skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm doing it, and a few other libertarian type people. I agree with your statement though: we are a minority. Most who call themselves free market do not see how employer provided plans make things worse.
It's worth noting that tobacco contains harmala alkaloids [1] which are monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). So it's possible those who persist with smoking in place of vaping or other nicotine delivery mechanisms might be doing so because they're (unknowingly) self-medicating for depression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmala_alkaloid
If you like the irony, Der Spiegel is dissecting Karl May here:
http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/karl-mays-echte-orientreise...
Great. So we have now another meaning for FaaS (Functions as a Service vs. Firmware as a Service). I was slightly confused while reading that article until I noticed that they're talking about Firmware as a Service (whatever that even means).
While this is definitely a factor, I'd like to point out that there is a whole range of humiliating policies(like the fact that you may have to go without toilet paper for bad behaviour) that affects men and women alike, and then the fact that women can be just as bad towards other women too. I wouldn't be surprised if a woman administrator made the same decisions because degrading prisoners is considered a good thing in many places.
This is the first comment on the page that has something other than "more government regulation" as a solution. Just sayin'.
I've always believed that this was one of the primary motivations for Facebook separating Messenger out into its own app: it feels separate and therefore more private, without actually being either.

The content of a post with privacy controls restricted to just one other person is functionally the same as sending a message to that person on Messenger — only the UI is different. But, to the average person, it feels completely different because it looks like texting.
The best course of action for Go on this front, would be to expose operator overloading of numeric operators, combined with a community expectation that this isn't to be used for anything but numeric operations.

What would be the disadvantage of using a syntactic preprocessor to accomplish the same thing? We have an API for parsing golang. What if there was a way of marking certain files to be parsed and re-written with function calls? It could be done with a file suffix, and this could be made fairly convenient.
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Is that true? If so, I wasn't aware 3 strikes could happen all at once. I thought a strike was incurred at a given sentencing, which incorporates all the charges from a single crime.
And only have emergencies around there and don't lose consciousness! It's simple math people!
Farmwise Weeding Bots: The Future That Farmers Deserve
FWIW and insofar as I can recollect, JSON was supported by Postgres before Mongo was a thing, and Mongo was built based on Postgres.
I don't understand why people have them in their homes (just make a pot of coffee, folks!), but I do understand why they have been so incredibly successful in offices: they are clean & convenient, and don't require everyone to agree on the same coffee at the same time. Each person can brew a cup as he wants one, there are no grounds to clean up, and a cup of fresh-brewed Keurig coffee — while nowhere near as good as good coffee — is far better than urn coffee which has been simmering for three hours.

For offices, Keurig machines are a Godsend. For homes, though, I just don't get it.
Disclosure: I work at Microsoft on Azure, previously at Docker on the core engine.
Realistically, no airline is going to give you a price for transit to a destination. They don't know if there will be a terrorist attack or if the baggage handlers on the other end will jack up their rates.
seconded: Barista Express is fast and way better than Keurig. Compared to Nespresso, it's cheaper long run and you can use it for hot water (I'm going to try it as pour over b/c the convenient espresso is making me OD on caffeine).
Yes, moonlighters (the surgeon in that room) are expensive (to both you and the hospital). Why do you think that person wound up there?

Otherwise underpaid, overworked surgical residents leave either due to truly catastrophic burnout, mental illness, family emergency or pregnancy.

They are replaced by moonlighters, because the economics of the surgery are that the nurses and other unionized employees get mandatory breaks, so the seemingly 1-2 hour delay waiting for a different resident to be free balloons into a multi-staff scheduling fiasco. We could amortize all those costs into "surgery minutes" which are paid whether or not the literal room is in use or whatever.

It's a math problem if by saving surgery minutes, the hospital saves real economic money for itself, the patient or the state, so I'm not sure if that is or is not the case in your particular case.

What's interesting isn't that there's legislation one way or another, or that you feel like you got a raw deal. The legislation isn't going to change what it says it will, because it will still make sense to hire moonlighters. And motivated people like you will still somehow still wind up paying the cost.

The real test of your merit is whether or not you think in the grand scheme of things, this is fair. Are you frustrated that there may have been a pregnant resident, and that's why there's a moonlighter in the operating room?

What does justice look like there? Cut you a check for thousands of dollars? That never happens. Retribution on residents who might get pregnant? That's what happens.

