jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's somewhat true that insurance coverage can determine what treatment someone will get. But, one always has the (perhaps theoretical) option of switching insurance companies or paying for treatment out of one's own pocket. When the government is your one and only insurer, that option disappears.

You seem for government regulation yet mention high unemployment, health insurance tied to employment, large mortgage debt, large credit card debt, and no savings. All of these problems are caused or worsened by government.

Government tax rules make it more expensive and complex to hire. Government minimum wage requirements make it outright illegal to profitably hire the lowest-skilled workers. Government unemployment benefits provide workers with incentives not to find a job.

Employers did not normally offer health insurance until government tax rules encouraged them to do so by not subjecting health insurance benefits to the normal income tax. Government is responsible for making it more expensive for a worker to purchase insurance himself rather than through his employer.

Large mortgages are encouraged by special tax treatment for mortgage interest and by tax breaks associated with home ownership.

Government's inflationary monetary policy and its prohibition/discouragement on citizen's use of other money encourage people into debt and discourage saving. In an era when everyone seems to be in debt, interest rates should be very high, encouraging savers. Yet interest rates are at or near all time lows.

Would that more people would vote against government regulation. Unfortunately, most seem to have been brainwashed by government propaganda.
Without server-side processing you can't do progressive enhancement on HTML and make your work a usable contribution to the world-wide web of hyperlinked resources. I can't advocate a scheme which will only result in more silos of broken javascript-only crap out there, especially when we still don't have any javascript sandboxes that warrant the trust people put in them.
I tried to negotiate more holiday time (25 days rather than 10 days) when I was planning to move to the US. They wouldn't budge; but they were willing to employ me as a remote worker living in London, UK, rather than locally in CA. (I didn't move, in part because of this, even though I had a H-1B visa at a time they were handed out by lottery.) So now, I get the extra holidays (but less pay), as well as having frequent transatlantic flights to get up to date with the US folks.

Why was that? Could it possibly be because the willing partners in that private agreement aren't as free to choose the terms of their agreement as you seem to think they are? The extra holidays aren't just a line item in the contract, with appropriately reduced pay etc. They are perceived to cause jealousy problems, for one thing. They're also structured as a status perk for long-term employees ("earn a whole extra day for every year of service!" they said).

The issue is even bigger for someone contemplating emigrating to the US, because longer holidays increase the cost effectiveness of transatlantic trip home. Only having 10 days holiday effectively means saying (relatively) permanent goodbye to all your friends and relatives if you also want to have e.g. a Christmas holiday and a summer break.
I like Ted Dziuba solution:

http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html

Full-stack programmer at work!
I don't understand this response at all. Contract covenants aren't laws; they're agreements freely entered into between parties: "you promise not to do X and to pay me Y, and I'll let you play my game Z".
Ok, first of all, it's virality, or viral coefficient, not virility.

Virility is something else, and is largely unaffected by startup metrics. Look it up: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/virility

Finally, check out my blog post about how to make an application viral: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0009-how-to-make-your-applicat...
I wish I knew. I'm a python guy.
Coming from the uk, whilst I'd love to work for a US based tech company something that would strongly make me reconsider is the terrible lack of paid vacation. 20 days is the minimum here - many (including me) get 25 and that allows for some proper breaks: a weeks skiing, two weeks for a long vacation, a long stretch off at Christmas and still enough for the odd day here and there. I'd be lucky to get half of that in the US, a big disincentive.
Great explanation. The only shortcoming, or maybe not, is that he could have pointed out that the parallel he drew is true for anyone that specializes and transcends towards ideas rather than frets mechanics of a field. I'm much this way about computer science, engineering, economics, finance, etc. The things they teach you in an undergraduate education are just tools in your toolbox, the bread and butter so to speak. It's the ideas are what's important.
> The popular blockchains only don’t offer transaction finality i.e you will never be 100% sure that you have gotten funds.

> You can only be probabilistically to a high degree (but with zero guarantee) that you have received your funds.

All cryptography depends on it being probabilistically difficult to guess the secret. This is an exceptionally weak criticism of blockchains.
Very possible. In that case, joke is on me. :)
As well as the sister comment mentioning distance driven as a relevant metric, some other aspects to consider are — if they only have a smaller ratio of car owners, I'd suspect there are less "car only" roads like motorways. Roads in city centres are also shared with a much higher ratio of foot traffic or people on bicycles/rickshaws etc.
> You've thrown out a ton of generalisations, but nothing here is concrete.

