skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US, how do freelancers and individual consultants even work?

Comparing plans is complex, but the actual purchase process is extremely easy. Not much different than getting home or auto insurance.

"Expensive" is a relative term. I'm paying about twice as much freelance as I was an employ for comparable coverage levels. That really comes down to not having an employer cover part of the cost.

After having done it for a couple years, I actually prefer non-employer insurance. We're able to go with an insurer that fits our needs (particularly with physician network coverage) without breaking the bank.
If evidence alone was enough, there wouldn’t be any debate about antivaxxers, climate change, the Iraq WMDs, the 9/11 and moon landing conspiracies, Holocaust denial, the correct way to bring peace to the Israel/Palestine conflict, the safety of being white in a Muslim community or being black around an American cop, Brexit, any of the Assange drama, or if Snowden was acting appropriately by leaking what he leaked. And those are just the disagreements I’ve witnessed.

Just because lies and propaganda have always been around, it doesn’t mean they were never a problem.
You have a good shot at breaking the world record for days awake...

What are your nutritional needs if you aren't sleeping? Are you eating extra throughout the night when your basal metabolic rate would otherwise be slowed down until morning when sleeping?

You should really see a sleep specialist and do a sleep study cause of beta-amyloid build up linked to Alzheimer's disease:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sle...

"A mouse study suggests that sleep helps restore the brain by flushing out toxins that build up during waking hours. The results point to a potential new role for sleep in health and disease."
This is not correct. Switzerland is no more free to restrict European immigration than any member of the the EU (or Norway for that matter) as they have signed up to EU freedom of movement 10 or 15 years ago. There is no "prioritization by merit".

I'm countering the general claim of the parent, that simple economics means that immigration impoverishes the host country's lower earners, so data-points like Japan does not validate such a general claim. I provide Switzerland as an counter-example: extremely high "unfiltered" immigration and a high earning lower quintile. There are others which cannot be explained Singapore, Australia, etc.

Consider a thought experiment: if each individual state of the US introduced restrictions on migration from other US states, would that improve or disimprove the income of the lowest quintile of US workers? I don't believe that it's an "economic principle" that such restrictions would increase the income for the lowest earners.
> And who defines what "the right thing" is?

Your human nature. Eat well, be outside, have friends, move you body, have children and strive towards something that is important to you.

> entrepreneur who made his dream come true by chasing happiness

I co-own a small business and running and growing it has absolutely nothing to do with chasing happiness.
Just as an FYI if we do start taking antitrust seriously again there are a lot more important and consequential targets than some low paid car service drivers.
Having used both, and Usenet back in the day (pre-1990), it's a fair comparison.
Not sure if this will help - https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/
llvm is not a vm. describing llvm as something that is replacing the jvm doesn't really make sense.

mentioning javascript or webassembly is also a bit strange and would seem to demonstrate some kind of misunderstanding.
What? They produced the fix, that’s not the problem. The problem is keeping the delivery mechanism separate from the telemetry/experiments delivery mechanism. Which it clearly was in the past, since FF has been pushing security updates forever. Why it couldn’t be done this time? Is it a sign of things to come? If yes, that is very shady from a privacy perspective and unsound from an engineering perspective.
Are you more successful than your peers because of it? That seems like it would at least double someone's productivity.
Unlike most, mine is an exact mirror. I missed it earlier but this is what the Totalis refers to in Dextro Cardia, w/ Situs Inversus Totalis.

Adding a tattoo of my organ placement would be comical. I'd be a human Operations Boardgame by the end of it.
I agree based on anecdata. Once every year or two (most recently in February) I encounter it. It isn’t always known about and in the recent case the patient had had ultrasounds of the abdomen previously.
I do MRI scans, but have worked in a cardiac centre which might distort things (though NZ’s population is only 4-5 million).
As I stated a few days ago [1], there are times when you have no debugger (or a debugger won't help you as was in my case). Learning to debug via print() is a useful skill to know.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19723753
> This article yet again reports on the lack of awareness about bacteriophages in the medical community.

A shortlist of answers:

- Bacteriophages are evolutionarily close to viruses. Their proteins will resemble viral proteins, so the body will most likely initiate an immune response against it.

- Bacteriophages are really quite specific in what they'll infect. This makes them much less useful as an antibacterial. You'd spend a lot of time and money on making one that would infect your mrsa strain, and mrsa would probably just start the arms race, leaving you back at the start.

- Bacteriophages are (evolutionarily close to) viruses, and thus also have the immense mutation rate of those. Even if you were to make one that had all the properties you wanted, it'd probably get rid of most of them because they are evolutionarily disadvantages.

