skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the highest deductible plan (bronze in Obamacare parlance). Yearly visits are covered, as are milestone visits for children. Other than that we pay out of pocket. Our total amount per year that we are responsible for beyond premiums is capped at $6k per person and $13k for the entire family (I believe; the actual numbers might be a little different, but these are in the ballpark).

My take is that if your family is relatively healthy, then you should go for the lowest tier plan. Then you count on paying the premiums, plus some more for whatever doctor visits normally take place. Then, in the worst case scenario (something expensive happens to 2 family members), you would pay a (roughly) additional 100% of the cost of your premiums in a given year in medical costs. If you have pre-existing conditions or go to the doctor a lot, then a higher tier plan might make more sense for you.

Oh, forgot to mention, $950/mo for our family is the unsubsidized cost. Depending on your family's income, you could qualify for a subsidy from the government, which can be pretty significant. We qualified for a $400/mo subsidy this year (so total monthly cost is $550).

My big picture take on the U.S. vs. the rest of the world is that if you're a high earner, the U.S. is usually better, economically. The pay tends to be way higher here than in Canada or Europe (especially in the tech industry) and a social safety net can be purchased (in addition to health insurance, you can also buy yourself unemployment and life insurance, for example). I've done the math on moving to Canada (my wife is Canadian) and it ain't pretty. It would represent a huge reduction in our effective income.
From the transcript:

So in early August, we adopted a policy that would allow a single entity to do the requisite work on the utility pole—a policy commonly known as “one-touch make-ready.” This policy could substantially lower the cost and shorten the time to deploy broadband on utility poles.

But according to https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fcc-gives-google...:

Despite today's vote, the FCC hurt the cause of faster pole attachment when it deregulated the broadband industry last year, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon. The FCC's anti-net neutrality vote removed the classification of broadband as a common carrier service—that now-repealed classification "ensure[d] that every broadband provider has the legal right to gain access to many of the poles that run along our roads," the EFF wrote last year.

"I wonder if the anti-net neutrality crowd understands that Title II's regulation of poles and conduit is now limited to telephone/cable TV thanks to [the] Restoring Internet Freedom Order," Falcon tweeted today. "The ISPs that are broadband-only will not get the benefit, thus limiting its positive impact."
I work at Square for what it’s worth..I disagree. Stripe set out to create the perfect payments service. Square set out to create the perfect physical POS. The next logical step for both companies is to spread out in the market more. We’re going to bump heads sooner or later being in the same industry.
Yes. To combat that we have code reviews (pull request workflow) and generally friendly and supportive atmosphere.
You don't have any other comments from the last 24 hours, so how are people supposed to be downvoting your old comments?
You could try Terminology (I'm the main dev).
It can be GPU-accelerated or not.
Or a duopoly of Stripe and Applepay?
Why are people demanding Linus Torvalds be the epitome of a straw man political stoic when the people who forced the CoC change on his project over a grueling Microsoft-backed culture war of attrition are the literal opposite of that personality type?

Grass-is-greener armchair psychologists seem to think they could effortlessly manage the codebase that powers the heart of billion machines (from cellphones to supercomputers) without it taking any emotional or psychological toll whatsoever.

You deserve a future where Microsoft runs everything.
I was thinking the same. I have a ton of custom search engines in Google Chrome.

Examples:

gi (google image search)

gl (google i'm feeling lucky search)

y (youtube)

wa (wolfram alpha)

i (imdb search)

w (wiki search)

m (google maps directions from my home address)

d (definition)

a (amazon)

f (stock/finance)
Show HN: Disjoint sets: explanation and a coded implementation in Lua
> I don't think it's a problem that happens, though

But how do you know. That's the issue. If P is the probability of getting caught, and C is the number of people caught then N ~= C/P. With our current system it seems like P is close to 0 so even with C = 0 there could be a lot of successful attempts.

Rigging a polling place is not viable because it would require coordination between multiple people and leave a clear mathematical trail after. So I would say that, including detection after the fact, that P > 0.5 and that the fact that it hasn't been caught means that N = 0.

> But by introducing voter ID systems you are very likely to skew elections away from the people least likely to possess accepted ID, i.e. the lowest socio-economic groups.

This is pretty much separate from my point but I am also skeptical about this. If someone can get to the polling place, stand in a line, and do paperwork to vote, then why could they not do pretty much the same thing to get an ID?
It depends on the jurisdiction, but they are in many! It is something they have been working towards for quite some time.
I would want to know 1) does this person have some basic competence at building something similar to what we need and 2) more importantly, have they shown initiative, grittiness, and quickness in creating things from scratch before. (In the form of their own projects they have worked on.) Beyond basic competence, those second traits are far more important for a potential cofounder than technical rigor. And a lot of technical people do not have those skills and cannot operate successfully in a self-directed environment.
> I’d prefer a track record that’s more than slightly better ...

