skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tests like the one to "Say the alphabet backwards" are not designed to test intoxication but to elicit a response similar to "I can't even do that sober". This type of reply can then be used as a confession.
Nowhere in the article does it mention the cost to the healthcare system per innoculation. It's also an article written to make it sound like Merck just wants to save lives but you need to also consider the billions off dollars this would net them. Also, buried in the article was this gem:

"Though most experts have little doubt that the vaccine prevents HPV infections anywhere in the body and therefore the resulting cancers, technically, this has not been proven."
Hackernews is a great example, or this one: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
Yeah that is true I should have been more accurate
“This Feature Should Be Easy”
> For an implementation detail (selection of database technology) to have such an effect to an organization may be a sign of defective software architecture.

Choosing what kind of database to use isn’t really an “implementation detail” as much as it is a “major, foundational architecture decision”. Taking tabular, relational data and putting it in a document DB (which I’d be willing to bet is the most common NoSQL use case) makes about as much sense as taking the same data and putting it into a graph DB. You can make it work, but everybody who does this runs into exactly the same problems over and over again. Perhaps this is a sign of how dysfunctional some technology trends are, but I can’t see it as an indictment of software architecture in general.
Ask HN: Why not make the “Who's hiring” threads weekly not monthly?
I feel that A lot of startups and freelancers/Consultants would agree with me when I say that a weekly or at least bi-weekly thread would be more beneficial
Economically it can be a good choice to kill someone. We still respond with "how dare you".
>The biggest issue with all of these "write a new operating system in my favorite language X" (where X is Ada, C, C++, D, Rust, etc) is that in almost all cases the operating system design slowly morphs into a buggy, half-baked version of an existing operating system.

The whole point of writing a new OS in a language that prioritizes memory safety and provable correctness, like Ada or Rust, is specifically to explore the possibility that by using a better language, the OS won't morph into a buggy spaghetti code thing.

Safe languages impose fundamental constraints on the complexity of the system, that C/C++ and others do not, and eliminate entire classes of bugs and vulnerabilities at the compiler level.

People wonder why all our systems these days are insecure and getting hacked left and right. Provably correct software and compiler-enforced memory safety are two tools that will be part of the solution (maybe not sufficient, but absolutely necessary).
you can write your stored procedures in JS of Python if you don't like plpgsql that much :)
Yes, if you are running the same query. Some of the worst use of views I've seen involve massive joins without filters, and then filtering further down, so you end up working with a recordset in the millions of records rather than a few thousand.
Yes, this one.

Slightly off topic: His latest book is about avoiding distractions, featuring advice like “tell yourself that you have to burn a 100$ bill if you don’t do it”. His Twitter profile counts 54k tweets and 211k likes. Seems like his advice for app development backfired on him.
Ubiquiti posted an official update on this https://community.ui.com/questions/Update-UniFi-Phone-Home-P...
> Imagine getting anything done with Mac OS 7.6, which was current in 1995.

C:\ONGRTLNS.W95

Win95 = Mac '84
I bet there is some very simple way to get rid of all these awful synthetic cannabinoids.
As a human, this doesn’t resonate with me at all. I know that many people disagree with inheritance taxes, but I would prefer if my views weren’t characterised as inhuman, since they are motivated by a desire to help people who inherit nothing.
> shorter

Yes, until the very first time you'd want to reuse some of the code. From then on, any initial advantage is melting into unmaintainable mess of semi-imperative, semi-declarative copy-paste horror.
Wow.

One hopes that safe spaces for X chromosome humans can be preserved in the face of neo-misogyny.
> And, why do they need to be productive?

Because the entire global economy is premised on having enough growth to pay off the debt incurred by previous generations. If people choose to be less productive the whole edifice comes crashing down.
New NLU Based Search Engine Developed in China
Well there are certainly other motivations for, or effects of laws, and by that measure they may be unjust, and it may even be ethical to break them. However, to create a monopoly on breaking a law seems similar to creating a law to create a monopoly, so it shouldn't be surprising that we've observed both by the same actors. Case-in-point: there were many other rideshare companies shut down before the duopoly emerged, and many afterward that will never get started because of regulations that they sponsored.
Golang package management is monstrous.
How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in over 11,000 Tweets
Giving up US citizenship is pretty easy. “Economic freedom” means a legal and regulatory environment that encourages relatively unfettered economic development. It generally means low taxes on corporations and capital, strong enforcement of property rights, and streamlined regulations. While the US is doing well on that front relative to say Bangladesh, it’s falling behind the other Anglosphere countries (U.K., Canada, New Zealand, Australia).

