skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple may be developing a Tile-like tracking tag
> Perhaps the biggest problems these days are a lack of grace and humility

I haven't been alive for all that long and mostly came into political awareness when W. Bush was in office, but my impression of the times before based on the political art and documentation that survives is that... it was never really nice and graceful, that's just a rose tinted view of the past.
Wow. NTNOCN could be quite hit and miss, but that sketch was absolutely spot on.
Which I always voted for, as a "none of the above" vote. (The above being the two main party candidates.)

In 2016 I voted for HC (no love) as a vote against DT. Some things are more existential than others.
related early paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0810119
It sounds like the Verge writer is trying to demonstrate that he has a perspective wider than any of the principals like Systrom and the FB management team, and is thereby entitled to judge them. (Systrom is effete, and the FB team is ruthless.) It does wear thin.
Agree. Extended quote of email rant is hard to appreciate.
I think that you're right, yet the book may still be valuable. I have, for a while, read summaries of business (and other) books by getabstract.com. These cover the main points of the book, but what happens is that you read it, it all makes sense, and a day later you've completely forgotten of it.

The book, on the other hand, yes, expounds on the very same points again and again, with different examples, under different circumstances, highlighting different aspects, and then, having had the same message hammered home so many times, there's a faint chance that a month later you remember some of it.

(Great books change the way you view things forever, but that happens rarely, and never with business books, I'd say :-)
How long untill we've rocksdb storage engine.
I've personally seen lots of meteorites when driving long distance at night. But I had no means to capture it.

Almost all of videos come from dashboard cameras, and rarely from surveillance cameras because those are pointed downwards.

Guess which technology become popular with drivers in the last decade, and recently became good enough to capture good video at night?
Doesn't matter, We Will All Go Together When We Go.

https://youtu.be/TIoBrob3bjI?t=20
Researchers 'reboot' pig brains hours after animals died
And that's something!
Dr. Gawande’s book “The Checklist Manifesto” can be life changing if properly applied.
Permafrost N2O emissions observed on landscape scale reach assumed upper limit
Dominant strategies in the game theoretic sense work regardless of what you do.

Chess is a strategy game with no micro. So is anything turn based.
I imagine it was something like Philip K. Dick's "Foster, You're Dead!"

https://cochranesfsophomores.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fos...
This depends largely on where you live. Salted roads are ready break-killers. If the car stands still a month and the breaks wasn't clean, there might be holes when you want to use the car again. I know, tried it a few times with my cars over the last 30 years. Repairing that can be expensive depending on car :-)
Here are some of my thoughts (from another discussion) on the efforts of the firefighters:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19673885
Schizophrenic Number
That’s been ameliorated somewhat by ACA and is the only reason I think it’s an improvement even though my premiums have gone up. There’s all sorts of pre-existing conditions, and healthcare with the threat of retroactive recision if they feel your application was incomplete ought to feel insecure to just about anyone.
FX68K – 68000 cycle accurate SystemVerilog core
> [...] when you've denoted a tagged item as lost, any Apple device can read the information and you'll receive a notification when someone has found it. That's a clever way for Apple to take advantage of its enormous number of active devices, and give its tag a leg up over the competition.

The network effect is what will likely make this thing stand out from the competition. Exploiting the huge number of iPhones and iPads around is something startups like Tile were and will never able to do.
Plus the whole spiel about CRM (crew resource management), eg that the entire team should introduce themselves, that the nurse is as entitled to speak up and ask questions as the Prof. Dr. surgeon MD Esq., etc. etc.
All other first world nations pay less. On average they pay less than half what the US pays. The fully socialized systems, like the UK, seem to trend lower in cost, as low as one third the cost of the US. But really, the takeaway should be you need universal healthcare with significant government cost controls on drugs and procedures, after that almost any arrangement of public/private administration works (but the caveat that it looks like the more private companies are in the healthcare mix, the higher the costs seem to run).
But then you'd have pilots making more than Generals.
We used https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/ mostly. It's not that Brotli wasn't a winner compared to our gzip, it just didn't outperform it substantially and came with challenges integrating it with our product for supporting dynamic payloads. Meanwhile static assets just need brotli support at build time.
"Choosing the equal sign to denote assignment is one notoriously bad example that goes back to Fortran in 1957 and has been copied blindly by armies of language designers since. This bad idea overthrows a century-old tradition to let = denote a comparison for equality, a predicate that is either true or false. But Fortran made this symbol mean assignment, the enforcing of equality. In this case, the operands are on unequal footing: The left operand, a variable, is to be made equal to the right operand, an expression. Thus, x = y does not mean the same thing as y = x. Algol corrected this mistake with a simple solution: Let assignment be denoted by :=."

