skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have a print out of it - I did find myself considering the idea of re-implementing it in something a bit nicer than 1980s K&R C.
They also don't want to be "forced" to buy insurance.
It strikes me that the System V amd64 ABI is not defined on such an (apparently) obvious point as padding of values smaller than a word. Is there a reason why it does not get fixed?
Writing Server Side JavaScript Applications – Netscape
Biohacker famous for injecting self with herpes found dead in float tank
Who’s Afraid of Continuous Deployment?
I always thought it would be nice if the major os vendors provided some way of building these types of local run web app using a shared engine the os provided. Not just a web view, but a way to build the ui using web tech but also exposing the file system and other things. I guess it would be hard to secure but it’s not any worse than running unsigned eclectron apps.
There's a fun little programming challenge set up around this if you want to try your own hand at it: https://github.com/mshang/python-elevator-challenge
Too bad they didn't list the pricing, it would be nice to know how much it will cost, once released.
Wouldn't that be better described as a "LESS/SCSS" framework?
In my view "emergency room" is a red herring. I once went to an ER for something. My first interaction was at a window where a worker asked me what was up, then pointed me down the hall to a facility that looked like and was just a regular urgent care clinic.

Medical care is anything if not statistical. If an ER is receiving non-emergency patients, they know it, and can design their care processes to handle those patients efficiently.

If they're billing patients $5k for a bandage, it's solely a financial boondoggle. There is also a political aspect -- blaming poor people for "wasting" care by making unnecessary use of the ER.
Can't know which people to mistreat if you can't label them from the beginning.

Regardless, I believe the statement was more like certain groups are trying to get something in the HR for people to volunteer such information. Not that the company has it as mandatory.

Which, by the way, is an incredibly horrible idea. Not only does it open the door for certain people to mistreat other people, as I said; it also creates the situation where certain types of people will treat others that don't volunteer such information as suspicious. As in, "what do you have to hide?"
> that you didn't really have the chance of negotiating

Not American, but from what I've read in these types of news articles, you often CAN negotiate it down a lot, but when you get a huge bill in the mail, the first thing you think isn't "I'm going to try to haggle down my $5000 bill with this huge hospital" you think "I'm so screwed. Time to google 'personal bankruptcy', was it 7 years?". Pharmaceutical companies are also always saying that they will subsidize prescription medications for those who can't afford it, but I dunno how much that is BS or not.
I don't see how it hurts their reputation to allow Signal to anonymize. They could even block domain fronting in general to block bad actors, and quietly whitelist Signal.
That's fair enough, but I don't think what people are lamenting is some golden age when studio executives weren't primarily concerned with movies they thought they could make money from.
It's free. Just pay for nodes.
I paid $5500 last year for an unnecessary emergency room visit (doctor sent me down to get a scan).

They wired me up to machines and made me wait 5 hours for the scan, then 3 hours to get discharged. They wouldn’t let me leave until the doctor on duty wrote up her treatment recommendation. Even though I was just there for a scan.

No insurance last year so after my “35% cash payer discount” it came out to $5500 after the many parties in the ER sent me separate bills. Scan was $2000 of that, but I could have paid $600 across town.

Don’t go to the ER unless you’re unconscious. It’s that rare case where you are paying AND you are the product.
Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award
Ask HN: Python GUI Recommendation. Tkinter vs. PyQT vs. WxPython Vs
I tried tkinter and I love that fact that it comes built-in.

However, I noticed some basic things are not supported, such as tables/datagrids. You'd have to create them from scratch by using Entries and displaying them in a grid, along with handling scrolling, headers etc.

Also, the navigation between different frames/windows is not intuitive as a couple of tutorials showed.
Android 8.0 Oreo for Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge: It's Official
Nice, I'll have to try and play around with that to see if I can create some Sonos/Heos like functionality.
Can someone ELI5 why the rate of expansion of the universe has to be a constant everywhere? Couldn't different parts of the universe be expanding at different rates? And couldn't that rate change over time?
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JSON and JSONB in PostgreSQL
> Amazon's managed Kubernetes service is in the preview stage but should also be launched soon.

Same as DO?

"DigitalOcean Kubernetes will be available through an early access program starting in June with general availability planned for later this year."

