skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking the other day. Every job I've had has offered health insurance through the state BCBS. Those plans are ways a little over $100/m (for a single worker)

Meanwhile, I've had people brag to me about paying $10/ for damn to near full coverage. I'm starting to wonder if BCBS employer plans are just garbage
Worldwide power consumption is 109 GWh/year, only 24 of which are for electricity. Oil is 31% of that (34 GWh/y), but only 4% for electricity (~1 GWh/y).

EDIT : Whoops, my bad, somehow forgot that we were talking about transportation, which is "only" a quarter of power use...

So you need to go from 24 to 24+(34-1)/4 = ~32 Gwh/year, a 33% increase, and you expect to be able to do that in 2-3 years ?!

(Napkin calculations, not taking into account various (in)efficiencies and intermittency issues, but the order of magnitude should be roughly this one...)
> The Linux desktop is really only good if you are a hacker and don't give any thought to tasteful design or coherent usability.

That's funny because it's exactly the way I feel about macOS where they obviously design things based on the way things look and sell over how usable they are. This is actually part of Apple's DNA as we've read in the past: The only reason they stuck with the Dock was because of how well it marketed. You can read about it from the guy who developed Apple's first HIG - https://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html

Meanwhile my preferred Linux DE (XFCE) gives me perfectly tasteful design and coherent usability. Instead of having things look or work the way Apple wants, I am able to do things the way I want to, which means that things fit into my opinion of what is tasteful or usable. It's a ton of little things you know? Like being able to quit an app with a single gesture (a middle click on its pane icon, similar to how you close a tab in your browser) - built into XFCE and not even available in macOS unless you're Apple and you have some access to their private API.

That's because most Linux desktop environments take after Windows, which has by far a better system of usability than macOS. To point out just one small thing: In macOS the keyboard shortcuts are an insane jumble of incoherence with no pattern which is why you simply cannot navigate the entirety of macOS with just the keyboard, something that I can do all day long on Windows and Linux.

If you think you can, I'll challenge you: Open the About this mac dialog, then switch to another program. Now try to switch back to that window with just your keyboard, without using one of your special usability-fixing programs that you have to install to fix such things on your Mac, like Witch.
Ok, but we aren't currently in that process.

The potential oil production capacity of the world has massively increased, because of fracking.

And if oil prices go up, a whole lot of oil in the US and Canada , become immediately profitable to extract.

I think you are severely underestimating how much non conventional oil there is, that we could start extracting, if it became profitable.
The solution is exactly as you say: being realistic about scope.

If we absolutely have to have something by, say, Jan 1, then the first thing to do is figure out the absolute minimum for "something". The way I'll usually explain it: "Put yourself mentally on January first. If there is a feature whose absence would make you delay shipping despite the consequences, put it in the minimum set. If you'd ship without it, then leave it out."

Then we start building, measuring completion toward goal as we go. If the project is in good shape, we pretty quickly should be able to say, "Yes, we'll hit that months ahead of time," or maybe, "The date is at risk, but here's what we can do." As a bonus, we will also quickly have something we can put in the hands of users. Maybe for validation, maybe for early feedback, maybe for revenue!

Then as the date comes, we're just getting the nice-to-haves. We know we can ship any time, because we've been shipping frequently for a while now.
My grand daughter is the same. Total win.

"That one papa. Movie" She is three plus, and can use a surprising number of apps. Communicates with me in emoji too. It is a hoot!

Any device she gets her hands on. If she sees that cone, score!
My understanding is that WeWork has long term commitment with the landlords, and cannot walk out of it, thus canceling their leverage.
I have a different reason for being unable to use Warp: I don't want to access a "proper" DNS server, I want a DNS server that blocks ads for me in Mobile Chrome (I am aware that ad-blocking is fully integrated w/ Mobile Safari). I currently use AdGuard to get this feature, which sets the DNS server to one that blackholes ad servers.

Still, it's quite exciting that Cloudflare's finally released Warp, and that the waitlist for Warp was so long.
I only made the comment about the lack of interest because of how long these issues have existed, and I certainly don't think any of us are entitled to a better UI if it's not a priority at the moment. You guys have my utmost respect for your efforts and I'm happy to hear some of the noted improvements are also high on my list of wants.
Registering a patent for things that plainly pre existing isn't merely improper it isn't much different than taking a crowbar to your door while you are away to steal away with your valuables.

If you should happen to chase the thief away this time it isn't much of a victory if the thief and his compatriots faces little to no consequences.

Firstly software patents are a net negative and shouldn't be a thing. Next plainly frivolous patents should subject the owner to a fine at time of application. Make the seeker pay an additional bond forfeit for frivolous patents.

Next make granting bad patents expensive for the government. Let anyone read patents in process and by proving them void claim the aforementioned bond.
Alternative headline: "China gets deal to continue having America subsidize it's shipping for another 7 months"...

