skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most times I wouldn’t say it’s important that you go through exactly the same formal process that you’d do if you were planning to publish your own peer-reviewed article.

However, in a software engineering context, let’s say that you’re implementing a new library to do something in a new programming language. If other, more established languages had popular libraries that did something similar, I’d systematically catalog what those libraries are, read their user docs, maybe read their source a bit, and certainly try to develop an understanding of what I thought was the right approach.

In your own readme, including this information up front, along with why you chose to implement the way you did almost certainly advances the state of the practice.

At a minimum you’ll have a record of what influenced your thinking so that, if you come back in the future, you’ll know what other threads may have advanced in the meantime.

I’ve thought of this as a way to contribute to open source that isn’t writing code or docs after the fact. Like, imagine you’re a Racket user and you wish there were a library to do X: maybe it’s a worthy contribution just to start a github repository and document the libraries that do something similar, and what you see as good and bad about those approaches. Maybe someone with the bandwidth to write the software will see your documentation and find that it gives them a head start.
Humans suck at being random, basically.
Speculative ‘supergravity’ theory wins US$3M prize
> Nothing stops you or anyone from running your own DNS root

That is what this is doing.

> Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol compatible with DNS where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities. Its purpose is not to replace the DNS protocol, but to replace the root zone file and the root servers with a public commons.

- https://handshake.org/
Harnessing Vision for Computation (2008) [pdf]
The magnets are on the outside of the containment vessel, their whole point is to keep the plasma in the center. What little leaks out ablates the walls of the container, it never even touches the magnets.
How the NSA's Firmware Hacking Works and Why It's So Unsettling
What if Stronico could afford $5000 in an emergency, and could also afford to pay for the much smaller incidental treatments not covered?

It is clearly false for you to claim Stronico didn’t have insurance.

If something serious had happened they would have paid the $5000 and the rest would have been covered by their plan.

I agree that this might not work for the average American, but that’s the only valid part of your claim.
The laws for this was recently refined in Denmark, you are allowed to run a buffer (so that you can record x minutes up to an accident) but you are not allowed to save it permanently without hitting a button.
Population level statistics aren’t informative at the individual sample level. If you buy 100 hard drives, a 2% failure rate makes sense and you can reason what it means. You’d expect two of those drives to fail in a year. But what does that mean if you only buy two drives total? An individual drive can’t fail by 2%. It has either failed or it hasn’t (ignoring bad blocks, etc). So, for home use, the Backblaze statistics are interesting, but can you really tell the difference between a 2% failure rate and a 3% failure rate when you buy a small number or drives (or likely just one)? You’re most likely to not see any failures from either vendor, as they have a success rate of either 97 or 98%.

It’s only when your sample sizes get sufficiently large that these failure rates start to have a good predictive value.
You’d think that this would be easy to crack down. All you need to do is pay for an unlock and trace where the unlock request came from.
We're actually building out support for Java right now and would be more than happy to explore other server-side languages you're interested in. If you have more specific requests ping me at abhi@langapi.co and I'd love to talk!
Not to be confused with Panic's Usenet/NNTP client:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_(Usenet_client)
US grad school is the same scam. There’s an argument that only foreigners should compete in it for the green card.
I can't praise Unison enough.
I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across.
I've donated multiple times over the years.
It's obvious that this is a dark pattern to increase the usage of Google search versus just typing in an address.
That's what happens:
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/medicare-for-all-marylan...
It has nothing to do with AMP. There's a lot of reasons why, but one reason is for example, two different sites can technically be hosted on www. and the non-www version, if the site isn't set up to redirect the www to the non-www, for example. So this could, in certain scenarios, pose a security risk in that if you pretend that www and the non www are the same sites -- when they're not -- it can make it easier for those that hijack one or the other to get away with it. Now, that's fairly extreme and esoteric. But there are actually times in development when you use subdomains, which this makes more difficult, and there's other subdomains they're considering trivial which, in fact, aren't. This is really good discussion on the topic and why this change just simply ignores so many technical issues, best practices and simply realities: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410
> FWIW: Several of my role models - if you include people who are not alive, people I've only read about - are not white males.

But you didn't and don't lack for options.

I'm a straight white man from America. No matter what personal, family, and economic difficulties I've faced:

- I have literal decades of seeing other white men in a variety of roles. I can pick and choose from the stereotypes I want to put in high regard, emulate, or dismiss, not 3 or 4.

- growing up, there was no blanket treatment of me or people others decided I was like outside of choices I made. I could adopt "redneck" habits/dress, or "frat boy", or "nerd", or "jock", but I had control over whether I was identified as a "thug", or " aggressive", or "professional".

- Because "my" culture was broadcast everywhere (TV/movies/books/magazines), I was never regarded as "weird" or "threatening" because people weren't accustomed to anything I'd do or say or how I'd dress.

