skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm sure that not following the building codes in the state of Florida is financially beneficial to Disney.

> Not sure where that idea comes from, but Disney absolutely pays taxes and your claim is false.

It is absolutely true. Stop lying.

> The thing Disney gets out of it is being able to maintain their property to the standard of their liking.

The district, in turn, provides services, including fire response, emergency medical services, water and sewage treatment, and can issue municipal bonds to finance infrastructure projects, which comes with tax advantages which are shared by no other corporation or individual in the nation. The arrangement gives Disney control over municipal services and autonomy when it comes to how the land is used and developed, exempting it from a number of regulations. Again, a privilege enjoyed exclusively by Disney Corp.
If you can't explain why, maybe the problem isn't me. All I said was that people criticizing american super hero movies need to deal with the fact that they are sought out everywhere in the world. Then you tried to insult me and say my comment "doesn't contribute to HN". Does this mean that you think this is what comments should be? Hollow insults with no explanation?
It will once Elon shakes the rotten apples from the tree.
There is free tier that will have limit of 5 users in June.

The Free tier of GitLab SaaS will have a limit of 5 users per namespace beginning June 22, 2022

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier...
Yes. I don't think a language creator should be given unnecessary special privileges over users.
If you are using whateverq and writing a shell script, everyone else using it needs to have whateverq installed as well....
This is one of the classic problems of talking about HA: making it clear which "failure" or "availability" you mean at any given moment. In the particular quoted sentence, "failure" refers to component failure even though the "availability" in HA means system availability. The goal of HA design is to make a system that becomes more available as components are added instead of less (as you seem to expect). Redundancy, internal monitoring, and failover are the tools of the trade. What you should end up with is a system more like two chains holding up an object instead of one chain twice as long.
I have a nurse friend that was fired because she did not want to take the vaccine. She had covid before, and strongly believes in bodily autonomy. She did not want to be forced to put something in her body against her will. She's started a business cleaning houses now, and says is making same money. Except now she
isn't pressured to be rushing from patient to patient like crazy. She's choosing her hours, works during the day at her pace and doesn't bring home the emotional stress of dying people. She worked as a nurse for 7 years and in that time she had thousands of patients. She said in all that time she only discharged 3 patients after chemo therapy. She's kind of convinced both are billion dollar scams by medical industry.
A couple changes I've heard from nurses would be helpful:

1. Safe mandated staffing ratios. California is one that does this and many nurses seem happy with the ratios.

2. Safe harbor laws. If the nurse feels they are pushed into a risky situation, they should have a right to notify management which will take on liability if they do not resolve it. A few states have this but hospitals bully nurses not to invoking it.

3. Better pay for the liability they take. Unlike management, they could go to prison for mistakes they make. There was a recent case nurses were outraged about.

4. Unions are beneficial. In California the nurses union is pretty strong to negotiate better terms and conditions.
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The defense sector, but you'll eat lower payments until a recession
> Makes you wonder how it would affect admission criteria at other 4 year colleges if you can show an entire CS degree on your application. I wonder how that gets weighted?

At competitive schools, most likely negatively. Just apply to the graduate program. Getting a WGU degree is not some sign of academic prowess that would rate one highly at an elite university — maybe the equivalent of perfect GPA in a college-bound HS curriculum. Being a big fish in a small pond is not exceptional.

At large state schools, they would just treat it like a CC and let you transfer in a certain number or credits (mostly non-major).

At most other schools, they won’t care as long as you pay them.
> Rushing a BS makes complete sense to me. A Ph.D? Not so much.

Hmm, opposite feelings. I needed time in the bachelor to figure out what I wanted. For many scientific professionals, they might be publishing papers and could potentially even write a thesis on the side. This would enable them to get the degree and teach, should they want to.
My local Home Depot takes lithium batteries now. There was a limit on the number they would take at a time though.
You could use the same logic to ask yourself why there should be any command-line tools at all, just python libraries.

Python is my daily driver, but I still use JQ when I'm doing something quick. If you try some complex examples, I'd bet you'll quickly figure out why.
my dad is a dentist (oral surgeon by usa definition) and he took out all my wisdom teeth (that didn't bother me at all) one time I visited him at his practice.

from my single data point I can conclude that:

1) dentists will remove wisdom teeth that don't bother you even for no financial gain.
2) never visit your parents practice unless you have a excuse to bail out immediately if they try to get you on the chair.
It's warm - when you change the ImageUri or "Update Code" for the lambda definition, it downloads the container into "somewhere" lambda-y - this takes a few seconds depending on size. Startups are fairly quick, but because of the way it persists your running image in memory, your container is generally (on frequent usage) 'paused' between invocations, and resumes quite quickly.
Well, at least you're aware that it's a naive understanding...
Hey, does this exist for video game animation? I was extremely disappointed with an online school I recently went to for video game animation (the classes were way too spread apart and while the modeling sections were interesting, I really just need to work on animation for the models I purchased).