I'm not sure which will be first.
You could roll your own easy enough sure, I think the author is saying "Look! I have used the tools available and built the wheel, and I am giving it to you so you can save time."... does that sound about right?
The advantage of the single-payer model is this: if some clinic decides to mark-up one patient's treatment by 4,453%, the single payer can not only refuse to pay for that treatment, but also refuse to pay all other treatments performed at that clinic. This keeps the cost for treatment in a much more reasonable range, since the health care budget is debated and scrutinised as part of government spending.

The Australian model is that health care providers can charge what they like, but Medicare only pays a predetermined amount for every kind of treatment. Providers are free to charge more, but have to capture the difference as a 'copay' or by billing the patient's private health insurance.
Can't edit anymore but double checked and looks like the Blue line is about 7 miles of underground track (roughly) while the red line is probably closer to 5.
This one is a Klein Bottle but we just released a cross cap one yesterday: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=8068
This sounds like it will be dramatically slower than a VM on most workloads.
How religion is coming to terms with modern fertility methods
many of us are well aware of the massive efforts google puts into tracking every detail of our lives whether we want them to or not. your spin on this is downright hilarious
you just know they are storing it in a plaintext VARCHAR(16) column and not hashing it in any way ....
If you were to break down the charges from a surgery, the portion that goes to the surgeons salary is rather small, and particularly the portion that might be the difference between EU and US salaries. I think differences in charges for things like prescription drugs make a much higher impact.
The short answer is racism and greed.
FWIW, I read through your entire comment a few times and did not understand that it was about having a surplus of workers for entry-level or low-pay, low-skill jobs. I see that you briefly mentioned it at the beginning, but it didn't seem to be a main point of your post. Maybe I'm just an idiot and missed it entirely, and maybe the other two commenters also just missed it completely, but it really seems as though you didn't convey that point clearly. In the future, it might be worth trying to take a less hostile approach when replying to people who missed the point of what you said.
Share buyback is often a mechanism to compensate the employees, actually. It works 2 ways:

1. By boosting the value of already granted RSUs, both vested and unvested.

2. By augmenting the pool of shares that can be issued to employees as RSUs.
> "It rewrites the syscalls to make them succeed"

Imagine some applications expect the syscall to actually fail (ie. some odd way to test permissions).

I fail to grasp how this is a strength. Pulling the rug from under applications is dangerous. You're in a direct battle with internal implementation specifics - you don't want to get into that as an abstraction layer. You don't want to tailor various hacks for specific applications.
Hey KenCochrane, I’m the Product Manager on this product at DigitalOcean. VonGuard is right, you only pay for the worker nodes (based on our Droplet pricing, there’s no premium) and we take care of the master. Our standard pricing lives here: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
Of course the point of schools and college isn't the final exam, it's the years of learning you benefit from while being there

At least it should be
Because you might want to write plugins for example.

https://docs.docker.com/develop/sdk/examples/

And you might happen to work in one of those companies that have IT defining what programming languages are available on devenv images.
The whole healthcare provider<->insurer interface is hugely expensive.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literatu...
If that's true then it needs to be explained, i.e. new physics.

General Relativity affords uniform expansion through the cosmological constant. Non-uniform expansion means new fields, so either dark matter or modified gravity.
Pay attention to people. Assume technical competence until proven otherwise. Ask your people where they want to go, and then figure out what they need to do to get there. If they want your job bring them to all the training you need to take now. (there is a lot of training out there are on how to be a good manager, the good stuff is backed by science) If they want to be a better developer help them in that. If they want to retire as a software engineer, make sure there is something meaningful for them to do.
Isn't it anti-competitive? How can consumers make an informed decision as to which care provider to visit?

Isn't this in the same boat as price-fixing?
People who have insurance good enough for all the medical care they've ever had are afraid of being denied care, basically.
That's the same as Amazon's!
Oh, good to know. From the horror stories you usually read in the news it seemed that "try to haggle down my $5000 bill with this huge hospital" is something you just don't get to do, if you are a patient, I will remember that if that ever comes up (even though I hope it doesn't :)
Just in case anyone else is similarly confused and had to check, this is the work of the IAB, which stands in this case for the Interactive Advertising Bureau - not the Internet Architecture Board
Super nice. Been running k8s on DO using Rancher, but a native solution will be really awesome.

