skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to say that that $950/month figure is largely a function of the initial cost of the car and the lifetime of the car.

My current car is a 2009 Honda Insight that I got in September of 2009 (149 months ago). Its original price was about $19,000. Since then, my total expenses for it have been $13,022.22 for it - including gas.

This gives $215/month. In the before times, my average milage per day was 39/day and I currently have 144,998 miles on it.

Car insurance is a bit hard to pin down since its part of my general insurance. Let's call it $150/month though its probably lower... that only brings us to $365.

There are people who get much more expensive vehicles, and there are those who treat them poorly or feel the need to get a new one more frequently than I do or have other considerations that makes that car insurance much higher.

I would still claim that the $950/month is a bit high.

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Your number appears to be based on a similar calculation of https://www.ratehub.ca/blog/what-is-the-total-cost-of-owning...

The numbers that differ most for me on that are the car insurance and finance payments. I purchased my car without financing - it was completely paid off on day 1 - that means that the interest costs of financing aren't factored in. My car insurance is less. The gas price that it uses of $145/month is closer to $80/month... and I haven't had any parking fees (which appears to be largely city dependent).
The clues are a bit earlier in the article and the full name of HIPAA

> The financial trajectory of MarketScan was perhaps unimaginable in 1981, when a former insurance executive named Ernie Ludy founded the company. His idea was to simply collect patients’ data and parcel it out to big companies that were seeking to control costs by getting a more granular view of their employees’ health care use.

> The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
> But if they do something unethical, like removing content for political reasons

How is this unethical?
Doesn't matter. Half life is used for anything that is modeled with exponential decay: energy systems, medicine effectiveness, caffeine in a body, oscillations.

So if the essence of a thing breaks down, and the model for it is exponential decay, then it has a half life.

Thus DNA has a half life, just as the paper in Nature, one of the premier scientific publications in the world, demonstrates.
Not really, they can't show you their ads if you only listen and it's a feature people are willing to pay for.
Yet people take Alex Jones seriously.
IANAL but I think HIPAA:

1. Only applies to covered entities.

2. Data can be given to another covered entity as long as certain rules are followed.

Very easy to have a web of people giving each other data because of this.
I'd also put some video game art in this category. Translating art from the real world to the screen loses the awe, but art created for a digital environment can easily awe.
I'm mildly surprised that someone's started this github all the way back last summer, and now it's finally become politically relevant. I guess someone's got an app out there somewhere for everything
Nothing to see.

It's some 2 hours work where you can't seem to edit or delete any notes you created.
Yes, very possible. Ukraine wants Donbas and Crimea back. And they are not excluding use of force.

This is also why Ukraine will not join NATO until they resolve their business with Russia.
The title here is technically correct in representing the content and the U.S. view. But you aren't the only getting weird vibes from it. In fact, I think I can honestly say that it is actually, literally the weirdest announcement I ever heard the U.S. government give.
> I support the free market as a tool when it delivers on the benefits that it can provide... If problems show up I'm happy to have legislation introduced to tackle those

Then that's not the "free market" that you support, just "markets."
Isn't a lot of property crime targeting cash, drugs, jewelry and small electronics at this point? And then things like bikes and cars.

Like looking around my house, there's not much other stuff that you could fence for $1,000 laying around.

Which is not to say I think that the concern there was valid.
Precisely. If one pays me $100 to not say "cucumber" today, thats not censorship. If one tells me not to say "heil hitler!" at their garden party, thats also not censorship. Surely there are other garden parties where such statements are welcome - Or I am free to throw my own.

Now, if I can't say "cucumber" at all, in any context, whether I entered in any agreement or not - thats censorship.
It should be up to the listeners to judge the content of JR. Not someone with a blue pencil (or was it a red pencil). There is no possible justification in a free society to censor someone just because someone might be mislead by them. It is patronizing to think that we know better and so should decide for the rest what is available or not.
s/internalizing internalisier/internalizing extrenalities/
I'll take overdraft fees in exchange for secure money storage.
Belgium also has excellent biking infrastructure!

If you look at Bruges, there's literally a cycling junction underneath a busy turnaround or cycling bridges going over busy highway roads ( those are there when your enter/exit the city)

Throughout the city, most roads are one-way, while bycicles can go two-ways. So bicycling is literally the most efficient way to cross the city.