- Probably a few other fairly good reasons which my coffee-deprived brain can't think off right at this moment.
in a world of ultra high bandwidth, backstops are as needed as removed.. odd
This isn't how E2E encryption works.
Ask a professional. And by that I mean - get in touch with Jason Scott: https://twitter.com/textfiles
Google has a Books API. Look into that. There are smartphone apps that solve the problem of books that have barcodes. No matter what, this will be a huge task to complete. I scanned my small library (2-3 shelves) and was quite tired of it in the end.
Changing History, or How to Git Pretty (2013)
Reverse Turing test as an actual game: SpyParty
I tried doing a book catalog about ten years ago. I got about 80% recognition rate by using multiple numbers (ISBN, and the Library of Congress number) and multiple online data sources. It was a pretty slow process, to the point where simply keyboarding the information was easier and less error-prone, and I had to manually enter the books that didn't get any online matches anyway.

Definitely not a "scan/beep/scan/beep" kind of thing. More like "scan . . . uh, scan . . . scan, damn you, SCAN I say! (beep) Okay . . . now the first problem is that 'The Sands of Mars' which I am holding is definitely not 'Great Montana Flapjack Recipes' on B&N, let's try the library of Congress . . . . nope, not 'Annals of 1959 Steelmaking', so (tap tappity-tap...)"
Just checked, my old university only uses Python for machine learning lectures.

C++, Java, C#, Smalltalk, Prolog, Lisp, OCaml (used to be Caml Light), Haskell are still being taught.

Those doing compilers, also get to enjoy Algol, PL/I, COBOL, Fortran and a couple of other relevant languages in the history of computing.
I think this is exactly one of the points the article makes: free food makes employees stick around longer.
> Hosting the whole planet by yourself is not cheap either...

The complete OSM data dump is 40GB. That hardly makes a dent in the wallet in today's cloud market.

Even then it's quite trivial to setup a map proxy like GeoWebCache or MapProxy.
The question was about spinning rust drives ('before SSDs') and the corresponding CPUs that were available at the same time.
afaik c#'s "true generics" as you call it imposes a runtime cost due to code generation because the compiler doesn't necessarily know all specializations aot. haven't looked into it in a long time though.

as far as ides go, i vastly prefer intellij to visual studio.
I think it was intended to show you the landscape, give you enough tools and background knowledge so you can go and explore the literature by yourself. Years after it’s publication it still does a really good job at it.
There is no photo of the mathematician in the Wikipedia page!
Thanks! Looks quite interesting. Hopefully better seamless GNN support in Julia's FluxML[1].

[1] https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl/issues/625
read code and practice
Expressing any 'negative' emotion (frustration, anger, impatience, irritation, boredom) is seen as weak-minded and irresponsible.

We must pretend at all times that we're confident, unphasable, happy and charismatic.

Anyone feeling stressed at the end of the day will be fired.
Having experienced being chased by a cassowary I cannot agree more, it felt like being in a Jurassic park movie being chased by a T-Rex.

I visited Australia in January 2005, it was an organized road tour with a bunch of mainly young French people and a French guide. On the way to the outback near Cairns, we stopped and did a short hike in the forest to see a point of interest (I don't remember what). There was a warning sign in the parking lot about cassowaries. I had never seen a cassowary, even heard the name and didn't know what it was, like many of the people in the group. On the way back, we spotted a cassowary, it was static just a few meters from the track. We all took pictures but stayed on the track, at some point the cassowary probably felt threatened and started chasing us. We all ran, I remember looking back at it while being chased and it ran like a Jurassic park dinosaur. It was moving really fast, at an intersection, we all turned left downhill going away from the parking lot and it stopped chasing us. It never went on the track and it always staid in the forest, it could have easily outrun us.

After I learnt the kind of injuries it could inflict to humans. The guide should have been more careful. Anyway it was a fun story to tell when I got home.
Is Java separate to Java EE? Does this news have any impact on Java in general?
That's not enough of a difference to cringe at the comparison though.
Debugger is like IDE. Most people use it and leverage their power, increasing their productivity. Some people insist on using primitive editors.
It goes back further, at least in concept:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/03/29/the-king-of-th...
For books that are not that old, you will often find the info you need on the copyright page - for US publications, the Library of Congress CIP info is there; see http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/ . Other countries have similar programmes eg the British Library does the same.
Absolutely! I would say 90% isn't high enough when you consider the amount of time reviewing pull requests on a large team. Add to that the reading required when deciding on an external library (yes, some people simply use only popularity metrics and Github repo signals like number of issues etc. Fair enough. Our team tries to skim the entire code at least once.)

We also do team code reviews on a big screen over pizza twice a month. It gives a chance for the entire team to learn something new without being under pressure. So yea, lots of reading happens around here. The side-effect is some pretty good (and readable) code IMHO.
Thank you for this, all of my add-ons were immediately re-enabled except for my selected theme.

