skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me respectfully suggest that you are an exception.

I've had a lot of serious problems in life. I've always sought to resolve them with an eye towards being able to stand on my own two feet.

The vast majority of people who have helped me, especially in a big way over some period of time, didn't really want me to ever succeed in standing on my own two feet. Most of them wanted to be needed and aimed for remaining my crutch. They were actively angry if I tried to actually stand on my own.

I've ended a lot of relationships based on their inability to see me as anything but a charity case and their open hostility at my desire to actually become a functional human being. Such people want to help, but only so much. If you want to grow beyond their vision of what you are capable of, there may be hell to pay. They may actively be vengeful and seek to keep you in your place.
There have been a lot of news stories about microplastics being basically everywhere recently.

Is there any good research on if it's a problem? What are the effects on humans of consuming them? What are the effects on aquatic ecosystems, etc?
I love tea from adagio.com
Falling down faster than you go sideways causes crashes.
Falling down slower than going sideways causes getting into orbit.
This is rudimentary physics, there are no new theories needed.

Except, well, if you want to actually do any rocketeering.
First, almost nobody signs their zones. DNSSEC has practically no meaningful adoption (lots of tiny zones in Europe are signed because their registrars do it automatically, but break zones down by usage and you'll see a very different story). But, more importantly, DNSSEC is a server-server protocol; it doesn't protect end-systems at all. If you're using any external resolver, the "SEC" part of DNSSEC is a single bit in the header saying "some other resolver checked signatures". You'd have to trust Cloud Flare either way.
I feel like a geneology of programming languages is also a useful representation. More here: https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genea...

Would be nice to have an interactive browseable/searchable/sortable graph with additional data such as year of release.
> I'm not sure many people that work at large companies realize that their employer knows every diagnosis, procedure, and prescription you've ever picked up, and actively trying to incentivize you to use as little healthcare as possible.

I work for such a company, and it's great. I pay about $30 per month for a plan with a tiny deductible ($2,500), and they offer great wellness perks like weekly classes (yoga, kick-boxing) in-office, partner with a local CSA that does a bi-weekly produce truck out in the parking lot. They do encourage folks to get yearly wellness screenings, and basic dental cleanings by increasing your plan by about $2 per week if you don't.

This is a single, no dependents rate. I believe the comprehensive plan, with families runs about $70 per month.

As it were, the plan is employer funded but we have some type of partnership with a major provider for administration so the employer itself isn't hiring actuaries / specialists / consultants. Perhaps your personal experiences differ here?
Exactly right. That's why you leave yourself enough time to deal with the inevitable issues so you're not late.
> People should pay for their healthcare directly, and the government should provide for those who require serious, expensive treatments (after a payment that is some percentage of their income).

It's cheaper for the government to pay for everything. If you incentivize skipping check-ups and minor treatments they turn into large expensive care.

The rest of the western world has had universal health care for ~50 years now and it works better in every other western country than it does in the US. The US should just choose a country and copy it.
We've been using Tea Pigs which is pretty good (and about half the price of T2).

Not sure I could taste the difference at that price point, but we have a T2 locally.
To be fair most places in North America seem to be named after European places, possibly with a 'new' prefix. So I don't think it's fair to single out Ontario here.
China post is mailing hundreds of millions of packets. Comparing their rates without taking volume and presort discounts into account is going to be misleading.
Isn't politics the place we need to use the most restraint? Otherwise, it's just too easy to remove an inconvenient politician from play.
> Yahoo / ISPs already have the data so they have to comply with the law by providing that data upon request.

Data is being sent to CF: can they be forced to raise the logging level from "INFO" to "DEBUG"? See also Lavabit:

> Lavabit is an open-source encrypted webmail service, founded in 2004. The service suspended its operations on August 8, 2013 after the U.S. Federal Government ordered it to turn over its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) private keys, in order to allow the government to spy on Edward Snowden's email.[2][3][4][5]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
I don't see Chef [1] which was part of the MIT Mystery Hunt many years ago. If you have ever told anyone that programming and/or algorithms are just following steps like a cooking recipe, you should read about it. I don't think there was even an interpreter back then, so you had to "execute" the program by hand.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef
I find tea-balls fiddly and hard to clean. The Ikea strainer looks better but still small. What I found easiest is a Chinese tea strainer: it's a metal mesh (stainless, hopefully) that is as large in diameter as a standard (American) mug, so it just sits on the rim and curves down half-way into the mug.

