skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're actually getting even better at it - 1.12% in 2009-10!

I like how you've pointed out the amount relative how much theft^H^H^H^H^H "tax" revenue is brought in rather than the absolute amount of:

£3,673,797,000

That's pretty astronomical to me. I'm sure you'll find other ways to break it down and try to refute but it still doesn't change the waste of time taxation incurs.

My stance will not change from the perspective that income tax is more destructive to low-income earners than it is to the wealthy, and that it drives away wealth.

Let's just settle this as "we won't agree" since I have more productive things to spend my time on than arguing over what shouldn't exist in the first place. Pray for Brexit or go down with socialist Europe.
Since I had to buy a new adapter for MBA I totally love that they ditched MagSafe where cable was permanently attached.

Also because I use a cheaper MBP I still have an Esc key. And I don’t have a single dongle and don’t understand why would I need it.

I also love they keyboad very much — would be great if they could make it more reliable but I prefer it to the old one on MBA.
I think you hit the nail on the head here.

The brain is perfectly understandable, it's just that we need to learn to understand more things about it before we get there.

We designed everything in a smartphone and can say with confidence that it works a certain way, and even explain why. The brain was designed by evolution, and while we mostly understand what it does, we aren't quite sure of the how and why yet.
As a general rule, no. A lot of the preprints assume a detailed (grad level) understanding of the problem and they explain just enough to frame the problem in order to introduce their solution. I wager someone going down this path would get frustrated quite quickly.
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I don't have any experience, but isn't it generally encouraged to use DynamoDB or spanner for faas on aws or gcp because of that?
this is evidence of some sort of mysterious power play.

Why not just 'reporters talked to a bunch of sources and those sources are wrong or were misinterpreted or were given undue weight/credence by the reporters'. It's unusual and the news org processes are supposed to catch this but it's not that hard to imagine them occasionally failing in some mildly improbable way without any kind of 'hacking to an extreme level' or collusion between companies and spooks.
Health insurance was typically sold in annual terms, with annual, lifetime (actual lifetime), and often per-event limits. Health insurers were not obliged to sell you the same policy at the same rate, the same policy at any rate, or any policy at any rate, either.
Monthly payments has the same conflicted incentive issue that paid dating sites have: success is ultimately the loss of a customer.
A very useful Winamp feature was automatically tagging and updating all mp3s using Gracenote(?). Then suddenly this feature stopped working. Hope they fixed it in this latest release.
Im half way in a algorithm that redraws pixel art image that have been corrupted by scaling or compression. 1 step it analise the image to define the "pixel size". Then it generates a pallet with all the colors needed to redraw that image. The it redraws it.
I think health insurance is well-enough understood at this point to believe you are being deliberately dishonest. For the benefit of others, the way to avoid the death spiral is the three-legged stool of 1) community ratings (which implies protection of pre-existing conditions and elimination of lifetime benefit caps, among other things), 2) the mandate (so that it's not just sick people who sign up), and 3) subsidies.

Arguing that we actually can have lifetime limits is just trying to build the case to allow sick people to go bankrupt from health care costs.

And more to the point, if community ratings are weakened, healthy people will sign up for these weakened plans, and these weakened plans are less subject to ACA regulations in other ways - including the fact that the Trump administration has weakened the Medical Loss Ratio rules for states, which the insurance companies will find more profitable. So you're wrong there too - it does benefit the insurance companies.
Our brains evolved by having the features needed to keep us alive long enough to reproduce.

Ultimately we, as a species, designed our own brain.
Yes, but presumably they also pre-date the arrival of the Dravidians, who seem to have been preceded by the Mundas, who seem to have themselves been preceded by speakers from a distinct language family (or families).
A parent have to let child discover the world and it's own path, BUT and is a big but, it also have to teach what the child needs to live in our society.

If not, why at schools we teach geography, math, mother language, sexual education, civil education, ... I'm pretty sure not all children are interested in all this fields. Of course a good teacher do it's best not only to merely transfer knowledge but also to create interest and that's a really difficult task.

