skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious to know more about how they assure the same evaluation quality in different continents. I've been to several starred restaurants in Europe and US, but I had VERY different experiences: the quality of food and service were on two completely different levels (yes, I read that's more about the food, but I'd still expect a certain quality when it comes to service as well).
> And that severely reduced the amount of learning-from-others that went on in your company during that era.

I was not talking just about my self. I was talking about the whole industry. PRs became popular when github became popular; about 10 years ago.
This should have included some reference to the preeminent examples: Common Lisp and Smalltalk
I still say there is a big difference between intercepting the Internet traffic and saying that giving unlimited access to the information is a prerequisite to doing business.

Just think US government decided to imprison Apple executives and put their own in place of them unless Apple gave unlimited access to all their devices to US agencies.

Also the way China uses this information -- to control minorities, punish "thought crime", erase historical events and uncomfortable topics from public.
>When you're having a heart attack, the last thing you're doing is shopping around for the best prices on heart attack emergency treatment.

This is a tired, nonsensical argument. The vast, vast majority of medical procedures are not last minute emergencies. Furthermore, with price transparency you will clearly be able to evaluate which hospitals may or may not be generally in your price range and choose a default to visit for an emergency (assuming you're not carted off in an ambulance).

More importantly, this will absolutely force competition and some degree of price correction.
> Writing an email to Apple saying "I agree to your terms" while continuing to fight in court over those terms is not an agreement of anything.

Especially since the court ruled Epic violated them once before.
The striking thing is that criminal enterprise relies on software as much as any other legitimate business. The adage "software is eating the world" comes to mind. It's probably the case that more technically adept criminals will roll their own tech and out manoeuvre rival criminals and law enforcement. Considering the sums of money discussed in the article it's not inconceivable for criminal organisations to start creating their own dev teams.
I worked for a trading firm that had public pay & it certainly wasn’t about equality. It was simply recognition that people will talk about pay and it was easier to get in front of any ill will & miscommunication.

There were extremely wide pay bands there for the same function and it worked fine because the company was perfectly happy to tell people “that other person is paid more because they are worth more to us”. I find that a whole lot more palatable to the nonsense pay bands I see at the regular tech company.

Don’t lie to people about why your pay is secret (it’s always for information asymmetry in negotiations) and be honest to your employees about their value to the company and everything seems to sort itself out.
Quite the bullet we dodged. It’s a good example for my pet theory that seemingly irrelevant (for the work) things like homophobia tend to pretty good heuristics for general shiftiness (I had a different word in mind, but autocorrect did a smart thing)
This is yet another NFT thing.

The NFT fad seems to be reaching peak Ponzi.

Axie seems to be the worst. This has become a huge fad in the Philippines. It's sort of like Pokemon, except that it costs about $1000 to get into the game. For a few months, poor people were buying into this and making enough money to quit their job. Then the supply of suckers ran out. The token is down 85% from peak.

There are now metaverse NFTs with "presales". The promoters don't bother creating a virtual world; they just sell "land" in one that doesn't exist yet, with vague promises of a future implementation. That's almost certainly an illegal public offering of an security under US law. (Look up "Howey test").

Even Decentraland, the NFT-based virtual world, only has 275 people logged in right now.[1] (Compared to about 40,000 for Second Life, over a million for Roblox...) People who bought "land" in Decentraland for a "virtual store" are not getting much traffic.

The SEC shut down most of the ICO scammers. NFTs were invented as an end run around securities law. Since each one is different, they're not a commodity, so the CFTC lacks jurisdiction. If they represent a real world thing, they're a collectable, not a security. But most of the newer NFTs represent nothing.

Getting away from uppity domain registrars would help. Originally, you owned a domain. Now, registrars take the position that you just rent it from them. But NFTs are not the answer. Too many scams and scammers.

[1] https://catalyst-monitor.vercel.app/
You are talking out of your arse… and so am I.

Unless we have well researched data, it is just a opinion.

My opinion and experience is definitely different than yours, and I have seen that objective c leads to more productive teams if they are mostly senior people. (With a couple of libraries (just some helper categories on strings and arrays) and some sparse macros objective c becomes a very productive language. But it takes a senior team to do that well).

Meanwhile with swift you feel you have to please the compiler at every! step? And it really doesn’t lead to much safer language anyway (swift bugs are different) and you feel you have to fight the compiler in every way.

Objective c is less fuzzy, and while it lets you do dumb/fast things (especially important during prototyping) it gives you a clear ‘you are doing x wrong’ warning which gives you the best of both worlds

Fast prototyping when you need it, and safety when you need to ship (you can have a production build fail on just warnings)
Pipes are commonly used as delimiters in healthcare settings [1]. A quick quack suggests Python, Javascript and Perl ecosystems have HL7 parsing libraries available. I assume most languages do.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7
There are services you can use which will negotiate the rate back down to the neighborhood of what the insurer pays. They won't negotiate with you specifically, you have to retain one of these services to negotiate on your behalf. They have direct access to usual and customary charges insurers pay per region.

