skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have made value for the customer too, you needed cash to keep the operations going. Doctors will pay for this if it lets them get a leg up on other doctors that's how you need to sell it. "Doctor X prescribes what he always prescribes, I make decision based on cutting edge studies." If they got arbitrage because of that and could steal patients, especially doctors with a new practice then you have a sale my friend. You gave up too easy.
Tiny capital is relative.

EDIT: It's also the name of the VC firm. D'oh! Keeping the rest for posterity.

Notice how there’s no actual values for what “tiny” means?

If you have cash to invest on a VC company, you’re most likely already quite well off, with an equal amount invested in less risky ventures.
How long can legend persist, though?

Denisovans are speculated to have existed no more recently than 15,000 years ago- in New Guinea, at that. That's at minimum 700 generations ago. This jaw find is 8,000 or more generations ago.
I haven't worked with RabbitMQ in years, but IIRC I solved this with federation. My sends were all to localhost or a VM on the same machine.

That solves the problem of lost messages if you have e.g. a network problem between servers. I don't know what to do about RabbitMQ being down, all you can really do about that is move the exact same problem somewhere else by making things much more complicated, such that it's probably not worth it. If the place you're storing outbound messages is broken, you (obviously) can't store them, whether that's PostgreSQL, Redis, a remote RabbitMQ server, a local RabbitMQ, whatever.
Like getting drunk and killing others, or smoking in public places and hurting everyone around them? Yea, they should do what they want.
How to Achieve a 3 Day Work Week
URLs are long and they don’t consistently fit in the URL bar. You’re just trading one phishing mechanism for another, IMO worse, one.
I’m a non-smoking nicotine user. Should I also be included in the blanket ban by uhaul?
Germany heavily influenced American government and institutions (schooling, esp. the academy which usually ends up pushing cultural changes and crafting institutions when they become administrators) during the 19th up to early 20th century. I think it's short-sighted to say that (which she does in the article you linked) because schools aren't exact replicas of factories, the Prussian influence idea is completely unfounded history.
> non-smokers should not have to pay the insurance costs of smokers.

I don't want to pay for the insurance costs of alcoholics, diabetics and obese and sedentary people. Where do we draw the line? One of the problems with the US insurance mindset is this type of blame. Is it self-inflicted or not? Who gives a shit, honestly. It's a disease, that's why insurance exists.
(2019)
> 1) Batteries become much more efficient, by 2030 we will recharge mobile phones once a week.

Like in 2003?
Whether you agree with the use cases or traction they're gaining doesn't negate that there's a lot of others that do find them useful.
It is a good thing.

>You might not get the same response from China or Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia, if you’re not a man you might not even get a response. Or you could get beheaded.

[0]From Wikipedia:

In September 2011 a Sudanese migrant worker was beheaded for "sorcery",[37]
...
Other forms of general discrimination, such as a lack of freedom of religion for non-Sunni Muslims, are also applicable.[12]
...
The international organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes these conditions as "near-slavery" and attributes them to "deeply rooted gender, religious, and racial discrimination".[12]
...
Trade unions, strikes, and collective bargaining are banned for both Saudi citizens and foreigners alike.[32]
I still rate the odds of this being satire pretty high. It's just too pat. Maybe based on a true story, but I wouldn't bet on it.
It definitely would have.
Are you saying that Google sells Chrome OS at a loss?
It mentions in the article that Delta investigated the issue:

> "Our top priority continues to be the safety of our employees, which is why we invested in a rigorous toxicology study to determine if there was a universal scientific issue with the uniform," Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) said in a statement in response to the May lawsuit. "The results of the study confirm our uniforms meet the highest textile standards (OEKO-TEX) with the exception of the optional flight attendant apron, which we removed from the collection."

