skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one form of escape. But it's not necessarily meaningful to everyone. Many people have become jaded because all the beautiful sights have been turned into /r/EarthPorn posts or Netflix documentaries they've seen over and over.

As Orson Welles said, (paraphrased), "Now people only watch Shakespeare plays in order to hear the quotations."

Sure, many people still enjoy replicating existing postcard pictures and posting them to their Instagram/Facebook.

But those experiences are fairly limited compared to what's available if you look at VR's potential — meaningful shared experiences across unlimited varied universes and identities. To be fair, that argument could be made about gaming. But I think gaming and VR are on a pretty obvious collision course.
Without getting into the details of how admin law works, let's just say arbitrary and capricious behaviour - the hallmark of tyrants - is the big bad that administrative law aims to battle against.

Then there is hope.
They all may have excellent C compatibility, but this is not the point. The point is that without C compatibility C++ could be smaller and simpler, and yet still meeting the same goals and covering the same use cases. Objective C has Smalltalkish object system glued to C base. Fundamental C++ techniques like RAII not possible there. D has GC. C# runs in a VM. I would not call a language with any of those features very similar to C++.

OTOH if not for C compatibility we would not have this discussion, since we would most likely never heard of C++.
We call it "4G LTE" instead of just "4G" ... because T-Mobile and AT&T labeled 3G HSPA+ as "4G" ... because Sprint's WiMAX was a fourth-generation technology but wasn't very good, so it was slower than decent 3G.

Similarly, when 5G is first available, it won't be very good, and really good 4G LTE will actually be faster. So AT&T is pre-emptively calling good 4G "5G".

It sure would be nice if consumers would understand that "5G" is not always better than "4G", it's just different, and one day will probably be better, but not today, not even this year. But marketing won't risk it, they'll just re-number and re-name, and make sure everyone is properly confused.
But R&D isn't included in the OECD health spending database as far as I can tell.

http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm
I don’t understand people’s fascination with this. The MacBook is more powerful and basically the same size with a keyboard.
You don't have to pay dividends, you can just do a stock repurchase.

Regarding investor preferences, they only want the money spent if it gives them a positive NPV. Pharma companies are already paying dividends, which means they have funds in excess of their NPV>0 projects, which is why they return them to shareholders.

Hell, half of the shareholder activism literature and the policy payout literature is about CEOs overinvesting and doing empire-building instead of returning the money to shareholders..
But it isn't a complement either. This is a classic loss leader.
A free market would have patients and physicians reaching a supply/demand equilibrium, with facilitating brokers taking a small cut.

In the US, patients go bankrupt and physicians go bankrupt — money flows to the parasites who set prices: administrators and insurers.
> The pharma industry seems to run at a very healthy profit margin compared to most other industries.

But not compared to other high risk, capital intensive industries, i.e. tech.
Probably more of an FTC issue. This is about marketing and advertising, not a technology.
Running a Javascript benchmark and not even specifying which browser was used is not a great way to compare CPUs. It's also entirely single threaded.

Geekbench for example puts the A12 about 15% above the 8650U in single threaded performance and 9% below it in multithreaded performance. I would say that is pretty close to U-series performance.

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/2064

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/55
It’s the children of the winners of the meritocracy being crammed into enriching activities on the false premise that it will help their children in the tournament for their generation in both cases.
careful.

so are you saying that a $5MM procedure to save a lazy ne'er do well homeless person from some exotic condition, whereupon their release from the hospital will go back to being homeless and is likely to die of some "ordinary" disease, is a basic human right?

where is the line between what level of health care is a right and what level is not? i'll note there is no such thing as a life-saving procedure. even trauma interventions are just deferral of death.

don't get me wrong, i don't have an answer myself. i'm just trying to understand your position in better detail. we are all here due to the compassion of many, many others, most of which are unrecognized.

but a right? how can it be a right when health care as we know it today didn't even exist 100 years ago?

and healthcare isn't free. someone pays for it, and as we are divided into nations, it's the citizens of a given nation that have done the paying. i do believe illegal immigrants should get better treatment, possibly including healthcare. After all, they are (contrary to those who need someone to blame for their woes) doing us a desired service. so yeah, there's a grey area on healthcare. but, a right?
Cool, immediately downgraded to free account. Any chance of refunds for the last 6 months I was forced to pay?
Toyota Lifts the Veil on Its Guardian Driver-Assist System
Conversational AI: What to expect in 2019
> Respectfully, enough with this free market garbage.

Kenneth Arrow pretty much proved in 1963 that 'the free market' doesn't work for healthcare. Nothing since has produced a shred of evidence that he was wrong.
this is such an underemphasized point, and it completely undermines dumb "free market" solutions. a lot of people in america have been fooled, plain and simple.
I’ve just switched to new MacBook Air (after feeling the same way for the past few years).

