skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most poor people in the US are women and their children. Most of those women were solidly middle class until one of three things happened:

1) She got unexpectedly pregnant.

2) She got divorced.

3) Her spouse died.

Due to the fact that women live longer and men are, on average, about 4 years older than their wives, 90 percent if the time, when someone is burying their spouse it is a woman burying her husband. (for hetero couples, a stat that will change with same sex marriage)

I did the homemaker thing. I have 6 years of college. My post divorce life has been far less lush than that of my ex.
Just like anything, there's a small learning curve on syntax. Once you can get past your grievances (is HTML any less weird?), Svelte is extremely fast to build with.
hikers and alpinists are totally different breeds, though.

The americans writing articles for the AAC journal or evening sends or whatnot are not peak-baggers.

conversely, the grade-seekers of 8a.nu are primarily european.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12666454#12667459

> It's important for HN to keep its distance from tldr culture. Longer articles are ok, even if many of us won't read them. It's true of any post that most people won't read it.

> Snap summaries make for reflexive reactions. That's the shallow kind of discussion we're hoping to avoid here. What we want is reflection, which is slower, takes more energy, and leads to more considered exchanges.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607155

(turn on showdead, and read the parent comment, but also this thread).
What's it like working there under the new administration? USDS was founded under Obama to repair the healthcare.gov fiasco, right?
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If my recollection serves, when Intel had what was the largest/most expensive recall in the world in the 90's (at that time anyways), their stock still nearly doubled that year.
War on Poverty was a Johnson program. You can't cite Clinton's backing away from War of Poverty as an argument against War on Poverty.
Saving Media in 2018 – Readers Pick the Winner
This is the classic case of the frog being boiled. Or the pig getting lazy...

At every step along the way, there's been a choice of "Well, we could own the hardware and incur overhead costs, or we could trust someone else and pay our share of lower overhead. It'll mean giving up some control, but it'll save us a few bucks."

Or maybe it goes like "Well, we could develop with practices that result in more robust code, but we'd be slower to market."

There's definitely a sidetrack of "If we crank up the clock too much, all sorts of things get wibbly and we can no longer guarantee that the outputs match the inputs, but we don't actually have ways of doing it correctly at these speeds. The press will slam us if we don't keep pace with Moore's law, how could we launch a product with only marginal speed gains?"

And pretty often I think it sounds like "The ops staff says they're overworked and we need to add people or we risk an incident, but Salesman Bob says we can actually fire most of them if we put our stuff in BobCloud."

At every step along the way, someone made a conscious choice to do the insecure thing. The folks with their eye on security were dismissed as naysayers, and profit was paramount. And because these practices became so common, they became enshrined in market norms and expected overhead costs.

> A provider can't dedicate hardware for every single customer.

A provider absolutely could dedicate hardware for every single customer, that's literally how every provider operated before virtualization. It just wasn't as profitable as virtualization.

The story of the Three Little Pigs was supposed to teach about the importance of robust infrastructure. Nobody should be surprised when the wolf shows up. And every pig had the choice to build with sticks or bricks, it would just take more work or cost more.

And I see your message as saying "Are you serious? Build with something other than straw?! But we already own so much straw! All the pigs have straw houses, won't someone think of the pigs?"

Meanwhile the bankrupt brick vendor's assets have been auctioned off, and the wolves are salivating.
Where are you getting these numbers?
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I recently posted an „Ask HN“ asking for a flexible CI system. Most of the suggestions were proprietary hosted SaaS solutions.

I was sceptical, and things like that keep me sceptical. Sure, setting up a CI system yourself is maybe a bit harder than using a hosted solution. But if the provider decides to change their offering, you are in big trouble. You‘ll need to spend a lot of time switching to a new sevice, migrating all your data and processes. And once that is done, you can start to retrain all your employees.

