skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's worth taking a moment to recall the glaring inconsistencies in the 9/11 story beat into our heads, then used as justification to engage in perpetual war (against an idea) and transform the world into a state of 24/7 total surveillance.
Getting up to speed from a stop feels super slow and takes a bunch of energy. Combine that with cycling being a game of energy conservation, and the result is that slowing down to a stop feels like an utter defeat in a video game.

With that mentality, one can see why so many cyclists disregard safety around intersections and stop signs - mentally, the feeling of doing an unsafe thing doesn't suck as much as the feeling of "losing" (even if it's just an emotion not grounded in any logic or reason). Regardless of whether it's logical or not, there's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
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That doesn't address the underlying problem, namely the absolutely bat-shit insanely high cost of health care in the US. I have the cheapest family plan I can get. It comes with a ~$12k annual deductible and still manages to cost more than my mortgage every month.
Yes, I was angry, and I'm sorry about that. My reaction was emotional. But I think it's perfectly reasonable to be angry when someone almost causes you serious harm. I think how unseriously the scooter rider took the incident is much worse.

If you don't think it was that close, consider that the wide angle lens on my helmet camera makes the incident appear farther away than it actually was. Out of all the incidents I've had in the past year, this was one of the worst in terms of potential for serious injury. If I was a foot or two closer, there would have been a collision.

The main thing I learned from this incident was to not focus too much on people turning from my right. That's where my attention was approaching the intersection. I need to also consider the possibility that someone will run the light.
I don't think he's kidding. Most people think that being a "good ideas guy" is how you succeed without understanding that everyone has those ideas, but few can execute them. I'm sure many of us in tech were approached by friends and family with amazing app ideas after iPhones became popular without understanding that ideas are cheap and getting a product launched is the hard part.
While anecdata can be useful in general, in this particular case I have a hard time believing that the case you describe: working in a worse job than your home country, is informative or representative.

There is a wisdom of crowds at work, especially when it comes to huge decisions such as immigration - no country offering worse prospects is ever the target of large scale immigration.
>There is Sonos in both open-office areas and people are pretty good about not hogging it or playing obnoxious/too-loud music

If my only choices were working in this office and homelessness, I would honest to go choose homelessness.
> Wacom didn’t say exactly what data they were going to send themselves. I resolved to find out.

[...]

> since Wacom’s privacy policy makes no mention of their intention to record the name of every application I open on my personal laptop, I’d argue that it doesn’t even give them the technical-fig-leaf-right to do so. In fact, I’d argue that even if someone had read and understood Wacom’s privacy policy, and had knowingly consented to a reasonable interpretation of the words inside it, that person would still not have agreed to allow Wacom to log and track the name of every application that they opened on their personal laptop.
Unfortunately the people who are most impacted by this are the people who are least able to afford the move to another state. Especially when nearly every state in the south decided not to expand medicaid.
Most of what we call agile today is processes for the sake of processes and waterfalls in disguise.
Just handle your catched exceptions? It's not that hard.

() -> {
try {
// do work
} catch (IOException ex) {
throw new UncheckedIOException(ex);
}
}

I also agree with Goetz that extension functions aren't something we need.
Try being uninsured. I had a woman come into my room (!) during my ER visit and ask for payment. I asked very clearly if this was covering the cost of the visit. I made it clear I understood the doctor and xrays would be billed separately. I paid. It wasn’t cheap.

I got the bill from the doctor. It was reasonable and I paid promptly. I got the bill for the X-ray and it was ridiculously low to my surprise. It was paid immediately. In my mind, I was done.

Then I started getting phone calls from a broken machine. Please call <actual silence> at <more silence> about your past due amount of <~$4000>. I assumed they were spam, but after about 10 of these calls over three days, the message variables were randomly filled or not on any given message. At no point was the message clearly about my hospital visit identified, but I figured it out by the phone number and the name of the parent company.

At this point I hadn’t even been mailed a bill. And I know they have the right address because the other bills came and I’ve only ever lived at my current house since the first time I went to this hospital.

So I went down to the hospital to sort it out. Well, they don’t have a billing department. They have “financial counseling” or something equally not what I need. And even though it was in the hours they are supposed to be there, everyone had gone home for the day.

