skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, my bad! I forgot that left-pad wasn’t a CDN issue, but a removal from npm... I think the big problem with JavaScript isn’t necessarily npm, but JavaScript’s abysmally small standard library that leads to situations like left-pad. Including left-pad into your project is easier than searching how to do something that JS’ stdlib doesn’t have.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t dumb packages like `is-array`[0] that are nothing more than `Array.isArray` with a polyfill[1] for those working with Chrome 4 or earlier. Even IE9 has `Array.isArray` according to MDN![2] And that package somehow had 59,000 downloads this past week?!

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-array

[1]: https://github.com/retrofox/is-array/blob/master/index.js

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Imagine you're making a rocket engine, and both fuel and combustion products have high molecular weight. A rough example is burning CO (carbon monoxide) in O2, with reasoning being "both of them can be obtained from martian athmosphere". So the fuel isn't great, and specific impulse - Isp - is low, but if you add a relatively low-molecular weight component to fuel - like water - you can hope to have greater positive effect from lowering average molecular mass of combustion products than negative effect from adding an inert component.

That's partially illustrated by nuclear hydrogen engines - there is no chemistry, and the gas coming from the nozzle is actually colder than what conventional chemical rocket engine produces. Hydrogen doesn't participates in any transformations, it's purely a working fluid, yet Isp is about twice as good as with LOX-LH2 engines.

So at least adding water to burning process might sometimes improve the result.
Describing QML as "Javascript" is not necessarily all that useful. Yes, you can use JS in QML, but that doesn't mean it's actually done by the app in meaningful amounts, or has a meaningful performance impact. And the Musescore devs, from what I've seen, know what they are doing.
I think a lot of people are missing one key difference. Healthcare in EU is based on solidarity system where every citizen pays a percentage share of his monthly salary to the medical insurance. So if you earn more, then you will also pay more medical insurance - but you will get the same treatment as others (unless you have some fancy private insurance on top of the regular insurance).
So basically any medical expense is subsided by every citizen in the country indirectly.

I believe this is a completely different way of looking at things than in the US. The average EU citizen doesn't really think that the monthly medical deduction from his salary is just for his use or it's his own insurance, it's only a contribution to the whole system.
I looked around at the website, read the docs, and figured I had to be missing something.

After reading the comments here, I realized that I was not. DO NOT USE THIS! This is a terrible product, and the entire concept should not exist. You're giving the keys to your Stripe and Twilio accounts away to some random third-party for... what, exactly? A slightly simpler development experience?
What Is Variable Naming, You Ask? Here's How It Could Save Your Life
Looking at some of the prices, I can't help but think how great an incentive it is to be healthy in the US. "Health is wealth" if it applies anywhere it is in the US.

I have taken extra measures to ensure that myself and my family are healthy in the last year and with a tax-free HSA account that is invested into ETFs, I am literally printing dollars just by following basic principles of being healthy.
There's a bit of a lopsided leverage situation there...
I hope the court understands it's not about Telegram or any other tool used for communication, but the problems happening in "the land of the free".
What does "raw" mean, in this circumstance?

Looking at the article, it's pretty hard to understand what what's actually costing more. "Inpatient and outpatient care" is a pretty enormous bucket and probably accounts for a whole lot of salaries, services, and such of pretty much any job title with "medical" in it.

Admin, does in fact represent the largest % difference... but it's not clear what's grouped into it. I assume it means government departments, insurance firms, external legal/finance services. I don't think the data refers to a salary-bysalary breakdown of costs.

Sometimes it's best to look at these things from the ground up. Doctors, nurses. How many? How much are they paid? Is the diff more or less than mean diff? If no, move on, If yes, dig deeper.

You really can't even rely on price data to tell you much. Most of these markets have a broken or absent price system. The underlying answer though, inevitably will likely be "because they're run differently."
Coudn't agree more! Everytime I look at Julia, I check if they have an alternative to the tidyverse (esp. dplyr and tidyr) yet.
She spoke truth to power.
Trying to think of others.

Kotlin was 2011, and is JetBrains.
JetBrain's is 1500 people. So big, but not giant.

Rust is 2013
Mozilla is only 750 people

So perhaps Major Tech Giant is over-stating it.
But definately most other things in the last decade have a major established tech firm backing it.

Julia has basically nothing.
Starting out as a MIT project,
and then Julia Computing is a tiny startup; with like what 50 people now?
Sure, when you rub shoulders daily, then this hand off culture is easier to facilitate.
There are, even today, languages that lack words for numbers higher than 2, 3, or 4 -- including a number of Australian languages. This tends to be more true for languages of contemporary hunter-gatherer. (See, e.g., Caleb Everett's Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Culture and references therein, or this article: https://theconversation.com/anumeric-people-what-happens-whe...). Studies of people who are native speakers of such languages actually do have difficulties keeping precise track of different numbers of items, at least at the level of five or more.

