skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your third paragraph is it. This is mostly an out of control health care cost growth story. Three areas of cost growth--health care, education, and housing costs--have now eaten the gains of two entire generation of Americans and none of the three look set to stop their cancerous growth rates any time soon.

Way back in the ACA debates, when people talked about bending the cost curve, many people's eyes may have glazed over but that's exactly what we need to figure out a way to do. Not have a debate over immigration.
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Communist until you get rich. Atheist until plane starts falling down.
At my base in Northern Germany, an officer of the MAD, the aptly abbreviated West German military intelligence agency, waltzed onto the base and all the way into the central weapons store wearing a Colonel's Uniform.

An East German Army Colonel's Uniform.

Ooopsy.
The last commit in the Windows-specific code was in May 2017, only a year after Microsoft acquired Xamarin. Perhaps, there wasn't an internal push, by then, to go full-Xamarin for everything?

It looks like the Rome SDK, itself, (for Android and iOS) only went GA two days ago[0]; so the source code in the github repo was probably way ahead of the curve, in terms of what would be supported at GA.

Maybe Xamarin, at the time, wasn't going to be supported but now is?

To allay your fears, here's the Xamarin sample[1] I found.

[0] - https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/01/29/announcing...

[1] - https://github.com/Microsoft/project-rome/tree/0.8.1/Xamarin
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I don't disagree. My main complaint with the content of the article would be that they chose to introduce the cache at virtually the same time as memory in general. I found it very easy to follow for the most part and it gave some good intuition.

I'm just not sure if the title is accurate or (at worst) misleading.
The Lebowski theorem: "No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function" is surprisingly deep.

You can see the theory in action in human history. We have drives programmed by evolution, but we try to to shortcut them. Drugs are deliberate hack for example. TV, entertainment and games can provide rewards faster than effort towards real life goals.

We fully understand that there is difference between the drive's purpose and what we do, but but we don't actually value the purpose of our reward function, only the reward. Catholic church tries to insist that people should limit sexual pleasure to the purpose it was created (by god or evolution) but people don't listen.
I have separate accounts for my expenses, income and savings. It's so simple it's stupid but it works for me.
Getting backup right is extremely important, that is why you need proper tools. For the last 10 years I have been using ZFS snapshots and replication. I keep 180 days with snapshots on the remote backup and 30 days for the local.
I use it to take backup of virtual machines, different databases including "running", sql servers. And of course important files, documents and photos.

I've also configured a daily mail with a log about how the backup/snapshot/replication went. Even if it went fine. So if I don't get mail, I know something is up and can fix it asap.

I have never slept so well after doing this with ZFS, even backup for Windows SQL Server with iSCSI volumes works great!

More people should do backup with ZFS!
Swerve (with 60% chance of survival) or break (with a 40% chance of survival). This may sound like sci-fi, but its simple math; if you know the distance of the hazard, coefficient of friction and speed. And you can crunch numbers really fast, these percentages are part of the decision process. And one puts the public at risk and the other puts the driver at risk. Now even if you had no more information and a utilitarian programmer decided to go with the numbers and swerve; swerving off-side will generally endanger the driver and near-side generally will endanger the public.

These decisions seem unavoidable.
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"Sorry, this page can't be found."

But the page is still available in cache
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RqQCNF...

The page asks users to trust Google Inc.
Yes, most of the problems (with conditional probability, statistical tests, significance, etc) disappear once you express it in a Bayesian way (it's not only Bayes' formula - it explicitly creating a Bayesian model).

Basically, most of them boil down to:

- mistakes that can be tackled if you write it down explicitly

- hidden assumptions that can be discovered (and made explicit or modified)

While there is some philosophical difference between frequentist and Bayesian probability (and for some reason, I know people moving only one way).

"Frequentist probability is Bayesian probability, where priors are flat, hidden, and considered taboo".

BTW: Frequentists vs. Bayesians https://xkcd.com/1132/ (there is never too much of xkcd!)
>That app is known for casual unchecked trolling.

This is not a very convincing argument. You are who you pretend to be. A large part of what it means to _be_ a nice/mean person is _acting_ like a nice/mean person.
You could try this book. It's pretty simple "common sense" stuff but if you read it and follow the instructions it actually does work. It basically cured my depression without meds. Kind of a pita to follow but really does work: https://www.amazon.com/Depression-Cure-6-Step-Program-withou...

