skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why use special formatting at all? Just capitalize the name.
Note that lawmakers were increasingly been targeting bitcoin in S.Korea. Foreigners (any foreigners, even ones with Korean visas and/or who are Korean but were born abroad) and minors can't sign up to exchanges anymore, for example.
The more I look at my medical bills, the more I think it's all about widely-distributed greed.

I used to just blame "greedy insurance companies," but now I see it's at all levels.

Example: Yesterday I was doing bills and came across and Explanation of Benefits report from my insurance company. My doctor billed the insurance company $9,000(!!) for a routine pee test that I get with my yearly physical. The insurance company negotiated it down to $300, and my portion was $18.

But (at least) three things are problematic here: First, that the doctor thinks it's OK to charge $9k for a non-specialized urine test. There's no way it costs anywhere near that. Second, that my insurance company thinks $300 is an OK price. It isn't, IMO. And third, that my insurance company even has to waste time, effort, and employee hours negotiating in the first place instead of just receiving a reasonable bill.
> wouldn't the majority of allocations still happen during a request?

Could you please clarify this question? Do you mean that if cached objects are a small part of the total allocation rate, then generation GCs work well with that?
View it this way: SpaceX is not planning to lay a high-speed connection to one town but to all towns at once.

It is going to be a money-printing machine if that works out. No matter how deep in the desert someone is, they can have the same connection as someone much closer to a city. Granted, it is not going to have fiber-bandwidth but it's fast enough and everywhere between 53° of latitude north and south.
Ethereum and Cosmos did ICOs and they have been quite successful, delivering on their promises. Maybe 99/100 ICOs fail but the same can be said about VC-backed startups.
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As a counter-point, I would like to point out India's IT industry.

When the IT outsourcing industry was booming and there was a serious programmer shortage, outsourcing firms such as Infosys, Cognizant, Tata would hire college graduates en-masse regardless of major (like, entire batch of 20XX would get a job offer). They would then spend 6 months actually training them and weeding out poor performers. The ones who get through would be placed on actual projects for their clients. I do not know if this still happens today due to the sheer number IT majors on offer in India.

Now you can rightly argue with regards to the overall quality of products they created and the culture they proliferated but for their clients it appeared to suffice to achieve their business objectives. Sure most of them won't be FAANG grade but might be totally adequate for making some CRUD app or maintaining some system.

IMO, I don't think one needs a four year degree to code, two years at the max would suffice (obviously not for cutting edge work) . In fact, I would go as far to say beginners can be trained on a good declarative low-code (not low code) guardrails-type DSL incorporating best practices to create simple CRUD or reporting web apps. There have been many attempts but I don't know if this is solved yet.
If you raise money through an IPO, do you have any fiduciary responsibility to raise shareholder value? Or can you just fuck off with the money legally?
South Korea does not belong in that list at all.

The inflation rate is also only 1.4% to 1.5%.
I don't think anyone is attempting to narrow the definition of trolling; but in general any appeal to more nuanced understanding is worthwhile too so don't take this as disagreeing with you.

I note that "doctrine" was also an important element of the definitions offered and regret that we do not question our doctrine (and its sources) enough even now.
well, erhmm yes :-) so i was exploring if it was possible to do that in the same way we can give our (encrypted) data to Keybase. Or at least, utilise as much as cloud services as possible.
I somewhat agree for legitimate boot camps, but breaking promises (of payed learning, of job guarantees, ...) while syphoning off subsidies doesn't sound very legitimate.

By the description of the course (google everything yourself), it sounds like it would have been cheaper to study at home...
Fair enough, it seems Popper's disillusionment while working with Adler was the start of his insight into falsifiability. To be clear, I agree that Popper does not seem to be anti-explanation in principle (and if he was, we are under no obligation to agree.)
It’s a regional thing I suspect. It’s a big problem in utah, home of the Diesel Brothers and some of the worst air pollution in the country. It’s just recently illegal here.

One guy doing it might not be that meaningful but, that’s true of just about everything.
If you can't pay your bill in full, you work out a plan with your bank to pay your debt back over time.

Your credit card limit was already determined by your income, so the possibility for individuals to get themselves into financial trouble is rather low.
Is there evidence of widespread use of crypto amongst non-elites?

I see crypto as more of a competitor for jewelry and other fine assets traditionally used to expatriate familial and illicit wealth from collapsing regimes, than as a mechanism adopted by every day citizens.

For example, how exactly are Venezuelans supposed to participate in crypto when their internet and electrical grids are so unstable?
And banks, payment processors and other fintech companies hire tens of thousands of employees each to maintain business as usual. Considering that bitcoin itself is a ledger and payment processor it makes me wonder if it could be an Avenue to free up human capital in the future for bigger and better things.
I've never smuggled anything. I did get secretly married at age 19 to another 19 year old thinking it somehow wouldn't matter in the future. We were married for 22 years and we've been divorced a long time. The "Oh, yeah, I married in secret" thing still is a point of discomfort, though I wasn't doing anything illegal nor immoral.

