skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The justifications I've heard have nothing to do with the quality of care, and everything to do with subsidizing the costs hospitals bear for being required to treat uninsured populations who won't pay your bill.

E.g., if someone shows up at a private medical office and can't pay their bill, the office has no legal obligation to treat that person.

If someone shows up at a hospital emergency room and can't pay their bill, that hospital is required to provide emergency treatment regardless.

It seems like a horribly inefficient and inaccurate way to address this issue. I think broadly, the value-based model (where cardiologists are paid to keep their patients from needing expensive surgeries, instead of paid per expensive surgery) is probably the right model for the future of medical care, but I have doubts about how successful its implementation will be.
Here's the question you need to answer. If they are evil, can they cause a lot of harm that will be hard to protect against or correct? If so, then it matters.

Google and Facebook both want to be publishers when it suits them, and common carriers when it suits them, and both have shown, I think we can all agree, a propensity to be evil. I think it's telling that Google retired, "Don't be evil."

I think Google is worse in that regard since they are so much more pervasive. It's easy enough to permanently opt out of Facebook, but to avoid using Google is difficult, if not impossible.

The other question is that do these companies allow for competition, not that they are necessarily explicitly preventing competition (although they may be), but whether or not they are so successful and have so much of a market share that it is literally impossible to compete with them, and again, I think the answer is yes. We see new competitors for Facebook on almost a weekly basis, and none of them ever get anywhere, not because of whether or not they are any good, but the fact that they can't compete because pretty much everyone who isn't actively boycotting Facebook is on Facebook (including me).

As far as Google goes, the best we can hope for the is someone to be able to compete with them in one particular area, and even that would be tough because Google, like Microsoft or Apple, can throw so much money at a project that it can succeed as a loss leader by simply outlasting any would-be competitor.
> that some POAs in California forbid cutting down trees on your property.

https://www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-...

This article gives a sense of the actual nonsense a homeowner must endure to cut down a tree. It might sound good to some people on paper, but I can feel the frustration of following such an expensive, bureaucratic process just to cut a tree in your own land. That entire process sounds ridiculous when looking at the aftermath of one of these fires such as the Camp or Malibu fires. The environmentalists responsible for such tripe should be made to work with a fire crew for a single hour to see the consequences of their horrid, naïve and completely ignorant policies.

Here is the money paragraph:

“What does Cal-Fire consider to approve a plan?

Basically, they want to make sure that trees are removed in a way that does the least amount of harm to wildlife habitat, that diversity of plant life is maintained, shade and sun balanced for a particular environment, and watersheds and watercourses are disturbed the least amount possible.

For instance, if protected species are in the area, then either the work is not done, or it is postponed during mating and rearing stages. If trees are removed on a hillside, then potential erosion is part of what is considered, monitored and controlled. There are many factors, and they all need to be taken into consideration.”

Sorry, but Cal-Fire should be concerned about preventing fires first. There are protected species everywhere; so delaying fire prevention forestry so some salamander can do whatever it is salamanders do; that’s just ridiculous. Over 17,000 acres of “protected” stuff just burned up in Paradise, California, so perhaps tripping over a dollar to pick up a nickel doesn’t make the best sense for either the environment or people.
Don’t do this. Medium does this and it’s infuriating.
I've done some refactoring work that didn't take any more mental effort than dish washing.
That's quad A15s + quad A7s. The A15s are way faster than the RPi3's A53's, but this is quite a few generations old at this point. They aren't 64-bit and lack all the ARMv8 instruction set changes.

Does that really matter much? Probably not. But if you're looking for the equivalent of a modern phone SoC it's also definitely not that.
Fortnite educational kit to help kids learn programming and electronics
Ugggghhhhh, there is absolutely no data to back up the proposition that throwing more money at the problem is a magical fix. This is a guess based on vapor out of convenience and desire.

As a software developer in the Dallas metro I make over 6 figures, twice the average income. The work isn't that hard and the perks are amazing. At EVERY software development job I have ever held I have worked with a huge number of immigrants.

If the pay is so damn good (already) and the benefits are so damn fantastic why aren't more Americans writing software? Why aren't so many of those people who are writing software so incompetent?

I get asked all the damn time by young people in my side job how they can become software developers so they too can make the big bucks. Simple, put fingers on keyboard, struggle, and figure it out through practice. None of them follow through. None. Some of these guys make far less than the national average and they still aren't motivated.

So let's propose a hypothetical. Let's say entry level were $150,000 and senior were $500,000. A ridiculous increase. Would more people be interested in programming: absolutely. Would there would be a substantial increase in senior developers? I suspect there would be a minor increase, because it takes effort. Competence isn't a gift and gifting additional income won't work.

