skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's weird. In fact it does the same with your link, though I can open it in the same tab. If I try to open it in a new tab or window, it just closes immediately.
I suspect that’s a common practice. In Russian Emprie nobility’s kids were listed as soldiers when their mothers have been still pregnant. If a girl was born, the imaginary soldier was reported dead.
I'd use it.

For example, my roommates and I already have a facebook messenger group chat where we discuss everything. It would be great to have financial matters settled inline as well instead of separately.

Anything from chipping in for more cleaning products to splitting some pizzas to paying rent, things we already do but are complicated by collecting cash irl.

And I could extend this use case to all of the 1:1 conversations I have going on in facebook messenger. I'm not sure how it's not obviously useful unless you simply don't use facebook and don't know anyone who does, which describes none of the people I know in real life.
From people that work at Hulu, the current strategy is for Hulu to remain the live-streaming/online DVR option for broadcast shows, and to be the sreaming platform for experimental and adultish fare like Always Sunny, with Disney+ remaining the family-friendly/mainstream/prestige streaming platform in the Disney suite.
There's also DilOS which is OpenIndiana + apt that is built for both sparc and intel

http://www.dilos.org
Nor do most US doctors, what's your point? And programmers in the UK don't regularly make $250k+ a year either.

Different countries, different pays.

TBH, if you feel doctor pay is somehow too expensive in the US, you're probably thinking about the wrong thing.

I would confidently expect the profits all your health insurance companies dwarf the difference in doctor salaries (an activity which is economically and socially worthless rent-seeking), let alone the salaries of all the utterly pointless health insurance company employees.
Yes, let's say you arrive on a retail site that sells men's and women's clothing.

If the retailer knows you're a man, it might recommend men's clothing to you, rather than women's clothing.
Pro-tip: if at all possible do not run this on top of Ceph. Bare metal SSDs or VMs with SSDs.
Yup, that was it. Disabling the ad blocker fixed this.
"forum" still helps too
This article misses one other potential savings — allowing patients to cross state lines to buy plans in cheaper states.

In terms of HSA’s, I think they are a great idea.

But I have a more radical solution than an HSA:

Allow the first $100k of income to be contributed pretax to a unified savings plan. We would do away distinctions between 529, ira, 401k and HSA. It would just be a unified account. You could withdraw prior to 59.5 to cover health, education and first home purchases up to any amount. Anyone (employer, family member, friend, charity) could match up to 100% of whatever you contribute in a year into the account. Cash and stock contributions would be accepted. There would not be a minimum age to participate - anyone with a ss#.

Like I said, there are holes in the above - I’m sure with some thought they could be addressed. The general idea would be to turbocharge personal savings and create a unified structure that helps one build and protect a savings account with utility beyond just retirement.
One way is to obviously go all out Java - definitely makes things streamlined. But not all team members are familiar with Java. Especially not ones formally trained on data science - who tend to work with R/python etc. Atleast that has been my experience.
Why high level languages should be able to easily speak with each other? Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of having more than one language, since they would be effectively identical?
My view is that consent is oversold. If I "consent" to a boilerplate agreement handed me moments before an action is taken, have I really?

Boundaries and distributions should be clearly, specifically specified, with any non-essential distributions requiring specific assent, defaulting to none. If there are consequences to sharing, those can be made known. We've been drawn into a circumstance which has long been untenable.
Having only one mirror is scary. If one goes down, its like murphy's law kicks in. So you want at least 3 things to go wrong in order to take down your system, 2 is not enough. Also have redundancy everywhere if your checker agent stops working for example. You want 2 of everything and at least 3 of those that should never fail.
>Like, if I type a math formula or "what's the population of Alberta", the Google result is just the number, not a link to the result.

I prefer to use WolframAlpha for such things.
> Well the price list should be up front, but that's the case regardless of whether you're paying for all of the care or just some of it.

Agreed.

> Wouldn't that discourage preventative care?

At the margin, yes. OTOH, paying less in insurance premiums and known/lower costs for services would leave more money for elective care (or whatever else you wanted to spend it on), which would apply pressure in the other direction. Most routine preventative care doesn't have to cost particularly much. Additionally, there's no reason why we couldn't have pooled cost systems for routine care like our existing insurance plans today for those that prefer to amortize their costs, but IMO, they should be separate from emergency care. Emergency care insurance isn't practically optional.
I could see relatives sending my kids birthday money this way. Especially once it works internationally.
Thoughts on Tailwind CSS
The Babylon Bee is an Onion like paper. It's not left wing.

Snopes has attacked them multiple times saying False. A logical person would not consider satirical being False.

This allows/causes Facebook to delete their content

https://reason.com/video/the-babylon-bee-satirizes-the-absur...
Debian is going to draft an ABI because of the init system written by Redhat, in no small part to support an online bookstore and microsoft's cloud computing efforts. What a time to be alive.

