skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this book a couple of weeks ago. I found it gripping and exciting, and read it very rapidly. I recommend it.
> IME, pancreatin and ox bile have eliminated the vast majority of my digestive issues.

That suggests that you have a gallbladder dysfunction. You might want to get an ultrasound for gallstones.
Try to work on your hobbies after they are in bed. It's tempting to put on a tv program for them so you can work on your own stuff for a while, but they grow up so fast you will regret the time you didn't spend with them.

Check inside your shoes before you put them on.

Applesauce stops loose stools, apple juice causes it.
Unless things have changed drastically in the past 6 months, Flutter still isn't ready for the limelight.

It trails React Native significantly.
You're right, thanks for letting me know

Link for reference: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/max-instances
Especially in an upvote-based system, like Hackers News or Reddit. I'm not saying that these systems aren't useful, but simply it has flaws. Fortunately, there is a "flag" button to counteract that, although it doesn't always work.
I just want to say that there is definitely a lot of misinformation around statins. All I want to say is that the debate among statins isn't settled like the debate about whether vaccines cause autism.

If you do a dive of only published medical research papers and professional opinions, you'll find nuanced arguments about what even causes heart attacks, how effective statins are, what the very real side effects are (eg: cancer), who all should be taking them, and what alternative treatments (eg: diet, exercise) should be tried first.
>first comprehensive Supply/Demand curve in the wild

That's a huge claim.

Anyone doing dynamic price optimization is doing this, long before 2016.
But that's the dark little secret of the proliferation of student loans. That is, they've been instrumental in driving up the cost of higher edu. Making loans more available increases demand. They've also allowed the edu instutions to raise prices because the market can bear those increases.

This is the 2000's housing bubble all over again.
Pivot for Humanity: professionalizing software engineering
This is because programming is an art. It has fundamental components (objects, functions, templates, iterators, etc) like in visual design (point, line, shape, value, etc).

I think engineers should read the old and the new C++ books and master that language to know the evolution of all these paradigms and how to use them. There’s so much wisdom in the “Effective C++” series and Gang of Four and “C++ Templates: The complete guide“ to name a few.

Problem is in this “start up culture” to bang things out and get them working the art is left behind. Just like many other arts.
So is your pricing dynamic too?
This is linking to a specific reddit comment, which is downvoted to -12. Why link to that instead of the original blog post?

https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/lets-reverse-engineer-di...
They already did that with the State Secrets Act (or whatever the American version is called) and nondisclosure agreements. (Just to be clear, all three of those are in fact human rights violations, I just don't think anyone who matters cares.)
Australia fires: Aboriginal planners say the bush 'needs to burn'
Except that there are people for whom the price of a car is pocket change.
+1 to just running something on a cheap Digital Ocean style box.

In our modern cloud age, I think we've forgotten how much a single box can actually handle (and how few of us actually _need_ to "scale" from day one). Hacker News front page isn't really that much traffic in the grand scheme of things. My $5 DO instance handled it without a sweat. Hell, even "real" projects can still work under this approach. A $20/mo DO box, sqlite, and a few shell scripts can get you shockingly far ^_^
Emotions aren't always practical.

I once came across a podcast that seemed interesting. I was enjoying the content, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the narrator's voice sounded like a friend who committed suicide. I had to turn it off.
I ran Gentoo until shortly after Daniel Robbins left the project. It just started to have problems. A good example is that installing KDE would break to the point of needing to throw everything away unless you installed a few other packages in a very specific order.

That never seemed acceptable to me and I ended up moving over to Arch Linux for a good 10+ years before the instability of it finally got to me and I moved to Ubuntu.

Having said all of that, I'm glad to hear that Gentoo is stable for you. I really enjoyed my time with Gentoo and I got the feeling that after he left there were mistakes made in terms of everything working reasonably.

Your description of Arch reminds me of an experience I had with linode and arch years back. Due to an internal hardware issue, they basically lost my server. When I went to recreate, I discovered that you couldn't just update the world because it would immediately result in a broken system. You instead had to reconfigure a few things before updating the world.

I no longer use Linode.

At some point the vendor has to take responsibility. That's a large part of why I like Ubuntu, they do. It works every day without me having to worry about it.
The Ray Wenderlich stuff is pretty good. (Full disclosure, I wrote a book for them so I am biased :))
Doesn't start with an English J [dʒ] sound, either. Not important to the casual English reader.
> I disagree with you on the "easy route" though. I don't think engineers appeal to authority because of an intentional decision to take an easy route. I think engineers do it because it's just an inmate bias people have. People's identities and beliefs are dictated more by emotion and pre-existing notions rather then logic.

