skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad analogy. Advertising your family update in the newspaper is more like having a blog. It's a totally public-focused thing. While Facebook has a lot public, it's really focused on direct stuff of interest to your connections.

People used to mail photos to one another or send letters. With digital technology, that's emails. Facebook doesn't get credit for the switch to the internet and digital formats.

By design, Facebook pushes people to share photos only on Facebook and forget to email others.

Want a test? What's your hypothesis for the following:

"How much would I have to pay you to cancel your Facebook account if I made sure that your closer family and friends and other communities you care about all sent updates to you by email instead?"
Seems like in this case the GPS trap is the police's, maybe they like it better if it's their own idea.

In the dystopian near-future, Amazon will start offering police departments these kinds of bait packages so they can reduce package theft...
If it's between ditching the package and returning it for money, which would you pick?

Maybe the contact says shippers only have to fulfill 99% of their shipments, and leftover items (think a reason that makes delivery impossible) can be abandoned or returned for a kickback.
I was very active in the community at around the 1.0 release time, and probably am guilty of this, so late apologies. The problem in my eyes was that this was a new language that really solved a lot of problems in its simplicity from experience. And we all know design by committee is a disaster. The list was under a -constant- barrage of 'you should do X like language Y.' The general response from the community was along the lines of 'if you like language Y, you should use that, stop polluting the mailing list.' Essentially, it quickly got old with the constant asking of things, many ridiculous, that I feel probably a few good suggestions got thrown out with the weekly trash so to speak.
I heard that the high school I attended looked into trying to start later because of all the studies that show it would be beneficial, but realized that it wasn't doable because of after school sports: our school would have games against other schools in the area, so if our school started later and the others didn't then then it would make scheduling games difficult or impossible.
> so why should you care?

Because you don't have the item you ordered until a second is sent?
I agree. It's too bad we don't collectively apply that same, sane logic to wall street, banks and the corporations that led to '08 due to their "games." I wonder which is a larger problem...
Material Ripple effects for Vue components
Disney have Marvel now, which is printing money. I don't think they've done anything Mickey-related in a long while, they might actually let him enter the public domain. There would probably still be many restrictions on his use, his iconic shape is probably some form of trademark as well.
Price discovery is indeed difficult in the current market. However, the current healthcare market is no where close to a free market.

For example, suppose you wanted to start a hospital that offered price transparency, like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma does. (1)

In thirty-five states and the District of Columbia, you'd first have to acquire a certificate-of-need (CON) from the state healthcare regulators.

In order to get certificate of need, you must prove that the community “needs” the new or expanded service, and existing providers are invited to challenge your application.

Existing hospitals typically don't want new competitors taking away their patients, so they vigorously fight to prevent new CON's from being issued.

For example, Dr. Mark Monteferrante wanted to buy a second MRI machine for his radiology practice in 2003. But it took five years and more than $175,000 in fees to get the certificate. (2)

And conlaws are just one example of perverse effects of state intervention into the healthcare market, from state laws restricting insurance competition, to severe restrictions on new entrants to the medical labor market, to drug monopolies.

(1) https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/

(2) https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160123/MAGAZINE/3...
Uber loses appeal over driver employment rights (Guardian)
This is a wildly different situation than what the GP was talking about. If you have the means, why wouldn't you hire a private crew? The public crews are there to get the best outcome at a macro level, not to protect your house in particular.
> Things will change dramatically if we eliminate the insurance industry and medical billing field.

It's important to note that this industry is a complete bullshit industry with complete bullshit jobs. Their only job is to say no, to stop money from going out of the insurance companies, in any way possible. That is their entire purpose.

Your medical insurance money props up this industry. Every person working in this industry and receiving a salary, and every person owning shares of companies in this industry receiving profits, are taking money that should have been spent on producing healthcare for themselves.

So however many billions of dollars of revenue this industry makes, we would instantly save most of it by getting rid of this industry.
Note, that this benchmark uses an old version of zstd and doesn't use large window brotli.
Because in much of the country it is incredibly rare to have a package stolen off of a porch. For example I have never had a package stolen nor do I know of a person who has had a package stolen off of their porch.

The person sending the package can choose if the package is left at the door or if it requires a signature. Amazon and others like them have decided that the increased convenience is worth the occasional cost of reshooting a package.
thanks for the note about redis... sounds like i should avoid any features that have been locked down (and consider alternatives).
I wonder if price gouging laws can be applied in the case of healthcare, especially in the case of emergency care.
The Joel Test: 20 Years Later
Ultimately, if I'm not home on Monday between 9am and 5pm, I'm not going to be home on Tuesday between 9am and 5pm. That might sound like a simplistic answer, but I want my package and I don't want to have to pick it up at the service center or stay home to wait for it.

