skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time."

Can we beat the rush and tar and feather these people now and ride them out on the rail or possibly a one way rocket?
It's not about using "reinsurance", it's about how much risk you are laying off to them. Large insurers don't insure "just the predictable losses" (unless they set up their own reinsurers) because it lowers their ROE too much to give reinsurers so much of the underlying risk.
Some examples from an old timer.

Currently it has three different ways of using event handlers.

The original way, anonymous delegates and lambdas.

The semantics of for loop which were fixed around C# 6.0, need to hunt down release notes for this one.

Something like .NET Native and .NET Core should have been there on v1.0 instead of tying the runtime to the OS.
> Not sure I follow that train of thought - could you point to an example?

Something like

const store = createStore(...)
export const dispatch = (action) => store.dispatch(action)

It removes the temptation to read directly from the store.

> `redux` and `react-redux` are deliberately separate packages

Yeah, my bad, got the import wrong.

> ...limits the reusability of your logic...

When would this become a problem, in practice? Reusable actions across different react/react-native UI, or multiple apps? Switching between user accounts? How common a use case is it?

Even if this is a constraint, I'm of two minds about whether a hack in isolation is worse than more complicated action boilerplate in general.

> ...and also makes it a lot harder to test...

This can be mitigated by Jest's mocks.

> https://github.com/markerikson/redux-starter-kit

That's really good. Unfortunately, it's not the same thing as bundling it with Redux proper.

Anyway, thanks for engaging with me. I never intended to do a deep dive into Redux's design, only to sympathise with stupidcar's comments about third-party state management, but it's interesting to hear the perspective of a maintainer.
This is just not true, I live outside SF and have kids and own a single family home. My pay here has exponentially gone up over the last 5 years, especially if you account for RSUs and so has my wife's. We are also able to change jobs every two years that results in decent pay increases. I also made a ton of money selling my previous home, and sit on a massive equity on my current home. There is a reason things cost a lot here. Because people can afford it.
> Sidewalk ramps are not a scarce resource; my use of them doesn't in any way detract from their use by a disabled person. Any visible use of them ultimately benefits everyone.

> Online cancellation (compared to telephone cancellation) is like the latter, not the former.

Wait, what? No, it's like the former. How do you know these agents handling your cancellation weren't assigned to handle similar cancellations from other deaf customers? How do you know the representatives don't have to go through extra procedures (such as documenting and obtaining authorizations for the non-standard cancellation, or bothering more reps to figure out whom to forward the inquiry to) that wouldn't take them far more time than it would take the phone agent? Meaning you could well be taking up a resource that was reserved for disabled folks, slowing down the responses for them in the process. Heck, even if the amount of time spent isn't any more than for a phone call, it's likely to be a separate set of agents handling these special requests than taking calls, meaning you'll still be slowing down this service for those who actually cannot use the phone.

What I find baffling is that neither you nor anybody else is making the most compelling counterargument I can see here, which is that cancellations aren't time-sensitive, so a slower reply would be unlikely to do anyone much harm as a result of slow service. Meaning it's one way you could argue disabled people are not suffering any tangible harm from slow replies. But to argue that it doesn't even affect the service provided to them in the first place is bizarre, especially if you think about what would happen if tomorrow everybody decided to follow this advice and do the same thing.
Text formatted as code on HN is very difficult to read when on mobile. Using italics or > to quote things is better.

Similarly, I expect Postel picked 192.168 because, at the time he made the
choice, it was the next available, or nearly the next available, network to be
assigned from the former Class C space. This probably can't be proved one way
or the other, but the pace of address assignments shown in the RFCs strongly
suggests that they would have been in this general vicinity around 1993-1994
when the assignments were made. (Addresses in 192.159 were being assigned in
1992. No dates are available for assignments in 192.160-192.167 as these were
at some point reallocated to RIPE.)
That sort of already happens with lane assist, auto parallel parking, brake warnings, adaptive cruise control, etc.
It's typical in a systemd discussion that a link dump to broken stuff appears. Weather or not these are indeed broken - that is not explained. FWIW at least there are bug reports. The conclusion that because of those reports sysvinit is better, is false. It could just be that nobody cares about sysvinit anymore, so fewer bug reports happen.
>installing an OS from a unknown person on the internet

Eventually, what is needed is something like reproducible builds so that you can claim that this binary corresponds to this source tarball. I don't know where AOSP stands in that regard. The keys should be the only thing that users should ideally manage. i.e., You get the generic binary (that is known to correspond to source tarball), sign it with your keys, and flash it. Just throwing ideas. This may not be in the scope of your project.
"Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)"

This has to be satire.

