skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>then it makes sense not to adopt a new language that is still changing a lot

I should clarify that I agree with eddieh and think C is the only rational choice.
1) Hacker News?

2) You can reliably induce near death experiences with high g-forces and drugs, for instance the experiences commonly happen to fighter pilots during training when they are subjected to high g forces in training.

The reason for the white light and tunnel and floating above your body, is that's how the brain shuts down due to loss of blood. We know this now. No need to speculate. "Hell" is a less common motif, because that's a less common brain state under those circumstances.

Next mystery, please.
> "Skin in the game" is one of those zombie ideas that just don't die.

No, the idea that people who have no skin in the game--regulators and bureaucrats--can make better decisions than the people directly involved, particularly about matters with as much at stake as health care--is one of those zombie ideas that just don't die. No regulator or bucreaucrat ever suffers any negative consequences because of bad decisions about other people's health care.

As for people being poor at judging for themselves whether procedures are necessary, another comment upthread already addressed that: there are plenty of other areas (auto repair, for example) where most people don't have the technical knowledge to judge for themselves whether procedures are necessary, yet markets seem to function in those areas. Furthermore, under the current system in the US, people have little incentive to become more knowledgeable, because they are not going to be given a choice anyway; they're going to get whatever their health insurance provider says is the standard care. Under a market system, people would have much more of an incentive to actually learn about the various options. And there would also be much more of an incentive for independent third parties to provide information, particularly information that health care providers might not want people to know.

More generally, the reason market advocates, like me, advocate markets is not that they always give optimal outcomes. They don't. But in cases where they don't, non-market alternatives give outcomes that are even worse.
How do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 2)
> the E.T.F. runs most of its calculations on I.B.M.’s Watson supercomputer

Every time I read an article that mentions Watson, it's sprouted a new thing the name is applied to. Previously it was a question-answering system, which famously won Jeopardy. Then it became a general NLP platform. Then it became a brand name for basically all IBM machine learning offerings. Now it's also a supercomputer?

If what this really means is that they built a bot that plugs a bunch of data into IBM's cloud ML platform and trades on that basis, I'm not really surprised it's not beating the market. Building an auto-trading bot using off the shelf ML techniques is actually a pretty popular university project that's worth trying if you're curious, though (at least with simulated money, or money you can afford to lose). They can probably do better than a typical university project, because I assume they have more extensive financial data feeds. But everyone else serious about automated trading (which lots of people are) also has those data feeds plus the same off-the-shelf ML, so unless they have something else...
> We shouldn't use meaningless tags that exist only for layout.

Well, honestly, using HTML for around 90% of what it's used for these days is the roundest peg in the squarest hole to begin with.
I don't disagree with the general message that these things are negotiable, but I'd love to see a citation showing real research on the effective rate. 10% seems way too low from my limited experience.

I've known people to successfully negotiate to 40-50% of original bill, usually with proof of (lack of) assets.

Maybe if you really are basically broke, they'll write you off rather than carry it on their books until they sell the debt. On the other hand if your bill is 45,000 and you have even meager assets : say a couple of cars and equity in a house, I'm guessing their going to try hard to see a good chunk of that.
True. There was no surer a guarantee that you were about to have a Bad Time, than to be sat down in front of "educational software" of the 1980s. Dreadful, for the most part. Kids are just young, not stupid. They know when they're being cheated out of a good time.

>> I would get her a good computer and hint that she should download Unity and mess around with the examples

That's funny. I'm going the opposite direction these days. We have a top-notch gaming machine at home (and spend more time on it than I am comfortable admitting) but my young-teen kids are THRILLED with the chance to use my old Apple ][ and make pixel games or text adventure games. When I bring it out, it's a special occasion day!

We made a really simple "adventure" game, with me doing most of the coding and them adding ideas about locations and events and characters. They loved seeing it take shape. Then we encountered a nasty bug where player health points could go negative but the player wouldn't die, and my daughter reasoned out the solution! (Need to test for <=, not just less-than. And need to update the health BEFORE the test-for-dead.) needless to say, their old dad was pleased. And they sat there and played that silly game for and hour. It was like showing a kid a yo-yo or a top for the first time. It was more fun than it should have been and they were rightly proud of what we made.

Letting them play Zork, Choplifter, Kareteka, and Dung Beetles and seeing the disc drive whirr and clack then the screen light up is as amazing to them now as it was to me 40 years ago, at their same age. Somehow it's just as entertaining as Assetto Corsa or PubG, without the million-dollar budgets or 100-person dev teams.

1mhz. 48k of RAM. 280x192 "high resolution" graphics. How could that be fun?

