skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If i become child like i am sure i will be speaking to more people per day and engage in more conversations per person than being adult like, because i would't be thinking of the consequences and in case the person ends up trying to harm me i may just scream mommy and start running. But being adult like we got lot more interests to engage in and also we know not everyone is friendly and approachable and hence we upfront reject connecting with some people. If i simply go and say hi to the 50 year old person sitting next to me and ask him wat r u doing and wat games do u play he is going to be more alarmed and ask me what do u want and ll try to say he is busy and we can catch up other time unless we have some great frequency sync and on other other hand if a kid shows up he ll try to start playing with him.
EXAMPLE TYPESCRIPT MONOREPO – PART 3 – REASONINGS
> Of course this is typical for engineers and Elon is an engineer.

He's not! This was discussed in the article comments and according to Wikipedia he have a BS in physics and another in economics. He started a PhD but quickly stopped.
It will push OSX developers to other platforms. OSX likely serves the purpose (for Apple) of a Mac hardware value-add plus a revenue funnel into iPhones/iOS. At worst, OSX/Macs are basically a glorified iOS device dock. Even if the worst isn't true, though, there's very little incentive for Apple to spend resources on enticing developers onto OSX; they don't make much money/prestige off of it, and I'd be willing to bet that OSX app-store-distributed payware apps' revenue to Apple is a tiny, tiny fraction of what iOS apps get them.

TL;DR they need to attract developers onto iOS, not OSX, and developers are already plenty attracted to iOS because money.
There's an excellent paper on GC pauses and its impact on Spark and Hadoop. "Trash Day" => https://www.usenix.org/node/189882
"The whole reason we get insurance is to avoid those high prices."

But only for unpredictable, irregular events. Anything else is uninsurable. If someone sells you "insurance" for wellness checkups[1], regular, scheduled screenings ... or tires on your car ... you can be absolutely assured that they are taking from you as much, or more, in premiums than the cost of those services.

What you are looking for is socialized, state sponsored medical care. There is no problem in looking for that and I make no value judgement here on that.

The first step would be to stop mischaracterizing this as "insurance". It's not. It can't be.

[1] Yes, certainly wellness checkups and things like them can be enormously economically beneficial for the provider since they spend up front preventative dollars instead of emergency, acute dollars later but it still doesn't change the fact that those are not underwriteable as they are regular, on-going expenses - very much like the tires on your car.
It's interesting to note that a technological civilization has occurred only in the past 200 years. Homo sapiens have been around on the planet for a long time so why is it only happening now?

I suspect that easy access to large amounts of food, more time available for mental activities and the easy spread of information have given us advantages our ancestors did not have despite the apparent similarities in our brains.

One tragedy currently ongoing is that many potentially brilliant minds in LEDCs are suffering from lack of the above three items. It does beg the question - how much mental capability could humanity gain by ensuring everyone on the planet has food, time and access to knowledge.
Toyotas. Toyotas are really dumb cars with wheels and an engine. Granted they’ve got smarter recently but I like they haven’t gone too fancy. It’s still a dumb car that survives anything like a Nokia.
Who is going to develop AI-based diagnosis platforms if there's no profit to be made?
Fulfillment centers are large enough that shipping them in individual boxes may actually be the cost-effective method at times.

I've also heard they play a bit of a game of tetris to fill truck trailers in a way that completely stuffs them full enough that packages don't move around.
This is the pattern I'm seeing over at virtually all crypto exchange subreddits. There are so many frantic threads to withdraw money but the ones that make it to top of the list or has significant money involved seems to get solved relatively quicker.

Allegedly now that many banks/credit card companies have cut off crypto exchanges that the only way to cash out is to match your SELL order with somebody buying in....

And now we have this whole USDT fiasco...Tether has actually overtaken the "how to buy bitcoin" google searches...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=bu...
Sure, you have your use cases, but generalizing those over the needs of game makers is a bit of a stretch.

Games don't need advanced statistical models to be entertaining. Rather, simple-and-tweakable-for-entertainment is generally the norm.

This is what I mean:

https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/2/16247112/video-game-develop...

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/04/03/why-fears-ai-is-...

I'm not saying you couldn't use advanced scientific and engineering tools to do games but that generally people don't.
Ah, but can you generate a prime number that encompasses the full list of true statements, please? :)
As another comedic twist, the LW community is probably the biggest proponent of publishing long-dated predictions and calibrating their confidence based on their results and priors. If ANY group of people has a defensible history of trying to make verifiable/actionable predictions, it is LW.
For those who are not into VoIP and telephony, an IVR is the common menu "press 1 for choice A, press 2 for choice B..." you get when calling many services.
Clearly you haven’t tried Woebot. There is no free form dialog. It’s basically a scripted book plus videos that uses the UI of chat but gives you no freedom of expression.
Despite numerous commitments, Apple is really nowhere to be found in India
Past a certain number of OSX instances needed for testing, a lot of shops virtualize. The licensing can be a hassle, though. I suspect a lot of places that do this wouldn't pass an audit.
Since their ad program was released, I've been running ads on Amazon as well as ads on the other platform for both clients and myself.