Was in a similar situation as you were, but unfortunately, what I'd have had to pay was still too much as it was clearly fraud on the part of an outpatient clinic - one side, the clinic, was approved by my insurer, the other side, the surgery center, was not, and they willfully lied about this distinction. I threatened a law suit and they demurred.
I agree that it's pointless for emergency surgery, but there are plenty of other cases where a consumer could shop around (colonoscopy, ACL repair, etc), and I'd argue these are actually the majority rather than the minority of cases.

To me it comes down to - if we are going to pretend we have a market based system for health care (that's what we say we have now), we need pricing transparency to have any hope of it working.
==We have at least 3 different taxpayer funded healthcare programs specifically so not everyone can get access to equal care==

Add in CHIP and the VA (Tricare). We've taken every vulnerable part of society (older, poor people, poor children, injured veterans) and given them government-paid, universal healthcare. This is around 100 million people.

Everyone left over is thrown into the private insurance pool. These people are typically working age population (18-60), making them both the richest and the healthiest. This is around 200 million people.
They're part of Xcode package but they can also be installed separately IIRC.
God, I used to work in medical billing, and people would think these file format issues were some kind of scheme. NO they are not. They deal with the obvious problem that clinicians are NOT always programmer friendly, and will put things like tabs in case notes, will use commas etc. At some point you use a delimiter that is much less likely to be used - | - is one of those, not a lot of clinicians use it and you can say, please don't use this.

A surprising amount of stuff (at least medical billing side) can be flat file moves, especially if you are billing into lots of different systems.

And yes, the idiot new person with a phD says, just quote every field with a ". Great - you program all this up, along with the required escape sequence handling, and then escapes for escapes. \ and / get used a fair bit sometimes already and we are dealing with tons of systems.
And it's an unethical system where people who have leverage end up able to negotiate more pay for the same output than people who do not. I suspect that if you weren't in a privileged position, you'd be upset about the disparity too.
The 2nd phrase is somewhat more informative: "the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history"

HN has an 80-character maximum length, submitters have to make choices. That said, I'd have gone with the 2nd phrase here.
High goods prices relative to wages force you to learn to fix stuff if you want to, like, have things that work (or, at least, they encourage quite a few people to learn how to fix stuff, so they can do it for others, for pay).

High wages relative to goods prices means everything's disposable. I might try to repair a $300 toaster. I might pay someone else to repair a $600 toaster. I'm not going to try to repair a $20 toaster, and I'm sure as shit not gonna pay someone else to fix it. I'll just buy a new toaster.

[EDIT] incidentally, saying "there's too much waste of X" is, in most cases, nearly identical to saying "X is too cheap". See: food waste. "Why do we waste so much food?!" because it's so cheap relative to labor that it's not worth the effort to waste less of it.
This is why we need reference based pricing. You can't charge more than 1.2 * Medicare and if you pay cash, you get the Medicare price. This change alone would remove 25+% of unnecessary bloat from the US system.
healthcare insurance is the best example of a state-sponsored scam I've ever seen.. and it just continues unabated. I can guarantee that almost no one involved in that transaction actually knows what the per-unit cost for a 1 hour ultrasound actually is.. and when I say 'cost', I mean how it costs the hospital. Health insurers, hospitals, doctors are so awash in money they probably can't believe they're still getting away with it after all this time. Just look at all of the new hospitals and care facilities that are getting built. You don't do that if you're 'squeaking by'.. Hospital lobby is full of shit. You can probably trace all of this back to the HMO model where insurers began to add a lot of distance between the caregivers (i.e. doctors, hospitals, etc) and the patients. Like wall street did (with basically every financial instrument), they add layer upon layer to the cost chain, which adds an equivalent number of money-takers, to the value proposition. Insurance companies amortize the total cost across their subscriber base and 'poof', you've got our ever increasing health premiums. Just ridiculous and so obvious.. but since they're 'doctors' and 'care givers', we automatically just assume they're not motivated by profit and therefore beyond reproach...um, wrong.
Can you say more about why the information process isn’t automated, allowing for easier and faster determination of these things?

Doing it manually seems rife for error and to be awful toil
Supercomputer probes the limits of Google's quantum processor
From what I understand this is aimed only at ARM, so there's no emulation. This is therefore targeting Linux phones, but not Linux on desktop (which is usually run on x86).
The dentists peddle that nonsense because it is almost all profit for them. Insurance will not cover it because there is no strong evidence that it helps, assuming you are brushing your teeth regularly, have access to fluoridated drinking water, and otherwise have healthy eating habits.
One of the arguments for social media is that it keeps you in touch with friends you've lost touch with.

