skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“...the hubris of facebook to think that they can even attempt to define and enforce speech codes?”

What about this is hubris? Wouldnt you argue they have a responsibility to try? Wouldnt it be hubris to build such a powerful platform and not think to care about minimizing the amount of damage malicious actors could do with it?
1. Ads are not the problem. Ugly, out of place, spammy, intrusive ads are. Serve me curated ads with nice visuals and I’d be definitely checking it out.

2. Don’t track. Period.

3. Basically you might not want to handover ad space on your sites to ad houses that serve ads based on tracking and surveillance.

4. Decide whether your website and its content itself are the purpose of doing it, whether it’s a blog or an e-commerce site, or the ads you show on it.
Your SoC probably only has the one BT modem so gluing on a second one might be tricky. I doubt any BT modems do this natively, but I am not familiar with the market.
Wait, what? The article says that eventually, after a year of talks involving a hostage negotiator^W^Wpatient advocate, the patient from the story paid only his in-network deductible of 13 kUSD. Good for him, but you can afford that kind of legal defense only when you are wealthy to begin with. Someone who isn't a retired 1%-er would likely have declared medical bankrupcy, had he faced the same circumstances.
I've dreamed of programming an HVAC thermostat to run the A/C or heat extra-hard just before peak electricity pricing kicks in.
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"There are many many people in similar situations. Even in a world where scum companies didn’t charge usurious prices for drugs like epipens, denying someone care is a moral travesty that should be handled in a fair way. "

At least there should be a clear, well documented way for people to avoid these problems. Right now you can get insurance and do everything right but you still may get screwed.
Just to balance the anecdotes, I've had both input and output from a Bluetooth headset work in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10, OSX Mountain Lion through macOS Mojave, and various Linux distros.
Try a different key. I've had a couple totally ok and error free usb keys literally refusing to boot when installing Linux on a PC. Using a different usb drive solved the problem, and the dongles which refused to boot on that pc worked perfectly on different ones.
I've also seen laptops which wouldn't connect to their home router WiFi no matter the settings, I had to put either an external WiFi adapter or swap the router, needless to say that both the WiFi cards and routers were 100% functional when connecting to other hardware.
Some pieces of hardware just don't like talking each other.
Pollution is also a result of centralization. Methods that are cost effective in huge projects are usually ones far too unsafe to be used in small projects.

A stupidly obvious example is farming. Small scale manure production is a net benefit to the local soil. Factory farming destroys rivers, lakes and small seas.
The article indicates that all the rules are made centrally, in Menlo Park. I would find it very surprising if they had enough consultants to come up with comprehensive, culturally aware guidelines that allow moderators to make nuanced decisions about what to ban and what to leave up. Instead, their goal seems to be keeping Facebook out of trouble. As long as they can point to a guideline that says that hate group X is banned, they're covered.

To Facebook, the goal isn't to prevent the transmission of hate speech. The goal is to stop Facebook from being perceived as a vehicle to transmit hate speech. Facebook executives know that in advertising, perception overrides reality. They're willing to do whatever it takes to keep up the perception that Facebook is doing everything in its power to stop hate speech, even if those measures have little or no practical impact (or even if they backfire and suppress speech that should be allowed).
> By that logic, the only time you could say "shortage" is when there's zero of a thing left anywhere.

Well, sure, shortage requires that the quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied at all possible prices, which implies (barring some external constraint preventing trades) that the maximum quantity producible should be produced and sold, with no idle capacity.

Genuine shortages are unusual.

> That's a non-standard interpretation of the word.

It's the standard use is market economics. It's true that that in non-technical use, a common (and perhaps the most common) use of “shortage” is “higher market clearing price than I would prefer”.

It's just important to be clear what sense of “shortage” one is referring to. Because very often the latter sense is in play, but given the significance of the former.
Words can not be violent.

If you think one person being offended means speakers must be silenced, then you're on a dangerous pathway to fascism.
no, in case like this, it's mostly for documentation generation. though you may find it useless.
What a fucking nightmare.
These are really old, but I found them very helpful for beginning cartooning years ago: http://karmatoons.com/drawing/drawing.htm
Reminds me of the classic SICP quip:

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
It can, and it does in other countries. The U.S. is a huge outlier in the developed world in letting insurance companies run as for-profit entities with 20% administrative overhead. We pay ~18% of GDP for healthcare (1st in the world) and yet are nowhere near the top in terms of overall outcomes. In Japan, insurance companies have ~3% administrative overhead and run a non-profits. They pay 11% as a fraction of GDP, despite a huge relative proportion of elderly and an extremely high usage rate (no one goes to the doctor more than the Japanese)
I'm not sure why you conclude insurance cannot solve healthcare. Private insurance, where there's a profit motive, may be inappropriate but insurance - as a concept of spreading risk over a large population - seems logical for a generally healthy population with occasional health issues.

