skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about this, and a large component of the importance of continued employment is of course money, but more important is the insurance provided. If a public option came to be, the "safety" of those left jobless would be intact while they searched for another position. Ask any employer, there is a massive talent shortage. Anyone competent should be able to find a job.

Also, health insurance companies could pivot to "fast-lane" service offered through independent providers as an actual benefit, no need to just die.

The insurance industry's crumbling would not happen immediately, and there would be years of legal hearings at the state and federal level. Humana/BCBS would not go down quietly due to legislation. Employees would have plenty of time to slowly leave, and these large employers should have the foresight to not replace 1:1 as they're under the legeslative gun.

Obviously losing "job slots" is a big deal, and I'm sure you'll see people on both sides of the aisle cry foul as this anti-insurance sentiment gains traction, but it's not as big of a crisis as the jobs in jeopardy from global warming and automation. But we can keep an unnecessary institution afloat much easier than we can change global environmental and economic policy, so I expect insurance jobs will be safe for a good long while.
Also in that list: fryer emissions, red meat, coffee, and 65+ °C beverages.
Well, it's not one man, it's 53 men and women, and that's not abdication it's politics -- as practiced by both sides when in power.
Yeah, I could have done that. If anyone else wants to play this, here's a script to print the timestamps of a particular user as Unix time: https://gist.github.com/saagarjha/6f6474fd212bd9904e6d7cc81f... the histogram above was generated by loading the output of that into a spreadsheet, skewing it by 7 hours to account for my timezone, and generating a ASCII histogram from that.
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Looks nice.

This could be quite useful to demonstrate/teach/explain simple stuff to people but I am not so sure if I would like to expose anything else from my console in this way.
I think it is a gamble. My grandmother was in a very good shape till around 100, she lived till 106 but she was sleeping most of the time (at least 16 hours a day) and the last time she took a walk in the yard was at around 104.

The point? She had a very good life up to at least 90 years old, much more than most people I know personally. Reaching 100 is not the point, living 95 good years is.
Same. I transferred a few of the phone numbers I "collected" while traveling to Twilio, and have them all forward calls & SMS to my current "real" number.

I'd love to have a mobile app such as Burner's [0] to do messaging and outbound calls. Right now, when I do outbound SMS or calls, my real/current number appears, which adds a bit to the confusion on the other side. To make international calls, I use the mobile Google Hangouts app.

Burner is great, albeit more expensive than "raw" Twilio, of course. An official Twilio consumer app would be fantastic (but they're probably not interested to support this..?), otherwise an app that I can authorize to manage by Twilio account via OAuth would be great as well...

[0] https://www.burnerapp.com/
There’s still hope for building on the web
Not all legislation has the citizenry as its subject, or creates criminal offences. Legislation can also bind the actions of government, or establish rights which must then be fulfilled by a government.

Public healthcare is typically not provided by creating criminal offences for citizens.
That thing about brain cells not regenerating is a myth, btw.
Can you please point me to data that backs up your claim?

I mean specifically: # of hate crime deaths per 100,000.
I loved this part: Being mediocre is turning down the combat difficulty on Red Dead so you can play through the game. It’s a resistance to hyper-optimization; the “courage to be ordinary”.

I wholeheartedly agreed with this point as soon as I read it. I adapted this approach while building DarwinMail [1].

There have been countless email & Twitter suggestions for DarwinMail. I've always listened and asked questions until I understood what what the users core message was. However, I do not always implement what has been asked.

I believe in some 'truths' when it comes to building your product while following a basic approach;

1. Users are the core of any business.

2. The feedback you receive from users is the most valuable feedback you will receive on your product as they are the ones actually using your product.

3. You do not have to implement everything your users ask for.

Even though you may not do everything your users ask for, that does not mean you are not listening.

I believe you need to keep your features simple and easy to understand.

Being basic reminds me of the saying 'Slow is smooth and smooth is fast'.

To me that is one of the most important truths when it comes to life and business.

[1] https://www.DarwinMail.app
Why would anyone pay $9.99 a month for Dropbox when you can pay $9.99 for Office 365, get the full office suite for six users with 1TB of storage each? I’ve never tried it, but unlike Dropbox, with OneDrive you can share folders without the shared folders taking away from your storage.

With Dropbox for instance with the free account, if you have 2GB of storage and use a shared folder with 2GB of storage you still have a total of 2GB.

