skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COBRA means employees paying the employer premium, by guaranteeing COBRA, an employer is saying "We won't stop paying the health insurance company for _everybody else's insurance_, so you'll still have someone to pay" - it's a great PR jiu jitsu move, I didn't realize until this thread how confusing it is - I'm only familiar with it because sadly I had to sunset a company in California.
Is this something where there needs to be a bright-line rule? It feels like having a rigorous formal definition for "be nice to your coworkers" - a healthy company can resolve these kinds of disputes informally, and an unhealthy company will struggle no matter how clear the rules are.
Ask HN: How would you build a tech community in your city?
If there is no active community of developers in your city and you were to build and nurture a community, what would be your action plan, how would you proceed?
What's CHF? I found a CHF pan company but I only saw cast iron.
Well, not everyone is like Google, ready to stop doing something just because it has been around for long enough. :)

Serious now, no, Google does not get a break because they wish so. They have the right to shutter products and we have the right to bitch. Freedom at its best.
IEML encodes a flexible and upgradeable semantic schema in a git repo where anyone can pull request!

https://pierrelevyblog.com/my-research-in-a-nutshell/

https://github.com/IEMLdev/ieml
I had never heard of this acronym. If you post on a forum about SDR’s, I guess it’s fine to not explain it, but it’s a public blog post shared to ‘Show HN’ so it makes a lot of sense to add two our three phrases that shortly explain the term after introducing it.
I really dislike this argument.

Anyone using it is just saying “If you are not with us, your against us”.

It’s simply a way to force a divide of the world into black and white and that sucks.
SpaceCraft: Open-source, real-time, collaborative REPL that runs in the browser
As someone else pointed out, they seem to have no problem in donating to political candidates as a corporation so this is the height of hypocrisy. Individual employees don't get to have a say in the direction of the company's politics.
Can I keep my lazy prejudices about problems with Catholic school after having attended several, and then seeing a variety of non-parochial schools first hand (through my work in schools) and second hand through my spouse (who is an educator) and my kids?

Also, parent comment said "strict", you said "gentle, loving and supportive". It's possible to be both. Maybe you need to look at your own lazy prejudices.
You didn't technically express an opinion on Brexit itself, but you said:

"Cadwalladr is a total charlatan and low effort polticially motivated troll seeking to undermime democratic proces"

If you think that a British journalist reporting on law-breaking in a British referendum is undermining the democratic process more than the law-breaking itself does, then I think that says a lot about your opinion on Brexit.

Nevertheless, as you say, that opinion isn't relevant here, and I'm not the one doubting how you voted.
Splice: A DSL for software-defined satellite applications [pdf]
It looks like this https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/integrations/vault-integrat...

It's incredibly simple, and a breeze to use.

```
job "vault" {
group "demo" {
task "task" {
vault {
policies = ["database"]
}
template {
env = true
data = <<EOF
{{ with secret "database/creds/production" }}
DB_USERNAME={{.Data.username}}
DB_PASSWORD={{.Data.password}}
{{ end }}
EOF
}
}
}
}
```

edit: thanks HN formatting
Cloudflare recently announced that they would be building out some data centers with EPYC CPUs. Do you believe that the situation has changed since February? They did a pretty exhaustive analysis [0] of price, performance, and power where they saw an advantage in switching away from Intel for that generation at least.

If the existing server hardware is already in a decent spot, then maybe they need to spend more resources on sales rather than making changes to keep it cutting edge.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-epyc-trip-to-rome-amd-is-clou...
If you loosen your sense of "MBA"...

- Rometty (Chair): Technical degrees, held technical positions for first 10yrs at IBM, then in sales for the 90s, two decades working primarily with finance customers and she worked the PWC acquisition.

- Krishna (CEO): EE, Idea guy.

- Whitehurst (Pres): MBA

- Boville (SVP Cloud): Business degrees (UK)

- Browdy (SVP Legal): IP attorney

- Foster (SVP Services): Art degree, Accenture guy

- Gherson (SVP): Management degrees

- Gil (Dir IBM Research): EE/CS

- Kavanaugh (CFO): MBA

- Got bored

One trait is pretty dominant: decades at IBM
My first ever blog post: Introduction to CRIU and Live Migration
I'm aware haha. Yeah textboxes are hard.
On-demand disposable web pages described by base64 URLs
EMACS used to have a printing terminal mode -- which shouldn't be surprising when you consider that it was written in TECO, an editor for printing terminals. In fact EMACS evolved because a display mode (^R mode) had been added to TECO, which opened up new possibilities.

Even after display terminals became more commonplace in the late 70s, the connections were not always particularly fast (110 baud was still fairly common though 300 baud was most prevalent by then. Some people had lightning-fast 1200 or even 2400baud terminals, though in some cases, like at Stanford, still slow upload, like asymmetric home connections today. So EMACS had some support for "slow terminal" mode in which display updating was intermittent rather than every time you typed a character.

