skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like everyone's reacting to the title rather than any of the content of the article?
Breaking into Tech without Coding
How we grew from 0 to 4M women on our app, with vertical machine learning
Kaiser is also available in Colorado.
Neither Google or Facebook can really do consumer sales. To do consumer sales you have to treat everyone as a potential customer. Google and Facebook really only pay attention to customers who have already agreed to spend a significant amount of money.
Before anyone else gets lost trying to solve this, the parent posted the puzzle incorrectly.

The correct limits on the numbers are that:
- Each of them is greater than 1, but their sum is less than 100
Isn't this just debuggex.com?
That's hacker but not news.
Not sure I get you. "But only for unpredictable, irregular events." But if I went into the Doctor's office without insurance, could they turn me away? The bill would be too high?

We looked into ACA... but we thought that the process of switching over from AETNA to COBRA would be painless (weeks at most). So we just went through with it. We did not know it would end up like it has.

The operations for insurance is a daunting, slippery rope. Can you not lay some fault onto insurance and its operations?

What would you characterize this as? People slipping up? That's how the "system has always worked"? People forgetting to process paperwork needed so people can get to their appointments?
Suggestion: put a link to one or two examples to quickly get an idea of what it does.
This is very wide topic and I would like to not discuss it over Internet because I've had plenty of similar discussions with people I've met, and it would really require us to write essays :|

Soviets killed about six million of polish people (until 1956). Not to mention harm that was done to the polish culture, dignity, economy, science for the 45 years.
The middle 21.5" 4k iMac still come with a HDD. In Canada this is a $1,729.00 machine. This is simply ridiculous.

The 27" models all have Fusion Drives, but I'm not familiar with them, so don't know their performance level.
I think it starts to get interesting when you substitute "program" for "programming": because it's more fun to write a new program than deliver features to users with an old program. Now fun looks more suspicious.

You know HN is written in ARC, right? I'll just jump to the end: they did it for the features, and having fun just happens.
Why blockchain is the real star of the cryptocurrency boom
That's what I've seen. Some projects, including the Linux kernel, use Signed-off-by for Developer Certificate of Origin legal processes.

https://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin

It makes sense that GitHub would use something new to avoid stepping on toes, and GitHub's mirrors Signed-off-by in implementation as a git commit message trailer.
Not sure a constitution necessarily helps. In this case, the Human Rights legislation is acting like a constitution in the sense that it's a benchmark that laws are being held to.

A constitution can sometimes be a fairly negative thing. You regularly see US decisions being made against the Constitution where it blatantly isn't applicable. You rarely (ever?) see SCOTUS saying that the Constitution doesn't apply so it needs to go back to Congress for a more applicable law. In other words a Constitution starts to resemble a religious document that has the answer to every conceivable problem if only a priest can interpret it.
Sure - in the form of bounds (older than...younger than).

This is all about students being taught by rote, with right answers all neat and pat and solvable. Folks educated like that have a problem with questions like this one. Folks who can 'think outside the box' have no issue at all with uncertainty in the answer.

Similarly, folks posting here who can or cannot see that this question is interesting and solvable (do a degree). No, not by 'an answer' but by a variety of approaches.
Atari 2600 Emulator in Minecraft (2017)
But in many countries that kind of sharing is not allowed without an "opt-in".
I find cheap clients have the most unrealistic expectations as well.
The even simpler explanation is that Ian Bogost [1] has always been highly critical of social media, Twitter, Facebook, and everything gaming- and internet-related. No conspiracy to affect stock value here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost
Announced just the other week: https://www.waze.com/carpool/
Exactly. Pony looks interesting though. I am wondering how is it comparing to Erlang. Seems like they are trying to address the same problem (actor model with memory safety) with different approaches.
and the never ending long list of ICOs https://www.coingecko.com/en/ico
was it not aliens?
Best Tech Workplaces? Salesforce Towers Above Adobe, Facebook, and Google
Its crazy how the Status market cap used to be at around $2B https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/status/usd
This is very well made. I don't know what I was expecting, but this really impressed me.
Ok guy, Todd say : "that he wasn't starting at first gear but second". I'll try to do that and hope restore some easy juding.

Do you dumbly follow rules if you need beat the time? No you start to dig solution. Pretending that it's not possible is easy, doing it is a lot harder. Finding a solution that nobody has taking in count, and that you win 0.1 secondes why he even need to justify this? to give you his trick?

I can totally agree with other cheats that he propably did on other game, but this is not relevent if he cheated on these, because the subject is this score not every score. It's like you will be a cheater your whole life because you cheated at a family party.

Once upon a time, I have finished mario bros 3 with one life, I can't do this again, and I was at level 2-2 or 2-3 with no warp zone near me. No way to prove that, but I know that I have make it.
I created one myself as a side project [https://underexpress.com] and learned following things:

- How do you manage the updates in your ui-kit if base framework is changed [bootstrap, foundation, jquery, other plugins.]