...right?
That's a really hard name to search for! I found it: https://github.com/plotly/orca
It’s far easier than having to call anyone
Minecraft Pi has a built-in connection with IDLE. Take a look: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started...
have you even tried to use TypeScript on a real project to say something like that ?
It's a joke, stop downvoting :)
Thanks. That is exactly what I meant. I was busy writing up some research today and didn't make my way back here to answer.
Two ways I've done in the past: have a resolver in the master script which knows how to crawl your source tree(s) and detect the appropriate tagging in specific programs, or have each program get registered in a config script that the master reads from.

I live in a world where we're expected to be synced to head in a monorepo, so distribution is easy for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17463595
American hospitals are just big ripoff machines. The whole nonsense with insurance negotiated, uninsured, in-network, out-of-network fees needa to go. Just post one price for a service for all. My girlfriend had a few surgeries over the last few years. The only conclusion I could draw from the bills was that

a) they make up prices as they go

b) they like to charge for things that never happened or put a several thousand percent markup on things

They said that Obamacare was broken beyond repair. The same should be said for the current system and its billing practices.
That he/Priscilla donates to the hospital and they name it after him? That’s pretty common...
He donated a lot of money to get his name on that hospital. Marc Benioff did the same thing with UCSF's Children's Hospital.
Aesop's grasshopper felt the same way about the ant...
Carpooling has already become much more practical with Lyft Line, etc. No driver would mean even cheaper rides. Also, there's no reason your car couldn't park itself at work...or rent itself out (via Lyft/Uber) while you're at work. Assuming we get to that level of tech.
That may be the best description of the phenomenon I've described. I lived that. It was unbearable-stayed around way longer than I should have because I did genuinely and truly believe in the mission of the company. They gave us reason to and backed it up-but after a while, well yeah the water began to evaporate org wide, not just engineering.

It got to the point where engineering was down to three people-present company included-and a guy managing us who probably should have been let go long enough and neither myself or the other fellow could really stand to be around even socially-much less as a cohort and colleague (and to this day, the other guy and I strongly believe was the root cause of so many of our other engineers quitting once the former Director left, leaving jerk character as the most senior in the room by longevity alone).
Maybe in Canada but in USA you have companies like "ABC Financing" (real name) that process majority of membership for most of the gyms I ever visited, including LA Fitness, Golds Gym, Balleys Total Fitness.

The way it works (cause I tried) is that you call (or in bank to dispute membership) and guess what? they made you wait on the line/ in the branch until they contact ABC customer support that knows exactly what membership you have when you have it etc. They were even able to fax over my photo (!!) to the banker to prove it wasn't a fraud. I was actually quite happy because I need that kind of chargeback service for my companies when anyone can call (and does) and usually says "my child ordered this". Unfortunately banks will only work this way with merchants pushing hundreds of millions of dollars in memberships, as I was told by a friend of mine who works for Bank of America.

I don't know in Canada, but in USA most membership programs are continue to be a cancer on our society (despite the fact its easier to dispute transaction than it was years ago) and most banks will help in this bad behavior because they don't want too many disputes for credit card companies they underwrite and represent.
> Not only does the AI need to empathize and predict how typical humans react, they also need to be easy for humans to empathize with. Humans typically use themselves as a template for a reasonable range of reactions.

Hm, this past season of Westworld kinda touched on how this very particular thought can easily go wrong.

Trying to avoid spoilers, one of the programmers commented on how the teeny tiniest tweak to parameters created Hosts that would [motions to what they were watching, a normally-benign personality killing townspeople for fun]. The awake Host with him commented "it's gone insane". His response was something along the lines of, "in the range of possible actions, what humans call 'sane' only exists in a very narrow band".
This keeps being brought up but I'm sorry, no. The IBMer maybe has a larger house that they own rather than rent. In basically every other respect, the $240k-earning employee comes out ahead. The latter earns more, can save _way_ more, lives in an area with better weather, and can afford to retire far earlier.
I've often wondered if we could open up private clinics in Canada for Americans where we charge reasonable rates. Kind of start a medical tourism industry by the border.
Also Vue is multiple languages. There's a pseudo-HTML language. There's a loop language inside v-for, a special assignment language.

React is just JavaScript and HTML.
In one sense it's clearly not obscenely high - it's the median salary after all - _half_ of Facebook's employees make more than that.

