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I built an aggregator that pulls links from my Twitter feed https://thefeed.press
> ...not benefiting from ignoring your doctor's advice

Who wants doctors out of the loop? I want them more in the loop.

Doctor-patient relationships don't work that way. If they did, we wouldn't have people getting illicit prescriptions from doctors. Doctors, surprise, do listen to their patients wishes and accommodate them when they're OK with what the patient wants.

Doctors should be advising us, "Here are your options (with prices). What do you want to do?" One option on the table for "laceration on your back" should be "have an uglier scar and give a big check to your son as a wedding present". Right now, with good insurance, there's no incentive not to treat you like an underwear model that needs scar-free skin and do experimental scar-lightening UV treatments.

If a procedure (or doing nothing) is foolish, of course good doctors won't put that on the table. But single payer doesn't have doctors and patients making these decisions. They would instead look at a pre-determined schedule of options as handed down from the Bureau Of Wellness. Maybe, because of lobbying and political infighting, "uglier scar" is the only option. "Check for my engaged son" certainly isn't on the schedule.
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And try whistling, snapping your fingers, and growling and humming, not just speech.

Most people can whistle a nearly perfect sine wave, and shortly thereafter you'll see what frequency and volume really mean.
> What is the warning sign?

In the span of about 12 years, China became the world's most indebted nation. They have to accumulate about $4 trillion in debt annually to add $600 to $700 billion in GDP expansion, of which 1/3 to 2/5 goes just to paying for new debt interest costs. That debt scenario keeps getting worse each year. Local government defaults are a common discussion now, it's assumed they're going to suffer vast bankruptcies all over the nation. In just the next five years, they'll increase their already shocking pile of debt by another ~75% or so, adding between $20 and $30 trillion in new debt.

> the whole world is recognizing how centralism seems stronger than western federalism

That's incorrect. The whole world, including China, has attempted to partially emulate the developed nations of the West. China has gradually abandoned Communism and shifted to a market based economy, as one example. Their former system failed entirely, their shift to market based systems is an obvious admission of that. That process continues. All the developed Western nations have far superior standards of living at the median than China. The top Western examples are four to five times higher than China, and that's before accounting for the near total dearth of human rights in China. That gap is even greater when it comes to the poor. In China ~250 million people are still living on $3 per day or less.
Igniting the Open Hardware Ecosystem with RISC-V
How YouTube's Algorithm Distorts Truth
>The language design is absolutely flawed, hence the push to make that less so.

But a flawed language cannot be made non-flawed while keeping backwards compatibility... E.g. JS has now two different ways to write functions, with slightly different semantics.

>What things going into core do you think should be a separate framework?

An example would be async/await and generators, both which are just a special cases of coroutines. If JS would have coroutines, then these two would just be coroutine libraries.
It isn't simply accepted wisdom or opinion. Every fatal aircraft accident is investigated by the federal government until they find a root cause (and some non-fatal accidents). They don't just blame the pilot because it's convenient to blame the dead human either. Running out of fuel ranks near the top and is easy to verify. Failure to follow procedures is often a contributing factor if not a direct cause. Approach stalls are far too common, and that's simply pilot error - sorry, there's no other way to explain that. Mechanical failures happen too and are often a result of improper maintenance.

IMHO electric planes should be more reliable and easier on the pilot, but they may never really be a thing without a major breakthrough in batteries.
And 99% likely to be taken.
The contractor premium will get dragged down in a year or two as well - the Tories are planning on kicking up taxes for them in order to bring in an extra £200 mil.

That will probably lead to an exodus of the experienced developers from the UK. This will not only have a negative effect on UK software houses it will also exacerbate the existing problems with UK government IT projects, which have already have a multibillion-pound problem with failure to deliver and cost overruns as it is.

Meanwhile, Russian oligarchs are still paying peanuts for their empty central London mansions and big companies are barely paying any corporation taxes.
> It does appear to hold back some posts from your first load in some kind of idiotic attempt to give you additional things to look at later.

I've noticed this as well, and it appears to have gotten more pronounced in the last month or so.

I don't understand why this isn't a setting that users can toggle. "Show feed strict in linear order" or something like that.
The 'miles driven' number is a bit like years of programmer experience.

It all depends on the content of the miles. And without transparency about that it sounds impressive but could very well be 95%+ that doesn't contribute much and where your average toddler without a driving license could have handled the car.
If you're getting $$$k in salary, you're also almost certainly getting top notch medical insurance.

