skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can be done by converting "for profit" corporations into "not for profit" corporations and having them finance investments with debt instead of equity.
I hope they use the extra space to put the fn keys back in.
Its an acknowledgement that knowledge grows like a tree, and every new creative work has a root or foundation in the past which was used as inspiration and leverage to reach new heights and without which, perhaps those heights might not have been possible to reach.

A good one - "If I've been able to reach new heights, it's because I strove after the examples set by my inspirations."
I don’t believe these guys do it just for the money. They probably really like it and also have a talent for it. Same for running for political office. You have to like it and also be good at it. Otherwise I don’t think you can get to that level.
Yet another blow in the war on porn. Can we just accept that the parents need to be the ones to act as porn gatekeepers via acting as gatekeepers to the internet? Once the kid hits the internet, they're gonna find porn one way or another. Changes like these don't solve anything imho.
There's no way to prevent this though. You already don't know what your connection's email clients are doing with the emails you send them. That's a much bigger info leak than anything that's going to happen on FB but no one seems concerned about it.
There is what the standard says, and there is what people actually do. If everyone promotes char to int in practice, then any machine where this doesn't happen is going to have a tough time running the bulk of code out there.

In a standards committee, the standard is the standard, in practice common practice is the standard.
What was explained to me was that the moisture would lead to (more) oxidation in the aluminium.
So you want to use their historical record as some kind of justification for their dismal record with the 737 MAX, as if one is related to the other?

Cold comfort to the 300+ lives, and families destroyed.

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2tuKiiznsY

This isn't just some "oops, these were badly trained pilots" – the whole premise of MCAS is seriously screwed up and smacks of non-engineers running the place.
the back-end to end all back-ends
Reading back through their mailing lists from 12 years ago is so telling.

So many responses to users who were complaining that they wanted features from Internet Explorer were met with "then use Internet Explorer, we but we refuse to embrace their vision of the web".

And like I said in prev post, extensions like IE Tab would let users appropriate proprietary technology without embracing it. And the extension architecture was powerful enough to do stuff like that. They should have tried doing something like that with Chrome, while keeping their technology.

In 2009, I would watch Hulu on Linux using instructions I found on a forum, which used a python scraping script and fed it to my Firefox VLC plugin. It was the first solution that the community came to for watching Hulu. That was the culture back then.

So, I can see why the big platforms hated it so much. Such a powerful extension architecture and the culture around it had big potential to undermine their platforms.
What you’re saying might as well be true, but I found his YouTube videos on the economic machine to be brilliant. I took a few semesters of Econ in college, and even then, I didn’t have my head wrapped around the bigger picture.
How to mount / in read-only mode by default (Stateless Linux)?  (2017)
Is that a problem though? It's the nature of the service. Facebook was basically built to show off who you are connected to.
That 401k isn't going to be very useful if you can't afford healthcare.
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I usually get my emails instantly, but if they get delayed, then they get delayed. At least a chance of getting a notification quickly is far better than nothing.
It's been more prevalent recently and I think it's just part of a larger fear of guilt by association. Some other comment mentioned banks/payment gateways being a part of it, but I don't think it's just that.

A more reputable company just might not want their ad displayed on a site that might have porn or questionable content. Look at how YouTube ads and monitization have changed in just the past few years. There were real issues with major ads getting displayed on popular but questionable videos.

We're heading into a much bigger issue of call-out culture. We're seeing academics, programmers, CEOs, authors and comedians being told they need to resign from positions or be ousted for single political comments or a single donation to one cause made years ago. Then people go back through history and pull up every questionable thing that person has done or said.

I don't think it's tangentially related; and that it's affecting the business of Internet advertising.
This article is about scientific research.
> Good stuff. Keyboard clacking during screencasts is a non-starter for me tho.

Funny, I often get compliments on the clacking of my mechanical keyboard in screencasts and livecodings. Creates a soothing background noise.
More than that, we need to design a system that puts general health/wellness before health care. That is, we need to live a more healthy and have a prevention mindset.

If we prevent the preventable those resources can be used for the unpreventable. But if overall demand drops, so will price/cost.
By "marketing" and "signaling", I mean ricing. People want their GUIs to look pretty mostly as a way to either sell them or express their fashion sense to others.

I feel like the sweet spot for malleability was Win95-era theming. You could adjust the color of everything, and the typeface of everything, and that was it.
Can you just not let it dry up a little bit more and sell it as sea-salt? I suspect it's not that easy, but on the other hand, the Bay Area has lots of "salt fields" where seawater is dried into useable salt.
You ignored my point and responded with a rant. I didn't make a comment on Catalonia. I was responding to the poster before me.
> "You guys need to be sending more people to our hospitals."

