skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like what they have is in high demand and they only have an ANSI keyboard, which is only really used by the US and China (and people that don't mind limitations)

Once they offer an ISO keyboard layout, you would expect demand to be even higher.
Just terrible. There are thousands of similar, less sensational stories generated by the U.S. health system every month. All parties in the system are to blame, as all parties have twisted incentives—profit—when it comes to providing and paying for healthcare. This isn’t news, obviously, and without some kind of legislative sledgehammer that alters the potential earnings of millions of people who are now cogs in this system, the problem will remain intractable.
We will rebuild Picks up fallen picnic chair
Yes, you can. Check out the "Framework Laptop DIY Edition". You can select to have it built without an OS.
I don't say it's really objective, I just say it's way less subjective than one might think.

Cilantro is not an off-flavor per se, it's just a flavor you like or don't. A cork tainted wine is an off-flavor. But if you don't like cilantro, it is indeed an off-flavor for you, but that is uninteresting. If I like burned meat, is a medium rare steak flawed for you?

> What is the quantitative measure of "complexity" or "balance" in a dish?

It's not measured with technology, it's measured with the tongue (+ nose) and experience of the taster. Interestingly, if you give the same dish or wine to real experts, you will probably get identical answers. So there is something there, but you have to get the experience and vocabulary to really judge a dish (or wine, or whatever).
That is the old macbook keyboard (before late-2015), and they brought it back with the m1 macbooks.

Basically late-2015 to 2020 macbooks had shitty keyboards.
I'm more attentive when I drive over the speed limit...
I gave up smoking 20 years ago. The one thing that helped was that I moved for work which means I had no smoker friends to party with. I picked up on my swimming and running to pass the time. Luckily the exercise and lack of company to smoke made quitting relatively painless for me. At the time of quitting I had probably smoked for around 8 years and had a 1 pack/day habit of Marlboro reds.

I agree with the parent comment. I took it one at a time and in about a month felt no compulsion to smoke.
Yeah, but some people don't feel like importing SQL files into there DBMS or anything like that.
By the same logic, should people with criminal history also not be considered for any jobs?
As a Canadian, but who's somewhat interested in living in Germany, could you elaborate on how you end up paying anything for public health care? We don't pay anything out of pocket for most things, but we do pay for drugs and dental if we don't have insurance. How does it work?
Does this basically force people to have a Canadian bank account to survive?
Guerrilla Urbanism
Check out a satellite photo of central park! So many baseball fields. I'm in a small city (denver) and have tons of 'sports' specific fields within walking distance.
Pay differences are already a source of major social friction, but companies find ways to mitigate or avoid the problem. Why would this be any different?
None of this has anything to do with Internet interconnects. It's all about office space. Google isn't running data centers in Manhattan.
Meanwhile, in the UK you can be arrested for insulting someone on Twitter.
As @fouc points out, I meant this kb:

"poster is probably referring to this: https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2019/11/16in-macboo..."
The problem is that there are many ok solutions and most differ in details that could be worked on incrementally after implementation.

But the problem in the US I think is that the society is so divided that it got stuck and certain powers want it exacly divided like that. With a totally polarized 50/50 population nothing important will ever change, everything is a big circus. I hope the best for the US citizens though. If the US continue their democratic downward spiral this all will end up in an even bigger crisis with even more individuals left behind.
In school they assign group projects to teach students that given a group one sucker will be stuck with all the work. That sucker is the one that cares the most to get a good grade.

At work it can be the developer who is pissed off the most about the code quality causing development pain or just naive enough to believe they might be rewarded if they care about the code.

In open source it is the pet project owner that often wants to see the project succeed.

It all comes down to who cares the most.

If you care you lay down industry best practices as the fundamentals, you tend the garden of knowledge and encourage pride in making your code the best. You mentor junior devs and put gates around your code to protect it. Fill your seats with developers who are willing to learn, challenge one another to greatness and when you find a hero, don't let them commit again until they have mentored two devs to take on the mantel.
> ISBN, by the way, will tell you the format of the book. Paperback and hardcover books have separate ISBNs.

To add, ISBNs will also tell you the cover of the book. If you have 5 hardcover editions where each has a separate cover image, that's 5 ISBNs.

The ISBN corresponds to a specific format of a book, always. Only reprints share an ISBN. And ISBNs also tell you a lot about the book.
Counter-intuitive, but a reflective screen is potentially more damaging to the eyes than a transflective (illuminated) one because with the reflective one, the reader has to depend on the ambient lighting entirely. Many times the flux of light falling into the retina of a reader may not be enough and prompt the pupil to open more widely than required, and set them eyes up for quicker degradation.
One man's clutter is another man's treasure. I hate dongles and extra parts, give me a fuckton of different ports!
FAANG in London will pay a lot more than £100k too, but parent specifically asked for outside of FAANG.

