skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Various insurance companies had contracts with the taxi company I drove for. Part of our usual fares were taking people to and from emergency rooms. If a person with Medicaid had a problem they'd call their insurance company, whose representative decided whether to send an ambulance or a taxi.

The hospitals also had contracts to send their patients home. One pre-obamacare passenger comes to mind: she didn't have a problem that wasn't related to being poor/homeless/childhood abuse, but the E.R. couldn't address her actual problems, and gave her a prescription for "something". She waved the prescription and said, "I can't afford these pills..." The hospital sent her to her sister's apartment. I called twice to check up. She was doing okay the first time. The second time the passenger's sister said she was at the State's psychiatric hospital.

A non-insurance passenger with a non-life-threatening injury asked to go to an emergency room. I suggested going to the full-service emergency room at the heart hospital. They got in & out in a fraction of the time that people usually spent at the big hospitals.

I knew of that emergency room because the Fire Department had a contract with the taxi company too. They sent people who didn't need an ambulance via taxi to the nearest emergency room. That guy was homeless, iirc.
>It means more Chinese entering the middle class, buying American goods

China urban household's per income isn't that much better....at $4500 dollar/year or around $375 dollar/month. https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2016/09/16/china_is_

> China has 1 billion MORE people than the US and yet the GDP of the US is still 165% of China's
That's because the rural population - 800M - only makes about $4/day, or $1400 a year....crippling poor. https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2016/09/16/china_is_ .... Whenever my clients say they want to expand to China because they have 1.3 billion people! I laugh.
Exactly, just yesterday a China central Bank official just gave hints of bankruptcy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-25/pboc-offi...

and a few months back, the China central bank chief warned about the rapid growth of debt https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/23/china-central-bank-chief-new...
It’s funny because the Phi isn’t even that great compared to a GeForce, which can be imported into china. Heck, they don’t even ban Teslas.
Notably, in the US.

this speaks more to a failure of the healthcare system than it does to the success of ridesharing
The pattern is:

* politicians

* travelers

* scientists

In many cases, their names are attached to something that sticks around: locations, laws (of nature or in legal sense), inventions.

Musicians, actors, sports people need not apply. What writers wanted to say will not make sense in a thousand years, with some minor exceptions. Painters may be remembered by experts and some art lovers, which is not a lot.

Religious figures, hopefully, will lose their relevance.
We have had self driving vehicles for a long time - they're called busses, taxis and trains, and can take many people at once who don't need to drive or own the transport. We're just automating that last one human who needs to hold the wheel of the bus/taxi/train and extending the reach of the network.

I'm a little bit worried about self driving cars being used for auto-detaining people and delivering them to police/terrorists. When you get into a sdc, you lose your ability to get off anywhere you want, it might lock up the doors and deliver you to the mafia or police for all you know.

Remember "auto-detention" I invented it here and now. :-)
It's called dramatic effect.
Oh, it absolutely is one of the rationales behind the USA's second amendment. The problem is that rationale just isn't relevant today, and believing in it is the height of naivete. Even if you got every civilian gun owner in the US to secretly band together to overthrow the US government[0], the US military would pound them flat[1] before you could say "reload".

[0] Good luck with even that much.

[1] Without even touching the US's nuclear arsenal, though they might opt to level a city in clear, full rebellion as a deterrent. They'd still do fine without nukes, though, as devastating to the US population and infrastructure as it would be.
Hopefully in 1000 years we will have augmented ourselves sufficiently that "forgetting" is not something that happens anymore.
Also, I wonder how much innovation will come out of China. As far as I can tell, innovation has generally come from Western countries (mostly the U.S.) and China develops internal clones after seeing what is successful. I don't know if the models are taking into account that China will be technologically lagging behind by several years. Maybe this doesn't have much impact, but I think it might.
A lot of that was just asset bubbles though. That wealth wasn’t real, just like the Chinese property bubble today.
Ate it on a recent trip to Finland. Absolutely delicious — probably closer to bison than deer from a culinary perspective.
They're actually Boolean types created by a bitfield mapping of an integer.
Bitcoin, I’ve Been Here Before
Proof of Stake Pools for Ethereum
Interior Design in Hyderabad
Your referred number is PPP, not GDP.

My source is from World Bank:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
It was supposed to happen in 2020, not sure why they pushed it back to 2032. It will happen, I just wouldn’t take much stock in any predictions.
More simple semantics are easier to understand. Ergo we should make the semantics as simple as possible.

More complicated semantics save more words. Ergo we should make the semantics as complicated as possible.

(This specific example is probably a false dichotomy--"the concept of truthiness" might be neither as simple nor as complicated as possible.)
This is not correct as per most of the other leading institutions. By virtually every measure China's economy is either already bigger than US or is going to overtake US within 1-2 years (i..e before 2019). The reason there is bit of uncertainty is because China had devalued Yuan which effectively reduces its GDP even if net purchasing power had been increased. Also, no one truly knows China's GDP except their government.

