skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the average health insurance cover "pandemics"? Or does the small-print exclude it along with acts of god, war etc?
I think there is a subtle but real difference between claiming astroturfing versus claiming conflict of interest.
This is terrible news for consumers and tax payers in the United States. I was considering filing this year with Credit Karma because it is free. TurboTax can offer a free filing all they like, but 1) it's very limited; 2) last I checked, state filing still cost money; and 3) they inundate you on every other page about paying for some level of filing.

Since the new tax laws went into effect, I've had to pay each year (on the order of thousands more, than what I had to pay during the Obama years). That plus having to pay to file (or having to learn all of the forms and do it myself) is quite the stab in the back for a middle-class consumer like myself.
If he’d emailed me directly I would have done the same thing I did. I emailed the head of engineering and support and asked for an explanation. I then jumped into the relevant chat room.

I do this sort of thing all the time. Sure, it’s unfortunate this is #1 on HN, but shrug. Fixing the problem and figured out what happened is important.
I think the final thing was on the daily challenges; I always tried to solve them before looking at the answers even If I don't know the "proper" math to do so. I had posted my (correct) solution that I got to by writing a program to work it out; and I got some replies saying I was an idiot for not doing in the proper (math) way.
The benefit is, once you've got to have Signal installed, you'll probably want to talk to your friends over it as well to save time switching between the apps.
PhD students tend to adopt the value system of their advisors mentors and others at their university.

Advisors value academic careers, partly because that is usually the only thing that they know, and look down on PhDs that go into industry or change fields as failures.

Advisors are also judged on the academic success of their graduates, who ideally go on to famous careers at notable universities. There is a branch of academic politics that governs how advisors place their best students where they will reflect well on them.

The net result is that graduate students have few mentors advising them on the possibilities outside of academe. The "failures" are left to make it on their own.
> Ballerina is an open source programming language and platform for cloud-era application programmers to easily write software that just works.

Meaningless tagline.

> Static typing is the network application programmer’s development headache and dynamic typing is the reliability engineer’s nightmare. Ballerina’s statically-typed, structural type system that is designed to be network data schema friendly allows application programmers to write code that adheres to the Robustness Principle: Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.

Nowadays we recognize that this is not necessarily a good idea. Se the very long ietf@ietf.org thread titled "deprecating Postel's principle - considered harmful".
> Why should a democracy not be able the enforce a city-scale quarantine effectively?

Because decision making here is less centralized. People have rights, and they will agitate about them. It's not clear where the governmental authority to quarantine an entire city would come from in say, the US. It might be constitutionally challenged, people would get mad and sue. None of that happens in China.
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If I understand what you're saying, you're asking to not confuse mathematical communication with actually doing mathematics ... sort of how Ramanujan was doing amazing math but in a way that wasn't communicable to the convention until the language was introduced by Hardy?
If you implemented this feature and called it your "2FA system", security engineers would laugh at you. It's clearly not 2FA. And, of course, Paypal has actual 2FA.
Apologies, I edited my comment to address the US comparison before I saw your comment. Sorry to have ninja'ed you!
And when demand exceeds supply by enough, the prices go up until they reach a point where it becomes non-unprofitable and then people stop "refusing" to build more housing.

And who is refusing to build more housing? I will personally arrange for as much housing as you like in any neighborhood in any city in California. Oh, for the price that you desire? OK, nope, sorry doesn't work that way.
> I guess they’re not the cities most visited by tourists.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/coronavirus-italy-spread-deat...

Milan and Venice are in that region.
it's not random at all. urgent care will charge for the swab and send you to the lab for the blood work. it would be a few hundred dollars.

going to the hospital in this case is like taking your prius to the ferrari service center for an oil change. you should expect to pay multiple times the reasonable cost for such a routine service.

i can totally understand if he thought he might need all the extra services of a hospital, and wouldn't really know until he got there. but in this specific case, he already knew in advance he can't afford it and should have started simpler.

if he had gotten the CT scan, found it was negative, then was unable to pay, that's a different story.

there's plenty to criticize in this chain of events (eg that the hospital went nuclear as their first option -- regardless of ability to pay) but that hospitals are more expensive than urgent care isn't one of them.
I think this is worthy of the black band at the top of the page.
I don’t like the name either but I don’t have a megaphone big enough to coin a new term of art and it is the only phrase I know that is used for “disclose to the vendor first, then after a fixed amount of time, full disclosure”.

There’s no question that the name is manipulative since it was first coined to refer to what’s now called “coordinated disclosure”[0], in an essay which referred to full disclosure as “information anarchy”[1].

