skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody's going to embrace IRC again until multi-device gets solved.

But the default answer to the question "how do I have seamless transition between my desktop and my phone" for IRC remains "pay for a shell/bnc, run irssi in screen, etc" which is of course a UX nightmare.

Discord has a buttery smooth onboarding process.
This is one of the worst GitHub readmes I've ever encountered!

What is this? A CLI tool? A website? A browser extension?

Had to look in the comments to tell – what a desaster.
Brain cells protect muscles from wasting away
I think the jailbreak IPA signing isn’t working because it needs the `get-task-allow` entitlement which idk if every tool is aware of. This entitlement is only given out in development profiles and not any distribution profiles so I can’t upload to TestFlight either. If Apple locks down what you can do with `get-task-allow` in the future then a jailbreak would be required to run this.
The CEO who loved me: Spies often use businesses as cover
Startup Fundraising: Building a Target Investor List
> iPad + keyboard + Windows Remote Desktop

Why not just install the free Microsoft RDP client for iOS? Seems like extreme overkill to use an x86 emulator with a full OS installed to do something that’s available for free in the AppStore.
New Jersey gas pumpers seem like a close approximation here. They provide a legally mandated service which I find makes my day worse.
Amazon has these as well, they are called cubiscans.
Yes, the California economy could absorb an additional $32B in additional taxes if that money is then just re-routed back into consumers' pockets via a UBI.

So the overall tax impact isn't my concern.

My concern is why do this at all if just routes money through the state treasury then back into consumers' pockets?

Unless, the UBI is highly distributive,taking money from the well-to-do and giving it to the poor.

But...if it's highly re-distribute then that will incentivize the rich to leave the state and incentivize the poor to come, over time that's not sustainable.

Having said all this, I still 100% support the idea behind a UBI, I just don't think we're ready to implement on a national level much less a state level.
Amazon FBA is a joke. I tried it for a year. Experienced a couple of instances like OP. Customer service at Amazon is an ineffective joke when it comes to these matters as well. Fees are too high etc. Believe the hype of YouTube "entrepreneurs" at your own peril.
How? All they have from Amazon is a last initial.
As far as I am aware, tax fraud was (and probably still is) endemic in Greece. If you like to think it is just Amazon not paying its taxes, believe what you want. If you go see a doctor in Greece he will ask for cash.

What do you mean the population wasn't asked? It's a democracy. The population elects polititians that vote laws and make decisions. Like in almost every country and for almost every topic. If the greeks didn't care about what their polititians did, good for them. But they aren't children. They are a sovereign democracy. They own the consequences.
We are specifically talking about secondary markets, though. They only really happen I think when the risk is fairly low but people are illiquid, or occasionally when the hype is insane.

This is a separate thing from the natural evolution of risk over startup life. That happens to every one. Viable secondary markets letting you take some money out early don't happen in most cases.
Matrix is a more modern, open source alternative that doesn't hand over your data to a company to be monetized.

Matrix channels can even be bridged with IRC using bots, allowing people to use their tool of preference.
Some shameless self-promotion: I run a job board for jobs like this.

https://30hourjobs.com
Even a low tech photo record weeds out a lot of fraud. Oh you aren't returning a thing that resembles the photo that was shipped to you? This won't eliminate fraud, but it will move the bar in a non trivial way. Combine this with a photo ID check at the store for the person doing the shipping and your halfway there.
> Isn't this evidence just as bad as the buyer's account that he didn't receive any accessories?

No, of course not. Buyer didn't provide any details about what was missing or what was received. This isn't a level he-said/she-said, it's one party being forthcoming and the other evasive. Both parties had equal opportunity to lie, but only one put in effort to appear honest. Amazon should at least hold their scammers to a higher standard.
Yeah, I've heard stuff like this for years and years and long ago decided I will never sell anything online. Craigslist in-person only.
Substances which continuously emit alpha particles are dangerous.

This is something different. With every laser shot there will be a burst of alpha particles. Then they'll slow down and just be plain old helium. If the direct energy conversion works, they'll get slowed down very quickly.
My understanding is that "we're all going to die" is not a widely accepted view among climate scientists. I am skeptical of "catastrophic climate change leading to the end of life as we know it or the extinction of humanity" e.g. Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth.

Anyway, my point was simple. If you want to sell people on "huge advantages to getting rid of fossil fuels" then sell them on that. Don't use a stick when you could use a carrot. This stuff is political. It's about persuasion, personal relationships, talking to people like they're not idiots (even if they are), showing respect, and so on. It's not about being right.
I do agree that some stuff needs to be fixed: For example, your weekly update stands out more if you add emojis.

However, it's flawed to think that you can't win building something highly technical and abstract. We won with a highly technical project. A PCI compliance-as-a-service cloud container. A self-contained Docker distributed through a Kubernetes pod.