I also think that package theft is reasonably rare - to the point that retailers are willing to put up with it and just re-ship the packages. I live in a major city and in a decade I've never had one package be taken (at 5 addresses in different neighborhoods). Personally, I wouldn't want them to attempt re-delivery for days and then tell me to come to their service center to pick it up.

Companies like UPS and Amazon also have options if you're worried about theft. UPS can leave it at lots of convenience stores for pickup. Amazon has their lockers all over the place.

Still, given that I've never had a single package stolen including shipments of laptops and such, I don't really want to have to travel to pick up my package.
Bottled water & k-cups are fundamentally about time & convenience.

Buy a pack of bottled water or disposable cups and you just avoided an entire workload of maintaining, tracking and washing a bunch of cups. Out and about and don't want to maintain your own personal water bottle, and don't want flavored water? You buy bottled water!

Same with k-cups. You don't have to maintain a grinder and bean bags, you don't have to wait for the drip coffee machine to finally finish, you don't need to boil water for crappy instant coffee with sediment, you don't have to clean any of these machines either. You just fill the machine with water and clean your mug and maybe descale the thing a couple of times a year.
What does Amazon do with packages returned like this one was about to be? Presumably delivery is re-tried or the user refunded... in which case stopping this behaviour isn't actually preventing any thefts, just adding delays.
Eight of Key – Lonnie G. Listen Cdbaby
From the landing page:

The real triode structure produces a warm, unique vacuum
tube sound, delivering excellent linearity.

"Tube sound" is nonlinearity. WTAF. See also the NuTube-powered headphone amp here, which measures 1+% THD at all practical output levels:

http://www.nutube.us

Actually-linear headphone amps regularly achieve under 0.01% THD...

Beyond that, compared to a "classic" preamp tube like the 12AX7 (very popular in guitar amps), the NuTube looks like it has:

* simplified structure: the 12AX7 has indirectly-heated cathodes (the filament heats the electrode). This permits the two triodes to be used more-or-less independently. OTOH, the NuTube has a shared directly-heated cathode (the filament IS the electrode). Not a huge problem, but it means some circuits are trickier. Not likely to be cloning a K2-W, ferinstance.

* lower anode voltage: the 12AX7 is specified down to 100V on the anode, but the datasheet considers 250V "typical". The NuTube has a maximum anode voltage of 80V, presumably due to the reduced size of the physical elements. This has the expected consequences for performance: lower gain (10 vs 100), lower transconductance (10uA/V vs 1250-1600uA/V) and higher plate resistance (300k vs 80k)

* considerably different grid characteristics: the 12AX7 specifies an absolute maximum grid voltage of 0V, because taking the grid positive causes it to conduct electrons from the cathode and heat up. The NuTube specs don't mention a maximum, but the anode curves are shown for up to +4V on the grid. AFAIK grid conduction is sometimes considered part of "tube sound" when it happens in power output stages, but it's definitely not "linear".

Other than the line from Vox (owned by Korg) it doesn't seem like the NuTube has gotten much uptake in the industry until recently - 2018 reviews for the Ibanez NTS mention it's the "first pedal with NuTube".
> I've had emergency dental treatment in an NHS hospital in the UK for an extremely painful dental abscess - was treated first thing on a Sunday morning.

Emergency dental care is provided in the US as well. Filling a cavity is not considered an emergency.
Frankly, I do not understand your logic.

If it costs everyone $1000, there will be many many many people who cannot afford that.

If it costs only me $1000, I'd stop using it because... well I already stopped using it so I did it for free actually.
I'd say it's already ready to be adopted by some personal or PoC project.

And I'm finding the Python DSL very attractive in theory. At least I'm assuming I'll be able to use it just like I use Python. So I'm not restricted by opsmop if I want to lookup secrets in secrets management API of my choice for example.

Or connect the inventory methods to whatever asset mgmt API I might be using. Possible with Ansible too of course but using Python as DSL gets rid of the entire necessity of ansiblelib and following along with its API.
Thank you for the time you put into this reply.
> What's a shame is that Althusser and others in the 70s warned us about them and explained their functioning rather clearly.

True on the warning though I think I'd dispute the 'clearly' aspect. As a philosophy undergrad (admittedly in a dept with a solidly 'analytic' tendency) I found that kind of stuff (from fairly glancing acquaintance) a bit indigestible. In any case AFAIK it never found much demotic expression, so was never going to be politically very useful. Zizek's closer perhaps. But still hardly enough to lift the curtain for most not academically acculturated.

