skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> eel Europe is slowly migrating to a two tier healthcare system, a private and quality but expensi

can you give example of private healthcare costs?
I enjoy and support the systems mentioned in the article, but the right to unpaid leave was used by Daniel Ek, Markus Persson or Niklas Zennström as far as I know.
Teams that take ownership have a product person, who sits with the team. And is part of the team. Their entire job is work out the best product direction. They interact, sit with, pair, answer questions from developers everyday, talk to customers etc. Work with the team to set future product direction.

It shouldn't be external group pushing features into a team backlog.

Devs talk to customers, look at the logs, debug issues, look at the stats being logged out. As result they have far better understanding of product usage than most people higher up.
One: It's really the model. There are almost 200 years of data on VC in the US. That's the model, I promise.

Two: It's not as simple as just throwing money at a bunch of random things and hoping one sticks. They work hard to invest in companies they think will make large returns, knowing that despite their best efforts a large portion likely won't. This is intuitively understood. But this more nuanced understanding leads to the conclusion that "[w]e have $375M from SoftBank" is meaningful because they're a successful entity in that space, with subject matter experts, and if they invest in you it indicates you're doing something right.
Are you telling that your employees?

And we're getting more than half of each 24-hour day off too! I guess what more could we want?
Both the Rust and Go parsers were written by hand. They are also very similar (basically the Go version was a direct port of the Rust version) so the performance should be very comparable.

I assume by zero-copy you mean that identifiers in the AST are slices of the input file instead of copies? I was also careful to do this in both the Go and Rust versions. It's somewhat complicated because some JavaScript identifiers can technically have escape sequences (e.g. "\u0061bc" is the identifier "abc"), which require dynamic memory allocation anyway. See "allocatedNames" in the current parser for how this is handled.

Note that strings aren't slices of the input file because JavaScript strings are UTF-16, not UTF-8, and can have unpaired surrogates. So I represent string contents as arrays of 16-bit integers instead of 8-bit slices (in both Go and Rust).

In the past I tried using WTF-8 encoding (https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/) for string contents, since that can both represent slices of the input file while also handling unpaired surrogates, but I ended up removing it because it complicated certain optimizations. I think the main issue was having to reason through weird edge cases such as constant folding of string addition when two unpaired surrogates are joined together. I think it's still possible to do this but I'm not sure how much of a win it is.
Yeah ING lets you see the balance without having to log in, and sometimes it's great to just check how it's going
Here's a potential way to use adversarial techniques to generate training examples that could improve the accuracy of this approach: https://twitter.com/RoboTeddy/status/1228828411050655744
> without taking steps to become more involved

It’s must be pretty comfortable to assume that the engineers here have never tried giving feedback in their workplace.
Extensive discussion 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22307445
Usually there is not error bound (or we don't know how to proof them), so the worst case is that it is infinitely wrong (or as wrong as floating point numbers can express).
Clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments
Of course FB wants to control content. It helps them increase engagement and also monetise.
Jesus dude.

Maybe you're spot on 100% right in terms of vision, in terms of business plan, in terms of psychological blindspots, in terms of product market fit, in terms of a path to profitability. You seem pretty smart so maybe it is fairly insulting to you to not be listened to.

In what way is your world view helpful? And I want to be be gentle here, and not mean harm. In what way is it helpful for yourself, for your own wellbeing?

Let's say you could fix the company and stop the losses. Then trying to do that seems worth pursuing. Let's say you can't! We've all come across situations hard and unmoveable. So now, unless some break happens for you (because it's unlikely they will wake up and listen to you if they never did before...just a pragmatic observation), you are stuck being chronicly slightly unhappy.

It's not my place to suggest, and I'm trying to respectfully ask, would either maybe letting go or conversely doubling down and standing up for yourself and finding another job where they value you hurt you less? Completly serious question because everyone deserves to be happy.

And also, a bit of conjecture, but if you're not profitable it's that same CEOs ability to communicate a vision that's funding payroll right? I'm not saying absolve him of every misgrievance because if the company isn't doing well it's ultimately on his shoulders.

My point is maybe there's a softer path to walk here....?

