jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A month ago, I was traveling in Germany with my family and my daughter had an emergency, so I had to go to a German hospital in the middle of the night. Within 1 hour, they had given my daughter an ultrasound and two doses of medicine to treat her problem, the cost to me: $130 euro, and I didn't even use my health insurance (which does cover international emergencies)

3 years ago, I had a gallbladder attack in Shanghai. I didn't know what was happening at the time, it felt like a heart attack, like I was dying. Went to a Chinese hospital, they did an ultrasound, chest x-ray, CT scan, EKG, blood and urine tests within 2 hours, plus gave me morphine and antibiotics. The cost was on the order of $200.

I don't think the problems with the US healthcare system can be boiled down to capitalism vs socialism alone, it's much more nuanced than that.

Also, comparing a highly automated, elective procedure, that takes 1-2 people, and on an out-patient basis from a private office to something like a heart bypass or hernia surgery I think oversimplifies the situation.

If a doctor tells you that you need to have an MRI and a biopsy, how are you, an untrained "consumer" supposed to know a) whether or not it's really needed or excessive and b) how to shop around for it. c) if you can't afford it, and it's not an emergency, but it could save your life later, what then?

If someone gets routine upper GI endoscopies if they have a high genetic potential for esophageal cancer, and they can't afford these procedures, should they just wait until they are chocking from cancer and go to an emergency room so the state can pay for much more expensive late stage cancer treatments?

I'm all for comparison shopping, but there's still an element of right-to-healthcare for preventative care for those that can't afford it, and there's still the issue that people can't be expected to reason properly about risks and costs when their life is on the line. If a doctor prescribes a test, chances are, you'll want to do it out of fear alone of what might happen if you skip it.
When I was doing a politics startup and people asked me if we'd make a mobile app, my standard response was that the only mobile app I wanted was something that would continuously track and report politicians' coordinates.
> "...Installed Mint Linux..."

Goes nice with a tinfoil hat.
Looking at the MacBook Air, and retina MBP, and their success, Apple seems to have done a fair job of reinventing the laptop market. Quite possibly, the desktop will follow.
My dad flew on the 5th of July a couple years ago. While going through security, he commented that they must get a lot of false positives around that time of year. Their response: "We don't test for black powder."
All I meant was that if 5 stars isn't perfect why is that the scale they're using? Obviously the range of what a 5 star rating represents could mean the difference between life and death in a serious collision.
I'm not an expert, but I doubt if you pulled from FBI agents, CIA operatives, Special Forces, etc. that the ethnic profile would be > 90% white.
I'm curious though- could have all of this been fixed by filing and saying, "look, our expenses 100% meet our income... no tax burden!"?
I've got one peer on this end so we seem to be connected.

I've added (what is hopefully) the TCP/HTTP tracker over at publicbt, which will hopefully work for people unable to use the UDP protocol.
The file in dropbox has been update, so if anyone 's got problems with the previous one, you can just download it again and give it a try.
Update: I actually don't know if you had this situation earlier in the US. We had this situation earlier in Germany. I mixed up the source I read it from. (It was an introductionary book into the German law system.)

While I guess that the situation in the US was similar, I can vouch for it.
Two years old. I hope "Us" is still gaining on "Them".
http://www.youtube.com/user/USENIXAssociation
USENIX has a youtube channel... Hope this is updated with this video!
Darius is the man. Agreed with him 100%. I'll also look at YC % as "advisory shares". You are actually getting a great deal considering the knowledge and experience from the whole YC alumni network.
> Rolling release means that you don't have to do distribution upgrades.

This goes beyond the OP's question. How does arch handle changes in essential components like the switch to upstart in ubuntu? Does this work well with rolling releases?
Well, just to ensure we're on the same page; this claims 100k concurrent, running apps.

If a significant portion of these apps were active then that would translate to a 6 figure hosting bill from amazon (per month!).

So either heroku is much larger than I thought, or most of these apps are not actually doing much.
Hey guys. Sorry for the slow reply. Thanks Cullen King for the shoutout. I'm traveling to meet a client so I wasn't able to check HN as often as I usually do.

I'll email him shortly later today to offer my help directly. But I'll post a few thoughts just so that anyone else in a similar position will be prepared.

Everyone pretty much hit the mark with the self-employment tax issue. SE Tax is a 15.3% tax that you have to pay on income earned from a business.

It sounds like the etymonline guy pretty much got hosed from paying income tax on the income but failure to pay the SE Tax.

Google issues 1099s to anyone that earns over 400 or 600 dollars so the IRS knows if you're making money.

But, from the sound of his explanation. His server and upkeep costs should've generated enough expenses to wipe out his income. I'd have to speak with him directly and more in depth but that is the impression he left in his plead.

