skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was hearsay from a foreigner who, it seems, may have not had all the facts. Looking around, it looks like while not impossible, it's unlikely the State Dept puts much weight on outstanding (medical) debt: from reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1m7p78/foreign...

On the other hand, looks like the UK does hold debts against a would be visitor, according to forums.
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yield of hydroponic wheat is significantly lower than conventional production in soil. Prof. Bugbee and team worked on this at NASA.
Thailand has a fairly large medical tourism industry - a number of hospitals in Bangkok are considered world-class (if not world-leading). I know a few people who just go there once a year for a weekend for their annual check-up, since the difference in price from doing it in a decent private hospital in Hong Kong can cover the cost of flights and accommodation, plus you get a weekend in Bangkok which is nice...
The chart assumes you are moving 1 ton of material, so its 20kg of co2 to ship 1 ton of lamb 100km.
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They'd be easy to take care of: find the air inlet to their bunker, seal it off along with the entrance, problem solved. If you were cruel, seal the air inlet with poop.
I like this idea and could definitely get behind something like this. The signing process is done after builds complete, so it might be possible. Although on Pixel and Pixel XL it is likely not possible as the kernel must be built with the signing key to support the earlier version of Android Verified Boot (AVB 1.0).
I had an issue where I accidentally sent an eBay shipment to an old address. It's something that I immediately recognized after clicking "Buy now," and immediately sent a message to the senders; all but one of them corrected the issue and sent the package to the right address, but, one didn't...and it wasn't a big deal -- a $15 package -- but, it was more about the principle...

I followed eBay's "Buyer protection" to the letter...and guess what? I wasn't covered...even after escalating -- and saying, "They have my money and I still don't have my product, I'm trying to understand which part of 'Buyer Protection' I am missing here."

I called my credit card company, explained what was going on, and had my money back in 3 minutes.

Chargebacks are great, whenever they are used effectively...and ebay/paypal is the devil.
I genuinely wonder where this money goes, if paid. It seems rather unrealistic to believe these costs can be genuinely justified, with an independent audit? Right? The genuine cost to business cannot be this high.

These values are utterly unreasonable. Someone, somewhere; is doing something extremely unethical.

The fact this can even happen somewhat indicates there’s a lot of “power” involved.

—

Edit: another poster had mentioned that some costs are included to cover other admissions in which fees are not paid - no matter the reason.

So, whilst this seems quite logical; it bothers me this is not clearly indicated. Its a pretty poor attempt to fix a clear, and genuine, other problem.
> Both of these functions may be synchronous, and may return values. Thus

That promise chain is not synchronous. You can prove this by putting your code sample and a following console.log("meep") into a function. The console.log("meep") will always fire before your promise's final handler runs, when you call the function. That's because it's scheduled after your calling function returns.

Try it.

> Will print 4, not undefined.

That's indeed true, but it's a special property of promises that you can extend the construction of a callback with `then` calls. You can never return that value to the calling context. Creating the illusion that you can is what async/await is for. The promise context extended the computation to the final callback, which executed the side effect.

It would be a much neater implementation if the underlying resolve/reject functions that construct the promise were synchronously calling the functions supplied by then. That'd be awesome. Sadly, that's not possible with this implementation, because you can then-extend a resolved promise. But I confess I like how algebraic this implementation is.

It's not wrong to call a then-extension a "callback" if it's the final one in the chain. It's computed value is forever discarded, as ultimately is the value of the entire promise. All promises terminate with a callback who's value is discarded.

As I said, Promises are special and expose a continuation monad, in that they're a way to construct callbacks piece-wise. It's a very useful piece of functionality for JavaScript to have and enables the underlying syntactic transformations that make async/await work.
Where I live (Bournemouth, UK), the beach is popular, and beach huts (if you're not familiar with this idea, it's basically a wooden shed that you can use while you visit the beach but not sleep in all year round) are hugely popular. I believe the record for one is £270,000 - certainly a price that would buy you a decent family home in some locations within 10 miles of it. It's not as much as the parking space, but I'd say it was less useful - particularly given the British weather which renders it a miserable experience (cold, windy, raining) for maybe half the year.

As someone who doesn't own property (and is in his mid 40s), I find all of this very depressing - property prices seem to be spiralling out of control in many countries, and most people seem to be fine with it as they are rich on paper (but not in reality).

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14098458.This_year_s_m...
OK so I know that emergency care not being free is madness, and _you_ know that emergency care not being free is madness, but what are the arguments from people who don't think this sound like?

