skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding the root cause of how our healthcare system developed is both crucial and completely lacking from most of these discussions.

It is a tale of federally mandated wage control and specialized tax breaks. A quick google will show many articles outlining how we got here.

Why is car insurance not tied to employers? In general how much better does car insurance work than health? Are the prices not much more straightforward and is it easy to shop around? If you are treated poorly by your car insurance company, can you easily tell all your friends and change companies?

This is the real problem here. Most folks have no choice and no skin in the game, which leads to all these crazy stories about zero pricing information and no ability to change companies.

If the tax breaks simply got removed, and people had to actually pay directly for their insurance and could switch companies, the vast majority of these problems would go away.
I only have one question, why?

I can understand picking one over the other start, but what motivation could you possibly have to actively ditch nginx altogether?
Not being sarcastic or proud, I know I (barely) lost. Just stating the facts. Obviously over a long term horizon of like 10 yrs I expect to beat the S&P or I would be spending my time elsewhere.
The UCSD Network Telescope
It will be interesting to see the effect fully autonomous vehicles (eventually) have on traffic/commuting.

If you can just nap or get work done while commuting you might not mind a 90-minute commute as much.

On the other hand, if you can’t afford an autonomous car and have to commute it will be even more hellish...
How would doctors and hospitals account for complications or non-standard 'things' that come up during treatment? I don't think it's reasonable to try to document every outcome or potential action taken. It's easy for me to think "setting a cast on a broken arm should cost $X.", but having had it done before, there can be complications - existing fractures, location of fracture, skin conditions, etc.

I absolutely would love things to be transparent, but I think healthcare is more like fixing software bugs than delivering well-scoped features. It's very hard to estimate anything beyond the most basic, superficial issues.

Just to be totally clear, I want prices posted online. I'm just worried there would be asterisks next to everything and then they would be useless. Perhaps that's an opportunity for differentiation in hospitals: "broken bone - cast set: $X - all inclusive".
Pollution is a problem for the whole planet - we already know this. What is the sense in "letting the market decide" (whatever that means. Markets don't make any decisions, but I digress) if we already know the outcome we want. Legislate what we want to do and let's move on with our lives.
I don't get the point here - you're saying "All Netflix cares about is eyeballs" and then imply 'people go to the movies so they must be good', it's basically the same point.

You could argue that going to a movie takes deliberate effort, but sometimes I find myself going to the movies even if I'm not that interested in the movie, I just want to go to a* movie*. And I (as a Netflix subscriber) have never watched a Netflix original movie.
I find this comment very interesting -- am I understanding correctly that you find it easier to notice your heartbeat change than to notice your mood change?

With effort I can barely detect non-drastic changes to my heartbeat -- I am much more readily aware of changes to my mood.
How will this impact my social credit score?

Every day China is becoming even more of a nightmare dystopia, so of course YC will dive in headfirst.
Forex seems like a market where the average trader would see less success than something like equities because Forex seems zero-sum at best. Do they have these statistics for other markets?
I feel this every time I have to go to the office and it’s raining hard out. I think, why do we do this to ourselves?
Serious question, what towns would you recommend. I don't deny I'm making a consumer choice, and said so in my comment.

When I lived in Houston, I lived in a beautiful flat, a 20 minute walk from my office, and did so making the equivalent of $18/hr. I can't think of many places that'd be possible in the Boston area.
Something like https://nerds.company/ ?
> I’m constantly flabagastered by what’s considered novel in the world of MySQL.

What's that in reference to? The article explains that MySQL implemented group by using a newer standard than many competitors did, by looking at functional dependencies. Not exactly novel, but good for MySQL, they decided to go beyond the competition when finally catching up on this particular feature.

There are, of course, many other problems with MySQL (as you allude to), such as silently ignoring CHECK constraints, but that doesn't seem to make sense as what you were referring to in context of what they consider novel.
temptation too high...
Huh? I thought "select" was "ALT"??
I grew up messing with GNU/Linux, so I know what it means to tweak kernel parameters and not have working wifi. But in the past five years of using Ubuntu full-time I haven't had a single issue with out of the box stuff working on any of a number of Lenovo machines.

