skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your making a leap between “the time when everything was only on floppies” to “the time when everyone was doing multimedia online”, which ignores at least a decade of time starting in the mid 90s, and there absolutely was a huge need for it.

During that time, the main storage media was CDs, often used for software or mp3s. Games and other materials (like Encarta) were shipped on CDs because there was no Internet with lots of media, and anyone who did have it was on dialup. Shipping large data on CDs was the way it was done.

However CDs have the very obvious problem that they are not writable (CD writers were rare and very expensive for many years in the beginning), and once the writable ones came out they were still not suitable for things like random access read/write for typical documents, only really used more for archiving.

That’s why Zip drives were such a game changer (and the various other, now forgotten, attempts at solving this problem). Magneto-optical fall into this same time period.
How so? Not to start the old windows vs linux flamewar but if something in Windows doesn't work the way you want it you don't have many options. In Linux you can change absolutely everything... and people have been making it "actually work properly" for decades. This feels like just your personal experience about how some Linux distro didn't work out of the box the way you wanted.
With the amount of people in the country that are not legally allowed to vote it is not crazy or restrictive to require some proof that you are a citizen to vote in a national election.
Yep, GDB also regularly splits up TCP network packets, so beware of changing stream packet boundaries
Does anyone know what tech stack they use to create these visualizations?
The team name seems ridiculous, a non-starter, but it's not the actual name.

> The team that owns the common code is then responsible to explore code across the feature teams to be refactored, improved, and better aligned, for the sake of maintainability and scalability. The work essentially is like managing tech debt. Hence it is not really a misnomer to call that group the tech debt management group.

> Anyway, the focus of this article is not to define the name for the group — you may name it core, infrastructure, or architecture — but to lay out the struggles of such a group and explore ways to aid it.
> ...and players optimizing for homeruns

I feel like basketball has a similar issue with optimization for shooting 3 pointers vs. 2 pointers. It makes for a far less exciting game, IMHO.
Instagram Bug Allowed Anyone to View Private Accounts Without Following Them
So what do you see if you examine blood samples further back than January 2020?
> Microsoft Apple and Amazon date from a time before saturation internet access, Amazon being created right at the start. Back then internet advertising wasn't a plausible business model.

That doesn't explain why even that time, no such companies were founded in europe. I guess your thoughts on profitability are an attempt to explain that? I can't find data on when these companies became profitable, but at least for Microsoft it seems likely that they became profitable after three years[1].

[1]: https://www.quora.com/When-did-Microsoft-become-profitable
On the other hand, I want to use linkedin without my data being taken by other companies. It’s my data, not linkedin’s and certainly not hiq’s.
North Korean defector slams ‘woke’ US schools
Hi Aaron. First time learning about replicache. Headed over to the website and the documentation on the server portion seems to be a lot of TODO links. Before diving into Live, which looks very cool, I guess I'd want to know more about what the server side implementation looks like. I could see using this for a golang backend that I have to sync data with. Thanks.
The Future of Autonomous Mowing
Onshape is briefly mentioned. Yes, it’s online only, but it’s also free if you make your designs public, and as a hobbyist tinkering with 3D printing, I find it a good tradeoff.

The constraint system is elegant but took some learning since there’s a geometric puzzle aspect to it. I find it nice for making simple revisions like changes in dimensions. (For more extensive revising, it seems easier to delete that part of the sketch and redraw it.)
As another comment pointed out, the small countries vs US Network effects excuse doesn't really fare well when you look at the successful startup environment of Israel.

The USA is perfectly aware of this dynamic because faced with TikTok, their first reflex was to try to ban them.

And this take is just hot garbage.
> as a preserved island of fun and "hacking for the sake of it"

Somehow this sentiment is anything but fun to me. Emacs is the last bastion of a different path down the tree of personal computing than the one our species took, one in which individual users are empowered and not - as is now the case - held hostage by us[0] in our ivory towers of impenetrable layers of cryptic technology.

Emacs was made for humans to use as a real tool. Barely anything else in the tech world really qualifies to the same degree. I'd love to peek into the parallel universe where we stuck to introspectable, malleable software and ended up with something closer to the Houyhnhnm computing stack[1]. Alas, for now that ship has sailed.

See also: That old story about Emacs at Amazon, etc.

[0]: "tech people"

[1]: https://ngnghm.github.io/
What age were you introduced to Python?

Explaining what range() does to elementary age children seems interesting.
I agree with everything you said. We're in the ACA space, so this should been right up our alley (government puts new legislation in with penalties to force employers to do something they don't really want to), but the ACA had a much bigger stick and a much longer runway.

Starting January 2023, insurance companies and plan providers need to publish similar data, so to your point that might be the interdependency required for compliance.

