skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a recipe for mediocrity. Great things are created by people following their gut, not their metrics.

Jobs didn’t have a data scientist telling him to make the iPhone. A data scientist would have told Notch to make a Call of Duty clone instead of Minecraft. There was no data scientist behind Gates, Warren, Zuckerberg, Musk, or anyone of their ilk.

Looking back in history, some great discoveries and inventions were held back because the “data” said it wasn’t possible. Everybody thought ulcers were caused by stress and bad food, then Barry Marshall came along and literally trusted his gut by eating a bunch of bacteria to prove that’s how ulcers were formed.

At best, data science helps you squeeze a couple extra bucks from someone else’s ingenuity. Once Jobs died, the data scientists got their hands on the iPhone and chopped it up into different models. And it was the data scientists who made your Facebook feed ad-ridden junk. And at worst, data science is destroying our society. It’s the data scientists who are driving this insane data vacuum that is plaguing the internet and our daily lives. You thwarted the 2016 election by weaponizing data against America. You did it again with brexit. No doubt you will be out in full force for every major political event for the next few decades, sullying the discourse of the electorate.

Bit of a rant... sorry. I hate this over-reliance on data and the smugness it’s captors carry.
I asked for what I want -- if the candidate doesn't have that, it's up to them to sell me on why they'd be a good choice anyway. I want $100 but I might be willing to settle for $90 and a really nice cookie. I might even prefer that cookie but I don't know what cookie you have. It could be fantastic and worth way more than $10. Or maybe not.

I once got a job with zero qualifications for it -- in fact, the interview was almost entirely just me asking the interviewers how to do the job! They had other applicants but I guess my total and complete lack of experience didn't scare them off. The job was initially daunting but otherwise a fantastic experience overall.
Patrick Byrne Blames Deep State for Sale of $90M in OSTK Shares
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=wrapapi also comes to mind.
California has unquie requirements though. Due to the geography of San Francisco air pollution gets trapped within the Bay Area. Combined with s high population density a vehicle emitting the same amount of pollution will have a greater health impact within San Francisco then outside of it.

Regulations are a trade off between the needs of different stakeholders. If the needs of the stakeholders differ then the regulations need to as well.
I wonder if that would have been the case had the public health option been part of the ACA?
> I see nothing stupid with using quantum mechanics and nuclear science in this context.

What if the gentleman had said, "Based on pilot accounts, encounters with these UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) often involved complex flight patterns and advanced maneuvering, which demand extreme advances in CPU architecture including instructions we've never seen before, database consistency guarantees, and whitespace significance" would you see the problem with such claims?

If he had simply said, "These appear to use technology in advance of anything known to mankind" that would have been enough. To posit specific mechanisms of physics of a phenomenon we know next to nothing about is silly.
What I recall about Visible is that they were started by former Verizon executives, might be a long-term play for a boomerang-style acquisition target
Just beware that some models don’t have speakers.
Isn’t that something that these sightings are always seen by USA pilots or military!
i feel like python is just the next c++. everyone rides the hype train and thinks it’s gravy until 10 years later everyone realizes it’s full of mistakes and yields unwieldy codebases readily. i have never developed python code and said “this is fun” like i do with scheme and ml dialects.
Well, it's obviously God visiting us. Anyone can come up with these untestable hypotheses. That's not useful by itself.
An insurance company should be operating at cost though. They should all eventually compete on the lowest prices until someone reaches close to operating cost. It should be a race to the bottom.

Also, part of the costs are related to inflated health care and med costs. Because insurer can pay more, health care can charge more. Their profit should come from them working to lower those prices, not from lowering their coverage.
running many different systems is not development
If you’re suggesting each subscriber gets a static IP then that’s much worse for privacy.
That has as much to do with SO style and nature. Raw python questions already have answers so if you ask one you're downvoted to oblivion. Pytorch, tensorflow et al are new-ish enough there are novel questions to ask and answer.

If there's a new hotness in python web frameworks (or whatever) that suddenly everyone wants to use, questions about that will top the list of new questions.
> we should return to an open market place.

What should happen when an uninsured child ends up in the emergency room?
> we don't rely on classic selectors (CSS, xPath, etc)

I'm not buying this, does AI process html as text lol? Surely it process it as a tree, right?
Dynamicland mostly bootstraps itself (except for some of the hardware bits) - https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1000625841326309376
I like python.Python makes programming easy and efficient.python program is easy to read.
Nikolai Tesla died poor
60% of Americans believe the government (in some form) should ensure healthcare for its citizens (per Pew Research). 70% of Americans support Medicare for All. We’re going single payer (Medicare For All), it’s just a matter of when (the younger you are, the more you’re likely to support it).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/03/most-contin...