The problem with healthcare is it's not a good like others which are insured. Even with price transparency the patient isn't qualified to decide what treatment to get at what price (your doctor is), and often the patient isn't at their best physically or mentally when treatment decisions need to be made.

Comparing the US healthcare cost to other countries is slightly misleading as much of the world free-rides off US pharma research.

If we want affordable insurance we should let people with chronic or debilitating diseases die rather than treat them with expensive medications/procedures that increase cost on us all. But when it's your loved one that's sick it's extremely hard to be this cavalier about the decision to not treat at any cost. I know I couldn't make that call.
I don't think there is a very significant difference between "catastrophic insurance" and my ACA plan which has a deductible of something like $5500/year.

And I don't think my monthly (individual) premium of around $400 is particularly unreasonable; I think that's what healthcare costs. Subsidies are a separate issue.
What is the best protection for this?
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That's not true. Every Java Programmer who cares about the right amount of performance writes native code.
I really enjoyed the Ousterhout book as well. It's my current user manual for reviewing pull requests.

Putting my PR reviewer hat on I would say the code in question would pass muster if it were relatively stable so you would not be constantly redoing the comments. I love nice comments but Golang does not give you much help keeping them in sync.

(Weirdly enough I'm working on a PR for persistent volume documentation at VMware today so the code is very apropos.)
How many 4%+ daily moves up till we start asking questions?
> But I'd expect the price to come down once the regulations disappear

Prohibition might disappear, but I doubt when marijuana is treated as a legal psychoactive drug it will be unregulated, or even merely regulated the way culinary herbs are.
I don't understand this "whales are definitely sentient" thing going around in this thread. How is this tested? What evidence do we have?
"you'll overturn a 30 year scientific consensus"

Wouldn't be the first time but I still wouldn't be famous..

My first wife suffered from postpartum psychosis twice years before the cause and effect was recognized by the health care industry and both times I pointed out the connection and then argued with her doctors about it.

When you're right, you're right. Doesn't matter what others say or think. I know I'm right on this issue. The science needs to catch up and start trashing those junk "pay for conclusions studies" and that's what this particular link posted here talks about.
I kept hearing about the problem but until I visited SF myself I never truly understood the severity.

Honestly don’t understand why more drastic measures aren’t taken, and I mean rounding them up and shipping them off somewhere to a rehab center far far away from any civilized people
You have, but I don't really know how I could explain it more simply. I'll try though using your analogy.

Your postman doesn't deliver fences to you, he posts post to you. In a similar way, instead of using the word 'post' all the time, a sensible design for an API would want to have a person deliver a message.
Precisely. I tend to only write comments that explain reasons for making non-idiomatic decisions like:

// It might look like you should do X here but esoteric reason Y dictates that you should do this instead.
My beef with Java 11 has been that the detection of Java.dll has not been perfect for Program Data\Oracle\JavaPath, the IDE installers and common executables. Did Oracle break something with JDK 11?
Should developers also teach juggling to professional jugglers?
As of now there’s not much you can do other than educating your users.

Maybe add a workflow that checks whether they have the backup code or not and if not prompt them to note it down again. Maybe on second login/usage after setting up 2FA. If they still don’t do it just revert to email reset.

There isn’t much you can do if the user isn’t security conscious and doesn’t intend to be.

Is it a particular demographic? I’d assume this is an issue faced by most of the apps with 2FA.
Worse than useless. It harms your ability to take in multiple things at once on your screen.
When you share more than 2-3 photos at once with others who have iPhones, they get an icloud link where they can not only view the photos, but one-click add them to their own photo library. Have had zero problems keeping my library consistent with my partner's, or sharing lots of family photos at once with other close family who have iPhones.
It's not that simple. The indigent get a free ride, people over a certain age get a free ride. It's the people who work for workplaces who offer no coverage who get screwed --the working poor.

Now, medicine for all is not a panacea either, but it may be better than what we have now.

I think one answer might be a two tiered system. One that is no strings attached[1] basic healthcare for all and a second tier for those who want 'premium' healthcare through their employer or other private means.

Reason is even in places with universal coverage, often times people will get private coverage for a multitude of reasons from quality of care, to wait times, to experience of staff (low incidence of malpractice), etc.

