skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame because CVS is horrendously expensive and Target wasn't. It used to be that Target, Walmart, and Kroger all tied for the cheapest generics where I live. Other supermarkets were slightly more expensive, and CVS and Walgreens are colossal ripoffs. Now Target has dumped their pharmacies on CVS, and Kroger raised their prices (but not to the extreme levels of CVS and Walgreens). Walmart is the only cheap pharmacy left, and they'll have my business for life.

CVS also has horrendous customer service issues. A few months ago, Walmart ran out of one of the several medications I take, and after the shortage lasted long enough, I had my doctor transfer just that script to CVS. It was hell. I was constantly innundated by calls from CVS daily telling me it was time to refill my prescription. Even if I just refilled it, I would start getting the calls a few days after I picked it up. I'm a little bit disappointed in my doctor for even giving my phone number to these people (Walmart doesn't have my phone number and never asked for it).

I had to call CVS corporate several times to get them to stop calling me every day. The first couple of times, they told me they took my number off, and it was a blatant lie. The last time I called, they said they took my number off their list again, but when I asked them to confirm that my phone number had been completely removed from all my records, they said they couldn't do that. I had to straight-up lie to them. I told them I'd just sold my phone, my SIM card, and the username and password to my account with my carrier to some rando on Craigslist (and I'm fairly sure that selling this is illegal, but keep in mind that I was lying through my teeth when I said I did this), so my number is no longer mine, and if they call that number and divulge anything about my prescriptions, they'll be committing a HIPAA violation. That got them to change my phone number to (000) 000-0000. And now every time I pick up my prescription from them, their credit card terminal makes me click through a whole bunch of screens complaining that my phone number is invalid. Fortunately I only have one med with them, and the rest are still with Walmart.

I hate CVS, and the next time I see my doctor, I'm going to have him call Walmart to see if they're stocking the medication again so I can kick CVS to the curb.

Amazon partnering with CVS just means I won't have any interest in moving my meds over to them.
I'm really loving RaiBlocks too. My main concerns now is that there's no financial incentive to run a node, and the current price seems fictional (because 99.98% of the supply is locked up in wallets). I have high hopes for it, though, I read the whitepaper and nothing stood out as a huge problem, which is good.

The worst whitepaper I've read recently was for something called Verge, which was basically "we're gonna run a bitcoin wallet over Tor for anonymity you guys!"
Perhaps he has cornered the market(1) for bitcoin, and is even now manipulating the price...

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market
I try to never stop learning. Here's a couple of ways I've done that seem to work okay for me.

- I always try something different and commit to it for a year. By the end of the year, I've become at least proficient in it.

- I buy something that makes me do something. A few years ago, I bought a real estate investment, when I wasn't making too much money (still not making a ton). Now, I'm able to do more home improvement tasks than the year prior.

- I try to always learn something new everyday. I don't care whether I spend 1 minute or 1 hour or 1 day. As long as I do something to fulfill this goal, I win for the day. (No Zero Days).

It's okay to be content, but it's not okay to be stagnant. A running river gives life to those around it, but still water makes for no life.
This ideal framework would probably work in an ideal browser, without the DOM. Doug Crockford put it nicely, today's browsers are a "vast source of incompatibility, pain and misery".
Anecdotally I have had some success getting judges to think of IP addresses mapping to individuals like they already think of post office boxes mapping to individuals.

For example, a post office box is a real address, but what goes in can be put there by anybody with access to the box, whether it's with the key from the customer side, or from the open back from the post office side. Similarly, what goes out can be removed by anyone with access to the open back of the box, or from the front with a key. No one checks to ensure that the holder of a key is the owner of the box.

Of course this is a very blunt metaphor, but with it one can see the light go on....
Voted you up. I think if people looked into how Cardano does what they do, they'd realize it "cures" all of the ills of Bitcoin, Ethereum and every other unscalable PoW currency in an elegant, provably correct way. I personally think the future of cryptocurrency is going to look far more like Cardano than Bitcoin. Not saying any of the top contenders are going away, they just will be glued/superseded by something like Cardano for more or less anything these others aspired to become, e.g. microtransactions, better/nearly infinite scalability, etc.

PoW is not ecologically friendly, and that will be one of its growth inhibitors.
> They have a good companion post on alternative services for folks needing to migrate. It doubles as a survey of the best in open source mapping tools out there right now. https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/

That post needs to be archived somewhere before the shutdown.
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Very nice, thank you for sharing!

I have one comment on the naming convention. Consider has_type/3 from the post. For example:

has_type(_, true, bool).

A better name for this would be:

term_type(_, true, bool).

or even:

context_term_type(_, true, bool).

