skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For taxpayer funded defined benefit pensions, the actual difference is that in the defined benefit pension case, future taxpayers are on the hook for any underfunding and understating of costs in exchange for government employee votes as well as other kinds of fraud.

With defined contribution, politicians and senior union officials can’t play those numbers games since there is no lien on future taxpayers.
> It seems like there is a perception by these companies that there is a discoverability problem.

The rest of the world manages to 'discover' that these drugs exist on the market just fine, yet pharma advertising is banned in most of it.
The downvotes are because the opinion you have is not popular, not because it is wrong. You may be right, you may be wrong, that is less important these days.
If the Dr. wants to see the patient in 30 days then they setup an appointment for that.

I don't understand why you think the length of a prescription controls the appointments. It doesn't, it has nothing whatsoever to do with that.
390 connected apps.
And i never use facebook login
One approach might be broad spectrum antibiotics when urgent and specific bacteria undetermined. In parallel, cultures to isolate the problem, then apply the specific phage to finish the job. Seems like this would prevent or at least hugely reduce antibiotic resistance from increasing.
We need a word (like "Godwin's Law" or "whataboutism") to shove in people's faces when they spam the response threads with "everyone is doing it" and "are you surprised?" when a tweet or news item like "BigCo or BigGov is doing Bad Thing X." No we're not surprised but we didn't know, I want them to stop, and fuck you, your comment is not adding to the conversation.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the logic but doesn't that mean using a fancy pen is "cringey as hell" since you can just use a simple ballpoint pen?

Sorry, it just seems unnecessarily negative to me.
Ten years ago Facebook fought this battle and lost. [1] [2] [3]

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/using-ht... "Using HTML5 Today"

[2]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/11/facebook_admits_h... "Facebook admits HTML5 not competitive with Cocoa Touch"

[3]: https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/facebook-android-faster/ "Facebook Speeds Up Android App By Ditching HTML5 And Rebuilding It Natively Just Like The iOS Version"

I have always rooted for mobile web apps, but the lack of feature parity and distribution challenge (“Add to Home Screen”) puts them at a constant disadvantage and companies who control mobile OS’s have little incentive to change this.
But website can be packed up and saved as PWAs, also "offline sites" have been a thing since the 90s.
My head is spinning. I am certain I heard about this weeks ago. I don't think it was through a backchannel or a rumor mill—I thought I had read something official about it. In fact, I've spoken to people several times about it, most recently yesterday. And when they expressed surprise, I went looking for the official announcement, and I couldn't find one.

Is it possible that RStudio Inc. made a soft announcement that they later pulled for re-tooling? Or perhaps my memory is faulty and I did just hear about it through a back channel. Obviously this is something that takes time to plan and execute so it has been in the works for awhile.
This is a great idea. I need this for HN also.
> The human does get rights, the organization doesn't.

Organisations are (usually) legal persons, too; they just have fewer responsibilities, get fewer rights in exchange.
That's a tough one... Find something you're passionate about - something you'd truly like to build yourself.

If there's already something on github, join that - you can even do a fork first, and play around.

Otherwise, just build a new project on github, commit to it, and let people know here/reddit - and see if they'll join
I feel like this stuff actually creeps me out more since I deleted my Facebook account. I didn't deactivate, I completely deleted.

I'm near 100% sure they're still trying to track & sell me, but without an account I can't even see it.
Famously Ars Digita, founded by Philip Greenspun, started out using AOLserver and Tcl to design websites. The company wrote what I suppose would now be called a "middleware stack".

After he sold the company to Red Hat I worked there really briefly. Apparently half the sales fell through because Tcl wasn't regarded as "enterprisey" enough for customers (note the customers themselves would probably never write a line of code). There was an attempt to rewrite the entire engine in Java — it being 2002 — which limped along for a while before the project died.

But there's more! The original Tcl stack was open sourced and continues to this day as OpenACS (https://openacs.org/).

