skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people really want to understand why US healthcare is more expensive, I'd suggest this detailed, if somewhat dated (2008) analysis by McKinsey which breaks down US healthcare spending by category and compares it to other countries, accounting for differences in GDP - in particular page4 [1].

Findings:

- most of the extra spending, ~70%, is occurring in the outpatient setting (which includes the ER)

- in-patient care is only marginally higher than expected compared to other countries (~10%)

- the US spends less than most developed countries on long-term care and home care

[1]https://healthcare.mckinsey.com/sites/default/files/752233%2...
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I knew something was off about the article when it suggested that the owner had to have had connections to Muni to get access to the electrical connectors. Trolleybuses are pretty common, so it shouldn't be hard to either source the trolley poles or make them himself.
I switched to firefox a year ago. Its a little slower, but im a lot happier.

Ive been trying to degoogle as much as reasonable. I moved to fastmail as well. Still using an android, but would switch if a reasonable alternative that wasnt iphone came up. Im not paranoid or a privacy nut, just think google is too involved in my life.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the HiDPI issue:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=...

(there's a couple of hits when I search for 'scrolling' in that thread)
Why not? Everyone else seems to be considering the Romans and the Byzantines to be a single contiguous entity. Sauce for the goose.
Interesting, thank you for the explanation!
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The Brooklyn Bridge is the ultimate example of over-engineering to compensate for lack of good theory/modeling. It is both a cable-stayed bridge and a suspension bridge, each system of which is independently capable of carrying the entire load of the bridge. And it's also a truss bridge, though that system alone won't hold up its entire deck.
There's a little wisdom in that point for "allies" as well: don't be an ally because you expect recognition or something else in return -- do it because that's what you believe.
Let me first say that I am not a super network dude. I know enough to be dangerous.

The newer story @ Ars has some updated stats and thoughts: https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/06/exclusive-plumes-ne...

Part of the improvement is the hardware. The latency improvement is awesome, for example. But part of it seems to legitimately be the optimization that their software is doing re: signal strength, which backhaul to use, auto updates, the level of customer support, and other stuff.

I don't know how it compares, but it seems it may be better than people were initially thinking.
>Considering the White House is full of people who support Spencer and the alt-right,

[citation needed]
Since the 80s and BRIEF (anyone remember that?) I have relied on record/play keyboard macro with every programmer's editor I've used. This fundamental feature is missing in VSCode, sadly it's a complete showstopper for me. I get the impression that VSCode's architecture makes this difficult or impossible to implement as an extension.
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I think I enjoy music, but I've never seemed as interested in it as other people are. I usually find a few things that match a mood and listen to it on repeat. I never listen to music just for fun, and effectively never go to concerts.
Nothing I put in there seems to do anything? No results, no error messages.
> responsibility to write high-quality software

Since GDPR, there's now an effective legal minimum of quality; you need to protect user data and keep it accurate.
How is this different from duplicating the layer (Ctrl+Shift+D for quick usage) and then applying the filter? It's two more manual steps (one hotkey to duplicate, and another action later to delete the old layer) but it doesn't sound like something currently impossible in GIMP.
You didn't read far enough:

> "subdomain.www.domain.com" displays as "subdomain.domain.com".

This is very deceiving. This change gives phishers a huge opportunity.
They run by lots of little people each working their small part of the picture. This creates a machine that will grind up people and spit them out in ways the little people would never themselves agree to do. If you get the attention of someone who can temporarily halt the entire process you can get humane treatment (such as people who post complaints here or on twitter that gets far more done than any amount of going through customer service), but most people don't have that luxury.

How far will this system support totally amoral actions? One just has to consider cases such as Nestle and their baby formula to see it will allow immoral actions up to and including causing the death of children.
Potato/potato. Do you consider the Pax Romana to be peaceful? Arguably, if your neighbors are "barbarians" or "infidels", the most peaceful thing you can do is conquer them to put an end to their incessant warring and impose civilization.

Remember that the Arabs (prior to the caliphate) were used as proxy troops/mercenaries by the Persians/Romans for centuries under the guise of the Ghassanids and Lakhmids. This has repercussions.

You can make the argument that the jizya made them second-class citizens who were tolerated, but you cannot make the argument that they were not tolerated, which stands in stark contrast to the various persecutions of other religious groups under Julian the Apostate, assorted Byzantines who decided that Arianism/whatever was heretical, Zoroastrianism's (well, the Sassanid rulers' interpretation of it) treatment of nonbelievers, etc. I'm not arguing that sharia is a modern, progressive system of law. In the context of 650 AD, though, it definitely was.

> Yea, but I haven't been there or responded to anything with "implying implications" for years, so forgive me this indulgence.

