skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assigning a cost to something is actually fairly tricky in any business and there's often no single "correct" answer. And even if you had perfect pricing in medicine, deciding which procedure will be the best for you would involve a complex calculation of risk, balancing long term and short term health, impacts on quality of life and employment and so on.

On the other hand, India has a billion payer system, and it's quite trivial to find concrete price quotes for most common (and even uncommon) treatments. You'll even see providers advertising their prices and (surprise!) competing with each other on price. That's something that's all but unheard-of in the US, except for a couple of niche areas of treatment.

Medicine isn't inherently special in this regard. It is unfeasible for doctors in the US today to provide price quotations (for reasons I explain below), but there's no reason it has to be this way.
I like this. Plans to make it work with https://eddtor.com/editor ? :D
A few years ago you would have Apple fans bragging about how Apple is so much better, but now it's just as bad.

You have Linux left, but then again I accidentally removed the wrong package the other day and I made my system completely non-functional, to the point that I had to reinstall from scratch.
Ok, but you must understand that I'm going on the word of 500~ developers. Maybe they selection bias themselves for Windows affinity but a lot have development experience with Linux too and smirk at things like epoll with absolute derision.

I'm not a developer myself but seeing how they work on Windows is definitely impressive.
A required thought-piece for all JavaScript devs. Enjoy monopoly while it lasts, but be humble.
Government monitors people running red light by AI and publish their name online
Non-English speaker.

What does "smug" mean?
I'm still waiting for an inexpensive Linux board with proper sleep support. Suspend, hibernate, etc., and come back within milliseconds instead of dozens of seconds, and under $30 USD.
Perl?
Via Google's dictionary: having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements.
But as soon as you want a board with high bandwidth IO a single board costs more than a high end laptop or desktop or low end workstation.
It’s possible for Arizona to start using DST in the future. Indiana used to not observe DST until 10 or 15 years ago.
Good riddance!

Source for statement: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/coinhoarder.html
>Well if it dropped the frames and it kept getting hammered then multiple repeats would still not have any real chance of getting through (like 5 repeats over 5 seconds would be completely swamped by the literally million of frames it could get at the same time)

Not if, it does. The repeats are usually good enough to get into the receiving buffer. If there is constant noise on the interface that it even interferes with basic protocol operation you're probably running something that doesn't know how to throttle the connection properly. Those things are usually best retrofitted with some form of ratelimiting in the kernel.

But yes, in this case you wouldn't be able to do DHCP or ARP. This is also true for any further hops on the network. If the receive buffer is full there isn't much you can do about it other than try again later. And "try again later" is purely a protocol decision.

On an internal network the fix is usually to have a Switch that can ratelimit a peer. Otherwise, there is no protection and you can easily replicate the effect by taking an old switch and patching up a loop. The resulting packet storm can easily shut down larger networks.

On the larger internet, the telco's and ISPs are largely responsible for making sure their receive buffer doesn't get full.
'Mind Over Matter': Stephen Hawking – Obituary by Roger Penrose
Finland boosts influence on Nokia with $1B investment
As businesses, both companies are trying to hold their audience’s attention and sell that attention to advertisers.

Also, Reddit is a high traffic site, so the MAU argument doesn’t really hold water. Generously, maybe facebook’s popularity in more diverse international markets adds additional challenges?
Cora Is an Electric Sky Uber Drone from Google’s Larry Page and Sebastian Thrun
I support single payer as a general principle. But after reading stories about how it costs us seven times as much to build a subway in New York than it costs London or Paris, I’m concerned that whatever implementation of single payer we came up with would be far worse and more expensive than what European countries have implemented, even if structured similarly.
I have been working on daptin [1] with similar goals (self-hosted being the top priority). It is not just a static file host and actually exposes APIs which can be used in the static sites.

For customizations, I have built "Actions" which can basically do anything (to the extent of executing javascript or call external apis) and as for themes, you can upload any static site/design/template (be it vue or react or hugo).

[1] https://github.com/daptin/daptin
A government system doesn't imply only one option, it implies that everybody is covered.

Private health exist in countries with public health.
COBOL?
for the "I want to keep it in the cloud" guys: https://eddtor.com/
Just another article on blockchain
Sure. There are lots of useful proxies for labeled data.

It's worth noting that highlighted sections in Medium articles probably aren't great summaries (they are more a representation of important points - which is a useful thing to predict as well).

For example, many summarizer systems are trained on the single-line summaries given in news media systems. There have been attempts to use Tweets as summaries for linked articles too.
Some years ago, at least one of the popular CAs used to issue certs for RFC1918 IP addresses. Fun times.
> I saw people whip things up in Perl in a couple of hours that would have taken me days or weeks to do in Lisp.

