skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Favoring stuff with Greek/Latin names is just a bunch of Euro-centrism

They said "Greek/Hebrew" not "Greek/Latin".

>which isn't really a good look

How is that exactly? Why would it be bad for a Greek person to embrace Greek culture, history and tradition?

>The Romans also ignored the risks of lead, which is just ironic in this context.

It is not ironic, it is the point. He's not saying "do anything Romans did!" (even if we pretend he said Romans when that's something you made up). He's saying "do things that have been around since Roman times and nobody has found any health problems with in the 2000 years since then." We had lots of time to find out lead is bad, we found that out, told everyone, and now we eat less of it. We've only been eating seed oils for 100 years. They are probably bad too but we haven't had the time to figure it out and tell everyone yet. So you take a risk by eating them.
Perhaps it doesn't, for those weird edge cases where they have to bring the unconscious patient in and have him assessed 5 different ways. Situations like that are the domain of insurance agencies.

But most medical care (the majority of the cost) is not rendered like that. Most of it is routine and predictable, and should be priced transparently as such.
Milk is not an Apple. It's a commodity. Individual producers have no pricing power. Try to sell milk at $10 a liter and you sell none, because you're undercut by someone selling an identical product for less.
I just installed it on my WQHD ThinkPad running at 225% scaling and everything is blurry. It's definitely not running as a high-DPI-aware app. Are you saying there are some settings I can tweak to fix it? That would be great.

The TrackPoint response is all wrong too, but one step at a time... :-)
It's definitely a thing on Amazon also.
I wondered about that, too - it's an interesting theory, but if all of these "missing men" are actually not working at all, staying home and playing video games all day, they're being subsidized by some _very_ patient parents. I find it hard to believe that there are that many parents who are willing to put up with a total freeloader for decades on end: remember, if the man is in his mid-20's, the parents are in their mid 40's or 50's - that is, they're still schlepping themselves to and from work to pay for food and shelter.
UNIX systems programming can be accomplished by looking at man pages and referencing kernel / user land source code.

I find something cathartic writing C applications and tools. Perhaps I should seek professional help.
It was $100k per course at the time of introduction in the US, which resulted in a lot of hate. But it is a miracle. A close relative of mine was cured, and it had a profound effect on her quality of life. Gilead has very different prices in different regions, we sourced from a place that was much cheaper.
lol. his cut of that probably just about gives him about enough to play video games for the rest of his life, but not enough for any serious status signaling.
If you're ok with string keys, you can always do `new Map(Object.entries(obj))`. Alternatively, just implement the `iterable` interface on your custom data type.

Literals are nice sugar, but it hardly seems "ham handed".
In this case, literally a member of the US media.
My (motorcycle) mechanic quotes me based on the parts and the amount of time required to do the repair. So she'll say "A new set of tires is $130, and the shop labor is $110 an hour. If you only bring in the wheels, then labor is just $50." I'm not sure what magical force is causing my mechanic to behave this way. It could be personal preference, some kind of regulatory requirement, pressure from competing shops, etc. Whatever that force is, it doesn't seem to exist in the american sickness and treatment system.
Cool idea! Just some feedback:

1. Bug; I was able to enter just spaces as a search character somehow

2. Maybe have an example query at the beginning, as it's not clear what this does.

3. The graphs look cool, but what are the units on the y axis? What are Sentiment units?

4. It would be cool if the query was in the url, so I could share the link!

Anyway, loved the idea and the sire looks pretty well done
> the removal of preexisting conditions

That happened under ACA, didn’t it?
It shouldn't have been released at the state it was in the first place
This survey from 2016 says the non library users are the outlier among those over 18 by a wide margin. I guess this could be biased by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and whoever else funds the Pew Charitable Trust, though it is non partisan by charter.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/09/a-portrait-of-those-wh...
True, unfortunately I'm on mobile now and not really able to reformat everything.

Hopefully this thread serves as a disclaimer!
The next-gen graphics system for Pharo, called Bloc, is still under development but making good progress. If you can find some of the demos [1] you'll see that things like text rendering are vastly improved.

[1] https://twitter.com/AliakseiSyrel/status/1050781535983550464
I imagine this is directly related to the inflated costs of emergency care. A dose of ibuprofen (two tablets) costing in the $40+ range?
A game? Something like Terraria.

Or something cutting edge like a kitesurf kite. They are only about 15 years old, so plenty of room for improvement. Just takes time and many prototypes. Cloth is pretty cheap.
Why do we talk about "high drug prices" as some kind of mystical force? The cause is simple and very obvious: the medical industry is a for profit institution that puts margins and bottom line above everything else. It's a huge industry with a plethora of middlemen whose only purpose is to squeeze dollars out of the system. Delivering effective care is almost always a secondary consequence to making value for investors.

