skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but you can take it at face value to mean what it is: most of life sucks.

Boy, howdy, have you misinterpreted the Buddha. I believe most would agree that in context, Buddha was saying, "Life is suffering because $REASONS. But it doesn't have to be, because $OTHER_REASONS." A vast oversimplification, yes, but I feel that it is a much more accurate representation of the quote.
It's not clear to me how important porn is to reddit; it's possible reddit could ban porn without upsetting most of their users. Not every site with porn is doomed.

In the long run though, I expect reddit to ban porn. It might be a few more years, there are a lot of factors in play, including the patience of their investors and whether or not an influential media company decides to do an exposé on reddit hosting amateur pornography without vetting peoples' ages and/or hosting professional pornography in violation of copyright law.
there's a whole discipline devoted to this subject, aptly named "queuing
theory."

personally, i always wait because I feel more regret if I later find out the
line accelerated than I do self-satisfaction if I find out the line
barely budged.
There was an entire season arc where the Fourth Doctor collected the pieces of the Key to Time, which were "crystals" that assembled into a little plastic cube...
After being in the Weapons Department of a submarine crew, I generally swear by checklists, or a tthe very least, not just a 'let's think about this' session but as close to a walkthrough as I can manage. Vacation planning? Major holiday shopping/preps? New pet? (Other unusual circumstance?)

Imagine what it will be like to live through the time and actions that you expect, and almost guaranteed, the gotchas will pop out like a sore thumb, and you'll be planning ahead for those.

Wherever I can get to a checklist level, though, I do. Even if it's a list of possible options that I only select a few priorities from each day, it keeps me in mind of the possibilities and things I may be neglecting, etc.
The Epic of Gilgamesh, in its tablet form, is both fragmentary and rather wooden in translation. It is very difficult to derive meaning from it when read in isolation: you practically have to be an Ancient Near Eastern scholar to fully grasp the context in which it was written and appreciate it.

Since most people don't have sufficient time on their hands to do that, I think the epic would greatly benefit from a rewrite into modern prose, not unlike the fantastic work that Neil Gaiman did not too long ago with his excellent Norse Mythology novel.[0]

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Norse-Mythology/dp/B01M1DYSHD/
Aren't VP's supposed to satisfy that division of labor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency

A currency (from Middle English: curraunt, "in circulation", from Latin: currens, -entis), in the most specific sense is money in any form when in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.[1][2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially for people in a nation.[3] Under this definition, U.S. dollars (US$), pounds sterling (£), Australian dollars (A$), European euros (€), Russian rubles (₽) and Indian rupees (₹) are examples of currencies. These various currencies are recognized as stores of value and are traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies.[4] Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.
Automatic billing...

Meanwhile, median life expectancy has skyrocketed, in large part due to new medical treatments and early detection methods. Unless your father was spending 20-30% of each day paying bills, I don't think that's going to do it. I remain unconvinced.

Let's also not forget the drain on interpersonal relations that software has brought about. If your father would have spent that time ok on FB instead I'm not sure we gained anything.
Wrong metric. It's not the mapping that matters, it's the assembly that matters.
Your Skull Shapes Your Hearing
Not as large a difference as you might hope. Replace "guns" with "phones with freely unlockable bootloaders", and "I" with "7/10 manufacturers" (made up statistics, but it's in the ballpark I think). If that 7/10 trends up to 10/10, then their right to control their own devices effectively disappears, even though the government didn't get in the way. I wager those who value the right to bear arms, don't want to wait until they are barely able to buy guns, at a dwindling handful of companies, before taking action.
I'm making the point that for for US flying (with US levels of maintenance / pilot training etc) boeing and even the 737MAX has a safety record that is incredible.

Not only that, it beats almost all other regulated modes of transit and even other regulated hazards (OSHA controlled worksites etc).

As always, it could be better - but it's actually amazingly good already - these planes are incredible safe in a challenging environment (miles, landing cycles, tolerances etc).

The demand for prison time here, when we have so many many areas where prison time can be MUCH more closely and immediately linked to bad actions (and goes unpunished) is misguided.
Average salary of physicians from the bureau of labor statistics [1]:

Anesthesiologists $267,020
Surgeons 255,110
Obstetricians and gynecologists 238,320
Psychiatrists 220,380
Family and general practitioners 211,780
Physicians and surgeons, all other 203,880
Internists, general 196,490
Pediatricians, general 183,240

Doctors go through 4 extra years of school and then 5-7 years as a resident where they are paid an average of 60k and work ridiculous hours. During that period they're always on call, work twice as much as average workers in other industries, and don't get regular holidays. I have a surgical resident friend who regularly works over 100 hours a week, sometimes having as much as three 24 shifts in a week--and frequently he'll have <8 hour periods to go home and rest before returning to work. Plus, doctor's expenses can include medical malpractice insurance premiums if not provided by their place of work, which, depending on state and specialization, can range up to several hundred thousand dollars (!!!)[2].