In this case with HackerOne, the issue is not with terminology, nor is it with time-gated full disclosure versus immediate full disclosure. Rather, the issue is that HackerOne go out of their way to serve the interests of vendors who don’t want to fix defects quickly, at the expense of reporters, end users, and software security in general.

HackerOne could take the approach of saying “we are a neutral platform for connecting researchers and vendors, it is not within our purview to try to stop reporters from disclosing vulnerabilities if they feel it’s necessary”, but this is not how they operate today, and people should know this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_disclosure_(computer_secu...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20011109045330/http://www.micros...
> How do you cleanly stop it

The JVM manages this - there are many options:

- reading a flag
- patching the running
- changing memory protection and causing a segfault
The Elephant in the room. When it's all politics, as it is in most of modern society, success really has much more to do with the ability to lie and deceive than most are comfortable admitting. There in lies the entire problem, and the solution is inchomphesible to polititions who owe their entire self worth to their abilities to decieve.
That is a non sequitur. Not being able or willing to invest dozens of hours of effort spread over weeks (maybe months) into having relatively good odds of being offered a job by Google doesn't make you a prima donna.
I've Cloudflare delete an entire zone before, and I could never get an answer as to what happened. They said it was deleted because the NS were changed on the domain...but they never were.
Apple to release first ARM Mac without Intel processor in next 18 months
Don't spread rumours. Provide links to one of these "many forums" so that people here can verify your statements.
This is correct, although I should maybe have been more clear about that in the article.
Another example people use for the KISS principle is of the 'space pen', where the US spent thousands/millions developing a pen that works in space whereas the Soviets used a pencil. However, almost none of the story is true. Regardless, it gets repeated over and over.
If you are deciding between the two, you are deciding the wrong thing. You should go to an early startup (ISOs) if that's the environment you want to work in. You should go to a public company or late stage startup (RSUs) if instead you prefer that environment.

The choice between ISOs and RSUs shouldn't be a factor that you are deciding on; it comes with the territory for the job you are seeking, based on other factors.
Cloudflare can suck a fuck
Fixing bad code is like repairing an old building, you have to put in the scaffolding and supports (int/component tests) first to make sure it stays up before you gut it and check whats salvageable (refactoring and unit tests)
I disagree with you. It matters enormously that people like me are available. Sure there are time wasters who’ll send me email. But I don’t care. Dealing with a small number of real customers doesn’t take a lot of my time and matters.

Everyone optimizes for the worst case. They think “if I give out my email I’ll get tons of useless email”. I can assure you I get 10x the crap sent to me on LinkedIn than via direct emails from customers or others.
It looks like it was fast tracked quite a bit faster than 2 years during the H1N1 pandemic.

I don't have a better resource right now than Wikipedia, but I guess we could follow the links for more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic#Vaccines

But according to this page by 19 November 2009 the vaccine was distributed to 16 countries. I think it was first really noticed in April 2009.

Not making any claims about what to expect for COVID-19, just that they have fast tracked vaccines faster than 2 years in the recent past.
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Alright, fair criticism. You're right, I should've probably chosen a different example, but it still would be somewhat difficult to prove my point via text. The REPL experience working with a homoiconic language is definitely better, compared to other languages that have REPLs, it's better than with JS, with Python and even Haskell.

You see, in Lisp you think and operate in units of s-expressions, any s-expression can be send to the REPL as-is, "code is data" <=> "data is code". In Javascript it also adds some hurdles of things being out of scope. In Clojure, due to default immutability - the problem space is usually small, it encourages you to write smaller functions and it is much simpler model - most of the time you can evaluate anything without any preceding ceremony. In some cases you do need to set the context as you pointed with `((ca) b)` example, but it's so trivial to do so with s-expressions and it's so tedious when working with Javascript (trust me, the comparison not in favor of the latter, I've built JS apps for over a decade).
What Will Musk Buy: Ford? GM?
> assuming that bombers were hit evenly everywhere

I’m not sure a statistician would make that assumption. I’ve only heard this story told in the context of survivorship bias, not root cause analysis

Edit: I don’t mind the downvotes but please help contribute to the discussion by explaining what is disagreed with
That's actually a really good idea. Bit like a Credit Card Chargeback, except it's charged to the customer and is refundable.
whatsyourprice.com
Also asymmetric market.
API Gateway + Lambda + RDS?
Nathan Rich is notorious for spreading Chinese communist propaganda. You should post a better source.
I had some spare time over school break, so I created one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delay-distrac...

Github: https://github.com/frankfka/Delay-Distraction
Because the nato alphabet is several times slower/more verbose and suited better for lossy radio links. We have a high quality mic hooked directly into our computer and the tradeoffs are completely different. Speed and vocal effort are more important than universality.
It's all going to change over time. What matters here is the direction the app is going towards.

