skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sales tactic is to price things so high the insurers have not idea who is getting what discounts on what services. So the article here would actually come into play in this case
Uber wants to be the only dealer in town.
Do you mean ingress? You probably wouldn’t want to allow ingress or egress, but the statement says connecting from a TOR exit node to CapitalOne, not the other way around.
Well I mean the government sets up government hand outs and then complains that people use them
There's really not much pressure for states to adopt best practices. I work at a tax policy think tank, and a lot of the most populous and richest states also have some of the most poorly constructed tax code (e.g., CA's Prop 13). They can get away with it because people want to live and work there regardless. The network effects of established urban areas--especially with specialized industries like Silicon Valley has--are difficult to overcome.
oh yeah, this one is so good. And his spell checker is really understandable, readable too https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
You added a duck! https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
Is it not simply a question of saying that 2^10 = 1024 is close to 10^3 - 1000. Take 10th roots of both sides and 10^(3/10) = 1.995262... is close to 2.

And therefore we have 1 = 10^0, 2 ≈ 10^0.3, 4 ≈ 10^0.6, 8 ≈ 10^0.9, 16 ≈ 10^1.2, 32 ≈ 10^1.5, 64 ≈ 10^1.8, 128 ≈ 10^2.1, 256 ≈ 10^2.4, and 512 ≈ 10^2.7.

Divide by 10s and we get 1 = 10^0, 2 ≈ 10^0.3, 4 ≈ 10^0.6, 8 ≈ 10^0.9, 1.6 ≈ 10^0.2, 3.2 ≈ 10^0.5, 6.4 ≈ 10^0.8, 1.28 ≈ 10^0.1, 2.56 ≈ 10^0.4, and 5.12 ≈ 10^0.7.

Reorder and we've got the initially surprising 1 = 10^0, 1.28 ≈ 10^0.1, 1.6 ≈ 10^0.2, 2 ≈ 10^0.3, 2.56 ≈ 10^0.4, 3.2 ≈ 10^0.5, 4 ≈ 10^0.6, 5.12 ≈ 10^0.7, 6.4 ≈ 10^0.8 and 8 ≈ 10^0.9.

Then work the 5^10 and 7^13 examples to show that it happens whenever a^b is close to a power of 10.

Leave out the other base observation.
This “imposition” is a cost of doing business. If you don’t like it choose another line of business. For as long as there is a legitimate demand for the product/service in question someone will provide supply at a price point which is sustainable. The process of getting to that point may involve some companies trying and failing before others try and succeed. This is capitalism.
My bride wanted sapphire because she knew I was convinced of the evil history of diamond. 10 years later she demanded a big diamond to replace it and I realized she'd been seething all those years but compromised because she was playing the long game our marriage.
They made an argument through extreme literal interpretation.
Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds
The problem with AWS (and other cloud providers) is that it's nearly impossible to properly configure an environment because of how many different methods there are to gain access to resources.

Capital One has been all in on AWS and has dedicated an immense amount of time and money to developing systems for managing their AWS resources (Cloud Custodian for instance) and yet they still couldn't protect their data. What chance is there that anyone else could?
I took down the mailbox at my house and now use my business address for all my mail, because bulk junk mail doesn't get delivered to business addresses. Targeted credit offers do still get delivered, unfortunately. But the amount of junk mail in general is about 10% of what it was.

Works well, though I do often get accused of being a Unibomber type when I tell people they can't send mail to my house address because I removed my mailbox. The bank that holds my mortgage also came calling because the USPS declared my lot "vacant" to HUD after I did it, and that confused everybody.
The New York Times has also picked up the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data...
I interpreted it as 'upspeak'
I'd say every company does kool-aid drinking or "brainwashing" (kind of a strong way of putting it IMO) of some sort. I think most rational people don't take it too seriously, and engage at a minimal level when necessary. Do you have companies in mind that, in your opinion, don't raise any red flags for you in terms of kool-aid drinking?

