skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have mentioned administrative burden and confusion about eligibility, both of which are huge problems. I'll touch on a few others.

Even if you're eligible and you apply, there's no guarantee that your application will get processed or approved. There have been people on the exchanges whose income fell below a certain threshold, so they lost their subsidies, but then didn't have their Medicaid application approved. So they ended up paying more money because their income went down (in an area without the ACA donut hole).

There's also processing time for the application. At least in some states I believe they'll reimburse you if you get approved, but what happens if you don't? Or, perhaps more pertinent to this situation, what happens if you get your new job while you're application is in progress and then have to cancel the application before it's approved?

Keep in mind the article makes it sound like she was actively looking for a job. If you think you can get a new job in a few weeks you probably wouldn't want to get involved in the administrative mess for benefits you wouldn't actually receive.

The ACA has a lot of sharp edges that most people aren't aware of until they run into them. Look up the family glitch and Medicaid churning for a couple of other examples. It's a good example of why universal programs are far superior to means tested programs. Means tested programs often turn into Rube Goldberg messes when they try to cover all the edge cases.
Well sure, but I guess you could do the same with planets inside the solar system too? No need to wait for interstellar asteroids/comets.
So you just learn, or have the ability, to not think about it?
For those running a PiHole, I thought for sure that the pihole was already doing this for me. Turns out the implementations (#2915 & #2916) are still sitting in the development branch waiting for a release - they were merged to development on Sep 07, 2019.

* https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/2915

* https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/2916

* https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/compare/master...developm...
I didn't used the expression in a literal sense (which I tried to state but maybe I didn't do it well enough). For me "ideas are worthless" represents the opposite of the mindset where people get secretive about their ideas or not wanting to give them away because they are afraid that someone will make good money with it.

I clearly care about ideas if I want everybody to share theirs. I just want to do it openly and freely without people thinking that others will steal them and make advantage of them.
Show HN: Launched a browser extension to end sales emails
If you watch the Caltech talk (embedded in the blog post) or read the original published paper, they did quite a bit of work to validate that their method was actually giving them good results and not just what they wanted to see. The author of the post doesn't mention any of this, presumably because it doesn't fit her narrative.
This phenomenon is so popular it has its own section on the "DNS Hijacking" wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...

Unless they explicitly say so, your ISP is not spending a boat-load of money running a DNS server for you to use because they're nice. They're not even doing it because you're paying them for a service. They're doing it because they can monetize the data and serve you ads.
For Apple's products, no, they're completely unusable to me. For earbuds I found some $15 Panasonic ones that sound alright and fit me perfectly, so I bought 6 sets of them and just go through them over the years. I think I'm on set #2 right now. I also have Sennheiser HD1 In-Ear Bluetooth earbuds that fit pretty well, too. Both products I mentioned come with different size silicone shrouds so I just found the ones that fit best and shove them into my ear canal until they're stuck. Even then it's not perfect. My right ear doesn't hold them as well as my left.
Better to stay in the dark about what the average American experience is like! (?)
Ask HN: Unexpected product features that pleased you?
Product features you stumbled upon, that really surprised you. Or, in general any feature that worked better than you expected it to.

Some, for me -

- When I started using the MacBook, unknowingly I tapped a word with three fingers, and the dictionary came up. Next, I tapped a link, and Safari browser opened up. I was genuinely surprised.

- Right-click on the image in the web browser, and paste it in the chat text bar, uploaded the image.

- Close a remote Safari tab.

- double tap on the iPhone 6 home button and the home screen scrolled a bit down, to the middle

- Three-finger swipe up on the MacBook and dragging and dropping applications across the desktops.
iPhone8 iOS. Pretty average mobile device.
Badly adjusted headlights are very common though.

You are supposed to adjust them based on the weight distribution, but people tend to use the highest setting, because that's the best for them. But if they have a lot of weight on rear, the beams are too high and can dazzle other drivers.

And sometimes the optics are simply misaligned because of shock, wear, vibration, ... even dirt can change the beam shape and be problematic. This is especially true for HID lamps, which are closer to a point light source and require higher precision optics compared to halogen light bulbs. And because it mostly affect others, these problems tend to go unnoticed by the driver.
If you use the Pomodoro technique for time tracking, see here some suggestions https://www.zerodollartips.com/pomodoro-technique-timer-wind...
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Morning routines blow. That's why I switched over to the evening. I prefer it mostly because I like to sleep too, but mostly because I hate wasting a morning on a stressful activity. Mornings are quite possibly the most relaxing part of my day.
Junk email accounts are helpful for this.
I've been sort of working on a compiler side project for years, and my observation of the materials out there is that they all seem to get caught up in bikeshedding. Parsing just isn't that hard of a problem, and with a vague understanding of what a recursive descent parser is, just about any reasonably-skilled developer can figure out how to write a good-enough parser. EBNF, parser generators, etc. is just noise, yet this is where every compiler tutorial I've come across spends most of its time.

