skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case, I stumbled upon an HN thread on index funds [1] and discovered Bogleheads Wiki page which was an insightful introduction to philosophy of personal finance. Eventually discovered Mr. Money Moustache as well which emphasizes more on behavioural aspects to maximize savings and accelerating financial independence. For me, Bogleheads reading list [4] has been an excellent source for improving personal finance knowledge.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12368136
[2] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
[3] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
[4] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_r...
I think you're overreacting, or perhaps going off on a bit of a tangent from what I actually said. I didn't accuse anyone of fraud. I even offered kudos. I'm just trying to adjust expectations because the history is indeed bad even if nobody did any wrong. Would it have been better if I'd said "sad" or "unfortunate" instead?

A medium that really has these kinds of density and survivability traits is indeed a great thing, but "niche" is a bit of an understatement. Adding it to the payload of a multi-million dollar rocket is definitely a publicity stunt, so I think it's entirely fair to point out that it might be good for little else depending on how further development plays out.
The normal tclkit runtime with Tk is 6.1 Mb of disk space and 10-15 Mb of ram.

The most bloated Tcl/Tk runtime I could find (undroidwish tcl/tk running on SDL + OpenGL and Anti-grain backend) is 23 Mb of disk space and 42 Mb of ram (including all the shared libraries).

Hard to compare with a web engine in functionality and ram usage.
Totally agree. Firefox port should be simple as changing 'chrome.storage' to 'browser.storage' (famous last words :P )
The idea of requiring list prices of drugs to be displayed in commercials seems like it might be very effective.

Imagine if you were able to do some quick mental math on your couch:

"Okay so ask my doctor about Poopathome for my rectal bashfulness... Well let's see first. It says $890/month average dose. My insurance covers 80% so that would cost me something like $180 a month. Yeah sorry Pfizer you'll have to do better."
There's also the problem that you can't always shop around because it's an emergency.
The fact that people are willing to trust FB with their personal photos or favorite political memes doesn’t mean they’re willing to trust them with money.

And it doesn’t matter who controls Libra if everyone thinks of it as ‘the Facebook money thing’.
I don't know why we're still talking about monopolies. It should be a contracted clerical registry doing a very straightforward thing, according to rules.
> So, do you think these beginners would care about the size of this "app" that they'll probably delete as soon as it finishes

Well, looks like enough people care (or at least noticed) https://imgur.com/LV6AT7d
The trailer is gorgeous. I imagine this will take a pretty hefty machine to play at high quality.

I miss the old MS joystick that had a throttle, extra buttons, and especially the yaw twist capability of the stick. Once you got comfortable with it, there was no need for rudder pedals. Flying the helicopter (in full manual) was quite a challenge, but it was doable.
Plus as it's based on the tried and trusted GPG, it can be secured with a hardware token like a Yubikey
> I discovered this because my sister in law has a rare disease and she depends on a rare drug called syprine. Her drug costs went from 177.00 a month to $8000.00 a month where it hovered there for a year, then it went up to $43,354.73 a month.

This is nuts! $43000+ per month is insane!

1. I did a quick check and in India Syprine is available for Rs. 1.5 lakh / pack (which is roughly 2100$ at current exchange rate (Rs. 69 = 1 USD)): https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/trientine-capsule-sypri...

2. Another brand (non-Valeant; same chemical composition as Syprine) is available at even cheaper rates of Rs. 20000 / bottle (which is roughly 300$ at current exchange rate): https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/trientine-capsule-250mg...

Is it possible to import the drug from India instead? Or is this market highly regulated?
>Single-payer would not fix the problem by itself, either... although using monopsony power could certainly help, if executed competently.

The other half of this has to be aggressive antitrust enforcement in the healthcare sector.
Percona's DBMS Popularity Survey
I'm using Keeweb with Dropbox, it's nice enough and accessible on my other devices.

https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/
The article specifically says that FB does not have a controlling interest or the ability to decide who joins the consortium.
Instead, they suspend applications to the self-same flash storage when the the application is not being actively used and there is memory pressure.

Doesn't seem a lot different from swapping the memory to disc until its accessed again.

Not to mention, it's kinda irrelevant to a discussion of electron applications.
That depends exactly what we mean by "coal power subsidies". For example, the UK came under a lot of criticism recently for the scale of its subsidies for fossil fuel power, but if you look at the fine print the vast majority of those subsidies were the result of us having a lower rate of VAT on all domestic electricity and heating regardless of its source. Getting rid of that lower rate would put up the price of electricity for ordinary people across the board, no matter whether it was generated by clean or fossil sources.
Which consumer brand at this scale isn’t tarnished? Amazon? Google? Apple (not even applicable since they build only for their device users? Walmart? Bank of America?
Mind you, I'm not a health professional, but here are some ideas. Take a walk at lunch. Try hobbies that aren't simply sitting. Even something like woodworking or gardening would have one standing and moving; it's not aerobic exercise, but it's still better than sitting. If you do do woodworking, you could build a little stand for your laptop or keyboard to convert your desk into a standing desk :)
I'll give you another set of sites which are whitelisted by browsers: github, bitbucket, gitlab, sourceforge

If you want to trick someone into running an executable, you need to put it on a whitelisted site, otherwise they will have to slog through 5 different very scary warnings before they are allowed to run it.