Your situation is shitty. I know in most movies, books and the press, the doctor is usually the antagonist. We live in a world that resents their disproportionately immigrant backgrounds, disproportionately even gender balance compared to other professions, and most of all their pay, despite their hard work. How do you feel?
> In the United States, approximately 2/3 of healthcare costs are already borne by the government.

Less than half; US healthcare spending was around 8.5% GDP public, 8.8% GDP private in 2016.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
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These are pretty cool, it is a triode made out of vacuum fluorescent display tech.
He's literally just making a joke riffing on 1 Corinthians 13:11.
Hacker News landing page is excellent in that it gets me to the info/product immediately. I don't need to scroll though walls of text about Ycomb and endless stupid photos.[1] But for a first time visitor, there is a lot of "WTF?" because of no what/why being answered, which could be done in one sentence.

Craigslist's home page is excellent again because it gets you immediately into use, but it again fails miserably in the what/why question. [2] Just a single line saying "find stuff locally" is all it needs.

Example of a site that gets you into the product immediately and gives you a one liner that answers the what/why would be vqRN. [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/
[2] https://www.craigslist.org
[3] http://vqRN.com
Isn't there something like generally accepted accounting principles in healthcare ? Genuine question if anyone knows the answer.
>And yet, they did not implode the moment they breathed the rarified air of the Ivy League. Some struggled or dropped out, but a number of Landry students—particularly those who had spent more time in traditional schools—simply continued to advance.

This is quite interesting: completely average students who normally would have no chance of admission can handle ivy league educations. It does appear that exclusive universities are not selecting the smartest 18 year olds in the land but bestowing a title of permanent employment and business advantage on a select group of people of average intellect.
It seems like NYT was right on this one as FB themselves acknowledged that they gave 3rd party access to their users’ private messages (and apparently they still don’t see this as a big no-no ?!?). There are also quite privacy-aware users on this very website who say that they don’t remember being explicitly asked by FB about granting Spotify access to their private messages, and there’s also a link to an old screenshot from around 2013 showing that the FB confirmation screen was indeed very vague, there was no explicit mention of the user giving a 3rd party access to his/her private messages, just to his/her “data”, a very general term which is not generally correlated to private messages.

As such I’d say that articles like the one recently published by the NYT are spot on, and I also hope that FB will pay the price for what it has done (I’m personally in favor of a forced break-up).
But MongoDB is web scale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
What is "Firmware as a Service" ?

In my mind, firmware is the low-level software that's embedded in a device, and is both hard to change and unlikely to need to change, because it provides utility foundational to using your hardware. How do you turn that into a service?

Edit: apparently I can't read because it was right in there: "Firmware as a Service optimizes UEFI and other system firmware for timely quality patches that keep firmware up to date and enables efficient development of post-launch features." So basically, take the limitations I mentioned and get rid of them.
You've perfectly described Reddit.
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The bigger issue is that the vast majority of users aren't informed about what they're granting access to.

If they truly knew half of what these applications were doing with their "private" information, I can guarantee less than half would continue using it.
Two good reasons to not use YAML for this interactive example:

1. intermediate steps in YAML are often invalid documents (breaks the update on every key press)

2. you have to be trained to write YAML. It is quite easy to make a syntax mistake with YAML if you aren’t used to writing it. Not good for an interactive experience
> So they jack up everyone else’s bills

No. That’s the justification given so that people get angry at the wrong thing.

Hospitals charge this because they CAN. They are doing what businesses do and that is maximizing their profit.

Don’t get angry at the uninsured get angry at the politicians for enabling a broken system.
Finally! Now we just need to get 3rd party manufacturers on board.
We gloss over them because:

1. Your first point about "unproven cancer treatment" has an overly narrow focus on the edge of medical research. These cases are yes something that needs to be addressed, but they are far from the norm of normal medical care.

2. I've never heard anyone ask for anything free related to healthcare. There is very little truly free care in the US. The conversation here is about price transparency and what is considered reasonable.
The problem is that neither models work and both have shortcomings.

In the US model healthcare is a profit center which allow those who can afford to get help and those who can't various sub-optimal variations of help.

In the ex. Scandinavian model healthcare is a cost center and there is a set budget each year which the providers need to function within. This means that prioritization needs to happen and various illnesses and procedures are limited to x amount a year.

Healthcare is a wicked problem cause it's a good thing that it's a profit center in the sense that it provides budgets to do more research and it's a a bad thing because it makes it unreasonable expensive to to not have healthcare.

In the scandinavian model it's a good thing that everyone gets treated (more or less) the same but a bad thing that they don't have as much capital to work with invest in new machines and that there are budgets which limit how much the government will spend on various procedures.

