skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the ER example is it runs counter to one of ACA’s important justification claims, viz. requiring all manner of preventive care coverage — even from low-premium, high-deductible plans — would reduce ER usage by giving the formerly uninsured the option of primary care. Even though now the ER isn’t “the only place they can go,” the author asserts that some choose to visit the ER as a matter of convenience. Reality isn’t likely to be quite this simple, e.g., another likely factor is a shortage of physicians accepting Medicaid.

The example isn’t silly at all. Central to ACA advocacy was how high American healthcare spending was relative to other countries and that costs would fall with ER-as-primary gone.
side question...how do short term tourists who might not be able to open a local bank account access wechat or alipay/mobile payments while in China? Are they forced to use just cash?
>These included immunizations, counseling, and screening for disease. Researchers modeled what would happen if up to 90 percent of these services were used

The science is settled. We have a model for proof.
Preventive, not preventative. Please fix the HN title.
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It's a mix of corruption, poor governance and a powerful palm oil industry in Indonesia. If the USA was next to Indonesia they would have power to influence but Singapore, despite it being a successful country, do not have much power to influence big Indonesia.
The official desktop client doesn't even support it, after years of people asking for it. Telegram is basically equivalent to Hangouts or any other random chat app, if you care about security.
But do you like your broadband?

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Bridged the gap to what? The industrialized North wanted cheap labor.

If I were in prison, I’d rather work in a chain gang than be stuck indoors 24x7. I havn’t seen a chain gang in 30 years. They don’t use chains anymore, rather a dude with a shotgun.
This is like arguing that it was rational to appear to be an enthusiastic Christian to avoid being burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition.

If everyone around you believes something fundamentally irrational, it can be situationally rational to appear to have the same belief system.

But that only proves thst rational people are adaptable, not that the belief system itself makes sense, or that it doesn’t create terrible outcomes.
I'd rather use App::RecordStream.
This this also allow for compiling into something QEMU can use? Or does it not need anything like this to emulate RISC-V.
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You can already do something like this with Flatpak on Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak or VMWare Thinapp for Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ThinApp.

Want to try it now? You can try it with Steam, which is otherwise notoriously annoying to install on Linux:

flatpak install --user --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.valvesoftware.Steam.flatpakref
flatpak override com.valvesoftware.Steam --filesystem=$HOME

# run it with this command:
flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

Unfortunately, if you're running X11, Steam can still spy on everything you're doing in X11. But Wayland is coming/is here, and fixes that too.
You might be interested in this article from Alessandro, the guy who makes Spatialite: https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite-tools/wiki?name=gr...

It talks about the errors in Open Street Map data, and the consequences of that for railway routing.
The key paragraph, with added emphasis:

>One reason for this is that all prevention is not the same. The task force doesn’t model costs in its calculations; it models effectiveness and a preponderance of benefits and harms. When something works, and its positive effects outweigh its adverse ones, a recommendation is made.

Aaron (the author) and his partners blog here[1], it's a very good site if this sort of thing interests you.

[1]https://theincidentaleconomist.com
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I stopped using both of those due to how distinctly not world-class they are.
Some applications use different/narrower definitions of float. For example GPUs have 16 bit floats and TPUs (ie. AI co-processors) also use narrower floats which are specialized for neural networks.

But for a general purpose application/server chip firstly the FPU doesn't really take up much space and secondly if you ship without an FPU then you can never enter certain important markets (eg. HPC).
The explicit grant was revoked in circumstances that are unlikely to matter for the overwhelming majority of users.

The implicit grant doesn't get revoked, but how it works is still unclear. This is true especially (I believe) when it comes to sub-licenseability and patent exhaustion, where the exact mechanics have yet to be worked out in the courts. If I download MIT licensed code, and then distribute it to you, you have a valid license to the copyright on that code, despite the fact that you didn't obtain it from the copyright holder. Do you also have a valid license to any patents on that code? I have no idea, but I know enough to know it's not as obvious an answer as you might guess.

In general, explicit is better than implicit, and settled legal questions are better than fascinating mysteries. These factors weigh in favour of an explicit patent grant. The terms of the explicit patent grant Facebook was using, granted, were quite negative, but on balance I think I (and my current employer) probably were marginally better off with the older license terms. YMMV. :)
Thanks for the feedback.

I didn't get the point when you say the tool cannot be used to create a real timeline ? Could you elaborate on what you expected ?

In medium, one has to construct the narrative which is not an easy task for everyone to do especially for people who cannot articulate well. Timelines have proven to be a form of narrative since ages and we wanted this tool to be given for people to construct a narrative of any life story they wish to say.

