skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was an endlessly subsidized rust belt

BTW, Russia reformed their coal production by closing unprofitable mines and selling the rest. Now producing more coal for less money without subsidies. Ukraine did not and largely kept Soviet mine system intact.

> backwater hopelessly reliant on outside help, with widespread violent crime, alcoholism, drug use and corruption

You have combined "basket of deplorables" reasoning with divisive Ukrainian nationalism to achieve a new low.
You've setup a strawman to argue against. Few people think that extreme is a good idea. History has proven that it does not scale well and is considerably less efficient at allocating resources than capitalism. It's also highly prone to corruption because the power is concentrated at the top, which is ironically exactly the same problem that capitalism has, even though those communist systems were built to solve the problems of capitalism.

In this US any talk about redistributing wealth will have your policy (and you) branded as a socialist.
Diamonds. Is there anything they won''t do?

They can prop up Stalinism regimes.
They can prop up apartheid.
They can prop up the likes of Mobutu Sese Seko.

So lovely.
Indeed. One of the core ways single payer systems achieve such great results in terms of bang-for-buck is by not covering treatments that offer bad value for money, and this is almost certainly not politically viable in the US. For example, I understand the ACA specifically forbids assessing the cost-effectiveness of treatment based on dollars per QALY, which is how the NHS in the UK rations care to reduce costs.

It simply does not follow that, because single payer systems offer better value in terms of benefit gained for the dollars spent, those efficiency improvements mean it's possible for everyone to come out ahead. Those last few iotas of healthcare improvement are a lot more expensive than the lower-hanging fruit.
Wouldn't that only be effective insofar as initial recall goes? If the handwriting is illegible and you don't remember something, then you've missed out on everything that you can't remember. Digital notes may make you miss more on the first pass, but at least you'll have material to study.
Put it in perspective (compared with every country on Earth).

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...
I used to work for a company that sells investment advice. The company has practices and tools in place to ensure that employees do not engage in insider trading. However, in addition to not allowing that to happen (because it's illegal, duh), the company aimed for this same standard - not even an appearance of impropriety.

I too thought of this concept during the recent scandals. It's why some people are suggesting no one-on-one meetings ever between a man and a woman who are engaged (or potentially engaged) in a power relation like investment or employment. I don't know enough about this world to say whether that will hinder women entrepreneurs' progress, or how it could be done to avoid that, but I think this concept is important.

And for whatever it's worth, if I end up walking behind or near a woman, in many cases but particularly at night, I will cross the street for the same reason.
>Or is the US government not a leading force in fighting corruption anymore?

Was it ever?
Assuming the OP is referencing the "Gardner Island hypothesis", there's a couple of references on the wikipedia page synopsis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart#Speculation_on_...

This one in particular is an interesting read:

https://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_2/14_2bones.pdf
I believe he was being facetious.
Give us the 37s!
Somebody warn this guy, this kind of comment isn't welcome or appreciated here on HN.
What's with the ad-hominem? At least in the healthcare market, There are good reasons to believe that the massive government intervention is a bad use of resources.

People on Medicaid claim to value the services at only 1/5 of their cost. If you taking that estimate at face value, if you shut down medicaid entirely and just paid each former recipient 20% of the price you'd been paying to provide health insurance, they would be better off. You can debate those numbers and methodology, but it's very suggestive, and very real.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/07/med...
Dan Carlin also did an episode on these numbers recently. The numbers are undeniable. We get terrible value for our money on health care in the US.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/common-sense-with-dan-ca...
While conversion single-payer would result in health insurance employees/employers being temporary "losers" it is absolutely not true that one person saving money costs someone else money. Improved productivity saves money yet frequently results in increased wealth for all parties involved and has historically been the prime driver for economic growth.

That's economics 101.
Why would Latino immigrants move in if there are no jobs or economic activity?

Anyway, I guess Pennsylvania is habitable when the push comes to shove. Vorkuta, Mirny or Norilsk simply aren't. They're more like Mars bases.
Looks like the Xeon Gold 6154 will make for a reasonable per-core performance workstation chip. Unfortunately it looks like it probably won't be overclockable though.
I've used Latham & Watkins. Just made a call to let a partner there know what I think about his firm's alumna and how it colors my opinion of him and his firm.

Encourage everyone to check with your firm's General Counsel about this. If you use Latham, or Kirkland or Weil, encourage your GC to reach out and make your views heard. It's despicable that these lawyers are harassing their firms' former and potential clients.
Will Blockchain Survive Healthcare?
Is it a bad thing to have millionaire doctors, specialists or dentists?

Should ideally everybody be poor?

Or is wealth reserved for celebrities and members of a few special families?

