skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That line length should be restricted in body copy is a universally accepted principle among typographers [0], and has been for a very, very long time. The reason is a practical one: when line length passes a certain point, it is harder for the eye to track from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Typographers may take more creative liberties when it comes to other bits of text, but for body copy where the reader will spend several minutes or even hours of time, legibility and reading comfort are top priorities.

This is why printed text with smaller type or larger paper will almost always employ larger margins, multiple columns, or both. In print, when a high per-page word count is desired, multiple columns is a go-to solution. But multiple columns for body copy is awkward on the web, since we're used to scrolling vertically—and real estate is free. So the best solution in most cases is simply to add margins.

[0] I like to point people to Matthew Butterick's excellent (and free) Practical Typography (https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html), but any introductory typography book will have a section on line length.
Another point, cloud service is extremely unstable. The movie/anime/feature/etc would disappear somedays without any reason and no way to rebase.

For piracy, one just needs to backup. And, this is controlled by user not whatever COMPANY/POLICY.
I'm not trying to bait you or be snarky but how would you word it? Don't use AWS because of what they did to parler?

What if the client comes back with "What is parler?".or googles parler?
> Implement all that functionality?

You must have miss-read my comment or I did a poor job writing, sorry.

I was saying, to become an OS, “there is very little OS functionality that k8s would need implement” most of the functionality is already handled by other parts of the stack, e.g. hypervisor, networked storage like S3, and user built APIs.
Nice. What amazes me is how most of big tech's efforts on web development have gone into making you 0.01% more likely to click on an ad, and almost none of has gone into cleaning up the privacy nightmare of 25 years of hacks with clean browser-based protocols.
Two Minute Papers: OpenAI DALL·E, Fighter Jet for the Mind
Learn stuff when it makes sense.

Two and a half years ago I felt stuck working with only dynamic languages most of my career so I started learning Rust. Now I have an extremely powerful tool in my belt that solves problems that most dynamic languages cannot solve [adequately].

But I'm not going to learn yet another dynamic language if that won't make me any money or expose me to a new way of thinking, no. Nor will I relearn C++.

Furthermore, if I make a comeback to JS then I'll prefer to learn TypeScript and pick the most productive tools for it (Parcel struck me as mostly getting out of the way).

I get the overall sentiment of the article even if it expresses it rather poorly.

It has a good point, though; many of us the programmers are rather capricious and spoiled and get distracted by new shinies -- as opposed to learning several skills deeply and be then very useful to the business we're serving.

We easily forget that we do what we do for money.
Hang on: so because they failed at killing elected officials, there's nothing to worry about? You can tell us for certain that had one of the officers not lead them away from Pence he would've been safe? Based on...?

Should we let the Michigan militia that was going to murder the governor off, since they just talked about it but didn't actually do it... Because they were caught.
Your commitment to free speech was likely never very deep or thoughtful if these events are enough for you to do a 180. Could it be you have fallen into a filter bubble so well insulated you don't realize it? Such a realization might also shake a person but it has the virtue of proximity to truth and the possibility of being corrected quite easily.
We're taking about a mob attempting to topple the actual seat of government by an incursion onto the floor of Congress. What does that have to do with Target?
They're paying for your attention. They should be fined for misrepresenting their game though, because the previews look nothing like the actual game.
You were lucky. Good on you for getting out when you did!
First:
Perhaps you'd be willing to agree that this was an explicit attempt at a soft coup: The explicit goal was to disrupt congressional proceedings as part of a plan to overturn election results.

Second:
As others have observed, we got extremely lucky that the rioters didn't actually come in contact with any congress-people or the vice president. What do you think would have happened if, say the crowd has come in contact with AOC, for example? What would have happened if enough Dems were killed or incapacitated to change the balance of votes on certifying the election? The hundred-odd house republicans certainly made a big point of not changing their certification votes after the riots.

Third:
When someone fires a gun at your head and the bullet misses, will you make excuses on behalf of the shooter? After all, if they were /really/ a killer, they wouldn't have missed, right? The bullet missed, you continued on your day, nothing should be done...
That part was responding to the GP claim that they stayed between the velvet ropes and left when they were asked. They did none of those things. As far as insurrection, even someone as dim a bulb as Elizabeth from Knoxville thought it was “a revolution.” That is the very definition of insurrection.

https://www.wvlt.tv/2021/01/07/who-is-elizabeth-from-knoxvil...
> Confusingly, they (who's they, not 100% clear) publish proprietary read-only apps for mobile which are not the same as the main Musescore.

If so, report details about those iOS/Android apps to MuseScore devs team on Twitter[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/Tantacrul

[1] https://twitter.com/musescore
I wonder if it would be best to return multiple colors when something appears to have multiple primary ones - e.g. black and white for a zebra, green and red for a watermelon.

