skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding price negotiation, my wife and I have asked multiple doctors, nurses, and billing departments to tell us how much a given service we have received will cost. Both before the service and after the service. We've even called the insurance company with the billing codes from the doctor's office to get quotes.

NO HUMANS CAN TELL US HOW MUCH ANYTHING COSTS!

We are continually told that we have to wait for the insurance company to come back with the pricing after the service has been rendered. This is the most infuriating part of it, there is no way for us to understand the costs of services which are recommended to us by our doctors. We are not able to shop around or to understand if we could/should delay any particular service because of cost/benefit ratio because we do not know the cost of anything ahead of time.

At least our preferred local pharmacy will usually call us prior to filling any expensive prescriptions to make sure that we understand the cost. I assume the pharmacy has enough people balk at the cost after they've already filled the prescription and then they have a bunch of headache dealing with putting the pills back so they've gotten proactive about it.
You answered wrong question. klohto never asked you whether using data is enough for science. he was asking how is this racist. Do you mean if it is not enough for science then it must be racist?
But what percentage of traffic do they generate?
That's true, but "perf" is more portable between platforms.

For example, I can't use vTune at all, because I run Threadripper 1950x. Personally speaking, I use AMD uProf instead.

Without knowing the guy's setup, "perf" is the most portable option. The processor-specific tools will be more accurate, but also more complicated. Its the Linux tool that tries to work across platforms: AMD, Intel, and even ARM platforms.

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"Perf" will give you L1 / L2 cache hits, and accurate counts at that. The main issue is "branch prediction", which requires very complicated circuitry to really predict. You need to use Intel's trace analyzer for accurate branch prediction statistics.

For AMD, you need to use instruction-based sampling in uProf for good branch prediction statistics.

L1 / L2 cache stuff is the beginner level though, so Perf should be a good starting point in this whole mess.
PDF isn't and was never meant as a data storage format. It is meant as a presentation format. You write a file in latex or docx then convert to PDF for sharing. This means the recipient only needs a PDF reader, not whatever tools you used to create the file. This is similar to writing a file in C and compiling to an executable. You can distribute the source, but most (outside of programmers) just want the executable so they don't have a to worry about the tooling.
Leveraged buy-outs started off well enough. The original idea was something more like this: Old-timer spent years building a business, now it's worth about 2 million bucks and he wants to cash out. His young, motivated #2 in command wants to take over, and after years of saving has $200k. Old timer goes to the bank, takes out a $1.8 million dollar loan against all the business's assets, with the debt being the businesse's obligation. Older timer has the business pay him a one-time, $1.8 million dividend, and then sells the business to #2 for $200k. If business stays steady, the company's profits pay off the loan and everyone lives happily ever after.

As a way for old-timers to retire and pass on control of small private companies, LBOs are really useful. The problems started in the 80s when private equity firms realized they could sell enough junk bonds to do LBOs on giant publicly-traded companies.
> I really get irritated with this pattern: a lot of times, people will add subtitles due to a 100% understandable foreign accent. It feels like it's being disrespectful to the speakers.

Hearing impaired people, non-English speakers, content indexing, machine learning, etc. There are many good reasons, don't make victims where there are none.
This is the worst advice in this thread by far. $80 would barely cover one hour of work.

If you charge any support, this should be similar or more than the price of the library. Clients who ask for support are the most annoying ones who are planning to use it and the bigger companies with deep pockets.

Better make the support crystal clear on what is covered because clients might try to have you do the integration in their software, which is a whole development project, not a support task.
Has Verizon ever been squeamish about taking money before? As far as I can tell, they exist to make money for their investors. If selling to PornHub removes the debt off their books I can't see what possible blow back the company would suffer.
I remember one of my teachers in grade school speaking out against the Moral Majority and other pro-censorship types in the 80's. The quote she was up in arms about was something along the lines of how, "We must constrain the imaginations of our children."

Today's problems have nothing to do with people reading, imagining, creating, and thinking. Problems in 2019 have to do with people engaging specifically in groupthink and "othering."

Censorship, exclusion, and suppression do not reduce groupthink. Rather, those actions increase groupthink. Those actions create hothouses of concentrated groupthink insulated from criticism, skepticism, and the moderation of reality. (Also, if some honest introspection is done, one often finds that those actions are themselves motivated by groupthink.)

A live and let-live society where people are free to self-express lets people learn in the context of a reality more complicated and richer than just themselves. A live and let-live society lets people transcend their own small circle. It is the best antidote to the small minded groupthink that creates oversimplified, dehumanizing caricatures of people and reality.

It's suppression and censorship that causes people to retreat into such small circles, allowing groupthink to fester.
someone is already on top of that: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...
Yeah I wonder if there is a big difference from "yeah there's a lot of porn here" to "yeah it's a porn site now" as far as the users who aren't doing that thing goes.

