skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who might be interested to see the discussion by the HN on this article, it's been submitted and discussed before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16287171 (23 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267363 (12 comments)

There are other submissions without comments, showing that the article is of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16279656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265302
Looks like he clearly didn't believe that was worthy of paying the taxes he would be paying.
It's both. But there are also laws that limit an insurer's ability to push back. For example, ALL out-of-network emergency services must be covered, including all follow-up work that occurs as part of being admitted due to an emergency.

Out of network means the insurer and provider have not previously negotiated a rate. And emergency services are among the most expensive bills out there.
> I have no idea what it costs.

£124bn ($175bn) give or take a few pounds. That does of course include some other people's health care too ! ;)
> (Of course, most designers won’t have the chance to ask their users whether or not they want to be tricked, so they have to make that call on their own.)

It’s a well-documented fact of user experience that asking users what they want is often the least accurate way to uncover that information.
Middleboxes are machines somewhere along the path (when you're sending to a particular destination) that drop, filter, bandwidth shape, or otherwise edit your traffic. Basically anything besides packet forwarding.
YC companies get preferred treatment (guaranteed to be on the frontpage for a while), you should contact the moderators (link in footer). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> They could also limit the amount of zone that teams are allowed to play

How would that even work?
I'm not clear about what the problem is. I was under the impression several large IT companies have bug bounty programs; is this not the case?
But you said there's no point in being frugal if you are paying significant corporate tax. If you have a heavy tax burden surely it is important to allocate your remaining resources frugally?

I'm saying option a is better than option c) spend wastefully because you pay high taxes.

Your comment seemed to advocate for this third option.

I now understand your meaning to be "paying high taxes is not frugal" which I disagree with for other reasons. Specifically paying unnecessary taxes would not be frugal but a company can still be frugal and pay high tax rates. To put it another way I do not believe tax avoidance is a frugal necessity.
Switzerland does however have government set drug and procedure prices even if private insurance companies manage the billing. They are also one of the more expensive of the developed universal healthcare nations - though still significantly more efficient than the US system.
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Keep in mind that vega/plant based diets are purely political diets. I mean if you want to do them, that's fine, but there's not a huge health aspect.

A lot of studies are showing the largest factor in heart disease and obesity is not fat, but carbohydrates (specifically starches and sugars, not dietary fiber or sugar alcohols).

A lot of people today still think Adkins died of heart disease because of a (later rededicated) Reuters article with bad information (he was old, slipped on a piece of ice and bused his skull). I wonder had the Adkins diet movement not died off, if we'd see a significant reduction in obesity today.

It might be difficult to eat vegan, but it's much more difficult to eat low carb. Look carefully at everything in your pantry.
Nope, but it does mean that your insurer will not be covering you for your lost gold bullion because there are limitations in place.

The option for the credit card issuers is to:

a) stop offering chargebacks for crypto purchases

b) stop allowing crypto purchases

They opted for 'b' because it's easier.
It's exactly this limit that eventually leads engineering teams at your Dropboxes, Facebooks, Twitters, Tumblrs

True, but those are such extreme edge cases. 99.9999% of projects will never see that kind of demand for scale and speed. Facebook shouldn't switch to Ruby, but that doesn't inform whether Ruby would be viable for many (most) projects.
Anything on the path between the endpoints that looks at layers above IP. Obvious examples are NATs, firewalls, transparent proxies, traffic normalizers, so-called protocol accelerators. Some boxes I've no idea what they do. Take a look at our paper in reference [0] above, which probes what they actually do to traffic.
I disagree. There's a difference between a progress bar that could just be a spinner or no progress bar at all because it's fake. And a progress bar that attempts to communicate real progress.
Looks good! One feature that would definitely get me using this for personal projects is the ability to add/customise axis. You might already have this, but I didn't see it in any of your examples, so if this is present, please advertise it!

My general reaction when seeing a chart without axis is "pretty, but I can't see what it means", where as with decent labelled axis I can dig into it and look at data points, and come to my own conclusions about the data.

Still, this is a useful service that could make life much easier - keep at it!
Really? Waymo went from driving exclusively in Mountain View, CA to driving across a number of cities in the US: Atlanta, SF, Detroit, Phoenix, & Kirkland [1]. The diversity in cities would easily add to the challenge!

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16948356/waymo-google-fia...
I've been leaning heavier on a plant based diet and generally eating lower on the food chain. For me the main advantages are environmental and ethical, both of which should be had with lab meat.
And its not totally trivial to reorder UDP. Say you receive packets 1,2,3,5. How long to you wait for '4'? Maybe it was dropped; maybe its coming.