And if you're still looking for a new job, feel free to consider us again! We promise you can keep your shoes on :)
> But the thing about the languages that I implement is that there are no libraries: those 50 operations are it. Every-body builds from there, and the resulting programs are extremely short.

Sounds controversial, but so often the task doesn't need much over built-in operations (verbs).
I work for a DC-based non-profit. As we solicit donations in all 50 states, we have to register in all 50 states and meet their varied paperwork requirements. A small industry has sprung up around non-profit state registrations, and we are happy to outsource to it; we'd never manage it otherwise.
We need to stop focusing on single payor system as it’s too political. Something everyone can get behind is a single price system. The government has the ability to do that without becoming our insurance administrators.

At the least, healthcare companies could reduce a huge amount of labor tied up in billing and insurance could do the same for labor tied up in fighting claims
There does seem to be a massive shortage of highly skilled labor willing to work uncompensated overtime in terrible work environments for drastically below-market wages.

Companies are very eager to do anything to address this shortage, short of increasing pay, expanding benefits, or improving working conditions.

There is also a shortage of cheap new graduates with many years of specialized work experience. Companies are willing to do anything in their power to address this shortage, short of training new or existing employees or hiring people with more experience.
Wow. Having pretty much ventured from 6502 directly to the 386 and later ARM, 68k was something I never really took a close look at. Was that limitation in the original 68000 unintentional, or did they just not design for faulting in virtual memory at page granularity?

After all, you don't need to be able to restart on a page fault if you just swap in whole tasks out and back into memory just before switching to them (which you know when you're going to do), and you still get virtual memory's benefit of the swapped in tasks being able to occupy different physical, and discontiguous, memory regions without the task itself noticing.

So did they only design for that, or did they actually make a mistake?
All of that seems right except the year (and the fact that I don't have that phone number anymore)
This is my answer. Selling into unrelated markets creates a need for duplication. At lower ranks that's 'fine' but becomes problematic at the level of senior management. Companies often sell off profitable divisions because management either can't or doesn't want to give them enough attention.
Youtubes PS4 UI "breaking news" section is exclusively videos about brexit/boris johnson (this was even before he became PM) for me despite me not living in the UK and having zero interest in the topic. It's weird.
Regarding cell production, at the Q2 earnings meeting Tesla talked about increasing it to 1-2 terawatt hours per year, about a hundred times the current rate. No, I'm not kidding.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/24/liveblog-tesla-q2-2019-...
Capital One says data breach affected 100M credit card applications
> our [CMU] undergraduate Computer Science program now has near gender parity, way ahead of the rest of the nation

I set out to say "but not ahead of MIT!" (it's CMU after all:), but it looks like MIT's undergrad CS (Course VI-3) is still in the low 40's percent. :/ I'd though we'd gotten further. CMU CS is at parity[2]. MIT MechE is too.

[1] https://registrar.mit.edu/statistics-reports/womens-enrollme...
[2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234346-how-computer-sc...
The elephant in the room for ride sharing is unit economics (and, closely related to unit economics, the race to self-driving).

Hiding $1800m of ride discounts under Sales and Marketing feels deceptive. If a store advertises "summer sale, 30% off!" for a month, you can reasonably call that marketing spend.

Uber is different. If my flight's leaving in 1h30m, I pull out my phone, open Uber, type in LAX, open Lyft, type in LAX.

Say Uber is $17. Lyft is $20. I pick Uber. If there's a "promotion" going on under the hood to produce that $17 number, is that marketing? It's really just price competition in a cutthroat, negative-unit-economic market.

