jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fair point, I was looking up pay withholding breakdowns and that's all that's directly paid to Medicare.

> Point being it's incorrect, and quite misleading, to assert that 2% of your salary 'is for medicare', as a simple breakdown for public health shows that, per-dollar, it's somewhere in the range of 10-25%

I want to push back on this a little though.

The implication that it actually costs 10-25% of your salary is just as misleading, as individual taxes only account for <50% of government revenue [0]. 60% if you include other taxes reasonably attributed to an individual (GST and Superannuation).

So maybe a better middle-ground would be to say it costs 5-12.5%? Even then, I'm not sure where you're getting that upper 25% figure from, a cursory search shows _total_ expenditure on health care (medicare + private together) was <10% of GDP in 2013. [1]

Looking at the budget, it's ~14% of expenditure [2]

So if we assume that all this money is fungible we could expect that ~7% of my salary, or 8.5% of all tax I ever pay, goes to government health expenditures.

Adding on my private cover and out-of-pocket expenses get me to about 10%, exactly what the OP is claiming they pay...but that was paying for _just_ insurance. The US government still spends huge amounts on health care, so a chunk of their taxes are going there too, and there is the out of pocket expenses etc.

As you say, an exact figure isn't easy to determine. But comparing the 2% medicare levy + my private health insurance to the 10% OP's US insurance cost seems pretty reasonable. They are paying more than that for healthcare out of pocket and their other taxes, so am I. The deal in Australia still seems much better than the US one.

[0] See Table 2: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...

[1] https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/3be568f2-d938-4575-bf1f-874...

[2] See appendix B: https://budget.gov.au/2020-21/content/overview.htm#three
Can you expand on that SO statement? I know you said you've already been talking about it for months, but I've never heard anything about this.
The feeling is useless, sex is both much more fun and actually real. Personally I thought it was an awful thing that happened once and then you weren't susceptible to it anymore. I had no idea it could happen again.
Interstellar drives are the dangerous bit. The point is that we have a history of being willing to use weapons of mass destruction on our own species. This should make other species a bit nervous.
Best word processor I had in high school was typed in line-by-line from Compute magazine (better than the ones I would've had to spend $$$ on).

That said, why didn't he install a C-64 emulator or an Apple II emulator - no need to buy the box. Also, Logo, another good starter language has implementations, including 3D extensions. Processing + JavaScript is another decent alternative, or Canvas if that's your cup-of-(tea|joe).

It's a nice rememberence of a language many of us started with, but it's okay to let it go and move on to other things.
Hmm, yes, I was just pointing out that there are other solutions.

Yes, I agree that DKIM+duplicate detection is fairly good; you just can't rely on it being present, and if it isn't you have to fall back to much less reliable stuff.
You'd be surprised how easy it is to switch it up. A while back I used to get annoyed when switching controllers with people who didn't use inversion when I did. So I just decided to try natural and it wasn't long before inversion was what felt strange.
Chrome and Safari have a REPL console - you can type JavaScript and get immediate feedback.

As do Firefox (with Firebug) and Opera (Dragonfly). The mental model of raw client side JS, along with actually saving your code isn't exactly "instant gratification" though. This should be a web service that lets you easily save your code, and gets rid of most of the accidental browser complexity. And while we're at it, you should be able to embed the stuff you made elsewhere, hosted or not. (though IE throws a spanner in the works if you're using Canvas and want to embed it to show others)

This is sounding better and better the more I think about it.
I don't get it.. He's using select/EPOLL in python but not Haskell/Erlang. I call FUD on this.
uf, dar nežinia ar atostogausiu kitą savaitę. Šnekutis būt ok, vis nerandu progos nueit.

Ką kiti manot apie datą/vietą?
There is a discussion started in a GitHub issue about this.

I must suggest you a comment by the project's co-owner:

https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/issues/92#issuecomm...

He went a little too far in his argument, but he does make a good point.

EDIT:

They've received a DMCA takedown notice from GitHub:

https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/issues/92#issuecomm...
Steve Jobs? mistakes?

It seems to me really strange to find people like Steve Jobs that belong to the group of "most successful people in the world", economical, personal and socially, being criticized by someone random on Internet, giving him lessons on what he should be doing.

Of course Steve Jobs is human, and makes "mistakes",he is not a deity, but as a human, he had more successes than anyone else I know in the IT field in a sustained way over the time.

In fact what this blogger considers "mistakes" is what I like about people like Steve "everything that Jobs has ever done in his career has suggested that he loves great products more than market share."

Thank God!! some people care about products and not getting more and more rich like the Banks, whose financial successes come from stealing other people work, or getting monopolies from destroying competition and benefiting from that, or getting(paying) the politicians to agree with them.

