skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is all being driven by tether collapsing which is driving up prices on bitfinex and people trying to arbitrage the price difference before bitfinex goes bankrupt. They’re also printing tether like crazy again.
I believe the 35 ms latency number is on top of any required routing latency, either on the ground or in space. I'm curious how much each satellite hop will add.
That certainly happens, but is it the norm?
You are blaming it on regulation, medicare, malpractice insurance and lawyers. How about also saying that hospital owner, managers and doctors make a killing in this system? They are not victims.
I'm not a blockchain hater- I'm a Bitcoin hater. There is a difference.
Show HN: Mem Ops (Java): Memory Manager/Allocator for Highly Resilient Systems
Ancient sanskrit, yes. But the term vitanDa is very current. It is a common word in my language, Kannada and I imagine in other Indian languages as well.

This article is as much about the etymology of a modern term as about a concept from Sanskrit philosophical texts.
All digital money is in theory programmable.
The main difference with Bitcoin is that it's an open platform and you don't need the permission of closed platforms (PayPal, Visa, banks) to operate.
Permission can be revoked.
Yes? Jesus i hate this argument. You realize people were inventing devices long before they had science, right? You realize that making transistors says nothing about your ability to make valid claims about psychology, right? Having understood one principle does not mean you can understand anything.
How do you compare a traditional transaction to one that is uncensorable by anyone?
I believe the medallion/license models is no longer viable and largely a beuraucratic, obsolete, monopolistic form of rent seeking. And Uber has largely proven this.

I am more interested in the technical and financial feasibility of replicating an employee owned ondemand marketplace such as Uber and more generally any service that provides limited efficiency to the end user at an unreasonably high cost to the supplier.
> Demanding perfect time-boxing ahead of time is a recipe for disaster.

Dear client, this task will take 2 to 6 hours. If I find out it will take longer than this, I will reach out.

Dear client, I am 1.5 hours into this task. Based on my experience, it look like it will take 7 to 10 hours instead. Should I continue?

For all of this to work well, you need to have experience in estimating well and also understand that whatever number pops into your head, multiply it by 2 and tell the client that. I have never had a client be pissed at me because I finished something for less time/money than they were expecting.

That said, this sort of thing should really be used for highly indeterminate tasks, like fixing bugs.
The plain reality of healthcare is that there are a bunch of ailments, injuries, and diseases that cannot be treated cheap enough for the average citizen to be able to afford if they have the bad luck of needing that type of care.

> Costs will go down to managable levels […]

Why? Because of market mechanisms? It just means that a host of rare diseases will never become affordable, because of the basic supply and demand formula. Most people don't need care most of the time. Healthcare is not a commodity product.

Insurance solves a real problem: nobody knows if they will ever need it, but statistically we know that if everyone pitches in, everyone that does need several yearly salaries of care can get it when they need it.

This is called solidarity, and it works rather well in a large part of the world. Ideally, insurance is required and well-regulated to prevent excesses and to support the poor (and it is in many countries, including many European nations).

Private care without insurance is what we had in the past, and it basically meant that the rich could afford care, while the rest just prayed they never got anything more serious than the common cold.
except it doesn't, it's actually a back button
And lost 99% of its value!
Because 100% of the oil doesn't go to fuel or plastic. There are different chemicals distilled and they have different purposes, such as making asphalt, lanolin, naptha, paraffin wax, kerosene / jet fuel, and other goodies. Maybe 40-50% of a barrel of oil at most becomes gasoline and diesel, 4% becomes plastic.

Add on top of that the difficulty in getting people to recycle plastic instead of throwing it out or littering, and you have a very inefficient supply chain for your energy production.
> When word spread of a trip by the Mined Minds leadership to a tech conference in Lithuania in November, she saw an opportunity.

I am partly of Lithuanian descent. With respect, I don't understand why someone in the US would think to attend a tech conference in Lithuania, when there is a much larger tech industry closer to home.
Does that work for WaPo articles also?
I strongly disagree: iOS’s animations are slow, but its gestures follow your finger and move as fast as you do.
> We need developers who understand that the code exists to serve the business and not for its own sake.

You're absolutely right about that - there is always a balance to be achieved between delivering a feature/product on time and writing maintainable / "good" code.

What would be a red flag for me as an interviewee would be to see a codebase with poor standards, and then see pull requests open with code that wasn't any better. If the quality of the code is only getting worse that makes my life as a developer pretty miserable.

