skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't we already solve this with recyclable glass and deposits? Beer bottles at least have worked this way my whole life.
There’s a very similarly named “Loren Pixel” service which offers categories (but from a different image set): http://lorempixel.com/
Mini Spoiler-Free Review: “Avengers: Endgame”
> - The cup has to retail for 17 cents.

Like plastic bags in supermarkets, can't one just put the onus on the customer to pay the cost of the container if they don't bring their own?
To add, the CDC does an amazing job of making the whole of mortality stats available with the fast take being at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm - they also do a weekly report
It's not just an anecdotal assertion. I know that public and private payers conduct audits and reviews on a subset of claims to verify accurate coding. Private insurers don't release their audit results but if you search around you can probably find something from CMS for Medicare claims.

Certified medical coders are required to complete several hours of additional training every year in order to maintain their status.

ICD-9 had been in use for many years. ICD-10 is only slightly more complex. Most provider organizations typically only use a small subset of the available codes so it's not too hard to keep track of the common ones.
Plot twist: Instagram makes all pictures look like crap by limiting their resolution.
Ah, I was just about to say that this looks like unsplash.it (which we actually use in our SaaS to generate random images on our 404 and 500 error screens [0]). Glad to see that it is one and the same!

[0] - https://medium.com/@dsabar/error-messages-don-t-have-to-be-b...

EDIT: Wonder it we will have to change the domain on our app to point to this new domain, or will the old unsplash.it one still be used going forward?
> If Lambda can turn a profit by offering people a stab at a decent job, that would be a fine lesson in capitalism.

I'm not so sure. The solution might not be to train more nurses, but to retain the exiting nurses. Nurses have a really high turnover rate in the U.S. The problem is nursing is demanding work and it often requires long hours.

> Nurses who work more than 12 hours in a single shift and more than 40 hours a week are likely to leave the nursing workforce within a year. Overtime for nurses should not be commonplace. Instead, hospitals and other healthcare organizations should reduce the length of shifts and the number of hours in a workweek. Hospital administrators should not push nurses into working extra hours.

https://rnbsnonline.unm.edu/articles/high-cost-of-nurse-turn...

> A study by Compdata Surveys of 11,000 healthcare employers with more than 11 million employees found the average turnover in healthcare jobs in 2017 was 20.6%, up from 15.6% in 2010, putting healthcare’s turnover second only to hospitality’s.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/will-2018-be-t...

> Turnover rates also varied significantly across countries with the highest rate reported in New Zealand (44·3%) followed by the US (26·8%), Canada (19·9%) and Australia (15·1%).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jan.12483

This might be a lesson in capitalism, but maybe not the lesson that The Economists thinks.
So does the US Federal Government, which is the main reason why farm subsidies, although wasteful, are absolutely necessary for National Security.

The quickest way for a country/civilization to fall is by interruptions in food supply. The US is a large country with many people. If the food price increase sharply or if there's food scarcity, it will most certainly lead to social unrest of the kind we've never seen before.
I wonder if it's cheating to sign up for Lambda School if you have no intention of getting a job.
you guys should partner with github to disable those token which have leaked
I think it's good that out-there ideas can be debated within a University and that there is an opportunity for well educated people to debate the subject. The opposite of this is that he is relegated to the dark corners of the web and these ideas go unchallenged, or challenged only by trolls who only further strengthen his beliefs. I would much rather an open, public debate where the foundations of his beliefs are shaken and it can be seen by all the flaws in his ideas.

> In April 2018, Dr Chi approached The Oxford Union to propose a
> debate on the subject. The proposal was not accepted.

There is a concerning growth of subjects that can no longer be discussed or debated within Western campuses.
HuskeeCup is one of them. Their cups are pretty neat, being made from coffee waste.

The other, bigger, one there is KeepCup, but I don't have any experience with them.
I don't think the point was to eliminate "code that looks like memset at the assembly level", but to eliminate memset at the source level, which the author considers cleaner.

Under the covers, one would hope a good optimizing compiler could choose the same assembly for both, which may very well look "memset like" since fewer, wide writes are generally more efficient.
So... If you want to help the environment, you should not separate your plastic waste and instead put it with the general garbage so it ends up safely in a landfill. Honestly, I myself can't tell if I'm serious.
Somebody researched a bunch of CDNs and compared them:

https://www.custompcguide.net/keycdn-vs-bunnycdn-vs-belugacd...
Ask HN: Politics at Work – Making a Case
How do you overcome politics at work? Often times the opinion of the manager or other individuals supersedes logic.

