skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an analysis of "all" prices somewhere, maybe even combined with the sales numbers? Just as an example, some more common drugs like Ibuprofen are much more expensive in Germany. I get that we can always point to drug X or Y.

There's probably also an interesting conversation about effective cost: what does average Joe pay after taking deductions into account?
That advice applies equally well to miasma (and, in fact, it’s ability to accurately relate to geography of disease is part of why it was taken seriously.) Which is why F. gets credit for actually making detailed observations and hypotheses that we’re borne out.
This person was an interrogator. Should armies not interrogate prisoners and not have interrogators? Is trying to obtain intelligence information from the enemy an inherently evil activity?

If it is not, then yes it's better to have good people do this job than bad ones, as with any job.
I've never quite understood the usefulness of the 'assault weapon' rhetoric. Basically any semi-auto firearm with the ability to take a detachable magazine is easily capable of causing mass murder. Either ban pretty much all semi-autos or you're wasting your time. It's like fighting diabetes by banning Coke but ignoring Pepsi.

But even in this New Zealand situation, where they are doing it 'right' and are banning them all, they still trumpet it as a ban on 'military style assault weapons'. I guess if they change the definition of 'military style' to include most semi-autos it would be more rational, and it does seem like the media is heading that way.
This argument is entirely disingenuous. For at least a decade, Pepe memes were wholly generic. People all across the spectrum used them.

In the last three years, a (dis?)information campaign to align Pepe memes with the alt-right resulted in a massive drop in use of the meme by non-alt-right people, who didn't want to be considered guilty by proxy. You're using the after-effect of the association as proof of origin.
Prison startup: you pay the government, not the government you. You then force the people to CREATE VALUE and work for other labor-intensive work (e.g. cleaning, construction, ...)
Either that or this is a lie
They were doing this to teachers in the US except in their case it was mandatory in order to just be insured.
I struggle to say why not. I just checked and it's hosted on AWS Ireland which should have the capacity to deal with any level of traffic.

I noticed that dig-ing it returns two IP addresses, indicating an elastic/application load balancer is in use as opposed to a CDN. That means every request is being served off their own instances so that's not great.

A CDN would certainly help; you can serve all paths from the CDN cache with a 1s TTL except the pages where you post to the signature page.

But why could they not add more instances to the pool? Possibly the data or cache layer was overwhelmed; I'm sure the application layer can scale just fine.

And why didn't they design it right in the first place? This level of interest isn't normally seen so they probably never did any load testing scenarios of this type. They do have their own development team but I'm not sure what sort of budget they have.
“I can’t find COBOL” I said to my wife. She replied “Well COBOL programmers don’t have any problems. No need to ask on SO where that comma should be placed. And they are so happy in their job they have no need to promote themselves on Github.”
Dart still has a long way to go as a language to catch up on the recent trends of statically typed PL (rust and swift come to mind), flutter needs constant update for every release of both iOS and Android to make sure their native theme are up to date and that they offer a decent equivalent to any new GUI component those platform release.

Just look at how long it took to get a correct map on flutter (and i don't think they've catched up yet).

I think they took a very good direction from a technical point of view, to recode everything from the lowest level possible, but that kind of approach requires a tremendous level of commitment.
Yeah, chances are this is not the only expedient hack Boeing has done to pass testing.

The FAA approved this. So who can trust the FAA after this? They can expect more oversight from other national approval agencies.
UPS eyes in-home health services with U.S. vaccine project
Maybe we already are?

(I'm sure there's a joke about Harvard educated bankers in there somewhere.)
I think the most of the problems comes from the fact that some of us are trying to learn Swift now after it has gained some popularity.
Searching Stackoverflow keeps coming up with answers that are now obsolete and while it is usually not very hard to port old StackOverflow answer code to new Swift, it's still annoying to keep running into that problem again and again.
Mr. Robot really was a dramatized version of real life.
That’s not the point GP made. Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande have roughly similar genres but Ariana is a musical titan who can famously sing in any style she chooses.
In case of MCAS malfunction, the software update is going to flash an orange light marked "oh shit."
Needs more plugins
I would love to explore more about Clojure. But JVM, Startup time and Error messages keep me away from Clojure. There are other issues that I get into time to time when playing around exp: not everyone loves REPL driven development.

For now, I have had enough of a bad experience with Clojure that I don't want to go back.
Important Reasons Behind Failure of Startups
I generally expect people to be armed in a warzone, not so much in a mall.
Decentralized Finance Summary and Report
That actually seems to be quite an important property in highlighting what a cool effect it is. Someone else here posted a link to a similar project they'd done [1]. If you follow the link and press T to switch on the noise, and then A to start the box moving, you'll see how obvious it is and the effect just isn't as cool. However if you then press B to switch on the background movement the box suddenly become harder to see until you correctly focus your eyes

1 - https://moefh.github.io/stereogram/index.html
How is saying "it's shit" is "constructive feedback" ? What is the constructive part ?

