skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in a horrid future we find ourselves in right now. And it's just getting started.
Buy 20 companies, execute private equity playbook. a few are zeroes, most make 1-5x over 3-5 years...
I think yes that is an effective strategy, especially given the economic incentives to having a HSA and how it is possible the manage the money in the account. However, the economically “supposed to” decision for the monetary difference is now up to the insured who may not understand nor desire to put some of that difference towards the same health causes rather than change spending habits. Awareness is important here.
Warnings from the Past
My City Has Infrastructure Liabilities. So Do 99% of the Cities in America
AKS is certainly way better than Amazon's EKS offering - and while AKS was a bit unstable at the beginning, lately it has been very solid for me (I run a workload in production on it).
> Basically anything can be "potentially deceptive"

Come on, stop being disingenuous.

> but that does not mean that it is either deceptive or inaccurate.

The quote you posted bereft of greater context (Which you've now tried to provide. Well done!) could deceive a number of people. It's both potentially deceptive and, in those instances where it deceives someone, deceptive. The linguistic implications alone are... tremendously boring, to be honest.

> It sounds like you are uncomfortable with the conclusion, rather than the summary of that conclusion.

How utterly bizarre that you think so.
A Dark Day for Consumer Rights – Right to Repair Bill Killed in Canada
https://www.goland.org/off_chain_storage_and_the_enterprise/

This is a great article outlining several cases where blockchains are being applied to solve supply chain issues ineffectively.

Yaron's assessment finds that

Key repudiation resistance is the only real compelling case where a blockchain is the right tool for the supply chain. This is not to say that there aren't valuable uses for blockchains within the context of more hyrid solutions.

"The block chain does some amazing things but accomplishing those goals comes at a very real cost. Byzantine attacks are a pain and require lots of resources to deal with. So if we don’t need to survive them then we don’t need the block chain. This article isn’t about saying the block chain is bad. It is about saying that we should use the right tool for the right problem. If your block chain application is based on off chain storage then there is a non-trivial probability that you may not actually need the block chain. It’s worth at least thinking about".
Gobble: Blog Engine Written in Go
At this point, I feel most employees of a business that's up for sale should just put their foot down and say no to selling the company to any private equity firm.

The owner can say, hey I worked for this and I need to exit with a plan.

Well, the employees can say we worked for this and we need to make sure we will have our jobs in 5 - 10 years.

I am working in a company that used to be privately owned, and was sold to a PE. It happened before I joined. The ones who are still here tell me the night and day difference in how the employees are treated before and after the sale. The treatment I'm talking about is how the employees are compensated.
We produced some pretty awesome wire cars back in the day, but they tended not to be powered. Mind you, I suppose getting the bits and pieces for that is easier these days.

Kids ...
Delta too -- though they've been less responsive:

https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/11232845870635130...
I enjoy his content and I have found some of his explanations novel and enlightening.

I don't know why him spending untold hours producing detailed content is a bad thing. Even if it is for self-promotion.
Why do you say private contracting is rare in the UK? Every software company I've been to here is like 50% contractors.
A few things I've found helpful:
- always have a detailed agenda well ahead of time so participants can prepare accordingly
- there should be a specific outcome for the meeting, and the meeting can end once that's been achieved
- there should be an owner of the meeting that holds the focus, and prevents it from getting derailed
- default meetings to shorter than longer.
High-deductible health plans were always designed to benefit employers. My company switched us to one with a big PR campaign highlighting how everything would be better (contributions to HSA - free money!). The only "advantage" is that companies have to pay smaller premiums and employees are greatly discouraged from getting care due to high costs.

Funny enough, employers are rethinking this now since employees not getting basic preventive care is actually more expensive for them in the long run - https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/06/26/49....
No, you just think you can.

Everybody else can plainly see that you aren't listening if all you're doing is talking.
HSA is spend it or lose it.
Bribery is even more rampant now with career aspirations since reelection is costly. The job of politicians is to get reelected and they do it by being available to donors.
I went to the page, it's blocked by the office network (as Advocacy Organizations), the warning was put there because the web filtering uses a certificate with a different name from the web site.
I find it hard to tell if you're serious or not. To a rough approximation this is exactly how it works today.
There are plenty of in-memory database architectures that takes full advantage of fast random access offered by DRAMs. I think paper focuses on OS design which is still tied with assumption of slow disks.
From what I understand, even the HDHPs have such high premiums that the point is not being achieved, especially if you have to go through the marketplace rather than the employer.
HSAs aren't use it or lose it. That's FSAs.
It would be terrifying to get paid to work on personal projects outside of work hours without thoroughly reading through your contract and the terms of this payment (and probably getting a second eye to do the same). The last thing you want is for a personal project to surprisingly become your employer's property because they paid you for it.
Looking back, it's easy to fit these large changes -- like the internet and globalization -- to any current outcome.
The founders wanted a republic governed by rich landowners. Preferably white and wasp.
I agree, too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter.

