skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... because someone thought it was a good idea to pass a law forbidding them to negociate drug prices.

Good post. Just want to highlight that it's not so much that someone thought it was a good idea as someone lobbied so that they/their company would make more money.
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Most people in America do not have enough money in savings to pay for a single ER visit.
We need professional organizations and licensing processes. Unions are for common laborers.

The difference is that professionals bargain individually, because the jobs we do are specialized. Common laborers need unions for collective bargaining; because their work isn't specialized.

So think of it more like: A tech company would only hire a licensed software engineer. The licensing process is mostly the tedium part of determining competency, so that the job interview is about mutual interest and personality fit. It then opens up more room for individual negotiation, because there is less of a competency risk when hiring.

Unions and collective bargaining is for when there is very little competency risk when hiring.
What would the question reveal? They are on the same system as everyone else.

"Yes Woof, I buy my plan from the DC exchange and get services both in DC and from an excellent hospital in my district." KAPOW!
Front page answers:

Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15245954
I agree overall, but living in a hole on Mars does offer at least somewhat better shielding against radiation, and people are strangely fondly of gravity, too... (not that you couldn't tackle those both in your hollowed-out asteroid).
rcm, the dotfile manager! I use it get fresh systems going. FreeBSD and OpenBSD have a pkg/port, but neither Debian nor Arch currently have an official package.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rcm/

Should also mention Blink, the softphone. Looks and works better than Linphone (in the offical repos) in my experience.
Well yeah, that doesn't really line up then...
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even aside from the billable hours issue, there is the less obvious problem that in many cases, it is in the interest of the client that there be less transparency and more obfuscation of material that might be unfavorable. improving processes and making it easier to analyze data is not necessarily aligned with the incentives of large company who has been named as a defendant in a class action suit, for example.
So you are going from You mean regressive policies that hurt the poor, right? to There is less than a decade of poverty rate reduction during the War on Poverty era, ....

Cutting the Poverty Rate from about 22% to about 12% is hurting the poor. Got it.
So it is! Yet, the ideal score is not one that reflects ability to repay, but ability to say conveniently under the thumb of a credit card company.
All of them? lol It might be helpful to specify what exactly you want to know, which languages, type of development etc.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
"a bit"? honestly I would say it's much closer to a lot more pain
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What would they be using if they knew better? R?
Why is HTTPS rather poor?
The only forbidden characters in a Unix filenames are '/' and '\0'

Want to mess with such a script?

$ touch "$(echo -e -n 'lol\nposix')"
I know styfle is aware, but for others, you can unlock named exports of CJS modules with @std/esm:

https://github.com/standard-things/esm

https://medium.com/web-on-the-edge/es-modules-in-node-today-...
> I'd argue that unions have more power than employers in being able to shape the historical narrative.

I'm not going to compare their power to employers' power, but it is definitely true that unions have been able to write their preferred version of history with labor law.

Notice how we never talk about the historical ties between labor unions and white supremacy. It's all right there in the public record - there's no denying that it happened - but it's always ignored in the public narrative.
Asteroid mining would be necessary for colonizing Mars.

Getting into Mars is technological problem. Colonizing Mars is more economical and sociological problem than technological problem.

Everyday living in high-tech place where everything is safety critical (like in a nuclear submarine or ISS) is extremely expensive. Productivity would have to be beyond everything that has ever existed for that becoming possibility.

If Elon Musk can crack Mars colonization economy, he has also invented something that can be used to drop F-35 fighter, nuclear submarine and aircraft carrier maintenance costs to level where they are negligible.

There is always counterarguments that are based on post-scarcity economy. I accept that argument. But we get faster into Mars if we first develop post-scarcity economy here on earth first. Then those who want to leave just move there. Those who want to go Mars now are thinking it wrong.
It's not like editing a value in the registry is "going out of your way", it's almost standard Windows practice by now.
"I for one dislike that every website out there has created their own iOS/Android app when I can simply use one app for all them - browser."

So why not do a fully web based OS instead of promoting another niche of native apps? :P
Jewelry gold is just jewelry gold - it has intrinsic value because it's a nice material to make jewelry from. That value is not financial. Bitcoin can't claim that part of it.
According to wikipedia, The consumption of gold produced in the world is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.

but you have to realize, part of that 40% in investments makes sense because there is a fundamental non financial use case - jewelry. Someone will always buy gold at some price to make jewelry. So, that also drives investments. So bitcoin can't claim all of that 40%
Apologies to everyone for turning this into a Ruby thing on a Python topic.

You can check out the Oracle Labs code and progress of Graal/TruffleRuby here: https://github.com/graalvm/truffleruby

Relevant page: https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=labs:49:::::P49_PROJECT...

