skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm living this situation right now. In my own life.

I'm transgender, and transgender care is a VERY complicated beast. I'm a Kaiser member, and Kaiser NorCal (though not SoCal, so I hear...) is about as good as you can get for Transgender care.

Do you know how hard it was to find someone who had some idea what Kaiser (or any insurance) did actually did cover? And even when I did find that out, it was (of course) changing. It took me talking to multiple member services reps and people at both of the regional transgender facilities before I found someone who could refer me to the person who knew.

What resonates most about the article - the "communal" aspect of it all - was around a specific surgery I need - facial feminization. Kaiser has one provider, basically. Great guy. Horribly backlogged - 2 year wait they told me.

Through lots of redditing I found the one person who knows exactly how to work this system. How to file the right grievances with the right language to put everything in order. Things like - you need an appointment with another provider so they can't merely claim there isn't a provider who can't do it. This person has basically walked me through the entire process.

A fun and related fact is that California has a board that handles disputes and does "Independent Medical Review". For facial feminization surgery, this amounts to them deciding if given traits of a face fall within feminine norms (which would make the surgery aesthetic, and not covered) or not (which would make the surgery reconstructive, and covered). I've read a bunch of them that go both ways. A really weird experience (the decisions are publicly available!)

The ability to "work the system" is entirely too necessary - never mind the cost, hassle, and everything else about it. You need "bureaucratic perseverance". You absolutely need to be ready to call, mail, file papers, whatever it takes to kick up a fuss. And if you have somebody who knows how it works on your side it's SO much easier.
AppCenter.ms has many similar features and supports iOS, Android, Windows, ReactNative, Xamarin, and others.

[Disclaimer: As I'm a PM on the AppCenter team I'll leave evaluation of goodness to others :)]
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There is Buildkite, which a hybrid server side / client side solution. This has worked extraordinarily because one of the most frustrating parts of setting up a CI service is setting up a long-lived, reliable server.
Ask HN: Require the user to post a comment along with their downvote or flag
If the downvote button is truly not simply a "I disagree" or "I dislike" button, then it should be implemented as such, and not as it is. I would argue that the same goes for the ability to flag.
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I posted this because I'm starting to learn Go to do my web projects with, and wanted to see what people thought of the authors comparison charts, which overwhelmingly favor Iris.

I'm predominantly a Swift developer, but have used Node.js/Javascript for building web applications. Go seems like the better fit for me, so trying to figure out a good toolkit to start with
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What is your email?
Please don't do this. It's mechanical and detracts from good conversation, which is the purpose of the threads.

I realize you're trying to help, but this is one of those areas where the help isn't helpful. It's closer to a single-purpose account, which we don't allow here. Community members should engage each other as human beings, not abstractions.
That's fine, but it's really just different from a cryptographic currency. It should be seen as a bank settlement service company, and be treated as such. You can trade the token, which is weird, but it's more like a company stock than anything else.
Glyphs that look identical should have the same code point. It's as simple as that.
Yes, iOS first is still extremely common.
Really? That just seems like a dispassionate accounting of facts. There are such things as political correctness and establishment dogma, and these things constrain large scale social programs. I don't see the hysteria or moral outrage as such.
That syntax looks arbitrary and frankly, hell to mantain. The cost:benefit ratio of learning all these idioms ("idioms", a huge red flag) doesn't seem efficient at all. I apologize for being blunt, yet I still recognize your work as great for pushing boundaries in web development.

What made you turn away from javascript and into templates?
> The DSM-5 criteria for Major Depressive Disorder are extremely broad.

You're making a justified/not justified appeal to the scope of diagnosis, not that diagnosis exists/does not exist on the basis of "reasons". As a taxonomy the code system in the DSM is broad, inclusive, and tries to hit a meaningful subset of behaviour in range of darned tricky, poorly defined, near-impossible to STEM-style research, and abuse prone issues.

More importantly, the reason there will be a DSM-6, DSM-9, and DSM-111 is because these codes will specialize and refine themselves over time...

> Essentially, the DSM-5 creates a specific diagnostic category for people who are basically OK but slightly sub-par... might end up on an indefinite SSRI prescription.

The fact that a diagnosis exists or not is orthogonal to treatment method. The DSM is like the Dewey Decimal system of "head stuff", inclusion in it's indexing is proof and support only of inclusion in its index. Mein Kampf is as much a book as my self-published wookie fan fic, IOW ;)

Crappy medication from crappy doctors is a big deal, and crappy use of prescriptions kills a lot more people than any of the fun drugs... Regardless, bad treatment or good treatment do not hinge on subjective qualitative judgements of your experiences. That's how priests operate, not doctors.

> Something is seriously wrong with the way we diagnose and treat depression;

The US is a notorious abuser of pharmaceuticals across the board, with notoriously bad diet, nutrition, weight, and health system... Something is seriously wrong with the way you treat all your sick people, and design your cities, and make your food, and treat your environment...