Use case is typical Rails dev work, react front end, databases, docker etc.

I was worried going from a 12 core Mac Pro, to the dual core MBA, but so far I haven’t noticed any difference except for those things that are faster now.

The keyboard isn’t as good as the 2015 MBP, but is far better than the previous butterfly. I don’t mind typing on it at all.

Great battery life too.

I think the new MBA might actually be the first decent apple laptop for devs in a few years.
Quite a lot of the undocumented immigrants in California are themselves California tax payers.
following this logic, we shouldn't get salary from our daily work. Everyone is working for the country, and the country would take care you everything, education, healthcare, housing etc. Yes, this is called communism. And China has tried that in 1950s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward), which is even better, that you don't even need to cook for yourself, as the community would provide a public cafe for free. But it proved that's not working.
100% agreed. By far the stupidest platform of the left. If illegals hear this, then more and more of them will come to California from other countries and especially other states. We pay $10k a year per illegal kid already which has deeply burdened our schools. We currently already pay for illegal kids healthcare completely because they are covered under medi-cal and we have emergency health care for those who urgently need it covered. We also fund clinics for illegals. I think that is more than fair and I do agree with this, but the new proposals go way too far.

That money could be spent on infrastructure, climate change, less of a tax burden, elimination of regressive taxes, more subsidized housing etc. The most disgusting thing about this is my cousin is disabled and I went with his family to an informational hearing and almost every disabled person there was borderline homeless. Living in their cars, sharing 1 room with 3 people etc. because the state only gives $700 a month if you were born disabled. All the low income houses are taken, so it’s make it on your own. I did more digging and found organizations in SF that help illegals get free housing and they do this if their kids are citizens. Since citizen kids are a priority, organizations help their families get a house and they stay there for 18 years. My disabled cousin whose parents have likely paid over a million in taxes gets left out in the cold while these people get this. He at least has family support, what about all the disabled and poor seniors who have no voice, no platform, no ability to fight for themselves. This is the one topic where I lose nuance and my blood boils. I greatly disagree with illegal immigration and especially providing benefits over the current medical for emergencies and for kids under 18.
The linked page "Best Planar Magnetic Headphones"[0] gives a list and quick reviews of top models in case you're (as I was) not aware of who makes these.

[0] https://www.arkartech.net/blogs/article/best-planar-magnetic...
Respectfully; you believe in magic.
I believe the grandparent asked those questions rhetorically.
In the US, the most heavily regulated industries are health care and education. They have the highest prices.

The least regulated industry is software, with the lowest prices (most software is literally free).
I never said that this language would be simple. Just simpler than C++ we know.
Some providers actually have policies that prohibit giving out any pricing information.

There are so many reasons why healthcare isn’t close to a free market. Here are a few:

1. All medical residents receive their salaries from Medicare.

2. It is illegal not to treat people who go to the emergency room. This actually makes the whole system socialized in some ways in that there is a guaranteed way to get healthcare without having to pay for it. It’s literally the worst way to socialize medicine though (what with preventive medicine being cheaper).

3. Within the industry itself their are drug pricing cartels, lab monopolies and facility provider splits that even some hospital administrators don’t understand. You mentioned shopping around for lab results, but I think there is only one option in a lot of states.

Forget single payer socialize the whole thing (it already is in the most expensive, stupid way).
> what part of the rest of the pizza-making process can you do better than the restaurant?

A determined home pizzaiolo can make a perfectly decent pizza. But you are right about the temperature. Household ovens simply can't reach the temperatures used in a proper pizza oven, about 700F.

I have had success with heating a large cast iron pan on the stove top to ~700F, dropping the dough in that, adding toppings when it's ready and then finishing it in a broiler or well preheated oven. These guys show how it's done, without words, better than I can describe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAW2GseICs It is pretty damn good technique. They're using 00 flour, high protein (available at Italian markets in any big city).

One thing you can do at home better than the pizza shop, however, is to use crazy good artisinal toppings, dialed in exactly how you like it.
How do you know that's causal or even correlated in a meaningful way?

As it happens, pool drownings correlate with Nic Cage film releases - https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1082063513961533440
Depending on what you use logic for, check out ferrite on ipad.

If you do music production, hennythabizness has some good videos on youtube about how me makes all his music on ipad. Jonathan Morrison did a couple of great features on him:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dItCj676GmA

This second link is a more in depth video on how henny and ken lewis made a beat. I really want the song they made....

https://youtu.be/ZxvliLODkxI
The Scott Summers model?
You might have a fair point. I am, however, empirically convinced (but have no data) that the examples you are quoting are a very small portion of their respective professional market population, whereas, always empirically, I'd say that the amount of software professionals who willingly choose to be underpaid purely because of their attraction to some kind of work is much much higher, probably in the 30%+.
Is there an open recipe format? There really should be, if you think about it, a recipe is basically a program: pragmatic, universally interpretable and should produce identical output (provided similar input and execution...)

