skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've stopped reading stories like these through a lens of globalism or protectionism, but instead from the perspective of concentration of market power and competition.

It seems to me more and more that the mere existence of a Goliath in a marketplace causes far fewer David's to even attempt competition, whereas their breakup or de-integration can cause new markets to flourish (and eventually new Goliaths to arise).

The part of the story that seems to be missing above that you would normally see in the USA is that the upstarts in India here were not purchased / tookover / or otherwise integrated by the larger entity.

I wonder why this didn't happen? Is there something about India's corporate law or antitrust?
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Sure, but that gets complicated when comparing two matching hands (flush vs flush, 2 pair vs 2pair). It’s more than a 50 line problem to solve.
Interesting note: for the purposes of life insurance coverage, your health information is NOT covered by HIPAA. It’s still technically PHI but life insurers aren’t a “covered entity” under HIPAA so are free to blast your information completely unencrypted to any of their partners.

It’s ultimately the same reason Apple Health isn’t covered by HIPAA. It is pretty sketchy though given it’s almost involuntary if you want coverage.
Kinda surprised about iterators not getting optimized so well. Even in higher-level languages, this is a commonly utilized optimization opportunity - e.g. the C# compiler will replace a foreach-loop over an array with an identical (but faster) for-loop.
> regardless of on-prem, cloud X, Y or Z

Are you speaking from experience? Because my experience with k8s is far from that.
I think 0-index causes a lot of new programmers (and non-programmers) confusion because they aren't used to treating 0 as a counting instance. For example, A.D. 2020 suggests that (allowing for the various changes and debates) Jesus was born 2020 years ago, instead of counting the first year which would make (2021-1 day) years ago. I see this every year around New Year, headlines saying "Actually, it will be [year + 1]"
> And no, the cavern is not already built for you, it's produced by solution mining of an existing salt formation.

This plan is to repurpose existing mines. Yes the cavern is already built for you as far as the cost estimates are concerned.

> But anyway, the basic point I've been making is extremely elementary, and it's remarkable and more than a little appalling that you are unable to understand it. You need to step back and stop embarrassing yourself.

And by resorting to insults you've demonstrated that you are not interested in participating in good faith. This is the exact opposite of what you want to do if you want to convince someone that your claims are correct.
> In particular, the long introductions that would start with history.

I can feel this. I studied cryptography at University. There was a lot of great things studied, but the first several weeks were a discussion Enigma, the war, and a life story of Alan Turing. Throw in a lesson about ancient Rome and the use of a Ceasar cipher and I was pretty bored of the course before we did any real work.

I'll be buying this book.
> A city that put a 90% tax on billionaires would find that they all left pretty quickly.

That's kind of hyperbole given the OP said "up to 10%".

But aside from that, don't a lot of billionaires (steve jobs, bill gates, etc) only pay themselves a $0 salary when they're rich and own their own company where they're paid in stock? So any % of $0 is still 0.
Yeah, I could see that, I guess I just struggle to see how today, when water intensive crops are so profitable and entrenched, a market-based system would make an impact. I struggle to believe that the incentives would prevent BigCorp from selling an equivalent amount of water that’s being pumped out today, given the already-planted acreages of these crops.

The cost benefit of depletion vs hoarding isn’t convincing enough, IMO, because the owners could always delude themselves into thinking that the next big wet season is next year. The fact that water is renewable on human time scales (unlike oil) complicates the calculus.

That said, I agree that this system would be better. It’s better for markets to exist. But I do think it should be regulated to limit the supply side, because I think we’re too short term-ist to make the right decisions here. These are generally the only situations where I’m comfortable with advocating for intervention.
We give Taiwan a lot, including Patriot missiles.
Thank you, I think I just got it. Useful for the future/my education!
You are lucky, it could've been a 666.
It isn't just a matter of speed. There are some drive commands that only work when you attach a device via an adapter that supports UASP. OPAL drive encryption being one.
Problem: my team is decided in two: Corona A and Corona B, each working alternate days (m w f and t t). How many extra hours should I make Corona A work in exchange for them getting FOUR DAY WEEKENDS for the last two months!
This film, "The Information Society", was produced and narrated by Marc Porat, who would go on to work at Apple and co-found General Magic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Porat
My profile says that I posted this link 11 hours ago, but the front page says that I posted it 9 hours ago... that was done to boost the post, I guess? (I'm not sure when I posted it)
Yea one day I’ll have to write something up with a bunch of data from Apple health. There’s all sorts of interesting gotchas w/ computerized blood sugar regulation. Loop/rileylink, now supported by tidepool, are huge achievements - bravo to their contributors.
This SO answer explains the reasoning - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54100030/why-do-i-need-t...