- Modularity: If i need only a few components i should have the option to include only those and not any unnecessary bloat.

- Availability as package [npm etc.]

- Example apps and landing pages. Some UI kits give email ui, todo list ui etc.

- The kit should be lightweight + clean css [sass/less] + clean html.

- Browser compatibility.

- Easy customization.

If you are looking to develop something collaboratively I would be willing to participate.

I hope this helps you.
Bit Rot: the silent killer
>Rogers’s record on the classic Atari arcade game Centipede, for example, had been listed on the Twin Galaxies site as being 65,000,000. The second-highest score, 58,078, barely comes close

Wow and nobody thought that was a bit suspicious?
And also, the opening paragraph is the height of privilege:

> In the summer of 2015, the game designer Bennett Foddy and I were sloshing down cocktails while waiting for prime dry-aged rib-eye steaks in Midtown Manhattan. We weren’t living large, exactly, but we did pause to assess our rising professional fortunes. Among them, both of us seemed to be blowing up on Twitter. “Where did all these followers come from?” I asked. We’d both added tens of thousands of apparent fans over the previous year or so...

> ...Even so, their effect was real: Foddy and I looked far more popular and important than our cronies. A colleague of Foddy’s at New York University, passed over by Twitter for such largesse, had become so agitated that he’d cornered Foddy to ask if he was buying followers. The whole matter was a Pandora’s box that I kept carefully hidden and firmly closed.

I don't mean the bit about chowing down on steaks in midtown Manhattan, but that the OP just seems to accept his placement on Twitter's recommended-follow list to be status quo or destiny or based on merit. He continues to muse about how he gets to keep his "phantom following" even after Twitter fixed its recommendation algorithm. If social media followings are as fake and meaningless as he tells everyone else it is, he doesn't provide a compelling reason why he hasn't shed his early largesse, which would be easy enough to do by deleting and then recreating his account.
Not only that, the subsequent response to Dorner seems to add a lot more credence to his allegations than his deranged behavior would suggest.
Having to actively log the data is interesting. I agree with your conclusion there.

However, GPS is primarily a very high precision time signal, from which the current location is reconstructed. Basically, a properly designed software would do the proper time zone adjustment based on that, so the data should ideally be in local time everywhere without exception. Everything else would be a bug in my book.
That holds true when you take it to the extreme.

The most unrealistic expectations come from those that aren't paying you at all.
Exactly my meaning, just stated more clearly :)
Ask HN: Is it really that easy to get a Bachelors of Engineering Degree n India?
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That's the dream, unfortunately, the limitations on the analysis and processing part were immediately apparent when I tried messaging Woebot (paraphrased):

Woebot: Write a negative thought

Me: Testing abc

Woebot: Would you like to work on Testing abc?

Or especially worse for someone who is so hurt about being ignored that they're seeking counseling via a bot online, is being ignored by a bot:

Woebot: Can you think of a time when...

Me: Well, so...

Woebot: *Blindly replies with the next line in the script.*
there is clinically proven evidence that seeing the same provider in the same setting improves outcomes:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/the-heroism-of...
Not that I made myself rich by this, but, when asked by noobs "How high can bitcoin go?" I told them it was roughly analogous to gold. So bitcoin and perhaps a few other cryptocurrencies could, in total, come to within an order of magnitude of the total market value of above-ground gold.

That means a $10,000 bitcoin is plausible, but definitely not guaranteed. Whereas a $1 million bitcoin is unlikely because something would have to happen to make it plausible. Being somewhat analogous to gold would not be enough.

The plausible values for bitcoin are supported by more than "animal spirits." So are the limits to plausible values.
I don't think the ratio of failed predictions is the correct basis for assessing the quality of the prediction, particularly not with something the predictor himself explicitly states is a low probability event. If I only give a handful of horse-racing tips but one of the long shots comes in leading to a high ROI, your prior for me just being lucky should still be high. Especially if none of the factors I've suggested which might make that horse more likely to succeed than predicted come to play, but it incidentally wins the race thanks to a massive pileup that takes out most of the other horses.

It's that second bit which really matters. Sure, if you had taken gwern's advice to mine a few BTC in 2009 and sold in late 2017 you would indeed have made the $10,000 per BTC mined hinted at. So it's easy to take that as confirmation of the quality of his reasoning.

But what gwern actually says is that BTC has a +ev on the assumption that it has up to a 0.1% chance of "eventually replacing a decent-sized fiat currency" and in order to do so, the value of an individual BTC would need to hit $10k. This replacement of "a decent-sized fiat currency" hasn't happened. The status of the prediction that BTC had a low but not trivially low chance of replacing "a decent sized" mainstream currency is indeterminate.

