skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At best this is a bandaid and not a cure.

To treat the problem, you have to go straight to the root.

And that problem is: The cost of free is too damn high.

Most people in the US don't pay for their medical care or their medical insurance. It's "free", at least in terms of money out of pocket.

We need to remove the corporate tax deduction for healthcare insurance from the tax law. This in turn will solve most other problems as market forces are brought back into the picture.

Once people start selecting and paying for their own policy, they will be more price conscious on their claims, as most people already are on their auto insurance.

Once people are more price conscious, medical facilities will begin to complete again on price and insurance companies will focus on individual plans.

It all has to start with the consumer though, and currently the consumer doesn't care what the price is. They don't pay for the medical care and they don't the insurance premiums.
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> There are sites that just block requests from the EU, there's a difficult-to-measure chilling effect on small businesses

food safety regulations have a chilling effect on businesses that would try and sell arsenic-laced food.

dumping poisonous byproducts of a manufacturing process in a river will also net you a stomping by the society, another instance of a chilling effect of regulations.

i'm happy with these chilling effects, they relieve me of the need for constant vigilance. they enable our society to function. we do not need to fear for our mental of physical health and (private) lives all the time, we can focus on higher-order things instead.
In your experience, are quant firms bothered about whether the STEM PhD had anything to do with finance?

I'm considering trying to get into the field when I finish my Comp Sci PhD in a few months. I'm a little worried that my sole explicit financial qualification is that I really enjoyed a course on Black-Scholes towards the end of my undergraduate in Physics, although I probably would word that slightly differently on a CV.
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Or maybe hedge against massive losses on it, if you are legally allowed to do that. If I remember correctly, this saved Mark Cuban from ruin, for instance.
I feel exactly the same way. I now try to pay whenever I can to avoid ads. YouTube Premium, Slate Plus, etc. I also make sure I contribute to the Patreons of the content I enjoy, but often this results in the creator being greedy and running ads when they make more than enough from Patreon. When that happens, I usually stop my donations and just suffer the ads.
'I remember back then I even had a small addon that was constantly showing me ads and I was getting money for doing nothing.'

AllAdvantage? I got a few quid from them back in the day. Strange times...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage
Pressure means social pressure. Or financial pressure. Or environmental pressure. Something that is forcing your hand to do something you can't. And then to judge yourself when you can't deliver against it. It's what causes fight or flight moments or, in a sad state, you quit (life).

So if you don't have a job and can't find a job, and then you feel bad about yourself, the thought of suicide comes for example when you are about to lose everything you have worked hard for and/or will cause great pain to those around you and/or are judged by your peers as a complete loser and/or exiled from their community.

Can't explain better than that.
Maybe in the future, W3C would do a solid AML Application Markup Language, but they did that with XML.
I agree. If we want an application platform, let's have something designed first and foremost to be an application platform instead of the garbage fire we've bolted to the skeleton of HTML.

Here's how you do it: create the new platform and its spec. Include an open 'document rendering engine' to replace that portion of the web. For backwards compatibility, go ahead and port a web browser to the new platform. For forwards compatibility, port the new platform to the current web.
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I also have a dilemma. Spending 3 years in a project using <tech> doesn't mean much to me. Unless it's a serious gig with regular problem solving .. but if it's mostly management hell, documentation, ... you might not know much more than when you came in.

I know a lot of things I learned in python on my own wouldn't happen in a job because you don't have time to play with everything in the language.
We suffer that garbage not because people like you and me did not think of _money_ as reward for other people's projects but because of advertising, tracking and click counts.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with publishing things for free, doing things for free and consuming things for free. The best content on the web is done by people from their own interest in sharing. Personal contacts, exchange of information, feedback and community are so much more worth than money when it comes to motivating the production of good things.
Most of this isn't a given anymore with software vendors going subscription-only like Adobe's Creative Cloud.

On the other hand, PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) also work in offline mode without a "traditional" installation step.
My personal least favorites are the Excel dryers, which seem to be becoming quite common. They may be reasonably loud when your hands aren't beneath them, but they become unreasonably loud when you put your hands in the air stream and start rubbing them together. I find that you get white-ish noise/half-whistling noises at an absolutely miserable level.

Many years ago, I actually had a desk in an office that was maybe 10-15 meters from a nearby Excel hand dryer, separated by two doors. I hated it with a passion. Every time somebody dried their hands, I'd hear it. I left that job for a lot of reasons, and the hand dryer wasn't exactly one of them, but I wasn't sad to be rid of it.

And I'm not 9. I'm 35. I find that I have pretty good hearing, at least as compared to my partner.

