skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Binary, ocatal and hexidecimal literals often are indicated with prefixes: 0b, 0 and 0x respectively. There are probably other esoteric cases that I can't think of off the top of my head. "Qty" is often prefixed, for instance. It's a complicated problem for a natural language calculator, to be sure. Here are a couple examples of ways to represent four thousand Canadian dollars that you might encounter and have no trouble interpreting as a human. This could be a good target for an ML tokenizer...

-$4000CAD

CA$-4,000.00

4.000,00CAD$
But that's the easy part of writing a compiler anyway. All we do is, right in the lexical analyzer (not ever the parser) look up the person identifier in the table of declared identifiers in the current scope. It then returns the identifier as a type-identifier, object-identifier or undeclared-identifier. These are then referenced in the grammar phrase structure rules as necessary.

I think there was an aspect of writing a C compiler that was easier, which was namely that certain optimizations in C were just left to the programmer. To get good code out of C, you depended on the basics, like decent instruction selection and peephole optimization, and jump-threading, and maybe elimination of dead code.

Then to otherwise get good code out of C, you stuffed multiple side effects into a single expression, which allowed the compiler the generate the computation and storage accesses any order without analyzing whether any particular order is correct (ensuring they are all correct was left to the programmer, who often didn't care as long as the one compiler he or she were using gave them the right results).

Even the assignment of local variables to registers was programmer-hinted: C had the (now deprecated) register keyword. With the register keyword, your compiler just had to place those variables in registers which were marked with it, and screw the rest. No analysis about which ones should be in registers: particularly good in register-starved architectures. The microcomputer world was characterized mainly by register-starved architectures, with the notable exception of the Motorola 68K series.
Without NAT we’d have run out of ip addresses long ago.
Let's Ban Congress from the Bathroom
Bolt raises $75M from General Atlantic to win the battle for one click checkout
CentOS and HPC: It's Okay, We Are Moving On
Argument by authority is bad science too.
There is really no question about that data being available for purchase. This sort of stuff was being sold on physical DVD's on actual physical markets since the 2000s.

Here's a ~2 year old BBC article talking about all this data being easily available for purchase online in a lot of detail with a reporter ordering their phone location history:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48348307
Great post! I like articles where the author has practical experience in two languages and compares them. Helps me make better decisions for future projects.
I think the spike in interest is limited to the western countries, in other (comunist/socialist..) chess is teached at the schools, played in parks, broadcasted by pubblic television weekly
If you are curious about how Netflix uses Metaflow to power behind-the-scenes machine learning, take a look at this recent blog article https://netflixtechblog.com/supporting-content-decision-make...

Also I'm happy to answer any questions (I lead the Metaflow team at Netflix).
This looks great. The S-expr syntax is my favourite, though I'd have preferred a Clojure-like one personally, a CL inspired one is still fine.

Some of the downsides mentioned can easily be taken care of by a macro I believe. Like the path traversal can be flattened with a macro most likely. Same thing for the type definitions.
Also see the other thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25497002
Introducing the Facebook phone: just like the Apple phone except it tracks you more. I can't see it working out.
The astrophysics journal (ApJ) is a really good journal. A majority of good astronomy papers are published in ApJ or in MNRAS. Big things go in Nature/Science + then there are other smaller journals.

(At least this is what I tend to find. This may just reflect my biases - US based, in the cosmology field.)

But just because something gets published doesn't mean it is right :) I think non-scientists don't know what "peer review" actually entails! First, as this was a MOND paper, it could well have been reviewed by someone who favours MOND. Second, even if the reviewer doesn't favour MOND, if the steps taken and the arguments given seem reasonable, I expect they would suggest it should be published.

I have no issue with the paper being published. It is important that theories have advocates who put forward the best argument for them. What I do take issue with is the skewed presentation in popular science. What sells is exciting and new, not slow and steady. And 99% of science is slow and steady.
Early employee at a UK startup that started in 2001. In 2007, exercised options for a cost in low five figures. Company loaned me the money to exercise and I continued to work there. When I left in 2012, I paid off the loan with cash. Company sold in 2018 and the ROI was substantial - received a sum in the high six figures.

In the next company, I bought shares outright during one of the investment rounds for a few thousand pounds, and later, in an acquisition, I had the opportunity to sell my shares again - for £0.

Lessons learnt: be patient (I held options or shares in the first company for 17 years!) and don't bank on shares as the route to riches.
Maybe at super early stage startups where you get at least one percent of the company (if not more). At older startups you should see base salaries that are reasonably competitive with public company salaries: not everyone makes Google money, but you shouldn’t have much trouble getting what you’re worth elsewhere until you cross $200k or so.

The big difference is that the publicly traded companies can pay RSUs worth money NOW.
Protonmail for me. Using it over a year now and no complaints.
You made some bold statements without any details.

