skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This left me without health insurance coverage for a week between jobs...I suppose people in the US are so used to this being "the way it is"

No. Actually we are not used to that being the way it is, the US has had a solution in place for this very problem since 1985 [1,2] - it's called COBRA and it extends your health care coverage after you leave a job that provides it.

Make no mistake - you pay for it. But by US employment law, HR is required to inform you about how to get COBRA to continue your health care coverage after you separate.

So author either had a company violating labor laws - or he declined COBRA coverage.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Omnibus_Budget_Re...

2 - https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra
Nah. Somehow I've always managed to put enough on paper to not get nailed on things like you've just mentioned.
I'm not sure it's fraud but it's probably not a good practice.

Standard "mileage charges" in the US are actually set by the IRS. I assume it's similar in other places so that's a well-established practice for car-related expenses. I'm not sure how else you would do it as there's no way to directly capture expenses other than fuel.

I assume that in most cases billing some standard travel day rate/per diem (perhaps based on location) would be fine as well with, possibly, air charged separately for the actual amount.

The key is that you're being explicit that you're not charging the actual amount but rather some standard rate that, in principle, approximates average/typical expenses.
Did you perhaps mean to say you're not convinced?
Doc here.

I was at a continuing education course last year.
FDA approved a new narcotic very fast.
A non narcotic alternative is taking forever to approve.

Its name is Maxigesic.
Tylenol and ibuprofen in one pill.

Why?
Hour of Code Will Teach Kids How to Use AI to Judge Who Is 'Awesome' or Not
Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist
That may be true for some, but it's not true for me - currently.

Ie, if I could get a DB/FS + PaaS for $5/m I'd use it in a heartbeat. If I run into a wall where I need to manually tweak some fine detail, I can always fall back to normal deployments, right?

PaaS in concept fits exactly what many of us seek. Deploying apps without managing ops. Just because it's not infinitely powerful doesn't mean it's a reason no one would use a PaaS. PaaS fits a very real use case.

In my somewhat edge case though, hobby/side projects, I can't pay much for them. So I manage the ops myself currently because I can save money, but if Heroku was just a bit more cheap I'd use them.
Look at my parent comment as an example. There is no way for me to find out why it is now at -1 and frankly, the humans who made the decision are not obliged to comment.

So the comment will disappear with no understanding why. No learning is possible.

Human involvement didn't help here.

QED
So this is just a configuration issue and the kernel defaults to even worse security.
Vast majority of the cost is regulation. As Uber/Airbnb demonstrated all you need is a convenient way around that with enough of the voting public on your side until regulations sway in your favour.
Am a big fan of small modular reactors, likely they will fit in a rocket bound for Mars one day.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
(Co-founder here)

We integrate with existing identity providers (for instance, GSuite, Okta, Ping, AD) to perform authentication and generate keypairs. Public keys are shared via a coordination server (and each device's private keys never leave it). There's an (optional) additional layer of authorization required in which an admin reviews the endpoints asking to connect. A combination of user and machine certificates makes it possible to ensure that both the users and machines are managed properly.

So, basically, we're enabling the "enforcement" side of identity and policy management at the networking layer, with visibility into users and their devices.

I hope this helps! Please keep the questions coming.
This s unbelievable. My Norwegian bank account number has a check digit as does my Norwegian social security number.

The bank account numbers have had check digits since 1967!
Thanks, that's useful. By "public sources" do you mean "anywhere that's not an insider-as-currently-defined-by-law", rather than literally public? This is important because incentivizing the making public of non-public(-but-not-insider-obtained) info is a crucial job of markets.

I'd be interested in a link to further reading if you can recommend one.
Simply put: We can see 46 Billion Light Years away now, b/c it wasn't that far away when it was created.
I looked up Killer whale on wiki.

Killer whales are apex predators, as no animal preys on them.

So what exactly is new in this paper?
Are you sure about this? SO says no: https://superuser.com/questions/1416419/how-can-i-block-html...
Every individual feature has a support graph on MDN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
There is a predictable component to the market. When we exchange articles about "how we did $something-entrepreneurish right and reaped rewards", we're essentially trading exam questions from previous years.
>Now I got hired at a really big brand and I joined the team last month. And oh boy, these guys are good. I mean they come up with solutions I couldn't even remotely think of.

This seems to be your sticking point. The reason they can "come up" with solutions is, in most cases, experience. They've seen those solutions before. If not those exact solutions, the pieces of the solution, and are able to put them all together.

Make sure you take the time to really understand their solutions so you too can have them in your toolbox.
"Make people want something that is actually junk." doesn't have quite the same ring to it, nor does it sound remotely more plausible.

Presumably the 10% weekly growth that YC and PG advocate as the default growth metric isn't expected to be in the absence of sales but the contrary, sales plus anything that works that is ethical and not some ponzi scheme.

