skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're essentially right. My neighbor poster harryh mentions Medicaid, but there are many situations in which you can be destitute and not qualify, or not qualify for many months, during which time you can suffer from lack of chemo for instance. A schoolmate of mine died from cancer in her 20s because the cancer was discovered late due to lack of insurance/healthcare, and then treatment was delayed almost a year because she didn't qualify for X because she had a job with a certain hourly wage and needed to quit and spend down her meager assets to a certain level, then once poor enough it took 3 months to get processed into the state program for the poor, then she finally got coverage and started getting treatment then died quickly because it was so advanced.

Some homeless people get 'free' chemo, etc., but there are huge problems with the setup because with certain illnesses they're too well to qualify for hospice or housing or staying in the hospital full-time, but discharging to the street results in non-compliance with medication regimes because they don't have safe places or refrigerators to keep drugs, for instance. On the other end, hospice requires a lot of referrals and paperwork; if you can't get into the pipeline by getting all the referrals and evaluations and paperwork done, you don't get hospice, whether for money or for free.
It is quite sad to see, that authors of websites can not see the problem themselves, and we have to "fix" it ourselves :(
Usually the "later" part never comes, specially in consulting, where there is only one shot to implement each module.
If the state doesn’t issue cash then other items will become cash - as it did in Somalia.
True. I should have specified the base model available today.
You can upload a custom image to your digital ocean droplet.
Rich coming from a wayland dev.
Why would you spend time doing anything? You just do it once and commit it to github? That's how my vimrc lives.
Related video to watch: CGPGrey, This video will make you angry.
> There's simply no professional awareness of the unbelievably damaging power of headlines

Some would say this is by design and not just on the part of newsmakers but actual politicians on both sides of the spectrum. For the system to work as efficiently as it does a bimodal distribution is probably the best way to achieve that. Every one may be better off at the end thinking both they have a voice, someone taking care of their issues, and elected representatives don't have to struggle to satisfy a never ending range of diversely opinionated electorates.
archive.org is already used for sharing deleted tweets and deleted reddit posts/comments for instance.
Don't Just Bake Me a Cake
Being registered != voting
Call and ask?
Every state covers mothers who are poor (133% or less of poverty line) or mothers who are "medically needy" under Medicaid. You need to prove you're poor or medically needy to get Medicaid coverage.
Opinion: This guy knew some seriously weird secrets of Magnetism... as did Ed Leedskalnin... here are two additional videos of "The Leedskalnin Effect":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSAcMoxITw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhiAIsJCS9Y
Tip: turn your iPhone screen to black/white, witness significant reduction in screen addiction.

Tip: uninstall any app with gratuitous notifications on the spot. Move off the main page notifying apps that you can’t uninstall: mail, calls, messages. Check notifications on your schedule [once a day], not on the app developer schedule [three times a minute, yay engagement]
Everything has an inertia, including social habits.
And if one is not based in the US?
Fewer jobs is also progress. That's what the development of civilization and technology is all about.

Anyway, there is still plenty of work for people to do. (There's no upper limit on the number of mathematicians society can use, for example.) It just isn't work that society is yet willing to pay a living wage for, and perhaps that's a problem.
It's a reasonable analogy. To use your analogy I'm suggesting you don't trust anyone with your laptop and bring it to the bathroom with you. If something is truly private and / or valuable information don't put it in the cloud. I'm not alone in that thinking. When it comes to storing people's digital currency you hear about things like cold storage. For very good reason.
That was a great read, thank you.
I made a diagram of the way I think about it here: https://plectica.com/m/ADUNN80H4

When you map it out like this, the answer seems obvious that the place to invest your time is in learning the standards.
I know chat widgets can be used in super irritating ways and people love to hate on them recently but I think they can greatly improve the user experience for the user and the vendor when done right e.g. have a prominent easy to find chat button on every page, that doesn't automatically pop-up with a stock message, where the chat operators are available and able to help you.

On the website for a Chrome extension I sell, 90% of my support requests (mostly from paid users) come in through the chat widget. The low latency communication compared to email means I can solve support requests faster, with less effort on both sides and the sender ends up happier at the end.

Having to receive, read, write, wait etc. over several emails is really painful and sucks up time on both sides even for simple problems and especially for complex problems. It can take several emails to understand a simple problem because most users aren't that precise e.g. "I upgraded but I can't access the paid features". I'm considering pushing all users to use the chat widget by default for support queries because of this.

I wouldn't be against using some chat bot automation either (which people also complain about) to deal with common requests for the initial request message because it's really hard to 100% eliminate FAQs being asked. Especially if you're a solo founder, you want time savers like this.
Fortunately you can choose Spotify, in fact Apple has distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free.

