skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to think HSA's are a good idea, but many HSA's have a "use it or lose it" policy that any money contributed that doesn't get used by the end of the year just disappears into the pockets of the HSA provider. It's almost a scam. It might be nice for someone that has some sort of ailment that needs frequent care, such as diabetes or cancer, but it's worthless for someone that wants to have money kept aside in case of an emergency.
I had bad luck arguing this a couple of weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17762156
There's definitely some mesh networking stuff going on, e.g. https://peoplesopen.net with weekly meetings at https://omnicommons.org

There are a large-scale effort in SF many years ago... but it's a hard city to build in. You can read a bit of that history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Municipal_Wirele...
If you’re going to go down this road, shouldn’t the list also include ICE itself and contractors hired by ICE?
> However, i don't think anything you said changes their discussion, actually.

How does it not? It seems to me that OP revealed an alternative method of error handling (which is very cool I might add), exactly in response to Google's discussion on Rust's error handling.

If the discussion doesn't address this, then it seems reasonable to say it's incomplete, as its omission makes it appear they're not debating Rust at its strongest.

edit: paper->discussion
Ah firewood is nice.

I live in a dense urban area and we wouldn't really have the option. We're on an electric heat pump for heating/cooling/dehumidifying (it's a nice system, a little expensive, but better than resistance electric heat and window units). We're in an old house without ducts, and compared to traditional systems it was cheap to install ($10k for 1500 ft sq).
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
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Wow, DOZENS. At least we now know who they are.
This is basic high school pre-calculus.

EDIT: Er, calculus rather. Still not far removed from high school and should be a college course required for being a researcher.
> If I had to speculate, I'd say this is primarily a reaction to improved ability to track people, such that it is next to impossible for a person to jump bail.

There may be some sense in which it is enabled by that, but it's definitely a reaction to a national grassroots political movement (stronger in the Dem party, but not exclusive to it) against the money bail system as economically unjust, plus the relative successful model of Washington, D.C., in eliminating money bail even ahead of the national movement gaining traction.
Not taking any side, I'm just sincerely curious why do you think that it is culturally important?
Replying to your other comment

>It's surprising to me that there isn't a good way to call Maxima from either Python/R/Julia or even a non-CL lisp.

There's Sage, which integrates Scipy/Numpy, Maxima, and some other things. However, I personally find Maxima to be pretty awful to use, and even it is nowhere close to Mathematica in functionality at this point. Mathematica itself is horrible to use (although extemely capable), so I'd love an open source, good alternative.
> Do they have doodles for other religious holidays?

They do.

(1) Chinese New Year (Buddhist/Taoist)
2016-02-18, 2014-01-31, 2013-02-10

(2) Qixi (Chinese mythology)
2018-08-17, 2017-08-28, 2016-08-09, ...

(3) Tu B'Av (Jewish)
2016-08-19, 2015-07-31, 2014-08-11, 2012-08-03

(4) Holi (Hindi)
2018-03-02, 2017-03-13, 2017-03-12, 2016-03-24, ...

But even if they didn't, it would still be a historical/cultural bias to exclude all events with religious origins. In that case, a secular bias.
I still maintain an internal WinForms app in c#. Even with the very old (.net 1.0) code everywhere, lot's of spaghetti, inline sql (including the sql injection variety) etc, it's still our most maintainable application and I love getting the chance to work on it.

Most other apps we have, even the ones far simpler than this one, contain just as much spaghetti but distributed over 15 layers to the point where their incomprehensible.

In hindsight I'm not convinced replacing drag'n'drop coding with "architecture" was a good move.
one (far-fetched) idea would be peer-reviewed experimental research videos. See how the authors did the steps in their study. When an author writes up their experimental steps as a reader we are told the best version of events, however, the map is not the territory. Writing up research tells us little about the quality of the work, which is inferred from the publication, quality of writing, lab group, funding body etc.

Also, it would give the people doing the grunt work and gathering the experimental data some visibility rather than just the lead author.
Drawbacks:

* A lot of packages are incompatible with the latest versions of Julia. Though because it has stabilized, this is likely to stop being an issue soon.

* There isn’t any major organization that has adopted it yet, which may impact its long term success in contrast to other new languages like go swift rust etc that have a major sponsor.
Garbage collector makes it unsuitable for certain real time uses, which is unfortunate given its otherwise predictable performance characteristics.

* Although there are web frameworks for it, I’m not sure whether they are mature enough for production use.

* Personal pet peeve: no infix operator for integer division. I haven’t looked recently whether there is a package for this. I should probably make my own if not.
Already down playing it, later the article admits over 100 joined the post. Wile 'Dozens' is correct, it most certainly was meant to belittle and down play the group.
Easy - they have no hills.
What country or state are you guys in? We've never touched on calculus in Pennsylvania high schools. The advanced math courses focused on trigonometry.
Not all views deserve respect. Depending on what specific views they are talking about a lot of the ones circulating should not be tolerated.
> UPD (Jun 3): The Android apps mentioned in the article are no more available on Google Play.

