skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda, same with college tuition.

If you made university free for everyone the Reserves would take a hit on enlistment, same with active duty but to a lesser extent. I'm a vet and those things were huge in making my choice to join, lots of family and friends, fellow service members have echoed the same.

The military is largely downsizing though in warm body count so it might not matter much anymore.
Is it really that surprising that ingratiating yourself to someone who has power or resources on average makes you better off? Nothing about this has anything to do with police.

You get a "baker's dozen" because the baker likes you.
Well, the Home Secretary would probably be forced to announce an inquiry, which might report over a decade later, long after said Home Secretary's political career was over.

Consider for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Policing_Inquiry

« In 2012 Theresa May had commissioned Mark Ellison QC to review allegations of corruption »
« The Undercover Policing Inquiry or Pitchford Inquiry … is due to report back in 2023 »
ngrok.io and similar reverse tunnels
If you only live to work and take care of things, then sure, having a clone to take on your work would free you up to die and end your otherwise miserable existence, especially if you're suffering.

However, if your life has meaning beyond just work and responsibility, then I don't think it matters if there's a clone, as your experiences would presumably matter to you, and it wouldn't matter if some clone was having them instead.
Honest question, what kind of data type can't be compared to another instance of itself for equality? I have never encountered a situation where I have a value of a type which has some 'aspect' that cannot all be incorporated into the definition of `equals()` for its type. Seems to contravene the very notion of values and types. What am I missing?
>I'm also curious on how you'd send 10TB or more.

For my 12TiB of data I use Syncthing when I need to sync them more often, rsync.

I used rsync several times for billions of smaller files totalling to 300GiB, but really all depending on how I connect nodes. I prefer syncthing, but when only ssh is available, then rsync is good too.

Currently largest synced directory by syncthing (that shares usage stats) is over 61384 GiB :)) https://data.syncthing.net/
> Lending with interest is taking advantage of the needy, it's predatory and immoral, that I think we can all agree on.

Many loans have nothing to do with the needy. If I borrow $1M to buy pile driving equipment to start a pile driving business, and pay the loan back with the proceeds of my business, nothing predatory or immoral has happened.

Similarly, I borrowed money from the bank to buy my current house. I am relatively well-off; the bank did not take advantage of me by offering a loan at market rate, and I wasn't needy.

> If I go to purchase a car from the dealer, given most people would not be able to afford to pay cash outright, he'd be forced to give it out in installments, otherwise he wouldn't sell. The entire system must be set up properly for this to work.

To afford to let you (and everyone else) pay for the car in installments, the dealer is going to need to charge a higher price. The amount you end up paying in total for the car is approximately the same under an installment approach than under a loan-with-interest approach.

> Instead of business loans, the person providing the funds would get a share of the company in return.

This is what most startups do, yes
> ACA is just a super expensive catastrophic insurance plan.

Because healthcare is super expensive.

> The ACA did nothing to fix the cost of medical care.

ACA did not fix the root cause of the high cost of healthcare, which is low supply of healthcare. But insurance companies have been able to slow the rise in healthcare costs:

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...
Thunderbolt being a built-in freebie rather than requiring a fairly large and expensive separate controller means it might start showing up in mid-range PCs rather than being a niche professional/high-end feature, which in turn increases the market size for Thunderbolt peripherals.
> By default, GHC's runtime will repeatedly attempt to collect garbage when an executable like Gitit is idle. This means that gitit will, after the first page request, never use 0% CPU time and sleep, but will use ~1%. This can be bad for battery life, among other things.

Well, that is good to know at least.
So its just about the Indian Gov sending an email to Google and Apple. Didn't know its was this super easy once the country decides regardless of any knowledge about how this is actually done.
I agree, but at the same time the alternative is zero tolerance.

Maybe the big problem is not the discretion, but that it isn't recorded? For example, i think it is complete corruption that LEOs and their families generally get "professional courtesy". I've heard the argument that it is a perk of the job. I disagree, but if you accept that argument, I would say: let the judge and courts handle the forgiveness of the offense and have it recorded in documents. Make it an official procedure and it will not look like corruption.
Selling to the Enterprise: Avoid Saying No
There's only 15-20% IPC increase from Ivy Bridge (which a 2012 Macbook Pro would've used) to Skylake, there's a similar increase once again to Ice Lake but the clock has actually dropped from 2.5 to 2.0 at least on the 13" side (at least that's what everymac tells me). It is only the core count that shows an increase and their use case might not be more than two cores.
Subaru Outback’s
Using GitHub Issues for Comments with Gatsby
I disagree that it is completely useless. You're basically arguing that time is only useful as a relative measure, not an absolute one. While that is true in some sense (the ordering of events and the space between them is what matters), because history is so vast and interconnected and a total ordering is desirable, it just makes more practical sense to learn the absolute date of an event, not just the "relative" date
No, it’s conversion efficiency. One energy form to another.
Yeast (biology in general) require specific temperatures and timings. I doubt you could scale the energy usage up and down like a cloud instance.
This is very true. It probably wouldn't be passed tomorrow if given a chance. However, sentiment on this is swinging very rapidly. It was a fringe idea in 2016, and in 2020 it was a central pillar of many (if not a majority) of the Democratic candidates in 2020. Because people campaigned for it, made the case for it, and built coalitions on their side.

