skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Health Care isn't really affordable through your job. The company is paying a large amount for it, rather than paying you that money in salary.

But you can make decent money in rural America, if you have a family, and still qualify for subsidies through the aca.
I feel like there are two kinds of preparations: personal and societal. I’m 100% behind working together to prepare for and mitigate global warming, but I’d really like to read more on how we can prepare personally for global warming. Besides striving for net 0, what else can an individual do to prepare for an unpredictable climate?
Whether or not the parent did those things, individual efforts of those sorts will not solve climate change alone. Technological and policy changes are required. One could rationally argue for such changes, accepting the personal impacts they would bring, even while being unwilling to make equivalent sacrifices absent that motivation. (For example, I might be in favor of a carbon tax that would make driving more expensive, leading me to cut down on unnecessary commuting, even if I would not voluntarily cut down otherwise. Because I know the impact of the tax, and the resulting impact on everyone's behavior, would make a difference worth that sacrifice, whereas my own individual change might not.)
And what if they weren't?

Would you have a problem with a phone company listening into your conversations and determining if you said something bad or not?
I disagree, but in any case you seem to be disregarding the context of my comment above, without which it is empty of meaning.
Usually the adult exchanges a roommate for a spouse, who also works to help pay the rent.
I used to use supermemo a lot but when I found out I couldn't export my cards (at the time anyway) I got nervous and switched to Anki

Does anybody know if the original creator is still in charge? Supermemo.com got reworked really heavily a couple of years ago and I wondered if he may have sold his company, or maybe just hired a team to make some apps
There's probably a block chain startup that solves the accountability problem in supply chains...
What makes them private? They're operated on the phone company's lines and by talking on their lines you're compelling them to carry certain speech. The logic that states private communication carriers have an unlimited right to ban what they want to on their networks leads to the conclusion that "private" phone calls can be censored.
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Iraq and the bank bailouts followed by absolutely no reform are two massive ones, but there had also been a death by a thousand cuts. I've lost track for example of how many nutritional recommendations have later been retracted. Those are small but they add up. Each time it's another reason to take official pronouncements with a grain of salt.

To this I would add a profound economic hollowing out. That always boosts distrust and brings out racism and xenophobia.
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It is true that the algorithm does work against them, but it isn't a perfect bubble. I'm sure every racist on youtube had that same casting an obsidian sword video recommended to them I've been seeing. I spent a couple months looking into the alt right a couple years ago and I saw it for myself. The algorithm is just going by what gets the clicks so when a major topic comes along it's not too uncommon to see different sides pop up as long as they are on the same subject.

The backfire effect is real, but it's obviously not impossible for a person to change their views on something. Even something somewhat fundamental. It can take a long time for a person to come around and they need to come to terms with the truth on their own but it can be overcome. Even the things they don't accept today will be in the back of their mind when they come across something similar in the future. It's not easy to make that kind of change, but people do it all the time.
There are a couple of tools that let you mirror records to different providers, via provider-specific APIs. But a general purpose implementation would be hard.

I wrote a system which stores DNS records in text-files, and when git pushes occurs updates Amazon Route53 with their contents - At one point I was considering mirroring records to another DNS provider or two, to remove lock-in, but it seemed like my customers didn't mind.

https://dns-api.com/
I'd call it a glaring design flaw. And if very, very few users might notice that documentation, then I'd call it a backdoor hidden in plain sight. For all intents and purposes it really is a backdoor.
The most basic part of a CFO's job would be to make sure the CEO understands that which he apparently did not do.
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> Moreover, projecting a cost-per-kwh over 20 years is a measure in futility. It's impossible to project energy prices 20 years in the future-- it's very possible another energy source will trump this facility's cost per kWh.

You don't have to predict any prices to predict the costs of a specific facility.

> In addition, cost per kWh amortizes the cost of construction where money is spent today for benefits to accrue in the future. How you determine this discount rate has a massive impact on the supposed value of the facility.

Sure, but it's easy to take the construction cost and run your preferred discounting math on it.

> behind every significant news article is a submarine

This ain't a submarine, it's clearly promoting the specific installation...
ISIS is pretty much running unchecked on twitter.
I didn't realize Anki had decent addons until your post. I accidentally just learned how to use cloze mode too after checking these out, so thanks for sharing!

(created an account just to write this)
Move inland and uphill.
It's not a straw-man, because it's using your literal point. I can't get any closer to your argument than that.

> However using that as an example, there are people who work as vermin exterminators, or people who work in labs that have to euthanise lab mice. They probably don't enjoy it, but when there's a need for something you'll find someone to do it.

