skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are parts A-D. They can vary by part and by state, other factors too.

I think you generally pay about $1k-$2k per year in premiums in total for all parts. There are also deductibles and copays. For example, the deductible is about $1500 for hospital stays and copays for doctors visits is 20% of the medicare approved costs.

So it's lower than private insurance, but not negligible. It can get pretty expensive if you require lots of procedures or medications, as many people do at that age.

Here is an article claiming the average cost for A and B parts is almost $8k per year.

https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/02/05/heres-the-average...
> State machines

Probably one of the most powerful tool out here. You can catch a lot of things simply by identifying which state transitions should be possible and which shouldn't exist
Let us use machines and mechanical engineer as an analogy.

These days, you don't need to be a mechanical engineer to operate 'most' machines.

Will being a mechanical engineer help if the machine breaks down? Yes. Will there be some machines that only a computer engineer could operate? Yes. Will there be come cases where being a mechanical engineer make you a better machine operator? Yes. But do you need to be a mechanical engineer to operate most machines? Answer is clearly no.

We are at the point where that analogy carries over easily to computer science and coding. Yes, there are many cases where knowing computer science will be essential to extremely helpful. But for 80% of the coding jobs, you don't 'need' to know theoretical computer science.
It's a niche, but now it's a substantial niche rather than an incredibly tiny one like VR was a decade ago.

5m sales/year isn't a lot, but it's a lot more than nothing.
Can you please describe when you had to use formal queueing theory in your work?

I have struggled - and failed - to find a use case relevant to daily SWE work, since (a) the probability distribution for most customers waiting in a queue is not known and must be "guessed" or predicted ahead of time using historical data and (b) nearly all queue requirements are simple (i.e. minimize total waiting time) and the solutions just as simple (scale up your queue consumers!)
Despite the reconsolidation, the Bell break up gave consumers answering machines, cheap long distance service and modems.
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> the takings clause of the fifth amendment lays out the government's right to eminent domain if it provides just compensation.

And if the property is taken for public use. Not all takings that have been claimed to be justified under the eminent domain power have been for public use by any reasonable interpretation of that term.
> but what about previews for things like ebooks or PDFs

MuPDF is a great FOSS application and my go-to PDF reader. It lacks fancy annotation, and doesn't even have great text selection and copy/paste, but it is really fast, and has fast search, manipulation, etc.

https://mupdf.com/
If you want comfort, get an E-class wagon or similar. SUVs are not built for comfort.
That's not sufficient. Google checks for different behavior for sites read from Google and sites read from other sources.

They'll drop content like a rotten egg from search results of they see a discrepancy.
Haha :-) Maybe you're right. SF and Asana are great for their function, but it's impossible to rely only on them to run a business.

With SF, you can track your actions with a client, but you can't actually manage a contract start to finish, sign, and then execute a transaction. And Asana, it's unfortunately a silo within a company that relies on countless integrations to reach it's max potential. By being hyper-specialized, they both force you to spend more before you can operate a business which is a lose-lose proposition.

Operwell gives its Users the ability to send contracts to their clients, manage drafts then e-sign; pay and receive transactions, and then it integrates chat and messaging features -with automation embedded- so that daily communications with clients are automatically record-kept without manual data-entry.

When combined with Operwell’s full project management and HR/Performance management suite; there’s an actual chance to give small businesses a true All-In-One platform to run their entire business.

SF and Asana are popular, but I believe Operwell gives the person who's actually running a business more than they expect and everything they actually need.
Oppositely what I absolutely WANT - is web page like format with auto-flowing text and something that fits to the screen with user styling/typesetting. I wish both option is available.
Not a Japanese speaker, but I'm a native Chinese speaker. I know that Bingfa (The Art of War) could also be translated as The Practice of War or Methods of War. Translations are always interpretations because phrases aren't exact.

The Art of JavaScript sure does sound more exotic than The Practice of JavaScript, so I can see why a translator would make that choice.
> but grinding leetcode will give you a better chance of passing the coding interview compared to studying CS theory

It may surprise you to know that any LeetCode question can be easily answered by those with a solid education and background in computer science. Ironically enough, because this mindset is popular within the industry, you end up with quite a few interviewers who lack the ability to understand any solution they have not memorized. It's always fun reading posts of someone failing an interview because they gave a more optimized solution, which was different from what the other guy in the room had, and couldn't be convinced he was wrong because he didn't understand how mathematical proofs worked.

Discrete math, basic linear algebra, and a few mathematical concepts in computing, generally cover all the possible questions you can get. What I like to do is quickly scroll through all the LeetCode/HackerRank questions, identify which ones I'm unable to quickly label with the type of math to be used, and then learn that math subject/topic. It takes me more time learning the math/theory, it takes me longer still trying to memorize every possible solution out there.