> UPD (Jun 5): The Chrome extensions are finally taken down from the Chrome Web Store.

And yet, as of today, Google Play offers two more apps by Unimania., both of which promise to provide "a better Facebook experience" in exchange for your credentials[1]. The question is then, how many similar Chrome extensions are still there on Chrome Web Store.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Unimania. ("." at the end belongs to the URL)
I recall reading that the biggest problem with Julia was that the language was not sufficiently well tested in an automated way. The result of which was that complex bugs kept creeping back in making the language less reliable in a production environment.

Is my memory faulty? If not, have these concerns been addressed?
Well, then. This is where Hangbe ruled, where the Royal Palaces of Abomey are located, and where her descendents live. So the point about slavery stands, no?
> A malicious router attack could just as easily modify the initial http request so that the user is directed to the domain on a spoofed IP before HTTPS trust violation.

If the initial request is HTTPS, everything is validated, and a spoofed redirect is impossible.
Siberian Ginseng is pretty interesting too
It's not. The change is from some versions ago. Now salve and clarity can only be cancelled by another hero (or roshan).
I'm not blind, last time I checked, and in my opinion, Trump isn't racist.

That whole theory seems to hang on Charlottesville and him saying there were good people on both sides. However, people forget the original purpose of the event was about the tearing down of Confederate statues. He was obviously referring to the people defending the statues and not white supremacists.
>Hows that hope and change working for us lately?

Better than your hyperbolic rambling.
Sorry, I'm not very smart or something, I don't get why it's hilarious, can you explain?
Thank you kind soul!
Seems like it's fairly true if they're already getting complaints from employees while not breaking any actual company policies.
Chrome extensions are gold mine for data collectors. There are no checks and balances and its extremely hard to tell what these extensions really do under the hood. A well funded data collector can make "free" extension that competes with other top extensions like AdBlock and slip in the malware to track pretty much everything that goes in the browser. I've already seen several variations where you go on some bad website and you see ad for "People are saving 40% on Amazon using this Extension! Are you using it?". I can imagine legions of gullible people falling for this and handing over control of their browser.

It's quite unfortunate the position Chrome developers have taken on extensions ("it's your problem if you use them"). We are sitting on a time bomb that one day would explode with same fervor as what happened with FB's ignorance policies.
How do you know? Perhaps he has an old car that he maintains himself, parks in free lots, and only carries liability coverage so insurance is cheaper.
> Fallacy of composition says I look at a few stupid humans and decide that all humans are stupid.

No, a fallacy of composition would be "the organization is stupid because its employees are stupid", or "metal boats are impossible because metal sinks in water." It involves something which is composed of the smaller pieces.

What you're describing is more like a hasty generalization, where individual-qualities within a sample lead to a conclusion about individual-qualities shared by the entire population.

> I was trying to point out that if their supposition is true then we are all screwed no matter what.

And -- even if their supposition is true -- I disagree!

Metal boats can float on water, even though individual metal pieces sink. Institutions can solve problems, even ones that individuals humans suck at.
One benefit of HTTPS is that ISPs can't insert their ads onto your website. Believe me, there are ISPs that do that.

> If your ISP is MITMing you, I think you have bigger problems then whether they change the content of my static site when you visit it.

Perhaps. But in the UK ISPs are legally required to log every web page you visit. However, they are not going to serve you a fake version of Chrome (which is signed anyway).
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No, just making sure that the hair is wet enough to distribute the smallest possible amount of soap. The trick is to figure out the minimum amount of soap you need to get all of your hair and scalp sudsy. I've used a shampoo-sized dose of Bronner's and had basically the same bad experience you described.
also, kind of inconveniently, most of these wrappers only exist in Debianland distros.
People who skip bail, by and large, don't get on a plane or drive across the country.

Also, the bail system isn't designed to only incentivize defendants themselves to show up to court. The bail bondsman has the financial incentive and the legal right to apprehend and deliver a defendant who has skipped bail. Removing the bail bondsman from the equation only increases the public cost of reapprehending these defendants.

Edit: I should add...people who get caught committing crimes are generally not the best at responding to the incentive of not going to jail, or else they wouldn’t get caught committing crimes in the first place. So any mechanism that relies on this incentive is unlikely to be effective. Introducing a third party with vested interests at no additional cost is a non-trivial benefit of the bail system. Although maybe the police unions are happy to transfer the workload (and added hours!) to their members.
I'm I the only one who's surprised to see how small this round was?

