skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps worth noting that Kuhn wasn't attempting to lay out a methodology - he wasn't saying "this is how you should do science". Rather, he was a historian making generalizations about how different sciences developed.
> There is a problem of people going blind while waiting for treatment, but this is related to cataracts and glaucoma

This is what I was referring to.

The cost decision involved was of course not to have the follow up appointments sooner.
"Cancel culture" is a code word for "apparently actions now have consequences and I don't like it".

He was a friend of Epstein, dude. He helped Epstein after he was convicted of being a pedophile pimp (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...).

And here he is, writing articles for the Wall Street Journal after being supposedly "cancelled".

He knowingly helped a pedophile rapist. He has not faced anywhere near the amount of consequences he deserves.
There's not some advanced technical reason. He just hosts his own ads. It's not like ad-blockers can add every ad for every personal site. My personal site has some ads that aren't blocked either. Not because I'm trying to circumvent ad-blockers, but just because they've never heard of me.
Half of the contents are listicles so I'd say it's a commercial site that just happens to be named after the author of the majority of the content.
cant believe this was downvoted. So deleting it as people are obviously asholes.
Well, of course.

According to them we have never been closer to doomsday. Not when the Soviet Union got the atomic bomb, not when North Korea attacked, not during the Cuban missile crisis, not during the wars in the middle East with Israel, not during the Berlin crisis on the Tiananmen square protests, and most recently when the US used conventional warfare against a country that supposedly possessed weapons of mass destruction.

No, right now is much closer. (sarcasm)
I'm on month two of ynab, and I'm a total convert. It's been extremely valuable to me so far. We'll see if I can stick with it.
> but nobody complains when a linux distro has a non-google default search for chrome or firefox.

Nobody complains when a Linux distro bundles a browser with a default search engine set. People would 100% complain if the next Ubuntu update changed the default search engine on an already installed browser from a 3rd-party source. That would not be OK.

You're looking at this from a pure business perspective and skipping over the more basic problems, which are:

- Software in general shouldn't change/reset user preferences without permission.

- Software updates should be consistent and predictable. Updating one program should not change settings in an unrelated program. Updates should not conditionally decide whether or not to install unrelated programs based on non-transparent reasoning.[0]

- Browser extensions should not sneakily change the mechanisms for how preferences are set.[1] Sneakily forcing the user to know that they need to update the extension settings instead of their browser settings is a user-hostile UX antipattern.

It's not about Microsoft or Google's rights, it's about the users' rights, and about building a sensible UX that works for real users. As a user, I believe strongly that my word processor should not be messing with my browser settings. I would feel the exact same way if a Linux install of LibreOffice changed my default search in Chrome to DuckDuckGo.

[0]: > New installations of Office 365 ProPlus and updated installs will include the extension, as long as the default search engine in Chrome is not set to Bing.

[1]: > Office users will also be able to disable Bing as the default search engine through the extension’s settings.
After struggling with Mint and YNAB for a while, I figured that I didn't really want to budget. I was tired of categorizing and setting up $20 budgets. I ended up with a simpler methodology which is basically a MUCH simpler version of YNAB. It worked really well and I've stuck with this for a while now.

Just a few weeks ago, my partner and I launched Funded [0] that follows this method. Would love to get feedback from the HN community too.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/app/id1438924754
Pilecki after the announcement of his death sentence:

"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
These links are exactly what I was referring to.
Check out Tiller; I tried both it and ynab, and went with ynab because I'm the opposite of you, at least in this regard :)
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Some people just don't care enough about their content or brand to worry about the terrible experience they give users by plastering chum all over their pages in a ridiculous attempt to pick up pennies.
The Saudi connection to the 9/11 case that divided the FBI
Honestly being partially anesthetized and saying something horrific might be my biggest fear.
It sounded like a really silly verification system. Matching finger signatures on a smartphone with previous records?

Perhaps the voters should get a set of one-time codes along with a PIN from the voting office, and use that to validate their vote.
Shows only first paragraph I am afraid. I am on latest stable version of Firefox on macOS.
Please don't use url shorteners as it obscures the destination URL. Also, preferred practice is to just some the URL as a normal submission. If you have something to add, do it in a comment on the submission.
There's a better way: just don't read news.
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Isn't it a free service? Yet it costs money to run, more money to minimally maintain, and a lot of money to keep fully current and improve.

That doesn't mean it couldn't be a thriving product, but for that to happen Intuit would have to be wringing a lot of money out of it somehow through a side channel or back channel.

