skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American that makes good money, I don't think medical costs make retiring in the USA in my 50s a high likelihood probability.

There is a medical cost cliff at 65 when Medicare (large medical subsidies for retired-aged people) kicks in, but the private medical costs of an old-but-not-quite-65 person are pretty high, especially in the USA where pretty much all food is optimized to overload your senses (and as a side-effect, your pancreas).
As someone who went to community college and is intimately familiar with transfer agreements with universities, this sounds like a problem with the curriculum agreement universities have with community colleges. It's something that gets reviewed annually and guarantees that certain courses transfer over as equivalent to specific university courses. If the expectations are mismatched on what was covered in those courses, then there wasn't a thorough enough assessment of equivalencies.
> It's OK, but you won't see a ton of benefit unless you have a very large amount of traffic

Our traffic patterns are such that per active-user we would add 100K requests per month when we go live. We send metrics out batched every 10s or so, but stumbled upon this post that warns of internal limit on total number of requests originating from Workers per second set at 2000, account-wide [0].

Is there a way to discuss our usecase and get whitelisted for limits as our traffic isn't malicious, hopefully without having to subscribe to the enterprise plan? I raised a support-ticket but a bot replied that since we are "free customers" it hasn't be been looked at.

[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/workers-and-sub-requests/...
You can have an infinite loop, sure, but aside from that wasm semantics are precisely defined in a deterministic way (well, except for minor issues with float NaN bits). That is, if a computation terminates, it will always terminate and with the same results.

That's the case because wasm itself has no way to tell the time, generate a random number, etc., and each operation's semantics are well-defined.

(If infinite loops are a concern, you can do what wasm VMs do on the web which is to show a "stop script?" dialog after too much time passes.)
I hope what you mean to say is that the autopsy itself does not contain _conclusive_ evidence of homicide. Mere evidence of homicide abounds. Of note in particular is the presence of a knee on the deceased's neck in the moments leading up to death.
I wouldn't think so, from what I've read OCaml has pretty poor windows support.
That seems like a decent solution if you don't care about any sort of accuracy, and are ok with very rough estimates (which is certainly reasonable for some use cases).
That hasn't really been seen in the data though. Yes, obesity has been linked to more severe cases, but some of the hardest hit, highest mortality rate areas, like NYC and Italy, are markedly lower in their rates of obesity that other areas with lower mortality rates.
Everyone in this thread seems to assume buying a brand-new item. My preferred route is to buy the high-end of one generation prior, used, from somebody who is upgrading to the latest and greatest. They can pay the early-adopter tax for me.
I see a LOT of planned continuing investment in "Actions". Makes sense.
they will probably migrate at some point supposedly?
This is not the information density we are referring to.
If you are ignorant it is not on everyone else to bring you upto speed. There have been several articles on this already. Here is something you should try. Next time, goto a tourist hotspot such as Iceland or Venice and ask the locals there - which country citizens do they like the most. And they will tell you straight.
Ubuntu Philosophy
Practically everyone in my online bubble feels similarly, it seems, though I do think steelmanning it is a great way to explore the topic. Same with the Mary's Room argument.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/
FYI M3 is now backed by M3DB, a distributed quorum read/write replicated time-series based columnar store specialized for realtime metrics. You can associate multiple values/timeseries with a single set of dimensions if you use Protobuf's to write data, for more see the storage engine documentation[0]. The current recommendation is not to limit your queries but limit the global data queried per second[1] by a single DB node by using a limit on the number of datapoints (inferred by blocks of datapoints per series). M3DB also uses an inverted index using FST segments that are mmap'd[2] similar to Apache Lucene and Elastic Search to make multi-dimensional searches on very large data sets fast (hundreds of trillions of datapoints, petabytes of data) which is a bit different to traditional columnar databases which focus on column stores and rarely is accompanied by a full text search inverted index.

[0]: https://docs.m3db.io/m3db/architecture/engine/

[1]: https://docs.m3db.io/operational_guide/resource_limits/

[2]: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/m3db/, https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/m3db/attachments/audi... (PDF)
The Lancet: “Chloroquine exerts direct antiviral effects.” (2003) [pdf]
Oh god. I inherited a codebase like this (except in many places it didn't have the log). It was horribly unreliable, and when a customer reported a bug it was almost impossible to tell what had caused it. The funny thing was they had a pretty extensive e2e test suite. But it was mostly useless because it only tested happy paths. The rule is now that if you touch a file for more than a single-line change, you have to remove any such code.
I stumbled into a meet and greet with these guys a few years ago. The recruiter invited me to an event for one of the world's largest content distributors. The role actually sounded really interesting and I assumed this was a corporate edition of CloudFlare but upon entering the social... ...well they had pornhub signs everywhere.