Politics is a marathon not a sprint. It may not happen in 2020, but it's certainly closer to reality than it has ever been.
> Unions don't necessarily exist to protect people. They protect members. Which is an important distinction.

This is a point of contention between unions. Some (especially the traditional trade unions like the one you mention) see themselves as exclusively representing their current members. Others (typically the newer service industry unions like SEIU) see themselves as promoting the interests of a particular category of workers, whether currently members or not.
The theory behind SSM seems well thought out.

And it's fun to extend in the obvious ways. For instance, what if a SSM (an 'essessum', as they are often referred to in the technical literature) is orchestrating a campaign to write comments insinuating astroturfery into HN threads? After all, taken as a group such comments look very much like the kind of commentary a nefarious corporate or state actor might promote, as pointed out by the shillologists themselves! A curious and under-explored connection.
I remember being constantly told by authority figures both individually and in a group setting that we would never be able to handle the Real World.

The scary distant Real World turned out to be much easier to handle than the artificial one behind the walls of the schoolyard.

And to wit, by all objective measures, I ended up "handling" the Real World far better than any of the people who told me I wouldn't.
What no one seems to mention is that Magic Wormhole depends on the maintainer's server to negotiate transmission between clients. I don't like that requirement. Better to GPG encrypt and use bittorrent for a direct transfer. At least then we're using public trackers instead of some private server.
My apologies. I missed it earlier. Here is another article that looks to be in good standing that comes to similar conclusions about ACE-I vs ARBs [2].

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2008975
Guy from Russia here. Not an expert, but I feel the pain when my country looks so negative in the news.

First, I wish Alexey fast recovery.

Second, Alexey wasn't a popular politic figure in past time, I believe that his peak of popularity was in 2013-2015.

Third, I think no one here is actually benefiting from this tragic event... the whole story just seems quite strange. Frankly, there a lot of more simple approaches that can kill a man - no need to use sophisticated things like chemical weapons (which actually doesn't work as intended).

I hope that this story will be more clear pretty soon.
Well, except at the beginning.
Uber steps up lobbying effort in Hong Kong after court deals devastating blow
> California paid for all the hospital bills for childbirth, all the subsequent doctors bills for the kids.

> that wasn't available for everyone, like, you know, citizens

The kids are citizens though...

And as learc pointed out, it's available to anyone below a certain income. In other words, the California taxpayer is subsidizing that sushi restaurant and paid for part of your meal.
This is way overkill for domestic travel.
Github at least displays .org files rendered as they would be in markdown online, so it basically works just like this example from the OP. There are some quirks, but I don't have any specific examples. The basics work just fine.
As a US->UK immigrant, I really appreciate the degree to which free-at-point-of-care encapsulates complexity.

Unencapsulated complexity imposes real stress on:

- Hospital administrators, who then hire more colleagues and pay their salaries[1]

- Government agencies trying to implement a new law...or even determine which agency is responsible for pieces of that law[2]

- Patients trying to access medications[3], who then might go without care or go to the ER.

There is inherent complexity in healthcare because bodies are complex. It is stressful enough dealing with a medical condition itself. Dealing with the incidental complexity of insurance on top of that is... bad.

When there is new attempt to reform US healthcare, can we also get Prof John K. Osterhout in the room where it happens?

[1] https://time.com/5759972/health-care-administrative-costs/

[2] https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/the-failed...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUdadCsuRE
I think the legal theory is that for many minor crimes, the individual officer has personal discretion to decide if they give a fine or just a warning.

You don't want every jaywalker dragged into jail "on principle".

It's probably true in most countries that if the cop likes you, you can get away with much more than if they don't. But this brazen selling of "freebies" does seem uniquely american.
Well I would argue ads are micropayments, roughly an ad view is like $0.001. A model based around few users making macropayments, influencing the content that is produced, doesnt speak for everybody.
> There was reasonable reason to believe Berezovsky was responsible for the Litvinenko poisoning

No there were no reasons to believe Berezovsky poisoned Litvinenko.

Litvinenko was the one who revealed attempt to kill Berezovsky.

Berezovsky and Litvinenko worked together against Putin.

