skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started a healthcare cost transparency platform in 2014 [1] and struggled to find costs by CPT code. The best we had was medicare reimbursement rates, which were hardly a good litmus for out of pocket costs. It's nice that after 8 years, things are finally shifting. Just shows how important timing is in entrepreneurship.

[1] https://ethansteininger.com/portfolio/comparedcare
At scale, architecture dominates materials. Meaning anyone can pretty much build a doghouse out of anything, but to build Notre Dame someone needed to have invented the arch, which can support a lot more weight than the sum of material used to construct it. The same applies to software. Kubernetes is more than the sum of it's parts.
The point being made is that we lose the decentralization benefits of Git if we tie ourselves to the proprietary functionality of centralized platforms, as the current event demonstrates. Obviously Git being decentralized doesn’t help much when GitHub is down. But why is that so? Because of GitHub’s proprietary centralized features. The comment was intended as food for thought that maybe we as an industry shouldn’t tie us so much to those features then.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if when GitHub is down we could just move to a different GitHub instance? Isn’t it sad that we can’t, although it would be very feasible technologically?
It’s very unusual for companies to own the buildings they have offices in, so this strategy would be non-applicable in most cases.
I'm sorry, but you don't get to tell me what I need to comfortably run a piece of software on my computer. Despite whatever utilization metrics are claimed, Chrome runs like a wounded animal whenever I get into the territory of a dozen windows with approximately a dozen tabs each. If I try to do something unimaginable like open a Google sheet and a Meet call at the same time on my work provided laptop equipped with 16 GB of RAM, it's a disaster.
I've measured it on real workload twice with LDC and each time "@fastMath" made things 1% slower. Of course this varies from backend to backend, but such woes would be avoided if the flag was named differently than "fast". It doesn't seem worth it to use it.
With all due respect, part of why the Internet took so long to roll out is because we had to find ways to deploy a global network of physical hardware and interconnections. We literally laid wires under the ocean.

Crypto is just software. There's no need to deploy infrastructure. Bitcoin is old enough to be in high school. Soon it'll be old enough to be in college. At some point we have to accept that it's not fit for purpose, do we not? It can't just be BBS-ing forever.

Compare other things that came out in 2007/8. The iPhone and Android, for instance. In spite of actually needing to build and deploy both hardware and software, everyone on earth has one. Billions and billions deployed.

I challenge you to find a way to falsify your thesis.
A few reasons I don't like ligatures when coding:

- It makes me have to think too hard to figure out where the boundaries actually lie between characters when I want to edit. I don't want to think about how many times I'll have to press backspace to delete a single "character"; without ligatures, I don't have to think at all.
- With ligatures enabled, I have to remember how to type each character-group (e.g., that != is the same as slashed equals). With ligatures disabled, I can just read it back from an existing example. In other words, ligatures create a separation between what I type and what I see.
- It makes it hard to quickly compare my code to examples online that don't use the ligatures because, again, I'm forced to translate between what's on my screen and what's in the file.

The only ligatures I appreciate are minor stylistic ones, e.g., raising a colon slightly before a number, adjusting the spacing between two consecutive colons, raising two consecutive asterisks, etc. Changes that don't fundamentally change the code appears but make it a teensy bit more aesthetically pleasing.
As an Argentinian I might be able to answer.

Except importers, people can't buy the official dollar. Most people can't buy the 200 dollars a month that the central bank allows, with a tax of 75% over the official value. Then you have the markets dollars, the MEP and CCL, which are more expensive (~100% more than the official).

All of these types of exchange are setup to make the process painful as possible because they want to stop draining the federal reserves.

With USDT et al you can buy it much much easier, out of reach of the AFIP if done correctly, and you are safe against the high inflation (78% for 2022 so far). This crypto dollars are normally cheaper than the MEP&CCL and more expensive than the others.

I'm on my phone, sorry for the typos.
maybe in premise but not reality.

Everything trends towards centralization. Tech especially. All the top chains are heavily centralized in (Hash rates, holdings, influence, Insert blockchain metric here). Blockchains has trended towards centralized entities and personalities and i expect the trend to continue.
Nokia out of Finland started with rubber boots and ended up being the late 90's most popular cellphone brand.
Replying again as I just came across this article: Texas's ERCOT issued nearly identical guidance as CAISO's guidance we are talking about here, and there was no outcry

There's a double standard here, and Texas does not get criticized where California does:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-power-use-breaks-reco...
I regret ever donating to them.
On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (2021) [pdf]
Your Twitter thread shows the SQL that is equivalent, so it clearly can be done. Just because Malloy produces SQL that is impossible to read or write doesn't mean that the problem is only solvable with impossible-to-read SQL.