Put in your dose of loose-leaf (black or green), pour water over it, and when done steeping just let drip over your mug and place on a saucer nearby (as you would a tea-bag). Some strainers have a small handle, but the rim is usually cool enough to grab after steeping. When cleaning, put used tea into the compost, and rinse the strainer as you would your cup. Set to dry on your mug, ready for next time.

These are available in any Chinatown dry-goods store, and similar shops (or Chinese supermarkets such as Ranch 99 in California).

BTW, this article comes as no surprise, but I'm happy to see basic science prove what we often think about plastics. I've been drinking loose-leaf tea for years for flavor and lack of wasteful packaging.
Does Graal being an Oracle project make anyone else nervous? I mean from a software license or patent perspective.

On the technical side there's much to like. However I worry that once Graal becomes popular, Oracle will announce something that makes it risky to use without paying for a per-seat license or support package. I'm probably just showing my bias, but they have form in this area.
My understanding is that the issue is payment is so divorced at this point from services rendered that there is no pressure to lower costs anywhere.

Hospitals pass their costs along to the insurance companies and insurance companies pass those costs along to individuals, and everything that happens in the middle is so convoluted that the average person can't make heads or tails of it to push back.
Thanks for the reference, albeit paywalled - was the disparition of gas lines an immediate consequence of the order, or did it just potentially prevent future gas lines ?
It’s a real enough risk for my 77 year old dad that I’m thinking of getting him one.
> Not having children doesn't mean you're not allowed to criticize parents for poor behaviour.

That is exactly what it means. People without children have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and have no means of acquiring that knowledge except by having a child.
Changed from https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/09/24/ceo_ja.... Thanks!
Nice.

I got to around 1K. You probably have them all, but there could be some in there. Your list is much more useful so I linked to it.
What coworking space operators need to know about pass networks
Wow, thank you for such a thought out response.

> 7. Learn to speak business, this is a fun challenge if you don't know already and it is immensely helpful.

Could you please elaborate on this point?
Source? IRS specifically states:

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc502

>You may deduct only the amount of your total medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. You figure the amount you're allowed to deduct on Form 1040, Schedule A.

It’s another subsidy for big business in the US. If you work for a small employer that doesn’t offer health insurance, you’re paying with after tax money.
It's working now - nothing changed as far as I know on my end, but if it happens again I'll do that.
It was not meant in a literal sense, I hope that much was clear. The language was suggestive on purpose considering the article being commented on. A longer path takes longer time as speed of light varies comparably little, that much is physics.

And sending traffic by way of a third party is very likely to make for a longer path, for most people in most circumstances. Not by necessity but because few have that lousy routing agreements, unless we're talking about special circumstances such as 6to4 tunnels and the like.
> I personally enjoy the ability to buy NEW parts for my 1914 sewing machine and have them sent directly from some mom and pop family stall in a Chinese village for $0.15 with free shipping.

I do, too, but this just means that we're externalizing the cost of shipping and ignoring the fact that shipping things over such long distances is damaging to the environment, and damaging to the US's ability to have an independent, self-sustaining economy. (We'll never actually 100% get there in our globally-connected world, but getting closer when it makes sense for our interests is IMO a good thing.)

> I do think our present administration is quite good at this game of take it or leave it hardball.

I agree they're good at reaching for hardball at the slightest provocation, but I would not agree that they're good at it. This is one of the very very scant few situations where it's worked. It's the exception, not the norm.
I understand your concern, but the author’s conjecture is that if we drive this “counterfeit capitalism” out, then instead of a few companies being run by and for financiers, there will be more companies and more startups and more competition.

I suggest that would lead to more tech jobs and higher salaries, because businesses would be based on creating value, not on using an ocean of cash to drive everybody else into bankruptcy.

If you buy his argument, “counterfeit capitalism” is actually at odds with what YC is trying to accomplish.
> we know storage is important

That's quite the understatement - unless you have some other place that holds all your state (outside of k8s)?
New NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World
Create Tasks Within GSuite
The thing that blows my east coast friends' minds, is that is a 6-hour drive to Portland if traffic is nice. All Interstate freeway, but never leaving Oregon, and the biggest town along the way is 20k people.
I would love to know what platform you use to power Segment Functions, and the rationale from an architecture perspective to use this particular platform.

Would it be possible for you to get into this?

The reason is that I'm working on data pipelines myself (but not in customer analytics) and currently look into ways how serverless tech like Openwhisk, Fn and similar tools could integrate into our platform to provide customization and extensibility options to our customers.
It's a lot of things, but inefficiencies and needless end of life care are big parts.
We've got evidence it's negatively affecting the known health crisis of cigarette smoking.