Even more -- WHY? I have a theory. It boots right to a Basic prompt, and off we go creating our own world, or running someone else's. And a lot of games are based on skill. Just like the arcade, the more skill one has, the longer you play. And with these old machines, just as in the 1970s, our imagination is the limit. And not only the limit, the key ingredient, since the fidelity of the graphics is so low it is necessary to use our imagination. Maybe that's why the box art of the golden-age games is so alluring. With promises of spaceships and nebula, dashing swordfighting ship captains with golden epaulets, monsters and robots with similar detail -- when in reality it is indistinguishable from the average Tetris block. Somehow it was fun. And it was enough. As "Thomas Was Alone" has proved.

edit: Ugh. I forgot the main point of this thread -- we bought Bloxels as an impulse purchase last weekend and my kids have enjoyed the ease with which they can create and animate characters and quickly lay out levels. It's a thrill seeing your little blocky character come to life. For us, it was a good purchase and I'm really pleased with the product. I found it at Target, for around $35, by the way.
That's more or less consistent with what I've heard, with the added part that the Beech Aircraft engineers who designed the thing never wanted it to make it's way into a spacecraft. Their opinion was there was no way to certify the thing again; it wasn't designed to be serviced, so NASA would just have to wait for the next tank and delay the Apollo program. The stupid hacks all pointed to finding existing damage from the drop that had been missed when NASA's engineers tried to re-cert the tank that Beech wouldn't.

But hey PMs feeling pressure on timelines will ignore engineers' recommendations, roll the dice and just push to prod anyway. And find some engineers who'll back them up who had nothing to do with the original design. Some things never change.
Without looking anything up, I would guess that most NFL players played football in high school and/or college first. If so, you are saying that these already brain damaged people are free to make these decisions because they are past a certain age, never mind that their ability to analyse it all was impaired before they reached the age of majority.

Your argument might hold water if most NFL players took up football after reaching adulthood. This seems highly unlikely to me.
A filter that takes the most deepest z-value you get, considering all else in a square meter as noise- or foliage?
Not OP but the reason I dislike Rust for OS/kernel development is that it's just too damn complicated. Kernels should be written in more conservative languages.
Ontology and personal identity, a play in one act and two scenes
Psychedlics kind of help you get there currently. Depends on where you're looking to go, I suppose.
It's not debt (yet) if you are negotiating the invoice.
Buffet was a small time investor at some point. He just made a lot of good investments over a long time.
I dont think that action propagates information to other users though. The HN downvote button for instance removes visibility for everyone.
Of course they printed it: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/02/us/politics/n...

Ah, but you probably already knew that, since picking and choosing which heavily-spun facts to reveal is how Republicans operate, isn't it?
The more people that follow index funds, the larger my portfolio grows. Definitely follow this advice, nothing can go wrong and the price can only go up. Unless of course, there is a large withdrawal event looming around the corner that will incredibly impacts the current market price of every stock.

When were baby boomers set to retire again?
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Lots of reasons!

The US Army has interchangeability requirements for different rifles based around the AR-15. Different rifles use different barrels, gas systems, and ammunition requiring or eliminating the need for certain features.

Civilians will also often have requirements that are unusual such as left side porting and assists.

Not all manufacturers are going to make all of these variations thus you might choose to mix and match based on your needs. It's also quite common for civilians to make their own lowers to circumvent federal regulations around owning fully automatic weapons.

The M4 has a shorter barrel and thus short and higher pressure gas system. This results in a higher bolt velocity and rate of fire. Because of this and the fact that you typically use M855s in the M4, you can run into feed issues since the bullet tip is more pointed. Because of this they altered the angle of the feed-ramp however that modification caused issue when machined into the upper and so it's preferred for your barrel to have the feed-ramp. Thus your upper and barrel have to be closely paired and are also M4 specific. None of this however affects any compatibility with the lower.

The forward-assist and chrome-lined bores were introduced due to extraction issues experienced during Vietnam with the M16. These were attributed to improper maintenance of the rifle and quality issues with the ammunition. Since neither of those are really issues in civilian rifles and add complexity and expense, they not explicitly needed. So there exist options for uppers without.

Left port and assist uppers are also relatively uncommon but sought after in civilian rifles.
Depending on the future direction they take this, it might end up replacing OpenBSD for me.

Mac OS X and OpenBSD are my daily drivers, but at their core, they are BSDs, and less and less I find myself using the NeXTSTEP portion of Mac OS X and more and more time in BSD-land, which is leading me to move more and more of my overall computer time to OpenBSD which is a great operating system but is still largely a continuation of the UNIX/POSIX/BSD model which I appreciate like fine wine but do not love.

If Fuschia ends up being the answer to the question of what would happen if we built a new operating system from scratch today, taking the best lessons we were able to learn in the past 50 years, then I might be using it as my daily driver in 10 years.

