skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

Say some company found that they could pay landlords to let them borrow everyone's keys, and used them to go inside while you are out and stick an ad inside your bathroom where you will see it when you're taking a dump.
Sure, the ad is harmless. But you can't just shrug it off because then you've accepted the principle that companies can pay your landlord for access to you and your house.
Drat, that's a good point. The patent office could use the test as part of the review, though.
Anyone willing to work on Abacus please send me a papyrus. :D
https://codelani.com/languages/abacus-machine.html
> For one thing, it’s illegal in France to gather data about ethnicity.

Well that was unexpected. Good way to deny ammunition to xenophobes, I guess.

> Probably in an an effort to divide to conquer, the numerous (Arabic speaking) Algerian Jews had all been granted citizenship in the 1880s.

Wikipedia seems to disagree - it gives the reason as "The decision to extend citizenship to Algerian Jews was a result of pressures from prominent members of the liberal, intellectual French Jewish community, which considered the North African Jews to be "backward" and wanted to bring them into modernity." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Algeria...
Having a critical mass of uninsured people is the foundation we need to resolve the healthcare crisis in America. Those uninsured people still need healthcare. If enough people start calling up small clinics asking for pricing, a cottage industry of small health providers will pop up to service these people with transparent pricing.

The insurance industry has perverted our healthcare system. The major reason doctors moved from private practice to being associated with hospitals is to simplify billing because health insurance companies look for any reason to refuse payment. To reverse this trend, we need more people willing to bypass insurance and buy healthcare directly.

Health insurance is a failed experiment. People should pay for their healthcare directly, and the government should provide for those who require serious, expensive treatments (after a payment that is some percentage of their income).
I don't know about non-transferable - if IBM are better placed to capitalize on my invention than I am, I think it should be fair to sell it to them.

But I'm certainly in favour of some use-it-or-lose-it clause that lets a "portfolio" age quickly.
> Crazy to think that hundreds of years of violence and extraction had nothing to do with this, and it's just due to cultural faults.

It's extremely easy to see other groups of people who suffered the same thing, and have extremely low suicide rates. At which point you could create the same post-hoc explanation for the opposite outcome, about how hundreds of years of violence created very tough and mentally strong people.
Strong arming is just negotiating with an advantage
> We need only look to France to see the path forward.

I hope nobody does that. France is running several overdue reactors, has a history of under-reporting issues, the main electricity generation and distribution company EDF (owned by the state) runs with a net debt of €70 billion and is responsible for the disastrous over budget numbers for Hinkley OP mentioned above.

> Now France has so much electricity it sells excess to Germany for profit.

Germany sells excess electricity also...It's a flowing market depending on daily prices. The overall price development however showed that it rose in France while it fell in Germany: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/4/...

With the continued rise of renewable energy in Germany this development won't stop while France will at some point have to start moving some of their overdue reactors off the grid while new ones are being dropped because of the market situation outlined in the Status Report above: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nuclearpower-astri... while the only other new reactor they build Flamanville 3 came up in the news with messed up welding seams...
Not sure why you're being downvoted; that's a perfectly reasonable prediction. If shipping costs start reducing shipments of goods to the US by any appreciable amount, and the Chinese government wants to offset that, a subsidy is a reasonable way for them to do it. And I'd much rather the Chinese government subsidize their citizen's postage than the US government doing it for them.
There are two coding systems (ICD - for diseases, and CPT for procedures) that are mandated to use by medicare/medicaid and all the insurance companies use them as well. Most of them even accept the same forms. They need those billing assistants for other reasons.
Or, it’s true.

Amazon did predatory price for several years, subsidising sale and delivery with venture capital.

I’m baffled by the nonsense point about reinvesting profit from a lack of profit. AWS doesn’t excuse the years of cynical predation.

50% of a market is easily enough to dominate and control one, of the other players aren’t the same order of magnitude of influence.
It's been 3 years and they are still trying to throw spaghetti on the wall and see if anything sticks.

I'm getting tired of the Us vs Them tribalism that is happening at a more and more rapid rate, or at least it appears that way on the internet.

I don't understand how people assume their party is not corrupt.

Democrats can be bought and paid for.

Republicans can be bought and paid for.

Imagine if instead of everyone fighting over which tribe is best, people came together to admit that both tribes need to be reprogrammed for the benefit if everyone rather than one's own particular tribe.

2020 will be an interesting year that is for sure.
that's a fair point, but which is easier for an employee to compare, wages between two companies or job offers when they buy their own insurance and know the cost, or to compare wages AND benefits of two different jobs/offers
As a former developer, and as a manager of development teams, I feel that engineers tend to underestimate how long a task or a project will take them. This is due to several factors, including good developers having big egos about their capabilities, and with them focusing only on the straightforward solution, without giving credit to the inevitable (and expensive) edge cases.