As to VAT being “unpopular”—that’s a very odd statement. The US is the only OECD country without a VAT. (By contrast, a dozen OECD countries have no taxes at all on long term capital gains.)
Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1190674563774009349.html
I have nothing (to my knowledge) but my opinion on this, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that a majority of people just lack empathy.
I don't see why you're going so ape about it?
Announcing Sshign
If it's required, you add mypy to your CI. Have it run whenever a PR is submitted.
There have been many filings in the past to use them, but only iridium came to fruition.
- Probability and Statistics (I'd argue one should take this

Well, one needs calculus por statistics.
I get your point - it's obviously easier to solve the problem (at least if you want to act ethically) by improving infrastructure.

But that also has the risk of trivializing the problem. Improve infrastructure is hard, especially in a compromised system.
It certainly feels safer. But I could imagine how it would be MUCH more dangerous. It's amazing how much difference even 10 MPH can make in an accident. Stopping distance increases by 25% between 60-70 mph. Keep in mind that the kinetic energy of your vehicle goes up with the square of the velocity. This makes braking much harder at high velocities. Not to mention the damage of a collision is increased accordingly. Surviving an accident at 70 is a lot less than 60.

Also risk to pedestrians goes up REALLY fast. At 30MPH a car has a 10% chance of killing a pedestrian. At 40MPH it's close to 50%.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter8/secti...
https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...
It sounds like you continued to be rarely selected :-)
Rubber concrete that self-seals and is cheaper and more environmentally friendly
Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection
Sorry, my point was that they really wanted the tech to work financially as well, and it's the closest to starlink that we have today. Iridium remains one of those stories for how things can be far more expensive than planned, despite the difficult tech actually working.
Good advice unless a conviction will ruin your life.

For some people, a criminal conviction may be a far worse result than having an administrative 12-month driver's license suspension.

I recall hearing about a local sheriff/police-chief refusing to do a BAC test after an arrest for DUI. It resulted in an acquittal for lack of evidence.
I wouldn't put much concern on that not proven thing. Most vaccines aren't technically proven to work in the way we think about proving things in other areas of science. For starters, vaccines are not required to go through double blind studies. We give you the vaccine and if antibodies show up we say it works.
What is the drowsiness test? The convenient thing about breathalyzers is it provides a quantitative number we can use in judgement. I can't think of a similar test for drowsiness. Maybe there is a blood test? Maybe someone could create a similar device that looks for special metabolites in the breath to provide a measurement for drowsy people?
> Despite the sharp wrangling that the National School Lunch Program often stirs up, the meals coming out of it are more nutritious — and a lot more adventurous — than they were 10 years ago. “It absolutely is a brighter day for school foods,” says Bettina Elias Siegel, a lawyer turned advocate and author of the book “Kid Food.”

> A major federal study recently came to much the same conclusion, finding that school lunches have improved significantly since implementation of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. And the schools with the healthiest menus have the greatest rates of student participation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/food/school-lun...
Show HN: Kotlin String Casing Library
Given the things GP described as being unproductive, things that almost all of us find humanly valuable at a very basic level, perhaps the edifice needs some serious refactoring if that's the case. I love life, I don't love work. Work is part of life, but I can't love life fully if I don't love my work.

A system based on the idea that every member of society must be productive is so hideous and inhuman to me it makes me angry to think of someone seriously propounding this productivist dogma. Why, exactly, is society structured in such a way that most of my waking hours are spent getting ready for work, commuting and working? It's a tragedy to be born, grow up, and spend your days grinding away just to stay alive. That's the one life you have, and I'm wasting it just for the fact of staying alive?

It's no surprise that young people aren't happy with this.
I don't care. All they have to do is not ruin the experience for me, not make everyone else use it.
Does anyone know if the author completed other projects in Ada (or another language)? I'd be interested in reading some code as well as the specs.
Also in the UK (ISP is Virgin), getting similar results: the extended validation ones are the matching but the rest aren't.
The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?
This is absolutely true. Popular European opinion is that the UK is insane to leave the EU. But a huge part of the EU is just swimming in bullshit. I knew many middle class Hungarians whose family friends scored them a nice EU grant to start some sort of business. Obviously 99% of those businesses went nowhere. Rinse and repeat. The irony is that is actually deters real investment because why risk €100k of your own money when the business next door will rip-off your idea with €200k of free EU money.

And that’s not to count the absolutely incredible mid and high level corruption that this article discusses.

Source: lived in Hungary for 5 years
Mruby: Lightweight Ruby
Life seems to have evolved on Earth to expand greedily, because leaving resources on the table just means another organism will use them.

Life on Earth also seems to have solved this problem with predation, where the greedily growing organism becomes a resource for another, newer organism.

