skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. They're malicious caricatures, but as mentioned in the text, they're all different sub-personalities I've at least had at some point in my career.

Also do note that the text is heavily copying The Little Prince, to the extent that all characters are also malicious caricatures of adults, with only one of them actually being perceived positively, so I tried to play to the original.
And outside of those areas, usually in finance, specifically trading shops and specifically very skilled people doing low level algo multi threaded type stuff. I've also heard of some good starter salaries at Atlassian which means it might be possible that the seniors there can get $150K US +.
Yes it is, there are several factors jacking up the price in the US. There are some good videos on it on Youtube. I was always wondering why people think that it is a free market there. In Europe there are several countries that let you use private and public health insurance (even at the same time) and you can go to any healthcare provider and still get a reasonable price. In my country the private provider "industry" is booming and most lab work can be done in a private manner, usually for a very reasonable price. Most of this is accessible in a week ahead booking time.
Maybe and Hope are the usually the best plans.
I’m afraid you’re completely wrong. Look up mandatory parole in Colorado for example. I as well as thousands of other former inmates are required to serve mandatory parole AFTER completing a sentence.

Most people don’t know about this.
zstd availability is becoming more and more common nowadays.
See for example this tracker :
https://repology.org/metapackage/zstd/versions
I think that’s a great summary of our competitive advantage. We spend a lot of time making sure that we get the right balance between quality, personalization and serendipity, to ensure that we’re actually helping composers write interesting music
This is really nice! I wish there were hardware manufacturers interested in shipping PCs/laptops with Mu.
Tesla Model S reportedly burst into flames twice after getting a flat tire
>> My SO is a soils engineer/geo-physicist, so I know a bit about the issues at play

>what's this? PhD by association?

I mean, I did day that I only know a bit about it.

That said, there are differences in the dynamics of the soil between Japan and California; each situation is unique. When it comes to earthquakes, Japan typically has deeper earthquakes due to the subduction zone that it sits above and the earthquakes are compressional(very roughly), while in CA, the earthquakes tend to be shallower along the San Andreas and more strike-slip (again, very roughly) up to 30km down involving mostly the crust. In general, one should not expect that buildings in two different seismic zones should be similar.
I think you mean from the "free market" - which is neither free, nor genuinely a market - usurping the good-citizen responsibilities of mature and sane government.
Great, thanks! Last question.

On the blog you mention you are underway porting the internal code to replace Zlib with Zstd. Is there a reason you decided not to use the wrapper as a first pass to migrate all uses of Zlib to Zstd across the entire codebase?
> If the private system provides value, it will likely survive.

And if it doesn't survive, good! Industries don't have an inherent right to keep existing if they don't fill some useful function. Refusing to implement an otherwise desirable social program because it might cause an existing industry to become obsolete is far and away the most anti-capitalist argument I see self avowed capitalists make.
> A Turing machine has to be given the axiom of infinity to make this kind of inference, it cannot derive it in any way.

Why not? Are you aware of a proof of this? I think you are limiting the capabilities of Turing machines without evidence.

> Unlike the game AIs that repeatedly try to walk through walls.

Game AIs capabilities are a small subset of what a Turing machine can do. Most game AIs can't do speech recognition or solve math equations either.

> We programmers write halting programs with great regularity.

So do other programs. Writing a halting program is not an uncomputable problem, and doesn't require solving the halting problem.
I'm at a loss as to why the US is still dead set to have no meaningful health coverage.

I got burned by this in California a decade ago. A dentist charged me $4,500 to fix a broken tooth (panic!) and fill in a cavity on a Sunday.

Had I known then what it might have cost I'd have simply flown back to Europe in the next flight ($600-800 at the time) and get the same thing done for under $100-200 with a full refund from my local social security.

Adding insult to injury I had a very expensive international health insurance policy owing to my traveling around the world back then. And they didn't cover dental with my plan. I knew they wouldn't. But it was still mind boggling to me in that I never expected a casual procedure that would have cost me €150 at most anywhere in Europe - most of which would have gotten refunded at that - to cost me a whopping $4,500 in the US.
This appears to be incorrect, and the usual interpretation of "sale of goods damaged in a fire" is the original.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire-sale
K-cup provides people with the illusion that they are getting "real" coffee. Instant provides no such illusion, hence its stigma. K-cup coffee is awful, but people happily drink it. Instant coffee can actually be much better, yet people go "BLECH!" if you even mention it.
> And no one should be surprised by this. The NN advancement of late doesn't help addressing human-style symbolic reasoning at all. All we have is a much more powerful function approximator with a drastic increased capacity (very deep networks with billions of parameters) and scalable training scheme (SGD and its variants).

