skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the crypto tech was marketed as the most secure financial instrument but so far it has been repeatedly proving itself to be quite
the opposite:)
The AI Tools That Amazon Built to Let Alexa Prize Participants Focus on Science
https://www.elizabethblog.com.ng/2019/02/guys-check-out-what...
I did some research after I made that comment (as one typically does) and I wondering about use in an urban setting - it looks like the ambient noise would be much more obnoxious than anything the windmill puts out.
Obviously I can't prove the nonexistence of secret proceedings where people have been made to lie to the public. This is ever the domain of conspiracy theorists, because you can never really prove that no such thing has happened, to say nothing of proving it won't. Proving non-existence in general is a nearly impossible problem in the real world. But I think it's unlikely. People can feel free to let their irrational fears dominate their behavior if they want.
I understand the frustration, but I think the anger should be directed at inefficiencies in the market. You can examine UPMC's Charge Description Master File for their different hospitals, and the cost for Y-90 Sirsphere is $222406.00 in Pittsburgh and $56687.00 in Erie ($150,000 and 2 hours drive difference).

Not bashing UPMC, but this probably applies to hospitals around the country. These hospitals have huge costs due to administrative and pay. As for us patients and potential patients, eliminating high drug costs by making sure people know they're finding equal quality medication at the best price is a step forward in my book.
> The moment we perform I/O… both the futures and the generic thread pool models fall short.

On Windows they usually work fine. OS kernel support is the key. OS-provided thread pool scales really well. I’m talking about the modern one from threadpoolapiset.h, StartThreadpoolIo / SubmitThreadpoolWork API functions.

> we might want to limit network requests going to individual hosts, independently from disk reads or writes, or from database transactions.

There’re APIs like ReleaseSemaphoreWhenCallbackReturns and SetEventWhenCallbackReturns.
A little bit of know how goes a long way towards process improvement. When you have what process improvement looks
like forced down your throat, mostly contrary to common
sense, is when you know you work in enterprise software.
The abstract to the paywalled study cites the average expenditure being about $92k per person in the study. While it is still ridiculous that people should have to pay that much to fight off an illness, that is a disturbingly low value for an "entire life's assets", particularly considering the study was restricted to people who are 50 or older (with an average age of 68.6).
The reason to be cautious is because they could raise prices or cancel your contract at their will. But as long as you are able to change providers by the time the current contract expires (which can be several years for large corporate clients), you're fine.

A reason not to use AWS as a competitor of Amazon is that you wouldn't want to give them cash they can invest in their other business lines.
IC. But how can an extension like your's search through gmail better than gmail's own search? Or better than slack's? Do you use their api's? Did you roll your own full-text search?
On the other hand, many container types are already de facto standardized: the lid of the pint of the cottage cheese and the quart of yogurt in my fridge right now, for example, are interchangeable even though they're from totally different dairies. Milk jugs and cartons are standardized. Cereal boxes, most pop bottles. Instant noodle bricks. The list isn't as long as the list of all possible products, but there are clearly benefits to standardization even in the absence of legislation mandating it.
Or the fact that in the beginning it was just blazing fast and very hassle-free (single click installer, automatic updates, no "IE toolbar hell").
If you are contracting, you should really consider getting incapacitation insurance (arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering). It’s normally paid by your employer and not cheap (but deductible), but I would consider it irresponsible not to do it.
I remember the radiolab episode on worth[0]. Is another month of life with cancer worth x amount of dollars? Who should pay 100k for a medication that might let you live a month longer with pancreatic cancer. I imagine most Americans don't look at it that way.

[0]https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/worth
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> The city is already built this way and people already made decisions on where to work and live based on facts on the ground.

This would indicate to me that they are already OK with the level of congestion they currently have. But that's not what they say. Some kind of disconnect.
That is rational thinking through and through. Part of the reason that medical costs are so high is because some people will pay any price, to themselves or to society, to get/stay healthy.

A rational person says "some costs are too extreme and thus we must allow some to die".

A flip side of the argument is that very high cost(read profit margin) of treatment incentivizes others to fund research for treatments and cures.
Yeah, this article seems like bad engineering, especially when the opening paragraph is trying to compare mechanical energy to solar heat.

A windmill with a generator inside it that is hooked to a wire that drives an electric heating element inside your house will be more efficient then a water break inside an insulated chamber that pushes hot water through tubes into your home.
I'd also add that 2008 Google was trusted by the public a lot more than 2019 Google.
So ActiveX / Java applets, then Flash and now this. Yeah just another fad. It will pass, and next generation of developers will think something else to make the "holy grail" that is cross-platform everywhere with native speed. And so on and so forth.
I published a piece on debt in America last week and touched in the subject of medical debt. When you look at it from a broader perspective, most Americans are in a financially dire situation. 42% sounds lower than I would have expected.