There is especially something wrong with how you advertise pills constantly as though they can heal with powers otherwise reserved for healing lepers and converting water into nicely refined chianti...

This still doesn't mean you are only by-textbook-defition depressed if you have a "reason". You don't have to justify leukaemia, schizophrenia, bulimia, aspergers, or chronic asshole-itis, why should depression be any different? If you're statistically abnormal, you're statistically abnormal. No one in crushing pain needs to convince, debate, warrant, or validate anything for a doctor and healthcare system to understand that their anamnesis correlates with a particular taxonomy. In fact, that's kind of a jerky thing to demand of someone experiencing psychic distress and looking for help...
I was talking only about geo services (aka the APIs), you're talking about the consumer products (the app and the site).

But more to my point Google and MSFT have a "multi-faceted" geo business so they can make money in many different places. Whereas someone like Mapzen or Mapbox ONLY has the geo services/APIs end. So where can the go to subsidize the cost of the services? The answer is they cant so the revenue from the services to carry the entire cost of their efforts.
This is a nothing burger of an article. It's about consensual drug use and sex among adults. It happens to involve rich and powerful people who (gasp) can throw these kinds of parties. In any unequal society, there will be people who are willing to trade sex for financial security or access to power, with others who are seeking sex. It would be deeply naive to think otherwise. The outrage here strikes me as hollow.
This article mentions this question. Database locality is a complex scaling question that may not be a problem depending on how read/write heavy your operations are. On the one hand, randomly distributed UUIDs may be a bad idea on a single SQL server trying to balance a single B-Tree index (and thrashing that index with a lot of incoming data); on the other hand it can be somewhat ideal for partition sharding across multiple servers. As with any trade-offs in database design, your mileage will vary with your application needs and resource availability.

Also, there are other options for time-ordered GUID/UUID alternatives. ULID is the one I've been heavily using in projects lately: https://github.com/ulid

(ULID uses a timestamp prefix and random suffix for reasonable time-ordered database locality; an interesting compromise between V1 and V4 UUIDs, though not directly compatible with either. The L stands for "lexicographic" in that its also meant to be sortable in string indices as well, which can be important for database locality in many document/NoSQL databases.)
In addition Glassdoor likely has a self-reported sampling issue.
I don't see why you're getting down-voted. As the Nth level parent comment mentioned (n = too lazy to count, social services often form a positive feedback loop that traps their recipients at that level so it would follow that if you give women and children more social services you'll trap more of them at that level.
This is not just about Uber; it also indicates problems at HackerOne, if this is its response to a mediation request:

"we have contacted the Uber App Sec team and they have confirmed with us that these are not security issues that are in scope on their program."

Contacting the other party and reporting back what they say is not what is meant by mediation. This is underscored by the next sentence:

"I understand that this can be a disappointment but I can assure you that they looked at this report and gave it the proper attention it deserved." [my emphasis.]
If I were to seriously attempt to commercialize the toy apps I build for my kids/family I'd go iOS first easily. People with Apple devices are far likelier to pay, and Android development is, in my view, an inferior experience (although Kotlin makes it marginally less so these days).
> If so, do the people who live 10 blocks away from the office get the same "travel voucher" as those who live 10 hours away?

I'd consider those near the Chicago offices as the lucky ones. No flights, no hotels, they get to tuck in their kids and sleep in their own beds. So I'm sure they won't feel like they're due anything.
You dont have to overbuild silicon with huge margins, you can build rowhammer detection mechanism and force refresh when it triggers, thats what target row refresh is doing. Problem is Jedec didnt even bother enforcing it, instead making it optional :/
Linux Format is owned by Future plc, a publicly traded company with more than 200 magazines in their portfolio. Linux Pro is ultimately owned by Marquard Media Group AG, a large swiss media conglomerate. So a lot of those have parents with deeper pockets. Print distribution likely has high fixed costs that are not affordable to single magazine.
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Couldn't agree more on the praise for "Rollup, Svelte and now Sapper". Well done Rich, keep going!!!
Agreed youtube as a webapp brings no value whatsoever. Someone at google wanted to rewrite it with newer techs to update its CV? :)

PS: It downloads that crappy polymer that weights more than 1.5MB... ffs
Depends on how you define "social services." Services directed at veterans, job retraining for manufacturing workers, support for small businesses, etc., overwhelmingly benefits men.
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These are fair points. But with all my respect and sympathy for women who survive their spouses and see their condition worsen afterwards, I have even more sympathy for the man that dies. I hope you are not suggesting that dying young is another form of male oppression :)
You couldn't have said it any better.
I don't think jerf is saying that the increased prevalence of witch hunts is an argument levied against the internet. I'm pretty sure jerf is an enthusiastic supporter of the internet. Nonetheless, the increased prevalence of witch hunts which is enabled by the internet is lamentable and worth addressing.
>That's like going back to the 17th century and decrying the exploration of the New World because you're not certain just how much gold there may be and you can't predict what the New World economy might look like.