What gets a little weird is that since leaving software and making a career change to woodworking, I've gotten more sensitive to loud noise. I used to take the subway to work like many other people. Now, I find that the noise of the train is too loud.

I'm religious about wearing hearing protection in the shop. I don't know if my hearing has gotten objectively better, or if I'm just more aware of loud noise than I used to be. It'd be hard to do a study on that without a time machine though.
perl6 seems heavily oriented toward a dsl metalanguage. Not that I'm against it.
I’d say the EU lacks capability and likely a legal route to actually do it. The US and UK certainly do. Obama and Trump have both confirmed the use of cyber weapons in 2 instances against Iran.

I think it’s very much a hush hush matter for the US and UK. There’s probably a few stories on HN that the US or UK are actually behind.
> Chrome, an end user product. libc is a fundamental piece of architecture

The web browsers is not the end user products anymore. The web sites(and these days, smartphone apps which is just a wrapper of the browser) are the end user products. The web browser is, just like libc, fundamental piece of architecture.

Sure, the users directly interact with web browsers GUI, but average users can't recognize the difference between the Browser, Internet, Google and Android. They are all same things to most of them.

In that sense, browser and libc are the same, all users use it without noticing it.
I don't think it needs a new style. [Edit: I'm wrong, see reply below]. There is a CSS pseudo-element ::first-letter, which you can format and align as you wish. In the article they try to use this, but run afoul of the fact that different rendering engines disagree on how exactly it should be converted into a (CSS) box. In my experience you can get a lot further without having to use spans, but I also couldn't make it perfect.

I suspect it's just ultra low priority for folks making rendering engines. It doesn't make a lot of sense for web typography, and to me looks just downright daft if you're not going to pull in and accentuate the start of the first line, or if you're going to separate your paragraphs with blank lines. My personal feelings only of course, but it feels like a bastardisation between different eras of typography.
Exactly, we really just need to change one tax policy to make this happen. It doesn't get much easier than that.
Say what you like about Boris, but there is good evidence he's not stupid as lots of people would like to believe:

'Johnson excelled in English and Classics, winning prizes in both, and became secretary of the school debating society, and editor of the school newspaper, The Eton College Chronicle'

Also I think the whole upper class/working class dichotomy you present is kind of old hat these days (and somewhat patronising to the people you cite that 'work for a living' - whose viewpoints and aspirations are generally somewhat beyond merely hoping for an indoor toilet), often pushed by the left as an electoral tactic against the right (even in spite of the fact that all UK political parties are stuffed full of ex-Oxbridge types).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Eton_and_Oxford:...
U.S. is not at all "on the way out", I don't know why people are saying this. Europe and China could both do well in many ways, but China, as "rising" as it may be, is still way lower than even Europe, never mind the U.S. And then there are all sorts of other places that are real wildcards but have a lot of hidden potential too, by and large they're just holding themselves back with terrible policies - nothing that can't be fixed with relative ease.
Having other people “celebrate” your moving to retirement is a far cry from having meaningful purpose.

I am not suggesting that purpose is only found in work, only that getting others to pat you on the back for being retired doesn’t help much either.
Well, wars of succession were a thing.
> Advertisement just should not be the central means of income of content producers.

Can you propose any viable alternative?
So you faced social pressure to be a certain person. And were exiled because you did not fit. And then your method of escaping that by using medicine was not good enough.

So you face this endless pain and don't have an escape.
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Yes, that's what I was thinking. Just say, when you're 60, and you feel at the peak, now I am going to do something else as a hobby.

But again, this goes against our tradition where we celebrate "real work" and not doing something for fun or as a hobby.
GDPR unified and clarified all the different directions and laws active in EU member states before. So while most of those indeed were illegal before in one or more member states, all of them are illegal now in all member states. As such, GDPR does not really extend privacy protection de jure but merely helps enforcement by unifying protections de jure and hence allowing for a more efficient enforcement de facto.
This is very interesting work. Regarding:

"However, graphs are inherently combinatorial structures made of discrete parts like nodes and edges, while many common ML methods, like neural networks, favor continuous structures, in particular vector representations."

I apologize in advance for a bit of self-promotion, but I would like to point out my own approach, which instead favors discrete ML methods to discover symbolic generators of networks. That is to say, small programs that are capable of generating synthetic networks with similar topological and other characteristics to some empirically observed one. If you happen to be interested:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep06284

http://www.telmomenezes.net/2014/09/using-evolutionary-compu...

