skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That hospital stay was in Singapore, not Indonesia (where he got told to take a taxi to the hospital, rather than 'wait' for an ambulance, and that the surgeons felt that he needed urgent surgery, but there was no-one around that night, and there was a holiday tomorrow, so 'day after tomorrow... maybe').
It's a real number in the 401 area code.

https://www.askgem.com/

See the contact info in the lower left of the page.
When I switched to Linux (because the Mac was old enough not to get updates from Apple), the thing I missed most was support for the external Magic Trackpad (the first version with the removable batteries). I searched around and found some solutions, but they were all outdated and/or abandoned, and none of them could get me all the features and gestures that Apple supported natively since about 8-9 years ago.

Though Linux drivers have improved a lot over time, there are still some areas like this that don't get attention. Not that there isn't a large enough user base, but for many other reasons. I would gladly support a crowd funded project by reliable people on such things.
It's just a generic term for a (usually low-cost) packed lunch from home, as opposed to going out and eating for lunch. It comes from how cheap lunches were packed in a brown paper back in the old days.
He describes he piled it in to investing. Put the repairs on a credit card, and you've got thirty-ish days to liquidate, which is plenty of time.
>this is exactly what travel insurance is (which is why it's so cheap)

And that's one of the huge issues!! Very often people don't read their policies so they have misunderstandings about their coverage!! This is a big problem!

I always read all of my policies, I suggest everyone else does the same. I want to be very clear what losses are covered and what my deductible will be before any losses occur. In fact, for legal documents, insurance policies are pretty easy to understand.

I really wish he included the text of his policy.

While I have sympathy for him, I think he got himself into a pickle when he flew to Singapore than claimed he was unable to fly. Yes, Singapore is a million times closer to Indonesia than the UK, but he should have known if he left Indonesia the insurance company would have expected him to return to the UK.
I've got a R5 1600X with overclocked RAM (3GHz) and a 144Hz display. I've yet to encounter a game that doesn't bottleneck on the GPU with vsync on. Either it hits beyond 144fps and it wouldn't matter, or its below 144fps bottlenecked on the GPU.
Tesla Shares Fall 4% as Some Investors Worry About Elon Musk's Erratic Behavior
My question was essentially for both expansions of auth. Because as far as I'm concerned, as long as your API layer provides some means of determining user identity, everything else related to auth should be the responsibility of lower layers. It was largely a rhetorical question, because people have been asking for GraphQL to solve non-GraphQL problems since 2015.
A nation-state also has a gap between the most advanced capabilities and what can be used on a routine basis.

For instance a TSA screener is not going to have access to the latest and greatest because information about it gets leaked people will take counter measures.
I wouldn’t imagine that to be intentional, possibly upstream infrastructure is blocking somewhere.
The genius in Picasso wasn't being able to technically draw Picasso-like scenes (anybody can, and besides Picasso could draw perfectly realistically as well whenever he wanted).

His genius was coming up with them -- the composition, the choice of colors, the tone, the framing, what he wanted to evoke etc.

The mere technical part of those drawings he could just assign to any first year arts degree student (and tons of auto-didact) to get right as well.

Someone using Picasso-like source material to create Picasso-like images technically would be nothing impressive.

In fact tons of street artists do just that -- copy paintings by Picasso or other masters, or draw something in their style, and nobody is much impressed. They sell their canvases on the street (e.g. in Monmarte) for like $20 or so.
The vast majority of people are airily dismissive of the logistics of other peoples lives.
Constructive criticism would be nice though, right?
I don't understand. Is the difference that surgeons are available on national holidays there?
Would You Let Your Boss Put a Chip in Your Body?
FCC Throws a Legal Wrench in Sinclair Merger – Mother Jones
"I guess a lot of people think it will be fun to ride a motorbike in Bali." --

I am from California, but I live in Vietnam now for nearly two years. Riding a motorbike here is almost a necessary part of the culture. I've also been to Bali, which has a similar, but not as extreme culture.