Separating the subject from the background would also be useful - as simple as weighting the center of the image more than the edges?
Show HN: Zephie – display your domain name collection and discover others
Grievances about racial inequality are a lot more grounded in reality than QAnon and there was no attempt to disrupt elections, so no, very different situation.
how many businesses are really going to think "Using AWS makes sense for us but we're not going to use AWS because of what happened to parler?"
Vaccines Need Not Completely Stop Covid Transmission to Curb the Pandemic
Sidecar Health's website exactly what their insurance pays for a procedure/doctor-visit/Rx -> https://app.sidecarhealth.com/previewCoverage
If your company works like this, get a new job. There are companies out there that don't work like this. Her company sounds like a nightmare. Fortune 500s are usually like this, avoid them. VC back companies are even worse. Buy a company that is profitable and run by the founder.
Yes you can. Kushner got some Arab states sharing no border with Israel to concede that Israelis are human beings in trade for sweetheart deals on arms. That's not peace, its token agreements backed by arms deals.
Sidecar Health's website publishes exactly what their insurance pays for a procedure/doctor-visit/Rx -> https://app.sidecarhealth.com/previewCoverage
This is the beginning of of the next generation of computing, amazing stuff.

Project link:
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
How technical are your docs? Are your customers using a SaaS or are they programming against your APIs?
Ask HN: What API are you building?
Hi HN, I'm curious to see what API other fellow HNers are building. It can be a side project or a business, for free or paid. Just curious!
depends on what the replacement for cash is. If it's private credit cards that lock the marginalised out then yes. If It's some frictionless digital cash replacement like a few of the central bank currencies that have been floating around I'd welcome it. Seeing how long it took for people to receive covid relief funds, if you could just distribute money to everyone in a country instantly it'd be a step up.
By the point of the release of the Apple IIGS and the Mac II, the Amiga was already on the market and other consumer-priced, user friendly systems with GUIs had sound capabilities. Apple Computer likely argued that the development of audio functionality in desktop workstation size PCs, post 1985, was a marketplace inevitability.
Interacting with these people as if they're arguing in good faith isn't going to get you anywhere useful. Question is, how do you interact with these people? And where do you draw the line between assuming ignorance or malice.
Criminalization doesn't work. We have known this for decades. Destroying people's lives perpetuates the problem. Treat drug addiction as a public health issue and it needs to go hand-in-hand with poverty reduction.
My million dollar medicine idea: print the dosage info in huge type on the bottle (e.g. "Take 2 every 8 hours") with more detailed info in smaller type on the back side of a peel away label.

The only time I use headache medicine is when I have a headache and that is the exact time I don't want to be trying to read a huge block of 6 point type to see how many I should take. (A couple of times in the past I've written the dosage in Sharpie on the piece of masking tape that I wrap around the bottle but I'd rather it was done for me as I'm lazy)
Very cool! How is the zephie score generated?
And you back it up with proof but you hear I don't care about better treatment I care about prescribing what I feel works best and what pays best. Science be damned.

There in a nutshell is the problem with healthcare. Doctors care about different outcomes. Doctors have this image that they care about your best health outcome but they would always trade an extra dollar over any patient outcome as long as they are legally within guidelines.

As a developer. I went to school for a period of time. I have had a 20 year career of sucessful development jobs/projects.

If someone walked in without any experience but showed me a better way to develop a project through understandable datapoints I would listen and not ignore them because I was somehow all knowing. I may even buy. Why are Doctors different?
>I get that folks want to tame a chaotic world. But sometimes you can't.

No matter how little you know about something you want to estimate, there is an infinite difference between what you do know and knowing nothing. The right thing to do is to represent your knowledge without fabricating it.

Saying "I can't make a point estimate, therefore I can say nothing" is a false dichotomy.

Even if you say, x is between 0.001 and 10^10, you are narrowing things down.

There is a great paper mentioned periodically on HN, where they examined the famous Drake equation and show that when you get rid of point estimates and use reasonable ranges for each variable, the "paradox" that we don't see aliens vanishes. Despite many of the variables having uncertainty of many orders of magnitude.
As a few people have pointed out now, the insurance companies would be the customer. If your software allows patents with disease X to recover 5% faster and they spend a billion on disease X claims each year your software instantly has 50m value to them. You should be able to find a bunch of examples of how much Americans spend on different medications a year, extrapolate the differences in recovery rates from correct and incorrect prescriptions to that value.

