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> Contrary to your comment, yes, they generally are;

No, they're not.

> they're just using Hollywood accounting and referring to their profits as "excess earnings".

No, they aren't. Excess earnings are the correct technical term. Non-profit status, even in theory, has nothing to do with whether you earn more in revenue than you expend in costs, it has to do with whether there are stockholders or others who have a claim on accumulated returns.

More specifically, charitable nonprofits (which non-profit hospitals are) have a wide variety of additional requirements and restrictions (both in general, and specific additional requirements for hospitals, including several added by the ACA.)

> read that one, it's a good breakdown of the accounting that hospitals use to maintain their nonprofit status while behaving in every other way like any other for-profit business.

No, it's just a bunch of dishonest, or perhaps merely clueless, mischaracterizing; the most obvious example being considering money expended in providing Medicaid services but not covered by Medicaid reimbursement as money the hospital “paid to itself” rather than an external benefit. This isn't money the hospital paid to itself, it's money the hospital paid out to provide services under a public program providing healthcare to the medically indigent but which was not reimbursed by that public program (in general, Medicaid is a money-losing program for providers, as—while there are some exceptions—reimbursement is generally at the lowest of three things: a state set rate, the actual cost of providong the service, or the provider's usual and customary charge for the same or substantially similar service. This is at best break even, but over all, across all providers, it's always going to be, in practice, below actual cost.
It isn't a question of individual threads but of overall behavior. If you're using HN primarily for ideological battle then you're not using it for intellectual curiosity, the intended use of the site. The two are not compatible. Worse, one destroys the other, so we have to moderate HN to keep that toxin below fatal levels.

We can't exclude politics altogether, nor would we want to. But we can't let it take over the site either, and it's like fire: it consumes everything it touches. This is a conundrum. Our way out of the conundrum is the 'primarily' test:

We ban accounts that use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle, regardless of which politics they favor. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We noticed that the most damage comes from users who don't care about much except their politics, while users who are interested in plenty of different things and occasionally post on politics tend to be benign. The first group is abusing the site while the second is using it as intended. That turned out to be a clear line that we can rely on as a standard for moderation.

We try to warn people first, especially when they've been on the site for a while, but if the pattern persists we do ban them. So would you please reread the site guidelines and use HN in the spirit of curiosity, not battle, from now on?
I'm trying to find the access to that old YouTube account. I can't remember how much I got to subtitle, maybe around 20-30%, but I'd like to finish that work :)
It was already replaced by other pattern - it first asks for meaningless rating in app and only if user selects 5 stars he is redirected to AppStore .
You do realize that if a Windows application is calling an API, it's well documented?

Also the WSL team is forbidden from looking at the source.

So both your points are as irrelevant as they are snarky.
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What power source do you propose for a long-duration human mission to Mars, if not nuclear? Solar won’t work, given the loss of output during a dust storm.
Irrelevant. If candy crush isn't selling VR headsets or expensive systems capable of playing VR games, it doesn't matter if 100% of women are playing it 24 hours a day. It's irrelevant.

The only relevant thing is how do women fit into the VR market and do they constitute enough of an opportunity to divert resources from the hardcore game dev program to female biological ergonomics (i.e. addressing the motion sickness, instead of the small game library).

If you want to sell another 5 million VR headsets, the sole relevant question is, what is the most effective way to achieve that? Is it

1] making more & better games

or

2] making VR more female-friendly

the answer is 1, apparently. Billion dollar companies spend time researching these things before pulling the trigger.
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I can't see how this kind of thing doesn't just create more terrorists.

Even if I was totally innocent and this happened to me and was eventually released, the first thing on my mind would be revenge in some form.

Kudos CIA. Creating new enemies wherever none may be found, throughout this last century.
Reverse-engineering FPGAs [video]
There is essentially no actual ecological or serious fear about these devices. The weapons ban was meant to help avoid nuclear exchange between nations; there's very little scientific data that shows there's added cost or risk of thousands of reactors falling to Earth and causing radiation poisoning.