As a kid, I was freaked out by the first black person I met, because his palms were a lighter color than the rest of his skin. That's a stupid thing to be freaked out by, but it was _different_ to me because I didn't see it anywhere. It wasn't "normal" My skin color, in return, was very "normal" looking to him, because fish-belly-pale is hardly a skin color that is hard to see in any community - just turn on the TV. Growing up in a more diverse area I would have seen more and wouldn't have had that reaction - but turn on the TV and it was still monochromatic.

As a kid I regularly teased a girl in my grade (a friend!) for her hairstyle, because it wasn't "normal". Of course, it was quite normal - if you have those genes, or see anyone that does. Again, put me in a more diverse world and I'd have seen it...but what did she see on TV? in movies? on magazine covers?

And there were "black" TV shows, and "black" magazines...but everything else wasn't "white" - it was "normal". Which meant "not black".

I had, and have, the liberty of choice because "normal" includes me, and I can choose if I want to include it. But if "normal" was defined to exclude me, what kinds of choices would I have? I might become a "well-spoken" and "clean" black man!
That sounds much worse than it is. Outside of farming a cubic meter is a lot of water.

Desalination costs ~3$ per 1,000 gallons of which around 40% is electricity costs, that’s generally affordable for most areas based on consumption and local economic conditions. Though again, not for farming.
I recently had a very minor surgery scheduled to have something removed, on the right side. The doctor was filling out the surgery form and checked the "left" box.

It was because on the form, the "right" checkbox was on the left side, and the "left" checkbox was on the right.

(He immediately caught it and corrected it.)
Yeah, it looks like you're right. I thought the fine was for Google's French offices, but it was actually filed against the one-and-only Google. I'm not even sure there's a French office or data center.
The article mentions one such tool - needles with eyes. As this innovation is mentioned, I imagine the time of its invention is consistent with the hypothesis. Do you have in mind specific tools from before 70kya that seem to require recursive thinking?

I am not sure what would constitute recursion in tools - maybe something like an atlatl, sling or bow, where a tool is applied to another tool? These particular examples do not seem to challenge the timing of the hypothesis.
Which version of the FF do you use?
Ok but I don't get why you're so obsessed with the fs layout anyway. You should mostly treat it as a black box. And the point of ibdata1 is safety, which as you stated higher up is a serious problem with MyISAM. Even if it's not oom situations, you'll end up stuck sooner or later. You have been warned.
I'm not sure what you are referencing with the 20% cut remark, but there isn't harm to health insurance companies (actually, providing care through medicare advantage may be an issue...) if everyone is extremely healthy. Then the main costs truly would be the unpreventable diseases, most of which come unexpectedly. This is the exact market that works for risk pooling!
Yeah, the whole language is designed around it. Impossible to remove without rewriting it from scratch:
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/FAQ#language-x-...
Hey there codexarcanum,

My partner and I are NOLA based programmers / lawyers who have been researching this matter for a few years. We own the domain nolamesh.net and would love to work with you to navigate the political / legal / business issues to deploy a similar network in the New Orleans metro area. Please reach out to us at nolalawcorp@gmail.com
and let's set up a meeting.
I miss idling dozens of channels on GameSurge. Good times.
You can use ulimit to set soft and hard limits for all sorts of system resources (including memory) on Linux.
I also always thought this is a natural thing for Sketch to have it. Webflow gives similar experience of Sketch but to build web pages.
I imagine the next cognitive leap is toward greater empathy to the other, and de-emphasizing the self.
> If Apollo 11 had found oil on the moon, we would have a few thousand people living there already.

You're forgetting the most important piece of information in the economy: price.

Since oil produced on Earth is cheap, compared with hauling it back from the Moon, we don't get any from the Moon.

Now, if we had found some exotic energy source that didn't exist on Earth at all, that would be a different story.
That's what the 15% fee is for. I can envision splitting up amazon into its retail, web, and logistics branches where the retail branch pays the logistics branch the 15% fee to use their network.
Was Smalltalk ever mainstream?

It was explored briefly in the early '90s at IBM (Hi, OS/2 Workplace Shell!), but the general consensus before the project was cancelled was to go with C/C++. I suppose education also saw some use, but various Lisps have most, if not all, of the above features and much more mainstream use in the '80s.
The Bayes prior was already low since Glyphosate was already well known to degrade quickly in soil.
"Routine care can be cheap. We really only need coverage for catastrophic care - broken bones, herniated disc, acute injuries, etc., etc., and routine care benefits for those so impoverished as to not be able to afford it. IMO, of course."

