skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you don’t pay for a service, you are not the customer but the vector to get to the real customer.

Think: Television, radio, Google, Facebook, healthcare.

There are gigantic pools of funds out there in quasi-private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. Costs explode. Similarly, gigantic pools of funds are available thanks to subsidized student loans that cannot be bankrupted. College costs explode. Being uninsured is terrifying because the individual healthcare buyer is competing with deep-pocketed insurers and government programs who are much less price-sensitive.

Healthcare is expensive because the patient is not the customer. Insurance is going crazy because insurance is legally compelled to pay for oil changes and basic maintenance, so insurers must accept more exposure.
I don't know if shortcuts included ssh key support before this update, but I just noticed that it does now! ed25519 appears to be the default key type.

Now I can run Terraform automatically when I get home to provision some tea! /s
To me I've always run in liberal circles do it feels like your assumptions of the philosophy are off in my experience. I've met very few of those sorts of fundamentalists (literally only 2 ever), most people are more into dismantling the systematic forms of oppression and therefore prioritize things that actually harm people.
Sorry, I should have been a lot more clear when I wrote this post last night.

1% compounded monthly is what I intended to say, as opposed to compounded continuously or yearly.
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This should be great for finding active email addresses for spamming people.

For example, there are a lot of hits for

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fpaper.dropbox.com%2Fdoc%2F%22

And of course, by Guido van Rossum himself, there are quite a lot of emails here:

view-source:https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Yet-another-guided-tour-of-CPython--Alg6nzJCcNoY3S~SyY_T~KzuAg-XY7KgFGn88zMNivGJ4Jzv
x hours ago
It definitely seems unnecessary to share the info to all users, especially full contact info.

Airtable has a somewhat worse issue, any file you upload is publicly available without login, as long as you have the attachment URL. There isn’t any way to protect file assets, even though the underlying worksheet is private and requires a login.
WGU is nonprofit. I also can't find anything suggesting they are predatory, ill-regulated, or unstable. I also can't find anything suggesting that their students have high debt levels.

Also, unlike ITT Tech and similar schools, WGU is regionally accredited. ITT Tech and the like, if accredited, are usually nationally accredited. That can be confusing, because in most fields national accreditation would be the best, but for colleges the regional accreditation is the one that counts. Check the accreditation of nearly any top school (UC, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Caltech, and so on) and it is regional, not national.

A couple years ago, the US Department of Education's Federal Student Aid office did ask WGU to repay a bunch of loans, ruling that WGU's distance learning did not meet interaction requirements between faculty and students to be eligible. That was later reversed, with the government concluding that the rules at the time were unclear in regard to distance learning in WGU has been trying to follow them in good faith. The government clarified the rules, and determined that WGU did in fact meet them, and the loans stood.

I don't see how you can put them in the same category as ITT Tech.
> Most men just give up after a while and start to spam generic pickup lines to just about every profile
Exactly! I mean it doesn't make any sense not to. I'd bet most of the men that do this have spent a very long time making long thoughtful messages only to get absolutely nothing back. Every single time. And honestly getting something back like "Next time If you want to talk to a woman then say more than just 'hey'" once in awhile is far better than feel like you're trying to talk to people that don't actually exist.
It wasn't much above minimum wage. I really don't care about making a lot personally, I had access to interesting projects there and a lot of resources I could never afford personally, as well as the freedom to pursue what I was working on however I wanted. Also, everyone I worked with was brilliant and I learned a lot.

I just couldn't afford to live.
> supporting the company and supporting its employees are compatible goals.

Until an employee does something that puts themselves at odds with the company. At which point HR is the tip of the spear when it comes to protecting the company from that employee. "Here's how to let them go legally." "Here's how we bribe them into not talking bad about us." "Here's our zero tolerance policy we can fit our employee firing into."
In Richmond, Indiana it costs less than $100k to buy a building on Main Street downtown and about $55k to buy a house 1.5 miles away.
Quite frankly, this site's examples are pretty horrible.

Case in point, Idiom #46 in C[0] uses strncpy and predictably fails to correctly terminate the buffer.

Idiom #55[1] converts a integer to a string with itoa, never bothering to mention that it isn't part of the C standard or POSIX, while for some reason using a 4096 byte big output buffer.

Idiom #39[2] first example uses clrscr(), which I assume is some sort of old DOS function? The entire example looks unrelated to the problem.

The idea is certainly good, but you need some serious vetting system to make this usable.

[0] https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/46/impl/477

[1] https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/55/impl/438

[2] https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/39/impl/2042
> Talk to the actual couriers

I have: they don't like the current arrangement. When they're tipped via apps, they don't even get to keep them.

Doesn't sound like they're independent contractors when they can't set their own rates and collect from their clients without the delivery app companies skimming their tips.

