skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 100% caused by stack ranking, and the problem you identify is a very real one. Chopping off the bottom 5% of employees works if you have a LOT of dead weight, but realistically you can't really do it continuously or you start removing legitimate talent and, just as worse, fostering a toxic community that values playing politics over delivering value.
> Common local encodings like Big5 (also 16-bit fixwidth) was already suffering from serious lack of code points at that time.

They are not 16 bits wide, but mostly 14 bits wide and separated from the single byte portion with most significant bits of bytes set. As far as I can tell there are "only" about 33,000 code points [1] in the Unihan database that are known to be officially encoded in some sort of encodings throughout the entire East Asia. This does not include unofficial but de facto encodings like ETEN extensions to Big5 but you get the idea. This and the Han unification made it pretty reasonable to expect that the modern characters can be encoded in 16 bits.

[1] I've counted distinct code points in the "other mappings" table from the Unihan database.
Why? Seriously. This sounds as crazy to me as someone saying: "I, for one, don't want to watch movies that aren't 320p."
If you already knew it, and also didn't need to be reminded of it, then the post isn't for you. And that's okay. But that doesn't mean it isn't valuable for others.

Also, maybe the "tip" isn't new or mind-blowing, but the fact that it was the most important change in his writing career seems pretty significant.
> things are bad in silicon valley

Really?

> there are a lot of desperate startups getting loans to 'simulate' growth by having negative profit margins (since they can't get real growth otherwise)

You're conflating a few things, here. The Amazon strategy of reinvestment works as long as it's genuine growth and not overdone. Uber's more of an open question: they've increased demand through subsidies, the question is what will demand look like when prices reflect the true cost. Postmates is in the same situation as Uber, but much worse because they offer a service people can trivially do themselves.

> All these debts end up the hands of corporate shareholders.

Not usually. And startups don't usually use debt (except in ~2015/2016), they sell equity. VC funds tend to have more pensions and sovereign wealth.
Ignore downvoters. I wish people worried more about things that can actually kill them, like bad diet, lack of exercise, or UV exposure.
Seems like a reasonable solution on desktops, but where I see AMP the most is on mobile.

I don't think it's possible to block AMP in Safari on iOS.
Except it wasn't the third. It was like something between the 50's and low 100's. There were lots of languages then, most being unpopular.

C was just intended to be third in that very specific lineage, and I wouldn't be surprised to find it wasn't really third and just making the claim with its name.
I am not so sure Stockholm is that car-hostile. There is a congestion tax, but they just spent $3 billion dollars on the Stockholm Bypass motorway. It is just very centralized, made worse by the housing market. Rush hour traffic gets jammed quickly in bottle necks. They also haven't built much subway in the last few decades. There isn't for example really a ring line, which most other systems have. So going anywhere but the city center is hard. Stockholm also has very near suburb, there are single family homes just a few kilometers from the city center. Built for cars no less, but quite expensive. They sort of tried to complement that with the "job/housing/work-areas", but that idea is mostly lost to time. I think it is more that greater Stockholm just isn't very well planned these days. But I guess Copenhagen could be similar, because it isn't cheap either.
Seems like you’re saying liberalism is anti-those-things but it’s not, it is anti-coercion though and if that has historically been the solution to what you describe then I could see one drawing that conclusion.
Except that I haven't seen a marquee used on a web page anywhere in years. Except in incredibly specific contexts (like a long title in a music player app), it's generally considered bad UX design.

Whereas toasts are everywhere, a common, useful, established and recommended UX design pattern. So it's a genuine convenience to developers for browsers to provide it, in the same way browsers provide buttons, combo boxes, and date pickers. (Even though all of those also can be, and sometimes are, implemented in JS.)

The "good argument" to me boils down to use and convenience, and removing cruft.
Yes. That is where age gap between partners comes to play. Among other things, it ensures exactly that. The stereotype at the time was that women want marry soon and men avoid commitment and want to stay single longer.

The other reasons are sex, social pressure and actually feeling in love and marriage being expected expression of that.
> They also don’t “trump” a doctor’s judgment, they simply state whether or not the claim for medicine is covered under the plan rules.

I think it’s incorrect to say they don’t trump the prescribing doctors judgement just because they have a company policy they’re following. They also have the ability to override the policy. This means they are making a decision and when they default to what the policy says, if that goes against the doctors judgement then that is a decision they made to trump that doctors judgement.

This kind of “just following orders” logic is used a lot by people who want to absolve themselves of the responsibilities of their choices.
I described something by saying what it isn't. I think you understand the concept of looking for something having some idea of what it is and isn't, but not knowing exactly what it would be.
With phonograph i mean this [0], not any (modern) record player. It might be a language/region thing, but at least i understand "phonograph" (and "gramophone") to be the antique mechanical record players with the large metal horn.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/VictorVP...
Suicide by Culture
http://250bpm.com/blog:113
Even without mature technology, you want to shake down the new tech early to find out if it’s going to crumble around your shoulders at the worst possible moment.