It helped me say "nope" to the opportunity to launder money while I was homeless and being given no legitimate opportunities and generally being pissed all over by a world that wanted me to know I didn't deserve any legitimate opportunities. I got the memo in a rather harmless way that the past never really dies. You can't just do a thing just this one time and pretend "It's in the past! It doesn't matter!" Life just doesn't actually work that way.

A lot of people seem to learn that a much harder way. Until then, some people figure that what you don't know won't hurt them.
> This is called solidarity

Solidarity is not a Christian value.
I mean, it’s not an American value,
I mean, it’s not that Jesus would help any sick person, at least he would take into account preexisting conditions.
And we – those of us concerned and those who like voting with our feet – will stop using airlines with 737 max aircrafts in their fleet.
While I’m philosophically aligned with the medical-expenses-lead-to-bankruptcies narrative, it’s worth noting that the 2/3 number is based on a drastic overcounting of people’s reported expenses.

If I mention a $500 hospital bill, but put $50,000 on credit cards for run of the mill spending beyond my means, I get counted in that 2/3rds.
government-run care doesn't work well for major surgery. As I said earlier, decisions are made by commitee and many people don't get the care they need.

Health insurance, like the student financial aid situation in the US, has created a situation where the true costs are inflated because the hospitals know that the average person isn't footing the bill, the billion dollar insurance company is. It's why you see $80 bills for asparin.

Your rainbows and flowers ideas about healthcare sound great in theory, but the reality is that the middleman is creating these balooning and insustainable costs. Government-run care just replaces this middleman with the government and doesn't do anything to reduce the cost or make the care better for anyone.

The US has the best quality care in the world. It's why everyone with the means comes over to the US to get treated for major illnesses. Upending the systen to make it like all of the other, worse, systems in the world isn't thr answer.
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Better yet, fill party balloons with hydrogen gas and light 'em off at the end.
Oh, interesting idea. Thank you, I’ll give that a shot!
I wasn't fully convinced by this article. Language specific API wrapper clients can abstract all these complexities. Having links for IDs felt very unnatural but I guess that's because I have never came across an API that uses links like the article suggested
Yes I was curious why cost were so low yet there was a shortage.
That doesn't make sense.

If some people don't play, profits go up for the rest that do. High risk high reward becomes high risk higher reward.
It's operated by a single company which cares about profit. You can't tell me that the US government isn't capable to pushing Tesla to censor something they don't like or that Tesla will do it willingly to enter a market like China.
i'm still getting User Exists though...
Having lived through a hyperinflation, I would not have touched Bitcoin with a ten foot pole. You want a rock stable foreign currency when the times are hard, not something that can push you even lower due to loss of even the minimal resources that you have.
Looks like the allegations of fraud were in the air in 2017 before WV started.

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/12/21/miners-sue-mined-...
This. My wife's company builds devices for ag tech. This technology is enabling to reach a global market.
Behold the space trash dispenser.
Normal latex balloons take 6 months to 4 years to biodegrade, which is plenty of time to ruin scenery and choke a curious animal. https://encenter.org/visit-us/programs/birthday-parties/ball...
That's interesting. I thought that everyone was mocking Iron Man for wearing it (people my age wore Axe when we were in middle school). It hadn't occurred to me that this was still probably a net positive for Axe.
I think about the case study of Borland's Quattro Pro a lot.

TLDR: There's a core group that "get's it". Per Pareto and organizational psychology, most people have no idea what's going on.

The initial Quattro Pro team was just 4 people. They all had prior experience. Were colleagues who worked well together. They had management meat shields who fought off the rest of the org, so the core team had enough time and space to finish a thought uninterrupted. As the product progressed, the "surface area" increased, they brought in people to help.

None of my corporate jobs have been like that. They've mostly felt like a "choose your own adventure" games, where you wander around asking NPCs for help to accomplish the latest quest, hopefully finishing before someone gives the ant farm another good shake.
What I am saying is that all market forces have been suspended, and replaced with something that is not working. Market forces tend to keep a lid on the kinds of things we are seeing. The mis-regulation has not replaced these market forces with anything that is working.

You can't have transparent pricing if medicare comes in and imposed unrealistic pricing. It only works if the advertised price is the same price for everyone.

You can't have inexpensive malpractice insurance without the English Rule, and if the tort system is basically a lottery.

The health insurance companies are a much bigger problem than the care providers.

