skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. This is aimed more at the OPs target audience (people who are learning web development) and I think being the person to call everyone out might be correct technically but not politically on your first day as a junior web developer. As you said, it's all about reading the room. I would rephrase it though to - ask questions, such as "what would you do if x happens" or "did you consider y as an alternative" or "did you know that tool z exists and does all that stuff you are planning to build from scratch" vs sentences that end with a period. It should never be in the form of "you are wrong and I'm right because of (list of facts/opinions/doesn't really matter as the person probably stopped listening already)"
What makes you think universal healthcare would be any different? If you recognize the VA's failings, and you blame Republicans for it, what's to stop them from doing it to every "good" idea you have?

If a few motivated politicians can ruin the lives of millions those politicians shouldn't have that power in the first place.
Yes, let's turn a multifaceted, fairly objective article into a narrowminded, single-issue catchphrase, and introduce a false dichotomy that isn't even close to the content of the article. It seems like a lot of work just so you can keep beating your chest, or do you have an actual point to make?
This is one of the straw men that is often brought up. There are a million reasons why the VA is messed up, most of which have NOTHING to do with healthcare.

Congress has underfunded our troops for decades, related to healthcare and not. Something as simple as body armor is often purchased with personal money. A woman that works for me is high up in the Marines and I hear stories that disgust me. I do not know how Congress gets away with this. The stories are out there, but the American people seem to not give a you know what.

Please don't conflate the problems of the VA with Universal Healthcare.
> Writing a UI multiple times is monumentally expensive.

I'm confused by this statement. The point of Qt is that you write the UI once. Your controller back-end might have platform-related pragmas, but not the UI.

> If Slack with its billion dollars doesn't do it what does that say?

When you give programmers freedom to choose what makes life easy for them, end-user experience suffers?

I really think all dev companies should have a lab of 'consumer-grade' laptops with 4GB of RAM and 20Mbit/sec networking. And QC shouldn't let anything ship until it runs adequately on those. Particularly for a company like Slack that is targetting corporate users, the bulk of whom aren't software architects with 2017 MBPs ( who make the choice ) but small-cogs with a five-year-old Dell.
I'm an extreme niche, so I recognize that an email client that intends to be used by the general population would need it, but why would I even want to see HTML emails? Those are 105% of the time just marketing bullshit. Emails are either in plaintext with friends/families/clients/people or have a single link that I can copy/paste to verify an account on a website. As it stands, I never download images in my emails anyway. A few sites have tried serving the account verification code as an image and I just won't validate my account if that's the case.

Designed emails using HTML are used by marketing teams - not by people. I don't care to read emails from marketing teams "as intended to be viewed". Show me the email and let me read an email that's just a bunch of plaintext markup.
Will they also clear the data for facebook non-users, such as myself?
>> every qualified, trained medical professional agreed

Except there were offers from international hospitals and doctors who disagreed and wanted to treat him. It's in the article I linked to.

And, as you point out, the UK legal system shut that down.
What are your thoughts on this Oregon study which showed no significant effect on health outcomes for people who were given Medicaid vs the uninsured?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/05/02/oregon...
Europe these days, at least I'd be treated like a human being and not a cash cow.

Survival rates in the USA were better in the 1960s but most of the OECD now has much lower mortality rates from a diagnosis of cancer than the USA. One exception is the UK but the margin is very narrow.

What the USA is good at is over-treatment which can extend life expectancy of a cancer patient a little bit (days, weeks on average) but you could argue the quality of life is not there. This is a direct a bi-product of an extremely inefficient health system which is designed to make as much money as possible for all of the participants rather than treat patients.

As a percentage of GDP health care spending in the USA is completely out of control.
The Nature folks have said they plan to focus more on interdisciplinary work, which makes sense from a strategy perspective since a publication in a Nature journal is more weighty in other fields, e.g. Biology.

Also worth noting is that DeepMind publishes in Nature for the prestige.
"Our results suggest that cancer care in the United States did not always avert deaths compared to Western Europe, and when it did avert deaths, it often did so at substantial cost."

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0...
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Last time I was working on a MUA (which was admittedly a long time ago), within about 3 days I ended up submitting a patch upstream for Ruby's Net::IMAP. It's a fiddly protocol, and there's a lot of ways to get things wrong.

I, too, am quite excited about JMAP, although I have my doubts about ever trying to write an MUA ever again.
I hate that we have to default to not answering the phone from unrecognized numbers and wait for a voice mail if it's legit.

