skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medicine cannot be managed by capitalism. Elements of the industry can, but the basic elements of care giving and treatment basically amount to “pay me or die”. The moral hazard in withholding care from some to be able to raise prices on others is too great.

Capitalism is great when the incentives line up without creating moral hazard; which they do in a lot of areas. But we as a society can have different priorities, and I do believe that there is a basic level of health care that should be free to all. If you want better care or if you disagree with what is provided, you’re free to shop outside the system.
This Doctor Diagnosed His Own Cancer with an iPhone Ultrasound
> prices are sky high even in areas where foreign buyers are not the slightest bit interested in putting their money.

That shouldn't matter. Foreign investors bidding up property in place A forces English buyers into place B, and prices naturally rise there as a result.
I love Anaconda. To me it is the most obvious way to do Python. If you don't know what is going on with your env exactly, just go to your Anaconda folder and investigate. I have done some pretty funky stuff just messing around and have never had problem. Great work!
If they had done nothing, it's likely things would have gotten even more expensive...
Airlines suck because it’s an undifferentiated service. Consumers aren’t willing to pay much extra for better service, and the lowest ticket price wins. It’s a race to the bottom on price, so features and comfort get cut in exchange for cost savings.

It’s basically a commodity industry with high capital requirements and high volatility in marginal costs. There’s a reason that most airlines globally are subsidized by governments (yes, including in the US).

Edit: and don’t forget that the airplanes themselves are heavily subsidized (Boeing and Airbus are two of the most heavily subsidized companies in the world). And even then, the industry can’t consistently make a profit over an extended period of high fuel prices.
>To deprive someone of living in your own home

If you don't want to a skyscraper built on your land, don't sell your land.

Your neighbor's land isn't "your own home," it's his.

>You're suggesting subverting democracy.

Subverting a council of the landowning aristocracy (local city govt) with a democracy (state government).

>the foundation of modern civilization

Single-family-home zoning, FAR, parking minimums, sunlight plane, height limits, etc. have barely been around 100 years. Laws dictating that all places must look like modern American suburbs are certainly not "the foundation of modern civilization."
I'm not convinced that is unique to the Valley. In fact, I think the Valley is significantly worse than many other places for cross-industry "pollination". Take New York - the tech industry stands alongside media, fashion, finance, intermingling with them all. By comparison the Valley is "pure tech", and that bubble sometimes shows.
Hey Chris, I just moved from Ararat. I never would have expected to see another regional western Victorian on HN!

For reference, Stawell has a population of 6,000 while Ararat is about 8,000. The towns are approx 30 minutes drive distance away. The world is smaller than I thought.

In Ararat it’s almost better to go with 4G. While you get decent caps (1000G/m for AUD$90) the problem is that the internet drops out every time it rains.

I can’t imagine running a business that requires internet access in regional Australia, good on you for finding a way!
Korean housing prices are also heavily influenced by Chinese investors.
There's also Msys/GnuWin which is of similar age to Cygwin and avoids some of the interoperability issues Cygwin apps have.
Is there a work-around to see the paywalled content?
I think retail has always had the problem of margins. It's tough, but if you're big enough you probably end up with the resources to ride out difficult times. So being huge might be the right play here.

In a way this is supposed to be the end-goal of free markets right? No profit left for companies to have?
It will help local younger generations to get affordable housing. What it will turn away is foreign investors in real estate, just seeking where to park their money (e.g. Vancouver). It will limit only unsustainable growth which would lower (possibility of) crisis usually following influx of cheap money (e.g. most of Europe in '08).
Robert Wardhaugh's Dungeons and Dragons game: 35 years and still going
Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
Sure there are, I was an early investor in udbbGxls.
Also folate intake can mask B12 deficiency so it is always good idea to have buffer of Vitamin B12 in your body when starting on iron supplementation. The food will rarely help as in most cases B12 deficiency is not because of less B12 rich food is eaten but because our body can't absorb it properly. So sublingual and intramuscular intake is preferable.
As a data point, here in Denmark, EU citizens need have been residing in the country for at least five years in order to buy. I don't know what the minimum time period is for non-EU citizens, but probably longer.
Why Bertrand Russell Was Wrong
So if they are using loopholes to continue to buy, why are housing prices dropping? Maybe because foreign buyers don't have that much of an impact on the market?
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I stand corrected. I hesitated over that, but was moving too fast and too tired to get it right.

I also seem to be making more keying mistakes in my comments, recently. "that" as opposed to "than", for example, IIRC from another recent comment.

