skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man. I really don't think I would say they've won the race yet. Whatever advantage they have at the moment is not guaranteed to last the next 5 years (or whatever medium-term timespan you like). The depth of content today is really disappointing in comparison with what they used to have, for one thing.

The basic question is whether content owners can become Netflix faster than Netflix can build a library of their own worth paying for. And I think the answer to that question is murky at best, but personally I don't think it looks good for Netflix. It's a lot easier to throw money at the distribution problem than the content-creation problem.
The doctors are the scarce factor. They determine the price.
I'm having a hard time making it fail. Even with Printf, in the output it tells you what you did wrong instead of returning an error.

In fact, the only _print function I could get to fail was Fprintf by sending an already closed file. I suppose if it was somehow not allowed to write to stdout the other functions might fail. But I'm not sure.

_, err := fmt.Printf("Hello %d", "world")
fmt.Println(err)

>> Hello %!d(string=world)
>> <nil>
Actually, Numpy-using-code is closer to native speeds than pure Python is.

The thing that seems to cause a greater gap between wasm and native speeds is lots of Python-level function calls, not the tight C loops that make up much of Numpy.
Even if they knew the site was static, "not secure" would still be valid. An ISP or malicious wifi network may be recording their browsing history, downsampling images, injecting or replacing ads, replacing executables with backdoored versions, adding fake login forms or popups to get the user to give a password of theirs, etc.
The insurance company is basically saying, you should still choose the in-network provider even if you are unconscious or don't have a choice or we'll fuck you financially. I've had this happen to me, appealed, and after many months, actually won. In my case I was unconscious and the ambulance and hospital were out of network. I was lucky the hospital was willing to wait over a year and not send it to collections. It was hell. Why the fuck isn't there a law against this kind of shit? Do we expect people who are unconscious or having a heart attack to say, "oh no, take me to an in-network provider so I don't go bankrupt?" Fucking absurd the healthcare in this country and the lack of proper regulation. How long are we going to allow these insurance companies to get rich while people die and go bankrupt?
No? Think of the game of life. Low model complexity, high universe complexity.
He might have been referring to user specific salts? It would certainly be a lot more challenging for them to test every common password with every user's salt.
My guess that quotemstr meant builtins: append, copy, range "protocol", etc.
Ask HN: Do you know a riddle or question that'll inspire tech-minded people?
I'm in the process of creating an application form for a program that my employer will offer to local university students. The application form is required to have the standard short essay on a specific topic. However, to inspire and hopefully increase the number of applicants I would like to add a short riddle or question, that will make the application process at least a bit more interesting.

The program will focus on "How to use new technology to improve your every day", and the short essay will be on this topic. So the riddle or question may very well be on this topic as well.
That's what I'm trying to say - the problem is that I don't see any way to disprove either assertion: "Google is manipulating News" or "Google is not manipulating News"

There is evidence that Google has acted in a partisan† way in other areas, though, which is what makes the assertion worthy of consideration.

†: "partisan" might not be the best word here. "Ideologically-driven" might be better. Google has acted in its capacity as a content host to suppress content that it finds inappropriate, even though that content was benign. Example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/youtube-b...
i invented a new system of moderation
so automatically the system can filter the people with bad behaviour and it can delete them
> The only “downside” is the inability to type in a URL.

This is not tenable. You have to solve Zooko's Triangle or no one will use your thing. That's the existing problem with Dat, which otherwise works wonderfully.
Except we never hear about Y and Z.

Let's say you lived in the Jim Crow south, and noticed that a lot of laws were only enforced against black people, despite being broken by white people all the time.

Is it whataboutism to complain?

It's worth noting when different rules seem to apply depending on who's involved.
You're simply not marking your losses to market - not having a loss here is an accounting fiction, not a real financial difference. In both situations, you have less money than if you'd bought the bonds at a later time instead.
Absolutely, watching a stand up comic show from Poland in Polish via English subtitles is a hoot just in itself. Could never do that prior to the Netflix streaming era.

Also highly recommend the Norwegian “Occupied” series.
Palmer Luckey's review said it was just a wrapper over Android.

http://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
It's a good port city in land (swamp) that is otherwise undesirable, so yes.

(I'm posting from Houston.)
the link works well
try again :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=schan.main
That could be true. A lower rate on double the salary could still mean a higher tax bill.

And in California, the state income tax is an additional burden.

Of course, it's the final take home pay that matters.
In Toronto we have this huge system of underground cooling that transfers cool from the lake. It's great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_water_source_cooling#Firs...
The question isn't whether Google is 'better' than government, it's whether Google's proprietary algorithm can be trusted to be unbiased. If Google is found to be biased, that doesn't necessarily mean government should step in but at least the market can account for this bias once they know about it.

