skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some more background/discussion (after [1]):

[1] http://discuss.tbd.cool/t/dynamicland/86/4

[2] http://vitor.io/on-dynamicland

[3] https://harc.ycr.org/project/realtalk/

[4] https://mobile.twitter.com/redblobgames/status/9072538029311...
This. I'm glad he posted the link as the author and developer is present to comment. I'm also glad this was posted again or I never would have found it.

To add to that, I've never read The Library of Babel, though I'd encountered Borges a number of times before. It's near the top of my list now.
>customers have relatively little ability to choose providers or price shop, and they often don't really understand what they're being asked to buy.

I don't agree that these are good reasons to make healthcare not a market. It's true that customers don't necessarily have a lot of ability to choose providers or price shop under our current system, but that's certainly not an inherent trait of healthcare. It could be otherwise.

As for not understanding what they're being asked to buy, what I'll say about that argument is it proves too much. Why do the markets for computer repair, automobile repair, etc. not have the problems that you claim would be inherent to a free market in human body repair? Understanding of the subtleties in those areas is equally out of reach to understanding of healthcare.
Yep! Love that comic.
This is the furthest thing from a nothingburger. Comey testified under oath that the dossier was salacious and unverified. The FBI knew the document was opposition research created by Clinton and the DNC. Yet Comey approved surveillance on the Trump team based on that document. So in effect, the FBI worked with the democrats to falsify documents to go after a political opponent. This is a pretty big scandal.
Great read, I had someone do reply driven coding the other day in a screen share except they didn’t mention or speak about what they were doing 30 min into a problem and they had yet to open an editor!
Have you ever done this? Where did you hear this? Where have you seen it?

I have never had health insurance. Where I live many people don't have health insurance. I have never heard of this happening. I've seen peoples, my own included, wages garnished before this will happen. I currently have a $20k bill for an emergency appendectomy I had 4 weeks ago. The hospital will seriously take payments for 30 years before they'll lower any cost. If you want to negotiate, you'll have to wait until the collection agency has their account removed from your credit report 7 years after the first reporting. Any time before that you are in no position to negotiate with anybody.

EDIT: Unless your income is less than 1.5x the poverty level. In which case you qualify for aid in paying your bills.
And now I find that you can do regex searches in filters, so a filter for orders_(.*)@... works.

Although Google Apps routing still allows more cool things like hidden headers that filters can't search on, but App Script can...

I'm going to have a busy weekend.
Stopped reading after their first example of an investing model was "high frequency trading" ...
Another Idea make Bad Actors more convincing with "stock reactions". Track the face of your actor copy Anthony Hopkins reaction face over it and than use deepfake to get the original face back.
Just out of curiosity, why did you think it was important for us to know how much you dislike football?
I miss gigposters.com a lot, the community there was awesome with all the big poster artists hanging around and giving beginners advice.
Whoa, pump the brakes there. Nooglers need to earn that upgrade.
I guess it depends on how you define acceptable usage.

Only a generation ago, it was widely taught to include the apostrophe. Even then it wasn't universal, but it was one recommended way to do it.

For example, I have on my bookshelf "Webster's NewWorld Dictionary, Third College Edition" (copyright 1994) which says on p. 1560: "An apostrophe is used ... to show certain coined plurals. ... Figures may take either an apostrophe and an s or an s alone. 1990s or 1990's".

It also mentions a rule about using apostrophes with plurals of abbreviations if the abbreviations include internal periods, and it gives the examples of "Ph.D.'s" and "ICBMs". I guess internal periods have fallen out of favor too.

Anyway, the overall point here is it was taught this way relatively recently, and I don't think language moves so fast that what was taught a generation or two ago isn't considered acceptable usage. I'd call it correct but archaic.
Yes these systems where the wealth is unfairly distributed and then horded by whales do exist. They are not constrained to crypto and not all crypto follows this distribution mechanism.

