skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I have an issue with $60 Ibuprofen (or one thing being upcharged), it's everything being so upcharged, with the expectation that it's going to be negotiated down by an insurance company, and then if you don't have insurance, they try to get you to (or at least pretend) that they haven't overinflated everything and you owe them every penny, unless you just don't pay them, and only then will they consider accepting less.
The fact that a risk exists is irrelevant, and it was never the point. If you want to understand the risks associated with nicotine and caffeine, you measure them. There are a number of metrics we can use as a proxy for risk, like margin of exposure or margin of safety, but these give us an incomplete understanding of the risks. The problem with electronic cigarettes is that children are particularly prone to the following things:

- Eating or drinking inappropriate things,

- Eating or drinking things which are colorful or have a pleasant aroma, and

- Being more sensitive to certain chemicals (e.g. nicotine) than adults.

So if you told me, "Let's put nicotine in a mango-scented liquid and put it in reach of children," I think we should be alarmed. Likewise, when we took iron supplements and put them in the shape of colorful pills or animals with a sweet taste like candy, and then children started eating them and getting iron poisoning, we got concerned.
> How is it fashion or wealth signaling if you're doing it at home, alone?

The tasteful way is to invite people to visit your home where they can see it.

The tacky way is to tell people about it.
Simply incorrect. We shame people for smoking don't we?
> What happened?

Text and still imagery based media companies aren't big data providers. NoSql was a bad choice from the start.
My guess is because the rules were written by men without any input from women.
After my personal blog.
There is a growing body of research in this vein. You can find several recent studies like this if you are interested enough. This one in particular has 20% of the subjects no longer needing blood sugar medication after 10 weeks.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/low-carb-diet-he...
Are humans even capable of general intelligence? I feel like the philosophical question of determinism vs free will is unsolvable.

The baseline of human capability would definitely still be impressive.
I don't see what else the "movement" would be used for. If you are obese than you are unhealthy. It might be hard to be hard to maybe impossible to improve that but it doesn't suddenly become "healthy" because of that.
Not really, learning SQL is not harder than learning all the mongo query language, maybe even simpler. Sometimes you just want to try something new, especially in startups where the "best tool for the job" haven't revealed itself yet. Then you are just continuing with whatever you got because migration is too tiresome and it is kind of working. Then you know both SQL and mongo but you got a very extensive boilerplate ready for your next project so use mongo again. Until you got enough time to play with a relational again and you either migrate or build a new project based on it. Then you write a blog.
Yep, that’s pretty much how I remember it.

Giving FB the benefit of the doubt, I suppose it’s possible that there could have been an additional permissions dialog that popped up whenever messaging integration happened. But I’m usually pretty good at being paranoid about giving apps unnecessary FB perms.

Personally I derive zero utility from integrating Spotify and messenger, and my private FB messages are one of the most sensitive data streams, period. So I find it hard to believe that I would have missed this. Which makes facebook’s latest vigorous non-apology feel a bit off to me.
It's obviously worse than not smoking at all, but it's getting clearer study after study that it's at least partially better than smoking. The huge majority of vapers I've ever spoken to (the overwhelming majority being ex-smokers), except those Vape Naysh types, are very aware of this.
There's two overlapping issues being conflated here: whether drug possession and use should be a crime, and how criminals should be punished.

I have no problem with the notion that violent criminals, thieves, and con men should be punished, and that those who persist in their crimes should be permanently removed from civil society. I do have a problem with the notion that someone only guilty of carrying two ounces of cannabis or transporting a particular species of fish across state lines should be punished in a similar fashion. That's because I think one category of felonies should continue to be felonious, and the other category should cease to be felonious.
>Has anyone run models of what happens if the Fed just keeps the interest rates low forever and lets the market price each loan?

That model is Japan, no?
A single lost access token that had global permissions already had the ability to get everything: GitHub’s API is already very full-featured.

The fix here is to use their scoping as intended: it should be amazingly rare to need an access token with such broad access.
My understanding is that the $60 ibuprofen was a line item amongst other charges. Everything else you mentioned is likely covered by another line item in their bill. It's not as if they went to the ER and got a bill of $60. They perhaps got a bill of $500, of which the breakdown mentioned $60 for ibuprofen.

It's kind of like going to a mechanic and getting a bill of $200 for a single headlamp bulb, and another $300 for labor. Then the mechanic arguing that the $200 for the bulb includes the mechanic's expertise, knowing which bulb to buy, etc. Umm...no. All that is included in labor costs.

>This seems absolutely reasonable to me, I wish I could charge a 'fill my email with RFPs' type fees.

Do you not think that fee should encompass doctor's expertise, instead of sprinkling that over cost of materials?