There was no motive for Berezovsky to kill Litvinenko. In addition to that:

Berezovsky was far less powerful when Litvinenko was poisoned. Obtaining polonium was not trivial for Berezovsky.

And finally, UK police found who poisoned Litvinenko, it was Andrei Lugovoi who is currently a member of parliament in Russia. There are no connections between Lugovoi and Berezovski, but obviuosly there are connections between Lugovoi and Russian government. In fact, Lugovoi was given a medal for "serving the fatherland" some time after the poisoning.

No, Berezovsky did not poison Litvinenko, and you are spreading conspiracy theories.
Japanese Grammar in EBNF Notation
It is likely that you can compare the federal government to specific muni/state governments favorably, but against the sum of muni/state governments, it's a wash.
> Over the course of August 2020, more than 300 Microsoft employees shared their salaries, bonuses, and stock awards in a Google spreadsheet to continue their push for fairer compensation.

I find this interesting that they are using Google Sheets instead of Excel.

The one big area where Google Docs is superior to Microsoft, is having a bunch of people be able to edit a single document.
If only it were limited to facts learned from math education. For example, there’s the Jordan curve theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_curve_theorem), which I guess most four-year olds ‘know to be true’ from their experience with coloring books.
I would go further to say that what we have in the US doesn't even meet the minimum definition to be called a market. In addition to what you cited there is also massive regulation which can't be removed due to the nature of medicine, there is massive information asymmetry between patients and everyone else, and, oh yeah, the fact that a sick or injured person can't "shop around". It's insane.

When my wife was in the hospital for days after a C-section, we were entirely at their mercy. They could add anything they wanted to our bill and we had no idea if it was justified or not.

At the base of this pile of bullshit are simple, incontrovertible facts:

Health providers make money when their customers are unwell.

Insurance providers make money when they don't deal with the most vulnerable people.

Employers only care as far as keeping their employees able to return value.
If they rename it XLSM they can embed some neat VBA scripts into it and squeeze out more functionality.

(I'm sorry.)
law enforcement is fundamentally broken in the U.S.
Hospitals are not particularly equivalent to fire departments or the police, since the latter two are paid for by taxes. Some hospitals definitely do get some money from taxes, but as far as I know that isn't the norm.
I'm not very familiar with protobuf, but in searching, repeated field seems to have list- or set-like semantics, so yeah, I'd parse the value into a list or a set and compare it to a list or a set.
As far as I understand, the out of network provider can still come after you for whatever the insurance doesn’t pay them. In the US, you basically provide your healthcare provider with a blank check.
> by saying "safer", without any qualifiers on magnitude, that's making the same mistake.

Uh.. no it's not. SafER is a comparison, you can compare two quantities without specifying their values.

As far as restaurants: indoor dining is the SINGLE largest transmission vector right now. It's a known risk, there are case studies after case study showing single infections propagating across a whole restaurant. Stay OUT of indoor restaurants anywhere that isn't at a stable and low infection rate. Seriously.

Singing? My guess is that quiet singing with masks is safer than restaurants, yeah. I might be wrong, but it's not because of a logic error.
Yes, because lacking a tag isn't a security boundary. The account has permission to launch EC2 instances and knowing that instances need to have tags isn't a password designed to keep malicious actors out, it's a safeguard.
My god, after a decade. Thank you.
magic-wormhole: https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

pipx install magic-wormhole
wormhole send /some/big/stupid/thing.tar.gz
Unfinished graphic novel about a group of scientist leaving Earth. There is an AI who happens to be the narrator.
But a book is not a person. A book does not have experiences. A book does not think or live.

There's a mechanistic, reductionist point of view that runs throughout many of the HN comments here that I find really disturbing.

A lot of people seem to think that we are just machines. If we are, then sure, replacing one machine with another that works the same and has the same "data" might be unproblematic, but I don't share such a bleak and narrow view of humanity. To think and feel is not just to run a program on a computer.
Show HN: Data Visualization Support for iHook
Well, Tulsa may not have invaded foreign lands, or killed hundreds of thousands of people, but scaled to the size of the locale...
Very much so, it reminded me of when you see some 'clever' code working around some legacy APIs.
the genesis of cfs_quota and cpu throttling in general has to do with modulating power consumption of a chip, iirc. It's truly a fallacy that limits are needed to prevent noisy neighbor type stuff.
Are names a good identifier to key on for those purposes?
Robinhood Faces SEC Probe Related to Deals with High-Speed Traders
It persists what you typed and clicked Save.
If you clear everything & click Save again, it will persist empty content (same as deleting that note).
When you have something that's ready for anybody to try out, feel free to get in touch and we can help you edit a Show HN, similar to the process we do for the YC launches at https://news.ycombinator.com/launches. Same offer goes for anybody - just understand that it may take a long time to get back to you.
You're completely ignoring the other valuable aspects of being in a cloud: you're close to huge amounts of high throughput storage (blob and DB), and can increase/decrease the size of your fleet trivially. These are critical to nearly all modern scientific workflows (moreso than the raw compute, IMHO).