Delta took this seriously and commissioned a toxicology study. The results are that the clothing meets the highest textile standards. What should Delta do at this time?
Google sent me free Chromebook(Acer 11 N7) ~2 years back, with a request that I speak to their GCP rep; I sent the rep my latest AWS bill with complete break down and asked them to mail me back with equivalent GCP services with price; I never heard back.

Well that's about GCP marketing team, as for Chromebook -

1. The power brick broke down with single night plugged into power, that seems to be a problem with that particular model of power brick and the one Acer replaced with doesn't have any problem for ~ 2 years.

2. This particular model is like a tough-book(kids?), I was very impressed with the quality of build for the price ($299).

3. Underpowered Atom CPU, but that meant being fan-less. Fan-less X86 means, I use it as SBC (which it technically is) and it's hard to get a x86 SBC with this spec for this price.

as for ChromeOS,

1. I am content with the premise of low end netbook with browser as the frontend (whether that should be Google Chrome is another discussion).

2. I am happy with the updates, first it was vanilla chromeOS, then I received Android App support, then I received notification that my Chromebook is EOL(it was fixed later), then I received Linux support.

3. Android apps compatibility became better but there are some fundamental issues as heavy threaded apps stall when moved out of focus (this may be due to hardware, someone with Chromebook Pixel should comment on this).

4. Good security architecture and regular security updates.

Conclusion: As a commercial replacement for MIT Labs OLPC, Chromebook is a clear winner; as for $1500 laptop I think the OP article makes sense.
I did some experiments, after watching the quite helpful design videos by the two main developers, and it's been quite useful. Definitely best suited (or only suited?) to a component-based system, where the repetition is soon factored out.

It's a bit hard to get a unified style going, especially if you don't get a thorough design document from someone who knows what they're doing -- but it's definitely doable, mostly because you don't attempt every minute px/em/ex variation on every border or padding, but you're restricted to a set of sizes and dimensions that fit well together. (Although, one of the developers still does fiddle too much in his videos to adjust to the Figma blueprint)

And easy enough to customize with the built-in tool, if you e.g. want to omit certain styles, add some distances yourself or have your own palette.
AI: How to measure performance in classification and regression models
Yeah, it makes sense. It's just a bummer when switch feels like a much better-named keyword for the functionality, in the long term.

You almost wonder if they could do something like how `enum` got fixed up with proper scoping as `enum class`. Like, could `switch` retain the legacy functionality with the new stuff triggered when you do `switch from`, `switch if`, or similar. Or there could be new keyword added after the parenthesis, something like:

switch(<thing>) cases {
<opt1> : ...;
<opt2> : ...;
__ : ...;
}

This has a clear connection back to the legacy command in terms of a switch always having either case labels or a cases structure. And zero chance of breaking existing code, given that the `cases` keyword would only be valid in that position and could still be used as an identifier elsewhere (though obviously that would be discouraged).
I play in custom servers for plenty of games that have vote kick and ban systems. The games themselves may be old, but the players range from fresh to old guard. Valve FPS games were / are particularly good for this.

>Teammates will kick you out for stealing kills from them

Then you find another server that has fostered a better community. Or even start your own.

Even if the ratio of absolute mean-spirited jerks to decent players was 10:1, that's more than enough well intentioned players to foster good server communities. But I suspect the actual number is closer to a reversed amount.

Obviously MMOs would be a different beast, but the type of cheating you're trying to defeat - the threat model - is often different than wallhacking autoaimers.
Senate Democrats want to subpoena four witnesses in the impeachment trial
iPhone 11 Pro lenses. iPhone 11 only has two.
They seem to be alternating production going to Europe vs the US. I have a friend who ordered one in October and received it Dec 20. Another friend bought from stock; walked in and walked out with a car Dec 31.

In the Oct/Nov timeframe, truckloads of cars were going north on 101 to be shipped overseas. Then those stopped, and US deliveries were being pushed through.

