skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can sort of understand someone thinking that the government is bad at organizing large projects. What I don’t get is how so many people think that while simultaneously thinking that the government is the right tool for carrying out gigantic projects like completely reimagining the government of a foreign country that doesn’t want it.
My money is on serverless. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
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Basic Basel II rules. A bank that does THAT wrong is plain untrustworthy.
Social Security is just sending checks worth 3 or 4 percent of GDP to old people. It’s about the same as defense spending. Nobody ever worries about running out of money for defense.
According to The Register, Samsung were fined because they pushed Android Marshmallow to the Note 4, not because of any sort of battery-related throttling.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/24/apple_samsung_fined...
Prince Harry isn't known for his intellect, and is increasingly known as Meghan's mouthpiece.
It’s also because a large portion of the US population wants the officials to be as tough on crime as we are. You need to not just fix the politicians, you need to fix America
If you disable a tool which you know is used to build many websites nowadays then you really should expect a deprecated experience. You're in the minority and honestly I don't know why you should expect web developers to cater for you.
We were told specifically to take her to the emergency room by the on call pediatrician.
That is only true for an employee's market.
Exactly this. And having a mate who is exclusively committed to you can have a much better distribution of outcomes at the bottom end than an allowance from some rich guy who isn't very invested in you. After all, if somebody isn't committed enough to make you their one and only, why should you believe that they'll keep sending money your way.
Ah, okay. Or "17% of shares are out on loan to some short-seller".
$300 [1] is more than I’ve spent on (non-dental) helthcare, in total, over my entire life. That includes one count of general anaesthetic and emergency surgery because of testicular torsion which happened while I wasn’t registered with any local doctor, one burned arm, one being knocked unconscious by a trampoline, and one being hit by a car.

[1] “after premiums” is roughly the same as “after taxes”, right?
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My guess is they made it worse on purpose to push users to the app.
I've seen this attitude a lot, and I don't really understand it. Software takes a ton of work to produce, and in many cases a significant degree of skill as well, and I don't really see an issue with wanting to be compensated for it. If charging money is bad, and advertising is bad, what are you supposed to do? Given that you're posting here, I'm assuming that you likely get paid to write software as well - do you think it's reasonable for everyone to expect that you produce software for free?
In fairness, the US typically does not cost $1k+ for a simple doctor visit.
Sure I can buy all that, but It's Complicated, and I'm sure you know some runners who are running when they shouldn't be. For instance, I know of someone who had both hips replaced at the age of 25. This was probably primarily due to a genetic predisposition to developing OA, but the earliness and extremity of the onset were obviously impacted by excessive (5-10 miles 2x a day) running, which she continued against doctors orders. I'm not trying to damn an entire hobby: my point is exactly the opposite. People cope with being alive in a variety of ways, and most of those ways hurt you if not kept in balance. We shouldn't vilify video games just like we shouldn't vilify running.
> In the US you can happy if your cost for seeing a doctor is less than 4 digits.

My wife and I have never paid four figures for a doctor visit, despite having two surgeries (one oral), a calf strain, and a dislocated shoulder (with ER visit) between us. The state of medical care in the US is bad enough as it is; you don't need to make up hyperbolic bullshit to make it seem worse.
Glad you like it!

If you think of any feature/improvements, feel free to open a issue/pull request! :)
I checked my paypal (UK) a couple of hours ago, and I was welcomed to an advertisement for a Paypal Credit Card.
I think we could stand to do significantly less worshipping of our soldiers, but a lot of the ones boarding commercial flights are on their way to places like Afghanistan where groups of unfriendly armed crazy people will attempt to kill them.
I'm curious what kind of business do you do where Fortnite is a significant way to interact with your customers?
"Minutes" is a false statment for many runtimes and use-cases on AWS Lambda, including this one.

I've included some performance info in a comment below.
>> Individual US tax payers pay for most of the world's security.

Security from?

Also, do you know that, in exchange, the rest of the world accepts US dollars as reserve currency?
It doesn't matter if Microsoft is really big on typography if it looks like garbage on Windows. I agree with the OP; most open fonts look absolutely horrible on Windows.
Didn't know about it, that's pretty cool!
>Something that isn't always brought up too is things like dental, which wasn't covered up there so you needed private insurance anyway, and very few of my employers offered compared to my US employers.

Most employer provided dental plans have a $1,000 or $2,000 cap.
Indeed! If people just assume you’re corrupt, incompetent, lazy, etc: why even try?
> Even my google account came in logged in automatically, same recent sites etc.

LOL, this is hilarious.
I went to the ER thinking I was having a heart attack, and it turned out there was nothing wrong. The doctor who saw me afterwards thought it might have been intestinal spams. I got to pay $6,000 for that bit of entertainment.
Be careful when telling anecdotes, the implementation of health care is a provincial matter.

