skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is what libertarian and 'eliminate regulation' types want.

This statement is incorrect. Libertarians want competition in the emergency medical transport industry. If someone can offer a better service and at a lower cost, then that service should be an option.

All other things being equal, if it takes an ambulance 20 minutes to arrive on scene versus a ride share that takes 5 minutes, which is preferred? Granted ambulances provide more than simply transporting someone to a hospital, but those services could easily be applied under legal alternatives and done in a safe, effective, and efficient manner.

The libertarian argument is that it should not be illegal to let the market provide alternatives.
Well, to be fair, it could be that is has an effect on your children's sleep, and they're anomalous - but that doesn't mean the study is baseless, just that it isn't useful to you specifically.
Isn't this really just a fancy way of stating that (some) people tend to become anxious when put into a high pressure environment?

The whole concept of 'impostor syndrome' seems to rely on unexplored assumptions, like the idea that it even matters whether you should be working at Google or not.

I think that's the key to solving it. Realising that actually, most of us are just rolling through life trying to get by and be useful. The rest is fluff.

If you're playing in a professional football team, you're a professional footballer.
What is the point of a security question if they never use it?
My Thinkpad with Intel integerated graphics is unable to power a 4k display as smoothly as my desktop with 1070. It definitely makes a difference.
Quite hilarious yet quite frustrating for us at how we are marketing ourselves and having to explain all the nonsense going on out there is not really AI?!
As mentioned in the Reveal article, OSHA also found four other instances of improperly reporting injuries but could not report it due to the statute of limitations.
Oh, hello Dwight Schrute.

You actually just pointed out exactly why you are wrong with that phrasing. Thank you!
Isn't detecting fraud harder in a non-deterministic system? Theoretically in any deterministic system you can recount if there's a question.
85% of SF bans apartment buildings. Projects take years to get approved. All of those costs get rolled into the final amount.
Fix the problem of lack of ID first, then we can require ID to vote. Doing it in the other order is an unacceptable infringement on the right to vote.
Actually, I think rr supports shared memory operations under some circumstances... (I'd love to have my beliefs confirmed / corrected by somebody more knowledgeable)

My understanding is that rr has some handling for read-only shared memory and for arbitrary sharing within a tree of recorded processes.

Undo's shared memory is different because it doesn't need the other process to be recorded, so you can do read/write sharing with arbitrary processes or devices.

(disclaimer: current Undo engineer)
> If it turned out that Voter ID laws would benefit Democrats, they would support them in an instant.

This has the caché of being knowingly world-weary, but it's likely quite wrong.

Ideological positions which present an obstacle to voter willingness to support a candidate aren't exactly uncommon, and tend to break down by party. That seems to indicate that ideological positions that might present an obstacle to voter ability to support a candidate -- or, inversely, increase opposition ability -- might well be possible.

Also, your asserion ignores the existing psych research on temperamental foundations of political leanings. People are more likely to vote their temperament-based values than than their interests. And fears of a contaminating "Other" adulterating election results are going to cluster more with political conservative issues while a more open process is going to cluster with politically liberal issues. In order to get Democratic constituencies to support exclusive voting laws, you'd have to flip the temperamental polarity of each party.
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Who will win 2018 midterms and why do they matter?
You totally underestimate the governement ability to understand things.
On the other hand, it can work in the opposite direction when recruiters contact you. I often insist that recruiters give me a compensation range as a pre-condition of further discussion so that they don't waste my (and their) time.

The contactee, by virtue of being in that position, has leverage to request a salary range as a concession for continuing the conversation.
It's not kool-aid, it's Microsoft's tradition of giving unusual names to existing things. I can easily imagine the same article about CircleCI or Travis, but it would be named "CI for Commodore 64" and therefore it would be less (accidentally) clickbaity.
This is deeply unfortunate if it's really true, because the prime factor in favor of IRV is that it is the second-easiest system to explain after FPTP.
When land is scarce, the only thing left to do is build up!
The problem with that is that in quite some cases I don't care about the security so I can just use a crap password.

But a sufficiently long password could literally just be 'a', repeated. Would that really be more secure?

Honestly if you want somebody to have a secure password, make it for them and e-mail it to 'em. Virtually no chance they are going to use it for anything else, and if somebody has their e-mail, they can recreate one anyway.
Your original post said: "It is illegal for “ride shares” to provide medical transport." This is demonstrably false, but you still left it up there.
Good for them. They manage to increase revenue without increasing production, and they refuse to be evaluated based on production numbers. Still, 46 million devices just in the last quarter? And investors want it increased?
This is based off a study as reported by parents of teens "caregiver estimates", not the teens themselves or something potentially even more accurate like Fitbit data.

