skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I paid a grand total of ~€500 despite being self-employed at the time (so I only had standard public insurance everyone in Germany gets).

IMO, this is a somewhat misleading statement as Germanys public insurance (that everyone can sign up for), costs quite a lot. Normally the employer would cover 50% of the contribution, but as you mentioned being self-employed that could easily be over 800 Euros per month.

That doesn't quite tip the scale in favour for the US, but the differences between the two health care systems are more nuanced as you're making it out to be.

PS: From personal experience, I find that health care providers in North America will jump to expensive tests or hospitalization much quicker than European counter-parts. I don't know if that's common (I don't have enough data-points) but this could be another factor explaining the difference in cost.
"Galaxy" and "lactation" share etymology. Funny, isn't it?

…and it's not like the scientific community even existed when Milky Way was named like that in English.
> He doesn't promote things like clean water

The Gates Foundation regularly funds programs and research around clean water and sanitation. But that's hard to spin into large attention I guess, unless it's something like "Bill Gates drinks cleaned poop water on camera" a few years back.
Conspiracy Bullshit
In its external representation, the 8087 omitted the leading one for the reason you suggest; it is redundant.

Your suggestion could apply to the ROM; they could have hard-coded the first bit to 1, saving a row in the ROM. I think they could have avoided a few transistors by doing this.
HFT capitalizes on a kind of time arbitrage. They take the data from one market, and then transport that data using specialized, custom built networks that move the data from one place to another a tiny fraction of a second quicker than other networks. They then capitalize on having that data earlier to eek out small profits at scale.

Imagine two investors sitting at a restaurant table discussing trades they are about to make. The trades they are making will be significant, in the sense that their trades will then impact the value of the stocks they're trading. Meanwhile, a waiter at the restaurant makes a habit of eavesdropping on the conversations of these investors. When he gets the information, he runs to the phone and effects his own, smaller trade.

It's not that the waiter happened to overhear something. The waiter makes it his business to "overhear." The waiter adds no real value. He's a parasite on the people who do add value. The HFT traders are likewise.

What they do is documented in Michael Lewis's Flashboys.

https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/0393...
If self-hosted is your thing I highly recommend tiny-rss and the iOS app accompanying it. https://tt-rss.org/
Nah Dabbawalas are unionized and they effectively have control over what to charge their customers. The costs are low because, unlike other food-delivery startups, they are able to make money because of their ability to execute a hub and spoke model. Since they operate only during lunch time, and serve dense residential and office locations in Mumbai, they are able to aggregate orders both temporally and spatially.

Havin a hub-and-spoke model is the only way to make money if you are a logistics company. Grubhub wrote a good bit about this in their investor letter. [1]

[1] https://s2.q4cdn.com/772508021/files/doc_financials/2019/q3/...
You say "at one point" - why no more?
"No more than 25% of hospital beds in any state are occupied by coronavirus patients."

There seem to be two camps on this topic. One says that this is great, and we should continue every effort possible to stop the spread, presumably for an unlimited number of months or even years. That means staying locked down with minimal economic activity and somehow dealing with the consequences as they come. This is the "wait for the vaccine" camp, which I find hard to join because even if a safe vaccine can be created, it could be a year or two before it is sufficiently tested and deployed. California seems to be leading this camp in the US.

The second camp says that excess healthcare capacity means we should begin reopening the economy until capacity becomes strained. This is the "let the virus spread" camp, and implicit in the argument is that we should allow more people to die from the virus. This camp is winning. Most states and Western nations have started to ease restrictions knowing full well that it means the virus will spread. The hope is that less stringent restrictions can still allow the rate of transmission to be controlled enough to avoid catastrophe.

(There is also a third, fringe camp in the US of right-wingers, and while it is easy to dismiss them, they are actually winning in states like Georgia and Texas)

My understanding at the start of lockdowns was that these were intended to "bend the curve" so we could get control of the situation and then allow the virus to spread at a rate that would not overwhelm healthcare capacity. But more and more people I know seem to be in the "wait for a vaccine" camp. Personally, my imagination struggles to comprehend what another 12+ months of lockdowns would mean for civilization. The loss of life from disease, though obviously abhorrent, is actually a concept my brain can manage (which is not to imply it has more merit, just an honest observation).
> Or even that I should accept the vaccines paid for by government manufactured by Bill Gates under a system where he has no product liability?

Source?
I have often thought about what it would be like in the far, far future. After the age of baryons comes to an end, we would also see an end to structure: you cannot build anything out of leptons larger than a positron and electron orbiting one another, delicately, at a distance. No chains, no three-way bonds or glorious carbon four-way bonds, just a froth of electrons, positrons, and variously-flavred neutrinos and anti-neutrinos.

