skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I attempt to use a translate site to translate more than a paragraph (Facebook or Google), it comes out a garbled mess - doesn't mean some sentences are seemingly clear and meaningful. The big thing is it chokes on idioms, not understanding, not leaving them as is but guessing some clearly wrong meaning. I occasionally find single-sentence posts on Facebook apparently translated astonishingly well, in the sense of being literate English and seeming to reflect the original meaning. But my French or Spanish is quite rough so translate could have missed something big - as I know it does when you get into longer texts.
How is that not a possible fact? And also, if you exclude observational opinions, then it is impossible to full fill your "describe the other side" demand. Because when you ask someone to describe someone else, you are literally asking for a bunch of observational opinions.

Disparaging and insult is not really the same. To go to clear extreme, I can be disparaging of Goring or Himmler without going out of my way of being insulting. Just by telling the truth about what they did, believed and who they were.
The Story of Dyngo, a War Dog Brought Home from Combat
Are you being serious? And if you are could you expand?

How would someone born with Cystic fibrosis survive in your scenario?
What stuff can you not scrape?
Not sure what you mean. The US does not have a free market healthcare system.
Meta: "operationalizing", I really wish people wouldn't do this.
only if more than 0.3% of your workforce know it....
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+1. Moved from UK to Australia and it is very similar here too in that most medical care is free.

One difference is that the ambulance service charges for residents, and usually it is reasonable priced (but not cheap) but if it turns out you need a helicopter the bill can be quite large! But insurance covers it. For most professionals insurance is very cheap because of the tax saving you get.
Well that’s how they get you. Well it’s your dear ones life. Surely money isn’t an issue right ?

Here take this bill that will bankrupt for the rest of your life.

The big problem is that every other modern country has this shit sorted out. They don’t bring crippling debt because you got a minor surgery.

In US, we are literally murdering people because they are too afraid of what it will cost.
mongo is shared nothing architecture, which can linearly scale data-wise, postgres is not and can't.
Still no SRV record support. Of course.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15906664#15908696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549348#8550133
Because it's not everyone paying for everyone's health care, it's one entity paying for everyone's health care (using funds they get from everyone).

That one entity can unilaterally refuse to do business with abusive vendors. They can negotiate for lower prices. They can notice and investigate discrepancies in pricing between similar cases. They are in a position to judge which types of care are and are not cost effective and can refuse to cover the latter.

So that explains why having an insurance company helps, but it doesn't explain why a private insurance company can't perform the same role. For that, we have to introspect a little into how insurance firms work.

An insurance company is, in essence, a mechanism for transferring funds from lucky people to unlucky ones. If your car gets totaled then, in essence, a bunch of other people with working vehicles have all volunteered to chip in a couple of bucks toward buying you a new one. The insurer is mostly facilitating the transfer and skimming just enough off in the process to cover their administrative costs.

The private insurance market works well enough for most types of property because the volunteers can't predict in advance whether they're going to be lucky or not and because there's a realistic upper bound on how much money the unlucky ones will need to be made whole. Neither of these assumptions are true for healthcare. Many people were born into pre-crashed cars, to stretch the metaphor, and at least for the foreseeable future it's not possible to decide to replace a body instead of attempting to repair it.

So we need* some non-market mechanism to incentivize or compel insurance companies to cover the already unlucky: people with pre-existing conditions. But that introduces a new problem. The lucky people are being asked to volunteer to chip in more, and at least some of them will stop volunteering. That causes the prices to go up even more, which causes a few more volunteers to leave, which causes the prices to go up again, and so on. Pretty soon there's no volunteers left to transfer funds from.

So we also need* some non-market mechanism to incentivize or compel healthy people to contribute to our insurance system. And with those two requirements (needs to cover everyone and everyone needs to contribute) we are left with a problem space that the State is really the only entity with the ability to implement a solution. It doesn't have to be socialized medicine, per se, but it does basically have to be big government of one stripe or another.

\* Yes, we do technically have the option of compelling innocent people to suffer and die from otherwise treatable diseases that they're not wealthy enough to afford to cover out of their own pocket. If you're aware of that fact and comfortable with it then okay, but please do understand that it is the societal tradeoff that we would have to make to avoid some sort of serious state involvement in provisioning medical care.
Assembly language isn’t hard. It’s actually quite simple. The issue with learning assembly is the absolutely useless otherwise domain knowledge.

Document-based storage definitely fits the generalised use-case better than tabular storage.
But, as described in the article that system does not function.

Acquiring insurance does nothing to ensure that the facility you visit will accept that insurance.

Further, even if the facility you visit does accept the insurance, that's no guarantee that all doctors within that facility accept that insurance.

