skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should welcome the advances that are making hospitals less important
Banning Uber/Lyft doesn't take away their right to the space?
The article lacks a detailed analysis of how it saved so much money, there must be other stories like this when Cloud hosting doesnt make sense for really high volume data operations. The cost savings come purely out of large volume or is there something else to it?
the term "programmer" is generally used to describe software jobs where you aren't expected to do much design or critical thinking or have in-depth knowledge of computer science or engineering concepts.

A good analogy might be like the difference between a doctor and a nurse.
I think its really just that with hardware, you're building something "tangible" that feels like it actually exists in the real world.
Meanwhile, with software, all your hard work exists entirely within a virtual space that you really cannot touch.
> As per the link it basically says the same crap everyone says, the "Helping the homeless is hopeless" narrative.

Is that really how you interpreted TFA?

I read it entirely opposite to that interpretation. It explained why helping those suffering scarcity is necessary and why society needs to revisit attitudes and mechanisms to do so.
> Poverty is easy to fix. It's the giving up personal wealth to prevent it that's the hard part.

how does giving up personal wealth fix poverty?
> If anyone can get a certificate for the domains I own, it can't stop man in the middle attacks.

You're right, if that were the case, it would be terrible!

Luckily, it's not: to get a certificate for your domain, I need to either control your domain, or control the computer that the domain points at. In either case, you have much bigger problems than certificate issuance.
Interesting take on the new Pinker's opus by John Gray: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlight...

>To think of this book as any kind of scholarly exercise is a category mistake. The purpose of Pinker’s laborious work is to reassure liberals that they are on “the right side of history”.

>Judged as a contribution to thought, Enlightenment Now is embarrassingly feeble. With its primitive scientism and manga-style history of ideas, the book is a parody of Enlightenment thinking at its crudest. A more intellectually inquiring author would have conveyed something of the Enlightenment’s richness and diversity. Yet even if Pinker was capable of providing it, intellectual inquiry is not what his anxious flock demands. Only an anodyne, mythical Enlightenment can give them what they crave, which is relief from painful doubt.
It's not just about the $50 vs. time spent. If after the calculation you decided it was worth $50 to spend that extra 30 minute drive, it shouldn't matter if you're saving $50 on a $100 item or you are saving $50 on a $1000 item.
Autonomous fleet parking has all the 3D density advantages of robot parking structures[1], but at dumb concrete prices. There's no aisle because there's no "random access" of a particular vehicle. No extra headroom (because they're identical) extra width (because they're precise), ventilation (because they're electric), or even lights. It's the best of both worlds.

Where land is cheap, simply drive the cars along a space-filling curve in a parking lot. One possible path is a double-spiral. Picture these lines[2] as the curb (except there's no curb, or even painted lines).

The spiral path is simple enough to calculate. One can rotate the whole spiral as viewed from above, growing and shrinking it and "wear leveling" across the entire paved surface. And the technique should generalize to any shape parking lot.

I expect writhing double-headed masses of autonomous cars near urban centers soon.

This design eliminates entirely any 3D architecture, at the small expense of some wasted space in the center determined by the turning radius[3].

Anyone know the most efficient shape would be in 3D (geometrically and structurally)? A helix is the obvious extrapolation, but I'm not convinced it's optimal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_parking_system

[2] https://openclipart.org/detail/216988/double-linear-spiral

[3] edit: now that I think about it, you can park cars there too
The "what is Japanese candy like" can be answered by going to ITSUGAR and getting some... well... Japanese candy ( https://itsugar.com/crave-japan-blind-box.html )... or Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-assortment-dagashi-TONOSAMA-... - its even prime - I can get it tomorrow!). After I clicked that link, I've got on the order of 50 different Japanese candy boxes showing up in the "related to items you've viewed". So why Candy Japan rather than another one?

I'll point out that the savory snacks and sea weed are part of the "eww" mindset. When the pitch is "we're going to send you a bunch of random candy" I dread the prospect of opening it up and getting a box of sea weed. The repetition of "unique candy" reinforces that "I'm probably going to get sea weed"

While there may be good candy out there, trying to market it needs to take more into consideration that they're selling to an American sweet tooth. The Japan candy consumer who already has a different subscription service or connection needs to be sold on value (better selection, better quality, better price).