That's what I do, expect if they leave a voice mail I almost know 100% it's a recruiter or a scammer because my family and friends don't live in the 1990s. Everyone else I want to be contacted by is either in my contacts or has organized a specific time to call me via email or some other means first.
CU Boulder to offer first MOOC-delivered electrical engineering master's degree
If they were in the US and gainfully employed, a lot of that extra care would be covered by their medical insurance.

Of course, if they lost their job they'd be SOL.
Though the part that people mostly identify with the project, the Jupyter Notebook was introduced only in 2011. I remember that vividly as I was writing my thesises at that time and spending quite some time playing around with it :)
> Penn Jillette also believes global warming is a conspiracy.

Ummm, no he doesn't? This was something he believed in the past but has since changed his mind about.
Minimal To Do
I use notmuch with Emacs - so very little.

Before that I used mutt - also very little.
I do the same with audiobooks from Audible, though the cracking process is a bit more complicated. I have no moral qualms about ensuring I will always have a copy of something I bought even if I leave the platform I bought it on or that platform goes under.
> You can't start any economic argument by saying that paying any cost is a must. You will get fleeced.

... in an open market.
Why aren’t Blockchain projects agile?
They're not. Any source since the 1980s will tell you pretty much every OECD nation has higher survival rates than the USA.
Ask HN: Why did blogger.com and how did WordPress.org compete with Google?
WordPress.org powers 30% of the sites today. It clearly won the CMS race. How did it compete with heavily funded blogger.com?
There was no treatment to be had in Rome, they were just going to hook him up to a life support machine. The doctors in Rome, being doctors, are professionals, so they never once suggested they would be able to cure or even treat his condition.
For all the critics. "If the cost of reversing the decision and walking back through the door is relatively low, then why should you and your coworker even talk about it?"

The "if the cost is relatively low" is important. We are talking about god damn icon, which can reverted any time, even before going to production.

And now you made me argue with you, instead of let it go. Damn I failed :D
> I don't think emotional arguments are a distraction, they're the whole point. This is a moral issue.

I find the moral argument to be disingenuous. It is immoral to make poor people pay a tax that cure the diseases of rich people.

"Nobody should go hungry, so everyone should be able to eat anywhere they want and not look at the tab".
>> A healthcare decision had to be made for a patient that was not able to make the decision themselves

Yes - it was made for the patient against the patient's legal guardians - his own mother and father. The government-run system overruled the patient's legal guardians.

This is precisely the issue at hand: a loss of freedom resulting from a healthcare system ultimately ruled by the government itself. The government has final say over healthcare decisions.
Here's an interesting fact: Obamacare forced everyone to enter into a contract with insurance companies (individual mandate) who are partly responsible for the exorbitant bills seen by patient.

No wonder so many people are pissed about Obamacare: being forced into contracts with companies and bureaucrats which people detest is absurdly Kafkaesque.
The counter-point is that if I was a homeowner in the Bay Area, I want to protect my property as much as possible, and I'll use my political power to do that.

People who are disrupted by this can build character by living in a van or move to any of the hundreds of metro areas that are more affordable -- it's not my problem. If you work for some tech company, you should appreciate that controlling a resource like a technology or real property has benefits.

FWIW, I chose the latter option and live in a mid sized urban core. I make about half of what I'd make in the Bay Area, but my costs are probably about 80% less, even factoring in private school. So if you make a choice to live in a van as a rational actor, that's your choice. Own it.
In the case of dating, meeting 2000 potential partners is likely past the point of usefulness, while 3 is probably too little. There's an optimal number in between there that's different for everyone. The Secretary Problem[1] comes to mind.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Deer ticks are adapted to northern climates and the biggest source of Lyme disease. You have to look at the impact of climate on their northern range (Which historically has been near water bodies that moderate winter temperatures). North south comparisons don't much factor into it.
As a US citizen, how is that not a lawsuit?
Investing in the Facebook Developer Community
Safari has the ability to copy as curl now too.
Ask HN: Best practices for training NN across multiple computer/gpu’s
Hi all,

My team is working on training a NN with a data set where each inputted record is really large. We’re able to just barely fit 1 record on the GPU and each epoch takes quite a while. So one thing we’re looking at is training on multiple computer/gpu’s in parallel then combining the results. I know that googling yields lots of suggestions. Can anyone recommend best practices or good resources for us to explore?

Thanks in advance.
Well, he spouts whatever makes a youtube video gets hits. Without research or background. He is an entertainer after all. What he actually believes is probably unknown.
Maths, properly.
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Hi

I did use Debezium in a Kubernetes cluster to stream Postgres changes into Kafka and then through a custom application that can send them to clients via HTTP or WebSockets. But the entire system had multiple points of failure. So we then decided to write our own thing that connects to the LR slot and sends over WebSockets. Working on open sourcing that too!
This account has been breaking a lot of the guidelines. Could you please re-read them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is a well known fact that all medical care systems ration care. A person in America who gets cancer, say, often times faces bankrupt and financial ruin. The same can not be said of people in other wealthy nations.