Perl, my first and only love.
Thanks, maybe a more specific question: how does it compare to Photoshop’s lossy option in Save for Web?

Which dither and color reduction algorithms would be better suited for giflossy?
What a weird article. Why comparing Facebook with Reddit?

"Bikes hold the secret to fixing traffic jams". Ok, sure...
> Not so many people connect it

I wanted to say: connect him, obviously
> In fact, I'd go as far as to say Reddit provides a model for how to create a more interesting, fairer web. A model that doesn't drag down other publishers in the process.

No, instead it drags down users who don't follow the hivemind and bolsters power hungry mods who set the narrative.
Reddit, and it's system, is in my opinion the very opposite of fixing anything, unless you think echo chambers are good thing.

> With Reddit, though, it's right there on the homepage. As I write this, the top item on the site - about a person conquering drug addiction - is there because 49,600 people felt it worth my attention.

And a number of posts you don't see because they're either removed or because the algorithm holds them back.
Also, the upvotes you see are not how many people have upvoted that post... That number is much different.

> Under Reddit's upvote/downvote system, clickbait headlines often sink quickly, while long, descriptive titles, leading to genuinely insightful information, thrive.

How much time has this author spend on reddit? Clickbait is upvoted just as easily, as long as it goes along with what the hivemind thinks on that moment. And long descriptive titles do indeed thrive - because almost no one reads the article and most discussions that follow are bases solely on the title of the article.

Sigh so much wrong with the article, so much wishful thinking towards reddit..
> what other programming language would have given you that luxury?

I'm not sure what you mean. C? C++? Java? Perl? Perhaps Python?
Perl is one of those languages, if you get used to the power of Perl it could be really hard to move to other C based languages.

I can only imagine how it would be for anyone using Lisp. The power there is so much, going to something like Java from there would feel down right suffocating.

Going from Perl to Python in my case largely felt like trying to a run a marathon in chains.
Doesn't always help.
Co-worker used my hotspot, Windows force-downloaded updates.

How do I know? I was roaming and the data plan ran out, we caught it in the act.

Metered!
COBOL and luxury present in one English sentence is a syntax error.
Somehow it doesn't feel funny to me. What was the reason anyway?

Must have been a really stressful experience.
well, are there any other options for a spell-checker that convenient? I'm interested.
> knowing Lisp made me all too keenly aware of Java's shortcomings, and I had a very hard time not being angry at how stupid it was that I was being forced
to use it.

I would take this as a the thing to remember from this. When you are too angry at something, you cant learn it. I have seen the emotional refusal to learn new inferior thing (or read comments that amounted to the same) many times already.

It is something to be aware of and avoided.
There's a decent counterargument - take it or leave it - that this kind of research is extremely difficult and expensive, and upon success, privately weaponizing it and/or selling it to organized crime or nation state-level actors is extremely attractive, and therefore, the ability to short the stock of a sloppy/insufficiently-careful HW vendor to fully or partially fund the research instead is legitimate in that it ultimately improves overall-societal welfare relative to those other alternatives.

Vendors who wish to discourage that behavior could offer comparably-large bug bounties instead. And, of course, make their products more secure in the first place.
Oh, no. Even the NYT uses click-bait titles, now.

"journalism is dead, the reason will completely shock you!".
Funny thing is you don't even need a HAT, there are passthrough extractors and they're cheap (30 bucks for a pack of 4): https://www.amazon.com/ANVISION-Splitter-Adapter-Compliant-R...

Let's see how much the official PoE HAT is, but it better be cheap or I know what I'll be buying (more of)
That's why advertising drugs is banned world over.
Couldn't it just be that most people aren't getting the treatments they need? When I forgo medical procedures because of cost, I'm technically increasing 'efficiency' for everyone else - that's not a positive of our healthcare system though.
I saw this too, I was genuinely weirded out to see print advertising for cryptocurrency

Did you see the "World's first blockchain currency for football"?
ADHD checking in - I function with my ADHD and it's part of who I am. All I need is a little support and understanding due to my lacking organisational abilities and consistency.

That said, I remember someone who's younger brother was severely autistic. He'd shit himself as a means of communication, he was barely able to talk - he'd never be able to integrate in any meaningful way. His parents lives were spent 24/7 caring for this kid. They loved him but it destroyed their family. If a drug could bring someone like that to the level they can be mildly autistic and function and provide a far higher quality of life to those and those who would otherwise have to support them, why not at least make it an option?

