skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michigan also has auto insurance changes due to take effect in July 2020 that will also wind up affecting their rates, notably the lifting of the heavy Personal Injury Protection coverage:

"Michigan has the highest car insurance coverage requirements in the U.S. — most notably Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance with unlimited, lifetime medical coverage for car accident injuries. Michigan's insurance requirements guarantee many health and recovery benefits to injured drivers, including reimbursement for lost wages, in-home nursing care, and specialized medical treatments." [1]

[1] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/michigan-car-ins...

(I didn't realize their rates were THAT much more than surrounding states... ouch.)
Bearing in mind that I admit up front these items are emotional and not particularly rational, and also all from dimming memory. My kids are 18, 16 and 13. I haven't read Goodnight Moon in at least 10 years.

1. It's very upper-crust early 1900s. Very prim and proper, everything in its place, and not very many things.

2. The items that it dwells on aren't very relevant to today's children. There's an open fireplace, fer chrissake! Huge safety hazard, and absolutely unfamiliar.

3. What's up with the little old lady whispering "hush"? Who is she? What's she doing in that kid's room? Is she Mrs Bates? No explanation or context at all.

4. Turn the light off. No kid goes to sleep with a light on. Sure, some of them claim they need it, but turning it on is an invitation to stay up til midnight.

5. The green-and-red color scheme makes it look absurd. Is it Christmas in that room all the time? I think the window is open, too, so maybe it's Christmas in June?

6. A bowl of mush? Mush what? Granola? Cornflakes? Oatmeal? Grape nuts? Could be any, all are revolting when they've soaked up the milk to become mush. The mush needs to be thrown out.

My World, which appears to be a follow on to Goodnight Moon, seems like the author was high. Extremely disjoint.

Margaret Wise Brown also wrote The Big Red Barn which has a lot of the same sort of problems. Why did the big white hen stand on one leg? Why did the smaller breed of chicken have a clutch of 10 eggs, vs the white chicken's 1 egg? What happened to the story of the children who play in the hay? That was a story for another day, but surely that day has come and gone. Where did the children go?
Most importantly, by the time you need to go off road, it's too late to switch bikes...
While I think you make some fair points, did you really need to be so adversarial and self-righteous? I wonder to what extent such a delivery neuters productive discussion.
> is getting a lot of attention

Not really. People look at it, marvel, and move on.
pretty sure this is false, all my accounts are 2FA, and connected to a few different account aggregators (mint, personalcapital, etc) which i am prettty sure all use Plaid. Handles it fine.
It's going to be the case every time you mount a Windows file system, for example.

A big part of the problem is that a project like Mercurial doesn't have control over what files people use it on. They have to design for the pessimal scenario, because when the tool breaks, users complain.
> I think that the heart of the issue is that more men nowadays feel that they just don't matter.

Isn't everyone feeling this? Maybe men are feeling the ways that others have felt for a long time?

I agree that the loss of privilege is definitely happening, which is honestly a good thing imo, but I'd tie this back to greater cultural unease about one's economic future more than anything else. Most of the folks I know are in their 30s and don't believe they'll ever retire.

If the system is squeezing every ounce of your labor out and you're only seeing a small return on it, what's keeping you motivated?
We were talking about viable alternatives.
As I said in the post, I'm all for these technologies. I'm just asking for a copy-paste style alternative for when they don't work.
> Aegis had a better read() syscall than Unix. You would give it a buffer, but it would return a pointer into its buffer cache if it could, and only copy to your buffer if not.

You could do a similar hack with a Unix interface. Eg. the syscall could change the page table so that the caller's buffer now points to a COW page in buffer cache. Worst case you would need to copy 2*(PAGE_SIZE-1) bytes that are not page aligned.

This also has me wondering... If the kernel is handing out pointers to cache, it would need to do some MMU protections too, right? So the costs of COW pages would still likely need to be incurred with a "better" interface.
> All this to support more ads per page.

I'm also very afraid of the future of Web Assembly.

Both of these technologies i'm afraid aren't going to make things better, faster and more lightweight. They are just going to allow the bloat of the web to become worse without noticeable symptoms.
You can mentally translate the argument from "X is true", to "P implies X", where P is the statement that OP didn't want to debate, which I think leads to some valuable discussion, without having to assume anything about how true P is.
EU will approve a 10-year, €1tn plan to help fund its climate change targets
See also bubblewrap

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
Well, you could argue that _all_ software applications -- web browsers, word processors, etc, are highly abstracted instances of graphical domain-specific programming languages.

I actually think this is a useful way to think about things. We _all_ are computer programmers - every single user. We just operate at different levels of abstraction, and use different tools or languages to program the machine.

