skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People not killing each other costs nothing. Cost is only incurred when the right to life is infringed. People providing healthcare to one another always has costs. If this "right" is infringed and no healthcare is provided then no cost is incurred.

Whether or not healthcare is a right is a lot less important than whether or not it is affordable.
> cold showers can be dangerous for people with per-existing heart conditions

I think cold showers trigger the diving reflex[0] ("most noticeable effects are on the cardiovascular system, which displays ... in humans, heart rhythm irregularities"). I don't have a real source for that, but I tried cold showers a few times and found it impossible to breathe when I had cold water spraying on my face, like I could feel my airway closing involuntarily. Warm/hot water doesn't do that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
I missed it off as I mentioned them in the paragraph above. They seem to be investing more and more into React Native with support for Windows and using it in Office.
I won’t call out examples because they are common.

Bring up one of the medical quality websites (the feds publish this as well) and you’ll find plenty of examples in 3 star or lower hospitals. Most hospitals in NYC are like this.
Prediction Markets to Address Fake News?
The super-abundance and low cost of information has given us media that cannot extract the proper rent needed to support their endeavors. Can prediction markets play a role in supporting journalism or will this information source be gamed for misinformation as well?
I think the UK is providing a very useful example of how one watches the watchers. The government is accountable via elections and their power seems held in check pretty well.

> I want locating those members to be hard

I respect your opinion, but the people who have lost loved ones to "random" attacks don't generally share that view. Hell, part of the purpose of building a society and a government is to minimize that kind of personal violence against people.
> With RAID6 I can have 2 drives fail without data loss.

If you don't have checksums on your data, how do you know it's good (even without drive failures)? Your RAID rebuild could be recreating junk.

> Ext4 is a journaled file system, which I thought was the equivalent of ECC for filesystems.

Journaling helps with speeding up post-crash reboots: instead of doing a full fsck, it just replays the log.
I'm really not being difficult. If you've logged the data there is no difference - for one, most of these db systems are write only. Even the ones that aren't probably have a transaction logs. Plus it will be recorded in countless other places along the way.
Should a doctor be making that decision, or should the government?

Or should the government make that decision for on-label uses and doctors make that decision for off-label uses? That's the status quo. Whatever argument you have for one half of that is an argument against the other half.
Should I bring my emotional support <cat | pony | donkey | vulture | fruit bat | rhinoceros> on my international flight?
> a more common abbreviation

Google "standard ml" returns 1,090,000,000 results. At least the first page refers only to the language.

Google "ml machine learning" returns 183,000,000 results.

Google "ml programming" returns a page with some links referring to the language Standard ML and others to the language ML, none to machine learning.

I didn't even know there were people referring to machine learning as ML.
Hiring good devs doesn't make JS less stupid, you have to recur to third party stuff like lodash and https://github.com/inspect-js to keep it tolerable.
Just feels like sampling bias. As someone who likes to take cold showers (typically with 60-64F water), the thing that usually stops me is feeling sick.

I think it's likely that a significant portion of attrition (19% after 90 days) was due to people feeling too sick to suffer a cold shower, which should pretty closely track with people feeling too sick to go to work.
Don't all entities-- public benefit corporations or otherwise -- experience "public relations form of accountability"?
>Pragmatically, most apps are so bad that if your Android app has an iOS look-and-feel nobody seems to care.

Yes, but I not so sure if it works the other way round.
If every tap generates a “[TIMESTAMP] $USER is on page X in book Y” event, then the there is no difference between recording tap events and syncing progress state in terms of what the client is reporting.

The difference lies entirely in what WhisperSync is storing, which you can neither know nor control.
Ask HN: When is it your fault that you don't “get” art?
I find that as a "normal person" consuming some kinds of art (novels, films/TV, paintings, etc.), I'm not sure how to react when I don't find something appealing or interesting. How do you decide whether it's because the art is of a low quality, because you aren't experienced enough to really appreciate it, or because it simply isn't to your taste?

Sometimes it feels obvious to me. I can read a page of a novel and realize "Huh, this writing feels clunky." Other times, I'll look at a painting that seems like gibberish to me, and which is presented without any explanation that helps me appreciate it.

Still other times, I will love a musical artist and consider them to have depth and subtlety, but a close friend will completely dismiss their music as nonsense. As a music school graduate and someone who can use music theory to "prove" for myself that the music I like is better than the music they like, I feel satisfied that I'm right; but of course, the friends also don't understand or really care about music theory, and are equally convinced that their own taste is correct.

How do you decide for yourself whether it's a quality problem or a problem with the consumer of the art? Have you had revelatory experiences where friends successfully got you to see the beauty in something you'd previously thought was crap?
There is a command, zdb -S pool [1], that scans the pool to generate a report about duplication --- of course, it doesn't make changes.

