skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The issuer might run a fractional reserve (this is the accusation against Tether, the most popular stablecoin at the moment)

Very important to note - a stablecoin running a "fractional reserve" in the way that people talk about would just be fraudulent/insolvent.

Modern banks have actually never operated under the "fractional reserve" model as described in economics textbooks, but it's true that they only a fraction of their assets are held as bank reserves. Very importantly though, solvent banks always have more assets than liabilities (customer deposits are a liability to the bank). Usually a lot of those assets are loans, but they also hold bonds and other investments.

If Tether has issued a single token without an asset to back it that is worth at least US$1, then that's not operating like a bank does, it's just fraud.
I'm software developer (backend, fronted, cloud, embedded, etc), but it's often very helpful to know how hardware works, how processor works, how kernel works, how compiler works, how network works, and so on, because it's allow me to make my abstraction at top of all these layers to work much more efficient. It's not expected that I will be expert in all that, but it's expected that I will know basics, so I will not make noob mistakes. Are you expecting noob mistakes from architect, which made your home? Or it's ok if he made mistakes in someone else home or bridge?
Worse - you can get a bill in the mail later for some out of network doctor who looked at a chart without ever interacting with you, in addition to the hospitals charge.
Is it the UI that’s slow? Or the network?
Applying Deep Learning to Airbnb Search
> Can you give an example of far-left extremism in the media?

By far-left extremism in the media, I'm saying that the media is far-left extremist.

> I haven't seen any communist bomb threats lately.

Google antifa and protests. But I have a feeling you already knew that.
Why??? Why downvoted? What wrong with this site?
This looks great! Also, nice to see some modern Cmake in the wild ;)
Yup, or a bill from an out of network doctor that consulted while you were under or generally unaware [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-sur...
Glad you like it. He has about 4 more "Power of Nightmares", "Hypernormalization", "The Mayfair Set" . He has been criticized for lacking precision and rigor, but I am willing to forgive that for the experience and the overall argument: that old models of describing the world have lost their power.
Yes, I read it. But I taken into account only claims backed by historical sources.
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Then we are in agreement about the most important thing.
This. It’s called the “bible” for a reason. I learned to program largely by reading that book.
We get 174400 TW from the Sun (1367W/m2 over the Earth cross-section, which pretty much balances out with the outgoing blackbody radiation at something like 5 deg C IIRC. This would be the surface temperature if there was no internal heating. This slows down cooling of the mantle because there's no cold reservoir for it to cool into.
Yeah, nothing changed there. If you run checks that are always false then it's wasted time on checking.

Brian recently wrote a profiler to help you find where plugging memo is useful:

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/09/10/introducing-the-react-pr...
There is only one god that trump worships, himself.
What do you mean by "support for SSR"? Can you elaborate?

All our releases support SSR. But some specific features need to wait for a new async server renderer. I can't tell you when that's going to happen although it's most likely within 2019.
Honest question: Can you write

Class foo = String;

in Java? If so I guess classes really are objects, if not I'd say "there are some objects that represent (or wrap) some classes somehow."
It could be that atheism is less passive. Someone who describes themselves as atheist has evaluated the situation and come to a conclusion.

I know a number of people, including in my family, that describe themselves as religious one way or another, despite the fact they don't actively participate in any religious practice even down to going to church at all.

We celebrate Christmas and Easter because tradition, and that seems to contribute to this passive religious-ness.

I personally don't care what other people believe in, because it rarely affects how I interact with them on a daily basis. Good luck to them. However, as an atheist I'm not really discomforted with religion and spirituality, it's more I find it an interesting phenomena; the blatant hypocrisy 'they' often display in claiming something is wrong or crazy in comparison to their chosen position (passively or otherwise). It points to a mental processing flaw; an inability to see logic when it threatens their world view. The human condition.
And look how that worked out for them?
Or maybe they're really busy with higher priority work.
It's the app the cried wolf...

If the website or application is popping up constant unimportant dialogs, then the user is trained to quickly dismiss them...
Looking at the impact of the City of London on Greater London, or the finacial services sector on Dublin or Silicon Valley on Palo Alto it seems to me that the flight of major, centralized economic powers (with the ability to distort democracy) is a net win for most locations.

Quebec continues to do well despite the relocation of a few businesses.
Her description strikes me as containing so many process problems. All of this could be avoided with a kanban-style process with clear WIP limits, a visible backlog, and small units of work with frequent releases.

I guess the whole adventure thing rubs me the wrong way. It reminds me of one of my favorite bits from Rick and Morty: "The thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There’s no way to do it so wrong you might die. It’s just work."
As the person who submitted this story, I have a question: why was Sarah Kliff’s name removed from the headline?