Given that, Uber laying off 400 people has a dual effect. It's cutting sales spend. It's also creating news to distract from the fact that >50% of the sales spend is really per-ride losses.
The best advice when you want to help is to help yourself first when you need it.
They are legally obligated, especially in California, to disclose part or all of this breach to customers. But that obligation is not immediate. Give it some time.
The No Encryption Dystopia
I think he is definitely talking about ER but I’m pretty sure you don’t get the up front cost for random doctor visits or procedures. They simply collect your insurance information and then tell you that the insurance will send the final outstanding balance. This happens regardless if you have enough coverage or not.

I recently visited an Emergency Room and the whole process behind is really obscure.

Like for example, I got a bill from the health care provider for an owed amount and one letter from the insurance company saying that I owed the healthcare provider another different amount. They are not even close.

The whole experience in the ER was pretty fast and high quality but I feel they did a bunch of extra blood work and stuff just for the sake of getting more money out of the insurance and not necessarily because it was needed.

The way I see it the healthcare system in the US is just designed to squeeze as much as possible from the carriers and viceversa but without thinking too much who is the actual liable party which happens to be the sick individual.

I think this is how we ended up with a super expensive healthcare system that bankrupts people. All parties involved (insurance carriers, healthcare providers, healthcare product suppliers, pharmaceutical companies, doctors) think that the opposing party in any transaction is swimming in money so they optimize for squeezing the shit out of the other. That’s how you end up with ridiculous bill items like $1500 dollars for a simple fluids IV.
> to tell the truth in a legally binding way

feels like these two are mutually exclusive
I certainly don’t dispute your assessment there, as an IL resident. In quieter areas where regulators have more ability to make changes without making newspaper headlines, and a larger portion of a department’s scope can be covered at a specialized conference, don’t better practices spread a little more quickly?
> If they decide to 20x the price, I lose my email, and can't do much about it.

Many of the main TLDs like .com or .net (currently run by Verisign) include a maximum rate increase in the contract. For instance the .com contract limits to 7% increases that can only occur once per year for the last 4 years of each 6 year term. Not really any different than physically renting/buying a place and worrying that in 20 years rent/taxes could have increased and you had to move.

That being said I don't recommend running your own email and I absolutely think it would be awesome/possible for DNS to be a community service rather than for profit business. I don't think regulation (outside of local businesses that run portions like Verisign) is realistically sustainable due to the number of governments involved.
> by running it in your head

This is probably related to a factor named 'local reasoning', procedural programing tried to encourage this through procedure, OO tried to encourage this through encapsulation, and FP encourage this through purity.

Basically the goal is when anyone look into a function, the reader can easily make sense of the code without moving around.

For pure functional programming, to make sense of a function is to make sense of the branch under the acyclic calling tree of the function. The caller and sibling branches are always completely irrelevant.

So that it will be much easier to run in people's head.
> If a news provider can’t promise to try to tell the truth in a legally binding way

which news provider does this?
You can click "favorite" on the story itself and save that to a separate space. Can't favorite individual comments though (yet).

Edit: Yes you can. Click your profile and click favorite comments at the bottom.

To add a comment here, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'favorite' at the top.
But you can only take on so much debt as a company, regardless of market, and telsa is kinda already stretching that limit (or at least they are according to HN comments)
If you are a US-based investor and want exposure to Europe, you can get some ideas by navigating the ETF groupings on https://pages.etflogic.io. (I built the page). You'll find all US-listed ETFs (2000+ of them) - many of which can easily and cheaply provide you exposure to the European markets.

VEA gives you exposure to European Developed Markets (equity). FEZ is the Euro-Stoxx 50 (equity)...
Honestly, just don't wind your abstractions too tightly. It's the ultimate "rookie mistake".

Just today, I had to write a simple navigation menu. Suppose that I have pages to navigate to that have /a/ through /n/. I abstracted away the button, but I didn't write a loop to loop over each route entirely. Why? Well, based on user interactions I might want to have the buttons change shape or color and I don't want to have to go back and unwind that abstraction.