My formula for getting a better estimate from engineers (call it "padding" if you wish), is to take their estimate, double it, and then round up to the next largest time unit.

For example, if they say a task will take 3 hours, I double it to 6 hours, then round up to a full day. If they estimate it at 2 days, I double it to 4 days, then round up to a full week.

This sounds like a joke, but I've found that in the real world, these types of estimates are closer to what ends up happening.
>Why must you live 40 miles from work?

If you're in a major city it just isn't feasible to purchase a home within walking distance of your business. In the Seattle area, for example, house prices would be easily over a million for anything nearby
…until someone gets the media going about it, at which point they block it. And that time, they will have a precedent.
The relative effort estimation seems to be more-or-less accurate for small chunks. However, at the beginning of a project, you don't know how many small chunks there are. In a small project, you can reasonably plan and estimate most of the chunks ahead of time and (eventually) plot out on a burn down chart that shows roughly when the project will complete.

However, in a large project, you can really only plan the beginning of the project this way. Eventually there are too many unknowns and you risk all the downsides of waterfall design. In my experience, a project like this has a burn down chart that goes UP over time (i.e. chunks are added faster than they are completed). This makes estimating the project impossible, especially if the chart is still concave-up (i.e. the rate at which it increases is increasing).

If you estimate large chunks, then you are less likely to add them over time, but you also won't be as good at estimating them. I think this is a good method for determining if a project is closer to a 1 year project or a 10 year project though. E.g. if you have 10 large equal chunks in a project and it ends up taking you 6 months to complete the first 1, you probably aren't going to finish by the end of the year, and you should evaluate if you are happy spending 5 years on it before you spend any more time.
McDonald’s enlists Alexa and Google to help with its hiring
According to [0] between 5 and 10% of all websites use Cloudflare. Even using the lower number, I'm pretty sure that neither 5% of websites are hosted by Comcast nor that they serve 5% of internet users. This gives Cloudflare already a much larger potential to monitor/censor than Comcast has. I am not saying that they actively do so, just pointing out that they do have the scale and market share to do so.
What is more, in contrast to said Comcast, they also have the ability to access unencrypted traffic for those 5-10% percent.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protecti....
Well, but that's not breaking down GraphQL as an abstraction, isn't it?
Eat a tablespoon. It's not pleasant. Wasabi (as in the posted story) is very similar to (and often IS) horseradish.
If you add a payroll tax equal to the average cost of insurance, then it’s neutral for employers as a group.

The payroll tax could be used either to fund a single payer system or to fund deductions for employees helping them buy insurance.
The credit card/tab point is a really good one, IMO. There's something really offensive, as a customer, about walking into a business and being immediately subject to the assumption that I'm there to rip them off. Why would I want to patronize your business if you want to treat me like a criminal?

A particularly infuriating example of this is bookstores that demand you turn in your bag at the desk. I just walk out.
You're probably being downvoted because you're implying that parents can never understand being childfree.

If anything, having kids made me have more empathy for parents, but also more likely to support people in being childfree. :-P
I once mapped my commute to work using multiple applications. 11 minutes via car, and 14 minutes via bike. However, there was no way to safely get from my house to my office. Even if I bit the bullet and spent 26 minutes on back roads, there were still major junctions that absolutely were not safe for bike traffic.
I'd prefer to be late and well rested.
You will waste more of your time than theirs.
Shadowing isn't rebinding?

If you've declared const x = 1, then that will hold for your scope?

If you go into a separate scope... Well, then you're in a separate scope?
How on earth can an obvious business practice be patented?

“yes, I would like to patent the sale of a spade when you buy a rake”
Is it possible that it is due to more people becoming insured that are burdensome on the system?

I thought it was pretty expected that as you get more of the unhealthy parts of the population into healthcare, costs will rise for everyone else.
UPU terminal dues were up for renegotiation in 2018-2021 anyway.[1] That's done every 10 years. The end result of all the noise from the US seems to be the same thing as would have happened anyway - a rate change in 2021.

The UPU classifies countries by level of development, and there's a price break for underdeveloped countries.[2] China is currently in group 3, along with Chile and Lebanon, and was probably going to move up to group 2 in the 2021 round anyway.

So all this was mostly hype.

[1] http://www.upu.int/en/activities/terminal-dues-and-transit-c...