Mozilla was warned beforehand about this, this problem was completely avoidable which is upsetting. I've been a fan of this browser for years but this is the 2nd time this has happened to add-ons that I can recall and to be blunt it's unacceptable.

It makes absolutely no sense that add-ons the user installs can be disabled like this without user consent, whether the add-ons in question are considered safe or not. Take into account how easy it is to migrate all of your bookmarks/etc. to another browser and this is clearly bad practice by Mozilla.
It's one thing if we had a way to bypass this through Firefox directly but they chose not to include a bypass for situations such as this. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that this is affecting all add-ons, adblockers/dark mode/greasemonkey/everything.

"Date expiration on code signing cert should only prevent new signatures from being considered valid -- it should not even prevent installation of old software. The fact that an expired cert disabled software is the most retarded thing I've seen this decade on any web browser." <This quote nails it on the head, this whole situation is bull.
This very much looks like the scientific method, applied to software.
I didn't know Java had so much mindshare for ETL. Can you explain further?
An artificial womb. Would save a lot of stress for a lot of people.
I’ve just been playing that game - the version on ship shelves now is a shadow of its former self. The version I played in the 80’s was excellent.
This is really cool.

Just to pick your brain (I’m an ML noob and it triggered an idea in my head). I was wondering if GPT-2 could be used to generate small paraphrases for an input sentence for search suggestions? e.g “I’m going to the mall today” -> “I will be going to mall today”.
They specifically say they use Imgix's CDN for the images, which can be confirmed by looking at the response headers.

Fastly is used for their actual website, judging by the ASN info. Meaning they wouldn't be serving petabytes of images from CloudFlare, just HTML/CSS/JS, which should be perfectly fine.
This is actually well written article by a CS professor and cited with experiences of few very productive programmers. Especially Linus's no bar holds post on this topic is worth reading:

https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3

Many people say not using debugger is other side of the pendulum but perhaps it is not. You want to have assertions/prints in your program at critical junctions. That should be able to explain the behavior of the program you are seeing. If it doesn't then you probably have missed some critical junctions OR don't really understand your own code. There is actually a third possibility where you will need debugger. This is the case when compiler/programming language/standard libraries itself has bug. Instead of more time consuming binary search for where you first get unexpected output, debugger might be better option.
An accurate history book.
> We publish the geolocation information of the IPs that we query from. That allows any network with less density than we have to properly return DNS-targeted results.

The operator of archive.is claims that they suffer from a "massive mismatch" between those query IPs and actual traffic. Any idea why? [Is that claim wrong? Is archive.is to blame? Is cloudflare to blame? Are ISPs badly routing the DNS queries?]

Do you have stats on how well the geolocation works in practice?
If you pay attention to how you perform - it's obvious, you don't need the studies, lol. We perform at our best in most pleasant states of your mind.
An AudioUnit-based music programming environment for macOS
My mom was a science fiction author and always shared discussions from the Heinlein Forum on Prodigy with me, ca. 1992-1995. Those forums were small enough and focused enough that people built real friendships and eventually had a few gatherings.

I miss that sort of thing. I don't know where to find it now. The small, close-knit community thing is actually a benefit of walled gardens but I don't know where I'd look now.. The Well? I understand it's moribund at this point.
For personal side projects, I spend at least 80% of my time thinking about the code that I'm going to write, 5% writing it and 15% reading it.

The more experienced I become, the less time I spend writing code and the more time I spend thinking about it and drawing diagrams on paper.

Coding should not be the bottleneck. The bottleneck should be deciding what solution to choose because there are usually a lot of factors to consider and it takes a while to identify all the main ones. It's not unusual for me to spend multiple days just thinking through different technical solutions without writing any code.

IMO developers who commit often and too many lines are juniors. Most of these lines will have to be rewritten because there wasn't enough thought behind them.
that is not censorship.
I'm a big fan of this one for getting to grips with the nitty gritty basics of JavaScript - in particular it's my go to when I forget how prototype inheritance and `this` work exactly for the umpteenth time.
Wikipedia is not a source. It's a spot to see what random people wrote about something. Maybe it's useful to find something, often I find it useful to see what is not said, but citing it is pointless unless you drill down to the edit and cite the editor.

https://www.bartleby.com/73/1593.html

The important point is we protect minority positions via inalienable rights. That is not guaranteed in a pure democracy. It takes a near impossible situation to disarm a minority in the Unites States. It is what sets up apart from traditional democracies. I'm fine with the term Democratic Republic, but if you are concerned about parroting It's not the word republic that gets parroted.
As a small correction, if Founder 1 gets 60% of the company and Founder 2 gets 40% of the company. Founder 1 is actually being compensated 50% more of the company than Founder 2. The article states that founder 2 has 20% more equity which is true in the absolute sense but thinking of it has 50% is the more accurate way of thinking about the difference in compensation.
Talking Funny – Seinfeld, Gervais, Chris Rock, and Louis CK dissect comedy
Many years ago we did some unscientific testing how latency affected a telephony application. Already at around 80ms there was measurable impact on the dialogue, with an increased frequency of the callers interrupting each other's sentences. Even modern VoIP applications can still be problematic in this regard and additional latency from the software stack wouldn't help.
When cloud flare detects suspicious traffic from an ip, it will get served with a reCaptcha every time. Tor exit nodes always get captchas, not sure how much data that would leak though
Goodreads has a scanner in their app (on iOS/Android) that can scan covers although for some reason it automagically adds those books into a "to-read" shelf but I guess this isn't a problem for you if you create an account for the purpose.