It's entirely plausible that when deciding whether or not mining was worth a bit of time and electricity gwern also weighed up the possibility that BTC would have great potential as a speculative asset due to an ideologically committed base who would want to hold it, public interest due to novelty and hype, and readily manipulable markets, but that's not in the post. This might even mean that he considered the situation that has come to pass as less likely than a scenario which hasn't. (Maybe he'll be along to tell us what he thought about that at the time!)

From the point of view of people who listened to gwern being richer than people who thought he was wrong, that might be an irrelevant detail. But ignoring the possibility the reasoning about the probability of x being systematically underestimated by markets might be entirely wrong because x occurred anyway is also a form of confirmation bias.
At the beginning of my contracting career I neglected to think about all the time I'd spend on non-coding tasks. It wasn't insignificant. I also found that the 4x full-time hourly wage is about right. A few other things I learned:

Almost never take a fixed bid contract. They're pretty much always a net negative.

Give clients discounts for paying early. Everyone loves a discount. Never discount your hourly rate though, because once you do that once for a client they'll never stop arguing with you about it. There's a line on Schedule C for recording discounts.

If you turn over raw source code to a client, stress (in written, contractual form) that if any other contractor/employee changes the code, then you will charge them a premium rate for any changes or fixes.
Steven Soderbergh Says He Only Wants to Only Shoot Movies on iPhones
I had Kaiser for a while and loved it. One appointment and you get two doctor visits and blood tests done the same day.
Yep. And I elected ASAP. One of the first things I did starting new job.

But the I continuously got the "we have you down for this provider" when my COBRA admin told me that that provider could no longer give me coverage. I needed to AETNA to file me under a new provider.

Then I called AETNA and they still said "so and so" is listed as my provider. I told them to change it. "It's gonna be at least a week to update your information, sir."

Call back next week, "sir, you are still listed on 'so and so' provider."

It was exhausting.
Medicare is relatively simple compared to most insurance companies and their rules.

Insurance providers write custom lines of business for employers per state and allow those employers to customize the coverage however they like. This happens annually with revisions done to exclude or include coverage as the employer dictates.

Insurance companies, and employers, come up with byzantine rules for what's covered, when it's covered, where it's covered, who is allowed to provide care, prerequisites before approving coverage, what brand of products are permitted in treatment, and on and on.

The net effect is that the rules are multi-variant to the point that they cannot realistically be validated or tested by humans. There are entire industries dedicated to maintaining rules management engines specifically for validating policies, coverage, and claims.
Kaiser Permanente has a huge presence in the Washington, DC area.
I have a choice of exactly two health insurance companies because that's who my employer selected for me. Both are for profit companies, with Aetna just posting record profits, and we see our premiums rise year upon year.

But beyond me, the fact that someone working minimum wage, unemployed, or at a startup using the Obamacare exchange pays more than an executive at a fortune 500 makes no rational sense. That's because the market has been silo-ed by employer instead of each individual insured.

The US would be in a much better state if everyone had to get their insurance from the exchange. One of the two political parties is constantly drumming the "competition" drum as a magical solution, but they're too scared to actually make the market competitive.

- Give everyone in the US a HSA (health savings account).

- Increase HSA contribution maximums significantly ($20K/year or more)

- Allow employers to give money, tax free, to employees via their HSA

- Allow employees to pay their insurance premiums via the HSA

- Ban employers from directly picking the employee's insurance or providing the insurance

- Employees (and everyone else) would pick insurance from the health insurance marketplace

- Medicaid would pay 100% of premiums, but Medicaid recipients still pick their own insurance

- The VA would move to a mixed model, help pay for regular insurance (via the HSA), and offer bespoke services specific to former enlisted personnel. Most common services would be received at regular healthcare providers, not VA hospitals.

Now instead of employers paying $1000/month for your health insurance they put that $1000 into your HSA, you then go onto the health insurance marketplace find insurance, and use your HSA to pay your premiums. Don't like your insurance company? Change. This is how you spurn competition.

Additionally if your employer doesn't help you with health benefits, you can contribute to your HSA yourself tax free and you won't be further punished (i.e. pay the same overall premium, with same tax benefits, as someone with a better employer, unlike now).
Are you not expressing yourself creatively by screwing around and playing in a game? Maybe that's not as possible with the digital slot machine games that seem to be all mobile devices these days can support.

I think the whole creation vs consumption thing is overblown, personally. You're not going to create things that are any good without first being a consumer of them. I would have never been interested in programming if I wasn't a PC gamer first, and dipped my toes in the water in my teens with modding.
Erlang, while having many virtues, is simply slow.
Once, I reimplemented in Elixir a toy data science tool I had previously built in node. Idiomatic node, idiomatic Elixir, both written for readability. The Elixir was approximately 100 times slower than the node version.