I submitted it with the same title it carries at CJR, which includes her name. The story is a profile of her and her work, so removing it makes the headline less informative, not more. And she’s not a celebrity, so mentioning her by name doesn’t make the headline any more clickbaity than it would be without it.

Is there some reason HN believes she deserves to have her name struck out of the title of her own profile?
The other angle to solving this problem would be adding lifecycle methods to React.Context (instead of using render props), which could eliminate the need for multiple contexts. Making Consumer contexts more efficient & composable.
With Microsoft making moves like blazor, you may see a huge shift into .net devs bukidng with web assembly.
Yep, WAN is unlimited LTE, which is around 25mbps (on a somewhat rural area). This is 5 times more than available coaxial-based bandwidth.
Indeed, the classic resulting bug was the do loop with a typo.
Instead of comma the program had a period. So this

DO I = 1.100

was interpreted as assignment

DOI = 1.1

Though contrary to urban legend it did not result in the loss of any rockets.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9.54.html#subj1
I got an abdominal ultrassound, because some of my bloodwork was off and the doctor wanted to confirmed my liver was ok. Very routine. So I agreed. 15 minutes from the time I got to the reception desk to the time I was out of the door.

Hospital billed $6000 (already negotiated down with insurance). Insurance paid around $4000. They wanted me to pony up 2k. Told no. Went to collections, negotiated to just under 1000. According to the line items, doctor took ~$100.

I have no clue why this was so high. My wife did pelvic ultras-sounds at another hospital (so not exactly the same procedure), but was billed $300.

The only reason I can think of is the 'name' of the hospital. It's in the Bay Area and shares the name of a well known university.

Had I known, I would never have gone there. That incident caused me to ditch my plan and go with Kaiser. It's been ok so far. No ultra-sounds, but I got a sleep apnea exam and a cpap for about 150 - and that was disclosed upfront.
Finally! I want to invest in YC batches just for this. Didn’t care to invest before.
We're making our first hires in Montreal for JS Dev's if anyone is interested, get in touch
My favorite is that the hospital will use the external consultation to charge more for the visit.
You could watch Crazy, Stupid Love (very funny movie with ensemble cast), you could watch The Big Short (again, ensemble cast), you could watch The Place Beyond The Pines...
> "Tech companies" is just way too broad a designation to use here. No one is seriously asking Apple to police hate speech in iMessage or Facetime, for instance, or Verizon to police hate speech in SMS.

Sure they are. Microsoft is even monitoring their service for "bad words".

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/03/27/microsoft-ban-offensi...

> What people are concerned about are the newsfeeds and timelines, specifically.

No. That's a small part of what primarily the left want to censor.

> It's silly to worry about giving these products "the power to determine what people can—and can’t—say online." They've already seized it for themselves--by deciding for me which content will show up in my newsfeed/timeline/suggested list. They decide which content gets promoted to me.

Which you can choose to ignore or bypass.

> So if you build a publishing system designed solely to maximize engagement, it's going to become a system that preferentially serves content that feeds negative emotions.

Then why aren't you demanding CNN or the NYTimes be censored?

> The companies doing this need to accept their responsibility for what they decide to serve and promote.

They are. They are serving what their customers want.

The only people who are complaining about it are authoritarian and selfish individuals who want to control what people see and say. It's no different than a prude whining about the porn people watch.
So this generates models from height-maps?

what makes this 2.5D and not 3D?
AI jobs are $150k+ in Montreal.
Sanford is not on the list of People I Know Whose Showing Up on HN Would Not Surprise Me.
That's what they need to charge to make money. I think it demonstrates how repairability and fairness isn't worth it - I can just buy 4 equivalent phones for the same price (like the Nokia 5) and throw them out when broken.
Juniors are offered CAD 65-75 fresh out of school.
Not just ER. We went to urgent care with a bean stuck up my sons nose. The doctor spent about 30 seconds getting it out. We were in and out in 10 minutes or so. The bill was $2000.
I find HN borderline propaganda.

Its the only educated place on the internet, but the front page and comments is what HN whales decide.
Edited: misunderstood OP, not relevant.
Fast Food Consumption Among Adults in the United States, 2013-2016 [pdf]
I don't know if you can say "welfare dependence causes crime". What you could say is that there are those who commit crime that take advantage of welfare, that is, they abuse its availability.

I know of those who abuse welfare payments because they are incapable of doing honest work - they would rather rort a system than put in an honest days work. Yet there are many other who cannot get such help when they truly need it. These are the one that fall through the cracks and I have seen some of those turn to criminal activity because they don't see any other way.

Many years ago, I had the "pleasure" of dealing with someone on welfare. They wanted to see our pastor and were wanting to obtain some monies. Ostensibly for putting fuel into their vehicle.

