skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical is a special market due to emotional heartstrings. At a certain point, people will pay anything when death or health are involved.

At a political / social impact / behavioral hacking level, there's probably an argument to make near human grade medical services for domestic pets free, as it would likely assist with the reduction in human population growth (aside from companionship, etc.).

I am consistently amazed how cheap and fast medical services are in developing countries. The equipment costs so much less outside of western regulatory oversight, and to the consumer standard blood test batteries are often ~5-10 minutes and ~free.
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Half the truck drivers are futzing with their phone anyway, so I wouldn’t worry about an emergency broadcast causing mayhem. There’s certainly no evidence of alert induced carnage.

I think that these things are annoying, and since they are controlled at the state/provincial/territorial/major metro level, there’s going to be a bell curve of competence. (With the bottom being Hawaii where a single operator with a defective control panel was able to send a incoming ballistic missile attack warning)
The first episode of "the portal" was great. In that episode Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel deeply discussed a variety of topics.

https://youtu.be/nM9f0W2KD5s
Why would such illicit operators have running lights on?
It's nuts how similar this story is to the numerous HN comments I've read about people running into trouble with their Google accounts.
First, it's not that they are 'entitled' to the value, it's that our entire economic model is based on continuous consumption. If vast swathes of the population have no way to get money because robots do the work and only the wealthiest capture the value, then it collapses because there is nobody with money to consume the goods produced.

Second, the point you're getting at is trickle down economics. Personally, I don't think it works.
LBJ and the Great Society won the war on poverty in America.

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504

"The economists find that by the standards of LBJ's time, the U.S. poverty rate has dropped from 19.5 % in 1963 to just 2.3% in 2017!!"

If that's not winning, I don't know what is.
(Python) I made the World's smallest static site generator
(Python) I made the World's smallest static site generator

https://github.com/sharadcodes/my_py_site
I only had Linux severs for web servers (Cent OS and Ubuntu Server) ... I didn't have a problem and I stuck with the winning team.
Call me old fashioned. But, i don't understand what is the big deal about zero trust. Isn't the principle of least privilege was what security was all about for last 20 years? We had VLANs since the dark ages. Then vendors sold us micro-segmentation as the next big thing. Now with zero trust they seem to be saying lets do VPN everywhere and have a firewall between everything. Just for fun, lets use TLS instead of IPSec and it'll solve all our problems. You just need to buy fifty more boxes from us and life will be better.

Don't get me wrong. I'm in complete agreement with using identity as the new perimeter. I highly recommend reading Google BeyondCorp papers. They are well written. We moved everything to Okta years ago and we've been very happy with it. But, I'm very unhappy with what security vendors are selling us. They seem to be completely missing the point.
>> their is something weirdly alex jones about his voice and mannerism

They are both passionate people whose articulation is rife with some distinct regional and broadcast (ie. radio) shibboleths.

Only one of them is a post truth raving lunatic dangerous populist performance artist shill.

You're doing a disservice to Dan Carlin and giving Alex Jones way too much power/credit by justifying a knee jerk bias based on superficial resemblances.
Orchestrating Animations with Framer Motion in React.js [Step by Step Tutorial]
Heroku's "hobby" is $7/m while "free" is $0/m. There's no "free hobby":

https://www.heroku.com/pricing
If you made $10,000 per day, every day, for the past 200 years. You would still not be a billionaire.

But yes somehow some people are "productive" enough to be worth more than that.

We have a broken system, stop trying to defend it.
> Allowing students to work together in a group for part of their grade instead of requiring them to complete all graded work individually. This is a request to make the curriculum easier and does not appear to be related to inclusion.

Out of all the suggestions that were made, this is the one that's perhaps most relevant to inclusion and getting more women to code, actually. It's well-known that women are on average more social than men, more open to working with people than things, and less approving of solitary activities like being a traditional lone "rockstar coder".
Similar thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053211 (90 points, 3 months ago, 110 comments)

My comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053962
> Record a video for each chapter and then offer that at a (much) higher price point.

Thanks for sharing. For technical topics, I think reading is much faster and reliable because readers can skim and also copy code. I'm curious why it might be effective to produce a video and price it higher?
Yep, podcasting inbox zero has become quite hard since I started working remotely.
No commute is less time for listening to podcasts.
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Yeah, exactly. If you cook, do aerobics, walk your dog, commute, do chores, or even run errands, you potentially have time you can enrich with a good podcast.

For example, these days I have trouble reading books because it's so sedentary. I can only do it for 30min before I switch to a podcast or audiobook so I can run or cook or do pushups while I listen.

