skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably, there are successful brains behind every successful brain, too. Every great innovator and thinker was building off the backs of numerous other thinkers and teachers in their life. Should we be surprised that it's much easier for a tool+human(s) to do better than a tool alone, given we also expect a single human + human(s) as colleagues to do much better? Never mind the whole learning/development process, during which 22+ years of dedicated effort by adults to shape/craft a functional human worker.

Overall, I'd agree that really powerful tools for specific tasks is going to be the majority of "AI" in the coming years.
The law doesn’t require you to serve your customers regardless of their abality to pay. You don’t have a set of customers who have figured that out and come to you for services outside your core competencies.

The market also doesn’t expect you to accept payment terms much worse than NET30.

And a hundred other ways that healthcare is a tricky business. If we want to fix price transparency, we need to fix all that too.
Elisabeth Rosenthal's "An American Sickness" is one of the best overviews of the many aspects and incentives for pricing in healthcare.

https://www.anamericansickness.com/
Filesystems don't rely on space voluntarily donated by others, and that's the critical difference here.

Freenet is designed for sharing information, not archiving it. You can't have both.
> This is so true. Some component has to maintain integrity of the data. Should it be the application developer? Or the database software team?

if you're using partitioned (inherited) tables in Postgres, then it's the application developer, as foreign keys on inherited tables don't really work.

the workaround is triggers.
No sources cited in that article either and I'm not inclined to trust the Mises Institute on this one :/
research that nicotine by itself causes lung cancer

Reference, please? I haven't heard of a causal link between non-inhaled nicotine and lung cancer.
> it's everything being so upcharged, with the expectation that it's going to be negotiated down by an insurance company

I agree with you 1000%. Highball the bill to the insurance company - fight with them - send the leftovers to the patient. That is totally unfair.
In the article they mentions that they combine 5 different layers of plastic to allow the k-cups to keep the coffee inside fresh. I believe this makes the plastic non-recyclable
TL;DR inverse square rule... it's super dark out there!
Cassandra isn't designed for this. Been there, done that.

postgres all the way.

THe FT use(d) cassandra to store their membership details (6 million rows of largely static, read-only well structured data) The cluster was massive (12+nodes in at least two regions, from memory) slow and was impossible to upgrade reliably.

The support from datastax is shite. Backups are not reliable. imports even less so, and you are beta testing the whole system every time you do a point release.

CMSs have highly structured data. swallow your pride, map the data and build a proper schema. Its really not that hard.

Yes, cassandra has a graph layer, no its really not worth it. Yes it has gremlin, no you shouldn't need it if you've modelled your data correctly.
Right, someone working in ubuntu distro development has done this work for those packages specifically.

Above, we're discussing some build system where someone hasn't done this work. Most collections of python code in the world (I'm going to hazard a guess significantly upward of 90%) just use /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/env python.

That's the nature of the problem.
Federal Reserve Raises Rates a Quarter Point
> You make it sound like learning SQL is like learning Assembler

It's not that learning SQL is hard. It's that people are inherently lazy. "Learn another thing on top of the thing it already took me a couple of years to learn? No thanks."

You seem like the kind of person ready and willing to learn the right tool for the job. From my experience a few years ago on an accredit computing course that covered database admin and programming, this attitude is not representative of most of the software engineering students //unless// there's a specific assignment that requires particular knowledge.

Cs get degrees. And for plenty of developers out there, knowing one language (not even particularly well) gets jobs.
I don't know man when they wanted to generate a highlight video of new year's resolution for each user and they went from 0 to executed in a few days and blogged about it they seemed very capable people.
Remember when fb blog posts used to be about cool tech problems? How much more unfun and 'last year' can this platform get?
Thank you for the extensive writeup, this is a fascinating view into the progression (regression?) of an online dating firm.
I was apart of a finance student group in college. We used MailChimp to tell members about meetings. I remember our account got automatically flagged and locked once because newsletter contents included details about a forthcoming stock pitch presentation, and that apparently was close enough to a ToS violation that MailChimp froze us.

The funny thing was that our student group was allowed to directly invest a trivially small portion of the university's endowment in the stock market, so we were not soliciting others to buy stocks - the presentation was a confidential, internal one about how to invest our fund's own money.
> Who still uses that?

The top 100 largest ISPs in the world, as measured by CAIDA ASRANK.
Because, then the single payer, can say "your policies/prices don't work with our system", fix it, or we won't cover any patients, effectively shutting you down.
the articles are trivially small. the 2 million articles could just about fit into RAM nowadays.
That’s definitely worth a lot. But the difference in price between “you just need ibuprofen, pick some up on your way home” and “you just need ibuprofen, so take this pill” should be minimal.
> how the hell does markdown/code-snippet work on hackernews?!