Additionally, I'm sure they audit Dr prescriptions, if you get the insurance companies to use your service in the audits the hospitals will also purchase it to pre-audit themselves. Perhaps the drug companies can mandate its use. If you can't get a business to want your product, make them need it :)
Feature extraction from a pre-trained model? Sure, again depends how you use it. We have used feature extraction + clustering for some of these labelling tasks successfully in the past.
I believe it is both...
> immediately

Theoretically only, perhaps. I feel like you're overestimating the ability of our regulatory bureaucracy to implement change, or assuming that if you (or I) were dictator the proposal could be done immediately. But imagine flushing out that proposal nationally, getting it through the Legislature (with all the conflicting interests of the medical field, employers, etc), President and then implementation. Comp structures nationally would radically change, so such an overhaul would have to be phased in even if you did get through the gauntlet of bill approval.
Thanks. Found the correct link: github.com/rxi/lite

- First, it's ~20k ... which I admire in itself, but I doubt it'll have all the functionality of an advanced editor/IDE system.

- Second, I don't know lua, don't have plans to learn lua. I'll take lua a teeny bit more seriously the day I don't have to decide if I need to shell out 22 pounds just to read the latest official documentation of a programming language I'm trying to learn [0]

[0] https://store.feistyduck.com/products/programming-in-lua-fou...
One thing I don't know how to do in Python is using while loops to collect results of some other loop that runs at the same time.

For example, within the same script, I would have a simulate_magic_numbers function with a loop that produces a sequence of magic numbers continuously for a few hours and returns them once done. Below, I would like to have a while loop that grabs the magic numbers every 10 minutes and plots them.

I know how to do it with two separate scripts and saving intermediate numbers to a file, but it would be great to be able to do it within a single Jupiter notebook. However, there doesn't seem to be a straight-forward way of doing it.
I don't know how you can be so confident that there wasn't a general who would have thrown in if he had a chance. Given the statistics, there must be at least a few high-ranking generals who believe Trump's claims that he won the election.
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNXmrF3a9c
I used to think that too but when watching GoPro footage over the years there is always a visible difference between 720p and 1080p. And I think 4k is also noticeable.
At least these rioters showed up at the right place. Breaking into the capital was beyond dumb, but it makes a lot more sense than breaking into a Gucci store.
What is the argument you're trying to make?
> What country lets non-citizens just walk in to use the health care system?

Almost all.

Non citizens just pay a fee or are reinbursed later by their insurance or healthcare system. In many cases citizens from country 'A' can use healthcare in 'B' as long as their own citizens will be granted the same treatment in exchange when visiting 'A'. It depends on the treatises signed between the two countries.

Allowing foreigners to use the health care system for free is sometimes allowed (or even encouraged) if that protects the interests of the country.
'Most Favored Nation' drug pricing is currently blocked in court. We don't know how this will play, if it works.
No it’s not.

Did you completely miss the memo on google duplex, tensorflow, kubernetes, etc?

G is still way more technologically advanced than any other top tech company, and is currently positioned at the top of the AI research ladder in many (if not all) sub disciplines
> Where?

If you go to a tourist destination over the summer, there is a good chance you'll see it in a few states. Ive personally driven through them in California.

But, they are not "required" in the sense that you can technically make a (legal) U turn to avoid them and go a different direction.

Here is a link with a bit of info about them. https://dui.laws.com/checkpoint
Not trying to be snarky, but no one remembers much before age 11 or likes bureaucracies or incompetence.
Their intent to intimidate the lawmakers into leaving Trump in power. Trump absolutely wanted them to do so, and was very strategic in staying just on one side of the line.

They didn't need a general waiting in the wings, they just needed the President who was already sitting in the WhiteHouse.
Avoiding the Average Outcome of Startups? With Director of YC, Michael Seibel
It is in fact interesting as that's one of key differences between the anti-discrimination laws of different countries.

USA in general considers gender, religion, color, national origin, race, and age as protected characteristics, but permits discrimination on political beliefs - but some jurisdictions in USA do have such a prohibition (e.g. DC - https://ohr.dc.gov/protectedtraits). Some provinces of Canada prohibit such discrimination (in e.g. employment) but some don't. As another example, German constitution at the very beginning (Article 3, https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...) asserts anti-discrimination for, among other things, political opinion.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 2 asserts that these rights shall apply " without distinction of [...] political or other opinion", and European Convention of Human Rights Article 14 explicitly prohibits discrimination based on "political or other opinions", which has also been applied by European Court of Human Rights in e.g. Redfearn v United Kindgom [2012] ECHR 1878.

That would forbid (for example) employers to fire people just because they were active members of Proud Boys or Antifa or the Communist party or KKK or whatever. However, IMHO this would not prohibit practical censorship of political opinions (free speech is not a core human right in either of these two declarations), it would still allow platforms to set rules for messages on their platform and kick out people who violate these rules - it would just disallow them to kick out people for having a political affiliation that they're expressing outside of that platform, but that's not what was happening here.
> How would they have done that?