Would set us up nicely for automated chefs :)
That's a distinction without a difference, since (as you mentioned) iOS is set up to discourage third-party distribution at every turn.
> if you had a computer and Internet

Thats a lot of hand waving for something that wasn't trivial at all in the 60s and 70s.
>So they're public fora when someone wants to criticize a politician, but private companies with no duty to allow people to say unpopular things when the company wants to kick them off the platform...

I don't think you read the article.

The POLITICIAN can't block people who complain. The COMPANY, or you, or even I...

we can block whoever we want.

This makes total sense. The government is not allowed to do that, the government is not supposed to be able to impinge on the right to freedom of speech, expression, or association.
> Are there any measures of how America does compared to Europe if you only count Americans that have good health insurance?

Anecdotally, I'd say they do crap.

Friends outside LA are upper-middle class. Extremely good health insurance for the last 20+ years. Had a baby, emergency C-section. Less than 12 hours later they were told they must move hospital or else pay the $60,000 per day out of pocket because their insurance wouldn't cover it anymore. They had to drive themselves, in their own car, less than 12 hours after an emergency C-Section, with the infant.

Of of this after paying through the nose for 20+ years for excellent health insurance.

As an Australia/Canadian this is barbaric, and utterly unacceptable.
I'm trying to understand what "cashing out" would look like in an attack like this. One option would be to send coins to an exchange as you mentioned, and I presume cash them out before publishing your longer chain.

However, after the attack wouldn't it be easy to compare both chains and see which coins were double spent? Wouldn't you obviously be the perpetrator, having both double spent, as well as having cashed out a large amount of money? Or is the idea that you'd be able to cash out to a bank account not tied to your real identity?
while it is probably true that US healthcare is subsidizing drug discovery (perks of being the strongest economy), there still seems to be an asymmetry in the US. E.g You spend 6-8 times more in administrative costs and about 2 times more in drugs:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26746...

Administrative costs of care (activities relating to planning, regulating, and managing health systems and services) accounted for 8% in the US vs a range of 1% to 3% in the other countries. For pharmaceutical costs, spending per capita was $1443 in the US vs a range of $466 to $939 in other countries. Salaries of physicians and nurses were higher in the US; for example, generalist physicians salaries were $218 173 in the US compared with a range of $86 607 to $154 126 in the other countries.
A usb c controller is quite complicated. The protocol is not simple at all.
EpiPen is one of the "hard to manufacture" drugs

Yeah it must be very hard to manufacture when the manufacturer's revenue is going towards paying off a $465 million settlement for deceptive business practices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector#Price...
Imputing text data using markov random fields
The mining on that chain is largely pointless, as it's directly controlled by Vitalik. If I held assets on either, it'd be on the chain that didn't hard-fork to reverse a single user's transaction.
> it only wastes the programmer’s time. ... Wasting CPU time on the other hand bothers me a lot!

As always the answer is... it depends. Programmer time costs money, CPU time is cheap by comparison.

If you're building something that runs occasionally, or is IO/UI/network bound... CPU time is largely irrelevant. But if you're building something that runs in a tight loop or a library that will be compiled in millions of lines of code, then the wasted programmer time will absolutely be worth the ROI.
This is literally exactly how it works currently. Hospitals and insurance companies are all suing each other constantly over a ton of different things.
Nit, that’s not socialization, that’s just right to service. You still shoulder the bill entirely yourself.

The only thing that approaches socialized healthcare is free flu shots.
Health insurers and hospitals have profit margins under 5%. Pharma margins are larger but not outrageously so.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052515/what-usual-p...

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/05/18/moodys-re...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223
It doesn't work on a lot of sites. The user agent is still mobile safari, and web devs often have bugs for that browser in a larger screen form factor. Needs a desktop user agent.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736378
Could you expand on what you mean by "seen multiple friend's mental health deteriorate"?

Also don't be so quick to assume there's a legitimate correlation... it could be sampling/observational error.
There's an awful lot of anec-data and not much actual fact here. The people who deal with the problems mostly think this plan is a good idea. Perhaps you should think about why that is rather than bringing your own personal issues and biases into this discussion.
Whatever bad things you can say about Ballmer, he wasn't out to gut Microsoft. He simply made decisions that were short-sighted and insular. Well, and the review system (which caused a bunch of good people to leave for Google in Kirkland, and some other places).

