skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just disabled it for everything, also there's a way to delete specific autocomplete suggestions from the results.
We hire based on potential. An older example: at Matasano, we built one of the industry's few crypto consulting practices --- it hosts Thomas Pornin now! --- off a team of people who had, prior to Matasano, never worked on any cryptography at all. Empirical hiring processes don't preclude aptitude assessment; in fact, I think they make it substantially easier, by creating measurable objective facts that you can rely on to take "flyers" on people whose resumes and interviewing skills don't do their talent justice.

If you want to hire based on "intelligence" (ick), create an assessment rubric that surfaces the kind of intelligence you're looking for. Don't rely on face-to-face meetings to do that; it doesn't work.
It is worth separating out the (less interesting) legal argument around the 1st amendment from the practical reality.

The reality is that private companies like Google, Twitter, etc. have more power than the government to restrict speech. In fairness, tech companies have been reluctant to wield that power and have been pushed into it.
misleadingly editorialized HN title, but otherwise a great article.
Wait, you are suggesting that medicaid, food stamps and low-income housing assistance should be offered to everybody? I don't think I have heard this suggested before. I'll have to ponder this.
What if you flip this around: private companies like Twitter, etc, have provided a mass-media platform to far more people than who could ever broadcast globally in the past.

Is it so wrong for them to think maybe this wasn't a universal good?
I write Typescript for a living, and stink at swift - I don't understand where the author is coming from at all. Does Android support Typescript out of the box? Why shouldn't it as well?

I bundle thing into cordova and bang, what was once Typescript is now running sort of like a native app. You can make/get plugins for cordova that create wrappers for native methods, although I'm less familiar with that, but pretty sure you can expose things to the JS namespace using those techniques. Even when I'm running my typescript stuff in the browser, it's still getting transpiled before it runs there.

Not sure why Apple or Google would want to expose those methods via Typescript, don't know why Apple/Google would encourage Swift/Java developers to use Typescript when using Swift will create apps optimized for the hardware with fewer abstractions in the way.
> So is Medicare paying more than similar systems in other countries, or less, or about the same?

You can't compare the raw dollar values because the economies aren't the same - $5 in New York doesn't mean the same as $5 in Tulsa, OK or $5 in London. That's why things like PPP comparisons exist (except you can't use a PPP comparison in a specific vertical like this to answer your question, because that is the very question you're asking in the first place; it'd be a tautology).

But there is an easy answer to the question, because Medicare is paying less than what would be necessary to sustain a medical practice, if you assumed that all doctors, nurses, secretaries, and janitors worked for free, and if you assumed that building and office space were free and required zero maintenance. We know that because we know they reimburse less than COGS, which is why we know their rates are nowhere near sustainable by any standards, let alone compared to other countries.

> It's not mere profiteering - it's more like a feedback loop.

Yes, that's exactly what's happening. It's a positive feedback look (in the literal sense; it's not a positive outcome for us).

The positive feedback loop comes from the fact that Medicare has neither a mandate nor an incentive to reimburse rates that are remotely sustainable, so it sets rates that are arbitrarily low. Providers are forced to accept these, and then pass them on to private health insurers. Private health insurers ultimately pass these costs on to patients in the form of higher premiums, but patients have no choice in the matter, because they can't choose providers based on how much the provider will overcharge their health insurer[0]. They can't choose providers based on price at all, because there's no price transparency in the system. And there's no price transparency in the system because that opacity is essentially mandated by law[1], and it's necessary for this system in which Medicare uses private insurers to essentially pad its own budget (by reducing its costs far below what would otherwise be sustainable if they were truly the only payer in the market).

> For-profit medicine works effectively and affordably in at least one other country with a cost of living otherwise on par with ours

Which country are you referring to? Truthfully speaking, every country has a for-profit system in that their healthcare systems are still subject to a profit motive (yes, that includes government-run systems like the IHS and NHS). Most other countries with comparable development levels to the US use privately-run systems anyway, so I'm not sure I understand which one country would be relevant to single out.

[0] Which is a different question from how much they (the patient) will be charged

[1] Not directly, of course, but indirectly - that opacity is the natural outcome of this setup
Let the uri be the signature?
I see. HN is textual and it was unmarked so I consider that the sarcasm-author's fault.
Agreed, the things I've learned on HN have helped me professionally in numerous ways.

One thing I find concerning about HN is I think there is an increasing prevalence of political and social commentary on the front-page. Those kinds of posts are worse than useless, because they displace potentially really good content.
Child Grooming:  One brave father's story and advice for helping our kids
You're aware of how Masterpiece was ruled, correct? It seems that you're implying that Masterpiece was found to be acting in accordance to the law, but that's not what the ruling was based on or addressed at all.