(There are Australian languages with more extensive number words, which is probably where the examples of "Pleiades = 7 women" stories come from.)
Ask HN: How Important Is It to Make Your Website Look Unique?
There's plenty of online tools out there that can help you make a website, but you have to sacrifice making your site look novel. Are they worth it?

When does it matter that your website looks similar to anything else?
And if you look internationally, the Detroit-Windsor-Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City corridor is in a line with a number of intermediate cities
> I think you are mis-informed here, or perhaps your definition of hate speech is different from mine.

My issues with Parler are pretty much in line with what Amazon lays out in their court filing against Parler.

> "This case is about Parler's demonstrated unwillingness and inability to remove from the servers of Amazon Web Services ('AWS') content that threatens the public safety," Amazon wrote, "such as by inciting and planning the rape, torture, and assassination of named public officials and private citizens."

https://deadline.com/2021/01/amazon-court-filing-parler-for-...

Maybe you think "inciting and planning the rape, torture, and assassination..." is an Ok sort of thing for public discourse. That kind of speech is banned here on HN, and as I suggested, nearly every other public discussion group.
They're not exactly mature frameworks yet though, which is more the point I'm making. Of course, you can do most things in Julia, but does it provide a good experience for it yet?
I understand your point in this case, but I can think of plenty of examples where "potential future harm" is a good reason to make something illegal.

Any reckless behavior, for example.
> if you want only real clicks, you could just limit the clicks to 1/ip address and then have only country ranking visible

Sounds like a good proposal! Will think about that. How hard do you think would be for users to change the IP address and bypass this idea?
When older systems try to access an HTTPS only site they get blocked because there's no cypher overlap or no copies of the cert authority's new root cert (ie, LetsEncrypt's new one). Everyone realized just how much of a problem this was at the start of the pandemic when millions couldn't access HTTPS only government information sources and sites rolled back their security theater.

It's trading accessibility to cargo-cult security.
> If are so certain of it not being viable, what's stopping you from shorting it?

The fact that the markets are massively manipulated, irrational and untrustworthy. The entirety of the cryptocurrency markets is basically rigged gambling. I am not an idiot.
The nice thing about Cython is that you can have both - all the multiple dispatch you want with fused types, or escape that paradigm to do other things if you desire. It gives a lot of surgical control.
This is really fantastic, thanks for making this!
Also a Keratoconus sufferer. And it also looks like the progression has at least stabilized with age (which makes treatments like CXL kinda useless). What are you using for correction? I ask because my bad eye (which can't get close to correction with glasses) now gets better than 20/20 vision with hybrid lenses. And my good eye can't get the same acuity! It's an interesting sphere of research (so much is still unknown, and there are so many changes in the material science aspects of it). I got by for a long time with "extended-range" toric soft lenses and have very different experiences depending on the material type. (For instance, Frequency 55 XR was made with 'Methafilcon B' 'High Water Ionic' and I had 'unexpectedly good vision' with them.)

Oh, contact lens material is a rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_soft_contact_lens_mate...
Crap, that didn’t occur to me at all! And now I realize that that’s what they probably meant facepalms
Where do the hydrocarbons on the asteroids come from in that view? I’m curious because on earth the hydrocarbons come from life.
Is it hot, relatively fast, and self sustaining?

If you make your pellets small enough, it is. The combustion of steel brushes is quite interesting to watch.

If you make your pellets too small, then is stops being an ordinary combustion and becomes an explosion.
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Let me rephrase that, but without the inflammatory assumptions: Given that social workers are good people who do very hard (thankless and low-paid) work - has anyone checked what the reasons were for instituting this policy.

We're all in agreement that the agency needs to explain why this policy was put in place (which has since been prohibited), because it isn't normal to shackle kids and potentially someone needs to be held accountable. But maybe we can do that without impugning social workers as bigots - don't you think?
Inpatient care refers to any treatment where the patient is required to be admitted to a hospital or health care facility facility. On the other hand, the OECD defines outpatient care as care that "comprises medical and ancillary services delivered to a patient who is not formally admitted to a facility and does not stay overnight." Thus, studies like this try to break out "inpatient and outpatient care" as an attempt to represent the "real" service in question, while isolating things like administrative costs.
This is useful - as a starting point.

I want to be able to make a case for a single payer system in the U.S., but I think to be effective it's a comparison of costs and outcomes that needs to be had. In the data linked above, we're told that the 'inpatient and outpatient care' is significantly higher than in 'comparable countries.'