Spend on the history, end all the mystery. Or just keep trying to collect all the rocks in the world.
Who Wrote GTK4
> Wouldn't there also be seals on the two faces of the rotor too?

Yes. However, the apex seals of the Wankel are the most troublesome, from what I've read about the RX-7/8.
I like PDFs for digital cookbooks as well.
While I agree with you, and am a HUGE fan of VR, the undeniable truth is these headsets collect dust after a week or two. Always. I've convinced a ton of my friends to buy one and they always end up with the same fate :(
Aren't AMP pages able to be preloaded while you're at Google before you click on the link? I thought that was half the point of them. I can't see how that couldn't reduce loading times.
LWN comments: https://lwn.net/Articles/840331/
I have a toddler at home. I purchased a kindle a few months ago and it has drastically increased my reading time. I try to carry the kindle around the house instead of my phone. And read whenever I can - 15 to 30 mins chunks. I also read in bed before going to sleep and the backlit kindle is great for that.

Also I have been renting kindle books from my library. Very easy to try books and continue reading only if I find it interesting!
> You simply can't just say these don't matter any more,

I think what you're missing is that... nobody in this thread is saying that.
Hey, I've finally found an art I'm good at! Of course my wife and I used to just call it being irresponsible about how much we spend on books. We don't have time to read them all. We finally had to get rid of about 1500 of them when we moved into a small place. Now we can just tell people we are masters of the ancient art of Tsundoku!
Seriously, OP's argument makes no sense. It's just distracting from the issue of the federal government's failures. This constant distraction is part of why the government is able to fail so badly without any consequences.
Essentially people would like to be able to move seamlessly between idiomatic Rust and C (or even C++) without needing any manual intervention. This also would ideally include having an automatically safe API but this may require some glue on both sides of the API boundary.
Can we record our Bosses and Shrinks too?
They are really taking their time with the process of destroying financial website tools. But I'm sure that in fifty years or so they'll get around to destroying that market. ;)
Show HN: Extension to auto pause and resume media
I love it... Cockroaches are survivors. When I was in grad school my lab was in a subbasement in a 100 year old building. We had huge cockroaches...

One of my colleagues caught some and put them in one of our lab freezers and forgot about them. Months later we remembered the jar... took it out of the freezer. Cockroaches thawed out and seemed to be fine... very active, almost like nothing happened.

Other experiments were performed as well... anyhow, cockroaches are hard to kill.
The same seal that contacts the rotor likely seals the face as well. That's how wankels work.
> From the POV of the recycler, it's an unwanted byproduct of collecting #1 and #2 bottles.

From the wikipedia article linked above.

"When many plastics recycling programs were first being implemented in communities across the United States, only plastics with RICs "1" and "2" (polyethylene terephthalate and high-density polyethylene, respectively) were accepted to be recycled. The list of acceptable plastic items has grown since then"

> Mandates banning bad packaging would do more than trying to train consumers.

A ban would be great. I think it's not politically feasible on a large scale in the U.S.
Astronomers Are Now Obsessed with a Particular Gas on Venus
Flanderization, seems to be a result of appealing to a larger target audience. Nuanced characters just can't be quickly understood, so sitcoms unwittingly simplify characters to predictable stereotypes...

Also, great site!
I wish there were fully libre DSL routers.
I'm surprised that Monica from Friends is not there. It's amazing now normal she is in the initial episodes.

But I get the case of doubling down on the traits over time like in Simpsons. They need to run for so many years you need both some kind of character change and still a lot of familiarity, so... let's make characters even more of the same. Different from Southpark with "we'll change what we want".
Carbon emissions from manufacturing plastic bags isn't really an issue either. The content of the bag will usually have a much higher carbon footprint (and if it doesn't, probably you wouldn't need a bag for it). If that is the price to pay to reduce plastic pollution it's a fair trade off.
Noticed that my original rage post (sorry about that) got submitted here and was justifiably flagged. Now the Chromium team is looking for some pretty detailed info to help track down the issue of suspiciously high WindowServer CPU usage potentially caused by the way Chrome/Keystone interacts with the system.

This is the right crowd to ask since not many people can follow the instructions. If you have noticed high WindowServer CPU and haven’t yet tried deleting Chrome/Keystone, please check out the bug.

