skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soon you will wish you were American. Who is going to pay for the health care of millions of non-working economic refugees that are pouring into Europe. Germany can only pay Erdogan to stop the inflow for a few years. Then what
This is a breathtakingly stupid abuse of data analysis. Which of course means it's at the top of Reddit's r/bestof, with thousands of upvotes.

Let's take a look at that paper you linked. The supposedly damning point is that you can fit the data extremely well with a quadratic, in the sense that R^2 is high. However, the data points are rapidly increasing, and because of the way R^2 works, that means only the last ~4 data points have any impact on R^2 at all. The statement of the paper boils down to the claim that you can fit 4 data points on a smooth curve accurately using a 3-parameter fit whose form you got to choose. This is obviously true, for any 4 data points.

It's too bad that reason goes out the window whenever China is involved.
I simply can’t scroll on this website

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> Because they know it would be very hard to be re-hired if things don't work out.

Do people never change jobs in Sweden?

Unemployment rate is 6.6% in Sweden - is it that hard to find a job?
I used to be a religious Org-mode user. Over time, accumulating lots of info and time registrations, I felt I lost the big picture.
Yes.[0] But I'm unsure whether this is due to private vs public healthcare. My guess is that it has more to do with how developed the medical industry is in the country. Size of the country probably matters as well.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/concord-2....
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HQ host gives an honest postmortem
That's probably why during the last 2 weeks Waterfox pestered me every day asking to upgrade it. I didn't know about the acquisition and tried to upgrade, but luckily in hindsight the upgrade failed because it required a new glibc version that isn't even in Debian unstable. I'll probably go back to FF ESR.

Sad news indeeed; I loved Waterfox:(

Also, If he would have asked for help, I'd have happily donated some quid.
I think this is the biggest issue with private healthcare. You pay a lot of money for it, yet you can still end up with subpar care and extra charges for out of network professionals
Spark on Kubernetes, the Complete Guide
NFL gonna buy one of these per team
Jailbreak tool released for iOS 13.0-13.3
I was actually not on the Westerdam, I was on the Crystal Symphony. We ended up disembarking in Singapore on Feb 12.
Here's a writeup on the details. https://medium.com/@chad.h.dalton/how-we-reduced-our-api-cal...
I don't think I've seen any kind of bots on HN.
Show HN: Quid Sentio, a shareable personal journal
I am building what I think is a quieter and saner space to share your life online with trusted ones.

https://www.quidsentio.com

I have this vision of a "quiet social network" where you can write personal stuff, share it, if you want, with very close friends and thus create more meaningful relationships in your life.

The first step is here, a personal journal where you can create and share entries. Next in line are comments (so it enables conversations) and end-to-end encryption of all data.

No ads, no tracking, no exploration of addictive behavior.

I understand that e2e encryption is the most important feature for HN crowd, so if you want to wait until I get there, follow this Twitter for announcements: https://twitter.com/QuidSentio
is asciidoc similarly powerful?

I have everything in org/githubpages but I often get a bit frustrated with Emacs and its clunkiness. My issue is that orgmode has no spec and is so tightly coupled to Emacs - so ive ended up unintentionally married to the whole ecosystem.. I've been considering migrating away from org but I don't have any great alternative in mind
Bazqux.com did this, better, about 7 years ago. Zero desire to ever try out an alternative rss client.
VSauce did a pretty fun video on the same topic (sort of)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE
> Tab intends and not * stacking

The org-hide-leading-stars variable visually hides the leading stars, which sounds like it might suit your preference.
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-appearance.html

> TODO to simple bullet or numbered lists

Org-mode lists can have checkboxes (like markdown has on GitHub).
https://orgmode.org/manual/Checkboxes.html

But I feel this is exasperated by org-headings not having a 'closing' syntax (like XML elements). Since you can't "close" a heading, you can't easily just continue the content of a heading after the content of its sub-headings; so to have a 'TODO' list within the contents of a heading, subheadings aren't an option.
>If you are complaining that you can’t run 25 year old Mac software on an x86 Mac

But I ain't. I'm arguing that for vast stretches of Mac OS/OS X/macOS history, even 5 year old software has been a gamble.
> At least in America it is extremely difficult, if not practically impossible, for "any healthy functioning adult" to just take six months off to do something like start a business.

