skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much it [United Health Care] pays its CEO is completely irrelevant, except as an emotional appeal and rage bait.

That's a pretty significant exception, from the perspective of "designing" a social order.

It's a brute fact that humans measure their well-being in part by comparing their situations to those of their neighbors and of others with whom they come into contact. [0] People can become disgruntled, even envious, when they discover that they want things that others have but they don't. It's a fact of life: natural selection has hard-wired us to experience at least mild envy, which motivates us to try to improve our lot (by fair means or foul).

So how should we respond to that brute fact? I used to think that folks who resented high executive compensation should just get over it, or go and earn such compensation themselves. I remember listening approvingly to the old Eddie Chiles TV commercials: Don't have an oil well? Get one! [1]

These days, on the other hand, I'm increasingly realizing that this is unrealistic, and also that we broadcast an unrealistic message: You, too, can make it to the executive suite and pull down the big bucks if you just work hard enough and smart enough, starting when you're young. But that's akin to saying that if you just work hard enough and smart enough, you can play for an NBA team or win the British Open golf tournament. That's certainly true for a few people; for the vast majority, though, that message seems delusional and perhaps even fraudulent.

That in turn has led me to think that high executive comp, and the sense of vague disgruntlement among others to which it contributes, might be akin to the unremarkable public water pump that was discovered to have been the source of London's deadly 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, in which more than 600 people died in just a couple of weeks: [2] To outward appearances the water pump was innocuous and beneficial, but in reality it was silently poisoning the community and attacking the social fabric.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/120/3/963/1841...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Chiles

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
I'm not saying I don't believe they could be telling the truth, but why should we should take their word for it?
I gave this an upvote. Spotify is great and how I listen to a lot of my music, but often songs & albums are removed from the Spotify catalog. There's still a place for music that you own and can't find anywhere else.

(And with Winamp's FLAC support, there's maybe room as a player of high-end 24/96 recordings sold by stores like 7digital as well.)
I'd love to see a similar service aimed at men. I've found myself trying to purchase fewer, more expensive (and hopefully more durable) items. Similarly to the anecdote from the article, I find myself buying stuff that's fine in store but ultimately isn't something I'd like to keep and the return policy makes it just difficult enough that I just keep or donate it.
Yeah, it's funny - from my superficial understanding political theory predicts that a first-past-the-post system turns into a two party system with the parties getting ever more similar ("median voter theorem"). But that's not what happened in the US in the last decade or so.

But agreed - proportional parliament allows for articulation of important non-majority views (such as the emergence of the Green party in Germany many years back).
i7 8700K may be the most sensible choice overall really.
Angela Merkel’s coalition is in trouble
ADD is not over diagnosed. It's probably more prevalent in the population than we think it is. The medications are not specifically harmful in a potential misdiagnosed case... they are just not effective. And there's multiple medications which have difference efficacies for different people. That being said 80% of people with ADHD find medication effective.

Dr. Russell Barkley has a book on it and also
several talks on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7QuWchHvOY
http://www.russellbarkley.org/

But you should get screened if you feel it would be beneficial. Find a doctor that specializes in ADHD/ADD. The way most adults find out they have ADHD/ADD is when they take their kids in for screening, usually due to school issues.

Depression, anxiety are co-morbid with ADHD/ADD as well.

Here's a good talk on one women's experience with ADHD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiwZQNYlGQI
The Ryzen chips do AVX2 as well though for some reason the Intel parts often do better.

Media applications makes sense to use such cpu features.
> Detail how you ensure privacy and secure data. That should be…

I assume the app will target American users, but it could be useful to think through the privacy and data security with the EU GDPR — where that "should" becomes a "must".

I'll just copy a few bits, but the articles here are the most relevant:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/ : "Provide the data subject with ... the purposes of the processing for which the personal data are intended as well as the legal basis for the processing ... the recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data, if any"

Is the data shared with anyone?

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-30-gdpr/ : "...shall maintain a record of ... the envisaged time limits for erasure of the different categories of data ... a general description of the technical and organisational security measures ..."

How long is data kept after the interviews are completed?

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/ : "The controller and processor shall take steps to ensure that any natural person acting under the authority of the controller or the processor who has access to personal data does not process them except on instructions from the controller, unless he or she is required to do so by Union or Member State law."

Can your developers access private data?
WxPython: How to Open a Second Window / Frame
Overrepresentation of select groups doesn't prevent tyranny of the majority, it makes it more likely (and tilts which majority is likely to enjoy it), and even makes tyranny of the minority possible.