Also added an FAQ that addresses some of the low hanging fruit that I missed before: https://chromeisbad.com/#faq
Agreed, VR still has a ton of medium term improvements to make on a technical level, much more than, say, consoles. Going from PS4 to PS5, the SSD is a huge change, the controller is pretty nifty, but ultimately it's not that big of a change other than the faster loading times. And that's after 7 years.

Meanwhile, comparing a Quest 2 vs a 2013 headset like the Oculus Rift DK1 is like night and day. No comparison. Everything about it is a vast improvement that completely changes how you experience VR.
> If I see the cops doing something obviously insane, I will turn and walk away. I didn't see anything.

Well, I'm glad that not everyone reacts that way!

People have managed to record police on important matters, and those videos have had a huge impact! The protests that began this summer are among the largest in US history.
European countries.
I have one. It's well worth it. I've listened to more than 200 books in the last two years in my spare time. It's a skill that takes time but I absorb books just as well now via listening.
You are describing a second preimage attack, ie, Eve finds a colliding message that matches an existing message and hash generated by Alice.

Not even MD5 is vulnerable to a second preimage attack.

The actual problem with SHA-1 is that Eve can generate two different messages with the same hash, one innocuous and one malicious. If Eve can get Alice to sign the innocuous message then Eve can use the signature to attack Bob using the malicious message.

Collisions are still catastrophic for most applications that use signatures, but it’s a wee bit harder to pull off an attack using pregenerated collisions than if you can find a second preimage. (Collision-based attacks need a signing oracle whereas second preimages do not.)
But this sounds like a technical limitation that makes sense? This entire comment chain is mostly people interpreting the lawsuit as claiming this was a deliberate artificial delay for business reasons and getting outraged about that, not a technical issue.
Chrome only sites[1] and DRM module licensing[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/959909542246019072

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22062636
I don't believe you'll capture finer details. What you'll end up with is a softer sound. It will make overly-digital sounding clips sound better, but it won't make previously unheard stuff come out.

Where I get this from, is many moons ago I experimented with turning audio into a very wide image. Visually it looks rather like a frequency analyzer. It was easy to shift pitches around, but the digitization left artifacts at the wrong (unexpected) pitches which changed the sound of vowels quite considerably.

Before I figured out why that is (and that alone was an amazingly interesting lightbulb over my head), I tried smoothing them out so those artifacts wouldn't be so odd. What I ended up with instead was something akin to talking through cotton, and guitar lines totally didn't sound like guitar anymore - more like a synth, which I thought sounded cool, but was effectively a failed experiment.

I don't want to discourage you from doing this using math, and I'd love to see your progress in it, but my prediction is that you'll find something similar occurs.

Having said that, I later discovered this device that I think contains the secret to making my experiments actually succeed: https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0CD0 because it literally compensates for the problems inherent to what my smoothing experiments were doing.

PS: I actually got the idea from an old television set I used to have that had a function that supposedly made it look higher definition. But even that showed some interesting artifacts (blur) if you looked at it up really close. But in motion, the videos indeed looked higher def, which is why I tried it on sound.
It feels like governments round the world in the last month or so all woke up and decided to file lawsuits against big tech.

Does anyone else find it odd that after years and years all of this stuff seems to be happening at once?
Probably most people who’ve done a bit of PDF work know there’s no guarantee of the same output from different (or even the same) editor. So I don’t think it’s Preview’s fault per since the problem is endemic to PDF. But I don’t think you can blame the user either. Really, PDFs are just these enormously useful complex things that are always breaking in unexpected ways and some people haven’t been bitten by its problems enough yet to cope properly.
Wii Sports was always a pretty casual thing with middling motion tracking ability at best. Something like Beat Saber on a Quest is an enormous improvement in terms of how compelling it feels.
> [T]he computer repair shop decided it was easier to blame linux than to figure out or explain what happened.

Or they decided this was an opportunity to make an easy sale of some replacement hardware.
Steve Yegge: “Apple is refusing my app ” (over Apple Sign in prominence)
Centos was broke. Otherwise it's doubtful that they would have sold to Redhat.
Good response and fair summary. Don’t think I have any other thoughts on this! I believe all views are fairly represented at this point.
Zoom/Teams plugin idea to show $ of meeting
There will always be regrets, but at least you'll sleep better and rub your tears with Benjamins if you leave academia and regret that :)

Academia will always look like the grass is greener "I can do whatever I want" type. But we shouldn't forget actually you can't, you can only do what others think you're good at, and what the grant review panels think you can feasibly do.

My plan is to just use the extra money from a tech job to open my garage lab. It's getting easier by the day. A fancy deltavision microscope costs less than a cheap boat, so it's not even an expensive hobby if you think about it. You really can do whatever you want, you'll just be limited by money than by other people :)
In the summer every morning I would see a bike locked up outside that had been they over night. One morning I saw the bike and all that was left of it was the frame. The saddle, handlebars, and wheels were all gone.