Here's better data: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-world-s-top-econo...

Quote from above:

Both the IMF and the World Bank now rate China as the world’s largest economy based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), a measure that adjusts countries’ GDPs for differences in prices.

You don't have to be economist to understand this either. You can go to virtually any corner of the Earth, walk in to a shop and find that roughly 50%-80% things in there are made in China. Think about that for a second. There are over 200+ countries in the world, 85% of people are outside China and still half of the stuff is made by just one country. There is often a someone in China making money when a person anywhere on the planet walks in to a shop and buys something. Think about the scale of that GDP now.
It is, but with wavelengths that aren't in the visible range.
I think you can break the for loop after the function call and it'll end after the wait is successful. Bit of a hack though
The dominos will have to fall sometime. A lot of china’s private sector debt is actually believed by the debtees to be implicitly public sector. With SOEs, the lines are always blurred anyways.
Judging by the "great men" of the past we remember?

Mass-murder a lot of people.
Incorrect. It seems mandates were state-by-state prior to the ACA, and certainly existed. Here's a quickly dredged up citation.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/09/16/3489562...
I maintain a Micromouse simulator called "mms": https://www.github.com/mackorone/mms. Whether or not it's any good is somewhat subjective, but it has some nice features: text, colors, speed control, a language agnostic interface, etc. Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think!
> It really seems like the middle class gets the raw end of the deal.

My hairdresser figured she has to spend $5,000 before she can get any benefit from "health insurance". She & her husband decided it'd be better to pay the penalties, spend that first $5000 on herself, and "hope" that she won't need more.

She's from Cuba, originally - left in 1987, iirc.
Interesting idea, though it seems that it doesn't work particularly well for coins held at exchanges like Coinbase.
It’s incredibly old tech and costs you maybe $5 in most countries.
The minimum payout is subject to various conditions — for example, not being a duplicate. The author did not meet those conditions, and resorted to personal attacks instead of keeping things professional.

Uber has many, many problems as a company, but on this matter I can't say they're in the wrong.
Very well written discussion of what went on at the recent massive Kubernetes conference, and how it relates to Linux and open source.
Is there a measure at all? This is a different question than the value of the measurement. (Though "I don't know" doesn't map very well to rational numbers... maybe a float NaN could be abused).

That's why many databases allow for (the option of) types to include a NULL value that is handled specially.

When you are rolling your own data design it is a legitimate question to ask: "Will an incomplete version of this object exist?" If the answer is yes, then the design should accommodate making that distinction.
MIT's neural network based Boring Hat detector
Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle – R.P. Feynman
Regarding demographics, have you seen this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/30...
Reminds me of Conan the Barbarian and their starmetal weapons.
The Conservation of Coercion
It is well known that while everyone has roughly the same capacity of visual working memory, expertise in an area drastically alters our efficiency in utilizing that memory. For example, chess masters are much better than novices at recalling chess positions when they look like typical middle-game positions, but they perform nearly the same as novices on random arrangements of pieces [1]. In the rubik's cube case, the expert is not memorizing 54 individual squares, but rather they are taking advantage of learned patterns to store fewer, larger chunks.

For another example, consider memorizing strings of letters: Which one do you find easier? GKAMIFTBW or IBMFBICIA

[1] Chase, W. G., & Simon, H. A. (1973). Perception in chess. Cognitive psychology, 4(1), 55-81.
Humbot’s Strategy: How we plan on making tutoring more accessible
I went through my message a few times just now, and for the life of me I can't find the place that ignited your vitriol. I was prepared to say "I apologize, I'm sorry I offended you," but in retrospect, I see now way which I could.

My post concerned a previous comnmenter's logical error. It explained the error as clearly as I could, although you seem to have missed that point. You do realize that you can change the word "value" in my post to "fundamental value" or "intrinsic value" or "donuts" and it will still exemplify the error, right? People who believe arguments presented in this form believe a clear falsehood. Let me be specific again, it's not the conclusion that's false, but the argument itself is flawed. If you believe a flawed argument, then you are being fooled.

Everything else that you posted comes from you. Every friggin thing, and that's hilarious, because it's so friggin irrelevant to my post. The argument is flawed, and you're having a tizzy for some unknown reason. That's fine, up to the point where you start trying to claim any kind of knowledge about me, at which point it becomes a straight-up lie.

So, apologize. You apologize to me. Apologize for believing that which is obviously flawed. Apologize for claiming that you know what I want, and then saying "nice projecting". Re-read your last three sentences. If you understand what either "projecting" and "straw man" are, then you will notice it in your own handiwork. How you saw it in mine is anyone's guess.