That was intentional. Specifics aren't necessary for making the point. Had I stated the specifics you were looking for I suspect you would have focused only on that, missing the primary point.
Yeah, the NYT was never perfect, but in the past few years it has declined sharply. There are still few other organizations as credible, but that's more of an indictment of the news media than it is praise of the New York Times.

Every NYT article should be read extremely critically. The story selection should be viewed critically. People will say this was always true, and sure, in an ideal sense, but I mean that you will very, very often find paragraphs that consists of five factual sentences chained together and cleverly worded in such a way as persuade you of something absolutely untrue or for which is there is no evidence. You'll find NYT repeating "facts" they reported early on, and then themselves debunked. And of course, the plague of "anonymous" sources (sometimes these anonymous sources are just, literally, the PR department saying 'report this anonymously so it seems like a leak) that have their own agendas and which tell the NYT BS over and over, but somehow still get an airing.
I feel like at least this way the drivers are paying attention to everything on the road. I noticed in Indonesia, the way you turn into a road is not to wait for a big gap, but to judge if the car coming down that road towards you has enough room to semi-comfortably slow down before it would hit you (if their tyres have to screech to stop they'll honk at you), if that's the case, it means you're free to enter... it's terribly inefficient time and energy-wise because cars have to brake and accelerate all the time, and all the cutting in means traffic becomes a crawl anyway.
One of the main features of crypto is that it enables tax evasion. No need to worry about carrying suitcases of cash, gold or jewels onto an airliner anymore and getting caught when you want to move money across a border without a recorded transaction.

Supposedly that’s one reason it’s big in China since miners can generate coins to move wealth outside of the country more easily than moving their Chinese fiat.
Given how IMGUI is a bunch of branches with code that redraws the same pixels all the time, 60x per second, I'm still surprised this is considered very (if not most) efficient UI. It would imply retained-mode UI frameworks are strongly undershooting their theoretically possible performance.
Why should I be truthful when my employer ask where I live ?
Every week, the Somerville Journal is full of angry letters from "old-time" Somervillians who can't afford to live there anymore - every one of them blames the mayor. But, when you've got a town that is right next to hyper-expensive Cambridge and less than a mile from downtown Boston with an old repairable housing stock.... Reminds me of the old Busboy's song "There goes the neighborhood" from the early 80s - an ironic look at what would happen if white people realized the neighborhoods they gave up in the mad dash for the suburbs in the 50s and 60s were actually pretty nice and really convenient to their jobs.

But really, the problem with the article is it doesn't give any alternative. How would Cambridge pay for all those nice parks and amenities without the Kendall Square company's tax receipts?
This is probably a new HN record in mistakenly ascribing bad intentions, which is pretty impressive.
I dunno. I know people who've lost 100lbs and kept it off doing keto.
Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely add sounds in an upcoming version. You do now happen to know any good JS libraries for working with sounds?
Actually, you are not returning signed content from your server to an end user. End users are stub resolvers, which are not DNSSEC aware.

I believe that should change, as I mentioned previously, but even the DNSSEC proponents pretend to assume the edge is DNSSEC-aware. It most certainly was and is not from their design and implementation stand-point. A position I find ridiculous.

But back to your point -- Of course, we could support DNSSEC and validate responses and then modify them as we see fit. Which is exactly why DNSSEC does not prevent our service from working. We already have some of the largest companies in the world forwarding DNS to us, when we enable DNSSEC validation for them, nothing will change. FWIW, none of them have us wildcard NXDOMAIN responses either, which is not surprising. They do have us block content, however. Some of these are Fortune 50 companies, btw.
I left _WEP_ out of my list just because it lacks the requested I-want-to-read-it-osity -- it's a very fine book. (IWTRIosity is sort of orthogonal to whether a book rewards careful study. Knuth and SICP have both.)
Wrong, I can read and delete emails on my Blackberry and it gets read and deleted on both a Googleapps account and a regular Imap account. I use BIS.
> they seized domain pointers within their jurisdiction. A nearly-entirely-symbolic exercise,

This guy obviously has no clue about the realities of web publishing. How are ordinary users supposed to find the sites without the domain pointer? For most users, taking the domain name is the same as shutting the site down.
Maybe you could contact some angel investors? Angel List has a bunch, and even 39 European angeles http://angel.co/europe
Awesome! Kind of wish I had a copy myself. :-)
TL;DR: School sucks
Also, this:

“Just throw in ‘designer eyeglasses,’ ‘designer eyewear’ and a couple different brand names,” he says, “and I’m all set.”