I'm inclined to treat non-addictive melatonin and extremely-addictive nicotine differently in how we approach potential health risks.
He points out that if we still had Glass-Steagall, which kept banks and brokers apart, we wouldn't have some of these problems. Probably wouldn't have had 2008, either.

Bringing back Glass-Steagall was in Trump's platform in 2016.[1](p. 28) [2] That went away as soon as he was elected.

[1] https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/media/document...
[2] https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/19/investing/donald-trump-glas...
Doesn't this preclude the easy use of goroutines to handle concurrent requests while still keeping the promised performance benefits?

And since Go doesn't have any infrastructure in the language to help developers deal with event loops (Futures, async/await, etc), wouldn't it be a better choice to use a language built for event loops like Rust?

The use of event loops- "reactors" in Go, while proclaiming the benefits of green threading seems similar to the use of interface{} and manual code generation scripts while proclaiming the benefits of no generics or macros.
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I don’t understand your comment. If the company is large it is likely self-funded, so it is taking on the risk, whether they are doing it in house or hiring a benefits consultant to do it for them.

I didn’t say anything about the quality of a self-funded plan, simply just pointing out that a self-funded plans means your relationship with your company is not merely just a worker but you morph into this insurance risk that they now have to actively manage. I am pointing out how strange it is to ask a company to have to do that, which is unlike any other country in the world.
Health insurance premiums are only fully deductible if you’re self-employed.
I'm afraid that's Agile development for you; teams contemplating the emptiness of their backlog and rushing to invent an endless stream of small t-shirts to fill it and keep the velocity within the desired KPIs.

/s
> Doctors accept multiple insurance companies.

Some do, but not all. One of my providers takes exactly one insurer, which I do not have, so pay out-of-pocket.

Luckily most insurance companies allow you to submit receipts to receive credit towards your deductible.
It's extra rude if you consider the history. Bookstores of old had a counter where you entered, you placed your order and if the book was in stock someone would go and get it (or in case you ordered ahead they'd get your pre-packaged order for you). Then we figured that self-service is the way to go: rely on the customer to do their own orderpicking, en-passent exposing them to a lot of marketing and hopefully selling some more books.

So now, on top of being required to do the work of the bookstore employees you also lose the benefit of the doubt and are being treated as though you are a common thief.

Industry secret: lots of theft from bookstores is by employees.
Indigenous Americans made alcoholic fermented beverages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_Native_Americans#P...
If you look at Karpman’s Drama Triangle, you’ll wonder just how many people fall into the ‘rescuer’ corner, and further than that, how you might get the saviour complex from it.

Just as you say, the response there isn’t to switch to the victim or even the persecutor. The response is to break out of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
Atomic ‘Trojan horse’ could inspire new generation of X-ray lasers and particle
A 13oz coffee mug retails at the dollar tree for $1.
In the list of articles, each entry is really concise. It's really easy to just ignore the ones you aren't interested in.
Does DDD Belong on the Front End? – Domain-Driven Design with TypeScript
I've done three years of an electronic engineering degree with a digital design on FPGAs course and I'm still not entirely sure why one would want to use an FPGA for anything - am I right in guessing that what you write in HDL for an FPGA will be faster than what you write in C? Or do you use the FPGA for testing then export designs into hardware?
I built a Smart House system "mind" controlled by EEG made specifically for ALS patients 8 years ago.
https://youtu.be/mQrytBbSbsA

I'd like to be bought please.
Aren't all of them? I thought you could only invest in public companies that have PE funds.
[Rishi Teas](https://www.rishi-tea.com/) imports a rainbow of top-shelf teas and herbal infusions I really like.

I mostly drink [Jasmine Pearl](https://www.rishi-tea.com/product/jasmine-pearl-green-tea/lo...) or [Matcha Gyokuro](https://www.rishi-tea.com/product/matcha-gyokuro-japanese-gr...). If I want a no-caff drink instead, something based on [Rooibos](https://www.rishi-tea.com/product/ginger-lime-rooibos-organi...) or [Turmeric](https://www.rishi-tea.com/product/turmeric-ginger-organic-ca...).

If you like darker teas, their black, oolong or pu'er teas may be your speed.
I like my health insurance in the sense that I am fairly confident that I will like my current health insurance better than the insurance I will have in five years. The same way that I liked the insurance I had five years ago better than the insurance I have today.

Basically I think no one expects it to get better, so they are just all hoping it doesn't continue to get worse (while expecting that it will).
Wait, you store the local roots on disk? Why not nfs or something similar - especially if you run from ram anyway?

Also sounds like a missed opportunity for kexec and a pivot to new rootfs on a new ramdisk?