So then, rather than "No Code" vs "Code", it becomes "What is the cost of a higher-level abstraction" vs "What is the cost/benefit of a lower-level abstraction".

And if it makes sense to name one level of abstraction "code", and a level above that "not code", then, so be it.

[EDIT: I think some useful examples are Sketch, Unity, Pro Tools, Photoshop, etc. Graphical interfaces for users to perform complex operations with a high level of abstraction. I guess I am arguing for, strictly speaking, considering all software user interfaces as highly abstracted DSL's.]
Lawrence Lessig Sues New York Times for Defamation over Jeffrey Epstein Story
1940 was wwii. That is when men went to war (on all sides - many to commit genocide) and women went to work either to feed themselves or cause economy needed it (yes some to support that genocide on home front).
This might be a necessary evil. If you could turn it off (even in a convoluted way), people would do it - which is what led to the issue of such a large proportion of Americans having their location data streamed 24/7 in the first place.

Unlike Windows 10 updates not giving people a choice in the matter, this only helps you, so I really don't see the problem here.
> This is just plainly not true.

This is DH3. [0] I need some more red meat. :)

> Nobody on this thread has given a reasonable argument as to why APIs are not more or less like code.

I think they did, though. An API is designed and written, and then it is "a design". (OK "an interface" but that's jargon, the design and formal requirements and patterns are what matters) Code is designed and written, then it is "an implementation". If there's anything special about your design so that you want to control how and whether people are legally allowed to implement it, you get a patent, not a copyright. Then (IINM which seems probable because IANAL) the separate (perhaps royalty-paying) patent licensee can still copyright their own implementation. Don't get me wrong-- I don't want even more patents around software, I just hope people will call things what they are. I have to admit that I could merely be mincing words, if only because that's what I want to accuse someone else of doing. I don't envy the court.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
wav2letter outperforms, in large part because it seems to make better use of more training data. Facebook’s original paper shows that wav2letter outperforms when trained with their very large internal dataset, and they included a reproduction on a smaller open source dataset with worse overall accuracy but again wav2letter outperforming.
You're right. This doesn't use a register machine in the usual sense of the word. It's kind of the software analog to accumulator machines.
You only get discover & Amex cards from those companies whereas Visa & MasterCard are networks that other people can “buy into”, ie your bank card (or credit card offered through a bank).

IMO not super relevant to topic of competition, there’s 4 networks, the fact that two of them are structured differently doesn’t really have impacts on sellers & customers (other than that the two open networks are significant larger, visa & MasterCard)
Really don't like Plaid because they normalize phising. Surprised they aren't being condoned for this.
My response to "No Code" solutions:

If there was a faster and easier way to develop software, we would be doing it. We are already using the easiest to understand tools we can find to develop the best software possible.

There is no secret programmer cabal where we are holding hostage the REAL tools we use to develop software, and we keep them secret and hidden while we fuck around every day.

For someone to develop a "no-code" solution that fits the huge variety of tasks developers are doing every day, they would be a genius in the same vein as Turing. They would be billionaires.
Read this brief.
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Bear in mind that the study looked at the combined impact of multiple factors: working out, eating healthy food, and not being overweight were specifically studied. So by definition, this "10 more years" population were the people for whom drinking didn't snowball.

That said, the individual-factor breakdown really did find that at low doses, rising alcohol consumption correlated with improved health. Undoubtedly some healthy-user bias between no and light drinking, but it's a pretty smooth curve through moderate consumption.
No observed encoding issues.
FWIW I would argue that Sketch (and other applications like it, plus Unity, etc) are most accurately described as graphical programming languages -- highly domain-specific ones.
Mint does not use Plaid, they have an in-house integrations system.
Absolutely this. Hypothetically you could have fun with no alcohol, in practice the people that don’t drink are the most boring and as a result don’t get laid as much. You will die anyway maybe ten years later but if you don’t reproduce you’ve lost the gene game and the future population will be of those that drank. Which maybe explains why we still drink despite health reasons to the contrary.
Maybe you should read something other than Casella & Berger for Bayesian statistics. The book is great, but the coverage in this topic is not. Something like Bayesian methods for hackers [1], the puppy book [2] are great tutorial style easy to read books. Big boy Gelman [2] is far more mathematical and advanced.

I highly recommend you [1] cause it's free, hands on and if you have solid stats will go fast and easy.

Anyways, the thing with Bayesian is you need to look at the problems from a different optic and learn new names for the same things you know from classic (Maximum likelihood is now called mean a posteriori and whatnot).

