skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can quite literally save millions for retirement as an individual, and have coverage for drugs and treatment under Medicare, and still run out of money due to having to pay extortionate prices for covered drugs.

This is a totally ridiculous statement. Medicare-assisted drug costs are absolutely NOT going to bankrupt someone who has very wisely saved "millions" for retirement.

I have watched both my parents now pass, and I actually helped them both work out which Medicare plan to select based on their specific medications by creating a spreadsheet and carefully going thru the documentation of each plan and doing the math.

2 million dollars can rather safely throw off 3% after-taxes, so thats 60k/year not counting the odd 1800 that the federal government pays everyone with Medicare "benefits", that that is 6800/month someone who has saved "millions" has for income, and that's not even touching the principle nest egg.

There is no possible way someone's monthly drug costs are going to be anywhere even CLOSE to that number..I think each of my parents spent around 1200/month for what seemed to me to be way more "medication" then they could possibly need.

Unless you somehow come up with numbers that are way, way different than mine, your assertation that drug costs could bankrupt someone with "millions" saved is rather laughable.
Claims are read in the context of the body of the patent and generally known and/or cited knowledge in the field in question. As long as you define precisely what you mean by your terms in the body, you can be as succinct as you want in the claims.
neal stephenson has a cool prediction on how to handle this in one of his latest books: curators. people of means will have a curated view of the internet and information that costs $$$
I recently upgraded my home network and went with mikrotik (an RB4011). RouterOS is incredibly deep
It'd be cool to make an easy-to-use interface, still.
Thanks I will, and I will know I am doing a good job of it when I am regarded by many as the most talented writer of my generation
I would love it if this kicked off a "slow food" web movement where we all built a ton of services usable by retro hardware.
Potentially unpopular opinion, but GitHub flavored marked down is almost inarguably the de facto standard, and the vast majority of markdown in existence is GitHub flavored. We should just embrace this.
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I'm sure a few of the readers here recall when most banks guaranteed 5-1/4% annual interest on savings accounts. Then the Savings and Loan debacle, then no interest any more. Banks screw up, who gets screwed?
Analyze Robotics Data in Pure Go
You kid about it but I was curious enough to search for Civil Engineering interview questions:

https://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/civil-and-structural...

Some examples:
Being asked the following questions in an interview: ‘You are going to build the bridge that you were given as a case study earlier this morning. What are the ground investigation steps that you need to undertake? What sort of tests will you do?’

At the end of an interview being given some beam sketches and being asked to draw the shear force diagram and bending moment diagram.

Being asked to draw a strip foundation and build up to how you'd construct a suspended slab.

Being asked what factors you would need to take into account if asking to site a railway station.
It seems to me in the US, and probably elsewhere too, that wherever outside financing enters the industry, it just ruins the whole industry in a handful of decades. Education, Healthcare, Housing.. it starts with an intention of helping people that don't have the means and then ends up in a situation where a majority of the population is either dependant on the companies to get the thing or have to forgo the thing entirely..
Not my experience.

I’ve been using a major OEM laptop and dock at work for about 3 months. The cable is already jiggly.
As a hard liner socialist I take issue with capitalism owning the wonders that is today’s amazing system of global shipping. The current state of affairs is due in most part because of standardization. Standardizing container size and loading mechanism makes shipping very efficient indeed. It would be stupid not to do it.

If we lived in my socialist utopia I’m pretty sure shipping would still be standardized and shipping would be just as efficient. And we would still experience the global trade network in all its glory (plus workers would get paid a fair share of the profits).

In fact I’m gonna be so bold as to claim that we live in this wonderful world of standardized global shipping despite capitalism, not because. A capitalist loves their proprietary technology so they can patent it and gain exclusive markets. A capitalist would dream of having the market dominant container spec which they can sell proprietary equipment, provide exclusive training and monopolize the market for containers.
And then we eventually build the space elevator.
Many people here have pointed out that the data is available -- https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset

I toyed with it some time ago and was impressed to see that -- in the raw data set -- each drawing is a time-series of strokes i.e. you get a person's drawing (of a penguin, the Mona Lisa, etc.) after 0.1 second of drawing, after 0.2 seconds, etc.

I made and (shameless plug!) sell giant algorithmically generated posters which illustrate and play with this idea: each group of 8 rows shows doodles after a decreasing number of seconds. It's fascinating to see how someone's drawing of a "koala" is pretty much set for "success" after a few strokes, while other drawings don't ever really improve with time... or how universal and "well-defined" are drawings of matchsticks, unlike those of kangaroos.

https://gumroad.com/l/quickdrawposter if anyone's ever so inclined!