No it isn't. Exploration of the new world offered obvious substantive benefits - the trees alone were priceless to a countries that had to manage forests very carefully, not to mention new and useful crops coupled with an abundance of land. In short, it was a no-brainer.

And it was extremely cheap compared to building space infrastructure, since food could be grown or purchased from the natives, there was air, sunburn was the only radiation problem.

In space we'll have none of that. There are unsettled regions on earth far more hospitable to human life than anything we'll find outside our gravity well. The idea we ought to sink trillions of dollars into and infrastructure to produce things that are already good enough is hard to justify.
More and more I am becoming convinced "killing people" is an intended "feature" rather than a bug. I'm sure it's not an explicit goal of any but a tiny fraction of participants in the "system", but, cynically, I am becoming convinced it is somebody's goal.
Ask HN: Show me why you chose to use a front end framework for your project
I would like to understand what technical benefits a frontend framework has been able to provide your project versus what can be done with server-side rendering.

A lot of sites i see on the internet seem like they could just as well be server side, so i wonder if maybe there are better examples out there that really leverage the technical benefits.
There's a really good video about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order
>I'm sure your team had an incredibly productive December and are ready to get migrating on the double! Oh, wait, you're probably catching up from a month full of time-off and holidays and were planning on hitting it hard on new features in Jan..

You nailed it. The last thing we want to be doing right now is have to tinker with finding a new CI system. There's too much real work that we have to do. It always takes time to set these things up properly, and reliably. We've used buddybuild for more than a year, and we've long had it to the point where it just worked, and worked reliably.
>I've been working with educators for a while, and they've said that "learning styles" are just a myth with no solid evidence

I've worked with educators too. They are and they aren't it depends on the level and time period you're taking. At the individual level how a math problem (for example) is presented can affect how quickly a student grasps the concept. When you're taking an entire school and more than a decade of schooling the effects of presentation aren't all that meaningful because people do the best job retaining the knowledge they use frequently.
I love how the article shows an 11 MB Hello World as "stripped down" 2x improvement :-)
They could let them keep doing they're thing as they seem to be a company that seems to know how to run themselves, also Netflix could provide a massive amount of 'free' product placement for apple products.
What's up with all these sensational articles about Silicon Valley? Maybe the lifestyle is different as a VC, but as an engineer, this seems so disjointed from reality that it's almost farcical. I can barely get some of my coworkers to stop talking about code for more than a breath. There's no way that they're engaging in any of these activities.

Can anyone vouch for this behavior being prevalent? To me it just seems like a result of psychology where people think that others have more interesting/fulfilled social lives than they do despite it not being actually true, but maybe I live under a rock.

Furthermore, there are a ton of small VCs and startups in the valley. Of course a small percentage will do sketchy stuff. This is true everywhere and would really only be a problem if it was widespread or common amongst the major players and served as a meaningful barrier to entry. The only firm mentioned by name, Binary Capital, looks like a two or a one person shop, and I assume doesn't have much market power.
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AMD's triple core processors were quads with disabled cores. Often times processors within a line are processors with manually set lower clock multipliers or disabled cache.

Sounds like Intel has just made it unlockable instead of permanent. It just brings to the fore what was already being done, and makes us question again the ethics of pricing models.
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tl;dr: Hitting rock bottom twice.

Started as a freelancer, got too many projects at the same time. Could not meet any deadline and got burned out. Everybody lose.

Build up a small dev team, got too many projects again and got a single person working on three projects at a time. Same thing: long days, too little progress, could not meet deadlines. Everybody lose.

The issue with dev work and switching between projects is that is takes a few minutes to an hour to focus and get really productive.

With experience you will find what is the equation that works for you. In my case I do not do more than one dev/code work at a given time or quality starts to degrade.

I can provide consulting, answer questions and do estimes on other projects while coding, but only one dev work at a time.
Dunno if I'd call Java native. This is more like zero-dependecy Java apps — aka, you don't need to pre-install the JVM (and its "optional" adware on Windows).
Please consider the prevalence of high resolution cameras when using paper or even a clear-text document for password storage. A page from your list could be exposed to a security camera, compromised IoT device, or the sneaky person behind you with a cell phone, and you would be unlikely to know it happened.

And if you use a password manager, please store your master password in a well-sealed envelope in a safe place for your loved ones to open in a worst-case scenario. All your passwords may be compromised if it's stolen, but at least you would know it happened and can change them.
Your taxonomy is not useful.

Of course ECS has an object system, it simulates objects. Know of any program whatsoever that simulates stuff without having a stuff system? Does that mean it is Stuff Oriented?

By bundling ECS in the OOP umbrella term, you trivialize the fundamental differences between ECS and class/object hierarchies found in older game engines and Qt, and you water down the "OOP" term to the point of meaninglessness. You wouldn't be the first one to do so.

Anyway, ECS wasn't my main point. My main point was, and remains, when someone mentions "OOP" in Hacker News or /r/programming, unless mentioned otherwise they mean C++/Java most of the time. The most notable exception are discussions over the meaning of "OOP".