skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could go back to the Google of 1999. PageRank was magic before people learned to game it. The results were incredibly good.
My last visit to the dermatologist was over $1000 for an office visit that involved a skin tag clip with a scissors and two squirts of LN. Medicare negotiated that down 70% to their preapproved rate and paid about $300, of which I paid 20%. Medicare is just another insurance payer, not a health provider.

If you are talking about the US, we have several times in the past negotiated our bills down as much as 20%. It does not appear to me that there is anything illegal about that.

But it does gall that they try to charge someone without insurance and with no bargaining power the full rate, well knowing it’s a fake rate.
That's unfortunate, because their simpler system worked better.
Neither one is a seat manufacturer.

Airline seats are independently purchased, and while both Boeing and Airbus have contracts for factory installed seating (and for their demo aircraft), most larger airlines seem to independently source and install their own seats. One seat model could appear on both an Airbus and Boeing aircraft.

See: http://www.airlineupdate.com/content_subscription/interiors/...
A word cloud of the most commonly flagged/removed comments, as a way to frame the Overton Window of HN

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
The problem with config files outside of vcs is keeping them in sync, which leads to bugs, insecure sharing methods, and constant interruptions as developers need to bug each other to get the latest values.

Shameless plug, but check out EnvKey[1].

With 10-15 minutes of effort, it gets secrets out of git, out of email, out of Slack, etc. It manages encryption keys safely behind the scenes, protects development secrets just as strongly as production, keeps devs and servers automatically in sync, and greatly simplifies access control and key rotation.

It's not the only solution out there, but it's by far the easiest to setup and work with. In any case, use something that truly solves the problem! Don't settle for half-measures that end up spraying secrets all over third party accounts. This stuff is serious--even when it comes to so-called development secrets, the line is fuzzy.

1 - https://www.envkey.com
Storage costs have massively gone down over the last X decades.

A Terra byte hard drive will sell for ~40 dollars these days.

In 2 decades maybe that will be a petabyte drive going for 40$.
Why is the story about investing in 2009-2011 in this post?

Unless they invested right in 2011, and your benchmark for "impatience" is investing in late 2007, their accidental market timing probably lost them money.

Plopping everything they made into some popular ETF when they made it probably would've been better.

The only actionable advice I saw in here was journaling. Pure platitudes otherwise, and as talon pointed out the examples aren't great.
JioCoin Pre-ICO wait is finally over
The link there pointed to a Github repo with an almost entirely empty README, so I posted the official blog post with examples and a full walkthrough.
Danjoc's linked article is about Nigerian Polio vaccine workers being killed in the line of duty back in 2013, which seems relevant to me, as a person dying is a very real, human cost of polio, all the money in the world cannot fix.
Your assumption is that population growth is a bad thing. But why?

Of course the earth only has finite resources, but with our level of technology it is entirely feasible to sustain billions more people. The growth and progress of humanity is dependent on ever increasing available intellect to solve the worlds problems. If we ever want build massive civilizations spanning the solar system, it’s going to take trillions of humans. I’d rather believe in that kind of future than a stagnant “garden of eden” earth where we self limit our own progress.
> which is particularly ironic as New Zealand was at the time (and still is) a nuclear free nation.

Well nobody said it had to come to harbour in New Zealand.
You seem to be confused. Bitcoin doesn't require buy-in. It doesn't give any promise of a positive return.

Simultaneously, you argue that "easy migration to more advanced e-currencies" is a deficiency, even though they use the same scarcity model.

The rest of your post is just ranty conjecture.

If you want one thought on why digital currency has value, consider this:

Currently, to send money between two people in the US, it takes 3 business days, typically costs some transaction fee, and is limited to the range of the border. It is slow, expensive, and local.

But we are in the age of information. We used to have the same restrictions for paper letters. But now I can send an email to anyone in the world in seconds for no effort. It is fast, cheap, and global.

Why shouldn't money be the same way? There is no incentive for traditional finance to improve its product, because regulation is so high that it is difficult for new entrants. Complexity and incompatibility is an advantage; it creates lock-in. There is no incentive for governments to improve, because full control of their local systems is exactly what they want.

Fast, cheap, global money is in the interest of the people, but not the incumbents. Decentralized scarcity is what enables it.

Now that it is here, why would we have 200 non-interoperable, complicated, slow local systems, when we could have one that works everywhere, according to a predictable economic model? Or a variety of economic models, that the world could choose from and watch play out against each other, not based on jurisdiction, but practicality?

Like other types of information, money will flow through the path of least resistance. As crypto becomes more accessible, all of the world's money will flow into it, because it will be better.

