skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

I can't use Amazon's FBA to ship one package cheaper than I could myself.

End, low-volume customers in China can get packages shipped to the US cheaper than I can myself as an end, moderate-volume shipper in the US.
That's not at all a low blow. It's pointing out one of the many signaling methods this conman used to swindle investors "look at me, I make no sense because I'm so unconventional..."

It's crazy to me that a forum full of the self proclaimed intellectual elites can't get the meaning of that sentence without a full blown explanation.
Prolog has 402 claimed jobs: https://codelani.com/languages/prolog.html but looking at any Prolog implementation lists 0. I cannot imagine that there are this many (available?) Prolog jobs in the world, nor that no advertised job would specify the implementation the company uses. I think the numbers are generated using some sort of garbage in, garbage out system.
Hackintosh killer?
They put it out for free because they make money on ads. Publishers don't mind Google reading the the content on their page, but don't like Google republishing their content on search results page and keeping the ad revenue. This has nothing to do with net neutrality.
>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

It is unfortunately true in the US (probably everywhere) there is worse health/higher incidences of chronic conditions in the poor (mostly because all chronic conditions are diet related). However, in the US the biggest weight would be the elderly who have chronic conditions at a higher rate than any other demographic (generally due to a lifetime of poor diet combined with irregular care over their life to treat the conditions until they are Medicare), but thats the irony these are the people already covered by Government healthcare (and they seem fairly happy with it. Its time to extend it to everyone.
The writer of this article is bitter as fuck. Wow.
Really? 7 months is too long for changes to an international treaty to go into effect? Your expectations are unreasonable then. Even if you counted the preceding 12 months as well, that's 19 months for 190 countries for make changes to their postal systems-- that seems fair. And counting the 12 months is completely ridiculous anyway: There was no change yet, nothing countries could implement to accommodate the new rules. The new rules just happened: 7 months is the time frame to evaluate.

Also, this change does apply to other countries. It's right in the article: Every country has the same terms, they can set prices when they import more than 75,000 tons annually.
"when you need to bill your client, don't use our software/"

got it, thanks.
The whole point of the right to be forgotten is that they do not retain those snapshots.
It is not the Trolley Problem because the literal question is "Is it okay for someone to murder a person if they saved more than one life before?" and that is not the Trolley Problem, that is the "letting someone off the hook for present and future misdeeds based on past good acts."

It just isn't the same thing.
The Drake Equation is perfectly reasonable. You just have to interpret it as “these assumptions imply aliens” rather than “there are definitely aliens.”
Sorry, the distinction was supposed to be that state level DMVs can't securely verify someone's identity. Although they are often frustrating to deal with, it's the issue with fragmented administration that's the real problem with a DMV- each state decides the burden of proof before they give out an official "government issued ID" and most states are very lax- there is no way the DMV is Nevada is going to call up a county records office in Georgia to verify someone's birth information. A national system would be better at verifying identities.
The fact that Yahoo got bought by Verizon was the last straw for me. Started with their BS move of getting rid of YM, best ever IMO.
You don’t need to know what they will request, you know what they did request. The dataloader thing is a kludge because you never know where you’ll have to go to get data for a particular part of the tree - maybe it’s another endpoint.

Having said that, I don’t mind the second request model myself. It’s actually pretty clean and when you take the dB roundtrips out of it, the dB will generally do the same work anyway.
Google also had experimental sea cooled servers in the bay for a while. I'm not sure if they're still running that program.
I was in the same boat.
I just happened to come across a years-old forum post mentioning the `/var` symlink right before I reinstalled the OS.
Wow. I work in a 30-40 person office. My plan, which is the nicest available to us, is ~$300/month. Deductible is $1.5k single and $3k family, and I don't have any nice wellness perks like you described. Overall, I hate this plan. It will be handy if I ever get hit by a car and need lots of pricey surgery, but otherwise not so much. The price will be going up about 15% next year.
Over 4000 sq feet, three stories, mid-atlantic. I need to have an energy audit done though; it's still a lot.
I'm sure that's true, but that's because you're a low volume seller and can't get the same rates that China Post can get shipping hundreds of millions of packages. (And because you don't do the research to ship through the programs that do allow smaller volume sellers, such as flats.)

Your example in the other comment was 4 oz. The commercial rate for pre-sorted flats is $1.249. There's even lower rates if you can do higher levels of sorting and injection, cheapest is $0.936.

