skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even better, “thank you {name}.”
> wish it had a name because I have observed it frequently, but upon some reflection it really only seems to be the product of certain organized situations and perhaps even just an artifact of our own pattern recognition.

In The Matrix movies that is sort of a key premise of their world setting. There are words like reset, reboot, reload for it.

But I don't think it's a given, not all complex systems are prone to collapse; some systems, once past a given point, may even perpetuate their complexity practically indefinitely.

Consider life on Earth: even if a cataclysm occurs that results in mass extinctions, new life will eventually take over, in millions if not "mere" thousands or hundreds of years.

Until Earth itself no longer exists that is. Same goes for galaxies and the Universe at large.
I get that this is an ironic take on the semantic reference and the object it represented but I think there is merit in talking about why the obviously-not-floppy 3.5 disk was called "floppy."

At the time, "hard disk" referred to the spinning disk inside the computer & so though "floppy" wasn't technically accurate when referring to the 3.5 inch floppy, it was a nomenclature referring its utility or type rather than a physical description actual object itself.

"Floppies" were the things that you stuck in and removed... didn't matter their covering material, nor what size they were.

It's interesting to think about how many of our words have the same kind of history; once having a widespread descriptive meaning associated with physical traits of the object itself which ultimately were divorced from the original meaning over time...

I'm going to hazard a guess that most of our nouns have that kind of history... but the interesting thing here is that this morphing happened so quickly and it's because the object itself changed, not some generational loss of original meaning...
eh, I'm still not getting it. why not have a single or maybe multiple admins that all need to coordinate and decrypt before values can be decrypted for anyone else? upload their subkeys to the server for hashing the words, create shortened aliases for the hashes and then allow you to see them all. then you can do whatever you want with individual words that you want.

did you want to transform within words or something?
The thing is as startups mature and become enterprise level shops, they need people who know how to work with enterprise software. Guess who has all the experience with that? Yep, the people with 10+ years experience. My company is hiring very senior devs like crazy right now for exactly this reason.
Atlanta is great! There are places like this[0] inside the perimeter. My old apartment had a trail down to the river and we would drive half a mile up the road and then tube back down to my apartment.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8906588,-84.4418735,3a,90y,1...
Indeed, and the first line of the merge description:

"Merge floppy ioctl verification fixes from Denis Efremov."
I just watched that and have to agree, an excellent in-depth explanation it was indeed, with a lovely demonstration.
Closed loops ("circuits") are part of the paradigm, so yes they are necessary at the level of abstraction we generally analyze electronics in. Sure if you came from Pluto with a metal sphere teeming with excess electrons, they would disburse themselves on our planet and never return home, but that isn't circuit analysis!

For example, the current into one terminal of a capacitor does equal the current out of the other terminal. Yes electrons are building up on one plate, but they're being depleted from the other - the net charge of the capacitor remains zero. If this weren't true, differently-charged capacitors would be physically attracted to one another!

If this goes against your intuition, it's because you've become so accustomed to this abstraction of ground which (mostly) lets you forget about the current flow on the other leg of the capacitor.

(In the electronics realm, the use of the term "ground" is much more casual compared to the NEC. To put it in terms of OP, "ground" in the electronics realm is more akin to the "grounded conductor", but alas could actually refer to anything you feel like thinking of as the reference.)
I don’t have a Kindle so haven’t tested, but I believe we build the AZW3 files from the epub2 ones, which have hyphenation baked in using the Python hyphenation library.
Interesting points, but they forgot to include one category: "We thought we would have network effects, but it turned out we didn't". Which, you know, can be really hard to distinguish from the others.

I am too cynical, I guess, but part of me was wondering while reading this, "Is this a piece intended to convince investors that some not-ramping-as-fast-as-we-thought startup is actually what they need to invest in?"
Suppose that it is true that it takes 10,000 hours to become expert at software development, just like for other arts and skills. Then, if the half life of IT is 10 years, you have to accumulate 5,000 hours of new learning every 10 years. Consequently, you have to devote about 10 hours/week to learning new stuff in order to keep current. If you are lucky in managing your career much of this can be done on the job. Otherwise it must be done on your own time. It is the inability or unwillingness of software developers to devote this much time to continuing learning that accounts for their early obsolescence.
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assuming you don't care about metadata.
I am sure you have data to back up your claim that "standards of care, facility costs, and compensation for medical professionals is much lower." Care to post it?
You seem to be asserting that believing a conspiracy theory does not make you mentally ill. That’s true, but not what I’m saying. I’m saying conspiracy theorists are overwhelming just mentally ill to begin with. There was a great piece a while ago about a journalist who interviewed people at flat earther conventions. They pretty much all cited significant emotional trauma or betrayal of trust.
What do you mean when you say "modern forums are fun to use"? I ask in 100% good faith and I am not being snarky.
> The US government spends a similar amount (per captia or as a percent of GDP) as Canada on its public funding (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and so on).

