skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's same phenomenon that benefitted Google pre-turning-evil. Redditors - and most other netizens - hate corporations for their actions and shared values, so if you make a big show of shitting all over one stereotypical corporate value (pandering to moral guardians or being evil in general), people are much more likely to belive you when you claim (or imply) that you don't care about other corporate values.

There's some overcorrection due to wishful thinking and overestimating the difficulty of lying, but the underlying reasoning is mostly valid.
Harry Reid, unsurprisingly.
In California the state has been slowly passing laws here and there to preempt zoning and lawsuits to stop transit and densification.

One of the things I've noted is often the opposition is basically insane.

From voters in the Santa Cruz mountain blocking construction of a sewer up HWY 9. Needed because everyone's septic systems are polluting the ground water and streams. Blocked after all the planning had been done. The Feds, State, and Country would have paid for most of it. But blocking construct meant all the planning costs had to be paid for by the home owners. Total $1000 each.

To suing to block the construction of the California high speed rail. Because they might run a tunnel 3000 feet under someones toy horse ranch in the San Gabriels.
I get it. I understand everyone's frustration. In similar fashion I understand how unlikely it is a crew would have the mental capacity to deal with stick shakers, GPWS callouts, and still fix the problem and that is the tragedy here. However the report said they followed proper procedure but look at the data. 95% N1, turning auto trim on and off a few times, the last time causing the huge -2G bump. There also is not enough data to us yet to determine they did regain control of the plane before enabling electric trim again. I don't think in the case of runaway trim you are supposed to keep switching the cutoff and leave your plane above Vmo. Something doesn't add up according to the data imo.
>without any violence at all...

Excepting, of course, all the violence used to keep the slaves as slaves in the first place I assume? Because, what? That's not real violence?

Come on man. It's slavery. There was already grotesque violence. Only question was, what were different nations willing to do to stop it? But where slaves were concerned, every nation involved was already perfectly ok with massive, grotesque, and global scale violence. It was kind of a necessity for that kind of thing to work.
That's awesome.

I'm also reminded of something that Scott Adams wrote in a forward to one of his books.

To paraphrase: we're all idiots, even the smartest of us. Not all the time, but given the right situation...
One would be: Never use "utf8" character set, only "utf8mb4". "utf8" is limited to those characters that only use four bytes, and everything else will be truncated. "utf8mb4" is what you want when you think about UTF-8.
Pro tip: If you don't want to come off as negative, don't start your post with the words "I get really irritated" ;) I'm still confused about what you really meant, since your first and second paragraphs really were at odds with each other.

As a non native, but still fluent English speaker I always use subtitles when I can. It just helps to fill in the odd word I miss due to local noise or unexpected pronunciation (English has a lot of dialects!).

FWIW, I tend to do this for content in my native language as well. Turns out ~ten million people is enough to produce a lot of incomprehensible dialects as well...
SpaceX Crew Capsule Was Destroyed During Failed Ground Test, Company Confirms
More relevant is injuries per mile.
Is this actually true for local elections? I would think they care far more about the local teachers union than Mitch McConnell, and certainly the prior would have more boots on the ground canvassing. I think local representatives have to cater to the preferences of their district to a pretty large extent, though not perfectly so (a bit of hysteresis?).
For Champions: What It Takes to Achieve
“Espinoza credits his success to his intense work ethic.

"I can speak for myself — I don't have much life for many, many years," Espinoza said. "Because I wanna be the best. And to be the best, I must train the best."

https://www.businessinsider.com/kentucky-derby-american-pharoah-jockey-diet-workout-2018-5
> I don't like the entire concept of "pre-existing conditions".

If you have an elective health insurance system where people choose whether or not and when to participate, it implies this restriction.

Say you have private health insurance companies but don't allow them to prohibit members based on pre-existing conditions. Everyone will simply not get health insurance to avoid paying the premiums until the day they need it. That would make health insurance companies completely unviable financially.

This is why Obamacare both eliminated the pre-existing condition restriction and mandated people get health coverage. You can't have one without the other or you get the free-rider problem.

This is another reason why healthcare should just be universal. It doesn't work at all like an actual efficient market product.
Before stating this with complete certainty, I would ask Oliver Sacks first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...
Agreed, the main wrinkle is that buying auto parts is a simple transaction. With my HD plan the provider still bills insurance first who negotiates a rate then sends me the bill which is hugely inefficient.
The mentioned 15-20% off the top for insurance, but the insurance/billing industry is two sided, wouldn't there also be a ton of administrative savings by having a fraction of the 'billing/coders'? They'd only have to deal w/ the U.S. government which isn't going to be as nitpicky and litigious over every little line item.
They do but they need their cars to go to work and afford a living. It's usually not a lifestyle choice like an inner city dweller could choose to take public transport or a bike.
Is your resume stopping you from getting job?
Do you have powerful resume or curriculum vitae to win the job race. There are many talents out there but one who prove or present themselves perfectly will win.

