skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends, lots of larger professional ap just don't work that way. They don't choose when things are paid. They are trained to look for discounts though
Oh, not sure how I missed these methods, thanks! I'll update the post to reflect it.
No, but this is addressed in my post. Australia's obesity rate is substantially lower, plus they suffer from lower homicide, drug abuse, and the like. More generally, the diminishing returns to health spending imply there's very little to believe the higher expenditure the US makes is likely to purchase appreciably better outcomes (even with different healthcare regimes).
That's the problem: somehow nobody sells a larger number of thinner volumes. You just get a larger number of books, each somehow being heavier than the original English volume.
I mean, its not like markets reach equilibrium in an instant, or that financial education/operations are particularly robust in these communities. A more competitive lending market takes time to setup (i.e. to learn idiosyncratic risks) and some amount of operational overhead/expertise to run efficiently. Just because things are the way they are doesn’t mean they can’t change
Unless it's performing better for session length or something, my question is how did something with significantly worse load time get past beta?
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Pre-ordered from Amazon. God bless Don Knuth.

Off-topic:

Whoa, I just logged into my slashdot account for the first time in probably 12-13 years. In the late 90s and early 2000s it was quite the site.

I remember following the comments in real time of the September 11 attacks on the U.S.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-towe...

Neal Stephenson recounting his battles with William Gibson.

https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-...

And the trials and tribulations of poor Jon Katz.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/00/02/07/0717247/interview-a...
There are two points to the article.

1) Healthcare spending has rapidly diminishing returns, not only comparing the US to Europe, but comparing countries within Europe (such as the Netherlands versus Spain).

2) The lower life expectancy in the US can be explained mostly by higher obesity. US states with similar obesity to European countries have similar life expectancy.
I read about this a while back, I got the understanding that it is poorly known how rare it is. Many cases have been found by coincidence.
Nope, this is silly. Mutual attraction is what leads you to become couples in the first place. The physical part of attraction is what leads you to notice the other person and then building an emotional bond with each other will increase the attraction. So attraction is a symptom not a cause. Like any emotion attraction comes and goes. IMHO believing this folly is what leads to so many people breaking up when they could be very happy together and why so many people are lonely these days.

My own experience after 15 years of marriage is that attraction comes and goes for both me and my wife. But by not doing anything rash when that happens we have both discovered that it also comes back. Sure the first few times it happened it was quite scary, but then we've found a rhythm with the ebbs and floods.
You can watch the movie the term is based on (with English subtitles) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwR2kVOcwNI
From their point of view, the website is evil. The app has better telemetry. They knew eliminating the site wasn't an option, so they made it just bad enough to push users towards the app. They did exactly what they were supposed to do, maximize income. And it's possible that was executed without any individual designer or programmer thinking they were doing anything wrong. Except the ones responsible for adding tracking outbound clicks, they're terrible people.
I've never used it myself, but kdb+ is meant to be excellent if you need it.
Why do smells trigger strong memories?
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Thanks and you're welcome. I put many things I think a lot about (not email stuff but things really important to me...) at my web site (in my profile).
Would you mind expanding on how your friends suffered? What went wrong etc.
Sounds interesting.
A class action lawsuit could be interesting. While it would be impossible to collect damages from a company with no assets, the plaintiffs might find, through subpoenaed emails and records, that the CEO was personally aware that the company was taking money from customers after knowing the company couldn't deliver its product. If so, would they be able to sue the CEO for fraud and go after his personal assets?

This article suggests that owners of a company can be sued for acting in bad faith, such as when "the corporation is used to incur debts far exceeding the corporate resources with no intention of repaying the liabilities":

https://info.legalzoom.com/can-person-owns-corporation-sued-...
And compare that 1 time cost, to the cost of all the practices, drugs, procedures they have the continuously perform to combat anti-biotic resistant bacteria?

$2.75 is what, equal to maybe 2 mins of the average doctor's hourly salary?
I'd get on that immediately but I'm a bit busy climbing to the top of a tree so this fungus that's taken over my nervous system can proceed to the next stage of its lifecycle by getting a bird to eat me.
Maybe! But I had to implement some tools (chrome extensions) on Javascript with no prior JS experience, so was trying to stick to vanilla side.
> What you are asking for is like reading about IQ and income and saying "ah, but did they control for education?"

that thing that literally raises the measured IQ number?

you know that practice can raise your score, right
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I think this article about Instagram turning off Python's garbage collecting is somewhat relevant and interesting:

https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...
I’ve been using Makefiles for Go development basically since I started with the language. It’s really effective for me and makes compilation and, in my case, deployment to AWS Lambdas via CloudFormation commands (also invoked by Make) really simple. It’s also easy to bring someone up to speed with how building and deploying works.
I think the controversial idea is that the USA healthcare system is operating on the same efficiency curve as other developed nations.

