skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the article sounds a little like what I read in the book about Theranos. Seems they "invented" something that in theory would be very useful but had really no technology to make this happen but went out anyway to get investment money. Then for years they desperately tried to make it work while lying left and right .
Then find sources that say as much and paraphrase from them with citations.
This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning.

What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left?

I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.
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Palau is an interesting and unique place. I was lucky to vacation there maybe five years ago. I believe it has the world's best snorkeling and scuba diving. Despite tourism being probably being the major industry, this Island nation actually seemed to have a culture of independence - they'd just rejected a proposed development project from some billionaire.

I think they will be just fine. Loans to sovereign nations are more or less unsecured - the only threat an entity can make is cutting nation X off from world trade and "Palau doesn't care" - they recognize Taiwan and they take ex-Guantanamo prisoners.

Btw: Your comment involves no reference to any facts cited in the article and is merely assuming there's credit extension going on. The article make no reference to credit extension at all.
fwiw - this article was worth glancing at just to get the link to the debate on the subject hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson : https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/podcasts/2016-isaac-...
I don't. I have one Windows 7 machine left.

Windows 7 was peak Microsoft. Between trying to make desktop look like mobile and adding built-in spyware and ads, it's been downhill since then.
I would probably start with a React frontend and GraphQL backend and then optimize from there. Rails is awesome and I owe a lot to it, but the world has changed a lot in the last decade and the modularization and data binding that React/GraphQL offers is too compelling to ignore.
Build a hackintosh imo.
Does NGINX, IIS, Tomcat, etc support .htaccess? No.
As long as gender change confers the same rights, a disambiguation is welcome in medical and scientific communities. Too bad both sides seem to be spinning this hard.
Link to the Science Magazine article cited: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/greenland-shark-may-...

Apparently the researchers collected dead Greenland sharks accidentally caught in fishing nets, and examined their eye lenses for traces of C-14 from 1950's nuclear tests. Any shark with none must have been born after 1963. This allowed them to estimate how fast the sharks grow in their first ~= 50 years of life. They also applied other radioisotope dating methods (not fully explained), in addition to an extrapolated "growth curve", to estimate the biggest shark caught had been 390+-120 years old.
> Deflation doesn't mean cheaper food and shelter.

It's the literal definition of it.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4085479-food-deflation-hurt...

> So inflation hurts people that loan out more money than they owe: mostly banks and rich people.

General controlled inflation doesn't hurt banks at all, they simply put their margin on top and that's the interest rate. In fact people are far more likely to use their services in a high inflationary environment.

"Rich people" and large corporations are far more indebted than the average person, they disproportionally benefit compared to a simple wage earner purchasing a house or running a small business.

Also the headline inflation rate and individual sectors are two entirely different beasts. If wage inflation moves nowhere but overall inflation goes up it's absurd to claim this benefits the poor and workers. It only encourages more people to borrow and speculate on assets in a feedback loop.

Inflation is not some magical gift from the financial heavens bestowed upon the masses to balance out society, in fact it's the opposite.
Clever move, get out before the indictments land when investors figure out they've been had. uBeam's been completely full of shit from day one, and Perry is every bit as deceptive and deluded as Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes.

Dave from EEVBlog has a couple of great videos about the uBeam scam, they're well worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dqzVlhFkA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLly4WdRAjY
Yeah. I'm not saying that Americans being able to speak more languages would be bad, but it's not the same at all. There are only 5M Norwegian speakers worldwide. Of course you will want to learn another language (probably English) if you want to be successful and communicate with the rest of the world.
And how did the pin get on the outside of the connector? Presumably the laptop was working sometime in the past. Which means that whatever happened, it wasn't Apple's fault, nor is it their responsibility to fix it.

Apple doesn't claim to offer electronic circuit diagnosis services, they offer limited repair options for a limited set of devices. Sure, it would have been nice if the Genius Bar staff could offer a disclaimer-laden advertisement for competent third party repair shops, but I'm not surprised that they don't because as Rossmann himself acknowledges, many third party repair shops are staffed with incompetent fools.
If you don't draw the line at dictatorships that grind up American journalists - where do you draw the line?
All of the internal GitHub development was done on branches, so things stayed very simple. We developed on feature branches and merged to master. That's it. As long as you communicate well between team members you can avoid merge conflicts 99% of the time.

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your question. Let me know if that's the case.
Here's the initial post:

> The Fraser institute, which published this study, has a right wing bias and is funded by the Koch Brothers. It seeks to displace the public system in Canada with private healthcare modelled after the US. While they claim independence and give their research away freely, one should be aware of their interests.