The Java rewrite also still exists (https://svnlegacy.ow2.org/byline/) but has been dead 15+ years, and just digging into those 7 level deep directories rekindles a feeling of dread in me.
No, that's exceedingly rare. That kind of thing that only happens for super rare diseases, maybe like the ebola vaccine that was quickly developed over the past few years, where the economics are very upside down for companies to do the development.

What is way more common is that scientists from around the world, mostly funded by public money produce research that might implicate a particular pathway or target for a particular disease. Scientists in companies see those publications and try to verify the result, then make a drug for it. The process of making the drug, testing tens of thousands of compounds, making sure efficacy and safety margin are maximized, running clinical trials, and producing the drug with good yields is almost always done by companies.

The government can do stuff like funding studies on new uses for off-patent drugs, fund various parts of that development, and reduce regulatory burden to tilt the economics for companies to make drugs for a disease, but that mostly happens to do stuff that wouldn't happen in the normal system in which companies have to make money making drugs.

Disclaimer: I work in pharma, but in biology, not anywhere near the budget-making
Unfortunately in many (most?) cases I've seen the prescribed deployment practice for Python software is to use virtualenv (or some variant of it). Python dependencies are to be handled exclusively via pip (requirements.txt, install_requires in setup.py, etc.) and using distro-packaged Python modules is frowned upon because they are considered to be outdated.

I'm not saying that's the best practice. Personally I like to use distro-packaged stuff as much as possible because it's less volatile and tends to go through some more review than things on PyPI. But the virtualenv/pip exclusive method does seem to prevail in the field in my experience, so the advice to just use Alpine packages isn't useful in many cases.
A circuit split? Is there another circuit with a contradictory ruling?
I don't see it that way. The bottomline is, if the asker isn't satisfied with the proposed resolutions the asker might go elsewhere (e.g., DDG). Even if the asker doesn't switch search tools any sense of friction and frustration will trigger less usage, not more. That's not good for Google. It's not good for advertisers.

Pains me to say it, but is in the best interest of the searh engine to maximize the searcher's satisfaction.
I have used it to inspect say the history of a users' requests on a load-balanced server. I like to permanently store the results of the logfile excerpt to a DB table for posterity and future reporting.

Figuring out how to enter "sql" mode in lnav, generate a logfile table, and then persist it from an in-memory sqlite db to a saved-to-disk sqlite db .... was frustratingly annoying.

It boils down to:

:create-logline-table custom_log
;ATTACH DATABASE `test02.db` AS bkup;
;create table bkup.custom_log as select * from custom_log;
;detach database bkup;

if i recall you cannot call sqlite commands ".backup" or similar in lnavs sql mode. So lnavs interjection into the sqlite command processing is annoying (I'm actually very familiar with sqlite).
Apple does have a public API for Apple Music [1], as does Spotify [2]. In fact, I frequently use a 3rd party client [3] that's all about curated music leveraging the Spotify API to stream the tracks.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi

[2] https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/

[3] https://noonpacific.com
Damn it looks good. I wish it could target and consume .NET or Java.
Rstudio conference Keynote Q&A
> Its not the patients that lobbies for these laws...it is the insurers, and its to lower their costs.

I mean, no, patients don't lobby for them because patients don't really lobby en masse for healthcare policy in general, but patients definitely are the ones who benefit from them.

There are some cases where the relationship between insurers and patients is adversarial. This is not one of them.
A lot of native apps feel clunky because they are poorly coded and thought out. As OP said, 90% of cases are where companies don't need native apps, because they simply don't require that performance level or permission set.
If anyone thinks this guy triggered the flash crash, ive got some stuff I want to sell you
I ran into an issue where using the + notation required me to create a whole new account on airbnb because I had forgotten that I used + in my original email.
> Protonmail cannot do so, because your password is a part of they key to decrypt email, and they do not know it, nor they can crack it in a reasonable amount of time, so AFAIK there is nothing they can provide LE with to decrypt your email on the go.