Also, there are ways to avoid paying SE tax entirely. If you incorporate into a S Corp and pay yourself a reasonable income, the rest would be excluded from SE Tax. An Scorp is a passthrough entity which means that all income is not taxed twice like a regular Corp. You pay tax on the income once on your 1040. But because the scorp is still a corporation, then you wouldn't pay SE tax on that income because the distribution is a dividend. You don't pay SE taxes on dividends.

Also, it seems like the taxpayer isn't clear about his options once the audit has commenced. Luckily, I'm sure that the taxpayer could still plead his case if he has some facts that could help his situation.

But these are my initial thoughts on the situation. I'm going to email him now and see if he's interested in discussing the issue further.

I'll update everyone on this issue later on if he is willing to allow me to speak on the matter as a learning experience for everyone.
Somehow I didn't see your reply till now.

It turns out this problem of computed cell references is a nontrivial one. (Excel can do it, but slowly and I suspect not with full generality.) The trouble is that you need the reference graph to compute the spreadsheet, but now computing the spreadsheet can modify the reference graph, so you have to maintain the graph dynamically as you calculate.

I'd be interested in discussing this further if you are, but email would be better than here. (My address is in my profile.)
Simple Google search will reveal various sources quoting costs at either $56 (parts only) or $150 (manufacturing). Even if it would be indeed "only" $56 for parts, then you need to account for R&D, assembly, testing, packaging, worldwide delivery, marketing, not-so-small retailer's margin, import duty and VAT (where applies) and I'm pretty sure it would sum-up nicely to sub-$150.

Also, this is something that I consider "common knowledge" and I cannot point you to any sources, but for years console makers (Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo) has been selling consoles for (or even below) the manufacturing costs to allow for wider adoption.

From what I recall, Microsoft in the beginning was breaking-even after they sold at least 3 games for given console. That's why piracy is so big problem in the console world, not only is the console maker not making money, but they are actually losing money on pirates that only buy console.
Historical social shunning was the majority of people in society choosing to exclude people. Today's cancel culture is vocal minorities bullying monopolistic companies into excluding people.
They need the scale of Facebook to work?
Artistic exceptionalism. The painters I work with have nothing but endless criticisms and contempt for each other's thinking. "To them, all art stopped in $era. They have no appreciation or talent for $mystyle" is an incredibly common sentiment confided to one, given some time and not necessarily a willing ear.

El Greco saw himself as a master painter and colorist but Michaelangelo as just another passably capable producer of frescos and drawn bodies, a prolific grunt with no taste or style.
I found it interesting that the author found COBOL's use of line numbers strange and chalked it up to its origin in the punch card era. While that may have been part of it, those of us who learned programming via BASIC in the 1980s were very used to line numbers even though we never saw a punch card.
https://help.aol.com/products/netscape-isp
The shows that sexualize children (it's not only Cuties) didn't help either.
I'd meant to mention pouch/prismatic cells, thanks. I had been under the impression that some of the big manufacturers had started using cylindrical cells, but I can't seem to find any evidence. Oops!
This, the narrative of the evil people pirating stuff because they just don't want to pay for anything is for the most part a myth planted by corporations. Valve realized this [1] when it came to games, Apple and Spotify realized this when it came to music. And there was the study financed by the EU [2] that came to the conclusion that for games, books and music there is "no robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online piracy."

So I too subscribe to the evidence and personal experience that the choice between piracy and purchase is a choice of convenience and availability. There are many cases in which the pirates just offer better service and distribution.

[1]: https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...

[2]: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...
> Addiction is powerful. There are plenty of cases of star athletes ending up as homeless junkies, and this isn't because they lacked the ability to engage in higher-effort, healthy hobbies.

Yes, I'd argue that it literally is because they lacked the ability to engage in higher-effort, healthy hobbies. Ask any star athlete junkie what he thinks is more healthy and more fulfilling: hobbies & sports, or whatever drug they ended up addicted to? They know what's better for them. For one reason or other, they don't do it. If the reason is addiction, that literally implies that they can't do it and addiction overpowers their ability to engage in higher-effort, healthy hobbies as a replacement.

> Breaking those addictions can open up a universe of new possibilities

Except you're not breaking these addictions, you're just sequestering or discouraging one particular abuse. Sometimes that helps. After all, teenage abstinence isn't zero percent effective. After all, cold turkey isn't zero percent effective. Though, the universe of possibilities they open tend to be relatively unreliable compared to teenagers having sex anyway & junkies returning to drugs, or safe sex & methadone.

> Phones, games, apps, and social media are, quite literally, engineered to be addictive.