Also, you don't need private insurance when you're 67, that's what Medicare is for.
How are you not now using "grilledrice" as your handle everywhere you go? :D
All those positives sound like python.
Confounding factor: are you perhaps older now?
How would that evolve, when the only selection pressure would be just before death? What would be the reproductive advantage? Wouldn’t such a system ultimately be an energy cost, reducing fitness?
The source code of a pdf looks very different from what it looks after rendering (no correlation of parent/tree/sibling). Most of it is literally absolute coordinates. Cannot have css like selectors on that.
Firefox 57 with a new and more distracting New Tab experience
On Walled City

It wasn't really cleanly built. And there are lots of stories in there. And the Japanese seems to love it.

I always wonder if someday we could rebuilt the whole thing as Hotel, resort and tourist attraction.
Completely agree with you. In the London area it’s white expensive to live due to how expensive housing is.

Contracting might be a good thing for a tech guy with a specific skill but a lot of people like me like to have something standard and be more secure in a way that they won’t need to search for another gig in 3 months. I guess the more contracting you do the more reliable you become and you constantly close down gigs knowing your intake for a year before signing any contracts, but I’d say it’s still a bit hard.

From what I’ve seen if you are a developer going to Manchester or Birmingham or something like that and getting a gig might be the best thing you can do, since the cost of living goes heavily down and the salary drop is not that massive unless you were working on finance tech which tends to pay higher.
I'm not necessarily against forcing upgrades because it comes with advantages, but I was explaining the tradeoff. It's one good thing about Apple and if say, domestic power outlets could change every few years, we could get higher voltages, DC, built in networking, more compact connectors, metering features, etc...

But if everything operated like the web ecosystem, we might consume 100% of our time and money just on upgrades.

And it pretty much guarantees there will only be a handful of vendors, because it's very expensive to stay current.
… Wouldn't

const foo = bar ? {bar} : {};

be both more efficient and more readable?
I'm curious what the business play might be for CA in his case. Maybe a few NKS and Mathematica sales, but those are for the curious, because it's it's just interesting stuff that might have an application in a few places.
Nuclear Posture Review [pdf]
I’ve never used IRC before, so I’m honestly curious, what features does IRC have that Slack(/Discord) don’t or can’t have through extensions like bots and plugins?
That's a very irrational thought process, but thanks for not leaving me in the dark.

I was just comparing the aspect of non-experts making big decisions based on expert advice. I wasn't saying a wiped hard drive is the same as cancer.

But it's also not true that any health problem (getting the flu, cutting your finger pitting an avocado) is worse than any computer problem (losing the only copy of your dissertation, getting phished for thousands of dollars).

Part of the way out of the dialectic gridlock we're having is to stop treating every health issue like it's both confusing and life threatening. But there are certainly edge cases. Nobody wants people dying of cancer due to bad advice or lack of funds.

> I’m happy we collectively chose to draw the line at an argument honestly comparing computer repair to health care

People not listening to people isn't the most human (or soulful) option on the table.
Here’s What We Know About China’s Secretive Electromagnetic Railgun
A funny counter observation is that because computer user interfaces have got progressively slower and slower (as it typically takes a "long" time to open documents or process something) people don't necessarily trust the right thing did happen if things actually go fast even if it's possible. So, in a perverse sense "slower is better" because people have accustomed to computers being slow.

Much like jerky, twitching, stuttering video playback used to be cool—to the extent of intentional frame drops introduced in things like music videos—because that looked "computerised". Game animations and video playback on DOS/Windows at the time were stuttering or had visible shear because waiting for vsync was apparently harder than in earlier hardware and everyone tried to avoid all that; yet it was fashionable in media that could've run smooth.
I like the idea of soliciting input from your team. You might want to include some budgetary guidance to them as well. Since I’m assuming you don’t have unlimited budget. Have them help you decide how to build it out.
The effectiveness of Trados or other MT software is entirely dependent on the quality of the glossaries and translation memories.

Both of these are built up over time, the bigger and better (and more specific) they are, the less the translator has to be involved.

If independent, having their own glossaries and TMs boost their efficiency and productivity.

If they are working on the 20%, improving the company TMs is, in the short term, eating their own profit. In the long term, they are training their own replacement.
For some reason, the ads I’m seeing on Instagram are creepily relevant for me. I just checked and literally it just shows me advertisements for furniture (I like design…) and plants (I like plants…). I’ve actually bought a plant related thing from one of them, and the ads that show up actually do make me stop and look at them.

On the other hand, it’s also showing me advertisements for watches. I have no idea why, because I hate wearing watches and I’ve definitely never googled for watches before.
I think this is what the article would refer to as "writing German using English symbols". You're doing the semantic remapping yourself, such that the system can map from one language directly to the other and end up with a good result.
IMO this is hackernews, not hackerchat. If you want a place where people can discuss something that is not anchored around some kind of news, then you need to find another platform. I don’t even like AskHN for this reason.
> Virginia has no prior programming experience but has started combining code she finds around the space into her own creations. Here's part of a birthday surprise she left me over winter break. Even our visiting ethnographer Goetz created a great spatial music game in Dynamicland (also no prior programming experience).

