skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see self driving bicycles, for the same reason ;)

Not trying to get into a bike vs car debate, they're all fine with me... but man some bikers I come across are just flying through intersections / stop signs too. Scares the hell out of me when I'm driving.
Scrape it? It's in your profile.
GDPR and Cyber Essentials
It would look like they should pay their nurses a lot more, according to this bill.
Every day, another sign of collapse. Fluffy-minded business execs, SV megaconsumers, and economist fairy-people will hardly notice (yet).
For a serious note, there are occasionally situations where I have to take in a lot of data that I know nothing about. Sooner of the time this data is either in json or readily convertible to json so losing it into a mongodb database and poking around in it is a reasonable preliminary step to whatever the more permanent solution should be.
For non-life-threatening ER visits an app that has your insurance info and lists the Doctor prescribed treatments with their itemized cost would be ideal to see before you consent or choose what to do. For those without smartphones, the software can also be in the hospital computers ready to give a print-out. Wouldn't presenting it beforehand drive down costs? I'd be in favor of legislation requiring up-front costs to be honored, and it's on the hospital to estimate properly and/or get additional consent for added items (or have the patient sign an additional line item waiver with a limit in exchange for some incentive for the patient such an overall discount).

The app and insurance profile should also allow you put in guidance on what is allowed if you're brought in unconscious. Some may not want to be resuscitated.
I've got a Breville espresso maker (one of their "Barista Express" models) and the boilers warm up in about 20-30 seconds (i.e. by the time you grind and tamp, it's ready to go). It has an integrated grinder (which, once you find the right grind setting, never needs further adjusting), the pour time is programmed, it'll shut off the machine on its own after a bit of inactivity, and the rest of your steps take a couple seconds at most.

I think you're dramatically exaggerating the effort involved in DIYing it, and (done properly) you get a substantially tastier result from the real machine too.
This is the same in Canada - universal health care administered in each province.

Although I seemed to have noticed a lot of increase as well in terms of pricing and services.

There's just really no cure for an appetite of greed.
I must admit I'm skeptical of the claim that "only government can negotiate a better price"... I think anyone that's worked on government systems knows that is not typically the case.

Why wouldn't insurers argue for better prices now?
No, it's a liability transfer from the airline industry and a subsidy to various contractors. Sure, security theater is the cover for all that, but it's not just security theater.
They can and do, at which point the hospital or other billing party directly bills the beneficiary of care or their guardian, which is how folks that think they're financially secure end up bankrupt.
> But overall I’d say that finding a player with really good decoding and capturing the resulting signal is your best option for the scenario I outlined.

Exactly.
It depends how you view things - is buying ICO tokens compensating the founders for their ideas and thoughts?

Apparently Silk Road had sales of $1.2bn which gives you an idea of the amount of drugs traded and the turnover of Bitcoin on exchanges was about $2000 bn over the last year. So sales of goods as a percent of speculative transactions are probably <1%. Not that that means that much - FX speculation is larger than real trade for fiat also.
The presumption that competition between doctors and hospitals will create lower prices has not come to fruition. Individuals have no leverage or ability to make meaningful choices. There is no real healthcare market as a result.

In a larger system, we get lower prices via several mechanisms:
- Preventative care replacing ER care due to universal coverage
- Larger risk pool lowers per-participant costs
- Single payer has more leverage and depth of time/knowledge to regulate/negotiate with individual hospitals

The reality of a competitive landscape, hand of market, etc, that just didn't happen.
And yet it is by far the most regulated industry in the US. Almost as if the more invasive the regulations the more invasive the corruption.
The stuff you can't scrape is the interesting stuff.
My point on ideology wasn't to say that ideology is extremist, rather it was to say that we are all ideological. Ideology in popular speech seems to mean something extremist, because we figure outselves to be free of ideology: rational, economical etc. - but these are ideologies in themselves. You and I are both steeped in ideology and that's not a bad thing. The bad thing is thinking we are free of it, or the world works as if it's free of it, or that societies don't perpetuate themselves through Establishment ideology.

I also didn't want to imply you're poorly read, or that you should be well read on something as arcane as 20th century leftist theory, I only wanted to bring your attention to the idea that the left doesn't shy away from grossness in any future society.

