skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry can't recommend any books. The main reason US healthcare is a mess is because we have structured it to be a free market system when it lacks the key characteristics for a free market to work. Free markets work really well in some areas (say groceries stores) and would work terrible in others areas (a national military)
See: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/2/PHCBP.pdf

Patient medical records won't help with pricing issues, but data transparency would help with automated solutions to manage care.

There is no easy way to aggregate and compare prices. If you could get billions of health care claims then you could build algorithms to estimate pricing or perhaps you could convince the large health care companies to share their pricing with you (highly unlikely). Prices very widely because there each institution negotiates their own set of prices with a specific set of providers. Basically imagine your health care plan is basically a set of discount codes for a set of doctors and providers. Except those discount codes are never shared with you and vary for each doctor and each provider and can change at any time.
Dink dink dink! We have a winner!
Why do you think it's only in the last 40 years that people have found it more difficult to make friends after 30 or so? It seems like it's been like that for a long time.

Also, I've repeatedly said that biological and evolutionary details may be factors not the whole explanation, so other factors can have changed during that timeframe.
No way it had nothing to do with semiconductor manufacturing.
I disagree, I saw it as him pricing by value, but mentioning that the costs don't seem to make sense either.
This seems like a solvable problem. Can you tell me more about the use case? For example:

- how accurate would you need?

- how often an update?

- updates all the time or only after X days, then start updating?

- every cow or a representative from the herd?

- how much would this market pay?
This has already been possible. You can disable sound for all websites in chrome://settings/content/sound

Then, you can enable sound manually for each site in the site settings panel.
Saying something is possible is a far cry from saying it is something "most" are planning.
This is overly dismissive. Age and duration are important, but the saving is also necessary.

100 years of living barely within your means won't leave $8.2MM or $1.65MM.
He didn't neglect that, he said, "...and you're not interacting with people in a way that leads to making friends in your 8-hour evenings,..."
People ride to the level of their expectations. If you expect them to feel isolated and alone because others "don't look like them", it's more likely they will. If you expect them to not work about it and do good work, they're more likely to do that. And the end result is more diversity, just like when East Asian and Indian engineers started working in tech, did good work, and continued to be gainfully employed.

I'm not denying there are systemic problems that affect different ethnic groups differently, but I'm very confident that moaning about visible diversity in tech is not the best way to fix it.
Blow in insulation is fairly common. A small hole is drilled into the walls and cellulose fibers are pumped in. If you have water leaking through walls you have bigger problems that need to be fixed anyway.
I don't think it's accurate to say "most" of it is lucky market timing. That's certainly a component and if it goes wrong, it can throw off the retirement date by a couple years, but failing to keep your savings to income ratio high enough can throw off your retirement by four decades. For early retirement in particular, the compounding effect is smaller and the main factor (IMO) is savings rate.

Sorting people into two cohorts — "would have been rich in any case" and "other" — fails to recognize that people's individual financials fall somewhere on a continuum, and that their actions (i.e., spending) affects how much wealth they can accumulate by their 40s (or phrased alternatively, affects when they can retire).
My son birthday was in a escape room. The children loved it. The monitors know exactly how to nudge the children according their age. They escaped in the last second and laughed a lot.
For cats, consider that anyone who stores grain may be very
happy to have a few "barn" cats -- not pets, nearly feral --
to hunt small rodents who would otherwise be eating grain,
or spoiling it with excreta.

I can recommend "Veterinary Aspects of Feline Behavior" by
Bonnie Beaver, DVM, to people who keep cats.
I just looked at the most recent 12 on https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons

This barely works on maybe two of the twelve so I'm gonna call BS on all of this.
I tend to agree with the other comment below by sp about value in project results (at least that's my reading) over simply a money-for-time exchange.

But after a decade and a half in the industry, my personal experience has been that trading hours for cash has been far less stressful, and more lucrative for me, and I've even been more appreciated, than the salaried work I did for so long.

Perhaps it goes something like this:

Simple hourly wage work / unskilled or apprentice-type work --> Salaried skilled work --> hourly skilled work as consulting services --> project-based (results-oriented) skilled work as described below.
Yes, that was all the soviet union needed, just semiconductor manufacturing

Edit: Why downvotes? Did I fart or something
> So they don't take even 1% and only the top 4% of students even bother applying.

I went to the college with the highest number of state school students. After participating in outreach events to get more people from a variety of backgrounds to apply to Cambridge I honestly think the biggest bottleneck is people from state schools not applying. They hear all the stories about strange interviews or being surrounding by posh people they have nothing in common with and just don't bother.