And IBM's Ruby+OMR code and progress is here: https://github.com/rubyomr-preview/ruby

Relevant post: https://developer.ibm.com/open/2017/03/01/ruby-omr-jit-compi...

Can Matz somehow in the nicest possible way kidnap Lars Bak and pay him in gummy bears or something?
This article was rather brief.
I keep thinking about an 'under the jack pack'
https://www.betabrand.com/womens/more/unisex-ultra-thin-lapt...

Keep your phone/wallet in your pocket?
Why do you assume that the current wages are the "natural" rate established by the "free market"? Don't we have evidence that employers are already abusing their market power to extract rents? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... for an example close to home)

In fact, corporate profits are record-high, and wages have been stagnant for decades, suggesting very strongly that the "unnatural" market power that is keeping wages at
"artificial" levels is in fact that of employers.
And the jury consultants, in turn, consult statistical tables. For example, one dimension they look at is authoritarianism. A person is deemed "authoritarian" if they are likely to side with the State in a criminal trial.

I helped my buddy, who is an owner of a jury consulting firm, port one of the statistical tables to a ruby model. Here's the code, if you're curious.

https://gist.github.com/zackster/ac3bca42c441f16cbf2b4895fdb...

We wanted to build software to democratize the jury selection process (and bring justice to all, not just those who could afford expensive jury consultants) but the marketing process was kind of challenging and the lawyers we reached out to were unresponsive. Also, jury consultants want to keep this knowledge a trade secret in order to justify their expensive fees despite these statistical tables being available for purchase by anyone who knows where to look.
>Every gain the working class ... has achieved has come from organizing

In the absence of organizing, wages and conditions can get bid up if there is a shortage of workers for the jobs available. Maybe not so much for the US working class recently but SV programmers, Chinese factory workers and the like have seen their wages go up a lot.
You can send several million dollars in under a day for about $0.50 right now. IS that "high fees"? Hell if you do it right you can do it in under an hour for under a dollar.

Any talk about it being a replacement for fiat money is evading my point. I made the point that it was a plausible good store of value, not currency.

Oh, and by the way, there's nothing wrong with using bitcoin to pay for drugs, and this argument is akin to saying that the US Dollar is evil because it is so widely used in the drug trade that every $20 bill tests positive for cocaine (so I've heard.)

As for evading currency controls, aka economic oppression- that's one of the great uses of Bitcoin that will help improve people's lives world wide.

Finally regarding tulips, you can't have it both ways- you can't say price going up is proof it's a mania and price going down is proof it's a mania. Tulips were not a revolutionary new technology.
They're not, however, comparable in obesity rates.

I'd be happy to see a single-payer healthcare system in the United States with strict denial of coverage for smoking-linked lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, and any other medical problems caused by the choices of the patient.
One of my clients recently replaced a major chunk of their C++ code with Python and achieved a speedup from multi-hour to sub-millisecond. That's a big win.

Python encourages readable code, which enables smarter algorithms, which ultimately swamps all those little memory optimizations. Oh, and PyPy/Numba/Cython let you get those little optimizations, too.
Who's commute is reflected in those destinations? Did they give this thing any thought?
I would have been much more interested if it were the other way around.
In the meantime..... https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07328
I don't see why you can't. Most of their articles do that. Truth is often mundane, people wouldn't click through.
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Ask HN: Login or logon?
Where are we this today? From a UI perspective, is login/logout now universally preferred over log on/log off? Is it regional? Which came first?

This terminology question has always lingered for me. Thanks!
I applaud your concise cleverness, even if this is not the time nor the place!
Can you try using gcloud? There may be a UI problem.
"Sign in"
Criminal justice attempts to align punishments with the public's sense of fairness, not the other way around.

When people regularly feel compelled to mete out vigilante justice, it's a sign that the justice system is broken not people's sense of fairness.

The alternative is to make the criminal justice system into some kind of religion lecturing to the public about what value system they should have.

And, here, if you polled the general public you'd like get an overwhelming majority who believe that serving 20 years in prison for the beating, starvation, abandonment and murder of a child was too light a sentence. Habitually ignoring such sentiment is detrimental for a society long term as people lose faith in the government being able to protect them and maintain the right to be the sole arbiter of justice. (Avoiding mob justice is equally important, but this is not a case of ambiguous facts or uncertain guilt, just whether 20 years could ever be the right sentence for this abhorrent crime.)

Remember, governments get their power from and serve the people. Not the other way around.
How it that interesting? Statisticians and economists everywhere use R instead of Python
There are the big car manufacturers but then there are all kinds of smaller and more distributed businesses that revolve around the car.

