skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very valid point. See Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms intro:

Prosperity, however, has not come to all societies. Material consumption in some countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, is now well below the pre-industrial norm. Countries such as Malawi or Tanzania would be better off in material terms had they never had contact with the industrialized world and
instead continued in their preindustrial state. Modern medicine, airplanes, gasoline, computers—the whole technological cornucopia of the past two hundred years—have succeeded there in producing among the lowest material living standards ever experienced. These African societies have remained trapped in the Malthusian era, where technological advances merely produce more people and living standards are driven down to subsistence. But modern
medicine has reduced the material minimum required for subsistence to a level far below that of the Stone Age. Just as the Industrial Revolution reduced income inequalities within societies, it has increased them between societies, in a process recently labeled the Great Divergence.1 The gap in incomes between countries is of the order of 50:1. There walk the earth now both the richest people who ever lived and the poorest.

http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8461.pdf

More:

http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/a_farewell_to...
A lot of programming languages are descendants of ALGOL [1], where the ; is the separator, not a terminator (you don't have to use it on the last statement of a block of code).

Pascal (being based on algol) is the same, and the final "end." statement of the program, which is the main program, has a period/full stop. See end of this sample: [2] A begin / end block is one statement so they end like so "end;" unless it's the last one in a procedure, in which case you don't need the semi-colon.

C was similar, except they made ; a terminator instead of separator, but you don't have to put it at the end of being/end blocks. C just uses { } to make it clear. But then, in C++ I always forget to put ; at the end of a class definition. I get why it's there, but it looks more like a function definition to me which doesn't need a semicolon at the end.

Many languages are also from C or at least the Algol family tree (but usually C), like C++, Java, Javascript, etc.

More about ALGOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL

[1] Algol sample: http://sandbox.mc.edu/~bennet/cs404/doc/primes_alg.html

[2] Pascal sample: http://courses.washington.edu/css448/zander/Code/array.p
Hello, Sergc, I think your requirement meets my skills sets I will like to take on this one. How can I fully apply?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexonozor/
There's still a benefit in insurance for routine procedures to balance costs between the young and old. (As long as young people are required to have insurance)
Having lived in the US for over a decade, I am disappointed with the system. I also notice that nobody in this thread, so far, has talked about liability and the overly litigious aspect of the American society. There are so many lawyers that are willing to file malpractice lawsuits against anybody in the medical industry which also raises costs overall.
Richard Thaler: ‘If you want people to do something, make it easy’
WTF? How many paper towel rolls are we talking about??
The IBM 23FD (read-only) was released for the System 370 in 1971. The first read-write floppy drive, Memorex 650, was available in 1972.

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1968/
> My view is that current liquidity and pricing are far from perfect, particularly when it matters most (e.g. a market panic)

And in a market panic, your friendly HFT shop next door is there and offering to buy and sell to stabilise the price?

> Given that we benefit from realtime pricing

Yeah, if you assume the conclusion that we benefit from it, then we do. But have you shown this?

In which market do we benefit from milliseconds pricing, compared to, say, an auction every minute?
The Aleppo and Castile soap connection is mentioned in the article.
Stop being wankers.

If it's the best commerically viable tree use it. Cheap products is what will help this religious CO2 is Armageddon cause because people will actually use them.

Else plant natives if you're planting wide spread trees.
Griffith Park (4,217 acres) isn't a forest exactly, but pretty close to it, and right in the heart of Los Angeles city.
DAC definitely shows potential. But do note the numbers: climeworks, GlobalThermostat and CarbonEngineering combined sequester few thousand metric tons/year - less than the output of 500 Americans.
How many things are as good for world's prosperity than low or no tariffs? That's only beaten by lack of armed conflicts. Wishful thinking, but still true.
We run massive JIRA instances with very granular permissions using multiple custom authorization backends (LDAP/Kerberos/in-house stuff), and it doesn't seem to add much of a delay.
Gem Patterns
This mentality is the problem with current medicine. The doctor is not causing harm, they are mitigating it with a less than optimal method. If the tuning forks analysis has better outcome than no assessment, no harm has been done

If a doctor has a treatment with 80% efficacy that costs $1,000, and another with 90% efficacy that costs $100,000, there is nothing immoral about giving the patient the choice.
"Doing Harm" would be prescribing treatment that leaves the patient worse off than they started.
This a hundred times! The shortage is real and urgent. My gf, who is in her second year of a low-tier residency program, received many offers from various hospitals promising her $300K/year to work for them. This is well known among residents that once you survive residency (which is not a high bar to begin with), you will make at least $250K/year.
I used them and liked them. It's nice never having to remember to pick up detergent. I just push the button when it gets low.
> There was something a little Lord of the Flies about the experience, which I might have grossly summarized at the time as having been interviewed by a bunch of little kids. I didn't resent this, so much as think I had dodged a bullet.

