skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The people who sell towels to Walmart are not an "idealized free market" but it's close enough for practical purposes.

Towels are a commodity: they're functional, fairly easy to produce, and differentiation is a pretty straightforward tradeoff of higher price for more luxury towels.

Health care is not a commodity. Different services are not interchangeable, and for anything more specialized than basic care, there may only be one provider within a reasonable distance of you that can offer it at all, let alone at an acceptable level of quality.

Furthermore, at the point of sale, much of the time, the "customer" is neither in a condition nor a position to be shopping around. Sometimes, they're literally unconscious. And while some elective procedures and preventative visits can be scheduled and planned, emergency care is by definition not something you can plan ahead for to determine where you can get the best value for your money.

None of these things are because of the specific sorry state of healthcare in the US. They are all fundamental to its very nature. It is impossible to have a truly free market for healthcare, because getting it is literally a matter of life and death for the patient in many cases, which means that by the economics of an unregulated market, the provider can charge them literally whatever they can afford to pay. Or more.

> Fixing that is hard because there are powerful interests behind the status quo, but the same interests are aligned against a single payer system. You can't use it as an argument against one and not the other.

Great, I completely agree.

So instead of trying to fight for a tiny baby step that will improve the system by 1%, let's fight the same people for single payer, a meaningful change that will improve the system by 1000x.
What would stop you from switching to Kotlin, which has those features and many more?
This. With every 'failure' of a company there come those who don't know the full picture and begin with 'guesses', 'maybe's' and other 'reasons' why it failed. The sensible thing to do is to wait for the details.

Because at the end of the war or a death of a startup, everyone is a field marshal analysing the failure afterwards.
Seattle is on track for its own “potluck. Comic con is in 2 weeks if it doesn’t get cancels it will disastrous for spreading sicknesses
I went to London recently. The mass transit there supports both an old-fashioned NFC Oyster card and a contactless pay-by-phone option. Culturally, it seems like the whole city is shifting toward the latter option. There's a huge convenience advantage in minimizing the number of objects that you have to carry, retrieve, and put away in your day-to-day life. In China, this trend is even more advanced: payment by facial recognition is widespread there. Is that such a bad thing? Think of how much more fluid life must be without commercial friction.
The most intelligent person I know refused to believe me when I said that there would be fewer daylight hours in the winter when he visited me in the north. Of course, he was smart enough to research it on his own and come to the correct conclusion, but it was an entirely foreign concept to him.

That being said, I also know plenty of people who understand the concept perfectly, but also insist they will "gain" an hour of sunlight in their day if we use DST year-round. Why? Because they're right! Where I live, in the winter, the sun rises before many people wake up, but sets in the early afternoon. Keep DST year-round, and you experience an extra hour of sunlight--even if you're not technically gaining it.

One could argue that we should simply be waking up earlier and going to bed earlier, but that's a hard pattern to follow when nothing is open early in the morning.
Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism
> dotcom day valuations

I still see those bizarre valuations in things like "Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL"
The hybrid model made little sense in VC-land anyways. Gross margins were not as high as a full SaaS model. The transition to a full software model was never clearly laid out and seemed more wishful than anything.
> "You have no expectation of privacy in your gait or heartbeat while walking in public."

Well, yeah. What would gait privacy even mean? That the law would prohibit you from using your eyes to notice that someone is walking a particular way? That's absurd.
Aren't Emacs, vim, visual studio code all in the same class of smart text editors with plug-ins that provide ide features?

I don't think different default functionality fundamentally changes its class.
LED grow lights. Apparently the plants only need red and blue light. That purple is the glow of more efficiently wasting electricity.
> Might have to do with the split

Probably has more to do with holy lands having being british territory prior to the creation of modern israel and the uk/jordanian relationship - similar arrangments exist for other disputed holy sites in the area
> a scenario where tickets don't work better than gait recognition, and I can't come up with one.

"How many Amazonian trees are cut for yearly need of tickets in London?"
I got chewed out at my workplace around 1999 or so. We had a couple hundred SUN workstations on the network and anyone could run commands remotely on any workstation. So I set up a cron job to spawn SETI@home jobs on every workstation every night at 9pm, shutting them down at 6am the next morning.

I was way up there in the rankings for a while, until the sysadmins started investigating the strange traffic patterns...
Which is interesting but hardly relevant.

To quote:

> > Gcc is still the default on GNU/Linux systems which are orders of magnitude more mainstream than FreeBSD.

> So what? Clang under OSX compiling both OSX and iOS projects is far more widespread.

I'm asserting that there are more Linux kernels compiled under GCC than there are OSX kernels running Clang (so macOS) compiling OSX and iOS projects.

