skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heartfelt disagree and believe that people that push this type of belief are the ones that think being skinny is being fit. Further, look at the amount of calories required to be a strong man. To be "in shape" IS about how much they consume.
Why wouldn't you count Walmart or Target? For household consumables I bounce between Amazon and Target's subscribe and save offerings depending on whichever is cheaper.
> whats the alternative to an employer provided health plan?

There are a number of alternatives:

1. Government health plan at the state level (i.e. the Canada model)

2. Compulsory private insurance (i.e. the Switzerland model). But employers don't provide it and insurers have to insure everyone who pays. Single, larger, and more diverse risk pool instead of 3 separate pools - one with working age people and children, one with old people, one with everyone else

3. Government-owned and -operated hospitals and clinics, free at the point of use (i.e. the UK model)

4. Government health plan at the federal level (i.e. the France model)

All four have been found to cost less per patient for similar or better outcomes.
If you want to blame anyone, blame the RAND institute with poor studies that pump up the hype around high-deductible plans: https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR562z4/analysis...

My last reading of their work was years ago, but at the time the study found that folks will use fewer health resources when on a high deductible plan. However--the study allowed folks to revert to their old insurance (i.e., lower cost insurance) if they got sick. Meaning the study would show those in high-deductible plan would use fewer resources only because the people in that plan who used more resources quit the study.
My home uses 72 kWh/day (16-20 of that is charging a Chevy Volt), so even at my extreme usage, it's less than two minutes to provide my daily power needs. These are amazing:

https://www.siemensgamesa.com/en-int/products-and-services/o...
I think the point the author was trying to make with "counterfeiting" wrt the subprime crisis is like this: counterfeit goods offer superficial similarity to the real thing, but are made of inferior materials when you unpack them.

During the GFC, toxic mortgages were bundled in with mortgages with a high probability of repayment. Since the debt rating agencies gave those mortgage backed securities a AAA rating without doing quality assurance, they entered the market on the same footing as legitimate AAA-rated debt.
juul is a nicotine salt instead of freebase nicotine, making it unique among market offerings.
Don't ever user free VPNs and especially something like Hotspot Shield. You can check https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ for a comparison of VPN services.

I use Mullvad VPN which supports both OpenVPN and Wireguard(which is the reason I use Mullvad) and costs 5 euros per month. You can use something like Bitcoin to pay if you want anonymity.
That's not large at all. It's about $7 per citizen.
Unless you are running self-selected first party ads, _the ad companies do not trust you, the publisher, to not lie about proxied traffic_. Ths is one of the reasons they demand invasive, malware JS to run that loads Java, Flash, and all sorts of bullshit.
I love it. You always have to make privacy and security tradeoffs -- and to me WARP is a promising initiative.

Question: is there an OSX version? Or am I just blind? :)
Quite often. But I've also read every report the USPSOIG released about ePacket, including the last two showing it's profitable (i.e. no subsidies), along with reading the price charts published by the USPS.
I don't think they subsidize through other rates. They tend to lose money every year, and their rates for packages under 1 lb are significantly better than UPS or FedEx.
Sort of. This is true if everyone is required to participate in the system. And there’s only one provider. If you imagine there being a cheap plan and an expensive plan, you would probably expect that the expensive plan is a way better return on the dollar because there are fewer poor people on it weighing it down (because poor people are likely to have more health issues).

True meaning it averages out to a reasonably healthy person
This will be useful for future AI "employees".
”They need those billing assistants for other reasons.”

Whatever it is they do exactly it deals with insurance companies. Germany also has private doctors but they have much smaller staff and dealings with insurance are very straightforward. American insurance companies cause a lot of friction. I don’t know exactly why but they do.
Go ahead and describe the fairly simple solution you've come up with understanding there is a surprising amount of money out there to defeat it.

If by "brand new" battery you mean an unused battery there are actually issues there, sellers do sell "unused" batteries as "brand new" but the mfg date turns out to be really old. Technically true I guess - the battery has not been used? Would I want a 3-4 year old battery? No - who knows what SOC it has been maintained at.

What is interesting is apple's focus on "shitty anti-consumer" behavior which is "utter insanity" has resulted in a lot of consumers buying their product.
If we're talking about a global shift from oil to electric in transportation :

What about the issues with lithium and coltan supply for batteries ?

What about the ~+33% increase required in electric power generation to replace oil in transportation ?

I just don't see how it could be a "surprisingly quick" transition... even if we had started it early !
I wouldn't be surprised if Everest specifically has some coverage nowadays.
US govt mistakenly tagged this Pretoria family home as a global crime hotspot
Somewhat on the side, but:

> By using the includes method we've been able to knock our queries down from six to two: The first to find the events, and the second to find the categories for those events.

