skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is the general public wasting millions of dollars on an opioid epidemic? Why does shrekli's 710$ medicine still cost 700$ after he left and was charged?

There is plenty of wasted money in the pharma sector that can be spent and profited from in crispr technologies. I'm not sure why you're taking physics money for that.

The physics funding programs have already moved on from big budget tags in some spaces. ITER will probably be the last big white whale project in fusion. There are a bunch of smaller fusion projects being funded at smaller scales to prove their efforts before going big. The iterative tech model is bleeding over into science funding.
If it is unpopular, then the resources required to host the content are manageable.

If it is popular, the IPFS users seed it to each other so your load is still manageable.
> The other difference is that being a closed source product, paying customers will have a person to talk to directly in case of a problem.

To be clear, "closed source" is unrelated to "has a support plan". You can buy support for FOSS projects, and good luck getting Google on the phone even if you pay them.
Super Mario 星 makes more sense than Galaxy.
A lot depends on what is actually implemented on top of these systems. I absolutely loathe servicenow because of multi page multilevel forms with horrible, ugly, no good UX I have to deal with.
I'm definitely not advocating for JSON here, that would be even worse.
The intent.

A desire to express an opinion vs an attempt to lure you to buy something while telling you banalities about the topic.

Forums mostly see the latter as spam and evict.
You can use a laptop or desktop if you want. Obviously there are tradeoffs when you squeeze 3 sq ft of real estate down to 0.1 sq ft.
Thanks for the clarification Audrey! Quick question...do you still actively code? If so, which technologies do you use? I assume a government politician (even for a very technical role) has little time for such things, so how do you stay up to date?
Oh also in DC, there was supposedly a crime wave where hoodlums would take the subway to get away. I thought this was incredibly dumb because just post a cop at the station if it happens more than once? You literally have ten minutes to half an hour for the cop to get there. And yet the media reported it as fact.
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Also see,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Painlev%C3%A9
People do not trust their work to act as their bank, this article highlights the disconnect between the author and most Americans.

McDonalds[1] & Walmart[2] already tried paying their employees with payroll cards, angering many of their employees.

1 - https://www.change.org/p/mcdonald-s-stop-paying-employees-wi...

2 - https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wal-mart-employees-debit-car...

Also check out https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-are-payroll-debit-car...
This reminds me a lot of Elm's syntax.
Does Airtable still require internet access? That's a non-starter for many businesses which only have intermittent internet access.
Ah, I see. I think most are reading more into the divorced part and I'm reading more into the "with two kids and doesn't want any more" part.

It sounds like the parent commenter would like to have biological children of his own...which seems reasonable to me.
As much as I want to say that Farhad is wrong, I can't. He is right. We can't continue to live the way we have. We are seeing the results of kicking the can, also known as the fix, down the road. We hope that things will get fixed eventually but not now. We feel that somehow it will be easier to fix by the next generation. Unfortunately, it only gets harder. We'll just have to suffer more when the fix is finally made.
Russia is increasingly dependent on selling of Soviet technology to keep their state propped up. Making it much more difficult for their customers to use that technology absolutely achieves the foreign policy goals of the CIA.
ROFL, cute! :-)

I started watching the video with a snarky expectation of “aka a book”, but it’s nice how:

1. The contents are personalized and time specialized (Eg: today’s tasks and maps).

2. There is no infinite scroll or pull to refresh! Which means that you avoid the worst of your addictive behavior, and have a chance to be present in the real world, because your phone only has a few things that you need to catch up with.

Now, suppose we wish to avoid using paper. We could get something equally good by just disconnecting from the internet and allowing apps only a small cache — if apps were willing to cooperate.

The only reason that won’t work is because apps are in a zero-sum race to the bottom to hog user attention. So, the abundance (“hot” according to McLuhan) of the networked electronic medium (color/interactive media, and effectively infinite content) becomes a firehose that is turned against the user. The only role of paper in this idea is to impose constraints — b/w printing, non-interactive and 2 pages of content.

It is very interesting how the key value add seems to be reintroducing constraints i.e. “scarcity”. Who would’ve thunk?!
My Bride use to work for one of the big 'third bucket' credit card companies. Someone had discovered the northwinds tutorial database, changed the labels, and reworked the business processes to fit the queries - all tables were left as found. The best part was eventually, after acquisition, they had a directive that all databases must be ported over to Oracle... and some soul got to see the horrors of what was done and convert it.
> At Twitter, you don't see a lot of executive use.

Umm? I worked at Twitter for 4.5 years and execs used it a lot. The _board_ largely didn't use it, but everyone else did, to sometimes amusing results.

https://adage.com/article/digital/twitter-cfo-mistakenly-twe...
EARTH!
> it will just be a very expensive lesson learned.