Or maybe not. Nobody can really say what it will be right now.
Cars have the nice property of being mass-produced goods, where there's an established mechanism for testing, rating, and regulating them. There's no such thing for healthcare (and it's a service, not a hard good.)

If I was qualified to discern if my doc's preferred solution was the best one, I'd be a doctor. I ask my doctor because he's been specifically trained to make that determination.

> Or how would it be beneficial if the "worst" provider was forced to charge you the same as the best provider?

You've got that backwards. Right now, we basically allow the worst provider to charge as much as the best one, because we don't really have any way to differentiate the best from the worst. There's no need to force any business to charge more.
Why do you think the bubble will happen in BTC and not litecoin or dogecoin or BCH, or VKOUCOIN (I have a whitepaper, and I'm giving sweetheart pricing to early adopters)?
FMH was that PD or HD?

To give an example from the UK I was on dislaysis for about a year before I had a transplant did not pay anything.
Cracking Avatar’s Language Codes
The fantasy of the writer's lifestyle
Or, it would simply mean providing updates to system WebKit, just like it's done on Android.
Nice, I have a big pile of clothes to iron. They couldn't come soon enough.
From what I've read and heard, Watson can do whatever the IBM marketing department thinks will sound good for it to do...
Yes true, the universe is full of things that aren’t literally the same but pretty much the same. That would be an interesting list.
It is also fine to talk about danger of being fishermen, coal miner, oil rigger or haul trucker. It is very ok to warn kids and parents about consequences before they commit their whole life to training it.

You are not arguing for people making trade-offs. You are implying that there is something wrong with telling people convincingly about risks and consequences before they make the choice.
Or any channel that appeals to them. Why get caught up on semantics?

Lots of things do not make sense when it comes to children.

I was hacking config.sys to get DOOM to run on a RAM-constrained 386, before I even knew how to read. Somehow I was successful...
Congress won't fix this email privacy hole
POC's – Of proofs and Concepts
They aren't making these moves out of ignorance, they have far too much data for that. Those desk jockeys' jobs are to maximize profits, and this strategy is working.
Well, that's for sure. Most of the world are takers. They consume what others build.

We are makers. Many of us are craftsmen who enjoy the process as much, or even more, than the product, the destination.

Completely different mindset. There is room for both. Each group needs the other, to some degree.
I run a similar experiment, with real money and allow my robot to trade on my behalf. For long-term investments, I continue to follow the indexed-only ETF-based couch potato model, but I'm happy to let this run. I view it as a risky investment, akin to investing in any startup, and have invested accordingly.

The other reality is that over the long-term it's highly unlikely to beat the market. Realistically (almost) nothing beats the market over a long-enough period. At the same time in my testbed, with real data, real 'money where your mouth is' it worked. It's no crazier than any other idea.

Ultimately whether humans or AI drive investment is immaterial if you believe in an indexed portfolio. Should those investment approaches succeed, they'll join the indexes in some way. Similarly, should they fail, they won't
FYI the link is to Goldfinger.
Louisville Wants to Send Surveillance Drones into Neighborhoods After Shootings
Okay. And I get that your original comment was mostly in jest. But ... to what end, exactly? Fine; some people can't use self-checkout counters. But there are typically multiple counters, and nearly every one I've ever seen used operated on a British queue-based system instead of a line, so one person taking a long to check out shouldn't slow you down significantly.

And I don't even think I agree with your premise, anyway. If Amazon can work out the kinks out of their magic-zero-checkout stores, then that's the best UX experience.
Studies offer no clear answers on safety of cellphone use
Doesn't it seem more likely Photos.app simply communicates with photolibraryd?
It's not a popular opinion to share online due to how ingrained food choices are into our lives (memories, communion, celebratory meals, etc), but if this development concerns you I highly recommend exploring a plant-based diet. I've been meat/dairy free for about a year now and it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Windows Phone 7 Series had the concept of hubs (e.g. People Hub). It was an innovative model, and having so much functionality built in eased the pain of missing or poor quality native apps for things like facebook/Twitter. It was helpful in an “information at your fingertips” sort of way, where everything was organized without solos between apps/platforms.

Windows Phone 8.1 was the beginning of the end for hubs, with the OS feeling much more like iOS/Android, with winmo 10 basically killing it altogether.

Curiously much of the hub functionality seems to be coming back to Windows proper. For example, see ‘People’ integration in the taskbar that shipped with Windows 10.
I can vouch for the leadership at this company!
Working in healthcare, economic success is much broader than making a profit. Looking at long term cost effectiveness is very common, so I would argue you could say that health care is an economic success.
>Because it's an easy indicator of someone who has no idea what they're doing in OS development.

