skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's outside of my bag o' tricks. There was definitely some pain getting things to work to satisfaction in the Jetbrains tools. In a few cases I simply had to adopt a different workflow. But I'm feeling pretty happy about it now.
How many would you expect in same number of people that wouldn't have taken the vaccine?
Seems like the non-sequitur would be on the part of the grand-parent since it was in defense of Uber that these limitations were placed.
It was more along the lines of "look, you've outgrown this tool, and it's time for you to move onto something more appropriate to the work you're doing". I'm not going to criticize anyone for using nano to edit the random file here or there (so long as using it doesn't break the file). But honestly, you reach the limits of nano's abilities fairly quickly. As fine as it is for a quick change to a file, Vim and Emacs other programming editors are popular for a reason. I surely wouldn't want to use it to work on large projects with lots of files.
> That is literally impossible.

Okay, but I didn't mean literally outlaw insurance middlemen.

I mean fix the incentive structure such that I have the option to forego insurance middlemen.

> Patients do not have the capacity nor the knowledge

I completely disagree, and what business of yours or anyone's is it to say I'm `lacking in capacity and knowledge` to such a degree I shouldn't be allowed to make my own healthcare decisions!?

Worse still, right now the US government puts a cap on the percentage of profit an insurance company can take from premiums which coupled with the current near monopolistic healthcare insurance system incentivizes paying as much as possible for treatment to justify higher premiums.
We had a similar issue and ended up sticking with Mailgun but going with one of their larger contract plans which also gave us access to one of their Technical Account Managers. He's been fantastic, and helped us mitigate some of the issues we were running into. (It also ended up being a better value for the volume we were doing monthly.)

You can also configure their web hooks to report complaints back to you in near real-time: https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/user_manual.html...
Abandoned Fairytale 'Castles' in Turkey
Why would cost-based pricing be the only "fair" pricing model?

I'm pretty sure if a startup tried to use cost-based pricing instead of value-based pricing, they would get told that they were idiots.

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk certainly get a lot more value out of roads existing than most people do. Their entire business is dependent on it.
Does anyone know of an examples of stories/games made with this? Not like a full on game like 80 Days, but something like what you could end up with after following the tutorial?

I want to show this to a friend and I think an example would help give them an idea of what's possible.

Edit: Someone wrote a "portfolio" for their personal website which is pretty cool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26765367

If anyone has any narrative examples that would be ideal.
Opera died to me after version 12 (the moment it essentially became Chrome with a different skin).

I was their user since version 5 or 6 (this was before everyone started the crazy version system, back them they released a major version about once a year).

The biggest things that I loved about the browser you couldn't get by extension, they could do many things because they could directly update the engine.

Now learning that they are owned by PRC there's even less reasons for me to use it.

Opera could have done a lot of good if they would open sourced their old browser (kind of line what Netscape did). Someone leaked the original source code, but because it was leaked and not officially published, no one wants to touch it. Anyway now it's too late, because it's way behind the current browsers.
IRS wants to pay for hardware wallet bug bounties? I’m ok with this.
Reminds me that in 2019 I flew 17 times to the balearic islands from Germany and back for prices ranging from 1.99€ to 6.99€ per flight, it's about 20€ to 200€ right now. Missing the travel..
Is there a way to create something like this for video calls? An always-on device that can make calls through Skype or similar? Or are the protocols too closed and apps too unavailable to make it possible.
Yea, that Swedish techno and its offshoots ... it was/is amphetamine music. That's my jerky opinion anyways.

Boom-tss, boom-ts, fist pump
I agree that leaping to conclusions isn't science. It doesn't get past the hypothesis stage and needs proper study.

That said, if the massive reduction in flu cases isn't a result of some or all of our Covid efforts, it'd be a hell of a coincidence.
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Hm is there a difference between hiring a person and telling them to mow my lawn at 2pm vs choosing a person who is only available at 2pm?
In many cases it is true though, men are more technologically inclined and younger people have better cognitive skills and it is not going to change even if you force the whole population to say every morning that men and women are exactly the same or young and old are exactly the same
Have witnessed similar types of answers to questions at town halls. Love the contrast between the openness of "we do town halls!" and the closed-ness of "trust me" / "anyone can look it up" responses.
No, but it would be equivalent to verifying that a given computer program halts on a specified N steps.

This is the same distinction between (among other things) P and NP problems. For any problem in P, given an instance of the problem I can produce a solution in polynomial time. For any problem in NP, given an instance of the problem and a candidate solution, I can determine whether the solution is valid in polynomial time.

Determining whether a certain computer program halts would be equivalent to producing a proof, not verifying an existing one.