Am I the only one that thinks rails/activerecord is crazy here for (often) preferring two trips to the db over a join on indexed primary keys?

Are there really (sane) use-cases where that is better?
Not pointed out is that this works in the opposite direction as well, and it doesn't look like that part was fixed.

For example Australia post operates a service when you can buy US goods, have them shipped to a US address, and then have the parcels shipped in aggregate to Australia for arbitrage on shipping and licensing costs: https://shopmate.auspost.com.au
Mother's milk contains ~4.5% fat, ~7% sugar and ~1% protein. It's not exactly 50:50 sugar/fat ratio, but it's pretty close, so I wouldn't call the combination unnatural. Maybe we've been "trained" from birth on what the "optimal" combination is...
The YouTube app now shows ads for adult dating apps every few lines.

It's almost as if it has gone rouge.
I agree but can't ignore this idiom

> If you start without an ORM you end up writing a custom ORM eventually and often that custom ORM is inferior to the third party one you're considering

Funny enough this engineering problem becomes an HR one:

If your recruiting and training processes can consistently hire devs actually fluent in SQL and web application architecture you can completely avoid the ORM and just write good modular and testable code that avoids the chaos of poor SQL performance etc.

If you're like most organizations and have trash recruiting and training processes for developers, you don't have the luxury of trusting your teams not to fall over with technical debt, and may prefer to use an ORM for immediate short term complexity and also long term technical debt management (since the ORM effectively becomes a framework with consistent patterns that can scale across teams).
Thanks for what you do. I’ve enjoyed using ZeroTier for my personal LAN to allow my homelab to serve small services (Plex, Minecraft server, dev dbs etc) as well as planning on rolling it out to my small team as a VPN alternative. The traditional VPN was expensive, awful slow, and it’s IP was frequently blocked on various sites, making some work impossible to complete without disabling the VPN. The network ZeroTier is allowing me to design is remarkably specific to our needs. As a cloud-only company traditional firewalls don’t really fit, but virtual networks give us that same level of control. The open source, self host-able code you provide is very confidence-inspiring for a security product. I’ve always been curious as to how much it costs to run your hosted free tier because the limits are quite generous. On a personal note, ZeroTier allowed me to work from my LAN remotely which gave me the ability to be with my father in person during the last few weeks of his life without missing work and getting in a financial pickle. So... thanks!
On the false belief that using complicated words conveys intelligence
It was immediate. I remember it.

I'm surprised it isn't talked about more. During the gas allocation times, there'd be a glut of gas in Florida and long lines in California because the DoE would allocate gas based on the previous year's usage patterns. Things change constantly, and the DoE was unable to adapt.

I had a friend who bought a gas station. It took him months to get a gas allocation from the DoE because the gas station across the street challenged his allocation, for obvious reasons.

When the market decides where to put the gas, the tanker trucks take gas from the glutted areas and move it to the shortage areas as a natural action. Any reasonable business moves product to where it is selling.
What sucks about this one is it's too easy to get a cheap flight to Ontario, CA thinking it was a bargain, not realizing you're not going where you thought you're going...
Most people don’t make enough money to save that much money so they can retire.
You're bringing up an unrelated article to make an ad-hominem attack on the author. Seems like a fundamentalist response to a heretic.
Fair enough, but that's a pretty restrictive target even without adding "vegan" to the mix!
I think you missed my point. I understood how you inverted explicit and implicit, you saw me explain that to someone else who asked about Promise.all().

What I'm asking you is, how does anyone, be it the programmer, compiler, or runtime, know whether to block on qux() or not, given that it sometimes synchronously returns 1?

Are you saying that in your proposal, it would become part of the calling convention that any time any function at all returns (and no 'async' keyword was used), the callee would check if a Promise was returned and if so, return a continuation promise?

That is no small runtime cost.

In an untyped language like JS, the cases where static analysis could determine whether a function returns a Promise or not are vanishingly few, probably about the same as the cases where a function can be inlined. Remember, anyone at any point can overwrite Array.prototype.push to be anything they want, including a function that returns a Promise. Any function that takes and calls a callback might be calling an async function. Any math or string operation could be calling .valueOf() or .toString(), which might be async.
The other problem, in the US at least, is that many coffee shops and restaurants are sellers of a popular brand of tea that comes with plastic mesh bags (Might Leaf) yet have not thought through/do not understand (/do not care?) they are mixing compostable matter with non-compostable matter. The results are tea in the trash or plastic in compostables.
Restorative justice could dramatically cut domestic violence recidivism
Not required, but you need to be able to provide one if patent office requests.
That’s government. We all know that private companies are always more efficient. Right?
The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available
"Power turned out to be a major constraint. At a chip’s standard 1-volt supply, the wafer’s narrow wiring would consume a full 2 kilowatts. Instead, we chose to up the supply voltage to 12 V, reducing the amount of current needed and therefore the power consumed. That solution required spreading voltage regulators and signal-conditioning capacitors all around the wafer, taking up space that might have gone to more GPU modules."