So, you have to wait from 0 up to 2-3 months depending on whether you try to buy when they're doing deliveries in your region or not.
afaict until the 25 Dec 2019 ruby 2.7.0 release you probably could "say that python is faster than ruby".

fwiw

ruby 2.6.3p62
ruby 2.7.0p0

binarytrees-5 220.557 elapsed secs
binarytrees-5 124.421

binarytrees-2 178.751
binarytrees-2 149.458

binarytrees-3 176.672
binarytrees-3 150.645

binarytrees-4 136.930
binarytrees-4 113.516

binarytrees-1 176.208
binarytrees-1 149.078

fannkuchredux-1 1702.734
fannkuchredux-1 1738.016

fannkuchredux-2 2129.404
fannkuchredux-2 1153.396

fasta-3 132.449
fasta-3 81.565

fasta-6 105.649
fasta-6 54.305

fasta-2 236.321
fasta-2 180.647

fasta-5 181.954
fasta-5 146.962

fasta-4 178.753
fasta-4 144.130

knucleotide-7 702.380
knucleotide-7 361.174

knucleotide-2 412.034
knucleotide-2 365.819

knucleotide-1 678.888
knucleotide-1 378.368

knucleotide-3 426.748
knucleotide-3 385.934

mandelbrot-4 886.246
mandelbrot-4 1202.783

mandelbrot-2 1770.692
mandelbrot-2 1329.560

mandelbrot-3 1689.111
mandelbrot-3 2090.329

mandelbrot-5 1789.859
mandelbrot-5 2119.157

nbody-2 423.428
nbody-2 376.758

pidigits-1 60.476
pidigits-1 30.232

pidigits-5 6.446
pidigits-5, 4.790

pidigits-2 18.670
pidigits-2 11.841

regexredux-3 17.774
regexredux-3 9.431

regexredux-9 71.050
regexredux-9 40.018

regexredux-2 55.729
regexredux-2 33.070

revcomp-2 66.741
revcomp-2 32.203

revcomp-5 44.957
revcomp-5 21.445

revcomp-3 89.536
revcomp-3 39.507

revcomp-4 107.196
revcomp-4 43.994

spectralnorm-5 1059.201
spectralnorm-5 587.204

spectralnorm-1 318.088
spectralnorm-1 291.167

spectralnorm-4 271.367
spectralnorm-4 209.650
The problem with this thinking is where do you stop? I don't want to pay insurance costs for motorcycle riders, overweight people, people who play contact sports for fun, etc.
DICE doesn't just use FairFight obviously. They have their own in-house solution, also used by some other EA games.

And TBH you're complaining about 380 people which is a drop in a bucket compare to the number of players on that game, yes cheating sucks but I can assure you there are people actively working on that problem at DICE.
I really like this idea, would be cool if there were also examples and maybe implementations and awesome lists to tie into different ones...like for instance Rekog listing could have api's, sdk's, etc and other resources to use just that type... EBS could have tutorials, code snippets etc maybe on using terraform/etc --bonus points if people could create some sort of 'cart' of services they need, and see price estimates for different tiers so they could also price which cloud service is going to be cheaper for them.
Cool project. Unfortunately, the reality with password managers is that if I'm going to use it, then it needs to support Windows, Mac, Linux; have a good CLI; support all major browsers; and have apps and autofill on most mobile devices. And they need to sync, through my own server. Most password manager projects have one or two of these, but it's gonna need the whole package for me to switch to it.
That's totally fair and I only call it out because in my original post I said "other than speculation and money laundering" (which I freely admit is a big use case) and you provided me a list dominated by speculation and money laundering.
Again, countries like Singapore are poor models to follow simply because of their size and population. It is drastically easier to govern a country you can cycle across in a few hours, than a country like India or China.
Fortnite fails to launch due to anti cheat on the windows insider build. Though at least it fails to launch instead of resulting in an account ban.

It also doesn’t launch on Linux for the same reason. Is at least a touch more user friendly than getting bans I guess.
Apparently there is nothing positive possible in AI, based on your predictions. Is there?
What programming language is most like natural language?
There is far more interesting evidence of potential advanced intelligence in our system, such as the Nimitz encounter [0].

