skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because California is a terribly run state, and one third of your population is on Medi-Cal. You literally have the same problems as Canada.
Not in the same way but among the techies, yes.
A lot of people believe this, but it is incorrect. In plywood, the glue transfers the load across the faces of each ply from strand to neighboring strand through the adjacent plies. This can result in a stronger bond between neighboring strands than if no cross-plies were present. This amounts to more than just splitting resistance.

As a parallel case, consider multi-ply composite construction, where sheets of fabric, sometimes of sheets with a single fiber orientation, are laid at angles to each other to spread the loads in exactly this way. They both better approximate an isotropic material, and are stronger than an equivalent thickness of singly-oriented plies all in the same orientation.
Holy crap you need to get out of there. I think literally any job can be better than that one. There is so much out there, just try hard and take the leap.

I hope you find something soon. Look outside your area for jobs that pay for relocation if you have been having trouble finding jobs in your area, or look for remote jobs. There are tons of remote jobs right now, it's a huge industry that a lot of people don't consider.

P.S. - GO TO HR, THEY CAN HELP. Your boss should be fired tomorrow for that bullshit.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955522.
My wife is also in Finance. She said an amended S1 is nothing special whatsoever, it's common.
> The only difference is that public prisons are invulnerable to reform.

None are invulnerable to legislative reform. However, _private_ ones are closer to it, since they're, well, private.

> No worse

If you mean they're both terrible, exploitative, have guard violence, don't provide reasonable facilities, don't provide opportunities for personal development and education, and underfunded - maybe you're right. (although frankly I doubt it.)

Mass incarceration in general is a perverse US government sport / poor people population management/behavior shaping mechanism, anyway.
I"m not doing too well. Obligatory I'm doing better than many here, but I still feel that I have my own problems.

For one, I'm younger than many people here, so about a year from now I've got all of the fun of the college application process to look towards. This year I've started taking all of my classes at my state's university, which has been a very good experience academically, so for the first time there is a real feeling that my grades matter. This stems from two roots, first I have a feeling of imposter syndrome when it comes to learning and also I'm worried about being a class in which I have a hard time following the professor or the assignments seem unclear, which I am currently experiencing in one of my classes. Also, I still have activities at my high school before and after university, so I spend over two and a half hours every day commuting.

That ties into another of my problems, I feel like I over-invest in everything I do and it often hurts, though I have yet to be entirely burned by anything. Currently I'm on an FRC team, and have lead an initiative to put rookies through FTC and I'm the main student coordinator on that while feeling that I myself don't know enough or have the time to learn.

This post in itself has been disconcerting for me, I've always felt that my mindset is very similar to others on HN, just a decade or two younger, and I very much imagine being in similar situations to many here a few years from now. I'm struggling with questions such as whether I'll be able to get into top colleges, or even the worth of getting into such programs assuming that financial aid is hard to come by.
Well said. This lines up with my personal variant of the golden rule.

"Do unto others has they would do unto you"

Would the people running the business have you increase their profit margin at great personal cost to yourself? Then it is completely fair for you to likewise attempt to enrich yourself at their expense. I no longer do the work that would be best for the business, I try to find myself in the work that would look best on my resume.
Don't forget that the US's rapid access to all the healthcare the patient wants leads to huge amounts of harm in the form of over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment.
The reason why companies love SMS 2FA is because most people keep their phone number. In a scenario like you described, most people would walk into a <whatever their provider is> store, show ID, and get a new SIM.

This way, the company using SMS 2FA has effectively outsourced this recovery path to the phone companies. Instead of handling recovery (and potentially liability for getting it wrong) themselves, they can just tell you to go recover the phone number. And when the phone company gets it wrong, you get stuck in a nightmare of finger-pointing instead of having a clear culprit to hold responsible.
Incidentally, the EU also provides examples of where the borders are completely arbitrary. Consider the border at Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau:

> The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and Netherlands, with numerous small exclaves of Belgium, of which some contain counter-exclaves of the Netherlands.

> Some houses in the town of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau are divided between the two countries. At one time, according to Dutch laws restaurants had to close earlier. For some restaurants on the border, this simply meant that the customers had to move to a table on the Belgian side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
What makes these specifically for wood and not, say, metal?
According to https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Francisco-p..., construction costs in SF rose 5% last year (2018). Also according to the SF chronicle (https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/After-...), rents increased 3.7% year over year.

According to https://www.curbed.com/2018/12/17/18144657/construction-home..., San Francisco's high construction cost is mainly driven by the high cost of construction labor. It is disproportionately driven by labor cost when compared to all other cities.

