skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And people close to us keep dying from it.

Cancer death rates have PLUMMETED since the introduction of immunotherapy.
A better example is the "copy and paste" news articles that saturate feeds everyday.

The exact same set of facts, that were obviously reported originally by a single individual, then rearranged, reworded, and republished by 100's of "reporters"/"bloggers", (sometimes) with an attribute of origin.
Not at all, a lot of the work being done is probably having a minimal or, even negative, impact upon the overall economy. Labor productivity is low, because the Pareto distribution of productivity across individuals is at historically staggering proportions right now.
Looking at the Android source code, it looks like you're right:

> Presidential alert is default on and cannot be turned off.

https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/packages/a...

> CMAS Presidential must be always on (See 3GPP TS 22.268 Section 6.2) regardless [of the] user's preference

https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/packages/a...

> A CMAS-capable User Interface (UI) shall support the ability for the user to opt-out of only the Imminent Threat and Child Abduction Emergency Warning Notifications. When a Presidential Warning Notification is received, it is always
presented to the user whenever Cell Broadcast Service via GSM/UMTS or warning message delivery via E-UTRAN is
enabled on the UE.

https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/122200_122299/122268/10...

Seems like no one working in the Canadian government has heard about The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
I'm game. What's your plan?
It isn’t exactly an anti pattern, just rare; eg with Notch and Minecraft. Lone coders can create great masterpieces, but it is a very different kind of artifact than what a group could produce. Don’t count loners out from being productive members of society in any field.

Of course, most work requires a lot more collaboration, and CS departments could do more to help train up those skills.
> I don't know how they operate in the US

Well I do, and everything you said is false in the USA.

They carry high-end family-sized canned soup for $1, which I often buy.

They carry pasta ingredients for $1, which I buy if I'm in the mood to cook it.

I haven't seen vegetables.

AMA.
Another troll subject on Hacker News. I will probably loose my last karma point on this one ... Haters gonna hate ! By by, HN !
> hould I respond in turn and completely cut all Christians out of my life, declaring them all intolerant?

You've set up a straw man. Identifying as Christian does not make someone intolerant. Many people who identify as Christian are intolerant of people who identify as gay.

Discrimination against the first group due to the actions of the second is unfair. But refusing to engage with the second group is completely reasonable.

Otherwise you allow intolerance toward gay people to be legitimized. That can lead to an erosion of rights. It's literally dangerous in the long term.
HN gobbled your stars.
People who lived in socialism know that, there was even 0% unemployment :-)
But the thing is if the markets really couldn't find any value in the output of nearly everyone, we shouldn't see this high percentage of employment -- not unless one also believes that employers in a decentralised way are implementing their own informal UBI, perhaps out of consensus on political theory or moral values.

One might say a simpler explanation is that employee output is still interesting, and that what's interesting isn't just technological output, and that the bulk of interesting technological work isn't about advancement but delivery to the world.
Another rule of thumb would be: "How many years from now do you still want this to work?"
If I run a shell script I wrote ten years ago, it works.
If I run a Python script I wrote ten years ago, it's quite likely to fail with a SyntaxError.

This, I say as someone who loves Python and I use it as my primary language both privately and at work. But I have to admit, Python scripts do not really age well.
As mentioned on the Github issue [1], I'd suspect their SQLite optimizations:

self.execute("pragma journal_mode=off").close()
# This pragma makes writing faster.
self.execute("pragma synchronous=off").close()

I've always used WAL journaling mode, and NORMAL synchronous mode.

[1] https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/915
Episodes which I think will stick with me, because they helped me to better understand the motivations and histories behind political perspectives that I disagree with:

- "Citations Needed" ep. 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecution Complex. (CN is maybe my fave podcast of the year overall, too.) -- Why does the American religious right align itself with politicians who seem to go against core 'Christian' values?

- "Behind the Bastards"' serialization of Robert Evans' audiobook "The War on Everyone," which started with the episode "Part One: The Eternal Fascist," released August 13th 2019. -- How did Neo-Nazism get started in America, how does it work, why are people attracted to it? How does the behaviour of current far-right pundits and terrorists connect to earlier history of that movement?

Episodes which, similarly, let me see the world through the eyes of a different community:

- All of "Crackdown," but particularly episodes 1-3. -- What is life like for illicit drug addicts, particularly in Vancouver's Downtown East Side? What are their needs, what political moves could help them (what political moves have failed them)?

- "Canadaland" ep. 396, "Two Centuries of Blackface" -- What can Trudeau's scandal teach us about the history and current experience of racism in Canada?

