skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite surprised no fallback/failover was put in place for a critical tier service like this.
...lets people drive more.

And in other news, more food makes people eat more. And more money lets people spend more.
Rega offers the service for 25.- a year iirc

https://www.rega.ch/en/about-us/faq.aspx?kid=56&gid=250#Frag...
You can spot a few in this thread..
pretty sure he means vol==volatility here
I chose Chicago at random, but according to this, you'd spend more than that to just get to the hospital in the first place: http://chicagoareafire.com/blog/2014/04/the-cost-of-calling-...
On one hand I applaud, but on the other strict POSIX shell seems overly limited.

My personal grudges:

- no local variables (even dash implements them)

- no process substitution [0] so one has to use temp files, temp named pipes or possibly joggle fd numbers. I once did an external implementation of process substitution, so it's doable with POSIX shell, but then pointless.

- set -o pipefail

I understand that you know about and get over those limitations. But isn't it too cumbersome when Linux world settled on bash and BSD on ksh? Especially since ksh is a bit like a subset of bash. At least the things I mentioned are common for both.

It's sad that shell makes it so hard to make more complicated pipelines than | the | old | classic. Fds, processes and pipelines should all be first class. Maybe that's the point to make it harder to make those complicated scripts in something other than shell. In other languages it may be easier to make correct pipelines, but with heavy boilerplate. Then it's probably easier to count on libraries instead of pipelines, even if those libraries spawn processes in background.

I'm hoping for oil shell more as it means to address all those issues and more with an escape hatch to convert old scripts. Although I'm not so sure about the implementation details. For those in the know it made more sense to me after I read that OVM itself would become a VM for oil. So that there would be a single VM to run and not two as it is now. At least that's how I understand it.

POSIX shell is kinda magical, because it's nominally portable. However the rabbit seems to have died in the hat, because it's really that old. Shell was conceived in a different era with different limitations. I think that we should go further.

[0] take-in-and-out <(process-out) >(filter-this | grep that) | grep msg
In that case then, we should rid ourselves of all roads and live in small self sufficient communes.
It still costs $0.10-0.20 to drive a marginal mile, so the demand is far from unpriced/infinite.
I looked at a job in Portugal an the taxes where less than the UK - this is for a 100,000 euro salary no less.
> As a general rule, I have found out that every time there is something that doesn't make sense ("smart people who want to make money should have figured out a solution to this!"), the answer is government interference with free trade.

Sigh. I guess that goes along with "government is evil in all sorts of ways".

Simply put, Oracle was the best product 20 years ago. Open Source DB projects were toys that would lose your data. So companies and orgs (and in our case, the govt) used what works.

We developed on that. That was what was available, and we used it and paid the licensing costs. Well, lockin is a thing; for us and our customers. If we were to spend the time making a branch to use $other_DB, we need to properly test that as well. Do stored procedures work? Is time/date working right? Is there a close mapping of privileges? Is the DB appropriately audited? Are there active devs on it?

All of those are YES for oracle. And its fuzzy about others. I'm sure we could defend using Postgres or other first tier open source DBs.... but how much work would it be to migrate? And for those customers who use Oracle elsewhere in their infra (multiple schemas for different webapps), they are unable to switch. They already have the DBAs in oracle. So, we'd have to support Oracle even after leaving.

It's a lose-lose. But I'm sure painting it in the libertarian "government interference with free trade" fits your worldview.

Because when I read

> "As a general rule, I have found out that every time there is something that doesn't make sense ("smart people who want to make money should have figured out a solution to this!")"

I see that the more likely solution is that I don't have enough information, and the surface answer is inadequate. There's a reason smarter people couldn't figure it out, and it's not because of pithy sayings. It's because the solution is a magnitude or 2 more complex than what it looks like.
I have seen a modern Oberon compiler building itself in 1/10-th of a second. (The Tiny C compiler does not take much longer, either.)
> We are now investigating getting coverage in some European or Asian country, where they sell insurance for non residents + world coverage + air repatriation (in case of a serious condition, like getting hit by a car in Chicago) at a decent price.

Good luck. You'll still be required to be stabilized locally (with all the bills associated therewith), and cleared for air repatriation (by no means a guarantee).

I have seen ridiculousness (I work both in EMS, and in health insurance software development), like Heli EMS for serious car accidents to a trauma center being denied due to lack of pre-approval.

This might also provide a cautionary tale between 'what is promised, and what you get':

https://medium.com/@ryanbadger/how-insure-and-go-left-me-wit...

and associated HN comments on the above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17548285
Ajit Pai will be so hard on them that Century Link might offer him a job after the government "service."

911 service is VITAL, pay die from heart attacks when ambulances are not sent and people are killed by psychos when cops are not notified.