Not my place to ask though.
So much of modern programming is error handling. PRINT never failed in my BASIC programs until I started working with files. And all of that error handling code needs test cases, logging infrastructure, then more programs to parse those logs. Perhaps someday, Vernor Vinge's vision of AIs that sit atop the thousands of years old systems to manage all that complexity might come to pass. Not sure that will be any better, but it will at least be hidden.
Zuckerberg is a safe pair of hands. We can trust him with our data.
Google Earth shows some disputed borders in red.
One thing that I find amusing is that the same people worried about the government becoming too authoritarian, want to give the government the power to stifle “hate” speech, which can easily be defined to mean what the government wants it to mean.
They should have gotten Alton Brown to do their cooking for them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqABijWMlxA
No, not at all. That doesn't benefit the people who died.
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This is a rather poor quality post. This is HN, not KIA.
I don't understand your point. You seem to be all about "price discovery", but if it goes the wrong way, ie you discover the price is below what you accept, it is "bullying".

Weird.
Little known Xcode feature- you can set breakpoints that, instead of breaking, play any sound!
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quality assurance, either straight up manual testing or automation. in my experience, way less stressful than any other hat i,ve worn: sysadmin, netadmin, coder. salary will be about 80% of a dev, still decent.
And that's assuming you can keep working. Getting fired or laid off because you can't work means you're no longer getting paid AND you now have to pay for the healthcare you can no longer afford. It's stupid.
I agree with you, but I don't see that as "regulating the Internet" (which is the idea I don't like at all), because:

1) you're really just aiming to regulate the selective censorship (which is in a direct relation to the existing monopoly laws)

2) why limit it on the Internet? TV and newspapers played exactly the same game for decades and they still do on some subjects. And when no major newspapers mentions a certain story, it's pretty much to the same effect as if google's removed it from the index. You need to first hear about something to know what to google for, and if it's not on a few mainstream media sites for most of people it just didn't happen.
I’ve had to wait to see endocrinologists about 6 months at multiple practices while having very good insurance in the US. It’s mostly a location and a supply and demand issue with most specialist medical professions, not an insurance issue (which it’s often conflated as in the media).
What types of injuries/illnesses are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy?
Closest I know is this [0] interview

> Weiner:

> Well, the work was done in your head but the record of it is still here.

> Feynman:

> No, it’s not a record, not really, it’s working. You have to work on paper and this is the paper. OK?

[0] https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.aip.org/history-programs...
You're saying $44K = rich, and that normal income = $88K.

If you make $88K then you can have $44K to blow just by only spending $44K, like the people who only make $44K anyway.

(Yes, yes, ignoring taxes)
Best quote from the article:

“I’ve never seen data to suggest that being charismatic
and confident and overly brash is linked to a
successful business,” says Kellie McElhaney, founding
director of the Center for Equity, Gender, and
Leadership at the University of California at
Berkeley’s business school.
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Yes, 8088. Thanks for the fix. The 8088 was a 16-bit CPU with an 8-bit bus. The 8086 was a 16-bit CPU with an actual 16-bit bus.
What? Productivity has expanded tremendously in the last 40 years!

https://data.oecd.org/chart/5QdS

I can’t think of a space that hasn’t been heavily impacted since 1980. Even the kitchen. In addition to the obvious examples of kitchen appliances and screens and devices like Echo that weren’t available in 1980, how about the fact that there are many fewer meals eaten at home? Or cooked for families? How about the ways that women’s roles in society and families have changed? How about the rise of single person households? Or meal prep and delivery services? Or the much wider availability of fresh or “exotic” foods year round than 40 years ago?

Sure, you can walk into a kitchen from 1980 or 2020 and see many similarities, but there are also many differences that you can’t see at first glance.
Perhaps that is the general difference between industrialization and AI based robots

Industrialization has pretty much solved mass production.

AI can automate intelligent decision making, but with industrialized production system the design has removed all need for intelligence.

An intelligent system will always be more expensive than a non intelligent system.

Robots could only become useful, once there are decisions to make. Like when you want to order truly customized pizzas, e.g., arrange the cheese such that it spells your name. Or give it a keyword, and then the robot should arrange all ingredients, such that the pizza looks like a painting about that keyword
Yes, but it's much more plausible that a fucked healthcare system does it on its own.
Wait times for specialists are a thing in the US too, even with good employer-sponsored insurance. Specialists are a limited resource - usually artificially - in virtually every country.
upvoted, because yes!

but also, violentmonkey
Seems to lean reeeeeallly hard on the exact seed word provided. Someone buy this bot a thesaurus...
Awesome, thanks for the examples. Debugging rings a bell for me, especially with respects to Troubleshooting.

When I for the first time put Linux on my chromebook I had to troubleshoot virtually everything that wasn’t working in order to learn how to make Linux work. Debugging seems in the same vein, but for code.

And the instant feedback is a great point. I’ve been reading & watching JavaScript videos, but seems that diving in & getting that hands-on experience of trying things out will allow me to experience that instant-feedback the computer has to offer.

