skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make that argument about other services the government provides. It's like saying "Security is a commodity. People who can't afford security guards and private investigators have no right to demand protection from criminals or investigations into their house being burglarized. A poor person's necessity does not change the fact that policing is a service and a good provided by a third party."

We are aware that the current healthcare system treats it as a commodity for those who can afford it. The argument being made is that this is a problem and that we would do better to treat it a public service provided for those who need it.
Two types of bacteria, Bacteroides fragilis and a strain of E. coli, can pierce a mucus shield that lines the colon and normally blocks invaders from entering

The above text in the article contains a link to an abstract. The abstract does not talk about piercing the mucus lining. It talks about biofilm.

Biofilm is essentially a large colony of bacteria, so large it begins terraforming the body in order to create conditions conducive to self preservation. I have seen a number of articles over the years on how to successfully break up biofilm and thereby reverse antibiotic resistance. They generally boil down to finding some means to make the environment less acidic. There is generally a strong correlation between inflammation, acidity and infection.

This is probably not a simple relationship. The terraforming activities of biofilm suggests bacteria will foster acidity to promote inflammation etc. So the relationship is interactive. It is not as simple as "acidity causes antibiotic resistance".

I don't have these studies at my fingertips. I have no plans to try to dig them up. I am leaving the comment so that other people can look into that if they are interested.

I wasn't reading this stuff in order to support debate points in an online forum. I have a genetic disorder that predisposes me to developing antibiotic resistant infections and I was trying to suffer less.

So, you can take this comment as testimony that these studies exist and may have bearing on the topic of discussion here.

But I am not going to debate this with people who are inevitably monstrously disrespectful towards me and who act like the last 17 years of my life did not happen because I can't link you to a study. The reality is they don't get any less monstrously disrespectful when I do link to studies and supporting articles and explain my thinking etc. So I don't plan to play that game today.

TLDR: If you are interested, you might go looking up studies on how to break up biofilm. They do exist and they contain potentially useful clues to how to stop this kind of colonization of the gut by hostile invaders.
> It seems you need to keep all the CSS quirks in your head to be productive.

Bootstrap does away with a lot of them.
You're saying this like the tech companies aren't actually doing these things. Like they're somehow misunderstood; that they're not really eroding worker protections or anything like that.
Main discussion here (216 points, 145 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16281986
> At least in US you get the medical treatment first and then they hand you a large bill to pay.

A large bill which, if you're uninsured, you can almost always negotiate down to 10% or less of the original.

Of course, most people don't know this, but those large bills aren't what the hospitals expect uninsured patients to pay. They just legally have to present them the same initial bill that they present private insurers.
I agree and following that reasoning a 50% upward trend should be very alarming because it screams manipulation.

When an event like that occurs you should very much expect a correction, and when that correction occurs it should be expected and not a surprise.

What baffles me is that everyone involved in BTC accepted the 50% upward fluctuation. When the obvious correction occurred they were all surprised and started saying just what you did, that currencies aren't suppose to fluctuate by 50% in a month.

How didn't you see this coming and why do you still consider BTC a currency in light of this event?
That's the same huge corporation that produced Windows Vista and Windows 8, and assorted Windows Phone disasters. I think they've exhausted reasonable benefit of the doubt when it comes to how they make and market Windows.
The Walter White character continue to make meth even after completing the treatment for cancer. I'm sure the writers could have come up with some other monetary reason for a HS Chemistry teacher to start cooking.
Watergate: illegal spying on political opponents by one man and his associates (Nixon)

This Memo: illegal spying on political opponents by the entire deep state, involving the DNC, Clinton campaign, FBI and DOJ
> Medical care is a commodity

No, it's a right.

> No matter how much some starving kid needs food, he doesn’t have a right to steal someone’s wallet or hold up the local convenience store to obtain it.

Everyone has the right to life. I cannot imagine how callous one must be to willingly deprive fellow human beings of that right, purely because it is not how the economic system works. If we have the resources to provide healthcare to everyone, then we should. No matter what the cost.

Repeat after me: Property is worth less than people.

""This means that nobody - including the government - can try to end your life. It also means the government should take appropriate measures to safeguard life by making laws to protect you and, in some circumstances, by taking steps to protect you if your life is at risk. Public authorities should also consider your right to life when making decisions that might put you in danger or that affect your life expectancy.""