I'm not offended when developers say that, I just observe that they are unable to build and express a reasoning, and that worries me about their abilities as developers.
> To be fair, Apple already does this. If you buy a refurbished Apple device, you are essentially getting an iPhone with slightly worse packaging.

This is not the same, because the device will still be Apple with the same design and logo. But the article is making different point that if Apple would sell also yPhone with same technical specs and slightly different design and half the price then it would be outragous.

P.S. They are paying that price the same reason why they pay 20x more for university than Europeans. It is the system that they live in.
Embraer has had a lot of success with regional planes.
Not to mention our Stanford-educated biomedical entrepreneurs. Or our USC athletes.
I would recommend setting up a subsidiary with Stripe Atlas[1] which would allow you to set up a U.S. bank account, and use Stripe to charge your customers. You don't need to be a U.S. resident or citizen, or have any connection to the U.S. in order to do this.[2]

[1] https://stripe.com/atlas

[2] https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/incorporation#who-can-incorp...
So 24 hours later and still nothing odd going on according to NoRoot Firewall on a UK retail Nokia 7.1.

I'll keep running foir a few more days (I cant use my usual VPN at the same time as NoRoot Firewall so dont want to run indefinitely) and udpate if anything else happens.
I feel like there's a drama novel just waiting to be written there. Even if you don't mean to give every American citizen $75k in a lump sum, that kind of cash infusion would make so many things go bonkers. I'd kind of like to read that novel now.
The entire concept is nuts. You can't fix a primary control characteristic with a slow trim system driven by a screw jack. If Boeing wants to fix their wonky flight characteristic with software then great, but they actually have to do that.
Would it be fair to say, "all commercial planes should be safely pilotable with no computer systems working whatsoever"?

How realistic is that? Where theoretically a single switch is flipped and your plane flies like they used to.
Music got much more compressed in the 90s and 00s, to make radio and tiny speakers sound "better". I can imagine this may also be a big contributor to people preferring the old analog recordings.
Automatic weapons (and select fire weapons) have been heavily restricted in the US since 1986. It's not a US Army definition, it's been an internationally defined term whose use in this way dates to WWII. It's not a new thing.

Banning magazines is ridiculous. Banning cosmetic features as the "AWB" in 1994 did is even more ridiculous -- it's intellectually dishonest.
Principles of Failure for Project Managers
Interestingly, it works from the home page; I didn't bother checking, but I assume there is some JS handling going on.
> Insurance is socialism for profit and they are raking it in.

Insurance exists in Germany also and it makes some costs be lower, or even 0. Some medication will always have the same price regardless of your insurance status. But for example going to the hospital almost anywhere in Europe will never result in a tens of thousands or Euros bill for the patient.

This isn't a problem with the insurance concept, it's with what a government does with it.
Huh?! Your description basically accuses many universities and VCs for being patent trolls, as they develop / fund and then licence technology, but don’t productivise it...
I started by tagging along with a friend, who recommended me for a project he was already working for. It was easier to find the courage that way.

The next time somebody hired my, I simply said I'd prefer to work on a freelance basis. They were OK with it, however, because of my lack of experience with freelancing, I accepted a rate that was much too low. So that may be an easy way into becoming a consultant: just say you want to be a consultant...

I figured that out when I became I'll - nothing serious, but I realized I need to ask for more money to compensate for downtimes and risks that employees don't have (also, saving for my own retirement).

After that, I also registered with some freelance sites, like Jobserve and Gulp (latter might be a German thing, but they offered nice statistics for average salaries).

Because I struggle with occasional burnout or simply hating my job, I din't even do much of the network building or friend recommendations. But recruiters keep calling, just as long your CV has the right keywords. Even long gaps of "unemployment" don't seem to matter that much.

However, for the same reason, these days I would almost recommend against sending out your CV or registering with recruiting agencies. Now my profile is out there, and I can not retract it very easily. So I keep getting those calls, even though I don't really want them anymore. I'd say if you can get by without sending out your CV, it would be better.

I haven't really cut ties completely - maybe if I told those recruiters that I definitely don't want to be called ever again, they would comply. But I wouldn't count on it - in general, they just ignore "wishes" in the CV, like preferences for locations to work in.

I was also that way probably not necessarily getting the best jobs (in terms of interestingness, the pay was always OK). It was more "crap, my bank account is running low, I better accept this contract", rather than strategically working towards work I would like. A bit of a "golden handcuffs" problem, I guess - you have to say no to good offers to be available for the ones you actually want.

