skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the mechanism? I don't think it is realistic to assume that health care can run on employee premiums alone. In fact we know it can't b/c individual premiums are outrageous.

So I don't think your premise is realistic. These billion dollar companies self insure and Buffet's companies offer reinsurance for the most costly million dollar claims. Even though they self insure, they will pay a company like Cigna a percentage to manage the claims and get access to their negotiated prices. All I can think of is that this is a play to get Cigna and other insurance companies to lower their management fees.

Companies have to offer insurance and pay it because no one will work for them otherwise. And companies of a certain size have to offer health care by law so it's not going away.
What kinds of ML models and algorithms are used? Can I train models based on my own data?
This is all journalism. Have you read the washington post recently? Every single headline is misleading.
> Is it decided that Amazon will “own” the healthcare provider?

Nothing is decided. Everything currently being discussed is speculation. That said, the article addresses this:

"Amazon doesn’t create an insurance company to compete with other insurance companies (or the other pieces of healthcare infrastructure); rather, Amazon makes it possible — and desirable — for individual health care providers to come onto their platform directly, be that doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc."

The author envisions a souped up ZocDoc. It doesn't just help you find providers. You buy your insurance through it; when you book an appointment Amazon handles logistics, billing and payment; as you walk out, your prescription auto-fills or shows you your options, which you (or your insurance provider) pay for through Amazon, and which are delivered to your door--on schedule--by Amazon, et cetera.
Sure, but there is a user who is the admin for the page. This "admin" is entirely a bot.
Does any other protocol do better? The Internet is not a truck.
FWIW, POSIX emulation is on my TODO list: https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/205

Not sure whether I will actually get to it though. Parsing sounds like a lot of headache. Your work is very impressive, but I’m not sure I will want to go through that... :)
Invent This and Die
"Real engineering" also runs on a different (slower) cadence, in part due to the longer timescale between inception and realisation of ideas, and due to the costs involved in making physical things.
I've never met a devops person who wanted to write a 1,000+ line shell script. There are real languages that you can use instead.
Hundreds or thousands of something is typically not a hobbyist venture. Also remember that placing parts is only one step of the process. If you're going to automate assembly by purchasing a P&P, you should also be ready to do high-volume stenciling and have a fast oven. In any case, the time spent aligning the machine and setting up reels can be a significant fraction of the time to just place parts manually. In some cases, you could have placed parts for your entire run by hand before you finished setting up the machine!

Depending on how complex your board is, building, say, 100 units by hand isn't time consuming. I've soldered literally thousands of through-hole boards and SMT is much faster and easier to do by hand.
I still try to spend some time coding during the week on work related items (small tasks with time set aside once a week) and code in my spare time on my own projects. I don't know if I'm able to "keep up" with the latest, but I am able to dive into areas of interest.
Yes, but if you can buy it for the same price it would cost to build, why bother building? Time has its own costs too.
Microfluidics from Lego bricks
> Once phones became nicer to use and there were alternatives to the lag and limitations of SMS, people had no reason to log into Facebook to chat with their friends because Facebook has trained non-IMers to IM and they no longer needed Facebook to do it.

It's funny, because of Facebook Messenger, I have completely moved off SMS and now use Facebook Messenger for all my communication. The only reason why I use SMS is that I Am not connected to that person on Facebook (and probably wouldn't).
I'm the founder/author of OpenPnP, which exists to do exactly this. I've been working on the project for about 6 years now and I'm happy to say that lots of hobbyists, small companies, maker spaces, etc. have built and are running OpenPnP based pick and place machines.

It's a harder problem than it seems, as I've found out over the past 6 years. While the basics are quite similar to a 3D printer, PnP has some unique challenges. 3D printing can be relatively inaccurate but still produce a good output since you are working with a pretty "oozy" substance to begin with. PnP has to be pretty accurate across it's entire work surface, though. If the machine is 0.1mm off at any point in it's travel that creates a likelihood that a part will be placed incorrectly. Feeders are also, mechanically, a lot more difficult to get right than it seems like they would be.