Uh, this seems like a pretty serious downside.
Wow, that thing has GPL’ed code in it. Who says GPL code is anathema for business?

Personally, I prefer my tea makers without Apache in them; I recently got the Breville BTM800XL (a.k.a. Sage The Tea Maker™), and it is very nice, in that it is fully automated.
Even when you are interacting with a human support agent they're usually reading/copy/pasting from a script, noticeably jaded and lacking empathy from dealing with a never-ending stream of complaints that they are not empowered to actually do much about, and/or not a native speaker. There's not usually a whole lot of nuance in these interactions as it is.
I'm a data engineer but my blog is a JAMstack site!

seisvelas.github.io

To host the posts I just use embedded Github Gists and call them with the Gist API with React. I made this project at work after one of the web devs did a seminar thing on React Hooks and I wanted to try it out! It's weird how web dev seems to move so fast, yet the general approach seems very similar to the jQuery/PHP days (the last time I did any serious web development).

Edit: I like this more than static blog generators because I don't have to rebuild / publish when I want to post. I just make a new Gist who's filename starts with 'blog_' and my site will filter for all the blog posts when the page is loaded!
We don't need to argue what hypothetical shareholders would do, we have hard facts that health insurance CEOs are getting paid billions, and receiving yearly pay increases that outpace most Americans[1].

[1] https://www.axios.com/the-sky-high-pay-of-health-care-ceos-1...
I think Ben is one of the greatest writers, I'm not so sure about thinkers. It's pretty easy to sound smart in a very carefully calibrated format where you get the Monday morning quarterback things that have happened after you set all the rules for the game.

He's said a few interesting things but how much of what he writes can you use to make better choices yourself? Almost nothing.
To play devil's advocate you could argue many web apps are small internal tools that provide lots of business value but only have small (even single digit) user numbers and thus shouldn't optimize in the slightest for db trips (and instead optimize for maintenance or simplicity).
But in that case IBM can license the invention from you, which is also the idea of a patent. And instead of negotiating a selling price you would negotiate a licensing price.
Magnetic River (1975) [video]
Would 50-80% of employees quit if a company moved to Sunnyvale? Was that a serious fact?
Oculus Quest: Introducing Hand Tracking, Oculus Link, Passthrough+, and More
To this day, I still miss the ability to list, move up and edit code at the same time using C= 64 terminal. Good days.

https://codelani.com/languages/simons-basic.html
Some of these have confusing type fields. Like asterius-compiler which is a "compiler", but apparently not a programming language? It seems pretty loose at what constitutes a "computer language", with numeralSystems, cloud, non-programmable text editors, and mathematical notation among other strange entries.

It feels like there needs to be some kind of cutoff on what we're calling a language here. Maybe if it is Turing Complete? I mean JPEG might be considered a language in some ways, in that it encodes data and the computer has to parse it, but I wouldn't normally classify it as a language.
This could be kind of cool to use. I'll have to check it out in more detail and see how it works.
Is anybody actually repairing a faulty motherboard? Let's one of the chips or some resistor is broken.
The overall point is excellent and typically misunderstood by companies large and small (think about what your customer wants, not what you want), but there's another reason to park in front when you're starting out: to make the business not look empty!

That is, early adopters may like to try out a new business, but a business with no customers, no cars etc can lead people to think it's unsuccessful/undesirable.

This is why early stage customers like to put the logos of customers on their home page.
The decision was reached unanimously by all 190 some countries. It's good to see countries working together to reach a compromise.
The mail is aggregated at the country level, sorted, etc. To call it low volume is like suggesting someone using Amazon's FBA to ship a package to their customer is a low-volume shipper, rather than reflecting Amazon's huge scale of logistics.

>The claim was that someone (and, actually, this includes low volume mailers) could mail something from China for a total cost less than his cost to mail it across the street.

Actually, the claim made there was that someone could sell something including shipping from China for less than the shipping cost across the street. This claim is laughably absurd, and the comment I was replying to said that NPR had substantiated that, which is also absurd. If they'd fact checked that podcast the $6.30 figure would have never made it in.
Just because there are few users doesn't mean inefficiency is fine.
I genuinely don't understand what you're referring to when you say overall experience. When I am coding I have one monitor full of IDE, one full of browser, and a console that is brought to and from focus from time to time. The experience on the 3 major platforms is extremely similar. What are you doing differently?
> I presume @norberg is posting on behalf of his employers given that he states his job title immediately.