Also, I wonder how feasible it would be for foreign governments to pay for the emergency care of their citizens when they have issues in America, and fund it by charging visiting American's American-style medical bills for any medical care they receive while there.
18k?
It'd be great if he or anyone did. Unfortunately, I don't think it will be picked up by traditional politicians because doctors are active donors and they don't want to upset that. But, who knows. If it becomes a populist cause, maybe... maybe.
Which company, and what do they have?
A French friend of mine needed some emergency operation while he was in the States. He bought a round trip ticket to Paris, left, got the operation done, came back to the States. Saved $10,000.
neat idea!

I'm also looking at Berlin, Colombia, Montreal, Korea. Literally, no longer tied down to a place.
Hi dhumph, totally agree with you. This is a side project of mine and I didn't really have much time to work on on-boarding yet! I just added a video tho and will get around to adding a demo soon. Thanks for your feedback!
What does this have to do with HackerNews? This site is turning into mini Reddit.
Isn't medical tourism a big industry these days? People flying to India or Mexico for treatment?
> And if you're making $142k in salary in the US, your healthcare is entirely paid for

Not even close to true.

I was making about that much and had insurance and we were billed multiple thousands of dollars for a bog standard pregnancy/delivery. Sure, if I was not insured at all, it would have probably been hundreds of thousands--who knows? Anyway, I've never seen a health insurance policy where your health expenses were "entirely paid" for.
I don’t know about the rest of Europe, but here in Germany people have openly talked about their salary with me in several occasions. Granted, it wasn’t any coworkers, it was always a friend or someone I knew.
There is no need for a materials engineer. We can look to existing structures which hold water to get an idea.

Above ground pools use 1/8" steel for about 1-1.5 meters of water depth. (Eg, https://www.answers.com/Q/How_thick_is_a_swimming_pool )

Pressure is linear with depth, so 6 meters would require about 1/2" of steel.

HVAC ducts like you pointed to are about 1/40". (Based on numbers I see at https://www2.iccsafe.org/states/newyorkcity/Mechanical/PDFs/... ).
Cave diving is dangerous stuff even for experts.

>there is though also a chance the cave chamber they are now living in could flood completely.

>"At first, we thought the children could stay for a long time... but now things have changed, we have a limited time,"

Oh no.
How much would it cost in gasoline though?
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Bloomberg article that references how Nigerians are kicking ass in income and education:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-10-13/it-isn-t-...
Sometimes I think it would be worth it to just quit and re-interview for your current job every year as an outside candidate--you'd end up ahead of just staying there.
That's the difference between you and evolution, though, right? You care about the outcome and the reasons behind it. Evolution doesn't care about either.
Package names/dependencies change through releases, but you can kinda do what you want via dpkg.

Export the packages:

dpkg --get-selections > list.txt

Then install those same packages on a new box:

dpkg --set-selections < list.txt
apt-get -f install
Healthcare in US is a best example of how a Healthcare shouldn't be. The citizens of the country shouldn't be scared of going to hospital. Countries like India may have corruption, but their people, even the poorest, have the option to consult doctor free of cost or at the cost they can afford. The Healthcare in US is in the clutches of Insurance companies.
so, you're saying that when somebody called, "my baby's head hit the floor", they can assemble the whole Avengers just because?
Would land and shipping both be cheap if we ceased to externalize a lot of the cost of each?

Both land use [1] and shipping [2] contribute significant fractions of our society's carbon budget.

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/285/5427/574

[2] https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/shipping-emission...

That said, I'm not so sure about 2-story, LED-lit warehouses for growing food either...
> They will never fully open the black box, because people will optimize for its contents.

This is laughable. There are many, many people who have worked at admissions at elite schools, and they will tell you the contents of the "black box". What they would say goes something like this:

1. There are 10-30% of the entering class that we know we want.

2. The rest we have to fill with essentially clones (smart but unexceptional students).

3. We choose the clones that we think will make our school a better place in the short term and long term. Due to the multitude of variables that are introduced in selecting from the clones, it looks like our decisions are capricious. Maybe they are for the clones, but the clones aren't where we are looking to find our big winners in the admissions process.

