skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Joe Biden denied any wrongdoing by his son

I do not care about Joe Biden. He's a disheveled artifact of pretty much everything wrong with the Democrat party. You can criticize him all you want and I'll agree with you but please stop presenting this as though it means anything about the vast majority of the Democrat party, which again, is not supporting him.

> Elizabeth Warren has also been reluctant to condemn what looks like obvious corruption, which is notable, given that that's one of her signature issues.

What "looks like corruption" that she hasn't condemned?

> But what makes you think the truth police themselves won't be corrupt?

You say this as though corruption isn't fought off regularly in basically all functions of Government? And that's not say we're totally free of corruption, because well, yeah. But in general the country gets along okay. It's not stellar and could be improved quite a lot, but in the grand scheme, roads are maintained, government workers are paid, government contractors get paid, our sewage and water systems (in most places) are fine, our electrical grid is pretty standard.

You know it's easy to get disillusioned and say our Government as a whole is a shitheap, but honestly, we're doing okay. Certainly well enough to say that just because something the Government does might be influenced by corruption isn't reason enough, by itself, to not even try.

And this idea that mass media should be policed for something resembling accuracy and honesty means the first amendment is dead is just ridiculous false dichotomy. We police speech CONSTANTLY. Spreading information you know to be false about a person is already covered under the law as libel, and in order to put that law to someone speaking requires THOROUGH, WELL DOCUMENTED evidence, it's not just something that gets thrown around, other than by people who don't understand what it really is. We police speech that incites violence, again requiring thorough proof as we do for any crime. In my mind, there's no difference between that, nor any requirement for the "Truth Police," and going to a place like a talk radio station and say "This host on this date espoused a thoroughly debunked viewpoint that has been proven false, demonstrably, with data, multiple studies, and testimony from experts all over the country. Because of this we're assessing your station a $50,000 fine, and $5,000 per day additionally that this host is on the air and has not yet fully retracted this statement, and accepted that they have been spreading misinformation."
Apparently there will be exceptions for encouraging voter registration. But will people be able to target these ads in ways that blatantly (or subtly) target members of a particular party?

Can I promote a tweet encouraging people in a particular state to register to vote? Probably. What if I target people who like the NRA or Planned Parenthood? Same question for voter turnout tweets ("don't forget to vote tomorrow!"). The devil is in the details.
Good luck with that. Anything that can put in a good light some public policy or is remotely related to some politician can be seen as political ad.

Politicians already make use of that kind of veiled advertising with hot button issues. And there's a reason sometimes campaigns are mostly the same at the core except for PROBLEM X WHICH MUST BE SOLVED NOW OR WE ALL DIE.
What do you feel is cryptic about TOML? I always felt it was pretty straightforward, especially if you're coming from INI (you could feed INI files into a TOML parser and most of the time end up with something somewhat sane, especially if you're using octothorpes instead of semicolons as comments).

That aside, I'm personally a big fan of using Tcl-like / shell-like syntax for configuration, since it enables some pretty rich and expressive config directives while not being insanely verbose like most attempts at using XML for this. It's one of the things I really like with OpenBSD's various subprojects like PF¹ and OpenSMTPD² and relayd/httpd³, and I'm semi-actively working on a way to do similar things in Erlang/OTP applications⁴. The only alternative that matches that level of expressiveness (besides just doing all configuration directly in the host language) is s-expressions.

¹: https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf

²: https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf

³: https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.conf.5 / https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.conf.5

⁴: https://otpcl.github.io
If they were going to fake footage why would they have allowed broken cameras? I'd also bet it's not really that easy to get fake footage into their security system even if you could produce it.
Please do. A simple list of things a CS person should know in order to be useful in a biotech context would be a good starter.

I like to start with some books and simple experiments at home, but have no idea where to begin.

In the past, I thought about going back to college. But I wasted enough of my time there and am still burned. Just give me the relevant bits, skip the fat. But I guess you really need some lab experience to really get biotech and that is not something you just get by yourself.
How do I get a job in /this/ area? I couldn't care much to do JavaScript programming, but this is awesome.
Thanks for the story. I can imagine that, as I said

> creating a glorified Excel for some specific office tasks

What I'm interested in is cases of using Access for something other than a specific office task - it seems Access is still used for some serious business in many businesses (pun not intended).
have it wrong though: they get plenty of compensation through reputation, clout, and a feeling of power over their peers

That sounds a lot like the "social influencer" pitches to get free stuff in return for "exposure".
Can the NRA ask for donations?
Robust Interprocess Locks
OO/LO "Base" is a pile crap in my opinion.

People often develop smallish CRUD apps in MS-Access in two weeks or less. It's up and going without fuss and muss and without fiddling with servers, containers, DBA's, etc.

You have to admire its nimbleness.