Moving doesn't have to be a financial hit. If you move to an area with higher wages it may earn you money.
Wow sorry!
It's not like entropy is a relic of the past.
I think the parent's point is that the variable is for some values of "Green New Deal".

It's like how Republicans (tend to) oppose "socialized health care" but support Medicare. A lot of politics is just playing with words, and "Green New Deal" offers plenty of ambiguity.
Ill equipped is the wrong word. Not equipped might be right. I did contract work for few of the largest Indian governmental organizations and unfortunately nepotism and security leaks are rampant. Pretty sure that nuclear plants have strict security but it's usually overridden by a higher up boss.

Paradoxically, it was worse for the Australian semi-government organization I worked for. I was a contractor and had access to almost everything.

Not that larger US governmental organizations are impeccable. This is one of the reason governments can't be trusted with backdoors. They will invariably lose it without anyone noticing it.
> intrusive behavior not considered intrusive by those with incentives to be intrusive

Autoplay is evil everywhere unless I enable it explicitly.
Hey. Thank you for checking out Micro CRM. Such a feature might be considered when the API Integration is built.
Electronic design automation (EDA) / Electronic computer-aided design (ECAD)
But wouldn't it solve the problem of your server exploding during your sites 15 minutes of fame? So many users at once could use the P2P of IPFS and take load off the server.
Every time I see things like this, it makes me feel glad I chose Win32 (actually Win16, not that it matters all that much...) as my first platform to start learning to write GUI apps for, and didn't switch over to the Apple side of things after that; the "move fast and break things" mentality was already somewhat noticeable in Apple back then, whereas Microsoft (the "old MS", not the "new MS") was more concerned with "protecting your investment in the platform". In my experience, core functionality bugs like this just don't occur with Windows, probably because there's far less rewrite-churn[1].

I know Windows has had various UI frameworks come and go over the years, but they're all fundamentally layers on top of the underlying stable Win32. For Mac I'd not really dug into how to write GUIs, but I know there's things like Carbon, Cocoa, etc., and those seem to be the base itself, and change significantly or are even entirely removed at the whim of Apple. Is there any stable GUI API on the Mac at all?

There's also this, which is frankly quite terrifying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11638367

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21174947
Many many things are spirals of positive feedbr, not cause vs effect . Ask anyone who has yoyoed exercise habits or diets.
where are you looking on Reddit? I find crickets for every topic I look for.
My parents did everything you were supposed to do. The family was intact, we kids always had to do our chores and homework, and all of us went to college. I can't fault them anything.

And yet... they still didn't know a lot. I remember in my sophomore year someone mentioned that they were trying to get an ibanking internship. I was like, "What is ibanking? A personal finance program for the Mac?" When I found out what it was, I was blown away. Like, doctors didn't make the most money? There was much to learn in the coming years...
Bio-Discouragement Plan
Dibs on this being US. maybe not for nefarious purposes but to check if any weapons are being developed?
Primarily the two I originally mentioned, WPF and Android, both of which rely on configuration of controls through XML attributes, which are all strings and not necessarily checked for validity at compile time.
So, what is your source that "most people are just fine"? I'd wager that what you mean is, you're fine and you think most people you know are fine. Good luck, in any case.
If the Netherlands were known for being "a country of musicians," because almost every Dutch person played the piano, would that be a fair stereotype of the country?

If, on average, they only played the piano once a week, just to play a single scale, would it be fair to have an article whose title was "The Dutch barely play at all"?

All three things would be true:

1. The Dutch were famous because most of them played the piano

2. The average Dutch person plays significantly more scales than the average American (who probably play <0.005 scales)

3. The Dutch "barely play at all."

Honestly, I don't see why this title is bothering you so much. Most people's image is of the Dutch biking everywhere.
> Code is read many more times than it is written

I'm really curious how true this is. Partly because, if it really was read more than it is written, people would optimize to /write less/ of it - if you have to pick up everything you put on the floor ten times over, it will incentivize you to put fewer things on the floor in future. And people would say things about code which people say about writing, such as "you have to write for your audience", instead of the more common "it's either boolean readable or unreadable".

And partly because I suspect code is /skimmed over/ more than it is read; that is, people assume what it does, glance at its shape, then if there's no surprise triggered, move on.

I would be interested to know if anyone has studied what it means for code to be read, but my suspicions are that most code which works is almost never read, and most code which is read, is read because it doesn't work and therefore it will be self-selected to be poor code in some regard.