I know this is tangentially related, but this was so demoralizing I kind of gave up on game dev altogether.
The electoral college is not a bad idea in itself. It can be one more layer of defense against a populist like Trump. Unfortunately, it didn't act in the best interests of the country when it was needed the most.

At this point, I am much more worried with disinformation campaigns and extremism, the latter of which is neatly dealt with by IRV.
I like the translated version better
My pixel 5 on Google Fi blocks all of this. I don't even know I get spam calls and texts unless I manually check.
Were they ever rational?
Datalog also lets you define facts and rules, in addition to posting queries. A key attraction of Datalog is that the same simple and very uniform syntax is used in all cases. All these cases are special cases of a single unifying language element called Horn clauses, which are clauses with at most one positive literal: Queries have no positive literal, rules have exactly one positive literal and at least one negative literal, and facts consist of a single positive literal.
The several important things about lisp that you won't find in other languages without learning lisp include (I'm considering all lisps here, including schemes):

- it's essentially a working implementation of the untyped lambda calculus, an essential model for thinking about computing outside of the Von Neumann architecture.

- It is a symbolic programming language which allows for unique ways of manipulating code as data. The only other programming language that I know of that offers symbolic programming to the same degree is Prolog (outside of computer algebra systems).

- The parens and prefix notation really are a powerful feature, despite being off putting to beginners. You are essentially programming an Abstract syntax tree. All programming language spend some of their time in this form, you just don't usually get to play with the code this way. This makes it incredibly easy to prototype ideas for languages and compilers in Lisps

The functional programming and meta-programming benefits naturally fall out of all of these. The reason metaprogramming is so powerful in Lisp is because of a combination of writing code in a tree structures and being a symbolic programming language.

The big picture reason that lisp is so great for people interested in better understanding programming is that it is a language that encourages you to write domain specific languages to solve your problems.

I'll be the first to admit that this is not great for real world software engineering, but if you want to understand programming better, it is essential.
Actual finding: People are less altruistic immediately following a stressful event.
It's about the same here in Germany.

Source: Got nurses in the family.
https://youtu.be/n2Zw7-oPDrc

This video shows it being done in 10 minutes with explanation and without any cuts. (This is an XR which is pretty old school but I don't have any positive reason to believe it takes longer with newer displays.)
I have had a similar experience. My current strategy is to find a place where I am the least useful person in the room, over time my competency will expand until I stop being challenged. Once that happens move on to another place where I am the dumbest in the room again. If you are currently bored/unchallenged I would say to implement some automated testing, then go to your manager with your honest feedback. They might find a better fit for you or give you more responsibilities.
The speed at which you can get a degree can look like a red flag, but you are mistaken about the accreditation. Regional accreditation is actually what you want, not national. Most universities you think of are regionally accredited, whereas the for-profit ones that you can't transfer credit from are nationally accredited. Ie, Stanford = regionally accredited, DeVry = nationally acccredited.

WGU is accredited by NWCCU, which is the same as the University of Utah, University of Washington, etc.. See: https://nwccu.org/member-institutions/directory/
What I've seen: health insurance companies and large medical companies were able to get everything they wanted. The result was Obamacare. It's been down hill from there.

I have family members in medicine, and they see the same thing. There was a really good opportunity at that time to address some glaring issues with healthcare, and we ended up with this thing that did not address those issues and created a lot more issues.
You’ll have to deal with lambda cold starts if you want it to be performant:

> When the Lambda service receives a request to run a function via the Lambda API, the service first prepares an execution environment. During this step, the service downloads the code for the function, which is stored in an internal Amazon S3 bucket (or in Amazon Elastic Container Registry if the function uses container packaging). It then creates an environment with the memory, runtime, and configuration specified. Once complete, Lambda runs any initialization code outside of the event handler before finally running the handler code.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/operating-lambda-perfor...
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Yeah you could do that but now you have thrown away the recursive `Tree` type and are always working in `TreeF`. This is totally fine but is a different design decision from where we started.
And there's something else to consider as well: The more money you have, the more you have to loose. When you're worth 20 Mil. you've got to worry about where it's invested and hope it doesn't all go down the drain. you certainly can't leave it in cash otherwise, you'll lose 75% in just 14 years.

the root of all evil is not money. the root of all evil, is requiring humans to have money to live.

i aspire to require the least amount of money to live happily ~ combined with some money, that's true freedom.
I just put in a couple hours of studying @ WGU for Discrete Math II last night, and I'm happy that the school exists.