In any case, we're having good luck and a lot of success, so if you are interested in DIY / Open Source / Hobby pick and place, please come check it out!

http://openpnp.org
I wonder how QUIC compares to KCP[0].

[0]: https://github.com/skywind3000/kcp/blob/master/README.en.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16279300
There are definitely somewhat mature DIY alternatives such as LitePlacer [1] and there is ongoing effort towards an open-source software stack for PnP machines [2], but for this area to really pick up, sub-$500 kits are probably necessary. One could argue that hobby-level 3D printing would have gone nowhere if 3D printers were at a ~$3,000 level.

[1] https://www.liteplacer.com/
[2] http://openpnp.org/
> Worse yet, do you know how frustrating it is to be told that there are no more updates available while you know that you a missing life events from friends that actually posted them.

Or trying to find something you saw in your feed, which then disappeared for no obvious reason. I can't decide whether I'm a pigeon in a Skinner box run by humans, or a human in one run by pigeons, but either way, the experience is unpleasant.
What about some kind of "out of band" solution? i.e. I plug in my smart bulb, then log into a website from my phone to "claim" and authorize that new device. Kind of like a Bluetooth pairing UX for networking.

Are there any infrastructure / software products out there which offer an experience like that out of the box?
Deep Hyperlink. An innovation for next web revolution
I had wildcard emails on my domain for a long time. I gave it up after a spammer decided to try a gigantic list of email usernames with my domain. They wanted to spam a hundred thousand separate users, but ended up spamming me a hundred thousand times instead. After that, I switched off the wildcard and just set up a normal address.

This would probably not be as big of a deal if it happened today. This was in the early 2000s and the tools (at least that I had) didn’t deal with huge volumes nearly as well as I expect Google would. But I still haven’t gone back.
Overall US healthcare spending is ~$10k per person, so it is probably at least in the ballpark.
Nice to see Uber getting into the same "using public infrastructure instead of building our own" scam that all these lousy private bike-sharing companies are doing. Awful company.
> Strava also has a ethical responsibility to block data from sensitive area (such as military bases).

How are they supposed to know if they're displaying data for a secret base if the information to determine it actually is secret is, umm...secret?

I blame the joes -- they should know better than to share their location data because it's not a good idea for countless reasons. Back when I was deployed with the 82nd Airborne such a thing would be inconceivable.
Translate works very well. The other services are nil which is a real bummer trying to build a lean startup.
Premiums are as high as they are because health care is run as a for profit industry - health care in America is orders of magnitude more expensive than in other countries.

If you remove the profit motive prices will drop down towards something more reasonable, in this situation it's not unreasonable to expect that the system could be maintained with employee premiums.

The cost of initialisation of services will be huge however, it will be interesting to see how they spread it out - they may bear the costs for now, and seek to recoup them providing excess capacity for service to other companies.
You want to know why we have a 40 hour work week and kids don't work in factories? Unions.
> OBike seems to work a lot better in Singapore, where people have respect for property.

Um... nope. It's just as bad in Singapore.

https://mashable.com/2017/10/05/singapore-designated-parking...

Stop blaming Australians for being fed up with companies who use littering as a business model. These shitty bikes are all over the public footpaths here and people are tired of it.
I was taught not to use the word retarded in elementary school because it was offensive, and that was 20 years ago.
Everything you say is true, yet... the Google approach works and the others don't. If our choice is free and mostly-open protocols from Google or using HTTP/1.1 + TLS 1.1 + TCP w/ CUBIC + IPv4 w/ NAT forever, Google doesn't sound too bad.

