skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure your parent was talking about the caffeine in Coca-Cola, not the sugar.

But it's not like panicking over the sugar is coherent either; you see the same people praising fruit juice.
What blows my mind is how a nurse costs $5k for the duration of a surgery. Surely the nurse did not make $5k. Where does this money go?
Running exec.Command in a setuid binary sounds like a pretty horrible thing to do from a security perspective. If you have any of these in your software, please consider rethinking if you really need them or could do with something that doesn't have as many holes in it.
Realistically, how am I supposed to act in a financially responsible manner when I don't even know the order of magnitude a service will cost?

Unforeseen complications are not exclusive to the healthcare industry. Imagine if you were trying to build a house, but had no idea how much it would cost. "Realistically, no construction company will give out a price; they don't know what unexpected complications may arise."

Something needs to happen here. Either healthcare is socialized (my strong preference), or the industry needs to implement some type of price transparency.
I agree. Actually active prisoners should be allowed to vote too. Especially when prison populations are factored into district representation population formulas.
You can short it on the way down, in principle.
I had never even read 7-Zip's landing page until now, even though it is always one of the first programs I install on Windows. The page is just fine for that purpose because the download link is clearly marked at the top of the page.

To the author's point about using "you", we could consider two hypothetical headlines for the 7-Zip page:

"7-Zip can compress and decompress just about anything."

"You can compress and decompress just about anything with 7-Zip."

I have to admit that if I had never heard of 7-Zip, the second line would probably be subliminally more effective because it gets me thinking about what I can do with the software, not what some abstract someone can do with it. On the other hand, combine such a headline with a Bootstrap theme and 500-pixel fonts over a giant stock photo, followed by three SVG bullet points, etc, and I'm going instantly into defensive mode--shields up!
Also, they're libertarians, so criminal justice reform is entirely within their lane.
how does that save on administrative costs?
Although most humans are perfectly ambulatory, there are innumerable reasons why they don't get to "choose where to live". Income levels, employment availability, schooling, racial pressure, and many more factors come in to play. Not everyone can physically fit into the best areas. The best areas for emergency services don't necessarily align with the best education (although very high income levels tends to align with both). This comment essentially amounts to "Well if you don't like being poor, then just obtain more money". While everyone cannot live in the best places, nearly everyone will need emergency services at some point in their lives. Also, OP didn't suggest getting rid of private care entirely. A public option does not preclude a private system. If the private system provides value, it will likely survive.
What is a GPU database, and what it can do for you
I think you're confusing the energy efficiency of computation and the energy needed to create the elements which perform the computation. The initial comment refers to the former whereas you're asking about the latter. Your question, "How much energy does it take to chemically synthesize the dNTPs required to do the equivalent of moving a bit..." is not an appropriate analogy because synthesizing dNTPs (energy needed to create computing elements) is not analogous to "moving a bit" (energy needed to perform a computation). It's like comparing how much energy is needed to manufacture a hard disk and how much energy is needed to read/write to and from the hard disk. It's a meaningless comparison.
> The question is, "If my data store isn't sure about the answer it has, what should it do?" RDBMS says, "Error." NoSQL says, "Meh, just return what you have."

Even that's too simplistic. For most RDBMSes, the answer depends on how you have it configured, and usually isn't "Error". If you're using a serializable transaction isolation level, it usually means, "you might have to wait an extra few milliseconds for your answer, but we'll make sure we get you a good one." Other isolation levels allow varying levels of dirty reads and race conditions, but typically won't flat out fail the query. This is probably the situation most people are working under, since, in the name of performance, very few RDBMSes' default configurations give you full ACID guarantees.

To the "DB in NY knows something different from DB in LA" example, there are RDBMSes such as the nicer versions of MSSQL that allow you to have a geographically distributed database with eventual consistency among nodes. They're admittedly quite expensive, but, given some of the stories I've heard about trying to use many NoSQL offerings at that kind of scale, I wouldn't be surprised if they're still cheaper if you're looking at TCO instead of sticker price.
That sounds fantastic. What is the porting process generally like? Are there any possibilities to create an API compatible wrapper to make it a drop in replacement for zlib?
CSV uses commas to avoid the problems of using whitespace for column delimiters, but it still uses whitespace for row delimiters. It's already an odd mix of the two.
"Clickbait" headlines are those that misrepresent the content, not just things that catch your eye. Headlines are designed to get you to read the content, but when the headlines are misleading the content is a waste of time to read, similar to a fish biting a worm only to get caught, hence "bait".
I use a filter bag to hold the grounds when brewing cold brew so when I filter there's far less matter to clog up.
How can HN just choose to be noncompliant? Aren't there penalties?

