skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems pretty cool. Great website, too. A couple comments that prevent me from signing up...

First, my retirement funds are things I'm _very_ protective over. Aside from a blurb saying "We use a third party service with bank-level encryption to connect your accounts," I don't have any reason to trust this site. What's the 3rd party? Can you link to them? Why should I trust you _and_ them? The idea of giving your site access to my bank accounts is... scary to say the least. You need something on the landing page to walk-through how this wouldn't allow someone at your company to somehow empty my accounts. ;-)

Second, the site seems to imply knowledge of actions possible that aren't obvious. For example, my employer sets up a 401K through an investment firm (like Fidelity). I have no choice in that. Likewise, Fidelity charges a set rate, of which there's nothing I can do. My choice is to either participate or not. Unless the site is potentially looking into extra charges (by fund?) that I can switch, or multiple 401K accounts from past jobs that I can roll-over or do something else with, I'm not sure what this service offers besides telling me what I already know?

Assuming there is plenty of choices I do have control over (re: second comment), it would be nice to enumerate what some of those would be on the landing page or even put together a little animated video describing the problem, what options an employee may not know they have available to them, how the site (read-only, and hopefully not saving anything) collects information about the accounts, and can present me with information and options that "with a click of a button" can save me money.

Great idea! Hope these comments help.
Evidence for your claim regarding DDG?
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Just the fact of the competition is a good thing. And even if DDG is but a drop in the bucket, it appears that they've made a difference.

Having been a DDG user since pretty much the beginning, I watched their zero-click results evolve, and it very much looks to me like this innovation drove much of Google's current search experience.
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If he likes board games, you might want to try Tabletop Simulator and writing some simple scripting for games that he invents. (It uses lua)

It's the fastest environment to go from zero to ”something cool” that I know about. And using the steam workshop, there are literally tens of thousands of games and projects with various different types of game pieces, scripted dice, etc. already created there.

Also quite cheap at around $20. And right now, half off. https://steamcommunity.com/app/286160
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Firebase is a hosted database. Where does a dev tool begin and end? Is Slack a dev tool? Is HN? Where do you draw the line?
The second link is broken.
The EU is too slow to react, lots of disagreement, lots of debating.
Why is it off topic?

You have politicians passing bills for medical procedures that don’t exist.

It is literally a fictional procedure that is being sneakily added to the law and policy before thanksgiving. For the second time in the last three years.

May I ask this out of curiosity? Do you think it is ‘off topic’ because it makes you uncomfortable?

‘Murder charges’ for failure to do the impossible and fictional medical procedures would make me uncomfortable.
medicine is about to undergo major transformations, not only because of new tools and ML, but there just aren't enough doctors for an aging planet

hackspaces may work if automated diagnosis proves decent for most common ailments, and doctors will have to become a lot more specialized in difficult cases
I tried DDG within the last year. And I tried really hard. But I used !G about 25% of the time.

Then I switched to ecosia.org, I know it is a front-end for Bing. But it is clean interface and the search results are more in-line with what Google would return. In months I have had to use Google for search arount ten times in the last month. And that was to find stuff I already searched on Google. But I knew what I was looking for was obvious.
I don't trust doctors because most are in it for just the money. So, they already are going against the "oath" and then they don't know a lot of things like you mentioned. Sure, some are smart, the smart ones normally let you talk and then they research whatever it was that you have.
Yeah it’s not inspired by adapton. Plus, they work differently. Their data flow in opposite directions.
That editing text files on mobile sucks, whereas selecting a date with the date selector, toggling an item as done with a checkbox click etc are much better...
I work as a doctor (in the UK) in a hand injury clinic and see tens of hand and finger injuries a day, including a lot of fingers slammed in doors.

Whilst you are correct that trephining a nail (making a hole) to relieve the subungal haematoma (blood under the nail) beneath isn't a very skilled procedure, that's not why we see these patients. Most of the time, it is a simple straightforward injury requiring simple treatment. But a significant amount of the time there is an underlying open fracture of the distal phalanx (bone at end of finger) which can lead to a severe, potentially finger-threatening infection. There are also often nail bed injuries which without repair will lead to nail deformities.

There are a lot of injuries I have seen with delayed presentation where patients felt they knew what to do and wanted to save themselves the time of visiting the hospital (as there is no additional financial cost to healthcare in the UK). Many of these delays have led to severe infection requiring hospitalisation and surgery which would not have been required if they had visited promptly, or presenting past the point where we can fix e.g. a mallet finger, displaced fracture, etc.

As in all fields, there is a danger in not knowing what you don't know.
Of course Xi stopped Pooh Bear jokes in public space in mainland China. I am not sure what you are talking about.

CPP police always know the small towns of the most robocall farms and phonescam bases. The reason they do not stop those is because local polices take share from crime money, which also contributes to local economy.

