skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're talking about the requirement to pre-fund their pension fund, my understanding is that UPS and FedEx (and all private corporations) were already required to do so.

It seems that most observers agree that this is not the case, so it is unclear how you came to the exact opposite understanding. E.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-04/congre... mentions

> The law requires the Postal Service, which receives no taxpayer subsidies, to prefund its retirees' health benefits up to the year 2056. This is a $5 billion per year cost; it is a requirement that no other entity, private or public, has to make.
I wonder where people get the raw material for testing a product like BarfClean during development.

Actually, maybe I don't really want to know.
I Want a New Duck
"Imagine having to go through 2.5GB of log entries from a failed software build — 3 million lines — to search for a bug or a regression that happened on line 1M."

If your build log files approach gigabytes in size, what you're going to need to do is not search for that bug. You're going to need to rethink your career and life choices. You're going to need to take a vacation, do some traveling, get some perspective. Figure out where it all went wrong and what to make of the years that remain. Life is short.
How to Stay Productive When the World Is on Fire
They don’t make ‘em like they used to
Quietly use blogspot. The Original Blog platform still works, doesn't go about censoring people and it's not the hip thing to do (which is a good thing(TM)).
But what about the best alternative of all - the single transferable vote? Call me biased as an Australian but it's served us well for giving small groups a chance in the Senate and electing 3rd party candidates such as Adam Bandt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
In favour of recursive functions, not imperative constructs, to make loops
When Python first came out, one of its most appealing characteristics was that, in very strong contrast to Perl's There's-More-Than-One-Way, in Python there was a canonical way. That's no longer true, and it makes the language less valuable.
You have 5 places in code where you draw a blue rectangle:

drawRectangle("blue", x0, y0, x1, y1);

Do you refactor them into drawBlueRectangle(x0, y0, x1, y1)?

It seems you removed the duplication but you didn't. Because if you now have the requirement to draw red rectangles instead you surely won't leave it as

def drawBlueRectangle(x0, y0, x1, y1):
drawRectangle("red", x0, y0, x1, y1)

So instead of changing 5 places you now have to change the invocation in 5 places and implementation in 1 place.

You can argue it's because you named it wrongly, it should be "drawWhateverThingTheyHaveInCommonRectangle" instead, for example drawHighlightingRectangle. And you'll be right.

But you don't know if they will have that thing in common forever. And splitting the code is harder than refactoring it, so it often leads to code like this:

def drawHighlightingRectangle(someDecidingFactor1, someDecidingFactor2, x0, y0, x1, y1):
if someDecidingFactor == something && someDecidingFactor2 != somethingElse:
drawRectangle("red", x0, y0, x1, y1)
elif someDecidingFactor2 == somethingElse:
drawRectangle("blue", x0, y0, x1, y1)

This code may seems ok, but it tends to grow business logic inside, and you don't immediately know what combinations of deciding factors are actually possible without looking at all the invocations. So either you look at all the invocations before implementing your change (and then the refactor didn't actually save you any work - what does it matter if you look at code and change it vs just look at code and change stuff elsewhere), or you ignore the invocations and add your change in isolation (probably writing code that is redundant and overcomplicated because you handle cases that cannot happen).

This is obviously oversimplified example, but I've done these exact mistakes several times :)
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I think higher. You can always send other diplomats but you can't make a new place for them to crash.
10 year survival rate of prostate cancer is 98%.

https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/prostate-cancer/statisti... 5-year survival rate for most men with local,prostate cancer combined is 98%25.
Not clear in my head either, but I just experienced the value of heavy structures at times.
> by investing in Jio - Facebook, Google, Qualcomm etc. not only acquire stake in 'The Enterprise' of India but also guaranteed of political favors apart from access to data from millions of Indians through a single unregulated channel.

What about the rest of the dozen investor's including private equity and sovereign funds that have invested in Jio. What political favors could they possibly gain? I think these investor's are mostly looking at multiple rates of return when Jio will IPO either in India or overseas (probably US). It is just a super attractive investment opportunity that is similar to any Silicon Valley High Growth startup.
Not really, but now that you mention it, I like how 'portrait' sounds like 'poor trait'. The conscious self might not see such a thing, but I bet that the unconscious mind see it.
Which brings us back to my original question: Why????? Why bother doing all that and relying on third party tooling, regardless of how simple it is to run a command? If this is what I wanted, I could write a 5 line shell script on a raspberry pi which can do just that.

I DON'T want to do either of that. Add a file, push it and know everything has worked.
Adverse selection.
Antonov is really struggling to keep the shop open, I wonder if it's possible to keep such plane operational with the manufacturer on the brink of bankrupcy. Las time I checked Boing was supplying some parts that couldn't get imported from Russia now, but AFAIK the are not really having many customers.
How to Implement React Migration and Increase Your Performance 3X?
> I guess HN is not immune to "i only read the title" kind of threads.

