skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was freelancing I'd put a third of every client payment in a separate savings account. Wasn't really a sophisticated calculation, just making sure the money was set aside. As pointed out below, the need to make payments out of that account limits you to liquid cash accounts. Putting that money into a risky account to get a little extra interest seems like asking for trouble in the long term.
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Why not just work with the few last speakers / experts on the culture and language so that it's not offensive?

A lot of those people are proud of their language and would like to see it live and thrive again.
But I need to be explicitly told what to not only think, but feel!
Agreed. My first association is to back when lengthy Flash intros were all the rage. Some of them blew my young mind, but for the ones I remember, I have absolutely no idea whatever site was beyond that intro.swf.

It also reminds me about retail operations increasingly trying to make shopping an "experience", to lure consumers back from online shopping.
> consulting doesn't scale

IBM disagrees
You have a gifted daughter.
Certainly it was partly his fault for not reading the policy.
Maybe too much content? 1000+ pages, many architectures... Probably too much content for a beginner book?

Btw, a great book imho is "Assembly Language Step By Step - Programming with Linux - 3rd ed" (https://musho.tk/l/d2d56a34).

The great things is that it is an easy read and really starts from the basic and explains how the i386 architecture works, and then explains how to program it using assembly.

The sad thing is that afaik the author is quite old and probably is not going to release a 4th edition, meaning that the book will stay on intel i386.
If he says he doesn't remember his passcode, won't six months in jail pretty much guarantee that he will never remember it?

I forget my passwords all the time if I don't use them frequently. It's like muscle memory, so even after two weeks of vacation I struggle to remember them. Six months of not using it in a high stress environment would definitely cause me to forget it.
Budai is the one everyone always mistakes for Buddha, who in contrast was probably quite thin.
I was thinking about making an open source social-network just this morning. I'm all about "for profit" in general but as has been echoed a bunch in the comments already, a lot of corporations start off on a good trajectory but ultimately wind up in a place we don't like. I don't want to stoke any political flames, so I'll just leave it at that. :)

The reasons I would like to see a project like this succeed would be to have a network that better protects privacy and has very transparent censorship. I'm not super well versed in open source and non-profit but my current thinking is that making an organization of similar style to wikipedia would be the best strategy. Open source the code, own the hardware and raise money through donations.

Do you think I'm missing something or would this be the best strategy? Also, is there already a project(s) like this?
It's the same for Android vs iOS as well. With Android you have so many options that it's overwhelming, with an iPhone you'll have a product that is better than most Android phones and you don't have to worry about the chance of choice.

For a lot of people that's comforting.
It isn't reasonable to infer that my statement that lying to investors is fraud somehow means lying to customers is totes okay.
Pandora's Star has a species that communicates by luminescence outside the (human) visible spectrum.
This seems to be one of those "why don't you just be productive?" arguments, which tends to miss the point of why someone did something to begin with. There's a reason Star Trek fans learn Klingon and not a real language, they're fascinated with Klingons but not a real culture, so the energy to learn, say, Basque, was never there to begin with.

I feel similar with history, if I am just doing it for entertainment I'd much rather learn a constructed history rather than the real one.
Didn't know about the Minuteman, but I know that the SR-71 featured an astroinertial navigation system that indeed used the stars for correcting the inertial data: https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...
Regular paying user here. I agree that it's overpriced. They need to fight back on features. They'll never win on price alone.
Does Kittel define Shannon entropy?
L1 cannot be too big and it should not grow any larger. L2 is a better option being 'only' 3 times slower than L1 (L1 tend to be ~3 clocks to read).
L3 is an interesting concept. Communication through L3 is quite beneficial in concurrent programming when done right; other than that it's there to hide the latency of accessing RAM. However, it's shared and easy to trash.

The software developers could do a lot for memory throughput hungry applications (datastructure layout, not using bloated strings for everything, not using linked lists, etc.), alas memory based optimizations almost never happen and tend to require a great deal of hardware understanding + non scripting language(s).
Most of the time in a desk, I do travel a lot though. And when I'm using my laptop on my lap, I use the clitoris-like trackpoint, which I think it's terrible but I can work just fine with it.

I also have a Dell XPS and the touchpad is decent, I can work fine with it.

