skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably, but it would still be illegal (sidenote: IANAL) and they usually don't enter your premise to find your WiFi. So the "easy" no-jail way to do this would be to reduce your transmit power.
Is tailwind the new de-facto standard what bootstrap was three or four years ago ?
Both companies I worked for during the pandemic offered a reasonable equipment stipend. I had a pretty custom setup that was more specialized than what I would have had in the office and it was entirely covered. If you exceeded the budget your manager could approve exceptions which didn't seem so hard to get.
I got an MRI in France a few years back, not an emergency. Booked an appointment for the next day. To be fair, 30 years ago when MRIs were kinda new and machines were extremely expensive, I remember there was not enough of them and patients and doctors complained of long wait times. That's not been an issue in a while.
I don't like what I'm going to say, but post scarcity can't come without either a worldwide culture change or an exploding population that would lead back to scarcity.

We are still animals, and evolution is still a thing. We're clearly a k-selected species, but in post scarcity, what's to stop a portion of us from becoming r-selected?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
Obligatory link to "Debugging Rules":

https://debuggingrules.com/

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I.... hate debugging. Just hate it. If I'm developing some code, and it doesn't do the right thing, that's fine, I'll find and fix the problem (usually, unless something wacky is happening with a 3rd party lib).

But ask me to figure out a problem with a large and complex system, and I just find that so discouraging. I know how to do it, (in part thanks to the above), but I just don't like the process. You never know how long it will take. You never know if you'll end up digging down further and further, and it is a problem with the hardware or something else that is hard to fix (I do a lot of embedded development).
Loans from the bank if they are tied to you personally. A delaware c-corp has pretty good protections.
Has anyone had any experience with e-ink monitors? I work long hours at a screen and have two problems:

1. I get eyestrain and find it hard to concentrate.

2. The bright screen seems to be very "addictive" and I find myself browsing hacker news, reddit etc. instead of working.

I wonder if an e-ink or RLCD screen might solve these problems. There are some new 25" screens coming out this year.
East Coast vs. West Coast Butter – What Is the Difference? (2019)
The 835kph Sailplane and Dynamic Soaring
It's kind of an interesting problem because Google drives cars around and reads the all the networks and saves the location for use later. Even if you don't use Android, just like they took a picture of your front door with their car, they wrote down the name of publicly broadcast networks as they drove by.

Should there be a way to tell the Google cameras to turn off when they drive by, and similarly, to tell the Google wifi setups to ignore our publicly broadcast network?

I imagine they have the right to take pictures from the street and record publicly broadcast names.

It seems like the entire specification of wifi should evolve to natively build these flags into how we manage our wifi, but even then, could we ever prevent a car driving by from reading the name of our SSID and logging the location and name for their personal use?

Perhaps the solution is that we should not publicly broadcast our SSID at all. Like bluetooth, we should "pair" and then stop the broadcast.
EU court makes it harder for Silicon Valley giants to dodge GDPR privacy suits
Innovation for innovation’s sake is meaningless. Innovation to improve quality of life is reasonable, so decreasing quality of life to increase innovation is like shooting yourself in the foot for faster access to healthcare.

And competition is not the only thing that breeds innovation. Just think back to all the HN articles about needing to make time for curious people to innovate.
The ones I really hate are the ones that disappear when run under a debugger, or with higher logging levels. Usually race conditions.
I Keep Telling Myself That Justice Will Prevail
Borland Software Craftsmanship: A New Look at Process, Quality and Productivity
After moving halfway across the country in 2013, I had trouble finding a doctor who would prescribe Vyvanse - after having been on if for years and basically relying on it to remain productive.

If not for the exact discussions you’re speaking about at work, I would likely have ended up unemployed.
> because of "anti-China sentiment"

Because yet another Chinese company flagrantly flouting a licence is really going to help with that situation…

I was considering one of their devices. I am now not.
Maybe not just as relevant, but certainly still annoying.
My Maniac Week – A Review (2020)
Have you tried writing with your other hand, if you have it? Writing with my non-dominant hand is slower and more precise. It’s been twenty-odd years of practice, in part in case I lose a hand, and it continues to feel like a fun, healthy challenge.
Exploring the Strategy Behavioral Design Pattern in Node.js
>Microtargeted advertisements to the exact people who need to hear a message have been shown to be incredibly effective at persuasion. That's why targeted advertisements are a billion dollar industry.