Obligatory these views are my own, not my company's.
I took it personally because I have ADHD too.

"The meds don't make us super-human, they just let us be normal" - Bingo. Exactly.
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And where I'm from the state health organisation where everyone is insured sets the prices for all the procedures. If hostpitals want to get paid by them, then these are the prices they will be paid. It works, it's simple. Prices are adjusted based as time goes by, the hospitals make a small profit, but they are mostly non-profits run by the cities or universities.
There is no standard definition of "equality of opportunity"; and many definitions that are regularly-used focus primarily on an absence of unreasonable discrimination in application processes rather than fairness in the Rawlsian sense.
There is one major healthcare provider in my region. When I arrived here, the wait time for a physical was more than two months. The shitty US system is not giving me at-will service.
Eh, this is the typical way that IBM leaves markets. Yes, you can still buy OS/2 from eComStation, but the end of organizational support and selling what remains to a small entity is how IBM avoids having to deal with it anymore.
You're describing an FSA, not an HSA, HSAs are not use-it-or-lose-it.

FSAs and HSAs are different types of tax-advantaged accounts with different rules, but both can be used to pay medical expenses.

There's also HRAs too that's another different type of tax advantaged account and can also be used to pay for medical expenses.

This complexity is part of the problem.
Same here. I had pneumonia twice, once in October 2019 which was probably not covid, then again in February 2020 which I am almost certain was covid. Someone of my age and general health should not get pneumonia twice so close together without some serious underlying condition. The rest of my family got very ill as well.

I was more tired than I've ever felt, and my mind and legs were restless throughout the night and I couldn't sleep despite being exhausted. Called the on-call doc on the worst night because I thought I was having a reaction to the strong antibiotics they prescribed, and they had me take benadryl to help with the restless legs and insomnia, but it made it worse because I'm one of those people that gets the opposite of the intended effect of benadryl. I also lost 2 weeks of work with each case.

All the while, the Dr. shrugged it off, and there was no way to get tested for covid without being hospitalized on your death bed.
ignore the fact that Linus is now an American citizen
I primarily do CrossFit as it's really the only thing that keeps me consistently going to the gym - I'm a sucker for the community.

That said, while I'm able to generally sprint things quite well, my strength was always suffering as it's not a primary focus, so I do 5/3/1 alongside it and it works very well. I've definitely seen steady gains coming from it, and because of the low volume it's really sustainable.
For context:

> The web is already ridiculously feature-bloated. The scope of it is reckless. The madness of adding new features to a browser for every little use case needs to end.

This is what I was replying to. There's no arguments here either. This is emotional manipulation against a growable web. It's zeal & negative energy, concentrated.

> Having a thick interface between your files and websites is a feature, not a bug.

This is you mr-wendel. This is what I am arguing is wrong. I see no arguments to argue with. I just see bias and negativity. You wanted to define the web as a small narrow thing. You made no assertions no arguments. But such anger, such negative energy feels enormously trendy & popular recently.
There is always an insurance company involved with the prices of medical procedures.

Hospitals set their prices above what most insurance companies will pay to make sure they get the maximum amount from the insurance company.

When you come in without insurance, you appear to get screwed because the prices are extra high just in case some new fancy insurance comes along willing to pay more. Luckily, in many cases it's not terribly difficult to negotiate a lower payment.

I'm not advocating for this system, I think it's terrible, but I understand how it came to be.
> "region known for its religious conflicts" - I would sort of state that you're not being very objective there yourself. Islam is a religion but its also a really ingrained part of the culture in ways that christianity is not. It just means they're reflective of the culture thats produced it.

Would it be better if i said ethno-religious conflicts? Regardless, one of the biggest conflicts in the middle east is probably Israel-Palestine, and its been that way for a long time. I'm not sure i would look to AJE for neutral coverage of that (I definitely wouldn't look towards western media either though)
The writing/drawing/painting experience of the Apple Pencil would be massively improved if it had a small high resolution haptic speaker similar to the Switch Joycons or Steam Controller to emulate different drawing tools and surfaces.
I'm confused, you said there's a bug but as far as I can tell it's just that Safari disables using "tab" for more than form elements by default.
If anyone is complaining about a few hours here and there, relax. It took 7 years for me to solve an intermittent one once.

The issue turned out to be an immeasurably small thread synchronisation issue that went away when we bought new CPUs which were fast enough for it to not happen.

In the end this task was rewritten in a single threaded process as the CPUs are now fast enough to complete the work on one thread.
WordPress should do it directly.
UG requires only 1ct, though extracting profit is a bit more difficult until you get to 25k.
I don't remember hearing about other developers doing the same thing. I think it was just that I had a lot of experience debugging deterministic programs (like command-line tools) and it was infinitely more pleasant than trying to debug an interactive graphical program, so it was worth seeing whether we could make the game itself deterministic.