I'd like to see it as tightly integrated into e.g. GitLab like GKE is.
Oh yeah, like if what we learned in the past 6 years about what was going on wasn't sufficient to beat our wildest fears... If something could be done, it is being done by somebody already.
That was the talking point, and may have been true in a couple of places (especially those states that refused to expand Medicaid or only did the minimum to comply with the law), but I'm aware of no evidence that was true overall.
Which is a sad state of affairs, programming language history should be a required part of curriculum.
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Would be my recommendation
I remember seeing a paper that showed that at moderate correlations of "Good as an X -> good as a manager of Xs" you are still better off promoting people randomly. The reason being, promoting your best X eliminates your best X and does not replace them by a great manager of Xs, so you take a definite loss, at least some time transition until they become a functioning manager, and then a risk that they will never be as productive in their new role as they were in the last.

Definitely the solution is to decouple reward hierarchy from managerial hierarchy. Unfortunately, the people who would make that decision in most situations stand to lose from such a decision. There is too much focus on leaders when the best a leader can ever hope for is to allow the formation of a gestalt out of all the team members including themselves.
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Plenty of anecdotes in this thread, predictably. Let's talk about why things are so messed up.

The thing to realize here is that total government provision of healthcare is probably cheaper than the way the US does it, but that doesn't mean the market has failed. Healthcare in the United States is anything but a free market. It's the worst of all worlds: special interests extract rents through government regulations (drug patents, occupational licensing, handouts to insurance companies in legislation); the government effectively controls prices through its own payment programs; the whole system is over-regulated to an absurd degree. There is no price mechanism to help consumers or producers make proper choices.

So when someone says something like, "the free market can't effectively provide healthcare," I would kindly ask where they see a free market healthcare system. This sounds like a No True Scotsman argument, but it's not. You can't label something so ridiculous as US healthcare as "free market" without either total ignorance or intent to deceive.
> works in < 90% of browsers [0], so it's kind of for academic consideration only for now.

Says your particular organizations policies, why is the line drawn at 90%, why not 95%? Is this restriction based on calculations or was it simply arbitrarily chosen?

If it's arbitrary, allow me to offer an alternative, focus support only on "modern generation" browsers which auto-update by default. All popular browsers adopted auto-updates as a collective effort to improve end-user security, and so as web developers we're able to encourage this by only supporting those platforms.

As you can see on caniuse, grid support on those modern browser platforms is 100%. The only ones lacking are IE which microsoft has abandoned, and Opera Mini (I can't speak good or bad about that, I haven't examined it).

The idea that you must support as many browsers as possible is a relic of the 1990s dot com bubble when it was unclear which browser was best and there were no agreed upon standards. It's now 2018 and you're either using Firefox or Chrome and to a much smaller extent, Edge or Safari. Any other browser that wants to be taken seriously is going to support the standards set by those platforms.
And of course this is bad for everyone involved. We don't pay for someone to get preventative or proactive treatments for a chronic condition, instead choosing to divert very expensive ER resources to treat as a series of emergency interventions. Worse for the patient, worse for the hospital, worse for anyone else paying into the system.
From what I can tell, Americans seem to define "government" to include the courts as one of its branches, whereas Brits define it to only mean the legislative branch and maybe part of the executive in US terms. Which makes it interesting when British people accuse Americans of lying for claiming the government was responsible for this, especially since I'm sure some of those people know Americans mean something different by that word.
You forgot:

3. Canadians pay for their health care in tax, anyways.

(However: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/do-canadian...)
Show HN: Injecting line number of Java 8 lambda in its toString
My laptop has a limited amount of memory, CPU time and battery life.
I'm still confused as to what exactly this is.
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In addition to being cruel, this kind of penny-pinching is often penny-wise and pound-foolish. It's easy to lose more money verifying that people are not shiftless than you save by denying them benefits.
We do it for the illusion of freedom which is used to trick unfortunately ignorant people out of services that would cost the wealthy a bigger percentage of their income.

"Choose what X is right for you and your family"

This allows the wealthy the chance to choose a better level of healthcare, schools, and basically everything else leaving the rest of the nation to choose only what they can afford (guess what, its not much). By patronizing the nation by saying "You're so smart, you know better what you need than a stupid Washington bureaucrat like me!", they stroke our ego's just enough to convince people that they are able to get a better deal (ie, beat the system).

It infuriates me that the people who ran for office and chose to "represent" us in a lot of cases completely abdicate their responsibility to do anything. Not to be partisan, but one party is a lot worse about this than another, to me if you go through all the trouble to put yourself in government and enrich yourself handsomely while you are there, at least fucking pretend you are going to try and solve something rather than this self-deprecation that comes out of the Republican party.
Well, yes, he has the right kind of moral compass to work there, then.