A semi-neglected aging service probably isn't the worst scenario for its users.
Are we really supposed to listen to the advice of Lawrence Krauss?

> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...

"Krauss, a theoretical physicist and science popularizer, defended Epstein as the financier tried to restore his reputation after his release from jail. “I don’t feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey. I feel raised by it,” Krauss told the Daily Beast in 2011."

This was after his conviction as a pedophile pimp, notably.
In my procrastination in 95 percent of cases this is definitely not it. I usually will not find out that I did not have to do this unless I do it. I am talking about entrepreneurship mostly. So just do it to find out asap.
These were his words after his death sentence:

“I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear.”

What a hero.
The clock now includes threats from climate change and disruptive technology, which global civilization is doing next to nothing about.
> Unless the terrorist attack provided greater utility than preventing it, then you wouldn't want to stop it. Utilitarianism is real worrying, isn't it?

Again, it depends on what your goal is. Utilitarianism is as worrying as moral relativism, and I don't see people worried about that either.
You are absolutely right.

Dentists are able to recommend wrong therapy plans without patients knowing. Even when a patient gets the correct diagnosis, they can be recommended drastically different therapy plans.

This happens because there are many ways to solve the same medical problem. Depending on the financial capacity of the patient and the desired quality which is most commonly measured by the length of durability or visual appearance, as well as other factors.

Another related issue is the aesthetic dental work paid for by the patient, which can cause the need for more treatments down the line. All these decisions influence the health of the patient in a way they aren’t able to fully comprehend, and they rely on dentists as experts to advise them.

Generally, advice and diagnosis are not separate. This creates a venue for unethical behaviour. For example, dentists might resort to recommending "tools from their toolbox.” In your case, it was fillings. When you buy a hammer, suddenly everything looks like a nail.

The results of all this are:

- Patients get suboptimal/wrong health treatments

- Treatments are still performed long after there are better approaches available

- Dentists are less able to give the right advice
https://twitter.com/tsrandall/status/1194307196923842568?s=2...
Alternatively, you could augment the vote of people who show themselves to be better informed than average. Let people earn "brownie" points by demonstrating 1) knowledge about the costs inherent in important issues before congress and the courts (economic, social, opportunity, etc), and 2) fairmindedness (by showing they know both sides of the issues).

This could be accomplished by taking a voluntary test based on free reading materials, or by earning a grade on free classes made available online and in community colleges and perhaps high schools.

Your grade then decides how much your vote counts. Your vote impact score might scale your vote linearly (0 to 1), or it could decide how much to augment a baseline of, let's say, 1.0, where the max augment is to add another 1.0 for a max of 2.0.

I'm sure there are lots of ways this might be done. The main point is to encourage voters to be better informed and more fair. Another goal would be to counteract mass media manipulators who spew disinformation and manipulate the underinformed.

Until we can somehow accomplish (especially) the latter, America will sink ever deeper into a political system governed by anger and stupidity.
Linear Regression in C with comments (in case someone wants to try out)
Word Champions
I recommend reading his Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki.

In 1948 Pilecki was executed by communists after a show trial.

The Polish entry has a bit more info (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki). What is horrifying are his words during the last seeing of his wife: "Auschwitz was a plaything". While in arrest he was tortured: the denailed his feet, crushed his genitals, impaled him on a table leg.
EDIT: This turned into a bit of a rant about one sentence from the parent's post. Sorry about that, this is just aimed at the "hardware is cheap" mentality.

The "hardware is cheap" phrase was rampant in our company until about a year ago. A year ago an executive took a closer look at our cloud bill and, well, exploded. Now there's a huge push to reclaim those extra cycles and RAM as our "cheap hardware" bill is outrunning our overall salary costs.

Being at a point where this is a problem could be considered to be a good thing; we have enough traffic to cause it to be an issue. The problem is, the MVP was cost efficient (even at scale), it's the re-write that's costing us money. At some point, you have to grow up and realize that throwing hardware at poor code is not a sustainable solution.

At scale, the equation flips. Hardware becomes expensive, and any given developer's time is cheap.
I'm definitely in agreement that having some fundamental understanding of other areas of the business is a good thing, for everyone. The point I'm making is you need to be congnizant of where you spend your time and what new skills you invest time developing. I understand HTML and CSS at a fundamental level—I know what they're for and what's possible. But would taking a class in these skills have been the best used of my time as opposed to say, sharpening my skills around positioning or conversion optimization? Probably not. Knowing when to say no and rely on the expertise of others is an important skill to develop.
> And if you could pre-print your completed ballot

Your printer will betray you by printing invisible identifying dots on your ballot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
B) The clock is a publicity stunt by an organization that he has reason to feel aggrieved by. It's a conflict of interests not to mention that he has another axe to grind with them.
> The goal of Nebula is to be a general graph database, not just a knowledge graph database. There are some fundamental differences between the two.