It's obviously not, and the effect is often exaggerated when you read the comment section early on: it simply takes more time to read the article and write thoughtful responses than replying to the title immediately with canned talking points.

Calling this a garbage article may be overly uncharitable, but I do put myself on high alert and try not to fall prey to Gell-Mann amnesia whenever I read one of these weird-phenomenon-in-unfamiliar-country stories, even when there's no obvious propaganda value behind it, since half of the time I read one about a country I'm actually familiar with, the phenomenon is misunderstood, blown way out of proportions, or sometimes even foreign to local residents.
For Equities I am not sure IB supports multiple prime brokers or has as good borrow and lend capabilities as the big brokers do. Also it doesn't have access to institutional algos offered by the big brokers.

The big Prime desks support BB as well as Fidessa and other systems.
Yes, I'm overall optimistic about therapy in general. I did get some valuable things out of my sessions, and I think it would've been hard to find these things somewhere else.

Therapists tend to get expensive though, when I improve my financial situation I'll definitely look for some more.
You've Gotta Keep Them Separated
You can't sell in markets where you don't have stores and people don't know your brand. I was delighted when I visited a Uniqlo store in Barcelona, but there isn't one anywhere near me.

I just read somewhere that their plan from 2017-2020 is to increase the number of stores in Europe from 50 to 100.

For comparison H&M has 100 stores in Belgium alone.
Blood tests for testing cancer markers during therapy are already standard since a long time. A family member of mine got that testing regularly about 10 years ago but the predictive value was not good. Still, if the accuracy improves it's a good development and could be revolutionary once high enough since some types of cancer are very likely to be curable if detected early enough. But yes, a false positive result can make things worse, especially for people that are in a risk group.
Have you tried?
This is a good and interesting read regardless, but I'll just point out that when studies are properly controlled for confounders, the "relationship with the early caregivers" matters much less than we want to think. Maybe not even at all.

What shapes us are our interactions with our early peers. This makes sense from a hunter-gatherer point of view too; those are the people we will spend almost all our life with.

I highly recommend reading The Nurture Assumption for more on this. The author effectively argues with evidence for why relationships with parents are nothing more than relationships with parents.

It really opened my eyes both for things that went on in my upbringing, the upbringing of people I know, and taught me what is going to be important as I raise my son.
>If making the document faster to read is all it took, we'd see 140 character technical reports.

I suspect we’d then see the same hate talking about how all these executive summaries hamper understanding by glossing over nuanced details.

Granted, PowerPoint is often misused. But just because I try to hunt with a shotgun at 300 meters doesn’t make the shotgun a piece of shyte. I just misapplied the tool.

I can say, if you have a busy boss and constantly give them heaps of white papers as your communication tool, it’s a good way to ensure your concerns are rarely heard let alone addressed.

I think there’s a natural dichotomy between limited bandwidth and understanding complex topics. I personally don’t think white papers solve that problem.
2.4% of men die from prostate cancer, 33K/year in America. This is easily googleable.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostate-cancer/about/key-stat...
Yet China, Russia, the UK and the Spanish world still all exist and are major players on the world stage.
Time to get off of twitter
I don't think this is true (or at least not true for all programs); there's a whole discipline of software which shows how close writing software is to formal logic/inductive proofs in Agda Coq, etc.
Love the clothes Hate the work culture.

I have a few friends who work for Uniqlo on the e-commerce team in the US. They all tell me that the work culture is horrible. It’s very Japanese.

- Long unproductive hours gets your bosses appreciation.

- Very sexist and male dominated.

- They hate working remote even when it was absolutely necessary for the employee.

- No respect for maternity related issues.

Any company that would like to see itself become multinational has to adapt to local cultures
Quantum computers are modeled with extremely basic linear algebra. Quantum states are vectors and gates are matrices which multiply those vectors to get new vectors. How much simpler do you want? You can explain most of it as rotations around the unit circle which we all learn in high school or earlier.

The problem is pop science crap that tries to explain superposition and entanglement with complete word salad instead of "linear combination" and "product vector cannot be factored into tensor product of single-qbit states", respectively.

Anyway it is extremely doubtful that more programmers will need to learn how to program a quantum computer than, say, will need to learn how to program a GPU. They're both useful co-processors for very specific workloads. Programming will remain a fundamentally classical endeavor.
Who do you want to avoid node.js?

It's dependencies are too big?

It cannot be hosted by cheap webhost?

It's not secure ?
Someone I know had robotic keyhole surgery and they were up and walking about in a week. That was a man in his 60s with mediocre health. He went to the Henry Ford Medical Centre.
Note: That’s if it’s detected.
This is why discrete MOSFETs need to go away in low frequency applications.

