skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GOP clearly did want to repeal the ACA, and ultimately would have (questionably, via budget reconciliation, requiring only a simple majority in the Senate) except for the last-minute trick of John McCain. McConnell expected him to vote for repeal, and so allowed other subserviant “moderate” GOP Senators Collins and Murkowski to take the token ‘no’ votes. McCain put in his vote against after there was no way for McConnell to get around it, and the GOP was furious.

After the successful repeal vote in the House in May 2017, the GOP threw big celebratory parties. You can see pictures of representatives smiling and laughing about the prospect of significant numbers of their own constituents losing coverage. They really relished the idea of taking away millions of people’s healthcare, and were profoundly disappointed when it didn’t work out.

As for the dozens of repeal votes while Obama was still in office: those were a quite effective partisan posturing effort. GOP-aligned media spent years on false propaganda about the effects of the ACA, trying to trick a public who largely didn’t understand the law or the healthcare system more generally. (To the point that e.g. in Kentucky people like “Kynect” while “Obamacare” is extremely unpopular, even though they are two names for the same thing.) GOP politicians were electorally very successful campaigning against the ACA while trying to sabotage it in every way they could. Much easier than even pretending to come up with a plan of their own.

Since the GOP Congress during Obama’s second term had no constructive agenda, essentially all of their time was spent on stuff like ACA repeal and Benghazi hearings. You are right that it was a bad-faith effort.
An article from StrongTowns that advocates raising taxes and increasing density. Shocking! Naturally, the taxes will be raised on everyone but the author. Naturally, undesirables will be packed tightly a suitable distance from the author. Anyone who disagrees will be derided as a NIMBY and cancelled on Twitter. Barak Obama autographed my iPhone when I was in Yountville.
I was interested in VR before FB bought Oculus and was considering it as an option. But the instant FB bought it I wrote it off as an option because I knew there would be fuckery down the road.

And guess what? If FB bans the FB account you're forced to link your Oculus to you, can't use it anymore.

Unbelievable behvior.
I assume GP means general recursion.

Recursion in a pushdown automata (the equivalent machine for a CFL) is bounded by the input words being consumed, since each state transition consumes one input token. Since all input words are finite, indefinite recursion is excluded.
The idea that they are conducting in-depth investigations into individual cases of unexplained transmission shows an impressive level of commitment to contact tracing and research.

>Contact tracers turned to the country’s Epidemic Investigation Support System, a digital platform introduced in South Korea amid the pandemic that allows investigators to access cellphone location information and credit card data of infected individuals in as little as 10 minutes.

(privacy nightmare, but at least it is being used for good)

>CCTV recordings showed the two never spoke, or touched any surfaces in common — door handles, cups or cutlery. From the sway of a light fixture, he could tell the air conditioning unit in the ceiling was on at the time.

>Lee and his team re-created the conditions in the restaurant — researchers sat at tables as stand-ins — and measured the airflow. The high school student and a third diner who was infected had been sitting directly along the flow of air from an air conditioner; other diners who had their back to the airflow were not infected. Through genome sequencing, the team confirmed the three patients’ virus genomic types matched.
It's interesting that the journal is attempting to be double blind [0], but I think in practice that's impossible.

Essentially every piece of mathematics research that is later published is first put on the arxiv in pre-print form. Most mathematicians subscribe to the daily arxiv email updates for their subfield and will take notice of any paper close to their work – and the identities of the authors. It is exactly these closely related works that mathematicians are usually asked to referee (precisely in virtue of their expertise). So I would guess that the blinding is not very effective.

[0] https://escholarship.org/uc/combinatorial_theory/authorGuide...
Really, it is a bit disappointing to see a bunch of engineers in this thread talking like this is some monumental, borderline unsolveavle problem. The solution is pretty easy to figure out, even taking into consideration different needs of different customers. The implementation might not be trivial, and legal liability questions might have to be considered beforehand, but the problem is not that hard.
> Recommendation: If you have a hard funds limit, set your maximum budget below your available funds to account for billing delays.

But if 1,000,000% lower doesn't work ($7 vs $70k) then...?
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Once I started measuring all those things in my old apartment I realized that and now only want to live in a newer space with forced air and a humidifier. Currently we have retrofit 2 ACs, 3 humidifiers and an air cleaner with HEPA filter.
What I was trying to say is that locking yourself in the house and refusing to come out is an escalation. Not that police should escalate.

