skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the one being disenfranchised.

> cash a check

You can sign it over to someone else and have them cash it. Also many employers (especially in poor areas) offer paychecks on a prepaid card. No check necessary.

> apply for government benefits

You can often do this with lesser IDs such as a birth certificate or school ID, which are often not accepted at the polls.

> buy cold medication

Poor people don't buy much cold medication.

> board an airplane

Poor people don't board many airplanes.

> open a bank account

Poor people are notoriously underbanked, and often don't trust banks anyway (especially since banks have a bad habit of targeting the poorest customers with the highest fees).
I've been using voip.ms for the past year or so, and it's been great for numbers one and two. Can't speak for number 4 though, as I don't have to travel outside the country too often.
> Maybe I trained myself to work like that after reading so much bad documentation.

Same experience here. The documentation is always wrong. Sometimes it's wrong in minor, obvious ways, sometimes it's wrong in subtle corner cases you won't hit for years, sometimes it bears no resemblence to reality[0], but it's always wrong.

The only way to be sure is to look at the code.

0: And then there's cases like the C and C++ standards, where it bears no resemblence to reality and people are actively twisting and sabotaging reality to fit, but that's a different problem.
Call me a cynic, but why should it stop if it works for the VCs? They don't care about the product or the devs or the users experience, just their return. Plenty of things on this world are absolutely abhorrent but continue to this day because they make someone good money.
If you want to support nazis paedophiles and mass murder you don’t get to demand other companies also support that.

Buy your own hardware rather than demand other people look after you
So was hangouts.
Using it for a smaller NVMe SSD, however, is. Quite clearly.

You can call just about anything "not innovative" if you're sufficiently reductionist about it. The idea that the only "true" innovation is some totally unknown, totally revolutionary idea that came completely out of nowhere fully formed is a toxic one that robs people and companies of just praise for coming up with interesting and useful new things, while others get lauded for making a whizbang concept prototype that's never going to be commercially viable.

This is something no one has done before, even if many of the parts have been done in different ways. That's innovation.
>I really doubt anyone times their quitting to the start of the month. People just up and quit because they don't want to work.

I won't defend the specific scenario given but the second sentence there is a huge generalization.
You're correct that insurance plans don't start immediately, but that also leaves people in a difficult, even if temporary, situation.

Europeans however are correct to think that the healthcare system in the US is abysmal, because it is. All this goes without saying that employment-tied insurance puts people in precarious positions, which is obvious.
Re: Most people are lucky to drive a year without a costly mistake. Put them in the air, and their mistake (or a self-driving mistake) means death.

I would expect bots to control masses of flying cars in populated areas, not human drivers. The air is actually simpler to navigate because there's not much around besides other flying vehicles. You don't have pedestrians, potholes, fallen trees, fading lane paint, etc. (Maybe flying sharks during a sharknado, but those are relatively rare.)
>I'm finding that the rewards in mental health are more than sufficient to justify the astronomical opportunity cost.

If it helps you get by, there's no opportunity cost lost...

Burnt out/broken/dead people have no opportunities!
For me, and I assumed most others, the primary goal of washing is to not feel "icky", not smell.
This is not universally true in my experience. People who take pride in their work will often go the extra mile, without being asked. I don’t “blame”, I just correlate.

Maybe this is the answer: if someone needs a guarantee then they are probably a bad fit for a highly effective team. Highly effective people look for opportunities instead of guarantees perhaps.

If I knew, I would be writing articles, not asking questions...
my chrome hasn't updated yet, but my understanding of this change was that you could display the full unmolested URL by simply clicking in the address bar. is that not the case?
I live in Western Oregon where for much of the year we have an abundance of water falling from the sky. We already have tons of people moving to the area, but I wonder if the number of people moving to areas like ours is going to go up tremendously.
I've been trying to get at this sort of nudge for a while now and I still haven't found the ideal interface.

The best solution I have is running a Periodic Timer [1] on my Apple watch along with Timelines time tracker [2]. And so I am reminded every 10 minutes to update my time tracker. It works quite well but I wish it was smarter and all in one app.

Finding the right time spans is also key, you want it to be as short as possible so that it is granular data but not too short so that the nudge becomes some sort of background noise you learn to ignore while focused.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/periodic-timer/id933241656

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timelines-time-tracking/id1112...
Yes, it IS insurance.

Its value is not to reimburse you for routine visits or minor procedures, it's to prevent you from going bankrupt if you get cancer or any similarly expensive condition to treat.

A useful way to look at it is the cost to treat each condition multiplied by your odds of getting that condition. That's also why pre-ACA, insurers would discriminate against patients with pre-existing conditions: the cost to them was nearly guaranteed to happen as the odds were close to 1.