As to the sugar source debate... I've got a fondness for some european candies (particularly the Haribo candy berries). Yes, its a corn syrup base, but even the different traditions in making candy for a different pallet will change the flavor profile. Trips to Ieka find a purchase of Jelly Mice. All that matters at the end of the day is the "does it taste good?"
Ideally it should be dynamic congestion pricing so that the cost of driving on a particular road at any time is based on how busy the road is. Right now major roads are a classic "tragedy of the commons" situation.
Let's Encrypt just like every other certificate authority validates that you own the domain before giving you a cert. They do that by sending a request to the domain from their servers (via looking up the nameservers via domain registries) and validating the response matches a unique message generated.

You could impersonate google.com on wifi, but you couldn't get a valid cert for google.com because you don't own the nameservers or any of the servers that google.com points to.
Really? I know lots of people that work hard and are doing pretty good. Not rich, but doing ok.

I also know people who are doing poorly and a good deal of them (not all!) are that way through poor choices (and would admit it).

Of course I also know people who are doing poorly through no fault of their (poor health, caretaker burden, etc). For those folks I'm glad we social programs to help them.
I think you're misunderstanding. The question had nothing to do with whether the more expensive tablet is better or not, or which one someone would rather buy.
Or shop in incognito mode.
You’re probably deluding yourself, in my experience
Pretty sure there will be a whole industry of intermediaries. Just like the consolidators and travel agencies now, they could brand the process "price optimisation".
"The NYT article talks about computer-supported work in general. I will explain how the Symbolics Lisp environment made the software developer more productive. The Symbolics Lisp Machine was a high-tech solution. There are also useful lower-tech solutions. Many Lisp programmers like the relative 'simplicity' of just an Emacs window with a 'slave' Lisp process (say, SLIME + Emacs). Some of these developers are using just a terminal and Emacs. It gives them an integrated environment that is both simple and effective. The Symbolics Lisp Machine environment is more complex. It has been designed to support the development of novel and complex software, especially AI software. The whole point was to make an individual or a small group very productive and let them manage high complexity. Artificial Intelligence software often was very complex (Cyc is an example for that)."

Somehow whenever Lisp is the topic we end up with writing like the above, hand-waving about some mysterious properties of Lisp that will bring us to programmer Nirvana.

It seems modern workstations have similar features as the described system, with much higher bloat, which certainly makes it impressive for its time. I wish the article could have put more weight on the modern context and tone down the propaganda a bit.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...:

* Electricity and Heat Production (25% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

* Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (24% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

* Industry (21% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

* Transportation (14% of 2010 global greenhouse gas emissions)

(Top 4 only, accounting for 74% of emissions)
But you get to play with lots of cool fancy equipment do to that debugging!

(Okay, that equipment is also kinda expensive, and retains its value far longer than old computers... But even new stuff has gotten a lot cheaper than it used to be.)
Yes, why does everything in the midwest have to be "blue collar" -- or even worse, "Rust Belt"? These are very unwelcoming words/stereotypes.

A more fair version of this headline is "The American midwest is quickly becoming the next Silicon Valley" -- which I actually see happening right now, as more and more of my friends give up on the beyond-repair housing market in SF and decide to move out (in many cases their employers even let them keep their jobs as remote positions).
> we can conclude thanks to a sloppy redaction

So the reasonable question that follows is: was the sloppiness intentional, or a leak?
Some is taught in school. I thought the MIT OCW lecture on performance [1] was extremely well done.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Checking out the site it looks like they are targeting feature phones and they appear to be quite successful at it.

Which is funny because Mozilla tried that shortly before abandoning the whole project.
Sorry to hear that. If you are in the US, I am guessing that you can't take out any (more) student loans? They come with a 6 month grace period. Might get you through the semester to get your degree. Maybe you already know that and have done so. You might be able to talk to your school administrators and see if there is any chance of a tuition waiver as well. They should have resources to help. Good luck.
> Patients report higher satisfaction with their medical care the longer that they spend engaging with clinicians.

Agreed. But that is because doctors are not easily accessible. You can't simply call doctor's cell phone or text him a message. Instead, you call the office, leave a message and wait for God knows how long. Some doctors do not even bother to call you back if they're not in the office.

> And how is this any different from reading a 'transcript' of the last interaction a patient had with a Doctor

You don't want to cancel the transcript-based approach. I was talking about improving existing processes, not replacing them altogether. Knowing that you're being recorded makes you more responsible for every note you take, it improves the kind of information doctors write down.

