skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being shown the projected return on the degree is exactly why students take on debt, because we were given assurances that the job market for this or that degree is great along with indicators of starting salaries that seem to tell you "You can afford to go into debt for this or that, because the job you'll have" (haha, good one!) "right after college will make it possible to pay off."
Your fourth paragraph describes the US prior to the 70s and 80s and the HMO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_maintenance_organizatio...).

What happens is that no one visits the doctor for preventative care, with the result that many cases were not diagnosed until it was very expensive to treat. (Have you had your blood pressure checked recently?)

In practice, Erlichmann was right about HMOs.
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I have not driven any Mercedes in a looong time, I'll have to try that. I also live at 8000 feet and regularly drive up to 10000 feet so that might be part of why every transmission seems horribly confused. Some car makers don't seem to test for thin air at all.
I am excited to see this come out:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Low-Power-Cellular-I...

Seems promising, but I don't see the current consumption documented anywhere yet.
Types of Hearing Aids
Because there are tangible legal and social benefits to doing so, including hospital visitation rights, insurance, etc, as well the ability to live in harmony with people you love whose social expectations are that you get married. This is important to many people—especially if they have found a partner that they can conceive of spending a lifetime with.
I raced cars with non-synchronized transmissions for some years, which means you have to heel and toe (and blip the throttle) to engage a lower gear, and I always drove my MT street cars the same way. About 8 years ago though I switched to automatic with a VW GTI.

There truly is no comparison, dual clutches and in sport mode the car executes a throttle blip on down shifts so I can left foot brake all the time and always have both hands on the wheel. I only care about being precise (and quick when needed) so no, I don't miss manual at all.
I have carefully considered this comment, and decided that it's not evidence.

Now, you're working at Google, and it's definitely possible you're privy to great evidence that you're not sharing. But saying "you'd be truly shocked" is still not really good evidence.

I know there were the Amazon studies where there's a tight link between latency sales. I don't dispute that latency matters. I personally love websites that load fast, have no JS on my personal site and no more than 20 rules. I just haven't seen actual up to date reasons to believe that modern web development is hurting the bottom line for most businesses.
I don't know where you live that you can stay in 2nd and crawl. Where I live, the moment you leave a few inches between your front bumper and the car in front of you, someone is guaranteed to cut you off and force you to brake to prevent hitting them. When I say "inches", I mean inches - 6-8 inches of space is enough for someone to think "I'll just squeeze in here".
This wouldn’t work for wages workers unless there’s a 20+% increase in hourly workers. Given that that seems unlikely to happen hourly workers would have to retain the same number of hours worked anyway, only now spread across two jobs.

Unless this is purely about salaried work, in which case you’re dealing with a completely different set of problems, a trivial example: do teachers, etc now also get 4 day weeks? If so does school get reduced to 4 days/week or do you have day to day variances in which teachers are in the school? If it’s now four days/week hourly workers again get screwed because now they need to earn more to cover child care.

Etc, etc
The gig economy is real.
My issue with automatic transmissions is that while they may be able to predict optimal settings in specific conditions, they cannot understand the overall conditions of traffic and operate accordingly.

An example is bumper to bumper traffic moving at high speed. Traffic may momentarily slow down abruptly, then pick up again. All automatic transmissions I have driven react the same when I release the gas, and then press it again as traffic speeds back up. They either stay in high gear, so the torque is not immediately available when traffic speeds up, or worse, they take a few seconds to downshift and then lunge forward.

With a standard transmission, I can put the car in neutral when I see brake lights ahead, slow down with the brakes if necessary, and when traffic starts moving faster, I drop into the appropriate gear for the speed I'm at and the torque I need.
At this point performance cars are no longer truly exploitable on a road legally. Yeah you can do a quick acceleration at the occasional stoplight, but on pretty much no public road are you going to get to a speed that's close to the car's limit. And if you do, it'll be insanely dangerous because even though safety systems are amazing these days, your reaction time isn't any faster than it used to be and the people around you may not be as well protected.

It's useful on the track you say? Maybe, and I have no doubt I'd rather a paddle shifter for outright speed and ease. It's probably safer to learn to drive at high speed having removed one of the variables at least at first. That said, I'll never be Michael Schumacher.

Bottom line when you buy a performance car: what are you trying to do? It can't be "win" or see the limits of the car, so what is it? Clearly it's to have fun. And I think it's hard to argue that driving a stick is more fun, except perhaps in traffic. In the end I'd rather endure minor annoyance in traffic and in the city in exchange for the fun that comes elsewhere. I've put my money where my mouth is, own 2 cars, both stick.
I have an old HP pen plotter, I may give it a go.
Those are a poor copy of the style. They're way more simplistic and less detailed.
Because loans are cheap
My rebuttal was probably a bit too sassy. Sorry.