This is true even in a socialized system like the military or VA, where the folks in leadership positions are seen in their own system. And that saves money, in no small part by reducing the amount of testing, improving continuity of documentation, etc. That savings doesn't just pad some executive's bank account. It makes it easier to give the nurses a raise, or keep a few more on staff through a recession. Makes it easier to buy that new 3 Tesla MRI for better resolution imaging, etc.
The article is comparing to using atmospheric pressure distillation, which isn't used for commercial scale desalination... reverse osmosis is primarily.

(Where waste heat is available for 'free' flash distillation , which is already a lot more efficient than atmospheric pressure distillation, can be attractive... but if heat isn't available for free, RO uses about 80% less energy than multi-stage flash)

So it sound to me like it may well be in an apples to apples comparison the method discussed in the article may be similar to or less energy efficient than RO. But maybe it could be used to enhance the usefulness of flash distillation for lower levels of waste heat.
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If you’re running virtual machines you can just use a virtual RNG device exposed by the hypervisor.
I doubt the restaurant was a monopoly with literal powers of life, death, and bankruptcy over its patrons.
franciscop/server

> Powerful server for Node.js that just works so you can focus on your awesome project

This is not a "quick general description of the problem the project solves" and I don't even know what the code does after reading this. You can do better than this.
For when you move to a company where the current canIUse marketshare for grid/flexbox is no longer "adequate."
IPFS seems like a really good solution. I've read other posts on here on how it's difficult to setup websites on IPFS, but just straight up media (images and video) seem like a perfect use case.
Honestly, I'm not gonna read this thing. This is just the
usual weekly "health care is fucked" HN post. They always say the same thing, they always show the same data, rarely suggest any real path forward (one that works in the context of lobbies, corruption, for-profit institutions, etc). In my book (and I'm not an expert even though I've worked in the benefits industry), 2 things are completely fucked up in this domain: 1) insurance being tied to your employer, 2) not being able to know the cost of a procedure before hand. Fix that, and you're done.
It'd be cool to be able to use this as a method decorator too!
> you can toss it back into the ocean (with appropriate dilution)

... what are you going use to dilute the brine? The water you just desalinated? What's the point then?

Seems to me if your input is seawater, and your output is a separated-out set of {fresh water, saltier sea water}, and you put the saltier sea water back in the sea, you're going to create a localized concentration of high salinity, no? Seems kind of unavoidable to me.
Great video!
My only nitpick was when Aaron said the camera resolution (800x800) was 640 MEGAPIXELS. I can understand why he misspoke. Everybody today uses megapixels as the measure of pixel density, but back in the mid 1970's, digital cameras did not yet exist and the resolution of the onboard image orthicon tube was actually just 640 KILOPIXELS.
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Greedy insurers don’t pay your restaurant bill and thus do not control the quality of service (by squeezing restaurant owners for every penny they can save)
And what about the rights of the stakeholders of those for-profit corporations?
What's old is new again.

Your thoughts on the benefits of language slightly higher level than assembler are interesting. Others have trod this path before.

Bliss32 was the systems language for vax/vms back in the 1980s through 2000s. Most of vms was written in it. It was heavily influenced by PL/360 from the days when IBM 360 or 370 mainframes were mostly programmed in assembler.

Both languages emitted very predictable assembler from their higher level constructs. They had no optimizations. But their objectives seemed to be focused on readability and predictable output, like your system.

The source code for 99% of vms was published on microfiche and distributed with the binary tapes. Worth finding a copy and the accompanying text on vms internals and data structures. An excellent intro to nonTorvalds operating system architecture.
And even less useful if you're bankrupted by it.
Just discovered my post is a dup. 12 minutes old and I can't delete it?
"Programming Sucks" is genuinely one of my favorite pieces of writing. If y'all haven't it's very much worth a read.
Great writing. Assuming it is an original.

Some might call this a slippery slope argument, but over the years I have slowly started appreciating it as a fictional extreme of the idea the other person is trying to defend.

It is easy to justify small movements in any direction, but trying to unveil the eventual destination casts arguments in different and much required light.
Except it isn't only about winning.

Otherwise, we'd have no objective advancements in medicine.

