skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the article's credit, that section makes a real effort to differentiate "bullshit" from "fake news" and "fallacious".

I know an awful lot of people who are too educated and internet-savvy to accept most nakedly-false claims, but happily bite on stats that lack per-capita corrections, or compare rates like change and accuracy without accounting for base values, or even make subtle but concrete errors like confusing 'ppm' with 'ppb'. They may not accept anything farcically false, but "less wrong" is not always "more right", and it's still easy to end up believe an entire-untrue claim off respectable looking sources. I think the focus on Snopes-style truth ratings has sometimes hindered our ability to literally call 'bullshit', asserting that a piece undermines knowledge regardless of its technical correctness.

I'm not sure if this article succeeds at that - I think conflating Fox with The National Enquirer and other sources that regularly invent things outright is a mistake that obscures the discussion. (Fox has run content sourced from RealTrueNews, but the distinction still matters; fake news sites and the media titans legitimizing their stories are different parts of the ecosystem.) But it's a worthwhile attempt regardless.
> The only way that Taiwan will be in China in the near future will be if there is a conquering war from China invading Taiwan, or a long period of attrition where China wears down the west and succeeds in putting sycophantic leaders in charge of Taiwan who weaken her military. [emphasis added]

Sycophantic leaders are really bad, sympathetic leaders are one of the first steps to getting there. That's part of why I'm concerned about this Foxconn (I think I mispelled it earlier) guy- he seems like an early stage in this.

I think we're both on the same page, it's the Not A Paid Shill guy that I'm worried about.
You might be right and you certainly have a point regarding the "deniers". But your first bullet point is blatantly wrong. Melting and compaction cannot increase mass. You might have simply made a mistake here, but at first glance it seems like you throw any scientific accuracy overboard just to prove your point that the sea level will raise. That way you weaken your argument of "scientific people against deniers" considerably.
What experience has ever led you to believe that what software engineers like or dislike factors into how their work environments are set up? The Important People consider us, at best, a necessary nuisance.
Can women not participate in the tour de france?
Sounds like a prototype being deployed to production. We all know how well that goes.
Only Information technology. Otherwise wallstreet is pretty good. They are also good with pure hardware. They don't get software though
> Is the argument that switching insurance plans is stressful?

It absolutely is stressful, because every single time you have to carefuly inspect the documentation to figure out what conditions and care (if any) you're "allowed" to have without going bankrupt.
Facing up to injustice in genome science
Even if autonomous cars accelerate and brake less aggressively, they can still clear traffic jams, simply though just communicating with cars further back. Cars would start slowing down something like a mile out gradually to reduce the influx into the jam.
A bull shits regardless of intent. Is the standard for writers "human" or "golden calf"?
It's funny not funny that the same people that like to rage about government agency's being increasing intrusive and consuming more and more resources while doing nothing valuable have nothing bad to say about the poster child for that.
Health insurance in the United States is a shit show. The Medicare for all that Bernie is proposing is a reaction to the inability of Congress to meaningfully fix the issue.

I personally would prefer a market based approach to fixing the issues with obtaining medical care, but Congress can't do anything because there's just too much money and influence involved.
A 100 item checklist?

I just throw some stuff in a bag and worry less. Never fails. If I forget something it probably was not that important and I can just buy it at the airport / when I land.
Since it’s not fetched from the publisher they will have to use Google analytics or have nothing.

Guess what they’re going to choose.
A problem with our industry in this regard is that we don't understand the difference between learning and doing.

A new grad entering industry is going to be doing a lot more learning than doing -- or rather learning while doing.

I know from experience that explicit doing is highly predictable/estimate-able for the experienced software practitioner.

I have a suspicion that the learning side would be predictable, too, if our industry could do a better job of articulating what the practitioner skill set actually is -> then a pedagogy could develop and it could be said that learning X-Y-Z takes on average this long for a set of students. Etc.

But we as an industry do not seem to be near this level of clarity -- in large part because we don't even have the vocabulary to frame it this way... in terms of learning vs doing...

Now what this means for the new CS grad is not the best story. You'll rather have to play the chaotic game a little bit, which includes a mess of things like doubling estimates and working weekends or what-have-you depending on the work culture you find yourself within.

That ^^ in the short term.

In the long term what you should do is practice on your own:

1) ALWAYS privately plan and estimate your tasks to the best of your ability--on your own, you may not get benefit by exposing your "practice" to the higher-ups

1a) hint: your tasks should be as scoped/small as you can make them and they will look pretty simple, like this: "design widget X", "design API interface", "implement API interface", "test API interface", "implement widget Y", "learn how framework X lifecycle works" (yes! even learning tasks can be estimated!), and so on. The key is that you try to keep them under a day and ideally even smaller on the order of hours.