This makes clear what each of the arguments means, and does not limit the reading to only one direction of use. Note that we can query this also in other directions, and the predicate still makes sense!
Permanent magnets that would be strong enough to be effective would be too heavy.

Too heavy for what? Anyway, you took the magnets or lead suggestions too literally. They were in the broad direction of using a material isolation or some kind of electromagnetic shield. Why permanent magnets BTW?
I'd say the costs were projected to be unsustainable. There apparently was this whole episode with the Congress realizing that Wernher von Braun & crew are aiming for Mars, and deciding to cut the party short before it gets out of control[0].

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA#Loss_of_political_suppor...
You can boil down react to virtually nothing. preact-compat turns it into 4kb. Redux + router don't add that much. The loading impact, if you watch out, code split, isn't the dire problem.

As for laggy experience, Fiber is the only feasible attempt at the moment to actually tackle it. Microbenchmarks will not help and neither Svelte nor anything else will make a webapp fast on a slow phone as baseline diffing has never been the problem in the first place. The problem is and has been the dom and the single threaded handling of it.

Fiber will allow apps to schedule. Imagine an app with 100.015 rows that Svelte renders in, say, 500ms, let it be 10ms faster than React 15's 510ms. It would still eat into your frame budget and cause heavy jank like all web apps do. Fiber just wouldn't render the 100.000 rows that don't fit your phones screen finishing the whole op under a single ms. It culls and prioritizes similar to how virtual lists operate in general, but you get that as a first class primitive being able to defer any render call of lesser importance without causing visual distortion or code complexity.

Not to mention that with React you could actually produce a real native app, while redux would allow you to share most of your code. With something like react-native-web you could even write a universal app being able to render both in the web and natively.
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How is a 1% position in a VC fund a monster bet?
Had a very similar reaction to this.
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I didn't realize there was so much money in to-do lists.
I would argue that food escapes its measure of utility because otherwise, we would all be eating only the cheapest and healthiest option all the time, but our constant hunger also makes us purchase things against our long term interest. If so, you would expect the market to be really inefficient, but at least in terms of satisfying demand, its very hard to make money producing food.

Its true healthcare has less frequency so you cant be a sophisticated consumer: but its more frequent than a car, which is also a necessity in many cases, and the lack of sophistry does not make it an inefficient market.

Im not even sure healthcare is a special market, certainly not for infrequency, or because you must pay with your life (i.e. that you make a decision of life and death for resources). Not for restrictive application of labor (lawyers have that), not for the high costs of technology in its application (consumer tech? space exploration?).

I think at this point what makes the healthcare market unique is the common belief of the people that it is unique. It forces the consumer to consciously think of the cost of life, a question we are somehow bred all our lives to hate to ask, but that we answer every day unconsciously.
I noticed the kiosk was there one week and gone the next. It did feel totally out of place.
A FOIA request → NYC pet licensing data → This Twitter bot
> You can ask the ISP. They are supposed to store metadata.

What you say is true, but prosecutors/investigators have little incentive to jump through another hoop. If they are willing to prosecute someone with just circumstantial evidence of an IP address, they aren't really looking to find the perpetrator, only a fall guy.
Of course they existed. It's why we have the centuries-old term "witch hunt". The important thing is not that they are unheard of, but that they are back, after a rather long hiatus in the West.

And the worst thing about the witch hunts to my mind is not that they are happening; it is the increasing amount of the population that sees them as a good thing. As long as they are targeted at the right people, of course, but the standards used for "right people" are growing quickly, too.
Investing in Bitcoin long-term should be seen as an investment in the community more than the protocol IMO.

The bitcoin protocol is not written in stone. Bitcoin community could adopt improvements from other crypto currencies. Segwit is the tip of the iceberg.

That said, the community is not very nimble...either.
> The penalties for driving drunk and killing someone are harsher than a simple DUI.

Even in this example, drunk drivers who kill aren't executed. I definitely agree the punishment on this particular individual should be stronger but executing him? That's taking it a bit far.

A long jail stint (and some growing up) would likely stop this particular individual from ever repeating their actions again. Executions should be reserved for those who are truly beyond rehabilitation IMO.
I agree that novel social partnerships will need to develop, but I still think large increases in productivity and technical capability are necessary.

For example, the total amount of wealth in the world is about 250 trillion USD according to Credit Suisse. There are about 7.5 billion people in the world today. 250T/7.5B = 33,333 USD per person. This really isn't that much wealth per person. So the total amount in existence still needs to increase dramatically.
Normally submitting a dupe would bring up that thread, which didn't happen either.
Have you actually tried to use IOTA? It's really bad, you get different balances depending on which node you connect to, sending is weird, odd things like that.
At least personally I know I would give Disney (or any third party creative wanting to make a Star Wars movie I found reputable) money to make them, because I like watching them.