Maybe be a medication I started a couple of months ago...
Are you aware of the book The Circle?
It will mostly help India, not the rural US.
What I'm saying is that the "lots of little objects" model of Smalltalk goes against the grain of modern machines and how they access memory. I'm not sure what it takes for something to be _intrinsically slow_ but it appears physics is against us. If we could build machines that had fast uniform access to memory we probably would have.
If Bezos can somehow get politicians to give him the go ahead, he could probably cut consumer's costs in half and still make an absolutely obscene margin.
In NZ: At work we have 100mbps fibre shared by 50 people, at home quite a few of us have 1gbps fibre. It’s kind of amusing how bad our work internet situation is compared to consumer internet.
Being less friendly to advertisers insulates Snapchat from viral hoaxes
I hate to be that guy that brings blockchains into things, but isn't this like the one blockchains are really good at? Why haven't we switched technologies already?

Honest question, I'm all ears if there's a good rebuttal.
> After the conservative government attained power in 2013, the NBN struck more upheaval, with copper wire ordered for the final stretches of connection, surrounding neighbourhood broadband nodes.

How would pulling copper make it any better? It surely couldn't make it cheaper and at the same time would only use an inferior technology. Why would anyone pulling a new network today use anything but fiber optics?
Is he being a jerk because he doesn't want to do a bunch of unpaid work? If your car manufacturer doesn't want to fix your broken car, am I a jerk for not doing it for them?
Considering the constant issues Amazon has had with counterfeit goods the last few years, I don't think I'd want to buy drugs from them.
You're missing my point. When we had 256k memory computers we didn't have caches because memory access was uniform. As time goes on, fitting in cache is getting more important, not less.
The Future of Marko
So, we have a starting point. Now, would you then agree that the primary purpose of a networked group of computers is the exchange of information?

If you will agree to that, will you also agree that communication is information?

If you will agree to that, and to the general concept of the freedom of expression, as an ideal to aspire to and not just a government restriction, would you then agree that even the shittiest people on the planet should be allowed some method for self expression on said connected network of computers in a reasonable manner, so long as said expression is lawful and up until due process, in accordance with their local jurisdiction, takes away said rights?

In other words, they deserve the right to say their vile crap.

Before you say no they don't, I'd like to point out that not that king ago, and in some parts of this world, is censored speech. I'd like to point out that I absolutely guarantee there are those who would silence even you. They find your views absolutely reprehensible. You offend the very fiber of their being. They hate everything you stand for.

Be careful which rights you cede, for you will not always be the decider. Pendulums swing and the repercussions are mighty.

I've traveled, a lot. I've been in combat, war zones, in the midst of refugees, in camps, and in ruins. I've seen what happens when people dehumanize others. I've seen what happens when we lose empathy.

I'm not trying to change your mind. It's the Internet. Nobody ever changes their mind. I am trying to demonstrate a good accounting. Someone has to speak for the rights of all humans. Someone has to have empathy for even the worst among us.

Don't get me wrong. Some folks need killing. But, due process matters, as does empathy, dignity, and honor. Meh... It is just what it is. Things go to hell without it.

As for your point, you don't need a right to bear arms to survive. You don't need a right to speech to survive. You don't need a right to your property, your right to avoid self incrimination, etc... You need those to have liberty.

Edit: email in profile, if you want. I'm quite happy to have rational discourse.
Lots of people disagree on the exact type of equality humanity should be aiming for.
AWS is their high margin product.

It seems to be their strategy is to enter markets that traditionally have razor margins, but the margin can be increased with careful application of technology or scale.
Well, it has managed to keep apartment prices in the Melbourne CDB pretty flat.
just goes to show that maybe we should be treating this (at least the gender identity stuff) as a mental illness, start prescribing anti-psychotics and watch the suicide rates plummet.
This comment is referring to this deceptively simplistic game:
http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

Trust me this is nothing but simple and will take you on a wild ride.
Are no other countries capitalist systems? Say, Japan, who has fairly awesome compassionate healthcare I would think, they don't have a "socialist" medicare system do they? Britain is kind of hybrid I think? Australia as well maybe.
So basically nobody has dumb question and it's just me???
How would blockchain help this in the least?

Paper ballots work really well too, and though they can go missing just like files get deleted, it's pretty easy to see that.
Based on other comments in HN it appears that a large amount of key documents have been "lost". I've never checked the source, but many threads about the files mention that.
https://www.google.com/search?q="AI+decodes+trading+signals+...
Not every sell is equal if you look at it like at social contract. A family buying a house is different from investors looking to park their money.

It looks like ban will apply to non-residents rather than non-native. If you're non resident, why do you want to buy? Rent to check out the city, get residency which you'd need to live in a country anyway, then buy.
People with mental illness usually do contemplate suciide more than the general population..
I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos So You Don’t Have To
Man, I hear this argument all the time about airline service.

