skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linus has somewhat recently clarified that position regarding old stuff; they break userspace if the break has happened years ago and nobody said anything in the meantime about it. If you notice upgrading from 2.5 to 4.20 breaks your app, nobody at the LKML or any subsystem maintainer is likely to fix it.

A.out is so positively ancient that it's likely been broken for years, nobody is testing or using it in live systems anymore.
"Daughter Catherine Quintana says the family is also upset because her father had trouble hearing the doctor through the robot's speaker forcing Wilharm to relay the terrible news."

The blame is on the full device, not just the screen.
On #1 I too had the same question, but I think the difference there is that department/grocery stores are re-sellers. They've already bought the goods from the third-party and are choosing to re-sell it at a markup. Amazon on the otherhand is a platform which only enables the initial sale.
Yes, they got here incrementally, but then any journey is done one step at a time.

At the time of Grasshopper the whole idea of a reusable private rocket was 10 year away tech.

I just went to check the Grasshopper dates, thinking it would be about 10 years to first successful landing. Grasshopper started testing in 2012, so my mentions of '10 years away' are definitely metaphorical.
Predatory pricing to push companies out of business is absolutely illegal, and covered under anti-trust law. It's also very hard to prove without getting the intent in writing.
For anybody who is confused about why this is an issue:

There's a right way and a wrong way to talk to someone about their death. The right way involves making eye contact, making sure that they can hear you, and if they are comfortable with it, holding their hand.

The wrong way involves doing none of those things, because you are talking to them via a shitty Skype connection on wheels.

Technology has a huge role to play in healthcare. It's invaluable in diagnosis and treatment. In the long run it'll probably put a lot of people who do those kind of things out of work. But it should not be used to replace the empathic, emotional aspects of healthcare. If anything, the labour efficiencies generated by technology ought to increase the resources put into empathy -- not be used to eliminate it.
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Honestly, you are a moron and need to seek help.
From the looks of it, it does. But don't forget the test dummy Riley is stuffed with sensors and those also need to show acceptable values.
I haven't had a chance to talk to him about this, but an acquaintance of mine is an ER doctor for Kaiser and he showed me training material for this system at home last year he was required to learn, he groaned when he talked about. Not sure if he could use it from home. Possibly Kaiser is trying to cover more hospitals with less doctors.
Yes; this short story was distinctly different. The concept is similar but the short story captured more beauty IMO. I can't find the short story now, unfortunately. I am terrible with titles.
Just because men cannot physically give birth doesn't mean it isn't their issue too. It just happens that it always affects a women due to pregnancy and childbirth and doesn't necessarily affect a father at all, but it can. In fact, including and affecting fathers tends to improve things for women.

People in all sorts of relationships adopt or otherwise have children. Folks die during childbirth. And while men cannot physically give birth, I've met plenty that enjoy child-rearing. If it were possible with my spouse and I, I'd happily work while he stays home. (He legally has to support me due to immigration laws). My ex stayed home while I worked, though to be fair, he was on disability. I do not have children (and have no plans to), but we have discussed adoption of an non-infant/toddler child (along with their siblings if they have any). While I see plenty of reasons for one of us to take parental leave, I don't see any reason why that would absolutely have to be me instead of him.
You'd have to work really hard to share code between Lambda@Edge and ... anything else, unfortunately.
It's certainly an entirely different cost universe at present. A quick price scan through realtor.com for Austin TX listings, shows that you can buy housing in Austin for $500k-$700k that would cost more like $3m-$5m in SF.

Given the nature of real-estate in Texas in general, and the way that Austin has an enormous amount of room to free-sprawl (ala other TX cities), I'm very skeptical Austin can ever end up with a comparable housing situation to SF or Seattle.

As a plus, in the next 20 years Austin will be connected via high-speed rail to Dallas, San Antonio and Houston (HSR triangle). You can still do infrastructure in Texas cost-effectively.
We do have an energy constraint (i.e. catastrophic global warming), and idle CPUs use less energy.
I would prefer this over getting the news even a day later.
I wonder if such files could be converted to elf.
why is the goal for women to work full time as if that in itself is some societal good? i want to live in a society where people don’t have to work full time
Crypto experts and the art of stating the bleeding obvious
In England at least, there seems to be a significant “EU immigrants took our jobs” factor as well. As I understand it, that perception was a significant factor in the Brexit vote.

For example see: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/20/reality-che...
Another addition suggestion - the Dutch American Friendship Treaty.

If you're a US citizen, you've got ~$7500 in savings, and can employ yourself, you can live and work in the Netherlands.

