skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on now, don't be disingenuous. Of course they are mutually exclusive, because you mean "not being reddit" as in "we are better than reddit" -- an elitist stance.
I remember some guy at Verizon outsourcing his entire job to china. He was consistently getting top marks and promotions while all he was doing was looking at cat pictures all day.

Daytripper is level 1. Outsourcing your job to China is level 2.

Something just clicked in my head. Start up idea!
Being a dialysis patient, I have to deal with a lot of the issues of my kidneys not functioning. There is a complex interplay of vitamin D, PTH (from parathroid), phosphorus, calcium levels and bone loss. So I have to take vitamin D, calcitriol and phosphrous binder and dietary restrictions to balance it all. Going too far one way or the other is not good. Every month I get blood tests for all these things and my doses adjusted. Vitamin D is the least of my concern in this process.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/56-of-americans-suffer-fro...

56% of Americans suffer from financial hardship due to medical concerns: Adults under 65 were more likely than their older counterparts to experience these effects.
A friend of mine studied healthcare management for his thesis. One of the hidden costs in US Healthcare is the waste and duplication that comes from competition. His example was a town with enough population to support a single CT machine. They are expensive to maintain, but there was enough use to justify it.

One hospital bought a CT machine. Doctors who are the most important customers for any commercial hospital, began to sign contracts with that hospital because it made access to the CT machine for their patients easier. The other two local hospitals had to compete and bought their own. Now there were three machines and only enough patients to support one of them. That didn't reduce the maintenance costs. The cost inevitably is passed on to all patients. This is only one example from hundreds where competition led to unnecessary cost from duplication. Add to that the overhead for people who specialize in insurance billing because the competing companies are different and very complex, add to that the profit for the investors in the hospitals, the profit for the investors in the insurance companies and that's not even touching the similar stack for pharmaceuticals and supplies. That's not even adding in the cost of delayed and emergency treatment due to lack of preventative medicine for the uninsured and the under insured. All of that adds up to the $99 bag of $0.99 saline that comes out of your pocket one way or the other.

It would be difficult to create a more wasteful or expensive system if you set out to do it on purpose.
Excellent. I've been longing to start a small/lean cooperative for years. Looks like a solid resource. Now if I could just find some partners...
Programming languages were created in order to bridge the gap between our minds and computer hardware. Why wouldn't each language be created in a way that the language's author(s) believed best to bridge that gap? Most of these first era languages were available on every platform. People picked the language that worked best for them. The language that "spoke" the most like they did.

>> It works far better and more powerfully in large scale applications. ... This is pretty much the whole point of the "Lisp Curse".

That's the premise of the article. I believe that premise is incorrect. Lisp may be a higher abstraction but it's a more difficult abstraction for many programmers to think in. As I stated, I believe that's a direct result of its syntax and all that syntax entails.
I would have phrased it differently, but I see the parent's point.

You don't roll your own security. You just don't do it. There are far too many variables that you can screw up, and anything you come up with isn't realistically going to go through nearly as much battle-testing as a ready-made solution (either upfront or on an ongoing basis).

> Custom built auth isn't as scary as you make it to be

Custom-built auth should be scary. Anyone who's worked on the security story for a popular framework will tell you that.

If you're not scared by it I'd have to assume you're either not seeing large swathes of the problem space or you're a genius.
There is certainly room for art in our world.

I'm just saying that what companies sell as products should not be made in the "art" mindset. Is that clearer?
He's not wrong, but you have a point. imo the reason I don't like Django as much is that there's not one way to do one thing like with python ie it's not convention over configuration. That said, it's still a good, mature framework and unlike Rails, upgrades aren't going to break your app (even though migration in Rails is easy as long as you do it often). Also it's nice to have a dominant framework in Python. Just wish it had the same philosophy as Python.
Devices made for us are coming, some time early next year.

Purism Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
I wonder if Guido had looked at Common Lisp and built his Python from a simplified form of Common Lisp/Scheme with infix syntax but with multi-line-lambdas, optional return values, CLOS, and edit-and-continue, and fast compilers from the start... We shoould root for Julia - it can drag the Python and Lisp people together. Also what ever happened to Dylan?
> Nobody said that Google cannot make any changes to their products. Moving from a standard 'everyone' can use to a closed-off system could be argued as anti-competitive, hence its inclusion on the list.

So you're saying that Google (or any other company for that matter) is better off NEVER EVER releasing services that use potentially open protocols because later on if they would ever consider changing those to a closed protocol it can be seen as anti-competitive. Better to just always use closed protocols.
401k plans are fully exempt under bankruptcy law. I'm planning on moving to Texas to get even more exemptions - full exemption on IRAs, as well as primary residence up to 10 acres.