The funny thing: most of HN is against this kind of browser protection, I wouldn't be surprised if they disable uncommon software warnings.
> gameswithgo: Don't use python or javascript

It is clearly a rant to me! Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of JavaScript, but discussing about useless programs is simply not what I'm asking here. I'm not interested in how Google Chrome can be 1000% faster.

> People expect to write whatever they want and have it run faster. 1% of the transistors in a CPU are actually running instructions, the other 99% are trying to keep it busy.

I agree, now, your perspective makes the talk on software interesting.

Recently I've seen an article C Is Not a Low-level Language (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479), in the article the author argued that the in-order, synchronous, sequential execution model from the PDP-11 heyday is outdated. However vast majority of programs (i.e. C programs) are still written based on this model, so a CPU must use a lot of resources to dispatch these sequential code and introduce countless transparent optimizations (e.g. ILP), to make existing sequential code faster, on the other hand, the compilers are becoming monsters because they must be as intelligent as possible to understand the algorithms in a program and rewrite them automatically for optimum performance on a modern CPU. As a result of this disparity, the capabilities of what the hardware can actually provide is often underutilized.

The author purposes that we should try discarding the PDP-11's classical "in-order, synchronous" view of a program, and try developing new programming languages and models that designed with the capabilities of modern hardware in mind, such as low-level parallelism to eliminates this disparity. So the CPUs can focus on what they are good at with less overhead of dispatching the instructions.
Although Facebook's brand is a bit tarnished then the general public doesn't look at it so negatively as we here. Compare it to, say, politics: plenty of corruption, yet we still have it around (and what would the alternative be?).

Libra will probably be a success, perhaps even a huge one.
Also, try the same code on multiple providers quickly by flicking a radio button.
For me it was the Make Noise 0-Coast [1], which has many of the West Coast sensibilities. The Neutron (which you'll see I've reskinned in my setup) is a great synth, but is still more of a 'standard' subtractive (East Coast) synth. Although it does have some interesting wave shapes and can produce lots of filthy tones.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FW8QYt6bio
Toronto already has a steam system that goes through the downtown core. It’s not that far to pipe some of it to the surface.
Maybe the problem is that HR is using machine learning to filter the resumes.
That's kind of cool, though the devil is in the details and I'm not sure about the details for this case.

Essentially, free market relies on certain assumptions under which the supply/demand 'invisible hand' works properly and the benefits of free market are realized - the key economics 101 assumptions are (1) large amount of both suppliers and buyers; (2) small barriers of entry and exit; and (3) full and truthful information about market conditions. The further we get from these assumptions, the less free (and usually worse for the people) the market becomes, and often we need gov't intervention to ensure that these assumptions stay true and the market behavior stays close to theoretical free market instead of degenerating into an exploitative uncompetitive monopolistic market with hidden information - as the USA medical market is doing, and seems to need such intervention.
When do you want to incur the overhead? Do you want a user to wait once for 40 seconds, or wait 10 extra seconds for something to load/save because you're loading shit on the fly. It's a question of trade-offs.
Yes; Monzo is probably optimised for UK consumers who don't travel much – which is the vast majority of the UK market.

I don't have any real use-case for virtual cards, since both card provider and service provider still get to track everything. It's possible that it might be valuable to limit the amount that can be charged by a provider, or to allow a virtual card to be independently disabled in case of fraud, but I'm not particularly concerned about those given the ease of reclaiming funds generally.
And did they even have a choice in the matter? (whether we're talking IBM being banned from dealing with them, or the Chinese government/officials imposing on them to focus relationships with local businesses)
I guess I’m wondering if we could see a return to a more no frills SERPS like we used to see with Page-rank or
Altavista

I don’t mind the ads, but I do mind the content farms and useless fluff that ends up on the first SERP of a query. Or links to pages with no substantive content related to a query except SEO.
Imagining writing it down would keep me from actively building mental representations in most situations :)

The writing is semi-automatic and does not merely involve verbatim quotes from others. If today I were to attend a lecture or talk and something the speaker said prompted some visual insight I would immediately draw it as part of my note-taking process. The whole reason I began taking such copious notes, in fact, was the realization that if I didn't write these things down I often needed to have an insight two to three times for it to become a permanent part of my mental model of a problem space, rather than the once.
Some people have already started work on alternatives[0] that have security and privacy advantages over traditional DNS servers.