I am not saying that my approach is better, it depends on the goal. On the contrary, I am increasingly a believer in hybrid (symbolic-statistic) methods.
What you're saying is correct. But you're misunderstanding what I'm saying above. Within the ETF, a fund manager can trade (if they use the creation and redeem mechanism correctly), and there is no tax consequence to the fund or the investor.

I am suggesting that that benefit is far superior than any tax harvesting if you are directly indexed, etc...
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> This can yield you a substantial revenue stream for stocks with high short interest

(emphasis mine)

7bp is an average. The article also points out that the yield occasionally goes as high as 100% per year.
RE first example, read the linked official report[0]. Some choice quotes:

"the company did not meet the information obligation in relation to over 6 million people. Out of about 90,000 people who were informed about the processing by the company, more than 12,000 objected to the processing of their data."

"In the relevant case, the entity had postal addresses and telephone numbers and could therefore comply with the obligation to provide information to the persons whose data are being processed. Therefore, this case should be distinguished from another case decided by the Polish DPA a few years ago, when another company did not have such addresses at its disposal."

"The President of the Personal Data Protection Office found that the infringement of the controller was intentional, because - as it was established during the proceedings - the company was aware of the obligation to provide relevant information, as well as the need to directly inform persons."

"While imposing the fine, the authority also took into account the fact that the controller did not take any action to put an end to the infringement, nor did it declare its intention to do so."

This is precisely the kind of crap GDPR was meant to address, and I very much like the decision made here.

EDIT: If I'm Googling correctly and found the correct company, then here's an extra irony: they actually offered services and advice to companies in preparing for GDPR coming into force. It's safe to say they were fully aware of the obligations under law when they performed data mining on government databases of entrepreneurs.

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[0] - https://uodo.gov.pl/en/553/1009
Idk, on the one hand, HTML is what made the web great as an easy medium for self-publishing. This has now mostly been driven ad absurdum by CSS, the expectations towards super-stylish content, and hence centralized platforms a la github, medium, etc. I mean I'm pretty ok at CSS, but the amount of hacks and stuff you have to do for even the most basic layouting and typographic stuff outside your regular markup is just mind-boggling, and not something you can call reasonable by any measure (including Flexbox and Grid and whatnot). OTOH, coming from print, there just was no blueprint for declarative, interactive, responsive web pages [1] so some concessions had to made wrt to evolution of the web. I always thought of JavaScript as a mid-term measure to try stuff until such a time when we could, from hindsight, integrate declarative UI features into HTML. But that hasn't happened, and HTML has essentially stagnated instead relative to JavaScript and CSS. What we have is this unholy HTML-CSS-JS trinity hardwired into people's heads with strong opinions on which goes where a la "semantic" markup, but absolutely no logical or scientific base for back up. It's all fun until you realize we're going to loose most digital content of our decade, and a once-strong medium for digital communication (markup, HTML) has been overtaken by corporate interests, nerds seeking an intellectual challenge because they can, feature creep and misuse of the web to counter a software crisis, self-sustaining web economies and generational churn, and other unintended consequences.

[1] technically, there was SGML and HyTime, HyperCard, Xanadu
Two problems with that, both of which sound funny:

1. Trusting that supposed assurance.

2. Going to so much contortions to rationalize a third-party surveillance facility that you didn't need to use.
Metaphors of Arithmetic
Shows the advantage of on prem vs cloud
12) performance ? last I heard it was still alpha/prototyping so perf was no concern

13) perl6 is above most mainstream languages conceptually, people aren't ready to use it IMO
> JCPenney tried it, lost a ton of business, and had to reverse course. Turns out, buyers like being given a fake marked up price and then buying at a "discount".

Is it that the buyers like it, or simply that the deception is effective? If you point out to buyers that the marked up price was fake and that the discounted price was always the real price, do they actually like that?

Nobody is denying that the deception is effective. But it being effective doesn't make it any less deceptive.
:first-letter doesn't actually suffice to make good initial letters, either as implemented or as spec'd.

The initial-letters CSS property (maybe to be renamed?) is the future solution to this, and that should work fine with search. See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline/#initial-letter-styling
Money market funds would likely be appropriate (I believe Vanguard actually does this for you, rather than keeping cash lying around).
> Johnson excelled in English and Classics

English and Classics... seriously, dude? That's good enough for working at Starbucks and McDonalds, I guess, but not for much else. Least of all for effective policymaking.
> Are you kidding me? Flash was an absurdly popular platform. Careers were launched on Newgrounds!

I'm not saying it wasn't popular, but what do you think the percent spread was between sites that were fully driven by Flash vs not Flash?

