skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to know who is behind this content. Part of me thinks that a site with such open access is easily susceptible to this kind of sabotage from competitors, but getting this kind of dirt on your hands would be company-ending if it got back to you.

The question is: why do people do this? Some of these channels aren't small so it can't be only some kids on 4chan having a laugh; some are giant content farms that seem to be managed as a coordinated, money-making business.

See also: Elsagate.
Right click link -> Open link in incognito window

Hacky workaround, yes, but this is HN after all
What about this tactic: find out what percentage they get if they sell the account to a collector. Offer a bit more than that.
Biodiversity, I think is the biggest problem. The potato blight spread so rampently because mostly one clone of the exact potato was being grown everywhere. Some sort of rice or corn blight would be catastrophic.
So, as we move forward, all these desktops will end up having stable and mature support. Drivers are often lacking for bleeding edge components, but stuff that was released 3 or 5 years ago tends to be very solid unless it's something obscure nobody has ever seen.
I’m reading this now, and am about half way thru. I wish I would have read this before Deep Work.
I'd reckon the people downvoting you have never tried to negotiate a bill.
I think our understanding of how someone sees a video is different too. I'm not sure how many give you a heads up as much as your scenario implies.
"Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard" got my attention. Even if it's from 2010, I still find it valuable. I bought it and now it's just me and my kindle :D

Thank you for your book recommendations.
But there's no standard format for the charge master so some hospitals publish JSON, some PDFs, some random mixes of formats, and often there is no path from the home page to the published data -- you have to ask.

And this is for emergency rooms where typically you don't have a choice.
Is there any evidence of that happening? Is it a bad thing that an insurance company is incentivized to cover an expensive procedure instead of denying it?
> Selling more hardware is usually good for a hardware manufacturer. So is having fewer people returning their equipment because it doesn't work.

It all depends of the ROI. In hardware the economy at scale is at play, and it doesn't go well with niches.

> Most kernel developers would be ecstatic just with proper documentation of the hardware being sold.

I agree. That's mostly a matter of culture. Many companies won't publish docs, because they are either afraid of competition, pirating, or looking stupid.
It was mentioned at the FOSDEM 2019 talk about K8S.

Nowhere in my commented I addressed the Java remark to your specific person.

It was targeted to all of those that bash Java without actually knowing how the rich the eco-system actually is.
Small BASIC is maybe the "biggest" one you missed I'm aware of: https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/

(It's good that Microsoft still has a BASIC out there that you can point kids at. BASIC was Microsoft's first product and absolutely left a legacy across the decades.)

Also, I feel that as long as schools continue to require Texas Instruments graphing calculators for tests, that TI-BASIC will probably long have a place for teenage experiments when bored in classes.
Could be more benign such as a country that has rules about no political adds between X and Y times.

Still your question is valid.
One thing I hope they're doing is advanced detection of duplicate inappropriate content - e.g. by splitting a confirmed properly blocked video into frames and identifying matching videos based on frames matching (or even key parts of frames).

You'd still have to investigate/review partial matches, but something like that could cut down a lot on duplicate effort and could auto-identify a lot of things that would need manual review.
I like your levels classification. I would say that for most areas of math, my goals fall closer to your "Level 2" than anything else. I don't want to be a mathematician, but I need to understand certain areas of math well enough to read papers / books that use that area of math. For example, ML papers that use calculus, probability, linear algebra, convex optimization, etc.

For what my goals are, I don't necessarily need to get to level 3 (although I might like to if I had infinite time available to indulge in every hobby/interest that I have).

Anyway, my feeling is that exercise solutions are very useful up to, or just around, what you call "level 2." And I expect that a lot of other HN users making this same complaint about solutions, are probably also working at or near that same level. For getting to level 3, I would agree with you that solutions are less useful (although even there I expect they would have some value, at least for self-learners).

It really is a different thing when you're trying to learn this stuff on your own, instead of being in the context of a classroom where you have an instructor and/or TA's that you can get to check your answers. For those of us in that mode, anything that adds friction to the process is extremely frustrating, at least from my subjective perspective.

This may contradict what you have been told—that mathematics is sequential, and that you must understand each sentence before going on to the next. In reality, although mathematical writing is necessarily sequential, mathematical understanding is not: you (and the experts) never understand perfectly up to some point and not at all beyond.

I expect this is another of those things where it kinda depends on where you are. Getting up to and through, say, Multi-Variable Calculus does seem to depend on a lot of earlier subjects that depend on earlier things, in a roughly sequential stream. But beyond that, I can see that things start to diverge and become not-strictly-sequential.
Ahah, yes we are :)
You are guaranteed to lose your eyesight, no matter what you do. Nobody has eyesight after they die, and like all human bodies born before the 19th century have already done, your body is going to die within the next few decades, barring great medical breakthroughs. The most you can do for your eyesight is to delay its inevitable loss.

