skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Sparkle is nice to have a standard way of updating apps, it makes the user worry about updating apps because it pops up dialogs and prompts you to download and install. I would much prefer it just update things for me automatically. If at all necessary, the Chrome approach of "hey, Chrome's been updated. next time you open the app you'll get the new version".
I would love if everyone that seems to be in support of a single player system would make a mental note right now that they were in support of it, and then years later after the US moves to such a system (seems pretty likely?) they review how much it helped.

I grew up in a single payer system and I'm theoretically in support of it for the many reasons people already listed in the comments (larger negotiation position, spreading the risk to more people, because it's humane, because it removes an incentive to stay in the wrong job, etc). But while I agree with those arguments I also have a strong conviction that if such a system were to be adopted in the US, it will NOT result in better care and more efficient and overall reduce the costs in the system. Not without many other changes in other laws and even cultural changes. Just because something works in Germany for example it doesn't mean it will work in the US, there are different demographics, different mentality, different service expectations, different tax system and a largely different legal and law system. Not to mention we were just discussing a few days back about the increasing national debt and this needs to be done without increasing the deficit.
Yeah it removes a lot of the utility, though I'd say Glass wasn't an AR device really at least not in a real useful sense. To me AR requires placing the visuals tracked in the environment not just in a little display like Glass did.
Synchronous Replication Is a Trap
Not as much as they use to be from what I understand. Other providers can get right of way access via the city, but building out infrastructure is not easy and is costly and as soon as they build out the incumbent will reduce their prices low enough to not make it worth switching.

The only company that can compete with the cable company at scale is usually the local phone company.
How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
2.9 billion. Not great... not terrible.
>So, you didn't claim it as an option for the majority of shippers: which implies that you concede the main point you raised, that there are plenty of cases where shipping within the US is more expensive.

No, it doesn't imply that. For other configurations there are different programs that reduce the cost; elsewhere in this thread I pointed out that using parcel select lightweight would reduce the claimed shipping cost by a factor of 3.

My claim is that the specific examples people give tend to be wrong. I'm sure there's some exotic configurations where China ends up paying less. It's just that virtually none of the articles about the topic point to correct examples.
> I know bc sometimes it tells me it can’t update a particular app until I exit it

that's the part I find annoying. Contrast to iOS which doesn't have this problem. Obviously the model on iOS is a lot different (more restrictive backgrounding, apps are build to handle shutdown at any time), but its still a minor frustration I have with MAS.
WeWork is a cargo-cult startup
Ooohhh, you mean tags for real dogs...I wrongly assumed they meant tags to keep tabs on cheating husbands (aka "dogs")! ;-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367916
Content Manager at Confluent: https://github.com/vsyu, https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriayu/
?? I really don't understand what upset you so much about my comment.

A person falls, and nobody misses her or looks after her for three days. How is this not a problem of our current society?
My sense is that the author has never built anything.
A new protocol for money is the only way to truly change the game for people
They see the destination IP you are connecting to, usually behind one IP is only one web site. ESNI doesn't matter unless you are connecting to a site on a shared host.
That happens in SF all the time. People will see a temporary no parking sign and drive on by. Half the time, if you read it, it’s either not in effect yet or has already expired.

If there are no cars there, people assume others confirmed you can’t park there!
A relative of mine is a cop that works a stretch of I-75. He was in a high speed chase towards the end of his shift and ran out of gas about 40 miles down the road, and had to wait for another officer to bring him a gas can. not sure how this is any different.
You took someone’s painful experience with a cult and No True Scotsman’d it into a sales pitch for your religion.

There is a time and a place for everything. And for the record, having also left an evangelical cult that tried really hard to get me to hate myself because of my sexuality, I’m not too sold on any branch of Christianity at this point. The last thing I’d wanna hear after telling people about my experiences like that is “but have you tried my flavor of Christianity?”
I like them for the form factor. Bose + noise cancelling. Can I just use them as bluetooth iPhone earbuds, or do I need to have the Alexa mind-rape that comes with it?
That's the biggest reason for me not to use Siri in public, most times it never activates, when it does, often can't understand my request. Taking out phone and just a few taps is much better UX.
Are students customers or product?
Not exactly a public setting -- but in the lab, I use raise-to-activate Siri on Apple Watch for setting timers and doing basic arithmetic (e.g. "what's 3% of 42 ml?"). It's been really helpful, since I have to have gloves on at all times.
Mm, I referred to 'fluency' as a sliding scale, which I think is a thing.

But anyway, there we probably have it, your vacations as a child. No lifehacks can beat exposure to language at a young age, I guess. SAD.

Waiting for the day when some drug can trick the brain into some semblance of a kid's language learning skills.
So I am not sure. I think that startups (with all due respect) generate buzz, inversely correlated with their technical depth. So AWS is mainly composed of non tech companies.