I'm sure you are aware that there are a ton of things to improve in the healthcare industry. It's just a matter of wise execution, which is the most complicated part.
This 11-year-old just wrote book on Bitcoin that hopefully a kid can understand
Selenium can absolutely be used for this, the caveat being that it is much slower than using a regular HTML parser. In my experience, it's best to milk as much as you possibly can out of a site's plain HTML and APIs, only resorting to Selenium where it's absolutely necessary.
I think you’ve only shown that they hurt the poor less than the other systems you mention.
IME it's self inflicted harm, most of the university advertisements I see feed that expectation. Slogans like "education for the real world" and "industry focused" get thrown around all the time. Hard to blame students/society for expecting universities to work as advertised.
Consider the scenario where I own a domain example.com for a year. Just a day before its expiry or just a day before I sell the domain to someone else, I obtain a certificate for it from letsencrypt via ACME protocol.

A week or month from now, the new owner of the domain sets up a HTTPs website. With the old certificate I have, I can now launch an MITM attack on the new owner for about 2-3 months!
Self hosting is important, but it seems like the wide disimmenation of this data would be helped by also making it available in torrent form as well.
But that report is only looking at fossil fuel reserves, rather than industries that consume those fossil fuels, thereby releasing greenhouse gases and causing climate change.

Further, there are other sources of greenhouse gases not related to fossil fuels, principally agriculture/livestock.
Most judges now just seem to be rubber-stamp operators anyways, particularly in pre-trial proceedings and in situations where someone doesn't haven an opportunity to defend themselves against the action (such as in the case of a search warrant).

They suffer from the same plight as the majority of the public-side of our legal system. Too much work and not enough workers.

Judges, prosecutors, police, public defenders, etc...

They all have such a great case load that to examine every single document in detail would grind the entire machine nearly to a halt. The system needs an overhaul but it will not get one in the current political climate. The judicial branch is supposed to operate independently of the legislative and executive branches, but control lies with the controller of the budget.

Reminds me of an outrage a local newspaper reported on several years ago. A fire-rescue/EMT operation had a target response time of X, and had actually been responding in about half that time. This was seen as an indication that they were overstaffed or had too much money/equipment, and the proposal was to reduce the staffing/budget/equipment levels until the response time more closely tracked the target.
Just because it's better than Ye Ol' Court System does not mean that it is not a discriminatory clusterfuck in 2018. We still have a long way to go.
> McBride of PROS said that 11 of the company's airline clients are already using its software to generate real-time dynamic offers within direct sales channels, including their websites.

So, no changes then? It's just a matter who else will buy their software?
This is a much longer story than I jotted down on my phone as a comment, also a tiny mutli million dollar startup but after the mostly negative comments I recieved on this post I'm starting to think there is easily a phsycological US vs THEM mentality between devs and management. I miss being able to complain, I still did the work but there was something magical about us banning together to complain about horrible management & lack of leadership. If you're going to fuss about a comment about firing and if you havent noticed some weak links at your other jobs then most likely youve been the weak link and to be fair thats fine when your job or title fits you appropriately but im talking about someone making double or triple the guy busting his butt, i was the busting his butt guy and im looking out for the rest of those guys. Theres one of many reasons I didn't go into a software job for the government.
You're thinking that the question is "should I this item or not", or "should I buy this item now or wait a while". Then it could be logical to prefer the higher percent discount.

But that's not what the study asked. The study said "you need to buy this item now, where will you buy it?" In this case it is illogical to prefer the higher percent discount, dollar value is the only thing that matters.
Using Faker to make your Python tests awesome
Posted this on my blog today. Hopefully can be useful to anyone and pardon any typo, English is not my mother tongue.
How did you find the niche? Any reading material I should see?
not lack of empathy, I wouldn't dare, I mean altruistic "deathwish" might not be so common in society hence my question.
"Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon"

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793914564966

Just read this and it was pretty interesting. Appearently in the studied group of organizations, coops are about as efficient as capitalist businesses but without lay offs and extreme inequality. There was some lower job satisfaction possibly due to higher expectations. There was a small efficiency benefit in some customer service oriented organizations.

Try sci-hub if you don't have institutional access. ;)
In my country, according to income data provided by the national data collection agency, ~14% of the adult population make less than $10,000 per year. Minimum wage where I am is $14/hr (with some variation across the entire country). Someone working full-time at minimum wage will earn just shy of $30,000 here. Very conveniently, the yearly earnings of that 14% of the population works out to your chosen 1/3 of minimum wage figure almost exactly.