You requested "proof". Given that the only quantifiable claims which could possibly be proven is that they are funded by the Koch brothers, and would like to replace the public system with a private one, I assumed you were asking for proof of that.

Now, if you were not asking for proof of that, can you quote the section of the above you did want proof of?
All people are damaged with a sufficiently vauge definition. Life is imperfect, as are we.
> Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there.

This strikes me as odd. May I ask why usage of GCP is a deal-breaker for you? While I can understand not wanting to use Google products directly as a consumer, I believe it would be - for lack of a better term - platform suicide for Google to intercept and perform its usual analytical shenanigans on the data content of transmissions to/from their platform.

Either way, Phacility's Phabricator[1] is $20/user/mo.

1. https://www.phacility.com/pricing/
Also you'd get energy beams being fired around your living space. Seems a bit iffy to me that you could do this without frying random things, biological and otherwise.
This article is super deceptive, these two bugs are completely unrelated, and the one still standing is pretty obscure:

1. You're extracting a Zip file and intend to overwrite your own data

2. The data isn't overwritten, but it doesn't tell you about it

3. You delete the Zip file, thinking that it's extracted.

I'm not discounting that this is a Bug, but I can't think of a time I would've ever lost data because of this, and relating it to the upgrade bugs seem downright deceptive
That would be awesome! I'm way far away from OH though.
The readme does make it seem like a super serious project.
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> You trust a government entity to accurately report data that's not in it's best interest? When has that ever happened?

Can you explain what your criteria would be for a trustworthy source?
I've seen lots of superb responses in here but the, "I'm tired after work at night and on the weekend I'm burnt and want to slack to unwind" is a complicated one. I've had a similar issue, especially as I've one 40 hr consulting gig while picking up a small second one, and hoping to invest effort to find new ones over time.

I don't know what the answer is. All I know is, my friends with families and young kids have so little free time, they're envious of my freedom. This has given me the motivation to push myself a little even if it takes a bit of willpower and I'm sleepy.
It is to ensure that the updates get mirrored onto twitter, where exact duplicates can't be posted.
> State actors who have someone really interesting to focus on can likely defeat anything Apple does anyway.

I think the point is that they can't.

Just like state actors do struggle against the secure communication apps like Telegram.
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Fiat that the USSR bought wasnm't exactly a pinnacle of automotive engineering to begin with (as an American joke goes, FIAT stands for "Fix it again, Tony", doesn't it?)

Initially, while all the Italian equipment was operating within design tolerances, Italian expendables were used, and designs weren't tweaked, it wasn't terrible for what it was. But that did not last long, and quality went downhill.

To add insult to injury, Lada (or strictly speaking Zhiguli, Lada was the export name, and those were built slightly better) was a highest-end car a normal person could buy (after waiting in line for a few years, of course) without being "somebody".
It’s pretty depressing that two of the higher profile SV scams in recent years involved woman founder/CEOs
Bigger picture here is that govt. oversight is creeping back slightly while financial risk taking is expanding to less regulated business.
The difference between Theranos and uBeam was that uBeam's technology worked...

...in a highly controlled environment with specs making it unsuitable for practical consumer use.
It always seemed odd to me that we live on a round planet - perfect for limiting a simulation. And our built-in senses are very limited, considering that they don't go outside the game-area easily. I could go on, but it sure seems like most religion (outside of interpretations) could be understood more easily if "gods" were seen as those who are aware of the simulation and can only give very limited information about it, and were able to work with the "physics" outside our limited understanding.
You're right, the Democrats did not require full price transparency when they had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, plus the Presidency. Also, the Democrats later managed to block the repeal of Obamacare, which would have been a prelude to passing new regulations including full price transparency in healthcare, thus defeating the plans of the Republicans.
They're providing an extensive toolchain, extremely well documented APIs, a solid development environment, code signing, app reviews etc.

They're also providing a mechanism for automated updates.

They're also providing a degree of trust around the sale process, including the developer's identity and an additional layer of guarantees of suitability and merchantability.

They're also providing to the end user a level of confidence—whether real or perceived—about the products being sold and their ability to mislead, abuse or damage the device.

They're maintaining the ecosystem that allows the App to be sold in the first place.

And they're providing all of the above for free to developers who want to give away their apps.

I'm not saying the sum total is worth 30% of gross sales—or even half that—but it's not simply credit card processing and binary hosting.
My immediate thought was always “oh boy do I not want to be in the same room as that thing”.