My comment is more that:

> foo bar quuz baaz

> foo

Pick one

Is underservedly dimissive and really doesn't serve to advance the conversation. I do it also (mostly on Reddit, I guess), but the statement you were replying to wasn't obviously fallacious. There's a lot of nuance which you can't hammer away with

>implying
Sometimes theoretical physics makes a big difference in our daily lives too. For example if we live in a multiverse (quantum many worlds or inflationary) and if that implies immortality.
> Product discovery is not why advertising is done.

Actually, it is. What do you believe is the purpose of ads? More importantly, how do you interpret the fact that any product release is based on an advertisement campaign?
Finally, I have a name for it! If all of music simply disappeared right this second and there was never again a melody, song, etc. forever more, I wouldn't miss it for one second. I understand music evokes something in other people, I just don't understand why or how or what that "enjoyment" consists of. It does absolutely nothing for me. I've tried just about every genre of music that I've been aware of, but it's all just noise.
Some of them are great. Some of them do incomprehensible shit like loading text in chunks while scrolling, making it impossible to scroll to the end of an article without waiting 5-10 seconds for it to appear.

(This might be a result of my using a content blocker to block mobile ads, but the fact that it’s even possible infuriates me as a user. I mean, it’s text! Just show me the text!)

I agree with you 100% that responsive design isn’t there yet.
I mean, we have no idea what they’re planning to do with the money, it could be used for acquisitions to branch out from being a “1 product” company. Or it could be pumped into sales and marketing. There’s no guarantee that it’ll be used for new features.

Also, I’m a pretty light user of PagerDuty, but what has been getting worse and worse over time? From my usage it’s been reliable software, that lets me set and modify on-call schedules, and notifies the right people when things go wrong. I’ve been at a company that’s been using it for the past 6 years, and the core functionality has been strong/reliable the whole time, as far as I can tell - though again, I’m personally a light user, just on-call a few weeks a year and doing minimal administration. What are the big regressions they’ve had?
A political appointee! Even better!
>I believe companies can independently build their own TPUs at lesser than $60M within 2 years.

I think we have very different work history wrt. the size/agility/cost of doing things/etc. of the companies that we've worked at :)
Uh.... steel toed boots are a very common thing?
All they actually care about is "Wikipedia - Canada". Which is right there on the page.
Wrong name, sorry. https://www.wired.com/story/wannacry-malwaretech-arrest/
There's no such thing as "how the web is supposed to function." There is an ideal that the plurality of the early web once sought to chase. There are more ideals that the more commerce-friendly users and creators of the web started to chase.

The norm is always shifting. It's our job as technologists to accommodate how people want to use technology, not to tell them that the way they want to use it is wrong. Because if we try to tell them no, then they're going to use the freedoms we labored so hard to give them to stop listening to us.
They can prevent moonlighting if it creates a conflict of interest, for example if the work is similar to what the employer does or could do. For large companies, the definition of that can amount to “every potential side project”.
TetraScience is hiring a Solution Engineer
TetraScience is a cloud-based, data integration company in downtown Boston that provides the scientific community with centralized, standardized, and actionable scientific data to fuel innovation, facilitate collaboration, and accelerate discovery.

The TetraScience Data Integration Platform automatically integrates, normalizes, and validates data from heterogeneous sources, resulting in a centralized set of scientific data from which scientists can draw conclusions, gather insights, and take action. These data sources range from scientific instruments, software systems, and contract researching / manufacturing organizations.

Funded by top tier investors and industry leaders who shares our vision, TetraScience is also part of the YCombinator community and went through the incubation in summer 2015.

TetraScience is looking for a Solution Engineer who shares our interest in facilitating scientific advancement. You will work closely with Solution Architects and the core Product/Engineering team to provide solutions that address customers' data integration needs. If this sounds like a good fit for you, check out the specifics here: https://tetrascience.workable.com/j/0E6BC4BBD8
What you may be surprised to learn is that Chrome isn't just stripping "www." from the beginning of the subdomain. "subdomain.www.domain.com" displays as "subdomain.domain.com"
In the case of media, that would be "production values".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/production_values
I agree with the spirit of the change, not necessarily every detail of the implementation.
IMO it shouldn't fall on the shoulder of users to manage the application's memory allocation on its behalf.
That random post is way off. I was curious and even if you only include buildings 10 stories and up, the average is under 20. And if you have ever been to the boroughs, you would know that there are many houses and buildings under 10 stories.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-tall-apple-number-o...
Youre looking at the wrong market. Pagerduty is working “bottom up” in to the IT support game. The trending and business reporting tools are leading indicators of this. Im genuinely curious how long until they have pro services & billable hours. See ServiceNow as an example, $1.9B revenue & $30B market cap.
The localhost talk for rbspy (the inspiration for this project) is awesome: https://www.recurse.com/events/localhost-julia-evans

Imagine it should also provide relevant insights into the structure of this tool
Isn't average the wrong metric here though since such a low number of the 4 story and less buildings even have elevators to use?