If the CCP gang really wants to stop robocalls and phonescams, they only need to send a task force team from the central agencies. Then they can close all the roads around those small towns and shut down all the phone towers, and then capture all the criminals in a few days. There is no need to use AI for this kind of stuff.

Again, it is simply laughable to think Xi's gang care about robocalls and phonescams. They have too many other things to care about.
Dunno if lead acetate is/was sweet, or the lead just scavenged the acetic acid that was making the wine bad.
The line width (number of characters per line) is way too long. You should aim for 50-60 characters per line in a column for maximum legibility.

See (for example) this: https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html
You think San Francisco is in Jackson Hole's class? I disagree, strongly. I would also consider places like Breckenridge to be above San Francisco.

But I would accept "not a major city" as ruling out Jackson Hole and Breckenridge, because in fact they are not major cities.

I might accept San Francisco as being above Salt Lake, but not by much. I might consider Seattle to be as good as San Francisco.
I disagree. Fortunately for me, I have the benefit of the Second Amendment, which shifts the burden squarely to those who would deny the right, presumably by further constitutional amendment.
> And we don't just leave it up to the parents in those situations either.

...well, with beer we often do, in the US, at least: https://www.alcohol.org/laws/underage-drinking/
Which language was this written in
When you start looking into all of this, it's interesting to see how many ways there are to represent numbers in a computer. It isn't actually obvious or trivial at all, there is no one "true" or "accurate" representation, and they all had to be invented by past computer scientists!

If you're not a bank or similar but just dealing with currency to buy and sell things like for ecommerce, the default semantics of a fixed point type (like postgres 'money' type) or "arbitrary precision floating point" type like ruby's BigDecimal or are probably good enough, and just fine in a way that IEEE-754 floating point definitely are NOT. And probably don't require any additional business side decisions or involve any significant gotchas. Just using them instead of IEEE-754 floating point and not thinking too hard after that is probably just fine.

https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.5.1/libdoc/bigdecimal/rdoc/Big...

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/datatype-money.html

If you ARE a bank or something similar -- I wouldn't know, I haven't done that! A relevant question: Am I concerned with specifying exactly how fractional pennies get rounded?
Bitcoin startup RSK launches $200k grant program for dapp developers
Addition/subtraction are also much simpler/cheaper than they would be in an entirely logarithmic model. If floats were just 2^x with some 64 bit fixed point x, it's not clear to me how to do addition efficiently.
Was there ever a pizza place in the 600 West building? All I remember in the sandwich place (Snarf's?)
⅓ to 3 decimal places is 0.333. 0.333 + 0.333 = 0.666, which is not ⅔ (to 3 decimal places, that is 0.667). That is all that is happening with the 0.1 + 0.2.

The word you're looking for is "surprising," which is a far cry from non-deterministic. IEEE 754 is so thoroughly deterministic that there exists compiler flags whose sole purpose is to say "I don't care that my result is going to be off by a couple of bits from IEEE 754."
further tightening of the belt (stream rate reduced already) occuring due to a bad financing deal at Soundcloud.

To be clear: they are not "struggling" but have gotten involved with predatory lenders.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/11/soundcloud-saved/
Amazon's EC2 hourly prices are rounded to mils ($0.011/hour).

https://aws.amazon.com/emr/pricing/

Azure has some hourly prices with ten-thousandths of a cent ($0.0102/hour):

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

Microsoft should use gas station 9/10 pricing conventions to just barely undercut Amazon's lowest price $0.011 with $0.0109.

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/11/why-do-gas-prices-end...

>“They found out that if you priced your gas 1/10 of a cent below a break point, let’s say 40 cents a gallon, ‘.399’ just looked to the public like 39 cents…”
There is much less "government compulsion" in the US, but in its place is still de facto compulsion. In general, comparisons with the US are difficult because in the US large corporations are given the power of defining much of societal policy.

Saying that "Facebook/Google etc aren't supposed to share the data with the government" only makes sense in some abstract sense of it wasn't supposed to be like this. But power tends to coalesce - the only "supposed to" is in some abstract moral stewardship sense, a responsibility that has been long forgotten by the business community, if it ever existed in the first place. Facebook/Google want to agglomerate data from the financial surveillance bureaus, and the (nominal) government buys the proceeds from both of them in a "free market" transaction. And then on the output/control side, companies use these surveillance databases to weed out "undesirable" customers, with their competitors following in lock step lest they end up with even more undesirables.
I showed vintage Mister Rogers to my 21st-century kids
Andrew already has a PR to fix this issue https://github.com/django/django/pull/12172
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Also did it in an InPrivate window to confirm, which is still somewhat targeted but far less so than on my actual account. It's still first.