I also think that AWS did an excellent job locking its customers, so they cannot just "leave".

The real treat here is kubernetes. If I program to kubernetes , I can, in theory, move the workload from cloud to cloud, or move the workload from on prem to cloud.

This brings actual competition to the cloud space.

The problem is how to provide all the high-level services that AWS provide, and this will have to be taken by future startups which would extend kubernetes.
Whatsapp. Slack. Any chat app with sufficient user base seems to end up with multi-billion valuation.
The absolute lowest theoretical price for having the USPS deliver a presorted parcel that my logistic network injects into the USPS delivery network as close as possible to the recipient is still more than the terminal fee China would pay USPS to take that parcel from port to recipient doorstep.

I think that's what the NPR report was getting at, with their colorful tales.
There is little evidence to support the "US consumes too much healthcare" narrative and some good evidence that our total healthcare spending is inline with our level of wealth [0]. There is quite a bit of evidence to support the "Prices for equivalent healthcare are significantly higher in the US".

[0] https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/11/19/why-everything...
Isn't this meant to work at distances an order of magnitude farther than Zigbee and Z Wave?
I support your spending as much as you want on frames. I will tell you that I get amazing frames and lenses from Zenni. Their mid-range bifocal glasses (so I can see music on the stand) were better in every way for $90 than I got from my local optician (whom I like very much) for $1,000.

Most of the glasses I get from Zenni cost about $30.
Doesn't matter what you eat. As long as you follow a simple formula you will lose weight: Calories In < Calories Out.

I can eat McDonalds everyday for a month and still lose weight.. how?

Order a small fries and a double patty cheeseburger. Eat nothing else during the entire day, drink plenty of water, and exercise for at least 30 minutes.
Maybe so, but the alternative effectively means innovation has zero value. Why would I bother researching how to make a new product when I could just copy an existing one? Oh sure, I could tweak a thing here or there to make sure it's not exactly the same, but entire R&D divisions would just be cut from most corporations if the only value to innovating was that you got there first and ended up having (at most) a year before some other company disassembled your product and recreated it, selling it just above cost. Furthermore, if this was common practice, consumers would know that waiting a while would always lead to a knock-off product being available at huge discount, so even during that initial lead time sales would be impacted.
After you're set on the general product you are building, that's fine. But consider you're trying to decide whether to build product A or B for deadline X. Which one has the largest probablity of finishing on time?

I'm not advocating having engineers estimate the completion date of their daily tasks, I'm just saying estimates aren't totally useless.

For another viewpoint that's not just mine, consider point 6 of the Joel Test, or the methodology of Evidence-Based Scheduling, also by Joel Spolsky (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...).
I drink Lipton unsweetened, as ice tea. Although, I usually prefer Tetley.
Recent studies (citations not handy) have shown that high-carb or high-fat diets don't lead to weight gain, but high-carb AND high-fat diets do (at least in mice, a big caveat).

One thing to consider is that fructose is a metabolic poison that is poorly regulated by metabolism. Fructose bypasses all of the controls that glucose is subject to and forces lipid biogenesis in the liver (by mass action for the chemists). Consuming fat and fructose is large amounts is nearly guaranteed to give you a fatty liver.

On the other hand, anyone choosing to follow an "extreme" diet is likely to be more aware of their food intake than the average person and adjust behavior in various ways.
There were more than a dozen other comments with examples when I posted my original comment, and each of those examples has supporting comments. Additionally, there is the NPR report cited in the parent confirming the disparity in shipping costs (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...). Unless you're saying the NPR got it wrong?

You linked to a price sheet for US shippers. Chinese shippers don't pay those rates. They pay Chinese shipping rates (which I can't provide an authoritative example of because they're negotiated on a vendor basis), and the terminal fee. In many cases, China Post covers the terminal fee and/or all shipping costs for strategic regions, such as for vendors located in Special Economic Zones.

The important thing though is that the terminal fee for Chinese shippers is lower than the lowest postal fee for US shippers.
Yes, exactly. That mechanism must be non-obvious. My suggestion is that if I pose the problem meant to be solved to a random group of professionals and they quickly come up with the mechanism for solving it that an applicant is attempting to patent, then that mechanism is very likely obvious.

Take as an example the "Drinking Bird." Imagine the inventor has applied for a patent. You get some materials engineers and a physicist or something in a room, describe a device which resembles a bird and continuously sips water, and ask them to devise a way to build it in a few hours. If they describe a bulb full of dichloromethane with a tube leading up to a beak, then it's not patentable.
Snapchat may be “stealing” (monetizing) users' emotions
I consider myself a seasoned dieter (meaning I can manipulate my weight +/-10kg fairly easily). Over at least a dozen weight cuts/bulks, the most effective practice I've found is writing a meal plan, and writing down everything you put in your mouth.