The New York Post put together a great video highlighting "The Phenomenon." If Oumuamua is indeed an interstellar probe, it would seem to have come from a civilization far less advanced than whatever seems to have been observed by various militaries and analyzed by this New York Post special [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaSY2Zc0goQ

Edit: I don't mean to shake up anyone's fragile worldview. Comment instead of downvote; it's a fascinating subject to debate.
A lot of these founder stories boil down to coming up with a good idea and then building it. You hear more about the stories where that worked out and less about the stories where it didn't. Plus the ideas and execution quality all vary, along with market timing.

It's hard to say what exactly can be learned from such stories.
Or he should try selling it to CVS as a in-the-store tool for OTC products, where his original need came from in the first place.
My university (University of Hartford, in CT USA) had a required course for all engineering majors: "Engineering Practice". Essentially it was a course on how to take an engineering idea & turn it into a business.

Find a problem, find potential buyers for a solution, figure out what they say they're willing to pay, determine other design constraints, rough design a solution matching the constraints (IE that can be sold for what people will pay), create a business plan, including estimates of how much funding is needed and a method to get that funding, build a prototype, pitch the product to faculty as though they were VCs/banks/other funding sources.

If you're trying to make a product you need to know how it will sell. If you're trying to run a business, you need a business plan! If you can't make money you're better off planning to register as a charity, and your budget will need to take that into account.

This product could maybe have been a good business, if it was aimed at someone willing to pay for the data. Mainly, the insurance companies. They want to make money, so if they could profit by denying coverage of drugs that are less effective they might pay for it.

This could also have been a good charity. Providing helpful information is what educational charities do. Making a nonprofit would save on costs, and might have been enough to make this viable (though certainly not a lucrative money-maker).
Keyboard controls not working for anyone else?
China is only one part of the world in which Apple does business. It is in Apple’s best interest to offer privacy as a feature to attract customers in other parts of the world where privacy is not illegal, since it is not something their competitors are yet capable of offering as well.
I was just at the San Diego Fry's hoping to pick up a cheap mouse and keyboard... it was slim pickings for both. Last year the shelves had plenty at all price points but not anymore.
Playing devil's advocate here:

This is basically an attempt to gather more information before you act. In principle, that's an Obviously Good Thing. But you have to question whether that information is actually as conclusive as you want it to be, and whether you're changing the outcome by observing it. There's two problems with the information you gather by making phone calls and showing mockups/designs:

1. Mocks/designs only communicate a fraction of the product, and often the parts that aren't visible in mocks/designs are the most valuable parts of the product. Speaking in vague terms: I'm working on an app where the main value is that it calculates actionable numeric values that users typically calculate in spreadsheets. The UI is certainly a selling point, but users aren't going to easily understand the connection between the new UI and the old spreadsheet formulae without playing with the actual product. Phone conversations are likely even less communicative.

2. Communication is a two-way street: releasing early allows you to get information from your users, but it also leaks information to your users, which may not present the image you want. Kickstarter has shown that with good enough marketing you can get paying customers with literally nothing. But you can also burn customers so they never want anything to do with your product ever again. There are numerous high-profile failures-to-deliver that have killed not only products, but the reputations of individuals and companies. But failure doesn't have to be that catastrophic to lose customers permanently: all that has to happen is for someone to pay for your product, find it a bit lackluster, and decide to cancel their subscription. That user is worse than a non-user, because they are never going to be a user again, and might tell others about their experience. Short term success not only isn't an indicator of long-term viability, it can cause long-term non-viability.

Sure, it's cheaper to validate problem/solution with phone calls and mocks/designs, but you get what you pay for.