The real meat of any compiler is generation, and that's hard, starting with the fact that if you're new at this you probably don't know assembly. And assembly is death by a thousand cuts: sure, you can probably figure out how to do loops and ifs pretty quickly, but the subtleties of stack allocation, C-style function calling convention, register allocation, etc. all add tiny bits of "messiness" that each add a little bit of complexity to your code. Managing that complexity is the real challenge, and I haven't come across a compiler course that really addresses this.
> not so good transport

That’s not been my experience. Which place(s) are you comparing London’s transport to?
Basically, no. Basic features like the transforms and loop filters are different. It would cause the result to rapidly differ after a few frames.
A low end consumer CPU can do 10-20 Gbps of AES per core, it certainly doesn't require a big FPGA.
Oh yeah, it's certainly possible. I'm on a Dell XPS 9570 with a discrete GPU and I can play most stuff I've tried at the native 1080p. That's mostly indies and EGS freebies, but some of them definitely still give the GPU a workout, and in those cases I absolutely experience screaming fans, frame drops, etc, even when giving lots of clearance to the fan inlets.

I get the impression that the GPU in this computer is much more intended for CAD, video processing, light AI work, etc than the kind of 100% duty cycle loading that running a game demands.
> It’s not like Apple needs to make hardware in Cupertino to have most of its smart people there.

I think you need an update on where most of their RnD is now...

Anyways, you cannot be satiated with RnD only if you don't have factories to make things you RnDed.
Can you please update the title as Global Warming is not something you believe in. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/
> You need a huge voltage density.

Does voltage density make any sense?
A Ukrainian airline but it occurred in Tehran, Iran a few hours after the missile attack. It was taking off, not landing.
Initiative to relicense pmacct from GPL to a BSD-style license
> a licensed amateur radio operator for more than 20 years

Every HAM I know would ridicule me if I used such wording as you did, which I feel I didn’t do, maybe your experience is different.

My reply was less in explaining it to you though, but more as being informative to others who might’ve not had the experience and thus could learn misleading information from your post.

(I’m also a licensed operator, but not for as long as you)
The Roman philosopher Seneca made a similar point about non-continuous noise.

"Among the noises that sound around me but do not distract me, I count passing carriages, a carpenter somewhere in the building, a nearby saw grinder, and that fellow who demonstrates flutes and trumpets near the Meta Sudans, not so much playing them as bellowing. Even now I find noises that recur at intervals more bothersome than a continuous drone."

You can find more of his thoughts on the matter including his wonderful description of living above a bathhouse in Letter 56 to Lucilius.
My rant is not entirely appropriate in the context of Rails, but generally speaking, I cannot for the life of me understand why so many programmers take something very simple - a SQL query - and decide the best way to deal with it is to hide the SQL in some kind of wrapper, thus “simplifying” it. Not once have I used one of these libraries where within hours you run across a non-arcane scenario that the wrapper can’t handle (just yesterday: Postgres type cast to insert an enum value).
The title needs to be changed
> Avid pissed off everyone by overcharging for buggy software, so there's a lot more diversity now.

Huh, it will be interesting to see if Adobe ends up in a similar position ten years from now as a result of their pricing strategy. In the graphic design space, which I'm more familiar with, it feels like there's very slow but still real migration away from Creative Suite.
Ask HN: Voice/audio triggered advertising a thing?
We've all (or know of someone that) had that experience of mentioning something out loud and some time later having an add for that appearing somewhere on the web.

I know that there is a fair share of confirmation bias in this stories, and that network connections + interests can be a quite powerfull way of working those add engines.

Being a data scientist I know how Criteo, Google ads and Facebooks work, by having worked with them. And I also have a faint idea of how they may work under the hood.

However, I recently had a discussion with a couple of friends where the only way they could have gotten a particular add is if voice triggered adds were a thing.
I believe that it would cost so much money, given the conversion rate (even if abnormally higher for a voice enabled add), computing costs (on Google Cloud or Aws), engineering costs, amount of audio to be processed for speech to text that it would not be feasable.
Also, the amount of adds I can come up given a basic list of connections + interests seems way much bigger then given Gbs of audio to process and come up with adds from that.

My friends argue that, given what companies can afford, it would be peanuts for a share of their budget to be used in such applications. Also, they argue that basically any app those days have acces to microphone, and I am not sure how those permissions are handled by the OS (IOS or Android).

So are companies hearing us all the time? Are there any add companies that claim to do that?
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You're overstating the advantage of "knowing everything." Instead realize that there is an advantage to _wanting_ to learn, attempting, and improving.

