skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MLB teams generally play three-game series, so for scheduling purposes you have approximately 162/3 = 54 "games".
Nope. I would argue that most parents want that because the economic system we live in compels them to.
>"Taxing the rich isn't about generating revenue to make something. It's a reallocation mechanism for dollars that already exist in the economy to things that we want as a body of people."

Ok, well here is a department of the government I am familiar with admitting they waste $25-30 billion every year (imo that is an underestimate, but they definitely waste over 50% of their funding on worthless stuff):
https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2016/07_01_2016/story3...

So why not reallocate that to whatever this climate project is? And I'm sure there is similar massive waste in other departments too. If 87.5% is representative that is $3.5 trillion per year to be used.

I mean no one actually wants to waste ~$30 billion a year on worthless medical research, right?
IIRC the _effective_ tax rates that the top 1% pay haven’t really varied much over the past half a century.. it’s always hovered around 30-40%: https://files.taxfoundation.org/20170804133536/Average-Effec...

Note I just grabbed the first google result, may be inaccurate / biased
I agree, but they’re going to try and innovate their way out of that. Which might even be possible, but not cheaply and quickly, which is my main beef with them.
This is simply multiple Euclidian regions stiched together by portals. Seems very limited compared to actual non-Euclidian renderers like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pmSPlYHxoY
>"The US GDP was $17.5 trillion last year. I don't think you're looking at the right numbers."

I don't follow. Why do you think GDP is the "right number" instead of tax revenue?
When I carefully read my records, I saw a bunch of random errors. I asked my PCP and surgeon how that happened; they said “probably transcription errors”

I don’t have a lot of faith in the quality of the records
Actually Apple uses Java/Scala a lot, and some of the core contributors to Netty are Apple devs.
How would you monetize?
I meant outpatient visit. My PCP is in the main campus of the hospital, and I wasn’t being rigorous with the terminology.

I’m using the CPT codes within the site I linked to. 99211–99215 are the codes that correlate to acuity, with 99215 being the most acute. I am aware of other systems like level 1 vs level 2 trauma centers. In that case, yes the level 1 is higher acuity. Maybe that’s what you were thinking of?
> In the US you're legally entitled to your medical records too but every time I've done it the response is always defensive, ie "why do you need them"

Whenever I've been asked, I just say "I want them for my files," and I've had no problems.

Sometimes questions like that could actually be an attempt to be helpful. For instance to send along only the needed records rather than a fat file full of extraneous info or save the patient the trouble of being a middleman between two doctors.
Most likely scenario is that they either outright fail and fold, or they “succeed” but only by mid-2030s and after at least one bankruptcy. This is a terrible investment.
We talked about running a Pelias geocoder AMI back at Mapzen, and it still might make sense today. I'd be really interested to hear how it works out for you.

My personal feeling is that developers are irrationally averse to paying for someone else to set up and reliably run software for them, but that it's usually a massively good deal to pay for that service.

Even a simple software project that takes an hour a month to keep running is well worth most companies paying $100/month to not have to worry about, for example.
I can't find the sources now, but based on what what I have been told the workers at the Danish beer producer Carlsberg were, per union agreement, to be paid a certain number of beers (4?) per day, up until the 1990ish.

Before there were any special taxes on liquer in Denmark, it wasn't uncommon to buy a bottle before work, and finish it through the day (this would be just after the Victorian age, so those workers probably needed) and of course the Gin Wagons in the UK are legendary for a reason.
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I've find apps through the App Store app and the web, or magazines etc. Even word of mouth. That's pretty common. You're taken through the App Store at some point to download the app though.
But aren't those structural problems directly caused by the way we fund the system?
My dad drank heavily while he was in the army. He swore off alcohol when I was seven, but I never saw him drink to alcoholic levels.

I think he drank to suppress the nightmares from serving in the front lines of two wars. I think he began tapering off when he left the army when I was three. I think he did so with no conscious plan. He just didn't need as much alcohol to push away his personal demons so he could sleep and he probably just naturally reduced it over time without really thinking about it.

I've got a serious medical condition. I used to take a lot of prescription medication. I've gotten off all the drugs. It's really normal for me to stop doing X slowly over time and not really notice it until later. It's common for me to only really notice a change precisely because I talk a lot about my medical stuff with my adult sons, so we periodically go over "Oh, yeah, you used to do X, Y and Z and you don't anymore."

I also spoke once with someone who had a lot of shame surrounding a DUI on their record. One of the stories they told me: They had surgery for something and when the doctors opened them up, they found one of the organs necrotic. This was unexpected and they expressed surprise that this individual was still alive. They removed the organ in the process of doing this other surgery. The individual quit drinking after that, but still saw themselves as a bad person and an alcoholic rather than someone who was managing a terrible and life threatening medical condition with alcohol until surgery happened to resolve it.

