skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you need _even more_ motivation after reading the above:

> Insurers were offering a product that paid you, when you died, the greater of (1) the amount you put in and (2) the return on some risky investment. So he'd buy two of those -- one long the risky investment, one short the risky investment -- and be guaranteed a big profit. The catch is you have to die, but he solved this by enlisting dying patients in AIDS hospices to put their names on the contracts.

This column truly is a classic.
I have to disagree you there. I owned a satellite uplink/downlink in Afghanistan and it wasn’t cheap per megabit (supply/demand issues) and I highly doubt you’d be able to get a gigabit connection to Mars, especially when it’s on the other side of the sun. Also, the earth is rather noisy, so it may be easier to get a fast connection from Mars, the SNR from earth will be much lower.
I suspect many people conflate scholarship with clergy because that was the way things worked in the middle ages in Europe: if you wanted to have enough time for scholarly pursuits the clergy was probably the best place to be. Once it became possible to make a career as a scientist this practice changed but the association between clergy and scholarship still lives in the public perception.
I agree, but it is telling that some in Silicon Valley are quite literally seeking immortality.
Depends on the state, but seems like if you're single, the individual plans in most states are around $3-500 per month with a ~$6k out of pocket max. This means annually:

-$4,800 in premiums
-$11k maximum health costs
What is your take home pay as a software dev after insurance, vs the US? My math says the US still wins big for the top half of society (and loses for the bottom)
How often have libcurl HTTP or TLS backend bugs resulted in exploited vulnerabilities in the past?
What the article seems to notice is that some parts of a civilization succeed to institutionalize themselves (and gain momentum over others thanks to it) and some don't.

In a very sketchy way:

- you may have excellent scientists and prestige for science, but no institutional structure/ecosystem to support, promote and benefit from it;

- you may have lousy clergy but a well-working institution/structure of religion that helps with its prominence over society.

(and the other way around, and mid-ways as well)
Don’t be daft. You weren’t peeking in his window or at his back door, and you didn’t do that to a thousand houses. If you think this is acceptable, I dare you to go around the nearest city to you and start checking all the windows and doors on every house you can for a day.
No such thing as pay out.
The quality of management will be the same regardless of if the employee is working from the office or at home. The person who was allowed to "milk the system" in the office, surely, will be allowed to do the same when they are working from home. It seems unreasonable to me an employee's manager would change their behavior based on where the employee happened to be working.

I don't believe Marissa Meier demonstrated that managers significantly improved when their employees were required to work full time in the office. I think that would be the interesting measure here: do managers really perform better when their direct reports are in the office?
So it’s a deep fake, not video. These headlines man.
It used to have slower dicts and string handling like around version 0.5.

It's come a very very long way since then. Now at 1.5.

It's much faster for arbitrary code
> Is it valid to research untreated syphilis in black men without their permission and informed consent? No.

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was inappropriate because they purposely withheld information about the diagnosis and lied about the efficacy of the treatments they were giving.

The problem wasn't that they conducted the research without telling the patients. Obviously the patients were aware that they were part of a research effort, since they directly interacted with the clinicians conducting it.
Facebook Takes Down Network Tied to Conservative Group, Citing Fake Accounts
Ha ha - primitive Islamic religionists!! Only we are exactly the same, but are blind to our failings. This narrative plays on our conceited, flabby, unreasoned thinking. But its nice to laugh to others, eh?

Science to me, is the application of the scientific method. This is to say that whatever is being looked at should be repeatable, and consistently provide the same results. Strictly speaking, when we say we know, we should be saying that because we have applied the scientific method personally.

The reality is that science in 'the West' does not provide us the knowledge we think it does. The use of the pronoun 'we' cuts to the chase of the problem - WE assume that our scientists have this. But step back and think about what it is to know - it can't be a case of trusting scientists. I should be able to take whatever is being proposed or claimed and verify it personally.