Is the argument that this strategy is just completely lost on legacy incumbent politicians (because they're tech-illiterate, don't understand ads, whatever), and the "Russians" were able to spend 1/1000th the cash as the DNC on these targeted advertisements and actually effect the outcome? What makes all of this unconvincing to me is we have to act like the only set of political science "experts" in the 2016 election was a Russian troll farm. If that is the case, it's a much more serious point about the viability of American democracy in the 21st century than anything about "the Russians".
Do they have an RSS feed? Is rss even used anymore for stuff like this or should I give up?
I completely understand. However why switching on Android? It seems like the iPhone SE (1st gen) would be perfect fit for you.
I'm not sure there was ever a time when every important system wasn't compromised in some way.
I didn't downvote you, but "I believe the research supports my position" is functionally equivalent to "that's my gut feeling". I'd be interested in seeing any research you've encountered that caused you to arrive at this conclusion.
Thank you. Really good to know those things.
I'm not sure grocery pickup falls into this category, but there have been a lot of "businesses" over the past few years where, even though the workers are barely making minimum wage, the real cost premium is above what mainstream consumers are willing to pay. They've been being subsidized but that's obviously not a long-term solution.
Reminds me of this, which is a comically recurring thing on HN:

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
Yet, this is somehow not a problem in any other country. That amount of outlier cost is priced in, like many other businesses.
Right, and how exactly is it advantageous to the insurance company’s to pay a $3500 bill if it really was $1500 (or possibly lower). The racket on the insurance side is if the bill is truly 1500, which they payout to the hospital, but then still go ahead make back $3500 on the premium off the patients.

I don’t know who taught who to be dirty, but it seems like the hospitals and insurers are becoming one in the same (possibly the hospitals learnings from the insurance industry).

My hot take:

Insurers might be on the patients side simply because Americans are living longer, and maintaining the general level of sickness (diabetes, heart conditions, etc). Prices going up does not favor them when medical care is going up, so they are oddly on the average person’s side.

But for the hospitals and doctors, this is all a dream come true. Endless supply of patients, so charge whatever you want.
Yes. There are often entire offices that specialize in radiology and do only that.
Sounds promising. I'd look forward to trying this out if and when you launch a Bitbucket integration.
Do you have studies on waiting times that you can cite here? Genuinely asking because I know they certainly exist for Canada[1] with breakdowns down to the Province [2] so I'm just assuming you have some proof that can be used to bolster your claim.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292524/

2. https://www.hqontario.ca/System-Performance/Wait-Times-for-D...
Attempts at solving the online social media
Could software help identify hospitals and insurance companies who are engaging in this?
I can get an whole body MRI in Poland for ~$250 via a private healthcare provider and wait less than a week for it at that.

Why is an MRI anywhere in the world $1500, or $3500 for that matter?
Yeah, I have no idea what people are talking about with Safari being the modern IE when Google is off in a corner trying to push web standards no one is asking for on a browser that makes its RAM consumption look like you’re doing video editing.
Objectivity is not the same as giving equal weight to all sides regardless of what they say, imo.
Reminds me of when people naively expected "Do Not Track" to be respected lol
>Blocking FLoC is as easy as adding this header to the HTTP response:

That's "easy"?! How does my mom do that for her WordPress site?
I just have to say. I’m a Windows guy for life. I use Ubuntu for some stuff, but 95% of my time on a computer is Windows.
And for the same reason that software estimates suck.

The lower bound is quantifiable: if everything goes as expected, and this is all the work, then project time is the sum of each piece's time.

But the upper bound is unknowable. If a thing that we don't know about happens, how long will it take to solve, if a solution is possible? And what portion of the project will it involve?

But that's really a gripe about PMs not understanding compositions of multiple normal distributions.
When without dental insurance, my dentist office put me on a special "no insurance" price list where I got much better quoted prices, because they knew they weren't dealing with an insurance company with people dedicated to negotiating low rates for each specific procedure individually. They may not have been quite as low as insurance companies paid in some cases, but it was much cheaper overall.

It's not like this is impossible or hard, it just takes the hospital actually caring about their patients enough to not screw them over when they don't have insurance.
This subthread isn’t discussing IndexedDB.
Pencil & paper (printouts and margin annotations)

iPad Pro (11") with Scrivener + GoodReader in side-by-side mode. I read the text in GoodReader and make notes in Scrivener (Scrivener can also show both the PDF and the notes side-by-side which I've also done).

Just reading, my Kindle Fire 8 works very well for this and is more comfortable to hold than the iPad Pro over an extended period.
Don't worry, Google will just "accidentally" break compatibility for those extensions in a way that's totally not just anticompetitive behaviour, because they've never done that sort of thing, like breaking other Google properties undermine Firefox before, no sir.
Why would you think that working hard leads to a better life?

Look at people you know. Is there any connection between how hard they work and how good their life is? By good life, you can take that to mean "material wealth" or "subjective happiness".