^ was recommended to me by a coworker and I was really skeptical but super happy I tried it. GL!
so, 'surprise me' then, i'm sure it will.
Matthew Flatt did an excellent talk "Incremental Parallelization of Dynamic Languages" on Racket https://air.mozilla.org/incremental-parallelization-of-dynam...

There's a lot of useful discussion in here about parallelism which also applies to Ruby, Python, Lua etc.
Using modern Clojure's clj is so much easier than the CL procedure.
I'm happy that 2017 is the date of the article, and not of the event.
Getting a bit more meta, are you task-oriented, goal-oriented, people-oriented? What truly makes 40 hours a week more pleasant for you?

This question really resonated. Do you have any advice to someone who's pretty strongly down the "goal-oriented" end of this? Fundamentally, I enjoy the work, but do find a queue of 20 JIRA tickets (which I imagine to be the the "task-oriented" way) drastically less appetising than a few meaty problems to dig into.
There's a case for ugly entangled tests too. If you, say, isolate your tests from the filesystem (mocks, etc), your tests can become fast, hermetic, etc. But they lose all sensitivity to differences between filesystems, and encode any assumptions about how filesystems behave.

I like to have tests that exercise the real stuff. The tests are flakier but have better fidelity to the actual use.
A matter of time, I guess. Your "insurance score", as seen by insurance companies, provides information on how likely you're to be able to pay back a long-term loan, or even to be alive long enough to pay it back. And "insurance score" is based on increasingly deep insight into your lifestyle. It's only a matter of time before someone will have the bright idea to use "insurance score" as an input to credit score - and then, suddenly, you have social credit (sans the politics part).
Why feed Google even more data about your interests? Just use a local RSS aggregator.
Only if your kids don't go to childcare, sleep on the kitchen floor and run around in rags.
Tumblr flagged 11 of my images yesterday. In fairness, 10 of them were various photos of my legs/ankles/knees in various states of insect/cycle-induced disrepair and I can't fault the bot for picking up on "large areas of flesh colour" as a trigger.

The 11th, however, was a shot of my rucksack on a Premier Inn bed.

(All of them were automatically reinstated the instant I hit the appeal button. Which makes me wonder why they were flagged if an appeal triggers an instant reinstatement because clearly no human looked at that appeal...)
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I agree with you but I also find myself wondering if I should really keep them on facebook.

I have friends from high-school I see every 5 years or so. They were best friends in high-school and I love them but do I need them in my facebook feed? Before facebook I'd have been content with just seeing them every 5 years and maybe sending a holiday card or birthday note/card/email. Now there's this constant distraction of people in my feed of people that I won't see in years, aren't really a part of my life just my memories.

In the last couple of years I've aggressively unfollowed people that are not really a part of my life anymore. That includes beloved friends from high school. Friends that were part of my life in cites I haven't lived in in 35, 25, 15, 10, years ago.

Does that make me bad for not embracing 2019 and being able to see those people's activities forever no matter how remote and unconnected we now are? Or is it facing reality that by moving far from them they really aren't a part of my life except for fond memories and the occasional visit if we happen to be in the same part of the world? Everyone will have to answer that for themselves.

I feel a little guilty when I "unfollow" them but I remind myself this whole idea of following every person I ever met in my life via my facebook feed is a new thing and that I got by just fine in the past with a few letters or postcard a year and not daily updates. I think I'm down to 25 or less people I'm following out of ~1000 people I've added on facebook.
Hillary lost, in spite of the immense effort to support her that you described. If there isn't an all powerful boogie man in the picture hindering their efforts, like Fantasy-Putin, then the only inescapable conclusion left is that the democrats lost because at least some of their ideas suck even more than Trump. And that is not something they are able to face.
>Free societies are durable over the long term when they protect these rights at all times, for all people, for all ideologies.

That's not how violent ideologies operate. Violent ideologies eventually eliminate the rights of the vulnerable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

>The paradox of tolerance is a paradox that states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

This seems to be one, found from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19026396
That's "thinking about thinking" :)
<tone-deaf> But Europe has good public transit everywhere. Surely you can take rail + bus + walk to get anywhere you want to go even with kids.</tone deaf>

Dragging toddler around on public transit is a massive PITA. One is doable but two is hell.
I'm in a similar position, and actually found I had more interaction with family once I got off facebook.

It turned out I wasn't actually interacting with them at all. It felt like I was, having consumed what felt like a few thousand baby photos daily - but we weren't actually communicating, just congrats, happy birthday, like.

Chats, messages and the odd skype call seem to work out much better - if I stop responding, so do they, and it's noticeable. Facebook's bucket of noise approach tricked me into feeling like I was interacting with family when I was actually just scrolling past them.
This was a long time ago.