They ended up being a really cool group to meet. Very interesting people with a lot going on in their lives. They had a strong entrepreneurial culture and many employees had their own companies on the side. Their home base is Montreal; it sounded like it didn't pay as well as other areas... but they were quick to point out that the cost of living is among the lowest in North America and that Montreal is a really cool city (This is true).

The most significant thing I remember is a surprising number of people walking by tried to get into the event. :)
You like Github actions a lot, but also think they are lower-quality?

I guess the good news is that the majority of the items on the roadmap are github actions related?
Look at the average tenure of a US legislator, look at Copyright Law in the US, and say that again.
If the Wales or Scotland (to say nothing of the united island of Ireland) can field rugby teams in Six Nations, why cant the Iroquois field a team?
Simplifying it down to "multiplying wealth by 10,000x" is naive.

It's a lot easier to turn $10M into $100B than it is to turn $100 into $1M.

With $10M, you already have the basics handled. You can have a house and car that are paid off and enough cash stashed away to handle living expenses for the rest of your life and still have $7M+ to piss away. If you're smart and never dip into the funds reserved for lifetime living expenses, it's impossible to fail.

With only $100, you're struggling to put food on the table. Possibly even working two jobs with no time to work on building a business.

And here, I haven't even touched on the concept of "connections". Someone with an 8-figure bank account likely knows who to talk to when it comes to getting a product in front of the right people.

If Bill's parents had only $100 and turned it into $1M, then definitely, he'd be self-made. But since he started with likely an 8-figure backing, he's definitely not.
Do you have stats on that? Based on my anecdata, I don't think YC startups are guaranteed successes at all.
A study I read, I'd dig it up but I've done that twice already, perhaps you can do a quick google?

Here's a starting point: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=222702...
Squeaky Wheel Syndrome: The noisiest issue/person is always addressed first.

This creates an unfortunate positive feedback loop.
Probably because a lot of boomers open browsers and initially type "google" into the top bar (which does a google search for "google") just to get to the actual google website...then search for w/e they actually want to search for.
Those groups are running on decentralized system and open protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

The problem is that there is no other searchable archives.
You might have a point in general, but the Bible is a poor example of the issue you highlight. The Bible has had the solution to your problem built-in for centuries already. Bible passages are identified by chapter and verse; no one refers to Biblical passages by page numbers. Bible software shouldn't bother with pages at all. It should instead allow reading to flow smoothly from one verse to the next, and only create hard breaks at chapter boundaries.

[EDIT:] Anyway it seems like conversion to PDF is what you want.
An in person education is maybe worth $30,000 a year, but should it not be worth $20,000 if the instruction delivered online?

Hard to say. We would need to look at the level of profit the college is making from this new arrangement.
If the "Get Started" button - the first thing you see on the website without scrolling - does nothing but yield a white page that asks for an email address, you're alienating a lot of interested users.
Seems like a fundamental truth of Capitalism: privatization and ultimate destruction of anything that can be monetized. Certain things are impossible without money and to make money to have to generate or consume something which leads to a never-ending cycle.
Thanks for the feedback!

No doubt it is unfinished! We don't yet offer our paid plan for Teams. I posted the free individual plan here for initial feedback and validation for the idea in general. Appreciate the support for the concept - it let's me know I'm on the right track to keep pushing new features.
Do you really want to live in a society where optimizing billions of ads is valued 10,000 times more than saving lives in an ER ?
I don't understand why this can't already be done with CCTV cameras. There's obvious privacy concerns, but we already have CCTV. We are already recorded. Why do you need a special device when you could just count people on camera.
I want to say "with the direction that SO Teams took - no."

Its not that SO Teams is a bad thing, just that it isn't the thing that the other companies want to buy.

Look at Microsoft - its got a large work productivity suite (MS Teams, Office, Sharepoint) - all of which are more more mature than Stack Overflow in terms of developer experience. And then there's GitHub and its got GitHub Discussions ( https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/104 ) on its roadmap for the near future. SO would be conflicting with that... and then there's the rest of the SE network that has nothing that a hypothetical MS buyer would want. And SO Jobs competes with LinkedIn. At best it would be an accuhire... but a lot of the developer knowledge has either left or been fired.

Google is the other option. But then... Google is trying to do its own venture into worker productivity. SO (and the SE Network) would kind of help that and making it searchable... but its really not that interesting of a target beyond all that content (and Google doesn't really like managing content of their own). And elsewhere on HN today you can see what Google thinks of maintaining information... why would they want to buy it when they can get search clicks for free? Google has no need to buy SO as an accuhire... and again, most of what is there seems to be sales rather than engineering (look at job postings https://stackoverflow.com/company/work-here#positions )

The blog post seems to suggest that SO wants to go up head to head with Zoom, Atlassian, Slack and Microsoft for the team productivity area. That feels like a "too little, too late" for the direction that they're looking at.

