skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's now available on the Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12
It is that bad. The claims made about healing crystals compete with actual science and medicine, and to a naive observer, magic woo-woo crystals that can heal anything will always seem like a superior alternative to expensive, complicated and possibly painful medical treatment. And that's assuming that someone hasn't also been led astray by anti-vaxxers, to think mainstream medicine is a fraud, and the crystals are the only thing that works.

There's nothing good about encouraging the delusions of people who can't tell the difference between the real world and faerie tales. That it gives them "comfort" is irrelevant when it's false comfort.
Release Notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_note...
Health care is not wealth.
Redhat's Open Letter to FSF Concerning Next President
Why Is China Building Africa?
Yeah, but there are new options. I've seen Telegram and Briar both listed as options that the Hong Kong protesters have used. When a company sells out to the state, it's time to switch to another one. Briar, in particular, was made specifically for dissidents and protesters.
And who is the author? A graduate student?
> "I wish we had let the last recession ('08) actual happen "

wat.
The great recession _did_ happen, and by all accounts came damn-near to devolving into a second Depression. There might be something to your complaints about capital markets' problems, but had to respond to that line...
Well, a lot of the budget of any given government is corrupted away, regardless of what you put that into. But some inevitably goes to what it was meant to address. It won’t take it all, or no one would have any access to healthcare facilities and public transport. But we do.
I disagree. The costs of health care are ridiculously high and rising. Out of the people who actually have health insurance, how many can actually afford a serious health issue? That number is getting smaller and smaller and as it shrinks, prices rise to preserve profit.

If something isn't done, health insurance will become an empty promise. Even when people have it, it will be to expensive to be truly useful. There are already segments of the population where this is happening.

IMHO, that is massive wealth transfer: collecting all the premiums from working people and transferring it to the health care industry.
When people borrow money for a house, they only consider the monthly payments for the mortgage and not the absolute amount of money they are borrowing. This means that low interest rates are the main reason behind surging house prices and is why people have to spend decades paying back loans and being vulnerable to a drop in house prices. It creates too much debt in society and generally makes the economy more fragile than it has to be. The low interest rates may seem like a helping hand to house buyers but it is in fact the opposite: a transfer of wealth to house owners from people seeking to enter the market, a transfer of wealth from the younger generations to the boomers. This must end if we want to avoid a repeat of the 2008 crisis. But with the current levels of government debt, it's hard to see a political solution.
Giving people money at minimum redistributes wealth, so it cannot possibly be any worse, than letting wealth concentrate.
What about the wing, though?
Now the number is assigned chronologically when you register your newborn during the first week of life, so knowing the birth date, you can guess all but the last 3 or 4 digits. If used like a "secret", it is a 13 bits secret.

Until a few years ago (10?) each city got a block of consecutive numbers and used it until it got exhausted, so with the birthplace it was easier to get a more smaller range even with an approximate birthdate. (Some cities used to continue the numeration after their block was exhausted, but these numbers where in the block of another city, so there is some duplication.)

(And many years ago, the numeration for men and women was independent, because they had a different ID. When the ID were unified there was a lot of duplication.)
The maker is a art director by profession.
Hi, thank you for the comment. For "I don’t see why you wouldn’t just do it in any semi-competent text editor", I have explanation. I used to write with Pages (text editor) with my MacBook. After doing it for almost half year, I found that it is quite inconvenient. First, it is not private since my wife will use my computer so she mights see those files contains my private thoughts. This makes me unable to let go of myself while I am writing. Secondly, after saving hundreds of files, I found it is hard to navigate and review the journals I've written in the past. Of cause, there is something called Evernote, but there's no word counter. Then I realized I need something better, or at least suitable for my need, so I built this app. I don't know if anyone will use, but I know I will use it everyday myself. Haha.
What is far fetched in your opinion?
It is not designed for the mobile. So please use your laptop. haha.
Carbon Engineering and Occidental will capture 1M tonnes of carbon dioxide
Where did you get that? This was an idea that someone posted on on a blog as a hypothetical way to bypass congress’s ridiculous debt ceiling rules which are used to hold the economy hostage during budget negotiations. And it was rejected the agencies that could have implemented it. What does this have to do with the World Bank?
Gee, that’s great! It’s just too bad that you don’t really have any ownership or control over what that CPU runs, despite having paid for it in full.
Wouldn't that follow from the fact that there are way more people concerned with the state of education (because everyone must be educated) than there are people who have ideas for far fetched science research and companies? Education is viewed (rightly in my opinion) as an intrinsic good. Somebody's far fetched idea for a company isn't.
>As, the Verge already explained, Chrome is turning into the new IE6 (in case you wonder, that’s not a compliment). Not only is Google making some services running faster on Chrome, the browser also sends information only to Google.

