skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuck you, Nextdoor. Not. Enough.

Nextdoor is known to be platform that enables bigotry and perpetuates racial stereotypes. Nextdoor, not forwarding bullshit suspicions to the police, is the least they could do since they created the fucking problem to begin with.

It encourages one to view everyone who you don't immediately recognize as an outsider, causing you to fear them, and then share that fear with others so they too can be afraid. It's absolute madness, and I haven't ever heard a good thing in the real world about Nextdoor. I have had people assume my race incorrectly though, and gleefully admit their racist usage of it not knowing what they were about to say would be considered so fucking awful...
The answer to that is they send you home. They tend to kick you out of the hospital unless you are actively dying. At least here in America.
That ‘Oregano’ probably belongs to the wrong decade, if not the wrong century. A thread on comp.unix.wizards suggests that it is a reference to a Berkeley developer caught crossing the US–Canada border with a bag of oregano — that was actually oregano.
> Either way Apple takes on the significant chargeback risk for your app which is far more concerning for them than whatever revenue they get.

Gee, if only there was a way for the person to signup directly on the app maker's site, where they would assume all the risk...
Speeding Up React SSR: Announcing ESX (2019)
A blockchain based storage system means that every participant will need to store every video forever in order to achieve consensus. If the blockchain uses URLs to external resources, then those can be easily be taken down.
We can do both.

Non-enforcement of bollocks laws is a feature.

Most people will not ever interact with law enforcement over bollocks laws.

There will always be bollocks laws.

Your wider point stands though, we should do some pruning, but that takes time, whereas non-enforcement is instantaneous.

Do both.
> punctuation, especially placement of commas

If it's any consolation, in my experience, no two native English speakers can agree on where and how often commas are needed either.
Having just gone through the H-1B application with my company for myself, causing my small startup to pay pretty large sums of money to the USCIS and spend significant time and resources putting together the paperwork, I think they would definitely prefer to have avoided that if possible.

I'm not saying there aren't Americans who could do my job, but I have been on the hiring side since joining and there is clearly enough demand for labour in the market right now that it is hard for them to hire qualified people at all, let alone qualified Americans. Employees in this field just have so many options that companies have to go to pretty significant lengths to get who they want. And I know Americans coming from my background and working in the same field and I can tell you I am not being underpaid relative to them.
> Engineers are talking to designers.

We really do love to pump ourselves up, don't we? My grandpa was an engineer who built bridges. I wouldn't dare call myself an "engineer" for slicing up a design, authoring markup and CSS, and sprinkling in a JS plugin or two.
I never thought of it this way. I'm American and I can understand fluent English speaking Europeans way better than I can understand British, unless that British person is from London. 70%? That's optimistic. I don't even think I am understanding words, only the most likely context in the flow of a conversation and the most likely way to react.

Fluent Northern European English (Belgium, Netherlands, Scandinavia, North Germany) almost blends into "normal" English to me. It is kind of shocking.
Just curious, which manufacturer did you call, Eli Lilly or Novo Nordisk? I think the details of how you were able to get a discount would be beneficial to others. I am a type 1 and I recently heard of another type 1 who recently died at age 40 because he lost his job+insurance and was rationing insulin.
Counterpoint - [in Western countries] those who have any chance to promote population restriction are "the 1%" and don't care provided the population can be controlled enough to keep working for them.

We've had a massive energy boom in the C20th, and grown fat from it, and now realise that's not sustainable for the planet. We can't continue that growth.

Robotisation will continue the current trend of increasing the wealth gap. And we don't have the energy or resources to just buy our way out of it by making more and more junk to sell (as per C20th).

Yes more immigration, or more pay for immigrants, increases demand from them for "middle class" luxuries (and reduces the ability of the native population in general to pay; but doesn't reduce the desire, and debt fills that gap), but we need to take the limitations of the planet in to account and realise resources aren't as infinite as they seemed - that means it has to be treated as zero sum, and indeed with restrictions on energy/resources that debt won't be there to cover things.

On top of this the ability for the Western nations to control others, and live better off their labour, seems to be finally ending.

IMO if we in the West want to maintain our current standards of living we'll need to entirely curtail population growth. Redistribution is going to hit hard, except for the robot owners who will get richer.

Regular Westerners (the 99%), to my view, will have a taste of living in a World where others have the wealth, and we don't have resources (skilled labour in particular) to bargain with - the elite won't need most of us. Heavy immigration can be a foretaste of that. Skilled immigrants allow the elite to bypass negotiation with their own populations (that might lead to democratisation of roboticisation benefits) whilst simultaneously leaving home countries devoid of skills and ripe for exploitation, not by nations but by the Capitalists.