There's not really any time I think "Hey, I want a transistor that doesn't make any attempt to handle short circuits, so I can save literally $2 it something".

Things that need power tend to be things that can short.
Hmm.

It looks like the "hack" is to only set the referrer header of the request to be the domain that's whitelisted which can be done with any HTTP client, but the issue is also 4 years old. I wonder if that's been addressed because the referrer header is really not something you can trust from the client.

I wonder if this also means if you use browser extensions that focus on security (such as randomizing your user agent and deleting the referrer header) that those folks wouldn't be able to even watch the videos.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention because if domain restriction does indeed still work like this then I don't think I will use Vimeo for that feature alone.

Signed URLs with both time and IP address based restrictions would be ideal. I wonder if IP address based restrictions is something Mux has planned.
The quality is definitly on the better side but the brand has the same ethical issues as H&M and others. There are other 'basic' brands like ASKET that may be a bit more expensive, but don't have these problems in their supply chain.
Push Notifications on Web Apps
There are newer methods that use antibodies to enrich for methylated dna prior to sequencing [1]. The method increases sensitivity as the majority of plasma cfDNA is unmethylated and hematopoietic in origin.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0703-0
I live in the UK and I absolutely love Uniqlo. Previously I had to wait until a visit to London but now there are more stores in the UK. The quality is amazing and here in the UK they even do free alterations depending on the price of the item.
In my last interdisciplinary role, I tried to simplify this as "you drew circles around the wrong parts". If many lines still cross the module boundary...
Not at all, I actually liked the idea a lot. It's just hard for me to take a any positive feedback from a person I pay to listen to the said feedback.
> The fact that sometimes suffering is very intense and temporary and that forcing someone to live through that can later lead to a fulfilling and happy life. A life where they are grateful they suffered through the temporary thing without ending it.

I will have to disentangle myself from this discussion to remain polite. This is veering too much into the 'being bullied will make you stronger' territory.
The proper term would be "analog computer", but I agree with you. Really this is not even a computer.
One interesting advantage that I didn't see mentioned in the article is that Facebook data is often included for free in mobile phone plans, or as part of a "Social Media" package that's cheaper than other data.
Yep, but like rolling an XML web service or posting html forms, that would (be far too boring) || (come with its own set of trade offs).

If we could get an open-source flash player that was not so insecure and/or make an open source equivalent to Adobe air that spits out web standard code, we would not lose the flexibility that adobe flash gave us.

we really don't have an answer to losing Adobe flash, similarly to when we lost the spaghetti code enabling yet so pragmatically useful visual basic 6.
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Indeed, I should have called it "analog computation" instead.
Adverse selection at play
The truth about decentralized contact tracing apps like Immuni
The thread about “OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin”:-)
The discrete logarithm is the inverse operation of exponentiation and modulo. Being able to find a discrete logarithm quickly would break RSA.
Their excel plugins were pretty quirky too.
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I'm not sure how to interpret what's happening between the US and China at the moment - especially from a business perspective...

If I'm a US company operating (i.e., selling) in China, should I be worried? What if I don't operate in China but have outsourced manufacturing/coding/whatever there - should I seriously be looking at relocation?
It would really be interesting to learn more about their domain. Builds logs you have control over and should be able to keep clean and actionable. Service or batch job logs could present a more difficult problem though. It would be useful to try and spot a key message halfway through a failed 20 minute process that is the reason you hit an error at the end. Again though using logging levels and grep should usually be enough. You can also flag excessively noisy code and improve the signal to noise of the output it produces.

In specific with a build system like Bazel you might execute 1,000,000 actions on a build producing lots of internal output but you only see the errors, and at most you have a few hundred lines to look through. That is managed in a few
key ways:

- Test output is completely hidden unless that specific test fails

- Build actions only produce output when they have an error, and it’s easy to keep it that way (because they stand out, and can be quickly fixed)

- Bazel does not tell you about every action that is run only ones that fail or take or a long time
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KDE Neon Going Focal
The plane that can fly backwards
How to upload Tailwind UI into an online editor
Unity Pro 2020
Hey HN!

I find it super painful to find quality remote work content. Plus, there aren't any feeds or topics to subscribe to.

So we built one ourselves.

It currently only uses Twitter as a source but we plan to add other sources as well.

Would love to hear your feedback!
> and how very good the material/quality is. I have been mainly purchasing from Celio, Mango, H&M (ie: the European brands).

Compared to those cheap brands, sure. I've mainly bought Uniqlo clothes for the last 4 years, and they've been decaying at about a slightly slower rate (maybe 0.75x) than similar brands to those you listed, but for each item, I estimate that it was probably 2-3x as expensive as their cheap counterpart.

In contrast to that, I also still wear some skateboard clothes that run in the same price range as Uniqlo and are ~10 years old by, which hold up much better (with most of the damage coming from my cat). I don't have any illusions that any of my Uniqlo stuff will last that long.