You may be well experienced and skilled but your resume should speak for you.

Resume writing service is always best but they charge more. Once I wasted 300$ but not that resume is outdated and I need a fresh one now.

I tried few app and found this is the best. We can do anything we want and lots of customization options available.

Just try this,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=icv.resume.curriculumvitae
Thank you! Yeah, I think Dunbar's number has been proven experimentally. Of course I'm probably guilty of applying it too liberally outside of the limited contexts in which the science has proven it (the pitfall of pop psychology/sociology.)

But I agree it's super useful and interesting to think about quantifying and enumerating the limits of human capability where possible. Maybe that's somewhere else we differ from the attitudes of the 18th century romantics from TFA.
We have control over our own will, and pretty much that alone. God has ultimate authority over everything else, and works with all things for the good of those who love him and serve him faithfully.
You really have to try to make a bucket public. Even when you do, you get warnings within the UI, and there is a column showing you it’s public.

Is there even a UI option to make a bucket public anymore? I always edit the bucket policy and add the JSON to make it public read only.
The longest lived and most used services are always federated and have open standards, like SMS and email. Like you say, everyone has SMS and everyone has email, so they're the defacto standards for communicating with people you're not quite familiar with.

This is why FB chat, whatsapp, etc will never gain the traction that these services do -- putting time and effort into making them work is just a fool's errand until they open up the network to third party clients and make the specs an open standard.
Thank you.

That was one of the biggest epiphanies for me as a new parent. It had never occurred to me that what I ate would impact the baby that way.

I had physics and chemistry and advanced math in high school, but was completely shocked as a new parent in my early twenties to learn that I would bleed for up to six weeks post partum and a zillion other things.

I still think better parenting info is desperately needed in this world. It's shocking what we don't cover that has such tremendous long term impact on human life.
Your math is off. The home is an asset worth $150k plus a liability of $120k for the mortgage, for a net positive $30k. That puts your hypothetical person with a net worth of positive $130k, not negative $20k as you calculated.
How long is your commute? I highly doubt anyone who has to endure public transport for more than 30 minutes at a time would say that. Not to mention the limits on where you can go and what you can take with you. Of course you don't need a car if your workplace is 20 minutes away and your only hobby is going to the gym across the street. But I'd like to see you practice any more niche hobby that requires transporting equipment.
While we're on the subject of ancient history, Prof Jim Roberge's course on feedback systems (6.302) famously included a final lecture incorporating his love of model trains.

The goal of the lecture was that the train should have a constant speed despite hills introduced into the track. In order to measure the speed of the train, he noticed that there was a small glitch that would occur as the motor's armature switched polarity, and so a time measurement of the glitches was proportional to the speed of the engine.

[I took the course in 85 and still remember it, so he left something of an impression. A couple of generations learned analog feedback from this course.
RIP Prof Roberge.]

Edit: By some lesser miracle, his lectures are on youtube. The train lecture was last.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62in17jH_Di...
Green Gold: A Global Demand for Avocados Leaves People Without Water in Chile
No. They care about consuming more resources from an overtaxed planet. Hvac, materials, fuel.
This is solvable. Rather than just "deny" treatments, the insurer (public or private) can just pay the customary amount for treating the given disease. The rest is the patient's responsibility.

So rich people can still get the latest $500K insta-cure prostate cancer treatment (and they are paying out of pocket for most of it), and the rest of us make do with surgery/radiation.
I just searched for "InRange TV" and just saw a page full of porn only. So I guess PH removes non-pornographic content.
No one ever called NIMBYs irrational, it's just that when they always win shortages just get worse and worse and worse
Honestly, you still arguing over the meaning of nobody sort of indicates that either you don't want to get the point from OP or you just want to nitpick.

If it makes it easier for you, forget the "nobody" paragraph or substitute for "a very tiny minority compared to the total population of people/companies that make software for a living".

With this in mind, think of how many companies would actually benefit from focusing on "data used by the software is local-first" vs "the software should get things done faster/help the user make more money/help the user get laid"?

If you actually argue that companies in fact would benefit from focusing on this but can not due to some technical limitation, then we would have a legitimate point of discussion. But it seems you can't, so all I am getting from you is this insipid argument over semantics.

It would be great if we could actually get to the point of OP after all this time. How about we try doing that?