There's a lot of porn on reddit, but I don't think twice about saying I post there. But if it was owned by a porn site I might think twice about how I define the site / mention it.
If I were Pornhub, I'd really low-ball them. After all Verizon wrote down the purchase by 30%? [0] and I'm sure they just want rid by now. So between 10% - 50% is a good offer.

On Pornhubs side, it's essentially a steal. They could very well foster a good atmosphere when it comes to porn and then offer through their mindgeek advertising platform access to Tumblr for their marketing affiliates.

These marketing affiliates spend ALOT of money on ads and it's very profitable if you know what you are doing.

If they started to get their own studios or their affiliates in creating films (actresses) in the recording space to use Tumblr to blog and not use twitter. Again, this would drive engagement by quite a margin.

There is so many things Pornhub could do here to make hundreds of millions off the back of Tumblr and they have the management to do it.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-looking-sell-tumblr-...
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You write ...

> So in other words, still slavery. Right?

.., which suggests you overlooked the first leg of the OR clause:

> Compensated emancipation was typically enacted as part of an act that outlawed slavery outright

But maybe I am not understanding you. If an act outlaws slavery outright, is it your view that there are still slaves?

You also write ...

> ... and doesn't really get rid of slavery.

.., but the historical record shows that compensated emancipation did get rid of lawful slavery.
You can buy cheaper houses in neighborhods, or rent, or have roommates. Many things can be done to mitigate the cost of housing, just like with transportation.
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Off topic: I am genuinely curious, why doesn´t Pornhub create a Youtube competitor? it is probably the best positioned company on earth to do so. Any info as to why they haven´t done it or why it would be bad idea for them to do so?
This is happening a lot in Washington, DC. Traditionally black neighborhoods being torn down and replaced by high-priced condos, which are bought almost exclusively by whites. Before it was called urban renewal, but the clap back to that was that urban renewal is code for African removal. Hard to argue when the culture of a neighborhood vanishes.
While the growth rates for healthcare have been lower over the past decade I would be hesitant to attribute it to the ACA. Most of the higher rates over the previous 30 years were due to landmark legislation increasing demand for services. If you take a look at numbers you might be less convinced.

year | growth rate

2005 | 6.7% (Bankruptcy act passed making it harder to discharge medical debt)

2006 | 6.5%

2007 | 6.5%

2008 | 4.5% (Great Recession)

2009 | 4.0%

2010 | 4.1% (ACA Signed)

2011 | 3.5%

2012 | 4.0%

2013 | 2.9% (ACA Taxes)

2014 | 5.1% (Exchanges Open)

2015 | 5.8%

2016 | 4.3%

2017 | 3.9%

There are also a couple of timing advantages that people give credit to the ACA that would have happened otherwise.

There were a lot more prescription drugs created after the Orphan Drug Act and the Hatch-Waxman bills of the early 80's. So the timeline for that is 83-84 laws passed => research => 1990-1999 prescription drug explosion => 2010 - 2019 patents expire. This lead to a dramatic increase in costs over this period, but this is good since people now have access to drugs that wouldn't otherwise exist. The patents expire and the costs decrease, and they won't likely increase further due to the nature of those bills.

You could also make the point that from 2001-2006 you should see higher healthcare costs due to war.

A lot of the calculated savings are based on government projections of future spending. We can go off on a tangent on how good the CBO is at its job, but I think we could agree that predicting the future is hard and people are frequently wrong about their predictions.

Furthermore, lower costs aren't necessarily a positive thing. To put it simply if you are buying a BMW and I am buying a Kia, they are both cars but you aren't unhappy to pay the higher price.

Percentage increases also get harder to maintain as time goes on.
I assume Pornhub's user base is higher than Tumblr's ever was. I would think they could use Pornhub to drive users to the new platform.
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I usually just optimize CNN architectures using Google's intelligence, i.e. let the big companies with infinite compute find good architectures for me.
Pornhub, Tumblr, and the rest of the Internet: Causing various fluid spills onto keyboards, since the late 20th century.
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> we also have a lack of price transparency

Transparency is only half the battle. Setting prices to something reasonable is the other half.
The prices aren't listed in the dropdowns, but if you choose an option, then the price should be displayed on the right: < https://imgur.com/a/1hSJOUq >
When using 'nobody' as hyperbole, it is generally used to mean 'very few', though some people also use it to mean 'nobody important', with themselves acting as judge of what, or who is important. One reason I feel free to treat the statement somewhat literally is that I am already including the hyperbole. It doesn't change my point if we shift from 'nobody' to 'very few', or 'nobody important'. There is a hell of a lot of stuff that people do that makes pretty much no business sense, or only ends up making some sort of rather inefficient business sense by accident because someone is trying to justify the fact that someone built it. There are wide open fields of this kind of stuff. A surprisingly large amount of it is in business.
I think it’s the minors that are illegal and that’s what Verizon is afraid of.

