skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An impressive list of actors, but the person comparing the two productions will compare the direction and the performances. It's a little unfair, given the standards of early eighties television, but still.

To the original point that you seem to disagree with - I think the person making that comparison will agree that the show is built around Guinness in a way the film is not built around Oldman. I don't think that's wrong, and which is "better" must be a point of personal preference. One could not make a show with Alec Guinness any other way, and the result is certainly worthwhile.

It really is a great show and of course I'd encourage anyone to watch both. A person reading your comment might end up being a little disappointed, though. The most eminent name on that list, and the one people outside the UK are likely to recognize, does not even have a speaking part.
The change does not apply to ambulances (except for air ambulances), ensuring the United States remains one of the few places in the world where a seriously ill person needs to debate if they're willing to risk their health and life to avoid a financially crippling trip to the hospital.
That view is missing human consideration, however, and is a cynical take. People in those non-free economies you speak of simply do not have the choice and can not just choose to emigrate to a free market at will. We must have some constraints to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Yeah currently $164 a year for a US user and growing [1]. What percentage of users would be willing to pay $13.67 a month? Probably not very many unfortunately. It's an order of magnitude more than what OP said he would to pay

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
> companies need to own the entire hardware platform to be safe from another company's whims

In a perfect world we'd have regulation (such as the GDPR, but with actual enforcement) that would prevent such nefarious activities.

We're not in a perfect world, so a company who owns the hardware and whose incentives happen to align with their customers' privacy steps in.
In 2004 the issue was the lack of a paper audit trail.
Google Now Lets Anyone Contribute to Street View Using AR and an App
Well, not entirely. The problem I have is that this old version has serious bugs.

So you write a bash script, test it with a modern bash and everything looks fine. But then you start the same script on a fresh macOS and it doesn't run. Took me a while to figure out it wasn't because of my script but because of the outdated bash version on macOS.

And I am not talking about 'don't use that option' kind of bugs but more along the lines of 'when you nest too many sub-shells it doesn't find its way back and throws a syntax error'. So if you want to make sure your scripts work out of the box on macOS you have to test against that old buggy shell.
Viral Memes and Developing Good Taste
Admittedly I'm just speaking from conversations within my own network, but if hiring this kind of talent was significantly difficult then I'd expect to see broad, industry-level changes to how startup compensation was done. Companies can't survive if they can't hire people, and yet the same ISO practices remain aside from a few recent trend setters. So it seems most of the eligible candidate pool is still accepting this form of compensation.
> It keeps rippling through the social graph like this until

this is a very hand-wavy slippery-slope argument. You think the entire social network crumbles because of 20% of users? The lack of right not to be part of a network (shadow profiles) is one of the problems with FB, so if SNs can't exist without payment, maybe they just shouldn't exist. I personally think society values SNs to the extent that this *won't8 happen, but let it be an exercise in seeing how much SNs are truly valued.
You can do server-side JSX I believe. Almost all front-end frameworks (eg Vue, Svelte, Riot) support SSR but you have to use JS on the server. Why PHP/Python haven't caught on and reworked their template syntax to look like nestable tag components with props is beyond me. Maybe an idea for a new open-source lib, JSX for PHP?
It's nice that those are legal, yes, but the price per square foot is a good deal cheaper than SF too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if hospitals already have other ways ready to screw people over once this goes into effect. As far as billing goes in my view they are basically criminal organizations that use fraud, intimidation and other things to squeeze people for money.
Show HN: I'm creating a service to show the network of your Twitter followers
CJ it happens frequently enough that 'it's a thing' and it happens all the time.

Usually in conjunction with a new round, but not always.

The company will do a massive 'down round' - even lower than what they really want, bring on new investors. Then issue shares to current staff founders.

That is de-facto like handing over equity from previous staff to new investors - you could almost do the math for how much 'old employees' stock was sold to new investors wherein said old employees didn't get a dime.

It's generally going to happen in negative situations, but that happens a lot.