Not everybody understood the technical jargon, and it's ok. People liked us because we were trying to solve something important.
I fear this is likely an advantage just a few will have... a lot of folks who are poor with multiple jobs will still have to muddle through.
Yeah, this is a very tough nut to crack. When I've been in this situation, I've found that getting health insurance was simply impossible to afford, even when just looking at catastrophic insurance.

What I did was to create a new budget item, setting money aside every month into a pool that could be used for medical emergencies. That doesn't help much at the start, but eventually you get enough of a bankroll to cover everything except actual catastrophes.

Other solutions are preferable if you can afford them, though.
> That depends on the size of wreck you manage to cause, don't you think?

No, I think it's the scope of affecting many after another without doing something more. Throwing bricks requires continues action while a sticker is a thing you do once and then it "does it for you".

See it as working every day and getting paid for that, versus a savings account where you get returns without really doing anything.

And sorry, I didn't really join the conversations to argue against "concept of unsupervised robot vehicles [is] both dangerous and absurd " so I agree with the rest of your message.
> pretty crappy

> just fine

So... Which was it?
Writing is hard. for many people, writing anything at all is a struggle. That struggle also can go away with practice. Eventually you get to the point where expressing yourself with the written word becomes very natural.

Of the criteria that Paul suggested (true, important, novel, clear) I would say that novice writers should strive to write with just one of those qualities (which can vary from one piece of writing to another).

As you achieve fluency and words just flow from the pen (or keyboard) and the focus shifts away from being able to express yourself, you add the other criteria to improve the quality of the ideas you express.
What's the percentage of people using it because they're poor, vs using it because it's cheap?

At what point do the needs of society overrule the housing needs of the individual?

The elderly person will end up a serious multi-millionaire by the end of this in most cases.
There are also probably one or two people who believe in some religion. There are also probably one or two people who believe in healing energy or homeopathy. Or antivax or whatever, it doesn't matter. It is a false standard to hold climate change to that we have to wait until we've convinced everyone. The problem right now is not convincing the last 20 odd percent of people its real, the problem is getting the 50 - 70% of people who believe its real to act. We already have a "belief" majority, we need an "action" one. Continuing to point to the non-believers as an excuse to accept or assume the status quo is even dumber than pointing at smokers and saying "we can't ban it from restaurants because they'll never change their minds".

Climate change "skeptics" and deniers do not get a veto on the future. "Centrists" who use them as an excuse are not fooling anyone anymore.
Keh (https://www.keh.com/) is sort of like this, except that they function more like a second-hand shop--you sell them your gear, and they hold inventory that other people can buy, meaning you never actually interact with the eventual buyer. Because of this though, I imagine they take a larger cut than Reverb does (and certainly more than eBay).

As a buyer I've had zero problems with Keh the couple of times I've used them.
Greece is a sovereign country. It could have defaulted if it really wanted to. Maybe it would have required an exit from the Euro, but that would have been its choice. That they considered this worse than the alternative was also their choice.
> How are you going to take a grown man, whose physical traits are obviously different from a woman (broader shoulders, taller, more muscle mass, deep voice, not to mention his reproductive system, and other documented differences in other organs), and turn him into a woman? This is physically impossible and is akin to changing a banana into a fly.

Well, the spectrum of bone sizes / muscle mass do have crossovers between the sexes. Obviously you're not going to turn a 6'5'' 300lb man into a believable woman but if that same man starts to transition at 16? Who knows. And there are plenty of people who are well within the size parameters of the opposing sex even in adulthood.

> And physics and biology would still disagree with you. This warping of reality to fit some unscientific narrative is getting out of hand.

Disagree with what? I said for all practical purposes. Sure, you could in theory make a biological and physical distinction -- it just won't be relevant to 99% of people if the difference is not available to them. Does a multi-platform software user care if he's running the ARM or x86 binary? They are two vastly different beasts but if the compilers work the user has no distinction.

> They're two very different things. Flight is obviously possible because the inherent laws of physics allow it, and we observed other creatures do it.

You are missing the big picture. What we view as physically possible now will change, as it always has throughout history. Space travel used to be 'physically impossible', heck so did circumnavigating the world. We will eventually reverse engineer our brain structure -- downloading our consciousness might be feasible one day. Do you think people will care about XY chromosomes when they can swap bodies? Or in a world that heavily uses VR?
In Britain part of the reason it's cheaper is that the public system handles everything that goes wrong. So private healthcare is only doing routine stuff even though that's the cheap bit.