But no one - NO ONE - is verifying anything personally. No one is testing the claims. We all live in our silos, trusting that others are working in good faith. Trusting that the stories we are told are not just hearsay. We trust the results we are provided, without any verification. We trust that what we are provided are not stories, but are actual verifiable science.

My point is that no one is personally verifying science. On an individual level we cannot be sure that these are not stories and hearsay.

With the virus, has anyone here ever used an electron microscope? Did you see a virus with it? Why do you think it is a virus? Etc etc. The truth is our reason is actually faith too!

Science, as we do it, ie based on trust and without personal verification, is absolutely equivalent to religion. A comforting, explanatory story is provided and we believe we 'know' what is happening. Scientists are our priests and we take their pronouncements as gospel, without questioning them.
a) Costs/prices in the US are inflated in the entire industry for a bunch of reasons that basically boil down to half a century of lack of incentive to control costs

b) Your cost isn't actually $100. Your cost at the point of service is $100 but you're paying more taxes which subsidize your healthcare (among other things).

edit: And before some snarky jerk tries to score some cheap virtue points by saying something to the tune of "well I am perfectly ok paying more taxes for healthcare". I was deliberately avoiding making a value judgement one way of the other and simply explaining why his bill at the point of service is lower.
Gounded language learning in the game Settlers of Catan
https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/os.h#L52
The good thing with theorizing with it are the conversations that this triggers. :)
tl;dr: Muslim religious leaders realized that if they keep their followers dumb, they're easier to manipulate.
I don't get it. Why not use actual font with actual glyphs as last resort font? Wouldn't it be better to be able to render something readable rather than placeholders, as last resort?
That is exactly the kind of thing one of those crusty, barrel-dwelling ancients would have said!
My guess is that he refers to the pricing/app store policies, and to the decreasing product quality.
>>- Professional looking suit wearing presentation when you're nude/hungover/unshaven. Hell, why even stop at using your real gender or visage? Imagine a job interview where every candidate, by definition, visually looked the same :)<<

This would be interesting as an upgrade to the “name on resume” test.

Could also see a future company policy that runs peoples data through a “sameness” filter before letting them into the company to scrub bias.
I don't have any data on exploitability, but 19 of the last 22 vulnerabilities (since 2018) have C-induced memory unsafety as a cause: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html
You’re describing my situation. I have no dedicated room for my home office, just table with my own decent monitor and company’s decent workstation plus some hardware from the office. My place looks ugly with all that equipment, but it’s still better than punching a card daily in the office. Moving to a cheaper area is too good to be true.
I have a feeling a lot of people come at this from the perspective of small companies. In the case of large/global businesses, you may have teams that are largely co-located but you're probably on calls in the course of a given day with people on different continents. One of the main teams I work with, even if everyone were in the offices where they are technically located (or were) that would be two different although relatively nearby offices and another 6 time zones away.
I'm on the other side of this. Do a Google search before naming your thing!

Make it as silly and unique as possible, I'll be able to search for solutions later
You can't get memory safety by picking a language with `unsafe` blocks. I appreciate the sentiment but the implementation details are important here; I'd take this more seriously if they picked something like OCaml instead of Rust.
Check out college/grad school. You can do a couple classes and get excellent coverage for cheap.

When I did it it worked out to paying $3k for an MS, but I bet you could look harder and get the degree and a discount over just buying a high quality plan.
After going back and forth on a chair replacement, wanting a Herman Miller like I had at the office, but not wanting to actually pay for a Herman Miller, I ended up picking up an "AKRacing" model on mass drop after watching a ton of reviews.

Coming from a automotive background, here's the thing no one seems to point out about these racing "inspired" gaming chairs (presumably because the people reviewing them have never been in a proper racing seat); the chairs have a similar silhouette to racing seats, complete with the totally unnecessary channels for a chassis mounted five point harness, but they have literally none of the actual supports of a racing seat.