(Wow, awareness of mortality sure is unpopular on HN! To all humans downvoting this: you, too, are going to die, because that is what happens to humans.)
Oh man, I've been wanting to pick one of those routers up for some time. What did licensing cost you for your SRX 320?
This is depressing.

It's good advice but... how broken is our society that this advice is needed and we can't just force companies that are extorting people over healthcare costs to charge reasonable prices.
Who said you need a debug build?
I've noticed that the distinction between server and client is much less apparent in HTTP2 libraries than it was in HTTP1 libraries. It doesn't seem like Mint follows this philosophy, but many HTTP2 libraries (even ones that also support HTTP1) are both server and client libraries.

Presumably this is because HTTP2 is sort of two protocol layers stuck together—a session layer and an application layer—and at the session layer, HTTP2 just has identical "peers" rather than any concept of client/server. (Theoretically either side of an HTTP2 connection could open a session to the other side and send a message! It's just the semantics of the HTTP-mimicking application layer that stop this. If you read the RFC, all the session stuff—frames et al—are specified in terms of "peers", and it's only when the spec starts talking about HTTP request-response that we see "clients" and "servers" mentioned.)

Since implementing the session layer is most of the work of implementing an HTTP2 client/server, and the session layer is just about "peers", once you've implemented it for a client (or server), you can reuse it to implement a server (or client) mostly "for free."
A lightweight serverside Elixir framework like this is exactly what I was looking for earlier this week. Phoenix is really clunky in my opinion and pretty foreign (Ruby/Rails-like) coming from a lightweight Flask/Express/Go background.
> PDF consistently generates documents that anyone can see and verify the content.

You cannot rely on that. PDF combined with font and vector graphics rendering is just an insanely complex beast and there is lots of trickery that can change the appearance of the document. For example there is a font that changes its characters with font size and therefore zoom level.

When it comes to verification: see OP how well that works.

If you want verifieable content use plain text and bitmaps. Really that's your best bet.
My first development laptop was an 1984 IBM model. It's screen was black-n-white only, and it weighed like a bag of bricks. However, I wrote an amazing amount of Borland C++ on the road with that beast. (rest-in-peace)
This policy is probably to do with the company trying to ensure folks do not share stories that may end up on the internet/tv causing damage to the company (easier for a 3rd party, like a family member to raise the issue on the internet/tv without a financial, employment damage). I would be surprised if they couldn't speak a medical professional about it.

It would be interesting to see whether the same policy exists for work such as 911 dispatchers.
> Finally, we see legislators doing something good for a change:

Come on, we don't need this invective. Sure, I can find a reason to be outraged every day by some legislative decision someplace but in the main, we still have roads, air traffic control, health and safety rules etc.
Someone needs to make a modern day equivalent of a Model 100. By that, I mean a highly portable instant-on computer one can do remote terminal work on with seemingly endless battery life.

The first programming job I was ever paid for, I did a large part of dialed in through a modem over landlines. Emacs was fantastic for that! (Because it's an OS masquerading as an editor.)
You called me a "clueless dev".
2007 doesn't seem that old. I've got a desktop I built in 1999 that I continue to actively use. The only upgrades its ever gotten was a cable tuner card, fuck knows how long ago, a second hard drive and some extra RAM around 2007 or so. It runs ubuntu server now, but for a long time i had a full desktop running on it. Xorg is still installed if I really need a desktop environment for some reason.

It would take a long time to do things, but there's no reason i can't do pretty much anything I do on my current laptop on there.
I think he's talking about Cuba.
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality." - One of President Kennedy's favorite quotations
> You could support markers stating "I swear this part is never going to use those dynamic features"

You shouldn't have to!

The VM should be able to work this all out for you. One person puts the effort into improving the VM rather than everyone has to work around in their program.
My 5 year old MBP is still awesome .... So much so that I feel bad I bought the latest MBP. It's not "much" better.

I often recommend people buy a ten year old full-frame dSLR. Quality photos are more dependant on the photographer and maybe the glass... Megapixels aren't that important with a full frame sensor made in the last 15 years...
What does Mint provide over, say, HTTPoison? Still can't quite grok what it's offers.
Threats don't magically make the port a cheap or reasonable proposition to the SoC/smartphone vendors.
I have a ~2003 iBook still going strong.
China’s Money Supply Has Outgrown Its Economy over Two Fold Since 2009
I joined this company to build out a software stack for being able to do disaster recovery of sites off site. This resulted in building a system that takes incremental backups of client systems and uploading them to our servers. In a DR event we would spin up VMs backed by the images we had copied to our servers.