If you think it could have been done in a better way, I would love to hear your thoughts on what you expect over a medium in order to construct narratives easily?

It would help us in shaping the product. Thanks again
I hate to sound callous, but on average, how productive are older people? Living longer doesn't necessarily imply working longer. It could just lead to costing more in treating chronic conditions.
Well the problem here is that the Roundtable of "Sustainable" Palm oil has HQ in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, particularly so with politicians who deal with palm oil. Sarawak (Borneo) have seen most of the huge jungle being converted to palm oil plantation because they basically had a dictator in charge for thirty years who enriched himself and his family from it. So this organisation would have very little possibility to actively make improvements due to the political conditions in Malaysia. They don't really have free and fair elections - something that people are trying to change but have been jailed for. The main opposition leader is for example in jail.

While it is better to buy from RSPO than non-RSPO sources it is far from sustainable.
Both appear to be acceptable and share the same definitions.

http://grammarist.com/spelling/preventative-preventive/
I’m a member of OpenStreetMap’s data working group, but not speaking officially.

Neither automated edits nor imports are forbidden; they’re allowed with careful planning and consultation with the community.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_...
I can confirm this. After reading an article years ago about skipping shampoo I tried it for a few weeks and indeed, was fine, so just stopped. Have used shampoo perhaps a half a dozen times in the past 20 years. And I work out (sweat hard) everyday. But FWIW i keep my hair quite short!

Also minimize body soap but can’t do without it. Hands get washed a lot of course but I try to avoid liquid soap (Dr Bronner's is OK) and "purell" if I can.
I’ll second this. OP lists a few reasons that someone might theoretically want to create a timeline, but not why a random site visitor would. That 10 out of thousands of visitors want to create a timeline actually doesn’t strike me as odd, not because timelines are bad but because very few people need one.

If you started a site that advocated for, say, jumping rope as exercise, 10 out of thousands of visitors might go pick up a jump rope. You’re providing something that the vast majority of visitors don’t need.

If you want a higher adoption rate, either:

- solve an acute problem - something that many visitors woke up thinking they need to do today.

- come up with a specific compelling reason/use for a timeline. Not app features, but things I can do with a timeline - solve a problem. Focus on the strongest one. Dumb example: maybe the best use of a timeline you can think of is for someone to put it their resume or applicant portfolio. Once you’ve picked one or two, if you actually believe they’re compelling, focus on those.

- or get much more targeted visitors, like only those few people who are actively looking to create a timeline.
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After following the principles of XP in the last 18 months and getting things done on my own that lets our dev team look live a bunch of lazy noobs I realised that someone with a T-shaped skill set can make a decent living without being involved in so called "projects". I do not know the answer to the OP's question but am happy to say "I can allow myself not to care".
I doubt Google account for 40% of Internet traffic. How would you even measure that !? What most likely happened was they saw a 40% drop in traffic on their servers while Google was down.
It's correct that EU and US are not the biggest consumers - they do use a lot though. India and China are the main consumers. And their imports are increasing.

Not sure how accurate these stats are but here are some numbers: https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/hs92/1511/
The issue the Apache Foundation had with the license was that it was incompatible with the Apache license; they weren't making a value judgement about it being good, bad, strong, or weak. Many other excellent licenses are also in "Category-X".
Scarred retina on one of my eyes here, due to blunt trauma as a child. If I close my good eye, everything appears as if through a heavy noise filter. Can read letters if super enlarged fonts though, with a bit of work.

My vision appears mainly monoscopic, with the damaged eye providing perfectly integrated peripheral vision.

It is never "funny" or weird - except if an eye feels tired it would have to almost always be the good one, and I have no problem driving or mountain bike riding. I'm slightly short sighted, wear glasses when out and about (contacts offer very little protection by comparison and are a pain to put on) - always buying premium polycarbonate lenses - but take them off when sitting at a screen (work) or just reading or engaging with anything in close proximity.

I was greatly surprised to find myself being able to experience 3d when watching Avatar at IMAX Melbourne - I'm thinking the largely exaggerated scale helped - the movie was not blurry, but I could strongly sense the depth; I'm very impressed by the brain's ability to make sense of things.

As for the prescription of my bad eye, I just set it to the same as my good - it really doesn't matter, so might as well have them be uniform.
Any recommendations for a Django alternative to Spark?
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There will be atomic DDLs, which is great. I didn't understand if this means that a DB migration altering multiple tables can be embedded in a transaction and rolled back in case of errors, like with PostgreSQL, or if it's only the single operation that became safer.
In other words, you don't know but one thing is certain. The anti-nuclear position has put an effective halt to research and innovation in that area.
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“Cryptocurrency” is a marketing term for what is really just a time stamp on a distributed ledger.