Nuclear is exceptionally safe and all the recent accidents (and ones in the past, really) are all due to human stupidity and bypassing several failsafes. You can argue that's an issue that will never go away, and that's true in the absolute sense, but it's not a nuclear problem. It's a human issue. We're holding ourselves back for scientific research because of arbitrary issues; and the weapons test ban didn't even solve nuclear proliferation anyway.

Solar won't be held back because nuclear is finally an option. They serve two different purposes entirely.
Only to you.

I feel exactly the opposite way.

<Rant>

I wish people would use the IPA instead of their absurd ad-hoc systems. I learned IPA at school, and it has served me well.

All the pronunciation systems based on some other language are unreliable and idiosyncratic. And English, with its near-absence of reliable pronunciation/spelling rules, is particularly ill-suited.

</Rant>
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It happens with Windows. It has nothing to do with openness, it happens with all OEMs.
Sounded unfamiliar, so I checked. The Apache OpenOffice sources indeed have three such lines left (all in obscure fairly irrelevant parts of the code; two inside odd #ifdefs that are never true, one inside their OS/2 (yes!) backend). LibreOffice naturally hasn't any such crap any longer.
Is there something like a non-DOM UI framework? Either you paint your pixels yourself or you have something equivalent to a DOM.

Even without fancy HTML5 stuff anybody could have sent a prerendered image.

I remember web-sites which exclusively rendered in Flash. I avoided them like a plague.
Also, remember to never search for pressure cookers and backpacks led if you want to save yourself some troubles and prevent being listed on the watchlist another time (you're already there, yes you, you Linux user!)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-polic...
> And it hasn't really been good for the industry.

Intel's problems over the past year aside, they have done an amazing job pushing the limits of computation over the past decades.
Really? For me it was a first. At Schiphol, all planes park at the tube. I've been to other countries where they don't have a tube at all, and there we left the plane by a stair and walked across the tarmac to the (usually very small) arrivals building.
ARM has lots of manufacturers licensing the basic design.
No, there are also non-computable numbers that are imaginary, complex, or transfinite.
Do you just mean that a popular open architecture will lead to more competition and variation in implementations, which will require more work by kernel developers versus just having a much smaller number of closed-design CPUs?
You labelled both TPR and TNR as "specificity".
True positive rate should be sensitivity.
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Solving arbitrary problems from a standing start, or Real World Engineering [pdf]
What the hell? What if the clothes where a gift. Also what if they bought them from thrift store. I have seen many times fancy designers clothes at thrift stores for pennies on the dollars. People keeping up with latest trends usually get rid of the ton clothes they buy some how.

Rolex's I could understand that a little more. However, still owning a Rolex is not a crime... Complete and utter crud.
Can't wait for Doom 3 to become reality. Amazing how quickly we're catching up with science fiction.
Excellent observation.

I realized this about myself a year or so back... I'd collected a lot of guitars, some reasonably rare, but most of them weren't getting played, and were sitting in their cases or on the wall. Given the amount of free time I have, there's no way I can really play a dozen guitars.

I'd turned into a collector rather than a guitar player. So I'm in the process of selling most of them, leaving me with one of each type - 6 and 12-string acoustic, National resonator, a lap steel and an acoustic bass. And the weird thing is that I'm playing more and thinking about the music more and the 'stuff' less.

I have a strange relationship with recorded music. I find I know stuff off by heart after 3 or 4 listens, and it lasts in memory. I can replay tracks in my head, separate out the separate instrumental parts... I could sing you the bass lines to any tune from 'Heavy Weather', even though I haven't listened to it for years. And this remembered music plays pretty continuously on my internal player, whether I want it to or not - anyone else find that?

