skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java has issues both with latency and memory usage due to the garbage collector and general age of the language (missing modern features like value types).

Performance is.. complex. The lack of value types causes a lot more indirection, the hotspot compiler patches away some of it, the copy collector will compress connected objects together so that they will fit 'automagically' into CPU cache.

Unoptimized Java code may often run faster than unoptimized C/C++ code, but Java gives you only vague, global flags for attempting to tune memory behavior and code generation.

For monolithic Java applications, you can have a lot of different memory patterns internally (short term objects for the web stack, medium-term objects for transactional state, plus long-term objects representing accumulated state) which can really muck with the garbage collector's assumptions around generations. For server applications, this can cause things like heavy load causing request/response short-term state to be promoted to the mature generation. You start having to break up monolithic applications for performance reasons.

But, that still is being a victim of your success - and you would be better off by default creating the first version of your application in a language that allows your developers to iterate quickly.
Oddly, the only hard to believe thing I see about that scenario as an actual, real thing in the US’s very near future is the use of bracket style voting rather than whole-field voting where some number are eliminated each episode.

That would violate a strong trend in the reality competition genre.
Because governments dont spend nearly as much as private investment into the medical field, and have a very different alignment in terms of costs/revenues.

The second part of the sentence alludes to something I did not intend to imply.
The fact that it disturbs you so much is indicative of its value, I think. A lot of people were disturbed by the first Black Mirror episode, but I think it had less to do with the inherently disgusting conceit and more to do with how undeniably realistically events unfolded. It disturbed us because it shone a light on an aspect of our being that should disturb us, and we'd otherwise be content to ignore.
Basically they are self-employment taxes, which is just the employer side of payroll taxes.
I wonder if it's as simple as this: a company that's making so much money just has no incentive to improve. After all, if the end goal of a company like Apple is to make money, they're already doing it.
Suicide is a complex phenomena and we should avoid simplistic explanations, but fertility problems are a trigger for some people.
How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People (2018)
There was a great post about Avis (I think) who had an incubator to explore ideas about what they could do with their fleet of cars. I think if you looked at rental companies, they are actively thinking about the future.
> Almost nobody buys books anymore.

Can you use a search engine before posting nonsubstantive, dismissive comments?

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/b...

I am not sure the total count of how many books O'Reilly published last year, but they have not exactly slowed down in releasing new titles: http://shop.oreilly.com/
There's a non-trivial chance there will only be two jobs: employee and robot. Waymo and Uber are definitely betting on this model.
I had a colleague who managed to get insulted every time I said something about him.

Then in one meeting I decided to play safe and said nothing. He complained to the big boss about being disrespectfully ignored.

Good days were these!
$0.05 for both generation _and_ transmission charges? I would have expected that to be more like $0.09 or $0.10 for Florida... Still a good bit better than MA, of course. :)
no not china, no way!

It has been no secret that any numbers from china needs to taken with a grain salt.
I dont know the UK health intimately to compare confidently. I can tell you what it looks like with Argentina. that has universal care. Normally anyone with a dime goes private. Public is a lower-quality, cheaper service.

That system is great for the poor, most expensive to middle class.

I can also tell you what I think are reasons why US healthcare is so expensive, and they are not fixed by universal care programs.
> where people need access to leading-edge potential treatments'

Those leading edge potential treatments tend to be both very expensive and ineffective, and often cause additional harm on top.

That's from the analysis of a leading oncologist in the UK.

https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097
I'm not sure I agree. I don't want kids myself, so it would be easy for me to say it isn't important to a meaningful life, but it is a significant biological drive and, in a way, denying someone the ability to bear children is condemning them to a form of death.
Really cool result and a very readable paper. I'm struggling to figure out how this would be applicable to iterated consensus (i.e. logs). It seems like the extension examples are focused on reducing the message round trips for specific cases that don't matter when applied to muti-paxos or raft.
I recently heard the perspective that a good leader is always thinking about how to bring value to their team, and reviewing how much value they contributed to their team the previous day, and trying to come up with new ways to bring value to their team, and so on. This is paraphrased from my notes that someone else paraphrased for me, but it really struck a cord for me.
Indian. I am not sure if our GDP numbers are correct either.
Not surprising at all, the government is uncannily accurate in their prediction (growth will be 6.9% this year, at the end of the year: hey look, we did it!). Kind of like how almost every province usually has a 4.0% unemployment rate.

That isn't to say China's GDP hasn't been growing, just that the numbers are always being fudged one way or the other. They used to even fudge the numbers down (growth higher than reported) to prevent the appearance of overheating.