Throughout the processes the word "cloud" was brought up. Who's cloud would we use? Over and over again I tried to explain we were actually building a "cloud" service. And by that I mean we are just offering a service that runs on our servers.

Due to the feature set and cost we ended up settling on bare metal servers from SoftLayer (IBM). The entire solutions has been made to run on commodity hardware.

For the longest time the company kept marking that we were using "IMBs Cloud".

Every now and then I get a request to ask what it would take to move to AWS. My response is always the same. More operating budget, and less features.

We spin up DR environments for many servers2 in seconds -- and can do so because we have full control over the hypervisor, so moving to anything like AWS, Azure, or what not means we give up the ability for near instance restore. Owning the entire stack has its own set of problems, but in the long run we should be able to move much faster.

"The Cloud" -> "The Internet"
Since the source code has been released [0], i decided to check it out and sadly it isn't that smart. Searching is implemented in DIR.ASM [1] by reading each entry one by one, matching is done only on the filename (encoded as 11 bytes for FILENAMEEXT) and it only handles "?".

Note that this is for MS-DOS 2.0 which didn't handle "*.FOO" searches on the kernel side (the star expansion was done on the COMMAND.COM side via the MakeFcb [2] procedure). MS-DOS 3.0 introduced the star wildcard on the kernel side, so it might have taken advantage of that... but there isn't source code for MS-DOS 3.0.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v2.0/source

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
It was quite common on C64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Games were developed on bigger systems, and uploaded into them via the expansion ports.
Data Is in the Eye of the Beholder
I don't know if I'd recommend them. We had a really hard time trying to switch to them. We were with Seed which closed down and they offered a "seamless" migration to Azlo. We kept getting automated emails from them about docs that we already sent to them and no manual response from any one in customer support.

Eventually, they just rejected our application and off we went to SVB. It was frustrating, especially since we really were hoping to support another startup.
Good list. Nit: Crossing to Safety is Wallace Stegner
I try to emphasize that commits should not be thought of as "save points," which seems to be a seductive way to think of them, but as "undo points."
Because the poor get to know and serve with other poor people with whom their differences are otherwise used to foster divisions. The line between disagreement and hatred becomes much thicker.
Apple's replacement program for the 2011 MBPs with bad GPUs just swapped in another motherboard with the exact same faulty GPU. All the 15" 2011s eventually die of the same problem. The clock is ticking on mine.
Well it might not be the most in depth explanation, but your enthusiasm is appreciated, and contagious too.

I'm down the Wikipedia rabbit hole too, now.
Most people can't even pronounce it. I'm guessing the spelling is more natural if you speak Ukrainian.
Thank you!! I get the differing opinions on scrum but like I said earlier I think live meetings are important for team unity and collaboration beyond the pragmatic actionable tasks/pending questions.
Yes, this is the fundamental argument in favor of a single-payer public health insurance. This is why the US spends so much more on healthcare per-capita, and as a percentage of GDP, than Canada, for example.

> In 2006, per-capita spending for health care in Canada was US$3,678; in the U.S., US$6,714. The U.S. spent 15.3% of GDP on healthcare in that year; Canada spent 10.0%.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_s...
> price-per-performance unit standpoint

You know... If the thing doesn't work, price doesn't matter that much. I prefer something more reliable that's not as fast (I've been using Intel GPUs for many years now)
T500 owner here with (what at the time was quite expensive) on-board plus discrete graphic cards and 1600x1050 screen. After replacing the drive with SSD and upgrading to 6GB, it's working as good as when I bought it in 2009, even with Win10Pro on it.

I wish the multiple replacement batteries I got for it over the years were as performant ;o)
The one I'm used to is related to that one, but only barely: the software becoming less and less stable and/or harder to change as features are added. The cause can be loss of knowledge or ever-increasing technical debt.
Haven't read it completely, but hoping it has something related to guts' connection with brain
> BBC BASIC […] had both named sub-procedures and named functions […]

OK, sounds great. I also remember the versions of Basic on the Amiga and Atari ST being perfectly adequate in this regard.

