skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theorists Endanger Workers Who Keep Networks Running
Correct, and that's the entire point.

I think what you're missing is that this particular metric doesn't care about performance of the company or if the CEO "deserves" that much money or not, and that's by design. When people compare the pay of a CEO to the pay of their employees it's typically because the entire point of the comparison is to to draw judgement on the CEO's business model.

For example, a common example where this metric is used is to cast judgement on the owners of Walmart for being multi-billionaires while their employees make near minimum wage. The point is not to say anything about the specific performance of those owners or of the employees (and often intentionally ignores it as a factor), but rather to specifically call attention to the disparity in distribution of wealth within the company and to cast judgement on the business model where one person gets rich while depending on the work of people who remain poor.

Again, I don't agree with the use of this tactic to measure anything. I'm just explaining why its done.
I'm sure there are other nuances, but I'd be willing to say that it depends on if their news feed is 'editorialized' or not (ie, they choose what I see, or I choose what I see ...)
I was talking about FSAs, not HSAs.

But HSAs are kind of weird too. Why pre-allocate money specifically for healthcare expenses to a separate account? Instead, why not bump up IRA contribution limits and allow penalty-free distributions for qualified medical expenses?

Why restrict HSAs to high-deductible health plans?

Why are we asking people to deal with investment stuff in order to pay for their healthcare? Isn't that the point of an insurance company? You pay them premiums, they invest the money and pay for all your healthcare needs - none of that co-pay, coinsurance, deductible shit.

The whole thing is a hack on top of a hack on top of a hack. One kludge after another.
The price gaps depend on currency exchange rates, and the exchange rates can change rapidly.

I worked in NZ, and I was paid in NZD, but the company sold their products in USD. This meant the profit fluctuated. Dramatically.

The exchange rate has moved from ~0.4 USD/NZD to ~0.85USD/NZD.

Right now, it's sitting about 0.65, but you can see the problem. If you price something at 40c, it goes to 85c, you've got a problem. Even a 25% swing should be expected.

A lot of these cost savings can be valid short term, but setting up a team (rather than a project) is a multi-year thing. Don't forget the currency risks.

I have specific experience with this, where they attempted to outsource the engineering team to India. However, the exchange rate shifted, and the ROI disappeared. Two years of distraction and training our replacements gone.

This can work well, it's why the Lord of the Rings movies were made. You have to know where your risks are, or you could find the developers that you thought were cheap all of a sudden aren't. Generally, it means you need to do it for some reason other than price.
"Diversity" is one of those terms that have diverged from its etymological roots. In modern American usage, an organization has diversity if it has lots of people who are diverse, and a person is diverse if they're black, Hispanic, or female. When someone wants to talk about other kinds of diversity, they'll say something like "let's find people who speak other languages" or "let's welcome people from nontraditional backgrounds" to avoid confusion.
I have a Chris directory with subdirectories for taxes and such.
The root level I have directories for all my client projects DevACME. DecOID, etc
As a DBA, I feel that AWS has a conflict-of-interest in making PRs that decrease performance, then telling me, "Just pay for a bigger instance."

Luckily, database instances are a small percentage of a fleet, but even so, they're also usually the most expensive ones.

(Meltdown and Spectre had a huge impact on databases near the limits of their existing instance size, unexpectedly tipping them over into the next tier and doubling the cost.)
“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.“ From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your links do not fit the above description. Even your complaint is extremely questionable: discussing downvotes is strongly discouraged (and will often be strongly downvoted).

Hoe much time have you spent watching the community and thinking about your question yourself?

Edit: using the word “arbitrary” is definitely against the guideline to “Assume good faith“ and I have flagged your “Tell HN” because of that. It is hard to find a good compromise with your question - but I have answered you the best I can as a community member (not a moderator). Edit 2: I have showdead turned on, and I am honestly surprised at how little gets flagged (a lot more should be). I regularly read flagged items, but very very rarely do flagged items fit guidelines. Edit 3: looks like your item has been flagged: I will check my comment later for questions if these answers are not sufficient for you.
Yup agree. In this case, with this particular drug, the risks from the first seemed incredibly overstated though. The number of times I heard of people claiming taking this drug could cause heart issues was countless, yet when one looked into it, this was only the case after extremely prolonged use. So the spin was everywhere.
They have an open peering policy so anybody can peer with them https://www.peeringdb.com/net/18747
From that article it is very clear police wanted everyone off, and the reporters thought they needed special treatment.

Police did not single them out because they are reporters.

Legality I am unaware, but why would you assume police knew that matter worse than the reporters?
You may also want to check out: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...

...and look at the "My Filesystem" section.
I want to respectfully disagree with you. The kernel of your argument here is that the speech in question is a matter of disagreement. It's important to define what kind of speech we're talking about here, because everyone might mean something different.