I bet there's datasets for this actually.

Also that doesn't count all the stairs subway riders use which I'd imagine would be a huge portion of stairs walked in NYC daily.
humm... for sure that wasn't a technical decision, and here start the problem.
This is certainly subverting the domain name system. I can't see the value or gain in security by this.

(If you want to put focus on the domain, then display the host-part with less contrast, i.e. grey, but don't hide any potentially vital information. Otherwise, put out a RFC, defining "www" as a substitute for "*", or a zero-value atom, in order to guarantee consistent behavior.)

Edit: There are also legal concerns with catch-all domains in some countries. Blending the lines certainly doesn't help.
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Design requires intent. Systems are rarely intended to get the exact result they end up creating.

Perhaps 'adapted' rather than 'designed' would make this statement more likely true. But then, there may be some other system that is somehow more perfectly adapted that achieves the same result.

I think in the end this isn't a useful thought.
This is me. I can't understand why people want to listen to music in their cars when quiet is so much more pleasurable. Though, I also can't understand why people want to listen to music at all. It has no emotional response for me. I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one since it seems like everyone else likes music for some reason.
No this is simply bad implementation. As has already been mention, for internet services that also have websites for those services the www. subdomain makes total sense.

> How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ?

In the above case pool.ntp.org is a decades old time service, while www.pool.ntp.org is a website describing the service.
My father was a garbage man when I grew up in the late 80s/early 90s and his crew stayed on top of pretty much any points promotion they found. This meant I grew up riding Pepsi bicycles, listening to Marlboro boomboxes.
I think it was meant somewhat literally, with her being from 'The North West' - the implication being some godforsaken backwater just shy of Scotland (I'm not being insulting, I'm from the Eastern equivalent), so would have — like a small number of British Scientists — stuck out like a sore thumb in the male-dominated, figuroliteral cloistered Cambridge academia of the time.
>malwaretech is currently stuck in the US indefinitely for intervening in the WannaCry command-and-control system.

Utter nonsense. Who told you this?
Ah. Thanks for clarifying that.
Really ought to just use coreDNS as a local stub resolver and point it at cloudfare's TLS enabled DNS resolvers. That's what I do.
Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital
You're not alone. I'm just glad I now know the name for my "condition" (which I sincerely hope there is no cure for).
Don’t Firefox and Safari also have a single bar for searches?

Yet neither company runs a search engine. I don’t suppose it’s possible this is just better for most users?
> we have no way of adjudicating which posts are fair and true vs. not.

You routinely bring this up as if it's somehow necessary but have never demonstrated why, only resorting to "it's better for the community", without, again, any reasoning or discussion (that you don't immediately shut down) behind it.

> Comments on a job ad are not a context in which both sides of a story can be aired.

Even if true, which is debatable, that's not necessarily desirable.

> the resulting threads would often become long and off-topic. Worse, they would be vulnerable to abuse. I'm sure you wouldn't do that, but others unfortunately would.

Is this demonstrable, or just speculation? Where are the early examples of this occurring?

> These are all issues that we can and do deal with moderating in the general forum, but Who Is Hiring threads aren't the general forum—they're a job board planted into HN like an embedded DSL, and statements that are valid in the general language don't all work here.

As an argument-by-analogy, this suffers from being potentially misleading. However, since you resort to a technical analogy, why not resort to a technical solution?

Berating users for not being able to read your mind [1] and behaving otherwise reasonably for the forum is unfair.

If you feel you need to stifle conversation on this thread, then prohibit it outright. Technically.

[1] and, no, the "instructions" at the top are not sufficient, since they are, in effect, too hidden, too exceptional, and include no reasoning for what seems to be an arbitrary rule for a "DSL" you've created.
You can see a Leicameter in a later picture, the visoflex is here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/cultureexplor...
Ask HN: How can I transition from being a software engineer to being a writer?
I've been a software engineer in industry for around 5 years. I've recently been spending some of my free time writing essays, letters, and anecdotes, and find the process surprisingly fulfilling. I've always enjoyed writing code, but these days I find myself enjoying the process of eloquently expressing abstract thoughts into English words more than the process of expressing logical ideas into readable, working, testable code.

I've been toying with the idea of taking extended time off to travel, read, and write, and was wondering if I could take advantage of that time off to also attempt a career in writing. I have enough saved up such that a totally failed, reasonably long attempt at doing so would still leave me financially secure, but the main issue is that I have no idea where to start (besides to write, haha). Do you have any suggestions, resources, or advice? Thanks!