I'm convinced that this type of thing is much more common than is generally recognized.
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Didn't work so well for California.
>Will they be penalized? Was Equifax ever penalized?

No and no.

Our Federal government is beholden to special interests, so no real legislation or regulation addressing this issue will ever occur. If Equifax (a brace of our economy) didn't receive the death penalty for what they were responsible for, nothing will occur to any future company.
What do you mean by long-term survival? These modified tobacco plants have been grown in outdoor agricultural conditions for (I believe) multiple generations. Do you worry something is being left in the soil?
I've seen several people accept it as the preferred method.
I may be mis-remembering, but wasn't an argument from Tesla that LIDAR would actually be a disadvantage?

LIDAR has a lot more "false positives" if I remember correctly, and a lot of the work is going toward filtering LIDAR data and cleaning it up in cars that use it. I could see not wanting to spend the time and effort in trying to tame something like that when they have something working pretty well right now with different kinds of sensors.
Exemption for being allowed to store them is arguable, but they could still be prosecuted under data protection.
I dissagree. If I have some sensitive medical history and I go in for stitches or some other minor thing with an random doctor I might not want to share all my medical history. It’s my history and I should have the right to control who sees it.
No scam, I know Blake and they’ve been in Colorado building for years. It might not make it, but it won’t be for lack of trying or integrity.
Thats not conspicious given how old the info in this leak is
> most alcoholics get better on their own.

These statements and studies show how little the average person, even a doctor, understands about alcoholics. Anyone who's attended an AA meeting or worked with alcoholics can easily tell you what's so crazy about these types of studies:

AA is full of people who, by definition, cannot quit on their own. Other than some court-ordered cases, every single person in AA has already tried and failed to quit on their own. It's a nonsense comparison.

You are comparing a group of people who have never tried quitting before, with those who have already spent years failing to quit on their own. Of course the first group does better! The second group is filled with more serious conditions. If they were able to quit on their own they would have never tried AA.
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Can those sensors recognize traffic lights?
Remember also that the vast majority of logistical challenges with climate change aren't developing new products, but handling coordination problems around deploying existing ones.

Yes, that was exactly my point. There simply aren't enough people making electric cars, heat pumps, and all those other new products, to eliminate fossil fuel dependence by 2030, which was what AOC was advocating. Diverting enough resources would be disastrous to other industries, and then once we've made the huge investment to build all that, we suddenly don't need the capacity once we hit the goal. It's economic suicide.

Emergent properties of human behavior responding to incentives would take care of the rest.

You're outlining programs that would push us in the right direction, which is good. These are not things which will eliminate fossil fuel dependence by 2030, which is what AOC was shooting for, and which I'm criticizing.
Your first part is fair, and your second part has actual data. I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

There might be some kind of gaussian distribution on good ideas, though. The more radical an idea, the lower probability that it's correct. It's still not zero, and the idea should be judged on the merits. But the further out the idea is, the more radical it is, it seems reasonable to say that the level of skepticism should go up.
Understood. Wishing you an afternoon and the support needed soon.

Also really glad you have found relief with microdosing!
That would be a clever slippery slope, but for Bolling v. Sharpe.
I was referring more to the privacy implications of having the government have your DNA on file.

Faking DNA; well for that it would depend on how the test was administered. A cheek swab would be reasonably easy to fool, a blood draw less so if administered carefully. This is all assuming no corruption or anything; DNA tests contain no cryptographically attestable proof of match.

Any who knows, with DNA based therapies you might find yourself unable to pass a DNA test for yourself in the future.
No, I assumed the rebar is orientated as the 'strong rope'.

If the rebar were positioned as you say, they would yield/bend quite easily.
> Last I checked insurance companies gave a discount for AP Tesla’s over non AP Tesla’s suggesting the opposite. Do you some support backing this up?

That's all marketing fluff.

The only U.S. insurance company offering such a discount is some random startup insurance company available to only a small percent of the population. The company is about 2 years old, requires significant tracking of your driving behavior, and it's entirely unclear why they are offering the discount.

The only UK insurance company offering such a discount said “it was too early to say whether the use of the autopilot system produced a safety record that justified lower premiums. It said it was charging less to encourage use of the system and aid research.” It made this decision working closely together with Tesla, it wasn't based on any actuarial data.
In all fairness I'd be hesitant to live in Singapore on account of its high cost of living and poor work-life balance. However, there is a method to the madness as far as the legal system goes, which makes it tame to visit compare with other large cities in SE Asia or even western europe.
I actually think supersonic is the opposite of the direction to take air travel. The current speed of 500mph is already incredibly fast given the size of the planet. Even 200mph is sufficient.