My initial reaction when I read the piece was in agreement. I think it makes sense for ERs to have a facility fee. However, it doesn't explain how one hospital's facility fee can be, say, double that of another. Is it that one hospital is using Hue lightbulbs compared to the other?

A $5751 bill which is almost entirely a facility fee is ridiculous.

I would imagine a facility fee should be relatively fixed - it is the cost to maintain the facility and has nothing to do with a given patient's medical condition. As such, it is trivial for a hospital to publicize the fee and provide transparency.

In general, I think all the items they bill for are reasonable. The amounts, though? Not at all. When you start looking at the variation in how much is charged for the same items across different hospitals (or even within), there is no good model that can provide an explanation.
> Of course they do.

Query your friends and family some time.
Yes, exactly. You, the rest of the world, are indeed subsidizing this system to some extent, and in exchange, far fewer of your own young people are sitting in garrisons around the world, doing push-ups, playing with guns and yelling each other.

I won't defend US incompetence wrt infrastructure. But I will observe that "spending more" hardly seems to be the problem, as we seem to do plenty of that already. It's that (lack of) stuff we get in return that's the problem.

As far as global "peace", it is certainly true there is still conflict, but from the bigger picture perspective it's been a relatively peaceful half century.

Again I'll point to this chart: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace. Consider that the y-axis is log scale, and contemplate the WWI and WWII bubbles at the top.
A sarcastic comment suggesting that President Trump is a kleptocrat similar to ones from other countries. BTW, you can enable the "show dead" preference if you're curious about flagged or heavily downvoted comments.
I was not an advocate for gov't health care, but I am now for the same reason you stated. I have a high deductible plan, and have tried to get quotes in advance, but never can. I have been ripped off multiple times, despite trying to do my research, etc.

My wife is a doctor, and at this point, I think single-payer is the least bad option.
I think that's reasonable advice, it's one of the easiest platforms to get started on and to migrate off. Also Wordpress.com allows you to add a domain, meaning that if you change your blog platform, you have the same urls, and the same search engine links... Not locked in at all...
I've nearly worked my way through the Idle Thumbs archive, and was starting to think I'd run out of driving entertainment soon :P

I'll add this to my podcast rotation.
I'm not familiar with MySQL but the features I outlined are Postgres specific.
Nothing, but they outline their problems in the article
That is true today, but when back when the iPhone was released they were almost identical, sans the cellular radio, speaker, and microphone.
I’m not a fan of debasing words like violence that have clear definitions and strong connotations. A threat of violence, while immoral (and illegal if credible) is just that: a threat. It’s threatening, not violent.
> But it is unfair to have no idea what costs you are facing and whether any of those costs are out of network on your insurance.

It's practically impossible to make an informed economic decision about truly emergency medical care without heavy regulation. It's not uncommon to be literally unconscious while all the care decisions for you are being made by others.

See this article for an example: some uninsured woman had a brain hemorrhage and woke up with $357,000 in medical bills:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/magazine/those-indecipher...
Exactly. It's the same reason we don't have free market police and fire services. You simply don't get to "shop around" for emergency services, which includes privatized ambulance services (which are outrageously expensive, on the order of $12,000 for the ride I took when I had to take one, and it was a relatively benign one... thank god I had insurance). EMS is covered, but that's the Fire Department. After that, it's all privatized.
If it's cosmetic, then I could see the argument. But when it comes to emergency services, and for ambulances especially, the "free market" argument just doesn't hold water.
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireles...

Seems the search string you were looking for is "buy think penguin router"...
Great article, thanks for sharing. Having quit cigarettes many years ago now, I can absolutely relate. I spent the first couple of years fighting myself (mentally and emotionally) on a daily basis, stuck on the fact that I was deprived. Eventually the feelings and cravings subsided, but I still felt like I had lost something. The key and lock analogy were indeed perfect. I didn't feel like myself. I had trouble talking to others. I felt less intelligent. I developed some social anxiety. I often wondered if I was self-medicating through nicotine and if I'd never be the same.

My dependency on chemicals never really went away, but I found a better way to feed it: exercise. Working out gave me that little boost of whatever it is, je ne sais quois, that made me feel more confident, more comfortable in my own skin. It wasn't the same at first (and at this point, I'll never know if I'm back to "baseline"), but for me at this time in my life, it's enough.

It's funny because objectively, life is so much better post-smoking. You don't smell, you don't have mandatory breaks, airplane rides aren't hell, family and friends don't complain, etc etc etc. And yet, while I don't miss smoking, I can distinctly remember all that trouble being worth it at the time.
The multiple consecutive terms business has always bothered me. I read about somebody who made the poor decision to drive while drunk and high, and ended up killing somebody. He ended up being charged with something like 6 charges--manslaughter, manslaughter w/alcohol, manslaughter w/drugs, reckless endangerment, etc. Since all of these had minimum prison terms and were served consecutively, he ended up going away for 25+ years. It doesn't seem right to charge someone for 6 different crimes as the result of one bad judgement.
Those people who just want their "cuppa" should take caffeine pills. They're not drinking Keurig for the flavor anyway.