While Agile is not perfect for this kind of work, it does have a lot of facility in this area.

Now if you could just get any two people to agree on what constitutes the last responsible moment...

And with new tech you often have to do it first or do it better. Oddly I find Agile seems to work better for “do it better” because if it’s easier for you to add features than your competitor, they will probably get burned out before you do. If you can survive that long you start to pull ahead.
The article touches on this slightly, but I don't really feel that it does true justice to the horror of the slavery of the native Americans forced to work in the mines by the Spaniards. "Labour draft" seems like much too mild a euphemism for what was really rapacious enslavement. Cerro Rico is known as "The Mountain that Eats Men" and an estimated 8 million people have died mining it since the 16th century.
I would like to remind everyone reading this that there's no such thing as "linear indexing" of user-perceived characters in Unicode.

There is if you dynamically assign virtual code points to grapheme clusters.
> No one likes watching movies in anything other than 24fps dude.

I know of at least 6 people who prefer higher framerates, myself included. I don't know anyone who has expressed an opinion the other way. As I said, this whole thread is like some kind of alternative universe to me.

Motion smoothing apparently hasn't stopped people buying TVs.
I'm so tired of people being sick of people being offended by everything.
I guess the role is only for PR/US citizens? The phrasing of the question "Are you able to work without visa sponsorship" made me ask this question.

In any case, i love what I gathered about the company mission from the website.
I'll give you a hint: Using a market analogy for intimate relationships is not attractive, it's creepy.
For almost everyone in the US, is it not true that "claim for medicine is covered under the plan rules" being denied is effectively "you are not getting this medication"?
Anyone know the title of the chiptune playing at the 14:00 mark?

I've heard it somewhere but can't remember. It's driving me nuts.
”A long time ago, at least in computer time, in the far-flung era of 1989, the Unicode working group was really starting to get going”

I find it strange to start in 1989, and not in 1980, when Xerox had a precursor to Unicode, or 1988, when employees from Xerox and Apple coined the name “Unicode” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#History)

It certainly is a bit unfair to not mention Xerox or Apple at all.

”that the JVM is gaining the ability to transparently represent strings in memory as Latin-1, a legacy codepage, if possible.”

“Compact strings” (https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254) shipped with JDK 9 in September 2017 (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/whatsnew/toc.htm#JSNEW-GUID...)
I’m not too convinced of the approach. I’ve been anxiously waiting for https://vectorized.io/ to release their message queue. It is built in modern C++, uses ScyllaDB Seastar framework to do IO scheduling in userspace, with better mechanical sympathy. And like Hashicorp’s Nomad and Vault, which I’m a fan of, it has built-in distributed consensus and easy operation.
It would be very funny if the managers or their relatives who promote these policies will meet cancer themselves. Then they will feel the human price of their profits increase.
Why would you ever need 31 bits? That's over TWO BILLION distinct codepoints.

Only ~137K have been assigned so far, or in other words a little over 17 bits. Given that each additional bit doubles the range, even in the case that characters continue to be assigned at a constant rate, reaching that high is so far into the future that it's not worth thinking about. Unicode is around 30 years old; at the same rate, another 30 years would be needed to get to 18 bits, then another 60, 120, ...

On the other hand, it is extremely wasteful to burden all UTF-8 processing code with handling values that will literally never be encountered outside of error cases.
Just because they assume their Blue Cross policy is "the best" doesn't make it so. Multiple medical professionals during my current cancer journey (in the Fresno area, as it turns out) actually referred to Blue Cross as "the worst" for the reasons given in this article. My insurer, Cigna, has been great. Also, isn't it possible that the cCare doctor really was not following the right protocol and prescribing things improperly? I'm not going through cCare because I didn't like what I saw there.
Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
I don't know, just check out a few Kaggle competitions and how pragmatic the winning teams are approaching their solution. It's most often a combination of tried-and-true techniques, used in an ensemble, with some smart feature selection. Anecdotally, there's plenty of ready-to-use ML tech available nowadays that I, as a novice, was able to go from zero to working Gradient Boosting classifier within a few days. For me that's the definition of applying the techniques without trying to earn a PhD in the field.
The implication of that chart is that women are increasingly having sex with the men who have sex with multiple women.
Instead of fighting them like they did, why not just go along with them and order the medications, throw them out just to get escalated to the right one? When I had to deal with CVS Caremark I frequently had to order things I didn’t need because it was part of their “protocol”. Rather than fight them, I would just go along with them because I knew fighting a company like CVS is pointless. I just threw out the stuff I didn’t need so I could get what I needed out of them.