I'm not impressed with the timeline associated with this deal.

I'm also not impressed by how the US seems to have only solved the problem for the US. It seems like Canada and most of Europe are in a nearly identical situation.
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If USPS is subsidizing international shipping from China by overcharging for domestic shipping, as some here are suggesting they are, how do they successfully compete with UPS and FedEx? Or are UPS and FedEx also subject to the UPU?
The only 'violation' I allow is the high-fiber carbs, which do strike a note with your opinion.
If you're a regular at a local bar and/or know the bartender (and they know you're good for a return visit with the money) it can be possible to open a tab without a card.
uber will likely be the demand aggregator for self driving fleets, as well as own a medium sized self driving fleet, similar to how amazon is a demand aggregator for online retail, as well as maintaining its own physical products for high profit/targetable areas.
Guess its back to using my led ball tea steeper.
As a former bartender, it's not that we didn't trust you but that you may simply forget. Even taking people's credit cards AND driver licenses we'd always have one or two tabs still open at the end of the night. The author of this article is clueless.
> You know that Javascript is a C(++) program?

JavaScript is not implementation-defined. There's a spec, and there are interpreters in a number of different languages. Sure, most common JS interpreters/JIT and otherwise, are in C++, but that says nothing about whether or not they use an event-driven style underneath to program the interpreter.

And regarding C being synchronous, I'm talking about programming models, not underlying architecture of the computer or OS. If everything is programmed in async as you seem to suggest here, then we do we bother distinguishing the two? Why do most books on networking programming have a separate chapter devoted to async or event-driven programming? Why does the Unix socket API have `socket.setblocking(0)`?

But I suspect you know damn well what I'm talking about.

I've got to get off of social media.
You are aware that the St. IGNUcius bit is a spoof on dogmatic religion, right?

Maybe that offends you as a religious person, but it's hardly fair to hold that against Stallman whose audiences are usually mainly fellow atheists, or religious people who can tolerate being the subject of a bit of light satire.
> A friendly PSA that you can still, in the year of our lordt 2019, create a static site with an HTML file deployed to shared hosting over FTP. You could also create a dynamic site with some PHP thrown in there.

Honestly that sounds like hell, we may live in a spiderweb of complexity but it's still a long way from the primitive web of the 90's which provided every conceivable kind of way to shoot yourself in the foot.

The hidden issue is that new web products are becoming increasingly complex due to tight competition, but businesses somehow do not expect that increased complexity means there is a need for larger teams and budgets. All this cruft in the modern web build pipeline is stuff made by developers, for developers, to help us navigate the impossible tasks handed to us in impossible timeframes. Some of these additions are very welcome, but the proliferation of complexity in development in general is mostly due to teams and budgets and time estimates not scaling accordingly.
No they don't. They repeat a false claim uncritically.

If you look up the cheapest US shipping rates you'll find they're roughly the same range, and that almost all the comparisons purporting to show otherwise are cheating, typically by using retail pricing on a more expensive shipping option.

>So he turns to his shipping guy. And he asks, how much would it cost for us just to ship this mug, like, not across the ocean, just across the street?

>SMALDONE: He told me it's going to cost us about $6.30 to ship this item.

Amazon page for mighty mug says it's 12.6 oz shipping weight. https://www.amazon.com/Might-Mug-1525-Mighty-Black/dp/B00FZD...

Round up to 13 oz, then look up rates for the cheapest shipping option for packages under a pound "parcel select lightweight". See https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c139

The cheapest rate is $2.02 for 13 oz. This rate applies when mail is injected at the closest mailing point (DDU), which "mailing across the street" corresponds to.
We took a tour of Loolecondera Tea Estate aka James Taylor Tea Museum a few years back. I left with the idea that high quality tea manufacturers consider dust almost waste material.
Well, that's nice, but what is the estimated time to reach, say, 50% electric for worldwide transportation ?
Very slightly related. I thought I could throw tetley tea bags in the yard, turns out they do not biodegrade at all. Even though the thing looks like natural fibers.. maybe they're just thin plastic fibers ?
Yeah, if "some" is there it seems we should be confident enough to drop "may" or we should have looked into it a bit more before publishing...
In aggregate, is it necessarily an extra indirection? If, for example, your ISP bounces around a bunch getting to your destination and Cloudflare has a faster path, isn't it possible they have the faster path?
The slight wear on its body makes it look even more impressive.
China keeps paying its terminal dues to US, so that 50 cent postage does not comes that cheap to the China Post.
Some bars keep track by updating the receipt in front of you based on what you have ordered and not take a CC upfront. Typically less crowded, mandatory seating type spots. I have never worked a bar before but I assume taking CC up front serves a dual purpose of tracking who has ordered what and making sure the patron doesn't run out on the tab.
This was definitely a case of the US strong-arming the rest of the world, but in this case I think it was justified.