I don't think this is true. A hash of the password could be part of the key, but Protonmail already has that hash stored on its server (otherwise they would not be able to log you in when you send the password hash). If Protonmail would like to access your emails (or be asked to do so), I'm confident that they technically can. The only benefit is when a hacker get access to the email database, but not the password hash database, then in this case the hacker cannot read the emails.
What I'd love is a small, bug free e-reader, ideally waterproof, that I can load my own books onto and doesn't track me. Unfortunately such a product doesn't seem to exist.
Starlink Is a Big Deal
You still need to verify the forms that you are actually signing match the forms you were previously given, don't you?
Audio from every baseball pitch from Astros' 2017 home games with a spectrogram
> So a group of people, joining together in a common cause, don’t have rights as members of that group?

Emphasis added. No, they don't. They have rights as individual people.

> [...] this violates the right of Sam to freely associate with John and his right to not have to associate with the interloper. It also violates the privacy of San and John as individuals [...]

Yes, that. "Sam" and "John" would have cause for civil (and probably criminal) action against the interloper. "John and Sam, Inc" has no say in the matter.

It might be useful to grant John and Sam, Inc the privilege to own property, but even that isn't actually a right except insofar as Sam and John have a right not have the value of their assets (ie 50% ownership of John and Sam, Inc - functioning as a proxy for ownership of various comics) actively sabotaged/vandalized.
How I scaled Postbacks.io to send over 250k HTTP requests per minute
He was extradited to the US because there is an extradition treaty that gives the US the power to extradite people from the UK for meeting a reasonable suspicion test that they committed a crime in the US that is a crime in both countries and carries a sentence of at least a year.

The treaty is reciprocal. The UK has an equivalent right with respect to people in the US who committed a crime in the UK who meet a probable cause test. An independent review concluded that the two tests used in the two countries are worded differently but effectively equivalent.
Keeping something like this secret is... Hard.
I still lament the demise of Rdio - it truly did have the best UX of all the streaming players. How unfortunate that they couldn't make the business work!

Just about all of the gripes in TFA were non-issues or avoided with thoughtful design, way back in 2012.
Maps, and geodesy in general is still very important to militaries today. You want a fighter jet to be able to locate the carrier it started from. You want to know where the enemies are hiding and where their bunkers are so that you can shoot at them with your artillery. You want to know which bridges can endure the weight of tanks and which can't. It's no coincidence that the US military invented GPS and keeps it under its operational control.
It's way too popular, too many people would get angry.

Telegram was just the right size — not so tiny that only a few nerds use it, but not so big that the majority of normies have adopted it. And there was sort of a personal conflict, government people don't like Pavel Durov..
No one is arguing that drug companies don't have work, and a lot of it, to do developing a promising drug (that is generally what comes out of university research) into a marketable one. Nor is anyone saying that that process is cheap.

However, the amount of money that goes into finding those promising drugs (collectively, including all the failures in those stages) is much greater than the work that drug companies do in testing and developing them (collectively, including failures).

Right or wrong, most of that research is government funded, and then the (monetary) rewards of all that spending generally flow entirely to the drug companies (often with some reward going to the University who hosted the research). So the drug companies wind up with Hughe effective subsidies, and little of the down-side of early drug development or basic research.
When ‘Ghost Kitchens’ Become Mystery Grubhub Listings
Disclaimer: I'm an RStudio employee. But this post is my personal opinion and not representative of that of RStudio.

Separately, I'm also a licensed (non-practicing) attorney; despite that, this isn't legal advice.

Some of the things you've said are correct, but are kind of skipping a few important steps.

Buyout: Any corporate buyout, particularly of a Delaware corporation, opens the board up to scrutiny and requires the consent of the corporate constituency. In JJ's presentation he cited Revlon which is an example of a dispute over a buyout by a major shareholder. So, yes, technically benefit corporations can be bought out, but they must approve of the buyout using the corporate governance rules of a benefit corporation.