[insert scene from Oceans 11 with Basher covering his testicles in fear before triggering an EMP].
The userbase at SO is one of the most toxic I've ever encountered. I've answered questions for people, and other users on the site treat it like an extreme competition to have the accepted answer in order to accumulate fake internet points, I guess. Got really nasty messages from some of the users and will never interact on that site again after having this happen for a few weeks.
Snark, except snark only comes from people with little knowledge, as in this case you seem unaware that they are a completely independent entity as of today.
I know you're saying this in jest, but the (US) government wrote code to fly to the moon and back, control robots on Mars, and model the earth (e.g. DoD's WGS 84, all the work by NIST, etc.). Sure, healthcare.gov was not a smooth rollout, but they do deserve some credit overall.

Now Windows on the other hand.... I just set up Windows on a new laptop I bought recently.. just plain Windows as it shipped with my new laptop. Didn't do anything "outside the box" here. I've let it update after this fiasco was supposedly over, restarted - and, of course - can't boot, everything's corrupted, had to reinstall Windows from scratch. Never had this happen with macOS, FreeBSD, or Linux.

It's hard to believe, but it really is _that_ bad. I wish it wasn't!
You’ve never edited a file and rezipped it? I did that a lot in the nand2tetris course, where you upload zips.

This would be a nasty surprise when the other party carries on as if you send the old while you think you sent the new. Probably would have been testing my hear out on the course.

And I don’t get your attitude. The data is still gone. The fact that it’s unrelated to the original bug isn’t any kind of comfort.
My guess is that this is where healthcare is headed in the US. If things stay on the current trajectory, the govt is simply going to step in set prices.

In terms of how they would be set, Medicare already spends a ton of time created a system of DRG codes for every condition along with a set payment (adjusted by COL and other things).

Of course Medicare rates are sometimes less than the cost to provide the care. But I see us just getting to the point that the govt will just say “tough shit”.
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I was just about a month ago trying to figure out if Rails and HTTP/2 could work together; and it seems this is about the only answer out there currently (or did I miss one?)
Because they didn't and don't have a sufficient majority in the Senate to repeal and replace Obamacare. And my understanding is that they would no longer have sufficient popular support to do it, either.
There is an example PHP code in the same repo and people copy-pasted that into production.

The issue is not in the front-end jQuery library, despite the title.
Wow, that's some impressive game of telephones.

"We estimated the age of this dead shark as 392+/-120 years."

===> "This 512-year-old shark is the oldest living vertebrate!"

...facepalm
The main feature of the module is querying speed, which is achieved via matrix operations. You can't do the same with lists.
I just lost my session.
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I would recommend starting with the short stories (e.g. Axiomatic) as Egans style is a perfect fit for that format (take an idea, try to craft an interesting story around it). The formula fails for some of the novels as they can be difficult to read if you are only superficially familiar with the technical details.
“Please remove all iron from your house before activating the device”.
1) This is the blog by the former VP of Engineering that the article references: https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/search/label/ubeam

2) Does anyone know if she ever apologized for this awful speech? https://youtu.be/ukgnU2aXM2c?t=240

3) This uBeam shit is literally one of the reasons why I created a beginner's course in wireless power. It drives me nuts that investors have gotten ripped off so many times in this industry and the degree to which the media has been complicit in the hype train. If Mark Cuban or any other VCs happen to be reading this, please watch this course before putting any more money into wireless power. I created a coupon so you can watch it for free.

https://www.udemy.com/wireless-power-to-the-people-wireless-...
Try to open auto shop (it is painful but doable) and hospital. I bet issue lies in that difference.
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It's a difficult and complicated issue. I don't think it's been shown that our system "can't" address it. It's just taking a while to get it sorted out. I'd like it to go faster, but generally our system works pretty well, and converges slowly on good solutions to things. While i'd like it to be faster, I don't think it ought to be rushed either. Healthcare is both important and difficult to get right.
This may not be what you want to hear, but you should nevertheless consider that perhaps running your own business isn't for you. Other respondents here have pointed out the vast amount of work that goes into starting up something new. It's really, really difficult. If this were an easy thing to do, absolutely everyone would be doing it, because who wouldn't want to be their own boss?

Don't take this as criticism of you. On the contrary, this may be the opportunity you need to leverage your true strengths instead of attempting repeatedly to embark on a gambit that seems to be a poor fit for your personality.
I'm going to quote my comment on the original bug [1] here:

> Well, you see, when you fire a whole lot of your OS group's QA department...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18154679
To point out what might be obvious: this doesn't transfer _just_ the stars. It simply swaps two repos, which means the issue tracker, pull requests, watchers, forks, projects, etc., also get transferred with the stars.