These modes worked if you knew what was already in your buffer and were used to typing without looking at the keyboard and screen all the time.

The arpanet was also pretty slow by current standards so there was a remote login protocol called SUPDUP (as in the Super Duper display protocol) that (to simplify massively) did display updating locally, sort of like a networked channel controller on steroids.

None of this survived into GNU emacs as by then the networks, at least the local networks, were better.
Then the blueprint is the contents of the communication, not the method of communication itself.

The blueprint would be communicated by mail or sneakernet.

You can copyright the contents of an email (indeed, I think they have an implicit copyright, don't they?), but you can't copyright the way in which emails in general are transmitted and exchange. (That would probably be a matter for patent.)
"you must become a member of the Party" is a horrible situation for any country to be in. Full stop. There are too many examples in history of where that leads to claim naiveté or propose that their consistent outcomes won't apply here.
At 45 I guess they were expanding into Europe.
I ran one of those until a couple years ago when I got the 2400G APU. What a nice upgrade. Even better parts available now.
Mac these days is a fashion statement rather than a serious tool, plus company shady practices e.g. making devices difficult to repair, questionable design decisions e.g. running high voltage rails right next to low voltage signals to increase the likelihood of failure and then making it difficult to recover data and forcing you to use their cloud so they can analyse your data. No thanks.
> that's going to be less than 1ms of delay

That doesn't jive with my experience. If you are using something like React to do client-only rendering, you're gonna be waiting a lot for blocking critical path JS to run, as well as the actual paint time (which alone can easily be in the hundreds of milliseconds).

> Ship your users an app including a copy of the data ahead of time

That's not really feasible though, is it? Most SPAs in the wild fetch data on demand, so you still get the network latency no matter what (on top of the delay due to no streaming each time). This is why you get those skeleton placeholders on sites like Facebook.
Also, if the mentioned "key" used on each end is well-known or the xor approach is not cyptographic in quality, then anyone could listen to this EM output and compromise your "hard wired" data which you'd (forgivably) expect to be secure, a la TEMPEST. Depending on the strength of the signal, could be a serious problem.
Of course, "if it compiles it works" depends on you designing good types.

Haskell will never stop you from representing every value as String, and just throwing exceptions if the strings do not convert back, for example.
I hope they get a lawsuit over this if they continue giving to candidates.
Pitty it hasn't got webcam and pgup/pgdown/home/end keys! It completely disqualifies it for business/programming/wfh work.
I just built this for fun, based on an idea I had.
Or they're just bribing, er lobbying, politicians to achieve the company's goals, regardless of the affiliation of said politicians.
Drop me an email if you'd like to know more about Stripe @ LATAM! jlh at stripe dot com . Spanish / Portuguese friendly, too.
Cryptocurrency is an explicitly political cause.
Console hackers are shocked after DOJ arrests prominent mod-chip makers
That's what I did last year, with a 3200G. It's a functional placeholder for now, still a significant bump over what it replaced, but only temporary.

My plan is to wait for Socket AM5 to come out, and get the last-best AM4 offering to stuff into my existing motherboard. That may be complicated by BIOS and chipset support (which effectively means a socket-generation-increment even if the physical connector is the same), but we'll see how far my B450 can take me. And at the time, I'll be adding a discrete GPU, since I'll surely be going to a non-APU chip.
Investigating Saliency Based Image Cropping (The Twitter Auto-Cropping Fiasco)
Just to add on: the wavy hamon pattern is created by applying clay to the steel. When the blade is then quenched the clay slows the temperature change beneath it keeping that part of steel blade softer then the rapidly quenched cutting edge. The advantage of this was the soft spine would be tougher (less brittle) while the harder edge could be made sharper.
Well, feel free to provide the data, you’ve failed to so far.

Almost all H1B are working in IT/CS and not publishing, 95%+ of the stats I posted would not be H1B, maybe even more. Only a tiny fraction go into other sciences and even less of those publish.

This is well established, the vast majority of H1B are not doing research at all but working at big tech companies and IT mills. Your points don’t stand, not even close.
Just playing the bongos is political because it means the environment has been configured in such a way that you can do so. If you play the bongos in the position of a manager or boss, it is even more strongly political as you are using the configuration of the political system to direct societal resources at your whim to play the bongos.

You might be proving too much here.
Further to your point, deflation means you drop your prices separate to what your customers "want." Rather, customers are willing to pay less day over day as they require an incentive to spend their money over its risk-free return under their mattresses.
Aren't flu shots usually free? The last few I've gotten were.
Thanks for the notice! We have make some reworks on this one :)
I think in prior times when we didn't have all the information we have available at hand: sure that's fine.

But what if your orange juice brand of choice was actively contributing to the destruction of the environment, lobbying politicians to make them exempt from environmental regulations, and destroying competition in nefarious ways?