That is to say, a socialized healthcare system with the same spending is unlikely to provide any improvements in life expectancy.
I'm personally just annoyed that people are so happy to be annoyed at each other every time this discussion comes up, so there's that.

Astronomers have been talking and acting for decades to take advantage of new technologies like orbital observatories.
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Never thought pictures of business /technology leaders could evoke pure kid like joy.
Yes it would be an improvement, but I use web-based email so rarely I don't know if I'd bother setting up such a thing.

The only time I use web-based email is when I'm on a public computer and need a very specific message. When that happens, I know intuitively which account it's in.
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34% to 28% is substantially lower?
Hangul was intentionally created to be the simplest script in the world to learn.
> The ‘==‘ does not have a special overload for String instances

As a non-Java developer I have to ask why you think this is a reasonable design choice. It's a massive footgun for the a casual polyglot Java developer. I can imagine just forgetting I can't do == if I've just switched from being immersed in another language.
Work, personal Gmail, and more recently a personal burner domain that has hundreds.

The burner domain is great for random website signups. Anything serious is done via Gmail (with two factor), but for the burner domain I use a unique address for every site that needs a sign-up (so if whatever.com needs a sign up then I use whatever@burner, other.org becomes other@burner etc etc - all addresses are directed to one inbox via a catchall) but typically the same password.

So I remember one password instead of one email address, and the address I can work out from the domain. Not exactly secure, but at least slightly resistant to leaked email lists if a site gets hacked (since every site has a unique address and common password, rather than common address and password). I am working on the assumption that people are just automatically trying leaked user-passwd pairs and won't "crack" my system... but if they do no harm done since anything important is on Gmail (I generally trust Google to not get hacked, for better or worse) and I can start again with another burner domain. For important passwords I of course use decent passwords and a password manager, but life is too short for that with websites you might only use once or twice a year and you don't really care about.

I use Zoho for the burner domain. Cheap and reliable. I tried fastmail, proton mail, and tutonova but I preferred zoho's web interface, app, and price (for the features I needed)
ImageMagick has multi-threading, OpenCL support, and even heterogeneous distributed computing support.
Best React animation library
If you go back 100 years, you could see stars great from the middle of your very large city in Europe. Then the lights came, one by one.

This process is just starting with satellites. Can you see the connection now?
They were extremely lofty early on. Motto aside, remember Google.org?

> October 12, 2005

> SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. is financing its promise to make the world a better place with an initial commitment of nearly $1 billion to a philanthropic arm devoted to causes that mesh with the online search engine leader's crusade.

> The altruistic effort, formally disclosed yesterday under the umbrella of Google.org, follows through on a pledge that the Mountain View, Calif.-based company made last year as it prepared its ballyhooed initial public offering of stock.

http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/...
In the United States, most cities and towns are very forcibly restricting the number of house/apartments that can be built.

This results in skyrocketing house prices and makes everyone have to work much longer before they can retire.
Most servers will refuse the request making it only very rarely helpful.
"Angered by the bank’s reply, Teich contacted the Guardian for help. We asked it to reconsider his case, and in an almost immediate U-turn, it has now agreed to pay all his legal fees, and has offered him £750 in compensation."

I dunno, this sounds fake.

Financial institutions make mistakes all the time, and if the scenario here really did happen, what do you spend £46,000 on? Lawyers are expensive, but they don't charge that much to send a nasty letter. That's like months of billable hours.
> Page has even managed to keep the names of his two kids secret

Dakota and Skyler

Now you know.
I know a of relatives who only buy hardbacks -- even if all they're reading is one-read genre stuff.

Myself, I tend to buy paperback, read and then donate. If the book was good and I want to keep it for my personal collection. I track down a hardcover copy.
Tell HN: Read through your old comments
Today I took the time to read through the old comments I've made, and found the experience very helpful for my personal growth.

With enough time passed, I can see the kind of person I was being through my posts. Many comments I was being uncharitably rude, trying too hard to sound intellectual, or not giving the benefit of the doubt.

Some comments I'm proud I voiced, even if they didn't get many upvotes. I saw that sometimes I really can contribute a unique perspective to the platform.