Did Microsoft make their services run faster on IE6? Did IE6 send information only to Microsoft?
Well, yes it could. Because it's a brilliant example of liberal elites being out of touch with real Americans.
As an European...what?

Am not saying the system is problem free, but I've had multiple surgeries done for free, whereas in the U.S I'd most likely go bankrupt.

Also the point about waiting, not only did I not have to wait, but are you seriously comparing this to a system where I don't have to wait if am wealthy, but can wait until I die if am not?
Neat! I checked the async.h, looks like it doesn't support nested calls?
I did a similar toy many years ago, which could be used with other async libraries such as libuv: https://github.com/huxingyi/c-block
I'm a fan of the chemistry analogy here: you can catalyze (reduce barriers) and you can incentivize (increase rewards). If the incentives point the wrong way, catalyzing won't help. If the barriers are too high, incentivizing won't help.

I strongly suspect we're in a "barriers too high" regime rather than an "incentives are too low" regime, and that our money would be better spent reducing barriers than increasing incentives.
I think that's definitely a factor. I came into a project once where that had happened. The initial estimate was a mistake and the contractor decided to up the estimate incrementally whenever they reviewed status. The client became annoyed because "every time they estimate completion, it is taking longer." (I had worked for both and came in as a third party and due to that, was able to get things back on track.)
The initial situation brings me to the other major factor I see in these situations. Anything that was overlooked or comes up unexpectedly results in more work. The situations where unexpected situations result in less work are as rare as hen's teeth. This results in underestimating more often than not.
> Which in turn was inspired by Haskell s `Debug.Trace` functions [2].

According to the RFC, the only inspiration from Debug.Trace was returning the input. The only other mention of haskell in RFCs 2173 and 2361 is the rejection of `show!`.
That chart is very neat. Thank you.
Python 3.8 has similar feature for f-strings : https://bugs.python.org/issue36817

print(f"{name=}") expands to print(f"name={name}")
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> I take it you never took a UML certification exam.

You're either very disingenuous or deeply confused. You don't need to hold a Master's degree in English to hold a conversation with English speakers. You don't need academic certification to use a tool to communicate ideas.

It makes no sense to assert that the usefulness and ease of use of a language is demonstrated by how far and how extensively it may be covered in an academic setting.

Lines and boxes. It's not that hard, is it?
Rural Americans: ”Things are changing, we’re losing our jobs, and it sucks”

Democrats: ”Well, how about we introduce some wealth transfers, improve social safety nets, and make healthcare and education less expensive so it’s easier to get through this demographic transition?”

Rural Americans: ”Trump! Trump! Tru-u-ump!”

Democrats: https://tenor.com/oZEM.gif
I didn't see any mention in the article of how the aerial saw can perform precision pruning that I've always thought was the difference between trimming and maiming the trees.[1]. It's just a messy wilderness technique, I guess.

[1] https://www.preservationtree.com/blog/top-five-tree-pruning-...
I recall a study that IBM did on S/W defects decades ago. My recollection is that they concluded that the more defects had been found, the more still remained. That sounds like a corollary to "the longer it has taken, the longer it will take."
On the one hand this sounds eminently stupid. On the other hand, it means there is some sort of de-linking of money and time.

Negative interest rates roughly imply that Denmark crowns have no ability to preserve wealth over time. If anyone gets paid in crowns they should attempt to spend them immediately and buy something durable.

It is hard to see how this is an improvement over letting money hold value over time. Now there will be more competition over scarce real resources instead of wealthy savers holding a "fake resource" of cash in a bank account. And anyone who doesn't understand interest rates might lost out from confusion.
Amazon’s Sweeping Climate Plan Is Full of Gaping Holes
It was a problem in otherwise very successful perl's CPAN. I don't recall any "dramas", but because of a huge number of dependencies installing Catalyst had a low change of going right the first time. But! Because of the test everything culture and CPAN testers effort broken modules were very rare. So after you managed to set up your system and had a long walk while tests would run it was guaranteed to work. More or less.
Augmented Reality – Virtual Reality - Semantic Creation
Yes, it is definitely inspired by Rusts `dbg!(..)` macro (see bottom part of the README). A lot of my open source projects are written in Rust and I really liked the idea of the `dbg!(..)` macro, so I wanted something similar for my work in C++.
Looks like a really useful tool. Another tool I use like this is bropages or the `bro` command(1) which gives many examples similar to this for any command like ls, docker, etc. Sometimes it's useful when you don't have time to read the entire man page.

