skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have to convince the system administrator to install that plug-in.

I also don’t like having to use yet another language (or two, counting Groovy and the Job DSL separately), but that, I could live with.
To keep track of your time spent in both worlds, I suggest the app Moments. It’s pretty scary to see
We used a cryptocurrency miner as a heater this winter and it really worked
Now hold on, we ought to define some terms before we start saying things like math isn't art. The two are hopelessly intertwined, and it is the ability to recognize form and beauty among the chaos that makes one an artist, not the medium through which this is realized.
This is assuming that everyone who is on the bus would be driving/riding in a car instead, which I'm not sure is true.
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> Sure, if that person is dying and rates their own health infinitely higher than the welfare of their family, maybe. That's not many people.

I don't think that's true. I think that's actually the vast majority of people. Nearly all of them, even. The human survival instinct overrides so much of a human's rational thought processes or even their higher-order emotional processes. You may be one of the rare few for which that's not the case, but, well... you're of a vanishingly rare breed.

And it's not even exactly that. When you're in a life-threatening situation, it's likely that you're either a) unconscious, or b) completely unable to have even a remote grasp of what the cost will be to "fix" you. As in, not even a ballpark figure. Given the potential urgency, you may not have the time to get a second opinion or shop around for a cheaper fix. Just the cost of stabilizing you to the point where you can sit back and make an informed decision could bankrupt you.

Also, just a side note on:

> ... the welfare of their family

There's also a cost to their welfare if you die, too. It's hard to put a number on that while you're healthy, let alone in the midst of an emergency or life-threatening illness.
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It adds one crucial feature every healthy, functioning market needs: honest feedback.

Right now nobody, and I mean literally nobody, makes rational economic decisions for medicine in the US.

Neither the hospital, doctor, administrator, insurance company, or patient really has any real idea 1) the cost of the health care being provided 2) the amounts being charged or 3) the dollar amount of benefit gained by the patient. The actors above who do have some pieces of the data largely aren't the ones making the decisions.

If you abolish insurance and state prices up front, at least you force hospitals to charge something closer to the true cost for services, and you force patients to evaluate whether they would rather have care or dollars in their pockets. Over time, they would figure out what's good value for their health and what isn't.

Of course one could argue that the government should be making all these decisions because it has access to more information, and that's probably true; but that's not what's happening in our Frankenstein ('s monster) of a system.
I think a blockchain protocol testing framework is sorely needed. Jepsen does not support primitives like proof-of-work and stake, so it is really hard to test the various tradeoffs inherent in any protocol.
I love this scenario, and your writing, but not exactly moving the conversation forward, :-)
There’s also the question of control. No matter how badly injured, if I’m driving myself or taking a cab, I am still “the boss.” But as soon as EMTs and doctors become involved, that control is lost.

In an increasingly authoritarian country/world, where we are expected to give up all rights upon first interaction with persons in a position of power or authority, be it the policeman that graduated yesterday but has the full might of “the boys in blue,” the TSA agent at the check in line, the EMT responding to the call, or the nurse checking you in, it is easy to understand why some people have an aversion to willfully surrendering themselves and their free will so long as an alternative is present.

I prefer to not cede what little control I have until I have to. If I want the driver to take the highway and not the local roads, it’s my call. If I want to text while I’m being driven through traffic, it’s my call. If I change my mind and want to go back home to die, well, it’s my call.
Yea but the declarative pipelines have cheat codes that allow cheeky (read lazy) people to still run code in the pipeline:(
To see if you are correct I downloaded an executive summary of the report.

Their model does track energy prices – heading: “CHEAP ENERGY TO DRIVE GROWTH IN THE 2020s” and the impact of climate change – heading: “CLIMATE CHANGE STARTS TO IMPEDE GROWTH IN SOME COUNTRIES” among other things. I presume their model must track demographic shifts globally (it'd be a pretty crap model if it didn't) – heading: “AUSTRALIA RISES TO BECOME
ELEVENTH LARGEST ECONOMY AS POPULATION RISES” based on what I'm seeing in the summary.

I don't know how they'd factor in crises such as conflicts and financial meltdowns given that you could make a lot of money if you could forecast such things. I guess they have to adjust their models in the face of new realities. I suppose we have to prefix their report with an "all other things being equal" hedge but they do appear to have taken into account obvious enough factors (energy/climate/population/…) which they can kind of keep track of.
I would throw in MLK (over Obama) and Armstrong.