This is related to the AV1 vs. MPEG discussion from the other day where people pointed out that we basically have a a choice between free codecs developed by Google/Netflix or codecs that suck you dry from legal fees.
maybe if health insurance becomes one large monopoly, they can have enough leverage to force the health care providers to lower their prices to a reasonable level similar to that of countries where the government has that role (of being a monopoly payer, and forcing the costs to be lower by negotiation leverage)
56 will never get backported security fixes of any kind. For the record, neither will 57, as 58 is the current stable version. Mozilla does not apply security fixes to versions of Firefox other than the latest stable and the latest ESR.
So many shells, but how come the virtual terminal hasn't got a revamp or popular alternative? I'd like to see more control over keybinding (e.g. on my machine pressing ctrl+del sends the same character as pressing ctrl+backspace). I understand this would be more a kernel change than a userland one.

Screen tiling and visual 'tabs' would also be welcome additions. Not everyone needs a graphic environment, and I refuse to install X just for better keyboard shortcuts on my terminal.
Ask HN: How to make lightweight flight armor like Iron Man's?
Can we make this nowaday? Why no man made this? It is 100 times more useful and cool than airplane.
I think that was because at the time we all probably had far fewer friends on FB. As my friend count has grown over time (and really it isn't even that much compared to most) I have felt less and less inclined to broadcast my life to a bunch of people that I know only tangentially. In a way it encourages me to actually hang out with my real friends, since their updates are so buried and I rarely post anything besides politics and links.
That doesn't seem to be supported by the article?

"While it outperforms TCP in a wide range of scenarios, we found that it underperforms in the presence of packet reordering and on resource-constrained mobile devices."
I recently discovered Fish, which is actually not that recent, but also an interesting shell.
Am I the only one who views Facebook by Most Recent? They don't make it easy, and I don't think you can default to it, but I just point all my bookmarks to https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

Still though, Facebook could be so much better. The problem is that a profit-driven social media site is always going to have different goals than its users. Free ones seem to never gain traction. Currently, most of my friend groups are switching to Discord, but that's basically just going back to IRC without having to understand NickServ and such.

As many others have pointed out though, Facebook got bland when everyone's parents joined. Private groups somewhat help, but it really does need to be more directly baked in to the design. It's far too late for that now, but I dream one day someone will finally make the Facebook killer. Until then, I use Facebook, because it benefits me more than not using it. Shallow interaction, peoples kids, etc? That can easily be fixed. For me, the boost in mood I get from reconnecting to old friends makes it worth all the pain. I was a hold out too, and didn't join until ~5 years ago?

I think the problem is it's almost a utility at this point. Most everyone I know (non-techy crowd) is on it. If you aren't, you truly do miss out, which sucks. But do you know anyone who doesn't work, or want to work at Facebook who would say "I love Facebook!" Tweak all you want, but it's too much a behemoth to love.
$0 demand? Are you kidding? If there was no demand then Bitcoin's price would be $0. It's not zero therefore demand is also not zero. This is basic economics. Come on, man.

No intrinsic value? How about how it is truly stored energy? It has a lot in common with gold. Just because it's digital doesn't make it's worthless. Lots of very valuable things are entirely digital these days.
Good news! http://cubicle7.co.uk/our-games/the-laundry/
If you do enough binary switching, you eventually will get a Tesla. Assuming a Tesla is optimal. Let’s test to find out.

How do you think the eyeball arose from unicellular eukaryotes?
Where things get problematic is with commands that send a set of environment variables to stdout, like

eval $(ssh-agent)

Sure you can get addons (like bass[0]) that will translate the sh environment variable settings to fish, but it’s a pain to have to do that (and remember wth it was called).

[0] https://github.com/edc/bass
I was at a conference today and watched Office's presentation thingie lock up. :)
Solzhenitsyn's typist hanged herself after she was compelled to give up one of three extant drafts of the book to the KGB. Who would do that over a collection of "camp folklore"?
> Perhaps we simply belong to different generations (I’m 38 btw).

We're the same age. I have fond memories through out my life playing games with family and friends. It's been a bonding experience for me with many people who are close in my life and has helped many of us through difficult times.

