skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the definition of "honor". In a financial transaction, escrow holds the funds and releases to counter-party upon contractual delivery.

Both parties just need to agree on the "Swiss Bank" 3rd party to escrow the funds (and of course, the contract terms).

Blockchain and smart contracts seemed well suited to this task, initially. But I'd agree with the OP that low value assets (LVA) with sensors are easily spoofed and the cost of electricity isn't worth the time to miners.

High value assets (HVA) are just better served with human escrow brokers.
A much simpler approach is to show in realtime what computer will interpret of current input without changing the input, instant feedback is a much more better approach to improve quality of input.
The are paid on the GS salary scale. Examiners have a quota of "counts" where each count corresponds to some action they take during examination.

It doesn't make any difference to them if they allow or reject patents. The more rounds of prosecution it takes means more counts for the examiner. Each round after the first requires additional fees from the applicant.
If jet fuel is stored on base, then it is part of the standard fire suppression operating procedure. https://www.afcec.af.mil/WhatWeDo/Environment/Perfluorinated... I cannot fault that given the cost of the jets, but if they use any fire retardants and a good job of cleaning any mess up is not done, then the users need to be given a stern talking to as everyone will be drinking the stuff in a few years.
Sorry, to hear that, good luck, and I'm very glad you're sharing your story. It makes things more real for people and matters a lot.
> You can buy insurance or go on Medi-Cal, right?

You can continue your exact insurance plan via COBRA and pay both your portion and your employer's portion of expenses. Having done this, I paid nearly $3k a month in premiums alone for continued individual coverage. That is not feasible for everyone who were just laid off and still have bills to pay.

To be eligible for Medi-Cal, you must make under 138% of the federal poverty line, or be disabled or elderly[1]. A tech worker who was just laid off would not be eligible for Medi-Cal unless they were recognized as disabled by the state, and the program they'd be eligible for during that tax year would require them to spend a significant portion of medical costs out of pocket before Medi-Cal kicked in.

There are special provisions to purchase health insurance on the individual private market if you're laid off. However, anyone with a chronic condition can attest to the problems that arise when you're forced to switch health insurance plans and continue treatment at the same time.

[1] https://ca.db101.org/ca/programs/health_coverage/medi_cal/pr...
As a person who was under the impression they were having a productive weekend but who is somehow writing an answer on HN now...!

Personally I would describe productive time as

* Anything which isn't consuming media, whether it's movies/tv shows/Reddit/HN/gaming.

Then starting with the obvious "gotta do it" or "good for you" stuff.

* Just finished doing my taxes

* Cleaning your place, organizing your things

* Cooking / Meal Prep

* Working Out

* Seeing friends & family

And then I'd separate any efforts made towards personal development and in pursuit of goals you've set, separated into two main categories.

1) Learning (Coding, How to do a rubiks cube, anything really which requires concentration and effort)

2) Creating (Any side project, personal business, home improvement, etc.)

These categories are broad enough to include pretty much everything.

Any mix of these activities in which I minimize the consuming media part, I'm happy with.
Mainstream economic theory is considered garbage by the majority of mainstream economists :)

Joking aside, what MMT says is pretty easy to understand from reading ~100 pages and watching some YT lectures/debates, where mainstream economists also voice their opinion. A reasonably intelligent person can make up their own mind, irrespective of what others think.

Finally, if you watch debates on YT, it's not true that mainstream economists say it's garbage. They usually say "MMT is essentially accounting truisms".

Here's Paul Ryan asking Alan Greenspan about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCZHAQnfGU
Yea, but they're much more of a supplier than a biotech. Like IDT or ATUM.
> Because it will be seen by their families, friends, classmates, professors, coworkers, bosses, etc. When they go travel, want to get a loan, a promotion, etc. then it will play a major role.

That is very sad. :/
> A world where you can release a chip or a drug or a jet engine and have a Chinese company immediately copy it and sell a competitor at a fraction of the price with no consequences is one that’s not good for Silicon Valley in the long run.

I have no problem living in a world where the government is unable to exact violence against people for copying data.

This seems to me to be an entirely artificial crime whose existence has been important for humanity so far, but which is now a human rights affront.
I don't think that's a big part of the reason to be honest. Also, modern Java has a reasonable support for FP.

I'm talking about projects like Mapbox, Blender, Firefox, Android.
Except that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all.

RAII is tons better than older memory management styles in C++.