Trades also do not have to be zero sum, winner and loser, games.

An easy example is this:

I sell my bitcoin to you for your eth. You sell your BTC to rent a vacation home for a weekend. I use the eth to generate a crypto kitty.

The crypto kitty has personal value for me, the vacation has value to you and the owner of the vacation home gets some BTC they can use to find value at a later time.
> After hours means close to nothing. Check again tomorrow.

Yep. Just did. AMZN closed 3.5% up = +$48 on a day when the DOW plummeted over 600 points ( - 2.31% ) and most other stocks are in red.

Source: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&ei=S8t0WuG...

After hours trading is usually an indicator of how the next day is going to open.
It would mean shipping 2 WebKit frameworks, once for Safari and one for the rest of the OS. Even then it could be fixed in Safari, but then sites still wouldn't work in Chrome, Firefox, or other apps with embedded browsers.
> And it also says things like horses, chariots, steel, and other anachronistic things existed in the pre-Columbian Americas. There is no evidence (to date) to support any of those claims.

Horses definitively existed in (far enough) precolumbian America. The dominant belief seems to be that they died out (perhaps due to human hunting) at or shortly after the end of the Pleistocene, ca. 10-12kya, but there is some evidence there may have been some populations around as late as ca. 3kya, IIRC.

EDIT: of course, one must keep in mind that the horses of precolumbian America were much smaller than Old World horses, so it's not really plausible that they'd be being ridden, pulling chariots, or generally being used like Old World horses even if it is (just barely) plausible that they were around at the right time.
If you have SSHD in the minimal image then you have to deal with host keys.

- on embedded and some other places where minimal images are used, generating the host key on first run can cause a very significant startup delay.

- on some container environments, environments are so identical that you might not have enough entropy to generate sufficiently unique keys.

- if somebody generates a host key and then creates an image from a running container, then you might end up distributing a host key, making what should be private public.

I've probably got some of these details wrong and am going to be promptly corrected, but there are some very good reasons for excluding sshd.
This is why liberals are sometimes using the term genocide more broadly in a way conservatives don’t like. They reference things like “black genocide” and conservatives get mad because the actual slayings are too few to be considered “genocide”.

Yet in terms of lost culture, putting a high enough percentage of individuals in prison, and confining enough of the others to ghettos, while driving them out of historical cultural centers, has an equivalent result to genocide in some ways.

Essentially, a percentage of the people can be alive while also having “the culture” be as dead as dead can be.

Of course the culture is born again in a different form, as Native American culture endures today, despite “genocide”. And rendering that invisible is just a continuation of that genocide so I certainly don’t want to intimate that such culture is truly gone.
There certainly is, you just have to look for it. https://bookofmormoncentral.org/blog/new-evidence-for-horses...
Can we email you instead ?
Aaaand have you considered all the shit that might be in that cardboard?
Over time, the price of gold is based on how much people spend on picks and hammers. More generally, it's based on the cost of extraction. That sets the price for the (new) supply curve. (There is also a supply curve from people who hold it being willing to sell it at the right price.)
I had high hopes for the LittleBits synth kit and was a very early purchaser. Gave it as a gift to my then-14 year old niece -- really sharp kid -- she was bored of it within hours!
Perhaps unrelated, but JavaScript has the most annoying handling of "this" in classes that I've ever seen.

I'm constantly typing "bind(this)", while the default case should be that "this" within a class points to the object.

I understand backward compatibility, but I wish there was some command I could add at the beginning of the file to make JS behave normally. Kind of like "use strict".
The is one thing I don't understand. The article reports the use of lasers to map the ground, yet they mention the presence of foliage in situ. Assuming that they use optical or infrared lasers, foliage should be completely opaque at these wavelengths. How did they manage to map the asperities and characteristics of the ground?
I'm not sure but my intuition says yes: ideally it should work like a farmer's market, where the individual seller is strongly invested in not cheating you. So you have that, plus whatever level of knowledge you have about chickens (probably pretty extensive if you buy them live all the time). And the freshness, specifically, is guaranteed.