Hell, I even have 16.10 running on a Macbook Pro from 2013. Curiously, the baked on RAM chip has a bad patch on it somewhere and macOS chokes when doing a full re-install, yet Ubuntu seems more fault-tolerant about memory and runs mostly fine (there are display corruptions when first booting, but putting it to sleep and waking it up causes them to go away until the next reboot).

Meanwhile I would argue macOS has become much worse given the closed-nature of the software and the price premium to use it. It's hard to complain about having to tweak things when the OS is free/libre.
Caddy's binary distribution is closed-license, so beware. If you need it to be truly free, compile it from source. I did like Caddy's simple configuration format, though.
“You may shut the f– up”: Dashcam vindicates cops confronting corruption
Ask HN: What's your Twitter handle? What topics you usually tweet about?
More cycling fatalities than deaths in cars
It it’s erroneous to call the American system a market-based system. It commonly is referred to as that - I know - but it doesn’t operate as such. Gov. regulation artificially and intentionally limits supply, supply shortage limits competition, limited competition inflates cost. Third party payer systems abstract the consumer from the supplier. Their buying decision is based on proximity of service center, not cost, because they often just see a $10 co-pay. So they aren’t making informed comparisons. If there’s a market there, it’s certainly not a free market, or anything close.
Mine is https://folio.artemix.org/

I'm a backend developer and I mainly focus on clearness, simplicity and accessibility when developing websites.
Looks like they are considering this: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a19884619/netflix-movi...
All true. And yet, management has to keep an eye on individual productivity, for at least two reasons. First, optimizing global productivity requires at least reasonable local productivity. And second, local productivity affects morale. You can lose your best people if they consistently feel unproductive.
An hour commute is normal within NYC. My commute on average was 50 minutes for the last 20years, door to door. 10 mins walk to a train or a bus, 30 mins ride, 10mins walk to the desk.

Now I have a house in Staten Island and it’s still 50 minutes - though I can cheat a bit by driving to the bus. It’s actually a 15 mins walk, but I don’t mind it.
They're not. But if all the nerds spread themselves out over the rest of the country, the restaurants and construction projects wouldn't all be crammed up in Traffic Jam City, either.
> "To me it sounds extremely minor and not a big deal," said Joe Saluzzi, partner and co-founder at Themis Trading.
Its still difficult to understand, even if one is under rent control, it is still beneficial to push for more housing units. Additionally, single family homes do not fall under rent control in Alameda County, where nearly half of the housing units are rentals.
I had a few friends with depression, here are some things that worked:

1. Let go of societies values and expectations. If you feel a pressure to be successful, let that go. Swallow your pride, stay away from the desire to fullfill other people's expectation of you (if you can).

2. Help people around you. If you are a good musician, start a meetup group in a park and teach people how to play guitar. If you are good at coding, start a meetup group in the public library to teach people how to code. Limit your students to 2-3 and try to make a deep, positive impact in their lives.

From my experience, practicing empathy and helping others around me helped alot. Be aware though, don't fall into the trap of trying to measure success by quantity. Its better to help 2-3 people become REALLY REALLY good than to help 100 people get average skills.
Come on, Joy. You blog posts weren't even that bad, they were just in poor taste. You didn't say anything particularly vitriolic or hateful. This is your opportunity to admit that these were once your views, and emphasize your personal growth since then.

Instead, you are just going to pretend that your past self never existed...

"I find gay sex to be gross" isn't that controversial of an opinion. Plenty of open-minded, accepting people agree with you. It just wasn't a worthwhile opinion to espouse...

Own it, Joy. Don't just play dumb, because now you just look dumb.
Insight Expands to Canada, Launching AI and Data Science Fellowships in Toronto
This is exactly it. We want both.