It is ironic that Li Keqiang is premiere (#2) but Xi Jinping has decided not to use his index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang_index) that gets around fudging with more accurate statistics.
China "inflating" AKA lying about economic numbers is widely known and accepted by US stock market folks and analysts.
Unfortunately lot of these guidelines are incompatible to each other. Many have certain rules just because of legacy they had inherited (for ex, Google) and you are much better off ignoring those rules. After spending too much time on this, I use this for my projects:

https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim/docs/coding_guidelines/
Honestly, is this news? I have always been advised (and believed) that Chinese GDP growth figures were unreliable, consistently matching the desired government goal for growth.
That doesn't mean those tourists are getting effective or even safe treatment. It just means the US hospitals are good at marketing to desperate and wealthy people.
> In the past, border police never really cared if you tried to enter EU on your Canadian passport, even if it says you were born in Italy with an obviously Italian name.

Wouldn't that be an unreliable test, since you could've renounced your citizenship or have been born to Canadian parents visiting Italy, since Italy is jus sanguinis [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_nationality_law
And we spend more per capita in public funds than any country providing public universal healthcare and, IIRC, about middle of the road in public healthcare spending as a share of GDP for countries providing universal healthcare, and then slightly more in private spending on top of the public spending. The US is literally paying, in public funds, for full universal healthcare (or more!), and paying more in private funds on top.
Hang on a minute.

Your GDPR compliance page is absolute crap. Ditto your Privacy policy. https://clearbit.com/privacy

For starters:

At what point does this site should that I have given consent for you to process my data? Who are the third parties that have given you my data?
I never said EU is one country but the OP said: "It’s not as easy for a Bulgarian to go live in France". Which is false.
You don't need to take a gigantic loan from the government and pay the repair companies for their work.
I'm not saying having kids is unnatural or anything, but I'd have been damned grateful to have a single night off every eight weeks after my child was born. Having capable grandparents around is a terrific benefit. You're right that even just a little help would have made a world of difference, but my wife and I didn't have that.
FWIW, it's not just you. And it's not new.

"We are living in interesting times; in fact, they're so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF." -- Charlie Stross, Sep 2008

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/09/avalanch...
Maybe it's naive, but I always thought that Medicare played a big role in our inflated healthcare costs. Think about it: the number one demographic using the system has most/all their expenses covered by an entity that doesn't care how much things cost. Doctors and hospitals then price accordingly, and everyone else paying out of pocket gets screwed because the system is priced to favor its biggest users, who never see the bill.
Competitive pressure. If your can't be fixed or you don't want to fix it you have alternative forms of transportation or you can purchase another one (either at full price or used). Also, many of us only carry liability.
Do you expect an alien species that is intelligent enough to create the technology to travel through space will understand math in a way that is at least in principle intelligible to humans?

If yes, is it possible that there are also other ideas that all intelligences are likely to almost necessarily converge on?
> if it were strictly worse...

Ohai goalpost. When did you get there?

The existence of .eu-to-.us medical tourism is utterly orthogonal to the availability of research in those countries. If you honestly took ten minutes to try, you'd be able to find dozens, if not hundreds of trials in every .eu member state, plenty of which are at least comparable to, if not more advanced than what's available in the US.

I could go to .eu or .in or .mx or .th, or any of dozens of other countries, to get access to medical treatments and procedures that are by many, if not most, measures superior to their alternatives available here, but which aren't available here (just one, token example: RISUG), or are vastly more expensive here, but have comparable — or, again, better — outcomes there.

Most of those places offer varying degrees of socialized, if not universal, medicine.
https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/pattern-matching.html
>FCM is integrated in kernel, so it cannot be killed.

What do you mean it's "integrated in kernel"? Are you saying google play services includes a kernel module?
Pathologist accused of improperly harvesting children's organs in Texas lawsuit
Where can we read about the "novel more pythonic Python binding"?
Gofundme doesn't take any fee on certain countries (including US) https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/203604424-Fee...
Gingery lathes are borderline to put it nicely. Here is a good youtube series documenting the build of one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZPW_dvK6ZS-rZsqef3OX...

It's very interesting, looks like a lot of fun to build, but the end result is barely usable.
Why don't they store everything as plain documents in a zip file and keep metadata in a json? Seems more future proof/easier for users to manipulate than WARC
How to Have a Useful Conversation About Climate Change
Economists (e.g. Michael Pettis) were already calling China out for its long history inflated numbers when the 2007-2009 crisis erupted. Perhaps this view might go mainstream with the looming recession?
Getting there, dependency's in: https://github.com/solokeys/solo/pull/120
Unfortunately, this is a cultural issue with China. Anyone who has had any involvement with academia or research, where cheating is easily detectable, has known this.
I use Google's, but don't follow it to the word. I use their linter with couple of my own rules related to C++11 headers (chrono, etc), lines width, whitespaces, etc.