And you always have to be ready for that scenario, at two months notice....
I'd love an attributes syntax akin to riot.js, less noise and blends into html nicely.
Any theories on why the US government is so much less capable than governments in other countries?
There isn't really anything comparable. Really. It doesn't include the framework in the end build. It's only in the original source. So it's a compiler, not really a framework, that compiles to code that's performant to specific tasks.
Tim Berners-Lee: “We need to go basics”
Fathers are also expected to provide full financial support, both culturally and legally.
The gender-baiting you've indulged in in this thread is off the scale. And even race-baiting too. Please stop now.

Unfortunately, to judge by the number of moderation warnings we've had to give you in the past, you have a long history of breaking the HN guidelines. That's a problem and if you don't correct it you'll get banned sooner or later. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and correct it.
Photos of this quality weren't sharp enough to make out any detail on any of these people's teeth.

I wonder if they assumed that they should try to look as they would for a painted portrait.
Europe has a better track record here. European women historically advocated for getting help with the burden of bearing and raising kids. American women seem to have modeled feminist positions on the historic American attitude of don't tread on me. Those social services mitigate some of the harm, but don't empower women to reclaim their lives effectively.

Also, the American track record for alimony and child support is not great of late.
Thanks for the insight. So how does a company like Inrix get their data? (http://inrix.com/products/traffic/)

On their site, it says this, which seems like bs.

>Robust, high quality data
INRIX gathers real-time, predictive and historical data from more than 300 million sources, including commercial fleets, GPS, cell towers, mobile devices and cameras.

>Calculating traffic at a 100m granularity, we use advanced algorithms and heuristics to ensure data is intelligently fused to true traffic conditions for 8 million kilometers of roads in more than 47 countries, making every trip safer and more efficient.
You can either build a system where the field lands on the detector in a known way, or build one where it lands in an unknown way and try to figure out what the heck happened. In light of many functional designs (for example, Phasics, Zygo) I don't see why your group introduces the unknown factor. Could this have been done by a camera from Phasics?
'Antifragile' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They are used by OpenType math fonts and systems that use them (e.g. the new equation editor in Word from 2007 on wards, and Unicode-capable TeX systems with the `unicode-math` package).
ULIDs solve these issues.

Basically 48 bits of millisecond timestamp then 80 bits of randomness.

The technique has been used in MSSQL apps since about 2003 (although people called them COMBs instead of ULIDs back then)

https://github.com/oklog/ulid
Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley... are there any other high-rolling industry hubs out there that don't have a decadent underbelly? Maybe Motor City in its heyday.
>Mine is that lightly regulated free healthcare markets will be efficient (though might not be equitable).

And what is 'efficient'? I think a major component of a well functioning healthcare system is that it's equitable. Our problem with healthcare is driven by the generalized problem of 'economization.' A rich person doesn't have some intrinsic quality that makes them more deserving of quality healthcare.

A healthcare system which is extremely efficient at treating the rich and letting the poor die isn't really what I'm looking for. Efficiency and equality must be balanced. What I'd say is that the US is pretty terrible at both and that's sad.

>Instead of wasting time with examples that don't go for the core of your stance, can you share what would change your mind in the general?

Some evidence that shows that mostly private healthcare systems generally function better than mostly public ones or some evidence that healthcare regulation in the US has led to worse outcomes and not better ones would at least give me a jumping point. But I'd also ask you to answer your own question here.
Lots and lots and lots of reading over the years.
So as an update to my previous post, I've booked a trip to Taiwan. I will be there for a month from Feb 6th-March5th.

Could anyone recommend a dentist/oral surgeon around Daxi/Taipei? I am staying there with my friend in Daxi. I can travel too, but I am not 100% certain on the transit system in Taiwan (he lives in a rural area as well, but can probably give me a ride or I can rent a scooter).

I would ideally like to get a few dental implants (I am missing 7 teeth in total) during my first week there, so I have a few weeks to heal before my flight back. One tooth will need to come out in the near future and I am missing both teeth around it, so I think an implant would be ideal (molar).
" because the state of OS security"

Those not designed for security were like that. Those designed for security had few of those problems. They just weren't popular with the big ecosystems and such since the demand side didn't care about security much. Very little security bolted onto something that was opposite at core. Common solutions were memory-safety for apps with validation on API calls, limiting of API's accessible, mandatory access control, and/or VM's isolating whole systems from apps needing protection.

