skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What ever will we do?"

What you do is post snarky comments that don't advance the conversation and instead promotes unproductive conflict. Clearly you don't think lack of curation or moderators or whatever is a problem. But it's easy to state an opinion without justifying it. Harder to make a contribution that shares a different viewpoint in a way that improves the overall quality of dialog.
So this person isn't allowed to object to the practice simply because it's been going on for a while? What is your point here?
Most industries can engage in anticompetitive behaviors with impunity. But I think if Facebook watches which way the political winds are blowing for them, they would be more careful.
There were a lot of people paying attention to the issue during the Obama administration. There were numerous articles, and advocates, who spoke up then and there.

These people are discounted now so that bad-faith arguments can be made.
It's great to see the enterprise world catching up with the tech world
I don't live in the US, so I was not exposed to this issue until it became a big news item outside the US which happened after Trump came into office.

So the answer is no, I wasn't because I was unable to be outraged due to my lack of information.
So did I. Two awesome games.
Well, I think the point of the Mac Pro is that it's not for most people.

It's actually a "Pro" product.
This is also specifically the Mac Pro; which is just insanely expensive to begin with (even before this latest one). With this going mostly to businesses and corporate clients, they can afford to do more domestic assembly or even component sourcing and just pass it on to that limited customer base.
We don’t even need to go that far. Facebook snooped in users via an advertised VPN app to make WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions. That in itself should be enough fodder to discuss them.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...
The problem is, state debt is not like personal or corparate debt. If you cut your spending to pay of a loan, it is usually not a problem. If the state cut its spending to pay back a loan, it means people have to spent more money on another spot to make up for the budget cuts.

We see this currently in Germany, the German government is proud of their budget but at the same time the infrastructure is crumbling, trains are delayed, bridges are in need for repair or even replacement, broadband doesn't reach all places and I don't want to talk about climate change and the structural issue to which it will lead.

There is also one more thing about state debt, many people invest in state debt because it is a secure investment for the retirement and when a country no longer takes debt, this possibility is gone.

The ideology to have little or no state debt is hurting the economy and will do so in the future. And I'm not even talking about a recession or a depression which will come sooner or later.
Quit calling them concentration camps. That's ridiculous and hyperbolic. No one forced people to cross the border illegally, whereas Jews were rounded up and starved to death. Not even a close comparison. By your logic, all prisons are "concentration camps".

If you don't want them held until trial, what should we do instead? They are essentially prisons, because that is what we do with people who break the law.
how is Friday easier for you; fewer users?

Why not Thursday?
Tramadol works great for my chronic pain.
I used to have a lot of respect for rms. Sure he was quirky but at least he was principled. Sure his last actual free software contribution was in 1995 but he did a lot of advocacy afterwards. Sure he was very annoyingly intransigeant but he said things that were true but inconvenient to hear (regarding Facebook, Google, Amazon et al.). All in all, I thought that for all his flaws, the world needed someone like him.

But now, it seems everyone's coming out of the woodwork with one damning story after another that I didn't know of. I don't know if the spider plant thing is true, but the pleasure cards thing is ludicrous. Looking back, one can't help but wonder if in hindsight he was more of a hindrance to the cause.

If anything, the disgrace of rms should be the final nail to the coffin of the so-called hacker spirit as enshrined by the likes of him and esr, and which I've always kind of perceived as 'you can be as much of an obtuse dick as you like as long as you're technically correct'. Maybe such 'hackers' were necessary in 1970 when computing was niche and restricted to certain demographics for various historical/sociological reasons. Now that the pool of available talent has largely increased, we should ask ourselves: for one brillant but obtuse dick, how many brillant and chill people are out there? Is it worth latching on the former at the risk of missing out on potential scores of the latter?
Having empathy also seems to be foundational in building a civilization that is successful over the long term. Unfortunately these days it seems it is viewed as weakness.
That's pretty slow for a change smoothed out over eighty years.
Hackers from a variety of languages could be attracted by the high core count, which allows one to test parallel programming easily and reap its benefits first-hand.

I myself code in Clojure, have trivially parallelized some productivity tooling.
I'm not sure that I agree on liking this... the direction things can go, such as payment processors acting as censors, etc. can get pretty Orwellian.
How can cgi-bin in Nginx help in his case?
So... any chance of riscv support on sr.ht sometime in the mid-future? Especially if this undermines the plan to get POWER supported.
Steve Mnuchin’s efforts to spin Trump’s Ukraine scandal were a disaster
We also fly out of Atlanta - the world’s busiest airport - and live an hour or more away depending on traffic. The calculus between whether it’s worth the hassle to deal with going to the airport, driving, or taking MegaBus changes the calculus considering the ceremony of getting on the plane can take an additional 2-3 hours with travel, security, and getting there early.
I think you can divide this into four legs:

"Phone-as-camera" - people have always traveled with cameras since it became practical. They took crappy pictures of fireworks, or whatever, on film. Perhaps a bit more mindfully because of the limited amount of exposures on a roll of film, but it's still a major way to capture a memory. A shutterbug would spend just as much time shooting film and not being "in the moment" as someone with a phone. It's just that now phones work as pretty decent cameras along with all their other features.

