skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To bring down cost you don’t bring down the subsidies, but you let the government negotiate price limits on subsidized goods and services.

This is how health care and college subsidies work in my country. The government negotiates with the universities and medical industry what the price and the subsidy level will be. Schools and health care can opt out of the subsidy scheme and shrink their market to the rich or opt in and have lower margins with higher quantities. Most choose to opt in, even the top tier.

The trick is using the negotiating power of government, which is something U.S. politicians are unwilling to do.
Where do good developers hide
That seems fine to me. Banks are in the business of calculating risk on loans, they can work out under what conditions they're willing to loan money to students who have little to lose by declaring bankruptcy.

If they basically shut down all student funding, that doesn't seem like a huge problem either - it's a fairly bad model and I think society would benefit for from the pressure to find a better way to educate people.

It's a difficult question, it would have a lot of unpredictable knock-on effects. But subjecting the industry to market pressures seems a move in the right direction.
>>Why repeat absurd rumors about billion dollar investor lawsuits?

You misunderstand. The calculation is not about a single lawsuit costing billions. It's about potential damages from ALL possible lawsuits from pissed off short-sellers. And that's not absurd at all - it's a real possibility, since Tesla stock is one of the most popular on the stock market.
Which parts are you talking about?
> that Musk is the only billionaire alive whose work is a net positive on the world

No. But he’s a better bet than many. Including network effects, his work has added value, if only by accelerating retroactively obvious ideas.
It has, unfortunately, become a prominent moral issue, and a way to signal one's team affiliation. The label "diversity" evokes as emotional of a response as "gun control", "pro choice", "immigration", "Affirmative Action" etc. It's a tribal identifier, not a topic of conversation. You're either with us, or you're a hate monger with no human dignity to be acknowledged.

Just saying "Hey guys, I don't know if this it totally sensible, can we take a breather and investigate if this really makes sense?" immediately equates you to someone with a tiki torch or an Uncle Tom, if you don't happen to be caucasian.

Ironically, this self-consuming zeal is at its most fervent in the Bay Area, which is AS progressive and left leaning as you can imagine. Everybody's preaching to the choir. And because invoking moderation in the area is seen as a moral transgression, the region cannot but constantly radicalize itself even further, due to lack of opposing opinion.

And yes, the Apple case is amusing. You could have put together a room of white men of all sorts of social, cultural and financial backgrounds from the US, South Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America etc and regardless they would have all been immediately reduced to "cisgendered, privileged white men". I guess we have a word for that kind of treatment, but apparently it only applies in one direction.
Would love to hear more about this. If you like shoot me a message with some of your experience to hello[at]buzzngo.io
The self-driving crashes have mostly been users using autopilot irresponsibly, from what I've read. Still, I'm not arguing the finer points; both Musk the person and Tesla the company have made some bad, sometimes even ethically dubious decisions. My point was that, for all of today's Captains Of Industry "solving problems" that's don't actually exist, dismantling democracy and privacy and destroying millions of people's livelihoods in the process, Musk stands out for funding and directing actual, honest-to-god human progress, despite everything else he and his companies may have done.
What breach? Kid could have downloaded 90 gigs of encrypted data he couldn’t decrypt.
Which ones? Screen, flash memory, CPU, DRAM, battery come to mind. All of these product types are also manufactured in the US, but not the majority of the output.
I wonder how much time the avg person spends at home now vs the 90s, I'm sure its way more now.
Linking this explicitly to safe harbour like you've done is important -- the knee-jerk response online is often to condemn Facebook for not policing content but to defend content hosters for not being able to filter out all instances of copyright violations.

Maybe those positions are held by different people, and maybe there's some good-faith "make an effort" middleground, and maybe the standards should be different because nobody dies when someone pirates Westworld, but they're clearly analogous.

If we do have different standards we should be able to back it up with argument, and try hard not to let how much we like the companies colour our judgement.
This is the type thing that makes me support President Trump. The Chinese have very unfair business practices and they require a strong President to deal with them.
You're just making up stuff. Why?
In India, especially bigger cities like Bangalore, this has had a different effect - the rise of the delivery-only restaurant. These places are typically listed only on the delivery apps (Swiggy, Food Panda, Uber Eats), and don't have any other way to sell direct. Some of them are quite good, and we've ended up becoming regular customers.

That said, smaller restaurants in India don't depend as much on beverage revenue to start with - and most places don't serve alcohol.

Also - my father who owns a small resto hates pretty much every delivery service. They refuse to do anything beyond "We can't help you, it's policy", anytime an issue happens. For instance, you can order food with cash on delivery here. The delivery guy is supposed to pay the restaurant before he picks the food up. On one occasion, the delivery guy said that he did not have cash and would pay up once the end customer paid up. At some point, the end customer refused the delivery, so this guy came back, quietly left the parcel on a table and disappeared. The platform of course was of no help.
That won't stop the process-wide registered signal handler working and it won't do anything about being able to reliably handle synchronous signals.
Complicating things, some countries will not issue a new passport before confiscating the expired one.