Eg. To my work, it's a 5 minute trip with the bicycle because there is a bicycle route to it. With the car, the road takes 10 minutes ( normally 20 because of traffic). So it's x 4 as efficient for me

Reproducible: https://www.google.be/maps/dir/Marie+Popelinplantsoen,+8000+...
So many new programming languages coming up with clever features that makes me wish I could mix and match their core features while using libraries from more popular languages.

Up and coming Languages I am excited about -

1. Roc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfy4EKwG_Y

2. Zig - https://ziglang.org/

3. Scopes - https://sr.ht/~duangle/scopes/

4. Gleam - https://gleam.run/

5. Odin - https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin

6. Koka - https://github.com/koka-lang/koka

7. Unison - https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
Nonsense. Most investments carry an element of risk. The Capital Purchase Program may have looked like a bad investment (negative NPV) at the time, but the record makes it clear it actually paid off.

It makes no sense to say "in 2008, the government expected to lose money on the CPP so that's what happened; gift to the banks that was never paid back" and then drop the mic while ignoring what actually happened.

For example: TARP's Congressional Oversight Panel estimated that the $25bn capital infusion into Wells Fargo represented a subsidy (difference between fair market value of the preferred stock and the amount paid) of about $1.75bn.

However, in 2009, Wells Fargo bought back the investment after having paid $1.44bn in dividends. Then, in 2010, the Treasury also sold $840mm in Wells Fargo warrants that were part of the CPP deal.

What we thought would happen: lose $1.75bn. What actually happened: made $2.28bn. If that isn't "paying back" from your perspective, could you please suggest what would be?
The White House responding over a week after Neil Young made his initial statement implies that they are following the sentiment rather than leading it does it not?
That sounds like it's probably true.

I have to make an orderly retreat to my next cynical line: everyone in that room is aware that their reaction wis filmed and will be shown across the world.
Interesting. I wonder what’s causing the mice in our office to die so much faster.
What features would you like to see being added to Hacker News?
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That’s an interesting point. Was this passively intentional from Google? What methods could be used to generate more accurate results? How accurate do they want the results?
depends on what you want to do imo

web dev at an average to good company? no absolutely not worth it

anything at a FAANG? +/- mandatory

anything that involves complex algorithms?(efficient delivery/dispatching system at scale, complex social media, complex games, anything where efficiency/speed/low memory usage is extremely important) probably yes

otherwise some basic algorithm solving is probably enough(I really enjoyed the algorithmic exercises on freecodecamp web path for example, I think it's just enough for about 80-90% of junior programming jobs)
Yes.

I wrote a book, but it's so much easier to write articles.

You get money after 4 pages of text, it's still marketing, and you usually make the same or more money with articles, depending on your rate.
Smart politicians. Converting voters is harder than mobilizing a population that agrees with you to get up and vote.
My guess is the author just picked the simplest syntax to parse in order to demonstrate the tech. If it works and shows to be successful you can always write a GHC (or whatever) backend that compiles to this runtime. Maybe come up with some binary IL etc
>Powell’s speech did not help the credibility of the US.

That is revisionist, and 100% incorrect. Bush did not have much credibility on the world stage or even at home. Powell did. When he co-signed what Bush and the other warmongers were saying, the public became willing to accept the necessity of the war.

I vividly remember the speech and the absolute difference it made in most people's minds about the pending invasion, not just globally but among the US general public as well. He was one of the few people with credibility on both sides of the aisle and on the world stage.
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Can you block recommendations on ublock? I haven't seen that.
As a thought experiment, how far down the rabbit hole would you go?

What were the factors involved in ones outcomes?
- Was it his "class"?
- Skin color?
- Family connections
- Country?
- Education?
- Genes?
- Moon's gravitational pull?
- A butterfly flapping's it's wings?

Not saying it's not relevant, i'm saying it's not practical. If there's any lesson to be learned from the story, it's definitely not from the X factors that cannot be controlled.

The only outcome of such discussions would be to complain.

Speaking of perpetuating myths, people attributing the success of other people to anything else other than competence would be up there.
How Pfizer made an effective anti-Covid pill
AIUI, you can have a key-value store is an SQL RDBMS: Just make a big bunch of two-column -- key and value -- tables.

Also, again AIUI, you can build an RDBMS on top of a key-value store: "Just" build a whole lot of key-value pairs where the "value" is a reference to another key more often than not. (Perhaps not just for actual references to other related tables -- or what would be another table in a real RDBMS -- but for each separate key-value store that would just be another column in a real RDBMS. Then I suppose your primary ("key column") key-value pair would have a lot of rows for each key; one for each "column"?)