I just don't see how doctors are overpaid considering the amount of training they have to go through, their work conditions, and the risks involved.

1. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physicians-and-surgeons.h...

2. https://www.gallaghermalpractice.com/blog/post/how-much-does...
Instead of trying to over-simplify things for a nice one-liner:

> A server for Node.js that works out of the box with modern Javascript

Just give me the more verbose, but more conversational, explanation.

> It is a Node.js server with a bunch of middleware so that you don't need to do common things like body-parser, cookies, etc. It's also based around async/await instead of callback-based, which makes it easier to work with more modern JS and that prevents me from calling something like "express wrapper" or similar.

Sure it's more words, but I didn't have to think as much :)
Bluemars helped me to discover ambient music.
Thanks Francis Gastellu.
Things Beginners Need to Know Before Opening a Roth IRA
> a long series of repetitive and routine work every day...aspects that are frictions / repetitiveness / tedious routines...this is what life is

Thanks. Just reminded me of this:

"One always finds one's burden again... He too concludes that all is well... Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
(Camus, http://dbanach.com/sisyphus.htm )
Doesn't that strongly suggest that the structure of the payer side is not as outcome-determinative as advocates (for M4A, or for conservative reforms like across-state-lines insurance) make it out to be? What if payer structure really is a sideshow? What if we can make single payer work, or make private insurance work, but doing either job perfectly doesn't make care affordable in the US?
If that's the case you're right and I'm completely wrong about that quote. I don't pretend to be a Buddhist so you're more likely to be right than me. I have not bothered to verify this as of this writing.

Another famous quote that everybody gets wrong because they cut it short:

"Distance makes the heart grow fonder"

That quote means separation is good for couples, but almost nobody knows the actual quote:

"Distance makes the heart grow fonder for those nearer"

This is saying distance destroys relationships and you will look for affection from someone who is available.
That's right, so I'm not sure how we're drawing different conclusions from it. Cambridge Analytica got an API that was only moderately open, with much less than the full access you'd need to implement something like a Facebook client, and that amount of access still wasn't okay.
This thread is for people who are smarter than compilers. Java is not different from C in that regard.
Honeycomb is not a jobs site (not the one referenced in this blog post, anyway)
That's interesting because otherwise tedious chores like washing dishes or cleaning can feel meditative and therapeutic after I've had my coffee.
.foo {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 10% 80% 10%;
height: 100vh;
}

<div class="foo">
<div>header</div>
<div>text</div>
<div>footer</div>
</div>
The article I read announcing statewide rollout actually goes into some detail regarding what threshold the quake has to hit for notifying people. I found it interesting, because I had initially expected it to send out warnings for every quake. Some people complained that the app didn’t warn them about quakes they felt that had been quite mild, so they lowered the threshold for alert to more closely conform to people’s expectations (even though that level of shaking was very minor and not necessary to warn people about).

[0] https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/10/17/20919639/ca...
To clarify, when I said"Even most Firefox communities agree FF on Android is hot pile of garbage in terms of performance, power usage, and scrolling." and provided independent quantitative comparisons & community discussions as example I wasn't implying anything about your particular experience with Chrome(???) and reasons you decided to use Firefox. When I claimed the Firefox Preview rewrite is primarily about fixing these above issues I'm not referring to whether or not you personally feel it's related to the performance of the existing version rather things like Firefox blog posts and related discussions around it say it is.

To reiterate: When I mention power/performance I'm referring to the benchmarks showing it's last not whether or not I personally think it feels fast and when I mention the Firefox communities common opinion I'm not referring to your personal experiences or whether or not you personally found Chrome worse in the same regard.

Also I'd like to point out once more something I've already pointed out: At no point have I said or Firefox on Android as a whole is a hot pile of garbage nor have I mentioned anything about Chrome being better/worse/relevant. Please stop saying I have and particularly please stop using cut off quotes to imply I did. It's not what I was talking about and, more importantly, it's not even the opinion I hold.
This isn't a dupe even though it has been flagged as one...