Personally I would like the system to be so that you pay to get normal check-ups, there is no limit to how many doctors are allowed in different parts of the healtcare sector and no one goes bankrupt from getting seriously ill.

That would at least help with some sort of a balance I think.

Of course the problem is that the US is such a big country with huge immigration and scandinavian countries arent so it's always hard to compare.
Well, the only leverage he has is creating bad social media PR, and it seems to be working pretty well.
Maybe I'm misreading what you wrote, but how do you societally accept a vice while at the same time stigmatizing it?
You're going to need some supporting arguments if you're actually trying to say that every document database is not worth using.
The informatics dysfunction on this graph is just off the charts.

Here's the problem. The graph is designed to make your conclusion sound right, but it doesn't actually prove that.

Let's look at what the numbers really say:

For the sample data, and the best case, gzip gets you a file that's about 31% of the original size. zstandard can get you a file that is 25% of the original size but it will take you four times as long to get it. If you allow it the same time as gzip, you can get 27% compression instead of 31%. That's only 13% improvement on the wire.

That's nice, but it's not impressive at all. It's not a good enough reason to change your stack. The only thing that is impressive is that if you want the same compression ratio as gzip you can do it up to 20 times faster. On some hardware that's totally worth it, but not on all (because who is streaming at 700 MBps?)
Buy insurance that has good coverage for the places you are likely to be. Why is that a problem?
Nice, good find. That doesn't give permission to read (or even generate) private messages, unless you interpret "my data" to mean something in the last bullet point that's much broader than the three above.
It is in the Kuiper belt. It hasn’t cleared it’s neighborhood. (But then the definition of “planet” you are referencing is utterly uselesss and misapplied already anyway.)
When did police stop trying to catch robbers? It's usually just a few serial robbers terrorizing a neighborhood. The few times they catch someone they stop like 50% of the crime in the area. I remember one time they did a bait bike program and rounded up a ring that was stealing hundreds of bikes. But they see one little robbery and go meh!
Both brotli and zstd support user-provided dictionaries, which helps with compressing files which contain items from the dictionary. This is particularly helpful for small files. Zstd is both faster and more effective at compressing.
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> But, there's nothing to say that the upstream distro would accept the changes

If upstream didn't accept it, then it shouldn't be masquerading as what upstream is... which is what changing `FROM $image` to point to Google's image does.

> and you're choosing to follow those requirements

From what I gathered from the article, Google is changing the meaning of `FROM $image` to mean Google's build of the image. There is no choice in the matter outside of using Google's services.

Disclosure (and sorry for not mentioning in the original comment, I've updated): I work at Microsoft on Azure, and formerly at Docker on the core engine.
They compare pretty closely. The squash benchmark is a nice interactive comparison tool that usually agrees with my own benchmarks. See for example [1]. (Note that you should experiment with different input texts to get a sense for the variability in relative performance.)

I am working on that very question! Zstd's support for creating and using custom dictionaries opens the door to significant efficiencies. As described in the post though, dictionaries make compression a more complicated thing to use, and so there are lots of questions about how to apply that to the public internet in a way that's cross-compatible and secure. In short: it's something we're actively exploring.

[1] http://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/unstable/?dataset=e...
My browser loaded that website with a header:
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br ("br" means Brotli by Google)

The response had a header:
content-encoding: gzip

Zstandard looks like an improvement of DEFLATE (= gzip = zlib) and its specification is only 3x longer (even though it is introduced 22 years later): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8478

Since Zstandard is so simple and efficient, I thought it would get into browsers very quickly. Then, it could make sense to compress even PNG or JPG images, which are usually impossible to compress with DEFLATE.
A terrorist attack is an extremely low frequency event to the point is being nearly non-existent. The same cannot be said of birth complications. Baggage handler rates don't change on a dime. Labor rates do affect ticket prices, but they're drastically more predictable.
any idea how is it in NZ ?
Which formed.... how?

The Hawking radiation for such a thing would be VERY visible though, so no that’s not an option.
> Did Jack Ma say anything about that?

The statements quoted in the article are an oblique way of saying something about that.
This comes of pretty judge-y. Take a moment to consider all the waste you also produce each day.

Not to mention you're making the problem worse by making people defensive about their decisions, which just makes them go deeper and be unwilling to compromise. Try to solve the problem instead grand-standing.
Well, did she move there before or after the pot farm?