Yes, the database "crashes" fairly often, but it's easy to make frequent round-robin-style file-based backups using Windows Scheduler and DOS scripts.

Most databases cannot be properly backed up with file-based techniques because of syncing of internal pointers. But MS-Access's separate "lock-file" based technique somehow facilitates file-based backups.

Such MS-Access apps are far from perfect, but if you factor in everything, they seem to be a net benefit.

I'd probably do a web app myself

If follow-on maintainers don't know the web framework used, it can be hard to maintain. Web apps are rarely nimble to do without an involved framework on which the developer is familiar with. MS-Access avoids that problem with ubiquity and a light drag-and-drop learning curve. (It did get harder to learn when they went from coordinate-based to an HTML-esque flow engine around 2006.)

Let's face it, desktop GUI IDE's are usually much easier to learn than web stuff. You don't have to deal with the web's lack of state, and CSS/DOM/JS headaches/bugs/inconsistencies.
Ah, okay. A proxy.

I know some things are changing, but we still have a long way to go. We've been building a certain kind of urban fabric a long time and it will take time to remedy the problems that have grown out of that fact.
I'm not taking shots at qualifications. I only say that people should be defined by what they spend the majority of their time doing, not their job title.

Sabine has more qualifications than me, but like Michio Kaku and NDT, she now spends most of her time promoting a certain message to the public in a very one-sided way. That's why I called her a popularizer. Like Michio Kaku, she can afford to spend the time on that, and I can't.
Can’t speak for this one, but I have the Mavic 1 and 2 and both can handle very high winds well IMO.
And doing so without losing altitude.

A drone needs to tilt to work against the wind, but this also increases its wind loading.
The Indian nuclear program has a long history of being thwarted by intelligence agencies. Not unexpected, considering the ramifications of nuclear military power.

In the past, it was the scientists of the program who were targeted, and were killed mysteriously. [0]

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qbepmd/why-are-indian-aut...
I have a close relative who is a pedophile. I still give them my time. Don't underestimate human compassion, regardless of your value judgement on it.
Free speech is not a minority only issue, and just about all expression is political to someone. As a heads up, there is no need to educate me on free speech expectations as they pertain to private entities versus the state, it is still reprehensible to me that people accustomed to living in a free society advocate for this kind wide-scale silencing of views they disagree with.
Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged at Elite Schools
"Use it or lose it" is not a new discovery.
> It absolutely is in 100% of vape liquids.

There are vape liquids without nicotine.
Different approaches. Poetry structure can be all over the place from almost non-existent to something like a sonnet. The power in poetry I think is trying to find surprising imagery to express the point, and that shift in perception is what this article is arguing for.

Is there value in free writing? Of course. I've done morning pages. I've also done free writing when struggling with problems in multiple realms (code and prose/novel writing). But sometimes it simply doesn't push you hard enough compared to the forced perception change.

You can certainly TRY to create that change in free writing, but then are you REALLY free writing, since you are limiting what you put on the page?
I've worked in multiple organizations that run small Access apps here and there and for us the main cost is just sitting down and doing it.

My last job was at an HR company and things were historically done through Access and spreadsheets, until an IT guy came along and started writing C# web apps, rose in prominence and now runs a small internal software team. I worked for that guy.

It's not terribly politically difficult to convert existing applications, but it's mind numbing work and it's bottom priority. There's not a huge need to change something that already works, and the only reason you do it is you know it can't stay like that forever.
Yeah, do call me out if I'm still this arrogant in 10 years. ;-)
Ya I've seen those, that's completely crazy.
However shouldn’t the president have a “megaphone?” In the old days, when a president spoke, the media would “interpret” what he said. Politicians being able to speak directly to the population is a good thing.
We've learned that you can't get around the law (eg. court orders) "because blockchain". The government has shown us that the law prevails.
Relevant for what?
Your suggestions would lead to absolute paralysis, as you are advocating against using basic plausibility tests before pursuing any hypothesis.
I love it when classical history is discussed on HN! When we realize our civilization is thousands of years old, it is easier to imagine it lasting thousands more years.

I highly recommend that people make use of original source material when making an argument so that you can contribute constructively. The original sources are FUN to read -- we are lucky that the internet makes this so accessible.

I like the Perseus project, because it has almost everything. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
Its definitely anecdata. My surviving Grandfather has lost two wives (both active as he was) to cancer, so his life style alone does not confer longevity.

That does not mean the will to live is not real, and those without out it fade much faster.
Let’s not forget those teams still using FileMaker.
Prison isn't volunteer labor. Its compulsory. I.e. Slavery and the exception built into the constitution.
Grassroots movements don't spend money on ads. They are the viral.. spread naturally and don't have an ad manager or staff.