Now, I could be wrong, but as it stands all the objective evidence is on my side on this.
In our place we still have boxes on Rhel 5, some even on Rhel 4. But Redhat did keep the things more or less the same visually over all these years, unlike Ubuntu which seems to change its look and feel bit too much.
Reminds me of an old article about evolutionary circuit design. The computer was tasked with creating a osscilator using physical hardware. It created a really complex and unconventional design that no-one understood, but it worked, only not work outside of the lab. As it turned out the algorithm had designed it in a way that it used the radio noise from the computer it was running on as a source. It had effectively made an antenna.
Binny Bansal's exit from Flipkart evokes mixed reactions from India’s ecosystem
Well the previous generations written in C used to perform quite well.
Nor do the Inuit people. And until yhe introduction of the Western diet, they had very little cardiovascular disease.
Valuations are not always straightfoward, and we don't know Airtable's ARR. I see Airtable as an Excel + Repl SaaS replacement. Does that have a larger market available to it? Maybe! Also, it doesn't appear Airtable has any competitors in the space (whereas your example has multiple competitors; MuleSoft is at ~$300 million/year in revenue, Microsoft doesn't break out their Flow service revenue unfortunately).

I think Airtable and Zapier are both great products, and recommend both to clients, but they have different use cases.
This seems like a really, really bad idea.

However, if everyone had that attitude we'd never improve on the existing art. So I'm glad some people are willing to risk it.

But just to reiterate, if you're thinking of rolling your own consensus - or even implementing an existing consensus algorithm yourself (although that's much worse for Paxos than for Raft) - you're almost certainly making a big mistake.
Cool! Thanks for the heads up.
Is immunization the cure for “Fake News”?
There is no such thing as "shortage" of anything

Is it incorrect to describe a crop failure which leads to widespread famine as a "food shortage"? Perhaps there is a more correct term?
I think going deep on something is the key. It lets you keep learning without getting bored and needing to jump ship. One of my pet peeves is how programmers think "keep learning" means "learn another programming language". Not that that's bad, but after the twentieth or so, . . . instead try learning something "adjacent" to what you enjoy & do well. For example for a Ruby+JS web developer: read some HTTP RFCs, play around with SSL certificates, learn some admin/devops skills, get really familiar with some part of modern JS/HTML like your framework or build system or HTML5 canvas or video, read the Rails Github issues list and fix a couple bugs, try writing your own gem, try writing your own gem with some C/Rust implementation, go fix all the n+1 query problems in your app, learn how to use CTEs and lateral joins, learn some plpgsql, write your own Postgres extension, etc. Or pick something adjacent-but-non-technical, like marketing or SEO or sales or financial statements. Remember that careers are long, and learning pays compound interest. There is no reason to get bored!
Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones
The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018
that's right just look at http://ghtorrent.org/ !
Also azure was used internally (and with large internal clients) for a long while before being exposed as a service to customers.
I don't know much about it, but I think there's an old Christian prophecy about Jews dominating the Holy Land as one of several omens preceding the actual Apocalypse, the Second Coming of Christ. People who want the Apocalypse would presumably support Israel because if Jews lose control of the Holy Land, then we're not there yet.
If you are interested in facts, it is always better to read the scientific article ("A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland"), if you can[1][2].

I stopped reading this summary at "and the released steam, a greenhouse gas, could have locally warmed Greenland, melting even more ice." Yes, steam is a greenhouse gas. No, that is not why Greenland may have been warmed by the steam. The steam itself is hot and would melt more ice. I can't find the word "steam" mentioned in the science paper. Gell-Mann amnesia effect I suppose.

[1]http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173

[2]http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/11/eaar817...
WebAuthn is the spec that enables U2F tokens in browsers. When he adds the keys to his account in Chrome, and when he logs into Gmail on Chrome, that's all utilizing WebAuthn in the background as a technical detail.
Totally offtopic, but the screenshot on the top of the page shows the Airtable dashboard with a fictional magazine cover about the "best in class American cruiser" with a Ferrari in the background... And a GM logo next to it...

This screenshot comes from Airtable's press package. If you are releasing press material, at least check it for facts first.
You seem to have a unique perspective based on your comment history. Could you explain why or why not you see F/G as monopolistic forces? I have no opinion on the matter, but I'm trying to understand.
I think you misunderstood. It's certainly possible to learn a lot by doing Leetcode. I'm saying that since solutions are available to their problems that you could simply memorize as many of them as you can and would probably pass most whiteboard interviews with memorized optimal solutions
Also the utility work, no? Unless you're in a pre-planned subdivision or demolishing existing builds (brownfield stuff), water, phone, and power are often non-trivial.
I fail to see this as progress or the bright light at the end of the tunnel. Shielding oneself from uncomfortable ideas and writing people off wholesale has repeated time and again throughout history. It always ends in tyranny and oppression.