/rant
Funny story, had this happen to me in a hostel in Germany. I had to “translate“ from English with a heavy Italian accent to/from English with a heavy Vietnamese accent between roommates. Basically I just repeated what each said into my California English accent with a few touch ups. Everyone finally understood. :D
They are using unlawful violence and intimidation towards the pursuit of political aims. Whether or not you feel those aims are justified, their means by definition have earned the “terrorism” label.

A previous commentor made a great point about the naming of things. Often the labels for highly political movements are euphemisms at best. Some of the least democratic countries in the world include the DPRK, DRC, and the PRC. And just about every violent revolutionary movement has similar naming, like the PLO and so many others. Look to their actions, not their name or stated mission, to make your own assessment.

Antifa is in the same position as many other early stage revolutionary political movements rooted in socialist ideals. I’d characterize them as highly volatile, anti-establishment, anti-police, with many autonomous factions, and so forth. Because of this disorganized and volatile nature, their initial steps can only be disruption to the incumbent political and police forces they stand against, not to create their own. They’re too chaotic at this stage to stand any chance of supplanting the status quo with anything better on their own. Their best hope is for the current political forces to enact better policies as a reaction, but it won’t be anything created by antifa itself. Because to create order requires a unified vision, and besides sharing a common enemy, unity is something their many factions lack at this time. That being said, the brief attempt at creating something in the CHAZ was illustrative of the challenges any early stage political force faces. In it, for example, the ratio of police (or armed militia) to civilians has to be extraordinarily high. And when their police force is as young, hot-blooded and untrained as it is today, it will be more violent than that of the stable government they oppose. Such an early stage government faces external threats, obviously, but because of the elevated level of chaos within it there are substantially more internal threats than a later stage government has to deal with. And so, were antifa to successfully implement its own government it would necessarily be fascist (in the police-force dominated, no room for dissent aspect of fascism) or it would fall apart. Despite their name and mission, and despite their far left position, if they are like any of the similar movements in history their authority early on will stem from a threat of violence, which your post doesn’t attempt to deny—only that for this cause, that fascist response, to you, would be justified.
The iPad pro not taking over a PC is a self-fulfilling prophecy as long as Apple does not allow it. With the mandatory App Store and its restricting rules, there are many things you just cannot do on an iPad. I wouldn't consider a MB Air, if the iPad had the same capabilities. That it doesn't have, is purely a software limitation.
I have a friend who is obsessed with min-maxing the supplements he eats including Metformin.

What's wild to me is that he doesn't even exercise. It's like we're so bored/tired of the concept of exercise that even people seemingly obsessed with various health subtopics will glance past it.

Meanwhile, I bet adding an extra run to your week does 1000x more than Metformin will ever do. A lot of this stuff seems like obsessing over the shape of your car's exhaust pipe for performance when you don't even change the oil.

I wonder how many HNers who take it are the same https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Edit: On second read this seems like a harsh, debbie-downer comment. I certainly hope a drug like Metformin is a magic pill you can take independently of the rest of your habits. It's just that this news is a reminder that we can't yet have things for free in pill form. At the same time, we have this constant aversion to the few things that we do know work, today.
A bit from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757819

A bit from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716944
I was in school during this time as well and before the reform had an entire grade point deducted from most exams because of my bad spelling. The new spelling immediately made sense to me and the issue went away. So much less learning of exceptions that made only historical sense.

But then I'm also the kind of person who thinks we should embrace the positivist calendar and agree on a single language.
There's a funny spoof video about exactly this topic: https://youtu.be/k0_dN_gQmEg
A good stand-in for page quality to me is size of bodytext:total payload. I should analyze my own blog to see what that ratio comes down to, I'd hope it would be quite good.
Even in that context it would be a weird comment: "I worry about what kind of people would fall for such spam, probably stupid attracts stupid"

It is an insult-like judgment coming from moral highness, both of the posters and of the women mentioned.

As an example, in both cases a comment like "this is a disgusting toxic way to use the platform" would have been less of an unwarranted insult that still communicates strong feelings.
Actually seems that someone in CF really love Rust:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/boringtun-userspace-wireguard-ru...

They have make WireGuard implementation in Rust. Here is original WG-RS:
https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-rs/about/

But CF is using their own implementation for WARP:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
"We built WARP around WireGuard, a modern, efficient VPN protocol that is much more efficient than legacy VPN protocols."

Here is other repo about projects written in Rust:
https://github.com/cloudflare?q=&type=&language=rust
The vast majority of nextdoor posts in my area are people asking whether a snake is a copperhead or not and then arguing over whether or not to kill it. Followed by people complaining about X (speeders, dog poop, roaming cats, etc). Also a lot of folks looking for miss-delivered packages.

