skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a legitimate question, but again, it's only useful if you're going to make the same comparison with handguns: how many more people would have died without medical attention? Are we comparing the lethality of the injury? The incidence of occurrence? The effectiveness of medical care? These are meaningful and important questions.

The numbers alone, without a meaningful comparison with what they mean in their relative context only clouds the picture.
Knowledge of fluid dynamics, on the other hand... :-)
You said it yourself:

>Why keep a slacker around when you have limited slots for workers? Why not measure and retain good workers?

This overall attitude doesn't distinguish between "slacker because they don't feel like working" and "slacker because they're unable to work to the degree an able-bodied person can". Your premise reduces someone to their profit-generating ability alone.
It reveals specific facts handpicked while excluding others to make it appear top FBI officials including those appointed by Trump acted in a way not designed to protect US persons rights.

In no way does it show that they actually did.
> adults making decisions for themselves

That's the crux of the biggest issue. The NFL actively covered up/denied evidence that concussions were damaging for decades.
Multicore*

That is like saying you can have 4x more performance with the 16 Core Ryzen then your 4 Core Intel Chip.

The problem is multi core performance aren't as important as Single Core. And these improvment has lots to do with node size.

When it is good enough, more performance dont sell.
The problem is the human neck. Any amount of force and deceleration is still being born by the head, and the only way it can dissipate force is the relatively-fragile human neck.

This is probably the origins of the grand bascinet, where a knight's outer helmet were strapped to his chest: so the force could be dissipated. But they severely restricted movement and athleticism: you wouldn't be able to turn your head in a different direction than you are running to look for the ball, for example.
> NFL players are at least well compensated and are adults making decisions for themselves.

One of the arguments in the article is that not even for NFL players, at the highest level, are the consequences made obvious. Here's the last paragraph:

> But when all those big hits happened and the fans cheered, did they cheer in spite of knowing a man just greatly increased his risk for dementia? Was anyone worried about an A.L.S. diagnosis or a C.T.E.-related suicide at 40 after their favorite player suffered repeated blows to the head on the field? No, they cheered and they celebrated because they didn’t know. And neither did we.
Not to mention another source for error when testing the c code in python. Your test might fail because you forgot to update a header definition in the python, not because you introduced an error in the C code.
I was about to say that those clips still registered as a computer quite easily to me, until I got to the comparison with a human voice.

I think I've just gotten so used to that voice as the "google" voice that I automatically associate it with computers. It would be strange to meet the human that was providing the human voice in those samples.
If you don't have the $60-$100 or more to pay for the office visit or urgent care, the ER is one's only choice because they bill you later. It's all well and good to tell folks they should wait, but waiting a month to save the money isn't always an option. And waiting isn't an option if the sick one is your child, lest you get in trouble for neglect.
I don't expect the memo to get much traction on HN...
The data mining concept, it's just inconceivable to me. I wonder how your management drew that conclusion.

I guess the specter of google just draws out assumptions.
I guess it depends on how you are used to eyeball volatility, but for relative swings (percentages) log charts are actually best, since constant differences in the chart correspond to constant percentages.
I saw it coming from a mile away. I've thought bitcoin is basically stupid back when it was under $0.01.
You assume that having a non profitable healthcare system means bankrupting the entire system. This is false.
In France, where the healthcare system is arguably one of the best in the world, it has been losing money since as long as I can remember.

So what? The healthcare system looses money and the government injects money back, either directly from taxes or by some other means.
I don't know a single french person that would want to get rid of this system even if that means paying less tax, because this very clearly improve the quality of life of everyone.
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Is buying stock always taking other people's work, or just when the state does it?
"I think the interesting thing to note here is that for most end users a standard protocol is not nearly as appealing as a standard user interface."

That is very true too. I often wondered what would have happened had someone created say 10 years ago an email client with strict protocol compatibility but employing an higher abstraction layer where discussions/attaches are managed automatically just like in a Whatsapp chat (chat -> mail list) using a similar UI.
Probably most users would have rejected the idea because they had no intention to learn a new thing nobody was using. So, back to square one.
I don't see how Zeno's paradox applies here. The root assumption is that the work is asymptotic with some "goal" - in this case "as good as a human".

Perhaps the real goal is actually "level 6 - better than human" or "level 7 futuristic transport". Looking at it that way, maybe that would indeed follow Zeno's paradox (we'll never get futuristic transport) but soon surpass how a human would drive permitting integration with human drivers (being more reliable and cheaper causing disruption).