We found the tools to break this cycle in the enlightenment. This has led to the largest expansion of freedom and prosperity in world history.

Now I fear we are about to throw it all away. By your logic I should label you “toxic” for promoting this. But that fundamentally goes against these values I hold dear.
Here's what I'd like to see in a 2FA "something you have" device: You could just leave it in your pocket, and you wouldn't have to interact with it. It would also unlock your computer when you sit down at your desk and lock it when you leave.
>No, my comment is like saying clearing 30 feet around your house is an absolute no-brainer, of course do it

Ok, but that's not what you said. You just ignored it completely like you were disregarding it. If it was such a no-brainer everyone would have done that in California, which was clearly not the case and it's why we're having this discussion now.

It's like someone posting stats about seatbelts saving lives in response to tons of vehicle deaths where people weren't wearing seatbelts. Then you come along and point out that if you drive off a 500 ft cliff a seatbelt won't save your life and some of the deaths were caused by driving off of a cliff.

Either the implication is that the safety mechanism would not have helped, or you are offering a useless observation that it's not making them impervious.
https://docs.blockstack.org/browser/ids-introduction.html#cr...

AFAICT, You can't use the platform without authenticating to the centralized servers of blockstack. That runs against the whole idea of decentralized. With Beaker/IPFS/ZeroNet, you just need the software.

It's been a while but last I checked, you had to register a domain (with $$$) to blockstack in order to run an app. Has this changed? Can I download the software and make my own X-Net with Blockstack now? (Not being snarky, I'd love to.)
You mean like an Apple Watch does with a macOS machine?
Big fan of Airtable. Been using them for a month now trying to find a hosted/paid alternative to using both Google Drive and Trello.
Thanks for your recommendation, I can not wait to add more interesting idea into TensorSpace!
how can one private company have so much power?
My take is that lower metabolism is just a lower ‘power saver’ mode for the body, and, like a computer, results in slower ‘processing ‘
Let's assume everything in this comment is perfectly true. The past century has been unusually wet in California. Your choice is to burn now, or burn later when its even drier and hotter.

Meanwhile, California apparently agrees with hs, because they plan on increasing the number of prescribed burns.
Can’t agree more about pseudo-technical managers.

In 2011 I warned a manager that we must go full JavaScript/HTML5 to be tablet friendly on a website we had to launch (lots of dataviz was involved). He overruled my advice, in front of the boss, and choose a hybrid flash/Wlanguage solution that only him master in the company. ‍️

Of course it’s 2018 and said site still haven’t transitioned out of flash. ‍️

I’m not frontend, theirs customers are not techs savvy, but I can’t help feeling ashamed everytime I need to interact with this site.
> Doesn't that conflict with German labor law?

I doubt it, Germans rank high in terms of unpaid overtime.

https://www.dw.com/en/unpaid-overtime-a-common-phenomenon-in...

They also have some of the lowest wages combined with the rather high social security expenses.

https://www.learngermanonline.org/salaries-and-living-costs-...

Given that, I think Germany doesn't deserve its good reputation.
I posted to my facebook yesterday that I'm deleting my account today. I can be reached in other ways... but yes, with this week's news, my own personal inclination to maintain my FB account has evaporated.
Easy answer (even if the sides aren't orthogonal):

Step 1 - Find all pairs of line segments where there is overlap on the x and y planes. This step is O(n^2) but since we're dealing with rectangles it's only 16 checks.

Step 2 - For the line segments that do have overlap check to see if the intersection occurs within the line segments or outside of it. If there is a line intersection within a pair of segments then there is an overlap of rectangles.

For the question as STATED (4 sides) this will run quickly and a first year CS student could implement it, or read it and understand what is happening. I could use a whiteboard and explain this algorithm to high school students.

When you hire for a company you do want programmers that will have a correct code solution. You also want programmers that will write code that is easy for others to maintain, you want programmers who are pleasant to work with, aren't difficult people, etc. In an interview, the technical questions are only part of the interview process. There is also the underlying question of "is this a person I want to work with?".
defined as such! good grief. anyone can code up a system that uses a fingerprint as a username -- you can't reply "thats not a username!" yes it is, because its defined as such! similarly, lots of applications use the fingerprint as both username and password, again defying your platonic ideal. you can go ahead and define the proper "taxonomy of authentication factors" but the whole irony is you think everyone has this biometric username/password false dichotomy when you fail to recognize that this dichotomy exists in the wild and often in really bad ways ;P
The UN for instance supports open borders. This is obvious if you look at the views of those involved. The former director of the IOM was recently very involved in the UN migration compact. There's an interview with him on YouTube somewhere from the past year where he openly admits that he strongly supports mass migration into Europe, calling it "inevitable". Europeans are funding immigrantion into their countries, whether they like it or not.
I think that's his point; cloud is often network-bound, which can be orders of magnitude more costly.
In general I agree with you, but there are certain cases where bundling of goods and services can lead to anti-competitive scenarios due to the "price" savings of bundling. Especially if that lower price is paid for by market power from another market.