There are a few tunes/songs that are in some way 'perfect'... I can listen to them endlessly and they have a physical effect, but they are few and far between.
Ah, the Knuthian approach. Why not go more than all the way and design an architecture too?
>often superior

This is a little hyperbolic. There have been occasional superior alternatives but "often" is kinda silly. By and large, the best products won - and that is despite accepting that Intel acted in anti-competitive ways in the past (Cyrix et al).
As /u/lukevdp said the article is correct. Part of my job involves pricing our products and working out rebates when we use 3rd party agents for example. It's surprising how many people struggle with understanding this isn't as simple as they think.

For example if an agent wants a 10% rebate we need to calculate the markup from our standard selling price to accommodate this. If we sell a product for £100 then we'd need to invoice it for £111.11 because 10% of that brings our real selling price back to £100.

If we mark it up by 10% we'd invoice out at £110, the 10% rebate to the agent would be £11 and we'd have sold for only £99.

Comprehending that you don't use the same percentage up and back down is too much for most people here. They eventually get to understand that they can't do it that way, but actually doing it correctly is a dark art.
Linux proper, ie the kernel, allows things like modules and has a powerful userspace. Most purposes are met by taking vanilla Linux and dropping some modules and userspace applications on it. You don't have to do a hard fork of the code.

But if you're talking about distros (or some vauge distro-like prepackaged blob of Linux + userspace), it does happen. There are a lot of specialized Linux distros out there, and they aren't all on long-term support with security backporting.
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Modern nuclear power plants are relatively safe. However, there is not enough data to determine how safe nuclear power is in general, because you have to take into account the whole production cycle including all long-term storage of nuclear waste.

Half life time of nuclear waste ranges from 30 years to 24,000 years, so it's possible that hundreds of people die in 30,000 years from now by being exposed to nuclear waste from our time.
Is not ARM open (but you need a license to build it) ? There are several ARM variants (Qualcomm, Samsung, even Apple) even today.
Given US bans on online gambling, it's already been a market for crypto.
Interesting points.

Most popular alternatives to Wikipedia, commercial and non-commercial, work with ownership of articles, or a stricter editorial policy. [1] This includes Scholarpedia, Citizendium, Conservapedia. It comes at the cost of volume and recency. In a sense, Wikipedia deals with all the advantages and disadvantages of modern, free democracy.

An aspect that the article seems to miss is the different demographics of Wikipedia and GitHub. (There are a lot fewer high-schoolers vandalizing GitHub repositories out of boredom.) The drawback of GitHub is not just that pull-requests must be accepted by authorized users, but also the bureaucracy of learning version control. Compared to Wikipedia, anyone with domain knowledge can hit "Edit" and add their bit.

I would rather like to see a synthesis of StackOverflow's point system, so the quality of your contributions grants you privileges for certain sections of the site, applied to wiki articles.

Another difference for comparison between GitHub/StackOverflow and Wikipedia is that you have ownership of your contributions. I occasionally go back and revise the most popular StackOverflow answers I've made for posterity. It's been years since I last made a change to one of my Wikipedia contributions. The last I remember was that someone had restructured a part of an article I'd written from scratch and added wrong information.

[1]: http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/top-7-alternatives-to-wikipedia/
>I don't see this as evidence that economists => inequality. Even if we accept the notion that economists are directly responsible for growing inequality, it's worth remembering that there are disagreements within their ranks.

It's not "economists => inequality" it's neoliberal economists (almost all of them today) => inequality"
CES sucked this year
I'm not sure I am convinced by this argument. You say it "only adds to the cost of the mission" as if that wasn't an issue, but unfortunately our resources are finite. If we increase the cost of any given mission that means we cannot do other missions. There is always a trade-off here, and I am not sure if the advantages of solar would be worth the cost of holding back research that much.