Now I have no doubt that a typical child grow up in contemporary society is more interested in smart-devices and colorful webapps instead of PCs and text-based stuff, it's up to a serious parent who know the tech to create interest and tell the child why smart devices are not good stuff and so webapps. This of course does not means train the child as an IT professional if he or she is not interested in that, but give enough knowledge to protect himself from actual society trends. Not much different than saying to be careful with adult stranger, to be careful when crossing road, swim at the sea etc. Maybe not exactly pleasant but that's the life.
The work time for the tech, of course. The markup (IMO) covers the risk (wrong part, bad part causing warranty work that they have to comp, stock shrinkage/obsolescence, cash cost of holding stock items [rather than charging you two truck rolls], etc.), the time/effort to find, order, receive, inspect, pay the invoice, etc. most of which is not done by the tech or is not billed by the tech as wrenching time.
Ah the style of the time was heavy dramatics. A holdover from the stage where you needed exaggerated expression to make up for the distance of the audience.

Still I didn’t find it nearly as bad as other examples from that era. “A Street Car Named Desire” for example takes it to another level.
So in the land of journalists, this is what we do every week. Something like this can be an effective strategy.

Find a couple current employees or associates who come across as stable and thoughtful. Invite them out for coffee, dinner, a long walk, etc. You want to talk alone, outside the office. Spend a little time on social rapport, including taking an interest in them as fully-rounded people. Candor needs a foundation of trust and mutual respect. Then ask open-ended questions that make it easy for people be helpful without feeling that they are on the spot.

Some examples are:

- What attracted you to the company?

- What's the work tempo like?

- What's some advice for the best way of getting along with the founder/CEO? (This is a safe way for flaws to surface)

- We all make mistakes occasionally. What mistakes are forgivable at this company? What's unforgivable? (Think how the Theranos answers would have differed from Google answers.)

- What's surprised you since joining?

- What delights the boss? What gets the boss angry? (Plenty of chances for signaling here, too.)

- What kind of people stay here and thrive? What kind of people quit?

- What would I need to do to be successful here?
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Probably they don't have the public API anymore.
One thing you keep forgetting: your polished 80s software is running the world. Not Slack, not Discord.

You can kill of Slack, no one will be less productive, have a worse work day.

Shut down something old like shell scripting, and almost every IT company on this planet will be down for months if not years.

If you want to improve, you have to start where it begins. Tech starts with small things, but not with Electron apps.

Innovate for all tech people, and thus enable fancy stuff. Make shell scripting as good as writing shell tools in go.

I am with you in terms of iteration and improvements but I get the feeling you have never had to deal with scenarios where guarantees needed to be given for life or death situations. And those are usually the reasons for things you find antiquated or odd. It's worth investigating, I promise.
> you know that plane that costs over a trillion dollars to develop

From my understanding, it's the joint cost of the program over its projected lifetime over the next 50+ years. Not the cost of getting it up in the air.
Usually this blog is very practical and easy to understand. This post, though, just talks about how great PAKE is and what this new proposal achieves, but not the how of it. It sounds better than client side hashing, but it doesn't explain how (or whether) that's achieved. Actually looking into PAKE is left as an exercise for the reader (other than one screenshot full of math at the bottom).

Wikipedia is actually more clear in this case:

> an eavesdropper or man in the middle cannot obtain enough information to be able to brute force guess a password without further interactions with the parties for each (few) guesses. This means that strong security can be obtained using weak passwords.

Looking into SRP, it seems that a server can still brute force a stored login. While cool, TLS achieves the same goal in popular login systems: eavesdroppers cannot learn anything (in fact, they cannot even make a single attempt at the password, unlike with PAKE). The other advantage of PAKE, the server never receiving the password, can be done with client side hashing (for which I've been advocating for years, as it would have prevented many issues).
>> It's only over-representation if representation must only be proportional to population.

> Right, it's only over-representation if you believe that all men are created equal.

You're being glib and forgetting important concepts like the tyranny of the majority, etc.
FT8 and other weak signal modes can work with more noise and less signal than conventional modes. Which makes possible to communicate with the current poor HF propagation, or with lower power devices and longer distances. It does this by using low bandwidth (50 Hz), low bit rate (6 bit/s), and error correction.

The other special thing about FT8 is that it only does contacts, with binary messages for doing the exchange.
A thief can go to his grave thinking he's a victim. Being coddled into a lie is the saddest thing that can happen to a nation's people.
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Totally agree with you on the cars part. The other day I rented a Ford Edge at an airport, and I struggled to start it. I had to look up the Ford Edge manual PDF and then find a youtube video to understand what I was supposed to do to get the engine running.

User interfaces that make people feel stupid, are not good user interfaces.
I feel like the first time you see a vim/emacs power user is one of those eye-opening moments in your learning.
Ask HN: How can a high school get students to confirm their transcripts?
I teach at a public high school and each year we schedule students based on their previous classes, and we want to roll out a system that will let them participate more actively in that process. We're struggling to identify what kind of service we could use. Whatever we use will need to guide students to verify their own data and enter some preferences.