[1] Lest anyone be overenthusiastic, this often means your doctor has final say in options, treatment, etc. which is why a 'premium' private market thrives alongside the universal option.
It seems like it might be a gray area (and, unfortunately as such, something the courts need to resolve) but it's disappointing that NYT did not at least broach the topic and possible applicability of the Work for Hire exception.
> In the past, artists like Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and even The Foo Fighters, have gone beyond merely assuming that they have this right, choosing instead to force concert photographers to sign contracts where they have to, quite literally, surrender all of their rights over the photos. Aware of the fact that most photographers are not exactly versed on legal terminology, that photo pits aren’t great places to read contracts, and that many photographers simply can’t afford not to shoot a big band, artists have been able to profit from the many photographers that, for whatever reason, end up signing their rights away.
What do you do for monitors? I need 4 screens.
How long does it take you to write a sentence?
Medical Records and Practice Management are often two separate pieces of software, with only the latter one dealing with billing and insurance.
>Words can not be violent

Words are not the only form of speech, and physical violence is not the only way to cause harm. This is a "No True Scotsman", since hate speech is limited to neither.
> And no, sugar does make kids hyperactive.

No, it doesn't.

> You really only have to spend time with them to know this.

I don't agree with this event at the level of subjective impression (and I've spent quite a bit of time with kids, with and without sugar), but even if I did, Experience often provides subjective impressions that don't hold up to close examination.
Disagree. I’m not a hardcore foodie, but I enjoy the entire spectrum of food, from fast-food to food trucks to homemade to Michelin 3-star restaurants. And sometimes I want Taco Bell, or yes, even McDonalds.
Which country does this apply to?
>Even if they spend a bunch of time picking one that doesn't mean there's anything special about the one they do pick.

It does, it means it was the one they considered the highest value of what was on hand and sufficient value vs the price and whatever other internal criteria they held. That is literally the foundation of our entire modern economy.

>If you had magical foresight and removed their most preferred one before they began their search they'd just pick a different one and be none the wiser.

Yes, if you took their first pick (or if someone else had come first and chosen it) they'd be left with a reduced pool, which would then be evaluated independently, and they'd choose the "second best" pick, aka, the new first pick. And if the pool was reduced even farther, they'd be forced into further reduced choice, which might still lead to new choices unless all the remaining ones fell below their floor level criteria (perhaps the final apples nobody else would pick were all shriveled and bruised looking), in which case they might choose nothing. Or maybe they desperately want an apple even if normally they wouldn't, and settle but are angry and do not patronize that store in the future. Or maybe they're desperate but willing to travel and just leave and go to a different store. And on and on.

This is weird. Why am I having to explain such fundamental basic decision processes to somebody on HN?

>I have no idea how you came to that conclusion.

This entire discussion is about a commercial entity taking somebody else's work for profit use and not paying or even asking permission. Copyright infringement is not the same as theft, but you're the one who created a real world apple analogy, and by referencing the 500/100 money thing you're clearly cognizant of that aspect. For your analogy to have any connection it has to be somebody taking the apples for free, under the justification that "all apples are the same so if somebody is asking anything I'm justified in just taking it rather then acquiring one elsewhere at a price I feel is acceptable". How can you argue it both ways? Either all photographs are equivalent in which case there is no reason not to choose one that is free, or there was something better about that one in particular which is why it specifically was highlighted amongst all the others.
If a function is only a few lines long its action should be entirely documented by its name.
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"I think one answer might be a two tiered system. One that is no strings attached basic healthcare for all and a second tier for those who want 'premium' healthcare through their employer or other private means.

Reason is even in places with universal coverage, often times people will get private coverage for a multitude of reasons from quality of care, to wait times, to experience of staff, etc. "

Exactly. That's how it works in most of Europe.
This is why companies want remote workers. Cities like Toronto, where I am, an office is more than some of the employees salaries.
Federal laws can't be arbitrary, though - they need to fall under one of the enumerated federal powers.

Problem is, ever since Wickard v. Filburn decision, all that the federal government needs to do is to add "... in interstate commerce" in the text of the law, and it is magically constitutional. The words themselves have practically no meaning - in Wickard, the Supreme Court ruled that a person growing food for personal consumption is still "participating in interstate commerce", on the basis that they'd have to buy that food otherwise, and therefore affect market prices on it.
People are frankly -- and justifiably -- scared of going to the emergency room

This is an important point. Americans are being trained to avoid the physician, even if they might be better off with medical care. You wonder how many life-years are lost because someone with a potentially serious condition declines treatment. As the population ages, the problem will only get worse.
True, but it’s a nesscary evil man. Government is created for organizing a colleticve response. If their was a way to stop blatantly evil things like murder without the need for centralized power and centralized response, I’m all ears. Unfortunately, humans are hard-wired to create and maintain athority.
Add to that overhead the huge billing departments most doctors have.
> Now the high end seems to have fallen out and you're maybe lucky to get half of that.

