skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trivial realities of the actual world may chill my heart to the bone, but even I can accept this sad inevitability ;)

The thing is, the fact that your code relies on someone else's, and that their code can change out from under you is exactly why you need separation in your tests and modularity in your code. Using the system I am describing, you are still working with 'real world' data - you are just asserting it in advance (since the real world inputs correlated with the inputs of your integration suite via the edge tests) and ring fencing your endpoints.

I've actually been part of a software team driven wild by unknown changes to infrastructure endpoints, causing failure of the integration test suite. And then by the brittleness of an integration suite too tightly coupled to inputs.

I've also worked with test suites that failed when run after business hours, but only during Atlantic DST, for the same reasons. :|
The Reasonable Formation of Unreasonable Things [pdf]
"With no disrespect to the developers at Apple, et. al., each one of these problems that goes viral before reaching "proper" channels..."

s/that goes viral before reaching \"proper\" channels//

The fact that the problems existed to begin with is more troubling than whether they became known outside the company or not. IMO.

With an open source UNIX-like OS (like the ones Apple sourced from for parts of macOS), both the developers and the users can watch the commits as they happen. Developers and users anywhere can choose to watch the commits and may be able to detect a series of poor quality ones. At least they can make informed decisions on the relative merits of changes from one version to the next. (Edit: They might choose not to compile or install certain components. I do not use X11. Nor do I use systemd.)

The fact that development of macOS is hidden from those outside Apple and that problems are protected from "going viral" does not make the problems any less of an issue for macOS users.

The issue is not how fast and secretively they fix problems, it is how many problems their developers are introducing into the existing version to begin with.

If there are problems routinely being introduced then no amount of fixing after the fact and behind the scenes is going to make the OS higher quality. Only due care taken before introducing changes will guard against further deterioration of quality level.

(Edit: The mention of open source is not intended to be interpreted as an argument that open source inherently results in better software. Perhaps skill and attention to detail are at cause. This is a debate worth avoiding.

The relevance of the mention of open source is intended to suggest that detecting and avoiding problematic software may be easier for some users, e.g. yours truly, if they can access the source code. As opposed to hoping that Acme Hardware and Software Corporation will quickly and secretly fix all software problems that slipped through their QC procedures. Too late for the user who has already paid for the software and updated to the new version. That argument should not be too controversial.)
Yes, "don't take positions that require our exchange to be up" isn't exactly what you want from a provider of financial services.
It has a strong focus on immutable data structures and good concurrency primitives. True that you can get these in libraries for other lisps, but having the entire eco-system based on them is a big selling point.
I wouldn't try to sell you on it. Languages are tools, so your question is like asking "can anyone sell me on why I should use a flashlight instead of a cheese grater?" I don't know, because I don't know what you're trying to do. Perhaps neither Clojure nor Lisp is appropriate. Basic sales pitch: use the right tool for the job.

For many of us, Clojure(Script) is the right tool: a balance of performance, ecosystem interoperability, expressiveness, etc. on the platform we're targeting.
Main reason for me is performance. Especially important on a mid-range smartphone with sloppy network.
Is there where a third party node can spoof (or lie about) the content belonging to a pin to clients that ask it?
> and then insisted that they would not let me leave except in an ambulance - which I then had to pay for.

As an EMS provider, that is against the law. As long as you can show competence and comprehension, you are entitled (as you did with the ambulance in the first place) to refuse care, or any part of it ("You can dress my wounds, but not transport me"). They may wish to document your refusal AMA ("Against Medical Advice") for their liability / stave off abandonment claims, but "refusing to let you leave" is akin to kidnapping, no different to if anyone else had done it.

(Psych holds and such in my area require Law Enforcement involvement, even on scene, as they are the only people authorized to actually 'enforce' the involuntary transport/hold laws, though it's with our recommendation).
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story?
> Seems like a similar difference between Registered Nurse and just a nurse.

That is a distinction that was invented by the state.

Calling yourself an "engineer" is unspecific, and is not a claim to authority, but to knowledge. To claim that it is suddenly a specific claim to authority is to redefine the term.

When you redefine a common term, and punish someone for not knowing you did so, that is a real problem. In this case, that was simply done to delegitimize him, which is clearly malicious.
My good friend also is paying $44k a year for himself and a family of 4. This situation is truly a damper for those whom want to start a business.
Research was done decades ago across all cultures on the globe looking for predictors of violent crime. Hundreds of different factors were considered and evaluated. Only 1 had significant predictive power. Economic disparity. Just poverty itself was OK - so long as it was not present in close proximity to abundance. In every single place where large economic disparity existed, violent crime was high. In no place where economic disparity was absent was violent crime high.