That would be like saying that Dreamweaver lets you do things that HTML+CSS don't because "look at how impossible to read the HTML output is!"
Bitcoin doesn't require centralised exchanges to function, though. It's not fundamental to the coin. Is the etherium PoS centralisation required?
Great! Clearly we both agree!

Because the data shows that these facilities actual lead to more people quitting these addictions. Safe injection sites are always (to my knowledge) used as the start of a funnel to educational materials about rehab.

As such long term wins are even better for the tax payer than what I said above. Especially when these people rejoin the workforce.
It archived the unsavory tweets of online individuals.
I think a better question is how many hundreds, or thousands of people do you need to be self sufficient for 45nm semiconductors on Mars.
I have dyslexia and I can tell I have to slow down a bit when reading this, but it’s not bad. I assume the closeness between characters makes it slightly worse for everyone, especially with characters like “o” and “c” differing by a single pixel.

On the topic, I recently learned about the Dyslexie font [0] as well as OpenDyslexic [1]. You can see the goal is to make characters easily differentiated. Not sure how I feel about these fonts—I can certainly read them easily, but I am not a fan of the style. There are other fonts I can read just as well which look better too.

[0]: https://www.dyslexiefont.com/

[1]: https://opendyslexic.org/
> It’s nonsense this has anything to do with the law.

Actually, if they processed data from any European person they would be required to follow GDPR. And if they processed data from any Brazilian they would be required to follow LGPD.

Any significant deliberate blindness towards privacy, defamation, and hate speech laws are unlawful acts that must be punished according to the Law. Idealy by extraditing the website administrators so they can they can face criminal charges over their misconduct.
I mean I can force a draw against stockfish by just using stockfish myself to beat stockfish.

Look to put this into perspective back in 2008 Hikaru Nakamura a world top 10 player won a game once against the then top engine and it was a significant story in the chess world that day. It's been 14 years since then. If people can easily draw stockfish I'd like to see them do it live giving stockfish the same clock.

One problem with trying to draw stockfish by trading off its pieces is that stockfish is so dominant it tends to win more games the more complicated positions get, so it's actually hardcoded to be bias towards making positions as complicated as possible, so it will resist you closing the position and trading off pieces to an extent. It's also non-deterministic. You might be able to force it to a draw in some games but it's hard to do this reliably.

I'm also by the way not saying Magnus cannot draw stockfish 1/100 games, I'm saying it wouldn't be easy.
Very cool!

I remember about a decade ago, I wanted to analyze US Congressional votes to look for evidence of a possible third-party voting base in across-the-aisle votes.

The votes were generally published as XML documents, which was sort of annoying but a fun way to learn Python.

Nice to see things getting more standardized - I've been pleasantly surprised by how the US government's digital services have advanced in the past 10-20 years.

(Except for the contracted-out disasters like recreation.gov and V1 of healthcare.gov, of course.)
The optimistic view of this is that you can run a node in a distributed payment and compute platform for a few thousands bucks. Consider the alternatives: the infrastructure running PayPal, the massive and archaic automated clearing house systems used by megabanks, whatever it is Western Union does to move money. You can participate in a distributed, open source alternative for what amounts to an affordable price for those in developed countries.

I am not claiming you should do this! What I'm attempting to illustrate is that this momentum towards freer and more open systems is what drives the technical optimism in cryptocurrencies and blockchains. There seems to be a Moore's law effect dropping the price of what is currently gatekept by governments and megacorporations. Hard work is once again creating exciting innovations that at least have the potential to improve the world.
That's what I am afraid of the most. Do some devops mistake and get penalized. Are there any protection mechanisms to help you with that or are you totally on your own?
"Don't get so hung up on precise numbers", uh, 90% isn't just imprecise, it's so catastrophically wrong that it undermines your entire argument
Programming is like reading/writing, everyone should learn to do it in different fields. Not everyone that writes becomes a writer, don't worry about taking a new path, you now have a great tool on your belt.
San Francisco can still make a turnaround and bring things back. But they'd better prioritize crime and homelessness ASAP.

Without a 'broken windows' cleanup a speedy recovery seems unlikely.
For me personally,these new text functions will be great for working with IP address, MAC address, FQDN, and URL

There are already ugly, kludgey ways of doing it (or doing it outside of Excel altogether) but this will be faster and more elegant
The Maidan revolution was certainly one such sign; it was about joining the EU, not NATO, but the two are somewhat correlated.
That sounds great, I guess it depends on local context then. Agree on maintenance and adjusted usage.
College of Engineering inducts five members into Academy at Virginia Tech
That would be a perpetual motion machine, so no. Separating room-temperature air into hot and cold fractions removes entropy from that air, and that needs more energy input than can be extracted by a heat engine working from that temperature difference.
Hmm, I don't get it. In the site you linked I see

"It appears @capture is not supported and @accept is supported." for Safari, Firefox and Chrome on MacOS.