As of 2016, Canada's public spending was 7.4% of GDP, the US's was 8.5%; and the US per-capita GDP is higher, too, so I don;t think its really "a similar amount" per capita, and only loosely so per GDP. But, yeah, the big difference is that the US spends even more than the publicly spending in private healthcare spending, while Canada (like most other first-world countries) spends far less privately than the public share.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
ER bills are always shockingly expensive. If you don't think your condition is life-threatening, it's normally both faster and much cheaper to go to an urgent care clinic if one is open.

However, for potentially very serious problems (possible heart attack, stroke, serious injuries, etc.) you have no choice - you need to go to the ER and deal with the bill afterwards.
Exactly the situation with me and my shoulder. Never got it looked at, because I was in college and it "only hurts a little but it doesn't interfere with normal life goings-on". Now it's still screwed up and I know a lot more about human skeletomuscular back and shoulder anatomy.
> lack of liquidity increases trading costs

Sure, that's almost tautologically true, but that does not mean that the benefits to society materialise:

* Traders getting faster access to an exchange have an advantage against other traders (and might make more money), but that does not imply at all that the market will be more liquid.

* The volume of actual utilitarian trades (investing, borrowing, asset exchanging, hedging) is relatively small compared to overall trading activity. A pension fund investing, someone taking out a mortgage, people exchanging currency for the holidays, the often cited farmer hedging his crop - they trade infrequently, and certainly don't care about some milliseconds.

* The dynamics are those of an arms race. Arms races are wasteful, by and large. Building a "straighter" fibre glass connection between NY and Chicago, and then building a series of micro wave towers (because the speed of light in the air is greater than in the fibre) - how does that benefit society? Just postulating higher liquidity and lower costs is not enough to justify it, I think.

(I am reminded of the earlier discussion about advertising - once Cola does it, Pepsi has to do it, too. Are we thus better off, or would we get cheaper sodas if both didn't?)
A well-known refrain, I know, but correlation does not imply causation[0].

Spurious Correlations[1] has been posted here many times[2], but a few representative examples may be worth sharing just the same:

Per capita cheese consumption correlates with Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets

Total revenue generated by arcades correlates with Computer science doctorates awarded in the US

Japanese passenger cars sold in the US correlates with Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...

[1] https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=spurious%20correlations&sort=b...
This is the reason why I often tend to use Redux, even tho it's overkill. The redux devtools are an amazing tool to see whats going on and who changed what.

But maybe someone give me a better solution than using Redux? I mean, if you provide data and an api to modify it, you ultimately end up in this scenario where you ask yourself "Why has it been changed? And where?"? I don't see how you could prevent that.
Thanks for making this clear, I edited my statement to be reputation based and not valuation since the judgement of the firm is important for their ability raise funds.
> This only represents 10% of the 80%, but it's the ten percent most likely to be interesting,

Does anyone have any insight into why the chosen 10% is the most likely to be interesting?
You can choose to buy things online without being exposed to the cancer that is advertising.

I am against advertising and marketing and yet spend a considerable amount of money online, and I’m confident most of HN does the same.
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“While improving efficiency, we still only successfully interdicted about six percent of known drug movements [in 2018].”

Huh, could it be that criminalisation of a market where a very significant proportion of the population want to buy the product and there are sophisticated, now multi-national businesses willing to sell that product doesn't work?

Even after 30-40 years of trying, was the reason the war on drugs hasn't worked not enough balloons?