This is a strong possibility. In retrospect, I don't actually know the reasons why people defer to authorities so often and was speculating. I'd be very interested in the reasons why and how, if possible, we could influence people to be more critical.
Supermarkets sell the same snacks - so how will this help anything? Whoever came up with this is highly out of touch with reality.
Yeah, generally when people talk about student loan debt being an issue in the US, they’re not talking about people with $30k loans. That would be comparable to a loan on a new automobile and would be affordable to most Americans. Generally, the problem is that many people are ending up with loans in the $100k+ range and often for degrees which don’t confer any kind of special earning power.
This is much more like what I was expecting when I read the title. Also seems to have fewer bugs :).
Why not use this?

[1] http://trinitydesktop.org/
Ah, gotcha. Makes sense now.
I suspect the person writing out the bullet points of the requests themselves is just a university administrator, but that the origin of the request is someone else. Unfortunately, both your and my side of this specific point is unknowable: I'd personally proceed with it as being a request made in good faith.

As for the second point you're making. I'm sorry, and I may be being obtuse right now, but I am struggling to parse how this is an argument against including an acknowledgement statement (in CS specifically or anywhere else).
City people can't get up an hour early unless the Government forces them to?
Can someone suggest what the admins can turn this title into so it's not mystery meat (e.g. no idea what we're clicking through to, no idea whether the domain in question is ad-laden, etc).
Yes, currently the pricing for each successful score changes by volume. $0.002 per score while under 1M scores per month, then $0.001 per score for scores beyond 1M per month.
Well, in particular, setting it on fire is actually against the law, on safety and environmental reasons. The same environmental reasons will probably have to apply in the near future for over-consumption in general.

But that is all a different matter. The relevant discussion is not about trying to prevent people from spending their money for useless things. It is about the relationship between economic value and actual utility. Any transaction for a car seems to produce the same economic value, but can have vastly different social utility. Therefore, arguments that certain behaviors should be accepted because they produce economic value which must have social utility are wrong. So perhaps it does make sense to tax the rich, even though GDP or other economic value measurements will go down, because social utility will not go down proportionally.
From an economic perspective, this makes no sense. The economic benefits google gets from Android largely derive from the control over the default search engine. You're asking that they should donate the proceeds of this benefit. Why would they work on Android at all if they could not benefit from it economically?

The purpose of the auction and the choice is to allow competition for that default spot, and ensure google isn't using Android to further its market dominance in search. However, the EU has its head on straight enough to understand that being chosen as the default search engine for a device still has serious value. There's nothing anti-competitive about google charging a fair price for this benefit. And fortunately we know, because of the auction process, that the prices are fair (i.e. the other bidders certainly bid a price less than the benefit they expect to derive from being selected).
DDG is my current default search engine in all my devices. It's been 2 years using it. In so few ocassions i needed to rely on Google, but really, you don't need it that much is if Stack Overflow search all day or do overal tech searches. If you need to review more, then use Google and compare search results. But for daily search use it's way ok.
It has been a few years since I looked at this, and it looks like a lot has been added since then. It's certainly worth a look. But at the time I found Allen B. Downey's "Think Bayes" to be a more thorough and comprehensive resource: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/
Show HN: Web-based PowerPoint alternative for sales
Wage growth is on the rise due to tightening in the labor market. Minimum wage increases negatively impact businesses in the long-term and thus negatively impact wage growth.
At this point that ship has already sailed. And it’s really not that unreasonable for users to want to be able to use what is available to them on the keyboard.
I looks like those glasses just overexpose the video. You could probably turn down the exposure digitally and identify the person.
Do you really want the government to have a system set up to know when your property is vacant? I don't.
If you’re doing self-checkout, then cashier error is likely to be indistinguishable from attempted theft.
Prisons are arguably less important to society than education (since it represents the failing of citizens being productive members of society).
However, prison expenditures were increasing three times faster than education from 1990 to 2016 [1]. Much of it going to corporately run prisons.

And given the marijuana legalization trend as of late, I really don't believe that people see the value of locking people up we are angry at. People we're afraid of, sure, that's a different story. But a non-violent marijuana offense shouldn't get a 15 year sentence.

Let's be clear, government should control the market, not the other way around.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/07/the-s...
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> You can afford the tenth car because you already contributed to the common good to earn that money!

I'm not trying to offend you, but the notion that your compensation is necessarily proportional to your contribution to public good is terribly naive.

Surely you can agree that there are an endless number of unscrupulous ways to acquire money that don't contribute to public good, in fact, the opposite is often true. Take a corrupt public official, for instance, their contribution towards society is usually many times inversely proportional to their compensation.
I haven't heard of them - looks like they're a wallet that automatically conducts pre-authorized transactions. Pretty cool. Biggest limitation I see is that they only support splitting transactions from select vendors.