I've never seen a connection. I know poor people who are happy. Rich people who are stressed all the time. Poor people who are stressed. Rich people who are happy.

I've read it a few times now that the connection between income and happiness is tenuous, according to studies. The connection between working hard and getting either of those, I haven't seen so much about. My guess is it's just as tenuous.

If you look at how people landed in their jobs, what do you see? Is it really the people who work hardest who got furthest? I get this feeling it's the other way around: people who got the best opportunities often feel they need to do something to deserve them.
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I doubt you're wrong. The quote from the ERCOT VP of planning hints that even they are concerned about it:

"We will be conducting a thorough analysis with generation owners to determine why so many units are out of service," said ERCOT Vice President of Grid Planning and Operations Woody Rickerson. "This is unusual for this early in the summer season."
Characterizing Turley as “biased” and “right conservative” is pretty disingenuous. A few years ago I would have called him a pretty standard Hacker News liberal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Turley

> In appearances on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show, he called for criminal prosecution of Bush administration officials for war crimes, including torture.[21]

> He has opined that the Supreme Court is injecting itself into partisan politics.[29] He frequently has expressed the view that recent nominees to the court hold extreme views.[30]

> Turley described U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in an op-ed as President Barack Obama's sin-eater, writing:

> “For Obama, there has been no better sin eater than Holder. When the president promised CIA employees early in his first term that they would not be investigated for torture, it was the attorney general who shielded officials from prosecution. When the Obama administration decided it would expand secret and warrantless surveillance, it was Holder who justified it. When the president wanted the authority to kill any American he deemed a threat without charge or trial, it was Holder who went public to announce the ‘kill list’ policy.”

I think it’s more accurate to say Turley is a libertarian-leaning liberal in a party that’s closed ranks around its statist wing and thrown its libertarians completely under the bus. (And I say that as a statist who didn’t agree with Turley back then!)
Its the difference between being capable of joining Google and being unable to get anything better than McDonalds or similar. Sure you can go through life working minimum wage jobs and never see a doctor about it, but I certainly feel my life is better on medication. Basically it is the "I could do it if I just wanted/tried', and adhd was what prevented the person from wanting/trying.
Investors see transitory inflation and peaceful Fed taper – BofA survey
I don’t think anyone knows for sure? I miss not listening to them when used to see them appear in Overcast :-)
When I hear data validation I think “csv or excel file generated by other department that I need to import”, how is cue with that sort of thing?

Eg I want to import data file and get a report that tells me 20 values in column A are negative, column B contains floats etc.

And can it munge stuff? Column C are stored as floats, but should have been of type int. If all values are whole numbers, accept it.
Art pieces don't get finished. The artist just eventually stops and moves on to the next assignment, next commission, next piece, etc.

> Imagine the carpenters were like programmers. You bought a chair.

There are volumes and volumes written about the definition of done. It's not so simple.
Another hole I used to put myself in is I would often copy and paste stack traces verbatim, and of course most of a stack trace is just filepaths unique to your user account and of course nobody has posted similar stack traces like that because they don't have the same username and folder as you do. I've learned to copy and paste smaller snippets that are more likely to be generic across many different machines and found much more success with that strategy.
China might be a different sort of beast, though, given the sheer number of people and because of the level of control the government has on their citizens. I looked into how many Chinese students there are in America, and it (was) about 370,000 students in 2018, but surely that number has decreased because of COVID restrictions.

Keep in mind that valuing education does not mean having a college education, it means that you value education and are more likely to keep learning throughout your life.
Doesn't the exact same argument apply to using an opt-out approach, but much worse?

If two companies use different suffixes, that makes it impossible to opt out of both.

Edit: The only reason this isn't already an issue is because Microsoft made their opt-out work anywhere in the SSID
So why is defi necessary to make this happen?

I feel this vision defeats the whole purpose of defi. The Kenyan farmer still needs to sign up with a centralized insurance provider. The insurance provider also now needs to overcollaterize their loans...and at that point why not just cut out the middleman defi pool and use that capital to run as any traditional insurance provider would?

In any scenario you still need a company to vet/insure the farmer.
Wow I love this idea. I should get an old alarm clock ...
> Note that the median net worth of an American household is ~120k

That sounds pretty decent, but the grouped by age/location/education level medians are show that there are still a lot ( as a percentage) of people with low net worths in certain groups. And even then, net worth doesn't mean money in the bank - most people wouldn't and shouldn't have to sell their house or car to be able to afford a medical emergency ( even though i agree that if you have a $120k net worth, you should be able to save money on the side, but i wouldn't be surprised if there are situations where that's hard ( e.g. house bought years ago, a household member without a job, friend/family/only remaining job are in the area)).