Also there are a lot of fintechs (or pure finance) that will pay more than that. I'd say after about £160k you're going to struggle without moving into some kind of management type of position, though, if you're not at a FAANG or extremely well funded startup.

Also bay area COL is substantially higher than London. I live in a 4 bed house a 30 min cycle from the City (where I work), and pay around £1500/month.
Though it's worth noting that when you do this you also don't have the SSD, RAM, or WiFi modules installed either. Though on the plus side you can choose not to buy those components from Framework and just supply your own, if you want.

I bought the DIY edition for a combination of wanting to bring my own components and not pay for Windows, and generally liking a little bit of tinkering. Installing the stupid little WiFi module antenna connectors was the only annoying part.
For some reason laptops that don't have a numpad at 13", they almost always do on 15+ inch versions.
Thanks. Saw that before, but the credibility/length ratio wasn't high enough to read it more carefully. It appears that we do have to Box/Rc/Arc nodes in a recursive datastructure. Doable, but a bit on the inconvenient side.

struct Node {
elem: i32,
next: Option<Box<Node>>,
}
I enjoyed Herb Farm (tho pricy). But I quite liked Archipelago which had a very intimate setting with only like 8-12 seats facing the kitchen. And they do a neat job telling about Filipino history between dishes. I haven’t tried many other fancy places there.

Edit: oh a bit more casual but Kamonegi is a great Japanese/soba place.
See also: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal?category=Tactical+Urbani...
This is really quite clever, but, as the author hints, you should probably just use a file system layer with snapshotting support. So many things are so much easier.
> If I could give my younger self advice, it would be to NEVER go work for a company unless you were absolutely passionate about their mission. Never work for the money. You could work for the money and die rich, never having lived authentically. Or you could live authentically, rich or poor, and die satisfied.

My advice to my younger self would be to chase the money. Make as much as you can, as quickly as you can, so you don't have to work for someone else ever again. I've been passionate about my work before, and, with the exception of one employer, it led me to burnout and under-compensation for my hard work (with the executives of course still taking their fat paychecks). I think there's also a middle ground where you can get compensated fantastically for what you do, and also work on things that you agree with and think are ethically sound, but don't drive you to work past midnight regularly because you love it so much.

Unless you are running the show, your passion is irrelevant. The people who run the show will do whatever they need to do to line their own pockets, and if that means exploiting your labor, or changing the mission to something you're not so passionate about anymore (or, worse, something you're actively against), they'll do it, and they won't be apologetic about it in the least.

Ironically, I think a good way to be compensated while doing something you're passionate about is as a consultant/contractor, where you get to set your rates and schedule. If you're getting paid hourly, all the better, because you know that every hour you put into it is going to earn you more money. As a salaried employee, working harder just dilutes your effective per-hour rate. And as a contractor, it's a lot easier to quit and move on to something else when the company inevitably changes direction in ways you aren't happy with.
"Would you automatically assume Autopilot is able to see and brake for the pedestrian at night and a human pair of eyes wouldn't see better?"

Honestly that's a terrible argument.

We haven't reached any kind of semblance that Autopilot or similar systems are capable of that.

Not only that, but it's meant as a supplement; it's not one or the other. We're simply not there yet, and may never be.
I completely agree. Not just Fukuoka though; really any city outside of the Tokyo metro area is fantastic.

The issue is getting a visa to stay longer than 90 days, which can be difficult.
Ivan Illich smiles happily in his tomb. A "convivential PC" :)
Process is about HOW you do things.
Product is about WHAT you make.
I do think that both are necessary but taken to the extreme as you see in Japan and US doesn’t lead to any easy reconciliation.
"I felt safer since I was looking hundreds of yards down the road for situations I might have to handle or avoid, at a longer timescale."

I was taught to do this while driving. It was a basic lesson in "Driver's Ed".

Making it a habit though is a different thing. For me that was easier because it was one of the things that pro racers mentioned they did as well.

That is certainly a key to avoiding accidents. Others would be always keeping a safe distance between you and the cars in front of you and what's going on behind and around you.

I made a habit when I first started driving to always stay focused on the task of driving. I almost never turn on the radio or play music. That's because I want to hear what's going on around me.

The best advice I ever got was from a California Highway Patrol officer who told me "Drive like everyone is trying to crash into you".

Where I live now almost everywhere I drive it's on curvy two lane mountain roads. Most have a 55mph limit with curve signs as low as 25mph. We also have deer by the thousands here, and they forage at night. You really have to pay attention to just to stay on the road and not hit deer.

There is no way I'd trust a Tesla to drive me around here (or anywhere for that matter).
Alabama Had More Deaths Than Births in 2020
https://archive.is/Z6Ft2
One thing I find cool about n-queens: there's actually a _much_ better algorithm for finding arbitrary valid n-queens arrangements than the well-known backtracking one. You can find answers up to arbitrarily huge boards, into the millions. (backtracking gets impractical not a lot after the traditional 8).