Unless you have prior expert experience on two wheels (I raced bicycles for 8 years and have ridden motorcycles on all terrains, for 10), or you are just really talented, the last thing you should do is get on two wheels in countries like these. You'll get injured or killed at some point.

I have World Nomads insurance and I really hope to not have to use it, ever.
> Your public library and services like Overdrive are "NetFlix for text".

They're NetFlix for books and formal periodical publications, both of which are more movie-like: there are a relatively small number of publishers and publishing a full-length book is a substantial, multi-person project, as is publishing a magazine or newspaper. There's a huge wealth of text out there that has no chance of ever hitting any library or central seller/distributor of etexts.
An Enterprise Software Primer
But who is spending $5/day everyday at Starbucks?

$5 * 365days * 10yrs = $18,250
Full time work is approximately 71% of the year, 260 days.

$5 * 260 * 10yrs = $13,000

Still a lot of money. A regular coffee at Starbucks is less than half that - $2.15

A more reasonable number would be $5000-6000 over 10 years if we're going to say "a coffee a day at Starbucks" is the difference between new and used.
Same with

> Good for the planet

It all almost looks ironically done.
Florida's Sunshine Law gives us a lot of insight into its criminal justice proceedings that most other states do not share, so we see a disproportionate amount of news attributable to nondescript "Florida Man."
Even if its not just "mutable" state there are a lot of undesirable situations for multiple package imports in rust:

1. Singletonish things like global allocators, rayon-core, etc

2. You may have made a package static safe to mutate with a mutex, but it could be a bad thing to have different versions of that mutex.

3. Compile time computed tables (unicode table, perfect hashes, etc) could be imported multiple times ballooning the binary.

4. ABI/type compatibility with any reexported types
The insurance premium is simply a markup on the expected value of what the insurance company would pay out. My "inner mathematician" couldn't permit it.

Is that not true of all insurance? Does this mean you go through life with only whatever legal minimum of insurance is required in any given circumstance?
Depending on where you live, pick-ups are not just handy but rather a cultural icon. Have you ever listened to country music? You're not a real country boy if you don't have a pick-up.

The real bait-and-switch though is the disappearing low & middle end of the pick-up market. Pops working the farm didn't drive a $70k luxury F-150. But gone is the Ranger, 1st gen Tacoma, and the much cheaper rough-and-tumble F-series of twenty years ago.
Once they have the data, they can do whatever they want with it. They can run it through closed-source ML, they can sell it to other companies. I suppose people would know if they meddled with the news feed order, but that's about it.
"there is(sic) got to be a better way!"

There are two better ways - each at a different end of the spectrum.

You can give up entirely on government intervention in health insurance and social "goods" being pursued - everyone is on their own and "healthcare" is a private, personal matter. You can play these agency/incentive games with insurers for better or for worse and you're on your own.

OR

We declare "healthcare" to be a public, common good and completely socialize it. Like roads and fire departments.

What these two different strategies have in common is that both of them are intelligible, reasonable and give people a framework for planning and making long term decisions.

Anything between these two points on the spectrum is unintelligible and unsustainable. You would probably be better off with (the option above that you like the least) than any option between them.
There is nothing supernatural about faeries.
Curious that you compare Seastar with a Ferrari: those cars are known for an internal finish that's not compatible with their price tag... and Seastar is nothing like that. It's a seriously well engineered piece of software, and it shows: its readability and code quality is superb.
Tesla Model 3 teardown shows over 30% profitability
If I have a 1% chance of a car accident, I’d be happy to pay 1.5% the cost of hospital bills for insurance. Someone else with a 2% chance of an accident should be happy to pay 3%. That’s still insurance.

Only if you deny free will and assume perfect information and deterministic laws of physics, can every risk resolve to either 0% or 100%.
To be sure, travel insurance is very often a very good idea.