I agree with the idea that higher ed should have "skin in the game", which is I think what you're trying to find mechanisms to achieve?

But I think the best way to achieve our overall goals (affordable and appropriately accessible higher education) is to force it to be democratically accountable by publicly funding nearly all higher education (maybe except $300 or $500 a semester just to force some "skin in the game" from students).

The "appropriately accessible" part is what makes this so difficult. The highly educated and deservedly successful petite bourgeoisie is going to have a tough time hearing that their second child who needed multiple tries to make it through "College" Algebra and could never make it through even a ridiculously watered-down Calc I course don't belong in universities at all...
You know what else increases traffic? Merging too soon.

A good friend of mine and I have a standing argument about proper behavior when, driving, one encounters a "lane closed ahead" sign. He insists that the right thing to do is to abandon the to-be-closed lane as soon as feasible [tangent: he also gets mad at drivers who want to merge later, describing them as "cutters"], while I maintain that the best way to minimize the effect of a lane closure is to use whatever lanes are legal/open for as long as possible -- because leaving an open lane of travel unused only exacerbates the problem.

Who's right?

Disclaimer: I grew up driving in the Boston area (yes, among other "Massholes"), and my philosophy is "try never to use your brakes on the highway, and try even harder never to require anyone else to brake unnecessarily".
The Cheapest one I saw was the Spark at 399 --looks great but looks like best experience would require doubling that for the goggles as well. Still; looks enticing!
Honestly the surprising thing is that there wasn’t general home occupant tracking already :-/
Every time I read an article like this, I agree with it, and a lot of developers seem to be the same.

Two things are stopping me from actually doing this. Firstly, and most importantly, my boss isn't reading articles explaining why accessibility and quick load times will make him more money. Secondly, I've been present for some absolute disasters that happened because of the combination of AJAX, jquery/vanilla js, server-side MVC, and scope creep, and I don't know which frameworks or development patterns I can use to stop that happening on a project that I have more control over while still keeping that project lightweight.

Articles that give clear and actionable suggestions, or are targeted at the people who make high-level decisions about what features go into a product and how many third-party scripts should be installed, would be more useful than articles about how developers are very naughty for adding 10+ ad trackers and UX tools.
Actually, having an Aadhar number does not imply that the person is a citizen - this is one of the statements present in the application form itself. So, it is possible for non-citizens to have an Aadhar number.
Are We Being Misled About Precision Medicine?
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Distribution is also very application specific, in terms of how you distribute. If you’re going multi-tenant Citus (article source) works beautifully.
> It's appalling that people can drop this kind of drivel on an HN thread and let it stand.

It's not drivel if it's backed by actual data [1][2]. This always seems to come as a complete surprise because it's difficult for many people to grasp how profoundly unequal America is. America has most of the best colleges in the world and they produce probably the most dynamic minds out there... but on average the system is comparable to Poland.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/Country%20note%20-%20United...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/upshot/americans-think-we...
Can we talk about the gender pay
Amazon shows some of the problems of the current debt-based economy. Most Amazon orders are with credit card debt, and of course most of it is imported from China and will be affected by many of the Trump tariffs.
The feature stuff works for time series classification. But still doesn't help with forecasting more than one step ahead.
This is consistent with the usual Debian workflow nowadays. It's been a long time since only Debian developers could usefully contribute. Most new Debian developers these days have already contributed a bunch.

One can get a guest account on Debian's gitlab instance, salsa.debian.org, and be granted various rights. One's merge requests can find their way into packages. Eventually one can be granted permission to upload specific packages, and then later apply for full membership.

There are also non-uploading Debian developers with full access to participate in every other way - not everyone focuses on packaging.

Compared to when I became a Debian developer in 2001, the typical process to full membership is way more gradual, but the process to first contribution is much faster and simpler. Good tradeoff.
I believe you are asserting that you are claiming that medical care in the US is more expensive because there area restricted number of doctors. The US has roughly 2.3 pretty 1000 people; the "High income OECD countries average" was 2.86, which seems comparable, especially since small countries necessarily have more per capita.
> You are positing a right without a responsibility. Why should a spouse with no earning power be given a free pass on having obligations?

Because it's not actually a business contract. You don't have to "give your spouse a free pass", you can divorce her if she stops earning as much as you want her to. But that sounds sociopathic to me assuming you're not struggling financially.
Stellar Gets Another Boost with TokenSoft ICO Services Expansion
High-Throughput Genomics and Clinical Outcome in Hard-To-Treat Advanced Cancers
These sites are still there. In fact, many more of them, since the cost of hosting has dropped to near zero, especially for static content.