I've tried many airlines for work...service is fine. If your expecting 1950s level service you can pay 1950s pricing for business class.
Centralized identification services, thinking of some names, how about Experian or Equifax
Absolutely. It should be taught because knowing history informs our present and future decisions. At the same time, we should educate young people on the realities of one-sided history and the constantly evolving landscape of history. Teach kids to seek more multiple sources and interpretations.
If your concern is just with government expenditures, sure, but you can also make the argument that prioritising rural areas could give them a head start on the growth of digital services. Taking Australia from being a market where cities have ~okay~ internet and rural areas have poor internet to one where at first everyone has okay to great connectivity and later everyone has great connectivity has its merits.
>Nazism - The belief ( on pseudoscience i may add )that other races ( a term that has no scientific basis ) are only worthy of extermination ( death, MDK )

I would correct that.

Nazis didn't wholly think that. Not all races where "worthy of extermination". For example, black people in the Reich were largely ignored as a non-problem and left to their own devices and people from the Middle-East were recruited as part of the armed forces. "Honorary Aryan" is a thing they did too when someone proved to be useful (Japanese have been declared as such). Just a short history FYI.

Racism is the more correct term, believing any human inferoir based on their race, and some racists demand extermination. Nazis are a specific subgroup of racists.
I've shared this anecdote before: When I was a grad student in the late 80s, we learned about the oversupply of PhD's compared to the number of available faculty jobs. In fact I remember it as a topic on discussion boards in my earliest experiences with the Internet.

I told my dad about it. He got his PhD in the 50s. His reply was: "Oh yeah, that was common knowledge when we got our degrees too."

He enjoyed a long career in industry, as have I, so far.
> Subverting a council of the landowning aristocracy (local city govt) with a democracy (state government).

Well, this law is proposed by state government (democracy).
It's lucky the American Revolution happened in 1776 before the British had all that industrial might to suppress rebellions that they used in the Boer war and their other brutal colonial repressions.
Yes and wrongly shipped items. I get so many items that aren't correct.
Just a thought: growing up I had moved around the country a bit, and perhaps this led me to be introduced to wildly different ideas about history. For example, I was taught both the States Rights and the Slavery motives of the civil war, in both primary school and in Uni! Another: My history texts taught me to be once quite strongly of the belief that the atomic bombings of Japan were necessary, and even saved lives, until a nice old prof in uni showed me that Eisenhower and many military leaders either strongly condemned it, pointing that the Japanese were already negotiating surrender, or said it be at least not dropped on urban population centres, as there was already a complete naval blockade and they had no ability to continue the war.
Only if you don't have to live in it.

I grew up in a soviet block and thinking about it gives me anxiety.
Homosexuality was illegal in New Zealand until the "New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 " was passed in 1986.

New Zealanders are lovely people. However, the country is rather provincial.
To be fair, the poor "memory bandwidth" of CPUs has not been fought very hard and is not really a direct consequence of Moore's law.

Constantly growing caches just work very well, and we've grown to treat the DRAM level of the memory hierarchy as just another storage device, faster than your SSD but slower than your L4 cache. The industry has just emphasized capacity/$ and traditional, commodity DRAM protocols. Consider for example the potential, and near-absence[1], of CPU + DRAM MCMs.

[1] The latest rebranding of this obvious idea is "HBM" in GPUs. Though these don't really take advantage of the idea. But still CPUs have not been interested in even reaching this little distance.
I get her specialty spectrum lamps. She knits and crafts and lives under them until spring when, I kid you not, she goes out and forages in the woods. (Fiddleheads.) She isn't really a bear.
Yeah, this is an actual wild Wilderness with lots of high, remote places, and 10X the area of the other one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_Wilderness

Plenty of trails are also not suitable, nor maybe even really feasible for bikes.
There's always the Flux party[0] - as I understand it, they're basically committing themselves to direct democracy within their own party.

[0]: https://voteflux.org/
Drones would be killer for pharmacies. Low weight and small packages
TrueNet keeps track of a lot of good ISP performance measures, including one for international latency [1]. Looking at that average latency to the USA at least it seems pretty damn decent, only about 30-60% worse then the theoretical limit imposed by current fiber tech (speed of light in standard silicon glass fiber is about 30% slower then in vacuum), since direct line is about 7000-8000 miles. And of course as a practical matter fibers are not run directly between every destination, so add on extra for that and if TrueNet's numbers are reasonably accurate then everyone seems to be doing a reasonable job given the distance.

I remember reading years ago about interesting research being done to use photonic-bandgap rims to make fibers that would allow propagation approaching vacuum speed [2], and if deployed eventually that could drop latency by another 40-60ms. But at least back then there seemed to be enough loss (3.5 dB/km) that it'd be impractical over long distances without excessive boosters, even ignoring any cost/durability issues of the fiber itself. That may have been improved in the last 4 years though, but I'm not sure if it ever did make it to market (or if there are even plans still in progress for it, raw throughput was impressive too FWIW).