I offered to help and took them back to my place and got a twenty litre jerry can of fuel that I had. I took them and the fuel back to their place and emptied it into their car fuel tank. My observations of them lead me to the conclusion that their financial help request was bogus. They were not enthused that they had received practical help (fuel) instead of currency.

I went to this effort to test them and the veracity of their story. Never saw them again. I shared this with the then pastor and he laughed that I had had the nowse to test the person's story. He had seen that person previously on a number of occasions.

Since then, it has been policy to help people practically by giving the actual things like food, etc, rather than monies. This always results in one of two things, grateful acceptance or ungratefulness.
Funny, I look at it very differently. After 25+ years as a professional polyglot... I feel like I can spin the hamster wheel with my pinkie. No, I haven't used that particular language/framework/whatever, but give me a week and I'll be as good as anyone on the team. There's not much new under the sun.
Stated without evidence.

San Francisco's homelessness problem long predates the current boom, and its causes go far beyond wage rates.

Housing there is unaffordable even at the current minimum wage, so it's hard to see how the latest increase could have had a meaningful effect on homelessness levels.
If you are going to the HK airport from the Shekou port in mainland China, the ferry requires you to arrive something like 3 hours ahead of your flight, even though the ferry ride itself if only 30-40 minutes. I assume a bus wouldn't dictate your schedule in that way.
Does this actually happen? I went from software development to a much lower paying field, and nobody looking at my resume or interviewing me ever suggested that "over-qualification" might be a problem for me. All they wanted to know is if I could do the job.
> Maintaining things currently in use is a lot harder

Not so hard if the govn't simply crackdown Unions and worker protests.

And tolls for every new road.
If you're making 30k / year, having any kind of equity in lieu of traditional compensation (bonuses, wage increases) is an extremely risky affair. Amazon's stock has increased x6, but that is not normal, nor is it indicative of future performance. For those living paycheck to paycheck, there are far better methods of compensation that will ensure a higher quality of life without huge amounts of risk. An increase of just $1-2 per hour would easily make up the difference.

White collar workers can absorb the risk in the case of a market downturn, but I'm not sure that blue collar workers can.
Class foo = String.class;

(Though `Class` is actually a generic type, so you'd want to include the type parameter in actual code.)
If you work at code mills then salaries are capped at 90ish. If you work for actual businesses that solve real problems then the salaries are much higher. I know many people in both camps.
> Putting aside that it's a slippery and malleable label to apply to undesirable speech, there is an elitism hiding in these ban-hate-speech arguments.

It's also about control. The biggest whiners about "hate speech" are the media and news companies. Because they want to control what people see and hear. They don't care about hate speech, they just want to be able to control which hate speech the masses get to see.

It's patronizing, it's paternalistic and it's also puritanically authoritarian. It's evil.
Medical is in bed with the government

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

Heck, if you want to know why something in the US sucks, just look at that list.

Massive government corruption from legal bribery.
We've thought about a spectrum of solutions and plan to present more proposals soon.
> userIDs fields on the network requests you will replay with Math.random()

Isn't this _why_ you'd need domain expertise? Random User IDs would be detectable - a French user suddenly clicking on English ads and following East Coast time would be a red flag.
> I'm not exactly sure why I started reaching for Python instead.

Oh, I am quite sure. Looks like Perl6 changed that, but it's because I was never sure that data structure should be a reference to a dictionary of references to scalars, or a dictionary of scalars, or a dictionary of reference to scalars, or a reference to a dictionary of scalars.

Anyway, next time I go for a quick script, I should go for Haskell, not Python, nor Perl (5 or 6, whatever). But I will probably go for Python, because it's painless enough and I don't know Haskell's shell integration by hearth. Anyway I will go for Haskell before I try Perl6, what is a nice measure of the problem they have to get mainstream again, because the language varies, but I'm far from the only person thinking this way.
Here is a simple one;

I task you to add a feature to a system. I know you either haven't been involved with that system previously, or not recently enough that you can access it without contacting so and so to get the necessary credentials or whatever. For instance, you might need to be added to a particular set of group members for certain private GitHub repo to obtain source code; something I point out to you at the outset. Perfectly reasonable situation; nothing contrived about it. Yet I may now contact so and so myself to learn if you've come around to get what I know you need.

I have occasionally resorted to 'last' to see if someone has been active on a host I know they should have been accessing for one reason or another; typically to troubleshoot something I've asked them to look at. Often there are 'dev' hosts where the bulk of work occurs. Anyone touched it this week? I've deliberately left database instances down to see if the person that is supposed to be using it either notices and asks why and/or starts it themselves.

In an ideal world we suffer no dysfunction; people pursue their commitments. In the real world people make claims that they can't or won't live up to for a whole host of reasons, often times because they've been put in a position for which they lack the ability or haven't been provided the time, tools, authority and/or budget to cope with properly. A wise person detects this early. A naive person gets told stories and played for a sucker.