I had a graduate school colleague, former Navy guy, who went to work at the CIA. This was right during the run up to Gulf War II, you know? The one that was completely optional and unnecessary? Anyhow, his ENTIRE rationale for wanting to go work there was that he wanted "his war" which he felt he was entitled to having. Kind of weird, isn't it? There are actually guys out there who want there to be wars so that they can experience them in some safe, disassociated way, as in, not on the front lines where the carnage and dying takes place, but from behind a desk, or perhaps on a base in the Green Zone or something.

The whole MIC is made up of people like him. I truly despise all of them.
I disagree. It’s a universal form of insurance that everyone contributes too. It’s free in the same way a public library or road is free to use. It just becomes another societal cost which frankly, no one notices. It’s not perfect either, if you want something unusual or not common, it’s possible you’ll have to pay for it if it can’t be arranged at the right price. Certain vaccines for example. So there’s still a need for health benefits but without a system charging high prices by default, even those costs tend to be more reasonable.
Or other predators – apparently foxes and martens preying on mice helps reduce the tick population:

https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/sports/2017/08/17/ecker...
Costs in Massachusetts did not go down when an analogous plan was enacted. Obamacare may have been better than nothing but it was not good.
The base rate is the same (in theory), but insurance policy A is only going to pay 18% of procedure Z and policy B will pay 27%; uninsured patients will be offered a 50% discount if they pay promptly, otherwise the bill will eventually be sold to collections for 1% if it's not paid)
> You can't have it both ways.

I want it neither way. Facebook should delete all data and immediately stop collecting it.
I've literally had someone on reddit tell me that (and I quote) "the only reason why you have free healthcare is that we[USA] subsidize it by protecting your country so that you are free to spend your budget on healthcare".

And I mean....maybe there is a little bit of truth to that, but what sort of attitude is this? It was almost pride as in "yeah we're paying through the nose so you don't have to"?
In the Canadian prairies we already had an insanely short window between endless winter season and infinite mosquito season and now tick invasion season has ably filled that gap. Argh.
Welcome to Scootopia: we now aggregate all electric scooters
Heck of a lot of Europe's borders were invented in the last century as well.

https://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1900/index.html
Just don't pay it. That's the solution.

Hospitals have these bullshit inflated fees, once they accept the insurance payout that is all they're getting from me.

They're all "non-profits" that scam the system by writing all this shit off as goodwill or bad debts.
At least on Mac you can get the telegram app, or something called Telegram Desktop, which is Electron-based
Can’t have highs without lows.
Will be possible to run it in a single node scenario?
its not about laws or health. it's the american dream.

hospitals and doctors are in it for the money. so anything that forces you to pay, they will make you pay, because they will get money and that's the American dream.

the incentives are all wrong. remember the news about a bank telling drug companies to straight out quit researching cures and only go for treatments because those generate more money? its all the same problem
It's impossible to make healthcare into a free market when the cost of declining to participate in that market is usually your life.
Yes.

Whatever creates the revenue is the product that is being sold. Broadcast TV creates content for the purpose of attracting viewers that watch the ads that are sold as ad space/time for revenue. Product placement within the content plays a role as well.

I don't understand how this isn't clearly understood. That's been the business model for broadcast TV since pretty much the beginning. It hasn't been a secret, the networks have been rather clear about it.
I did some poking around as to what this actually is (and it's probably not for the average site).

It's the specifications for how the IAB (Internet Advertising Board), which consists of of every organization blocked by your ad blocker, would like publishers to gather consent from people landing on their site.

It's a very optimized setup as who they are targeting using this are the big sites that do Real Time Bidding (RTB) for ad slots on their pages. You land on a site and the js for ads loads, calls out to a real time ad marketplace with your info (IP, cookies) and then preset bids ("I'll pay 20c to serve this person an ad for cheese!") all are evaluated and the highest paying gets served on the site (and the marketplace takes a tiny cut).

What this framework does is help add user consent and GDPR readiness into the criteria that can be used in this process. So as a publisher if you're trying to meet GDPR requirements you can say: "Only give me ads from places that respect this".

As a consumer, this kind of paves the way to just consent to these things once and then use them all over the web (good for UX). If you're just trying to get to grips with GDPR try this Plain English Guide

https://blog.varonis.com/gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...
Is it possible to hook a custom filesystem implementation to this? So an app won't touch filesystem at all but still will be able to use some sort of virtual files.
You forgot the "They must treat you by law" part. You are effectively coercing them into treating you when you walk in the door.