skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's trivial to generate text that could match any given hash

Actually I don't know why there is some hash used at all. According to the example, answers are stored in a session. CRC32 would do the job as well. Or no hashing at all. You would need some better hash in case when user downloads it. I can imagine different flow where you would need some better hash: I.e. you have some secret token, hash it together with captcha answer, send question with good hash to a browser and user sends back answer together with a hash he got. In such flow there would be no need to store values in a session.
Both, but unfortunately still mostly using Celery 3.2. Never had any problems with zombie tasks, since that's related to how you're storing tasks and queues and RabbitMQ is excellent at that. Zombie tasks are never a problem when using RabbitMQ.

Especially never had problems with zombie workers. That wouldn't be a problem with your choice of queue library, more an infra problem.
Often it seems Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Google News, FB, even local newspapers are just are recycling the same content.
> US spent $3.65T on healthcare in 2018. or 3650 Billion.

> Insurance Net Income was 23 billion. Or 0.63% of total US healthcare expenditures was 'profit' for insurance.

Profit is not the main source of the expense imposed by private health insurance, administrative costs are; Administrative costs are estimated at around $1.1 trillion nearly a third of the total, much of which, particularly billing and insurance-related (BIR) costs which account for about half of admin costs, would be eliminated in a single-payer or even public option systems, since the BIR costs imposed in current US public programs are far lower than private insurance (and some of those are still due to interaction with private insurance—e.g., coordination of benefits—and so would be erased even for public programs in a single-payer system.)

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2...
We already pay medicare and medicaid taxes. Those are not voluntary.
Brainfuck [0], Whitespace [1] and INTERCAL [2] come to mind :)

Of course, one could argue none of these are 'serious' programming languages.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
Why are you looking to businesses to initiate change? Rally for state regulation.
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My father in law said something along the lines of "I don't know why they make us pay taxes for the public school system." So that mindset is definitely out there. (My wife and her brother got sent to a private Christian school)

I think his main issue with it is that he thinks they are wasteful with their budgets. I've never really figured it out.
High prices do precisely that - ration goods in order to fix the shortage and ensure that the scarce supply finds its highest and best use.
What Is the Perfect Temperature for Sleep?
Rich people's lives aren't worth more than than poor people's lives
IME good providers tend to charge at least 2p/message. You also need to get decent leads from somewhere or your conversion rates will suck.

Then there’s also a significant time investment in setting up accounts with those SMS services that’ll constantly be banning you.

Couple of hundred messages isn’t going to get you very many hits unless you’re collecting low value information.
The irony is that the US system is nowhere near the “free market”. Subsidies abound for the rich and the poor and old get free single-payer healthcare in the form of Medicare and Medicaid. Meanwhile veterans also have an entire single-payer system for themselves.

The relatively few who “pay their own way” face incredible costs as few of the health providers actually compete for customers in an open and free market and so they charge crazy prices and get away with it.
You know what he means dude.
Seems that any new fires in Australia couldn't be much of a problem, if they've cleared-out most-to-all of their flammable brushland this year :|
Yeah, this is cruel thing to do. I hope this outcome will deter others from predating on young women.
Can you clarify 7?
It is my understanding (although I sure don't have any evidence on me) that cartoons and such (at least, the ones where we haven't simply learned that this cartoon means this animal) work by being a picture of what we remember about an animal. Akin to a caricature; the cartoon contains the most salient features. It doesn't work by looking like the actual animal; it works by reacting with how we remember the animal.
I don't understand the comment about comets/asteroids. Why would they be a viable way for interstellar travel? In order to catch one, you need to match speed with it, and then you are already on your way. You can't somehow hitch a ride with interstellar comets/asteroids and avoid using energy.
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I actually don't see how the date in the domain name is integral to this scam? Maybe someone can clarify it for me.
That's... what the Constitution says.
>People pay for services that benefit others all the time - why should health be any different?

If some people could have their way, they'd remove paying for those -- or for bridges, roads, federal infrastructure etc away from their area, too. Let the locals short it out.

But a difference with those things you've mentioned is that they were born with them existing. So they're some kind of default (though a minority still debates them). Whereas nationalized healthcare would be a new development for them....
yes, exactly. The new format enables them to sell a lot of ad impressions and video ads too
My local stores don’t even have scales at the cash. You/someguy weigh items in-store and put a label on a closed package. Expensive items (e.g. seasonal shortages of premium) go prepackaged.
Interestingly, while the UK is not a federal state, it has some features of one. It’s credible that cannabis could be legalised in NI or Scotland without being legalised in EnglandWales, say.
It's not ignored. I don't know much about the German system, but I'm an immigrant from the UK and I much prefer the US system to the NHS, and I hear similar horror stories about Canada. Which is not to say the US system is good, just better.