If life on Earth were a pyramid scheme, then blue-green algae would be the rulers of the world because they were the early adopters in the scheme. Except there is no legal system that would consider the blue-green algae first in line for payout. It's a free-for-all.

Instead a very late entrant, humans, are the apex predator and are taking resources from every other organism that came before. It's the opposite of a pyramid scheme.

Our social systems make a noble effort to recognize the contributions of those who came before and support them, and increasingly we are extending this support to the larger biome upon which our civilization is built. However that's a fragile conceit of the current age, and will go away if the civilization itself is threatened.

Who is enforcing the laws which transfer wealth from the young to the old? Elderly police officers?

Life will find a way.
Django's is one of the best
Have Californians tried not speeding?
Does it do anything for you if you're already infected but not cancerous? or is it merely prevention from infection?
> Government spending in capitalist countries creates returns to capital. Financing that spending almost entirely through taxes on labor, as the US does today, means that government spending is (in part) a direct transfer from labor to capital.

You’re engaging in a slight of hand. Leaving aside capital gains taxes, returns on capital are taxed as income when companies pay dividends. So the income tax covers both returns to labor and returns to capital.
> Speaking as someone who recently was finally able to buy in the Bay Area, repealing prop 13 would screw everyone in my position

No it wouldn't; if you've recently brought, your property taxes would go down. What it would mean is that the people who bought in the '80s who would have to step up so that you both paid the same, rather than you carrying them.

> and do nothing to make real estate more available.

Of course it would: it would force a lot of people (particularly older non-working people) to sell up, making a lot more housing available to those who have a greater need/desire to live there now but aren't fortunate enough to have moved in decades ago.

> I agree that it is ‘unfair’ but making it more ‘fair’ would just harm all the people who have actually made it work for them.

The first-order effect would be zero-sum, but the current market distortion leads to inefficient allocation at second order. So levelling the playing field would be a net gain.

> Most people who own property in the Bay Area are not predatory landlords.

People who benefit from prop 13 are at best getting an unearned windfall.
Because we need to get over the idea that boys and men are expendable, and only women and children deserve protection
That doesn’t speak to why the employer should do this rather than government.

When employers provide this social good they will inevitably call some of the shots; why should their voice have influence on this matter?

To me, this is similar to the public coming to the feeling that digital public spaces are worthy, but then the conversation turns to whether Facebook should be the one doing it...
More die of cold than radiation after Japan tsunami
How long was she originally going to take off, and how long did after this tragic loss happened did the company ask that she return?
> Containers are not programs. And even they were, they absolutely do not adhere to the Unix philosophy.

They are programs (barring some semantic nitpickery about "programs run in containers"), and like programs, we can't make blanket statements about whether or not they implement the Unix philosophy. Some do and others don't.

> I've heard this enough times and seen enough K8s systems in production that I'm labeling this "fluff". K8s is an operating system in the same way that "everything is everything". K8s is software that manages containers and their resources.

Yep, like I said, an analogy: "An operating system is software that manages processes and their resources". By definition, the operands of an analogy are different, so if your thing is taking any analogy and calling "gotcha!" because you found some differences, then I'm afraid you're missing the point.

> From Wikipedia:
>> An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
> You can generalize "software resources" as container resource limits. You can generalize "common services" as the network and filesystem layers. And you can generalize "computer hardware" as kernel configuration on the control plane.
> All of these are purpose built abstractions built on top of the real operating systems. By that logic you could call any virtual environment or virtual machine an operating system. And if that's the true then the comparison isn't useful at all.

That's quite the straw man.
child, spouse, parent and sibling should be covered, imo.
Generally a good strategy for dropping columns or tables is to rename them instead (e.g. `table_deprecated`).

If things look stable after whatever time you deem necessary, you can write a second migration to actually drop them.

If you run into issues, your down migration simply undoes the rename.
I think this is a particularly bad way of dealing with problems. We have trials, laws and regulations for a reason; causing permanent effects on people's lives based on a single article is wrong in my opinion.

I'm saying this while also thinking that what the company did (according to the article) is despicable and insensitive.
Australia is an interesting example of the politics of inheritance taxes. We used to have them until a conservative state government abolished them in 1978, which triggered a race to the bottom – abolition in all other states. It’s easier to move states than countries, especially if you have no job or children in school, and the federal government does not have the constitutional authority to impose an inheritance tax of its own. The abolition campaign was assisted by using the term “death duties” and framing the tax as a punishment for those grieving the loss of a family member. I think the idea is still extremely unpopular as a result.
I was selected for jury duty on a DUI case. Interestingly, there was also a lawyer selected. After hearing the case we were all moved to a room to deliberate.