The Supreme Court found that Colorado didn't give enough respect or credence to the owner's religious beliefs. The owner's religious beliefs being openly mocked by a Colorado Civil Rights Board member was used as an example. The board was found to not have worked under the assumption of religious neutrality.

For those reasons, the case was found in his favor.

The Supreme Court did not at all rule on whether or not it was legal for Masterpiece Cakeshop to deny his gay patrons the cake they wanted.

They made no decision on whether it was within the owner's first amendment rights to deny service, or if what happened was denial of service.

Hope this helps.
I'd like to agree with you, but I once found myself as the only person in a mid-sized firm who didn't have one on my record. It was an eye-opener.
Maybe its worth asking what properties a blockchain would need in order to provide a secure election, and ask whether those are possible. I'd love to see results for blockchain-related election technology with similar sorts of implications to Arrow's Theorem or the CAP Theorem of distributed systems.

Anyone aware of progress here?
Like most things, probably the combination of all of them.

It might be convenient to ask for that "one prime mover", but the reality is usually way too complex for that.
Part of this money could only have been raised by a free tuition program. But many top med schools have somehow accrued huge endowments without offering free tuition. So that part may not be enormous.

It’s an awesome program for these students.
Well I know fairly small company where people pretty much expected every candidate to be deeply familiar with The Art of Computer Programming Book by Donald Knuth. The even funnier part it was 100% PHP shop.
It's certainly a difficult topic, but I can see a pretty strong argument that the likes of Alex Jones make Twitter a worse place. It's not in their interests to keep him on the platform, and I'm not really sure what would compel them to do so.
Previous discussion on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17764760
The one in the pictures uses a EFM32 Jade/Pearl [1]. More details are in the discussion on github: [2].

[1] https://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/32-bit/efm32-pearl-gecko

[2] https://github.com/conorpp/u2f-zero/issues/76
This makes an assumption that there is value from being able to talk to someone on the other side of the planet.

I am not trying to argue that it does or does not. Just that we are operating on that assumption. I could see the counter example that a simpler life could be a more fulfilling.
If people had easy access to clean drugs, deaths could be avoided. Opiates are fairly safe if dose is correct and are not contaminated. Then people could get psychological help to remove the need to take them.
No I will not.

Maybe the problem is everybody has a different definition for "culture fit." Mine has nothing to with age or personality style (or race or sex obviously). I've hired plenty of all types of those. But its whether a person will get along with our team, and will interact appropriately. They don't all need to be ongoing, or super talkative, or agree with everything we do, but they must have certain skills to mesh with our team.

I've been in situations where there were people who were not culture fits, and I've left jobs where people were brought on board who were not culture fits. I find whether a person fits is much better then their exact skill level or knowledge. Both those can be learned. Fitting in with a culture is harder to learn.

Edit: the rest of the article is really good though. Just wanted to address the one point I disagreed with.
We definitely hire for affinity and wanting to work on specific technologies. I've been in a few environments where we get the odd man out and suddenly there is an Ocaml component that only one guy knows how to run...
A thought experiment, what if in the past the ink and paper makers had banded together and prevented a newspaper from being able to publish? Is that OK because the ink and paper companies are private and not the government?

There's been plenty of examples of yellow journalism where the press incited the public into war, so there could be legitimate reasons private ink and paper companies wouldn't want those messages broadcast.
Poll: How do you pronounce “tuple”?
too-ple
tuh-ple
>companies are incentivized to bargain for as much profit and as little employee compensation as possible

Not necessarily, especially when employees are in high demand. Netflix has done quite well by paying employees well above average in order to effectively have their pick of the talent.

Paying employees poorly can increase training costs, recruiting costs, cause negative customer perception, etc.
You're kidding, right? St Kitts isn't exactly a world class passport.

If you want to "buy" a first world passport, go for a passport from any EU country. Plenty of countries offer passports to investors.
Literally nowhere in the article does he say that. The article presents two main arguments why the author chooses not to use Signal (and that by extension, other people with the same interest should do the same), that it requires Google services with root privileges, and that it doesn't federate or interoperate. There are no personal attacks on Signal's author, the author presents his reasons in a fairly objective light, so there should be no reason to chastise him.
I've been working on an Addiction Blocker for this site and many others. It's not ready for primetime yet but I offer it as a preview to the addicted participants of this thread

https://github.com/a13o/disengaged
Conservatives have a far, far lower bar to censor people than Twitter, et al. (i.e. /r/The_Donald on Reddit)

Why does no one call them out on their echo chambers that ban anyone who calls BS?

Even their "free speech" platforms do this. (i.e. Gab)

There is no private party that genuinely protects people's first amendment rights.
True, but the end goal is certainly not simply Entering the program, but completing the program and obtaining a graduate degree.