So would I, but do you know of a better alternative? What if this is the best option we have for now?

> slightly better than flipping a coin

Also, to be clear, that doesn't accurately depict the results of the replication study. Almost every replication produced the same effects as the original experiment; in about half the replications, the effects were weaker. It's not that half the experiments were wrong; they were less conclusive.
The hardest part about supporting things like this on macOS is that they often require a lot of additional code or a certain design whereas on Linux, a lot of these features are provided by the window manager.

I don't consider it contrary to the project's goals if it's something that can be done unobtrusively. Given your description, it sounds like this may be something we could support easily. I filed #1544 to track this. Thanks for the suggestion!

#1544: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544
Are you saying that research is driven by war? Because that's exactly what it sounds like.
When you want the Wikipedia page, can't you search on Wikipedia directly? At least in Firefox, I have Wikipedia added as a search keyword.
How to steal every vote in the state of Georgia
LegalZoom Offers Smart Contracts with Pioneer Clause
Normally you would go about it like this:

dig +short txt _dnslink.ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com

^ will get you the root hash. Then for finding the hash of that particular directory:

ipfs resolve /ipfs/QmVsEiBRsdiHMvmDVJTNtrXNqSKYdtoepcoZxUrQ8rU7qR/ham

But unfortunately it errors, probably because it's a HAMT sharded directory and the `resolve` call hasn't been changed to accept them yet. There is a open issue about it here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/5270

Edit: Actually found a work-around.

Loading up the hash via our IPLD Explorer reveals the (re-)name of the directory, which happens to be `05ham` and we can call `resolve` on that: "ipfs resolve /ipfs/QmVsEiBRsdiHMvmDVJTNtrXNqSKYdtoepcoZxUrQ8rU7qR/05ham"

Then we get the `/ipfs/zdj7WZpLoZYr4AoDUdpCNBVHLi1S8y6muFoCgwUa9kmxUpYCr` hash which you can use for pinning.
NuScenes: the largest open-source self-driving dataset ever with LIDAR and radar
I understand this is not the point of the article, but whenever I see one of those SUVs on the road I feel a twinge of saddness; it seems a car in internal dissonance, it wants to be sleek and sporty, but it's this huge beast of a vehicle.
Base 10's Debut Fund Is the Largest Ever for a Black-Led VC Firm
Easy to yell is a great qualifier. I do the same when naming pets. The fewer syllables the better.
!w drops to Wikipedia's native search, not DDG's.

I use it precisely for this.
That's a myth. Extra muscle doesn't contribute very much to resting metabolic rate. Fat isn't metabolically "free" either; it takes a lot of energy just to move adipose tissue around.

https://muscleevo.net/muscle-metabolism/
There are some bangs that do not directly correspond to search boxes. For example, "!rfc 2616" expands into https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
It's similar, but not the same. The details matter. They're different because you don't need to deal with a complex abstraction layer to share logic. As in, you can expose an iOS Framework and call it from swift/Objc just like any other library. That lets you share tested logic and architecture, and do so optionally. It's not all-or-nothing. Xamarin is a different approach. Flutter is a very different approach.

Part of the issue when evaluating frameworks is expectations and not understand the plusses/minuses. If you are looking for a framework that will do 1 codebase for all logic and UI, without sacrificing any UX or capabilities, you'll probably be let down. Kotlin Multiplatform will be great for sharing logic and architecture. UI is somewhat of a different case. Why Xamarin wasn't great here is you need to do EVERYTHING in Xamarin, and write custom bridge code when not. It's an entirely different world, which bad IDE support for most of it's history. Jetbrains makes excellent tools, and if you understand that the UI will be "native", then there's a lot of efficiencies you can leverage here. If you get frustrated because you can't make one thing do all things, then yeah, it'll let you down.

Anyway, yeah, they're different.
Amazon Data Leaks and Bribes Have Consequences
Because they didn't do rooms in an already occupied house (and still don't). AirBnb started with renting couches or spare beds. They only moved into whole houses later, after they built up a reputation, and more importantly, built up their system of tracking the reputation of the renters.
I wonder if the people working in these warehouses can even afford to go to the doctor to get the note in the first place.
Do you mean you prefer to just follow instructions given by product managers as a robot rather than exercising your creativity and enjoy coding? Or am I reading your statement wrongly? That sounds like a terrible job to have.
Why is getting unemployed people back into the workforce wasted spend?
+1 for actually mentioning (let alone citing!) the article. There is so much information floating around, much of which slightly exaggerated, misinterpreted or misremembered, and if you want to check it you basically have to go and search through the whole thing. Even Dutch data protection authority has lots of info and FAQs without any reference to the law at all. So whenever I refer to it, I often have to go "at least, that's what our national authority says, I have no idea which article in the international law this is based on. Here, go and read some Dutch!"
Well then, your life, your choice.
You are assuming they don’t have the skills and that hiring is a perfect, fair process. This is not so.

