skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I agree to the point, that I wouldn't lose confidence in the company.

However, it is extremly annoying and it happend to me just recently with Microsoft, when I researched PWAs... I had bookmarked a link to their description on how PWAs are integrated into Microsoft Store. I could only find it on archive.org...
I'd like to hear more about this backlash. What form does it take, and where?
FDA officials asked to step down after contentious Alzheimer’s drug approval
Simone Biles would be hard pressed to match these gymnastics. And if you think I’m saying that because of partisan reasons, read my history: I am well downvoted in defence of banning municipal broadband in my previous comment.

In any meaningful sense, they’re voting to ban muni broadband.
> any competent programmer could solve this in a few seconds, if they are proficient, or minutes if they are not.

You've found exactly what they are looking for.

Also, it's pretty bad manners to leak test questions imo. You probably agreed not to in the TOS that you accepted.
In 1996, Java and specially C++ were hardly open source, and everyone can easily see how much those compilers and IDEs used to cost.

Sure the JDK was free beer, and there was this wannabe GCC compiler, but that was it.
They know exactly what is meant by Law and Order, and who that entails the state force apparatus harassing.
True. They say "SHOULD NOT" vs. "shall not", but since these are "guidelines" and not "requirements" I think they used the strongest language possible. (Note the capitalization in their FAQ. It's all caps!) Later in the same section, they use "SHALL" for requiring a password change after a known compromise.
Drugs can literally rewire your brain so that you feel an overriding urge to go out and find them. So a lot of low level drug offenders(mere possession) I feel sorry for.

What's the argument for weapons violations? If weapons laws are designed to disenfranchise people, then shouldn't Europe have way more disenfranchisement than Americans?
Places to find extraterrestrial life in our solar system, ranked
Author here. You summarized it better than me! Thanks.
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Exactly!

For the same reason, when someone uses halting problem to 'explain' why their program freezes, they are wrong. They are wrong on multiple counts actually.

For pure mathematics, this stuff is relevant. For all practical purposes, it is not (as far as infinite-precision analog memories are not involved).
What's the one question you never want to ask a Munchhausen candidate?

"How are you doing?"
I know, just expect it to turn full circle.
According to Crunchbase, Neo4j was founded in 2007! Is this correct? 14 years in and they are still raising VC money!?
Sure, Microsoft...

And how many versions of .Net Express are there installed on computers?

.

I'm a developer, not a user.

I develop for multiple platforms and targets. Not just one OS and implementation. That's why I, as a developer, need many. A user doesn't.

I'm okay with API's breaking and think that it's good and that's why things get versioned out.
So many conspiracy theories have been citing this as an eventual end game for along time...

It's particularly creepy to read articles telling us why 'actually it's a good thing'
It would be suicidal to challenge driving, since it is going against the current mob mentality on HN and elsewhere, but I am going to do just that. In my personal experience:
- I think driving should be legal, but only allowed when you really need to get somewhere.

- Driving takes away precious exercise that you otherwise would have gotten walking.

- Driving is addicting, even though people say it's not. I can no longer resist the urge to visit Tesco on a regular basis.

- Driving is a nuisance on streets, apartments, etc. Gas and smog has such a potent smell, it is impossible to get rid of. I would say that it has 100x power of smell than perfumes, probably even more. You can even smell exhaust in your car if you're parked somewhere.

- The risk of crashing, it's undeniable.

- Driving is irresponsible since it also may inspire people to want to fly a plane, which is more dangerous and therefore bad.

It's time we make driving uncool. It's toxic to the society. I welcome counterpoints and discussion, just being honest about how I see the driving culture. I've been there and done that for 2 years straight in college. Roommate had a big van.
Where’s the part where anybody defrauded anybody? This was clearly incompetence that benefited nobody (certainly the developers would rather not have TITAN implode and all of this USDC locked in a contract...). Embarrassing yes. Fraud? Pretty clearly no
In order of ascending net harm to individual and society:
Mushrooms, buprenorphine, LSD, Ecstasy, Steroids, Khat

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/what-does-science-tell-us-abo...

Personally, I think a great amount of harm reduction could be achieved by legalizing at least one recreational drug in every class, determined by which has least relative harm to the user. If there was a clean, legal and affordable option, I believe demand for the more-harmful drugs in the class would be significantly reduced. i.e. "stimulant" demand is somewhat elastic, and by making the least harmful stimulant (not sure if that is Khat or not) easily available, demand for Meth would be significantly reduced and market effects would make its availability much less widespread
People commit robbery to get more money for alcohol all the time. The fact that it’s cheap and available everywhere is why there’s not much murder—but there was plenty during Prohibition in the U.S[0].