So, crystal clear, _you_ apologize to _me_ because _you_ are being an illogical _ass_.
Hi, I'm a co-founder of Humbot and wrote this post. I wanted to share it here to get your thoughts on it. Also, I hope it can help other founders struggling to find product-market fit get another perspective or inspiration.

1) What do you think of our approach to entering the tutoring market?

2) Do you have any experience with the tutoring or education market in general?

Thanks and happy holidays :-)
I like sundown a lot and see how it is better then markdown. It is very bold and smart reimagining of plain text enriched by tags.

It has a long road ahead, most likely will fizzle but that doesn't mean we can't use it.
I would guess that one of the hardest parts of building a nuclear reactor is compliance with all relevant regulations. That effort probably doesn't scale linearly with reactor size, so building the biggest plant you can afford is the best investment.
Well, that is a mystery. It's possible Dan is in error. If so, I'm sure he'd like to correct it.

I speculate that it's possible to measure a different value. First, it may include key travel. Second, a given program may choose to sit on an input for more than one frame (perhaps he picked a "bad" game for this test). Anyway, I highly suggest reaching out to him, because I agree this is an interesting discrepancy.
China Central Bank Official Says Local Gov Bankruptcies May Benefit the Country
You reckon the human race will make it that far?
Taxis are good in NYC.

In Binghamton NY, they all tell you the credit card readers are broken at all times of day and insist on driving you to an ATM so they can get paid in cash. In Washington DC, if they think you're drunk, they overcharge you / don't start the meter and the dispatchers always tell you 15 minutes, but then the cabbies just grab other people and you end up needing to call the dispatcher repeatedly to actually get a cab and it usually takes closer to 45 minutes or an hour. And in Ithaca NY, they tell you the credit card reader doesn't work until you say you don't have any cash, and then it's suddenly working.
The new "nuclear renaissance" plants, Vogtle and VC Summer, were welcomed with open arms.

Older reactors like Indian Point were built before all the risks were fully disclosed to the surrounding population, or at least before the first disasters, resulting in a lot of people dead set against them.

Nuclear has also allied itself with fossil fuel allies, which have of course abandoned nuclear as soon as they were the least bit uneconomic. At least in the US there hasn't seemed to be much emphasis at all on the low carbon aspect of nuclear from proponents, and they are all too happy to rag on renewables with bullshit arguments like land usage. Natural low-carbon allies are still seen as suspect or the enemy. Any reasonable carbon tax would mean that (existing) nuclear could compete economically, but I've never seen a nuclear proponent advocate for that.
None of these technologies will disrupt big tech. They're niche things that, while awesome, appeal to techies and people being censored. To stop conglomeration of big tech, you need big tech businesses that refuse to or are not allowed to merge with Google, Facebook, etc. Legislation around this is interesting because these are not technically anti competitive monopolies, and you don't want to overly restrict the market by accident.

This is a neat summary of decentralized tech, but the opening paragraph is a red herring.
I just returned from a Christmas weekend back in Minnesota - and saw my beloved 93 year old great aunt and 86 year old grandfather. Both now live in the same old persons home.

I left my visits to them saddened and somewhat depressed. These vibrant and influential souls reduced to a small studio apartment to live out their days, wracked with the infirmaties of old age. While old age is still a distant horizon for me, I’m leery of what it means given how I see my relatives living.

Yet, this article - and remembering the intentional lives my aunt and grandfather lived - gave me a new, hopeful perspective.

Life doesn’t have to end when you start collecting your social security check. You may finally have the freedom to realize your purpose on earth.
i'm tentatively excited about what the internet might look like in 5-10 years. there's plenty to worry about -- surveillance, balkanization, censorship -- but also genuine cause for hope for something (or many things) new and better for the internet.

also, urbit is some truly mind-bending stuff. i've spent a couple of hours reading docs and watching scattered videos and think i only sort-of get it. it got me to finally read mcluhan, though!
The point is sound though - x-ray is a very good example of a procedure that is absurdly expensive compared to its actual cost - and compared to any other country on earth.
Of course this depends. There's no guarantee people growing up in a hyper-connected world will fully embrace every aspect. It only takes a festering distaste in enough individuals plus a unifying voice to trigger a backlash.
Crazy. Very recently I saw a guy get knocked out cold on his rollerblades and we called an ambulance. The question of cost never crossed my mind and I'm not sure I would ever want to make the utilitarian calculus: Am I helping this man or am I bankrupting him?

IIRC it's $82 or something like that in Vancouver BC Canada.
If you are asked "What do you find the hardest part of that job?", would you find that to be patronizing?
I am using my neighbors WiFi, which I can only catch in my balcony. He stays above me, but diagonally opposite, so the source is quite away. Any way I can amplify the WiFi strength? So I need the source to be around in order to amplify?
I really hope your not black man, you essentially just told me to ignore away racism which is the most ignorant and white concept I could imagine.
What kind of tools? Is there a functional reason for lugging your tools back and forth, or is that just how it's done?