> they don’t want to be employees, because this very frequently is not a full time job.

This is a false dichotomy. Many people work multiple jobs on a flexible schedule where they are considered employees at each of their employers.

They also hate the tax burden that is quarterly filing and paying the self-employment tax.
Similar for me. I think of renting as an investment as well - absolutely zero surprise costs and allows me to plan further out.

Not owning an (hopefully) appreciating asset means not having to maintain that asset. What’s the cost in time for buying and selling a home? I pay that financially to spend my time doing other things
Tip: The easiest way to cache HTTP requests in an Angular app
The Sync apps provide end-to-end encryption, so the entire file is uploaded when it changes. Agreed differential sync can be a good thing, especially with super large files that change often.
What about libre offices?
I just did a google search for "Format date YYYY-MM-DD in Python", clicked the first link to stackoverflow and got several answers, 1st says `.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')`, 2nd `str(date.today())` and using `isoformat` is the 4th answer. I guess I'm not the only dev who would do the same in case I actually wanted to check how to correctly format a date in Python: ctrl+t, type, type, enter, click, read, read, ctrl+c, ctr+v and done. That's the competition for programming-idioms.org if you ask me.

> I'd like to see a more "democratic" approach to getting correct examples

Me too! Stackoverflow contributions are cc-licensed so maybe a tool to easily curate answers to classic issues and build on top of them would work well. I'm not sure crowdsourcing programming idioms from scratch would be the easiest way to go as I feel the work is mostly halfway done out there (but sure could use some curation).

Actually now that I think about it, that's related to what stackoverflow tried to do with their documentation by examples attempt (cf. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...).
Plus someone from the US is attractive to women looking to immigrate.
I started small. I have an automation that launches at 8 pm that does three things:

* Sets dark mode
* Sets reduce white point
* Runs a shortcut I made asking me a few questions

The questions are:

1. Will you get ready for bed? Sleep affects your next day. (I have to click yes/no)
2. Will you go brush your teeth after this? (The first step. I have to click yes/no)
3. It gives me a list of things I may want to do to wind down: a walk (based on steps), tidying, reading a book
4. Then it prompts me to look at a small diary/todo I made in the morning and comment on it. And then look at my screen time stats.

I find this helpful. And since I always want to reduce white point, this means I will automatically want to click the notification to run it.

I hopefully eventually they will have AND and OR conditions in automations. Eg if between 8:30 and 11:30 AND I open instagram, open my todo list.
This is not the case on every team...
I sometimes wonder if a similar mechanism might be at play when you imagine accomplishing your goal in a Walter Mitty sort of way.

There are many projects which I can envision completing, and which I know I have the technical skills for. But I gain a certain amount of satisfaction just from picturing the completed work, and in the end I don't actually put in the effort to make it reality.
Migrating Redis from ElastiCache with Zero Downtime
I understand. I'm not bashing you or saying it is definitely astroturfing, I was just curious on how other people here view it. Many users on this site are very pragmatic, others are idealistic. That dichotomy leads to interesting conversations sometimes.
I hate open offices. What software companies offer at least cubicles?
Getting actually constructive feedback is super rare. When you ask emotionally engaged poeple to be more specific and precise about their problem they usually rationalize their anger and stop being angry when they actually notice what exactly they are angry about.
To add to that, terms like Bronze age refer to different times in different locations depending on when bronze began being used. It would refer to an earlier time in the near East than it would in Scandinavia(3300 BC vs 1700 BC). It is not as relevant in the Americas as metallurgy didn't even appear to exist in pre-Columbian North America. There was some minor use of bronze in certain South American cultures but it doesn't seem to have been extensive enough to define a time period.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East#Periodizatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_Am...
> There are however official procedures for disputing/correcting errors in reporting and in my experience they do a pretty good job of validating everything (as that’s literally the business they’re in)

Anecdotally, I can't agree with this.

I'm six months in to trying to convince Equifax that I exist. Apparently they accidentally registered me as dead in their system, which has caused background checks on me, like when I registered my ABN, to fail. Turns out there are a number of government systems that have been outsourced to them.

They have twice manually intervened, and twice their automated processes have "corrected" their information and relisted me as deceased. And getting a manual intervention is a lot of complaints, and a lot of escalations.
The internet is such a vacuum, though. Having someone actually read your code at all is kind of like a massive compliment. That they take the effort to email you about how much they hate it... In a weird way, it's kind of gratifying.

Great artists are never recognised in their time ;-) But seriously, I think you can think of it the same way. Would an artist ever make a new work if they didn't think they could make something better than their previous work? So there will always be truth about the deficiencies in a work. But can the reviewer understand the good parts?