Go hang out in a liquor store in a less-advantaged area of any U.S. city and tell me the sad sacks coming in for singles of rotgut are fine, upstanding citizens who’ve never broken a car window or traded an EBT card for cash and let their kids go hungry.

I don’t propose a solution for this—I’m a programmer, not a social policy maker. But if you could buy clean amphetamines cheaply and OTC, the way you can with booze, the problems of meth use would look quite different.

[0] https://mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.com/2017/01/chicago-u... (and this is just gangs)
they are a solid product - graph and document is a good mix. don't listen to the negative postgres fundos (especially ones who don't understand what a solid and performative database Mongo has become)
It really helps to have a look at the graph:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD

This is clearly the highest level of reverse repo since the program was introduced, by a wide margin.

There are three factors behind this:

1. The Treasury has temporarily backed off issuance of short term debt as it drains down an overflowing General Account.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-treasury-liquidity-ex...

2. Banks have been inundated with cash resulting from federal government transfers (stimmy checks, paycheck protection program giveaways, etc.).

3. Banks can't simply accept cash from depositors and be done with it. They need to convert that cash into an asset of some kind. And right now, the asset of choice is short term treasuries (exactly the thing in short supply).

Reverse repo is when the Fed loans treasuries to banks, typically at very low rate and no more than one day. This avoids the need for the Fed to sell its short term treasuries on the open market.

By running reverse repo, the Fed can prevent short term interest rates from falling below zero (they have briefly broken this level in recent months). Such an occurrence would send a very unexpected signal to markets and could result in panic as investors see the value of money market funds shrink for the first time ever.

Of course, you might ask why on earth the Fed doesn't just sell the treasuries it picked up by performing all that quantitative easing over the last 18 months or so. This is what's known as "quantitative tightening." If you want to see markets really freak out, watch what happens if the Fed were to suddenly announce a massive quantitative tightening program.

Whether or not any of this matters is not clear. The Fed still has some tricks up its sleeve to keep the train rolling. And once the TGA is spent down, that could open the path to much more short term debt issuance. Of course, if demand grows faster than supply at that point, things could get crazy.
This may be a stupid question but: is it actually possible to have a price less than zero?

TFA suggests that this line:

require(_share_price > 0, “Invalid share price”);

...should be "greater than or equal." But if the share price can't be negative then you'd want to just use an unsigned int and not pay for a require statement, right?

Isn't everyone passing around uint256's these days?
A few drugs that are essentially largely used as alternatives to safer drugs could possibly reasonably remain illegal.

The question to me books down to what addicts do if the drug remains illegal. Getting all drug users over onto a legal supply matters. Doesn't need to be easy - prescriptions etc. for the worst ones would be reasonable.

But getting them onto a legal, regulated supply from providers that can nudge them towards treatment or safer alternatives is even more important for the highest risk drugs.
the only place that would make sense would be someplace deserted or underserved...

But spacex is rolling out their solution
And if the inflation hawks are right, that's a great deal - the capital you owe, and the interest you need to pay, will vanish within a couple of years and you'll still own the house.

Banks clearly don't think there's much risk of long term high inflation.
To add to this, central banks don't lend out cash without banks pawning an asset in return. And they only do so on a limited time basis. The banks have to promise to repurchase the pawned asset at a certain date, hence the name "repo" (reverse repo from the central bank's perspective).

Central banks are basically pawn shops that get to create their own cash to lend out.
> Climate change and pollution is not going to really effect children born now. The AQI of most large and small American cities is still quite low.

I'm not sure what AQI means in this context. Air Quality Index? I don't think anyone's arguing that to be the primary societal impact from climate change (not the same way that smog would be). It's more the cascading effects from extreme weather, drought, food & water shortages, sea level rise, wildfires, and the resulting refugeeism and geopolitical instability from all of that... to say nothing of the widespread impacts of the rest of the ecosystem (mostly harmful to existing biota, but can help a few species). If you think immigration is an issue now, wait until more of the Global South becomes even more impoverished and living on even more marginal land.

> College may become incredibly expensive. I think if it happens parents could invest in an ETF instead and provide their children with investment income while they pursue other opportunities.