Cheers
Right.... I just didn't read it that way, but i get that some people could. Thanks for pointing it out. It's weird i didn't think there was anything jokey about it, i definitely see this type of thing could be a joke. I just didn't see that there at all. I guess that says more about me and what I'm at that i couldn't see it as a joke...i should probably lighten up

I read it like the guy meant it because he felt unfairly sidelined and had some departmental spat with computer scientists...i don't care about that spat, i just thought he was being mean. Maybe it is a meant as a joke... But they say in every joke there's truth, and a lot of comics are the most angry people inside. Humor is their sublimation

Edit: i find this one funnier

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.jargon.html

But it definitely has an edge of bitterness within the cs department, as i suspected initially. The themes i read into the first essay are clearly present in the second. I think i was right that this guy has an axe to grind. Just because he writes some supposedly satirical essays doesn't mean he isn't a toxoc person inside or possibly out...
You are right, they are probably controlled by China. Maybe they still have credibility on things like best practices in dealing with COVID. At least in places where local governments push unscientific overly restrictive policies.
>Not much left to better the community when keeping yourself fed and clothed is two full-time jobs.

My point was, back then, your two full-time jobs benefited the community in and of themselves.

I'm not trying to argue that we should go back in time to the dark ages (I like modern medicine and technology), but am just suggesting that workers would have been far more likely to find intrinsic satisfaction in the work they did back then because they both had more autonomy/personal input and could also directly see their labour benefitting the people they cared about.
they possibly could have let unarmed journalists through...
Apparently they detect hotspot usage using the IP TTL value. If its 1 lower than expected, then it knows there was an extra hop. If you know how, you should be able to just bump up the TTL value sent from your device.
Despite how complex this really is, and how many "gotchas" there might be when using this repository, it's nice that it gets a shitload of attention. As a united humanity we should strive to solve our common problems.
Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions? (2016)
This is an article written by a journalist. If we want to get to the bottom of things, we can open Google Scholar and search for related peer-reviewed publications, finding [1][2] in the process.

What do we see in [1] and [2]? A very prominent downward trend ( https://i.imgur.com/avKUvTd.png ) on all but a single cognitive test, which is verbal knowledge. All the important cognitive abilities related to thinking and understanding seem to decline severely with age, by as much as 1.2~2.0 s.d. from the peak. This is 18~30 lost IQ points on a typical 15-s.d. scale. For some people, the naturally gifted (starting point of +2.5 s.d. from the mean) this decline may be merely sad and inconveniencing, but for most of us this reality poses significant challenges to our daily life and autonomy as we approach our late years. I really don't see how this point may be overstated or talked away.

By the way, if we try to delve deeper in our research exercise we can find pretty specific biological mechanisms associated with the cognitive decline, such as cellular senescence, vascular degeneration and BBB breakdown, loss of mitochondrial function, loss of white matter integrity.

In my opinion, as adult human being approaching middle age, this cognitive ability decline due to age cannot be ignored, or cheered away with the usual gung-ho or wished away with wishful thinking. Instead we should acknowledge the obvious process happening to our older relatives and beginning to happen to us, and push our representatives to fund more targeted research grants and biotech investments, to find some remedies.

Some of the necessary research is already happening, if you know where to look [3], but it's really a tenth to hundredth of the effort we could muster, if we cared. If we believed.

1. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167...

2. http://www.iapsych.com/wj3ewok/LinkedDocuments/McArdle2002.p...

3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.13296
> When he says atheism doesn't exist, it's just a stylistic flourish. It's not the point of the passage; he's not trying to argue that everyone believes in god.

‘round here we call that trolling.
not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but not knowing what a medicine does is a plus in my book. you have no use for it.
I absolutely despise writing any kind of GUI/graphics/layout code in React's clunky long-form declarative style, but for whatever reason it's really starting to take off. I guess it's a sign of the times: there are developers these days that have quite literally grown up on React. It's starting to feel like XML (used everywhere, even when it might not make much sense).

But to me, the code is longer, more unwieldly, more prone to error, and to top it off, it also inherits all of React's annoying idiosyncrasies. It's weird to even type this out, but Java's Swing felt more intuitive than seeing D3 on top of React.