Barely. I do lots of work with growers.. the sweet spot for a pound these days is $600 to $850, depending on quality. On top of that, transaction volumes are increasing too.. before you could make a deal on a handfull of pounds, now purchasers are interested in buying a "box" or a hundred pounds at a time.
This. Documentation (comment blocks in code, as well as all other forms of documentation) tends to become outdated because it is not maintained in sync with every code change.

Solution: write clear, simple, modular code that is self-documenting and does not need extensive commenting.
Well then, I'm happy with just your love.
No need to feel guilty about the library, serving the public in a variety of needs is what they are there for. That said, why not home? If there are specific reasons that home isn't a good or preferred locale, those reasons might help guide the suggestions you receive.
Yeah, 500+ upvotes on HN apparently think otherwise, but I also dare to disagree... it's not clear, despite claims to the contrary.

Comprehending this code relies on reading a long series of verbosely referenced assumptions around an implicit state machine with numerous error conditions and edge cases. The author's argument is that extreme verbosity in control structures assists with ensuring no such conditions escape an explicit code block - ie. they admit that they are (ab)using code to deal with their personal challenge of achieving a rigorous and precise conception of the problem. I would posit that approach is the wrong tool for the job, and further that they have simply failed to clearly articulate the problem, and are writing illegible code and documentation as a result. A clear symptom of the resulting fragility is the title / opening plea to others not to change their carefully constructed house of cards. Fragility does not good code make.

If I were to rewrite this, the implicit state machine and its valid transitions would be documented first and foremost, eg. with a railroad diagram or ABNF.

The benefit of using [a formal specification language] is that it teaches you to think rigorously, to think precisely, and the important point is the precise thinking. So what you need to avoid at all costs is any language that's all syntax and no semantics. - Leslie Lamport ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Right, and it's really interesting to speculate on these kinds of matters. I've spent a little bit of time looking into it and can't find a definitive story behind the decisions made. Other Japanese occupied territories ended up with a local Yen-type. For example, Korea [1] and Taiwan [2] both had a locally produced Yen. Why not the Philippines?

It's an interesting thought experiment to think about how urgent the Japanese government felt that local currency was to their territories that almost immediately they had new currency designed, plates engraved and money printed, maybe even on existing local equipment! Why not just print "Yen"?

As to shipping hard currency during War Time, I also have a small collection of U.S. Military "Milk Caps" (Pogs) which were issued as coinage/change on Wartime bases in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of coinage. I've heard it was because the cost of shipping in and out enough coins to support the local on-base economies was simply too high and was better used shipping in and out other things. [3][4]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_yen

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_yen

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)

4 - https://www.ebay.com/bhp/aafes-pogs
My guess is that this is in line with the Go tradition of first handling all the odd cases leaving the essential part of what the function (or block of code in this case) attempts to do as the last part. So "if !found" to me suggests that this is more of an exception than the rule and this is why the code is written so as to deal with it first.
Easy.

The southern democrats were successful in the 1930s and 1940s in blocking any measure that might put a crack in the armor of segregation.

Wartime price controls handed unions the ability to negotiate primo health benefits as well. So at the end of the day, nobody really cared enough during the time that the federal government could get stuff done.
I really wish Swift closures were more uniform. I remember Alan Kay (or maybe Dan Ingalls) was famed for saying “its ok to cheat, as long as you don’t get caught” (re. Language implementation).

I really like swift, but there are times when I feel I need a magic decoder to figure out which edge cases apply. My biggest frustration is that something like this

for view in self.subviews { view in
...
return something
}

Is very different from the naively similiar

self.subviews.forEach { view in
...
return something
}

I just wish closures were a more first class part of the language like they were in Smalltalk. If language written in 1980 could use closures/lambdas all the way down even for things like if/else, and keep the deception pretty complete, I don’t understand why swift can’t do similiar.
There is a bigger issue in the US than health care cost and stigma. And that’s the kickbacks Doctors get for prescribing drugs to begin with. America has the single largest prescription drug problem in the world.
Actually, not really. Youth services doesn't always have that much (or any at all) contact with children before placing them.

You could say these kids still get shown the "kidnapping" of their sibling, so yeah it's probably still a valid criticism.
> Why must they have?

Because PARC was an intentionally multi-disciplinary group working on the earliest incarnations of visual computing.

Also, no one is disputing that Susan Kare is highly accomplished and hugely influential.