I was the only person in my (rather large) school year to get into Cambridge, and only a couple of people applied. I was told all sorts of strange things about the application process which turned out not to be true. I imagine it must be far easier to apply if you go to a school where almost everyone does and the staff are well versed in what to get ready.
We do use data from OSM, but if you want to use it reliably and consistently, you would need to host the data yourself or use a third-party service (such as Stadia Maps). OSM implements rate limits to high-traffic users and have no service guarantees. You also would have to create a theme (or use one of OSM's default themes).

So, the short answer is, yes, you could do this with OSM's data, but most companies prefer to pay to abstract away the management efforts.

We also provide other geo services, such as static maps and routing, which are often useful for companies and projects needing maps.
Oh wow, I remember this guy from ages ago on an old Zelda forum. The internet really is a small place. Great post!
I didn't say that. I agree that most tech workers are not (realistically, anyway) planning to retire in their 40s. Most in their 20s probably do not have concrete retirement plans.

The claim I was responding to is andrewprock's statement:

> Most tech workers who plan to retire by their 40s will be working into their 50s.

Which makes a specific claim about the specific subset of tech workers who are planning to retire in their 40s.
For anyone looking for a cohesive macroeconomic theory drawing from the economists mentioned here (e.g. Minsky, Godley, and others at the Levy Institute), I highly recommended taking a gander at Modern Monetary Theory

a brief overview: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-rock-star-appeal-of-mo...

A not so brief overview: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/06/modern-money-theo...
When two couples like each very much...
It's not inefficient if your metric is quickly getting workers in the door as contracting firms are built for this purpose. But you could argue that it will result in a poorer selection of high-quality candidates. I'd say this is because when hiring non-technical workers they're incentivised for numbers.

This is in contrast to employment consultants getting fees in intervals over a period of a person's time with an employer, usually done for executive positions. So I'd say optimise your agreements with contracting firms for quality rather than quantity by paying them bonuses in intervals, with a low initial payment for the finding the candidate.
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It's not directly comparable, however the two year upgrade is what they really want people to do - after all it was pretty definitive that they were degrading experience as a trade off on the battery issue.
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market-...

Even with bad market timing, you still have pretty good odds if you are genuinely dedicated to the task. Keep in mind, to succeed in ~20 years in almost all market conditions you would need to save 50-60% of your before-tax income.
I don't see what's so difficult about explaining this to your grandpa:

"What's .app?"

"it's like .com or .org, don't worry about it"
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to be fair, folks that are knowingly getting into a tube with a bunch of explosives strapped under them are not really thinking about dying that much.

Personally, I would gladly climb into one of these rockets if ever given a chance, regardless of risks.
Thing is, ads don't have to track users as individuals or at all. TV ads and print media ads are based on the content, why can't web based ads also be based on content? No more GDPR issues, we still get free content. Perhaps we can still do a pay-to-remove-ads option.
Wish there was one for non bay area people done remotely
Thanks—so this one is clearly a dupe, yet also such a good discussion that I hate to penalize it off the front page. I think we'll reduce the penalty and let it run. It's rare for a topic to strike a nerve in such a meaningful way, leading to so many high-quality comments.
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I agree. Tesla is only worried about one thing right now: they are about to run out of money. If Elon has identified that contractors aren't providing the necessary ROI or at least traceability to the ROI, he's making a smart choice to let them go. Tesla is, in the view of some, on the brink of failure, where failure is defined as insolvency.
Even if they’re ‘tricking’ people into watching a re-run (seems a silly thing to say to me) then it’s still a view isn’t it? People are still watching the adverts so why would the advertisers care? The viewer numbers aren’t wrong.
You are correct that a lot of rooms are using off the shelf Arduinos, often with buttons/reed switches/RFID tags for inputs, hooked up to a relay + maglock for the output.

Some of the higher end rooms will pay a little extra for PLCs such as the ones from AutomationDirect.

Another somewhat common controller are the BooBox controllers which come from the haunt industry. A lot of haunters got into escape rooms as a way to supplement income the rest of the year.
Here is the development activity between the two projects:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=gogits/gogs::go...

In the last 365 days, there were 54 unique contributors to Gogs

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=gogits/gogs::go...

and 136 unique contributors to Gitea

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=gogits/gogs::go...
> what truly matters

Paying off the debts owed to society of course
> Why isn't everyone installing then? There is a net cost somewhere.

Because it is damn close to break even and would you spend money on something you didn't need just because it was good for the environment?

Most people don't expend effort for $0/month to $50/month in returns. Despite all the solar proponents, once you factor in interest/maintenance/etc, its probably pretty close to that.