I live out in the country and this issue comes up over and over. People from the suburbs/city decide they want what they think is a peaceful, bucolic country life and move to a rural area without learning enough about the area they're moving to.

And then they find out the farm next door has constant loud machinery noise when planting or harvest time comes. Or when the wind shifts, you're gagging because of the smell from the hog lagoon or dairy farm down the road. The farmers have been there, doing their thing for decades, and they're not about to stop just because someone moved in and can't deal with the reality of living near a farm.

Hell, we used to have a neighbor who complained about horses pooping on the road. Still don't know if she expected us to put diapers on them.
This is horrible advice. Do not agree to pay a penny of that fraudulent bill. If you didn't agree to the service, you should not be liable to pay.

Call the hospital and demand it be removed from your bill. That's what others[1] (including myself) have done and the fraudulent charge was eventually removed.

The absurd part is that you would even need to do this. How many people don't understand you can fight healthcare charges and get them removed? How many have the free time that it takes to call the billing department over and over?

The whole health insurance system is trash and needs to be replaced.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719725
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>but peak efficient power is at low rpm (generally between 1000 and 2000 rpm).

I've yet to find a car engine that has an efficiency peak between 1k and 2k rpm. The Skyactiv Mazda engine gets closest [0]. But most engines seem to have peak BSFC efficiency below their torque peak. [1]

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Base-20L-Mazda-SkyActiv-...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=bsfc+maps&safe=strict&source...:
It's actually not true, and that's what makes the lack of these protections so terrible.

It's women, who wrote guidelines about how to treat women, and came up with guidelines worse than guidelines that a bunch of old stodgy men in congress came up with yesterday.

That's a real problem. And it's a problem that we need to try to solve in "Second Step".

I mean, why even have female administrators and wardens putting this stuff together, if they are just going to get their cushy jobs and sit there and try to out "man" the men? The entire reason you're there is to supposedly bring a different sensibility.

What's unstated in placing those requirements in this bill, is how much of a dismal failure our hiring programs have been in bringing in people, (men OR women), with different sensibilities. Whether they are male or female, black, white, asian, or hispanic, these positions seem to attract the same sort of people. People who look at the way things are done, and don't see any problem with it.

We need to start looking past identity politics and start seeing that issue.
They have a truckload of great themes that are free and usable on the free plan.

It's true that plugins are not available except on the business plan, however the most common plugins are already embedded out of the box, you don't have to set them up. It's a great experience as far as not having to manage wordpress. An apprentice blogger absolutely does NOT need any additional plugin.

The pricing is both insane and cheap. I looked into upgrading and alternatives after my blog had above 100k visitors and almost 1 TB of traffic in a month. Believe it or not, there was nothing else cheaper.
BRT would actually be amazingly useful in Chicago because a massive number of people commute to central business district (The Loop).

Chicago owned all of the land used for the Loop link and it still cost $41 million, and has little of the benefits of actual BRT.

People here get incredibly upset when any road diet is discussed. Our politicians rarely ride public transit, and laws and engineering guidelines prevent projects which would reduce the volume of traffic carried. It's absurd.
In context, "my data" means "the data referred to in the above three bullet points".

Otherwise, this of the same type (though not magnitude) of thing as "Spotify may induct my firstborn into a satanic cult."
And at the same time creating a side channel that can be interposed on so that malware can be loaded right into the flash on the mother board :-)

Seriously though, being "hard to change" on some parts of the system can be a feature.
> If we can find a way to bring market forces to bear

I think the problem (also outlined in other comments) is that there are no market forces in the US health services market. There is no pressure to provide less expensive services, no pressure to reorganize, and no reason not to do what is being done now: build a non-transparent system where people get charged arbitrary amounts and prices are not known beforehand.
Given their employers, one would hope that they get good editorial support though!
Or as an alternative one can use a generator, they are built for that purpose AND are supported by a wide range of other JS constructs without any need to create iterators manually and all that.

function * getNext(){
let i = 2;
while(true){
i = i * 2;
yield i;
}
}

Here, no closure needed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
At the moment, Brotli doesn't accept a user-provided dictionary. I know they're working to re-introduce that functionality, but it's not currently present.
it's not just that large numbers of projects are a hassle, they make it harder to develop projects in isolation
Solutions have been seriously discussed by real socialist politicians for years. Problem will start seeing actual solutions when people start massively voting for them.

Current stage of capitalism is strictly incompatible with sustainable development. It's the root cause, it's almost never discussed here.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/16/the-elephant-in-the-...