I've never made a system that ambitious again, but one thing I've learned from that experience is to never ever call global rand(); always always create your own RNGs that you can run explicitly, and if you have multiple systems that can be disabled independently (e.g., we were able to turn off graphics during our replays), give them each their own RNG.
You can get antibody tests now to find out.
The issue with US health insurance in general is that (a) it's not understood by the public as insurance, but rather as access to group rates, & (b) it's utility is proportional to the number of counterparties it covers (more doctors, more useful), which opens it up to a huge amount of abuse (doctor you've only done 3 transactions with over the past 5 years is vastly inflating fees on all).

What should probably happen is something akin to the housing market: backstop consumer insurance companies with re-insurers (semi-supported by the government) who buy and back compliant policies and providers.

Allowing consumer insurance companies to bound their risk and offer more reasonable rates.

I think ACA has a provision in there for catastrophic cases falling off the insurers' books onto someone else's, but it's been awhile since I read through it.
I think you misunderstood what "registration" meant in this context. Right now consumer wifi operates in the unlicensed ISM bands, which are parts of the radio spectrum that are set aside for use by the general public without requiring any coordination -- stations can freely interfere with each other's operation as long as they transmit below the legal power limit (which is antenna-dependent). In other words, you are allowed to buy a wifi router, plug it in, set up whatever SSID you want (or no SSID at all for a BSSID-only network) and use it with as many client devices as you want, without having to ask anyone's permission or register your new AP with anyone.

For comparison, take a look at 802.11y, which operates in the 3.6Ghz band, a "lightly" licensed part of the radio spectrum. Before you can set up 802.11y stations you must first register with the FCC (or whatever the equivalent in your country is called) and receive a license, and all your stations must be identifiable (you are not free to choose your SSID). That is already far too much for consumer devices (802.11y is meant for WISPs; it has better propagation characteristics than the unlicensed bands and you are allowed to transmit at higher power), and that is a "lightly" regulated radio band. Typical regulations e.g. the bands used by cell phones require far more coordination with governments -- more paperwork, more money, and many more rules about permissible operations.

Finally, for what it's worth, nobody has ever had to pay anyone for ISM band operations, including just recording transmissions on the band. In fact, if you are using wifi, you have been monitoring and analyzing nearby wifi transmissions this whole time without ever paying anyone -- that is part of the wifi standard. Just connecting to a wifi network means your device is monitoring transmissions from other people. So here is a final bit of snark for you: HOW DARE YOU USE WIFI WITHOUT PAYING YOUR NEIGHBORS?!?!?!?!?!
Ok, so your opinion is that the PDF might be outdated. Makes much more sense than your original reply to be honest..
"If you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about."
We had family visit from the PNW Dec 2019. Me and one of them caught "something". Whatever it was it kicked my butt from the last week of Dec to then end of Jan. Theirs lasted just about as long. I had trouble breathing and had a nasty cough. I only had a low-grade fever (and that was only for a few days at first), so I never felt like I should go see my Dr. but probably should have anyway.
Is there any downside to writing deterministic games? It seems like the only sane way to do it, but I guess it adds some complexity overhead for the initial write otherwise everyone would do it by default?
I have a Remarkable2. The hardware is fantastic but the software is so unbelievably bad I want to throw it in a river every time I pick it up.

I also have the original Remarkable, an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, a Boogie Board (2011), an iRex iLiad (2007), and I used Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing back in the '90s.

The use case I've long wanted to digitize -- quickly working out problems -- is one I still do on paper. The Remarkable2 hardware is finally there, but the software makes it useless to me.
> or by playing games to only take doses on certain days of the week

This is something I’ve always done, under the close supervision of my doctor. I’m not sure if he initially recommended it or not, but it’s been extremely effective for me in terms of keeping my effective dosage low and limiting tolerance.

My prescribed dosage of Vyvanse stayed consistent for about a year after beginning taking it, but began to escalate after that. I didn’t like that and was resistant to continuing to increase it. I went from 40mg initially to 70mg at the highest. I’m back down to 50mg today and am able to keep it at that level by limiting taking it less often. I typically end up taking it 4-5 days per week.

There are significant long-term side effects of these medications - limiting tolerance building and keeping the effective dose as low as possible is a viable means of reducing the chance of experiencing them.

Why do you assert that this is a “road you don’t want to go down”? Is it merely because my reason for doing so is so different?
While Brave does turn many away with its built in cryptocurrency and its questionable userbase, it's a damn good browser. I switched from FF after the layoffs and in short it has better privacy, UX and feature set and all BAT functionality can be easily and completely disabled.