I spent months trying to get my brick-and-mortar to allow me to complete my B.S. remotely; I had dropped out after junior year for startup reasons.

Long story short, the idea that an adult working full time might want to complete their degree without dropping $65k wasn't acceptable (of course COVID forced the university remote.)

Then my partner began a WGU Master's program and told me about it.

Although I wasn't able to transfer in most of my courses (older than 5 years), I was able to transfer a chunk of gen-eds. Now I'm slowly but surely working through the degree, diving much deeper into math topics than I ever did before.

I have the time to actually understand things instead of passing by the skin of my teeth. I also have the choice to skip a topic entirely if I know its contents.

It can be a slog, and there are times where it appears a gargantuan task. But I'm learning, and the challenge of doing it while working full time gives me great confidence.

Make sure you match with an excellent mentor to cheer you on while holding you accountable.

Now, some things to consider:

* I value the friends and shared experience I made @ brick-and-mortar university. This doesn't replicate that at all.

* Prices, although relatively low, have risen.

* Self-motivation is critical.

* No detailed feedback on projects.

I appreciate it for what it is: a self-motivated, self-paced escape hatch for those who want to earn a degree, where your experience is valued, and your bank account is respected.
As someone who teachers at a university, the level of courses at WGU is absurdly low. I looked at the algorithms courses, the discrete math courses, and the AI course.

These would not be acceptable in any CS department that I know. The material and exams are at the level of a high school education, nothing more.

You got a piece of paper. You did not get a CS education.

There are bootcamps that are much higher quality than this.
> I'd like to hear your answer to my white privilege example

Your white privilege example includes no impermissible motivation, and assumes an initial state that would not merely be undesirable policy, but bright line prohibited by the 14th Amendment.

While the Disney special district may be undesirable in some model of fairness, it is not unconstitutional, and the action to remove it does have an impermissible motivation. So the analogy fails on key points.
Comical disinformation with [citations] to throw you off...

"So a simple answer is that global warming is responsible for about 1 degree of the 10-degree heat anomaly."

Literally LOL
Why doesn’t the American Medical Association start its own insurance company?
> people thinking being able to Google and read WebMD qualifies them to argue with their doctor about treatment plans

In my experience, I have had:

1. Doctors that know nothing about a really basic ailment and not have any meaningful guidance or treatment to suggest

2. Doctors that Google something literally in front of me, things that I have already Googled myself, and draw the wrong conclusion because they're looking at results at a glance - when I had searched myself earlier and dug deeper though, it was clear to me the result he was looking at was just plain wrong

3. Doctors that provide very little to no guidance about a wide selection of medications available to treat a problem, leaving me to essentially guess which option of a dozen or more I should go with

4. Doctors that force me to advocate for myself and my condition before they agree to help treat it - so much so that I had to visit 4 different doctors to find one that would, wasting nearly a thousand dollars of office visits with nothing to show for it.

It's no wonder people do their own research and dare to advocate for themselves. Most doctors are fucking worthless.
Looking at the levels of obesity in the U.S., I consider the 26th place a true miracle of American medicine. If it can prevent people who devastate their bodies with junk food for decades from dying at 50 ...

On the other hand, imagine the world where Coca-Cola makes billions on healthy drinks, people are slim and fit until they die, and half of the money spent on treatment of chronic diseases of excess can be used for something else.
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What are some examples of the electoral college thwarting populism?
Making our CI more accessible and understandable
Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.
I'm more and more convinced that POTS/EDS/MCAS aren't rare diseases, they're just criminally under-diagnosed because they tend to affect women. FWIW, POTS is much more manageable with medication (e.g. Midodrine and Florinef).
For a watch analogy, consider Tissot vs Omega. The former is considered an "entry-level luxury" brand with many offerings around the $1000 mark, while the latter is a true luxury brand with most offerings in the range of tens of thousands of dollars. Pretty much any broke person can get a Tissot to appear well-off, if they want it hard enough.

For a car analogy, consider BMW vs Aston Martin. Many people in an unfavourable financial sitation can get a well-specced 3-series and appear well-off, while a $200k DB11 is well out of reach for most "pretenders".
I don't know, bud. When other people aren't accepting your idea of where something leads, it does not always mean they are wrong. It is easy to cherry-pick data and studies that seem on the surface to support your preconceived conclusions, but I feel you are missing the forest for the trees.