Attempted murder is still a felony, even if's a very dumb attempt. The same is true for coups.

> In a coup, someone like a general is waiting to hear the signal to throw in with the coup leaders, providing actual institutional power to the usurpers.

The Q folks think this is exactly what the military is going to do.
That's pretty awful. On the flipside, here in Montreal I've been very impressed with my local pharmacists at the nearby chain drugstore. They pay attention to drug interactions to the extent of flagging a risk the doctor missed but in retrospect admitted is valid, give me a consult every time I get a new medicine, remember things well enough that I was once asked how my wife was doing with her own recovery from something, and so on.

I used to live in the US and I'm certainly not used to that either. I wish that kind of great pharmacist care were more widespread as a norm.
I imagine he's referring to right wing extremists storming the capitol building to overthrow a democratically elected leader and imprison and perhaps murder members of the house of representatives. Just a thought.
This is freaking awesome. Brings old tablets back to life. Genius, thanks a bunch
Inter-team dependencies. Marketing pushes. Customer commitments. New sales dependent on certain features. Building features to increase TAM. Partner commitments for interoperability / joint deployments. Even presentations of your roadmap to customers and prospects to get them bought into your vision of where the product is going.

There's tons of things that require broadly knowing when X is going to be done beyond capacity issues.
zip is a horribly designed format

https://games.greggman.com/game/zip-rant/

There were precedents of well designed file formats long before .zip hit the scene. Of course there wasn't the internet so being aware of better format designs might not have been common
Now you're starting to follow the thread to the root cause: onerous medical licensure and onerous medical university accreditation.

In the US, the barrier to become a doctor is higher than it is anywhere else. Nowhere else in the developed world are you forced to do 4 years of undergraduate study unrelated to medicine, followed by 4 years of Medical school, followed by 4 years of residency.

Also, one doesn't require huge debts to pursue a PA or NP degree, but many States disallow PAs and NPs from practicing basic medicine.

Not everyone needs to go through the same level of schooling as a brain surgeon.
Well, /someone/ had an explicit plan for using a delay of the congressional certification to overturn the results:

'Giuliani tells Tuberville that McConnell wants to narrow the objections to just three states and explains that the Trump team wants to object to 10. “So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote, particularly after what McConnell did today.”'

https://thedispatch.com/p/giuliani-to-senator-try-to-just-sl...

It's not a huge leap to imagine a deadlock on certification leading to Trump declaring he'd just hold on to the presidency. That's basically been the whole game plan for months.
Is his meta-analysis or its methodology peer-reviewed work by professional researchers? Has any suitably qualified professional reviewed his output?
Vanilla JS works just as well now, so jQuery is just bloat.
I've seen this happen and the entire process of adding new drugs and waiting a week or more between visits seems cruel.
> I can't believe this needs to be said, but the fact it failed doesn't mean the danger wasn't real.

The danger is unreal not because it failed, but because it was obviously going to fail. We're talking about a bunch of delusional LARPers. If some foreign intelligence unit tries and fails to overthrow your country's government, that's insurrection. If it's the doofus who stole the podium or the guy with face paint and a horned fur hat, not so much.

Note that the factual crimes are already plenty bad--they don't need to be exaggerated.

> Some members of the mob were actively looking to kill the people who were 2nd and 3rd in line for the presidency

There were murderers and arsonists at BLM riots as well; that doesn't impugn the legitimate protesters. Similarly, these few actual insurrectionists don't make the MAGA trespassers, rioters, even murderers into insurrectionists.

> Let's not pretend that there was zero danger to democracy.

There is a danger to our democracy in that a sitting president undermining democracy by spreading lies about election fraud. More generally, the media and tech companies are deliberately cultivating division and mistrust among the American people. These are real, credible dangers to democracy. The MAGA LARPers were not a credible threat to our democracy.
I think the term 'cargo cult' carries some religious history and other baggage that I wouldn't want conflated here, but your feeling that anything we've heard about software estimation is questionable is probably warranted.

IMO the theories have sprouted more from management which unfortunately is probably the best equipped today to view the trends over time and compare them to actual results (given the lack of empirical data). If we admit that our ideas of estimation have come from management, we should also admit their conflicts of interest in the matter and the various management fads that come and go. I think as humans we all search for patterns and try to generalize rules to solve our problems, even when we have an incomplete view of things to begin with.

Finally, even with a generalized rule we should realize how different people are team-to-team. I haven't worked on two teams where the same exact processes worked for everyone. The best teams and managers I've had will observe a team over time and tweak the various processes according to what works at that point in time. The worst managers were the ones who idolized a specific style or person and copy-pasted their opinions into their workplace without listening to the team.