The question is never of eliminating politics in the most general sense, it's to eliminate current politics in a constantly revolutionary fashion. Communism is a political movement, for instance, and the very existence of the party shows that they don't want to get rid of politics - they only want to move away from bourgeois democracy which supports (and is supported by) capital. Not even the anarchists deny the role of politics. But the idea that politics is merely a disagreement about resource allocation is ideological (and this time I do mean it in a bad sense).
>burden society with their health care costs

That's every single non-optimal health decision though. You shouldn't have gone into construction because now you need a knee replacement. You should've used a treadmill desk instead of sitting for so long. If you'd just had a child before you were 30 you probably wouldn't have gotten breast cancer etc...
> The most you can do is to provide the resources and support he needs to carry out that decision once he's made it.

To the best of my knowledge, one of the problems with US prisons today is that the resources and support you describe are not widely available.
I would rather say, "Postgres's JSONB provides a hybrid compromise that may meet the needs of many users." JSONB feels like it's closer to creating more complex data types that are less primitive than those that SQL currently allows.

The real driver of the NoSQL movement, I believe, was that everybody wanted to be the next big social network or content aggregation site. Everybody wanted to be the next Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. and that's what people were trying to build. Ginormous sites like these are are one of the applications that strongly favors availability/eventual consistency over guaranteed consistency, whereas most other applications are quite the opposite.

Nobody really cares if your Instagram post shows up 10 minutes later in New York than it does in LA, and certainly not if the comments appear in similarly inconsistent order. It's one step above best-effort delivery. However, your bank, hospital, etc. often care quite a bit that their systems always represent reality as of right now and not as of half an hour ago because there's a network problem in Wichita.

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."
> For example, Apple appears to be taking the environmental impact of their business seriously

You sir need to take a break from the Apple kool-aid.
There's an extension that will do it. Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-... Firefox, (I use this in Waterfox as well,) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
I suppose I'm not a real adult then.
Exact same thing happened to my friend. He did all his research, and while he was under anesthesia a nurse assisted that was out of network. $5k out of pocket. He ended up getting it removed after some run around between insurance and the hospital.
Is it useful? Is it cost-effective? Are people happy with it? Are there plans to introduce it elsewhere because it's so successful? Could you come to Canada please and convince our government to do it?
At "large financial news company" we had a "designed for the CV" tag that applied to stupid architectural decisions (of which there were many)

One of the biggest and most expensive was using Cassandra to store membership details. Something like 4 years of work, by a team of 40, wasted by stupid decisions.

They included:
o Using Cassandra to store 6 million rows of highly structured, mostly readonly data

o hosting it on real tin, expensive tin, in multiple continents (looking at >million quid in costs)

o writing the stack in java, getting bored, re-writing it as a micro service, before actually finishing the original system

o getting bored of writing micro services in java, switching to scala, which only 2/15 devs knew.

o writing mission critical services in elixir, of which only 1 dev knew.

o refusing to use other teams tools

o refusing to use the company wiki, opting for thier own confluence instance, which barred access to anyone else, including the teams they supported
Despite your pretend block quote, that isn't a direct quote from me (you're taking quotes from someone else in the thread and splicing them into my post, using your made-up version as a strawman). I said 5s apart, which is over 1000ft of spacing — nearly a quarter of a mile, plenty of room for braking — at 150mph; the 15 SUVs is because 75/5 = 15, and we're comparing it to a train system with mandatory minimum 75s gaps.
> Part of the implicit criticism in the original post by the intern is that Google is so arrogant in its browser’s dominance that it breaks the web and doesn’t give a shit if anyone complains about it. The tone of your article is certainly doing nothing to help that impression.

Is there anything that a person who doesn't work at Google (like the author) can do to help that impression? Is there any reason why anybody who doesn't work at Google should even worry about helping that impression?
I'm in the industry right now, and while there's certainly room for innovation and improvement (our company was one of those originally), anyone considering it should know that this industry is a huge legal and regulatory quagmire, which makes diving into it difficult if you're not already familiar with it.

Despite knowing a lot about how it works after being in the industry for several years, I don't think I'd have the stomach to take a stab at a startup in this field myself. I've already had to deal with it over the years as an systems engineer and I'm pretty sick of it.

Also, if you're planning to do business with the big companies in this field, at least from the standpoint of my company, they really drag their feet with signing any business deals with you, and just about every company doesn't really want to pay you to do anything. We've had multiple companies back out of contracts (or act like they're going to sign once things are negotiated, then don't), even after we've done significant development (in one case building a whole system for them) and not pay us for our work, and then have the gall to ask us for parts of the code afterwards.

