skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember Lester? Every pawnshop transaction is reported to the police department in some places to stop fencing and recover stolen property.
As someone who lives in a system with national healthcare I can say it’s not a problem like you state. We have both private and public healthcare, and You can use both or just the public one. If you have a life threatening illness then you get priority treatment over illnesses that are more of a inconvenience. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better then having admin people deny you treatment based on cost alone.
The Compositional Nature of Vim (2014)
I would've mentioned this in my post but didn't feel I could do the topic justice as I'm not submersed in it like I am the UTF-16 tragedy. This is indeed an important aside, though.
You're not answering the question.

"Let's take a system that works today and impose an additional paper trail, where you lose all your rights if you lose the paper trail."

"Won't that penalize people who don't have a lawyer and who lose their paper trail?"

"Tough, people need to learn to use lawyers"

In fact, now that I right that out, that's an extremely antagonistic approach to take and it punishes the least privileged people (e.g. the people who can't afford lawyers), while doing absolutely nothing for the giant corporations who have lawyers on retainer and will naturally have a process in place to retain proper copies of the paper trail always.
I would love it if you had a link to that study. A relative of mine is on the lookout for CBD oils and I said I'd help find what there is.
Brings a new meaning to "Fulfilled by Amazon".
Strengthen Free Software by Telling Congress to Reject the Stronger Patents Act
>Pfizer worked with O'Shea's [NIH funded] laboratory to define the structure and function of JAK3 and its receptors, and then handled the drug discovery, preclinical development, and clinical development of tofacitinib in-house.

This says the exact opposite...
wait, i had windows xp with firefox and all at 256 mb ram ! which i got later upgraded to 384 mbs because i reused another 128 mb ram chip :)
I sort of hate these articles, because the comments always boil down to three main categories:

1. I vape and this hasn’t happened to me, therefore I’m an expert on public health policy

2. I vape and because it’s better than cigarettes, it’s safe on those terms alone

3. What the hell is wrong with you idiots, safer than cigarettes is not the same as safe

You’re either irrationally defensive (1, 2) because you feel attacked, or you’re a smug dick (3) that trivializes addiction.
If there is anything like tcpdump for COM, it would be part of Event Tracing for Windows, but you’d probably prefer to use it via Microsoft Message Analyzer.
>> The density per server savings is probably a drop in
>> the hat compared to the cost of the engineers themselves

For C++ and Rust yes, unless scale is huge. For Go, emphatically no. Go is simpler to work with, and on typical programs it uses half the RAM and fewer threads. Although even for C++ and Rust at medium scale I'd rather do proper engineering, and pay my (rather than somebody else's) people better. "Hard" languages tend to select better engineers. Go is a bit of an odd one in this regard because it selects better engineers by not allowing the kind of mindless GoF masturbation one often sees in Java programs, at the language feature level. Can't abuse OOP if there's no OOP.

>> [memory] is the only thing I think you'd get from C++

This is far, far from the "only" thing you'd get out of the languages I mentioned. Quarter of the memory, as few threads as you'd like, access to vector instruction sets, easier performance optimization where the code calls for it, not having to tune your GC for smaller heap, not having to new up a class every time you do anything (I know you don't have to, but that wouldn't be idiomatic Java), etc, etc.
Education can only bankrupt you if you choose to go to an expensive university. This is a complete choice and the overall price is known before you take out a loan. Community colleges are a fraction of the price.

"My experiences with social hospitals and doctors was much better than in the USA where it counts. Places weren't often as fancy looking, but the care was superb. Even the private systems in those countries was far more affordable. a few hundred for an MRI etc rather than a few thousand."

I pay for my own insurance in the US. I only pay a couple of hundred/month and most things are covered. My deductibles are very affordable.

There are plenty of option for low-income individuals and pre-existing conditions are no longer something that will prevent you from getting healthcare.

Even if you get a $100,000 bill, you can call the hospital up and negotiate it down to something you can actually pay.

"Whenever I see comments like yours I just get so upset realizing how it's an unwinnable battle in this country because of these ingrained beliefs."

I feel the same way about your comments. You have this ingrained believe that socialized healthcare is the best solution, when private care clearly has advantages.

The majority of people in the US are happy with their healthcare. There should be some additions, so people that can't afford care can get it, but without uprooting the entire system.
Tax man: Why you do not pay taxes from this grow operation of yours?

Grow man: This is personal use only!

Tax man: Nuh uh!
One even reads nice things about the way cassettes sound, like in this Medium post from Aubrey Norwood: “The sound tape gives is warm. Saturated. It promotes a degree of imperfection, and creates an underflow of infamous tape hiss that leaves the format feeling nakedly honest, which is gold dust for the sincere-inclined musician.”