I hope to be more considerate when posting, and help HN stay a positive place where anyone can learn new things. In these crazy times, I've found HN to be one of the few grounded sources of information.
I want to live in a society where I can live my life as I see fit in private with as little performance art in public as possible.

The idea that your public persona should be anything like your private one is so wrong its laughable.

Right now SF is giving most of the middle east a run for it's money for the number of things no one believes but pretends to so they aren't killed - or worse become unemployable and homeless.
what a PR mess for verizon
Going out on a limb here to guess you live in SF :\
Are you the original author? Have you done an evaluation on the financial consequences of both healthcare systems as well? Do people suffer medical bankruptcies at similar levels in our peer nations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzGsb_TPtI

I had forgotten how good it is. The whole game was very good. The next one, World at War was also good, but I didn't enjoy any of the later installments.
Rust can express state machines just fine, as well as refinement types (Python can do refinement types too), but yes, I agree that there's room for languages to build more ergonomic but advanced type systems.
I’m making a static website in clojure, which is how I managed to get myself to learn some lisp.
It's funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you'd think Google was one of the worst companies out there.

And yet, I think it is safe to say that Google basically defined the post-dot-com-bubble era, in a good way. So many things that comprise 'company culture' today and that have been emulated (whether willingly or out of pressure to stay competitive to other companies in the hiring market) by tech and non-tech companies around the world were pioneered by Google. Anyone who has actually worked in other industries will attest how much a breath of fresh air Google brought to corporate life. It's a separate matter how some of it is coming back to bite them now that they have hired too many people who are more interested in activism than doing their job.

So many of Larry's and Sergey's ideas were truly about organizing the world's information. That vision statement wasn't just words. It affected how Google and Googlers thought of things. My favorite example is Google Books. Is it an obvious ad-funnel? I doubt it. Or Google Street Maps, for that matter. And yet it has provided so much value to the world.

It's almost never a good idea to make gods out of people. But it is at the same time a terrible idea to make absolute demons out of them. And I think we stray too much into the latter territory just because it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things.
Getting apparently multiple court orders, as the article describes, is probably a bit more work and fees than "send a nasty letter"
That's not a new idea, and it's a lot harder than it looks.

It would be awesome if Starlink would donate bandwidth for the Greenland and South Pole EHT telescopes. Right now there's no "first look" capability for them.
I looked at 2018's annual report. Net income divided by total revenues. Google should that show that in a quick search.
The hangover of depression, agitation, and anhedonia is real, but it just lasts a day. The conversations, connections, and epiphanies you may have had last much much longer.
I have a code question.

On line 24 in this file an object is sealed, but it has a type assigned. What does sealing this object change? Is there a concern that other running code will try to assign or delete properties on this object?

https://github.com/eavichay/microfronts/blob/master/src/rout...
I get the idea, but in reality there is no fair equity position unless you are considered a co-founder. If you are considered a co-founder then this is workable, but basically you need to have an equal say in all things, otherwise the company needs to find a way to pay you.

To be clear, equity is a promise that is broken in all but a few percentage of cases, and even when it isn't broken entirely many times it is nowhere near what you were promised or believed would be the outcome.

I say you must be considered and treated as a co-founder because you are taking the same risk the founders are and you need to be treated equally and be able to have unrestricted equity, full voting etc. This mostly prevents them from creating a share class now or later to minimize your payout, or to dilute you first before their shares are diluted.

Whatever you do, don't do a deal like this without a lawyer helping you get it all in writing correctly to protect you. If they object to that then you should run away from this deal.

To be fair, I have done this type of deal once, where I took only equity for work (and I had most of these protections but not all and not co-founder "status") but I will never do it again without being a founder/co-founder. There are just so many ways to be screwed, even by well meaning founders who just are naive to how investors and business works. It is also easy for people to speak about being fair when a multi-million dollar payout is just a dream, but people change when the money is really there and they see themselves "losing" millions to "non-founders". Not saying all people are like this, many are great and wouldn't be douches, but you have to protect yourself from those situations no matter what. And good founders won't object to you having those protections in place because they were never going to be the ones that tried to screw you in the first place. Lots of lawsuits and insane amounts of money gets paid to lawyers because people don't protect themselves up front and get things clear and in writing.
I am seeing Ada poping up a lot more lately, is Ada still being used?
Couple Started a $2MM/Month Business Selling Authentic Thai Food on 18 Locations
Apple was abnormal among tech companies back then for having a huge cash stockpile. These days, they have billions just because they have too much money to know what to do with. But back in the 90s, they had billions in cash & short term investments even though the whole company was only worth a few billion. Of course, you could argue that meant that the market was very pessimistic about their business and therefore they were very shaky. But they were very different from a typical struggling business that is levered up and has to make the vigorish every month.
Anyone interested in this article should consider giving Spacemacs a try.

