentication.
I've seen fairly few companies in the Bay Area (sorry if that's not you, assuming from FANG) that actually care that I've only stuck around most places for a year.

I've only been in this field for 5 years myself, but I've climbed this job-hunt mountain before if you want a good pep talk. I've taught people how to get their first job, which is a lot harder imo.

Totally up to you, wish you the best either way
No, see you're the one claiming it's "not more difficult" so if it now needs funding apparently I suggest you put up any funding you think it'll need. The ordinary person presumably would agree that it was "not more difficult" for them to afford a mansion than a shack if you're paying for it.

Let us know how expensive "not more difficult" ends up being. It'd be great to know that DoH plus eSNI made things "Not more difficult" by say $5M per target. I'd call that more difficult but I know you disagree.
Too old to have gambled in games as a kid, but I was at the right age for the POG phenomenon. I remember a rough afternoon at the schoolyard where I went past my limit and lost some of my most cherished pogs.
What else they can do in a depressing dark cold exorbitantly expensive place? Such foreigner is quite literally feeling paralyzed. Use all available time to exchange it for money. Any place to stay they get will be an overcrowded shithole anyway, which is yet another motivation to stay in work.

Meanwhile young Scandinavians flood Polish coastal cities for binges with cheap and freely available alcohol, and staying at airbnb at prices ridiculous for Polish salaries.

We build your stuff, you cover our streets with vomit. Yet you still feel superior.
You sound like an excellent team lead!
What is the purpose of anger? [pdf]
Yes of course, if the same would happen here in Dublin half of the population would be in trouble! Just kidding, it is just funny sometimes how they present the weather information, painting/coloring the numbers of the temperature as red when they get over 20C.
I think it should take a nvme card (because of its small size) for storage.
In Barecona's case it was the RyanAir booze flights from the UK that destroyed the city.
That's a good point. But does Nerves advance any kind of offline-first design? It still assumes a constant and high quality network connection, right?
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That is with bags though, with understandable is more work for them.
conda solves that for python at least as well as npm/yarn does. I don't understand while it is not in wider use (except for lack of PR).
I have a bit of dumb question on this...is it easy to just get a job teaching at a university? I thought those jobs typically require a bunch of degrees and were pretty competitive?

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EDIT: The reason I ask, this is something I wouldn't mind doing but I've never really considered due to a lack of credentials.
Right now no, the last couple weeks is where everything in my life is going down the shitter. I'm trying to just get on with it cuz my stoic nature just tells me I'll get through it eventually.

I'm in substantial debt for me but at the rate in which I earn I can pull myself out of it within 6 months, but I've been working on launching new companies and it's been a struggle. My 2 cofounders are waiting for me to finish my part of the process so they can go sell, I'm almost there. The property I was renovating has taken way longer than it should have but it's almost done. My car got seized by the police because I wasn't aware it was uninsured, taken all day to sort that and I'm not done yet. Clients are not paying invoices, I'm having to manage a number of other things at the same time, and the charity I run with my other half might be getting sued.

I need to find some work soon and bring in some money. So if anyone wants a remote php/js dev let me know. I know I've got a lot of things I'm dealing with but basically all of them are 90% there so life will simplify soon.
You'll land back into something. I know being out of work is stressful and very hard on people, but there are a lot of open positions, more if you are flexible where you work.

What type of employers are you targeting? How many resumes have you sent out? Are you trying to target a single geographical area? Open to moving? All those can drastically effect your prospects. Have you tried more traditional enterprise or non-tech companies?

If you want some resume feedback, shoot it to me, my email is in my profile.
The long press doesn't have the same capability. With 3D touch you can also select text by pressing harder on the screen, which is the real magic of that feature.
I completely agree, and this is already mentioned in the guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Man, it’s pretty crazy that it passed in the solar system, but its peak apparent magnitude was 11. Space is weird.
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Lack of supply is a problem, but is it caused by an inability to turn a profit? It seems like developers have no trouble making money from new construction. The difficult part, and the part that limits supply, is getting permission to build.
English: The Good Parts

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Former CIA and Mossad workers working in the highly (and badly) regulated private sector is not "Israel espionage" on the US government.