At any rate: the NZ ISPs seem to be offering pretty solid service on that front even internationally, at least in terms of pure latency. If there is increasing congestion or other issues those are just matters of capex, and between the ISP's servers and premise links there might be more lag being added in. But I don't see any glaring core inefficiencies there in terms of the international link part, unless I'm missing something entirely. Looks a lot better then I'd have expected taking a guess based on how it was a decade ago.

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1: https://truenet.nz/international-latency

2: "Towards high-capacity fibre-optic communications at the speed of light in vacuum": https://www.nature.com/articles/nphoton.2013.45 (DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.45)
With Amazon entering the prescription drugs space, they were wise to do something crazy
Really? Anecdotally, I make lots and lots of Amazon orders, I get at least 1 or 2 a week, plus my prime subscriptions, and I have not had an issue getting the wrong item for several years. The only issue I've personally had, is the UPS driver dropped off a neighbor down the street's package at my house, which was a driver mistake.
Curious to know what about their app you don't like?
I've had to do this with grep, gerp gpre gper. I've determined that I'm just constitutionally incapable of typing that word more than 2 in 3 times, and I've learned to cope with my disability.
It may be biased, but the alternative, having no formal history lessons, is far worse. At the very least it provides a shared cultural identity, and presents lessons learned from the past.

Hopefully moving forward we won't have to worry so much about the revisionism. With everything being documented the internet, we most likely will just have to content with sifting through it all to find the truth.
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> I don't expect professionalism from someone who's basically giving me free stuff.

Ironically, that's exactly what Microsoft has been saying about Linux during those bad old days. Linux was successful because its developers didn't say "If you want to talk to a professional, buy something else."

I'm not saying an OSS developer should bend over and take abuse from users. But I believe there's a line between that and calling users "entitled brats" just because they use vendor-supplied drivers for their $500 cards.
Thanks for recommending the book above. It seems helpful in separating fact from fiction.

From skimming Oswald's Wikipedia's page, a few questions emerge suggesting both guilt and innocence.

* Why did he walk home, change clothes, and arm himself?

* Why did he shoot Officer Tippit?

* If grandeur was his motive, why deny the crime instead of claiming credit for one of history's most notorious assassinations? Aiming for Connally, not JFK, seems more plausible, but he evidently idolized JFK. Why risk hurting his idol? If neither of these, what was his motive? Being plain crazy is valid, but this motive is not highly documented.

* He seemed protective of his wife, which suggests he loved his family. What was his emotional state before the shooting?
Was he excited about the birth of his second daughter or still resentful toward society? It would be great if someone analyzed his psychological state in the weeks before the assassination.

* He seemed to be doing well at the Texas School Book Depository according to Wikipedia. Was he in jeopardy of losing his job? (If yes, this supports the theory he was angry at society and lashed out.)

* Why did he ask for the ACLU attorney? This seems like a strange request for someone who murdered the nation's president.

* Why did he claim the photograph of him holding the rifle was fake? Was it even possible back then to forge something so accurately? A lot seems to hinge on this photograph. If you can prove the photograph was authentic, and that the markings match the rifle at the scene, it presents overwhelming proof Oswald was the shooter, especially since he denies buying the rifle, let alone posing with it.
All guarantee basic care and allow you to buy up to better care[1]. Yeah, some things that are quality-of-life impacting but not life-threatening (like say, knee surgery) can have really long waits, but everyone gets seen.

You don’t have people choosing between paying rent or getting their insulin. Also, if the state had to bear the costs of health care, they might be more inclined to deal with the predatory practices of companies selling products that are dangerous long-term (cigarettes, aggressive marketing of junk food, etc)

[1]: Japan apparently has subsidized health care (consumer pays 30% unless they are poor); and the UK definitely provides government care through the NHS, though you can pay out of pocket and go to a private doctor if you have the means. Australia’s system is similar to the US, and they are facing similar problems as well.
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I simply carry keys in there. The pocket is perfect for small metal objects. If left in a bigger, thinner pocket, they are likely to make a hole moving around.
It's good to see this given study and analysis, and the recognition that many LGBTQ people are at their most vulnerable around the college age. (Often moving away from their existing support, though I recognize 'home' isn't always a welcoming place for LGBTQ youth.)

Here's hoping it leads to action on campuses to help connect students to the resources they need -- whether that's counseling, medical care, or just a supportive community.
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Count me among the confused. Works are usually referenced by their publication year and, on Hacker News, I always assume something with a (YEAR) in the title was published in that year.
...Does she like salmon? Does she start to eat lots of berries in fall?

I’m not saying that she’s a bear though!...