I agree that it's odd that people would steal these individual pieces, but it does happen. It reminds me of people only stealing 2 rims from a car.
Modern cryptographic tools are very purposefully “one tool, one use.” That’s part of the design and security model.
This is good news then. We should be thinking hard about having more kids. 2 is more than enough. The damage each extra child does, especially in the west is insane.
Our company was doing this transition back in 2018. It is quite straightforward for userland drivers, but how are they upgrading kernel drivers?
Motion sickness in games where you have thumbstick movement is common, but for games where your movement is only based on IRL movement, like Beat Saber, motion sickness is much more rare (and severe motion sickness almost unheard of).
> Then IBM bought Red Hat and things went south.

I think IBM had nothing to do with this one. People think Red Hat won't do anything like this. However, there exists a part of Red Hat which is capable of doing this. That part of Red Hat usually stays behind the scenes and comes to the fore to announce that a decision has been made and the developers (hired within Red Hat as well as the general community) who are involved in the day to day running of the projects will have no say. Plus they will throw in some confusion (like the limited use license that is in the works but not yet ready for CentOS use) around the future of the project being killed just to let the community expect something good to come out of this exercise. This is not new. They did the exact same thing to the JBoss community application server[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358847
I might pay for Firefox now, but I wouldn't pay for Firefox 5 years ago, when I started using it. As a consumer, it's really hard to start paying for something that used to be free.
Would whistleblower protections apply in this case?
I have no insider knowledge, but I'm going to guess that they even crawl using actual Chrome browsers once in a while... and penalize deviations from what you serve to the GoogleBot... and also factor in response times for either.

I don't think any single person can predict/know what's actually going on at this point.
"The Angel of Progress" was described by Walter Benjamin as a metaphor for describing the Onward March of History. [1]

> A Klee drawing named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

[1]: http://www.barglow.com/angel_of_history.htm
I agree with the thought process here, but the reality is that almost no one wants to be recorded in public, especially knowing that it can easily be posted and shared online, where they will likely look like the bad guy.
I have lots of math books. And reading a page takes maybe an hour or so. The result is that 99% of my library is unread. No regrets.
Let's say it costs you $200k to raise a kid to adulthood [0]. A Honda Civic costs $25k new [1], an 8-seater Honda Odyssey costs $31k new [2]. A car lasts 10+ years so conservatively that's $12k extra in transportation costs for your fourth child. Maybe you can argue it's $20k with fuel.

That...doesn't seem unreasonable? As a society, we like people to start families and continue the human race, but we know overpopulation is a thing and we don't want everyone to have huge families. 10% extra marginal cost is small, and offset by other economies of scale.

[0] I don't have a better estimate for this than Bill Waterson putting it at $100k. In 1987.
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/07/24

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/honda/civic/

[2] https://www.edmunds.com/honda/odyssey/
How about recording anyone in public?
From the point of view of rosetta, qemu's JIT would be completely opaque, and so would end up suffering severe performance penalties due to it having to translate code from what would appear to be an aggressively self modifying JIT.

That said, assuming Qemu runs entirely in user space I would expect it to be able to run under rosetta, and am genuinely curious if it does, and what the perf is - as I said, I would expect it to be much slower than arm64 qemu emulating x86_64, but I'm curious as to how much.
Similarly as with Wikipedia, TV Tropes is a good source of interesting factoids, viewpoints, trope descriptions and examples; but, even more obviously than Wikipedia, TV Tropes suffers from a lack of editorial oversight: there are usually many unverifiable, nonsensical and/or false factoids per page.
> heart is an arrow. it demands aim to --

I wonder how that finishes.

EDIT: "land true"[1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9116925-the-heart-is-an-arr...
lot of problems with this comment.

First of all, it's not a double standard: Rockstar faced similar criticism because of the crunch culture surrounding the development of RDR2. The specific article you mentioned wound up being terrible PR for Rockstar; as a direct consequence of that article, their behavior was widely criticized:
https://www.engadget.com/2018-10-25-red-dead-redemption-2-re...
https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1...

etc. Search "Red Dead Redemption crunch" or "Rockstar Games crunch" and you'll find loads of similar articles.

and the other problem is the usage of the term "lynching". Lynching refers to a vigilante execution by citizenry having no legal authority. It overwhelmingly refers to hate crimes along the basis of race or religin. By contrast, CD Projekt is a corporation worth billions of dollars that is being called out for treating its employees poorly. To equate the two is absurd.