At first we thought we could do this with a digital form, but I haven't been able to find any online forms that allow you to show dynamic (user-specific) data that the user can then confirm. I looked at custom apps like Zoho Creator, but anything we build from scratch like that is going to be fragile, and the pricing isn't set up to have 2500 students log in once per year.

Is what I'm describing something that we need to pay to have custom built, or are there existing services that could be a good fit?

-Context-

In the past we've used google forms to gather student preferences for things like elective classes, but it is lossy and error-prone. Our goal is to have students log into a system, preferably mobile-friendly, that can be populated with their specific data, and then be guided through the following steps:

(1) Be presented with a list of courses and grades on their transcript, and either confirm or highlight a problem with each one, then
(2) Be presented with the list of courses we intend to schedule them into in the following year, and similarly confirm or request changes for each, then
(3) For any course slots like elective with multiple possible options, present students with a list of the options that they are eligible for and let the students enter their preferences

We're wary of trying to roll our own solution, and it just seems like this should be something we can put together, but we've struggled to find anything out there that can fit.

Do you have any advice?
> not out of concern for their profit margin, but out of the goodness of their hearts to keep the premiums low for the paying public.

Lowering premiums allows insurers to win customers away from competing insurers. It's e.g. why HP sells business laptops with awful LCD panels. It's not because HP makes fat profits on each laptop (their margins are razor thin). It's because the lower price allows them to take sales away from competitors.

> However, if there is one government/single payer insurer, nobody would ever dream up the insane idea of saying, hey, if you're really fucked, we'll stop paying your health bills, so we can shave off a few dollars of everyone's premiums.

Of course they would! You think government bureaucrats aren't under pressure to control outlays? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/8/1660050/-Death-Pan...

> In the UK, the NHS has a system based on QALYs — quality-of-life years. In crude terms, it values a year of normal health at £30,000, so if the proposed course of treatment will cost £150,000, the patient would need to have good prospects of having five years of normal life once the treatment is over to get it. For a patient who would need assistance to live because they can’t walk more than a few steps or what have you, the QALY figure might drop to £15,000, so the patient would have to have an expectancy of 10 years of assisted life to get the treatment.

Note that in the example in the story, the lifetime limit was $500,000, or 380,000 pounds. In the UK, the guy would've needed to live 12-13 years to justify spending that much. He had an aggressive cancer and died a year later, while receiving treatment. Under the U.K. system, the NHS would've been willing to pay well under $100,000 with that prognosis.

The idea that "one government/single payer insurer" systems wouldn't have these sorts of limits is the product of the exact gas-lighting I was complaining about. By focusing on the insurance companies, and the fictional fat profit margins out of which benefits can be paid for with no cost to rate payers, it totally obscures the fact that, at the end of the day, a functioning healthcare system needs to make decisions about when to cut off care.
So I can see the justification for adding a bit of work to the developer or query writer to pick the right index for the document would mean consistent query performance every time (since it's a document anyway finding the right index should be pretty easy I would imagine). I can see why one would choose this then.
A literal llama. The animal.

> Mike the Llama is the company's mascot; this is frequently referred to in promotional material (especially for Winamp) citing llamas. Frankel introduced the llama in Winamp's startup sound clip, inspired by the lyrics of Wesley Willis: "Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!"[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullsoft
Wildly different localized standards though, and nobody can write a transform that actually works.
Jobscan (https://www.jobscan.co/) might be helpful. It scores your resume based on a pasted job description.
It also seems to get deleted across browser version updates, at least on (old) Aurora. Pocket got re-enabled for me as well after 64 came out :/
No, I'm not suggesting that my competitors be "given" vast amounts of capital goods. b^)

You're right that it is pretty good for that state. He said the rule of thumb was one head per square mile per (inch of rain per year). He was bragging about being from some blessed place where they got 12" rather than 8". But the point is that the vegetation is sparse. Even if he raised the capital to purchase land, the desert will only support so many cattle.
I think you misunderstood.

When you're in sales, it's an open secret that large companies give managers a discretionary spending limit under which procurement doesn't get involved. At all. The exact amount depends on the business, but the figure isn't hard to come by - you basically just need to ask an insider.

