skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's un-American though. It somehow feels too socialistic to just have ulimited healthcare support.

> An insurance exists to protect people from going bankrupt due to health issues

On paper, in reality it is to feed the mouths of health care insurance workers.

The level of rhetoric regarding how nationalized healtcare takes away our choice and freedom and how it brings socialism and doom to our country has always baffled me. I watched the whole thing unfold for many years now. And it wasn't just one or two people here and there, it is whole segments of population who opposed a single payer system, the industry opposed it, so that was thrown out early on.

You'd imagine we were talking about forcing people to sell their first born children or even worse confiscating their property. There were suggestions (even here on HN) of proposing some alternative back to the 1800's free market utopian version ("let's go back to the pure and glorious golden age of free markets" etc). And that would be have been interesting to see and discus if we talked about some experimental new economic system or social order. But we were talking about a basic thing that exists and existed for decades in dozens of other developed countries, which have longer living, healthier, happier people.
>Oh, how many managers I've had that were happy to listen and nod attentively and give easy advice, but who didn't actually put any energy into my problem. Or... They wound up spending the week making it worse.

That is not managing - it sounds like a therapy session. The time you spend with someone one-on-one has to be real. If your report has problems that need to be solved you have to spend the time working hard on solving the problems.

Edit. I should add that your job as a manager is not to solve all problems, only those that only you can solve.
I'm quite sure the "un-construction" he's talking about takes the lines of, say, revoking a business license.

I have no idea why you imagined it would involve beating and robbing anyone.
I suspect the impression of Solaris' superiority is colored by the low ratio of users to impressive blog posts.
"I automated my role in a social experiment and didn't have fun, AMA."
Ideally, invalid states should be unrepresentable.

And clearly any language in which invalid states are representable is useless? Nice try, but nah. I like me some pure functions sometimes, but I'm not dogmatic about it.
Assuming they have stellar data collection, they'll have answers to some interesting questions:

1) How many random people does it take for a chat room to turn into spam/shitposting/etc?

2) Does a persons reddit commenting behavior match their chatroom behavior? (discussion topics, spamming, shitposting, etc)

3) How long do people participate, how long till they go afk?

4) Does comment frequency, karma, subreddit participation correlate with any Robin behavior? Ex. People on r/TrueGaming stay in a room longer due to gamification.
> it doesn't tell me how often it has happened or who the target is, so there's no personal value nor any substantial value from a civil liberties perspective because it doesn't tell us all that much.

They never will be able to tell down to the person level. Those would definitely violate the gag order, which if you're willing to violate why go through the mess of a canary. Similarly the government is very particular about reporting just how often they're received. Testing that is a huge gamble on the lawsuit that would be filed when you get too precise for the government's tastes.
Probably not the code, though it's true that everyone starts with the toaster sample, there's not enough functionality in it to make it an easy walk to a HID filter driver, which is what's probably installed for your average white box USB keyboard. Plus there's (IIRC, it's been a couple of years) a specific sample for that in the WDK. Most likely they did copy/paste the device metadata from that sample.

So, keyboard OEM's contract devs whip up a HID filter driver, but they c/p the sample metadata and forget to change the DeviceIcon entry. Now we could imagine their testing process involved little more than jacking it in and rattling the keys, but if they were developing or testing on anything previous to Win 7 (I think) then if they'd checked they'd have seen a generic icon based on device class.

But still, the code they wrote is running in the ring zero, so yeah, we'd prefer them to systematically carefull.
None, but here's the thing about pragmatic design: You just have to make something that's less problematic the common case.
You have to be really careful here as you can very quickly lead the person into “learned helplessness”. If they can rely on you to solve all problems they often will. Early on I fell into this trap and it was very difficult to get out of.
Previous discussion from the article covering the same story on Bloomberg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11397113 (288 points; 92 comments; 2 days ago)
University develops leak-proof food bowls from leaves
Caches are usually built with static RAM (SRAM) while memories are DRAM. Here's a simple explanation of the difference:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question452.htm

Basically, SRAM costs more to make. The memory fabs also use less expensive tech with just a few layers vs the 10 or whatever absurd number CPU's and their fabs require. There's a company that built a CPU for memory fabs specifically to leverage what they said was a 100x cost difference.

There's been some use, like in IBM's high-end POWER, of slower memories for L3 or whatever that are WAY larger but still on chip. I'm not sure how that panned out in terms of results.
In Lisp/CLOS-style multiple dispatch, the method you call is not associated with any particular object. It's simply a dispatcher, and the objects are the parameters/message contents.

So you don't send a message to a recipient object, but dispatch it using a toplevel method name. I know that's a deviation from Kay's descriptions, but it meshes well with the examples of multiple dispatch that I've seen.