If the Big Rip were to happen, one might imagine civilizations forming around the event horizons of black holes ("dead stars still burn") fizzing out Hawking radiation, getting ever closer to avoid the Big Rip, a controlled fall designed to balance against the stretching of space while harvesting what you could get from Hawking radiation. I've seen projections, sketches, really, of computation that involved states only changing as energy became free, and so these civilizations would be almost frozen in amber to outsiders but ticking along from their vantage point, up until the black holes' "temperature" drops too far below the ambient themal bath. The decay gets faster and faster as the curvature of the event horizon increases, so that civilization's end would have an incredible speedup right before the black hole itself evaporated.
The single worst offense against the usability of Atom/RSS right now comes from Apple and iOS.

If you click a link to an Atom feed in Mobile Safari, iOS will launch the Apple News app. Which will then show you an error message saying the content is unavailable.

As far as I can tell there is no way for an installed reader app to take over handling of feed URLs. It just makes the entire feed ecosystem look broken for anyone using an iPhone or iPad.
> The idea that ORMs are a net-positive is definitely an open question.

If it's still being debated, isn't that a good indication that there's no perfect solution for every use case?

ORMs are likely more straightforward when you know you're not going to need to do anything advanced, but get in the way when you need fine grained control for example.
I just think that at the end of the day, for any moderately complex system under non-trivial load, the idea that you want to "hide the complexity of SQL" from the service developer is an absolutely flawed premise.
Some events have a 5k years period between them but the first one "far" in the future is 10k years from now. I wonder though, are there any imminent or very likely event to happen between today and the next 5k years? I mean, that would fall in the categories listed there...
Yeah, it's definitely a selfish act to be vilified for no reason.
Thank you for sharing your experience!

Being fit is a big word and somehow not easy to achieve especially for people sitting in front of the monitor most of the day.

Do you have any advice on how to be fit in the 30s? maybe any specific exercise(s) that you'd recommend?
So true...there's a ton of 'tribal knowledge' locked up in all our heads ready to be released at any time...
>Generally, disease-surveillance data flow from local public-health departments to state governments, and then on to the federal government. But in April, Vice President Mike Pence asked hospitals to start reporting their COVID-19 testing data directly to the federal government.

So with a few words the White House further centralized government power, and doubled the Covid-19 reporting burden of every small-town hospital. As if they weren't diverting enough patient care funding to administrative tasks as things were.
Nothing has to be broken for a startup or a big corp to attempt to make money themselves.

There's money to be made in offering choices - enough money to justify the expenditure in getting something new up and running, seemingly.

Speaking of solutions seeking a problem, early on in my career I was at a blockchain startup of sorts, though I have no idea what blockchain work they actually did. I got a few offers from other blockchain companies too, and I could never figure out what problem they were solving that a database wouldn't solve even better.
In the web the performance bottleneck is not figuring out what changed, it's doing any rendering at all. Rendering health bars in games is cheap because they happen on the GPU and because they don't have the sprawling layout ramifications ("reflow") that UI changes in the DOM do.
Roger Penrose has really mind-bending observation and theory about the time past heat death in the 'Cycles of Time'.

After 10e100 years when there is only massless particles like photon's left and black holes have evaporated, time essentially stops existing. Photons, gluons and gravitons just go without any new events to infinity.
I said Kafka is great at what it's for - I'm not blaming it at all. I actually enjoyed working with it a lot, despite that it couldn't help my client very much. Fine tuning it to work better for them was probably one of the more fun projects I've worked on in the last year. It still wasn't the right tool for the job they were trying to do, though.

They could have replaced their brokers with simple worker queues and fed the raw data and results into a db. That was all they needed. The fear was that when they got MASSIVE, that architecture wouldn't scale for them. In reality it absolutely would, but like you said, the blogs told them otherwise.

Kafka is fine, using it for the wrong thing isn't.
> There are notable strange things around Gates. He doesn't promote things like clean water or refrigeration, which has long been among the very biggest problems in Africa (aside from horrifying levels of corruption).

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Growth-and...

It's literally the very first result for a Google search on "gates foundation clean water".

For someone who claims to value research, you're making an awful lot of extraordinary claims while patently doing zero research to back them up with any trace value of facts.
He got me for a sec there, I almost didn't notice how similar the name of this site (The Olongnion) is to The Onion...
First and foremost, I does not treat anything as gospel. TDD, like everythingthing else, might not make sense in all scenarios.

I often use TDD for microservices. It forces me to define REST service interface from the perspective of consumers, and only then jump into implementing it. So I write tests that call the service for various use cases, and asserts for returned status code, pay load, and any invariances. All tests fail initially.