I remember huddling around a friend's PC with his brother and mine as we each took turns playing Prince of Persia, King's Quest, and Legend of Kyrandia.

We setup a BNC network in our house and my brother and I would sit in our rooms, across the hall from one another, with our doors open and play games like Doom, Wing Commander Armada, Civilization, and many other for hours on end yelling back and forth at each other.

My friend use to have LAN parties at his house and a dozen of us would all cram our PCs into his Den and do marathon 15+ hour gaming sessions. He'd have something like MST3K playing on the TV and we'd sit around talking about various nerdy things. Everyone brought food, beer and snacks to share. We'd play everything we could think of like KOTOR, Urban Terror, Terraria, BFBC2, Civilization, Hoard and Borderlands.

I remember when DayZ first came out and my friend and I sat in his den until 5am trying to figure out where the hell we were in relation to each other on the island. Occasionally one of us would scream out because we were being chased by Zombies and only had a flashlight. Or the time we were rushed by a squad of heavily armed guys in a car who had us get down on the ground, then threw guns and ammo at us before jumping back in the car and speeding of into the night yelling "Merry Christmas fuckers!"

My brother lives out of state now and several years back he was down on his luck so when a friend and I upgraded our PCs we sent him the old parts which were enough to upgrade his rig to play Battlefield 3 and 4. We'd spend evenings online chatting over VOIP as we played. It was a bonding experience that helped us both overcome a difficult time in our lives.

Recently my father-in-law, wife, daughter, and I played Overcooked for the first time and ended up doing a 4 hour marthon of it. My father-in-law is in his late 70s and never really played video games but was eager to try. The game is easy enough to pickup but devilishly hard but we all had a riot trying to figure out the best strategy for making burgers or soup in the crazy kitchens.

The Jackbox Games are great party games and when we have the extended family together we'll sit around and play them.

My daughter and I probably spent an hour one evening just designing our characters for Gang Beasts. The entire time we were joking and ripping on each other for our choices while bouncing ideas and suggestions off each other.
“If they can learn to read, then they can read to learn,”
I have to note that often humans fail to detect sarcasm, and police forums with religious fervor demanding the application of those ridiculous "\s" tags wherever they be deemed necessary. Small wonder, why it would be difficult to catch in a program.
One thing I did at my company recently was ask to see all of our currently employees resumes. One thing really stood.

Some of our best employees had resumes better used for wiping one's own bottom than persuading hiring managers to call them.

This combined with all the wasted interviews on people with stellar resumes, and I decided to do a short 10-15 min interview with everyone.
Does anybody have a comment on the similar vimagit?
Old tech revamped? One could already do this by including the a tag id at the end of the linked URL. i.e. http://example.com/page.htm#thirdparagraph
One could just insert <null id=thirdparagraph></null> where ever the third paragraph starts.
Media playback solutions
Disagree, human reaction time isn’t fast enough. This literally happens when my finger is millimeters from touching the screen to perform my intended action.
eshell over TRAMP? how does that work?
I think its pretty fair to assume to comment was referring to the process of tricking a website into thinking you are at a different IP address then what is actually assigned by your ISP... :/
Ideally everyone on your friends list would see your post. If they no longer care for them they can either unfriend or hide your posts.
> I'm relatively confident with programming in general

Out of curiosity, why do you bother writing a statement like this? Is it to assuage your ego? If you haven't done game development before, it's safe to assume there are gaps in your knowledge and you're better off admitting it outright.
Ya everything I've personally seen in and read about America really makes it seem like a third world death hole. Driving across 3 states and 500 miles all I encountered for a good 300 out of those 500 miles were endless highways littered with anti-suicide and anti-crystal meth bill boards.