Conceptually, "dispatch" can be understood as finding the recipient, not an after-receipt task.
Great article. Microcode is indeed a different activity from assembly programming. It's the place where software and logic design come together. I built a custom bitsliced CPU for TI many years ago and wrote all the microcode myself. It was one of the most valuable experiences of my engineering education.
Being higher on the totem pole has its status and pay advantages. You get more respect from others pretty much across the org's layers. But it's definately a different scene, that many tech. people I know wouldn't want to do.

The biggest insight I think after going into management is the importance of an employee's attitude. I always had a chip cause I was kind-of a rock star, and I can see now, how that can irritate a manager.

For a dream team, I'll take a group of people who are just generally smart (can learn any new technology, can adapt) and have a great attitude (basically, people who care), over other qualities. Plus, attitudes are contagious, like a virus. Both good and bad.
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.

Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,

by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

-Brian Kernighan
If your manager really cares about you they will become a friend. I am sure there are some people that won’t respond to genuine one-on-one time, but I have yet to come across any.
Humanity, a sufficient majority thereof, simply stops playing the game. Money was a concept. It is now ignored. Corporations were a concept. They are no longer believed in. Ownership is a bouncing cheque with nobody caring to cash it. Most people stop playing "private business". You owned a railway? It's been automated. You owned a steel foundry? It's been automated. It answers to the world direct democracy, not to you. It's busy making things for free. And everyone else is busy doing their vocations. If you wanna go hide in a valley, sell things to each other and hope for civilization to vanish, go right ahead.
Bachs as musicians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_family
We should consider it personally as far as our individual risk assessments go, but it should never be a talking point, because it makes it seem like drivers shouldn't be responsible for paying attention.
You don't have to like talking to people to be a great manager, but you do have to like talking to people to enjoy being a manager. Related, but not the same.
Exactly; without an RF amp you're not going to do any serious damage.
Is there a list of all the HN topics that include the keyword: "How to build your own _____ for fun and profit"

Please don't mention the search bar.
> I have no idea why you imagined it would involve beating and robbing anyone.

How do you think government would enforce that "revoking a business license" thing?
That's not really a factor when your employer is the one choosing your insurance providers.
The risk described in this article does not have to do with inhalation though.
All the solutions he mentions (including the Blizzard system) is just a more complicated first-come-first-claimed. Gamification to get a shorter name, is the same system with a slightly more complicated process of the registration after-first-registration. Blizzards idea that you always see the username and not the uid identifier is probably as human-friendly as it can get.
Nothing you said matters cause it has nothing to do with what I was replying to. I was replying to the statement that he "lacks experience" and that is far from the truth.
Regarding "some people are naturally better..."; it took me ~4 months, "running" 4 days a week, to be able to jog a 3 mile (~5K) run in ~30 minutes. My age then was 28.

My friend, who never worked out in any way, woke up with a hang-over and decided to join some friends for a competitive, cross-country 10K... he came in first. He was 22 years old, IIRC. His father is a dedicated marathon runner (qualifies for Boston Marathon), so that partly explains it.
I know, but why is it still on the market? It's impossible to use safely.
1) Two.

2) No.

3) Until they are done shitposting.

4) Undetermined.
I think that depends a lot on your perspective and background.

For example, consider someone who grew up 'macho'. By that, I mean an environment where not looking weak is more important than being efficient, the word of the boss is king, etc, etc. It's an archetype that definitely exists in the world -- if you start with someone from that perspective, a lot of the stuff in the article is definitely unintuitive.

(Not saying your perspective is invalid, of course. There are probably other archetypes that I could've picked to try to illustrate the same effect but hopefully 'macho' gets the idea across enough.)
Do you have some citations on 1 and 2?

I started running a few years ago, and noticed that there is a massive amount of cargo culting and folklore surrounding technique and training regimens. I ended up just discarding it all and doing what felt right because I found it impossible to filter through the noise. If these things have been properly studied and documented, I'd like to see it.
If you sell it as "only allowing authorized applications to run on domain-joined computers" it doesn't sound so bad.
You presume that he needs to change but give no reason to do so other than you think your way is better. He says his is better and a lot of people, including myself and a well-publicized recent article, feel the same way.

We think your path is the wrong way and will cause you problems as time goes on.
> On paper, in reality it is to feed the mouths of health care insurance workers.

Workers? I doubt that. More like executives.
Seems like there's an opportunity there. It doesn't need to be "all this deployment complexity". Just currently it is. In fact it shouldn't be; the kubernetes level of abstraction has far less going on than the VM level.

