skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds a lot like the UK. Healthcare here seems to be very optimised for the most common ailments, and you're basically screwed for anything else unless you strike it lucky with a good doctor.

For example, here your typical endocrinologist will easily be able to treat diabetes and hypothyroidism - but will tell you you're a crackpot if it's anything else. Similarly neurologists will only easily treat brain tumours, etc.

Also, doctors and "specialists" are extremely conservative. Many seem to have had zero training since they left medical school 30 year ago, and never so much as glanced at research since then. Many won't prescribe treatments they haven't prescribed before (what the hell kind of logic is that?!). Almost all will prescribe based on cost before anything else - let's say there are 4 treatment options, A, B, C and D. D is most likely to work, and least likely to have negative side effects, but costs £1k/year; A costs £5, is not particularly likely to work, and has a small chance of destroying your life through negative side effects - yep, let's go with option A first!

Oh, and unless it's cancer, you'll have to wait for treatment. A long time - you'll often wait several months after a referral from your GP, and then 6 months between each appointment after that. There are supposed to be maximum waiting list times mandated by law, but they game the system - "yes, I realise you've been waiting more than 3 months, but that was just for our pre-waiting list!"

It's a good enough system for a lot of people, but also badly fails a lot of people too.

Source: I'm a Brit with rare and chronic medical conditions, and had the misfortune to suffer badly at the hands of several arms of the NHS. It took 20 years to get a diagnosis for one of my conditions.
Annualised so ten years of 3.58% increase, 1.0358^10 =
1.4215
Yes, the problem that broke everything was what you mentioned. But what struck everyone more was that this all happened because of a few line function that should have obviously never been a dependency in any sane project.
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> it is here to stay

That's what I heard about plenty of social platforms like this. Everyone thought Vine was here to stay too. Everyone thought Myspace was here to stay. Snapchat was huge at one point and now I no longer know anybody who still uses it. Maybe it will be like Facebook, but there's a big chance it won't. It's huge now, but its still relatively niche appeal in the grand scheme of tings. These things appear to be fickle. We will see.
Well, I wouldn't say it was blind. About every 2 years you'll find a movie about how insanely stupid it is to post info online. And those types of movies go back pretty far. The problem is how dense people are.
I thought this was going to be about some dumbfuck VC but OK, for Knuth this silly headline is acceptable.
Any Dutchie correct me if I'm wrong, but some degree of this concept has already arrived here as well. We have two types of health insurance, and the cheaper kind gives you less freedom to choose your care unless you're willing to pay extra.

I have no idea how much extra that is, or how particular the insurance companies are about where you go, though. Last time I looked into my health insurance the slightly lower cost didn't really seem worth the hassle.
Strange place. I was amazed how many homeless there are - which will be denied, when mentioned.

I guess the people sleeping on the walkway to Louis Vuitton island were not homeless? The sleeping people in the underpasses, sleeping under signs saying not to sleep there also?
Remember when we banned the export of cryptographic software routines, because they’re a form of armament? There’s loads of precedent, we just quickly forget.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_...
This should be illegal. The credit unions are bad enough but this is egregious. Software should not be allowed to affect humans without a complete explanation of how it works, how it reached its decision, and a human with authority to appeal to. Frankly, a bunch of the uses here already seem illegal like denying people the ability to rent or to get a job based on some black box software that provides hidden information on people. How can we even know the software isn't something like:
if (race === black) deny Application();
Artificial intelligence indeed. From 1820.
> A market with no active management would allocate capital arbitrarily, without an eye to returns.

I recommend you read up on the following (from me elsewhere on this topic):

> So what would happen if the majority of investors started to buy the market and stopped trying to beat the market?

> Mispricings would start to develop regularly, and the people that had continued to try and pick stocks would be able to profit. The profits that these people made would attract other people, and eventually everyone would return to chasing the dream of beating the market. Behavioral finance plays a huge role in market efficiency; nobody wants to accept being average by taking what the market gives them when there are hot shot managers that promise to consistently beat their benchmark. There is a lot more emotional attraction to investing with the guy, or to being the guy that can beat the market.

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/the-grosman-stiglitz-paradox/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossman-Stiglitz_Paradox
Snap never got to the level of TikTok and it was always really niche but mostly, it required IRL friends to send awkward Snaps too. TikTok doesn't have this limitation and is the lowest friction to entertainment social media ever. Of course, nothing is forever, even Facebook, but as far a these things go, TikTok was in for the long shot.
> No it doesn’t,

Yes, it does.