In the US, when I need a doctor, I get to see one right away. If the doctor recommends an MRI or ultrasound, I get it right away. No six month waits, no cancelled surgeries, no doctor strikes (!), no government deciding how to prioritize my medical needs, etc.

What it ultimately comes down to is that medical resources are scarce (and always will be while medical technology is improving and thus some care is expensive), and having the government allocate them can be inefficient (governments are generally inefficient due to lack of competition, as are systems where the customer is disconnected from the cost).

And yes, I care more about my own health care and that of my kids than I do about the health care of some stranger thousands of miles away. I have okay corporate health insurance and so the system works better for me than for some. (Some would argue that regulation rather than economic freedom are to blame for those people's worse experiences, but I'm not going to get into that other than to acknowledge it.)

You might disagree with some of my perspective, but the snooty attitude that Americans are oblivious morons is unwarranted.
Why do they need date specific domain names?
These sound more like predictions for the century than predictions for the decade.
I thought Elon tweeted early last year that Tesla was on track to build 500K cars in 2019 year. 370K is way off from that number.
That's a myth that has been thoroughly debunked in this forum's archives.
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Doctors and nurses will still make plenty of money. Govt jobs are on a pay scale as would medical jobs be. With less administration there'd be more money to go around as well.
* 32-bit will still not die. Even in 2038 there will still be 32-bit CPUs chugging away happily - blissfully unaware of 2038-01-19T03:14.

* Donald Trump will have finished his second term. The Americans will be none the wiser and will choose an even worse candidate.

* Self-driving cars have taken over all traffic that has fixed routes in the Western world (e.g busses and trucks).

* The number of people who care about privacy will reach critical mass, so privacy focused products like Librem 5 will actually have a market.

* Lab grown meat will be cheap enough to be served as a curiosity (50 USD/kg), but still too expensive for daily use.

* USB-C will be _the_ dominant connector: We will wonder why we had so many different power supplies. HDMI, VGA, FireWire, eSATA, USB-A+B, 3.5mm jack will only be used by aficionados.

* Drone delivery will be a thing in select areas in OECD, but not world wide.

* A cell phone can fit in your watch and communicate with something similar to Google Glasses, which also has sound. No need to lug around with a huge matchbox.

* Toilets that analyse your stool will be a thing. It will be used in hospitals, and by rich health fanatics.

* Fields only touched by robots will be harvested - not as an experiment but as production.

* Lots of people will be unemployable due to AI and automation. The rich will claim "They are just lazy." They poor will not be desperate enough to start a revolution.

* RISC V or similar open source architecture will have taken the place ARM has today, and will be eating into the lower end of Intel's portfolio.

* Another economic bubble bursts the size of 2008. Nothing was learned from 2008, and the rich will get richer, the poor will pay.

* Chatbot passes the Turing test.

* Muzak will be written by AI and will be good enough. Similar to thispersondoesnotexist.com which is good enough for many purposes.

* IPv4 will still be the dominant IP version.

* Buffer overflows will still be a thing.

* Quantum computers still can not break 1024-bit RSA, but it is getting so close that no one considers RSA secure at any keylength.

* Moore's law is over. If you need more power parallelize your problem and use many servers. Cores will be cheaper, though.
End of Life Care
weechat-matrix is really nice
...a portion of waste reduction can simply be a change in habits and doesn’t necessarily cost anything.

My father had a restaurant long ago. He hired a professional and prestigious cooker (the the title "chef" was not so common then) and the first thing he noticed is that everything was used.

There were a thousand tricks to plan the menus so meat not served were reused for broth and so on.
But the original source[0], stands by its quotation:

"The Financial Times said Wednesday it sticks by its story."

0: https://www.ft.com/content/48b0ce2c-b544-11e8-bbc3-ccd7de085...
There are several differences:

Firstly, the government doesn't choose what it pays to have done. Cancer cure? Patentable. Slide-to-unlock? Patentable. Dildo harness? Also patentable.

Second, with patents if development fails the government pays nothing. Whereas if they funded development directly, failed projects would be paid for by the taxpayer.

Third, patents are a flat tax on people who use a development, whereas direct development is a progressive tax on people whether they use the development or not.

Fourth, patents can pull money from foreign countries into your country.
That makes me think of Braess paradox and see parallels.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox)
As most people seem to try to take the most optimal self-interested decision it does not always make the outcome the most optimal for them or everyone. As actions we take as not, affect more than ourselves and can't be totally disconnected from this world.

And as a individual to be able to take the most optimal decision in complex systems is pretty difficult.
What would we be without our choice and an AI or a higher power would take the decisions for us?
IBM Engineer died after chasing thieves who snatched his laptop at Starbucks
I often see price being cited as a selling point for Chromebooks, but I have never found them to be really cheap. Maybe it's a regional thing? Looking now on Amazon (.it) I can find a Pixelbook equipped with a measle i5-7Y57, 8 GB of ram and 256 GB SSD for 1999 €. That's crazy.