I don't have the stats in front of me, but I would guess it was probably 2% Flash vs 98% non-Flash. Now, a lot of sites had sprinkles of Flash but very few sites in the grand scheme of things were solely rendered with Flash. Part of the 2% were sites like 2advanced studios.
Though of those linked it appears 2 of the 3 applications are essentially refurbishing or replacing screens in existing systems. The only application that seems "new" is the CRT HuD which I don't believe is going anywhere soon.

Once the displays in older machines are replaced with LCDs (as in new machines won't include them) I assume the only application will be that HuD.
Over the last day since you wrote this I opened an account with Tandem, had to start a savings account with them even though I wasn't interested in it, applied for the cashback card, got declined despite of a good credit score, and closed my account. The person who I contacted about the account closure was ending his messages with ":D". Just a bad experience overall and I wouldn't recommend it.
This is excellent. I'd love to see even more on Pandas.
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By "celebrating", I meant counter the societal pressure to continue to perform.

Today, somebody retiring at the peak is considered an (economic) loss. Perhaps it shouldn't be.
Lower in what dimension and why is it the one that matters more than the ones already discussed?
When you're making a site like yours (which is awesome btw) hand-coding HTML and JS works fantastically. You don't need a framework. Frameworks only really start being useful when you're working at scale either across lots of data-driven pages or with multiple developers on the same product.
Spotify integration still seems to be there. They have added Apple Music integration of course though.
Why would the EU do this its a massive overreach and I say this as a remainer.
LOL, ran it in private window. We have a single outward facing office IP address, and a few tabs were for things like bras and lingerie, so I'm now waiting to see if it affected others on the office network!
As an aside, I like your blog and writing style, and the questions dropped in to make it interactive. COBOL ... I got that one. Funny!
And now I see that you've already started one!

https://jalammar.github.io/gentle-visual-intro-to-data-analy...
outsider viewpoint, I heard reports of:

- political frailty
- infrastructure frailty
- defaulting cities
- grad students debt

'on the way out' is hyperbole, but the days where USA were the world's beacon are gone[0]. Unless they prove me wrong.

[0] they used to be unquestionably the leader to run after in so many domains..
Not economy-wise.

Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy’s.
From that perspective, would the vendors even be motivated to fix it? Hmmm...
One of the things that brought home to me how far China has to go was an episode of The Grand Tour in which Jeremy Clarkson was driving along one of its countless new highways, only for a rain shower to render the road virtually undriveable because said road had apparently not been designed to shed water quickly enough.

But each time I've gone back to the US between 1993 and 2017 things have seemed just that bit worse, and the people just a little less positive about the future. It is sad.
> In descending order of importance it's the HTML, the CSS, and the behaviour.

I would argue the behavior is more important if the website does anything else other than just show articles.

A beautiful site with no behavior is useless; an ugly site with functioning behavior is not.
> cool water makes small children shiver

Is it just my kids then that seem absolutely immune to cold water and will happily jump into unheated swimming pools, and will happily have a cold bath?
There were lots of ways to chose a king. Heredity was just one of them -- which is why not all kings (or roman emperors etc) are from the same family.

In lots of cases, popular support (or lack thereof) played a big role (in some cases, even more directly than in current democracies).
> very few sites in the grand scheme of things were solely rendered with Flash

...yeah, because that's not what Flash was about. Flash was an application platform (ok, so more like an Animation platform) first and foremost. Why would anyone run their whole site in flash? It wasn't the right tool for that job.
The browser is a architectural in the electron case where it is shipped as part of a product, a whole browser is a product by itself.

Same way as LCD screens are achitectural pieces but a television is a product.
Salespeople know the fine line between talking up and misrepresentating/misselling too. Usually...
The thing is most people do not have the necessary critical thinking education, chemistry and biology knowledge to even approach taking random untested formulations for any reason, much less for prolonged time. Even medicine oftentimes lacks reliable data for specific case or long term use...
> there are numerous ways that could've oopsed in.

that's why i said "dishonesty at the org level". i don't think there's any one particular person in mozilla at the prenda law-level of crookedness, but what exactly is their company culture around privacy that they end up casually slipping a surveillance tool into a web page that's ostensibly against surveillance?
Retiring at 60 would pose financial challenges for many people in the US.

Nearly 20% of 70-year-olds are working now. Source: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip....

For many, this is an economic necessity. For well-heeled surgeons, it may be more of a choice -- the desire for extra financial cushion.
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It’s better than fax -barely.
I worked for a company that builds HR software for gov customers including digital versions of forms with encryption etc. Day one I was faxing all of my own HR forms to HQ in another state.
IP tracking is fairly uncommon, no?