If the “offshore” weren't in it, it would be just as accurate and not xenophobic.
I am very torn on this. On one hand, these types of apps do come and go quickly. On the other, everyone I've met that spends time on TikTok thoroughly enjoys the content far more than they ever have on any other app...it's almost a bit bizarre. My fiancee will be in tears laughing for hours some nights and it's unlike anything I've ever seen. My family never shared vines or youtube videos but now our group chat is completely full of TikTok links. I think people are underestimating how much people seriously love TikTok of all ages, races, classes etc.
Large banks are designated as SIFI (systemically important financial institutions, aka "too big to fail"). When they screw up, the government steps in and props them up with taxpayer's money. To those banks losses from lax security are externality.

In that sense they are not very different from nuclear power plants. Indian Point is owned by Entergy and it gets the money when everything works fine, but the risks are covered by the government through Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act.

If your house is robbed, it's your problem. But if you store personally identifiable information for everyone and it gets stolen, now it's everyone's problem.
That makes it so nothing explodes, and then there is a second solver that does a small raw position correction after. So it's not lifelike realism, but it works to stop objects sinking into each other too much. There is still a small error though, I'd have to look into more iterations and all that.
> I'm allergic to monthlies

Me too. The way I look at it, if I'm going to live off 4% of my assets a year in retirement, I need an extra $1500 to fund a $5 a month recurring charge.

So it's a matter of looking at how long it would take to save that $1500 and asking if I would commit to working that much longer before I retire in order to afford the recurring payment.

If "that much longer" is measured in days/weeks/months instead of minutes or hours, the answer is almost certainly going to be no.
I am a pressure cooker proselytizer. Seriously, they can cook dehydrated beans in 35 minutes-no soaking required.

However, rice does poorly with my model. The grains are too small and can become lodged in the safety features.
Wouldn't this be solved easily with symbol versioning?
What would you do in this case?

The student has never seen a tuple, or iterable unpacking of any form. Would you just show them `for index, word in enumerate(words)` and tell them not to worry about what that means?

Quite shortly after this, I ask them to essentially do `zip_longest`. Given two string variables:

string1 = "Goodbye"
string2 = "World"

output:

G W
o o
o r
d l
b d
y
e

Here's what I expect their solution to look like:

length1 = len(string1)
length2 = len(string2)

if length1 > length2: # one could use max, but I don't expect them to
length = length1
else:
length = length2

for i in range(length):
if i < len(string1):
char1 = string1[i]
else:
char1 = ' '

if i < len(string2):
char2 = string2[i]
else:
char2 = ' '

print(char1 + ' ' + char2)

That's not something that can nicely be solved with enumerate. Do you think this exercise is bad because they should just use zip_longest instead?
> What country?

The US in San Francisco, where cycling against traffic is illegal.
It's not, Facebook is mostly email with pictures and is here to stay. TikTok may be eating Instagram's lunch though.
I've heard the argument a few times YouTube actually loses money, besides just being a money sink. Does anyone have anything from Google talking about margins or profit/loss of youtube? I've never been able to find anything concrete on the issue. This is the best I've ever been able to find [1]

1. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
> OK, so how do we talk about the prevalence of awful off-shore software-development firms without being "xenophobic"?

We don't, when the problem under discussion is endemic to outsourcing firms and has no particular connection to their location. The fact that there are lots of outsourcing firms that are, relative to where the demand for their services is, also offshore is completely beside the point.

Raising that irrelevancy is the problem.
Do you read TFA? Because this info was in the first sentence.
You’re missing the parent’s point, which is that they will jump when the government tells them to.
That assumes the buyers aren't in competition with each other, and just one possible buyer is pre-chosen.
The strategy is not had-baked, it’s just half-implemented (i.e. they aren’t finished yet).

This is just like the Carbon/Cocoa issue back in the original OS X.

5 years from now it will be obvious to everyone that SwiftUI has been a huge leap, but with some normal transitional bumps along the way.

The guys on the ATP podcast talked about this a couple weeks ago (last week maybe?) and it’s a great conversation - I highly recommend it.
it won't really be their favorite app if no one else is using it
The VINIX is down 3% YTD while the rest of the market ballooned.

Looks like we "picked stocks" by picking the indexes here, too?

I just don't understand the insistence on indexes. We're afraid of picking stocks that go bankrupt?

We work in tech, and a lot of us are science nerds. Surely we can pick names based on how we think those technologies are likely to be successful. We have access to a lot more information than people did in the 1990's with this Boglehead stuff.
USA Family owned dance studio: https://imgur.com/a/QjQYCst

Imagine the bullshit they've had to deal with, on many angles.
Job hunting advice and I know this will get downvoted.

When called for an interview, ask as a first question why they think you are a good candidate for the job. It is clear by my resume and elaborated by my cover letter, but you would be surprised how many people are thrown off guard by this. Why? They got your resume from HR and never bothered to look at it. This saves time. For you and for the company.
All of the parts of the engineering culture that are publicly visible seem like this.
> most startups are based on iteration

This, a thousand times.

