skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We Built a $2M/Year Business Selling Barbecue Tools
The wait time thing is a total canard. Countries like Canada do have long wait times for things that do not require immediate attention. As an example, often you make your appointment for a physical a year in advance. And then, people who like to twist the facts into a false narrative point to the "year long wait time" to get a physical. Nonsense.
I think you'll end up in one of two scenarios there. Either a) the devs and product owner will assume a bunch of the "management roles" as they self asses priorities and choose which issues/tasks to do next, or b) they will choose issues and tasks without any regard for "management roles".

a) May work, depending on the maturity of the dev team (not naively measured by age or years of experience, although both those have some significant correlation to "maturity" in this sense) - and their alignments with the client requirements. This is certainly something I've seen work with remarkable speed and success with the right team solving a problem they understand and are motivated to get right.

b) is likely top result in only "interesting" tasks getting done and "shiny new thing" architectural decisions and "resume driven development" happening - and client needs and expectation remaining unmet.

Devs like to look down on "management" as a role, probably deservedly so given how much "bad management" is on display across the industry. But great management is just as much a "super power" for a team as having a great tech lead. The "10 x" dev myth has at least a basis in reality, there is without doubt the same kind of mythical unicorn manager also based in reality - people who's ability to multiply the effectiveness of they team is real and powerful.
I assume OP did not choose 4000 randomly, it is meant to be a _high_ number (about 2x what an average person needs). Implying that you could eat twice as much calories and stay lean _if the calories came from bacon_.
And Medicare costs are lower than private healthcare. OP just seems to be arguing that it's not low enough?
EyeBuyDirect is owned by Essilor, which merged with Luxottica last year.
A primary point of a lock is to keep people from acting impulsively. Consider these scenarios, ordered by decreasing likelihood of "yes, you would peek your head in" — or "yes, you would slip in and steal something":

If your neighbor leaves their door open, do you peek your head in out of curiosity?

If your neighbor leaves their door unlocked, do you open the door and peek your head in out of curiosity?

If your neighbor locks their door with a combination of 1234, do you open the combination lock, open the door, and peek your head in out of curiosity?

If your neighbor locks their door with a radio-frequency lock, do you install an app to capture their lock signal and replay it later, open the door, and peek your head in out of curiosity?

None of these protect against a determined attacker, but they absolutely do protect against impulsive "low risk, high opportunity" actions.
Wow.

People are ridiculous about cryptocurrencies and the SEC's authority to regulate securities (and decide what a security is).

To have an enormously engaged platform with a moderation problem and a cryptocurrency with an SEC problem and to pick the SEC problem is ...

I'm sorry for the workers, their families, and their investors that they're losing their jobs and the work they put into the platform will just be gone because the founders have dreams about money laundering and securities fraud (and delusions about labeling what they are doing as something else).
You don't necessarily need to go to Japan, there are a couple of different Japanese brands of titanium frames and most high-end glasses stores will have at least one. I've got a pair of Waza frames, and as you say: expensive, but highly recommended. They're basically weightless.
I agree, was curious so did some digging and found the results interesting.

In addition to lower concentration, I'd imagine the mollusk and tobacco wine wouldn't have been as palatable as contemporaneous whiskey, but I'm not a fan of seafood in general so YMMV. Sounds like indigenous peoples in temperate climates tended to only use alcoholic beverages ceremonially rather than multiple-times-daily of colonists.
Taught my GF the basics of open-source. Now she is creating an open city design
I spun up a trial instance just for fun, and indeed, it's as easy and fool-proof as it sounds. This is something where some one can run some google dorks for the right forum and throw results into a twenty-line script.

Interestingly enough, it appeared as though google somehow sanitized the dork proposed in the actual post to return few to no forums, at least when I checked this morning. Checking now from a different IP returns a lot more; very weird.

The actual post to seclists for reference: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/31

Also, why on God's green earth to devs put version numbers so obviously in the software? For instance, on my web servers, I always turn off version number and platform, so an attacker can't easily go hunt down vulns from scraping the web. It seems as though it would be wise to make no version numbers that easily accessible the default.
> Similarities don't mean anything

...beyond the similarities themselves, that is.

> It's the differences that count to distinguish things

By definition. But then again, if I'm comparing the impact of two dictators, it's probably not helpful to point out that they had different hair colors.

I think what you're really saying is that in a particular context, some properties are relevant, and others aren't. There's no point in pointing out that irrelevant properties are shared, but equally there's no point in pointing out irrelevant properties that are different.