Saying it's ONLY about winning is just as absurd as thinking it's only about solving the problem. It's about solving problems within the system. That includes winning and a lot of other elements.
"Using mouse is more effective because mouse is more popular with designers, and thus controls are mouse-only." Nope, that doesn't follow at all: "someone _made_ it artificially hard to use keyboard on their site, which proves mouse is more efficient" - that just indicates laziness, not to mention ADA noncompliance.
As we have seen with the situation with Hong Kong, and more recently Lebron James and the NBA, the economic power of China and the censorship ability or perhaps fear of their tyrant leadership - is enough to stop many people.
I really miss the old Firefox. I miss how I could quickly cut through mountains of pages with hierarchical vertical tabs, and export or mirror groups of urls in bulk. And it was faster, because I had a lot more power to restrict what content was loaded.

There were so many powerful extensions that gave me direct access to the content I wanted, which are impossible to use now.

Yes, it had security problems, but those are solvable. Just on my own, I cobbled together some fairly good sandboxing systems. I wish they had just worked to improve XUL.
This is a very acute critique, so it seems like the perfect place to elaborate on why I chose numbers.

We tend to think of Assembly programming as using mnemonics, but really the names of instructions in x86 are more than that: there are 14 different kinds of add instructions (https://c9x.me/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_5.html) If a single name can map to this many distinct cases, it's not a mnemonic anymore, it's a little more than that.

When a single word can do so many different things, and when the underlying instruction set has gaps, it becomes hard to create good error messages. Oh you added two immediate values together. You can't do that. But what can you do? Any impedance mismatch between external notation and target format quickly adds to the amount of code needed to generate good, clear error messages. Since my goal was to build SubX in itself, it seemed like a good trade-off to force people to live closer to the target language. That makes the error messages easier to write. There's really only one case to address at any point.

(The alternative would be to give each opcode a distinct mnemonic. Does that seem useful? I didn't initially think it was, but I'm open to trying it.)
> If your layout is different enough that you’ll need media queries then you’ll want to use grid anyways.

Ehhh, not really.

A common case is items laid out as boxes. On desktop I want them in rows of 3 to 5 (perhaps more on wider screens, but often this starts to look stupid beyond 4 or 5 so you set a max width for the container). And in mobile we want 1 item per row. With flexbox, you just change the width of the items from 33.33% to 100% in the media query, maybe with some adjustments to margins, and you're golden.
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Ask HN: Need an API for your weekend project? I'll build one for you
A few days ago I launch my service [1] which is a BaaS type of thing so now i am doing "the thing that does not scale" :)
The proposition is this (for this specific thread):

a. You have an idea for a project, and you've put some thought into it (it's not a "wouldn't it be cool if ... type of thing")

b. You can handle the frontend part yourself

c. 90% of your api is storing and retrieving data from your database

d. The api needs to be either REST or GraphQL (or both)

e. You'll provide the table definitions for all your models (no need to be 100% correct/final)

What i'll do for you:

a. Implement the api for your mvp (then transfer the git repo to you)

b. Data will be stored in your RDS db (PostgreSQL)

c. I'll host the API layer on [1] for you for free (but you can also host it yourself)

d. The service is a "super set" of the capabilities PostgREST [2] gives you

Obviously this can not work for a long time or for a lot of projects but I can knock out 20-30 apis in the next month.

If this interests you, leave a comment here with a short description of the idea.

[1] https://subzero.cloud
[2] https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
Yes. As a pilot myself I can tell you with 100% certainty that he was absolutely being ironic.
Is there a reason none of these replacement libcs are available for Windows?
Even if they were prone to "crying wolf", I think it still would need follow up. I have customers that often complain about "bugs" that turn out to be as yet unimplemented features but I still have to track down the issue and verify it.
Floats should now only be used for what it's named for, to float around other elements:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/shape-outsi...

(shape-outside is super buggy though)
Egypt uncovers 'huge cache' of ancient sealed coffins
IMO? Nothing.

I do have some WeMo switches on some lamps in our living room. I got them instead of fiddly-dip-switch timers before a vacation several years ago, and it turns out I like having them come on an X time automatically, and turn off at 10, when we typically go to bed. We never interact with them; it's great.

But the thermostat is dumb (but programmable). The locks are all regular locks. We have no smart speaker (dear god WHY?). The TV is dumb.

Why? Because I've spent 30 years in software, and my watchword is "don't put firmware in shit that doesn't fucking need firmware."
For me, throwing bombs like this in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are as evil as the holocaust.
This is getting downvoted, but I don't see any problem with it.

Another user, commented that it should be okay to dispose, by releasing it over fast moving currents in deep waters. That makes sense to me.
The water we're using will mostly come back to the oceans and we'll have eventual consistency of the water/salt balance (in that process at least). Not sure if I got it right, though.