I can see my family doctor within zero to two days, assuming I don't use the practice's walk-in clinic first.
I've always found it slightly amusing that the mostly unchallenged conventional wisdom is that private enterprise is more efficient and better organized that the government. Sometimes I wonder if the people who really believe that have ever worked for a large corporation.

I also think people forget that, in any case, the gov't is not a private enterprise and efficiency is actually not their first mandate, it's effectiveness.
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> I recommend "Web Design in 4 Minutes" from the CSS guru behind Bulma

There's irony in the fact that this website is completely non-functional and no content is displayed when JS is disabled. You'd think a CSS guru would not rely on JS to display text.
Are corporations really that much better though when it comes to organization?

We've just offloaded all of the terrible organization to large corporations like ISPs or health insurers, which don't actually have the consumers best interests in mind. I've worked for a government contractor in the past and I can tell you that private companies will do everything they can to drag their feet or siphon money while creating bureaucracy on the level of any government agency.
VAT taxes (or sales tax in the US) will tend to more heavily effect lower income workers, which will not be the majority of people on HN. VAT taxes are heavily regressive and, outside of the luxury class of such would be nice to see phased out.
ummm, did you get the impression that i was beating around the bush? i stated exactly why i've personally needed it and have had to resort to polyfills even for the latest iOS.

> Intersection Observer can and will be used to detect ad impressions too.

yes, and? would you rather it be done using inefficient, non-passive onscroll, onresize and onorientationchange events with a bunch more MutationObserver and getBoundingclientRect() sprinkled in plus a generous helping of setInterval(..., 100) for UI polling? cause that's how things basically work today (and how the polyfill works). replacing all that junk with a normal, optimized API is exactly how it should be.
Taking a kid with fever to the ER is about as basic as you get.
I was just reading along this thread and wracking my brains trying to think of this one site that I had seen which curated interesting websites and up popped your comment and I was like ding ding ding then back down the rabbit hole!

Glad this is becoming more organized and I will follow along with interest.

It brings back a little of the wonder of the old web.

A smaller subset somehow seems bigger, more infinite.
It's a small thing, and I consider it a bit of payback for what society did to veterans back in the days of Vietnam.
It is a basic visit. I attended a first-aid training for new parents here in my home country and the general advice was to seek help if in doubt, at night times by calling an ambulance or visiting, well, the emergency room.

In two years we were there with our baby two times. Not charged a penny. During this time, I went once, my wife went once. In all instances we were reassured that it was appropriate to visit the hospital instead of visiting the GP the next day.
I fell down the stairs and had a muscle spasm in my back. Had to go an ER. I had insurance that was considered good and it still cost me $350 for 10 minutes with the doctor and a bottle of muscle relaxers.
Because their browser engine sucks, people just use it on mobile (iOS) because they basically have to in order to open any link.

Every full time job I've had I've been issued a MacBook and step 1 of setup was "install Firefox or Chrome".

Safari is one of the few things that truly outright blows about the Apple ecosystem.
I'm not sure what grounds the renters have to complain about this either.

Is there some sort of law or rule obligating tenants to keeping the view of cameras unobstructed?
Edge lost because, even in April 2019, it is a buggy pile of shit that lacks fundamental features it's competitors have and chokes on web pages constantly. (I'm forced to use it for work.)
Insurance companies are also not exactly....paragons of good customer service themselves. I was camping with a friend when he managed to slice off the tip of his finger. The insurance company fought him tooth and..err...nail to avoid paying out for not having the ER visit “pre-approved”
This can't be right. The bulk of US defense expenses in the last 2 decades for instance have been in needless middle east wars that destroyed those countries, killed millions and enriched US corporations and their employees. It created power vacuums and destabilized entire regions that allowed the rise of ISIS and other extremist groups. There is now slave trade in Libya which was one of the most advanced countries in Africa before the US intervention. Massive immigration caused by these actions is taking a toll in Europe. How does this help global security?

A country's defense expenses are for its own benefit providing easy global market access for its companies, leverage, favorable terms and markets for arms for its own defense industry. All these benefit the US and its citizens.

There is a well documented history of military intervention under pretexts driven by business interests going back centuries with the latest being Venezuela. A country is being openly destabilized, millions will suffer, there will be increased immigration leading to more right wing extremism against immigrants, and more business opportunities for US companies with access to the largest deposits of oil in the world. How does this help global security, this seems to transparently benefit US interests at the cost of everyone else. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7eW4ASIo3I
You're right, it should have been life in prison.
Disagree.
>> You are free to publish, submit, or retain the paper you pay for.