I suspect most real-world usage of key-value stores in one fashion or another approaches the above... And then the vaunted "simplicity" has gone out the window (and made SPLAT! on the ground far below).

But by then you're so [invested in | married to | sunk cost-fallacied with] your key-value store that changing to a real RDBMS is nigh impossible.

So better start with a real RDBMS from the beginning.
Yes, it only helps if "your own thing" is related to the readers you already have
I know d3 and ggplot2, but Datawrapper is my goto when I want Excel-like convenience for bespoke, detailed viz. It’s completely free for individual use, and I’m happy to see that the charts and maps I made while teaching students about interactive data viz work just as well as they did the 5+ years ago.

The variety of built-in shapefiles (international, US counties) — with the ability to upload your own custom shapefiles to quickly create interactive maps — is a killer feature on its own
That’s not true. Taking the US as the example, they have some very specific guidances what you can do on a B1 visa or when entering under a visa waiver.

Allowed:
- Consult with business associates
- Attend a scientific, educational, professional, or business convention or conference
- Participating in short-term training
- Settle an estate
- Negotiate a contrast

Not allowed:

- Paid performances, or any professional performance before a paying audience
- Arrival as a crewmember on a ship or aircraft
- Work as foreign press, in radio, film, print journalism, or other information media

To take an extreme example, Microsoft can’t just have someone from Mexico come into the US for 3 months to work on a project in their Seattle office even though their salary may be paid by Microsoft Mexico.
> Phoenix is interesting but 1) very small and 2) in Phoenix, which will struggle with summer survivability by the time my kids are middle ages.

I'm generally in favor of long term planning but in this case isn't #2 kind of going overboard? Their middle ages are ~35 years in the future. A better childhood will probably be worth them having to move 30+ years later. Heck, there is already only about a 50% chance [1] that an adult is living in the area where they grew up and that's just due to the normal ebb and flow of the economy.

[1] the surveys on this vary a lot. 50% looked like a reasonable average of several that showed up when I Googled.
Well, Ukraine doesn't have much of a military.

So from your point of view that makes Ukraine a very moral country. We'll soon see what that means for the Ukrainian people.
HIPPA is a joke and basically stopped gossip.

“Hot” conditions with high conversions are tracked in near real-time. I learned this when we received via FedEx a box of Enfamil on what should have been the due date of of daughter. Unfortunately, we miscarried.
The presentation of this is nice but if you're hoping this might blow up like Wordle then you'd need a few more gimmicks because what you've built there is basically just a Countdown Conundrum (https://wiki.apterous.org/Conundrum) laid out as a square; and there's already lots of these puzzles online (plus literally decades of TV footage from Countdown too, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9aILIF_ms).
1) He walks away with millions either way. He was paid $100 million

2) Is it breach? Is that against the terms of his deal? I would assume that Spotify has reserved the right to limit content it doesn't like.
The demo scene falls into this description.
They're suggesting emulating a Switch on Linux
Disagreed. I ran a forum for years and knew that moderation was my responsibility.
We Found the Real Names of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders
A lot of art-making is about constraints. These are generally imposed by the medium (What can I make with bits of dried colored goo on a rectangular surface? Or with just a pencil and paper?) or by some arbitrary-but-effective rule set (e.g., the sonnet form in poetry, the fugue in music).

Great art embraces and somehow transcends the constraints of the chosen form. Consider how great paintings, constrained as they are in their static, rectangular form, almost leap from the canvas into your eyes. They are magical because skill of the artist and the constraints exist and work together.

The best computer art will work not because computers can be used to "create almost anything," but because the constraints inherent in computing (or some chosen set of constraints therein) stimulate artists to make great things inside those constraints.

We do already have some good constraints we can choose to work within. I like text games, roguelikes, etc. because they stimulate my imagination more than immersive graphics do, and because such games have been a part of computing almost since the beginning[1]. As computers become ever more ubiquitous and powerful, we may have to apply our own constraints, and find which ones give rise to the most interesting art.

[1] A great history is at https://if50.substack.com/, frequently mentioned on HN
That tracking device looks to be about 50% as large as the hare’s head. How are these designs governed and moreover what are the ethical standards?
Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract
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Thanks!
Both of my kids grew up in Madison WI. Now they're both in college, car free, and doing fine. This isn't Amsterdam, but the bike infra and urban layout is good enough. You have to choose where to live. There are neighborhoods that are convenient for nearby shopping, and others that are more sprawled.