Many people have started losing weight just by doing this - without actively changing their diet. It has a really profound subconscious impact on what/how much you put in your mouth.

The psychological/hormonal aspect of food is fascinating.
Where did I say they created a crime? Perhaps your lust for viewing mass murder in real-time must be slaked by 8chan, but I have no such interest. Nor should it be the go to place to encourage or host such content. Stop being obtuse.
In terms of really literally interpreting this article... please do make sure not to park (or allow to be parked) really shifty cars in your lot. If a car has dust on it so deep that a passing leaf leaves its story on it then the lot gets a sketchy feeling.

Also, psychology is weird... if there are a bunch of spots near to your business pick one reasonably close but always leave the best one for customers - if there are cars parked close to the entrance but the best spot is open then customers will walk in with a bit of a buzzing high from managing to nab the primo spot. Aaaand if there is a tree that drops crap during spring/fall, park under it so no customer gets stuck with sap on their car since that can colour their entire interaction.

Isn't psychology fun!
How to diagnose demotivation: the 3 components of motivation
2 months ago, when I last browsed kik, I saw many publicly accessible groups in the browser with titles like "15+ sexy rp"
It stands to reason that for every WhatsApp conversation they'd have access to:

- who is communicating with whom,

- dates, times, and durations,

- method (text / voice / video),

- amount of data transferred,

- type of attachment if applicable, and

- location of each device,

along with unique device identifier, and perhaps other information.

See the Privacy International report[0] or video[1] on how much data FB glean from on other apps that merely use the Facebook SDK, each time an app that uses it it opened for a clue... how much more will they want from a service they paid billions for?

[0]: https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-androi...

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...
After reaching speeds of 120MPH before it got "dangerous".
"interstate ... Scotland"

Where are you based?!
Agreed. I get high index 1.74 by Seiko Optics. They're incredible with the most durable coating I've ever found.

People who've only gotten cheap glasses/lenses don't even know how important it is. I get my frames from DITA (www.dita.com) and they've lasted me 5+ years, never bend, warp, etc. Lenses get replaced every 2 years.
Chrome update causes reboot failure in older macs
I think that the same is true for hearing aids.
I'm challenging it as nonspecific, unhelpful name-calling.

What is the difference between "processed" and "cooked" food?

Can you really draw a non-arbitrary line between the two?

Does it just have to be cooked by someone else? Are there techniques which are kosher and are just "cooked" while others make it "processed"? Is it a set of ingredients which make the distinction?

Does baking soda make a food processed? Sodium citrate? Soy lecithin?

Could you go through Modernist Cuisine and classify each recipe as "processed" or not?
I hate how they have this "Hold Command-Q to quit.' FUCK that.
The wait time for cancer treatment for the poor in Australia is the same as the rich, whereas the wait time in the US for the poor is "have you made funeral arrangements?"

Having had a family member just go through the Australian health system for breast cancer, her treatment was on a time-scale of a few weeks, but she had the time and was being checked often. In the US, we'd be making funeral plans and bucket lists because they'd not be able to afford treatment.
In Europe/ETSI domains it's the 868MHz band.
> days before the April 1 planned roll out.
Please don't launch actual software on April 1st.
The students pay so they are the customers. The product is the degree.
Yes, enjoyable and good ideas. I feel like I've been on that "project" before. You do a bunch of work, dig into things and then discover a simple answer that, in hindsight, could have been applied immediately and made all the investigation irrelevant.

Usually out of pride or the sunk cost fallacy (or something like it) I'll convince myself there was no other way the problem was going to be solved. Either way the next time around I spend just a little bit longer trying to think of an easy way out.
People with small bluetooth speakers strapped to their head blasting music for everyone to hear... great.
I'm not sure there is really a viable route back. A lot of the traditions and ecosystem that worked before may not be there.

I believe it's more that just the oral tradition. The small insular nature of the communities is also lost and I don't believe the traditional approach would scale to the large urban centres they find themselves in.
They also work with the existing phone voice controls.
I’m reluctant to google; what’s that mean?
If you advocate for the club-line effect to draw in customers so it seems popular. You’re probably the kind of person who falls for that sort of thing.
This general statement is far short of currently being a general norm.

But his argument stands if it is being pushed as a norm, with attempts to either formally enshrine this as a norm or policies that make it easier to enforce as a norm.

... and that just appears to be straightforwardly true in the university system. The quibbles are as to how effective and widespread such a push is.
> Sweet things like muffins or cakes are generally unbearably sweet

It didn't used to be like this. Back forty years ago, muffins and cupcakes were pretty different things. Now it's just a matter of how much frosting is on the top.
Oracle? Yikes.
I'm simply stating a fact, not an opinion. Wasn't trying to spark a debate.
A recent Chrome update shipped with a bug that damages the file system on MacOS machines with System Integrity Protection (SIP) disabled, including machines that do not support SIP. The bug affects MacOSX 10.10 and older. Symptoms include that the Admin account can no longer be accessed, with reboot halting and shutting down the computer.
Santana Row is fascinating. It looks to me like it was manufactured to please the "traditional" rich crowd. The people going there are very distinct than the typical engineers of Silicon Valley.

