skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This weekend project turned out to be surprisingly non-trivial. First, you have all sorts of silly limitations in Twitter's API. You can only retrieve a maximum of 3200 tweets from a user's timeline, which for very active accounts only goes back a year or so. Moreover, Twitter forces you to get a minimum 5 tweets at each API calls, even if you need just one.

But the most surprising to me was that there is no coherent indexing system in the tweets IDs. The best solution I found was to generate a random date and get the latest tweet posted before that date and juggle that with the 3200 tweets limitation.
How would you guys go about retrieving one random tweet from a user's timeline?
Honestly the section of the article on "The Antifa/BLM riots" was absolute garbage. He frames it that "National Democrats generally supported the rioters; portrayed them as “mostly peaceful” activists against fascism and racism, even contributing money to their defense; took seriously the notion that we should “defund the police” or backed similar police “reform” proposals; and stubbornly minimized the months of bloodshed, danger, and destruction the riots caused." But then he notes that at least one article included all this information and also agrees that the main article does a great job in neutrality. Then he has a problem with how monument removals was framed. sigh okay this guy is clearly cherry picking.

Trash article from someone trying to stay relevant.
When I had to deal with some small tendril of IBM, I think the anti-trust suit was still in the works. It probably scarred their dealings with other companies to the same degree that their dominance did.
>only female Neanderthals transmitted their genes down the Sapiens gene tree

That would be right if the only genes a man passes to his children are on the Y chromosome, but a man passes 23 chromosomes to every one of his children. (One of those 23 will be either an X or a Y.)
Farmed animals are bred in extreme quantities over uncountable generations. There is obviously an argument for the original ancestor generations of farmed animals as to whether their lives would have been better if we did not farm them (and another, different argument for the current generation, if we decide to stop farming and have the choice of slaughtering them as normal or freeing them), but as we produced their descendants, that quickly became morally irrelevant as an argument for either side. E.g. it doesn't make sense to defend the concept of animal farming by saying that they are better off on a farm than in the wild if the ratio of the farmed population that would have been born otherwise is close to zero. So the question the cited person should have been thinking about is instead: Is it better to be farmed or to not exist? Since your sarcasm indicates a combative emotion, I'll let you know that I think the answer is obviously "to not exist" in the case of factory farms, but my moral opinion on the topic isn't what I was writing about.
This actually seems like an explicit acknowledgement that regurgitation is possible, and not remotely a claim that it is "simply not possible".

It stands to reason that cases where people are intentionally trying to produce regurgitation will strongly overlap with the minority of cases where it actually happens. So I think we are probably suffering from some selection bias in discussions on HN and similar forums--that might be unavoidable, and it certainly stimulates some interesting discussion, but we should try to avoid misrepresenting the product as a whole and/or what its creators have said about it.
Well, France is condemning American "woke" leftism. France thinks it's something different from "normal" leftism. And they're probably right...
Hard to avoid. Some issues have little to no middle ground.

Woman’s rights vs killing unborn children does not leave much moral middle ground.
While technically true, in most real life situations, this is not possible to exploit. If the speakers have an amplifier in line with them, they will not work in reverse. If the speakers are built in to a laptop, the driver circuitry will not allow them to work in reverse.

Pretty much the only way this might be possible is if you had an audio port that was capable of functioning as both a TRS output and a TRS input (not a TRRS "headset" port), and had a set of headphones plugged into said port, and had a piece of malicious software that was able to reconfigure the port to act as an input.
My initial reaction to the idea that emotions can distract one from making progress is that there may be unaddressed issues present. Emotions are bodily signals. You could say they are the result of information processing. They don’t come from nowhere. Emotions need to be processed and responded to.

