skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And so the solution is to create content for people on 320x480 pixel screens with no contrast? No.

We should try and create the content in the best possible formats, with the highest available standards, and then the user agent, acting on behalf of the user, should scale that to the user’s current system, increasing or decreasing the contrast.
The other side of the coin is that regardless of who is holding the money the government not being able to spend it could be considered a better allocation just because they are so damn wasteful. Just because the government SHOULD be correct doesn't mean it actually is, and just because a law says money shall be allocated for X doesn't mean any real value is coming out of X, and the work the money is doing by being kept away from the government should also be considered as a loss when paying for X (so more than just the cost of X is spent).
The US is 18/176 on the list on that page; not even in the top 10%. Personally, I would say the top 5% or so could reasonably be called leaders. Where would you draw the line?
+1 also had a professor who did this for his courses and it was a win. The theory being people only have ~20 minute attention spans, so instruction should be switched up as such. Result was I learned more, actually collaborated with classmates, and motivated me to prepare for class.
I'm pretty sure an episode of Scrubs did something very similar.
I have personally found it to be a practical, useful API standard that provides benefits over a JSON API in Rails. I wrote an article about some of the benefits a couple of years ago: https://0x2a.sh/from-rest-to-graphql-b4e95e94c26b.

You can architect "traditional" Rails APIs to get some of the similar benefits, but GraphQL works out of the box with existing client libraries.
Anyone care to enlighten me why fuzz testing and not mutation testing?
Oh yeah, I don't mean it'd work, I think healthcare neatly falls in the category of collective action problems that are poor fits for the capitalistic profit motive. A lot of people would suffer and die unnecessarily. And in a democracy, enough people would be incentivized to vote for exception after exception to destroy any semblance of market competition. Old people are very very good at two things: getting sick and voting. The pathological dysfunction of American healthcare is pretty much inevitable if you try to stuff for-profit healthcare into a democracy.

I'm really not a socialist, I promise. I just don't see how you'd do it any other better, and it's pretty clear to me that the results are definitively in for our free market experiment.

It's funny how we all pretty much agree the govt should be in charge of stuff like roads, schools, military, police, fire dept, courts, quite a long list of stuff, but adding anything to that is marketed as creeping socialism.
>If you should know better and you do junk work then you will be shit on.

>times who are learning or do not claim to be experts

That makes no sense. If _Linus_ thinks you should know better is not the same as "they claim to be experts". According to you, who has claimed to be an expert and demanded that Linus should listen to them?

>and has a _huge_ ego.

Sounds a lot like Linus Torvalds.

>I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right

>I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

>I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.

All direct quotes from him.

>I've seen Linus handle people numerous times who are learning or do not claim to be experts and he is always respectful, civil and a lot less blunt.

People who are sometimes rude to others can also be sometimes nice to others. This is not surprising in the least.
By my back of the envelope account it might cost about $36 Billion to forgive the student debt (say $200k average) of a fifth (early career) of all physicians in the US (28 patient care docs per 10,000)
I don't think it's fair to say that nuclear weapons are why we don't have world wars anymore. I believe it has a lot more to do with globalization and the fact that most countries now recognize that it's a lot more profitable to trade with other countries than to go to war with them.
In the grand scheme of things, yes.

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...
http://www.worldaudit.org/corruption.htm
http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/feature/story/_/id/14767250/the-e...
> Elective procedures work well in a free market system.

Dental work is only semi-elective, and prices are driven down thanks to transparent pricing.

Likewise, one can argue that vision services are also non-elective (e.g. people need to see), and prices go through a very large range.

Many medical conditions are not "emergencies". And even so, I often get referrals from my doctor to external imaging services. If those prices were transparent, I imagine a downwards pressure on prices would happen quite quickly.

To give an example, ultrasounds for pregnancies cost ~$250, ultrasounds for almost anything else are 50% to 100% higher in price. In a similar vein, x-rays at the dentist are next to nothing (despite involving a cool robot that rotates around my head, and a digital x-ray sensor that lets me look at images right away!), x-rays for anything else can end up in the hundreds.

Hospitals would also benefit from transparent pricing, if there was a legal mandate that all suppliers be open and honest, prices would drop for everyone. When a hospital sees that other hospitals in the area can offer the same service at a lower cost, meeting the same quality standards, then they can start pushing their vendors to lower prices.
This is a freight train and it doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon...
I suspect a lot depends on what is meant by lecture. If it's a 500 person lecture (or conference talk, etc.), questions are mostly a distraction. In fact, at large events, I find that most speakers prefer to defer questions to the end.

In a 25 person class, even if it's nominally a lecture, I'd expect it to be far more interactive.
Yes, a single-payer system would save money, but you have to be honest about the downsides. It's unfortunate that they are not honestly discussed in the article. Or, for that matter, almost anywhere.

