skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main difference between a FSM and a statechart is the compositionality aspect of the two formalisms. The FSM can be combined using the OR and the AND operators: the AND operator produces a number of states that is equal to the cartesian product of the original states of the two FSMs that are conjuncted. This means that you are limited in the usefulness of the FSM by the number of interactions between systems, because the number of states increases exponentially.

The statechart solves this problem by using a representation that allows both OR and AND avoiding the state explosion. Multiple states can be combined in a super-state, which allows to model common properties of the enclosed states, provided that the internal substates are XOR-ed, i.e. only one of them can be active in a given time. The advantage of the super-states is that they allow the specifier of the system to proceed in a top-down manner by specifying iteratevily the complete behaviour of the system. These super-states can also conjuncted, to model the interactions between the systems and to represent their parallelism. This conjunction creates implicit interactions between the two subsystems, which substitute the need to create the product FSM.

Both FSM and statecharts can represent the same behaviour of a system, but they differ in how easily understandable their representation can be for complex systems.
That's because the pitch-up behavior isn't actually the problem.
Are you assuming general agreement to an expansive definition of what it means to "hurt" or "disrespect" someone?
People can adapt to new cultures.
You didn't answer the question though. You just went with "well, everyone else does that".
> crappy, badly thought out, ubiquitous, low entry barrier languages

It is easy to criticize designs that are 47 years old in today's context.

I am betting you wouldn't have done a better job half a century ago either.
It really does sound like a bunch of wealthy folks (and I don't mean your-town's-surgeon wealthy, I mean billionaire-class-wealthy) want to further remove themselves from laws that govern everybody else. Imagine this - a group of super wealthy bound by no laws of any nation but benefiting from them all. Terrifying.
The problem is of course when legitimate facts or opinions hurt others, it has the side effect of silencing others and creating a false sense of consensus (sometimes, literally, a false sense of scientific consensus) and debating the actual merit of different policies.

The flipside of your statement is "I'm starting to think that only the people whose opinions aren't silenced are the ones who like safe spaces"
To win an election you need to be a Master Persuader. Bloomberg is many things, but he is not a Master Persuader.
Thanks for sharing!
I think though that what you are referring to is not syntax but semantics. On both places you are chaining HO array functions, so the algorithm is pretty much the same, but the syntax you use is different in both places (pipes, dot).
Your comment is a good example of the critique at the top of this thread. You start with the worst possible interpretation of my comment, use a metaphor about bestiality and immediately dismiss my comment as a fallacy.
Anything that does not feel like a can of sardines packed together. Train offers huge room, by comparison, for taller people like me economy is torture.
> Medical care is a product like any other.

No it's not. Medical care is a process people don't want to go through to make them healthy.

> When it's 100% free, you have no disincentive to use it.

1. that's just plain bullshit, as demonstrated by the NHS and other single-payer free-at-point-of-use systems, people don't hang out at their GPs office just because it's free

2. you actually want to incentivise people to use medical system preventively, it's way cheaper than having to use them curatively

> So if you want to have the government pay 100% of all medical bills and do nothing to prevent using it, you'll have never-ending increases is costs.

Literally every other healthcare system is cheaper than america's, despite the US healthcare system being by far the one most disincentivising use.
I think this is one of if not the most important issue in the entire world.

We currently have two primary forms of government: dictatorship and democracy.

Almost everyone prefers democracies. But many, if not most, living in democracies also take major issue with the way their countries are run. The best defense of democracy is Churchill's: democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the rest.

A framework in which we can experiment with other forms of societal organization, especially one in which minimizes or eliminates externalities, has the potential to produce massive benefits if it discovers better forms of political organization.
Are your terms of service just lorem ipsum?

https://www.sebenz.ai/utility/terms
WSL terminal is garbage. Here's what irks me:

* I click on the icon and I get a terminal up (nevermind that it doesn't accept focus on startup, so I start typing and the characters keep going to my task bar).

* I type in "clear && ls" and hit enter.

* My line of text vanishes and I'm left with a completely black terminal. If I scroll up with the mouse-wheel I can see what I should have seen (the output of ls).

* I press up (to step backward through my command history) and all the text vanishes again.