I disagree on your second point, we can think that it's a morally wrong view to believe that our personal time is worth more than the earth's health.
I think the difference just having a hospital triage you and tell you 'ibuprofen will handle the pain, it's nothing serious' is _already_ worth a boat load of money and peace of mind.

I agree with you - it would be really interesting to see honest and transparent itemized bills, with separate items for overhead. I wonder if people would have the same problem with high bills in that case. Probably wouldn't like the total any more, but maybe it'd be easier to understand.
Exactly this. The overwhelming majority of his arguments were purely subjective, like his points on code clarity or mandatory indentation.
As Seas Warm, Galápagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary Test
Our country in general seems to be good at that.

The nearly-zero cost to throwing something away, while good for cleanliness of public spaces, seems to enable this. It has been unsettling to watch people close to me get upset, indignant, offended that a particular trash item would not just disappear. Entitlement.
Hope you find this material useful. The way I look at it is the other way around: The burden of proof lies squarely on the person who denies such an obvious proposition as (1). The same is true for similarly obvious propositions like "there is an external world which I can learn about through my senses" and "inductive reasoning is a valid way of attaining knowledge", which underpin the scientific enterprise and, moreover, any basis for critiquing (1) itself. One way to capture this is through the principle of phenomenal conservatism [1][2][3] as formulated by philosopher Michael Huemer. He has also written a book on the subject called Ethical Intuitionism.

[1] https://philpapers.org/rec/HUEPCA

[2] https://philpapers.org/rec/HUECPC

[3] https://www.iep.utm.edu/phen-con/
"Doesn't exist" was hyperbole. If you want to be literal, what the OP was saying is that it's an extremely small fringe group that isn't large enough to matter, and the response to it created by internet outrage culture makes it look like a much bigger issue than it actually is.
What it's like to interview at Pinterest
it shows a progress indicator,
which is functionally the same from a user perspective.

the visual display of this progress indicator is different yes -

This method doesn't need any notion of terminal width because it
just prints 'N / N' at the beginning of the current line where the cursor is when called.
I don't think the velocity of money returns to normal. Money used to buy a single Ferrari probably circulates less than money used to buy million gallons of milk. This should imply that for higher gdp we must tax the rich and spend on poor.

American defense spending spends lesser on the poor, and the country does not even get bridges or trains in return.
I'm sure there's some of that. But a lot of the early problems were a bit more weighted towards poor engineering in general, IIRC. For example, I seem to recall an early problem was truncating large amounts of data on crash occasionally.
You claim this, but now if you goto a department store, you'll find the mannequins are all a little bit heavy, as in, overweight.
The performance on Safari is abysmal too.
Unpredictable performance would mean, you can't predict how long a specific query will take. This is the opposite of how postgres works. If a query is slow, it's predictably slow if the data doesn't change. So what you must mean is, when the data changes, it doesn't behave like you expect.

So again, how do these poor choosers make better decisions in the face of changing data when they have to write all the algorithms by hand, and understand how to scale the data correctly? Seems to me that pretty soon they'd just be writing a very crappy database on top of some keystore.
I will complete my first freenas build that I've waited years to build this weekend. in either case, I've been waiting so long that seeing this does not change my desire and opportunity does not always come when we want it to.

guess I have some additionally learning to do :-)
Improving compression at scale with Zstandard
Stanford and Princeton press offices publish string theory hype
C++ was Stroustrup before C++89, Java was Gosling until about 1.5, C was K&R before C89, JavaScript was Eich until ES3.

So, all around 20 to 30 years ago.
I was a victim of the surprise out of network bill in the Portland, OR area. I did all my research before hand: hospital in network, surgeon in network, etc. but ONE person in that operating room was not in network and SURPRISE i'm out thousands of dollars. The worst part about this is my state passed a bill to stop this prior to my surgery, but the bill's effective date was roughly 3 months later. Talk about bad timing.
> I think some people just want to call out "the worlds exemplar of democracy" spending the largest portion of its budget on undemocratic means.

what do you mean by "largest portion" here?
> how infectious

Hey, there's people working hard on that, it's not just some accidental freebie ...

The system, however, does have positive feedback - the more you advertise, the more resources you have for advertising.
I’m not a GDPR lawyer, but AFAIK export has to be satisfied within 7 days and removal within 30 days. Not sure what are the delays for a correction.

