skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re ready to move to the UK for this, then you will be fine. Even with a hard Brexit , the sunset period for EU residents to apply for special grandfathering status of their residency doesn’t end until quite late:

> If you’re an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen, you and your family can apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 30 June 2021. If your application is successful, you’ll get either settled or pre-settled status.

...

## If the UK leaves the EU without a deal

> You will need to be living in the UK before it leaves the EU to apply. The deadline for applying will be 31 December 2020.

https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

If you can afford an adventure: take the plunge! :) and let me know when you get here, we’ll go for a coffee.
I'm not sure I understand.

You see popular revolvers selling well... nobody is buying those based on the law.
Short answer: no.

Long answer: The title ist ridiculous, I refuse to even open the link. Yes, I know this community favors more substantial comments, but this one made me angry.
The problem is that while 'everyday people' no doubt have ideas which would improve everyone's lives, there is also very large to majority support for capital punishment and complete shutdown of immigration.
What's really at it again is the “Wolfram and his ego...” comment. If it's so static then we don't need to mention it.
I'm not seeing the connection to the ACA in your argument. If your argument is that the ACA raised the price of health insurance, that's incorrect: health insurance premiums had been skyrocketing prior to the ACA (that crisis was what generated the political capital to pass the bill), and the ACA in fact reduced the rate of growth in health care costs.
Had Bell Labs been allowed to sell it in first place and that would have been exactly its outcome.
Buffett Finally Embraces Amazon as Berkshire Acquires Stake
I didn't say factory farms, but that seems very difficult for some people to understand. I said insanely messed up industrial chicken industry. The kind where you just leave your dead chickens to rot next to your live chickens, where you don't give a shit about disease and contaminants "because we'll clean the eggs later", where you don't maintain a minimal sanitary level because "that just costs money", etc.

You can run a chicken battery with perfectly healthy chickens, plenty of light, hen retirement once their production drops below profitable instead of making them "lay until they drop dead", etc.
I suspect that a significant portion of open-source development is paid work that meets a business need, but not the business' product. I know that what little open-source contribution I've made has mostly been stuff I had to do at/for work that was easy enough to break off and have as a separate library/module.
I just looked up the ant colony algorithm, and intuitively the idea of pheromones and path reinforcement makes a lot of sense. Are you the first one to try it for NN search?
You can pause patreon campaigns. If you're open about your work life balance and how you need to take a month off from the project I think most people will understand that.
I really like the idea of high deductible plans. The idea for me is that insurance shouldn't cover regular costs that most people pay every year. Insurance should just be for unusual events, like car insurance is only used if you have an accident.

So now I got a $2k bill from ER for something that wasn't really an emergency. It makes me think carefully about next time this happens where before the cost didn't really affect me. Changing people's behavior is important part of reducing costs of the health care industry.

EDIT: Yes I'm not happy with how expensive prices are now. That is the problem that HD plans have.
Yes: if you go back in time, health care costs go down, because they've been rising rapidly over the past 20 years. But the only thing that happens at the point in time when the ACA passed is that the rate of growth in cost falls.
Raspberry Pi Streams Music Using Only the Default Linux Tools
I had a game gear back in the day with the TV tuner and brought it to camp one summer. Portable TV indeed! We did the same and found that even though it mostly received one solid channel it was too cool not to watch.
And I'd assume you guys have some employees who are paid competitive salaries by Formidable and end up working almost exclusively on your open source code anyway, right?
what's horrid about it exactly?
Oh c’mon... This is just empty, nihilistic cynicism. It actually contributes to the problem, because people just stop trying when, completely independent of their actions, they are continually derided as stupid/corrupt/egotistic/lying/etc.
Surely the rest of the world not washing their eggs means that you have those statistics freely available from any number of modern record-keeping nations, like France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and so on and so forth?
"The normal (left) and paranormal (right) distributions."

Your papers are fantastic.
Show HN: How Do Cryptocurrencies Work?
I never really considered this, but I believe you are right. I have travelled to dozens of different countries and the USA is the only one out of those to not have exit customs checks.
Guilty as charged, myself, for that one.
(Sorry, missed a phone autocorrect. It was supposed to read "highly intellectually impaired person")
They are tact switches, not capacitive. It's just a cheap GE.
I like it too, except that my (bronze level in the marketplace) high deductible plan is ~$1300 a month for my family, that is not sustainable. A recent ER visit with 1 night stay cost us about 8k out of pocket, the family deductible for the plan is $13k a year.
Right, you maxed your 401k, your IRA, your HSA, and all it took was a little financial prudence, diligence, and a job paying 60k or more straight out of high school. Anybody could do it.
With the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we as a society decided that racial segregation was bad, and trying to demonize people people buying homes in a certain area due to their race was wrong.