That's an extreme but if that's information you have and you still support that orange juice brand then you are supporting everything that is public knowledge about that brand.
regulation (in the UK at least) means that in many cases, if someone steals money from my bank account, I get it back. Compare that with what's happened to many cryptocurrency exchanges where they have losses (e.g. quadriga) and the consumers who used them are largely out of the money.

If the bank overcharges me, I have some form of redress (e.g. the PPI scandal).

It's not perfect by any means, but for many consumers it's likely better than a world where, once the money's gone, it's gone.
In the slides it was still marked as 7nm without the +.
Because in addition to theoretical capacities I also care about my power bill and how comfortably cool the room my transcoding machine is in stays.
I mean, that's not great, but I would take that over my SuperShuttle experience. At least your driver wasn't falling asleep repeatedly, despite apparently regularly spaced prompts from the company app to confirm he was awake.
Would you be interested in expanding this to other candidates (like those in other races, running for Vice President, or nominated by other parties)? Would it add significantly more work?
Great! Because it's totally non-political to influence international trade policy to give yourself an advantage in buying your oranges and labor in waaaaaait it totally is.

IMO Coinbase is "doing it pretty well", not by saying "we'll be apolitical", but by saying, "we're going to be political ONLY about X & Y".

My read is that they're not discouraging their employees from being political (unclear to me ATM if they're still doing donation matching regardless), and they're not stopping work-place diversity programs... they're just limiting their lobbying to, you know, their own issues.
I was thinking of one of those, it's a shame they apparently did not say it. However, I recently learned that the Torah apparently also claims that each generation is more degenerate than the last so perhaps I can fall back onto that :)
For folks looking for alternatives, there is also confighub:

https://www.confighub.com/
> Interoperability is fair use.

What about improving the API? E.g. some languages may be mostly but not 100% compatible with existing languages and provide more or less the same API but not be 100% the same - both the in the runtime library (API) and the language itself.

For example Free Pascal is mostly compatible with Delphi but not the same and its runtime library is mostly the same as Delphi but also not the same.
True, plus "opsec life sucks" so most of us don't do it.
Retractions and corrections are usually buried deeper than the original erroneous statement.
IMO that's due more to first-past-the-post voting.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721501
Apple has a trillion because they found a way to exploit the gullible and greed. I am surprised they paid at all.
The rules aren't as strict as you're thinking. As the article describes, Armstrong's made it clear that there's no rule requiring employees to just pretend politics don't exist, and employees are still free to discuss politics with each other or create political discussion Slack channels.
It's a good question.

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det... shows Uber generated $65B gross booking in 2019, and we know substantial fraction of that goes to the driver.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/For-a-... says driver takes about ~60% of the booking.

So this is a question of whether the capital cost / the engineering cost / operating cost for autonomous vehicle is higher than $65B * 0.6 = $39B per year for the same number of rides.

The engineering cost will be amortized over long enough time that it's likely not a significant factor in the long run. So, the limiting factor will be the capital cost (for vehicles and its support infra) and the operating cost. As you say, at this point we don't know for sure - one thing we know is that the capital cost and the operating cost likely will see significant reduction thanks to the economy of scale.
Copyright law already allows you to copyright specific combinations of unprotectable elements. It's called thin copyright, it's why Katy Parry got sued and lost, and it's software application is called Structure, Sequence, and Organization (SSO). You can in fact claim copyright on all characters that look like Harry Potter, because the standard for copyright infringement is "access and substantial similarity". This is because if your copyright doesn't extend to someone blatantly tracing over your work, then it's not a copyright.

You specifically need to argue that the API itself - the specific combination of types in a specific order, with a given set of Unicode or ASCII characters to identify it - is not copyrightable, not just that it's made up of uncopyrightable things. This is harder, because this same practice in other contexts (e.g. music, literature, and so on) is very much protectable. You need to argue that software is different.
This has been brought up many times in many of the cases. IIRC, it has repeatedly been ignored as not an official statement (same w/ his past blog posts) and that the original intent is unrelated to whether they are protectable.
While it is wonderful they are getting closer to solving it, if your problem is a simple and practical you can try some alternative algorithms. For fun, I used pytspsa [0] which uses the simulated annealing method to solve the TSP and applied it to BOTW.

Simulated annealing was inspired by thermodynamic free energy involved in crystal formation from annealing metal. [1]

I combined it with a Breath of the Wild waypoint generator [2] to make my way around the map [3] in a mostly optimal fashion for my trip about Hyrule.

If you ever have a toy problem or even a real one, I suggest experimenting with pytspsa to see and understand in a concrete way the problem is solved.