[0] https://git.gnunet.org/bibliography.git/plain/docs/gns2014wa...
I use Bitwarden on Linux, macOS, and iOS. It works fine; you may need to sync by clicking a button, and I use AppImages on Linux and I think I need to manually download updated images, but otherwise it's free and open source, the pricing reflects hosting and development costs. I think Bitwarden also supports 2FA.

I tried 1Password and switched halfway to Bitwarden; I think there's a quant firm that reviewed password managers and recommended Bitwarden, which I trusted more than those consumer-grade sites.
From the various articles I’ve seen it looks like they don’t think they need to follow KYC because it’s not ‘real’ money.

I’m sure the government will have something to say about that.
Operation Call it Quits
From 2014: https://canceltimes.tumblr.com

The pattern has gotten more familiar since then. It also seems like they've improved things.
I'm in a similar place as you. Best advice I got was that you learn to make great tracks by making lots of crappy tracks. Don't sweat it, just keep going, keep improving. So ignore your ego and just make a damn song already.
It's obvious, isn't it? They are trying to take global warming into effect.
I have a totally out of the box thought here.

I think Libra is a distraction from Facebook for people to forget Cambridge Analytica etc. FB may have unleashed this as a weapon for people to rally up or againast and Fb doesn't care if it succeeds or fails because it is a new category and doesn't affect it's bottomline.
Businesses can set prices however they want, but that doesn't mean anyone has to buy it. But when shady pricing and sales come in the consumer feels better because they think they're saving and don't realize they are being deceived. Certainly there are lazy people, but that's entirely different no one would willingly pay more for the same service. They're only "happy" because they're being lied to. Why should we reinforce this kind of behavior?
I just went to look at my crontab again. Some highlights (lowlights?):

- Turning lights on/off around the house, because I found cron to be a more reliable scheduling agent that the one built-into my Wave software when I first set it up.

- Testing network performance (ping times to various locations)

- Fetching a mail account and processing the messages for an automation I have setup for some things.

- Updating online weather services with data from my weather station.

- Kicking off data gathering/update jobs.
Yes! deposit your discertion skills :)
I've only dabbled with Vibe.d, but it seemed quite mature to me. Well, maybe not "mature" but usable; I would have liked a little bit more documentation for Diet templates, but they weren't that hard to pick up from examples.
Thought I was the only one that did this. Except instead of my siblings I would use my mom and feed her ham sandwiches :)
Agreed. For example I never really noticed how expressive the feedback is on a moog until getting one. Once you get the mixer into a sweet spot, the teeniest knob change makes a huge difference in tone.

And so I tried the same thing with the "Monark" VST thinking "yeah analog still wins" and nope, Monark does the exact same thing. But I never discovered it until I actually had the knobs in front of me.

I've since gotten a BCR-2000 and tried mapping all my soft synths but none of them map completely and it's just... not the same somehow. It is better though.
You'll probably need to research what the particle size(s) is(are) for cigarette smoke, but this detects a bunch of different sizes:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15103

I have some code to read from this, it's not too hard. PM me if you're interested in my code. (I can open source it.)
What is the “micro scale” you’re referring to where healthcare prices are a non-issue? Medical bankruptcies are a pretty conspicuous problem in the United States.
That is awful. I am very sorry to hear that.

Was there an underlying/undiagnosed issue or simply poor lifestyle?
I've used KeePassX + Dropbox for 5 years across Windows, Linux, OSX, iPhone and Android. With Dropbox's restriction to 3 devices, and since this is the only thing I use Dropbox for, I'm currently looking at LastPass instead
The "right" policies were never there for you to vote for.
I think Apple is doing that because they’re out of growth otherwise. They’ve sold most all the iPads and iPhones and Macs they can. The numbers may go up but nothing like when the iPhone was still growing.

Services is the only part of the business that may have more than small growth levels left in it.
The problem is that it is not canceling the debt. It's like if I loan my son a $100 and then instead of saying you don't have to pay it back I raise the rent (taxes) on someone else to pay for it.
In my average view, Knuth was wrong about optimization. Not technically, but because the vast majority of people writing software took "premature optimization is the root of all evil" to be "optimization is the root of all evil."

I have a long list of encountering software doing things like reading a billions of rows with getline() in C++. That can be a problem [1]. It doesn't matter how good a heapsort is if it's blocked on some architectural primitive and we'd do better to teach to that optimization in CS 101 than sorting.