I think it would be cool if they allowed you to split anything - but I guess the problem is coming up with a viable business model. If you use something like Stripe to facilitate transactions, the added fee can be pretty deterring to potential users. I'm not sure what would be the best business model for an idea like this, apart from maybe a subscription more & betting on users not actively using the product?
> on Arch you're supposed to be able to handle basic sysadmin tasks yourself

And the reason for this is because you realize the latest update killed virtualbox and you require it for your work so you need to be able to downgrade and pin the vbox application to a specific version.

Meanwhile, Ubuntu catches the problem and refuses to update the package until it's fixed. Therefore I never even realize there was a breaking update to vbox somewhere.

The difference being that Arch tells me when to tinker because it blew up again, Ubuntu allows me to choose when to tinker because it doesn't.
That's a rate between 4% and 5% per year.
> I think a more likely factor would be stopping after the first child if it's what you wanted, and trying for more if you really wanted the other.

In my experience, the primary consideration for most couples is the number of children. Then, if they want more than one, they want one of each. For whatever my personal experience is worth (mostly with middle and upper-middle class Coastal urban people).
wow, this was very enlightening!

I was wondering if you could elaborate a little bit on what you mean by:

> as you're locally specifying the args without any further IFS interference

I know that IFS = Input Field Separator. But how does it interfere when doing su root -c “command”? I might be missing something obvious here.

Also the ssh + printf is gold! But to be honest, I would personally never use anything from $@ inside an ssh remote “command”. Too risky even with proper quoting.

Thanks!
Hum. So much about healthcare is about trends. How your blood pressure is today vs a month ago matters a lot more than holding up your number to a chart. Having actual good medical history would be super helpful.
Whenever I come across a mailing list bug or a reddit post or similar with a "PLEASE HELP ME!" title I just auto-downvote/remove/delete it.

I refer to them as "help-me zombies". They have no brains and they want to eat yours. They don't know what they need help with, but they need help.
The last king of Ireland has passed away aged 74 (2018)
It's been done : http://www.artmarcovici.com/qentis
More young Americans are cyber-bullying themselves
If that documentation includes user manuals, sign me up!

A mostly functional program with amazing docs beats a more functional black box.
I haven't really found that to be a problem, with some code I still use daily which was started before Python 3.0 was released. The py3 transition was real but it was also something which took seconds to run through futurize/modernize.

Over the years I've spent way more time going into inconsistencies about the various platform tools (e.g. GNU vs. BSD implementations of sed, grep, find, etc. even before you ge to the space aliens-with-broken-translators realm of AIX) — which using Python avoided needing to care about — or library / file naming changes. Similarly, a few years back there was way more time used when various HTTPS improvements flushed out code using old versions of OpenSSL or, worse, gnutls.
Yes! That's the spirit!
I'm no expert, but as far as I can tell, "The Law" has been a last resort in resolving local disputes between neighbors. It's heavy, slow, and expensive. Rather, custom and direct negotiation have been the mainstays for orderly civic relations.

Anonymity essentially takes all of that and ejects it. Without a new legal framework to replace it (that you almost certainly will like less because it will both cost more, and demand more access to you by the state), demanding that formal legal means be used in all contacts with you is demanding that your neighbours pay significantly more to achieve mutual ends. All while giving the rest of civil society the brush off: "I've got mine, you can kindly go have a nice day."
I totally agree. Dealing with shell semantics to support spaces is definitely a special type of arcane wizardry. At least using newer constructs like arrays can help.
absolutely, but the problem is that when I pointed out that arch is less stable than these other distro's, I had people trying to defend that claim.

There is no defending it, it's a fact of life. You get bleeding edge at the cost of stability.
The amazing thing about Bucky is that his insights are more applicable today than when he conceived them ~50+ years ago.
Public Goods Game
If it helps the housing crisis, then maybe.
Then they can cash out, realize their gains, buy a modest bungalow, and live out their golden years in style. Seems fine.
Yes? It drives up housing costs for everyone else. Which may sort itself out in the very long term (on the scale of decades), with sane people moving elsewhere and siting companies elsewhere, but in the shorter term you have a finite number of job opportunities, and (except for remote workers, obviously) you have to live one of those places, and every unoccupied residential property forces you to live farther from work or pay more (reduced supply).
So this is cheating a little bit, but we listened to it on a road trip in 2019, and it was by far the most impactful podcast we heard last year:

Radiolab: From Tree to Shining Tree

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-...