--Niklaus Wirth (Good Ideas,Through the Looking Glass)
Does not the book also give more insight about how applying the principles to someone everyday life ?
>They were invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union, not the ethnic Russian individuals that moved or were transferred there under Stalin's rule and thereafter, let alone their kids who many have never lived anywhere else.

Yes, ex-colonists are usually not personally guilty of the transgressions of their original state.

>our failure to make a distinction between a state, its ethnic composition and the individuals residing there just kinda embarassingly highlights the ethno-nationalist ideology underlying these laws.

Sorry, the "ethno-nationalist ideology" canard doesn't pass muster. There's absolutely no ethnic component to this. Descendants of ethnic Russians who lived in Estonia prior to 1940 (or which there were a reasonable number) were given Estonian citizenship in 1991 like any other Estonians who descend from those living in Estonia prior to 1940. The law is based on residency during occupation, not ethnic origin.
Funny you should mention this, when the earthquake hit some years ago my mind immediately went "NUKE!". Seemed more likely at the time.
It is possible they have successfully settled out of court because the fee is much less than the cost to litigate, and an IP lawyer might suggest that. A case could go on for multiple years, but it could also just get thrown out if you are able to easily prove prior art from before 2002 when the patent was initially filed. It's always worth talking to an IP lawyer though. It isn't expensive to talk for a couple of hours.
It's very hard to get enough good sleep when homeless. It's also hard to find bathrooms, food, any sort of comfortable rest, ETC...

Expecting anyone to remain sane for an extended period (or even a short time) under these conditions is absurd.
Apple Pledges to Help Rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral
Sounds like Lisp Machine Lisp reborn.
Which one would you suggest?
Somewhat, but people with insurance are still the largest group of people with medical bankruptcies.
In practice there's a bit more to it than what the article describes, especially for a distributed cache: you need to have the Promise auto-expire so that if the machine that's performing the backend read disappears the other readers don't stay stuck forever waiting for it. It's also useful to have a feature in the cache itself that blocks the caller until the Promise has been fulfilled, so as to avoid repeated requests asking if the data is finally there.

As an aside, Guava loading caches[1] implement per-key locking so that multiple threads accessing a missing key simultaneously[2] would only lead to a single load with all other readers waiting for the loading thread to complete the fetch and populate the cache.

[1] https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CachesExplained

[2] in the sense of "in the time it takes for the first accessor to complete the backend read"
More accurately, Skitt's Law (which is mentioned in that Wikipedia article).
This was the video I remembered too: the machine was built for the Lexus LFA, which was rumoured to cost twice to build what it eventually sold for. Hopefully they managed to recoup some of their costs through technology R&D like this one.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

- George Santayana
Got to say, after reading the description in the linked URL, I was really surprised with just how complex the syntax is in the code samples. I don't want to be overly negative, but it doesn't look like it's going to reduce complexity to me - if anything it looks like one of the most incomprehensible languages I've come across in decades of experience.
Why do you think so? I don't.

The article in The New Yorker is superb, you should really take a look. What could be missing there?
I’m on mobile. The checkboxes had no effect, the code run on its own by default. And I gave up on trying to go back to Lobsters by using the Back button.
Google Analytics isn't the only analytics solution out there. Publishers can use literally _any_ method of gathering analytics that's not server logs.
Pig brains kept alive outside body for hours after death
> and then immediately sign onto their new plan

Nope. Employer-provided insurance plans often have blackout dates.

If you quit your job on June 2, and start your new job on June 3, your new job's health insurance might not actually take effect for up to 30, 60, or even 90 days after your start date.

To cover that gap period, you either have to switch to a new plan with your old employer (commonly called COBRA) at ridiculous high rates nobody can afford, or you have to get temporary blackout insurance coverage (which cover nothing at all, and are almost identical to having no insurance).

This need is so common, that most insurance companies have special advertising just for it (like https://www.priorityhealth.com/individual-family-health-insu... for example).

In America, to switch jobs once, requires three concurrent interactions with three different health insurance plans, simultaneously. (Your old employer plan, your intermediate temporary plan/COBRA, and your new employer's plan). For obvious reasons, this is incredibly error prone, risky, and fraught with stress.

> Is the argument that switching insurance plans is stressful?

Yes! Literally every single interaction with every single health insurance provider is painful and stressful and complicated and intentionally obfuscated, for absolutely no valid reason whatsoever.
I discuss this in another reply chain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19681408
Reusable Checklists could be done with a simple text document that you duplicate every time you need it no ?
JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries for 2019
Yep, facts and allegations. Read the indictments.
A release checklist (for us) is inherently very risk-averse, as its raison d'être is to prevent a very expensive & dire catastrophe, and every item on the list is (metaphorically) "written in blood" [0]. As a result it's politically intractable to remove anything.

