skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your note about 'async-lock' NPM package clears up the confusion. That's used to serialize operations to external systems, with their readme showing an example with multiple Redis calls within await blocks setting the same key incorrectly.

This conversation was talking about access to variables and data within Javascript code itself. Any language is open to data races when dealing with external systems. I can see why having a `lock` construct can be helpful here, but it seems extraneous when the actual language doesn't support concurrent access and simple packages already exist. The 'async-lock' is just a wrapper around a few variables, and only works precisely because JS is already single-threaded and serialized.
Yeah, exactly: everyone should remember what it was like being a kid.
Yup, exactly. I used to call Lipton "tea broomed off the ship's hold". But fillers? That explains why it tastes like paper. It isn't the paper bag.
If I remember correctly, they did so in the early days - but should be using their own crawlers now.
Masayoshi Son’s unyielding optimism led SoftBank to overvalue WeWork
Faulty capacitors often bulge, so you can find them by visual inspection.
"Kinda" meaning... not really. It works well for something like having a common place to open documents, but not very well for source code where you have a pile of related and interdependent files which you need to share among 4-5 apps. Things like Working Copy (https://workingcopyapp.com) help a bunch, but it's mostly a PITA. For example what kind of workflow would you have trying to set up to enable a typical build environment.

> You should be able to do this.

I'd love to see this. We have a fairly straight forward web development environment: Node.js + React + Typescript to build the client. The server runs on Koa and uses a MySQL database as the backend.

You think I should be able to get this going? ... I love my iPad, and I've dug around and looked for solutions and come up largely blank. Just getting the client stuff up and running using local files is... exceedingly difficult and impractical. Getting Koa + MySQL running seems like a non-starter.

This isn't some obscure stack, these are some of the most common web-dev building blocks around and it's just too much of a PITA.

I'd LOVE for this to work. So if you have some secret sauce, please share.
You don't see it often in stores but I have had Lipton loose leaf tea brewed in a tea pot.

That is much better than the tea bags. Of course since it's loose leaf it can't be dust.
> But I will never, ever, ever allow a company to intervene between my physical senses and the physical world

So no headphones in general? what about vision-correcting glasses? I'm very confused by this line you're drawing.
Obviously, this isn't the product for you. I just filled out their application. I can't wait!
Genuine question, what is the link between a tier-2 visa in the UK, and the subject of the story. Thanks.
Where is the satisfaction of having a troll bankrupted by litigation? If the troll went bankrupt, it probably means:

* The lawyers got paid so much money there is no more money left to pay the receptionist and the power company and the copier rental.

* The troll is protected from paying any damages to the legal team that defeated them.

So the lawyers/executives suck up all the money and move on, leaving a wake of destruction behind them. In many cases, that should be considered criminal.
It is listed as type library.
For your own comfort and convenience perhaps. For the environment and your health a car is almost always worse in every dimension
The Cadillac insurance plan tax has never gone into effect and has been pushed back a few times now, and truthfully is unlikely to ever be implemented.

This said, the tax on these sorts of plans are absolutely necessary with regard to controlling costs within the system, as cadillac plans which pay providers more for care, give them increasing amounts of leverage to demand payout increases from every other cheaper insurance plan.
But people don't use it more than a special gift card and loyalty program although, and it seem that starbucks does not have ambitions to be a general wallet. I'm guessing why starbucks promoted it heavily is to reduce card fees eating into their margins and all the other typical loyalty and gift card reasons.

I'm not seeing rumblings anything close to something like grab pay coming from starbucks for example.
Is there a stub resolver you're aware of that is in mainstream use anywhere that sets CD and does its own validation? My belief is that the answer is "no", but you might know better.
> Lots of comments seem to miss the point of this article. The point being made is to put the concerns of the customer first before yours.

Why didn't they just say so.
I have no idea. After I fixed the issue, I even tried disabling SIP, then enabling it again. It's still randomly removing the symlink. (well, as of last night around 10pm. I haven't opened the computer since then)

That computer has been through a lot, though. So it's totally possible that I did something stupid to permafuck SIP.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free.
Uhh.. I would love to have been involved in the product design meetings for this one.

The problem with Google glass was just the camera! We can do it better!
Fat is 2.25x as calorie dense (Cal/g) as carbs.
What makes health insurance cheaper is a larger pool of people. There is no other mechanism by which costs can be reduced.

This is why a single payer system is dramatically cheaper. It ensures complete coverage, reducing the cost of insurance to it's minimum. Furthermore, it leverages the collective bargaining power of all subscribers.