I think the most expensive part could be the human time needed to make judgments on the residence of the requestor. Fully automated processes available to all the user based won’t have this extra cost.
> I find it hard to believe that Facebook refuses to acknowledge any fault in this.

I feel that the distance between their rhetoric and their technical machinations is their liability. And to those who say, "no big deal, everyone already knew this" - well, then why does Facebook's rhetoric not match their underlying technology?

If Facebook came out and said, "our business model is to sell ads, so we do everything legally in our power to give people the power to connect to each other, while supporting ourselves by selling ads," then I would have confidence in their statements. They instead obfuscate and disemble.

When they speak of "integration partners" and speak about using Facebook services on various devices, and not in terms of selling the data itself, opening up entire streams of data to read and write permissions, then their aims in this press release are different from the aims of their clients and shareholders. And the extent of that difference is a liability.

That they can't be honest in plain language about their technical systems means they don't yet have confidence that their technical systems would be culturally sustainable were they to be well understood. Incentives are not aligned here - and that is a very scary and generally untenable place to be.
If you're looking for me to respond, in seriousness to this I'm going to need some assurances that you know the difference between a criminal investigation and a court trial since my comment was about one of those things, and pretty emphatically not the other.
These are common, and called "Trains"
Sidenote: If you buy one of Dalio's books (Big Debt Crises or Principles) before the end of the year, Dalio will send you a $25 gift card to use towards a charity of your choice.

https://i.imgur.com/31jVPZP.png
They won't tell you that before they give it to you.
I use it to push files around and possibly parse and move the data those files contain. But once it gets to strictly numerical things, the purpose built tools are the only real choice. Scientific libraries for Go are nearly non-existent, or just copies of fully formed libraries from somewhere else.
"We totally have the space to bury this plastic in the ground. Killing wildlife and destroying habitats is a whole other issue. The carbon and ecological cost of producing massive amounts of single-use petrochemical products is a whole other issue. Chemicals leaking into the water supply is a whole other issue. Microplastics found in humans, animals and processed foods is a whole other issue."

We're not concerned about whether we can bury it in the ground.
Keybase advisory: Local Privilege Escalation on Linux via Keybase-Redirector
If someone prefers their coffee as an espresso with steamed milk, then Aeropress won't be the substitution they're looking for. I enjoy both, but one certainly doesn't scratch the itch for the other.
No parole, but there is probation, halfway house, home confinement, supervised release, and even the occasional furlough.

And his gripes about parole can certainly apply to US Probation Officers, US Marshalls, and other BOP designates, depending on the one you get assigned.
>have tried to get quotes in advance, but never can.
>I have been ripped off multiple times,
>I think single-payer is the least bad option.

Can you help me understand why if everyone is paying for everyone's healthcare in a socialize system - how that reforms the transparency and stops the abuses?
Maaaaybe. I tend to think that symbolic reasoning is a learning tool, rather than a goalpost for general intelligence. For example, we use symbolic reasoning quite extensively when learning to read a new language, but once fluent can rely on something closer to raw processing - no more reading and sounding out character sequences. Similarly with chess - eventually we have good mnemonics for what make good plays, and can play blitz reasonably well.

And - let's be real - a lot of human symbolic reasoning actually happens outside of the brain, on paper or computer screens. We painstakingly learn relatively simple transformations and feedback loops for manipulating this external memory, and then bootstrap it into short-term reaction via lots of practice.

I tend to think that the problems are:
a) Tightly defined / domain-specific loss functions. If all I ever do is ask you to identify pictures of bananas, you'll never get around to writing the great american novel. And we don't know how to train the kinds of adaptive or free form loss functions that would get us away from these domain-specific losses.

b) Similarly, I have a soft-spot for the view that a mind is only as good as its set of inputs. We currently mostly build models that are only receptive (image, sound) or generative. Reinforcement learning is getting progress on feedback loops, but I have the sense that there's still a long way to go.

c) I have the feeling that there's still a long way to go in understanding how to deal with time...

d) As great as LSTMs are, there still seems to be some shortcoming in how to incorporate memory into networks. LSTMs seem to give a decent approximation of short-term memory, but still seems far from great. This might be the key to symbolic reasoning, though.

Writing all that down, I gotta say I agree fundamentally with the DeepMind research priorities on reinforcement learning and multi-modal models.
Believe WordPerfect for DOS was the original white on blue. Might have something to do with lowering the contrast from white/grey on black in a 16 color scheme, although blue wouldn't be my first choice. Probably chosen due to its stronghold in lawyer's offices.
Considering she was unconscious she could not possibly have consented to those transactions. What laws exist that allow these companies to unilaterally create these transactions, and what limitations do they have?
I don't think there are any adults that haven't read The Little Prince.
> light bulb cartel

I know nothing about this and have no strong opinions about it one way or the other, but that phrasing is hilarious.