Amazon's ad platform has always had fewer features, a crappier interface, worse third party software available, and has at times run by confusing rules that aren't fully documented.

None of that matters because it's 4-10x+ more cost effective and doesn't require a large budget or a sophisticated account structure to generate profitable sales in volume. In general the American people have demonstrated a preference and that preference is that more than half of them want to buy stuff on Amazon and not on other websites. Trying to get people to buy stuff on a non-Amazon website is rolling the stone uphill. It doesn't hurt that basically the entire middle class demographic in the US subscribes to Prime. If you sell physical things to customers online there is no better way to do it at this time.

There are many issues involved in selling stuff on Amazon (and being an Amazon customer) but those problems really pale in comparison to the business model of running your own store on non-Amazon fulfillment and paying GooFaceBannerAd to drive traffic to your website that would really prefer to be going to Amazon.
A venture-capitalist firm that's doing studies in Basic Income and its effects. So give them a little credit.
I'm by no means saying Elon is untouchable, but theres a slight different between the useful technology that SpaceX and Tesla produce, and the not-so-useful technology that Theranos had.
Red Army was no savior - it STARTED WW2 together with Nazies by atacking Poland! Before, 'saviours' attacked Finland. Red army is worst or at least equal to Nazies.

World should be grateful to US and Lend-Lease Act, without it Red Army would have ceased to exist.
> .NET Native (a.k.a. CoreRT) is more like what you get with Go, a single native binary.

I think this really needs to be emphasized, it's a great feature and this was the one question I had when I clicked the link, but I didn't get the answer until I came here.
Todd Roger's impossible Atari score analysis
> The only explanation I can think of is if censorship and surveillance are just being casually lumped together

The chart is literally titled "Internet censorship and surveillance by country (2014)" with categories that don't differentiate between censorship and surveillance, so I'm relatively certain that the two have been lumped together.
And if it wasn't tragic enough, there's this twist of history:

> Testimony against Pilecki was presented by a future Polish prime minister, Józef Cyrankiewicz, himself an Auschwitz survivor.
Concise and powerful state management library for JavaScript
Why Tether’s latest statement about its auditor is complete BS
That is the implication
Those books are read by a subculture. Characterized by throw-away experiences and rapid turnover, who always want another book but never for long.

I argue, that's not most of us. That's kids and bored stay-at-homes.

I understand that libraries are struggling, but they've mutated by simply following a demographic into a hole. Instead of trying to be more relevant to the rest of us.
This is going to be interesting.

I am sure this will not be popular here, but reality and the truth far more often are so than not. The "elite", power brokers, wealthy ... however you want to refer to those who actuate the levers of power ... have been working diligently to shatter and fracture democracy by importing and imposing foreigners upon their populations that are inherently incompatible and introduce conflict and disassembly of unified identity and common interest.

The idea was to substitute community and common interest that have presented a clear opposition to the elite through the middle class that it produced, and substituting state, i.e., elite ruled instruments of power and state control, as the common glue in a shift away from self-motivated cohesion towards state imposed cohesion. The whole plan is and was heavily reliant on a massive surveillance state, the very same kind you have heard of in all the past and current authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, e.g., Mugabe, Saddam, Gaddafi, China, Indonesia, Sauds, etc.

When you have shattered the self-motivated and self-interested bond that keeps a people organized and cohesive, you then introduce a poison pill that will and is inherently shattering democracy as intended, which will then require heavy handed control by an elite that will invariably become ever more authoritarian and eventually totalitarian.
That's the way COBRA works though: you have 2 months to elect it, but if/when you do, you have to pay premiums starting from the moment you lost your original coverage (and have retroactive coverage).
Some people are. Some people aren't. That's the entire issue.
Actually, I'll go one step further. Why don't we set up a non-profit/cooperative to aggregate people to get all the group benefits that full time employees receive (e.g. Retirement, Health and other insurance, and other discounted perks)?

Heck, we could even create a HN-cooperative that any of us could join, sign up and pay a nominal membership fee. Then we could off and all be independent contractors etc. without fear of losing benefits.
I bet that health outcomes are improved with longer term patient-physician relationships - Imagine having a new family doctor every year vs. a doctor who has known you for the last 15 years.

edit: This (quite extensive and longitudinal) study would suggest that it's true. Check out the sources on the paper for other studies with similar findings:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226774/
Author is projecting.