The modern SV economy seems to be built around $100M seed rounds and valuations in the low billions, pre-launch.
I use DuckDuckGo as default... from time to time I need to use Google but I try to keep it at minimum. It's not about privacy, it's because I like Google less every fucking time that they do update on any of their products. Look at Google News, it was simple and nice before, now looks like it is a part of Yahoo.
Ok, we changed 'dozens' to 'some' above.
I recently learned that on a single sided pcb you can use a zero ohm resistor to effectively cross over a trace, netting you half the benefit of a 2nd layer without having one.
Yes. This is supposed to be her superlative work and according to the NYT, good enough to overlook her racist statements.

The thing is, this book is terrible. It reads like a high school level report and if you’re familiar with any of the events in it, is also full of bias and fabrications. I’m glad this book is getting exposure because it destroys the argument that Jeong is just that good that she should be granted a free pass on her racism.
Trump says Google, Twitter, and Facebook ‘better be careful’
I've basically done everything short of laying concrete foundations and putting up the frame. Not all on one house, but bits various houses.

There are a lot of things you can do yourself (depending on jurisdiction) that can save a lot of money. My old man owns several houses, and home renovation/building houses is sort of his hobby (it also makes him a lot of money, but it's not his day job). I've been helping him with renovation/construction since I was about 5 years old.

My father and I have built our own fences, painted interior and exterior, plastered (not actually so easy), tiled floors (also not that easy), laid wooden floor, laid decks, built swimming pools (we did hire a contractor to dig the pit), retaining walls (took a weekend, saved about $10,000), internal electrical wiring and fittings (you may need to get a certificate to do this), ethernet/phone wiring, installed roof insulation, built kitchens, laid driveways etc. etc.

The only things I haven't done are laying concrete foundations and erecting frames (all the houses I've worked on were timber framed).

The main problems you're likely to run into is whether you're legally allowed to do it yourself or not. You'll most likely need qualifications to do any electrical work (which my father has, although he's not an electrician) or plumbing/gasfitting work.

My suggestion though would be to start small. I've been doing this sort of thing since as long as I can remember, so I'm fairly confident in what I'm doing. If I were you I wouldn't start with trying to build a house from scratch, start with building some smaller things, like rebuilding your fence (if you have one) or building a shed/sleepout.

I really don't know how feasible it would be to make a concrete house by yourself. I wouldn't lay a concrete foundation myself, it's not a one man job to start with, and if you screw it up it's a very expensive mistake.

If this is your first experience with building a new house, which I assume it is, I'd really caution against trying to do it all yourself and biting off more than you can chew. Get an architect, get a project plan (I have no experience at all at this end), and then break down what you can do yourself, and what you need to pay somebody else to do.
I no longer have a cat but when I did I had a pretty snazzy litter box that had a roof, when you wanted to clean it you rolled it onto it's roof and back and all the clumps ended up in a little removable drawer.
As a type theorist and programming language developer, I’ll admit that’s a fairly reasonable design for generics.

I’m still a bit disappointed by the restrictions: “contracts” (structural typeclasses?) are specified in a strange “declaration follows use” style when they could be declared much like interfaces; there’s no “higher-level abstraction”—specifically, higher-kinded polymorphism (for more code reuse) and higher-rank quantification (for more information hiding and safer APIs); and methods can’t take type parameters, which I’d need to think about, but I’m fairly certain implies that you can’t even safely encode higher-rank and existential quantification, which you can in various other OOP languages like C#.

Some of these restrictions can be lifted in the future, but my intuition is that some features are going to be harder to add later than considering them up front. I am happy that they’re not including variance now, but I feel like it’ll be much-requested and then complicate the whole system for little benefit when it’s finally added.
I think your point is easily solved with a capital gains deduction or marginal rate, where the first X of annual (or averaged annual) gains are exempted. So a person selling $50,000 (or whatever) or more would see a higher rate, thus people withdrawing from their retirement account wouldn't be hit by an increase.

The main reason I would increase the capital gains rate is the very richest, like Warren Buffet (as he himself pointed out), pay a lower rate than much less wealthy/lower income people due to the favorable capital gains rate. This sort of inversion shouldn't exist in a progressive tax system. Personally I view one of the several valid goals of a tax system to be keeping income/wealth inequality within reasonable limits and I think this would help with that.
> FWIW iPads and android tablets tend to not work for most software development tasks.

It's certainly not for local Windows application development, but it's great for 21st century architectures (infra as code), containerized apps, or any other CI/CD-able scenario.

With an iPad Pro, Apple's Smart Keyboard, and the lovely Working Copy + Textastic, and blink.sh Mosh/SSH client, together with a decent CI/CD (commit code, deploy to dev) pipeline in place, you're good.

See also Buffer, GoCodeEditor, Koder, etc. Several of these happen to be 50% off atm.

Don't forget you can remote desktop to GUI things too, from Citrix to RDP.
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> Google does not have an effective monopoly on search

That is clearly false.
I agree.