This may have been more serious for me than it sounds - by being stuck in dreadful Java Enterprise projects, job frustration would mount again, causing me to quit for months, causing me to eventually accept the next best offer, for the cycle to repeat. Maybe with a more proactive way of acquiring contracts, the frustration cycle could have been avoided altogether. (Not sure, though).

Nevertheless, overall I think consulting is great in principle. You earn more money, see more different companies and projects, and the hiring process is not that fucked up. Usually they give you an initial contract for a month, to see if you work out. So they don't have to evaluate you for weeks and weeks to see if you are a good fit. If you are not, they simply don't extend your contract.
How many work/social hours are lost to mobiles.
Grown ups should be able to interpret spoken words in context and act accordingly. If my kid says 'no' but clearly signals the opposite, I take it as a yes. In doubt, I take it at face value.

Clear communication is important to learn. But learning to understand subtext is in my opinion just as important.
I'm not so sure that it will find widespread industry adoption. I've been eyeing job boards for 1-2 years now, looking at what kind of Rust jobs are available: there's few of them, mostly start-ups.
Furthermore, as you mentioned, there are many very motivated candidates competing for those jobs.

Some bigger companies are supposedly using Rust (Amazon, Google, MS) on some projects, but these companies have so many things going that they are likely to use most languages in some kind of project. I've also heard that there are several "invisible" Rust jobs, only available through connections - but these are irrelevant IMO.
And then there are the jobs where one is obviously not using Rust, but they mention it to score points or dangle it as a possibility.

Until I see a strong market for Rust skills, or my own employer offers interesting Rust projects, it doesn't make sense for me to invest beyond learning the basics. Funnily enough I'm looking into Go now - its job market is one-sided and quite anaemic, but it offers some nice technical benefits and is a piece of cake to learn.
You can thank the FDA (plus the patent system) for that. If it wasn't so fantastically expensive to bring generic, age-old, drugs to the market in the U.S., there would be a lot more competition.
I'd take the benefit of the doubt and consider the poster oblivious to the vast difference between Doom and Quake, they probably just threw them both into the "early 90s 2.5D FPS" bucket.
> if Apple would sell also yPhone with same technical specs and slightly different design and half the price then it would be outragous.

Would it? Companies do this all the time; it's called differential pricing.
Deepsense.ai,Google Brain Design Artificial Imagination 4 Reinforcement Learning
Would you support some kind of quasi governmental organisation to administer prisons?
Independent but answerable to the government, (like the Fed).

That would seem to address small govt concerns whilst avoiding the problems of the free market.
Britain got involved and fucked everything up?
My bad, what I really meant is: What are the suitable replacement for Recaptcha?
It harkens back to an era when academia was a somewhat homogeneous cultural community, and when people were playing “the long game” with their reputations.

Being a bad actor may chase someone out of an argument giving you an immediate “win,” but the word goes around about you, and suddenly your professional reputation is in tatters.

But in an environment where people are basically anonymous, where you may be engaging with a paid operative, or a throwaway sock puppet account, or an account that is trying to amass followers for grift (like being an anti-vaxxer online in order to sell books and newsletters)...

None of the traditional manners around debate apply.
I wonder if the EU could replace the FAA simply by setting up stricter regulations and banning planes from their airspace that don't pass.

Make the FAA irrelevant.
Real estate was down in line with equities in the last crisis, so switching from one to the other was not selling a "stable" asset to buy a "discounted" one.
Doesn't seem too bad...

https://www.deutscheinternetapotheke.de/ibu-400-akut-1a-phar...
The problem is the EU approach to GDPR enforcement. Fines are so huge that probably MS lawyer team decided not to take chances for something that does not bring revenue - some developers might cry on Twitter or Facebook for a week or two, but that would cost MS nothing.

Unfortunately "right to be forgotten" has been wrongly defined in GDPR, if someone published something in a publicly available place, this shouldn't be removable on demand. I am perfectly for forcing companies to be obliged to delete its customers data if customer does not want make business with a said company or does not want to allow company to use the data for its business (like advertising), but this should not cover every random forum in the Internet.

In fact this is the reason those independent forum will disappear soon or later and be moved to Facebook, which is rather sad and shows only how EU bureaucracy is inefficient - they wanted to restrict Facebook usage of private data, instead they only caused even more people to move to Facebook and give up their privacy.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time building up your professional network and brand - and never stop. When times are good, you'll feel like you can stop because opportunities are all over the place. When times aren't so good, you're going to want to avoid scrambling for more work.

Good luck.
Their abilities as developers are judged by what they deliver. Obviously they need to deliver before they can call someone else's code "shit", or at least before they can say that and be taken seriously...
Python is a hugely productive language. That's the benefit.