It doesn't.

You can indent two spaces to get monospaced, unwrapped text, and that’s all the code formatting you get.
Is this similar to what Red Hat does with OpenShift?

They maintain official RHEL-based images available on their own catalog [1]

Some images are "s2i" (Source-to-Image) which are automatically built by merging a vetted base image and source code from a git repo [2].

[1] https://access.redhat.com/containers/

[2] https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.11/architect...
Maybe it's for the people who haven't, so that they don't give all their money to Eliezer Yudkowsky.
The overarching problem is that it is usually excessively inconvenient, to the point that parolees are being set up to fail. Rather than being designed to keep people on the straight and narrow, many systems appear designed to funnel people back into prison. When they get there they then face the remainder of their original sentence, meaning that it was effectively EXTENDED by the length of time they were on parole rather than shortened.
FOMC statment: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
They have literally no limitations. The reason that an advil at the hospital costs $200 is because they were afraid if they made it cost $20000 people would burn down the hospital.
Hi jseliger,

The libreCMC router from Think Penguin did come ready to go out of the box. Of course I made a few tweaks. At the very least you will want to set a good passphrase.

Unfortunately I don't think the model that I purchased is still being sold. Think Penguin is now selling a newer model (Wireless-N Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1100)) with preconfigured vpn tunneling that is FSF certified [1]. Though I have not used that particular model, it is running the same libreCMC firmware :-). You can read more about their VPN service here [2], but I can't comment on it since I have never used it.

[1]:https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireles...

[2]: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguinvpn-subscripti...
Well, sir, I'm glad you asked. I just upgraded for this trip and am very excited to try out the new camera as it's supposed to be about two times better than the last model I had. I'm planning on setting everything up on my flight. I do not have a facebook account. I got tired of the data breaches and privacy issues and closed it about a year and a half ago. Am I free to go?
But if human performance in these regards never exceeded what the pinnacle of today's AI performance is, we would not regard them as intelligent in a general sense, either.
Those both only use global motion, which is the simplest case for temporal filtering; it would be interesting to see the effects with local motion (e.g. a blinking light).
Even if you ask for the price and even if you get it in writing up front you will still get a different bill later.
I really don't get this as an indictment of MongoDB, or their OpsManager product really.

They used the version of OpsManager that doesn't manage the deployment - is specifically not a deployment manager. Mongo does offer a managed version of this software, which the author mentions - with a justification for why they couldn't use that offering. However, I think this was the main mistake that The Guardian made. As the author notes: "Database management is important and hard – and we’d rather not be doing it ourselves." They underestimated the complexity of managing database infrastructure. If they had been attempting to set up and manage a large scale redundant PostgreSQL system, they would have spent an enormous engineering effort to do so as well. Using a fully managed solution - like PostgreSQL on RDS from the beginning would have saved them time. Comparing such a fully managed solution to an unmanaged one is an inappropriate comparison.

Full disclosure - I used to work at MongoDB. I have my biases and feelings w.r.t the product & company. In this case I felt that this article didn't actually represent the problem or it's source very accurately.
Because it has a direct negative impact on the health of other people.

Do you shame people from not getting enough vitamin d? Do you shame them for going into careers that are bad for their health? Do you shame sky divers because its bad for their knees? People who don't use treadmill desks?
>> I've never specifically studied for programming interview questions, or read that book

You've also never been through a FANG interview, according to your LinkedIn profile. I've been through several (successfully), and conducted well over a hundred. It is very unlikely anyone can pass them without extra work to prepare.
'I don't know why people have them in their house,' K-Cup inventor says of his device

Unless he donated half (or majority) of his profits to try to correct this mistake expressing 'regret' is kind of meaningless.

update i stand corrected, my bad for not reading full post before commenting
Anecdotal illustration time:

Both my kids were born early. The medical bills for both totaled (with hospital stays for babies and mom) north of 100k each, the second WAY north.

Both involved situations that were "emergency" type situations. We couldn't shop around, we couldn't even sign anything. We trusted the hospitals and doctors and went from there. Fortunately I had good insurance, if for some reason I had to pay it would have been a huge financal burden for years and years.

And let's say I did have time to think about it? What then? I'm not a doctor, this isn't shopping for a car... I don't feel like I could possibly know enough about emergency baby birthing, surgery, etc to know... "Gosh honey when the baby's heart rate starts to slow unexpectedly, I think we should save a few bucks".
this has an easy solution.

