skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that is often hard to understand about the United States is that many Americans hate each other, and many hate the non-Americans that live here even more. We aren't so much a melting-pot, where a single culture emerges from disparate ones living together, as we are an arena with enclaves of very separate, very antagonistic cultures that happen to live in the same country.

It is often very difficult to convince these groups, especially the economically prosperous ones, to contribute to a system that helps the others, even to their own detriment. The rich don't want to pay for healthcare for the poor, the conservatives don't want to pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants, the mid-westerners don't want to capitulate to the coastal-elite agenda, progressives have zero respect for the values of conservatives and on and on. There are cultural lines drawn, and crossing those lines is nearly unthinkable to many Americans, even if it costs them their health.

American culture is broken and divided, most people can see that but they think that the other groups are the problem, and I'm not sure we will make much progress on our massive problems unless something changes with it.
There's still 5% of the US budget being spent on health care: https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/trumpdiscpie_la...

Of course, over ten times as much is spent on the military. How can a country with no enemies nearby justify spending 60% of their budget on the military? Especially given how the only ones hostile to them are the ones they pissed off.
Using MongoDb geonear
To be fair, it's society coercing them. Using a complicated system of certification and reimbursement rather than guns.
Killing off a species so we can enjoy the planet a little bit more shouldn't be a big deal.
This. Repairability and durability are two reasons a lot of 'old tech' is in use.

I have a friend who is an engineer with PG&E who is great to take to parties full of tech nerds. They're always horrified by the '100 year old tech' running the grid. My take is that they're right to be horrified by the fragility of the grid, but have the 'why' exactly backwards - it isn't the vats of oil that make it fragile.
Interesting question. I can't find anything online about a hospital invoking Shopkeeper's Privilege, but chances are they might try to, and even if the police would eventually release you, your identity would surely be discoverable by the hospital. I don't think the OP is giving safe advice.
pointless, but not wrong: calloc on a zero width image should still yield a memory pointer, even if it points to a zero length stretch of memory. It would be strictly wrong to return a null pointer just because (one of) the dimensions happens to be zero.

It might read a little funny, but it's actually quite correct with respects to what the code path should be expected to do. Valid dimensions should yield a valid pointer. Even if they're validly zero =)
Fun fact, the the triangular piece in a clothing pattern used to add shape/dimensionality is also called a gore.
Health care has a cost, sure. But you haven't explained why that cost is so much higher in the US if outcomes aren't proportionally better.
Proponents of Illumos zones and FreeBSD jails claim that these solutions offer better security than Linux containers while maintaining the performance of running directly on a shared kernel. And now, both Illumos and FreeBSD have Linux emulation for x86-64. Has Google tried these solutions and found them wanting? Has anyone done research on whether Illumos zones or FreeBSD jails really provide better security than Linux containers?
Some discussion:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-Ma...
Very cool and I see myself using this in the future.

Is an approach like this best practise or rather meant as intermediate hack?
Why in this day and age are electron apps this big? What happened to memory management? Is this a faulty aspect of JS or electron itself?
You seem to be asking for contradictory things. For instance, low runtime overhead implies manual memory management but running within a VM implies automatic memory management. What about a "bundled" runtime like Go, some Lisps, or Ocaml? Lua?

Your c) needs refinement. It's not just memory ownership but also idiomatic use of the language. Heavy on objects? Functions? Mutable or immutable (don't forget strings)?
Unless they've changed it in the last couple months, TRowe Price still limits passwords to 10 characters. And this is after a recent "We've upgraded our security!" push where I had to reset everything.

I've seriously considered closing my accounts over it.

Edit: Yep, still as bad

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Trivial for you. What about everyone else? It's silly to move because of mosquitos. That doesn't mean we shouldn't eradicate them though.
It's certainly an issue to consider if you're starting a company.

If you are creating a organization that is less focused on making money as a core element like a business is, then you should feel fine using .org or any other domain.
Ask HN: Why is 911 so expensive?
American Exceptionalism combined with FUD.
It looks like JMAP is on top of HTTP - does this mean a normal browser could speak it directly? How is new mail notification handled? Polling?
See also: "Dealing with freaking artists when building software on short deadlines"
The article is actually about how closely C maps to what is actually run on the hardware and whether hardware would look significantly different today if people didn't expect C to map closely.
I might be missing something, does FB allow you delete the data from your shadow profile if you don't have/create an account ?
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The new requirement is the same in that regard.

It's a good talking point though, several people in this thread are excited about the potential for it to bring about change.
A simple retort to that would be "Why should we pay any of our hard earned money to the government so it can send our children off to some fucking desert to fight in an unwinnable war that was started before they were even born?"

60% of the US budget is spent on the military. Reduce that to just 50 or 40% and suddenly, hundreds of billions would become available to spend on health care, education, infrastructure, etc.

Raising taxes is probably also something to do though, the US is racking up trillions in debts at the moment.
What ever happened to user-mode-linux (UML)? It seems like gVisor takes a similar approach, a "kernel" in userspace handling syscalls. I was playing with UML the other day, a UML kernel is still in Debian's repo and appears roughly up to date[1], but all the documentation I could find on it was many years old and seemed out of date.