The only workaround I have is to run something like tmux, which is somehow smart enough to render the text on-screen.
It was just at $140 a month or two ago I feel like. Incredible
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A variant on Mechanical Turk? MT has been doing image classification for a long time.
Bazel is part of the story of how Google manages provenance for build artifacts (https://cloud.google.com/security/binary-authorization-for-b...)
> Unions empower employees, and the quality control issues were getting raised by employees and getting ignored by management.

That assertion relies on a lot of hand waving and unrealistic claims. If the problem was that "objects" were being left everywhere in the planes that were being delivered, those objects weren't being left out by management while they were pushing paper in their office. Thus even if it's an operations problem caused by the lack of worker oversight then this means the problem is being created by the worker's lack of care and attention to detail.

Thim means its either a process problem, which unions have absolutely nothing to do with, or it's an incompetence problem which actually is addressed by the exact opposite of what a union does: increase worker scrutiny and quality control. I mean, when was the last time you heard a Union representative state "yes we are to blame for this... Better ramp up oversight and penalties for us screwing up our job."
I regularly use NHS ER (not personally, fortunately) and it is a joke. The hospital local to me is notorious for fudging waiting time numbers, the longest wait I have had is 36 hours, and even when it is literally deserted it will still be 6-8 hours...I have no idea why or how (there are tons of staff, quite what they are doing is unclear).

Also, I live in Scotland where the NHS has been getting more money for a while...still awful. The NHS drop massive wedges of cash on vanity projects (always over budget, usually issues because of poor project management) but never hit waiting time targets. Definitely, there is an issue with care and old people having to stay in hospital...but there is also something far deeper (my area is rural, total population of 30-40k...the NHS just dropped £75m on a ten-ward hospital...I go there four or five times a week, 75-80% of the people you see walking around are staff).

I don't know what the solution is, I just know that other countries do it better and they have larger private sectors.
> That's why Ford announced that at least in the US they're buying into the Tesla charging network[0].

Ford announced no such thing and your summary is false. They are investing in a rival network (consisting of multiple independent providers) that they claim is more extensive than Tesla's.
Personal attacks and name-calling like this will get you banned here. Please don't!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i would bet no, because their bosses are pushing more and more ads down people's throats because their businesses are dying and they DEFINITELY don't want to hear how functional it is or isn't with ad blockers. In fact, hey why haven't you implemented ad-blocking detectors yet?! Get on that!
Campaign finance reform.
Have you considered the train? The seats are roomy and well cushioned, but you will be traveling for several hours so it may or may not work out.
Work at startups because you’ll work with people who have risk profiles that are much more likely to generate outsized returns as a group.

This is statistically not true. S&P 500 Index funds have outperformed VC's as a group for any reasonable time period.
public option generally does not equivocate to universal coverage. If he advocated against public option for Single Payer, then you could call it universal/progressive.

Public option doesn't address runaway drug spending. 1 bulk purchaser of drugs could set the price basically that we're willing to pay, the federal government could also strip patents of companies found price-fixing or price-gouging.

I mean he's rich, so he def. could be progressive in that maybe he doesn't need the money the pharmacy/insurance companies would give him to not be progressive, but I'd have to see it before I believe it. I mean there are progressive billionaires - Nick hanover has given tons of Ted talks on income inequality.

There's definitely other options this cycle though if you're skeptical and want a real progressive, so why take the chance?
You said democracies which is what I was referring to. If anything corporations only really exist in countries with democracies.
I don't agree - the current meme is that people who have MBAs wave them in the air as proof that their decisions are infallible... There are a lot of smart people with MBAs out there, but their intelligence and experience isn't solely owed to acquiring an MBA.
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>Another one would be that one can be elected without the approval of the majority of the people who could vote.

That's simply handled by saying that they should vote.

>one can legally be elected without the having the majority of the counter, valid, votes

How so? If you are referring to the President, did he not win the majority of the valid votes in the population allowed to vote? You could say there is an issue with only allowing a subset of the population to vote, but most people I've seen making such a claims still believe their own limits as for who can vote are valid and have not offered me a reason as to why one method is more valid than the other.
> The same fate will likely befall Sign-in, although I guess leverage from iOS is stronger than Safari’s.