[1] I put the wrong command here originally.
Interesting... Voice transcription software can close caption and you can search by that. You can have keywords you can use for searching. TODO, BUG FOUND, BUG FIXED, FEATURE X. Perhaps the tech is not yet solid for searching, but I feel that the basic elements is there. I'm more interested in doing this for solo project, but this can be interesting for teams too, what if you can look through a git history and match it up with the video of when it was developed and hear the author's line of thought? The tough part of it of course will not be the tech but the behavior of getting folks to speak up and dump their thinking verbally.
You're right. SoCal summer roads are definitely the easy part. I bought a Comma Eon for a few hundred dollars and it does most of what Tesla's Extended Autopilot does. It's a solved problem, that's relatively inexpensive.

However, if people are willing to pay Tesla $7k for the promise of a "coming" full self driving product that doesn't exist yet, I don't really feel bad for them. It's kind of Tesla's business strategy at this point. I don't think they're acting in bad faith to their customers, because they have a track record of (eventually) delivering great products, but their leadership is unreasonably optimistic. I worry for the future of the company. Whether Musk's isn't living up to his fiduciary responsibilities to investors, I have a lot of issues with... that's a whole separate topic.
React Native isn't the only abstraction out there. You could use Flutter, Ionic or similar.

Or do they have the same issue?
The 10k-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time
This is apparently how older Kindle models worked, which has made them an attack vector for fraud on Kindle Unlimited:

>KDP [Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon's self-publishing platform] pays authors for both paid downloads as well as for pages read and it doesn’t sense reading speed, just the highest number of pages reached. ...

>The way that the book-stuffing con works is that scammers stuff lots of extra content into an ebook before uploading it to Kindle Unlimited, and then trick readers into jumping to the end of the book.

>Thanks to a flaw in the Kindle platform, namely that the platform knows your location in a book but not how many pages you have actually read, the scammers can get paid for a user having “read” a book in Kindle Unlimited by getting the user to jump to the last page. ...

>Interestingly, the flip-to-end scam doesn’t quite work on newer Kindles but still works on older, non-updated Kindles which makes it still a lucrative scam.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/11/notorious-kindle-unlimited...
I went through this exact situation. I wound up telling them like it was - I liked everything about the job except my actual duties. Then I proceeded to describe to them what I’d like to do instead (focus on ops) and basically invented a position for myself. And they said yes!

My point is, don’t dwell On What you don’t want, but rather focus on what you do want and work to make it happen.
If I succeeded at my startup, it would have been one tangible datam against your hypothesis, as I had so much damn fun.
But developer headcount doesn't scale to the size of the installed base. Whether you have hundred-thousand users or a million users, you don't need a larger development team. Once you have a reasonable-sized team that can make the app, you don't need any more developers, no matter how successful your app is.

Having different teams for different platforms might result in a slightly larger headcount my point is that risk isn't worth that meager benefit if you can afford it. You're still going to need platform-specific knowledge, and then the abstraction knowledge, and you're still deploying to multiple platforms!

You also don't need to let the technology choices drive the team structure. You can share a huge number of resources between iOS and Android including planning, management, assets, etc. Sure you're building two different apps but you don't need to keep those teams in different cities.
Lucene is nice because it has a pretty well-defined plugin architecture where you can write a plugin which gets a parse tree, mutate the tree (to add fuzziness to the matching, for example), and then pass the tree to the next stage. It's a nicely composable way to extend functionality.
Houdini apparently is nice to work with, but IDK how inexpensive it is.
Madoff has unexplained gains year over year as well based on new methods.

The explanation as offered triggers me but I haven't looked into it in detail.

For Madoff the gains were truly magical as there was little evidence he actually traded.

Interestingly, Epstein supposedly has magical gains as well with little evidence he traded.
I was surprised to see that Plex is sharing a bunch of interactions with Facebook despite me only signing in with email. They seem to just blindly correlate the email address with whatever Facebook account it points to. There is no mention of Facebook on their privacy page[1]. As a lifetime Plex Pass holder this has damaged my credibility with them.

One of their employees says this is in error[2] so hopefully it will be fixed.

I guess signing in with email is pretty much equivalent to contacting Facebook if this is possible to do.

Besides that there are physical retailers that send data to Facebook even though I don't recall giving them any idea identifying info. I feel powerless since I rely on Messenger for communication with friends, who I've tried and failed to convince to switch elsewhere.

[1] https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/privacy-preferences/

[2] https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-is-plex-sharing-my-activities-w...
I'd suggests the ones from Ergomart, e.g. https://www.ergomart.com/monitor-mounts/monitor-arms/saa2415.... They have options on some models that support up to 55 lbs as well as other models with extended reach.
List of Chess Variants
Agree with this 10x. In my experience in high frequency trading, simple always wins out.