Kotlin to me solves most of my Java pain points. In what sense is it not predictable?

Electron allows a company with web developers to be able to build cross platform desktop clients without hiring desktop developers. That's incredibly compelling and powerful regardless of the compromises with the final product for the end user. (which are not guaranteed. Something like VSCode is indistinguishable from a rich desktop client)
I'm curious, would this even be essentially "accepted" by any hospital in the US? Not just a tag, but if you were going in for a procedure, could you even say "I want to be sure I will not be treated by anyone not covered by my insurance plan"? Because basically all the forms you need to sign upon admittance essentially say "We can charge you whatever we want and you are responsible for paying it."
Serfdom in Russia ended in the mid 19th century. Plus, serfdom didn't even exist in most of the country, so e.g. peoples from the Volga-Kama region would move just a few hundred km east towards the Urals and found new villages there where control was lax.
THERAC-25 was the topic of a lengthy ethics discussion during my computer engineering undergrad
What problem does that solve, then? Wow, you can be bankrupt, and never be able to buy a house or car. How is that a solution? It's the same problem as now - "you can't get a house/car because your loan makes you unable to afford it." This doesn't solve the problem. See, it's just a garbage solution thrown out because it "sounds" good but on inspection it's just BS.
While so much of the cost is the care that the organizations provide and what they choose to charge there is some truth to what you are saying.

Had to get an MRI and the lab corporation that performed the MRIs said that it would be ~$850 if billed through insurance. This included the total cost minus what was covered by insurance so the initial cost of the procedure was in the ~$1200 range. BUT, then they said if we just paid them directly and they didn't have to bill through insurance it would only be $650. So our insurance didn't even cover the absolutely ridiculous amount of overhead that was added just to deal with our insurance provider.
> Private Equity has been funneled in healthcare for two decades intentionally distorting the market behaviors for increased profitability

But that is precisely a market effect of PE being able to do this due to lack of effective regulation, isnt it?
> I had to provide a urine sample to get my ADHD medication. It was sold to me under the auspices of drug testing, even though ADHD meds are out of your system in 48h.

FYI, they weren't checking for your ADHD medication. They were likely checking for marijuana.

* Marijuana can introduce side effects that basically make it look like you have ADHD

* Most ADHD medications are stimulants, they have counter indications when taken with marijuana

* Stimulant prescriptions are under scrutiny right now, so places have been doing more diligence

> A month later I received an explanation of benefits from my insurance company that said they received a 14k bill and had paid 4k of it, so I was on the hook for the other 10k. Furious I went to my psych. They casually said “we’ve taken care of it, you shouldn’t receive an actual bill”. Uh, that’s not the point? The point is why was it necessary to send my urine for 14k in testing in the first place?

The underlying problem is how a bunch of stuff gets billed. Basically your pysch and insurance company have a pre-negotiated rate for re-imbursement on this - it has little to no bearing on what you actually pay as a patient. It's pretty much all BS because there's a secondary system for resolving those bills.
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How any of you snakes on here can downvote this is beyond me.

I mean, I know who you are. People who have a great job and don't really have to worry about insurance. Or maybe at a university where insurance is probably covered well. So f everyone else, right?

I am self employed so I have to worry about paying all this shit myself; 11k family deductible with 40% co-insurance for $1200.

Every time my young kids have had something that was not like a massive emergency, you know what the thought is? Oh god is this worth going to the hospital for and spending 1k? Or when I had my own person health issues, my first thoughts are always how much is this going to fucking cost?

So yeah, if you think OPs link is exaggeration.. it sure as hell is not.
Google Apps version of Gmail or the Microsoft equivalent?

You can use your own domain and I don't think data there is used for ads.

I am really scared to put my trust in a small provider from a data security and availability view. Security is really really hard and emails are a critical part of your online and offline identity. YMMV
I read this as a condemnation of recommender systems in general.

That or a ceding of recommendations to marketing. That feels too cynical, but more accurate.
I think the last sentence of this comment is a bit uncalled for.
This doesn't even begin to address the real problem: emergency care.

Sure I can shop around and do a bunch of research for something that I know is coming up, but when the out of network specialist drops into my wife's hospital room as she's having an asthma attack and can't breathe I don't have the temporal luxury of vetting how much that particular specialist is going to cost out of pocket and can I please have one that's in network.

And we didn't even take an ambulance to that ER. When I had my motorcycle accident I was definitely not given a choice of which ER I was being hauled to - they stuck me on a back board and away we went.