If you are immersed in the Apple ecosystem, iCloud Drive will be a better solution once they add shared folders in the fall.
To become a good C programmer (2011) (book recommendations)
Are you suggesting we should just abandon the state? I'm sure there are a few people who feel that way in HI, but I don't think that's the prevailing desire. I suspect doing so would make things markedly worse for them.
I work at Namebase.The other comments address most of your questions, but just to add on: the 52 week rollout will help significantly with preventing squatters. Handshake has designed some other mechanisms that prevent squatting. The first is that the Alexa top 100k domains have been pre-registered (only facebook.com can register .facebook on Handshake). This ensures that existing domain stakeholders can transition to Handshake without worrying about their name being squatted on.

Second, Handshake is airdropping 70% of the mainnet coins to open-source developers. If you have over 15 followers on GitHub, you can claim around $400-800 of Handshake coins (HNS) with no strings attached. Not only will this give developers an incentive to check Handshake out, but also this ensures that the bidding power is spread out at launch. Without this mechanism, a whale could spend $10mm on HNS at launch and outbid everyone.
So the only way they evaluated Roundup was when they also used a hoe? Which they also proved was just as detrimental of a process to the underlying micro-organisms? Why not use roundup alone? I feel like this was written solely to argue “roundup is no more detrimental to soil health than conventional hoeing practices.”
Fun tidbit: you can still access messenger via mbasic.facebook.com

Looks ugly, but does the trick.
I think Crystal is garbage-collected, right?
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Well I don't really know anyone that has a landline any more, so my correction would be you need it everywhere. Especially with 5G arriving soon.
In the Finder,

cmd-shift-A opens Applications folder

cmd-shift-U opens Utilities folder

cmd-shift-L opens ~/Library (might not work on older versions or if ~/Library is invisible)

cmd-shift-H opens Home folder

cmd-shift-C opens toplevel computer folder

cmd-[ "Back" button for Finder windows

cmd-] "Forward" button for Finder windows

cmd-1 changes window to icon view

cmd-2 changes window to list view

cmd-3 changes window to column view

cmd-4 changes window to cover flow view
Sure, but would you believe that I'm now sleeping ~10 PM-7 AM? I'm not convinced there's enough information there to narrow down my location to anything smaller than a hemisphere.
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How much could they charge and be profitable? They would need to out market and undercut Apple and Microsoft.
Embedding a particular SDK doesn't necessarily mean that there's a GDPR violation?
Thank you for your nice reply.

I was making a general point independent of any fraud or lack of records.
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The legacy web interface was so functional! The new interface is actual trash.
Honestly, some self-study to transition into a job that pays more would probably have the highest ROI on your time.
You can pay for it now, and I do: https://cloud.google.com/voice/

It's great if you need multiple numbers.
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Not a loophole,it was specifically written into the ACA to ensure insurance companies spend money on benefits rather than just pocketing everything. Of course, it also has the effect of making the market hard to enter. See, e.g., Oscar
> Kudos to the authors for publishing a (kind of) null result, especially one that goes against the grain of popular thinking.

It is important to note that the experiment was started in May 2016.
I think it's pretty common. It can sometimes be solved by talking to some 45 year old carpet layers about their knees, carpenters/framers about their backs & wrists, etc.

It is nice to be able to put your hands on something you've done though.
2 reasons:

1. Social Media has become a necessary Evil if you are in the marketing of any kind.

2. I don’t care about the business model of social media sites as that is not my business, I am happy just to provide the options for readers to share if they care and I use a simple sharing (without tracking).
> and start treating them like people who are embedded in a cultural context ... Statistical arguments are not convincing.

Is this not the definition of pandering?

I'm not saying you are wrong, I just want to be clear what you are saying: less logic, more pandering.
How would one go about finding the right block size?
> tiny minimalist Dropbox competitor

what is it? I'm lookin for alternatives
Same here, I found Yelp's reviews & rating become more and more irrelevant to real quality over time.
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> killing plants by hoeing had drastic effects on soil fauna and functioning...In contrast, the effects of Roundup on soil fauna and functioning were minor and transient

Not 100% sure what this "hoeing" is, but we need to ban it now before it destroys the planet.
CMS wants to force hospitals to reveal negotiated rates. Can it do that?
It's a great example. No rule will tell you why one is funny and the other is not.
> I'm not going to watch a video. what sort of person do you think I am?

I wish I knew what some people find so worthy of downvoting about suggesting to watch a crash test video that demonstrates the current state of pedestrian safety measures in cars. Or, what is scary/offensive about videos in general. But I suppose I don't need to understand every personality on the Internet...
They aren’t profitable and don’t have a clear road to profitability. They may have a “good product” but if they can’t make a profit, by definition, they aren’t a good company.
Agreed. The prices are meh. The discoverability is terrible and seemingly getting worse. I even feel like the customer service is also screaming downhill. Still, I'm nearly exclusive with Amazon because I give them money and they send me product, and there's no friction in that exchange.