Parts of the world which have never had access to traditional financial services will leapfrog it and go straight to crypto, connecting directly to the rest of the world and taking advantage of the ability for people to be their own bank, instead of waiting for permission to connect to the old system.

Anything that is just information can be made digital, and anything that is digital trends towards fast, cheap, and free. Money is an example of something that is just information, like music, movies, and news.

All money will flow to digital currency in time because it is money that is built for the information age. We are at the very start of the S-curve.
I think a more likely explanation is that Bitcoin started off as a well-intentioned project that out-scaled the original creator(s)' expectations. I personally think it's one of the most innovative pieces of software written in this era.
I wonder if what you're seeing is a result of the Internet growing, not specifically Google degrading. Which is to say, as the indexable dataset grows, you'd expect the individual indices to turn up more and more heterogeneous results over time.
I haven't been on a 380 but I've been on an older 747, and even in the back, in the middle of a row of seats, it was by far the most comfortable experience I've had in a plane. Cushy seats, enough legroom, and a very smooth flight. I agree with you about the noisyness of the 777; crossing the Pacific in one, compared to a 747, is a night-and-day difference, although that was in a much newer 777.
All the “gets longer” reasons you state here are solved by the “add more staff” and “use more exits” options.

I also live in Australia and have flown both the Dreamliner and A380 and if possible will always choose the A380.

Far roomier plane, much quieter and even though it may be just a coincidence every time it seems to suffer far less turbulence.
That's if your own site is affected - but what if I want to find content from another site, and Google doesnt properly index that? I can't exactly use Google's webmaster tools for that, and the owner may not care, or can't be contacted.
Microsoft did some shitty things. But really, the main thing people worry about was bundling a browser with the OS for free 20 years ago. Take a look at some of the shit companies are getting away with these days without a quarter of the hate.

You think spending billions of his own money every single year is about cleaning up his image over the anti-trust case? Give me a break.
If that's the case then this seems like a symptom of a problem I've been thinking about for a while...is it safe to build systems where it's impossible for someone to understand how it works? What happens when it breaks down? Who will be responsible?
Google search team, I wouldn't want to be in your place today. My frustration with Google Search is it's degree of protection against bots. If you, Google, can spider everything webmasters post, why can't webmasters spider everything Google returns?

In my case, I would like to use Google search to bootstrap a few minor search engine indexes and collect data for NLP projects. But the free version is too limited and the paid version prohibitively expensive, so, no luck.
I think the interesting question is: if you optimize the design to return rarely-accessed results reliably, what feature that we take for granted does that design sacrifice?
Ah, yeah, I agree that the business model of Facebook and the like is crap as far as societal needs are concerned, and it's kindof a shame that I am arguing on their side here ... but then again, they are probably not so fond of the idea of paying more taxes ;-)

So, no, I absolutely would not encourage anyone to use Facebook, very much the opposite, but at the same time I think that constitutional protections of freedom of speech still do apply to people who choose to use Facebook when they are using Facebook, and this law seems to me to be in conflict with that freedom.
>I have no idea what the profit margins are but at 10 %...

Profit margins do not give the correct picture, which is rather complex, and involves royalties, multiple layers of taxation, "production sharing agreements, etc.

A good way to look at this is to take production costs (around US$ 20-25 per barrel in Nigeria) from the oil price, giving a margin of say $30/bbl. This should be applied to the entire production, not just the exports, since the country would need to import the oil for domestic needs if it did not produce it. Furthermore, a part of the production costs is internal spending, but there are also profits repatriated, so to keep things simple let's make the rough assumption that these two are roughly equal... this gives the benefits from oil production (at 2.7 mmbbl/d) at about US$80 million per day, or about $30 billion per year.
Except for the 787. If memory is correct, Boeing dictates what brand / models of seat is used in the 787 (something rather unusual). I can try and find a source if needed, but I’m pretty sure I heard that from a reliable source.
Advertising is an incredibly profitable industry.
I believe this is the case (it's been decades since I read the original docs but that is my recollection). It's pretty typical for revolutionary movements, successful or not, to be well in the minority.

Famously, in revolutionary pre-USSR Russia The "Bolsheviks" ("majority") were not in the majority but named themselves so in order to gain credibility and marginalize the majority opposition.
Indeed! If any of the "free market" guys would advocate price transparency and other measures to create functioning market I would start listening. Instead the only thing they seem to want is the freedom for providers and insurances to screw their patients and if the patient can't afford it, just die.
Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378103
iOS photos app does this as well.
Right now it costs 5$ a month to run a bitcoin node, and blocks are 1MB.

Multiply that by a thousand to get 1GB blocks and it will cost 5000$ a month to run a node.

Sure that's not a home Internet line, but it is a far cry from "2 or 3 corporations".