Getting it right is not tracing a path on a map. Once you start traversing the terrain your perception about the thing will change. You will hit dead ends that you hadn't considered when looking at the map. You will realize you should have used another road or that you made a bad turn. You may realize the trip is not worth it after all. Etc.

Outsourcing when you're trying to figure it out is super expensive. Even more when you don't have the technical knowledge. Like John above said, it's better to find a cheap dev to produce a quick a dirty MVP, knowing this won't be the final product.

Another great metaphor I've found that helps think about this is that you don't build a car from scratch by building each part independently. You start with a kick scooter, then you make a bike, then you make a motorbike... until you finally make a car. The bigger the product, the more complex it will be, and the more interactions between all the involved parts.
If people pull a massive amount of code to use a few functions, the problem is not the size of the code, the problem is the lazyness of the developer who doesn't want to write 3 functions.

Same for leftpad-like packages, I don't need a dependency to a single function that I can rewrite myself. Especially if I'm not writing open-source software and I have to audit the licenses of my dependencies.

Software development is a matter of trade-offs, you get what you choose, people should not be complaining about that.
Not really, you can double your money at the casino too, doesn’t mean it’s not gambling.

It’s the risk and volatility that separate investment from gambling, not the return. Bitcoin is firmly in the latter territory.
Hmm, is that with dividends reinvested? UK firms tend to pay out higher dividends for various reasons. It seems that with dividends reinvested, you would have made approximately double your money before the crash [0], which took the value down by around 19% today, so you'd end with around 1.62x today in 10 years, nearly exactly 5% annualized including the effects of Corona.

That said, I would not make the UK stock market any significant part of my portfolio. It's an island of 0.06 billion people trying to go it alone in the world, under delusions of being a grand colonial power, while its economy has shrank since 2007. If I was trying to _grow_ my money I'd put it elsewhere. While I'm upset with recent US leadership as well, the US has a massive advantage in that it is the world's largest economy and enjoys the results of innovation that you won't see in the UK.

[0] https://www.ig.com/en/trading-strategies/what-are-the-averag...
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I always found argparse did argument parsing well enough but it felt clunky when you need something more complicated like lots of subcommands. I find myself using it exclusively when I'm trying to avoid dependencies outside the Python standard library.

My choice of argument parsing in Python is Click. It has next to no rough edges and it's a breath of fresh air compared to argparse. I recently recommended it to a colleague who fell in love with it with minimal persuasion from me. I recommend it highly.

[1] https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/
> Go’s [...] intentionally deviates from the conventions.

Sigh

Of course if does.
Probably another instance of someone making a new shiny to get promoted, after which it will be abondoned.
For now I'm creating it as a tool that I'll use to generate my own CV + website, so even without the whole "compete with the likes of LinkedIn" idea, I'll get value out of the time I invested in it.

The next phase will be to share it with colleagues and friends, to get some early feedback going. Then I'll expand it from a self-hosted website (/ tool to generate your CV from your local machine) to a hosted platform where people can sign up.

Then I'll probably first market it to a business sector (/ Reddit groups e.g.) with a higher-than-usual amount of privacy-concerned people. Then branch out if it's successful.

Note that I'm just brainstorming here, it's not like I've done something like this before myself.

What I'd like even more than trying to turn this into a profit-oriented company is to do something more philosophical/political. Hear me out:

1.
Create the Resumator tool, and turn it into a platform, as described above.

2.
Create a charity organisation that owns the platform, uses the generated income to maintain it, and invests into other like-minded charity organisations.

3.
Get governments to support the platform + foundation. They could even self-host Resumator themselves, and make it mandatory for recruitment to be done through the platform. Right now, if a Dutch organisation needs a Java developer, they can create an "easy apply" LinkedIn vacancy. A (probably also Dutch) Java developer now has to spend spare time (or even time in which they are supposed to be working for their current employer) searching LinkedIn for that vacancy. If they click it, the organisation that posted the vacancy pays Microsoft (/LinkedIn) money. So a Dutch employee was less productive because they had to search for a new job instead of just getting an offer, a Dutch company had to pay money to hire that employee, and now the previous employer will pay LinkedIn (/competitors) money. When will the government realise that this money that is going to $usa_based_company can go to its own tax paying citizens?

0.
And at the very least, create an API standard for CVs. It's strange to me that it's 2020 and we still have to share PDFs to get a job, where each CV has a different layout, and the person reading it has to look for the relevant section again and again. And often after that, we still have to create a Workday/whatever account and put in the same information again.