But then, I'm not a programmer working on a large codebase. Those of you who are, how much of it have you read in enough detail that you verified how it works - and no assuming that a method does what its name implies, or assuming that if it passes tests it must work, but actually verifying by studying it that it does what it should and that you understand it?
Now do Alphabet which missed EPS by 22%.
It's funny that I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the comments to reach a discussion that I think really highlights the crux of the problem. We know that social media platforms will take down content that is illegal. The issue is that it's legal for political parties (or anybody) to post false or misleading statements for the purposes of political propaganda.

AOC's hypothetical ad shouldn't be policed by Facebook, it should be policed by the police, or at the very least be an example of criminal defamation that is handled in the court system. I Am Clearly Not A Lawyer but I am surprised by looking at the existing legislation on criminal defamation that it's not.
There are Gravity Stones from the 60's scattered among US colleges to

> "remind students of the blessings forthcoming when a semi-insulator is discovered in order to harness gravity as a free power and reduce airplane accidents"

Decent way to get students thinking about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Research_Foundation#Mo...
My first serious effort to program (Access97) was an automated engineering log in Access that extracted my operating hours for the month and wrote them out in MS Word as a draft Navy message.

It really didn't have much in the way of error checking to ensure that the state of the equipment was consistent i.e., you didn't start a generator or main engine twice in a row.

Which became crucial when I handed my baby over to the FNG at transfer time, and went on house-hunting orders.

Came back, ran the report, and he'd gooned the data so bad that we ran our equipment for negative time.

Which was an outstanding business opportunity! Run the hours off of the equipment! Yes! We can name our price for this device!

Other than the part where time doesn't exactly work that way, the idea was great.
Most FIDO devices don't do anything else. Yubico sells a lot of products that do, but Yubico's cheapest line of FIDO compliant USB keys, and most competitors cheaper products do not do anything except FIDO.
Probably funny to to your juvenile mind
Yea not the worst UX I’ve seen but far from the best. They give you enough rope to hang yourself and most companies do. They have a new agent workspace to help improve usability.

I loathe Workday. Performance reviews and taking time off have unneeded steps and comments in weird places. The flat and colorful UI looks nice but it’s hard to find stuff.
Assange - for which I will get hate. He will publish, in full at considerable personal cost. I don't think there are any credible accusations about him doing anything else, ever. You can still hate him for whatever reasons you have and expect him to do just that.

Have you seen Greenwalds thoughts on Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

I'm not sure they should still be on that list... Maybe, but there's some doubt. More about them than say Assange, for this purpose which is pretty weird and unexpected to think about.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/28/bob-wo...

https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/11/bob-woodward-sl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvrSeiG5mJQ
>> trained how to work the system

Seeking help or advice is not "working the system", it's normal. I was not programmed with this understanding either, and it can take time to adjust once you see it. Life gets easier when you stop thinking you need to face it alone.
> If you look at it too hard all "truths" become false eventually, and that can pave the way to apathy.

Isn't the point of seeing the truth as non-binary that they cannot become false? Just less likely to be true?

This seems intrinsically more amenable to changing one's mind on the truth of something, though I agree that not having an opinion on the truth of something is apathetic. Just because you strongly believe that you're about 60% sure that something is true doesn't make it less strongly held.

I do this all the time in scientific analysis... estimating how likely I am to be correct is part of the job.
"His most recent book" - does anyone read beyond that?
This is a review of the book "Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866–1896" by Charles Postel.

The 'Gilded Age' of America mentioned in the submission title is this period of 1886-1896.

The whole review is a bit belaboured, or perhaps bogged down in detail, but tries to show how an analysis of this period can be used to understand the concept of equality today. The book apparently examines a number of different organisations that were founded in this time, such as the Grange, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Knights of Labor. The claim is that these organisations were, at least in part, founded to try remove inequality but ended up leading to greater inequality.

> the national orientation of [these groups] led them to embrace a “white nationalist framework of sectional reconciliation.” The struggle against slavery cast a long shadow over the Gilded Age. The era’s radicals often viewed it as a model for their own activism. Yet because of their desire to organize nationally and to recruit members regardless of their Civil War loyalties, these groups played an important role in disseminating a view of that conflict in which slavery played only a minor part and Reconstruction was considered a disastrous mistake. This had dire consequences for black Americans and for an ideal of equality that transcended racial difference.

