skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you, and have similar experiences with some family and some friends/colleagues. You probably also hear people bringing up anecdotes about someone in Canada waiting for 9 months for a hip replacement. Primary difference is that, in many cases, Canadians with enough money can get a procedure done elsewhere (or privately) at their own expense. Wait 9 months, and there's no out of pocket costs to you. US - you may still have to wait months anyway, and you may end up with debt you will carry for years.

Almost all of those in that list are fear-based, and fear is a big emotion. I don't know how you get past that, but the 'freedom' factor somehow should be focused on.

Freedoms to bring up:

* The freedom to move between employers and not have to concern yourself with tying your ability to get specific health service based on an employer's ability (or whim).

* The freedom to move geographically and not be concerned that you won't be able to afford access to health services. My own health insurance has a decidedly different monthly premium based on county, and I'd be saving probably $150/month if I lived 3 miles to the south.

* The freedom to start your own business (purportedly the backbone of 'US conservative thinking') without worrying about crippling debts.

Right now, instead of an elected/representative Congress controlling what services/procedures/medicines you have access to, you have a for-profit private company, with no recourse to change their leadership or focus via election/recall. "Vote with your feet" is basically impossible in this system.

"Insurance" is an odd product in this space too, at least for basic health care. Insurance is typically something we might get to reduce our exposure to risk for activities we engage in which are voluntary. Choose to buy a car? Get some insurance to help cover replacement costs, or incidental costs to others you may harm. Buying a house? Or renting? Get insurance to help cover replacement costs of things. You can choose to not buy a car, or a house. No one chooses to be born.

Untie anything related to medical care from employment. By what measure is tying someone's ability to access healthcare to the beneficence of their employer remotely morally good? Someone has no employment (through whatever or no fault) and we decide that they are somehow fundamentally unworthy (or perhaps just 'less worthy'?) of access to health services?

What never seems to get talked about after "your taxes will go up!!!" is "other things you pay for will go down!". Employer paying $1000/month for your health insurance policy? That expense will go away, and they'll either pay you more with that money or pay more in taxes.
I wish I had time to play. DMed for a time and also played. There were a few campaigns going on, so both made sense.

Quality time. High quality.

Game on people!
On the west coast waiters make minimum wage and there is still a tipping culture. Because of this, being a server or a waiter can be a very high paying job. To-go orders usually get tipped, but closer to 5-10% as opposed to the standard 15-20 for a sit down restaurant.
https://circle-packing.surge.sh/
> Maybe smaller companies are failing at capitalism by not competing?

By not having money?

This is capitalism working as expected, the only reason you would word it that way is out of ignorance.
We took a HDHP just in order to qualify for the HSA. It probably doesn't save us money on the health-care side, but the HSA as stealth additional retirement account more than makes up for us.

https://www.madfientist.com/ultimate-retirement-account/
Super Maintainable Web Services
It sounds to me that this might be a problem with startups. I've been working in the enterprise space for 5 years, and I've never come across this sort of hiring.

The last job I applied for was open from February 1 - March 1. After that, they pulled it down and began interviewing candidates. Six weeks later, I have an offer letter for a specific role with a well-negotiated compensation package.

Personally if HR treats you the way OP is saying, my guess is you don't want to work for that company anyways. Interviewing experienced people is more the company needing to sell themselves to the candidate, rather than the candidate sell themselves to the company.
And his twitter @joeerl [0] which I feel unfortunate to have just discovered today is filled with him discovering emojis and dictation, talking up the joys of letters, and discussing FPGAs.

It’s sad to hear of his passing, and rewarding to see he was just as kind and curious as you could ever hope to be even just this month.

[0] - https://mobile.twitter.com/joeerl
It is so kind of you to defend my position.

Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you understand as it can be difficult for a creator to explain such things :)

I really appreciate it!
Yeah. It's extremely disappointing that AWS hasn't implemented DNSSEC in Route 53. Even more so, since they have actually been a target of an attack on Route 53, that would have been ineffective if DNSSEC had been enabled.
The ping attribute stores a space-separated list of urls.
There’s a lot of brain drain going on at consulting companies as everyone flees a dying industry for 30% raises at FAAMG companies as they start to tackle vertical industry offerings. They’re all aggressively attacking the enterprise space.

These companies just have profit margins high enough to afford to blow everyone out of the water with their offers. They’re competing with each other for the top talent, and it makes it really hard for companies in other industries to retain their best and brightest.
This photoshop by Bodil Stokke is the obvious choice.

https://twitter.com/bodil/status/1119644170816303104
I’m not sure if I’ve understood this comment properly. Are you saying that it’s ok if the headline is full of shit, because it serves the more noble purpose of getting people to trust their doctors less?
the printer/scanner/copier at my workplace needs about 30 seconds when you press the physical switch to actually switch off, it's more of a command than an actual switch
At this book you could find many good examples using opencv+python.