Things are a lot less nutso if creditors can't ruin your life in general - the healthcare crisis just means that everyone needs to be aware of how to handle a bankruptcy.
>Why? I'm honestly bothered by this Cold War mentality...

You should direct this question to China instead.
I'm not planning on retirement, personally.

Remote work will probably only expand, and I should be able to handle that well into my 70s and 80s if I make it that far. Medical issues caused by chronic computer use probably won't be that bad compared to laborers a few generations ago (and if we're lucky, I'll just plug something into my brain 10-20 years from now or replace my arms with some Deus Ex stuff). There's going to be some new tech to learn. They'll need people to know that tech.

I got a decent chunk of cash and got lazy about getting a job because tech is still in such high demand and I can fall back if I have to, and to be honest, having nothing to do feels exactly what I imagine retirement to be, and it's fucking boring.

The only way this changes is if I get hit with a mental disease like Alzheimer's or get in a paralyzing accident. Then I'm getting an exit bag for myself. Or someone starts a nuke war.

It feels difficult to envision retirement to me because I can't even imagine technology 5 years from now. We're advancing rapidly and our rate of advancement is only increasing. This includes healthcare technology (although I imagine Epic and Allscripts will still be around).
>If everything is 'Darwinism,' what's the point of the theory?

Not everything is Darwinism. Darwinism trajectories in the parameter space are driven by local optimization.

>What does it tell us? What explanatory power does it have? What possibilities does it exclude?

well, as usual. You define your topological space and find a solution for your local optimization problem. Bingo :)
Pictures and such are covered by copyright, but mere facts are not (at least in the US): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
It triggered on the edge condition. When your phone died you knew because the screen would lock but after that you were fine.

Someone broke one of the APIs it depended on as I recall. But I know Apple was talking about providing something similar circa apple watch v2.

I thought I really needed that sort of functionality but I think the fact that I haven't been bothered to try to figure it out says that I don't really need it.
There's a relevant quote from Heinlein's classic science fiction novel, Starship Troopers:

"There is an old song which asserts that "the best things in life are free". Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted… and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears. … I fancy that the poet who wrote that song meant to imply that the best things in life must be purchased other than with money — which is true — just as the literal meaning of his words is false. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself — ultimate cost for perfect value."
My understanding was that the main issue is this would make spam too hard to detect.

There is also the question of whether we are overanalyzing the output of the model. The model pretty much spits out garbage, but our brains are hellbent to find patterns in that stream, because thats what brains do. A simple analysis would probably show that it s no more meaningful than random words.
I think it goes like this. I get a huge medical bill - say, $50,000. What can I do to pay it? What assets do I have? Well, I've got $1,000 in the checking account. That isn't going to cut it. Ah, but I've got $60,000 in my IRA, and the rules say I can tap it in this situation (IIRC). Well, goodbye retirement, but at least I can pay off my medical bill now.

Unfortunately, that $50,000 I took from the IRA counts as income, so my income this year is $50,000 higher than my withholding. Behold, a rather large unexpected tax bill. Nothing shady required.

If my memory is wrong, if you can't take it out of an IRA for emergency medical expenses, then replace "IRA" with "stock I bought two decades ago for much less than it's currently worth". Same result.
Man, I just don't think that 'the majority' of people are 'doing ok'. The majority of people are not sick. The current healthcare model only works for people who are healthy, if you have an extended hospital stay, or god help you something like cancer, you could still be in deep shit (even with insurance)

With our current system epipens are like a thousand bucks

with our current system insurance can say no to treatment.

I am one of the luckier ones, with a good healthcare policy that pays for a lot of shit, and I still would prefer universal healthcare to the current system.

I don't want to run my care by my insurance company. I don't want to get 5 forms every time i visit, 4 that say 'this is not a bill' and one that looks the same as those but IS the amount i should pay.

I don't want to factor in what its gonna cost when i go to the doc. Just go to the single-payer model, take it out of my taxes instead (it'll probably be the same in taxes as my monthly insurance premium) and make it simple for me to get the care i need.

PS. my health insurance goes away when i retire, unless i wanna pay something like 1.5k or 2k a month to keep it going. My retirement plan currently is 'try to die quickly'
Populism is generally predicated on one cohort of the population denying democratic rights to another or other cohorts.