Cheers.
The intent of the redesign is for the logo to reflect GitLab's place at the center of the DevOps infinity loop.
I get why it exists, but we also have to be honest with ourselves and admit that there is a massive problem in communicating without assumption of prior knowledge/experience. The tech world is particularly guilty of this, with veterans having forgotten that there was a time when they didn't know what they know, and lacking any patience to adequately help those seeking understanding. To add to the issue, the Internet proper is so noisy with partial or broken information that the task of finding the correct information is far more daunting than it was 20 years ago when I started learning.

We need to give newcomers a break and answer their questions well, and discuss to promote understanding, instead of swatting at them with our canes. The only way knowledge passes to the next generation of thinkers and tinkers is if we fuel that curiousity.
Yeah, I've witnessed this first hand with my spouse. She's been told she just needs to exercise more (she was a professional dancer when it hit her), that it's all in her head (actual psychiatrist said otherwise), that it will resolve in 6-18 months (it didn't), etc., etc. It's pretty appalling.

Thanks for mentioning POTS, btw. Despite how many people have it, it's still fairly poorly known about even within the medical community.
As someone living in an electrically heated and well insulated house, all that vampire power is heat+convenience. My heat pump is surely 4x more efficient, but that 50W of standby power is not really wasted.
> Is there anything you do differently, relative to in person?

Online, everything needs to be done differently from in-person:

- Lecture is a waste of time. Pre-made stuff will be higher-quality than anything you can deliver, and save a lot of time

- Grading should be automated as much as possible. Immediate feedback is powerful for students, as is being able to move at their own pace, have targeted remediation, etc.

- Automating stuff leaves waaaaay more time for 1:1 interaction, reviewing student work, etc.

- Audio isn't the only way to interact. Students can use chat, embedded surveys, forums, etc. There are many ways for having interactive engagement impossible in person.

- You should make heavy use of peer teaching: Breakout rooms, structured peer review, etc.

Online during COVID19 crashed-and-burned since people took in-person and tried to run it over Zoom. Good online can be better than in-person.

Oh, and details matter. Everyone should have a headset. Mute is generally bad. You should have good whiteboarding tools. Everyone should have a pen tablet ($40) or copy stand ($100). Etc.

NONE of this happened at most schools during COVID.
In the world of shell scripts, python isn't an esoteric language....
capitalism is the reason for hospitals choosing to serve patients covered by Medicare which will give them a blank check with tax payer money?
Steel Bank Common Lisp has been one of the most enjoyable, performant, powerful languages I have ever used.

Till now when I hack on something I use Steel Bank Common Lisp.

Only for the most basic of web apps do I switch to Rails.

These set of tutorials are excellent. Thanks for sharing.
>I strongly believe that only physicians should be running hospitals.

(Disclaimer: I have been on the design team for several hospitals, including El Camino and San Francisco General, in the bay area - and I have a family of doctors and nurses in my family - my brother was head of the Veteran Administration for the state of Alaska, and is currently CMO for a large health provider (he is a doctor)

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That said, the "running" of a hospital isa hell of a lot more than medicine (when we are specifically talking to the running of -- but this comment was made in relation to costs/efficiencies as far as outcomes, patient treatment, insurance etc...)

Hospitals are really complex ecosystems and should be thought of more like an aircraft carrier than an other form of business.

The costs within the realm of a hospital are ridiculous - as are the methods and manner in which hospitals raise money.

Insurance is cancer to be sure, but there are so many other factors that go into the operational costs of a hospital - and I don't just mean ngoing care and operations - systems and technology and medicine evolve. People are people and regardless have the same hierachy of needs in any environment.

You have every single actor as an enemy of the hospital bottom line:

New tech, $$

Older nursing pop $$

Current nursing/doctor market salaries $$

Maintenance for existing systems $$

Insurance billing code lock-in $$

Competing hospitals for doctors and nursing staff $$

California $$

Corruption $$

Utilities and related redundant infra to ensure life systems

The ridiculous cost to upgrade

The list goes on and on...

(The cheapest hospital project I worked on was hundreds of millions of dollars)

etc...

Hospitals are really expensive to run, and it requires a hell of a lot more skills than simply being a "doctor" to run one.
I wonder how the compression ratio of JXL-ified JPEG compares to WEBP/AVIF/HEIC.
I doubt Marx could have thought of something more capitalist than $THC or $HCA.
so cost-wise that's probably equivalent to running a server? but you get all of the nice lambda integrations like APIGW
Hey, it’s supported inside PDFs.