skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In part, though I think it's more complicated than just a loss of power. The responsibilities for employers are getting more and more expensive so they are doing the rational thing and switching to contractors.
> Socialized medicine is great for simple checkups, but breaks down as you get older and need major surgery

I'm going to have to ask for a source on this, it sounds like BS.

> I really don't want the government making these life or death decisions

I really don't want for-profit private corporations making these life or death decisions. History has shown that when corporations get to choose between life and profits, they choose profits.
(Disclosure: I work at one)

There’s a few working specifically on simulating the autonomous vehicle domain. air sim is unique because you can do both ground and air. From the business side of things I’ve seen enterprises find it as a good way of proving the value of simulation. The company I work for CVEDIA, develops SynCity which we use both for simulating autonomous systems and generating training data for object recognition and classification tasks.
Why DRAM Won’t Go Away
I would say it's a recipe for continuation rather than innovation. You're unlikely to invent anything revolutionary just by looking at metrics, but you're also unlikely to keep a business going without them. It's easy to look at something like the iPhone and say, "metrics didn't invent that!" but metrics absolutely put millions of phones in the hands of customers, built an effective production and supply chain, optimized the whole experience, and turned Apple into a trillion dollar company. As with most things, there's a balance and a place for each.
Python is 28-ish years old. We've had plenty of time to realize its mistakes. The current source of Python growth is its excellent ecosystem, which wouldn't exist if the mistakes were that terrible. We are clearly not in some kind of a Python hype bubble that will burst -- not that C++ ever was either, honestly.

(This is coming from someone who loathes Python, btw.)
Definitely learning Haskell as the first language can make it easier to get used to things, but I don't generally agree with C as "poisonous" to one's mind. My last big project written in C was writing a hypervisor, and honestly using C in this context is rather appropriate.
Shelby Church explains how much she makes from YouTube ads and mentions that doubling the ads per video dramatically increased her revenue.

https://youtu.be/do1VLjNg6AE

YouTube has YouTube Red so you can kill ads. Seems like either way you're going to pay.
There is something about numbers that seems to push us into rational mode and totally subjugate the emotional side of us that does great without data, and allows for us to act in abundance. My best idea is to display something like standard deviation and a delta between actual and the target metric, perhaps as low resolution as green-yellow-red to the employee responsible for the metric. It may hypothetically be somebody's job it adjust the formula and never reveal more detail than that, in this scenario.

A concrete example, if at a restaurant we expect meals to be delivered within 7 minutes and we see the nightly average is currently 8:08 then some team members might start pushing to go faster and cut corners, compromising discipline and training effort--even if the company's values include accuracy and precision above speed. The values are laid down by the visionary founders, but the only metric that the workers have is an exact number and target. Somewhere along the chain between founding and the last hands on the food the values can be lost, and I feel like chasing the metric has a lot to do with it. Everyone pushes to make the number "because" of some factor, in my opinion probably pressure from above or a colleague.

Pardon me if I've abused any terms, thanks. The factor that I am sure of is entering scarcity mode rather than abundance mode, and I'd like to know more about how reading metrics affects us and whether there are known methods to systemically remove metrics from view such that we can remain true to all of the values outside of the metric. If we're short of a target then there is a gap in training or experience; nobody should be so driven by metrics that it overrides their acting in abundance.

I know this can be said to be coming from fantasy land but I've come from working in a number of domains in a short period of time, I feel like there's something in here even if it's hard to find.
I think the biggest issues with unions is the focus on seniority over merit. Collective bargaining isn't a bad thing to counter the power of capital but the focus of a union needs to not be linked to how long you've been at a company.
Python has both of those, static typing is easy to use (all my new code is type checked!) and destructors can be used, they just like really, really shouldn't be. Context managers instead. Why do you even want destructors in python?
McDonalds sees the writing on the wall with the minimum wage and living wage debates. They are proactively mitigating future issues with paying more money to employees.
Well again, you’re illustrating how screwed up American healthcare is. The reality is that most Americans need varying levels of routine care (vs insurance against catastrophic events only), and a system where healthcare is accessible via insurance instead of a system of universal healthcare doesn’t make sense for something that you need to access routinely.
As of today... that may be true. It wasn't this way a few short years ago.

https://reason.com/2019/04/09/janus-211000-workers-fled-seiu...

And, as expected... those who aren't forced to pay - don't. Because the fees aren't worth it in most cases.

> I guess the numerous benefits don't matter

As I said... in some cases and at one point most unions did "Good Things (tm)".

But like most "Good Things (tm)" that time has ended - for most unions - and we are in a point where the unions are largely useless and extra baggage that causes more harm than good.