I highly doubt that the motivation behind that comment is a desire to audit a masters program.
>In your example, you were so agitated about the spiciness that you even got their boss involved

I don't think you're really interested in a debate here. First you confused me with someone else, I never said anything about anyone's boss. Second you altered the story to make the person who did tell that story look bad.

They didn't say anything about being agitated or getting the boss involved. They said the waiter asked and they confirmed 3 times and then the boss came out to ask a 4th time.

As to the rest of your point, I think you really underestimate the power of confirmation bias, and I dont buy the servers are just too busy to sterotype schtick.
A really great talk on the subject.
Included in the list of perhaps not totally intended consequences: I think this may allow some MD students to think twice about practicing and take less traditional (potentially less secure) career routes. I may be biased, having effectively not practiced for a couple years now myself, but I think this could be a good thing to an extent.

I work with 3-4 MDs that chose not to practice who are now working on defining software/ML product feature requirements; their MD experience makes them solid product specialists for clinical solutions that hopefully will help a lot of people...not having to stare down the barrel on loan payments may help people make these kind of career moves that may ultimately progress the system.

All that being said, we (obviously) need good docs at the bedside.
Why do we set out to do something? In many cases it's because we've been told achievement is important since a very young age. But since all accomplishments will presumably be lost at the time of the heat death of the Universe, maybe it's more important to focus only on tasks if your inner voice requires such dedication for your own happiness/sanity.

If you never get to enjoy life because you're constantly working at achieving what is required mostly by external influences, you may be wasting your existence.

"This above all: to thine own self be true."
Very few of those tobacco-related deaths are of 20 and 30 year-olds.

I'm not sure if drugs take away more overall years of life then tobacco, but the numbers are probably not that far off.
> The reasonable justification... successful rebellion

I suppose we all would've spilled less ink if you had just led with "might makes right" :-)
This feels a bit backwards to me - is the goal to describe and implement a "secure election", or to apply blockchain to X?
Proof of concept. If they get funded, expect this to disappear from public view for a couple years while they build up their object database and train their network. Then it will be quietly sold to the police and military. Then there will be a "whistleblower" in 2028, but you heard it here first.
Too many people profit from those deaths to have this happened.
Sol-R – A CUDA/OpenCL-based realtime ray-tracer
That's a better MCU, but aren't they using a secure element to store keys?
I'm not sure you followed. I meant the light makes it to the street. It is not bloxked by tall buildings.

The original post was about making taller buildings in paris without wider streets. That would lead to permanent canyons.
I feel like there is a presidential golf joke in there somewhere.
I also keep them blocked on my computer and only check them on my phone. I keep my phone in grayscale mode so it's much less engaging.

Another thing that worked for me was writing a custom js script to filter out posts I hid without loading other content to replace it. That way I could filter things down so that there's only 1 or 2 threads left that I'm interested in and there's no need to keep scanning the same headlines over and over.
As a white European, I have never been treated badly (or even been searched) -- I travel quite a bit. But I know a girl from Colombia who gets checked nearly every single time she crosses a border.
Canada sometimes denies entry to US citizens who have been convicted of DUI. They have a data sharing system in place and can check US criminal records on the spot.
One of my India friend has applied for a B1/B2 visa for multiple times and did not get approved, even though he had already traveled to quite a lot countries.

I also got rejected a B1/B2 visa for 3 times (I'm holding China passport), and I finally flew and moved to U.S. after my company sponsored me a H1B visa.

The B1/B2 visa is truly the hardest visa to get for most third world people.
Correct, a drug has to be listed as "AB rated" in the FDA Orange book in order to be substituted automatically for the branded version.[1]

AB, AB1, AB2, AB3... Products meeting necessary bioequivalence requirements

Andrenaclick is "BX rated".[2]

BX Drug products for which the data are insufficient to determine therapeutic equivalence

The new generic version from Teva is "AB rated".[3]

[1]https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/ucm0790...
[2]https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/results_produ...
[3]https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/results_produ...
Seriously. I don't understand how this is possible. Nothing in life is free... Someone, or something, is footing this bill - no?
There's a simple solution: legalize all drugs. All of them. Let people get what they want. Then, if the government must do something, pump all that money they were spending on the drug war into treatment centers.
quite often I read the comments before reading the article. Often in the comments there are insightful things on parts of the article and then when you read the article you can pay attention to the right spots.
Good point. Does anyone know of a good space vs. text ratio? Like 60:40 or even more space?
Teacher battling cancer ran out of sick days,so school employees give him theirs
Any chance you'll tackle the 8086 eventually?
I'd say that a politician who stares at a problem head on and refuses to deal with it, because we didn't deal with it in the past, is the insane one.