When a patient in the operating theatre at the boutique private hospital collapses or stops breathing or whatever, they don't have an in-house team to fix that, they'll deliver first aid (admittedly they'll be better at it than a lay person who took a two day course months ago) until the public system's ambulance takes the (likely unconscious) patient to a public hospital's emergency reception which can take proper care of them. Many of the doctors are the same people but even if the private hospital had the right people, and the right equipment it doesn't want the liability.
I routinely do TestFlight builds without manual review and fast turnaround from build -> running on beta user devices.
There is already registered mail via USPS. The Hope Diamond was delivered to the Smithsonian via registered mail.
The seemingly (to me) crazy thing is that private insurance in places with single payer healthcare aren’t like this at all. Our entire insurance bill for everything from healthcare to house insurance for a family of four is less than a quarter of that. There’s even pretty affordable private GP clinics where I’d never even think about using my insurance.

It’s reasonably common to have private healthcare insurance for unexpected events even in places with national health services. I’ve had it variously through work, unions and now as a private individual. Typically you want it to make up the difference between the level of provided state support and what you’d lose by not working.

Personally I’d rather than private insurance and healthcare industry wasn’t necessary but the American debate seems polarised into either/or rather than realising that it’s very common for private healthcare to coexist and be part of nationalised healthcare systems.
I should clarify that it is certainly doable for widely recognized companies, but it’s very difficult for the majority of startups that no one has heard of even if they have some success. Also, getting on these marketplaces also goes much better with company cooperation and many startups don’t have the time or willingness.
The trap to be aware of here is that the fact that the current system sucks is no guarantee that any proposed alternative will be better.
Which is why his/her comment is a valid response to the GP, who said (paraphrasing) "I can't imagine buying or selling expensive items on Amazon."

There's not much need to worry about buying on Amazon.
Does the study also look at lower provider and hospital costs? Spending on hospital and providers makes up ~50% of US healthcare spend according to CDC. Rx spend is between 10-20% and admin overhead is 30% or so

I wonder why this paper didn't contemplate effect of Medicare for all on hospital and provider spend?
Won't somebody please think of the advertisers?!
It is complicated to figure out a straightforward way to do builds in OCaml. If you're not tapped into the Current Way, you kind of have to read this blog, read that fragment, piece it together. I worked it through for a project of mine, and it was unusually unpleasant vs, say, Haskell.

Docker because, presumably, he didn't want to dink with installing it locally.
And if you can't get this fixed, you might consider changing to a different one.
Thanks for the tip, I certainly will!
The words "deceivingly" and "deceptively" have the same problem: there's a roughly 50/50 split in polar-opposite interpretations. https://grammarist.com/usage/deceptively/

In this case, does "deceivingly robust" mean they look robust but are fragile? or does it instead mean they look fragile but are robust?

This isn't a criticism of you, soundsop. Rather, it's intended to keep pointing at how difficult it can be to concisely deliver a message.

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edit: sounds like the correct interpretation of the title is "P-hacked hypotheses appear more robust than they are."
Obsess much? Google is in no danger of being taken down by HN commenters.
I've received two used products from Amazon (bought as "new") in just the last year. First was an espresso machine. It wasn't even cleaned - coffee grounds were everywhere. The second was a robot vacuum that had a full dust bin. After turning it on, I could see the previous owner's home layout in its memory. In both cases, the product still worked and it wasn't worth the hassle of returning. Whenever I buy something, I make sure to check for non-Amazon alternatives, even box stores.
> I don't know if I could say I "liked" my insurance company, but I can say with a great deal of certainty that my interactions with my insurance company are orders of magnitude more frustration free (enjoyable seemed like too much of a stretch) than any of my mandatory interactions with State/Federal government.

I think I'd suggest that you ask around your social circle to see if you're the outlier or the standard with your experience. Particularly if you've never had a major unplanned life event that resulted in a large medical bill.

I feel like, at least for me, I'd rather have a system that has a constant amount of low grade frustration in it; instead of a system that is smooth sailing while you're healthy and paying, but will throw you under the bus when you actually need them.

> My worst interaction with an insurance company in my entire adult life was being billed in an annoying fashion and having to sit on hold for half an hour to get it fixed. Compared to just my last trip to the DMV the insurance company is already pretty far ahead.

My worst interaction was watching a family member of mine begin to actively die and then pass away a few months after insurance decided to stop covering their primary medication - which was literally keeping their disease at bay, keeping them alive. It was too expensive to cover without the insurance.

> While I lean strongly libertarian, I'm pragmatic enough to understand the current half commie, half free market health care system is entirely untenable, and I seriously doubt it will be acceptable to move in the free market direction anytime soon.

I'm actually shocked that more libertarians don't take this view. Healthcare is almost by definition not a free market and never will be. You can't make a rational purchasing decision when both parties know the possible outcome of not buying is your literal death (amongst other similar reasons). It's an outlier in the business space that needs special considerations (IMO).
A lot of the disclosed content from tech companies about Russian disinformation campaigns was that they played both sides. They're just as happy to push 2nd Amendment groups as gun control groups at the same time. And the more they can radicalize and push people to the fringes, the less functional the United States is as a global power.