I believe it. But isn't 'inpatient and outpatient care' just about .. everything that goes into a health care system aside from the paper pushing and insurance pieces? And are hospitals really breaking that stuff out ?

Someone in favor of the U.S. system would say, ah hah, that's because we in the U.S. have access to better care, and more sophisticated technology, than in France or Germany, and also we don't have long waiting lists. I don't know the technology claim, but I've seen the wait list claim and I do think it's true when comparing the U.S. with Canada or the UK (the latter two have long waits for essential surgeries compared to the U.S.)

How would one counter this claim?
Interesting trick. When I find that a website's design would be improved by removing it, I tend to go with Reader Mode.
Facebook acknowledges that it is impossible to police their system because it is so large.

Ergo, the supposed intention is probably manifestly meaningless.

For example, you can point to the use of Facebook as a tool of genocide in Myanmar. Facebook will not, and probably cannot do anything about that beyond removing their service.
Tonara has some aspects of this, but not in the way you're imagining it I think. Would this be something that would be directed more at the professional (like symphony) musician market?
Somewhat unrelated but does anyone have any good resources for learning GNU radio and SDR for someone who’s mostly and idiot. I took a single calc course in HS (which I hardly remember) and have some very limited digital communications knowledge from watching a few videos. I know what I want to eventually build and have a nice SDR, but I don’t know how to use GNU radio. Most of the blocks I see outside some rather specific modulation ones seem to be primitive operations.
You can be against both things at the same time (cancelling said party and said party's plans against neutrality).
His attacks on the immigration and asylum systems were particularly insane and cruel. A just future will forever associate the man with this dark period of Family Separation and caged children.
>(current model is pretty good at generating metaphysical bullshits, but rarely insightful content)

Wait, are we talking about bots posting crap, or the average political discussion?
$70K ÷ 500€ ($603) = 116 months (almost 10 years)
AFAICS the article was first posted 18 January 2021, so (2019) would be incorrect.
I think you made your point, or lack there of, when you considered my point invalid due to the lack of absolute perfection and infallibility of Supreme Court rulings. Absolutist thinking is generally a sign of a weak argument.

Oh yeah, "as evidenced" doesn't mean "due to" as well. You might want to work on your reading comprehension there. The Supreme Court is mearly ratifying what the majority of Americans will accept. And handing everyone an M60 ain't it.
Right, but those are countries, and California is not. They control their borders, heavily restrict residency, and have their own central banks.
I've been asked this question before. I don't remember if I already knew the answer or not. But....

When does this ever come up in the real world.

> You are given an array of n - 1 integers which are in the range between 1 and n. All numbers appear exactly once, except one number, which is missing. Find this missing number.

This has happened to me in real life exactly NEVER!

I think maybe I was asked you have a list of pairs of integers except one number is missing its pair. Again, no idea where I would apply this in a real world situation.
> That's also true but where do you draw the line with vendor lock-in and convenience?

Can I export all the data in a publicly documented, machine-digestible, patent-unencumbered format? Is the site helping, or at least not obstructing, alternative clients for interfacing with the feature?

If the answer to any of these questions is "no", then it's vendor lock-in.
Most medical stuff comes as kits. In no small part because each individual manufacturer tends to have their own process for the details - it's not as interchangeable as you'd think. In part I think it's a liability thing.

It also helps a lot with sterility.
Ask HN: Is Social Media enabling Russia to inflame civil war in the US?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CenJe6RrLEE

I feel like the rising tensions in the United States can largely be explained by the dynamics present in the above video. Social media (youtube) providing a platform for Russia to misinform and inflame the right and mis-characterize the left as a unified terrorist organization that they need to respond to and protect the country from. This dynamic likely had a lot to do with Trump gaining office in the first place.
It's immoral to not use Rust in 2021. Python trying to add types is proof.
It's not quite a plan, is it? Like, what exactly are they asking people to burn? "It"? And it's not necessarily advocating violence, either; while arson is terrible and destructive, it is not necessarily violence against people.

It's pretty well short of actually calling people to violent acts. The wording would need to be more specific.
The argument made here is obviously absurd, but I wonder if it is this because the vast resources wasted by Bitcoin are truly indefensible, or does it just happen to be a particularly bad argument?

Is there any actual justification for it?
Thousands of dollars in credits for Notion, Airtable, AWS and 150 other offers
It has and does benefit me directly. Why do you think so many move to the Bay Area or do startups?

As for others that see benefit less directly: https://press.stripe.com/#stubborn-attachments

Growth (when constrained for human rights and environmental protection) is the best way to help the most the fastest.