Make it 100% redundant, all the way. No one single provider should have all of this in one basket.
`fish --version` showed 3.0.0, after brew update but without closing terminal, but `ls && echo finally` still didn't work. However, closing and re-opening terminal, it now works.
A Perspective on C++ Standardization in 2018
> it makes sense to make sure it is distributed on a needs basis

"to everyone according to their needs" - that reminds me of some political movement!

Joke aside, I just disagree. It is not the "FYGM" you said. It is reasoning about the problem. Some countries have higher costs. Some have lower cost. Specialization of labor is wonderful - everyone gets richer, even if a country has a net advantage in productivity in all sectors. That's economic 101.

There is no reason for healthcare supply to be scare. It takes money. Instead of spending thousands of dollars in the US (or your Euros in Belgium), spend them in another country where it cost less.

It will also create incentive to build more healthcare supply there -- good for the residents of this country, and good for you too.
A well made argument.

Unfortunately I don't know anyone who would deny that a better public transit will save insane amounts of time/money/emissions BUT:

Most of the US is built with cars in mind. Try to solve the public transit problem in the mid-west, it is pointless. Worse is that the trolleys that existing in new york were retired in favor of busses, which is also a problem. AND in new york the cost of public transit is getting close to the cost of a cab. Most people rather pay a tiny amount more for the speed and convenience. (uber ride pass ends up costing marginally more than transit)

Major government money needs to be funneled to make transit functional. And if it seems expensive, remember we're paying a "tech debt" of sorts.
Yes, and taxing food would be regressive, just as taxing/tolling commuting would be. (It's for this reason that supermarket/unprepared food is often untaxed.)
What is the Tesla battery IP that matters? They don’t make the batteries, Panasonic does. https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2018/07/31/tesla-gi...

What Ford or one of the other large automakers bring to the table is a track record of mass producing cars. That’s not something Tesla has done yet.
Well, one thing that got me about him was his acquisition of Sun Microsystems to acquire the patents on Java to sue Google for Android.

Which Sun didn't have any issue with Google about the use of Java for Android. But Larry did. He saw $$$.

Maybe I am wrong about the above but that is my impression of what I have read. Open to corrections.
Most of the arguments either don't add up (e.g. saying it's mathematically proven while ML doesn't have rigorous theory) or are too generic to add much value. The course feels more like a verbal introduction to the library API rather than teaching anything related to ML.
Ultimately it’s still not realistic because you can just go on playing another game after that.

I think most people spend their lives trying not to think about death in a realistic way.
Nobody understands what that is though. So I present to you:

CenturyLink Peach Fuzz - keeps you peachy and the details fuzzy

That's good enough, what's important is signing popular actors and licensing some really catchy music for the ads.
Portugal still has the crazy tax system where deductions are applied over the whole salary, not the bands? That was one thing that never made any sense to me - effectively removing motivations for salary increases, as you could end up with less even with a raise.
On that webpage, why is Zuck pictured in the middle of the Chinese and Russian leaders, is he the real supreme leader of the US :]
People who schedule meetings before 10am should be fired.
According to the experience in Halifax explosion, a blast wave travels at 1000 m/s; so you get 15 seconds if the blast happens 10 miles away from you.
Correct - does fair use cover even running software without a license?

This wouldn't pass the first hurdle at my dayjob...
> interstates are federally funded while local roads are state/city-funded

This is not completely true. In some cases interstates are 80/20 federal/state funded, in others its 50/50. Not sure of any states where it is 100% federal funding of interstates.
Somehow this author completely skipped philosophy 101... nihilism is an often observed point of view in atheism:
There is no existential meaning or commonly shared human need to appeal to a universal, unprovable truth. The only meaning that exists in life is the meaning people assign to it.

The premise of this book is flawed. Humans are not meaning seeking, humans are meaning assigning. Most of the time, the meaning we assign are logical and reflect reality. Sometimes the means we assign are internally consistent, but do not match reality. And occasionally, we come up with some pure crap. This occurs at both the individual and the cultural levels.
I fail to see your point here.

sgl_baseof uses offsetof with a valid struct type and a valid field name, so where is the UB? Unless you feed it an invalid pointer, but then all bets are off.
Exactly my thoughts... this is complete fake news and complete propaganda from the Government Coalition (all Left Wing).

Health system is completely broken the public Hospitals don't have enough resources or money to threat the patients with dignity, people still live with very low salaries and high prices of goods, The industry is still very weak unlike its mentioned in the article etc.. etc...

Honestly seeing these articles makes me really sad.
Netflix No Longer Offering In-App Subscription Options on iOS Devices
The French secret service forces that acted during the operation.
> The VIX(futures contract) is the most accurate pulse of the equity futures market I have seen.

more accurate than computing via underlying futures?