I'd just taken over as "team lead" of the internal support desk for an interest rate swap trading system at a tier 1 bank. By team lead, I mean that I was nominally in charge of the one contractor who was vastly more experienced than me. She was also famously prickly, particularly with upstart novices such as myself. The lead role was considered a right of passage because of this.

Anyway, one morning she comes to me, ashen faced. She had just deleted the first leg of every single swap that the bank held. At that time, this would have been a relatively high proportion of every swap traded in history. We did have overnight backups but these took about 8 hours to bring online and the prod DB would need to be down for all that time. Such was Sybase back in the day.

Now, it just so happened that one of the operations team leads was a drinking buddy of mine. I called her and asked if there was any way that they could stay out of the system for the whole day. Bless her, she re-arranged schedules, got people to come back in later, pulled in favours from the US ops team etc etc.

In the end we managed the recovery and the day's trading was overlaid without any management escalation happening. Something close to a miracle.

Suffice to say that, from that day on, said contractor was the epitome of sweetness and light to both me and the ops team.
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Yeah, and the EU is basically taking legal action against Google right now to force them to do an even worse job of removing that kind of spam, under the pretense that it hurts competition.
"pay your tax to contribute to the country's budget" is a massive trivialization of the issue.

Taxes are a highly complex system with thousands of rules on what is taxable and what is not, what income must be declared, what deductions are allowed, what investments count as pre-tax and what investments count as post-tax, etc etc etc.

It's not "pay your tax", it's "follow a massive set of regulations that determine what taxes you owe and then pay those taxes".

I assume you fill out your forms and take deductions that are appropriate as allowed by the law, right? If you do, you're violating the "spirit of the law" as you've stated it -- but no one believes that because it's a ridiculous position to take.
I subscribe to former and I have no ides why you think its weird. The choice of continued concious existence is literally the only real natural right we have.
Similar story but way shorter. Was working on the beginning of Typeform years ago and we had some issues in production, wanted to take a look at the logs. The logs were in a tar archive, so just needed to untar it. Mixed up the arguments in the tar command and instead overwrote the logs with a empty archive. Doh. In the end, lesson learned: be 100% sure arguments are correct if you're stupid enough to run terminal commands in production environments. Obviously, duplicate data (pull down logs locally) if you're planning to read something that can possibly write instead of just reading is another lesson.
> "There are now 400 million people who use it every month, and people spend on average over 20 minutes on Watch daily."

Duh. Facebook starts running the videos as soon as you open the Facebook page. If you open a video and watch it, it'll start a new one in 3-4 seconds. Unless they remove these practices, it is not clear how much of that 20 minutes is due to their aggressive behavior.
Please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYj_FPT90cM (it's about Norway, which has very humanitarian prisons)

The short version is that a naive comparison shows that recidivism in Norway is much lower than in the US, a more thorough comparison shows that recidivism is actually not so different. But either way, making prisons worse doesn't actually help fighting crime. So the decision whether prisoners should be treated humanely or not is more about ideology than effectiveness.

And personally I think humans should be treated humanely, no matter what they did.
We spend a hell of a lot of time in court deciding what was right and wrong, and when we should brake or swerve. But we have the category of 'mistake' that the program will not be able to hide behind.
You missed the next sentence:

> nd like Toshio, many of these elderly lawbreakers are repeat offenders. Of the 2,500 over-65s convicted in 2016, more than a third had more than five previous convictions.

Those are not unique offenders. Somebody who commits multiple infractions is counted several times.
Bob needs to participate in a group policy.
Are you sure you aren't mistaking him for Darwin?
Some people seek a different kind of freedom, that that which is taken away by some jails, or maybe they don't seek freedom at all, rather comfort. Which is very sad and normal.

I sometimes think that I'd find it therapeutic to stay in a fitting prison. Some maybe relevant characteristics of mine are that I often seek isolation, and my creative activities are fully isolated of any direct social contact.
>It’s not that hard to scroll past something you disagree with or to not click that link or not watch that video.