OS's and browsers are not only becoming similar in functionality: they're similar in why people adopted them and why they're insecure.

"Saying browsers are "the largest attack surface" is an indication of ubiquity, not an indictment of the design or implementation of browsers"

It's actually saying both since browsers were mostly not designed for strong security or apply security engineering techniques of the time. That would be POLA, privilege separation, memory-safe languages, high-quality code in any components integrated, and so on. The first I saw attempt it was Chrome's Native Client imitating some benefits of OP Web Browser [that was designed for security] but weakening them for performance. Latter was Chrome's highest priority IIRC. There's Quantum moving memory-safe code into Firefox. However, browsers are mostly insecure architecture and code that just gets patched as problems are found. And they're ubiquitous. Music to malware authors' ears. :)

I'm including examples below of security-focused, browser architectures applying various methods of security at design and/or implementation stage so you have a mental point of comparison to current ones in terms of techniques employed. They were released as prototypes with nobody putting any effort in past that. So, high-assurance sector just isolated regular browsers in protection domains (eg VM's) on separation kernels or using MAC if browsers had to be there. Otherwise, native apps in memory-safe languages with regular old client-server architecture were much easier to make reliable and secure. Especially if using middleware designed to help with that. That's still true.

DarpaBrowser
http://www.combex.com/papers/darpa-review/security-review.pd...

OP and OP2 Browsers
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/832a/911f97b500cd2df4680186...

Microsoft Gazelle
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mul...

Illinois Browser Operating System
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...

Quark Browser
http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
Or firejail
>"Healthcare is becoming increasingly corporatized."

Hasn't healthcare been corporatized since the dawn of HMOs almost 50 years ago though?
BTC was also closer to the ground floor of this research, you wouldn't expect it to be able to cite too many papers in similar subjects.
Kernel memory leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
Sounds a lot like a fancier pyramid scam.
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I feel like JIRA was just a configurable workflow tool at a time when all the processes around software development were still being defined/standardized. It worked well for it's era because people could get it to do whatever they felt was perfect fit for them, but overtime I feel like it's broken down for much the same reason that people prefer to buy a SaaS product that has 95% of their needs out of the box.

Processes (agile) and UIs (kanban) have been much more standardized in software project management and only now does it seem like some companies are coming up to give you that 90% out of the book with 10% the overhead/ management. Pivotal Tracker came close.. Clubhouse.io is the one I've seen doing it best.
A huge drop in price could result in a death spiral. If the price drops such that the mining rewards no longer cover their electricity, they might shut down until the price goes back up. If enough of them do this, it could further collapse the price as the transaction rate drops.

It wouldn't need to be all of the ASIC mining, of course, just a large enough portion of it to result in massively increased block times.
Habitability on Early Mars and Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover
I’ve seen all of these used quite extensively. It depends on what kind of fields you are familiar with.
Require everyone to fill their trashcans with rat birth control pills?
Bitcoin Price Rises After Peter Thiel Invested in It
The Sapper version is cheating a little. It is preloading the pages on mouseOver events of the links.
I think if you consent to go to the sex party, you consent to physical romantic activity, you consent to taking the drug knowing your context and what the drug will do, and then you consent to sex throughout the experience, it's hard to see how it's anything but consensual.

If you have a colonoscopy done, the medication they give you will make it so you don't remember things or (I hope) feel things, but, my doctor told me, you will still respond to instructions like "roll on your side" etc. If I consent to go to the doctor's office, and have the IV after it's explained to me what the drug does, and then they give me the drug and I have the procedure, am I consenting to the procedure even though I'm very much impaired during the process? I'd say so.
A few years ago my brother broke his leg horribly. The Ambulance drivers said it was the worst break they had ever seen.

Multiple surgeries, months in hospital, rehab, got addicted to morphine in the process etc. etc.

At the end of it all was a handshake and "get well soon".

There was no bill.

Australia.