:)

Edit: On hindsight, I should've picked a simpler example that doesn't deal with references.
Why are they not switching off every week?
education, problem:

how can we streamline the transfer of knowledge from the oldest, wisest, individuals on the cutting edge of their field to the youngest, most ambitious sponge-like individuals just starting out their careers?

I built an MVP to solve this at a hackathon: https://devpost.com/software/oravise

anyone interested in collaborating?
Hong Kong, Changed Overnight, Navigates Its New Reality
These terminal character boxes remind me of the DOS days.. lots of programs such as the library access program used these and I used to use them in my QBasic programs.
Here's something you can use to calculate odds vs a range of hands. https://chriszieba.com/2017/11/26/holdem
There's a few reasons for that, including avoiding anachronisms for aesthetic purposes.
Driving a Modern Formula One Car (2019)
> If you’re new to how these socialist organizations think, check out their self-avowed plan to infiltrate BLM early and leverage its cause for their own Marxist ends... They have a mentality to implement their ideology at its fullest with no compromise

They don't need to, they're pretty open about it, see here just today: https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/hluj...
Is a reasonable spending limit set by default?
I admire anyone who makes an effort to improve things and this is no exception. In this particular case the author would be well served to review Aristotle's Rhetoric[1] to understand why this particular effort is doomed to fail. The short version is that Twitter is by design an absurdly rhetorical platform, and any attempt to inject dialectic into it is, well, pissing into the ocean as it were.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-rhetoric/
This sounds like Yikyak.

I have a fully working Webapp, mobile app, dB and REST API from a project I worked on when lockdown started that I lost interest in scaling but I’ll make the repos public and edit this comment later with the links if they can help you out with this.
Once you get used to it, it does help prevent a whole bunch of off by one errors though, as you don't need math when grabbing a range.

Like a string will always be:

s:sub(1, #s)

And a sequence table will always be:

for i = 1, #t do
t[i]
end
Delusions in the Real World Disappointed My Expectations (2019)
Yes. Our on-prem works a lot like GKE, for users the difference is negligible.
In addition to that, they delegated moderation to users, and some platforms even actively sought certain ideas while suppressing others, thus compounding on the mob effect. Twitter is notoriously guilty of this (although not the only one): wrongthink is actively patrolled, and reputations/jobs, (sometimes even worse), are routinely destroyed.
Thanks for reading! Will mention this in future chapters :)
I think this is probably the most reasonable step from where we are today (this is what I meant by regulate the supply side in my sibling comment).

I think the right should be proportional to land size, and the X number should aspire to be Y% above replacement rate, to account for water poaching, measurement inaccuracies, etc.

X would be set once per year, and announced well before planting season to allow time for planning. It wouldn’t eliminate almonds and pistachios, but it would dramatically reduce them.

I think such a move would face huge opposition from farmers with large plantations, rightly. I wonder how much it would cost to “bail” them out, so they can start over with a more sustainable crop.
Right now peoples twitter feeds are[0] 49% spam, 49% rage-bait, and 2% legitimate content. If that changes to[1] 99.98% spam, 0.02% rage-bait, and 8.16e-4% legitimate content, most people will probably stop using twitter, thus contributing to the goal of:

> to get rid of social media forever regardless of the other consequences

0: 103% of statistics on the internet are made up.

1: 2+49+245049.
I think your comment would have been much stronger if instead of "Many of them might survive" you said something more akin to "The overwhelming majority will survive". Falsely weakening it as you did will cause people to distrust the rest of your message, which I feel is accurate as it stands. Why did you choose the phrasing that you used?
I've got an idea you might like. Protect Americans from being exposed to dissenting ideas by blocking non-approved foreign content from their internet. You could call it the Great Freedom Wall. /s
It's not about the memory model. GC will take care of all kinds of resources.

The problem is that different kinds of resources are, well, different. Part of the confusion is when documentation talks about "scarce" resources, without explaining what this really means (or whether it's really the best word to describe the difference), so then people make assumptions, often incorrect ones.

With memory, if you leave it around for GC to eventually get to it, the only side effect is an increase in memory pressure.

But with open files, there are a lot of other observable side effects of keeping the handle open, aside from running out of file descriptors. For example, it would place significant limitations on the ability to open the same file by a different process, or by unrelated code in the same process. And on Windows, you wouldn't be able to delete such a file, or any directory that contains it directly or indirectly.
> Commit messages are redundant by definition (everything said in the message is supposedly already there in the diff)

Commit messages are far easier to parse and understand compared to a moderate size diff. By reading the commit message before looking at the diff, it really helps in terms of understanding the context of the diff and what to expect.
Have you ever used Labview? It started out great but hasn't evolved well and can't handle complex stuff.

It's still used in lab environments.
How does it positivity affect code quality?