Not everything in life is money, marketshare ... and I respect the guys of google or Apple because they cared first about the product, and the got money and marketshare as a consequence later because people love good products.

Their primary goal was to benefit their customers and they benefited from that. Those that try to first benefit themselves with crappy products, tricking their customers to buy it using only false advertising, corrupting others to give them market privileges(today you have to pay corrupt officers to have the right to sell to some countries), well, those are the mistaken companies.
ZFS is fairly profligate with its RAM usage though. There are some good reasons for this, but ZFS will be dog slow compared to other file-systems in RAM-constrained situations, but behave competitively in non-RAM-constrained situations.
A sure way to identify someone trying to give you bad security advice is when they only talk about security implementation and nothing about what threat one is trying to defend against.

With out a threat model you can't balance useability with security, and you get rhetoric like "default block" or "its all about educating the user". However, no one actually do strictly follow the rhetoric so what you get is bunch of inconsistency, intrusiveness, and bad security. It also generate a lot of flip flap in security policy, security rules and user manuals, all to the despair of the people who are the users of the system.
I don't think you can really blame people for perceiving Solaris fragments floating around in space as dead projects. OpenIndiana for example is reeking of death and the last time I tried to upgrade my home storage server from OpenSolaris to OpenIndiana the new boot environment was completely hosed. Yes I realize there are also dozens of other (some useless, some abandoned) distros of illumos.

Comments about Oracle are not FUD. Having a project that is in any way related to Oracle is like having a psychotic murderer living in the flat upstairs. People may be understandably reluctant to come over for tea.
If the question is: could the US win a war against North Korea?

The answer is: yes, obviously, and the price would be very high in terms of either US soldiers, or North Korean civilians, or both.

The US chooses not to engage in that war, precisely because it already knows the cost equation. Millions would die.
How is weed at work the latest issue? There's been obvious stoned workers writing code since at least 1997. I've seen it at pre-IPO startsups (c2000), small regional businesses (c2003), banks (c2008), IaaS providers, Economic Research, Investment Managers.

Lest my username give it away...it's a litle more common and open in my current space. But new tech-keeps flooding into the reefer-space..."the green rush".
I just tried the cloudflare Speedtest and it doesn’t read low, in fact it read higher than what’s possible.

Monitoring the NIC rx is the most accurate in my experience.
First of all is to come to some kind of an agreement on the definition of ethical.
>All of these stakeholders should have a say in what is done with twitter

That sounds reasonable, but the person who gets the real power is whoever mediates all those stakeholders and their different needs/goals/desires. Who do you think that will be?
Gotcha. The site aesthetics probably don't shout "I'm an established product and will be here long after you've paid for it" either.

By "more stats", do you mean the accuracy statistic that is computed for each practice? Or do you mean the wpm/accuracy chart that you see on the Progress link?
I make no where near $100/hour, but I usually feel my money is wasted when I eat a restaurant - rarely does the quality justify the price - even for a $20 meal.
No, because more than one such NGO could operate inside a given state and you could start a new one. Hence, "more representation", not less.
For me, lines of code per day varies depending on what is being done and how.

If it's a meaty problem that is not well understood, or a language or framework I'm unfamiliar with, or I sense the situation is complex enough that an early bad decision could lead to unforeseen troubles later (and I should tread carefully), very few or no lines are written during the day.

On the other hand, if it is similar to a thing I have done many times before, and I'm comfortable with the problem, the language and framework then there is much less time thinking and StackOverflowing and I can go at nearly typing speed. (Likewise, if the code is quick "one of" type things for tests or throwaway stuff). More than several hundred lines of code a day (JS or Python) in cases like these is very achievable.

This doesn't count things like html templates, css etc (although sometime that take a bit of thought as well).
If you want to be evil do like these guys and freeze who has adblock, but I sincerely hope you don't do that (not everything is about money!): http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/2to4pm/what_evil_blo...
US had already plenty of currency crises. The most recent one is 2008 when there was a real risk of ATM withdrawals blocked and only HUGE amounts of bailout money kept that circus afloat. Another big one was in 1971 when Nixon basically showed a finger to everyone who trusted that USG would redeem USD for gold. Overall, since invention of Fed, dollar lost like 97% of its purchasing power (meaning, all that purchasing power was relocated to those who are friends with the Fed).

97% of people's savings were taken over the course of 20th century and spent for wars, inefficient social programs and private commercial enterprises. Bitcoin is all about opening eyes to that shenanigan and not allowing it to happen again.
jQuery was far from the only popular cross-browser DOM library. We had a choice of jQuery, MooTools, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, Mochikit, and quite a few others, along with good presentation of standalone cross-browser techniques from sources like QuirksMode. jQuery mostly succeeded through its marketing to web designers which formed a critical mass of well-written extensions and hireable know-how, and a zeitgeist of jQuery as a baseline.
"Needs more surveillance" - David
Probably not - makes short and simple programs for problems that looked difficult at first. [1] ;)

[1] http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Au...?