I recently had a similar experience at Cruise Automation. Of my 4 interviewers, none had been with the company more than a year, and at least two looked like they were in their 20s. The younger interviewers were the ones doing "coding" interviews, rather than system design, and their questions were straight up pulled from leetcode.com.

Apparently, I "struggled" in one interview, because I was only able to answer one question and part of the second one. What I actually struggled with was trying to prove that the algorithm I was using was optimal, which seemed important at the time.

C'est la vie. I later heard from some fairly reliable sources that the place was kind of a shit show, so I also feel like I dodged a bullet or two there.
Generally speaking, that’s an example of a fundamentally wasteful ER visit, and why the lack of universal coverage is so dumb. That’s why ERs cost a fortune.

If you’re not bleeding, have a broken limb or other trauma or an expectation of being admitted, you don’t belong in the ER. Take a benadryl.
> 4 year old to the ER because he had a 103 fever

I think most parents would react similarly. Then to turn around and bill $756 is predatory.
I'm having an ultrasound (at a private clinic) in about two weeks to check for a gall bladder stone.

I have no idea what it costs but I guess out of pocket it would be about $20 "co payment", same as when I had a MR scan for my neck earlier this year. If you're out more than $200ish a year you don't have to pay the "co payments" anymore either, but that's only happened once for me.

If you need to go to hospital it's free regardless.

Norway here, guess we have a tax funded "single payer" system. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Yes, still firmly in the uncanny valley.
After one research it seems like only one variant of Paulownia is "invasive" - as in super aggressively spreading, but it does make me wonder if have acres and acres filled with them will result in some mutant offspring developing the super aggressive spread that the species is clearly capable of. Very much like what happened with that invasive pear [1]

[1] I dug up the article https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-we-tur...
Great cartoon overview of switching power supplies from TDK:

https://www.global.tdk.com/news_center/publications/power_el...
some languages (eg Erlang) do use dots as terminators. Dots are harder to see and verify.

Imagine:
A = something+"some string.".
I picked up a 5 1/4" floppy without the sleeve that was on the side of the road 20 years ago, sliced open another disc sleeve that had bad sectors and replaced it with the found disc. I still had a working XT at the time.

It had The Black Cauldron, PC Jr bootable version on it.
Why your mock doesn’t work
Differential Privacy is definitely an intriguing security concept. However, another recent interesting negative is that there may be a smaller performance gap between Differential Privacy and the stronger security notion of Obliviousness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivious_data_structure) than previously thought.

Specifically, it was recently shown that the fastest implementations of ORAM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivious_RAM) are actually in line with the lower bounds of theoretical Differentially Private RAM performance - meaning you gain zero performance advantage by using a weaker security model. Of course, it's unclear if this is true for other data structures and usages, but ORAM is a non-insignificant research area.

See https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1051 for more details.
Data Science Consulting: How to Get Clients
Well you can directly buy the same products with Alexa, which is what I'll probably do.
"Soft", that's arguable, though I might allow it. But "floppy"? I claim not!
> I never received a ding on my credit report.

Non-medical and medical collections tend to get different treatment nowadays[1][2]. It may have ended up on your credit but after a super long delay, or it'd disappear entirely if they were able to get something out of your insurance instead. And even if it shows up on your credit report, depending on the specific scoring model being used, it still may not have had much if any impact. [2] details how some of the scoring models treat medical collections.

[1] https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/can-medical-bill...

[2] https://www.creditkarma.com/advice/i/how-to-remove-medical-c...
You again look only at points in time or short periods and only at individual items instead of systems. Buildings are not a final permanent storage and they are not a different storage compared to trees, they basically serve the exact same purpose if you model global CO2 storage and have pretty much the same characteristics. Nothing changes by including buildings, you could just model it as a larger forest.

Unless you add additional options by having two different items (tress + buildings), e.g. the option to stack them on top of one another, it does not matter if the carbon is stored in a tree or a building made from it. They all share the same limited surface space and you could just replace all buildings with trees in the model, or vice versa and it does not change the total storage capacity here on the surface. I refer back to everything I wrote.
30th Year in Code
New California Earthquake DataSets for Deep Learning
Living near trees implies living in an area where space usage is prioritized for nature instead of the stacked concrete boxes most people (have to?) live in. It is likely a less stressful environment overall than places filled with just concrete walls, asphalt and, at best, some grass.