So we have some data now, rather than just pithy statements, and I don't think it agrees with what you want.
Sure, they’re largely status symbols but they still have the fastest chips on the market and compete for the best camera on the market. I think there’s tech people out there that like it just for being one of the best phones.
Hm, this is a good point. US provably has the greatest incentive to live healthy due to having the provably highest health care costs. That is a rational and reasonable argument. Yet you get downvoted for it which is interesting. I think you make a good point though.
> Even regular expressions worked.

Did you try doing regular expressions for non-ASCII characters? For example, given a file "latin1file" containing the string "L£", encoded in Latin-1, Python 2 will fail silently:

$ python2 -c 'import re; s = open("latin1file").read(); print(re.search("L", s));'
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7fb992a44bf8>
$ python2 -c 'import re; s = open("latin1file").read(); print(re.search("£", s));'
None

Python3 forces you to deal with the problem to handle the first case, but if you do, the second case will work as well:

$ python3 -c 'import re; s = open("latin1file").read(); print(re.search("L", s));'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 1: invalid start byte

$ python3 -c 'import re; s = open("latin1file", encoding="latin1").read(); print(re.search("L", s));'
<re.Match object; span=(0, 1), match='L'>
$ python3 -c 'import re; s = open("latin1file", encoding="latin1").read(); print(re.search("£", s));'
<re.Match object; span=(1, 2), match='£'>
Well they don't hate us "because of our freedoms" they hate us because we meddle in and around the countries, overthrow their governments and kill their citizens.
They go over tiny cracks and lips just fine. It's potholes and large cracks that are a big problem. You learn to watch for and avoid them, just like you would on a skateboard.
I was a DirecTV subscriber for many years. Their customer service was great. After the AT&T acquisition customer service quickly declined to the horrible low level I had with other AT&T services and canceled. This pushed our household into the streaming world which has its own problems (and are getting worse quickly).
That's certainly a much better proxy than fat or sodium, from what I understand.

I'm actively trying to cut sugar (and carbohydrates in general, but especially sugar), and have already noticed I feel a lot better. I don't know if it's actually contributing to weight loss, but not feeling completely worn out after eating a big meal is a benefit in and of itself.

One thing that makes it difficult is how much sugar is in everything (even in things that you'd think shouldn't need it, like jerky). Pork rinds have been a godsend for properly-carb-free snacking.
X consumes a drug - This is not violent.

Drug dealer Y kills someone to protect territory - This is violent.

If X was willing to buy drugs from anyone, and/or if X would prefer to buy from a legal seller but none is available, Y is not the cause of the violence.

Also, you can get locked up for smoking weed that you grew yourself and had no intention of selling. What of that?
You shouldn't be riding them on sidewalks, especially not at 15mph.
Just like you could have picked a credible source instead of a libertarian think tank. You are surely aware that the burden of proof for an assertion is on the proponent, not the disputant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Institute
> it costs about 100 USD for a teeth cleaning

It's about the same for me in the US, where we also don't have insurance for dentistry in general.

Getting a couple stitches on a Sunday on the other hand last ran me a bit over $7500.
You could apply the same snark at any CS-related tutorial. You can always use tech for things you agree with and things you don't.
Is dynamo affordable yet? When I did my AWS certs a few years ago they seemed to be pushing it hard for almost every data persistence use case that was non-relational. In practice the throughput provisioning meant that you knew exactly what your read/write load was and that it was constant; or you had to set it to peak levels and pay a fortune. If not, Dynamo would simply reject your request and it's up to you to build retry logic back up the chain.

This got a little better when autoscaling went from a workaround to an actual feature; but there's still a fair bit of ramp-up time so you still have to handle request limits.

I haven't paid much attention to it since, but was wondering if these things are a non-issue nowadays?
Taxing the Rich: Issues and Options
I thought the whole idea of Pokémon go was for people to go check map oddities like that?
The SAT changed the scale, that's why.
> Nobody has ever claimed these things are healthier.

Beyond Meat literally does on their website.
sic? it's spelled neighbour in British English

Yeah, I know you are just baiting me.
Not really.

I'm broke, as usual. I'm no longer homeless and no longer literally dying (health issue), but I can't say I'm exactly a happy camper.

I have $155 bill due in 3 days that I can't cover. My paycheck this week will be less than that. And then there's living expenses, like groceries. The cupboards are bare, again.

I do resume work, but I'm not good at promoting that. (And I blog, but my Patreon is underfunded. Ads are dead and I mostly don't use them.) I have personal barriers to making the business connections I need (health, gender, etc).

Same old, same old.
That's just plain ad-hominem.
>Why are nations geographical?

The same way family houses are geographical. Because the people in them live on some place, cater for it, historically inherit it, and do as they please inside their own premises.