See https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c104 "First-Class Mail Commercial Flats (Large Envelopes)"
I manage a health plan for our smallish business of 19 employees. We offer "pretty good" health insurance, meaning, we pay around $600 per employee per month for health and dental. It gets worse every year. I am considering moving toward a HSA based plan, because upon analysis, it's actually probably better for everyone involved. The max out of pocket per year is the same, but instead of a $1000 deductible you have a $5k deductible. This works for our business (and I am assuming a bunch of other tech businesses) because our employees are generally young and in good health. It's a cheaper plan, the worst case scenario for an employee is the same, and I can give raises for the difference in price, and once every few years someone will need more than a $1k deductible, but the raise from the last couple years greatly exceeds the one time cost.

Anyway, just trying to frame my logic here, because I don't consider myself an evil employer trying to skimp on health insurance for my employees (which many I consider friends), but an employer that has to approve health plan changes annually which each increase cost by a considerable amount. If this trend continues, each employee will cost $900 a month within 5 years, and the coverage will be half as good. That's $5k a year per employee that I could put into their salaries, while not screwing anyone over on the worst case scenario.
This is absolutely the biggest story in America, and most people aren't talking about it.

An entire generation is draining their savings to keep up with premium costs.

Not to mention the millions of people locked into careers they would otherwise get out of, if not for the health coverage.

This situation is probably going to lead to unbelievable outcomes.
I was a paid subscriber for years until he started saying shit like “actually, the US giving employers control over access to healthcare is good because they can force people to work harder” and “it’s bad for China to jail ethnic populations but ok for the US because they’re good guys”.

I realized that for how insanely smart he is in analyzing business plans he ultimately worships the rich and despises collective power.

I now HN loves that kind of rhetoric but yeah, I’m not really a fan anymore.
Tough call: Goodhart's Law says yes, metrics will be gamed, but Betteridge's law says the answer is no.
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I'm pretty sure Amazon was profitable all along - it's just that the profit was all spent on expanding the business. Hence, there was no taxable profit.

Amazon was also able to make money selling products at little or no markup by taking advantage of the float. They'd collect money from the purchaser immediately, and would pay the vendor after 90 days. Then, Amazon would make interest on that money for the 90 days.

I do the same thing on a (very) small scale. I buy with a credit card, and don't have to cough up the money until the credit card bill is due. That gives me free use of the money for 30 days.

Pretty much all businesses do this, it's just that Amazon did it on a massive scale.
> Steel Bank Common Lisp, aka Steel Bank Common Lisp, is a historical programming language

I'd call it a compiler, not a language, and I've never heard it called "historical". What makes a language "historical"?

> ABCL%2Fc%2B is a historical programming language created in 1988.

Got some escaping issues here.

> Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, aka Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is an actively used programming language created in 1964. BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.

Lots of redundancy redundancy here, redundantly.

> #include <objpak.h>

I'm having a little trouble finding what this is, but it's not part of (modern) Objective-C, and this hello-world doesn't compile with Clang. It seems to be a class library that shipped with one (non-NeXT/Apple) Objective-C compiler. I don't think I've ever seen the do:{:each |...} syntax in Objective-C, either.
> I'm running 3.0.6

Btw, you should upgrade: http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2019/VLC-3.0.7-and-security
Looks amazing! Very excited for this one. Some good information here: https://cloudconfusing.com/2019/09/10/e-ink-monitors-ready-f...
How to Clear Project Confusion with a RACI Chart
How's the performance? As I recall, the way it does relationships is pretty sane as opposed to AR's defaults of N+1.
The definition of "being assertive" that I go by is to express your own needs/wants clearly. I agree that there is overlap with selfishness. That's because expressing all of your needs and wants can upset others, and you know that it's not realistic for you to have everything you might want, whenever you want it, and that to try to make that happen would mean taking from others.

However, I would say that there definitely are times when you can express what you want, and not take away anything from anyone else. I would also say that in some situations, it's a matter of protecting yourself, avoiding committing to projects you don't believe you'll be able to deliver on, for example. There are people who are not assertive, and say "yes" to everything to try and avoid upsetting others. However, they end up taking on too much and not delivering, which is harmful to others in the long term. In that case, being assertive and saying "no", might seem selfish in the long term, but is actually beneficial for everyone in the long term.
"This item does not ship to United States"
I don't know how I was supposed to infer those concerns, and your solution, from your insistence on the criterion "don't have to go to a DMV".
AWS did not become a product until Amazon had been around for several years.
That would make sense only in the context of actively fraudulent companies.