Then you get 6,7. Is 4 still out there? You've got 3 packets in your pocket, waiting for 4. That adds up too.

TCP gives you some idea of what packets you SHOULD have received, so you can respond better. UDP doesn't have any windowing etc so you have no idea.
Race cars are always heavily modified (compared to the road going versions). They must have upgraded the cooling system to allow for sustained high loads.
So there's a dead comment pointing out the cartoonish predictably of Wolfram's self-promotion which yeah that's definitely in the article--which includes at least two extended talks about cellular automata for example followed by short dismissals of them for the purpose-- however having hate-read a lot of Wolfram's articles: this one actually grapples with the topic where most of his articles are simply "Mathematica is the solution".
I am unable to locate a source, but I recall a quote by an NFL official that all it would take is for 10% of the parents to believe football is dangerous to kill the sport. Moving to flag football would confirm this notion, setting aside the idea that flag football will probably not have the spectator draw that the current football has.
I found out about this thing a while ago from Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDrBIKOR01c

That video is still one of my all-time YouTube favorites.
Is this the first step toward restoring fax functionality to OSX?

I wanted to add a faxmodem to my Mac a couple of years ago and everything I read on the internet said that telephone modems of any kind are no longer supported on OSX.
> other high-risk purchases that are routinely blocked on credit cards

Normally the blocking is applied to merchants, rather than visible to the customers, but yes. Ironically this kind of thing used to be cited as a reason for bitcoin adoption.
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Hippocratic oath generally does not prevent arbitrary reasons (including payment) for refusing to take on a patient in most versions (I'm aware that some places, including some medical teaching institutions have it vice versa) including the earliest surviving original one. Hippocrates and his students would not treat everyone or require the students to treat everyone, the oath describes the ethical boundaries of the 'implied contract' between a doctor and their patient - and becoming a doctor's patient even back then was conditional on doctor choosing to treat you, most likely (but not necessarily) based on your agreement.

Neither classic Hippocratic oath nor the commonly used Declaration of Geneva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Geneva) would go against a doctor saying "the recommended procedure to cure your ailment costs one million dollars; I'll be treating you if and only if you pay that", assuming that the treatment honestly is the best option health-wise. What the oath could prohibit is the recommendation of a treatment that's objectively worse (i.e. less effective, or more likely to have harmful or fatal complications) but is much cheaper; while a person can choose (or be recommended) bread, wine or car that's worse but cheap, the ethics frown upon recommending worse health outcomes.
Perhaps I phrased it wrong -- I believe, if you are a person who is extremely frugal, you will also automatically want to reduce your tax liability. Because at the end of the day the result is the same: an expense means money leaves the business, taxes mean that money leaves the business.

It's not necessary.. but probably a personally trait of frugal people. You reduce expenses.

You're absolutely right however that high taxes tend to incentivise reinvestment (so you can tax deduct). But too high taxes also deter entrepreneurship to some extent, because past a certain point a lot of people will feel they're working more for the state than for themselves.
When I say subsidized, I mean informally. Commercial insurance pays much more than the cost of procedures and that makes up for the fact that Medicare sometimes pays less than the cost of the procedure.

In other words, if you were a doctor and you only took Medicare patients, there is a chance that you'd actually be losing money year over year. Of course, it depends on exactly what the doctor is doing as Medicare is more generous with some procedures than others.
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Engineering says "This is a bad idea". Management says "We want this regardless."

The problem is not that the engineers didn't convey what they wanted to say clearly, it's that management did not want to listen.
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I am a vegetarian, just wanted to share my impressions about HN's reaction to plant based diet suggestions :)
a) is illegal in most jurisdictions because of the way credit law works; the card companies can't collect on a debt to them for a product or service that wasn't delivered.

(I suppose they could eat the cost themselves, but I can't see that happening)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274811
5 months of /r/place at my elementary school (One pixel per student per day)
Already discussed two days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274811
I once ate 10 mg LSD by accident. It was a dilution error. The peak lasted ~10 hr. At some point, I saw the top of my head. But hey, maybe it was just an hallucination ;)
At the same time, we'd also be proponents of shutting down the connection of someone infected with a virus that is flooding the network with traffic. This would fall under the same thing, if the banks are running into a lot of problems with CC transactions to buy crypto.

