skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And let's get real here about how we solve problems with decreased privacy.

Good luck ever getting an official to do anything for you. If it does not benefit them or the system, they never have the time or authority to do it. The surveillance is to benefit the state, not the surveilled.
A curious choice of names. Unlike the Pi-Top 3 and -2, the Pi-Top 4 appears to be in a block form factor rather than a (lap)Top?
" But yards are owned by and large by people with families. They have an important function to fulfill which is ruined by filling the space with plants."

However I rarely see anybody actually on those beautiful, irrigated lawns in Southern CA. People are usually inside or in an area with tiles or concrete on the ground.
The article mentions several prognoses for a timeline. It seems still we decades away from getting into the 3-4 feet range. Not that I personally think there is urgency for mankind. But not so much maybe for the wealth of a billionare.
Let’s try to consider the arguments in isolation without resorting to ad hominem.
Actually, if you're poor enough in the US and you live in a state like California you'll qualify for the best free healthcare in the world via Kiaser. Zero copay, pick your own doctors, specialists, eye exams, medication, etc. at zero cost. Then as soon as you get another job and start earning more than $1,400 a month(IIRC) you'll be kicked back into the regular system where no amount of money will ever buy you back into that awesome top tier that you got with the free plan.
Similar story. Came from Europe to US to go to college. Got a terrible strep throat. Went to the nearest emergency room. Waited for almost an hour. Saw some intern for 10 minutes who prescribed me a codeine pill and later charged me $400. That was in early 2000s money. The funny thing is I already had insurance through the university, but this doctor wasn't "in-network" apparently.

Even if there wasn't a monopoly I can only imagine the insurance company advising clients to use specific hand signals to indicate which network they belong to so the ambulance driver knows where to drive if you're incapacitated and can't speak. "Raise and wiggle three fingers for Blue Cross Blue Shield, and two for Anthem". Or maybe have everyone get tattoos on their arms with their insurance network details.
And this reminds me of when I accidentally figured out playing MOD sound files in DOS 6 with a new and especially beautiful STM/MOD player at the time would sound considerably better from my 486's PC speaker if I pressed the pause/break key to literally lock up the system. Apparently the player would buffer enough of the song that even though everything froze up, the sound would continue playing. I couldn't afford a dedicated Soundblaster/Gravis sound card but I still pined to hear all the amazing music coming out from the demo scene. The quality of course wasn't comparable to a dedicated soundcard but it was still a huge improvement over the typical beeps/bloops of the built-in PC speaker.
Edward Snowden Calls into Bitcoin Conference
I'm having issues with streaming a series from HBO Nordic as well.
Using military spending as a percentage of GDP is a huge oversimplification, and ignores many other huge factors.

For one thing, those countries tend to have higher taxes, especially on higher incomes.

More importantly, they spend
Much less than the US per-capita on healthcare despite better overall outcomes [1], which is the real indictment of the US healthcare system, and the reason, as you point out, that the US has little excuse for it's healthcare conundrum.

1. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
There were so many surprises in this, I love it!

Nice idea of hiding the top row of checkboxes for the human-verification step, I respect that evil genius :^)
What makes you think that kids/families dont like to play in a plant filled yard? My kids love areas filled with trees, plants, bees, butterflies, hummingbirds etc way more as it is lot more interactive
that's why I want a clear distinction between the two. A lot of the second type of capitalist disguise themselves as the first type.
> Of course, the answer here is to make sure you don't buy a house with an HOA

Or possibly introduce local laws that specifically prohibit HOAs from introducing rules that are detrimental to the environment.
> Is there some other pattern that emulates WITH RECURSIVE

You could use an association matrix.

Or cached paths, but that has a list of disadvantages that make me consider it an anti-pattern these days (I maintain a legacy system that uses this model a lot).

> without blowing up the cost of writes?

It is a long time since I went over the relative performance of common operations on these structures, so I'll not try compare them (some research for you, dear reader!).

The performance of updates to an association matrix depend largely on the depth of the forest: when adding a new node you insert one row per level it is away from its trees root. Removing or moving a leaf node is the same amount of deletes or updates respectively. Moving a branch node can be pretty expensive as you have to make changes to the matrix for all the nodes under it.
To be more in line with the article they're referring, its more about "known unknows" and "unknown unknowns"
That goes completely counter to my experiences. From 2009 to 2017 I chose to "opt out" every time. Here's what happened for me each time:

1. They make you wait while they get someone to do the work.

2. They offer to take you somewhere private (I declined).

3. They tell you the routine ("I'm gonna go up your leg until I feel resistance").

4. They wipe their gloves and put them in a chemical detector.

5. They let you go.

Only once did I have to get an extra exam where they detected some chemical on me and had to do that whole wipe down + chemical test process on my carry-on. It wasn't a big deal.