In the UK, Sweden, Norway, and many other civilized countries, everyone pays into a public pot that is used to provide medical care. Because of this, our workers are much more healthy, and much more able to work without the stress of "what if I get injured during work". They do not have to die of preventable diseases like septicemia, from something silly like duct taping their glass cut because they cannot afford to be treated.
This doesn't seem like an accurate assessment:

"He finds that codetermination laws are negatively associated with productivity, but profit sharing, worker ownership, and worker participation in decision making are all positively associated with productivity."
---http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/Coop...

"The positive effects are found most uniformly with respect to profit sharing and, to a slightly lesser extent, individual capital (share) ownership and participation in decision-making by workers."
---https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0147596787...
You have to double-click and pressing ⌘ gives no visual feedback. That explains why I didn’t find it before. Thank you for the tip.
You are correct, but i feel a decent society cares about its citizens.

Personally, i'm very happy to live in a country where we care about our citizens, and where we have voted for supporting those in need of food or healthcare.
That would be true if those high prices were actual price of 'parts' and service fee. But if the same procedure is few times cheaper in EU...
I travel a lot (~150 flights some years) and find that the disadvantages of booking through a travel agent usually outweigh the benefit for business travel.

You usually end up on tickets with very restrictive conditions which cannot be modified other than via the travel agent themselves, often for more money than a less restrictive ticket could be bought directly with the airline. If you are many time zones away and can forsee irregular operations there is no way to pre-empt them until the agency has staff available. In addition, many loyalty programmes (particularly for hotels) do not allow you to accrue or make use of benefits if booked via a third party.

That said, for vacations with a lot of co-ordination involved (think family trips with people coming from different origin points, different dates etc) a travel agent can be useful and worth accepting the more restrictive nature of what can be booked.
If sources and informants had to meet the same standard as FBI officers, we wouldn't have very many sources or informants. There's an expectation that people outside law enforcement aren't going to meet the standards of law enforcement.

That said, I'm not an expert in these matters, and I'm looking forward to the rebuttal memo to see what the other viewpoint is.
It will probably just get produced in China or Iceland or someplace. Putin must be already dedicating super computing time. Can't wait for the next election cycle.
Because you are blaming the victim. The cost of rattlesnake antivenom is not 150k. So being able to charge that means something is broken in the chain of supply.
The experimental treatment issue is more regarding how govt organizations like the FDA handle experimental protocols.

One should be able to waive most of the red tape surrounding an untreatable illness to an established body, like a medical teaching university or similar. And in many cases, this could result in the worsening or death of the patient. Yet, this kind of protocol is definitely frowned upon. Unfortunately because of how hamfisted the FDA is, I would dare-say that more people die from not having access to experimental treatments. Instead, you have to go to $somewhere_else to get the requisite treatment.

Some sources show that this is likely true, but would need further study. http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php
Yup! Even with LTE average-case latency of around 100ms (and easily double that for 4G/3G-only areas), worst case latencies are easily measured in _seconds_. According to Google, driver reaction times are measured in the range 0.7..3.0 seconds. Now add to that the bandwidth requirements for at least high quality front/back video and instrumentation.

I doubt anyone is mad enough to think in the general case remotely piloting a vehicle in a safety-critical scenario using these consumer networks is an even remotely sane option
...assuming total failure by the supervisor to account for these things. Which can happen anyway. I don't see it changing the game, at least not for that reason.
I can try to speculate.

Steering and speed control could be done with simple PID control. You'd have to get more sophisticated for maintaining position, but you could maintain and control position using traditional control systems. When you're using sensors you determine where you are relative to other objects and that's still within this realm.

However when certain classes of object can be expected to change position without observable indication it's hard to make a control system accurately predict that. There's no way to predict the future directly from what the car can see in all cases.

I would imagine that classifying objects and predicting which objects are likely to start moving is in the realm of ml/ai. I don't think anyone can formalize rules on that aspect of driving.
> they would oppose that heavily.

Who is 'they'?
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The problem is, those people need to have jobs.
All treatments are experimental, at the beginning. Very frustrating.
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I had an obvious lesion with a head, which the doctor swabbed. Though I did have to go to a second doctor - the first thought it was a less serious infection.
"No matter how much some starving kid needs food, he doesn’t have a right to steal someone’s wallet or hold up the local convenience store to obtain it."