The issue isn't just transparency it's also coverage. We can get the menu of prices from the hospital but the specialists do their own billing so won't be covered on that - you're back to an "MP" on the menu.
a simulation for such tangible milestones is hardly worthy of a research paper. Deploy 'em drones and see if the algorithm works out!
Swagger for gRPC and Rust
What this article really says is, "We want the smartest, most obedient workers who will slog through whatever bullshit is required to improve quarterly profits."
I pay for ProtonMail and really enjoy it, but you have to appreciate a certain level of minimalism. It's obviously not going to have some of the bells and whistles of Gmail. Personally, I don't like those bells and whistles anyway.
This is an excellent point. 3D printing will likely never replace injection molding for plastic parts above a volume of a few thousand. This is well known in the industry but largely unexamined by the media.

High-strength 3D printing however, of composites / metal, has a much higher market ceiling. Can certainly be cost-competitive with CNC and probably also expendable mold casting in the short-term.
While an Apple Camera would be interesting to see (and why not, given that they've just entered the headphones market, at the risk of cannibalizing Beats), I think it's more likely that they'd want iPhones to remain the all-in-one digital camera kit.

Maybe introduce a way to attach extra lens as MagSafe accessories some day.
Chemical Research Breakthrough Could Transform Clean Energy Technology
This is so unjust: you don't know me but you basically reduce me to an angry guy that can't get drunk with his friends.

ALL our freedoms are attacked: the social media censorship reached crazy levels lately, and let's not talk about democracy given the disgusting spectacle the US has shown this year (my country doesn't fare any better).

When someone is condemned to financial ruin because her shop is not allowed to open, this is not a matter of self entitlement, yes I think these are the beginnings of dictatorship.

As I said I'm not from the UK but as far as I know people in London had more freedom during the WWII aerial bombings.
Be mindful of the fact that any service recommended here is likely going to be ”unofficially pentested” for a while.
Kickbacks from test labs, scan / x-ray centers are normal in India.
Mine Crater in Flanders
How can something be both "at the end", and "unskippable"? Where would you skip to?
Migadu.

https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-rec...
http://mailbox.org

I'm on their cheapest 1€/month plan for three years and happy.
I use mailbox.org, pretty cheap, super focus on privacy, EU hosted etc. The web ui is a bit dated, but works fine
Huh. My wife is actually having the same procedure done for the second time after Christmas. Naturally the doctor is in-network, but his surgical facility (on the same floor, immediately adjacent to the doctor's offices) isn't. So it's fork out $1500 and fight insurance to reimburse us after the fact.

In her case, the epidural really does give her life back by completely killing the pressure and migraines that otherwise plague her daily. Insurance can kiss my butt. Single payer would be fabulous in this case.
Excellent point. This is what happened in the case where I was the VP Eng. Everyone in Engineering got low to high 5 figure cash payouts depending on seniority, and C-levels and VPs (only a group of 5) got low/mid 6 figure deals. Everyone then got joining RSUs at their level for the acquiring company.

So, everyone made some money, but not from the ISOs.
> Federally subsidized student loans need to GO AWAY.

There's a good argument that its the wrong method to acheive democratization/affordability (I personally prefer a very different approach), but…

> They’ve allowed students to enter into debt,

Nope, students could enter debt before (and still can outside of) federally subsidized student loans.

> the only long term contracts kids under 18 can legally sign,

Again, no. Its true that federally subsidized student loans are not voidable under federal law even where due to the age of the borrower contracts generally might be under state law, but similar exclusions from the “defense of infancy” apply to student loan contracts, whether public or private, generally under many state laws, as well as sometimes for other contracts. So its not the only kind of contract which minors can enter into and not subsequently avoid. (And even without the exclusions minors can legally enter into the contracts and they are valid until and unless the defense is asserted, but counterparties will be unlikely to enter into the contracts because they know the defense is available to the minor.)

And even if this were a particular problem, it would be easily fixed without abandoning federally subsidized student loans, either by shifting eligibility for minor students from student loans to parent loans, or by simply limiting them to students 18+, which might force some younger students to delay college entry.

> for something they can never declare bankruptcy on.

That’s also not true; there is a fairly high threshold for discharge of student loans, but it is not impossible. Again, the problem suggested with this is easily curable (and arguably doesn’t even require removing the limitations on discharge) within the context of federal student loans. If the income contingent repayment plan with discharge of the balance after a set period were the only one available, discharge in bankruptcy would be largely a non-issue.

Now, since the discharge restrictions also apply to private student loans, you might still want to remove them to address that problem.
There were almost no eyes on the OpenSSL codebase, and it was a giant pile of spaghetti for many years with nobody batting an eyelash.
I've that this before, but I like my markets free as in GPL, not free as in BSD. That is, I want the markets themselves to be free, even if that means that participants in the market have limitations put on them to keep them from capturing the market, forming monopolies, etc.
Who is downvoting this comment and why?
Actually, I think working with a team is a core factor. If you enjoy working with your team there are a lot of things others can help you out with.