It seems to me like it would be the opposite, automatic closing means less boilerplate and more expressive code
Why Debating Is Bad, Even When You Win It (2017)
This is brilliant reply post. Upvoted, reblogged and flagged as spam. You win +1 internets today sir/ma'am.
What about all this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...
It’s complicated. I understand the WA state constitution prohibits non-uniform taxation (i.e. progressive taxation) which is the only real workable basis for income tax. So all attempts to introduce any form of income tax tend to be proposals for a flat 0-2% tax, with those legislative bills failing because they wouldn’t bring sufficient revenue to justify the significant overheads, such as setting up a tax system in the first place, and enforcement.

It’s a big problem with local/city-based taxes as Seattle itself is very small (700k people in a few square-miles): it would be no problem for a wannabe tax-avoider to move 10 minutes away to Shoreline, Bellevue, Medina, etc. Even if it was done at the county level, Seattle’s location in King County is too close to the border with Snohimish County. Lots of people and businesses priced out of Seattle are relocating to Everett anyway.
Yes, there was also a recent report [1] about the current state of Multicore. Apart from some unsolved problems the two largest problem now are 1) it's not in the mainline yet 2) lack of support in standard/third-party libraries. Sadly, it might take quite a while for ecosystem to catch up. Haskell has a similar problem with Linear Types[2][3].

[1] https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-june-2020/6047

[2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/linear-types

[3] https://github.com/tweag/linear-base/
As I recall, the guy said it was a troll. The PC Police are enough to make people take shitposting seriously. Further examples include stuff like the "okay sign" being a hate symbol.
IiNet telecommunications storing passwords in clear text
clarifying my own post...because my language may have been confusing

faculty actually refers to the body of faculty at a university or in a department as a whole...when writing to certain communities

What I meant was that certain universities have the whole body of faculty unionized
No Problem. Good luck!
Well said, and I like the quote. I think it's telling that the top response to your comment completely dodges the substance of the comment and just attacks your "diction." It seems to me that these moral purists are basically in a state of war - any rational argument against their position is met with overreactions, emotional responses, and insults.

Sometimes I wonder whether some of this ridiculousness is put on by foreign influence operations. Because I could not imagine a more effective strategy to hand the election to Trump. Most people I know are rather appalled at the orwellian censorship of the current movement.
Reposted from a previous comment, as answering the same thought:

The danger of SARS-CoV-2, given the relatively low mortality (and based on genetic modeling of potential mutations), was never that it was going to crest with Ebola-like proportions (you get it, you die), but that it was going to crest with a magnitude that would overwhelm available medical resources.

Unfortunately, that crest is a binary proposition: either you have spare medical capacity (and serious Covid-19 patients receive high-quality care) or you have none (and serious Covid-19 patients receive no treatment).

So the danger is not death rates now. The danger is (effective reproductive number) -> (expected case count) -> (serious, hospitalized cases of Covid-19) -> (exhausted medical capacity) -> (Italy-esque spike in deaths).
> Consider that natural gas used to be though of as rare and limited, so much so that its use for power production was outlawed in the US!

Where are you getting this information? Natural gas has been widely extracted for much of the last century [1], and made up substantial portion of electricity generation as early as the 1960s and 1970s [2]. Where did you read that its use for power production was banned?

It became preferable in late 20th and early 21st century for power generation because of stricter emissions standards. Burning methane is cleaner than burning coal, and technology developed to the point that building gas infrastructure was not cost prohibitive.

Natural gas is not an example of a previously rare natural resource suddenly becoming common. And even if it were, there's no guarantee that lithium is going to follow the same fate. Simply assuming that there are always more mineral reserves than is estimated is an easy way to end up with a shortage.

1. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9050us2a.htm

2. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172
I should note this is normally done on a feature branch (with the ticket number attached). i.e. feature/{ticket-#}-{ticket-title}

When merging you can pretty easily see what ticket each commit was for. Seems superfluous to put the same information in every commit messages.
Just don't use OpenSSL for anything - how many times does the community have to be burned by the same project before they switch?
Massively boosting the number of doctors (and other direct care providers) would almost certainly have a positive effect on the healthcare system.

There's arguments against it, cost (not a good one, it would reduce costs) and 'quality' (not a good one, there's lots of great potential doctors not getting trained).

There's no forcing anybody to do anything (just removing restrictions on educating people and providing funding for training). It wouldn't even cost all that much (a few trillion over a decade vs $4 trillion annually on medical care).
This is a pretty poor argument. It's not really coherent.

> When has there ever been a seriously fiscally conservative Presidential Candidate?

> All Republican candidates pander to the religious right without being actually religious.

These aren't relevant to whether or not Trump is "extreme right." A politician who is more in line with them (like a Ted Cruz or Paul Ryan) would be more right-wing.