If I had to summarize the whole uncertainty thing I would say: Both in classic and Bayesian it holds that a function of random variables yields another random variable. Models are functions of random variables. As such, every point estimate you give has a full distribution behind. In classic this is accounted for with asymptotics and confidence intervals. In classics you have priors all the same, but using defaults and not talking about them.
In Bayesian you talk about your priors, and if you have extra information about your inference problem you include it there. Or you abuse the priors to make the model yield results that will make your boss/client happy (I worked as an economics researcher at a big bank, the whole department was Bayesian). Or choose priors that make you custom model actually compute. Or use priors that do regularization (like a classic lasso)... Different priors are different models and you need to do your model checking / selection.
I am not so sure what you mean about continuous priors. Any gamma should be continuous. But I don't think that is what you mean.
[1] https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...

[2] https://www.elsevier.com/books/doing-bayesian-data-analysis/...
[3] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
Yes, but you really have to make sure that it is indeed just and accident of history with no other side effects. I can imagine a case where some of the BART tunnels are too short for some trains that run on standard gauge rails, and you don't want someone to accidentally run a standard train over those tracks and get stuck. There is no way to know this without looking. We cannot imagine all contingencies, but we should probably at least look for the ones that we can imagine.
Since the entire conceit of your essay is to tell others what they should do, I'll return the favour:

Please make your site work with vanilla HTML.

A link to your Github repo head where the Markdown might ... possibly ... be unearthed ... is not that.
Wonder if we’ll see a shift to legit location aware apps that then leak tracking data

Are a weather app’s ads more valuable now because it gets more users to track location
This is a valid issue. If you aren't in a fitness center, you can exercise near a load-bearing wall or pillar to attenuate the floor impact harmonics, which always seems to work well for me.
Corolla gets 32mpg. Assume 200,000 miles over the life of the corolla, that’s 6250 gallons of fuel. $2.79/gallon where I live for $17437 of fuel over the life of the corolla. $19600+17437=$37k

The Tesla requires 50,000 kWh to drive 200,000 miles. At $0.08/kWh (what I’m paying), that’s just $4000 in electricity.
$36k + $4k = $40k

That’s surprisingly close for a Tesla Model 3 versus a Corolla.
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I've been learning how to implement a Lisp interpreter in C, and decided to break it up into a tutorial series. Each part of the series is stand-alone and can be compiled and run (by clicking "Download Zip"). Open to any and all feedback, thanks in advance!

Here are the first 15 parts of the series, culminating in lambda:
https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1106b185f8b34ae0e36afa5fbcd04a00
It has one of the best privacy policies I’ve ever read.

“ Everything Lockdown Firewall does stays on your phone, so no data is transmitted to any of our servers. This can be confirmed by checking the source code, which is 100% open and public for anyone to examine. Lockdown Firewall doesn't use any type of third party analytics, trackers, or APIs, so there's no risk of your data leaking to third parties. This means there's no Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, no Mixpanel, Fabric, Mailchimp, etc — nada.

Information We Collect

Lockdown Firewall collects nothing. It all stays on your device.”
Baking and Melting Chocolate Simulations Are Now Possible
Just downloaded it, too. It does ferret out those ads in the NYT app that I can’t seem to get Pi-Hole to filter out. Seems it will save me setting up a VPN to the home network to use Pi-Hole when on the road, too. So far, it’s two thumbs up. I’ll give it a few days, but I’ll throw some money their way in-app purchase even I never use their VPN (though I’ll certainly give it a whirl).
See also https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/eating-way-too-much-r... and https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm . Science Is Hard™.
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Fun is pretty subjective. I'm not a car guy and don't have much experience with nice cars.

But, this isn't a nice car- I paid $6,500. I'm just comparing it to every ICE car I've driven (aside from that one time I got 20 minutes in a Lamborghini), and definitely every ICE car you can purchase used for $6,500.

But given the acceleration and smoothness, I'm just betting it's more fun to drive than nearly every car described in commercials fun to drive.
> Most people are healthy, and don't need healthcare.

On average, people who rate themselves as in "good" or "very good" health still spend $4,000-$6,000 on healthcare annually. Younger folks have kids, and deal with childbirth, ear infections, allergies, ear piercings getting infected, broken bones, etc. They also have routine illness (I had a bad cough this year, my wife had a sinus infection a few years ago, I had surgery for a deviated septum in high school). 78% of people 30-49 report that their healthcare is "excellent" or "good." 70% of folks 55-64 have at least one chronic condition: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_policy/adult_chronic_conditi.... 80% of those folks, who are too young to qualify for Medicare, report receiving "excellent" or "good" healthcare.