Answer honestly, ask for help, and learn.
Haha, unlimited salary sounds like a fun trick. You decide that month what you want to be paid. In any such company you'll end up asking much less than they're willing to pay, and get frustrated when you find that a colleague is getting away with more.
Ah yes, the entitled belligerent type that wants their high standards met or you get insults thrown at you. Feel free to develop your own browser, or use an alternative.

Having my DNS queries go in plain text over the public internet is crazy. The fact that ISPs are moaning about it so loudly should be a big clue DoH is a good idea.
If it were a fun fact, it would have to point out that it is an ex command. Nitpicks do not have to be quite so factual. (-:
Is someone dividing by zero somewhere?

"All six display units (DUs) blanked with a selected instrument approach to a runway with a 270-degree true heading, and all six DUs stayed blank until a different runway was selected."

cos(270°) = 0
> expensive, bureaucracy, not so good transport

Compared to where exactly?
Just so the rest of us know, what's "nasty" about Plex and Emby?
At least in the US, for me Silicon Valley was only "worth it" as a young, single, professional.

Once I met my spouse and started having kids, Silicon Valley became way too expensive.

If you're young, and have no spouse or kids, the experience alone might be "worth it," even if you have to live in a tiny apartment and only stay in London for a short time.
I like the idea, what are the chrome permissions like? Is the code open-source so I can analyze?
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Basically I just want to go somewhere to start fresh... not really career prospect/salary motivated.

London looks a good option to me because its english-speaking, I have relatives living there, I can work there visa-free (now its complicated due to brexit), and I love english football haha.
If you plan to undertake any consulting / contracting opportunities have a look at IR35 - it's about to be introduced in April and will most possibly cause a lot of turmoil in London's tech sector. Might be worth to consider this when making a decision.
Understanding Regression Coefficients and Multicollinearity
The author of the post ignores all the work that went into validating that the methods they used give reasonably consistent results, including simulation studies and multiple blind analyses to make sure that they weren't just making the image they wanted to see.

This is discussed in the Caltech talk which is embedded in the post. It seems the author cherrypicked all the quotes that sound bad and ignored the parts that disagree with her narrative.
They are truly standard behavioral questions that you can't really prepare for, other than thinking about what you did in various scenarios.

"Tell me about a time you had to resolve conflict between two engineers on your team."

And then a bunch of follow-up questions. "What went well/poorly about that", "what would you do differently next time", etc.

This is why I think it'd be hard to go directly from an IC role to a manager as an external hire.

FWIW, I think that hesitation would apply at any company, not just Google. In my last company, I myself was in charge of hiring other engineering managers, and I can tell you that I didn't even consider any resumes unless they called out some sort of lead role.

If they were an actual manager, i could skip directly to the behavioral questions. If they were a tech or project lead of some sort, I did a lot more probing on the exact scope on how much they dealt with people, what they were and were not responsible for, etc. before even getting into the behavioral stuff.

Managers are hugely influential in any org and hiring is an inherently risky activity. You want to minimize risk, not increase it by hiring someone who's never done the actual job before.

Back to Google, I'm not sure the technical bar is lower at all. I got literally the same questions that any senior IC would get, just fewer of them in order to have time for the manager sessions.

No idea whether recruiters care about business school. From my own personal observation, b-school can prepare you to do some analytical stuff, like cash flow analysis or broaden your knowledge base by reading M&A case studies, but nothing in there prepares you to be in charge of running a team with actual humans on it.
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Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Is Managed by Lobbyists
As another reply mentioned, the paper in question cast doubt on one of the key pieces of evidence for Dark Energy, not Dark Matter. Despite the similar names, they are not fundamentally related concepts and there is significantly more evidence for the existence of Dark Matter.
This is too much crap. This is one time, when I think a president should fire all the CEO and Administration, and get some newly retired NASA Engineering Management over this craziness. I don't want to fly in a Boeing ever again.
Oh! Thanks for pointing out. Not shure if it's a "large" typo ... I didn't write "rezorzs" ;-)
Are stray bullets or missiles considered technical enough?
Here in the UK, I have a choice of many different ISPs, all of whom (in theory) compete for my business.

Guess what? The big ones are still awful: hijacking DNS, providing horribly congested service and laughable "support". All in the race to cut as much cost and increase profit in the name of being able to undercut the next guy by £1/pm. Competition isn't the pancea you seem to think it is.

> Maybe you in the US should fix the root cause of your problem (legislation) instead of deploying rogue technology making life complex for everyone else?

Maybe you should use a different browser. Or learn how the one you're using works at least.
How to support your team by understanding their needs
London is about to experience two things: Brexit, and the private sector reform of IR35 legislation (for contract work). Both will affect the job market there.