Economic disparity causes violent crime. To believe you can accept and encourage one without also accepting and encouraging the other is ignorant, childish, and utterly irrational.

(the book 'Nine Crazy Ideas in Science' in chapter 1 cites a bunch of the research done in this field, they were specifically looking for the influence of overall gun ownership rates but found gun ownership prevalence has no predictive power for violent crime rates)
Managing a community is often a careful balance between handing over too much power to moderators who can abuse their powers and limiting moderators to the point where they're ineffective and the user base can't be controlled.

I've seen this dynamic play out first on tiny communities like MUDs where you'd have, at most, a thousand people. Later the pattern repeated over and over at larger and larger scales, where more recently you see entire platforms like Reddit suffering from the same issues. Each order of magnitude increase in user base makes the threats grow far more exponentially in scale.

Soon the whole internet will become rotten, culturally speaking.
Yeah, magsafe is paramount to doing professional work on a professional machine.
The problem is that at 1am, with whatever horrible pain prompts you to drag yourself, or your child, to seek out medical care, your ONLY option is often an ER.

It's not about how amazing ERs are and therefore expensive. It's about horrible allocation of resources across the entire system. If you don't have insurance, guess what, the ER becomes your clinic. If your child is screaming in pain at 2am with an ear ache, guess what, urgent care is closed, you have to go to the ER.

From personal experience, people will go to an ER knowing full well it's not life threatening and don't need the full services, knowing full well it's going to cost them a small fortune. But they just can't reasonably wait 6-12 hours to get treatment. Would you let your 3 year-old scream in agony until the next day because that's what time the Urgent care re-opens, so an MD cay say "Yup, that's an ear infection, here's your script, off you go"? It's a silly system that doesn't provide reasonable options to such common occurrences.
People should dam well complain about it until there are better options.
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Immutable by default

Lots of support

Great interactive workflow (with Emacs, Intellij, or Atom)

Data oriented (Most of your code are pure functions making

simple operations on datastructures)
In America, instead of paying taxes for socialized healthcare, people pay 2 - 3 times more to corporations because it's the American way.

As a Canadian, I gladly fork over a few thousand a year to avoid tens to hundreds of thousands in one sitting should something horrible happen to mine/my family's health.
I first encountered tabbed browsing on Opera, and the other browsers later copied. I think it was actually cheaper in terms of resources than another window. So tabs are a hack, that caught on because Window managers on many OSs are so poor. And bookmark UI is so bad, that people prefer tabs.
But if you use multiple browsers and multiple tabs, you can easily get discombobulated. I say that, but I can probably cope with about 10 tabs in each, if groups of tabs are related.

I like the idea of a freeze tab/site for later. Like when you shop or are filling in forms. But I'd love to see a better bookmark/history UI - and even have that embedded a bit more into the desktop.
Quality title.
You obviously didn't click the link because it specifically shows you accounts up to 5%. I mean, the friggin title is "Best High Interest/Yield Savings Accounts – Up To 5% APY"
You can't demand a bug bounty payout, especially because Apple didn't have a bug bounty back then (and their bug bounty today is invite-only).

Also, if you read the rest of the comment, Apple didn't ignore it. They fixed it.
If the idea is to cement your knowledge by passing it on to others, I don't know what would be superior.

In both cases you'd need to synthesize your learning and put it in your own words.

I do similar to the blog approach by writing thoroughly documented and demonstrated answers on Stack Overflow. Sometimes (including yesterday) I need to go back and review my conclusions. Yesterday, I was looking for whether I should change some raise statements or not. Since I concluded that the old statements are deprecated, I went ahead with the change, and it was approved as I submitted it.

I've also taught in the classroom, but since I'm working from what I already know (and encountering things I've forgotten) I don't know that it's actually better. It's just different.
Not addressed in the article is the collections part of the equation - as ERs can’t turn people away, they often end up treating many people that are uninsured and/or can’t pay for their care - causing ER’s to try make up the difference on patients that can pay...
can you spot the flaw in your logic?
Another perspective is that the 1% is subsidising the 99%. This is something anti-ad people often fail to consider.
You should ask them in whatever language their Accept-Language HTTP header specifies. If there isn't one, then ok, maybe look at their IP. But it makes no sense to treat the IP as a more valuable source of information than the HTTP header that's there for exactly this purpose.
And you have conservatives in this country saying that the poor have access to health care anytime they want by using the emergency room. These are the same people who complain about the poor buying steaks with food stamps and still suggest the poor use the most expensive form of health care rather than ensuring a basic minimum of care be allowed for all citizens.
> Strongly disagree, and I can not conceive of how it could be viewed as "better" than hardware keys.