I bought this expecting a pretty aggressive built-in lumbar support, along with tight lateral support berms on seat sides. Instead, they try to makeup for the lack of actual lumbar support with a crappy pillow attachment, and despite being 6ft and ~200lbs at the time of purchase, the seat wouldn't be snug for a person 50lbs heavier than me.

A proper racing seat is meant to keep you in place, and while you obviously don't need to overcome the same forces at your computer that you do while racing around a track, I've got lingering back issues from a lifting injury and spend a ton of time in front of screens; I was expecting something that would keep me snug and in place, and this thing is not it.

These days I'm on the prowl for a cheap Aeron, because now being stuck at home without my office adjustable standing desk, the gaming chair's deficiencies are becoming glaring.
it wasn’t cheap per megabit

I made no claims about the cost. :)

I guess I'm also talking about the theoretical maximums in ideal conditions as well, which is sort of cheating on my part. There would be times when you can't get the optimal speed if, like you say, the sun is the way.
For a more technical description, I don't think there's a better source than Stefan Karpinski's 2019 JuliaCon talk "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
Well for many reasons (good and bad) healthcare is more expensive in the US than any other country.

But why is healthcare bought individually more expensive than healthcare an employer buys for all their employees?

One is real and one is hidden.

The hidden price difference is that most employees think they pay $200 per month in health insurance, but actually their employer is paying $600 and chips in $400 so the employee only pays $200. And of course, $200 taken out of a paycheck before you receive it doesn't feel as bad as a monthly $200 charge to your credit card.

The other reason is adverse selection: When an entire employee base gets health insurance together, the people needing expensive care and the people not needing any care all average out together.

But in the individual market, less healthy people are insured but more sick people are. Healthy people forgo health insurance, so the average cost per person rises.
Industry has known for decades that most plastic can't be recycled
He's responding to a comment, which is about the situation now.
The West German Wirtschaftswunder? The rise of South Korea? Finland? None needed war or imperialism, actually it was the opposite - peace and stability. There were these nations and people - and once the barriers like external or internal suppression or conflict were removed, they could make large strides.
I'm inclined to agree it's not limited to government, but what's incredible about fringe theories is that the very same people who espouse "trust no-one" also lend enormous amounts of credibility to terrible sources.

Disclaimer: I think hacker communities have some soul-searching to do here: "trust no one" and "gubbermint bad" enjoy far too cosy an acceptance, in vast disproportion to the reasoning or evidence behind them. Trusting no one isn't feasible, so all we're doing is transferring trust, on the basis on anecdote at best and usually just memes, from organisations with flawed but improvable accountability to organisations with none whatsoever.
For some value of 'permanently'?

They made this change in policy; they can make others, later. So who knows.
If you figured out step 3 and still think that a more swift party could have rendered you susceptible to the threat described, it is highly likely step 3 in fact was not really figured out while probably failing to incorporate step one while being at it.
Although this has been written somewhat frivolously I did not make a joke when trying to convey the importance of Not repeating the cycle. But if some choose to not heed this warning, please let them setup a political party diametrically opposing what they desire only to sabotage the very same party covertly. Or as Lenin once said, the best way to deal with opposition is to lead it. This way at least some of your energy will lead to results.
because medicine and hospital are big business here and an 2 hour emergency visit costs 3-5k+, overnight 10k+
I see, thank for having given your observation on the topic as an insider. I stand corrected.
Probably because it is mostly compared to Python - which is arguably a low bar to beat.
Simply put. Some people need “structure” (that can be in the form of peer pressure, accountability, visibility, etc). Without it they flounder. At work if someone is not mainly on their job, people will eventually come to know them as slackers. Working from home allows quite a few slackers to fly under the radar.