Read some of the stuff by Cal Newport. He's closer to the right track than anything else I've seen.
It's typical in a systemd discussion that a link dump to broken stuff appears

Please help me understand this line of reasoning. Someone has a list of reasons as to why they believe systemd is not a good fit for them, and something else works better. They get told "prove it isn't a good fit for you". They prove this with some line of argumentation. They get told "that is your opinion only, and that doesn't count". They provide links to show many other users have the same issues, and they feel these issues have not been given due consideration. They get told "typical systemd haters, they always provide a link dump with broken stuff, it doesn't mean anything"

This has pretty much become the default template for the systemd pro/con arguments, and is unwinnable. FWIW, my problem with systemd is that it broke the concept of free choice in my environment. It was harshly shoved down everyone's throat, through politics rather then the usual meritocratic methods. I appreciate that this was a commercially advantageous position for the various distro maintainers, which lead me to cancel all my (thousands) of distro support agreements.

It is the political approach that was taken that gives rise to serious suspicions for me. If the system cannot stand on its' own feet from the meritocratic perspective, and needs to resort to all kinds of political games to gain a substantive foothold, my default position is not one of trust.

The "la la la i-can't-hear-you" systemd fanboy troupe response whenever someone attempts to make a well-supported argument against systemd only fuels my distrust of the whole systemd story.

As I mentioned, I vote with my feet and wallet. I use Alpine wherever possible.
I don't know why that article says it was built in the 50's, it was built in the 60's https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_(Jülich)
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in our model calculations the energy costs are in the same ballpark like labour. thus energy costs are the main culprit.
transporting "the light" from elsewhere to the crop has a ~90% loss (20% - 25% solar efficiency times transport losses of 20% times LED efficiency of 40% - 50%). so you need ten times the area elsewhere to be space efficient on a premium priced area.
also viewed from crop product pricing the economics simply don't add up. there are much more profitable things you can do on urban real estate.

(I'm working in the field of agricultural economics)
I work for BigCo and I see exact same thing on the other side. In fact, the #1 way I see good contractors get converted into full-time employees is when they get another job offer and threaten to leave.
$100M+ funding rounds in China-based Startups
>JOaaS.

This was called "Craigslist Casual Encounters" I believe.
So how do you manage your application state? I‘m curious, because a search for such a phrase always brings up Redux, Thunks and Saga.
Energy shifts could mean China’s carbon emissions are done growing
But you are not getting rid of the low plant efficiency. any other losses will simply come on top. nothing beats direct sunlight.
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It might be the hospital did an ICO and offers services for it's tokens now. Understandable then.
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What is the best way to network my way into a software job? On paper I think I look like a terrible candidate, even though I’m actively building up my software portfolio. I’ve read that portfolio projects alone won’t get me a job when applying through traditional means, and that it’s better to network. So where do I go to network? Any and every tech meet up or hack a thon that I can? Would it be productive to strike up conversation with people at coworking spaces, or would they see me as a distraction/nuisance? Even though I’ve been staying sober until I get a tech job, should I go out drinking with tech people? I’m moving to a new city, and will need to find a (any) job to support myself until I find a software job. Should I apply to startup customer support or sales jobs, and hope that once I have that job I can slide sideways into a coding position?

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Haha this was my very first thought when Daniel Tiger was mentioned. "If you have to go potty, stop and go right away..."

(I was working on an RTSP streaming video client and all I had handy as a video source for VLC to stream was Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood. It only took a few days because ffmpeg is awesome but this song is now burned into my brain...)
Processes are though. And a container is just a bunch of processes. Or maybe one.
Article mentions the bulk of the bill was a "trauma activation". This is an alert from the EMS units to the hospital that they are bringing a patient with indications of trauma requiring additional medical resources to be diverted. The reaction and resources differ per trauma facility. SFGH is a level 1 center [1]. There are better news sources that describe the trauma system within the context of this story.

My opinion based on limited information within the article is that the field EMS suspected a closed head injury. The trauma "doctors at the hospital quickly determined that baby Jeong Whan was fine". If the baby had an MRI instead of a medical exam by a team of specialists, the headline would lose some weight.

The fee is to staff ED specialists 24/7. I believe the better question is: "should we charge for resources that were used but stood down after initial assessment by the trauma team?" From the perspective of the EMS field, there are protocols that describe tbe patient condition, mechanism of injury and other indicators which dictate a trauma activation.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_center#Level_I
Looks like some TypeScript around hyperd and docker:

https://github.com/codius/codiusd

So who wants to let others host some arbitrary code execution Docker containers in their datacenter for some crypto currency?

I think back to the episode of Futurama where they go fishing in the middle of the ocean, and Bender asks if they're in international water. Then he radios a boat that comes picks up a package from him and he says, "Guess what you guys are now accessories to."
There really should be laws against that sort of thing. Maybe some price ceilings per service
Companies aren't trying at all.

Just go look at the job ads and see what pathetic items they list as "benefits".