To be clear, we are talking about verifiably false speech. Verifiably false speech that is sufficiently amplified can have serious consequences. This is unequivocally NOT a matter of differing opinions. And, yes, I understand that there is a huge gray area as to what is "verifiably false", but it's still a standard that we should strive for. Misinformation is a serious problem that is arguably responsible for tens of thousands dying in the US from COVID just in the past few months. This is not a game.

I can't say for sure if you're framing the question as partisan bickering in good faith, but if you are I want you to consider how flat out lies and half truths can have extremely dangerous effects. All sources of misinformation are dangerous, but it is undeniable that one "side" traffics in misinformation in much, much higher volume (at least an order of magnitude). Anyways, the point is the problem is not simple and anyone claiming such is oversimplifying at best and being disingenuous at worst.
What tracking data is being "combined"? I see nothing suggesting that data from chrome is combined with anything else.
> if this describes your situation you get a doc to sign off on it

That's how it works for a lot of items. But still...why? Now you definitely need an FSA administrator to examine the letter of necessity - all this to save again, a measly few hundred bucks in taxes.
Making things illegal leads inexorably to more of the hard stuff. If you can buy it at the corner store you’ll go for weak, comparatively safe substances, opium/morphine or beer. If you’ve got to smuggle it because it’s illegal you go for harder stuff with a greater intoxication for weight ratio like fentanyl or before heroin or hard spirits. Most people don’t drink spirits straight, they drink beer or wine or mixed drinks.
That seems backwards. They should have much more ground station bandwidth to those giant tracking dishes than to little personal phased array antennas.

The problem with no sat-to-sat traffic is they'll need a crapton of downlink stations, which increases cost substantially. Also, they'll be geographically limited--no service out in the middle of the ocean.
> FCC smacking us (article is more than a little generous towards us, thank Ajit Pai's reputation I guess)

This is the FCC protecting incumbent service providers on the basis that Starlink isn't already widely deployed. They are not claiming that they have any kind of technical analysis that Starlink will not in fact be low-latency (the threshold is a full 100ms, so not incredibly strict). They are claiming that simply because they do not already offer the service they will get lumped in with the high latency geo-stationary sat link providers;

"In the absence of a real world example of a non-geostationary orbit satellite network offering mass market fixed service to residential consumers that is able to meet our 100ms round trip latency requirements, Commission staff could not conclude that such an applicant is reasonably capable of meeting the Commission's low latency requirements, and so we foreclose such applications."

Frankly it's very sad, because the $16 billion in rural broadband grants are the perfect application for Starlink.

The funds are distributed by "multi-round, descending clock auction where bidders will indicate in each
round whether they will bid to provide service to an area at a given performance tier and latency. The auction will end after the aggregate support amount of all bids is less than or equal to the total budget and there is no longer competition for support in any area." [1]

I think if Starlink was allowed to bid as both a "low-latency" and "high performance" tiers, then at the pricing level they would likely have come in under, they would have wiped the floor with the competition and won a lion's share of that funding. So the FCC appears to be trying to keep them out of the most lucrative tiers to protect the incumbent approach of extremely expensive rural fiber deployments.

IMO a much smarter approach would have been to require some sort of performance bond from every applicant that they will successfully achieve the service levels they are bidding on. It's not like Comcast or Verizon haven't won massive subsidies in the past and then failed to deliver. The approach the FCC is taking (not surprisingly) just limits innovation and wastes taxpayer dollars. Actually in this case the dollars come from customer service fees, but they are effectively taxes.

[1] - https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-364457A1.pdf
Actually states do not have the ability to prosecute police to the extent we would think they do. Police chiefs cannot even fire police. Investigating a police officer for wrongDoing or firing a police officer for wrongdoing must follow specific protocols in Union contracts that are put in place specifically to make holding the police accountable a bureaucratic nightmare.
Nonsense, any site that bans racial slurs has already stepped down this slope. “Slippery slope” is a well known logical fallacy.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Submit better things. Look at the guidelines.
Actually, in some substances the molecules are further apart in the solid than they are in the liquid phase.
They just launched the next batch of Starlink satellites minutes ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4xBFHjkUvw. The 60-satellite train should be visible in the sky over the SF bay area around 9:35 tomorrow night: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink

Random FAQ about Starlink below:

The combination of low latency (20-40ms) and high bandwidth (100+Mbps) has never been available in satellite internet before.

A public beta may start later this year for some users in the northern US, around the 14th launch. Today is the 7th launch of v1 satellites. SpaceX is hoping to do more than two launches per month but haven't reached that pace yet.