Verifying a proof is, in principle, only a matter of making sure that each step of the proof is valid. Coming up with the right steps is a creative endeavor. Certainly, coming up with the right set of allowable steps is a creative endeavor, and proving that your system is expressive enough for interesting proofs is a creative endeavor. But once given a proof, verifying that it legally applies legal steeps is a purely mechanical endeavor.
So this a super hot take, but someone is asking for an ass whooping. This is basically an act of war. I'm going to just leave it at that. This isn't some random hack, kinetic attack demands kinetic response.
Don't rely on PR for your book
The FDA Wants to Lower Nicotine in Cigarettes Which Will Make Smokers Smoke More
First ;)

[Edit] so sad :(
> Do you have a specific idea in mind that I'm missing?

All in the US more or less pays roughly 2x or more what some other countries pay for equivalent healthcare, so there is nominally room to extend coverage while keeping costs flat in theory. In practice, it's complicated. Also 'roughly' and 'more or less' have some wiggle room for systemic differences, but it's about right.
I know next to nothing about competitive cycling (I'm a commuter and occasional touring cyclist) but would it be accurate to say it's a strategy game for something like 180 km interspersed with 20 km total of racing?
The latest HBS 3 Hybrid Backup Sync 16.0.0419 has 1215 lines of code with the word "walter".

Walter's a popular guy. (Apparently he's QNAP's Technical Manager)
> So if you go back to mess around with the data, your model and output could be or would be recomputed, which you would need to do eventually but not while making iterative tweaks.

On the other hand, not everyone remembers to re-run dependent cells. I’ve had many R notebooks handed in to me where an author didn’t check it runs top to bottom with fresh workspace.
Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken
All those key bindings came from Emacs originally
I think I understand your sentiment, but consider our tactile sense of vibrations. We are able to distinguish different frequencies with the nerves in the skin, without cochlea doing the frequency domain transform. I think there are very different spectral limits and aliasing artifacts, but it's not like we can only sense a 5 Hz vibration either...
>No one owes you anything.

and no one owes the author page views or their time either.

>This is a discussion board

Exactly, we're having a discussion on what the article is missing and why it matters.
I guess I just didn't think references to Avancs and Grindylow and Mosquito people to be all that relevant to the discussion. But to your point, I have read some Mieville.
I grew up in a rural area in a second-world country, during the 90ies when the economy went from shitty to complete shit, and many people had to subsist on grazing, so to speak: I helped to plant (and then gather) potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables in our backyard. But even then, lices were mostly something out of WW2-era stories, or something you'd get if you hanged out with local "wandering folk", I guess; I don't remember any lice cases in my school although we did have our hair checked in the elementary.

Then things generally improved and life is now much better; so what about the lices? According to the 2019 statistics, there were 200 cases of headlice per 100'000 children that year. Quite a number, but not a huge one, really.

So that's why I asked--if in a poor second-world country lices were almost a non-issue, then surely that means the rich first-world countries have managed to completely get rid off the lice, and much earlier, too? Right?
I hope reasonable people can see the potential for incentives to impact various public health measurements in ways that cannot yet be detected or well accounted for. Surely some aspect of flu disappearing is impacted by the priorities of thinly stretched medical personnel, what with a pandemic and all why would anybody test for flu? Who even tests patients for flu in the first place? It’s not recommended.
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Stopping the spread of disease is on everyone. It's important to understand that the precautions we took helped to keep others healthy, as well. It's great to continue with your personal hygiene regiment, and it's even better when the people you interact with (and the people they interact with, etc.) do it too. So, do you what you've been doing & convince others to do the same.
No, like I just said, America already has access and healthcare insurance options for everyone. Nobody is denied.

The choice for better healthcare is limited and locked behind employment. That's the problem, instead of letting everyone have access to all plans, and the solutions are too complicated to discuss here. However insurance is not a moral failure, it's a financial and risk management concept. Just because your government manages somethings for you with your taxes doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Quorn products are vegetarian, but many are not vegan - many of them have eggs, milk, and cheese in them.
The story BCG offered me $16k not to tell (2010)
I'm impressed you even found that. AFAIK there's no link to it anywhere from hopper.com. It was a little SEO project that one of the engineers that's been here a while worked on using our internal prediction APIs. Something like it existed in the app at one point, but the engagement we saw with it was pretty miniscule.
I wonder if there’s ever been a study comparing the effects of banning compared to ultra high taxation of products.

I understand that there are groups that are negatively affected but is banning even effective in improving health outcomes in this case?

In my imaginary world the tax would be extremely high and diverted to things in the same area that have the opposite effect: e.g make cheeseburgers more expensive and subsidize leafy greens and produce with the same funds on a municipal level.
R has a terrible naming problem where you don’t know which convention is used in a particular library.
>But authz is far more complicated, since it requires an ACL list of arbitrary length along with the token. It’s not like GitHub can stuff a list of every repository I can access into my access token.