You see it everywhere, massive reduction of global poverty, infant mortality, etc. Even just things like the ability for almost anyone to have an iPhone and use of Amazon/two day shipping are examples. Inexpensive food is another.
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What % of all digitized and reasonably easy-to-access text data did they use to train GPT-3? I'm wondering whether the current limits on GPT-n are computation or data.
This will be even more amazing when AI animation and vocals are auto generated.
I asked half a dozen friends. Only one could see more than 1, and in that case they reported only 3. Most of us are in engineering. The one that could see 3 is closest to an artist out of us all. Those of us with strongest engineering background reported 0.

Would love to see if there is more to it.
Inpatient: services provided by a hospital, after patient is admitted.
Outpatient: services provided in other settings
You're describing a very superficial form of friendship. A true friend holds you accountable and tells you what you need to hear, even when it offends you.
With the death of cash, privacy faces a deeply uncertain future
> How would that happen?

At the very least, you could put the whole json stuff inside a comment. It's already plain text, isn't it?
They claim the current semi-planned economy is a transition to true socialism. It's been in transition for over thirty years, and sounds more like ideological justification than a real plan to change.

For details see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist-oriented_market_econ...
Other commenter has good points too, but I primarily meant that there are still many many people (and entire rural towns!) making and dependent on the money involved. Even if the running of the prisons is "public".
Back button hijacked on mobile Safari to show more ads. I know Slashdot is a venerable institution, but it might be time to put it down. This is a new level of trashy.
Apparently Ace Attorney is a computer game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Attorney?wprov=sfla1
Probably yes - but 10 years is more likely than 5. Python really gained steam when it was 15+ years old. Julia has two years since its 1.0 release.
But it will eventually take over Python, unless something third comes and takes the cake before it. Julia is simply much better: More consistent, better designed, faster, more flexible, more extendable and with better tooling.

But is say most people can just wait. If Python is working fine for you, and it's not going anywhere the next 10 years, why not just wait? At that point Julia will be more mature with better learning resources and a better ecosystem. You can always just pick it up then.
Regulating Facebook a bit doesn't mean to remove USA from internet.
They ought to at least understand that Stripe Connect and OAuth can be used rather than literally giving them your API keys.
For what it's worth, there's a difference between pro-drugs and pro-legalization. I personally think that legalization is our best hope for reducing drug use.
The problem is it had become not uncommon that
any kind of stale issues get automatically closed not just such which "need feedback".

I.e. you make a bug report, it get's verified but is low priority. Because of higher priority issues the maintainers do not yet work on it. The issues becomes stale and now the maintainers will never work on it unless you always prevent stall or reopen a new issue.

And sometimes there are issues which can not be resolved but still are issues (e.g. (for now) unsolvable bug) IMHO such issue should stay open even if there will not be any work/improvement on them for maybe years.
Actually, as of Ruby 3, webrick is no longer a "bundled gem". You'll need to add it to your Gemfile and install it in order to use it.
Cardiac valve procedure at Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood City Medical Center - $458,254.00 cash price. Oh my.

I get it that it's an expensive procedure, but OH MY.
> I think free speech ends at specific threats or calls to violence. Call me the n word all you want. But if you threaten my life you should be stopped. Either by the police or by me.

Then what about lies? The real problem of the last few years is that really blatant lies have been remarkably successful in the "marketplace of ideas" and quite hard to effectively argue against (if you disagree, try using facts and reason to convince a QAnon believer that the world isn't run by Satan-worshipping pedophile Democrats who Trump & Muller are secretly preparing to defeat in a blaze of glory). Those lies are fuel for those "specific threats or calls to violence."

I think a lot of the conventional beliefs around free speech make assumptions that may not be as true now as they were in the past (e.g. most of the participants will act in good faith (or at least have some shame) and act reasonably, and that any participants that don't will be quickly identified and ostracized). The error is sort of like classical economics theories incorrectly assuming people will be rational economic actors when they often aren't.
Russia itself do that on their governmental TV & media.
She did[1] but it looks like she far exceeded the goal and has since disabled donations - possibly because the campaign expired? I'm not exactly sure how that works. It's also not clear that the money was for her legal defense. Perhaps at the time she initially ran the fundraiser she wasn't anticipating criminal charges.

I'm fairly certain this was the "official" one because it was linked to from an NPR article and she had done an interview with them. But I have to say, it's a very odd choice for a GoFundMe photo for such serious accusations. So for that reason there's a small part of me that wonders whether or not it's legit.

[1]https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-florida-scientist/
This is inappropriately political for HN.
Success comes down to a hell of a lot more than IQ.
I felt the same heartbreak.

> why can't we as a society solve this

We can. We (collectively as a society) have chosen not to.

Foster kids don't vote, don't pay taxes, and their advocates aren't nearly as well funded as those for many other special interest groups.