For me the efficiency is its main perk.
So are you saying that J.K. Rowling could be sued by the copyright holders of the 1969 film "Carry On Camping"?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064133/trivia?item=tr2738534
A Man Who Chases Auroras to Push Away Darkness
Had an I/O issue in SQLite yesterday: the cause was a full disk, due to years of SQLite backups!
"Even in landfills" per OPs claim. I don't see that claim being made in your selection there.
The logic applies to basically ALL cloud based services.

We had our entire company profile for Indeed disabled because a couple of our ads were commission-based positions - which only became an issue when paused those postings (because they don't care while you're giving them money).

Their appeals process was non-existent, and they turned off everything - the whole account - so I couldn't even post for an accountant.

Literally all cloud based companies have this danger.
Either is fine. But from a security standpoint: OpenBSD.
pEoPlE aRe tOo ExPeNsIvE, dontchaknow?
I have to admit I never noticed the even/odd rule. Maybe I'd have found Building 2 without having to look it up the other day :-)
Perhaps the value of high school is overstated for those who can quit and make 100k at taco bell.
This is an editorialized title and as far as I know it's not even accurate. The author maintains, but did not create coverage.py.

(Edit: Original title has been changed, so this comment is no longer necessary.)
> I think SQLite is using direct-I/O (bypassing page cache)

Should be pretty easy to confirm/deny that suspicion and see if it's worth going down the rabbit hole, no?

strace -e open -o >(grep O_DIRECT) ./myprogram
Exactly. This political correctness has gotten to the point of ridiculousness. Just drop it altogether if it is that much of an issue. It looks like this lecturer was unwilling to realize that and as white male was targeted.

My pronoun is "His Majesty ;)"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/10/07/...
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” - Winston Churchill
Do you sometimes find yourself listening to a podcast episode not because you enjoy the content but because it's part of your completionist streak?
Can you reply as to the reason you had so many accounts flagged and disabled?
Take up running or biking. :)

One of the biggest life hacks I fell into was to reserve my favorite podcasts or most anticipated episodes for a long run or biking session. I would look forward to that run all day. Often I'll double my distance just to put on another episode.

Much more fulfilling than a commute as well.
Because I can regularly find 64GB cards at reputable sellers for about $10, I no longer format cards. I shoot until they are full (backing up as I go). When a card is full, I "file" it. Basically, I've started treating memory cards as "digital film". I know they are likely to degrade over the years, but formatting guarantees "degradation" right now in the present. [1] Compared to film, SD cards are cheap. Not zero cost, but @ 40 RAW images per GB, it's only a fraction of a penny per shot. With .jpg it's a fraction of a fraction of a penny.

[1]: It also opens the door for accidental formats.
Aquifer depletion is a big problem too. We pull underground water faster than it is replenished. This can permanently shrink the capacity of aquifers and/or make them unreachable.
Could you give quotes to support the claim that he "justifies examples of violence and intimidation against women in the industry"? I read the article - did I miss that part?
We have a “Government & Policy” category that was a little light to launch with. Would be happy for you to help us fill it out!
Why don't you just spin up a local IMAP server and backup all your old Gmail onto it ? No need to loose history.
Almost all Jocko podcasts if you ask me. Some tell great war stories while others go into military leadership lessons. I think these lessons generalise well to outside the military since bad leadership receives harsh and direct feedback, that is, bad leadership gets people killed. Also a big pro of the podcast is Jocko. He might be a bit too much pro-America at times, but he seems like a down to earth, humble and hardworking person.
I don't think sqlite uses direct IO -- at least there's no mention of O_DIRECT in the source code
“Guys” is gender neutral in most of the English speaking world except for some parts of the USA, where it is considered exclusively masculine. Edit: here is a photo that describes where it is used or not: https://cdn.mapmania.org/original/how_americans_address_a_gr...
We still have poverty, but not your granddad's poverty. It used to be, the poor suffered under-nourishment. Today, poverty can stem from obesity so severe as to be disabling.
Gotcha! Not having creation date displayed was part space limitations, part the idea that we want to drive somewhat older episodes with high longevity.

We will add a “classic” tag shortly for episodes older than x weeks to indicate that it’s not new content.

Thanks for the feedback!
Someone should have told Socrates :-)

And the idiot got himself killed for it :-)
I wish #1 was known by everyone and not just parents. Pretty much everyone (including other parents) will blame you if your kid is a poor sleeper/poor eater/very active etc.
We don't generally consider compiler output to be under the copyright of the author of the compiler.
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Looks great, but please make sure your site has at least basic functionality with JavaScript disabled (right now it loads just an empty page).