So long as healthcare has quarterly shareholder meetings, we will forever be locked in this battle.
Agreed, though it seems there is a huge window for someone who charges fairly to get in

Fixed and transparent/fair costs (and promotion of it) will get a significant line in front of the clinic.

If someone's got a huge amount of money to play with this, it will be fun to see the incumbents getting trashed. In a way, it's "dumping" (but not really as it's still above cost)
If a party wants to hold a closed primary, can't they do that themselves without help from the government? Why would the government be involved in a party-internal election?
It is just insane to me that you have a medical issue and you're calling around for quotes. I know we have had this conversation to death for decades now but it just makes me so angry.
My best way to get a raise used to be to quit my contract. Got 50% more for staying. Now I get 33% raises (without asking/negotiation) to prevent me from qutting :-P That said, I started very low, so 50% was not much.
Have to be honest, I thought that's what the essay was going to be about, too...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronauts_by_first_...
Maybe its a good thing, that in that social ad driven dystopia, the machines will do what we humans could not accomplish, break the cycle, by clogging the algos with synthetic people and opinions.

Freedom by Noise.
The USA isn't democratic. And no, I don't mean it's a "Republic" either. It's a corrupt system that no longer works as originally intended.
I now check fakespot before every Amazon purchase.
could it be .. spez again
>usually the only requirement is to buy a drink first.

And if you obviously have no clue what you're doing and don't even try to buy a drink, they'll definitely know you aren't a cop and offer you the weed.
I suspect it's so that a user can't accidentally make security worse by fiddling with security settings that they don't understand. That said, I might've considered turning any page that had the disabled .htaccess settings into a 500 response instead of just keeping on like everything is working fine.
Everything is sugar. The right sweetness makes the language.
So you are suggesting people just keep doing business with them... or are you suggesting people don't try to make other people do that? Because you can call it "virtual signaling" or however you want but both are still pretty bad options.
apropos: the "will it run?" videos on the "mustie1" YouTube channel
I post YouTube comments frequently and I've never seen this.

I'd be inclined to think it's a bug in some extension he's using, or Chrome's automatic translation feature is doing something it shouldn't.
This is a great process for becoming a nice-cashflow side project, but I doubt there's enough people searching for linux commands for this to ever be huge.

Not saying this isn't a great idea, just saying that it's wise to hedge expectations and not expect this to be a get rich quick scheme.

I think if you wanted to turn it into a larger business, the next step would be to determine an adjacent niche that your readers would also like. E.g. maybe a lot of software engineers at tech companies read linux-commands-examples.com, so you could sell them "new hire 1-sheets" for basic linux commands or something. Could help to get more in depth analytics on who's using your product there.
That sounds like an entirely separate uniquely American problem. Don't you have laws that prevent disputed bills from affecting credit scores?

Edit: and wouldn't this lead to lawsuits against medical practitioners for extortion if it can be proved that they make a habit of doing this to patients?
I'm not going to throw stones either. But I would encourage developers to make their sample code robust. Especially as

> many PHP users are hobbyists or come from a more traditional "webmaster" background

I seem to remember a somewhat related problem with WordPress. The issue there was made worse by the fact the sample code was part of the default install and so available to anyone who knew the URL.

Edit: A quick search shows I was thinking of an XSS attack. It was due to some bad example code in the default theme folder, which is by default publicly accessible even if not used.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/activ...
Man who foiled Nazi nuclear plan dies aged 99
Probably a bug with the new DragonFly rollout.
How to boost your happiness in 10 minutes
ctrl-f doesn't work for things that haven't scrolled in yet.
It is a myth that the US has a free market in healthcare. It is a web of regulatory hell and perverse incentives.
I'm here at work, on break after taking orders for automotive work, and quoting prices... The only thing not included in the quote is the tax.
Also when I moved to Ireland we got butter vouchers (pic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6Vv4MGCYAA424H.jpg:large)
You sound like you are playing your own advocate. People can find lots of ways to justify themselves. In the end, you know it brings suffering - you either go with it or not. The rest is just mental blabber.

The same reason people choose not to eat meat is the same reason some people choose not to rob someone or to treat someone kindly, etc - they see it as a good thing and they do it. And if I am aware and can avoid stepping on ants I will do it.
The author does not even bother to mention which video, which browser plugins he is using, or even what domain he is on. I am skeptical of these claims with no attempt to reproduce.

I would like to know if another browser would show the original comment or the altered one. Because the comment shows up and is then altered after the fact, I would blame a translation plugin on the client side.

I could see a poor-quality plugin being fooled by a different-language version of YouTube and auto translating.
Research Finds Blockchain Job Market ‘Primed for Rapid Growth’
Thanks for your comment.

I do think that I share at least part of the blame.
Enabling all file types by default was not necessary and would have prevented this issue.