Are the population sufficiently comfortable with their cognitive dissonance to agree that despite their own behaviour in their youth, they're happy to lump "Drugs!" alongside "Terrorists!" and "Pedophiles!" in their personal list of reasons why they gave up their privacy so willingly?
In my experience, X-rays at urgent care centers are only ~$100. Hospitals are much more expensive and variable, though.
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lawl, lowest unemployment rate in history but the feds just raised interest rate for the first time in over 10 years.

translation these companies are inflating their employment numbers because they realized that the reason for not getting a raise in the h1b cap is due to unemployment being so high at the time. so now rather than actually hiring people or paying them more they are counting uber drivers, lyft drivers, and other gig workers as employees.
Considering Brave has a non existing market share, quite surprised how often it’s been mentioned.
There's one thing I don't understand between hot and neutral. How do the electric turbines upstream at the power plant only act on what becomes the hot wire? By my understanding of how motors work the magnet causes a positive current on the whole coiling/wire, meaning a positive current on one side is matched by an equally powerful negative current on the other. As both wires on the consumer end eventually join to the ends of that coiling, than wouldn't that mean both wires switch between hot and neutral everytime the current changes direction? Also, as all household wiring is in parallel off the mains, wouldn't that mean a closed circuit on one branch would turn the neutral wire on another branch hot as they effectively become one wire? How does the electric "push/pull" get separated onto only the hot line?
I have been studying Grounding vs Bonding these past few weeks, great timing to see this HN discussion.

Some training videos for pro electricians and US National Electric Code compliance helped me.

https://youtu.be/qNZC782SzAQ

Basically, bond everything together if it can carry a charge. Ground that bond at only one place in an electrical service.

More than one "ground" sets up a situation where a potential difference can develop between the various "grounds". Ground Fault detection may no longer work in that case. Which is not good.

(The presentation is weirdly sexist in offhand comments, which I often encounter in trade work of this kind, but I do believe that's changing. Slowly. The USA needs more people who know how to build things.)
Sure it's dangerous, but $400 out of pocket for an xray of your finger is also quite ridiculous. If my finger wasn't obviously broken, I'd probably take my chances with a tuning fork, too.
Suburbs can have vast canopies. They just often choose not to, feeling bare grass is the most attractive.

(I personally don't understand the appeal of a neighborhood that has been methodically expunged of shade)
Without commenting on the contents, it wasn’t fully published in English until 1939, which means it doesn’t arrive into the US public domain for another 15 years. It’s also down to personal preference what people work on.
I have time to allocate to this next week and am willing to help. Was at Newberry just last week for their monumental book sale.
> The doctor put an ear thermometer to him and told me to give him some childrens ibuprofen.

To be fair, the doctor also cleared your child of having a life threatening emergency. That is one of the critical jobs of an emergency medicine physician and it’s part of what you pay for.
> Suppose that it is true that it takes 10,000 hours to become expert at software development, just like for other arts and skills.

The 10,000 hour rule is just something Gladwell made up on the back of a study which found that people at a certain level in certain fields (classical violin and classical piano) averaged that much experience (EDIT: actually, deliberate practice), while people at lower levels averaged less. It isn't a threshold.
Probably not for the product's consumers, no.
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That's not how controlling for a variable works. You don't "rule out people" - the question you need to answer is whether a college education makes people more successful than would be predicted by IQ alone, and if so, by how much?

Is your contention also that SAT/ACT are vanity measures? The correlation between IQ and ACT is very strong, or in other words they are both strongly g-loaded and are good measures for general intelligence.

http://iapsych.com/iqmr/koening2008.pdf

We also have ample evidence that general intelligence correlates with economic success:

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.intell.2006.09.004

Vanity measure, my foot.

Given that institutions of higher education aggressively select for high-scoring SAT/ACT individuals, and thus high IQ individuals, the burden of proof is on them to show that a degree results in significant socioeconomic success that cannot be explained by the preexisting psychometric attributes of the college bound population.
You might be right. I am ~45 years old and have been doing R&D programming for about ~25 years. I have known strong performers of all ages, and seen attrition happen at all ages as well.

I did go through some FANG type interviewing about 10 years ago, ending without an offer. I don't think they rejected me for being ~35, but I imagine they may have decided there wasn't a "cultural fit". 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.
Nice explanation.

However, you postulate that the introduction of a turn-based system would effectively transfer money from Joe Sixpack (who'd face higher costs) to hotshot hedge fund manager (who'd face even lower costs).

Maybe, though, we'd see HFT shops go out of business (and not building micro wave towers between Chicago and NY anymore), and see a transfer from HFT shops to hotshot hedge fund manager and Joe Sixpack, both facing lower costs.

How do you know it's not this second scenario?
I'm wondering "Is Lambda School one of those startups?"
Everything you say is true. Modern healthcare is so expensive and inefficient because its built around the demands and capabilities of the past. Usually I hate it when people say something is fundamentally broken, but healthcare really is.

