skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not totally convinced your story with the cup of water was an ego related issue. The workflow of doctors in the hospital is complicated, and different doctors and nurses have different privileges for different patients, which can make things appear to be ego related. In your scenario, you're a post-operative patient. Your primary doctor is likely the surgeon that performed surgery on you. I'm thinking the doctor that saw you and wouldn't get a cup of water was a consulting-team doctor that was asked by your primary doctor (the surgeon) to see you. Consulting doctors don't "own" their patients (although this differs in different hospitals). This means they can't put in orders (i.e. prescribe meds, give you food, water) for you. They can evaluate you and provide recommendations to the primary doctor, and it's up to the primary doctor to make the final call on the recommendations. If a patient asks a consulting doctor for water, the safest thing for the doctor to do is to defer to the primary doctor or nurse who does "own" the patient. The nurse will know from the orders put in for the patient what kind of diet the patient is on and whether the patient is allowed to have water.

Yes, this is a lot of bureaucracy, but there is a reason for it. If your surgeon thought there was a good chance that you'd have to go back in for surgery soon, he'd likely want you to be NPO (no food or water intake) to minimize the risk of aspiration and choking during anesthesia and intubation if you were to undergo surgery again. He might want you NPO if you had just had some sort of GI surgery or were due for a barium swallow study. A lot of patients are NPO in the hospital, and for consulting doctors, it's much easier to defer to your nurse or your primary doctor for even basic needs like food and water.
Show HN: Superset of Lisp and Lua Programming Language, a la JSX
I agree, with exception: If the ORM exercises compile-time checking, that is an advantage against SQL, where errors only happen at runtime.
> Does anyone make better cookies, pastries and desserts overall than the Italians?

Probably not.

> And bread?

Please... Just visit Poland or Ukraine. You'll know how good a bread can be.
The fungus or the steroid cream?
Meanwhile, as a Norwegian, the notion that Italians or the French make 'good' bread is hard to swallow. That's probably what most of us miss when we go further abroad than North Europe - decent non-white bread to eat for breakfast. (citation needed). However, this is probably mostly due to the differences in what we expect good bread to be..
Communism shared the totalitarianism, militarism and racism (incl antisemitism) of fascism. Communist art looked a lot like nazist art. Flags and banners too. So did the way their soldiers marched. The way individuals just didn't matter.

When you go to the far right you end up at the far left, and vice versa.
It depends on where you live in the US. That salary would be low in the Bay but high in other places.
The form factor seems decently innovative to me anyways. This is definitely the most polished implementation of a console that travels from tv to handheld that I've owned.
Lots of medical professionals use an app/site to help manage patient appointments. I want one of those suppliers to come out with a smartphone app for the patients to run to give the medical office real-time projected arrival time on the day of the appointment.

Then the office can offer expedited check-in for patients that use the app, because they know the patient will arrive on time and don't have to pad the check-in time estimates. Bonus for watching traffic patterns and looking for accidents/road closures, then giving the patient a heads up to start making their way to the office earlier than anticipated; bonus for storing trending data on individual patients to adjust reminders (those more consistently tardy get earlier and more frequent reminders).
I'm wrong on that one, I totally misused the term. I mean Domain Validated certificates (Letsencrypt and others) vs Extended Validation.
Which pre-war countries with advanced societies didn't have, say, entire scientific communities beating the drum of eugenics? It was an entire academic discipline in the universities of many countries, and there were 3 international conferences in the early 20th century.

I don't see how you could write a balanced article on this topic without even mentioning the rise and fall of Sir Oswald Mosley, because therein lies the major difference. British fascism died once people realized what was happening in Germany, most notably the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. The BUF didn't even have enough support to run in the subsequent election in 1935.
I used to work at a parrot sanctuary[1] and one of the cockatoos had learned the combination to the luggage lock we used to keep his cage shut. Parrots can be very smart.