It has parallels in learning. Some people are self paced self learners and can learn remotely. Some need the pace and management by going to a physical classroom with an instructor.
I just wish Stripe was available in my small country as a small indie developer who can't spend mountains of cash on Atlas.
Agreed, I worked on a small company where we offered the choice to work from home or come in. Half the company hated coming in and half hated working from home. The end result was low energy in the office and poor bonding across the team. I personally prefer working from home, but I don't think anyone has figured out how to do the remote thing without alienating a portion of the workforce, which is why many companies are hanging on to in-office policies (e.g. Netflix).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927197

> Also forfeiture doesn't account for the fact that you may have paid capital gains tax. I feel like they really shafted me on that one.

As someone also charged but not convicted, I learned hypothetically you also don't get to account for expenses if you lose. Meaning you could run a $10 billion gross revenue drug empire, it costs $9.9 billion to run so you walk away with $100m and you still have to pay $10 billion in forfeiture.
The war in Afghanistan[1] was on the spending side, on the income side was the double whammy of oil price and (because oil is denominated in it) dollar decline. I think Fahd probably deserves a bit more credit for kneecapping the USSR than he commonly gets.

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttzAsH1yM6E&t=60
(along the lines of: officers, you brought sons back to their mothers)

[1] I remember back when the Taliban were freedom fighters instead of terrorists. In the interim, I doubt their theology has changed significantly (but any outside weaponry is probably currently labelled in a different script).
It doesn't, and just falls back to using full bandwidth as usual.
Its always interesting to see the demand for goggles for dogs. Dogs needing goggles for missions isnt modern and when you think about it this is a logical expansion. Did you know polaroid started as a company selling polarized sunglasses for dogs?
The issue is that in large enough population of people there will always be some that just don't understand the issue.

The people who look to project github for help are ones that already selected themselves. I bet for every one that posted on github there are dozens or more that went to the actual entity that tried to scan them or, better yet, blocked the scan or otherwise ensured it is harmless.
I know some people don't like Enterprise, but it IS in-universe, so lets not forget ENT 1x05 Unexpected [0].

I kid; I know you said "at least".

[0]https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unexpected_(episode)
only 150k? that's seems like huge for something which is almost a niche. How many people subscribe to newsletters? on these people how many are interested about the opinion of one guy on the details of market finance?
Oh thanks, that at least gives some idea of the potential. I see e.g. "HTTP/2 trailer out-of-bounds read" and "SSL out of buffer access"... I guess there might be some candidates.
Or you get a coworking space (in normal circumstances) and it's just a cost like commuting is for a lot of people.
Whilst I have no inside information on Apple, I'm pretty sure that'd be a tiny portion of the traffic they see daily. They may blackhole you just to cut down the noise, but frankly given the level of DDoS they'll get regularly, I doubt they'd bother.

For one very quick stat "The average size of DDoS attacks was at the mindblowing 26.37 GBps in Q2 2018"
It's a mess, a manageable mess, but a mess.

I have a 34" LG ultrawide USB-C display that just works with my private and work Macbooks, no issues at all. I also have a non-USB-C monitor with a 40-ish Euros USB-C hub (brand name is Uni I think, no idea what model, it's a relatively small one with ethernet) that works like a charm. In my laptop bag I have a smaller power/1 USB/1 HDMI adapter from the same brand (because it was relatively cheap), a USB-C extension cord, and short USB-C to Micro USB and USB-C to Lightning cables and a small USB-A-USB-C adapter – sounds like a lot but packs very flat and neat into a small pocket, and so far it's been enough for my needs.

I bought another hub for about 100 Euros that should support multiple screens but doesn't really, and it swallows DDC commands, meaning I can't use MonitorControl to control my external screen's brightness – not happy with that one at all, but I believe this is an outlier, it was an early Gen2 device that says it can drive more screens than its bandwidth can possibly allow for.

I've tried and used a couple others as well. So far, this is what I've learned:

- Look for power delivery with sufficient watts (60W for my 13" Macbook Pro) – this is sometimes buried in the description and it sucks when your laptop won't charge under load.