The time has come for a complete overhaul of the system. No more primary care doctors. They can be replaced by software and patient service representatives.

Diagnostic services should be the front line of healthcare. You should be able to get whatever diagnostic test you want, whenever you want.

All prices must be 100% transparent to the patient before any services are rendered. Opaque pricing allows for arbitrarily high pricing.

Huge increases in medical school enrollments. Removal of arbitrary licensing caps.

So much more needs to be done but this is a start.
I always figured its position on the querty keyboard had something to do with it, but would love to know the actual history.
I like leaving old code littered around, either commented out or disabled by feature flags. Then, when my energy/concentration levels are too low for real work, it's a strangely satisfying task going back and cleaning up and finally deleting that stuff.
Not 100% sure I follow you, but isn't that what Gentoo provides? I can easily tell Portage to fetch the sources. If I want to make a change, I create a patch with my changes, and put it in the patches directory where the Firefox ebuilds live. I don't even think you have to edit the ebuild to add a patch - just name the patch properly and drop it in the right place.
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to wit, as with teachers, i don’t mind doctors and other medical professionals getting paid well, but the AMA restricting supply to increase salaries is anticompetitive and wrong-headed. i also don’t mind medical devices, labs, and even drug companies getting a decent (but not exorbitant) return.

i’m less sympathetic to high administrator pay among medical networks, the whole medical records/billing industry, as well as the medical insurance industry. that feels like a very high tax burdened onto healthcare.
They're using the fact that he said it as a point in favor of it being true.

However Thiel has a vested interest in making Google look worse. They're a competitor.

He wants to say that Google is no longer innovating and then uses a thin excuse to validate his claim. And we're supposed to trust his reasoning. But all he's really done is back-fitted a reason to his conclusion. He wants to believe that Google is no longer innovating, so he picked something Google is already doing and claims that that is evidence.

The first step would be to define "innovation" in a way all relevant parties can agree upon. Then we need to agree on the things Google has done that would qualify as innovation. Then we can plot how much innovation they've done then compared to now.
The instance at the company I work at isn't exposed. But it isn't firewalled off/behind a VPN because our clients can also log in and create/update tickets.
There are opportunity costs and risks associated with holding onto excess cash. Continuing to hold that cash sort of implies at least some difficulties in making a decision on what to do with it. Doing nothing, or just sticking the cash in short-term securities, has a cost of its own. That's not the same as thinking the company has no ideas, of course. But for companies like Apple and Google, those ideas often aren't necessarily capital intensive ones--at least relative to the size of their cash holdings--and when they're successful, can wind up exacerbating the problem by generating...more cash.
Not true at all.

The reason why prices are so high is because of the complicated billing system that each insurance provider has. Medical providers have to create positions just for people to bill insurance.

It's gotten to the point where single-payer health care will be cheaper just because of the paperwork it'll save. (Not that I personally advocate for single-payer. We can also lower costs by correctly regulating private insurance.)

By the way, if you're into economics, look into Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Kings used to do the same things to keep peasants busy while they profited. This is no different.
What about overdubbing? That’s the trick the majority of the industry uses.

...

> Asked the market vendor to turn the radio off?

> Not happening for a regular person.

And here were get to the crux of the matter.

I defer you to Charlie Brooker’s excellent video on “how much making one episode of a TV show costs”... skip to 5:05 for the section on clearance.

https://youtu.be/LbrmaeiZ4RE

All this stuff I’ve talked about is looked at by teams of people in media companies because they have to exist within the scope of the the law.

And that’s the issue you seem to have. It’s unreasonable to expect one person to do 20 extra jobs.

Yes it is. Which is why media companies hire 100s of people. Because they have to comply with the law.

Just because this is one person doesn’t mean he is outside the scope of the law. He doesn’t get any special treatment for being an individual. He’s got to suck it up like the rest of us.
They already get a decent amount of flak for investing a lot of money in their Other Bets. Imagine how much shareholder animus there would be if they started investing 10s of billions more?
This deftly misses Theil's point and the supposed fallacy is wholly irrelevant. Alphabet's success came off the back of world-changing innovation; now their best offering is the stagnant status quo, yet they position themselves as creatives building the future.
This still happens with the Atlassian hosted version of Jira.
Most offensive to me is that a nurse practitioner seeing you may result in the same bill, although she makes $100k.
Also, it isn't just 10000 hours of experience, it's 10000 hours of deliberate practice.