When navigating systems like these you have to find ways of looking like the 90% even if you’re in the 10%. Any exceptions to their protocols will be met with resistance and delays as you have to make your way to some review board vs. dealing with the mindless lower level staff who have no decision making ability.

It’s what happens when you have executive management with MBA’s that have come from running customer service, consumer finance and call centers running health care.
20 kg/m^2/h seems enough for a house near the sea to be self-sufficient. You could pump salty ground water and filter this through such a setup. A person uses about 350-450 liters of water every day. And 20 kg/m^2/h * 1 m^2 * 24 h = 480 liters. So one square meter is sufficient for a single person.
Desktop Safari doesn't play them either. I guess it's because Apple still doesn't like Vorbis?

For iOS users who have a compatible player installed (I think VLC should do the trick), here's the direct links, in order of appearance:

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/boots_n_cats_words.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/boots_n_cats_beatbox.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/dog_dog_keys_words.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/dog_dog_keys_beatbox.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/bud_d_daughter_words.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/bud_d_daughter_beatbox.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/goose_kid_d_words.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/goose_kid_d_beatbox.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/buff_double_puff_words.ogg

https://beatboxingforkids.fun/buff_double_puff_beatbox.ogg
Great article overall, but I have a serious beef with it and others I’ve seen like it: the writer quickly lapses into saying there’s a problem in “science” and with “scientists”. But p-value testing is not widely used in fields such as chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science etc. (And I imagine many other scientific fields, such as sub fields of biology, although the ones I just listed are ones I know well.)

So this kind of overgeneralization is a serious error and could contribute to more mistrust of science by the general public.
To be fair, I believe this was true well before flags—diacritics played this role previously, as in "Zalgo Text".
Agile as practiced by nontechnical managers is essentially a hill climbing algorithm.

And I think we all learned in college that hill climbing rarely if ever finds the optimal solution. Often it doesn’t even find Good Enough. But it’s the best thing you can see in the vicinity so it gets labeled Good Enough even over the protests of people who have done it better elsewhere.
It does exactly what autopilot does in a plane. Which will slam into anything in its path.
Sounds exciting! thanks for posting. Applied.
I’m seeing this framing a lot in this thread and I haven’t experienced it before, where does this “back in the day when women had less freedom it was better for humanity” come from? Seems like a negative feedback loop if you’re looking for a date...
These constructs also helps people buy more expensive items than what they could afford without credit. I wouldn't jump to that conclusion just because it exists. Credit companies also take small fraction of the transaction. The store is willing to pay that fees because it increases their revenue.
>> Walmarts core is poor, rural/suburban America.

Maybe in 'Merica but not in Canada. It's the go-to for the huge array of products between Costco & the grocery store for a wide set socioeconomic segments. If it's a supercentre they get lots of the grocery dollars too.

They give you free shipping on everything, including big, bulky items like diapers. I think this is more important for lower income folks than same day delivery.
In my mind, a "layer 2 subnet" really doesn't mean anything. Subnets are things that happen in IP, that is, layer 3, and layer 2 is the physical connection, ie. Ethernet or WLAN, which don't have the concept of subnets.

Edit: also the OSI layer model was specified in the eighties, and isn't all that accurate in 2019 to describe how our networks actually work.
The fact that it’s digital, and not analog, means it’s (more) lossy in comparison to the original sound source. It’s not so much the compressed part, but the digital part. If it’s digital, it’s approximating points on the sound waves with “steps” (looks more like stairs than a smooth wave) and missing the nuance between those steps, where as analog, in this case vinyl, is a closer representation of the actual, continuous sound waves.

At least, that’s how I understand it.
Something similar used to happen here with NICE guidance not recommending use of the meds, which is why the cancer drugs fund was set up.

After spending a billion or so on meds we found out that they mostly don't increase length of life and also cause nasty side effects. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097
It's also worth noting where the terms "UCS-2" and "UCS-4" come from. For a while there was the idea of the Universal Coded Character Set[0] as an alternative to Unicode. This would have been a natively 32-bit encoding. However, it wouldn't have allowed the full 2^32 possible characters, because of its insistence that none of the 4 bytes could be any of the C0 or C1 controls. Still, it would have about 2^29 possible characters as opposed to Unicode's about 2^21.

But the insistence on avoiding C0 and C1 controls would have led to some odd codepoint numbers, and definite incompatibility with ASCII and Unicode; for instance, 'A', instead of 0x41, would have been 0x20202041! Whereas Unicode of course made sure to copy ASCII (indeed, to copy ISO-8859-1) for its first block.