Yes, but that does not serve as a reason why I should be the one to do it (instead of them), that only postulates that there are other people out there to do it, which is an irrelevant point.
This is an important distinction. For example, you might have adopted a waking/cycling/transit oriented lifestyle, but if the prior inhabitants of the urban neighborhood you gentrified are now displaced to freeway sprawl, total emissions have not declined. Actually they’ve gotten worse, since you probably use ridesharing and rentals sometimes, whereas the urban poor were stuck with the bus.
A few points about smoking in India:
* Ban on smoking in public places, streets is not strictly followed at all
* Cigarettes are available in every nook and cranny. There is hardly a road side tea shop that doesn't sell cigarettes
* Cigarette sticks can be bought (as against buying a entire pack), more so in road side tea shops
Thanks, didn't realise that. Its a shame that the Microsoft store is so terrible.

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/07/a-new-micr...
> Guess I either have to use Box<Error> and do a bunch of ugly downcasting ... or I have to write a bunch of code to define another error type...

Yes, that's the monadic equivalent to `catch(E1 e) {handle e}; catch(E2 e) {handle e}; catch(E3 e) {handle e}...`

On practice things get all over the place, with some times the exception being more concise and other times they being way more verbose. But the problem to be solved is not verbosity, it's with implicit code catching you by surprise, with too generic handlers on code that can't reasonably handle an error, and some issues with how errors interfere with code composition.
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> A website ban isn't even remotely the same thing as a legal sanction.

The Supreme Court seemed to have very different take (Packingham v. North Carolina):

"Social media allows users to gain access to information and communicate with one another on any subject that might come to mind. With one broad stroke, North Carolina bars access to what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and
knowledge. Foreclosing access to social media altogether thus prevents users from engaging in the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights."
The Economics of Hacking an Election
> Maybe it worked because the user had taken the bug into account, maybe it worked because the user didn't notice - again, it doesn't matter. It worked for the user.

That's also an argument for keeping security holes around. By definition those are bugs and users (albeit malicious ones) depend on them. How dare you fix a security hole and break a perfectly working exploit!
Couldn't resist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahcVp8vIicI&t=20s
Fair enough. No one has found stalking me an effective strategy so I didn't think of that.
I don't think you could show me enough inane neo-Nazi videos to make me a Nazi. Insane, ready to gouge my eyes out with an egg beater... maybe... but conversion is not likely.
So we should've just let ISIS take over Iraq and Syria ?
So down the line after few years and changing owners you're unable to install any firmware or to install used ECUs, most of the manufacturers are now online-only for diagnostic and flashing of course charging some premium, that destroys independend shops as you need to pay a subscription for every manufacturer, and cars and its parts still get stolen, "high tech thieves" belong to the movies, real ones load your car on a tow and it goes straight to another country.
There is the Waldo. Awesome progression.
Why you guys are not on Twitter? https://twitter.com/benoror/status/1027757144895094784
I think the main two solutions here are introspection and a little TDD.

`methodswith` tells you all methods that been defined on a type. Since it returns an array of methods you can do some more introspection on that, if you're so inclined.

I've also just written a few test cases using the interface I'd like, then worked on methods until my tests pass (which can be just not throwing MethodErrors).
Thanks. While everything you said is true, its also a hell of rush. Hardest part of changing careers ... no rush with a daily dose of dopamine.
No, the article says they had great difficulty hiring new people at the lower wage (plus benefits), which they did not at the higher wage (without benefits).
It says 25 seconds on average.

The cold-to-warm state change sounds like it's something you would only ever want to do in batch jobs.

But I can see many situations where you have a DB that only needs to actually be awake for short periods of time throughout the day for batch jobs. And even more that only need the barest minimum capacity available 24/7 with large spikes for batch-based processing.
What do you mean "can't"? It's hard for me to picture the government being unable to tax a product. It seems like an irrelevant thought experiment.
Jason: Any word on the name yet? My concern is the confusion with the existing my minizinc and flatzinc project, a standard constraint modeling language, which has nothing to do with crypto. There should be some better name for the Linux crypto lib.
Apologies for the tangent, however I just noticed that up to 150% zoom in Chrome the pictures will maintain their size while the text grows. That's pretty cool.

I mean, it seems obvious and I've never had to deal with this(does it rely on em or screen percentage sizing?!), but the way the Times formats the article seems to play particularly well with zoom.
you should be aware that VPN traffic still goes toward your 1TB data cap... actually, it probably uses a tiny more data then if you were not using a VPN...
It does scale to 0 when there are no connections to the DB.