With Whole Foods you have whatever trust you want to put in Amazon not over-squeezing the margins on the chicken-supply chain, plus the warm fuzzy "I can afford Whole Foods" feeling.

In aggregate I think food regulations work pretty well in the US but I think the people I saw buying those chickens were making more informed choices than I would even at a Whole Foods or equivalent "Big Organic" outfit.
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The reason we have OSHA is because when workplace safety is the responsibility of each individual to negotiate it becomes non-existent. Putting the responsibility on individuals leads to a race to the bottom: every job can be horribly dangerous as long as the alternative jobs are too.
The NFL is more likely to take the pads and helmets off one team during the first half, then switch the gear to the other team for the second half.
well, based on the demo there, I'd almost only want it is a Google Assistant version of Amazon's Show where it could be an assistant for various users (and guests). Outside of that, I'm not sure.

Obviously, it has to be more with all of the aspects of it, but in its current state, that's the only thing I can envision.
Did you have a European Health Insurance Card? This is the card that lets EEA citizens get state healthcare in other EEA countries and Switzerland at a reduced cost or sometimes for free.

https://www.gov.uk/european-health-insurance-card
It also helps to actively do the thing the way you expect the reader/viewer to do it, so that you don't skip any steps, and you understand common pitfalls.

The problem with doing that, however, is that you are doing something a specific way, on a specific platform, using specific tools. That can make it frustrating or even impossible for viewers/readers to break out of your specific workflow/tools/platform, which is usually what they want to do.
Oh for sure. Part of the reason I left academia was I felt everyone's claims from fMRI and EEG were stronger than the data warranted :)

My point is that while there are legit criticisms to be made, this essay isn't a particularly good one.
This is one of the key points to me - NFL actively hid the fact from their own fans and players for years. That should have been a much bigger deal I think, criminal negligence.
We purchased this for my 11 year old at Christmas, and he's been enjoying it very much. He's also into Scratch, and I asked him why he likes them both: he said the Bloxel code is more limited, but is easier to prototype ideas. Scratch is more flexible, but also more time consuming.
Surely there is a difference between the two. React is open source and you could have solved your problem yourslef or hired someone to do it. What can a Linux user do about proprietary hardware other than complain to the manufacturer?
I believe other languages could use this without Python, in principle. It is currently distributed as a Python package to provide functionality similar to the existing cffi package. The Python wheels are 18MB and statically linked -- so no external Clang or LLVM dependencies as far as I can tell. That is indeed quite large relative to libffi (or compared to LuaJIT, which is well under 1MB IIRC). But relative to 100s of MB for a full SciPy stack with Anaconda, it's not that much.

This could also be a foundation for more than "just" C FFI: it includes a full C++ compiler and JIT! Adding C++ FFI support would take a lot of work I’m sure, but I doubt it would noticeably increase the footprint because the bulk is already in LLVM+Clang. Another possibility would be to JIT Cython-generated code on-demand.
I think "hot take mode" is hilarious and needs to be more present in your UI. Neat idea
If anything the Nordic model and social democracy has failed not because it turned into communism, but because it only takes one government to undermine the system and privatize everything. Sweden today is liberal to the extent that it is regularly featured as an example in The Economist on how to privatize more things in the UK.
I'm getting sick of telling people this: CTE is not correlated with the number of concussive injuries.
You're probably missing their tradeoffs. Google has deep expertise in C++ within the company and integration with existing libraries / tools is a huge bonus. So if the goal is a market-ready product and velocity matters, then it makes sense not to adopt a new language that is still changing a lot. It's only your opinion that they've chosen the wrong tool. There isn't one right answer to nuanced product decisions.
I should have qualified that with "during the Book of Mormon timeline".
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I suppose that's the answer to Random Early Drop.

