skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just checked and my iPhone doesn't have a physical mic disable switch that I could find...
Given how the SOM version connects over PCI-E, maybe it is a USB3.0 to PCI-E bridge?
And how does that actively prevent people from using Spotify on their desktop?
https://fsf.org/ryf
Same here.

I was impressed with its speed, but then I found that the reason ATS is so fast was that you basically just write C code in it to get it be fast. It's pointless to benchmark as a language of its own.
See also: Notation as a tool of thought, the paper introducing APL: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...
The Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge is the first place I've come across that is cashless. It struck me that for a Foundation that is trying to promote computing to children, they're exactly one of the main demographics that won't have access to cashless payments.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-store/

(Digressing, but I was also saddened that their tills are tablet EPOS systems and not home-brew with a Pi at their heart)
Pretty cool. Although its early days yet. I still worry about back doors that would allow the watch to be used as a lie detector surreptitiously.
> In Sweden we pay less per capita than americans do (from taxes)

Taxes as a percentage of GDP in Sweden is 37%, versus about 27% in the United States.
the sheer volume of data they can mine and interrogate for "insights" into user behaviour must be staggering

yes, you are right, and...

interrogate for "insights"

I understand you use a mild tone, but we know this is an understatement...

What they really could do with your personal behavior data is More Then Staggering, with the technology of fucking insect-like stupidity (its not intelligence, inteligence is not neural network based, intelligence is 100% heuristics, perceptrons and neuralnets are not intelligence, they are primitive reaction-based systems, no matter how good your primitive-system controls the flight of a dragonfly(big insect, fly amamzingly, motor-sensorial system is wow) but a fucking fly is not intelligent nor will probably have much chances of developing any intelligence (besides insect-like stupidity) maybe i am wrong...it is my opinion...

thanks...
Yes you're right. It's my reading comprehension error. I reacted to your comment as:

"hellllllooo I think the point is that tax isn't driving an exodus of businesses/entrepreneurs as OP suggested. The opposite is true and it's driving out lower income people."

Which would sound pretty awful and condescending in context. (I imagined the voice of Miss Martian saying this.) However, that's your username, not a part of your comment.
Say they sprouted wings and flew around. That would be pretty bad for the air travel industry.

Have you a real, physical example of someone who "got 95% of what they know only from free resources and passed boards swimmingly"?
The main thing keeping me from using OpenBSD is that TCP transfers seem to take at least twice as long (testing both small and large files over plain HTTP) as Linux. Has anyone else seen this?
Blue Mind Health Review, Legit or a Scam?
I see nothing hypocritical about good people taking payment from evil people. “Payment” means that the resources of the payer go down, and the resources of the payee go up. Now Facebook have less money that they can use to influence the world in stupid/evil ways, and the WhatsApp founders have more money they can use to influence the world in good ways.

So you really think that Facebook hasn’t made more than the $1 Billion dollars on Instagram thsn ot paid for it?
Absolutely, public spending on healthcare in USA is enormous. Higher than military budget. USA is unfortunately country where enormous amounts of people are sick. Mostly side effects of obesityand lack of physical activity.
And you do have a system where you pay more than anyone else for the pleasure of poor people dying. Harshly worded but that is already solved, and somehow I don't see people being happy with it.

I think it's pretty clear that taxes per capita to healthcare being third highest in the world isn't common knowledge.
I'm not sure the government can do a good job negotiating on behalf of its citizens. It doesn't work well for student loans (blind checks that increases tuition) [1], California's power cost (rate set with gov cooperation) [2], or even Medicare [3].

I think we need to fix several more issues before single payer would be a suitable option.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2017/02/22/how-u...
[2] http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/electricrates/
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-miller-medicare/re...
The Fourier transform is just a change of basis, if you squint at it properly. So at least some of the time (eg, when you're not mixing frequency and time domains like a crazy person) you can convert to frequency space and the functions become much simpler, and usual polynomial operations are relevant again.
I met a guy at university who suffered a car crash and where he wasn't at fault. Guy spent a month in a hospital bed and now has trouble walking. Owes 50k+ in medical bills and doesn't want to declare bankruptcy. He was in CS so he will probably survive but I just feel it's completely unnecessary that he suffer the added stress in life of owing finances for medical treatment. Specifically when he had no control over the accident and is in no way to blame. I left America for Canada because morally the country makes me sick.
You want public authorities to delete their Facebook accounts?
> ATS did beat C++ in the benchmark game.

It's misleading. ATS is basically a C frontend. If you looked at the ATS implementations in the benchmarks game, it was basically C code. The C implementations usually beat the C++ implementations in the benchmarks game.