[1]https://www.freeflightbirds.org/
Obviously, the problem with this strategy is uncertainty. Part of the point of healthcare is that other people worry about it so you don't have to. Better the Byzantine, inefficient healthcare system you know than a system you don't know at all.

That said, I consider myself lucky to have been in Japan when my lung collapsed. The surgery itself was $80!
FTPGrab – Simple script to grab your files from a remote FTP server
US government 'hacked global bank system'
I'm gobsmacked by that choice of return address. From "B Manning"? Only one digit off from his real address?

Maybe it was a test. Let's say that he in fact mailed the package anonymously. So interception would arguably have told him that he was under observation. But still, using "B Manning" seems like a confounder, even if a small one.

I'm guessing that he used different return addresses for the other two boxes. Controls for the test, as it were.
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"Every time I went to book with my amex platinum, the hotels they offered were way overpriced for the area. I can't help but suspect you were already paying suite prices the moment you decided to book with amex. Either that or I'm just unlucky in the cities I pick to test with."

I'm suspicious of this too ... It's very easy to get discounts and upgrades on rooms when you start with the rack rate anyway ... can the grandparent provide some additional details or examples ? I'm genuinely curious.

I am personally a starwoods member and starwoods AMEX holder and I do typically get minor upgrades (basic room class upgraded to just-better-than-basic) as a matter of course, but it never has anything to do with what card I use - rather it is based on my current points/status with SPG ...

In fact, SPG/StarwoodAMEX is my only frequent flyer or club or membership that I have - I don't bother with any frequent flyer memberships (even when I do, in fact, fly routes/airlines frequently) and I don't join any other clubs. There absolutely is a savings/benefit to be had but I never feel that it outweighs the mental overhead and complication.

I could perhaps see "upgrading" from Starwoods AMEX to AMEX Platinum in order to get all the lounge access and the instant low-tier status at all hotels and airlines - that's one of the benefits, right ?
Perhaps the book does a better job (or argues a different point entirely) but I'm not sure the article does a particularly good job of justifying its headline. Most of the things it describes (ambivalence towards democracy, mostly latent racism) were the rule rather than the exception in most historical societies; lack of mass democracy was if anything a bulwark against populist movements like fascism. It was the liberals the middle classes favoured rather than socialists they feared that were driving changes, and the Right's preoccupation with vestiges of monarchical tradition and belief their "racial superiority" could best be demonstrated by the Empire were the polar opposite of the fascist fondness for radical new social contracts and demonstrating superiority through self-reliance and military might

Above all, the early twentieth century UK didn't have the sort of massive sense of grievance that fascists built their movement arount or a charismatic far-right figure to lead a fascist movement.
Yes, as usual, WikiLeaks and Julian are sensationalizing the heck out of something they've been sitting on for a while. How convenient.
And why cameras are markedet almost only with the megapixel count, even though it's not a definite measure of camera quality.
I subscribed to the feeds on http://www.nowinstock.net/videogaming/consoles/nintendoswitc... and nabbed one on launch day (shipped)
Using Stunnel and TinyProxy to Obfuscate HTTP Traffic – Benjamin Cane
When I was living in Switzerland, my biggest woe was that all of the bread seemed to be white, or sweet. I could find no good simple grainy brown bread, like at home in Ireland.

But the beer was better, so I was happy.
Which is exactly why I like it :) De gustibus non disputandum est...
Zelda is a big contributing factor, but I suspect the core appeal of the Switch is the central innovation of the convertible portable/home hybrid. Not just the idea of "portable you can plug in to you TV", but in the specific details of how they've done it.
And what would the benefit be to Kia or Hyundai. These firms have already entered the market chasing Toyota and GM. They have their margin structure baked in already. Moving to low-margin/high-volume contract work would cost them a ton of money.