Arguably the latter will be felt worse in the coming months, as Brexit has already been accounted for by many companies.
These things strike me as quite trivial and I'm fairly confident we could probably find pre-Sonos prior art for all of them.
TDMA usually means old legacy time-division based communications standards such as E1/T1 (G.704) or SONET/SDH.

Emulating such services in a packet-switched network requires very precise timing hence the reference to it in terms of IEEE1588 / Precision Time Protocol.
But cos(90°) = 0 too, unless they thought to check for one case but they did check for the other, or something more complex is happening.
That kind of feels like answer the question "why is there cellophane on the counter" with "Why don't you go to apple and get them to change their packaging to reduce plastic waste?" I mean, yeah, that's a solution, but you're requiring a massive effort, when really that doesn't address your problem at the moment.
I do not know, if you took time to look at the next function in https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj/tree/master/01_Scanner , but there is a Putback variable, which seems to imply that the scanner goes back (at most one character). Also having to pass around the result of next, instead of having a current pointer, or at least a current character, makes things more complicated (I feel). Being able to look ahead, without having to consume a character, (I feel) is easier, also for keeping track of the correct line and column number. Note that if Putback is equal to '\n', the Line has already be incremented. Seems that this could lead to errors being reported on the wrong line for terminal symbols at the end of the line.
> £100k ($130k) is not unrealistic.

Yet I work in a a medium-to-low COL area of the US and make more than that. My area is in the high 80's while NYC is 162 and SF is 206.

It's hard to argue in favor of being a SWE in London if being a SWE in the US is a possibility in any locale.
That sounds a lot like mine except my kids are slightly older so it also involves a school run. And I live in London so there's an ~1 hour commute to follow it.
Not really! It's a bit of a problem that there isn't a good compiler book at the moment, in my opinion. Everything is either far too basic, or too specialised. If a practising programmer wanted to learn compiler and write a compiler today I don't know what they could easily look at. They'd have to read a lot and then get a lot of extra guidance about what to use and what not to use.
It seems more that there are different analyses done that come to different conclusions, as Apple hasn’t released the full revenues by product line.
> But not for the next year

What do you mean? The exit date is the end of Jan 2020
For me, the key was not exercising immediately after waking up. The issue was that when the alarm sounded, I knew the next thing I had to do was exercise. So I'd find excuses.

Instead, I made it to the first thing I did was wake up, have coffee, and read the newspaper. By the time that is done I am awake and somewhat relaxed, and in a much better state to contemplate exercise.
After nearly 50 years on this planet, a few in no special order:

If our imagination is limitless, our body and mental aptitude are not, which can be painful to realize but acceptance makes for a more gentle attitude towards ourselves and life in general.

Most people would rather be wrong in company than right alone.

Everything there is to experience and enjoy in life, family, friends, things, is not ours, it's borrowed and we don't know when we will have to give it back.

In everything lie its opposite: you can be peaceful in pain, relaxed in tumultuous time or sad in what would be considered good circumstances. There's very little correlation between our experiences and our mind states.

Most people are good but are confused, some (edit: few) are evil. Nothing to do about it besides avoiding the second group.

You can learn about the universe in a pebble, while traveling the world and stay ignorant.

Life is 95% boring, 5% sublime.
To be honest, I don't know either. We wanted to try this type of authentication because of the quick-onboarding style.
Comparing used prices to new prices is dishonest. It costs $2,961.00 new.

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It seems you misread the comment, no? There's little gain in being this standoffish, especially when your interpretation is off.

They're obvioulsy not saying that ideas are worthless, period - They're saying that ideas alone don't go anywhere unless you execute them. Furthermore, it seems they're here to share ideas, not to execute others.
Potentially, and I saw this comment after clicking the link and my first thought was that this company/laptop looks too generic. Something feels off.

Could be wrong. But also don’t care since I’m not in the market for it.
The idea is, that hidden volumes cannot be distinguished from a random data, until the correct decryption password is entered.
So while the device is capable of having a hidden volume (or more), one cannot prove its existence on device.

Disclaimer: I work with Nitrokey.
I like the sound of that...
You are already sharing a road with people who are constantly distracted, drunk, or other. I would say the roads would be a much better place if there were more people who had a computer driving them.
I think this would be an excellent outcome.
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All children must learn to code
110-120K GBP base is pretty standard for SWE's with 2-5 years experience in the financial sector and fang, heck 100K base isn't exactly impossible to get these days even outside of London in places like Manchester and Bristol.

Overall your total comp can get well beyond 150-160K GBP these days, that's including the 15-20% cash bonus, and the circa 20% pension large companies award today + other benefits.
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Exactly. I think it's some of each.