The vast majority of the savings come from government price fixing. This is what the article means by "large government entities are able to negotiate much more favorable terms with service providers." It's not really a negotiation; at least not like it is in the private sector. When the government controls an entire market, they set prices. They can (and should) take input from providers and drug/device developers, but at the end of the day, whatever they say goes.

There are incredible risks when the government sets prices for a good/service. We should not take on those risks lightly.
The SAFE doesn't have interest and no maturity date.
The second major issue is it growing way out of the bounds of being just an init replacement, thereby violating the so-called Unix Philosophy of doing one-thing well.

I keep on hearing this overly worn "Unix Philosophy" argument against systemd, which in the absence of any non-religious technical justification, basically boils down to "its different".

All of this adds up to a storm of controversy that the systemd people mostly brought upon themselves. Had they just been more humble about their creation and waited until it was mature and well-tested and did all the wonderful things they claim it could and should do instead of stuffing what was widely seen as a broken-by-design piece of garbage down everybody's throat, maybe much of the Linux community wouldn't have been nearly so outraged by it.

Nobody shoved anything down anyone's throat, least not the SystemD developers. And the same goes for PulseAudio, DBUS, and all the other projects on freedesktop.org.

Anyway, in reality, software does not become mature and well-tested without early exposure to real users and systems. Chicken-and-egg problem there.

I feel absolutely no sympathy for those who are outraged. There are many distributions out there (including Devuan) which align with their particular vision of an OS should be.
I love the idea of looking for overlooked gems. Here are a few of mine:

Infinite in All Directions, Freeman Dyson : just a book of his thoughts, but I really appreciated his perspective on respect between religion/spirituality and science.

Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants, J.D. Clark : I picked up a copy of this in a roadside bookstore on a lark. Entertaining tales of people blowing themselves up in the name of science.

Apollo 11 Press kit : My grandmother was a journalist for Florida Today during the space race, and she gave me her copy. It is amazing to see how much detail was provided. I don't know if our modern press ever gets press kits like these, but it was not dumbed-down much at all, which was very nice to see.

The Adventures of Samurai Cat, Mark Rogers : Silly fun.
Kind of like if Bored of the Rings had been written by Jerry Bruckheimer and Spider Jerusalem.

Into the cool, Sagan and Schnieder : about complexity and thermodynamics. Written for a layperson, I still learned a lot from it.

Order out of Chaos, Prigogine and Stengers : More thermo, also written for lay audience, also learned a lot from it.

Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions, L. Artsimovich : Of all the plasma physics books I have read (many) this is the one I remember most. Rather out-of-date now, it contains loads of information about the early Soviet fusion program, with pictures and discussion of now-forgotten experiments.
This is really not relevant to anyone but healthcare professionals in the UK...
Like the MS people, I'm a Red Hatter and I just picked up 15TB last Spring to keep up with my storage needs. I have dozens and dozens of VMs. I consult/work on OpenShift and simulating an HA Cloud environment takes a few hundred GB. And when you have customers and projects on multiple versions, you need more. I tend to run N, N-1, and N-2 versions of each OpenShift in HA in VMs (3 Masters, 3 Infra, 3 App, 1 Bastion; 10 total), plus a storage VM, and some of our other relevant products on a 32 core/128GB HP z820 Workstation. Cheapest way I found to run a persistent lab environment. If I ever start doing OpenStack, I might need a small fleet of HP workstations.

Moral of the story is, you want you lab/dev box/env to match what you're trying to test/simulate. I need to simulate "clouds". If you're working on a single web app/site, you could get away with less.
1. It says that an apology is not of itself an admission of guilt. But it doesn't say that an apology can't be used as one piece of evidence of negligence/wrong-doing.

2. This document conflates negligent/avoidable mistakes with situations where "there has been an unintended or unexpected event" and "includes recognised complications referred to in the consent process". In the latter cases, "I'm sorry" is an expression of sympathy, not a true apology.

3. These sort of apologies are required by statute. How meaningful can they be?
Interesting. Why is the U.S. less corrupt than most? Would giving the U.S. government a big bump in the amount of power it weilds in the form of single payer health care improve the curruption situation or make it worse?
Depends how paranoid you want to get: pay only cash, don't use credit/debit cards, wear sunglasses and a hat in public to avoid being "digitized" by cameras and mobile phones. Don't drive a car (use a cab off the street), don't use a cell phone and use only public computers (like in a library)...
How can I have it run a server in the background/after I close the window? (Either that or it already runs in the background)
Slowing down to a pace comfortable for you means, at least in my classes, that you'll miss the next thing in the presentation. Notes are not for immediate learning, they're for assisting in learning later on. As an physics engineering student, I take notes with a combination of LaTeX and OneNote on my Surface 3.