There is no substitute for a national health insurance, and the United States slowly bleeds money, time, and health outcomes every day we continue with our current state.
> If it wasn't clear, 2100 is shockingly low for a HYPSM admit

As I mentioned, when I applied to MIT, MIT said that they didn't really weigh SAT scores all that heavily. MIT has graduate departments that don't even require GRE scores at all. (Or at least that was the case at times in the past if it isn't now.)

I once read an interview with the head of Harvard admissions where he said that it's a misconception that Harvard's ideal student is someone who is well-rounded. He said that Harvard would much prefer to admit someone who has done something truly remarkable, even if they are lacking in other respects.

I don't know about this MIT sailing guy. I attended MIT and I never met anyone who had been admitted due to athletics, but Googling reveals that MIT claims they consider athletics along with everything else. For all that's been said here, this sailing guy might have been truly remarkable at sailing, and an excellent student in other respects. MIT may have wanted a good student to help lead their sailing team, and what is wrong with that?

If this guy wasn't a good student, there's no way that he'd end up graduating. It's not as if you can major in basket weaving at MIT.
In my experience, skill at doing that usually comes from... experience. (and ideally experience in similar domains to what you are designing, not just software in general).

Certainly there are "students" with software engineering/architecture experience and/or natural amazing talent, but it's def not the first place I'd look!
SBCL is "historical" while Basic is "actively used". Hilarious
> ... and most people aren't talking about it.

Have you looked at a newspaper since, say, 2007 or so? You will find that many have politics sections which have spent an awful lot of time covering the matter. Other news sources frequently cover it as well.
Self-destructing voice notes with React
Wait until you spot Wordpress in the list, too.
helps climate change marginally too
The newest hope to beat the traffic: a flying water taxi that glides across town
Hi, My name is Argenis founder and CEO of Bumblebee. With Bumblebee we want to make big data exploration and visualization easy using a web interface. It can be used from your laptop or in the cloud.

It’s free. Just give it a try and let us know what you think.
Nitpicking. The argument is clear.
Insurance companies need to be expropriated. The entire thing needs a restructure from the ground up, there are too many critical path issues that will keep things expensive if we try to have two systems at once (medicare for all + private)

the US should get real medicare, then move to a public/private system where you get base coverage through medicare and pay extra for fancy coverage.
> I have never used social media

You're posting on an on-line forum.
I do not trust any kind of encryption inside devices, because I cannot verify how the keys are managed. The essence of encryption is that the key must not be stored together with the encrypted data, but if a key is ever used inside a device you cannot be sure that it can no longer be retrieved from it in the future.

The data files that I am writing to the tapes have their metadata written into a database to be able to retrieve them in the future, then I group them in chunks of an approximately fixed size (50 GB in my case), then I compress them, then I encrypt them and then I add some redundancy (with par2) for error recovery. A simple solution for compression with encryption is the lrzip program, but for more flexibility in encryption you could use e.g. the openssl program invoked with the desired parameters. There are many encryption programs and any of them is better than using the encryption option of a tape drive.

So I queue the files to be written on the tape in a directory and when the size of the directory exceeds a threshold (50 GB in my case) a script is invoked that does the processing mentioned above, including the encryption, then it writes the result on the tape. A similar script does the inverse operations when I retrieve a file or group of files from the tape, giving its position as a tape number + a tape file number as obtained from the file database.
> Airpods I use for workouts

I just bought airpods yesterday, and tried running with them for the first time today. I couldn't run more than 30 seconds without them falling out of my ear. (Kind of disappointing after spending $200)

I also have a Bose over the ear headphone. Too clunky for running.

These Amazon buds actually look like they could be better than Airpods for running. Looks like they have the "suction cup" type of design, which usually do a much better job staying in the ear when moving around.
> Does anyone here actually use voice control commands in public (at a coffee shop, on the sidewalk) like the ads for this are suggesting? If so, does it feel awkward?

Most people I know actually use them in the car frequently, but in public rarely.
I don't use reusable tea bags, nor do I resteep. If simple paper/bamboo fiber bags are that bad, you'd be in trouble either way, since they're also used as spice bags for soups, curries, sauces, etc.
... in a table / page called "Languages".
Also: shifting PCB prototype costs in the direction of silicon is going to be a tough sell for many applications.

> Another drawback of SoCs is their high one-time design and manufacturing costs, such as the US $2 million or more for the photolithography masks

> ... 6 paragraphs later ...