I am by no means a Graph expert but what are some of the mentioned fundamental differences?
Noble goals but even with Apple's support it's a long shot as Swift is currently a very niche language and has a lot of competitors who are moving quickly to stake-out the territory, eg. Kotlin, Dart, C# and Go.
I went to a 2 day intensive course at my local Namgyal monastery that I think was good.
Research exploring the gut-brain connection in autism
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What's even more sad is that he was horribly tortured while in prison.
Additionally, the next version of macOS, out this fall, will remove/hide the system version of python (python2) from users.

Look under Scripting Language Runtimes

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_note...
Looks pretty cool and I generally like the concept, but most combinations come up with 0 results.
Hello HN, today I’m presenting you Women Make. I use to struggle to find fellow women entrepreneurs so I created a group on Telegram. Since then it grew to 500+ members. I felt it was time to make a website to go with the group. Happens I learned Node JS last year, which I used with mongoDB and Telegram's API to build a forum. Members can interact with the website thanks to a bot. And here is the result! Let me know what you think, any feedback is welcome!
Completely anecdotal and subjective, I know:

Personally I try to steer clear of venture-backed startups when I can for the following reasons.

The first is out of fear of the dreaded announcement about the exciting next steps for the team because they got acquired yay (which typically translates to either the product I was relying on being shut down, merged into a shitty bigger product and/or my data being used by Big Co which is possibly what I was trying to avoid by using a small companies product in the first place. Basically, a service provider being acquired has never translated to a positive to me the customer in my personal experience). Especially if the company gets bought by google: now I can look forward to both having my data taken by google (something I’m going to great lengths to minimise!) and an above average chance of the product getting cancelled.

The second is the pressure to make the big return on investment (not just sustainable profit), which in consumer products usually means advertisement and in b2b often means aggressive analytics.

Finally, if the company wasn’t successful enough fast enough it often gets shut down.

Either way, the business pressures usually mean it ends up negative for me, the customer.
Have a kid, forget what boredom is
Reactionary outrage bait like this is one of the most popular categories of posts on HN, and can always be counted on to receive plenty of upvotes.
Granted all of us have lots of work to do but I'm interested in knowing where others think the line is between procrastination and curiosity. I read HN almost everyday because I feel it keeps me in the know to tech related issues. I also read cnn, nytimes, and a few other industry specific sites. If these reads are time boxed, I imagine it wouldn't be considered procrastination. Yet, if I went back too often then it slowly creeps into that procrastination zone. thoughts?
I like these upvoted posts on procrastination. Feels like the HN community (like myself) struggles with this. Nowadays I embrace procrastination as necessary "evil". Unlike the cited post, I don't think one needs "help" with that - it might just backfire even more.

I have come to believe that procrastination is a healthy and necessary condition for outstanding productivity. It is like REM sleep or something :-)

I think that without some level of procrastination nothing amazing would ever be done.
Even if ISPs aren't dragging their feed, the home routers are lacking a giant amount of features on IPv6 stack, which are still needed even for basic users.

E.g.:
- My Mikrotik will not to any kind of routing acceleration for IPv6 so throughput on GBit FTTH (which is standard offering here) will be significantly slower.

- There's no way to autoconfigure firewall (so no UPnP-like technology to enable voice calls and gaming).

- There's no way to statically assign addresses or autoconfigure firewall for automatically configured ones.

- There's no builtin way to push your own DNS to configure things like pihole.

So even a "simple" techy guy setup where you have a home NAS and a few machines that need to drill holes through the firewall is almost completely impossible on pretty much any router affordable for home use.
Actually from what I can see, checking US websites from Paris gives much less requests.

Compare the request map for CNN from

- Dulles, VA: 511 requests https://requestmap.herokuapp.com/render/200123_JH_ed7b9b27df...

- Paris, France: 77 requests https://requestmap.herokuapp.com/render/200123_87_39fdca38ac...