Edit: Oh and no more of this "talking to independent recruiters" nonsense. Companies can query for profiles themselves, no need to add more middle-men in between that add no value whatsoever.
> my rates would go up because I accelerate quickly and brake hard when conditions allow

All it takes is for you to misjudge the conditions one time (are you claiming to be infallible?), or for another road user to do something you were unable to anticipate, and suddenly this driving habit of yours does contribute to a higher risk of an incident that results in a claim. (Even if the incident still isn't considered to be your fault; your driving style reduces safety margins for everyone.)
no i don’t think that works

i mean the US one would be wholly owned by someone with own dev team servers etc

the non-US one would have to be a separate app with own team too.

it doesn’t seem to work
The general aim is to figure out how much money you need at different points in your life, for example:

- how many years until you plan to retire?

- how much do you need in retirement? How much do you expect to receive from social security/other income sources?

- do you have/are you planning to have kids? Are you going to pay for college? If yes, how much might that cost?

- are you expecting any other big expenses in the future? e.g. wedding, down payment on a house

- are you planning to take a sabbatical at any point? If yes, for how long and how much do you expect to spend?
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> Is it really that surprising that users who went with an open-source operating system find open-source drivers desirable too? When you shop for things, are you looking for certain features in a product? Would you perhaps suggest in a review that you'd be happier if a product had a certain feature or that you'd be more likely to recommend it?

It is to me. When I buy a car, I do not leave a 1 star review stating "This car is not a motorcycle; extremely disappointed.".

That's exactly how these comments being made sound to me. Nvidia is very clear that they only support their proprietary driver, and they deliver on that.

I have many GFX card from all vendors over the years, and I've had to send one back because the vendor wasn't honest about things like that.

Do I wish nvidia had good open source drivers? Sure. Do I blame nvidia for these not existing, not really. That would be like blaming microsoft or apple for not making all their software open source.

I do however blame vendors that do advertise good open source driver support that ends up being crap.

What does any of this have to do with nvidia buying or not buying arm ? Probably nothing.

What nvidia does with their GFX driver can be as different from what ARM does, as what Microsoft does with Windows and Github.
> Yes, and not only that, but the index funds a skewed towards entities with large market caps.

There are index funds of every publicly traded company in the US:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_3000_Index

Vanguard themselves have changed things so that employees no longer have the option of choosing the S&P 500 fund in their own retirement accounts, but rather the Total Market fund:

* https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vanguard-thinks-its-own-em...

* https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bogle-explains-why-vanguar...

> You don't have much of a choice if you're a Boglehead who bought into the S&P 500, you're just in it for the ride.

Anyone investing in equities is just in it for the ride, as it is impossible to predict what will happen:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

An individual's best bet, long term: buy as much of 'The Market' as you can. The greater, the better. The S&P 500 is simply a smaller portion of the market, and while not bad, may not be ideal:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/should-you-invest-in-the-sp-500-i...
Is there any way to know with certainty whether the president has any financial interest in Microsoft? If there is, does he?
You'll need a fund with good dividend payout. SPY is currently at $1.30 and cost $327. If you put $450k into SPY you make $1870 per quarter. So, might need to buy $2MM of SPY.

But there are other good dividend funds and/or individual equities.
What about this ban is Hypocrisy? It seems perfectly in line with the freedoms given to American corporations operating in China (IE None.)

I'm not convinced the free speech concerns even apply when TikTok meticulously grooms the content offered on the platform. Who's speech is being infringed? The Chinese censors?
>Not all of their engineering culture is like this.

Sure. I'll grant you Junio; he seems like a cool guy.

The rest of google though? Google's engineering culture is by and for google. They're not doing the rest of us any favors.

Googlers need to admit that. Not to me, but to themselves.
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Absolutely not. You are entirely wrong on this one to a level of causing dangers to others. An IP address, to a court, to officers, is you. That's not an opinion, that's a fact. Proven by the countless number of times people have doxxed YouTubers by simply calling in fake terrorist threats to their police. ISP's know where that IP is routed to, and they will cooperate with authorities. Police can track even cellphones in real-time 10 years back.

Plenty of civil cases use just IP's to prove copyright infringement. That's how BitTorrent cases catch infringers, regardless of who actually did it.

Watch Leonard french on YouTube, copyright attorney, it doesn't matter to judges in Pennsylvania wether an IP is a person or not. They say it is, and thats good enough.

That's why discord was created. So everything is proxied and safe for streamers and anyone online. Maybe you don't involve yourself so you don't know any better, but I've seen it happen, personally, friends get stalkers from the online world simply because the game they played was P2P, or the server admin for vent/teamspeak was a total creep with their friends.

It's not how it should be, but that's how it is.