skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, post-exposure costs in the US for human rabies immune globulin (antibodies isolated from the blood of a vaccinated person) in the United States is roughly a $10,000 to $15,000 expense per person (dosage is based on body weight). The vaccine cost is much less, well under $1,000 total per person.

I know these costs from direct experience. I also know that insurance coverage for this cost varies widely as well.

My entire family had a nighttime (meaning the family members were in bed asleep) exposure to an untested bat. Following the U.S. Center for Disease Control and local health department guidelines, plus the advice of infectious disease MD specialists, we had to receive both the immune globulin and rabies vaccine. These costs were not covered expenses under my (otherwise pretty solid) medical insurance plan - we wound up having to pay approximately 30% of the total cost.

In the end, I felt fortunate that at least our insurance kicked in to cover 70% of the costs and that we were in a financial position that allowed us to pay the low five-figure out-of-pocket expense for our treatment without undue hardship.

I'm actually debating keeping our vaccinations up-to-date going forward - I think the booster vaccine, while still uncovered by my medical insurance plan, is relatively low cost and incidences of rabid animal encounters seems to be steadily rising in my home state.
statistics ?
> To those who have a choice:

If I think this doesn't apply to me because I don't have a choice, I'm disempowering myself. My choices may be hard to make, but abducted women still try to flee. We know because of the ones who escape.

If I think others don't have a choice, I'm disempowering them. I choose to believe we everyone can learn to become more empowered and stand up to those they've been giving power to.
Agree. It helps to cut your software-chops or steer yourself into an industry where software is an overhead, rather than the main product (said in the best possible manner).

For example, controller software attached to a turbine engine. What I said above is especially true in those scenarios and is actually quite folly to do more than necessary in the name of software perfection. Plus unnecessary complication hurts brains :)
I don't think GP is suggesting that anyone here tamper with mail. However, if you are someone who steals identities and money why would you care? This is pretty easy to verify properly and short of the time delay I can't think of any negative of doing so.
Even not-great software developers who live in poor areas need to eat.
I don't see much regret: http://www.jeannagiese.com/my-personal-story.html
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> David Carson once said, “don’t confuse communication with legibility.” We should apply this advice to the current state of web design.

Granted I didn't go to design school, but efficiency and the ability to be understood are pretty high on my list.

Take example 2, not only does it scroll jack for a square pattern, there are things that highlight but aren't clickable, there's a gif that's chewing up CPU cycles, and this seemingly functionless page requires 58 requests, 48MB and somehow 1.2 minutes to load according to chrome dev tools, compare to loading the HN homepage in 1.1 seconds.

I'm not an advocate for turning the internet into a server of pure text files, but when art and usability are head to head, usability must win every time or your users will go somewhere else.
Sadly, the current rules around this tend to be ignored. The line of sight rule is one of the most sensible rules, IMO, so this is really unfortunate.
M.2 wouldn't be a bottleneck. It supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 which has a maximum bandwidth of 4 GBps in each direction.
Is it Boeing or “someone at” Boeing?
If one were pessimistic, he could be told this by his FSB handlers. Whether it’s true or not who knows?
And it will have no issues delivering "fake news" :) /sarcasm
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We have enough bat rabies in our community that our recommendation would be vaccination even with just trivial contact. It's our #1 reservoir.
Huh? Where's the BSD rewrite of Emacs? Is Linux not surviving? Are Hg and Git? GPL programs are category-killers.
You're confusing mass production with adoption of similar artistic concepts.

Buildings have light switches and ceiling heights standardized because of building codes which mandate these things, and the fact that many components are mass produced so they're extremely cheap (like light switches) and are used everywhere.

Vehicles have things in the same places because regulations require it, it makes sense to do so (mirrors aren't much help if they're behind your head), and because drivers expect similarity.

Laptops are similar because that's really the only way to make them work. A keyboard over the monitor isn't usable: your arms would block your view. This is just silly.

Websites may be built with the same components (python, PHP, web servers, HTML, CSS, etc.), but that in no way means they need to look the same. It's entirely possible to make them look very different, and you only have to go to the Wayback machine and look at how sites used to look 15+ years ago, and compare to modern ones, to see this.

Basically, most of it is a cargo-cult mentality: sites update to "newer" designs that are less useful because it makes them look "fresh" and "modern" even though they waste a ton of whitespace and make the site slower and less useful. Sites used to be much better in the mid-2000s.
He probably knows/says what his GRU [1] minders tell him to know and say.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Intelligence_Directorate
We use .NET core in production and are very happy. A mixture of EF Core (for ad-hoc queries) and Dapper (for stored procs) works just fine. Also, new in EF Core 2.1, you can map views and stored procs just fine: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/query-type....