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412545-70-...
Similar to parent I bet hard on Python in 2008. That means I've been writing Python for over 10 years. Sure, any programmer can pick up a new language, but I'm able to build (what I believe) are useful projects and release them in Python every single week, outside of my full time job, community involvement and family: https://timothycrosley.com/. That level of productivity only comes from long term investment in a language IMHO.
I'm partial of Jacques Vallée explanation of the Lazar testimony; that is, that he's completely truthful but what he saw and witnessed were models / fakes in some sort of psy op. Especially when you get deeper into the specifics of his testimony; little of what he describes makes sense, like the fact he was asked to investigate supposedly "alien crafts" with little more than a multimeter and an oscilloscope, and with nowhere near the expertise that'd be expected of someone in charge of such a thing.
I'm also trying to figure this out, here's my approach so far.

1. Categorize - Can I identify what type of problem this is? (ie Graph problem, bit problem, sliding window, etc.)?

2. Plan a solution - Can I come up with a strategy to solve it?

3. Based on how I felt about 1 and 2, am I confident enough to dive in and solve it?

3A. If yes, as a final check, go to the discussions and see if you can get some confirmation that you had the right approach just by reading the titles. For example, if you were thinking that this was a backtracking problem because that was the only way you thought it could be solved and you see that the most upvoted posts are talking about priority queus, you probably had the wrong approach. Otherwise if it looks like you were on the right track, only then should you go ahead and start coding it.

3B. If you had the wrong approach or if you weren't confident that you could solve it, then go ahead and learn from the solution.

You will learn a lot from the solutions that others posts but you will hardly learn anything by wasting hours on a flawed solution.

To be clear, to get good requires going well beyond the fundamentals, you need to learn from the best of the best in order to stand a chance.
My personal theory of "why python" is that it broke with the unixism of recycling syntactical conventions. While the conventions were useful, the line-noise aspects that were perpetuated turned a lot of people off as unnecessary obfuscation. Python was more than a clean break from that, it was pushing towards actually trying to enforce a certain amount of readability.

I default to python for scripting at work because it is popular - we are more likely to find folks who have at least seen it before. Most of my throwaway and experimental code is Perl5, just out of long habit.
This year's flu season may be a bad one. Here's why you need a flu shot
In European countries I visited, primarily Scandinavian ones, they take such pride in their social system.

If some European countries is any example, publicly run healthcare can incentivize innovation in private health insurances.

Apparently EU citizens (and visa holders?) get a healthcare card that's portable across EU. Is this true?

Any Europeans healthcare users have opinions on the healthcare system there? Any wisdom to impart?
No, economic theory says that perfectly competitive industries will operate at a nominal profit, not at cost. A 6% profit margin is probably not quite "nominal profit," but is below the average for all industries: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sageworks/2016/10/03/the-15-lea....
we're in the weeds now, but: sort of. the pirate bay doesn’t distribute anything — it just indexes it — but actually getting content via the pirate bay involves torrenting the content. and torrent is a tech that makes every downloader also an uploader to peers.
Which is why I have firewall rules inside my freakin' house which prevent things from sending packets outside. It really is annoying. If you allow DNS and ping it seems the TV won't constantly complain that it doesn't have an internet connection.
The spam died off because Usenet died off. If users ever went back to Usenet, the spam would come back again behind them. There's nothing in the design of Usenet that can stop spammers from spamming.

(There wasn't anything back in the '90s in the design of email to stop spammers from spamming, either; but enough people cared enough about email that billions were spent to add that spam-proofing. Nobody cared enough about Usenet to invest a similar amount, so it's still as unprotected as it was when Monica Lewinsky was in the news.)
Is the ACA responsible for the rise? Personally, my health insurance rates (for a family plan offered through my employer of ~1,000 people) were increasing by 5-10% per year before the ACA and have been more stable since (3-5% increases per year).

Its currently at a total of $22,000/year (between employer and employee contributions) - that's equivalent to $35,000 dollars in my country of birth (New Zealand), or 700% of what the total tax on the median income is. Somehow, kiwis get all of the functions of government for 14% of what health insurance costs in America. It's insane and reminds me every enrolment season of how poor the ROI on healthcare dollars is in the US.
The author Colin Fleming presumes that Melville's works are for the most part fabricated or exaggerations, and is a "sell out", yet he offers no evidence for these claims.
That's not what happened. If RMS had actually argued the case objectively, he would have used reported testimony that cleared his friend. Instead he went off on some hypothetical to excuse the bad behavior (which reportedly didn't even happen) of his friend.

It was the wrong forum, the wrong topic, and the wrong argument. It shows a complete and total lack of good judgement. Combined with his history of such a lack of judgement, that is the standard which we should hold people to.
And yet, sometimes, we really rather would prefer not to.

