skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this relates to the article how?

Ultimate, what is described is an insurer tying to minimize the payout on a claim same as they have been doing from the dawn of time except here it's particularly nasty as people suffer and die.
And given consumer media are RGB encoded (or any triplet of colour flavour), it will be long before having consumer displays with more than 3 usable bands. Sharp Electronics had a display with RGBY(ellow) filters, i.e. Quattron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattron), but no media existed with the 4 required channels, not only that but there was no Yellow primary thus it was "useless".
Yeah, a local cluster of ~8-20 cases and the patients say they were using 'THC' cartridges in a state where it's illegal?

People were putting synthetic cannabinoids in e-juice over a decade ago, and I'd be surprised if there wasn't still a market for it. I'd also be surprised if the actual chemicals being used haven't evolved to keep up with regulations - at this point they'd probably be dozens of analogues away from what was presented in the original Huffman papers, huh?

I think it's probably a very bad idea to knowingly use that sort of thing, but I guess the underground market might not have very well-regulated labeling standards.
Ask HN: Choosing between business and personal interests as an employee
Hey guys,
Interested in spawning a larger conversation about career choices.

My company wants me to move teams, as business needs have shifted. They've given me the option of joining two teams, one product-focused, the other more data-focused. The way I would contrast this is that one is very close to the user, and one is very far. I'm pretty excited, and I view this as an excellent opportunity. My career interests are in line with the data team, but I'm wondering if there is more potential in the product team.

After this job, I want to go into distributed systems BE development (ideally in startups), perhaps focusing on streaming or mobile, IOT, but who knows; that would be in a year+ from now. I also want to start profitable bootstrapped businesses on the side.

Here are some pros and cons.

Product-focused team:

+ Rapid development, prototyping a brand new product within the company ("startup within a startup")

+ Opportunity to lead a lot of projects

+ Working with a more accomplished designer, PM

+ Long term product vision

+ New focus of the company

- Somewhat tedious work

- Not as great mentorship, new manager to the company (mentors come from a FE perspective)

- Bouncing back and forth across new requirements

Data-focused team:

+ Developing a set of core tools for the company, long-term focus/vision within a small set of products

+ Underneath a great BE engineer

+ No FE work

+ Love the coworkers

+ More passionate about the work ("shiny")

+ Better mentorship opportunities

+ Roadmap is building new things

- Not a "new" and "shiny" product team

- More legacy code

- Probably less at the forefront of the company

Curious what HN would choose.
Looked like fun. Asked both kids (8,14). “Daaaaad! Nooo!” “I’m not doing that.”

Then they went back to reading paper books, rigging wooden ship models, building forts in the woods, etc. JK. Right back to Fortnite and Instagram.
That’s true, cancer was generally unmanaged in the past.

However, some control is needed. I was talking to an insurer once and he mentioned a doctor who had prescribed a drug for patient where there was no evidence it worked. When he asked the doctor why, he said “well I have to give them something”. This was a $10,000 per month drug.
I don’t.

But it wasn’t too long ago that people were afraid of exponential population growth leading to wars and suffering and the end of civilization.

Now the global population has started to stabilize and concerns have shifted toward shrinking populations in developed countries. I don’t pretend to know how things will end up, but it’s not a stretch to imagine scenarios where the populations in developed countries could stop shrinking and stabilize.
Yeah. There was one recently around Domino's and accessibility that made me cringe so hard. But the general sentiment from HN seemed to be in favor of a new regulation to mandate all websites implement accessibility. Scary.
Toasts have common semantics: they are responses to user behavior, they are ephemeral, and they take precedence over the underlying content.

Marquees have no semantics beyond "more text than fits in this space".
One does not simply go from a flat network to overlays. Overlays are slow, difficult, cause really odd failures and are often hilariously immature. They are the experimental graph database of the network world.

Just have a segregated network, and let the VPC/dhcp do all the hard stuff.

Have your hosts on the default VLAN(or Interface if your cloudy), with its own subnet (Subnets should only exist in one VLAN.) Then if you are in cloud land, have a second network adaptor on a different subnet. If you are running real steel, then you can use a bonded network adaptor with multiple VLANs on the same interface. (The need for a VLAN in a VPC isn't that critical because there are other tools to impose network segregation.)

Then use macvtap, or macvlan(or which ever thing that gives each container a macaddress) to give each container its own IP. This means that your container is visible on that entire subnet, either inside the host or without.

There is no need to faff with routing, it comes for free with your VPC/network or similar. Each container automatically has a hostname, IP, route. It will also be fast. As a bonus it call cane be created at the start using cloudformation or TF.

You can have multiple adaptors on a host, so you can separate different classes of container.

Look, the more networking that you can offload to the actual network the better.