"Phone-as-nav" - this is a great advance over paper maps in that it tells you where you are on the map.

"Phone-as-comms" - also a great advance in that you can get in touch with travel companions or make contact with locations.

"Phone-as-distraction" - aha. THIS is where I think the issue comes in; if you are too busy tweeting or reading email or playing Clash of Knights while you're visiting the Pyramids or the Forum Ruins, THAT'S a problem. That's where you need to put down the phone and be a part of what you've traveled to ostensibly see.
Oof.

To answer the headline, there already is a cure to chronic pain and it is called correct diagnosis.

When i was 21 I had chronic pain for 8 months, doctors gave me anti-biotics, NSAIDS, steroids.....but pain was just there. After months of research I found a surgeon in California, who performed surgeries on "Sports Hernia", almost like inguinal hernia without any bumps. I flew out to have the surgery, pictures taken during showed almost total rips of internal/external obliques in my groin area. This was not picked up by an MRI, as specific MRI settings need to be used. When I called different MRI places to talk about settings they did not know what the hell I was talking about. If I did not do my own research, I would literally still be living with this pain. I mentioned sports hernia to at least 4 doctors and they said it is "rare".

Oddly enough I have symptoms of fibro, after flouroquinolone antibiotics reaction. It is very frustrating that doctors are ignoring the cause and going straight to medicating. Side effects of these drugs are widely under-reported, and many fibromyalgia patients actually are suffering from FQAD, which is flouroquinolone associated disability. It affects the neurological system and tendons/muscles.

There is some new research coming to the surface talking about possible mtDNA toxicity. This would be better treated with supplements that support mitochondria, rather than medication. Also, best treatment for tendinitis is eccentric exercise not NSAIDs or steroids.

Additionally, by focusing on treating pain only when there is widespread tendon issue for example, patients are feeling better, therefore, putting more load on tendons, leading to more damage but hey at least they are hooked on opiates, cymbalta or any other wonder drug they come up with.

I'm not saying there is no place for medicating pain, when pain is due to scar tissue, nerve damage or other. I just have a problem with doctors tossing whatever medication they can without doing proper research.
So much pearl clutching and "but Obama" in this thread.

You've poisoned discourse to a degree where you no longer can see the plain truth that publicly acting like a hateful ghoul does not ingratiate you with the general public.

The invisible hand of the free market has spoken, and it isn't touching that with a 10-foot pole. Get over it.
Thanks, appreciate the kind words!
Lambda is not suitable for certain workloads. It's impossible to know what is the problem in this particular case from the details provided by the author. I can give some common examples where Lambda would NOT work well:

* if the code you run has heavy initialization phase that could be amortized across multiple runs. Lambda is not a god fit because you'd do initialization for every request. Cold start latency compounds with code initialization to make the problem worse

* if the function workload involves lots of waiting for network I/O (REST APIs, lots of database calls, web crawling). In this case you'll be paying for each lambda function to wait for the network, while if you run the same workload on a single machine it will be cheaper because you can wait for many requests in parallel in different threads without consuming much resources.

Having mechanical sympathy for your workload does help.
it's a royalty stream (per core, per year), not a work for hire. the upstream is required to collect that additional price for every license sold and transfer it to the contributor

whether that was a pittance or significant would depend on the price you chose and the popularity of the project

thank you (and the other commenters as well) for taking the time to look at the license and have this conversation with me. it's now obvious to me that several things need to be clarified - people still may not like the license, but at least then they'd be not liking it for the right reasons
Herb Sutter: De-fragmenting C++: Making exceptions more affordable and usable
Well as you can imagine, chest pain is rather worrying. I've been to the ER and seen various doctors (and had a lot of xrays and CT scans done). They haven't found anything, and told me it's to be expected with the surgeries I've been through.

Humans aren't engineered like vehicles. Sometimes you just have a faulty "check engine light" and there's nothing you can do about it.
Very cool :) My road-trip project was Connect-4.

A couple of my more ambitious friends got into Z80 assembly, which was super helpful for them down the road.
Microsoft got a cut-down version of Windows XP to work on the XO-1. When word of that came out, lots of people were very upset at OLPC, because of how heavily they had been emphasizing the open-source aspect of the project.