Could you leave those tools at work/training if they had secure storage? Alternatively, could the training facility offer a set of training tools while you keep your personal set at home for training?
In the dark red states, sure. Not everywhere. Most places added those requirements 30 years ago.

It’s not just health care. Intrusive regulation like requiring a nominal amount of paid sick leave is mandated in my state over a certain number of hours. (32 iirc)
This is all coming from a hardcore capitalist, so know that going in:

Health Insurance, as a concept, is disgusting.

You "Insure" property. You "Insure" specifically against loss of that property, and the cost of insurance is determined (forgetting an awful lot of math, but the basics are) by: The value of the property in question, the amount of payout required to replace said property in the case of full loss, put up against the security of said property and the odds of loss occurring.

For cars, this presents as the value of the car, factoring in where you live and work (the two places the car is most likely to be), the costs to repair or replace the car, the security devices the cars have, and obviously your driving record.

To insure a life, you need to first establish the value of a human life, specifically your life. Your life (probably) is infinitely valuable to you. The cost to repair you in our current system could also be infinite, given the numerous and terrible things that can happen to a person with literally no fault of their own. By the same token, the odds of you needing that payout are also damn near incalculable; every place you go, every activity you engage in from skydiving to eating turtle soup in Mexico all have a probability of killing you. By the same token you can trip and crack your skull open in Harlem, NY or in the center of the Pentagon, it makes no difference.

Therefore, you have an asset with incalculable worth, incalculable cost to repair or replace, that is exposed to hundreds of things per day that could result in a full-policy payout, with barely a hint of predictability.

Even if the industry behind it weren't legendarily corrupt and full of fraud and nonsense from every player in it, this would be completely insane to attempt. The solution (the first part anyway) is to outlaw health insurance, completely, full stop. Then hospitals must be instructed to destroy their chargemasters and go back to charging for services at reasonable rates. After that, everything else should more or less be solved.
Don't be everything to everyone, it's unsustainable. Have a clear mission and stick to it. Know what a hacker space is: it's not a startup incubator, even though it's easy to confuse the two.

I dropped out of a hacker space when they took on too many financial commitments. They thought they needed to expand because they were operating as a pseudo startup incubator for 1/4th the price. The problem was once they started to grow, they needed to meet ADA requirements. Dues that were fine for a hacker space just didn't pay the bills when suddenly the new crop of members were showing up everyday and had high impact needs.

It would have been fine to run a real incubator in the same building with a different membership fee structure so that things like ADA and conference rooms would be there for those who needed them.

The problem was ultimately that the organization ran itself in an everything for everybody mode. No one really put on the brakes when an expansion didn't make sense for what the organization did.
in the digital and mobile software space and how they can transform society, i am seeing China a year and a half ahead of US and Japan (and quite a bit ahead of Europe). Same in infrastructure where it's decade ahead of the US. No one I know in the cities in China actually carries cash any more. Often I the foreigner am the only one carrying cash. Living without WeChat is pretty much impossible to the extent i have it on my phone explicitly to talk to my Chinese colleagues. If you have a reasonable Alibaba credit score, you don't need any financial paperwork to get visas etc.
Well yeah. I had a kidney stone earlier this year. Pain so bad I couldn't move or think. Went to the hospital in an ambulance and ended up paying nearly $3k for the ride. First round they thought it was muscle spasms, so when I inevitably had to go back again I got an uber. The only reason I wouldn't take that option again is if I was bleeding / puking / doing something that would make a mess in the car.
I'm constantly surprised by costs for x-rays in the US too. It probably has more to do with the cost of labour, but even so, it's quite outrageous.
> The only reason not to call an ambulance here is if you feel it would be unethical

I dunno, maybe you just want to avoid the psychological feeling of urgency and gravity that comes with an ambulance. I think there's something to be said for staying calm and keeping self-control and dignity when facing an emergency situation.

If you're bleeding profusely or are in-and-out of consciousness or have a deadly virus, obviously that's different. But what about a broken bone? Or a laceration or burn for which you've already successfully applied first aid?

Might you not prefer to stay out of an ambulance in those situations, even if it's free?
A good introduction to the moral problems of animal slaughter is Charles Patterson's Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.
In most places in the US, the local cab companies are terrible. They might answer the phone, they might show up, and they might try to scam you.

Imagine you call a taxicab for a medical emergency, and they never show up, or only after an hour.

Uber and Lyft are extremely popular because the apps always tell you if a driver will come, the drivers almost always arrive very quickly, and the price is set in advance.

I'd bet that most people younger than 25 years have never used a traditional taxi, and they never will. They don't even see them as an option.