That's probably why it got removed.
Even if the mic was never on?
The single payer solution assumes the status quo is the only possible way healthcare can be priced. However prices for the same procedure can vary wildly depending on the provider in the same area in US. In all other areas of commerce, prices tend to be comparable among competitors especially within the same geographic area. So why is healthcare the only industry that doesn't act like that?

I honestly don't know, but I think part of the problem is a lack of price transparency. People cannot shop for the best prices for non-urgent procedures, etc. I bet price transparency would at least help stabilize the prices across providers. Is that enough to solve the problem completely? Doubtful, but it would be a start.
Is it just me, or is all high art success largely about branding?
Americans believe that only poor people get bankrupt... then they get cancer.

It's hard to swallow an increase on taxes when you're healthy and think you will never get sick.
Indeed thats the case. I was just referring to what some people think about colored vinyls due to picture discs. I haven’t really seen 7” picture disks so talking about albums: singles have nicer sound..
If I went to the ER every time my girlfriends insisted on it I'd be much poorer today, and no more alive or healthier for it.
That's if you have insurance, which - surprise - is only reasonably priced if you are part of a group (e.g. employer) which can negotiate on your behalf.
The pricing for medical bills is always insane but hospitals routinely take much less. I don't know the purpose of these "shock bills" that are never actually the real price. But I've seen the actual price paid be as low as 5-10% of these insane bills.
I've never understood the urge to archive all this old stuff. If you are somebody that thinks it's important to save as much of this stuff as we can, I'd love to have my opinion changed. The cost to save everything isn't trivial, but often it feels like the value is.
Anonymity and Free Speech go hand in hand, you can not have one with out the other.

If you are in the US, then you should understand that Anonymous Speech was the bed rock foundation of this nation, most of the discourse around the constitution was done via anonymous pseudonyms.

The Reality is "Real Names Policies" promote extremism, it does not reduce it. Real Names Policies further create eco chambers, Group isolation, and destroy discourse.

This idea that Anonymous Speech is the cause of extremist is plainly false given that most of the violent extremists post for abhorrent beliefs under their real identities.

Most Anonymous speakers are actually centrists want to engage in debate with out fear of retribution by the extremist on both sides. To remove that, is to remove the rational voices and only allow the extremist to yell at each other
Knoppix, now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time!
YouTube is pseudonymous, most people don’t use real names
But point taken.

It seems like ultimately this ends up with most platforms shutting down comments or curating everything which is a damn shame place to end up from the internet I started on, but maybe that was a false sample being mostly academics and geeks in the 80s and early 90s.
Facebook got around it, when the yellow pages were the yellow pages.

These platforms always seem indomitable, but they are all susceptible to a disruptive technology.

(As a side note, now that you are on Signal, the next person in your circle who signs up will have 4 contacts instead of 3. And then the next one after that will have 5, and so on. I have a lot more contacts on Signal now than I did when I signed up.)
I would love to see a cashless society because carrying around dirty bills and heavy coins is just a nuisance, and adds real overhead for stores as well...

...BUT, for privacy and the unbanked, I suspect this necessarily needs to go along with credit-card-compatible "cash cards" that would have to be:

1) Anonymous (e.g. buy a card for $1 from any drugstore, swap them with friends, buy in bulk and give away, whatever -- don't need to show an ID)

2) Secure and robust (value stored on-card without the ability for the government to deactivate etc., or for transactions to be cancelled after-the-fact)

3) All ATM's and banks required by law to support transferring any reasonable value (e.g. <$10K) from one card to another anonymously (so if I need to pay you, the two of us can walk into any bank). Ideally be able to do this at any convenience store, etc.

For whatever reason, I rarely see the idea of anonymous cash cards discussed in these types of conversations.
There will always be a use for jQuery. Just not every use. If you're looking to make simple, imperative changes to the DOM in a web page, and not worry about what browser it's happening on, it's still the go-to choice.

Yes, you can use the native API for some of what jQuery does. but, don't let anyone here fool you - the full API of jQuery has not been completely replaced by the "vanilla" API. And, jQuery's API is still much better designed.

Now, if you're building something Very Large, you don't want to lean on jQuery alone. If you're using a framework whose footprint includes what jQuery does (anything with a virtual DOM and automatic updates, for example), then there's no point in also using jQuery.

There's room for all of the tools. Use the right one for the right job. Do enough front end development, and you'll know which one to pull out when you need it.
If you can find people with similar interests within minutes on the internet, it doesnt make sense to socialize locally.
I sliced a banana peel of skin off my finger on glass by accident. 3 hours of various stages of waiting rooms after triage and I had been x-rayed and sewn up and sent home.

Cost me $8 in parking a $2 in Tim Hortons coffee.

I felt an immense level of pride in the taxes I pay (43% income tax before deductions) when it clicked that anyone who walked in would have gotten this same service.
Any unexpected expense can knock you down when you're on the edge. Unexpected expenses are how people become homeless.