[0]: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/u-s-navy-supercarriers-domi...
Here is one of the opening quotes from Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark:

Here is a question I would ask, What are you really trying to say in this film? I believe you wear on this a wee bit earlier but unfortunately we only got the picture outside, not the voice, which was something that husbands might want of their wives...

Classy.
‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains from Dead Pigs
Great. Now they should stop destroying their local cultural artifacts (https://twitter.com/stevelapsl/status/1118086632450740226), and imprisoning people in concentration camps.
> When I first heard about the quantum search algorithm I thought it [O(sqrt(N)) run time] sounded impossible. I just couldn’t imagine any way it could be true.

It's curious to hear this from Nielsen himself. Personally, learning about Grover's algorithm was when I realised why "if you're not surprised by quantum mechanics, you cannot have understood a thing" (attributed to Bohr, I think).
Some clarification on Antarctica:

There are roughly three regions in Antarctica. The Transantarctic Mountains divide Antarctica into a really big East Antarctica and a smaller West Antarctica. The two large ice sheets in Antarctica (Ross and Ronne) are in West Antarctica. The tip edge of West Antarctica is the Antarctic Peninsula.

Everyone agrees that West Antarctica is losing ice. This is especially true of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is basically under going complete collapse (e.g., the Larsen Ice Shelf). It's unclear if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is merely declining or undergoing a more catastrophic collapse. The complete collapse of this ice sheet is something that is included in the worst-case scenarios for sea level rise.

East Antarctica is more difficult. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains far more mass than West Antarctica--about 90% of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in total is here. This ice sheet is roughly in balance, although the succession of studies I've seen have ping-ponged between growing, stable, or declining, which means you can find a study to support your viewpoint, whatever it may be. Due to the sheer size of the ice sheet compared to everything else, small uncertainties in the mass balance here basically dictates whether or not you think Antarctica as a whole is gaining or losing ice mass.
Oh, wow. It is on my phone but not in the play store anymore. Strange.

https://github.com/Frozenbox/frozenchat
Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive
How to Write an Awesome GitHub Readme
Well “Judeo-Christian” is an concept that mostly got invented and pushed to distinguish (and descriminate against) Muslims who worship the same god.

It also conveniently erases the centuries of anti-Semitic actions taken by various Christian churches.

The true “judeo-christian” tradition is for Christians to claims Jews eats babies, are hell bent on incest, steal money. Don’t forget the repeated seizure of Jewish land and property, the repeat exile - including from England.
When I started my current job I wasn't eligible for benefits for 90 days. This is not uncommon.
Headline<>article mismatch
> ... inability of Congress to meaningfully fix the issue.

They'll never fix it. As long as there is a mentality that the poor are poor because they make bad life choices and thus should receive as little support as possible as a punishment, nothing will change because any change that would give everyone basic healthcare would also mean helping the poor.
AFAICT this has descended into semantics at this point.

The difference between "blind faith" and what the Catholic church would call "reasoned faith" doesn't seem at all relevant if one doesn't accept (logically sound) arguments where there is no demonstrable reason to accept the premises of said argument... is it?

Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

EDIT: To me it's a bit like arguing from a premise of "the Bible is 100% true and infallible". Well that can't be a valid premise because there are contradictory passages... and, anyway, it wasn't written directly by God, so there is already at least 1 layer of interpretation going on. I mean, I can accept that if you believe the premise then you wouldn't want to wear clothes made of mixed fibers, but that's neither here nor there. Likewise, you could argue as long as you like about how many angels fit on the head of a pin, but I don't accept the premise that angels (as described in the bible) exist, so...
Well both your reply and the above 'replier' have simply attacked my comment ad-hominem, and have not provided any basis for your arguments.

I don't think it adds anything to the argument to indicate "People who say such and such just want to do this or that"

That 'a lot of films could not get made' is not a controversial idea - have a listen to Hollywood podcasts.
Granted, a lot of the 'can't get made' memes are directed at issues such as 'market size' and geopolitics (i.e. China market), there's no shortage of films that have suffered consequences due to nearly arbitrary issues over race, gender etc. - and these were the films that were approved.

"Scarlett Johansson is again at the center of a casting controversy, this time for accepting a role to play a transgender man. " [1]

"Taika Waititi Teases ‘Akira’ Film Adaptation, Says No One Has to Worry About Whitewashing" [2]

"Cloud Atlas under fire for casting white actors in 'yellowface' makeup" [3]

Literally a film made by two hyper-progressive transgender women, 'under fire' for casting people of different ethnicities and genders, in different roles entirely to make a point about such things, faces controversy.