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/opencv-3x-p...

It explains concepts in a simple manner for beginners and it introduces cool stuff in little steps chapter by chapter.

(It is quite cheap, but probably you could also find the pdf version free on Internet)
Conway’s Law strikes again?
You don't make any sense. Cities are part of the country, and the policies of the country affect the cities. The nation has a part in figuring out how to deal with housing issues. For example, the deductability of interest and local taxes has a significant impact on the cost of housing in a city, especially in big cities.
In one way I do agree with you (there are some clear cases where a junior candidate is asking for way too much, without skill to back it up), but my impression of recruiting in the tech space is that, in large part, this industry is undergoing a shift in the balance of power, where employers are finding it difficult to dictate salaries for job titles. In my opinion, it is really refreshing to see that talent actually feels empowered enough to ask themselves if they are worth more, and confident enough to turn down roles for ones that pay more.

My personal anecdote is that I took the first tech job that was offered as a junior, a little bit before this reversal started taking place, and as a result, I left a lot of money on the table. Years later, I realized that if I had just said no, and extended my search a little bit longer, or had role models telling me my knowledge at the time was worth a lot more, I might be worth a lot more right now (factoring in compound interest with sensible investing of excess profit from work + modest lifestyle).
> "We only hire the best"

of the people looking for jobs........ ?
Question - why even bother having "box tickers"? When you post a job listing, write a short blurb about the company culture and what the job itself involves. Don't bother listing "requirements" or "boosters", because the fact of the matter is, people will send resumes which don't meet your "requirements" and in order to put a boost-worthy resume at the top of the pile, you need somebody to read it in the first place to decide whether it deserves to be boosted to the top of the pile, in which case... it was already read in the first place. And that's assuming you even have a stack of resumes in the first place, which in engineering is a reason to put your hands together in silent thanks that you've become successful.

The hiring manager should already have an idea what level of experience is needed, what kind of budget exists, and how quickly the hire needs to be made by. Winnowing down from a stack of resumes to an offer is the art of compromising on those three axes. If your job opening can actually legitimately be kept open for that long (i.e. for a year plus, with no consequences), you should probably reassess whether you need to hire for the position in the first place.
>I think that my stand on this issue should be respected.

But I don't think it's remotely worthy of respect. You want to live in a society like that, go somewhere with no public schools or roads or firefighters.
Yeah right! This is not a problem of the HR, this is a problem of the upper management. HR is only doing what they are paid to do, and if there is no oversight how they do it the it's an issue with the leadership. But I don't buy that. I think they are trying to buy "suckers" and only shell out for "experts" when they really need to. Unfortunately I think they are hurting themselves, but hey, it's a free world...
You are so right about the pricing. It's too confusing. I will change that asap as they are the same plan, it's just that the yearly plan works out cheaper :)
I also wonder why async/await became the dominant paradigm, with Python, JavaScript, and Rust borrowing it from C# as far as I can tell.

I buy the "what color is your function?" argument: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...

If you look at Python, it has spawned sort of a parallel standard library / language around async/await. For example, as of Python 3.7 contextlib apparently has an AsyncContextManager ("with"). There are async versions of the "itertools" module floating around.

Although, Go is more like Erlang in that it doesn't suffer from this problem.

But Python and JS are two of the most popular languages in the world, so I guess that means async/await "won" ?
Orin Kerr’s analysis suggests that the charges against him were fairly aggressive and may have strained the language of the laws themselves, it doesn’t appear to be straightforward. Additionally, I imagine a lawyer could well argue that the venue itself was inappropriate, the charges do not at all specify why the district they were filed in had jurisdiction to try his alleged crimes. I’m not familiar with this case, but prosecutors stacking every applicable crime they can to stretch the resources of the defendants seems to be standard operating procedure. This could well be the best outcome his attorney was able to guarantee with the resources he was able to spend on this case, but Orin Kerr raised a lot of questions that a more resources defendant may have wanted to take to trial.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Yeah, I see this all the time too, they offer 50-60% of market rate and wonder why they get no takers.
Well, at least Softbank are helping to fire up innovation.
Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords for Instagram Users in Plaintext
> And then there’s all that plastic ... creating a layer that could persist for geological timescales.