I still haven’t paid. I haven’t gotten a bill, and I’m not entirely sure the calls aren’t just a scam someone is running.
I do like the idea of password fields in browsers which can't be interrogated by javascript, a secure password protocol built in, and some way of making the authentication interface non spoofable.
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Damn .... this is exactly my story as well ... moved to working from home for the last 3 years and when I do go into the office nothing gets done. Open-Plan 250 people straight line of sight to them all, nightmare for being productive.
I'm working on parsing our data files (hopefully quickly) and extracting things like instance type data for upload to a central reporting tool. This will help us get useful information about which types different teams on our central tech are using in their data, without having to give us full access to the entire dataset itself. This will then give us a better overview of which types we can change or deprecate without impacting the teams, or which teams we need to coordinate with before modification.
HIPPA protects you from gossipy front desk people. The rest is a joke.

Your prescriptions, hospital admissions, radiology orders, etc are in the hands of any of a dozen third parties before your claim is processed. It is trivial to un-anonymize the data.
Yeah, this one seems like the simplest answer.

the redundancy of the plaintext HTTP headers included in each and every request can be exploited in order to reveal the length of particular components

... so randomly change the HTTP header length by adding random sometimes-compressible data. X-whatever, or just change the ordering of header lines, or add randomness to the UA string.
I used to get that mad. haha. I'm so jaded at this point that I just swerve and go on my way. It's hard on your psyche to fly into a rage a couple times every week.
JetBrains won't be able to stay doing free beer forever though, hence why one then only gets proper support for Kotlin/Native on CLion.
> Amount of work done is a poor way to phrase it.

Amount of work done is a poor way to phrase it. I mean something more along the line of "business value produced".

My previous job was leading a team responsible for scaling a Postgres cluster with ~1PB of data. A number of big wins would come from relatively small changes. You can apply the post just as well to finding the biggest wins in the shortest amount of time.
IT and other staff needs peace and quiet to concentrate to be productive.

I'm not disputing that open plan offices are unproductive, but if you run a company it's just much cheaper to have an open plan office. In many places in the worls rent is high enough for more complex layouts that it would be cheaper to have a few extra junior staff than to have a different office structure.

While it could definitely be less productive, it might actually be more profitable to have an open layout.

This doesn't really explain why companies that build their own offices stick to open plan, but it's definitely the reason for small companies.
Americans don't want single-payer healthcare. If they did, they'd be voting for it. Instead, they (especially poor, rural voters) strongly vote for the party that says they're keeping "socialism" out of healthcare.

Americans are getting exactly what they voted for.
Government-run health care systems tend to lead to higher healthcare costs, since the beneficiaries aren't the payers.

Around the world, it appears that low costs lead to universal healthcare, not the other way around.

What America needs to do is make it cheaper and easier to become a medical practitioner without taking on half a million dollars in debt and wasting half of one's pre-retirement life. No fancy government program will work without first addressing that issue.
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Why are many of the examples so easily solved using other much simpler methods? Could they not come up with some actual reasonable use cases?

>ls | bb -i '(count input)'

ls | wc -l

>bb '(vec (dedupe input))' <<< '[1 1 1 1 2]'

send your input to `uniq` for chrissakes

>ls | bb -i '(filterv #(re-find #"README" %) input)'

just `ls * README * ` (there shouldn't be spaces around the * s but HN formatting doesn't like me)

like

come on, honestly.
So, the American Dream as upward mobility for established citizens was never true?
What processor does it have?

I have Clear Linux running on a Haswell Core i7 and it's great, but it doesn't run on a Core2Duo I've got laying around.

Also, it needs EFI booting - not sure yours is new enough for that.
... can appear in the genome long before ...

> “What’s extraordinary is how some of the genetic changes appear to have occurred many years before diagnosis, long before any other signs that a cancer may develop, and perhaps even in apparently normal tissue,” said Clemency Jolly, a co-author of the research based at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
> That tells you a lot of why people prefer MBP for work

From the same article:

> "For work I also have a MacBook Pro. It's not my favorite, the keyboard doesn't type well, it only has USB-C ports which are so close together you can only use one out of two. I would go back to the MacBook Air if I could."
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That’s because (legal) immigrants have high social capital (education, values, two parent households) and often migrate to places where they have the highest relationship capital (hence the CountryVille neighborhoods like Koreatown or the Ukrainian neighborhood on the East side of Manhattan). So when you measure their kids income it jumps up on average.
Huh? Medicine is highly regulated. If this was a market you would have hospitals posting prices and negotiating with customers directly on price / quality.

Instead health plans market to EMPLOYERS (not the consumers of the actual product). Trust me - the service there is pretty amazing! Tax law is designed to in many cases benefit these employer negotiated plans.
@MattPalmer1086

Totally agree on the first 2 points

> And it still doesn't mean that the original password can't be recovered if the password db is compromised.