For example:

<circle
cx="150"
cy="77"
r="40"
/>

Just the fact that this could technically be written as draw.circle(150, 77, 40) in any sane programming language should give you some pause.
It is exposed through docker, just via a separate container. The reason for doing so is that a container can't have new port mappings added after it is created.

Using the socat container allows me to access a port on my original container that I wouldn't be able to access unless I recreated that container.

As for why the database didn't have port mappings originally, it is best not to allow network access to things unless it's necessary. It's the principle of least privilege.
Why hasn't EV tech hit the RV world? How many batteries could one of those Greyhound bus size RV's, or smaller ones, hold? Maybe it has and I'm ignorant.

I get that corporate shipping industries would benefit but a lot of delivery vans are the same platform as an RV. I think a Ford F350 is the size of those 25 ft uhaul rentals - about same size as a decent sized RV.

RV's typically park somewhere for days, campgrounds could be good places for charging stations. If you have a stay booked for 5 days, it could even slow trickle charge over that time.
really... negative 4 votes for a legit question... hmm.
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Hard pass. There are globs of features and design changes that make it worth the switch immediately if your use context can allow for it. I've now done a handful of apps and libraries in it, and given the option, I'd never look back to node. I don't say that lately. Node's was the best. These new designs are more than marginally overcoming the shortcomings of node. The motivation for migration is strong, and if best proven through experimenting. If you are TS saavy, do yourself a favor and try it out.
What Is Archegos and How Did It Rattle the Stock Market?
20-min? Forget about it. Five minutes is the maximum.

If you have to travel twenty minutes, you might as well order it.

Edit: I'd only want to walk 3 mins I think, not 5.
I think the response by the senator is particularly telling:

>/.../ And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.

Shouldn't everyone be able to respond to 'attacks' on them on Twitter regardless who the attacker is? It's not like Amazon went out to heckle the senator out of the blue.
No, it's not for purity's sake. Integrating D3 with React is a real pain, because you essentially have a split brain problem where both D3 and React control the DOM. In complex cases involving things like transitions, you should wish yourself the best in not messing up the order in which DOM operations happen. And there is also huge performance benefits in letting only React control the DOM. I think the post has been amazing at illustrating how to translate D3 operations into JSX to get the best of both worlds.
The craziest part is they were poised to dominated the SOHO / MSP markets. There’s NO competition or viable products in those markets. I’ve searched high and low.

Instead of focusing on their strengths like great value with self hosted management infrastructure, they look like they’re setting up to force subscriptions on their users. All of the subscription BS for centralized management is so expensive that it’s literally cheaper to hire someone to manage everything by hand (the old fashioned way).
> 25% of men over 65 didn't toil in the workforce, so clearly retirement had already been "invented"

But were they retired by choice or were they just too frail to work?

> And, of course, there is the entire other half of humanity -- women -- who also weren't in the workforce.

Kind of true, but not exactly retirement either, and most of them weren't not working, they were working inside the household.
Instead of baking your own glue, my personal recommendation is to use Semiotic by Elijah Meeks.
“Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine indifference itself as a power, how could you live according to this indifference?"
Also to note, the US has millions of AstraZeneca doses in country, but it is not approved for use in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/politics/coronavirus-a...
Zigbee is in 2.4GHz; Z-Wave is 900MHz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave#Radio_frequencies
Life Expectancy Among European Scholars from the 16th to the Early 20th Century
Every last one of us is a potential bad actor. This is why the enlightened self interest metric was such a big deal to introduce and why we have myriad traditions for trying to curb our tendencies, such as the Christian idea of "Lead me not into temptation."

Finding systems to plug individuals into that have some hope of doing good for both them and others is our only hope of making a world with nearly 8 billion people function at all sanely.
But he never threatened you with hell, promised heaven, or invoked god at all, which is are all parts the parent post found strange.
Is this an April fool's joke?
Hardware Coroutines (Reddit Discussion)
>Ongoing risk-taking by lenders, encouraged by their ability to sell loans to the federal government

This insanity has to stop, but as long as we put up with the incestuous relationship between Wall Street and Government in general, I don't see it abating.
Idk... I bought a USB-C disk drive that is faster than a SAN I bought in 2016.
Next time, mind your own business.
It will be interesting to see where they go with the x86 licensing. Does it mean licensing out core designs for customers to do with as they please, a la ARM, or more like AMD putting together customized CPU/GPU configurations for game consoles. Guess we'll see
Does the human brain predict words like GPT-3?
Could Climate Labels on the Consumer Level Keep Manufacturers Honest?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26599307 because this seems to be the point at which this thread started to become a hellish flamewar.