.. VIX itself is a summation, no?

https://www.cboe.com/micro/vix/vixwhite.pdf
It's only unstable if the aircraft is designed incorrectly. You can achieve the same situation with a far-aft CG in a traditional aircraft. It doesn't matter what the setup is, the aircraft will be unstable if the center of lift is near or in front of the center of gravity.
`fish --version` starts a new fish that prints _its_ version.

You were still running the old version, and `echo $version` would have told you.
The case for “conditional optimism” on climate change
> The point of the article was that salary is no longer an indicator of healthcare availability.

And this is why I comment. This is wrong! You should not have to stretch on healthcare if you know how to spend your money.

Get treated abroad. It's as simple as that.

EDIT: You may lose your job. It's a consequence of life. You will still have saved a bunch of money when taking into count the savings on healthcare and the lower cost of living abroad
Lots of military shooters will kill you with one or two bullets. I've thought that what would really make a shooter "realistic" would be if players who get shot are maimed (rather than being able to run and jump just as well at 1% health as 100%). But who knows whether that would actually be fun.
in just economic terms, it means our supply and demand curves are out of whack. we have an insatiable demand for additional roads at the current price level. alternatively speaking, we "use up" all new road capacity because the price is so low (it feels like it costs us nothing extra).

road users are insulated from actual costs, since road costs are both subsidized and pass through an intermediary (government, taxes).

since it's costly, inefficient, and politically unpalatable to directly create an efficient marketplace for roads themselves (by building a bunch of competing ones), economists urge regulators to create a market for road use and price in maintenance costs and externalities (pollution, things that Isinlor mentions): tolling, congestion pricing, gas taxes, etc.

if we correctly price road use and there is still great demand, it means we should build more roads. instead, the perverse logic currently employed is that insatiable demand should be a reason not to build roads because (it seems like) we'd never meet that demand.
Direct link to game (doesn't work on mobile as you can't click 'I understand')

https://danhett.itch.io/c-ya-laterrrr
Blood Doping: How Athletes Cheat the Game
I think Greenpeace should apologise for cooking the planet first.

Worry about giving poor people in a poor country a job second.
I've tried to understand the circumstances preventing socialized medicine in america.

Just like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, the answer was staring you in the face this whole time: "socialized". You say that magic combination of "social" and any of "ist", "ism", "ized", and g-ddamn it, my Granddad didn't fight Mussolini in the war just to the let the socialists take over. I swear to $DEITY that I do not exaggerate that amongst many, the mere utterance is assumed to end the discussion.

"Well, that sounds a lot like socialism."

"Hmm, when you put it that way, I suppose we have nothing further to discuss."

It is literally the reason we didn't get socialized medicine when Truman suggested it in the 1940s, because the AMA stuck the S-word onto it at the start of the Cold War.

More annoying is that many of that ilk that I personally know would be hard-pressed to give an even basic, accurate definition of what socialism is (almost guaranteed it'll come out sounding like communism). It's as if someone many years ago said, "anything labelled 'socialism' is bad", and entire nation shrugged its shoulders and said, "okay" without ever looking up what they were on about.
This is a ridiculous and fundamentally flawed proposition. The obvious omissions and lack of consideration of other factors threatening the planet belies this author's bias/naivete/stupidity/other motivations.

First, the demand for energy is only a small fraction of numerous ways the planet is being compromised - irrevocably. Satisfying all energy demands worldwide cleanly will not "save the planet".

Second, carbon-free is completely different than being clean energy. The byproducts (generally leaking radioactive waste) are significant, highly toxic, and long-lasting. While the emissions of fossil fuels is considered, other cleaner alternatives are not.

Third, the demand for energy is, for the most part, contrived. We are sold on the ideas of the need for one car for each person, the need for cars to travel in the first place, whole house heating and cooling, electrical solutions to simple manual tasks, etc ad infinitum. We could massively reduce energy needs by using low-power and no-power solutions.
Like most economic principles, there’s a big gap between theory and practice.

In reality Austerity is defined by tax breaks for the very rich, combined with spending cuts and privatisation - i.e. economic enclosure, debt peonage, and asset sweating - for everyone else. Sometimes that includes tax increases, but if som it usually means indirect taxation.

Austerity is purely ideological. Even the IMF acknowledges that recent Austerity regimes have underperformed expectations while examples of stimulus spending have had the opposite effect.
No, sorry. I got my block for free during the early years of the commercial internet. You need a /24 (256 IP block) for it to be globally routable.