If you had said "10 thousand corporations" you'd be closer to the truth.
If they mistakenly retaliate, I doubt "breaking their pledge" will be one of the major concerns of the world.
How to Adjust the Video Quality in HandBrake
Retrospective 2007-2017: Losing the Joy of Coding
Humans have had millions of years of system level optimisation (evolution) which then only needs a couple of additional years to train the wetware to operate the system for daily activity.

Chess has only been around a mere 1,500 years and has had an evolutionary impact on only a very minute portion of the population. Hence it takes a few additional years to specialise a human for optimal chess performance.
> Currently, to send money between two people in the US, it takes 3 business days, typically costs some transaction fee, and is limited to the range of the border. It is slow, expensive, and local.

I received funds via Fedwire today. It took about five minutes. Both sides’ banks waived fees on account of our account balances.
I've owned a Model S for 2 years and 65k miles, I'm really familiar with regenerative braking. Let's say your charging for a long trip to 100% and live at to top of a large grade.

In that case you will have to rely on your brakes 100%. I know this because I make a 300mi roundtrip that exactly matches that profile nearly every week and for the first 5 miles I have no regenerative braking.

From a safety standard you have to match the braking system of an equally equiped ICE.
Or the dataset outage was temporary. Remember, it's a distributed data corpus.
I'm in the process of writing a rust program that will run on Lambda too!

Have you head or Apex [0], from what I understand it just creates a node.js shim to call your binary, it's what I was planning to use.

0: https://github.com/apex/apex
> Which would be the beginning of world government.

No it wouldn't, because it isn't a government, it's a relationship between fully independent states.

If a federal judge orders an Alabama school superintendent to do something as a matter of federal law, that superintendent is either going to do that thing or be arrested by the feds, and nobody is going to stop them. That's what a government looks like.

If the EU tells the US to cut carbon emissions or face sanctions and Donald Trump tells them to piss off, nobody is going to arrest Donald Trump and anybody who tries to is going to be met with force. Europe can then impose the sanctions, and the US can either give in or suffer the ramifications as a country, but at no point is anyone who refuses to comply going to be held personally responsible by an external governing body.

Moreover, each government's tools against the others are roughly symmetrical. If the EU wants to put sanctions on the US they can, but the US can just respond in kind. That hurts both of them and they both know it, so (absent corruption) they won't do it unless it's something sufficiently important. Which means you don't get the insane policies like we have in the US where the feds start micromanaging everything just because they can get away with it.
The problem is the extra capacity of the A380 is possibly negated by the extra spacing it needs due to the hellish jet wash behind it.
PageRank was magic before people learned to game it

Even then, before Google started going after them by filtering results, the SEO spam sites were pretty easily recognisable and ignorable as you scrolled through the results. Now, they still show up in droves (try searching for service manual PDFs and you'll instantly see what I mean) but you hit the end of the viewable results far too soon to find the useful stuff buried in later pages.

In other words, Google's ranking now seems to be "good SEO'd sites > spammy SEO'd sites > everything else", and cuts off results before getting to that third category, when that third category should ideally switch places with the second and maybe even the first.
So much arrogance and negativity, so little evidence for the claims you make.

> A shell script has a very simple function: execute a number of tedious but common commands. That's it.

And why is that? What will happen to me if I write more complicated shell scripts? The functionality is there and one can write very expressive and readable programs in shell. I would definitely recommend shell for writing long programs (for example various system administration and web backend tasks which do not require complex libraries). Preferably bash since it is the most common one.

> And somehow the entire Linux ecosystem depends on it and now every distro has to ship a shell with cruft dating back to 1970

The 'somehow' has quite a simple rationale, it isn't something that should outrage you. The family of Linux-based OSes take inspiration and compatibility target in unix systems on purpose. Unix systems are primarily operated via shell.

The current standard of shell may be an old idea from 70's with some 'cruft', but what language does not have cruft? The shell has proven to be usable and worthy of continued use. The compatibility with the unix shell is a big part of the early success of GNU/Linux and majority of users need it.

> And now every shell that tries to position itself on the market has to implement the same quirks, bugs, and design flaws in order to even be considered.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

> please use python or even perl for the love of god if you're going to make a build system

OK, so you think perl and python are better for making a build system. Have you made one?
> why can't webmasters spider everything Google returns?

I'm sure you could start client-side caching every search you ever do to Google.

But if you're searching enough to eat up Google's bandwidth, they're paying for that data and they're under no obligation to keep serving you as a client (much as any server is under no particular obligation to serve a search spider).
I hadn't used Bing because Google whenever I would compare the results, it was no match, specially in long-tail results. This article has made me reconsider my assumption.

