skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, cyanoacrylate (the group of adhesives that superglue belongs to), are used in medical and veterinary situations for exactly this purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate#Medical_and_vete...

I've used off-the-shelf superglue on cut fingertips where I couldn't get bandages to stay. I believe it's also commonly used in place of stitches where you don't want the scarring that stitching would cause (e.g., parts of the face.)

It wears off in 3-4 days.
Node vs. Deno
It’s related to Fisher-Yates shuffle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling#Relation_to...

But it’s not the same thing. The difference is whether you can keep all samples in memory at the same time. With Vitter / reservoir sampling, you only need to have your reservoir in memory plus enough space for 1 new sample at a time, so you can stream through a large number of samples with a tiny amount of memory.
Glomalin was only discovered in 1996 and it contains up to 30% of soil carbon! Fungal cell walls degrade into a sticky product that makes the soil more loamy. Glomalin levels are strongly correlated with soil fertility.

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

I think artificial supplementation can be greatly improved, as you suggest. However, it increasingly looking like the soil biome is directly responsible for plant productivity, rather than only indirectly assisting in nutrient transport.
To learn more about soil health, watch Dr. Elaine Ingham's talks available on YouTube. Also see: https://permies.com/wiki/redhawk-soil
Iger Departs Board of Apple, Disney’s New Streaming Competitor
I think the title should be "Attention is not multi-threaded", which I believe is pretty well known in psychology and where the expensiveness of context switching stems from.
Of course, when it comes to health care, 'letting the market solve everything' actually means 'letting poor people die'. Sometimes it even means 'letting poor people die because poor people deserve to die' (look up prosperity gospel).
The Green Party loathes nuclear energy.
Radioactive Osciloscope
Writers: You don’t have to start writing from scratch
The lay hacker.
Not sure how stridently I'd try and prevent her if she were my child though.

Again, from my end, it feels very, very much like you are putting words in my mouth. (That's not to imply it is on purpose.)

Protecting a child's right to choose is the exact opposite of stridently trying to prevent them from doing something. That's outright denying them a choice. It is wholly unrelated to anything I did as a parent and outright antithetical to it.

I've redacted multiple paragraphs from my draft. Suffice it to say I raised two special needs sons who likely qualify for a diagnosis on the autism spectrum and I have firsthand experience with trying to protect their right to choose when they were teenagers in the face of a world that doesn't really want to respect that for anyone at all, not even adults.

It's not easy to pull off, even without being at the center of this much public attention, which only magnifies the problem.
As they say, The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
American's hear a word like "socialism" and think that it's a lack of competition and thus innovation. They don't think of it as a regulatory floor to a market. A standard of service to surpass (if even possible).

The correct way to sell this to the populace is probably by framing it as a "minimum standard of service for all", and "getting the full value out of your taxes".
Twitter is basically an excuse to make pithy, sweeping pronouncements rather than nuanced or detailed arguments. An essay on this topic might be interesting and useful, but as a 16-word tweet it's just empty.

"Don't publish important things behind paywalls" is a very easy moral principle for a rich person to adopt. That doesn't mean it's false -- but to make the point convincingly, one would have to take the perspective of people who have strong reasons to publish behind paywalls in the first place, and explain why they can and should resist these pressures.
A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars
It is, but that's not what the article is about.
"the US average is not meaningful in Texas"

The US average number of miles driven per person per day is very similar to the Texas average.

Also, the Texas average is (or was in 2009) less.[1]

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20170709153626/http://www.rita.d...
> It's designed to keep code complexity low even as the complexity of problems and solutions increases.

Honestly I think that's pretty wrong. Go is designed to let you get coding quickly. It's not designed to make your ultimate solution well designed are easily refactorable. In a few years there's going to be a ton of Go code that becomes almost as bad as C where it becomes untouchable because people quickly threw something together and didn't think about long term design.
> Does industrial progress need to be sacrificed to prevent climate change?

How can you even ask such a question with a straight face? What benefit is there from a couple of additional points of GDP if we destroy our habitat?

The problem with all of the questions you raise is I have never seen anybody asking them in good faith. They are used purely to derail discussion or any active problems or solutions.

A generous explanation would be that since the two sides can't agree that there is a problem to begin with, there can be no logical debate about the right way to SOLVE it.

As such, anyone who is asking these questions never offers ALTERNATIVES - all they offer is DOING NOTHING.

Which, given the stakes involved, is not passive, but an active impediment to moving forward.

> How much governmental intervention is helpful?

Private industry never moves in a direction that compromises profits without government intervention. That is inherent in free market capitalism, and has been demonstrated again and again worldwide.

> How accurate are predictions of what is coming?