Personally I find tree tops swaying in the wind oddly hypnotic and relaxing. I've thought of why... One reason could be that babies around here are (like I was) put into baby trolleys to sleep outside, summer and winter. If living near trees, chances are that tree tops are the last thing one sees before sleep and the first thing when one wakes up.
There are many different organizations within the US federal government (not to mention state governments) which deal in one way or another with regulation and enforcement.

Many of the ones commonly considered to be “law enforcement agencies” per se are listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the... but there are many other federal agencies which might also be considered “law enforcement” under a broader interpretation of that term.

Different agencies have different focus, different mandate, different institutional powers, etc.

Arguably the functions established for the CFPB to perform could be undertaken by some other institution. But the point of the legislation and its implementation (which Warren and others worked very carefully on) was creating a semi-autonomous institution solely focused on consumer financial protection.

During the Obama years the CFPB was pretty effective, despite unified and extreme opposition from GOP politicians. (Its effectiveness explains why some folks were eager to see it defanged.)
Net-zero CO2.

Probably other factors are small, but hard to predict (particulates, volatile chemicals, other effects of growth). Might be positive or negative.
Researchers Entangle Photons of Different Color in Quantum Computin Breakthrough
Relevant bit:

> in the case of flat, rotational data storage media the convention is that the spelling disk is used for magnetic storage (e.g. hard disks) while disc is used for optical storage (e.g. compact discs, better known as CDs). When there is no clear convention, the spelling disk is more popular in American English, while the spelling disc is more popular in British English.
You are right that the world has gotten immensely better in recent decades, pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty.

If you compare real median wage growth in the West in the 60s and 70s with the last two decades though, it doesn't look so great. Maybe we can do better.
VR AR XR Collaboration Architecture Based on Decentralized Web [pdf]
I generally upload them to a file-hosting website--0x0.st works well--and download them to the kindle from there. Use calibre to convert them to mobi format if they're pdfs.
Maybe carbon pricing schemes will do that - shift the economics to more closely match the physics. If what you say is true, then eventually the price of dug-up carbon should roughly equal the price of digging it up, processing it, and shoving it back in storage. That should incentivize leaving it there in the first place.
You don't have to be a youtuber or streamer to have the leaf blower drive you nuts - in a suburban setting, you're almost guaranteed a 7am wake-up call from one of these machines on a Saturday. It just takes one punctilious neighbor.
Theres an abstract here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0394-3
A long time ago I was a student of a school that had some magical gardens, but some classrooms had the windows placed above the eye level, while others had windows where you could see the gardens (and little else). The difference in the environment, feeling and atmosphere in both areas (which were otherwise identical) was like night and day.
This paper is almost entirely incomprehensible to me, and I have a background in formal logic. It might be that there is some error in the proofs that this author is referring to, but the paper does not make any clear point about what the problem is. There is a lot of unusual use of language (talk of propositional formulas "existing" and things like only being allowed to make deductions where the formulas are "previously known to be true").

Even in the introduction there are statements which do not make sense, like the statement that you are required to show that A and B are true in order to conclude that A logically entails B. This is simply not the case, since it is very well possible for A to be a formula which is always false (unsatisfiable/inconsistent), in which case A entails ANY statement, including B.
Thousands of Hong Kong civil servants defy government to join protests
I live in Sheffield, which is about as green as cities get in the UK. I try and walk every day - you can walk from my front door through woods all the way into the Peak District and stand a good chance of not seeing more than a couple of souls. Lately my son has started joining me and honestly, it’s just the most nourishing part of my life at the moment. I am not sure I could survive on the huddled trees and pruned green rectangles disbursed throughout somewhere like London, and even the more extensive parks just don’t feel real to me.
You are right! I propose we use the acronym FAGMAN from now on.
"The Romans – whomst I don’t see a bunch of basics going around accusing of being filthy – did not, in fact have soap, in contrast."

"Basics"?
What makes you think that'd only cost tens of thousands?
This entire concept is absurd. Technology doesn't follow some "natural" trajectory, but is political, like any other human activity.
My first boss out of college had a side job maintaining check encoding machines for a local bank (imagine a room full of these machines, staffed by people who were glad not to be working in a warehouse anymore, who spent their hours typing in the dollar amounts people had scribbled on the paper checks they had written to the supermarket, carwash, dry cleaners, etc.)

These machines ran off a program that was stored on 8" floppies. All the workers had been told to NEVER EVER touch the floppies. Well one night, a disk went bad and had to be replaced. To the horror of the operator, my boss ripped the magnetic media out through the spindle hole, looked at it closely, and proclaimed "Yep. It's bad"
Not quite, there are different systems in service depending on region and installation era: https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/134392/in-germany-sh...
Hence the disclaimer:

> Charts and graphs provided within are for informational purposes solely and should not be relied upon when making any investment decision.
That's super interesting, thanks for sharing. "The psychology of high net worth people"... lots to explore there!
Confluence. It doesn't seem good for highly technical users. As per the official documentation, https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-wiki-markup-..., Note: You cannot edit content in wiki markup

Search also seems terrible.