Nothing is perfect but in my experience the difference between working with a well thought-out and architected codebase and something that has been hacked together as proof-of-concept is immense. Fewer bugs, fewer security vulnerabilities, the ability to deliver features faster etc. I don't think that code quality is just something for developers to pat themselves on the back for - it genuinely effects business outcomes.
16 weeks is just unrealistic though. Credible auto mechanic trade schools are a year or so. And once you graduate, there's plenty of low end work for you to earn your keep while you continue to skill up.
Equity auctions already happen at the open and close (and any restarts).
Is it though? I would imagine there are far more general ChromeOS users than Linux desktop users. As far as ChromeOS users that make use of the Linux features vs Linux Desktop users, well, yeah that might be debatable there...
I understand what you mean, but wouldn't the majority of allocations still hapen during a request? For example, generational GC works really well with Elixir and Erlang caches.
Not entirely sure TBH but I suspect it's somewhere between the two - for example looking at some of the other data set 40%+ of what's collected is going for composting / bio gas generation.

Looking at the recycling rates in a bit more depth there's also the issue of how much waste people generate in the first place for example East Riding generates just under 500Kg of waste per person, whereas Stroud generates under 300Kg waste per person
I saw an unsourced comment on reddit that claimed they would have a microwave interlink instead of the laser interlinks, which would give several orders of magnitude lower bandwidth (although still better than nothing).

Either way, I think that these are mostly being put up to serve two important purposes: testing various technologies with enough test vehicles to get strong(ish) statistics, and working their way to the thousands of deployed satellites the FCC will require them to have deployed if they don’t want to lose their frequency allocation.
The idea came about when media pitched it as a solution to blue-collar jobs disappearing. This was particularly the case when some asked what would happen to coal miners when environmental regulations were enacted: they were told to learn to code. It was supposed to be a panacea for job loss.
This is trying to solve a problem which root cause is people handing their source code to a remote 3rd party (here gitlab).
> Classical music is fine as it is, no need to change.

Classical music is dying, because the audience is literally dying of old age. Jazz or folk can sustain itself as a niche pursuit, because a small ensemble can profitably play to a small audience; a symphony orchestra has an enormous wage bill and has to fill a large hall week in and week out.

Classical music can renew itself and guarantee a sustained future, but it can't do it without fundamental structural reform. If classical musicians want a secure future for their art form, they need to seriously reflect on what classical music is, what it could be and what it needs to be. It's not enough to offer cheap tickets to under-30s, it's not enough to have the odd pops concert in the park - lip service will not abate an existential threat.

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2011/03/age_of_the_audien...
This article seems (at best) poorly researched and one-sided - and it does not chime even slightly with my experience of this group.

I have personally met several people who have been through Mined Minds training with no prior coding experience - and those people were the first who convinced me that development “boot camps” were not a completely lost cause.
No, but it happens often enough that I think that requiring a degree doesn’t significantly improve the quality of the average candidate you receive.
You can learn it in a few months in your spare time if you're cut out for it, which the vast majority are not. CS education for programming jobs is mostly a very expensive formality to convince hiring managers you know what you already knew before enrolling, or at least it was in my case.
Cool story bro, still not in POSIX, still doesn't work on macOS.

Maybe next time understand what does and doesn't work before you complain about a solution that is both in POSIX and works on every platform.
> With more fiber being laid every day, increasing wireless deployments, and technologies like AirGig in the horizon, is Starlink launching into a shrinking market?

What you are describing sounds like a rapidly expanding market, not a shrinking market, though, right?

> Further, as SpaceX is having trouble raising the needed funds, is this launch simply a fundraising exercise?

What do you mean? SpaceX is not having trouble raising their needed funds. Do you have a citation for that? This is the first I'd be hearing of it and would be surprised. Also, needed for what? Are you referring to Mars colonization?

> is this launch simply a fundraising exercise?

This also doesn't make any sense. This launch is a groundbreaking event that begins a 12,000 satellite network deployment. This is a very cost-intensive thing and not exactly a 'fund raising exercise'; it's intended to provide early service to internet customers.
I have paid into the German tax system at about 35% for a year now and have only ever used the healthcare system once. My only bill was 5 euros for Tylenol. Not bad I guess. My care at a healthcare services company was a high deductible plan coupled with a HSA (health savings account) that was all sorts of crappy.

If the only two certainties in life are death and taxes I’d rather the exorbitant (in my opinion anyway) German taxes help keep that other certainty — death — at bay.
Long press is used throughout the OS for many things, and it’s conceptually a different interaction from 3D Touch. Unfortunately many apps (including some of Apple’s) don’t make this distribution and equate the two, which is convenient implementation wise because it allows for one action to support optional hardware.
I know that. But as the OP said, it’s interesting to think about an anti-anti-smuggling technique like the one where you’re using an hipsterish couple to physically carry things for you, instead of some tattooed guys.
Ask HN: Has anyone here started a software company in a small town?
Hello HN,

I am originally from a town of ~6,000 people in northern Michigan. My story mirrors most of the college educated students in my graduating class: moved away for college, got a degree, and then stayed away from home because there are few jobs for college educated people.