Are you advocating to take (or buy) intellectual credit of someone and present it as yours?

It is not misleading. It is quite unethical. No one judged the legal aspect of the post. Please stop this ad hominem attack.
> “I celebrate myself,/And what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” Whitman was unequivocally declaring his own independence from poetic conventions and niceties.

This is why I always struggle communicating in the arts. This author speaks with such conviction that she understands Whitman's intent and yet I can't find a shred of it for myself.
Individual US tax payers pay for the largest military budget in the world - I think stating that the US's military budget equates world security isn't a fair jump.

Also, bear in mind that a good chunk of that money just gets cycled into politicians via the DOD -> defense contractors -> lobbying.
At that point the pollsters may as well conduct a public service announcement. "Be aware that Google tracks and stores basically everything that they can. By the way, did you know this?"
To provide a contrasting experience, in Canada I had a family doctor who would see me with a couple day's notice, and 99% of people in the community had a family doctor. However, it was a relatively affluent suburb, which means a lot of doctors lived there.

Dental coverage is a valid point, I was surprised at how many things weren't covered under my company plan.
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Related:

Putin boasts he has new ‘game changer’ weapons. And the US agrees

Source: https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/putin...

The Russian weapons are rumoured to be based on magnetohydrodynamics, in short wrapping the aircraft within a bubble of plasma that order air to move around, thus acting as an omnidirectional propellor. Hence "Speed, altitude & maneuverability".
Now try to imagine providing support for one of these users and explaining no, you're clicking the wrong shade of blue 'e'.
Most sales taxes in the US aren’t applied to staple good like food, blunting the impact on lower income workers.

I would disagree it doesn’t impact higher income works because you’re still paying sales tax on luxury items and because of the high prices, the tax is very high.

In Canada it’s not uncommon for the HST to be 15%.
Like to bring this up when we talk taxes: I think it's totally crazy that we give the feds 25% or more and our states soo soo sooooo much less. I think it should be the other way around:
5% for the feds, and maybe 20% to the states. The reason is that our cities are filled with bums, and have absolutely no money to either give them jobs or make new programs. The feds don't give a shit and are busy making missiles or creating massive social programs that enrich the wrong people. I think the current strategy is broken. The other nice thing about this, is that we'd pay less in taxes AND the states/cities would be able to handle every damn thing it needs. It would be like 2x to 3x the money they are getting right now.
> My family in Germany throws a fit when they have to pay 50 Euro for something.

Socialized insurance rates in Germany are 15% of income. Unless your family doesn't earn any money, they have been paying far more than 50 Euros.

> In the US you can happy if your cost for seeing a doctor is less than 4 digits.

That isn't generally true. Every insurance plan is different. Cheap plans have a high deductible. It's similar to private insurance in Germany.

It's basically like this: If you're gonna be poor, go to Germany. Everyone else will pay for you. If you're going to earn well, leave Germany, otherwise you're going to be paying for everyone else.
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I agree. But I'm on WP and the sales are not slowing down.I need to build out offWP to a web app. Keep the WP version running while standing up the web app build. But the engineers want $12,500 for 100 hours/sprint for both. I get a designer + Engineer. I'm thinking just pay enough to get to a web app with maybe 2 sprints $12,500 X 2 = $25k. Start making sales and then use the sales to keep paying if needed to increase sales / expand add new features from customer feedback.
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If someone has a different point of view, pleaase let me know
The greatest trick healthcare companies have pulled is convincing Americans that after hours visits for things like high fevers and broken bones isn't basic care.

I'm 40, and my Mom was telling me about how my brother cut his head as a child, and the local small town doctor came in after hours to stitch it up. Different era.
An emergency room is a fairly regular visit if you are a parent. I have three young kids and all of them have been to emergency at least a few times — you'll call the government hotline, they'll tell you how urgent it sounds, then you go

They don't want anyone to risk staying home with their child if there's a chance that they are in danger

This is in Australia and there is no cost for this
How do you come to the conclusion that biking to work does anything significant to offset the 20 tons of co2 emission you produce? Let alone bring it anywhere near 0?

If you want to get a sense of what 0 per capita emissions looks like you need to look at countries that have 0 co2 emissions per capita. Here's a list of countries with less that 0.1 tons of co2 per capita:

Burundi, Somalia, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Dem. Rep., Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda,South Sudan, Uganda

Biking to work is hardly the sacrifice that would be required to seriously offset global co2 emissions. It's not just about driving in your car, it's about the transportation energy required to sustain your entire lifestyle. The food you eat, the goods you consume, the income you make, the concrete that grows the city around you. All of this requires moving things around the globe which in requires substantial amounts of high energy density fuels.