He provided examples via the link to http://paulgraham.com/ds.html where he describes stripe founders engaging in zealous activities many would call sales despite being the type of startup that could have leaned back and had ample demand.
Exactly what I was thinking.

> For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow.

Not just Monica, this coincides pretty perfectly with multiple bad decisions made by the company. I don't understand how Spolsky can think he's going a good job.
I think it’s a good practice to keep the abbreviations the same when talking about in the same context. It makes clear the ratio being talked about.
Try this recommended extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-page-we/
"I'd say, believe me there are quite a lot of geniuses"

I did not say they were not. Some products said company did develop do require a genius. But from my experience those tend to compartmentalize in appropriate departments and the rest is just average.

Of course there are always exceptions.
Worst part about it is, when you get that yearly headache from dealing with insurance plan renewal, you have to pay full price for the headache medicine because your deductible and out-of-pocket counters reset to zero!

Adding insanity to insult and injury.
> What has been driving me to startups is the fact that creating a profitable business has no place for hacks.

Not sure that's true. Marketing is a hack, for one. If you have the best product but nobody knows about it, it's no use.

More generally, there's a reason that the tech career ladder is hackable: performance reviews are both important and also too expensive to do right. If you want a real evaluation of what I've done over the past year, what you really need is someone following me 40 hours a week, noting how I contributed (positively or negatively) at small meetings, keeping track of whether my projects are late because I helped someone with something truly important or I spent my time on HN, etc. But you can't assign one reviewer per employee, so you make an approximate process where employees self-report what they did and managers report the fraction they've seen. You also can't get rid of the process, because a simple profit motive demands you incentivize employees for actually delivering business value. So you have a process that's vulnerable to exploits like flashy launches that will wither in a year.

If you as a business owner aren't evaluating your employees, you won't be profitable. If you're watching each moment of your employees, you're wasting time. If you spend your time developing a fairer review process, you're not working on your actual business. If you don't hire employees and just put yourself out there in the market, your customers certainly aren't evaluating you fairly. (And of course your employees and potential hires are evaluating you on partial data, and it's in your interest to hire and retain good employees.) So whatever you do, it's hackable, and if you don't play the game you'll forfeit it.
Why would some things be bound by the speed of light and not others? I always thought of this limitation as an all-or-nothing law.
I agree, this is not a great article, tries to make a lot of drama out of what appears to be a really simple event, manages to contain less information than the actual HackerOne report, and has that weird coda of Katie Moussouris and the DoD program, which has nothing to do with this story.
Couple that with students' hidden goal being "not ruining my career prospects and/or angering my parents by getting bad grades", and you arrive at modern school.
Not much because it's quite nebulous. It does seem to make scientific sense that the body would reduce such defences to bare essentials like inflammation and blood clotting during crisis in order to save energy. These systems would normally come fully back online during 'rest and digest' periods when the short-term crisis is over. Why do people enjoy chronic activation of the sympathetic nervous system? I think it's a form of distraction: a way of avoiding boredom or the contemplation of painful memories and personal problems. This is common sense for many people but it obviously isn't being addressed by the harder biological and medical journals because they don't like to talk about subjective experiences. Presumably because they require objectivity and they think of subjectivity as being the opposite. But this is itself a misconception:

https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/11746303659123261...
Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1M from a Chinese VC
Also:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/boeing-hi...
This is a good thing. People die, and die sooner, when the FDA cannot adapt its approval process to drugs and tools for patients who sadly have little downside to trying them.

In my own little corner (diabetes) it’s been nice to get monitoring tools earlier than they once would have been approved, and for my medical team to confidently plan for equipment changes based on future approvals.
I see money laundering is alive and well down south.
APL is like if we assigned a number to every word in the English language. There are about 60,000 words: sixteen bits would do it. We could use base 64, so every word would be reduced to three characters. Wouldn't that be an improvement? </sarcasm>
A response to the report [1] noted:

> This attack works regardless of if you have a VPN or not. The attacker just needs to be able to send packets to the other host. It's not systemd specific.

[1] https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/123
https://theoldreader.com/
It's not because of "weak types" since the types inside the array don't get their type information erased. It's because Array.sort takes a comparison function but the default function instead of being something like

[1, 10, 2].sort((a,b) => a > b ? 1 : -1)
// -> [1, 2, 10]

is something like

// [1, 10, 2].sort((a,b) => a.toString() > b.toString() ? 1 : -1)
// -> [1, 10, 2]

because someone thought that it was "best" to cast stuff to string in case whatever you put in the container didn't implement comparison.
It's very expensive but you can purchase it retroactively - so don't have to pay for it unless you actually need to pay for medical expenses during the gap period.
This is more or less of a Gucci-branded LSD simulator for $1000+.