I am friends with a camgirl who is a prime example of this. In her case, she made a go of full-time camming, and thought she was doing well. What she didn't understand is that the site she worked for paid her as a contractor and withheld nothing. She never thought much about taxes, and all her previous jobs had withheld taxes, so she didn't pay quarterly estimated taxes. Last month, when she went to file her taxes, she realized she owed thousands. She has been struggling to pay this while other unexpected expenses mount (car repairs). She's struggling with the decision on whether to pay her taxes or her rent, and is about to become homeless.

The super irritating thing to me is that she had a gofundme setup for her friends and family to donate to help with her tax issue. The campaign was going well (close to 50% complete) but gofundme took it down and refunded all the donations. This was likely because they don't want to be associated with sex workers, and she apparently had a link to it from her cam-site page.
Consider:
- The US is much fatter, on average
- Medicare's standards for reimbursement are often not based on cost effectivenes
- The US government will pay around $150K/QALY vs. e.g. the UK's c. $40K/QALY.

More expensive healthcare per capita is what I'd expect given those attributes and "single payer is the only solution" does not seem to be logically linked to the problem and facts.
but of course that doesn't mean Sweden pays more from those taxes on Healthcare than the US.

Looking at the "Government and compulsory" figures here https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm the US appears to be at $8407 per person for gov. + compulsory spending and Swedent is at $4606.
So people tell me Breitbart is a propaganda machine financed by political manipulators, but Fox is certainly run like a business. What is Fox doing to make their content free that NYT and WSJ can't t?
Didn’t know about genre thing. I just found it funny how author referred to color presses. Maybe I didn’t catch the meaning correctly but it sounded like having those was something obscure
There's a difference between single payer and universal coverage.There are many other systems. For example, France and Germany do not have single payer. Single payer is just well known in the US due to the proximity with Canada.
It's better to have this information and it not be needed than to need it and not have it.
Spec/select, clj jiras, tools.deps
You inaccurately generalized my comment. And, plumbing is not an everyday task.
I definitely fit into that second paragraph, and I appreciate you being careful to distinguish patience from being convinced of cost-benefit. I came to the conclusion after some pottering that it would be tough to make emacs nearly as good a python IDE as pycharm, not like a weekend's work it looked like a project in itself. It would again be a project in itself to make it as useful as jupyter for data-things. Someone has worked on embedding jupyter in emacs but it's a bit janky and you're then locked out from any extensions which will be written in javascript and expecting a DOM.

An investment in emacs seems to require a 10+ year time horizon, which means betting that it's going to grow and not decline, the numbers seem against that. I think what I really want is atom/light-table to get a lot better but the second died at birth and vscode is going to kill the first whilst having an uglier inner model that is less friendly to extensibility. I really wish Mr Granger had stuck with Light Table instead of running down a blind alley of VC money. There's a great quote that the threat to emacs is the browser, since it's a completely scriptable environment, I guess jupyter/light-table/atom embody that.

I still use spacemacs for running shells and editing files kind of ad-hoc.
From comments, not sure if this is a joke itself.

dd is horrible on purpose. It's a joke about OS/360 JCL. But today it's an internationally standardized joke. I guess that says it all.
Actually - Object-Oriented Programming is Good*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iyB0_qPvWk
It’s definitely not just you. Look at someone like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy, and Damien Hirst. It’s about acting a part, branding, connections, and in some ideal cases talent and originality can even play a role.
TWA Hotel Inside Eero Saarinen's JFK Airport Terminal Open for Reservations
I can understand (although not agree with) the idea that rich people don't want to subsidise poor people's healthcare, but the argument I was responding to appeared to say that Americans don't mind paying more for their healthcare, which puzzles me.

I'd have thought that lower income Americans would be pretty happy to have a source of cheaper healthcare, even if it wasn't quite as effective as the expensive stuff.
Meanwhile WearOS is a joke both in hardware and software
Yeah, it's still incredibly difficult terrain, despite all the time that's passed. Wrestling with Hartsthorne is still a rite of passage for students in this area. I am (very) intrigued to know what would happen if someone made a serious effort to make the ideas more accessible. It remains an area where the depth of knowledge required is legitimately deep: would be cool to figure out which ideas are actually independent of other parts of the stack.
> Consent. The difference is consent. You may get laid ten times a day for a week, but the time it happens without your permission is still a problem.

Interesting choice of analogy.

Lets assume that you actually consented to your smartphone recording you at any time without telling you, and then google use that recording for whatever they like. That is most probably not true: you only want the mic to record you in very specific moments, and you also probably want to know exactly where any data that leaves your device is stored and how it's being used.

You have to trust google (or any other company who's app you gave permission to access the mic) to comply with this.