Where do chronic illnesses, hearing aids, HIV, diabetes, dialysis, mental health intevention and outpatient therapy, etc. fall under that paradigm?
Compactness and Orthogonality
I bought an ATT locked iPhone SE from Ebay just 2 months ago. The unlocking process was essentially just going to ATT website and typing in the IMEI and they unlock it within 15 minutes for free. I assume all the "pay $10 to unlock your phone" services are just counting on the average person being too lazy to discover your can just do the legwork yourself.
Thank you, I will check if we can enable zram somehow.
How's the legality of this? Do you need a work visa or somesuch?
So expensive for what used to be free. I wish they included at least one account with my existing gsuite subscription.
Yes, but sometimes research is just safe procrastination and more can be learned, more quickly, by jumping into the unknown and trying to figure it out.
Some candidates are trying to jump onto the brand without supporting the core proposals, but the Sanders/Jayapal senate and house bills for Medicare for All are the core proposals by which the others should be judged.
A for-profit company will drive profits for stockholders (and not necessarily the community or customers) which will also drive competition. Sure, it creates jobs but that’s not a for-profit company’s goal. I guess it is difficult to compete given laws and/or regulations, so running a new such company for-profit would be too difficult?
The Steamboat Willie shorts will go public domain on January 1, 2024 under current law--if they are not already in public domain due to Disney failing to observe all the proper copyright steps (this is alleged, but has never been argued, successfully or otherwise, in a court). If Disney desires to extend copyright to keep Mickey Mouse from slipping to the pubic domain, they are rapidly running out of time to do so.

I strongly suspect that next decade will see Mickey Mouse fall into the public domain.
> But simple file syncing... This is not a winner-take-all market.

On its own, probably not. But you could imagine several avenues they could naturally grow into, that would _eventually_ turn them into the equivalent of a full OS. Its not something I would personally bet on, but also not something that, if it worked out, would totally surprise me. E.g. maybe _they_ should have invented Google Docs, and then...
1.) How is unlocking a phone "malware"? Isn't the lock malware, and the unlocking serves the owner of the device? Calling it malware reeks of regurgitating AT&T propaganda.

2.) How did this "deprive AT&T of the stream of payments it was owned under the customers’ service contracts and installment plans."? A phone getting unlocked doesn't void a contract, so those customers are still on the hook.
"When it grows to about 1,000 members, he added, it can hire its first support person."

Volunteer-based initiatives can turn into companies if they're successful. Hopefully that's the case here.
More than one person can be at fault for a violation.
Most Americans vote with their feet to avoid this sort of governance.
> All the net needs is a standard API (non-disqus) which will allow people to discover

How can a discovery API work? Please describe :- )

- What API endpoints are needed and what would they do?

- How do they help with identifying good blogs?

- How do they help people discover blog posts they want to read, among all good blog posts?

- How can cheating, be prevented? (like, pretending one's blog post got 999 999 visits & "upvotes", to boost it's populartiy score)

I'm interested because I'm developing an open source Disqus alternative. (It's called Talkyard Blog Comments. There's also Commmento, also open source under active development.)
Grubhub isn't grifting anyone. These restaurants have to sign up with Grubhub for the phone referral to do anything.

It works both ways though. Restaurants will regularly put up menu items with titles like "Call in for discount for free delivery" or something like that so they can subvert the Grubhub fees while still getting the Grubhub traffic.
> Functions exist because of procedures.

Functions exist on actual computers because of procedures. That's the part you still seem to be struggling to understand for some reason.

> Stop twisting your own words.

The only one twisting words here is you.

> What is being composed?

The procedures.

> How is it being composed?

By running them in sequence.

> Does the execution of consecutive steps always mean something is composed?

It means those two steps are composed, yes.

Would you like me to go over that yet again for you?

> We are having this conversation because YOU don't know what you're talking about,

Says the one who still insists that function composition can somehow exist on real computers without procedure composition.
It didn't get missed its just that nobody cared enough.

Servers can be provisioned with way more than enough memory for its use case and can have spares configured to take up the load if it has to be killed.

On the desktop side the issue happens far less if you have more than enough memory. A developer running vim and firefox/chrome on his 32GB of ram machine is vastly less likely to experience this issue than a cheap laptop with 4GB of ram.
How does one differentiate between the two? The mind is very sneaky is it not?
The quickest fix is to just put in next year's Medicare contract that no provider is allowed to charge any payer more than they charge Medicare. Much of what insurers do to negotiate in-network and out-network pricing with the various hospitals, pharma companies, and doctors becomes irrelevant, and they just end up varying in the reimbursement schedules. Get all of the supposed cost savings of single payer, without a single payer.