IIRC, it never got farther than a tech demo, and no laptops actually shipped. It still generated bad press for the project, though.
> have found their next pseudo science

Nah. Like the Rapture, "climate change" is forever. That's the beauty of it, it's the falling sky to end all falling skies.
Likewise for Apple (though I guess Dell's discounts are more substantial
The whole idea of serverless is so you don't have to manage infrastructure

That's the selling point of AWS in general, but I wouldn't be surprised if (non-tiny) companies are still spending at least as much on AWS/etc. as they would on in-house infra. That is, they're paying for it anyway, and possibly at a premium.
I went to high school in the early 90s, at the dawn of graphing calculators but before teachers were wise to the "notes" trick.

One time before a calc test I dropped my graphing calculator. The battery door popped off and the batteries popped out. The unit was otherwise unharmed... but my cheat sheet in the notes app was gone!

I nearly crapped my pants.

Luckily though... as most cheaters know... to make a decent cheat sheet you actually have to comprehend the material first. Half the time you wind up not even using your cheat sheet. Luckily for me that was the case. I still did well on the test.
"Fair market competition" is the idea that products compete on their own merits, not that you can leverage your market position to destroy competitors.

This idea implies something akin to an implicit patent on every imaginable product "merit". But I should remind you that patents are not intended to be free market devices - rather, if a patent is granted, it is monopoly given in exchange for an individual describing their honest advancement of the craft. If Snap deserved a patent on their "business process", they could have stopped Facebook, if not, there's no reason that a deep pocketed entity shouldn't look at modest innovations and copy them. The alternative is every small innovation is controlled by a petty dictator, blocking all progress.
Pain was once considered a fact of life, and vital signs were those 4 signs which can indicate a patient is alive: body temp, pulse, respiratory rate, and blood pressure.

Then the notion of pain as the "fifth vital sign," came about. Some argue we resultantly now have an opioid epidemic.

There is a fascinating NPR show episode on this topic: https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/701219878/the-fifth....

Edit: another source of info: https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth...
Caring about the market, and not societies, is the kind of capitalism, that the US has been heavily promoting for quite a while. But seems like young people are starting to catch on to this social-democracy thing..
In the JVM land you can check out Kotlin, which does this.
It’s the same with the Russians thing, people would rather talk about the Electoral College or foreign election interference instead of the fact that 49% of people voted for someone they abhor. Although in this case it’s less about an individual and more about the state of the general population
The public health response was relatively ineffective in 1918 (influenza was not particularly well understood then), a similar virus would very likely not infect the same proportion of people as were infected then.

The proportion would probably also be reduced in at least 2 ways. The geographic extent would be smaller, and in areas where there were outbreaks, fewer people would be infected.

If there was a good vaccine match for the virus, even more so.
I will not defend Obama's administration, or Bush's, but it's disingenuous to call out previous admins for new policies.

Here is Jeff Sessions' "zero-tolerance policy".

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-ze...

This policy has been one source of the controversial separation of family members from one another. Whether you supported previous admin policy or not is not really relevant, this is easily the most widely discussed component of the existing controversy.

This is one way in which the current administration has departed from previous ones, in a concrete policy based manner, and there are others. You can find all of this information online quite easily, and I would encourage you to do so.

edit: I'm going to disengage, but for anyone saying "What about Obama?" did you watch the last Democratic primary debate? Biden was asked directly if he would apologize for the policies of that administration.
Thank you! It’s been 2 years since this story and yet there have been no follow ups.
The fact is, a lot of the policies currently aren't really different than they were under Obama, many started under Obama.

There's also more than a few people talking about removing the entire organization, and decriminalizing illegal border crossing (open borders) and not enforcing immigration laws. Pretending that high profile politicians are not promoting this is kind of silly.
Hell no. We release on Wednesdays after business hours. If everything goes well, then the developers get to bugger off early on Friday afternoon. It's the only practical way to avoid working more than 40 hours a week unless it's a literal life or death emergency.
China to place government officials inside private companies, including Alibaba
While it is helpful for the end users but definitely privacy goes for the toss in this case.
> So how are you guys able to build freeways and even homes if your construction costs are so high?

I mean, the US... Mostly doesn't, in the kind of city large enough for subways. Have you seen all the articles on how bad the housing situation is in places like LA, SF or NYC?
The way people talk in work meetings is not culture.
Bezos and Zuckerberg Take Their Pitches to Washington
From what I understand, most verifications are done because the OCC regulated them to do so. Maybe an agency here and there added other stuff. But at the end, the OCC is the one who knocks if a bank fucks up on information due diligence.

But 30 day is still beyond me as to where that comes from. 3 to 5 day. Sure. But 30 makes zero sense. My situation was a bit unique due to the account being frozen out of the blue.
Often, you have to make a serious effort, and that goes for all sides.