2) RECORD the time it takes and compare to your estimates. --> LEARN from this.

3) REPEAT

If you do this conscientiously you will find that your estimates improve dramatically over time and you'll be able to out-estimate your peers to their own wild confusion.

This skill set will pay off in your ability to deliver AND have weekends and hours with your family. Because you will be able to "see time" and protect yourself. You'll have protection and ammo even in the worst pressure-cooker environments because you will be able to say "No" with confidence. Or rather you will learn how to say "Yes" and what to say "Yes" to. (Ie. you will get really good at priority negotiation etc.) And you'll cultivate delivery trust with superiors and everyone will be happy.

The main reason you get these claims that "business just doesn't understand software" and "they put too much pressure on us" is because "business" side doesn't trust us. Once you get good at estimates and delivering on them, that trust is restored and everyone can be made happy.

BUT -- and here's the rub -- it takes time and conscientious effort and variety of experience to reach this level of confidence. My advice: Ignore all the philistines who say it can't be done....because they'll just try to talk you out of the effort that they weren't or aren't willing to do themself.
If you switch to another insurance provider, you might have to change doctors, pharmacies and other service providers, because your previous service provider is no longer in-network or too costly.

Also your coverage may completely change for better or worse. The worst case scenario is just as disastrous as losing insurance entirely.

This is particularly bad for people with chronic/ongoing medical needs.
What Is a Managed Marketplace?
Wasn't discussed here very long this time - it's disappeared completely from HN.
When I quit my job in SF in November 2017, I had $1200 on my FSA. When I switched to COBRA, my FSA account kept its balance, but my VISA card associated with it immediately and unexpectedly stopped working. I was seeing a psychologist at the time and it was awkward when I didn’t pay him right away because I thought it would be fine to try and fix my card and pay him the next day (which I did). It felt awkward enough to me that I stopped my therapy sessions with him, because I felt like it had become strained. Anyway, the company stopping my card from working was intentional. It was the same company and the same account but my card didn’t work anymore and I had to go through the trouble to submit a claim, and they acted like this was by design that my FSA card would stop working when I quit and switched to COBRA.

Now I’m working remotely and am in a new state (Florida) and not sure I’ll stay here long enough to switch everything to this state. I needed to get a fever checked out and ended up paying out of pocket because I was told over the phone that they accepted my out of state insurance, but when I got there in person, they didn’t.

What a mess.
They lose their insurance for other reasons, too. Their employer changes plans; they get dropped from full time to part time; they lose their job and don't immediately get another.

And switching insurance plans at almost any time can be very costly, even if you go straight to a new one, as all your deductibles and out-of-pocket limits get reset. And then you have to hit them again when the plan year starts again, almost certainly sooner than a year later.
This is a pretty good write-up:

https://blog.udemy.com/correlation-coefficient-interpretatio...
They don't make it easy to understand what's going on since they still have a toggle between "LTE" and "WiMAX" that you can switch. The former is fast metered MVNO data on the main carrier of the telco that owns them and latter is "unlimited" data on their own separate radio spectrum with different coverage. But the latter is still actually LTE.

I actually still have a legacy wimax device and plan active since it was the last plan with true unlimited with zero "fair use". It also had a usage scale so on months I don't use it it's only 300 yen. So a good backup device. I've loaned it out to people who had have to spend a week in hospital (no wifi) and they've burned through 30 GB streaming video
with no issues. They send me letters every couple months urging me to upgrade to a new plan that all cost 4000/mo and have fair use data caps.
Not in this case. He's already going to get retirement benefits. Now, he's being payed a lot more, and part of that pay is for an additional retirement benefit.

Contracting is really for short term needs. You pay short term wages (which bundle in insurance, retirement, profit, etc) for contractors. However, if the organization will continue to have that same need for several years, then paying people short term wages for that long is very expensive.
How much did FB save on due options by forcing founders of their big acquisitions out? I think for WhatsApp it was like 800 million that was conditional on the monetization.
People [in the US] … ;)
Drowning in Inefficiency [video]
Design Your Team
The insurance companies have had years (decades?) to come up with one.

Instead they've invested in lobbying to keep the status quo.
I've seen a huge personal impact adopting principles from David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology, which in some ways is simply a checklist management system. As others have mentioned, it's not just preventing me from forgetting to do things. Capturing my thoughts and intentions externally reduces stress and frees my mind to have more new thoughts. My creativity has skyrocketed since I started writing down every project/product idea I have, and adding to them over time. Currently using Trello (which works great for this), but eventually I'd like to switch to something open source or make my own system tailored to my needs.
Filevault, no antivirus (except what comes with macOS), Objective See's Do Not Disturb [1], 2F SSH depending on the host.