I don't understand the jurisdiction of GDPR very well, but I thought it applied to all EU users.
> It is kind of weird why engineers are so obsessed with tools though.

Would you say the same thing about programming languages?

I was actually listening to the Full Stack Radio podcast, and the latest episode talked about the power of moving more into the database. What struck me as a strong idea was that we can't treat databases as equivalent - different database servers have different strengths (for example, some have better JSON support or time evaluation functions).

I think it's particularly telling that you seem to be thinking of the database as a "tool", but if you're like most, you fight religious battles over your language of choice. In my experience, the database IS the application (and in many cases, the business) and is a far more important choice than the implementation language, the cloud provider, etc.
At what point do we start seriously discussing solutions? We could right now ground the aircraft, ban meat production, institute a steep tax on gasoline and electricity, stop the ships, ban deep sea fishing, etc. The problem is these solutions are political suicide in a democracy and people will never accept them, but barring magic carbon capture technology that can scale is there really an alternative besides 'shut it all down' (besides plan on starving to death or dying in a resource war)?
Its a non issue, I would buy and use a lighter car right now if it let say significantly cheaper.
I would say that development of JSON fields in Postgres and MySQL was accelerated by the adoption of Mongo.

Speed to market/first version using JSON stores is attractive, especially when you're still prototyping your product and won't have an idea of exact data structures until there's been some real world usage.
When Best Practice Isn’t Good Enough - bypassing common forms of 2FA
When companies are planning IPOs they do it months before. Was there a better time in the last 10 years?
95% outrage culture/5% environmental concern.
It's extremely poor PR. I was caught up in the 2012 FTC investigation on social networks and data brokers. Public just wants to hear how you are going to protect their data. Doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. Pushing that you weren't wrong narrative just alienates your users even more.
zstd totally dominates zlib. There is nothing that zlib does that zstd does not do better.

It’s just that simple.

For a given compression speed, zstd will compress the file more that zlib would. For a given compression amount, zstd will compress the data much faster than zlib would.
Yeah, and that sucks, and I'd like it to change. But I don't think turning American prisons into Norwegian-style resort hotel prisons is going to magically convince every American criminal to turn into a productive citizen.
Great article. I think the narrative around health care is often around who has access to good insurance and who doesn't, and as the cost has skyrocketed we have doubled down on that debate. The real problem is that health care providers won't or even can't tell you how much something costs. This has set up this situation where, since money is not part of the decision making process, they just keep raising costs. Imagine a grocery store where prices are not labelled, and you get a complex bill a month afterwards. And every grocery store does this. What are the chances prices for groceries are going to be competitive? Zero.

If we can find a way to bring market forces to bear, it will pressure healthcare organizations to reorganize themselves to provide services in a more affordable way. And before anyone gets sanctimonious about putting money over quality care, consider the actual harmful effects of these crazy bills on people's lives. I used to do title work, and I became familiar with a pattern of people quietly paying their mortgage on their house for a couple decades, no liens, and then all of a sudden a lien from a hospital bill shows up. And then everything starts to crumble, other liens accrue, and I'm doing the title search for the foreclosure. A family just got moved from middle class to living in poverty. Our healthcare system is becoming a vehicle to impoverish people.
This is a non-sequitur. For something like emergency care, where the choice can literally be "pay up or die", a private provider has every incentive/opportunity to charge outrageous fees. Because what are you going to do? Tell the heart attack to wait while you find another provider?

The price-opacity may be a product of regulation, but the prices themselves are free market capitalism working as intended. For another example of the same, consider the recent reporting on collusion between generic drug companies[1]. When you can't refuse to buy the product, the vendor has a ton of power to set prices as they wish.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/generic-drug-makers-shares-drop...
Honestly, if you've written a coding article which doesn't have any code in it, you've probably messed up somewhere along the line. Generally, I'd say it's expected that anything programming related likely has at least a few code samples and a few demos to test out, otherwise its usefulness is rather limited.
Pretty ingenious, might steal this idea at some point in the future.

So the idea is that, in a given XY plane, all equilibrium flows are at the same direction and speed. You can never go exactly 26 m/s due north, but you can get close enough. By definition, vehicles in the equilibrium state can't hit other vehicles on the same XY plane, and vehicles in equilibrium at slightly displaced XY planes will only hit others at arbitrarily small angles. So far, so good.

Going up and down is simultaneously handled in the XY plane, because at a given height, a vehicle's direction of travel is tangent to the helix and going along with the flows. Also good.

There needs to be a strict speed limit on vertical speed. A vehicle hitting you from underneath or above at 30 m/s is pretty terrible.