And again - your "Unions don't matter? /tear" doesn't approach what is personally my main problem: My inability to decide where union dues go to.
Python does have explicit destructors, at least when using CPython.

Having worked on a python codebase for the past eight years, static typing isn't really much of an issue. Just document what types you expect, and write the code to match. If it runs, it runs. Plus, you have pylint to catch most of the silliest mistakes.
If you can access it programatically, then you can access it at scale which means you can quickly scrape content and replicate it somewhere else. Many business rely on a model where the data or information they generate is meant to be consumed by a human.

For example, Google temporarily bans your IP when you hit things like Google Play urls multiple times in a few minutes. This is clearly an attempt to block anyone but a human to extract information from the Play store.
Doesn’t Meraki still make good products? Though as far as I’m aware Cisco pretty much has just gave them money and left them to do their own thing.
Bartleby is a fantastic story that haunts you. I also agree with the author of this article in that it seems like it could have been written by Kafka. Very ahead of its time.
It's skeuomorphism to the max.

Although if somebody got a decent web page design tool out of it, it might be worth it. The HTML/CSS/Javascript crowd has managed to turn a visual problem into a really ugly programming problem.
That's true, it's just that it's culturally inappropriate to use the full power of monads in C# outside specific scenarios like Linq.
One witness noted that if people thougt he was simply insane he should not be the one to turn the key for the nuclear missile. Or worse, if his sanity was ever so slightly in doubt he should be removed - according to himself.
Python is strongly typed just with Late Binding.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic...
Strong typing has hidden value that goes far beyond bug avoidance. It is tremendously important for performance. The only way to get performance out of Python is to cheat: use a not-quite-Python that violates normal Python behavior, use a hack that lets you insert C code into your Python, or simply call a few heavy-duty library functions to do all the real work.
How so? You could use the Union type temporarily if needed.
I wonder what will happen if they ever make old.reddit.com stop working?

I've been on the new design, trying to give it a chance, for over a year trying to give it a chance, and I still have to often switch to old.reddit.com to do some things.

1. The new interface still doesn't have the "other discussions" link to show you discussions of the same link in other subreddits. I think they said something like a year ago that they realized this was important and it was coming soon.

2. The new interface messes up scrolling on Edge on my Surface Pro 4 when viewing a discussion. Actually, for this one you don't have to switch to old.reddit to work around. All you have to do is hit refresh. When you refresh while on a discussion, that switches from the view that shows the discussion in an overlay on top of the thread list, to a more traditional page that just has the discussion. That page doesn't fuck with scrolling. Depending on how much I plan on reading and how long the discussions are, I may or may not get annoyed enough with this to just give up and switch to old.reddit.

(BTW, that discussion as overlay view also fucks up in-page search, because the thread list is still on the page, just hidden from your view--but not the browser's search functions--behind the discussion view, and so the search hits those hidden items).

The only thing I can find in the new interface that is actually functionally better than the old interface is the fancy pants editor. Aside from selecting tools/commands not always always working if it has to put them on the "..." pop-up, and it sometimes losing the ability to scroll the text being edited via the mouse, the new editor is a win.

If they would just put the new editor as an option on old Reddit, I think a lot of people would be happy.
Still waiting on two-factor authentication from my bank. Even just basic SMS with a 4 or 5 digit code like Vanguard does would be nice.
I concur!

https://timothycrosley.com/whoami
It's not okayest. It's a great language.

I cant really pin it down, but when I am programming in Python, the language flows along with my thoughts.

During intensive programming sessions, I never really feel the difference between my thoughts and the language flow.

I hope I make sense.

Often, I start solving a problem, solve a core part, then have to tack on additional conditions or workflows and I can just think about them and build them in python.

I have never had that happen in other languages and I have used C#, JS, C, C++, Java, Scala & VB.
Trying to make this into an IP issue is bizarre. Most new, patented drugs are "me too" drugs that are just sufficiently different from existing drugs to achieve the patent. Doesn't cost much in R&D. Occasionally you'll get advances here and there -- a lot of them funded by government grants, though. (Not sure if you want to count that as government innovation, when they're not government employees, or just government-funded innovation.)

The biggest costs in bringing a new drug to the market aren't in R&D, but in gaining the FDA's approval (which is similarly arduous even in the "me too" drug cases) and in advertising. Here, a small snapshot of just one segment of the health industry: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/22/the-apa-meeting-a-phot...
This is quite cool, why cameras only though? Intel realsense, ultrasound? Are you avoiding them due to cost?
Maybe he wants to grind up all the orphans in the world and tirn their blood serum into an elixir of youth, thereby solving the problem of their existence
I consider nominal profit to be pretty much "at cost", that's why I said "close to operating cost". OPs 6% number is neither. Your link even clearly demonstrate that, by listing 14 industries all with smaller margins and showing the average to be 7.7%, making 6% profits a farcry from nominal profits.
As a guy with a brother, I can't help but read this as yet another ploy to get one-up on the brother, but this time in the name of science!
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My TV (Vizio P55-C1) doesn't have a "disconnect" option. I either need to do a factory reset, or change passwords three times (WiFi AP to temporary, TV to temporary, WiFi AP back to normal.)