If you were to start a health insurance company and only have a small pool of customers, you'd essentially be gambling as the variance is too unpredictable. (In reality, you'd be re-insured but that's a different story.) That is why a large pool of patients makes the most sense, and ideally, if the { pool of patients } = { country population } then you can rely on Public Health stats for risk modeling. And if you're not beholden to shareholders demanding a profit/dividends, there are some efficiencies that can be gained.
I thought Lottie was the After Effects to code plugin. Happy to be wrong though.

Anyway, it’s a pleasure to meet you - I’ve been impressed with both your projects and following them for a while now. Love to talk more about them.
No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health
their agenda is less non-White people in the US. it fits with that perfectly.
I agree although your example hinges on scalability where Dropbox hinges on simplicity that is at odds with growth.
>The buildings would be worthless without without publically funded roads.

That publicly funded road would be pointless and unfunded without the economic activity driven by those buildings. In fact if you offered the businesses the chance to fund the roads, police and other things provided by the state that they benefit from themselves without the governmental overhead they would likely jump at the chance as it would be far cheaper than paying taxes.
> These are good values. But the way progressive culture enforces those values socially is pretty intense.

I hadn't drawn this delineation before, but I find it apt. I grew up Asian in the Midwest and while I like progressive values here, I do miss how people there tried to be _neighborly_, even if they held opposing values. I was a kid in the suburbs, so maybe I only saw the softer side, but that doesn't stop me from admiring it and hoping to emulate that particular virtue.
> If somebody is willing to pay the GrubHub fee, then they’re worth it

That's why they're tacking it on without warning

> Yelp Is Sneakily Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Number So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
I couldn't agree more. Abstraction and decomposition were not talked about in the programming classes I took, nor were they talked about in the discrete mathematics class I took.

When I asked teachers why calculus was required for discrete mathematics and programming I was told, "To create mathematically mature thinkers, which is a prerequisite for these topics." This seemed foolish to me, because calculus seems to weed people out who struggle with abstraction and decomposition, not teach it to them. Instead the topics could be explicitly taught, and thankfully these topics are taught in some schools.

Over the decades I've seen people who taking programming classes, struggle, and assume they're not smart enough. By sitting down with them and not only teaching these topics but demonstrating them in a concrete way, programming seems to come easily and naturally for these people who once struggled.

Discrete mathematics is incredibly important for programmers. I'd argue it's the single most important class for a dev. It also helps the student understand where a teacher or text book is coming from, by seeing how they structure their lessons, and how they communicate those lessons. The intent becomes transparent. Discrete mathematics taught me how to read text books in an effective way. This accelerated my learning of every subject I've studied since. For this reason, discrete mathematics should be taught easily and simply in elementary school. We're already teaching programming in elementary schools, so we're half way there already. Furthermore, the way discrete mathematics is taught today is difficult. It doesn't have to be. Difficult subjects can be made easy. The complexity of the subject is not an excuse to not teach the topic to kids.
>It can sometimes be solved by talking to some 45 year old carpet layers about their knees, carpenters/framers about their backs & wrists, etc.

I know many manual laborers who have far better physique, strength, and health than the average sedentary programmer, so there's that...

The key is to be an independent craftsman, and not e.g. lay carpets as an employee (at the businesses pace and mercy), or stand all day, etc...
Are you talking about every washroom in a legal jurisdiction (city/state/nation)? That's politics.

Or are you talking about the washroom down the hall? That's just your typical company policy.

Quod non erat demonstandum
Is there anything wrong with arguing that, with evidence?

I don't know why the study was done the way it was, and a follow up should certainly look at roundup alone, I don't think that invalidates this study though.
Show HN: Convert Data into Documents
If you're curious, I think this is the original proposal from ~ 1996. It's amazing to see all the old hardware vendors on these things. Gateway and Maxtor are dead now (Maxtor is on the ATA-3 specification). I like that this covers two pretty common use cases. I wonder if the current "sleep" technology of computers does this with the RAM, or if they use another more modern mechanism.

http://t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/technical/d96137r...
Microsoft changed the default offset for volume creation to 1Mb (2^20 bytes) a while back, around Win7(? SP1)/2012R2 or so.

2^20 bytes lines up with any known disk sectoring at the expense of "wasting" 1 mb, which wrt today's capacities is trivial.

If you want to declare a smaller offset, you can, but absent an explicit value, one (binary) mb is what you get.
Intel Announces 56-Core Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Processors Arriving H1 2020
India wants to tax local income of global tech giants
I did not cherry-pick, I took some examples off of duck duck go to prove a point that everywhere has their problems and you probably shouldn't be criticising my country (which is quite rude) while completely ignoring the point I was making about public transport being quite unpleasant experience in general and why people quite rightly want to avoid it.