Most of us have no idea that common sense is ideological, and, by and large, academia hasn't done much to help this situation.
The political environment and visibility around copyright issues has evolved, and there are other legal avenues that can be pursued by Disney.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16096448

> Will Congress do the same thing again this year? To find out, we talked to groups on both sides of the nation's copyright debate—to digital rights advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge and to industry groups like the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America. To our surprise, there seemed to be universal agreement that another copyright extension was unlikely to be on the agenda this year. "We are not aware of any such efforts, and it's not something we are pursuing," an RIAA spokesman told us when we asked about legislation to retroactively extend copyright terms. "While copyright term has been a longstanding topic of conversation in policy circles, we are not aware of any legislative proposals to address the issue," the MPAA told us.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/well-probably-never-fr...

> we expect that Disney will try to use another body of law to suppress creativity and commerce involving Mickey Mouse, whether or not "Steamboat Willie" and "Plane Crazy" are in the public domain: trademark law. If you sell something Mickeyish—including its public domain cartoons—Disney might ask a court to stop you because people who buy the
cartoons from you may think they're buying from Disney.
Maybe I can provide a bit more context re: Montreal.

Montreal's metro throughput is not gated by the tunnel capacity. It is gated by the amount of trains in operation. Adding additional cars on the 'already full line' would increase the line's capacity. Neither the orange nor the green line are close to full.

The issue with the orange line extension isn't that the lines are full. It's that 1) subway costs are heavily subsidized at the municipal and provicial level, 2) they were extended to Laval which funds the STL, not the STM, and 3) there was no revenue or cost sharing agreement between Laval and Montreal to subsidize the STM in proportion to the burden placed on the STM by Laval riders.

This issue with cross-subsidization also lies at the core of the municipal agglomeration which occurred in Quebec metropolitan regions.

Montreal won't consider additional subway expansion not because of financial and infrastructure cost reasons, but because of political ones, much in the same way that internal negotiations regarding the dual super-hospital projects were intentionally sabotaged for political reasons.
If you have any familiarity with CBRE, then you know that a shared office environment is totally against everything CBRE does

CBRE Launches New Coworking Brand, Hana: https://allwork.space/2018/11/cbre-launches-new-coworking-br...
I like the JSONB support. Not for storing data but to query it with shitty drivers.

Some array magic and jsonb_agg and suddenly you can get easy to json decode results instead of having to play with rows in your app. Yes you can also do it with xml_agg but these days people tend to consider anything xml as evil (they're wrong).
At least I hope they will give the obscure old-fashioned communication model (mailing lists, Usenet newsgroups, yet another bug tracker for everybody to register at (which doesn't even work right now - it's Error #502)) up and embrace GitHub issues and pull requests system like Rust and C# teams do.
Amazon was not unprofitable. They just constantly reinvested their profits back into their company instead of hording cash.
If you think this is cool, wait until you see the Gamechanger Audio Plasma distortion pedal. It uses a xenon discharge lamp as the main tone-shaping element.

https://www.gamechangeraudio.com/plasma/
People misunderstand non-profits. There is nothing stopping you or I from starting a non-profit and soliciting donors then paying yourself a $1M salary.

Non-profit simply means any surplus of revenue is spent. So, the more revenue generated by a non-profit's paying customers means they get to funnel that to their core mission (likely research, possibly those that can't pay, or cynically more salary for those running the show).
I actually disabled all updates a while back because of stability and driver issues when I had auto updates on. Things are a lot better now and I don't have to worry about Windows restarting on me while I'm busy working. Probably will just do updates every few months or something like that. This makes me think I made the right decision haha.
I'm off Millikan and Amazons direct couriers have been an order of magnitude more reliable than my UPS driver (who doesn't follow my delivery preferences and takes my stuff to random UPS stores that I have to pick it up from).
I have a good friend who lives right down the road and is also Australian, works for Microsoft research
Not sure, but I think an async function with fetch is easier to read.

const usersRange = async (start, end) => {
var result = [];
for (let current = start; current < end; current++) {
result.push(await fetch(`http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/${current}`).then(r => r.json())
}
return result;
}
"walterbell, HackeNews - Dec 2018"
A better way to say it is that they're looking to produce the most successful 22+ year olds, in a mix that perpetuates the schools' power, wealth, and intellectual prestige. That means admitting some of the smartest 18-year-olds, as well as some 18-year-olds who will be successful because of family wealth and social connections, and then giving them an environment where they can further expand their intellectual and social advantages to get even further ahead of their peers.
Theories of History
Being from the US, I'm actually surprised to learn it isn't the same everywhere. How do people get their packages if they work during delivery time every day? Does everyone just drive down to the shipping warehouse?

Also, I'm not sure how it works outside the US, but here frequently packages with higher value items will require a signature and therefore wouldn't be left on a porch.
What's wrong with Julia, a language purpose built for scientific computing?
Thank you for helping build an ecosystem around Zstd!
The optimal strategy in a second-price auction is to bid the true amount you're willing to pay (or be paid, in this case).

