skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft clearly took a page out of Apple's book for their stores, but I agree, their retail experience has been enjoyable. I miss the Windows Phone section, though.

Microsoft is sitting on such an amazing ecosystem and it feels like they just don't know how to tie it all together sometimes.
This should be the linked post by the moderators.
How do you control for just happening to look when someone else is happening to look, or worse, attracting looks when you check for someone looking?

Here's a common interaction, which would create that feeling without anything at all underlying it:

1. A person is sitting at a table, with me sitting at a table behind them -- both of us facing the same way, ie, me facing their back.

2. I was staring a few feet to the side of the person -- zoning out in space, and not looking at anything besides the wall pattern.

3. That person has a transient feeling someone is watching, and turns to look.

4. The motion of their head turning causes me to leap to alert, as there's suddenly motion in my peripheral vision -- I move my eyes to focus on the motion, and resolve what it is.

5. We make eye contact, validating their initial belief.

6. The other person has taken a step to condition themselves, similar to Skinner's dancing pigeons. Repeating this interaction over decades leaves them believing in a sense they don't actually possess.

Add in some bias in what people remember, eg the times they make eye contact instead of the many times no one was looking, and it's a powerful way to end up confused about the world.

I'm not sure how you'd suss this one out without an extra interaction which necessarily confounds the results (eg, an extra observer -- but since we're testing observer effects, that's messy and a half).
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The cost of procedures for Medicare and Medicaid is still much higher than for other countries.

Yes, they reduce costs by saying “this is what we’ll pay”, but it’s still much more costly than other countries’ systems.
Similar to industry, verify that all finished products meet the standards before entering the warehouse.

Also similar to databases, verify their compliance before data enters the database.

That is "Data as a service, Warehouse as the core, operates around it".
What are some of the signs/symptoms that trigger your spidy sense?
To save others the Googling: SG&A = Selling, General and Administrative Expenses.

I'm not sure that you disagree with me. The higher the price the higher the returns, but price too high and you earn less money, because volume is not fixed. (I'd bet a lot less Viagra would be sold if it cost $500 per pill.)

That was the genius of Martin S. He felt, correctly, that Daraprim was mispriced. That's why the price per pill was raised to $750 from $13.50.
I disagree. Assume you are an average coder, you should have a clue of basic JS:

1 week to learn JS latest language features

1 week to grok node, npm and the power of the JS object

1 week for React, basic stuff not redux

1 more week to dabble around

4 weeks and you should be able to be productive JS with its most important flavors. Tell me any other ecosystem where you are that fast.
I agree, however I feel the same about the election of President Trump. The founding fathers created the Electoral College to prevent the masses from doing something stupid. The US Constitution is a document that was designed to only allow as much democracy as needed to prevent a dictator (King) but no more. The founding fathers, internally vs what has been publicized, were teriffed of the masses. The masses in charge get you the French Revolution. While I agree there where some that needed to loose their head it became a blood bath. I would say the same thing of China, where the masses happily killed everyone Mao pointed at.
Entitled mofos. Leave the platform if you are skeptical about everything. There are plenty of options out there. Take a good thing for a good thing for once hey, HN!
doing the hackerrank bash series helped me quite a bit
They have demonstrated a lot of real-world success in building cars at scale and delivering new technologies to the market. They may be slower than other companies at innovating but when they do it's global and at significant scale.
It's pretty much how the concept came across in the media and general public, and especially in that Feminist Frequency video.
If more people from the left would call out such, "impressively warped hodgepodge" being wielded supposedly on behalf of "justice" then there would be far less destruction of the public discourse under the cover of "social justice."

I’m yet to see any evidence of a source for this particular fiction other than you, and while I’m sure out of billions of people it’s trivially easy to find a handful of nuts taking almost any position, it’s dishonest to tar everyone else with that brush. Regardless, you didn’t present your “argument” as a matter of what some people wrongly believe, you simply shared your own misconceptions (if I’m being charitable) without a second thought. The intellectually honest response to being confronted with the reality of just how far off the mark you were is not to use weasel words like “pretty much” to double down on a false assertion.
In 2016 people analyzed a bunch of fiction and these trajectories showed up:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07772

Articles about:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveal...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/the-s...
> As a Bank of America emplyee he had somewhat goog insurance that paid some. He was left with $180,000 bill.

Forgive my ignorance but how is that possible? The highest out of pocket maximums for Marketplace plans is $15700 for an entire family.
who said that JS is for beginners?
> The only reason I think they didn't design unix this way was because C was too low level, but we could write the OS in a "higher level" functional language.

You've already lost my interest. Bash/Shell is incredibly powerful and doesn't need a higher-level abstraction. That is what programming languages and CLI tools are for.
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I can’t imagine what BASH_ARGV0 is for. Can someone more sage supply an example of what problem it solves?
> The simple act of a talented group viewing and marking a large flat surface can change the world.