Additional benefits by using a laptop to take notes is that they are searchable, archived and accessible for however long you like, and sharable between classmates. Hand written notes can obviously be shared and archived as well, but nowhere near as easily.
The trivial answer against that is to say the actual, quantifiable loss is the licensing fees that the plaintiff would have otherwise been able to extract from the defendant.
I'm now using the 256GB drive (a 850 EVO Pro) as primary with the old 128GB holding my music collection and it's a pain to manage. Ubuntu FDE with multiple drives under /home isn't as simple or reliable as I would like, and I want to move everything back to one single fast drive.

I should probably take the time to reformat & reinstall across both as a ZFS partition, then wait another year for 1TB prices to come down. 1TB SSDs just aren't cheap enough yet for me to justify buying one. 500GB will fill up again very quickly once everything is on one drive.

I'll frequently shoot a few hundred camera raw photos, then export many as 16-bit TIFF to be stitched into large panoramas or fused together (using exposure bracketed photos). This uses huge amounts of disk space and I want a minimum of 100GB free space as a buffer.
If you really want an outbreak of radical self-awareness, cross your fingers, hire every young organic chemist you can find, and start producing industrial quantities of LSD.

But that brings us back to "magic science".
Whenever I've visited the U.S. this drives me crazy. I always wonder how people shop for anything, given that the only time you find out the actual price of things is when you're about to pay for them. Do you just in your head have to tack on 10 to 20 percent (depending on the context)?
Offtopic. Why are long lines on HN always clipped with a big margin on narrow screens such as on mobile?
This seems to be 'why': Will I still be able to share photos directly from my Dropbox account to Facebook or Twitter?
After July 17, you’ll no longer be able to share photos directly from your Dropbox account to social media. You can use shared links to share files or folders on social media.
If the implementation outlives the implementer it most certainly shouldn't be up to him whether he does the design or not.
Neat issue management / automation nugget in the "Engineering" section: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_14#_issue-managemen... ,

The Probot we deployed to assist in our issue management now uses a machine learning algorithm to guess the feature area of new issues. When the algorithm estimates a sufficiently high probability of being correct, the bot adds the area label and (in some cases) directly assigns the issue to a developer on the team

For a few days after a new release, the bot labels new issues filed for that release with the new release label. This helps us quickly spot regressions introduced in the release. We remove the label after a few days
I've always wondered about this.

What makes handwriting different from typing in terms of memory recall, other than the fact that most, if not everyone, have written with pen and paper for far longer than typing?
We did a Safe in our first VC round (and then converted it in a priced round later), and it was an easy, fast way to close. I had to convince our investor to do one because it was their first, and they also had a very positive reaction to it. Deals die because of time and we were able to get the deal done and get back to work. I would definitely do one again and I think the downsides are overblown.
Those all sort of make sense to me.

'foo' is a string and can be iterated over.

42 is a number that can be provided to a function. Not sure about this one tbh. Could be useful for passing a number to a function if-and-only-if the number is valid (not NAN)

WeakMap(), I don't know what it is but I assume it's a map that can be iterated over.

mapping 'false' would fit well the Maybe monad.
See https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/11/magic-leaps-mixed-realit...

Definitely there is a Deadpool on for this company and the odds are worse than Uber.
I made one. That was probably unnecessary, but they weren't super comfortable with open source. I probably could have sold them on Jekyll or Harp, but I wanted something fun to do :)
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The term for that is monopsony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
Is it worth installing Ubuntu via the Windows store or would we be better off running it through VirtualBox?
Because Lennart has a lot of pull at Red Hat, and Red Hat has a lot of pull in the Linux community.

The BSDs have really straightforward to maintain init scripts. Mainly because all the boilerplate junk is hidden in sourced-in files. Runit takes a more advanced approach, but its service files are still simple scripts a few lines long. We don't need a reinvent-the-world solution like systemd to address the most complained about problems with init.
>“I think the missing element in this is Republican votes and identified Republican support,” said Brian Kelly, secretary of the California State Transportation Agency.

>California’s reliance on gas taxes to repair its transportation network is becoming less and less tenable. Increased fuel economy standards have led to less spending on gasoline

Why stop at saying it's a funding problem? (Allegedly) Obstructionist Republicans won't allow the government to react to changing conditions to update laws needed to fix the funding problem.
I used to think that was the case, too, and then someone pointed out how incredibly well-connected and economically interdependent the world was in the years leading up to WWI.

Global trade back then was like our modern dot-com boom, but with real money and merchandise. People were sure it would change everything. Turned out not so much. As long as the lives of the old men who ran the world weren't personally at risk, they had no reason not to go to war with each other. Nukes, not trade, were what finally changed that calculation.
The mesh is described in a bit more detail in Anandtech's previous article [1]. The figures are directly from the paper they cite [2], which is available on SciHub. I admit to not reading it in detail, only looking at the figures, but I'm amazed that with as many redrivers and repeaters as they have, they can only hit 2.4GHz on the mesh (as quoted on page 7 of this article). That thing has got to be dragging the whole architecture down.