Americans are Drowning in Debt: https://thenib.com/americans-are-drowning-in-debt
57% of Americans cant handle a surprise bill of $500 without going into debt. [1]

I don't doubt cancer is probably the most expensive hit that we have a good chance of receiving, but I'd be inclined to point to the lack of "life's assets" being fluid as the first problem to tackle.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-afford-a-50...
I know a guy working on the Crew Dragon module. He's been working 100+ hour weeks for the last 3 years.

Hope it was all worth it.
and firefox had deep memory issue, while v8 transformed the webapp experience.

the main selling point to me was closing it and opening it back with all the tabs was not a dramatic event but part of a clutter-free workflow
None of the surveys linked in this article go over age distribution of savings -- something I'd expect to be inversely proportional to incidences of cancer.
Even with insurance, folks often wind up with six figures of bills out of pocket treating cancer. That's a huge amount for the even most frugal of the lower or middle class.
I mostly use FF, but often Chrome. On my Dell laptop, I frequently get notified that "Firefox has been blocked from accessing the graphics hardware" or something to that effect. It's never happened once in Chrome.
> Universal health care can't come fast enough.

What do you mean by "Universal healthcare"?
Malpractice insurance takes a surprising % of doctor's income. Delivering babies is particularly expensive. It reached the point that the doctor that delivered my babies no longer carries malpractice insurance.
> This is a good thing. You don't want to be putting something in you that doesn't work. Drugs need massive R&D and that's why it's effective.

I don't necessarily disagree, but when the US is a leader in producing new drugs and they have to go through the FDA, R&D which is extremely expensive, those costs are transferred to drug prices.
This is a very good reason to make sure one has a living will.
I agree, Silicon Valley is the mecca of engineering talent. However, the demand for that talent greatly outranks the supply. With that being said, how can a seed or even a Series A startup stand out and be able to attract engineers when Facebook & Google are next door? Even better, how can a startup retain its engineer that's probably getting x10 inboxes a day from other companies with better packages?

I'm not challenging you here, but it's common questions I hear that can complement your perspective...
Our healthcare system is wildly inefficient. A major overhaul would need to take place --- for me, as long as biotech and pharma innovation/production is not negatively affected (because I actually want to cure cancer) then I'm all for hearing options.
The cheapest way of finding talent is retaining it. I currently work on a project with an empty backlog and a sprint full of impediments. We are all looking for new jobs.

Hiring a good product owner would've meant retaining the team. Now you have to have to find six new developers.
Everyone on here seems to be very bitter and salty about this stuff and I'm not sure why they're not seeing the bigger picture. This is probably the same group that would have laughed at predictions that there would be personal computers.

As the technology improves, all this stuff will be abstracted from the user. There are ongoing experiments to solve this issue such as a way to store your keys in a decentralized manner in case it is lost. This can be combined with the ability to automatically move funds to different accounts periodically and also to keep funds spread across different accounts. The UX will come and the are many efforts working on this. It just takes time.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Linux, macOS and Windows aren't variations of the same OS APIs.
Not OP, but during a recent hiring process we asked for backend engineers (e.g. java/golang/databases etc). Half of the CVs we received were for Angular/React developers.

I'm unsure how this could happen with any sane vetting process.
doesn't matter who is president in 2020, if the senate isn't blue. And right now, it doesn't look like the senate will even hit 50/50.
What OS, hardware and video platform(s)? I haven't had any issues with Desktop Firefox on Windows 10 on any of my Core i7 machines, when watching YouTube/Vimeo. Even my old dual-core budget Inspiron 3137 laptop works for YouTube and Firefox as well as Pandora/Firefox/bluetooth audio blasting.

(It does like to consume RAM as if it was running SQL Server though.)
Yeah, OpenShift did this from the very first version. It worked pretty well. Memory use was very reasonable from etcd 3.0 on.
Certainly, but the person in the article was a woman with enough savings that she had planned to retire early.

If it can hit her that hard, it would be devastating to someone without $500.
No, this side of it is definitely better in other countries.

My late wife passed away of cancer a few years ago, we lived in Australia. She went through rounds of intensive treatment. We had private health insurance which kicked in, limiting our up-front costs. Not all was covered, but what wasn't covered was capped through public health care. It might have cost us $10k AUD, but not more.

We spent little to no time worrying about paperwork and billing, it was almost all auto-handled for us.
This is super exciting. One of the grand challenges I've been thinking about is tackling waste. Why is any material considered waste? The first principles approach to this problem says that landfills are mountains of energy and diverse resources waiting to be tapped.