Once you start paying for ads you are an organization.
Are they stating that SAT, ACT are discriminatory because some schools took bribes? Isn't that a different problem all together; in that, a school accepted a bribe? If the SAT/ACT are removed, won't the bribery problem just move to bypass something else?
In all fairness, I have not read this yet. But my initial thought process when I see "a protocol for distributed transactions across microservices" involves a dose of skepticism. If you need distributed transactions across microservices, why not just provide an XA compliant interface, and then plug in to an existing transaction manager? And, probably more to the point, while EBay specifically might need "real" distributed transactions, I suspect that most organizations rarely - if ever - need distributed transactions across microservices, and should instead use the Saga Pattern[1].

[1]: https://microservices.io/patterns/data/saga.html
> We are talking about a region of Spain that in 1978 voted YES to approve the Spanish constitution.

More reductionist argument. Catalonia, and any other region in Spain voted between a constitution and a possible new dictatorship. Trying to imply that, since a group of people signed something 40 years ago, everybody in that region is rejecting their rights not explicitly expressed in that constitution is dishonest. And what is worst, the argument seems to be made that it will remain like this forever or until the majority of Spain decides. Again, the tyranny of the majority.

> the right of self determination does not apply to it when it's an autonomous region

The right of self determination is not yours (or Ban Ki-Moon) to give, it is for people to take.

> that is part of a functioning modern democracy

Clearly it doesn't function that well, or most [1] Catalans wouldn't be so eager to leave.

[1] http://icps.cat/recerca/sondeigs-i-dades/sondeigs/sondeigs-d...
as a variable name, wouldn't it have been prefixed with $ ?

the XML parsing was probably the biggest BC change I hit between 4 and 5.
Or the law is perfectly clear, but the police and prosecutors pick and choose which cases they put forward.

Or the intensity of enforcement varies in the first place.

And chances are you’re doing something else illegal anyway.

Or can be followed until you do.

And if you don’t, there’s always the routine traffic stop.
I wonder how many people became actual programmers due to Access. I feel like MS can't remove it just like you can't remove the second rung of a ladder.
That's is roughly how it's done in Reagent[1]/re-frame[2]:

[:div "The" [:a {:href "https://www.json.org/"} "JSON format"]
" was invented by " [:em "Douglas Crockford"] "."]

The fact that EDN[3] supports keywords makes it a bit easier to parse. Representing HTML in EDN this way was first done in a library called Hiccup[4], so it’s usually called “Hiccup” even when encountered outside of the original library.

1: https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/

2: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

3: https://github.com/edn-format/edn

4: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
Excellent, something I definitely don't have to worry about.
Fair, if it's a specific stock and a specific event affecting that company, I don't have so much of a quibble with that (although it could still well be that 0.2 of that selloff is because of the event and the remaining 0.8 is because the first 0.2 sold.)

I'm more thinking of the "Markets are down 1% today because of uncertainty associated with the China trade"-style reports.
The point though is that this isn't Access's fault. If Access didn't exist, those people wouldn't be magically replaced by expert DBAs who knew how to set up a perfect solution in Postgres or whatever. They'd be the same people, except hacking together some Rube Goldberg machine in Excel or Google Spreadsheets, with even worse functionality and none of the AD controls that Access at least gives you.
Perfect timing! Just as the UK election campaign kicks off, they ban advertising for it so we can hopefully finally see a partial reduction to the lazy journalism of "reporting" on how people are reacting to Party X's ads on twitter.

Journalists and politicians seem to put a lot more emphasis on twitter than most people seem to care about.
I updated my comment to include Six Colors's article, which has more year-over-year graphs
I was wondering why it was only a handful of airlines! Thanks for the insight.
For gauging what could justifiably be called "how often the population bikes" without becoming clickbait.
The original population of the United States is Native Americans. Is that who you meant when you said "original population"?

Or to put it another way, brown people who speak Spanish, for example, have been in North America just as long as white people who speak English...

Actually, the more I think about it, the more curious I am about who you think the "original population" of the United States is, and why
> The problem is, once you introduce a non-logical predicate, everything in the call stack "above" it is tainted and rendered non-logical.

That's a very general statement. The non-logical behavior can be well-contained and unobservable from the outside. For example, the nice and pure if_/3 internally uses both of the non-logical predicates (->)/2 and (==)/2. Yet viewed from the outside it doesn't taint anything.

> And at that point you step back and ask why you're even using prolog.

As I wrote above, because I think even used imperatively it's a very convenient language for expressing matching and transformation of trees. And DCGs are great as well, I agree.
You'll want to have a refueling SLA on that generator.

The risk profile as of a month or so ago now includes short-notice extended multiple-day intentional power-outs from the utility service itself.
Without the limitation of liability, there will only be one entity left willing to run the company: the public.
I have not used it in over 10 years but it used to be great back in the day when Excel was not enough but more expensive SQL databases were too much.
> Here lies the danger of arguing from a position of zero knowledge.