Then in the distance...the great golden arches of the towering 100 foot tall McDonald's signs 50 miles in the distance, then the arby's, then maybe a burger king or a chevron. Then you get to the 'town' which consists of the above mentioned fast food places, 3-5 churches a gas station and houses. That's it. No grocery stores, no schools, no hospitals. Just that and endless farm fields for a hundred miles either way.

I have a friend who lives in south east asia. She eats home grown fresh food for less than $10 a day. Has more reliable and cheaper internet than me, has better surroundings than me and other than occasional random power outages, seems to have a better quality of life than me and most people in America.
Deeplearning.ai: Sequence models (now available)
Suffering can be rather intellectual. As far as empathy is literally intellectual, insects likely don't share that, so their opinion isn't guiding. Certainly, the purely physical empathy, i.e. emotions, fear of loss, fear of fire, etc. via mirror neurons are bounded by a few instincts and always illuminating fear for ourselves. Will it kill me? kill it with fire! Could the fire spread and kill me? Then maybe it's not such a good idea. Was that my dog run over by a car? I should have taken better care. Will aliens simply extinguish us without prior warning and so, should we try to get ahead of them in the same way? Wouldn't that just expose us? It's a 50:50 chance either way. The default is to do nothing unless stimulated to. After that, combat involves communicating intent, a lot.

Likewise, the ability to communicate doesn't imply a need to. Conversely, the ability to communicate doesn't define consciousness. Precisely, the ability to refrain from communication is likewise important. So if an animal can't even shut the fuck up, that's where I draw a line. And I should take that into consideration more often when posting online. Further, action can be involuntary communication. So "A lot can be inferred from how enemies are treated".
Concerning invasive surgery, the practical need for analgesics is a smooth procedure, not the suffering of the patient.

Corollary: If something cannot rationalize it's suffering that's another line in the sand. E.g. children vs a society of fish missing a sibling.
Nope, I posted the title and HN removed the word silently leaving an awkward title. I then edited the post and added [censored] in its place so it wouldn’t look weird.
Many existing large insurers are non profits. With millions of members.

BCBS Michigan isn't the biggest one and has 4.3 million members.
I think it's a good idea not to write an engine.

But I also think that for most small games (1-2 developers) it can also a be a good idea not to use an off the shelf engine either.

Write the absolutely minimum that you can get away with to achieve the gameplay and look you want to achieve. Hard code everything for your specific game.

It's true that if you want to write an engine you can distract yourself from focusing on gameplay. But I think you can actually fall into the same trap using an off the shelf engine too. You end up spending a pile of time learning and working with the advanced tools and not focusing on gameplay either!

The basic rendering APIs are actually not that hard to use if you forget about generalising everything for some future that never arrives, and there is a hell of a lot to be said for working on a code base that one person entirely understands. The development speed benefits of this should not be underestimated.
Apparently in titles it is, not in comments.
The first steps is deciding what type of person you want to hire.

Do you want somebody with strong technical chops who's going to lead white boarding sessions and mentor candidates?

Do you want someone with strong people management skills, who is going to make sure that everyone who has a meeting with them feels good?

Do you want someone with strong project management skills, where all of the important stakeholders are going to get a nice looking report every two weeks?

These are all people who would do well or poorly in those positions depending on the company.
Wow thanks for that link, it totally transformed what I was shown on the feed.
I wrote a previous post on why MVCC is interesting, and how it relates to the topic at hand. It's the first link in the article.

I don't think that it's accurate to say to say that there are only two ways of doing this. There are more than two, and there's another post by my colleague Amit Kapila which talks about that. That's the second link in the article.

We have in fact done benchmarks. We plan to publish them.

But you can't put everything into one article. Several people mentioned thinking this one was quite long, and it barely scratches the surface of the topic. If I'd included an in-depth discussion of all the topics you raise here, it would have been four or five times longer. To try to avoid that, yet give the context you want, I linked to previous posts which cover this topic, some of which were written explicitly to provide context for this article.

But I'm sorry you didn't like the article. I tried my best.