It's not possible to transfer just the stars while maintaining all the things that you can't directly control.

I did something similar when I decided to change my github username without changing all the import paths of Go packages I had. I changed the username, made an organization with the same name as my previous username, then moved all my repos to the organization. So the URLs of all the repos stayed unchanged. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitshur/status/1021266582834634752
Serious question: what's the point of the sticker price then? Surely someone must be paying it, right?

If not, why not lower it for -- at a minimum -- a PR boost?
That, I completely agree with. Unfortunately we have a habit of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted... people are much quicker at inventing ways of abusing the money system than the regulators are at stopping them.

I'd like to demonstrate my point of view about money=value with a story, if you don't mind reading a bit:

When I was in my late 20's I was earning a lot of money working on a software project that was doomed to failure. Everyone on the project knew it was doomed, but it was politically infeasible for the current management to pull it or deal with the fact that it was going to fail. So every day, our little team of very expensive contractors wrote a bunch of code that we knew was never going to be tested, let alone run on real server. We all collected our pay and waited for the project to be canned.

During this time, I met a nurse randomly one night. We ended up walking around town talking. She had just got off shift at a local hospital, saving people's lives. She got paid about 10% of what I did. The ridiculousness of me getting paid 10x more than her, when I was producing nothing of any value, while she was saving lives, was stark, and it has always stuck with me. It seems like such an obvious mis-allocation of funds, a failure of the economy.

But in a larger sense, building the Internet (by which I mean our global networked computer-based infrastructure) is the thing that Humanity is engaged in at the moment. When they write the history of our time, it will be all about the Rise of the Internet. Creation of public health services, on the other hand, was the thing we did last century. So in that sense, it's easy to see why our profession is highly paid, even if the small-scale project we're working on right now is doomed. We are doing the most important thing on the planet right now, and everything else is merely background noise to that effort (at the moment, this will change).

All this is a long-winded way of saying that seeing emergent behaviour from inside the thing is much harder than seeing it from the outside. To us, this all looks like random bullshit and injustice. But zoomed-out, from a historical perspective, it makes more sense. Still not perfect, but at least coherent. The individual injustices and weird nonsense get smoothed out, and it looks like everyone had a plan all along.
Same with medical procedures in the US that aren’t covered by insurance - cosmetic surgery, LASIK surgery, etc.

The free market works pretty dam well for those.
I feel the same way about leisure time and attempting to become fully self-employed. This, or creating other cash flow streams. I have to work full-time to keep my head above the water, although never seem to have enough time to get to the next safety boat. I did create and close a business, the whole way through. Although, I didn't have enough time to actually perform the tasks needed to produce a profit. I find it hard to find anyone willing to take a risk with their time/job in creating other enterprise. They are either too busy, or above their heads. Also, finding a person to partner in a business with you is a tall ask. This person is going to have to be willing to go into battle with you.
Indeed. Good and cool but I still claim this is not quite "it". I may not have specified "it" fully but feel I like, "it", meaning, can be intuitively obvious.

They get a vector of approximate features and can use it match to other images.

BUT there's still the "this means nothing" problem. The vectors, as far I can tell and by the logic of just doing autoencoding, don't have a significance except for the system. Can find image X and say it's like image Y.

But it doesn't help at all at finding specified things. You can't say "find me a corn field" or "find my nuclear power plant". You can show it a picture of nuclear power plant and it can show you mountains with a similar layout.
Pure speculation time...

Even if there was precedent, I cannot imagine a single government taking over an globally distributed operating system AND making it better.

The US Government could maybe do something like force Microsoft to sell Windows to another large company at firesale prices, like Google or IBM, in the same way that Merrill Lynch was forced to sell at bargain basement prices to Bank Of America, at which point BofA became too big-ger to fail.
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> Laundering money, leaving homes empty, not investing in the economy appart from real estate, these don't sound very beneficial. It seems its not even a big tax benefit due to loopholes.

I already proposed a very simple solution: raise real estate taxes to sustainable levels. Use the money to cover infrastructure costs. I don't see why it is so difficult.
Systemprofile just hosts configuration files including one which links to the Desktop folder. The OS is either not finding the data or is unable to read it. The actual Desktop folder is probably still present in its usual location.
That person needs our support more than anyone else right now.