Unrelated note:
The android app works great and for me (on the first pixel phone) it seems battery drain was vastly improved in the 20191016 version. Now it feels like I can have it on 24/7 without concern.
Oh wow, Scribblenauts takes me back! I love games like that. Half the fun is sitting there just figuring out what interacts with what. If I recall correctly, you can conjure up a Large Hadron Collider, which blows up and makes you lose a life. It sounds tedious to program for sure, but the result was amazingly fun.
Too Cool for Rules: Engineering Principles for Software Development Teams
I did a talk on this recently at EuroPython. Hot reloaders are really, really really hard to implement in Python in the general case (I.e not an IPython shell). You run into corner cases like this, and it basically comes down to reloading the whole app anyway.
Yes, it goes without saying that people who are not physically able to either interview for, or be present at the location of the job, will not be able to perform the job.
At the point where you're saying we simply "close the gaps" in existing Medicare, you're really not talking about Medicare anymore; you're just using it as a synonym for a hypothetical US NHS. That's fine, but you should be up front about it if you do; you're not just expanding Medicare to new customers, but building a fundamentally new system and giving it the old Medicare name.
Probably could though
SCUMM was used by Lucasfilm's adventures; its name is an abbreviation of Scripting Utility For Maniac Mansion.

Sierra's graphic adventure games used their own toolkit called AGI, which stood for Adventure Game Interpreter. http://www.agidev.com
I have found any airline flight using a 787 to be significantly more expensive.
Is the "subject line" the same as the "header" in this schema?
The ones I saw worked just fine over a lake, and it was windy. I saw a few drift off and self-correct very quickly so it looks like they have this figured out. I assume they hold their position relative to one or more ground units.
I know, to each their own, right? It's earned him a net worth north of a billion dollars, but for him it clearly has nothing to do with the money. He does not really spend much of it at all, he just works. It's like OCD.
Read the fantastic essay by the author in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

He expanded the essay into the book. The book is only okay, because it adds length and a few anecdotes, not all of them convincing, but the best stuff is also in the article.
Related from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21283398
This was the type of dude who would implement a wage freeze on his employees while taking home the biggest bonus ever recorded in history. Good riddance. The world needs less people like him. Yeah he pulled off some impressive shit at HP, but the means in which that victory was achieved are more important than the victory itself.

EDIT: lol people who think they are the next Mark Hurd downvoting me, I'm amazed at how little some people care about employees on HN
Russian Biologist Confirms He’s Working on More Crispr Babies
Work can be a great source of joy and self-realization. I always feel sorry for people who hate their jobs and do it only to pay the bills. Once you find your true calling, sometimes it is hard to wait for Monday on weekends because you really want to get back to your job.
No, you can't do this in SSH, it would be a radical re-design.

I'm not completely certain that it's impossible to make this secure, but it's definitely very easy for it to get done in a way that's insecure.
> would we consider them balanced?

No, but I never heard anyone say "again, why" about Van Gogh. The why is self-evident in retrospect.

I wouldn't put my art before everything else in life, and I'm not saying Mark Hurd did, but I get that some people do and once in a while that results in an incredible gift to humanity.

Most of the time it doesn't, but I don't see how you get a Van Gogh without a lot of people giving an unhealthy amount of themselves to potentially boring, mediocre shit.
I am sure this is not the first time I heard someone describe him as "writing thousands of words of speculation based on, say, two sentences in release notes"

And DED is Apple's biggest Fanboy that barely understands tech or business and continue to fantasise Apple as a religion and Apple Park as Elysium.

And yet there is a group of people continue to follow its post. Even AI is still in my RSS feeds I cant remember when was the last time I actually clicked on any of its content.

I am even thinking if I should have flag this.

The worst part, is Horace Dediu, a well respected analyst that covers Apple, invite him to speak in one of his Apple investment conference.
Libbsd includes it.

https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/
In my experience, it's explanations and how-to guides which are the most essential, with a comprehensive reference filling in the gaps. I've virtually always found tutorials almost completely useless.

I also have a major gripe with the guidelines for how-to guides: these should explain things, most especially where:

1. Not following the process precisely, or appropriately to circumstances will lead to major issues.

2. Where the function, significance, or mechanism of a given step is critical to understanding and correctly applying the tool.

3. Where the reason(s) for choosing amongst a set of options is helpful in making that decision.

One of the best concise distinctions between science and technology I've found is from John Stuart Mill: technology is the study of means, science is the study of causes or mechanisms. Technology tells you how and science explains why. Both are crucial to advanced understanding and use.

This doesn't mean that a cookbook approach needs to have detailed "why" explanations, but it should at least touch on these.

The other hugely useful aspect of a good cookbook is that it shows you the range of performance, capabilities, or applications of a tool. Readers can either hunt through for their specific problem (or something close enough to it to be adapted), or look through the range of applications to get new ideas for projects or products.

One of the best cookbook texts I've ever encountered is O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools, first published in the early 1990s and still relevant. Kernighan & Pike's The UNIX Programming Environment is strongly similar, and despite dating from the 1980s, and being substantially obsolete in part, remains a valuable reference.