Thanks again for your thoughts!
> What would you cite as an example of a mobile site that is more usable than this one?

This one being the Italian one from the submission or the Hacker News itself? I'm assuming the Italian one. Off the top of my head, sites with good mobile version and similar structure (lots of text and links) are Wikipedia and The Guardian. One tiny nitpick are tables with multiple columns in Wikipedia articles. This is a common struggle and I haven't found an elegant way of showing data-dense tables on mobile screens.

But other than that, all the elements on both of these sites are big enough, I don't have to zoom in, I don't have to scroll sideways, there are no floating elements, and they have distinctive style. They even work well with a dark mode add-on on Mobile Firefox.
> There simply isn't enough money for everyone to be earning like this.

That's incoherent. Salaries are a flow, not a stock, and M2 is wildly variable anyway. Or do you just mean that if lower-earning people earned more, the median would be higher?
Similarly, GTA V is successful and complex. But Untitled Goose Game didn't do too bad either.
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I thought it was about this classic song:

Gopher Tuna!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8
Before HIV and AIDS, heroin addicts who didn't fancy the ideas to share a needle were also considered antisocial.

Anywho, I'm still waiting for their Lifepoint feature to be implemented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHefhIId4qY
I feel that I should not have to justify the idea that applying laws designed around a certain set of assumptions, in a situation that violates those assumptions, is likely to produce bad outcomes. I feel that this should be the default belief. But since you asked so nicely...

The case of treating FB as a telco is obvious: no accountability. I think we're agreed that this is no good.

A news outlet (a) explicitly has their credibility on the line with regard to their output and (b) is very selective in what they publish (for better or worse). Neither of these is really the case for Facebook. For a given link, only the poster's and linkee's credibility is on the line. Facebook defaults to allowing posts, and is only somewhat selective in what it allows and promotes. If this means Facebook is legally equivalent to the New York Times, then so are HN, reddit, Pinterest, etc. Treating FB as a new agency requires all of these sites to take responsibility for the opinions of all of their users. This will discourage medium-sized sites where hand-moderation (doable for small forums) is just becoming infeasible, and more importantly have a chilling effect on people's online activity, because you'll never quite know when the admins of the site you're posting on, or their robotic minions, will panic about your controversial link. Better for them to delete your post just in case they get in trouble with the law, and maybe better for you to not bother and stay silent. This is also no good.

Of course that's just one scenario. Details may differ across the multiverse. But one thing that doesn't change is that basing policy on something other than reality always finds a way to go wrong.
Sounds like Zume would have been a perfect merger partner for Juicero!
In large metro areas, even a PPO doesn’t help much. Specialists are in short supply in the US and elsewhere for various reasons.
How to Build a Successful Business That Will Last in the Weird Startup Era
Jesus. People falling all over themselves to miss the point and claim that no one should care about these things. Well, people do care, and there are no easy solutions here. Because people are more complicated than computers.
Well, your ultimate goal should be to be an entrepreneur or a the technical co-founder (and #2); but that's not only easier said than done, it's not for everyone. Is it you? You and only you can know that answer.

In the meanwhile your best bet is to market yourself to cash-strapped startups, pre-prototype to hack together the product/service. You might have to work for a dozen or so start-up that fail before finding the rising star; In such case make sure that you get enough equity so that, by the time "professional management" comes in, you're protected by your equity.
Any good resources you’ve used to educate yourself? You mentioned you’re self taught so I figure you’ll have many!
The site excellent but is serving a TLS-certificate from: * .herokuapp.com instead of * .visualhaggard.org, so everything is big red browser warnings and the search engines will punish you guys accordingly.
Treat Facebook like a website. It's just a website. It's not so important that it needs a special designation. I think it makes sense to come up with data and privacy laws that apply to all companies, not just Facebook.
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1228824996228800513
Great, just checked it out & am reading it right now. Thanks for the book tip!!
> You cannot have a large group of people earning a lot more than the median income without having a large group earning a lot less.

Actually you can; you can have a large group of people learning a lot more than the median income, arbitrarily more, counterbalanced by an equally large group of people earning barely less than the median income. This does in fact happen in practice and is precisely the reason the median income is so much lower than the per-capita GDP.
Thanks a lot for this quick summary. Computer science can be such a semantic jungle.
I have my motherboard set to run the CPU radiator fans a low-moderate speed at ~50 degrees C and below, but ramp up rapidly approaching 55+, with no hysteresis or gradual ease-in. I can absolutely gauge CPU usage on a second-by-second basis by fan noise. Any transient spikes cause an easily perceptible (but not overwhelming) wooshing.
LA County's voting system approved for primary despite technical, security flaws
Either a Site Reliability Engineer (SW-SRE/SA-SRE), startup founder or farmer. ;) (It's also true: farmers often do welding, machining, industrial maintenance (hydraulic/electrical/mechanical), surveying, geology, botany, chemistry, accounting, marketing and more.)