Not only is it easy to track movement on these distributed ledgers, the vast majority of wallets are on exchanges like Coinbase that comply with KYC laws and directly hand over account information to the IRS.
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D.C. has given Elon Musk a permit to do a little digging for the Hyperloop
Note that you can also code the floating point instructions in microcode (a kind of firmware of the CPU).
Comically, that’s sort of what I do. They annoy me, so I take out my frustrations on them. I don’t say the stuff in the article, but my typical response is to close, or if it seems like an actual human type a quick “fuck yourself.” Every once in a while, I engage them to explain how their intrusion is annoying.
That's not entirely correct IMHO. There are small farms too but in Malaysia it's pretty much just the big players. And they get their land partly from kicking out indigenous people. Sure some people of these people are employed in the industry, get some cash from the big corporations or have their own small farm - but overall this industry is toxic to these people. Resulting in enforced relocation, destroyed land used for hunting/fishing and many other issues.
Here's an iOS + Android app that the company I work for makes - it uses OSM as a source, plus proprietary maps for Czech Republic (where we're based).

I believe it has one of nicest and most usable map keys for outdoor navigation:

https://windymaps.com/app
Ah. Yeah; the party does have an unfortunate habit of treating "fundraising ability" as a proxy for "electability". I don't love that strategy; it does tend to skew them away from more progressive candidates. It's very much arguable that it's the wrong tack to be taking in 2018 (and 2020), and I'd agree that it's a big part of what lost them the presidency in 2016.

But it's equally arguable that it's just facing up to electoral reality. Winning elections costs a lot of money, Citizens United is a thing that exists, the other side has a lot of billionaires willing to bankroll them, too many voters still choose based on whose face they've seen on TV the most, and if you can't afford enough ad buys you're probably going to lose.

(And some of what's being cited in that Intercept piece is just plain sour grapes. The quote from Zephyr Teachout leaped out at me in particular: the district she ran for is the next county over from me, and I've been volunteering with a group trying to get Faso out in 2018. It's a mix of long-time party members and volunteers, angry Berniecrats, DSA radicals, and newbies to politics who had their Oh Shit! I gotta do something! moment when Trump was elected. (I fall into the last group.) One of the not-very-many things that everyone in that room agrees on was thank gawd Teachout isn't making another run at it. She'd be a fine candidate for a solidly blue district, but the party was absolutely correct to work against her in NY19; she was 100% not going to win that district against anyone who knew the words "librul" and "carpetbagger".)

But I digress. Look, I agree with you: the Democratic Party is a deeply flawed institution with a talent for unforced errors and own goals; they've been parasitized by too many expensive "consultants"; there's a gazillion things I wish they'd do differently. But "they're not changing quickly enough" or "they're not selecting candidates in the way I personally would prefer" doesn't translate to "therefore the whole party platform is a lie."

For me the Trump year has been a (sobering and sometimes humiliating) exercise in working with the situation we have, rather than the situation we want to have. And the situation we have right now is, frankly, a choice between that flawed and often disappointing party on one side, or barely-figleafed kleptocracy on the other. There just aren't other viable options right now, much as we might wish there were.
I'm still in awe that no matter what coding stack you use, you can almost always do everything you need without paying a dime.

With Microsoft, even Visual Studio Team Services is free - private Git hosting for up to five users, a decent CI/CD orchestration platform, a private Nuget feed, project planning, etc.
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I love JMESPath. I first discovered it when using the AWS CLI `--query` option[0].

I then realized that using it in my code would make things much more declarative and easy to grok than a bunch of maps, filters etc. Here's a real example which I think illustrates it[1]. It has libraries for lots of languages with a clear specification/compliance test[2].

The cherry on the top is the interactive query on the website. You can tweak any of the examples (both queries and data) and get results instantly. Extremely useful for playing around, building queries to work with JSON data (webhooks, API responses etc)

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/controlling...

[1] https://gist.github.com/gingerlime/757c7b4778c1ab68605dfce66...

[2] http://jmespath.org/libraries.html
They are things that take physical work to achieve.

Patience: it's an animal, it doesn't care what you want, but with work and education, you both transform.

Perseverance: incremental work, with a living being that isn't subject to reasoning, is what makes the most change.

Ownership and Obligation: the animal is your responsibility, it does not have responsibility, you own your failures.

Decisiveness: related to ownership.

Benevolence: xenophon's "nothing forced is beautiful," and (I think la Guerieniere's) "ask much, be content with little, reward often." exemplify these.