The only reason we did that work also, is because there are some crazy hard deadlines with open enrollment and the process drags so much that by the time everything is signed the software basically already has to be complete immediately upon signing if we wanted their business or else it would miss the open enrollment window (or pre-open enrollment, or whatever else hard deadline they had).

Also, the industry has been upended and thrown into chaos with Obamacare, and if the Republicans ever succeed in repealing/replacing it, then it will probably be thrown into chaos again. This creates an opportunity for startups that can move much quicker than these behemoth companies can move in reaction to these things, but it also means that you could be building a business on top of quicksand, and might have to make significant and expensive changes yourself in a few years if it changes underneath your feet as well.
Not my definition but whatever is actually universally accepted. You'd find a large majority of people outside the west don't think free speech is a human right.

Human right as in rights you have for being a human,not a membet of a specific nation or group but rights you are born with. UN defines human rights based on what member states agree is a human right based on voting and electiond. Universally means by nearly every sane and rational human,not by a simple majority.

Good example: most people agree rape is wrong because it's a terrible thing to happen to person and it isn't acceptable. However,the right to not get raped is not a right you have simply for being a human but rather socieities agrees it shouldn't happen to anyone. You'd find marital rape is unprosecutable in some countries and perfectly legal in the west even in the last few centuries. I.E.: people decided it wad bad.

Otoh: a person can eat(if they find food),sleep,and be alive because they're human.
Did you ever consider SES? I've been using Sendgrid for about two years to handle lead distribution to client CRMs (Automotive). They have good documentation and are super easy to integrate. Although, I wish the delivery notification endpoint supported multiple webhooks.
>Hence, a halting oracle is the best explanation for the human mind

What does it explain though? That the human brain has a black box capable of solving certain problems... how exactly?
This is correct. The healthcare industry does not lack middlemen.
Oh yes, there are worse things: chicken farms. Hog farms are certainly smelly but chicken farms are... disgusting in a way all of their own, a nauseating smell which makes you glad you did not eat a big lunch. I've lived on a (small scale) hog farm - studying at an agricultural university, being in need of a place to live and finding a farmer who had a cabin on his farm ready for rent leads to such - and have cycled through areas with chicken farms.

I studied forestry and know what I prefer on a hot summer's day, the orangey tang of a Douglas fir stand or the resinous smell in a pine forest on sandy soil are infinitely preferable over both hogs and chickens. Or weed, for that matter.
Cappuccino is important. You wouldn't want to start the day with just some drip coffee.
Cold brew is incredible. I've been using one of these [1] once a week and it makes really great coffee. It's easy to clean, making it just takes waiting for water to drain through, and all the waste is grounds. It's really fun to try different syrups in it too. I'd also highly recommend using a coarse grind.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Mizudashi-Coffee-1000ml-Red/dp/...
> It also sounds like FreeBSD also lacks the resources to maintain an implementation of something like ZFS

A bit of a leap - while your theory could be correct, alternatively, if the filesystem is complicated and can be ifdefed to work for many OS's, it makes sense to combine dev efforts into one codebase rather than having multiple independently maintained forks..

not sure which is the case here.. but in any event.
It is in Preview. https://github.com/Microsoft/msix-packaging/tree/master/prev...
I don't disagree. My comment was mostly tongue in cheek, but I guess a /s was needed. I'm glad it spurred some discussion, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18716613
> TSA is a jobs program for people who aren’t willing to do real work.

The overt function, employing in many cases the exact same people, existed before it was federalized, so, no, that doesn't really explain what was new about TSA vs the status quo ante.
I still remember sometime back Google's GNMT translate the Chinese text of 'I don't want to go to work' into English 'I want to go to work'. That example alone should be sufficient to showcase how most advanced machine learning model can fail at the simplest task.

It didn't understand the source material, it is just very good at memorizing and faking.
It's been "statistical" since about mid-00's. What's new is that it's now neural.
Well, but that's anthropomorphizing. Institutions don't really know things, people do. Getting stuff out of one person's head to all the people that could use it actually takes a lot of effort. (Look at how terrible medical record systems are.)
> You simply don't get to "shop around" for emergency services

You do actually, by where you choose to live and also by the services as detailed in [1].

I think there's merit to investigating public health care. That line stops for me in eliminating private care.

1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/kim-k...
If you have a french press already, you can use that and it works fine. Just prep it at night and press in the morning. Works for making iced tea too!
They can and do, but as per an instance in the submitted piece, you can still encounter individual providers who never agreed to that price. Then the patient is responsible for it.
Which breakfast cereal do you eay, and why?
> This is the person who was directly called out for a specific action which broke one element of Edge functionality.