What is so hard about it?

Also, that are not getting paid during those 6 months in Sweden either. Don’t see the big deal here.
Every time I opened a network share or similar "slow" device on Windows XP's File Explorer (alas not in Windows 7 or 10) I'm reminded of After Dark, since that sweeping flashlight (that goes left/right) is more or less exactly copied from Disney Mickey Mouse something/screensaver which was a clone of After Dark.
Of course Facebook wants to have its cake and eat it too.

It would certainly be nice for them if they can claim editorial discretion, without editorial responsibility or transparency. The perfect legal shield. Power without responsibility.

It would be insane to grant them this. This might well be the most important legal question this century.
> I would expect less protests and better approval ratings.

You must not know the French very well, or you wouldn’t expect this. :)
That was exactly my point (the average user not caring at all about privacy).
> Of course if you are in the top 5-10% of earners

Do you go to a special doctors office for the top 5-10%? The one I go to is full of ordinary middle class people. 80% of Americans polled rate their healthcare as excellent or good: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcar....

The American healthcare system isn’t hard to fix because it only works for 5-10% of people. It’s hard to fix because it works for 80% of people. Americans don’t irrationally cling to a system that’s bad for 90% of them. (Even among Democrats, a large fraction oppose getting rid of current health insurance: https://slate.com/business/2019/10/medicare-for-all-is-getti...)

Americans stick to the current system, because it works for most people. Most middle class people don’t go bankrupt when they get sick. And the middle class pays the lowest taxes in the developed world, because they don’t pay 20-30% payroll taxes like in European countries to support healthcare for the bottom quarter of earners. That’s the bargain people have voted for. That is obvious, because candidates who campaign for Swedish style healthcare don’t propose Swedish style taxes to go with it. Elizabeth Warren isn’t running on a top tax bracket that kicks in at $75,000 — she’s running on a wealth tax Sweden abandoned and corporate taxes higher than Sweden. Because Americans won’t vote for the bargain between healthcare coverage and middle class taxes that Swedes have adopted.

It’s not the system I’d prefer, I’d rather pay more taxes and make sure the bottom 25% have adequate healthcare. But the notion that everyone is actually irrational and the current system only benefits a small minority is self deception.
The best laptop processor would be an Apple designed ARM chip.
You can contribute to the OpenStreetMap project to fix the data, which is an an outstanding project. Even without registration you can leave notes and contributors will pick them up: https://www.openstreetmap.org
Small models used to scan lab rats also exist (a friend does research on brain damage prevention and I was wondering if they let her use human-rated machines for murine models).
Well, it is an end user application, not a library. As for 79 to 80 being a major change, it was probably a coincidence which had nothing to do with 7 and 8. We might see the next major update at version 87.
Yeah this does not happen. Of course you go to the front of the line if you have anything near life-threatening.

The problem (which I think is what OP were talking about) is anything that’s not critical but still need to be looked at by a specialist. In that case long waiting times are not uncommon. Yes it’s a big problem but it’s not a problem that will kill you.
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Your assumption is totally reasonable, but wrong. That's the construction cost Musk has said he's aiming for.
Sounds like the actual issue here is psychological (which, no judgements, is very common).

If you really wanted that data you could write (or have someone write if you prefer) a tool that pulls the data in to a relational database.
Ten years ago I got an MRI when they were searching for kidney stone. I think the hospital charge was over $3000. I had one last year and the charge was less than $500. You can point to MRI as one of the success stories for technology in health care.
What do you keep in your cargo pants anyway? Tater tots?
Like "For the first time in 40 years, the tide is starting to change".