The newer styles of C++ initialization are tons better than the older ones, which seem to inevitably result in a dozen ad-hoc mini-initialization frameworks.

Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables

That is indeed arbitrary and useless.

forcing brackets on new lines

Forcing brackets on new lines is useless. Mandating the use of brackets has been shown to be very useful for reducing bugs.
> but none is objectionable enough to ban discussions around it.

Where is "ban discussions" around it coming from, certainly it's not something I said. It's also not something that happened here. (The thread was moved to another subreddit with weeks notice, the participants voted on the name, the result was highly promoted, etc.)

My view is that there its material that few would want to be around or have their identity associated with. If guests at my home were carrying on about that, I'd politely try to get them to change the subject and failing that get them to leave. ... avoid inviting them in the future, and apologize discretely to my other gusts for having had to endure it. [And pray a fight didn't break out before I could intervene...]

Stuff like that.
Author here. Yep, that was my suspicion as well so I didn't hold it against Fargate. I was more looking for a reasonable expectation of performance, so I just threw a ton of resources at it to rule out as much as possible.

One of the AWS container advocates mentioned it was likely something like the nofile ulimit: https://twitter.com/nathankpeck/status/1098992994131283968
> They had a hard time believing that single-unit washer-dryer units have existed for quite some time.

Indeed, and unfortunately they still aren't good. Just useful if space is a premium (e.g. apartments).

I was recently reading extensively on them, and the consensus seems to be that the washer part is roughly as good as a stand-alone unit, but the dryer is significantly worse (slow and inefficient). Often taking twice as long to dry the same loud.

This seems to be because the dryer is a condenser dryer (stand alone dryers are typically vented dryers). This means instead of pumping warm-wet air outside, they use a heat exchanger to cool the warm-wet air, causing water to be deposited which is then drained.

This results in the combo units consuming water to DRY. Since the heat exchanger has water pumped through it to keep its temperature low, and that water has to be discarded when it gets warm.
Not even close to how it works.
Anything that promotes cell death, and/or division it probably carcinogenic.

Figure cellular membranes are sensitive to intracellular volume, ergo, pack a cell with inert space filling molecules that never leave, and are not evacuated, and the cell splits more readily, faster than usual.

Also, because it doesn't react, it probably creates obstacles and cytoplasmic traffic jams, as objects traverse the endoplasmic reticulum, if timing is thrown off for critical functions, the cell probably dies, due to improperly tuned pathways that don't signal each other properly, leading to flame-outs, stalls and caustic burns or wasted energy inside the cell.
Remarkable. Thanks!
The first time you run code in a REPL Julia will have to compile it. So starting a new REPL, and trying to solve a very small problem one time will currently be a terrible workflow for Julia (unless you don’t care that it may take a few seconds).

If you had run your code again within the same REPL you’d see it runs substantially faster the second time. Likewise, if you had tried to process a large enough matrix or CSV that compilation time should be a minimal subset of the total computing time, and probably not noticeable.

It isn’t a language limitation, just a tooling limitation. The startup times have been getting better as Julia develops, but there is still noticeable overhead the first time code gets run in a new REPL...
When raw materials are combined, new value is created. Disregarding solar input, raw materials are finite, so it was the same total 1000 years ago as today. Yet today we have infinitely more goods (and services) than 1000 years ago, and we all agree that it's okay to have more money than 1000 years ago to represent the additional value.
Good explanations. Note that often backlit LCDs do have settings for R, G, B drive levels which can be adjusted similarly to what f.lux would do, but without the timed functions. I have used that in the past to switch between 'normal' and 'user' reduced blue modes.
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I might be wrong, but my understanding is things happened backwards from that. OOP tried to solve the problem of how to get tons of devs working on huge projects at the same time; java came along to try to be an awesome OOP environment, so Java became the standard.
Yea it is wrong.

High speed rail cost overruns are almost always due to how expensive eminent domain is more than anything. The estimations given to state officials are often an order of magnitude off how much land they would need to buy. Its also the kind of project beyond the scope of anyone but the largest companies to even attempt, so even if an investment firm could do the math to recognize the economic benefit of having high speed rail and thus they could capitalize on investing in it through other investments in other industries that would grow substantially in the presence of better transit they can't raise the capital to do it and the time frame to realize those returns is too long for any investor to consider reasonable. So we don't get public or private trains.