That's your only specific example - what other functionality are you missing?

You're not willing to commit to .NET core but you admit that NetFx is going into maintenance mode?
yeah. that line made me laugh. it's the kind of thing i expect to see in a low-grade sci-fi horror screenplay.

Mary: "But to make all these pseudo-cells reproduce at room temperature, we had to mimic properties of the polio, smallpox, and ebola viruses, professor! What if it gets out of control?!"

Professor Devin Daylooded: "Don't worry, Mary Goodsave. You may be a super-intelligent grad student who sees things I don't, but I will ignore your cautionary message which even the audience understands because I can easily incorporate controls or a kill switch that renders the cells harmless."
For us, hiring .NET core developers is very hard. The pool of programming talent is gigantic, but it's also full of ultra-low quality developers. It has taken us almost half a year to find a decent C# .NET developer, with an average of 2 interviews per week on the best developers we could find. Meanwhile the previous developer had time to construct a behemonth of Java overengineering (Enterprise code they call it) that is taking us several months to tear down. We couldn't fire him because we didn't have a replacement, but in hindsight, firing him soon would have been better.

@alexmuro: best of luck finding quality in the pool of programming talent.
A good start would be to define what you mean by 'smart food'.

Is this the kind of food that makes us smarter? Or the kind of food that makes the food manufacturers richer? Or, perhaps, it's not the food that makes us smarter, but education and practice?

Please, er, elaborate.
Have you looked at Tern[1] for this?

1: http://ternjs.net
Honestly, I bet 6.x doesn't work well at PB scale. There may be different problems with different solutions, but I bet it would still need custom shard balancing, etc. I work at TB scale and 6.x largely works well with the exception of reindexing. Reindexing without downtime is still tricky.

The reason I think there are likely still problems at PB scale because of the attitude of ES core developers. They collectively act as if reindexing is no big deal and their proposed solution to many things I consider bugs is "just reindex". Reindex is the last thing I want to do given it is so hard to do it at TB scale with zero downtime. I don't think the core developers have experience with large clusters themselves so I find it unlikely that just upgrading to 6.x would solve all the problems at PB scale.
Blind people already do programming. I know a blind guy who can code really fast, much faster than my colleagues, no idea how though.

Shouldn't you be researching how they code now and then work from there? I actually feel like current way of coding using text works very well for blind people.
When my wife signed up for this a few months ago I was astonished to see that the envelope scans are sent in the clear in an email. I didn't realize at the time that there is in addition no authentication of the sign up process!
Sorry, could you please link to the announcement?

Agree about the Windows licenses.
Our son was on a school trip in some fairly remote parts of Tanzania and as they were cycling and running they recommended fairly strongly to get a rabies vaccination - glad we did!
Yep, my family had to do the same ER visit for our treatments. Immune globulin is a blood product and I was told it is atypical for any medical center outside of a hospital to have it available. Having to go the ER added a not insignificant amount to our total bill, but we did only have to pay for a single visit to the ER - our followups, we just walked in and a nurse would give us the shot.

On the somewhat funny side, it's weird walking into an ER and being greeted by first name and a wave . . .
Regardless... it is no where even close to statistically significant.
Boats, seaships, airplanes, rockets... Big-F'in'-Rockets!
The devil is in the details. Sure, if your codebase is systemically messy, it's probably going to take forever to get anything done, and you will probably end up with bugs in the final product.

But what if you have a component here or there with well defined, well tested interfaces, but internally it's a bit of a mess? Or what if you hack together a proof-of-concept for a new feature to get it out the door and see what users do with it before investing a lot of time in making it perfect? Those kinds of things can help your organization move faster.

As with most things, clean vs messy code is not a binary. It's the sum of a lot of individual value judgements about when it's pragmatic to focus on code quality.
I don't have any, but I've rewritten my fair share of GPL code so I could use it both at work and personal projects. I've started using MPL for my projects recently because (L)GPL is just too restrictive.
This is incorrect; you can indeed get Informed Delivery for [at least some] P O Boxes, postal employees don't know how to do it, but if you change the address on your Credit Card to be the P O Box, and then try authenticating using that card, it passes fine. That's what I did for my own P O Box, for example (it failed the first time when my card was using my street address).
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You could replace .NET core in this comment with any $framework and see plenty examples of developers misusing a tool.
What if you have like 10 addresses? Can you vote 10x?
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True - in this case though, it's one less human which could say 'no, I don't want to say that.'
I see this more as an example of what can be done. It's a bit like concept cars - they aren't supposed to be driven so designers take the opporuntiy to push the limits of what can be done. Perhaps that website, once the usability is improved, could be the beginning of a good idea, or perhaps it should be dropped altogether but it doesn't hurt to try new things.
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too restrictive for whom ? as a potential user of your software, can I have the guarantee that if I buy a device with your software on it, I can replace it / fix it ?
There are 3 ASGI servers right now. Daphne, Uvicorn, Hypercorn.