All of which, they did. Shameful.
Makes sense... Because in the part (at least) in which it remains a "formula translator" Fortran cannot be beat by any other language in terms of the efficiency of the generated machine code.
No, but no one is going around making blanket statements (or in the case of the article, tweets) about how easy tennis is and how everyone can and should pursue it as a career path.
> because those old barges discharge effluent.

No they don't. In 2008 the government decided that by 2018 all houseboats/barges/other boats that people live on had to be connected to the sewage system. It's possible that there are still a few stragglers but as a rule they don't.
The premise of this article is that people say, "programming is easy," when they mean, "programming is accessible," or that anyone can do it with a will and a way.

This is true. What is meant when people generally say, "programming is hard," is that only some especially gifted people have a special talent they are born with to truly master it.

That's complete non-sense. It's the same kind of thinking that leads people to believe that programmers cannot possibly understand the deep complexities of product design, management, or any other skills a human could possess. It pigeon-holes people into a narrow vacuum of skill.

Yes, the skill of programming is technically difficult. I know many programmers, myself included, could probably write a passable implementation of binary search. But I know a good number of our solutions, when verified formally, will have errors in them.

What most people refer to as "gatekeeping," is this idea that some of us are born programmers and others... should not hold up hope that they can learn the skill.

Programming is a skill that is a commodity. The art of it is in being able to think, critically and solve problems using it.
Because GitHub Pages isn't written in .NET. However, the general implementation is heavily inspired by this and other similar projects.
Nope. Vanilla Windows 10 is set to download and update itself automatically, which it seems to do at the most inconvenient moments. It's absolutely infuriating.
I think that was just a joke towards their career in banking.
If something is hard, the tools to do it aren't fine.
Yeah. The irony I see in all of this is that the government did this to themselves. Government overcollection of information led to public need for encryption, which in turn led to the fact that the government can't collect information when it does have a legal mandate to do it.

The best answer here is: the government should obey the laws and not spy on citizens, and maybe then the citizens won't seek refuge.
Don't they put the "no seat preference" option in a drop-down containing a list of city names or something crazy like that?
Many languages are expressions (as opposed to statements) including C-like languages. I've always thought that 'return' itself was redundant. If a compound statement was defined to return the value of the final (executed) statement, then functional methods would get much simpler. And remove the need for the '?' operator for instance.

e.g.

int foo(int x) { bar(x,y); }

or

x = {if (foo() > 9) true; else false; }
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Personal: Netflix (Movies and TV Series)
I like it. Simple and predictable.
Some time up until people started getting the internet on their phones, roughly. Of course, no definition is perfect.
"tech"
The data was scraped years ago and just released now. Only the things you shared publicly already, such as your first and last name on Facebook, were "leaked", except for a few private phone numbers.
Yes. We use it for our own. We started however with a concept of AppBook[0] for the very "academic type" who couldn't even write a Streamlit app. We'd automatically take a notebook and parametrize it (no metadata or the user tagging cells), then present a form with the parameters. We'd then run it and track the experiment, and log the model.

Now, however, as some of our internal users are comfortable with writing Streamlit, we're directly deploying apps from the notebook. It's useful to show results to clients without the user having to set up a VM, upload stuff, Docker, authentication, resources, etc.

It's not really the 15 minutes it takes one individual to learn. It's the SSH into something, send a link, shut down the VM or recycle it for next proto, remember the IP, etc...

- [0]: https://iko.ai/docs/appbook/
I would say that a compromise position can be found.

Certainly I join in your healthy fears of some misguided actions which have been attributed to "cancel culture". And I also concede that there have been quite a few such actions.

However, I'd also ask that you recognize that many of the reactions and consequences attributed to "cancel culture" have been entirely justified, and appropriate, and have resulted in overall good outcomes to society.
Really? Which two?
It’s possible to simplify to the point of being false, of course. But associating environmental activism with left-wing politics is not exactly a wild stretch.
And that then starts to negate the point of this password manager: having to remember just one password.
It's true that changing the master key is a pain, but you don't have to do it for every website at once. Though it might be hard during the transition to remember which sites have the updated key.

Not having a database certainly has its downsides.

Re usability: I've been using it for a couple days now, and I find it pretty tolerable. It's nice to not have to memorize a new password when I sign up for something. I did change my master key once; it took about 5 minutes to update all my passwords. If you only do that once every few months or once a year, it's not so bad.
http://passwordmaker.org does the same thing and already has extensions for all browsers.
I use DigitalOcean's managed kubernetes for one of my side projects that I did with a friend. Really happy with it. And it's actually cost-neutral: all you do is pay for the $10 droplet it runs on and you get the managed k8s at no additional cost.
Searching for "Ory Keto" returns their pages. As does "Keto Auth", "Keto API", and so on. They seem to have done fine.