In any case, they've now posted the body cam videos. I don't see any evidence of police "freaking out". You can see from the video, there was never a gun in her face. IMO they demonstrated patience (trying to get her to open the door for over 20 minutes) and seem very professional.

https://vimeo.com/489556079
https://vimeo.com/489554493

> The body camera video starts at 8:25 a.m., when a female Tallahassee Police Department officer and male FDLE agent approach the door. At 8:26, they began ringing the doorbell and knocking on the door. During the initial approach, agents tried to minimize disruption to the children, attempting to speak with Ms. Jones at the door to explain the search warrant. At approximately 8:31, agents went to the back of the house and saw Ms. Jones’ husband going upstairs. The situation continued for 23 minutes without cooperation of Ms. Jones, including several phone calls to her.

> Upon entry into Ms. Jones’ residence (8:48am), agents observed a video camera, pointed in the direction of the front door, which appeared to be recording the entire time the agents were inside the residence. The video, property of Ms. Jones, was not seized during the search warrant. Electronic devices belonging to Ms. Jones’ children and husband were forensically examined on scene and determined to have no investigative value. Those devices were not seized in an effort to minimize disruption to the family.

https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/News/2020/December/FDLE-release...
I’m not drawing an “equivalency” and I don’t need to. Norms don’t work if you only try to enforce them against the other team. Democrats eroded norms about acknowledging the legitimacy of elections in 2000, 2004, and 2016. What Trump is doing is much worse, but Democrats primed the public to believe it.

Look at what Democrats said just this year. Nadler asserted that if he wasn’t impeached, Trump would “rig the 2020 election.” They ran with a conspiracy theory that USPS would manipulate mail delivery to delay mail in votes. Numerous outlets ran articles on voting machine security and how easy they are to hack. You don’t think all this primed voters to believe our elections were easily manipulated? If you consistently piss in the pool, it’s fair to complain when someone takes a dump in it. Like yes, I’ll acknowledge it’s not the same. Yes, one is worse! But my sympathy is minimal.

Separate rant: As to Republicans being a “minority party”—Democrats thinking they’re the “silent majority” is a misperception that causes them to overplay their hand. They imagine that if only we had a popular vote, or higher turnout, or whatever, they’d win decisive majorities. We just had an election with mass mail-in voting with historically high turnout and Trump increased his percentage share of the vote from 2016. If you look at the data, Biden’s margin is built on (1) Republican-leaning suburbs in Phoenix, Atlanta, etc. (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/gop-wom...). Mine went +14 for Biden, but +38 for Hogan. (2) the collapse of the third party vote from over 5% to about 2% (https://www.vox.com/21561230/libertarian-party-third-party-2...). And (3) Trump suppressing his own vote by telling his supporters not to vote by mail in an election conducted primarily by mail: https://twitter.com/JustinGrayWSB/status/1328782492913033219...

When you’re the liberal party and you have to cash in Romney Republicans and Gary Johnson voters—while running against Donald Trump of all people—how smug can you possibly be?

It’s also worth looking down ballot. Despite historic turnout and the easiest voting ever, Republicans held Democrats to a razor thin House majority. They’ll finish within a couple of points in the Congressional popular vote. They regularly win the Congressional popular vote outright (in 2016 by a point, in 2014 by 6 points, in 2010 by 8 points). If we had a parliamentary system like other countries, that would allow them to regularly form the cabinet executive branch and select the prime minister.

Also, while I’m ranting, if we had a “popular vote” like France, Clinton never would have won because it would have gone to a run-off with Perot eliminated. And Trump may still have won, in a run-off with Johnson and McMullin eliminated.
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Goodbye Covid, Hello Inflation?
WeatherSpark?
It's that just blaming Airbnb for the failures of the local government?
This characterization of flaws in political discourse reminds me of the SEO arms race discovering flaws / hacks in Google's search results rankings.
This. App Engine used to offer hard spending limits, and they were removed with precisely because so many users set them up to shoot themselves in the foot at precisely the worst possible moment.
It's a fair point, though when reading many of these kinds of posts you see that usually the person has an "in" already in that particular niche.
One of my favorite automations is a slack bot I made to send me a message when a process finishes: https://github.com/spohngellert-o/SlackProcessTrackerBot

As a data scientist I often run code that takes hours, and getting a slack message when it finishes is super helpful, and it has often helped me catch when a script finishes too early due to some error.
>It's do or die.

In 20+ years. An investor in a retail company would prefer stable guaranteed returns for the next 10 years rather than lower returns for the next 10 years with a chance of higher return afterwards.

Companies are not people, they do not act like people and their rational goals are not the same as those of people.

edit: And, btw, Walmart HAS invested untold billions into e-commerce. They spent $3.3 BILLION on Jet.com alone.
Short term rentals being more profitable than actual homes for people, this means that (i) rents, already a grueling expense for many people, are pushed up, the consequences being (ii) people either cough up and become even poorer, or more likely move away from the city centres and spend time and money commuting, meaning (iii) popular destinations become hollow theme parks for tourists, while actual residents are shafted in every possible way.