Except, that there's probably a good reason you've lost touch with a lot of those people. What Facebook showed me was how racist and vulgar most of the people I went to school with are. Better to just see them once every ten years at a reunion event where people are on their best behavior than to have to face it every day.
> I'm paid for the value I provided the company's bottom line

Completely untrue. Imagine you spend three years building an app. You'll produce zero revenue during those years, and even after it ships, it'll take years more to pay off the money invested.

In reality, like any other good, your pay is determined by what someone is willing to pay for you.
What an amazing domain name.
I don't see a problem. Micro-USB has been used for years now. The next few years it will be USB-C then. What's coming after that we do not know yet.

Beside that, Apple might just work around the rule and no longer include a physical charging connector in their devices and go all in on wireless charging for example.
Ok, will talk to the person who can release them. Shoot me an email in a week
Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity
Insurance isn't inherently a moral hazard.
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They are the self-proclaimed “brave” company. Which is enough reason to avoid them.
Yes that's absolutely true. I know this isn't true of everyone but I personally use a unique email address for every site I engage with making it less likely, though not impossible, for something like that to happen.
I considered adding on a coda noting that "costing money" doesn't imply big pharma. But I didn't because I considered it sort of self-evident. Neverthless, you went there anyway.
I've had this thought as well. If insurance is negotiating with the provider then that should be the final say. What's the point in negotiating if the patient gets charged the difference?

I believe this is called 'balanced billing'. Some states prohibit it under certain conditions but it seems either the government or insurance should be prohibiting this practice.
Just to provide some specific numbers to emphasize tptacek’s point, according to The Economist Big Mac Index, June 2021:

“A Big Mac costs DKr30.00 in Denmark and US$5.65 in the United States. The implied exchange rate is 5.31. The difference between this and the actual exchange rate, 6.32, suggests the Danish krone is 16% undervalued.”

At the listed exchange rate, DKr30.00 = US$4.75.

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
The Rise and Fall of Mirasol E-Readers (2018)
Thanks.
I plan to stay in KDE land for the foreseeable future and when I have a spare time I will release a more refined combination/theme.

The idea of middle gray as a starting point for UI is well established but not popular nowadays in the world of high contrast and saturated color palettes.

For the moment the combination is to apply Breeze Dark default workspace theme, Nordic-Darker icon pack, SF Pro Display Medium and this color theme.

https://ibb.co/nPmHYfg
How can we be sure that something we have classified as a Red Dwarf star isn't a Dyson Sphere? All of the energy of the star has to be vented eventually, so a Dyson Sphere should glow like an end of life star that has expanded to the diameter of the Sphere.

Also, how do you tell the difference between a solar system full of orbitals vs. a young solar system that has not had the orbital lanes cleared by planets?
I think it is hate because its not uncommon to hear that these people should be denied care.
Automation of boring theorems for software properties / correctness would be very useful, even if it didn't produce new mathematical results!
Probably depends a good deal on what you're used to. By far, the IDE I've spent most time in through my career is Xcode (or its predecessor Project Builder) and have found it's not too bad once you've got a grip on the things it doesn't "like".

In fact I enjoy working in it more than I do the much-vaunted Jetbrains IDEs, even when configured to use Xcode key shortcuts (thus short-circuiting the familiarity problem a bit). The faster autocomplete is nice, but a lot of the "smarter" parts end up getting in my way or doing the wrong thing more frequently than they are helpful. I can't really compare with Visual Studio since I've never really seriously developed for Microsoft platforms.

I will say though that Xcode got noticeably worse after Interface Builder got merged into it, and I think much of its woes stem from that merger even today. IB should've been left a separate tool, which is particularly evident now that XIBs and Storyboards are yielding to SwiftUI in the nearish future.
One can also try to work for companies that properly appreciate the value of all necessary components of the business, even if one can't directly tally their contribution. Most important factors to success are not easily measurable.
No they are not. Taxis aren't public transport either.

This CityAirbus takes what, 4-6 people seated? A bus easily takes 40+, a tram 60+ and a metro 250+* - and that's just seats, they all fit hundreds of people if you include standing passengers.

It would take ages and hundreds/thousands of flying taxis to clear a stadium, while it takes only tens of metro trains.

* Numbers taken from public transport options in my home town, will of course differ around the world
Nah. It's an attempt to cast the discussion about name policy as a simple technical concern --- before we landed on this weird DNS thing, it suggests, everyone was just typing IP addresses into address bars. But of course, there's much more to it than that: the names themselves are of immense value, and there is a massive commercial and public policy debate over how they should be administered. And when you think about how central those names are to how the Internet works, you're immediately left wondering how the hell some random coin should be in the mix.