For example, a developer asks the manager if they should remove a piece of code so it is not included in the current elevation but rather in the next one. Another developer says they already removed the code in question the prior day at the direction of the tech lead. Instead of the manager telling the developer to update their local and read comments, the manager calls out the other developer for not sending an email to all 50 developers about the change. If it is best practice to update your local, and sending an email to 50 individuals for every change is inefficient and ineffective, then why is one asked to send the email? How can one make their case?

My organization says they promote diversity of thought. How is that possible? If an individual holds an opinion contrary to the manager, wouldn't the manager feel that the individual's position is incorrect? After all, a person only holds their position because they assume it is correct, assuming they adhere to western ideology.

If one is different, how can one defend their position against the cronyism?
The reason that government supported healthcare is so difficult to sell in the us is that it drives down the cost of labor and the real constituency of politicians (campaign donors) prefer cheap labor.
> That's really a marginal opinion. Maybe if you're an OpenGL developer. Apple provides an excellent framework (Metal) which works brilliantly. Yes it would be great if Apple delivered first-class support for Vulkan, but complaining about OpenGL is last decade's problem.

The Metal drivers are more stable, but the shader compilers generate slow code, just like the old Apple OpenGL drivers (the ones they wrote for the Intel GPUs). OpenGL issues are not "last decade's problem", I have on several occasions needed to write workarounds in WebGL shaders to prevent the NVIDIA drivers from crashing the whole windowing system (and every application with it) on macOS. On the same hardware, the drivers on Linux are faster, more stable, and more featureful and also include implementations of Vulkan.

> An example: If my aging father's Mac turns to shit, he can hold down R, boot up the computer from the recovery disk and restore from a Time Machine backup that he himself set up with no assistance required from anyone.

That's not a macOS feature though, that's an Apple PC firmware feature. I'll grant that AFAIK no vendor who ships a Linux distribution by default has a durable recovery partition, but there's nothing about macOS itself which makes that easier.
I've put hundreds of miles on some of my $60-70 New Balance running shows. I think I've only had one dud in several years.
> I am a physics graduate student and I spend literally every waking minute of my life in lab. It's really embarrassing to admit, but it's been 3 years since I've had sex or had a social life outside of lab. This is self-imposed - I'm chasing a dream, but surely 3 years of complete isolation, devoid of intimacy of any kind can at least compare to being "left out of meetings"?

Woah there. Your lack of sex is NOT my problem. And you're also describing almost exactly my experience in grad school, for most of my time there. Get out of the lab. Make some friends and blow off some steam. Maybe hire a sex worker, if that's such a priority for you.

The situation at my company is ridiculous. Men are literally being assigned to do work on the very topic of my PhD thesis. They're bewildered by the complexity, and the smart ones come to me for help. The others just wing it, and get shit results quickly.

I'm not a PhD student. I have a PhD and a decade of professional experience. I make research proposals and they're silently handed to men, and I'm kept out of the loop until they get stuck and drop a stinking-hot emergency in my lap. My proposals include reasonable research outlooks and timelines. But they ignore my expertise and expect me to produce 6 months of research in a week. Which could be entirely avoided by inviting the subject expert to meetings about the research she kicked off.

My point about the overworked men is that they're working hard but not smart, while I'm under-utilized. We'd all be happier, the company would be more successful, if I was kept in the loop. Sexism is bad for everyone, oddly enough.
One slightly worse but standard charger is a better situation than loads of incompatible chargers especially when you consider environmental impact. My main concern would be avoiding blocking progress where a new standard is built which is better but we can't move over to it because of regulation.
Somebody should built an equivalent for gifs and videos
You're just declaring more bounded context. You are a linesman? A sewage engineer?

That's not a compelling argument for showing that you understand the difference between the pump station and the treatment center.

Changing the metaphor: in your domain you have local advantages, using your scripting language or Go or what have you. At the treatment center we apply force multipliers at scale. A good example is the actor system, where threads are tamed and bound to cores, and application logic flourishes through work messages and not direct execution.

Asynchronicity, no blocking, and volumetric instrumentation are the force multipliers. On the margin you will complain that it is all too complicated, and with good reason.

You're just manning one pump station.

Moore's Law has been dead for 15 year perhaps, and the pump stations will endure as utilities. Data on the edge will endure forever, because locality is a thing, but computing on the edge is wispy and questionable.

If privacy becomes a thing, will data move to the edges or to the center? If data consistency becomes a thing, if data transformations become a thing with a move to single-payer insurance in the US, will data move to the edges or to the center?

I see no scenarios, except network performance hits a wall, where we are preserving the sensibilities of scripters and writing software that is beautifully single-threaded and synchronous. It is a pipe dream to think that your execution stacks will be anything but tiny 10 years from now.

Hammer and hew your sewer pipes, and keep them "clean" in the way that you have been taught. Times will change and you will not be notified of the event.