Oh no, what if we improve our planet and habitat and keep our ecosystem and food production environments stable for nothing?

> What is the most efficient way to prevent climate change and how effective will those actions be?

One side offers some ideas. The other offers doing nothing. There is no disagreement here either, just good faith and bad.

> There is no correct path forward.

I'll finally agree with you there. I sincerely hope there will be future civilizations to look back on the historical record of the time and shake their heads in amazement at our folly, because that is not a guaranteed outcome.
If you understand French, you can take a look at Claude and Lydia Bourguignon’s work about soil health.
Incredible this is downvoted.
> You realize $7 an hour is $95,000 a year in 2019 cash?

That's assuming you get 40 hours a week of work.
Fiction writer here. If I had a penny for each time one of my readers asked, "So did they go to another dimension?"...
They've made a lot of progress, check out https://flutter.dev/

They're expanding from mobile, ios and android, working on flutter for desktop and web.

They move to the dart language early on in their experiment.

Dart has an online playground https://dartpad.dev which has experimental flutter mode.

Found this flutter hello world! example, don't know how long the link will work.
https://dartpad.dev/experimental/embed-new-flutter.html?id=2...
>> What organizations do you support, and why?

> HN is not the place for that discussion.

I assume you're thinking of the guidelines to avoid political arguments on Hacker News. I agree that we probably shouldn't talk about politics everywhere.

But it seems rather unfortunate. If voting is important, then figuring out who to vote for is important, and we should share what we've learned?
The sling for $400 is what triggered my personal ‘down the rabbit hole’ of the in-transparent hospital cartel system. pricepain.com was one outcome.
Yes that trend is worrisome. But when confronted about it those site will respond but "the user asked for it !", "We protect our clients from scams". And I totally agree, it is really annoying.
Vitamins B12, K2, DHA based Omega-3 (the kind your brain runs on) are all animal-based nutrients not found in plants.

Furthermore, some plants like Spinach for example, have oxalates that bind to nutrients and prevent your body from absorbing them. It binds to calcium and prevents your body from absorbing it. Animal foods have a lot of calcium. Plants not so much, and you couple that with the antinutrient effect of some plants and you end up with deficiencies. That's not even getting into lectins and phytic acid.
Adding Salgado's work on "Genesis" which was on show at International Center of Photography (NYC)

https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado-genes...
And 3x more possibilities because it allows the same character more than once. But I think the last shuffle is not necessary
"renting is always taking money out of your pocket and putting it into somebody else's."

If you're paying for a mortgage, then what difference does it make if it's your mortgage or your landlord's mortgage? The obvious difference it makes is whether you're on the hook if the value of the property goes down, which is an argument against owning.

Owning makes sense if you can avoid borrowing, but that means saving for many years and spending a fraction of what most people do.
My son had a minor in & out surgery earlier this year. Could have done it in the office, but the doctor recommended a surgical center that was out of my insurance network. "Our patients have been very happy with the price."

I called the surgical center, and was told it was a flat fee of $500, payable in advance, for which I received a receipt: "Facility fee".

We did the surgery. The doctor's bill was well under a thousand dollars.

Almost six months later, the surgical center sent a bill to my insurance for $48,000 as a half-dozen line items, each listed as "facility fee". My insurance says they paid $25,000 and the patient responsibility of about $10,000.

We haven't seen a bill from the surgical center, and I told the insurance it was either a billing error or fraud, as it was 100x the price I was quoted and accepted up-front.
I think this is a false dichotomy. Most people should probably be less engaged than they are with the daily/weekly news and might even do well to ignore it entirely. But that need not have anything to do with how engaged you are with the democracy you live in or how much effort you spend trying to change society for the better.
Obama was also very populist. (I suspect at first he drank his own koolaid but that he was ground down from within.)

Trump is the kind of populist you get when the first one fails. Trump has many former Obama voters.
On recruiters and job boards (2006)
Exactly.

Rock dust, nitrogen etc...

I work in cannabis tech, and there is a really interesting farm i work with.

They have been using / revitalizing the same soil for a decade.

Here is what is really interesting, they grow their cannabis on top of an 18” thick mycelium fungus bed. They mulch out their detritus and then keep growing their cannabis in that same soil - and their quality levels are top fucking notch.

Big ag is like FB of agra: trying way to hard to scale and quality is near zero.
Well, if your mortgage is paid off or you saved for 20 or 30 years in the first place.
"In the context of the brain" what is the difference between multi-thread and multi-task? Can you give examples?
Territory Music: Local Bands (2018)
Just today the AC unit at our house sprung a leak. Due to California's laws you have to replace old ACs with more efficient ones. In the middle of the summer installation costs run 3-10k. Instead I did it my self and just paid a welder to connect the copper tubes. He worked about an hour and I paid him $500.
Seems kind of trusting. Pills can look similar.
When they have a disproportionate share of Medicaid, not Medicare patients.