The best strategy probably lies somewhere in the middle: code a minimum viable product, but really make sure it's the minimum, and really make sure you think it's actually viable. A good compromise might be to release a discounted beta for select users--that lets you get feedback from paying customers up front, but also sets expectations so that users don't get the wrong idea about your product before it's mature enough for a real release. It also limits the exposure, so even if you burn a few beta users, you don't burn your entire potential user base.
This is from a year ago, and seems to follow Betteridge's law.
Why would parts and service be more difficult for 2nd hand owners vs original buyers? The model should be the same. Schedule in the app, take it to a service center.

If anything, I'd wonder about warranty vs off-warranty. But don't they have even MORE of an incentive to service off-warranty vehicles which represent a revenue stream vs a cost?
> We are already flirting with corporate-employment-as-citizenship

We're done with flirting, we're already probably at second base as if you take a cold hard look at the corporate-employee relationship in America, we've basically reinvented a new form of feudalism.
Have you ever tried a mini segway? That's what I use, and I'm wondering how the Solowheel compares.
Hey, does your child have rfid implant for easy id and tracking?
Modern CSS Features in 2 Minutes
The price of storage has pretty much plummeted compared to the size of Windows. A quick glance at a magazine shows that in 1987, a few years before Windows 3.0, a 20MB hard drive was about $300 (in 1987 dollars).
What do you mean by "taking over"? Are you the new Product Owner? A new coder? A one-man show doing everything? Is this part of a larger organization, or did you just pick up a codebase and you are going to try to make it into a business?
So could this really lead to a global depression? I doubt it.
Monadical.com | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Product Manager / Partner | Full-Time | Montreal / Medellin | REMOTE

We're a full-stack software consultancy that's growing quickly. We have a wide variety of interesting projects, from building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share datasets, to custom medical software for doctors, to real estate platforms and more.

We're growing quickly and we have more work than we can handle, our bottleneck right now is senior management and engineering manpower, so we're looking to hire any senior full-stack engineers who are driven and want to play a partner-level role in growing an exciting company (with compensation to match). Our goal is to be a workplace with a strong focus on learning, where the client projects provide a base of capital for us to all work on dream projects of our own.

Our company principles are inspired by the Recurse Center too, see more info and apply here: https://monadical.com/team.html
> for each dollar in premiums required, 60¢ is paid for by the farmer, 40¢ is paid by the government

I have no idea where you are getting this from. There are no actual "premiums". There is no actual insurance involved. The "insurance" is, as you originally said, "effective"--for certain crops, if their market price is below a certain price set by the government, the government pays farmers the difference as a subsidy. But only for certain crops, and those crops (the biggest one is corn) are mostly grown by large agribusinesses, not small farms. (The corn subsidy is even worse because much of the corn produced doesn't get eaten, it gets turned into ethanol to put in gasoline, for no good reason.)

> small farmers have off-farm jobs

I don't know which small farmers you are talking about. Most small farms are family owned businesses and provide the entire income for the family members who participate. Family members who have off-farm jobs are the ones who have left the farm and switched to other careers.

> Private insurance has done well to serve individual events like a house fire or automobile accident, but when things happen on a grand scale like a major flood or widespread fire, it seems they fall back to government bailouts.

First, while that may be true, it doesn't mean the government provides the insurance more efficiently.

Second, private insurance companies are often restricted by the government in the premiums they can charge. For example, while flood insurance in regions which flood frequently is not cheap, it is cheaper than it would be in a free market, because in a free market the premiums would be based solely on actuarial data on the frequency of flooding and the expected losses from flooding, which would go up as more things of value were built in such areas. But the government, due to political pressure, doesn't allow the premiums to get that high, which means that people who choose to live in such areas, or companies that choose to build infrastructure there, don't see the full costs involved and so have less incentive to find somewhere else to go.

> I am not seeing how large businesses are advantaged by the subsidy in a way that small business are not

They are advantaged by being able to lobby to have the subsidies go to crops that they can more easily grow. But they are further advantaged by the mere existence of the subsidies, since they don't need them while smaller farms might.