Either way, I feel that disposal of brine will be a problem if done recklessly, like for example in coastal areas and only on ideal conditions by chance - which is how we dumped most things in the 20th century.

My belief is that we should think about regulation, if we want desalinized water in a industrial scale.
Whenever I hear the word "Egregious" I always think here come the lawyers.
What a strangely factual response on this forum.
Some people like the struggle. There's an entire industry built off of making money from this human drive in called the Video Game industry after all. Think about all of the games which get lambasted for being too easy, hell just look at the release of Classic WoW where plenty of people are still devoting time to a 15 year old game largely because it required a lot of work to succeed in.

Some people bury themselves in their job, some people bury themselves in work, some people in video games, it's ultimately based on the same drive to achieve something based on a struggle.
Less than half of the population have stocks of any kind, so this is not an issue. For the ones that do, re-balance.
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Raw data there is.

I'm talking about a report that says:

After analyzing the health care systems of X, Y and Z countries, a commission suggest A, B and C changes to the US healthcare system. A major commission organized and created by an organization that has proven capable of developing long term, large scale plans for the greater good of the country (think the army corp of engineers, but it doesn't have to be them, just something that is as objective as possible)

I'm also a bit surprised that the ideological bend is so strong, even on 'hacker' news, that net-net I'm getting down-voted on a what I think is essentially a call to look at data and create cohesive reporting to guide public policy.

Maybe there is such a study. I'd be glad to know about it.
What about the right of patients not to be bankrupted by a service they have been paying into for their entire working lives?

Stakeholders don't get a magic pass on this. The polite view is that they're profiting from suffering. The less polite view is that the entire industry is a toxic, possibly even criminal, cartel, and needs to be split up and defanged in the same way that other toxic industries - tobacco, opioids - have been defanged.
Chick-Fla-A is a private company (and forced to be so in the founder's will), so they have no shareholder obligation to pursue growth at all costs. They'll probably just shrug it off and concentrate on domestic expansion.
Will people use a service for NSFW contents? I doubt.
Not necessarily. You could mix it in processed sewage. Assuming processed sewage is appropriately disposed off in the sea at limited locations with precautions, this should work. One concern may be the sheer volume from desalination might overburden the sewage disposal.
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Or Michael Scott.
Where do they say that the validation dataset is independent of the training dataset?

The case dataset is independent of the control dataset.
Old grammar forms live on in American English
Malicious endpoint is certainly an interesting scenario, let me work through a few possibilities:

1. Wiznet produces chips where the entire network stack is implemented in hardware, there is no code. Malformed packets will never touch my code.
http://shop.wiznet.eu/chips/w5500.html
However, this is a minority of devices.

2. These devices typically have no dynamic memory allocation at all, they will work with a circular buffer of fixed size. Normally they can't run out of memory.

3. You might be able to clog up their CPU, however they typically use an RTOS, those operating systems will place hard limits on amount of CPU time different components of the system could take. At best, you will prevent the device from sending out anything over the network while you are attacking it.

4. Of-course, if there are mistakes in the TCP/IP stack, you might cause issues.
Most of them are using lwIP stack, I am not qualified to comment on it's security. https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/
Is there anything specific you are worried about? With arguments context matters a lot and hearing similar arguments in two different places isn't really surprising.
The problem with US health care is that it costs too much.

The elephant in the room in US health care costs is inefficiency on the provider side. Payer-side reforms have limited impact, because contrary to rhetoric from both sides of the debate, we could probably zero out administrative costs entirely and still deliver little more than a grocery store discount to American consumers.

However we structure payment, we're still going to have overprescription of outpatient procedures, a shortage of doctors who as a result make drastically more than their counterparts in Europe, bed vacancies in inefficiently provisioned hospitals, diagnostic procedures that vary wildly between providers just a few miles from each other, and a total lack of price transparency to enable consumers (and their doctors) to collaborate and make decisions about care.

There's not much evidence that our government-run health programs (Medicare in particular) is up to the task of solving these problems; Medicare has a central role in how the current health care system is organized, and some of these problems stem directly from decisions made by Medicare.
Let me just say this:

If you need to log into your google account on a weird touch screen device(looking at you, Honda's android auto implementation), do NOT have a super long random string password with a bunch of special characters in it. It will make your life hell whenever you have to type it. Its much easier to type in 8 words separated by dashes on a touch screen.
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> "I'm going to protect my calf by trampling this human to death"

Knowing what we do to their calves, I can't say I blame them. They have every reason to try and protect their calves from us.