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

I emailed this guy a few times and he was always happy to answer questions - http://shawnindutch.com/
Are the suburbs much cheaper only in comparable housing? What if a family that would have lived in a house in the suburbs lived in an apartment in the city? Isn't there cheaper housing options in the city?
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For some of these tele-specialists their main specialty is that they live in another country and are willing to work for a small fraction of what an on site doctor charges.

For some time, many xrays have had their initial reading done by a radiologist overseas. Tele-doctors bedside via a robot screen is just a continuation of this.

It's a pity the journalist didn't follow up by asking Kaiser where the specialist was physically located.
It is if the decision to use the robot in this circumstance was made by the doctor, rather than being standard Kaiser policy.
Yes. Broadly speaking, the law went from looking at concentration as a bad thing on its own to only looking at whether consumer prices would be impacted. The prevalent idea now is that mega-mergers will reduce prices because of economies of scale.

It also doesn't help that there seems to be academic corruption or at least conflicts of interest driving the new interpretation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-mor...
In that case, I’d rather err to less govt intervention than more. Govt should be built to write and execute laws, not pick winners.
Is that actually true? How many people, when installing Photoshop, actually look at who issued the cert?
You're feeding a troll.
I'll be honest, although the environmental impact of first class is higher than economy, I'm not sure it's really as bad as people claim.

First of all, fuel use goes down with less weight. One first class passenger reduces weight substantially vs. a claimed 3-9 economy passengers. Secondly, airlines don't like to fly with a lot of unused capacity, be that passenger seats or weight capacity. Many planes carry extra cargo if there's consistently extra weight available.

Now, then you get into economic effects: the presence of the lighter first class passengers allows more cargo to be brought, which reduces demand, which reduces the cargo price, which encourages more polluting air freight. But that, of course, is far more complex to calculate.

Ultimately I'm just not satisfied with any estimate of CO2 emitted by flying in general. Every estimate I've seen has critical flaws in it and neglects at least one major component of flying. I completely believe that flying is responsible for a large amount of CO2 emissions, but exactly how much I don't think anyone knows for sure.

Has anyone here seen a decent model of CO2 output caused by flying?
This is also a huge part of the lie of "caring about diversity" large enterprises are trying to sell.

Disadvantaged groups have less educational attainment. If you want a diverse workplace, you have to invest in training for people without the stanford/mit/etc background.

Verbally recommitting to diversity at every all hands is some frustrating, cynical bullshit when the company expects recruiting to magically source diverse candidates who have the same credentials as people who grew up without institutional discrimination.
"We're sorry, you have termin -kshhhh- cer. Our models estimate you have -kshhhh- to live. Have a nice day!"
They're not using the traditional definition of monopoly meaning lack of competition, now monopoly just means "too big".
I just launched File Ark two days ago on Product Hunt to solve this personal cloud storage issue that I had. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/file-ark

It's not a backup solution, but rather an archive. With backups, you might expect files to be synced after changes, which my app won't do. Rather as an archive, you can just drag n' drop the files/folders you want to archive and it'll be moved to cloud storage and then you can delete the local copy of those files on your computer.

The files in this archive storage are also not meant to be shared like Dropbox or Google Drive because it's supposed to be your personal archive of files/folders, so there's no sharing functionality.

If that fits you what you are looking for, do give it a try.
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I worked at Kaiser IT, and there are definitely some well intentioned IT folk there trying to make revolutionary changes to healthcare. However, the company's internal infrastructure (inventory, expenses etc) is a giant cluster running on deprecated versions of XYZ. At one point we heard the metric that almost half of the inventory they have in hospitals was just lost in the system so they have no idea where it could be. Gets off the truck, scanned in, the inventory system craps out and it's lost forever. I don't know if that was accurate or just the remarks of a crusty manager, but I left after a short time because they definitely made me believe it.
A form is already 'read' - it's an object.

When we parse an expression, we usually parse a textual representation into an object. If the object is meant / subject to evaluation -> then we call this a form.
Lots of jobs have personality qualifiers. If you work in a service industry, in a position that involves customer/client interaction, you're going to need some reasonable amount of social skills. The more esteemed your position is, the more your social skill level will matter.
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Just my 2 cents: Apple currently offers a great user experience in terms of app quality, stability, design, etc... That's because they have a total control over what can and what can't be uploaded to their app store. They run extensive analysis over each one of the apps that are being submitted to the app store and they reserve their right to reject an app even if the slightest bug occurs. That, at the end of the day, turns into a very positive user experience.

