skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Kids are going to learn that they can trigger a squealing emergency stop by lunging towards the curb - great fun!

Isn't that already the case (and arguably they'd get more satisfaction out of it in some cases by seeing an annoyed driver)? Further, I'd say that's what _should_ happen -- if someone looks like they are going to enter the road, you stop.
Steer clear from them - as far away as possible. Document important dates such as when/how/why you first came up with the idea, when you began working on it, when the startup approached you, etc. Absolutely do not look at anything technical from them and definitely any discussions about their product.

How would you feel if you hired a freelancer to work on your product and then shortly after they launched a similar product?
Hey xconverge. Just an update, I reinstalled the plugin and configured it to work with neovim and am very happy with the results.

Thanks for contributing to the VS Code ecosystem.
I heartily recommend this talk. It and the corresponding proof-of-concept Intel userland packet processing driver[1] went a long way for me in removing a lot of the magic from low-level network packet handling and device management in Linux.

[1] https://github.com/emmericp/ixy
Ask HN: Flexible E-mail server solutions
I have got a project idea and I think the best way to implement it quickly is to use a mail server and be able to write content to a MAILDIR that is then picked up by SMTP server to send out. Then parse replies coming in.

What are my options? There is Postfix and Sendmail and qmail and dovecot and and and. It is confusing.

Basic needs, run on Ubuntu. Maybe extensible if I want to write my own plugins for the mail server in the future.
That does actually exist: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
Great approach! What you describe is pretty close to my understanding of what a good hiring process should be like.
That just falls into the standard example with the prisoner's dilemma. My perks example was just explaining what the billions are buying instead of influence/persuasion.
Urgh, this is so infuriating. Oni looks fantastic if it can deliver on what it does, but the infuriating part really is VSCode in all this.

Code is a great editor/IDE and has a huge amount of development backing and now a pretty large market share as well, which means inertia. But the vim bindings for it are just garbage. They are slow, make the editor feel sluggish, they don't work "quite right", etc.

No kidding this sparked some inspiration, but now I'm just going to have to either look at Oni and be jealous forever until VSCode catches up (if it ever does), or switch to Oni and end up missing out on all the features and inertia of VSCode :/

Hopefully the work that goes into this newer editor will spark some inspiration and get some of the work offloaded to libraries which VSCode can use as well.
If you want a lower payment per year go pick a really large company (the larger the pool the less you will pay).

My mom pays half of what I pay and she gets family insurance while I get a single person insurance. Her pool is a large grocery store company.
There was a thread a year or so ago on HN where some people mentioned that they narrowed down their supplements to NMN and something else and were happy about that.
> Once your revenue exceeds x million USD on ad supported services that are free for end users, you must offer the service also for money with reasonable margin on top of the actual production costs, with strong guarantees that the data of end user who has opted for paid service is kept private and not monetized anyhow

I like the size threshold but not the solution. Toying with business models should be a solution of last resort.

Simpler: for companies with more than X users or Y gross revenues, an American GDPR. Consumers get an absolute right to audit and delete their data. Explicit consent is required for each instance of third-party sharing. Companies are liable to their users for breaches, with a minimum amount directly claimable by users through an easily-accessibly regulator.
I never redefined anything. I’m just trying to help you with the nuance in the language that you must be just willfully avoiding. Otherwise, you have found a rhetorical loophole. Doesn’t mean you are right.

“Information” is a poor term for this discussion. “Data” draws the more useful distinction. I should have said “Advertising is not only information”. It would just be stubborn to insist that advertising is merely data sharing. I’ve been working in advertising most of my life and we do more data distortion than data sharing. We make a living on dishonesty and manipulation.
They are. If you liquidate your position in one stock to buy shares of another stock, that's also a taxable event.
Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees
Well the advertiser needs to reach the customer so that’s why they would come back to the platform.
" Medical insurance providers aren’t allowed to give accurate pricing, "

Why are they not allowed to do so? I think it's more likely that they don't want to so they can make up prices as they wish.

"Your EV from holding a car insurance plan is slightly lower than if you’d put that money in bonds. The benefit is that you can spread your risk across multiple parties. It’s entirely different from medical insurance, where your EV depends strongly on individual circumstances (and can be very negative)."

This is exactly the same as health insurance. Spread risk over many people. EV depends on individual circumstances (driving skills or health). If health insurance is healthy people subsidizing sick people, then car insurance is good drivers subsidizing bad drivers. I don't see the difference.
As one of the (perhaps many) artists here with day jobs in software, I read this with interest. I was a bit disappointed but, given it's the NYT, unsurprised there wasn't more about the primary reason most artists have day jobs in the first place: the art, more often than not, doesn't pay; and some of us need to make rent just the same.