This is exactly the problem that Zanzibar solves that makes it exciting!
I've written about why giant lists of claims are not a good way to structure permission systems[0] and Zanzibar-inspired services do not function this way.
Instead they ask you to query the API server when you need to check access to an item.
All API calls return a response along with a revision.
The response will always the same at a given revision, which means you can cache the response.
If Zanzibar disappears, your app can function so long as content is not modified, which would force you to invalidate the revision.
And that's only if you want consistency in your permission system -- a feature that not all permission systems even support.
Most applications can tolerate just using the cached response regardless and relying on eventual consistency.

All of this is also ignoring the global availability of the Zanzibar service itself which it gets from using a distributed database like Spanner and replicating into data centers in every region in the world (which is why you want someone else to run it for you).

[0]: https://authzed.com/blog/identity-isnt-the-foundation/
> That said, if the massive reduction in flu cases isn't a result of some or all of our Covid efforts, it'd be a hell of a coincidence.

Mmmm...I wouldn't go that far. Like I said, my current preferred theory involves schools, but other plausible theories involve things like mutual inhibition: infection with one virus somehow interferes with infection by the other.

We have some evidence of this happening in the past. Strains of influenza have abruptly vanished due to this phenomena.

Certainly, I'd agree that this is interesting (which is pretty much where I end up on this, vs. the OP, who thinks the matter is settled.)
This just made me think, I wonder if there is some sort of Trident nuclear warhead submarine equivalent in cyberspace. Software based mutually assured destruction.
I’m extremely in favor of harm-reduction legislation in general, and I think this ban is a good idea overall. Flavors are effective at hooking young people in particular — lots of vaping research has shown that — and so get it outta here. Great.

But man, “ban menthols because Black people like them” sure feels a little weird.

Like, I get that’s not exactly what’s going on. But.. it’s a little bit what’s going on?

I guess it’s just worth watching closely any time someone talks about protecting disadvantaged groups. I think that is actually what’s happening here, but it’s suuuuch a short rhetorical jump to “well, the under classes can’t be trusted with lottery tickets!” and so on.

Edit: just to make it abundantly clear: I don't think the FDA is actually banning menthols because Black people enjoy them. But I think their reasoning isn't too far from that, and it's worth being watchful for that sort of paternalism, IMO.
Hah, I bet, watching people dancing to it in Boiler Room videos is different enough from what I'm used to, and that's got to be a lot tamer than you'd see somewhere without cameras filming the entire thing!

The first time I saw this clip it was amazing how distant it was from everything I've experienced since going to my first club in 1995 - and the video is from closer to 1995 than 1995 is to today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EarSRa19sZc

I've seen Model 500 and wasn't impressed to be honest, but then again electro isn't my thing at all so that's more about me lol, my friends enjoyed it a lot :)
When Gatekeeper looks the other way: Alerting on the new macOS vulnerability
Interesting to see how much more volatility it shows the last few years.
I wouldn't call trying to write a web app that aggregates across multiple services on the client-side doing something crazy.
My thoughts exactly.

But then, the article explicitly states that they are talking about "trillion floating point operations per second".

It's probably just a mistake from the journalist.
It's potentially the opposite. Say you have a population of 1000. If one person infects ten others. Then its going to be 3 generations before 1000 are infected and full immunity is reached.

We go for a suppression strategy instead.If 1 person infects 1 other person (as we seem to be trying to achieve with corna) it is going to take 1000 generations before full immunity is achieved. There is going to be far more chance of mutations in 1000 generations of viral replication than in 3 generations.
I am also not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the system is not clear in the way that you are describing it.

As to "Anyway, Congress delegates authority to executive agencies so that it can focus on other things and not have to micro-mange each tiny detail of everything under the sun." - each tiny detail? This is a case of classifying millions of workers. We're not talking about a tiny detail, we're talking about something that is immensely important both to all the people affected by it as well as all the companies that have to operate under these labor laws. This isn't Congress delegating away the details, it's them failing for an extended period of time to address an absolute enormous and critical issue in the labor market.
I still think that was a necessary decision. Jon Von Tetzchner (one of the two Opera founders, and a previous long time CEO) strongly disagreed, then from the outside, but later did the exact same thing with Vivaldi. (Jon is a fantastic mensch, btw. One of the best CEOs I've ever had.)

Google had very purposely raised the bar by putting like 5x-8x more competent engineers than the Opera core (non-platform/UI-specific stuff) team had, working on inventing and implementing random new web standards that they then promptly started using on google.com properties. Think e.g. 500-800 engineers compared to 100. We simply couldn't do the same. Then this ratio started growing until it was obvious that it would eventually become an existential threat.