Says who?
Permanent magnets, according to this article:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-clears-world-s-fir...

Small permanent magnet NMR spectroscopy units first showed up in chemistry about 10 years ago:

https://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/11/prweb4732684.htm
> there isn't a tool (that I know of) saying "Zerohedge has been removed from Google's index"

Google uses the lumen database for DMCAs, which account for most of its removals, I am not aware for something similar for non-dmca removals however.
I also moved from org to Notion and have mixed feelings about it. Notion is an amazing platform. In some ways, it’s revolutionary, but everything I store in Notion feels... haphazard. It’s easy to get lost in. Org feels more structured, less Notion is so flexible that it can be almost anything but I still don’t have the ability to extend it like I can with org. It’s also slow and, as is common with Electron apps, a resource hog that I frequently need to restart to keep its appetite under control. There is considerable lag when doing simple things and the keystroke latency is brutal. I don’t mind paying for it though. I prefer it, actually. I think I’m going to stick with it anyway. It’s so good in so many ways and I hope it will only improve with time.
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Someone HAS to start flagging these sorts of posts.
I felt the same way. I ended up setting firewall rules for Minesweeper because there is absolutely no reason for it to be calling out to the web for ads to serve. The game still works fine!
Difficulty or "real traction" types of arguments are just an excuse to pursue walled garden approach. I find it unacceptable.

And "confusing for non technical people" is a completely bogus argument which also hides real intent of those who oppose federation. Non technical people get e-mail idea just fine. And it's federated for the reference.
I think long term subscription plans should be preferred as they produce lower churn

So the received wisdom says, but particularly with card payments, churn rates due to random charge failures are insane. On top of that, the services that handle the payments and subscription management are often relatively new and prone to making changes up to and including things like dumping their whole API or doubling/trebling their prices overnight, making them terrible business partners to rely on. Literally every such service we have ever used has done something like that to us at some point.

We are seriously considering dumping any form of recurring subscription, and all the baggage that goes with them, at one of my businesses. The proposed alternative is a simple tiered pricing model where customers have a choice of periods, with the longer ones being more cost-effective for them, but all payments are single, one-off charges only. This would be combined with something I'm seeing a lot lately, which is saving the customer's payment details so that extending for a further period can be done with just a click or two.

The alternative we've been considering is one of the services that goes further, outsourcing our entire payment and sales tax infrastructure to them as merchant of record. Given how prohibitively complicated sales taxes are becoming on international transactions if you want to stay compliant, I wonder if this might soon become the only viable operating method for small businesses and startups anyway. However, these services all seem to be really cagey about telling you what using them will really cost and how legally robust their strategy for sales tax management really is, and I have no reason to believe they will be any more reliable as long term partners than the billing/subscription services, so right now we're hesitant to pursue this idea.

I'd be very interested in the results if anyone else has tried either of these changes recently and is willing to share their experience.
Well, I can say I have heard of it. It still strikes me as a pretty much trivial tool compared to the bazillion things written in Rust and Go in the last five years, but it’s better than nothing.
Who is Sweden?

As I already commented in a previous article on this topic, this is nothing but yet another tax by an ever encroaching government.

Private companies are simply forced to spend more money for the same amount of labor because employees are doing their own stuff on employers' dime.

A gentle reminder to big government fans: government spending always only destroys wealth. It does not create it.
Sorry, but according to news sources a coalition of non-US vessels are doing the bulk of patrols out there in the strait of Hormuz whilst the US is only seemingly wanting to lend 'command and control' style support.

Elsewhere the UK assists the US in Syria and Afghanistan. It's not the other way around.

But feel free to tell me how great the american way of doing things is. What with fantastic provision of basic healthcare for its citizens, and sensible gun control oh yes and affordable education.
Rule #1 is monthly vs. transactional, but then rule #2 is monthly vs. annual.
Ah. Cool. Makes sense, as the field is clean and stable. NIST's Kibble balance does the same. Thanks!
;[]... is one of two rules you memorize when you omit semis. It's not even that common of a case, though your own example doesn't even make sense.