Independently, no, I would not be able to single handedly fund the millions of dollars required to create such a film. The good news is there are a lot of people in the world who like Star Wars, and I imagine in the absence of artificial scarcity soaking up spending money those fans would put their money towards seeing the films they want made... made.
Lots of people had bad teeth and they did not want it to show up in the pictures.
I never claimed a Google image search result had anything to do with anything about the feminist movement or the average person's feelings on the matter or anything at all, for that matter.

In fact, I literally said "a single unqualified Google image search results doesn't tell you anything of any value."

Says very little about my browsing history through: I very rarely browse anything non-work related from my work computer and I aggressively block third party scripts, tracking scripts, ads, and I never search Google while also logging into Google plus I have browser extension that deletes cookies after I close a tabs and all traffic coming from my company has a single IP address.
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This has a name and it's the BFF pattern (backend for frontend). It's main reason for existence is just to do SSR. It might also do some level of service orchestration where it pulls API responses from multiple microservices and munges them into a single page model to reduce round trips from the client.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but mostly I agree that uuids are better for dev time. The first time something is written, they're roughly the same (or a very small bias towards autoincrement), but UUIDs have fewer dev-problems in the long run.

When you're starting out and don't have (m)any simultaneous writes to your DB, autoincrements are often perfectly sequential and identically sorted as a created_at column... which is convenient, but too often I see systems implicitly relying on this and having subtle problems when they start growing. E.g. pagination that doesn't account for gaps, or a missing "order by" that leads to the 1, 3, 2 issue mentioned above. It's also not often caught with tests, since they're frequently not run in parallel or at high enough velocity, and that lack of warning, time-coincidence with when the buggy code was introduced, or easily-testable reproducibility can make them hard to track down and fix.

There are a bunch more fairly minor things that others have mentioned (e.g. UUIDs make it much harder to write joins incorrectly, as they'll just always be empty until you do it right), but generally I'd just call it "death by a thousand papercuts". Autoincrements are great and I love them, but generally I lean towards UUIDs since they're a bit more bug-resistant. And performance-wise, if you're having problems I generally doubt you'd be able to fix it by switching to autoincrements (assuming it was just flipping a switch). For a short time, possibly, but generally at that point you'll be beyond the "pick whatever is easiest" stage and can make an informed decision that'll have a far larger impact.

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tl;dr: I disagree with primary keys being "opaque identifiers" because they do have an affect on behavior in buggy code. Autoincrements mask more problems than UUIDs, and fixing even one of those costs more time than autoincrement saves.
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Personally, from my observations as a software engineer married to a doctor and friendly with lots of doctors, and as an occasional participant in the American healthcare system, the general inadequacy of electronic medical systems is one of the most maddening aspects of our system. Epic is a monstrosity and none of the other systems are much better. The tech is outdated, the interfaces are awful, they're incredibly difficult to get to communicate with each other, and it sometimes feels like every single provider is using a different system that won't integrate with any of the other systems. It makes me angry as person whose doctors are using those systems (and it kinda scares me), and it makes me angry as a professional, because whoever the members of our profession are who are building those systems are doing a crap job.
Why keep putting it off? Isn't this the whole point of technology? So that humans will no longer have to do these jobs? Lets just have it happen and deal with the consequences. Why keep kicking the can down the road?
> if detected

How people think of that hypothetical if-then scenario depends a lot on numerous factors. I think, in places where corruption is more common, it is easier to believe it's less likely you'll get caught, or minimize the consequences when thinking about it. There's also a lower threshold for your imagination to go wandering off in that direction and begin architecting plans.

"If detected, could crash the whole thing" is a way of thinking more common in cultures where the rule of law is far more established in the common mindset.

I'm not making any sort of prediction (and I own bitcoin myself, though not a large amount). I'm just saying - this is how our minds work.
Yeah, I was hoping for some semi-legitimate usage examples.

Well, "caveat emptor", I say. This is a Facebook company, after all.
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> Oh come on, this platitude applies to people saying 'less regulation' just as much as it does me

I didn't argue that regulations are good because there was a purpose to them nor its opposite. So it doesnt really apply to my stance so far.

> Sure, but in that sense we can look around and see that healthcare markets are generally less healthy when they are (1) more private and (2) less regulated.

I disagree with that statement, and I am sure that you will find examples of private markets that are more efficient than public markets, of the which you only need 1 to disprove the idea that public > private on health.
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I came here just to say this as well - I like the model of students learning Python then using Flask much better.
Can you explain your business model, please?
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Exactly my thought. It Starts with basic principles, then shows how those principles are applied in three selected programming languages: C, Java, and then PHP?! There are a dozen alternatives that are more suitable.
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