I'd bet on at least one President - Bush. Because every history book of the next couple of centuries will mark the millennial new year with imagery of 9/11 and the "Clash of Civilizations" meme. 19 guys and 1 President changed the course of history.
A great piece from the New Yorker. As I read this though, there is a big disparity between what I feel and what I feel i should feel after reading a piece like this. It makes me slightly uncomfortable and yet there is a part of me in awe with how the young man embraced the tragic circumstances that had befallen him.
Right. If the Uber driver fails to get you to the hospital in time to save your life for any reason, they have no liability or consequences whatsoever, because they're not intended to be a life-saving or emergency service.

If the ambulance driver screws up in some way, they're in for a world of trouble and legal liability.
Kinda tangential, but after living alone for a few years I've updated my selection criteria for furniture to prioritize cleaning difficulty and comfort over visual style. Given its nature, industrial-style furniture is usually easier to clean and it's made from tough material capable of handling a wider range of cleaning chemicals.

I wonder what the outcome would be for a person with autism. I remember watching a video of a psychologist explaining that normal people are better at abstracting visual concepts, and used a drawing of a house as an example. Most people would likely draw the traditional pentagon house with chimney, but a person with autism would need to draw a specific house.

Don't we improve on this by leveraging tools? e.g. paper and pen, computers, etc. I don't have to imagine a large number of visualizations all at once, I can just draw a mockup and reference it when needed. That lets you group everything up into a conceptual black box, instead of tracking it all in your head.

In the case of treating phobias, can't we leverage photos and video? From an uneducated perspective, it would seem like a reasonable middle ground.
I was lucky enough to see his final performance in Fiddler. He was not well enough at that time to play the stage role, but his rendition of the piece from the movie score at intermission was a virtuoso performance. I cried through most of it.
In India in Tier 1 City at a reasonably good private hospital, it takes around Rs. 500 ($8) to Rs. 750 ($12) to get an X-Ray done.
Insurance does not replace value, insurance is fundamentally and always a value transfer vehicle. Although in some implementations insurance can act as a value replacement mechanism this is the result of the implementation and not a fundamental property of insurance. You seem to base your understanding of insurance on some common implementations that do replace value but these are not the rule for all insurance.
What's wrong with having a bus + driver service low density suburbia today, than a number of self driving cars? Even a minibus.
Speculation to follow: Health care as an industry is significantly more profitable than the proactive/preventative healh programs. Eliminating insurance removes a volatility dimension. Preventing problems (if possible) saves infinite suffering but costs someone profit.
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Also, I could imagine a series of accidents where explaining to a Taxi where you were and where you needed to be might be physically difficult.

You can call an uber (or lyft) for your destination, with a few finger taps.

(*And the driver will know who they are looking for visually, as well.)
The root cause tho is that the consumer of the product (patient) is generally different from the payer (employer). Insurance isn’t the real problem. The invaluable argument could be applied to your house too.
I don't know about Canada but in Australia the person who the ambulance is called for gets charged.
It seems a safe bet that the people who have already been remembered for thousands of years will continue to be remembered for a thousand more: Jesus, Euclid, Aristotle, Socrates, etc.

But as for contemporaries, there's two big differences: a great many more people, and increasing pace of achievements and change - and both will hopefully continue. So, it's possible no one alive today will be remembered in 1000 years. Maybe things done in 100 years will push them all out of the public consciousness.

On the other hand, it's much easier to discover fundamental truths, of enduring consequence, in the early phases.

Finally, it matter how consequential the achievememt is. It's hard to know what will be used in 1000 years, and what turned out to be consequential. Perhaps we don't see its significance today.

Notable achievements might be: understanding/creating life (from scratch, not just pokimg memory locations); understanding/creating intelligence; understanding/curing physical disease; understanding/curing mental disease; inventing FTL travel; establishing a growing non-earth colony (note: who established the vikings colony on Greenland that was abandoned after 100 years?); first contact (that leads to growing trade); modifying human nature; founder of a new and better approach to community (or exposition of it); whoever blows up the world.

There's a limit to how many people can be remembered in the public consciousness. Newtom amd Einstein will be remembered by math/science historians... but will anyone else, if there are many of the above acheivements? (or ones I haven't and can't imagine...)
Can't a neural network only ever achieve an O(1) time approximation of an NP hard problem? Unless you're using it as a heuristic inside some broader search algorithm.
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These are all examples of European mass transit users. We even have places designated fir disabled, injured and elderly people on every bus, tram and metro.
Wow! It is almost $400 here in Alberta [1]. But we don't have MSP premiums, so I guess it is not much different from BC when you consider all the factors.

[1] http://www.health.alberta.ca/services/EHS-who-pays.html
Not to mention that there are consequences if an Uber/Lyft driver blows off a confirmed ride, and even if they do, you can request another one immediately.