I hope this kind of sickly-sweet format necrophilia gains further ascendancy, making it easier to offload some of the defunct media on the bay to unsuspecting users; who want to justify this kind of 'authentic' experience.
For web dev, the ecosystem isn't quite there yet. I've written a few utilities and toy APIs, but don't feel like the web ecosystem is was rich as it needs to be for a serious project. Actix comes close. A few others like Warp ND Gotham are interesting. I'm waiting for rocket to compile in stable, and pick up async.

But yes, rust is definitely pretty cool, and I'm annoyed that I finally "understand" the language on my nth attempt at learning it, and still haven't found a good use case for it.
In both cases it was rational in the short term: the money kept coming in.

And "individually personally rational" is a weird way to say "greedy sociopath who only cares about how much money was pocketed".
How to get consistent results when benchmarking on Linux?
This is why your software should avoid relying on cloud services that you have little or no control over.
Wasn't really expecting this post to leave my circles, sure am glad now I checked my sources.

Look, ma, I'm on Hacker News!
You mention Django. What amount of experience with Java did you have going into this? IMO Java development has a steeper learning curve than Python development.
Was talking with my endocrinologist. She said insurance companies are now limiting the amount of insulin she can prescribe. She'll have a patient who's been doing fine with 30 units a month and the insurance company will cut it to 25. And then to 20.

My theory is specialists, hospitals, insurance and drug companies are trying to swipe everything that isn't nailed down before it all blows up.
If you have such a model I would welcome it. But realistically, the complexity in SELinux (mostly) doesn't come from SELinux. It comes from the irreducible complexity of doing general purpose fine grained access control on Linux.

You could avoid some of that complexity by building something more opinionated, but it turns out that 99.9% of users do something that only 0.1% of users do. The odds that you break enough to generate the same negative sentiment SELinux has, but without the tools to dog those users out, are quite high.
Agreed but I wouldn't try to infer from a stock photo to the substance of the story. The vast majority of vapes used, especially those by young adults and teens, are not black vapes.
Interesting. He was growing wheat to feed animals. The court decided that him withdrawing from the interstate wheat market was equivalent to him participating in the interstate wheat market. Because in both cases you are affecting the interstate market.

Doesn’t make much sense to me.

If they had said, he’s selling the animals made from wheat across state lines, so the production is regulable, that would at least give me an idea of what kinds of activity are not regulable.

But as it stands, it seems like as long as there is one supply chain that crosses state lines, anyone engaging in any of the same activities are subject to federal oversight. Even if they are operating distinctly from that supply chain, and distributing only within state lines.

Seems impossibly broad to me.

But maybe I’m misunderstanding and it was selling the animals across state lines that triggered the federal jurisdiction.
Hi, I'm the developer of Grassmann.jl, Actually, it has a lot more value to provide than what is taught in school. It never caught on because it was historically difficult to understand without computer algebra to help build intuition.. so the only people who understood it are the ones bold to explore mathematics deeply enough to arrive at this system and utilize it.
I worked for a large global company and this matched exactly what I was seeing. I had projects with year or more development cycles before something was deliverable so "meets expectations" was difficult when you had nothing to show for your work as they only cares about final results. We even had an unwritten rule where everyone must have at a minimum two "needs improvement" because "everyone should be working on making themselves better." This lead to a dark rabbit hole and a lot of engineers leaving.

With such a messed up evaluation process engineering demanded direct, documented process for doing evaluations. Instead we had managers trying to gauge output based on defects fixed and lines of code committed. You could tell management had no clue.
I’m not sure that’s true
There's a statewide database that every transaction gets reported to.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm on a list somewhere for frequent Google searches such as this one - "How to kill a parent with all the children"!
Meanwhile my old SE is going to work just fine....
The workplace culture this kind of Lord of the Flies management approach results in must be horrendous.
Speaking of crossing the bridge - I found Malmö even nicer than Copenhagen. It's tiny in comparison, but that's a great thing, and there's just as many cycling path and accessible architecture. It also has this feeling is "shared" city. If I had to choose I'd rather live there than in Copenhagen.
> Visually, most web pages haven't changed much, and web development has become much harder.

Both true, yet engineers keep switching to newer frameworks and libraries anyway, rather than sticking with what they have and just building stuff.

The question then becomes, assuming they are rational, why?

I'll propose at least one major reason: efficiency. What's improving isn't what is possible to build with these technologies, but how effectively those things can be built, to a reasonable degree of reliability, in the same amount of time, even accounting for the greater difficulty in learning and using the technologies.

That's where progress is being made here. Not in the what but in the how easily, how quickly, how well. You could do anything you can do in React (say) with vanilla JS, imperatively updating the DOM with cumbersome APIs etc. The question is how much longer would it take / what more could you have built in that time using React.
Like a few other commenters below have indicated - this is a confusing story.