Nations are groups of people who grew in the same area, had gone through the same historical experiences (e.g. attacks, famines, wars, etc), worked together to make their place better, and built their culture and cultivated their ways of life over centuries, often making heavy sacrifices to free and keep their land...

>Corporations are not bound by borders

Corporations also don't belong to their "citizens" (employees) but to the few owners/shareholders, are not bound by democracy (they are despotic kingdoms internally), and only care for profit, and would "exile" (fire) any number of their "citizens" (employees) if the profits said so. So not the best example to base social paradigms on...

>It's not right. Nation states are anachronistic at best.

According to most scholars, the nation state is a product of enlightenment and modernity.

We had empires before.

And federal like unions, are just nation states minus the political autonomy (sovereignty), so decisions are made by some bureaucrats away from where it matters.
> Do people not run tests much in more-static languages?

Sure we do :-) but most projects would be lucky to reach something like 70% test coverage. You can't derive 100% type coverage from that. You can get 100% type coverage with a good typechecker.
> Heard about Brexit?

The UK was never in the Schengen Area to begin with.
Wait, how many London buses fit in a Turing award winner's head? And can they all fit in to Wales despite the number of Olympic sized swimming pools already there?
It's like, what do you do after you realise The Hoax? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2VIUcuF3KE
> Of the solutions described above, the memccpy function is the most general, optimally efficient [...]

This does not seem to be the case for me AT ALL. strcpy for example, is a lot faster than memccpy. Here are my results:

$ gcc -O0 bench.c && ./a.out
memccpy: 0.008405
strcpy: 0.002913

$ gcc -O3 bench.c && ./a.out
memccpy: 0.007933
strcpy: 0.002590

$ clang -O0 bench.c && ./a.out
memccpy: 0.008771
strcpy: 0.003225

$ clang -O3 bench.c && ./a.out
memccpy: 0.007966
strcpy: 0.000383

$ musl-gcc -O0 -static bench.c && ./a.out
memccpy: 0.007849
strcpy: 0.005647

$ musl-gcc -O3 -static bench.c && ./a.out
memccpy: 0.005754
strcpy: 0.005625

$ tcc bench.c && ./a.out
memccpy: 0.014252
strcpy: 0.004045

Source code can be found here: https://slexy.org/view/s2EHngPvDh

---

The differences seem to be quite interesting. Did I mess up the code? Compare gcc -O3's strcpy and clang -O3's strcpy: 0.002590 vs 0.000383! musl-gcc on the other hand has much more similar results.

---

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 9.1.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ clang --version
clang version 8.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_801/final)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

$ tcc -v
tcc version 0.9.27 (x86_64 Linux)
Are there any private prison models that were shown to be more effective than their peers or public counterparts?

While I agree that the vast majority (if not all) of private prisons, and those who participated in profiting from them, are ugly spots on the progress of modern humanity, I'm weary about an overall ban on the concept altogether.

Rather than creating rules against an evil business model or incentives to promote a beneficial one, this "unabashedly California" move cuts off any hope of someone with an ounce of morality to disrupt and ideally create a prison system that truly aims to reform inmates.
“[writer] is writer, certified personal trainer and certified nutritionist behind the popular weight loss blog ... “

I’m not convinced those credentials add up to a position of authority on ecology or internal medicine - or HN-worthy content for that matter...
Corporations control how all shipped font glyphs are rendered on their platforms. An emoji isn't fundamentally different.

Use open source software if you actually care about this.
The US system is actually the worst of both worlds (capitalist and socialist). It combines heavy regulation costs, high litigation costs, high public funding, AND profiteering. Literally anything would be better. It's based on a government-protected trade union married to a system of geographic monopolies... yet it's still allowed to charge whatever it wants to a captive market - and then price discriminate on top! It's overburdened with CYA and barrier-to-entry regulations, yet falsely labelled as "free-market" and "capitalist" by its status-quo PR & lobbyists to get that political support. Same thing as Universities.

If it was truly "capitalist" then literally anyone would be free to hang a shingle and provide medical services (kind of like car mechanics), there would be competing professional accreditations (trademarked brands) as well (kind of like private technical certificates). But when the "market" is so perverted, "capitalism" (whatever is left of it) gets a bad rap because the incentives are fked to begin with.
> It's when you visit a hospital (voluntarily or via emergency ambulance) that you'll start getting the $1,000 - $100,000 bills that'll kill ya.

As a kid I had a 2 day hospital stay for an appendectomy that cost about $1000.

An appendectomy now runs around $100,000. An airlift to the emergency room will also cost around $75,000.

This is a common childhood ailment and is not related to living the so-called sinful lifestyle that people like to bring up as justification for high medical costs.
O...kay?