But what other opportunities? Already college is barely a positive financial return in most majors. Right now the American economy is mostly services already, a large swatch of that in tech or finance. Either you're in that field or there is not really a pathway to social mobility anymore. That's only going to worsen with increased automation and competition from China, India, a resurgent Russia, what have you. And layer on top of that the waning of American power both as a sovereign, domestically, and as a hegemon globally, our kids -- with or without college -- will have far fewer opportunities than our parents or us, ourselves. Especially when you couple that with the looming myriad crises that come when you combine that perfect storm of climate change, economic polarization, and a general increase towards authoritarianism. There will be more "have-nots" than ever, sharing ever-smaller crumbs.
Yes of course. The dynamic part of your site will still need protection, though. And if you offload static assets to a third-party, you'll have smaller pipes for non-static data, thus you are less likely to handle a DDoS. So you'll still need someone to protect your non-static data.
I wonder if it doesn't serve them in another way, namely to deny competitors (especially other foxes) a ready meal. It might also be so that they can eat one chicken in peace and not get poked by the others! But yes, like orcas clearly playing with living, in-pain seals, or any number of other phenomena, nature can be quite cruel.
This guy has a good rev repo explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0fSPO7AW7k
>If that isn't just the perfect description of politics in the US, I don't know what is. I don't know what your political ideology has to be to think the War on Drugs is a good thing, after all the money wasted, all the lives lost, all the people pointlessly locked up for things half the country can now do openly and legally.

Well it does sound like you're equating the War on Drugs to the War on Marijuana.

There are other substances that most people really don't think should be accessible to everyone. Is it even possible to be a responsible Heroin user? Or even Meth?
The Shire is a bit too happy of a place to vote Republican. You need people to be angry and afraid
I work in pharma and literally every one of our leaders (we do Az research) says this approval made no sense, "even if you believe that plaques progression is an accurate proxy for mental deterioration".

I expect it will actually be overturned, given what happened with Vioxx.
>Ask a bunch of drug addicts if they used weed before [heroin|coke|speed|lsd|<insert-drug-of-choice>|aota], most of them will say yes.

Correlation != causation. The idea of a 'gateway' drug is absurd.

The simplest explanation is that people with mental illness or trauma will self medicate. So given that, it makes sense that the easiest to acquire/least scary drugs would be the first used. I bet even more people got started on alcohol as their first 'treatment'. That doesn't make it a gateway drug.
I investigated using Neo4j back in 2010 for storing the schedules/routes of ocean shipping freight companies, forwarders, etc. The first cut of the system stored the schedule data in a graph like way in MySQL, but to do recursive SQL queries (needed for the types of queries being performed) was annoying. Things worked well enough, but a graph database would have resulted in a much more logical representation of the data structures being used - and the code behind the queries easier to develop.

That said, the 2nd system never got off the ground, I quit the badly run startup before finishing it. And now that I have a bit more experience with Neo4j, I'd say it would have been a bear to fully implement. Java is too heavy and Neo4j is a memory pig. It works, I can't say it is bad or perhaps iffy like Tinkerpop, but it is "Enterprise Software" and everything that is associated with that meme.

I have been using Tigergraph for my latest research into modeling the schedules etc of rail transport. It is much faster than Neo4j, requires far less memory (I can store every bit of data I need to in it unlike with Neo4 (would need multiple 64GB of RAM servers)), and its programming language is pretty nice once you get the hang of it.

So I'd recommend Tigergraph. The downside is that it is not as 'plug and play' as Neo4j, does not has all the mindshare/fancy bells and whistles, and is entirely C++/Unix based. So having some UNIX sysadmin experience is helpful unless you want to use their cloud solution.
It's actually a war on who makes money off of the drugs, opioid crisis comes to mind.
> would make it easier to remove and re-write, no

maybe yes, maybe no. depends on how much engineering effort was spent. if upfront cost of perfect decoupling is high and later we need to delete it, why think about decoupling it at the first place? maybe write verbose, spaghetti code and when code contains all the business logic, then start refactoring slowly, when things became stable?
This echoes what I occasionally daydream of: A Smalltalk-like development environment, written in Smalltalk, that maintains a clear separation between the application you're working on, and the application you're working in.

And then let the environment run headless and export a language server and debugging API that lets me get most the practical benefit without having to leave my favorite editor, and also integrates more easily with existing build tools, stuff like that. Right now, Smalltalk effectively wants to either be the prima ballerina, or have no part in the production. That's a real difficult line to try to hold in the modern software landscape.

That said, it's still a great language, and one of those rare ones that I'd encourage everyone to learn, because it will change the way you think about programming.
But if you dramatically improve the patient's life right now, it will probably be a lot easier to treat the underlying problem, without the added worries of stress and a failing career.
OT, but... While working on One Laptop Per Child, there seemed potential to disrupt science education content. Science researchers who normally wouldn't prioritize contributing to education content, were being drawn in by the possibility of rapidly reaching millions instead of thousands of students. The "build it and they will come" of a massive new and empty app "store". Plus the context of non-commercial "change the world" Open Education Resources.

So that didn't happen. And more recently, maybe if VR/AR had taken off more sharply, there might have been a similar effect. But no.