Won't the plastic eventually turn back into oil, on geologic timescales? Or are the conditions for that too specific to be relied on? Or am I completely mistaken, and oil->plastic is basically one-way?
Vacancies where someone owns it and is probably wealthy but doesn't live there is very bad. This is because they don't help the businesses in that neighborhood stay economically viable. There's no bodega there, restaurants might not have enough money.
The first thing I found when looking was references to this study:

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/loose-link-f...

> Their results, released this week, reveal just over 30 per cent had a mental disorder.

> "The figure was much lower than the community perception and what other researchers had put out there," Dr Johnson told AAP.

> About 15 per cent had a mental illness before becoming homeless, while slightly more, 16 per cent, developed a disorder while on the street.

Sure, one study in one city, but assuming it's roughly correct, roughly half (if not more) of the homeless with mental illnesses developed them after living on the street.

So in addition to simply helping people not, you know, be homeless anymore, it would very likely reduce the amount of mental illnesses suffered by those who are and have been homeless.
A doc laying out the rationale for the choice of primitives in virtio-crypto [1] would be very nice. The choice is weird. Also, I couldn't find links to actual specs of the named supported primitives, seems we should understand what they mean by name alone.

1 - https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/cs01/virtio-v...
Basically you’ve made a system that generates spam? What value does spam actually deliver to the world?
Maybe the Pony programming language[0] would be of interest to you? Actor-model concurrency is built into the language. I recommend reading through their book[1] in order to get a somewhat good understanding about what it brings to the table. People who like Erlang's concurrency and Rust's compile-time safety & performance will most likely find Pony interesting.

[0]: https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony

[1]: https://tutorial.ponylang.io/
yeah, people have been flocking to them because many nations will jail centralized issuers

I guess France doesn't care!
> and there is seemingly no other way to discover what that is

Yes there is, it's called reading a goddamn book.

> Knowing the right thing to do requires you be informed about the history of Python language design

Bullshit, it requires you knowing the language. Perhaps by reading a book. Knowing the history is of little value.

> sifting through the massive corpous of documentation and historical knowledge required to write good Python is nigh impossible unless you're willing to dedicate yourself Python

Total crap, just read a decent book. About 3 years ago I learnt python from 'Learning Python' by Mark lutz (5th ed) for a new job. I spent 3 weeks going through ~1000 pages and reading stuff on the web. I amazed a guy there when he found out I'd just learnt python, ie. wasn't a veteran at it. He'd used it for years.

Difficult, right, putting in all that work? Well that's called doing your job as a programmer. Happens I'm about to return there so I'm brushing up on it by going through it again.

I would have some sympathy with your position if you hadn't made it out to be such a terrible task. It's not. It's called doing your due diligence as a programmer.

And I have real sympathy with the guy who posed the question you gave from StackOverflow, but the key is once you've learnt about object references, say in delphi, you carry across that understanding to scala/java/python/everything else.

90% of stuff will carry between programming languages. Once you learn OO, functional, procedural, logical langs you recognise and underlying commonality. And most of all, programming is not about a specific language but problem solving and general principles, so getting hung up on a particular lang is missing the point.

My first year out at university I worked at an engineering company and got the best advice ever: first thing to do is pick up the docs and start reading. It's stood me well ever since.

If there are too many options (ie. your comment on slicing vs other stuff), yes, I see but the answer's simple: pick one way and stick to it; either slicing syntax or list methods. You're there to deliver results correctly to the business, not deliver idiomatically perfect code. There's NO shame in not crawling into the furthest, darkest corners of a language.

Excuse the rant. It'll come with experience, just trust yourself and ask questions to any experts you can find.
I think Neanderthals buried their dead and looked after their elderly @ shanidar cave site. Does this imply civilization?
I've kicked expenses down the road more times than I care to admit.
> HR gatekeepers (who don't have the knowledge to make accurate technical assessments) are effectively searching for a perfect match, rather than someone who could do the job well.

IMO, that's just a symptom. The real problem is that the hiring managers/engineers find the job of "recruitment" beneath them.

All of us know the recruiter might not really understand the difference between "java", "scripting" and "javascript". But then, why should that role exist? That role exists because the engineers/managers/leads/architects (generally, the tech folks) just don't want to do the grunt work (search and source candidates, co-ordinate and schedule interviews etc). The actual folks in need of teammates/additional people want a piece of the action alright, nobody wants to miss being an interviewer where one gets to go on a power trip asking the poor candidate to balance B+ trees or some such thing, while letting out tch-tch noises like a lizard watching the poor candidate struggle on the whiteboard.

All that needs to be around is a tool/system that can make the job of searching/sourcing/co-ordination easier for the actual hiring managers/leads who are looking to add people to their teams and have got the necessary budgetary stuff covered already.
Windows 10-The best features of the May 2019 Update REVEALED
It wasn’t entirely impossible to reach this conclusion through sensible speculation alone.