I kid but the ABI seems like where the whole things ultimately headed. The non systemd segment is larger than you initially suspect. Google alone has enough of a stake between android, chromeOS et al.
Backups are still an enterprise feature but doing a dump is still supported in the non paid version.
Ask HN: Query on Amazon confidentiality agreement in offer?
Amazon offer letter has the below. Does it mean one cannot accept any job after for 6 months?

During the Employee’s employment and until the expiration of 6 months from the Date of
Termination the Employee will not directly or indirectly.
a) carry on or be interested in a Competing Business in any capacity (whether as an owner,
partner, joint venturer, shareholder, investor or in any other capacity); or
b) act as an employee, officer, director, consultant or agent in any capacity in a Competing Business.
Building Products That Stick
San Jose Startup Making $10k Offer to Leave the Bay Area
That's the point, it's selectively biased in what version of a claim to "fact-check."
> These instances can chose to follow each other (this is called federating). For example, if the head of IT services of College X would like KarateTube videos to appear on CollegeTube, all she has to do is federate with KarateTube. KarateTube’s videos will remain on its server but students who are used to watching videos from CollegeTube will be able to see them.

It sounds like federation isn't an everything-or-nothing approach. You can federate with a specific instance that you trust, and even in that case, you won't host any videos on your device other than what you upload.

Would like to see confirmation, but it also seems like instances can follow in one-direction. IE, I could have a private server that follows no one, but allow other instances that want to include my public videos in their search results to follow me.

That assumes I understand the details correctly -- the FAQ is a tiny bit vague so maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Hasn't this existed for a while?

e.g. 2016 article: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/use-facebook-messenger-to-send-a...

Is this a rebrand?
It's the beginning of the end. Internet advert is probably going to collapse again, as soon as the economy goes to crap. It will come back, but after people start getting hijacked from ads, I doubt it will be the same.
Almost like...TripAdvisor
Originally, Google was very effective at looking at the interconnections of content people had put online and using that to infer which pages were most relevant. SEO tactics immediately started gaming this system to create false signals of relevance, but for many years Google did an impressive job of staying ahead of that game.

I think what finally killed their search quality is the fact that there's no longer a public human-curated network of websites to draw meaning from. Most content on the web is bulk-generated crap, personal blogs and websites are rare, and many passionate hobbyist communities are hidden from crawlers in places like closed Facebook groups.
Try it out on your stack and with your data and see.
Been working with web tech since 2000... something about WASM rubs me the wrong way, at least for use in the web. It's probably the lack of human readable source code (I'm not a big fan of minified code for the same reason).

If it wasn't so impossible to work with W3C, I think it would probably make more sense for the web to work towards something like more strict, compilable typescript. Then sites could download the source, compile, and cache.
Another great example of Goodhart's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
So how are you collecting/integrating financial such as what is contained in salesforce/netsuite/etc?

My recommendation would be

- an ETL as a service such as fivetran, stitch, etc

- into a data warehouse such as snowflake, big-query, etc

- transform/aggregate/normalize/magic data using some ETL tool such as dbt, matillion, etc

- analytics tool such as Looker, Tableau, etc...
There is VictoriaMetrics, which is also written in Go and shows much higher performance numbers than InfluxDB, especially on high cardinality data. See [1], [2] and [3].

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/measuring-vertical-scalability-f...

[2] https://medium.com/@valyala/insert-benchmarks-with-inch-infl...

[3] https://medium.com/@valyala/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks...
I don't see the connection to zero-sum. You can have nepotism in non-zero-sum games too. That might describe the traditional practice of handing down a trade to the next generation, where the bakers and blacksmiths trained their kids to do it and they took over the business when the old man retired.

Maybe people only complain when the nepotism is in a zero-sum context, where someone else is losing.
The fake video where Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn endorse each other
Does this discussion have merit? It's hard for me to tell. Nobody provides any details. There are no exemplar queries where someone suggests a better result. Nobody is saying anything that isn't said in every other discussion where Google search results are even tangentially mentioned. You've got the classic DDG shoutout. The classic "Google used to be better" subthread. The classic "But if you type in specific terms" tree. And a nice tangent on tracking just for completeness sake.

You could copy and paste this thread into the comments of any other article about Google search in the past few months and it would be no less relevant. Only, you needn't bother, since this discussion gets rehashed every single time, so there's already a discussion with much the same points as this one, and much the same value, already there. That's a good sign that the discussion is lacking the nuance that I always hope to find here. But what's actually happening is a complete lack of engagement with what was ultimately a pretty interesting article.
e=M*C^2 is a scalar value that lost information.

a more general equation that preserves the information is actually a system of 3 equations that make a cube, that furthers the "color theory" into a more general, entangled case.

the Energy cube is a loaf of bread, where one direction of sliced bread is momentum, another is impulse, and the third is E/me where mass of electron experiment bounds the real world constants as more than just ambiguous velocity information, when things are relative. the 3 axes then become dm, dx/dt, and int(adt). this is an 11 variable system, not including heat & entropy. as "things can be hard, strong or tough, they cannot be all three"...

good luck. hidden shear energy seems likely
The vision vs knee surgery on price comparison falls flat on my ears.