Once, I was doing an embedded system for a consumer product in the Xbox group. We started out trying to using Windows CE, and after three months of pushing that horrible mess up a hill [holy Toledo, what a steaming pile...] we ditched it in favor of something really simple that could actually do the job, instead of the politically correct thing that we'd been "encouraged" to do. (Honestly, words fail me at how badly designed and buggy the the whole WinCE code base was).

At the time, Ballmer was all about everything having to be Windows. "Windows Foundation" for TV, "Windows Auto", Windows This-and-That. I joked that we wouldn't be allowed to ship our firmware until we named it something like "Windows Just An Event Loop And Some Interrupt Handlers".
This should serve as another strong example why mobile operating systems should be completely decoupled from carriers.
Ask HN: Is comma.ai snake oil or they are actually delivering something?
I know that comma ai is a persona-driven company. Have you ever experienced their product in wild?
This is a question of margins, so you're neither right nor wrong.

It normally isn't just 0.1% of sales when developers do get everything right, although whether or not the usual 1-5% of sales is worth it depends on the particular game, budget, and sales numbers. Linux support clearly wasn't worth it for Planetary Annihilation due to its low sales numbers, but a game with (1) high sales and (2) easy porting process would be leaving money on the table not to support Linux.
I think it wouldn't be explicitly included, but it goes into the bottom line of big pharma companies. There is a very lengthy process of getting drugs through the FDA which makes investment's return-on-investment difficult to justify without raising already available drug prices.

(edit: Having said that, our healthcare costs are out of control and it's not directly because of the R&D. It has more to do with wild overhead in insurance and HMOs where only a small fraction of what consumers pay goes to healthcare.)
> They finally gave me an estimate of "it'll be nominal", so I accepted the procedure. Turned out to be ~$200. I'm currently disputing it and refuse to pay based on their original quote of "nominal".

This is a case of expectations. $200 is nominal as far as medical procedures go. Based on my last couple encounters with healthcare, $200 barely gets you in the door. I paid $2000 on my last ambulance ride. My last stay was $14,000 for a couple days. That's with insurance.
The standards bodies are different. "4G" was an aspirational marketing label created by a standards body that doesn't actually develop the technical standards. The relevant technical standards are 5G-NR (new radio) and LTE Advance Pro, which are developing along parallel tracks implementing key technologies in common.
In case anyone's curious about mirroring Github <-> Gitlab, there's a doc page[0] for it.

[0] http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.html
It's generally more reproducible to measure out ingredients that could vary in density (flour being one of them, for a number of reasons) by weight. You can still be a global elitist and put it in grams.
On the other side, as an early employee you can have a much bigger impact on the odds of success than an investor. If you think a company has huge potential, but it's missing X/Y/Z, and you're an expert in X/Y/Z, then you have both a unique insight and unique leverage to make a success out of something that might not have been without you. Looking for situations where you make the difference is perhaps one way to have the whole thing feel like less of a lottery.
doctors without borders unusually have a very well paid job and do the free consultations on the side, like writing code and publishing it on github
"AsciiDoc is a human-readable document format, semantically equivalent to DocBook XML, but using plain-text markup conventions."

And Asciidoctor is a toolchain for working with AsciiDoc.

One thing to have in mind is that AsciiDoc syntax is incredibly complex [1]: it maps to the already complicated-on-its-own-right DocBook standard [2]. It has a lot of bells and whistles that one may want to use on a real print book, but maybe not for general documentation.

I feel like if you are not writing something that you actually intend to print, Asciidoc (and DocBook) are overkill.

1: http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html

2: https://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/os/docbook-...
There's a difference between development (read: build) performance and runtime performance.

For any kind of even vaguely profitable software, your developers should all have kick arse machines.

But they should test on a $200 laptop :)
> Robert Frost poetry.

The collection New Hampshire seems to be from '23.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_(poetry_collec...

Here it is on a Canadian website (where it was already PD)

https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180949
I can't say I am 100% great at following my own advice, here, but I do find that it helps to try and focus on experiences that I am grateful for instead of physical things, and for much the same reason as what you give- you can't have experiences taken away in the same manner as a physical thing.
You may wish to consider stepping carefully with this one. It's reasonable to charge for driver's licenses and passports because those are privileges.

It would be unreasonable to charge people a fee for a basic requirement of being enabled to be verifiable by their government. Especially if the system you're imagining is to be used for things like identification to establish voter eligibility.
> A free market would have patients and physicians reaching a supply/demand equilibrium

And what happens when the market is not in equilibrium? It means some services are priced out of reach for some buyers. When the market is commodities like soy beans, that's okay... it means some people don't buy soy beans. When it's healthcare, it means some people don't get healthcare and they die. Not so good.