Straight syntax guides, say, the Bash manpage, are useful, but are complex and difficult to navigate especially for a novice, and even a user with decades of experience. Tools such as vim and emacs share this problem, and whilst references can be useful for specific command or feature syntax and behaviour, do little to expose the power and capabilities of such tools. Cookbook approaches are far more useful.
Yes. Changed from https://flowingdata.com/2019/10/18/microsofts-visual-data-ex....
Top Software Projects Written in Haskell – Serokell
You don't have to without this tool, you can save and load models from/to disk already from provided APIs for frameworks/libraries (e.g. [1]). Handy for when you need to hard reset, move, and/or share data.

[1] https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/saving_loading_models...
That sounds like a marketing slogan, and honestly the JS ecosystem has so many of these that they've become meaningless.

What your thing looks to be is a wrapper over Node's `http` module, with a simplified API. "Powerful" is really not an appropriate adjective, since obviously your lib is limited to what the underlying Node's http module can do (and I'm going to go on a limb and guess that your library doesn't natively handle things like streaming or chunking or UPGRADE for web sockets or HTTP/2 push or N number of other things, considering you claim the library is also "simple").
TLDR: using a linked list with a record for each user worked fine decades ago, but doesn’t cut it on systems with over 100,000 users.
This is not a dupe, but a new development of the issue.
Yes, and this is one of the main issues. Overall it is a logistical disaster. But, I have to say that engineering school helps you tackle logistical nightmares like this.
Beyond that... most of the things FB has done was to correct for progressive bias in the company.
I mean I'm at 20% in 2 cost centers (ill give you back 3 single digits but not a digit more), and there's more math on how you actually save money in a single payer system than just those 2 things. I don't know where the average family low-deductible plan costs $500 (maybe with employer subsidies? again, not a fair comparison), but 20% is a lot more than the 5% the parent discussed.
A survey of Apple developer documentation
Restorers Try to Get Lunar Module Guidance Computer Up and Running
I'm 22 right now--when I was in middle and high school, I didn't have TV, video games, a phone, or a computer. But I still had to get up at 6 to get to school on time. Combined with late nights doing homework, it was miserable. This opinion about gaming and media is such a "kids these days" meme. I was mature enough to be capable of self-regulation but that didn't help the sleep deprivation due to early school start times.
I always thought that game must have an incredible ontology underneath it that would be amazingly useful to other ventures...

I also recall playing it and, at a certain point, realizing that I was stubbornly uncreative in using the variety of options available to me.

In retrospect maybe that wasn’t true, and the game managed the massive potential for variance by condensing things into smaller buckets. Either way those were some brave developers agreeing to that project scope.
Casually drops the fact that cows are artificially inseminated and their calfs are immediately taken away
Like many of the pedantic things we like to argue about, I think teams/projects should choose consistency over prescription.
Given they are closed on Sundays, I doubt they are worried about what people think of their religious stance/beliefs or worried about bending to pressure/common opinion just to increase profits (or they'd open on Sundays like every other fast food company).
There are different ways of looking at this, of course, but HN's rules are clear: (1) please post the original (as devy quoted above), and (2) a post is a dupe if the story has had significant attention in the last year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

These rules maximize the overall quality of the site. It's certainly true that not everybody sees every post; but if we went with that logic, there would be no such thing as a duplicate at all. That would be bad. Front page space is the scarcest resource on HN, and needs to be distributed across as many high-quality stories as possible.

A great tool for running across interesting stories that you didn't see on HN the first time round is the 'past' link in the top bar, which lets you browse HN's top stories day by day.
If you’re referring to Medicare, it does control costs through its fee schedule, but is limited in efficacy because it doesn’t cover everyone. Nevertheless, the Trump administration is currently trying to jack up how much it pays out to non-Medicare levels to prevent even this downward pressure. And of course it’s barred from negotiating drug prices for the same reasons.

As to why insurance companies don’t pursue evidence-based treatment plans, it’s cheaper and easier in the US to just deny care and profit from it. Why do something more difficult, requiring additional investment, when they can just deny more claims. ACA plans already deny 1 in 5 claims.
Empathy is different than that. It is about really reading peoples' emotions, like micro-expressions and body language. Empathy allows you to dig into a person's personal space when uncomfortable and pry out things that might be hard to discuss.

I conducted some ethics investigations last year. I had to interview people and make assessments that resulted in potential harms to persons careers, forfeiture of pay, and possibly other legal consequences. You don't want to pass harmful judgement lightly. You really want to get the most detailed picture possible and recommend solutions that do more benefit than harm. You need to have a feel for what people were thinking, at the time, and why even when they may lie to you or withhold necessary information.
Mozilla is basically the fig leaf covering Google's hegemony, they get all their money from Google, they use Google to track Firefox users ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546 ).