For production deployments you’ll either want to run them with a supervisor process like supervisors/circus/etc. Or use gunicorn (uvicorn includes a gunicorn worker class).
Pretty sure the FAA doesn’t have any authority to grant or deny clearance over the middle of the Atlantic.
Every article I’m reading says “AoA sensors”, which implies more than one. I think the flight computers did not correctly handle one of several sensors providing bad data.
What are you disclaiming?
Do you prefer watching an error-free (in that it doesn’t stumble) news segment delivered by a computer-visualized robot or an imperfect one by a human?
Hum, not. Is obligatory for dogs (it was like 50€ or so), but children aren't vaccinated from rabies normally in Spain at the school.

Rabies is endemic in Ceuta and Melilla in any case. I don't know if people in those places are systematically vaccinated but would be a surprise to me.
Despite the security issues, this is a pretty cool service - I wonder if the UK Royal Mail is doing it ... oh of course not
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Sure, but I don't understand what the harm would be in trying the treatment for a patient who will otherwise have a 100% chance of dying in a very short timeframe. I mean, if the Milwaukee protocol did help the one patient, then the treatment has a 5% success rate, which is better than 0, no?
Can't say I've experienced that. I hear that credit agencies in the US are pretty entrenched though so it doesn't surprise me!

The main difficulty I have here in the UK is with agencies that are extremely bureaucratic and can't deal with minor deviations from protocol.

I tend to rent directly from individuals for that reason. I prefer speaking to actual humans rather than drones in layers of a bureaucracy.
I plan to ditch NAS and just connect external storage directly to the mini, and it needs to run 24/7. ECC should give me better reliability, no?
I do rough accessibility testing with JAWS on my company website, before we get people in to give it a thorough going over.

I would suggest you try it yourself, and download JAWS and write out some simple Hello World and figure out the challenges you face and then get in touch with disabled programmers and advocates.
Yeah, its pretty weird. I had never really ran into bats until late this summer when I was sitting on the couch around 10:30PM and one flew through our living room. I caught it in a plastic container and let it go.

Looking down the rabbit hole on the internet was absolutely terrifying. I talked to my doctor and our daughters pediatrician but there is really no standard on what you should do because it varies so much by location. We went to the ER and chose not to get the PEP since we were about 99% certain I caught it right after it entered our house and my wife and daughter were in other rooms with doors closed.

It still makes me feel uneasy when thinking about it or reading stories like this.
> but I guess I'd have expected a military jet to receive broad airspace clearance & use advanced radar to zoom straight to their POI.

That would required clearing the airspace. As well as being incredibly disruptive, it would take a long time to get everyone down safely.

There are circumstances under which a military aircraft commanders would declare responsibility for air safety in a crowded airspace (MARSA, "due regard")[1][2] but that aircraft theft wasn't one of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARSA_(aviation)

[2] https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Due_Regard
I’m trying to find a charitable way to interpret your criticism, and I haven’t been able to find one.

In every post in this thread, TeMPOraL has been making a consistent argument that nuclear produces orders of magnitude less waste than other not-routinely-treated-as-horrible industrial waste issues.

You appear to be making the argument that “because there isn’t much of it” is a new argument, but that appears to be the core of their argument everywhere.

Perhaps you were confusing who said what?
The coal plant will just bill you double thf amojnt when there is no wind/sun.

Examples of renewable in Spain and Germany have shown that you still need an alternative source of energy - you just reduce its usage.

Nuclear, on the other hand, provide the opportunity to eliminate coal/gas.
One registered main address per person, though you can register an additional “special post address” if you want to get your mail somewhere other than where you sleep for an extended period of time. You can't vote twice even if you did get two cards, you have to show ID (which I dislike, but it's at least relatively easy to obtain here) and your name is crossed out on the voter list once you've voted.
Whiplash. The first two sections are about generic software development truisms; from there, for the last section, the author pivots to arguing for his specific political positions, as if universal truths of software development justify these ideas. Is the author expect to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him?
The only time I haven't seen shabby code with caked on layers of features has been when I had the fortune of working on a development team that was trained to write software.