But in general, I try to follow good practices from it like: namespace formatting, as well as anonymous/unnamed namespaces, names and order of includes, #define guard (although I prefer #pragma once), use of smart pointers (fixed owners for dynamically allocated objects), explicit constructors, etc.
> We need to get rid of health insurance companies. They are the reason all of our costs are massively inflated

This is not correct. Insurance is a very valuable service to prevent high-risk events, and applying insurance is a very hard problem. You need to do economics, operations, fight fraud, etc.

What does create price insensitivity (and thus doesnt allow for the competition that drives down prices and increases value to happen naturally) is that you use healthcare for menial transactions like annual checkups or sick visits. I find it incredible when people complain about the 150U$S annual fee on OneMedical, when a basic check-up visit is billed between 300 and 500 dollars. Or when people get surprised that a cancellation fee for a primary care visit is 100 dollars, when "their copay is only 20 bucks".

In addition, another thing is that its tied to the employer, which means that you dont get to choose the insurance you want. If people had to choose their own insurance, insurances would cater to patients not to companies. This is probably the single most important change to do on healthcare reform, and one thing both Bernie Sanders and Republicans could agree with.
I'm not a manager, but I've been in some leadership positions in the past, and I can say my efficacy came from my ability to persuade others to do the things I wanted to accomplish, and trust/delegate to others much of the execution. I say this both having executed okay at some things at some times and having completely failed at executing the rest of the time. These constants were there when I was successful and not there when I failed.

I found it hard because I approached the problem with an engineering mindset - there is a right way to do things, a solution is fixed or deterministic, and interfaces are efficient. While they may be true in code they are not with respect to people. Often times the right way to do things depends on your perspective, or there is no right way to do things, only less wrong ways. The problem space, like figuring out what customers want/need/alignment between both, is fluid and fast-paced. Interfaces between people are horribly inefficient and communications latency and breakdowns destroy shared understanding and undermine organizational trust/integrity, which in the end calcifies organizations and teams.

In this environment, be humble. Recognize that physical intelligence does not matter beyond some basic level, and emotional intelligence will save the day. Always blame systems and processes over people. Be very, very, careful with your words, body language, and actions; understand/appreciate that you start off with less than complete trust because you hold financial/social power over people now, and if you don't want to constantly hold court, you need to actively/consistently build that trust and alignment with your team.
> “How much does he deserve”. Welcome to America.

I'm assuming there's sarcasm in that statement. However...

> My father has been truck driver his entire life and for the last 20 years worked as a contractor, while driving his own truck and trailer, since it gives him more $$$ than average driver who works as employee.

One of the primary reasons one makes more as a contractor is because the company isn't paying for those safety nets (insurance, pension, etc). That extra money the contractor is making is supposed to be going towards those things. If said contractor is not using it to buy health insurance and contribute to retirement, then it's that contractor's fault.
Engineer: we can get to the town by bus, by car or by train. Each mode of transportation has it's pluses and minuses. Specifically, bus is cheaper....

Leader: guys, we need to get to the town and we're taking the train, unless right now I hear an extremely convincing reason not to.
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this guy is already producing a 9KG "upcycled plastic brick" which apparently can be used in construction

https://bazar.preciousplastic.com/en/listings/687199-upcycle...
> The immediate assumption is that people are tools/resources to build the product. That's talking like an engineer.

That's more management-speak than engineer, in my experience. I hate being referred to as a resource.
he can... buy insurance?
New T-Mobile: Creating a True Alternative to Fixed Broadband
I'm sure all countries have been cooking the books.
Honestly, it's not even wrong.
A piece of simple, concrete, implementable advice I read recently that I really like is "communicate in the language of options, not demands, imperatives, requests, or preferences."

Imagine yourself having a conversation with your manager or someone in a relatively similar position about a decision or suggestion you have. How often do you say things like "we have to", "we need to", "we really should", "can we", or "I'd like to"? The problem with all of these statements, from the perspective of someone like your manager, is that they hint at a passion or personal preference that doesn't belong in a decision-making process or conversation. In the flow of a conversation, it may feel like you're merely emphasizing a point and bringing your (presumably solid) technical experience to the table, but to the listener it often makes your suggestions appear self-serving, poorly considered, and possibly irrational from the perspective of the business.