Even further, there's no guarantee you'll be conscious to validate that you go to a facility that accepts your insurance.

The insurance system needs to be fundamentally repaired before it can be used to support a "free market" healthcare system.
Meanwhile the EMTs make $12/hr :(
This! We have totally forgotten the definition and purpose of insurance.
Rather simple. For example here's my port of qemu to use zstd compression algorithm for QCOW2 images, instead of zlib:

https://megous.com/git/qemu-zstd/commit/?id=45df9c0510e737e6...
If my organization is called out, and the citation given is my specific work, I would consider that someone called me on my work, even if they hadn't named me.

Sorry if I wasn't clear.
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Porting is generally very easy.

* If you already have the compression algorithm tagged, through a file extension, or a field, then you can use that to dispatch to the right decompression algorithm.

* Zlib, gzip, xz, zstd, ... all have headers. If you are using zlib, and switching to zstd, you simply have to check the first 4 bytes for the zstd header using ZSTD_isFrame() [0], or attempting to decompress with zstd and if it fails fall back to the previous decompression algorithm.

* The zstd CLI can decompress both zstd and zlib/gzip if compiled with zlib support.

* Zstd provides a wrapper around the zlib API so you could transparently switch to zstd. [1]

[0] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/lib/zstd.h#L1409
[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/tree/dev/zlibWrapper
A brief history of the past 100 Years
Standard disclaimer in database discussions involving NoSQL:

SQL is not RDBMS is not ACID is not NoSQL.

When comparing NoSQL to something you should really compare it to RDBMS which is what most people conflate with "SQL". This conceptual understanding gap is IMO what led to the huge growth and misuse of "NoSQL" for a decade.
I have a vintage fire plaque next to my front door. They were commonly issued long ago to show that insurance has been purchased. No plaque, no service.
> That is why many free market healthcare supporters also support removing the incentives for employer-provided insurance plans

Among people who support "free market healthcare", who specifically is seriously pushing a plan like this? It is not something I've seen before.
There is an issue with what I'll call the "consumer-market" theory in emergency healthcare in that there is no transparency in pricing at time of purchase or prior to purchase.

How can markets function without price-transparency?
Okay, sure, I agree in general, but how far do we go with this?

Does every other human have the right to extraordinarily expensive, often unproven cancer treatments only available at research institutions in the United States? Are we willing to start making cost based decisions on who should die (i.e. should we really be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars keeping those above 90 alive for age related illnesses?)

Everyone will want everything free, but for this to work you have to make uncomfortable decisions. If you put nothing into the system, how much should you get out? Should others with more resources then be able to then buy private insurance for access to better care even though that sounds "unfair"?

Everyone always glosses over these fun questions when they talk about universal health-care systems.
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There are lots of good models which all have in common a strong gov't negotiated price control somewhere in a system driven by universal healthcare principles instead of profit and market oriented principles.
If you can sell the equity immediately I would consider that salary, although I know technically it isn't.
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This uses the only correct syntax for indentations: each newline is a new line, and each leading space on a line indents by one level.

It's not the most readable but it's the best. Every language should have this.

Here is why:
https://imgur.com/a/s7zQMpw

(I produced this in this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847569 about 3 months ago.)

I strongly feel that it is the only correct syntax. I realize that there is basically no language right now that has this syntax, but it is the only correct syntax.

So kudos to this author for using the only correct indentation syntax as part of this spec ;)
It's very cute to see Microsoft's programmers discover 25 year old ideas from Plan 9 :)))
The problem with your proposal is several-fold: First, your hight from the ground changes very rapidly as you fly over terrain - you don't want to have to jot to the left every time you fly over a canyon. Second, it would require that you always take off and land pointed to the north, most airports would need to be reoriented, and you wouldn't want to land or take off when the winds are blowing from the south. Third, accurately measuring your distance from the ground is somewhat challenging, and the technology for accurately measuring the course you're tracking has only somewhat recently become available. Fourth, flying craft have maximum and minimum speeds, sometimes very close together, and maximum altitudes, so creating too tight an artificial coupling between speed and altitude can be very limiting.

In the US, there's a similar, but much more relaxed, system in use:

If you're more than 3000 feet above the ground, then the altitude above MSL in feet you should be at depends on whether you're flying under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) or Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and your heading, as follows:

- For VFR with a magnetic heading 0-179: (1+2n) x 1000 + 500 (for integer n)

- For VFR with a magnetic heading 180-359: (2n) x 1000 + 500

- For IFR with a magnetic heading 0-179: (1+2n) x 1000 + 0

- For IFR with a magnetic heading 180-359: (2n) x 1000 + 0

Magnetic heading is trivial to measure, and under the specific rules used to determine MSL altitude, thats also really easy to measure (but might produce a large error relative to the correct answer, but a small error relative to other aircraft).