[0] https://github.com/ildoonet/simulated-annealing-for-tsp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

[2] https://github.com/MrCheeze/botw-waypoint-map

[3] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2829875/28661246-0...
I dont care about the cost or any of the pysops from you google and apple employees. I want to see and support more free software mobile operating systems period.
I run DoH on a raspberry Pi with piHole. And then DoH from it to Quad9's servers. DNS blocking, with DoH.
> will autonomous vehicles ever get to point where there is even close to less than one engineer for each vehicle?

if FSD actually ends up working on most roads, I don't see why not. there's no inherent reason why engineer headcount would scale linearly with the number of cars.

as for the cost savings, they don't necessarily have to beat uber's pricing today. they could alternatively try to drive uber's costs up by lobbying hard to get drivers classified as employees and catch some PR points at the same time.
Oh yes. After you read the reports it's clear. Chinese are funding and guiding Serbian government by hand.
> Their argument relies on the idea that it can be a net negative but provides little evidence that it is a net negative.

That's the problem with the majority of these cases, they involve testing the limits of what the government is allowed to do by defending the rights of really bad people whom most people have zero sympathy for.

I don't really expect the DEA to serve a no-knock warrant on my residence because Amazon currently thinks I'm a pot grower (due to buying a bluetooth thermometer which is apparently popular with actual pot growers) but if the government had All The Data I'm actually a pretty low risk for a bad bust once you input it all into the PreCrime2000™ algorithm.

I personally feel its the responsibility of the people who wish to erode our civil rights to prove the net benefit far outweighs the protections currently we enjoy as a direct result of British colonial abuses -- which, IMHO, is all the argument you need since the Bill of Rights wasn't created out of thin air for some idealized perfect society to strive for.
The semantic web can only work via automation -- pretty much complete automation. Semantic information depends on a "stance" (those humanities classes do pay off) since the same information can mean different things depending on context and perspective.

In addition spam will continue to be a significant problem.
Network performance may be important but the reality is that for the most part those things which influence network performance are out of the hands of gamers. There is "gaming" network hardware out there but for the most part I would categorize it with the $500 coax cables sold to audiophiles.
What really sucks is this was a perfect time for a lawyer to use Justice Thomas' analogy to better explain the difference. I would have tried something like:

"Close your honor, but let me expand on this further. Imagine instead that your opponent publishes their calls and they are regularly available to all individuals of the general public. However, while they may describe a call for going long, they do not give any specifics if the receiver starts from the left, center, right side of the field, how fast he should go, who should block for him, etc. They essentially are just assigning a call to a general concept of 'go long'.
Now as a competitor team, I look through their publicly available calls and say "Hey, thats a good idea, we should have a call for 'go long' as well". However, in practice my team does start from the left, and then cut in the center of the field to receive the ball. This may, or may not be totally different then what my opponents choose to do when they call "go long"
The additional benefit is if I transfer a new coach onto my team, he can use the call "go long" and even though the team accomplishes the goal, possibly by a different route, he can make the call to accomplish essentially the same thing."

Note: Not a huge sports guys, so perhaps my football analogy broke down a bit there, but hopefully you get the idea.
> How many functions have you seen, in Haskell, that take Nonempty a versus taking [a]?

Most take Foldable or Traversable.

When it's relevant your functions can be specialized into Nonempty.
I think it's the kind of mix of inside-baseball and jargon that makes it pretty much impossible to decode for those not involved in creating annual reports and executive summaries.
It's no so strange. A lot of people are perfectly happy with the status quo, while recognizing that there's always room for improvement.
Counter-proposal. Each country or trading bloc issues its own currency. Then, they use it internally, for domestic transactions. If they want to trade externally with other countries, they use a ledger system to record debts payable to each other domestically at an exchange rate determined by a multi-trillion dollar global exchange system, of supply and demand, based on how far 1 unit of currency will get you in one country vs another.

We can call it: "exactly what we do right now"

The only reason the US is able to sanction other countries is the scale of their economy. They influenced Europe to cut trading relationships with Iran, not through the US dollar, but through exerting political influence. The Europeans would rather trade with America than Iran, and America said they got to pick only one, so they complied.

None of that changes under Bitcoin or any other currency, crypto or otherwise, in no small part because reporting requirements don't go away. Laws don't go away. Political influence doesn't go away. International relations don't go away.

Do you really think that with cryptocurrency America would be unable to materially sanction Iran? Are you sure? The US Army is a pretty good army.
A small step for person, a giant leap for personkind!
Oracle will no longer be able to use an SQL based language as IBM will have ownership of the API.
You should've put more in. 500 is nothing
why? typically RSUs/signing bonus vest over 4 years period
That smacks of pedantry. Sure, its correct, but says nothing about the issue of women buying property, and how they actually couldn't until the '70s. How is it informing this discussion, exactly? Other than earning imaginary internet points?
In a better world it would. Currently it the head of an empty list crashes the program. Many people in the Haskell world are really salty about this but they don't want to break the API for it.