But it's travel insurance not "whole-world, any hospital, health insurance" (which I am sure you can buy, but not at the same price).
I got interested in assembly fairly early on my programming career by playing wargames(io.smashthestack.org anyone?). Writing exploit payloads was very fun. After that in my career i have only written assembly to vectorize some code using neon.

I think the best reason to learn assembly is not to write rather be able to read compiler output.
This is a great resource. I don't think it is for beginners, it is a bit overwhelming. But as a programmer who has to dive into asm every few months (on a variety of architectures!), this will be a very helpful reference to help me reset my frame of mind for the particular architecture.
I am curious if they will be able to use this data to raise rates if the pre-existing coverage is removed ( https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618263772/trump-administratio... )?

I presume that it would be smart now for people to use certifications of creditable coverage?
Financially, insurance is only a smart purchase if you

1. Cannot afford the worst-case-scenario. (Example: replace your car if it were totaled)

2. You expect the return from claims will exceed the cost of premiums/deductibles. This should never happen if insurance companies are savvy and want to be profitable.

Large companies with a vehicle fleet often self-insure those vehicles (AT&T last I heard) because they can afford every vehicle worst-case-scenario (ignoring liability, which is a legal obligation).

Socially/emotionally, insurance is a peace of mind which is important and valuable to some people. Security and all that.
I think the whole point is that the comparisons don't work!

so it would eeem quite fair (though complex) to redistribute them

I read that as a bit of ajitprop against the idea of redistribution. There are two kinds of voluntary redistribution that have worked to prevent the basic psychological conflict that arises from relative poverty. The sharing of benefits to large numbers of the public, and an economy that lets large numbers of people participate. The former wouldn't work with sex very easily. The latter has historical precedent.
everyone i know with a truck uses it for work (at least partially) -- so the cost is offset by the income they generate
What is SSE in this context?
Uh, aren’t you just sending billions of photons then?

Sorry, I must be missing something, as this seams like you’re spending photons to move a package rather than just sending photons.
Fun fact: both sources have precisely the same favicon as well.
Something similar can be said about most of the natufian range. Sapien habitation predating the out of Africa^ dispersal, and therefore not our "line" if the theory is true.

There was also a neanderthal population that seems to have succeeded and older sapien population, which is unusual in the record.

It's very old people stomping grounds, for pretty much any definition of people. Pretty much anything from early homo erectus to early scholars has a token ancestor there.
This is random, but I believe browser navigation is broken on sucttlebutt.nz (at least on chrome os-x).
And if you must go to the individual market, you can’t deduct it until it reaches 10% of your income. Not really fair.
Why are federated systems too complicated for practical use?
Show HN: Dasm – DOM assembler-like language sketch
"avoid the"..."insane initial depreciation that exists with new cars."

This is a strange statement, because of course lease pricing is nothing more than paying for the depreciation of the vehicle. Not only are you paying for it over the term, the risks if you want to terminate earlier, after the worst of the depreciation, are identical if not even exaggerated with leasing.

It can be a good choice, especially for businesses because it greatly simplifies accounting for vehicles (just an expense and nothing more), but when people differentiate owning from leasing some strange statements are oft made.
>"“You know, the British pit Hindus and Muslims against one another,” Pawar told The Intercept at the time, drawing on his Indian-American heritage. “Pit people against one another based on class and geography, caste … this is no different. Chicago versus downstate. Downstate versus Chicago. Black, white, brown against one another. All poor people fighting over scraps.”"

I'm glad Pawar has the presence of mind to recognize this, but he should also recognize that it is his Democrat party and their radical embrace of racialized and racist identity politics that drives the wedge of division further between us all.
In Singapore, with first-rate hospitals, and the highest cost of living in the world? That's not even a little surprising.
Germany’s Collusion with Muslim Anti-Semitism
Just coding out loud. What if we could do this?
> a Govt sanctioned scam

And in some cases, enabled. Like city ordinances that say you cannot have a trampoline without having homeowner's insurance (though the number of insurers who will 'allow' you to have insurance is dropping - I say 'allow' because some don't say "If you have a trampoline, we won't cover any claims around it", but "If you have a trampoline, we won't offer you coverage at all").