That's why the trick of parking a nice car on a street wouldn't work in SF, Palo Alto or Mountain View.
Facebook Horizon Is Social VR Inspired by Second Life. That Could Be a Problem
My comment was calling out the NPR for repeating an incorrect claim, yes.

Yes, Chinese shippers pay different rates. NPR claimed to ship a mighty mug across the street for a US shipper would cost $6.30, when the actual cost would be about a third of that.
It could never be worse than VR Chat.

(as far as trolls go, I mean. I love VR Chat)
Facebook is mapping the planet to create a foundation for its AR glasses
Sorry but it’s hard for me to believe an app with so many users is just going to close down for a reason that’s largely tangential to the strength of its core business.

It’s much more likely this is a ploy to get the SEC or other litigating parties to settle for a smaller amount.
How are you not valued ? You yourself said you get 145k TC, is that not valued ? What have you done to deserve to be on the NYTimes or other papers. If you want more accomplishments and recognition then work harder instead of complaining.
Everything old is new again, the crack epidemic was fueled by the CIA[0] and they killed one of the whisteblowers (Gary Webb) and the FBI has recently been involved with the Jeffrey Epstein cover up[1]. Those institutions have little to none accountability which makes them extremely attractive to the wealthy to put them in their pockets; and even when those institutions have the best intentions such lack of checks and accountability sometimes makes them equal or worst than the criminals they aim for.

[0] https://www.globalresearch.ca/crack-and-the-contras-how-the-...

[1]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fbi-is-involved-in-jeffre...
>In my opinion, the best yardstick for a health care system is how long you have to wait to be treated for cancer.

To quote a famous movie: well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion.

Why would the wait time (and not treatment outcome, or rate of occurrence) for one group of diseases be a good metric for evaluating the overall performance of a healthcare system?

In my opinion, it's a horrible metric. To give a car analogy, the 0 to 60 time in snow while towing is surely a metric, but there are other things to consider as well when you are buying a vehicle.

>[Canadians] come to the US because they have an expensive potentially fatal medical condition, and they might not survive a six month waiting period for treatment.

A lot to unpack here! But, first, the TL;DR is no[1].

More specifically:

1)Cite sources on people and England and Canada having six-month waiting period on cancer treatments in cases where urgent intervention is deemed necessary ("might not survive").

2)Look at the number of those cases.

3)Compare and contrast with similar cases in the US when people don't get treated because they don't have the money.

4)Look at the numbers again.

5)Look at how many Canadians do come to the US (in absolute numbers, as a percent of the Canadian population, and as a percent of patients seeking the particular treatment).

6)Stop perpetuating misleading opinions.

I won't cite the numbers - that's your homework when making bold claims. I found the numbers hard to find, which means to me that your claims are likely not substantiated.

I'll be glad to be proven wrong here.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/10/...
That is awful.
hentai - pornographic manga and anime.

"ecchi" is Japanese for the English letter "H", standing for "hentai", which means perverted or strange.
No, getting cheaply made crap even cheaper is bad for the American people because it drives out competing cheap but high-quality US- and Canadian-made products.

And that is the primary reason that China subsidizes shipping costs for Chinese manufacturers: to drive foreign competitors out of business until only China is left.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloud...
> this could be all or most of their margin.

For that particular stay, yes. But it increases the likelihood that the customer will come back and, perhaps more importantly, tell everyone they know about how awesome the place is. It's hard to see how this wouldn't work out to a net positive in the longer run.
You would also need a new version of LLVM.
What an unpleasant host experience!

What level of vetting does your friend do with accepting guest reservations? Do they communicate with the guest before allowing a reservation? Or was it a “reserve now at this price” deal? The more experienced Airbnb hosts usually check a guest’s subjective “rating” (via previous host’s comments) and their rental history.
That's the problem -- good enough sound can actually be had with headphones that cost a lot less. What they want is "snob value", admit it. ;-)

Can you provide a link to the measurement done by "tons of outlets"? Thank you!
Off-topic, but pretty crazy that the timestamp of that blog post doesn't appear until the end, so you can be reading an article from 2016 and not immediately know that this was a few years ago.
Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People
It does matter what you eat. Not in the sense of "calories in, calories out" - which, as you mentioned, is simple biology.

But it is important in the sense of "which diet is easiest to follow?".

That will vary person to person. But for many people, the answer is low-carb/intermittent-fasting. It eliminates the blood sugar/hormonal response, requires less effort than regular eating, and still lets you eat palatable food.