skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it really? I would not have said so. I work as a consultant for a major international (I wont say who ) company and they only quote 190 or so "international markets"
https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1137 The current EU govt. appears to disagree with you. Care to give an example?
I believe Branson, MO, Memphis and Nashville, TN, and Fayetteville, AR would like a word with you.
Yes it's possible, but you need to do your research. Many of the big ones go to the Hong Kong Jewelry and Gem fair.
You're so called 'limiting qualifier' describes literally everyone who has graduated high school. If I got on the bad side of the government and they wanted to throw the book at me I could be fined for giving guitar lessons to my neighbor.
After a lifetime of homes filled with endless physical books, I got rid of all my books to accommodate my health issues. I currently live in a small space that would likely constitute serious deprivation if it weren't for the internet.

My cheap smartphone gives me endless reading material and games and conversation and banking in the palm of my hand.

My sons and I have more than a hundred free or cheap games stored in the cloud instead of in endless shelving units intruding into our limited space. It's a very large part of why our lives work at all in such a cramped space.

I wonder how much this feeling of deprivation talked about in the article is due to people generally making that swap -- of physical goods for virtual ones -- and failing to consciously recognize it. If you feel a proper home has a big living room where every wall is covered in tall storage units to hold your books, games and software, it's easy to not recognize that you actually have more games to play and more stuff to read with the incredible bonus that none of it needs to be dusted. It's easy to feel like you simply have less and infer that you must be deprived.

I'm not saying there aren't real problems. I have real problems with not making enough money and not having certain important elements of a middle class life.

I'm just saying that virtual goods make it difficult to compare our current lives to lives before the internet.

How much does your Kindle library weigh? Practically nothing in some sense.

Yet you may still have reading material equivalent to many bookshelves worth of physical books. You may even be holding more books in the palm of your hand than you ever physically owned back when owning dead tree books meant buying bookshelves and dedicating valuable living space to it.
All of this is true, and helps to see what's happening as we analyse the numbers and try to create new examples, but I'm trying to find a way to explain this to non-math people. With the replies I'm getting I think I'm getting close to a couple of explanations that I can use, but it's surprisingly tricky.

What's more tricky, I find, is communicating to people what I'm trying to achieve. I found the same problem with the "photocopy a mirror" problem, and the "Four Points, Two Distances" problem. It's not a question of doing the sums, it's a problem of making the structure of the solution accessible.

But in this case I think I'm getting there.
This is based on NATS. NATS just had their 2.0 release: https://nats-io.github.io/docs/whats_new/whats_new_20.html
A 6 hour stay plus a few bios for $1000 is not reasonable.

For that money you can get a week's care at a premium private hospital in Europe.

An emergency ambulance costs 100 euro.

I think America has been with an extortionate health care system for so long you guys are starting to consider it 'reasonable'

It isn't.

Let me put it another way. You can fly from America to Europe three times for $1800.
Busting the Myths Surrounding the 4 Day Workweek
Just a beginner too, but I do have one suggestion. Steven Skiena has a series of lectures on YouTube [1] for a course he taught called Programming Challenges. I only just started watching the videos so I don't know how useful they are in the long run but the course itself is all about how to get better at competitive programming. He also has a book called "Programming Challenges" which goes hand in hand with the course material.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL07B3F10B48592010
It's just an ellipsis indicating that there be would more code after.
No, Scott Adams isn’t right (2014)
C.

Simple, fast, compiled, widespread.
Every Spy a Prince
I worked at a place where we used to dog food betas, and Microsoft basically refused to accept any reports from them. They only wanted telemetry.

Then you have products like SCCM that are now forever beta, and they play games with release cycles so that you literally have about a 3 week period to report substantial bugs and get a fix. Before that, the product isn’t generally available. (You need to use “pre-release” to keep up with the quarterly updates) After that, you’ll be told that it’s too late in the cycle to fix bugs, because they won’t be fixed until after the support cycle ends.
Given that the DMCA is not a fundamental property of the universe, rather it's legislation. That legislation was written in a way to give both copyright holders, people who want to put content on the internet, and service providers a framework for dealing with copyright. If that framework isn't working out for all the interested parties, then it can be changed. When the framework isn't doing it's job, it should be changed. And in my opinion, part of that is that there should be no safe harbor for:

* content that is upload by users who cannot be affirmatively identified.
* content that is uploaded by users who are not within the jurisdiction of the united states.
* if a service provider implements mechanisms that defeat the intent of the law

Ultimately, yes, I get it that no one is required to host others' content. But at the same time we're not required to provide get out of jail cards.
I can imagine inquisitive minds today might want to know more about how the God "hardware" works.