Especially since there are so many inexperienced developers using PHP, the defaults should have been secure in every perceivable Webserver configuration.
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So people can't correct their views at any important news? They should have known better before and can't no longer correct their views, its that what you are saying?
No one blinks at multiple 2-year stints, especially if they were spent at smallish companies (< 500 employees). Spending 2 years usually means you went through at least 2 performance review cycles, accomplished or delivered something and are looking for something new to work on. At smaller companies it's not always possible to change group, so it's logical that you might look to change your job instead.

My own work history so far has been similar - 3 jobs lasting between 1.5 and 2.5 years, and I'm now currently on my 4th. It's never been brought up as an issue in interviews.
Perhaps they should be taxed on their MSRP and not be given a tax rebate on discounts. That would encourage them to keep their published prices matched to what they actually charge.
So you can leave a review without even using the service or product on Yelp?

Without a verified purchase, why would anyway take the review seriously?
If you don't post details of your SO account so that other people can go evaluate your post/comment history for themselves, then this just comes across as evidence-free whingeing, which is the worst kind of whingeing. "I did nothing wrong, honest!" is very easy to say.

I was so close to flagging this post, but I figured I'd be generous and wait to see if you come back and give any information at all.
It's really palpable when the media comes out swinging when it's about one of their own.

Can definitely empathize.
This is a great example of why you should use data to drive decisions on features and not just broadly declare x or y feature is bad because you personally have gripes with it. You are not your user and you shouldn't be allowing personal feelings to cloud the debate. Decisions without data, what is this, 1996?

What are your users saying? What does the data tell you? A/B test it and find out. Do usability studies. etc etc.
Don’t interpret the words given as a common prescription. Most of us don’t have enough to make a global impact—only a local change. Wait and see if Masayoshi Son, or SoftBank, will comment on the situation; see if Stewart Butterfield, or Slack, will. If neither of them say anything, then that’s when you should decide to continue using Slack or drop it; but don’t pretend you were oblivious.
Mass-Produced Electric Lada from 30 Years Ago
Completely glosses over the fact that whatever subsidiary they run their life insurance and annuities out of is going to have to hold a statutory reserve for liabilities like this that would fall under their "assets under management". It also glosses over the fact that they are state regulated by all states they run business out of, not just NJ. I'm sure they issue policies in NY, the NY insurance commissioner typically will oversee their valuation methods for stat reserves to make sure they meet industry standards. I would be very surprised if they took a loss on their life line of business that puts them out of business, statutory reserves are a very conservative valuation method, where you use NAIC prescribed mortality tables, so there's no fudging around the numbers very much.

Long story short, this is really sensationalist back of napkin math from a reporter talking about a very regulated and complicated industry that they seem to know nothing about. No wonder is such garbage.

Edit:
Upon further reflection, this doesn't even cover reinsurance that they might have that cover abnormal losses across individual, blocks of business, and across the entire company.

Even in the event they didn't have the capital to pay off their life insurance liabilities due to loss, they would probably liquidate their inforce blocks of business by auctioning them off to other insurance companies to cover their remaining losses.

There's just so much ignorance and sensationalism here, it's hard to comprehend.
> Pretty much every single comment so far is cynical. "No one really wants to know how the sausage is made", lots of money is tainted anyway, it's just PR fluff, etc etc.

It seems like a deeper problem than that, which is that money is fungible. It's the same thing as saying we shouldn't buy Saudi oil. If the only result is that you buy some other oil and the people who would have bought that oil buy the Saudi oil, nothing meaningful has changed.

To get a meaningful result you need one of two things. One is solidarity (i.e. market power), but you never have that in a diffuse competitive market. The other is to do something that isn't fungible. For example, if you actually use less oil (buy an electric car and solar panels, or support nuclear etc.), it makes a proportional difference even at the individual level, because then it isn't a matter of everyone having to act together to accomplish anything, it's a matter of each person doing their share adding up. Then the cost to them is in proportion to how many people act rather than the cost being effectively zero unless you reach a critical mass you can't achieve.

But there isn't any obvious equivalent to that for venture capital. For oil, basically all of the foreign exporters are antagonistic, and burning oil itself is harmful regardless of the source, so everything lines up for that working as a mechanism of retaliation. But if solar/wind/hydro/nuclear/etc. are the alternatives to oil, what is the alternative to money supposed to be?

To get anywhere on that front you need market power, which essentially means something like government sanctions. But we don't do that because we still need their oil. So it seems like we're right back to stop burning oil.
The Republicans would argue that forcing price transparency is regulation and government intervention, just like net neutrality.
I don't buy it.

Life insurance doesn't have a contagion effect like housing.

If a small percent of people can't pay their mortgages at the same time, that causes housing prices to fall. Falling housing prices cause people who recently purchased houses to walk away from their mortgages. Suddenly mountains of money disappears from bank balance sheets and the economy crashes.