The Government wherever that is will have to sort out those problems rather than just try guilty people into not using their cars.
Interesting enough, the article doesn't mention that in a lot of places (and possibly a bit too long ago for any of those to be affected), baptismal certificates substituted for birth certificates

Sure, there might have been some time difference between date of birth from date of baptism, but it was usually short enough (even if it might have been a couple of years)
Hi HN,

Riley here.

Have you ever been asked to "make a quick report before the end of the day"? You say yes with a sunken heart - you know, it will be the opposite of quick.

Creating reports is time consuming, tiring and generally not the highest priority. That's where DocGenSoftware comes in -- it gathers all of your data to create documents or reports in less time than it takes to pour a cup of coffee.
This is a joke. Driving is incredibly easy to self teach with 10 minutes and a parking lot.
The SPARC project’s first task, over the next few years, will be to build and test a full-scale prototype HTS fusion magnet. ... one of the primary missions of the prototype HTS coil will be to investigate our ability to detect and mitigate a “quench” event, which is a sudden loss of superconductivity.

Good for a decade of funding and theses before having to actually work on fusion.

This is not a "commercial path to fusion". This is superconducting magnet R&D.
I think a personal wiki with clickable links to 2500 sites would be more useful than a browser with 2500 tabs open. It could even be easily curated by more than one person.

That said, Firefox some strides starting in 55 insofar as handling very large number of tabs starting in version 55.

https://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-h...

Unfortunately Palemoon is more or less firefox 38 still isn't it?
Earn Premium Items in Popular Games for Exercising
Makes me want to gather them in a room and continue the process. Irix was so very good.
It's slow, first and foremost; while I'm not 100% sure on the internals, I think that's because it's doing these operations on js data structures in browser, so pandas would be up to a few orders of magnitude faster out of the box.
Argh, I got bit by a similar issue a while ago when I was expanding a zpool. The pool was originally created using 512b drives. After in-place subbing each lower capacity old drive for a new, bigger (and also 4k) drive and resilvering, I realized that the zpool was running with emulated 512b sectors. Since freebsd zfs doesn't let you modify ashift after pool creation, I was stuck. However, I had some benchmarks laying around and was able to determine that the perf hit wasn't that bad for my workflow (<10%). So, I figure I'll just live with it until I eventually have enough disk to create a new pool with correct ashift and be able to copy all the data on the missized pool without taking anything offline/going under-protection.

Definitely not the sort of problem I expected to encounter during that project, though, so I can totally see how even you guys would hit stuff like that.
during the Hurricane Katrina displacements in 2005, public schools and Universities around the nation struggled with the lack of grade records, identities and birth certificates due to prevalence of Louisiana's (backwards, non-existent, inaccessible) wiped out systems

I wouldn't say much has changed in some regions of the US
I've been very intrigued by their efforts for some time now. Last time I read about NYC Mesh, it sent me down a rabbit hole of research into mesh networks and what it takes to found an ISP. I'd love to replicate their efforts in NOLA, but the legal and technical hurdles are tricky!

When I had looked into it, these resources had been helpful for research:

Wireless Networking in the Developing world -- http://wndw.net/ -- A useful guidebook on the tech needed for large scale community mesh networks

Guifi.net -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net -- A huge wireless mesh in Spain, there's a linked economic report in the references that's very good but may be unavailable at the moment. It may have been, or be contained within, "The Cook Report on Internet Protocol" Volume XX1, No, 12 & XXII, No 1 March April 2013
ISSN 1071 - 6327. The report is very long and covers quite a bit of the social and technical challenges faced by Guifi.net
Airplay Server (supporting video) on Raspberry Pi
>Yeah, let's entrust the communal cattle to whatever amateurs feel like being herdsmen today. And let's entrust the food supply to amateur hunters and fishermen. What could go wrong?

Compared to modern mass-scale industrial stock-farming killing the planet? Nothing really...
You had me until you said the tax collector has an incentive to increase the effectiveness of health services.

Currently the largest medical payer in the US is medicare, a government program. It is also one of the most expensive programs the government runs. The government already has this "incentive" and yet we don't seem to be getting healthier nor do people seem to eat better and exercise more. People seem to be getting more obese, not less [1].

I don't know of a single organization or program that has managed to have long-lasting reductions in obesity. Diets routinely fail because people can't maintain them, and exercise by definition is hard so again it's hard to stick to. One fundamental issue is we don't quite understand why people get fat. It's not clear how the basal "fat" set point that everyone has gets set, but it is clear that deviating substantially from that set point is very difficult and that it might shift over time.

[1] https://www.stateofobesity.org/obesity-rates-trends-overview...
> Then the tax collector has an incentive to increase effectiveness of health services by educating and encouraging the population to eat well and exercise daily.

