skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next time that happens, file a complaint about HSBC with the CFPB (https://www.consumerfinance.gov/). I recently had a problem with PayPal and it was resolved in days after I file a complaint with the CFPB.

Also, please don't bank with HSBC. They are the worst of the worst. You'd be better off with Wells, that's how bad HSBC is. https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-...
> we’ve been oligarchic since at least the 90s

You mean the 1890s?
Those free samples very much make treatment less affordable. They don’t need to hand out samples when their treatment is the only option, they need to advertise to out compete generics.

It’s shockingly effective, look at say prescriptions for patented opioids vs the vast numbers of equally effective generics. Doctors are extremely susceptible to advertising just like most people, the difference is it’s not their money being spent.
Except for chromium.
I think the concept of a breaking change is part of the mistake. If you want to change something you should introduce the new way and support it side by side with the old for a while while going through a depreciation cycle.

I'm with the GP on this. Pinning to a specific version is a code smell. You should have enough confidence in your regression suite to always use the latest version. And hopefully enough confidence in your vendors that they're not going to break a bunch of stuff.
The manpage says that directly invoking a script from package.json with `npm run X` aka `npm run-script X` will still work with this preference set to true, but that it will not run pre/post scripts. Perhaps that is good enough for your use-case?

npm help run-script

[...]
ignore-scripts
o Default: false
o Type: Boolean
If true, npm does not run scripts specified in package.json files.

Note that commands explicitly intended to run a particular script, such as npm
start, npm stop, npm restart, npm test, and npm run-script will still run their
intended script if ignore-scripts is set, but they will not run any pre- or
post-scripts.
I guess it's subjective. I'd use some simple algorithms to calculate the rank.

From the top of my head, comments should take the biggest weight, likes next and view the smallest one. Basically the more actions users have to perform, the better rank the post gets.

But don't forget that views probably can be excluded from the equation as it is related to the other two. So either you drop view, or just use view. However, closer analysis would be needed (e.g. factor analysis, or PCA) to figure out the relationship.
> This is, I think, a bit obvious if you look at history: centralized states with well-defined languages and laws end up swallowing all the smaller dialects, cultures, and kingdoms. Good for empire managers, bad for culture.

Except it's not obvious. There's very few examples of linguistic dialects and cultures being forcibly assimilated by larger imperial conquest before modern times (the French Revolution is a good dividing point). Even France, one of the best examples of a large, centralized, unitary state throughout most of European history, didn't really make major strides in stamping out the langues d'oïl and langues d'oc that weren't French until the French Revolution. Previous notable large empires--e.g., various Persian empires, the Roman Empire, Mongols, Islamic caliphates, the Ottoman Empire--were often noted for the high diversity of cultures; that monoculture is a necessary component of a state is largely driven by 19th century ideas of nation-states, which (again) don't really exist before the French Revolution.
GDPR doesn't care if its in a database or in your notebook, you are still subject to the same laws and as such the data in this case is the property of John. You need his permission to record it.
I'm running Plasma on a low-range laptop from 2010 and it runs exactly as smoothly as it does on modern hardware. It was $600 in 2010, has 4 GB RAM and one of the earliest generations of the Core i3, with integrated graphics.

If your acquaintances have machines that struggle to run Plasma, I'm honestly surprised they can run graphical apps written in recent GTK or Qt versions at all.

In many cases, Plasma's going to run better/smoother than these "lightweight" window managers and desktops. Because, all the Stockholm Syndrome-ing about "simplicity" often translates to "probably is single threaded and does more CPU work than it should because it's easier." In my experience, they'll tend to have worse vsync issues and tearing.

I doubt i3 is actually drawing shit on the screen faster than Plasma with animations off.
It seems like they're better integrating now, recently Bank of America started listing connected institutions via Plaid with an option to disconnect them.
Think of legal writing as an incredibly wordy programming language and it will make a lot more sense. Lawyers aren't reading this for fun, their brains are decoding how the computer (i.e. judges) will interpret it.
The size of dose you are talking about would be only possible to take if you were contemplating suicide.

You left a lot out in regards to the mechanisms of action:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203399/
That and i3 is probably doing more work via the CPU and is more than likely doing it in a blocking-single-threaded way.
I was responding to a question of whether it was theft, not whether such theft is morally grey or unstoppable in practice.

Yours is a somewhat orthogonal point and one I don’t entirely disagree with.
Most people see themselves as healthy and thus in the pool of "very unlikely to have complications from COVID-19" pool. Argue with that however you want (people being dishonest with their own perception of health), but that's how they see it.
So taking preventative measures because it is forced down their throats seems hostile. Made worse that 1) vax won't stop the spread, or we would have seen that by now, and 2) we need to boost the vax every few months? That sounds highly suspect to a lot of people.