I've always wanted to give back to my home community by starting a software company there. The local economy couldn't support a software consultancy, but a SaaS company could work. The obvious problem is attracting and retaining talent [and also having a profitable company ;)].

I suspect that there are software developers out there that would want to have the small-town lifestyle while still working on interesting things and not having to be remote.

So, has anyone here ever started a software company in a small town? How'd it go? What were some of the problems? Successes?

Thanks!
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It's a tough thing being pro labor, anti union.

Good governance, fairness, accountability, responsibility, transparency remain challenges for all organizations, not just unions. Happily, we've been getting better at finding and learning from other experiments.

Reform is thankless exhausting work. It takes a special kind of crazy for a person to do that kind of policy work.
> I have a sinking feeling this kind of synthetic food production is just a bait for health-wary consumers

I'm a futuristic person, I like to imagine what I can do far into the future, something like: "Hey space ship, I like to have some roasted Salmon Sushi sprinkled with tomato paste to be delivered to the observation deck please. Thanks!"

And I believe synthetic food is the first step to archive that.
> I wonder if this is not partially due to a "run" in Tether exchanges

Could this be something that's easily measured? e.g., I suppose in this case exchanges using Tether would have a larger than normal price for Bitcoin than usual, for a slightly longer amount of time, compared to the days preceding?

I would be surprised if this information doesn't exist somewhere, and if many people weren't already looking at it for arbitrage purposes, but due to my unfamiliarity in this space I would have no idea where to find it.
I've been building REST apis for 13 years and never had either of these problems. I might be reading too much into this, but it sounds like you enjoy GraphQL or RPC-like apis and have trouble mapping their respective concepts 1:1 to REST. You shouldn't.

These architectures aren't equivalent alternatives. Pick the right tools for the job, and use the right tool appriately.
Standard five-item cabin control was the high-water mark of effectiveness, efficiency, and usability.

Fan, heat, vent dials or sliders, AC switch, recirc switch or selector.

It sucked the least.

https://kyozoufs.blob.core.windows.net/filestoragetcdb/Pictu...
Or just have land farms of fish: http://www.uarahfisheries.com.au/
runaway success of oss Linux on the desktop? I'm a full time user but I can't tell you how much I hate he constant hardware issues. it's 2019 and I cannot hibernate or sleep my laptop reliably. the backlight doesn't work without fiddling with kernel Params.
Venezuelan Democracy Lost the Battle Against Castro
I've been doing that Stylus thing for years.
During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw
And additionally the American dollar is not the same as it was pre bretton woods, or pre federal reserve, etc.
It doesn't necessarily mean they have puritanical standards. But for me it would offer a glimpse into what its like to be a developer at a company. Like, does the company tell developers to just "make it work" in the quickest amount of time possible or does it let them come up with a proper, maintainable solution thats not going to cause headaches for future developers?

If I see a codebase that is blatantly vulnerable to something like SQL injection (i.e. GET parameters being referenced directly in SQL query strings) then this would probably be a deal breaker for me. I get that nothings perfect but something like that would indicate an extremely poor competency of the development team.

EDIT: That said there is another side of the coin - the kind of place where developers spend hours discussing things like how to name a class or a variable. That would also be a frustrating place to work in - its about getting the balance right. Also seeing the way the developers talk about their code would be interesting - are they dead-set and have an "emotional" attachment to their way of doing things - or are they open to new ideas and willing to discuss pros/cons of differing solutions and make compromises as a team.
But that's because the distribution of medical costs through your life isn't the same at all ages - typically the age of average HNer, you probably don't need medical services at all.

The medical costs are high when you're very young (up until 5 or so) and after age 50 or so with nothing in between. In EU systems this means that healthy workforce subsidises older population and in turn they get subsidised as they age.

In unregulated private systems this means that your insurance is low when you're young and private insurers hugely spike your insurance cost as you become a liability for them.
One satelite only seem to be able to handle 20Gbit meanwhile a single fiber can handle 20Tbit and you get a lot of fiber cables for $10 billion. One advantage with satellites thoug are that there's nothing for warlord or censoring states cut off. Time to re-watch the movie "enemy of the state" ...
> Keep your caches out of GC memory for extra goodness.

Could you expand on this please?
A lot of them do. This one seems like an outright scam, but for example well known boot camps like Lamba School put you through some tutorials and tests before hand. When you look at these tutorials it really seems to be a filter for “can you teach yourself coding”. IMO making the bootcamps fairly useless given the huge amount of online courseware and free tutorials available now.
We are allowed to acknowledge disadvantages and advantages of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin isn't the future, but it sure is the progenitor of what will be used in the future.
To beat Starbucks, Luckin Coffee plans to open a store in China every 3.5 hours
Have you looked at the line ups of Build Stuff in Vilnius? It has many of the same speakers as QCon, historically at a fraction of the price, and attendees from across Western Europe and the US.