Usually GOOG had best results for technical queries --but fresh results for those tend to be the better results (things go out of date pretty quick because of quicker release cycles)

However, on occasion it has been difficult to find very specific results to non technical questions --I never even bothered with DDG or Bing, but now I will surely give them a try.

If they are data driven (and they are) for their average users, long tail, old results probably don't make sense --how many people really go down to page 20 of the SERP? I'm sure it's a very miniscule number.
You just described human society in the large, and the answer appears to be "We muddle on."
Minor feedback:

If you click "Screenshots" and then "Features" in the top menu, it will just add the "#feature" anchor to the page (instead of going to the home page.
Their contract with LIFT by EnCore on a single aircraft type doesn't negate the point I made. Which was that neither aircraft manufacturer is a seat manufacturer, and that most seats aren't aircraft manufacturer exclusives.

Seat manufacturers produce seats for both Boeing and Airbus aircraft and aside from brackets, they're identical. So claiming that one manufacturer is more comfortable than the other is a little odd, given the market realities in the industry.
How America Fractured in 1968
StackOverflow and Github repos are a wealth of information about a possible applicant. There's the code... yes. But there's also the comments on Stack Overflow and issues on Github.

Given that the person is presenting StackOverflow as an example of their profession, comments on SO would be very telling for how the person would be responding to critiques of their code and their responsiveness to questions. Much can be seen in the attitude and professionalism that would be seen in email. Things like:

* Do they write in complete sentences?

* Do they use spelling and grammar that would be appropriate to send to a client? A director?

* Do they range against all that is wrong with the world over little things?

Likewise, with Github there are issues that they have logged on other projects - do these issues contain sufficient information about the problem so that the person working on the issue can diagnose it? For issues on their own projects or projects they contribute to (and have taken ownership of the issue), are they responsive and provide useful information to help someone provide a good bug report?

I'm not too concerned with the code. That's easy to fix. But a person's attitude and providing these sites as an example of their professional mindset is something that can be difficult to get at in an interview when they are only trying to put their best on display.
I don't know that there's enough info for an outsider to reliably guess what actually happened...poison, versus microwave attacks, versus sonic attacks, etc.

However, there seems to be enough smoke to assume "some kind of deliberate attack".

That, on it's own, seems enough to dictate the path forward. More onus and pressure on the Cubans to solve it. Certainly they could provide an environment immune from most vectors.
> It could turn Telegram from a messaging app into a platform that hosts internet-based content which could, in theory, operate micro-paywalls that let users unlock news or subscriptions for small amounts of crypto payment, while there’s also the potential to become a major payment hub.

So... it does pretty much everything? So much for decentralization. Sure, it's theoretically decentralized, but it's disturbing that Telegram is trying to both take over so many blockchain applications and retain partial control over each one.
Well, I don't know about the Dairy Board, but any sufficiently large merchant could probably find a legitimate use for a MiG-15, especially since at that point they were basically all adapted for air-to-ground attack.

That'd really keep the pirates off your milk.
Just some interesting trivia. Two days after the Chicago fire which killed ~300 people, there was a much bigger fire in Wisconsin that killed 1200-2500 people. Over 300 people just from the town of Peshtigo died. It was a town with only about 1700 residents. It didn't get much media attention, however, because of the Chicago fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_Fire
That would have the nice side effect of killing the systemd/init debate. (Disclaimer: I was foolish enough to write a continuous integration script in bash).
Let's assume that all the above is true.

Even then, secrets don't even belong in source control. They aren't tied to a specific version of your software -- they're tied to state in other systems: AWS, your MySQL database, a third-party API, etc. Those systems will change independently of any particular release of your code, and having it versioned in source control doesn't actually make sense.
I fear that something like PageRank used to work well just because back then many individuals had personal web pages with well curated links. It seems like this has slowly gone away, and now Google et al. have to resort to increasingly more hand-tuned AI extravaganza to get the search to work decently well at all.
That doesn’t come even close to being “virtually impossible to cheat”.
It's true that some banking systems are improving in terms of speed. I don't think it's a coincidence that it's happening now that crypto has been around for 8 years, and is increasing in size.

Most immediate US-based sends and receives are virtual, based on 2nd-layer systems like Venmo and PayPal, not actually moving money but updating the numbers in your account before funds land.

Unfortunately for the Fed, speed and fees are not the whole story. There are still the problems of it not being global, not being private, inflating away, and not actually being owned by the people. (See the Cyprus banking haircut.)

These are small factors in most people's daily lives, but are important enough at a large scale to have money flow in the direction of crypto, and as a result all money will flow towards it until everyone has these advantages.
So you say desktop sharing is not available in Jitsi?
Perhaps the two nations shared a common space or Corridor