Building a workflow around simple concepts is where the engineering challenge lies.
There are no natural rights - i.e. the ocean won't push you to shore because you're drowning and have the right to life.

Rights are defined as part of the social contract we create in living close proximity to each other. If the collective people define what their rights are through democratic representation, then it's up to those who have the monopoly on violence to enforce it.

The "Stand in the school house door" is one historical example of this in play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
I have a doppelganger very close to my same age. We would often meet out and about since we were in similar circles. People would always remark about our similar looks. We would find out girls had sometimes dated both of us. It was fun and quirky when we were young. But as an adult, I can't help but think of it every time topics of live facial recognition come up.
A. Google prefers long article, around a couple thousands words.

If your article are getting really long, like above 5000 words, consider splitting in two.
If it makes more sense, then go for it.

With all of these platform abstractions you just need to understand the trade-offs they're making.
$6 billion for direct to consumer marketing. Versus $71 billion in R&D.
A lot of Kindle content is reflowable meaning every character is addressible, so they should know which word boundry you clicked on.

Of course this is impossible to do in fixed formats like PDF, but 4 years back I specifically worked in Kindle content to make PDF books reflowable :)
Actually I don't follow any C/C++ special publications. But the mainstream journal I rarely read sometimes covers it.
For info I usually watch CPPCon videos.
It's awesome that you have a budget, and a process for doing it. Would you find it useful to know whether or not you can afford something you're about to buy, be it a taco, a couch or a car? Your budget works well in as a reflection process, my budget gives you the constant knowledge of how you're doing right now and how you'll probably be doing in the future.
Yes of course. Yet usually it's focused on their product or service and profitability. I'm guessing since a public benefit corporation would have a different focus that is more end-user facing.
You can use proc command in Tcl to replace existing commands and procedures, which gives you the possibility to implement different behaviour.

An example that shows this:

~$ tclsh
% rename while origwhile
% proc while {args} {
puts stderr "Debug: invoked while with arguments $args"
# do anything you want here
uplevel 1 origwhile $args
}
% set i 0
% while {$i < 5} {puts $i; incr i}
Debug: invoked while with arguments {$i < 5} {puts $i; incr i}
0
1
2
3
4
%

And in Forth the dictionary is searched backwards for a word (starting with the most recent definitions), so you can similarly override words. Powerful!
My son has an Xbox one, desktop with decent cpu/Gpu, and an iPhone 7. Still he recently bought an iPad from his own savings because he likes it best for gaming...
I'm not saying it isn't the case here, I've no idea (and the little I've read of his backstory is believably indicative), but this autism or Asperger's defence seems to be being raised every time a hacker gets arrested.

It seems to be becoming the new "depression" in leniency arguments hitting the headlines, at least for tech related miscreants.
Yes. 5 years ago, I printed the Turgot map of Paris roughly 1.5 meters wide from this file:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Turgot_m...

It is hanging in my living room and look great.
I am building a Scratch programming course for kids.

But its more than just that. I want to take the material and make it more entertaining as well as educational.

I am observing that more and more kids are learning things on their own by just going online and searching for videos on how to do X. We are on the cusp of online learning overtaking traditional in classroom learning in terms of quality and presentation.
I have a different order:

1. Just make a web page (specially since many apps are just pretty CRUD ones)

1.1 For certain devices WebGL/WebAssembly can eventually also be an option

2. Native iOS & Android

3. Native iOS & Android with server side driven code for the business logic (maybe even UI layouts)

4. Native iOS & Android for the views with C++ for business logic

5. Your point .4 regarding cross-platform tools

I don't have high hopes for Flutter, with Chrome and Android teams also pushing for their own solutions, and its dependency on Dart.
Blog footer also says RStudio, Inc and has 2019 copyright.
i blame the parents and the education system... these things you mention are much more important in practical terms than the vast bulk of curriculum contents these days.
Unless I'm mistaken, they're not talking about some cloud/streaming service, just exposing their music folder to iTunes.app so that iTunes can give them a GUI over it (like search/sorting).

Without the checkbox, iTunes employs its own local folder organization strategy and will update id3 tags and album art from fingerprint lookups.
>>More likely is that we eventually switch to a more poetic small-scale compressed air energy storage system (CAES).