Edit: Why the down vote?
Society isn’t going to cease growing and moving forward just because of climate change.

I don't think that's really what anyone is suggesting, but if the change impacts enough people society as a whole will focus on fixing the problem rather than doing other things.
I feel like this is a bit of a straw man argument.

We already have laws and safeguards for irresponsible parents.
Hello! My name is Tim and I am a web developer. Today developers use lots of open source small focused libs to create apps, but those apps are not composable. Imagine we have approach to build small focused apps(like url preview, note taking, kanban board, chat and so on) and then combine them to achieve next level of functionality.

Also I struggle to find better approaches to UI design and overall user experience, so that apps and environment can help user stay focused, productive and at the same time have fun.

Experiments on this topic led me to create Nodes. It is work in progress, but some patterns are already visible:

- Nodes is like directories with superpowers given by micro-apps called sides.
- Each side "do one thing and do it well"(like url preview, text note and so on)
- Node can contain one instance of each side type and another nodes.

This enables fractal design of arbitrary problem solving. Given that sides can be developed independently by OSS community and then easily and instantly "installed" from url and that every node(with all child nodes) can be used as template to create new nodes we get simple, scalable and robust alternative to current "bunch of closed source independent apps" situation.

Now you can try Nodes, it is working offline-first(cloud or decentralised collaboration can be added on top of that), and showcase this ideas. Code is available on Github. Your feedback and support on Patreon is highly appreciated! Have a nice day;)

P. S. It is my first open source project, so please be merciful to me
This is great.

But the real problem comes when the stress is caused by the team lead!
>No other labour law required. Simple competition sorts it out.

We have seen how no labor laws combined with competition works, we get: 80 hour work weeks with no over time, no benefits, dangerous work conditions, and even exploitative child labor.

There is legitimate use of contractors in lieu of employees, but UBER and gig economy as a whole are very hiring what are clearly employees, under the law, as contractors in order to skirt regulations.
Why authors don't visualize uncertainty – Jessica Hullman [pdf]
Not sure how this is regulatory capture, given that the treaty was signed when most airlines were a government monopoly and frequently government owned.

So this is more about protecting a local facility.
Not necessarily, as you don't restrict people from entering the country, you restrict the availability of accommodations and access to certain protected area. In protected nature parks this has been done for years, you need to buy a ticket to get in, and government controls how many people can enter or even if anyone. In many protected parks some areas are completely off-limits to tourists, so that animals are not disturbed or nature destroyed. Or another example, where I live beaches get closed for tourists when turtles come ashore, and it's been done for years, no one is really upset about it. So why is this different? It's just cities instead of parks and law is protecting the local population instead of animals.
same with pension. either social security should absorb all pension programs or a separate government entity is created. or have a workers’ union control it all.

too many companies are being raided or declared “bankruptcy” to hide the dumping of pension obligations.
For what it is worth, Apache MXNet has official Clojure bindings and you can use Deeplearning4j as well. There is also Neanderthal for CUDA/OpenCL programming in Clojure. Theoretically the ease of implementing DSLs in Clojure should be an advantage for the computation graph use case you are talking about.
Really wished my lead would ask this. I might suggest it!
I have the same two complaints. I’ve automated some large tasks at my job with Python, and avoided external dependencies because while I’m sure I could deal with it, nobody else here is a programmer and it don’t think it would go well if someone had to try and figure that out later. “Install python (3.6 or later), point script at the csv file” avoids that complexity.

It’d be better if it were a self contained executable with a GUI but not worth the time to figure that out.

I messed around with TkInter a while back, not sure if anything's new since then. For executables there was py2exe, cx_freeze, and PyInstaller, but the situation with packaging DLLs into an executable that would actually work on someone else's computer was iffy last I checked.
MIT has a course for the software side:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...