If you are ever re-creating DHCP/routing/DNS in your project, you need to take a step back and think hard about how you got there.

70% of the networking modes in k8s are batshit insane. a large amount are basically attempts at vendor lock in, or worse someone's experiment thats got out of hand. I know networking has always been really poor in docker land, but there are ways to beat the stupid out of it.

The golden rule is this:

Always. Avoid. Network. Overlays.
What is Rust's niche? What excites me about it is that it is becoming a general purpose ecosystem. A few libs are missing, but that's changing rapidly.
That would mix words from different alphabets when sorted in a lexicographical order (and/or break this order, respectively). You could get used to it, but traditionally it is a big nope. Let fonts erase the difference, but we want to know if a letter is greek, latin, cyrillic or something else.

Sorting complex charsets may require some sort of collation, of course, but in simple cases the status quo is highly usable without one.
I'd argue that the closest thing to a layer 2 subnet is a VLAN.
Product / project / scrum guy here. Logging time won't make sense unless each ticket is one person working on it at a time. The moment it becomes teamwork (like asking someone else for their thoughts on an idea) the value of time is meaningless.

People are also useless at estimating time in advance, but pretty great with throwing a story-point number on a given story with the right guidance. Please feel free to schedule me in with your uneducated upper management. They're about to lose value.
There was a direct link to the excel file on the "Helpful Links" page of the E3 Expo site.
On Linux you can also use prctl with PR_SET_PDEATHSIG to set a signal that will be sent to all child processes when the parent dies. This is a syscall you'd need to make from in the program. See 'man 2 prctl'.
slices generally map 1:1 with cgroups. Try running systemd-cgtop and you can see the resource usage of each of the cgroups
> We shouldn't plunder health care funds on $1m per year of life saved interventions

And we especially shouldn't spend huge amounts of money on meds that don't extend life (or even shorten it), and that worsen quality of life.
long time followup. i'd programmed (basic, a touch of z80 machine code, etc) since the early 80s, and after school just started applying (via newspaper classifieds) to anything that sounded vaguely computerish. I got a letter back saying "I've never met anyone with a philosophy degree before - come on in for an interview". And I started doing low-end work for a company reselling OS/2 stuff...
> [...] when it comes to text processing simplicity and robustness beats other concerns. It's unclear if UTF-32 beats UTF-8 there however [...]

I always wondered how this affected simplicity and efficiency of different text editor implementation strategies. I'm mainly thinking about the variable byte lengths and how it affects anything related to character indices. I'm guessing if it seriously hinders a preferred strategy one would just convert to a plain codepoint of fixed word size internally at the cost of greater memory usage... which actually is not that bad if you only want to support the BMP without any fancy encoding which would only takes up 2 bytes internally.
I get so much recognition from YouTube [video]
That same Secretary of Agriculture was also responsible for one of the more surprising cases I remember from law school.

Question: Does the Constitution's interstate commerce clause give Congress the power to regulate how much wheat a farmer can grow for his own consumption, if it's never sold to anyone else and never crosses state lines?

The district court said no. The Supreme Court said yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
So, eventually more completely unfiltered stream of consciousness posting? What could possibly go wrong?
Panning shots probably look awful if you're watching 24 fps content on a device running at 60Hz (many consumer devices, computers, and Blu Ray players do this by default). Since 24 frames can't be evenly spread out over 60 frames, you'll see motion judder, and it does look terrible.

However, 24 fps running at a true 24Hz is perfectly fine, and you will not see flicker - at least not if produced by competent filmmakers. That's because the camera's shutter angle is normally set such that motion blur makes the motion look smooth. Real cinematographers also know exactly how fast they can pan with a given lens without causing any noticeable strobing motion.

Comparisons to video games completely miss the point. Most video games are unable to properly simulate motion blur (some try, but it doesn't usually work well), so you have to have high frame rates for things to look smooth. Since you need to react quickly in video games, high frame rates (combined with the lack of motion blur) are also helpful in preserving crisp edges on moving objects (so it's a practical advantage). And finally, video games generally try to simulate reality for the player, so players are more concerned that the technology makes the experience believable rather than intentionally suspending disbelief (as in film or theater) to passively unpack the narrative nuance of artwork unfolding on a screen.

For those same reasons, sports also do well with higher frame rates, but when fiction (which is obviously disconnected with the present reality) tries to use high frame rates, it falls into "uncanny valley" territory - much like the computer-generated humans of movies like "The Polar Express". As others have noted, a few directors have really tried to push HFR film to the public, but it has never been received well (whether or not HFR is recognized as being responsible for the uneasiness felt by audiences watching HFR content).

As for HFR content being "easily" downsampled - it really isn't, at least not with respect to motion blur (which is an essential point that many people miss in these discussions).
I can tell him exactly what happens. You are priced out of the "privilege" of healthcare.

