jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In practice, resolving symbols is not really harder. Once you understand the symbols rules, your mind is very good at finding the match. Plus the real solution is proper IDE support with "goto definition". IMO, the benefits of semi-case-insensitivity (allow programmers to write how they want) outweight the issues it causes.
The Fed was set up a couple of decades before the '30s.
> "1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exaggeration to say that due to the work we're doing here, 5,000-10,000 people will live to see the end of 2014."

This probably a significant exaggeration. It is based on a 2009 study[1] which examined correlation, not causation. It did not control for many factors that may be relevant (e.g. smoking). The study expressed this in much more careful words: "Lack of health insurance is associated with as many as 44,789 deaths..." (This number was then divided into 45M uninsured in 2009 to get 1 in 1000). Politifact did not rate this claim due to lack of information[2], but they previously rated "Half-true" a number half as big[3]. The latter essay cites work that did control for relevant indicators and found: "the risk of subsequent mortality is no different for uninsured respondents than for those covered by employer-sponsored group insurance."

I'm not sure where to place blame:

- On the authors of the correlation study, who should never have studied this question without looking at extensive control variables or without more specifically studying causation?

- On Alan Grayson and similar folks, who are smart enough to understand the difference but are happy to assert causation?

- On Abbott, who implies causation, pointedly rejecting caveats ("it's not an exaggeration") in order to motivate developers?

I don't want to blame brandonb, particularly. I very much support his recruiting effort. In fact, I would say that the government probably has a disproportionate number of people who can resist unwarranted self-justifications. But I don't think a statistic like this should be left unchallenged on HN.

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[1] http://www.pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-insurance-and-mortal...

[2] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/sep/06/...

[3] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/...
Long enough to contain the title. No longer.
I moved to the Chicago area around a little over a year ago and this feature has been around at least that long.

It's also available by enabling the "Transit" layer under the "More..." button, and also the transit layer in the Maps application on Android (and presumably the iPhone).

It's an incredibly handy feature when you don't know the area and/or combined with the "Arrive By" option under Public Transit when getting directions.
If it's really the carriers demanding bootloader lockdowns why is it impossible for me in Europe to get those phones unlocked if I buy them without subsidy? I think it is also the manufacturers who are responsible.
I'm 22, for a few more months, and the only reason I got a landline when I moved out is because my cable company offered it to me for ~$4 a month (in total I think it made our bill $10 less a month due to combo savings) and it helped resolve the issue that our buzzer uses the phone network and we couldn't decide who (between me and my wife) should have the buzzer calling their cell.

It also enables me to use a long distance calling card for free, so I can make calls that would cost far in excess of $4 to call my family in the UK.

We do have many friends who are solely cellular homes. It's cheaper for them to pay for low minutes on a smartphone plan than it is to get a land line.
All of justin.tv's Flash code is written in haXe, because I got fed up with Adobe's tools a couple of years ago.

It's a very nice Flash compiler, which makes up for some very poor language design choices imho (for example static typing and type-inference, but the type inference sucks and frequently infers the wrong type).
Excellent post. Back in 2006 I was doing competitive strategy at Microsoft, which was code for "what the heck are we going to do about Google?" One of the things we looked a lot at was corporate culture. Google's biggest success have been all about the power of algorithms, and removing people form the equation as much as possible. Combine that with the lack of attention to design in the companies formative stage and you come up with a limited range of sweet spots. Even back then it was clear they would have a hard time broadening their base.

Google's obvious big competitors Microsoft and Yahoo have had major execution fails and have their own cultural challenges, so they've had quite a few years of dominance. But as Microsoft, IBM, Digital Equipment, and many others have found out, that also makes it tougher to change.
> I spent all summer whilst 17, 18 and 19 working shifts to earn money for uni/college.

In a country with health regulations, human rights laws, environmental protections, universal health care (including for if you get injured on the job), freedom of expression, vacation time, and a home to return to so you didn't have to live at work.

Let's not pretend that your situations are essentially the same. They aren't.

> There is a determined effort here to paint conditions as terrible, third world and oppressive.

There's a determined effort here to minimize the plight of people working factory jobs in third-world conditions. Because we don't want to feel guilty?

> there is a huge cultural difference between here and there, so we must judge carefully in these matters.

Your cultural relativism is a non-argument. In some cultures, it is "normal" to repress women, forbid schooling to girls, and use young boys as sex slaves. American companies will even pay for it, because, you know, "cultural relativism".

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-10-26/world/ctw.afghanistan.sex...

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_te...

"As we mentioned, this isn't DynCorp's first brush with the sex-slavery game. Back in Bosnia in 1999, US policewoman Kathryn Bolkovac was fired from DynCorp after blowing the whistle on a sex-slave ring operating on one of our bases there. DynCorp's employees were accused of raping and peddling girls as young as 12 from countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Romania."