We're building out an async ecosystem here that makes it way more performance-competitive with Node and Go.

For a lot of folks it's going to hit a sweet spot of developer productivity plus ability to scale up hugely. That's a big deal.

Doesn't mean you have to use it, but there's no need to neg on the great work folks are doing in this space just because Python's not your preferred language of choice.
Socialism for profit is called capitalism.
Project team roles that will define your software product success
We had someone get sick on a trip to Iceland. They walked into the emergency room, talked with a doctor a few minutes later, and got some antibiotics. They were very apologetic because the U.S. wasn’t part of the E.U. reciprocity agreement and they would have to charge them for the costs and the total came to — cue Americans raised on medical news stories bracing in expectation – less than what their major university insurance copay would have been for the visit + prescription.
FWIW I see more fraudulent ads on Facebook than anywhere.
WordPress core autoupdates. Plugins will happily remain exploitable for years if you're not on top of their security updates.
You just have to reach out to people, you can't expect to sustainably rely on referrals for growth. Remember that your existing clients have no incentive at all to refer you to other people and in most cases are disincentivised from doing so. Instead use your success with your existing clients as social proof when approaching other companies in their niche: "we just delivered X, Y and Z to CompanyYouveHeardOf, let's talk" is a great way to open a conversation with those other companies.
> I think it's debateable, after generations of experience, that prisons make people more criminal. At the very least, rehabilitation doesn't work very well.

From comments read on the Internet it seems there are plenty of differences between American and European prisons, even more to the Northen European countries.

There they seem to be able to rehabilitate the people (most of the time), unlike other places.

I think it doesn't help the depiction of prisons in fiction as a place where the strong thrive, full of contained violence, bribes and all the debauchery humanity is capable of.

I don't think American prisons rehabilitate. Insisting that they do even less is like the extreme capitalistic measures of cutting public funding for a function, and then demand that that function should be privatized because it doesn't work.
> I get those ads as well.

Yeah, everyone does. Are you suggesting you see almost literally 100 such ads for every ad advertising something legit? Because for me they are the 20% dross for 80% potentially useful ads I see.

Honestly, the businesses in your region of the woods are truly woeful at advertising, and should probably spend more money on it. Realistically, if what you suggest is true, something has probably gone wrong and your demographic has been caught in a bubble where no-one serious is advertising to you. Because those ads should be in the minority.
Right now I'm sitting around 68% blocked queries with two Smartphones connected to my Pihole.
Somehow I just fail to unterstand how a technology like 'Java' can still be popular in 2019. At least to me it seems that there are much better alternatives for almost any use case I can think of.
Tesla Accuses Former Employee of Stealing Source Code to SelfDriving Rival XPeng
If I want an exception, then I don't want it checked otherwise I have to handle it at every layer in which case I may as return a nullable object and handle that.

I generally find that I avoid exceptions, but where they are necessary I try and catch at the right level to handle them.
I see what you're saying. But I think it presumes that ordinary racial classifications overlap with homogeneous genetic communities. Specifically, that the human race was broken up and, through the early stages of allopatric speciation, became separate groups with their own homogenous genetic makeup. But this presumes that the only evolutionary force acting upon the human race was allopatric speciation, which I take to be wrong. Even if we assume that, for instance, the 'Chinese race' was sufficiently isolated to experience allopatric speciation - which seems doubtful anyway, given the migratory cross-flows of human groups throughout pre-history - then other evolutionary forces particular to localised regions and sub-communities would means that, medically speaking, those biological communities were more significant than being 'Chinese'. Or at least that's my impression.
No, the advice that tiny creatures within the swamp will make you sick does not apply to miasma; those are competing theories.

The advice "stay away from swamps; they'll make you sick" does indeed apply to both theories.

Detailed observations also apply to both theories. Everyone everywhere has detailed observations of disease, usually the same ones.

Girolamo Fracastoro did not, as far as I can see, make any hypotheses or predictions that other people hadn't made thousands of years before he was born, nor did he observe in any greater or more relevant detail. He exemplifies the observation "Christopher Columbus is famous for being the last person to discover America". He made what had been common knowledge common knowledge again.

Unless you can identify something he did that was notable? What hypothesis did he make that Varro didn't already know? I ask because "tiny creatures get into your body and cause disease" is pretty much the beginning and end of modern germ theory today.
IIRC it's the water which is opaque?
Insurance is cost sharing or a direct socialist aspect in that the cost of the covered item is shared by society as a whole

so·cial·ism
/ˈsōSHəˌlizəm/
noun
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

In the US insurance has a profit layer making it socialism for profit. It really is that simple.