The API is severely rate-limited (1rps), non-standard oath and badly documented, but you should be able to get some xml out of it and parse that however you'd like.
Changing perspectives on daylight: Science, techology and culture
They ship it, but it doesn't come pre-installed.

I don't see how this is an argument though, there is no Java in a standard desktop/server installation, but it's trivial to install if needed.
That sounds like a new version of the software and should be deployed as a new version, with release notes noting that WebRender is now enabled for Nvidia users, so that users are prepared for the change.
Interesting perspective, thanks!
simple approach would be to ask book lovers around the locality to volunteer with this task. Borrow some barcode scanners and computers. Give'em whatever books they like and it's kinda get-together for bibliophiles.
My model is that both fear and anger are forms of anxiety.

The anxiety is often in response to the difference in our expectations vs reality.

Anger seems to exist to attempt to coerce reality towards out expectations.

Fear seems to occur before we accept that our expectations cannot be met and so must be up dated.
How to Pay Off a 15-30 Years Mortgage in 4 Years
I wish you luck with your project! sorry if my comment was snarky but a lot of modern software seems to essentially not care about latency or responsiveness, and it's something that bothers me more and more these days
The JVM, Java and Scala have a huge ecosystem with Hadoop, Spark, many databases, etcetera. Go to any company that does a lot of data-intensive processing, and chances are very likely it's powered by the JVM in at least some of the components.
For the most part, C++, Go, TypeScript. At work I mostly write (micro) services or web UIs, and at home I do whatever (Tetris clones, small studying apps, utilities for reverse engineering, I’ve even done a couple Gameboy emulators in Go.)
> You'd spend a lot of time and money on making one that would infect your mrsa strain, and mrsa would probably just start the arms race, leaving you back at the start.

Actually developing resistance against bacteriophages requires such invasive changes that most bacteria that develop it lose resistance against anti-biotics. That is why an anti-biotic therapy is often used together with a phage therapy.
The amazon seller app does exactly this. I think eBay might have it built in as well, but I’m fairly certain with amazon you can scan the barcode or cover of a book.
Zotero (the free software reference manager) hooks into a bunch of online catalogues. You can use Zotero to manage books (I manage my own collection with it, but that's just a small personal home library of around 1000 books).

If a book has an ISBN, often Zotero will manage to find it using the magic lookup button. Just enter the ISBN (DOI's work too!) and it will usually find the book you meant. That covers about 90% of books with an ISBN.

The rest would have to be entered manually.

Zotero is not a full-blown inventory manager, but it may suit your needs.
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How does the obligation to buy insurance cause there to be less competition? If someone doesn't have to have insurance, wouldn't the pool of possible customers be smaller?

I agree with you on the cost comparison side - I've lived in both places and find the systems quite similar in many respects outside of costs.

I think one key difference between the Swiss / American model and that of other western EU countries is the cost of billing and processing. In the US a full third of the cost of care is this part of the system, something that doesn't need to happen when there is a single universal payer for all care.
In India, health insurance is not obligatory, but is paid from pre tax income by the individual. This helps reduce the overall taxable income.
Fair point, hopefully they'll learn from this mistake and ensure the user can easier adapt. I expect them to, since I have Mozilla high in regard.
No, it's not. However it breaks the trust in the Cloud Flares integrity they so proudly mention in this thread. Once they banned something, how can you trust them to not ban something else, perhaps a bit more silently next time?
Good recommendations so far, but personally I find one method to be the most effective : multiple question versions in conjunction with randomization

Say you have decided to brush up on your first grade math, and you make a card for multiplication. Instead of just making one "2 2 = 4" card, you make one card containing three potential questions, so you add "5 4 = 20" and "3 * 3 = 9" to the same card. Each time this card is scheduled to appear, Anki will randomly choose one of the questions to display.

This way you prevent your memory from overfitting to the irrelevant context and force it to remember the actual concept, because you have to use your knowledge of how multiplication works every time. You have to pick a large enough selection of possible questions for that to work, for me three is usually enough.
Additional bonus : anki reviews get less tedious, because you don't feel like always seeing the same old stuff.

Here's a template for creating such cards: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/947272864