However, you are right, many company cultures happen to struggle to offer a place were you enjoy delivering your best. But I think those companies aren't going to be changed by great hackers botton-up but have to be changed by good managers top-down.
ProtonMail is very good.
Your comment is a sign that you should write more lisp, not less. After you've written enough lisp, you may go back to other languages but then you'll really know why you use those.

There are essentially 2 possibilities:

- you need huge or specialized libs not available elsewhere: Python, Java, etc.

- you need extreme speed, binary size or memory control: C, Rust, etc.

For everything else, lisp will be better.
> you are kinda expected to know that there's taxes and tipping to pay

Also not reasonable, so at least in Spain the menu has to include VAT.
How is that solving the car crash situation?
Recently playing around with a 529 college saving plan calculator, it told me that for a 5 year old aiming to go to a 4 year private school, I need to save up $600k in the next 13 years. I thought the calculator was broken, but it was simply using the past decade's grow rate for tuition to model the next decade.
While I definitely agree Rust is a much faster language than Clojure, I would be interested to see benchmarks on your code that show just how much faster your Rust code was on the same data.

I also noticed that you mentioned avoiding lazy sequences is not idiomatic in Clojure. I disagree with this since using transducers is still idiomatic. I wonder if you could've noticed some speed improvements moving your filters/maps to transducers. Though I doubt this would get you to Rust speeds anyway, it might just be fast enough.
Came here to say this. Fastmail is rock-solid, well-priced, and has basically every feature I find important for business or personal email. Been with them for years and never regretted it!
The Kremlin is the ultimate self-perpetuating stereotype
I'm happy with Mailbox [1]. Been around for a while. Cheap, but a clear business model. IMAP and SMTP (should be obvious, but apparently not anymore). Under German and EU jurisdiction.

It works well with my own domain, but my understanding is that it's not great if you have a lot of users with email on that domain (you have to pay more).

[1] https://mailbox.org/en/
Are you implying an exclusive-or?
I wonder if anyone will make boats out the steel that the cybertruck will use? It Should be at lot cheaper than aluminum, though might not be corrosion resistent enough.
If you were in Russia you would know that it's not true) Most of FSB are really stupid and old fashioned. These people very far away from Tech, especially top officials. I'm not a fan of Putin either and truly believe that Russia deserves much better president with more liberal views (in a good way of course).
Recommendations maybe not, but I love that in HBO I can sort by IMDB score to find great movies/series that I haven't watched yet. I just watched Broadwalk Empire as an example, and loved it.

Netflix doesn't show IMDB scores, so I have to check it always independently...it sucks.
The real money is selling large format 3D printers. For what they are they sure cost a premium.
There are still a great many. First, much greater resolution. Then, being able to take pictures of things going fast, then also being able to take non-blurry pictures in very low light, then there is the dynamic range, and then there is also constant aperture zoom as well as telephoto focal ranges.

Lenses on phones are limited by diffraction. They can never provide the quality of a larger lens because their aperture is so small that their airy disk is often over the size of a pixel.
Many years ago, someone asked this same question on HN and recommended runbox.com I started using them then and still subscribe. Good IMAP support. New web ui (v7) is quite nice but I still hit the older config pages.

tl;dr. runbox.com
LOL. Should some dude in Montana get to use an iPhone because it was funded in California?

The selective "my tax dollars would never" is anti-american
Hence why they're referred to as ideals.

No one lives up to them as a consequence of being human.

That doesn't invalidate them.
>how can we outsource the cost of building the hospital to the doctors and nurses?

This is almost reality in the US. Lookup "Ambulatory Surgical Center" investments.
Their business incentives are currently more aligned with my desires and needs than any other company. If they started behaving like those other companies, I wouldn't really have anywhere to go. I would probably end up using desktop Linux, but mobile is an open question.
Apple assembles (some) phones in India in part to reduce tax/tarrif costs more than to reduce labor costs. Not all of the produced phones will be sold in India, but a lot of them will, and I think the exported ones will still count toward quotas for reduced tarrifs.
I made $125k total by year 3 of my career. If you need $125k, look elsewhere (and specifically look in California and maybe possibly New York.)

The unfortunate consequence of the taboo of salary discussions is young software engineers not knowing how much they can actually make.
Seems like the sweet spot would be printing sub million dollar catamarans. Something that is unsinkable maybe with trapped air compartments.

If you have a million to spare, the current fiber glass designs, are awesome. But the amount of trouble and maintenance required makes me question if its worth it even owning a new boat. When sailing around the world on cruise ship is so much more luxurious and cheaper.

From watching youtube, the sealants around windows are a constant problem. Algae and barnacles growth on the hull, requires repainting the boat every few years. Its basically a part time job to maintain these things.