For that kind of money I could get a 10th gen i7 (where applicable) 16 GB ram/512 GB SSD Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7 or Surface Pro X (including type cover and pen for the Pros) with money to spare.

How is this considered cheap? It's insane
You can use them for gravity assist, and save on propellant. You can't literally "hitch a ride", but the next best is to steal some of their momentum, which is precisely what a gravity assist does.
>I mean, realistically, that's what all insurance is anyway

That's ok, as long as it's voluntary (as a sibling comment wrote), and as long as private companies, and not the public pool, benefits. /s
Does the state have any expertise in how to reduce food supply waste? Not sure why you’d task them over people who know the problem intimately.
It's like human languages. They adopt useful words from each other all the time too. Why shouldn't programming languages do the same?
The CO² impact, and active fires, are visible almost live on windy.com.

Both CO² and active fires layers: https://www.windy.com/-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,-33.046,13...

Heatmap of active fires: https://www.windy.com/-Active-fires-fires?fires,-33.046,136....

Crazy to see this.

(Central Africa also seems to have crazy fires, but I don't see any news on this https://www.windy.com/-Active-fires-fires?fires,-2.592,19.24...)
decent, but there must surely be a government grant that can improve those numbers?
Show HN: Summerian – A book summary app built with “Eureka effect”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1098080063801585664?lang...

> Meant to say annualized production rate at end of 2019 probably around 500k, ie 10k cars/week. Deliveries for year still estimated to be about 400k.

For deliveries 400k isn't too far from 367,500. But it's not clear (to me) what their annual production rate is.

One would hope/imagine that if they get their production rate competitive with the biggest producers of automobiles (anything with 4 wheels), like Toyota, Ford and GM, then the average selling price could come down a bit, too.

I just want a decent-looking electric car (preferably hatchback) I can charge at any available charging station with no frills but 250-300 mile range for $25-30k USD. I know batteries aren't there yet!
I think this illustrates the heat quite nicely -

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ej04lo/a_car_in_austr...
Hello HN folks, I’m Alan, co-founder of Summerian, a book summary app.

I have used a lot of book summary services before and the biggest pain point for me is that the summaries are either too simple or are cut off so excessively that I couldn’t understand the subject.

Therefore, my team and I tried to make summaries that have nothing but very high-quality content that can spark an “aha” moment in any reader. To achieve that, we spent a majority of our time working on the summary framework and intensive quality-check rounds.
Summerian is born out of such passion. It’s currently available on iOS, TvOS, and Web, and will be on Android very soon!

I’d love to hear your thoughts, especially about the content of the summaries. Are they comprehensive and enlightening enough?
Duty according to who? If he didn't raise the price by a factor of 4, you think shareholders could successfully sue?
What is destroyed exactly by adding a feature to a language that could easily improve readability (which said language reaaaally needs), which you can also opt not to use if you don't like?
> Political polarization increases in the west

...But only because it's already about as polarized as you can get everywhere else
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>there's available needy-people margin to cash in on

he does not say this, and i dont think thats a reasonable interpretation.

>But keep carrying that water for them for free if you want, I guess.

i dont know what this means.
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He does have competition, in fact he is the competition. He produces the generic version of the patented drug.
I get butter, cheese, and sour cream at a local zero waste shop. We don't use dairy milk though, just nut milk and oat milk where we buy the nuts and oats in bulk and blend with water.

https://treadingmyownpath.com/2017/07/13/plastic-free-milk-y...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroWaste/comments/62kvzi/dairy_pro...
The reason the doctors are contractors who bill separately is so that they can all be “out of network” and get 100x the rate without giving you prior notice.
> 2. ICE vehicles are quaint. New electric vehicles sold overtakes ICE vehicles sometime around 2027 - 2029.

Maybe USA and Europe. South America definitely not.
Single datapoint, Germany: My collegue waited about 2 weeks when ordering 3 month ago the performance variant.
It is supposed to look like the path. It is supposed to look like https://ee[.]co[.]uk/billing-jan-02.info
Cringe can mean exactly that in English (although it also has slightly different meanings).
Since when have the Powers That Be allowed trifles like hypocrisy or illogical hyperbole nullify plans for armed conflict and initiation of violence?
I've seen some models in the $200-400 USD range, occasionally they have a sale, but their specs are pretty awful, even by smartphone standards. I don't think I've seen a pixelbook priced at 1999 €, I wonder if that's higher due to cost of tax/tariff/import?
Several of these would be great satire films. :)
I never said they were. I said that high prices attract supply. This supply then drives down prices. This doesn't work for drug pricing due to monopolies. It does work for hauling water into a city on an 18-wheeler.
So he violated his agreement with the SEC again? Specifically he didn't get his statement pre-approved by Tesla's lawyers to assure accuracy (since it is factually inaccurate).