(1) https://www.ostechnix.com/3-good-alternatives-man-pages-ever...
Is that the end of the means or the means to an end?
Anything that’s meant to bring a x10 improvement in how fast or far humans move, how fast humans can learn and communicate, how long humans live, any creature’s freedom, environment cleanliness
You’re talking about a different thing than I am. The CBO estimates Medicare for All will cost $3 trillion per year. That will require a large wealth transfer to pay for. Even if it were half that it would require a large wealth transfer.

Paying for healthcare is, by contrast, not a wealth transfer because it’s payment for receipt of goods and services. As I outline in a response to a sibling post, profits account for just 6% of health spending. The rest goes to paying staff, for supplies and equipment, etc.

Which is also why cutting healthcare expenditures is a pipe dream. If you look at many places, the local hospital is the biggest employer. Nurses in the US make double or more what they make in the UK. Maybe we do a bunch of unnecessary tests, but we lay for lab techs to do those unnecessary tests. Real reductions in healthcare expenditures will require cutting salaries and cutting jobs, and that’s politically impossible.
It's unfortunately not true. A large fraction of the UML creators come from the formal specification camp. They always wanted UML to be a specification language, instead of a visual communication tool for developers. Therefore, most of it is way too fine-grained for getting a birds-eye view. For example, you can't have a sequence diagram with components as messages sources and destinations, only with objects.

Of course, you can just ignore the UML semantics and draw something that looks like UML. That might be still useful. However, it then isn't UML anymore.
This is not an "old chestnut" it's true.

Ever since prop 47, certain crimes like shoplifting and porch piracy have increased by 10x (an order of magnitude).

You will not spend any time in jail for these crimes
> Unbelievably childish idea

Easy, tiger. Maybe you can show off your big-boy wisdom by suggesting a better idea rather than just shooting this one down.
Honest question: how should people seeking to enter the market behave in such a situation?
Could just build more houses, though.
It's a slippery slope as to whom you disenfranchised to redistributed that cash: but it will inevitably be a large group of people in the middle, not the minority elite you sold the policy on.

If some people can't accumulate something they can't do bigger things as creators or create bigger markets as consumers.
Prices have been stagnant for some time now, and tighter restrictions on new loans hopefully reduces the number of people that would be under water if prices dropped 15 or 25%. It would have a pretty bad effect on the economy as a whole though. I’d manage, but would stop spending for years.
Never heard of a definition of DIY that did not include building something of professional quality. I think it’s as simple as the name implies: you can do it all by yourself.
A massive down turn.
Other than spreading it around multiple banks, the natural outcome of this will be increased investment, most likely in real estate at one end of the spectrum and on the other things like money market funds, treasury bonds, and to a lesser extent index tracker style ETFs.

If the trend spreads across other countries, and if you believe this is a trend that is hard to revert (falling interest rates), I'd say we're in for a few more years of the stock market climbing with bigger and bigger valuations at crazier revenue multiples. Even though lately it seems like everyone is predicting that a crash is right around the corner, I don't think it's likely without a big external event happening to disturb this trend. Either some cyber / regular war or some other event nobody is forseeing.

The 2008 big short dude recently predicted that the inflows of money into ETFs by a lot of very passive investors is gonna create a situation where big valuations are based on nothing other than people not having any other place to put their savings, but I think like in 2008, his prediction is very early again.

We'll see, interesting times ahead.
I see Renesas has some[1], got any pointers to some others? Would be interesting to compare specs.

[1]: https://www.renesas.com/jp/en/about/press-center/news/2018/n...
The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon
Changing the order of menus nudges customers toward healthier choices
It didn’t get mentioned in the article but a huge reason of this over the last 10 years is just the number of people in blue states moving to red states.

The migration has been striking, just how many people are leaving NY, California, NJ, Connecticut, etc for places like Texas and Florida.

One billionaire left NJ and singlehandedly broke the states budget.