If things really do get cheaper, it gets a lot easier to figure out universal coverage. If they don't get cheaper, we learned a lot without having to implement single payer. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/medicare-for-all-marylan...
Poster is asking for upvotes in a slack channel. Is that allowed?
The damage that could be caused by disrupting utilities in the middle of winter is quite disconcerting to think about.
Am I supposed to be outraged by this ban? It sounds like it was well deserved.
Maybe ATS? C--? Cython?
How difficult would it be to build a Dropbox clone on top of this?
WRONG! I had a working touch screen in my Dell Laptop, but when I went on vacation to Cuba the screen mouse moved a random. I noticed it worked properly in my room after half an hour or early in the morning if I was outside.

But once it it got warm and humid it was unusable. I had to turn off the touchscreen and then I could at-less use the mouse.

This hack would work even when the air is humid.
"We’ve had 14 installs and 84 requests in the past 4 weeks, which works out to 3.5 installs a week."

https://www.nycmesh.net/blog/march-2019-update/

I don't think they are threatening jobs at this point. I assume if it grows big, they will likely have to hire someone and pay them.
We've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20626090.
Everyone dies, but not everyone who does so needs life insurance.
They're only announcing the form factor today, not a final product. But we should see at least 512GB, and probably 1TB. Their current 1TB BGA SSD is a bit thicker than XFMEXPRESS.
TA is pretty close to last on my list for restaurant search. The top of every ranking in any even mildly touristy city is going to be spammed to hell and back. It's basically a list of "where do tourists go who can be preferentially selected into leaving a review?"
The VC isn't exactly wrong about this. If you want a valuation in the hundreds of millions or billions, your goal is to figure out how to grow fast and capture defensible territory in a market. Profit is less important than growth—as long as you have a path to profit based on that growth.

If you're not aiming for this kind of territory, you're not really compatible with the VC financial model, which is designed around high risk and high reward. 30–40% of startups end up in liquidation, and 95% never meet their projections. Unless some your successful companies have fantastic returns, your fund will fail.

This is something you should understand before you take VC money.
I agree, though I think a universal, single payer system under government oversight without profit seeking drive would be better. Consolidation under the current system is identical to McDonalds and Burger King consolidating the fast food industry, they will still be driven to outperform the other to consumers and to investors/owners.

Instead, a single system under the Us government shifts negotiation of drug prices, care expenses, and more to one entity backed by the government, not just a set of insured customers, which has excessive power to negotiate. Like other nations that function this way, there is no skimming off the top for shareholders or profits and as the only other party at the table suppliers/hospitals can't play opponents against each other or take a kickback to give better pricing to the larger insurer or something.

Ideally, it consolidates and simplifies negotiating pricing or allows the government to step in and say, "No thanks, we'll pass a law or budget for that on our own unless you lower prices or cut a better deal.

Also, a government system could cut out administrative and bureaucratic paperwork like billing, coding, and more potentially removing a large % of overhead costs that exist currently, by default lowering expenses for healthcare similar to Canada.

the biggest issue I see is that about 1/6th of the US economy is built on health care/insurance/etc companies. shifting that away from corporations into private hands could cut tens of thousands of jobs (like billing and adjusters) while shifting that cash flow under the US government as well. There would be fallout as people would need social safety buffer for unemployment or retraining or education. I don't think it could happen without pairing up with reduced/free college and smart expansion of some needs based aid. That requires some sort of tax, maybe like Warren has suggested, to cover intermediate costs and friction.

The good news is it could save the average family over $5000 per year in insurance costs alone while bringing millions out of medical debt and providing a better standard of care and options for everyone. It's not libertarian to shift something under the government but if it makes economic and ethical sense to give such a monopoly to the feds (like with infrastructure, the military, and more) while improving choice for citizens (no longer tied to employer healthcare or entering debt to resolve acute or handle chronic medical issues) it could be a huge boon for choice and freedom. I'd be one of the first to start my own business if I didn't have to worry about my chronic health issues being fully covered and paid for by my employer plan.
Agreed, I don’t see much in the way of negativity here. It doesn’t seem like customers were defrauded, only AT&T.
Racism/Islamaphobia aside, all you're doing here is engaging in whataboutism.

There are certain forums (e.g. child boards on 8ch) wherein groups of people openly advocate for the commission of hate crimes and murder. Most civilized persons would regard this sort of behavior as a manifestation of evil, and no private person or organization should be obligated to facilitate this behavior.
My Windows touchscreen system failed when it got too humid.
$7.5B bill to extend life of current nuke fleet has bipartisian Senate support
Culture matters. Environment matters. Yes he chose to commit the crime but if the environment promotes this kind of thinking/behavior then the environment needs change as well.

If he were Muslim or dark skinned we'd be losing our shit but because he's a white Christian male he's a lone wolf and it's solely his responsibility. Excuse me but I find that to be utter horsecrap.
Dog saliva can cause serious bacterial infections, but it's rare