The ground stations look like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/gkkm9c/starli...
The user antennas can be seen in that picture; they are the smaller circular things on black sticks. They are flat phased array antennas, and don't need to be precisely pointed like satellite dishes do. They are about the size of an extra-large pizza, so you won't be able to get a Starlink phone.

The user antennas are likely to be quite expensive at first (several thousand dollars). Cost reduction of the user antennas is the biggest hurdle Starlink currently faces. Nobody knows yet how much SpaceX will charge for the antenna or service.

Starlink can't support a high density of users, so it will not be an alternative to ISPs in cities. Rural and mobile use are the important applications. The US military is doing trials with it. Cell tower backhaul may also be a possibility.

Starlink V1 doesn't have cross-satellite links, so the satellites can only provide service while over a ground station. There will be hundreds of ground stations in North America; no information about other regions yet. Starlink V2 is planned to have laser links between satellites, which will enable 100% global coverage 24/7, though local regulations are likely to prevent SpaceX from providing service in many places.

Because the speed of light in a vacuum is 30% faster than in optical fiber, the latency of Starlink over long distances has the potential to be lower than any other option once laser links are available.

Each launch of 60 Starlink satellites has nearly as much solar panel area as the International Space Station. Once SpaceX's Starship is operational they should be able to launch several hundred satellites at once instead of just 60.

Starlink's only current competitor, OneWeb, just filed for bankruptcy after only launching a handful of satellites, and is fishing for acquisition offers. Amazon is also planning something called Project Kuiper but not much is known about it.

Starlink V2 will have 30,000 satellites, requiring hundreds of launches. Even once the initial fleet is launched, SpaceX will still need to maintain the constellation with many launches per year indefinitely.

SpaceX's FCC application has many interesting details: https://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=...
Wikipedia says that's not true. And he's really about on track to match his contemporary predecessors. According to the table, he's issued substantially fewer than every president before him until you get has far back as Benjamin Harrison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order
Markets go up when the amount of bullish positions outnumber the amount of new bearish positions
I'm sure this is true in practice, but I can't wrap my head round why it's correct in theory. Let's say I hook up my exhaust to my intake, I can still squirt some gasoline into the engine, make it explode and expand and thereby drive a piston, at the cost of having even hotter air the next time round.

If I repeat this long enough, my engine will melt, but that's a minor matter of materials science. Maybe I can win my drag race before it melts. Is that the limiting factor or is there some other reason I'm missing that we need a heat gradient?
I see. I'm just not sure that situations where this way of exception handling is a viable strategy are common enough to warrant this syntactic sugar (which seems very easy to misuse). The Visual Basic docs also recommend using structured exception handling instead. Perhaps it is more useful in scripting contexts.
Small nitpick, you mean commander Adama?
I am also in the process of converting my units to section 8.
The GP specified elected official, not candidate.
Are Investors Misinterpreting ArXiv as Peer Review?
Your tenant is the government though. Thats often pretty sweet if you can get it.
I think any savings will be temporarily. Long term effect will be deflationary and wages will eventually go down.
I used to work for an American semi-conductor company that no longer exists in its original form in (at that time) MCUs. MCUs are essentially CPUs with an internal bus, and some modules (PWM, A/D converter, math co-processor, what not) and that bus connects to the outside (often at a different speed) where it connects to various RAM and serial and/or parallel devices and analog innies or outies.

The systems engineer (who was a friend, but maybe not the smartest tool in the shed) spec'd a system, and (high level verilog) simulated the system, and gave the output to the circuit guys (led by (also a friend) one of the most talented mixed-signal circuit designers I know - but abrasive as hell), said: "It won't work. Too much power draw on on modules off the bus. And besided is you power them through the bus, you're going to get a lot of noise and chop and brown-outs".

The manager - who was not an idiot - but to your point (1) above, was NOT aware of the issue and didn't want to believe it was issue and was NOT keenly aware of the issue (he was in denial), so they ran the wafers.

Chips come back - they don't work. Power draw issues.

My circuit designer friend (remember the abrasive part?) - gloated and mocked them for being idiots that did not know how to listen. (He was right - but he didn't have many friends in management).

They said: "OK. Make the changes. We'll do another run.". He said: Give me a couple of die. He went back to the lab - laser snipped a couple of traces - and voila! It now worked! (He had designed in a way to solve the problem as if they had originally decided to do it his way)

He cut 3 months off the schedule - saved millions of dollars - but were mad as hell. I think they wanted to fire him.

I learned a couple of things from all of that:

- Sometimes smart people don't know about problems because they don't want to know

- Pride is a horrible sin - I would have been grateful to have my bacon saved - they were not

- Nobody ever gets a bonus or promotion for putting out a fire that never actually gets started.