In short, in a city like Lisbon, good luck being a student for example. Pay upwards of 500$/mo (or for perspective, 75% monthly minimum wage) for a room in a shared house, or live a 1h30 commute away from campus.
Except you'll have to develop with another ecosystem of packages and cannot do generic programming "natively".
Those are examples, but the principle is the same.
While I don't disagree, you can get rather far by limiting what you allow in the evaluation. There is no reason you have to pull it in in your current environment directly.

And then you have an easy mechanism to allow some configs from trusted parties to be a bit more capable, if they need it.
To me this is akin to the personal checking overdraft scams banks were running for many years until those practices were made illegal.

There is no engineering hurdle that is a valid excuse for allowing a customer to go over their stated budget by 86 million percent.
If you have friends or family in the medical field then ask them. There are frequent email updates from hospital leadership on the state of the ICU. In our area doctors are being asked to give up their time off and work unlimited hours (as long as the avg is 80 per week each month). We've had 1 hospital provided N-95 since the beginning of the pandemic. It's filthy and probably ineffective at this point. The last update said there were something like 13 beds remaining.
Well, something like 99.(thirty 9's)% given you can run Android on an iPhone with Project Sandcastle.

https://projectsandcastle.org/
>Bad will and using gym membership tactics aren't how they scale or make money.

Except they do that with their actions.

>Cutting your service off when your over the limit is an incredibly complex set of edge conditions.

Sure! But if they cared about customers as you claim, they'd let users set hard limits, and when one of these mishaps happened, stop the services when their system eventually knows that the quota has been exceeded... and, make the user only pay the hard limit as the maximum amount. If this continues to happen, warn the user that their account will be terminated... and that's that. But they'll never do that.

Most of their clients pay for these mistakes because they don't have the reach or skills to make this a viral social media article to get people's attention and hence get them to forgive the costs.

I'm sure they know how much they make in revenue because of these mistakes and they deliberately don't do anything about it.
That and just over "abstracted" code that honestly feels like a strawman that someone made to argue against abstractions. :(
Ireland is the same timezone as the UK and doesn't have any real global cities. Dublin hasn't eaten London's lunch for the same reason that Liverpool or Newcastle haven't.
If you hit a rate limit, the marginal portion of requests exceeding that limit is dropped: if you plot the requests, the graph gets clipped. Bad, but not catastrophic.

If you hit a billing limit, everything beyond that point is dropped, and the graph of requests plunges to zero. You're effectively hard down in prod.
Maybe the Van store, sure. But I hear their Winnipeg store is booked as worth $1.
I disagree about this being good. I think this is ugly as sin. This is an aesthetics point but isn't most of this aesthetics anyways?

I want `select` and `dissoc`. I also would like for those to be performant (instead of requiring a bunch of copies). I don't want to have to choose between expressiveness and performance.

I don't write Clojure in the day-to-day but I think it hits those beats very well.
It's great to see an open access journal sponsored by a major academic entity, but they gave it a terrible name. I could easily see it being confused for the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, which is one of the best journals in the field.
Negative for some, positive for others. We will see.
Nah mate, Stay positive.

You're not the 'swine' here, you shouldn't feel that way. I've learned that sometimes paradigms require the programmer to be in the correct 'frame of mind' before it even begins to make sense, its not you.

In my limited experience, keeping an open mind to tools will get you much further and have more enjoyment in your career and life. Trying to force that square peg into the round hole will just make you hate new things. If the time comes and your mindset is right, the tech will still be there.
It already is. The worst part about this is how google sends you a notification to check new stories they found. You need to disable that.
I do the same thing, but I use the Twilio CLI to send me a text so that I can get up and walk around if the process is blocking other work. (:
I disagree with your idea that, because something can be done for 12 hours, it should not count as “work”. You also say reading is important, and yet seem to omit it when asserting that a grad student’s day of work can be compressed into 1-2 hours of useful work. I think the problem with what you’re saying is that it relies on a very abstract notion of “useful work”. I certainly can bust my ass for 12 hours at a problem and not accomplish anything, thus having done no “useful work” that day. If you ask me, I still sure as hell worked 12 hours that day, not 0. So the 60-80 hours workweek is a thing no matter how much “useful bits” there was in my week, and I believe it is still very accurate to call it so and to say that grad students are working hard. The 60-80 hours workweek is not a myth, unless we use your own weird definition of what counts as a work hour. No one means that when they're talking about how many hours they work.