I've seen new languages and new development methodologies introduced to try to combat code complexity and the only thing I have seen so far that prevents it are people who take a step back and think about what they're creating before implementing it. These people are rare and go unrewarded for their efforts.
Hah yeah, it was kind of funny that by the 4th shot, the ER docs and police there knew me as "the rabies guy".

I also was told that the immune globulin is a bit complicated because it needs to be prepared specifically for the person's weight. So unlike off the shelf vaccines, it requires an on duty pharmacist to actually do something before they can give it to you, which I'm sure adds to the cost.
It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration.

I guess my brain immediately goes to the situation you describe with little/no human oversight. If the only layer of human oversight that does exist values control over truth, this is just one more layer of human intervention removed.
A good start is anything that works contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

How about acting in a way so as to not cause others to suffer or impede their search for happiness? The Dalai Lama makes a case for this as a universal ethic in his Ethics for a New Millennium.

Calling making any kind of value judgement a "tarpit" is itself a value judgement in favor of the status quo and ceding any of your own culpability to others.
You may also be interested in the field of biological computing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computing#Biochemic...). Since your background covers both biology and computer science. Plus the field is new enough that you could be a part of some exciting research.
The enforcement (or non enforcement against illegal immigration), and the presence of (or lack of) a strong border... And additionally just a larger proportion of legal immigration from 1 area since 1965 immigration act, have had massive effect upon demographic change.

I know they were born here. Despite some controversy over birthright citizenship, I get that they are legal. Not in dispute here. Where is the misrepresentation that if we had less Hispanic illegal immigrants we'd have less Hispanic population and voters?

California was long a red state. It also had about 90% white voters for a long time. As it has become majority minority, it has gone strongly blue. Look at demographic breakdown of issues and elections and the reason is obvious.

A conservative should be ok with this?
Of the 29 cases from 2005 to December 2014, "Therapy failed in all; the only survivor (Case No. 14) did not have neutralizing anti-rabies virus antibodies and likely did not have rabies"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-...

So where does 13 come from?
This is essentially asking, if rabies is so terrible, why isn't everyone vaccinated? Yes, it's terrible, but in the USA and most developed countries it's so rare (as in just 23 cases nationwide from 2008-2017) that the trivial risks of the vaccine and the small number of people who will have an adverse reaction are generally greater than the benefit in the general population, which is almost nil. This isn't true for people who work with animals, but even with them it's quite rare to have an exposure.

Rabies vaccine and BCG are two of my rebuttals when I hear the allegation public health doesn't consider risks and benefits when selecting vaccines. You can add OPV to that list, too.
Yea, this project is mostly batch processing of things, so cold starts don’t matter. There is one api endpoint that we left in go for quick responses. I thought about doing a C# to js transpile, but have not had time to look into it. That being said, our cold starts are < 2 seconds with dotnet core 2.1, which isn’t great, but isn’t too bad.
This person takes the time to write an infuriating rant but can’t take the time to understand human pattern recognition, the reason why the web is the way it is.
To get the operators to actually work correctly you need to use typed arrays however. For example

let a = new Uint32Array(3);

a[0] = 5;

a[1] = 2;

a[2] = a[0]/a[1]
Maybe you will find that rolling a little of your own code instead of depending on libraries as much is less hard than you imagined and has some nice benefits?

EF isn't a necessity, many shops prefer not to use it at all.

Core is the future so if one wants to keep using .NET at all they should find a way or switch to something else.
Same thing I did when I had 6 days between jobs. Work on my side projects and have fun doing it. A lot of progress also!
>> Rich people can afford to turn their nose up at any kind of work apparently.

No, those who have the opportunity to work on stuff that supports some values should do it. You introduce the notion of money here, but it's not written.

>> Oddly enough all of this also invalidates working on most open source code

Those who work on nuclear fission don't all work on nuclear bombs (fortunately).
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Well, except we would, because the cost of nuclear plants didn't go to zero and still suffers from NIMBY, especially after Three Mile Island.

Which is all a shame given how much better modern designs are.
> generic code is replaced by its concrete instances, which are faster

If you're using a shitty compiler, yes.
T.V. Raman (author of Emacspeak) has said that "S-Expressions are a major win" for visually-impaired users because they give you a good way to navigate the code structurally ("go to beginning of expression" is more accessible than "go up one line").

https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Emacspeak-And-Sof...
There's no rabies in the UK, right?