My question is: Would it be actually good for the end user if Apple is forced to lose control over the app store?
I bet China isn’t as keen to see its powerhouses broken up. Because it’s holding the leashe.
I remembered enjoying Kingdom Hearts as a kid so I recently bought a mega Kingdom Hearts bundle for ps4, which includes 2 separate bundles (I.5 and II.5 ReMix and 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue) as well as the brand new Kingdom Hearts III, all for $100.

I have so much content to work my way through at my own pace, I probably won't even make it to Kingdom Hearts III this year, much less need to buy any other RPGs.
Interesting. Didn’t know that. I know they’ve really been promoting Polaris. Didn’t know they were introducing something below it.
In Mexico we have had a trend of books about drug trafficking for years, which is a very charged political and social issue. I do not think that most of these publications contribute towards understanding the problem, however.
I wonder if there's a way to start from scratch. Build a planned city with a focus on having a dense urban environment and lots of public transportation. It must be more cost-efficient than trying to keep adding to existing cities that don't really want the growth.
Merge with yesterday's discussion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328547
On the other hand, the reasons that ISPs are territorial monopolies (local, state, and federal regulatory capture) are hard to address. Splitting territorial monopolies into smaller territorial monopolies is unlikely to help.
Literally every moderately big retailer does this.

Though many of them choose brand that are not as obviously connected with the house. Like half the stuff at Walmart is actually a house brand.
The cause is cultural IMO. It's not cool to have kids and they're seen as a burden by popular culture.

It may be worth to invest into all sorts of cultural programmes to make having kids cool again.
I have been walking around San Francisco barefoot with my 2-year-old kid for a year.

We get told on a daily basis that we should watch out for broken glass on the sidewalk, but the only (minor) foot punctures we’ve had are (1) I stepped on a fish bone in my own kitchen, and (2) my kid stepped on a thumbtack near a picnic table at the playground. (Edit: to be clear, there is regularly broken glass on the sidewalk, which we step around.)

I suppose there is some chance of not paying attention, stepping on something big and sharp, and getting a serious injury, but it frankly seems less likely than getting hit by a car. I think people are in general quite poor at evaluating and balancing risks.

In the advantages column: my kid’s “toddling” phase lasted like 2 months, and he is a faster and more graceful a walker/runner than any kids his age here. (I’m sure compared to someone in a hunting tribe he would be no better than average, but young city kids are weak and awkward.) There is so much information picked up from the ground while trying to move, and so many additional muscles in the foot/lower leg to use when not in a stiff shoe. Not being barefoot when learning to walk is a huge handicap for the little developing brain.

The only places we typically go that really insist on shoes here are occasional restaurants and the public library. More people could get away with walking barefoot in more places than they might expect.
This is a straw man. The price difference between a first class ticket and chartering a private flight is massive.
Definitely the same, at the level Steve and I were talking about. The 6502 has instructions that manipulate registers and memory, logical and arithmetic operations, branches and calls, status flags, and so forth. Just like all the "mainframe" CPUs I'd been programming.

The word size is different, the special areas of memory are different, it has different opcodes, and so on. But any competent machine language programmer of the day - regardless of which CPUs they'd programmed on before - would have had no trouble understanding this:

http://www.obelisk.me.uk/6502/instructions.html

That's what Steve didn't understand at the time. Not being a programmer himself, he didn't know how familiar all this would look to any machine language programmer.
Just my 2 cents: Apple currently offers a great user experience in terms of app quality, stability, design, etc... That's because they have a total control over what can and what can't be uploaded to their app store. They run extensive analysis over each one of the apps that are being submitted to the app store and they reserve their right to reject an app even if the slightest bug occurs. That, at the end of the day, turns into a very positive user experience.
My question is: Would it be actually good for the end user if Apple is forced to lose control over the app store?
It's notable that you keep returning to strong body odor again and again. While I'm sure you can find an examples of homeless people like that, and it's likely that homeless people as a population have more body odor problems, superhuman body odor is hardly a universal quality of the homeless.

The root comment made no mention of body odor, let alone body odor so bad that it would affect other customers. It also referenced a region where the rent is so damn high that people have been driven out of stable housing and are forced to live in campers on the street [1]. It only described a situation were a business was trying to keep "those people" out.

It seems pretty clear to me that you're engaging in negative stereotyping to justify your prejudices. Thank you for the education, it's rare in my life that I see such attitudes so openly displayed.

[1] https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/03/08/council-rejects-res...
If you want to imagine “Medicare for all”, it looks no better than this, as Kaiser’s non profit HMO is about as functionally close to the best you could expect from AOC & co.
There's something similar in Debian Policy §2.3 (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#cop...):

> Programs whose authors encourage the user to make donations are fine for the main distribution, provided that the authors do not claim that not donating is immoral, unethical, illegal or something similar; in such a case they must go in non-free.