Actually suggesting Rust as some kind of magic bullet over C/C++ is a huge indicator "of someone who has no idea what they're doing in OS development".

It's similar to when first year CS students learn that assembly is "faster" (a hazy notion itself), and then want everything to be written in assembly.
You have countries while they had state monopoly over prescription drugs it was much cheaper than after deregulation. The reason for this was that medical companies was forced to reduce prices if they wanted to sell their drug in that country. They could chose from selling to a country and get a small profit.. or no profit at all. (Here the power lies with the customer)

The reason for high prices is IP. If you are in the choice of getting that expensive prescription drug that treat your hart disease or die.... you will pick the drug. No competition exist. (Here the power lies with the seller).

So to get reasonable prices you either have to remove IP or have a country wide monopoly. Else the free market rule.
Let them who has never released a bug into production throw the first stone ;)
This could be smaller by removing compilers and build headers. If I'm not mistaken I see GCC is currently part of this.

I would prefer to manually install build-essentials when needed (I can then get rid of them after compiling via multistage builds).

Alpine Linux specifically makes you manually install compilers and necessary headers via

apk add --update build-base

EDIT: Make is not being installed by default. But I would like to manually install GCC as needed (for a truly minimal image).

EDIT2: I stand corrected. Looks like GCC isn't installed by default (which is exactly what we want for minimal images). Awesome.
H&M is not an example of that, it remains in Sweden, its real growth came later than what you are refering. In the 90s however its owner Stefan Persson threatened to move it due to proposed wealth taxes. The workaround was a using tax exception for stocks listed a certain way on public exchanges (O-listan). In the end the government adjusted the tax legislation and H&M stayed. https://www.affarsvarlden.se/bors-ekonominyheter/formogenhet...
That's developer problem. I'll provide input values for needed use-case myself (for example with unit test or just manually) and IDE should stop at given line and provide autocomplete. I don't think that there's implementation difficulty, it's just a bit different style of coding, but it should work very well with test driven development.
FWIW, I like working through lunch so I can leave an hour early. I'm happy to work extra hours because I'm usually into what I'm doing, but I do extra at home, and at will (unless a client is screaming because of something we did).
> The freedom of shitposting better represents the real world

Man, I hope I never have to live where you do.
If I understand correctly, the intention for the minimal image is to be used in things like Docker containers and other lightweight environments, and not only do they lack an installer, but they also lack a kernel or bootloader; essentially, it would be composed of a minimal chroot.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/jermichael-finley-packers-...

“They Basically Reset My Brain”

I thought this was an interesting read after reading the headline. It is an article about a person who struggles to regain his mind after concussions after concussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14436417
Great article, it's time that tech workers unite and unionize and stand in solidarity with other workers. This kind of behavior from employers to employees is unjust and despicable.
Adding mass will increase the force. That's the opposite of what would protect the players.

A better solution would be weight limits and stricter controls on doping, not looser.
And the reason that there are only a few surviving books is that the Spanish conquerors plucked those out to send back to Europe as curios before they burned down all the libraries.
If there is a supply glut of a staple food, the prices of food in general, even not of that type tends to driven downward - because to some extent foods are interchangeable. Similar to how an overabundance of residential skyscrapers has a downward effect on the price of less attractive homes. There's a lot of history on food shortages and prices that can be found with a cursory level of searching. Each person can only eat so much in a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
I am pretty sure I would write it differently if I gave it a go, but I don’t think I’d change anything in the UX. Obviously nothing is going to change in the game play also.

So why a software rewrite?

For myself.

But, if I’m writing something for myself, I might as well write something new and interesting, and since I’m no longer interested in working at Thumbtack, and they weren’t interested in hiring me anyway, the uinverse is now balanced.

And that was a rumble about rewrites :)
And yet the data shows that when you leave the decision to regulators and bureaucrats, you seem to get better value for the healthcare dollar than if you let individuals make their own decisions. The US, in particular, spends more and sees worse outcomes than other counties.

This shouldn't be a surprise. An individual is going to not make very good decisions about how healthcare dollars are allocated over the course of their life. They're going to usually tend to underspend on preventative care (which has the highest ROI) and tend to overspend on end-of-life care (which has a lower ROI). You can see this played out in things like the US's infant mortality rate (3X other developed nations) and life expectancy (31st worldwide, declining).
I too am on a whole plant based diet for over a year. I feel like I am 20 again.
They're also probably significantly faster, which increases the force of the hits even more.
If you ask on the thievery forums they argue it is rightous and equivalent to the corporation minimizing their tax bill, at the significant cost to societies health and wellbeing, to enrich shareholders.

It could be argued that they are correct.