Just because a parent counts their kid as asleep because they're in their room with the lights off doesn't mean they actually are. From personal observation, I randomly see phone screens floating around in the dark while I'm getting up to go to the restroom in the middle of the night all the time.

Parents are also less likely to report in ways that make their kids out to be addicts, or themselves out to be bad parents. And there may be a correlation between excessive digital-lives for youths and neglectful parenting. Not to mention that "teens" are generally one of the hardest demographics to study because it's pretty much impossible to get a good control group as it's essentially their first time exercising freedom from control in general.

And yeah, 8.5 hours average for teens seems like prima facie BS. Kids wouldn't be "jet-lagged" if they slept that much. I think I was sleeping between 5-7 hours a night depending on how late I was up with friends or on the net when I was a teen (early thirties now).

I'm not saying one way or another as to whether or not screen time for youth is a problem or should be a topic of concern, but this article seems like nonsense.
How many new developments are there in the outer sunset?
The electrical interference can't do anything to to the digital audio, but interference on the USB cable can potentially be picked up by the analog amplifier circuitry in the DAC. I had a particular combination of headphone, DAC and amplifier years ago that I could hear electrical noise on when no music was playing.
The whole debate about rent control drives me nuts. It's framed as callous libertarians vs compassionate progressives. But the debate conflates means and ends in an obvious way that no one ever seems to notice.

If you are concerned about the ability of lower-income people to afford housing, then give them a rent subsidy! As a mechanism, this is superior in just about every way. It doesn't suppress housing supply, and it can be means-tested so that high income people aren't occupying rent-controlled apartments (which happens all the time now). It also gives low income people the freedom to move without losing their rent controlled status.
You're never gonna implement an income based tax system which would be fair to both corporations and employees.
Corporations are currently taxed on profit, while employees on 'revenues'. So to make it fair you would:

1. tax corporations on revenue too. Which this thread is about
2. tax employees on profit. Food, gas, utilities, ... - these are basically cost of operation of a human being, aren't they?

Income taxes will never work. Monopoly taxes are a solution though. Monopolies behave as money sinks in economy. Their prices are not competed down, so you can't talk about monopolized system as capitalistic. The more monopolies and wealth concentration you get the more you approach something like feudalism. Which is where we are heading as a civilization right now.

Monopolies are usually created and maintained by heavy regulation, because you don't allow small projects to challenge them. Also monopolies influence regulation in such a way to make it so.

So why not embrace monopolies, but tax them for the service of letting them be monopolies? You can then even not call it tax, but a pay-per-use license granting certain social privileges. Perfectly progressive tax. The more you use, the more you pay.
There's a lot of negativity here. A lot of these quotes seem to offer more heat than light.
Just another parent here... Does he fall asleep easily? What's the room environment like? White noise? Disposable diapers or cloth? Does he have a healthy appetite and diet? Are you still in the room when he falls asleep?

I suppose with a neurologist in the picture, none of the usual things are suspicious though.
spotify, SAP, etc?
Asking you to fill them online for password recovery etc?
Difference between JavaScript function in href and onclick
I found this worth reading. It features a number of interesting quotations from famous people I was not aware of. (e.g. "Competition is for losers")

Usually a story with a title like this is bullshit, but this one does detail how they guy actually was raking in a load of cash through online arbitrage. I was surprised.
I've heard on the grapevine that nearly all of the large customers ask for (and receive) custom silicon features. The complete set of these special features technically exist on all these chips as they share the same mask, but the different private SKUs have their special features fused/lasered off or hidden behind an MSR knock like all other binning.

EDIT: These features tend to be stuff like first class connections to in house security chips and the like. It's more about integration with their systems than any cool feature or isntruction that only "special" customers are cool enough to get.
Can assure you I didn't! "because shit happens and people get sick)" - indeed a national health service which is free at the point of use is fundamental to eradicating poverty.

As someone who's family has benefited (and pays for via taxes) from a well funded national health service I believe it represents significant progress in a nation's development.
Computer science for upper-level undergrads or grads.
There's also https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js
I remember using Fedora Core 1 and being really excited about it (it was free! no more begging my parents to drive me to CompUSA)

That was literally half a lifetime ago.
> This is not tied to the reality that I'm experiencing--you?

Certainly in terms of short-term variations in quantity of screen time having little effect, and much smaller than other factors, on sleep time it matches my current experience with my son. Not that I give that experience much weight in general predictions.

> We don't need peer-reviewed studies to tell us things that are easy to study empirically.

I think you've confused “empirically” with “anecdotally”. N=1 testing has, in the best case, very large error bars in predicting broad population generalities. (And , in most cases, makes it very hard to isolate confounding factors.)
"Blast furnaces do not need fuel to create iron"

Blast furnaces need fuel to raise the temperature of the blast furnace input to speed up stripping what becomes slag and the oxygen from the iron oxide in the iron ore. Carbon monoxide is what is able to penetrate the iron ore at the high temperatures.