Consider for comparison my recent experience purchasing a wedding gift from Bed Bath and Beyond. They had done everything right to capture my purchase: They hosted the wedding registry, kept the new couple's address hidden, and by not allowing me to select "I'm buying this somewhere else" made it difficult for me to get the item cheaper from another retailer.

Despite all of that, I still abandoned the cart and came back to Amazon. BB&B requires Verified By Visa, and I require my credit card provider to not be stupid about security, so my card was declined with no recourse.

Mind you, Amazon has declined my payment before, too. But they only did it once, more-than paid for their mistake, and haven't troubled me since.

Amazon is a monopoly like Visa and Mastercard are monopolies. They enrich themselves while facilitating commerce. While I'm uncomfortable with that power they hold, I wouldn't want to be without it.
I have a coworker who uses a touchscreen and changed my view on this because she does not use just the touchpad or just the touch screen. She uses both at the same time with one hand on the touchpad and one pointing at the screen.

I agree it's less productive on its own, but it works well when used as a hybrid where you have two types of pointers on one screen.
The author Seamus Blackley is also a co-founder if the XBox amongst other cool things https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Blackley
I suspect this take is as snooty as the caricature you are drawing.
I have witnessed people in my life go insane and now witnessed first-hand dementia with my father and I wouldn't wish either on my worst enemies.
A better way to state that would be that the existence of an armed populace is to deter tyrannical actions from the government.
Glyphosate is not just used for weeding. It is used in much larger quantities to dry plant stems before harvest.
Developers who have been asked to implement a UX dark pattern like this one (or Yelp’s decision to forcibly open the App Store without warning in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625852), did you implement it? Why or why not?

I can’t imagine a case where I would be skilled enough to obtain employment at Yelp, and thus at other companies too, and yet would agree to implement something particularly slimy instead of quitting.

Obviously some people make different decisions, though. If you worked at a well-known company when they implemented an intentionally deceptive darkpattern, perhaps others can learn from your experience.
Amazon doesn't have to pay the 15%, but they DO have to pay for the massive web infrastructure of their retail storefront and for the massive order fulfillment infrastructure.
I'd rather people said what they mean, instead of trying to be witty. Also typos.
You've left out the critical component between the battery and the bldc motors: the motor controller. These deal with the most difficult thermal issues and fail frequently.

On a quad there a 4 motor controllers on board, and only one needs to fail, greatly increasing the odds of overall failure.
In die casting, you have to do a little better than the vertical line test and stay within the specified draft angle. A vertical wall would be a 0 degree draft angle, and not suitable for casting most materials.
If you are in bad shape at 73, you are probably not going to make it to 100. This is called 'compression of morbidity'. As people age better, the period of disability & lower quality of life shrinks, so you tend to live longer in good health but then once something goes wrong, you'll be dead quickly. A lot of centenarians are pretty active, even driving cars, until months or weeks before they die (and they may simply die in their sleep unexpectedly). It's the people who are in bad health in their 50s or 60s who can look forward to decades of expensive & painful ill health before they finally die... In any case, most centenarians I've seen interviewed seem happy to be alive, and don't wish for the sweet mercy of oblivion, so I am happy to take them at their word that they find their life worth living.
I've never implemented one so I'm sure it's more complex than what it looks like.

So you piqued my curiosity. What are some examples of those non-trivial things?
Rights are documented in the Constitution, not given by it.
They have Medicare Advantage private options. Anecdotally I think people vastly prefer the public Medicare over the more complex private versions.
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I would like to buy the drives they use... but they seem to only be able to be purchased from enterprise resellers in large quantities.
Yeah that was my first thought too. It's absolutely possible to distinguish the meaning between those two sentences using grammar alone.

Grammars make sense of sequences of symbols, i.e. order matters.

Only if you claim there is no difference between "dog" and "friend" can you claim that the two sentences are indistinguishable. But that's why they are different words -- so you can tell them apart :)
Those same people oppose all sorts of existing social programs too, and those programs continue to function anyway.

The CFPB was a special case as a small agency with little visible impact that few people even knew existed. Messing with people's health care is quite another matter. See also: “keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
I work at Namebase. Handshake is compatible with ENS actually because Handshake has reserved .eth for ENS names. Since Handshake decentralizes the top-level namespace, Handshake can serve as a gateway to other naming systems like ENS and Namecoin.
This reminds me one of the best tasting bread I enjoyed was Naan from North India. Anyone else know of any other bread which can rival Naan?
This is hilarious and great. The whole website is really funny.
The quote is they are not a product they are a feature.