Edit: and it's not something your ever going to hear about, it's obviously not something leadership wants anyone to know about. Even 'former employees' who were washed out may not find out - how would they? They're not entitled to be notified upon new issuance of shares.
Then the solution is not wishing for FB to die but to ask for new laws and regulations thus defining the boundary where any FB like company can operate in the future. In my reply I decoupled the two. I thought not wanting anything from regulation side but just wishing for FB to be gone is what the comment intended. That does not do anything since the new company would still do the same things and may do it even more aggressively. Regulation and laws put these powers of any company in check.
so you mean that they need to own the platform in order to be remain hidden with their exploitation of the users data?
a user should be at least aware when his/her data is used for other purposes.
Nice try, Kremlin bot.
China's growth didn't have to happen that way. You can promote economic growth without having to install suicide nets.
They will also be disincentivized to offer those degrees at all. Which, IMO is definitely not good. Obviously these issues are nuanced and complicated...
I get excited about new things, but they almost always turn out to be disappointing. So I spend most of my time trudging along getting stuff done and wishing my tools didn't get in my way quite so often.
While that's true, for some reason Putin always tries to pretend his hands are clean. He wants the dissidents know they will be punished, but officially he will deny any involvement of Kremlin. In this case, it will be a bit harder to pull off.
Become? It’s Russia’s pedigree for what will be close to a century soon.
AFAIK the 250 million figure is a very generous estimate given by the labor groups. 250 million works out to around half of india's workforce. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and we haven't seen that so far. Yes, it's possible that the elites are suppressing the news and the lack of them is only more proof of their involvement, but that goes into conspiracy territory.
How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? (2019)
That's been my experience with the startup/entrepreneur subreddits too - no-one wants to hear anything that contradicts the Startup Dream. I figure there are very few people actually walking the walk in there.
Every now and then I see posts like this and yet, the Lisp languages never took off after the 2000s. I understand that there might be some value to learning Lisp, but much of the things that made Lisp attractive before are already available in Python, Java, etc. and I see no "enlightment" in learning Lisp.

This comment is going to get downvoted heavily here, but it's high time every one accepted the fact that the Lisp family is almost dead and move on.
My old Qi charger works just fine
Gotcha - I agree with that, and the term I would use is "virtuous cycle" because at least to my ear, that motivates one to take action that creates such cycles (eg: I am going to save a dollar now because over months and years it puts me in a financially better position, I am going to watch a video about programming instead of a gamer stream because it builds up my skills base, etc.)

Privilege on the other hand reads like "something you have and I don't and therefore I can never catch up" - which in turn leads one to be passive and not believe that their actions can alter what kind of cycle they are in.

Maybe it's linguistic nuance that not everyone sees the same way (eg: you see it differently) but it seems to me that most discourse on "privilege" has to do with "how do we take it away from others / use it to justify our own relative lack of success" rather than "ok I get the concept, what opportunities to I have to build up such 'privilege' for myself and my family?"
This is very cool! The project description says that it is inspired by Soulver [1].

A similar (but different) application for iOS is Tydlig [2] which can also generate some simple x-y plots.

[1] https://soulver.app

[2] http://tydligapp.com/
They already effectively have this level of power, though--they choose instead to not use it. If they want to be freed from the responsibility of ethically deploying the power they have collected for themselves, they need to be made smaller.
Honest question: do you feel comfortable knowing that your job is doing something which is essentially net zero value to society? Negative in fact, you're burning resources which are needed elsewhere, and contributing to concentration of wealth.

Not being rude or judgemental, just want to know how you feel about this.
I remember how excited I was when I wrote a few lines of assembly that made an LED blink on a pic14f84, I was super excited the first time I installed Gentoo and worked through the LFS book. At the top might be the first time I used KDE and got X11 working! Oh, and vimtutor!

Nowadays, I've noticed that the moments things get mixed up with money (i.e. programming professionally) the excitement is replaced for at best pragmatism and at worst drudgery.

Thus for me I find excitement in things that I can't possibly think how they can be cash from, like learning Esperanto or Racket, photography, cooking, HAM radio...

It's kind of like when you pay your best friends to help you move and the best friend dynamic changes because you are now his "boss"...
Nutrition Science Is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why. (2019)
Author here. I feel a self-congratulatory blog post is the least I could do to celebrate the team's efforts to be honest.

How much it used to cost vs how much it costs now is one of those questions that always gets asked (of course!) but it's almost impossible to answer to anyone's satisfaction. There's more to value and benefits than just the numbers on the bill.

My stock answer here (for us) is that it is more expensive to run in AWS, but not by a significant amount, and the flexibility being in the cloud provides is orders of magnitude more valuable than this outlay when all the many other factors are taken into account. Building active-active infra and coping with an anticipation of doubling or tripling customer numbers is a major headache and cost in our DC world. In the cloud it's a minor concern.

I can tell you that the monthly AWS bill is somewhere around £90,000 right now, unoptimised. The co-lo DC cabinets/power/bandwidth bill used to be around £15,000 a month, without taking into account any of the capitalised costs of the initial hardware outlay (a lot), depreciation, replacements, service/maintenance contracts, staff costs and so on.