> 30 miles is my warm up/recovery distance

That's absurd and you know it. Possibly spoken from someone that doesn't actually cycle, or is greatly exaggerating. You ride 1-2 hours for a warm-up/cool-down? You expect regular people to ride 1-2 hours to work each day?

You expect to maintain 20-30mph pacing with stop signs, street lights, riding on regular city streets? Completely absurd and out of touch with reality. That's insane pacing - that's race pacing.

Most cyclists will do 20-30 miles for an entire ride. Sometimes exceeding that, but certainly not doing 60 miles a day (3-4 hours a day) 5 days a week. That is, unless, you're training for something... which a daily commuter going to an office job isn't.

Not to mention if you're someone doing that kind of mileage, you likely own a bike that costs as much as a car, but is far harder to "park" securely, doesn't work well in the rain, and requires you to carry work clothing, laptops, paperwork, groceries, and more on your back.

> 80% of the US population lives within an urban area.

Source? If you're citing the WaPo article which cites Census data - they're lumping Suburban and Urban together and calling it just Urban - that's super disingenuous.

Most people live in suburban areas. There are certainly dense population areas in true urban areas (SF, NY, Seattle, LA, etc), but that's not 80% of the nation. Not even close.

> I live in the suburbs. When I have an early meeting, I ride to the train station.

You probably work at an area near the train station then - perhaps a Downtown location or similar. What if this commute required multiple trains hops, with distance between the train stations because you're commuting 3 cities over for work each day? Feasible? Sure... but now you've taken an hour long commute and turned it into 3 hours each way. That's not feasible for most people.

This narrative falls flat when faced with actual working circumstances for many people... outside the ideal "just take the train" scenario. What if there's not even a train?
The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’
According to the study, it sounds like the cause is not early retirement, but a decrease in the amount of social and mental activities.

Those two things don't have to go hand in hand. Personally, I'm looking forward to retirement because it will afford me more time to engage in social and mental activities.
For a public cloud replacement, try
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> Don't worry, it's configurable.

As a related aside, it's amazing the number of people who earnestly believe that macOS comes with a completely locked down set of options/preferences that you cannot change at all.
usually they submit all possible grounds for claims and the court rules on each one, no? I doubt they went as far as the appeals court and forget to include a possible way to claim compensation.
The same reason people fetishize pirates, astronauts and jedi. They represent a niche symbol that doesn't have a compare. The historical truth of Sparta is important to know, but the symbol is a separate thing. The spirit of the hold-out warrior who's heroic society succeeds and fails, is interesting in many different ways.

I think it's good people know about and integrate the spartan story into their own world view, there's a lot of cautionary tales in there for those that believe you could ever succeed at having such a radical worldview as the Spartans maintained. The unpleasantness of the fan is directly proportional to how much they need to learn the lessons of the past and the folly of that mindset. There are also lessons about aspects of masculinity, femininity and most of life that stories like Sparta can be a useful reflection tool.

Sparta is a small moment in a large pantheon of stories that make people better people. Even to the most cynical view, it's better these unpleasant people explore this mindset in art than to carry out the actions in their full in real life.
We actually do... https://www.thebalancecareers.com/should-tv-stations-ban-fal...

For social media to start fact checking ads is actually a big change, but maybe the right thing to do, even if it's hard.
Yeah they did. After being bought by Bezos they made a number of changes that have been for the better. They've turned a profit over the last few years based on their growing subscriber base and their digital publishing business.

Of course they've built it all using AWS and I would love to learn more about how they leverage that platform.
The advantage has been explained well by the sibling comments. They are not promising such a big dividend that they can’t invest cash into increased operations and R&D.

A company that is primarily valued for its dividend is one that has promised such a big dividend that it risks cutting the dividend when it has to grow or fix problems (like GE.) Maestri is not going to let that happen, which is why they are approaching net cash zero carefully over time and majorly using buybacks, which do not set the same expectation for investors as dividends.
Obviously such questions were manipulative grandstanding. The only way to win the political rhetoric game is not to play. That's what twitter is doing.
The history is that apple had a crazy cash position partly because of the need to keep cash overseas to avoid tax on repatriation. What they did was borrow against that overseas cash to get US based on dollars.

Cash neutral doesn't relate to growth, if you grew you'd need to increase cash to cover working capital needs generally (ie, Apple first has to pay for parts, inventory, factories, staff for them etc before it gets revenue from sales).

Excess cash above this - it can be argued is not useful for apple to hold. Ie, investors can earn as much on cash as apple AND might want to invest it in things that theoretically could earn more - especially now with low interest rates. They can get to cash neutral a couple of ways. Because gross net income is going down, share buybacks one option - they've already been doing lots of that. Dividends is another. Pushing a bit on R&D might be another. No rush on that change.