A big reason to IPO used to be to gain the liquidity necessary to scale the business. This is no longer as necessary, since private financing allows companies to get billions in funding without trading control and being beholden to what most perceive as the short term thinking of public shareholders.
No, tapes become preferable to HDDs at less than 100 TB written, not at multiple petabytes. For many applications and for many people, including for myself in my home, it makes absolutely no sense to use HDDs for anything, but only SSDs & tapes. For long term storage tape is superior in every way to HDDs, while for fast access SSDs are superior in every way to HDDs.

Obviously, because the drives are extremely expensive, whoever needs no more than 20 or 30 TB of storage cannot afford tapes and must use a few HDDs. The best storage technology changes in time. 20 years ago I was using optical disks and 10 years ago I was using HDDs, but since I went back to tapes, like I was previously using 30 years ago, I have saved a lot of money and I have much less worries about the HDDs becoming defective.
These old systems I see at gov and enterprise customers are rarely replaced when no one maintains them, they are held running by small miracles and large stitches. In many non-tech large organizations there are too many legacy systems for anyone to consider replacing them all. Go visit a large hospital near you and start counting how many XP machines they have as control systems and how many access applications they use to register maintenance schedules of those systems. Ever wondered about the OS version of the systems monitoring the water quality in your neighborhood?
Until the point the company you work for makes millions or hires more than 1000 CTO is just hype title (of course some CTO's will argue). It's business role, not tech role. If you think CTO is tech then you are thinking tech leader, not CTO... I have had the privilege to see real CTO at work, he was leading organisation of 100000 tech employees. From the perspective of time I can tell you that at the time I did not understand a thing of what he was doing and in my lack of humbleness I thought I knew better.

As business role you need business skills, but above all experience and connections. You won't learn how to deal with people or make good connections by writing lines of code, you have to manage people to acquire this skill. And on this level you have to deal with politics and I believe this is even more difficult to get right...
What do you mean by competent, and what are you looking to get out of the job?

Once you define those, you should be better positioned to determine if the company and the founder are a good fit for you.
This looks like a neat idea but I’ve haven't gotten it to connect on two WiFi networks or T-Mobile LTE. The one thing which could explain that is it showing me as having 0MB of WARP+ but there’s no way I’m paying before I can test it and it seems pointless if it requires the network provider to enable it.
Amazon creates an alliance to demand voice assistant compatibility
There are different types of inefficiency and being inefficient in one area might be worth the trade off to be efficient in another. Also, multiple dB queries really aren’t the end of the world.
They really should offer the employee the option to take the benefit in cash instead of getting the health insurance then you could barter with the healthcare centers. The health insurance and healthcare centers(hospitals/clinics) are a cartel and the only way to bring down prices is through competition and that doesn't happen when you give an arbitrary amount of your paycheck to a clandestine insurance agency that has dubious relationships with the hospitals.
Lol, no it's: When you need to bill you're client, decrease granularity to include non-coding tasks. WakaTime is a very accurate log of the time you were typing, it's just one part of what you should bill for.
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A 3500hp diesel engine will burn around 197gal (745L) of fuel per hour.

One gallon of diesel when burned makes around 10.336kg of co2. So each turbine is preventing around 2 tons per hour of co2 emissions. Could be as much as 5 tons if it is replacing coal.

Apologies for use of freedom units; habits are hard to break.

https://barringtondieselclub.co.za/technical/fuel/diesel-fue...
So far it has been tried but both registrars and DNS resolvers have resisted such censorship attempts unless it has been law enforcement and even then it has been local.
Seems like this thing is going to be impossible to find. Any tips on tracking one down?
The US hasn't had compulsory private insurance up until about 10 years ago. Before that costs were going up even faster[1]. Even then if your employer is providing your health plan the amount of "shopping around" you can do is limited - most companies have 2 or 3 options (a PPO, an HMO and something with an HSA). This leaves only the uninsured (i.e. the poor) or previously uninsurable (pre-existing conditions) in the actual open private insurance marketplace. It's not surprising that premiums there will be crazy high and it's not really that close to being the Swiss model.

> our problem is something other than the payor model

I partially agree with that - the payer model is one facet among many. There are other problems with healthcare in the US. Hospitals can veto opening of competing hospitals in the area, complex billing, not enough residency spots leading to a shortage of doctors, whatever the F is happening with prescription drugs etc. GP was only asking for alternatives to employer healthcare though.

1. https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs...
Why did you not find it interesting enough?