If you don't have such a discretionary spending limit yourself, but still interact heavily with outside sales, it's because the sales you're dealing with view you as an inside asset - credit to you, you're what's called an influencer - that allows them to get to your boss who does.

(Alternatively, you might actually be working for a small or medium business. Which is cool but keep in mind that these can be very different in this respect, in that many managers in them have little to no discretionary spending limit.)
Is that realistic to test thousands of packages in two weeks? Automated build tests are everywhere anyway and more than that is not done for Manjaro as well.

The real testers here are probably Arch users having access to these updates weeks earlier and reporting bugs and fixing them.
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Yes, see "PGP" for an example where good crypto tech fails when the UX is not on par.
If an insurance company underestimates tail risk then it may not be solvent when it's time for you to make a claim. Not sure if this is what was meant, but a policy holder always assumes some risk even with caps.
It's an API. Nobody said the purpose was for it to do as it's told.

It accepts input and responds according to its own training. Disobedience is a feature.
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Probably that's why the Skylake Xeon CPUs have 6 channels.
Why is this a meme?

My VSC with a file open sits at 80 megs... I think my 24GB machine can handle it.
If you're talking about purity then I'd agree with that, but I'm talking about haskell as a language.

I'm definitely not a haskell beginner, and I know others who are definitely not beginners and they feel the same way.

I'm talking about the language as a whole. With all of the extensions available, there's plenty there for even seasoned haskellers to learn. Sure you can get used to anything, but I've found the more advanced type features, and higher kinded polymorphism, to make code and type errors harder to reason about. Sometimes type inference screws up in ways that makes it hard to figure out whats going on.
Is the amount of RAM the same?
I doubt anyone will see my comment since I am a few hours late. BUT, I want to say, despite what bloomberg AND apple say, here is why I think Bloomberg failed on this report, and didn't do enough to PROVE their claims were accurate.

They made the flat out claim that AWS sold its Chinese infrastructure because of the hack. But this is flat out not true, anyone who actually knows anything about the Chinese goverment knows that AWS, same as Microsoft, cannot operate out of China. They are required to have a PARTNER to operate in China. I worked for Microsoft during the deployment to China, and we too had to have a partner. We were essentially "leasing" our technology for them to run it.

http://www.miit.gov.cn/n1146295/n1146557/n1146619/c4860613/c...

"According to the China Telecommunication Regulation, providers of cloud services—infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS)—must have value-added telecom permits. Only locally registered companies with less than 50 percent foreign investment qualify for these permits. To comply with this regulation, the Azure service in China is operated by 21Vianet, based on the technologies licensed from Microsoft.

Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure China 21Vianet) is a physically separated instance of cloud services located in mainland China, independently operated and transacted by Shanghai Blue Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. ("21Vianet"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing 21Vianet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd. "

So this to me proves that Bloomberg didn't fact check this story enough, and there are holes in it. Does this mean that China DIDN'T try anything? No, but this leaves me to question Bloombergs sources and not fact checking their reports, as there is obvious misinformation in it.

EDIT: I googled AWS China, and this is the FIRST link.
https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/

And at the bottom it covers all the same legality stuff. So again, its like they didn't even bother to research AWS China for 10 seconds.
Any plans on adding an ability to import job applications? I would love to switch to your product but unfortunately I already have a Google Sheets document with about 60+ applied companies and 50 rejected. If there were a way for me to at least import the company names that would make it easier to switch.
And?

How many people "lose" their life savings for having children.

How many people "lose" their life savings to buy a home/food clothing.

Your body/health is more important than any of the above.... why the negative term "lose" instead of "spent money on health/life"?
I'm curious to find out what it would take for someone to create a service that counters some of these dark patterns.

The abundance of companies using dark patterns in their subscriptions to prevent subscription cancellations has led to other companies offering services that allow you to manage your various subscriptions with ease and cancel subscriptions with even greater ease. I'm wondering what it would take to apply the same mindset to managing healthcare-related paperwork.
Fair, and I'd want the land to be sold, at a fairly steep price to encourage people to do something with it.

I'm with the amount of costs the federal government is passing to Utah for wildfire management on federal land anyhow, so that's def biasing my opinion.
This is hard, but fair advice for anyone who wants to get "really good". Perhaps there are those who are born gifted with the critical thinking and analytic skills which makes this unnecessary. I am not one of them, and the past year has been intense but a great learning experience. And Paul says as much: you don't start of being good, but you work intensively on your skills over a period of time and get really good.
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I'd just like someone to de-jargonize the whole article.