A representative table for the lazy

Height Direction Speed (m/s) Speed (mph freedom units)
0 N 0 0
90 E 9 20.1
180 S 18 40.3
270 W 27 60.4
360 N 36 80.5

Though I might make the coils of the helix a bit tighter, so you can get within 5 mph of your desired speed at whichever direction you want to go.
When I was released after having served time, I was sentenced immediately to additional "parole" for a year and a half.

Isn't parole duration limited to one's original sentence? If one is sentenced to, say, 3 years but released after 2 years with 8 months' parole, that's not "additional" time per se.
> How is an unconscious person meant to be stop an "out of network" nurse assisting?

They can't. That's the problem - there's little you can do to stop it from happening, even if you're aware of this sort of billing problem and try to take steps to prevent it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/27/6408918...

> Surprise bills occur when a patient goes to a hospital in his insurance network but receives treatment from a doctor who does not participate in the network, resulting in a direct bill to the patient. They can also occur in cases like Calver's, where insurers will pay for needed emergency care at the closest hospital — even if it is out of network — but the hospital and the insurer may not agree on a reasonable price. The hospital then demands that patients pay the difference, in a practice called balance billing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/02/17/3869088...

> The surgeon's office later told her that he belonged to two different medical groups. One was in Morgan's husband's health plan network, the other wasn't.
> The hospital charges whatever the market [...] will allow.

Except that in this case, the market is paying before being told the cost. So, what is enforcing the upper limit on price in this type of bizarro market?
It's use in journalism, predates marketing, I believe.
Relevant xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
Demis Hassabis (true) statements here would be much more credible if DeepMind wasn't currently making a mint by promoting AlphaZero to the masses as a "general purpose artificial intelligence system".

Don't believe me? Check out this series of marketing videos on YouTube by GM Matthew Sadler.

1. “Hi, I’m GM Matthew Sadler, and in this series of videos we’re taking a look at new games between AlphaZero, DeepMind’s general purpose artificial intelligence system, and Stockfish” (1)

2. “Hi, I’m GM Matthew Sadler, and welcome to this review of the World Champinship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. And it’s a review with a difference, because we are taking a look at the games together with AlphaZero, DeepMind’s general purpose artificial intelligence system...” (2)

3. “Hi, I’m GM Matthew Sadler, and in this video we’ll be taking a look at a game between AlphaZero, DeepMind’s general purpose artificial intelligence system, and Stockfish” (3)

I could go on, but you get my point. Search youtube for "Sadler DeepMind" and you'll see all the rest. This is a script.

But wait, you say, that's just some random unaffiliated independent grandmaster who just happens to be using an inaccurate script on his own, no DeepMind connection at all! And to that I would say, check out this same random GM being quoted directly on DeepMind's blog waxing eloquently and rapturously about AlphaZero's incredible qualities. (4)

Let's be clear. I am in no way dismissing AlphaZero's truy remarkable abilities in both chess and other games like go and shogi. Nor do I have a problem with Demis Hassabis making headlines for stating the obvious about deep learning (that it's good at solving certain limited types of puzzles, but we are a long way from AGI, why is this controversial).

My problem is that Hassabis is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Increasing DeepMind/Google's value by many millions with his marketing message, while acting like he's not doing that. It feels intellectually dishonest.

To solve this, all DeepMind needs to stop instructing its Grandmaster mouthpieces to refer to AlphaZero as a "general articial intelligence system". Let's see how long that takes.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-wFUdvKTVQ&t=0m10s
(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4T0_IoGQCE&t=0m05s
(3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS26Ct34YrQ&t=0m05s
(4) https://deepmind.com/blog/alphazero-shedding-new-light-grand...
I know it's just FUSE but I don't see advantages to mounting the Keybase filesystem on Linux/Mac. Seems like it would open some unnecessary doors like this one.
a healthcare industry schil sowing confusion
Maybe not, but do you think it is reasonable to build an API that explicitly asks the user for every single individual message? I'm not aware of a single web api that functions this way.
> Recipe pages are long because Google penalizes sites with "high bounce rate", i.e. where the user opened the page, didn't interact with it (clicked a link, scrolled x% of the screen) and left, or clicked Back. A recipe blog post where you can simply copy/paste the recipe into your notes app is going to receive a bad SEO grade.

Do many people actually copy-paste recipes? I usually open a recipe page and keep it open until I'm done with the dish). If I like the result I may copy the recipe.
Saying "I don't know SQL so I will just use JSON" really misses the point though. SQL is easy. Data is hard. NoSQL products offer to get rid of SQL which includes an implication that SQL itself was the challenge in the first place. The problem then is that you have lost one of the best tools for working with data.
Devil's Advocate I know, but would people recycle things if they could repair things themselves?