In 2017 I finally got TSA Precheck. So I've very rarely had to go through this since then (flying w/ non-Precheck friend, flying at non-Precheck airport).

EDIT: My experience is from US only. I missed that the parent's description was from the UK.
> it would be better just to hire several BTRFS developers and join the BTRFS Linux ecosystem instead of writing something new

I found this previous discussion rather enlightening on the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771
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Agreed with your last point.

The US didn’t fund European security due to its kind nature. Rather, it was due to realpolitik concerns that there would rise another violent, genocidal European hegemon bent on world domination which would invariably threaten US security.
Exactly this.

Sending email has a cost, however small, and it's better to send things people engage in and enjoy ... which is why knowing click through and open rates is useful.
I don't even need to see affiliate links, most posts like this I assume are incentivized.
The number of deaths in 2017 was over 70k:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

That's more than traffic fatalities.

you still see people desperate to come here.

Yes, mostly Mexicans, Chinese and Indians. If I hailed from such a country I would be desperate too.
What's the MVP for “The Platform Team”
If you were charged with building a "Platform Team" to help (in say, an org of 30+ developers), what would your offering to the rest of the company look like?

Requirements might include accountability, discouraging wheel re-invention, etc.
Is Facebook/Instagram CDN Down?
I am located in Montreal and I am getting error 503.

http://www.issitedownrightnow.com/status/cdninstagram.com
Just that. And at least in Germany health care isn't even paid for by the government. Rather the government defines minimum things to be covered and sets limits for non-private health insurance premiums in % of gross salary.
one reason ERs are so expensive is they are required to provide medical services for people who can't pay. so you are paying a subsidized price. also those fees are negotiable if you are patient and can spend a bunch of time on the phone.
Totally agreed + upvoted.
I have the same sentiment but that was more or less part of the US strategy for maintaining peace in the world during the Cold War. As someone once said the purpose of NATO is to "keep in the US in, the Russians out, and the Germans down". It's a bit unfair to the Germans to blame both wars on them but the strategy of extending American protection over the Western European powers means they won't have to be too heavily armed as long as there is guarantee that the US can come rescue them in case of an invasion. I think the system stayed in place after the war and without a threat of invasion, why wouldn't the Germans and other Western allies dial down the defense budget even more?
Oh great, another tasteless AR application. When will people learn smh
> The CEFR is intended to measure the proficiency of foreign language learners and not measure the sophistication of native language speakers.

You’re right about this, but these are the systems I know, and they are arguably more useful in this context that most of the grade-level models you listed (very abstract, and most folks don’t really understand the level they are based on).

> Everyone that speaks English as a first language would pass a C2 level examination very easily.

C2 is the equivalent of a highly educated native speaker. This does not describe most Americans, even ones with seemingly appropriate credentials.

A discussion I’ve heard about native speakers of English expected to pass a C1 test in a foreign language: “Can they pass C1 in English?” The answer was not always so clear.

> In other words this text can be read by average American 10th graders without difficulty.

These are more like ideal goals for a high-performing Xth grader. I have worked with the vocab lists that textbooks writers are supposed to use — the expectations are very high.

Anyway, thank you for your response.
Every generation has its periodic romances with novel materials. I suspect our great-grandchildren will look back on the 2010s' fondness for Alcantara with the same puzzled confusion as we look back on '70s fake wood and vinyl.
The banking phrase "know your customer" suddenly takes on a very ominous ring.
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what up SJ. I have to comment on you again my friend. Why are you so passionate about this eyeball re-drawing technology? Do you video call your family and friends all the time because you live far away?

Reading these conversations i'm going a bit crazy as you try to rationalize why this eyeball redrawing business is a good and necessary tech. I think it's complete trash. Is this the tech that makes apple worth billions of dollars?

Not trying to stir shit up with you. just generally curious as I have an extremely opposite viewpoint. I am 28, prime millenial love to use apps and phone age. I am a huge nerd and geek (clearly as we are commenting on HN lol). I have literally never face-timed anyone except when other people are doing it and I am nearby.
I think prisons show this is true. They're arguably some of the most surveilled areas in society yet have many occurrences of violent and serious crime.
Agree. I’m definitely going to miss that the most.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

It is exactly those plunderers, enslavers, and colonizers that, well, colonized the new world and built their economies on top of slavery which eventually became independent countries.
> If the real reason is they don’t want it, who cares what the other reasons are?