Of course, this didn't come to pass because, well, people were already supporting 16-bit Unicode and didn't want to switch again. And I'm kind of glad it didn't -- while it would have meant not having to deal with the compromise that is UTF-16, imagine living in a world where 'A' is not 0x41, but rather 0x20202041! (Or imagine opening up a text file and finding three spaces between each character...)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Coded_Character_Set
Applied. thanks!
It's very different. Look at how the public market is treating Uber. Its pre-IPO valuation was rosy, but not out-of-line, and its price has been pretty consistent since the first few weeks. It's not like every tech IPO is up 200%-500% on the first day, then keeps climbing by 1% per day.

> I hate that the modern idea of a “successful” company is how much money they can raise and at what evaluation.

So the value of the company? I agree that it doesn't capture value to society, but it's better than "community-adjusted EBITDA."
I can see that this is the obvious reason why Apple is not doing this. It is a short-sighted view though. Is the Mac Pro (MacBook Pro, etc) a consumer electronics product? Not really. So why do they provide it? Yeah. Same reason they should provide a cloud based on Metal.
Milliamps sounds like a tiny amount in the context of home power, but 5mA at 120V is still only 24kOhm. This is actually pretty low to just assume away. I'd agree there could be some water left over in the drain pipe from the last bath, splashes making a path to the spigot, or something like that. I just wouldn't count on it.
Inventing Monads
If an employee is as good as you think they should be, why would you put it at risk of termination?

Because quality of the employee and the employee's work are not the only factors in hiring and firing decisions. Sometimes a smaller workforce is what makes sense, and if all your engineers are "meeting expectations", what are you going to do?
I'm absolutely not defending the PBMs or what happened in this case, but $500/mo for that age group is the junk end of the insurance market. It's unfortunate, but they certainly don't have good insurance.
I don't understand why this was downvoted. It's pretty basic economics here by at least two mechanisms:

- when the money leaves the country, it reduces the money supply so less money is chasing goods and services like labor, thereby mitigating inflation.

- when money leaves the country, it reduces the demand for that country's currency, increasing the buying power of visitors from other countries when they are in Bali.

That said, the magnitude of the importance of these two effects is debatable.
Generally speaking, most NATO / military standards have some level of classification that prevents dissemination to a random member of the public.

That said, for the non-sensitive stuff, there's usually access out there because someone's posted it or it's been discussed in a presentation.

Reasons you would want such information controlled: if an adversary were to get in a shooting war with NATO, knowing the entire sequence required to launch fully operational aircraft makes interrupting that sequence much easier.

Read background, dissect, probe, attack.
Off-time but not off-topic, an exceptionally good story is narrated in Perfume by Patrick Süskind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Süskind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_(novel)

What many people forget today is that we are now (with the obvious exception of smog/pollution and related) mostly living in odourless environments whilst the air in a city, at least until the 18th or 19th century was full of very strong smells.

Only think of:

1) open gutters/sewers

2) "side effects" of ubiquitous animal traction

3) small shops/industries (using fires, chemicals, etc., one example for all tanneries) were often side by side with homes
I'd say it's somewhere between bottom 5% and top 10% ;)
I guess, but the nuance is that the PBM is only doing what the payer wants it to do. If a state tells the PBM to only approve payment for certain medications under certain circumstances, I don't see the purpose of blaming the PBM for this. Similary, if an employer chooses a formulary that results in a denial of payment, it's the employer who chose to not cover payment for the medicine. The state or the employer can choose to pay for the medicine, but that is not up to the PBM.
> If having children is so wonderful one must wonder why men still haven’t by large decided to pitch in when it comes to the nuts and bolts of child rearing.

It's, by and large, because those are not the men that women select to have children with. When women consistently choose the man with the six figure salary, but that implies working long hours, what follows is predictable.

There is also a high degree of adverse selection there because a woman can't tell how much a man will help with the children before she has the children, by which point the father is already chosen. So they choose based on what they do know (e.g. salary) which is inversely correlated with that.
A nuance I wish I had expressed better in this article is that it's targeting functions that would otherwise be written in assembly: they'd have to be quick (not to undermine the scheduler) and non-recursive (not to blow the stack). For just calling larger Rust functions one can use cgo.
> Companies like Google write revolutionary software which has never been written before

Also a lot of video chat apps.
> I wonder how much will businesses tolerate this if promised efficiency gains do not materialize for most of them.

I think you've stumbled on the core issue here. For an unchanging company for which their digital business does not need to evolve very much, having a basic IT department may just work. But as we digitize more and make technology a core competency and critical differentiator, a legacy, inflexible tech stack becomes a burden. It doesn't let you add the features that your customers may want, features which might be critical to a continuing and successful business relationship. Your customers then have similar demands from _their_ customers... all the way back to the primary sector.