I’m amazed that the current field of democratic candidates are what they came up with. It is no question that trump is winning again.
> I started coding some simple functions to help map the tabular data to objects.

Maybe you should not do that? Can you give us an idea of the domain problem you were trying to solve that made you feel the need for that?
Doesn't it mean that the crowns are worth more over time (negative inflation)?
> Why is it necessary to replace all fossil fuels?

"Just" in order to avoid the uncontrolled warming up of the Earth's atmosphere. As long as we use them, there will be more CO2 in the atmosphere, more warming and the destruction of the environment in which the humanity grew up (the climate was extraordinary stable since the civilizations appeared... until the last 100 years). We still don't exactly know how fast that difference can hit us, and how big issue for us it can get (i.e. the worst case) but what we know already is enough to know that the resolute action is needed even if the worst case doesn't happen, "business as usual" will be a serious, long-time problem:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6459/eaaw6974

"The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C"

"increasing GMST to 3°C above the pre-industrial period substantially increases the risk of tipping points such as permafrost collapse, Arctic sea ice habitat loss, major reductions in crop production in Africa as well as globally, and persistent heat stress that is driving sharp increases in human morbidity and mortality"

"Our preliminary estimates suggest that the benefits of avoided damage by the year 2200 may greatly exceed energy sector investment costs to 2050. Current national voluntary emission reduction pledges for 2030 are insufficient to drive this even if followed by “very challenging increases in the scale and ambition of mitigation after 2030”"

"The majority of pathways for achieving 1.5°C also require carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere. Delays in bringing CO2 emissions to net zero over the next 20 to 30 years will also increase the likelihood of pathways that exceed 1.5°C (i.e., overshoot scenarios) and hence a greater reliance on net negative emissions after mid-century if GMST is to return to 1.5°C"

Simply put, it's safer to not the let the CO2 in the atmosphere at all than to try to remove it later and fail. But eventually we will have to remove more than we let. And the amounts in question are immense, and removal costs a lot of energy too. So we do need all the energy to be produced without fossil fuels. Wherever some fossil fuels are burned, we'll need even more energy to remove that.
Yes. Aliases are one of the best features Fastmail has, and they work exactly how you're describing -- you just pick a word and you have that email address. (`contact_walmart@fastmail.com`, or `specific_charity_receipt@fastmail.com`, or whatever) If you're done with an email address but you don't want to delete it, you can also disable aliases without giving them up, so email will bounce, but you still technically own it and nobody else will be able to register it.

They're not literally unlimited, but the limit is high enough that in practice, you can have a separate email address for every service that you use.

I do have my own domain, but I don't typically use it for most 3rd-party services. The reason I like aliases more is because if I use the gmail trick or my own domain, there's still a unique piece of information that's tied to my name. In other words, it's still identifying.

Most spammers know to strip the pluses from gmail accounts, so you're not really doing anything at all by adding those. And even if a spammer can't guess your other email addresses, they still know who you are. I'm not particularly secretive about my identity online -- I use my real name as my handle. So it's not even always about blocking spam -- sometimes you want to use an email without giving a company a very obvious link to who you are.
The charts have a number of issues. With some changes, they can easily show the significance along with the trend itself. I created a new version of figure 2, which fixes some of the issues:

https://svgur.com/i/F35.svg [SVG]

* Bar charts are preferred when presenting a population of something (people or jobs)

* Each Y-axis starts at zero

* Charts that (by definition) add up to 100% are shown as stacked

* The y-axis max is set to 100% where possible (except in one case, where this obscured the trend)

(I couldn't get Google Sheets to make a nice x-axis for the first chart)
>When people borrow money for a house, they only consider the monthly payments for the mortgage and not the absolute amount of money they are borrowing.

That is how borrowing works. Otherwise the lender would not make a profit.

>It creates too much debt in society and generally makes the economy more fragile than it has to be.

and yet the post-2009 economic expansion is the longest ever, and this is in spite of all the anxieties over tariffs and trade wards and the fed raising rates.

> The low interest rates may seem like a helping hand to house buyers but it is in fact the opposite: a transfer of wealth from house owners to people seeking to enter the market, a transfer of wealth from the younger generations to the boomers.

Plenty of millennials own homes. There are tons of examples on Reddit of people in their 20s and 30s with homes and investments. Low rates makes it easier to get a mortgage and compound wealth by owning a home. Rather than a wealth transfer ,which suggests a zero sum game, more wealth is being created.