skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very popular argument in favor of single-payer. But Medicare already has authority over the most expensive and intensive segment of the health care market and has not effectively "bullied" providers down. It's not my argument that a single payer system can't do this, but rather that it doesn't appear to matter whether you have single payer or not; either way, radical change will be required from providers, and those changes are not intrinsic to the payer system.
I disagree. With the use of SIMD, CSPRNG are about as fast. Xorshift and friends are usually not optimized for SIMD.
It's actually a major feature that comes in very handy if you live in a cold place.
Blizzard is banning pro-Hong Kong people in its Hearthstone Twitch chat
Mice with hyper-long telomeres show less metabolic aging and longer lifespans
They should just have an interactive login like "Make a sad face" or "Make a scary face" etc...

they facial movement pattern could become a sort of biometric and they'd get millions of samples for sentiment analysis / AI
That was from the 2006 season. Fingerprint scanners have improved significantly since then. This is of course, not a blanket statement (see Samsung headlines yesterday)
Difference Between Agile and Waterfall
I always send a chastising reply. I know one message may not do much, but I've been surprised to occasionally get a response (usually from smaller vendors) promising to be more judicious in the future.

If enough people bitch at them for wasting eyeball time with trivial matters they might take notice...
my fingerprint scanner often fails when I'm sweaty at the gym
‘Feel the Force’: Gut Instinct, Not Data, Is the Thing
FWIW this is used in OpenWrt.
Early mouse fetuses generated without sperm or eggs for first time
The early conversation here seems to focus more on US procedures and government branches than Twitter's responsibilities but Twitter is not just accessible to US world leaders. What would happen if some Middle Eastern monarch used the service to declare war on a neighboring country. I think even the UK still does war declaration from only the Queen, how should Twitter respond to it then?
I do a bit of drinking and computing myself, and I've learned that pipe cleaners work better than cotton swabs for un-ruining things. They rarely leave stray fibers behind, and as a bonus, can be used to clean pipes apparently.
It can't be enforced if you move to CA, among other reasons because CA law says you can't use a choice of law clause to get around the prohibition against restraints on trade like non-competes.
Yes! I thought this was a great idea.

The other thing I do is add a "MODULE:" prefix to my commit message. It makes them way more readable. Lots of other people do this too; you can see this in Redis, Linux, and Go codebases, for example.

So your message might look like "router: add support for path vars". Much easier to read than "Add support for path vars to router"
The entire point of monadic (do) syntax in Haskell is to make this convenient. I'm not following you exactly.
You would see ads for people to install the "Cambridge Facebook Client -- Earn $2/month just by using Facebook!" While they silently slurp up the same information on not just that person, but their friends.
Are you trying to say that math is hard because the teachers are withholding all the tricks?

> I am questioning their utility as an educational device.

Puzzles like this aren't found in mainstream math education contexts. As you acknowledged in your post, they are only found in math competitions. What do you mean?
The Ackerman Method of Negotiating
Wow, they didn't even include one. That is wild, oh well, no need to consider the pixel 4 then.

On such an expensive phone even.
> Meanwhile, some doctors absolutely make contributions that scale, such as finding cures or vaccines, preventing spread of infectious diseases, or discovering ways to detect diseases earlier.

and many engineers have invented machines that have saved millions of lives.
Let alone the fact that most of the things you mention were discovered either by academics or pure science researchers.

Doctors : Medical scientists :: Engineers : Physicists & mathematicians.

Doctors aren't doing the inventing. They are applied practitioners of their profession. The sycophancy around worshiping doctors is one I can never get my head around. Sure, it is a difficult job to learn and an essential part of any system, but just being the medical profession doesn't give a doctor any moral high ground in their choice.

Being in India, the biggest contributors to saving lives have been policy makers. Funding access to clean water, electricity and roads are far bigger life savers than someone who can do surgery. Google is probably saving more lives by letting doctors web search symptoms, than entire families of hospitals.