Sometimes I get great pleasure in pieces of code that I wrote that I think nobody else will appreciate. It's kind of like an inside joke. If someone can't see it, it's not really unexpected -- perhaps more surprising if someone does see it.

I try to enjoy the fact that someone read my code. The hate mail is just the proof :-D
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Thanks for a great explanation of this. This idea has never made sense to me until now :)
$70K for 2 years?
No, thanks.

Community college for 2 years ~ 20-25K tuition, then "learning your heart out" for those 2 years and transfer to a proper university with scholarship seems far more plausible to me.

Classical CS education with high standards is a proper way to go, otherwise you'll spend first 10 years your programming career "wishing you had known that before", and you might never step into the depth of career, especially into ML/AI field, without that prior knowledge of the theory.

Actually, such "new kind of school" done better is https://www.42.fr

Talking with my 7+ years of software/data engineering experience, last couple of years spent in DS{ML/DL}.
Yes, but what if the NFC tag was on your keychain with your phone, which the attacker also had? That seems far more likely than being able to spoof a Bluetooth device that your phone had already paired with in the past (yet that one is in the list of "not automatic" choices)
How to Come Up with Killer Features for Your Next Project
i would be shocked if any did.
If you read the article, you'll find out that this specific asteroid was chosen because it's a binary asteroid with some specific characteristics. We'll only hit the moonlet orbiting around the main body, which will make it much easier to measure the deviation even from Earth based observations.
Exactly - complete click bait.

Auto fill messes up the entry, people refill manually. This happens all the time on numerous payment forms
And does anyone actually use Dropbox paper?

I'd rather have a Dropbox email service and client than this silly product
New Skimming Trend: Injecting Malicious Scripts into Routers
Here's the problem. Rather than actually solving the underlying problems of lack of good jobs, training, and support networks for these people you're just giving them a slightly less-shitty "job", rationalizing away all the bad parts by saying it's "flexible" now, checking the box for employment, and calling it good until automated delivery completely destroys these jobs in a few years.

I would personally argue that this is worse in many ways than if we could point to high unemployment and people marching in the streets as reasons we need to change the status quo in more meaningful ways.
Is Facebook Building a 'Social Layer' for the Spatial Web?
This changes nothing for a lot of people. Divers, as others have mentioned in these comments as well as in construction/manufacturing (which has a large population of non-white people) it's used in situations where you cannot hear. I doubt anyone's going to convince these folks to change years of acceptable practice on the back of a hoax.

As for the ADL: feed a bear and they will happily take it. Ten minutes of research and they would have seen it's a troll.
Could you please clarify? My understanding is that HR's job is to protect the company, not the employee. If the employee is "helped," it's typically to shield the company from lawsuits. So, acting in the employee's best interest is often aligned with helping the company. But, if the employee's interest is seen as diverging from that of the company, HR will "side" with the company against the employee. Do you disagree?
opting out of the entire credit system isn't really cutting off your nose. it is quite nice.
So engineering colleges no longer tell incoming freshmen "look to your right, look to your left - only one of you three will be here four years from now"?
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d59r46/richard...

From someone who worked at MIT.
Your perspective highlights one of the biggest false choices of traditional education - that you can either get a well rounded education or learn vocational skills (but not both).

124 units that make up an accredited bachelors degree is a LOT of time to learn, and you can divide this across a mix of modern technologies, computer science theory and "proper engineering", liberal arts courses, and soft skills.

Just because we have some courses that help you get a day one job doesn't make us a trade school.

A lot more on this, and our origins here - https://www.makeschool.com/vision
mine does /shrug
I mean, that it will result in lost orders is almost a fact due to the sheer number of transactions. At scale, all possible events will happpen. So with that in mind the author of the post said he thinks a conservative number is 0.5%. Maybe you think that's lower. The author posited that option and asked how low do you think it can go to make it worth it to fix the form?

Or to put it another way. Estimate how many programmer-hours it takes to fix this issue. With that number calculate the % of people that are likely to abandon the order. Is that % likely to be happening?
> The following automations cannot be run automatically:
> Arrive
> Before I Leave
> Bluetooth
> Leave
> Time of Day
> Wi-Fi

Well that's disappointing. It isn't automation if you have to have a human involved.
Like it or not, different racial groups have significantly differential SAT mean scores. And the US has a growing number of minorities that do not do well on said tests.
A simple shortcut to send web urls through outline.com and or archive.is is a life saver for mobile browsing particularly when EU blocking news sites are the target
Reproducibility Challenges in Machine Learning for Health
Stephenson has a great explanation of orbital mechanics in Anathem. Also in Seveneves, but not as detailed, as I recall.
There is certainly no shortage of impeccably composed essays dumping on Trump and developing a galaxy of identity-political rationales for why various people ought to dislike him. The story on the ground is distinctly at odds with the impression I get from American media and the BBC. I'm sure they feel they are advocating for a good cause in a situation so dire that all other concerns are overridden.
What do we need a 10-100 fold increase in generation for?
Have you got a reference?