American healthcare is really quite good if you've got employer-provided insurance. Going back to remarkable asian american facts: Japanese Americans have an infant mortality rate 33% lower than Japanese in Japan, and also live several years longer. They have Kaiser Permanente or Aetna, just like everyone else. It's also extremely convenient, especially in the suburbs. I walked into an urgent care for my kid's ear infection yesterday, and made a next-day appointment with his pediatrician for a follow-up. We also saw the pediatrician to get our daughter's ears pierced, and visit her regularly to remind our daughter to eat vegetables before dinner. When I had a cough earlier this year, I booked a same-day appointment with an app.

> The amount of money that is poured into transit, though, is a pittance compared to the amount of money that is poured into private automobiles, which is a large part of why the transit option sucks as much as it does.

This is why I used Chicago, Boston, New York, and DC as examples. These are well-funded systems. D.C.'s Metrorail has a bigger budget than Stockholm's subway, despite having half the ridership.

> The reason for why large, expensive metro areas are losing small numbers of people is probably not 'people want to drive'.

People don't "want to drive." They want low taxes, flexibility, and big, affordable houses. The average new house in the United States is 2,400 square feet and costs $275,000 ($115 per square foot). There is no urban area in the developed world where you can buy condos that large near transit for that kind of price. I bought a house on the water in suburban Maryland for $175/square foot. To get that kind of price in a city, I'd have to go to western China.
I think this is similar to Mercurial's narrow clone: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/NarrowClonePlan

This is very useful in a mono repo.
True. People tend to lump these concepts together. I think people in general are interested in utilizing more cores and so they typically are interested in STM as well, although frankly I haven't ever used it in production systems. The rest of the parallel/concurrent tools are super useful and extremely easy to use and also know assertively that you won't have deadlocks or race conditions etc.
Look at this: theorists come up with something like 300 different models, and you declare they all used the same theory to do it? Of course they didn't! Why would you assume they all did the same thing?!

Further, of the various frameworks used, many will have been created by imposing some further symmetry on the standard theory, in effect decreasing the number of free parameters!
I agree; that is good. (It is easy enough to find the post wanted from that.)

I suggested to have a link (or just instructions, if you don't want it to be customized per post) for accessing the Markdown code for the specific post. However, a link to the Github repository also works perfectly OK, so I am not complaining.
Hi all! Wish you a very Happy New Year :)

8 yrs ago, I started my career as an Analyst followed by Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Product Owner, Project Manager and few different roles in multiple industries. And every time I commited to a new role, I felt nervous as I didn't have much insight into how the company, people, culture and work environment are like. Luckily few of the roles and companies clicked really well and some weren't matching with my expectation and interests. It was hard to quit the roles that weren't a culture fit as a lot of time and effort went into each role both for me and the hiring company.

Since then, I was always doing a lot of manual research on company's culture and work environment before applying to the roles which did take good amount of time and resources. I was interested mainly around flexibility of roles like work from home, flexible start times and offices with lots of creative space where teams can brainstorm ideas and discuss freely. I looked around for a platform that provides this kind of information in the job search process but couldn't find much to my surprise. Although there are very few sites that give this information but they are niche sites. I felt there is still a need to build something that can cover wide range of roles and companies where everyone can explore and find suitable jobs and companies based on culture, benefits and work environment.

Finally, I'm here with "How's It Like" and eagerly waiting for your valuable feedback!
Storage Management for Signal Android
RedHat urges US Supreme Court to support unrestricted use of software interfaces
I wish the authors would just make their point instead of bandying about florid prose (which is extra out-of-place in a medical journal!) and inappropriately invoking political conservatism. It takes them until the 5th or 6th paragraph to even start to describe what they mean by "medical conservative"
I'm not sure they really thought 2to3 would be used for a big bang. I seem to recall the general initial messaging was that Python 3 was a new language and you would need to do a language port to get to it.
If divination by bird augury is so wise, why don't we still use that to plan agricultural layouts?

/s

But that sort of underscores the main argument against this stuff. Is it possible that many traditions, while once adaptive and beneficial, are no longer so? In other words, has the human situation departed so significantly from ancestral conditions that much of tradition is somewhere between irrelevant and harmful?

Of course not all tradition should be thrown out just for being old. But the tools of rationality have come a long way.
You are wrong. If you understand how browsers behave when they query a page that contains different resources from one source, and how head-of-line blocking works, you understand why so much effort was put into this protocol.

(Any introduction on QUIC will explain you these if you are interest.)
Don't worry about it, I think you're talking to a NN stuck in a local optima around the term "overfit".
Not to mention case-sensitivity issues. Can you have two files, one named "FILE.txt" and the other "file.txt" in the same directory for instance?
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