I used to argue that you want to use fair queuing and drop the newest packet in a stream, so all the old packets get delivered. But Random Early Drop, which is trivial to implement, caught on in routers. That means you lose random packets from the stream, and they have to be retransmitted.

There's nothing awful about acknowledging a TCP sequence number for a valid packet received even if some previous packets are missing. You know the missing packets were sent, or you wouldn't have the later packet. If you don't need them, why ask for retransmission? The receiving TCP doing this should notice that packets are being lost and cut down the congestion window a bit, so the sender will slow down.

This is purely a receive-side thing. It shouldn't bother upstream middleboxes. But, as someone pointed out, about 25% of middleboxes don't like it.
No money left in the bank: freemium model to $3M seed round
FBI Memo is a brilliant distraction
> While the evidence for horses in pre-Columbian America is encouraging, it still requires some caution. Additional C-14 dating from other samples will be needed to change the prevailing view. Until then, this evidence should be considered provisional, but promising.

And was that peer reviewed?
I read before (but a mod could confirm) that the automatic rules to prevent duplicate posts are purposefully loosely set. There is some rule to not post the exact same link, but a small, meaningless variation at the URL is allowed as a trick to posting duplicates.

It is a practical way to give second chances without giving too much room for spamming. The fact that you didn't even know it was allowed seems to prove that it works.

What is not ok is to delete your own former posts to pretend you are posting for the first time.

With this perception in mind, my own personal rule is if my first post does not get too much traction, I post a second time, 10~12 hours later (to get a different audience). Usually, I stop, sometimes when I am too optimistic I post a third time a couple of days later. And then I give up and stop posting.

You can clearly see this pattern in my submission history.
That's very interesting. I would love for someone to dig deeper into this.

What happens if you do a multistage build (to get rid of the build tools once you don't need them) and compile Postgres from source on Alpine and Bionic?
> If the system does not let you produce the asset for the same amount of work that someone else put in

This. I also can't wrap my head around certain quirks, like for example Stellar Lumens ( XLM ) was/is giving away (for FREE), 16 BILLION of its coins to former Bitcoin Holders.

I just can't wrap my head around paying to buy a coin that the creators have themselves given out BILLIONs of, for FREE.. How do you justify buying into a coin like that?

That like Burger King saying that we'll give FREE Burgers for a YEAR to anyone who has been a former customer of McDonalds (receipt required), but all others have to pay.

Even though I believe in their ( Lumens' ) use case, and they currently have live rollouts of their payment system in partnership with IBM in Asia, I just can't bring myself to buy something knowing they have millions of the same thing to many people for free.

Source: https://www.stellar.org/blog/bitcoin-claim-lumens-2/
Hey,

Would like to contact with you regarding the opportunities.

Had some questions regarding the company etc.
It’s both bigger and smaller than we often think.

In a straight line, it’s smaller than we might expect: People can (and do) walk across continents, sail across oceans in one-person boats, fly all the way around in 2 days, visit every country at least once during their life, etc.

But of course the surface is two-dimensional, we can’t see very far at a time. The land surface is about 150 million square kilometers. (For reference, New York’s Central Park is about 3.4 square kilometers.)

It’s also “fractal”, in the sense that as we look at smaller and smaller pieces, we keep noticing more and more details. Every little patch of soil is teeming with tiny animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria.

Or if you like, there are probably at least 10 million restaurants in the world (maybe an order of magnitude more, it’s hard to guess). If you eat at 3 different restaurants every day for your whole life, it will take more than 100 lifetimes to eat at all of them. Then there are the 150 million books to read. Etc.
Why once a chronic illness is diagnosed there is an accepted way of treating it - this is from my experience in the UK.
They didn't discount future earnings. i.e. You wouldn't buy a T-Bond that will pay you 10,000 in 30 years for $10,000 today.