I hope this is hyperbole, because it shouldn't be hard to understand. The TouchBar is absolutely an improvement. I can't remember the last time I actually used a laptop keyboard's F-keys for anything, but the TouchBar makes that space useful.
I like nice typo. Easily adds 30% pages.
Ok, I'll bite.

Suppose I want to download a tarball of the GNUnet file sharing application. (I chose file downloading because the GNUnet Wikipedia page says file sharing is the primary application atm.)

What are the steps I need to follow in order to fire up GNUnet's filesharing application and download that file?

To whomever responds: you make the file available, and I'll try to download it.

Edit: it doesn't have to be a tarball of the app. It can be any file which I can find a hash for on clearnet. But somebody has to vouch that they are making it available over GNUnet while I try to download it.
Not sure where this hostility is coming from

I'm sorry you're having a bad day, please dont take it out on me
Ahh, you misunderstand. The 'scale' is meaningless and only there to present a perception of judgement. They only have one to make you think that there is some decision to be made at all. It's like Uber ratings, anything less than a 5 star is a 0 star, or like TickeMaster pricing where there really was never a ticket on sale for 30$.
The API is still subject to change (alpha) but those changes are not expected to be dramatic at this point.
The SAS is specifically so no one can hijack/spoof the password dialog. When you enter it you can be 100% certain you are talking to NT.
Other countries develop custom funding models based on a universal healthcare initiative. Basically, they find a way to pay for it, and they just do it.

This will never happen in the US, however, because the US is obsessed with concentrating power in private enterprise and refusing to fund social services. We have more than enough money to ensure the health and welfare of all of our citizens. We just don't actually care to do that, and would rather have rich companies and uneducated, sickly, indebted people.
I believe Ikea has a similar set up as well.
This is absurd. Look at the cost escalations over time. Were ER’s not well equipped ten years ago? No they have just ratcheted up the cost because they can. Consider that, given their bargaining position, wouldn’t it be a surprise if they didn’t take advantage of it? What’s holding them back from shaking everybody down for as much as they can? Morals? Lol.

Just because the hospital has a bunch of equipment and training doesn’t mean it’s efficient to charge everyone that goes in there for all of it. There is such a thing as marginal cost. The marginal cost of this guys visit was next to nothing, but they shook him down for all kinds of other crap, much of which has dubious health value.

I went to the hospital for a slipped disk. From cursory inspection the doctor could tell I had a slipped disk, but they gave me an x Ray. I said “does the x Ray show my slipped disk?” the doctor said “it doesn’t show that. I just gave you the x Ray to be on the safe side.” Then I had to get an MRI and they gave me a ton of opiates that I threw in the trash, after reading about them online. In the end, the physical therapy that got me back to health cost less than the ER visit.

On top of everything, what really gets me is the gall of the medical shake down industry to bring up “costs.” They use the government to make everything as expensive as possible: the absurd licensing and education requirements, the restrictions on foreign practitioners and nurses, the “certificate of need” BS, the lax anti trust treatment as hospitals consolidate into regional monopolies under the laughable excuse of “efficiency,” the use of regulation to restrict suppliers of even generic drugs, the abominable statistical malpractice and pharm rep industry and stupid commercials used to push useless and harmful drugs on everyone—many of them paid for by government in both research and point of sale. At every level the whole system is by design a shamanistic and monopolistic ritual that achieves very little. Look at the failure to replicate of all these stupid studies, the way doctors respond to reimbursements in their use of quack drugs and surgeries, the flatlining of real quality of life stats even as expenditures explode, the power of the various professional associations.
Bitcoin price (BTC-USD)
Recently someone close to me, upon reflecting on childhood influences and overcoming those strong initial biases made during the impressionable years, said: "It only takes one adult to truly care about your long-term trajectory."

That you are posting this, shows that he's got someone in his corner.