Especially with families buying from other families in a free exchange, I do not see the downside. The selling family is getting to sell at a much higher price than they would have gotten previously, and the buying family is getting a home that they feel is with the price.

* Edit, removed flamebait sentenced.
I've been doing this too, with mine! A recent discovery is that if you keep all the Y pieces pointing in the same compass direction you seem to end up with a track which is always 100% traversable in either forward or reverse.
I partially agree. I work for a public university and 100% of our code is MIT licensed. But I spend a ton of time outside of work on other open source projects. I'd love an extra 20USD/hr for that work. Heck I'd probably even open source a few more of my private repos.
Not to disciples of Noah Webster. (-:
I guess this weekend I'll be setting up my own registry. Gives me an opportunity to do something I've been meaning to do for awhile anyway.
Which is why there is a push to get rid of the 'disorder' wording in Autism Spectrum Disorder in the popular zeitgeist.

If all humans can be placed somewhere on the continuous spectrum of autism, then that's just a measure of humans. Just like how height or weight are continuous but normally distributed measures, autism is beginning to be seen as a normally distributed measure (more research required though).

Granted, how autism is measured is not at all the same as how something like height is measured. As we continue to advance with social media, digital tracking, etc, we may find a window into how to measure autism empirically, but who knows.

If/when that occurs, then yes, you could at least talk about standard deviations and start drawing borders between highly/mildly/average/low/lowest autism that a person has.

But, again, we're a long ways away from this.
>employed in corporate IT since I was 19

unlikely you'll ever collect from that 401k friend!
s/Khronos/Vulkan/
It's in the article
What would you replace it with? At the very core you need two things: the notion of a unit of data and some metadata to address it. To be as flexible as possible that unit of data would probably modeled as a sequence of individually addressable bytes but it could be more structured. Such a thing is dangerous because if your structure isn't sufficiently expressive 20 years down the road people will end up imposing their own structure on top of obj.binary and there goes all the work.

Once you have data and handles to access it you might start wanting some convenience features like access control, locking, namespacing, constraints, relationships.

I don't disagree that we can drop many of the current filesystem semantics but fundamentally all that really means is changing is the query language to access objects and manipulate their metadata.

I also don't disagree about process hierarchy. Being able to express relationships between processes beyond parent-child natively without farming out to an external scheduler would be awesome.
Yes, in 1821. The political landscape has changed somewhat. The Guardian has never been The Morning Star, but it has moved from a more overtly socialist position over the last few decades (oddities like Owen Jones aside).
The problem with the "gun" issue is that people who aren't in the culture get exposed to movies, crime reporting and crazy people and just don't have a perspective on many/most of the people who are into guns.

I grew up in NYC and moved to a country town when I was 10-11 years old. Guns were forbidden things that only cops and soldiers should have from our family's POV -- it was really awkward.

But the sporting, enthusiast and security drivers of demand for firearms is real and legitimate, and folks in that culture are equally confused about the point of view. My parent's neighbor had a bunch of guns -- probably like 20. Some were antique, he had shotguns for deer, trap/skeet, birds, rifles for hunting and target shooting and cheap ammo guns for plinking and practice. Shooting sports were family activities that were positive things. I was into baseball, my neighbor was into shooting and archery.

Unfortunately, the toxic politics around the issue encourage extreme positions and ultimate reduce real and nuanced issues into binary positions that encourage bad behavior. It doesn't help that extreme positions make money for different stakeholders.
> It makes me think carefully about next time this happens where before the cost didn't really affect me.

I don't think that necessarily leads to logical behavior as people are, not logical, not able to make these types of decisions knowledgeably.

Also let's be clear the situations we hear about with large ER bills and large volumes of non emergencies there are people who can't pay anyway.

I don't doubt the system works for you and you're a good participant, but i don't know if it works for a society as a whole.
> You made it seem as if the people arguing for decent treatment of illegal migrants are somehow for 'open borders', when nobody on the left is seriously talking about having open borders.

Where did I make it seem like that? I said that if you don't deport people, you have open borders. I don't recall making any statements about their treatment, express or implied.
That of course is state dependent - not all states carry permits get you out of the NICS check.
Including me, yes.
This would be illegal in many US States, though I doubt anyone would enforce it... unless you got into an accident while yelling at the Price is Right on your tiny screen.

https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/video-screens/
Very interesting. And in my opinion it seems to be a more general emerging property of sensorial systems. See:

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172592/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9336224
What if we surpass file systems completely? Imagine every process having its own "non-volatile" memory area, where all persistent state is kept between restarts, with a clean OS interface to share that state to other processes?