You try to make do. Manage as you can with your savings, work you can get and maintain, as the effects of the medical issue continue to limit every aspect of your life and get worse with age and time. The normal decline of age is amplified as a result and your options to earn are further restricted. Eventually there is no way to do it alone or without some outside help.

You are directed to apply for programs that are also "privileges" and not available to everyone as the process is adversarial and not a right. You face many levels and months to years of denials, appeals, and are often completely rejected.Even if you get approved you are mired in bureaucracy, reapprovals, judgement, and your access is extremely limited even in the best case.

Next people you talk to about this will begin to marginalize you and act as if you must have done something wrong because they just cannot believe it's like that. In order to maintain their just-world hypothesis and feelings of security they need to frame this as an individual failure or anomaly and not a systemic and cultural defect.

You then start to get depressed and lose hope because there is no way to regain your quality of life or even obtain a survivable one in many cases. If you are fortunate enough to have caring family you might find some support and have some livable life, even if restricted. If you do not then you end up with more needs and expenses but with the exact opposite situation in resources. Eventually you decide to take a walk off a bridge because there is no real way out.

This isn't even the worst case scenario but rather a fairly median process because needs go up with age and resources decline so without having the time to build a safety net over a lifetime, or a social one being present...you have no options. This is happening to thousands of people right now. I am one of them. I've never met anyone like this who chose it or wanted it. I've never met anyone like this who wants to "sit on their ass and take my tax money" as people in my region assert. Every one of them is someone who had a life, who would love nothing more than independence, but for whom it isn't on the menu and neither is enough assistance to have any quality of life.
Is there any documentation about how GitHub defines its top trending list?
I am curious how repositories with 1 star, no commits, no issues opened or closed within a week in the trending list. Anyone can explain the metrics?
> just talk to each other using wiregaurd by default

I don't understand why you'd want to do this?

I use wireguard to join machines on disparate networks into one.

However to do it inside the same VPC, I just don't get. If you don't trust your VPC surely you need to be moving off the cloud?
FlushCases.com Critique: 70 Email Optins but Nobody Using Discount Code. Why?
For context when the "digital era" started: it was newsworthy when a middle series of Dr House switched to digital.

Also: cinematic film is what keeps Kodak alive.
> I’m sure many of you either have an Alexa-powered device in your house

Yeah, lost me there, pal. I thought I was getting lower rent for not going _over_ some quota - which would work great, since my quota is exactly $0, on principle.
That’s by design. Keeps the workforce young and insurance cheap.
But wow, it would be a very different scene.

Possibly use of firearms by the general population against police and government in HK could have led to the simple invasion of HK by the PRC army, with shootings and executions like those that happened at the time of Tiananmen, but on a larger scale. Right now, possibly the lack of firearms is a brake on falling into this doomsday scenario. When you know the other fellow doesn't have a firearm, you don't need to shoot first.
> The only reason people steal phones is because there's a market.

From what I can tell, the protections put on newer phones by the vendors has massively crushed the stolen phone market. Modern phones are locked to a google or apple account and basically only usable as a) parts for repair or b) if you can phish the password from the original owner, you can unlock them.

Basically, discouraging people from buying used phones, lest they be stolen, is a way less effective mechanism for reducing theft than this kind of structural change.
> You can losslessly go from 120 to the other popular frame rates, including 24.

Not true. Something filmed natively at 24 fps and a 180° shutter angle is vastly different in terms of perceived motion than 120 fps converted to 24 fps.
This was highly unethical. There is a minimum operational overhead to offering minimum care, including the availability of emergency equipment and staff. I have a local ER I've visited twice this year and there's almost never any patients there in the middle of the night. But dozens of medical personnel and the building and all the medical equipment i could imagine are always there and ready for me when I need it, on demand, no questions asked. This is what the American medical system optimizes for. And it costs a lot of money.
Eh, the language makes a bit more sense than that. It's a bit too euphemistic for my taste, but it's reasonable.

"Meets expectations" — which expectations? The expectations for the role of for the employee? If we're talking about the expectations for the employee, then obviously it makes no sense for meeting expectations to be a bad thing. But if instead we're talking about expectations for the role, it's perfectly consistent to say that an employee who perpetually merely meets the expectations for their role is subpar, if employees are expected to continually improve.

Now what's less clear is why companies care about the derivative of their employee productivity in a labor market where employees stay with a company for just a few years.
> At least now, if a cancer patient gets denied drugs, they can go to another doctor or get a second opinion.

You can do this in any country with government provided healthcare by either going private or travelling to a different country.

> I've lived in countries with universal healthcare and the quality is sub-par compared to the US/private care.