Converting to a benefit corporation isn't easy- you pretty much require unanimous shareholder consent and it's fairly close to the amount of consensus you need to convert to a pure nonprofit. Same with converting back to an "any lawful business purpose" corporation. So again, yes it's possible, but it's very unlikely unless something convinces basically everyone with a stake that it's worthwhile.

I'm not sure where you're getting that PBC status is not legally binding- I didn't see anything like that in the Harvard link. Corporate purpose statements have a very real legal effect. Would you mind explaining more about this statement? I want to make sure I'm not mistaken.

Note that the article you cite was written a year before the Delaware Benefit Corporation Law was signed by the governor- so some of the things it says might be a little speculative based on the legal realities at the time.

If you want to learn more in depth, I can recommend "Benefit Corporation Law & Governance" by Frederick Alexander.
CTRL+F for hadley. He's all over that thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362626
If you search for "vim", you'll find there's already an issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/17213 - the latest comment is about a year old and says:

> The current implementation of the text field looked pretty much straight forward and exchangeable. So at anyone reading this, feel encouraged to grab this issue! :-)
I'm convinced that the long-term future of all UI development is web based, at least at the rendering layer. WASM may free us from JavaScript.
Have you considered how proton mail filters spam? It has to be stored in memory for this to happen before it's encrypted and flushed to the disk.

Unless your emails are encrypted for you on someone else's client before they're sent to your protonmail, in which case protonmail still has all of the metadata (time sent, where it was sent from, length of the message, etc.)

Do you believe proton mail can keep state level actors like Russia, China, and the United States out of their prod infra?

They may be "mostly" subpoena proof as in they can't disclose old emails, but do you trust them to not hand over your data before it's encrypted?
> Also, build times and sizes don't matter too much in the grand scheme of things.

In which case... why do you bother with alpine in the first place?
Prevent mail to Gmail users from being blocked or sent to spam
Open source licenses: 2019 year in review
Not rhetorical questions above. Come on bud, make some kind of answer, or point me to where the answers are.
> This guy was conducting DoD funded research, and then replicating that work secretly in a lab in China. Literally espionage.

I did not see the FBI alleging this publicly. It is not in their affidavit. He did lie on his forms to the DoD and that is legitimately a (non-espionage) crime.

DoD funding does not in itself make something a national secret. I did plenty of work funded by DARPA in my youth (during the cold war!) all of which could be publicly talked about and no classification or really any constraints were involved. I did later do cryptographic work but that was controlled by the Department of Commerce and was certainly more constrained than anything I worked on paid for by DoD.

I don't know Harvard's policy but at MIT since problems in the 60s, all classified work is supposed to be segregated into separate MIT-affiliated operations like Lincoln Labs, MITRE, Draper etc. It looked like distribution his work was controlled at most by the publishing cartel of Elsevier et al.
Some of that mass goes into the leaves, which fall off.
He missed the number one rule to get more views, which is to write about topics with a broad audience.

From my own experience, a good piece on docker or javascript and that will be tens of thousands of visitors instantly from reddit and HN.

Whereas a good piece on some obscure technology and that will be a handful of visitors per day, which is truly everybody in the world who cares about that thing.
> Why not ionic react? https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/

React Native uses the Native Components of the platform for UI. Thus Native. Ionic React is basically a web app, this is Ionic with React instead of Angular.

So basically React Native == use native GUI components.

Ionic React = uses HTML/CSS in a webview embedded in a Native App, just like Phone Gap/ Cordova, Ionic is just a framework on top of HTML/CSS, React Native is not.
Putting on words instead of code, since my last Tcl was about 20 years ago.

Semantically Tcl is a bit like Lisp with Algol syntax, and you get to execute expressions on upper stack levels, and can also evaluate parameter blocks (aka lambdas).