Some people will look at that code and say its not DRY. Well, I like to make code WET - write everything twice. There is some ideal amount of boilerplate as well just so someone can read and understand the darn thing - if they have a few examples to play with it'll be much easier for them to understand. Also, it amuses me how much stake people put in nonsense acronyms, as if some sort of borrowed linguistic authority will cover ineptitude and not thinking for oneself.

Ultimately this looks like an over engineered technical fix for what amounts to a social problem. Coding is ultimately a social issue (unless you're out there grinding out 1s and 0s on cuneiform tablets) and requires social solutions.
> This was mostly me passing by and asking how things were going

Hello Peter whaaaat's happening?
That's still SOP.
Looks well qualified to run the coding bootcamp in her prison.
Publishers need booksellers more than the reverse.
Wax paper is made of petrochemicals nowadays...
I have to agree with that. I once decided to hack in the "Drunken Master" after the Jackie Chan film. If you are a martial arts master, then every booze potion you drink increases your attack and your defence (thought you still walk around mostly randomly). If you drink too many (I forget how many it was), then you fall asleep. I also added a fortune cookie that said, "A boat floats in water, but sinks in it too". I think it took me a couple of hours to go from never having seen the code base before to completing the hack. Really lovely stuff. Unfortunately, I don't have the code any more, but if anyone wanted to add it, it's easy ;-)
I thought it would be a memory game like Simon [1] where the game prints one line and then your repeat it. If you are correct it starts from the first line but adds another line for you to remember.

I could see the fun in that. Also you wouldn't have the issue of people complaining about right and wrong answers because you would have to write just as it was printed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)
And Delphi. Somehow all the RAD Programming Languages all died around the same time frame.
https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/runtime

There's some assembly in there, but it seems to be mostly Go.
Bucket encryption doesn't protect against anything except someone getting access to the hard drives underlying S3 and somehow recovering data.

If you've somehow left access to a bucket open the odds are that you also have it configured to let anyone with access to the bucket decrypt the files. AWS calls this server side encryption, where S3 automatically encrypts and decrypts files for you. You can also do client side encryption, of course, but it's much more difficult to manage because you have to deal with keys in your application.
A Tale of Two Prisoners
The amount of water soil can hold is fairly proportional with the amount of organic material. Blend woodchips, sawdust, compost into the top few feet of soil and it function like a moisture battery.
In the context of nascent tech like this, most people just don't know the right questions to ask, unfortunately.

Perhaps in the near future we will be treated to a layman's explanation of the prevalent (and corrupt) usage of federated blockchains, 'exposed' in a Netflix doc. :)
Most of Uber's early virality came from local teams being forced to innovate to survive. Ice Cream, Eats, Pool, Puppies, rentals all came from those folks who're now being laid off
America’s Farmers, Reeling from Floods, Face a New Problem: No Water
That's good news for earth. You often need a closed loop product lifecycle in space, since you can't throw away and source new parts and materials without great cost. Any spinoffs should help us close open loop systems down here on earth.
We’ll if you are stuck with a giant bill, you can always move back. I don’t see how they would collect on it.
I doubt Chomsky is the entire reason.
buy gold and bitcoin. not a lot but just to hedge. its very hard for the typical person (including myself) to understand how the last 20 years of USA monetary policy WONT debauch the currency.

im constantly surprised it hasn't happened yet. but i cant go all in against the dollar so im just hedging with some alternatives
Notion as in [1] ? I thought Coda [2] would be closer ?

[1] https://www.notion.so

[2] https://coda.io/welcome
Tuckman's Stages of Group Development
It sounds like an internal threat to me (she was an employee at Amazon).
Capital One's response:

https://www.capitalone.com/facts2019/
Cuba Expands Internet Access to Private Homes and Businesses
If I had a PM come by my office twice a day to "check-in" I think I'd quit.
macOS has had automatic retain counting for the last decade. You have to remember your weak/strong for cycles but that's all.