I fail to see your point. All healthcare systems ration care. Not all of them lead to financial ruin at the rate the American healthcare system does. My statement stands. A person ought not face financial ruin. It may be the case that there aren’t enough resources to treat the disease it this does not negate the belief that they shouldn’t face financial ruin.
Yes, I also think these are standard skills; I have most skills listed here and I'm not even a web developer.
> The argument that I pay for my healthcare in my taxes doesn't hold water either

Indeed. Americans spend more per capita on healthcare than any country in the world, and needless to say, for all that spending we don't even cover everyone.

To put it another way, we _already_ spend enough on healthcare to cover everyone. That we don't cover everyone is a political problem (allowing for the existence of a for profit system with no public alternative), not a spending problem.
ICOs are Cancer
> Do you prefer not having it in a conversation view?

I strongly prefer to disable conversation view, because the time (recency) and time interval (frequency) are obscured, at least from the inbox view of most readers.

There is a big difference to me between a thread with 10 emails in one morning, versus one with 9 emails over a week, followed by one this morning.
Move your phone to ooma.com. service is fast and easy.

My phone bill dropped compared to comcast and I have eliminated spam calls.
Wish there was a small demo to try but it looks great; It kind of reminds me of the same type of sandbox/experimentation environment you get with Tensorflow Playground (albeit not constrained to a few sample sets of data). I look forward to seeing how this product turns out.
> It seems the public interest is subordinate to private interests and often times with immoral consequences.

This perspective of public vs private interest is rather puzzling to me -- it's more a matter of short-term vs long-term thinking. In the long-term, it's in the private interest of those having sustainable companies to have a broad base of educated and healthy workers to employ. The short-term interest of any single firm has a different calculus, but all private companies would benefit from a stronger public education and health system.

The goal of government, in my opinion, is to focus on long-term objectives: ensuring a sustainable healthy and educated population.

It's similar case for education. It's not that I'm paying for someone else's kids school so much as I'm paying so that one day, when I need a smart educated nurse to take care of me... it'll likely happen at a reasonable price because there are so many educated people who have decided to be nurses.
Joint 3D Face Reconstruction
If I only have GKE clusters, what does Rancher mainly offer on top of that?
We've all met people like Kara. We have also all met people who think they are always right. So, instead of looking for ways to "win friends and influence people", how about we focus on how to have a productive dialog with coworkers.

It's either you convince them, or perhaps they convince you.

Logic wins.
>I'll pay more, too,

This isn't an option if you are poor
Does that support HTML email and images? If not, it seems like a different domain entirely. Other people in this thread have posted Thunderbird numbers and they're in the ballpark. After all, it is rendered in Gecko similarly to how ivelope is rendered in Electron.
Thanks for your kind words. You might like the rest of my blog. Other recent articles have discussed the price of dried maggots as a protein source, naming conventions in the Saudi royal family, the Turkish and Hebrew translations of “Joe Blow”, how plutonium-powered pacemakers work, and why you can say “redden”, “whiten”, and “blacken” but not “greenen”.
I still have nightmares about Outlook's non-standard format from 15 years ago.

What is the reason you do not store in a standard format?
How can a surgery be "botched" but not be malpractice?
I sought only to compare Gmail with FastMail, to indicate that Gmail is a poor baseline for memory comparisons.
I think people constantly confuse arguments with fights. Arguments are good they involve an exchange of ideas from which both parties might potentially learn from. All of the best engineering teams I have been part of were built on the backs of people who argued very well.

Fighting is terrible and if it happens in an office context something has gone super wrong.

The idea of letting an argument be won by letting the feature happen and then rolling it back was clearly written by someone who works in a company big enough where projects can swallow the budgetary loss of losing a week of work into something that can't go into production.
> There's a federal law from 1928 (I kid you not) that says no state can impair the ability of parties to agree to arbitration.

Do you have a citation for to the statute or the USC for that?

This is something that I'd like to write my reps about.
I've ditched my mobile service in part on account of this.[1]

There are landline phones with blocklists of up to 1,000 numbers. None seem to offer the more useful option of whitelisting. (Or whitelist / blacklist / greylist.)

I've been looking into small-office / SOHO PBX or VOIP options which might afford solutions. Asterix and/or Twilio that I'm aware.

Another option is to ditch both POTS and traditional mobile services for ... well, just what tech-based messaging? I'd prefer no vendor lock-in, but the options seem decidedly minimal.