For instance, gas stations do not just sell gas, but they also sell groceries and prepared food, drinks, beer, and other things. Maybe some will become electric car charging centers. If it takes longer to charge your battery than it does to gas up, you may spend more time there and possibly more money. On the other hand, you may charge up most of the time at home or at work in which case you do not go so often. No matter what, people are going to buy the non-gas things they get at gas stations somehow.

Every three to six months you change the oil on your gas car. Electric cars will need maintenance, but not the same kind. You'll still need tires, but maybe you won't need to change your brake pads as often because you depend more on regenerative braking. I knew a mechanic in 2002 who saw change coming and decided to establish himself as a hybrid car expert and he started writing service manuals for hybrids.

On the other hand, I have no idea how fast change is coming. A few years ago people were talking about the "oil peak" but now people are buying GMC Suburbans as fast they can make them. Some countries are saying big things about the future, but it took Germany 30 years to really begin a promised phase-out of nuclear power. Scares about the availability of lithium could take the place of scares about the availability of petroleum...
Hey everyone,

I've just shipped my first React Native app. I had a lot of fun designing and developing it.

I've built it because other crypto portfolio apps felt too complicated to me. I wanted to have a portfolio app that is basic, simple and easy to use, so I decided to build my own.
Coinfolix is made for the ‘casual crypto owner’ (…), so it should be easy to understand by everyone. At least that’s what I’ve aimed for… I’ll let you decide whether I succeeded :)
Is this not a false equivalency though? I'm not saying either side is perfect, but wouldn't you say one side has done more to try to solve the problem? Can you point out a plan brought to the table by the republican party that hasn't been a total objective disaster that the democrats were unreasonably recalcitrant about? The ACA is/was a good faith attempt to fix some of the issues with our healthcare system. There was tons of negotiation even if the process wasn't perfect, but at least they tried to do something. The republicans only seem to care when they are railing against something else, they haven't (to my knowledge) brought anything useful to the table at a national level within my memory. I'm not trying to be partisan, and I accept that single payer is a huge leap from where we are politically, but the way the ACA has been demonized indicates that one side plays politics with healthcare more than the other.
With Django debug toolbar or even flask debug toolbar, you can have this can of information.
I would highly recommend Crumpler. A little expensive BUT they will last forever and have a lifetime warranty to back taht up. Might be easier to claim if you lived in Australia though. I took a 10 year old bag in to have the very robust (but sadly defeated) zipper repaired.

Currently I have their Dry Red No 5 in blue
https://www.crumpler.com/au/dry-red-no-5/
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Use Numba (http://numba.pydata.org). Have your cake and eat it too.
... yet all of these concerns have been addressed by every other nation doing single-payer...

Your own research might be the best way to go - that way you can get the answer to your exact question.

People: We Americans think we are special - really we are just isolated and not exposed to other ideas directly.

There is a world of difference between reading about an idea, visiting a country's hotels, and really talking to the locals.

I see discussion time and time again:

* Healthcare
* High-Speed Rail
* Renewable Energy
* Cities built for walking/biking instead of driving

All the above are solved problems for a generation in other parts of the world.

At some point, we owe it to ourselves to find out directly from the locals how things work.
It's not the pile of debt that increases the score. It's the history of repaying that debt per its agreed terms that does.

While I'm not a fan of the credit bureau system, I understand the reasoning behind it. It's an efficient way for creditors to get access to the needed information. Lacking that, to allow the bank to evaluate your creditworthiness among other things you'd likely have to provide a list of references of past creditors and then your new potential creditor would have to validate those references individually: verify you had credit with them, verify you adhered to the payment terms, etc.

For better or for worse today instead of an on-demand complete graph we've got a centralized cache. This serves the needs of the financial players better (read: cheaper) while putting the PII of consumers at more risk.
Umm, no I don't think so. I regularly check my IRA and 401k's portfolio and I can't recall ever seeing a lopsided investment in healthcare or pharma like you're saying. And index funds track indices. Is the S&P 500 really dominated to that extent by big pharma?
> doing all kinds of weird house-keeping and having to randomly boot from a USB stick to rescue my system from some update with untested consequences

Weird! I ran dev versions of everything, updated once every couple days, and can only remember one time that I had to fix a catastrophic bug.
Samy. He was banned for a while IIRC
I blocked the webcam, then tried again and it gave me the option to upload photos of my ID instead. Not sure why that wasn't an option in the first place like it is on coinbase.
This is a welcomed addition that many have been patiently waiting for.

If you want to see the progress here's the relevant ticket[0] -- nice to see it finally closed!

Not privy to the final implementation details but my guess it's a based on Let's Encrypt as suggested by the originator of the ticket and others.

Edit: Yeah, probably not Let's Encrypt as others have stated.