You think symbolic reasoning is not a function? In what sense do you think 'symbolic reasoning' is a distinct thing from 'function approximation'?
> Parallel lines converge on the surface of the world

The scheme can be trivially modified to deal with this, once you've figured out a way to create a smooth tangent vector field on a 2-sphere.
I mean UX for their hardware. All of the stuff I've owned has been lovely to use. I've not had to try any of their software.
While my wife was recovering from surgery in Nevada, the surgeon literally said “I can have the hospital give her these pills I’m prescribing her (OxyContin or something similar), but it will cost you a lot less to get them from the pharmacy across the street and give them to her when you go home.”
True to an extent, but in any city (100,000 or more people) there will be two hospitals and so the poor can choose which of the two to use. Note that by poor choosing only a small number need to have the practical ability (which is to say the almost middle class) to choose since a hospital will want to attract them and that ups service for everyone even thoose who couldn't reasonably get to the other hospital.
I mean it's difficult to 'observe' gradient descent, there are no characteristic properties that you can identify without specifying the relative objective function. But most of the process theories from computational neuroscience are based on some form of gradient descent. Even if it's only implicit, you'll be able to describe the variables of the system as moving against the gradient of some function.

But yes, it's extremely unlikely that nature implements backpropagation directly, as it relies on non-local gradients.
The problem with single payer is that it results in shortages. Look at waiting lists for the NHS, especially for mental health or routine surgery. That is a direct consequence of single payer. An unpopular view, but it is a fact.
The VPN is self-hosted, so:
1) technically yes, you can install it on your laptop and deploy VPN to any Linux or OpenBSD host
2) legally, I have no idea if your government allows you to use a VPN
The quit-Facebook hysteria is ridiculous
I'm one and make $11/hr.
The short answer is that zstd is faster and better at compressing than zlib for most input data.

For more details, here's a comment I made a couple years ago:

There's a nice comparison of compression algorithms (including zlib, zstd, brotli, snappy, etc) here: https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/ It's nice because it uses many datasets and machine platforms.
Unfortunately the graphs leave a bit to be desired, especially when you're trying to compare two algorithms. They provide the raw data, but it needs a little munging to make it workable.

For my day job I made the following graph to compare zlib level1 and zstd. This was using the "peltast" platform which is a Xeon based system, because that was most relevant for us.

http://imgur.com/a/0a3kK

(the original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12400503 )
I hope that there is a Planet Nine. I like space related news and I think it would be an amazing discovery
For any ER visit it's generally impossible to predict exactly what treatments will be needed. Minor differences in treatment can cause large price variations. And the hospital won't be able to reliably predict how much the patient has to pay without actually submitting a claim to the insurer.
A Chinese Artist’s Humanizing 19th-Century Portraits of Disfigured Patients
Well, that and SQL has a somewhat undeserved reputation for being easy to learn, but also easy to screw up. Like you write a simple looking query and it turns out to have O^2 complexity and your system ends up bogged down in the database forever.

In practice people who fall into complexity traps are usually asking a lot more of their database engine than any beginner. It's usually not that hard to figure out the approximate cost of a particular query.
You can say the same about driving a car to work. Or anything we do in our daily lives. As long as I can comment on hacker news, what's a little ecological damage (from wasting electricity supplied from some unknown source in an office room with florescent lights). Everything around me has caused some sort of ecological damage but I'll be damned if I have to go back to being a caveman.
Zoning has been the most controversial part of the pot ordinance the jurisdiction I work for is trying to build. The residents resent the smell, but the home medical cannabis growers object to the limitations of the proposed ordinance, and the large growers are trying to reduce their transport costs by insinuating themselves closer to the retail outlets. There are tons of moving parts and many players are part of multiple groups, which means they may have conflicting motivations, and our governing body is certainly not of one mind on the issue either.
If anyone from MailChimp is reading this: a postmortem from your side would be greatly appreciated too.

Currently, I assume the only thing such a postmortem would contain is "one of our anti-abuse system considered the account abusive, so our default process kicked in, some sort of escalation review process (automated or human) also flagged it as abusive, so no further escalation was allowed, and we don't really have a way to keep this from happening over and over again". (Which, to be fair, is probably true of any service that has to deal with abuse at scale.)

Anything better than that (e.g. providing notifications on takedowns, offering data take-out, or at least explaining why this isn't in place) is probably worth posting.
> if they don't become more transparent it's going to be forced upon them.

Semi-tinfoil-hat conspiracy incoming: I think doctors and hospitals actually want government funded medical care, and are doing some of this to speed that up. Think about it. No more dealing with 100 different insurance companies or sometimes trying to bill uninsured patients: just develop expertise in handling one single government agency, and rake in essentially as much money as you care to have.
Not that much anymore. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-...
Study links nutrients in blood to better cognition in older adults
And by the same token, wall posts are data too, so there should be no need to specify that explicitly if that's the way data is being interpreted.
Mixing a public option with a private option isn’t that ideal either.