I hope you realize you are in danger of becoming Trump's "forgotten man" alongside coal miners and Carrier manufacturing line workers.
A lot of people aren't driven enough by themselves. So although they -could- look things up and start working on projects, they -don't-.

Another thing is the teachers/mentors. I'm not sure about Lamba School's quality but in general having a teacher or mentor who can guide you is very beneficial. The thing with programming is that there's so much you have to learn at first.

I am also completely self taught. I learned Ruby to apply into one academy but got rejected. But I continued to work through their recommended materials anyway and now I work remotely fulltime as a software developer.
Unfortunately it looks like the battery was looted from the Baghdad museum during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and remains missing (according to a small snippet at the bottom of this article).
Parts of the Bay Area are pretty famous for having microclimates. I wouldn’t really use traditional weather reports for determining if it’s currently raining right here, but I find them accurate enough for determining if I need to carry my rain jacket or umbrella for the day.
Out of curiosity (I dont know Cali's rules well), how does it work in Cali as you own the place (that is, lets take out the inheritance part for a sec).

If your taxes go up like crazy because property value increase, are you out of luck (like most other places), or do you get to keep a lower tax rate? Because I'll admit, being kicked out of the house you bought because rates skyrocketed and all of a sudden you can't afford it anymore kind of sucks. I live on the east coast, and just 2 years after I bought a place, my taxes basically doubled. I'm privileged enough that I was able to absorb it, but most people wouldn't be able to. Coupled with a bunch of heavy repairs I had to do shortly after getting the place, plus realtor fees, most people wouldn't even have been able to afford selling it, either. So bankruptcy they'd have gone.

One could say you should be sure you can absorb these hikes before you buy, but these are spikes that someone somewhere in city hall signed off on, not some kind of unpredictable random bad luck (the tax hike, not the repairs)
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Haha, of course not.

But it's relevant that the last Beatles tour was in summer 1966, and that album came out in May 1967. The Beatles were fed up with stadium acoustics and screaming fans and whatever else, but definitely a part of it was simply the reality that Sgt. Peppers could not be performed live with the technology available at the time.

It's interesting to see how modern artists like Moby tackle this issue— basically they create their music at a computer, and then later on hire a bunch of musicians and figure out how to perform it on tour.
Has there been some kind of relaunch? Service was unreachable last Friday.
"Just asking questions" in the form of "So, why are your comments all <about this>" isn't impolite; it's engaging in bad-faith tactics to silence a point of view, and an implication that the user is a shill.

It's not even a reasonable accusation; the comments from the user supposedly supporting facebook is actually just three fairly thought out, nuanced comments.
To be clear, my reference to “inequities being addressed” was not about emoji. It was about actual issues where rights are involved. For example, whenever a state enacted marriage equality, there would a very outspoken group of people who would start whining about how gay people are getting “special treatment” when in fact they are getting equal, and equitable, treatment.

We can also be nice and reasonable people without constantly accusing each other of trying to incite a culture war.
That doesn't really address his question.

>The only justifications for life elsewhere to exist that I am aware of are statistical, not evidential

Everything you just said pretty much sums up to "we were wrong before!", which still isn't empirical evidence. Besides, just because there's probably alien life somewhere in the universe doesn't mean there's alien life on earth right now, given how vast space is.
Disposable coffee cups and there lids seem to make up most of the trash I see on the side of the road. Fast food boxes and cups being the other major one.
Nothing, whatever, could be wrong with me.
The world must be as it is, logically.
Why try to improve? And if you say we must,
I'll question, flail, pout, and then call it unjust.

Don't tell me it's my fault, for I just got here.
I'll blame it on past people, maybe a peer.
My life is just fine, and if others' are not,
Well, life's just unfair, they deserve what they got!

Do it for children, you'll say, and I'll sneer,
How could I harm someone that isn't yet here?
I cant be to blame for what their life might be.
What have future generations e'er done for me?

I'll mine all the minerals, cut down all the trees.
Bespoil the air, then move on to the seas.
What difference make it? I've earned what I've got,
and nothing was given for which I've not fought.

And isn't this precisely what Darwin taught?
May the best man win, and take all of the pot!
I'm captain, o captain of this ship called home.
But I'm tired and hot now. Please, leave me alone.
I would be concerned about what horrible things a person might do to those cups outside the restaurant. Perhaps this is unfounded, but I assume this would require commercial dish washers to be upgraded (which I'm not opposed to).
And how many of those were untested? Most I imagine.
> I look forward to my degrees becoming officially worthless, with everyone having the same or better education easily available to them

Lots of degree have become worthless, with the tuition fee keep going up........
Inflation is a real thing.