Maybe we can find common ground with the idea that some emotional issues take a long time to resolve, and, in the meantime, one needs healthy coping tools which may include different ways of soothing / calming down the emotional response when one needs to be functional.
While I don't completely disagree, a Benevolent (or not) Dictator For Life can have it's own set of problems. And I'd not that it's generally not considered a great governance model for large open source projects--though that's obviously a somewhat different situation.
with the .5 release, I would say the value prop is tree-sitter. Config can still be in vimscript. Very little would actually change there vs .vimrc.
To be accountable, a person needs to be in charge. Board president is often just one vote of many.
My heart is with vim but I switched to emacs as I love orgmode too much for note taking. I tried a few vim orgmode plugins but they seemed quite flakey even though I only really use orgmode for outlining. Excuse my ignorance but could all this LSP/Lua stuff allow neovim to take over from emacs?
I came from combo state provided, state paid healthcare system. The latter maybe ok, but never again to state provided. The service was/is horrible and health care providers are often complaining that they are angry their patients are receiving substandard care because the politicians are deciding procedure (via funding)
Apart from some node issues early on, CoC has worked well for me. At some point I’ll try the native lsp, but it seems like a lot of setup, just to get back to where I already am.
It seems like lots of places will let you start using the service without actually waiting for a response to the verification email. If they would use "in HIBP" as a flag to indicate that they have to actually wait for the user to click the verification link, that would be pretty cool.
My org has a mix of Jenkins and GitLab CI, and I think it actually works reasonably well, especially if you can have both systems targeting a common pool of k8s-managed compute.

Basically there are large build/integration/test jobs that are centrally managed on Jenkins via Pipeline/Jenkinsfile, but then we offer a library of relatively simple common-case gitlab-ci configs that can be trivially pulled in, so most common cases are basically a one-liner (build dpkg, build setuptools, build sphinx, run nose, etc), but from the dev's point of view it's a self-serve thing rather than some mystery-meat process that can only be altered by filing DevOps tickets and hoping for the best.

TBH I think my biggest complaint with GitLab CI is the insistence that every job is a brand new container. This means if you, say, have a big NPM project that installs thousands of dependencies on every run, you have to either a) hit your repo multiple times and not worry about it, b) figure out a local-enough caching proxy for your repo that it doesn't matter, c) combine your build/test/lint stages into a single one, d) build from a nightly container that has a bunch of it pre-installed, e) abuse the artifacts system to pass the workspace between jobs, f) spend multiple hours trying to make the supplied caching mechanism work, only to find that no matter what you do, NPM ignores the cache and re-fetches every time, and even if it worked, you'd have to pick between various non-ideal cache-keying strategies: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/caching/
Waiting for the access to test this out
Shouldn’t it be possible to disallow this on the level of the sound card?
I do too. A doctor should be able to give you the codes for whatever routine or preventative procedure you’re interested in paying for, and you should be able to look up the price on your insurance company’s website.
Wrong. YOU might want cutting edge care from the smartest and most highly educated people in the world (not sure where you get this from however, healthcare in most of the developed world is equally good). Most people want decent care that does not involve them worrying that the next healthcare bill will bankrupt them. I highly doubt ludicrous hospital bills are a necessity to getting "cutting edge care", if so something is definitely broken (and is).
Could you elaborate on how this is different from the current system?

With the current system, the condo board decides that repairs are needed, assesses fees, and makes the repairs. The fees are either paid immediately by the condo owners, or the HOA puts a lien on the condo. Local laws require larger buildings to be inspected on some scehdule... in New York I think there's a type of inspection (FSPM: fire safety and property maintenance) that is required every three years, for all multi-tenant residential buildings.

From what I can tell, the big problem is that the condo board is just made up of people who own the condos, and the bylaws of individual HOAs require certain actions by the condo board to be approved by the owners.

The other problem is that Florida has weaker laws for condos than other states.
I don’t remember PATA(IDE) disks having Write Enable jumper settings. Apparently some parallel SCSI drives had them but pretty rare for non-removable media at all.
> "Neutral Point of View" is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. It is also one of Wikipedia's three core content policies; the other two are "Verifiability" and "No original research".

OP is conveniently forgetting the other two Wikipedia requirements.
“Chaotic” may be an appropriate term. I mean, “Chaos Theory” (using a very technical definition of the word “chaos” which is only serving as an analogy here) deals with systems that are understandable and somewhat predictable in the near term but with a certain amount of a particular kind of complexity that makes it totally unpredictable in the long term. Even when you understand that he fundamental, reductionist physics. A simple pendulum is predictable over the near and far term. A double pendulum, on the other hand, is “chaotic,” and fundamentally not predictable in the long term, even though all the relevant fundamental physical laws are known.