Try to replace the above phrases with "one option is to..." and change your thinking to complete the thought in a way that makes sense. Avoid picking favorite solutions and presenting them as the clear winner or only option. It'll get you thinking in terms of pros and cons and how to persuade other people by appealing to their point of view. It will make you appear more level-headed and capable of making decisions that are good for the business. It'll also remind you of (and force you to fully consider) the frequently hidden option that's often forgotten when presenting a new idea or direction, which is the status quo.
Apple doesn't do point upgrades for previous releases unless there's a critical security bug in them though, so that wouldn't happen. If you want the problem fixed you have to jump to the next major release because that's what 90% of the active install base is on, since it's free and easy to install.
Is anyone surprised? The government in China has to manage for image internally to their population. I am not saying this is bad, it is just the trap the current government is in. They have of move to a non export driven economy. The cost of building in kit in China has just climbed. Low end manufacturing has been moving out for years. China still has a wealth gap issue they are trying to manage. This means they have to move to a domestic spending driven economy as fast as they can.
I think this is an impractical first step, but for the downvoters, executive coaching – including specifically ex-mil coaching – is a real thing that people do and get value from.

If you want to get such experience without sourcing and paying a coach, read Jocko's Extreme Ownership: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/1...

Marc Andreessen called this out as the book he gifts most often, which IMO is a strong positive signal.

I personally found the book a bit difficult, but I think that's a flaw in me more than the book. The person I received it from is someone who lives it much more fully with staggeringly impressive results.
Yeah, learned that too. So I thaw stuff very slowly, and transfer to a bowl for reheating. But it's a plus that they're somewhat elastic, so they don't burst when you freeze stuff.
If anything, for India it is the other way around due to the massive informal economy and tax avoidance.
The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram
This concept of "Cost shifting" exists, but there is some academic debate if its actually whats happening. Medicare also does something invisible to the patients: it pays the least and has the highest stringent requirements for providers.

You need to be up to code to the last detail, you will be under scrutiny for your documentation, you have no bargaining power and medicare pays 20-50% less to providers than private insurance.

It is also not the same as PPO's (which most employees in HN must have) you will have a lot fewer options for care. (remember, you can only get a doctor that collects a much smaller fee, so forget about swanky offices and convenient locations)
Do you know more about it? I am building a company and want to avoid the "kiss up" effect when I only get heavily filtered/biased info from subordinates that are afraid of being presented in bad light, and team up together to "adjust" facts, discarding innocent people in the process.
> A slightly more charitable way to phrase this might be “Some people prefer to be treated as professionals, with dignity and respect.”

You've just proved my point - what I might consider "handling a fragile ego with kid-gloves", you would consider to be "handling professionally with dignity and respect". It's all very subjective.

I think we would agree that a company's leaders need to be consistent and clear where they think the line is, and keep an eye on performance levels to determine if they've made a mistake.
The last line is interesting.

> The oldest verified person ever -- Jeanne Louise Calment of France -- died in 1997 at the age of 122, according to Guinness.

There's some really wonderful evidence now that the woman who died in 1997 was Jeanne Louise's daughter. And that the local authorities knew, but kept it under wraps to avoid embarrassment.

It just seems that even at the most extreme, humans can't really live past 116 or so.
Apart from the opposition parties, I could not find a single reputed source that says India's GDP numbers are fudged.
Money spent on healthcare for employees is untaxed, effectively a 30% bonus.
Ummm, "autoclave"? Are you growing shrooms? We used wide-mouth mason jars for that.
He didn’t offer any feedback. I went to him with a problem of my reportee’s salary concern. Where in, I cannot take a call and do false promise. But, he says that I need to come with a solution. And says he can’t spoon feed me on how to solve the issue.
Comments from a posting last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15716990
It's buried in the article:

When I worked at Apple I practiced what I am now preaching. I would screen all my bugs within a day or so. I would verify bugs within a week or so. I would poke around at code and attempt to make theoretical fixes for bugs I couldn’t reproduce. I felt like it was part of my job, and I just did these things as a daily task.

From Corbin's about page https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/about/ :

For 13 years I worked at Apple on Cocoa, mostly doing UI implementation in AppKit, such as NSTableView, NSWindow, NSVisualEffectView. I also did quite a bit of work in UIKit – mainly on the early iPhone releases, but also helping with the first few versions of the public SDK after that. I wrote and worked on the base classes, such as UILabel and UITableView. You may recall seeing me at WWDC in the labs, or up on stage giving a talk. Before Apple, I worked at Borland, primarily on Delphi.
1-2% overstatement of GDP, if that's big news, that will depreciate the Chinese currency and boost the exports more.