I doubt we'd have any workers paid through property taxes if we were paying like it's 1955.
Without knowing anything about this, how much of it is the custard vs. the wires leading to the custard? Like, could you pull them out, and have them hanging in the air a few inches apart and get the same result? Or, I suppose, insert a resistance equivalent to the custard?
Looks like the article has been edited to fix this:

> Fusion emits no greenhouse gases. Unlike fission, fusion carries less risk of accidents or the theft of atomic material.
>There is a concerning growth of subjects that can no longer be discussed or debated within Western campuses.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say refusing to hold debates on subjects similar to this isn't a recent trend. There's definitely a growing trend of refusing to debate certain subjects (of the right wing politics variety), but this isn't yet.
I was going to ask if the French have anything as ridiculous as Australian senate ballot papers. I wouldn't expect volunteers to deal with those.

Then I remembered that the senate count at Australian polling booths is a rough approximation, and volunteers could do it easily. Do the French take their ballots to a central office for professionals to check?
They fail to realize that these authoritarian measures will undoubtedly be used against them when their political rival takes power...
It seems to me that if the point (or at least part of it) of government farm policy is to produce oversupply, you could argue that they set up subsidies to favor small operators.

A large quantity of small farms, with slightly different approaches to problems, slightly different crops, different sources of financing, local ownership sounds like it might be more reliable in the long run. Admittedly, the efficiency of the system would suffer a bit.
My point is $100 is about a year and a half of monthly 1MB Pro payments, so you only need to bank on 1MB lasting a year and a half at least not “forever” to get your money’s worth (and you’re supporting an indie project). Anyways I’ve added a disclaimer: “Forever or for the life of the project. 1MB isn't going anywhere, but we also can't predict the future. No refunds!“
Maybe I live in a strange area, but we've always had continuing education offered by the county and various other local government type organizations. They offer everything from languang and reading instruction to welding, pottery, fitness and woodwork at very reasonable prices. We get two or three catalogs in the mail a few weeks before every scheduled session starts. My wife and I are currently taking the second session of an art program and take regular fitness classes every week.

The local library also offers a large number of classes in various subjects for various ages.

Classes use a mix of facilities, but I've spent quite a few evenings crammed into an elementary school desk.

I've moved around a bit in my state and have always had this kind of offering available, even in quite rural areas. Is this not the norm?
Wow...

I never said it was your problem, in fact I mentioned that my problems were "self-imposed". I simply stated that I have problems that exist as well, with comparable, or worse severity to yours, despite being male. I asked how you could so easily dismiss these problems. You then promptly dismissed my problems. Maybe people don't want to work with you because you have no social skills.

Also the solution to your problems is a lot less drastic than “hire a sex worker”, it’s doing the more common action of leaving your job.
Where can I find an alien female to breed with her?
Exactly, there is an effective rent for owning a home, even if it's entirely paid off.

The taxes you must pay, the insurance on the property, and the upkeep for maintenance (amortized roofing expenses/AC units etc).

I have family members that are ecstatic when their property value increases, because they love the idea of being people who live in a very valuable home.

But this is the only home that they have. And then their taxes go up. In order to cash out their "investment" they have to move. Which means, if they don't rent, buying back into the same over-inflated market. It's a wash, and the only thing that changes is the amount of money they are paying in taxes.
Similar experience here in South Florida, the two weather apps I am currently using not always agree on the next day weather and often are wrong on the same day weather forecast. It seems to me that there was better accuracy a couple of years ago and somehow they have degraded. I am puzzled :/
a Loren ipsum I will actually use. now if only plain tex would include this as a package
(I don't know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.)

Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default.

Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&implementation quality, and ethics.

You don't want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the majority of software right now. You don't want your ER nurse to be smug about how smart they are, while they do shoddy work with fad tools and halfwitted cargo cult processes. You don't want your doctor or lawyer selling you out to 'analytics', for starters, like almost every dotcom startup does.

As startups try to bring the greatness of Webrogramming to other areas, are they going to suddenly say, "Oh, but this is actually an important area, unlike the information infrastructure of humanity, so this one we'll do with more responsibility than obviously we have been."
aesthetics | iːsˈθɛtɪks, ɛsˈθɛtɪks | (US also esthetics)

plural noun [usually treated as singular]
It is hard to imagine what it must be like being a young person in HK.

Growing up with some semblance of individual liberty (small L liberalism) and then knowing it will be gone in your lifetime. It would have been better to always be under authoritarian rule... then you wouldn’t know what you were about to go without.
Not possible but I’ll add that to my development roadmap :)
At a previous job, we had a "pipi" mailing list (pee, in French), where people would send "I went to pee" from unlocked computers. The "victim" themselves would often be members of said mailing list. That worked quite well, so organically, the list ended up being used mainly for random jokes, news and stuff, rather than the "I went to pee" messages.