It's preferable over garbage collection because there are no unexpected pauses/memory scans and it's deterministic.
I'm pretty sure that's either exactly what YC alum Eligible (https://eligible.com) is trying to solve, or at least part of it.
I mean I guess. Salesforce did it with Apex and Wolfram did it with Wolframlang or whatever Steve is calling it these days. But I feel like this is a solution in search of a problem. The issue isn’t complexity or even accidental complexity. It’s that businesses usually have many competing and often conflicting needs. I can already hear the angry snort when I go to the head DBA and ask if I can use some new hosted product to replace our on prem data warehouse. It’ll never happen. And it’s not even an “old school” thing. We just have a variety of reasons why it’s a bad solution. So now we talk about setting up small web apps hosted in Dark’s cloud. How is it any better than what we have hosted in Amazon, Google, and Azure where we also have the ability to at any minute tap in to a huge market of developers? I guess then we look at this for new projects that aren’t interfacing with production stuff? In that case I guess it’s an interesting experiment. But the reality is that most corporate things (from my experience anyway) have an if it ain’t broke don’t fix it mentality and with good (often painfully learned) reasons. I’m not debating the values of this (it’s hard to since their entire site is marketing buzzwords) but I’m saying it doesn’t seem on the face of it to be a realistic problem solver. I’m very likely wrong but that’s how it feels to me.
Yeah, there's only $31M allocated for those payouts :/
Capital One statement on data breach
Yip, back then you always double rubber banded your deck of punched cards, some triple banded, least those whose first floor shuffle drop was down some stairs.

Funny one was when a friend of mine interrupted the typist punching my coding sheet onto punched cards. He kept putting a typed page back into the untypes pile of what was 5 pages. Got the deck and was mildly flummoxed what was wrong as had a chunk of code repeated 3 times (the number of times he did it without the typist noticing).

But one perk of punched cards - removing lines of code is as easy as removing the associated card. Also be mindful of prankster who would stick random cards into your deck if you left it unattended, added a real new meaning to joker in the deck. Today, they would just call it a code injection exploit. Which is why I and others would often sign the deck along the edge of the cards and do some lines at various angles on the other long end so you instantly see if something is amiss. Today they would call that signed code.
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Yeah I cringed when I read this bit. If any managers are reading don't fucking do this. Your intentions may be benign (this person apparently thought they were) but most devs are going to read this as veiled micromanaging and get just as stressed out as the earlier approaches in the article.

Just use scrum as intended, maybe push for more detailed updates if devs are just saying stuff like "still working on x". Or just trust them and don't try to babysit.
Uh, I don't see anything in the article that indicates she is transgender.
Honestly, reading some details of this study gives me very little respect for social science research. From the article:

> Employees rated their supervisors’ BLM by scoring on a scale statements like: “My supervisor treats the bottom line as more important than anything else” and “My supervisor cares more about profits than his/her employees’ well-being.”

So it uses those questions to assess "bottom line mentality", and then, surprise surprise, people who say that their "supervisor cares more about profits than his/her employees’ well-being." also generally have poor opinions of their managers. IMO this study is bunk.
Arbitrage isn't as profitable as the other revenue streams in energy storage and, quite frankly, isn't really profitable or attractive. Arbitrage doesn't add any true value to the world - it just lines your own pocket. Not to mention that developing software to monetize the different revenue stacks is demanding and fickle. So many different integrations and different market requirements and dimensions. There's a good reason they aren't doing it - too much work with minimal upside and that whole Tesla/Elon has way too much on their plate thing.
Surely a ramp up of solar would be a lot faster than a ramp up of nuclear? We might not have the battery capacity now but we could build a lot of factories in five years if the demand was there.

OTOH I doubt we have the specialists available to build more than a few nuclear plants simultaneously, and each plant appears to be a 30 year process...
Pivotal also has thing where everyone is expected to pair program all the time. I think I would despise the environment but it’s clearly not for everyone, myself included.
Hedge funds bought shares because of the cooked books and unreal returns.