File syncing and storage is just a feature that Microsoft and Google give away as part of their other offerings.
Sadly, one can find many stories of decent, well-liked, completely harmless people being harassed, detained, and/or deported based on the whims of immigration officials. This includes green card holders and even citizens. It’s horrifying, but that’s where we are currently as a country.
>Who will double check a doctor’s orders?

medical licensing boards perhaps?
Anecdotally, I'd say yes, it's mostly the discoverability, plus things like Prime shipping, reviews, the generally good UI, etc.
Yes, it's a violation of GDPR to tell people that they're consenting. You have to ask them, and they have to perform an "affirmative act" - even a pre-checked checkbox is a violation.

The main relevant sections are probably:

Article 7: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

Recital 32 (explains some of the valid/invalid methods): https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/
Your faith in your anonymity online anywhere is much more of a tinfoil belief.
Have you been to the DMV? It's not very efficient.
> Linux could implement a similar mechanism to signal apps to clean themselves up and maybe a 'save your state, you're about to get killed' signal.

Isn't that pretty much what "memory.pressure_level" [1] is?

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.tx...
to build/combine on two comments in the thread before mine:
word position matters in English as you demonstrated. "A dog bit my friend" has different meaning than "My friend bit my dog".

In other languages, differentiating between subject/object is done differently.
example: "A doggo bit my friendee" or "My friendo bit a dogee" and you can see the difference. Word order is still somewhat relevant here because I didn't add endings to the verb too, which is commonplace in such languages. When you do that you are able to be far more free with word position:

My Friendee doggo bitto. Bitto My friendee doggo.

In this way it's easier to tell the subject/object difference.[1] To some degree this can be done in English and is exactly what Yoda does: "My friend a dog bit" but that sentence can be either of the ones you gave. Adding a comma may help "My friend, a dog bit" = "A dog bit my friend"

[1] This is exactly what Latin does and as rjf72 mentioned it gives more freedom. Many Latin authors put the verb at the end which gives you a sort of suspense as to just what is happening. In my second example I put the verb up front and the subject at the end which allows me to keep you in suspense as to who did the biting.
I often find myself romanticizing the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. I'm certainly not suggesting modern society be dismantled, but there's something intriguing, attractive even, about the simplicity of that life.
Some of them could work for the government doing the same thing they do now. There's plenty of Medicare fraud that needs to be prevented. If Medicare for all is enacted, fraudsters will be coming out of the woodwork.
Because it isn't true.

The money that used to be paid to them doesn't magically disappear.
Face molds capable of tricking face recognition payment authentication systems
In my experience audits done by big 4 are worth nothing. Irregularities are raised, and handled, unofficially, so when the report comes, everything is fine, everything’s legit.

That’s what you get when auditing companies also do consulting.
The Private Car Operator is interesting. I'd like to know what he did to receive the fine.
Cool, let us know when you open source it.
Regarding ABBYY: It seems to be not free so it did not work for my requirements of all tools being free/open. I also found a comparison of both: http://lib.psnc.pl/Content/358/PSNC_Tesseract-FineReader-rep...
obviously its hard to compare and both have their strengths.
Show HN: A state-of-the-art statistical model of skill and game outcomes
The ranking is not to my taste. It ranks followers about 1000x higher than contributions.

You should call it popularity contest, not recruiter ranking. I'm not sure recruiters favor popular people over active people. It's not for recruiting politicians.
Hi HN,

together with colleagues from EPFL I developed a new statistical model that can be used to (a) understand & visualize the skill of sports teams and players, and (b) to predict outcomes of matches. The model is trained on historical data.

In short: it's an extension of the Elo rating system & TrueSkill. The way we improve upon these is by letting the (latent) skill of players & teams change over time in a more flexible way.

I developed it as a Python library, with a (hopefully) easy-to-use API. I'd be happy to get your feedback!

Today I'm presenting the paper we wrote about the model & the inference algorithm at the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) conference in Anchorage, Alaska. It explains all the technical details [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07746
To me it looks like they are all awful. None of them were trained with your specific task in mind so it is garbage in, garbage out.
I wonder if this has ever been tentatively tested by the laptop makers, perhaps even by Apple. Surely thought about -- but tested?
As a Glen Weyl-esque solution, make an owner of x domains pay x dollars for each domain they own. This way personal users get cheap domains, and we extract quite a lot of money from squatters.
I do this and got some good feedback but also some "is great you're interested in my services I charge 400 eur/h. Are you interested?"
I really wouldn't say "nobody has come close" - she was 3 years older (122 vs 119) than the next oldest verified person, and around five years from most of the next top ten - most of them died at 117.

If she was, say, 132, I'd be more suspicious, but 122 sounds more reasonable for statistical outliers in an incredibly complex process.
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, but this is something that was started 8 months ago[1][2][3]

1. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/04/699177071/40-years-after-the-...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trum...

3. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/do...
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