Things that might be productive instead of pointing fingers:

* all medical services and medicines provided by a provider must have a single, public price

* prohibit employer provided health insurance, replacing it with insurance purchased by individuals with pre-tax money

* enable interstate purchase of health insurance

* expand the health care exchange that federal employees have access to to create a single, unified market for purchasing insurance

* introduce the English Rule to reign in trial lawyers
I wish I could rate this comment up but HN, for some reason, had decided I can't and the is no arrow next to it.
Why did your company fall for this?

The only logical reasons I’ve seen are an inability to hire otherwise, and staff moonlighting at the boot camps. Both are bad reasons.
From what I've seen, there's a clear line of demarcation below what you're implying. If I remember correctly, the research says it's around $60k-$75k in the U.S. where the happiness levels out in response to money. I'd have to look it up again to make sure I'm not misremembering
No, but that’s often regulated against, and much easier politically to deal with.

The problem is that a flag is, well, a flag. It’s treated as if they’d planted a tree and I’m upset but the wind rustling the leaves.

I’ve looked for anything analogous where wind acts upon an object to make loud noises, and I haven’t had luck.
There was a several hundred dollar difference until like the last day or so.
Having a containerized Linux inside a non-free box provided by shareholder driven corporations is far away from the ideals and benefits I associate with GNU/Linux and FOSS. I know, this view may be too idealistic but I still feel it is not the right direction.
Not saying you’re wrong, but HN comments were the thing that convinced me not to buy bitcoin at $1
I guess if lamda school has a consistent track record in the industry & companies are hiring from them, i could see that being of value to someone switching careers. (Employers seem to be inept in interviewing for programming positions - and otherwise - On their own)
No, 99/100 VC-backed startsup don't fail, and the rate of actual scams in them is FAR lower than in crypto.
> that the doctor thinks it's OK to charge $9k for a non-specialized urine test

Are you sure it was your doctor and not a lab? I recently switched doctors and had blood & urine tests. When I sat down in the exam room, the phlebotomist handed me a sheet of paper to sign that said I would be responsible for $70-something. The lab they sent the samples to billed my insurance company for $600. My insurance paid $40 and I paid $30.

When I mentioned the $600 charge, my doctor was surprised. Evidently, he did not know what the lab bills, just what insurance & patients actually pay. (I'm not sure what that says about him and his office.)
That’s what happened with Iridium in the 90s. By the time they launched, cellular coverage had greatly eaten into their market and they went bankrupt. (Having disposed of the enormous capital costs, they went on to become profitable and are doing quite well today.)

A major difference is that Iridium service was (and still is) extremely expensive. Nobody used it unless it was the only choice. Out in the middle of the ocean? Iridium is great. At the end of a long country road with nothing but a POTS line that can barely accommodate a 14.4k modem? Use that modem, it’s way cheaper and faster.

SpaceX hopes to provide pricing and speeds that are competitive with terrestrial options in many places. They’re not just trying to serve an ever-shrinking customer base that can’t get any connectivity otherwise.
I disagree. I think with the right levels of exposure at the early stages of education “coding” can become a proficiency just as common as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Of course, just like those skills, people will pursue programming to varying depths, some will determine to study advanced topics while others will remain “coders at the 6th grade level”.

Not everyone will go into CS and develop new data structures, algorithms, or programming paradigms—but most people can and should be able to code solutions to well understood problems—just like mathematics this doesn’t mean everyone will know how to apply it in novel business situations, but just as most people can perform easy calculations they should be able to write straightforward programs.

It’s all a matter of the appropriate cultural and educational scaffolding. Programming is still in its infancy and hasn’t permeated through the education system deeply enough yet to enshrine it as a core proficiency, but we can and should head in this directon.
"You can't have transparent pricing if medicare comes in and imposed unrealistic pricing. "

Why not? You still can publish prices.
Is enough dificult yet by traditional methods.

There is a limit to the tick of a meat piece if oxigen and food must rely in simple difussion. Fishes need omega3 fatty acids to survive. They are unable to synthesize it. How do you effectively feed with omega-3 the cells of an animal without stomach? I wonder also how cell excrection would be solved without a few tubes and filters to collect it. Would you eat fish fillets growing soaked in "fish urine"?

The list of challenges to solve is really long.

The more interesting goal here is changing the perception of public about what is food. There are lots of problems with fish breeding. Bad husbandry practices will produce easily a lot percentage of deformed fishes in the pool (lacking one or two eyes, lack of opercles is also common and skeletal sclerosis can produce "Z" plied fishes easily also). Those are unmarketable today. If you just say that it was cultivated in a laboratory then abismal quality products could suddently enter in a market chain and turn into acceptable or even top quality. Even better than the real thing.

But a good comforting lie is still a lie.
Why is there such a strong difference between weekday and weekend trading volume in Bitcoin? Interestingly this distinction was present in the past, but no longer seems to exist with the latest jump on ~March 24th.
I feel like the author intended for me to leave the article less likely to dig my heels in when acting as an expert and more likely to maintain a flexible worldview when making predictions in a scenario where there are a variety of well developed and contradicting predictive theories. And that's probably a good sentiment.