Sometimes just dropping a hint that you're not entirely oblivious to the real state of affairs is enough to get someone off the dime. (I talked to so and so yesterday; she's expecting to hear from you...)

Over time people learn that I'm not the one to play. That tends to reduce the net dysfunction, at least in my life.
Yes, if you want FIPS 140-2 you are going to pay the big bucks. Yubico's Yubikey 4 has a FIPS certified version so they have been through the process with other products but you are right that their HSM is not certified. If you care about FIPS certification you can look up if a product is certified or not in NIST's database. [0]

[0] https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validati...
Yes, it's harder to out-compete fossil projects that have already been built, already paid off their capital costs, and incur just operational costs going forward. Some of those fossil projects (like Saudi oil fields that cost only $10/barrel) are not going to be economically forced into early retirement by any foreseeable lower-emissions energy source.

Note that there is also quite a bit of already-built fossil capacity that can be retired early by economic pressures. Not every big fossil project has operational costs as low as Saudi oil.

For example, the Navajo Generating Station is the largest American coal plant west of the Mississippi River. It was built in the 1970s. It has a stable, low cost for coal since it is supplied by the nearby dedicated Kayenta Mine. Just a few years ago it was planned to run until 2044. But the falling costs of gas and renewables have made it economically uncompetitive. It's now going to close at the end of 2019, 25 years early:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2017/0...

I agree on the broader point that fossil fuel emissions won't be curbed quickly without active regulator intervention. Since that intervention may arrive late-or-never in different nations, it's one of the reasons that I believe active carbon dioxide removal measures will be necessary in addition to emissions reduction efforts.
The sears salesmen directly drove revenue. He was being incentivized to increase revenue. The warehouse worker is not directly driving revenue at Amazon. The developers do...and they are being incentived to keep doing so.

The world changed, business stayed the same.
> Python does just fine with concurrency.

Can you explain to me what the GIL is and how it works...

> guy who built a HFT fund using python.

I mean, maybe you and I have definitions of HFT. But I'd say the base minimum to compete in HFT space is tick-to-trade latency from off-the-wire data packet to on-the-wire order packet of 50 microseconds or less.

That's simply not possible in any python stack. Period.

I believe you're maybe doing something that turns over positions on an intraday basis. But that's not HFT. HFT's typical characteristics are colocation+DMA, very low latencies, full-scale analysis of the entire order book, volumes of more than 1% of the ADV, and Sharpe ratios above 10.

(And no, nothing in crypto space is anything close to HFT, because the infrastructure simply doesn't exist.)
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We've had 2 children in the last 4 years and this concept was foreign to me. Our 2nd child we were billed for an out of network anesthesiologist at an in network hospital. Several thousand dollars in total, I called the insurance after reading online a bit about it. Eventually they said they would "resubmit" the claim for reconsideration. A few weeks later we got an EOB showing we didn't have to pay any of it. The whole experience we shocking to me, I can't imagine dealing with this sort of thing on a regular basis.

Even worse is receiving bills from various providers up to a year later. How are these people still in business?
That sounds great, but our US government has failed us for 30 years on healthcare.

Not sure why anyone thinks that tax dollars would make the problem better.
In many ways it’s the soil itself:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/soil-carbo...
An interesting exercise in what Bezos could do about this if he wanted to: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18276937
> If Google (or Facebook, or anyone else) stands still and lets fraudsters abuse their ad networks, the return on their ads will drop, opening space for their competitors.

I wish corporations would be so forward looking, but they are mostly short-sighted, worrying about the next quarters results.
Show HN: Simple demo of text-based games via SSH
I'm talking about react Suspense for SSR. The blog post says "Note: This feature is not yet available for server-side rendering. Suspense support will be added in a later release.".

Is there an RFC somewhere about that new async server renderer?
I'm hoping Amazon goes public soon.
Obamacare provides that, at least in states that have accepted Medicare expansion. The story in other states with state-sponsored high risk pools seems complicated and arguably doesn't meet your criteria.
“Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmxGqsuKmY
None so far it seems according to the people in the chat : https://www.hackerschat.net/
> A JIT can do all the optimisations that a static compiler can

As long as it has <100ms of compilation time.
Make more stuff from wood. Replace lots of throwaway plastic goods with wood that lasts. Slow the rate at which it rots. Engineer landfills to retain the carbon.
Is React.memo comparing deeply/recursive or at least deterministic JSON.stringify comparison? Or still going for shallow comparison?
More happily, neither is the reverse.
Swatting Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then It Turned Deadly
What It's Like to Fly the WWII-Era Plane That Crashed on LA's 101 Freeway