The real problem is comfort. Planes are incredibly uncomfortable, even if you pay thousands of upgraded seating. I'd rather flights take 2-4x as long but be 10-20x more comfortable.

I'd like to see true innovation, using high-speed blimps or massive ocean-going ground effect airplanes, hovercraft, or something.

I'd rather take 1 day "air cruise" to Europe than a 4 hour hair-raising rollercoaster ride.
The reason healthcare costs so much is that the feedback loop between the service recipients, providers, and payees (the largest of which is the Government which multiplies the mismanagement) is so perverse.
How do you post a photo on instagram in a web browser? I thought that was reserved for the app.
Yes, most definitely did. And it's hard to go back to his works once you're not a teenager anymore. Which doesn't mean he wasn't great in his way.
Going from 8-bit sRGB channels to 32-bit IEEE float channels is a simple lookup in a table with 256 values.

Going the other way is only slightly harder. Scale to the range 0 ... 4095, properly round the float to an integer, verify the range or mask with 0xfff to protect against NaN and Inf, and then to a table lookup in a table with 4096 values.

Tux Paint contains GPL code for it. It's been there for more than a decade. All you GIMP and Photoshop users having trouble with this should have been using Tux Paint. :-)
It’s interesting that the author seems keen to discuss the concept of psychoacoustic encoding only to dedicate much of the article to looking at waveforms and making condemnations based on looking at those waveforms. Which misses the point entirely.

This is a somewhat older article, but most lossy encoders at the time were still very good even at fairly low (sub-96 kbps) bit rates.
Did this thing interact with Chris Hadfield's recording of "Space Oddity"? I remember him telling it was a nightmare of law to actually do proper licensing and that basically it just stayed online because Bowie liked it.
All browsers on iOS are essentially wrappers for Safari. They all have to use the built-in iOS WebView; per Apple's rules you're not allowed to execute JS or anything like that on your own.
The challenge most people have with using Linux AIO is that it is an "all or nothing" proposition, you can't sprinkle a little of it onto some existing code and get a good result.

Using Linux AIO well entails writing a complete disk I/O implementation stack including your own disk cache infrastructure, I/O scheduler, etc with a high degree of technical competency and APIs to match. If you actually do all of this, Linux AIO is powerful and pleasant to use for high-performance disk access, if somewhat poorly documented. It works even better with raw block devices instead of files in filesystems -- you can pin some of its quirks on annoying filesystem behavior.
And yet, the altered state in a therapeutic setting is the thing that helps.
You're saying that's why there's not many?
The timing can also play into it (not sure if by 'plan' you mean down to the hour as well). https://i.imgur.com/1IyKjSg.jpg

As I get older, my tolerance has lowered. I used to be able to handle a Starbucks 'tall' cup, but now I can only drink two espressos at most, if spaced out by two hours or so. If I go over my limit, it's 7-9 hours of lying still in a dark room with a migraine-like headache.

For more on cortisol and caffeine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/01/05/why-th...

Chronopharmocology and caffeine:
http://neurosciencedc.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-best-time-for...
Poor documentation is a strategy, and if it's poor enough you can run your own university/camp. A large complicated codebase is another strategy.

Edit: Strangely enough, I don't know anyone who did this on purpose.
No, I don't think that's even partially true. Medicare also overpays for care and responds to the same structural wackiness the rest of us deal with. Medicare has lower administration costs, but those costs are still higher than administration elsewhere in the world, and administration is not actually where most of our dollars go.
"trophy hunting, which The Rock surely isn't aligned with"

I'll bet $1000 that the real Dwayne Johnson doesn't care that much, as most people don't care or think about it that much.

'The Rock' and everything you've ever seen about him is a performance.
The reason I like her is that she is passionate for a lot of the values I am pasaionate for. It's like with an engineer, you get the right person then you can always train them on the job if they need to learn things. I was very naive when I started as an engineer and everything turned out okay, it's not like she is the president or even a senator.
Fusion months away- how much is that in dog years?
Hmm. When you put it that way, I seem to recall a certain President Clinton doing something similar, and he was a pretty shrewd politician. Even if you don't scare the top earners into going along, you at least challenge the default of leaving things as they are, and you challenge it in the direction you (the politician) want to go.
Given the current emissions of air travel I find fairly repulsive to spend that much money designing a new airplane going completely in the wrong direction in terms of fuel efficiency. There is no way ( regardless of altitude, unless you’re going in LEO ) to avoid the huge drag losses of going supersonic, so most of that ticket price is going to go towards fuel.