From the article:

>This month, the social network barred the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a move that critics seized on as further evidence that the company harbors an anti-conservative bias.

Banning someone like Alex Jones is not an anti-conservative bias. It is an anti-asshole bias. No one is going to ban you for discussing tax policy.
Google search results are getting increasingly more terrible. If this trend keeps up, Google will be a barely viable search engine in a couple years. Google's interests are too conflicted now, rigging their search results to benefit their own alphabet companies. The result is search results biased to Google's own walled garden... And it's Very noticeable
I agree. My issue is a lot of views are subjective and based on unknowable gut feelings.

For example, is economic inequality primarily natural or due to injustices? these things don’t have knowable answers - with current technology.
The problem is who decides what views should or should not be tolerated? Some would say if you eat meat you should not be tolerated. Others might think pro-choice ideas should not be tolerated.

That aside, we really need to figure out as a society how to fix a few notions. 1) You have some sort of right to not be offended. 2) You must get outraged at anything you disagree with.

There once was a time when two people with different ideas could be in the same room as each other. But long are those days. Now we live in a time where simply having your name printed next to somebody's name who made a joke you were offended by calls for public outrage and immediate removal of the offending persons name from said list.

Things are in a very bad way...
Who decides what should be tolerated? Facebook? How is an employees personal business a company's business?
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Your gut reaction to "not left-leaning views" was "not all views deserve respect", implying they are awful, unconceivable ideas that they want to express. Not a personal attack because, right now, this is the only non-greyed message in this thread, which means most people agree with you. That's bad.
Probably because most European buildings don't heat up that much. In the US there seems to be a likeness for no-insulation and paperthin walls.
Care to quote any specifics? I always... appreciate... how it's hearsay as opposed to just citing first party documents / quotes / material and letting people decide for themselves.
> But straw bale houses are a lot like concrete houses. Once built difficult to re-work. Great for insulation. Horrible to re-work.

Environmentally-focused / permaculture types tend to like concrete floor + strawbale. It solves a lot of heating / cooling problems, but naturally the benefits there depend on the climate you're in and local costs of materials.

Anyway, to your point. Strawbale housing comes in two broad forms -- infill or load-bearing. Infill was the most popular way of doing this a few years ago, but seems to have lost favour (I don't know why). Load-bearing is definitely more difficult to modify, and that may be the variety you've got experience with. Infill is where you build a (say) structural metal pre-fab shed on a slab, and then tie down bales to embedded threaded bar in the floors to make the walls - filling gaps at the top with looser material. Non-trivial to change your mind later, but at least can be done without affecting the roof / infrastructure.
To my knowledge I've never been asked to look at a Laravel app.
Also, remember that people who get MITMed are not going to say "Oh, sucks to be me for using insecure public wifi and getting pwned when visiting nanoscopic.io, I'm such an idiot..." - they're going to say "The shit-weasel who runs nanoscopic.io installed a fucking cryptominer and configured porn ad dns servers on my laptop! Don't _ever_ visit that site!"

The "very little work" required to use https these days could one day be incredibly valuable in terms of not having your reputation trashed... Perhaps you _should_ care a little more about people getting MITMed...
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I was thinking that he meant that the views held by those who have decided they’re being persecuted were views that did not deserve respect.
Key point there is "most recent production target". Tesla has been constantly revising its production targets as it fails to achieve prior targets.

For example, in 2016 [1] Tesla set a target of 100,000 Model 3s produced in 2017 and 400,000 in 2018. End of 2018 is getting close, and Tesla's at less than 30% of the 2017 target, let alone 2018.

After that particular failure to achieve production goals, the stated goal for Q3 2017 was revised to 1,500 new cars built [2]. Tesla built 237 instead.

In other words: yeah, Tesla might look like it's "on target" now, but only because it shifted the goalposts after having been very much off target for more than a year now. There are hundreds of thousands of customers still waiting for their cars because of how thoroughly Tesla missed its original production goals.

Tesla's on the right track now, but only after a very rocky road getting there.

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[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-suppliers-idUSKCN0Y...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-02/tesla-sal...
> I basically have !g programmed into my fingers for everything more complicated

Or !s for Googling with less Google?
Essential Craftsman is incredible!
I'm upvoting you, because it always irritates me when people refer to resistance heating as "inefficient". It is true in specific ways and its useful to understand those ways.

It is nice to know that the conversion from electricity to heat is effectively 100% efficient and we are really making a cost comparison instead.
There’s a massive difference between calculated misinformation with incitement to violence and having differing views.
The federal reserve bank has adopted it (for stress testing models? IIRC), I'd say that's pretty major.
And those employees complaining were told they're not breaking any company policies. Their group is still open and nothing has been done against them.

What a controversy.