Adult sites are perfectly legal.

Also US is a very religious country (some parts) compared to other western nations. So that’s where some of this comes from.
> Stuff White People Like

Funny enough, also Canadian (well, written by a Canadian)
Mainframe designers had this problem under control by 1970. Mainframes had, and have, "channels". A channel is part of the processor architecture. It takes commands, sends them to a peripheral, and manages the data transfer in both directions. Channels have some privileged functions through which the OS tells them where the data is supposed to go in memory. The architecture of channels is well defined, and peripherals are built to talk to channels. The CPU has I/O instructions to control channels in a well defined way.

The peripheral never has access to main memory. There is no peripheral-controlled "direct memory access" (DMA). So it's possible to give control of a channel to a userland program without a memory security risk.

Minicomputers of the 1970s had low transistor counts and slow CPUs. So peripherals were usually put directly on the memory bus, with full access to memory. I/O operations were performed by storing into memory addresses, which caused bus transactions detected by the peripheral device. There were no CPU I/O instructions.

Microprocessors copied the minicomputer model. IBM's people knew this was a bad idea, and in the IBM PS/2, they introduced the "microchannel". Peripheral vendors, facing a new architecture that required more transistors, screamed. IBM backed down and went back to bus-oriented peripherals.

That model persists today, even though the few thousand transistors required for a channel controller are nothing today. Even though most modern CPUs have I/O channel like machinery, it's exposed to the program as registers the program stores into and memory accesses by the peripheral device.

So there's no standardization on how to talk to devices at the hardware level. Some CPUs have protection systems, an "I/O MMU", and there have been various channel-like interfaces, especially from Intel, but they have never caught on.

Instead, we mostly have heavy kernel mediation between the hardware and the user program. And way too many "drivers". This has become a problem with "solid state disk", which is really a random access memory device that doesn't write very fast. Mostly, it's used to emulate rotating disks.

Samsung makes a key/value store device which uses SSD-type memory devices but manages the key/value store itself. But you need a kernel between the device and the user program. You can't just open a channel to it and let the user program access it.
Pornhub is probably the best party able to refocus Tumblr on mostly porn. I feel there are plenty of people who are interested in the kind of kink communities that grew organically on Tumblr, but felt Tumblr as a platform wasn't appropriate. Maybe Pornhub can give Tumblr the love and direction it needs to fill the kind of niche that Pornhub.com itself can't, and that might draw a much larger audience than before.
I think Plan9 still has the notion of files, folders and such?
Sounds like your gripe is with Adobe, not PDF.
You can't be positive and on PrEP. The protocol requires testing every three months, and in the very rare (so far cases number in the single digits) situation where it fails, the patient is moved to a more appropriate regimen.
Bought the book some years ago, but never really got through it. Keeping it handy though in case I need to knock out a burglar. Thing is massive, shipping was half the cost ;)
This is not to say that you're wrong, but I don't completely understand your numbers. My understanding of the triple-tax advantage of HSAs are that

1. Money going into the HSA is pre-tax

2. Investment gains from the HSA are not taxed

3. Money used from the HSA for qualifying health expenses is not taxed

That said, there are many restrictions and two of these benefits seem to be included for self-employed individuals. For example, an HSA can not be used for over the counter drugs unless there's a prescription:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/affordable-care-act-questions-a...

However, prescriptions can already be deducted without an HSA if one is itemizing:

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc502

Alternatively, the above link also states that things like office visits to a physician can be deducted, which are things normally an HSA are used for.

Basically, the one benefit that seems unique to an HSA is that the investment gains from the money in the account are not taxed, which is great assuming that this money is used for medical expenses or you make it to 65.

Again, I'm not saying you're incorrect, but it looks like self-employed individuals automatically benefit from 1 and 3 above, assuming itemization. As such, it's seems like the trade off is whether the higher premium, which is less high due to the tax write-off, is worth lower the lower cost of a physician visit. Assuming, of course, we haven't gone catastrophic. What am I missing?
By the same token, don't assume I am victimizing! At least read the 2nd paragraph where I am saying a similar thing to your rebuttal.