My guess is that 2-3 years from now it will be easier to set up a kubernetes cluster than to set up even the single VM at the top of your piece, and a corresponding dev env will run seamlessly on Windows, Linux, OSX. The average user won't even know or care what OS they're running in production; it'll just work (think Heroku++)

Of course once it becomes ubiquitous, then containers become the new (language agnostic!) way to deploy "libraries", accessed by HTTP, and DLL hell is just moved up an abstraction level. So what have we really achieved....
They would just revoke it because they are the issuers of the license in the first place. You can't take something that you already own from yourself by force.
Computing the Uncomputable
I meant it to be both, the institution as a whole.

The idea of "oh but what about the jobs of everyone in insurance company, think of the admin assistants and poor call center workers" has been presented before as an argument against a single payer system.
Interesting subject, terrible article. Two data points for a whole theory.

If you like anecdotes on how some famous successful people brought up their kids, here are a few.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. was given an allowance as a kid. His father didn't care what he spent it on, but he had to keep proper double-entry books on all his transactions, and these were audited monthly by a professional accountant.

Henry Ford II, as he approached driving age, was bugging his grandfather, the original Henry Ford, for a car. He was told he'd get one on his birthday. So, on the appointed day, there was a completely disassembled car, along with all the tools needed to assemble it. It took Ford Jr. about 6 months to get it assembled and running. (Incidentally, the reason Fords still run Ford Motor is a two-tier stock scheme, like Google and Facebook. For many decades, this was very rare, because the NYSE didn't allow multiple classes of common stock. Ford was one of very few exceptions because its founding in 1903 predated that rule.)
You can revoke laws. In fact, this whole discussion is basically about revoking minimum wage laws. How useless of an argument would it be to say "paying less than minimum wage is already illegal, so we can revoke the anti-collusion laws?"
You earlier referred to Business as a potential "parasite". Sounds like you are clarifying that you hope such a parasite will starve and wither away. Which is fine. Others might advocate taking proactive and violent measures to kill something which they deem to be parasitic.
Maybe he should have used a ÷ symbol instead?

Edit: he clearly wanted to emphasize that this is a unary operator. Using 1/x as the symbol instead of /x or ÷x would weaken the desired association.
What if I still want to exercise my business without a license? How would they enforce it? Hint: see what happens to abortion practitioners in countries where abortion is illegal or marijuana resellers where it's illegal etc.
> I have yet to come across any

And you won't. No one is ever going to be real and honest with their manager or with anyone in a position of power over them.
Because building anything new drives the price up even higher than it already is. (High density generates more demand than it adds in units)

We need the new homes. But we also need to rethink the system here, because building new homes makes all nearby homes less affordable.
How is that relevant? The concern here is industrial pollution in scale relation to consumer pollution. If consumer pollution is is significantly lower than industrial pollution, then it is easier to tolerate.

Nobody is hypothesizing the non-existence of consumers.
I actually was in a chat room with /u/powerlanguage (the admin that submitted the original announcement) and I pressed him for stats. All he said was that people love to grow.

xNotch was also in the room. That was tons of fun.
point 1: merge smaller features more often. Multi-thousand line PRs suck no matter if they're squashed or not.

point 2: As people mentioned, this is for PRs done by individual people, usually squashing their local history. If multiple people were working on the branch, they should have been PR-ing against that branch (squashing the commits), then you merge that branch to master (you may rebase it, but not do significantly destructive stuff).

Even then, these are features to use with critical thinking. If your PR is really large, massage the history to be relevant and meaningful for git bisect purpose. Use full squashing when it was a local work full of "My hands are typing words" commits of no relevance.

I swear, we're in an industry full of people making 6 figure salaries, who treat their job as if it was a call center script to follow. If you're an engineer, use your head and engineer solutions around the tools you have.
It is legal because there was a limit defined in the policy.

No insurance is open-ended, sky-is-the-limit. In many cases (e.g. auto, home, business) the limit is capped at the value of the assets that are insured. In other cases (liability) there is a defined dollar limit. My homeowners and auto policies have liability insurance but there is a limit. If I caused a traffic accident with signifcant property damage and multiple serious injuries, my liability insurance limit would likely be exceeded.

Health insurance has limits as well, even with the recent changes that the ACA introduced. The ACA removes limits on "essential health benefits" but who decides what those are? Hint: Not you.

If there were no limits on health insurance there would be little backpressure to ensure that care provided is worth paying for, or to put it another way, has real benefit. You'd have hopeless cases on life support forever, or unrealistically expensive treatment of conditions for which there is no real hope.

Sad as it is, some health problems can't be fixed, and at some point you need to admit that and stop throwing money away. One more chemo treatment would very likely have made little difference in the outcome for this woman.
The '1/' symbol is already established to indicate a multiplicative inverse. There's no need for a new symbol nor the repurposing of an old one.
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You're not taking into account that this "Issuer" claims some right to decide (by force, obviously) who can do business in the first place.