Yeah, sorry, but that’s just not how most real work gets done in the real world.

Make Excel a compelling VR app, then we’ll talk.
Also 9:42: https://www.pcworld.com/article/193998/iPhone_Time.html
Probably the same way a VC chooses startups.
From what I understand, the healthcare market isn't free at all. LOTS of regulation is what has caused this mess I believe.
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The upward pressure on prices is also from the insurers. Insurers have an "80/20 rule" from Obamacare that only 20% of their revenue can be spent on non-medical expenses (ie. profit, insurance administrative overhead, etc.). They pretty quickly hit the caps, and now only by increasing medical expenditures (the other 80%) can the pie slice that contains their profit grow year after year.
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This is not an effective argument - you are assuming that a user of digital currency will not keep multiple copies of their money, especially in meaningful amounts.
kind of obeying open-source spirit
Don't quote me, but I've read many places in the US that ER's are required to take you if you are in a life threatening situation and if you cannot pay, the hospital just ends up owning the costs and then passes those costs to everyone else through insurance fees.
I clicked expecting this comment.

There's also the following from the Gospel of Thomas (verse 26):

Jesus said, "You see the sliver in your friend's eye, but you don't see the timber in your own eye. When you take the timber out of your own eye, then you will see well enough to remove the sliver from your friend's eye."
When I last worked there and ballmer was running things, he thought he was doing great cause he got more money each year from stupid enterprise agreements with stupid companies. But the innovation was really slow and it was all about increasing the value of what they had, windows. The world was moving on without them.

Satya nadella made a surprising change for Microsoft. If a company is going to last long term they have to do more than look at their own navels. You can't just focus on squeezing more money out of your existing lemons.

Happening now at Apple?
Thanks for this! Super helpful to have such specific examples. You're website is beautiful btw!
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Python maybe but JS not. React devs are paud higher than any Java coder.
Even though I've given in to using the "automated schema updates", or migrations, approach (Technique 1 in the article), I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of the application tier having permission/ability to manage database schema and execute DDL. I feel that it removes a key layer of defense-in-depth, and opens up the possibility for bugs and exploited vulnerabilities in application code to have hugely negative impacts.

Even ORMs make me nervous for similar reasons, since they essentially enable the application tier to pass into the database any/all queries and DML. But like migrations, I allow ORMs for the convenience they provide during development.
Do you have suggestions on learning the basics of all that you discussed here? I know nothing about it but it sounds fascinating.
Defmacro into-
Here's the full Guardian press conference from CES today https://youtu.be/SbtfdrC6Cho?t=592
You can hit the Softlayer IPMI from the private network on your other servers (which is way more convenient than the VPN, but also a little scary).

Also, off topic, ipmitool pretty much works, including serial over lan if you configure your host os properly. After I got that setup, I can usually avoid the java ipmi viewer!
Try making your own butter. The way I do it is just shake heavy cream in a jar.
> I can think of

Mayne that is your problem. Try new stuff. V8 is still one of the fastest and most optimized VMs.
If you're ripping open your walls to do it, the difference in cost between 6 and 5e is probably a rounding error, and there's a strong desire to do it once.
I was interested in this statistic and how it compares to say the 1960's and 70's. If you look without adjusting for population you just get an exponential increase that overwhelms the signal. But the statistics adjusting for population still back up your claim here:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184603/deaths-by-uninten...
> What is a “double” medrec?

I think that's when you need a second doctor to approve orders for another.
PSA: As of 2019, federal law requires all hospital & doctors to post prices in a machine-readable format.

The results are pretty striking, esp here in the Bay: eg UCSF ( https://www.ucsfhealth.org/about/pricing-transparency/ ) charges $2600 for 1-way and 2-way chest X-rays, but charges $220 (that’s two _hundred_) for 3-way chest X-ray. The difference? How many angles they take of your body -ie, a 3-way includes the 2 & 1-way; and, more notably, the 3-way was used as a chargemaster item used in pricing estimators. So eg when I went in for a routine chest x-ray, I've expected a $300-ish bill, and got charged with a $2600 one. Knowing these prices now allows me to ask specifically from my doctor to select the diagnosis&intervention with the highest benefit/cost ratio.

I’m really curious seeing consumer reactions to this, because current medical billing practices must die.
> The simple act of a talented group viewing and marking a large flat surface can change the world.

Yes, chalkboards, I’ve heard of them and used them.
Very good tutorial. Could easily follow, although I don't know F#, just some Haskell.
> Type information literally doesn't exist at runtime, though.