Cold-to-warm takes 25 seconds, but for dev/test this shouldn't be a problem.
ISIS was created by the destabilization of those countries. There are plenty of easy to find links about this, so forgive me for not citing sources.

Also, given the nature of the activities, it's difficult to find authoritative sources, but I believe there were some WikiLeaks that had diplomatic cables discussing this.

Also if you read Syrian and Russian news, and the Syrians are certainly highly motivated to defeat ISIS as it's trying to take over their country, and the Russians are highly motivated to protect their ally, they both say the US has seemingly been helping ISIS as much as fighting it.
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Well at minimum we mostly know that alcohol and tobacco are on the higher level on the "harm" spectrum than other illegal drugs.

My takeaway is American drug usage has been shaped by a lot of socio economic factors that do not have human or societal health ramifications. There needs to be a total, science-backed overhaul of drug policy for this reason.
I agree on the clickbaityness of the title but disagree on your assertion that one can not predict what this price a project is willing to sell its energy generated at given the expected costs of developing the project. (This is different from them making a prediction in energy costs far into the future, which you assert).

This is because the majority of “material” factors within the project can be known with a reasonable degree of certainty today. Expectations of costs over the course of the project can in theory be protected via contract (I.e. land rights over decades, service agreements from manufacturers of the turbines) or are “fixed” and are “costs incurred today” and can be amortized over a given a period of time. Additionally, insurance and warranties on the equipment move the risks off to others to further help generating certainty which can be extrapolated to a reasonable “expected rate of returns/expected cash flows” - I.e. What, given all of what they’d know - the price of selling electricity over a given period of time is needed to pay back on the project. Apparently this developer determined that they can sell their electricity for 7.5Cents(USD)/kWh over a period for 20 years and still make a reasonable profit.

(Note: I also don’t agree that there isn’t an agenda/narrative with such an article & title. Just that if developers couldn’t predict such costs, they wouldn’t guarantee the low price in the first place).
I think any business should have the freedom to refuse to trade with anyone they dislike, however irrational or bigoted their decision may be. I also think everybody else can denounce, ostracize, or boycott them for similar, or rational and non-bigoted, inclinations.

Nowadays I do wonder about how much integrity is involved in our post-modern social strife. While I like to think I'd sell on principle my bread to anyone, regardless of behaviour or creed -- there are some awful people with whom I think, honestly, I'd rather have nothing to do with if I know what they've done (a child murderer or holocaust-supporter or rapist, or someone who defends them, to go to extremes).

Banishment is a social tool that has been in use for a long time (forever?), sometimes with very good reasons, probably as a last recourse; I'll feel better when we have deliberate and explicit criteria for this method.

ps: I'm neither a "conservative" nor a "progressive" -- though I uphold thoughts that may be labelled by others as one or the other.
It appears VS2003 didn't have a defined (default) floating point model. It was introduced in VS2005 (default: precise): https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/44e...
google "blue light mrsa"

Blue light kills cells. It's used in hospitals to kill germs and also use to treat acne. Hand dryers also use them. I'm not surprised it kills certain human cells as well.
Only at an absurd reduction. Few security holes are actually built on features for users.

Now, there is a tradeoff between security and convenience. That is also why fraud techniques haven't taken away credit cards as a thing. To that end, sometimes it is better to engineer a detection/mitigation strategy instead of removing the convenience.

And life seems to be full of more strawmen then makes sense. So, yes, you can easily find examples for this in either direction.
Ok, but when are you "starting the clock", if not now, then how long ago? 10 years? 20? 30?
Any language that doesn't acknowledge programmer laziness is faulty. All programmers will have times where they do only what is easiest to do right then. Sometimes you just need to get the happy path working, damn everything else.

Good languages account for this, and make the best choice the easiest choice whenever possible. If the best choice is twice as much work, there will be a lot times when the language encourages the programmer to do something else. I don't consider this a fault on the part of the programmer, I consider a fault on the part of the language.
The research on the subject has shown otherwise. Even if it wasn't:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...

Kansas showed how well it works in practice.

And even if you believe neither of those things:

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/01/517975766/while-trump-touts-s...

52% own any stock, so you are still effectively stealing from the other 48%
might be true today
Is there any evidence that there are more people who believe crazy things than before? It seems way more likely to me that there is a portion of the population who are nuts and basically cycle through various conspiracy theories.
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I had assumed that this would be a HTTPS service with a public end-point, available outside a VPC. But, looks like it is still deployed inside the VPC and accessible over JDBC. Did anyone find any configuration option to deploy it outside VPC? Overall, it looks like good old Aurora RDS with an auto start/stop option, and costing based on that start/stop duration.
Read Molecular Biology of the Cell. It's an indispensable book for anyone studying or interested in cell biology and molecular genetics. It has been described as “the most influential cell biology textbook of its time.”

https://brucealberts.ucsf.edu/current-projects/molecular-bio...

https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Sixth-Bruce-Alberts...
My wife's brother has retinitis pigmentosa. He's 64 and has been blind for years. You definitely have my sympathies.