Sure. The US spends more than anyone else on healthcare, but has worse life expectancy. https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...
Out of curiosity, what sort of code aren't you able to write in Julia that you can in Rust?
At work we have to parse various different fixed-width column files. We only need data from a handful of the columns, so we use the substring function to extract the data we need.

Of course these files are so old they predate proper encoding and are implicitly Windows-1252 or similar.
Give people resources so they can move to higher ground. Not just from rising sea levels, but more immediately from the increasing floods and storms that threaten the flood plains where our most vulnerable reside.

edit: Fighting climate change and providing resources are not mutually exclusive policies, clearly. Both should be pursued, in my opinion.
Noob question: would what you describe be equivalent to what transputers were intended for?
This is landing squarely in Poe's law territory.

Notwithstanding, this is only possibly true under a model where everyone initially has equal opportunity. A weak requirement that is almost certainly insufficient, and yet one we have already failed miserably at.
Hey Jaclyn -

I think this is amazing! I'm all for challenging the existing recruiting status quo! I personally found it extremely difficult to pivot out of one industry and trying to break into another. I went through the standard process of getting a degree, doing internships, maintaining GPA, and receiving an offer upon graduation. When I graduated, my target industry essentially cratered, my offer was rescinded, and I was a bit lost. After some research/self-prep, I decided that the tech sector was where I wanted to be. After doing a temp stint in IT admin, some MOOC’s, and personal side-projects, I still found it extremely challenging to pivot into. I didn’t know what else to do other than to go back to school and basically go through the exact same funnel as before, which is what I ended up doing. This isn’t a feasible option for a lot of people and I think one (of many) ways your platform provides value is accessibility.

That being said, I had a few questions from both a candidate’s and employer’s perspective:

- How does Hatchaways compete with the timelines of the conventional recruiting method (i.e. ~1-2 months vs your model of interning)?

- If a candidate realizes that the opportunity may not be a good fit (from his/her side), will Hatchaways connect them with another prospective employer for another Hatchaways recruiting cycle (i.e. internship) once the first one is complete?

- How does Hatchaways enable employers to assess multiple candidates for the same position at once?

- Is there a penalty to employers if business needs change halfway through the assessment (i.e. the job that the candidate is being assessed for no longer exists)?

- How are employers affected when a candidate begins an internship part of the way, only to get a full time job at another company?

Would love to chat more about this and I’m really excited to see where you take this!

Best
R
The situation of <dialog> is different. Most of the modal dialog implementations don’t have focus trap which is a problem for accessibility. I’m ok with the tag in that case, the combination of aria-hidden/tabindex tweaks required to do a proper modal dialog is too hacky and bug prone. (Perhaps a better focus handling model will be much better than the tag)
In that case the pharmacy might not be a problem but the doctors will delay the tests for cancer even for existing cancer patients allowing a relapse to grow unchecked for months to save Kaiser money. That's what happened to a friend of mine. So fucked regardless just to save some money.
California Wants to Teach Your Kids That Capitalism Is Racist
Yet, black and white photography is alive and well
This is actually mentioned in the submission, but it does so through surrogate pairs. In short: the first of two bytes references a different "plane" of code points, and the second byte refers to a code point in that additional plane.

What's cool is that UCS-2 and UTF-16 behave the same way in this regard, so you can see how this works in JavaScript as well. There's a great HN post about the length of an emoji being 2 in JS [1] from 2017.

Practically speaking, I had fun learning this while writing an Angular app to read SMS backups [2]. It's frustrating and cool at the same time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830177

[2] https://github.com/devadvance/sms-backup-reader-2/blob/maste...
I don’t think it’s about ability or interest. It’s about presence. There’s loads of developers out there with a range of skills. I work with devs who are great who you’ve never heard of and others who aren’t so great who you’ve never heard of.
I’d consider myself in the 99%. I aspire to market myself but I’ve got lots of interests and I’m quite a private person so I find marketing myself in conflict with that aspect of my personality. But get me one to one and I’ll happily talk about my latest interest (which by the way is Directed Graphs).
I noticed that too. I'm glad they care about getting their centuries straight.
Cruise control has been called AutoPilot in the past, and this is closer to Autopilot on planes anyway.
Season 3 was on SyFy; it's Season 4 (and later?) which was picked up by Amazon.
Ah. You might get some benefit even doing 10 song playlists and letting them run after the last song, with ml driving the song selection. This has worked well for me personally. Might be worth experimenting with.
So just do stock buybacks (as Alphabet increasingly does) without admitting there's nothing else to invest in.
Well hell, if you know it's going to be $4B to eradicate cancer, it should be easy to put the plan together and get funding. You'll save everyone billions forever.

Why are you screwing around on Hacker News?