BTW, the nagware code has been removed in Debian unstable:

https://bugs.debian.org/905674
But you know what, we don't take our shoes off in the office, do we? Why is that different?

I had an Indian colleague years ago, and she did take her shoes off at work. We'd sit down at a computer to pair on something, and she'd slip her shoes off as she sat down. I must have found that unusual, because i remember it clearly.

I have started taking my shoes off at work, but only a year or two ago. I think it's because i got a pair of heavy boots, and my feet can get too warm wearing them. I will walk to the printer in socks, but i have a pair of smart office slippers for going to the kitchen or bathroom.
That's a fair point, but I think that there is also a valid concern about distraction. Does focus on FAANG companies result in less attention given to the potentially more dangerous ISPs? Could the ISPs use concern about Amazon, etc as an argument that they are actually less dangerous and should be ignored?
That odd SV myopia. The trend in broadband has been more competition. Verizon competes with Comcast in almost its entire FiOS service area. These days it also competes with cellular—15% (and growing) of households have abandoned wired broadband in favor of cellular. There are four major cellular providers.

In tech, the trend has been in the other direction. If you don’t consider Sprint a viable competitor to AT&T, what does that say about Bing and the search market? If cellular isn’t competitive, what about mobile, where there is just Android and iOS?
I need to get to Point A...I am also 6'5"

Ticket: $178 (the fare that shows up on initial search)
Luggage fee: $40
Taxes and Fees: $35
Exit Row Seat which may or may not be crowded: $65 (each way)

Actual Cost: $400 (Numbers SWAG'd, but that's approx what it costs to round trip from Denver to Baltimore)

All I want to do is take a 2 hour flight in relative comfort and the whole thing's a bait n switch.

That doesn't include the TSA Grope, the 'no fluids pass security', $12 a day far out distant remote parking, nor leaving the extra time to handle all of the extra fallderal.

I can see people getting disenfranchised with the whole deal.
The format was named for the file, not the file for the format. By the time this became incongruous, it was too late to fix.
Google was hit with a big antitrust violation fine in the EU in 2017 for demoting rival shopping services: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-fined-e2-42bn-for-e...
Biggest reason I can think of is that airlines have so heavily invested in business class over last 10 years or so to the point where business is nearly as good as first class has been at a fraction of the price.

I've had the privilege of flying international first and business class flights several times over past few years using points (including Singapore Suites), and business class has gotten so good (lie flat reverse herringbone configuration) that there's hardly a difference between the two except a slightly bigger seat and marginally better food but 3x the price.

We are living in the golden age of business class travel.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/cashless-cash-free-ba...

> In February, New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres introduced legislation that would prohibit retail establishments from refusing to accept payments in cash. The council hasn’t made a decision on the bill yet, but Torres is confident that it will pass by mid-year. If it does, cashless businesses could face fines of up to $500 for every violation ... Also in February, both houses of New Jersey’s state legislature passed a similar bill and are only awaiting the governor’s signature. San Francisco has recently proposed a similar ordinance, and Washington D.C. and Chicago have also introduced legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate against cash as a form of payment.
I read a different set of definitions for proposition.
This guy sounds pretty ungrateful.

He was able to read Robert X. Cringley's book "Accidental Empires" thanks to Archive.org's "virtual library card" service.

This is a service where Archive.org sources a physical copy of a book for you, scans it, and lends it out to you digitally, one person at a time.

Sounds like a useful service. But all this monumentally ungrateful guy can do is moan about how "aggressively user-hostile" is it because you have to double tap to open a book from the list.
I mean, you get what you put into college. I sort of veered off my senior and took a bunch of business classes after finishing my CS requirements. I wish I took extra CS classes because there's a lot I had teach myself. Motivated people can teach themselves a lot, but there IS something to be said for having a credential.
>> I think it's important to understand "racist" as an effect, not as an opinion.

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. If as a white person you punch a black person because you don't like the car the person is driving, that's not racism, that's just some weird aggression. It's not based on the concept of race. But if you punch them because they're black, that's obviously racism.

Same thing here. If you're taking an action that indirectly causes harm to mostly non-whites (more specifically to poor people, some of whom are white) without the intent of causing harm, that's not racist. It's only racist if you feel that the group that's being harmed is racially/ethnically inferior to your group and that that justifies your actions.

That isn't to say that knowingly causing harm to people, even without any racism involved, is OK. It's not. But it's the intent that defines racism.
Honestly you wouldn't believe how little environmental awareness there is in most businesses. I've seen people do return transatlantic flights for a single half day meeting...