The media has been squawking that Trump is wrong (CNN: "Media says Trump search is rigged. It's not."). Wrong or right, in shedding light on this, Trump has forced Google to be more careful not to bias search results if in fact they were.
The amount of harm from refrigerants, the chemicals used in cooling systems to move heat around, is vastly underappreciated so its good to see it mentioned.

"HFCs trap between 1,000 and 9,000 times as much heat as the same amount of CO2, meaning they are much more potent causes of global warming. On this basis, Paul Hawken of Project Drawdown, a think-tank, calculates that improving air-conditioners could do more than anything else to reduce greenhouse gases."
I feel like whenever I hear crazy stories like this about healthcare it usually involves these weird in or out of network issues. I'm certainly not an expert on healthcare, but is there no way to attack the problem from this angle?

If you have a hospital with a certain list price for a particular procedure, why is it legal for them to charge one insurance company 5% of that price and charge another insurance company or someone without insurance full price? It seems like exactly the kind of scenario that price discrimination laws are meant to prevent.

Similarly for the insurance plans themselves, why can you sell basically the same plan to employees of a large company for much cheaper than you sell it to employees of a small company? (This one might need to be a new law specific to insurance companies, because clearly there are many other products that give group discounts when selling to large companies, but I think health insurance should be treated differently).

I'm sure I'm missing what some of the downsides might be, but it seems like making these kinds of backroom network-based deals illegal in health insurance would go a long way in making prices more understandable/predictable, and that might allow for more fair competition on price to emerge.
This mirrors our own experience with the Cat Genie. When it works it's great, when it fails you are elbow deep into liquified cat shit.

There has to a be lesson here: when making a device that solves a problem, make sure that the failure mode isn't worse than the problem you're looking to solve.
>The compelling reasons 'patio11 offered were that it will cost a lot of money and years of opportunity cost.

Your return on investment on a Masters CS degree will come over time.

For example, once you finish the degree, you should be in a better negotiating position in your current company when discussing promotions as you have demonstrated a willingness to follow through with personal development in service of the company.

If you lose your current job, having a CS degree is great future risk mitigation. While a portfolio and experience sounds good enough, you'd have to jump more hoops through HR without a CS degree. But once you have it you could get a job almost anywhere you want.

>FWIW, 'patio11 has some high quality experience with the engineering hiring market and has written some seminal texts about it.

This is important to know. However, I think it would be better of patio11 to open his comment by stating a short summary of this experience in order to lend more credence to his suggestions.

>there may be soft skills that you may not have yet and may never acquire

I'm curious about this. Especially on the "may never acquire" part. You mean that there are some soft skills that some people would never attain? That's interesting to me and I'd like to know why.
I hate yahoo and all these evil companies with their personal data collection fetishes.
Early death == simpler life. Old age really complicates things.
Fair enough, but if someone is interested in holding bonds to maturity it seems like investing in a fund is not actually the same as doing that.
Go could automatically create hidden Test methods for methods used by core types like maps. If Equals and Hashcode have to be correct, then these tests could ensure it.
Goodnotes is amazing, but there's a couple of features listed on this "Styles Lab" page that it still could implement. Links/bookmarks would be at the top of my list.
I dislike concepts because it seems to be a half measure; one that is already causing them pains in the design.

For example the issues with, implied constraints, infinite types, and parametric methods could be solved by using something more properly founded in type theory. Concepts are effectively refinement types[1] and a properly founded implementation from type theory would mitigate these issues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinement_type
Not the backstory, but some background:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4242786
https://github.com/moggers87/salmon/issues/8
Author here: I've actually had good luck with my unit. I have two cats and run the unit two times a day. I haven't had to do any maintenance except cleaning the water sensor once. I do use safflower seeds in place of the plastic pellets which I have found to yield better results.
It shouldn't be shocking to find that google can only afford to hire intelligent educated people for the 7K people who drive its multi multi billion dollar business.

It also ought not to be shocking to find that these people lean left once you redefine left to mean anyone left of Attila the hun.

60% of republicans believe that the Earth and the human race were created ex nihilo recently. 20% of trump fans support SLAVERY.
> does that ostensibly mean the hospital is definitely charging an unreasonable price

Not ostensibly, but actually.

The article goes on to identify some concrete charges that independent auditors felt were ridiculous, including charging $19k for stents that the hospital most likely purchased for about $2K.

> It's just a contractual reason he owes this money?