I see two buttons, Choose File and Upload. Upload is just a placeholder that shows a 405 error so I'll ignore that. Choose File just lets me choose a file, but there's no option to take a picture.

What am I missing here?

EDIT: nvm I see that it only works on mobile:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...
I don’t think MS counts as a pivot. Those were all software products for early microcomputers.
IIRC the point about T1 lines are their availability + uptime + bandwidth guarantees, but yea they're not so hot anymore from the ubiquity of other high performance networking alternatives.
I'm very familiar with being crushed under that boot. My wife made one FB post denouncing Trump and it cost me about $200k per year after a property management company dropped me from their preferred service provider list.

It stung for a few weeks but them I recovered like I always do. I didn't get upset. She and I both know the cost of being a decent human here in the South. It isn't easy. I simply shrugged my shoulders and made a few calls and got on with two other property management companies.

That company was well within their rights to drop me. Just like I am well within my rights to take as many of their clients with me as I possibly can and have. It makes things a bit more exciting.
> It is that the homeless can’t work because of mental or social issues that compound with drug abuse.

You mean "chronic homeless." There are homeless that you don't notice because they aren't standing out. They are living in cars or maybe crashing on someone's couch. Let's not equate homelessness with mental illness drug abuse.
well at least a side project AI site that didn’t crash immediately
Nah, something is definitely wrong with the randomness occassionally. See this demo[0] of me reliably getting 30 satire results in a row >75% of the time. The chances of that happening are astronomically low.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/XTQsyNH
> Isn't the entire point of cryptocurrency to remove the centralization of power?

I’ve previously said difference between crypto and traditional rails isn't decentralization. It's eager evaluation. The blockchain is always current everywhere. Bank records are not. The latter is computationally cheaper, but at the cost of more error. Centralized banking would involve everyone having an account at the Fed.

In the Roman Republic, voting power was directly linked to wealth. Keeping tabs on who was how wealthy were the censors [1]. PoW is sort of like that, but eagerly evaluated.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_censor
I've noticed that the commit also says 'remove support for languages related to pyramid schemes' so that must also include languages that have been used to build these ponzi web3 schemes.

We should also remove Rust, Move, Motoko, Haskell as well since that is used by Solana, ICP, Cardano and other shitcoins.
Here is most up to date work I am aware of to be implemented directly in brave: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23467
I think OP meant "can't" as in "probably wouldn't be able to come up with the queries", not that it's literally impossible. Malloy compiles to SQL, so it's by definition impossible for it to express something SQL cannot.
Huh? I look on a comparison website for price per kWh.
Can you elaborate more on the distributed compute platform part? How will that work and prevent down-time issues and other mistakes that will cause slashing?
Isolation from the West has been strictly mandated until a US ship opened it forcefully, hence the ban.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/flower-cards-japanese...
Is there a rule that says a certain percentage of revenue must be spent on a facility to retain non-profit status? It can be spent on equipment and salaries, both of which would benefit much more than upgrading the building to no patient care benefit.

This is anecdotal but the number one complaint I've heard from physicians about patient care is facilities being run and and managed by non-clinical MPH/MHA "business types" whose primary focus is almost invariably cutting costs, increasing physician workloads, and fighting salary increases tooth and nail.
Is there any cryptocurrency that is not a PoS?!
I see nobody's mentioned TOTP support yet.

My stack is KeePassXC on computers, Keepass2android on mobile and Dropbox for syncing. A few months ago I realized that both of my clients showed a TOTP option. Went digging a little and realized that there was enough support that I felt completely comfortable jumping ship away from Google Authenticator.

Google Authenticator had been worryingly opaque to me until then - you scan a QR code and then somehow you get TOTP codes? - and having gone through a phone number change recently, I felt especially aware and uncomfortable about having 2FA for many important accounts tied to one fairly fragile, fairly mis-placeable electronic device (not to mention in an app controlled by Google).

Figuring out how to use TOTP on KeePass was the nudge I needed to read up on how TOTP works, and of course it was quite simple. And keeping TOTP secrets in a password manager seems like a not-terrible idea (with the one caveat - and it's not a small one, I know - of busting the "second factor"ness of 2FA by making it possible to generate a TOTP code from the same device that you're using to log in with).