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.57.46...

This paper describes it. Tl;dr though: randomly place queens such that none are on the same row or column, then do kind of a gradient search swapping the rows (but not columns) of queens that reduce the number of conflicts the most.
Ah. I stand corrected. Thank you!
Use a Gemini site as an "endpoint" for a "modern" website, web "app" or whatever. There at least one user who would skip the Javascript go straight to the Gemini site.
Because the business doesn't have a clue what they need, but there's a chance other engineers putting in requests to you have a pretty good idea of what they need.
We know that in a free market, people tend to choose money that has certain properties. Historically, gold has been the best form of money, and it has been chosen by a free market, not by legislation. The most important property of Bitcoin is that it can't be debased arbitrarily, which is similar to gold. Bitcoin can be also easily stored and transferred, which makes it better than gold.

So, as long as people keep choosing to use Bitcoin rather than something else, it will also gain or hold its value. It is not immune to losing value, but there has to be even better currency, or it has to be banned. Both of these options might be impossible.
You're thinking about this from a technology point of view, but not from a practical point of view.

All you need to do is make it illegal to convert bitcoin to fiat and vice versa. Bitcoin is used for speculation, and not as a currency. Having bitcoin without being able to use it is pointless, and the only way to use it right now is to convert it into a usable currency. Yes, people can use some shady offshore exchange, and risk major KYC issues with moving that fiat. The key point here is that very few people would do so. The price of bitcoin would crash, and that alone would stop being from wanting to buy it.
I don’t assume that a car is going to stop at a crosswalk or stop sign until I can see the driver’s eyes and tell that they are aware of me and are stopping. Otherwise I wait. I have done this since much before mobile phones were a problem.
I've kind of lost my faith in the judicial system after they gave in to the mob and convicted Derek Chauvin, with plenty of reasonable doubt to set him free.

The legal system is as political, biased and arbitrary as any other part of our lives. There is no justice, only luck.
Segregated infrastructure is missing the point. Putting liability on drivers where it belongs, and giving priority on the shared roads to vulnerable road users, is what makes it work, in the Netherlands or in Tokyo.
Best of luck with your launch and post launch!
This is true, but people can also judge ahead of time when problems are more likely to occur, letting them put down the cellphone and pay attention to the road when it is more likely they'll need to react quicker.

I'd also guess most people are not constantly on their phones as they are checking notifications/texts and that kind of thing, so you get more of an on-and-off effect rather than just being consistently drunk for the entire duration.

Not that it makes the practice any better, but it does seem like a complicating factor when trying to frame the problem in terms of drunk driving.
USB-C is much more complicated than most of us would anticipate, I would prefer to make it more specific: 2 Thunderbolt and 2 USB 3.2 gen 1. And I don't know when was the last time I used SD, let's save it for something else. And on a computer, I would prefer DP or mini-DB over HDMI.
you can: https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition/configuration...
I am not going to try to change your mind, in fact, I largely agree with what you're saying. It's a very complicated and contentious issue in the US.

First, we have a strange relationship with taxes. The highest amounts are paid to the Federal Government (at the nation-level) and as you travel down the chain to state and then local (city/county), less tax money is owed to these places typically. Regardless of where someone sits on the political spectrum, it is widely accepted that the federal government does not efficiently spend the money, with citizens receiving no tangible value. For example, during the pandemic, many people got $1200 stimulus checks and a "good luck" even though taxpayers fork over thousands over the course of their lives. Stuff that actually affects our lives directly is often done at the local level, with roads, for example, funded by a tax on gas in California (and some federal dollars, too).

Given the perception of how grossly incompetent, understaffed, or ill-prepared government offices are to deal with anything, people are not exactly lining up to have such an inefficient system provide them with insurance.

We also have an accessibility problem in that every process that one must initiate to receive most government benefits, is rife with bureaucratic, over-reaching, and easy to mess-up paperwork designed by people who's goal it is to dish out as few benefits as possible.

Having spent a bit of time in Germany myself, it's clear the attitude is different. Germans (and EU citizens) actually receive benefits from the taxes they pay that are both accessible and tangible. Having medical expenses paid by the state via taxation is ultimately what creates a more healthy society.

Second is the fact that we allow large lobbies and organizations (like insurance companies) to influence what legislation gets passed. This is also so far removed from people's every day life that this sort of non-corruption, special-interest sway happens all the time. Insurance companies have a great thing going on for them, imagine being able to charge whatever you want and be wildly inept and unwilling to actually provide services (pay out) when your customer requires it as per the policy you sold them. They fund (behind the scenes) mass-marketing campaigns (yes, instead of paying actual claims) that spread propaganda about how bad healthcare is if left up to the government.