After you got the PMP - did more recruiters start approaching you for PM roles?!
What factors influence the amount of calories used and taken in (not just eaten)? That's the question, and the answer is hardly rudimentary.
The same way you audit Comcast, Verizon, Starbucks, etc. This is changing who you trust from many to a single provider but not otherwise removing the need for legal reform.
Well, you should leave the good parking slots for your consumers. Better yet: park in front of your competitor! :-)
Yes, quite often in fact. On older motherboards, often the only problem is something benign like a blown capacitor, which is a few cents at the hardware store and a few minutes labor to desolder the old and attach the new. It's a really common part to wear out due to heat stress, and it manifests as funky logic problems, since the caps are mostly there to clean up the line noise. I've saved a few flatscreen monitors this way, that were flickering and unusable; I'll take a $5 handful of parts over a new $179 monitor any day of the week.
There's two proven paths to do this on different ends of the spectrum.

The first is single payer which has proven implementation and is able to lower costs by directly controlling prices.

The second is what Switzerland does which is where much of the inspiration for the ACA came from, except every single person would be required to buy from the exchanges rather than using some employer program. The ACA failed to properly acknowledge the negotiation power of certain large employers who often have large numbers of healthy young employees and have a deep understanding of their own risk pool, leaving the ~3% of people who use the exchanges paying more simply because they are a higher health risk population. Additionally, the ban/tax on "cadillac" plans absolutely needs to go into effect as it's an important mechanism for controlling costs in a market health insurance solution, as in demand doctors could just require patients have said cadillac plans that pay out more.

There are handfuls of solutions in the middle of this, but they generally involve the government controlling prices to a certain degree, but only single payer would be effective at both bringing costs down and insuring more people, as you absolutely have to create short term shortages in order to solve both problems at once.
My concern with 'fruity flavors' is the molecular diversity. Many of these compounds are considered safe for human consumption (edible) but under-researched when vaporized an inhaled, which has the potential for formation of novel unexpected compounds, especially in heterogenous solutions.

I think the risk from these compounds is likely an order of magnitude less than the risks of cigarette smoking, and these risks will decrease as we get more data on longer-term use for these compounds.

I read one study that found benzene formation in vapor from higher-watt devices, but not in lower ones. I think using minimum necessary power is a good harm mitigation measure until more data comes in, that would likely help with flavors as well.

Seems like stringent labeling requirements for vape juice would be a cheap win for regulators and consumers. Give us an MSDS with the exact constituents.
Poorly, it seems.
> Getting insurance as an individual is expensive because you’re not part of a group plan.

I see people say this constantly. Insurance by definition is literally always a "group plan"—everyone who buys insurance is in the same group. That's literally the point of insurance. It's why it exists. That's what it is. That is fundamentally how insurance works. All insurance, in every category, of every type. There are no exceptions.

Insurance always pools risk across all payers (everyone is in the "group"), and then you expect only a fraction (but we don't know which fraction, of course) to require a payout in any given payment period.

If you're selling something that doesn't work like that, then it's not insurance—by definition.
I'm currently working on relegating the Rails app to the API, 95% of queries will be handled by elasticsearch, if it makes sense to make a GraphQL client, I will. Most of our searches are pre-defined, we're using elasticsearch mainly for boosting and relevance score, autocomplete, and having a unified search across a bunch of different installations such as a rails app, wordpress and a few others.
OpenCL also adopted C++. I don't think language choice really played any significant role.
> No, because they won't be able to raise enough capital to cover startup costs when investors know that the dominant player can just price dump long enough to starve any new company out.

For the larger company to do that, their losses would be correspondingly larger. This is why it's pretty hard to find a case history of this strategy being successful.
I was born into a charismatic Christian cult and escaped in my early 20s, left to pick up the pieces of a completely shattered world view. No one in my life, at that point, really understood the internal turmoil I was in. This piece in particular and, in general, all of the Demon Haunted World couldn't have come at a better time for me. It gave me the tools I needed to overcome a lot of the biases and crazy charismatic thought patterns that were established at a very early age. I will forever be indebted to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan for making my life a lot more bearable and for helping me out of the existential quagmire I was stuck in.
I wrote this post for contractors who already use WakaTime, to raise awareness of the timeout feature.
I wonder if the high prices for outbound international mail is an attempt to offset the losses on inbound mail from countries like China. If so, we might see better outbound rates after this goes into effect.
Oh man, it's made me a god damned jedi master of doing that. I'll jump through all the hoops and contortions to avoid a really direct contradiction. I think I'm actually pretty good at getting to consensus as a byproduct of stubborn "must be right" and avoidant "must be liked."
No, that's reasonable. Look at is this way: the modal category of authors is the group that has published one paper. The next-largest group published two. And so on.

It's a very very small overall percentage of authors that publish more than one paper per year!
The Drake Equation doesn't imply anything about the number of aliens in the universe, you can get any answer you want by putting in values for each of the factors.