As I said, I'm not questioning the fact that Macs touchpads are superior, but I'm curious as to what are your use cases that make you think that you really need that superb touchpad? are you a graphic designer?
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> And it could raise your rates

And it could lower your rates.
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It's a known issue with TWFB. I don't know if they're planning on fixing it, but most frameworks that are not in newer rounds are not appearing in older rounds any longer.
That's ok with me? I wish it were like life insurance where they can ask you anything and then you get that rate locked down for the term.

I also actually liked the proposal in Congress that got rejected: allow people to make their own groups. So if you are a person who likes to work out and get your fat levels tested once a year, you could join a group of like minded individuals and insurance companies would bid to insure your group.
Name and shame, please.
> You were the one expressing in absolutes.

No, I was not. Go back and actually read my comment, I very specifically talked about myself and my precision using a trackpoint. In support of lokedhs professing to the same. And as an expression of the uselessness and irrelevance of isostatic's comment answering a question nobody'd asked.

But as usual the trackpoint zealots can't even take an expression of personal issues as anything but a personal attack on their way of life. Ya folks are tiring.
Heard about this article on NPR this morning. Thought the concern was valid but a little on the alarmist end of things.

Most of the data they need to know if you are going to be an expensive subscriber or a cheap one you're required to give them directly: Your age, your gender, your home address and the list of services you received at your doctor's visits that they were billed for.

Both healthcare providers and insurance providers know that the most efficient way to lower your healthcare costs is to get the patient to go to preventive care visits and keep them out of the ER. It doesn't matter how much money you give them each month, if they can prevent you from going to the doctor all together it's 100% (roughly) profit.
> My favourite example is Die Hard, which was translated to Polish as "Szklana Pułapka" (a glass trap). Presumably because the action took place in a skyscraper. I just wish I could have seen the faces of TV execs when they learned that Die Hard 2 came out, and was about airplane hijacking.

Same. In Spanish that title was translated as "La Jungla de Cristal" (The Glass Jungle). There seems to be some common agreement here :D
Therefore you say I see more than (y - 2) statues while he says morethan (x + 2) until you both repeat the same value.

You know you cannot lie so a simple iteration on inequalities is enough to find the right value.

This relies on your friend figuring out the linear addition scheme.
It's not even EV payments they require. It's just specifically not lets-encrypt certs and self signed certs.
> Insurers contend they use the information to spot health issues in their clients — and flag them so they get services they need.

Horse shit. And I say that as someone who writes claims management software for the healthcare industry.

I challenge ANY health insurer to provide examples of this. Of course, they won't, because they'll cite "patient confidentiality", but that just doesn't happen.

They've wanted to do this for years, though, and try to. Requests to be able mine claim data for familial predispositions to diseases was one that we fended off multiple times.
This is complete nonsense and entirely speculative. They admit as much when they inform you they can find no evidence of any individual underwriting decision being made based on this data, which the companies strongly deny, and would be illegal. Insurance is highly regulated, both on a state and federal level. Pricing algorithms and variables are public in most states (albeit obfuscated).

What does seem to be happening is the companies are using third party data providers for marketing and market analysis, as literally every other company from your local HVAC guy to McDonald's does.
Why the downvotes? He's right. The thing about insurance is that the only reason it works is because of imperfect information about the future. The more accurately people can be priced, the more pointless private health insurance becomes: the expensive patients (pre-existing conditions, or just people with bad luck) will get accurately priced and have impossible premiums and won't bother, and the cheap patients will realize they probably don't need it, take a gamble and also not bother. Microtargeted health insurance will be its own undoing.
The authors of Seastar used to use Lwan to benchmark their HTTP server implementation. When Seastar isn't using DPDK/usermode TCP stack, and drops to the POSIX API, Lwan is still faster.
Pros/Cons in comparison to similar websites like hunter.io?
A lease is a depreciation financing program. It only makes sense if you want to change your car every 3 years.

I think if they called it a Deprecation Financing Program they wouldn't get so many customers.
You still need a driver to stop when someone runs out in front, which means you're not going to be running at a 2 minute frequency in every direction.
Signing messages is completely separate from encryption.

Also there is no longer separate quality gps for military vs civilian use:

https://www.cnet.com/news/celebrating-10-years-of-gps-for-th...
Just googled the COO, she is pretty big in the security community. Also was CISO at a Dutch Telecom, and they have Phil Zimmerman!

Im not worried about the budget for marketing, they seem to have managed to get themselves into a few leading publications already and the early backers will provide initial beta users + word of mouth marketing.