It's the same reason that, say, Intel doesn't (can't) do consumer logic fabrication to compete with TSMC or Samsung. They have the technical know-how, but their fab capacity is already filled with Xeons that fetch like 4x the margin.
keep in mind that making the size smaller also make your website more light and faster, same thing for android/ios app, where the fact that this icon are in svg format make them scalable at different resolution, screensize and dpi.
Image are usualy the main reason to oversize app and webpage.
No it wasn't a situation like that. It was just that some papers needed to be delivered to someone (don't want to go into details). There were two relevant people: the doctor and the destination. There was no need for the nurse other than some agreement between either the company or the union.
Ants are especially interesting. Each individual is very simple, you could probably create an accurate ant model with a (very big) finite state machine. Yet entire colonies are extremely complex. I suspect that it's analogous to human brain cells vs the entire brain. Each cell isn't intelligent alone, but the whole is.
Server-Side React Rendering from Non-Node Environments
I'm not sure that there really are that many full word collisions across two different alphabets. Epic versus Ерис is certainly a nice example, but how many others are there? (Also, I know there is a character that can be used to look like the latin Ii, but every time I see the и character or sound, it's always Ии, but that's not really what this is about) And honestly, I do think that Ерис.com has every right to be a site as Eric.com - it would be trivial for a browser to know whether the url was provided in latin characters or cyrillic.

My point/question is more "is the issue actually words in two different character sets creating a collision or mixed alphabet collisions?" If it's the former, I'd like to see more examples to show this is a prevalent issue that wouldn't be caught by a sanity check that catches URLs with mixed character sets. (That is, how many unique words across languages are there that actually get a hit this way, in the same way Epic/Ерис do?)

As for passports, I understand your point on the universal nature of English, but International passports serve a completely different purpose than a domain name. So much of the web is non-english, save the domain name for some of them, and I'm not sure why it has to be this way. If the owners want it that way, great. If they want a domain in the local language, I'm not sure why they shouldn't be allowed to. A passport is meant for a very specific set of people (border guards, law enforcement, airline and other travel employees) to be able to verify your identity. A domain name just needs to resonate with its audience.

I just don't see why every business across the planet needs to compete for the same flowers.com address, or petstore.com, or cars.com. There are plenty of unique words and ways to communicate the same idea, I'm not certain why we need to restrict ourselves to English here. It just makes already expensive domain names even more expensive. If I have a club in San Francisco that I wanna call White Nights, there's no reason that a club in St. Petersburg should have to compete with me for the same name when they have their own term for White Nights, especially when the issue seems to not be about foreign character sets, but mixing character sets in the domain name. All ascii does work, but it's a grenade for an anthill.

Edit: an aside, I didn't realize that Safari translates to punycode. Very cool.
Inside the Scorpio Engine: the processor architecture deep dive
I loaded it on my iPad Air 2 over a 3G connection and it was perfectly fine.
Given the content, I was pleasantly surprised to see that this was not a 50-page "slideshow". I'm glad to see that websites are starting to abandon that terrible format.
How United Onboards New Users (design)
Well... it's a matter of opinion, I guess, but give me biscotti regina and pizzelle any day.

e: Also I think where you said "ignore" you meant "don't know," because in English "ignore" can only mean "to not pay attention to" but the alternate meaning of the French word "ignorer" fits better with your sentence.
Kia and Hyundai are already comparable to Honda and Toyota on quality measures.
The safety aspect of credit cards isn't so much about fraud risk, but rather the risk of irrecoverable theft (or just accidental loss) and/or bodily harm. I feel a lot safer walking around with a bunch of credit cards in my wallet than with a few thousand dollars in cash.
Ahh, it's targeting a Lisp-based OS. I was having a hard time trying to wrap my brain around the possible uses for this.

I mean, the LLVM->JS transpiler makes sense for running stuff in a browser. Lisp as a target was a bit of a puzzle.
memmaker (really himen.sys if my memory don't fail me) had an option to use the monochrome memory
Low pay, corrupt politicians, high crime, polluted lakes and rivers. What's not to like?
Sounds like you just described Techmeme.
"Oh my god - a four-character Oh By Code ..."
" [] systems also decide who to treat and for what" - in privately owned companies, this decision is made to maximize profits, in publicly owned companies this decision is made to please constituents.