But from the perspective of someone struggling to make minimum wage, I'll be it 100% is obscene...
Politicians won't touch this issue because healthcare costs are approaching 20% of GDP and every election since the 70s has been a jobs election.
I'm sure he's proud to have his name on the only major trauma center in the US without a helipad due to NIMBY pressure.
Recent renewal contract for LA Fitness has this cover. If you moving away you have to provide some sort of a proof, like new lease contract, job letter etc so that they still will try to find the gym within 15 miles and move you over. I was told in LA Fitness you cannot cancel without any sort of proof if you want to use "moving away" as a reason.
If you respond again reiterating your position, and deny that the "proof" in question is valid (assuming it is), you will almost certainly win.

Not only that, but the business will get an additional chargeback fee before losing the chargeback.
Another way of looking at is: you could pay someone $25,000 a year to drive your car around the block, continuously.

The driver could meet you at your door any time of day within a few minutes.

For 30 years.
You need to think back as to what made you start job hunting in the first place. It didn’t happen spontaneously.

Will a counteroffer change that situation?
Betteridge's law of headlines is relevant here.
My insurance was billed $8000 for an MRI and paid out $7000. I was only responsible for $500, but it was really upsetting because I'd had one before and only had to pay $50. The high cost came from the facility being on hospital grounds, which I wasn't aware of since I entered the area leading to the radiology center through an entrance that didn't look anything like the inside of a hospital.
Definitely, it's popular because of its author, but it's good advice. And what if the way to success is in not giving up on your naivety?
In Ireland you have had enough time for parties to trend towards the biggest chunk of votes, which is what I’m labelling “centrist” though perhaps this is really “populist” :(

Naming things isn’t easy.
Curious... for international patients... if they just don't pay, is there anything the hospital can do?

It's not like it's going to affect their credit rating in Korea or anything?
a more obvious contemporary example might be elon musk.
What would that entail?
Comfy buses would be nice. Maybe some outpatient services where you recover at a local sporting event, fishing maybe....
If it's truly a post-apocalyptic environment, your "pre-war" wealth won't matter. Nobody will care how many zeros are in your bank's (non-functional) computer database. Your ability to survive and cause other people to survive would be all that counted. I've always thought of it as "having Mad Max skills."

What are your Mad Max skills? If the nuclear apocalypse comes and you survive, what useful skill do you have that will let you continue to live without the rule of law? Can you build a house? Fix a car? Grow crops? Butcher an animal properly? Land an airplane? I've always though everyone should have at least a few of these practical hands-on skills, in case the shit hits the fan. What good are your computer programming skills when there's no more electricity, let alone functional computers? So, you're a social media marketing manager for a global brand? If that's all you know how to do, you'll end up some local warlord's sex slave.

Why would "security forces" listen to some formerly rich corporate CEO? What has he to offer them?
Nothing they can do, having said that I belive if the patient is from a place that has a national system, they pay.

On the other hand medical bankruptcy is sadly frequent in the US so international patients isn't really a concern.
Thank you, this pretty much describes my current employer. The dead sea is so dead that the entrenched folks have established a number of policies that restrict access to various resources that are critical to performing work.

If you ever walk out of a technical meeting, summarize key details with one of the senior attendees and they tell you, "that's not what we discussed", then you probably work in a dead sea.
I still think it's quite cool. Even if it's crazy expensive right now, producing food factory-style in a very controlled environment should allow us to "software"-ize the entire process. Food as code. Which removes a big cost: thinking. Thinking is expensive.

Maybe we could grow food in a shipping container in a controlled environment. Then we can put a very precise cost on the production of food and deploy it anywhere, relying a lot less on weather and water availability. The ability to estimate costs accurately is itself very valuable.
No I can't find out where I can cancel my subscription on the Ring app. Where in the app is it found?
Not only that, but you only have 60 days to dispute. So don't miss a bank statement or you could be eating the fraudulent charge.
https://pxlfd.me/ is an open server and works fine for me so far.
I personally fear the "I have no mouth but I must scream" scenario.
Apt is so close. So close! The one feature that would make it so much better is to be able to export the list of packages that I’ve directly asked for (maybe you can do that?). On the other side, apt install could consume that. Being able to take a new machine running, say, Ubuntu 18.04 and get all of the stuff installed that I had on my old 14.04 box in a really easy way would be deadly.
I had a SGI Indy as my desktop machine in the mid-90s. It was a really awesome system at the time and I still miss it. A couple of random things that I remember:

- The 'lp' account (for the printing system) was not protected by a password on IRIX installs for the longest time. You could telnet in and exploit df(1) [1] and you'd have root. I obtained shells on a number of SGIs around the 'net in this manner back in the day. Good times!

- The author mentioned not being able to run EZSetup over an X11 session. As I recall, many of the graphical system utilities SGI's proprietary framework, which used some proprietary extensions that would not render over vanilla X11. The only way you could run them was from another SGI (using X11 forwarding) or from the local console. I'll bet this is why EZSetup never ran for you.