Bartleby was broken twice, first by the weight of the world at the dead-letter room of the post office, and then by the realization that his worth in life was as a scribe. Note how he goes from hard-working to burnt-out as his days fill with the copying of somebody else's qualified work and original thoughts.
The object descended from 28000FT to 50FT at 24000 miles per hour with instant acceleration, no signs of thrust or even wings. According to the reports, for me its whether you believe the reports from those that saw it or not. If you choose to believe them, then it's hard to believe the earth tech to allow this was possible in 2004.
What do "modern users" demand that the various current GUI Usenet clients are missing?
I'm reminded of Sesame Street's Grover rushing towards the camera saying "Near!", then running away and shouting "Far!".
Unimaginable velocity and agility inferred by movements of an object perceived to be large and distant might be more easily explained by one much smaller and closer.
Makes sense to go single payer (and I tend to be pretty libertarian over all). Insurance is about having a pool of payers large enough for offsetting costs. The larger the pool in a nation with population growth the higher probability that a larger pool will be better. The largest pool is everyone.

I don’t like calling it a human right. That implies the doctors are enslaved to provide care. No rational and highly intelligent person will pursue medicine as a career if it’s going to require 12 years of education before conscription into unpaid labor.
No.

All languages are typed in one way or another. Unless you write a generic function, you cannot evaluate (+ 2 "a") in scheme. Here is racket's error message:

> (+ 2 "a")
; +: contract violation
; expected: number?
; given: "a"
; argument position: 2nd
; [,bt for context]
>

The function absolutely expects its arguments to have a certain shape (type). The difference with C is that variables don't have types set in stone, they can... vary. The compiler/interpreter just takes care of them for you.
There is a mechanical engineering intern somewhere designing a machine to wipe a butt 10,000 times a day to test this.
Being insulted by someone who is expressing what they believe to be true is not very conducive to participating in a rational discussion of anything.
Could this be an uneven, polished surface reflecting some lights? Not saying it must have been, but this and some other descriptions do really sound like light reflections on a surface you can't othetwise make out, which change because you're moving relative to the surface.
"Apparently EU citizens (and visa holders?) get a healthcare card that's portable across EU. Is this true?
"

I don't think so. The systems are very different. But if you get sick in another country they won't rip you off like they doing in the US. My sister from Germany was charged $1200 when her daughter had a fever in NYC. She talked to a doctor for 5 minutes and got an antibiotic.
I said “except some very basic preventative care.”

So you’re paying $12k/year for a 30m checkup and potentially still have to shell out $30 for a copay. Not sure why that doesn’t illustrate my point exactly.
The "Kubernetes is only for Google-scale companies" meme needs to die. Kubernetes is a useful tool even if you have a single node.

As a case in point: I just set up a small new app on GKE. Because I'm experienced with Kubernetes, within a few minutes I had my app (a React front-end written in TypeScript and a backend written in Go) running and receiving HTTPS traffic. I entered just a handful of shell commands to get from an empty cluster to a functional one.

It's a cluster with a single node, no resilience. But this is genuinely useful, and a perfectly appropriate use case for Kubernetes. The alternative is the old way — VMs, perhaps with a sprinkling of Terraform and/or Salt/Ansible/Chef/Puppet, dealing with Linux, installing OS packages, controlling everything over SSH — or some high-level PaaS like AppEngine or Heroku.

While it's an example that shows that Kubernetes "scales down", I'm now also free to scale up. While today it's a small app with essentially zero traffic, when/if the need should arise, I can just expand the nodepool, add a horizontal pod autoscaler, let the cluster span multiple regions/zones, and so on, and I'll have something that can handle whatever is thrown at it.

My company has a ton of apps on multiple Kubernetes clusters, none of them very big. From my perspective, it's a huge win in operational simplicity over the "old" way. Docker itself is a benefit, but the true benefits come when you can treat your entire cluster as a virtualized resource and just throw containers and load balancers and persistent disks at it.
If you don't want any of those smart features, chances are you don't have the need to update anything.
Does anyone know why they tweeted this???

https://web.archive.org/web/20190918200317/https://twitter.c...
Yep.

I like HN but I miss the diversity of conversations. /r/synthesizers /r/starwarssleaks etc.
I remember betting hard on Python in the webdev space in 2003-2004.

It was not the best decision of my career :-/
I always wonder in these situations if there is a counter of the form, "Sure, we'll take the cash, up front please, and nobody on the team will be required to go with the company."

Most people assume that this sort of demand would 'kill the deal' but sometimes there are exceptions.

The reason I wonder about this is because it could create what is essentially a very wealthy core team that can already work well together which could then self-fund their next thing without all the hassle of fundraising etc.

I suppose they can do that post IPO as well, but the IPO adds a bunch of work that can really take the 'fun' out of running a company.
> Do we need to start throwing around a dictionary definition of the word unlimited?