> the bloated military budget

Its not a money mismanagement at all though. The money allocated to the military that is squandered on hundred thousand dollar toilets and billions on fighter jets that don't even work and will never see practical application in aerial combat were all budgeted intentionally to make private defense contractors rich. Those contractors paid the bribe money to see the budget allocated to them and get a tremendous return on investment.

Something like comparing NASA and SpaceX can be reasonable, but you have to be nuanced about it. A large part of the SLS overrun, for example, was due to their contract with Boeing which was budgeted for 4B but overran time and money up to 9B. Thats "private enterprise" at work wasting tax money because they knew the oversight wasn't there to hold them accountable, as is the case with many government projects mired in corruption.

But you know what? If your government is corrupt, the solution is not to give private enterprise - those that corrupted said government - control over the functions government was supposed to fulfill. You fix your government. If NASA is unable to budget or deliver projects on time, you fire those given the responsibility of managing said projects, do independent investigations of why they failed, and if some party is culpable for the intentional sabotage or deception of the proposals arrest them. If theres a revolving door in Washington of defense contractors lining the pockets of congressmen for taxpayer money via the defense budget investigate and impeach the corrupt politicians. When you contract with a third party to budget infrastructure expansion make them culpable for failure to deliver or for budget overruns.
You have to use it inside a REPL, like R or Matlab.
Julia using LLVM and compiling on-the-fly is not sloppy design, it's a design tradeoff (and a great one, if you really need speed).

Julia is not a scripting language, it's a language for mathematical analysis.

Also going back to your example the solution would be to use ImageMagick.jl from Julia, and extend the library (4 extra lines with ccall) if it's not available, and send a pull request to help the community.
What changed it from being important to being a human rights affront?
My feeling is rats avoid places with an active human presence. And they also avoid spaces occupied by cats.

They are basically everywhere people are. Friend has a house in a Suburban neighborhood. Along one side of his property is a long dense hedge. It's a rat superhighway.
Wow, "lifetime commitment" to a language or a country sounds harsh.

I think you can achieve a working level of any (European) language in around one year. And today we have Google translation in our phones, the job is 10x easier.

Nowhere is a "lifetime" commitment, but if you like a place, might just stay there.
He's saying there's no attribute intrinsic to the Internet that demands sites and communities be free of social norms, and that when a community adopts broader social norms, they aren't betraying the Internet by doing so.

His analysis is value-neutral. He's not saying the SSC culture war thread, in its previous state, was good or bad. He's that the Internet itself doesn't require it to be one way or the other, and on that point he's obviously right.
I must agree even though I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for the engagement.
That’s not even close to true.
my experience with magnet links is that they are unpredictably slow: sometimes it works almost instantaneously, sometimes it takes literally forever to fetch the peers and the transfer never completes. busiest torrents will of course propagate better...

I was hoping I could transfer semi-public files (say some music with a friend) without putting them on the public trackers, but my tests with different clients were not conclusive, so those really only make sense for busy, wide-distribution torrents and not one-to-a-few transfers, for which things like magic-wormhole are a better alternative.
>Even the most reprehensible forum troll knows that if he behaved that way to someone's face, he'd get punched.

Honestly, in my experience, this isn't true. "Troll"-type demonstrators and protesters behave like, well, trolls to people's face all the time, and it's generally considered part of Good Public Decorum and Free Speech not to punch them.
We only started logging the front page on 2014-11-11. For days before that, what you're seeing is the stories which were submitted on that day, ordered by vote score. (Not necessarily publicly visible points, though, because some votes get dropped for various reasons.) Since your story was submitted on Sept 5, 2013, that's the day it shows up.

If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2014-11-11 vs. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2014-11-10, you'll notice that the text description changes at the top.
LISP code is not a list as you know it traditionally. It's made up of cons cells. The code of other languages is not a cons cell, altho it is a list of characters. Very important distinction.
Of course quillette doesn't examine the question of whether false reports of hate crimes are any higher than the baseline of falsely reported crimes, nor how disparate the difference in incidence between hate crimes and false reports of hate crimes is.

Because quillette is a dishonest publication. By the way, this is an advertisement for an odious book.
Ask HN: Dead Man Switch / Emergency Drill UX Best Practice?
I'm working on an emergency / dead man switch type app & am wondering if I should hold "drills" or not.

Scenario: User A activates switch on his mobile phone, if not de-activated before time Z, User B (Guardian) gets notified that User A may be in an emergency.

Use Case: high risk sports, activists, etc ...