Ultimately, I think the main roadblock to automation in this realm are the vast entrenched interests (big oil, big auto) who'd lose out due to efficiency gains (just like with solar power and EVs).
Are these other accounts yours too? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%E2%80%9Cinstaa.com%E2%80%9D&s... seems to indicate at least 4 accounts: the 3 from those search results plus “joshabrahms,” which submitted this exact question again today.

If so, the answer to your question is that you’re already trying way too hard. Put some of that effort into creating more real reasons why people will love your product :)
What kind of jobs?
That's true for TCP as well. Almost all consumer-grade routers block all incoming connection attempts, not just UDP.

From a stateful firewall's point of view both UDP and TCP have state.
> Amoxicillin is often free at grocery store pharmacies. This has to be an exaggeration.

You're right. IF the gatekeeper (read: primary care physician) prescribes the drugs, they are cheap or free.

Do you know how much a doctor visit is?

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EDIT: because of braindead HN throttling, responding to you tptacek

I've been there, where I didn't have $20 in my pocket, let alone $100. So have others.

I found this https://www.amazon.com/AmoxFin-500MG-50CT/dp/B077GGQH72/ref=...

"Great product with quick delivery. My fish felt better without having to go to the doctor."

"Everyone healthy now. No need to take the fish to the doctor. Male angelfish learned a good lesson and now healthy again. Great Product."

"Same pill markings as the real ones the fish doctor gives me (only 1 ingredient). Saved me a $300 visit to the fish practitioner who owns his own chain of upscale fish clinics. Who needs single payer? I have amazon PRIME, baby."

"This is exactly what the “Vet” would prescribe. The pills match the correct color and code for the right stuff needed to treat bacterial infection for “fish”."
> Jesus, that's the most ridiculous, hyperbolic thing I've read this month.

Its basic microeconomics. You will learn a lot of read about it!
There are two NY articles worth reading:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/06/the-el-dorado-... and
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/an-ancient-city-emer...
By the utilitarian argument, wouldn't the answer just be to stop eating meat and eat whatever we're feeding to livestock (or some other food grown in its place)? Meat is a pretty inefficient source of food compared to large scale agriculture.
> What is an NFL diet?

Eating a lot.

> And why would one stay on it after you're done the intense training?

Habit.

Many players struggle with adjusting their diet when the intense physical activity drops off after they stop playing.
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Prior to pads players were dying. The problem is not the pads that make trauma survivable: the problem is that the sport is designed to inflict trauma when played as designed.
iMessage on Mac is an abominable, buggy mess
I don't understand. How is the "it just works" working in complete reverse here? Currently, I'm sending messages that show "Not delivered" but are actually making it through. Then there's the sync / ordering nightmare that I've encountered since upgrading to High Sierra where some new messages will show ON TOP of my messages. And given iMessage's massive popularity and the fact that it's a core piece of their marketing for some of their central IP, why does it feel like it's only being developed by summer interns passing the project along?
> could argue that the best solution is a competitive marketplace that will fuel hyper-economic growth, and accelerate the rate at which we develop technologies that allow us to ween off of fossil fuels

Or ween of dependence on climate. All these green arguments start from a false premise that human interference is the only threat to the stability of our ecosystem, ignoring extinction events and natural catastrophes that we know can be as impactful as global warming (and more). Instead of being conservative and hoping for the best if we stop burning stuff we should be discussing how to deal with a more volatile climate in general.
About food, thanks Ricardo for making a case in 19th century that free trade of food makes for a more efficient economy.

I wonder what would be the effect if regulations where such that one could easily import and distribute medical drugs. Or the AMA would allows foreign physicians to operate within borders.
Are you saying there’s only like 30 sites with a subscription model that are profitable?
Seems like either giving control to family nor professional managers is a good option. Family usually has no clue about business and professional managers succeeded in mastering the art of moving within company, not making it a business. When a founder goes away, it's always uncertain where the company ends up.
It's true that NFL players suffer enormous head injuries, but let's not be hyperbolic. No one in the NFL is anywhere near 2% body fat; people are not trying to spear other people head first (there are rules explicitly banning this as well as any intentional helmet to helmet contact); most players are well under 300 lbs; most hits aren't occurring anywhere near full speed etc.
1491 and 1493 were very enjoyable. I'm having less fun with The Wizard and the Prophet
I think that single payer is a great plan for a country. I don't think that its cost-saving merits would be evident in a single-state experiment. If California alone offered single-payer health coverage I would expect it to become a magnet for people with expensive health problems from the other 49 states, who either currently pay a lot for medical care or go without medical care. The savings of a single-payer system for Californians could be swamped by the increased costs from people who become Californians out of medical desperation. And then every vested interest currently opposed to American single payer health service would say "see, we told you it's too expensive."