And Apple did not lie about your battery, it kept your phone from spontaneously restarting when your battery declined to a pout where it couldn’t generate adequate voltage for the system. Apple just did a poor job of communicating what iOS was doing to prevent this.
Debit card fees are typically like $0.20, for any size of payment though.

Only reason I can imagine they might be hesitant is because debit cards allow a customer to dispute a transaction, which can hold up capital while the dispute is resolved, and obviously the landlord might be forced to return a rent payment or two if the credit card company sides with the letter.
That doesn’t logically follow. People can make too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but not be able to afford their hospital bills.

Indeed, in many cases Medicaid requires you to become poor, by spending down personal assets first to pay for care, qualify for government support. (Arguably that’s the only fair way to do it. How is it fair for the government to use tax dollars to maintain the social status of a someone who was lucky enough to build up a nest egg, but unlucky enough to get cancer, where it won’t give money to someone who was unlucky enough to be born poor in the ghetto?)
Just want to point out that the author Bruce Roettgers is "an 16 y.o. and like to build stuff." Great job and keep up the good work!

https://github.com/bcye
Still no DOM
The problem is rarely the intention of a law, rather than the imperfections of its application.

Governments are quite imperfect, and humans are a varied bunch. There are exceptions to everything , and exceptions to that. The Windrush generation is just a recent example that comes to mind: luckily, they were numerous enough to get their story heard. But people fall through such cracks every single day. Sometimes an imperfection in the law, sometimes an “overzealous” public servant.
I’m surprised you would even think your experience is comparable enough to the person in the original article to post in this thread. She was sick, had a disabled child, and no safety net. It sounds like you were single, healthy, with no dependents and an upper middle class family as a safety net. Perhaps there are other hardships you didn’t explain? How is your anecdote relevant to a discussion surrounding the issues the woman in the original article faced? Yes, being alone sucks. Is that your point?
What an employee did with his manager.He sold his luxury car for $98,000
Many times. Just the other day I had a question about Skylight (which we use where I work) and I was promptly helped through the widget. Granted, this could also have been done through e-mail, but it is pretty convenient to have it on-page.

99% of the implementations you encounter though are failed sales attempts. Fake human prompts like "Hi, can I help you with something?". When they are accompanied by a sound they are even more annoying. I have heard from marketing people that they convert pretty well though.
Those who graduated got in with false premise and took away opportunity from someone else. They got the education, that must be worth something. But the degree, it belongs to someone else, and it should go.

In no way has this been a victimless fraud.
We've noticed the similarity in name and currently we work specifically in the cannabis industry, so it's differentiated by our scopes of work as they do general packing and shipping.
I don't know why, but I did the same thing. I read the post content first, then after finished I went backup and saw the blog title and subtitle.

Or I could say my brain was only conscious to reading the blog title and subtitle afterwards.
C++20 has all those things as well, except for pattern-matching expected to arrive by C++23. :)

So if it wasn't for the copy-paste compatibility with unsafe C code, there is already quite a few modern features available in the language.
This reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad[1], in which an "electronic bard" is challenged to come up with "a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit."[2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberiad

[2] - https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/cyberiad.html
500-byte script that makes Google Fonts render faster (up to 3s in slow network)
How to change the pitch of your voice live on Linux with JACK Rack
Then explain, my friend, why it says """Western""" in your stupid comment...

see how it doesnt sound so good what I write in the next paragraph:

"all of you who love the degenerate liberality of alowing, In the social nets, the free wild old west of people Enslaving minds, brainwashing others for a little scam profit or for who knows what for, creating misconception and misleading people into all kinds of things"

in my humble opinion...

free speech is good, like freedom is good...

So why you dont talk about problems of privacy on internet in the western countries...

in my opinion...

thanks...
I really liked the first half - he provides some insightful thoughts on both why OOP doesn't quite deliver on the promise, and why it continues to be popular anyway.

I am also becoming increasingly enamored of procedural programming as a default approach. Functional is also good - it's one of my first loves - but I find that it can be similarly prone to encouraging premature abstraction. Like OOP, that problem isn't going to become so apparent until you start using it in a large, long-lived business system with ever-shifting business requirements.