I'm torn on that one. I want direct communication to be possible without running it though PR or people with PR training, to improve response times especially in such "busy" situation. This requires us on the receiving end to be somewhat lenient. But on the other hand, I also don't find something better elsewhere, including the more official announcement[0] linked to. Thus this style seems like company policy and certainly deserves criticism.

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262
Ask HN: Code walkthrough tools that allow you to do step by step annotation?
Looking for prior art on anything that does any kind of code walk-through.

Go's "codewalk" is one I'm aware of but I have vague distant memories of other similar tools in Show HN.

So HN, remember any?
If you knew ahead of time the fields that the user wanted to load, by all means do a join and load the data ahead of time. This would work great for RESTful APIs... but the issue with GraphQL is that you don't know ahead of time which fields the user will request, so lazy-loading the data provides efficiency without upfront knowledge of what the user will request.
Sloane Tea is great: https://sloanetea.com

They use biodegradeable corn starch based tea bags.
Well, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die".
8chan attracting such people despite being so small is the entire point and i can't believe i have to point that out

they want those people there

this is where they radicalize each other
Two cars, both moving forwards, can still move in different directions! So does "forwards" exist? Not as a global direction, but once you have picked an orientation it is a useful label for a distinguished axis.

Time is like that. Pick a velocity, and then time is a distinguished axis in the coordinate system you overlay on spacetime.
I'm leaning towards letting the elements of my app that need to be in Rails be in Rails, but moving the GraphQL layer to Hasura, bypassing the ActiveRecord complexity. Has anyone else taken this approach?
Patent applications are usually not written by inventors themselves. Hence, they have vague and/or prolonged language to cover the invention more.
Seems like just an ad for this time tracking software..
It's not hard to come buy examples. It costs me about $3 to ship a 4 oz package using USPS within the US. You can find items that cheap with free shipping from China on Ebay. Here's an example of one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-10oz-Hip-Flask-Stainless-Steel-Si...

(it's the sort of thing I personalize & sell myself, need to charge more than that for material costs + profit, and ship as well)
Not sure able illegal, useless maybe. Sprint couldn't compete after it merged with Nextel... I'm supposed to believe that it will this time?
I think you misspelled “hypothesis.”
Definitely into the black, caffeinated teas. Thanks!
I'd go a step further. The people behind this lawsuit, and anyone else owning a software patent, should be in jail for fraud.
Or take public transport. Just sayin'.
A Practical Guide to Setting Kubernetes Requests and Limits
People are using tech to do a lot more. 20 years ago tech was a thing you sat down at, turned on, and used to check your email, update a spreadsheet, or type up a document.

Now we're using computers and software every waking hour and using software with millions of distributed users that we expect to always show us the latest updates.

We're using phones for banking and payments, to turn our lights on and off, to keep a lifetime of family photos backed up and synced across multiple devices.

It has made things more complex, but I don't think a world of 1997 style configure-it-yourself software would necessarily help with that.
> If you are vegan, you aren't eating meat substitutes at all.

That's not my experience at all. I'm not one but I've known vegans to like various meat substitutes, from Buddhist style proteins/meals to fake-meat burgers and hot-dogs. Others don't want anything do with them.

FWIW most vegans I've met more broadly object to the use of animal products or labor too, hence it's not just steaks but leather and honey, etc.
Please make this list sortable by the columns. Thank you.
Also note that the US delivery China is paying for is from a port to a final destination. If someone is comparing from East Coast to West Coast or vice versa, they're looking at a package traveling further in the US than the Chinese one is.
If I'm understanding the article correctly, the USPS can now unilaterally set its own rates, which is a pretty substantial change from the existing system where rates were determined by the decennial negotiations you're talking about.
>I'm pretty short on money right now, so getting couple thousands for a buyout

For two years of fulltime work or are we misunderstanding?

You own 40% of this company without encumbrance and you have it in writing in an official corporate registration document filed with your government, correct. If this company is worth anything at all your 40% is worth vastly more than a couple thousand. You could sell your rights to a third party.

Also, everything the partner did, and which you did, as a registered legal partner, is owned by the company. Not by him, not by you. The company. He can not claim it is his and take it elsewhere. That would be illegal. You own 40% of the value of the software code, just as he owns 60% of the work you did.

All the endemic downvoters here should explain why for two years of full time work that brought this company to the point where it can be sold by a cofounder is only worth at most $2000 total and you yourselves (state your legal name) would be happy yourselves with the deal you are pushing to this guy.