It is indeed cumbersome, requires disipline, but it becomes easier with practice. I find, it particularly useful for for microservices. Earlier I would implement, then test, and while doing both will keep figuring a better API and keep changing. With TDD, I upfront get the clarity what functionality I want to implement, so counterintuitively TDD makes me faster.

I use it mostly wherever interfaces are involved. For example, if my service is using a DB, unless the use cases are too simple, I write tests for that API.

Parts that does not have (external) interface, and I want it to be fluid/evolve, I write tests only after implementing. But service level (TDD) tests provide some safety net.

I can see this approach can be extended at all levels, but I am not sure about costs vs. benefits tradeoffs. I think if I do TDD only for macro (process/service/subsystem interfaces kind of things) and some leaf library type modules, tradeoffs are favourable. And if you have TDD for those, the returns of doing it for rest diminish.

Disclaimer: I haven't done detailed study, I am telling my experience, so only one data point.
I cannot speculate to the author's reason for submitting this article, but it is interesting to conceptualize our recent civilizational advancements as a Whale Fall made possible by cheap and abundant energy. What happens when we run out of whale to eat?
Slack Is Fumbling Developers
I see what you are saying, but I still think it is a far cry from having content providers simply providing the feeds themselves.

In the same way that I don't think that YouTube allowing users to submit closed caption transcripts, or machine generating them, any substitute for the content creator
providing them in the first place. I'm sure in the near future, smart TVs will be able to machine generate closed captions from the audio, but I still don't think we should let television producers off the hook for providing captions.

RSS should be the default. And it is not hard to generate RSS.

I happen to think that big platforms only reluctantly adopted RSS over a decade ago because it was a "standard", and because they felt that it was popular enough to justify the traffic from it. But they do not like RSS. It works against their analytics, their ads, and their control of the presentation.

And while it is cool that people are crowd sourcing scrapers, I think the real solution is to promote RSS itself and encourage more platforms to simply provide it. And organizations like Mozilla taking Facebook's position that RSS is obsolete has been profoundly unhelpful to the web.
Of course, but that’s not the point. At my alma mater graduation is a huge huge event. Easily millions of dollars to actually run the event. Musicians, professional photographers, videographers, full AV crew, event staff, parking staff, very famous speakers, swag, catering.

To just cancel it it does really suck for the students and parents who want the experience and memories. Just because the ticket price is hidden in the tuition doesn’t mean it’s not there and deserves to be refunded.
Speeding Up Binary Searches
Digital Sketchnoting of a Live Discussion
It's correct because the original developers said so.
I'm with the author in needing better reading tools, but the 'firehose' of RSS isn't by itself the answer

aggregators solve a different variety problem vs RSS -- RSS gives you access to random sources that you curate yourself, whereas HN or link-heavy blogs give you access to a meaningful amount of high-impact articles from high-diversity sources (i.e. more different websites than you subscribe to in feedly) that everyone else is reading

at minimum, I need a tool that lets me tame the RSS firehose with some kind of ranking or priority queue, plus mix in some aggregator reading so I don't miss things
Because Arthur Dent keeps killing Agrajag over and over again and he reincarnates into various people and creatures that then are killed by Arthur. The pot of petunias is one such reincarnation.

The entire character arc is basically Douglas Adams taking out his frustration with Jaguar drivers in traffic.
Is it just me or does Win XP look amazingly beautiful compared to the flat boring shit we have now?
A full, summarized, interactive WebGL tutorial
I solve this problem by disabling JS by default on my browser. Only enable it if absolutely necessary
Ask HN: What is your blogging strategy?
I've been non regularly blogging for a while without traction for the moment. Sometimes it seems the effort is futile and it'll be better to focus on another ventures.

What's your experience and how are you approaching this blogging thing?
This is quite epic! Then again, I like things like NeoCities.
The peril of human-animal chimera experiments
I'm speaking broadly about desktop/console CPUs which I have low-level familiarity with. I don't know of any CPUs in this class that don't perform some form of speculative execution.

I'm not sure if eager evaluation is related to the topic at hand and was speaking specifically about speculative execution. Eager evaluation is just what pretty much every language except Haskell (or Haskell-like) does.
Now I'm more confused. Why do people "react weirdly" or "strongly" or think she's "some kind of drama queen" when she gives that name? I'm pretty sure my reaction would be to think "I have no idea what that is" and just move on.
I don't understand why they removed support for it. Isn't RSS a "solved issue" - what possible updates can be made to it? Why couldn't they just keep it available and forget about it.
> Conspiracy Bullshit

What conspiracy is promoted in the video?
https://www.thebiglebow.ski/633
Do package directories have moderators? The naming problem has always interested me
A Visual Survey of Augmenting Text Data for NLP
Gif isn't a name, it's an acronym. The creator of an acronym doesn't get to decide how it's pronounced -- it follows the rules of standard english if it's an acronym of english words. Yes english has a lot of edge cases, but it has defaults too.