Why is that?
Don't think they're any worse than any other layout, most implementations are just lazy. There needs to be sane guidelines (no music overhead playing, relatively quiet, move discussions into a closed room) or obviously it won't work. I prefer it over cubicles.
> And how do you partition boot-loaders, kernels, and rootfs and such in that tar.gz?

In the past, each of those would be a separate MTD partition with a seperate device file. You just dd them over those files.
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Yeah Google Search results have gone down in quality... but everyone else is worse still :/
I've been following this, and I have to say this video looks awful. Everything seems to change resolution frame-by-frame, tons of detail appears to be missing (but comes and goes throughout the video), etc. If you posted this video today and said "hey, here's a cool old-timey video I took of the recent 1800's train re-enactment society meeting", people would want to know what kind of '90s phone you used and how many times you dropped it before you took the video.

But (and the 'but' is important here) according to this article, this is not a 4k upscale of a high-quality restoration of the original film, it's based off the second Youtube video on the linked page, which is a terrible low-quality scan of a bad print, haphazardly 'restored' to remove most of the scratches and holes, then uploaded to youtube and compressed to the point that almost no detail remains.

Given the incredibly poor quality of the source material, this is actually pretty impressive.
Ok, easy, I've seen this statement used several times to criticize younger generations because things were harder "back in my day".

I think that in aggregate, generations are more or less the same, so I don't agree with it.
"...there is something about the American education system - and perhaps our overal culture - that is failing our children..."

Perhaps the whole idea that there's a "system" that's responsible for everyone's success is the problem?
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I don't understand that, as a cyclist I find it much more relaxing to just follow the rules and stop at a red light, if there is a car already waiting I wait behind it as he got there first. I would be much more anxious running a red light and doing a track stand trying to see if the intersection is free of other vehicles as I see many fools doing.
I haven’t done the course, but +1 for the textbook. It’s freely downloadable and very readable. I learned a lot from it and the exercises are just the right level of difficulty to help you really internalize the material. I wish there were self-check answers in the “back” of the book, though.
Medical debt is regarded less harshly in FICO 9. I am not sure how widespread the use of FICO 9 is currently among credit bureaus but it is the latest standard.
Story? ha, okay clownshoes.
20km/h is a lot for newbies. I've seen a few users who couldn't drive their scooter safely. Curves taken too late and too wide. Also they use the roads freely and it's even worse than motorbikes.
This is a big cultural thing that happens once in a while. See:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GermansLoveDavid...

Another example is 'dinner for one', an ancient British theater play/sketch that is on Germany a new years tradition.
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That's because immigrants often have artificially lowered status compared to what they had in their home country. They might have been white collar workers there but they have to work worst jobs in US because of language and other barriers.

They still have high expectations for their kids and support them like better-off parents would, so when kids enter the job market with no language barrier - they return to their usual place.
What makes Clear Linux so much faster then other distributions?
I'm betting Casio does too
The thing you're missing about "free market capitalism" is that, in the USA today, our "free market capitalism" absolutely does include state patent systems leveraged to create abusive monopolies. You might call it "crony capitalism", and you claim that it's not "true" "free market capitalism" (which sounds like the No True Scotsman fallacy to me), but the fact is, one of two major political parties in this country does say that what we have now, and what they want to retain, is "free market capitalism".

As for "socialism", again you're disagreeing on definitions. To most Americans, Sweden, Norway, Canada, etc. are "socialist".
You don't even know what 'hardcore' means in this context. Your literally judging their process essentially nothing and you have strong opinion on it. That said more about your prior then anything else .
At this time of the year the urgent care will decide you have the flu, and if your BP is elevated (You have a fever, so it will) they will send you to the ER as a legal liability mitigation.

If you look really bad, they'll refuse to check you in.
>All people have the ability to drive 110% on anything.

I don't believe this statement... I generally assume and believe the best in people but after years of working at large tech firms... some people are literally there to put in minimum effort needed to not get fired. Some people are actually even worse and will actively drive away the high performers with negativity and nothing you do or say will change their opinion.
yeah we have a few more years yet before the turn of the tide, but I remain confident it will happen
Good point. Thanks for your feedback. I will try to focus the next version on a more specific use case.
I used to work for a global 500 company that had cube farms at some locations, and others on an open plan.