It's useful for borrowing a car seat, getting recommendations for plumbers, electricians, etc, advertising extra garden produce we wish to give away, and so forth. Otherwise, I stay off of it.

Also from a technical and UI perspective, the web site is atrocious. It loads terribly slowly on a current generation iPad, constantly tries to route you to its app, makes it way too easy to accidentally interact with a post or comment, defaults to "top posts" instead of "recent activity" and on and on. It's barely any better visiting on a desktop.

I much prefer the sub-reddits, city-data forums, and even FB groups for my area for keeping in touch with what's going around me.
It's possible the price is too high, but the reason it has that price $35/bottle is the minimum required to sustainably produce it. It's well accepted in economics that price of manufacture is not necessarily the societally optimal price [0]. If this is the case, what needs to be done is government subsidization, and no individual person can just start a company and do it themselves.

Also, the idea that everyone is free to start manufacturing insulin ignores the billions of dollars of capital that is required to create a FDA-compliant insulin production plant, which almost no one on earth has access to.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/externality.asp
We don't even know if he's actually dead or not though.
That would completely destroy the gaming console market.

Nintendo would largely be fine. Sony and Microsoft however would be forced into anti-consumer practices like putting advertising everywhere and selling your data. Not to mention a complete consolidation of the studios where most games would be made by Sony Studios and only sold on the Sony app store.
Just wanted to say that Social Security's Old-Age Income program is available to all non-citizens, regardless of immigration status. It is a good thing to be aware of.

The only requirements to meet is 10 years of work in the US (i.e. "40 quarters of coverage (QC's)"). I spoke to someone from India sometime ago, who had come to the US in their late 40s or early 50s. They were planning on going back to India after they had accrued 10 years of tax-paying years in the US, so they could collect on Social Security Old-Age when they retired in India.

With the exception of a few countries,the US government will in fact directly deposit money in your foreign bank account. [a] You don't need to have any ties to the US. The whole thing is actually quite profitable, if you've only worked in the US for 10 years. Per the formula [b], if they earned $130k per year, in 10 years they made $1.3 million (and contributed $198,900 at 15.3% in FICA taxes), which divided by 420 yields $3,095 - the AIME (Average Indexed Monthly Earnings). The benefits payable for it is: 960 x 0.9 + (3095-960) x 0.32 = $1,547. They can get $1,547 from age 67. If they live until 87, that's 20 years. And 20 * 12 * 1547 = $371,280.

All other federal benefits, plus the other programs funded by FICA taxes (ie OADSI / SSI + Medicare taxes) including SSI, the other parts of OADSI, and of course Medicare, are not available to non-resident non-citizens (with a few exceptions).

[a] https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10137.pdf

[b] https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/piaformula.html
> A standard legal test is: "are the alternatives equivalent". The three options you provide are not at all equivalent. That makes it anti-competitive.

The test is rather, are the alternatives viable. And that they are.

You also have to prove that Apple is being anti-competitive - which is not true. Apple is applying their rules as equally as possible - just because it's imperfect enforcement, doesn't make it anti-competitive - it's unfair to punish when the scope of the problem means there will be apps that slip through wrongly.

Example: There are multiple email apps on the app store, and Apple isn't removing Hey because they also have a $99 email app. That would be anti-competitive. That's not what's happening here.

> Android isn't the same as Apple. They also have their own rules.

Android you can use third party app stores and sideload without any rules at all, and it's a bigger market. Sounds like a viable alternative.

> A web app doesn't have the same level of access as a native app.

Gmail has a website and an app. Both do the same thing - email. It's a viable alternative.

> The rules of the app store are unfair and aren't applied equally to everyone.

Imperfect enforcement is not the same as they aren't applied equally. It seems to me that they are - Apple is looking for offenders, finding them, and removing them. Seems pretty equal to me.
In teaching my young son to read I have become starkly aware at just how inconsistent English is.

I never consciously realized how many ways there are to pronounce "ough". And not a single one makes sense.

That said, I am amazed at how quickly he's figuring it all out.
It's a hell of a lot higher than most developed nations. Here in Ireland, as far as I'm aware, it's free thanks to the long term illness scheme. (We have both public and private healthcare available)
So you’re moving from your previous statement of “you’d be lucky to get 40 minutes” to “a few hours”?

Again, I heavily used both supporting a number of daily users. I’m not saying that the situation was anywhere near acceptable by modern standards but there just wasn’t such a huge difference between platforms: nobody had hardware which would run 100% CPU for a full day but light use (web development, system administration) would get you at least half a day. The one exception to that were the PC laptops which had multiple batteries but that’s because they had 2-3x battery capacity rather than a huge disparity in processor efficiency.
On https://www.mightyhealth.com/faq.html at least.
The problem isn’t minor offences as such.