I haven't heard any reports of 14% of adults dying off each year due to not making enough money, and that would be a pretty big news story, so it seems that they have somehow managed to survive. And while the data indicates that some have chosen $0 (~4%), and maybe a life of begging and crime (the data is not sufficient to see that correlation), it seems some dollar value greater than zero is still the preferred option for most even when their earning potential is limited.
I have actually developed for this platform. KaiOS powers Jio Phone and Reliance JIO is by far their largest customer (and also an investor from what I know).

The thing I like about this platform is that it runs most web technologies. You can thank Firefox OS for that. We used React ecosystem to develop apps for KaiOS and they worked well enough. Jio Phone ships with Video and Audio streaming apps which are all built on either React or Angular and use HTML5. I think all of that was possible on Firefox OS as well and they haven't really changed anything substantially. We were given links to archived FirefoxOS documentation pages when we asked for documentation.

They have managed to package FirefoxOS for enterprise customers. From what I know the KaiOS team comprises of people who worked on parts of Firefox OS (but not the core FirefoxOS team).
This makes me wonder why FirefoxOS shut down and why did it not try to market itself like KaiOS has managed to do.
Things might be stricter now, but back when I dabbled in real estate, the appraisal was a farce. The appraiser, the real estate agents, and the loan appraiser could always magically make the numbers work.
The government in the US already subsidizes businesses that can’t or won’t pay a living wage - with food stamps and such for their workers. Perhaps having government make up the difference in pay, as you say they do in other countries, would be better.
Downloading nginx doesn’t teach you how a web server works.
"It may be hard to believe that there was a time when Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter etc didn't exist.

Not really.. I dream all the time of a land where decentralized exchanges exist for these services, and that a clunky web browser is not required for accessing information online.
Good job! I totally agree with the author on this:

> So I thought, "What if I could combine all these things and start writing markdown documents for my technical designs -- complete with ASCII art diagrams -- that I could then prettify for presentation purposes?"

If it's intended to be embedded in Markdown documents and published as web sites, it could be a web component.

I made an experimental one [0] and here's a demo [1].

I'm too lazy to follow through so hoping someone to make a full-fledged web component for it.

[0] https://www.webcomponents.org/element/ichiban/ascii-diagram
[1] https://www.webcomponents.org/element/ichiban/ascii-diagram/...
You can perform exactly the same attack with a 1-year certificate from any other CA.
Did he really dismiss the huge benefit of https that my browser is guaranteed to receive the exact content that the site owner sent me, with an idiotic argument that while it prevents Starbucks or Comcast from pwning me, it doesn't prevent the browser. Really?
I'm assuming the 2nd edn. OED I downloaded from https://web.archive.org/web/20170805001549/http://download.h... for my ereader is of dubious copyright status?
Another point is, private car owners now has been incentivized to cover their gas tank so they can stay on the roads even more.
That would only be true if the goods minimum wage workers produce are being bought only by minimum wage workers. In reality the price also goes up for incomes above minimum wage so in a sense raising the minimum wage is a transfer of money from higher earners to lower earners.
>crazy algorithm interviews really aren't passable without a strong CS background.

Algorithms is one class.
While this is fun technologically, is there an onligation for the author to think of the negative impact? Certainly this isn't hekling the US.
You are misunderstanding the article.

The study asked some rich people "would you spend 30 minutes to save $50 on a $300 item". Some rich people said yes. Then they asked "would you spend 30 minutes to save $50 on a $1000 item". Some of the previous "yes" answers changed to "no". That is illogical, logically no one should have changed their answer.

Poor people didn't make this illogical answer change.
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I'm fortunate in that my (US) University has a subscription, but unlucky in that they have a poorly implemented 2-factor authentication for EVERYthing connected to the University, whose cookies disappear after 12 hours.
I think Buffett says consistent profits rather than decades worth. I think he'd like Flexport, maybe when they are a little more established.
It's not a "no on giving back". You only have to make available the source for products you ship, and KaiOS itself is not the one shipping the devices, so it's up to the OEMs to provide the source they use on their phones (they do their own customizations).

That being said, I'm trying to get us to open source the "base" version which is provided to OEMs.
How else would the information be accessed? A separate dedicated app for each of those things? Those exist already.