(The same could work from the demand-side of the equation as well. If you argue there is a significant amount of the population of software users that say are more concerned about the software "to be local-data first" than "the software must help me do my job faster/make me more money/get laid tonight", then you have a point. And no, pointing out to Richard Stallman and saying "well, actually there is this guy and a bunch of other aspies that don't care about getting laid or more money" is not really a valid refutation of OP's point)
Different roles. Computational contracts are not about e.g. the "traders" on a security exchange, they're about the exchange institution itself, and the precise definition of how it should work and interact with agents. Behind any sort of "smart market" there's a computational contract of some kind, and the converse may also be true - inasmuch as it interacts with multiple agents who jointly determine the 'prices' involved, a "computational contract" is a smart market, and its usefulness can fairly be assessed as such.
In a real election, couldn’t you just run multiple candidates with identical positions and then have all but one drop out during the runoff?
I would use that too, but only if low friction.

If I've done it before on The Guardian's site and let it remember my card number, fine, otherwise.. I'm not going through the whole rigamarole for an amount as low as I'd be willing to donate.

I suppose that's what Patreon et al. try to address. Nowhere near the critical mass for it not to be high overhead on average though.
Even if it doesn't have index size limits, I can't imagine that it doesn't have row size limits and some kind of off-row storage or multi-page storage with resulting overhead.

Looking at the doc[0], I see this:

> PostgreSQL uses a fixed page size (commonly 8 kB), and does not allow tuples to span multiple pages. Therefore, it is not possible to store very large field values directly. To overcome this limitation, large field values are compressed and/or broken up into multiple physical rows. This happens transparently to the user, with only small impact on most of the backend code.

So, yeah, large values are stored differently and there's an impact on performance.

Sorry, a blanket statement like "you should use varchar with no length limit" seems extremely ill advised to me. Like, sure, you don't want to use varchar(30) for last names. But varchar(255) is probably going to do you just fine.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html
... of a scrypt
There are millions of results for "https://s3.amazonaws.com/" on GitHub: http://bit.ly/2GUVjDi
What was the Manhattan Project?
Apple News?

I'm genuinely intrigued by the promises of that service, but I'm not willing to pay $1000+ for hardware to access it.
Why $.45/mile? Is that real? I keep track of all my expenses, so a few years ago I was able to calculate my real lifetime costs at $.15/mile, asymptotically approaching $.10. Of course when I travel for work the IRS says I charge $.50/mile, which is pure profit.

The IRS numbers assume a newish car (more expensive) that gets poor fuel mileage. It is probably correct for the average car, but there is no reason you need to be average - unless you want to.
I'm so glad I saw this. I would have been very confused when this went live had I not seen this post today. I wish I could upvote this more.
Some people do not realize they could get bit pretty hard by buying a house far away, that is indeed cheap and larger - but what happens when fuel gets even more expensive and governments issue many taxes and restrictions to discourage car usage ? (without offering realistic public transport options). Not to mention the usually poorer infrastructure/hospitals/schools

Note that it depends on the locality though, some places manage to find the sweet spot - not too far and still not that expensive. In some cities this doesn't exist.
Presumably they could pass along the savings and increase revenue by expanding their market share, or lose revenue to a company that controls costs. I see your point though, and in a given year it might be easier to increase medical expenses by 5% than to grow market share by the same amount.

One thing I wonder though, is that even without the 20% rule, if the company can get away with raising rates by 5%, wouldn't it make sense for them to do so? If they started with a 20% margin that would increase their profits by a whole 25%, instead of a measly 5% with the cap, so you'd think the incentives would be even stronger. It seems like adequate competition is the most important thing in a for-profit insurance model rather than having a 20% margin rule or not.
> Fallacy: Dynamically typed languages provide no way to find bugs

>

>A common argument leveled at dynamically typed languages is that failures will occur for the customer, rather than the developer. The problem with this argument is that it very rarely occurs in reality, so it’s not very convincing. Programs written in dynamically typed languages don’t have far higher defect rates than programs written in languages like C++ and Java.

Having written software for paid work in both Java (static typing) and JavaScript (dynamic typing), I agree. A statically typed language does not improve the quality of the software that gets written, assuming equal skill in both languages.

The kinds of bugs that get caught by a static type system are also caught by a good suite of automated tests, where every test is written before the production code that makes it pass.

The article doesn't mention refactoring, but this is where a static type system really shines. The ability to refactor an entire code base with confidence at the click of a button is extremely useful and the thing I miss most when using dynamically typed languages. You can get some of that with modern editors, but it's just a pale shadow of what you get with static typing.
For context, the comment I edited out was a joke on the "magical runes" aspect. But, thinking it in poor taste to use the Chinese people in general as the butt of the joke, I framed it specifically about astroturfers. In context (and, given that said "runes" don't recognize such a distinction), the joke did (unintentionally) read as an implication that all Chinese are astroturfers, as dang rightfully indicated; hence my redaction.
> The only people I know that still use Facebook are old people.