My previous comment is criticizing the author for suggesting that yet another fuel produces the heat for the blast furnace.
Ask HN: How to help friend with disability find dev job
I have a friend who has Cerebal Palsy who is an experience developer and is being let go at the end of the month from his current job. He's asked if I had any ideas on how to help him with finding a new job as well as any pointers. I wanted to see if the HN community had some suggestions.

He's a college educated developer with over 10 years of experience in the Boston area. He's been at his current company for most of his career and while he's learned a lot he has not had the opportunity to work along side or be mentored by a more senior developer. He's built and maintained an application over his tenure there and at the end of the month the client has moved the application maintenance to a new firm due to his company only having one developer who can support it(himself). He understand that his skill set it lagging behind what other 10 year devs may have due to not having any mentoring or team members to work with. He is above entry level and likely a junior to mid-level developer.

While talking with him about the job hunt he said it usually goes along the lines of he exchanges emails back and forth and as soon as it goes to a phone interview the person cuts it short and never follows up. He is self-aware that his verbal communication is a limiting factor in that he speaks much slower and can be difficult to understand. That being said, he is able to fully understand a regular paced conversation and to respond in real time, it just is when he speaks it is at a slower cadence.

His current company and current and past clients he's work with, all speak very highly of him and are prepared to give recommendations.

He's indicated he thinks a mid to larger company may be a better fit as they may more experience with dealing with additional needs of employees.

His core knowledge is around PHP (Symfony 1.X series). He prefers backend work but can work on the frontend if needed.

I appreciate any suggestions or advice I can pass along.
It'll be interesting to see if familiarity with the digital space correlates to comfort in the physical space.
Just a friendly reminder that AWS pricing is still insanely high compared to dedicated bare metal servers. On AWS you'd pay around $1500/mo for 24 cores ("m5a.12xlarge")[1] while e.g. Hetzner offers a 24 core AMD bare metal server for $190/mo[2].

Also consider that on AWS you pay for traffic on top of that; prices for which is even more insane. 100TB, while free with Hetzner, would cost you somewhere around $9000 on AWS.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

[2] https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax
> 100% of Windows media players are garbage (VLC included, and there is no Movist). They can't play high-bitrate video without stuttering

Eh? I use VLC and Media Player Classic HD on a few different machines, including a rather old i5 that only had spinning disks, and I've never had any issue with high bitrate video.

I wonder if it's something specific to your setup?
There is a very specific use case for this: Apple ecosystem integration.

- Home theater -> iTunes movies play

- NAS -> iCloud clone with eventualy automation running

- Backup -> iCloud / Dropbox / Google Drive backup

- bonus: siri, xcode builds, local+ third party remote iOS backup

I have a raspberry pi setup handling the above for Google + dropbox. The day I want to switch to an Apple centric system I’d move to the Mac mini in a heartbeat.
Charge wise they are closer than you might think.

The 747’s net cargo of passengers plus luggage probability amounts to around 300-400 lb per passenger. 22,800 / 400 ~= 57 passanger equivalent to 22,800 / 300 ~= 76 passanger equivalents.

Further people take much longer trips than your benchmark getting them even closer.
It even had an x86 emulator
Thanks, that's useful information; I was unaware of the Cato-Koch connection. I'm not sure why the "Seriously?" is there or what I'm supposed to make of it.

It seems to me that there's still a considerable gap between a Koch having founded Cato and any opinion piece produced by Cato today being a "Koch opinion piece". A quick Google suggests to me that Cato is far from being under total Koch control - indeed, they've been involved in legal battles with each other in recent history.
AMD Announces 7nm Rome CPUs and MI60 GPUs
Ask HN: Would building synthetic neurons be a breakthrough?
I just finished https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06963 and was pleasantly surprised at state of neurotrophic computing. Specifically, the use of organic materials to build robust, low power networks that get past the von Neumann bottleneck and allow us to incorporate new levels of sensing into our environment and lives seems extraordinary. TPUs and chips are obviously interesting for orgs like google, but what about synthetic clusters of neurons integrated into our environment? How significant could that be?
On the contrary, Java is a very nice language in its core. It was dubbed C+- or C++ for lazies, and the language fits to this definition very nicely.

For most part, it can do a lot of things easily, but since it was a heavy language when the computers was as powerful as a Raspberry Pi (MK-I), it became infamous because of its resource usage.

This problem was compounded by Java's "conceal programmer's errors" mentality, especially in Java Swing. Swing has a very specific way of initializing things, and if you mix them up, Swing fixes them internally, but with a performance penalty. This results in performance penalties and increased resource usage.