Tyranny of the majority can only be prevented by establishing norms that limit what government can do even with support of majorities in representative institutions either as absolute norms or with some things requiring a higher bar than a one-time majority (bicameralism with both houses not being elected fully simultaneously does this, requiring concurrence between branches does this, supermajority requirements for certain actions does this, Constitutional limitations with amendments requiring supermajorities of states even after legislative passage do this.)
Yes with Chess you can do exactly that no problem, but I bet Civ has a thousand heuristics woven through that which would make it horribly difficult. Maybe not impossible though!

The other complication is it isn't just 1 on 1, its 1 player vs ~10 players. So your move changes player 2's move changes player 3's move and so on.
Misleading bill titles are the norm in Congress. See "right-to-work" laws and the Defense of Marriage Act for examples.
Thanks for checking it out!

> you might be better off finding a way to implement it on top of current systems.

Unless I misunderstood what you had in mind, that's exactly my current hypothesis, to automate payment processors such as Stripe and not process any payment information.

PayPool won't be a new payment gateway.

If I might ask, which specific aspect of PayPool did you find fascinating?
There are some games, like the new Assassin's Creed, that benefit from having 8 physical cores. The 2700 is probably not the best value proposition to play games that are out right now, but it probably is a good value if you want a chip that will handle new games for the next 4 years without needing an upgrade. Games today may be using 4 or 6 threads but it wasn't that long ago when games ran on only 1 or 2.
> I asked people in the CIA about the Bloomberg story and their response seemed to indicate that the story is real.

Like the Bloomberg article, your comment is unsourced - or anonymously so, which is only an infinitesimally larger notch better.

(But I presume you were merely being sarcastic; or trolling.)
If Ajit Pai goes to jail I'm going to throw the biggest party ever and everyone is invited. Everyone.

I've made it a personal objective of mine to send him a Christmas card every year, forever, until one of us dies, reminding him that he's a knobhead for bending over for big telecom.
Great story! Strikes me though that the image we associate with the "whole earth" is only of a specific half.

An expansion on the revelation at the heart of many issues today.
See monoclonal antibody therapy for lymphoma.

I think there is debate about late stage cancer survival and chemotherapy drug effectiveness, which OP somehow spread over the whole "cancer" topic.

I doubt there is any debate about treatment in early stage cancer cases, apart from some indolent types diagnosed at old age.
Wall Street Loves These Risky Loans. The Rest of Us Should Be Wary
Traditionally franchise dealers rely on floor plan financing from a bank. They use it to purchase inventory and can roll it over continuously. Banks are usually happy to lend to dealers at low interest rates since the loan collateral is right there at the dealership and relatively easy to repossess if the dealer goes bankrupt.
As you stated, the purpose is to inform, not vote or poll. The content of a comment is informative or it's not. How is it relevant that it was posted by a bot? How was any commenter stifled?
Maybe this is naive, but if the server is compromised such that an attacker can circumventing your hashing function can't the attacker just send some JS down to the client that records the password before it's hashed?
TR platform has a higher "future upgrade potential", can handle 4xGPUs for Deep Learning, but has some issues with its high-end motherboards. Also, memory is still limited to 128GB ECC UDIMM as larger chips aren't out yet (Samsung is sampling some 32GB module right now). If you need single-threaded performance, 9900K is your best choice.
> Would love to hear of a country that has "universal health care" that does not limit what procedures people can have done to see how it is possible.

It will attract quacks like shit attracts flies, so yes, of course there are limits: New treatments need to be more effective or cheaper for some well-defined ailment to end up on the approved list.
If they're very expensive, they might not be first in line (but still available for patients where the case can be made that they need it). That can be frustrating, but shouldn't be life threatening.

Experimental treatments are research. Their test subjects are picked by a schedule that is unrelated to medical care needs but optimizes for good data acquisition. Pay for them from research budgets, not health care.
FWIW, latent semantic analysis is just a particular application of principal component analysis.
Epic flood sends cavers scrambling for their lives
> It's also how single-payer healthcare works in the majority of countries that have it.

Only a couple of countries actually have single-payer healthcare[0]. For those that do, treatment for complex, expensive conditions like cancer is regulated by the government much more strictly than in the US, with the result that patients have far fewer options for (covered) treatment. Incidentally, those countries, like the UK, tend to have dramatically worse cancer survival outcomes than the US does.

[0] The UK (if we ignore the divisions between the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) is one of the only ones.
Slightly off-topic here, but I'm fairly sure that if you think an Electron app takes only 80 MB of RAM, you're probably miscalculating how much does it really use.
Yes, you can't securely deploy a PAKE using browser javascript. If it's web applications you want to secure, your users will have to install something to make a PAKE secure.
Because "free press", "they are attacking the press", yadda yadda yadda.
I grew up speaking Mandarin in my household and spoke English at school, but I also picked up Spanish in highschool and Japanese in college.