> Like learning French by going to France, people in Dynamicland learn programming through immersion.

Imagine a meeting with designers where you bring a stack of pages representing neatly refactored code for the prototype as it is put together now, plus a bunch of extra code snippets of possible changes to make or things to explore.

I'm pretty sure that this could make certain types of brainstorming about what a product needs a lot more productive.

EDIT: And now for some trouble in paradise: if we envision this immersive computing environment of the future, what about people bringing malicious snippets of code into the building? imagine we have the ability to print, and to guide robots to disperse the printed text. A quine in dynamicland then becomes a virus, a fork-bomb.
It'd be nice if:

1] Google (or at least someone who can store the URL index from commoncrawl.org ) provided a "random page" function; maybe this exists, but I'm not aware of it.

2] We could get a random page of a random real book from google books or archive.org

Both of these are somewhat feasible even locally since text is small and in the former case you're just storing an index (albeit maybe many gigs or a few terabytes) -- storing compressed books and an index would take up very little space

You could do the same thing with art, random arrays of pixels instead of text, but arguably you could transform this text into pixels anyway -- perhaps something that makes no sense to read makes some sense to look at, or even to listen to.
And you pay for Medicare after you are eligible for it. My dad just hit Medicare age and was surprised to find out he gets to pay for it.
Well typically there are more parameters being set than just the one.
I understand what you're saying, but there's no subtlety or dual meaning in my examples - Google Translate is just taking in a word with a single, unambiguous meaning, and returning a wholly unrelated word (or in the latter case gibberish).

In other words they're cases where GT is less useful than a plain lookup database - which makes comparisons to human translators seem rather beside the point!
Austrian law requires you to publish salary information in the job announcement.
Introducing Reactjs-Popup  – Modals, Tooltips and Menus – All in One
The problem with your presumption that authority is good, is that it assumes the authority is somehow better at making decisions for an individual than the individual is.

There is research which shows that the trend towards higher vehicular weight is caused by drivers desire to be, or at least feel, safer. Yet this makes less economically fortunate drivers less safe, has adverse impact on the environment, and doesn't improve human welfare.

Why do we regulate helmets and not vehicular weight? It might have less to do with improving welfare and more to do with individual politics. I fear people have more of a tendency to want to be an authority over personal liberties than of unwarranted aggressions. For example, how long have people protested gay relationships, but allowed sexual harassment to persist?
Or turn on the Signal Generator and play with the multipliers.
Love the visuals, is the source code open? A nitpick, I should be able to click on "microphone" instead of having to aim at the small checkbox, this is easy if you wrap it in an HTML label tag.
It should be. They're used as inputs to humans making decisions at highway speeds. Now obviously we allow this because we assume humans are intelligent enough and have enough of a model of the real world in their head that they should be able to cope with these issues but I see no reason why an AI driving a car should cross a lower bar. I fully expect that AI to take mapping errors into account and to survive them.
An African adventure: Inside story of the wonga coup (2008)
It doesn't seem unlikely that there could be cultural phenomenon rooted in events a hundred years ago. It wouldn't be easy to prove though, and most people affected wouldn't be aware, so asking people on the street would be worthless.
MIT also has wifi. And power outlets.
The Share pane in iOS actually does a decent job of this in a roundabout way.

Forever and a year ago I had to edit some photos and lay text on them. From the Camera Roll I was able to share it to another app and each of these apps did one little thing like change levels, apply filters, overlay text, cropping/aspect warping. But because each of these apps allowed me to use the share pane they could be chained together without storing it on the device in some intermediate form.

The first time I used it it clicked. It was just like pipes but for data types.
It's GPL or LGPL or Eclipse. You can pick whichever you want - it's not a convolution of all three. The licence comes from JRuby, which we forked from.
I always think of it like this: if Google fell apart, the world as we know would change if. If twitter/facebook fell apart, my day to day life would not change in any way.
> Personally, I think a self driving car with 1 notified disengagement per year as perfectly usable.

Funny, I interpret that as one guaranteed accident every year. Because by the time the autopilot disengages you can be sure the driver is after being lulled to sleep for the last 8000+ miles in no position to step into the situation in time to avoid a crash.
Or better yet, people learn how to once again learn to live within their means and not spend money they don't have for things they don't need.
Godbolt's videos about the CPU are very eye-opening too: https://www.youtube.com/user/mattatgodboltorg/videos
Yeah, allowing for competition worked out so nice for everyone else- like europe, africa, the middle east and russia.
All power houses of the information technology.
The CFPB (consumer financial protection bureau) was the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren and implemented under Obama.