These various movements represent serious restrictions to artistic creativity and freedom of expression in the arts, and it's had a chilling effect on the industry.

The studios have 'taken note' - and now there are an entire series of stories and characters removed from pop culture reference, due to the antagonizing of a fairly small number of individuals.

Twitter has become a tool of mass suppression, whereby a few angry people can often dictate 'what cannot be done'.

The effect is pronounced and significant, affecting casting decisions in most films made in Hollywood.

Consider that in 2019 there was no host for the Oscars - largely because nobody wants to step up to the plate and undergo the kind of scrutiny usually reserved for presidential candidates. Any public statement ever made, in any context, that runs afoul of one group or another, can have one permanently removed - I'm not defending terrible people like Bryan Singer (X-Men), rather, guys like James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), who made some really tasteless jokes on Twitter and lost his job (though thankfully regained).

Finally, on a side note, I'll refer to John Cleese himself during a Marc Maron interview (you can search iTunes for it, highly recommended): "You can't make a joke about the French Revolution anymore". I understand this isn't quite a concern over sensitivities, but Cleese himself pokes in this direction in his interviews.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/07/04/scarle...

[2] https://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/taika-waititi-akira-film-d...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/oct/26/cloud-atlas-und...
I do almost the same, but the “Before You Go” list is a great addition. I’ve got a couple of different checklists in Trello for different kind of trips: week of snowboarding, long weekend with my wife, business trip to conference, camping with family.
Re-posting my SSC comment here:

I think this analysis is excellent, but I don't think the Common App explains the increase in applications-per-admission. There's another significant factor that causes students to apply to dozens of schools: No one can accurately forecast what a given school will cost anymore.

At some point (I believe in the late '00s, but could be wrong), elite schools started to extend their financial aid programs to include students from middle-class families. Harvard announced this in 2007[1], Yale and Princeton followed quickly, and most other elite schools seem to have done similar things, albeit with more constrained resources.

Prior to this change, a student from a family with middle-class income or above could know with reasonable certainty what a given college would cost: they would expect to pay the tuition, fees, etc. listed on the brochures. After this change, they would have no idea until after they were admitted. They might get a generous financial aid package that brings the cost down to the price of their local state university, or they might get nothing except loans. The systems used to determine financial aid packages are opaque and not well-publicized, so the outcome is unpredictable.

In 2009, I applied to a broad sample of 14 schools on the east coast. They were a mix of "elite" private and flagship public universities. My parents were comfortably middle-class. I was lucky enough to get into most of them, and so I had the opportunity to compare financial offers. In maybe 1 case out of 12, I would have had to pay the full sticker price. The rest would have been heavily "discounted", but the discount varied widely between schools, from ~5% off the total cost of attendance, to 60% off, to 100% off (full ride). For the private universities the "discount" came from a mix of "need-based aid" and merit scholarships, while for the public universities it was exclusively from merit scholarships.

In this system, you don't know what the financial offer is until you get in, there are possible windfalls from getting a generous financial offer, and it's difficult to predict in advance what the financial offer will be until you get in. The incentives here are obvious: student who are conscious about the cost of their education have a strong incentive to "play the lottery" by applying to as many schools as is feasible for them, while biasing towards schools that are known to provide generous financial packages.

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/12/harvard-annou...
Well, in Western Christianity there were/are the Rogation Days[1] and Ember Days[2] (and extra-liturgical customs that could vary from place to place), certainly related to "making sense of the world" with respect to cycles of nature.

Holy Week (preceding Easter) and Easter itself are full of themes and symbolism, but the focus is different — it's square on the mysteries of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

See for example the Exsultet[3] and the Victimae paschali laudes[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogation_days

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ember_days

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsultet

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimae_paschali_laudes
It mostly benefits big businesses to have employer based insurance.
That's the sign of a good checklist. The idea is to free up mental processing to focus on harder issues. Let the doctor focus on the hard stuff and not spend excess time trying to remember the simple stuff.
Or maybe his true character is emerging, as it inevitably does with anyone who has such a high profile. You can't keep putting makeup on a snake forever and keep fooling everyone.
How the Amiga Languished
Yes, there are some people that by all measures should do well in college, but just don't. That is going to happen in any population of people. What I was talking about was students that I met early on (i.e. in the dorms or 2nd year) that were just there for posterity. They were there to get a degree just to say "I got a degree", and not the knowledge they gained there. I also knew quite a few of the athletes, but that is a separate discussion.

Yes, your situation is pretty rough as far as college grads go. My brother graduated a few years after that, but luckily got a job somewhat quickly as the economy was slowly rebounding. Maybe it is 20/20 to talk about this because not many people saw that recession coming. Kids entering college in 2004 were seeing a good economy, and that affected the cost/benefit for them.