My Question: Should User B (the Guardian) receive emergency drills to score responsiveness or will this lead to fatigue and ignoring the real signals?
I think they mean that the library has no dependencies (it doesn't inflate your node_modules) and the components themselves are drop-in (no setup/bootstrapping).
"We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Production...
Author here. I'd say this was about in line with what I'd see from using API Gateway and Lambda.

I thought about doing a price comparison, but that gets really tricky. At some point, you're testing the skills of the tester more than the services themselves.

Agree with your expectations though. I think Fargate is naturally faster and can be moreso given the number of knobs you can tune. This will likely cost you more, both in direct resource costs and in engineering time trying to fine-tune the knobs. Whether that's worth it depends on your business needs.
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Do you send the hardware or do we need our own headsets? How difficult is set up if I want this for my team?
Sorry to everone for the comment above. It really wasn't good IMO :-/
Having run a service on Fargate in prod before I can almost guarantee that the errors he was seeing were 504s which are caused by the server code and the ALB not having their request-timeouts set to to the same value.
A very simple prophylactic for this kind of problem: don't use DNSSEC. I'm sure this sounds like snark, but it's the best DNSSEC advice I think exists in 2019.
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I find it telling that this particular argument is only trotted out against the idea of universal health care. It’s not used in disagreement with military spending, subsidizing religious institutions, agricultural and land-use supports, etc.
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I recently started to understand US politics a lot better by realising that it's a global moon-landing superpower and a Latin American banana republic that occupy the same physical space.
> while he trained the flashlight onto various parts of the piece

In photography that's a technique called 'light painting'. Usually done deliberately but I had to resort to it once on a shoot when the flash units wouldn't fire; I borrowed a bicycle headlight.
Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing. This is how ours look like after something like a decade: https://imgur.com/a/ozd7MIY There is some use to it as you can see at the bottom and a dent where I guess it fell down. But nothing compared to what you describe.

I can't imagine what could break it. Maybe grinding bricks ;)
The difference is that Amazon doesn’t compensate their employees well.
It is more than enough to buy - not sure what you're expectations are around buying here. Sure, it maybe possible to buy instantly in Austin, to my understanding in not as great neighborhoods if you want it cheaper, as I hear house prices have gone up there as well, but in 5-10 years of working at $300k+, it's very possible to buy in most of the Bay Area.

The benefit becomes compounded in the Bay Area if you have a spouse also working, and timelines accelerated.
OK I'll say it. It's describing the next gen. VR headset from Ready Player One.
Right now, using is as a “quick” command line utility for solving small problems is probably not a good Julia work flow (unless the overhead you mention doesn’t matter to your application). Where it shines is for longer-running or repeated computations where the initial compilation cost of starting a new REPL doesn’t matter.
For me (bronze ACA plan w/ no subsidy) it's approaching $800/mo with a $15k max family deductible ($8k/person), and $18k maximum out-of-pocket expenses.

So minimum to maximum liability spread for healthcare cost is ~$10k-$27k. If I pull down $100k in a year, 10-27% of my gross paycheck goes to healthcare.

A shoddy analysis of ACA programs countrywide for 2019 [1] (e.g., for a 30-year-old couple with one child) lead me to the conclusion that it really doesn't get that much cheaper. Bronze, silver, gold, or platinum -- you're going to end up paying a good chunk for premiums. The metal level just is a gamble whether to front- or back-load the costs to you (roll the dice on if you think you're going to be sick next year). At absolute minimum $6400/yr, and if you get really sick, it's going to cost you $17-50k.

It's incredible and terrifying to me how small business owners -- at least those who earn too much for a subsidy -- have fallen through the cracks of the ACA. It's far better than it was, but we need universal healthcare, period.

It will lower total cost of healthcare (even though taxes will obviously increase, they should increase less than healthcare costs will decrease, since the US often pays double what other rich countries pay for healthcare [2]), remove the sword of Damocles of employer-subsidized healthcare hanging above the head of would-be entrepreneurs (who hope to leave and follow their own path, but many don't because if they don't make enough in your new business to offset the massive increase in healthcare costs, they're screwed), remove medically caused bankruptcies, and remove "should I get this cough/lump/etc. checked out" as an economic vs. health question (which is just a perverse calculation, but one that happens often in the US). These are just a few of the primary benefits.

[1] Data available here: https://www.healthcare.gov/health-and-dental-plan-datasets-f...

[2] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...