1. https://lemire.me/blog/2019/06/18/how-fast-is-getline-in-c/
The limited liability business concept is extremely damaging because it removes accountability for externalities and bad behavior. I myself and an owner of a limited liability company so ending this Would not be to my benefit. However the benefit has society would be massive. Shareholders and owners and directors and managers should all be held personally financially liable and there should not be a time limit to this liability. The government should be able to claw back all of the profits that Taylor energy generated.
>The only way to get them to stop being utter vacuous wastes of oxygen is, in the long term, regulation.

Anything specific?
> The real problem is that consumers don't care about the prices

I think this is a trope in multiple areas trying to pose personal accountability as a solution where one actually needs systematic solutions. You see it with the climate crisis (make sure to buy only 100% organic recycled meat), or student loans (make sure to choose a major that has a 20 year postivive ROI), and medical expenses (make sure to price out and choose the most cost performant cancer chemo cocktail).

Really we need working institutions and controls those institutions can impose because the markets for industrial processes, or educational funding, or heathcare are vastly complex products with large capital, time, knowledge commitments needed to adequately check misperformance. The investments needed far exceed most time or money resources that make sense for any one person can put into single transaction. That's why collective institutions are needed to focus on developing the specialized information and policy needed to manage the poorly performing systems.
Roc-auc curves in machine learning
>The idea of requiring list prices of drugs to be displayed in commercials

It's bizarre that prescription medication is advertised like that in the first place.
Do you worry any Libra-centric regulations will have negative impact towards true libre currencies like Bitcoin Cash?
Finally, I cannot wait! This sure sounds like it should remove the terrifying guesswork of wondering what the actual quota values are, detecting when you're approaching a limit, and starting to automate or at least alleviate the pain of changing them.

Judging just by the blog post, this might well be the best quality of life improvement of 2019.

In the console, I see at least some services (I care about Step Functions) list as "showing default quotas only". I wonder if this means there will be a long tail of adoption before individual services show actual current values?
According to DHS head (as heard on NPR this morning), something like 70% of hospital visits are non-emergency, meaning that people can at least exercise more cost comparison on those bases. But I think people already largely do that, by way of ensuring the provider they use is part of their insurance's network; after coverage, cost differences are pretty small (what's the difference between 10% of $5000 and 10% of $6000?).

The real issue is when people don't have coverage or when their insurance denies it. The latter is hopefully mitigated by Obamacare's "no pre-existing condition" exclusion. The former happening is pretty obvious: people can't afford it and their employers don't provide it (single-payer would help with this). Alternatively, some people just need _a lot_ of health care, and 10% of a million dollars is still a lot of fucking money.

But if you need the health care, what are you supposed to do? That's what we mean when we say "people don't care about prices". The prices aren't going to change that much because of this legislation. The real issues are 1) not everyone is paying into the insurance pool 2) there's a needless layer of gamesmanship between insurance and providers and 3) providers and insurance are working on a profit motive.

To fix healthcare: 1) Put everyone in the pool via taxation (aka single-payer), 2) Move healthcare to public or non-profit with lots of oversight to prevent fraud.
It would be awesome if this were on Oculus Quest.
Microsoft has never had a consistent look and feel across its suite of applications. Windows Live Mail, Zune media player, Windows media player, the Office suite, etc all looked different and they all looked different than other Microsoft applications.
Because in the United States, you cannot have a conversation about inequality without at least someone mentioning the 5-ton elephant in that room.
Real life shows there exists a population of buyers that would prefer store A than store B in the example below:

Store A: sells item X at 80% off for $10
Store B: sells item X for $10

It's Kohl's and Bed Bath and Beyond and JCPenney's entire business model. Some people love waiting for their coupons at home and figuring out where they can get the most "%" off.

Should we outlaw store A?
While urgent care is a significant part of total medical expenses, it's not that large part - the vast majority of really expensive procedures are scheduled well in advance, and doing price comparison would be quite feasible if the institutions would allow that.
I think it's pretty hard without a radical shift in career. Your training correlates well with sitting/standing & thinking, then writing/typing things.

What worked well for me though was to be quite intentional about a few things:

* started at minimum walking to work - I know this doesn't work for everyone, but some variation (e.g. part way) might. This meant that regardless of how crazy my day got at the very least I had 1 hour of brisk walking - I moved to a 30 min walk from my office.

* got out of the office for a walk of at least 15 min at lunch, pretty much every day

* sit/stand desk and used it, changing position 4x a day usually (i.e. sit for a while, stand for a while, lunch, sit, stand)

* got intentional about some meeting scheduling. e.g. this is going to be a whiteboarding exercise, put it at 10am to break up the morning sitting.

* have a proper fitness routine, and stick to it. Could be activities you like or could be the gym or whatever, but don't let yourself "get busy" and miss too many days. It should be somewhat intense, and somehow cover core & hips & shoulders