If you were at risk, you can get vaccinated, why force a healthy person? (The answer is mostly for the folks who can't vaccinate, but those folks are screwed any way you look at this pandemic if we are honest).
(1) If you find the time, I'd be very keen to read about this history of how this market came to exist & how the earliest entrants succeeded or failed. Pointers to books (or better yet, your voice) would be great!

(2) How do you think crypto & defi will change the credit card markets?
I think the solution is to stop looking for people with explicit experience in Haskell (or any lang), and to simply take on friendly and open-minded individuals to be trained internally. Even cleverness doesn't have to be a criterion; if you're doing FP right, you shouldn't need to be too smart. I'm certainly not.

I was fortunate enough to be hired in this manner, and I'm always more than happy to help train up new members in a similar fashion. It pays off in the long run—and the short run too, since it doesn't take that long to get somebody playing with Maybes and Eithers in some internal module.
> "They might serve as sort of a breeding ground for the virus to acquire new mutations."

Vaccines Could Drive The Evolution Of More COVID-19 Mutants - https://text.npr.org/965703047
I don't use Solaris, but I see they have vfork [1] which should be unaffected. Likewise posix_spawn{,p}. (I think those are often implemented in userspace via vfork; unsure if there's a separate system call on Solaris.)

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/816-5167/vfork-2.h...
What about trying "planned obsolescence"? Hopefully every 5 years for production, and once a year for consumer. With this in mind, it is possible to plan ahead and allocate resources.

There will be a major update in xx.xx.20xx date, it will break many things, so plan accordingly. And there won't be any more security updates one month after that.

Meanwhile, security updates are pushed in realtime.
I don't think things like this should be hardcoded? Not sure...

Klingon is certainly much more sensible than many of the languages from 'shit-hole' countries. 'shit-hole' countries should be using bootleg Office for starters and people should help them with this.

Where is a complex test? Testing word wrap or subscripts or known topographical issues? Again maybe not needed, maybe Klingon was designed to fit with English topographically?

All this stuff will take a meeting, because the questions have to be answered. Which is ok, there will be meetings about smaller user bases, which is separate from rarer issues across all users, which is by far most important.

If it fails a general user one in 300 times that could lose you all your user base. You don't remember the 99.9% of times Write opens the document correctly. A subset of users who speak Dargwa for instance are not as important.
That would be a big improvement, but I assume that people would override this check whenever they were updating a package to fix a minor accidental vulnerability that had been found in it (detected by an "npm audit").

An attacker who had control over an account would wait until just such a moment to add their own version which includes a much worse payload, and people would rush to download it, thinking they were just installing a fix for the minor vulnerability.
I am old school. I bought a Chromed Dualit 4 slice (2 thick & 2 thin) toaster in 1992. You can take it apart and replace anything. It's 30 years old next year, I've replaced most of the innards. It works like a dream, an indestructible dream. But at GBP 200 you'll have to be sold on its aesthetics as well as it's engineering.
Octopus: Google Search for Voice
That's ultimately why I couldn't move forward in it. My brain just kept thinking typescript and it was hard to manage the cognitive dissonance of it being identical syntax but with invisible limitations I wasn't used to.
Costco bars you from entering and shopping without membership. I'd never thought about the GDPR angle of that before.
Would you be interested in being cloned by a company
Looking for volunteers to be cloned.
Real interesting article, and appreciate the hint for the hidden Performance section using this flag (chrome://flags/#show-performance-metrics-hud).

When my team was building a Next.js static generated site, we explicitly tested adding and removing animations from our repo (Animate.css or Framer, etc.) and unfortunately (to the chagrin of our marketing team), any sort of animation seemed to kill our Web Vitals scores (specifically FCP) and subsequently had to be ripped out.
This post is pretty clearly anti-vaxination propaganda. There is nothing in the article attached to the Twitter post to suggest that the incident related to vaccinations, never mind the fact that Australia does not have a requirement for mandatory vaccinations. This post is misleading and dangerous.
The fact that there are only two backend developers seems like a big asterisk to me. It's admirable how productive their backend team has been, but tiny teams are often surprisingly productive. Communication costs and distributed decision-making often slow development a lot.

What I'm wondering, as someone who doesn't know Haskell, is how well will it work if the team needs to scale? Will they be able to find quality engineers? Will those new engineers be able to easily pick up the pieces if one of the two engineers leaves unexpectedly?

I certainly am biased here, but pure functional programming has always seemed unnecessarily abstract and constricted for the purposes of most applications. The communication of function and purpose to other engineers is an important responsibility of code. Using long sequences of poorly-labeled, nested arrow function returns is great fun until you have the task of deciphering someone else's.