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/buster/user-mode-linux
Woah this is really, really cool! I've been meaning to mess with chromecast and this does all the heavy lifting for me!

I think I'm going to wrap the script to get a REPL so that I don't loose access to the object, similar to what I did for AWS: https://github.com/russellballestrini/botoform/blob/master/b...
It will very soon, that's one of the most requested features by my current beta users
Most credit scores are ignoring medical collections or deemphasizing it.

I went to the ER a while back, my insurance paid roughly 1600 for the 8k+ they billed. I have a HSA that pays out as well, yet they have tried to bill me on top of that. They'll never see another cent.

Credit is overrated anyway. Causes more troubles than it's worth.
Do you have any plans for a Crispr gene drive to wipe them out?
There is no reason to use "express-cookies" when "cookie-parser" exists.
It goes back to WWII when we had a strange price controls on labor. Health insurance was a way for employers to provide employ compensation circumventing that. Originally it was quite manageable, but as with any system where neither the consumer nor the producer of the good/service has any incentive to keep down costs, it spiraled out of control.

Also, president Richard Nixon effectively linked national health care with socialism as part of Cold War propaganda. (That said, he did offer comprehensive health reform too that in a number of ways was more dramatic than we achieved under president Obama, but the congress killed it.)
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Growing up there I remember hearing that there was some problem with the tunnels being too narrow and the cars not fitting - but that was probably more local folklore than anything else.

Cincinnati is pretty hilly - not San Francisco or Seattle hilly - but enough that I would think developing any sort of system would be pretty expensive and difficult.
> a mostly-unused tomography machine and crew ready in case someone at the ER needs it

No hospital administration would allow this: they would refer you to a separate medical imaging clinic, or run one on hospital grounds that all departments would refer patients to.
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I think I would disagree with the notion of teaching about intellectual property by stealing somebody's intellectual property. For a company to publicly express "we are about doing the right thing", I would hope that wouldn't include conducting "proper business" of taking advantage of people. I would think "doing the right thing" would more along the lines of "great idea you have there, let's help you get that patent and work together to get it market".
Are there any modern tricks for debugging against a TLS website? Last time I was doing it 5 years ago we did mitm proxies, ssl self-signed tricks, to get wireshark able to sniff and read the payload.

Did anyone invent an easy way to do this?
as a non native speaker, I feel extremely uneasy every time I get myself saying "I'd like some silverware" in a fast food joint.
> They are however selfish as shit and don't care about anyone outside of their initial friends and family.

evidently people in Canada, the UK, Japan, Sweden, Singapore and other places where there is a comprehensive, well-managed health care system are not "selfish as shit."

so, we should probably ask: "why? why are people selfish as shit in America?"
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I recently had an appendectomy. The doctors said that if you are having abdomen problems, you absolutely should go to the ER as there's too high a chance it's life threatening. They said that limbs and such weren't as ER-necessary and urgent care might suffice, depending on severity. But for the stomach, just go to the ER.

I initially stopped at an urgent care facility, but they told me to sit and wait before even asking my symptoms. I'm not afraid of many medical things, but my appendix has always made me extra nervous. So we left and went to the ER, where they asked a few questions and rushed me into a room, and then a scan shortly after. We had caught it very early.
Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
Is the problem worse with .app than with .com? If so, why?
I believe so, it works for my browser and phone.
All the people in this thread that think most people get a degree for knowledge, instead of the truth that a degree is just a piece of paper that tells employers "I am a normal member of the middle class and I can do basic stuff so please hire me".

I honestly don't care if people cheat.
that one is LifeInvader i think
For some free lab time until the new commercial offerings arrive, try play with k8s: https://labs.play-with-k8s.com/
It's intended more for kids, but Alligator Eggs is a fun way to play with lambda calculus: http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/
someone on my team said this to me and i fell in love with the phase.

"If you explain slowly I will learn quickly"
It doesn't pay when it is ahead of its time :)
Medicaid is already at the lowest payment rate, so balance billing to that would be a net negative actually.

Why should hospitals and doctors be forced to accept contacts from insurers that underpay for services rendered for nothing in return (being part of limited network)?
I asked Web Developers across several communities what skills they thought were often neglected by new Web Developers

Knowing git would be great, knowing HTTP would help if you're going to be working with APIs, and knowing dev tools would be useful if you're more front-end. I'm not sure the rest (networking, UNIX, another language and commenting code) are really things that would tip the balance in your favour.

Particularly the additional language - I'm sure most web software companies would rather a candidate knew more about the main languages used to build web things (HTML, CSS, JS, [Node|Ruby|PHP], and SQL) than something 'extra' that they're unlikely to use if only one dev knows it.
I agree about the semantics. If you are building small web site or big web with the simple structure don't use CSS Framework.

Here is blog post about this (It is from 2008): http://www.vcarrer.com/2008/08/when-to-use-css-framework.htm...
I am a full stack dev in Microsoft world, been working with .net for 10+ year. Just started to gather skills to disconnect from ms and move my career fw as a front end dev.