What next?

> Not buying Chinese goods might even be counter-productive. If grass roots action closes a Chinese factory, what is the impact, and who feels it?

How do you think worker protections were won in "civilized" countries? Conditions in the U.S. and U.K. were once much worse than in this particular Chinese factory. People fought and died to get their rights enshrined into law.

Part of that process can be to let the more abusive companies fail, and support ones that have a better track record.

> But culturally that is how a lot of Chinese people work; long and hard.

The sentiment behind this is just utterly stupid. I suppose you'll follow up with a nice parable about how the railroads were built.

People don't want to HAVE to work long and hard, especially unnecessarily. When you look at wealth distribution, it's apparent that the majority of people are getting fleeced.

http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-a...
Interesting to see the conversations in the court room. You'd think they'd be more intellectual or high minded. You'd think they would cite specific law nomenclature or cases. But it really is just off the cuff opinions being thrown about.
Given that we've never before studied an mRNA vaccine, how do any of the numerous other studies apply to either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine?
> A false sense of security is worse than no security at all.

True. But that isn't what is happening here.

This is more "some level of security which is less than absolute, and unclear what sense of security people will assume they have"

We've seen "false sense of security" arguments used time and time again to oppose partial, imperfect safety interventions (seat belts in cars is a great example).
It's a rumor. If they're starting now I expect results in 2-5 years and in Azure first.

> They do have the chops for it since they have done Xbox and Hololens and various other devices in-house.

Not sure about the Hololens, but the XBox contains an x86 AMD processor.
Jack Ma does not seem to be a savvy person.

After his "retirement" from Alibaba (allegedly the CCP was involved) he should have just laid low and become a sort of philanthropic guru like Bill Gates.

But then he got involved in the Ant IPO and poked the dragon.
Usually when you see compressed air storage solutions they're talking about plugging up an old mineshaft or cave and pumping air in.

Doing it under water would seem to have some advantages, like a less catastrophic failure condition and having a ready place to sink all of the heat. Downside is that the water would cool the air much more effectively than solid rock so you lose efficiency.
I wouldn't agree that BOTNS "revels" in violence or torture at all. I personally wouldn't enjoy a book that revels in torture or violence, but I've read the BOTNS series many times (5 or 6). Sevarian clearly doesn't enjoy his path nor does he "revel" in it and if anything he generally tries to avoid violence. Gene Wolfe as a man clearly doesn't focus on violence and certainly doesn't celebrate it, it's just a small but real part of the world both in reality and BOTNS, and I think it's an important thing we have to explore in art, which is the violence of man to man, why it exists, why we do these things.
I think even when you sum those two quantities it'll still be less than the number of people getting hit by apps from the regular play store.
I would concur with this. Wolfe and Le Guin, to me, both write sci-fi/fantasy as literature while also closely using themes that most would consider "genre fiction".
Great passage!

You may be closer to the source of inspiration, although I feel that Feynman may have been part of it too. Maybe it was a combination of the two :)

I like that Jaynes' alegory highlights really how difficult it may be IRL to move from a simplistic theory to the next level of depth.
If you live in European countries and have permanent residency you are officially not a refugee. You are lucky to be in the EU. Not all Syrians are. And this is not a hypothetical comment. This is what's happening to me as a Syrian refugee who is outside EU/US.
IMHO the Raspberry Pi brings a lot of processing power - depending on what you'll do, that might be more than enough.
It brings a lot of addon-boards, tutorials and a good community, so it might be a good starting point.
I've just written a piece to back yours up. I'm media, but I'm tech media, so I have a buncha stories in my piece about how tough Apple is to deal with. I've been trying for years to write about CUPS, but Apple owns the guys who write it, and thus, I cannot interview them. Same for LLVM, though there are people outside Apple on that project, at least. I fail to see just what scintillating details about the next iPhone the guy maintaining the Common UNIX Printing System could give me, but Apple sure is convinced he's filled with hot scoops and must be kept from the public at all costs.

Apple's number one priority is secrecy. Developers are, like, #20 on that list.

Anyway, my piece will be up soon, and I linked to yours, Eli. Great stuff!
From my reading, I don't think that misinterpretation would be common. In any case, there were multiple studies in the article that all supported the same effect.
The rate may be slowing (as expected), but the overall rate has been exponential until now. Like it took us forever to get to 1 billion, but getting to 7 billion took no time at all from that point.
Perhaps that was the point. Someone may not want this job to be filled for whatever reason?
This is the biggest weakness of U2F unfortunately.

My approach is to keep a list (a simple text file) of what services are used for U2F, and which keys are enrolled with it.

Most services ask or require you to name the token you enrol (if they support multiple tokens) - I gave the tokens names so they're consistent.