So here in the future... I don't know how to quickly convey just what wretched dreck, err, how wonderfully better content could be. How about this: Kindergarten through undergrad, students are told the Sun is yellow, in textbooks and outreach. Then an infinitesimal few finally get an "oops, sorry, nope, our bad" from a graduate class on common misconceptions in astronomy education. Incoherent dreck, err, opportunity for wonderful improvement, doesn't begin to describe current content.

So my question is, does anyone know of vaguely similar potential for disruptive improvement in the quality of science education content?

Instructor performance art focuses on specific students, and limited outcome goals, under severe resource constraints. Science education research focuses on isolated deployable improvements. But "big interdisciplinary creative mashup of improvements, catalyzed by massive collaboration of research expertise"... isn't a thing, isn't something we're set up for, or incentivized to do.

But it's what I'm interested in. So, any thoughts?
It's objectively a privileged position to be able to do that and not become homeless, but I wouldn't wish for it.

Have you ever had a day at work or during your schooling where, due to burnout, depression, anxiety, lack of direction, laziness, whatever... you just got nothing done? Maybe you wasted all your time reading/writing emails; browsing the web; etc?

I have had some days like that. And if I worked in a factory or a fast food restaurant, I would look at that experience and say, "gee, sure would be nice to be able to sit around doing nothing all day". But those days weren't like a vacation, they sucked. I didn't get any enjoyment or relaxation out of it. I felt crappy all day and even worse at the end of the day for having accomplished nothing. Even days where there's a production emergency and I have to fix bugs under pressure from clients feel better than that.

I've never taken 4 months off from work for mental health but I imagine it feels about like that...
Wouldn't SpaceX's solution essentially solve this...

You just need to sign up and point the device they gave you to a satellite
Here is one study that shows the discrepancy of how "outsiders" think about Marijuana as a gateway drug vs. "insiders":

> Marijuana is often referred to as a gateway drug due to its placement in the stage-like progression of drug use (Kandel, 2002; Zimmer & Morgan, 1997). This study examines the gateway drug concept from an insiders' perspective. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 51 current and former users of marijuana. Data were collected between 2000 and 2002. Data on drug histories and perceptions about marijuana as a gateway drug were analyzed. While 80.3% (n = 41) of participants initiated their drug use experiences with alcohol or tobacco, one-third (n = 15) used an illicit drug other than marijuana prior to initiating marijuana. The adults in this study varied with regard to their perceptions about whether or not they thought marijuana was a gateway drug. Forty-five percent (n = 23) expressed viewpoints characterized as mixed or conflicting, 35% (n = 18) did not support the idea that marijuana was a gateway drug, and 19.6% (n = 10) strongly supported the notion.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/humjsocrel.35.5
(For the record, the question does show the language the snippet is written in.)
It's not about the databases, it's about the migration in the first place.

If you have a problem that can be solved best with a graph database, then there is no problem. Many problem can be better solved with a graph structure. Choose one, and you'll be happy.

But, if your use-case is migrating from MongoDB to a graph database, that's a bit of a red-flag. What data model do you have where you can migrate from a document/schema-less system to a graph database? Maybe the tech lead figured out that a graph model works better for your data. If that's the case, then great -- migrate away.

But given that they want to go from Mongo to a graph DB, the fear is that this is someone who is only chasing the next cool technology and not solving an underlying business problem.
Is this a criticism of our most sacred institution, or have I misinterpreted your words?
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This was my experience twice trying to use Triplebyte in the past 2 years.

It's a great platform, the indicator letting me know companies aren't going to respond is great.

It just doesn't fix the problem that... the quality of companies on Triplebyte aren't companies most senior/lead/architect/advisory level engineers are willing to settle for. I'm being unnecessarily harsh/biased. I'm sure plenty of people use the platform with great success. I've just come to accept "early/mid-stage startups" job offers from Triplebyte and not much else. Not necessarily "garbage" but... for sure lots of risk.
I kind of see what you're saying, usually I say grandpa. But overall, no, I don't think it's a big enough deal to worry about.
I'd also like to avoid using Google Search when possible to support alternatives.

Sadly, your link is a Chrome extension, and as a Firefox user, it doesn't really resolve my problem at all.
the second and third photos aren't too bad actually, but first one could indeed have Blade Runners around...
I've actually never looked at what the bandwidth and storage costs for my apps could be. But also, they could easily be taken out of the equation by letting me pay for that separately? Inclusion in the mandatory single point of failure that is the app stores _by itself_ should not demand a hefty, ongoing tax
Is this comment intentionally Kafkaesque?
There's absolutely nothing that needs to be interpreted here. The article - and even the specific sentence you quoted - make it clear that its discussing the response to a user's actions and not the actions themselves. I'm not saying Trump did or did not break a rule, but neither did this article. You're completely inventing the notion that Trump's actions were discussed.