They used their financial success in one business area (search ads) to become dominant in another area (browsers) in a clever and perhaps not entirely legal way.
Is washing your hands before eating being a "germophobe" or is it basic hygiene? How far back do we go in order to improve our immune system? Do we stop washing our hands ever? Do we stop washing taking showers?

There's obviously a balance with the best outcome. I doubt washing your hands before eating will make your immune system any worse.
Frankly this seems paternalistic.

It's hard for me to read this and not translate it as: "We found something non-white people enjoy and we're going to ruin it. For their own good."
TBH these games are just fancy CYOA books; a lot of them
could be just edited as PDF/EPUBs with a little notebook aside and they could work the same.

Text adventures offer far more depth and gameplay choices and freedom to roam aorund.
Neither of these really compare to the part where "If you don't accept all jobs assigned to you, we will no longer assign jobs to you and remove you from the platform entirely, also we are nearly the entire platform - you will find <1% of the jobs you previously could anywhere else"
Isn't the PPU very hard? Especially the fact that both the 6502 and the PPU execute in parallel?
Open-Source GPU Technology for Supercomputers: Advantages and Disadvantages
On the one hand, I understand that complete prohibition for drugs and alcohol just don't work. But I have a difficult time squaring that against my feelings towards tobacco, where I feel it would be so much easier for me to quit if I wasn't tempted by its availability at every corner store.
Just read "Working Backwards", and you will understand why Amazon is where is it.
This just feels like a continuation of the failed war on drugs...

I don't smoke, but I have no problem with allowing people to do so in private spaces. Why do we insist on micromanaging peoples lives?
> I'm just saying: responses like the OP immediately leap to the conclusion that influenza went away because of all the stuff we did. It's an error in logic, driven by the emotional desire to believe that the stuff we did must have had a serious impact, and that anything else is not worth serious discussion.

I feel like you're coming down too hard on OP. He makes a valid argument.

> immediately leap to the conclusion that influenza went away because of all the stuff we did

It's not an error in logic. It's a reasonable conclusion to draw based on what we've seen and the links he provided. Whether it's true or not, that's debatable and probably nobody here on HN is going to figure that out definitively.

I'm really not sure why you're so argumentative without actually providing any substantial arguments against OP. It feels more like you're the one arguing from an ideological basis.
I wish I could buy and ship this to my mom. Don’t have the time to set it up and she lives far away.
Because there was a vacuum in the mobile travel space when Hopper was trying to find its main value proposition and we tried to fill that vacuum. Millennials (and now Gen Z) tend to be pretty price sensitive and they also tend to be a higher share of the mobile user space so it made sense to apply our "you can watch for flights and get notified when the cheapest flight hits what we think is the lowest price" feature on a platform where sending notifications that users actual on is actually feasible. On web, the options are email or web notifications and neither of those are very actionable in a timely manner.
>and address health disparities experienced by communities of color, low-income populations, and LGBTQ+ individuals, all of whom are far more likely to use these tobacco products

The messaging changes with the whims of society, but the authoritarian motivations remain the same.
I have had to try multiple libraries to get a basic humidity sensor working with an ESP8266.

I agree that the hardware will be the dominating factor long-term; but I do think you're underselling the the complexity on the software side, and that it can make a big difference to a newbie.
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My understanding from the LWN article is that the patches were rejected by the maintainers, not that the authors pulled them after passait review.

Lacking informed consent from the kernel mgmt (i.e. G K-H), or external academic oversight, we can't be certain what they planned; I can't see why they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

CS researchers need to catch up with life sciences: pre-registered research, trials plans, external ethical oversight by experts in the technology and ethics.
BLAS/LApack are pretty much the only Fortran libraries that Julia uses afaik. There is also in development work on a Julia only blas replacement (Octavian.jl) which is competitive with mkl for the basic gemm already (more work needed for some of the more obscure functions). Lots of the push behind Julia is for it's ability to let fairly simple code compete with hands optimized Fortran.
Yeah, I've found moving to new foods to be relatively painless if done incrementally. Took just two weeks to convert my toddler son from cow's milk to soy milk (Silk brand, for the curious).

First day, it was 90% / 10% dairy/cow.
Second day, it was (eyeballing) 85% / 15% dairy/cow.

You get the idea... Didn't even notice the transition.
I'd bet anything that the business didn't decide that a mobile app was more valuable to their _customers_. Maybe more valuable to them, but not to their customers.

It is very rare that an app will provide more value than a website. And most of the time when it does, it's just because the website is shit, and they spent more time on the app. But if they focused on the website, it would be way better than whatever experience the app is giving you.

Here's something to think about: would you download and install a desktop application for every random website you come across? No? Then why do it on your phone? People must just make better websites.