Are we going to get more features? Yes.

Are we confident the devs can deliver those features actually secure? Yes, these guys are the ones leading the industry at the moment.

Do we need to worry about long term future of the app being sold? No, the project is a non-profit, it's backed by a foundation, and it's an ideological app, not a for-profit app or con (startup)
Double Compound Pendulums
Magnetic photon trick could take computers to the next level – Futurity
I mean, this is a whole different thing, and I legitimately hate that "algorithm".

But you have to understand that the whole situation is a bit complicated. The thing though is that Haskell gives you possible ways to handle those complications.
Limits in SQLite
I think it's true that we may have gone too far in the direction of developer experience vs user experience. I'm interested to see how we find solutions that solve both problems. Properly server-rendered JS sites that can be interacted with as static HTML but progressively enhance on more capable devices might be a solution, but it still doesn't feel right.
What Coke Contains (2013)
A political issue, more like. A problem of nefficient distribution, not a lack of plenty.
It’s a little weird for this article to focus on qsort, as surely the key point is that the algorithm doesn’t have to be stated at all, just the requirements -- that the output is sorted.

This doesn’t necessarily invalidate the argument, but it means all the concrete examples seem rather beside the point.
"Flat" organizations I've worked at, the day-to-day works alright since we could actually be "Agile" and chop features off to deliver on time and make other decisions like that. Now big picture items like which projects we do - it was all decided by a small group of founders/early employees who had a lot of political and informal power which was very frustrating.
You may well be talking about different kinds of math here.

Most of what functional programmers / theorists tend to care about are from sub-fields like logic, abstract algebra and the like.

The "real mathematicians" that you mention are most likely working in other fields like linear algebra, statistics etc. While it is certainly possible that logicians and algebraists work with sloppy python (in as much as they write any code at all), but I don't feel that it had be a great fit.
The CDC told everyone to "consider" stopping vaping immediately, despite the lack of evidence it was linked to commercial ecigs. It sure seemed like a beautiful play by big tobacco (which manufactures packs of cigarettes for 6 cents a piece -- and would rather kill vaping than try to compete in tech). Note that CDC was swept out by Trump, to avoid fingering handguns as a public health threat.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6841e3.htm
Maker here. This was a project I worked on about a year ago. I didn't like building UIs for simple projects (e.g. desktop apps). At work - we use Powerpoint to generate quick specs. I wanted to quickly be able to take those and convert them to working models. It's not perfect by any means - but the output is readable html and css. Challenges with the project include parsing the actual PPT and XML structure. A few other projects exist - but they weren't structured to be super extensible or readable. Powerpoint has a lot of elements - so I would use basic rectangles for now.
> I'd vote for communism, fascism or whatever it takes to make this nightmare end

Chill. You don't want to go that way.

Talk to anyone in a country that experienced that... I can tell you that the way actual communism subtly broke the minds of people and twisted their thinking patterns is horrible. I takes more than a couple generations for a society to recover from that.

Try to fix what you have, don't go "burn the system down" and throw the baby with the bathwater!
> It would be nice for English to no longer be practically required for people to become computer literate.

In turn, you'll get "every other language becomes practically required for people to be able to communicate about computers"
The cold is caused by an entirely different class of viruses.
The post goes into it but I just want to double assert that the blue check mark system is rather absurdly arbitrary. Not only is there a bias towards “Lefty” (quotes) views, but it’s often handed out to people who have no worry about impersonation because they are not a personality in of themselves.

Not only that, they (as a group) are not immune to spreading significant amounts of misinformation[0].

Who watches the watchers?

[0]: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/twitter-verifie...
Take my upvote fellow oldie. Office Space can't be mandatory school curriculum any more :-)
However, Hinge is owned by Match Group :)
The way this works everywhere is you go through the normal support process until you reach top level support if the situation isn't resolve you go to the ombudmen. If you go before you tried support they will direct you to support first.
Depending on the contents of the water the lead is not as much as an issue as you'd expect. (See Flint, MI)
http://forums.huaren.us/showtopic.aspx?topicid=2508724
I have heard the real reason was to avoid electrical shorts. Pencils inevitably have bits of conductive graphite breaking off and floating about, potentially damaging electrical components
They spends a bunch of money making taxes harder so we depend on them. Then they buy out all their competitors. Intuit is a shit company. The government needs to step in and break that up.
> I know that people will think it's great that you are doing this and I also know that you think it's good (for you) to have a feel for the issues that frustrate every day users. But I think it's not a great use of a company execs time and I am not even sure it's a good way to deploy resources at Cloudflare.