I hope European countries follow suit and stop subsidizing foreign mail.

It's absurd that we can order something on AliExpress, have it shipped halfway around the world, and pay 1 Dollar.
It's an attack on clean energy... I'm sure there's got to be a way to discredit it... it doesn't matter if I make it up!
Thanks for the tool.

Is it possible for HTTP Mock to dump both the entire SSL session traffic, and the decrypted HTTP traffic (with fake tcp headers), to pcaps for future analysis?
Filing is pretty cheap: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/legal-removal-reques...
Basically instead of giving them a sense of control, it's to give them actual control. What I promise to do is release a new version of whatever they want at least once a week, and hopefully more often. If every week (or every day) they get to decide what that is, they stop caring about estimates. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21071374

And I also wrote something up in response to a previous HN discussion: http://williampietri.com/writing/2014/simple-planning-for-st...
I think what he probably means is that the bartender asks for the card as soon as you order a drink..( I don't know of any, every bar I've had a drink at. the bartender makes me the drink and only while I am halfway or done, does he ask if I need to start a tab?)
Go to AWS

make an EC2 instance.

Configure it as a VPN.

It's simple to do.
Google releases trove of deepfake videos so researchers can help fight
Hi, developer here. The extension adds a preview to the page with the live stream when you hover over a video thumbnail. It currently works with Twitch, YouTube and Facebook. I plan to add more sites soon if people like it :)

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRJED9leVPs
"Morning dropoff is stressful, to say the least, we are always late, my kids never cooperate,..."

I know this is just a throwaway comment in the article but my god does it bug me when parents use their children as an excuse for being late. Yes, kids are sometimes tough to get out the door but it's your fault that this somehow catches you by surprise every morning.
My BCBS plan has a $4,000 deductible per insured person per year.
People are out demanding changes.

I'm terrified of climate change. I'm also terrified of nuclear power. I'm not really against nuclear power in theory, but I'm afraid about how we're unable to think about, plan, or prepare for longer than an election cycle. If we're heading for a collapse then a lot of abandoned nuclear power plants are going to cause a lot of damage.
I am not a lawyer. I am not GNOME's lawyer.

If they get a judgment against GNOME for violating this patent, it would make a lot of news and likely be appealed. Getting to a final precedent in favor of patent infringement would take years, sinking lots of lawyer dollars into the effort, and the whole process is fraught with an enormous amount of risk.

I just don't see them having that kind of long play in their playbook. But I don't know anyone involved... It could be they are acting stupid but are really smart?
This is so useful
> Customer Experience is All About the Little Things

Big things are expected and are exactly what you pay for. Neglect them and you'll lose all your business, because you're offering nothing.

But when costumers are comparing two companies (or small business, whatever), it's the small details that will make difference.
Yeah, but you know what it does. So deal and flow? That is precisely what I do.

Most of us have seen it all done a bazillion ways. I go all the way back to floppies, TV for a monitor and separate application and data disks.

Even a lame UI is presenting me with fast, potent tools!

If there is value there, the learning follows, then stuff gets done, next. It is hard the first few times. Easier after that. Almost no worry now. "How does this one do it?" K, next, done.

Hard to complain about pretty great tools I can use, modify, etc. for a song and small investment in how the tool works.

Or don't, right?

Adobe is happy for your money, and parting with it is worth more than some time sorting GIMP out.

No worries.
While it can sound personal, I think it's more aimed at the general lax and loose silicon valley "new age" way of doing things, opposed to the stuffy old ways of white-collar finance.

There's this mantra that you need to suspend your disbelief a bit, when it comes to (tech) startups.
> you can wait until next year to spread across the EU in different languages. That does not impede anything

It literally is impeding you from operating in that other country right now. What do you not understand about that?

Take a like for like example:

I have 10 customers in Texas who use my software and they pay me $100k/year. I can sell my software to 5 more customers in California...tomorrow. So I make $150k this year.

I have 10 customers in the UK who use my software and they pay me £100k/year. My software isn't localized and therefore I can't sell my software to 5 French companies (because they require the French language for their employees). I have to wait a year to earn the additional £50k/year while I add support for them. I only make £100k this year.

I just lost out on an additional £50k. How is that not an impediment to my growth rate....it's literally 50% less...

Oh, I also have to hire French people to support them which increases my costs and therefore making me less profitable.

impede =/= prohibit
What are "self declared rates" and how does this exactly change things?

I get the idea that international incoming shipments were subsidized but it's not clear what self declared rates really .. does?
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The only time that has happened for me is in an establishment you frequent.

A bowling league I was on for example would allow you to run a tab of drinks/food and pay at the end of the night as they know you are not going to dine and dash.