I would not say being a software guy has, by itself, had much influence on my art practice so far, though I may yet end up mixing the two disciplines. But I will say that having a reliable, full-time day-job over the years has hugely influenced my artistic productivity and not for the better. Other artists-with-day-jobs I know would almost certainly echo this.

However, for better or worse I chose this path because I didn't want the kind of financial insecurity I saw as a likely risk of trying the "professional artist" path. In retrospect I think I was only half right about that.

On the one hand, a good number of the successful artists I know have other money and also connections such that their worst-case scenario would have been falling back to a fancier version of my life. On the other hand, now that I'm 20-odd years into it I see that a lot comes to you from just staying in the game, and there are ways of balancing the "work" against the "art" that are more favorable to the latter. Figuring this out going forward is one of my big challenges at the moment -- it gets more complicated as your career progresses and you can't just punch a virtual clock anymore.

Purely anecdotal evidence: off the top of my head I can think of seven friends (plus me) who have real day jobs and are also visual artists. One basically gave up painting; two of us are stalled and trying to get started again; one has a job in the art world so is "inside" even during his downtime; and everyone struggles to find time for their art.

Among those I know without day jobs, I'd say about half are more or less broke and half are more or less successful (galleries, museums, etc.). But even among the successful ones there are several who would be broke if not for their partners. I guess I (obviously) still don't like those odds.
No it didn't, it reduced choice and drove up insurance costs by mandating that all private insurance cover everything + kitchen sink. My single brother's cheap catastrophic plan was OUTLAWED to force him onto the ACA exchange. The only thing ACA has done on prices is pass rising costs to taxpayers (more than 80% of ACA participates are subsidized) and the exchanges are in a death spiral because anyone who can escape them is doing so.

Another thing-- the data on prices are a flat out LIE, the government is also making massive payments to the insurance companies directly -- their prices don't reflect their actual costs.
No, a "stereotype" is a printing plate, used to print many copies of the same page; it has meant that since 20 to 40 years before the invention of photography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_(printing)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/stereotype

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype

Where did your story come from?
Ah sure, no problem, feel free to do a PR mentioning App Scripts as well if you'd like.

From a quick overview it seems like if you need serious work with spreadsheets/GDocs then App Scripts is a good choice. However drive-db is more like a (very) quick way of putting a Spreadsheet into your Node.js backend as an array/db. I purposefully didn't even allow edit since that'd require API keys from users and defeat the quick part of it.
What about a syndicated network of N companies, each with X-1 users and Y-1 gross revenue? It sounds like what you're describing would be easy to game.
> If you do get cancer, the other 99% of folks who didn’t get it are covering your costs.

This is exactly my point, but it's this mechanism Paul Ryan said wasn't working. @powera claimed this is not the point of insurance. These things seem like exactly the same thing to me, so help me understand the nuance.
One Vim to rule them all? Looks nice, will have to try it. Will never be a daily driver for me, as it’s not a terminal editor, but I like their thinking.
Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Let's stay with the example of asthma. I pay a premium based on that condition, and the expectation that maybe one day I'll get cancer. Sure, I can understand that.

So then I get cancer, and the bill is more than I can afford. Where does the money come from? Not my premiums, because I've only been a subscriber for 3 months, and my premiums won't even cover the cost of treatment for a week of cancer treatment. If someone else isn't paying for me, and I'm not paying for me, who is paying for my treatment?
Young people also will get old and not all of them will be multimillionaires so it makes sense that one generation pays for the previous because one day they will be in the same place.
$18,000 for a family is high but within the range of what insurance costs today. Family coverage on the small group market (<50 employees, which is where Matasano was at), which approximates the individual market in price, was ~$1100/mo a few years ago.

(I just looked it up and, weirdly, average premiums on the large group market in 2017 were higher than those in the small group market; on the small market, they're around $17,000, and in the large market, $19,000).
a lot of hospitals do eat denied claims. look at this [0], the annual financial report for HCA, the biggest publicly traded hospital company. ctrl-f for "provision for doubtful accounts". this represents denied claims / treatments for uninsured patients. this is ~7-10% of revenue.