I have no delusions about my work. I do it because I like it. I would still do it if it was live saving, or completely irrelevant to society at large.

But, raising certain professions to an innate moral high ground makes no sense to me. Be it doctors, fire fighters, veterans or first responders. If a person needs continuous approval from society to do their job, then they should not be doing it in the first place.

That being said, I will always give every honest job a minimum level of respect and appreciate both hard work and tenacity. So, I am not advocating for being an ass to doctors. However, I respect those values, not some innate virtue of their profession.
It might be less intrusive if they queued the news for inclusion at the bottom of my next "You received a transfer" email.
I'm receptive to all reforms! Reforming health care administration is worth doing; even if it doesn't make health care "affordable", these are big numbers we're talking about, and percentage-point changes in administration costs still generate money we can use on other things.

Where we get into trouble is when we start contemplating radical reorganizations of the existing system without a clear goal or path to achieving that goal. So I could be receptive to single-payer if there was some clear idea of how it would get our costs in line with European systems. But no such clear idea is in evidence; rather, Democrats seem to believe that reorganization will somehow automatically solve that problem. More cynically --- and realistically --- I believe Democratic single-payer advocates think that once the government becomes the single payer, nobody is going to care about the costs anymore. I think there's an element of truth to that, but I'm not one of those people; I care that we're paying 2-3x what we should be paying.
Yeah. I ski a lot and face unlock would be very nice to have.
I ordered a pixel 4 , almost only because my pixel 2 is busted, Google will still trade it in while Apple won't trade Android phones unless maybe if I go ask in a store (well, among other reasons but I am already verging off topic) .

None of the locking mechanisms I know protect you against all "threat vectors".

In particular, in case a shitty partner wants to access your phone while you are asleep, both fingerprint and google face unlock fail.

I do like the fingerprint sensor on pixel 2.

It could be even better if there was one on the screen for when the phone is on a flat surface, but it does the job well otherwise.

Nevertheless, an easy to use secure enough solution should work well enough against the threat most people worry about : somebody stealing their phone / forgetting it somewhere.
>Seems like the disconnect here is whether SO should be able to put the relicensing terms in their terms of use and have that be enough.

That may be, but they didn't put such terms in their terms of use. They just retroactively changed the license. Or rather, they fraudulently misrepresent the license of the content. It would be like Github relicensing all content they serve under cc-by-sa. It's absurd.

>Or do you feel no one has a right to relicense any content they haven't produced themselves?

You can agree to all sorts of terms. I didn't. A huge number of contributors didn't. SO would have to go back to all contributors and renegotiate terms with them individually. Of course, no such attempt has been made.
The current HN already adapts well to mobile. Though, I suppose some may prefer the more modern aesthetic presented here.
The problem with this approach is when the team changes its ticketing system or the codebase goes to a different team (that has a different ticketing system), meaning all that context is lost. Happens all the time.
> In fact, for lossless compression, it’s proven that we can’t do much better than we already do.

Source? Sounds like one wouldn't know a better alternative exists until one discovers it...
Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
The ATI Mach8 was a 8514/A graphics accelerator with no VGA core so it needed a separate base video card.

AFAIK Doom never had a 8514/A mode, but there where a very few games that did: https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Mah_Jongg_-8514-.html

Back then accelerators where about GUI/windows acceleration and then the 3dfx came out...
Ya, it isn't even close to meeting the legal definition of treason. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see the author of such a tweet call it treason all the same. It is an interesting question.
In my experience, once you've got a bit of documentation, finding everything relevant to an intended change can be non-trivial and error-prone even if it's done first.

For documentation to remain relevant there needs to be some kind of process actually checking every part of it against reality.
> I wrote a ton of COBOL (mainframe and MicroFocus COBOL on AIX) back in the day in my early IT career (late 90s, early 2000s) around the Y2K conversion

Haha, same here! I owe Y2K my first paid programming job.