I'd rather buy the real thing for less than this contraption.
That's the trend of these type of shows. While these types of shows can/could be considered educational content, they try to over dramatize them to make them "entertaining". They try to build up some drama/tension even if it is obviously forced. Then intercut with the limited video footage you have even reusing the same footage. There's a fine line to keep educational content from boring your viewers to tears and making it feel like sitting in a secondary school class, but the producers have not gotten it right yet.
Robots in Government could wipe out just as many high paying jobs including large swaths of redundant personnel.
Alternative option, tell the school he's not doing homework - they're providing a service to parents to aid with a child education, if that's not aiding then change the contract.

FWIW the UK Education Act actually enshrines this concept (parents are responsible for a child being educated), though this has been eroded considerably by Tory policy in the last decade or so. We did tell our primary school "don't expect homework from $child[0]" one year, they didn't complain. However we also wanted to do flexschooling and the head refused it, which I'm still smarting over and consider to have been a significant detriment.

That same primary school ditched regular style homework in favour of projects, which $child[1] wants to do, and we can decide easily to curtail the time used doing it if we want. It's a great way of doing homework IMO; very child-centric.
A pedantic side note: analog TV broadcasts in America were 480i, not even 480p.
The "stable Array.sort" proposal was actually made because all major browsers had switched to a stable sort implementation: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1340

It was actually proposed by the v8 / chrome people (https://v8.dev/features/stable-sort) after they'd finally come around to implement one of the oldest v8 feature requests: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=90

And stable does make for a better default than unstable: it offers stronger guarantees and more reliable behaviour. That's doubly important because by and large developers work to the implementation not the spec. And it's unlikely you'll ever change that.

The last one to switch was Chakra (Edge), and that one was weird as it used a stable sort up to 512 elements, and unstable above.

Funnily enough, Mozilla had originally switched to a stable sort because MSIE used a stable sort: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224128
Or $750, for that matter. (Mind you, if they take $800, good for you!)
I have had to choose between working at a fast food restaurant (crappy job) and working as a math tutor (awesome job), but the tutoring gig was a contract deal and as such they were not required to provide any health benefits. Working as a tutor for a couple months was really great, but in the end I had to go back to working fast food so that I can pay for medications and a surgical procedure.
Yay Capitalism!
My claim is that there isn't a remotely clear place to put a line between honest research and sifting through the garbage, and if you try and force the court to draw the line it will instantly become impossibly convoluted and inefficient, so that no non-lawyer could possibly know what's legal, and would not at all track the moral and efficiency principles we want. (The fact that courts have been put in this position in the past is not a good reason to do it again.) Like, shouldn't the legislators/regulators do as much line-drawing as possible beforehand, as part of the democratic process? Leaving things up to the court is defensible when the ambiguities are unforeseeable or impossibly numerous, but neither apply here.
Doesn't satisfy "synced history across any device".
I appreciate the thoughtful response. I have a lot to say on the matter but it goes well off-topic of, "healthcare shouldn't be bound to employment". However, I am curious. Technically, yes, you can go get your own healthcare and reject the employer's offerings? Is that a real-world practical option that people can and do opt to take?
Corollary to Corollary: no two people can be equally smart
OK, but only in the sense that a car crash is a mechanical problem (there may be repairs to make).

>lots of grains and refined foods

i.e. rather tasty! I don't think we can escape from motives here: they select what type of diet we prefer given the choice. The market caters to that.
Lots. I can't remember exactly what I've seen, but believe I have seen it used in interesting ways. Including (drum roll...) .toString().substring(some_magic_number, ...) to do something or other (wish I remembered what). I'll let you think about whether that's wise, but note that indexing into 'function /* a comment */ foo () {}' (the example from the article) will give different results from indexing into 'function foo () {}'.
Yes, school is terrible and we should all not go.
One catch, COBRA is oy for companies of a certain size.
It's worth not concentrating too much on the first paragraph of the article, which merely talks about a common cultural cliché and reading the rest, which answers your question.

Also note that multiple species can be "apex predators" in an ecosystem.
I’m not sure what kind of ring would warrant a $370M price tag. The biggest diamond someone would reasonably put on their finger is probably like 20ct, and even that would only be in the low-mid 7 figures.

And suppose there was such a ring, a fictional 15ct vivid pink diamond...why would it be at a Borsheims in Omaha?

Edit: Beyoncé’s engagement ring is reportedly 18ct and cost $6M.
It's sorta what Elon Musk is doing except he's intending his moon shots to be viable businesses.
Still not actually robots.
So on the topic of healthcare linked to employment, what would it have looked like if you took some of the tutor money and bought your own healthcare?