Healthcare is important and it's OK to spend a ton of money on it. Decreasing the US expenses on healthcare will have a global negative impact on life expectancy, quality of life and medical research, as the US is
effectively subsidizing healthcare in all other countries. That's perfectly fine as the rest of the world uses the dollar to trade and as reserve currency, subsidizing the US government and economy.
Why would an actual airline buy your patent? Presumably you have to show it to them first for them to agree that it works and is valuable. At that point you've already handed over the valuable portion of the idea.

>Ultimately I think it's much more useful to protect entities that actually make products

I've said this before but it keeps ringing true. Entrepreneurial types in software are against patents because its not what they're good at. There's never any more substance behind the opposition than that.
My inner voice.
Isn't the objective for both sides to provide affordable healthcare? I think they agree on the objectives, the means of getting there are where the disagreement comes from.
One reason may be the recent increase in crime. Prices are already intolerable. Prices plus crime might be enough to get people moving.
This is absolutely not "clear to all". You're always out on a treacherous rhetorical ledge when you try to speak for "all" in a contentious discussion, but here you've run right off the edge, Wile-E Coyote-style.
Not in the UK. I was in small-town USA.

I remember it being green, and the closest thing googling finds is VT100 by Louis Leff, which was, interestingly, written with Blazing Forth (I just learned this just now; I had no idea about Forth back then). I can't tell if VT100 actually had an 80 column mode, though...so it may have been another green-screened terminal program. I do remember it having an obscure (to me), technical-sounding name. It seemed like something out of Wargames.
Why would the absolute number of people who don't pay taxes matter? Wouldn't it be more about the percentage of people? It is not easier for 100 people to support 1 than 1000 to support 10...
Or maybe we just gave up on Debian, and decided to spend our efforts somewhere else?

I've been fairly vocal against systemd, and not because of Poettering. I'm no fan of the man, and I strongly agree with a lot of the points he made in his initial blog posts when introducing systemd. I think he's probably very talented---I'm not in a position to judge that. I wouldn't be against systemd if it were just an init system. The problem is that it's not. That's the end of my argument. If systemd were just an init system, I'd be very happy to have it on my machines. Poettering even admitted this himself [1]:

> Well, systemd certainly covers more ground that it used to. It's not just an init system anymore, but the basic userspace building block to build an OS from, but we carefully make sure to keep most of the features optional. You can turn a lot off at compile time, and even more at runtime. Thus you can choose freely how much feature creeping you want.

In response, I've decided to not use systemd on my machines. I'm a patreon of xtraeme [2], the creator of Void Linux [3] and xbps (the package manager used in Void). Void Linux uses runit [4], which is exactly as simple and fast as I'd like it to be [5]. Working in startups, I haven't had time to contribute code to either xbps or Void, but at least I'm contributing in the way that I can. I didn't contribute to Devuan (other than seeding a few hundred TB of ISOs) for the same reason that I haven't contributed to Debian in a long time: I don't use it any more.

[1]: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

[2]: https://www.patreon.com/xtraeme

[3]: https://www.voidlinux.eu/

[4]: http://smarden.org/runit/

[5]: https://www.voidlinux.eu/usage/runit/
I never tried VSTS and I appreciate your "advertisement" here. Always good to learn about more options. That said, given that you're clearly competing on price I'd like to cordially help you race to the bottom :-)

If you combine, say, Bitbucket and CircleCI (and maybe Trello if you must) you also get up to the same 5 users for free, but 25 free monthly CI build hours from CircleCI instead of VSTS's 4.

(somewhat back on topic: I assume .net core works fine on CircleCI. I know for a fact that Mono worked fine on it 3 years ago so why wouldn't it)
Never mind that owning stock via pension funds etc gives one little say in corporate operations.
What happened to Magic Leap?
There was a company named MagicLeap going around creating great hype about their technology (mixed reality) sometimes back. What happened to the company delivering anything? Was it just a big hype?
All that may be true. But I prefer today writing a little file that is a systemd service than fixing up someone else's init scripts.

If it is as broken as you say why was it adopted?
In the article the author asserted that BackBlaze was typically only using consumer drives. So that makes them very different from the companies in the "hyper-scale cloud storage" market.

And if the trends the author is talking about consumer disk drives, I would argue that's a very incomplete picture. It doesn't include the traditional enterprise users, and it doesn't include hyper-scale storage companies that are using the bigger disks. Or else why else do you think that Seagate is putting 14T and larger drives on their roadmap: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3162084/storage/seagates-road...