The wealthy with their ability to influence politics will lobby to undermine/weaken the public system to save their tax dollars.

You are better off with one system so that everyone is entitled to the same level of care. We do this with fire/police, same applies to health.
Note that this is draft 17, not a finalized outcome.
How does zstd compare with brotli? Would it be a better compression standard for http responses?
Ugh, no thank you.

There are a few procedures where a layperson could probably make meaningful decisions. How much anesthesia do you want for a procedure: cheap but uncomfortable, or pricy and painless? Should a specialist go all out to minimize scarring, or are you fine with a mark on your arm.

But for most other things, would you actually be comfortable analyzing the risks, costs, and benefits of treatments on your own? Diagnostic tests too? You're really going to say "I hear what you're saying about a possible stroke. Still, I think the CT is overpriced--and don't even get me started on the MRI—so I'll either pay for a regular old x-ray or we can just see how this numb face/slurred speech thing plays out...."

Also, how is this going to work for malpractice? The first person who opts out of the "expensive" stuff and doesn't make a full recovery is going to raise merry hell. "I KNOW I SAID NOT TO DO IT, BUT YOU EXPLAINED IT BADLY. If only I had known..."
Another dimension is which one pedestrians are OK to walk across on, though I suppose that gets a bit fuzzy.
I assume it could, but haven't tried it.
> Acquiring insurance does nothing to ensure that the facility you visit will accept that insurance.

Does acquiring a credit card ensure that businesses will accept it? When you select your insurance plan, check who accepts it. Problem solved.
But the hospital doesn't know if the birth is going to be uncomplicated until it actually happens. If the hospital gives out only a projected price, then it could lure people into false sense of security. A non binding price is effectively ad worthless a no price.
Nicotine by itself is not a carcinogen. There could be other substances that causes cancer inside the gum.
"Move to a better market" seems like an argument that some local marketplaces have failed. The whole value proposition of the free market is that it improves the available services and prices through competition. If I have to move somewhere else to find a market where this is true then the local market is clearly failing and the free market idea doesn't work.

Said another way: Should I then also move when I want to find a better price on milk?
Good read. Although I don’t quite understand why every few years media companies keep rewriting their content management layer which generally has no impact on company’s top line or bottom line whatsoever. How can these type of investments are justified when all you are doing is recreating exactly same APIs with same data. Am I missing something here?
It's fairly basic qualifications. It's not difficult to reach millions of reads over 10 years, that should take less than a hundred questions or articles. Possibly a lot less back then when commercial content was less prevalent and Facebook/Quora/StackOverflow were in their infancy.

If you have a stackoverflow account with at least 500 points, click your user profile and check out the "people reached" metric in the top right corner. Prepare to be amazed.
These things are terrible. Could they at least make the pods out of cardboard ?
Do any doctors actively campaign to change these billing practices? Bogleheads.org seems to have quite a few Docs that post there, and the attitude is mostly "I went into medicine to practice medicine / Gee, I don't bill at all, I leave that to the hospital" and other great flippant attitudes. Probably a poor community to judge the standards of medicine by as it's mostly a 1%er forum that happens to have some good advice, but that's the only exposure I have outside of my 5 minute $400 visits with specialists.

You'd think they'd be a bit more invested in the process of healing, but I haven't found much evidence of that. I hope I'm horribly wrong here.
Facebook can’t be regulated into the ground and then sued into a fine dust fast enough.

It is really hard to overstate the ambient anger out there at a general sense of exploitation. FB have made themselves a lightning rod for that anger.

Couldn’t happen to a more exploitive, manipulative company.
Well, in fairness to the hospitals, most of us here are software developers: how many times, early on, did somebody push you to give an "estimate" for a task that was underspecified and then try to hold you to that estimate? How many times did it happen before you learned to sidestep estimates unless you already knew everything that you needed to know beforehand?
US has self driving cars, which is much fancy.
Sure, but an iPhone CPU could decode mp3 easily. If the SE/30 CPU was decoding that would be impressive
Anything that criticized Marxism? Not sure that’s narrow enough.

The church thought the earth was the center of the galaxy and some dude proved them wrong.

A lot of medical stuff.

I’m just shotgunning here Incase no one else gives an answer
Shameless plug, you might find judo interesting: https://github.com/rollcat/judo
How somebody voted/flagged on posts.
Too impatient to meditate? A mild shock to the scalp could help
Octomom has proved us all wrong
While Nespresso machines make better coffee than Keurig it's still nowhere near the quality of an espresso made with good, fresh ground beans in a decent machine. I tried a few different Nespresso pod types and none were very good.
I support self driving cars because I'm not arrogant enough a driver to believe I'm better than all the other idiots on the road and I see all the mistakes the other guy it making. Most people, when someone else cuts them off think that other guy is an idiot, when they cut someone off it is a minor mistake. In reality most people make about the same number of mistakes: every driver is a bad driver even when sober.