I don't really understand the drama, just like people who use semis in place you don't need them. In real code, you should be using a linter anyways. At which point semis or no semis becomes purely an aesthetic concern. Like whether you use single or double quotes.

I haven't used semicolons in over 8 years and never had an issue. And with tools like eslint and prettier, you have no excuse to be making such trivial mistakes, like adding superfluous semicolons like function(){};
Both the left and right (and centrist!) authoritarians are only annoyed when things that they agree with get censored. This is the whole point of authoritarianism after all, that you do not tolerate other's opinions.
I agree that syntax transformations are in the wheelhouse of ML-family languages, but this just makes the absence of any popular tools besides pandoc more striking.
Random word + rock + neutral gives you Smashing Pumpkins lyrics

Verse 1
I want the cantaloupe black of my life
I want the cantaloupe black of my birth
I want the cantaloupe black of my tomb
I heard that when you were young

Pre-Chorus
I wish I was the cantaloupe of the sunshine
To fall into the melt snow

Chorus
Red is the cantaloupe of love
Blood red is the cantaloupe of lust
The cantaloupe of the rose
The cantaloupe of the rose

Verse 2
Wanna throw my kite high above the rain
In the cantaloupe of the roses
I saw the sunrise on the wall
I saw your eyes were my cantaloupe

Pre-Chorus
Said your eyes were the cantaloupe of the sky
And your eyes saw everything

Chorus
Red is the cantaloupe of love
Blood red is the cantaloupe of lust
The cantaloupe of the rose
The cantaloupe of the rose

Bridge
The social scenes in ash st
So cantaloupe me a different coloured

Chorus
Red is the cantaloupe of love
Blood red is the cantaloupe of lust
The cantaloupe of the rose
The cantaloupe of the rose
Tearing down the house: Technology is poised to upend America’s property market
This is what happens when participating in a race to the bottom. Mobile games are cheap because (due to current global economics) there is always someone prepared to clone your design and sell it cheaper. If you want to pay the bills, you need to find a market you can be profitable in. That might even be mobile gaming, if you can deliver IP or a franchise or a series that gets people to pay a reasonable price for your game rather than a bargain price for something similar to your game. Heck, if you get the IP right like Angry Birds you even get to undercut your competitors with a free price tag and no ads, driving your T-Shirt sales.
Agreed. Turned out to be much easier than I expected.
You are phrasing your question like it might be controversial. Why wouldn't 'statistical data' be enough to trigger a deeper investigation?
That just means you'll go out of business then and the users will end up using a Chinese/Russian/other country (knockoff) instead with the same ads snuck in there. It costs a lot less to develop software in certain other countries.
Yeah, I pay less than 1k/yr for fancy private health insurance in Europe.
‘Momentous’ change: New pass/fail format stuns medicine
Texas medical masks manufacturer is caught in coronavirus’s supply chain panic
This story is over 5 years old.
You think turning a 44k loan into multiple successful businesses is average?
If CNET needs stupid affiliate links to stay in business, they should probably call it quits.
It will not be only the ones whose post was removed as a false positive asking for a manual review.
It's neither a Google not a governmental problem. It is fundamentally a people problem, and unlikely to change as long as anyone draws breath.
mac on arm is in the works apparently and is probably significantly more power efficient than AMD
Unfortunately, I think this is a global issue and sooner or later most governments are going to be controlling the internet, unless we innovate our way out of this, or make this really, really difficult to do.

May be a global consortium of companies which say that countries that deny free internet access will not get access to those companies? That could go either way, though.
Could they use this to troll the ego’s of world leaders? i.e. show Putin he owns all of Ukraine, etc.
> The two weren’t initially slated to diverge at all. .Net Framework and .Net Core were suppose to be separate implementations of “.Net Standard”.