HN is one of those places where I have seen the concept of "violent agreement" at work. "Wait wait! You still need to consider ... this thing you thought you already said."
I do read it quite often, however I would never ever pay a penny for it until it opens up comments under all the articles and not just some vanilla news,where you can be pretty sure there won't be much of a debate. There many ways to achieve self moderation if hiring extra staff isn't an option.
Now days you don't need acrobat reader typically, Chrome, Edge and Firefox can all view/print PDF's. If your on a Mac/iOS the viewers are built as the OS uses display postscript internally (quartz) which matches up pretty closely with PDF.
It's been one hour and already made it to the RSS feed. Maybe our Chinese overlords are sleeping, but I think it's safe.
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The toothpaste still has to travel from A to B, and it's probably more efficient for a single truck to deliver 200 items than for 200 people to get in their cars and go to the supermarket.
Someone (not pornhub) has already created a tumblr clone called "bdsmlr". It's actually got an extremely wide variety of content, not just BDSM.
Is it not similar to how YouTube killed IE6 and Chrome is killing Mozilla Firefox?
Ah yes, got it. I missed that, thanks.
Possibly also the most hated file format. Just the fact that no two PDF editors behave the same way goes to show how bad of a format it is.
Right? It's blowing my mind that it's possible to pre-approve PayPal payments without knowing how much you're going to be billed. The system should not allow users to hand a blank check to a retailer.
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Sorry, meant CDDB (now Gracenote). So many acronyms.
This is how Caltrain works also.
401k are tied to employers, but I don’t see what HSA has to do with employers since they’re just as easy to have without an employer. It’s just a savings account with tax advantages for people with HDHP.
Why, yes there is! The IBM 360 Principles of Operation. When I got my C.S. degree we spent a whole semester studying this.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-...
I have interacted much with both Mathematica and Clojure, and the only thing I wish Mathematica had is a coder-oriented editor, like, for example, Cursive in Clojure world.
It would become a truly powerful thing.
On the quirks of Wolfram language - I personally can live with them, it is good enough considering the requirement to keep Mathematica's historical and huge lib compatibility.
However current Mathematica's approach to notebook editing is just a horrible PowerPoint-like mutation.. at least for a coder like myself. I'd even love to help making it better if I had a chance to.
I agree with you, but you should have expressed this in a way that didn't assume bad faith.
I'd agree it probably doesn't quite apply to this case, but there are similarities from what I've researched, and I think that description doesn't quite do it justice. First being that datomic is temporal with full on-demand history, which I think is a big deal; and has a serialized writer, n-reader architecture. As to how it may relate to this problem, I believe peer applications (in-process) for on-prem are able to exploit locality with the full indexes in-memory without round-trip queries - also the case for ions with datomic cloud. I'll let anyone more experienced clarify or correct me. The concept at least is really cool; I hope to give it a real test drive some time soon.
Did you ask how many they had and get the answer, "oh, a few"?
I am going to give pgsql a try soon and I'm not surprised. The password flag is something I would totally have set. CamelCasing tables is something I would do. Between and table inheritance were recommended in a post last week, so I would totally have tried these out too.

A lot of this stuff just needs to be deprecated (case-sensitive tables, password flag...) or come with (bigger?) warning labels (between query, table inheritance...).
Taxes. HRAs can be a huge headache for employees (never employers). SEHRAs also have a bad reputation for being the worst of both HSA and more traditional insurance plans: underfunded, high overhead for employees, all for severely limited provider choice.

ICHRAs (individual-coverage) are the real bridge between HSAs and traditional insurance—you can use them as an HRA-style account _or_ use the money to buy an insurance plan off a marketplace. While it still pushes the burden of choosing and managing health care onto the employee, they at least have flexibility in coverage as well as tax benefits for both employees and employers.

They, uh, also don't exist until 1 Jan 2020, and they give total control to the employer. If you're a good employer, that's great. If you're a shitty one, the employee is easily fucked over.
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PDFs for reading is one thing. Fillable PDFs are evil incarnate. Apparently there are multiple ways to do it, and only Acrobat Reader is capable of making them all work.

Then you have abominations like embedded flash...

As a standalone file representing the format of a book, PDFs are a good format. But then PDFs can unfortunately (sometimes) store much more, and then can be a security minefield.
With LSM approach (log structured merge tree) we have at Scylla, we make all the writes batched/sequential and receive an awesome boost.

Some reads can be sequential too if you scan through the clustering keys.
Why is it _wrong_ for owners to do what’s best for them? Most people don’t own a business as a charity- they own it to make money. If a PE acquisition is the best path to a lucrative exit, why shouldn’t they do it?
> On the other hand, the "Wolfram language" is really a pretty poor design as far as programming languages go, and would not even be noticed if it wasn't for the giant standard library that gets shipped with it, called Mathematica.

In the official documentation (as well as his blog posts), the term “Wolfram Language” is used to refer to the combination of the two: both the syntax and the huge standard library, because you almost always encounter one using the other. This seems pretty common to me — I’ve said things like “I used the Ruby language” when I’m also using its built-in modules.

I agree with you in saying that the language part of the Language is nothing particularly special, though.
This article should have a (2017) tag.
I don’t know what i’m doing either. Whether software is the right industry for me. I’ve spent 10 years of my life doing it. Might as well continue. I’m dreading my job and may quit in a couple of months. Don’t have anything lined up.