In the case of taxi dispatch, a car may never show up, and you won't know until you get tired of waiting, and there are no consequences for the taxi company or driver if they do this. Pre-Uber, in SF, the normal quoted wait from a taxi dispatcher was on the order of 20 minutes, which if anything was usually understated. If you're in a lot of pain you probably don't want to wait that long.

I would probably still call an ambulance for something I thought might be life-threatening, but for anything else I'd take a Lyft.
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It's all about the moat. If other people have the same efficient machines they will try to get price advantage by lowering prices. And because one person does it, everyone follows the suit, starting the race to the bottom.

I have included a link in my previous post where Charlie Munger talked about this.
so signing a message was not enough?
And if a sub-100ms ping told you “dead end, don’t try” how does that not get you to the finish line faster?
I am fascinated by what may happen in China financially as well. The chairs have run out on the US many times, and Iceland, and Ireland, and Venezuela, and Argentina, and Greece...you get it.
Similar story; dislocated my shoulder, and needed to visit the ER. Came to the same conclusion at the time, that Uber would be the cheaper/easier option. The driver got me safely to the ER, likely faster than an ambulance would have. The driver was even courteous enough to help me with the door. I don't remember the exact price, but it was reasonable, I'm sure it probably saved me hundreds relative to an ambulance ride.

It was probably the more socially responsible option all things considered. I didn't require urgent medical care, so taking Uber helped ensure those resources where free to those whom might have (though this thought didn't cross my mind at the time).
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The unintended consequence of allowing that to happen would be that people would be hesitant to call for an ambulance for someone else. It will cost lives. I would expect any sane legal system to have strong legal protections for good Samaritans.
Let’s see what happens in the future. I don’t believe that a lot of things the chinese government is doing right now are sustainable. I believe that somehow the markets will eventually open up and closely resemble the US / Europe. Who knows how long it will take or if it will even happen in my lifetime though. The huge advantage of the US over China is a stable and fair rule of law. Things like the first amendment and private property rights matter a lot for business. The article talks about the year 2032. Do you think the firewall will still be live then? I hope not.
Well, not if you need treatment. If you're poor, yes you won't pay anything because the hospital won't bother to bill anyone. But if you need surgery and have no insurance or medicade, there are cases of doctors sending you home, waiting for sepsis and then amputating, because it's cheaper and takes less resources.

Extremely poor people may not pay for care, but be assured that in America, they get no where near the same level of care.

And if you're poor and have cancer? Most other western countries will give you a chance.

There is a much deeper problem relating directly to this topic. Transportation. Access to real transpiration is THE BIGGEST FACTOR in escaping poverty.

Uber isn't public transportation. A train is about $2 ~ $3 in most cities. In an Uber that would be a $10 ~ $20 ride. Multiply that by 7 days a week to and from work, and there simply is no comparison. Many cities have discounted fare cards for the poor as well. The structure of American cities hurts the poor.
Yah, you've got a point there.

But I have to distinguish peace in Israel vs. peace in the Middle East.

Peace in Israel is likely to be a military kind of peace where no one dares attack, and with the Palestinians having their own state, no one has a good excuse anymore.

But they will still have bad excuses, because no one is even trying to bring peace to the Middle East.

i.e. it will be a famous conflict zone for a lot longer than you might expect because of Sunni/Shia conflict.

Also the underlying hate and antisemitism will persist even after the Palestinian negotiate a state, giving another reason for it to stay a famous conflict zone.

> Quick, who was involved in bringing peace to Northern Ireland?

St. Patrick :)
How much is an ambulance in Australia? Last time I was there, I saw a protest against the Abbot government (yea it was that long ago) because he wanted to put in a co-pay (yes, Australians don't have co-pays).

In the US, with insurance, they're typically like $300.
I am French and I am sorry that a state owned company go put a mess in other countries electrical markets.
Absolutely, couldn't agree more. Especially with his immodest tone. Well, there seem to be more errors getting through now people seem to rely on basic spell checkers e.g. 'he' and 'lightening' aren't caught. I often see such spelling mistakes in the kind of publications I never used to.
Sounds interesting! Will check it out. My language is closer to Forth; I borrowed ways of making code terser from k mostly, but I like the way of not having variables (when possible) without making too much off a mess. And the way k does that feels inelegant to me somehow.