Where it is, imposes, or results in authoritarianism, it's inherently anti-democratic.
Yeah, I interpreted:

> quantum fields near the horizon can violate some of the assumptions that are required for the area theorem

as !x
I think about this a lot. But then I remember that to do so is to project "business as usual" into the future -- the very trend that is spurring on ecological catastrophe and likely all kinds of social collapse. I'm afraid retirement will be the least of our worries.
With most categories of gear, there's a sharp quality threshold that hits below a given price range, and once you are above it, you need not go further to do professionally useful work. It's been a helpful rule of thumb for me.
Your sentiment is understandable, and I still use Google every day because it's still the best in its niches. But here are a few things to keep in mind:

* Advertising revenue is practically nonexistent today compared to its heyday in the late 90s. This is because a few key players like Google have created a monopoly/oligopoly where they are so large, with so much more personal information on everybody, that they keep much of the profit for themselves and squeeze out any competition.

* The internet still provides lucrative careers for many, but this is in spite of (not due to) monopolistic players like Google. In other words, we'd all profit more, and have more room to innovate, if the big players like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc didn't control nearly every aspect of the internet.

* Google is several orders of magnitude bigger than anyone's conception of how big it is. Short of a national monopoly breakup campaign, this will have little to no effect on their profitability or hiring.

My personal feeling is that income inequality largely stems from the US no longer enforcing antitrust laws, consumer protection laws, or finance laws like the Glass–Steagall Act. It effects liberals and conservatives alike and leads to global threats like nationalism (a leading contender for World War III) when the vast majority of the population spends so much time working to make rent that it's effectively disenfranchised, no longer has upward mobility/retirement, and doesn't have the means to raise a family.
Totally, and that would make a ton of sense on a "I think Rails is better than Django" article or something like that, but on an article purely about Rails, this whole thread about Django reads like a non-sequitur. I was surprised to see this as the top comment, because it seemed totally unrelated to anything in the article. If you go to the article and ctrl-f for "django" you come up empty. So the pushback seemed reasonable to me.
So as a company better to just not provide a great free service or a service that is largely better than the competition because if it's too successful then you get blamed for not keeping it updated.
But somebody can also do the proof of work from multiple hosts (or parallelized on the same host, e.g. with GPU computation). How does a proof-of-work in this case actually do more than just throttling the server's responses?
Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction – By Casey Reas
If you work in an environment where you're expected to be busy at all times even without much to do - well.. things like this come in handy.
Continental US hasn't warmed as much as the rest of the world. In Europe we have seen and experienced extreme heatwaves and droughts in the last decade. https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/record-summer-heat-bakes... The US on the other hand hasn't had temperatures increase that much and has even had many unusually cold winters.
"for-profit hospital" industry. It's not your pal. It's there for your money.
Yup!

Now I use RDP to do the same with telegram (there is no not-shitty CLI telegram client)
This is all fair enough - you're entitled to your opinions developed through your experiences - but it's just not relevant to this article. Just because you got burned by Django does not mean it makes sense to pop into any thread about Rails and talk about how you got burned by Django. That's not what this article is about!
I also found it interesting because just as the later sections complain about cases where they relied on inferencing "too much", the earliest section also shows cases where they relied on inferencing "not enough". (Had the developer not explicitly typed by copying the inferred type from a tooltip for that D3.js return object, for instance, and left it to be inferred, it wouldn't have been broken in the generics change.)

It's an interesting goldilocks paradox likely only exacerbated by the size of Google's codebase and variety of developer code styles/inferencing preferences.
I love using Gitlab SCM, but I'm surprised that Gitlab CI is described as "Lovable" while major bug fixes are gated for months on an uncertain future feature release:

"Job marked as success when job terminate midway in Kubernetes" https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/4119

IMO a production CI bug that falsely reports success merits a high priority patch release but Gitlab doesn't seem to see it that way.
I don’t think you can reasonably include public insurance when considering if private insurance is widespread enough. Presumably the heath of the private system is based on people outside of the public one with vs without adequate insurance.

15 percent of the U.S. population get Medicare. 19 percent of the population get Medicaid. So, the government subsidies heathcare for ~34% of the population. And that’s excluding prisoners and VA which make up ~0.5% and 10% of the population, but may overlap with the above. Further the government also pays insurance for government workers and their families, or other special programs that subsidize heathcare costs like Ryan White or various rural heathcare initiatives.
Did we change how hurricanes are monitored over that period? I would imagine that with satellite imagery now we'll catch every storm that touches category 5, where before that we'd only know if the storm was category 5 at landfall or some other sensor intercept.
I know about that, I meant besides that. An average return doesn't mean a consistent return from year to year - e.g. $100,000 / year from 2 million. I was just curious how other people would invest to target a high probability of 5% each year.
All Nighter Liquid Foundation
Is it True?
This is an interesting option.