Also, what the IRS says about cryptocurrency for tax purposes has no bearing on the discussion at hand.
Comprehensive US cell phone safety study inches toward publication
I don't like bringing politics into HN, but I like this quote:
"IBM Watson is the Donald Trump of the AI industry—outlandish claims that aren’t backed by credible data."
> This is what happens with loan or crime data sets, and it made plenty of noise in the news recently - but only the kind of noise in which people say it's obviously the algorithm that's broken, because it doesn't fit the "polite fiction" they'd like to believe.

The polite fiction would be that it is only the algorithm that's broken when it is actually the country that is broken.
Monday Morning Haskell: Upgraded
Really pleased to hear that. Thanks for this update. Thanks also for CoreOS/Container Linux.
> I wonder had the Adkins diet movement not died off, if we'd see a significant reduction in obesity today.

Atkins was mostly displaced by other low-carb diet fads, so probably not.

> It might be difficult to eat vegan, but it's much more difficult to eat low carb.

Expensive, because cheap stables tend to be carb-heavy, but not actually all that difficult.
Funny, it happens that I actually tried to go to the local urgent care that day, and I was turned away because they couldn't handle an injury that serious.

Even if they did, I made my decision based on which provider I thought was doing to do the best job... I didn't know at the point I made that choice whether I would need those vicodin, so they wouldn't have been part of my decision. And once I was checked in to the SF General Hospital (after two hours of waiting) I was definitely not going to hobble down the street, trying to compare prices on vicodin.

Also my damn leg was broken. It wasn't really the right moment to break out Google Sheets and create an expected value analysis of my various healthcare provider options.

It's nice to say "if only we had more agency, prices would be lower"... but it ignores the fact you still need risk pooling (insurance) unless you expect everyone to keep savings for the worst case scenario. And pretty quickly a risk pool means someone has to decide how much that pool should pay to help treat a particular injury... and you're back to where you started.
Parent didn’t say that. You assumed the converse.
Wow he made it nine whole paragraphs before mentioning cellular automata.
Sure but you can reduce your tax liability to the maximum extent of the law and still pay high tax rates. This is still frugal.

I don't disagree with your second paragraph but I don't see how it relates to frugality.
It's all true and very bad, I agree. My greater point though is that, throughout all time, people live in a society where someone is trying to take advantage/lie/cheat/steal basically they don't care about what is best for you. People need to learn to think independently.

Hell, science still can't agree on if an egg is healthy or not. I eat them because I enjoy them and their are no obvious downsides. If there were some correlation that was known and proved unhealthy I might stop eating them. For example, while big tobacco was doing their thing... people knew their family members smoking were unhealthy, coughing like crazy, getting cancer/sick, so their was some clues in society telling you that you're probably being lied to. I have memories of this as a kid, "Joe died at 55 but, you know, he smoked 2 packs a day" was a valid way of thinking. So the health effects were widely known, just not in a measurable & undisputed scientific way.

The same thing goes for tobacco, NFL, climate change, ... all kinds of stuff. The anecdotal information around you says one thing, but the scientist can't agree and some of them are biased/being paid to say something regardless of truth. Years later the anecdotal information turns out to be true and people claim they were victims when really they could have just exercised some common sense.
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For me, a spinner doesn't say much, because it could just be something like an animated gif, while the app itself is hopelessly out to lunch. Knowing that at least one thread is working in a long running task is calming.
Sounds like they are now going to support it as Open Source at least, even if RH is not interested in it:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c...
Same as Explorer, the file browser. Once you know, it's useful as a timeout meter, i.e. it signals "how long before this device/network location is deemed unreadable".
> Keep in mind that vega/plant based diets are purely political diets.

Huh? What about environmental impact and ethical concerns?

What source do you use for your beliefs on what causes heart disease? What you are saying contradicts the CDC.

https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/behavior.htm

Harvard indicates that low carb high fat has protective effects, but not if you get the fat from meat.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/l...
It was snarky. But there is a dichotomy: It's either stateless or stateful. Either I'm supposed to SSH to it or I'm supposed to destroy and redeploy.
Tangentially related, when implants are placed there is a so called "race to surface" where bacteria try to form a biofilm before the immune system can react properly.

Quote:

After adhering to the surface, the bacterium starts to divide and encapsulate itself for protection against the host organism’s immune response. This layer of protective matrix, mostly consisting out of polysaccharides, also shields the bacteria from effective antibiotic treatment. The first stage of the biofilm formation is complete and subsequently the present bacteria start to form colonies increasing the internal pressure in the biofilm, which starts to expand.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/259382333_Figure-1-A-sch...
When you really start to talk to libertarians, you'll find lots of exceptions. There are concepts like geo-libertarianism (lease land for use in a utilitarian fashion, essentially what countries like Mexico do where you can't own land, but you can get a 99 year lease). Many libertarians will say they support some form of health care, police, fire, etc, etc.