1. Build a Dyson sphere around the sun.

2. Capture all the mass in the solar system to build a giant freaking laser.

3. Use the energy to from the Dyson sphere to power the laser.

4. Melt your entire civilization.
If there's one thing I've learned about our own human nature, it's that we'll sacrifice anything in the future for even the slightest increase in convenience in the present. It's bonkers. The convenience these machines affords us is not large. It's tiny. If we could shave one second off the process by encasing the whole thing in yet another plastic single-use envelope, we'd do it instantly. If we could avoid having to re-fill the tank by purchasing pre-filled plastic tanks and tossing them in the garbage each time, we'd do it in a heartbeat.

And our food squeamishness also exists on a sliding scale: we will always accumulate more and more layers of plastic around our food, even though it's already packaged in a way that's totally safe and durable and sanitary. Remember when cereal just came in the cardboard box? This process is cumulative and will never end. We will never say no to another layer of plastic around our products at some point in the journey from factory to consumption.

I'd like to know exactly how recyclable those Nestle pods are. I suppose they refill and reuse them? What about if you toss them into a standard recycling system instead of mailing them to Nestle, which will never be a commitment that a significant number of consumers make. Sorry, it's just not going to happen at scale and they know it. The program is likely just PR. I doubt they are recyclable in a single-stream system because they're full of coffee grounds / whatever else.

It's astounding how much of the stuff we think we're sending to be recycled is just rejected and tossed anyway. It's an enormous percentage.
No technical reason to use Edge over Chrome? Are being purposely ignorant? Edge has good pdf editing abilities - at least in the Surface line. When google can stop eating your ram and battery I'll consider it over Edge. Unfortunately MS is throwing in the towel.

Safari is also a good browser. I don't need justifications here.
>Since migrating to AWS we’ve had two significant outages due to database problems, each preventing publication on theguardian.com for at least an hour.

This happened to us numerous times before and after we migrated to their Atlas platform. We are a major streaming company with more than 120M registered user. Disclosure, we are moving away from MongoDB as well.
What is stopping insurance companies from doing that now? If you're paying for insurance, it's in your insurance company's best interest to pay low prices.
I googled around and it seems the swiffer cloth has never been compostable.
The total cup counter on ours is almost 20,000. I think we've had it about the same amount of time as yours.
As long as you get your cappuccino in 30 seconds every morning, what's a little ecological damage?
This is great! I was waiting for something like this for a while. Can't wait to try it out.

Now we need the same for Android and iPhone, so we can run our apps in true isolation. I dont want apps to be anywhere near my actual data and contact information on the phone. Just mimic some fake contacts or whatever for majority of apps.
Their pricing is insane, if you want a custom theme or to install a plugin (which is something you will need) you're looking at 25€ per month and you have to pay year by year (300€ upfront).

Starting with a cheap shared hosting is a no-brainer.
This means Oculus has this technology working. Which means foveated VR headsets are coming soon.
>i feel like these are reasonable qualifications to give blogging advice.

You're assuming equivalent intents. The OP's advice is good if your goal is maximize the size of your audience. Many people (and I suspect more likely in this crowd), the goal is to generate interesting and meaningful conversation. You do need some threshold of views for this, but beyond that threshold, a larger audience is not of benefit. And a really large audience becomes a liability - the conversation becomes less meaningful very quickly.
It is worth noting that part of the reason it was so cheap was because the government had already purchased the required land for a freeway. Land acquisition, as many infrastructure projects like CAHSR or Texas Central can attest to, is easily some of the most costly and risky part of these projects, even if you do decide to use eminent domain.

BRT has notable disadvantages; buses can move from side to side unlike rail, so the tunnels and bridges have to be bigger or use proprietary guided technology like this one. In general road surfaces wear away much faster than rails. And rail vehicles perform much better once you factor in labor costs. BRT is useful in some cases, like where there is no dominant trunk line and buses can leave the roadway to serve different destinations; but eventually the common trunk gains enough critical mass and you convert to light rail anyways, as Seattle and Ottawa have discovered, and LA is considering for the Orange Line BRT.
You can try to appeal it.
Ish. From what I can tell, the “Digital Blog” seems to be set up as just another column on the platform.
Scottish Grandpa Claims He Checked “Terrorist” Box on Visa Form by Mistake
This was something that tripped me up when I first started university math courses. In more elementary courses, concepts are few and simple enough that you have a fairly consistent set of terminology that applies everywhere. Then I cracked open Spivak's and other higher-level textbooks, and each one is defining its own mutually-incoherent terminology.