So you just need to create a function for your control structure, that will take the required parameters for the control structure body, and then eval it on the upper call level.

It is very rough as description, but maybe I was still able to convey the idea.

For our in-house app server, all our configuration DSLs were just Tcl scripts that we sourced (loaded) on application start.
Found on Twitter:

'We've updated our guidelines to help ensure your messages are delivered to #gmail users’ inbox. Using these methods reduces the possibility that your messages will be marked as spam, or blocked by Gmail.'

https://twitter.com/gmail/status/1222592248199745537
I learned to play hockey about 5 years ago. Part of that was going to stick and puck sessions during the week, where I could basically do whatever I wanted; work on skating, stick handling, etc. Sometimes there would be literally no one else at the rink, and during those times it was super fun being a noob. I had a ton of stuff I could work on, and I would see progress from week-to-week. I started playing on a real team not long after starting to learn, and the games were the opposite. I just felt super embarrassed the whole time.
I pay $89/year for my card, which I use for every purchase. I get hundreds if not thousands of dollars in rewards each year, and have never paid a penny in interest.

There's no dog and pony show involved, and I have not been gamed.
The Rules of VC from Thiel, Moritz and Others
There is not. There's maybe a part I could automate, but the bulk of the frustrating parts is speaking with sales, speaking with customers, etc. This task is something nobody else is willing to do. It's basically a "hot potato" situation with different departments.
I don't think it's puritanism, it's just keeping things separate. In an office we're all there to work and not get embroiled in relationship drama - so calling that nub a clit is just unnecessarily bringing sex into things.
All versions of PS2 have the PS1 hardware since it does I/O on the PS2. You are probably confusing with PS3, which had the PS2 hardware in the first versions specifically for backwards compatibility.
IBM’s Principles for Trust and Transparency
People like a lot of "burgers" that are barely burgers by the classic definition. Every once in awhile, I like a pub burger with all sorts of random stuff on it too. But those burgers are to "cheeseburgers" what Chicago pizza is to "pizza".

There is a reason that the nationally-famous burgers at Au Cheval in Chicago, Hog & Hominy in Memphis, Holeman & Fitch in Atlanta, Shake Shack in NYC, Husk in Charleston, and probably a bunch of other destination burgers all use American, despite many of these places being sit-down establishments.
What's the throughput like on a Raspberry Pi?
> I’m not just giving examples. Education and infrastructure are two of the big pillars of why we have government in the first place, and US government bodies have failed miserably on both fronts despite enormous funding.

I would posit that the only thing that is a bigger failure than the public school system, is the private school system.

It's numbers look good, but that's largely because private schools are more expensive, and also opt out of educating problem students.
Thank you. How did you word what you said? I don't want to come across as aggressive or giving a strong ultimatum.
Does this really matter? Maybe I'm missing something?
Discord screen share works fine for me on Ubuntu 19.10
Citizens from Chinese city on lockdown roar ‘Beijing has abandoned Wuhan ’
I'm pretty sure there are CLI tools that cost.

Let me give you two: Perforce + Dotfuscator.
They have their GUI, but also CLI applications - and you have to pay for them.

In my view, they should probably come after the (or, in companion to) GUI app -- so when you need to automate a task in an application you already use, in that case, it makes total sense
The right of privacy. The right of dominion of ones own affairs. There right to not be harassed by soulless individuals and companies who are 'merely' seeking to gratify their greed.
Computer: there is a small group of unpopular people causing social problems. Liquidating them humanely would increase net happiness at the least cost.

Shall we proceed?
Tesla's rival Rivian will help build Lincoln's first electric car
I'm actually surprised that many people read blogs still.

I used to spend a lot of time reading a long list of blogs I enjoyed, but I never really got over Google Reader being killed off.

I tried a number of other RSS readers and aggregators, but nothing ever felt as immersive as Google Reader and I lost touch.

The only time I end up on blogs now is a result of a link here, Redit or Twitter, or from an occasional organic search result.