We are probably 10 years from it being 100% obvious that all homes should have solar.
> My perception is that as an employee you are expected more to act in the best interest of the company.

As an employee, if you object to something your boss is really on board with, you can expect to be fired.

It is, in general, a career limiting move to tell anyone above you that what they're asking you to do is stupid. Maybe if you're a God-tier management consultant, you can propose changes and expect to have them implemented. As a regular employee or contractor schlub, no. If you want to keep your job, adopt their perspective.

(Illegal actions are another issue. While it's illegal in many jurisdictions to fire a whistleblower, in practice you're still risking your job to blow the whistle. Not that you shouldn't do it.)
There is some wisdom in this. If you are open to, and more accepting of people who think differently than yourself, you have a larger “friendship surface area”.

My own friends are truck drivers, engineers and software developers, vegetarians and hunters. They all are fundamentally nice, decent people.
Yes, generally, good film critics describe what the movie could have done better/differently. You don't read many serious critiques solely consisting of, "This movie sucks".
Snark is just sarcasm you don't like.

I never attacked them. I simply found how they described cron extremely funny given that it's entirely contradictory to mine and pretty much everyone I've discussed sys admining with.

The man page, with system specific extension, is barely 1500 words long. That's neither impentrable nor complex.

I've just tired of dealing with people who have no way to describe things but with hyperbole, making an actual discussion difficult, if possible at all, because the facts of the matter can never be clearly stated. "I don't like cron because I can never keep the columns straight (and we can't keep comments in our crontab for w/e reason), the division symbol is used in a weird way, and I want _my_ services/code simple and my _system_ to handle complexity" is a much more honest way to complain about cron. Saying it's impenetrable is a load of BS and entirely unhelpful to the discussion.

So yes, I laughed at their response. No, it was not a personal attack. Finding someone's argument terrible and divorced from reality, or otherwise just hyperbole over known issues is not a personal attack. I'm making no judgement on them as a person. I'm not basing my response on anything except what they've said and constraint my response to be entirely within the scope of the argument, not extending it to them as a person.

Now, we can discuss if my response is helpful and furthers the discussion. Probably not. (Although,I did try to follow up with one that was.)

Was it uncivil or a personal attack? Absolutely not.
It only because of user hostile choices made by browser vendors that it was ever a viable option to begin with and it was a bad bet to think it would last, although Google seems to be doing anything they can to keep things the way they are without directly saying "we'd rather you not be able to stop all media because our business model is to get in your face". No one deserves the unrestrained ability to enter your home and interrupt you in the name of commerce, entertainment, art, or anything else, except maybe emergency.
What a great story! I imagine she must have been profoundly content in life. She had no need to show off her wealth or even to acquire material things beyond what she needed.
How is the square root (sqrt) function implemented in C and why should we care
Look at our old software from the past decades. Old archived documents sitting in some obscure presentation program like Harvard Graphics. Now imagine not being able to load that data at all, even though you have the save file and the program, because the licensing server literally no longer exists.

Now imaging a world 15 years from now where Adobe totally goes under due to competitors making much better programs. Their servers go away and now, and you can't even start your licensed software without running it through a debugger and trying to crack the license check.
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Your own reputation is put on the line by vouching for a contractor, according to the article. So if something bad happens down the line, your continued engagement with Tesla will be questioned too.

Nepotism and bribes are going to happen, but I think there will be some fast lessons when Tesla axes employees for this behavior.
I think this:

> The trick is that at the end of your yearly subscription you have already upgraded to a newer version, so falling back to the perpetual license means downgrading, which is both often a practical problem and (perhaps most importantly) something that I think many have an emotional aversion to.

Qualifies as

> a particularly hamfisted attempt to grab an almost negligible amount of money

OK, so maybe it's not as negligible an amount but it feels petty and I'd not pay money to a company that pulls stunts like that on its customers.
This won't be pretty. Backend engineering efforts to address this only began a few weeks ago, given unclear "technicalities" that had to be addressed in interpreting the meaning of "right to be forgotten". I'm guessing other companies are facing similar issues, especially if any part of their user data collection pipeline is backed by the "cloud", and these access points are heavily throttled in terms of read/write requests.

You would think that migration efforts would've happened sooner, but alas, like global warming, it's one where it seemed like "waiting until the last minute" was a preferred approach to "invest $$ in this now and use up engineering resources on something that we really don't want to do because it hurts our bottom line".
I'm sure that California lost even more than 1 million to diaspora, but the loss was offset by new arrivals. I'm also sure the number of illegal aliens has increased significantly but there doesn't seem to be anyone keeping track of them.
Because lots of people have tribally motivated objections. Or they don't have the cash on hand. Or they are landlords and won't do so until forced to.