Bees are awesome, by the way. I'd invest. :)
To blindly assume patterns such as "80/20" hold everywhere would be foolish - rather, it is better to empirically verify them first in each case (as done by the article). Further, I wonder what makes you think the writer is surprised in the least...
Also man up, woman making minimum wage with no savings and children to support?
Websites have never really had the option to send prerendered content on /#! urls, since the part after # is not sent to the server. Closest thing would be to have javascript request a prerendered view from another url and replace the current view, but that doesn't sound useful.
Tangential: on the way to work today I was pondering the economy after hearing about the recent unemployment numbers on NPR. These days I tend to think about what's going to be the downturn catalyst. Which got me thinking about the recent surge in crypto prices, and how much of it has been fueled by purchases using credit cards, home equity loans, etc. I hope it's not too disastrous in the end but I have my doubts.
Wouldn't the animal's own digestive system metabolise the sugar before it got to gut microbes?
It's called the power rule (Pareto distribution) and it's not news
> There have been some immensely interesting articles about price variations in chargemaster documents between hospitals.

In isolation, those prices are meaningless and can't be compared between two different hospital - even two different hospitals in the same network.

Hospitals make a marginal loss on patients who are on Medicare and Medicaid. They mark up the list prices of everything else to private insurers in order to make up the difference. The way that those markups are distributed doesn't really reveal anything, and even the aggregate size of the markup doesn't reveal anything other than a vague correlation with the proportion of their patient population that is on public insurance.

(That's even assuming that the private insurers pay the prices they are charged, which is never true - they negotiate for lower prices, although they are still required to pay more than Medicare does).
This has been a very sporadic issue that I've seen once or twice per year at most, for quite a while with OS X - somehow, another window is able to steal focus from the login screen. I've never been able to reproduce it reliably or find a common element in all of the times it has happened, but it definitely has happened to me and I've also seen co-workers dropping their login password in a chat window due to this. But it is pretty rare, so hard to pin down.

I've also noticed another thing happening more lately - locking the screen, only to have it automatically unlock itself a second or two later. I always have to make sure it actually stays on the screensaver for a few seconds before I trust it will actually lock.
Apple new App Store policy is hostile to small business and ISVs
> pass on the right lane

Unless there is someone in that lane going the same speed, or slightly slower, which is very common in a two-lane road near where I live.

There are also people who drive rather dangerously out of frustration when they cannot pass, making the entire situation more dangerous. The problem is that the slow drivers have been taught that "driving slow = correct", and that everyone around them must be doing it wrong.

If we put half of the focus we do with speed to things like this, our roads would be much better for it.
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Thanks that was very clear. Follow up question. Could criminals use bitcoin as a payment method for ransom ?
That's a link-local IPv4 address, typically means that it hasn't got a lease from your DHCP server.
I've only touched enough Pandas to get a feel for it, so I'm talking more here about dplyr, but I think most of this applies to Pandas as well.

Yes, SQL is incredibly battle-tested, and has a ton of features that newer systems need to catch up on, and there's a ton of work sunk into performance on too-big-for-RAM datasets that standalone Pandas and dplyr doesn't have. (But see dbplyr, for example.)

But actually programming in SQL sucks. There's no such thing as code reuse, as parameterization, as composability, etc. Everything about DRY goes right out the window when writing SQL and copy-pasta is the law of the land. Writing dplyr is so much more comfortable for me with just a little bit of learning about it. And I think it's going to be so much easier to extend dplyr to cover the gaps between it an SQL than it would be to try and fix the ergonomics of SQL.
It’s the general default of societies I’ve lived in. The idea that money is speech and corporations are people is a very very new and uniquely North American concept.

That said the privacy of users can be protected with crypto-currencies just like it is with cash, without providing a tax-evasion scheme for the wealthy/criminal. GNU Taler is a good example of this design. I wish it well!
> The problem is that at 1am, with whatever horrible pain prompts you to drag yourself, or your child, to seek out medical care, your ONLY option is often an ER.

It's not your only option. Chances are, it's not even your best option.

Urgent care clinics are much more appropriate for the bulk of things people are discussing in this thread. Not only are they cheaper for the patient, but they'll get treated faster, and they'll receive better care, because most of these things aren't what emergency physicians are actually trained to deal with.
Or you know, we could study the problem carefully and recognize that prohibition just leaves us with damaged families and social outcasts we can never reintegrate, and a permanent criminal subculture. Then instead focus on treatment and reintegration of the actual societal problems in a measurable way that avoids stigmatizing and alienating otherwise productive members of society.

And nobody needs absolute power to do that. They just need to discuss reasonably amongst themselves and decide on a course of measurable action and re-evaluate down the road to ensure the desired effect was reached.

But yeah, I suspect you don't listen well to reasonable arguments, likely because you're too busy pretending words can't be pinned to specific definitions for the purposes of productive discussion.