What's your threat model? My recommendations are going to be based wholly on that. Are you an average Joe/Jane, or a reporter for The Intercept?

1. For evil maid attacks. https://objective-see.com/products/dnd.html
Yes, I did acknowledge it was only one metric. There are many people who can't stand their families and/or vice versa, yet if they were characterized as mentally ill it would effectively nullify the term. So this is also subjectively condemning personality traits that are celebrated in other contexts, veiled with impartiality.

And while this is a contributing factor to her actual situation (if she were on better terms with her family, that would be another support structure), that doesn't really have a bearing on what I said in the USian individualist paradigm.
> Rust achieves impressive numbers with the most obvious approach. This is super cool. I feel that this behavior should be the goal for any language offering these kinds of higher order functions as part of the language or core library.

Certainly it should be a goal, but I don't think it should be the goal. Higher levels of abstraction aren't typically motivated by performance. The priority is ease of expression and reasoning about code. Of course both are desirable, but when the two are in conflict and a trade off is necessary, designers will lean toward expressive abstractions, not performant abstractions. After all, performance is already available without the abstractions.

But I do agree it is super cool how Rust finds a sweet spot between performance and expressibility. It is one of my favorite languages for that reason. I just don't think it should be a universal goal.
being a Taiwanese, I feel (2) and (3) are actually the perception people have from exposure to China-originated fake news that intents to obscure current Taiwanese government's efforts.

No doubt about (1)
>Yes, people do lose their insurance constantly when they switch jobs...and then immediately sign onto their new plan.

Unless they lose their jobs. Or change to a job that doesn't offer coverage/start a new business. Or have their hours cut to be <40 hrs/wk and are no longer eligible. . .

>Switching plans is hardly comparable to the transition to a Medicare-for-all program.

Why? It would be a one-time switch. Switching costs would be exactly the same as the switching costs you pay every time you change jobs, except you only pay it one time in your life and you don't have to shop around in some silly healthcare exchange or open enrollment process where you get to weigh which absurdly high premium you want to pay despite deductibles being so high that barely any of your routine health costs will be compensated.

And then there is the joy of making sure all your care providers are covered by your new plan. AND hoping your providers don't drop your plan because of insurance company negotiations.
To what end? They think people care too much about UI design?
Going one step further, the Japanese train industry has a concept called "pointing and calling" where they literally point at the thing that should be complete and call out the task. It noticeably improves completion of these tasks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
Far from true. Chromium on Arch is entirely open source and includes hardware acceleration, unlike Firefox which doesn't think Linux is relevant.
Well, I've also read about chronic depression causing brain damage and in later stages it gets harder to distinguish depression from dementia.
Cowen deploys offenders and low wage earners and other people deserving of good things to shield powerful people who'd abuse their positions of public trust. For shame.
Just World Fallacy is great when you're unaffected.
> it's not something LetsEncrypt can do anything about

This is going to cause a lot of stuff to break, and it's 100% LE's responsibility.

HN's root cert is valid through 2038.

LE could have gotten cross-signed by a cert that didn't expire so soon, but they didn't.
My skepticism comes from this particular line in the article:

> The new device could be integrated into solar panels to provide a continuous power supply when it snows, [El-Cady] said.

The abstract of the researh paper itself[0] also reflects this sentiment:

> We envision these devices could potentially be integrated into solar panels to ensure continuous power supply during snowy weather conditions.

Granted, it's more of a pipe dream for the future than an original design goal for the technology, which does work well for said remote sensors

[0] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221128551... (Link may not be accessable to all, feel free to reply with a mirror)
In the US, the fastest growing religion is None-of-the-above [1]. Now, that's not to say that people have given up magical thinking and have embraced reality. They still might believe false things. But at the very least, on some level they've realized that (organized) religion and its dogma is poisonous.

1) http://elm.washcoll.edu/index.php/2018/11/fastest-growing-re...
It's also not uncommon for companies to drop that and have majority vest quicker to get rid of founders faster (provide a good encouraging deal) - especially if they dont play ball.
Well, yes and no. It all depends on interpretation. Pagan religions typically had their festivals following the cycle of the year, and spring is naturally when all of nature is working towards reproductive success. The rabbits as mentioned, eggs are still big around easter. Planting of crops, etc. So the symbols are older than the paganism of pre-christian Europe, and probably a whole succession of religions have used the same symbols.

It wouldn't surprise me if the pre-indo-european cultures of the area also had the same symbols for whatever religions they practiced.