I can see the move from gas to electricity for domestic heating and the move from fossil fuels to electric transport.

Even if you ignore the offset against continuing de-industrialization and increasing efficiency, it's surely not going to be that level?
These companies hemorrhage money because they try to stretch a single entity across the entire worldwide market, when many smaller regional companies are the likely equilibrium this space would naturally reach if it wasn't injected with VC money.

Certainly a decentralized federation of co-ops would work just as well as many small regional companies, or even franchises.
Here is an example of the impact of pipelined compilation:

https://gistpreview.github.io/?b19f31756dc76a050cf4fe55f348a...

In the blue/purple graph, only the blue typechecking portion of a dependency's build needs to complete before kicking off subsequent builds that depend on it. The purple machine code generation portion can continue in parallel.
Gravity doesn't care what size the object is, from far enough away. It would sweep the same area as any other density of planet with the same mass. For something at 5 earth masses, that's not a very big area.
But I'm bartering if I use £/$/€ too then. I barter my work for tokens, I exchange the tokens for goods. Does it matter what the tokens are if I can exchange them?
I listened to the report on this article on my way to work. I had the exact same thought as you. I was annoyed that they kept it so general, but it makes sense from the perspective of keeping the target in the dark on the methods used.
I wonder if remote work will become standard.
> the left have lost touch with the lower classes, choosing instead to identify with the middle classes and their identities.

I'm not sure this is true; it's a standard media line, certainly, and there's definitely a problem in that a lot of the most visible figures on the left tend to be of privileged backgrounds (because that privilege gives visibility!). But because of the changes in working practice and social structure over the 21st century, what constitutes "working class" now looks very different.

The UK is not quite so factionalised as the US yet, although it's clear that EU membership has been used as the "wedge issue" in the way that abortion has in the US. It's gone from being something of very low salience to the only issue it's possible to talk about.
This was the perfect comment to read with my coffee this morning. Thank you.
Can you share any specific thoughts on how to look for this when you're interviewing?
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Thanks, but, you know, I can just install it or continue using `man 7 ascii`
There's a 2.5x cap, so max is $175k.

Our site should say $95k average not $195k, which page are you seeing $195k?
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r... is a comprehensive guide to dealing with debts that you don't owe.
Those 'discoveries' are just confirmations of prior discovery by other telescopes of a particular repeating fast radio burst.
> “This is one of the only non-misogynistic responses to my comment (IMHO).”

That says a lot about your attitude and pretty much nothing about the tone of other comments in the thread.
Show HN: 123Metrics – Privacy centered website metrics
I'd guess "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", which is actually about his daydreams, his internal secret life, not some real world life behind closed doors.
Effects of Increasing CO2 Levels and Climate Change on Plant Growth (1991)
> people refill manually

Only if they suspect that might help. This case doesn't exactly make that clear.
Yes, the ability to protest is great. That doesn't mean that this particular protest is well grounded or positive.

TMT has fallen victim to an entirely unrelated political issue: the Hawaiian independence movement. There are people who believe that Hawaii is not legally/morally part of the United States, and they've chosen TMT as a highly visible project they can block, in order to assert sovereignty.

They make a number of claims to justify blocking TMT in particular. Their environmental claims are nonsense (nuclear-powered telescopes - imagine that!). They also claim that Mauna Kea is sacred to native Hawaiians, so that building a telescope there is desecration. That claim is actually extremely dubious, from a historical point of view. While going to the summit was taboo for most people in old Hawaii (as were many activities, such as men and women eating together), native Hawaiians also dug the largest rock quarry in all of Polynesia on Mauna Kea. There is also surprisingly little mention of Mauna Kea in extant chants from the old religion. But it's an oral tradition, so definitively proving that Mauna Kea wasn't as sacred as anti-TMT protesters claim is impossible. What's important is that the independence movement has made Mauna Kea's supposed sacredness a central part of their creed.

It's a sad situation, because TMT has the law on its side, and even with all the will in the world to accommodate opponents, TMT has no power to grant their central demand - independence from the US. The protesters fundamentally just want to block TMT entirely, as a statement about sovereignty over the mountain, and over Hawaii more broadly.
I have a visceral response to that photo in the article. I do not need folks right on top of me like that.

My solution is that I often wear Shooting Earmuffs (you guys who listen to music all the time, i don't get it, i can't do that) to lower my awareness of all the chatter... even when I do have an office.

Fortunately folks around me are understanding.
I got hit in the eye with a nerf dart once in an open office environment. Thank God I work remotely now. Open-offices are horrid.