The current HSA deductible limits are $1350-$6750.

So, how does knowing a knee surgery is $20k instead of $60k make the consumer, who is out of pocket $6750 (that they still can't afford) either way, price discriminate?
As long as legal is taxed 30%, unlicensed dispensaries that sell the same exact product for 30% cheaper or more will continue to flourish and thrive, and the legal market will never grow. Cracking down is playing expensive whack a mole with how trivial it is to set up a grow anywhere and everywhere.
Looking at Singapore is a bit disingenuous. They have both public and private systems, with the private system being vastly more expensive. The public system costs are regulated. (Other differences: adult obesity in Singapore is below 10%. In the U.S. it's 40%. 65+ population in Singapore was 9% in 2010. In the U.S. 65+ population was 13% in 2010. Singapore has a population < 6M.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore

http://assets.ce.columbia.edu/pdf/actu/actu-singapore.pdf

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15356118/s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/upshot/what-makes-singapo...

If I were starting from scratch I'd go with single-payer but given where we are, it seems easier to get to a Bismarck-style regulated multi-payer system like Germany or most recently, Switzerland:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/...

Still, Singapore is an interesting system. The craziest thing about the U.S. is how many different systems we have: the V.A. is effectively a Beveridge system, Medicare is an NHI model, Medicaid is a weird Federal/State hybrid, then we have private insurance, and on top-of-that, out of pocket. There are vested interests throughout. It's 18% of our GDP. It's going to be hard to fix. I think Medicare as a public option with subsidies is a good start. Doctors and hospitals are not going to be happy with the reimbursement rates though.
This makes sense if you ever used Facebook Marketplace. Usually in those transactions, most people use Venmo, Cash app, or Apple Pay.
please proof - just curious
"2 / 8 = 0.29"

0.25 according to my calculations

pictures and /dev/random should give 0.5, not 0.57, if not they are not properly compressed and it's not a proper random generation, which I don't really believe. Maybe similar error as what happened with the 0.29?

The mean byte value in decimal should be 127.5.

I guess it may be something about the hexadecimal -> decimal -> binary conversion -> count instances of '0' and '1' in string in the python code that is doing something wrong (it's also inefficient to roundtrip through decimal when the original bytes are already binary in the computer and to involve strings in this at all). Does it remove leading zeros perhaps?
There's a gigantic arctic front moving across most of the US East coast right now. Thousands of schools and businesses are closed due to the weather.

The point of launching on a Tuesday morning was to test out the system with a small audience ahead of Thanksgiving, or even the weekend, when they would properly expect to be slammed. But due to the weather, they're getting slammed by all the people stuck at home with nothing else to do.
Instead, they mean something sensible: that permission has been linked with designation as per capability security. Adding feature extensions are thus linked with the authorities required to implement those features, and the modules implementing those features can't do anything behind the scenes.

So you would no longer be able to amplify a string value into a file descriptor as you can in systems with ambient authority (which is nearly every system in widespread use today).

So "secure by default" here means, "programs conform to least privilege".
I once had 3 guys in suits show up to a new office my work had opened. They acted very official, asked to see our labor posters. I told them we don't have any (should've asked for ID right then). They told me I could avoid a fine if I bought some from them on the spot. At that point I caught on, asked for ID - they showed me something official looking that didn't actually say they were government. Once I asked them point blank if they worked for the government they admitted it was a private company and I told them to leave.

It was a total scam, but it did make us be sure to get our labor posters hung up though. (We just asked our payroll provider to send them to us and they were free.)
Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
Right, except they have children already and things need to change very quickly to benefit them, and most of us just don't have the time or energy.

It's not reasonable to expect everyone to crusade for reform. I want what's best for my kids now, and if that's a charter school, that's what I'm aiming for.
The better question, is why Java? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered any company or person to use Java for ML. Scala yes. Clojure, surprisingly, yes. Java, no. Not to say they don’t exist, but it’s not a good idea. The ecosystem isn’t there, and the language (I want to say sucks), isn’t there either.
Signaling: The Language Peacocks, Gazelles, and Humans All Speak
There is a useful edge case to this. In my case I was searching for a specific bit of content that had too few results in English so Google started returning results based on similar search terms in another language. It took a bunch of quotes and some specific strings to get into that state in the first place though.
Oh very cool! Thanks for sharing, I'll have to take a look at this
What Did Dinosaurs Sound Like?
Elon Musk: Tesla Is Going to Build Gigafactory 4 in 'Berlin Area' – Electrek
What happens when the person likes to cross-dress on the weekends, but in a mens suit M-F?
Well spoted. And ashaming for the OP
> Not only can you find or figure out how much everything will cost, most places (particularly hospitals and outpatient centers) will not even tell you how much they charge for their services. Some news outlet did a study and called the top 25 hospitals in the country and asked them how much a hip replacement would cost. Only around 3-5 actually gave a number and it varied wildly. The rest refused to pin down any number at all. That's one of the most common surgeries there are and they don't know what they will charge for it?