Correct if I'm wrong, not all types get erased in Java. Doesn't type erasure only happen for generics? Say I have a non generic, plain Java class and want to inspect one of it's method's return types at runtime to see if it returns class A or class B. I can do that, right?
Too much trouble when GitLab actually has an open source version. Also AutoDevOps is AMAZING!
First off, I'll say that all cases are unique. For example, I tried trackballs, as the poster below did, and they made it worse. I also tried a kinesis, it didn't seem to help. But they help many! So, you'll have to think about what seems to be causing your issues and test things. But, here's what helped me:

* A sit stand desk. I do stand at it, but it helped the most because I could lower my desk. Most off the shelf desks were too high for me and it hurt my arms

* Raised the monitor to proper height with books. It's also asjustable, as proper monitor height differs when sitting and when standing

* Investigated which keyboard shortcuts strained my left hand and remapped them. This may be very relevant for you....

* Trigger point massage therapy. This was essential, and the most helpful. Also tried regular massage. It's helpful, but forceful trigger point massage is one of the most effective things I've found. Can be hard to find a good practitioner. The trigger point therapy workbook can also be good for some self therapy. Deep tissue massage is a good place to start looking if you can't find a trigger point person.

* popsocket on my phone. Helps reduce pinky strain. Good phone positioning too, and trying to raise it up for neck positioning.

* physio. I used a physio who's worked with sports teams and does MAT among other things

* I switched to a handshoe mouse. Mice had caused me rsi for years: switching back to one at an external monitor is what precipitated the recent bout. The handshoe is large and comfortable, and you move your shoulder and not your wrist - it basically forces you to. I now have no mouse rsi. Also, I stopped using the scroll wheel, even on the handshoe. Note: if you can't get one or can't afford one, focus on moving the mouse with your shoulder and not your wrist

* I remembered that seven years ago I had typed a million words (really) on a cheap logitech keyboard, the mk320. I saw one in a store, bought it, and instantly found it more comfortable than any fancy ergonomic or mechanical keyboard I had tried. Can't tell you why, but it works.

* a foam roller has been helpful for my back

* the armaid has been extremely helpful for working out forearm tension

So basically a mix of better tooling, more attention to workspace and posture, and a heck of a lot of physical therapy. Had to do a lot of massage at first, but am in maintenance now.

If anyone has small signs of rsi, don't ignore them: they can expand quite a bit, and quickly. I lost a few months work.

I'm glad it happened though. I had low grade rsi for years that I couldn't fix, using a laptop and trackpad. Now, I still can't use that well, but I can use an external monitor pain free.
That misses my poorly written point. Do you use a separate, awkward tool to call functions you wrote in python? Or do you call the function in python itself?
The shell is a useless abstraction that was only necessary in unix because the alternative was c. Now that we have better languages, why not use them to write the OS bottom-up?
That’s only true for property in the US as a US resident in that property. Read the last bullet of my link. Expatriate taxpayers are ineligible for real estate capital gains exemptions.
GitLab’s CEO reflects on GitHub’s move to offer free private repos
Also from ancient India:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana
Give me either, as long as it's actually patched. (Which would seem to be too much to ask for from most vendors.)
Thank you for the link! For some reason it gives a "Your connection is not secure" error on Firefox, but I managed to find the tutorial via Google. I'll give it a shot sometime
Budish (2018) gives some attempts at formulas to determine attackers' incentives under various hypotheses: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/Economi...

It's tricky to directly apply these to cryptocurrency adopters' risk, although they apply more directly to "transaction size" than to "wallet size". You can probably apply some of Budish's calculations to transaction size unless you anticipate there's a way that your transaction counterparty could be defrauding you and other people in roughly the same way at roughly the same time. (For transaction size, the main risk is that you give someone something else of value in exchange for a transaction that's subsequently removed from the consensus history.) But for wallet size, the risk is not that someone steals your cryptocurrency from your wallet, but that your cryptocurrency becomes less valuable because other people recognize risks more immediately as a result of discovering and publicizing a successful attack. But that has most to do with how other people respond to the news of the successful attack, which is harder to predict.
Which scratch-off ticket should I buy at the gas station?
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> Is this really such a common way to work and collaborate?

Same observation: it absolutely isn’t how people work & collaborate. VR is DOA for most kinds of work because it just isn’t all that compatible with most kinds of work.
True, but that's more of a problem with Safari than WebKit. Here's Gmail's desktop interface zoomed way out in an iPad sidebar using iCab's desktop mode: https://i.imgur.com/Qr56fYx.png

You can force it to always allow zooming, block App Store links, spoof other user agents (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera, Googlebot, etc), download and upload files, and do all sorts of other stuff that Safari doesn't support.