This is really important for your users who use screen readers (for the blind), folks with older computers or miniature/underpowered computers.
Five Asian Countries Dump More Plastic Into Oceans Than Anyone Else Combined: How You Can Help

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahleung/2018/04/21/five-asi...

more focus needs to be placed here. Everyone can do their bit. But they need to do more.
There is a child to caretaker ratio to maintain. And you have to pay for the caretaker wages and benefits, rent, liability insurance, support staff, etc. So those costs are divided among all who are paying for it. It will not scale any better than that.
-o >(grep O_DIRECT)

This is cool. Never seen it (but it makes sense.)
>any alert gets the highest alert setting possible (Presidential: what would normally be reserved for an imminent attack) - bypassing silence, do not disturb, and any volume or device setting

Not that I was looking to move, but Canada is no longer on my list of countries I'd be willing to live in.
The feasability of the circumstances described in AS aren't a triviality, they're the crux of your argument. Tax collection has been unsuccessful even with the fig leaf of "negotiation"; what's better is to have everyone believe in what happens if you don't pay your taxes.

Generally-speaking, I'm betting that the wealthy would rather live in a world where they still have essentially unfettered freedom of movement and resource access with slightly less collective wealth, than one in which they have to hold back their gifts and always have to be looking over their shoulder.
I don't think this is like the 80 character line length that's about screen size. This 100 line limit is framed as a quick and dirty for heuristic for script complexity.
>>Why, because you don’t understand what they do?

I was a business analyst at my previous job. My core function was to gain a deep understanding of what the various people in an organization did, where the input for their work came from and where the output went, and why.

Here's an example that actually embodies an extremely common scenario:

I worked with a customer whose clients filled out and submitted online forms at the customer's website. They had a clerk who would, once per hour, print all the forms that had been submitted, then take that stack of paper and place it on an unoccupied desk in a room on the other side of the building. She would then walk back to her own desk and twiddle her thumbs for the remainder of the hour.

After a lot of interviews and digging, I found out the reason for this bizarre process: the unoccupied desk on the other side of the building used to be occupied by another clerk, whose job was to sort the forms based on their destination department, then walk to them to those departments. She would then come back to her desk and twiddle her thumbs for the remainder of the hour.

Here's the thing though: she had retired 5 years ago. The stacks of paper that were being piled on her now unoccupied desk were simply shredded regularly by a third clerk about once a week, and it took that clerk four hours to shred everything because she was required to keep an Excel spreadsheet of how many of each form was being shredded. That Excel spreadsheet was then saved to a network drive, where it wasn't accessed by any user, ever.

You might be thinking, "wow, that's pretty crazy, but stuff like that is probably pretty rare." You would be very wrong. I charted out insane processes like this for ten years. Every company has boatloads of them. Bullshit jobs are not only invented, but they are also retained long after they are made redundant and completely unnecessary.
Ask HN: Do you think Humans will defeat aging? If yes, when?
>>if you live in a real democracy,

I don't, nor do I want to. I live in a Constitutional Representative Republic. where the majority is not allowed by the constitution to invoke their mob rule on others

The Founders of my nation did not trust democracy any more than they trusted monarch's and I agree with them

I desire individualism, and individual rights not democracy and mob rule

>>the earth isn’t some computer program where you have infinite ram and can just alloc as much as you want, at some point you start pushing other process out of memory, and you wonder why stuff starts crashing and freezing...

I 100% agree with this, I disagree that a Authoritarian Centrally managed government is the best or ideal way to allocate though resources

I am not going to get into a computer analogy, but I tend to following Geo-Libertarian philosophy as a structure for human organization
I like to think I'm not too ideological about which sectors should be public and which should be private (this is not a moral question as far as I'm concerned). I think some sectors work better privately and others work better publicly. Essentially I think letting the free market do its thing is a good idea if I can be confident that the profit motive broadly aligns with public interest (and using regulation where it doesn't, for instance for pollution). Education is a sector where I have very little faith that the free market profit motive aligns with the public interest.

The problem lies with evaluating the quality of education. Children aren't very capable of evaluating the quality of their own education (and if they are they often aren't taken seriously or they don't have any choice in the matter anyway), and parents are too far removed or often don't know the subject matter very well themselves. The only way (and even that is an inaccurate way) to evaluate schools is by doing statistical analysis on outcomes. The crucial point is: the only data you have is outdated by years, perhaps even a decade or so. Education is a strongly reputation-based sector for a reason: reputation is the only way people have to evaluate your product. I don't believe there's a way around this.

In a for-profit corporation, particularly in a publicly-traded one, there's often pressure to optimize profits on the short term. So if I'm the unscrupulous CEO of a for-profit school, I can always deliver very easily by simply cutting costs even if it dramatically hurts the quality of the education, confident in the knowledge that by the time the effects start getting noticeable I'm long gone. The short term profit motive of a publicly traded corporation works perversely here: there's always the temptation to sell the reputation you built up yesterday to turn a bigger profit today; no one will be any the wiser until it's too late (and they paid a lot of money for sub-par education).