Funny thing is...in the past the only leather seats were for the driver (servants) and cloth was for the rich passengers.

Kinda like how lobster is now "fancy" food.
> A prototype parakernel written in Rust is currently underdevelopment

...Where?
I remembered them like this:

Type I: True -> False
Type II: False -> True

Meaning something was True (H_0) and our results say it's False (Reject H_0), and vice versa.
Robots Edge Closer to Unloading Trucks in Amazon-Era Milestone
That only applies when there isn't a direct payoff from being against the other side ... which is exactly what the primary process selects for.
Can confirm, my father-in-law has more than 50.

It's actually a really neat collection, but I wince at how much it had to cost and how much use he actually gets out of them.
Choosing a Database Without Hype and Buzz
article says the level of surveillance carried out with this app in Xinjiang exceeds what is allowed by the law in China

Many—perhaps all—of the mass surveillance practices described in this report appear to be contrary to Chinese law.
The alternative to leveraged buyouts is probably not a healthy company, it's more likely a slowly dieing company that goes out with a whimper, not a bang.

Is one way better than the other?
I’ve never had Prime and often get fast service anyway like you describe. It’s not totally consistent, though. I assume their logistics are so good that they can usually fulfill an order quickly at no extra cost because they have it in a nearby warehouse, but sometimes you hit cases where the closest item is still on the other side of the country. In that case, Prime would get you fast shipping and the free, slow shipping won’t.
Runtime on CIFAR-10 dataset for different ant counts:
https://edvinasbyla.com/assets/images/deepswarm-runtime.pdf)

Runtime compared to genetic architecture search (using similar settings):
https://edvinasbyla.com/assets/images/devol-deepswarm-runtim...

The error rate on CIFAR-10, before the final training (meaning that topologies weren't fully trained and no augmentation was used):
https://edvinasbyla.com/assets/images/ant-before-train.pdf

The error rate on CIFAR-10, before the final training compared to genetic architecture search (using similar settings):
https://edvinasbyla.com/assets/images/devol-deepswarm-cifar....

The 2 main factors that contribute to faster search are (1) ants search for architectures progressively (meaning that early architectures can be evaluated really fast), (2) ants can reuse the weights as they are associated with the graph.

All test were done using Google Colab. Even though results might not seem that impressive, I am still really excited to see what will happen when ants will be allowed to search for more complex architectures which use multi-branching.
I'm not sure I get what distinction you're making. Are you saying that the standard terms don't commit to what we mean by a test's positive/negative, and this generality is more valuable than concreteness? It would be bad to imply too generally that we're talking about a test that says yes or no, a thing is present or absent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_stripping by any other name, a scourge of business in the 80's. Today, it's less vocally lambasted and less public outrage as in the 80's, which in today's internet times, raises much thought as why that is so. I suspect that it's due to lack of media attention compared to back then.
the owners have to vote for it
Finance is about double that.
The video includes subtitles, but the boy's diction is clear.
GitLab employee, nope! Our plan is to go public by November 18, 2020: https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/
Carbon offsetting? Complicated. But it's what we do. So we explain
Also from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS :

The first launch was Soyuz MS-01 on July 7, 2016 aboard a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle towards the ISS.

Soyuz MS Improvements

The new computer (TsVM-101), weighs one-eighth that of its predecessor (8.3 kg vs. 70 kg) while also being much smaller than the previous Argon-16 computer.

And from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-TMA :

The new modernized Soyuz TMA-M[citation needed] series was developed and built by RKK Energia as an upgrade of the baseline Soyuz-TMA. Thirty-six obsolete pieces of equipment have been replaced with 19 new-generation devices and the vehicle's total mass has been reduced by 70 kilograms (154 lbs).[3] In particular, the reliable but heavy (70 kg) Argon digital computer[4] and analogue systems, which had been used on Soyuz ships for more than 30 years, has been replaced with a new digital computer, the TsVM-101, and digital avionics.

Two flight development flights were launched: Soyuz TMA-01M on Oct 7, 2010 and Soyuz TMA-02M on Jun 7, 2011.
I think what the parent tried to say is that there's no such thing as timeSTAMP without a timezone. There's like you said a time without a timestamp, but it does not contain a date as well.
Not all employers offer HSAs to go along with their HDHPs. Mine doesn’t and it’s very frustrating. I want to save pretax money in an HSA but I can’t.
fwiw (more anecdata), Switzerland has Google's highest pay scale of any office around the world, including NYC & the Bay Area... and it's not even all that close (something like 10-15% difference).
I was discussing companies who use Tumblr for official communication, like System76 and NPM, on another story earlier this week, and how it's cringy and not a good look IMHO. (My comment was flagged for some reason despite having 5 points and 8 replies. How does this site work?)