I think “chaos” is a good word describing something which is in between the fully predictable and the purely random.
If every other developed nation was able to provide unicorns and lollipops to its citizens regardless of their ability to pay, and the United States couldn't I would also be asking for Universal unicorns and lollipops.
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Ok, fair points.

My main concern is really just to lower college tuition. I don't know how people keep putting up with it, but we are essentially enslaving an entire generation with debt as soon as they actually gain some agency.

Maybe instead of paying the debts with tax dollars, we force universities to eat the cost, or at least some of it? If you could declare bankruptcy on your college debt, it might make universities think twice about charging such high tuition. Or it would just make them selective, I don't know.
This has given me serious pause on buying a condo.

If I rent the moment I have unfixed issues I can leave ( breaking a lease is pretty easy in my experience). But I'd hate to buy and then deal with bad neighbors or building issues
He knows Russia will kill him for airing dirty laundry. He's biased in favor of preserving his life.
So, condos aren't that old in the US. Is there some similar structure in another country with older urban housing stock that works better?

For demographic, environmental and economic reasons, it seems like more people will and should be living in cities with some density, so we need _some_ well-functioning arrangement for ownership for something other than single family homes. Is there not some country with a lot of heritage 18th and 19th century urban buildings which are successfully inhabited by many owners?

(Given the intractability of strong tenant protections in most of the US, I don't think it's reasonable to take the position that if you can't afford a whole house you should rent.)
...why? Why is this any different than the spreadsheet-based version of being a bounty Hunter? Why, in involving stock trades/financial instruments, does it somehow become wrong for someone to specialize in a very niche skill, and then choose contract work instead of a salaried position? Is this a moral judgment about a particular person's greed? You might be misunderstanding US-style "capitalism" if you truly find that distasteful.
Yeah. There is a legitimate quality reason but it doesn't appear to be how they actually operate. Reality is more like a local case that resulted in a lawsuit (never heard the outcome) against the insurance company for sending patients to your Dr. Nick.
COVID has stopped being scary so they need some new FUD to push. Fear sells.
In that case, the value of a thing is not it's physical reality but it's provenance.

I guess it's no different than the high value given to a lot of 20th C. art, it's just another form of marketing.

Maybe this bodes well for antique prices.
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I use the name of the company that offers the 'free' wi-fi - eg nothanks@mcdonalds.com or chairman@walmart.com etc. That way they get the bounce back on their own mail servers and they also rarely refuse to accept it as a valid address for some reason :)

(note I'm just using mcD & walmart as place-holder company names, have no idea if they operate their public wi-fi that way)
But how does the car know what the local speed limit is?

Also how does it handle temporary speed limits due to road works?
I appreciate the thought that went into your response. Also, I like your list of concerns and public priorities. Go run for office so that I can vote for you.

> And, yes, people with expertise need to be making decisions, not politicians or ignorant voters.

I agree with the sentiment but there's no universal definition of ignorant voter in the political sphere. There's only, subjectively, useful to someone or not useful to someone.
If a dog has a violent temperament, training is nice but eventually irrelevant. It should just never be kept in a neighborhood where humans live, or where it has any chance of coming close to any human. Instead it should be kept in a fenced area. And it should never breed. Or maybe even put down.
That explains a lot

EDIT: to elaborate, I agree with other commenters that seem concerned with Gitlab's direction. It's hard to put my finger on what exactly bothers me, but to take a stab at it: Gitlab always seemed to pitch itself as the nerdy, more open little brother to Github. I'm currently on the free plan, but definitely consider/considered going for a paid plan.

But this blog post plus the 'developer evangelist' give me pause and make me feel like Gitlab is aiming to just be a less well-funded Github. If you're going for the developers, it's best to avoid corpo-speak and the blog post and 'developer evangelism' is full of it.
Yeah, this hews pretty close to what I've heard; that the conquistadores acted mostly as a "catalyst to rebellion" for an enormous native population that hated the Aztecs, but felt powerless to overthrow them.