If I were to guess, my brain would probably place Mandarin and English in "mother language" part of the brain and Japanese and Spanish part in the adjacent region. I wonder what I would lose if I were to sustain an injury. Would I lose one group over another group?

On another note, as with many American highschool students learning Spanish, I fell out of practice and now I can't really communicate in Spanish at all. When I do attempt to speak Spanish, I notice that I sometimes replace words in Spanish with Japanese ones. Can't be sure whether or not it's because of phonological similarities of Japanese and Spanish, or maybe my Japanese overwrote some of my Spanish.
>But if you're playing games, you're probably not CPU-bound anyway.

We used to say this, but I don't believe it anymore. A lot of games these days make heavy use of simulation and physics engines. Games like KSP that perform continuous physics calculations are absolutely CPU-bound.
A KISS replacement for react + redux. It comes in two flavors:

- callbag-html + callbag-store

or

- callbag-element + declaredom + callbag-store if you're planning on using web components

Benefits:

- It uses morphdom for fast diffing, which is as fast as virtual-dom

- It's lack of parochiality -it just uses plain
HTMLElements. It makes using 3rd party libs seamless because you don't have to wrap them. It also means that you can batch things into animation frames to avoid unnecessary layout thrashing

- Callbag is used because it's a stupidly simple streaming library, easy to understand. Things like cold/hot observables, or what gets updated in a tick, can make streaming libs pretty complicated. Callbag fights that with it's extreme simplicity.

In general the entire toolset is easy to understand in terms of how it works, and that's important
I completely agree with Stripe here. The homeless problem will not be solved by increasing taxes. The problem is whether the money is being used correctly. I see huge issues with that. The department of homelessness currently has an annual budget of $250Million[1] for providing shelter to homeless. I wonder if govt. is spending $250 Million every year on providing them shelter why are they still living in streets? Where is all that money going?

[1] - https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre...
That's what I'm waiting for, around that time my 4790k will be 6yo, and the bump should be worth it... more ram and threads will be nice. May wait for the TR refresh as a consideration too... longest I've ever held on to a desktop PC.
That looks nice. Did you use a UI/CSS library?
Yup, MacAmp was a thing for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAmp
The Model III display was only 64 characters per line (64x16), so the 2x3 blocks gave you 128 horizontal "pixels". Model 4 could operate in either Model III (backward compatible) or Model 4 mode.

Moving to 80x24 on PC from a Model III was huge.
Only takes one physical threat from a rejected candidate with a bruised ego to never want to provide people with feedback again. The returns are just not there.
I should also add that Fauna indexes are more akin to views. They can cover multiple source collections and transform the data as well. So it’s not always possible to detect which index is correct via heuristic.
Yes, I did it. Actually, I have a sleep mask in my job. It's useful to reduce a headache when everything is normal again. I discovered it a few years ago after 20 years having this migraine but the read/speak thing started about 8 years ago (at least).
Well not to mention that there's pretty sound arguments for not allowing the public access to high resolution live images of the earth.
Even if the computers are good enough, they don't have the software to make it work. Realistically they're still many years away from software that could legitimately deliver Level 4 autonomous driving on every road in the US.
Not sure that I agree.. if you have truly multithreaded workloads, the R7-2700X is probably a better option... in the end, it depends on your use and how much you want to spend. System cost is also a consideration.
I don’t know about the other software types, but games are not typical users of AVX (at client runtime anyway, the tooling used to make the games is different).
Kerbal Space Program will definitely benefit, especially if you have big part count stations and ships.
I read a tweet from Jack Dorsey that said Square would end up paying a significantly more than Salesforce (Link: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1053312149815091200). Why is that? Is it because financial services/payment transaction type businesses are taxed more or because this is a tax on "gross receipts" which potentially impacts these payment companies more because it includes income from interest, which they presumably have relatively more of? Or something else?
No wonder you have so many "exhausting arguments".... you're not listening to anyone but yourself.
My 2c:

First decide why you want to blog. That can drive the rest of your actions.

Think about who can be your target audience, if it is not a blog for anyone and everyone.

Write about what interests you and about what you think may interest other people. And write about what you know something about (unless the blog is just about talking about things that you did).

Add links to related content (in your posts), both in and outside your blog.

Use text formatting like bold and italics, but sparingly.

Might want to add relevant images now and then to some posts.

Final point: Stick to it for a while. Don't stop very soon, even if you do not see results.