Is this comment directed at the parent comment or the blog post itself? :)
That would buy you 5 days of ICU stay in most of the third world countries :)
DynamoDB's free tier is incredibly generous. Did you exceed it?
Good luck doing that in the land of the free, where you can get arrested for not mowing your lawn.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-11/single-mothe...

Contrast with Europe, where even in capitals you can have lawns so over-grown that you can't see the house behind them anymore. Nobody gives a fuck.
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Autofocals: Evaluating gaze-contingent eyeglasses for presbyopes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345060
Michael Pollan has a great essay on this: Why mow? The case against lawns.

https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/why-mow-the-case-...
On the flipside, I am amazed that Brits put up with going to college for 4 years to be a developer and living in a very high cost of living place like London, to make $50-65k a year after 10 years of experience.

Many differences for many different people / lifestyles.
I don’t know whether the IRS proactively shares information with law enforcement, though I wouldn’t be surprised, but I do know with absolute certainty that the IRS regularly works with law enforcement on many issues that don’t necessarily relate to tax evasion. Money laundering being chief among them.

There’s a bi-weekly process called “314(a) Information Sharing” that’s run by the Treasury Department under the USA PATRIOT Act. It requires financial institutions to pass all kinds of information on to the agencies in the Department - IRS, Secret Service, Customs, ATF, Homeland Security, etc. - who are looking into various matters. All of those agencies are under the same umbrella and they absolutely work together.

A good friend of mine is also a forensic accountant/investigator for the US Attorney’s Office so I know the IRS works closely with the DOJ though I’m not familiar with how that process works in practice.
> But the USA has carried the brunt of this policing and the world is safer than it has ever been in the post industrialized period.

Maybe since 1989 or so. But if we're talking post-WW2, the Cuban missile crisis nearly erupted into global nuclear war. There were also a number of other near-misses up until the collapse of the USSR. That doesn't seem very safe to me.
As the original commentator was pointing out 'grow wild' and 'native' are not synonyms. Part of the fun of this - and it is fun - is learning about the actual native floral of the region and trying to make an attractive garden using those plants that will help native wildlife establish.
> because the healthcare system is overrun with people that come in with sniffles and aches that go away in a few days

I have a family member who's working in ER in a public hospital in France, she told us that there's a lot of people who come in for nothing, often abusing the free ambulance service. And apparently whenever it's raining there's less people coming in, all things being equal.
Bach home usually "if their parents had the money" applies to private schools, public ones get state sponsorship.
Pre-WYSIWYG & GUI, AutoCAD was basically a REPL for graphics. Great for early adopters. Bad for the general populace.
> If the average American knew what the benefits and lifestyle are like for a middle-class German family

In a pure numbers comparison, you tend to get higher salary in the US. I guess an American making $100k in the US would not easily consider a $70k job in Europe, because it immediately seems like a downgrade.

Not everyone bothers to go into details, like cost of healthcare, pension, daycare, school fees when applicable, tax rates and whether there is property tax or not, cost of commute, typical cost of a home, groceries etc.
Full text: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaav6187.full
So we are infecting space? Or would that be stretching the similarity to Africa and the Americas?
It's worth noting that there are a few open source email marketing platforms out there too. Sendy is $60 and obfuscates some of the source code.

Mautic and Mailtrain are two that I have tried. In my experience, both have some odd areas, but Mautic is a bit more flexible and has fewer significant bugs.
This is not surprising. The minute Libra starts operating it becomes the main money laundering tool in the world. Depending on how it's implemented it could easily topple the economies of smaller countries, and significantly increase funding for terrorist organizations and garden variety criminals.

I don't see how any government, and especially the US government, agrees to any of that anytime soon.
Yes, but you've read Sendy is connected to SES right? So you're still getting the benefits of solid deliverability. Or are you saying SES deliverability is not as good as Mailchimp et. al?
Little johnny was a womanizer in elementary school. See how he spanks the girls in his class? No way he can be president!
At least for me and I'm sure for some others it's a hobby and just kinda excepted the higher electricity cost as part of my hobby's expenses. And as the others said, at idle you'll be using a lot less power.