To be clear, I am not suggesting all Haskell code is poorly-written or hard to understand. But writing clear code is not a priority for a lot of engineers, and in my experience, functional programming can lead to especially opaque codebases.
R is way better than Python for most (all?) data science things. It's better at data munging, has more packages, it's array based so way more terse while being easy to reason about, has super easy C++ FFI, etc...

And no environment really beats RStudio.
Astrology proponents on social media and YouTube are also taking advantage of people who don’t know better. You are not going to learn that astrology is baseless from its proponents, especially not from proponents who make money off of astrology content.

Even if we don’t know exactly why an ML model works well for a specific problem, we at least can verify that it does in fact work. And we do at least understand the mathematical principles behind the model.

But we have no credible evidence for astrology, even after thousands of years of claims and predictions. And there is no theory for how it could work other than basically magic. Again, it would be incredible to find such evidence, but I don’t think that will ever happen.
The Cuisinart and the Breville seem to be the front-runners: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-toaster/
What I always say about this kind of thing is not "It's ok now because they un-did it." but "It's still not ok because they tried."

If they are the kind of people who would try something, then they are still the same people and that problem did not go away.

They will try something else again, and may in fact already be failing to work to my advantage right now in ways I just can't see.

Once you know that, I prefer to just live without whatever the awesome thing is, somehow I will survive.
Windows xp works fine when airgapped.

In a more serious note: it is a rant
Some control over the direction of the spec to avoid situations like taking years to rewrite a working shipped spec, removing controller support, removing haptics, adding unneeded APIs, focusing on Cardboard and 3DOF, removing or not supporting link traversal, fuzzing headset tracking data. Or to be able to get useful features such as access to the headset camera or a way to bind textures without giant framedrops

If there was to be a "standardized/decentralized" "metaverse", things would have to move much faster. Think of all the features a "metaverse" might want, and each item would have to go through spec gatekeepers that don't even use/develop VR
> I've replaced most of the innards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Is it really still the same toaster? Was it really an indestructible dream?
Physically "disable" the spyware. Blame the damage that it must of been caused by said software

Look for a new job.
You don't have to tell your office every time you automate a task do you?
Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
> Like, if i write a simple pure function in Julia and call code_llvm on it… How “standalone” is the llvm code (if that is even a thing)? When does GC get called? How exactly does the generated code depend on the runtime?

It's standalone unless there's explicit calls to the runtime in it. The most common runtime support is probably heap allocation, so if you see a `jl_alloc_obj` in there, that gets lowered to runtime calls eventually. GC gets called during allocation if the runtime thinks there's been enough garbage generated to have a collection be worth it.
I'm fairly certain that all of those compounds derive from some fluorine gas that was incorporated into the source molecules.

The molecule I worked with in grad school, 5FU, contains a fluorine, it's a very effective anticancer drug which ultimately came from fluroacetyl which is highly toxic. In fact most of the molecules I worked with in grad school that had fluorine were toxic specifically because of fluorine. Not because they were unstable bonds, but because F is very effective in nucleoside analogs. So you can imagine why I am a bit wary of F and just in general don't think of F as being particularly compatible with life.
Each dependency of a software package would have its own separate set of reviews.

Anyone can produce a review using Vouch. Official reviews will also be published in the future.
Good timing. She could have ended up being named Clapham Junction.
Likely referring to the European neobank Vivid Money.
It's possible to think that astrology is useful even if the positions of celestial bodies don't actually matter.
Because many times security updates are tied to fancy changes nobody asked for but consumers are expecting.
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We had the cheapest 2 slice. Now it started occasionally tripping a fuse.

I use it everyday and feel I underinvested greatly. I would like a 4 slice but a good brand like Breville. I want speed, toasting accuracy, easy to remove slices, easy to clean crumbs.
I posted this higher up but..

Teres no reason to believe ivermectin does help. Firstly the study that Ivermectin-for-covid is based on in vitro(cell-in-petri-dish) studies of rhesus monkey liver cells[1]. Additionally. Rhesus monkeys have differing bodies sizes and in order to get an equivalent dose in humans would require overdosing on ivermectin, which can and has lead to death. Ivermectin targets the host nuclear transport importin α/β1 heterodimer in host tissue, exerting effects directly on cells of the human body.[2]

1- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7129059/

2- http://dicyt.uto.edu.bo/observatorio/wp-content/uploads/2020...