I think we're in the final decade of traditional / offshoot voice comms. Ironically, it's falling costs which are largely to blame. Make this too cheap, and every asset on the planet can beat a path to yor door. Or phone / voicemail / messaging system.

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Notes:

1. The other reasons: tracking, surveillance, privacy, cost, and always-on stress.
Category Theory (and more advanced Set Theory). After taking an undergraduate Set Theory course I want to explore these areas of mathematics further. I'm currently going though Thomas Jech's "Set Theory" on the Set Theory side, but haven't yet found a good, undergraduate accessible, Category Theory text.
>>I prefer VS Code over native alternatives.

>That's because, as the parent said, there are no good (e.g. equivalent) native alternatives.

But that's not true. I use Sublime Edit and have happily used BBEdit and TextMate. Emacs is fine for many people, and I still use vim for fast edits in terminal mode all the time. There are plenty of other great native editors for just about all platforms.
Embedded systems, compiler design, Rust, GraphQL. There are too many things I want to learn...
>What makes you think universal healthcare would be any different?

Because America isn't the entire world and there are many places where socialized healthcare of various forms have been very successfully implemented for a long time. The idea peddled by conservatives in America that the only options for socialized healthcare are inevitable failure or tyranny is simply, demonstrably nonsense.

It's exactly this kind of parochial, limited mindset that needs to change.
>> "There was no treatment to be had in Rome"

You are misinformed. The article I linked to showed that Italian doctors "said they would investigate different treatments."
> With seccomp-bpf you are filtering what syscalls can be made, but those syscall still happen in the host kernel.

I'm not sure what the distinction you're making is. By the same token, because PTRACE_SYSCALL/PTRACE_SYSEMU only signals the calling process after the syscall boundary has been crossed, then ptrace also doesn't help with the problem you are describing (though I also don't really agree that it's a problem in the first place -- user-kernel context switches are not security vulnerabilities). In fact, the seccomp restrictions are applied immediately after PTRACE_SYSCALL/PTRACE_SYSEMU -- there is only a few lines of code separating the two cases in the syscall entry path[1]. And in the case of PTRACE_SYSEMU, seccomp rules are still executed even though the syscall is never going to be executed.

> gVisor doesn't virtualize hardware, it is a kernel running in userspace, implementing syscalls.

I understand that, but that's the ptrace helper (which I spent the rest of my comment talking about). In the README (which I did read before commenting) they mention an experimental KVM driver, which is what my VM comments were referring to.

Is there an explanation somewhere about how gVisor uses KVM to virtualize syscalls? I'm not sure I understand how you could use KVM to do that. That's why I mentioned Kata, because it's the only point of reference I have for using KVM to "emulate syscalls" (though of course it emulates more than that).

> The gVisor kernel (Sentry) runs in an empty user namespace with seccomp filters applied.

Good to know, but I didn't see that mentioned anywhere? If you're affiliated with the project it'd be great if you could add it somewhere in the README or the blog post.

[1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.16.6/source/arch/x86/ent...
Who collects the tolls? Is it a private company or a government body with motive different than maximum profit?

For example in Poland we got the most expensive toll motorways in Europe because a private company owns them and continues to demands exorbitant prices for passage with nobody to stop it.
For a large number of different outcomes, the VA is superior to private care. It has a disproportionate footprint because "The VA does something bad!" is national news, while "SmallSizeMidwestCity Memorial does something bad!" isn't.

It's not perfect, by any means, and struggles with cost constraints (veterans are sympathetic, but sympathetic doesn't mean well supported), but many of its quality outcomes are superior.

See, for example, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
The people on TRICARE don’t seek to leave the system, do they? That’s a government run healthcare system.

Do Medicare recipients seek to leave it? That’s a government run healthcare system.

Universal healthcare can be implemented poorly but it doesn’t have to be. It can be done right. There are lots of examples of this.
I think this article misses the important point - you should be able to trust the coworker’s expertise. Present the facts, but leave the decision about the person’s domain to that person.
So because Republicans will fuck up any government in an effort to prove that government doesn't work, we shouldn't have government?
For anyone looking for something to learn, I'd heavily recommend Haskell. It's been an eye opener for me.
People who can't take criticism and instead do e.g. get offended should just be given the boot.
Thanks - interesting. I know traffic pattern/flow models and studies can be extremely complex. However, from the perspective of a 'dumb' commuter, it seems like the investment in smarter traffic signals would be offset by global savings from/economic benefits of reduced congestion (e.g. idle bus transit fuel/maintenance savings or generally increased standard of living and economic imprivements due to increased traffic flow).