Terminals and process hierarchy are a complete no-go in a fresh design. Every entity in the system can be identified through unique IDs which can be handed down to other processes based on different OS policies.
WhatsCloud analyzes your WhatsApp chats to create word clouds and graphs
I brought my GameGear w/ tuner to summer camp in WI. Didn't matter what shows were on because it was the same, pretty magical.
I remember that post. It's not a remote chance. Every EU country will have to choose whether to stay forever in DST or forever in standard time, probably in 2021. Some of them will likely change time zone as a result.
How Scammers Trick People into Thinking They’re Wealthy
This one gets hard to pick into, given how nebulous the term NoSQL is.

One could probably argue, quite convincingly, that the point of truly early NoSQL was that SQL hadn't been invented yet.
It was re-written on an unsafe language that completely disregarded what has happened outside Bell Labs since 1961, at Burroughs, IBM, MIT, Xerox and other research cathedrals.

It only took off thanks to Bell Labs being forbidden to sell it, so it got offered for a symbolic price, alongside source code to major universities, which then decided to build on top, instead of paying OS street prices.

Had UNIX been sold in the same vein as other mainframe OSes and no one would be talking about whatever quality it might have had.
I'd like to know if there's any empiric data on how many people go to the ER for something that "wasn't really an emergency."

Then I'd like to know how many people have died because they didn't go to the ER for something that really was an emergency.

My guess would be that the latter greatly outweighs the former. And I'd follow up that guess with a wager that a large percentage of those people failed to go to the ER because they were worried about the cost.

If that's the kind of decision that high-deductible health care encourages, I don't think it's worth it.
Not all (current) 870's are even created equally. The cheap one at a cabela's and a police model from a gun store are totally different leagues.
Great article for getting a sense of what is of interest to a state. China has its own issues, but as a sample of what a given state considers interesting, it's a map for detecting how other countries likely collect the same information with some pretense of discretion. I'm sure we're all "shocked, shocked!" to have just found this out.
Thanks! Keeping the server's update loop at 60 / second makes the game simulation more accurate. Too low of an update rate can lead to missed collisions - for example, a bullet moving fast enough could pass right through a player in the time between updates. Of course, that can be easily resolved, but it proves the point that more server updates = more accurate simulation.

On the flip side, we want to limit the number of updates we send to clients to keep bandwidth usage reasonable, so the server only sends updates 30 times / second.
High deductible plans started becoming popular due to the Medicare Modernization Act[1], not the ACA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,_Im...
One of our company's primary products "helps employees make an informed decision when choosing their health insurance plan". Basically, during open enrollment they are presented with their choices of plans and the "expected total cost" of each plan over the course of the year as calculate based on either, if we have their consent, their historic data or, if we don't have their consent, the historic data of a representative cohort.

The product wasn't getting traction based on employer's wanting to provide such a service to their employees, so the sales pitch was changed. The sales pitch became, "You can save your company money by moving your employees to High Deductible Health Plans. Our product presents data that encourages employees to choose HDHPs over other plans." I'm not sure if that is currently the sales pitch, but it was the primary one for two-ish years. Our customer base is now non-trivial.

I've overheard some of the conversations as to how the "representative cohort" is determined and about our data sources. It wouldn't pass a peer review. Additionally, in the past we have re-worked the numbers because our customer didn't like the results. That is, feedback from the company, not the company's employees. They did, after all, hire us to get their employees to move to a HDHP.

And to top it off, the product hasn't been a great revenue source. So we're effectively compromising real people's health care coverage, for our company's business interests, and it hasn't even been that profitable.

Our health insurance plan at this company is a HDHP...
Remember when it was becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between real headlines and Onion headlines?
Well, now it's becoming harder to tell the difference between reality and SCP Foundation logs.
Electron 5.0.0 – Electron Blog
Doing this in a fully automated way that works well is tough. Blindly applying DroidMOSS falls over against simple techniques.

Add to it that lots of repackaged apps are distributed outside channels that Google controls and you've got a hard problem.
This has nothing to do with HDHPs. (Additionally: the tax was delayed to 2022).
I agree. People tend to forget that their "rights" end where another person's rights begin. Every right comes with responsibilities. While freedom of speech is important, the right to live peacefully free from hateful invective is probably even more fundamental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6BYzLIqKB8
> If you exchanged the races, this articles seems like it could have been written by a Klansman.

This counts as flamebait because it doesn't teach us anything substantive and there's no question as to its flaminess. Could you please leave out this sort of thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But that's not how you do cost benefit analysis. If the cost to vaccinate a chicken is one or even several cents per chicken, then you're calculating the price offset based on the total yield of that chicken, i.e. the eggs that chicken produces.