I think that's on pretty solid ground.
Any program using X can see the keystrokes entered into any other program using X. This has been bothering people for many years, especially those who have to use untrusted proprietary applications for work reasons. Wayland doesn't have this issue.
Photo caption says LED. That color is common for them, or even a mix of blue and red. When going LED they only use ones with the wavelengths the plants actually use. You also see this in articles covering vertical farming prototypes. And when i think about it, this is nothing new, because i remember people
growing exotic plants in their windows in not so exotic germany, often had 'plant-lights' with that purple sheen to support growth. That was decades ago, done with flourescent tubes. Nowadays it looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LED_panel_and_plants.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Led_grown_lights_useful.j...
You'd probably be right if they were only concerned with the growth of greenery. It's possible that the light needs of a flowering/fruiting tomato plant are different. It's also likely that the work of the humans and the bees is easier in something closer to daylight.
How cheap? I have an ABBYY FlexiCapture license I'm not using if you're interested.
Never really seen a "pivot to tools" work (after I tried it with one company, and it failed, I started noticing when others tried it too).
Simply an absurd amount of hard work. Millions upon millions of person-hours spent banging foreheads against C++ and the like. Billions of gray hairs. But that’s progress for you.
I saw some reviews online here and there and it sounded like the biggest complaint was that it was expensive for what it was and it was never clear who would respond to a request and when (e.g. fungible lawyers taking random requests)

Most startups will want to build a relationship with an actual lawyer, and having something like a LegalZoom for startups didn’t make sense for most.
Ah, I used to fold. Sometimes I regret that I'm too young to hve enjoyed the early 'glory days' of personal computing, but thinking about it now, buying CustomPC magazine and finding inside it the team's folding@home league table will sound pretty weird one day, if it doesn't already.
Like I said I do not know the answers to these questions, I am only describing a possible scenario. Someone would need to research the best solutions. Aluminum does use a lot of energy to refine.

I have seen 24 ounce aluminum cans for beer though so we could see large American sodas in big cans. Not resealable though.

I think if we are willing to commit to building infrastructure, there is a lot to like about washing glass bottles. In at least one of the Nordic countries they require the use of a standard glass bottle with paper labels that wash off. With this, bottles can be returned to the closest bottler even if it’s a different brand. This keeps travel low. If bottling plants are near population centers the carbon cost of bottle transportation can be kept low.
The other day, I had a conversation with my parents about the cultural impact of Seinfeld and The Simpsons, and we couldn't think of any other shows that top them in that way. Old episodes of both shows are still memeable to this day.
SIA Director Dismisses Coronavirus, Don't Cancel ISC West
Would all of the blocks being sold on this website be legacy blocks as well?
> How much power is needed to comfortably join a massive room?

"At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org" https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md...
Agreed.

Though it works perfectly for party games where even a second or two latency is tolerated, like the Jackbox party games.
sometimes the length of the discussion is the entire goal especially on social media; https://www.owensoft.net/v4/item/2456/
The state of infrastructure maintenance in many (most?) regions suggests there is at least possibly something to this.
Man alive. I first ran some SETI@home stuff on my gaming rig in 2001. After a year or two I figured it was wasted energy. Surely they had more efficient rigs helping out than my lowly Unreal 2004 machine, right?
DST doesn't create more sunlight, but it absolutely creates more opportunities to get sunlight, allowing more time to enjoy outside activities after work. e.g. physical exercise.

I commute to work everyday on my bicycle through a large city park, all year long, rain or shine, night or day. It's about 3.5 miles one way. I've been doing this for roughly 5 years. I personally look forward to DST just for warmer commute home and not having to night ride with bike lights.

It's astonishing the difference in outside activity I've seen when DST is observed or not.

When DST is not observed, outside activity in the park on my commute effectively evaporates at 5PM except for headlamp runners (which, curiously, are mostly groups of older folks).

When DST is observed, outside activity flourishes well until 8PM.

I have not observed any difference in morning outside activity on my commutes with or without DST. I think people are just more likely to do outside activities in the evening as opposed to the morning, most likely because mornings are colder (far colder in the winter), and on weekdays most start work in the morning and/or have to drop their kids off at school, leaving little time in the morning for outdoor activities.
As someone who lives in the Midwest, I'm inevitably skeptical whenever I hear bold claims like this. Recent history has shown that people are willing to move out of the Midwest in the search for better jobs, and even if some in demand jobs pop up in the Midwest, people from growing regions don't always want to move to the Midwest for those jobs.
In my experience the interesting failures are a tiny fraction of the failures; your mind just glosses over the vast sea of boring failures. The most impactful software flaws have not been subtle logic misalignments, they've been utterly basic errors like Cloudbleed or the Arianne 5 overflow. Maybe proof systems can only address 99% of software failures; my guess is that with experience we'll find ways to cover the rarer cases as well, but even if we don't, they're still worth using.
+1 Monument Valley. Also Love You to Bits, and (now defunct) Tiny Thief. We are playing Gris now.