As for the cost structure for research computing, the argument that the costs are externalized isn't a good one- that overhead that pays for the facility, and the networking, comes out of your grant money, and using grad student time to admin your cluster often just causes your grad students to leave for FAAMG.
Design Tools for Non-Designers
hmm, when I hear "Eastern Europe", I don't think "ethnically homogeneous", I think "substantial Roma minority".

I'm quite confident the police don't treat them particularly well, either.
I think of Montessori as a smart middle ground between under-structured "child-centered" and over-structured traditional education. I've seen it explained as a triangle of child, teacher, environment, where the teacher spends some time preparing the environment, some time instructing the child how to interact with the environment, and some time making adjustments to the environment.
Now, when can we begin prosecuting the instigators? Presumably, after we have prosecuted those who ordered and participated in torture. (There is no statute of limitations on torture, is there?)
One problem is the updates in toolchains that come up with new warnings, a lot of which are nuisances. Developers get tired of the make-work which that generates, either to fix the warnings or else identify where they are coming from and put in options to stop them.

The real problem are warnings that are super-useful (find a bug) about one out of twenty times (or less). The other nineteen times, they are false positives, such that refactoring the program to eliminate them is a fool's errand.

You don't want to turn off these warnings, and you don't want to fix all instances. So then you need per-file warning disabling, or start using compiler-specific #pragma-s:

#pragma GCC diagnostic warning "-Wno-whatever"
> It's by no means perfect but, yeah, for the most part it works pretty well and relatively honestly.

Its current primary function appears to be taking in tax dollars from regular middle class people and transferring them to corporate campaign donors and special interest groups, or whatever the people in swing districts want to the detriment of everybody else. That this may not legally be corruption doesn't mean that it's doing something good or that we wouldn't be better off on net if it would simply stop doing that.

> Always room for improvement--but the critical difference is that, when it is not, there...

...is nowhere to hide because whatever harm or corruption is implemented at the national level can't be avoided by moving to another neighborhood or another city.

> And even were it not: the unquestioned (and, tbh, often profoundly racist when not merely corrupt) localized governmental structures in question are still wrong, so attempting to sandbag criticism of them by pointing at the federal government, regardless of its status, smells a mite bit fishy.

When something is wrong and someone proposes as a solution something that not only doesn't remove the problem but actually makes it worse, they're not saying that the problem isn't a problem, they're saying that the "solution" isn't a solution.
This isn't true. I couldn't fly back to the US from Dominican without ID. I had to go to consulate.
It actually looks really cool in my opinion. Hey, at least some exciting novelty from Intels side :)
I don't find it interesting at all. It just means they're smarter than the Google employees who tried to organize themselves using Google docs.

If you want to organize around a project your employer wouldn't like, use tools your employer doesn't provide.
In other news, parents stress goes up dramatically and teacher stress rises.

Thus it is proven that:

1. The total sum of stress is an invariant

2. teachers are a parental stress sink
I think he means something like Java.
Just 27% of K-12 educators are using antivirus software
Everything I said happened under the ACA. It was "only" $10K because of the ACA's out-of-pocket maximums.

A quick google suggests this is common:

> It's important to understand, however, that the out-of-network emergency room does not have a contract with your insurer, and is not obligated to accept their payment as payment in full. If the insurer pays less than the out-of-network emergency room bills, the emergency room can send you a balance bill for the difference, over and above the deductible and coinsurance amounts you pay.
>The US government says that private insurers deny 20% of claims.

20% are denied at least once, not 20% are never paid. There's a lot of gray area in what is medically necessary, and there's a lot of outright fraud. Plus many claims are denied because someone didn't fill them out correctly, deductibles weren't met, premiums weren't paid etc... The back and forth is part of the process. It's not great but...

> more-or-less but effectively will not cover unexpected large expenses

This is completely unwarranted.

>Your chances that an American health insurance firm will deny your claim, or at least attempt to, are very high. Virtually all of the staff at these firms are dedicated to not paying claims.

Some amount of the 20% denied first time are fraudulent, so assuming you have a legitimate claim, you have a less than 20% of them denying something the first time it's submitted, and a much smaller chance of them refusing to pay eventually.

>Last year my insurer tried to say that it was medically unnecessary to get an MRI after I'd had a tumor removed from my brain. You see, I'd also had an MRI before the surgery and according to the quack on the insurance company payroll who "reviewed my case" more than 1 MRI in a year just can't be justified.

Did they eventually pay? Did your doctor think it was medically necessary, and did you refile?
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