As a counter example, Jeff Bezos (whose time may be worth more than anybody else's) famously audits his email for customer complaints and occasionally derails an organization for a day or two in order to figure out what happened. He stands behind this practice and has said that he often picks out cases where the anecdotal complaint is counter to data that he's been presented, and that more often than not the anecdotes are correct and find a shortcoming in the data. IMO it also demonstrates a culture of caring and following up about anecdotes to others whose time is worth less than his own.
The wildly unbalanced gender ratio makes men frustrated, which causes them to invest very little in reaching out to women so that they can reach out to dozens/hundreds/thousands, which makes an experience for women of thousands of dick pics/"hey"/etc, along with earnest high-investment outreach from men who are too ugly/poor/short/whatever to capture their interest.

If there was a system for people in the 25th to 75th percentiles of desirability to have a dating market where the men were only allowed to contact 3 women per month, I think it would be very popular among women.
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AWS Lambda's Major Limitations
Oh, it's because everyone's kids were vaping and no one could control it. But now parents can say that vaping will kill you with a straight face. Literally, this is how and why it all went down.
This is something I was thinking about. I think I would marketing it at people who need fast time-to-market solutions or prototypes so they don't have to go through the original hassle of setting up a server and scaffolding the infrastructure before even getting to start development of the interface. Thanks for the comment by the way!

edit: I think maybe marketing it as a non permanent solution could work. As well as giving customers the flexibility to make it a permanent solution if they are happy with it.
Sometimes this is true. I've started several side projects to learn a new programming language. So I created 2-3 projects with the different frameworks, never feeling guilty if I should give up or restart with a different approach.
But the 4th time, though, it just "clicked", and I'm launching a new project with a new programming language + framework soon, and I intend to monetize it on day 1.

If I have very few customers, it's a portfolio project. If I have a bit more, it'll break even and I can dedicate some time to it. If it grows even more, I'll try to make a business out of it.
Assuming pix2code really did automate away traditional UI work, the development effort would then move to the next subdomain (e.g. a sales bot, etc).

I suspect as long as you're willing to learn and are competent, you should have a job until the final effort of a general AI self-learning programmer.
$20 won't stop anyone with using it.

If it is refundable, make it $300. That is high enough that only people and businesses with a showstopper situation will use it.
Cloudflare is my register and manages my DNS. I would expect anything them to log any significant changes to either in their audit log.
The average life expectancy was most likely less than it'd have taken to die from lead poisoning.
That's the idea yeah haha
http://p3rl.org/each

while (my ($index, $value) = each @list) { ... }

https://docs.raku.org/routine/kv#class_List

for @list.kv -> $index, $value { ... }
No, but it's the difference between implicit and explicit stupidity. All of us do implicit stupidity all of the time - it's human nature (or more accurately a side effect of working in a difficult field). When transformed into a choice between explicit stupidity, or doing things the right way, we instead usually choose to to do things the right way -- or at minimum do it the wrong way to test something out then change it to the write way. Being explicit is what makes that change likely to happen, rather than just be ignored.
Looks like the site got hugged to death. Does anyone have an archive link?
The industrial revolution's main prerequisite is not a converter or any other clever device. It's about power sources. When you've got e.g. a bunch of coal that gives off lots of thermal energy, finding ways to transform that energy (with engines, factory machining etc) becomes a hot open engineering contest with good solutions being a matter of years, and optimal ones, of decades or centuries (i.e. much longer than Roman history).

But if you ain't got the energy, then making any devices, however clever, isn't going to change the tide. Antique and medieval civilizations had some rather elaborate mechanisms like the antikythera, the trebuchet, rapid-fire crossbows in China etc. But without a major source of low-cost energy, none of them succeeded with an industrial revolution: large-scale coal-mining was what did it in the end.
There's a difference between new and shiny and new and expensive. The new developments are made with premium stainless steel and granite finishes, unlike the 30 year old building I live in which was made with cheap vinyl covered MDF cabinets and countertops. There's no non-economic reason people couldn't make modest housing today, they just don't because they can make more money by building luxury housing instead.
I strongly disagree. What even is a company or a product where no one decides on a direction?
What if I don't know the industry? What if I don't know the customer expectations of this product? Ideally you'll learn all that eventually but it can take a few years.
are there any alternatives that are similar to creditkarma where i can really monitor my credit score
Not true. The common cold is caused by varieties of rhinovirus and coronavirus.

"Rhinoviruses and coronaviruses are recognized as the major causes of the common cold syndrome"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12001053/
And they're selling out to intuit why?
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If I were developing a Gmail add-in and discovered that it costs $15,000 up front, I would immediately start writing an Outlook add-in instead.