I believe that, if you're releasing an iOS app that uses 3rd party sign-ins, you will be required to also include "Sign In with Apple". (The fee is irrelevant at that point since you'll already need to have a paid developer account to release your app.)
If hearing the opinion of someone you vehemently disagree with, in this case the appropriateness of sexual affirmation surgery (or whatever its called these days), hurts you are not mature enough for institutions of higher learning, or quite frankly, to constructively participate in democratic society.

As a Jew, hearing the words of neo-nazis absolutely disgusts me to my core but it does not "hurt" me. If words hurt you, that is your fault, not the words' fault.
Private health insurance in the UK is not comparable to a fully private health system, and you can’t draw any conclusions from the cost of your coverage. Private insurance here mostly covers some specialist referrals, faster access to scans and treatment, and private hospital access. Acute services and long-term conditions are still handled by the NHS.
... which means you can go look at them to see how it's working out. Again, I am legitimately interested in learning about any healthcare system in a state with an advanced economy that doesn't employ price controls in one form or another, but in the meantime, instead of spitballing about what a disaster it might be, we can just look at, AFAIK, literally any other such state to see how it works out. Dozens of examples.
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Obviously it's sci-fi scenario, but the real solution (assuming that you see it as a problem) to overbearing and entrenched government power will probably be self-sustaining space colonies.

Experimental governments on Earth are limited by the fact that [large state power] can invade you in a matter of hours for arbitrary reasons, no matter where you on are the planet. Fly off into the deep cosmos, though, and your chances of survival dramatically increase.
It's awful that you have access to a premium life saving service which gets better every year, beyond the immagination of years prior? Or is it awful that the price for said service is high? What exactly is awful to you?
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Some scumbag changed the title and makes my comment look wrong. The title was something about working out your brain.
I mean, there's a very practical reason for this. Back when the scam was popular, they asked you to send a Western Union transfer to Nigeria. I had a girl I was chatting with ask me to donate money to needy kids in Africa, which happened to be in Nigeria. Now they want iTunes gift cards so they can resell them. It's not game theory, it's just regular old money laundering.
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The prices does not scale up too well for the travelers, but for the airlines. The extra that you get does not match the huge jump in price.
Physicians are in an incredibly privileged position.

In no other profession can one murder a quarter million Americans annually(1) via chart reading apathy or gross incompetence at multiplying by 10, and not only keep one's job, but get paid for rendering the botched services, as well.

Imagine being a plumber who gets paid after making your customers' leaks ten times worse. That's the life of every doctor in the US.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28186008
In many countries most are elected without ever having the majority. The system is called first past the post. The person with the most votes wins. In the US two parties get most of the votes but if a third or fourth party existed with support a president would never get 50%.

Not everyone chooses to vote or is legally able to. The winner is choosen from the available votes that have been cast.
Reading the article, the trick here is exploiting a loophole that exists specifically within private healthcare.

The doctor part owns/is associated with an "out-of-network" lab where the tests were sent. Healthcare providers have default listings which are typically outrageously high, and negotiate with insurers for their "actual" rates. But by the in-network doctor quietly sending the tests "out-of-network", the insurer could be charged the outrageous fee.

With single payer, the price is the price. No bullshit, shady multilateral private negotiations in a marketplace where people's health is what is being wagered.
> Its not about the issues

Politics isn’t about issues, it’s about ideology. You have no idea what the sausage maker that is Congress will churn out at the end of the day. But you know who agrees with you on the big picture principles of the universe. And targeting helps you find those people and get them to vote.
I understand why you'd read it that way and I'm sorry if I worded it carelessly, but I didn't make the "bestiality" thing up and wasn't implying that you were making that comparison. Those really were dots that people, including senior policymakers, connected. Something you might want to read up on is "the parade of horribles", which is what you're essentially invoking when you suggest that any government protection for trans people is a slippery slope to "unproven and ill-advised treatment for children".

I think you'll find that the mainstream public policy about trans people is whether they should have access to facilities or recourse to anti-discrimination laws when they're fired from jobs.

You'll have to address those policy debates on the merits, without appeals to some hypothetical future horror.
By the definition of 'safe space' given by the article?
> This is the downside of the "digital convergence" - no need for new hardware; new things are just apps.

Their solution is to make disposable hardware, and the only way to update apps is to buy this year's hardware (if the company is still in business).
Bringing divisive political mudslinging to this issue will make it that much harder to collectively solve. Please don't do this.
There are many counter-examples though. BP, Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, Equifax, etc. All doing just fine.
It doesn't seem correct at all. Money is very much a factor.