Sanders being the most radical left makes him an obvious one to support, him getting elected would stir the right's "OMG, not socialism!" pot about ten times more than any other candidate. Support for Sanders may not even be about low electability, but about ensuring the two parties are as split as humanly possible, regardless of who actually ends up winning.
> It’s only going to put 20 new cards in your review queue daily if you have a huge backlog of unseen cards

Correct. However, using a huge premade deck is not a bad idea in the sense that it's a huge time saver.

For me, creating an anki card takes between 1-2 minutes, depending on how slow the dictionaries (plural) are. So, 30-60 words per minute (45 avg) means it would take me almost 4.5 hours to input a measly 200 words.

I can write down 200 new words from one episode of a tv show. You can see where this is going. For Korean, about 5-6k words are recommended to begin having non-basic discussions. 5k words at 45 words/hour is ~110 hours.

Instead, I suggest using a parent deck that has a premade deck + your personal deck as children. This lets you have the best of both systems. You can use the Hoochie Mama! plugin [0] to properly randomize your review queue for child decks. Anki by default pulls cards in order from child decks.

Note: All of this assumes that your pre-made deck is of good quality. I can't speak about other languages, but Evita's Korean deck (5.8k cards) is sorted by frequency. It's fairly good, at least until you get to more of a intermediate level.

[0]: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1460733408
> Something felt fishy about their claim that number of hours worked has been climbing in the United States so I checked their source. It turns out that "average annual hours worked" has changed from 1,780 in 2011 to 1,786 last year. This seems like barely a rounding error...

This is a classic case of statistics being used to prove a different point. Perhaps the average annual hours worked is pretty much the same, but the way work happens has changed and it may be harder to quantify. For example, what if there are more part time jobs and people have 2-3 part time jobs? Or how are the hours worked by the flexible hours folks at Starbucks (flexible to be picked by someone else I mean, usually only at peak times). Anecdotally, there's a guy I know who holds a full time job selling insurance, then works afternoons for UPS for the health benefits. How is that reported in 'average annual hours worked' thing?

It's the same as saying that unemployment went down and being happy about it. Because there are so many jobs, some people have 3 in order to pay rent.
But that line is massively blurred when said downsizing of blue collar workers is a direct (and known) result of free trade agreements made by elected officials. You're adding one step to the chain, but the chain is still there.
> The Pentium 2 was the first Intel microarchitecture with register renaming. It was the first out of order as well.

Wasn’t that the Pentium Pro?
Lots of objects have serial numbers or model numbers visible on the outside too. That would raise the bar even higher.
First hand account of situation on Diamond Princess cruise ship
I'm on a PPO right now, new to me this year, and it's great. I have a chronic condition that requires surgery about three times a year, so I'm used to just maxing out my costs. There are two levels of the surgery, and the higher level is full general anesthesia, with all that entails.

In practice, it was less expensive out of pocket for the intensive surgery (a bit over $1000) than it was two months ago for the low-intensity local anesthesia surgery ($1300), even though the initial bill was over twice as high.

At any rate, because of my chronic condition, I'm very sensitive to costs. I'll take the good insurance, thank you!
If it was easy to train a bot to show humanlike patterns, we'd have driverless cars by now.
Red Star OS – North Korean Linux Distribution
And an address. That's probably enough.

https://www.whitepages.com/reverse-address
I ran Linux and Windows 95 on a first gen iPad using Bochs. Boot time was utterly terrible, but it was kinda useable after. Given the performance improvements in recent iPads, I’m hoping this will be better, but I’ll let you know once I get home and try it.
Behavioral heuristics (left-digit bias) in coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Yes. Precisely. As ex-Intel, I confirm all of your points.

The “mess”, though, is just a natural artifact of longevity. Many years of decisions that made sense in the moment accumulated to appear to be a “what WERE they thinking?” situation when, in fact, they were addressing the market forces and technology constraints of the day.

In the end, nobody buys your product because the elegant design means that two generations of your product later it will have good performance. Sales are driven by what you can do in the here-and-now. If you do that well enough, you can live long enough to accumulate the kind of cruft that is the X86 ISA.
Are admin issues guaranteed to be better under a single payer system? Don't people run into all sorts of problems with Medicare - what it will pay vs. what it won't?

I give you though that at least it is one set of admin rules than N.. which might be better.
> * This whole idea of "free market is more efficient for healthcare" has to die*

The current US healthcare system has very little to do with "free markets"!
Then perhaps the start up should just pay above market rate in salary and not offer any ISOs since those ISOs are so dang valuable but couldn't possibly be given the same liquidation preference?