Individual states could easily experiment with e.g. gay marriage or legalizing cannabis before the rest of the country, because the first has negligible revenue impact and the second actually enriches state coffers. But I don't think that you can run the same one-state experiment with single payer health care without incurring steep costs from medically desperate migrants from other states.
Show your work? Interested to see what function you're using to slow down mining difficulty (if price drops).
My times were 2/8/20 on an old computer, but my family doesn’t believe me. :) To be fair, it’s most likely I am misremembering the medium and large times.
https://www.today.com/parents/canadian-mom-who-gives-birth-h...

It sounds like it was the Canadian insurance provider who screwed them, though. They said[2] that since she had a bladder infection prior to getting the travel insurance, it was a pre-existing condition and therefore wasn't covered. So basically, if you get your travel insurance and come across the border, don't expect it to cover anything like a heart attack, an abcessed tooth, a prescription refill, etc.

[2]https://www.change.org/p/blue-cross-blue-shield-pay-for-jenn...
I think the answer lies in the history of the collapse of the mid-20th century consensus (capitalist economy with strong unions, regulations, welfare state ad broadly shared prosperity) and the rise of neoliberalism starting in the 1970s.

Neoliberalism seeks to roll back the welfare state, deregulate industry, and - above all else - crush unions. It's an ideology created and propagated by and for the billionaire class, who resented the limits imposed on their power in the mid-20th century, and it captured both political parties by the 1980s.

A couple good articles on the subject, looking at it from both a Republican and Democratic perspective:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-...
http://theweek.com/articles/725419/decline-fall-neoliberalis...
Lots of damage has been done that's for sure. I was mostly thinking about the future.
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From that point of view, UDP streaming is also short-sighted. Practically, this is nothing more than a type of "QoS" flag, where of course things would also break down if everything started giving themselves priority 1.

So it depends more upon whether the use case is appropriate than it does about technical implementation.
Mine wasn't as taxing as that but I worked in a university textbook store receiving area one summer (usually in cafe or register during the school year). Just me and this much middle-aged guy that was usually down there on his on. We'd come in, he'd put on his gospel music and we'd get to it. The work went fast and it kept me in shape. Good times but not something to do forever.
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It will be a slow process, but you hear parents now saying they would never let their children play, while when I was growing up, parents encouraged their children to play.

College is a feeder to the NFL. High school is a feeder to College, etc. Once you limit the source of nourishment, it will die in it's current state, but it will take a while.
Thank you PJC for hearing what I was trying to say.

Good example, too.
Red Blob Games is incredible! Thanks for share. I hadn't seen it before. I enjoyed Polygonal Map Generation (http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...) most so far.
I think you're probably right with most of this.

Not sure about it passing with flying colors though. Currently, it is fundamentally failing at the job it was created to do.

Where I think it's been very valuable is that it has been properly stressed. We now have a good understanding regarding the parts that worked well, the parts that worked but were a bit crap and the parts that were a complete disaster.

Hopefully, when the infants and morons go find some other shiny, shiny, cooler heads will pick up the pieces and build Bitcoin 2 with some of these problems fixed.

My hope is that the hype train grinds to a halt rather than plunges off a cliff taking the idea with it. It was as good idea but with limitations that could, possibly, be rectified.
"Amazon's hours" - I think this notion is misguided.

Just like every tech company; if you have good working habits, and can push back when given too much work (having a good manager helps), you can have a great career at Amazon. I work at Amazon and the best employees, the ones who get promotions and deliver great work typically work 9-5 hours.

I'm sure it varies between teams but I'm in year three of being a SDE and I would recommend Amazon highly.
I think it's beyond "more normal", right?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/13631/is-an-apos...

Almost all the style guides recommend no apostophes on the end. Rather, apostrophes are reserved for numerals that are lefts out, i.e., '60s or 1960s, but not 1960's.
> The 2nd time I had this feeling was when introduced to space of possible protein structures & the futility of prediction strategies. Suddenly the “known universe” and things like “number of known stars” started looking “reasonably sized” or even small.

This is a common experience in combinatorics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics ).