You can show that bidding higher or lower than this amount is dominated by bidding the true amount. If you bid higher than your true amount, this can only hurt you: You won't get any more money to stop using Facebook, because if you win, you get the second-lowest bidder's bid amount. It only makes a difference if you increase your bid too far, and lose the auction.

If you bid lower than your true amount, you might win when you otherwise would not have won... but you underbid! You're not getting enough money to compensate you for the loss of Facebook.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

Now, I could imagine that there might be a systemic bias towards overbidding, because people aren't good at valuing their cost of foregoing Facebook.
No, the roads are still free - the participants are still free to use other services after deactivating their accounts.
Sessions, IP addresses and User Angents associated with oneself.
Assuming I could get a job there I probably would seriously consider moving. The getting something is the main issue for me sadly.
Same for companies like Amazon. Grow super fast and ignore tax laws regarding nexus so you don't pay sales tax.

Need to point out that Amazon did not ignore tax laws regarding nexus. They took advantage of a Supreme Court decision on nexus laws (Quill) that resulted in them not having nexus in most states. They were forced to change their stance because at some point it was clear that they had surpassed the Quill factors that had earlier protected them.

Moreover, you have the order of subsidies wrong. Amazon subsidized AWS with its retail earnings. The reason Amazon didn't show profits for years was because it reinvested its gross sales income in building up AWS and other ventures.

But the other stuff about third party sellers, etc. is spot on.
OP posted a subscriber link to LWN... if you like the content then subscribing to support LWN is well worth it! They are one of (if not THE) highest quality Linux news sites out there.
Not sure what you're getting at. Are you suggesting that the police would leave bait packages at random houses without the informed consent of the occupants? And then arrest them if they picked them up? That would be nuts, but there's no suggestion of anything like that in the article.
You know the hospitals in this scenario wouldn't be next door to each other, right? The extra 30 minutes of driving time it takes for me to get to my second-closest hospital could easily mean life or death.
Production surface devices have intel bootguard enabled and the public key fused into the pch. You'd have to bypass it somehow.
Indoor wifi is a very different thing from a ptmp AP radio that might have clients from 400m to 9km connected to it, at a variety of signal strengths and some with fresnel zone incursion. The GPS timing systems used in the radios I mentioned previously make a big difference. For wisp last mile stuff it's also possible to do things you wouldn't expect in a office or conference high density wifi setup, such as allocate 75% of the timeslices to traffic in the downstream direction, because that is the typical traffic pattern of residential singlehomed end users.
Alpine?
Issue is you'll likely still need a bunch of binary blobs to boot or use peripherals. And you've still got the Intel ME running. But as far as Microsoft goes, it's definitely evidence that FOSS is here to stay.
It's good to see studies like this.

To my knowledge addiction to nicotine poses no known health risk. Its interesting that the anti-smoking movement that was motivated by the public health risk associated with smoking has gradually turned into a puritanical drive to eliminate addiction.

It seems to me that identifying less harmful alternatives to smoking (ecigs) is a more realistic path to smoking cessation than saying it's all bad.
Why doesn’t this happen every year?
It's tragic that we live in a world where those are the only two ways to make coffee.
It would seem that anyone who does not use Facebook and values their product at $0 is unlikely to affect the valuation of the company.
Remote work! Codementor, Toptal, Upwork, etc. A programming job in Panama pays like a few thousand a month at best.
Choose the points of non-smoothness to be in the Bermuda triangle. Everyone knows it's not safe to fly there.
Cool, thanks for the rec
Single servings and speed. Sometimes you just want a cup of coffee 30 seconds from now, not an entire pot ten minutes from now.
TLS 1.3 (2006) was held up for months-to-years by the "unfortunate limitations of some TLS gateways/proxies", and PCI compliance only requires TLS 1.1 as of this year (2018 — 12 years later).

What solution is available that avoids high-latency additional round-trip requests and would be compatible with today's "unfortunate" gateways and proxies?

DNS-over-HTTPS failed for me constantly while traveling, due to captive wifi portals that try to force you into your browser so they can get your Facebook cookie.

DNS-over-HTTPS does not necessarily address the round-trip concerns, as it is simply a transport layer for DNS requests and does not guarantee the browser's ability to coalesce plural DNS requests prior to sending them up for resolution.

So in light of TLS slowness and DoH unfamiliarity to the marketplace, I personally would expect Mark's described limitations to remain applicable for at least another ten years.
> The real question is at what point do people start actually applying what they learn in these serious discussions in how they live their own lives?

But they can't. People live in systems with affordances and restrictions. What about their lives can a lower-middle-class family living in an outer Sydney suburb meaningfully change? Little, and only at the margins (a bit of recycling, some solar panels). Certainly not even approaching the ballpark of what our situation requires.

Any strategy for change demanding that we should on average become exceptional is mathematically doomed to failure.
I'll never forget the first time I smelled a soggy goat farm on a hot day.