The hospital just straight up dropped all but $800 of the charges when they got PR heat.
Building out new infrastructure is more labor intensive than operating existing infrastructure, more on this story at 11.
A couple of years ago a friend sent me a barbershop quartet video and I spent a few days getting hairdresser ads ...
FWIW this was quoted in the article itself.
You could even extend that argument to include "is there a need for people to live in a place where they can't grow enough food to sustain their population".

I wouldn't pull too hard on that thread here, though.
> - most RSS readers suck so bad you can't even retrieve years old articles. So if you follow blogs that don't post often, you simply can NOT get any of their older posts. Imagine a blog that has one seriously good article once a month. Typically you can't get more than a year's worth of posts, so that's like 12 articles. Why?

Most blogs don't include more than the last ten or so articles in their feed. Fetching backlogs of posts is beyond the scope of RSS. Unless you're complaining that posts you've already downloaded aren't persisted indefinitely?
At least there's one thing with overwhelming, bipartisan support in Congress.
At that point, why not change your utility function to enjoy simply sitting there thinking about how happy you are?

Don't do wireheading, kids.
I think you are right on. And nothing prevents them from using E-mails in the future again if it makes money.
Ironically, that clause might have no effect in US law; not because a license with it fails to be revocable, but because gratuitous licenses are revocable at will as a matter of law, anyway.

(Then again, it might mitigate the likelihood that a court would limita the licensors recovery after revocation based on the principle of promissory estoppel.)
It satisfies a profile that hostile intelligence services take advantage of.
Not always. My mom had a quadruple bypass about 6 years ago during a gap year where she stopped working but didn't have Medicare yet. Unlucky. I think she was billed for around $180k.

She told them "I'm on Social Security for $1000/mo, I'll pay you $50/mo". It was basically that or sending it to collections and never getting a dime from a retiree. So they accepted and told her a "non-profit" paid for the doctor's portion of the bill, which was all but about $40k.

She'll probably be around another 10 years max, which means she'll end up paying about $10k of that balance.

Medical debt is the least concerning type of debt for most lenders. If you ever fall into this hole, don't sweat it. [Unsolicited advice.] Just let it go to collections. You'll get harassed for a little over a year. Debt older than a year is almost never pursued by collections agencies. After things quiet down start sending letters to the credits agencies saying the collections debt has been settled. The collections agency will usually slip up and not respond at some point and it'll be gone from your credit history.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-zero-day-vulnerability...
They need to become TV in order to survive, so they are trying. Ads will come, too, it's just a question of when.
Crucially, that's only true if you have the money and time to fight. For the people hurt worst by the system, they lack some or all of: knowledge that they can fight it, money with which to fight it (or again, knowledge that a lawyer will take it pro bono), and the time with which to fight it and not work one or more jobs. I know people on this forum are relatively well off, but everyone reading this should try to put themselves in the shoes of someone working multiple jobs, trying to take care of a sick family member, and facing predatory companies trying to bilk them for all they're worth.

That the government will protect you, in theory, is not the same thing as in practice.
I think this is where Google (search) and Facebook ( social media ) are different. Google was based on the strength of an algorithm that filters out less relevant content. Providing/promoting relevant content is one thing society can do to separate the crazy.
The other day I noticed the drama films on Netflix this month are very strong. Led to realization that as time passes, the licensing costs for media often decline. When Netflix started streaming in 2007 films that were 5, 10, and 15 years old (less expensive) were produced in 2002, 1997, 1992 respectively. Someone starting college in 2007 would have been between 4 and 14 years old when those films were released. Today, the same 5, 10, 15 targets hit years 2013, 2008, 2002. That user from 2007 is now ~30, and would have been between 14 and 25 when those films were released. As time passes, Netflix will be able to offer more relevant content to their core users at a lower cost. It seems some of their recent original content fills some of the programming gaps for younger users. They are positioned very well.
The leading cause of transportation deaths are, by a long mile, automobiles. Automobile fatalities also have the highest rate of people killed per miles traveled. I think human driving ability is overrated, but I agree with you that self driving cars aren't doing too great either
I strongly suspect that those with substantial inheritances are doing just fine right now. A couple that inherits two houses that have appreciated 10%+ pa along with a half-dozen retirement accounts probably had their entire university education paid for by their parents along with some down-payment assistance and maybe a car or two.

Imagine your life with zero debt for university, a solid network for getting jobs/internships, a gifted car upon graduation, and a 20% house down-payment when you married your SO. With those things, you'd probably be on track for FI/RE by your mid-30s anyway, so inheriting a few million more bucks by your 50s isn't going to make a difference.
My ex worked for HCA and she insisted that she could tell you the exact cost of a procedure before undergoing it.