> Just for curiosity: what workload allows you to go with NVIDIA instead of Intel (rather than AMD)?

The particular workload I'm thinking of is Abaqus FEA. Per-core licensing is a part of that, but it's starved for double-precision (FP64) FLOPS and thus runs great on an appropriate Tesla. We have a number of K40s (which last I looked was the best workstation FP64 Tesla) for that exact reason. And they cost less than a single "Gold 6154" Xeon that the sibling comment (rightly) singles out for good single-thread performance. Throw in Abaqus's horrid per-CPU-core licensing and it's a no-brainer. Intel is just charging too much money for anything launched today to be viable in a workstation.

[1]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11550/the-intel-skylakex-revie...

[2]: MoDe-X: Microarchitecture of a Layout-Aware Modular Decoupled Crossbar for On-Chip Interconnects, DOI: 10.1109/TC.2012.203
This is interesting data...

https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...

The US is pretty divergent... and not in a good way.
> I have chickens, goats, dogs, large garden with fruit and veg, pool for very little money.

Just add a handgun and an extra hole in the head and you'd have something that would appeal to those tens of millions of people who love living in cities.
Unfortunately, I think this is written in a way that makes it hard to understand what exactly Cloudflare is doing against the troll. They're crowdsourcing prior art and petitioning the USPTO?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

Our current system is seriously inefficient. Look at how much we spend compared to similar industrialized countries that have single-payer systems. These numbers include the ~13% of the population that didn't have health insurance at the time this chart was created. So we currently pay roughly twice as much to cover 87% of our population. If we had a system similar to Germany we could do it with $600/capita/year in private money added. I would gladly split an additional $50/month in healthcare costs with my employer.
Do Not Pass This Way Again
I joke that I'll stop using systenmd if "you" stop writing C. Thoughtcrime for thoughtcrime. ;)
> not for social media distractions

But that is the main issue, isn't it? The social media machine with its hunger for "eyeballs" and its myriad of notifications and popups. Shallow entertainment in the form of Youtube videos, always just one click away. Heck, even hypertext with its going-off-on-a-tangent links to external documents.

If you really want to do a focused, deep study of something, turn off the Internet.
If you like being inconsistent and tribal, then yes. You can.
The government (county, state, or federal) pays for infrastructure, safety, defense, (public) schools, and a lot of other things. All out of tax revenue. With the help of _private_ contractors. Through a bidding process for contracts and work - thereby getting the lowest price (even if not necessarily value).

It blows my mind that health is treated differently. It seems to me a lot of middle-America mistakenly assumes it's socialist, which single provider is. Single-payer is similar to most systems we already enjoy. It's the only way prices will come down. You need negotiating leverage and a single-payer system that a majority of your population uses is the only way to have that kind of leverage over drug companies and healthcare providers.

Single payer universal healthcare with more expensive private plans (for those who can afford) is the only system that can come close to fixing the broken healthcare system in this country.
I ban laptops from meetings I run. We're here to meet, present information, receive information, share information, make arguments, come to conclusions: we're not in a meeting in order to futz about tweaking our personal blogs.

I also like 15-minute meetings or less. Other folks seem fine with multi-hour meetings where everyone is goofing off on his laptop.
With Emacs vs Vi it was a way to amuse ourselves, because everyone is free to use their own favourite editor. With Systemd, we are not - we're all forced to use it.
Yes, it did solved some SysV init problems, but introduced a few of its own. Most importantly though, it grew into a more complex subsystem with numerous dependencies, and this unfortunately causes problems unheard of in the old days of SysV Init. I don't think so many people would complain that hard if Systemd was easy to replace (which I think is the main point of this unnecessarily lengthy post).
Basically yeah. I bought a car last month and I paid an extra... twenty percent before I walked out the door. Drives me nuts. That and fucking tipping, man. Enough already. Just put the price on the menu- I'm good for it, I swear.
not sure what kind of distinctions I'm supposed to be making between the two scenarios?
At Atrium LTS we are working on ways to reduce the cost of priced rounds! Please get in touch if you'd like to learn more.
A good compromise imo is to type them out in class and hand write them later.
I think that those that think the upgrade model will suffice are missing a few things: The increase in free/customer-as-the-product solutions that undercut existing software and by extension, the race to the bottom when it comes to app prices.

Back in the 90's, you bought a thick box with a thick manual and physical media for $25 dollars. You didn't have to worry about some App Store selling just as good software for $0.99
> Way to confuse people :/

JavaScript, that's a scriptable version of Java, right?

/sarcasm