I suppose I could just never connect it to WiFi, but then it wouldn't get firmware updates.
Seems like their punishment should have redirected at themselves.
How much does it cost to merely certify a model as compliant?
Still a little sleazy... Reminds me of something like:

"10 easy payments of 15 dollars!"
Also, do you really want Google owning even more of the internet?
i first used python in ~2001-2002 and used it for many things, including a bunch of cgi-bin scripts for a very early VOIP startup. i did not consider myself to be a "dev" back then as i was mostly doing EE work and what little programming i did was split between limited firmware development and "scripting". python was an appealing way to script things out quickly. i didnt have much use for the OO, if anything finding it a layer of unneeded complexity.

i would agree that there is an amazing amount of productivity to be gained by reaching for mastery over a language.

that said, the efficacy of that mastery is determined by how "useful" the language is in a wider context. this is, for better or worse, highly influenced by "popularity" when it comes to programming languages.

Mastering something like brainfuck? ymmv ;)
With an iPhone you can't tether while roaming. I bought a Huawei LTE router devices and popped in a data sim for when I'm traveling and the speeds are ludicrous. (Like, stream 1080p with zero issues, use 4GB in an hour. Dangerous on my limited plan)
Can you give us more information on the "Rubbish Beam", pictures, tech details, and why it's so expensive? You say on a request form that you're hoping to make it cheaper, but what's the biggest block to making that happen?

Is it just a standard grabber but with a cellphone holder and some kind of bluetooth trigger embedded in the "grabbing handle" that triggers the phone to take a picture?
> Well, it's "socialist" in the sense that the society (OK, the state, but whatever) matters far more than the individual.

It's corporatist, but not socialist (you can probably make an argument that non-libertarian socialism is also corporatist, but not vice versa.)

But, yeah, the cult of manichean capitalism tends to use “socialism” as the generic label for “opposed to capitalism”.
As long as I can keep the TV offline to operate it I'm fine with it. The day it needs to be online to work is where I'll be seriously pissed enough that I'll return it without hesitation.
> Are investors so stupid?

Yes.

> Are they so detached from reality?

Yes.

> Whatever happened to due financial diligence?

Too much excess and concentrated capital.
Just looks like an improved Midtown Madness to be honest.

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

/s incase it wasn’t clear
Or it would be $500 and no advertising. Them doing ads doesn't mean they can't survive without them, it just means they like the extra money.
"...tend to be pretty libertarian over all"

How do libertarians square their notion of freedom from coercion with their embrace of winner takes all economics?

Best as I can tell, the two are mutually exclusive.
I agree with you, I believe there are even laws in place that prevent Medicare and Medicaid from negotiating on price. We're far from a free market utopia here. I'd be curious to hear some of the rational our downvoters have for downvoting us, hopefully some will leave a reply doing so.
> I cant really pin it down, but when I am programming in Python, the language flows along with my thoughts.

Python has a much simpler grammar than most programming languages.
Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)
You might find more luck with Ruby.
It's cool that there's an official spec; JS doesn't have that even though the syntax for typescript and flow is nearly identical.
You probably meant statically typed, python already is strongly typed.
JSON threat? Like overflow of requests?
Gofast is just a weather balloon.

https://youtu.be/PLyEO0jNt6M

Gimbal is a jet. The perceived rotation is an artifact of the camera rotating on a gimbal.

https://youtu.be/4X1PRDbtiF0

Nimitz is also a jet. It’s far away, and blurry.

https://youtu.be/s1oTg0kxzDs

It would be really cool if these were alien spaceships. They’re likely not.
I've cloned your inferior version and markedly improved it. And since I like not reading reddit, I decided to name it "Nothing New" or "nn"
How do folks feel about outfits like Liberty Health Share?

They are positioned as an alternative non-profit shared health cost collective.

I have some friends who swear by it.
Consider these sets of skills:

a) skills acquired through a CS program

b) skills acquired on the job

c) skills acquired in a programming bootcamp

d) skills acquired studying on your own (MOOC, books, videos, documentation, etc.)

To build the first iterations of a product, you may need only c) and d).

Once that product gets traction, things get exponentially more difficult and problems can get very abstract. That's when a) and b) makes a difference.