I also don’t believe for a second that a mere mortal can pay attention to lectures or read papers for 12 hours. Personally after 5 hours of lectures I can’t pay attention anymore, and it’s a similar for paper reading. Most people I know are like that, and frankly I don’t believe you can actually attend 60 hours of lectures a week in university given the scheduling constraints.
I live in a huge AirBnb market relative to city size (for scale, the city is 400k people, and we have had more peak listings than the capital which is a huge tourist city itself of 15m people)...it has destroyed the community here. Totally. Every spare of piece of land is built on because properties were converted overnight (against local regulations), aggressive rental practices that you only see in larger cities became commonplace (small three bedroom flats are being broken up into six bedrooms), whole areas of the city are now deserted most of the year, properties lying empty with homeless people lying in the doorstep. I used to live somewhere that was full of families and young people, every single flat in the block is now AirBnb...bar one, which is occupied by a 91-year old woman whose husband recently died of cancer and can't move...she gets treated as "the help" by angry AirBnbers (she has people trying to get in her apartment, ringing her door late at night, etc.) but...

...I don't think that is what angered people. That was bad. But AirBnb not only circumvented the spirit of local laws (taxes being one example), they actually assisted property owners in breaking laws. Not just the spirit of the law. Not just a weird loophole. Because we had a big rental market before AirBnb existed, we had laws that existed for every eventuality but one assumption was that holiday rental companies would comply with local licensing laws...AirBnb refused. So we had a local council, budget cut 70% by central government, having to make the choice about whether to cut care services to disabled and the elderly or cut back on road maintainence, having to employ people to look at listings online and work out where properties were for licensing. Needless to say, that didn't work (the story has a happy ending, the council is introducing fines that will bankrupt property owners for failing to comply, is banning listings altogether in some cases, and has said that more severe measures if neither works).

That is why AirBnb is successful here. People often complain about hotels or the lack of regulations...where I am: every single city had regulations for holiday rentals. AirBnb ignored all of them. AirBnb didn't invent tourism, we had them before and we will have them after, they didn't lead us to become richer. A small group did, everyone else became poorer. And this is a case of a company that only exceeded competitors in its willingness to break and ignore rules, and assisted others in doing the same. I will invest in O&G, miners, social media, gun manufacturers, I don't care...they are just filling a need. Never AirBnb. Even grouped amongst companies doing shitty things (palm oil, payday lending being two that occur immediately), they are definitely up there.
It's yet another contributing factor to people thinking that they need to own 10 properties as an investment while significant chunks of the population are forced into sleeping on the streets.

Of course it's not AirBnB's fault that there's no regulatory oversight on the hoarding of basic life necessities, and the original pitch ("couchsurfing but for money") clearly did not have that intent, but at this stage they're going to push back pretty hard against any restrictions on that kind of behaviour.
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Wikipedia link [0], which describes telegraph operators getting shocked. I don’t think horse wires would be a problem, since I think the induced current depends on the change in flux, which needs 100s of km to get large enough. Our high voltage power distribution network though... could make 2003 [1] look like a cookout in the park.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
> no epic store, no steam, no GOG etc

The current situation sucks, but it's worth mentioning that this alternative sucks equally as well. Specifically, games from these distributors often install dodgy kernel drivers rendering computers useless for purposes other than gaming for anyone who are conscious about security and privacy.

Furthermore, advertising, entertainment, and gaming industries are known to be hostile towards users when they're given control over user devices. They would most certainly force users onto their own app stores when given the chance and proceed to install whatever invasive piece of software they seem fit.

So while I'd love to have an easy way to install community-run app stores for free and open source software, I'd be wary of any attempts by user-hostile industries to create their own app store. I'd really like to be proven wrong, but it seems we currently have a choice between two evils.

> no music besides iTunes store (no spotify)

FYI you can install the Spotify app from the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id3...
tbf, annotations aren't the blame. It's Spring's runtime magic with close to zero friendly figure-out-ability.
I don't remember the source, the cylinder just helped to visualize the problem, probably you can replace the cylinder with a line. The idea is that you can see its whole length.
Old school: a timer plug to control a window fan in an out-of-sight-out-of-mind location. It keeps us from having to remember to turn the fan in the guest room on and off to get cross ventilation over the summer.
You mean like marijuana?
Resellers of a few great server providers and a bunch of crappy ones.
William Gibson predicted those use cases in his 1994 novel Virtual Light. He had artists creating works of art in physical locations that were only visible to people wearing AR goggles.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/59659/virtual-light...
Uber nearly failed rewriting their app in Swift
fixed broken systems, like an internal search engine that gave bad data about which products were in stock;

I doubt (with complete speculation) that this was just an engineering problem (ie, the tech was why the product inventory data was wrong).

Inventory management is the biggest competitive advantage retailers can have, and often when it's wrong and messy, a full rework is needed to implement best practices and change the operational processes of the business. The unsexy logistics part of the business is the real cash cow, once the demand question has been solved.

I'd be interested to learn more about what Best Buy did to rework their processes, but I doubt it will become public because operational improvements like this can be a real advantage over competitors.
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