I mean, let's figure you have two possibilities:

1 You have to take it to Apple and have it replaced. In which case Apple will try to salvage (recycle) whatever they can.

2 You buy a new sub-component, take the old sub-component out, and salvage (recycle) the old sub-component yourself.

In all honesty, what is the percentage of people who would actually complete the salvage (recycle) step of option 2? I think it's, at least reasonable, to suspect that the percentage is not terribly high.
When it comes to computers, there's never a silver bullet, not even money.
Hospitals are required to treat the uninsured, but the government doesn't actually compensate them for that.

So they jack up everyone else's bills in the hopes that enough people will pay that they'll make a profit.

Insurance companies will usually push back, so (sometimes partially) uninsured people with decent credit hit with huge charges.
all computers should do that.
and then have an icon called internet which spawns randomly either of the three (session based)
also you need a standard to share favicons.
I think that ObservableHQ is a really cool idea. BUT. Every time I get to the end of a notebook I am left scratching my head with how it ends.

This example is no exception. Here is how my mind interprets it...

Makes sense.

Makes sense.

Makes sense.

Makes sense.

WTF?
why would making the cost to operate equal the cost to purchase be desirable?
> I think there's merit to investigating public health care. That line stops for me in eliminating private care

I haven't seen a proposal yet that would eliminate private care (or even supplementary private insurance).
We used to use them internally for building a system management application that required talking to databases and an API that nodes could pull information from. This pre-dates system management tools like Chef, Ansible and it was just a tool like that. There is also workflow management tools that (like managing Hadoop jobs for example) that could be written in these. Generally, things where you need to deal with a lots of state (and state changes) from the outside world. I am pretty sure there are other use cases.
Mods: Would you fix the link? Currently it is the following (410 characters; you'll have to find a way to read it):

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...

I'm not going to try to parse and decode that, but it's mostly unnecessary and my security software thinks it's an XSS attack (a false positive, I would guess). This link works:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...
Last year my 1 year old baby had an accident in Germany. She fell off of a bed. I took her to an ER and after the examination I paid approx. 100€ = ~100usd. I assume in USA I would have paid 10kUSD or more..
My last visit to a hospital it was requested I arrive 30 minutes early to "fill out paperwork". After arriving at the radiology department an office assistant took me into a nearby room and had me sign consent forms and make payment on the spot. Anxious for my exam I signed everything and handed over my debit card. Later on I realized one of the forms cemented acceptance of the debt and guaranteed my full payment of it. If I chose to I would have very little ground to stand on disputing the costs ($800 for an ultrasound).

Hospitals are for-profit entities that will optimize debt-collection and bargaining power over patients. They will start taking payment upfront as well as influencing patients to choose financing options that are in the best interest of the hospital and not the patient themselves.

It's hard not to feel like the whole system is rotten.
There is a zlib wrapper included in the project :
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/tree/master/zlibWrapper
Tax on products sucks because it's a cheap bandaid. It is passed onto consumer with no incentive for corporations to make environmentally friendly products. In fact, theres two things that happens with a tax:

1) as the tax will be broad. What if I invented a biodegradable capsule that decomposes after 6 months? No company will buy this invention. Because it will still be taxed.

2) company can make their process even cheaper than the tax imposed. Ie contents of two capsules is now one big capsule. Or use cheaper unhealither material.

What you need is for companies to take back their own waste.

Then increase cost of disposing of waste with more funds towards environment agencies. It would be amazing to see landfill bins on streets to be a relic of the past.
My generic life advice for wide eyed youth is the reverse of that. Summed up it’s to find a gig that:

- Pays (decent).

- You’re good at.

- You enjoy.

The order is equally important as depending on which comes first the sustainability evaporates.
Ask HN: What is the most brutal and thorough refutation you have ever seen?
I am trying to find examples of ideas that seemed reasonable at the time, but were then dismantled by another thinker. Ideally, this refutation would go on to change or form the consensus on this issue among experts.

Please no Ben Shapiro videos :P
Wow, reading their debunking, what that journalist did is fucking disgusting. The Spiegel article mentions the whole office is in shock, I can imagine, it's probably like realizing your wonderful spouse has been having an affair for the last 10 years.

It makes me think of this lady's TED talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg, and how that journalist [wait why am I referring to him as a journalist, he's a fraudster], how that fraudster is just making up his own story and presenting it as the truth, painting a an imaginary world for his readers' minds which they would accept as reality.

Sadly that's what lazy journalism and fake newsmakers do as well, so much that some people are convinced of the existence of FEMA death squads and a child porn ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant...
This one stood out to me as well. Like you, I agree that it's accurate. I've both seen and lived it.

The others bother me because they're essentially malicious caricatures. This one feels like a dose of sympathy.