If you discount future earnings at 6% you get 1.8 millions for software engineering versus 2.67 million for NFL.
I used it to build Regent: http://regent-lang.org/ (TL;DR: Implicit parallelism on supercomputers with automatic compilation for GPUs, etc.)
Average lifetime earnings are a terrible metric for entertainers, whose earnings are extremely exponentially distributed.
Why? It's a pretty neat framework.
Alive != healthy, sanitary, or suitable for consumption.
I like how you retorted to only half of the sentence.

>Kings also didn't die from an easily treatable but ultimately unaffordable medical condition.

Kings died too, man!
>> Bitcoin isn't really attempting to fulfill the currency use-case anymore

... because it failed miserably at it, due to technical limitations.

Now we hear a story about "digital gold", but you know what that story really is? It's just the people who bought Bitcoin on its historical maximum (near 20k USD) refusing to admit their loss and hoping for a miracle.
How do C and C++ unit test frameworks find all the test functions in a program?
It is a question for an article one of our writers is working on. It is not a conclusive statement, just a question.
3kya is just about at the Book of Mormon timeline.
True, the Play Store is the nexus of Android app distribution. The fact that it is not the only venue is a big advantage for both Android users as well as developers as it makes it impossible for a single party - be it Google or an entity pressuring Google into acting in a certain way - to keep applications from reaching users. Although only a small fraction of the total flow it is nevertheless significant in what it embodies: freedom from censorship.
Can't we break down governance to city states rather?
Have you ever actually tried to "shop around" for a serious, non-elective procedure like chemo or surgery? It's very difficult to get quotes, you can't easily compare providers (there's no obviously corpus of "ratings" from other prior customers) and you're often limited to the 1-3 providers who are close enough to your home. That's not exactly a recipe for an effective market.

Re your medicare proposal, are you suggesting that people who are diagnosed with cancer should get a cash check for the estimated value of the treatment? The incentive for fraud and graft in that kind of system would be incredible - lots of diagnoses are relatively subjective, and you'd be rewarding people for reporting every possible ailment they might be eligible for. If you're saying just give them their dollar average benefits, that pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having a risk pool.
I think George Washington was actually bled to death as a medical treatment.
I believe it's supposed to be variadic. I thought it original meant 3-arg functions, but I can see in one of the examples it calls a 3-arg function. The TODO file however says "var args" still needs to be implemented.

* Example calling three arg function: https://github.com/aguinet/dragonffi/blob/master/examples/ar...

* TODO File: https://github.com/aguinet/dragonffi/blob/master/TODO
either everyone is for feeding animals antibiotics and not humans as a preventative measure or no one understands sarcasm without a little <sarcasm> tag

besides I earned 2250 Karma can't I spend a little of it on dark sarcastic humor?
Medium is Ruining Publications
> human-machine cooperation is probably where the big money will be.

As it has been for as long as machines have existed, really. This reminds me of Douglas Engelbart and his vision for computers. I'll cite the section of his wikipedia page that paraphrases an interview with him from 2002[0][1].

> [Douglas Engelbart] reasoned that because the complexity of the world's problems was increasing, and that any effort to improve the world would require the coordination of groups of people, the most effective way to solve problems was to augment human intelligence and develop ways of building collective intelligence. He believed that the computer, which was at the time thought of only as a tool for automation, would be an essential tool for future knowledge workers to solve such problems.

He was right of course, and his work lead to "The Mother of All Demos"[1].

Machine learning is the next step in using computers as thought enhancement tools. What we still need to figure out is an appropriate interface that is not as "black-boxy" as "we trained a neural net, and now we can put X in and get Y out".

EDIT: Now that I read that quoted section of wikipedia again, it's funny to note that computers were "only seen as tools of automation", and how modern fears of AI are also about automation. Automation of thinking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSgaJt27PM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Chartio (YC S10) Is Hiring a Sr PM to Make SQL Visual
An interesting solution I read, I think here on HN, was to make a blockchain-based system where the hashes of videos were placed, thus proving that a given video was produced before a certain date.