> It was a fun language

Nope. You lost me there.

COBOL still gives me nightmares. It was the most profoundly unfun language I've ever had the misfortune to be forced to work with.
I'd imagine, if it was really early hunter gatherers, it would go more like "hungry, caught prey, ate, happy!". Way more impulsive responses. Throw in some "starving, I wish food was more stable, even if tedious". Anything after agriculture would include tedious tasks like tending to the crops and cleaning.
> Marketing Aside, We Take a Look at The Most Popular Watches Among Fighter Pilots At MCAS Miramar.

That’s a base name that didn’t age well.
Your bio-metrics - your face, your voice, your fingerprints are your login, not your password.

You cannot change them, you leave this data everywhere and this data can be snooped and replayed easily.

Moreover, this data is singular for a person - its hard to assign yourself multiple roles or have multiple sets of credentials with different permissions or for different services.

We collectively should stop revolutionizing the access control sphere and use boring scheme with passwords, pins and tokens.
That's an okay rule of thumb, but I find myself using grid more and more for traditional flexbox applications like a horizontal list of cards that wraps. Little things like grid-gap (flex child margins are a constant source of pain) and auto-fill with minmax [0] make a big difference to me in rapid prototyping.

[0] eg: grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(400px, 1fr));
Rather annoying that governments thinks its ok to pick and choose what to tax. They claim its sugar, and only tax soda, not all those expensive star bucks sugary drinks.

If your going to make me pay a tax for my diet soda, you better tax those coffee shops too.
> It sounds like you have short-term rental properties, aka unregulated hotels, or more accurately regulation-skirting residential businesses.

This is not correct. I pay transient occupancy tax just like the hotels (11% at one, 7% for another) and also have local authorities come out periodically for certifications to make sure everything is up to their standards (fire alarms, extinguishers, lighting, safety rails, notices posted outside, etc).

If I was in a city that didn't have regulations for short term rentals, then it wouldn't be a regulation-skirting business anyway. It's only skirting if the area has TOT and regulations in place and you don't abide. How did you get to this conclusion based on my post?

> I mean you've basically admitted... that you record your guests in outside areas where they can expect privacy

No I didn't. And my listings clearly state that I have cameras outside.

> That people make movies in places they expect privacy (shocking)

Why is this shocking? They were making a low budget horror film. You need a license to film a movie on someone else's property and the city has regulations and procedures for filming. Not to mention they started a large fire in the desert and I could see the fire department come out and have a conversation with them. The guest also lied to me saying they were having a little couples getaway and we even gave them a discount because we were told it would just be 2 of them.

> and of course you don't look at any of those skinny-dipping videos wink wink. Funny how unregulated businesses attracting unregulated activities still like to have some way to regulate their guests--and do so likely illegally.

I have a pool at one property but there are no video cameras overlooking the pool. Or even the back yard for that matter.

You've made a lot of assumptions.

If you don't like short term rentals because some people don't comply then that's fine but hotels have bad actors too. Plenty of hotel owners not paying their share of TOT taxes, peep holes in bathrooms, stealing property when cleaning. Ever see those service spaces between 2 rooms? Bad actors would use those for peep holes and watch guests in person.

> I mean second-home you couldn't afford without hotel-income

Actually I can afford both without hotel-income. Even if I couldn't - the cities approve of it and get income and jobs.

> But you don't deal with the bad apples by violating the rights of everyone else, at least unless you want to invite scrutiny and regulation into your activities.

I comply with regulations and also create a lot of income for people in cleaning, maintenance, upgrades. We pay a living wage to all service providers.

Nor do I violate the rights of anyone.
The information that Wireguard had been restored, but without the donation link, was in the thread yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21274220

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21284261

Given that this was the biggest story on HN a couple days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-16), and there isn't significant new information, another big discussion is certain to mostly repeat the discussion that already happened.
generalizations are good when they're somewhat accurate. they're bad when they're inaccurate. Generalizations aren't inherently good. yours distorts reality by ignoring specifics in a way that does not good except to your ego.