But I think it's important to recognize that foxes outperform hedgehogs only in scenarios where hedgehogs are available. That is, to weigh contradictory theories requires that those theories exist in the first place: and that's the work of experts.

So rather than ask: "should you be a fox or a hedgehog?"

I'm more interested in: How should foxes and hedgehogs be arranged so that the best predictions are made? How many contradictory predictive theories are necessary to let the foxes do their work and are there diminishing returns re: how deeply the hedgehogs have gone into their specialization?

Research in this direction could have implications re: how we fund other research.
The people in these countries by and large have no money to buy bitcoin with. The people in those countries that do have money are mostly corrupt, and they’re the ones that are using bitcoin.
Maybe technologically, but not so much in spirit. The idea of "the year of the linux desktop", as I understand it, is that people en-mass get the benefits of free software and the free software desktop is a viable replacement for windows/macos.

In this case, though, people are still using their same proprietary software... they just have slightly easier access to the free software world. That's certainly a benefit for a lot of people, but it's possibly a detriment to desktop linux for this reason: Other than freedom/privacy reasons, why would I switch from windows if I can already run most of the linux stack in it and not give up Adobe programs, games, etc.? This removes most of the pragmatic reasons for switching, so I'm mostly left with idealistic ones.
If all the constellation + GEO systems proposals end up being launched, there will be an oversupply of capacity from space.

Rural areas are a viable market only in the US and Canada, where people can afford to pay $50+/month for connectivity. Elsewhere in the world, they are not going to sell to any end-users.

The 4,425 and the 7,500 satellite constellations proposed by SpaceX are way oversized and simply put, a waste of money and efforts.
Ethereum is basically an ICO pyramid scam, since the only use case for it has been to enable more ICOs.

Anything else has failed miserably because the network can't handle the traffic. Of course they're promising a scaling fix Real Soon Now (see above for "plausible deniability R&D mode").
> developers have an easy life, getting into work whenever they choose

Why exactly is that the wrong reason?
Since you’ve given enough details to identify yourself, I would go ahead and pull the trigger on the Facebook offer as promptly as possible.

After you leave your current job, people will look at your empty chair for several weeks and shrug. After 3 weeks, there will be someone new sitting there. After 6 weeks, you won’t be mentioned. After 6 months you won’t be remembered. After 6 years, you won’t remember them either.
Orchestral skill isn't anywhere near as quantifiable as the time taken to sprint a given distance, so this comparison is irrelevant as far as I can see, though I welcome clarification.

The entire point is that there is no objective measure of playing ability, which allows conscious and subconscious biases to affect audition decisions, which is why blind auditions make sense for choosing orchestra performers, but is not required (let alone practical) for choosing sprinters.
Yup LSTMs can capture distant context, but they arent generic RNNs though. A significant part of "Deep" fanboyism comes from lack of knowledge about capabilities of conventional methods. I dont blame them entirely, there is a lot of diengenuous marketing that should claim partial credit.
That's totally fair, and I think many people can identify with what you're saying, with a caveat. I think you're talking about a different kind of happiness... I'm not you, so I can't say for sure, but it sounds like you have what I would call "joy" no matter what. Where "joy" is a sense of purpose, of maybe self worth and other things that stay with you even when you may not actually be enjoying yourself at any given time, you can even be sad, and still have an overarching sense of "joy".

I think the other posters mean happiness as the more run of the mill enjoying the moment, enjoying life, am happy about X kind of happiness.

Also, when we talk about happiness vs income, we should actually look at what many people actually say about it themselves, in data (pardon the pun :):

1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

2. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/04/Happiness-by-Inco...

3. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/04/Happiness-across-...

I mean, it seems like there is a connection between happiness and income up to a certain level.
I believe the main reasons were:

* The local management are non-technical and have a rudimentary equation that 1 developer = 1 productivity unit

* The bootcamp has some really great salespeople

* Hiring is generally difficult for great dev talent, so their logic is just to hire anyone for the numbers, otherwise their budget gets constrained by kafkaesque finance practice from the companies HQ.

* Local political and PR reasons, the company is "hiring local talent", "equal opportunities" etc.
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Tether is $1. If there was some massive sell pressure it would go under parity fast. Printing tether wouldn’t help. So how exactly is it collapsing?
Every startup hopes they'll be a unicorn in 3-5 years. A couple actually will. Most of them won't. Many of them won't even be around.

Don't make job decisions based on the internal hype of where a startup hopes to be in the future.
You can avoid airlines that have the 737 MAX in their fleet (domestically, the biggest are United, Southwest and American). Whenever I fly I fly Delta, and I’ll never fly on a MAX because Delta doesn’t have any.