> Patterning wafer-scale Si-IF may require innovations in “maskless” lithography.
I remember the camera being the bit that got everyone the most skeeved out over Google Glass. Also it standing out so much made it too odd and obvious. These scan a lot more like plain old glasses.
Sure. But how many people know how much their employer is paying on their behalf, and could use that to effectively have the same earning power? I know I had no idea until the Affordable Care Act put it on my tax documents.
I'd love to try it, but it's apple only. Any plans for an android version? If so, when?
I don't know why it's my fault that you inferred that "don't go to the DMV" was my central thesis, when my original comment was clearly focused on the fact that a national ID system would prevent SSN misuse. Not using DMVs was tangential.
> and the government should provide for those who require serious, expensive treatments (after a payment that is some percentage of their income).

I'm for it as long as it doesn't involve the government micromanaging how the health care providers perform their services. This is a problem with all health insurance, public or private, but the micromanagement is done on a more direct level with government-provided insurance, with doctor report cards and so on. They do this now for at least some Medicaid and Medicare implementations, and some of the provisions of Obamacare even accelerated this process.
That doesn't quiet work for people though - Marshmallow is nearly 100% sugar and Cotton candy is 100% sugar and I will happily eat either of those.

I also won't eat a 50/50 lard/sugar mix. It's the fact that processing the food made it more palatable.
> The price of insurance jumped massively every year from the start of Obamacare to 2018.

It was doing that for decades prior, too. Obamacare didn’t change it much in either direction.
When I use DDG, I get results nearly as good as Google. I tried qwant; nowhere near as good. It is used mostly by those who resent the dominance and techical superiority of American tech companies, because it is based in france.
> Commercial culture is full of similar misdirections and evasions at the expense of the consumer. You’re not supposed to ask. Don’t think. Buy.

> Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientiﬁc objectivity. Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.

It's gotten so much worse since Sagan wrote this. I wonder what he'd think of the advertising monstrosity we have today, courtesy of Google, Facebook, etc.
Do you really thing "shaming people" is an appropriate, mature response?
It's rather painful to watch from this side of the Atlantic.

I guess that I need to acknowledge this is really what most people want in America.
You can get permanent residency in Canada within 6 months via Express Entry, unless there's something you're particularly looking for in Switzerland you won't find in Vancouver ;) [1] You can then apply for citizenship after having lived there for 3 years out of the most recent 5.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
I just want to tack on: People being forced to skip simple preventative medicine, potentially building up a ticking time bomb when those conditions become more expensive to treat.
The underlying database type hasn't changed. LittleTable is a relational database (it's the first sentence in the paper). Vertica is also a relational database.

Stored is an implementation detail. Optimizations are improvements to performance. Neither affects the fundamental data model, which in relational databases is relational algebra over tuple-sets.
You should file a bug from within the app; you don't need WARP+ to use Warp and it shouldn't require anything from your provider.
Yes, it is possible. Our health insurance is only slightly less expensive, though (and can only be paid with post-tax money). We hold the proud second place in healthcare costs.

You’ll also have some issues with opening a bank account here — Swiss banks are not particularly fond of US customers, because of reasons.
Oh so now it's the audience's fault to not be "tolerant" of RMS' bullshit.
> I wager I could walk outside my home and ask 100 people on the sidewalk to name one e-commerce site and far more than 50% would name Amazon first.

I don't know how many people would consider the likes of Wal-Mart, Target, and Kohl's "e-commerce sites" even though they have probably ordered stuff through their websites.
Funny enough, the founders who are cargo-culting are finding monetary success (Neumann will still be rich when the dust settles, although I'm not suggesting he got all that money out of WeWork by accident). It's the investors who will find out that just making it look like you are investing in a world-changing tech company isn't enough to make it rain.
Except that rate wouldn't be available at your local post office. The $2.02 rate referenced is only available to an eligible business meeting many requirements to achieve that rate: https://ribbs.usps.gov/shipproductsservices/documents/tech_g...

If NPR was looking to ask the "average" business what it would take to fulfill a single order, they likely got a good answer. And the shipper may have been overestimating final shipping weight if done on the fly.
"known to be somewhat corrupt"

Based on the expenses scandal??
The problem is that there is not a single reason that healthcare is so expensive. Even if you list the top 15 reasons, you still have to apply the "5 whys" to each of them to find root causes and possible solutions.

- Doctor's are paid too much... why?
- Well they need to be paid a lot because medical school debt is 250k or more... why?
- Medical schools/the AMA are artificially limiting the number of students and residents for their own ends (keeping wages and scarcity high) so they need to charge a lot... why?
- I honestly don't know.

But the current political climate in the US is incapable of dealing with any kind of multifaceted problem.

One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people. Now, you can argue it's the morally correct course of action, or those people who will be forced to foot the bill (upper middle class taxpayers) are more capable of doing so, but you cannot credibly claim with a straight face that it will make anything cheaper. In fact, the opposite will occur.