For board/traditional games, we like Robot Turtles (easier version of Robo Rally, which you can upgrade to when they are older), Yahtzee, Backgammon, Stun. Yeah, for over 3, but the younger ones like to watch.

And no one mentioned Snap Circuits Jr.!
How do most other states do this? Do they allow voters to pick any candidate from any party for the primary?
Eyeballing something is useful to get theories that can actually explain the data. Numeric statistics are useful to disprove those.

If you are at an exploratory phase and your plots look a sky map, then you have a bad data representation. On that case you can't even extrapolate a positive correlation into a theory that one value will grow when the other grows on any specific case.
Kids usually like real things better than things meant as toys. Get her a floor cleaner robot. Let her use it for her messes.
Here are the real, user-visible benefits that I am aware of, at the moment:

* Fractional scaling of monitor outputs
* Multi-touch gestures for e.g. switching desktops
* Security sand-boxing of apps
* Tear-free video

As the original link shows, though, the architecture has much better abstractions for software engineers to work with so developer quality-of-life is improved, too.
Hi there - answers below:
1. We have a list of about 1000 news sources that we pulled together from lists of popular news sites and Twitter.

2. We use a 5-point political spectrum: Right, moderate-right, Center, moderate-left, Left.

Political leaning data is from Media Bias Fact Check and AllSides. The methodology of these sites seems reasonable and they've been used in research by The Economist to study bias on Google search results so we consider that to be generally acceptable.

2A: Breitbart is Right-leaning.

2B: We don't have an "objective" tag. Most news sites consider themselves objective but the biases of the authors and news outlets - conscious or otherwise - suggest every story needs to be corroborated across a few sources.

The bias of an outlet doesn't affect its rating from The Factual. So the bias information is mainly for context to the reader and the fine gradation of Left vs. Moderate-Left may not be as critical.

Thanks.
Alternate dystopia:

The AI identifies anyone who has an abnormal gait (e.g. due to a handicap or physical deformity) as likely attempting to evade the system and therefore flags them as a bad credit risk.
Anyone have any info on the comparability of COVID-19 to H1N1 in terms of transmission methods since we have official trace data, studies and reports on H1N1? Am having this discussion and being pointed out the fact that H1N1's particulate size is actually smaller than COVID-19 (80-120nm vs 200nm respectively).
The maps themselves are counterproductive because they attract visitors, who are all idiots. There's a new house some guy built in Mono County in what was a Bortle class 2 area and the whole house is surrounded by up-pointing lights because I dunno, it looks better that way on the AirBnB listing I guess?
Probably money? If there is money to be made somebody is going to find a solution that mostly works
Dotcom companies flush with cash, high stock prices, or both buying up old-world industries was a hallmark of the late 90s boom, culminating in the same parent (AOL), buying Time Warner.
There were many aspirational plays predicated on some kind of synergy between new internet firms and recognizable, established brands.

For what it is worth, history tends to repeat itself and ISPs buying media companies is in vogue again, this time with more clearly defined strategies centered around owning and streaming content libraries.
I wonder about records - they would be great for simplified implementation of immutability, but they seem to not provide a way to copy with a subset of modified fields - like in Scala:

case class Person (
firstName: String,
lastName: String,
age: Int
)

you could create an instance like this:

val emily1 = Person("Emily", "Maness", 25)

and then create a new instance by updating several parameters at once, like this:

// emily is married, and a year older
val emily2 = emily1.copy(lastName = "Wells", age = 26)
I've been journaling to varying degrees for many years. My digital notebook goes back to late 2002 with the launch of OneNote. Millions upon millinso of words about side projects, work, life, career, things I am reading or watching. My physical notebooks/sketchbooks go back decades, one a year, crammed full of sketches, ideas and small notes about stuff that I couldn't even tell you what I was thinking at the time.

My Wordpress blog which started as a plain text based website in 1993, and has slowly accumulated, intermittently, written notes (the ones that make sense) from my notebooks that go back all the way to the 1980s and earlier.

Journaling has helped think through projects, career trajectory, travel plans, working through depression, personal loss and even what coffee I like.

Journaling (not a diary) isn't for everyone, but it is something that works for me.
Not to 'akshually', but this specific practice more directly continues in the greek orthodox church - greek & armenian churches began to split in 500s before hagia sophia was completed and split was 'complete' shortly afterwords, which is not to say there are not many similarities.
It sucks. Not even sure they should've called it so fast, why not keep going and try to figure it out till the money runs out. Investors would be OK with that.

I wonder when Justin lost his conviction? I don't believe you can lose conviction in 2 month.
About complex systems and innovation-entrepreneurship ecosystems
This book is worth its weight in gold for people on the note-taking journey.