now look at EBITDA, a common metric representing cash flow. look at EBITDA / revenue, ie cash profit margin. this is around 20%, which is massive. this profitability is around the level of big tech and big pharma. however, most hospitals in the US have almost no profit. the profitability of large hospital companies is mostly due to their bargaining power. in fact, a decade ago, big hospital systems were some of the best private equity / LBO investments, bc they were massively profitabel, stable businesses that could take on a lot of debt. and this is before the ACA

before the ACA, this was even worse, especially for smaller hospitals. see [1], financial statements for Community Health Systems, a massive (but smaller than HCA) public hospital company, from 2009. for some hospitals this figure was 30% or higher

the problem is that not all hospitals are equal. the companies i mentioned are some of the biggest, most powerful hospital companies. however, many hospitals are completely different (often independent urban hospitals), and just bleed money. sometimes its because they have more under/uninsured pts, sometimes its because their contracted rates are lower, sometiems its bc they dont have enough commercial pts (instead having more medicare / medicaid). so a blanket law making hospitals eat more costs would just help the rich get richer and kill the little guys

i worked in investment banking and these big hospital systems were some of our best clients. a business that can write of 10-30% of its revenue as bad debt and still generate 20-25% profit margins is an incredible borrower, and we'd underwrite multi billion dollar bond issuances for these companies, so they could issue dividends to shareholders, and because they were so profitable they could afford tons of high yield debt without breaking a sweat

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/0001193125180...

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095012310...
I'm sorry you feel that way, but that's simply not what happened. I cofounded a company that provided insurance to ~40 full-time employees (and provided insurance before the ACA was passed), and the costs you're seeing today are in line with where costs were outside the ACA and prior to the ACA.

No matter what you think about prices, though, the most important thing the ACA did was create a nationwide requirement for guaranteed-issue insurance. However expensive you think insurance is, it's more expensive to be flatly and irrevocably restricted from buying your own insurance at all, which was the status quo ante of the ACA.
As long as you have enough money Texas health care is perfectly fine.
That does not follow at all.
I wonder how much material design is influenced by Hypercard. I know the web was partially inspired but it looks like with material design the language is sort of extended. Or maybe it was all integrated into the design language for the web.
Forget Cambridge Analytica. Zuck could use FB data for his own presidential run
Feynman mentions the Rhine example in his cargo cult science lecture (http://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/cargocul.htm)

I think an even more interesting example, one that shows greater subtlety of these effects, is the trend in experimental measurements taken when performing the Millikan Oil drop experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment).

This is also mentioned in Feynman's lecture. I had a plot I can't find now of the historical measures. It quite funny how the measurements trend slowly from Millikan's value to the true one over time.
I live in LA too, I am a sox figure a year salary tech worker and cant imagine myself buying a property here its too expensive. Wish real estate was more ubregulated like in Houston and Miami
From the outside it definitely looks this way. And some enterprise software (Oracle, Peoplesoft) definitely have some real UX gaps. However... in a professional, power-user environment, high information density is massive plus. Being able to see as much information as possible, with as few clicks as possible, and as few round-trips to the server as possible, is very desirable.

The less information you have per screen/interaction, the more you lock users into a specific way of doing things. Business software users tend to optimise for what works for them. The worst UX experiments I’ve conducted in enterprise software involved low information density screens, showing users just what they told me they needed to see. User expectations in this space are so nuanced - better to favour more information and a high learning curve vs easier to user but less flexible software.
Maybe I just wasn't trading enough with stocks to notice. I remembered always closing short potions to initiate long positions and not paying taxes until closing the long. Clearly, I've been confused this whole time.
Pretty much 100%. It's a regular instance of neovim, just with an Electron UI around it. I've had no issues with my .vimrc at all.
My in-laws have a 2009 iMac that's still going strong. Last year I replaced the HD with an SSD (nervously using suction cups to get the screen off while my F-i-L watches over my shoulder...)

My wife's 2011 MBP also gained a new lease on life with an SSD.
It’s more complex. Medicare is outcome-based. Providers who do a shitty job don’t get paid, which is why hospitals complain about reimbursement.

Medicaid is like an ATM machine for providers in many states. There is usually little or no correlation between outcome and payment, and poor fraud controls. That’s why you always hear about providers in NYC and Miami who “visit” 900 patients a day. Additionally, you have the institutional racism aspect of Medicaid where services are unavailable in some red states.

IMO, the biggest issues in healthcare are for profit institutions and insurers and the trade guild practices associated with Doctors.