When these strange foreigners showed up and offered an alliance, their mysterious/inscrutable prowess (technology, foreign backing of unknown power, clear ability to ship in men and arms) helped give the rebels the confidence to give it a go.
There-in lies the problem. You overestimate the tax increase and underestimate what you end up paying if you ever get sick.

And yes, the bigger issue is reducing hospital bills. Again, look at the line items and you'll see a big large number next to admin costs of processing insurance. Add the cost of profit for the insurance company and their cost of running the business and you know where this is going.
You are trying to place events which happened in the past under a completely different set of circumstances into the circumstances of today and then are drawing a conclusion from that.
Programmable capillary action controls fluid flows
This bill misses a big point. IMO should be there is only one price. Insured, in/out of network, regardless. A lot of times the reason an out of network rate is so high is because these providers are charging so much more for the same thing.

Additionally it seems we have a supply vs demand issue if healthcare providers have such pricing power. Maybe it's time to open up the training supply and let folks with a 3.3GPA become doctors?

EDIT: looks like maybe the supply issue is more about residency than med school https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/more-medical-stud...
Yup--gotta let the mostly government funded ambulances shaft the patients.
Can you integrate AWS CodePipeline and CloudWatch?

There are no good integrations, and I would love to be able to get a quick overview. Bonus points for nice display on mobile.
This may be a horribly naive question, but do computers have the circuitry/sensors required to treat speakers as an input device?
They're looking at clamping down on that, too.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/biggest-health-insur...

> Doctors and hospitals are condemning plans by UnitedHealthcare—the country’s largest health insurance company—to retroactively deny emergency medical care coverage to members if UHC decides the reason for the emergency medical care wasn’t actually an emergency.
Rates of entrepreneurship are higher in Scandinavian countries[1].

I believe that comes down to the fact that in those countries, you don't have to already be wealthy enough to afford the $36k in premiums alone each year in order to just insure a family with one kid on the individual insurance market. That $36k doesn't include the $18k+ yearly deductible, nor the co-pays or cost of care or medicine when actually utilizing the insurance.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/sdd/business-stats/EAG-2018-Highlights....
This is the correct answer. Literally every equipment vendor does this.

Why must we reinvent everything? Even obvious things…
It was never a good idea to centralize a decentralized source revision control system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367916
I think that is only inevitable when the rules of democracy have been set up to give overwhelming power to a single winner.

Here in the Netherlands, the number of parties represented in parlement has been rising for decades - there are currently 18 parties. And yes, that causes different kinds of problems.
I can write 4 lines of code per month, so I guess I'm overqualified.
If you operate it directly on the open ocean, towing it behind your sailboat, you don't have to do anything special.

If you operate it in a commercial, protected context where you pump water through it, you will generate brine.

If you operate it en-masse in the ocean, the things that are insignificant at the scale of 1 and 10 square meters may become significant at the scale of 1 and 10 square kilometers.

All of these things are true for other desalinization systems, too. Claiming "you don't have to worry about brine" because it floats on the water surface is misleading at best. You can put any system you want on the water and make it float -- we have concrete and steel hulls, no problem -- but that doesn't solve the concentration problem.
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It's worth pointing out that neutrality is only one of Wikipedia's three core values, the others being "Verifiability" and "No original research".
Well, at least I'm consistent - I avoid taking aspiring needlessly just as I avoid pointless vaccination. The mental circuitry feels the same in both cases - Strong belief that the body will successfully defend itself. I mean, what was the point of all that evolution if it couldn't?
There may be some sampling bias as you point out, but it is still crazy from my perspective. I would suspect that UPS and the other major carriers have optimized this task to death. With the right bundling and route optimization for a specific city or set of parcels I could see some level of improvement due to the things you mention.

But 200-300% efficiency gains over businesses that have been profitably providing this service for years? Its exceptional enough to warrant being called crazy at first glance.

From the article,

"The two Portland delivery companies are demanding a cap at 250 packages and 150 stops per 8.5 hour route"

Which seems to indicate that they realize that some bundling will occur and accept it as long as there is an upper bounds on both metrics.
what is a PK mindset? I am reading it as primary key, but that doesn't sound right. Googling didn't turn up anything that seemed to fit.
Thanks for the downvote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...

If anyone wants an explanation.