I think there's a lot of cognitive dissonance in the views of many (not all) libertarians, and they don't want to acknowledge China and India are pretty much perfect cases of true or extreme versions of that system (more due to the inability to enforce regulations than lack of regulations themselves).

High standards are only really enforceable through high socialized systems, like those in the US, EU, AU, Singapore, Japan, etc. You need to have national standards to guarantee food safety, water safety (bottled water is less safe than tap water in developed nations with municipal water regulation, and cost way less or is free), minimum standards for health, doctor certifications (vs quacks selling snake oil), et cetera.
Does anyone have more information on the Houston airport case? Because I can imagine how moving the baggage claim further from the gates could result in actual efficiency improvements if it's closer to the exit.
Perhaps, but there isn't enough information in the comment to make it over the line.
Land just isn't as important as it used to be. So I doubt you'd see a strong movement to bring back fee tail. On the other hand, IIRC from law school, several states have arleady abolished the rule against perpetutities and allow for perpetual trusts, so long as the trustees have the freedom to invest the trust res as they see fit. In other words, the trust can't be required to hold on to a specific piece of real property, but it can keep principal out of the hands of heirs and only distribute income essentially forever.
Let's consider the flu. Before you choose your provider you don't even know you have the flu in many cases. You might have a cold, or something much more serious. How is a consumer supposed to make an educated choice about what provider they should take when they don't even know their diagnosis? Simply saying "I'll take the cheaper one" is not an educated buying decision - it just incentivizes providers to provide the lowest quote up front, and maybe the worst service.
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My usage of Amazon increased exponentially since we had twins. As a parent, the 1/2-day free delivery of anything from diapers to wipes to random items like kids cups or books, I can’t even imagine having to go to the store for these things anymore. Especially with one shout to Alexa. It really makes a huge difference in quality of life, when running out even for the smallest errand can be a multiple hour process.
Many games (by common definition) are strictly execution based. For example, most rhythm games (e.g. Osu!, Beatmania, DDR, Guitar Hero, etc) do not have any element of randomness or strategic requirements, yet some people find them very fun.
Could you explain what you mean? I'd like to understand your point of view.
Sorry, but Prime will not be quick too in remote areas like yours.
For seeking more information, the keyword is "tax incidence".

A starter in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
> As If I Didn't Spent Enough Time on College

Given the grammar, no, you haven't spent enough time on college.
Hopefully teams can get enough spare parts to keep cars on the track. It will be a good step for Tesla.
Consider the following: It might not be possible to create a consistent and complete set of logical rules to derive the best outcomes in human affairs.

Think of it as a type of 'incompleteness theorem.'
Not being able to use credit to purchase crypto is a move that protects the banks and the end user... its pretty dangerous trading on barrowed money.
Sure, part of the taxes goes to crap. But a part is spent for things that your local community will benefit from. Your accountant may spend some of the money locally which is great, (mostly necessities - lots will be spent with global companies/online) but it's unlikely any of it would make it to the larger projects which require gov-level coordination.

Giving that money to your accountant on one hand side you avoid funding the military, on the other you avoid funding things like NOAA, NAA, VA, food safety, and many others.
Minesweeper got me into development, my first real project was building a minesweeper clone for Android using web technologies. It only sold 3 copies, but it got me a new job making more than twice as much as I made doing graphic design.

My version is called Swine Peeper, and you're trying to find pigs in a field. It's now free if you're interested:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframe...

I guarantee this is both the most literary, and most pun-filled version of minesweeper available.

To anyone who has just barely gotten their feet wet in programming, building a minesweeper clone is a great next step after something like a text-based blackjack game.

Do yourself a favor, don't look up any of the standard solutions for building it. Try weird things, figure it out. I made several completely different systems for propagating clicks through empty squares before I came up with a simple, reliable, and performant solution. If anyone had given me a hint I would have learned half as much.
Agreed, it's crazy. No interest in a FB wall or whatever, just want to chat to my family. Not a chance.
I haven't said that the origin of the Kensington runestone was Viking, I said that L'Anse aux Meadows which is an undisputed Viking settlement in Newfoundland is proof of Pre-Columbian trans atlantic contact specifically Viking.
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Yes, of course. But only if the law says you have to; that's what legal avoidance is all about.

If you legally find a way to reduce your liability to zero (i.e. like Kamprad did), then you're also being frugal? This obviously might not be entirely ethical, but it's extremely frugal. :)
Prime's two-day delivery to the Vermont/Canada border is just fine.