I don't have any advice except to learn Braille, which I'm sure is not very encouraging. I hope a cure is found soon.
Ofcourse its the Saudi's. Why? because Tesla can make their oil worthless. Strange times indeed.
that's a good point, but if you go with any of the major "cloud" providers, I don't think that you would be in a better position.
You're making an argument about variations inside of "hard", which is missing the point.

There are people that act like renewables are in the "hard" class but coal/oil power isn't. They're wrong.
Temasek (Singapore sovereign fund) have the money to get involved if they want.
Can anyone give me an idea of how valuable a person's personal information really is? I know companies are willing to spend a lot of money on this data, but I'm not yet convinced that that's rational. What are some examples of attempts to measure, for instance, the amount of advertising power gained by mining personal data? Does it turn out to be very lucrative? Or is it just trying to get an edge on the competition in an advertising race-to-the-bottom?
"...if you didn’t have to worry about health care" Also known as That Thing Everyone Will Need To Worry About Eventually.
AWS tends to put the name "serverless" to anything that is designed to work with the rest of their serverless platform.

In this case, Aurora Serverless gets the name because it will scale to 0 which is useful for things like Lambda or Batch functions that only get called sporadically.
> nuclear chemistry is a real threat.

But the "51% attack" isn't?
Is that how it usually works? That's not what my wife says... oh.
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Yeah the article seems to reference what might have been a bigger issue... but rather just blames making people full time and some other dork ups.

I think this was a larger systematic thing.
I am loving this new love affair with cleantech and climate change from HN. So much good stuff in the front page last few weeks.
Hemingway did
That's not an exclusively cross-cultural issue. The tension between duty and emotion is fairly common in western literature.

For example, the entire premise of Lady Windermere's Fan (an Oscar Wilde play) is Lady Windermere interpreting her husband's slightly stiff and dutiful manner as disinterest. To the point where she starts suspecting him of an affair where he turns out to be looking after her mother.

Or more recently, most of the Richard Curtis movies play off similar "comedy of manners" themes as various characters find it hard to express what they feel for one reason or another.
I'll bite: yes, if there's rapport and the candidate doesn't feel caught off-guard or needlessly pressured. If it's whiteboarding like you'd whiteboard while on the job with your coworkers, that's a good idea that can tell you a lot about a candidate.
Unfortunately, in my experience, that doesn't seem to happen very often. A lot of people seem to treat it as an adversarial process or expect, for lack of a better description, a "performance" over contrived problems.

I've had my share of the second kind, which were without exception some of the most unpleasant interviews I've ever gone on.
FWIW, I think the real question is whether or not people’s inclinations can really be changed by exposure to information. To me is seems more likely that people seek out the information which confirms their world view. And if that’s true, then I think the imperative to shut down hate speech is greatly undermined.
It sounds like they already did some kind of 20yr swap - 'a long-term power-purchase agreement had helped the wind farm “offer an attractive price” to consumers'
Rudolf Diesel Patents a new Internal Combustion Engine (1898) [pdf]
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...
Good question. Maybe they buried their heads in the sand until they went broke and had to fire everyone. Rather than make a tough decision earlier.

Another theory if they cut staff they'd have to cut clients and therefore revenue would take a hit which would be bad for their image raising most more money. Might as well go "all in" hope to raise some more. If you go bust start another startup.
> Arguably echoes allegations that Jewist people control the media, but this is vague at best.

Don't insult our intelligence. It is obviously a vile statement about Jewish people.

http://archive.is/q8Guu if you need it to be even more obvious.
> (Third one if you count the printing press, but the adoption happened over generations, so societies had time to adopt)

Even though the printing press kicked off societal changes that took a few centuries to mature and settle down, it was only slow by our current standards. The societies and institutions that were being disrupted evolved in an environment that changed on millenial timescales, so they were, in some senses, shell shocked for most of those 'few centuries' due to a failure to adapt despite having ample (by our standards) time, and the new institutions that arose were regarded as disruptive upstarts for generations (eg. the Lutheran church).

Anyway. An order-of-magnitude change is going to be just as disruptive, even if the change is from "snail's pace" to "tortoise-like".