It’s the reporting of the suspicion.

I don’t need my neighbour calling the police on the suspicious of $minor_offence.
See http://www.patternlanguage.com and "Building Living Neighborhoods" https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm (and especially http://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html )

> Our goal is to help everyone make our neighborhoods places of belonging, places of health and well-being, and places where people will want to live and work. This has become possible through the use of Generative Codes, Christopher Alexander's latest work in the effort to make possible conception and construction of living, beautiful communities that have real guts -- not the sugary sweetness of pseudo-traditional architecture.

> The tools offered are intended for the use of ordinary people, families, communities, developers, planners, architects, designers and builders; public officials, local representatives, and neighbors; business owners and people who have commercial interests. The processes here are expressed in the belief that the common-sense, plain truth about laying out a neighborhood, or repairing one, is equally valid for all comers, amateurs and professionals. They help people build or rebuild neighborhoods in ways that contribute something to their lives. Many of the tools have their origin in 30 years of work published in Alexander's The Nature of Order.

His whole idea was that people should design and build their own buildings and towns. He kind of repudiates the whole process of modern architecture and construction.
> "The RCMP Operations Manual, a copy of which was obtained by Maclean’s, authorizes the force to mislead all but the courts in order to conceal the identity of confidential informants and agent sources.

> “The identity of a source must be protected at all times except when the administration of justice requires otherwise, i.e. a member cannot mislead a court in any proceeding in order to protect a source.”

So RCMP could simply not be telling the truth as they are authorized to lie?
Apple’s latest MacBook Pro is thicker than the previous model.
> Look at the left sidebar...

Look at the Go language manual for comparison[1]. Go is simple (some would argue, simplistic) and there's a lot there too. Programming languages are complex beasts. "Number of things in the sidebar of the manual" is a poor way to judge a programming language.

> I like the philosophy of evolving your language slowly and consolidating before adding newer and newer features.

The Nim book[2] came out in 2017 and the language has maintained compatibility with it through their 1.0 release. Nim seems pretty stable and "well baked" to me.

One of the awesome things about Nim is that many features in the language can be implemented through macros. (AFAIK their async/await feature is implemented in Nim itself through macros.) So, I get the impression that Nim has a very solid core and builds things on top of that core. The fact that they can implement Rust-style move/borrow semantics without significantly changing the language is a really good sign to me of the language's power/design.

Personally, I wish Nim was what we were all using instead of Go. Nim has all the strong typing features (like generics) that Go is still working on, while also having the equivalent of goroutines and channels (though I haven't played with those in Nim myself yet), pleasant syntax, strong metaprogramming features, very strong operator overloading that helps make it suited for domains like data science, can generate a static binary, and on and on. I'd strongly recommend everyone take a look :)

I'm personally psyched that a repl (INim) is being worked on (and works now), because a good repl is something I really value in a language. There's a short presentation about it from today's conference as well[3]. The fact that the author keeps mentioning IPython gives me great hope for it.

Edit: in fact, upon rewatching, that INim video would be a great sales pitch for the language for you, as the author details his trip through a bunch of different well-known languages and why Nim meets the sweet spot of everything he's looking for.

[1] https://golang.org/ref/spec

[2] https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action

[3] https://youtu.be/Qa_9vut4TzQ
You mean the one that nails people driving on interstates with toll booths for driving about 20 miles in the state?

This state should be called the "land of trolls"
Because somebody's feelings were hurt? That's a useless argument to make against a professional who's basically effective at his job and very useful to society. The US is useless at civil rights these days precisely because it's all between "my feels" and straight out looting. Conditioned knee jerking all over the place.
"Not only are the big three insulin manufacturers financially opposed to biosimilars entering the market, they’ve actively taken legal steps to prevent it."

https://beyondtype1.org/how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-ins...
I'm not a native speaker of English, either, though with perfect American fluency. I find myself switching to "international English" in those contexts.

Actually, the word "international" is a good example -- in my regular American accent it would be pronounced like "innernational", whereas I would distinguish the T when conversing with non-native speakers.
Hey, I would appreciate that. Thanks.
American English speakers can have trouble understanding British English speakers too, fwiw. Mostly due to some dramatically different slang and pronunciation rather than use of more obscure words though.
> With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct.

That's true of every regimen, though.
My sister is cheating with othe gays
Hello, my sister who is younger than me is allways flirting with othe people, now she use social app zingr to discover nearby people to chat. the problem is that she has a boyfriends. should i tell him about that?