The new development is huge sites providing expensive content and services for free, and using ads and tracking to pay for it.
Sure, but a good whack of the 'free' countries have attainment rates half of the US.

I'm ok with that but which half of the current cohort gets booted?
Even Finland, with higher car tax than e.g. Germany or Sweden, and on the average older cars than Western Europe, under 30% of new cars are sold with a manual transmission.
Does Facebook have 10+ ad trackers? You're logged in. They have plenty of engineers optimizing performance.

This seems more likely for news sites that are desperate for revenue and use multiple ad networks.
I understand the concept of multiplication. In such a scenario, it is even more imperative that the fix you make (temporary though it may be) actually fix things. Take the time, get all the help you need, and get it done; don’t just commit code and pray.
Can this apply for submitting new packages as well? The process (at least the old process) as dissuaded me from doing just that.
I wish my Googling skills were stronger, but alas, they are not.

I remember one of the other key takeaways was that the manager role was treated more favorably--specifically that they apologized they could only offer some (reasonable) amount of relocation assistance while none was even offered in the developer role. It was theorized that managers were seen as an "in group" among other managers, but that was obviously just speculation.

I wasn't on HN at the time, so I can't confirm it was here. It was one of those blog posts / write-ups that made the rounds.
FTR, statistically, there's not a whole lot of agency involved. Wish I had a good citation here but IIRC there's almost no difference between real-world commuter traffic and fluid dynamics w/ static "dumb" particles.
Something has really changed. In those days the rewards were fairly linear and available everywhere. But now rewards are nonlinear and highly concentrated. Income inequality (and opportunity inequality) will continue to increase, and we probably need to rethink these pithy little axioms that powered the 1900s.
I agree. I would content another point that might be contentious... I don't know the best way to say this, but I really do not like the idea of not being the authority, and not having mechanical control, over my vehicle. You may or may not be concerned by Michael Hasting's-incidents, but that isn't even necessary. In modern cars, any malicious or incompetent third-party can kill you. But either way, I really don't want authorities to have more opportunity to abuse their powers against political dissidents, whistleblowers, or even just ex-girlfriends or business partners anyways. That sort of thing happens in America even if mainstream media didn't tell you that.[2][3] In my opinion it's incredibly naive to believe this won't happen.

1-https://www.wired.com/2016/03/fbi-warns-car-hacking-real-ris...

2-https://youtu.be/M31ZCh1VeX8

3-https://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/09/28/report-across-us-colo...
Companies also take advantage of information disparities. I havea hard enough time finding a decent contractor and I'm capable of putting my own roof on.
You're making a large and incorrect assumption.

But don't worry, I see this on Reddit and other amateur forums all the time.
MRI is crazy expensive, but you only really need $4M for the scanner, so doable for indie rom-come as well as blockbusters!
Thanks for fixing my mistake on the title :)
Hi Keith, I am interested, who is "we"?
You're frustrated because you're the sole reason why it's happening. Set boundaries and you should be fine. Walk out of the job on time, and get a new phone number and a phone with a dual sim.
That's a use case I wasn't familiar with, but I'm not sure how typical it is.

Libraries are awesome:)
Can inequality only be fixed by war, revolution or plague?
While I do agree with the general point of the article, I think that, like most conservation arguments, it lumps the responsibility of cleaning up after the sins of the biggest polluters on the daily habits of working class people.

We aren't going to make up for the emissions of shipping bottled water in barges across the Pacific Ocean by taking shorter showers. And the issue is not using JavaScript for features. The issue is the gigantic ad and tracking networks that are being included, sometimes 10 or 20 at a time, in projects to rob users of their valuable behavioral data. That also just so happens to be written in JavaScript.