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/average-ame...
Hisense has some eink phablets that look awesome too.
https://goodereader.com/blog/product/hisense-a7-5g-e-ink-sma...
One would hope not, but it makes connecting to less trusted networks much more risky than it needs to be. And I'm sure that's something users will regularly do.

Software updates are infrequent and they certainly aren't pushing out standalone security errata that I've seen.
Still have room to opt out from Apple and Amazon, right?

On the plus side, world-wide roaming would be much closer after that.
My previous comment on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27508759

(Slightly edited) copy-paste:

Economist ran an article on this: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/06/05/once-a-corpora...

We're in the service economy now, and Europe has no real single market for services, due to all kinds of national regulations that differ throughout the block. Nor does it have well-developed financial and labor markets, partly also because they are currently partitioned by nationality. Its stock exchanges are too many and too small, etc. The list goes on.

For many big European companies, an astounding percentage of revenue comes from the US or China. But if you start a startup building for US/China from the start, why would you want the HQ to be somewhere in Europe?

This also means that the story is very very different for products that can be shipped in boxes. Europe does extremely well in cars, beverages, clothing, chemicals and that sort of thing. Also electrical utilities for some reason.
Net worth is deceptive, because that's going to include illiquid assets such as housing. Are people supposed to take out a HELOC to pay their medical bills?
I think airbnb is great for month long stays, anything shorter doesn't make too much sense once you factor in all the fees (p.s. use Australian version to see the prices with all fees included on the search page).

I really like their direction of enabling month-long/flexible stays and considering whether I replace my lease with that so that I can move around more easily and see different places rather being stuck at the same place for 1+ years.
Unless it’s a real page turner :p
I never got the impression that price differences are a function of billable hours but instead some vague notion of complexity. I don't think that 10x billed surgery consumed anything close to ten times the hours and materials.

This would be akin to developers saying "Yeah it only took me 40 hours but it was harder then I thought so pay me for 400."
"Compliance could be limited because the penalties for noncompliance are minimal (maximum $300 per day) and the costs of disclosure potentially great"

Lol what a joke. $300/day is like a drop in the ocean for most hospitals/clinics. No wonder no one is complying. Let's add Prison time to executives and see how fast they comply. I absolutely hate dealing with incompetent/fraud billing systems of our healthcare system.

My steps to solve this:

1. Get rid of health insurance companies in EVERY process. If I want to visit my doctor for a basic checkup, let me pay cash. The cash price should be displayed/known in advance and I can shop around multiple doctors in my area.

2. With #1, get rid of crazy premiums , copays etc for most of these visits. Boom, u save shit ton. And no, don't argue with me that my employers provides great insurance. You don't want health insurance tied specifically to employers. You should be free of that.

3. Govt should subsidize the out of pocket costs for going to doctors . Increase a little bit of taxes for this. still a saving because you are saving SHIT TON of money when not paying crazy premiums etc. FOr those who argue otherwise, let me give you an example. For a family of 4, my total cost for an ok insurance is $2200/Month. This amount has to be paid regardless of whether I see a doctor or not. Then comes the copays, deductibles etc. Amounts can vary based on how "great" your plan is but the fact here is that shit tons of money is being paid to insurance companies for doing nothing and being a middleman. Get rid of this and you can add a small progressive tax instead. Will gladly pay that because I for sure wont pay $25,000 premiums per year and another $5000 in deductibles BEFORE i get a single penny from insurance companies. Oh and this keeps the price gouging racket going.

4. Let insurance companies stay in the market for "nice to have" procedures.

Imagine if Car insurance became like health insurance. Who wants to argue that prices won't go up for EVERYTHING including a basic oil change.
At one point they went way farther than that, cracking WEP, etc.:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/googl...
I'm working for a thriving startup in a European country of 11 million people. We had 100% growth per year until we had basically everybody in our own country and then it got massively harder. If we had started in the USA, we would have reached that point being 30x bigger, making billions of dollars, and much better prepared to conquer foreign markets.

So maybe Israel is doing quite well, but I know from experience that it would also do massively better if it had the size of the USA.
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IMO Linus is a very unique, one in a million, engineer building a proto git in 10 days is really not a common feat and is the result of a mix of passion and focus that is very hard to replicate.

That being said, I agree with the general point that having vision and trusting your developers with their vision can be a winning strategy.
Not that I am aware of.
The subtext of "the rest of her life" was a gut punch. Beautiful story.
No, but it offers the most flexibility of any css framework I've seen.
Thanks! We're still working on developing a great experience on Github, we'll look into more integrations in a few months. Our issue will be to decide on Gitlab vs. Bitbucket first.