Production chickens have a one day laying cycle, so you get about an egg a day, for about a year before production drops off to less than that. So that's 5 cents on a minimum of 350 eggs (more if the chicken is kept despite production drop-off), which would be a staggeringly irrelevant price increase per egg if vaccination would be legislated into being a mandatory practice.

Which it should be.

Years ago.
Except that early diagnosis has been shown consistently to improve outcomes and reduce costs.
Latency ≠ throughput
AptDeco CEO Reham Fagiri Shares Creepy Story That Led to Her Startup
Good certificates die young: what's passive revocation and how's it implemented?
What lost tax revenue do you mean? Self-employed/temp/gig workers still pay the same taxes as full time employees.
I don't know about this particular issue, but in general there's something to be said for beneficent dictatorship. My hypothesis is that sometimes the choosing of individual parts that are measurably better on their own, when combined produce something that is less than if the parts weren't optimally chosen but were cogently chosen to meet a particular ideology or end.
I don't know much about the OS and designs, but is that similar to how Redox is approaching it with "everything is a url"[0]?

[0]https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/urls_schemes_resources....
I especially liked this bit
"The pension fund for the Boston-area public water utility invests in Cerberus. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, CalSTRS, is a Cerberus client, as is a pension fund for the Presbyterian Church as well as many university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and philanthropic foundations."
Made me chuckle a bit inside, as I know a couple people who are less on the side of guns, as they are more on the side of teaching, who would be dying inside knowing their retirement money is used like this.
UNIX was a great design for a wide range of people. FOr example, multiple domains of science were transformed because UNIX made it easy to implement microcomputers for data collection on realtime data and share the resulting software among a pool of other researchers.
Yeah, the discovery institute is just another creation science cover front. No science, just 'truth'. They try hard to look legit. And a fascinating fact is they are in Seattle of all places. It's a 'the earth is 9000 years old somehow' place and "let's cast suspicion on all science that contradicts the bible".
The unpublished Build op-ed
I'd agree with you more if they were only incentivizing certain projects, but it sounds like employees are paid for any open source work. And I agree the $20/hr is low enough that most devs could make more freelancing on the side, so why bother with open source? Seems balanced enough to be worth trying, and they're reporting the experiment as a success.
If I googled "egg white sulfur" you would have a point about confirmation bias. But I just googled "egg sulfur" and clicked on the top few results, all of which either pointed to the white or didn't mention either way.
That's why I said worst rather than lowest or highest. Depending on the nature of the trade the price to use may be the lowest price in the window or the highest price in the window.
Insurance is not suited for health care. It's suited for emergencies. Sometimes health care is that, although preferably not often, and less often if proper care is given when due.

But general health care—the practice of keeping people healthy, rather than fixing them when ill—is not suited to the insurance model, and the insurance industry is too powerful to let control who gets which treatment.

A proper model pays the actual healthcare provider to keep you healthy on the regular, and then it costs you nothing in the event of sickness or emergency (like you need more stress at that moment).

The very idea of mutual indemnity is out the window with modern insurance, it's all about squeezing stats for margins, at which point there is not real mutuality, only competing risk profiles. Of course, a group of people might want to pool for emergencies, or even general health, but is there any benefit to the current scale of insurers? It only makes them more powerful.
> The only "advantage" is that companies have to pay smaller premiums and employees are greatly discouraged from getting care due to high costs.

In principle the advantage is that employees are greatly discouraged from paying too much for care. If the insurance pays for everything then what do you care if your doctor is charging $1000 for a physical instead of $50? If you're paying out of pocket, now you care.

The problem is we also have a lack of price transparency, so it's arduous to actually determine the price you'll be charged for routine care and avoid the places who are overcharging, which correspondingly becomes nearly everyone. The states would do everyone a favor to pass and enforce some price transparency laws.

And the advantage of lower premiums is that it allows you to receive that money. If your employer is raising your plan's deductible and giving the balance saved in premiums to you, that's the advantage -- you get the money. If they're not, go ask for a raise or find another employer who will pay you more, in the same way you would if they lowered your compensation in any other way.
The fundamental problem is when you cover emergency care but not preventative care, you get more emergency care.

Because emergency care is more expensive, this is worse for everybody in the long run, except for profitable hospitals and insurance companies who enjoy the increased revenues.
Resume viewing. Resume viewing.
Thought to learn something, but in Belgium. Some train stations don't have an required entrance, you can just walk to the rail where the train stops.

It isn't going to win a design competition, but here is an example:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/pKf6WxvnS27Vfmzt8

Checks happen during the train ride.