No, I'm not (at all) advocating things like "auto insurance is theft", it's not - I see as a firefighter/paramedic the amount of damage that can be done to innocent third parties (persons and property).

But some insurance requirements are rather more the result of lobbying.
Cryptozoology? I still think it can fall into the supernatural somewhat?
They don't have to be technical overall, they need to be domain intelligent and product/capability informed. Finding the holy grail of sales person that is solid technically and solid in sales is tough and expensive.

My 2 cents: First, incentivize current clients for referrals. Referrals can be critical. Second, find someone who can do lead generation for you, and than parse your week into following up on leads and moving current projects forward. Once you are too busy to do both, than hire for whichever side you can find the best suited person. e.g. programmer or lead nurturer. Lead nurturing usually takes a little time to turn into a paying project depending on the size, so usually you can find sales (or even interns etc) people that can fill that role that aren't technical.

I don't think there is one correct way, but there are a number of known and different patterns that have been used successfully. The key thing is to avoid the common feast/famine mode and to get a solid and steady project flow. That only happens when you have leads and time to nurture them to into sales.
I think that buying SUVs are more of a symptom of the problem than the cause. Sure they're expensive to buy, insure, and maintain - but most drivers I see are the only one in their vehicle. People aren't doing what is practical, they're doing what makes comfortable now.
Nothing fancy. I keep this vim window permanently open at a fixed position. Roughly once a day I remember to save them. I archive the files and start fresh every time I switch jobs.
Well at least it can address 3.84 TB of RAM (maybe more, because that's not a multiple of a power of two.) I suppose if you could get 256GB DDR4 DIMMs you'd have 12*256 = 3072 = 3TB of RAM. Yuu'd have to give the RAM cartel your first-born to pay for it, but that would be some machine!
Sheesh, you can buy three new cars or a starter home (in some places), that's how expensive new cars are these days.

Auto loans also require you to carry full coverage insurance, which can be the same or more than your car payment if the loan is less than $20,000.

Personally, I can't stomach the idea of paying $500-700/mo for a used vehicle.

My current daily is a 2005 Chevy Aveo, I've owned it about 6 years and my total monthly cost (car, insurance, fuel, maintenance) is under $200/mo. It's a budget box, no frills, and I do all my own repairs and maintenance, and you can too! Youtube is a great resource and cheap hand tools can be found at Harbor Freight. Anyone who tells you that modern vehicles can't be maintained at home is mistaken, most maintenance tasks require no special tools and many repairs are attainable with limited skill and experience.
If the business seems to be doing well and growing, I’d reconsider if what he’s doing is really that bad. This is the reality of “AI”/ML - there’s no magic bullet, but naive people want to be fleeced into thinking there is one.
Dead man's switch with CloudWatch
Wants to fund climatism with revenue made from me using their product.

That's 10 times worse than staying with FB. Like giving your money to the government.
Read files using Go
Every so often I'm reminded of why the first computers were based on weaving machines.
Very true. We're not perfect, but I am at least happy we made an ethical and moral (and in some cases legal) choice that I'm much more comfortable with than some others.
Locals are insured.
These are full x86 machines that can handle a much different workload than an EdgeRouter X.

Try and do any kind of meaningful traffic shaping, firewalling, with an ERX. Or, just make some configuration change which knocks traffic handling out of silicon and into the CPU: you'll quickly see where the extra money would've been nice.

My only serious complaint about pfSense is that BSD only has single-threaded PPPoE, which really does not work well at anything approaching gigabit speeds.
What do you have from the healthcare part now? Drugs, diagnosis, lab test (from the like of labcorps), or just point of sale addresses because hipaa?