In addition, below 10,000 ft, the speed limit is generally 250kias or 200kias, depending on how close to the ground and other airports you are.

Also:

> There cannot be any major collisions only some slight grazes.

There's not necessarily much difference between those two.
Ask HN: Where is bank money digitally stored?
I would advise not to use such a baroque technology unless IT is your main activity.

Most of the times a boring database is a better fit.

Not everybody can be an early adopter, especially on the software which stores what is arguably your most precious asset.
Except for compatibility. If you are compressing files for yourself it's no big deal, but when you're compressing them for someone else you have to consider if your bleeding edge compression software will be an issue, especially if they are on some corporate locked down machine and can't install new software.
I think pregnancy and labor is what's going to finally break the camel's back.

Having children is a pretty basic part of being human. And the costs are such that even millionaires are going to feel it. When basically nobody can afford to participate in reproduction, something is going to go sideways.

With my "good" insurance, I still ended up with a multi-thousand dollar deductible. Which I thought was problematic until I started hearing about people who have high deductible plans that only make you pay 20% after hitting your deductible.

For a 100K bill, 20% is still absurd and especially after you've already paid $2-10K out of pocket.
We do not have a free market. Most people get their health insurance from their employer - you cannot reasonably get insurance elsewhere (the same plan I have now for $100/month would cost over $1000/month, but I can't take that $1000/month to anyone else if I don't like my insurance so I accept it). This keeps me from taking a long leave of absence to live off my savings - until I quality for retirement (medicare).

In a true free market you would have more choices: most emergencies are close to home so you are likely to know which hospital is a good deal.

Of course there are still the emergency while on vacation, and the sudden collapse where a bystander brings you somewhere which are harder to handle. Though if there really was a free market there is incentive to handle those well - if only because the system is designed for the majority of cases where they have to handle it well or you would have gone elsewhere.
"That system" as described by parent has not been tried, at least not in recent memory. What we see happening now are thousands of unintended consequences from government meddling with the free market.
Depends on the plant. I'm no recycling expert, but you have to remember that recycling plants are a combination of computer and human labor.

Computers handle a lot of stuff easily: metals can be easily separated with magnets. Light plastics are separated with blowers, and some plastics can be detected with high-tech infrared / UV scanners.

So when I say "easy to recycle", I'm talking about Aluminum (non-magnetic but metal, so easy to sort automatically) or plastic bags (air-blowers catch these).

Everything else is dug around by hand by humans. If the humans can't figure it out, they throw it away immediately. Depending on the location, sometimes even Pizza boxes are thrown into the landfill by humans.

Pizza Box is one of those things that's highly localized. You can't put a Pizza Box into a paper-recycling plant: the oils contaminate the mix. But you can shred a Pizza Box into a compost bin.

IIRC, some areas only have paper-plants (so Pizza Boxes are thrown away there). So you gotta check with your local laws, regulations, and local plants to know for sure.

EDIT: It seems like some areas can't handle plastic bags. It really depends.

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For something like a K-Cup: it contains so little coffee that I find it unlikely that its worth the human's time to scoop out the coffee grounds. Its probably easier for the humans to throw a K-Cup away rather than manually labor in the recycling mix.
Behind every successful brain is a little strand of DNA and some environmental inputs. Somehow a brain might be more than the DNA however.
In most cases it's not a matter of negotiation, it's a matter of law. For many categories of goods and services it's literally illegal to charge any other customer a lower price than you charge the US government. People are in federal prison today for doing that.
Vandalizing mail service trucks carries quite a bigger punishment than Philadelphia citizens destroying an autonomous robot (which happened some time ago), in fairness. People know not to screw with the Postmaster General.
> I think there's merit to investigating public health care. That line stops for me in eliminating private care.

Has anyone proposed that? If not, I'm not sure why you mentioned it.

Anyway, I suppose I can see the benefit to private doctors, but if private emergency response services for individuals are popular, then something is fucked, as your link demonstrates. Not saying they should be banned, but they shouldn't have to exist in a properly-run society.
If you're talking about climate change as the immediate salient issue, in practical terms (ie. taking politics into account), after three decades of deliberate delay, it's too late.

If you're talking about the underlying cause (the ideology of "economic growth"), a solution to that is even more distant. Superstitions die hard, as we've seen with the more venerable religions.
With respect to financial responsibility, if the cost of the delivery is a concern I don't think the couple in question is financially stable enough to start a family anyway. Even if this proposed change does occur there's a good chance it actually makes the procedure in question more expensive. If we start making hospitals list prices beforehand, then they're going to have to raise the base price for an ucomplicated birth in order to subsidize those that do experience complications.