But this is never the version of Basic which people talk about! What you describe is not the version of Basic used by all those listings in magazines, or in the linked article. This is, for all intents and purposes, not the “80s style Basic” which everybody remembers with such apparent and baffling fondness.
Filsys, flblk, ino – format of file system volume (1979)
We are hoping we can simulate that as time progresses!
In Ukrainian - yes, but not in English.
I'm glad you found value in reading it, I truly do. And I am well aware I'm not like others. Just wanted to give my 2c about the book.
The USA should use this opportunity to step back and re-think whether registering for the draft is needed in this age. The whole draft registration program is simply a waste of millions of dollars a year.
BTW this is about deviation, not deviance.
Amazing actually.

I got laid way more being a broke entrepreneur (or the best: being in massive debt) than when I was a wage slave.

Anything that boosts your "aliveness", like being on the edge of survival and success, controlling your own destiny, etc, makes you more attractive to women. Women love novelty, let me tell you. They also love leaders, and potential.
Grafana v6.0 Stable Released
I've said things like "really? there's nothing you can do about the cost?" but that's a really weak push for it... I just hate kind of being a dick about it (asking for a manager and making a counteroffer makes me feel pretty shitty, but I'll give it a shot).
I like this approach. Sudden demise of older hardware is the always saddening when it occurs. The thing is, if you went old enough to be able to afford spares with the money you saved versus buying new, it is still the better and more frugal solution.
Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong
I kinda feel bad for Mark Zuckerberg. He donated a massive amount of money to the city-run hospital in a bid to improve his image (like Mark Benioff did with the state-run UCSF Children's Hospital), and it turns out they are even more rapacious than him and now his name is being dragged further in the mud thanks to them.

This incident does illustrate how corrupt health care is in the US, and public institutions are just bad as private ones.
No it doesn't but vector data involves rendering on the target system and this leads to unavoidable differences between the output of different rendering systems. DJVU avoids this because it contains bitmaps. If small differences are no problem ePub is an option.
A $300 Canon 5D with a fast lens like a 28/1.8 or 35/2, in good light, outperforms most of what you can get today in any similar price range.
Is this one of those cases where the wage slave at Ellis Island did a craptastic job of transliterating the name and they've been stuck with it ever since?
Will definitely consider this - and I totally agree. The Go isn't going to offer the "BEST" end-all be-all solution, but as time progresses we will get the experience of a Rift in a Go for the same price as a Go (the quest in 1-2 years). If we can get an acceptable experience on the Go, the sky is the limit as the tech progresses!
The text is a bit blurry on my Retina screen…perhaps the fonts could be improved a bit?
I can’t recommend this book enough.
What makes you think that? How can you say that with such confidence? Are you letting your pre-existing negative feelings color your assumptions about what people actually think at the company?

I used to work there, and I built tools for these workers. Every one of the other engineers that I knew had nothing but respect for them, and everybody recognized that it was important work.
Nonsense, there's still plenty of available names out there.

In unrelated news, be sure to check out my new project Asbhrjfuugwxcgxedzkyhbwf!
Ouch, this is not a server library but a client! We updated the title of the blog post since it wasn't clear, not sure if we can update it here as well :\ Sorry for the confusion!
Hospitals cannot charge less than they charge insurance otherwise it would be constituted as insurance fraud.

Not sure where you heard that, but it's simply not true. First and foremost, every insurer negotiates different rates with hospitals and other facilities. Second, where is the insurance fraud when a hospital charges an uninsured patient less than list prices, given that no insurer is involved in the transaction?
> it never ceases to amaze me why some HTTP libs don't have TLS as a given

Separation of concerns. TLS termination is something that can be done separately, and at scale you want to separate it anyway.
Embodiment is absolutely necessary for consciousness - for physical realisation, learning and natural selection.

Here's a nice article touching on embodiment from the pov. of an AI researcher. https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-in...
I'm not affiliated with him whatsoever either fiscally or professionally. If someone is reading this article, they might suffer from the same problem. I figured it was worth sharing.
Analysis of the best places in the US to live for rock climbing
> ...Old laptops without [RAM+SSD] upgrades aren’t really viable these days unless you work all day in a terminal.

Huh, I don't think this is correct. A lightweight Linux distribution such as Debian can make very good use of even a spinning-rust HDD, as long as it has enough available RAM that it's not hitting disk all the time. As I've mentioned in a different comment, even 512MB RAM can be more than enough _if_ you have no need for a web browser.
in theory, theory is 90% of practice; in practice, theory is 10% of practice
Yes, because Cloud Flare sells DNSSEC services! The best exception you have proves the rule. :)
it's almost like Bezos intentionally issued the microservices mandate at Amazon to discourage Amazon's engineers from unionizing.
Most likely. Cuba's kind of an outlier in having an extraordinarily good medical system relative to its GDP, but it's proof at least that, given political will, it's possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
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