Your reaction to my pointing this out is that my "tone exudes a high level of bias" - when you're the one doing the tone reading.

People are more complex than you make them, and your one dimensional analysis based on a purposeful misconstruing of a word, leading you to smear an entire religious group adds no value to any conversation, and reveals you as a likely a bigot.
Workshop on Theory of Deep Learning: Where Next? (IAS, Fall 2019)
It’s basically conservation of energy/entropy being the reason. As in you cannot violate physics.
The only thing that matters from a mathematical perspective is the net position.

If I buy a laptop that embodies, say, 300kg of emitted carbon, and then use the money I earn from working on it to capture 300kg (e.g. by planting trees and felling the wood, or by the more advanced less proven techniques) then the overall position is neutral.

Obviously the situation would be better if the 300kg were captured without the laptop ever being produced, but that's not a realistic description of how humans operate. Even if I had infinite money anyway, I must eat, I have some basic entertainment needs, I'll get depressed and die if I just sit in my house all day and never do anything, etc.

My personal goal is to end each year with a net negative position. Have to at least beat topping yourself, right? </dark>
Development of Grafana plugins in React: in depth independent review
Was he? I arrived at HP shortly before he left, via an acquisition. I suppose he okayed the purchase, which suggests some amount of forward-looking thought, but I also heard that he had defunded HP Labs to some extent, and that he was more into cost control than investing in new technology.
When face unlock first came out, my boss bought a phone with it and was showing it off at the office. I took a picture of him and held it up to the camera, and was able to unlock his phone.

He was a little less excited about the feature after that...
fully agree. I wrote a pretty complex API within a couple of days in Django + Django Rest Framework. I did not know how to build web applications or APIs before. Great experience.
Voters seem to be missing gojomo's joke.
Yes, definitely for production use. Getting started though the dev server is fine for testing.
Yeah, it's fun, but, seriously, git log is messy AF. I wouldn't appreciate it a bit, if somebody would do that to a project I'm involved in.

What's funny, though, the paper (written in a pretty much the same "fuck you" manner) is much more readable and informative than the average. Which says a lot about science papers out there.
What mechanism do you envision to convince people to:

1. Be more environmentally conscious in their actions?

2. Affect systemic (governmental) for society to make more environmentally sound decisions?

Being shamed is not fun—I get that. But I don't know if there's an alternative path. We need to convince people that their current choices have very negative consequences for others. If that's not worthy of shame, I don't know what is.
>Shooting the animals yourself is not a very practical solution, or scalable.

It is 100% practical for me personally. I have the time and money for it. I can agree that isn't scalable, not everyone can hunt their own meat.

>but what about the rest of your city and country?

> It isn't for everyone. That would surely not scale...

I am not looking to solve a national problem, just trying to do what is best for me and my family.
Statistically insignificant sample sizes showing desirable outcomes are the bread and butter of getting more funding in medical research
True. Lets check the numbers. 90,000 developers took the survey.

Java: 41.1% 36990 developers

JavaScript: 67.8% 61020 developers

Haskell: 0% 0 developers

Jobs:

Java: 73,447 jobs

JavaScript: 59,647 jobs

Haskell: 492 jobs

https://www.indeed.com

Given the numbers, as a hiring manager, I will never ever suggest to any company to try to use Haskell or hire Haskell devs. I know many developers who use it though. They sucessful with what they are doing, turning business problems into Haskell problems and solving those. Sometimes patch the compiler, sometimes write a completely new one. As a tech leader I do not want to have these problems, even if I could hire enough people for projects (which I can't). I always like to read blogs about what is going on though. It satisfies my scientific curiosity but that is it.
Having enjoyed the article, it also reminded me why I never once finished making a game.