Podcasts I just enjoyed a lot:

- "99% Invisible" episode 376, "Great Bitter Lake Association" -- a little bit of Suez Crisis history, and some sailors who got bored enough to start a post office.

- "S-Town" (seven episode series) -- an incredible piece of journalistic storytelling about an unhappy man, his small Alabama town, and an apparently consequence-free murder.

- "No Such Thing as a Fish" (weekly) -- the best comedy-and-trivia show I know.
When all of you damn people eventually move to a small town, please drive slow, turn down your damn car audio system. And finally, don't make life about money. The race doesn't need to exist. Cook at home, and don't beg New Seasons, Natural Grocers or Whole Foods to move to your new home.

Everything that happened at that movie theatre and almost everything around you in life is due to population scale.
If we really wanted to put more money in people's pockets and have a more progressive tax code we should, at the very least, start chipping away at taxing incomes. A good start would be to make any cost of necessities (shelter, food, healthcare, transportation) should be tax deductible.
This is an impressive level of negativity.
I get that this model is successful (when it is)... But the counter-intuitiveness is hard for me to overcome.
Challenge: Generate the longest error message in C++
It's easy to label any idea you disagree with as "intolerant" then use that Popper quote as an excuse to be intolerant of it and the people who hold it.
Well, money is the odd one out. Much of recent history is about developing the technology to make your money do stuff. Assuming a credit card and an internet connection, we can now easily get food as a service, cleaning as a service and more recently medicine as a service (e.g. PillPack and GPs over video conferencing).

But making money without having to put any effort or capital is not even theoretically possible - the whole purpose of money is to denote the ownership of scarce resources. The closest we can probably arrive at is basic income, which would be allocated by society rather than created by an individual.
The root cause is a hard cold truth that should have far more visibility than #metoo, in an ideal world.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-differences/201104/why-dont-women-ask-men-out-first-dates/
If you knew that no surveillance was being conducted, would you be acting any differently?
I earn $100,000 a year writing god awful code for a doomed software company. Am I contributing more to the public good than the restaurant worker who cooks my food, the guy who changes my car's oil, or the guy who hauls all of my garbage away?
There was a test message sent last year when the system was first implemented. It has significant news coverage at the time (most of it along the lines of “Trump wants to send notifications you can’t block to your phone”) but it was definitely heavily featured that they aren’t blockable.
In the US, we've torn down about a million SROs in recent decades and largely zoned out of existence the creation of new Missing Middle Housing. This trend likely was worse in 2012 than in 1990.

We have a very serious housing supply issue in the US because while our housing supply has increasingly concentrated on the direction of upper class nuclear family, our demographics have gone in the opposite direction and moved away from that. We have a lot more small households (childless couples, single adults) and essentially no housing designed for them. Instead, we now default to expecting young adults to rent a home designed for a family and get roommates to fill the extra bedrooms and divide up the rent.

It's quite the serious problem and it's maddening to continue to see comments that act like there is no housing crisis. I have repeatedly had people tell me that the high cost of housing has nothing to do with homelessness, never mind that I can cite sources that show a very strong correlation.
I have tried removing the two pragmas, and the problem still happens.
Compassion and taxation for redistribution are so much different because the first is the will of the person, the second is by coercion. No idea why you put them side by side in your comment, they are opposites.
North Dakota (the top honey producing state in the USA) has a special section of its website for honey bees[1] and has a document called "NORTH DAKOTA POLLINATOR PLAN"[2] that might give some perspective from the beekeeper and state side.

1) https://www.nd.gov/ndda/plant-industries/apiary-honey-bees

2) https://www.nd.gov/ndda/sites/default/files/legacy/resource/...
If the monoculture were easy to resist, it wouldn't need lamentation. :)
Pretty much all religion and mythology is based around a telling of the hero's journey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
I agree to an extent about Makefiles, though I still think they are useful as long as you keep to a simple subset of their functionality.

Shell scripting is a different matter. One of the great things about shell scripting is that you can never forget it because you are using it constantly to interact with your system. The fact that it is something you use constantly and can just take and stick in a file and re-use is one reason why shell scripts are so popular.
SQLite doesn't use direct I/O.
Movie theaters are run by teenagers and young adults. It is no surprise that they cannot handle hiccups.
Could artificial-womb technology be a tool for women’s liberation?
Efficient access is more than the interface on the client. The wire format matters. If the server sends the data in the row form from a columnar stored table in row form, it wont be efficient, there will be too many transformations. Perhaps a way for the client to tell the server what format it wants the data may be useful.
An interesting article re wildlife that lives at the ocean's surface and drifts around in the same way that plastic does and how this may affect it
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/ocean-cl...
plus their response
https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/the-ocean-cleanup-and-th...
Well, someone went to the trouble of writing a Rust binary just to hide the game code, when they could have used standard JS obfuscation instead. This suggests to me that WASM has some properties that make reverse-engeneering harder than obfuscated JS could do alone.