As for vitamin D. That's an interesting one. Vitamin D isn't only correlated with better covid-19 outcomes, it's associated with better cancer outcomes, as well as flu outcomes. It's also associated with better outcomes in HIV, malaria, and car crashes. It's associated with a lower ALL cause mortality[A]. Impressive stuff. Now either it's the fountain of youth, or as they like to say in the sciences this is a case of "correlation does not equal causation". Now it probably won't hurt to take, but there's more to it than that. Considering about 42% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D[B] it's not a bad idea to supplement, but that also points to another correlation-- the portion on the population that has sufficient vitamin d levels either goes out often enough to synthesize it naturally, or simply is the type to go out of their way and supplement it. So two groups that will have greater physical health than the average person. This could explain why people with sufficient vitamin D do better than with covid than the average person

[A] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4103214/

[B] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21310306/
Listening to Nature
> arbitrary change like deciding that 'which' is deprecated now.

I kind of hate that this is going to live on as some example when the actual event was somebody proposing it, it failing in some builds on testing, and then a vote deciding against it. It was an example of good project governing preventing breakage, but for some reason it's already being remembered as the opposite.
Math is a broad field. Of the many branches of math, the one that programmers engage in, is programming. But I've observed that programmers tend to have the same proficiency in general math as anybody else, i.e., most people forget the math that they learned in school.

At the places where I've worked, general math or quantitative problems that go beyond the capabilities of Excel are brought to the "math person."
This is an interesting thing I had never considered. There would be fascinating consequences for having twins, naming one Kip and the other Themistocles Aurelius.
> Seems broadly less convenient than online

How are you paying cash online at all?
I contacted consulting firms and told them what I was up to. Not the big ones - they won't deal with you unless you also are a bigger deal. I essentially offered a deal where they marketed my services along side theirs (complementary) and they keep a portion of what is made from it... call it sales and project management. I got bigger customers after a few years, but only because they knew me by that point through working alongside the smaller firms. My first years definitely were helped along by getting to know the recruiters.

After a few years of that, it became almost entirely word of mouth and repeat gigs spanning outward from people I worked with. It helped (a lot!) that I did a fair amount of public speaking and TV appearances at the time as well, but that totally depends on the industry you are in.

I live in Canada, so health insurance is already dealt with. As for business insurance, there are a gazillion insurance companies out there for that. If your first gigs are through recruiters, you won't need it right away.

I don't do much consulting (or working, for that matter) these days since the lockdowns began, but for the most part I took any between-gig downtime as self-improvement time, taking whatever courses etc. that were necessary or useful. In each business, there are predictable down-times throughout the year, so you start to schedule those events for then.

I'll warn you this: taking courses is a double whammy - you pay for them yourself, and usually aren't getting paid while taking them. That's one of the negatives, but if you get a name for yourself, it pays off just fine. The first time is extremely daunting, and you'll learn the true meaning of imposter syndrome as you watch those funds evaporate.
Vienna, Valencia, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Lisbon and 1 year in non-Tokyo Japan and Istanbul.

If very high salary net-worth include London, Paris and Tokyo for another year.
> Decentralization seems to work well for cases …

I skipped copying it all because it’s right there; not limiting my reply to that snippet.

Yeah information network signal attenuates over longer distances (space and time).

The internet created an ansible for assholes to hassle us.

Knowing this, fuck the open web. I want an email provider that just straight up blocks messages from senders I haven’t approved.

I’d like Signal to go the extra step and make communication over a 1:1 link, maybe using Wireguard, an option, as a fallback and to put other options in front of less savvy users.

Spam is just advertising by agents that won’t kowtow to government. I don’t need schemers in big biz or Africa.

Decentralizing of communication will never happen running some platform centralized around rugged individualist hackers motives. But we don’t exactly need FB, Twitter, etc, either.

Our phones are just TVs for business opportunities. I’ll just send my adventures straight to people who care and skip the noise thanks.
He also clung to and promoted a bunch of other unproven treatments leading up to the vaccine… why should anyone have trusted him by this point in the pandemic?
I feel bad about the stores that don't take Amex. Either their owner is relying on knowledge that's decades out of date, or they have a very bad merchant account provider. Amex cards cost no more to charge than Visa/MC cards these days. There are even Visa/MC cards with higher interchange fees than any Amex card.
You know it only hit me when I think about tender I think of meat.
No kidding. That puppy looks like the Humvy or Land Cruiser of toasters!
Why are install scripts so scary?

`install: "malware"` is a few steps closer to running than `cp.exec('malware')` in index.js.
Really interesting project.

The source code seems to be on sourceforge.net.
I site once important, but now when I see it I either think "the project is most-likely dead" or "can this project be legit? Am I getting malware here?"
Came here to link these as soon as I saw Orca mentioned. Her videos helped a lot with getting started.
We've got plenty of chemical energy stored in fat and sugar too :)