You don’t need to be Apple to know they only had three options for modems really:

1. Keep buying from Qualcomm.

2. Try and prop up Intel’s modem efforts in hope it becomes viable competitor to Qualcomm to either increase leverage or just get Intel good enough that you don’t need Qualcomm anymore.

3. Build own modems.

They tried to make 2. work, and 3. as others have noted simply isn’t viable for several years at least presumably.

Given Intel’s pretty poor track record at entering into new markets and succeeding, it wasn’t a bad bet that 2. and 3. was doomed to failure forcing a retreat to 1.

We already knew from hardware tests that Intel’s 4G modems are not competitive with Qualcomm’s too, so not unreasonable to speculate the future 5G ones might not be as good either. Thanks to Intel’s press release the other day we can largely confirm too that their 5G modems weren’t going to be competitive.

This article suggests there was also option 4, which is not something I’d have as easily speculated:

4. Try to engineer legal/market conditions that will negatively affect Qualcomm’s business to drive modem prices down.

It is this option that seems to have failed this week, if this article’s analysis of Apple’s strategy is correct.
The majority of the people in the world that can benefit from writing computer programs for the most various purposes are not professionals, nor desire to be.

Computation is a powerful tool wide incredibly wide applications, and Python makes this tool accessible to humanity in general. That is no small thing.

Macros, types, threads, interfaces, lambdas, tail calls, etc. are incredibly niche interests, and perfectly unnecessary for the vast majority of computations that people would like to perform.
Read few Packt books written by authors that know nothing about the topic of the book.

For example their blender book is absolute trash and waste of time.

https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/blender-3d-ba...

Their model in the middle of the book could be made in 5mins. And most of the book author writes about history of animation and other offtopics.

https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/hardware_and_creative...
I got a disease from the toxic air pollution that I was subject to for more than 30 years in my life. Nowdays I have to travel away from Europe every year for half year, because I'm affected by the air pollution even more in winter (though heating is also a part of the reason why pollution gets so bad in winter).

Millions of people are dying every year because of air pollution, but you don't see it, because it's a silent killer. It slowly takes away years from your life span.

You could say that it's not worth to get rid of cigarettes from the restaurants, because they don't have short term benefits, only long term benefits, but for people who don't have a lower amount of enzymes than you to detoxify these molecules are affected immediately.

As for me, I wish there would be just 1 nice city in the world that would get rid of air pollution, I would immediately move there (right now I'm in a natural park resort, but these resorts get quite boring after some time compared to a city :( ).
I have a total of four rental units. In the past year, I've been called out to fix something three times. Each issue took about 15 minutes to resolve. I could have hired a handyman for these jobs but it was cheaper and quicker to do it myself.

Most people are afraid of rental properties because it's out of their comfort zone.

Working a W2 job, socking money away in a 401k, and retiring at 65 = normal, safe, responsible, respectable.

Working a W2 job, slowing accumulating rental properties, fixing a toilet once in a while, and retiring at 45 or younger = deviant, risky, naughty.
Do questions about JavaScript libraries like React/Vue get included as "JavaScript" questions?
HR is the cause of this issue, either the ossified silo, or the general company policy to HR, which results in too big of asks for too low of wage from folks that have to use that policy.
Two things:

Should it matter is not the right question. The science will tell us, and understanding differences among people is never a bad thing. We are all different.

Celebrate that, work to mutual respect and understanding and equality in terms of gender role freedom. In my view, that is the outcome of successful feminism.

Do the brains of trans people change over time once they transition? If so, we have an opportunity to get otherwise hard to get data. They will go through experiments, of a sort ethics would very clearly bar (and should), as they seek harmony between mind and body.
He has been quite open about being too abrasive in the service of directness/bluntness in the past.

At the same time, the OS research field really was like this at that time. At MIT, for example, it felt a bit like “which flavor of exokernel would you like to study?”
It doesn't make sense, except if thanks to the State's intervention in insurance market actual insurance companies can't do their job, while app vendors can because they don't have to sell insurance under same conditions (if it's crowdsourcing they obviously just skim a bit from whatever users decide to spend).

But the title implies anyone can get funded, which contradicts that possibility.
Mr Wright does nothing good for Bitcoin. A complete distraction to the innovation of the Cryptocurrency/Blockchain market.
Came here to write this. MDN is a blessing.
They aren't scams. They are just opportunities of low compensation. A scam is where someone is robbing you blind because they lie to you. A crappy "job" doesn't have to be a scam to be crappy.
I see, thank you, that's good to know.
Pass them on to their employees, and also society as a whole.