We have amazing computers today that can simulate worlds. We use them to simulate and learn about this one. It's almost inconceivable in the past, but now someone might say that this world is a simulation and that our creator may have created along with the hardware our world runs on. Perhaps it seems unlikely, but we have new ideas to explore and I like to leave a little room for them.

I suppose that's why I'm not so sure about the premises. The world has turned out to be really amazing and strange.

To answer your question, I imagine something may exist at one time, then not exist, but have put in motion the events to cause it to exist again. So things that get into a causal loop like a mushrooms and fungal spores, a cutting or someday perhaps digital copy of a physical person, or some speculate even the whole universe gets recycled.
Not quite. They are a social-purpose corporation incentivized to use their profit for public benefit. Which they are doing.

https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/
Currently near the top of the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20560342
Netflix's switch from licensing to producing original content has meant higher capital expenditure. If you were to account for this in a single year as an operational expense rather than deprecating it over a number of years it might look like Netflix was losing money.
Ooh a whole $300 a day. Scary. That's $110k a year roughly. Pocket change for either the hospital or the insurance companies should they wish to not disclose these prices. That's if they even survive a court challenge and if the drug price disclosure is anything to go by, they won't. This is just bullshit the current administration is pushing to pretend like they are doing something positive for healthcare when all they want is to take people's healthcare away and let them die so that money can be used to line the pockets of insurance and other companies.
Wow, indentured servitude is back in fashion?
Depends on the position. For defense and intelligence agencies, they want to see that there's nothing "recent" (past few years) or "chronic" (borderline or outright addictive behavior). If you smoked pot or did cocaine 8 years ago very infrequently you should have no issues.

HOWEVER: law enforcement agencies are quite a different story and tend to be much stricter in their requirements. Some, like the FBI, have public drug qualifier policies you will need to meet [1] and there is no wiggle room (1 day short of 10 years and you're 100% ineligible). Some agencies do not publish this policy (i.e. Secret Service) and you have to guess whether you're eligible.

The most important thing to remember is that whatever you admit on these forms will be on record for review by any agency for the rest of your life. DO NOT try to give extract or estimated numbers of usage on your SF-86 unless they are exceedingly low numbers. You can be honest with your background investigator during the followup but there's no reason to commit those things to writing on a form that's likely to be easily accessible later on.

[1] https://www.fbijobs.gov/working-at-fbi/eligibility
...and short term lucrative.

Long term, doctors aren’t nurses and patients suffer. Eventually someone dies.
Well, if losing the dousing stick test ends your career and sends you through months of more investigation, which may or may not include interrogation, you might take the dousing stick test more seriously.
Let's build a city (and make a profit) (2013)
Some of us are working together to build a YouTube video curation site, following a discussion a few days ago on HN. (although we're thinking mostly kids contents, but it doesn't have to be only that) See the discussion from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20528913

I'm hoping to get a bunch of YouTubers involved, since they want to get their stuff out there, and I think we can do better than YouTube at that. Notice that we won't be serving the videos, but we will embed them in a site.

The goal is to have something to put up on HN within two months.

If you want to join, let me know: rjbrown at gmail
What sort of rule or policy would you put into play to detect that a connection was a TOR node?
I think that argument is advanced by a fair few companies to justify losing money indefinitely.

A tweet (which I now can't find), once said that "the ability to sustain losses indefinitely is the 'moat' of this economic cycle"
Problem is finding people who have enough experience and skillset that matches with that experience. One of the places I worked at, I interviewed 4 candidates, but they couldn't even explain the stuff that they wrote on their resume or answer basic technical questions, questions related to simple data structures or questions about their primary programming language.

We literally gave up on the position and after two years the position is still not filled.

There isn't dearth of candidates, just the competent ones.
Feel sorry for all the suckers who pay these Lambda folks tens of thousands of dollars to learn something that can easily be self taught through the plethora of blogs, videos, e-books, etc. available online.
There was an episode of Nova about energy storage that included a company that made kinetic energy storage devices. IIRC they had 5000 pound flywheels that spin in a vacuum and can be installed in your home. Expensive to purchase and install but essentially unlimited lifespan and totally renewable.
B2B only cares if there is a compliance problem.

Office has sent documents in crash dumps up to Microsoft for a long time. None of the hand wavy security guys say much about it, because it isn’t an audit finding.
Commenting on you because I can't comment below:

Tor node IPs are published, so you can just block that list.
> Google could have designed the system where each claim must be specific to a video url, time, and duration. (I think they have made changes recently to do that, but I'm not sure if they're active) That way the copyright owners are left having to review this giant database of video content. Google helpfully runs audio finger-printing on every video and then lets copyright holders issue bulk claims.