It was and still is heavily disliked by numerous Republican members and is being stripped of a lot if it’s powers by the current administration.

Claiming “both parties are the same” is just false in this case.
> That whole field wants to be Google though and thinks they have Google's problems, so now it's mostly all Python and Go

Python has been more relevant in operations work for quite a while, and for a lot longer Google has been talking about their use of it. (speaking as someone with approaching 2 decades experience on the sysadmin/operations side of work)

Readability and ease of learning were big bonuses, particularly given sysadmin types were historically more likely to fall in to the work, and as likely to not have formal compsci backgrounds. That it also made life a heck of a lot easier to interact with APIs was also invaluable. Perl used to be an incredible pain for API work (I learnt python and wrote automation around APIs in less time than it took me as an experienced perl programmer to write similar tooling in perl.)

You also have to remember that python has perl's advantage, it's everywhere. Every major Linux distro has shipped with it for a long time. I'm rusty on that specific aspect historically, I would guess it's probably due to Redhat and all their automation being historically python based.
Are you saying that remote employees should be deprived of full-timer benefits and legal protections, however meager? All because of trust issues that grew out of experience with a bad apple which isn't representative of remote workers in general?

Empirically speaking, effective remote employees are more trustworthy and less prone to organizational politics. I can even tell you why: these people have a system of values outside of work that in turn values their professional activities as something that helps enable this desirable lifestyle. In return, work is treated with diligence and virtue.

I'm sorry that you or the person you're replying to have had a negative experience with remote workers. As usual, a few bad apples don't spoil the whole bunch.
What about giving the readers a better understanding of how China sees the West? These things can be complicated, and pointing out some of the forming events can be very helpful.
I started KW Hackers for this reason and also as a springboard for Kitchener/Waterloo Canada hackers to share neat new stuff that they've built. You are more then welcome to join. It's a GNU Social instance, so it's part of the fediverse.

https://kwat.chat
It's not $8,000 a month though. I'd still take a developer career in the US over Europe any day.
I don't think that's a good fit for HN. A chat room format might make more sense and I'm actually trying to build something similar to what you described : a chat room to discuss anything related to tech and startups. It's appropriately called Hackers Chat [0]. It's currently a single chat room, but I'll be adding support for user created chat rooms and try to become "Discord for cryptocurrencies".

[0] https://www.hackerschat.net/
I've been turned away at a hospital in the US.
Show HN: Golang automation for mining cryptocurrencies on the Spot Market
If they understand what they're doing, why are they doing it then?

This is grossly irresponsible. People will die over it.
I tried playing some of Jerobeam Fenderson's music on it and it works great! :D
Ask HN: Ruby web development – without rails. Options? Recommendations?
I'm looking for a small and lightweight framework or gem primarily for sign-in/authentication.

Whenever I search online for ruby web development tutorials or guides, there's disappointingly few results when you exclude Rails.

If you are doing Ruby web development without Rails, how have you found the experience? What are the frameworks or gems you are using? Any problems you've encountered? (e.g. performance, lack of libraries or incomplete documentation)
Free climbers, astronauts and political dissidents must also be insane, and not understand this, either? Or their utility function is simply maximized at a place where yours is not.

I wouldn't smoke, ride without a helmet, etc, but who am I to say you are wrong for doing so? There are many people who would not sign up for a trip to Mars, but I would. Who are they to tell me I am wrong for a wanting this?
Well, but then you're forgetting the Texan rednecks and elderly in the UK; both of which can be quite racist, especially if taken at a scale.
Sick toddler needed a liver, so her new nanny donated part of hers
Sysadmin/devops is a nearly meaningless distinction. When a developer needs to write installation or configuration code, they cross over. When a sysadmin needs to write code to monitor applications, they cross over. Senior sysadmins need to write more code, senior developers need to know more about systems and networks.

Twelve years ago, I hired senior sysadmins. About seven years ago, I hired senior devops. Same people, same skill sets, same approach.
The notion that there are no loans without credit ratings is pure scare-mongering. It just makes cheaper credit available, which is a way for the financial sector to siphon money from the rest of the economy.

Many of those loans should not be made. See the subprime mortgage crisis. See people living with unnecessary credit card debt.

The existence of the credit agencies is a symptom of the financial sector corrupting our government at the expense of the populace. They don't care how many lives they ruin through their devastating irresponsibility.

> So this is where I think that the market is ripe for disruption

You haven't addressed the central problem, which is identity theft and all the individual lives blighted or destroyed by it.
Why are you capitalizing the "C"? Makes me think that you don't know much about Bitcoin.

If you are victim of a fraud, then it's usually your fault.
In my experience, most contracts in enterprise Java typicaly last 6-24 months, some even longer. 3 months and gtfo is not standard.