What remains to be seen is if the team can execute, I guess only time will tell. Overall good initiative though.
How do you even authenticate the info if it's from a hostile government?
Glad MS poached Stolee from Iowa State.
I had kept repairability issue aside until I had to go for flash drive replacement of my 2012 13" MacBook Air recently.

Apple support (which is a 3rd party in my country) said ~$400 and local repair guys quotes like $350 or so. The new MBA (last year's) is available for ~800 here. Apparently I can't get any other brand's flash drive fit in there.

That laptop worked just fine (battery, screen all). I wish I can find a way to give it another year or two. Maybe boot from a memory card or so and leave it plugged all the time?
I'm somewhat sympathetic to the insurance company here. Travel insurance is there to take care of emergency medical care. It's not for long term care. The guy clearly didn't want to travel because he preferred to be cared in Singapore. From his e-mail:

>I intend to stay in Asia for some time yet. I did consider travelling home to have surgery in the UK, but the medical Service here is excellent and I'm already scheduled in for the procedure on Monday. I was concerned about the long haul flight and travel time with a broken hand and fractured rib, as well as potential waiting times on the NHS.

So he's pretty clearly trying to game the situation. He wanted to keep traveling and avoid the NHS. The letter from the doctor saying he was not fit to fly simply states:

>The patient Badger Ryan Sean was admitted from 11/6 to 12/6 for an operation for a right index finger proximal phalanx avulsion fracture on 31/5 and was not fit for flying before his operation for his fracture.

It's reasonable for the insurance company to ask for more details and a specific reason why he wasn't fit to fly.
Can you point to the cases that concern you? I haven't been following it closely enough.
Oh, that's a shame. Why is lwan no longer in the newer rounds?
hey - thanks for the reply! Looks like a great example. Digging into to his blog after work
There's a fairly big community of offgrid devs on scuttlebutt. Which makes perfect sense, given that the whole protocol/application was written for that use case :)

EDIT:

A very noisy overview of said community (with loads of un-/subscribe spam and such) is here:
https://viewer.heropunch.io/channel/offgrid?showAll
Expecting insurers to be magnanimous will always lead to disappointment and anger.

Unfortunately, it is a fact of life that insurers will nearly always err on the side of denying a claim if they can find an excuse to. That's why it's important to (a) read the fine print in the policies you purchase and (b) hire an attorney if you believe that you have been unfairly denied a claim.

Even if a claim is valid, insurers will also do whatever it takes to minimize their payouts. In this case, paying for transport to the UK for additional treatment would have been far cheaper than paying a Singaporean hospital for it, and so it's unsurprising that they pressured the claimant to hop on a flight instead of stay in Singapore since the injury did not contraindicate air travel (or at least there was significant disagreement as to that question).
Monorepo is also an answer (though perhaps not the best) to the problem of having dependencies that are volatile.

If you can build your design philosophy on getting library code to be stable fairly quickly, then making a change to the system need not start an avalanche of rebuilds and redeployments, making monorepo less of a win.

But people like their kitchen sinks, their one stop shopping. And who has time to think about where the best place for a piece of code is. We are doing Agile! And that apparently means “no architecture” to way too many people.
Huh, this is actually making me want to give Perl 6 another try.

How is performance on a task like this compared to, say, Python?
I think my favorite part of the article is this quote: "Personal finance experts love to discuss how much money you can save by avoiding that daily Starbucks habit or packing a brown bag lunch every day at the office." followed by "this stuff doesn’t move the needle all that much"
Please be serious here: stuff like this never causes prices to go down, only up. As information becomes perfect, the "problematic" expensive patients will see their premiums rise to the level of their actual cost to the system-- which is huge and impossible to pay, so they'll drop out-- and premiums for everyone else will stay the same, except with the added anxiety that anything you do could cause your rates to go up at any time.
Yes. And in other news a bicycle is faster than a Ferrari with no engine

EDIT: touché! i agree!
I can see two obvious solutions to this. One would be to require insurers to prove bad faith when using a form error to deny a claim. Honest mistakes should not result in denied claims. Another would be to have a statute of limitations, where the insurer has, say, three months to find and point out any mistakes, and after that they’re stuck with what they have.
If you find the moments and poses evocative enough, that only speaks about the photographer. The kid only photocopied the photos to his canvas/paper.

I'm fine with you or anyone else being impressed with this, but for many others like me this isn't impressive at all. I believe anyone can produce drawings and paintings like these; even much younger kids, once you teach them this very simple grid method.