So, how about all of the not-California parts of the US that have the same kinds of problems (which is, last I checked, more or less "all of them")?

Because, the thing is, only one of my examples was, you know, from California.
In Canada, conditions covered by the socialized plans are illegal to be treated by private practice. More than 50k people leave Canada every year to get treatment in the US to either avoid wait times or the government refuses to pay for the procedures.
Regular insulin in the US is not expensive, rather auto-injectors are expensive, and analogs (rapid acting, long lasting) are also more expensive.

But the regular traditional insulin in a vial is not more expensive: https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-much-does-insulin-cost-compa...
> Smaller memory footprints

Nobody said you need to link the entire library.

Plus - with custom-made libraries, the memory footprint is no smaller.

> Easier reimplementation

Implementation begins with some part of the standard library, and gets completed gradually later on.

> Lower attack surface

Are you really arguing in favor of "everyone roll your own library" as a reduction of attack surface?

> Less room for breaking changes

C's standard library was already broken in various significant ways to begin with (e.g. gets() ...) .

Also, are you really worried about all those breaking changes between C99 and C11?

> Less baggage for when we inevitably wish we could deprecate things

Umm, you do realize things usually get deprecated when they've been replaced by something more relevant, right? In our case - new C library code.
Not sure in those cases, but we make assumptions all the time based on not having seen a scooter previously, and assuming a scooter couldn’t have gotten into a car-occluded area without moving faster than X mph. Most AEB maybe doesn’t use long term temporal data to make decisions or trust its own non-observations as being definitive (it may assume there was a strong chance of a false negative in detecting a scooter in a previous frame too easily and not allow that non observation to rule it out in the current frame; it may also have enough of a false negative detection rate that what it is doing is rational).
This argument is long, long past its expiration date.

While the US by some measurements has a lower overall tax rate than other developed countries [1], the difference between us and, say, Canada, who enjoy high quality socialized health care, is far from "exorbitant".

There's a very reasonable argument for considering all of the consequences of our systematically broken health care system as a "tax" -- it amounts to a massive financial and quality-of-life burden for most Americans.

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries for identical procedures [2]. Medical costs are the worst kind of lottery, where an overnight visit for tonsillitis can get you a nice little $100,000 bill [8]. Do you not consider that a tax? Why not?

Medical bills account for 60% of bankruptcies in the US [3]. High medical costs are literally causing people to commit suicide [4] or to die of entirely preventable causes [5] while others just forego care entirely [9]. For those people who do jump through the hoops to get private medical insurance, there are entire bureaucracies dedicated to denying claims [6]. There are so many perverse incentives involved that some doctors are taking it into their own hands to try to lower medication costs, and pharmaceutical companies are responding by tripling the costs of the medication [7].

Meanwhile tons and tons of Americans stay in jobs they don't like just to maintain their employer-sponsored health insurance [10], strangling their wages and preventing positions from being opened up to more enthusiastic employees.

These things are all taxes. They are taxes on American society, impacting all of us. Anybody that's opposed to socialized health care "because muh taxes" is defending this system, this embarrassing, broken, corrupt system that endangers and kills countless people every year and acts as a massive multi-faceted anchor on our economy.

[1]: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxe...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/15/why-a...

[3]: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bill...

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/co21rt/elderly_couple... -- linking to Reddit here because there are a lot of comments there worth reading.

[5]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shane-patrick-boyle-died-a...

[6]: https://splinternews.com/a-glimpse-into-the-bureaucratic-hel...

[7]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/doctors-tried-to-low...

[8]: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ngngy/merry_fucking_ch...

[9]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/06/09/sick-of-high-healt...

[10]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/13/fear-o...
Maybe so, but please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It's tedious and nothing new ever comes of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Regardless of the attempt here at painting a country's foreign policy as partisan, any given country favors one U.S. party over the other. Right now, China probably favors a Democrat led government, so does Iran. The U.S. probably favors one Israeli party over the other. Your entire issue with this is likely because you perceive Israeli spying to oppose your political party. On those lines, would you classify Chinese/Iranian spying efforts as harmless, just because they currently bat for the Democrats? Or Canada, given that they are allied?

Also, it is being taken as fact that Israel is the originator of the sting rays, when in reality this isn't conclusive.

I believe the U.S. and Israel have proportionate response to each other being caught spying, it makes zero common sense for the U.S. to undermine it's own national security by repeatedly going easy on Israel.

So, citations outstanding on the following open ended claims made:

1. Extent and depth of Israeli spying in the U.S. is considered to be particularly extreme (and U.S spying in Israel isn't)

2. US is easy on Israeli spying efforts despite Israel being hard on US spying efforts

3. Israel is definitely behind the sting rays

4. Your reaction to this story is partisan