How is the data linked? ssn, phone numbers? (just a best guess, in case you spotted some linking anomalies)

Is the primary key still a number internal to lexis nexis?

How detailed is the social network now? (just people living together and neighbours, or does it includes relatives and family members)
The kickerstarter will only bring in a finite amount of money. Long term operations will surely require more than that. Why would anyone want to invest in this? Twitter/facebook etc can at least collect advertising information. There is some discussion about what seems to basically be a cryptocurrency, but its surely not sustainable.
Please no, I don't trust the government at all to handle healthcare efficiently. And I enjoy my insurance company through work, its the equivalent to a significant raise each year
Ask HN: Researchers: What practical research hasn't been commercialized?
It's my understanding that many fields have practical, useful research results that never get brought to market. Most often, it's because researchers lack the time and interest to starting a business, or the researcher's university owns patents and entrepreneurs don't want to deal with the licensing process, or simply that no one outside the field is even aware of the practical applications of the research.

So I ask all you HN researchers: What results are you aware of that can solve problems and help people, but haven't yet been commercialized?
And yet someone like Newton did speculate on those matters. Just because something is not science does not mean it does not warrant our attention. Or is not fun to contemplate.
I see. That makes more sense now.
Threadripper doesn't target servers, their EPYC line does...
That’s why my wife and I have adopted a strategy of living on only one of our incomes, and saving and investing the other.

I realize we are in a position to do so in that we are both career focused and make enough together that we can afford to do so. If we were working minimum wage jobs, this wouldn’t work.

But I imagine that’s the case for a lot of folks on this forum. Certainly many are single, but for those that aren’t, it’s lkkely true.

What this has enabled us to do is both work for a series of startups. Also, we aren’t interested in kids, but it leaves us with the option if things change. Or, god forbid, one of us were to get sick or be injured.

Living to the hilt as a DINK sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Show HN: EmojiGenie 🧞‍️ – emoji search with 1-click copy written in React
That makes more sense. Thought it was in Bali.
Interview with Sam Altman from the High Growth Handbook
If you switch to Tridactyl [1], our buggier, less popular, and less user friendly competitor to Vimium, you can pass hints CSS selectors.

E.g, `hint -c a+a+a` only highlights comments on the HN homepage (and every third link in a row on other pages). I have it bound with `bind ;c hint -c [class*="expand"],[class="togg"],a+a+a` which also lets me toggle comments on HN and reddit.

[1]: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl
As it in the US, that's already the case. It's amortized and expensive payments, and not "true" insurance.

Or rather, insurers like to take all of the pros of being an insurer, and none of the cons.

Risk pool didn't change by your entry into it? So what, if there's something deniable, we will. Etc, etc.
Becoming an Expert in a Changing World
You kid, but I recently turned 40. After my birthday, I thought it would be useful to come up with a list of goals to reach by 50. Getting my roguelike to 1.0 is high on that list.
I have nerve damage because of a spinal problem, I walk with a slight limp not because I've lost strength but because I can't always accurately 'feel' where my foot is.

It's like walking with pins and needles.
I'm sorry, I can't right now in detail. The general trend started with Citizens United and followed through Masterpiece is a increased set of precedents for corporate personhood, with some harsh dissents from the Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch contingent in cases where that was at issue (but corp. personhood side lost). When Kennedy retires and of Kavanaugh is his replacement, that will give put an awful lot on Robert's judgement as the swing decision. If I'm really getting picky, the lack of consistency in Trump v Hawaii and the Masterpiece case shows a certain amount of prioritizing partisan concerns over logical consistency (imo, ianal).

edit: taking corporate personhood to logical extremes reverses a lot prior precedent and I would have doubted it would have happened until recently.
> If leaders can effectively lead, why have a system over them ?

Do you mean, 'if the leader is perfect, why not give them absolute power?' The problems with that question seem obvious to me.