I know multiple people who reported their expiring passport as stolen, just to be able to keep it (usually for purposes of having proof that they've held certain visas in the past).
I said "over-correct for the tendency", you heard "affirmative action."

As another follow-up to another comment of yours suggests, there are probably many ways to accomplish that end without quotas, or any number of other similar approaches. Asserting the problems with those doesn't negate the principle. "The crude, tip-the-scales-a-bit approach we've tried so far has some problems. I guess we shouldn't try to fix this stuff..."

Huh?

But the specific thing I, personally, want to see people do about this stuff is simple: to question their own narratives about it.

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." — Feynman
You can always start with the letter, even if it gets ignored, it costs you little to try while you investigate more complicated approaches.
Name another billionaire, other than maybe Bill Gates, who's presently doing anything good, at all.
It depends. Extensions cannot modify or do anything with the content of a PDF tab (I wanted to make a PDF dark mode extension). I wish there were special permissions for that.
Do your friend's prescriptions really come up in conversation that often?

I have no idea what prescriptions my friends may or may not have with the exception of one or two really close friends.
For most people in South Korea, Naver search is better than Google search. I have no reason to doubt that for most people in China, Baidu search is better than Google search.
You’re being pretty selective there. MANY states require an Ignition Interlock Device:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/state-ignition-i...

This not only costs thousands of dollars – a very significant amount of money to the vast majority of Americans – but it also SEVERELY limits an individual’s ability to drive a work vehicle.

Yes, prison time is not always involved, but the financial cost of a DUI can be quite serious.
Every other paragraph the ad box tries to run a full screen video with unmuted audio by default. I got headache some half way thru article and then gave up reading. From authors work, it doesnt seem this particular blogger needs my two cents from ads he runs to live a decent life. Its sad how the state of internet looks like these days ;(
That was a lot more interesting than the "man, bloatware" complaint I was expecting from the title.
> Most are probably wealthy, to the point they don't really need to work.

I have been working at one of the FAANGs in SV for almost 15 years and no, this is absolutely not right. Only less than 5% of my colleagues "don't need to work". A lot of smart people I know would happily work for Google even after it goes ahead with China plans.

> And at least a few of them are starting to have qualms...

This is true. But that number is just a tiny, albeit loud, minority.
> It's almost as if the narrative is that empathy is dead, no person could possibly ever think about anything other than themselves. Somebody who thinks this would appear to lack personal experience of empathy, draw your own conclusions.

Probably an accurate reflection of the people who are proposing that world view.
Start with option 1. As long as you’re authentically interested in the genealogy project and understand it might take a while to hear back, a letter should be fine.
> What about all those recent self-driving crashes?

What about Apollo 1? There is a difference between a civilian and military death. But they are both pursuing progress. One can’t discount the costs without any concept of the potential benefits.
If you’ve got the money, there are a couple of good ways around that. This article seemed to explain it pretty well:

https://www.adamgreenmanlaw.com/blog/can-you-go-to-canada-wi...
I am so glad I don't work on browser internals.
Gmail and Inbox both hang for me on my Chrome on Linux with almost no load.

It's funny how tides turn. Initially Gmail was the king of performance.
> Judaism has no hell, ask any religious Jew.

Not all historical variations of Jewish religious beliefs that existed near the time of the birth of Christianity still exist as Jewish beliefs, but, AFAICT, the Jewish belief of at a minimum something like a Purgatory is still active; the concept of hell/Gehenna explicit in the Gospels as a place of punishment reflected (possibly an evolution from) a then-current (but not at all universal) Jewish religious belief related to the one that remains current in some branches of Judaism.

> Ghenna was a burning trash heap, not a place of torment.

This idea appears to be a medieval Jewish invention. It was, again, specifically in the Hebrew scriptures, a place where children were sacrificed by fire by non-Jews.

> Also, christian Churches don't teach Jewish theology

No, they teach Christian theology, but Christian theology didn't, as whole, arise ex nihilo with the formation of Christianity as a distinct religious community, it evolved, in many specifics, from Jewish theology that existed where and when Christianity emerged.

> they teach a version of Catholisim,

Well, no. It's true that most (but not all) now-existing branches of Christianity diverged at some point from the Church that was institutionalized in Rome in the same way that Christianity itself diverged from Judaism; to claim, then, that they teach “a version of Catholicism” is true only in the exact same way as saying that they teach a version of Judaism is.