Because in the US model the insurances negotiate with the hospitals what they pay, and you will almost always be given a number that is way higher than the highest insurance amount - as when you pay yourself the hospital has a high risk of never being able to (even partially) collect the bill. Also, it must be higher than the highest insurance amount so that if you were an undercover agent of your insurance you would still believe you pay less than others.
Sadly, the author forced the text layout to 1000 columns wider than my phone, so I cannot learn what Hyram's law is without scrolling from left to right until my thumb bleeds...

Would anyone care to paraphrase it?
The cross-language interoperability of WebAssembly seems practically like a happy side-effect of its design; I don't think it would look much differently at present if it had originally been built to target only C (in a sandboxable way). Most of the article still applies even if you ignore other language support. The first priority for WebAssembly seems to be making things strongly sandboxed.
Thanks for the link!

“““ We wanted to find a solution that would minimize frustration (and
time-consuming meetings) internally, while setting the correct
expectations with users around quality and stability. ”””

Honestly, this doesn't explain much. If anything, hearing “FooDB 19.1”
makes me think of stuff like React 16 or Chrome 69. That is, of “hip
dudes” who “live fast and bump major versions”. On the other hands,
hearing “FooDB 2.16” would make me think “Yep, this thing seems stable
as Perl or Linux”. The meetings point also doesn't explain anything.
Go simply does a minor version bump every six months. Why couldn't
Cockroach Labs just do that?

Oh well, who cares, really, as long as the product is great.
I'm happy that there's more and more effort to help people pay each other without punishing fees or needing physical currency.

But ugh... FB Pay, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Venmo, Paypal... I hate thinking I'll need so many systems connected to my bank account to send or receive money. Feels like too much complexity and risk.

I know we're fatigued on "blockchain nonsense," but I'm eager and hopeful to get to a point where there's some sort of accepted (and widely used) international standard for digital currency. The traditional banking industry has just made it too hard and too expensive to move money.
I feel like news organizations shouldn't even have to pay to use images in the public interest for news broadcasts.

What was the context that DN used this image?
As a veteran, I think that is only part of the story. The military is many things depending on who you ask. In fact, if you ask me throughout my life, you'd get different answers.

You have to consider that the makeup of the military ranges from truly noble folks to psychopaths, from the poor escaping poverty to the patriots trying to impress their family.

Edit: And to some it's an imperialist frat in service to the wealthy elites.

Old men start wars, young men (and women) fight them.
In German: https://www.bild.de/auto/auto-news/auto-news/elon-musk-beim-...
OK - so if it is so obvious that you can't scale from 0 to 100 on launch day, why not anticipate that?

I imagine the gigantic Arctic cold front passing over the East Coast right now created a much larger demand than they were expecting on a non-holiday Tuesday morning while school is (supposed to be) in session.
A Fedora RPM Repository for Music
Interstellar travel IS hard, but the current laws of physics allow it to be done. Crewed interstellar travel can be done on timescales of ~50 years to the nearest star system using ~10Terawatt of solar power in space to power efficient beamed macron propulsion with the benefit being that most of the investment is in the macron beamer and power supply which stays in the solar system and can be reused like once every few months, sending a stream of ~100 ton spacecraft on magsails to Alpha Centauri (using the magsails to brake against the interstellar medium near the destination). Two way trips are not feasible in a human lifespan as it currently is, but one-way settlement of nearest stars is, with a stream of supplies and settlers arriving every few months.

To really make this feasible, improvements in hibernation tech could help. Induced torpor over a week or two already works and could be used repeatedly so that psychological time in transit is only a few years (and the reduction in metabolism from torpor may also extend calendar life of the crew, but that is not yet proven). Even modest life extension (i.e. increasing healthspan from ~mid-60s to mid-80s or longer) would significantly increase the viability of human settlement of Alpha Centauri, and we're just getting to grips with the biochemical tools needed to fight aging, so who knows over a few centuries what will be possible. I think increase in human healthspan and lifespan is more likely than a dramatic practical but fundamental physics breakthrough cutting down the time.
Yeah, that is not a real solution for a database of any real size, which is the only reason to use CockroachDB in the first place.