Imagine saying, do you want a $300 used iPhone or a $600 used iPhone? Pick one. You don't have enough information to make the decision but at least you know the price difference.
goroutines are CSP: https://golang.org/doc/faq#csp

The FAQ even mentions Occam, mentioned by another commenter:

"Occam and Erlang are two well known languages that stem from CSP. Go's concurrency primitives derive from a different part of the family tree whose main contribution is the powerful notion of channels as first class objects."
> If the government will not allow treatment and there’s no way to pay and you can’t leave the country, you’re finished.

If insurance will not allow treatment and there’s no way to pay and you can’t leave the country, you’re finished.

Side note: private health insurance, private healthcare facilities, and paying out of your own pocket are all possible in countries with socialized healthcare.
This is one of the better comments here.
I lived in the city (SF) and outside the city. My commute to the Embarcardero wasn't too bad when I lived in Pacifica. Just drive over the hill to Colma, park and take BART. I'd read on the way into the city and walk to work. Probably the best commute I've ever had except working from home.

Pacifica felt like a small town separated from it all. But I lived in the Manor area. Living down in Linda Mar (anything past Sharp Park) and dealing with Hwy 1 traffic would be frustrating.
TA indicators have number of flaws.

One of the biggest flaws is that TA indicators tend to repaint. So an awesome winning MA crossover in hindsight might never really execute during real trading.

Additionally using TA for trading also involves self-fulfilling prophecies. And if there are any markets which follow this prophetic tendencies - it is cryptocurrency.
But efficient markets are not a law of nature. Depending on context (e.g. HFT) it might be a wrong assumption.
If you don't work, you don't get services; not until you're old enough to get Medicare.

You left out Medicaid.
The article mentioned is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-24/the-18-bi...

At the very bottom,

> Since 2015, WeWork has also leased space in some buildings in which CEO “Adam Neumann and certain of his immediate family members hold ownership interests,”

Kind of weird, but maybe I'm missing something.
Because renters dont vote. They either dont have residency, are foreigners, or live transiently.

I think it is a terrible strategy to try to convince homeowners that its best for them to forego clear economic benefits for blurry future profits. The solution is land value tax: just remove city sales taxes and add a tax on land. That will make low density units more expensive, the tax burden is relieved from the renter and lands on the homeowner and renters see their income increase immediately.
> They wouldn't be attempting that commute in a car in the first place.

I think that's an unfounded assumption. I know plenty of people who do in fact drive daily from SF or Oakland down to MV/SJ.
Isn't that the same for any new/fringe idea though? Working non-remotely has been the status-quo since before it was possible to work remotely.

More curiously, I'd like to see if remote work was responsible for preventing a company from reaching milestones like being a multi-billion dollar company.
Take a look at pattern matching in other languages like Scala. I find the proposed syntax strikes a great balance between being familiar (for people familiar with Scala etc) and using well understood js structures (destructoring)

Would love for this to land :-)
Departure city and budget = monthly email with flight offers
> I live in a small town of 150k people

Even to the US's outsized standards, 150k is a mid-size city, not a small town.
It's a double standard though. I was at one of the big companies mentioned. I was the only one on my team in my office. Everyone else was remote in a time zone. My manager wasn't on site. But I couldn't work from home, and my desk space was reduced several times during my time there.
It's not immediately clear whether or not the reified nursery object breaks this correspondance.
You're putting $5k away every month when your take home pay is ~$8k a month?

I assume you must live a VERY spartan life in the Bay. Basically pay your rent (which must be shared or very cheap for the Bay) and utilities and not do much else...

I mean the average Bay area rent is more than the difference between your take home and your savings...

edit: I'm using ADP's calculator, don't know why SmartAsset is different but ADP is pretty legit so I'm going to continue to lean towards those numbers.
75%?? source?

That sounds like too much.
Joy Reid fight reinforces how critical Internet Archive is to modern politics
96 trades. 4 active strategies that each buy 2 stocks a month and hold for a year.