Uh... no. Hard fucking no. .NET Standard is the commonalities between Core and Framework. Core and Framework were NEVER the same or intended to be the same.

Framework is all of the legacy Windows specific Libraries for things like the File System, Active Directory, etc.

Core is intended to be platform agnostic and cross platform.

Read this, specifically Figure 5:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2017/...

> The last version of Visual Studio that supported Compact Framework was VS 2007.

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 shipped with CF 3.9 in 2012.
This depends on row-based binlog replication, correct? Has netflix had to deal with systems with statement-based replication?
Holy heck, Gold Crew patrols 57-65 here. Small world, indeed.
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Well, yes - I agree.
Printed maps are printed _somewhere_, and have to follow that where's laws. Naturally, a (for example) US-printed map can draw foreign disputed borders as disputed or either side's.

Now, if that same map was to be distributed in one of the disputing countries, that's another story, and even representing disputedness can be illegal.

Since Google wants to distribute their maps globally, they can either show the "correct" maps, or block access from people in countries with disputed borders. Their business model being what it is, they chose to redraw maps when necessary.
Isn't there a bot for posting job threads every month?
"What is hate speech? I'm sure I don't need to elaborate further on what I see wrong with that."

Absolutely you need to elaborate.

I think your comment implies a misunderstanding of populism and the kinds of things that go on in this world. By that I mean, because we actually do live in a world with a lot of rules, I suggest most people don't realize just how bad it can get.

"Anything goes" means ISIS showing beheadings of civilians in order to recruit more young men to the cause which works very well as a recruiting tool.

I'd encourage you to look into the Rwandan genocide - it was done through media. Radio broadcasters on either side were lamenting the others as 'cockroaches' 'vile creatures' who needed to be 'exterminated' passing lies and false information and then, at one point, calling for outright murder. The 'war' was not between armies, it was a lot of regular people, taking to the streets, massacring each other with machetes en masse. Like a 'zombie' film come to life.

And of course, the idiot teaching people to make sarin gas in their basement for fun, or to make sure that those 'cockroaches in group XYZ' can be slaughtered'.

This is what 'anything goes' means.

The moniker 'hate speech' can surely be over-applied, for example, in Quebec a comedian was fined $30K for making a joke about a person in a wheelchair. Sometimes uncomfortable arguments are labeled 'hate'. This is ridiculous obviously.

But - there's absolutely no doubt that 'hate speech' exists and can foment particularly young minds into some really devious world views.

Particularly in the context of 'fake information' the Holocaust, for example, could be 'erased' as a legit element of history.

Some of the stuff that is 'normalized' among some kids is pretty shocking, even just some casual use of language.

The 'internet' is now the commons, like any other commons, and though we need to err very much in the side of freedom of expression there - will be limited.

I see at least two thresholds, 1) the civil commons, like most areas where you can't go around screaming about this or that, like a private office or even a public square where you can't harass people. And 2) more private spaces, people should be able to almost anything they want (i.e. 'almost anything goes) and the threshold should be really high, but true 'hate speech calling for violence' for example should be a problem. ISIS beheading videos should be taken down. People calling for the mass murder of 'some group' can be taken down. If you're trying to teach people to make sarin gas in their basements, this can be taken down. Etc..
Responding before the horde of Jobs fanboys claim the underlying OS didn’t matter. They like to forget that NeXT alone didn’t matter, nor did PowerPC Mac’s or the initial scroll wheel iPod’s all under Jobs stewardship. The company was saved by the following:

- transition to x86, and Bootcamp fallback.

- iPhone, with decent touch interface and native (non Java) API and open AppStore

- iPad at right time.

Without this trifecta, Apple would be extinct like SGI, Sun, and the others.

BeOS was what the geeks wanted. It was modern, multi core, C++ based, and with the backing of a big company, would have seriously dominated the desktop computing landscape. I’d be willing to state that Apple would have had a bigger market share with BeOS rather than NeXT.
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