Takt: the ability to express your intent simply, unambiguously, consistently, and with a stable emotional presence.

Temperence, moderation, and sympathy: this is a living thing you can't just threaten into submission.

Magnanimity: the animal is going to test you constantly, and you have to be greater than it.

There are other aspects that the words we use today have been freighted with inaccurate critical interpretations, but they are similar to the Aristotelian virtues.

These (among many) in addition to exercising the physical experience of leading, which means to be followed willingly. You learn how you don't just read about something and become it.
What's a good time to look for jobs in linguistics/computational linguistics?
...someone is literally taking money away from you to pay for something you might not need – thats hardly freedom.

Every society beyond a certain size in the history of world has done this so making this statement is not relevant unless your point is that no society can be deemed free or that "freeness" is sliding scale dependent upon taxation rate. No one I've ever talked to has ever really thought this so I'm guessing you don't either.

Overall taxation levels in the U.S. are 40% – 50 % lower than in the Scandinavian countries. Generally people in those countries don't need to worry about food, shelter, healthcare. No matter what poor choices they make in life these things will be provided.

In the U.S. a single illness can bankrupt a family and leave them in penury. A person does have to worry about the what if scenarios. This burden of worry is precisely the way in which we are not free. It's the lack of real security.

There's a balance that the Scandinavian countries seemed to have found. They tax higher than we do. They invest in their people and in their society's well being. They tend to be happier. They tend to be healthier. They don't have to worry about being bankrupt because they got cancer. They are freer than we are as a result. Those countries, simply put, are much better places to live than the U.S.
Studies will also show that inducing and keeping them in coma is one of the foolproof ways to ensure a person never tells another lie over a period of 10 or 20 or 30 years.

Controlling or having a low calorie diet isn't a medical treatment [1], it's simply a choice an individual (in most cases) makes. They choose to not continue with the original choice after some time, so to club diet-control under 'medical treatment', and say that it doesn't work, is incorrect.

[1] https://www.wisconsin.edu/workers-compensation/coordinators/...

Edit, grammar.
Though who says you have to be productive? If I have a few $M in retirement saved up. I could care less about being productive. Productive is all relative. If no one pays you to dig holes and fill them in again, then the productivity is infinite. Building ships in bottles is futile to most, but productive to an old man.
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Yeah, once this got out to the news, it was pretty much guaranteed that this memo was the first thing anyone would know about this guy. I agree that's not "fair" in an objective sense -- everyone should get to learn from their mistakes, especially if they were made in a "safe" space where feedback was encouraged.

That's why I'm very curious exactly how this got distributed early on. Did someone take private feedback and socialize it?
Or was feedback always a public bulletin board, where there's some shared responsibility on both readers and writers to think about the context? Or did Damore socialize it independently to prove support for his ideas?

If feedback was private, I think HR could take a firm line about what policies and principles Damore needs to adopt (at least at the workplace) to participate in his employment community, without helping his name get published with this memo (and possibly even without firing him). But the moment it got published changed the stakes for everyone involved, and not just due to PR. It's fair to ask: "can I require my female and minority employees to work with someone who has asserted that biological differences make them less likely to succeed?"

As far as the media goes, they've done what they're paid to do and socialize the most extreme opinions (most rejecting but some supporting Damore). I think that sucks for society but is a much bigger problem than this case.
Forbidding hardware/software owners from exploring and/or modifying the device or the copy of a program they have legitimately bought whatever a way they want and selling their legitimate property (even after they have modified it) just ought to be banned completely IMHO.
Regarding the MIT license, I know one lawyer who disagrees in practice but I'm not sure if that lawyer seriously believes it. That lawyer is associated with an effort by some companies that have traditionally used standards-setting activity as a patent license revenue generating activity, to argue that open source licenses can legitimately preclude any grant of patent license, explicitly or implicitly (that is, that an open source license can be a pure copyright license). Part of that effort is an attempt to argue, based for example on historical evidence or on a policy basis, that certain widely-used open source licenses, like the MIT license, are susceptible to the "copyright only" interpretation.

My co-worker Scott Peterson has given a lot of thought to the issue of the MIT license as explicitly embodying a patent license grant; I am hoping he will publish an article on this in the near future.
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If :

A) For every woman in the general population who is qualified and wants to work at Google, there are two men (for whatever reasons)

B) the observed ratio at Google is two men per woman

Then, together, A and B are consistent with a belief that the women that currently work at Google are just as qualified and interested as the men.
Mandatory access controls were invented to address this exact weakness. Ironically, selinux might be the most mature implementation of it in Linux, if not the rest of the Unix land.