You say art is a subjective discussion and I agree. What we don't seem to agree on is what art is. Perfectly copying a photo by using a grid certainly isn't art to me. Or course, if he took any of those photos, then yes, we could subjectively discuss if he's a good artist or not, but his realistic drawings have nothing to do with that.
Analog electronics is basically only used nowadays when digital literally cannot accomplish the task (RF, SERDES, ADC/DAC). I haven't seen any asynchronous designs that can do things sync designs can't do, just that claim to be better by some metric. Until now, process improvements have made these benefits of async design not worth the additional design effort.

I agree that async design is worth researching, but there is a good reason that undergrad level digital design assumes sync.

The game may change going forward since Dennard scaling is dead. 'deepnotderp probably has some interesting insights on this topic, perhaps he will chime in.
Yeah but that's for the insurer. Getting "insurance insurance" would be for the customer, to protect getting screwed over by their original insurer, who has chosen the short-term option of rejecting a valid claim, but which results in long-term loss of trust in the entire industry. The only solution being...more insurance? Crazy.
Yeah but you can still be living in the same relative poverty as they are.
This will ensure the death of the private healthcare system.

We don't have a private health-care system, and haven't for a very long time. The government and big corporations[1] are so deeply entwined into the current system that it barely approaches anything that could be called "private".

[1]: Corporations are a legal fiction which depend on the State for their existence.
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You may have fended it off but I assure you there is a whole industry devoted to using claims and other health data to manage care and costs. Insurers are primary partners of these companies and act as both providers and consumers of the data.

Not just insurers, but big hospitals and provider networks, too.
What's the full story behind Elon Musk's involvement with the Thai cave rescue?
When our daughter visited Bali with a friend last year she was also in a motorbike crash. I guess a lot of people think it will be fun to ride a motorbike in Bali. Her hand was badly cut and needed stitches. We had to transfer the cash to her friend's debit account so it could be paid out on the spot, but once that was done the ER docs did a great job sewing her up, and $700 seemed like a hell of a bargain compared to what a visit to the ER and some stitches probably would have cost in the U.S.
Because I failed to move the benchmark harness from the Lwan repository to the TWFB repository. Also, I'm not really spending a lot of time on Lwan any longer; there are so many things I'd like to do, and so little time. :)
I mean poverty is poverty even in America.

50% of Americans can't come.up with 500 bucks in case of emergency.
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He did read the policy. He also read the 94 page medical manual they later sent him, which presumably wasn't in the original policy. He found the reason in all those pages of text why he was eligible for getting his costs covered, and they still replied with:

> “This is a general exclusion and doesn’t apply to you specifically. Our decision still stands with curtailment. No further medical input needed.

Why do you feel that he shares any part of the blame here? Why do you expect him to be an expert in reading and interpreting insurance policies in the middle of a medical emergency?
Wow, vpn.com just sold for $976k but don’t be sad you can still get svpn.com
I'll make a defense of pdf publishing here. The points the author makes are good, but also show why pdf has a role to play. Responsive design being the most difficult. Imagine you're producing a scientific paper, and it contains a big table. It's unreasonable to ask an author to figure out how make every table and figure display correctly on every screen.

Think of it this way. If you're publishing a pdf, then you master the formatting using your word processor (latex, word, what have you). On the other hand, if you're publishing on a responsive web site, then you really ought to have a content management system to guide you through the requirements of the platform. It's a significantly higher hurdle, both for the authors and the platform owners.
What other types of insurance did your inner mathematician prevent you from getting? Did you also skip out on health insurance because the premiums are a markup on the expected value of your health care costs?
While you should certainly have a healthy savings account for emergencies, these stories are always the exception. Thousands upon thousands of claims are filed every day, and they aren't ending up with this level of pain.

Heck, when I had a tree fall on my house, the mortgage company was a bigger pain in the arse than the insurance company was to deal with. They came out, took some pictures, asked me to get a quote to fix it, and sent me a check in the mail.

Similar thing happened to me with car insurance. And, while I ended up paying more than I would have liked to get my gal bladder removed, that was largely because I bought a high deductible health insurance plan and knew that was a potential outcome.
Could you please not do this?

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I assume the hostage negotiators aren't saying "ok, release the elderly and go ahead and kill everyone else", but "ok, let's start by releasing two hostages and then I'll get you a pizza" or something like that.
And people voluntarily spend money to send their DNA to some random websites. Sure, they don't use it in this way now, but for how long can they hold off on the temptation?
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