Of course public or non-profit institutions are also vulnerable to bad management, but at least no one has a strong incentive to gut their expenses, as no one stands to gain.
bahaha, yes indeed Blake3 is faster than SHA-2. By reducing the 10 rounds in Blake2 to 7 rounds in Blake3... lol

OK NSA
In my job I see that the managers are focused on automation to cut lower status jobs but I never see them questioning whether anyone in the huge hierarchy of managers is necessary. I think this is because if they question other managers, their own job might be called into question as well. Also, managers tend to think that managing is an important job.
> I can get a vServer with 48 Gb RAM, 10 vCPUs and a 800 SSD with a 1000 Mbit/s connection and unlimited traffic for 20€ a month and run my MariaDB and Redis database on the same machine as my other containers.

Where are you getting all that at that price?!
Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
Export via POP to make a permanent local archive, then delete en masse? Bonus: less for hackers if/when they breach your account.
Hasn't Chile done much better than its Latin American peers? I suppose it would be unfair to mention Venezuela, but how about Brazil?
Enabling React Fast Refresh in your Create React App project
EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)
Genuinely find this recent phenomenon of loudly proclaiming ones introversion bizarre.
In my experience, people complaining about fragility are usually projecting.
It's against the ToS to create another account to circumvate a ban.
War Stories: Subnautica made players love being hunted by sea creatures (2019)
IIRC, the residents of Riverside, Iowa have a monument commemorating the future birth site of Captain Kirk: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2081
> Yeah, it does.

It doesn't. These losses will be replaced by the keepers.

> In the early 1980s, when Arp was just selling honey, he would lose about 5% of his hives per year to disease or weather conditions. Around 2000, Arp’s bees started dying in greater numbers.

If this guy has been losing 5-10% of his colonies for forty years, how is he still in businesses? The bees/colonies get replaced, of course.
There really should be limits on who can buy residential property and how much of it one can own. Maybe property taxes that ratchet up exponentially the more residential property under one's ownership. Large anonymous property firms owning peoples' homes simply shouldn't exist.
Assume supernormal returns? Who did you mean to reply to? If it was me, why are you creating words out of thin air and placing them in my mouth?
At my university, the cheating thing was introduced as an ethnic justice issue. Iirc, the claim was that some groups of people had to collaborate on things like exams (aka cheat) so that they could overcome of cultural inertia of whatever things they were worried about.

It came to a head in a 400-level class, and the professor handled it by making the midterm and final extra credit, and giving everyone an A who showed up to every class, deducting a letter grade per absence, unless the student demonstrated that they were observing some religious or cultural observance in the university’s list of approved things. (Which included everything from major holidays to observances of Norse religious events)

That professor was able to get away with that because she had tenure and followed the letter of the law with respect to grading. Whatever the content of the argument, lecturers are serfs in the academic hierarchy and have agency or freedom. They get abused and fired every few years anyway, so if you’re in that position STFU or get drummed out.
If you can save $10/month by using PHP rather than Ruby (which seems optimistic) and value your time at $10/hour (which seems pessimistic) then writing PHP instead Ruby only has to take one hour per month more (or the equivalent in pain) to not be worth it.
I just did some math on their calculator:
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

I think some folks may be overestimating their ability to put a dent in Google's infrastructure.

1 CPU
2GB memory
80 concurrent requests per container instance
1000ms execution time per request
5kb outbound network bandwidth per request
100 million requests per month

$120.19 per month

What if we bump it up to 100kb per request? In my experience only initial requests end up being enormous, especially in single page apps. But to be fair some folks may not have time to optimize. That still only brings the monthly bill to $1,071.48

Then again that second estimate probably isn't relevant since I typically host my static data on a CDN.
Same way Google modified Linux to serve whatever they need it to. That’s how Open Source works. (And yet, 60%. Curious.)
Are there Japanese software development / engineering practices worth learning?
At HN it is common to see articles advocating practices such as iterative, scrum or agile. Have we in the West (again) missed a Kaizen-like take to development or are we 'at the top of the game'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
The Google shell style guide [1] says this:

"If you are writing a script that is more than 100 lines long, you should probably be writing it in Python instead. Bear in mind that scripts grow. Rewrite your script in another language early to avoid a time-consuming rewrite at a later date."

[1] https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
Indeed.

Anonymity in meatspace is arguably a dead issue.

Whenever I leave the house, I assume that I'm under surveillance. So I just act normal.

Edit: In particular, I play "harmless old man".
Will consumers reward businesses that correct for this?

Alamo Drafthouse has always seemed humanity-first to me from movie programming, to community-based events, to viewing experience. Their patrons seem to appreciate it.