This would give some validity to the fears of WASM becoming the "new Flash" that were voiced when it was still in development.
Failing to follow manufacturers directions should not result in a Recall, it is not their fault people are stupid
So instead of just eliminating the 2 bullshit jobs, they created another one (yours) to analyze the situation...

A.k.a. management & coordination is a hard problem.
Remember when answering that they know your IP address.
They put their hard earned and taxed money into a company to produce something. To build a nail factory you need workers, but you also need the plant; who pays for the plant? Not the workers. Without one of the components, there is no nail plant, you have either unemployed people or an empty building.
Funny Era.
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Yes, please, just take us all out and shoot us for our war crimes of failing to be as wildly successful as we would like to be.

(Please don't tell me this needs a sarcasm tag. If you can't tell in this case, then I think it's utterly hopeless.)
Possibly, but who would know?
Out of curiosity, what sort of development do you do? Julia is a very flexible language. The majority of its community is still focused on numerical scientific computing, but it's great for all sorts of usecases these days.

The way I think of it, in order to build a language that was flexible enough to cover all these different weird needs you find in the scientific computing community, they ended up needing to build a general purpose language.
I don't think I've been to any movie theater in the past 5 years that is any different from a theater that I could go 20 years ago.

To me this shows that the money is not going to a "better overall movie-going experience", but rather just that movie theaters are getting squeezed by the studios, rising video-on-demand, etc, and not all theaters are responding to it: they will milk whatever they can then from their properties until they simply won't be profitable/justifiable anymore and go bankrupt.
Years ago, my wife wrote a paper for college where she discussed abortion issues. In her summary, she mentioned that the artificial womb would change the meaning of abortion to not include the death of the fetus.
> SAT cutoffs for different races.

Correct, and this might be meaningful if there wasn't racial bias encoded in the SAT.

Just as a guidinf question here, what does the SAT measure?
Price and medical care should be approached as though there's a giant sign that says "Here there be dragons." There are a lot of weird incentives to have multiple prices for the same medical good. For uncompensated care the incentive is to have the price be as high as possible within the bounds of sanity. The prices that insurance companies pay on the other hand tend to be much lower while those same insurance companies have an incentive for a high price for those without insurance i.e. the higher the un-insured pay for procedures the more the insurance company is saving its customers.
People (in general) view video courses as being worth more than an ebook alone. I'm with you on this and personally prefer to consume technical information in text form, but there are many who don't.
Ask HN: Remote workers, what's your backup plan?
Remote workers, what's your plan if your job disappears, for whatever reason, and you are unable to find a replacement, locally or remote, with commensurate salary? Is this even a concern for you?
Wouldn't it make more sense to simply fine the LLCs for their misdeeds, and confiscate the properties if the fines go unpaid?

It is already kinda deranged that one's name and other details become public records in many states as soon as you buy property or start a company.

EDIT: Surprising number of downvotes in a forum that often focuses on privacy concerns!
Study: Less-Structured Time Correlates to Kids' Success
Haskell2020 Is Dead, but All Hope Is Not Lost (2019)
> All-cash transactions have come to account for a quarter of all residential real estate purchases, “totaling hundreds of billions of dollars nationwide,” the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network – the financial crimes unit of the federal Treasury Department, also known as FinCEN – noted in a 2017 news release. Thanks to the Bank Secrecy Act, a 1970 anti-money-laundering law, the agency is able to learn who owns many of these properties. In high-cost cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami, it’s flagged over 30% of cash purchases as suspicious transactions. But FinCEN also cites this bill to hide this information from the public, leaving the American people increasingly in the dark about who owns their cities.

> For journalists, it requires undertaking a tremendous investigative effort to find the real owner of even one property, let alone millions.
The same guy in the article is also making a device that cleans river water before it goes into the ocean. I think it is a good idea overall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyZArQMFhQ4
This but make it progressive over the total value owned. Corporate or trust ownership structures etc pay top rate to prevent obfuscation.

Someone owning an investment property to help fund retirement seems reasonable. Someone owning thousands does little for society and likely hurts it.
Ask HN: How do you digitize documents?
Any recommendations on scanning documents, bills, articles, etc. Advice on scanners, software and workflows would be greatly appreciated.
Digital Minimalism with computer scientist Cal Newport was one of my favorite episodes of all time.
https://www.richroll.com/podcast/cal-newport-447/
When I worked in the service industry, my shift was 90% waiting for customers, 10% responding to them. Podcasts allowed me to keep my eyes up and look available to help, and were something that I could put down without worrying about keeping my place.