In fact this exact type of tweet is listed by expressly in the updated agreement[0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/business/elon-musk-tesla-...
This guy did much worse than simply having a distorted sense of morality. If company X sells a product at 2800 and company Y raises the price of the (almost) same product from 500 to 2300, I call it a cartel where the "almost" difference is there to balance the negative press generics receive sometimes.
> Tesla/SpaceX StarLink will become a major competitor in the ISP space. Most transmitted data throughout the world will touch a StarLink satellite.

What makes you think this? It’s hard to see anyone ever using satellite as backhaul except where strictly necessary; fibre will always win there.
A particle canon that can accelerate a gas with good directional control (that can be aimed and focused) with sufficient energy to cause damage to an object 5m away will probably be better applied as deep space propulsion than as a weapon.

It's a bit like a space invasion - if you plan on invading another planet, just accelerate for the first part of the trip, point the engine to the destination and fire it for the rest of the trip. When you arrive, there will probably be no armies, of lifeforms, to resist you.

OTOH, you may need to wait a couple million years before the planet is cool, or inhabitable again.
Cool - we've beat some of those. John Deere has 80 million acres under automatic tillage. Millions of people are unemployable due to automation (except as starvation-wage service workers). And Moore's law has been faltering for years.
> The real horror is a society so deeply dependent on something they use so intimately yet so completely fail to understand. Getting kids "back to the Earth" is very important, full & complete disconnect from "technology" so they can grasp their own ability to live & thrive without it. Clarke: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"; we're there, and while the benefits are good, the psychological dependency & mystery isn't. Go somewhere distant from technology, forage/hunt food, make a meal over an open fire, and sleep under the stars - so vital for a child's psychological well-being.

That seems pretty far down the "no tech" rabbit hole by being critical of pretty much all technology.
Yes, this functionality is deprecated in the latest Xcode, the next Xcode version won't support it AFAIK.
Yes, this is the standard (and often correct) refrain - but think about it from the founders perspective:

He risks 0 of his own funds to have a shot at getting rich and never having to work again; he gets the excitement of growing a company to grapple with giants and take over markets; and even if he fails, the name recognition he obtained during the journey ensures he'll have his pick of lucrative future gigs.

THAT's why so few tech lifestyle businesses stay that size, and it's all very logical really.
Thanks for pointing out reality here. As you can see, it doesn’t go over well here on HN.
If it's not in mainline kernel - it's abandonware.
Public interfaces should ideally be formally typed, both to provide a behavioral contract between parties and to serve as user documentation. Whether the contract is enforced at compile- or run-time is secondary to having a formal mechanism for expressing it in the first place; ditto whether the code hidden behind those interfaces is explicitly typed, inferred, or untyped.

Two problems that tend to occur in practice:

* Untyped languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, JavaScript) typically lack a formal dialect for expressing parameter and result types, and most don’t even provide formal mechanism for annotating interfaces. Without a common language for expressing interface types, it’s nigh impossible to develop the tooling and education that are the necessary prerequisites to popular adoption.

* Typed languages (e.g. C†, Java, Swift) frequently have poor/limited expressivity, creating friction for users, who end up fighting against the type system instead of working with it to describe their precise needs, while failing to provide the promised safety. e.g. Inability to describe numeric bounds means many functions with integer/double parameters will be partial, and passing inappropriate values will trigger runtime errors/aborts/undefined behaviors (e.g. divide-by-zero, bad array index). And that’s just the easy stuff.

Python3 is one exception to the former, in that function interfaces can be formally annotated, though the language itself doesn’t provide the mechanism to enforce those annotations. And Eiffel is something of an exception to the latter in that interfaces are annotated with a mix of compile- and run-time checks. And then, of course, there’s ongoing work on dependent type systems and no doubt other CS research that may someday filter down into the production languages in mainstream use. But it’s tough and slow, and a giant wildly-inconsistent ballache in the meantime, with more really badly reinvented wheels than it’s possible to count.

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† Inasmuch as C can be said to have a “type system” at all (Really, it’s just got a handful of annotations for allocating memory on stack.)
Model 3 backlog (in the US, anyway) was consumed many months ago. Purchases have been fulfilled primarily from inventory since about June 2019.
I had no idea Megan McArdle was an HN reader! Welcome, Megan!
Setting aside the philosophical question around whether government should be compelling businesses to make these sort of changes, change has to come at all levels, from personal to organizational to government, and businesses can implement change with much more immediacy than government can.

E.g., McDonald's shifting to cage-free hens for egg purchases. Regardless of the reasons, that was expected to have a huge impact on egg farming.