Most software engineers can create a simple Twitter clone, but only a small tiny fraction can make it work at Twitter scale.
And what will your goto algorithms and data structures book be?
Techrepublic is republishing last month's Zdnet article? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20672051
Python has destructors but I can't remember ever seeing a good use for them. I think with statements pretty much capture almost every use case for destructors
The real reason was that the name hadn't been translated to proper Spanish: "Tiempos de Nueva York"
> banks aggressively lock out accounts being brute forced

This is good, because it means people can't brute force the 5 digit password they forced you to use, but also bad, because if someone doesn't like you, they can easily block access to your bank.

If the account numbers are sequential, or otherwise patterned, they may be able to block access to all users without using all that much bandwidth.
He gave men his "pleasure card", too. [1]
He put in books he signed (for a man in this example.) [2]

The text is:
sharing good books, good food and exotic music and dance
tender embraces
unusual sense of humor
[contact details]

There is perfectly benign interpretation of this expressing the things from which he derives pleasure. The most plausible and available interpretation of "pleasure card" is a dad joke level word play on "business card", especially when considering his role in de-commercializing software.

Talking to women isn't a crime. If he didn't take no for an answer or asked women out in inappropriate circumstances, that's a problem; but we have no accounts of him doing that. All we have here is an Nth hand story [3] in which he supposedly left a conference with a woman (singular, you made it plural.) and then gave her his card. If we choose to imagine there was romantic intent, a) there's no suggestion he coerced her into leaving and b) he took pains to respect the conference's CoC. Even this extremely reaching accusation has zero implication that he disrespected an individual's volition. Sage Sharp's indictment that he "skirted around the conference's CoC" is bizarre unless the real intent is that men like Stallman should be closeted heterosexuals.

There are numerous aspects to all this hand wringing about his cards and interest in meeting women that one has to choose to view through a prurient lens to make it sexual. Even then, it's only problematic to a puritanical world view in which it's wrong for people to be sexual beings and individuals are dispossessed of their self-determination.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch14.html
[2] http://ju.outofmemory.cn/entry/119457
[3] https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1173637158181072900
IMO, the tab-sensitive syntax is one of the worst aspects of the language.
Are you including the cost of loading protobuf itself? You seem to be basing your argument on an assumed already present & loaded protobuf library.

You need to benchmark starting from nothing at all. Your link that you seem to be basing this off of has a loaded and fully JIT'd protobuf. That's not the start state.
I was struggling through electrical engineering, not sure if I ever wanted to become an actual engineer. In hindsight, college was extremely challenging because I had no clue if I wanted to go into engineering, or finance, or consulting. I have a feeling if I knew the joy of programming and being able to build a company from my house over the internet, I would have ditched college and just started my own thing. Wish I found HN back then for sure!
Forgot to mention. I did try Ruby on Rails once, but somehow Ruby never grew on me. Especially the symbols part. But I guess it was because, by the time I tried Ruby, I was well over 10 years into Python stuff.
Not OP, but absolutely. Nice website, great plans, and it just works(on tmobile).
Seems even more complicated than that. It's only on $250k in gains, or $500k if you're a couple filing jointly.

It's a lot of money, but if you bought a house in Canada in Toronto/Vancouver 30 years ago, you'd be paying US CGT on its sale.

And can a US-citizen/non-US-citizen couple still file jointly?
I may not have been clear; when I said "different opening" I meant a somewhat different job title
In Australia one of the major Telcos got taken to court by the competition watchdog.

They were advertising plans as "unlimited" with shaping.

The court found that the advertising was misleading and were unable to continue advertising it.

If Fi was released as advertised in Australia it'd also most likely be found as misleading advertising and not allowed.

https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/376550/optus_loses_...
Can someone summarize TLA+ functionality in 2-3 sentences. It keeps coming up on hackernews but I haven't heard it any other context (and I have worked at faang, so should've heard of it if it was generally useful). Just trying to figure out if its a niche or something I should know as a distributed systems person.
Reflection on the surface of water doesn't pass muster, it's impossible given the pilot reports. There is a multitude of events that are _all_ correlated in time and space. So opposite to what you say, there is a lot to connect these observations.

Also, there are far more plausible scenarios than aliens or the supernatural that involve extremely advanced technology.
Good point. Corporatist, in that the state is basically a "bundle" (fasces, from which we also get fascia) of corporations.
> There is no wisdom to impart. There are 2 countries in the world who do not have public healthcare: the US and Liberia.

Where is this from?

There has to be example of countries without public healthcare.

Off topic: I was just reading about Liberia yesterday because they have a similar style/structure of government to USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia#Politics.
> And I expect that if 5G works as advertised you'll see surveillance capitalism adding 5G connectivity so you no longer have control over connectivity.

That's nothing a roll of tinfoil can't fix