HTH.
I was billed $3000 for a twenty minute ride to the hospital after somebody hit my car. I spent the time chatting with the EMTs. No treatment .
Try https://tuitiontracker.org or https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/d...
Jay Bhattacharya on the Pandemic [podcast]
> when land was still cheap

Twenty years from now, you will be able to tell the same story about wherever high-earning, highly educated young people settle in the meantime. All you have to do is predict and buy in.
> The other part is doing a course on photography and learning the manual settings.

I will concede that I'm not the average consumer and already had "manual mode" camera experience

> Without that, there is really no reason to use anything but a smartphone.

I would disagree with that sentiment, but I'm on the other side of the fence of knowledge, so it's hard for me to say
I agree 100%. Ruby is my favorite language but for anything that isn't purely a solo project I've moved to harder-to-misuse tools for exactly this reason.
Disclosure: Red Hat employee

As of the most recent analysis that I've been able to find [0] (2018), Red Hat was the #1 most active corporate contributor to the kernel (drivers excluded - Intel and AMD do a lot of support for their own hardware), IBM was #2, and Amazon isn't even on the list.

And while I can't find any statistics on contribution breakdowns for GCC, glibc, Xorg, Mesa, Grub2, and other important pieces of the ecosystem, Red Hat does a lot of maintenance and development work outside of the kernel as well.

* Pipewire (Wim Taymans)

* RADV Mesa Vulkan Driver (David Arlie)

* Firefox Wayland support + hardware acceleration support + GCC compilation validation (Martin Stránský)

* The plurality of GCC and Glibc and (until recently) Xorg maintainers

And so it goes with a lot of other components.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/775440/

(I actually found more recent ones after posting this, they look mostly similar although IBM dropped further down the list)
I sure hope we get a better company. Though I dont know if good people want to start such companies and if the VCs want to fund them (dont see a way for a big social network without VC money. I may be wrong)
The current US medical system reminds me a lot of very important legacy code that's become unmaintainable. Maybe the best way of rolling out universal healthcare is to take a refactoring approach. Get more and more people onto medicare, lowering the age limit and raising the maximum income threshold. Eventually, it would only be the wealthy who were still on the private insurance only system. Then employers can gradually replace health coverage with other benefits.
I think one of the more interesting tidbits of the investigation is how they managed to find the agents that were following him using black-market mobile phone records from corrupt policemen. These were only available due to a law allowing police to have access to private data, and apparently pretty commonly used by jealous spouses to spy on their SO.

A glimpse of the future for those supporting these kinds of laws because they have nothing to hide.

EDIT: After watching / reading the article and also the comments about parallel construction, there is indeed an inordinate amount of information being just there for the taking.

The BBC did a documentary on this intelligence black market some time ago[0], which shows the magnitude of it. I can't really imagine how it's like living over there, think 4-chan-on-steroids levels of doxxing that can be unleashed by anyone with some petty cash.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48348307
Rails is dominating Ruby less and less every year. There are plenty of alternative web frameworks to use, and Rails is a really heavy-weight thing to include if you're not building a website. I'll pull in an ActiveSupport module every once in awhile but so few of the things I write are websites that need Rails.
just like the entire internet
Is college a form of jobs training or a way to make yourself better?

There is the disconnect, because both are true in different amounts for different people.

If it is just jobs training you are correct. We shouldn't have "under water basket weaving" type courses because there is no market for that. There is some need for art, but only in the context of art is useful to make better marketing materials, so the degree should be offered by the business school in context of marketing courses. History is useful to make you a well rounded critical thinker, but if you are going for a history degree it should be sponsored by the school that will eventually give you tenure as a professor.

If you just want to make yourself better: art is very interesting as a subject. Have fun learning it. Likewise history is interesting even if there are no job prospects. However because these are no job prospects (this generalization is of course false - but true enough for discussion) you shouldn't be getting such a degree if you cannot self finance it from your current job.

Both of the above arguments makes for a worse world in my opinion.
This link describes being in the room for the call and should perhaps be considered primary.
Very good job with this. I am working on a similar project and I was wondering if you are planning on hosting your own OSM tiles or using a service (Mapbox is listed, but are you going with that?) ?
Thanks!
Before the whole "attention economy" bullshit happened you could reasonably trust software from a known, popular company not to be malicious (back then the creepy tracking behavior was considered "spyware" and would immediately get flagged by any anti-malware software, ruin the publisher's reputation and potentially put them in legal trouble).