There are other problems, but maybe this helps see why it's such a big social issue here. This is just my take on what I find to be two major ones.
Maybe, it depends on where that traveler prefers to vacation if you’re talking international though. I’m in NYC and fly them a lot (well, used to when that was a thing), and they have pretty good coverage around the Caribbean and parts of Latin America. I’m more likely to want to vacation in Colombia or Mexico or Jamaica than I am in Europe. And when I do go to Paris to see family I just use travel points from my credit card.
That's only really comparable if you're exchanging a few hundred dollars worth of crypto. What if you need to exchange several thousand? The spreads are going to be terrible, as would be counter-party risk. Timing would also be an issue, which is important if you're trying to trade (as opposed to HODLing).
Of the 100k how many will be also counted as COVID deaths?
This is all that needs to be said. Just like you can’t trade on the holdings of hedge funds declared in their 13F because of the time delay, attempting to trade on a congressperson’s trade declaration is nearly useless.
Dental is pretty much a market. Even employer provided coverage usually has some relatively low annual limit.
This is so true. I worked a BI tooling startup and it was a lot of fun. But the big clients all had the same types of issues which ultimately dooms their quest. At some point the CFO, CTO, CEO notices they are spending more on “BI” than marketing and they start to get very curious about what they are getting for their money. It’s never quite what they expect.
This argument makes no sense. Medical bills are the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. Hospitals knowingly employ out-of-network doctors so they can bill patients huge sums directly.
Again, just a reminder that anyone's individual experience is not necessarily broadly representative. I'll speak for myself, but back around fall of last year I felt like I was going to slit my wrists of I didn't get out of my apartment.
The nature of medical emergencies prevents actual markets. If you have a chest pain, that's not the time to be comparison shopping and reading reviews of different hospitals. It's the time to get to the nearest ER while you can. Markets rely on well-informed buyers, which are just not possible in the circumstances.
Yes, that’s what’s known as the efficient market.
What they've got now on the Framework is just "arrow keys as Apple did it": they used this full-height/half-height combo for a while but have since returned to the "inverted T" with all half-height as you describe.

I think the sense that space is wasted by those deadzones above the left and right keys is a powerful motivator of these "hybrid" keyboard designs. I do prefer to have them all half-height if any of them are, as it does make it easier for me to "touch type" the arrows.
> When the urge came up, I put it off five minutes.

I smoked for 13 years and stopped 13 years ago. I have had maybe two or three cigarettes since. I started by gradually cutting down then after a few weeks adopted this exact strategy. When the urge arose I just waited a few minutes and it usually pass. It's also worth noting that in addition to the nicotine addiction, I had to deal with built up habits and being used to having a cigarette in my mouth but after a few months these went away.

To this day I have the occasional craving but these pass much quicker (generally in a few seconds) than they did 13 years ago.

Looking back, it was fairly easy for me but I understand that it's not the same for everyone. My dad quit after 2 decades of smoking, he had vomiting spells and chills for weeks. I know of at least one person who had quit for a decade, had one cigarette and is now back to regularly smoking.
I tried Kotlin, but I went back to Java. Interacting with Java libraries can be OK, but it can also get ugly. Using companion classes for loggers seems overkill. I didn't like having to explicitly cast ints to longs.

I ended up going back because Java's getting better--var and records help with some of the pain--the tooling is simpler and more reliable, and working with something like Hadoop was significantly harder.
I think few people want the system as is. It's a combination of a) thinking this doesn't affect you because you have good insurance (until it does, becase something like this happens), b) not realizing just how fucked you are because you don't have insurance but haven't gotten seriously sick yet, and c) simply not realizing things could be different/better.

Particularly for the last point, socialized medicine is often weirdly spun as bureaucrats taking away your freedom of choice and preventing you from getting health care ("death panels" and all that). So people visualize the current fucked-up system, imagine what it would be like if they had even more obstructive bureaucracy dictating whether you're allowed to get surgery and how long you need to wait in line, and often course they think that sounds even worse -- although the reality is that would be better for most people than the status quo of only being able to get surgery if you can afford it, and still risking getting bankrupted in the process.
Uh, ouch. I got charged like $80 for two nurses to give me a venesection (half hour blood letting) and supervision, which was fully covered by our public health care system and billed the government directly. Didn’t even have to get a receipt. Australia.
I agree with everything you said in this post!

Get the money!

Though contracting rates are stuck low unfortunately, I never found anything better than 125/hr.
The government banning something that people want to use hasn't made it cheaper, but you can't use bitcoin, you can only speculate on its trading. If the government makes it difficult to trade bitcoin (for fiat), less people will buy it, and less money going in will also result in more money going out. It'll crash the price which will further dampen its demand.