No they're not, they're engineered to be engaging. There's no evidence I know of that phones, apps, etc consistently induce anything close to the addictive response in humans as the addictive substances we know of. Frankly, claiming that these things are "engineered to be addictive" is flat out misleading and conflates the extremely consistent & brutal consequences of addiction as science understands it with the much less understood area of social media.
games are selling a lot of iPod touches.
Linus has a touch of what I think makes Steve Jobs great: the ability to say no and stick by those convictions. No argument from me that Linux is wildly successful and one of the most important tech developments in the last 10 years.

However, I always cringe when I read some of his comments that seem to reject any element of forward progress. While C++ certainly has its share of issues, Linux will never evolve if the programming paradigm stays in the 60s. My gut feel is there is a lot of opportunity to do better over the next ten years.
Because the modis operandi of telcos has been "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further" for as long as they have existed.
Video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4G4EjoyUo

This looks very promising and useful knowing that most therapists in 2015 still take data on a piece of paper and draw graphs by hand!
> It’s not a fair fight, but it is one, oddly, where the small guy can compete. It might seem ludicrous – DuckDuckGo has 78 employees and Google 114,096 – but often the outcome is the same. For the majority of your searches David, it turns out, is just as good as Goliath.

It has been repeated ad-nausea: duckduckgo's organic results are taken directly from Bing.
CircuitHub. They are manufactured in Massachusetts so US IP laws would apply.
Eh, HAVING is something that can be learned in 5 minutes. So filtering out for that is probably generating a lot of false negatives. I quiz them on indexes and table design. Those can be done without writing a single SQL query.
I fail to follow your logic? What's the scenario you want here: for Google to continue providing YouTube for free or that they rise prices so other competition can be cheaper?

What's your endgoal with the breakup?
"Regulating freely consented exchanges _you_ don't like out of existence will not actually make them disappear,"

If only online discussion forums could figure this one out...
To everyone replying: I think demand is rather different than popularity, ubiquity, or even supply of jobs. Even the link refers to Python being the top language of 2019, but "researchers at [...] Indeed" (note: a single job listing source) found SQL & Java to be included in listings marginally more frequently than Python.
I read it! But then, I love reading technical books.

I did find that it didn't provide much context around why the equations matter, and definitely wouldn't be useful for those starting out in the field. It did have some pretty good coverage of gradient descent and various optimisers, which I found useful.

tl;dr: not really worth it for its stated purpose, but not a bad second or third stats book.
Coincidentially, these happen to be the exact same people who are insulated from the housing crisis.
It's not about censorship. It's about doing business.
He doesn't say that the Fed doesn't set the nominal rate in the short term. As I understood it, the post argues that it's unsustainable for the Fed to attempt to set the nominal short-term rate to something different than the medium-term real rate, over which it has no control. Did you skip the whole part about what happens if the Fed sets the nominal short-term rate lower or higher than the medium-term real rate?
Silica is not even close to hard enough to polish sapphire, and most toothpaste, instead of containing silica, contains chalk, which is not even close to as hard as silica. The problem with brushing your teeth with silica is that silica is not a very mild polishing agent; it's a pretty aggressive one, and it will wear away your tooth enamel pretty quickly. If those are your permanent teeth, that enamel ain’t coming back.

Silica and maybe even chalk will work fine to polish glass, though.
Money is absolutely debt, are you claiming that it isn't?
No, of course not by censorship. Through: fines for monopolist practices (happened to Microsoft), general smear campaign (happens to Amazon in Germany over working conditions), poking with a stick (the "right to be forgotten"), or just plain old taxes (the new "internet tax" is a current topic in the EU). There is always a way if you are determined enough. Politics.
I wrote a book and video series on Sublime Text - https://SublimeTextBook.com

It's done about 80k in sales in 3 months - I'm in the process of writing a blog post about how I did it, what worked and what didn't. It's not inexpensive, but it pays for itself quickly so people are fine with spending the $45 on the book + videos.

Feel free to ask questions here so I have content for the post.
Interesting it supports boot first. I wonder lately if lein is breaking under its own flexibility. I personally would've liked something based around webjars, too bad it can't reuse that work...

Clojure tooling, sigh.
I don't mean to make light of your personal issues, but I don't think the Hacker News comment section for this article is the appropriate place to be discussing them. I wish you luck in dealing with your affliction, and suggest that speaking to a mental health professional would be a better outlet for you. If you really needed to talk to people here about it, then I'd recommend making a new thread, perhaps linking to blog post or something of that matter you wrote describing your addiction, rather than hijacking the comments section here, which I think is being a bit disrespectful to the rest of the HN userbase.
We represented both galaxies in 3D crystal cubes in case that's of interest: http://cosmic3d.com/
Absolutely. And it's actually rather odd. People are tend to spent more money on a coffee they buy at starbucks than they're willing to pay for an app they use e.g. every week. Maybe it's because a lot of users have absolutely no idea how much work it takes to write an app. All they know are the Angry Bird and Minecraft success stories thinking that app makers must shit golden bricks every time they build their code.