I also heard the rumor that PornHub was interested in buying it. I hope they do! Can you imagine how quickly all the corporate blogs would scramble off of the platform to avoid association with a porn site!?
You’re thinking of FSAs
I'm a relatively new gun owner. I have 2 firearms, and by design I won't have any more for a very long time. I would have just the rifle, but it's often awkward or impossible to take classes and compete without a pistol. My entire system runs on the same caliber, and all of the magazines are interchangeable.

It used to be that almost every American household had someone who was a competent shooter, an good cook, a competent musician, a decent craftsperson or repair person of some kind. Times have changed.

From what I have seen, only having 1 gun is more common in the African American community and in some parts of rural America.
Why do you say 'actual'? I can emulate a chemical reaction in a computer, but that does not mean I have produced an 'actual' chemical reaction.
Really appreciate the comment thanks!

That's interesting thinking, definitely something I'm going to take on and see how I can implement.
Nonono.

That's an FSA. You can hold on to your HSA indefinitely and withdraw for medical reimbursement at any time (decades later).
I suspect this is due to the small thermal window of (then state of the art) germanium transistors which was still in widespread use. It wasnt until the mid 1960s that the silicon transitor overtook germanium in terms of speed. And the USSR was many years behind the West, in terms of materials & design.

Interesting related fact. The thermal operating range of germanium transistors was a concern even in the music world. The "Fuzz Face" pedal which helped give Jimi Hendrix his distinctive distorted guitar tone was built with two germanium transistors in a very simple circuit (< 5 components if I remember correctly). The distortion produced by this pedal was well known to change on stage, under hot lights or in cold basements, etc. To make matters worse, it was also sensitive to the supply voltage, so a fresh 9v acid battery would sound different than a dying battery. (ironically, the dying battery sounded better to most ears. The circuit only drew around 30 mV so a near-dead battery could still last a long time.) As a result, it was not unusual for working musicians to travel with several fuzzfaces and a pocket full of batteries, trying a few at soundcheck to see which sounded the best.
GitLab employee, actually our plan is to go public by 2020. Our strategy page is public: https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy
You're mistaken, but it's an easy mistake to make.

There's an alphabet soup of FSA/LPFSA/HSA/DCFSA options.

An HSA is truly your own savings account, owned by you (just like any other savings account), regardless of where contributions come from.
> Ideally I'd like to see open source developers in stable, tenured positions that pay fair salaries with benefits.

You can already get this today - almost all the major tech companies pay people to work on open source.
I don't know when your testing occurred, but I heard that long ago, AKS was very slow to provision and that it had gotten better. I have one AKS cluster that is pretty lightweight, does not get torn down or re-provisioned often (so I wouldn't notice that) and I've never noticed issues with etcd health faults.

Just an anecdote to counter your anecdote, I know that the plural of anecdote isn't data...
This approach is the direct opposite of what we need societally, which is less of the feeling of "throwing your vote away" from voting a strong preference, as in Instant Runoff.

Political division is a symptom, not the root problem. It is being driven by people already being made to cede to the "center", where "center" really means authoritarian warmongering surveillance as pushed by the press. Discouraging "zealotry" is just quashing dissent even harder.

Left and Right are merely two different manners of reasoning (inductive versus deductive, open world versus closed world, etc). Reacting against the totalitarianism, people try to escape in whichever direction they tend to think in. Parties then herd them into blaming the "other side" by focusing on the most outlandish of that groups's conclusions, which of course are totally alien.
Duplicate key names are supported in 'json', formatting preserved. jsonb won't allow that and reformats.
"Unix was never a good design"

Nothing's perfect. Unix was a great design that served its purpose well for a long time, and evolved a bit along the way. Saying it was "never good" is trivializing and, in my opinion, arrogant.
I would like to see an updated file system architecture that's closer to a database, with tagging and all that. And I could see that extending to processes too.

But what are you imagining as alternatives for i/o and terminals?
This is not at all the case for Remington, who enjoys name brand status with long respected product lines. I got my first 870 pump shotgun at a Wal-Mart 30 years ago, as of last year Wal-Mart was still selling them. It was a great gun. I love it. The only reason people stopped buying them is quality went down as they were sucked dry by a PE firm.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club

(above breaks with the bracket included)
The parent comment is exaggerated, but I think the point is that prior to ACA, employer-provided plans tended to be cheaper and have lower deductibles largely because insurance companies were able to drop or deny coverage whenever they felt like it for individual plans to keep their margins up. While logically true, this is roughly equivalent to hearing from an old coworker that South Africa was a great place to be white under apartheid...