You could easily make the opposite argument - solar power is an easy way out of making nuclear power safe enough to go up into space. Having to use nuclear power for missions might do a lot of good in terms of researching and perfecting safe nuclear power.
Nokia signs its first official 5G equipment deal with NTT DoCoMo
Bitcoin use under scrutiny in Indonesian island of Bali
I was thinking more of people sitting outside bars and restaurants blocking the sidewalk, as often happens in the center of Amsterdam.
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat: Have your own Slack like online chat, built with Meteor
This does happen in Linux till some extent. Look at wayland for example. Broken on nvidia hardware because nvidia favors its own implementation.

The reason why this does not happen with Linux kernel is because Redhat and Canonical go to great lengths to backport kernel patches, which by proxy affect all the distos based on them. Also because Linux desktop is not big enough for OEM's of the majority of PC users to care about.

Android is a flavour of linux that went big. The fact that OEM's can clone the kernel and put their own drivers into it without being forced to update is what causes the most grief in Android world.
Last decade I'm not so sure. I bought the very first readily available consumer quad core CPU a decade ago (the Q6600), two years ago I upgraded and I had to pay a huge premium because I wanted more than four (I got six!) cores. And that is just starting to change today.

Not that core count is everything but consumer desktop CPUs have stagnated quite a bit. Here's to hoping AMD stirs it up a bit.
This Chatroom Only Opens When Your Phone’s About to Die – Motherboard
A blockchain can only process its own data, no external api call allowed. Unfortunately a lot of interesting applications require access to external data. Thats what oracle are for. They import external data into the blockchains, embedded in transactions. Yes it does undermine the security model of the blockchain, but they are some work arounds. For example, you can have several oracles, and you can decided to only accept data that was provided by a majority of oracles, thus rejecting outliers.
The worst part is it's a beautiful but poorly-made game. Even their biggest fans hate what they've done.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/7raulk/bungie_has_ab...

https://www.pcgamesn.com/destiny-2/destiny-2-reboot-jason-sc...

What good is employing 800 people and spending 100 million a year to develop a bad final product? If you want to know where the tech industry can be attacked, it's in that massive inefficiency.
Where Netflix goes, Big Tech may follow
Friday briefing: 2017 was the hottest non-El Niño year on record UK
How China's Stifling Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Open plan offices make employees miserable and distracted – Metro News
Is that a nice way of saying "we need to figure out how much money we can get from them"?
I'm paying for their Espresso app and to me it's worth it. A way to keep tabs without being bombarded with a ton of unrelated news articles.
Why don't you just open an empty repo, and start accepting pull requests. See what happens.
Graphene scaffold could solve lithium battery problems
We're entering a post-plastic world and seaweed will replace oil UK
How can we kill facetime culture once and for all?
Can you link to that library?
I would like to challenge this assertion. If "good programmers" are replaceable, and "great programmers" are not, then keeping one "great programmer" and rotating the "good programmers" may be a wise business decision.

YMMV what "great" and "good" means, or how disposable "good programmers" are, but I don't think the assertion is categorically true.
"...annoyance at the legalistic (and typically white male) Wikipedian."

How are skin color and gender relevant to the article or the point being made?
Wikipedia is like blockchain; sure you can fork it but the value is in the fact that there is one Wikipedia. That makes a lot of the problems worse.
I would love to play with a RISC-V unit. But like one they linked too it was limited on memory and very expensive compared to other modern Aurdino compatible boards.
Wikibattle – 1v1 races through Wikipedia article links
Is editing Wikipedia easy? Although I'll agree it's a lot easier than pushing to GitHub, it's still way beyond the skills of the average Wikipedia reader. Click Edit on any article. It's a mess of opaque syntax, presented in a textbox. Above the textbox are two different warning paragraphs, one because I'm not logged in and another warning against copyright. Any casual user who clicked Edit out of a genuine desire to improve the article would probably just click away.

I would say the ease of editing needs to be much better than GitHub or current Wikipedia. A decent, WYSIWYG editor (with a Markdown mode, don't panic) with tools to make adding citations etc. possible for mortal users.
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If you're taking that kind of thing into account you need to take the same time range into account in other power sources.