It appears that beyond BAT integration most people are concerned about it being Chromium derived. While it's true that a more diverse ecosystem would benefit the users, I can't think of any organisation capable of creating a new browser from scratch that would be able to compete with Chrome. While I acknowledge that by using Brave I contribute to Google's dominance over the web, the only alternative appears to be using an inferior product - which would at best merely slow down Google's plans.
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Are they aware that we don't do slavery anymore? Because that sounded a lot like indentured servitude.
Anytime I see Tailwind mentioned I can't help but think about this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/samthor/status/140282566806113075...
oh yeah, IRS, they still owe me $3k. Thanks for the reminder :)
When I was in the Navy I carried a little memoranda pad in my left breast pocket. I’d take notes each day, at the beginning of each new day, I’d carry any necessary information from the previous day to the next page and then fold the previous page along the diagonal, alternating the folds right and left each day.

The effects of pulling out a notepad and jotting notes are markedly different than pulling out a phone or tablet- especially in a conversation or meeting. IME a phone signals disengagement, while a notepad signals the opposite. When I pulled out my pad, I could see body language and word choices change almost immediately. If it was a positive or neutral conversation, people tended to show appreciation for my interest in what was being said. If it was a negative interaction, people started to be much more careful about what they were saying.

Now I carry an attaché case and use larger, more professional looking, notebooks. Even in the age of Zoom, I angle my camera to ensure it’s obvious I’m taking notes. Sure, it’s an extra step to digitize the important stuff, but I think it’s worth it.
I love this. Reminds me of a sleep-deprived driver who keeps missing highway exits.
Cost of living in New York is so bad, if you have a family it easily makes more sense to make 100 or so in Alabama then to make 200 in New York. New York has extremely punitive taxes so you can't just out earn your cost of living
Same with anyone who was saying “it’s airborne” or “the case fatality rate is inflated” or “it could have leaked from that lab”.

And now, behold as the intellectual class attempts to delete these mistakes from our collective memory.
IBM should have taken an altruistic path on APL2. They have made tons of money with APL over the years. They should have released it as FOSS. As someone who started with APL in the early 80's, APL2 showed a lot of promise at the time.

The APL ecosystem is dead enough that having a company like IBM go FOSS with the language could --not likely, but it could-- spike interest and perhaps lead to the development of "APL3" or whatever the next evolutionary step of the language might be named.

From my perspective core APL is now a few decades behind the times. A non-trivial effort would be required to bring it into what it could become. And this could only be done through FOSS and people willing to invest time and smarts into driving this evolutionary step.
Median net worth in the US not including primary residence (an odd choice considering this is many folks' largest asset and is easily used to pay for things) is 40k.

It is silly to pretend like $1500 is not a possibility for "the majority of Americans". Certainly I do acknowledge explicitly in my post that there are millions of poor people in America.
This is a strong statement. In much of the US, an au pair can cost less than full-time professional daycare.

Similarly, many US households have access to a car. Most American vacations are road trips.

Getting a 3 bedroom vacation rental instead of a 2 bedroom and driving the au pair up in the back seat is not solely the province of the super-rich.

[For the record: I do not have an au pair, nor have I taken a babysitter on a trip.]
> I think it's capitalism.

That's funny. I think it's government interference artificially supporting monopolies and bad incentive structures.

The 2008 bailouts as an example of propping up companies that deserved to fail and corn/wheat subsidies that generate junk food as an example of bad incentives.
Privacy != security
Thank you for the feedback... I appreciate you taking time to provide some simple thoughts.
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I would do it like this:

test.cue:

#Job: {
command: string
args: string
cli: "\(command) \(args)"
}

#GoJob: #Job & {
command: "go"
}

#GoJobV: #GoJob & {
args: "-v ./..."
}

job: #GoJobV.cli

Results in:

$ cue export test.cue
{
"job": "go -v ./..."
}
No, hospitals absolutely share a lot of the blame for problems like this. Even WITH insurance, I've been burned so many times that I ask a lot of questions in an attempt to prevent problems and surprises. I get asked to sign forms acknowledging I've seen papers that they can't show me because they don't have them. They will refuse to provide care without me signing the form. Eventually I sign - and will later see a copy of this paper when I contest a bill. I will ask them what something will cost me in the event that my insurance doesn't cover it, and they'll tell me "it depends on how it's coded", and it takes time for them to find out how it will be coded. They will tell me. And then they will code it differently when billing the insurance. I've had bills from doctors for services provided at a hospital that had no record of that doctor, yet the doctor had copies of all the forms I signed at that hospital. And insurance wouldn't cover it because the doctor was not part of my network, even though the hospital proper was.

Insurance companies are full of scum bags and I have my problems with them too, but there's plenty of blame above that really has nothing to do with my insurance company.
It looks like model-as-a-service. Cool feature, isn't it?