A self driving car is the only hope we have of making the situation better.
I am skeptical of a causal relationship there. In the United States, approximately 2/3 of healthcare costs are already borne by the government. My parents are both enrolled in Medicare and they are very satisfied. Why would it not work if we just dropped the eligible age for Medicare to zero? Hasn't this been extensively studied recently?
I can only speak for myself, but as a relatively low-tier journalist, I can confidently say I've never fabricated anything in my reporting. I may have made errors (misspelling names/titles/etc), or ill-informed judgments (thinking someone was a better expert/source than they were). But making something up requires crossing a clear line beyond incompetence. And I would never trust the journalistic output of anyone who was found to have made up anything. Because the process of journalism is ultimately about complete trust -- no matter how many editors/fact-checkers you have, it all comes down to what the reporters themselves say they have witnessed/heard. It's already common enough to misobserve something, it's just as easy to lie about something that only you were "there" to see/her -- thus, the need to make fabrication (and plagiarism, which can be seen as a subset of fabrication) so taboo. And any reporter who justifies breaking this taboo has most certainly justified breaking rules in grayer situations -- e.g. I've never known of a fabricator to have fabricated just once. Once they get away with it the first time, what's the reason to ever stop?

It's not about the "damage" to the end user, i.e. the reader. It's about the complete betrayal of professional ethics. To use a tech analogy, consider a user whose credit card number has been compromised. To the user, the damage is the same whether the info was compromised by the sysadmin's failure to prevent a trivial SQL injection attack, or if the sysadmin decided to use their admin privileges to access and share the info of that user to fuck with them. The former sysadmin can learn their lesson and be redeemed -- the latter case is someone I would most likely never trust with admin privileges.
It bothers me that the qoutes in this article are all cut up, in some cases ending when a sentence clearly wasn't finished. It makes it hard to judge what they are really saying here, and I wish the full interview would be published.
Isn't that a bit like posting a job description right now asking for 3 years of experience with project Mu and 10 years of Kubernetes experience? ;-P
A cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs
As someone with CF, I love that preexisting conditions can no longer be denied insurance. At the same time, I want to make sure that companies like Vertex have sufficient profit motivation. I definitely don't feel like a purer free market would support that, but I don't have 100% confidence in Medicare without significant reforms either.
Worth noting there is also an advisory for MacOS: https://keybase.io/docs/secadv/kb001
The best thing about zstd is its zlibWrapper, which lets you write code as if you’re consuming zlib-compressed files while transparently working with zlib-, zstd-, or uncompressed files. I build several of my tools with zstd for this reason.
Really appreciated the detail on the post as it provides a lot of great insight into how other tech teams handle migration. Thanks!
Firmsware as a service???
Windows Explorer since very early (95-era) has supported complex "Shell Objects" and a COM-based Provider model for showing and interacting with "folder-like things" in Windows Explorer (and some other file-system APIs and tools that support it). In addition to "Zip" folders, it's what the old school Control Panel used for a long time, and Windows WebDAV support, and a lot of other things over the decades.

This new API seems a very different approach than the classic Shell Object provider model. It is directly rooted to the filesystem as opposed to the wider "object space" that Windows tracks, and it includes more things like concerns for converting virtual objects into physical NTFS files (and back).
Not true. You just have to pay wordpress to get a custom domain. That will conserve all the links.
The US healthcare system is not even remotely approaching any semblance of a "free market", not that I support a free market approach anyway.

At most we have a dwindling insurance market that helps some, makes it worse for others, doesn't have enough choice in many areas, etc. (but has benefits like covering pre-existing conditions, etc)

So even to argue that the health insurance market is a "free market" would be pretty weak
If you read nimbius' response above, you'll have a better idea of why this was.

Basically, prisoners are responsible for purchasing their own sanitary supplies (among other things), men and women.
That's simply not true. Our criminal justice system isn't aimed towards reform, not really. It's aligned with a puritanical sense of punishment.
Discoverability and self documentation is generally the advantage of GUI systems. Well built systems can be understood in a few moments without needing to consult a manual. That's almost impossible in a pure CLI environment.

Of course it's entirely possible to screw this up, modern phone-centric design standards are really bad about it for example, but in general you need to consult the manual (or Google) far less often.
> I would imagine regulation is a lot of what stops competing on price like everything else.

Say again? Unconscious people don't have the agency to make price competition work, regulation or no.

You need to be conscious to comparison shop. You also need lots of time to do so, time you don't have when you're having a heart attack or bleeding out from a severe injury. Regulation isn't the problem here, it's the lack of the right kind of it.