It worked out of the box for me and so far is the best setup I've found for Vim users learning Lisp. I tried (wasted time with) all the Vim lisp plugins.
I actually did experiment with that - Core 2 Quad laptop under moderate load in a closed backpack will overheat and shutdown in around 10 minutes. Longer than I expected, and I will never try that again.
This is a wake-up call to the entire world: we cannot take internet history for granted. We need affordable, decentralized means with long-term economic incentives to archive the digital world.

In a way, the digital world is far more fragile than the physical world. And the time to solve this is now.
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> When you order two incompatible types where neither is numeric, they are ordered by the alphabetical order of their typenames:

????????
To be fair there are a lot of very unhappy coupled folks out there as well stuck with essentially the opposite problem: the attraction has left the building and hasn't been there for a very long time and waiting for it to come back is likely an exercise in futility. See r/deadbedrooms etc.
> specifically against standardized testing.

Without standardized testing, the techniques of teaching cannot evolve beyond "Phil said this works for him."
I'm sure people said that about cars, trains and the steam engine also.
It would have been black and rotten in a week anyway. Best to eat it while it's still edible.
The exact numbers depend on the source/methodology, but all credible estimates show large differences and these differences imply large effects for mortality rates [in the broader population](https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2019/11/07/a-tale-of-two-...).
Yes, Python2 was called out explicitly. Reference equality is definitely 'wat' shit IMO, though it's really mainstream too.
Recently Verizon have blocked all of my yahoo accounts. I've spent some time trying to find any kind of support form to get them restored with no luck. To get support you need pay money now. Perhaps, Archive.org accounts fell under the same ban.
> Politicking aside, I wish all the leaders in all the countries if the world held such ideals as this man.

> There's a lot to absorb, but the rising alcohol and domestic abuse due to despair is something that's increasing in my country too: oz. Mental health issues are skyrocketing. Our politicians ignore what we ask for, but propagandize what they think we need based on their corruption, while actively suppressing liberty. The middle class is almost gone...

Man, there is a gigantic rightist resurgence all across the world, if you did not notice that.

The consequences of that will be the biggest challenge to our generation, and possibly even outlast us.

If you don't want our children's generation being haunted by the mess our generation let rightists to do, start doing something about it other than talking about it.

Americans are yet to taste all horrors of rightism, and don't know how deep is an abyss they are about to step in.

You will see a good example of what you are up to if you take a look on the worse half of Latin American countries with multi-generational rightist, oligarchic elites.

By all definitions, they are doing terrible, and this is why you should work hard for your country not to become like one of them
Clearly the rewriting of the entire site, the old site loads so nicely.

I never really thought reddit would degrade in performance like this, I immediately went back to old.reddit.com and went on with my life. I still don't get why every rewrite of a website I've ever used almost always ends up being ridiculously bloated.
Too often historical events turn out to be perfectly true, but claimed to be myths due to dizzying semantic distinctions.

Just looking at the third link, the most upvoted answer agrees that humanity suffered a significant loss of important information. And the 'myth' is just an asinine distinction regarding whether loss was due literally due to fire, or whether the information was lost due to some other cause. I think declaring it a myth in a conversation like this misses the point (it certainly isn't a distinction relevant to the original comparison made here to Yahoo Groups) and just serves to confuse people.
> it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things

A potent element of Silicon Valley’s filter bubble is casting complaints against highly profitable, breathtakingly damaging behaviour as trivial.
Just wondering, if the author of a post or the administrator of a group makes a takedown request regarding non-private* info, would you delete it?

* and by that I mean something that is not a telephone number, an address, a real life name, and other similar things.
The downside of that is that all code is in the header. As in you will compile all the library code whenever you include the header. As third-party library code is something you probably seldom change yourself, you don't want your build to spend time building it all the time.

Sure some of those libs may have some define you need to set in one of your .c files so the implementation will go there but then whenever you change that file it will result in a recompile of the third-party lib. So then you go and create a separate .c file just for the lib and we're back to why the lib author didn't do that in the first place?

No, I think what sqlite does is pretty neat. If you're doing development in the sqlite code-base you have lots of files (so you can manage it) but if you just want to use sqlite, you have the amalgamation which is one .c and one .h.