I want to say that maybe the fast food job simply paid more if you factored in the healthcare, but maybe it's that the fast food company can get way better insurance rates than you alone?
@Ruxbin1986 There’re some great long-form (1-3 hr) techno channels on SoundCloud that works like medicine for me.

Just to name a few:

- Reclaim Your City
- Slam Radio
- PoleGroup
- Scopavik
- On The 5th Day
- The Brvtalist
- HATE
- Owt
- HEX Barcelona
- KHIDI

Or these artists “guest sets”, regardless of channel they are posted on:

- Cliche Morph
- Michal Jablonski
- IGNOTA
- Blazej Malinowski
- Perc
- Violent
- Setaoc Mass
- Lewis Fautzi
- Amotik
- Sept
- Schlømo
- Luigi Tozzi
- Albert van Abbe
- Oscar Mulero
- Sigha
- Randomer
- Reflec
- Joachim Spieth
- Kwartz
- Massa
- Reggie van Oers
- Ancient Methods
- SNTS
- Headless Horseman
- Phase Phatale
- Svarog
- TommyFourSeven

And the list goes on and on. Hope this is useful for somebody.
Constantly update expectations based on how the work is actually going and based on evolving requirements. If you are T&M or Fixed Fee, you need to always give people your best expectation of progress and where you think (even with a lot of uncertainty) you'll be when the budget runs out. If you do this constantly and early clients feel empowered to make choices (including adding more budget). If you just work until the money is gone either you eat the overage or the client is blindsided and pissed off.

The short version of this: Never, ever, go over budget - always ask for more money or a cut in scope and always do so as early as humanly possible.

If you and/or the client aren't clear on scope or if the budget is enough, don't sleep at night, confront and squash the uncertainty and resultant misalignments or you will get bitten!
Did it by any chance pull parameter names out by using a magic-number index into the function text? If so, that'd be broken by the 'function /* a comment */ foo () {}' change in the article (and might be what I remember having seen a long time ago). Glad I don't have to deal with that sort of thing. Does Angular 2 do it the same way?
Huh? That seems uncharacteristically flashy for Buffett.

> Buffett met them at the airport and escorted them to Borsheims, a jewellery business he bought four years earlier.

Ah, now it all makes sense.
That's at least two different but related issues. The funding you combat with strong campaign finance rules. The allegiance to a foreign power you combat via single citizenship qualification rules (Australia has those federally), free press, and a culture that is a better deal than whatever the CCP can serve up. Better a system open to some influence than one that locks out migrants from the process because of where they happened to be born.
The very beginning of the readme is all about commercial, not residential, hosting. "Self" for the code, but not for the infra.
People try to do this by using one time use credit card numbers, but being able to easily cancel the payment method does not release you from the agreement you made with the vendor for their service. It’s simple contract law and I can see how banks would not want to wade into those murky waters.
It appears that there is a sense in which he is correct:

E.g., early in my career I stumbled onto some of what he is saying but then didn't appreciate the situation. Basically, just stay with what is hot. Get into a hot job, learn what is hot, jump to another job that wants the hot stuff, keep going for the hot stuff.

This way get to focus: (1) Actually can get okay with the point of the focus at the hot stuff because that point is not very large or hard if only because what is "hot" is from a public that doesn't know very much and (2) do not have to learn computer science broadly. If take the money from learning the hot stuff, get a good Ph.D. in what is arguably the better stuff, go back to the job market, and no longer be with the then current hot stuff, then can find that your career is in trouble.

Then using your actual competence in some actually important stuff, do a startup where need to please the users but not some naive public fooled by mostly simplistic hot stuff.
I recollect there was a website that did this [1]. Can't vouch for it. Not affiliated. Didn't read more than a couple startups.

[1]: https://getautopsy.wixsite.com/failed-startups
I think you're right on this. The only way I could see nuclear being the better option is if we figure out fusion and get high efficiency.
If I understood your requirement correctly, there was a Wordpress plugin that did similar (if you don't mind running a Wordpress instance though). It's supposed to be OSS as well, so I guess there's copies of the source available elsewhere too. In any case if you'd like to purchase their official license:

https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/software-licensin...
The ancestral precursor to modern orcas is a pig? Really? Fascinating. What creature does the fossil record point to as the orca ancestor?

(Legitimately curious. Rereading before posting makes me realize that I sound like an anti-evolution troll XD )
Here is the source (without memes) https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/122
Azure Compute Engine Workstation Cost Reduced with Terraform
I'm definitely not in the world of finance, but in day to day conversation, I have to stop to think what one hundred sixty thousand million means. If I hear one hundred sixty billion, then I immediately understand. Even if I had previously heard five million then heard one hundred sixty billion, it is obvious that billion is 1000x a million which clearly makes it a bigger number. This is what I meant by unnatural.