Tell me more about how I should "just ignore" direct violent threats against me because of who I am and what I look like. You're speaking from the ultimate pedestal of privilege, probably because society already protects and values people who look and act like you.
They do have more modern versions, and they're also in all the casinos in Vegas.
But gas isn't as ubiquitous as oil and it's probably never going to be. Oil consumed everything in the last century and now even if it declines significantly chances are it will be replaced in certain markets by other energy sources. Gas doesn't have much opportunities for growth. And the same can be said about uranium and it's future. Sure it's not going to be completely phased away in the near future but even if the world is suddenly going to make a turn to nuclear it only makes sense that newer technologies will be used.
Exactly my thoughts. Why is this post at the top?
The blame for that falls almost entirely on Vic Gundotra, the VP who was in charge of the Google+ project. From what I understand, many, many Googlers hated him, and actually left the company specifically because of him.
Anyone who is doing an unskilled job that receives some component of their tips in cash is already “do[ing] some tax fraud”. Perhaps I am projecting my familiarity with the food service industry onto others; if you were not aware, this is the overwhelming norm with a rate of occurrence approaching 100%.

If you are working a laborious job and you get cash tips, they go into your pocket. Full stop. To assert otherwise is to be simply unaware of the realities. No one scraping by with cash tips is summing them for their 1040. No one.
To answer your final question, I think that the intent is to stimulate long term investment (investments held over a year are taxed significantly lower than those held less than a year) -- this tends to boost the economy and grow businesses, which create more jobs etc.

To the rest-- yes, that's how I see it as well.
> Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever.

I'd agree with the second part, not sure about the first part of the sentence... Political knowledge would be something you acquire by direct participation in the political discourse, watching politicians, by reading the news perhaps, by reading books on history and other topics. But on Facebook? Every political post there comes with a blatant agenda. Instead of an informative discussion, you get an echo chamber and often regurgitated semi-educated opinions borrowed from other people, by (mostly) insufficiently educated people, appeal to emotion, etc.
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There was a recent example with Asrock motherboards that are supposed to have compliant RAID support

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541493

Should open source software fill up with quirks for the mistakes of other software?
This looks like a bug report to other RAID software that should clear up any obsolete flags and enforce a sane condition of the RAID.
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> By this logic, any increase in productivity is bad because it reduces labor scarcity. That's just not how it works.

Yes, this logic is perfectly sound. Increase in productivity has both good and bad impacts on a system within which it happens - the whole difficulty of managing a system (like a job market) is to find ways to pocket the good, and mitigate the bad.
You mean private jets full of gold that are actually legal (though probably evading taxes) as opposed to the illegality of all the rest?
Not everyone. I agree with you that it's very common, but an guarantee you from experience it's not 100%.
Lucky your parents didn't think that way
Shameless smuglispweeniesm: Rigetti is one of the companies using Common Lisp in their research and development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw
Wasn't there a scare back then that, if you added G+ to your account and then Google decided for some reason that your real name wasn't your real name, you'd lose your gmail account? That's the reason I've never logged into Youtube - I didn't want to risk losing the email account (even though it's always been under my real name).
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How do people here test their UIs? As an extreme example, the link here contains hundreds of lines of declarative code; a single typo (unclosed bracket, misspelled CSS property...) could break the site. So how is it tested?

Probably it's not tested in any automated way, because manual testing (open the site and look) is much easier. Maybe lots of software is like that, to various degrees.
Are you sure? Wouldn't they keep it up to retain the people after the scandals.
I watched TNG as it aired, that and Quantum Leap where my favourites as a kid at a time when UK TV was four channels and sci-fi was rare.
Mike Sperber used Racket in his excellent 35c3 talk "How to teach programming to your loved ones": https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9800-how_to_teach_programming_to...

From the abstract: "A word of warning: The resulting approach is radically different from most teaching approaches used in universities and schools. In particular, it avoids teaching purely through examples and expecting students to develop the skills to arrive at the solutions on their own. Instead, it eaches explicit methodology that enables students to solve problems of surprising complexity on their own, whether they are 11 or 55, whether in a classroom, a training facility, or your home. Extensive documentation, material, and software to support this methodology is available for free."
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That doesn't require Apple to lock down the platform. All it requires is for them to offer a store of Apple reviewed apps. You can choose those apps, other people can choose apps from other stores.

You're basically saying you like Blockbuster video because there's no porn and they only have the "edited for the Airlines" versions of movies.

Great, but other people would like to use their device for whatever they want.

Yes, I know you'll say "so buy a device from someone else". I don't agree with that anymore than I think Ford should be able to make a car you're not allowed to drive anywhere Ford says your not. If Ford did that I don't think the answer should be, "if you want to drive other places buy a car from someone else". IMO the answer should be it's illegal for Ford to control my car to that level.

I'm hoping Apple loses the case against their monopoly on the App store (although given the details of the case I don't think this particular case will succeed so I'll have to wait for another)