It turns out that, independent of how environmentally conscious you are, emissions foot print is closely tied to personal income [1]. But nobody wants to hear that to live sustainably we must live a dramatically reduced quality of life. The fact that my comment is being downvoted is evidence of how strongly people don't want to hear this.

And again, I don't blame anyone for not wanting to reduce the quality of their life. But it's ridiculous to be dishonest about how much our civilization has overshot what a truly sustainable civilization looks like.

[1]. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/1/1671884...
Might want to take this out:

console.log(items);
Yes but they don't show up in the fscking search results even for highly matching searches.
I think down the line we'll see wireless Google Lens, as in contact lense(s), that provide all kinds of information to the wearer, unbeknownst to all others. Maybe power will be generated by harnessing eyeball movement. Maybe a see-through camera. Maybe...
I’ve heard very few people arguing to expand the list of capital crimes. After all, California hasn’t even executed more than 700 people on death row, let alone all the other first degree murderers who could be executed without any expansion in the list of capital crimes.
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Private healthcare insurance has margins well below most profitable companies, in the us. If anything I'd hazard that the poor treatment of consumers by these entities stems from being barely able to hold the line, not because of greed. Rising medical costs, I think, have the blame elsewhere, but insurance companies sure do make a good Boogeyman for politicians, because they are very poorly understood.
Adding detail about your ESR sentence: use the highest voltage capacitor if it is a low frequency use (e.g. 100Hz). For high frequency use you also must have a good ESR rating - here's the part from the article about that:

"On the other hand, electrolytic capacitors used in switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) operate at very high frequencies and take considerable amounts of ripple current. Every capacitor has an intrinsic loss, and this is often expressed as an ESR. Power dissipated in a capacitor can be expressed as I^2*R, where I is the ripple current in Amps RMS, and R is the ESR. With higher ripple currents, the loss in the capacitor itself can become significant, and cause self heating of the capacitor. For use in SMPS, special low-ESR capacitor types have become popular in the past few decades to reduce this loss and allow capacitors to take more ripple current without shortening the life of the capacitor. However, many of the cheaper brands of caps, most notably those coming from east asian manufacturers, have historically had problems in this regard. There was a period in the late 90’s to early 2000’s known as the capacitor ‘plague’ where many manufacturers went with cheap low ESR capacitors from these manufacturers, only to find many power supplies were failing prematurely (within a year or two of manufacture)."
The API it's calling seems to be overwhelmed at the time of this comment. The console is full of 429 (too many request) errors
Safari is the first thing I launch when I open my Mac and it's the last thing that I quit before shutting it down. If you're looking for battery life and RAM to spare for other applications, use Safari.
I would not be surprised if one day there's a form of free housing just so they get to provide you with their services: Groceries, meals, deliveries, clothes, television shows etc etc.

Need to move to a different town? They have your point to point transportation covered. Also your closet was automatically transported in the background. Your nomad belongings waiting for you as soon as you arrive.
There's also an experimental option to turn on in edge:flags.
Neat, I didn't even know that existed.

> Compositions and animations created by DirectComposition are passed to a built-in component of Windows called Desktop Window Manager (DWM) for rendering to the screen. Therefore, no special rendering components or UI frameworks are required on the computer.

Wow. Everything old is new again: https://nnc3.com/mags/LM10/issue/04/Berlin.pdf.

(As an aside, Berlin has somehow almost completely disappeared from Google. I had trouble remembering the name, and I searched "display server scene graph corba" and it didn't come up in the first few pages. Finally found this slashdot announcement: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/11/24/189226/fresco-m1-re...)
Maybe Python as a "real world" language enables programmers to participate in open source projects more easily compared to Scheme, which is primarily used in academia?
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Yes, indeed. I think that Richard Stallman and similar have a more balanced message in this respect. At some point the popular focus seemed to shift the notion that open source software needed to “win” in terms of market share, regardless of whether that was helping in the cause of computing freedom.
What you’d get with this compensation scheme is prison classes in how to destroy evidence and how to avoid getting caught.
It'd be nice to have a loading indicator.
As a point of comparison, in Austria:

- taking a kid to the ER costs nothing

- taking a kid to a GP or a pediatrician costs nothing

- staying a night at the hospital costs around 15€

- getting a prescription from the pharmacy costs 5€
You walked away from multiple ER visits including surgeries for less than four digits out of pocket? Maybe consider that your experience is the exceptional, not the people you call hyperbolic.

My son had a laceration glued together (dermabond in lieu of one or two stitches) and that was either close to or slightly over four digits after totaling the hospital bill and doctor bill, both in network.
Well, nobody said they had to be consistent...
If waiting a little longer doesn't reduce the quality of care (research from 2007: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2801918/), then it doesn't really matter how long you wait.