And, at the end of the day, even if there's a filter bubble and it's the reason I see it first, then so what? The people looking for this site are likely going to fit into the same set of targeted demographics as you and me and most people on this site. So unless you also want to cater to 65-year old retirees that don't care about computer science and what floating numbers are, then why does the filter bubble even matter?
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We're currently looking for engineers across multiple positions, including both those who are backend- and frontend-leaning. Our stack includes Python, Rust, and Javascript/Typescript (React), and we write everything from D3 visualizations to low-level bioinformatics algorithms. We are also hiring microbiologists/computational biologists.

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This is what I'm using now, and it seems to be working well although I'll point out that it is nagware. I'll put up with the intermittent begging for donations over ads, in-app purchases, and data mining you'd find on other apps.
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It appears to give me one pixel per click of the wheel
Which US states attract people and which do they leave?
I have to agree with you. All leaders before him are pretty well educated for their time being.
> The code looks almost like it is declarative. But really it's just Dart code

I need to figure out how to express this better in the future, but if you swap "Dart" for "Rust," this sentence applies to moxie as well. It's what I mean when I say that the callgraph of functions is used for structure.
Rich people tend to be more beloved after they retire from actively running their companies.

See: Gates, Morgan, Carnegie
Sometimes auto-conversion (esp with all the TLDs and gTLDs) has weird outcomes:
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"Rudy Giuliani accuses Twitter of bias for hyperlinking text" |
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This is a good job for someone who is excited about startups and interested in learning more about them. You've likely worked at or started a startup, or want to do so in the future. Also, the team has a lot of individual responsibility and access to sensitive information, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgement is particularly important to us.

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You can append the !g at the end!
eslint does this for JavaScript with the no-warning-comment rule. The general idea there goes something like "don't use code comments as a project management tool," but I tend to use eslint as a reminder to finish things for my current PR.

Also it occurred to me you could use grep or rg, something like...

rg '\s*//\s*TODO'
Alternately:

> Developers are turning to Stack Overflow to fill in gaps in their training

There's a lot of garbage channels on YouTube, but there's no shortage of knowledgeable people too.

Nobody knows everything, and it turns out there are people on the internet who know things we don't.
patent troll
Facebook AI Flags Picture of Apple Powermac G4 for Sexual Content
Other companies are building them but they're building CCS chargers. Tesla's still using its proprietary plug in North America. Tesla should switch their cars and chargers to CCS (and allow other EVs to use them) to broaden the charging infrastructure for all drivers.
I met one person with Tourette's in College. He threw out profanities randomly throughout the course I was taking. The professor was black (and a super nice guy) so he got the brunt of the racial profanity but he understood the condition and took it in stride.
Ask HN: How does my android device know my weather without location perms?
I've disabled every location setting I can find on the device, both general location and the specific options to share with google, and it's still giving me weather.

Are they just ignoring the setting?
> discounted because of where you live?

OTOH this acts as a market valuation of the increased value that that location's workers provide. Of course, if down the road the worker doesn't prove to hold up to this standard, i see a massive wave of SF remote workers being fired (there is plenty of remote talent online). I don't see job hubs like SF surviving a tech world where > 50% of jobs are remote.

It also acts as an indirect measure of the value dumped from VCs to landlords.
We use other media to learn and talk about every medium. So what?

You do at least recognize that you guys are bagging on OP, right?

Just let it go man. Vannevar Bush was essentially talking about hypertext (and the semantic web) in the late forties. MIME types didn’t exist until decades later. It’s a jargon term and a concept, and the jargon term is often rendered as a single word.
> I'd really appreciate it if Javascript had a native decimal number type like that.

Was proposed in the late 90's Mike Cowlishaw but the rest of the standards committee would have none of it.
The predecessor of all these diff and patch systems/UIs is the ancient character terminal based curses library. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_library)
Not a medicinal chemist, but I think the general procedure for that is to do a google (or better, Google Scholar) search for "$chemicalName synthesis".

Here you go:

One-step synthesis of N-acetylcysteine and glutathione derivatives using the Ugi reaction

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00404...

I can't seem to find an openly available PDF, but you can search sci-hub to pirate that.

From reading the abstract and the graphics, it doesn't exactly look like something you cook up in the kitchen. For instance they run the reaction in trifluoroethanol, which is flammable, toxic, irritant and possibly causes reduced fertility from exposure.
> The US has already done about all it can to regulate cars to maximize safety

Texting while driving. Hypothesis disproved.
They also fund widespread climate denial, federal court stacking, and the tea party (probably not this anymore), likely at many times the magnitude. So yes I am cautious.
In addition to more stations, they need better batteries with better range. A gas powered vehicle can go SF to LA without a fillup. Since the EVs need more frequent fillups, it puts more strain on the stations.
The FBI did not issue a national security letter in the Lavabit case. A national security letter cannot require the placement of a device to intercept communications or compel turning over encryption keys to accomplish the same. The FBI presented Lavabit with a subpoena issued by a judge.