But the actual cost has never been lower and energy prices are falling. There are downsides but they're very different.
I suspect they meant more like "profusion."
Or just provide a front end for caching via archive.is and other archive sites?
Yes. I use it for comment searching, you'd be surprised how useful it is for miscellaneous subject research. Then again I always try to use operators when applicable.
With that huge `position:fixed` header and footer, only 1/3 of my chromebook's screen height is actually displaying text from that page.
How does this tool compare to Test Kitchen [1] generally, and kitchen-terraform [2] specifically?

[1]: https://kitchen.ci

[2]: https://github.com/newcontext-oss/kitchen-terraform
While that sounds reasonable, I wouldn't bet on it. I have seen too many inane bloat that was implemented simply because the designer/developer/project manager thought it was a cool thing to have or because they read it on some growth-hack thoughtpiece somewhere.
> a haven for a particular personality type

These perceptions are in the eye of the beholder. Multiply that 10x when it's about "who downvoted me", since there's literally no information then, just a blank screen to project on.
> But is it really accurate (not in the literal sense obviously)?

It's basically accurate in the literal sense. Or at least, I'm a parent and I'm seeing this essentially word-for-word with all nearby parents/children in our area. The venmo part stands out as being a SF thing. In the midwest, even young families are mostly old school and just pay with a credit card or paper check (yes literal paper checks written from a checkbook).

But the rest of it...yeah? It's essentially accurate.

Playdates are always scheduled beforehand (in Google Calendar, or far more commonly via Facebook invites between the parents). You do have to drive the child 10-15 blocks to every event (children are so expensive and housing is even more expensive, no one can afford to live near each other, so kids of similar age groups are still all spread out across the metro region and not in any one area/neighborhood). You can check on your kids at via smartphone at any daycare, and any other activity requires at least one parent be present anyway. All activities are required to have some attempt at "education", no matter how silly or tenuous that is.

And it's kind of tricky because it's a defacto part of society. I hate this hyper-scheduled hyper-data-driven stuff myself. But since the large majority of other parents do this, I can't avoid it -- we must contribute to this with our own kid too, otherwise we'd be depriving the child of social interaction with other children of matching ages.
This was when I was an adult. I was best man in his wedding. My experience with Midwesterners indicates this is not uncommon but maybe it’s not normative either.
Last time I checked, very few terminals implemented OSC 52.
When's the last time you invited someone out to lunch?

When's the last time you invited people out for drinks or to your place?

When's the last time you threw a party?

That's literally how hard it is. Do stuff with people.
Slightly off topic, but one of Google's greatest services was not only rescuing DejaNews Usenet archive but also archiving Usenet posts from 1981. This type of pre web history would have been lost forever.
Anecdotally, a lot of men in my circle complain that their wives won't let them spend time with other men, outside of family gatherings. Definitely not healthy, definitely needs to be remedied.
http://archive.is/QxejC
If you're looking for an Emacs terminal+x-clipboard solution, I created an elisp pull request [1] for Spacemacs for adding that kind of support and handling SSH, Tmux, and Emacs. Note, this isn't a perfect solution, but it works well for linux to linux ssh and tmux. Feel free to contribute.

[1] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/8864
Same. You’re not alone. Hang in there.
I think that was the GP's point. If you want to be friends, then find a workplace or routine that aligns with those goals.
Except it's exhausting after 8 hrs (or more) in a job, 30-45m commute each leg, and some gym or other exercise (which can energize but steal hours from the day to socialize). Going home and opening a beer is the popping of the pressure/people overdose cork. Commuting on a crowded subway is exhausting personally.
Yeah, and don’t even think about having kids. At 46, I could retire now if single and childless, but with a 10 & 12 YO with looming college expenses, no way.

I wouldn’t know what to do with myself anyway. Will work till I keel over.
Quite. Though, as you note, another question.

Restricting the remote IP range is another option.
Can just as easily go the other way:

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/11/late-stage-sportsball.html
He's probably talking about consultants. I'm sure Accenture, Deloitte, and McKinsey (among others) infections have run rampant in just about all departments. Consultants are great when they're great but almost unimaginably inept and expensive when they're not.
I did exactly what you're taking about - it could have been better by also discussing whether biological or evolutionary factors might play a role.
It gives me an impression about what is going on in tech in other countries, that would be hard to know about. For example I know I can double my salary if I got to SF, although I may not act on that.