It took a bit of adjusting, but local terminology is a lot more readable than if everybody tried to use universally-unambiguous language.
Germany passes immigration law to lure non-EU skilled workers
Definitely going to take a look at this later. What is really like to see is the ability to join a device to AzureAD from PowerShell (or any noninteractive interface). That seems like basic, core functionality that should have been there from the get-go. Then again, there’s still no noninteractive way to join a device to a domain, so I’m probably missing something.
This title should be updated to state it is only in regards to the United States and not relevant for Canadians, Australians, etc.
I've tried to do research on this before and found very few studies looking at nicotine alone. I also never saw anything about a link between oral nicotine and lung cancer so I'm suspect of this claim as well.
The language of this post seems extremely carefully chosen and to present as 'let me explain why what Facebook did was fine' and 'Facebook is full of great features that people use.' The language is somewhere in between reductive and manipulative.

"this work was about helping people" and "people could have more social experiences" and "People want to use Facebook features"

and then: "Our integration partners had to get authorization from people. You would have had to sign in with your Facebook account to use the integration offered by Apple, Amazon or another integration partner."

I read the last quote as "we used a dark pattern[1] to get your permission for this"

[1]https://darkpatterns.org/
Why would you delete the MongoDB's so soon after the migration? What if things look great for a few hours/days, but then things go horribly wrong? I suppose they still had Mongo backups too? Just unsure why you wouldn't leave those around for awhile.
I think your advice is great, but I also disagree that the article is meh. I've been blogging for about 10 years, and my blog won a Webby award and a W3 writing award. I don't say that to brag, just to add credibility that other people think my blog is worthwhile.

Anyway, I agree with almost everything the article says, and there are some things in there that are not obvious to people who are just starting out, which I think puts it well above meh.

But, the one thing I disagree with is his first step when writing a blog post: brainstorm titles. I started that way, but I found I almost always changed the title and sometimes even change what the post is all about by the end.

I generally start with an idea instead of a title; then write down what I know about it; then I put those thoughts in an order that I can use to tell a story; then I research to confirm what I think I know is indeed factual. That is where it becomes interesting.

Sometimes I'm completely wrong, and the story becomes that -- the truth is often more interesting than the assumptions. Sometimes I discover things about what I knew that are more interesting than the original idea. Sometimes what I knew is true and I just back it up with facts and the idea alone was interesting enough to begin with. Lastly, sometimes it's complete shit and I shelf it until the time feels right or I find a new approach to the subject.
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Halfway into part two, this is very good so far. Thank you for the effort you put in (it really does show throughout).
On the flip side, what laws exists to say a hospital can't treat any unconscious person since they can't consent. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
There is something to be said about writing begets writing. Long thoughtful posts are great, but those take time and often do not get finished. The more someone posts, the easier it gets to post. Then the more they'll post, and so on.

I think John Gruber does a pretty good job at https://daringfireball.net where he posts shorter stuff mixed in with longer out articles. I think I heard him say once his goal was to get someone to check his site once or twice/week.
Facebook lost 7% of their value in one day today.

I don’t use them, perhaps I’d feel differently if I did, but they seem very vulnerable to me given their revenue is ad based and they have massive credibility and reputational problems amongst both advertisers and readers. Google has a broader base but are still vulnerable as the money comes from ads, and that can dry up quickly.
Brit here, thank God for the NHS
The party responsible for payment (the government, in this case) can tell a billing party "I won't pay you more than ___ for that service, and if you don't like it, you can sue me" without taking on the same risk that an individual would. Lawsuits are a pretty inefficient, high-overhead way to bill out, so billing parties are incentivized to not raise accountants and auditors eyebrows.
From what I understand (which is honestly not much), I think in cases like this you can contact the hospital and just insist on paying the same amount your insurance would have paid, and they'll often take it. That's just what I hear, though.
NYS AG Announces $174.2M Consumer Fraud Settlement with Charter
Completely agree.
Im a software engineer and live in Argentina and host hundreds of guests through 3 airbnbs.
Everybody who comes says the same thing as you
Off topic, but Cortex is bad name.

There is already an amazingly popular tech usage of Cortex, you almost certainly have one either on your person or feet from you night now.

For SEO reasons alone it makes no sense to call your new service by a well known name belonging to someone else.
It certainly reads that way. But please, let them indulge in their fifteen minutes of self-righteousness: if that's what it takes to avoid a coverup, it is a very small price to pay.
Relevant: https://blog.bolt.io/keurig-accidentally-created-the-perfect...

Keurig created a hardware sales model orthogonal to printers. That is, people are excited to buy the recurring element (pods) and accept that the several-hundred-dollar device is just a means to an end. They don't feel ripped off, compared to buying printer ink that costs nearly as much as a new printer.
Not directly, but you may find their API useful: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Redfin predicts big real estate cooldown especially in tech hubs
Announcing Gluegun 2.0 – A delightful way to build command line apps in Node
Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years
If only we had a way to make coffee for 5 people at a time and keep it warm...
Still makes no sense. If you're paranoid about it, why are you running on google's cloud?
Telepolis is somewhat interesting to read, but it's full of agendas.
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