I think it's also worth exploring how much of the difference in financial cost of health insurance plans is due to time + annual overall increases in healthcare cost in the US. ACA was passed 9 years ago. Even under the previous 9 year annual percentage increase averages, you would expect healthcare costs to be at least 20% more expensive than they were in 2010, regardless of ACA.
> No, I'm saying that determinism precludes free will.
> Free will is more than mere non-determinism / randomness.

Yes, I even think that free will is not really related to the determinism / non-determinism of the universe, as I said earlier. Free will doesn't make sense in physics.

That's why I don't agree that determinism precludes free will. You can define free will in an other way, that is compatible with determinism. That's my point of view, you can read more about it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism. Your view is called 'Incompatibilism', ie determinism and free will are mutually incompatible.

At the end, I think that most of it is a question of definition, but we can all agree that free will in a deterministic world is not the same as free will in a world where people have souls.
As a fellow UK customer I very much agree with you. So much so that I just cancelled my Prime membership. These days I buy most of my books second hand (very few marketplace sellers do Prime) so I'm having to pay for postage anyway. Amazon have also introduced "Channels" (MGM, Starz etc) so there's a bunch of content that's now silo'd off in these channels that you need to pony up for on top of the Prime subscription.

I'll use Amazon to rent movies now and again. When there's a new season of something like "The Man in the High Castle" or complete seasons of other stuff I like become available then I'll pay for just a month to watch these then cancel the sub again.

I also find it slightly annoying when Prime deliveries go from "Next day" to "Two days" randomly, especially around holiday seasons. I queried this with them giving examples of SKU's that two days before were available Next Day and then suddenly change to Two Day delivery despite being in stock, but it's like talking to a brick wall.

Perhaps in the US it's a different story where due to licensing there's a much larger selection of content available, but the UK Prime is a bit meagre.
We just scheduled it right now.
By early NoSQL, I mean the projects that are basically an API wrapped around a data structure, that push the understanding of the data structure onto the developer. Newer products (like my employer FaunaDB) prioritize correctness and offer abstract query interfaces like GraphQL.
As someone who supports several developers, I hope you take as much holiday as you need. I mostly support it to increase the chance of the project surviving in the long term, and as a token of appreciation of your past contributions.
As a long time open source contributor and maintainer, I'm not convinced it's worth more than $20/hour. Where does this worth come from? Comparing it to what corporations loaded with cash are willing to pay for an especially advantageous employee? That's not a fair comparison to make.
Hi, GitLab employee! Don't worry, our plan is actually to go public by 2020. Our strategy page is public: https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/
how do we report comments like this ? or just downvote them?
Unfortunately not available on Spotify yet.
I think you have your timelines wrong. Remington was already owned by Cerberus when they purchased Marlin (they were one of the "18 businesses rolled up"). It was the same people, running the same playbook, just Remington, being bigger, lasted longer before it had been fully sucked dry.
This ignores that extrinsic motivation(money) can reduce intrinsic motivation(interest in the project).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
Ask more pro-gun friends. It kind of becomes an addiction. Everyone I know has a 30 gun safe that's damn near full.
I'd describe it as less "borderline fashion" (which any hobby has) more as legal caprice.

Historical examples:

* The Firearm Owners Protection Act banned machineguns manufactured before 1986.

* The Federal Assault Weapons Ban banned certain semi-automatic weapons excluding those manufactured before 1994.

Firearm hobbyists need decade-plus forward thinking predictions. What's today legal is a felony tomorrow, unless steps are taken now.

This makes it a volatile guessing game, even more than other hazardous hobbies (cars, aircraft, martial arts, motorcycles, etc.).
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Isn't that exactly what Costco and Sam's Club did?

My dad was a member back in the 80's (and still is). Every time we wanted something, we would wait until he could get it at Costco -- which was further away than Walmart and K-mart -- "because I'm paying for the membership".

Amazon Prime is of course a lot more addictive because of the one-click, not-leaving-your-house thing. But the idea of retail memberships has been around for a long time. I think that psychology was well understood in the retail industry.
> There's a weird narrative where any event is tied to the ACA while they ignore what the healthcare system is in the US overall.

The ACA fundamentally shifted the landscape for the whole healthcare system with minimum coverage mandates (including employer plans), guaranteed issue, etc. It's also led to higher demand for medical services (ie because more people are covered - a good thing) at a time when the number of doctors has stayed fixed. The net result is that health coverage is simply more expensive. One way that could have played out would be employers eating the higher premiums themselves (which is essentially giving everyone a raise.) Anecdotally, it seems the way it's played out is that employers have kept paying roughly the same amount while employees have either paid higher premiums or received higher deductibles.