I have priced it out several years running, and with flights from major US cities or (especially) Europe, a hotel and expenses it is substantially cheaper than attending a US conference in the same tier.

Disclaimer: I have worked on the CFP for that conference several times over there last few years, but have no financial interest in the conference.
This isn't really the issue. I live in a country where physicians/surgeons make more than that on average, and we have pretty good free healthcare.

As always, singling out some part of a hugely dysfunctional system for criticism is quite unhelpful.
I'm no protectionist but let's face it- if tomorrow US stops funding NATO, the entire Europe will speak Russian (in as much time as yesterday's MIT study concludes it will take them to reach fluency)

The health system is held hostage by insurance companies but making pointless comparisons helps nobody
I think people need to realize that these boot camps are a start, not an end. They give you the minimal viable education to do the job. After that, you need to keep educating yourself.
> Coding requires a certain drive and curiosity

> By all means subsidize a laptop

If you have a certain drive and curiosity for coding the price of a used low-end laptop is unlikely to be a significant barrier, when adequate new ones are available from Walmart for $159. I just found a 3 year old Chromebook on ebay for $57, or around 10 hours work at the federal minimum wage after taxes. And there's a salutary pride of ownership in earning it. I earned my first computer by working the grill at Burger King. Dreaming of what I'd buy with my wages made finally getting it particularly sweet.
Separating Truth from Myth in So-Called ‘Golden Age’ of Detroit Auto Industry
The URL doesn't contain the ID, it _is_ the id. If you stop treating the URL as an opaque string but start parsing things out, you are definitely not getting any benefits.

One benefit of using urls as ids is that it no longer is just an id, it also describes where you can get it's representation.
A lot of comments on here about Medicare not paying enough compared to private insurance- so here is one from a very recent personal experience with private insurance. My wife had surgery followed by 6 days in the hospital for recovery. (This is I think her 9th surgery in the 8 years of our marriage, and every time the billing is similiar.) I just received the explanation fo benefits from my private insurance from the hospital. They billed $245,000! The negotiated amount with the insurance company was $36,000. They billed for 6.8X what they actually got from private insurance. The amount that the hospital bills is completely made-up gibberish.
I’m not sure where you got the number 10% from. Perhaps you’re dispatching heavily on the word “salary”, when most doctors and surgeons operate as small businesses, and don’t earn much income directly as salary?

Doctor plus nurse compensation dominate every chart I’ve ever seen of US medical spending.

People like to imagine it’s all the fault of insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and malpractice; those are collectively a tiny fraction of US spending. It’s mostly labor costs.

The US is rich, health is a good with infinite demand. It’s hard to reduce costs in that context.
> The funny thing is that even cropping can be an editorial decision. All media lies to a certain extent.

Don't let "perfect" be the enemy of "good." It's technically true that all media lies to a certain extent, but painstakingly modifying the actual content of a photograph such that no physical device could ever capture the result is obviously way worse than just cropping the image.
[Warning Exremely Controversial Post Ahead]

I am currently working for a big corporate in the UK, who have been showing off their "pioneering" and "visionary" strategy to focus recruitment from code boot-camps.

All I can say is that as a senior developer, it has made my life misery. I've gone from writing code and producing features, to a full-time mentor and babysitter.
Half of the boot-camp graduates I believe have become coders for the wrong reasons like:

* developers have an easy life, getting into work whenever they choose

* they get to wear t-shirts and baggy jeans

* they get all the latest toys to play around with and shiny MacBooks

* I hated my last job, looking at developers on TV in these Silicon valley places looks like the dream life

* I am a single mother who was given the course for free

The others, have aptitude but are so inexperienced from their 3 month session that it will take them atleast two years before they can be fully independant engineers.

These codecamps are licenses to print money it seems, they charge the students a hefty fee for the course and companies then pay a recruitment fee at the end.

Needless to say, I will be leaving my company very soon to go to a place where there is a coding test and filtering to prevent most of these bootcampers from getting in.

Yes its snobby, but I didn't study and spend my student loan on my passion just so I can train up a bunch of people looking for the "easy life".
Probably the correct explanation.

Ultimately those sought refuge in BTC will sell it. There's no new use case, there's nothing else that suddenly makes Bitcoin more viable than it was 10 days ago.
What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?
Glass has a much higher melting temperature than lead, so it's the other way around, but this might explain why Europeans stayed with lead.

I don't know if the Africans lacked lead, perhaps lead was simply valued more than scrap glass?
If you look through their comment history, they claim to being a white male living in the US.

The majority of his comments are pro-trump / anti-obama and have nothing to do with technology.

I wouldn't really take this person to be an expert on European healthcare.