Their summary probably gets their point across most succinctly:

> Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, the presidential campaigns of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the work of the French economist Thomas Piketty, and more generally the dysfunctionality of contemporary capitalism, equality—or the widespread lack thereof—again occupies a prominent place in political debate. Beyond the fate of the individual organizations it covers, Equality reminds us of a homegrown radical heritage that critics of today’s deeply unequal America can be inspired by and must improve upon. The ideal of equality remains as radical as it was in Jefferson’s day. But equality limited to some is not equality.
Why to Animal Hibernate?
It looks like its reproducible in a sample project.

https://twitter.com/nolanobrien/status/1189623346033381376?s...
They were asking Facebook to arbitrate the truth. That’s not a power grab.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to build a financial model for your business?
I wanted to get feedback from startup CEOs / CFOs about how they build financial models for their startups - projecting things like revenue, operating expenses, capex, working capital, impacts of financing rounds, etc.

Do you build a financial model in Excel / Sheets that is maintained and updated? Are there software tools that you'd recommend to help build and maintain a model / run scenarios to run a business?
I'd put that on the DBAs. Once a week they should have been pulling down backups and testing for problems. They'd have also discovered the problem with the backups themselves.
not my experience. I Google "Reddit" plus any podcast I listen to (all popular podcasts) and find little to no discussion. none is more common than little.
> Designers would most likely be familiar with XML given their HTML background, but they wouldn't necessarily know C#.

I am really curious how often XAML has been used by a designer who didn't know C#. Most of the XAML I've seen (in non-trivial apps) has a lot of code-like constructs in it. If you don't know what's going on under the hood, how are going to correctly declare your data bindings (for example)?
I fail to see the lack of basic competence once you look outside of hot button issues, or even inside those issues. It is trivial to make both China and the west look good or bad with a selective view.

I was not seeking to criticize China (though I will if it makes sense to) but to make the observation for parent's sake that the Chinese gov does in fact play it's hand in the economy.
For a more fun take on this, the author also has an extremely thorough analysis of the “military history” in Lord of the Rings. He specifically discusses siege engines in the context of the Battle of the Pellenor and food supplies in the context of Aragorn’s campaign to Mordor immediately thereafter.
At (the old) Microsoft, that would absolutely be considered a regression --- code that used to work no longer does.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=41...

As Linus Torvalds would say, "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!"
Creates Python Projects from Cookiecutters
I normally don't leave "thank you" comments since they clutter up the discussion, but your comment above was particularly valuable to me and I wanted to make sure you knew that. Thank you :-)
Well really that could very easily become:

ol(
li(...),
li(...)
)

Depending on framework.

But honestly, does it really matter? Either choice isn't terrible at all.
I look at the analytics for one of my Tweets and at the bottom it says: "Reach a bigger audience. Get more engagements by promoting this Tweet!"

...or what Jack said: paying to increase reach.

I think I always thought that Twitter ads were these magical separate entities, when really, they seem to be normal Tweets that are just paid to be more popular.
I would say that there is such vast amounts of poetry from the past, ( And there is enough there for readers to discover poems and poets they have not read before), contemporary poetry would be a small fraction of the entire whole.

Even some major poets like Wordsworth wrote such volumes of poetry, even seasoned readers can find something new and unread from his work.
From their documentation:

> HXML does not use CSS.

I wonder why? XML is perfectly stylable with CSS. Why not let the user reuse their knowledge?

Somewhat canoncial: https://www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML.en.html

Also: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xml+css
The argument against f77 being Turing-complete is that you can't dynamically allocate memory, or specify infinite arrays, or recurse. You have to declare a finite size for everything. So a program embodies a fixed limit on how big a problem it can handle.

In C (the abstract machine with arbitrary-sized ints) you can allocate an arbitrary amount of memory. It may, of course, not run on any given machine. But the language itself allows it.
No, drug and alcohol addiction definitely can produce despair. Causation can and does work both ways in this one, causing a spiral which is almost impossible to trace back to a single thing.

No, I don’t think economic problems per se cause despair. People are richer, much richer, than 100 or 1000 years ago. I don’t think that changes the fundamental human struggle with meaning, hope, purpose, and everything else that wards off despair.
the weight reduction is great. More battery runtime is great.

The rest though? DJI had years to improve the Spark and instead they made it worse for photographers. No more panorama? Really?

That was the only way to get a bit more resolution of of that tiny 12MP sensor.
Frankly without it there is no point for me to own it.

No DNG support. Of course. Yea so difficult to do.
No 24fps for video folks. Sure...
The current temperature is clearly significantly hotter, and the rate of change is greater,

There has not been a "warming trend for millennia." The temperature rose steadily for about 1000 years since the Roman times, up through the Medieval Warm Period, then cooled steadily until about 1800, and then have shot up recently.

Take a look at the graph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
Previous (from 7 months before) thread (with a different link): Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19372323
Lol shut up boomer.