No, the intern called out Google, not this guy.
Florida typically comes dead-last consumer protection-wise except that it requires ER physicians to be "in-network" when the hospital is also "in-network".
Point 5. I'm not a software/application person... can you expound on how else you would interact with a DB if not directly?
My calculations are larger by a factor of 2.5 (you've probably used density of water but I think that's a bit optimistic, don't know much about garbage compaction).

I mostly agree it's not as bad as it seems; however that doesn't account for the <100% disposal effectiveness (a certain % will realistically always make it to streets, rivers, oceans), or as others mentioned some chance of environmental leakage of landfills (an associated issue is energy efficiency and energetic cost of packaging and disposal) -- i.e. I wouldn't dismiss waste in total as an absolute non-issue.
Emergency situations are exactly what insurance is for. Emergencies account for a minority (<15% IIRC) of health care spending.

Nobody advocating for free market healthcare is expecting people to shop around in emergencies. People are expected to shop around for good insurance plans which will cover emergency situations to their satisfaction. That is why many free market healthcare supporters also support removing the incentives for employer-provided insurance plans:

- remove the tax exemption for employer-provided insurance

- add a tax exemption for individual/family insurance, including a rebate for the amount of money payroll (social security and medicare) taxes would affect the amount of money available for that insurance

This way, people don't lose their insurance when they lose their job, and people have more insurance options. This would also likely have a beneficial affect on insurance competition.
This seems especially important if you want to offer Prometheus as SaaS.
Your customers won't want to run their own Prometheus installs (that's what they pay you for, after all),
and asking customers to open their firewalls so that your Prometheus can discover and scrape their
infrastructure is probably a non-starter.

At Weaveworks we provide Prometheus as a SaaS using Cortex, which is how the project was started. For our service we have an agent that installs a Prometheus agent (and some other ones) on the customers K8s cluster.

The upsides of running the agent on their side is that they benefit from Prometheus' automatic service discovery. They can also use standard Prometheus configuration and scrapers to get the full capabilities for their environment.

There are also situations where the user wants to continue to run their own Prometheus, but down sample and send a limited number of metrics for long-term storage in the Weave Cloud SaaS. This can be done with one line in a standard Prometheus.

It's true that running the agent takes resources, I think the benefits are worth it. For most people the key question is getting the full value from their metrics data to enable better development and operations.

[NOTE]: Full Disclosure I work at Weaveworks where we provide Prometheus-as-a-Service (https://www.weave.works/features/prometheus-monitoring/)
With this browser extension you can add articles and listen them later on your phone https://intelligent-speaker.com

We use AWS Polly too.
Because insurance companies are fighting at both ends. If their payments are too low, their network providers will stop taking that insurance plan or company and then they lose customers for lack of network reach. Also, well-intentioned overhead limit regulations to spend at least 80% of funds on care, creates a countervailing accounting pressure to increase costs so that administrative spending can be higher - flowing more money to the insurance company.

I actually agree w/ overhead limits, but you also need other efficiency metrics to keep the anti-optimization in check. Or, personally I think we should go to some form of universal healthcare and wipe out private health insurance as it's currently constituted.
> The post I'm replying to is arguing about interest rates & wage growth over the past 2 years. I'm pointing out that this is false for wage growth over that time period.

And like I said, your citation doesn't take I to account increases in CPI.

Real wage growth is falling. https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2018/09/25/real-...

It doesn't matter if they're getting more Uncle Sam Fun Bucks, if those Fun Bucks are worth less than they gained.

> If you want to discuss how structural changes in the economy have let capital fuck over labor, that's a different conversation.

Nah, they're pretty related.

> That trend has been going on since before I was born, though, and the takeaway I learned from it, before even entering the workforce, was "Build capital."

It's next to impossible to build capital if you're not being paid a living wage to start with, and your real wage growth is negative.
This is what Freenet already provides with three different messaging systems and anonymously run indexes.
You could say that about both Pandora (radio is expected to have ads) and Mozilla's general Internet sampling frame (the Internet is expected to have ads), but they still find a large average harm.
The entire public health crusade against e-cigs reminds me of the anti-pot crusade in the 80s and 90s. Lots of decisions made by the government based on emotion instead of based on evidence.

In the 19-29 year old demographic, e-cig vaping is cannibalizing cigarette smoking. That's a net public health gain, since e-cigs have dramatically fewer carcinogens.