In other words, people just have to be clear about what they're talking about.
Lawful Evil, so to speak.
Aw this didn't mention orthogonal array sampling, another sampling technique aimed specifically at ensuring good distribution in higher dimensions: https://cs.dartmouth.edu/~wjarosz/publications/jarosz19ortho...
My genral experience is that self control is the issue. Short term we are willing/able to complete tasks with out supervision but long term we start to take short cuts to the point that eventually all work becomes subpar without supervision and QA.

What I suspect would happen that for a short time you would see no changes but little by little productivity would wane until someone would need to step in and set the system back in to a productive system again.

So, no software will not ship without proper management.
Yes, James Tanton’s exploding dots are more or less a counting board turned into a pencil (or whiteboard marker) & eraser tool, with more focus on concepts than practical calculation. Personally I find moving counters around to be easier than drawing and erasing little dots. YMMMV.

Having base ten arithmetic split into 5 × 2 (as was done historically) is convenient for practical use, but does slightly complicate the concept. Having a single number base as Tanton does makes explanations a bit simpler.

It’s nice how Tanton shows that counting boards can be used with alternative rules to represent more advanced/abstract systems of calculation. We can make up counting boards for doing complex arithmetic, working in other number fields, working with formal polynomials, working with binary logic, ...

Modern computer registers/memory aren’t much different than a (very large) counting board. When we combine a basic counting board with a human operator, we have a Turing-complete computing machine.
An old adage, “only guilty people talk”. Shut up , don’t say anything and you’ll probably walk.
I sincerely do not get what you mean? Obviously I have said something unpleasant or tone deaf, but that was not my goal and I would certainly appreciate you telling me what sounded bad. As for your assumption about me: I am not spiritual, but I do find Christian philosophy and Jesus's teachings to be good and try to follow them.
Does that realistically make a difference? The only difference between selling it for $x or leasing it for $(x/3) (assuming GP's proposition to dramatically reduce the term), is whether they want exclusivity, whether they can back out of a lease early), and who shoulders the costs of defending it. At that point you've made little difference to how patents affect the industry, you've just increased the administration for the inventor.
Yes, there are many types of “manipulatives”, and they have value as pedagogical tools, but most of them tend to be rather slow and ineffective practical tools, unlike an abacus (of either the counting board or sliding bead varieties) which is as or more efficient than pen and paper, or a slide rule, which is more efficient.
People like to point to malpractice and lawyers and blame it all on that. Every actual study I've read totals the cost of tort liability (insurance, law suits, damages, etc.) at about 5% of total health care spending. Significant to be sure, but not the bogey man people like to make it out to be.
> this is just the first time code has been contributed for the open source version of Graal, because previously it was an Enterprise-only feature in that compiler.

Is the Enterprise-only implementation different from what has been contributed to the open source version?
I also used to assume it was a field full of highly intelligent people, but when I told this to my cousin who is a doctor he laughed and said something to the effect of "The medical profession selects for mediocrity", and went on to point out that being a doctor is a fairly rote profession; most of their work does not involve creative problem solving or critical thinking. It is a very challenging profession in terms of having to learn an enormous body of material, work grueling hours in dangerous and unpleasant environments, and deal with customers who are definitionally unhappy to be your customer. But it's a set of challenges that a fairly wide portion of the population can rise to.
Stylo (Rust rewrite of CSS engine) shipped for Android in Firefox 60, released in 2018. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
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Is there an advantage of keeping the port micro-usb? I am very surprised that in 2019 Amazon is still making devices that don't have usb-c. It's become a huge selling point for me personally.
Here's a quick list of common HN comments about Facebook announcements so that we can get them out of the way and actually discuss this product announcement:

1. I don't use Facebook.

2. It's been X years since I deleted my Facebook account.

3. Facebook is a threat to democracy/society/open web/news

4. Something something stealing/selling/sharing data.

5. Something something tracking users.

Reminds me of reading the comments on any article about Microsoft on Slashdot 20 years ago.
It must drive Amazon and Apple crazy that each has what the other needs. Amazon has a voice assistant that works perfectly, but doesn't have a device ecosystem so it can't have access to any of the data it needs to be truly useful (your calendar, email, etc.). Apple has the device ecosystem, but Siri is hot garbage. It's an interesting dilemma.
> “Zerodium customers were aware of it since 3 years.”

This is why we can't have nice things. Zerodium, thanks for being honest, but services such as yours are actively making the internet a worse place.
I give credit for an interesting product idea, but requiring a nearby cellphone makes it much less compelling than an Apple Watch with a data plan. Something like Amazon’s ring but with its own cell data plan and a lot of work put into voice only UIs might be a great product. Still, for now, a watch that can be a replacement for carrying a phone hits the sweet spot for me.
> I see the opposite happen all the time in software development.