- natural sunlight
- monthly social events
- snacks
- ping pong table

All either basic workplace expectations or intangible irrelevant gimmicks.

People are not that dumb. If you want to avoid paying people tangible benefits and what they are worth they will dump you and no amount of sunlight and social events and catered lunches is going to change it.
That implies that all jobs and work places are more or less equal, and in my experience they very much are not. I've had about 7 different tech employers in my career. Of those experiences 3 were pretty terrible and one started out pretty good but devolved into being borderline terrible near the end. Of the truly terrible experiences, only two of them had enough red flags before taking the job to make it obvious that they would be terrible, but at the time I was much less experienced and didn't see those flags at all.

There are plenty of folks out there who are even less lucky than I was. Folks who were lured into a shitty job early in their career before they had the experience to know better. Folks who just got unlucky and ended up working at places that seemed fine from the outside but were hell holes on the inside, or turned into hell holes due to mismanagement or reorgs or culture shift or what-have-you. Those people shouldn't be punished for making the rational choice to go somewhere else.

Additionally, people don't usually work just for a specific company, they work on a team as part of an org within a company. And sometimes changes in a company mean that teams get changed or eliminated. That can happen for a lot of reasons independent of the quality of the work of the team, but when it does it can often put people in a tough spot, in the best case they will have to go on a job hunt internally, but often times (especially in hot tech markets like SV) if one is doing that it makes sense to also cast a net outside the company as well.

Asking people to spend 2-3 years at a company without any knowledge of what the conditions were like there or the reasons for someone to switch jobs is pretty silly. In fact it could be an indication of a lower quality employee. When conditions go south the people who have the highest intrinsic motivation to do good work and the people with the best skillsets are precisely the ones who are more motivated to leave and can more easily find a new job. People who just cash paychecks and have mediocre skills are going to hang on to whatever job they have for as long as they can.

Additionally, if a company is worrying excessively about holding on to employees, worried that they might be "too flighty" or what-have-you, that is kind of a red flag for me. If they don't have the confidence that they can convince someone to stick around then maybe they are expressing a subconscious judgment of the poor working conditions (or lack luster compensation) there.
>The best thing to do is issue a chargeback.

They had me sign over my direct withdrawal banking details the day I signed up. I regret doing that.
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Fucking Universal healthcare is the only solution for this garbage.
18k without having you sign anything, why not 50k or 100k? How could anyone afford random bill like that? For an emergency visit? What if treatment was needed? Should a visit to the hospital be higher than multiple average salaries?
Because it would be faster than JS?
Totally agreed. And on top of that: ~70% of the farmland is used to produce animal fodder. Beef production is straining our agricultural system. If we ate less beef, we'd be able to farm the rest much more sustainable, even if it would be with lower yields.
The alternative is encouraging people to wait for treatment and tests that they can’t afford in the hope that the problem isn’t serious.

Put another way, if this family does need the trauma unit for their child next month, will they hesitate? Which is worse for society?

Obviously there’s a balance to be struck (hypochondriacs), but I think we can collectively come up with a situation in which both the individuals get paid and the family isn’t being so financially burdened. False alarm or no.
"...Can you build a house? Fix a car? Grow crops? Butcher an animal properly? Land an airplane?..."

You have a SERIOUSLY optimistic view of the Mad Max type aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse. Fix a car? Land a plane? Those questions imply an assumption on your part that an awful lot of support systems will have survived. (For instance, I'm not at all sure that fuel deliveries would continue to be made after a nuclear apocalypse. I'm even less certain that the electronic systems of most planes and autos will survive the nuclear unpleasantness unaffected.)
18k is high, but it costs serious money to run a level 1 trauma center. In particular, it must be staffed enough to provide all specialties 24x7.
I believe Facebook will cache the OG image. You can refresh the cached image using their debugger[1]

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Apocalypses come and go. In the human times, there has not been one singular event that wiped out a large majority of the population. There have been "local" catastrophes confined to a country or a region which have caused upheaval and changes of who is in charge. They're generally referred to as wars or revolutions.

The things these folks are afraid of will mostly not directly be a danger to them. Massive amounts of money can directly protect you from epidemics, rising sea levels, inadequate food and water, and even nuclear war.

Unfortunately, such events, and others, cause social unrest, which can devolve into chaos and war. This is what they are trying to protect against. It's not rising sea levels per se. It's pissed off and confused people searching for food and water and trying to enact revenge.

There are many strategies for dealing with this. Isolation is one. Pre-emptive cooperation and guild-building is another. Doing whatever you can to keep the social system stable and mitigating reason for collapse seems like a good option as well.