As an aside - look at the benefits on https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/stack-overflow - the free lunch from in house chef and proclaiming great chairs feels (at least to me) more of a startup that is spending money because it got it.
Ctrl+E, same as in Outlook.
Disagree in that they’ve already done plenty of damage.

Easiest example is with RSS - entered the RSS Reader market for free and at a loss and effectively killed competition because you cannot compete with that. Then subsequently killed Google Reader. This chain of moves essentially drove RSS to being obsolete which in turn made everyone far more reliant on Google and social media.

Now extend this to other products that they’ve started for free and subsequently killed. It’s not the same as embrace, extend, extinguish, but the result is the same. You kill off competition and stunt progress.
I think having more than one thing in your life is important. I mean, I like what I am doing at my job. There's not many things (maybe except "being a multi-billionaire"?) I'd do instead as work. But there are other things in my life that I like to do off work. Won't want to do them as work, but definitely good as something other than work. Being able to switch and rest is the key, I think.
Here's an option: keep working, but without any of the stress associated with needing to work.

This isn't rocket science, workaholics.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-covid-related-symptom...

A Google search will yield many results. It’s not hard to find.
Community behind privacy-focused smart contract forges ahead after settlement
I was as baffled as you when I first saw IIII instead of IV...
The passport thing is interesting. I'd never heard of it. However https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_passport makes it sound like there is less recognition than the article implies. The wikipedia article makes it sound like canada and usa begrudgingly accept it sometimes but not often because it doesn't really matter that much but they want to avoid the bad PR of rejecting.
This is awesome! You should do a Show HN:

The example is particularly poignant. It blurs the line between a book and a cartoon. This is what a children's book should be in 2020.
The Harder Problem of Consciousness (2002)
This already happened. Skip the first 10 minutes
What keyboard layout are you on that puts % on 6?
I haven't read the whole article, but in the beginning the author describes his first sessions as nothing more complicated than breathing slowly.

"The voice instructed us to inhale slowly through our noses, then to exhale slowly. To focus on our breath. [...] The next day I felt even better. As advertised, there was a feeling of calm and quiet that I hadn’t experienced in a long time. I"

So does one need the more advanced techniques or do you get like 80% there by just explicitly taking some time out of your day to slow down?
> It's a lot easier to turn $10M into $100B than it is to turn $100 into $1M.

Baloney! If it were, there would be tons of people with Bill Gates level wealth! (last I checked, there were only 2 - him and Bezos).

The facts speak for themselves.

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EDIT:

After rereading this comment, the tone I have ("Baloney!") seems harsher than Iintended. Still, I'll leave it as such because I don't like to change what I wrote on HN. Please don't take it as an insult, but rather as emphasis of the extent that I disagree with your point.
Haha we always reach for javascript first.
I'm wrong actually, apparently pinyin is really fast
Yeah to me it doesn't say that it can bundle dependencies at all the way I read that.
I mean diet and exercise can have profound effects on your health. My personal experiences have been that doctors I have been to are likely to prescribe something and then toss in “also you should exercise and lose some weight”. I herniated a disc and basically my options were steroid shots or surgery. I opted for the steroid shots just to get rid of the constant numbness and pain down my leg. But there had been no real help on what to do now. “Strengthen your core” um ok thanks. All that to say a lot of time is spent treating the symptoms and not the cause. Meanwhile I’m stuck finding the cause and then trying to remedy it.
Why aren't the social functionality of identity / friends / followers / newsfeed / etc. built into browsers in a standardized way?

Because these compete with the interests of browser vendors, interests which finance a degree of development that dominates and ultimately stifles independent efforts.

Remember that Google pitched Google+ as an "identity service". They're now accomplishing this through Android, Doubleclick, GA, Gmail, and ReCaptcha, far more effectively. And sell ads on it.

Facebook isn't going to pay for social integration development by Mozilla: Zuck wants that pie to himself.

Channel monopolies would prefer RSS died and browsers (or apps) served their specific feed directly and exclusively.
You’re absolutely right.

Though the same people who complain about the loss of profitable journalism also run adblockers and sub/unsub from major newspapers over their op-eds.
>>They are ranking based on relevance

But they aren't! That's what we are talking about! They're putting themselves at the top.
Exploiting popular macOS apps with a single “.terminal” file
Imagine websites did this. Who would use it?

A search engine widget on website would probably look bad, would always be in different position and present a host of UX challenges which would add friction to adoption.