Single payer or regional systems supported by taxes are the way to go. Medicaid should be an institution that is replaced by something better.
Naloxone is used to curb drug cravings as it blocks opiod receptors so you can't get high when you take it and thus weaken the reward pathway circuit in your brain's reward system. This has been studied in prison systems to lead to less repeat offenders for drug related offences (dui) when given naloxone in prison. I wish I could find the study.
It's not unrealistic to worry about Switch support. You seem to be coming from the perspective of a hobbyist game developer, which is fine, but anyone running a serious game development project should at least consider the cost of potential console ports, even if it seems inaccesible to a hobbyist.
I agree in principle that learning things can be tedious at times, but... learning, memory retention and reward system are very tightly integrated. It's almost laughably ineffective to learn despite pain, relative to learning with joy. You know there are people who could complete your song-memorizing ordeal in 1/10th of the time, not feeling any major frustration? Because most of the work is happening effortlessly, the song being sung in their heads on autopilot, reconstructing and optimizing?

I won't claim that toughing it out isn't worthy or that there always is a better way, however it seems clear that top performers in every field tend not to have to tough it out very much. This is unfair but not smart to ignore.
If your business model requires that it should be killed in the crib
People with narcolepsy frequently have trouble staying asleep at night. With narcolepsy, the brain jumps into REM sleep, so it can be very difficult to get enough of the slow wave sleep that is the most vital form of sleep.

It can sometimes get worse over time, but I don't know of major complications other than those directly caused by the sleep trouble and AFAIK treatment is entirely symptom based at this point. Medical treatments for sleep disorders are generally not that good (but in some cases better than nothing).

Ideopathic hypersomnia or other hypersomnias might cause your symptoms also (maybe more likely if you are a deep sleeper). Antihistamine use might also make that easier (even second generation antihistamines affect some people that way and some random medications are also antihistamine). Or it could just be luck as you say that you are able to do that :). Unless there is more than what you mention, it sounds like an entirely good thing at this point and hopefully if so it will stay that way. I've heard some people with that ability call it a superpower and as someone who has trouble getting to sleep it certainly sounds like one to me.

The rare diseases summary of narcolepsy notes:

"However, because narcolepsy often goes unrecognized or misdiagnosed, determining its true frequency in the general population is difficult.

The onset of narcolepsy can occur anytime between early childhood and 50 years of age. Two peak time periods have been identified; one around 15 years of age and another around 36 years of age. Some researchers believe that narcolepsy is under-diagnosed in children. Narcolepsy tends to remain a lifelong condition. Although the nature and severity of symptoms experienced by an affected person may varying over time, the disorder is not progressive."

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/narcolepsy/

Edit: As someone mentions above, sleep apnea can also cause this and can be treated.
> What about a syndicated network of N companies, each with X-1 users and Y-1 gross revenue?

Size-dependent threshold exist across our tax and regulatory codes. Concepts like beneficial ownership [1] and affiliation [2], amongst others, address these issues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_ownership

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/affiliate.asp
> it very much sounds you're making claims about them as people.

That's not an unreasonable interpretation, but it isn't what I intended. Their personal PR about how they run the company matters because these are unusually founder-driven companies, and even more so in terms of perception. Just as most people think of the President as more of a king, most have an image of Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg's personal playground.

> it's evident you personally see Google's founders as better people ethically, and Zuck as lacking principles

You have me wrong here. As I said, I was speaking about perceptions of them. As I said tho, that's not unreasonable, since in the name of succinctness, I presented the view and only afterwards indicated that I was focusing on perception.
No, this isn't about banning all communications. Publishing requires you to earn an audience. You can start a blog today but you won't have millions of readers. In fact, audience size is often used as a proxy signal for authority and quality.

Spend a few thousands on Facebook though (or other ad networks), and you can easily get in front of millions of people with whatever message you want, completely subverting all the usual signals. Many people can't discern authority very well, and that's if they even recognize that it is a paid ad.

There must be more regulation. TV, radio, print involved considering time and effort which was a natural barrier, but digital is much too granular and fast for the same rules to apply, and we actually have even less governance.
This reminds me a lot of the sbroker library in Erlang:

> SBroker is a framework to build fault tolerant task schedulers. It includes several built in schedulers based on TCP (and other network scheduling) algorithms.

> [...] in an ideal situation a target queue time would be chosen that keeps the system feeling responsive and clients would give up at a rate such that in the long term clients spend up to the target time in the queue. This is sojourn (queue waiting) time active queue management. CoDel and PIE are two state of the art active queue management algorithms with a target sojourn time, so should use those with defaults that keep systems feeling responsive to a user.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2017/james-fish

https://github.com/fishcakez/sbroker
>How do you account for the European "dark ages", for example?

The lack of a printing press? From what I have read, the creation of the printing press is what helped lift Europe out of the dark ages and presumably prevented it from ever returning to another one.