That said hustle refers to different things and they get conflated. Working tirelessly, and also street hustling are both hustling, but can result from different morals.
Using the Co-authored-by trailer is also really useful when pairing, where there is actually more than one author for the content.

This is especially useful when using https://teletype.atom.io :)
Thanks!!! turned my website to an app in minutes!
Totally worth the money!
Cheers Yuri.

For anyone who wants to see how it looks:
https://goo.gl/TVZ2Ej
Sure, I understand pauses happen and there is a performance degradation, I'm asking whether it really matters in a processing framework that isn't controlling medical equipment or airline hydraulics. Is something going to break if there's a small pause? Especially in return for the productivity and safety of using managed runtimes?
I believe that insurance companies welcome legislation and regulation. It requires them to hire more people and buy more equipment and services. All of that cost then gives them added justification to raise prices, because ‘we are a public company and have a duty to return profit to our shareholders.’ All of that regulation is expensive to start with, and needs a profit on top of it.

Another true story, even with a Health Care provider and insurance company I don’t hate: after a routine visit, I had to spend more time on the phone with both of them than I spent in front of the Dr In order to have the service code corrected so the payment would count towards my deductible. The administrators I had to work with are paid employees, their costs not only have to be covered, but profitable. Very polite, capable and professional and completely unnecessary. I dare any non-American to come into our system and figure out in-network vs. out of network, co-payment, co-insurance, personal deductibles, family deductibles, lifetime maximums, deductible vs. non deductible services... and then write an App that compares plans, even within the same insurer’s portfolio and tells me which is the better plan.

Intentional value obfuscation, unnecessarily complex, adds to the bottom line.
I don't think there's anything necessarily anti-capitalist about BI, especially if it could be shown that a given level of BI substituting certain social programs was more cost-effective. Increasing benefits while lowering taxes without raising the deficit or incurring debt would be a pretty easy sell to both sides of the aisle, I'd think.
In addition, you can store the IP address if you want to use it for infosec (such as, finding out who to block in case of a ddos attack). See https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-49/

The recital also mentions "accidental events that compromise availability, integrity, authenticity,..." That seems to cover debugging for me. No need to ask for consent.

To do certain analytics like page count, you don't need the IP, so that seems ok for me. To track individual customers however, that's something else.

PS: according to GDPR, a hashed IP will be "pseudonimisation", not anonymisation because you can have a key to go back to the original value. True anonymisation removes all info (the IP in this case)
Man you're not kidding! I thought the article ended at least 3 different times. Yikes!
Free Software Foundation Receives $1M BTC from Pineapple Fund
We're not in a post-fact age. We're simply at a time where people are more aware that a given subset of facts can support a narrative the conflicts with the narrative of another subset. Similar to unifying theories in science, we just need to always look for explanations that encompass more facts. Not throw our hands in the air and say, "This is too hard! There are no more facts, only narrative!"

That sort of epistemological nihilism isn't really supported by the facts :)
From ehealthinsurance.com:
Kaiser Permanente is composed of Kaiser Foundation Health Plans (nonprofit, public-benefit corporations), Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation), and the Permanente Medical Groups (for-profit professional organizations).

Our family have been members for over 20 years. I'd rate their health care as "good", but the real benefit is that we have NEVER had a billing dispute, because almost NOTHING is "out of network". On the rare occasions we've needed non-Kaiser health care (such as ER visits while traveling), we just give the bill to Kaiser, and they take it from there.

When the insurer owns the hospitals and contracts all the doctors, customer billing is almost friction-free.
Quite tangental to the article, but:

This is why you shouldn't name protocols/standards after products!

I've worked with a few know-nothing users trying to slog through mac file sharing for the first time and got confused when I told them that the better/faster/better-supported sharing options, between macs, were the ones without "Apple" in the name.

"But it's named after Apple; it's going to be the most official/best integrated thing if I'm on a Mac!" is a common barely-technical-user refrain.

The same thing applies to the "Apple Partition Map" bootsector option when formatting disks.

Give things a descriptive, concise, memorable name that has nothing to do with a brand. If you deprecate them, you'll be glad you did.

/pedantry
> Should we interpret it as a victory for self empowerment or as a result of lack of soldiers during the last year of the biggest war the world had seen?

Clearly as the first. Women would not have gotten the vote without the suffrage movement, just as they didn't get it after the Civil War. However, the war had an effect on the timing, as is often the case with social change movements. They can go on for decades, and finally succeed when an external event forces the dominating powers' hands. No one would say that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the cause of WWI. The alliance system was rigged to blow at the first spark, and that spark happened to be the assassination.

> Should we interpret it as men oppressing poor women or as a form plunder for profit by a religious institution that targeted those with something to take?