This is very different from what the article was asserting, which was that disks weren't getting much bigger, and that they aren't getting cheaper per gigabyte. Even from a trend perspective, it's just not correct. (For example, it's not taking SMR disks into account; but that's because the consumers will probably not be interested in SMR drives.)
Sports Radio - you have to know everything about your favorite teams :-)
Interpersonal traits of aspies placed in context (many also relevant to nerds)
Students are better off with instructors who don't bore students into bringing out their laptops.
Sounds like a great deal for everyone but the taxpayer
people are allowed to have their opinions, and after a while, I reserve my right to not listen to certain opinions anymore if they are not backed up.
This reads pretty close to "a good democracy is one with no opposition". "Good" is maybe not the word you're looking for.
The quote is of Hal Abelson and one of his lectures at MIT disagrees with you [1]. The introduction is amusing and opens with Computer Science has nothing to do with Computers and little to do with Science. It's really a poorly named field. I believe it's a bit tongue in cheek and not defining science entirely by "uses the scientific method".

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
The author has been on the road talking about this subject for a while now.

What I recall from him was that those 6 methods introduce dependencies between some of the modules just to access one type definition. For instance, one of the methods means that a big block of nominally 'server side' code would need one type definition from the UI library. For a function nobody uses anymore (relating to Beans configuration).
One of my PhD students will soon have to learn an interactive prover. I was to recommend Isabelle/HOL because it's got the best automation, but maybe I should consider Lean (and learn it along with him).

I worry slightly about Lean being immature, and lacking a big library eco-system in 2017. OTOH, it's also good to be at the cutting edge.
But other commercial storage companies like Dropbox are seeing different trends and apparently find that 14TB drives are cheaper per TB than 4TB. Is Backblaze an outlier?
There are limited resources, somebody has to make hard decisions - e.g. if a given patient must live or die. Is a privately owned insurance company a better choice maker, than the government in this case?
Not entirely unrelated, there once was a time when the way to get news information was to be right there, at the source. Now, the way to get news information is to have it delivered electronically directly to the newsroom. It can then be passed back to a reporter standing outside the building from which that news originated, who has no idea what's going on, to be fed the lines to say over an earpiece and repeat them back into camera. This is what happens.
Monorepo First, Submodules Later
Hindsight is always 20/20, definitely. In the present, in the act of behaving, taking action or pursing cause no one believes they are a bad guy. To my original point about the behavior of Russia (my response to the other poster, I just realized you were the other poster ...), Im sure they believe they are acting in their best interest for their own good. So to be shocked by Russia's behavior from their standpoint is useless, just as to evaluate the US's behavior over the past 10 years. No one seems themselves as a bad guy in the present.
When I see it in the NYTimes, I assume it means that the health care fairy pays for it. As you've noted, very few people are wonky enough to be able to discern any difference between the systems in the UK, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Instead, they're all lumped into "European single payer" regardless of the level of truth or correctness.
This is interesting; I wasn't aware of this particular ruling. That would make running a universal healthcare program on a state-by-state basis very difficult, if it in fact applied.
Spreading the price around more people isn't the only way for price to go down. If there were less supply side regulation of doctors than there would be more of them, and their time would be less expensive.
MySQL utf8 vs. utf8mb4 – What's the difference?
It's not just NYC the fivethirtyeight article he references shows it to be a more general trend - people are again moving from cities to the suburbs.
Correct. The parameter of those methods use(d) a class from the Swing desktop UI toolkit, and logging can't depend on that.

Parameter class in question: http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/beans/Prope...
I believe it's tied to nebulous feelings of relative freedom or control over one's environment: once adopted, it's important to make sure your chosen technology stack wins and keeps winning so that you're still praised and employed. As a consequence the rationalization part of your brain will jump ahead and find all the reasons why the language is good.

Cosmopolitanism takes a bigger effort, and it needs a more general confidence in one's abilities. It's easier to focus on building a tribe.
If that is the attitude you take don't be surprised when people don't listen to your opinions.
There is a third way of capitalism: the Musk way. Whatever money he made, he invested it in a way that benefits society:

- by building a payment service that's way cheaper and easier than e.g. Western Union or banks

- by using literally every last cent in his pockets to make SpaceX work (which benefits the whole world in terms of cheap, reliable, environmentally-friendly, russian-free § launches as well as the planned Mars colony)

- by launching the maybe most successful pure electric car, which soon goes into mass-market price range

This is what I as a socialist see as the one example of capitalism that actually WORKS.

§ not meant to be racist at all, but political - given the obvious tensions between Russia and the Western world, e.g. by Russian meddling in US elections, financing at least the German and French neonazi parties and invading Ukraine, it's simply unacceptable to depend on Russia honoring their rocket engine delivery contracts.
It certainly explains why we so often see the same inappropriate language or pattern applied to every other problem.
> Once something is in the standard, you can rely on it. It won't change in a backwards-incompatible way.