Life insurance doesn't have this feedback loop. If a large number of Americans suddenly and unexpectedly die for some reason, it seems like the type of situation the government would step in to resolve anyway.
Yep, look at Figure 1: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/endinghiv/Publications/q2-2018...

The trend seems to be downward, but it's more like ~10% in the past couple years than a step change.
In the US, there is big money to be made bilking insurers and citizens for as much money aas possible with crazy drug prices. This is what funds most of the ads we see for PreP, and also makes this treatment inaccessible to those who need it most.
In our introductory CS course at UC Berkeley, CS61A (which is based on SICP but taught mainly in Python), we use http://pythontutor.com to visualize environment diagrams for our programs line-by-line.
If I can be a representative of the majority of users, I'd say I have a positive experience just consuming it, logged out.
Traditional agriculture :|
Somewhat ironically, mechanics seem to be generally considered one of the least trustworthy forms of business. I wonder why the medical profession hasn't seemed to earn a similar reputation. Maybe they will but they just haven't gotten there yet.
> "BIG if true"

I 'm sorry, but even if true, who cares about youtube comments?
If you are an entrepreneur, coding will be a tiny detail. Selling it will be your first priority, making the customers happy is second, then a bunch of other things, more sales calls, then coding is 99.
Writing a book. I’ve been tinkering with writing a choose your own adventure book that provides a glimpse into a depressed mind. I’ve actually forced myself to work on it at the local library , where internet access is slow, as a means of forcing focus.
That's indeed completely unreadable and I wrote it. But it also isn't typical. In this particular case I replaced an earlier "functional" implementation with this abomination to fix a performance bottleneck. Though I think I might have gone overboard -- unfortunately the commit message isn't very good either and doesn't explain why it was necessary to switch to this style of doing things in addition to what the message actually talks about.

(--map (list (substring it 3)
(aref it 0)
(aref it 1))
(magit-git-items "status" "-z" "--porcelain" "-u" "--ignored"))))

Generally speaking you don't have write code like what you linked too unless you have a very good reason to do so (I doubt that I had in this case, but who knows).
I'd be a great business man to if people were legally required to purchase my product.
Getting more reliable internet access.

I want to move out of Austin. One of my research projects is how to do rural internet. Just because I am curious if it's doable.

I know that some folks end up in Terlingua cause they want to get away from everything... I'd just like to get away from most things and keep the comms channel.
It wasn't exactly hidden seeing as how there was a YouTube video titled 'Exploit jQuery File Upload Vulnerability' available since 2015. I don't blame the author (given the timing of the Apache change it probably would have been easy for him to overlook[1]) and it is surprising that this took years for anyone to make him aware of the issue since the exploit wasn't exactly unknown. Apparently there's some groundbreaking work left to be done in infosec searching on combinations of various library / application names and 'exploit'...

[1] I assume that like most of the rest of us he was lagging behind the latest and greatest Apache release a bit. So when he was writing/testing this, it probably wouldn't have been an issue.
Pharo is what I want my personal computer to be like.
Anecdotally, usage is highly regionalized, and is generally met with cultural resistance leading into exceptsnce per area. I started using it in San Francisco I’m 2013, before it was completely normalized. It has spread from major metropolitan centers and is going through the process of acceptance in smaller towns. A (somewhat sarcastic) call to put truvada in the municipal water supply is generally appreciated in the bay, but when I visit smaller mid-western cities these days there is still a lot of anti-prep sentiment. It has however achieved a reasonable amount of acceptance in regional hubs.
He never said you weren't a hard worker. He said you aren't giving 100%. And he's obviously right because you literally just wrote a comment articulating all the ways in which you no longer give 100% of yourself to your work.

Not judging, I think you're smart for doing so, just pointing out the logical fallacy
This is the answer that makes the most sense. While I understand that sometimes we need to check online reference manuals or check if a problem is caused by a known bug in a runtime or library, I don't quite understand the concept that you literally need an internet connection to be able to work.
I'm very suspicious of that factoid, given that limiting Paracetamol purchase size was very effective at reducing overdoses in the UK.

Also, the US has seen a recent huge rise in opioid overdoses ...
This would go farther and be less click-bait if it was titled "entrepreneurial struggle porn"

Testing to see what walls can move is part of the hard work. I think most people miss that fact that they have to experience less frictional paths to find success.
It’s not a zero sum game — just because a company makes an unethical decision to gain a competitive advantage doesn’t mean you have to. And it doesn’t mean you can prosper by acting ethical either.
There's no great reason to believe that fakespot is actually good at telling you when reviews are fake. Compare the absolute maximum that fakespot can ever do against the description given in the article, and you'll see that fakespot is no panacea. Fakespot can only ever catch a certain kind of low-effort fake review that is becoming less relevant as markets find new ways to cheat people.