> and eternal burning hell fire of punishment is found in the Vatican's own Catechism of the Catholic Church.

It's found in the Gospel of Mark (9:43); from the KJV:

“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched”

And also in Revelation (20:10):

“And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

I'm pretty sure the authors of the Gospel and the Revelation weren't inspired by theological developments that would occur after the institutionalization of Roman Catholicism.

> The bible is clear that when you die, you are either asleep, like King David was (Jesus referenced his bones) or burned up and gone forever, the lake of fire from Revelations

This is phenomenally wrong: the Bible uses lots of different and superficially conflicting images of afterlife states, and the lake of fire of Revelation is explicitly one of eternal torment at least for some.
Ask HN: Non-SMTP single server internal mail system?
Hi HN,
I'm building a project that needs to have an "internal" mail system for users to communicate between each other on a website.
It will never route to the outside world (think "messages" that you would send on a dating site).

The scale is very small (less than 500 users).

I'm sure that there must be a number of projects floating around on GitHub that fulfill this purpose.

The best option at this point seems to be using something like phpBB and disabling all forums.
Surely that is overkill for such a simple requirement?
Oh god, not another chat app, email app, calendar, todo, music, social network, notes, drawing, flashy game. Definitely no more fart apps.
Google Staff Tell Bosses China Censorship Is “Moral and Ethical” Crisis
I've learned to avoid vb.net shops not because of the language per se, but because of the culture that allows for sticking with something that has widely considered legacy for some time now.

I know this is painting with a broad brush, and I'm working from a sample size of 2 (or, 2 vb.net shops that I've worked with), and the software engineering culture as a whole was really bad on those teams.
I hear "culture fit" a lot from recruiters. They are just talking about it generally...but it is so vauge I have no idea what to say.
Career Sprints: The Agile Performance Review
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Not for us Thais. We are visa free. I think they do it the way your country imposed them first. EU imposed the visa, they do the same back etc.

That's what I believe at least. :)
The Apollo 1 astronauts were willing participants and very clearly knew the risks. With poorly-designed self-driving cars, everyone is an unwilling participant.
Trump voters have not shown that there is a line that they will not accept from the President. As long as he does it, he gains approval, regardless of any real outcomes. I think people expecting a blue wave are in for a rough shock when actual election results come in. Trump voters are loyal, and more importantly, show up to vote instead of just talking about how they wish they could change something.
Your comment uses the word 'margin' in two different senses, which makes it hard to evaluate its claims.

When you talk about 'beverage margins' or 'food margins', you must be talking about 'gross margin', i.e. [selling price, less direct costs of good sold] / [selling price]

When you talk about 'restaurant margins' and mention 2-6%, you must be talking about net profit margin (i.e. profit as a percentage of revenue).

It seems like you're comparing gross margin on beverages, with net margin for a restaurant overall. Not apples to apples.

The markup on food (based on ingredients only) and wine is similar (3x). It costs virtually nothing to store wine or to prepare it for sale. But the process to take ingredients and make a meal takes a lot of labour and machines.
Please don't turn this into some language flame war. This isn't the place for that type of mentality.
“I work on Chrome, on Windows”

...

chrome_child.dll (stack base)
KernelBase.dll!VirtualAlloc
ntoskrnl.exe!MiCommitVadCfgBits
ntoskrnl.exe!MiPopulateCfgBitMap
ntoskrnl.exe!ExAcquirePushLockExclusiveEx
ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForSingleObject (stack leaf)

So don’t use a proprietary kernel that performs poorly?
Uggh. I'll talk to wordpress. They were supposed to turn off the video ads. I agree, it is sad.
You should ask Alexa once or twice a day for whom she works. To remind yourself what you have in your home.
Well, it might have been Airborn.io, the Google Docs competitor that this library grew out of.
There's totally an outcry over "shrink it and pink it" as a marketing strategy. But, that's not what you were getting at, and indeed, you won't see much fuss about "shrink it and pink it" on HN.
Based on my personal experience with this service, I guess two things have happened that would make them profitable:

1. DoorDash has started gouging customers with exorbitant fees - restaurant tip, service charge, delivery fee, driver tip etc. I stopped using service after that. Remaining customers could the true "target demographics" for DoorDash, who might be price insensitive or really busy in their lives, thus improving DoorDash's financials.

2. Softbank betting big and investing lavishly on gig economy companies (see: Uber, Didi, Grub, now DoorDash etc)
Based on the location we get some first demographic information (like banking sector, shopping mall, university campus,..)