If you do, then the nest case shouldn't be an issue to you at all. You never consented to this mic being used for anything, so legally they can't use it for anything, and since you trust them in the smartphone case, you do here too. End of story.

If however you wouldn't even trust google with the mic in your smartphone, then why would you buy anything from them at all? "Oh it doesn't have a mic so they'd only abuse all the other data they can collect from it."

> I have trouble believing folks that “don’t get this” aren’t being purposely obtuse. Consent isn’t that complicated an idea.

Common sense isn't either. Google is evil, and not just since yesterday. I wouldn't even buy a Chromecast.
I have a background in computer science. If this debate could be settled with career milestones then you would win.

Listen, I’m not a kook. I’m an ordinary guy who likes to think things through deeply and completely. And I just can’t escape the conclusions that I’m drawing when it comes to AGI. But other than making internet comments about AGI, I have a very good and normal life.
> It can probably be helpful to try and look for differences between countries as opposed to just going for a libertarian end-run. Problems with the US system are an out-of-control pricing structure due to fragmentation of bargaining power, insane patenting laws which allow evergreening strategies, ideological opposition to functional and prove reforms, and good old fashioned cronyism.

It’s funny what “differences” people choose to fixate on. For example, patent systems are very similar between the US and Europe. And I doubt you can quantify any difference in “cronyism.” Supply of medical professionals, and doctor salaries, are quite different. So to are limits on what the state will pay for end-of-life and terminal care. (For example, when you see stories about people reaching their lifetime limit on insurance in the US, go check if the UK NHS’s death panels would have allowed anywhere near those expenses under their QALY calculations.)

I’d also love to hear your theory for how pharmaceuticals are a “natural monopoly.” EU countries lower drug prices through good old monopsony (single buyer), which has similar detrimental effects to a monopoly (single seller). They just get away with it because the US continues to resist such efforts.
The same question would apply to pre-college education.
I've been looking at various hosting solutions and getting answers in real time through chat as opposed to hunt and gather information on poorly made pages has saved me lots of time.
You weren't paying for the glue and the five minutes. You were paying for the overhead of maintaining all the other stuff that was there that you might have needed under different circumstances but happened not to need that day.
I think this misses the main one - append vector clocks because your events will inevitably turn up out of sequence at some point.
That's awesome that it worked out so well for you! It's not something that I've tried myself, just the impression that I have. I do wonder though if grad school admissions might be another story compared to undergrad, since they probably see a lot more older applicants with work experience and are possibly more used to adjusting their evaluations based on what the most recent/relevant signals are (just as businesses do when hiring).

But leaving during undergrad (or just never going to college) then excelling in self-learning and industry seems to put you in a much more awkward position when it comes to continuing onward with education. You are far beyond most undergrad-level courses, but in most cases you need that bachelor's degree to even be considered for grad-level programs--or at least I believe that's the case? You end up needing to waste years of your life and tons of money just to qualify for the courses that would actually teach you something new.

So perhaps the problem is as much that there just aren't compelling tracks offered to people who don't fit neatly into the lines as it is about admissions flexibility.
Uber Treats Its Drivers the Way Cellphone Companies Treat Customers
Reread the comment you replied to and it’s parent, then decide if shitting all over the comment was still appropriate. Op’s very first sentence admitted how relatively privileged he/she was.
I suppose parts of TfL might be an example - you can't pay cash on a bus. Other than than, I haven't encountered one either, though I'm worried that they're getting closer. Probably past time to be thinking about an escape plan anyway.
This is an environment filled with people who believe adding a prefix or suffix to Capitalism somehow makes a good Capitalism. Thinking outside of boxes only happens offline, contrary to everything the cult believes.
Yes, we deprecated it many years ago, only used for select2 and datetime picker. People should learn the browser nowdays, not jquery
I think most medical professionals may agree with this: the U.S. healthcare system is built on rewarding volume and doing more things. It's an especially attractive field for clinicians who specialize because they have to do special things - with highly regulated barriers to entry.

And while there has been recognition by experts in recent years to push for quality and efficiency (since doing more procedures, especially those unnecessary, raises the risk of harm), the system has been slow to both incentivize this and lower the overall costs.
That's a good point. I think it varies from person to person.

Part of my reason for blocking video is I can never figure out when videoconferencing tools will default to transmitting video, which I never want, before I have a way to turn it off.

Also, I don't think I'm a high profile enough target that somebody would bother sifting through everything I say in front of my laptop for something interesting.

Capturing images every minute or so and looking for something embarrassing (someone showing lots of skin) seems much easier for malware to automate.
Thanks! That seems high, although I suspect the pricing has something to do with opportunity cost for the hospital. ER docs are limited, and he wasn't available to assist with [serious life-threatening trauma] while he was gluing your finger up.

I had something similar (knife slip, a few stitches) come out to like $350 at urgent care. I paid with (literal) cash.