I care so little about volatility that I'm not even measuring it yet. And I admit that might be dumb.
I've built "successful" trading statregies. As some comment mentioned, trading on volatility is the key but it's extremely risky.

Everyone is trying to build a successful trading strategy. Honestly, a lot of my peers seem to be making the most from "insider trading" these days.
"Why would you think that they are exceptions to the rule that added supply reduces market clearing cost?"

Wage deprecation (allegations) from H1-B isn't from an increased supply. It's from the lack of portability once employed. Optimally, every 3-5 years, a jump would result in higher wage growth than working for the same employer. The H4-EAD allows for free movement, alleviating this one sub category of wage deprecation.
I was expecting single stage presses, neck dies, powder dribblers, and Sierra load manuals, live. Disappointed.
All of these alt coins are tied to just few pairs (mostly BTC or ETH). When I was looking at the relationships in different instances (just eye balling, no statistical analysis), it seems that some the coins are just more or less volatile.
My suggestion was more about sleep quality than quantity. If you have undiagnosed sleep apnea, you are probably not getting sufficient sleep no matter how long you're in the bed.
https://github.com/johnno1962/injectionforxcode for IOS apps. I'd submit a pull request but i'm lazy.
Whats sad is netflix's 4k looks worse than their super HD streams. People see 4k and just blindly assume its better which is really sad.
- Sunlight, sleep, exercise, healthy living, TLC.

- Removal of stressful situations/folks/commutes/TV/News/Media/WWW from life.

- Get some work done. Paradoxically much happier after accomplishing work than procrastinating, which causes worry.

- Supplements? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16225531

- Do something you've never done, see below.

- And oh, skydiving!! Can forcefully knock you out of a rut: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837748

- Beyond that seek pro help of course.
Remote branches maintenance, etc.
Wow, that is surprising considering how restricted alcohol is in Canada. Interesting.
That just lets you see the contract. The decryption keys by necessity can't be located on the Etherium chain at all and have to be held by a trusted 3rd party/system that watches the contract and releases the keys when the checkin doesn't happen. If the attacker is able to locate and disable that system then the killcord is essentially diffused the owner would have to manually publish or have setup backups.
>for better or worse, the US also does cutting edge health science that other countries dont get close to.

You're conflating two things. A large portion of "cutting edge health science" research is funded publicly. The private funding tends to focus on reformulating existing drugs and other less-risky bets. The real game changers come out of moon-shots made possible by government funding.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/13/3768013...
right now the limited resolution of the displays is a bit rough.

when we’ve got 4k per eye or so, it’ll be more of a contender.

(not having to have a gtx1080 whirring away in the same room would also help)
Amateurs. People in New York have been commuting two or more hours each way since at least the 70's.

Some people who work in the city live in Pennsylvania.
My manager has repeatedly encouraged us to work from home, because we're space constrained (loud), but I have absolutely no desire to do so... why would I want to bring work in to my own home? If the business is fine with my productivity hit, so am I.
A bash script works too: https://github.com/adamisntdead/devmymac
It is minor. One venue is suspending trading of a couple names. Anyone wanting to trade can do so elsewhere, including on the symbols' home exchanges.
AWS Lambda internals research
I used to remote work in my old job... now I have a commute of at least an hour... and it’s only 17 miles :(
The permission (via zoning and permitting) is part of the cost.
A lot of good advice here (exercise/social contact/diet/sleep/CBT), but here's my primary suggestion:

Take small steps toward self care, and realize you won't feel like doing any of them beforehand (even though you'll feel better for having done them). For example, cook for yourself. Clean one room in your house. Mow the lawn. Shave. Take one piece of trash out of your car. Say hi to a neighbor. Do one set of pushups.

Give yourself permission not to get better all at once.
Maybe they would live in Mountain View and walk, so not creating any new traffic at all? Or live somewhere on the train line and take a train?