That said, I think that I've got to part ways with the video around about the part where it switches to talking about how the speaker thinks good code should be structured. Especially the bit about not keeping functions small - the problem with that is, it makes it way too easy for spaghetti code to sneak in. In the same way that, in the heat of the moment, a developer in an OO language is going to start tangling together the connections among objects a bit too liberally, a developer working in a 300-line procedural function is going to start fiddling with any variable that happens to be in scope a bit too liberally. Factoring out your functions does mean you have to name all those functions (which, I realize takes effort, but I also can't agree that it's a waste of effort), but it also serves as a way of making sure everyone stays honest about shared mutable state. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad in a language that has that "nested functions that aren't closures" feature, but, like he says, such a language does not currently exist.
Please don't be discouraged by the occasional hostile reception. It's an invasive species here, which we do what we can to contain, but the bulk of the community is supportive and I hope that comes across in this thread! (And thanks for not taking the bait; your reply here was admirable.)
Sometimes you want some simple "glue" for very simple dynamic web pages / effects (e.g. Jekyll homepages). In my experience JQuery is the best for that followed by Vue.js by adding a one liner and then you can start using it.
>to lie to me about my battery
What do you mean by lying?
Thats not obvious and breaks a commutative property. This observation about operators seemed poorly crafted to support a decision he already made. The existing example was unnecessarily complicated...most languages just do a singular function with a return val. Why be obtuse in the example? Preconceived agenda. The operator isnt compelling for dicts/hashmaps in any language.
> It’s nothing but a minor inconvenience to switch between android and iOS.

Switching includes spending hundreds of dollars plus hours to setup and figure things out plus several days of frustrating adjustments.

You might call that a "minor inconvenience". It certainly is more minor than my examples above. But that absolutely is enough to separate the two app markets.
Virtually nobody will switch systems for an app.
You don’t need to do that on iOS. Xcode is free with $99/year dev account, you can TestFlight builds to all of your friends, up to 10,000 of them.
What do you mean by "distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free"?
Amazon chat has helped me a bunch. Though its almost impossible to find when you need it.
So, a couple months ago, I discovered a way to make a text that uses Google Fonts render faster. In slow connections, that might give a boost of 1-3 seconds. Recently, I released that as a tool.

Here’re more details:

— When you use custom fonts (like Google Fonts), most modern browsers won’t render the text with that font immediately. Instead, the text will stay invisible until the font is downloaded – or until 3 seconds pass. You might’ve experienced this yourself if you have an Android phone. This is done to prevent a FOIT (flash of invisible text), but this hurts user experience.

— A typical solution for this is to add a CSS rule like font-display: swap which tells the browser to avoid waiting for the custom font. However, Google Fonts don’t support this rule, and the only remaining solution becomes to a) self-host fonts (more hassle; impossible in some environments) or b) use JS libraries like Typekit Webfont Loader (hurts the initial font load time)

— Recently, I found a solution for this. Turns out, you can fetch a Google Fonts stylesheet asynchronously, patch it to include font-display, and insert it into the page. So I composed a tool that does it! The tool generates an inline script that does the work + a few <link rel="preload/preconnect"> tags to avoid hurting the performance. The script also does some extra work to avoid unnecessary FOUTs. The total size of the generated code snippet is 550 bytes minified + gzipped.

Here’s the source code of the generated script: https://github.com/iamakulov/googlefonts-font-display-helper...

Would love your feedback on the tool :)
Wow!!! That’s interesting ... will be trying it out soon.
There are many other tools for studying these pathological cases: symplectic geometry, different flavors of algebraic geometry that look at orbifolds (manifolds with corners), schemes (lots of nice singularities), deformation theory... There's a fun paper that I think of as the "bad as you wanna be" paper, about deformations of various mathematical objects: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411469

All the different areas of math just start at different places to reach toward the same important questions. It's like martial arts: aikido, shotokan, capoeira, krav maga -- very different approaches and understandings, but the masters are all reaching for the same goals, coming from different foundations and directions.
The new keyboards have been buggy, that's true. They're not buggy anymore afaik.

Personally, I'm not really into Apple but I love the new keyboard, and I use it as my main tool every day. It really bugs me when people make use of personal opinions as facts.
just have to avoid HN italic syntax thing, but yes:

d = {**d1, **d2}
Does doing it once not take time? I usually get bored halfway through and switch to an editor that works properly out of the box.

In fact, of course, doing it once is a pipe dream. Everything with vim and emacs 90% works, and you can spend infinite amounts of time chasing the other 10%.
And I said, "What about coffee at Waffle House?"

She said, "I think I remember the swill,

And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."

And I said, "Well that's the one thing we've got."
Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study
I've been where this author has: selling off stuff and wondering how to pay rent, waiting in line for free food, donating blood plasma for $15, walking everywhere because it's cheaper than the bus, getting arrested for not paying child support. Nonetheless apparently I had it ass-backwards in my head: rather than "poor" I mostly still considered myself what this author would call "broke" the whole time. Maybe it was denial, maybe I was just another "temporarily embarrassed millionaire." But I adhered to the thought that I didn't belong in that situation, that it was temporary.