A colleague of mine was told by a Swiss mobile phone provider that "unlimited" was a technical term meaning 5GB.
Honestly, I prefer Manning's regular typesetting, which is also beautiful and clear.
> It was the wrong forum

Apparently it was the right forum to be inviting people to protest Minsky and to label him a racist and pedophile. So why not to defend him?

Were the people calling him a rapist and pedophile sacked as well?
Along the lines of `groby_b's comment - the elevation and orientation didn't make me think of a carrier takeoff. Rather, at a quick glance this looked like a photoshop. Although there is something about the F22's and F35's coatings that often make me think they look photoshopped.
> In the end it worked, but I can't understand how people can even work with Windows

It sounds like you are far more familiar with OS X and Linux than Windows.

> Installation of Ubuntu is about as easy as it gets

I still have tearing issues on my screen from the graphics drivers that I'm not sure how to fix. Windows has no such issues for me. I know there are issues with Windows too - they just never seem to occur to me.

While I agree this comparison isn't fair to the hard working developers of Linux, it illustrates the point that both operating systems are complex. The more familiar you are, the less problems it seems to have.
> That sounds like circular reasoning to me - you seem to be saying that if we can observe something it must therefore be entirely natural.

I'm saying that we have yet to have observe something which can be proven to be supernatural.

Asking whether evidence exists that a phenomenon is strictly natural presumes there exists evidence of something other than nature to classify against. As yet, such evidence to the contrary doesn't exist, so for the time being, all evidence of any phenomenon is of its natural state by definition.

>It does not follow that it could never be observed at all, if it exists.

The unfortunate paradox of needing to provide evidence of the supernatural is that any such evidence would, by definition, need to be natural, and would contradict the premise. So if it can be observed to begin with, that's evidence that it isn't supernatural.
Before ACA you couldn't get insurance if you had preconditions and they would often drop you if actually got sick. ACA needs improvement but things sucked long before.
If you want to begin with what your outcomes could look like if you use TeX and friends, as suggested by jkepler, see here - [1].

[1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-bea...
Everybody likes a simplistic explanation of the high cost of health care like "blame the insurance industry" but the reality is more complicated. Yes they are middlemen and need to make profits which adds cost. But look at doctor salaries, particularly specialists, many of whom make over $1m/yr. Look at testing costs, often run by private companies (sometimes owned by the doctors who order the tests) that also need to make a profit. Look at the costs of hospital and hospital systems whose administrative and facilities costs rival that of higher education. And not to mention the whole pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Reducing healthcare costs is going to have to happen at the input side of the industry, not just by taking out payer inefficiencies.
> Torn down by whom?

Trump can and should do it. He's one of the few in Washington who isn't actually owned by the Pharma companies.
the public option would basically have been Medicare for All.
> Python is for beginner programmers, who absolutely don't want to learn anything new at all.

Python is used by the largest companies as well as the smallest one person company who need to get shit done. You can continue liking Java, without becoming bitter about Python.
Eliminate “broken windows”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
> spending $1 million on utility-scale wind turbines, or solar panels will each, over 30 years of operation, produce about 50 million kilowatt-hours (kWh)—while an equivalent $1 million spent on a shale rig produces enough natural gas over 30 years to generate over 300 million kWh.

Six times more is not with the externalized costs. Maybe if it was 100X or 1000X there would be an argument. This lays bare the faulty reasoning.
Like the other comments noted, in my experience Fi support has been quite helpful and significantly better than standard Google support.
Without any specific location where these experiments are kept and without someone trustworthy who would honestly report on what they see, it seems as if any investigation would be fruitless as the actual craft is only wheeled out to be spotted by sensors incapable of identifying it.
But you cannot tell ahead of time that you cannot evaluate (+ 2 "a").

If the code wasn't so obvious as the above example, you'd have a hard time mentally working out the correctness. E.g., given both (shoot camera person) and (shoot gun dummy), you'd not want to accidentally pass in the wrong arguments like (shoot gun person).
This isn't vulnerability and anguish, it's petty nitpicking and virtue signaling.
A question on endpoint slices:why dont they send patch updates? A patch is the delta that changes an object instance.
Well my point is all the conjecture of this unexplained supersonic movement is all hearsay based off eye witnesses. I don't trust eye witnesses, maybe they saw something maybe they didn't, but I haven't seen anything that seems to hold any water.
A core team of pre-millionaires won't necessarily, or even likely, work the same as a core team of post-millionaires.
> He's one of the few in Washington who isn't actually owned by the Pharma companies.

IF that's true, it's because they haven't offered him anything yet.
To take a single example: The Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s which caused the deaths of many millions of people through famine. Which alternatives do you think were 'much worse' than that?
I like your argument, my only concern is that the government also operates the VA and the DMV which doesn't give me much confidence. The problem is also on the cost side of things. Hospitals charge astronomical for basic things like saline solution ($595 with insurance from personal experience). We have to get costs down because both of these industries are enriching themselves by privately negotiating rates.