I suppose "Keto REST" might be harder, but I don't know how many ambiguous queries like that are common.
Dude. The alternative is that the author would not have written the project. Not everyone has hundreds of hours of free time to throw away at learning the next hot programming language.
This is off-topic, but I've always wanted to bring this up with fellow geeks... Integer code of the asterisk ('*') ASCII character is 42, which, is the answer to life, the universe and everything. The asterisk character is used as a wildcard character to indicate anything and everything.

Adams never revealed the origin of 42. [0] So, just because we really don't know, I'd like to think it originates with ASCII table and the asterisk.

0 - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/03/douglas-adams-...
Please stop spreading misinformation.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rapid-lateral-flow-testing-for-h...
To define "rarely" here are the official numbers from Denmark that I just posted in the comment above:

"...hospitalisation rate of 0-9 year olds are 181 out of 17004 confirmed cases and 10-19 yo 180 out of 36065 confirmed. 23% of those had an underlying disease."

Edit:
The intensive care numbers are 11 and 15 for the two groups with 4 and 3 with an underlying disease.
It is fair to say that. However, why do we still use use large social media/ad platforms?

Time to support and use alternative, free/libra, self-hosted solutions. https://funkwhale.audio is one off top of my head for Spotfiy.
Work at a company that does DevOps well; this is a pretty common deployment pattern because it’s easy to test and gives a lot of flexibility. Many of the things OP is describing are only things you learn in a role with a production support component, which is where you find the tiny details like your health checks were inadequate and driving error rate spikes in certain scenarios without a specific config option, etc. Many of them are things that only pop up when you have some scale to deal with over a period of time, which makes it hard for hobbyists to pick up if they’re not on a team with prod support responsibilities.
You've also got people closing questions who don't know the language. Am I the best person to vote on say Clojure questions? I'd say not, but on SO that frequently happens. When the languages go to people, the conference speakers and book authors are ignored by someone who has never written a line of code in that language something is wrong.

Also in the rapidly changing JS world they don't reference the version consistently. Code that worked fine on version 1 doesn't work six months later on version 1.1, if I knew the version it would save a lot of time.
If you do meta-programming in JavaScript you use call/apply all of the time.
That gets into sticky moderation issues. My experience moderating support fora is that no matter how or where you draw the line, there's always a grey area. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and there's always going to be something that seems like a reasonable except that gets cut.

I suspect that SOs answer to your need is "Go use a different site". At some point, that becomes a reasonable answer.
I did not downvote you or anyone else in this thread.
Conducting warfare with autonomous robots seems preferable to having human soldiers on the front lines. Technology like this will not only reduce costs but more importantly reduce the number of human lives lost in war.
Porn is not sex education.
But right now, everyone have access to porn but not sex education, well, very few does.
Yeah, this thread really blew up. Feel free to ping me anytime.
I’m gathering requirements. Since all my projects are badly under (or over) specified.

So, a lot of my time is spent making sure I give my team something they can work with.

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Another one is that our dev environment is broken. Our developers have a bad habit of deploying their local branches without integrating the latest version of master. And suddenly the UI devs are twiddling their thumbs because someone has to run a 20+m deployment to get it back up to date.
We see this all the time right, the next big ML company is going to come from some scrappy startup with a precise focus on what to do (either because they're geniuses or because they're just the lucky idiot amongst 10,000 ML startups), not from some behemoth that decides "we'll eat that for breakfast". Swift4ML suffers from the fact that Swift exists. To make S4ML work you need to abandon atleast some of the things that makes Swift Swift.
>I think there's a point in every innovation where the generalist contribution declines sharply.

That why as another post commented they move into management or product at larger organizations. They get to move the needle and apply their generalist knowledge even to mature projects.
> You may be asking: don’t feeds broaden our exposure to new ideas? Yes, they do.

I disagree with this. Feeds are carefully crafted to create feedback loops. Did you click X? You're going to see more X on your feed; showing not-X would make no sense from an engagement perspective. They are echo-chambers by design.

The feed is harmful, but so is sugar. And just like it's saccharine cousin, I don't see it going away any time soon.
Thoughts on Kel Tec?
I never mentioned “race”, and neither did the DA in her court filings, as far as I know.

The problem she had with his decision was that he was “favoring” certain people in an unfair and illegal way — a conclusion that could only be reached by disregarding every question about the incident except “who”. That approach finds its origin in modern progressivism, where the only truth that matters is “who”.