It's not only a trend among average consumers though, it's also sadly a trend among us developers: not a lot of developers are willing to spend even a single dollar on software they have to use every day. "Do you have a free version?" "Why do I have to give away the application I spend years full time on writing? Do you work for free?"

I don't think this will end well. If we less and less value software on its true worth, it will become less and less attractive (or even possible) to write the software we need in a society which more and more relies on software. Watch this great presentation by Erik Meijer [1] where he addresses this problem (and others ;))

[1] http://vimeo.com/110554082
> but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal.

I don't believe that. Of course there were people with alternative visions. They just happened to be removed by the elite b/c they were threatening their source of luxury.
> I was pretty mindblown when I realized that radians are basically meters/meters

This is true in a dimensional analysis way, where e.g. arclength around a circle is equal to the subtended angle times the radius and, since the arclength and the radius have the same dimension, the angle must be dimensionless.

But units are more than that. You can't do anything in chemistry without running into quantities like molarity or ppm that appear to be dimensionless but make no sense if you think about them as coefficients rather than as combinations of semantically-distinct units that happen to have the same name.

Imagine some subtance that is 5% salt by mass and 8% salt by volume. ppm by mass is just kg / kg, right? And ppm by volume is m^3 / m^3. Those are the same unit -- in fact, no unit at all. Except that the implication of that non-fact is that ppm by volume and ppm by mass are the same thing, which they aren't.

Similarly, radians are best conceived of as percentages of a rotation, not as dimensionless coefficients. Then we calculate an arclength around a circle by saying that the ratio between the arclength and the full perimeter is equal to the ratio between the subtended angle and the full rotation. Characterized so, we have both units present twice, canceling each other out on each side of the equation, and we don't need to clean up by saying that the angle has no unit at all. We divided part of a perimeter by all of a perimeter -- producing a dimensionless quantity -- and we divided part of a rotation by all of a rotation -- also producing a dimensionless quantity -- and then we correctly compared two dimensionless quantities to each other.

(On this analysis, the equation s = rθ is actually incorrect; it should be written s = rθ/1 . You can extend this -- we all know the area under sin(x) from 0 to pi is 2. 2 whats? Well, the x axis is radians and the y axis is sine values. Sine values are computed by dividing the length of a line segment by the length of another line segment; they are legitimately dimensionless. So the area under sin(x) must be 2 radians.)
Death is by definition suffering. By that, I mean the removal of free will and free thought is suffering. Prison removes free will, and death removes free thought.
Security is solved in these use cases, but not usability while maintaining security for personal use.
I will be very disappointed if they remove this option. I’ve used the compact option since I first installed Firefox.

I may have to try one of the forks that brings back Mozilla’s removed features.
What is Saudi Arabia doing in Yemen then? Or what has Pakistan done in Afghanistan? Why single out Iran?
France, Italy, and Spain are in the same ballpark as the US. The US is basically tied with Italy and Spain in deaths per capita. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
Websites that limit password length or use those innane password requirements are the bane of my existence. They force me to create stupid passwords with symbols and weird capitalizations that I will never remember, forcing me to write them down somewhere or manually add it to a password manager. For many people, it's more convenient to just reset the password every time they need to use these websites because of their bs password requirements.
https://www.journalduhacker.net/
Bitcoin does have one advantage: it was the first of its kind. Moreover, any other blockchain currency would have to go through the same value inflation as bitcoin: it makes sense to pick a currency where there are already a lot of coins, so that the price is more stable.

If we can come up with a better currency (i.e. one that doesn't waste so much power), then Bitcoin might die. But I don't see it being replaced by some dogecoin, at least anytime soon.
This seemed very appropriate for Reddit, and it's a touching story.

I don't quite get the Hacker angle, but maybe I'm missing something.
In Malaysia, many cases where ppl stopped to help but end up having their cars and money robbed!
I try to give rides to hitchhikers when it's especially dark and lonely and cold out. I ride a motorcycle, and people usually aren't interested in a ride with no helmet unless it's really dark, lonely and cold.

Used to help people on the side of the road a lot, but a childhood friend was hit by a truck & killed just recently while helping someone change a flat and I almost broke my ankle in the dark another night when I pulled over to help, and couldn't walk right for months. I haven't been pulling over as much since. :(

On a tangent, things like that ankle injury that really remind me how fragile we are. There was a while there I thought I had permanently injured it.