> Buchanan was considered one of the most right wing candidates in modern politics and he was very much pro tariffs.

> Trump is also very friendly with the NRA. Reagan was all about gun control - at least when Black folks were exercising their rights (the Muliford Act)

These are just very cherry-picked examples of other politicians whose policies were also not 100% right-wing. That doesn't change the fact that tariffs and gun control (e.g. banning bump stocks) are not right wing positions.

> He might support gay marriage but he also tried to remove health care from the transgender.

He wanted to repeal Obamacare completely, but yes, that would include coverage for transgender people.

I guess to me words still have meaning. If Trump is "extreme right", then "extreme right" doesn't mean anything except "I'm on the left and I don't like this guy." But I suppose that's the norm in 2020.
Figuring out increasingly accurately who is going to get sick breaks the entire point of insurance as a cost pool based on the inherent uncertainty of who is going to be a net payer and who a net payee and at the limit your costs gets increasingly close to the cost of care + cost of administration with the added negative that the insurance industry that has taken your premiums for decades can decide they like your money too much to part with it and keep it depriving you of care perhaps because the care that may keep you alive is experimental.

It is in all of societies interests to make the temporary gains you describe simply illegal and to reconsider the utility of insurance as a method to pay for medical care in the face of increasingly predictable risks.
I'm not sure why it matters that they're young, but it is not the case. Tanya Chan is 48 and Chin Wan is 58.

Joshua Wong and Tanya Chan are far from radical.
If you really blame Russia for the current US situation, I have bad news for you. Blaming an external power is a political manipulation 101. Focusing public attention on them is almost always used to hide real structural domestic problems. Soviet Union also loved to shift blame onto the US and modern Russia does it as well. Did that help them to built a better society?

External powers can only do so much. Usually most that they can do is to give a little push to processes already existing in society (and the US is a world leading expert at giving such pushes). So my advice would be: look at domestic roots of a problem first, not at foreign powers which try to exploit them.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19192335
Initially I lost weight but hit a plateau later and got demotivated
My herring is deeply offended.
Because they're rich.
HN readers are hypersensitive to coin stuff — far moreso than most topics. Thank you for taking the time to reply, it does lessen the concerns somewhat.

I think that I'm still very wary of this due to their dependence on blockchain and lack of clear profit model. I wish they had a tech landing page that explained why they're interesting (and not just 'woo blockchain') succinctly.
They acted the way they did in BLM movement because of immense political pressure. And they acted Hong Kong they way did again because of immense political pressure.

I see no inconsistency here that companies are responding in manner agreeable to groups holding political power in both cases.
Yeh I experienced the same
First, because VATs are regressive. Imagine Alice has an income of, say, USD 50k. She's going to spend a big chunk of that on goods and services: housing, food, etc.

Bob, on the other hand, makes USD 500k. He spends maybe twice as much as Alice does -- nicer house, flash car, all that. Bob can save and invest far more than Alice with a VAT.

Second, because our governance problems are not because of a lack of money.

The US has horrible schooling, in spite of being the 4th-highest spender on secondary education in the world, yet we rank in the same cohort as Latvia. I promise you they don't spend like we do on education.

The US has a cultural problem. Part of which is throwing money at problems without actually fixing them.
Its called becoming an accountant. You can get your CPA units at a very low cost through community college and major in anything you want in upper division.
So that story shows the potential for long term damage (his store hasn't closed yet), but I agree that if it does, it would be the best example I've yet seen.

However even if we assume the worst outcome in that situation, the negative impacts of cancel culture are tame compared to a lot of other systems. If we're calling for an end to cancel culture due to the one case of permanent damage, why aren't we calling for an end of the US justice system which, on a daily basis, causes far more permanent and far more cases of damage?

And this is sort of whataboutism, but lots of the recent concern about cancel culture, at least that I've seen, is from mostly upper class, mostly non-black and latino, mostly well educated people. Their concern has been that they'll be cancelled if they don't support recent protests enough or in the right way.

So we have two systems of justice, one that unjustly kills innocent people on the daily, and one that might end up closing down a single restaurant whose owner was innocent. Why are we focusing our energy on dismantling the second system over the first?
As an introvert who has worked successfully in roles like you describe, you’re conflating introversion with (at best) shyness. An introvert can excel in this kind of role.

Being introverted does not mean you dislike teaching, explaining, answering questions, writing docs, or wanting people to succeed.
I went to reset password and received my old one via a text message. I've let them know about it and got told "we can gladly advise you that you passwords and information is kept safe and wont be given to anyone."
The difference might be even less. 4 Sandy Bridge cores (excluding memory controller and graphics) were not much bigger than the current 8 core Zen 2 die.

Certainly the peak performance you can put in a socket is much higher, but it's got more silicon in it than it used to.