To give you a sense, this essay is the longest I've spent on a single piece of written work: https://hackernoon.com/a-personal-story-about-existential-anxiety-and-the-pursuit-of-fulfillment-6c94c9798679
Yes, don't be afraid to quit.

I've left companies for some of these situations/items and I'm financially better off.
Tell that to Android
Convert 𝚑𝚝𝚖𝚕 to 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓸𝓭𝓮 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵
I also think there's a higher chance of smaller IoT device makers selling your data to third parties. On the flip side you could probably add in any device from Alphabet companies to collecting, analyzing and selling that data.
It makes them as devoted to peace as other's in similar positions. Sometimes they advocated peace, other times they engaged in war. Trying to paint them as uniquely expansionist is the problem.
Last day before his car registration expires.

Those electric buses are such poor rides. As soon as the driver lets off of accelerator, the whole bus shakes. You'd think they'd do something about having a smoother ride.

That technology is sold it really is a PoS. I certainly don't want to be anywhere near the tangled mess if an earthquake strikes and all the wires come tumbling down.
Pendantic hat on: 4 www.
>People get angry when you just move their cheese without notice.

Sorry, unrelated, but ahah, what is this saying? I love it and have never heard it before. I guess it's from some sort of book? https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/cheese-moving-effecting-change-ra...
This is a small javascript library that I made to convert html to unicode strings that mimic some of the html formatting using only special unicode characters.
> they felt they were destined to bring Islam to the entire world

By the sword. They would ask a city to surrender and convert to Islam, or they would take it by force and either kill or enslave it's citizens. Doesn't sound very peaceful to me.

> the caliphate was internally peaceful, enforced charity, successful as a gateway for trade between the East and West

And they were also the most prolific slave traders in all of history. It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to say that the caliphates were any more or less peaceful than any other world empires.
The parent is saying that their tests normally catch memory leaks, not that their tests catch all memory leaks.
I'd also argue that Alexander was an oriental emperor, and even Rome had a lot more in common, economically and culturally, with the middle east than they ever had with northern/western Europe. Note the extent of the Roman empire in the east, relative to the west - they pretty much ignored everything north of the Mediterranean.

The rebound of the Byzantines is a good point, but they never really reclaimed their former glory. Still, point taken.

edit: Actually, going further with this, the modern "European-ness" of classical Roman and Greek culture is largely a retcon of actual history. The culture of western Europe had very little to do with the culture of ancient Greece, relative to, say, Egypt or Syria.
> There is not one concentration camp, there are over a dozen.

Over a dozen prison camps. Camp 14 was the "hotel California" camp supposedly, the others are focused on rehabilitation and release.

> Dozens of people going back decades. And even if you consider the entirety of their testimony suspect, these witnesses bare the physical signs of torture and malnutrition.

Dozens of the literally tens of thousands of North korean defectors. But it's only the ones with the sketchy stories for some reason that get the limelight.

> And while I could only find those two you mentioned as eyewitnesses to camp 14, we have plenty of other witnesses to the other camps. Dozens of people going back decades. And even if you consider the entirety of their testimony suspect, these witnesses bare the physical signs of torture and malnutrition.

I mean, they were under sanctions during a famine. Nearly everyone was malnourished.

> Are you just skeptical of stories like boiling people in molten iron? If so I can understand.

Yes, skeptical to say the least.

> Do you believe that these political re-education camps exist?

I believe that prisons should be focused on rehabilitation and integration back into society, I guess you can call that "political re-education".

> What about the policy of sending an entire family, including children, to prison if one member of it commits a political offense?

I doubt that this exists. What's more likely is that political dissonance (which was outlawed by the US in times of war also), is hard to keep to an individual in the extremely family centric societies of the east, including North Korea and would tend to pull in family members who didn't report it.

> Do you believe that these camps are host to abuses, including the torture of prisoners as punishment, forced labor, and inadequate access to food and medical care?

I think that's true of nearly all prisons, including those in the US. And before you go calling "whataboutism", I think that's core to the distinction made between a "concentration camp" and a prison.

My main issue is how it gets portrayed as worse than the Nazis or Unit 731, when there's essentially no reliable evidence to the fact. All in a context where there's a push for a war with them, and we've manufactured evidence for the past few wars.
Dump your toxic environment right now
Because I would expect that you generally sacrifice part of your salary for the ability to work on free and open source software full-time, much like you would generally take a pay cut working at a non-profit.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but if chrome could, with perfect accuracy, indicate if this was “the site you want”, why not do away with the url?

Mind you, I’m not suggesting to do away with linking, as some rando suggested this implies. (While chrome doesn’t show the protocol prefix, it still copies the prefix when you copy the url, so imagine a similar ui.) But for most users, wouldn’t a ui that shows “server identity” in some more user-coherent way be what they want?

In particular, do subdomains help or hurt phishing detection?