Well at some point she needed surgery (at HCA), and about five months later after dealing with 10 < x < 20 bills including one we'd never heard about until collections came knocking she just looked at me and said "Nobody knows what this is going to cost." It really bums me out that a human being working in healthcare here isn't able to even remotely predict the cost of a procedure at the hospital at which they work.
What a strawman. Adding a basic PL feature means we're gonna rewrite the STL? Come on.
FWIW, Apache is getting native support for ACME certs: https://letsencrypt.org/2017/10/17/acme-support-in-apache-ht...

Hopefully in the future more web servers will implement this, and HTTPS will be enabled as the default configuration.
That's not really how apprenticeships work in France or anywhere else. It's actually the French government that directly subsidizes the apprentice and all firms pay a tax into a general apprenticeship fund. Suffice to say it would never fly in America.

It doesn't make any sense for any company to pay to train an employee if it can be avoided. The problem though is that when companies don't directly guide the training you get people who are trained... to do the wrong thing. This leads to the perverse situation where American workers are actually over-educated (lots of fancy college degrees, certifications, etc) but still lack the necessary skills.

Overall the American system is obscenely inefficient, what with people buying $100K lottery tickets in the hope of landing a decent middle class job, but it's also very hard to disrupt because virtually all of the risk and downside is borne by less fortunate Americans whose lives don't matter anyways. For everybody else -- corporations, investors, and the government -- the system works great. It's a classic serfdom strategy where during good times the nobility takes takes a big cut and during bad times the nobility takes a big cut. Unfortunately, unlike serfs, these terminally indebted Americans don't kill themselves or run away and so there is a kind of macro-inefficiency that builds up slowly overtime.

There may be an opportunity for individual companies to take a risk and train up employees but this is a very risky strategy and it isn't necessarily a good thing for workers. It can work only if you pay these untrained employees very little money and this is the other side of the hammer, wage suppression of highly indebted workers. The more you can trap young workers with enormous debt loads the less you actually need to pay them so even companies that "take a chance" on workers can still force the worker to bear most of the risk.
Why would your text be unrelated to the header?

In an editor with first-class outlining support, the document is usually composed with the outline view in play, so essentially you’re always adding text and headers to a “node” rather than to the document as a whole. You then place the node in the outline, rather than placing text in a linear document that happens to (sometimes) reflect a valid outline.

It’s less comparable to Word, and more comparable to editing .rtf files and placing them into a flow in Desktop Publishing software. The content (the .rtf file) and the document (the flow-boxes) are separate, and can be modified separately without knowledge of how the other side has been modified.

(This workflow also being the original TeX workflow, just replacing “.rtf files” with individual .tex content files, and “the layout” with a structural .tex file that imports those content files.)
Uh, a MiTM will just show an entire fake site, or it can drop your content and just send a redirect header to any website it wants.
MS Word's outlining feature was there in Word for Windows 1.0 at the latest, which makes it close to 30 years old.
Kind of defeats the purpose of bringing something over to Sweden though as they could also do the same thing.
If this were true, then nations with deregulated health care would also have high prices. Instead they have low prices and better outcomes.

Patients shop on reputation. In a country with less regulation, like India, you see competing hospitals across the spectrum of price and performance. Everyone knows which ones are good and which ones are expensive. People know which hospitals they're going to attend before they fall sick. The outcomes in their top cardiology departments are way better than those in top American cardiology departments.

Their doctors perform way more surgeries and are therefore far more practiced and experienced. They are far cheaper because there are so many more of them.
Yikes, that's a nasty one. Sad MSFT didn't want to pay bounty on this.
> chaining

Could you do this?

check (check func1()).func2()

Looks ugly but maybe they can clean it up further. In fact maybe they could just introduce something that looks like ? but works like check.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/cuda/extras/CUPTI/lib64

Reboot and cross your fingers.

Rebooting will terminate the process tree in which the environment has been modified, making this line a no-op. Please take the time to understand the commands you run before suggesting them to others.
Certificate authorities that participate in Certificate Transparency are forced to publish all certificates they issue, so site owners can tell if a fraudulent certificate for their own domain is ever generated. I think browsers are pushing for all CAs to adopt Certificate Transparency. This greatly reduces the power of malicious CAs.
I can't tell if this is a weird attempt at a pun, a funny typo, or some kind of koan.
I agree, honestly the error handling alone has always been the main reason I never used Go. Yes, I knew there were good reasons for that design, but I prefer to have options in how to handle errors and keep a clean, elegant code.
I've written a lot of Go in the last few years. I stopped chaining calls after I realized how much of a pain it is to debug.

When you need to print / log a value from the middle of your call chain you have to take the chain apart. So just write it out to start with. It's not any less efficient.