The first step though is to ignore the pervailing reclamation, recycling mentality at the macro level and begin the gruelling work of building a new ecology. We're at a point now where concerted effort into engineered (or found through directed evolution) organisms gives us the opportunity to break down and then re-integrate these dormant resources.

In the future a 'recycling' plant will accept any and all waste and be the front end of a manufacturing hub that outputs both new raw materials and finished products. In between the two ends it will be biotechnology that enables the transition from waste back to usable component resources.
For me, the problem with your remark is that it's proposing some kind of alteration of message (lying, in essence) by "a group" which is not really identified, but might be "climate scientists" - but with no actual evidence.

And also, the whole discussion branch nearby on the greening effect of small increases in CO2 is really missing the point, and is completely ungrounded in any science. There is a whole literature out there on how significant this effect is relative to other effects of rising CO2! (Spoiler: it is not that significant.)
>Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls

Hell that's just insurance in America... if you just use it.

I've been dealing with a bill where the insurance company decided that my kid's pediatrician was out of network all of a sudden. All the other visits to the same pediatrician have been covered, but they can't seem to fix this one bill....

There's no incentive for the company to be helpful as what am I going to do? Change insurance companies? That's not my choice.
Hey folks, I work at Gremlin and we're super excited to announce this launch. Drop any questions, comments, or concerns, we're happy to help!
I'm all for universal coverage too. But reducing the profits of pharmaceutical companies well reduce the money they have for r&d dramatically.

This will slow down the speed of pharmaceutical development. So I think it needs to be paired with reforms to the FDA to reduce the go to market costs for drugs.
I would expect the results to be no different - the article was talking about people who already have insurance. I've been through the incredible medical-bill maze that results from cancer treatment since then; it's just the same. The ACA was explicitly designed to perpetuate the current insurance system, why would you expect the situation to have improved?
Given how I code at the end of a 60 hour week, that's a pretty scary thought when it comes to an environment where the simplest oversights can lead to a loss of life. Hopefully for those working crazy hours there's a couple well rested reviewers of the work.
This a good solution that scales.
If anybody is looking for an industry to disrupt: manufacturing, inventory, and logistics software is a complete disaster right now.

I pay $X,XXX a year for manufacturing software, and I just had to write software like OP for my own company.

The software I buy can turn product demand into ingredients and orders. But it can’t do it into the future. So I had to write custom software to take a sales forecast, turn it into a production forecast, and then turn this into a purchasing forecast. Seems like something that should be a solved problem, but not really.
All the normal strategies for dealing with distributed services still apply.

In most of these scenarios, you are still persisting data to stable storage. So, you would take the performance hit and load the data from the database.
“It’s getting dark, my batteries are running low.”
> Those barriers are likely due to money laundering laws

Again, the world is much bigger and more nuanced than you think, non-covertible currencies are a thing and they are due to a country's central bank policy not money laundering laws.

> the financial system provides cheaper or more convenient options for payment.

No it does not, if I had had ways to pay for a server using my country's currency, I would have used it.
Huh, I've never heard this before. What makes you say that?
Musk also promised to have all of his tweets reviewed prior to posting, and we all know how well he kept that promise...
> Each tab got its own process and could crash without taking down the entire browser. No one else had this at the time

IE8 Beta 1 shipped March 5, 2008; Chrome's beta release wasn't till September. OK, admittedly, Chrome's stable release happened before IE8's, but MS was working on much the same thing.
If you've got kids and a family, they may not agree. It's a terrible situation to be in.
If you have any interest in Metropolis the movie, you really should read Metropolis the book. It is the most intensely visual work I’ve ever read. I would often need to take a minute between pages to work through the descriptions in my head.
Volvo unveils Polestar 2 electric car as Tesla Model 3 competitor – Electrek
This episode of EconTalk addresses the issue of transaction costs for things like lawnmowers and drills, and how future apps might solve that problem: https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-sharing-transacti...
What are you going to do with it? Cool if I use it?
So what is the solution? More than 42% went all in with the constraint being their personal assets. If that constraint was lifted, then what would the next constraint be? Obviously the additional assets would come from other people, and probably not voluntarily (which is a different issue), but what would be the limiting factor then? Also, I assume the new pool of assets would be available not just to the 42% that were willing to put all of their own in but to the remaining 58% as well. The US may be a nation of relatively high resources, but they aren't infinite. What do the rules look like for this in other nations?
I ask because I'm told that we in America have "the best health care system in the world."

I'm going to assume that you're asking an honest question, but I'll tell ya that (and I can not emphasize this enough) from my perspective the question is so naive that I seriously think I'm missing the sarcasm.

But in good faith I shall carry on...AFAICT, "US=='best'" is propaganda, or ignorance at best. We (I am an American) have poorer outcomes for more money spent. Now, many excuses will be offered as to why that is, but I'm not here to argue; as best as my research can do, that appears to be fact. On top of that, for a less capable and more expensive product, we have a byzantine system of forms and providers.