That said you can run home servers with WAYYYY less power usage if you prefer. Single board computers are good bets, like the Raspberry pi 4 only use a max of ~15watts. Repurposed laptops have low power usage too.
Understandable. I tried to make sure everything I mentioned could be easily verified by the reader - you should certainly do your own research and not take anyone’s word for it.
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I took a quick look at the structure of the WRK and ReactOS, as the MS developer suggested.

I can see what he means.

The first thing we observe is that the directory structure is basically identical. Yes, NT kernel subsystems are identified with short codes like "Ke" or "Ex". It's plausible that someone with a lot of NT knowledge would end up creating top level directories with these exact names, as is true of the WRK. But it seems kind of unlikely: the Wine sources do not show this pattern.

If we look at the Kernel Executive (Ke) subtree, we can see that there is a thing called a "Balance Set Manager". Both source trees define it in a file called balmgr.c - not only the location of the file but also the file name is identical.

https://github.com/Zer0Mem0ry/ntoskrnl/blob/master/Ke/balmgr...
https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/ntoskrnl/ke/b...

It appears from the module description that the "balance set manager" is an optimisation of some sort related to reducing memory usage. Is this really something that needs a reimplementation with identical function prototypes?

Looking at the code of the identically named KeBalanceSetManager function, we can see that not only is the function prototype identical, but the order in which it does things is also identical. First it changes a thread priority, then it schedules a periodic timer callback.

Some of the local variables in these functions have identical names: PeriodTimer, DueTime, WaitObjects. Yes, these are obvious names. It's not a smoking gun. But it's not looking good.

Finally we discover that the ReactOS Balance Manager does .... nothing. It enters a loop which starts out by doing a wait for an event (fine, it's inherent to the task), and then switches on the result. But the code in the arms of the switch are commented out (the commented out code does a subset of the stuff in the NT code). The loop does nothing, just sits blocking in a loop forever. Why does this code in ReactOS exist if it does nothing?

It's the same story for the other big function in this file, KiScanReadyQueues. The code is virtually identical, line for line, with minor formatting and occasional trivial naming differences. Even the assertions are identical.

I'm not alleging anything specific or illegal, just comparing a small part of both codebases. However given what I've just seen, I wouldn't touch ReactOS with a barge pole. The Microsoft guy's complaint is entirely understandable.
My opinion is that it's not creepy. It's a simple, predictable thing.
Has there been comparison of urban to rural areas with this? Are young people in rural areas dying faster than urban areas?

I found this from 2017: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p1019-rural-overdose...

My sense is that rural areas are harder to change, and probably far more prone to monopolies from service providers. The combination of higher costs of monopoly with higher rates of drug use might lead to more deaths.

Or, in another way, in the US, is being poor in a rural area better/worse/similar to being homeless in an urban one?
Why people are leaving careers to start true crime podcasts, with no experience
From a logistics point of view, how did you handle having multiple children going to/moving between multiple different schools? Is the age difference such that traveling to different schools for drop off/pick up was already assumed? I admire your thoughtfulness, but the time associated with shuttling to multiple locations each day seems challenging.
Degrade would be a better word. In other words, break down organic material into simpler molecules and use them as a source of respiration, releasing radioactive carbon as CO2 and, potentially, radioactive isotopes as compounds that are gaseous or water soluble. This is the normal action of fungi.
So, in the large codebases I've been a part of I think Go makes it easier.. BUT, it's an asterisk "easier*". The asterisk being I think it's easier to reason about Go projects, large and small, in a "local sense" only. That is to say, I think you can wander around Go code with less context on the whole project and have a better idea on what that tiny piece of code is doing.

Compared to my Rust code bases, I feel like you need a larger picture of the project to understand what smaller code pieces do.

Is that a good thing though? Not sure, honestly. Should I really feel I understand what a function does, without understanding the functions role on the project itself? How can I truly understand a function without understanding its role?

Go feels like it's easier to understand the implementation, but not the context/purpose. Arguably, this may not be good.

I still prefer Rust, fwiw.
While I may not grasp the full context of nursing vs medicine, when it comes to my healthcare I would expect my doctor to be able to perform the full extent of what my nurse could do, whereas the same could not be said of the reverse.

Nursing is a tough job, with demanding hours, but I could get a nursing degree in 2 years, whereas I probably couldn't even get into med school, much less get through 4 years + residency. (I'm a biomedical Engineer, have most of the background).

Also, your argument doesn't hold up. If every software developer was worse, it would be as difficult to get into because everyone is worse, not just current devs.
yes its being attacked
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