And the added payment isn’t that much.

Generally Medicaid pays below cost. Medicare is reasonable and leaves providers with a small profit (single digit percentage).
I realize that this article and the HN comments are centred on the US, but here's a link to the Schedule of Benefits (i.e. the costs) for all insured services that are compensated for by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP): http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/ohip/sob/

Meaning, while most Canadians do not know what our healthcare actually costs, it's all itemized, standardized, and freely available.

I just looked it up and was surprised to see that C-sections are only about $80 more than vaginal delivery (we just had a kid), so it's nice to know that there isn't much incentive for doctors to push one over the other. I realize that's a gross oversimplification, since there's probably a lot of other billing codes that get tacked for surgeries.
Bing probably has benefited from more people using Duckduckgo.
This deserves many more upvotes. External agents find cheap ways to destroy the country, and some internal agents sacrifice common man for quarterly bonus.

A virally popular device (non-prescription and cheap, for god’s sake) to detect toxicity levels, and connected app to visualize the health impact will serve as a wake-up call.
I guess MoviePass is trying a free PR here, sorry OP, speaking of the devil is some kind of PR.
Mage, a make replacement, releases 1.9
I have no idea what you're complaining about here.

If they had taken the $12.99 price (an actual exact price, with 4 actual significant figures of precision), the $200 bill (also an actual price paid, with five significant figures of precision) is actually, really-not-false-precisely, 1440% more expensive than amazon.

They allowed in the article that the sling might be a bit nicer than the ones on amazon - it had some padding. So they rounded its value up to roughly $20, giving, as you suggest, 10 times more expensive, as an estimated factor. Let's assume that's only good to one sig fig. That's fine for an estimate, and consistent with the 'probably worth a bit more than the ones on Amazon, let's say somewhere between $16 and $25' methodology.

"900% more expensive" is a perfectly accurate restatement of "10 times as expensive" to a single significant figure. Would you rather they went with "1000% more expensive" to make it feel more Benford's-law-comliant in its imprecision? That would surely have helped your supposed sensationalist editor, right?

"900% more expensive" is literally just another way of writing "ten times as expensive".

So I really don't know what kind of editorial sensationalism conspiracy you are trying to posit here. Wouldn't a sensationalist have gone with the 1440%, and nefariously rounded it up to 1500% to punch up the headline?

This seems like a weak place to try to hang an argument about the innumeracy of the press....
How much of that was your deductible?

Generally really good insurance has a 10% co-insurance charge. But the first $X amount is entirely borne by you.
People hate the word privilege nowadays (and that is probably why you are being downvoted), but I really can't think of any other word for the idea that something like civil rights for LGBTQ+ people happens out of some type of "self-correction". People fight for that. They literally die for that. It doesn't just happen automatically.

To quote Desmond Tutu:

>If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
I don’t think anyone can actually afford journalism that’s of decent quality now that classified died and most of print ads. The end result you have to rely on the free stuff where the quality is highly variable.
There were people arguing how great increased crop yield was in the last few weeks. [0] Some comments were made about how the exponential factor of crop yields outweighed the loss of output nutrients. Glad to see the counterargument on the table.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20667031
Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain.

'Turing complete' was my uneducated way of saying "a program in language A can functionally mimic the behavior of any program in language B" [I guess that part's correct] but this doesn't mean at all that performance is identical in both cases. Ergo other languages can perform better or be easier to program than Python. I'm learning Go these days and I find the approach and implementation refreshing.

But this whole discussion is way over my head, I'm half-wrong and half-trivial.

Thanks again, I'll dig deeper into the concepts you mentioned. I'll confess my primary motive is to become a better programmer and I sadly don't have time to learn everything! ;-)
So you have some one every shift who is familiar with every part of a complex system and the requisite programming languages.

And reverting part way through a monthy telco billing run might not be the best idea.

And in my case they also looked after online services and other systems.
Maybe he meant the conscious mind we experience abstractly and is somehow hosted in / by the brain.

In which case, sure, it makes sense that each thought blocks the main thread and that's why thought-loops are particularly annoying.

In terms of I/O though, I certainly try to optimize the main thread with concurrent patterns when the input queue gets hit with high traffic. Even if I'm recurrently mulling over something for days, hoping for a break-through or insight or whatever, it's not like I'm incapacitated and can't perform / prioritize other thoughtful tasks on the event loop.
> Yeah, but when you pay for services you don't expect to have to write checks for every subcontractor your service provider users.