"The reason why the US system is so expensive" - Is because an individual with a health condition is in a poor position to negotiate the price of a treatment for themselves. To the extent a private company could give fair prices, they would have to be regulated heavily.

"As long as you can afford it I would rather be treated in the US" - You believe this because much of the massive profit margins goes into advertising.
De Gustibus, I prefer unsalted bread thick crusted, wood fired.

I'm not sure it's because of eating with salty stuff, cause bread with marmalade, hard chocolate, or chocolate spreads is absolutely common throughout italy, both where bread is salty and where it isn't.
It's probably true that bread in Italy is not designed as something you eat alone, which is why it's very plain compared to, say, Polish or German recipes.
As someone who has done a lot of casual gaming on phones and iPads, the switch does wayyyyy more than just compete with mobile games. I was originally also concerned about 720p screen, but it's a great quality panel. 90% of my switch use has been undocked, and I love it. Sure it does look better docked, but it blows any mobile gaming experience before it (including mobile nvidia shield which I own both versions of) out of the water. And while I do enjoy several non-Zelda games on the switch, I'd be just as happy if it was a $300 Zelda machine because that game is just that good. For me I wasn't very unhappy with the Wii U screen so this is a big upgrade comparatively for display quality and not just resolution. And the input methods for switch are objectively better than anything before it in mobile gaming imho.
you probably are from northern Italy, where bread just plain sucks.

Otherwise Italian bread is one of the best of the world and has nothing to fear from the French one.

source: an Italian from Rome that lived in most of the north of Italy and cried every night for their terrible, almost inedible, bread.
This is definitely more at the specialist, chronic care level. Like anything else, if you have a weekly contact with them, you are much more significant than a once or twice a year visit.
Americans always used to have the highest regard for French cuisine (hence its popularity with celebrity chefs like James Beard and Julia Child, and in famous fine dining establishments like NYC's Waldorf and Ritz-Carlton hotels), until roughly the release of The Godfather in 1972, which caused a boom in interest in Italian-American culture, including Italian cuisine, which is nowadays by far the most popular here.
Like with the Wii, all the innovation is nothing without games. I still regret buying the Wii, besides Mario and Zelda it was mostly mini-game-collections :\
I am very sorry to hear you are going through that. Best wishes from this stranger.
Yes, for example the far left "anti-fascists" in the US are the ones that are assaulting people for their beliefs and using violence to suppress free speech. However, because they are leftists, the left has not unconditionally condemned their actions.

Remember, that both the far left and the far right are dangerous. For all the talk currently about fascism, it was Communism in the 20th century that produced the most death, suffering, and misery.
Quotas for procedures is a very interesting topic. Doctors (in the UK at least) carrying out appendectomies consider a negative appendectomy rate (NAR) of around 20% to be optimum. The NAR being the proportion of appendectomies where it turns out the appendix wasn't the cause of the symptoms.

The reason this is considered optimum is that a doctor hitting 0% NAR (which you might naively assume is best) is most likely being overly conservative and missing some genuine cases of appendicitis, which as we all know can be life threatening if left untreated.
I don't mind ads typically. I still haven't bothered to figure out how to block ads on YouTube. I started out tailoring Ghostery to just block trackers but not ads. But the clickbait ads from taboola and friends were just so terrible (grossly misleading clickbait, half-naked women, tryptophobia) that now I don't feel bad about just blocking everything.
Android's audio stack is pretty poor. Audio callbacks can happen at very uneven intervals, unlike iOS's reliable high-priority scheduling. The result is that you either have to buffer more (resulting in high latency) or radically reduce the time spent rendering your audio buffers, which of course means less time for making nice sound. Google actually recommends that you use no more than 1/4 of the typical time budget for rendering, to account for these non-deterministic callback times.
That list is a great resource, but the one you linked to is 6 years out of date. The latest version is kept at http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusables.tx... .
I won't argue with the other names (although some sound quite wrong to my northern-italian ear), but I'm 100% positive that no Italian would call it "pannetone": it's "panettone", ("giant bread" or something like that).