But then the population doesn't have an incentive to follow that education and encouragement—at least not a monetary one. As a comedian said, "You see, I don't have to exercise, because I have health insurance."
I bought a Rock Pi 4 and the whole kit-n-kaboodle. Just finished doing some benchmarking and it has pretty impressive performance, but it definitely needs assistance staying cool. The case I have is aluminum with the bottom of the case being a whole-board heatsink, and I still had to set it on top of ice packs with a fan blowing to keep it from throttling under heavy benchmarking load.

I think one thing people don't think about with SBCs is that we are making pretty significant thermal performance trade-offs. I wish somebody made a case with a clean flow through and at least 1 120mm fan in it.
OneNote is amazing.

Sadly they are trying to discontinue the old version that let you use a plain file share to distribute it.

Newer versions can only be used with cloud sync which scares a lot of important people (and for good reason).
A solution for a problem that's not really a problem... Garbage in garbage out. As for the automation piece, surely a bunch of if/else will do. Not exactly rocket science
Inertial confinement fusion was for fusion bomb technology development. It's used to produce bomb-like conditions on a laboratory scale. It was once billed as having something to do with energy production, but that was for PR purposes only.
The programmers creed variant:

"Weeks of coding saves hours of planning."
An Introduction to Counterfactual Regret Minimization (2013) [pdf]
Can anybody explain how this works? like on a technical level?
Just to sum this all up and add some detail:

Shift-Cmd-3 will simultaneously capture a screenshot of ALL monitors connected to your system and put the files on the Desktop.

Shift-Cmd-4 will give you a cursor with which you can draw a rectangle of the area desired; if you then hit Space, however, the cursor changes to a camera icon which then allows you to click on any open window. That window will then be captured.

Shift-Cmd-5 pulls up a full set of screen capture controls with various options.
Hangouts is still around, and still available for consumer. It’s being replaced with Chat, which will have feature parity and consumer support. Most people won’t even notice, as it will continue to appear in Gmail with an identical UI.

Google’s communication skills are deeply lacking, and leaks made it worse. But no, Chat is still around for consumers.
A high deductible plan would bankrupt the average person if they ever needed to draw on it. The average American can't come up with $500 let alone $5000 so for them the high-deductible plan (the only only the could afford) is as good as nothing at all. You're still going to be relying on medicaid.

It's not a real health insurance plan because it doesn't cover the realities of every-day life. You're leveraging (literal) survivorship bias in defense of this plan. You could make the same exact case if you didn't have health coverage at all, and nothing happened to you (that it was a good fit for you and it was both simple and lived up to its promises).
>> open borders, safe passage

Safe passage to where? Bringing people in is the easy thing to do, taking care of them and keeping the same standards of living for the "natives" is not so easy. I'm all on board welcoming as many people as possible as long as there is a plan for them once they get here. Nobody provided a such plan.

We've seen what happens with open borders: countries that welcomed massive numbers of migrants found themselves unable to coup and started looking at their neighbours to distribute them. Good plan, right? That's what I call "responsibility".

>> i can assure you that it carries not the slightest conviction to the people of the left.

Yeah sure, until their benefits are hit or when they see migrants doing better than them in their own country.
Tell that to the people who voted Brexit and UKIP and keep in mind they voted against "european migrants" who made a net positive contribution to the economy.

My point is that people change their stance on "open borders" when the reality hits(i.e they no longer get access to benefits, get mugged by a migrant, loose their low skilled job to a cheaper migrant etc).
Thanks! I wasn't clear about the distinction between those products. Given that information, it really isn't a major issue, if maybe a bit clunky.
It's more profitable to just deny cover than invest in risky strategies like life extension. This is what we see play out on the regular.
Where does it all go?
Have you considered that they're not being rejected on the basis of their beliefs, but because they're coordinating/encouraging acts of domestic terrorism on these platforms? "I hate X" is free speech, "Let's kill X at Y" is a crime.
With the ACA, insurance companies have incentives to encourage the people they cover to take as good of care of themselves as possible more than ever. I think they are currently and in the future will do a better job of that than the tax collector ever will.

Especially when it comes to preventable diseases, good health insurance companies are doing some really interesting work on effective behavioral change and early intervention. My insurance for instance pays me to walk every day.
Google wants nobody to know URLs exist, and that everyone is forced to search Google for everything, even sites they know, and there visit fake AMP-sites portraying to be from a server they are not, all while Google tracks every single keystroke you make.

This is just another tiny step in that overall plan, and it is 100% evil.

Don’t waste your time trying to talk the Chrome-team into reason. You are not their customer, nor their employer. They will not listen.

If you don’t like what Google is doing, use other products. Firefox, DDG, iPhones etc.
Philadelphia: https://phillymesh.net/
When I did my (one, never again if I can help it) venture funded startup, "the only goal is an exit strategy" came up a lot, and always when one of the founders talked about a growth opportunity that would pay off over years and not months.
"This is not a complete enforcement list because most are not announced in public"

Trust us! say the deciders.