Well, yeah, that's true by the definition of “subcontractor”, which doctors in hospitals often are not.

OTOH, healthcare isn't the only place where you might pay a fee to a facility for use of the facility and a fee to a service providers associated with the facility for services they provide in the facility. It's perhaps an inconvenient arrangement, but by no means unique.
"It's far more efficient to share resources then to buy"

If it was more efficient, it wouldn't be more expensive. If it wasn't more expensive, there wouldn't be all these huge startups.
My brother and I would play a variation of rock, paper, scissors, where, prior to making a play, you'd have to tell the other person what you would play though lying was acceptable. We felt like it added a psychological dimension to the game - but I'm not really sure how it affected play. Neither of us could reliably detect when the other was lying.
And check where these R&D spenders make the most money in the world. In the US. There would be no such level of investment if the US market did not exist.
> Within 20 years, sure. But extrapolate that for any invention which has significant commercial value, and you've got a problem. This why patents exist in the first place.

I didn't think of that. I don't think the situation is quite so cut and dry though.

Imagine how many patents like one click [1][2] we can avoid if there simply was no patent.

I am not convinced that patents have an overwhelmingly positive effect on society at this point in history. We have to consider that communication (both one to one and one to many) is a lot cheaper today than even two hundred years ago.

I think reasonable people should push for an end to all patents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5960411A/en
I once was changing the pricing for the primary subscription product for all 8000+ users registered in our CMS, and accidentally resumed the subscription and charged 300+ customers $75 who had cancelled the plan months or even years ago.

The payment platform's API's `updatePlan` function had an optional flag for `reactivateSubscriptionAndBillImmediately` with default value of `true`, as it turns out.

I had to stay up till 6AM writing a script to detect all of them, refund their money, send an apology email with some free credit, and cancel their subscriptions, and also write a note to my cofounders outlining the situation so they could crisis manage while I was out cold.

After which I wrote an angry email to the billing platform (probably harsher than they deserved given I didn't test their API appropriately on our dev instance). To their credit, they promptly changed the default. They were a young company and apparently not that many clients had used that API endpoint before.

It resulted in some very angry customers threatening to cite us to various business practice enforcement bodies around the world, but all in all some floor-sweeping profuse apologies and prompt action laid concerns to rest and no harm was done.
Both parent and grandparent are saying something important here. Mineral availability from the microbiome via root interactions is critical. But throw nitrogen at a plant and it will rapidly grow utilizing CO2, O2 and water, leaving a mineral deficient plant. And that is true in any soil. Also, modern plants have been selected to be large and tender, which tends to be inversely coorelated to mineral density. So it's been a perfect storm against.
> how long did it take before you got enough work through referrals?

First referral was 3 months in. Work before that was from a friend of a friend, and someone I met in my coworking space.

People don't generally go through the effort of finding new freelance developers unless they have at least a month of work for them to do, so I'm not constantly scrambling to look for work.

> and how much does your location matter to find clients?

I think I could find clients almost anywhere, but I think they wouldn't pay as much elsewhere. NYC has a high concentration of high-revenue companies.

That said, I've only really worked from NYC and near NYC, so I don't really have any basis for comparison.

> i am unable to find any local clients but i also can't easily move to anywhere else because i have a family with school-age kids which you don't move on a whim. people keep recommending upwork and similar places, but the quality of the offers there is not good either, and i end up competing with cheap labor. all the advice i find online is about how to get better leads, but not about how to get leads in the first place.

My experience is limited here because my life situation is very different, but here are some ideas.

1. I don't live in NYC, I live 90 minutes outside it. This means I can travel, but in practice I don't do it frequently. So if you could travel a few times a year, you might get a lot of the benefits of living in NYC or SF without actually living there.

2. Upwork didn't even let me create a profile. Maybe think about people who you've worked with in the past (at previous employers or who left your company) and see if they or their companies are looking for any freelance work?

3. Obviously your risk tolerance is a lot lower than mine due to your family, so you might try doing stuff part-time. First step would be to make sure you have proper boundaries with your current job so you're not working overtime (which I'd say you should do regardless of any of my other advice anyway). And then look for small contracts, which can build a freelance portfolio and potentially get you more work.
Not only they got publicity and kick-starter funding they even got cobtracts from local government! And there are copycats also with government money.

Can someone explain this to me a bit? How one manages to not only promote such an obvious flawed idea to implement, but actually inspore others to copy them?

Are there any lesson to learn from that for projects that actually work?
Perhaps consider paying for NYT? I think if you're frequenting the site enough to be getting paywall warnings, then you're probably someone who is interested in their journalism.