But in a world where one can get entire VR experiences out in less than half a Megabyte of payload, it's ludicrous to think that something as simple as a messaging app should take so much in comparison. But it's comparing apples and oranges. The VR experience isn't spying on you (despite the fear mongering to the contrary).
So we are re-hashing the western academic historical debate on economic models of rationality...
It's also useful if you want to drive in almost any other part of the world. the entire traffic light system in most of europe (my only anecdotal example) is designed to show you the pre-green yellow to get ready for the green
Driving in the US is infuriating. Nobody is paying attention and nobody seems to understand basic rules like faster traffic keep left.
The Last Polymath: Review of “Helmholtz: A Life in Science” by David Cahan
Something to add about why some automakers still offer manuals: they help bring down the lowest advertised base price (still significantly enough cheaper) and they help lower CAFE (still a bit of a fuel efficiency benefit).
Deep^2 learning
Data Markets: personal data should be like sex, consent is required every time
That's exactly what they say they're doing. That's not "contamination" - that's the whole point.
I’d go so far as to say that this puddle deep essay about Soilent with an over the top click bait headline is part and parcel with the ills of modern life the author is trying to capture.
One should never read literature for it's plot. Learning the plot of a literature book should have no affect in its enjoyment. This is similar to enjoying a painting for it's plot: "oh so a man is looking up, it's night time, there are a lot of stars, a large tree covering left side of the canvas, the man has some sort vision problem and stars look really huge and yellow. Then there is moon, shining yellow. Below the sky one can see a small city blending with the dusk of the night." Is this an equivalent experience?
Reminds me of this project from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo

If I were a billionaire, one of the projects I'd do would be to apply this sort of technology at scale, upon volunteers who were witness to poorly recorded historic events. WWII, Beatles concerts, JFK assassination, 9/11... all of them have been recorded from angles/perspectives that exist only in peoples' memories, and the longer we wait, the more of those memories will be lost.
What about down shifting into first gear when coming to a stop? Is it jarring with a dual clutch? On my motorcycle I almost never shift into 1st before stopping because of the engine braking (even with a throttle blip). I just grab the clutch and coast until I stop.
Next they'll tell us there's such a thing as "wet towels".
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For those who don't see it, the full paper is linked on the right side (PDF):

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/12/28/240...
Amazon's search has always been terrible in at least some verticals. Computer hardware, for example.

I decided I wanted a GTX 1080 recently, and I gave Amazon's search a swing in case I was missing something that pcpartpicker didn't grab.

Search "GTX 1080" from their home page. First two results are aftermarket coolers, then we start seeing cards.

Okay, let's filter to just a price range likely to be cards... $300-500. The first result is technically in range at $499, but flagged "You can't buy this because you don't have Prime." The second is $661. Yes, technically there's a "used or something from $499.99." in the corner, but it smells like they've ignored the filtering entirely unless you want to play hunt the pixel.

If I do a step further "sort by price", it still sorts by the cheapest third-party used price and then shows the new price in big figures, leaving the results seemingly unsorted. You then see a disclaimer "Showing selected results. See all results for gtx 1080." WTH is "selected results?" My consumer sense is tingling-- are they trying to steer me into higher-margin items? Okay, I'll select "see all". The first result is a Vega 56, the second a 1060.

And this is why I bought from Newegg. That and they had a no-gimmicks model for $430.

What went wrong?

* Product categorization is a mess. I have to wonder if this is third party vendors keyword stuffing their listings for a "GTX 1050 not 1060 1070 1070TI 1080" or just some overly aggressive matching. In other searches, I've seen a related problem-- the same item repeated with marginally different listings.

* New/refurb/open box/etc. really need to be seperate SKUs. Books and DVDs, the used choice is a reasonable substitute, but on a ~$400 product where warranty is a purchasing factor, you can't really bundle them together.

* Filter and sort needs to work how you'd expect it. On the big price number. Maybe that means they have to do things like spinning out new/used/refurb as suggested, and maybe the "$A, also available from $B" phrasing needs rework.
OK, I stand corrected.[0]

But then, in California there's "palimony",[1] so it's iffy.

I guess the lesson is to research the applicable legal environment.

0) https://www.cadivorce.com/news/common-law-marriage-myths/

1) https://www.cadivorce.com/california-divorce-guide/spousal-s...
My belief is that the non-linearity is not due the lack of opportunity of some, but rather the hyper-opportunity of others.

The Silicon Valley isn't really an 'American' centre, it's like a 'Global Centre' where for the first time, indiviuals can have massively disproportionate, global impact.

A doctor may earn a big income, but he can only work on so many patients where as some global firms ... the yields are huge.

Coupled with some automation and large scale immigration of unskilled labour in North America which hurts labour, and outsourcing as well ... it creates a schism.

But remember that on a global basis, billions are being lifted out of utter and abject poverty.

It's mostly a good story.

We have to figure out the working class in advanced nations.

I actually do believe that it's mostly about good jobs, decent services, decent community. That's all there really ever was.
Some quick stats on marriage in a cynical thread:

1) Only 40% of marriages end in divorce these days.

2) Divorced people are much more likely to divorce multiple times, so first marriage success rate is closer to 75%.

3) In job cross splits, software developers have much lower divorce rates than the general pop.

As an unmarried HN reader, you probably have a an 80% chance of lifelong marriage.