Very true, FB is known as the place where grandma hangs out.

Unfortunately, WhatsApp is known here as "that third world messaging app" so that's not gaining traction anytime soon either.

Most people just iMessage or SMS, with the tech crowd being more on Signal.
Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions
Wio – That Plan 9 Feel, for Wayland
> No, you're still attacking my character

I was actually talking about Trump and his rhetoric vs actions, which don't support his stated goal, however you apparently agree with him so I guess take it however you want.

> These are entirely different issues and I want strong border security regardless of foreign policy.

You keep saying that they're entirely different issues, but they're absolutely related. It's like if you get a cold because you went out in the winter in just a shirt and then saying that the cold you caught is unrelated to you not being warmly dressed. No, these are absolutely related. Just like the migrant crisis in the EU is related to its foreign policy blunders, so is the US crisis related to decades of meddling in Latin America. If you keep ignoring that, we can't move on.

> Venezuela was doing fine before the socialist policies that bankrupted the nation.

The situation is complex, yes. there's corruption, there's the issue of them having not diversified the economy away from oil, so when the price crashed in 2014, trouble started. Aggravating all this are the crippling U.S. sanctions, which are responsible for 40,000+ civilians not having the medicine etc. they need and dying as a result according to a recent study, the U.N. has also expressed that the sanctions mostly punish civilians and amount to a medieval siege.

The notion that Venezuela was "doing fine" before Chavez/Maduro is laughable. The reason Chavez was elected in a free and fair election, was precisely because Venezuela was not doing fine for large swaths of people. There was widespread poverty and illiteracy, something that was slowly being eradicated before the 2014 crisis. You may want to read "Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse", it analyzes the economic situation fairly in detail. "The Shock Doctrine" is excellent for how South America more widely was doing in these times. Not a pretty picture.
But tokens aren't votes. A person whose ideology aligns with 100 options has 10x the ability to influence the outcome of the election towards their preferred outcomes than someone whose ideology aligns with only one option.
> Another for routine things, but as others have said, routine things shouldn't be so expensive.

This is basically a subscription. But this is also how health insurance already works in part today. A certain portion of your premium is paying for routine doctor's office visits - the insurance company is basically just acting as a payment processor for this portion of your healthcare expenditure. You could separate it from health insurance, but it likely won't make a huge difference in costs or access to care.
> My current understanding is that json is faster and bigger than jsonb.

FYI, it's the other way around. When you use the json type, Postgres validates it and stores the raw string. Operations on json are very slow. Whenever you extract a field from a json column, Postgres has to parse the full json.

On the other hand, jsonb is stored in a custom binary format. This makes operations a lot faster as Postgres does not have to parse the full json. There's also some other advantages such as jsonb stores the keys in sorted order making it possible to do a binary search to find a specific key in a lookup.

There are two primary downsides of jsonb. First, it doesn't preserve whitespace. This can be a problem for some use cases. Second, since there is a lot of metadata in jsonb, jsonb is larger. Postgres stores information like the offsets of every key and value.
The whole point of a pdf is to display _exactly_ the same across all devices. For something like a scientific research paper, you want all figures, etc., to remain in the same place to avoid formatting oddities.
We're better off decentralizing and empowering our citizens digitally with great tools and security.
> the 401k...is also a full time job that the 401k "owner" doesn't need on top of their existing job that pays into the 401k in the first place

Really? I can't imagine how to spend 20 hours per year on 401(k) related topics, let alone 40 hours per week on it. If you're under 40, buy a broad-based stock fund and forget about it. (Probably true if you're under 50.) Use the 40K hours you save by not having this extra "full time job" however you like.
> I have friends who claim they cannot write code without static types and that JavaScript is unusable.

What are their reasons?
https://inkl.com has a flat monthly plan, besides a pay-per-article.
In order to save humanity we ALL need to downgrade the quality of our lives.

That's exactly the point.
> Maybe we should have two separate kinds of health insurance?

I agree we should have two different types of "plans". The one for emergencies and rare conditions would be insurance. The other would not. :-)

One key objective of the "other" plan (the one that's not insurance) should be to make the actual costs of services visible to the patients, who are the ones in the best position to assess the value of those services to them. One of the biggest inefficiencies in our current system is that people get all kinds of health care services without any idea of what they actually cost. That means nobody really knows whether those services are worth what they actually cost. That's a recipe for huge inefficiency and high costs, and so it's no surprise that that's what we have.