There is clear evidence that even something as simple as being black might prevent someone being rejected over a less skilled white applicant.
This _almost_ seemed driven more by a desire to make sure the animated watch faces stay beautifully in sync when customers view the Apple Watches together in stores, which is a pretty cool little trick, that the watch itself is accurate is nearly a side benefit... I recall various Apple exec interviews at the original launch drawing attention to this.
These benchmarks miss the point in my opinion. When I'm choosing a terminal emulator, beyond features, the one "performance" metric that I'm interested in is latency; nothing else really affects my workflow (positively or negatively). In the benchmarks I've seen of alacritty wrt latency[1][2], it doesn't come out so well.

[1]: https://danluu.com/term-latency/

[2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
First, breathe. There's no single answer for you - and no answer that works for everyone. Everything ebbs and flows - and you'll find different things that worked for you in the past, don't work at the current juncture (and vice versa). That being said, here are things that have worked for me at different times. I'm currently more engaged in some than others. Personally, I think it's all about finding time to just 'zen out' somehow.

It's never easy feeling like the walls are constantly closing in. But every single item here is about just taking a small pause, and resetting. By no means do them - do your equivalent.

* Play a musical instrument - It's not about the music, it's about the mind-clearing process time, while I try (and fail!!!) to play some music.

* If you're into religion (I am) - take some time, whether it's weekly or daily to study or pray, whatever works for you. At the beginning your mind races to work, your heat rate increases... all the bad things happen. I can also attest that (for me) it becomes a very Zen thing, and it's how I start my day.

* Swim/bike/lift weights at random / etc. - It's not about health benefits. The goal again, is a period of mind-clearing time. Do whatever thing you do such that you HAVE to focus on the action at hand.

* Play with some other technical thing - I do this all the time. It feels like you're not working.. but the reality as I've said before, is that I frequently carry ideals from my random projects back to the office. That just happened today, we're literally going to change how we manage a task distribution across a network, based on something that came out of one of my 'huh, mmm?' sessions.

* Book time with yourself - I'm awful at this, I literally fail at it every single day. But the ideal would be to book some 'you' time and just be. Eat breakfast, make coffee, do whatever thing you want to do.
There's an entitlement problem, but it isn't on the part of readers. Advertisers, ad networks, and publishers have made so many terrible decisions that they drove readers like me to ad blockers.

I'm not against ads, but I don't want to be tracked. I don't want a 500 word article to download megabytes of crappy javascript.

Publishers are probably costing their audience more in battery life and bandwidth than they are ever making from the ad they are showing.
Or a 33 year old. Don't forget us 33 year old types.
The Airpower was also supposed to support multiple -- very different -- devices at the same time (i.e., phone, watch, AirPods). Is this possibly also a complicating factor?
This is actually enabled by default unless you disable it. No extra code needed, unless the macOS implementation conflicts with yours.
Or you know use, your phone on data plan instead of corporate network for anything private.
A better story is better marketing.
Nuclear power is supported by many climate scientists. I think technically it's a fantastic solution. However, I don't think it's a great socio-economic solution and the costs if we fail to deal with climate change may be too high.

Let me explain. Earlier this year a nuclear power plant in Finland had to reduce capacity because the sea waters got too warm.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-nuclear-fortum-oy...

This is one example where climate change may make it difficult to operate nuclear power plants. Another is that the seas are rising and storms are getting slower which results in more flooding.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/floren...

These together make operating nuclear power plants difficult.

The last threat is that if we reach the tipping point, we will likely be facing a world where nation states start failing, including our own. Nuclear power plants take decades to decommission and the question is, who will maintain and decommission these things when humanity is faced with much more pressing concerns like maintaining organized human life.

The tipping point is a real concern among scientists. The IPCC recommends policy makers take the real possibility of a tipping point into account and I think questions like "How do we deal with nuclear power plants as nation-states fail" should be taken seriously.

https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch2s2-2...

Prominent members in our field like Alan Kay also wrote about tipping points in a report for the NSF Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems

https://www.nsf.gov/ere/ereweb/ac-ere/nsf6895_ere_report_090...