Not to mention, your analogy to construction works is a good one - but perhaps not in the way you intended. Plenty of construction projects run into complications and experience cost overruns. The only situation in which I can see hospitals giving out prices is in the same context as construction projects. Non-binding estimates that are projections based on prior assumptions, which will change if unexpected situations occur.

In fact the best analogy I've come across is with car mechanics. Fixing a person is like fixing a car. The shop can charge a set rate for labor, and will provide an invoice for parts. In that sense, price is perfect transparent. But even the best mechanics can't predict with certainty what it'll take to fix a car without seeing it first. Who knows when they'll pop open the hood expecting to do a standard operation only to find that the car is messed up way harder than was originally predicted.
These scams were happening at least as far back as Roman times.

Supposedly Crassus, the richest Roman of his day, made rather a lot of money like this.
I'm pretty sure not. The term "fire sale" refers to selling merchandise that survived a fire and therefore would have associated damage.

However the policy of negotiating for property at bargain basement prices while there was a fire next door was very notably one of the ways that Marcus Licinius Crassus (a political ally of Julius Caesar) enriched his fortune.
killed because of a single representative

I'd like to know what mechanism any one Congressmember could use to block a bill without being Chairman of a committee that must be navigated. The House doesn't have the "hold" mechanism that the Senate does.
What do you all think of Cloud Native Buildpacks?* A slightly different approach to solving some of the same problems of handling dependency and security updates off-cycle from application updates.

* https://buildpacks.io/
Yeah, agreed. What people often forget is that the Kochs are libertarians, and like most libertarians, they have pretty strong, fundamental disagreements with the mainstreams of both parties and have to make some hard political compromises. Probably because of their vested interests, they've chosen the compromise of supporting Republicans. But many of their actions are unambiguously libertarian in tenor: they founded the Cato Institute, are the primary funders of Reason, and David Koch himself was the Libertarian Party's 1980 Vice-Presidential candidate.

Or maybe they're just fighting a shadowy proxy-war with George Soros. Who knows. Just always seems funny that when a billionaire is working towards political reforms you like, they're the good guy, and when they're working towards political reforms you don't like, it's a shadowy conspiracy to rig the system and get richer.
I'm not sure I understand your point. My thesis was that both the CEO and HR VP were not being guided by emotions, but logic. They didn't feel that their colleague was on board with the CEO's plan. Before they did something that could have negative consequences like firing him, they wanted to see if he was willing to get on board, or if he just fundamentally disagreed and was going to stick to his guns. When he was asked and directly answered, it was clear that he was never going to truly be on board. So he was let go. No emotion required. Though, I do believe humans are emotional more than logical, and I wouldn't be one bit surprised if emotion was involved too.
As I understand it, the inflated prices are to cover price breaks given to other groups (especially Medicaid, but also Medicare): https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/11/cross-subsidies-a... .

Insurance companies generally get “most favored nation” clauses so that they all pay the same price as each other. EOBs show the list price for a service, and the much smaller amount actually paid. The people who really get the short end of the stick are uninsured: they only see the list price and maybe an offer to negotiate.
Link to the findings themselves: https://decoders.amnesty.org/projects/troll-patrol/findings
Is it the worst invention? Looking at the environmental concerns, it uses up landfill space but that isn't a huge concern. Worst invention would be Oxycotin since the number of lives it has destroyed. Or maybe the V6 or larger engines for the amount of pollution these engines have generated over smaller engines. Or microbead plastics.
Agreed 1s gaps are too tiny — seems unsafe and that'd be a lot of elevator traffic. 5s seems doable though: assuming 5s gaps, you need an elevator system capable of moving one car every 5s, and then the tunnel is optimally saturated. That doesn't seem insurmountably hard: two elevators that take 10s each to go from surface to tunnel would be enough, along with a bit of on-ramp tunnel to allow cars to accelerate to speed before merging. Throw in a third elevator or a fourth for redundancy while you're at it because elevators are way cheaper than a mile of tunnel, and seems doable.
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> If the prices set are too cheap, you might see more people using the ER for non-emergency purposes, which would be bad for the people that need to use the ER for actual emergencies.

The "long wait times" that Canadians sometimes complain about actually address this problem within public healthcare. If you come into the ER for a non-emergency, fine, but prepare to wait 4-6 hours. Every emergency case coming in the door will get placement ahead of you.

Some provinces (e.g. Ontario) address this with phone triage hotlines that help you make a decision about whether to go to the ER, a walk-in clinic, or wait for a doctor's appointment.
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I feel they could have elaborated on 'data' a bit. To most people, saying 'messages' is more alarming than just saying 'data'.