The "fencing" part seems clear. Pawnshops had load of transactions from same people. Pawnshops appeared to be solely flogging new items online, via Amazon - indicating that they weren't functioning as you'd suspect - and were fencing from these amazon drivers and other shop-lifters.

What seems to entirely missing is "Where all this stuff came from?" Well the shoplifted stuff is on some books somewhere as 'shrinkage' - but the stuff that came off the back of an amazon truck??
It's not really the same thing you're talking about at all, but I think there's also an interesting conflict of this type between where the largest sites are getting their user growth from now, and the users that are most valuable as advertising targets to them.

The larger sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) are pretty close to saturation in North America and a lot of other English-speaking countries. There just aren't many people left here that don't know what Facebook is and might still be convinced they should start using it regularly. Almost all of the growth comes from other parts of the world, but the users from those locations are worth far less in terms of advertising revenue.

If you look at Facebook's Q2 2019 presentation [1], their average revenue per user from US & Canada is now $33.27, Europe $10.70, Asia-Pacific $3.04, and Rest of World $2.13. One US/Canada user is worth more to them than 15 from "Rest of World".

However, 74% of their Monthly Active Users are from Asia-Pacific/Rest-of-World now, and that only corresponds to 28% of their revenue.

I don't really have a particular point I'm trying to make, I just think it's interesting. These companies worry a lot about showing continued user growth (or at least not shrinking), but the growth sources now don't have anywhere near the same value as the old ones.

[1]: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2019/Q2...
If I want to use it in my closed source project I must pay to Gisselquist Technology, LLC. Or I am wrong here?
If there are surrogate pairs, I thought that was more of UTF-16 rather than UCS-2. Wikipedia says UCS-2 cannot go outside the BMP range (which emojis are).

>UCS-2 differs from UTF-16 by being a constant length encoding[4] and only capable of encoding characters of BMP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

There does seem to be some disagreement on this topic though. I wonder if it could be described as WTF-16.

https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
> A clear indicator that Apple is focusing on markets other than the US. 5g is deploying in China and India and soon in a lot of countries in SE Asia.

I don't see how you reach that conclusion. 5G is deploying across the US right now and has been throughout 2019.

Verizon and AT&T will each have 5G deployed to two dozen major US cities this year. They'll cover dozens more in 2020. The US will rapidly be blanketed with 5G over the next 12-24 months by the three major carriers.

https://www.cnet.com/features/we-ran-5g-speed-tests-on-veriz...
Is there any reason to upgrade when it works fine and is already expensive?
Doesn't ycombinator have operations in China? If so it should be pretty easy for the CPC to twist yc's arm until they start censoring hackernews.
HSWWSH!
This case wasn't about taxes, it was about controlling wheat supply in order to stabilize the national wheat price during the Great Depression.
Ask HN: Web Should Stay as Centralized?
Current web, is not decentralized. Information are not permament even not near-permanent, and that describes us, people doesn't really want to decentralize web, so why web should stay as centralized?
The article mentions a search warrant, and that local police had first searched the records, which shown an anomaly, which triggered a local investigation.

From the Article:

> ...the FBI said in a search warrant affidavit unsealed last month

> A police detective last summer noticed that one of the drivers had dozens of pawn shop transactions, and thus began an investigation...

> The investigation began last summer when a police detective in Auburn, a south Seattle suburb, was perusing a record of pawn shop sales...

It's not clear why the police were looking at the transaction records, but it's possible they were investigating a theft.
They weren't looking at the drivers transactions. They were looking at the pawnshop transactions, and noticed the same person sold a large number of items.
Is that enforced? Because I'm pretty sure there should be fines for that in Germany as well, yet regularly people don't sign
> A bus driver that “meets expectations” is the perfect bus driver

By what standards are Bus Drivers evaluated? Near accidents are OK as long as they're lucky enough to not be involved in a real accident? If so, I'd prefer they actually improve and decrease their odds of being in a future accident. Does efficiency matter? Maybe one that's on time more often is actually better? Maybe customer service matters, and they can get better at helping people who need to buy tickets for the first time?

> I don’t want to be driven around by drivers who think that they’re Formula 1 drivers

It seems like there are multiple dimensions that a bus driver can improve on that aren't "become a race car driver". Given that, it seems like the bus driver analogy already isn't a good one.

> How are programmers different from bus drivers?

It doesn't even seem like we need to answer this one. You started with the false assumption that there are no dimensions that a bus driver can improve on other than becoming a race car driver. One could argue that there are much wider ranges of value creation in programming between average and above average programmers, but that's irrelevant given your initial premise is obviously flawed.
Just buy your own e-scooter or electric unicycle. Solves most of these issues and takes stress off of existing public transit (not to mention personal electric transit is almost always faster than public transit during rush-hour).
I don't have a direct link to the study, but this is from the BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48950483):

"The researchers also found the presence in seven products of the solvent dichloromethane, which can cause wheezing and shortness of breath, at levels above food safety limits."
There won't be any need to disable the radio for unused bands. Powering down unused hardware is literally the first thing the engineers do to save battery life.