Granted that was a combination of a bar/bowling alley, but a few other bars that I used to frequent in my younger years after seeing you as a regular would also have no problems letting you run up a tab.

I have never been to a bar on my first visit that had full trust in the patrons right out of the gate, but then again I only was in that scene for 2-3 years.
I think it's mostly a US thing. At least in France, SSNs are never required for non-medical stuff.
From what I remember, they only picked it up once the Yorba Foundation folded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorba_Foundation
Yes, let's hear the real story about CO2 shall we?

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/01/a-story-of-co2-data-m...
Ordovician Meteor Event
Doesn't pornhub stream a lot of video (high quality I would suppose) and is also much more effective at dealing with child porn and revenge porn than say YouTube ?
I don't have any experience with this, but why is the bar interaction different than the meal interaction where you pay after you eat?
Best CDN is no CDN. Keep your list of dependencies small. Serve them yourself. Wikipedia just did a great job on this, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/live/7/post/175/wiki... and corresponding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21016972

Bonus: You don't get CDN trouble, like having all your visitors tracked.
Good luck bringing a case about that w.r.t. a job interview.
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You don't think that steeply increasing gasoline prices, and the resulting squeezing of discretionary (and not so) income could have popped the US housing bubble ?

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-915-march-7-2016-a...
DubFi – clear and simple social network
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That's not an extra hop, but essentially two different paths with many different hops instead of a more direct one. I'm sure there will be edge cases where this can be faster due to one of those factors, but for most destinations it will be slower.
The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995)
Counterpoint to you last example just for fun...people who live in places with a lot of highly rated burger restaurants eat more burgers because they are surrounded by good burgers, not because of an inherent love for ground beef patties.

I think the general sentiment was more about the neutral people who hold a view but could be accepting of something different, rather than the people who are staunchly against something.
That last paragraph is a great summary. I wanted to add: This was done with the intent of preventing USPS from being competitive. The law that forced it to pre-fund retirement also put enormous restrictions on its ability to increase prices.
Yes it is, and I've written academically about this. For example: https://is.gd/9wwjjf
I often hear the claim that it's more expensive to ship within the US than from China but rarely see it backed up. I've yet to see anyone give a specific size box, weight, and locations for comparison, and the few times they have I find the US shipping rate is cheaper.
I have been having the exact same thoughts, except at a public accounting firm. A lot of the comments here describe what is typical in public accounting as well. It seems the moral of the story is that managerialism is hard to make work. Perhaps we should try something else?
Do they use Google DNS servers by default? Or is that just NTP?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/meson_options...
What's in it for a patent troll to sue GNOME?!
Clickhouse is a columnar system, yes, but is not a full-fledged DBMS. Specifically, I don't think it can join tables.
7 months is very short when it comes to international agreements.

Also it applies to every country from 2021, i.e. Canada and EU will be able to set their own rates as well.
Catering to delusions is very dangerous in a hospital !
In addition to banning software patents, a positive step could be to prove that developing the patent required substantial investment and would not be feasible without the patent -- as is the case with (current) drug development and laws. That would at least raise the bar and burden of proof of social benefit to the one filing.
I’ll bet money he was “fired” for something much more banal, like using harder drugs than just the admitted marijuana. Still probably can credit the IPO process for bringing it to light, but I don’t think taking Neumann off the tiller of this company is going to make it any more attractive to investors.
Deep learning vs. health-care professionals:detecting diseases w medical imaging
Other price extreme: Vorwerk (of Thermomix fame) is selling a loose tea machine: https://temial.vorwerk.de/

Only 600 Euros!
For example, when you reach that scale, you may have enabled some economy of scale for you that is unavailable to your smaller-sized competitors (like Amazon). Or, may be, there's some friction for customer to switch when you stop selling a dollar for 90 cents, like with american internet operators (I don't live in US but I constantly hear horror stories about Comcast here on HN, and I assume it's similar).
> The following query produces the data that we want... we just need to figure out how to write a batch loader that generates the same result.

This is where the abstraction breaks down. Should you care what the query ultimately looks like? For anything beyond a toy, you sure should. But how far should you go to ensure the abstraction produces the implementation you want? Why not just skip to the implementation you want?

Sooner or later, you need to break the abstraction. I'd rather just write the SQL for all my endpoints.

I'm not bullish on GraphQL for the same reason I'm not bullish on ORMs. For some things, an abstraction suffices, but it's far from a universal solution. If I have to break out of the GraphQL abstraction, why bother in the first place? Is there value in a mixed GQL/REST API?

> GraphQL can be as efficient as REST, but requires approaching optimizations from a different angle. Instead of upfront optimizations, we lazy-load data only when required, loading it in batches to avoid excess trips to the database.

Admittedly, the author does a good job of preserving the abstraction, but I'm hesitant to expect most devs to dive this deep, and thus hesitant to expect this level of quality/performance from a GraphQL backend.