The software development world is plagued with the idea that developer productivity and happiness comes before all other considerations. Can you imagine a car manufacturer building something that get's 2 mpg but excusing it with "but it was quicker to build"? Yet we have electron.
When I last used it (years ago) there was a neat plugin that'd let you use it as a commenting system for a WordPress blog. Every blog post would get a new thread in a particular forum, and people could comment in both places.
Not sure why you've been downvoted here, you are completely correct. Bose's noise canceling is good, but everything else they build is really quite poor acoustically. This isn't really even up for much debate as it's pretty easy to demonstrate the awful frequency response of the vast majority of their products. They are a bit of a poster child for marketing over technical merit, the MongoDB of speakers really.
Apple keeps recordings for 2 years, how long does Amazon keep theirs?
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AMD Ryzen 9 3950X’s delayed until November due to unsatisfactory clock speeds
But that's the return (net margin, not gross cost that the insurance company is adding to the whole system). You have to look at gross, which is way higher (~5x).
Bierdeckel – A simple telegram bot for debts management
This article is on fire. I got a particularly good laugh out of this bit:

>> Dimon is a mediocrity who essentially got lucky his bank was too slow to get in on the subprime scam in 2006; he then used his bank’s incompetence at getting into the bubble as justification for how prudent he was.

I have never heard this theory floated. But to say JPM failed because it didn't fail like all the other banks is the most contorted sort of logic you can find anywhere...
Thanks, I didn’t know that existed. That may work.
Nim's author on v1 launch: Personal words about version 1
It's strange to me that they pointed out Domain Driven Design without any mention of CQRS (which isn't strictly linked to DDD, but is commonly associated) or how Graphiti would help with some of the pitfalls of CRUD-based APIs. In fact, earlier in the post they point out that the built in "verb" links feature only works with CRUD, and all of there examples are CRUD based.
Correcting people is good but please be polite when doing so.
I imagine that at its scale, CF could legitimately claim technical limitations prevent them from collecting data at the volume of traffic that 1.1.1.1 gets.
Yeah, they're actually going to reduce burn by 85%, have an elite 19 person team, and fight the SEC in court. Seems pretty bold actually.
That’s because it’s such a massive example of a systematic corporate private capital failure that was bailed out by equally massive public power while regular people were left on the hook.

No other industry has gotten that kind of bailout that far into supposed maturity.
All too often "cost center" is used to mean "anything except sales and marketing".
This isn't a bad analogy actually.
Probably easier to just try the whole bag of exploits
This is not even a US specific issue. Vancouver, BC has a serious problem with (heroin, meth, cocaine) addicts and property crime. Theft from vehicles and from vehicles in supposedly "secure" underground parking garages is epidemic. No bicycle worth more than 50 dollars is safe locked in public, no matter what kind of lock it has on it.
> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people.

This is what happens with corporate healthcare plans already, those costs get past onto the consumer (middle to upper middle class) and they pay a hidden healthcare tax on every purchase.
Ok. That is still more than 0. And it will continue to be 0 whether interest rates rise or fall in the future. And you missed the other point about how they actually move gift card liabilities to assets after a certain about of time because people forget about balances, so it’s actually negative.

I think it’s a bit naive to think that holding $1.6b in balances is not useful or meaningful to Starbucks or a company hoping to emulate their mobile wallet success.
> There are just as many counterfactuals to this strategy as there are examples. The scooter market is an especially bad - there is so much capital from so many companies - if you were trying to establish monopolies that would be a bad bet.

That's not a counterfactual. The fact that the strategy wasn't executed in this market, or was poorly executed, or was executed by too many people, doesn't mean it's not a strategy. It's just a strategy that is imperfect.
US House passes bill to protect cannabis industry access to banks, credit unions
Yeah, my first thought was, "what is 4chan's electronics board like?" There are definitely no electronics within the first 5 pages.
What does an IPO have to do with whether a platform is social?

From your analysis, it almost sounds like HN is more social than the behavior-hacking money machines. The big companies might own the most commonly used social media, but that hardly means their model is the only one.
Here’s a book about the subject, but it focuses as much on specific counters in museums and collections as it does on their usage, https://amzn.com/0907498000
So, the affected function, in includes/vb5/frontend/controller/bbcode.php was:

function evalCode($code) {
ob_start();
eval($code);
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output;
}

... So anyone who looks at a codebase for eval would have found this. There is no doubt in my mind that when some people have claimed that this has been around for years... That it has definitely been around for years.

And as the fix is:

// comment out. idk what it breaks but it's a fix for now
//eval($code);

I don't think anyone even knows what the hell that eval was doing there in the first place.
Here's hoping that nobody named Ted Faro is involved.
Not a GNOME user so I have no idea what the GNOME foundation gets up too, what sort of controversial things have they funded in the past?
For a start I'd expect such an individual to take responsibility to not misrepresent the available facts. If there were accusations that turned out wrong I'd expected the corrected record to be offered prominently unless something else is requested explicitly. And I do not think googles algorithms can perform that level of content curation. Maybe accidentally by proxy, like e.g. due to an increased recency bias. But this isn't really what I want either...
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> > An argument based on false premise is false.