If none of those people would drive instead, or even if only a couple of them would, then the massive bus is a negative.
Oh, I've been giving applied crypto trainings at Black Hat and different venues. I was wondering if I could train or give classes in China, or collaborate or do security consulting for companies there.
Problem is that if there's more development, you may end up being forced out of your rent-controlled place to make way for a bigger building.
I hope not. If people want to hate on hollywood for holding so much share in film, why would you want it to go to ONE company. Netflix is a corporation and we all know corporations are inherently evil. Given enough time, Netflix may murder all people who don't subscribe to make smut for it's subscribers.
> I think that's an unfounded assumption

Well so was the original assumption!
Ok. I reread your first reply. I don’t think you’re being cynical enough.

I believe, but could never prove, that Seder and KDW and the like were fired because they fell out of favor with their pay masters, and the faux outrage is the public justification.

Like you said, there were no revelations. Ellsburg explains this phenomenon in his thesis about the structure (economics) of presidential scandals. Mix-in equal measures of The 48 Laws of Power and the attention economy, and you get these silly popularity contests.

It’s kabukis all the way down.
A Better Way to Cut Down on Chrome Tabs
'go' is PAR with different syntax (Everything after the 'go' line is implicitly one branch of the PAR)

'select' is ALT
They were also built in a time where "Super Commutes" weren't necessary.
That's what their Admin GUI Windows app is called.
This article points out the challenge of asymmetric wages on communities. Engineers, managers, and executives living close to work and wait staff, support services, teachers, etc commuting in from far afield.

It isn't sustainable, and it will crash back to earth. One of the houses near me recently sold for way more than expected, and I pointed out that the development it was in had been build during the dot.com boom, what was more nearly all of the houses in that development had fallen out of escrow (the buyers walked away) when the crash hit because their source of wealth (stock in technology companies) essentially evaporated over 6 months.
Both of these ignore the obvious - you don't optimise on productivity locally you need to optimise on output of the system as a whole.

True, but in many cases, one good way to optimise the productivity of the system as a whole is exactly to optimize productivity locally.

Productivity of the system as a whole is significantly improved by communication.

Yes, but being in an office doesn't mean "no communication". Neither does being in an open environment guarantee effective, efficient communication.

Devs in offices may burn through a ton of tickets very productively achieving failure by building the wrong thing.

Same for devs in an open plan environment.
>the theory is they can live next door to the restaurant and construction site

Yes, because construction sites remain under construction for 10-20 years. /s

Not everyone wants to find a new home every month.
That's a coarse comparison. Most housing in the bay area is multi-room units. Even the relatively new apartments in North San Jose are mostly 2 bedrooms. If you're single and want your own place, there's very few studios and 1 bedroom apartments to go around.

For a more precise comparison, see: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/new-yor...

As of this writing, rent for a one bedroom apartment is 30% more in SF than in NYC.

My rent is $2640. I know people in Pacifica, Palo Alto, and Mountain View paying anywhere from $2700 to $3200 for a 1 bedroom.
Isn’t there a saying in economics: “That which cannot continue, will stop.”
At work we're migrating to openjdk obviously. But I'm curious what is the cost of a commercial Oracle JDK license? Is the price per server, per cpu/core, per users?

Anyone got a ballpark figure?
> Even if you could suddenly build all of the housing required to reduce prices on a short timescale, you'd have to solve the infrastructural problems that come with it

The value of new multi-story units along good commute in the most expensive housing market in the world would be so high that some taxation of that profit would be more than enough to fund building the required commuter rail or subway lines and also new schools. At least in an ideal world.

This is how Tokyo has funded new commuter rail lines. The increase of the land value in the new to-be-build neighborhood covers the cost of serving the neighborhood with a rail line:

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/10/why-tokyos-pr...

But I am not sure whether California has the will and skill to tax those profits, and to direct that money for those purposes.
How do I make an informed decision when I'm bleeding out in the back of an ambulance?