Instead of seeing the example code and thinking 'Ah, yes, that code gets something done in a straight-forward way.', I instead think, 'I'm pretty sure I could build a scripting engine and turn most of that code into ajax calls to json files. Of course, I'd then have to build an in-game editor which allowed you to modify the contents of the json files while playing the game with hot-swapping content. Huh, art? Plot? Fun? Oh, yeah, I guess I'll probably need those... eventually...'

Fortunately, trying (and failing) to make games led me to realize that I really love programming and building maintainable systems.
I'm upgrading to Pixel 4 and excited about face unlock. Supposedly it's incredibly fast, to the point where it's no different from using your fingerprint on a Pixel 2/3 while pulling it from your pocket, except you don't have to do that.

Since I live in Chicago and winter is approaching, I think it'll be pretty handy. I'm hoping their radar gesture thing will eventually allow triggering the Google Assistant, and then I can unlock and use most of my phone via voice without taking my gloves off.
I wonder if the ACs from the stadium in Doha can keep the temp on the field an even 25C. Not sure about the fans leaving the stadiums though. They could die.
> If somebody tells me a story about their day, and I respond “well, it’s possible that you made all that up, and this is all a ruse to trick me”, I’ve not accused them of making it up, I’ve just pointed out it’s possible. But I’ve implied an accusation, otherwise I’d not have gone out of my way to announce this “possibility”.

Except your example is not very compatible.

First, by making it a direct accusation, instead of 2 third parties discussing someone else. If I said it directly to you, you'd be correct in the accusation bit. Situations will make the same words have very different interpretations.

Second, and most importantly, your example has no reason. It's just doubt for doubts sake. That's the definition of reflexive. floatrock isn't just saying 'it's possible you made it up'. But, 'hey look, climate deniers are funded by big oil, maybe they are biased/not honest'. Conflict of interest is a REASON for doubting.

floatrock did provide reason for his doubt in the form of the exposure of a conflict of interest. Which is why I felt his comment was good. He even showed the doubt in a conscientious, non aggressive way. I actually don't agree that it was a PR stunt. But putting out relevant information, like conflicts of interest, should be relevant to all thinking people.

Next, you are welcome to provide a REASON for why it isn't a PR stunt. Personally, I think such a PR stunt would have marginal benefits toward the KPIs for transfer wise. Their small team would probably be better served on other things than this PR thing, if it was that. So I personally don't think it was a PR stunt. But that's beside the point. The point I was making: Reflexive statements suck, whether reflexively cynical, or reflexively sheepish, and I felt the person making the 'reflexive' accusation was unintentionally ironic.

The fact that you are ignoring the 'reasoning' element, makes the word 'reflexive' not seem relevant, when it is.

You can't prove anything definitively, but you can provide evidence to further an idea or not.

Evidence, reasoning... that's where the in-depth comes from. I would hope that's required on both sides.
I lately got a buzz to play some detective adventures, which predictably had me combing through the lists of adventures on several sites. As a result, I now have a lament that there doesn't seem to be an engine for creating graphical adventures as easily as text ones: with lots of ready-made images that could be put in the proper order for the game. Not even with much interactivity, since something like HTML with hyperlink trees of choices would likely be more humane than point-and-click pixel hunting.

Though, maybe Adventure Game Studio and free images do the trick, dunno.

Specifically, I myself would play games that are set in the same city if the city was big and detailed enough. Just let the games be something more than the hyper-casual churn of ‘question the witnesses, look for evidence, name the perpetrator.’
Yep, and yep... so I'm still fairly sure you've mixed me up with the "karma" person upthread.
Fascinating theory, backed by evidence from observations.
And as Phil states, don’t let cosmophobia scare you :-)
“cosmophobia, a fear of things that happen in space“
unions are about working conditions, not deciding what you get to work on. You're under the direction of your employer and their organizational structure.

Unions have exactly zero with choosing to do the work you want to do while getting paid for someone else.