I was especially impressed that KeePass knows about Steam's non-standard TOTP implementation and is able to generate Steam Authenticator codes. I will say that doing this requires some hairy steps! This was what put me on the right path: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/a67c1n/steam_aut... And I put a good ~200 words of notes stored in that particular KeePass entry to remind me how I did it in the future.
I will continue to emphasize that Google does not mine your private emails, full stop, for both free and paid users.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en

In fact, none of your data in any Workspace product is used for advertising or personalization purposes. Your web search history is used to generate ads on consumer gmail, and if you're a paid gmail user, there are no ads at all.

(Disclosure: I worked on Workspace for three years until about a year ago. The amount of controls and security on user data is quite intense.)
How about we just move everybody into dormitories, feed them in institutional cafeterias, and hot-bunk the beds three shifts a day?

There's such a thing as "quality of life", and no one put you in charge of making those decisions for other people.
CF didn't just decide not to do business with a customer. They cut them off without notice in a way which they knew would cause service disruption to that customer, after having been paid to do just the opposite. CF in fact hijacked their domain so that everyone would know they had done this. They did this after keeping the customer on their platform for weeks (and presumably billing them) while they wrung their hands over the customer and contacted law enforcement about that customer, which was plenty of time for them to tell the customer they were closing the account and to migrate their domain off of CF and whatnot, if that was what they wanted to do.

Imagine your neighbor had called out his Trump/Confederacy-endorsing lawn guy out for a job, then instead slashed his tires and told him "Well why don't you just push it home, you goddamn fascist?" I mean, sure, he's not entitled to an offer of work from your neighbor, and he can always get new tires. But somehow I still don't feel like your neighbor has done the right thing.
I was about to say "recreation.gov, I haven't seen that one before" — and then I noticed it was in my browser history and thought 'oh shit, this disaster of a website...'
You assume that they’re being intentionally nebulous but in actuality it really is that complicated.
"How do we know that the Bible is true?

Well we know that the Bible is true...because the Bible tells us so"

The circular logic of PoS:

1. The list of valid transactions determines who has coin.

2. People with coin decide which transactions are valid.

3. GOTO 1

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Proof-Of-Stake-Wear...
I’d usually say drivers, since Google guarantees that Chrome OS runs right on hardware they certify, but this is a desktop. Linux runs fine on desktops, it’s laptops where it has trouble.
> Your Democratic mayors and supervisors did that.

You mean: the people who run the cities did that, who all happen to be incredibly Democratic. They also did it in San Diego, where I bet a Republican mayor was in power at the time (since you know, that was mostly true in the 80s, 90s, and 00s), but economics rather than political ideology was the main driver of the gentrification.

> You have mental health institutions closed down a decade earlier as well.

Mostly by that famous Democrat named Ronald Reagan?
I used to joke: if someone says they’re into crypto currencies, they’re either a tool or have good ketamine. Years later, that rule still shakes out.

And now a third option: a late adopter who is looking at large losses.

Cryptocurrencies have also become useful asset stores for the wealthy living in authoritarian countries. So much so, that an estimated floor of $3-4 bil of cryptocurrency assets during the peak was just that.

Based on what? And this is still tiny relative to $2.5 trillion market size. Billionaires have no use for Bitcoin to hide wealth. Bitcoin does not bypass the financial system since you still have to convert fiat to btc or btc back to fiat.
Excel makes me feel like such a novice. I often just write a python script instead out of frustration. I don't think little of people that write complex formulas and macros with it. I am still waiting for "python in excel".
I would think a basic statistical analysis should suffice.
As an aside, it would be cool if music could also be an input to these kinds of generative models, such that the generated image somehow matches the feeling or mood of the music.
By that definition, in that case, OP "can't" express themselves in plain English.
https://insideevs.com/news/556375/electric-car-winter-range-...

EVs lose 15-40% of their range in cold weather.
Can't transfer out if the account is under hold.
Me: of course I want the FUN SAFE optimization.

They: Sir, that is dash F unsafe!
> > Any guess on why people's experiences with spam are so diverse?

> That would be an interesting research project.

Indeed. When you say get spam, do you mean pre or post-filtering?

Over the last 30 days (I don't keep them longer than that) I've received 43 spam emails which were sent to the spam folder (so I wouldn't ever see these, other than because I went and looked now for the sake of this discussion). In the same time period there was only 1 spam email which was missed by spamprobe and made it into my inbox spool.

There's a fair amount of would-be spam that gets blocked during the SMTP transaction due to things like bogus host in HELO, etc. I don't keep any stats on those, I did at one time but it was too much noise.

My email isn't secret, it should be on every spammer list I'd guess. It has been the same since the mid 90s and is all over usenet, email list archives, websites, etc and I've never made any effort to mask it.
Sounds like a great way to waste a bunch of time. Three clicks later… confirmed.