> That is just wrong.

It is completely backwards, in fact. An argument of the form of P -> C (if premise, then conclusion) is (vacuously) true if P is false, regardless of the conclusion.
> > In practice ISPs are the almost universally reprehensible in how they collect, track, and sell your data

> ... in your country.

In my country, they are legally required to be reprehensible in those ways...

Yay Australia... :-/

(Where I'm pretty sure my VPN use puts me own a list. Another list...)
> BUT: I think the real reason I'm slowly losing weight on a vegan diet is the simple fact that eating a restricted diet (ANY restricted diet) requires you to think about and analyze absolutely everything that enters your mouth.

SO true. It's all about altering those marginal decisions that add up to something noticeable.
> The problem is that there is not a single reason that healthcare is so expensive.

I'm recently fond of saying that the ultimate root cause of all suffering is greed.

If you follow the money, I'm sure that is exactly what you'll find.
I live in a city with population of about 15 million people, and for some time we had bakeries, claiming in print that they wouldn't serve f###### (anti-gay slur). Not sure if they're still around, but quite sure I don't like letting businesses discriminate whomever they'd like to.
> Sailing is by nature a hobby of the already affluent.

You're talking about a single student admitted at a school that has an active sailing program and then making a huge extrapolation from it about MIT catering to the "elite at the expense of everyone else".

Also, the sailing program at MIT is tiny little sailboats. The kind that any middle-class person can rent for reasonable rates if they live near a big enough body of water. E.g., the Charles River. We're not talking about yachts for the rich here.

MIT doesn't exist to maximize fairness. It exists to perpetuate itself and to provide a beneficial experience to its students. (Which includes having a diverse student body.) Since it has a sailing program, having a good sailing program is good for MIT's students.

I don't know what school you went to, but MIT is actually quite challenging, and, unlike Harvard, has resisted grade inflation. MIT does do a lot to help students graduate, however. E.g., you can easily change majors if the one you originally chose is not suited to you. And you can come back 20 years later and finish, should you not graduate on time.

But I'll give you one example of how MIT compares to the typical school: I had a visiting Psycholinguistics professor from some big university in Arizona. (I don't remember which one.) It was the easiest class at MIT I ever took. I mean, really, really easy.

The professor was impressed by us MIT students, however, because, according to her, she could make the class much more difficult than she would usually teach it, and we could still keep up.

So, at least from this one data point, it seems that psychology and linguistics majors at a typical college would not be able to handle MIT.
Somewhere, there is a Japanese news website with the headline "Marksmanship taught in American schools".

Yes, this is true in a sense but it is definitely hyping up the "mysterious Japan" angle.
Just logged in to say thank you for maintaining my favorite browser bromite. :)
You say that as if spell check isn't a Hard Problem...
Also, talk about putting all your eggs in one basket. Over-extending like that is a good way to become a slave to jobs you actually hate just to afford a lifestyle you forced upon yourself.

Obviously some people thrive in that situation. But sounds naive to not realize how few people can or want to take that gamble.
The official NHS target for cancer treatment is that patients should get it within a month of the decision that it's necessary. The NHS has been missing that deadline quite a lot: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/10/nhs-england-...
> I guess the purpose was to subsidize China and other countries in order to help them develop economically,

or you can say the purpose of the subsidy was to make goods cheaper for American consumers?
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While terminating the app that gave them all of their tech credibility.
I read someone mention that French medical schools are easier to get into but the graduation rate is much more like engineering schools. About 1/2 to 2/3 of students drop out or fail. Said the result was French doctors were functionally better in general than US ones and happier.

Since I don't have any experience with French medical schools I don't know if that is true or still true.

I do have experience with US doctors and about half of them are just phoning it in every day.
They are wrong. Most of those surveys are designed by people with a very clear view of what life should be that doesn't reflect the values of less materialistic societies.

A good example is the corruption index published every year, when the US always comes out as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. We all know for a fact there's tons of corruption in this country, we just decided to legalize most of it. Doesn't mean the US can teach anything to any other country about corruption.
I did a ctrl+f for "Onavo" and got nothing, so I'm going to say it loudly and publicly: There's no such thing as a free (lunch) VPN. Sure, Cloudflare has a premium product available, but the availability of a free version (not a free trial) means that, most likely, you're not the customer - You're the product. Your data, your browsing history, encrypted though they may be, are valauable to Cloudflare.