The fertility symbols of spring have very little to do with Christianity, and I can't see where they are even made part of the theology. So looking backwards from a thousand years later, it seems like the pagan religions did recognize them as fertility symbols and rites. Even if those symbols have always been there, it feels like the pagans used them to make sense of their world in a way that Christians haven't.
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Depends on whether the DoD believes it was a rock. Delaware is pretty close to D.C.
Axis of Evil (Cosmology)
Thinking Like a Computer
Also in Apache Traffic Server through the collapsed forwarding plugin: https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/en/latest/admin-guide/...
Another situation in which it helps I think : cooking. At least for me a checklist (written or mental) helps keeping the kitchen clean a makes better meal. For a few years now I've started to plan my cooking like I plan more abstract algorithms.
Big Data can lie: Simpson's paradox
Announcing Azure Government Secret Private Preview and Expansion of DoD IL5
using the word 'inability' is obfuscating the issue. they are actively working against it.
After 30 years, Insane Clown Posse finds respect
The cost of the people to support all of that, too.
This is interesting. I "feel" this in Visual Studio, as the DE is more tightly I(ntegrated). Do you still feel like this in the context of a plugin-less plain editor?
It looks like they were mostly using it to dump water on the pile of debris from the collapsed roof. Seems like a reasonable use case (you wouldn't want crews operating under the rest of the roof that hadn't collapsed).
The title could be more descriptive, as this article is more about "... investigate what is the probability of a negative return on an investment over a fixed time horizon - holding time."
Whatever happened to being community-based and developers working on it because they wanted to help build a great application? Why do they even need a corporation giving them money to implement tracking and other features to compromise user privacy and security?
> There are people out there that just should not go to college. It would be a waste of time and money for them.

Wouldn't you say this is a bit 20/20 hindsight-y? You can be an A/B+ average student in HS and be completely out of your depth in college, depending on your course choices and rigor of the institution.

I didn't realize until maybe sophomore year that I perform better in applied scenarios rather than theoretical. I'd fail my stats midterms because I didn't understand hetero/homoskedasticity, but I would ace the final project because it gave you a dataset that you were supposed to analyze in STATA to answer specific questions. Got a B- overall though, due to the bad midterm grade.

Now, I'm not the kind of person who would fall into the typical "college isn't for you" category, but I did still graduate in 2009 with a 5-figure debt load, an average GPA and a recession economy. I'm sure there were tens of thousands of students like me. We likely have paid off the debt by now and are gainfully employed, but we still question the value of the degree in terms of both financial and time-based opportunity cost.
>The SAT when combined with the high school GPA (HSGPA) has an adjusted correlation correlation coefficient of 0.56 with first-year GPA, meaning the combined measurement accurately predicts how a potential college applicant will perform in their first year of college 56% of the time.

This is a totally incorrect interpretation of what Correlation means. Correlation is generally a very weak measure and the .56 value only tells you there is a "Medium - High" level of correlation between the two things being measured. Nothing more. This is discussed in the paper you linked.
There is such a thing as <name_of_country> technology. Technology is technology and drones are certainly not a 0 to 1 Chinese technology. Great Chinese product nonetheless.
I used to use trello too, but I switched to notion, which is more free-form and let's you organize things how you want. Sounds like what you might be looking for.
Unfortunately, signed packages won't work for archival or any significant offline use. The signed exchanges are forced to be short lived (in days) to limit the damage that can be done when someone steals a TLS private key.

It's a very narrow spec designed just for AMP, basically.
Neural-network Based Lc0 Wins Computer Chess Championship, Makes History
Do you think there's a qualitative change here, though? People have been lying face-to-face, in various degrees, for those and other reasons forever.
Nobody is missing the point because solar panels are a thing. A solar powered calculator probably produces more power than this. Not how they didn't say how much power was produced, because it's probably picowatts.
> The legal consequences of his actions have nothing to do with Europe.

Do you know how the internet works?

> Trump and the Americans should and well remove their military protection of the EU

I am afraid you simply do not understand what the real priorities of the US are, how power is projected in the modern world, and how it is exercised.

> Snowden is not a whistleblower.

I guess we'll have to disagree and leave it at that.
How about having to switch doctors, or having to go a couple weeks without an insurance card, but hey, you still have insurance and you can pay up front and get reimbursed later? Big fucking deal, right?
I'm pointing out that he shouldn't be expected to know the complete history of the American War on Some Drugs.

You can check my post history to see if I frequently reference someone's nationality in a context where it isn't directly relevant to the topic at hand. I await your report.
That has been the dream for a long time. When Java introduced JIT (Hotspot?) a lot of people claimed that Java was faster than C. Lately people are telling me that JavaScript "can" run faster than C. Usually they present some well written code in their favorite language and then compare it to horribly written C. Usually I tell them that most likely the runtime of their language is written in C so you can always do as well in C.