So if some entrepreneurial lady begins, say, arranging flowers or braiding hair... maybe she gets forced out of business for not having a license. Or maybe she does get a license but it is revoked for some arbitrary reason like the Issuer decides she's a "parasite" because she doesn't employ "enough" people. Either way, force is being used against her.
Specially back than, of course, but back in the day, we wouldnt be able to afford for a Solaris and consulting(i didnt know how to manage one) giving our small size, and, i dont know how it was in the US, but in Brazil it was something really expensive.

Im saying this more in the light of what Linux was considered back then, and what it is right now.. In that time a OS maded by a "bunch of hippies" were something people used to laugh about, and people that use it like me were also mocked because of it, because of the seroius money and industry involved in other solutions.. while Linux was the OS of the "looser".

We live in a completely different world now, thanks specially to Linus, Stallman, and all the other people we wouldnt be able to name.
Insurance which covers some things is better than no insurance. Caps reduce the cost.

You might as well ask why low end processed cheese ($4.50/lb, not very tasty) is legal - why not ban it and force everyone to eat delicious artisinal asiago ($12.99/lb, mouth wateringly good) instead? Won't someone think of the poor people who aren't spending enough on dinner?
There is a pair where the father proved light is a particle and the song proved it's a wave. Can't remember their names at the moment.
I'm curious, has Oculus solved the positive parallax problem? A friend was in the VR biz in the 90's. But, the difference of perceived and actual focal plane caused the eyes to corkscrew. The result were headaches.
IBM’s resistive computing could massively accelerate AI
So, when you refer to 'restricted to nothing >928', I presume you mean side-band harmonic tone spill. To answer your question: I have no idea, but here's my educated guess based on the '08 auction[1] -- absolutely. I'm presuming that Verizon wouldn't pay billions of dollars for 2 6 mhz bands if they couldn't use it without violating FCC's "don't jump into my band, bro" stuff. Block A has 698–704 and 728–734 MHz. So, they're presumably using 6mhz here, another 6 mhz there (channel trunking) but they're definitely keeping within a 6mhz range. Granted you get a bit more of spectral content within a 700mhz band compared to the 900 to 928 range[edit: uh, per hertz obviously haha], that's still a massive band [edit: again, referring to the content you can fit per hertz; without actually running numbers, I'd gut-feeling-estimate that you're losing maybe ehh 30% capacity, so 900 to 928 is more than enough to operate a full 2G antenna].

RE: The dearth of information: Forcibly opening up? As in like, violating FCC rules? I mean, the knowledge is out there and readily available on the public internet if you know where to look. You can still find o-chem forums with PhD students talking about the manufacturing of research chemicals, but its masked in their own lexicon (an idiot can't just Google "how do i make {insert designer drug of choice}", but you'll find a lot re: "wacker oxidation of foo in bar" or "reductive amination in a Vigreux column").

Just like we've got specs and RFCs for all of our protocols, the mobile industry meets up and agrees on everything from MIPI standards (ever wondered how there are so many Chinese Android devices with so many different seemingly interchangable components like video cameras, GPS modules, etc? There's a spec everything). You could easily take over some of the 850mhz spectra for a day or two but a) what would you have to gain? I guess you could sell baseband equipment to private investigators for a huge premium, thats about it, b) even if you could monetize it, the FCC would storm in on you within a couple days, a week at most.

RE: devices hacked open - Shenzhen has everything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_sp...
Amazon does not pay associates per click. You are essentially purchasing sales leads from reddit. This is not arbitrage. Buying lottery tickets from a gas station and bringing the winners to the bodega next door is also not arbitrage.
My current scores:

Square: 0x07 cycles
Checkerboard: 0x4C cycles
4 Squares: 0x09 cycles

I will post my solutions in 24-48 hours.
There's only one district I know of, of the ones which don't offer busing for high-school students, which has a public bus that goes to the high-school. My district in particular doesn't have any public buses that go to the high-school.
Just practice good form with the bar, whatever you do, and concentrate on making progress rather than setting goals. People who set unrealistic goals get hurt.
The idea that business activity can be regulated or controlled by a state governing body is not new, is not controversial, and is also not robbery.
Why wouldn't offices have reoccurring cleaning on a set schedule? Every office I've been in had cleaners come every evening.
What is the difference though between them being paid for unproductive work for the sake of having a job or being paid a basic income?
It's like a drug addiction (Facebook, & to a lesser extent, cell phones). I enjoy it, but I do not accomplish anything I am proud of.

I tell myself that I am more useful when I focus on making meaningful contributions to something, rather than stroking my ego by seeking likes or upvotes. I probably just need to balance things better, but I cannot... just as an addict cannot do just a little of <drug>.
Clojure from the ground up
That was a huge wall of text by Steve Wolfram, but very little substance.
"We still could win"

could you define win?