Please do this!! I want to see that article on CAES actually worked out in real life not just theory with no howto steps
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Couldn't such an index simply be generated at the start of a grow/shrink/reshape operation and then thrown away after?
My mum had one from the 1940s, I used it briefly. "its tracing" -kid moved on. Didn't think about the actual purpose of this, or how it figured into history of art (which is what she was a lecturer in) until much later.
Agreed. Map performance especially on native is night and day -- 60fps smooth scrolling even with React Native, vs choppy shitiness on the web.
It's part of why I like that for the last several Laika movies they've included a raw time elapse, including puppeteers and seams, of what was often the movie's most elaborate set piece or action sequence. But doing that at the end of the movie is its own sort of "Too Perfect" because it's after the audience already engaged with the work. If they were to find a way to open that way without derailing their stories it might set expectations better; instead of ending the film with the "flawed view", start the film with flaws showing as a form of exposition and then tighten up as things flow into the story.
Yeah, how much the market tanks is fairly irrelevant since it's just a paper loss and will pop right back. More interesting is how much money various actors made/lost.
I think the SEC and finra have probably poured over the surveillance data for countless hours. They would have found something.

Also they trade 1000s of stocks. So the insider trading theory would not hold up.
> don't we also have to factor in possible different text sizes on these devices, too?

The kindle tracks progress via the actual amount of text read instead of pages, so the screen and text size should be irrelevant. It can still be switched to display the page number, but that is also independent of the amount of text on the screen(meaning it doesn't necessarily increase with every swipe to the next "page").
Technically, and from user experience point of view, this makes perfect sense. Native apps are rarely actually needed.

However, Apple is making a huge pile of money out of app store sales, and it has huge leverage as long as the 'app' model lives on. They are strong enough to prevent this from happening.

Ever ask yourself why mobile iOS web doesn't support push notifications like Android does? It's because that will be a shift in the wrong direction from Apple's standpoint.
Because in most markets, one of the more straightforward ways to make money is to deliver products more efficiently, split the reduced cost basis with the customer, and outcompete incumbents.

You're not doing your argument any favors with this "typical HN response" stuff. Have a discussion with people on the thread or don't; it is fine for you to simply disagree and walk away.
Do you want our drastically under funded state pension system too? Illinois wants revenue anyway it can it, selling pot, gambling, whatever. What's wrong with Missouri?
Standard ML outdates the common usage of ML as "Machine Learning" by a few decades though.
The laws are not the contract. I already moved where I did because I liked the laws. But the damned things keep changing because of this social contract. If the laws were the social contract, your parent comment wouldn't make sense either. Not liking the laws is one thing. Justifying new ones because of this pretend contract is another.
>The purpose of these laws is to protect patients

Its not the patients that lobbies for these laws...it is the insurers, and its to lower their costs.

Its also why the insurers pay the pharmacists a bonus for these changes, if it was about costs to the patient, the bonuses (money back) would go to the patient.
The presumption is that the regulations add a major cost hurdle to delivering unencumbered insulin products at lower prices, because that is in fact what they do.
Saw it happening a few times in my 12 year of industry. I suppose it's specifically common in companies that use social media (and other media) presence as a recruitment boosting tool.

Twice the "leader" of the "Totally Amazing Success" left the company to "be totally amazing" somewhere else. In both cases the team was made mostly of very young engineers, the level of amazingness was strongly overestimated. It was also declared very early, before the "novelty" of the "new thing" faded, and also before the downsides appeared while maintaining the product.
How is recording a tap invasive?
It's the other way round for me. When I was young, I thought old people had nothing figured out. Now, though I'm not that old but I think young people need to figure out much more.

Maybe it was because when I was young, I tried to have a go at things in spite of being a noob at many and being told not to 'experiment'.

Now, when I see my children with the same train of thoughts, I remember those days and let them have theirs.

I agree with PG > "the more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globally." And I kind of feel OK being a noob in a new place. Gives me the opportunity to explore without inhibitions.
It doesn't really feel that way as you're flying to Hawaii for free.

There is no free lunch.
I wonder how much more efficient this would be if the content was distributed on a p2p network?

I would love to get into distributed web tech. I'm not sure how much of a market there is for it though.

The benefit of being able to have these scuttlebutt networks of low-power, efficient devices is a lower-overall carbon footprint for the common case of serving low-fidelity content like web pages and small applications. As well as the network and content being resilient to local changes in climate events (flash floods, fires, etc). And possibly bringing access to more areas where network connectivity is slow, expensive and unreliable.
But I like cartoons telling me about amazing drugs I desperately need in my life while someone soothingly mentions oily rectal leakage [1], compulsive gambling [2], and suicide [3] as potential side effects!

[1] https://www.drugs.com/sfx/orlistat-side-effects.html

[2] https://time.com/4317182/abilify-aristada-aripiprazole-sex-g...

[3] https://www.health.com/condition/depression/medications-depr...
I hate that when I select a song from an album, all of the songs are queued up. Even though I just want to listen to a single track.

I also really dislike iTunes on Mac, it's like they stripped out all of the usability.
Ok, and what CO2 level does that correspond to?