User interface is admittedly more crowded so it's not my daily driver, but it's handy to keep around.
Absurd. They said this in 2000 when I bet my career on VR. It is a solution looking for a problem.
Is there any testing equipment that can test for compliance, and is inexpensive? Fluke cable tester (DTX-1800) that was mentioned cost $40,000! I saw an eBay listing for $6500 for used one. There are other cheap testers out there but they seem to be just continuity tester, and doesn't test for cross-talk, etc.
Did you read the article you posted? Long term starvation diets are still considered very dangerous even for overweight people. There have been multiple deaths from starvation diets for weight loss--your article even links to a study that examines one of them.

"While 'starvation' as a treatment enjoyed some popularity in the 1960s and '70s, doctors abandoned this strategy because it was likely to kill patients.

After a certain period of time the body burns through fat and muscle, eventually causing physical changes that drastically increase the chance of a fatal heart attack.

Even low-calorie diets that provide insufficient nutrition have killed, with autopsy reports showing the characteristic signs of starvation."

The starvation diet in the article was also medically managed. Doctors did regularly blood tests and proscribed necessary supplements when he needed them. We don't have exact records of everything he was given, but we know he was given magnesium, potassium, calcium, and phosphorus as well as yeast.
Presumably that CPU design expertise is transferable between architectures, especially if they are similar.
Atlassian Bitbucket [1] offer private repos too:

> Free for small teams under 5 and priced to scale with Standard ($2/user/mo) or Premium ($5/user/mo) plans.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/product
JS is so good for APIS because of its dynamic JS objects. If you then take also a document storage you don't need any ORM anymore and write your entire API in 5 mins. Rails was a nightmare compared. JS lets you do stuff yourself. You don't any framework holding your hand. Maybe that's your problem.
Because writing new OSes is hard and writing new OSes where existing software that people want to use keeps working is even harder.
Bit of a long shot, but have you been listening to Rippetoe lately? He talks about this from time to time
Toyota manufacturing is where a lot of our best practices in shipping reliable software today came from.
* Trustless time stamping to proof that you had certain information at a certain point in time without revealing it https://opentimestamps.org/

* (depending on your stance on personal liberty) censorship resistant, pseudonymous e-cash/e-gold (Bitcoin)
Germany has a split system between mandatory government healthcare and voluntary private healthcare, once you pass a certain income threshold (about 80% above average income) or are self-employed.

There are differences. The voluntary insurance usually pays 2x to 3x of the mandatory one and covers more treatments that are seen as optional by the government insurance. E.g. physiotherapy is covered by government insurance only for clear indications while private insurances might cover it as a precautionary measure in many more cases. Also private patients can usually skip some waiting time (e.g. days instead of a few weeks).

But (nearly) everyone is covered, government or private, and can go to the doctor without worrying about money.

Even the government insurance isn't a single entity, but you can choose between multiple providers. All charge the same 14.6% of pre-tax income (capped at ~55k income) plus an additional 0.7% to 1.x% depending on the provider. They also compete on additional services. E.g. my provider adds a free professional tooth-cleaning per year and free travel-vaccination among other things.
> The driver might almost forget the help he’s getting, and attribute the success to his own powers

I really like this idea but I feel this is the key in getting it right. Several video games achieve this feeling of seamlessness when translating raw input from a controller to in-game actions. However this does occasionally go wrong and can be a frustrating experience in video games (especially if you're playing online competitively) but in the real world it can have much more drastic consequences.

Also, given the complexity of the real world, it's somewhat scary to think of a scenario where you're actually trying to take a drastic action on the road but are prevented by the system from doing-so because it feels that the action is unsafe.
ah yes, "e" and "+", the two speeds.

Just like High Speed, and Full Speed.
The industry
Perhaps this is not applicable to creative thoughts: I usually have "project ideas" that come up randomly. I have recently decided to stop investing any time on them. I simply observe the ideas and let them pass. What I notice is that some of said ideas, keep popping up. I continue the observe and pass process. Usually this process leads me to naturally filter ideas with the little cycles I spend in making a note/observation and letting the idea pass. I am trying to not actively invest too much time into ideas as I have a observed a personal tendency to "make things fit" and introduce biases.
It's very mysterious that it's so particular about the charger. The XPS 13's battery is only 7.4V, so that's not the reason (a simple charging circuit needs a higher input voltage than the top voltage of the battery it's charging).

It's hard to say that the poor implementation of USB-PD ruins the XPS 13, because it's overall a great laptop. But it is very annoying to travel with this computer, realize that you brought only an 18w or 30w charger, and contemplate how nearly every other device you have works fine with it. And every year since 2016 I decline to upgrade my XPS 13 because they haven't fixed this (moreover they probably don't even consider it a problem).
Great video to give you the right high-level perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olH-9b3VJfs
Writing chess software as a hobby is relatively popular. And many people try to optimize as much as possible even when it's not strictly necessary. That's probably motivation enough - although lichess as a business probably doesn't have the same incentives as a hobbyist would.