(I don't want to hear one thing about negotiating power. That is a debunked line of reasoning. Medicare/Medicaid cover more people than many single payer systems in other countries, and their costs are still outrageous)
I was curious too and Googled it. Something about how healthcare in the UK is free, and if you are on that visa then you can get that health care.
I immediately thought one use case where this might be extremely handy: for stock brokers.
Found this interesting MathOverflow question with some interesting possible answers. Not sure if it clears it up much, but the difference between English and French capitalization rules seems to me like it might have something to do with some of it.

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/44946/why-is-abelian-infr...
I remember the article, I am 99% sure it was posted on Medium. If you don't clear your browser history you might be able to look through that as I think it was within the last 60ish days.

Also you can search HN, even use medium as the tag for the last 60-90 days and see if it rings a bell.

Just some ideas.
Elsewhere in this thread the folks who work on this have stated that there are plans for desktop versions in the future.
I don't understand why it has to be glasses, when the important bit is just a microphone and speaker, and there is no display capability. Would something like AirPods work just as well? According to the website the glasses are light-weight, so they can't hide huge amounts of battery-storage in them either (unless they're not being entirely truthful).

edit: Okay, I just saw that they have Echo Buds too. So I guess this is only for people who already wear glasses, or prefer them for some reason.
A very basic decision tree/random forest model. I haven't updated it since the first version I did about a year or two ago, because I didn't have users myself and no one provided any feedback. Thank you for the feedback! I've made a todo item to refresh/explain the model.
Yes, I agree. I don’t see why Medicare should only apply to those 65+. But until it applies to everyone, insurance companies have to serve that purpose. I worded it confusingly, but I meant to imply that insurance companies’ work is not all waste, since they’re doing a task that someone has to do, even if all healthcare was taxpayer funded.
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GP is implying that us Americans all want to flee our country for his just for their "perfect" healthcare system.
Simply removing insurance and letting the free market adjust would fix the issue.

When I was a kid no one worried about hospital bankrupting the family. Now anything larger than a paper cut has the chance to bankrupt most families.

Combine that with the accident rate in cars you have an almost certain chance for a large percentage of the US to be bankrupt
Bookstores provide a lot of service value, a decent bookstore will allow you to find similar material, allow you to browse as you please (instead of the skimpy sample pages), usually contain an expert that can offer advice and allow you to walk out with your purchase. Additionally it's common to see a heavy effort at investing in the atmosphere.

Amazon has succeeded at beating bookstores in none of these categories - but it has succeeded in greatly lowering the difficulty and impediments in case that a customer wants a specific book, the unfortunate thing for bookstores is that that user flow is extremely common and winning on that flow pretty much got them the market.

W.r.t. the other flows... Amazon is still terrible, did you enjoy The Colour of Magic? Why don't you try Magic Eraser - guaranteed to get stains out of any fabric! Curious if this book is good? Why not try reading one of the hundred shill comments talking about how this book changed their life!

I think the key here is to focus on winning a specific market segment (a significant one) and winning it hard if you can do that you too can be the next amazon.
"TL;DR: There are about 100K-200K unique workers on Amazon. On average, there are 2K-5K workers active on Amazon at any given time, which is equivalent to having 10K-25K full-time employees. On average, 50% of the worker population changes within 12-18 months. Workers exhibit widely different patterns of activity, with most workers being active only occasionally, and few workers being very active. Combining our results with the results from Hara et al, we see that MTurk has a yearly transaction volume of a few hundreds of millions of dollars."

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2018/01/how-many-mech...
Because medicine isn't paid for as a government-provided service. Insurance companies exist to profit - they defer risk. It is not a public service. I have a pre-existing condition, and I have a very mild case of Cystic Fibrosis: my healthcare at market costs about $500k a year. There's a lot of nuance to how much insurance companies actually pay out, etc, but looking at it in a simplified manner, it takes 25 families at $20k in premiums a year (with no claims to pay out) for them to break even on one of me.

tl;dr Health insurance is a for profit product, not a public service.
>No, because at this point the barrier to entry is substantial.

Not really. Unless the product has a powerful network effect, people can easily enter. If that weren't the case, starbucks would have run every coffee shop out of business by now.
That's weird because in every other OECD country that offers "free" healthcare (as in, single-payer or two-tier with national option) it's dramatically cheaper and has much better outcomes [1]. Reality doesn't line up with your pre-conceived notions.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2017-Ke...
I don't really see the benefit in this. You can install LineageOS without gapps and MicroG already distributes a fork of LineageOS that includes MicroG. If you want full control of your device you will likely be better off going with something like Librem 5 from Purism.