[0] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35900034
I would be surprised if that were the case. IIRC it worked by using a skill that let a player put up a buy order without taking the entire cost of the order out of their wallet. So the player could then ditch all their remaining money, which wouldn't allow the buy order to be fulfilled.

What changed that disallows it? Did they remove the skill? Can a wallet go negative? Even if they forced the buyer to take the item and give the amount of money reserved to the seller, the scammer could theoretically just make sure that the buy order is close enough to the sell order that the seller still receives less than they paid. (though it makes it seem like a less juicy payout, so people would fall for it less)
And could the economics eventually work of photovoltiacs + battery storage ala a tesla powerpack?
> Granted, I admit I mess around a bit with debian sources. I sometimes pin things, and often times pull packages from sid or unoffficial repos to get fresher versions.

Found your problem.
That's effectively what a high deductible plan is. The ACA bronze plans are essentially high deductible catastrophic plans with some bundled services (but those services represent a small fraction of the plan cost).

The bills for simple services can still be pretty large.
> I took my child in for a regular 15 minute doctors appointment recently and the cost of seeing the provider (no tests) was $350.

A 30 minute visit with my primary care doctor is ~$160.

I now realize my local hospital is fairly reasonably priced.

Also don't forget to factor in the small army in the billing department that has to deal with the insurance company. And the third party payment provider that runs the online web portal that you pay through.

Interestingly enough, in Washington State all hospital finances are a matter of public record[1]. I am somewhat amused that health insurance for employees make up ~5.7% of the hospital's total expenses.

Charity care was only .87% of overall expenses.

[1]http://www.doh.wa.gov/DataandStatisticalReports/Healthcarein...
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"The CEO has been under fire for taking the unprecedented step of transferring the patent of one of Allergan’s blockbuster drugs, the eye medication Restasis, to a sovereign Native American tribe as part of a bid to maintain monopoly control of the drug and its revenue."

"The Restasis patent was approved 15 years ago and was set to expire in 2014, but the Allergan deal is part of an attempt to renew the patent and extend the company’s control of the drug through 2024."

no shit people are fed up
Out of budget, but Tom Bihn is nice and also extremely durable: https://www.tombihn.com/collections/backpacks/products/synap...
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The U.S. doesn't leave. Pretty much any where we send troops, we tend to set up bases there and remain indefinitely.

Just look at Germany, Japan, Korea, Iraq, ...
Is that a play on FICO plus fake? What is fake about CeeditKarma?
I think they do not use letsencrypt . They use thier own SSL, since they are now licencing authority.

Edit: I am wrong. They use letsencrypt.
We plan to utilize things like anbox and/or shashlik so you would end up having Android apps if needed, but we will also focus on having great experience out of the box, with preset default apps.
Samy Kamkar too for writing the Samy MySpace worm.

From Wiki:

>Samy Kamkar, the author of the worm, was raided by the United States Secret Service and Electronic Crimes Task Force in 2006 for releasing the worm.[4] He entered a plea agreement on January 31, 2007 to a felony charge.[5] The action resulted in Kamkar being sentenced to three years probation with only one computer and no use of internet,[6] 90 days community service, and $15,000-$20,000 USD in restitution, as directly reported by Samy Kamkar himself on "Greatest Moments in Hacking History" by Vice Media's video website, Motherboard.
[Currently, immigration law dictates that only 7 percent of the green cards issued each year can be given to residents of any one country.

Mr. Yoder noted that between 230,000 and two million Indian workers are in line for a green card, which means that they could be waiting for decades, if not longer.]

It really puts Immigrants from populous countries like India and China at disadvantage. Personally I waited for 12 years to get my green card to start my company as Internet boom, Web2.0 boom passed in front of my eyes.
That's an amazing price given it's retailing for more than twice that. One option to expand storage is have an always-inserted, low-profile USB 3 flash drive like SanDisk Ultra Fit, providing read speeds upto 150 MB/s.
The US federal government financed itself for the 19th century using land sales, tariffs, and little else.

Selling land, for USD, and USD only, is certainly one way that it made USD valuable.

Property taxes are very much the same kind of thing, as you mention. In effect, it makes landowners into tenants to the extent that the land is taxed.

The government, being defined as the entity with sovereignty over a given region and a monopoly on force in that region, it is in effect a landlord at root. And it can make people pay to live in the area it controls. It currently strays from this role by taxing other things as well, and in so doing is generally destructive to output.

But taxes on land and natural resources have no deadweight loss and historically have been the major source of government revenue.

So, in effect, fiat currency is land-backed. And land value comes from the value of the location, the desirability of living there, and the productive capacity of the region... which are in turn affected by government policy.
Cool stuff! If you want to add more detection strategies, you might find https://page.rest useful. It can help you to easily check meta tags, script sources and headers for hints.