EDIT: joke aside, I am thankful to the grandparent for posting the question. I have the same question, with the difference that I also know the other side. So I am following the answers closely.
I don't have any glare problems with my Kindle Paperwhite, even in bright sunlight.

I would dearly love to have a laptop using a display like this, so I can write code in the park on nice days.
McDonald's main problem is that they sacrifice quality for consistency. I can understand why a chain restaurant would want that. I can even understand why a customer would want that. What I can't understand is why a home cook would want that.

Pommes frites are fresh potatoes cooked in animal fat, and seasoned with salt and rosemary. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_spivack/4205683848/
It's quite a scary thought that with a truly 3D/AR computing experience, we might not be able to tell which elements of our environment are Real World and which are virtual.

Imagine a virus that injects fake flooring into your vision where instead there is a 40ft fall!
Interesting article, and I think part of the underlying point is that you might be better off building a smaller, less complex company if your primary goal is just to get to some (relatively small) exit.

It doesn't address the Equity Equation though. In theory you should be assigning shares based on some roughly calculated guess as to how much additional value those other employees (or founders) will bring.

Sure, if you can do it all yourself there is no need or reason for massive dilution by handing out shares to other people. But the reality is that you often have the "technical" founder and the "business" founder. In the majority of cases they are both worthless without their combined talents and contributions.
The vinegar hack is brilliant. Cooking is chemistry and should be treated as such.
SPSS is quite good, for certain things. A lot of researchers use it because little-to-no programming is required, and you can interact with it in an entirely GUI-way- if you can use Excel, you can use SPSS. It makes it easy to set up certain analyses, and gives lots of output... and there's where my concerns about it come up. It's easy to fall into a false sense of security with it, and to end up with statistics that you don't know how to interpret properly (I call this the "Huh. Now what do I do?" problem). The documentation is often pretty useless on this front as well- lots of pages follow this general pattern: "Jones Test of Gronkularity: If checked, SPSS will calculate the Jones Test of Gronkularity statistic, which tests the null hypothesis that the data are gronkular", as opposed to useful information about why you might care whether the data are gronkular or not, why the Jones test was included in another test's output, etc. For a product aimed at people with relatively limited technical capabilities, I feel like SPSS should have better docs.

One important thing to know about SPSS- that a lot of people don't- is that is really a programming language, for which the GUI is simply a code generator. I find that it's almost always easier for me to interact directly with the under-the-hood guts of SPSS than the GUI, although sometimes when setting up a new analysis for the first time I'll use the GUI to do most of the work and then tweak its results.
No, Matt is very clear:

"the amount of overhead and red tape (grant proposals, teaching, committee work, etc.) you have to do apart from the interesting technical work severely limits your ability to actually [have a practical impact via your research.]"

Teaching is part of the overhead if your goal is to do research, or in his case more precisely to build great systems. A lot of professors feel that way.

To Matt's credit, by all accounts he put plenty of effort into his classes and they were excellent, even though it wasn't what he really most wanted to do. But other professors who feel that way and, I suppose, have a weaker sense of duty end up as the bad teachers that students hate, because they just don't care.
Unless you take a homemade* ceramic knife through security, it would be spotted just like any other metal object [1].

* Good luck with that.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnT5INymiY#t=6m40s
No offense to the OpenSSH team for such an awesome product but they chose the BSD license. The companies using it are under NO obligation to do squat for OpenBSD or the OpenSSH team. At least with a GPL license they could have gotten some code out of the deal.

Look, if you "do" open source regardless of license strictly for financial reasons, you'll be sorely disappointed. I'm as big a proponent of FOSS as anyone but you do it for the "love of the game".
I suggest partnering with a designer or a design company. Offering them equity might get you a good start in terms of design and of course it continues further as your startup scales up.

All the best!
Thanks for your work, I am really enjoying it so far. As a counterpoint to some of the comments regarding the choice of language, I had the opposite response. Oh neat, I get to learn haskell and natural language processing at the same time.

If I could make one request, could you remove the mouseover from the paragraph text that shows the topic heading? It is really distracting for those us who like to use our mouse pointer as a finger when reading.
You don't want companies that you're a customer of to know your private information, that's fine, don't join them.

Personally I'd like it if my bank knows my name when they initiate a call to me.