No, what happens instead is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....

Copyright holders don't want to do it themselves, and they have the muscle to hurt Google over it. This is going to happen to every video site when it becomes big enough to be a target. It's a bit absurd to suggest that Google could have designed a system that gave themselves no responsibility but simply chose not to; do you really think Google wants to be involved in these disputes?
I considered it reasonable given our current horrible medical system.

I want a single payer system.
sdscatprintf is just mimicking the C style for a lot of string manipulation functions that have -printf suffixed. My guess would be the function just concatenates the data onto some sort of "SDS" string
I used NetBSD as a reference when I needed a cross platform strptime that behaved identical everywhere.

I found the source very approachable. Source was well laid out and fairly clear. Some of it was subjectively a bit ugly to just look at, but when you read it, it was very clear.

Couldn't use glibc as a reference because this in a closed source commercial product and, well, GPL.
> one could design a modern CISC-y IA without all the legacy baggage of x86

You are talking about ARM here, aren't you?

But seriously, there is no reason not to say ARM is CISC. It's not the old AI it used to be anymore.
This would effectively eliminate networks, right?
But generally by the bride's family towards the bride and the public. Sadly, I don't think this kind of public potlatch is in danger, it's a clear signal of class and the rich are getting richer.
And as a critical care patient he dies during the flight. Now what.

Also, emergency last minute round trip flights to Europe are absolutely not $600 as you claim.
100 percent of their income goes to the car until its paid off for that month, and the interest rate they charge to lease the car is downright usury. $200/wk to rent a Hyundai Elantra that Hyundai leases out at under $200/mo.
Here’s a company pursuing that very idea.

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
This! I'm working in a codebase at the moment where unit tests do the following:

1. cross multiple boundaries (integration test) by asserting that some system two degrees away from itself is being run/invoked (not a unit test's duty)

2. test descriptions read along the lines of, "it should work for valid use cases". This one made me laugh when I first saw it. This made refactoring a HUGE undertaking as I had to comb through all of it to understand it

3. mocking systems that weren't created by "us" -- this resulted in blind spots in various places

Test/code coverage is only one of many metrics to consider. I think it's useful, but its utility heavily relies on the quality of tests that are written.

I'm beginning to think that a hallmark of a good developer is one that understand what tests need to be written and what assertions must be made. This shines when the tests are written such that the developer can see how API design affects testing. I've worked in both functional and imperative languages and FP testing is harder to screw up as it forces the use of dependency injection. The idea of DI and inserting role players in imperative langs makes testing easier and shows that someone has thought about a reliance on behavior rather than concretions. So when I interview people, I always ask about dependency injection and polymorphism.

But working with seemingly more experienced (on paper) than me, I know that experience is also a terrible metric to rely on.
> I seriously doubt that Google would intentionally demonetize videos

Upper Management will never say that directly but when they keep saying we need higher revenue and lowers costs, the people working under them find ways to achieve the targets and get their bonus.

Check Wells Fargo fake accounts story.
I honestly don't think it matters since the whole point of this speculation is just to be mad at them for going against a blind man in court

I'm totally fine with it being something as simple as wanting to do a trendy React SPA and then getting sued because it wasn't accessible:

It doesn't matter if it was a software limitation, their own designer's and management's lack of awareness, their devs, or the ADA ambiguity

Its pay this lawsuit or settle with this blind man and the next one, or figure out what the law actually is.
> The largest category of data stolen was supplied by consumers and small businesses when they applied for credit cards from 2005 through early 2019, the bank said. It included personal identification data, including names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth, and financial data including self-reported income, credit scores and fragments of transaction history.

> About 140,000 Social Security numbers were accessed, as well as 80,000 bank account numbers from credit-card customers, the bank said.

I haven't yet read (all of) the complaint but I presume it goes into even more detail than the article did.
They do burn, but not easily. They only seem to char slightly with an oxy acetylene torch (I assume that's what is being used here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_yqriai7E

It might be a heatsinking thing, as diamond does transfer heat well, and the metal underneath would continue to carry it away.
I wonder why Tesla is selling these systems instead of deploying them directly and profiting off the arbitrage? If Autobidder was as good as they imply, then realistically Tesla should be in position to capitalize off global energy markets on their own, earning far more than just the sale of the system.
I don't think it's necessarily standard to use it that way, but it makes sense for Uber because their areas of operation (markets) are defined by cities (i.e. you can't just call an Uber in the middle of the country; it has to be within one of their operating cities).
I did not suggest any solutions (period inspections or what not).

I'm pointing out that the situation - that we have a set rules (zoning), but they aren't enforced - which causes people to knowingly build without a permit.