As a result, Java was used as programmers' MATLAB for a decade or more. This is because it's very widespread, and very hard to monetize. It became a commodity runtime like Python in early 2000s (and Sun was actually happy about it).
Whether this policy is good or bad will depend on the details. But generally, in Europe, this kind of priposal is a populism magnet and a dancefloor for cheap politics.

"Standing up to multinational corporations and making them pay their fair share (ra! ra!)" is exactly the type of rhetoric our most generic politicians love.

An American equivalent might be some "government out of your hair" initiative to reduce professional liscencing.. or somesuch.

Once you've got something like that on the table, all the cheapest politicians come out of the woodwork.

On a serious not though, I think it's a good idea if (and only if) this names and addresses the problem which this actually intends to fix: company tax.

Companies have always been difficult to tax properly for 2 reasons. (1) "profit" is whatever your accountant says it is, and this is a manipulatable figure. (2) companies operate in multiple tax jurisdictions. Between these two things, these companies don't pay tax. Besides denying the taxman her due, this gives bigger piles of money and advantage over smaller ones. Not fair. Sad.

I just don't see how modern democracies can address something like this. It's at the nexus of all the things we suck at (politically) at the moment. Cheap idealogy, corporate interest groups, and complicated systems.
> There's obviously positives to more profitable businesses - but why another google/facebook?

Some Europeans want in on the industrial surveillance tech complex profit machine.
> The practice interview point strikes me as odd. In large, because I have never done one. Do folks really typically do that many practice interviews?

I only did practice interviews for my college internships and my first job because my resume was so light and my experience in the industry was nonexistent. When you have so little to talk about, it's smart to come prepared with a handful of questions.

Once you have 5 years or so of experience, other than light prep, practice interviews are not necessary. You know what to expect in interviews and you have tons of work experience to talk about and industry experience to ask pertinent questions to the interviewer.

But that's just my own personal experience. Also, after my 1st job, I've never had to take "technical or IQ tests" either. The interview process was more center around my projects and work experience rather than technical know-how.
If they are making similar use of tax evasion techniques then, yes [0].

Too many people here act like this is something specifically aimed at US companies, when in reality it's not. US companies just happen to be affected the most by it due to their dominance in this particular business sector.

But this is something that has been long overdue and was bound to happen regardless of who was dominating that sector.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/p...
The ARC paper proposes that the lithium in the salt should be enriched to 90% lithium 6 to reach a tritium breeding ratio of 1.1. See section 5.3, "Tritium breeding."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540.pdf

I presume that the breeding ratio would fall below 1.0 with natural lithium.
You're right that transparency alone is insufficient. It's a dependency of trust, not the dependency. However, it's still absolutely necessary.

Sure, you can create your own variety of transparency by reverse-engineering something to figure out how it works (or hiring someone you trust to do so on your behalf), but if you have to resort to that, it's because you already (rightfully) don't trust the thing.

"For most people 'seeing how it works' is utterly meaningless by itself"

Well yeah, most people aren't going to be able to make sense of even a perfectly-transparent system of sufficient complexity. That's why they hire auditors to do it for them. It ain't about the user actually doing it; it's about the user being able to do it should the user have the time and technical competence to do so.

Taken another way: if you don't even have the ability to inspect a transparent thing, then what makes you think you can meaningfully inspect an opaque thing?

"closed software can perfectly well be probed anyway (as this very software and every single vulnerability ever found in proprietary software demonstrates!)"

Correction/clarification: closed source software can occasionally - and with a bit of luck and a heck of a lot more skill and time and effort - be probed for specific reasons to be untrustworthy. You're unlikely to ever reach the point where you have full understanding of the system (and if you do reach that point, then it's pretty transparent - to you at least - and therefore possible to be trustworthy, at least until the next update). Without transparency, there's always the possibility of something nasty (a fatal bug, or an overreaching telemetry "feature", or somesuch) lurking in the places yet to be probed. Sure, it's possible for those to hide in transparent (e.g. FOSS) programs, too (though I'd argue they're not being particularly transparent in those cases), but it's much easier to find that nastiness in a transparent program than an opaque program.
Very true, but I listed three points, the third one being a well funded social welfare system. As you say people suffer disaster - work place accidents, chronic health care problems, unemployment through no fault of their own.

You need well paying jobs, low unemployment, and a social safety net for economic security.
Those are some nice features. Unfortunately, your DBMS doesn't do some basic things like return consistent results for a simple SQL query with a group by and having clause. I admit this might be a configuration issue on my company's end, but if so, that is a terrible configuration option and should be hidden away, opt in only, with a huge wall of warnings so people don't actually enable it except in extreme circumstances.