Similar things happen when beginner programmers (like me!) try to solve chess by recursing/looping through possible moves (there are about 10^123 separate paths, if duplicate configurations are merged together), or brute-force a cryptographic hash/key (2^k possibilities for keys of length k; keys of length 2048 and above are common).

The "standard big number" that gets thrown around when pop-sci articles talk about this stuff is the number of atoms in the observable universe, which is estimated at around 10^80. It irks me that this is used so much for comparison, since combinations of things are so overwhelmingly larger than collections of things that it feels like a category error to compare them.

After all, "the number of atoms in the observable universe" isn't a particularly intuitive quantity; unlike, say, "football field" as a unit of length or "bag of sugar" as a unit of mass/weight (UK media loves to use the latter; since a bag of sugar is 1kg, it shows off both their laziness and lack of faith in their audience...).

Also, picking "the number of atoms in the universe" is really trying hard; yet these combinatorial numbers (protein foldings, chess positions, etc.) are actually small, everyday examples! People have no problems (either conceptually or practically) with playing board games, choosing passwords, etc. despite these large numbers lurking in there.

The "atoms in the universe" number would be a hopeless comparison if we really tried to make a big combinatorial number. For example, "the number of binary sequences that can be represented by all the world's computer storage"; a quick Google search estimates the world's data storage as 295 exabytes, so that makes this number around 256^(295 * 10^18)
" From the link provided, only 5 people die."

Only? Hospitals are increasingly not stocking anti-venom because it expires and it's expensive to replace.

"For a more accurate comparison, you would compare this with the number of injuries and deaths from firearms."

I was explicit in using the term handguns and deaths to avoid ambiguity.

"a hot-button topic like firearm violence."

I did it on purpose. Not many bad events occurring at 6000/320e6 are ever universally present in and shape our American psyche like handgun deaths.

"There's a lot more goes into a nuanced discussion than throwing out stats like this."

Specifically, snake bites aren't rare. Neither are handgun homicides. Or maybe they are both rare. They're both a two in a hundred thousand event.
I guess one main factor is that in rugby you tackle the guy with the ball, in NFL they hit/tackle players without the ball so you are much more likely to be hit in every play, in rugby you are not.
are you implying they should have said "spans 435,000 to 122,000 years ago" ?
Many athletes are like this. Look at Mike Tyson, Charles Barkley, me, etc.
It's not like I love the notch, but I'd rather have it than a smaller screen or no sensors, which are the two only other options. It's not a piece of missing screen, it's two bonus bits of screen (and I like the approach of just simplifying the status bar and jamming it in there).
$80-$100 at the Walgreens Take Care clinic, or at CVS's equivalent.
Medicare is phenomenally successful given its constraints. It insures more patients, for lower costs, and better care, than any comparably sized private insurer. As the standard for basic care, it can't be beat in the US. Indeed, one of the original Romneybamacare proposals was to make Medicare the baseline health insurer, covering emergencies and major health crises (like cancer), with additional or concierge treatment options to be offered by private insurers.
But didn't they already voluntarily transfer control away by issuing stock? Isn't that what stock is?

The CEO doesn't own a publicly traded company, the shareholders do. And if they don't think a sale is a good idea they can just not sell their shares at the offered stock price.

I'm being a bit intentionally naive, but I don't understand who the "they" is that is supposed to have a valid worry about losing control.
I am one of the Matt Levine readers who thinks that this nationalization would be an interesting path towards American socialism.

Edit: also /u/aomurphy I'd love to chat about your "information stack" so to speak. If you're interested - my email is in my bio.
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>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?

Obamacare removed the ability to get denied over pre-existing conditions. It was a very real problem not too long ago.
Will the lightning network fix some of the scaling issues?
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> Only after introduction of gloves deaths on the ring became an issue.

Which, face it, is actually a big draw for some folks. The lethality of the sport is by design.
Hospitals aren't generally willing to work with people too much.

My uncle had emergency heart surgery. Bill over half a million. They "reduced" it in half. He installed flooring, only making 30K a year... and his doctor told him if he did his work, he could die. Hospital said there was nothing else they could do if he couldn't meet what they said were minimum monthly payments (I think they wanted it paid in less than a year). He filed bankruptcy because of it.

This is a common story where I was (Indiana).

Edit due to forgotten information.
True, and it helps that India has a large religiously vegetarian population. But that's not everyone. Government policy can only do so much - it can enforce a ban on large farms using antibiotics with some effort and resources, but it's nearly impossible to prevent people from eating meat entirely. Total prohibition of consumer goods doesn't have a good track record.