There is something fundamentally wrong with a state that prioritizes punishing hungry people over not having hungry people in the first place.
what about hours, like a pilot?
> If I were in that position, maybe I’d end up choosing to steal since it’s the least immoral choice under the circumstances, but that does not make it a moral choice,

Or you know, maybe the fact that you recognize that in this situation you would be left with only immoral choices, is a sign of broken system?
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Inserting into a non-static hash table is measured per-element so the blog is also saying O(1) per element, which is linear time.
This is the current official message:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c...

We plan to revise and update this as soon as we have plans in place.
> Yup, cancer treatment in the UK in particular is incredibly appalling. Compared to the US, patients have very little control over their treatment options, and it's very easy to get the NHS to refuse to cover your treatment because you haven't followed the one of the treatment plans they determine for your case.

Please can you provide any kind of sources for this?
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> poor countries

It happened to a friend of mine who was hiking in Canada a year or two ago. Her son cut a big gash in his foot and they couldn't get online, so I had to call around to find an emergency room they could go to. The local emergency room basically said in lieu of proof of (internationally-accepted) insurance they would need $800 up front if he wanted to be seen. I think they wrapped a towel around it and drove back to the US.
A dozen paragraphs in, still no sign of what the title claims, only storytelling about the author's life.

Can anyone that read it summarize or copy the actual "birds are evolving to be fed" part?
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Im pretty sure pharma is one of them. The US consumes more meds than any other country per capita, its insane. It has an aderall and opium epidemic. Pharma can pay for 30-1m ads constantly on TV: the margins have to be ridicolous to market drugs that require prescriptions to patients.

"Ask your doctor to prescribe you this"? what the hell.
To who?

This is an academic article, making that assumption would be negligent.
I mean... Come on. We shouldn't be comparing the US to "poor countries"... How are those other rich countries doing?
As it is, "those of you who don't want anything to do with Windows 10" will need to either get over it or switch to another platform.

We already did, for multiple businesses. We bought a few last Windows 7 machines while you could, and since then we're on other OSes as needs dictate. Contrary to popular opinion, the sky has not fallen, and it turns out that which OS you run your browser and web apps on doesn't really matter, and that there are some areas where the software you can use on other platforms is already better than what you get on a typical Windows deployment.

Windows 7 only has a couple years left.

Until what? Until it stops getting security updates from Microsoft, maybe. It will carry on running just fine beyond that point, though.
I loved this book! I think any software engineer would enjoy it.
Insane. Smashing your head into the helmet of a 300lb person for thousands of hours causes issues?

/apologies for reddit style
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What is an NFL diet? And why would one stay on it after you're done the intense training?

If you're a professional athlete, odds are you know a fair amount about (sports) nutrition, and you've spent much of your life in some kind of gym.

Given the severity of the brain related symptoms described here, I don't think these are on par at all.
Reminds me of the recent finding that the Amazon River basin was much more cultivated in the ancient past than was thought:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-...
I would like to know the percentage of female founders that tried to get VC dollars before condemning VCs.

Its probably pretty bad, but if the field is 4% female founders and 96% male then I'm more curious how to increase female founders.
I'll reply rather than just downvoting.

There's no such thing as "stealing" or "property" as a natural phenomenon. It's a social construct. We have collectively decided that it's important that if people have things in their possession, they shouldn't have them taken away. We have made property into a real thing by constructing a judicial system.

We have also decided as a society (to a greater or lesser extent) that people have a right to some kind of food. We have made this right to food real by constructing a social security system.

If someone takes possession of your car do you have the right to demand it back? Society says you do, and you do it by asking the state to help and resolve the judicial issue.

If someone is going to starve to death, do they have the right to demand food? Society says you do, and you do it by asking the state to help with food / benefits.
Phantom Auto, mentioned in the article, demoed their RC cars in CES last month, and they were ferrying journalists around using a driver 500 miles away. Latency isn't as much of an issue as one might think, but to maintain network reliability phantom uses 5 different networks simultaneously.

Waymo and Cruise (GM) are both building out call centres with agents that have some sort of remote control over the car.