Now we can start the big debate for deciding whether the true one is panettone with just raisins or panettone with raisins and "canditi".

Boy, do we love to talk about food... and we're generally quite picky about it although I agree with other commenters: we need to learn from other countries the pleasures of brown bread.
> It's probably true that bread in Italy is not designed as something you eat alone, which is why it's very plain compared to, say, Polish or German recipes.

Man does not live on bread alone. :)
In all honesty I keep American Express because I know for a fact they will defend their customers. My dad works as an accountant for a hotel, and he told me and my mother about how people would come to the hotel, and even if they sign if they call up Amex and say they didn't stay there, they will get their refund. I know that sounds crazy, and there's room for abuse, but I am not using Amex to abuse of it, rather to know for a fact that if I purchase something I have genuine protection for my goods, especially if something fishy goes on in the other end.
Yep, I am from northern Italy.
> Simplicity should be our goal in all endeavours.

Then maybe we shouldn't use complex vector graphics, and instead use nice and simple uncompressed raster graphics. /s
> "Why Did My Patient Leave Me?"

I'm seriously wondering how many doctors will ask themselves this question, or even notice that their patient is gone.
Maybe that's a good idea. Punycode could be used only for names ending with non-latin TLD.

But the problem would still remain, for example if one company uses a name with latin "i" character and another with ukrainian charater that looks the same.
As a Swede I'm quite confused about what you're trying to say.

I guess the benefit of (what I guess is the kind of bread you are talking about) is that it can be stored quite easily and last for a month or two in room temperature.
Almond biscotti are my go-to bake. The recipe is so simple I never managed to get it wrong, not even on my first try. I make a big batch once a month or so, keep a handful for myself, and take the rest to the office. I'm convinced this is one of the reasons I have a job :P PROTIP: do dunk them in coffee. They are supposed to be hard and dry.

Tiramisù is also simple to make - no baking required! Homemade is infinitely better than anything you get almost anywhere, including some restaurants (and during my travels throughout Italy I made a point of trying every tiramisù [and Carbonara] I crossed paths with). PROTIP: leave in the fridge for at least 24 hours before consuming. The flavours mix and the dessert becomes twice as delicious.
There was no other possible explanation.
This is fun. My first [awful] attempt...

http://www.jaruzel.com/files/Jar-Cat.png

(Everything I draw comes out on a slant, dunno why...)
I'd say in a bar to this author dr

1. Kittens die

2. You have a unique position to help people.

1. If you have ever cared for 4-7 week kittens then you know sometimes they just die. Don't be surprised when they do. They simply do. One moment they seem healthy and the next-they are gone.

Your patients will not come back. They just won't. Don't be surprised when they don't come back. It happens. You will not know why. It's part of life like kittens dying.

2. You help people. You give them their life back. You are One of the few people who can make someone better. You improve. You prolong happiness. You give hope. It's often invisible to you. Yet it is real. It's real when your patients can travel, cook, walk, earn a living, hug grandchildren, breathe another breath.

I can't do that. Most people can't do that. But you do. Every day.

So who gives a ### that you don't know why the kitten left your practice. It never changed all the good you did and all the good you can and will do.

So... Forget the kitten.
I love SVG in general... I am curious to hear, is there any reason not to use them? Maybe that it's not as well supported on older browsers?
Teach them problem solving and not just programming.
It's still happening today. When AMD64 was introduced, it ignored the upper 16 bits in the address. JIT compilers take advantage of that fact and use that space to store information. Now that we're bumping up against the 48-bit limit, special handling will be needed to ensure applications that assume the upper bits of the address are unused don't get allocated memory with the high bits set.

https://lwn.net/Articles/717293/