I don't have anything good to say about it relative to any other possible reasonable solution.
It's evolution. The windows XP homescreen w/ the rolling green hills was chosen b/c it puts us humans at ease. Our monkey brains like wide open pastures b/c we can easily see any incoming predators making us feel safe.
I doubt it. C++ has come a long way in the past decade and still has a lot of momentum.

As for rails? Admittedly I'm in an anti-ruby bubble... but the Ruby developers I do know definitely don't use Rails anymore. Ruby seems to have matured into basically just Chef/Vagrant in my bubble and any Rails apps are being deprecated in favor of the bubble-biased languages.
The premise of Interstellar is precisely this.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Basic
> You should be able to get whatever diagnostic test you want, whenever you want.

Tests may be less expensive than what we are getting billed, but they aren't free. There are hypochondriacs who I'm sure would order hundreds of tests a year if allowed. There are many people who have hard to diagnose problems, and out of desperation, would order tests which have no possible bearing on their condition, just in case it finds something.

Let's say that you routinely screen everyone for everything, because why not, it's free. What is the burden of not only performing all those tests, but following up on the flood of false positives? It would probably swamp the healthcare system, allocating resources to the wrong places.
It's not just the cost of training. In the US there's implicit expectation that becoming a doctor is a way to become wealthy, similar in earning potential to becoming a lawyer. There's no such expectation in most other countries which are often used in arguments for how socialized medicine "costs less". Their doctors make a fraction of what US doctors do, so of course it "costs less".

Right now in the US you'd be "socializing" the expectation that a doctor should make $300K+ a year, with a very weak upper bound. Which I'm not going to say real good ones shouldn't, but good ones, in my personal experience, are few and far between.

This is something we'd need to deal with before forcing taxpayers to pay for these inflated expectations at gunpoint, _if_ we decide to go the "single payer" route. ACA, ironically, did nothing at all to address the _affordability_ side of things. If I'm forced to give up a good chunk of my income for "free" healthcare, I'd be categorically not interested in paying for yet another beach house some surgeon wants to buy.

Just like all problems involving human motivations, this is a tough one to solve. It's so tough, in fact, that I think the most realistic path forward is gradual automation of everything that can be automated, though technological means, such that we only use doctors where a robot or a computer can't do the job. Someone needs to start another Theranos, but do it for real this time.
Well he is in both Halls of fame(United Nations and European government)
A copy is available from HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102154371
I think a lot of the age-ism has more to do with cost than skill. Older developers ask for more pay, negotiate more, and are less willing to put in uncompensated overtime.

The way to get past this is to make sure you develop skills that are exotic and high-end and hard to find so you can't easily be replaced by a cheaper college grad.
The white stuff is the liner.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563351
I've advised clients to be cautious about Amazon "subscriptions" for toner and such because I've seen crazy looking pricing that seems designed to take advantage of such automatic orders, such as a 3-pack of toner for 4-5x the price of individual ones. I'm sure that at some point it was less expensive....
> something that means what you said is sincere

Ideally, everything one says should be sincere, so your idea sounds weird to me. I think I understand you want more options in the communication medium of text since we can't have body language and voice tone here.

Personally, I just try to be consistent with my expressions. If my "Thanks." is always used in situations where I'm "sincere" or "deeply appreciative" or otherwise, then that's what it means from me.

There are people that express themselves with absurd amounts of exclamation points and all sorts of hearts and blushing emojis, and I understand that they haven't gone absolutely crazy for me because of that. I just keep tabs in the different expressions different people have for the same things.

The meanings of expressions are determined by those who use them.
Daily news: preconnect/DNS-prefetch, webhint extension, bypassing the HTTP cache
Also, how do you deal with duplicately named extensions?
That's an amazingly entitled viewpoint, in my opinion. There's also a rabbit hole there of saying that about any feature that one doesn't make use of.

I understand the concept that maybe certain classes of software (say, medical or military software) shouldn't have eggs, or perhaps that certified eggless versions of software should be available in situations involving contracted software. But would you say the same thing about game software? Hobbyist software? Easter eggs aren't always bad.
Is the CCIE one of the "hands on" exams, like the Red Hat and Kubernetes exams?
in germany it was like this after a while.
Quantum entanglement spooky action at a distance[JPG]
"It was an early Sunday morning when I've first met X while he was holding his hand full of bagels. Only later that day I would learn that it was actually for his dog as he is a big and naughty fan of them"

Articles that start like this make me puke. Go and write a book if you want to be a writer.