So, no, it would appear that other OECD countries do not have this issue, partly/mainly because all but a few (and I would be hard-pressed to name those few) socialize their medical care.
I’m confused. If you have medical insurance, shouldn’t you only pay up to your deductible? Is this saying people’s life assets don’t cover the deductible? Or, people are uninsured?
I want to see numbers before I believe this. It’s just self serving propaganda by pharmaceutical companies.
But is it really cannibalizing public transportation? Or is it cannibalizing private car driving? I assume somebody has studied this.
Billions could die if India and Pakistan engage in nuclear war
This impeller design is clever, but it seems that a DC generator and a resistive load would be an easier way to brake the windmill and generate heat. The first advantage is off-the-shelf parts. Electric generators and resistive loading are well known technologies. You can locate the resistive load (literally, an electric heating element) close to where you need the heat and there will be very little mechanical wear.
I switched to chrome before I became technically literate, because it seemed a lot faster and less prone to breaking. I couldn't describe why, but the effect was felt.

Now, I still struggle to move to firefox as I'm on a retina MBP, where firefox riles up my cpu and drains my battery.
More anecdotal cross-cultural fun stuff... I have some Lebanese friends and noticed that their children seem to start eating labneh (somewhere between thick yoghurt and soft cheese) very early.

Also the Armenian word for cheese is 'paneer'.

People across the world can share a lot in common if they want :)
Some people want just virtual cash. No banks, chargebacks, 3rd parties(visa, paypal etc) additional "verification" etc. Just old good "hard" cash for the XXI century.
Until it breaks down? The water+tubes is a low-tech solution that will survive the apocalypse.
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There is no such thing as a labour shortage. There is only an unwillingness to pay. If you can't afford to attract talent at market rates then your business model as it is exists isn't viable.

A big aspect to this is that the equity lottery of startups is largely gone because companies going public is increasingly rare, companies stay private longer (which presents real problems for the liquidity of employee options) and there are just so many ways an employee can get screwed out of their equity value that as the time a startup is private increases the value of the equity inevitably approaches zero. Down rounds, liquidity preferences, that sort of thing.

Equity is a pretty terrible deal for employees. Great for VCs. Great for founders (mostly). Horrible for employees.
I guess it takes a certain kind of person to work a job like that. I would have lasted roughly a week. Good to have passionate people I guess. Hopefully they aren't getting exploited too badly.
> Chrome's appeal was primarily technical. Each tab got its own process and could crash without taking down the entire browser.

Curious, I remember speed being the primary reason. Google invented V8 (the javascript engine), with some pretty decent optimizations and a well-working JIT on i386/amd64 platforms. At the time when chromium came out, it handled some JS-heavy applications very nicely that Firefox struggled with.

There seems to be a bloat cycle with many products, browsers being one of them. They start off lean, gain features over time, and then they are or feel so heavy that a lean new competitor can feel like a fresh breeze.

Remember when Firefox was the fresh breeze, compared to the Netscape suite? I remember Chrome being perceived the same way when it came out.
I think your family would spend that money and more to get more time with you.
Problem is, the treatment provider offers no hard guarantees: full remission or your money back. The claimed success rates could be based on research studies, which have a reputation to be systemically flawed.

> Over a 10-year stretch, he said, Amgen’s scientists had tried to replicate the findings of 53 “landmark” studies in cancer biology. Just six of them came up with positive results.

https://slate.com/technology/2016/04/biomedicine-facing-a-wo...
A lot of these types of installations are bespoke, at least in large part.

I used to have a friend that worked at a particle accelerator lab, they had a complete machine shop on site so that they could make repair parts, or new parts as needed for various experiments. These are not things you will ever buy at Amazon or even a place such as McMaster-Carr.
What kind of evidence do you have for this claim?
The Joule Machine was originally conceived as a measuring apparatus. James Joule built it in the 1840s for his famous measurement of the mechanical equivalent of heat: one Joule equals the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 cubic centimeter of water by 1 degree Celsius.

Although this confuses the definition of joule with calorie, Joule's experiment was brilliant and laid the groundwork for the laws of thermodynamics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_equivalent_of_heat

A weight was suspended from a rope and allowed to fall. The falling weight was mechanically coupled to a paddle in a pool of water. As the weight fell slowly, it turned the paddle. Given that the mass of the weight and the water were known, the work performed by the falling weight and the heat absorbed by the water could be quantitated.

Here's a kitchen test of the principle where a household blender is used to boil water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcOobt9Ef8

I suspect some heat transfer from the motor through the blades, but it's very surprising the water boils. He could have run a calculation, based on the power output of the blender, to see if the temperature increase was reasonable.