Edit: can't reply due to rate-limiting, but in principle, all they have to do to search for service is power up the receiver briefly, running at a very low duty cycle. This has no noticeable impact on battery life or any other aspect of the phone's operation.
In theory. I don't know of anyone who have been fined for it (I am sure that someone somewhere has).

The fines I have seen have been for missing lights and running red lights.
Piling e-scooters on another scooter is dangerous and idiotic... This is not how a majority of e-scooters are picked up and re-distributed...
Because of the existing code and libraries which are not available in other languages. For instance if I am writing some NLP related code I would write it in python.
5G Is Here – and Still Vulnerable to Stingray Surveillance
Yes. Your consumption is only part of the market if you interact with the "market". The trend of forced market interaction is personally annonying.
What was the remaining 12 MB of RAM used for?
Yes. Needed ~150MB per container. It was just simulating end points - ie, TCP connections back to a central system.
I feel like I can’t be the only one that doesn’t see “national embarrassment” as a good reason to do anything. It just doesn’t feel like any kind of logical argument about anything.
How does this differ from active learning? When would you use which in case you don't have sufficiently large training dataset? Would you combine both approaches? If so, how?
Is there strict rules for those death decisions or just some people acting as they want? In the second case level of corruption must be overwhelming.
I assume people misread this:

> 5G is the absolute last thing standing in the way of self-driving cars.

... more as "everything else is working, we are just waiting for 5g then we have self driving"

Instead I read it as "there is so much else not working yet, that 5g is _not even_ on the list of important things", which seems to be more what you were implying?
Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy
Found a member of HN who can perceive humor, +1 for you my friend ;)
Because most people get their insurance through their employer they are usually self funded plans covered by ERISA. Your only recourse is that provided under ERISA which limits damages to the cost you paid for a treatment that wasn’t covered but should’ve been.

It’s abhorrent. Congress in making this law 50ish years ago essentially took away people’s right to sue and get justice in this instance. It was a huge gift to insurance companies and it needs to be fixed but people only learn about it when they are exposed to it. I wish there were politicians willing to step up and change this particular law.

When people talk about tort reform I think they’re really misunderstanding who such reforms benefit, as in this case it only serves the large companies and allows them to act in bad faith without proper repercussions.
I think to would be better to say Toyko is 2-wheel-vehicle friendly. Some of those vehicles are powered by humans, some by an electric motor, and others by a 150 cc engine.

In my opinion it's better to focus on skinny vehicle overall than just bikes; just because the current motorcycle culture in the US is that of a mid-life crisis on wheels doesn't mean that the motorcycle can't play a role in the city of tommorow
TornadoVM, a heterogeneous programming framework for Java programs
I have a relative who works at the CDC and has had cancer multiple times. Before life and money got in the way, we used to talk regularly on the phone. She bitched a lot about how 99 studies out of 100 were variations on a theme because that's where the funding was. There was very little that was genuinely new and innovative.

I don't know how to solve that.

I've been getting myself well (different condition) for years when that's not supposed to be possible. I'm quite open about that on the internet. I get attacked for talking about it and called crazy. I'm told "Produce studies backing up your claims" when there are none. No one is latching on to my story and going "What if she's on to something? Maybe we can do a study that will open up new treatment modalities for patients!"

I don't think it's as simple to solve this as you think it is. I don't know what needs to happen to break the herd mentality where humans don't seem to want to give any credibility to anything not already proven, which actively interferes with being able to prove anything new.
Istio v1.2.3 Released
In part, due to lobbying by the company that provides all the blanks for making pennies.

https://youtu.be/_tyszHg96KI
Java is the new COBOL in that it dominates in enterprise contexts because a) it's seen as a safe choice and b) they already have a lot of Java. Yes, there are plenty of jobs in it. There were plenty of jobs in COBOL too for decades.

If you have stats that suggest it's a popular language for startups relative to other languages, I look forward to seeing them. But my experience is otherwise, and it has pretty clearly been on the decline for years. You seem eager to ignore the fact that it's now a second-class language on Android, but Google Trends shows the same decline more generally: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

You can contrast that with, say, Node: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-01-01%202...

Or React, both of which show the classic increasing interest curve of the new hotness: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-01-01%202...

Or you could compare it with Ruby on Rails, which is farther along in the cycle. Formerly super exciting, it's now seeing declining interest as well: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
An effect system would solve this problem, as new system calls imply new effects, causing a breaking API change.