The quality of content is high and the content per page is absurd--it makes you wonder it is because of the author or because of the note-taking system he uses...
Clang is required for all of Android including Linux kernels going forward. Once devices start to age out, this will tip over time.
This is amazing! I love it! I have a couple of random questions. What video mode does the GUI environment run in? Does it boot directly into the GUI or can it run headless as well? Do you have a more detailed overview of the different parts of the OS and its current capabilities?
Starting November 2020 in the EU machine-readable invoices will be mandatory in the public sector (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/55/oj).

As far as I understand there are at least two standards (I know of in Germany): XRechnung and ZUGFeRD/Factur-X (which is PDF A/3 with embedded XML).

http://fnfe-mpe.org/factur-x/factur-x_en/
It's bad writing. They also have this gem:

> but once the findings are confirmed...

which should be "but if the findings are confirmed"
Interesting, I would like to know how you could turn quoted "17,000" screens into any amount of money that would matter to AOL - by buying MoviePhone.

Most of the money go to studios... theatre operators rely on popcorn and soda sales to survive. So what kind of money can Moviefone make here?
Protein folding might work as a proof-of-work algorithm. One big problem is of course that it's useful work that could conceivably be monetized.

Proof-of-work works because a theoretical attacker would have to invest huge resources into an attack. For bitcoin it's trivial to say "for attack scenario X an attack has to spend at least Y", and as long as the expected reward is lower than Y the network is safe (that's for example one factor you use to determine how many confirmations you wait before accepting a payment). If the attacker could conceivably gain money outside the cryptocurrency for performing the proof-of-work, that makes the whole calculation less predictable, and likely exposes you to more situations where an attack is actually profitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHGb02%2B14a
Many lectures and meetings may be experienced as similarly dross and irrelevant and a waste of time (though you can't expect people to just read the necessary information ahead of time, as flipped classrooms expect of committed learners).

What would be a better experimental design for measuring effect on memory retention of passively-absorbed lectures?
I still have 2 of these in my old hardware box. I used to run them at 4.5x100MHz on Abit BH6 single CPU mobo. Great way for me to bump performance as a poor CompSci student. And yeah, I ran SETI@home on them as well.
At this point the amount of evidence showing this is different than the flu is so overwhelming that you're either grossly misinformed (likely) or being disingenuous (less likely).
Yeah... And some still remember recording the sound of popped baloons in different environments (or checked the response of analog filters to a single spike) to use it with first version of SIR VST. Awesome experience, at least as for that forgotten times.
Until the it peeks you have no idea of impact. Cash is king. Buy low.
Honestly, probably zero. I'd be surprised if many corporations are making paper out of anything other than farm grown softwoods.
Have you checked out Robo Rally? Similar but more advanced play, so for older players.
working at a zombie company that has no traction is not fun for anyone

part of the “challenge” of being a famous founder is you can raise pre product.

$75M seems insane for a company like that. Burn couldn’t have been that high, mostly rent and salaries, no heavy computation, etc.
It was included in the Certbot 1.3.0 release today.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certbot-1-3-0-release/11...

(only certbot-auto users are likely to get this release immediately)
I checked my copy of the C++ Programming Language (2nd edition, 1991) which has throw() exception specifiers on functions. The Java project started in 1991.
That report (Fairlie, Sumner 2006) was commissioned by the European Greens. If you clicked once to the Wikipedia reference you're citing you could see that as well as why they might have been selected to produce that report.

Civilian nuclear energy rarely results in a nuclear weapons program. Today IAEA monitoring is effective in preventing diversionary pathways and enforcing international nonproliferation obligations (even where the US is obligated to not use internationally sourced uranium to produce weapons tritium).

A legislature requiring a million year containment is far from an evaluation of the waste's toxicity. Otherwise you would be forced to talk about specific isotopes.
Oh I'm not shedding any tears for legacy-style CAs. But just because the previous situation was bad doesn't mean that a LE monoculture won't also be bad (for varying definitions of "bad").
Prior to today's 1.3.0 release, no; in versions of Certbot ≥ 1.3.0, yes.
Right. I may have done a poor job explaining. Imagine if the HTTPS server did all its verification / etc at the protocol level, but then EXPOSED the public key, used by the client, to the application I wrote. This way I can (at the application level) do app-related stuff like reject users if (for example) they've provided a public key not in my white-listed public keys. This would also make it seamless to build tooling around the application, such as what github (and others) do when they ask you to maintain public keys you may use when pushing / pulling to/from a repo.

But in this case users could provide public keys they will use when accessing the website from internet (as opposed to intranet).
Java lacks default arguments for functions, which makes that particular API infeasible without adding support for such. They could generate "withFoo" methods or even builder types, but that would butt up against developer preference, so it's probably best to leave it up to developers or a third-party library.

Kotlin has a very similar feature in its data classes, FWIW.