- Look for 4k at 60hz, even if you don't have a 4k screen (yet) — lots only do 30hz, which means 5gbit/s USB 3.1 Gen1, which is the same bandwidth as the old USB 3.0, which may lead to issues with larger screens (starting way below 4k) and fast periphery. 4k at 60hz seems like the best indicator for USB 3.1 Gen2, which is 10gbit/s, which has more headroom. This is sometimes buried deep in the product description, and I may have some of this wrong, the baker's dozen of USB-C standards is a real mess.

- Don't rely on plugging USB-C devices into a USB-C hub; try to do with USB 2.0/3.0 ports. Many hubs offer one USB-C data port, but I've yet to see one that isn't very, very temperamental. I've briefly used a pretty pricey Lenovo hub where this caused the hub to just freeze randomly, regardless of what I plugged into that port. Power delivery nowadays works fine though, as long as the supported wattage is large enough.

The ecosystem seems to have matured quite a bit over the last few years; the first hub I've used at work was barely functioning, with power delivery mostly a joke and HDMI kinda sketchy, nowadays I guess you'll be fine if you buy a 30W/60W/100W (whatever you need), 4k@60hz single HDMI one.

No idea how to get multiple screens off a single USB-C cable to work, though. I hear it's relatively easy on Windows, kinda difficult on macOS and a major engineering challenge on Linux.
I read that as using UV light to transfer energy to the working fluid, not that the actual nuclear reaction itself would be any different to any other nuclear reactor.
Didn't they disable the startup chime, like, three years ago? I remember people being very excited to discover the `defaults write` command to re-enable it.

Update: four years ago:
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-classic-startup-chim...
I've been going with GRAFT when referring to the social-media incumbents. (Strictly speaking it should be GRAAFT, and I can't figure a way to neatly include an 'M'.)
Would Mastodon count? It's federated, and you can point the client to your own instance AFAIK, unless the developer blacklisted some domain names right in the app (willingly or from Apple apps reviewer, not sure if that's a thing).
This definitely used to be true, but I don't think it survived colonialism. Nowadays as kids are growing up, there are pretty much two paths: secular (in a manner of speaking) Western style schools, or traditional madrassas (not dissimilar to pre-colonial schools in the region). At least in my middle class socio-economic circles, people who undertook exculsively religious study (as opposed to studying it on the side with western education) were looked at with derision.
Sure you can.

First, in a philosophical sense: pointers and x86 CPUs are real, ultimately any safe abstraction must be built on unsafe primitives. The ability and need to do that aren't specific to memory unsafety, we do that all over software engineering.

Second, empirically, my experience has been that the design of these abstractions can be safe, but moreover that the cordoning off of unsafe blocks makes 3p auditing for memory unsafety _much_ easier to do. It can be orders of magnitude faster than reviewing an entire C or C++ codebase.
No, I had in mind the talibans in Afghanistan. I don’t make the error of reading the islamic world through the lens of the European christian past.
Nice colors in that graph /s... all they could think about for colors is different shades of blue? Cannot think of anything more contrasted?
Imagine if you had some technology to make the dogs more efficient on their own, some way to instruct them without their handler being there using visual directives.
So that's a very good point. The 'rise of Arabic Science' was totally consistent with conquest.

It seems there's a lot of hubris in Science, just like Imperialism, Art, etc. - and you need a lot of 'excess wealth' to delve into things that are not 'subsistence'.

The Renaissance probably would not have happened without the concentration of wealth in Venice and nearby areas. I mean who on Earth is going to pay for those weird/crazy instruments to be made and for creators full time to come up with this insane 'symphonic' concoctions. We take it for granted now but what happened was a miracle, and that's just in music.
Your comment makes the most sense.

Where would the line between abuse and curiosity be? If you were the target of an overzealous company how can you make the distinction?
Sid Meier's Memoir