If this ever flies and there is a kerosene carbon tax, that plane is dead.
I work in games and it's fascinating reading people tear down either our design, network protocols or protection mechanisms. It's really interesting how people reason about those things in absence of source information :-)
I carry all 3 (iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, Surface Pro) with me (work reasons), but the Surface hardly gets used as it is inferior to the iPad as a tablet and as a computer to the MacBook. I'm interested in moving to VDI based on the iPad when roaming, but I want to move to the 12" first since my Horizon View desktop feels a bit tight on the smaller one.
Why ed over ex?
I know it's not open... but I personally really like Teams, especially if you use some of the integrations, wiki and files.
Many thanks for the book reference, I wasn't aware of it.
I have gathered this product from wild-growing stands.
How does this chart address the question of how we should fund our health care system? The problem is how much we're paying, not whether we pay for it in payroll taxes or out of pocket.
It's somewhat out of date, but I found this ~hour long podcast interview with the founder and CEO of Boom from August 2017 really informative: http://www.airplanegeeks.com/2017/08/02/463-boom-supersonic/

It goes into some of the technical and regulatory hurdles Boom is facing, among other things.
Isn't Twitter really for link sharing?
Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at airports
Amen. Twitter[1] and Starbucks[2] have both built gorgeous PWAs in the last couple of years that are perfect replacements for 98% of a native app's functionality. It can be done, people!

1. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-sourc...

2. https://twitter.com/davidbrunelle/status/905931990444244995
There's an extremely instructive lesson for programmers in the success and persistence of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's still around because:

* It's free
* It's decentralized
* It works

Is it the absolute best and most efficient method for treating addiction? Maybe not, but unless you have another method that works, which also does 1 and 2, it probably won't become as pervasive and long-lasting as AA.

How does this apply to programmers? Look at every dumb project that ever tried to "disrupt" email. That's a field littered with dead bodies. Email survives. Why? See above.
The AA steps were constructed in a culturally-Christian environment

I've read the origin story. It was constructed by a group of people who had been terrible, hard core alcoholics for decades who had failed all efforts to get off the alcohol and were still drinking even though it was literally killing them. "Giving it up to God" helped these folks get sober when nothing else had.

Now, we call every college kid who goes on a bender an alcoholic, blame every personal problem they have on the alcohol and refer them to AA. Reality: Most people naturally drink less over time without any intervention whatsoever. Generally speaking, young people drink a lot more than old people, and not because all young people go to AA and get "cured."

One guy explained it thusly: "When I was young, it felt great to get drunk. I had fun for hours and then the hangover wasn't too bad. Now, I get a short term pleasant feeling, followed by a terrible hangover. It's just not fun like it used to be. It's simply not worth it anymore."
I have zero doubt that legislation for this session is pretty much already complete. Sure, there'll be things that come up during the session, but legislators already have their priorities set going in, and it'd be silly not to have the work already done and have the bills ready to go.
But did that government agency do the right thing?

It seems more like a waste of public resources to take down links to encrypted files on a distributed file system? The nodes dont even know what theyre hosting and the cataloger to the pointers has pure discretion
You didn't mention tax revenue in your comment either. My point was you need to look at capital gains and business taxes to get an idea of how much money there is available. Wealth is not relevant and personal income is not the whole picture.
> But how are you removing a asset from circulation? Like I asserted in my original post when you are not using money, somebody else is -- unless you are actually putting your cash in a vault.

The original article - what we're actually discussing - chooses the example of buying and selling with cash through a window, and worries that actually putting the cash into circulation at all might create inflation. The example is carefully constructed to avoid anything being done with the money except buy and sell goods, and the act of withdrawing the grain from circulation is likewise celebrated as value creation. It's pure internet-Austrianism.

As for the real world, the ability of real world banks operating in a fractional reserve system to lend to boatbuilders is not constrained in any meaningful sense at the margin by speculators' willingness to deposit with them, whereas boatbuilders' willingness to pay staff and suppliers is entirely dependent on whether people who have accumulated wealth buy boats. So the causality works the same way: consumption, deferred or otherwise, is the necessary element for growth. And if people who've made a bunch of money off speculation want to really improve the world, they'll want their money invested somewhere more actively than a bank or spent.
Not as good as a layout as WU was, but I'll take it :)
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This doesnt prevent trusted people from doing stupid things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534392

We need to trust the code not the programmer
That's what might happen if you allow Marriott to dictate the terms... not the other way around.