Now I have 2 ways to check - logging into a site, you can see what keys are enrolled. And as fallback, I can use my underlying text file and see which keys I enrolled.

You just need to make a point to check the file once every so often (at least first time you are near your backup key after having edited the text file).

I've seen some interesting approaches (on modifiable tokens where keys can be exported) where they configure a backup key as a mirror of the main key, but with the counter advanced forward such that using the backup will invalidate the regular (thus alerting you to the use of the backup by an adversary, as long as the service properly validates the counter).

I can't think of an easy solution to this (it is effectively the key distribution problem) without adding complexity (like manager software for tokens, and a Shamir's secret sharing style way to export a token's root key through SSS such that it can be recovered by a quorum of keys in an emergency). That breaks various aspects of the threat model though.

Perhaps there's a less complex way to do it though? Like having up to N persistent public key slots on the token, where public keys of your other tokens can reside. When registering, the generated key is also encrypted "to" those tokens, and sent as supplementary key handles. You'd need to add a pairing relationship to validate authenticity of the key handles, but I suppose it could work.
Exactly. So let's not exaggerate the role of learned helplessness in Google's monopoly.
Technicians should be coding all the time. Engineers should be solving problems.

Sometimes it will be coding, sometimes it will be asking questions, sometimes it will be thinking, etc...

The more senior I become in my career, the more I realize that less is more, with coding. There is no thinking tech debt.
>> "There is also the scenario where someone may not be able to open a bank account due to an extremely bad credit history, or not being able to meet minimum balance requirements (or have to incur relatively heavy 'service fees' to maintain an account with a low balance)."

Might be another cultural difference. In the UK I can open a bank regardless of credit, there is no minimum balance or service fees unless I go negative into an un-arranged overdraft.
QuickJS Main Features:

* Small and easily embeddable: just a few C files, no external dependency, 210 KiB of x86 code for a simple hello world program.

* Fast interpreter with very low startup time: runs the 75000 tests of the ECMAScript Test Suite in about 100 seconds on a single core of a desktop PC. The complete life cycle of a runtime instance completes in less than 300 microseconds.

* Almost complete ES2020 support including modules, asynchronous generators and full Annex B support (legacy web compatibility).

* Passes nearly 100% of the ECMAScript Test Suite tests when selecting the ES2020 features. A summary is available at Test262 Report.

* Can compile Javascript sources to executables with no external dependency.
Hasn’t the aggregate demand for the dollar really just stayed more or less flat, all other things equal? The “lack” of capital people/businesses are facing is not due to relative dollar scarcity in the market but inability to perform the functions that get dollars to flow.
For the bluetooth adapter, you might need a distro with a newer kernel. I recently put an Intel AX200 wifi+BT combo card in an old laptop and couldn't get it working in Debian 10, but it works perfectly out of the box with Pop!_OS 20.10.
I highly recommend the two books:

Ray Tracing in One Weekend: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B5AODD8/

The Ray Tracer Challenge: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680502719/

For the latter, I have made it a pretty good way through the book, implementing a functional (in the programming paradigm sense) version of the ray tracer in F#. It’s actually rather mind boggling how close the F# code and tests are to the psuedocode found in the book.

https://github.com/bmitc/the-ray-tracer-challenge-fsharp
>I volunteered regularly in my son's classroom, K thru 6. Whatever ninja skills the gifted teachers have, I don't have it.

That makes two of us.

Some of my students referred to it as The Power.
This means that India, almost most populus country on earth has around ~3300 per year, correcting for internet/computer access in 20 years ago it's probably 1/3 of that.
Discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144465
The nazis did a lot of technological development, and the brits were doing a colonialism while the industrial revolution was ongoing.

The engineering mindset tends not to care about the provenance of a model, only whether it's useful for a goal. We don't care about the why,unless the why is required for something we're trying to do
A few more for your list:

https://altvr.com/

https://borrel.app/

https://calla.chat

https://cozyroom.xyz

https://cubechat.io/

https://gather.town/

https://happyhour.ianwdavis.com/

https://here.fm

https://hopin.to

https://icebreaker.video/

https://makespace.fun

http://mcparks.us

https://metaversehq.com/v/room

https://mixaba.com/

https://party.vipshek.com

https://rally.video/

https://rambly.app/

https://recroom.com/

https://remo.co/

https://sine.space/vr/

https://slashtalk.com

https://spatial.chat/

https://squadapp.io/

https://tivolicloud.com/

https://town.siempre.io

http://vircadia.com/

https://virus.cafe

https://wavexr.com/

https://welcome.topia.io/

https://www.airmeet.com/

https://www.banger.digital

https://www.brella.io

https://www.highfidelity.com/

https://www.huddlehq.io/

https://www.ivent-uk.com/

https://www.joinglimpse.com

https://www.kitely.com

https://www.muze.nyc/

https://www.sansar.com/

https://www.somniumspace.com/

https://yorb.itp.io

https://zonko.chat/
That isn’t the full statement though, you omitted the part about it being just like the flu. I think if you believe that it should be allowed to run its course understanding what it entails then you’re either woefully ignorant or something of a sociopath (but that’s addressed in other comments below). However, believing it should run its course because it’s no worse than the rule is not just an opinion, it clearly ignores all evidence to the contrary and is roughly equivalent to the others in terms of bring completely detached from fact or empirical evidence.
We don't tolerate flu deaths. We actually work hard every single year to prevent them - providing inoculations for the sick and vulnerable for one thing. People die in spite of all the efforts we put into preventing them from doing so.
Social life is impossible without the mainstream technology.

I've never owned a cell phone nor ever had a social media account in my life. Sure, it gets me the occasional eye roll but trust me, my social life is just fine.

Caveat: old person speaking.
Netflix does well here too (I worked there for 5 years). There are no levels for ICs at Netflix. You can hop over to the management track if you like which does have levels. But ICs can grow and take on more responsibility by their own volition. Your impact gets reflected in the annual compensation adjustment.
Trump has been attempting an autogolpe for weeks. That will be his legacy. That will be the legacy of those who have been supporting him since the election.

Whether they are delusional or they want an autocracy, I can't assess and it doesn't even matter. I'd consider both example of mental illness, but this is a country with a culture that persists in not taking mental illness seriously. Including the one manifested by the sitting president. The solution is to remove him from office without any delay beyond the certification of the Electoral College.
So, as long as you have means to export the data, you're satisfied with this product?
In business the right course is often not obvious, and the merits of different approaches can be heavily debated.

At the time many things are obscured by "the fog of war," however, in publicly traded businesses the wrong course is perfectly obvious after the fact by examining the result as measured by the return on investment in the stock.

If you wish to laud Microsoft's choices, carry on without me.
That's great and all, but wouldn't you have to grab a lawyer to do anything serious? I thought a real lien was as easy as waltzing down to a courthouse and filling out some paperwork. I'm probably totally wrong about that though. I guess what I was wondering was if there was some kind of automated process to claiming what's owed in the court system.
Which it won't be, because Google has the resources to write it off as just another experiment that didn't stick to the wall.
Unless I'm mistaken doesn't Diigo.com do all of these with a free account even?
I don't really understand this point, but I don't think I need to. It is objectively true that some assets are more liquid and easier to value than others; one of the hardest assets to value is a going business concern, and one of the easier assets to value is Manhattan real estate.

Similarly, a (fictitious and nonsensical) eminent domain claim on a portfolio of treasury bills would be inherently fairer than a (fictitious and only slightly less nonsensical) eminent domain claim on Bingo Card Creator; the holder of the bills can easily calculate the fair value of his assets, and Patrick can't.

On a spectrum running:

<-- small business --------------------- treasuries -->

where is a gas station in Manhattan? It's not right next to Bingo Card Creator.
Yahoo has a strategy?
Since I don't consider using SSH "fiddling", I don't know what you mean, and I'd guess that most developers don't think twice about how to use SSH. (If they did, they're not much of a developer in my book).

It's ironic to me that the most difficult part was having to jail-break my iphone. Apple certainly doesn't make my life any easier.
OK, I agree, for what that's worth.
Lots of news organizations voluntarily re-post their content on their Facebook news channel, so FB were hosting it as well, although it's currently been disabled due to this law.
I think the real reason there are so many without licenses, is because most projects on github are just a few commits and then abandoned. They are just created as a quick hack or experiment.

The popular ones with many users seem to all have a license.
Thanks. I admire your perspective and appreciate your comment.

Also, I had no idea what "flag" was for.
> If the government starts intentionally causing problems for them with the intent of forcing them to increase their lobbying budget, well... that's a scary future for my country.

I think that's already the case. The article demonstrates Sen. Rockafeller (ironic, isn't it?) already pulled the "if you're innocent, what do you have to hide" card.
So, do you think it is possible to create something similar, but with the support for some other version control system, like mercurial? Or even a centralized one like svn?
Could it even be github to offer this, despite the name?
I pay $200/month for health insurance from State Farm in San Francisco.

I use a high deductible plan because it saves me money, as I'm healthy and prefer to pay cash for low cost items.
It's interesting how people keep referring to Objectivism as a 'cult' even though it is clearly nothing of the sort (no secrecy, no rituals, no superstition, no power over members...).

Could it be because Objectivism is one of the few philosophies people actually embrace and practice? I mean has anyone ever literally met a practicing utilitarian for instance?
That is the funniest thing I have ever seen.