In this case, english rules dictate that any word that starts with "gif" is a hard g sound. You will not find an english word that starts with "gif" with a soft g.

The only reason there is a controversy at all is because the creator insists on his incorrect pronunciation with a soft g. If he wanted a soft g, it should have been a "jif".
+1 for Inoreader. It costs less than Feedly as well
This is puzzling to me because I had the opposite reaction: among other things, Deno solves an incredibly important problem with Node, which is the complicated configuration used with most projects. Deno can perform, out of the box, many of the things you'd need to configure Webpack + Typescript to do:

SUBCOMMANDS:
bundle Bundle module and dependencies into single file
cache Cache the dependencies
completions Generate shell completions
doc Show documentation for a module
eval Eval script
fmt Format source files
help Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
info Show info about cache or info related to source file
install Install script as an executable
repl Read Eval Print Loop
run Run a program given a filename or url to the module
test Run tests
types Print runtime TypeScript declarations
upgrade Upgrade deno executable to given version

What would it take to get Node to do all of that? Which documentation tool would you choose, and how would you configure it? Testing? Bundling? Formatting?
So, everyone is above judgement and vilification completely?

I gave you the emotional ramifications of taking part in Onlyfans, the impact it can have on everyone you love. Do you disagree with this?

We don’t live in a magic inconsequential world.
Kotlin is one example where it's difficult to make that mistake. Kotlin does provide nullable type and everything can check at compile time and it so good. So if write code in pure kotlin (java interop has null issues) you can avoid null pointer errors. It's really good.
Yes, by always working on the most interesting problem available to you, you have an endless fountain of your most valuable resource: motivation. A sufficiently motivated problem is sure to be solved because there is no incentive to quit. All of the greatest insights come from sufficiently motivated problems. There is no great science without a fire.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
When I tried to do this as a kid, I was stymied by the impressive costs of the kit involved. Has it become cheaper, or does this kid have enabling parents?
> The comparison with time is totally bogus because the amount of time does not change as you add more cities/factories.

But it does (when we are summing over the time axis)! We always had time built into the unit (deaths/100k people/year), so of course it makes sense to look at it in the context of time by applying specific values for them.

> If someone asked you the combined output of two factories per worker, would you tell them the sum?!

With that specific vague query, I'd probably ask a follow up question, as I assume that the person asking the question doesn't exactly know how to interpret the number, which is often the case if someone asks for "combined" and "per" in the same sentence. I've helped people build enough BI dashboards to spot when people try to avoid thinking about the data implications behind the operations they think they want to do, and "combine" is one of the top keywords for that.

> If the first factory produces 5 items with 1 worker and the second factory produces 5 items with 1 worker, then combined they're producing 5 items per worker, not 10 items per worker!

Factory 1 is producing 5 items/worker/hour, just as factory 2 is, so "combined" they are producing 10 items/hour, which is just as valid as your statement. As long as you are mindful with the units and the context, either way is fine.
That's very broad and doesn't answer the question.
Dazzling Downfall of the Diamond King
Can game developers on HN relate? Comments found in Valve's leaked HL code
For Europe that would certainly be post-glacial rebound. Gulf of Bothnia cut off from the Baltic Sea, and England slowly sinking (many people would have strong opinions about it, I guess). Netherlands and Venice are a league on their own with sea flooding problems.

Then pale skin and blonde/red hairs evolved when humans started to reclaim land after withdrawal of glacier in the same region of Europe, so 5k-10k years is sufficient for a new appearance feature in humans to evolve.
Some time ago I was talking to some bank software engineers and they loved mongodb because the schemaless nature let them avoid all the red tape which DBAs had created within the organization. Mongodb solves an organizational failure more than anything else.
I can say that the word “sandbox” immediately raises the interest level among security folk.
From the article:

> A dabbawalas’ commitment to the job is partly because it pays well – roughly 12,000 rupees (£140) a month, a good salary in India for what is essentially unskilled labour. The fame of the dabbawalas also gives the job a certain prestige. This can lead to perks like discounted mobile phone subscriptions and scholarships for a dabbawala’s children funded by organisations keen to be associated with the respected network.

> According to Sangle, the healthy-eating craze in India is good for dabbawalas as food companies are turning to them for delivery. Profits from these newer ventures are bumping the dabbawalas’ salaries up from 12,000 to 20,000 rupees a month, he says.

The labor is cheap but the work pays relatively well. As Hans Rosling says in his book _Factfulness_: things can be both bad and better.
LineageOS servers down since may 3rd
Five Books that helped me learn Backend Engineering