So much fun. I'm alllllmost tempted to go looking for an Indy on eBay. :)

[1] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19274/
The first and last quoted sections are sloppy/bad drafting.

The second is egregious, and embarrassing to be found in a YC company. You should not be asserting rights to how people "link" to you.

Third and fourth basically say any user provided "content" (whatever that may mean) is now "non-confidential" the "sole property of Goodcover", "entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these materials for any purpose".

That sounds like you plan to use some relatively sensitive user provided materials in any way you see fit to advance your company.

But wait! you say...we have a privacy policy! Great, except the privacy policy has an exception...

"We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
...
With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you through our Service that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information."

which arguably means that since the user accepted the T&C, they've approved your usage of their materials.

I don't feel you did this maliciously, you probably copied this from some template. Doesn't mean you shouldn't be thinking about this much more carefully though.
Time to learn Chinese
pixelfed development updates are available at https://pleroma.site/users/pixeldev
What protocol? I see a website promising a glorious crypto-future and a git repo with virtually no code in it. Seems vaguely familiar.
A number of years ago I called and asked what the cost for a procedure was at a local hospital.... they struggled to even tell me within a weeks time. The system is just insane.
After Proposition 47: Crime and No Consequences in California
Nanny State overreach which punishes small businesses and makes the busybodies feel good about themselves.

What else is new in California?
I’m actually sort of in this situation. I just interviewed for another position and it went extremely well. The thing is I’m pretty happy with my current job and role except for one dimension: Salary.

If they would pay me what the market says I’m worth (and I’ve done a ton of market research) then I’d be happy to stay where I am for the foreseeable future. But if another company offers me a job and the work and environment seem comparable but they’re willing to pay more... I’d seriously consider that offer and be prepared to leave. However, if my current employer comes back and says, “Actually we will beat that by x%” then I’d seriously consider staying.

It also helps that someone else in the company did just this and is still with the company a couple years later.
You should be able to just disconnect your facebook account, and login via email, no?
I want to offer my personal counter anecdote from the dissent around here. I recently got into fulltime C#, on purpose, over all other possible options. There's a lot of reasons why.

- Industrial strength language with static types. I used Python and JS a lot, I'm passing.

- Good tooling support, not every language has this.

- Good support in general, backwards compatibility (or side by side support).

- Game development possibilities with Unity.

- Mobile development with Xamarin.

- WebAssembly support already in motion with Blazor.

- Not cool, which is exactly what I want in tech. Fads don't belong in tech. Means more job opportunities for me too.

- Good serverside platform with .Net Core.

- Native on the most popular desktop platform.

- With full MS stack, opens up the option of being the sole IT guy at a small to midsize company. It's certainly possible.

- Similar to Java, lets me move over with minimal disruption if the job market demands.

- Write once, jobs everywhere. I can move back to the smaller area that I'm from. I live in Chicago right now but I've worked in 3 countries, 3 US states & .Net is popular enough in all those locales.

- Career stability, less technical churn in the C#/SQL space (and Java). I'm very tired of flavor of the week scripting languages that are many times really used heavily in NYC & SF.

- I'm not looking to learn new languages all the time. I'm looking to perfect myself as a consummate professional developer. I want to fully envelop all the things that I think people should, discrete mathematics, design patterns and I think learning new languages is great but there are other ways to become an exceptional programmer.

For me, it was C# or Java to base the next leg of my career on. I like the abstraction layer they're on, on a technical basis I think they nailed it. Sometimes newer isn't better. This isn't going to be popular, because a lot of people believe in Javascript and invested heavily there career-wise. I didn't want to and wasm is going to chunk out 25% of the single language fullstack market from Javascript in 5 years anyway and keep taking. Ideally going forward on the web side, I would only do a SPA with Blazor or static pages.

That's why I like C#. I'm looking forward to many relatively stable years in my career within the C#/SQL world without the trends. If it collapses, Java is in a similar situation marketwise.
Oblix: an efficient oblivious search index
Sorry, I had no more paper when it was time to do the videos, so you'll have to imagine it from the video demo images. Format is postcard, quality is postcard level with optional borders. Printer is specified, so you can see plenty of video of it printing.
I am not a fan of VS Code. It feels clunky and slow. Also Rider's auto complete is much nicer and faster.

So I have considered F#, but it doesn't seem that compelling. Also it seems like the tooling is worse on other platforms.
Intel isn't even following their own roadmaps (even the watered-down PAO). If it was planned, they'd at least make it look less embarrassing.
overall, did the Air Force spend more or less?