[2] https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...
The 1.1.1.1 app's original UI was nice and simple: just a big switch. But trying to cram WARP and WARP+ into the same UI is confusing. The same switch is now used to show and control multiple states: Disconnected, Connecting, Connected to WARP, Connected to WARP+, and Paused. In addition, there is redundant UI to switch between WARP and WARP+ in the "Additional Settings" menu and to unpause on the main screen.
I was waiting years for this. From now on code will be much more readable and cleaner without all those IIFEs.
But the Orange line still terminates at PSU, and it also sometimes becomes the Green at PSU. You also don't have to stay on the train past city center, and Steel Bridge raises don't affect the intended Orange Line service to and from city center; trains just circulate at Union to minimize delays.

That's by design, which is my point. The Yellow and bus lines across the Steel are always affected more than the Orange line, and the ability to terminate at Union on a bridge raise allows for bus transfers over other bridges—it's integrated to play to the strengths of combining bus, streetcar, and LRT, and minimize the weaknesses of the Steel bottleneck. It's also why it's not just a Yellow line extension south.
I believe that the old rates were set by the UPU, and, in the case of China, were artificially low due to China's status as a developing nation. That status (conferred upon them 50+ years ago) has not been a reflection of reality for a long time. The new deal allows recipient countries to declare their own rates. The US will, almost certainly, declare a rate much higher than the current rate, such that the USPS will no longer be subsidizing shipments from China.
Treasuries and money markets basically return zero after inflation.

So, at least more than zero.
If you look at the users posting complaints in the threads at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=magnocash.com, it's clear that you've been oversubmitting this. HN's FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) says that a small number of reposts are ok, but you've exceeded that. The more you try to get attention, the more the community is going to feel like you're spamming them. That's not in your interest.

At this point, the best thing for you to do would be to wait a few months and then post another Show HN, plus add a first comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it since you last posted. That tends to seed discussion in a better direction.
Lidl (in Europe) has pyramid teabags that look the same but are made of cellulose and bio-degradeable (according to the packaging).
> It's not clear to me why any user of Mozilla would care about DNSSEC (which Mozilla doesn't support anyways).

So you talk to Cloudflare via DoH: how do you know that CF isn't manipulating the results? (Perhaps by government coercion.)

> ... it's not at all clear why they'd actively want DoT, whose only real "benefit" over DoH is that it can be actively filtered by network providers who don't want users encrypting their DNS queries.

Mozilla may want to support it because it could prevent them from being banned from corporate environments that may need to monitor queries for regulatory reasons. It doesn't have to be the default, but being able to enable it via a GPO could be useful.
Agreed. The problem is that software really falls into 2 main categories:

1) doing something that has already been done in a very similar way. This type of software is relatively predictable and estimates are generally reliable, assuming that is being done by the same team that worked on the prior implementations.

2) doing something new where NO ONE actually knows what the specification really is or how hard it will be to implement. Most of the time, people don't even know who all the constituencies that will have opinions or requirements to contribute to the specification. Estimating this type of work is largely a guess in the dark, and there are no reliable ways of producing valid estimates, so it is all based on prior interactions with the group and experience of the senior developers with this type of project.

Most managers think they are in camp 1), but in practice if that was true they'd just buy off the shelf software. You're doing your own because something is different.
Would software salaries (in the US that is, we here in Canada get paid nowhere close to American levels) collapse though?

There's practically unlimited amount of work that needs to be done and practically unlimited amount of good ideas left in the world to exploit. One fund going out won't do anything to change that.
Part of the goal of the individual mandate in Obamacare was to force healthy people to obtain meaningful levels of health insurance to offset that.
Thanks for the link. The price difference is huge. Around 16:20 in the programme -- if one ships a 3/4-pound package across the US, the USPS has to charge the shipper $4.76 for the "last mile", but if the same package is imported from China, the USPS can only charge China Post for $1.39 according to the UPU reimbursement rates.
I believe the pre-tax post-tax thing is actually wrong. The difference is that you pay for the plan with post-tax money until tax season rolls around, when if I remember correctly (from having an individual plan for several years) you get to deduct those costs.

So really, it's just the typical American thing of people being terrible at understanding tax codes and adjusting their withholdings correctly.
WeWork doesn’t own the buildings right now - the landlords do.
Researching this it seems like PLA is also common. "Plastic" is a super vague term, and it seems like non-petroleum plastics are the norm for this application. One benefit is that these types of plastics readily biodegrade into lactic acid (which naturally occurs in many foods). From a health standpoint it seems like they could be safer than some petroleum based plastics. Would be interested to learn more from someone who knows this area better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid
Its odd the the old misconception of lightning as a simple electrostatic discharge still reigns. Electrical breakdown in air happens around 3 MV/meter. The potentials generated in clouds are very large but not remotely close to what would be required to reach the ground. Moreover, slow motion footage that can be found anywhere clearly shows branching tendrils descending very slowly, followed by the rapid return stroke after the line of plasma reaches the ground. I have heard that part of the mechanism that ionizes air and propagates the tendrils involves production of high intensity x-rays. I wonder if this could have health effects in itself.
Consonant gradation/assimilation happens at the surface phonology and do not affect the morphological ground form. We have a similar voicing assimilation in Turkish; however, devoicing is progressively applied and do not propagate more than one syllable, unlike Finnish.
fast.com speed test on iPhone:

* Hi3G (Carrier Aggregation) without WARP+: 39 Mbps
* Hi3G (Carrier Aggregation) with WARP+: 39 Mbps
* Hi3G without WARP+: 12 Mbps
* Hi3G with WARP+: 32 Mbps
Where should we send links to missing languages (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer_(programming_language) ) ?
I bought my house 10+ years ago, and changed jobs and careers since then.

Moving is costly, in dollars, and in changes for my family.

And then my wife would work 40+ miles from work...
Would you make your art if you were the last person on earth?
What the 'Crane Index' Says About Your Changing City
I noticed this and found it interesting. I wonder what the motivation is here. Is the amount China stands to lose from this so low that it wasn't a hill they cared to die on? Will they use this in trade negotiations with Trump as a sign that they're being reasonable?
Here tea bags always seem to come with much shorter brewing times. So if the pack, nylon or paper, gives shorter than loose leaf brewing time it's dust - not necessarily the estate grade "dust". Perhaps from premium leaves and tips going into the blend, but cut/ground far, far finer than loose leaf.

By the time we get to super-premium, I'd just go loose leaf always. Quite agree nylon is an innovation we shouldn't have. :)
> Again, this is not to say that privacy isn’t important: it is one of many things that are important. That, though, means that online privacy in particular should not be the end-all be-all but rather one part of a difficult set of trade-offs that need to be made when it comes to dealing with this new reality that is the Internet. Being an absolutist will lead to bad policy

I don't understand, this article seems completely reasonable. He's asking people to think critically about their absolutist takes.
Yes because shareholders love paying executives tons of money so they don't have to collect it themselves... /s
Is Datadog a Buy After Surging 40% Post-IPO?
That sounds patenting facial recognition (among other things). Not a method for facial recognition, but the very idea of doing facial recognition.

The patent system is so broken. It's as if drug companies, instead of patenting a specific treatment for cancer, were able to patent "treating cancer".
That makes sense. I'd hope that Scholar would be different, though.

A piece on how a researcher spent a summer filling out CAPTCHAs / scraping: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04190-5
Yes, I know, but I don't want a pointing device that is intermingled with my keyboard.
This is stretching the metaphor to the point of absurdity, but in some cases removing parking can actually improve business. This is apparently because the best customers are locals who walk or bike.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3067515/why-local-businesses-sho...
Are you being too nice not posting a link (or maybe you have a technical reason)? I was a little hurt when a friend said I wouldn’t be a good business man as I wasn’t cut throat enough. My friend wasn’t being entirely wise but there was a little truth in there.

I have been selling a subscription service to schools now for 10 years, enough for me to work part-time on the project. Biggest leap in customers I had was through an educational fare. It cost about £6000 to exhibit if I remember.
For clarity, though, this case was dismissed without prejudice on the basis of an improper venue.

The patent still looks bogus, but don't draw any premature conclusions from the above-cited case.
Designing Your First REST API – Part 1
I found that example odd, as in my experience the amount of bars that don't hold your card while a tab is open is in the minority (I don't go to that many, but I actually can't think of any nearby that DON'T take your card). Sometimes I'll just order and close out as soon as I walk in, sometimes I'll hand them my card and close out at the end, but I've never felt that I was being treated like a criminal
There’s a different way of managing graphs queries. When you remember that you’re effectively running a query per layer of the graphql tree (much like an ORM does) then you can optimise all the stuff that sits in a single layer by creating a view to aggregate as required.

You get to keep the data aggregation complexity in the data layer and then have a loader that sits above it which is effectively just choosing which subsection of the tree to load.

I’d recommend looking at Hasura which does a great job of this.
Neither of those rebind the `const x`, which will continue to hold the value it was given.
I work from home at least 2 days a week so there is that ;)

I totally agree with your description about the opportunity to be close to work. It's sort of sad that those who are often struggling with other things, career, money, are also the folks who can't afford to save time by being close to work.
They're exotic in that their manufacturers can't be bothered signing their drivers. But at least there are drivers.

They're also exotic in the sense that only a very small proportion of the overall user base cares/requires them.

There are supported video cards / TB3 video systems that are natively supported but at the moment they are possibly even more exotic in the sense of shipping in low volume (per your second point). I really don't like "apple abandoned the XXX market, which I am in and wish they had just the right product for ME" statements but in this case, I think your comment is unfortunately correct.