I still like Uniqlo, as they provide one of the most straightforward shopping experiences for someone who doesn't like shopping, but there is certainly room for improvement in their quality.
NIST is already well into a post-quantum crypto competition. Any serious user of cryptography will have switched to the new protocols by the time quantum computers become powerful enough to crack production RSA. Cloudflare has already prototyped protocols in TLS [0]. Scott Aaronson has gone on record saying he would be "astonished" if this happened within a decade.

This isn't like the cold war days. The quantum computing research community is close-knit and people would notice researchers being hoovered up by the NSA; this hasn't happened.

Shor's algorithm is undeniably a groundbreaking result but is not the killer app of quantum computers. It's more of an unfortunate side-effect.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-tls-post-quantum-experiment/
When you write an article on Medium you can choose whether to put it behind the paywall and monetize it, or make it available to everyone for free and not monetize it. That feels like a pretty good capability to me really.
Your and people's inconsistent and sweeping generalizations about people who want to die seems pretty irrational and illogical to me.

Some people are hurt by women's right to abortion. Are you against abortion?

Some people are hurt by taxes or debt. Are you against society or debt?
I had a Slimbook 1.

I had some issues with it, most notably the touchpad was not recognized as such but as a regular mouse, so I could not use synaptic to disable the touchpad while I was typing on the keyboard, super annoying. Also, the keyboard layout was weird. If I understand correctly, it's a mac layout (I never had a mac, so it was surprising to me), and a few keys were mislabeled, although not very annoyingly (their shift label and normal label were reversed). But all in all, for a first iteration, it was a good machine.

After that one, I got a librem 13 v3, and it was terrible. Lot of issues, the one year and a half laptop is in the same state a five year old laptop would be, with screws going through the case and the laptop sometimes just powering off by itself (without it being ACPI/heat related). I'm nostalgic of my slimbook.

EDIT: after all of that, I decided from now on to buy refurbished laptops checking on IFixIt which is the most repairable and upgrade it/change battery.
This is highly controversial in the field and is looking like a bad recommendation from the task force. A study has shown that metastatic prostate cancer has increased as a result of this.

Men should get a PSA test in their 40s.

https://www.cancernetwork.com/view/increasing-rate-prostate-...
I guess I'm old school for here, just VTI.
>s = d/t

Slightly worse than that. That equation is always written as v = s/t. v represents velocity and s represents distance, for some reason.
Reading the comments here, I’m surprised to realize that his name is already this well known.

In that case, I’m a bit confused - if someone did an article on SSC, without reaching out to the chap - what would have happened then? Articles using publicly available information are beyond routine So his name would be exposed.

I’m not sure what his options would be or what the consensus opinion is for that scenario. Would that have been an issue, but not as much since it would be a fait accompli? How would anyone be able to reverse such an article after it was published ?
I specifically had to sign a consent form before starting therapy, with exactly how my data would be handled and what could or could not be done with it. I think that is SOP in the field.

edit: This is in the EU
Same reason people put up with YouTube's nonsense. It is where the money is at. I agree with this post for the average blogger, but if your end game is to build a career off of writing I, medium kinda becomes a necessary evil.
I think it comes down to how extreme the relation is.

In the article there ia a large portion about abusive relationships and other cases warranting a therapist's intervention. In these situations, sure parents behavior will leave a strong and lasting impact on children.

For more standard cases, parents will provide a supporting enough environment (even if not perfect) and will make their kid interact more with the world, be it school, activities etc., limiting the impact of their own direct behavior.

To get back to your point, parent's thinking and behavior is fundamental IMO, but usually not just in a direct, person to person way. It would be more on the environment and social position they provide to their children.
"Preservation of quality, II" and "Suggestiveness, I" are likely co-manifests.

I suggest that should one strive to 'fine tune' notation N to possess the above two qualities for a family of objects in X, other categories of objects in X will become opaque and difficult to express, i.e. a domain specific notation.
Dell XPS do Ubuntu editions with support.
I’ve been looking at Lenovo and Asus/Acer equivalents of this and must say that this crop of Ryzen chips seems to be very decent.

However, most of the interesting models seem to be unavailable outside the US, as most brands dump older hardware revisions as “back to school” gear in Europe.

So this might be an alternative if you want a 48XX now...
That's a pretty easy search to do I think.

Slimbook and Tuxedo Computers are selling similar rebranded models in the European market, and Purism and System76 in the US.

From the major brand names, Lenovo is supposed to have preinstalled linux as an option for their T line, and there's Dell also that sells the XPS Developer edition.
U.S. tells China to shut Houston consulate
The fact that replies to this comment contain Scott’s name give the lie to this whole manufactured fiasco.
(Author here.)

Yes, folds exist, but it's nice to be able to "imperatively" short-circuit really easily.