Both Waymo and GM have emergency stop buttons connected to an air gapped computer that can take the vehicle to a minimum viable risk condition (which basically means pulling over to the side of the road) for security.
In addition, humans tend to push the limits so even if we have autonomous cars that can handle current human driver behavior, the humans will adapt and put more pressure on the autonomous cars.
I was an active contributor to a number of popular open-source projects and a maintainer of a couple of my own. Nobody cares TBH unless the position you're applying for requires that particular project you've worked on. And even then some companies don't bother to answer. HN's "Who is hiring" has the lowest reply ratio BTW.
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So, what I've learned from this nothingburger is that Devin Nunes (and, presumably, he Trump White House, who he's been fairly openly acting as a shield for from day one) is really, really worried about the Carter Page piece of the investigation.

I don't see this release doing all that much politically other than raising the stakes; even assuming people miss that it's political spin, there's no new smoking gun even alleged here that is likely to change minds. I suppose it might shore up support among people whose reflexive support for Trump competes with reflexive support for law enforcwment, which is politically significant if the concern is the collapse of support in the Republican base, but I don't see it having resonance beyond that.
This highly corroborates Charles C Mann's book 1491: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the...

From wikipedia: The book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought.
I totally agree that SpO2 is the obvious first choice to prove out this system, and I think it's a great idea in general. It's easy to measure, and provides useful physiological information (particularly as trend data). I was just quibbling with "immediately".

I agree with HorizonXP that it would be fascinating to learn more about this system (and F1 safety in general) from someone with a lot of first hand knowledge. Thanks for stopping by and adding to the discussion!
There is no "Backend Software Engineer" position on the page you linked.
Why is this 99% about Steele and not the FISA warrant it set out to talk about? This memo does not make sense to me.

Edit: Trump not renewing sanctions against Russian individuals is a simpler, more importantly novel, and more easily understandable item to digest. The debunking of Steele is nothing new.
As you said, more hits and blows draw more viewers. Ad sales increase. Until violence becomes less popular, I'm not convinced that companies will start pulling their ads.
I'm in compete agreement with you regarding moving people through different roles. This is actually what I've requested and now have varying duties on my different shifts, it makes the work much more enjoyable to me. With that being said I personally probably wouldn't enjoy being moved to different roles throughout one shift on a regular basis. I've had that happen to me before when we were short on staff and it can be more stressful.
If you really want to, you can find a way to dance even to "Take five", so in not sure what they could try to achieve.
Even for a decade old computer 9.6k feels surprisingly low, considering that we were pushing 56k on softmodems far earlier.
If you're drunk driving and god-willing kill only yourself, who would argue that it's not OK to say, "Bad decision for drunk driving."

Just because someone was injured or killed does not mean they are a victim.
How does a nation support this kind of tax? And yes, I mean tax because it's essentially an unavoidable redistribution of wealth (where not paying means death penalty) from the poor and sick to the rich. The worst kind of tax. I don't see how that is worse than getting "robbed" of your well earned money to pay for far cheaper universal healthcare.

What's the chance you're going to get one (or several) expensive surgeries done on you in your lifetime? (Where expensive is something as simple as an appendectomy.) Close to 100%? Now add regular medical expenses.

As a total outsider to US economic status: what's the median wage in the US and how expensive is private healthcare compared to it? Also: can you get kicked out of medical insurance if you're deemed too costly for their business?

Yes, I understand the US is probably the best place in the world to get the best medical care... if you can afford it.
Windows 7 is supported until 2020 for security updates, which is the main thing that matters.

And given that Windows 10 only just overtook Windows 7 in popularity according to reports this week, the idea that Windows 7 is some sort of legacy system just doesn't fly, no matter how much Microsoft might wish it so. They made a turkey with Windows 8. They made a turkey with most editions of Windows 10. There is a reason so many of us have been holding out on 7 and/or switching platforms over the past few years, and the reason is simply that more recent Windows releases haven't been attractive enough to use them instead.
>Why don't people honestly follow where the money end up and actually solve the problem once and for all. Increase the supply of X or many other bottlenecks by deregulation and result in decreased price?

Those are very good questions. Unfortunately the people and groups the money can be followed to have a very strong monetary incentive to not change things