"talk to more C# devs from different kinds of businesses"

As a PHP dev who's done C#, Java, Perl, CF, VB and more... I'd rarely find any other PHP devs at our local MS and Java user groups. In a few cases, I was the first "PHP developer" some of these people had ever met.

Java/C# tend to be used in larger enterprises, and they tend to be used by people who are... somewhat more 'corporate' in their life. Go to work, do the job, go home - going to local groups/conferences and socializing with non-work tech folks is often not high on their priority list (family, etc may rank higher).

Maybe it's generalizing some, but it's also a lot of my experience over the past 20+ years. I've met some phenom tech/dev folks at pretty much every event I go to, and I meet more "professional" polyglots today than I did 15 years ago, but I found I had to make an effort to find them (beyond just going to my own favorite events).
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Predicted population growth will have little to do with emission growth, because most of population growth will be happening in places where people don't have even access to electricity.

We, you and I, the top 10% richest people in the world are responsible for 50% of global emissions. Population of my home country is declining rapidly, I bet yours home country is as well.

Also let me ask you a nasty question, why should your right to exists trump someone else right to have children? Why don't you leave and make space for 10 children that will be born somewhere in Africa, that will probably emit less CO2 during their whole life than you already did?
Hm, I have wanted to get RISC-V support on builds.sr.ht, but there are a couple of problems. The main blocker is that I still haven't got a good Alpine port finished for it, the main blocker for that being the lack of a good bootloader available that lets me load a kernel from the filesystem. uBoot is almost there but they need to add an mmc driver before it's ready. Once that's available (or after I have time to investigate it myself), I'll be rebuilding the Alpine port on top of a stable release, then I can start thinking about putting together support for builds.sr.ht.
Summary: "After deep introspection and dialog within Chef, we will not renew our current contracts with ICE and CBP when they expire over the next year. Chef will fulfill our full obligations under the current contracts."

What's ICE and CBP?
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Yes, of course. Every Ponzi scheme has an end. It is just a question of time.
Do these families who are not citizens of the USA choose to try to enter the USA? And way to be a sensationalist by using terms like "cages".
Visual Studio does this for me a lot as well, especially when projects become larger. The number of times the typeahead caused the app to hang is too numerous to count.

Part of me misses .NET, but I've been mostly working with Golang and Node lately. Visual Studio Code is pretty stellar. Maybe someday VS will catch up to VSC. :)
Wait, wait, Visual Studio has been way ahead since forever
This is well understood by pain researchers and the article explicitly mentions that they are trying to find solutions that address chronic pain without impacting the pain responses you are referring to.

"The team bred genetically engineered mice from embryos that had HCN2 excised from their DNA. Subsequent experiments showed that these mice did not develop neuropathic pain (the kind that affects the nervous system and is often caused by long-term conditions such as cancer or diabetes). Not only that, the mice with HCN2 cut out were still able to feel acute pain – the necessary, protective jolt that tells us to remove our finger from a drawing pin. “That’s the holy grail,” McNaughton told me"
Ok, my apologies, now I can't edit it.

The combination on word seduction which is a frequent topic of spam links and the invalid cert made me think this was some type of spam. I'll go back and read the article.
TI-83's had a restore function, where you could just restore all deleted programs. Not that we had to use them... to quote my gr.12 math teacher - "You're not allowed to have programs on your graphing calculator, but they're not going to check, so you might as well." He wouldn't allow us to use the graphing calculator for his exams though, only the final.
You're talking to someone who implemented a Smalltalk 80 VM.

>Please look at chapter 23,"Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" (system change set, change-management, conflict resolution).

It was still a huge pain in the ass compared to other systems.

>I remember running side-by-side Smalltalk images on the same system (one with Windows UI look and one with Mac UI look -- so I could tell which was which) in 1994.

So 14 years of Moore's law later, you could run two. My point was directed at the early eighties. Matching the OPs description of ST and first PC.

>Let's say you'd been developing on a Mac and wanted to show on a Windows machine: you simply installed the Windows VM on the Windows machine, and copied your image file (and change log) from the Mac to the Windows machine — done.

You were heavily encouraged to modify the base image to support different machines in the early eighties. Moving an image from.one hardware watch to another didn't practically work quite a bit of the time. Stuff like the screen resolution was hardcoded into the images, so you'd just be met with a blank or unintelligible screen if you tried.

>Prefixing class names was a common way to make it really clear which were your classes.

And if you had any dependencies that really broke down.
The earlier we get climate change under control the less it will cost us. Either way we have to adapt. As I pointed out there are some long term positives from a little global warming that may eventually make the cost of adapting worthwhile. We still need to act decisively and quickly to prevent things from running away on us. Nothing I said is an exhortation to do anything less.