Regardless, poor and rich are relative terms; it's a continuum. You can never be "poor" and you can never be "rich." You can only be poorER, or richER, than somebody else. But there will still always be someone else poorER or richER than you. Ask Steve McQueen if he's rich, and he'll say well I'm not as rich as Paul Newman. Both dead now of course, but they once squabbled over who would get top billing in The Towering Inferno.

I think what I'm saying is that in some way, "poor" is in your mind, and as soon as you consider yourself poor, you are poor. I still wouldn't fault the author's friends for saying they're "too poor" to afford something; it is literally true. They're "rich" enough to afford food, sure, and I guess that offends the writer's sense of victimhood. The whole drama of this piece takes place in the writer's mind. It's a story of falling tragically from a place of privilege. People are "poor" every day and don't feel the need to write an article about it and nobody asks them to.
>the shift towards spacial minimalism suits me nicely.

It hasn't for me. Rent has gone in the opposite direction as I've downsized.

We haven't optimized low-cost, small, quality homes despite all of technological progress and I'm pretty sure it's intentional.
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Any developer can distribute up to 10,000 people for free through TestFlight with very limited app review. If you add your friends to your developer account there is no review at all.
Who's sitting on the other end of your chat window?
All of Stallman cites are 5-10 years old.
I think statelessness is related to citizenship as opposed to residency. You can be a resident of a country wihout being a citizen.
If you do have some math background, "An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry" by Karen Smith et al is a lovely, slim volume that gets to important ideas right away.

"Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms" is an "invitation to computational geometry" by Cox, Little, and O'Shea. I think parts of it might really appeal to HN readers and it's supposed to be for an undergrad math major audience.
Seems like these kinds of articles always need to have a scold or a guilt trip associated, though I’m not sure it’s irrational of the author. We are discussing it, aren’t we?
Depends on the software requirements you have, and perhaps on the network throughput you need.

For example java 11 is not, yet, a native option in any of the BSDs (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DF Bsd).
It's not helping the poor per se that makes many people uncomfortable: no sane person will share the "poor must die of hunger" attitude.

It's that we help only the poor. Look, I pay taxes. Poor people don't. Fine. I get it. But they do get free medical insurance, I don't. They get free college, I don't. All I get back are reminders about "straight white men privilege". That's not fair.

Nobody likes paying taxes. But if it's "guys, let's all cough up what we can and build a greater society for all of us", I'm for it. If it's "let's build a greater society for the poor" - that's a much more bitter pill to swallow.
A single core inside 1 server!
I don't really want to dig into the details of the arguments for the value of a "generalized, liberal arts education" here, mostly because I need to do some research on those arguments before evaluating them.

But, on the other hand, I really do believe that an education in ye olde trivium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium), quadrivium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrivium), and a number of other areas are important for the citizens of a modern, democratic republic, quite aside from how "Literacy and numeracy are vital, but few of us use history, poetry, higher mathematics or foreign languages after graduation."

I see this education as important on at least two levels. First, to fight the natural human tendency to assume that everyone else is like us (and that anyone who is different is deviant): we're all programmers here, right? And anyone who doesn't think in discrete, logical steps, is the bizarre alien them, right?

More seriously, I had to take Texas government and history classes in college, the requirement for which (a history professor informed us with glee) came out of a number of soldiers from Texas who were captured during the Korean War and who decided to stay in China after the war. (Honestly, I have no idea how those things fit together.) But those classes and others like them, while not directly benefiting me as a computer programmer, did provide some background and common ground between me and a huge number of other people who would otherwise have nothing in common with me.

Secondly, to fight the natural tendency for someone who is well skilled in a certain field to assume that field is all that exists. (You should recognize this from this very forum, where people suggest technological fixes for problems which are not technological in nature. And yes, there are problems which are not technological nature.)

As for the wisdom of the students, choosing easy classes and complaining about those on topics they'll never use in real life? I took Spanish as a foreign language which I never really learned and promptly forgot, took four semesters to get through two semesters of calculus (badly; all my math be discrete), and those damn semesters of government and history. Guess what? None of those things were useful to me in my subsequent career. Nope, not even calculus, that horrid waste of time and grade points.

On the other hand, I regard my lack of knowledge as a bad thing. A usable foreign language would have been nice. Other programmers do use calculus; I just had to avoid those jobs.

So, yeah, I pretty much disagree with everything in this article.

(End of part 2. See part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19409228)
This is the primary way I interact with my bank, and with Amazon support.
Perhaps https://openbsd.amsterdam