If you want to "own" a few addresses to play with, it is not technically possible. If you want a small block, you should just get a VPS that supports multiple IPs and tunnel them back to your location.
MIT AI: Poker and Game Theory (Tuomas Sandholm)
> Highways are heavily, heavily subsidized by state and federal dollars. That's why their true cost isn't born on drivers

These aren't contradictory if you look where most of those state and federal dollars come from (i.e. fuel taxes, which is borne by the driver). Mass transit more fits the description of transportation subsidized by non-users.
This is a great example of what I'm talking about. I'm pretty certain that concept put in those words was new to me in some HN comment at some point, and I'm even more certain it was already tiresome to tons of people by that time. This happens all the time.
> all their libraries, all their dependencies?

Well, you see ... I happen to think that you can use a lot of tools to cover your ass, and .. the fact that this one slipped in is as much a comment on the crud that is promulgating the wild and woolly Node/JS ecosystem as it is anything else. In point of fact, this kind of bollocks is why I eschew Node/JS and use other things [1], instead.

I do believe there are tools and ecosystems which make this sort of thing less likely. I can't recall a Linux easter egg .. nor a Golang one ..

>Should people write their own web servers instead? Their own frameworks? Their own operating systems?

One should at least, audit. As much as possible. It doesn't take much for a competent dev to 'grep -ir "easter egg $CODEBLASE' or, whatever .. not that its an expectation.

But yeah, if you have to have government-level 5-nines on all services, then I would say - fair play. The responsibility for an audit of such things should definitely have been in the requirements. I've seen such expectations for lesser projects, personally, where .. indeed .. code audit and ownership were tightly .. and properly .. managed.

[1] - I don't know for sure, but I think its harder to slip in such an easter egg on a production golang system. I guess I'll tune into that if/when it happens/has happened..
Do you have any examples of methods that will get you there more effectively than practice in any discipline? Because I honestly can't think of anything.
I remember this talk. It’s a fascinating subject. I wonder if it will get pulled from HN though as “too political”. That would be a shame.
Because you still run the old version as your shell, from which you run the new version merely to have it print its version.
That's literally a slow walking pace. Kids running would be breaking the speed limit. Bikes would always be breaking the limit. The speedo in my car isn't even accurate at speeds that low.
This is known as Jevons paradox[1]. Any resource that is used more efficiently will be used more. The more efficiently drive time is used in terms of average speed, the more it will be used.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Why would we trust the government that just fed us the propaganda you're talking about to run a healthcare system in our interest?

> "In fact I think we have the millennials to thank as they grew up after the cold war and did not experience much of the propaganda that older generations did, so they are more open to policies like universal healthcare."

So they haven't seen the negative consequences of too much government power and thus are too quick to call for government solutions.
I’m not in a position of a policy maker, but if I was, I would certainly give more weight to the social and cleanliness issues over space exploration. Again, I don’t know the specifics of what the Indian government is doing or their particular budget, but having lived in poverty (no where as bad as in India), I want to make sure people are fed, have access to education, and especially so for children.

Like I said - the two are not mutually exclusive.

When you use the phrase unbounded welfare spending - I think ensuring kids are fed, have access to schools, and live in a non hazardous environment is key. Your use of that term sounds very generic to me, and I want to highlight there is far more nuance. Unbounded welfare spending sounds like something I would hear on Fox News, and so I take issue with that phrase.
> I would have to first install Node

You mean, locally, on your machine? But it's not a big deal. Not even a small deal. It's, like, not a deal at all.

But I get your point. I thought you were advocating a general approach, but instead you were describing your specific setup.
Judging by the number of downvotes my comment achieved, it seems a lot of folks couldn't tell it was satire. Seemed rather obvious to me.
Simple -- tax money earmarked for roads is spent elsewhere, leaving insufficient money for road maintenance.
>just so they can have some big McMansion in the exurbs with a giant lawn they have to spend hours maintaining every weekend.

What other options provide good public schools, homes that are pleasant to be inside, and a clean/safe/well-functioning environment?

I hate sprawl and fast-casual architecture as much as the next guy, but it is the only thing that can grow at scale under our economic and political reality. Alternatives only exist because they were created in a different era, under different constraints. Their supply is fixed and dwindling. So of course we are going to see a large and growing segment of the population in the only kind of housing it's both legal and profitable to build.

Also, by the way, the median driving commute is closer to 25 minutes. Commuting 1-2 hours each way is something transit riders do; for drivers it's very rare.
Really now?
So appealing to truth and common sense is now gaslighting.
Newspeak much?
> First, technically returning 9 for a test of add(4,5) is correct. Your tests define what the function does, not the name.

You are technically correct that testing "add(4,5) == 9" is valid. However, everyone already knows that an "add(a,b)" function which always returns 9 is broken.

> So when you add the add(10,2) test case, the really pedantic way of doing it would be to handle the extra case with an if-check

Saying an if-check is the correct way to refactor does a disservice to TDD practitioners everywhere.

Implementing a trivial add function via TDD is just bad. It would have been far better to choose something slightly more complicated such as sorting or fizzbuzz.