I don't know if it's for sure because of the cookies/gdpr law, but there is a clear difference, and that's a big win in my opinion.
Genetic modification could protect soldiers from chemical weapons
It seems logical we would be exactly that. This is how we would evolve during natural selection. It all makes sense. What reason would there be to be otherwise? It seems like human, wishful thinking to me that we are more than this. Since people want to think they are more than advanced automaton it is likely that this theory is based on imaginary foundation.
Brick my £400 speaker, or my house full of your products get no updates
Christopher Hitchens had similar stance, but he actually did.

And oh boy, he changed his mind on the subject 180 deg. And he openly admitted that he was wrong. For which I had more respect for him, even though I disagreed with a lot of his points of view.
I moved back to linux (fedora) a while ago, what a relief and what a joy it is compared to Windows.

I use Firefox with duckduckgo search engine, no pages full of ad results like with google nowadays. I cannot think of 1 single reason to install Windows 10 and use Chrome browser, you just bite yourself with that choice.
There's a lot of major challenges to creating decentralized, trustless systems, but this is very easy to solve in a trustless system. All you do is indicate "Like"s by signing an object like:

{post:"<cryptographic hash of post>",action:"like"}

That way if the post changes, your signed "like" no longer applies.

This trustless-ness can be introduced in centralized systems too, but the tendency in a centralized system is to trust the central authority, which is the whole problem with such systems.
The data is coming from https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=json, and it appears that it doesn't do any keyword searching - so if you type "edinburgh" it only finds regions which start with edinburgh. Typing "City of edinburgh" will find the correct council region.

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=city%20of%20edinburgh...
Also, not to pile on, but it doesn’t work in every country Mint is supported in. I can’t speak to other countries, but they’re missing Canadian banks and aren’t even available for download on the Canadian App Store.
Given numerous examples from the past this is what "no trust" equals to. I'm not advocating publicly accusing them of being evil without evidence, but assuming they are when deciding if and how to use their services is at least reasonable.

In other words in public my opinion on them is "neutral" until I have some information/data/signs to form/change my opinion, but internally I assume they are doing[0] something evil until proven otherwise.

[0] or at least assume they are capable of doing something evil and there is a non-zero chance that they will engage in evil-doing. (but again, not accusing them publicly until there are reasons to do so; I'm just describing internal thought-process)
If you're up in this part of the world you really shouldn't need loud music, tv, making a public scene with barbecues or other disruptive activities. The point of trekking through the Himalaya is exposure to the cultures and amazing environment.
Totally. But, and I'm speaking more generically than Mint here, in the early days of a company, a team (esp the founder) can more easily navigate the tension between revenue generation and building a great product. That's a lot harder to do as part of a larger (and especially publicly-traded) company.
> If that was relevant, Microsoft wouldn't be attacked for bundling IE.

They never were. But is very successful and impressive PR by MS that you think that this is what the problem was.
> Again, it depends on what your goal is.

Well, as I've said multiple times, we're talking about Utilitarianism, so the goal is always utility maximization.

> Utilitarianism is as worrying as moral relativism, and I don't see people worried about that either.

Plenty of people are justifiably terrified about moral relativism.
I think it’s hard to argue growing fast doesn’t benefit customers. Becoming a market leader means almost by definition that a lot of customers are convinced you’re selling the best thing on the market.
Why be disgusted over something that honestly seems pretty obvious. (unless there are delusions in my logic)?

What else could there be other than particles interacting with each other?

And if there are particles interacting with each other how could it be anything else than a reward system? What is the alternative?

Even if there was something non physical like a soul what leads decision making for that soul?
This is for a voluntary county board position without regulatory power that by statute needs to be elected by March when no one is paying attention. So someone decided to try this out.

OTOH, the WA Sec. of State opposes mobile/online elections due to security concerns, as does her upcoming political opponent [1] and FWIW the Seattle Times recently wrote an Editorial also opposing the practice. [2]

Bottom line, this hardly constitutes some trend that WA state is moving towards, just something set up by a county office that is otherwise drawing skepticism.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/secretary...

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/resist-push-...
Mint never really lost its soul. It always seemed like it was going to try and upsell me on stuff, but that was fine by me because I'm not in the market for new credit cards or whatever. But I guess that's part of the problem, and they're just not making much money off referrals and therefore can't be bothered to improve the product?

The problem for me with Mint is that it just... stopped getting any updates, and the visualizations are not configurable at all, so if you want something that looks a bit different, or doesn't use a pie chart, or shows more things at once, you just can't do it. And it's all in Flash! I ended up building a crappy set of graphs in Excel and using Mint's csv output to try and get a more useful view of the data.
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