Thanks for putting together this list, it terrifies me !
"Why should we pay any of our hard earned money to the government so some drug addict can get their fix?" "Why should I pay for single mothers who made bad decisions?"

furthermore, taxpayers already foot the bill for these cases anyway since the government reimburses the hospitals, at least partially, for treating the uninsured. What the govt doesn't reimburse, the hospitals pass on to the insured customers (at this point it is hard to call them patients) in the form of higher costs.
These are all great. I started writing the article with the intention of including the soft skills mentioned by everyone but it quickly became very long. Part two will have soft skills and I'll make sure to include your notes.
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Scrubs is always a classic.
Couldn’t you replace man with woman in the context of stepping up and it makes just as much sense? Why is this idea of being strong gender specific?
Aren't judges appointed by the president in the US? Reports of Supreme Court candidates every time the US elects a president appears to indicate a lack of judicial independence.

I'm not hugely well informed on US law so could be misunderstanding this process.

Edit: Wikipedia tells me Article 3 of the Constitution makes the federal courts part of federal government
I know a Canadian who had a retina detach while in the States.

She went to a Dr. in the states. They determined she needed surgery immediately.

Unfortunately, the local hospital would not let her have the surgery. Why? The billing department was closed for the weekend. She offered to pay cash. Still, the answer was no. The surgery was delayed for 3 days. In that time, she her situation severely worsened, causing permanent damage that would have been prevented by surgery.

She immediately made an emergency trip the Vancouver -- and was treated the same day, surgery and everything. No cost.
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Having a whole program in your field of view isn't the same thing as comprehending it all at once. That would be a horrible fallacy to assert.

Software Engineering can be regarded as a discipine in which we strive for the understandability of programs which cannot possibly fit into a person's field of view all at once.
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In general I have not seen the DBMS emitting changes as a best practice. The applications modifying the data should be emitting events or messages appropriately. Someone can correct me if I am wrong.
> It is, though. Insurance is expensive, but it's not a scam. That money tends to go mostly for care, overall. Someone has to pay it.

Yes but the govt already takes a bit over 40% of my income (I run my own business). I'm certainly paying my share. It's not my fault that the govt would rather use those funds on non-healthcare related things.

I'm all for a true universal health care for everyone, but if you're already taxing me so hard, I shouldn't have even more taken away from me. That's unreasonable.

> Because someone has to pay it, and you didn't!

I would bet anything the amount I paid in penalties is more than what most people pay to be insured just going by the average income in the US compared to the "assisted pay" discount you get for having a certain bracket of income.

I don't even make that much either. I'm in the "typical software developer income" bracket, but I'm self employed so I have no help or matching from an employer. I'm essentially paying both halves with no benefits (health or retirement).

And to top it off, if I get into medical trouble I'm left hanging.
"You should learn vue.ja instead of java" ? Makes no sense...one is frontend, another is sever side. More like you should learn both.
> our women

Please tell me you forgot the /s on this post.
What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic is readily available online.
Just to be clear what the alternative to coercion (and I agree with that characterization): rejecting ER patients at the door means some of them will literally be dying in the streets.
Some of the PKV companies offer cheapish plans that effectively do not, or that make you pay the first €x00/month yourself. Things like that. They're marketed as insurance against big problems for a small price.
Reminds me of Jodel and the now-defunct Yik Yak.

Yik Yak took the "cells" or "herds" approach. Some history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak

I'm not sure how you're going to avoid the same issues that Yik Yak faced.

"Ambient social networking" isn't new, but it's never taken off. Some reading:

https://www.quora.com/Why-have-almost-all-location-based-mes...

https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/
Interesting. A quick look at the code indicates you're just doing a notify on the whole row. Have you tested with large rows? The postgres notify function fails with a payload larger than 8000 bytes, and that limit cannot be changed at runtime, last I looked.

I wrote a similar thing to notify on changes, but had to just fire notifies on what changed (id, column names) and there was a second step in the listening code to fetch the full details.
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So… cutlery?
So, something like [Bourbon](https://www.bourbon.io/), which is a Sass framework like you describe.
Could you please share the details of your setup ? I am not familiar with Google Cloud but being able to scale up cheaply with pre-emptible instances sounds great.
> Has anyone done research on whether Illumos zones or FreeBSD jails really provide better security than Linux containers?

This is an ever changing property of both systems, and a little bit subjective, so a study is both difficult and outdated as soon as it's done.

What we can do is look at the number of published vulnerabilities over a timeframe, and compare the overall system designs and development philosophies. I don't know of a comparison of the numbers of vulnerabilities, but for a bit of history and why I would personally trust zones over containers I previously wrote this comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15179858
The importance of soft skills is underrated. Technical skills are important, sure, but I would much rather work with an "average", friendly teammate than an insufferable genius.
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I agree that picking a skill the market needs is sound advice, but I have a minor quibble here. I think self taught devs shouldn't focus on Java as an on-ramp into the job market, because it places them in direct competition with recent CS grads who learned Java in school, and with low cost offshore shops. I doubt you want to be in the low end (skill wise) of that market. Now, being well versed in Scala, Angular, or various flavors of SQL would be a solid way to differentiate while still targeting industry needs, IMO.