In case of political questions it is not enough to place only one station in one city but instead up to 20 stations in more than 5 cities. A typical question would be “Would you vote for Person A or Person B?”
The system then periodically makes a pattern analysis and informs you about insights (“People with an academic background tend to vote for person A whereas people in north Germany tend to vote for B”)

The technology is most powerful when many stations are activated and orchestrated at the same time at different locations.
Cosyan – Transactional RDBMS with multi-table constraint logic
If you hate ads, and you hate the state of the internet, run adblock.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

Seriously. Adblock is the way you have to fight back, to change the economics of the internet. Install it, use it indiscriminately, and make sure you tell others to use it.

My company makes a decent chunk of money from ads btw. Not because we can't make money another, better and cleaner way, but because it makes no sense to leave money off the table when the adblock rates are so low.
I had to implement A* at university, with a little application that also showed the status of the algorithm as it found the shortest path on a little ASCII bitmap.

It was probably one of the most fun and satisfying projects I did at university, alongside coding my own implementation of the RIPv2 routing protocol and my embedded systems projects (the last of which was creating a bluetooth controlled car with a webcam on it, which required us to design and build the entire board around a provided microcontroller).

It was just so satisfying to implement something that just a couple of years prior was practically magic.
Tesla said to seek number 2 exec as Musk’s behavior angers board
Musk has turned himself into a marketing machine in the same manner that the Kardashians have. He sets up dramatic situations that have villains and he plays the good guy trying to save the world from ruin.

I commend him for being able to manipulate the media. With their help he's been able to build a billion dollar company. I wish I could do the same.

But at this point, I DON'T CARE. All I want to do is read the news and keep up to date with what is happening without having to read anything about him.

I find it interesting how we celebrate the fact that we now have all the information we want at our fingertips. But I feel less informed now than when TV and newspapers were the major form of information distributors. -- mainly because of all the trashy info that's available to us. The Tesla daily drama is a great example of trashy news.

Tesla can survive or disappear, I don't care. Just get off the daily headlines.
Everything she accomplished has been rolled back or is in the process of being rolled back. Democrats have not had solid staying power or the ability to get things done at a congressional level in my lifetime. You literally have the least productive congress in history in place dominated by Republicans and there is no clear, strong message from the Democratic party. If Democrats hope to ever regain political clout, they need to take a serious look at where they are versus where they would like to be and find out what is causing that delta. They certainly haven't captured the message, everything that is being done today is reactionary.
You're right that food margins are typically 66%.

But this considers only the cost of ingredients. So you'd rather sell a bottle of wine for $15 (that cost $5) than sell a meal for $15 (whose ingredients cost $5).

On your final point, I suspect that delivery via Doordash or similar can take margin that a restaurant's own delivery service (via phoning in) would have made, and that Doordash has inserted itself as an intermediary (with a margin) where none was present before. The pie might be bigger but I'm not sure whether Doordash is capturing less than or more than 100% of the increase.
I wouldn't include the self-driving tech among the world-changing progress. Climate change is a pressing disaster for our whole species; self-driving cars are not urgent enough to be pursued with the same intensity, and are dangerous enough to deserve more rigour.
The first female senator to give birth in office needed the rules changed so she could breastfeed her baby at work and still do her job. Historically, no family members were allowed on the Senate floor. Until a woman gave birth as a senator, this was not an issue.

Some years ago, a Jewish person on a professional forum told an anecdote about some group trying to do outreach to the Jewish community and scheduling their first meeting on the night of some really major Jewish holiday, a holiday so big he compared it to Christmas. Unsurprisingly, no Jews attended this meeting.

When I worked at Aflac, they always said "We hire everyone because we sell to everyone." If you don't have any members of certain demographics on your team, there will be things that just never occur to you that you may never learn you needed to know if you wanted to genuinely serve such people.
I need 27 seconds on Firefox 52.9 ESR (Debian) and about 20,287 kbyte of data transferred in 148 requests just to reach an idle GMail tab.

What is all this stuff even doing?
When coming into the USA from an international location, the reason you have to go through security before catching your connecting flight is that the US won’t accept “implied screening”, meaning, screening that was done by another authority. It’s not about airport configuration or size.
I haven't been the biggest Musk fan but this profile did evoke sympathy from me, and felt far more honest than the persona he conveys via Twitter. I don't get how the board could for so long be OK knowing that Musk is as he is, and not putting a much higher priority in finding a second-in-command. What Tesla is trying to achieve is part personal genius/drive from Musk, but I would expect a huge part of it is good logistics and management. Is there something particularly hard about finding a qualified COO for Tesla?
You probably should have also posted the line right below the one you quoted, which shows that it is really not that common.

> Officials stress that those searches represent just a tiny fraction of all arriving international travelers — .007 percent.
The dollar is already losing the battle to maintain its status as the world's currency. The current administration policy of hostility towards our European allies has increased flight from the dollar. China's ascendancy will continue that flight until the inevitable US/China/Russia war.