Although in our case, our eBPF runs in external customer's environment, and we cannot ask them to patch their kernels with our code.
If you don’t enjoy your job, then it might be better to get done what is expected of you and enjoy the rest of the time you have to spend butt-in-chair doing something else, instead of intentionally piling more unenjoyable work on your platter. Especially if the manager isn’t technical: just don’t tell them you’re done and spend that time doing something else.

Of course it completely depends on your work situation and the relationship with your manager, as well as how socially acceptable it is in your organization. I think lots of the people doing it had slacked off in high school and college and gotten away with it.

Your relationship with your work and your time is probably much healthier, so I wouldn’t start screwing around during work hours now.
Probably Karabiner. This tool is just crazy powerful.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karab...
Have a look at Sails.js. While not perfect, its highly influenced by Rails

https://sailsjs.com/
> The science stack is also the one that starting migrating the earliest.

...but the last to actually finish migrating. In fact, it's still ongoing.

> Given the reach and popularity of Python, of course you will always find plenty of testimonies saying they suffered

Everyone suffered. Everyone had to deal with Python2 versus Python3 bullshit. It's not just about migrating some codebase.

Everyone had to use an inferior version of Python, whether it was because library choice was limited (Python3) or because the language was intentionally left without feature backports (Python2). There was a huge amount of plain "brokenness" in the ecosystem and it was a huge waste of everyone's time.
I agree this is an interesting research area and it’s likely to stay one for awhile until the underlying economic blockers are well solved: storage, bandwidth, and support all cost money.

If you host it yourself you have easy answers for that but if you’re relying on generous strangers you are going to hit limits: how many people are going to mirror large amounts of content, deal with DMCA takedowns and other legal requirements, etc. before giving up? Performance could in theory be competitive but there’s no guarantee and it’s notoriously hard to deal with unreliable nodes — which again can be dealt with if you have skilled support staff available. You’ll get some volunteers for the right cause but that only gets you so far – that’s why there’s a a couple decades of these projects dreaming big and failing once they get popular.
I assume that virtually all mobile apps are sharing your data. That's the entire business model of mobile: offer a "free" service as a pretext to get an app onto the phone and then spy on the user as much as possible.

It's part of why I avoid apps whenever possible. I only install an app if it's a service I really need and there is no other way to use it, e.g. via the web. Web sites can still track but they can't suck location data, sensor data, etc.
It doesn't matter much whether I can solve it since the first rule of the contest explicitly bans me from writing code to solve it.
One could argue that it's immoral to respond to a comment about a topic when one hasn't read the link in that comment.
I don't think it qualifies since anyone can go and implement AMP. If AMP extensions are being made which aren't documented and they are implemented only by closed source code in Google clients and servers then you can argue that they are leveraging their power to keep competition out. Otherwise the competition can simply implement AMP.

Or let's look at it differently, if you are Google and find that a new, HTTP-incompatible protocol would make things better for a significant number of clients, how would you develop and push for that new standard in a way that people won't complain about anti-competitive behavior like you are complaining above? And are you sure that following those steps won't result in other people on HN complaining that it's anti-competitive?
Naphta, actually, but the allusion to Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning book is brilliant in any case. Now there's whole pool of literary names that can be attached to future features, product roll-outs, etc.

Project Pepercorn alone is enough to get Business Insider writing about it all the time.
I like Python. But it loses in the upgrade comparison to Java. Existing Java code almost always just keeps working with new compilers and JVMs. And new JVMs tend to increase performance of your code for relatively little upgrade effort.
I'm no compiler expert, but I would expect that compilers would put exception-handling code on a separate 64-byte cache line.

You only use up "cache" if you actually hit the cache. If you're on a different L1 cache line (and never execute), you'll never be in L1 instruction cache, maybe never even in L2 or even L3 cache lines.

Not that I'm an expert on compilers... but whenever I look at assembly, there are lots of "NOPs" across the code. I've always assumed it was for some kind of boundary alignment, probably cache.
I think this thread suggests that is not the case, at least as I’m seeing it now. The ratio of informed to ignorant comments is unremarkable for HN.
You're right, maybe I mean the humanities.
Here's the paper:

"A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota"

Robert A. DePalma, Jan Smit, David A. Burnham, Klaudia Kuiper, Phillip L. Manning, Anton Oleinik, Peter Larson, Florentin J. Maurrasse, Johan Vellekoop, Mark A. Richards, Loren Gurche, and Walter Alvarez

PNAS April 23, 2019 116 (17) 8190-8199

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/17/8190