Every website is already able to search the internet via the URL bar of your browser nowadays. Its always there when you need it.
I've replaced my F91W with a miband4 and it feels like the next logical evolution of cheap ubiquitous wearables if a generic version ever comes out without ecosystem lock. They already RSVP around same price points, and there's Casio watch faces for nostalgia. The only thing that's missing is NFC and a few physical buttons for media controls.
It is absolutely not disingenuous because I'm not talking about the philosophy of owning or using a gun. OP uses the word "terrifying" in describing these comments. That's the same word many people use to describe how they feel about a gun. It's not unreasonable to see those trains of thoughts connected, and again, I personally don't think it's productive to attach emotion to an inanimate object.
Also, you are assuming that he started with an "8-figure backing".

Highly doubtful - I'll look it up later and do a mea-culpa if I'm wrong, but if his parents gave him $10+ million in the mid 1970's, I'll eat my hat.
To be fair, nothing was said about it being "unique." And, indeed, there are other rifles with comparable characteristics.
On the plus side, evidence of my awful usenet etiquette from the late 80's is disappearing with some of these groups.
Interesting! How did you construct your network builder? I've had to use a combinatoric approach or constraint solver to validate layer compatibility but hit a wall trying to generalize it
> "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement"

It's not being critical, it's just a mischaracterization. I think that Sabine very much thinks there are new things to be discovered in physics, and she is taking an opinionated stance about what is the right way to get to them.

> I think theoretical physics should never be discussed in the absence of the specific data it is trying to address.

That's exactly what Sabine says.
It is common for individual hospitals to occasionally need to load balance to other nearby hospitals. That is nothing unusual.

Overload in an entire region would be, but as far as I know that has never happened anywhere.

However, you can be forgiven for thinking that. Bad news sells newspapers, which seems to have led to a lot of very deceptive reporting. For example, headlines that literally say:

"All the hospitals are full: in Houston overwhelmed hospitals leave COVID-19 patients waiting in ER"

but at the time of publishing there were 2500 free beds in the Texas Medical Center system in Houston. So it wasn't possible that all the hospitals were full.
> Under the U.S. legal system, a fiduciary duty is a legal term describing the relationship between two parties that obligates one to act solely in the interest of the other

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042915/what-are-som...

As far as I'm aware fiduciary duty actually has a broad meaning as above. Of course under our current legal system, fiduciary duty is to shareholders. But there's no reason why we have to setup society like that.

Co-ops are a good way of organising things, but as you say they have downsides. But there are lots of in-betweens. For example, we could require that a proportion of the board (say 25%) are employees. The markets have shown that they are willing to invest a lot of moeny in companies like Facebook where preferential shares allow non-majority shareholders to retain control of the company.
Not up til this point in the thread.
I think it's really interesting that it's hard to find exactly what the meaning of "Perfect Edition" is in the English internet. I was curious about what it means in the manga world, and all I can guess at is that it's multiple manga issues bundled into one hardcover book printed on glossy paper. Anyone know anything else (or more accurate) about the etymology of the term?
Raheem is an independent service for reporting police conduct
I used that as an opportunity to leave most Google services all together, the product decisions just can't be trusted from a user perspective.

For most services there's a better alternative (e.g. DuckDuckGo with bangs for search, native apps whenever possible, markdown for notes and texts) - in general this was a learning process for me to distrust systems that control me more than the other way around by creating a lock-in to an ecosystem.

I feel it's worth taking the time to understand systems a bit more. Once the learning is there, much of the convenience that Google offers can be replicated through good processes and automation.
Things like scikit-learn can add up fast.
You are taxed only once: with income tax. Company is also taxed only once: with corporate profit tax. The reason why that makes sense is because corporation is treated a separate legal entity (person), and that's a good thing for you, because you are not responsible for company's mistakes (that's why they are called "limited liability companies". Publicly traded companies also have limited liability).

Also, if, as a majority shareholder you appoint yourself as the CEO and pay yourself a salary, it is tax deductible for your company, so money that goes to your salary is taxed only once.
Do not (blindly) trust blogs
Sure RSS exists, and I use it, but it's not even built-in to (most) browsers anymore. You open an RSS link in the browser and it spits out XML garbage. Wat.

RSS is sadly not enough on its own without the other puzzle pieces. Private feeds are not really a thing, it doesn't let you comment on or like or share the article to your friends, etc.
Sure, but automata based engines are also "correct" and used in common tools like grep, awk, and sed.

It would be nice to make that clear in the article.

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It's a matter of preference, but to me debugging by backtracking is a pointless exercise. It's easier to reason about regexes as sets of strings, composed by sequence and alternation.

Write unit tests that enumerate what you accept and reject, and build them up by composition. There's no need for debugging or tracing.

I understand that the imperative style is more natural to many programmers, but I don't think it requires too much of a leap of thinking. And once you get used to the other style, it saves effort overall (as well as bounding your worst case running time).
Rust's CI is moving to GitHub Actions
Elon Musk is going to keep blowing your mind
>I don't have access to any of it because I need an Instagram account for that.

Check out https://bibliogram.art