Work is real experience, don't discount it. :thumbs up emoji here:

If you're worried about knowledge gaps, here's a badass career development project -> self-pace audit a quality CS degree:

- Find the required course list for a particular university, let's say MIT or CalTech.

http://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/computer-science-engine...

http://cms.caltech.edu/academics/ugrad_cs

- Select a sequence of courses based on their requirements.

- Go through each and every course syllabus and textbook to learn the big ideas.

- Write and keep notes in your own words to summarize each concept.

- If you get stuck on any concept, scour the internet, MOOCs and youtube until you get it. As a last resort, SO/HN/Reddit.

- Do the syllabus homework at a minimum.

PS: I was self-taught (Pascal, assembly, C89, C++, and Java), built beige PCs, was an assistant manager at a software store (Egghead), and had a sysadmin consulting company installed an ISDN modem, made NIX and Windows place nice and helped port a BWR/PWR simulator from NIX to Win32 before I was 18. Then I spent 10 years, money and took on some debt to get a degree that ultimately proved worthless trying to appease HR people and family... don't do that.
Freedom is the right to be wrong. If I am free as long as I only do it "The Right Way", I'm not free. People need to try different things, make mistakes, be foolish. Without that freedom, we become a(n at least metaphoric) theocracy.

Society's disapproval cannot be incorporated into law in a free society.
> they don't know what to do anymore

It might take a generation for people to adjust, like Clay Shirky describes at the start of his talk “Gin, Television, and Social Surplus” from 2008:

I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.

The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing—there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.

And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders—a lot of things we like—didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset.

It wasn't until people started thinking of this as a vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an industrial society.
Nice, I've also thought a lot about cached values in the same way. In the past I implemented a meta-programmed system in Ruby to deal with cached values so they would be easy to use and automatically dropped when other related state changed... and I really started to think about the concept of "derived state". I feel it should be something implemented in common programming languages. I believe it could be extremely helpful. Does someone know if this exists in some language?

I don't know if there's any other tricky implementation part, but from what I've seen you could simply define something like this:

struct Human:
name String
birth Date
derived age Integer

function derive age:
return (time.Now() - self.birth).Years().Floor()

And the compiler should have everything it needs. Sure, this example is pretty annoying because time changes all the time, so it doesn't look like you can cache much with such a naive approach, but I suck at examples (surely people working on languages could come up with more interesting approaches, like adding ways to schedule the cached value to be preferably kept until X time later or whatever).
My own opinion is that if these messages are on public newsgroups/forums/mailing-lists, then they should remain public. Those who do not wish to make them known all the time should use private communication (or use a "non-archive" kind of communication, such as speech or live chat or whatever, but then you take a risk). (I do think that even (especially) for public "archival type" communications, you should perhaps be able to hide your identity from being tracked if you wish, whether by occasionally changing your account, using a different account name on different forums, or whatever else you might want to do.)
False binary. You can just put things out there as you see them and then other people can take it or leave it as they see fit.
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> 7pm to 7am is super cheap

This is kinda backwards if the idea is cheap solar power and expensive nighttime base load.

But anyhow, even minute-by-minute pricing can do a lot to adapt the demand to the shifting price of providing it. I never see this mentioned in a discussion on the problems of grid storage, so I bring it up all the time.
That's a tad unfair. Yes, you will have to read the documentation [1], at least the first few sections, before anything will make sense. But "Making a list" is literally the first topic covered after the introduction. ("Headlines", but that's the first type of list you'll ever use.)

I agree if you decide to put some big chunk of your life into Org, you'll either find yourself reading the rest of those chapters, or copying/writing your own customizations, or both. That's where the rabbit hole starts.

[1] https://orgmode.org/org.html
This is an /r/politics tier comment. Don't boil down someone's thoughtful and informative reply, based in their personal experience to some list that you crafted just to morally shame them. It's really embarrassing behavior that you wouldn't engage in face-to-face. Do better.
> Keep in mind the median income in the nation, amongst working people, is only 31k/year.

I don't think this number is working people only, I think it is among everyone.

And who said $1k isn't a lot?
You are, at one point, using "large impact" and "control over success" as though they were obviously not synonyms.

But if control is "indistinguishable from noise" then it sounds like control=impact, which means I don't understand your overall point and distinction at all. It seems like it gets all muddled along the way.
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