Now Erlang often feels fast, because of the architectures it allows, but when you get down to shuffling bytes around or doing low level math it is currently slow, slow, slow.

Given Wallaroo's speed goals, I would have been really surprised had they used Erlang:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/nbody.html
> I‘m sorry, but 99% of the population will prefer a random shiny device that plays their cat video

I'm sorry, but fuck 99% of the population. They're not the makers or creators, they are already well served by what's out there. I am truly grateful to have open options and other people who realize the power and freedom of truly open hardware. I'll gladly pay the costs to not cede that independence.
Yeesh, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for the info, I removed the link.
Used to be, a large segment of Silicon Valley 'engineers' were trained in music. Some weird overlap that worked early on, at least until the market got flooded with trained software types.
I think self-driving single passenger taxis will look more like the Renault Twizy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy

There's really no need that every car is a >1.5 ton vehicle that can fit 5 people or more when 90% of the trips are with just one person inside.
also chosen because chandler az has essentially ideal driving conditions. they have been for years now operating in ca which does require them to disclose safety statistics
240/hr is a lot of money, especially outside of the valley.

That's not a custom dev rate, that's a you have a track record of doing something very niche and valuable and usually domain specific. I.e. you have a portfolio or set of recommendations that you delivered successful financial plug-ins for oil and gas ERP systems.
Turn written content on Medium and Wordpress into podcasts
The OP reports the insurer misrepresenting their in-network coverage. I've had this experience with BCBS -- the list of in-network doctors on the website was wrong. Hard to prove incompetence vs. malice, but there seems to be zero accountability for this sort of thing.
I put "free" things at $20 for this reason. It's one bill, if someone is really cheap, they can negotiate it down to $5 if they want.

The free crowd is the worst, though. I put a tv up, got multiple responses in the first hour, and took the first one. More than one other complained (very rudely complained) that I should have removed the posting. It was only up for 2 hours total.
He is. He's been performing as an Engineer for a decade. Which makes him one. Regardless of his early certification/degree.
I think you're saying that system is nonlinear because there's a t^2, but it's actually linear. The ODE for the system is certainly linear. You could choose a state space and describe the dynamics with linear operators.

Solutions to linear ODEs are in general exponential or polynomial in time. The solution doesn't have to be linear for the system to be linear.

(Unless I've misunderstood and you are modeling the system as actually controlling time. But I doubt that's what you meant)
So, you are saying while the general theory is that people want to buy stuff on Amazon but using the GooFaceBannerAd you are able to drive traffic to your non-Amazon store and sell stuff to people?

Edit: As I am getting downvoted let me clarify to the query. I am a bit confused as the post seems to suggest getting people to buy stuff from non-Amazon site has been difficult.

In which case I wonder how effective it is to bypass Amazon ad system and getting people to your own site. Or am I misunderstanding the post and the ad connects back to amazon product page.
The assumption seems correct, but hardly significant in explaining the scale of the phenomenon.
Or as long as nothing on my site insults the Thai king, or mentions the Armenian genocide, or Tiananmen Square?

There is a process for international regulations, we sign treaties like with copyright, and I get some legal representation in these regulations from my elected representatives. I didn’t elect the European Parliament. If you don’t like my website, don’t use it.

I mean, obviously you’d say that if you physically flew to the US and bought something in a store, those store only need to obey US regulations. Or if you ordered an international package and had it delivered.

So why do you think sending packets to my geographic location suddenly imposed restrictions on my sovereignty? Virtual goods require more regulations than physical ones?

Even if I agreed with the spirit of these regulations, the idea that you can force your local regulations on a global audience without negotiation opens up a real slippery slope.

By what ethical or legal argument are European regulations any more relevant to Chinese, Thai, or Turkish? Doesn’t Saudi Arabia have an equal right to claim you can’t run a site that slanders the prophet Mohammed and you have Saudi Citizens on your site?

Why are your regulations more relevant than anyone else’s? What if my country rules that running a web site is protected free speech?

Any kind of international regulation of the internet must be agreed to by international treaty.
I'm not saying Apple themselves have shunted the developers, I'm thinking that the developers themselves have moved jobs of their own accord since they see no future in macOS. It's been obvious for a while now that Apple only considers iDevices as their money-spinners. Their actual computers have been long neglected, and their updates for the last several years have been to include more iDevice-like features, so I would think the macOS developers would willingly believe Apple themselves aren't wholeheartedly behind maintaining their desktop OS. It just feels like there is very little willingness from Apple to build a good desktop OS any more, and no sense hiring macOS developers as a result.
Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation
You are misinformed. They do get into that. Big, big time.
Declarative Internal DSLs in Lua a Game-Changing Experience [pdf]
The US’ tiny town with one resident