I'm not gonna lie, the cube farms were an awful eyesore. But I still really enjoyed the occasional weeks I'd spend visiting those offices, and would have jumped at the chance to move to one. The people were quite a bit more outgoing and social, and yet the space still managed to be quieter. Noise level and character were generally comparable to those of my college's library.
I do sit next to others but do have full sized desk, two large monitors and with a pair of good headphones I think it works pretty well.
thank you. I try not to post just to vehemently agree, but this is a pretty egregious case of revisionism.

we were just so blind back then that we thought we could predict the future. When faced with direct evidence that things weren't going according to plan, or that the commercial landscape had changed, we stubbornly went back to our Gantt charts and insisted that it just couldn't be so.

so we just never got anything done..until some genius decided we had to meet every morning and schedule everything in 2 week intervals.
>but at least free markets are efficient.

Big ol' citation needed there
I bought a 2 stroke gasoline engine kit for a bicycle last year for about $80 and it was the best money I spent in a long time. The thing is a POS, it hurts to ride long distances, it drops parts all over the road, breaks down all the time, and the original engine wore out after 2,500 miles or so. I have a larger motorcycle but still, for $80, three moving parts, and a couple hours work there is nothing more fun than this thing. I've got some motor parts coming in the mail to get it ready for spring.

I love lawn tractors too. Done up right they can be just as much fun as a typical 4 wheeler but for a fraction of the price. There's just something about detonating dollar bills that put a smile on my face.
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I think people's experiences and what they consider cubicles vary widely. When I started, I had a true cubicle with a standing 'U' shaped desk around the cube perimeter, which could've housed two employees. The cubicles had tall walls (7ft) so there was some actual privacy. those were Cubicle Nirvana, but for density reasons have seen two iterations of smaller, and smaller cubes. 'drive-by' type meetings were easy to accommodate without disrupting others.

Currently, our cubicles are a honey-comb type arrangement. (think pods of three cubicles on one side, two on the other) There is no privacy, and rows behind you leave 18" of space to the employee behind you. Gone are the tall walls for working while standing. Edges of the cubicles do not stand proud of the desks, so it's not much to work with.

We've seemingly taken the worst of both worlds when it comes to cubicle AND open office concepts. I wouldn't even know what to call it, other than awful.
> which will reduce prices for everything to true values

wishful thinking.

we already see this with ambulance service. there is an overabundance of supply, but it has not reduced price. in fact, the opposite as all the companies run much less efficiently (less billable time).

people aren't going to shop and buy on price for hospital care. they are going to shop and buy on local presence. for regular doctor visits, the costs are already low.
Making cars saver has dramatically reduced death and injury, and not caused the number of accident to spike. So.. no?
> A) the number of degrees of discomfort between, "I can talk about this any time with no effort", and "I literally can't talk about this".

I don't think I'm underestimating it, I just don't see any of these degrees of discomfort as justification for my friends not telling me their preferences when they're relevant to me.

> B) how normal it is for certain types of people to struggle with this kind of interaction in general.

I think you're making some pretty big assumptions about my experience in an attempt to explain our differences in worldview.

Social anxiety is normal/common. But being "normal" is not a goal I have, nor is it a goal I think other people should have. The fact that it's normal/common has turned it from a personal problem some people have, to a social problem that most people have to deal with even if they don't have social anxiety themselves.

The fact that it's normal/common doesn't mean we should just accept it as inevitable. This is a fixable problem.

To be clear, I myself have struggled with social anxiety a lot. I'm not saying people are bad people because they have social anxiety--I'm saying they should address their social anxiety. This isn't some moral/ethical "should", it's something they should do because it would benefit them and everyone they come in contact with.

For what it's worth, I wish I had addressed my social anxiety sooner. Working on my social anxiety has been some of the most beneficial work I've ever done on myself, and I've seen similar trends with my friends who have worked through their social anxiety.

> I realize this is somewhat blunt and a little uncharitable, and I don't mean it as an attack or as a character flaw -- but in the general spirit of being confrontational and open: when I hear this, my immediate thought is, "this person probably doesn't have many introverted friends, and they probably don't have many deep, honest relationships with the few introverted friends they do have."

On the contrary:

1. I'm an extrovert, but I tend to make friends with introverts, and I tend to have <10 deep friendships and almost no acquaintances.

2. I think you're equating introversion with social anxiety, and they are not equivalent. There are introverts without social anxiety, and and extroverts with social anxiety (I am in the latter camp, though my social anxiety is probably 90% fixed at this point). Extroversion/introversion is just a statement about how much social interaction you prefer, it doesn't inherently mean you'll have any anxiety about stating those preferences.
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