It's from 2016, but it's about the underground network of roots and organisms that connects a whole forest together and how it functions. And it's amazing. And it keeps getting more and more amazing as it goes on. My wife and I were giving each other WTF looks as we were listening.

Just a taste: "Apparently, bears park themselves in places and grab fish out of the water, and then, you know, take a bite and then throw the carcass down on the ground. The fungi, you know, after it's rained and snowed and the carcass has seeped down into the soil a bit, the fungi then go and they drink the salmon carcass down and then send it off to the tree.
...
And the tree has evidence of salmon consumption. ... Salmon rings in trees."
Immigration went from an issue that was hard to make progress on (e.g. come to a compromise) to an issue where that is impossible.
Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?
The Ocean Cleanup's analysis of neuston: https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/the-ocean-cleanup-and-th...
Isn't that true of any nontrivial programming language?
> It is sad to me that as civilization "advances" more and more people want to go back to a time where people were subjects of their government, instead of free people.

It's not just an arbitrary decision, promoted by some power structure. Our phylogeny is conclusively based around groups coordinating for optimal reward.

ie Cooperation has worked out better than being individuals.

"Free People" is a meaningless categorization without social context. Even anarchists have labels and limits, even if they are individually arbitrary. Deciding how to behave individually is not a decision in a vacuum when living in the same regional bounds as others. In modern times, the region is global, as the impacts of an individual utilizing technology can have recognizable impact.
Famously, early pc assembler a86/d86 claimed to able to identify unlicenced used from byte-patterns

http://eji.com/a86/
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> Not to mention with regular backups(that should be done either way) and delaying updates in critical time periods you can easily minimize the risk.

That's the minimum that you should be doing regardless of the OS. And thus, that's not where the risk is at.

It's probably more difficult to understand if you get paid regardless of whether you can get meaningful work done.

But for those of us who live on the other side, losing an unplanned half a day due to an OS issue that actively causes us to lose money, it matters.

Arch is bleeding edge, this means software bugs are far more likely on it.
Same here, I switched to DDG as my default engine at work and find it returns mediocre results for anything tech related and sufficiently niche.

On the plus side, it does work fine for everything else - i.e. the typical searches a normal person might do - so I might switch my personal devices to using it soon.
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Or just culturally approved modes
Is it really necessary to use verbified brand names? Why not just use the word 'search'?

> "search for someplace for us to eat tonight"

> "I was searching online for a used car"

> "dude search for 'cat does a backflip', it's epic"

etc
> [are we] accurately pricing teacher pay (if the upper bounds of private schools are any indication, we are not)

Why would you look at the upper bounds?

> Private school teachers make way less than public school teachers. Average salaries are nearly $50,000 for public, and barely $36,000 for private.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/why-ar...
Ask HN: Want programmer for quick (hours) Python 3.x job
Hey folks. Going to try delegating some work.

I'm looking for a programmer to use Python 3.x and pycairo to write a script to generate black and white images of a known number of circles.

Requirements:

* Will pay 80 USD; can Interac e-transfer or Paypal

* CLI script using Python 3.x and pycairo

* images are output as .png with uniquish filename that must include easily parseable digits for number of circles

* long-form "--foo" command-line options

* --side <- this is the image width == image height in pixels

* --radius <- circle radius in pixels

* --count <- number of circles; support 0; typical range to 20

* images are black circles on white background

* images are png

* circle centres are uniform randomly distributed in width and height

* circles may graze edge of image, but no part of circle should extend outside image

* circles must not overlap. At least one white pixel betwen.

* performance should be such that generating 10k images of 100px side with 10 circles each takes less than a minute

* contact me at <the fat slug gangster from Star Wars but with only one "b"> dot <"Addams" but with only one "d"> @gmail.com. Please confirm before doing any work.
Just as a reference, the entire “Intel” movement started as a positive support group before it morphed into its current state.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/76h59o
They might not, but for a sanction to be applied properly, you need to apply violence somewhere within the enforcement process.

Take the sanctions against Iran for example. Huawei violated these sanctions and this directly led to Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in Canada and her bring charged in the United States. It would appear the extradition hearings are still going on with the trial set to start this month and it might go as long as October.
>>We sent a man to the moon back when just 5% of adults had a college degree. It's not clear that sending vastly more people to college is actually going to add value.

This is just such incredibly shoddy reasoning, and such a stunningly bad faith argument.

Come on rayiner, you can do better than this.

What does sending a man to the moon have anything whatsoever to do with whether college education should be free?
BINGO.

100% my experience as well, down to the freelance. I made another comment pointing out that the ones who think it's just a minor issue with Arch get paid whether they're getting meaningful work done or not.