I'm not a pessimist but a realist. I think it's utopian to not address the concerns of climate scientists and really smart people in our field when making policy decisions, and this includes nuclear.
Not to mention Firefox Developer Edition in general: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
How does the Navy acquire nuclear powerplants for their vessels? I assume maritime powerplants are much smaller.
You're postulating an imaginary hive mind on the part of "Indian-Americans" then asking how ethnically tribal it is.

It's like asking if whitey is proud of Donald Trump. The problems start before the question is halfway asked.
nickik's claim was that no one has died in the US from civilian nuclear. Your links are for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a military experimental research facility.

If there have been any deaths from civilian nuclear, I would like that information to consider.
> Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily, with about 50 reactors under construction.

The decommissioning of nuclear reactors is far outpacing the construction of new plants.

https://www.reuters.com/article/energy-nuclearpower/nuclear-...

The report: https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/-2018-.html
I would make the argument that price is part of the product...
No one cares (or at best you'll have a really limited market) if you can't make your product affordable.
> A lot of people don't have other options so they take whatever they can get in order to survive. Why don't victims of domestic abuse leave immediately but stay for years?

If Amazon is offering the very best jobs available to those workers, and Amazon actually complies with all laws and regulations, then I fail to see how is Amazon responsible for the worker's problems. It seems to me that the problem lies elsewhere, like how a regional economy managed to get so depressed to the point that no alternative job is available.

If the only job that's availanle to you is working in a sweatshop, does shutting the sweatshop down fixes anything?
I'm really happy to see all the hard work come together on this. I think the project has a great new feature.
His ideas around doing reviews of your todos, etc. are also useful. Even if you don't do a formal review every Friday afternoon or whenever, the general concept fits well with his overall ideas around breaking tasks into manageable chunks and generally not being overwhelmed with an undifferentiated 75 item todo list.
This makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
I tried my best, but I can't control how other people interpret it. That's what comments are for after all, to deal with information asymmetry like this.

I just don't get it. What's wrong with expressing my love for a language that I love? I am not even asking for anyone to switch to JS, just expressing my feel.
Robin Hoodization of OSS and Commons Clause License
Amazon Probes Employees Selling Metrics, Deleting Negative Reviews for Bribes
How Pinterest Became an $11B Company by Organizing the World’s Hobbies
I see the regulatory inefficiencies as being totally different though.

It didn't make that much sense apart from protecting holders of medallions for it to be illegal to pay someone for a car ride, but I would actually like there to be laws protecting guests and innkeepers, and preventing the apartment across the hall from turning into a hotel.
I agree that repairability is important.

I have a year-old X with a cracked camera lens that Apple wants $450 to fix (under AppleCare+), but some YouTube video says I can fix myself for $7. The third-party repair centers near me say they won't touch it. The only reason my mother-in-law is still using my ancient hand-me-down 5s is because the small repair shops will replace the screen and battery on that one for almost nothing.

Although I also have an Android phone of a similar vintage with a replaceable battery. Nobody sells that battery model anymore. It's a doorstop.
Anyone have thoughts on ProtonMail vs FastMail, as a gmail successor?
Amazon should split into two companies to avoid antitrust fed scrutiny: Citi
I have been using DDG for over a year now. I have to use Google/!g at least once daily. Especially with forums/blog posts, it shows older, outdated info more often than Google. And my searches mostly consist of programming related topics too.

I continue use DDG to support them but I do wish their results were better.
I hate the initial comparison. Look, everybody knows that SUVs are the easiest type of car to sell, and compacts are the most viciously difficult. So starting your article with a comparison that is so obviously flawed hardly lends credibility to the point you are trying to make.

Edit: I still can't believe that they chose to compare it to Chrysler's complete inability to make a compact car that would sell in the early 2000s. As if putting price first would have fixed the Dodge Neon.
I find the text adventures take more patience at first but then the immersion kicks in. I had a great time with Anchorhead recently.
I remember reading an old urban legend about someone that got the exact sequence of characters on the print chain and wrote some code to print exactly that line on the 1403.

The legend tells of the 1403 dutifully printing that line by firing all 132 hammers at once, causing the chain to violently break and whipsaw itself out of the side of the printer cabinet.
I can prove people use it on a daily basis to value stocks, publish equity research reports on them, and the courts look to it as one approach to inferring the fair value of an asset. It has a non-zero impact on the way markets value stocks.

DCF models aside, the notion of the "present value of future cash flows" (and the time-value of money concept that drives it) underpins all of corporate finance. It is the most fundamental building block of modern finance and it's in everything from Finance 101 courses to derivatives trading. Clearly the market utilizes it to value assets and stocks are no exception.

I'm not saying the entirety of valuation is predicated on DCF models -- feel free to re-read any of my comments.