Nowadays, most software out there comes with some kind of spyware (Facebook SDK, extremely granular analytics sometimes going as far as screen recording, etc) and nobody seems to care.
I’ve been surprised by the degree to which people who pride themselves on being analytical badly want to believe that options will make them rich. They’ll talk about the few cases where the finance guys didn’t capture most of the wealth and ignore all of the people who eventually netted a few months salary or less (I’m reminded of the people from meetings with pets.com who were visibly just keeping a chair warm until the IPO made them rich, and ended up calling to ask if we were hiring later that year when the layoffs started).

It’s a cliched observation but it really does remind me of the kids hoping to make it big in pro sports – there are way more who peak at the minor league level at best but the owners make a ton of money by encouraging everyone to think of the exceptions as the rule. Humans are prone to misjudging statistics in general and that’s really bad when one party has the best data and a strong incentive for other people to misjudge it.
"‘As I was being eaten, I was thinking about my insurance’: Woman who lost face in bear attack on why she’s voting for Bernie Sanders"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...
What is the current treatment for Covid-19?
If the underlying problem (in-network discounted rates for services and out of network excess that the service provider can charge - honestly this practice should be made criminal - imagine Sams club selling a computer to non-members for 10x the cost the members pay) is not addressed, the surprise bill just becomes someone elses prolem (other patients end up paying).
> Some private-equity firms have turned this kind of billing into a robust business model, buying emergency room doctor groups and moving the providers out of network so they could bill larger fees.

If this doesn’t describe evil, I don’t know what else would.
>Federally subsidized student loans need to GO AWAY. They've allowed students to enter into debt, the only long term contracts kids under 18 can legally sign, for something they can never declare bankruptcy on.

I think that's something that many people would agree with, but how do we go forward with making that happen?
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I wish this was built into the iOS notes app. So many notes are just number calculations like this.
It doesn't seem to me like the point of this is to "replace" classical computers, but to consolidate the tools people need to interact with a variety of quantum computing technologies:

> We have a grand vision: an operating system that makes quantum software portable across qubit technologies; that is scalable to millions of qubits; and, that teases the highest possible performance out of every qubit – even for applications like error correction that need fast feedback loops. Deltaflow-on-ARTIQ is our first step towards achieving this vision.
> Have one server forward to n with viewers.

Does this mean that the server has to send n identical packets for every packet that would have been sent in a 1:1 situation? I don't know if a different solution exists, but this seems wasteful.
It’s interesting seeing how tuition costs influence students. I go to a school infamous for its high price. And truth be told, I don’t think I could advocate going here barring some serious prerequisites. One of which is having some idea of what to study. The classic idea of college being a place to mess around and figure out what to do with your life is absolutely delusional with tuition so high. Go figure out what to do with your life without it costing 40k+ a year.

That said, I have a feeling this isn’t a controversial point. A lot of my classmates come in seemingly focused on a particular career or field. The issue is that there’s no conceivable way they can be certain of their field this early. I’ve talked to far too many undergraduates who have decided on CS without knowing if they like programming. I have too many classmates who decided to major in chemistry or do pre-med because they liked their high school chemistry class. With these students, what happens if they discover they don’t like their major? For the undecided student, they’re unlikely to get far in a subject they don’t like. They’ll leave after a class because they’re not set on it. A decided student will likely feel that they’ve committed and realize too late that they do not want to work in their field. In my view the worst situation is to realize you hate your major junior or senior year.

I’m not sure about solutions. I took a gap year and worked as a programmer. The gap year had a lot of benefits but maybe the biggest one was knowing that I could actually see myself as a programmer and that I’m competent at it. A gap year is a privileged option though. In general cheaper tuition and more involved guidance could work. Most majors should have an initial class that outlines the potential career options and the less than pretty parts of the job. I suppose that pushes the school into a more vocational role, but alas if you’re paying so damn much, getting a career out of it is pretty necessary.
> I think most people seem to be underestimating just how bad this is.

No, there is no reason to panic yet. Concern, perhaps, but not panic.

There are a truckload of confounding factors in the middle, including potential "founder effects" (when a variant becomes dominant because it is the first to take hold, and just outruns the others out of larger starting numbers).

There is not yet solid proof of "70% more transmissible" given that all the data there are is the SAGE meeting minutes. We don't know from where the data came from, and how the estimations were made. There are huge uncertainties.

Until the biological analyses are done, one needs to keep their cool. Sadly, that wasn't what the UK government did.