The parent comment provided legitimate reasons why cities have some zoning rules in place (shared sewage, flooding, etc..).
Downvote away...
Why is it wise? It wouldn't surprise me if some of the best strategies for this kind of ops is location specific.
Wait until you hear that you can't lie about being a doctor.

It's beneficial for society to make sure entities representing that they are something, actually are that something.
Seems like a good move. It's hard to imagine how transparency can do harm.
Because they need cash, probably
Where better to get expertise in a region's culture than the region?
> Broad sweeping statements don't do anyone justice.

> We live near the westmost tip of the US and have a water management plan for the entire county. We pay into a mitigation that manages the entire watershed.

I live on the east coast and can't get fined for collecting rainwater. There might be something to the notion of piping water from the "wet" coast to the Midwest and potentially beyond.
At least one, as of 2016.
The market price of shares is less consequential than you think, for an issuer.
What happens when the consumer realizes this drug dealer has jacked up prices because they're giving product away? They go to the corner and find a cheaper alternative.
You can practice on are a number of websites, with similar challenges that aren't contests, such as projecteuler and kattis.
Ray on Spark
Not quite I think

Insurers would still have hospitals they deem to be good enough and cheap enough

It would just mean that the cheap enough part isn’t a special deal for them specifically.

I am not an expert in this area.
Capital One data breach, affecting tens of millions
Hrmm...not sure most of what you said is true. Small and medium business may lose claims, but they know the reimbursement for each procedure and if thier claims are legit, they will get reimbursed. There's a requirement to share how much a consumer needs to pay before procedures are done also. Unless your talking about ER care specifically, that's a different beast where you are somewhat correct.
love how openly biased and full of shit everyone on HN is. Google does it and the world is ending but apple does it and not a peep
Like PinePhone? They're pushing for a ~$200 phone in Q3 this year, same as Purism. The difference is that Pine64 doesn't seem to be putting nearly as many resources into development, just enough to get functioning hardware out there and then leaving it up to the community to build the ecosystem.

It's an exciting time! While I'm waiting, I'm setting up my own PBX to hopefully take control of my phone service, and I'm going to experiment with using VOIP over data instead of going over the "regular" voice channels.

I'm super excited to see what's possible with an open platform like this.
Isn't it a bit off-putting that this duly elected representative of the people can't do his job, presumably basically 'cause he can't easily take a piss?
Amazon Wants to Rule the Grocery Aisles, and Not Just at Whole Foods
What sorts of trips are not profitable for them?
You left out my favorite trick: politics! For example, say that you're running for President, and you want your campaign book to be a "top 10 list" best seller. Well, just have your campaign pre-order 4,000 or so copies of the book. That plus 1000 or so real sales will be enough to get you into the top 10 list, and at only about $55,000, it's practically a steal. Even better, the proceeds come right back to you because you're sure as heck not gonna give your campaign a discount.
That requires ethical people to run and heavy enforcement otherwise it turns in to a corruption fest where doctors run their own private practices in addition to state funded and waiting lists run rampant forcing you to go private.

What is needed is real competition in the health care sector - because at the moment the whole thing in America is a coalition/monopoly between insurance, pharma and health care companies with the sole intent of giving you no choice but to pay and say thank you.
> market share is the short term goal.

Creating a monopoly then jacking up the price. Not doubt shafting drivers and their customers.
To be fair, a $111 (100 euro) ambulance ride would not be a reasonable amount if you were paying for it outright. You're paying for the time of 2 EMTs, your share of the supplies in the ambulance, your share of the ambulance vehicle, gas. Plus you're not just paying for the time it took for your ride, you're paying for your portion of the entire day (since not all their time is utilized). Even without considering profit, that's well over $111.

The fact that you're paying 100 Euro for the trip means is subsidized. Which is great, and it should be, but don't pretend 100 Euro is a reasonable price if you're actually paying for it.
Well, I know some Wisconsin residents who do monitor the activities of the legislature, and their opinions interpolate between yours and the parent's.
Extensional Higher-Order Paramodulation in Leo-III
FYI, getting a $125 check from Equifax is contingent on most of the people that are eligible to get one not actually requesting it. It'll probably be less
Why am I finding out about this from the news and not an email from Capital One themselves? I wish there was legal liability to inform customers in the event of a data breach.
Some species of moths can jam bat sonar
The compiler should do as much work as it possibly can. The alternative is making me do it at 0.0001 MHz because I'm made of meat.
Google never did any such thing.

The proposed change that would have made ad blocking impossible still allowed non blocking request interception, it would have absolutely 0 impact on people trying to sell your browsing data via an extension, and a huge net increase in people selling your browsing data by people selling your browsing data by website embedded trackers.