Edit: Live coding really helps though; the whole Bret Victor thing and Light table etc but also many artists and game devs before that, know that you want sculpt your ideas first before you stabilize them. Aka you want spreadsheet programming but when you have more or less what you want, you want to 'upgrade' that code so it's not 'spreadsheet programming' anymore. We have the first (live coding environments, usually for art, Forth etc), we have the middle (REPLs, Lisp) and we have the last part (strongly typed languages and even formal verified programming), but we don't have something that flows from begin to end without having to rewrite everything every stage. I think Lisp / Clojure fans believe they do have this, but I don't find it convincing (although I love coding in Lispy's). I feel Forth has the 'beginning' down much more than Lisp, but moving from a 'working' mess to something stable and then to something rocksolid is not so easy. I keep experimenting.
Why is that? Latest versions of Chrome and Firefox work fine on Windows 7 , so they have real competition in this area.
I disagree with all those points. I can't stand single page websites. In my experience they're confusing and typically lack most of the information I look for on a website. For example:
http://lua.quseit.com/

This completely useless website.
I also come from a country where ambulance usage is free but I can tell you from experience that getting one of these ambulances isn't as simple as one might think.

I imagine, maybe, there are keywords or phrases that result in instant dispatch but the default behaviour seems to be to frustrate you as much as possible to the point where you just hang up and drive yourself to the nearest hospital accident and emergency department.

This is, I suppose, a result of the service being costed and allocated to different departments who are all under pressure to manage their own budgets?

Accident and emergency departments obviously get the brunt of all this because they don't have anyone to pass the buck to.

So, yeah, maybe utilising a service such as Uber is actually going to be a way around this problem?
TriNetX - is building a federated network for identifying patients out of electronic medical records and writing protocols more effectively.

Recursion pharmaceuticals - has identified numerous compounds in preclinical development on what seems to be a shoestring budget for a biotech company.
Yes, I highly recommend the book The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It goes into depth behind the laws now used for NIMBYism, which have a shameful past that must not be forgotten, lest these mistakes be repeated.

The book begins by taking a look at the Bay Area in particular.
Filecoin raised $205m, not $257m. And at $205m it's not record breaking either, as the standard record was $230m when the Filecoin sale started.
> It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

Am in business with someone many years older than me. It has always struck me how little tolerance he has for risks to my safety. The natural reaction is to have more lenience for situations that wont directly impact your personal safety. Wheras this guy will do potentially dangerous tasks that would otherwise be my responsibility. His kids are grown up, mine are young.

It is the kind of attitude that would be near impossible to enshrine in a larger organisation (like NASA) but refreshing to see all the same.
A total thermonuclear war would crater most of the Earth and irradiate the rest. Such a scenario wouldn't really be survivable. No arable land left.
I'm somewhat sure we will turn trans-human in the next 50 years, and then all bets are off. There may not be humans, not because we die off, but because we turn ourselves into something better, totally different.

1000 years is a long long time to make any predictions. Predicting 10 years into the future is hard enough.
I don’t know if it’s the same for everyone, but about 8 years ago I got gastro and thought I was dying because I was in so much pain. I was a Kiwi living in Australia l, called myself an ambulance and I don’t have Medicare so figured I had to pay the bill.

After being discharged I gave them my passport and the hospital bill was $0 while the ambulance bill was around $950 Aud.

When I moved to singapore to live I got appendicitis. I called a taxi and paid $9 to go to the hospital. Too scared to get ambulance now even if it’s covered by insurance.
If you have something life threatening and you know it in advance, please have a look at Indian healthcare system. It will not be that costly and there are a few mind blowing hospitals who are really very damn good.
The mice traverse the maze, find the optimized path, then return to the start to do the fast run from start to finish. It's not the speed of the first run, but the overall fastest.
the American system is so fucked up. I don't know how you can read things like that and think it's not. downvote me all you want.
I’m sure they will try to hide that by offering subscriptions, loyalty cards, better chairs, larger cars, larger monitors, Netflix, faster rides, etc, but the competition will go wherever the demand is and offer that $5 ride for $4.50.

I’m not sure how well they will be able to diversify their product while keeping the economies of scale. If 10% of your customers is willing to pay for more leg space, can you get by with 10% of your fleet being larger cars, or does that affect the waiting times of that 10% too much, and do you need to make most of your cars larger?

Also, if you pay $1 extra per trip on your commute, that’s a nice smartphone each year.
I'm truly truly hoping that Secure Scuttlebutt or Patchwork or some incantation of SSB becomes our new browser for shopping, tweeting, search, news... I know it has a long way to go, but give it 5 years...

We must break up with the browser.
in Canada you get charged only if you get in the ambulance
Everyone wins, except reindeer themselves, I suppose.
I thought they was saying there's a jarring disconnect between bragging about your writing ability in a sloppily-edited essay. I don't think it's hard to understand their point, is it? I think you were being gratuitously pedantic.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

Well, there is Muphry's law.[0] Which I notice you - but hopefully not I :-) - have here fallen afoul of. Although you wrote in defence of bad proofreading; maybe there's another law for that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law