I don't think it's ignorance motivating that text.
Also if you have secureboot on,you won't be able to load ashmem because it's not signed by default by ubuntu. That is without signing the module yourself. I have waydroid running in 21.04 without any issues.
No, I don't oppose hospital price transparency. My comment was basically a procedural one. Saying that ER visits are 2% of nationwide costs does not meaningfully address the toplevel poster's concerns.

> ER costs are also a problem, but it’s an orthogonal issue.

It's natural to want to discuss this orthogonal issue, and the solutions to the two issues are not mutually exclusive.
Legitimate businesses can much more easily avoid being scammed by vendors because their legitimate businesses are protected by the legal system. They also can openly discuss their experiences with vendors, because they're not hiding from anyone.
It depends. You can have unarmed guards that are basically as you describe. Although the comment about being on their phone is commonly applicable to the police as well. Those guards are practically worthless since all they will be doing is calling the police if something happens - something the staff could do. You could also have armed guards. Most states have licensing requirements for armed and even unarmed guards. They can have some state-sanctioned violence too. For example, felonies committed in ones presence are enforced by state licensed guards (not much different than citizen's arrest except because one has a state issued license the court bias is with you rather than against you). And an example of a felony would be striking a teacher (or guard/police) which is aggravated assualt (in my state). Another thing is that many times the schools only want to hire retired LEOs for their guard positions. This can give them more leeway due to prosecutorial and law enforcement discretion as well as court bias.
Capitalism was invented to manage the slaver's business model in the US, so as long as "the elite" is defined to include the economic class of slavers, the US groups the super-rich and the mere business successes largely within a single discourse. I see this as an aspirational application of hyperdescent[1] by the slavers to elevate themselves in the US's emerging power structure, since I highly doubt the (pre-existing) super-rich would have said "the violent hicks? Yeah they're with us" as the US's self-conception was developing.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdescent
... and for the things within your reach, you will leave a legacy of unmaintainable bash scripts; the inheritors of which will loathe to modify or throw them out all together because of code inertia and their foggy understanding of it.
> Our system is optimized for capitalistic profit.

We got a real astute analyst here. I am curious what your first hint of such a fact was?
I'm interested to know how having access to information, which the opposing party in said negotiation has access to, would hurt you?

It seems unlikely that it hurts you directly in your own negotiation, and more likely is a benefit. It might hurt you indirectly - in that it helps other employees, who are making less than you, potentially make more, and thereby reduce your own theoretical maximum pay (this doesn't seem very compelling though)... But, it seems naively egocentric to believe that, over the course of one's career, that indirect harm would be greater than the potential direct benefit...

What am I missing here?
With a title like that i was expecting a sci-fi thing with tentacle porn. dammit.

watch "Naked Space" instead.
Yes, got it mixed up in my head :)
Try plugging 12 years of 1G acceleration into the Rocket Equation.

If reactionless drives remain science fiction this mode of travel is flat impossible. There literally isn't enough mass in the solar system.
That is the normal frictional vacancy rate, and is mostly temporary. It's also not a problem of buying and holding empty land; by definition, vacancies are on built-up lots, and they generally spike when construction is finished (takes time to rent/sell all the apartments in a new building).

https://la.curbed.com/2020/3/5/21079171/los-angeles-vacancy-...
Here's another reason to quit social media: the lords of the engagement economy make money off "mimetic desire" -- off your envy of me and my envy of you. The more anxious they can make me and you about measuring up to each other, the more money they make.

That's evil. Some might say it's demonic.

Here's a writeup. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-...

(Said he, writing on the Hacker News social media network :-)
You cannot think of a usecase for list of matrices or a usecase for 3-tensor?
The Federal Reserve is getting ready to roll back its stimulus
I wonder that, too. Seems like a fruitful point to introduce logic waiting for a blacklisted address.
> "LeT's MaNaGe RSA KeYs UsInG NoN MeMoRy PrOtEcTeD CoMmOdItY HaRdWaRe RuNnInG a NoN SaNdBoXeD KeRnEl"

In retrospect, this would have been at least as good as the real securid dongles.
> Mozilla didn't fire Brendan Eich

true ! Mozilla harassed Brendan Eich publicly and he resigned.
...or wait for the fxtec to ship. If I'm going to have a command line on my phone, I want a keyboard.
I’m not sure if I agree with defeatist attitude. I’d do whatever I can. But, I do agree that this needs to be taken care of at the legislation / national security level and citizens shouldn’t have to.
Does the situation in the United States seem to back up this anecdote? Do we see companies fail or suffer extreme setbacks from workers exercising their rights across the land? Or do we see companies growing at massive rates while employee compensation has stagnated?
Swift does not provide memory safety for concurrent code. It has comparable pitfalls to Go. (You can use Thread Sanitizer to try and diagnose these issues, but that's best-effort and runtime-only; it does not make your code totally safe.)