You might like a bank that acts like this:

"Hello Customer with ID 31059283, your bank account balance is negative five dollars and is overdrawn. The last transaction was an eftpos transaction for $5 at a fast food restaurant. We are unable to tell you any other transactions prior to your account being overdrawn because as a matter of privacy policy we only store the last piece of transaction data. "

Well, I don't. Companies that don't know anything about me don't have my business, they just can't compete, like the Ford Model T.
>'uncool website their parents use...to spy on them'

Thank you for showing me how to prevent my kid from joining: "Here I want you to make a facebook account so I can keep track of everything you do online and make sure you dont make any weird friends. I also want to check all your wall posts to see what you and your friends are saying. Here is your password."
I updated the post so that you know where the links are taking you.
I've been waiting for this ever since it was released! Joy is me!
XBMC has a solution for TV, but it only applies to your own hosted media. Take a look at PseudoTV.

I was actually writing a similar plugin for Plex.tv last year until my client hours put that on the backburner indefinitely.
Also there are little if any "do overs" with hardware. If you manufacture it and you make a mistake and it can't be fixed with software then you have a big problem to deal with.

You will almost certainly find the mentality of people making industrial equipment (or airplanes) different than people who write software where it's just about accepted practice at this point to push products into the channel and fix them later. In a sense your customers become your beta users.

Wasn't always like this (with software). I am getting software updates from Apple it seems every few days. Back in the days of floppy disks and prior to the Internet they had to spend more Q&A time because it would be rather expensive to fix problems with buggy code.
Don't worry, he gives an easy money shout out at the very end
I did indeed forget MATLAB.
Wolfram isn't that big, and if Swift should count, C# should too.
https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Tempera...

> Conversions between temperatures are different from linear conversions between temperature increments—see the example below. The absolute temperature conversions are handled by units starting with ‘temp’, and you must use functional notation. The temperature-increment conversions are done using units starting with ‘deg’ and they do not require functional notation.
The fact you were able to register your lastname as a dotcom is incredibly fortunate, especially if that was a recent registration. Mine has been a marketing agency since 1995.

I ran my own business email for a while in a DigitalOcean VPS, but it was a huge pain. I did it all by hand though, I should give mailinabox a try.
It's actually a bit more complicated. Since DALL-E uses CLIP for training, and CLIP is itself trained using separate text and image encoders: https://openai.com/blog/clip/

At some point we'll have so many models based on so many other models it will longer longer be possible to tell which techniques are really involved.
Not for the kind of inference running here, I'd imagine.

There are few key reasons why most realtime inference is done on the cloud:

- Scale. Deep learning models especially tend to have poor latency, especially as they grow in size. As a result, you need to scale up replicas to meet demand at a way lower level of traffic than you do for a normal web app. At one point, AI Dungeon needed over 700 servers to support just thousands of concurrent players.

- Cost. Related to the above, GPUs are really expensive to buy. A g4dn.xlarge instance (the most popular AWS EC2 instance for GPU inference) is $0.526/hour on demand. To hit $3,000 per month in spend, you'd need to be running ~8 of them 24/7. Prices vary with purchasing GPUs, but you could expect 8 NVIDIA T4's to run around $20,000 at minimum, plus the cost of other components and maintainence. To be clear, that's very conservative--it's unlikely you'll get consistent traffic. What's more likely is you'll have some periods of very little traffic where you need one or two GPUs, and other high load periods where you'll need 10+.

3. Less universal of an issue, but the cloud gives you much better access to chips at lower switching costs. If NVIDIA releases a new GPU that's even better for inference, switching to it (once its available on your cloud) will be a tweak in your YAML. If you ever switch to ASICs like AWS's Inferentia or GCP's TPUs, which in many cases give way better performance and economics than GPUs, you'll also naturally have to be on their cloud.

However, there is a lot that can be done to lower the cost of inference even in the cloud. I listed some things in a comment higher up, but basically, there are some assumptions you can make with inference that allow you to optimize pretty hard on instance price and autoscaling behavior.
I have some exposure to the claim adjudication space, and I can say that there are undeniably people who see it as a fiduciary duty to make people jump through hoops before paying out a claim. This is a large part of why so many prior authorization proccesses suck royally.

However, w.r.t. long term medications getting denied, keep in mind that every claim starts denied until a path through to an approval can be traversed. This is a fundamental starting pount for any insurance related system. It is fundamentally a filter.

You as the customer do not have readily available access to many of the clinical programs going on in the background. Opting in and out by a plan sponsor can substantially change the footprint or character of approvable claims. Especially if paired with formulary changes.

If you happen to be on any type of high cost or specialty treatment, you're on course to misery-town, because you just popped up on the radar for entire divisions worth of second guessing justified by fiduciary duty, but often implemented in ways that leaves the patient both helpless to know what is going on, and holding the bag.