I don't think it has to be perfect for kids to learn good habits. More important is the parents modeling those habits themselves, and choosing activities that reinforce good habits.
Ahh, thanks. Should have kept reading. However, a paragraph or so later, it says HIPAA doesn't apply to de-indetified data, and that it's easy for researchers to buy the data set.

Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground.
So the chances that Jurassic Park will be feasible in the future is zero?
>>> log(0.99, (1/2)**(1/10000))
144.99569695122509
Joe Rogan: Podcast star apologises over past use of racist language
If You're running multiple APs (with IP6 over wifi) and a community mesh, you have a demonstrable need for space. I have a single AP and a few strands of CAT5.

Can you even run IP6 over wifi? I've never looked into it. It's never crossed my mind to try to use any public IP address on a wifi network.
You’re not wrong. For me, the ads read by the podcasters themselves killed it for me. I really find the idea of “monetizing” every last thing extremely distasteful.

YMMV.
Many languages that might want to bypass libc would also bounds check argv, so ... Maybe it doesn't matter in a few more senses than that ...
They make it look like Interbase ended with the open-sourcing of Firebird. In reality that turned out to be a fork; Interbase itself is still available from Embarcadero.

Makes one a bit suspicious about how accurate it is in other corners I know less about.
So, you want to put spam into code comments? Why not to put affiliate links then.
This is blatently obvious in America right now. A LOT of voices crying out against the 'cancel culture' are the first to line up when it comes to canceling something THEY don't like.
Is there a non-US for the blood supply information? All I could find was stories citing unnamed US officials.
Cool article. It’s too bad they didn’t include more photos of the earlier steps. They mention them in text, but they’d be far more interesting to see:

> The lens was clear as a magnifying glass, but as a focusing lens it wasn’t accurate enough.
This has an interesting intersection with Telstar, the first communications satellite: http://eager.io/blog/telstar-and-starfish-prime/
The way Apple handles HDR clearly suggests that you aren't meant to use HDR colors in UIs. The mouse pointer has a pure white (#FFFFFF) outline, but when you put it over an HDR video, that outline appears grey. Then after you've closed the video, your vision needs some time to readjust back to the UI white level. The APIs (Metal and whatever videos are played through, VideoToolbox?) also suggest that it's for games and media content only.

Now, of course you could circumvent this and add retina-burning-bright controls to your app. Your users would probably hate you for doing this.

And regarding wide gamut, I'm not sure what kinds of benefits this brings to UIs either. It does make photos and videos feel more lifelike, especially when combined with HDR. But I've seen an extension to CSS that allows specifying wide-gamut colors, and you can also use them in native UIs (I've managed to do that in my aforementioned experiments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30219169).

> wide-gamut and HDR GUI capabilities that they introduced as far back as Vista

Wow. That was quite the future proofing at the time when everyone was transitioning from CRTs, and LCDs of the time were noticeably crappier than CRTs.

The thing with Windows though is that it's really hard to get so many companies involved in the chain to agree on something like this. Apple has complete end-to-end control of both the hardware and the software/APIs which allows them to casually pull off this kind of stuff.
"The tech founders who are building crypto platforms and tools, like the users who are buying and trading blockchain assets, are trying to produce wealth via rapidly appreciating speculative value."

And nothing of value is produced, it's a big zero-sum game of transferring money from greater fools to lesser ones. You just need a steady supply of greedy or desperate fools.

At least this time hopefully not the innocent tax payers will end up holding the bag like in 2008, but actual fools.
> Likewise if the free market is used as a way to reduce the availability of content, I can be against that while still supporting it as a guiding concept.

Joe Rogan being on Spotify is entirely about limiting the availability of his podcast. They're paying him to not make his episodes available outside of Spotify.
There are definitely cases where using polar coordinates or angles (with sin/cos/tan and their inverses) is the right tool for the job. The common problem with using trigonometry in software is that angles repeat every 2pi and tangents can overflow your math system (and in fact are undefined at 1/2pi and 3/2pi).

Many formulas can be reduced to operations on dy/dx but you still have to watch of a zero denominator (when used as a slope). You're right as this is certainly common in 2D games but to some degree, it was originally for performance reasons since you don't want to perform a bunch of trig operations when trying to obtain a reasonable refresh rate.
Programming is a creative process but as opposed to art it’s goal is not to fuel emotions but to convey solutions to problems as clear as possible.
It makes obvious that someone doesn't understand difference between code and documentation.
I’ve only heard him say this once or twice and it was always when he was direct quoting someone else.