EDIT: Formatting. It's stil not great.
I get the use-case for this application, however I don't think I would want to run another browser in the background as a 290MB toolbar app to be searching GitHub PRs and issues makes sense to me. As a native app, yes but something like Electron is overkill for this use case.

After all, I still have too many Electron apps running on my Macbook hitting my swap space while I use Chrome to browse the web, so I can't have yet another one doing the same thing.
So what can anyone actually do to fix this? Protesting has no lasting effect, and contacting my senator/politicians is a joke since I'm in the political minority.
Around a decade ago, Apple and Google started ramming myriad customer-hostile paradigms down everyone's throat. Things like unrepairable devices, "share buttons", dongle life, touch-screens, flat design, the subscripion purchase-model, storing everything "in the cloud", promoting "internet of shit" gadgets, etc.

Most middle-aged, and old reviewers didn't complain much about these changes (with the exception of "dongles", at least). I assume because they blamed themselves for being out of the loop. Eg: "Touch UI is extremely error-prone, inaccurate, physically fatiguing to use, and unsuitable for large displays... but I surely just feel that way because I'm a dinosaur with an irrational love of computer mice."

Meanwhile, younger customers didn't know any better, and now accept all this nonsense as the unchangeable facts of life. And perhaps they are? Maybe the world really has entered "late stage capitalism." I look at the state of tech, and it's hard to explain why the user experience stopped improving, unless customers just have less power over manufacturers today.
> The money never entered the economy - it is being held in a vault at the central bank (or more realistically is just a number in a spreadsheet)

This is just incoherent. The money does enter the economy because now the banks can lend out money without their cash reserves dipping too low.

The reason that inflation is not spiking is because of the actual reason that the Fed reserve felt that it was necessary to engage in QE in the first place - huge amounts of deflationary pressure. Without the QE, we would be seeing deflation right now.
I was under the impression that cross-satellite laser links would be coming with second-generation version of the satellites, as opposed to the first operational batches that've been launching. Has that changed?
Almost the same, unless I don't put it on desktop but documents. From the algorithmic perspective, it's really efficient and it's like a linked list:

Read and write heavy on the head (Desktop/documents).

Keep the head lean from time to time.

Occasionally read from the tail, the efficiency is acceptable. It's like archeology, the more recent, the easier to reach.
Yeah, I mean it's a known thing that the NYPD is beyond help at this point. They need external help to change.

This is where the department of justice, and state-level attorneys general should be able to check and balance the system, but current laws render them unable to do so effectively.

Even during the Obama years (Eric Garner happened while Obama was POTUS), when a DoJ that wanted to do the right the thing was empowered to, these laws were a huge impediment to progress.
I agree with you. I didn't mean to imply that the binary must be served over the network -- merely that the server is used over the network. The point I was trying to convey is that you only have to provide the source code to the users of the server -- not everybody in the world.
This fails to acknowledge how much power those sets of rules have.

They really have unfathomable potential to be insidious thanks to algorithmic selection and presentation of information and entertainment.
> Just to be clear, your authoritative site shows the iPhone (the last generation) being less noisy than many SLRs.

Charitably, you are confused, and uncharitably you are lying or misleading.

I gave you a simple prompt where you could prove yourself right with a single camera model, and unsurprisingly you’ve failed to take advantage of it.

> And even if they didn't, noise scales with the sensor size.

These noise sources are completely dwarfed by poisson/shot noise (which is the completely overwhelming noise source on most modern SLRs for “everyday” photographs).

The iPhone’s FETs hold a lot fewer electrons. There is no way around this. And then with technology like Dr-pix present in modern Sony sensors (including the ones they sell to Fuji), the gap gets even wider.
That looks like an excellent argument for stronger safety regulations. It is now illegal to drive any vehicle on public roads that does not meet the following safety standards: X, Y, Z. There you go, market for idiots who like flashy gadgets over safe vehicle controls eliminated. We did it with drink driving. We did it with driving on phones (though both the laws and the enforcement are still far from ideal on this one). We can do it with obviously dumb ideas for vehicle controls where there is evidence of severe safety problems too.
Google for example has large offices in Europe. Like in London or Warsaw. They pay significantly less there and find no difficulty hiring people. What i don't understand is why Google still have majority of their engineers in US. Why not hire more in abroad? Makes zero financial sense to me.
It appears even criminals can't escape the division of laborers into those who are tech savvy and those who are not.
If only trees were that easily replaceable. I'm not sure how long you think it takes to grow a tree but a good formula is 1" of girth = 1 year of growth, so a reasonably small tree with a 1 foot trunk is over a decade old.
It is clear that ruling class wishes widespread censorship in internet to happen, this is why they spend millions on hiring shills to support such causes. I haven’t seen a single person in real life that support censorship of ideas.