I've been blogging for over 10 years now, at:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com

I would not call myself very good at it even now. But even what I have done in these years, has been useful for increasing my visibility, and I've got training and consulting work many times, for which the clients say they got to know of me via my blog (or my published articles or my open source software projects).

Good luck.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18248778
How Political Campaigns Weaponize Social Media Bots
In those phones Google will take the money from the Play ecosystem and $40 from the vendor. The Not-Google company that is pre-installed will exploit your personal extra hard to remake the $40 they gave Google.
I love the digital stuff, definitely an awesome space.

Another great group is Summits On The Air[1] which basically involves hauling a radio up to the highest peaks and seeing how many people you can contact from the top of the mountain.

It's something you can do with just a simple 5w VHF handheld(yay line-of-sight) and the group is really welcoming. Last weekend I was up at about 6k ft and making direct line of sight contacts over 100mi away on 5 watts.

[1] https://sota.org.uk/
> I think this is because nothing stops `high` from actually being lower than `low`.

Ahh, right. I guess that's exactly the type of oversight that a checker is for :)

We could return the pair (!cur_low, !cur_high) and have the postcondition that pred (fst result) = False and pred (snd result) = True and abs (first result - snd result) = 1. Then it would work also if low > high, but I'm not sure this is useful in practice...

> The run-time version of `pred` is a partial function (it only works for valid array indices), so it needs a precondition. However, when I pass `pred` as an argument to `binary_search`, I can't / don't know how to specify that the argument needs the precondition.

If I'm understanding this correctly, you want to do something like this:

let binary_search (pred: (i:int) -> bool requires { low < i < high }) (low: int) (high: int): int

But Why3 does not support this?

If you add a precondition like that to pred, wouldn't that also prevent requires/ensures/invariant from calling pred on arguments that don't satisfy the precondition? In the precondition we do want pred low = False /\ pred high = True, but the run time predicate only allows pred k for low < k < high?
Thinking about thinking (2016)
So, for a term of a contract to have force, is it necessary to have some sort of penalty in the contract for breach-of-contract, involving e.g. some required payment, so that you can then sue for failure to pay the penalty? (Which I would assume is mostly equivalent to e.g. failure to pay for goods transferred or services rendered.)
The square root of two cannot be represented exactly in a finite decimal representation, but there are other ways to represent it exactly in finite space. We both know precisely which number we're talking about, despite using computers to represent it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18242062
I'd recommend starting and stopping with the ones written while Goscinny was still alive. I've read a few of the post-Goscinny books, and I found their emptiness creepy, and almost never funny. Though for the most recent books, the former author tried various successors, so there might be some success among those.

I'd even argue that Asterix was great in the 50s and 60s, but the authors (Goscinny and Uderzo) were less inspired in the 70s. Their best period was from "Astérix et les Goths" (the third one) to "Astérix et les Normands" (ninth one, my personal favorite). Goscinny suddenly died in 1977, but the Asterix series had become such an institution that millions of copies of each book were sold, whatever the quality.

(edit: typos)
>In this sense, the various C++ language working groups are doing a remarkable job

Really? Ask a big amount of C++ users...

>I am still not convinced by the general "we don't need to upgrade the Common Lisp specification" attitude.

I am, fully. The language can be extended by using the language.
Again, I see down-votes, but no counterarguments or questions. What exactly is your issue?

1) Whistle-blowers are rarely rewarded. If anything, they are typically penalized, which is why most people 'stfu' and go about their daily business.

2) There is a multi-dimensional chess game happening. I live in DC. The "Rise of China" and the "decline of American power" are frequently discussed topics. People interpret as threatening all sorts of things that the average person wouldn't bother to think much about. Likewise, strategies abound on how to engage/counter these perceived threats.

The idea that a government would tamper w/electronics isn't far-fetched. Nor is it absurd to believe that government actors would use press outlets and the like to disseminate narratives. Some known examples of, and/or references to the practice...[1], [2], [3], [4].

3) Does anyone really think that Bloomberg would produce and release such a piece w/o someone in the Administration knowing about it ahead of time and/or seeking guidance as to how, or even whether, it should be released? Seriously?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-nov...
[3] https://www.airforcehollywood.af.mil
[4] https://www.army.mil/info/institution/publicAffairs/ocpa-wes...
It's only broken because of regulation. If I could shop across state lines for insurance, prices would drop. I may not even opt to get insurance as I'm very healthy and I've never had medical costs approach even an order of magnitude of my insurance costs. Yet I'm forced to purchase this unneeded service by the government, pushing up demand and prices in an artificially controlled market.