Ed: based on https://www.talos-systems.com/docs/guides/bare_metal/ i gather i misunderstood what was said here; its new config in pxe, shutdown and reboot? Which maybe could be shutdown and kexec.
If you are vegan, you aren't eating meat substitutes at all. That's more of the line along a vegetarian don't you think? A vegan is against using animals for consumption, therefore does not want to eat meat or eat fake meat that tries to taste like meat. At least this is my experience with vegans.
If you'd prefer to refer to DNSSEC as a "backdoored" crypto protocol, I'm happy to stipulate that here.

Saying that backdoors are "the whole _point_" of a cryptosystem is not the devastating refutation you appear to think it is.
The healthcare system has become a symbiotic relationship where providers and insurance companies work together to funnel money from just about every business in the US into their pockets.

Hospitals increase staff to justify billing more, then insurance companies use increased costs to justify raising rates. Internally, hospitals and insurance companies are also in a tug of war over their slice of the pie. These conflicts introduce even more people-hours into the treatment of patients, in the form of revenue cycle managers, lawyers, medical coders, etc.

Each new layer added to the cost onion of healthcare results in the pie growing, since most insurance providers can only take in some percentage of what is spent. So they need to spend more to make more.
This is a great writeup and mirrors a lot of what I worked on in therapy for addressing issues I had with asserting myself.

Many times I would feel uncomfortable discussing a course of action and would say "that seems really selfish to me" and my therapist would tell me "It is selfish, and the goal of our work is to help you understand that being selfish is not always a negative thing."
> How does patent law deal with that, where the wholly circumstantial and independent properties of a product's operating environment could result in a system with emergent properties that violate the patent, and which are wholly outside of the control of the original software?

I don't think you want to know the answer to that question.
Spak Brothers is such delicious divey pizza!
Most Mac apps use Sparkle [1] or the App Store to auto update, neither of which requires admin access or modifies the OS.

[1]: https://sparkle-project.org/
This was one of the concerns brought up at the UKNOG panel:

Currently there is DNS blocking (e.g. gambling sites in Poland), and it handles most cases. If (too many?) people start circumventing that, will a government start insisting on more invasive measure (e.g., DPI)?
When is time tracking too accurate? When you're billing
How Cognitive Distortions Impact Startup Founders
Why have you stopped using a linter?

The popular airbnb eslint rules[1] require the use of const where a variable is not reassigned, which I've occasionally found handy.

[1] https://github.com/airbnb/javascript#references--prefer-cons...
Amazingly, it's still in the top half of programming languages! Which just goes to show how meaningless top N% is when you have a list of so many languages.
We got an email asking us to change the URL from https://appear.in/ to https://whereby.com/, so we've done so.
Not always true. I recently heard a famous band's song playing in the lobby of a hospital.

I can listen to this music freely on Youtube (or torrenting) from the same band. But I think that in the hospital application of this music, it is probably written somewhere that the hospital needs to pay the band a licensing fee for "commercial use".
But that's just the thing: I don't recall there being laws specifically against "mass murder". It'd just be multiple counts of murder. I could be wrong though.
So your thesis is that it should be fine for only the rich to get to eat meat, and poor people can just eat maggotburgers and soy?

Can you see why someone might see that as an elitist, late-stage-capitalist solution to the problem? Especially when we know factory farms work to feed massive numbers - shouldn't the focus be to make it more environmentally friendly, rather than restricting it to those who can pay?

God, can you imagine working the farm all day and then going home to eat crickets because you can't even afford the hamburger you're raising?
I found a green-ish oolong tea I liked, it's one of these: http://teapedia.org/en/Formosa_oolong_tea (Formosa Jade mountain or Formosa dongding). I don't know about availability, you'll need to find a tea shop and I'm sure they have something similar.

The aroma of it is something completely different than cheaper green teas.
Haha, this is where I was going with my point, which is that you absolutely do not want to please everyone who walks through the door (unless your business success is based solely on the number of people who walk through the door), you want to please the people who are your ideal customer, so that you can focus on them and not have to waste any time pleasing people who can't be pleased because they're at the wrong business.
This did not happen.
Except, that is not how the body works....

Here, for example is a recent study by Harvard Medical School detailing how partipants on a low-carb diet burned more than 250 calories more then people on a high-carb diet.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/bch-ldc11121...
Nirogam – The Ayurvedic healthier way of living
Much of the administrative stuff insurers do to prevent healthcare providers from doing unnecessary stuff. In a taxpayer funded system, there would still have to be an entity to double check healthcare providers’ billing.
That would exclude many users for languages that are in legacy systems, which are rarely tracked in github.
The American health insurance and payment system is a huge mess and is only getting worse.