Example: now that Google says that they don't mine email / calendar / docs data for ads, that means they don't make direct revenue from those services - unless a user pays for them directly a la G Suite or Google Drive pricing. Therefore Google leverages strong market share and revenue from Search to invest in these services to bundle them and offer them for free.

In theory any other company can build individual blocks, but most likely could not (1) offer them for free, nor (2) address the switching cost that a user of Google's services does not have (i.e. having multiple tabs or different applications opened to use email + calendar + files + etc.) If this wasn't a technology company, but like a p&g company, hypothetically, this would be clear cut monopolistic behavior.

That said, it's a thorny issue and I could see both sides, and the technology market landscape necessitates an analysis of our definitions of monopoly / market share / competition, etc.
He does not advocate "open borders". He does humanitarian aid for refugees. In Europe, he supports many pro-European groups. That means open borders by extension, because the EU has abolished borders. But it's not a specific goal of his to increase migration.

The "Open" in "Open Society Foundation" also has nothing to do with "Open Borders". A open society is defined by freedom of speech, equality before the law, high social mobility, more interested in trying new ideas than in defending the status quo, etc.

It's the same ideology that made him spend his first billion on fighting the communists in the 1980.
Get a working version of .net 4.6 working in wine with text that actually renders like it does on Windows and I'll admit wine is a viable alterative.

It is getting an appropriate amount of love though in the last year. I'm really hopeful that it will keep getting better.
World War I memorials should focus on the truth–that it was bloody and pointless
interesting, I am using TinyMCE and paying them for the PowerPaste plugin, figure a team that manages pastes from Word will do a better job than I could, and $1850/year.. I couldn't easily make that feature and maintain it for that money.

I am surprised there is no open source tool for cleaning up pastes from word and giving you HTML.
Yes, that's the difference between profit and cash flow, basically working capital.

I think most people get this, this isn't really one of those magic things.

In both cases you've described 'profit' is still 'profit' in the generally accepted sense, and we have cash flow statements to help us understand that.
Dog+Loves+Getting+Stuck+All+The+Time+Everywhere+
This is a false equivalence. The Kochs are blamed by the left for the vast amount they spend in politics, which is something they actually do. The right blames Soros for insanity, like funding a migrant caravan from South American, or for funding crisis actors to pretend school shootings are happening. That's insanity. There's a clear difference here.
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
I'd be happy if my business contributes to a foss software and builds on top of it. I'm all against closed source.
Good point. I wonder what the real world impact is, I can imagine all the task switching that happens (at least on my VMs) could have a big impact somehow. Either bad, as in more waiting on memory for instance, or good, as in there wasn't much speculation going on anyway because of it.
> with enough software development experience ...

^ this detail basically supports the initial point that domain experience is required..
>Am I understanding right that UK houses are only fed by single phase at 230 V with neutral?

That's right, typically houses along a street will alternate phases to maintain overall balance. Standard used to be 60A supply but is now 100A which I believe would be considered low in the US but we don't usually have residential air conditioners and houses are smaller and heated with gas.

I have been told that this is the reason but there are other reasons to prefer the US arrangement so it may not be the only one. US system is more resilient to secondary failure because fewer customers are fed per secondary and you have a much more extensive HV network which is more flexible.

UK distribution transformers are much, much larger. Looks like this: https://cms.esi.info/Media/productImages/Expanded_Metal_Comp...
My point was that it is easier to enclose a smaller number of large assets than a large number of small ones which is relevant to fire risk.
If you’re interested in generative design beyond antenna construction, check out what Autodesk has been doing: https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/generative-design
> ...then seek out the best place to actually receive the treatment.

How do they seek out the "best place" if they don't have complete information on what it will cost? It would be like buying cars with no price-tags or MRSPs - yes, there will be good/prestigious dealerships with excellent staff who can tell you the technical details about the car that's right for you, but you won't know how much it will cost you until each component manufacturer sends you their separate itemized bills for months after taking possession of the car, and you can't take the car back (5x tires, 2x wipers, 1x engine, dealership charges, factory charges, line-assembly person 30 minutes @union rates, 1x battery, 348x bolts,1x suspension platform, transmission, etc). That is not a free market.