As medieval and early modern history was my focus in grad school, I must say that I have not seen the witch hunt described so simplistically by any professional historian that I've read, and they were relatively uncommon. Like most things in history, they were a result of a complex interaction of factors, but as is often the case, the powerful are rarely the victims of events of that sort, regardless of their complex causes.

> Personally I lean towards not trusting political movements when they write about history.

I wasn't talking about political writing but about scholarly or pseudo-scholarly works, and all writers have political leanings. Liberal writers tend to write history better than conservative ones.
I strongly believe that the prediction was rationally founded. I think casting a lot of doubt on this is a sign of regret/motivated reasoning.
DO or UNDO, there is no VACUUM: what if PostgreSQL didn't need VACUUM at all?
I'm not actually all that interested in self-driving cars at this point in their development (one can only be excited about a finite number of non-existent things at once), so I haven't been scouring articles, merely skimming (if even that). I've noticed the articles mention Google but figured they're mentioning it because Google also has a self-driving car they're working on.

TBH most of the articles I've read that mention Waymo are in relation to their lawsuit with Uber, and many of them say "Alphabet" and not "Google", and Alphabet still doesn't register as Google in my mind.
Sorting myself out, extreme edition (optimising a Radix sort)
Watch out for what comes out of ARM Austin. Their last core was the A72 from a couple of years ago. Rumour has it they've been working on a big core to better compete with Apple and Samsung.

Looking back, it makes sense that Qualcomm discarded their underperforming custom design efforts (at least for the mobile market). If ARM can deliver a competitive design, why not fully commit to their roadmap and save significant amounts on R&D costs?
It really depends on what the goal of that library is; is it a museum, aimed at preservation of e.g. local history, or is it a supplier of relevant books that operates more like a shop, which tries to keep a small inventory by optimizing for most frequently borrowed? I'm guessing that you could have both, but even then, space is limited.

I'm sure - or, I'm hoping - that that particular book you mentioned is archived somewhere under museum conditions.
> > people will definitely abuse or misuse it

I was looking more for what you thought was an "abuse" of something like this when applied to yourself.
Woebot is not for talk therapy; it applies cognitive behavioral therapy. Since it's a skill based approach, I don't think it's crazy to think a chat bot could effectively approximate that type of therapy. It's much less open ended than talk therapy.

I don't think we'll see effective talk therapy chat bots for quite some time.
I also struggle with this dichotomy.

I have definitely used computers (and especially video games) as a means to avoid confronting personal emotional challenges, but that is not the whole picture for me.

For me, computers are an empowering tool, an extension of my arms and fingers and my mind, with which I can express myself creatively.

If children were spending all their time expressing themselves creatively through computers/phones/etc, then we would see this all very differently.
Twin Galaxies is notorious for banning glitches completely and it's one of the many reasons the speedrunning community abandoned TG. If he glitched, his runs would be invalid by TG's own rules.

As far as glitching in speedruns nowadays, it depends. You play by the rules of the category you choose to run, which may allow no glitches, some specific glitches or all glitches. To give an example, let's take a look at a popular speedgame, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time[1]. The "Any%" record, meaning beating the game with all glitches allowed, is 17m09s. The "Glitchless" completion record is 3hr48m38s. Categories like "No IM/WW" and "MST" are glitch limit categories where specific glitches are banned and the times are intermediate between any% and glitchless. Less-popular games will have fewer categories, but if there's interesting glitches, there'll usually be at least "no/few glitches" and "more/all glitches" categories.

[1]: https://www.speedrun.com/oot
Apple won't sell their components unless its MFi DRM chips.
They aren't in the same market segment as Intel, because they don't sell CPUs for consumer or server markets.
Jschauma/jass: a tool to facilitate sharing of secrets using SSH keys
I think a lot of this stems from training for job interviews.

A few years ago, I was doing a gig as a consultant for a while before I realized that side of the industry wasn't for me. While on the job, I was trained (by 45+ y/o's) to walk into interviews and new jobs like I was 100% the best because that's what employers expect in today's job market. I believe its more the effect of a "Fake it 'til you make it" culture that stems from a result of lowered employment prospects as mentioned in this thread.
As someone who's on the same path as you were -- and has similar needs -- this is very concerning.

Have you been able to find a workable alternative or are you still stuck with AETNA?
You also have to assume that a certain percentage of the soldiers would be or already have been rapists in civilian life, and now they perceive great opportunity in that regard.

Edit - is this controversial? It’s simply a fact that some men do that, throughout history, in almost all cultures, hence the entire topic... Sometimes units of soldiers are even formed from criminals.
And that's fine if you hoard them without returning - they were books that the donators probably couldn't get rid of in other ways. It's either that or they're dumped in the trash.
Human drivers kill about a million people, worldwide, every year