That's what stage 4 means. Completely finalised. Appearing in the next 'edition' document is just a formality. Once it's stage 4, it's effectively in the standard. If you restrict yourself to stage 4 features, you have all the same guarantees you mentioned. If you restrict yourself to the last published edition, you'd have missed out on async functions until almost a year after they were completely finalised, for example.

> the last version of node that didn't have full ES6 support

No version of Node supports ES6 imports yet, which is a huge part of ES6, and it won't be supported for at least another year. This emphasises the point that following ES editions is pointless.

All that matters is what combination of individual features is supported by your engine. Thinking in editions has pretty much no benefit.
I feel like the numbers they picked are intentionally misleading. Is the $73,000 the cost for no insurance or with insurance? I know it says average, but average out of which group?
> But wait, is this not conjecture, since it doesn't currently exist? Sure, you have sources where it has worked, but the proof would only be implementing it here.

Universal and transparently managed healthcare consistently gives more bang for buck. Note that I said "consistently", not just in a few places.

Yes, obviously you can't know what's going to happen in the US until you try it. But if it has consistently worked around the world, the best guess is that it will work in the US as well. Surely your argument, can't be... "how can I know this ball is going to fall into the Earth, if I haven't dropped it yet".

> What? I don't understand what you're getting at here. My point isn't that the government is corrupt, it's that it's inefficient.

And my point is that transparency in healthcare + single payer makes the system efficient.
Smokers typically exhibit compressed mortality. Yes, they die younger than non-smokers, and yes, they have health issues. But the health issues are typically of the sort that get deadly in short order and so actually save money.
You're right. In the 1970s people estimated continued exponential per-person growth in the USA and ordered power plants in accordance. But then demand leveled off and lots of power plant orders were canceled. It's been nowhere near exponential in developed nations for some decades and is currently not expected to return to exponential growth. Sure, teleportation could be invented and use lots of energy, though, so if that's your point, fair enough. Let me rephrase my estimate a bit then to reemphasize the magnitude of the nuclear resource:

With 10 billion people using 40,000x the current per-person USA energy usage, we could power the world for at least 100,000 years with the nuclear resource.
I disagree with that. Because then companies just keep new developments as trade secrets – I want to push them to patenting everything, which would require them to open up the entire technology to the public a few years later.

If you protect trade secrets, companies will never release them to the public – as in the Waymo case.
Mmm, charming.
I don't run dbus, let alone Gnome. (getting X11 to work without dbus on Debian is also a pain, though also doable.)
I wasn't talking about communism.

> authoritarian government, restrictive social policies, financial repression and massive state-owned-enterprises

None of these are key tenets of socialism as the article formulates it.

As I've said elsewhere, historical socialism is not the socialism anyone is advocating. No one is suggesting Stalinism.
Nice job! Great source for learning Graphql :)
The per-feature specs are finalised significantly earlier than the yearly official versions. Nothing practically happens or changes.
> And since these private options have to compete with a baseline of quality public care, they may be more affordable.

In such a hybrid system the public hospitals also experience competitive pressures. I can confirm pretty much first-hand[1] that this is why pathology turn-around times in a major metropolitan Australian public health service are measured in hours, whilst in the UK they are measured in weeks.

[1] I am married to the medical director of this service.
Toyota gears up against Google, Ford, Tesla with $100M AI venture fund
HeapViz – Chrome heap visualizer to debug memory issues
I assume most of this story was written up by Reuters, picked up by the Guardian and regurgitated:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-amelia-earhart-idUSKBN...
The countries, that are not US get better bang for buck, because the US overspends on healthcare. 99% of the new drugs and medical devices are brought to market first in US. After the US pays most of the R&D expenses the rest of the world gets stuff on the cheap.
Say I want to create an independent, 100% compatible implementation of systemd which can just drop-in to any systemd installation, no matter how it is configured and have it work?

Where can I download the precise set of requirements for this, so that I don't have to peek at the systemd source code?

What is systemd?
Wang tiles, mentioned only at the end of the article, encode Turing-equivalent computation in their simple color-matching rule. It is unknown exactly how useful Wang tiles are to theory of computation, other than as a wonderful demonstration of how easily Turing-complete systems arise naturally.

I suspect that tiling may have applications in resource management, particularly when allocating resources like memory which have an underlying topological structure.

Edit: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06492.pdf is worth considering, but I don't yet know what its relevance is.
Consider that vast amounts of capital come from pension funds that invest in companies which have a duty to provide returns to shareholders. Would pension fund stakeholders agree on having lower pensions when they get old so that current workers earn more? Economics is far more complicated than altruism supposes.
True, but in reality such claims almost always have caveats. Like how almost no one supports ES6 imports yet.