I've pretty much seen it all here and even I was shocked.
The parent poster is more arguing that the atheist Jew label only really exists because most of the atheists in the US are Christian atheists to a certain extent (in that they celebrate Christian holidays and many aspects of Christian culture).

So you need to explicitly define atheist Jews as the exception.
https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ and https://rms-support-letter.github.io/ , just impression.

So far no organizations in support of RMS, only people (without fear ??)..

The other side.. how many of those organizations then are dependent somehow - on founding, corporations, etc. ?

Is it about easing* (control) to make some ocean bloody (which now is open and blue**), and RMS (who made it blue) is not dead yet?

* Divide And Conquer

** Blue Ocean Strategy
Retirement seems like a pretty unimaginative goal. See the Japanese concept of "Ikigai" (ie, raison d-etre or reason to get out of bed in the morning). I don't plan to retire, though I may shift the balance towards my non-economically-oriented interests after putting my children through college.
Probably not, since the track record for this kind of labeling is mostly greenwashing and virtue signalling that allows malfeasance to continue uninterrupted
young people think they're invincible

i'm only in my 30s and already started my retirement hobby (wordworking)

i'll take this career as far as I can but you never know when the day will come that you've had enough and can't bare to go to work anymore -- it gets harder to just leave a job for another one if you don't like it when you're in your late 50s.
By that point the cell would be producing the associated protein though. Getting it inside the cell is the goal here from what I've read.
Is there any way to get to a “free-play” mode? I’d like to just try drawing stuff and see if the AI gets it.
I don't see how I'm being condescending or doubling down?
For simple charting, for sure use Semiotic. But D3 is a low-level library for complicated, highly customized data visualizations.
I see price isn’t a listed factor in your decision, so I’m going suggest the Apple Watch.
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I have an M1 MBA that uses a 2.4ghz dongle plugged into a USB-C hub from Anker to connect to a Logitech mouse and have no problems with it.

I also have an M1 MM that uses a 2.4ghz dongle plugged into a USB-C hub from Anker to connect to a Logitech mouse and it’s barely usable.
Are you sure you're not dealing with a lot of burnout right now?

Your call, your problem, I've no stake in it either way. I don't need an answer here, although don't let me stop you if you feel the need. I'm just saying, is all, because the kind of analysis you're describing reminds me of the way I tend to get thinking when I'm too burned out to have realized yet how burned out I am.

Maybe I'm wrong to make the comparison, and in fact I kind of hope I am, because you sound like you're in a bad way.
Thanks, cryptocurrencies!
With the depth of your experience, what's your prosumer recommendation? MikroTik?
but let me ask, in this day and age, on google.com, the most visited website on the planet and the most venerable of all Google's properties (it is the face of their trillion(?) dollar company)...

...do we really think this was a fun little easter egg from a software engineer having some fun over lunch?

I imagine that could have been the case in the mid 2000's.

But the front page of google? surely there were meetings over this, multiple reviews, lawyers, etc? Or am I just too cynical?
It’s more than 2000:

> The new tech and corporate jobs add to Amazon's announcement in December that it would hire 1,500 more New York workers

Let’s see how many workers they’ve added in NYC a few years from now. I bet it ends up close to that 25k number anyway.
Yeah, FWT was original Agile manifesto author. Using sports example to elevate daily work grind. I wonder Mr Taylor really considered sportspersons played at top level for few months a year is about same thing as repetitive daily grind all year round for an average worker.

Perhaps this is why I find agile terminology of Epic/Story/Saga/Sprint so infuriating when it is mostly used for same half assed frontend on a database crap repeated 10000th time for next microservice.

It is strange with so much rise in literacy and education people are still so dependent on fake praise for work done.
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Too cynical
Mr. Daszak has obvious conflict of interest (EcoHealth Alliance financed coronaviruses enhancement in past) and has already been recognized in pushing convenient disinformation narratives for him and his work by his scientist peers.

[1] https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/scientists-outraged-pe...
1. Read Code by Charles Petzold.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Developer-Prac...

2. Learn C.

3. Learn whatever interests you next.
I think the meaning is that because government has a monopoly on force/power that they need to be far more careful about how they word things. It's the kind of outburst you expect to see from a movie villain: "Don't you plebs know who I am?!"

But perhaps this shows that some politicians are far more willing to communicate with people more candidly.
The greenhouse effect doesn’t care about why the CO2 was made.

A portable house and essentials weighing probably 5kg can go on your back.