To prove,

How many people here would show up tomorrow if their company stopped paying them?

How many people would join a startup for less pay without any stock offers?

I suspect the answer to both will be equal to the number polled.
There is no normal height.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
Why do you consider anabolism/catabolism a binary classification? All living cells, and especially terminally differentiated ones like neurons will have a mixture of anabolic and catabolic metabolic processes taking place constantly, and there's not a straightforward reason to think that physical exercise is flipping some binary master switch that is "good" (by some arbitrary definition) for all cells.
I'm getting 12-15 words per line vs 3-4 on fortune.

the color scheme is debatable but anything other than black on white has people who don't like it. I find it rather nice, myself, but it may fail basic contrast checking for accessibility purposes.
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Can you cite examples of this occurring with any sort of regularity in America? The most I've ever heard of are doctors prescribing puberty blockers - which actually preserves their ability to choose later.

Even this is seen as an extreme step and typically only done with multiple doctors signing off.

There are appear to be rare outliers and technicalities, but these are single digit exceptions rather than representative of some new norm.

https://www.quora.com/What-age-can-children-have-sexual-reas...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oregon-teen-sex-change-law...
I fly Frontier very regularly by quality choice and not by price. The fares are great, but the only other people flying the routes are United (awful awful) and Southwest (great but also pricey). More generally, I am not impressed by any U.S. major, discounting Southwest if they are considered. United, AA, and Delta (least) are pretty abysmal in their quality.

It's probably important to be specific when I say "quality." By that I'm referring to ease of purchase, fair baggage prices, web/app UX, on/off-flight customer service including pilot communication with passengers, and even landings (as a pilot, I am absolutely judging beyond "did we get to the ground safely or not"). Price and seating are secondary for me, although I certainly understand why they are list-toppers for others.
Clicking your user account picture to access actions related to your user account (such as, change account, logout, change this picture etc) actually seems pretty intuitive. Where would you expect to find this functionality instead?
Competition in the UK railway system isn’t about competition for consumers, but competition for the long-term contracts for operating services. This is a totally valid form of competition and does not mean that a monopoly exists in the sense you seem to think it does.
All the stuff I wrote about in the first comment, which is zero of the things you just strawmanned?
Don't know why you're being downvoted... this isn't wrong, just unsavoury.
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> This is honestly one of the shittiest moves that I've seen Apple make

Whereas I see it as one of their best decisions. Releasing a privacy focused login is irrelevant if nobody supports it, this is Apple telling people that, if they want access to the iOS customer base, then they'll need to support their users' desire for privacy.
I've seen a lot of "self-documenting" code in my time and it can be quite legible when starting in an organization that has good discipline... The issue is that there are always some weird edge cases and poorly named things that exist because "legacy" - in those cases a quick question should clear everything up, if you have access to someone in the know.

When it comes to APIs if you're eschewing documentation it's because (I hope) you are trying to minimize support costs and thus devs using the API won't have someone to ask questions of so those edge cases become mysterious and assumptions are made that may be wrong.

If you're designing an API that serves up items that may be on sale how would you name fields so that the price and possibly sale discount are unambiguous to read?
RCP8.5 strikes again...
You're thinking of test, as in pilot. Everyone else is thinking of test, as in drive. I mean there are dramatically different expectations of what you, Boeing, and the public is supposed to believe what happened.
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> Its not about the issues, its about who has better targeting. That's it.

Eh, it's never been about the issues. It's so rarely about the issues that we name political periods after it (e.g. Prohibition, Abolitionist, et cetera).

What it's about, what it's always been about, is identity. And targeting, at its best, lets one efficiently drive an identity message. (At its worst, it lets one send diverging messages to diverging groups. But that tends to backfire, eventually.)

Given identity is multifarious (common identities are forged on class, race, ideology, religion, dialect, et cetera), there is room for creativity as politicians craft their image to collect a coalition.
> Patient emergency room visits rose to a record high of 141.4 million in 2014, the same year the Affordable Care Act's insurance expansion went into effect, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The results contradict policy experts' assertions that unnecessary ER use would decline as more people gained access to health insurance under the ACA.

People get insurance, they use healthcare more. This is not a surprising result.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170913/NEWS/17091...