How many hundreds of billions of people will die over the next 30000 years from coal effects? How does that compare to your 'hundreds'?
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you trust the VPN... TOR exit nodes should be considered adversaries trying to spy on you. They probably are :)
Funny no one mentions Google, all this is done purely for the SEO juice. We've heard it for years, links don't matter that much these days.. but in fact they do matter.

Imho Google needs to fix this, not the content farms that Google thinks are "trusted" news sources.
Wat is zoethout en wat doet het met je gezondheid en gewicht and Recept
This is just perpetrating renewable hoax to a higher level. Primary energy source for Mars can't be solar - it's not reliable (batteries, dust storms, atmospheric events). Nuclear offers unmatched reliability.
How Parents and Families Are Using GPS for Saving Time and Stronger Security
It read like low hanging identity politics fruit. I stopped reading after that statement.
Github has an Edit button, too. It will automatically fork the repo, make a commit, and then create a pull-request. Very handy.
We already have some. I know the Arduino CPU is open source (slow) and there are open source MIPS CPUs but again they are slower than ARM and X86 CPUs.

The problem is people don't want slow CPUs.
There's an option to pay for GSuite, which gets you access to most Google products, but I'm not sure about it's privacy policies.
Thank you sir, the world deserve more party parrots !
with open you could have mainboard with one single chip and you then pop in a SOC that matches the IO you have.

open also means making the software that creates the chips design open too, otherwise you'll just get leapfrogged by closed designs.

This could overcome being a few generations behind on fab tech, just have the exact silicon you need.

you could also design open mainboard design with multiple zif sockets, this would be very flexible, and maybe futureproof.
Amazon has become an extremely unpleasant place to shop in the past two years. The proliferation of garbage sellers makes it hard to find anything.

It used to be that you could avoid most of them by just ignoring anything with less than 10 reviews, but with Amazon's latest change to factor in number of reviews for their "sort by average review" list has let the genie out of the bottle. Now you'll see literally THOUSANDS of 5-star reviews on their garbage, completely drowning out the real stuff :/

It's to the point now where I'll only purchase known brand-name items from the manufacturer, and hope to god it's not a scammer using their name, or some typosquatter, or their supply chain hasn't been polluted by counterfeits.

And it's only getting worse. Now I try to buy direct from individual websites like it's 1999.
> I know the Arduino CPU is open source

It's not. The board layout of the Arduino boards is open-source, as is the software around them, but the microcontroller on them is not.
We've entered a new age of racism and sexism, where as long as whatever group you're targeting is perceived to be 'privileged', it's okay to be hateful and divisive.

IMO there's a simple rule of thumb. If you can't replace 'white male' with some other group without the statement becoming incredibly offensive to you, you probably shouldn't say it. E.g., I sincerely doubt the author would be okay with saying "(and typically female)" or "(and typically black)" in nearly any context, so I fail to see why he/she feels this is okay.
> While I generally agree with that sentiment, Rust's compiler is so hard to please that a lot of C/C++ developers find it hard to do it. I think for a beginner it's even harder.

I think it's hard for those who carry "mindset-baggage" from C/C++. My first attempt at Rust was a failure mostly because I thought it was sort of a "weird C/C++".
It could be argued that the “pull” from top companies will entice members of underrepresented groups to get into tech on the college level.

It is also not necessarily the case that picking 50:50 out of a 75:25 distribution will lead to a competence imbalance. Even if the skill distribution is the same for both populations, maybe only certain baselines matter for doing good work, and maybe any skill gaps could be corrected via on-the-job training. Maybe having that kind of diversity is worth the extra effort for the company.
effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov does good comparative analysis
This actually happened in the past. A Russian radar satellite failed to eject its nuclear reactor to a safe parking orbit and fell in Canada instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954