After electing the lawyer as foreman, we proceeded with a preliminary vote on how we felt about the case presented. Only two people voted not-guilty, me and the lawyer. I discovered that the average person on a jury has a great deal of trouble with evidence. It was really quite troubling. For example, one person said “I’m a parent and so I vote guilty because I’m really against drunk driving.”, what sort of reasoning is that?

In the end, we acquitted the defendant. She was arrested after pulling out of a bar’s parking lot (because she spun her tires on the gravel as she pulled onto the street ??). The arresting officer took her downtown to be tested. She passed the videoed sobriety test there (walking a triangle marked path backwards while counting or saying the alphabet, etc.) In the jury room we all found the test quite difficult when we tried it, she did it perfectly.

She blew right on the line, .08 if I recall, but it was one hour after leaving the bar before she took the test. So her blood alcohol could have been higher or lower when she was arrested depending on the timing of her last drink. The lab tech was unable to describe the accuracy of the machine and clearly had a pat description of the subject taking the test that was designed to validate their guilt. Likewise the arresting officer wasn’t very believable and had his Mom in the car with him (?).
"Oligarch" seems to mean "Nominated billionaire".
if only.

where I live, school opens at the earliest time teachers and parents can be awake due to schools not being big enough to accommodate the amount of pupils, children be damned.
Benghazi Burner
Global warming takes too long. Financial and political systems are unstable on shorter time scales.

Current events are paralleling the late 1800s. Interest rates are very low, just as British Consol bonds were earning 2.75% in the late 1800s. The dominant British Empire was shifting from free trade to protectionism within the Commonwealth system as Germany rose, just as the dominant US is shifting from free trade to protectionism as China rises.
Are you including the NHS in that comparison?
When you have a compiler/transpiler the process typically is done in two steps, running a type checker on the code and then the actual compilation (which could be split into more steps). When you run mypy, you're doing the first step.

The types you define in TypeScript you similarly define in Pythin, they just call them annotations, and there's an option to reference them at runtime, but mypy doesn't work at runtime (perhaps that's where the confusion is from?)
This is true if human productivity is the only thing driving growth. The suggestion here is that automation replaces that human input as most jobs are actually more about supporting the innovation rather than innovation itself - if you remove the need for those supporting jobs many, many more people can work on the innovation bit instead. Society would benefit greatly.

Some people, maybe even most, won't actually achieve much or contribute anything to the furthering of the human race, but that cost is worth paying for if enough actually do. We probably have hundreds of Einsteins, Turings, and Musks working in the roles supporting the innovators because they can't get out of those roles. That's bad for all of us.
An inheritance tax feels like heaping extra punishment on those who die young or their families. A wealth tax feels fairer.
Position is filled now, thanks.
I think a link to the historical record backs me up.
Looking at my HMO's website it seems like the vaccine is not recommended for males over 26. The CDC also backs this up. Does this mean those of us over 26 are screwed? Is there anything we can do to check for cancers to catch an infection early?
But is it true? The numbers feel awfully skewed - common sense tells me can't be right. Then I did a Google search, found this:

"The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care" from 2015

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638261/

they report that 13% is spent during the last year(!) of life.

Also, just like with retirement benefits, the real question, did beneficiary paid for it nor not? Frequently these numbers are tossed around as these were "free handouts" - but we do pay for these all the time - and of course since it is insurance there will be people that get out more of it than others.

That makes either neither unfair nor something that should be fixed. It is working as intended.
Generalizations don’t support Warren’s claim in particular.
Crossing my eyes lets me see it instantly.
Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006)
Part of the quandary is that the individual employee is often acting ethically by getting paid only for their contribution to the technical advantage of the product, while the corporate profits may be driven by something less scrupulous.
Bahahaha, your tests really aren't ‘best’.

Properly, if your code has an ‘if’, you need two tests, for the two branches. Same with every place the outcome may diverge. With this approach, it's basically impossible to botch the code unless something slips your mind while writing both the code and the tests. Otherwise, it's pretty much ‘deploy and go home.’
Why does it matter? Most men don't get to have sex and have no choice. Just look at tinder, women have all choice and so why most men should foot the bill for those enjoying sex the most?

My friends and me aren't having sex - we get no matches on tinder. Prostitute is illegal in my state. We are choosing to be monk and most men are experiencing same.

So why should we foot the bill?
The devices can be good at determining if alcohol is in the blood. Maybe they aren't exact. But they can help keep drunk driving from being so dangerous.

Of course a particular person may perform better when drunk. The law just sets a number (0.02? 0.08 would be dead drunk in any state in the US) which doesn't prove a person is impaired or not. It just lets lawyers argue.
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