The benefit of podcasts is that they work when other forms of media don't work. I agree that they don't make good competitors to books and other more dense mediums.
This is what being completely out of touch and rich looks like when you didn't grow up rich.

Now imagine what thoughts go through the heads of second and third generation rich kids.

Now imagine that politicians are mostly those rich kids.

That's the present, and the future. Jason, you're part of the problem you're complaining about and you don't even know it. So it goes.
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Logistic Regression in Python Using Scikit-Learn
Invest Like The Best Podcast. “The search for the truth with the anonymous master - Jesse Livermore”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2POal0mOwBPtLQoeJGa0oL?cont...

Jesse talks at length about making decisions with intuition vs analysis. He breaks down when and why each of these work. It seems simple but it feels groundbreaking.

They also dig into an alternate valuation model for the stock market which I found interesting.
A browser can’t make arbitrary network calls or arbitrarily read from the local file system. This is trivial in electron.
Most companies operate within a market, but don’t, themselves, operate like a market (internally). Have you really not heard any duck and cover stories from corporate America? It absolutely is easy for incompetent people to remain employed. Talented people tend to job hop to realize their increased utility (not always, but mostly), while incompetence gets promoted at the 50% of companies that cannot compete in the labor market.
For comparison: About 60 tons (53 metric tons) of fishing nets are lost each month, reportedly. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-f...
That's the beauty (to some) and problem (to others) with the definition of poverty: we keep moving the goalposts/standards.
I get what you’re saying and appreciate the perspective. I’m not convinced rails or perhaps Sinatra are really any nicer than say Laravel. But I personally am not a ruby fan.

In this particular case the front end is very rich and the majority of the effort, and for the back end I just need a little bit of crud.
Golines: A Golang formatter that fixes long lines
I think work is pretty important to being human, but working 40-60 hours a week is absurd. 30 seems like a sweet spot to me. If we could remote, do only 30, and reduce pointless meetings than I bet we'd have a lot more time for the things that make us happy like family, side projects, exercise, and Netflix.
I have these downloaded and ready to go, but I know it's quite involved and I haven't yet set aside enough time to concentrate and enjoy it.

I listen to an episode of In Our Time every day though. It's fantastic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads
National policies aren't people. If anything the current state of things prove that Brazilians have no say over their own government through elections wathever side you pick. Please don't be a bigot towards an entire country.
There’s no doubt these laws can be used to maximize gains by nefarious individuals.

At the same time, the ability to hold a property as an LLC, thus limiting overall liability to the property value alone in the case of a lawsuit, incentivizes more individual investors to purchase rental real estate. In many instances these assets help facilitate retirement savings that are more stable than market securities.

I’m all for transparency - and it’s likely the increase in LLCs could be attributable to more savvy, legitimate investors rather than only attracting wrongdoers.
Aren't you sort of victim blaming here?

This guy is saying "I believe X" and is fighting really hard for his beliefs. Instead of addressing whether it's valid/worthy, you're insulting his intellect for standing up for what he believes in a way you consider not-savvy.
Maybe just outlaw the ownership of more than 3 houses? Landlords will throw a fit but they're a minority and I think they're doing fine if they have 3+ houses.
While that's true, is there any reason to expect that the distribution of "successful connections" would be any different than that of initial messages? Or that it wouldn't be even more skewed towards the edges?
> I don't know what "understanding the private sector" or "understanding the economy" mean to you

It means the object of scorn does not share certain assumptions about the underlying purpose of economics. To be roughly as unfairly sweeping as the gp, you get that a lot from Chicago school types.
... or corruption. ;)
I should have clarified: they hired my company to find out these types of problems. I was assigned to the project. After we gave the final presentation, they eliminated the redundant positions I mentioned (along with a host of others across the enterprise) and saved a boatload of money.
Thanks! I’m not very experienced with BSD.
> any *nix script or program that doesn’t handle spaces in files names is woefully buggy.

On the contrary! It is filesystems that support plain spaces in filenames that are broken. Filenames are variable names. Allowing separators in them is bonkers. I make a point of carefully crafting my scripts to wreak havoc whenever a user has spaces in their filenames.
You can definitely set limits on GCP
I posted the news link to HN with this title. I now agree it's not accurate but didn't realize the scale of the alert at the time.
One similar experience i had when I was starting out was when I created a PR and my colleague instead of suggesting changes, made the changes himself, approved and merged my PR. I told him directly that it’d be nice if he’d have suggested the changes instead of making them himself. He thought I was being protective of my code. I was never able to have a good working relationship with him anymore and eventually left.