Student loans have become incredibly predatory and the banks were the ones who had the information to realise these were bad loans, but they lobbied the government to make it so they had to do no due diligence. Now they've fucked up and unless something is done about the loans they are all going to start defaulting anyway.

The default rate is already growing[1]. Based on the number of people I know who are making minimum payments and waiting 20 years for the loans to be forgiven based on income levels, I expect a large portion of expected revenue on these loans is going to evaporate starting after 2028 when everyone who got bad terms and a shit job after the great recession start to become eligible.

It's already a house of cards and we should just deal with it instead of tying large portions of the population to these bad deals

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2017/10/06/student...
My local school district has about three schools per nurse overall, but the ratio is a bit different between elementary, middle and high schools. One of the largest parts of their job is training the TAs and other school staff to administer the medications their students need, because it's far too big of a job for the nurses to handle. Our local government has made a halfhearted attempt to fund a new school nurse position for every new school they build, but it hasn't been working well so far.
Really interesting, and congratulations.

Did you hire on any sort of "personality fit" at all? I.e. would you hire a technically brilliant asshole?

Personally, I really try to be objective, ask the same questions every time, etc.. but lately I realized that if you're going to be spending 40+ hours per week with a person, it's not just the matter of them getting their job done...you also need to be able to work together, and that does require some amount of congruency in personality styles
> seat, <…> conceptually includes up to one keyboard, pointer, touch, and drawing tablet device.

So it seems that hacks like [0] are impossible here. Is this a limitation of protocol or just this compositor (and/or wlroots library)?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17760255
Inefficiency is only enabled by the pure quantity of money flowing into the system.
The mathematical analogy is fragile, but the takeaway is obvious:

Customer has problem X and they suggest Y as the solution. Good product people will solve for Z, what the customer _needs_, while bad product people will provide Y, which is harmful to both the people using the product and the people building the product.
no, ur a tool :)
Indeed. Furthermore, "secure elections" are a solved problem. Have paper ballots, and scan them later. If you have any reason to suspect the scanners, then throw away the scanners and then proceed by hand.

There are statistical methods to count a small number by hand (+ corroborate with poll results) to ensure a degree of consistency. Chi-squared distributions and stuff (I'm not a mathematician, but I'm sure there's some statistical method to verify the results without counting everything by hand).

The main problem with blockchain is that it requires everyone to trust the blockchain. With humans counting by hand, you don't require any trust. As long as the ballots are properly stored, you can always recount the results.
Ha! If this happens, they'll probably end up doing MoviePass better than MoviePass.
Secure storage of GPG/SSH keys preferably 4096bit, so I can have offline "cold signing"/emergency keys that are valid for a long time.
There shouldn't be a debate on why higher education is expensive, it was answered in a 1973 paper that won a 2001 Nobel prize:

https://msu.edu/~conlinmi/teaching/EC860/signallingscreening...

tl;dr: In markets where the cost of education is less than the increase in wages, the real cost of education isn't the fee, it's the relative effort of passing it.
What about types?

All parse to string? If not, hopefully please add date/datetime support (better as ISO) and decimal.

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> More languages?

How about make the core on Rust and the rest use it?

BTW: What your use for the introspection? What editor is that? I like the auto-complete stuff..
You were jailed as a spy and you can escape it via exit behind the wine barrel in the basement?
What's nitrokey's status regarding fido2 ? I know that their current open source products don't support it, but they were planning to add it.
Great diversity fosters great conflict as well. I heard some studies showed diversity increases productivity but reduces overall happiness.
Practically, it’s quite a leap from regulating privacy controls of a portable, globally connected node (your phone) to thought control. Just my hypothesis, but while the tech community might recognize the theoretical ideals of a libertarian future, the masses don’t agree. I’d bet that those who actually have something more deeply incriminating to hide comprise a majority (or a significant minority) of those who intend to use surreptitious privacy tools.

It seems that regulating encryption and privacy and agreeing to use regulated devices has parallels to agreeing to a breathalyzer when operating motor vehicle, when implemented correctly. Of course, that ideal implementation has a ways to go.

We will always need to balance privacy with the need to reduce suffering. Libertarian ideals don’t apply universally, given the variety of human behaviors.
> “Don’t hire for culture fit” doesn’t mean anything.

People has such widely varying definitions of "culture fit" that "hire for culture fit" doesn't mean anything either.
In college, I took an AI class where one of the MPs was about path planning and one of the implementations we needed to do was A* .

I later took a mechatronics class where we tried to implement A* on the microcontroller, which was a cool opportunity to see something theoretical in a physical way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TM-WAfE3_Y