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I’m not deferring to WaPo, but rather two academics at the London School of Economics. Their paper is linked in the WaPo article. I don’t believe either is affiliated with the US government, or even an American citizen, so I don’t see how their article could be called “investigating ourselves.”

I guess her answer stands either way, but the idea that sanctions killed half a million children is Hussein’s phony propaganda, and subsequent research has shown no increase in child mortality during the time of the sanctions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/04...

One important note for residents of California and New Jersey: if you live in one of these states you must pay state tax on HSA contributions and gains, the same as if it were a regular taxable account. Your HSA is still tax-advantaged at the federal level though

Easy. If you want a real challenge, find me a hetero couple where the woman’s voice is deeper.

It is well past time for government to step in and get these dangerous cars off the road.

Ah, great. Thank you

Question, hopefully not too off topic: if I subscribe, can I get the weekly edition emailed to me like a newsletter? Or at least a notification when it’s posted? I want to subscribe but doubt I’ll actually remember to log in and read it every week.

I love FreeBSD but to me it doesn’t sound like a great fit for OP. It sounds like OP wants something that will work out of the box, and in my experience FreeBSD on the desktop is harder to setup and usually requires some fussing, especially if you need WiFi or have other exotic devices. The docs are fantastic, but because it’s less popular as a desktop operating system, it’s harder to google for solutions to problems.

Agreed. It sounds like OP would like Linux Mint.

- Multimedia works out of the box.

- No snap.

- Since it’s based on Ubuntu, any problems are easily googleable.

> I honestly think it is a little stupid not to do any monetization.

This may be a popular sentiment on hacker news but thankfully it is an unpopular view among the best programmers. If everyone thought like this, there would be no Linux, no GNU. We’d all be reading this in Internet Explorer on Windows

There are “free for non-commercial use” licenses, but that is inherently a non-free license. If you restrict what someone can do with the software, it’s not free as in speech.

The best source I know of for learning to invest is The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing. It doesn’t just tell you what to invest in, it explains the why.

Rather than trying to find some get rich quick scheme, I really recommend you find work you enjoy that pays money and prepare to work for another 10-20 years. Invest wisely and avoid risky schemes like cryptocurrency or trading.

Lots are recommending CLRS, but IMO it is way too dry and dense for a first course.

I taught myself algorithms with the Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena, and I strongly recommend it. The first half is an exposition on algorithms, and it is mercifully readable, fun, and short. The second half is a catalog of different algorithms. You don’t really read through it, but it is useful as a reference if you have a specific problem you’re trying to solve and you want a background on algorithms in that area.

What does “serve 5TB” refer to? They expect 5TB of network bandwidth over some time period (a month?)? Or their database takes up 5TB on disk?

Normally I’d agree, but in this case the meaning of the acronym tells you nothing (it stands for Berkeley Packet Filter. Make sense?) and BPF is easily googleable.

Also, it’s safe to assume that regular readers of LWN will know a little about BPF. Though obviously in this case it rose to the top of HN where it’s likely to be seen by a wider audience.

In engineering school (in the US), we used pounds mass (lbm) as the unit of mass, and pounds force (lbf) as the unit of force.

It sounds like you’re trying to determine if your tiredness is an inevitable side effect of a productive day, if unproductive days are just random, or if your variation in productivity can be optimized. I don’t know the answers for you, but you might be able to better understand your productivity by keeping a detailed time log of your work.

For two weeks, keep track of every minute of your working time. Once you know where your time went, you can then try to understand why your less-productive days are less productive. Was it because you were too tired to concentrate? Did your “super productive” day involve 12 hours of focused work? You might find there’s not as big a difference as you think between different days, except that some days feel productive because you happen to finish some task, when in reality the groundwork for finishing it was laid on a day that felt unproductive.

It’s on the far bleeding edge as far as languages go, so I doubt any businesses use it. The largest practical ATS program I know of is polyglot: https://github.com/vmchale/polyglot

I remember learning about locality sensitive hashing in school a decade ago, but since then I’ve never seen it used in an ML system in industry. Does anyone actually use this technique at scale? If you have, I’d love to hear about your application and experience with it.

I haven’t used it myself, but I believe Simple Emacs Spreadsheets lets you write formulas in emacs lisp.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ses/inde...

It could be that the IC is just very bad at estimating schedules, so much so that they don’t realize they are falling behind. If that’s the case, some training on software estimation and how to set good milestones could pay large dividends.

Another possibility is that the environment is one in which it’s not okay to admit that schedules are slipping, despite the manager’s insistence to the contrary.

There are many more possibilities of course. Does the employee have any insights into why they failed to take the action they promised?

It’s there under the name Salbutamol

I should have worded this a little differently. I don’t know how accessible it is to someone who is actually blind or uses a screen reader. For all I know it’s great for them.

I do know the tiny text and low contrast make it hard to use for someone like me with older eyes. This is especially true on mobile, where the text refuses to resize in accordance to my phone’s large font settings.

I sometimes wonder how HN’s audience is shaped by the site’s deliberate inaccessibility to visually impaired people. I suspect it is one part of the site’s tilt toward the younger crowd

Blog post and interesting HN discussion on Bengali/Unicode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219162

I would summarize the key issues here, but they are complex and I don’t feel qualified to do them justice.

Not really. The upward trend started long before Trump became president.

I learned a lot about ice cream by watching this expert talk through the pros and cons of different ice creams: https://youtu.be/lma9TNjj_O8

She is the founder of Jeni’s, which is probably the highest-end ice cream I’ve come across.

I read the Great Gatsby in high school, not too too long ago, and it instantly became my favorite book. I would guess that English teachers pick it because it’s a short, fun read with lots of issues to discuss and lots of literary merit. I’m glad to see it’s finally in the public domain.