As long as we're just fixing impairments, not trying to "fix" people.
Mine too. Until Erlang, and now Ada. I'm building myself a harem.
This comment was meant for another submission which didn't cover these points explicitly. Comments were merged hence the issue.
Most other countries have figured this out; you have a public and private system. Choice and universal coverage at way lower cost.

Yes the USA is quite insane in that you already have mostly socialised medicine with Medicare and Medicaid. You even have a version of the British NHS system in the VA. The only people who don’t seem to have coverage are the people you actually want in any universal insurance scheme; the young and healthy.
How SMART Are Your Security Program KPIs?
Not one negative comment in this whole thread. Everyone is enamoured with Hawking, huh? Ask the women in his life what they thought of him. Ask the scientists, including Peter Higgs, who complained about his undue credibility and attention given to him.

Disagree with me? Think I'm speaking negative about the dead? If you call yourself inspired by a scientist, admiring a scientist, then you should seek the truth. Emotion based on truth I can stand, but the outpouring in this thread is ridiculous.
Looking good. I'll try to use it with React for this online editor I'm working on.
Yeah, he really hasn't seen the darkside to Reddit has he? And it can get really dark.

I deleted an account I had there a while back and started again, with a very different set of subreddits, switching from fun to serious sub-reddits. It's like a totally different website.

I shudder to think what a racist or misogynist's reddit looks like.
Some π-ography for Pi day
Devils advocate:

Are you sure you're not just used to being exploited? You are, in absolute terms, expending more effort to support these systems "that don't close down", and the question is whether that increase in revenue (indirectly attributable to value you're providing) is being reflected in your pay.

While I agree people in tech have it very good compared to the general populace, having a job that is nicer than most isn't a good excuse for not thinking critically about whether you're being asked for more value than you're being properly compensated for. I have no idea how to quantify the 8 hour work day in terms of output, but it should be fairly unassailable that more hours = more work (should) = more pay.

How about thinking about it this way -- has pay risen (in real terms) significantly since the start of on-call rotations? What happened to the spot for operations people in other disciplines, who normally night shifts and make sure things are running well when the other half of the company is asleep? I think the obvious answer to this question is that you are that ops person now, and you're certainly not getting paid double.
Susskinds "Theoretical Minimum" series of books is quite readable.
Are there any consequences for people caught?
You don't have a payment system problem in America. What you have is a cost problem. You need some form of government intervention to prevent healthcare providers and drug companies from charging the most optimal price (the one at which they make the biggest medium-term profit), because the most optimal price is the one at which a lot of poor people die and middle-class people go bankrupt.

That is, you don't have to look for solutions for how to find enough money to pay for health care for those who can't afford it right now, you need solutions for how to bring the price down.
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If you never knew anything but COBOL you'd probably love programming it. Knowledge of better techniques can be seriously damaging to your career.

I suffered some damage from not wanting to touch Windows (3.1) after discovering Linux in the early 1990s. Today, most jobs advertisements still look toxic.
I started with Pascal, then learned Perl. When I was writing Pascal I was excited about stuff I could make the computer do, but pascal made me like the actual act of programming.
derkeiler.com gets blocked by uMatrix: the domain appears in Dan Pollocks hosts-file http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ in the 'ads' section.
It will probably count against their "Citizen Score" soon:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chinese-government-social-cr...
> Sun, 23 Apr 2006

I think it matters since languages like clojure are everywhere, including at Google.
The APL / J / K family of languages seems to be very strong with this effect. If it fits your problem domain, it's (apparently) so powerful that using anything else feels like a frustrating waste of time.
Yes this is a major concern. The US healthcare system is a reflection of the underlying political and social structures. Once these are fixed then single payer will fall out as obvious.
Yes, I agree. It's a problem much wider than just programming languages, it's an emotional issue in general. As a person who does Lisp out of enjoyment and Java/Erlang/bash for a living, it was good for me to get over the attitude of "my language is superior" and actually open up and learn a thing or two from these "inferior" languages, both when it comes to things that are worth repeating and not worth repeating.

If anything, remember that Lisp, Java, Brainfuck and hundreds of other langs are all Turing-complete and therefore equivalent to one another when it comes to computability.
any particular reason?
Those in Europe must wait for July 22nd, Pi Approximation Day. That's right, 7/22.

I've always lived in the United States but I've been won over to the logic of Month/Day dating format vs. our silly Day/Month format. Since I cannot go around in the States dating my checks (not cheques) 12/3 to indicate March twelfth, I use ISO 8601 date format: YYYY-MM-DD.

What I like about that format is it's unambiguous for both U.S. and foreign observers. (I work in a multi-national company.) It's month-first for U.S. readers, but it's also clear to the rest of the world that the month is in the middle.

Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/1179/
That's generally how it's done on non-Pi boards (some of which even have onboard SPI flash that's large enough to hold u-boot). This has the advantage that the PXE code can be upgraded in the field, which is kind of important given how complex and buggy it is.
This is from 2006 though.

Since then functional programming has picked up a lot of steam again, and I'm pretty sure having been a lisper for 30 years gets you good jobs. If not in Lisp, haskell, F#, clojure or whatever...
I'm interested in knowing your secret to finding inferior new things interesting.
This seems to be based on the theory of the connectome, which is widely accepted but still fundamentally unproven.
The idea that we are but a sum of the electrical interactions between cells in our brain is extremely short-sighted.
Our nervous system expands over the physical limit of the brain. How can we be sure that memories are not activated by specific interactions with other departments of our body.
And even if it were true that brain equals conscience, how can we ignore the constant interaction with the external world? Would it be possible to recreate a conscience "in sich" and "für sich", to say it with Kant, without connecting it to a simulation of whatever else is there?
In any case, I applaud at this trial. It is intriguing and interesting, but it also is a display of scientific hybris that you don't see often. I completely disagree with the assumptions that are moving this operation, but I'm extremely excited to see where this ends up.
China is illegally depleting fish stocks in West Africa
I hate scams myself, but what gives google the right to judge on this matter? Shouldn't they be following the guidelines of local governments?
>"What was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms," he wrote.

>Reddit has the power to help reverse this trend.

Odd that they completely missed the point of this, Reddit is a major part of the consolidation of the internet. Reddit pretty much killed independent forum and community websites.
> (Note: I'm not saying you should use LISP productively, it's something you should learn for the heck of it, not to actually use it)

Well, I do, and I have to say that it can be done. It isn't a road often travelled and it results in people making remarks about your language choices, but as long as my software works, its development is fun for me and my co-coders do not complain, I don't think anything is wrong with my setup. :)
It's easier to have lower aggregate wait times when a large chunk of your population knows they won't (e.g. can't afford to) get health care unless it's a life-threating emergency. Did the study cited normalize for "discouraged" patients from rural and inner-cities?
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I share your experience. Python took all the fun out of computing for me.
Easy now, pretty sure the author is not advocating that mindset.
Fortunately JavaScript doesn't have the problem described by the OP:

"With a secret weapon like Lisp in my arsenal in 1986 I could blow my competition out of the water with one hand tied behind my back and holding a martini in the other."

A present-day JavaScript practitioner will have his left hand busy trying to figure out what's this week's fashionable way to pass around some data in this month's fashionable framework and his right hand busy trying to make npm and Webpack work, leaving no time for martinis or blowing anyone out of the water.
Per your own sentence, you've just committed a syntax error.
Step one: stop considering them inferior, since something inferior cannot be interesting by definition.
I am following this with interest because I tried Gnome on Ubuntu and it takes up far too much screen area for my laptop. I am not sure where to move next. Maybe it will be one of the alternative desktops on Debian
The wonderful thing about market interventions is the way they justify the next intervention. It’s lawyers all the way down.
Write your content in an offline word processor like Word or Open Office and then copy-paste it in to your web form. If something is important then you're not really losing much (you only need to paste it in to the browser once after all) but you're gaining a lot by not voluntarily installing a keylogger.

As bonus if you save what you've written then you get a backup.
It kinda sounds like that's an intentional reference to a common clickbait format. My guess would be the article is about how clickbait has affected journalism?
The hardware accelleration for H264 sounds interesting. Although 100ms is not as ideal as I want but it's reasonable. Is it actually possible to use this feature in practice? Are proprietary drivers an issue?

Also is it possible to browse the web and e.g. watch videos on youtube with adequate performance on an RPi? (different topic)
I believe that SQLite is a continous source for awe in terms of overall quality of software. Their documentation is spot on, extremely clear and has a very low barrier for entry.

Applauds to them and the fantastic job they have been doing in the last decades.
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I think of those C and Perl fit the most.

You can't write C++ or Java like you did 20 years ago (of course, you could but you shouldn't). Both languages and their whole ecosystems have evolved tremendously in 2 decades.

The C and Perl style OTOH has changed less. A programmer of those language from 20 years ago that is transported to the present day will have much less problems fitting in than a programmer of C++ and Java would.
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That really caught me off guard! Elaborate a bit more please.
Yes... curious about it too. I am seeing many of my colleagues switch from Chromium to FF. The new version is a magnitute faster than anything I have used.
Fun fact - Edge browser on Android is actually my default browser for the last 2 months and I love it.