skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Criticizing single payer would do well to start by criticizing the current Medicare system."

Will do.

I have spoken with doctors and they hate medicare. It doesn't pay on time, it pays below market rates, it dictates what they can do with their patients, etc. These doctors still see medicare patients out of compassion, but they are losing money on each one. Think I'm making this up? I just did a quick web search and here's a quote from someone else:

"Yet, thanks to the federal program’s low reimbursement rates, stringent rules and grueling paperwork process, many doctors are refusing to accept Medicare’s payment for services. Case in point: In 2000, nearly 80% of the Texas Medical Association’s doctors were taking new Medicare patients. By 2012, that number dropped to less than 60%.

Why are more and more doctors turning down Medicare? The answer is simple: Medicare typically pays doctors only 80% of what private health insurance pays. While a gap always existed, many physicians feel that in the past several years, Medicare reimbursements haven't kept pace with inflation (especially the costs of running a medical practice), while the rules and regulations keep getting more onerous, as do penalties for not complying with them." --https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10021...

Here's another link a quick web search turned up: https://www.verywellhealth.com/doctors-accept-medicare-insur...

So, if we all go only-medicare, how many doctors decide to retire early? <edit>How many potential doctors will decide to do something else instead?</edit> What quality of doctors and care are we left with?
I'm no architect, but I feel it's absolutely crazy to throw completely different styles of buildings into the same box, label them modernist and blanket reject them. I absolutely love some [1], but hate others [2]. I'm sure most people feel the same.

[1] https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/g8674077/modern-ho...

[2] https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/g8674077/modern-ho...
Nice find! TLDR below:

> Why Mauna Loa? Early attempts to measure CO2 in the USA and Scandinavia found that the readings varied a lot due to the influence of growing plants and the exhaust from motors. Mauna Loa is ideal because it is so remote from big population centres. Also, on tropical islands at night, the prevailing winds blow from the land out to sea, which effect brings clean, well-mixed Central Pacific air from high in the atmosphere to the observatory. This removes any interference coming from the vegetation lower down on the island.

> But how about gas from the volcano? It is true that volcanoes blow out CO2 from time to time and that this can interfere with the readings. Most of the time, though, the prevailing winds blow the volcanic gasses away from the observatory. But when the winds do sometimes blow from active vents towards the observatory, the influence from the volcano is obvious on the normally consistent records and any dubious readings can be easily spotted and edited out.
* Regular expressions. The most valuable "not a language" that I know.
* SQL. For me, it was a trip coming from a procedural language background. I kept trying to figure out how to do loops.
* Command line - DOS and unix
* Batch languages for those.
* HTML / CSS / Java (please don't kill me) Script and the DOM
Well said. I have come across candidates looking for engineering positions with a laundry list of fancy technologies they claim to have have worked on — yet can’t answer simplest questions about the fundamentals — way too often for my liking. There seems to be an inherent assumption that one just needs to be able to operate the newfangled technology of the day to be an engineer. Who needs to know about how network calls are made or the mechanics of spawning processes/threads — there are libraries to abstract all that.
The Boy in the Photo
> So I could now sue Microsoft because I can only buy XBox games from their store?

Yes, though I have no idea if you would win. This decision doesn't decide that Apple has a monopoly or that Apple is abusing a monopoly. It decides that the end-user purchasers of apps on the app store are Apple's customers, not customers of the app developer only. It follows that they are entitled to raise a suit that Apple is abusing monopoly powers in a way that harms them. Whether Apple has a monopoly, and if so, whether Apple is abusing that monopoly both remain to be decided. (My guess is neither.)
One issue I see is that it's much more pervasive. I have no idea what the USA train stations' newspapers are, since I seldom take the train. Also because I live in Europe.

Google on the other hand, has a much bigger reach.
Religion has no bearing in this, it's the church who has been the facilitator, and the church is made of regular people.

Priests have sexual needs, that's understandable, but they could satisfy them without victimizing others. The line is harming someone, specially if they are defenseless. The beliefs of the perpetrators don't enter the equation.
I also find git blame extremely useful, along with code exploration tools like DeepGit [0]

[0] https://www.syntevo.com/deepgit/
"The right side of history" is for politicians to pursue, not for judges. They aren't supposed to make policies or create laws, their job is to apply the laws. If they do their job correctly, and you disagree with the constitution and therefore also with their decisions, that should never be an issue for them.
I don't understand what you are saying. COBRA is not a different, more expensive type of insurance. It's a law that allows you to extend the insurance plan you received through your employer for 18+ months after your employment is terminated. However, you need to pay the full amount (the premium you paid before, plus what the employer had been contributing on your behalf) plus a 2% fee.
lots of good Brutalism / Modernism accounts on Instagram if you're into that:

https://www.instagram.com/thisbrutalhouse/

https://www.instagram.com/themodernhouse/
These algorithm on the scale of Google seems to have a feedback loop, i.e. what Googles links is what will be linked much from elsewhere favoring big players.
Telegram bot API (JS): manage a flow of actions that have to be executed in row
Real news sites post reported news. Breitbart digests news from real news sites. It's essentially a glamorized group blog, like Daily Kos. In fact, Breitbart is basically the right-wing version of Talking Points Memo, another group blog dressed up to look like a news site.

Fox News is a sharply right-wing news site with a very strong editorial bias. I don't like Fox News, but I can't argue that it doesn't belong in the same bracket as CNN. Breitbart does not.
It's hard to define "safely" landfilled as well. Many places still leak out toxic leachate into water tables due to a lack of barriers on the landfill. They also severely disrupt large tracts of land. They also vent off tremendous amounts of methane. There isn't much safe about most landfills out there.
Found the Uber employee.
The Uber drivers I've talked to set specific hours for when they're cruising around the city waiting for rides.

The Amazon delivery approach would require them to drive from the city, to a remote fulfilment center to pick up goods, and then drive back to the city to deliver them. Is there a different way this can be done?
If your concern is safety then one of solution is to impose high penalty/punishment for reckless driving.
A new version of "The Pragmatic Programmer" recently came out. [EDIT: not available yet, only preorder at amazon, beta version available at pragprog.com.] That book is all about tools and methods that a self-taught programmer should look into:

https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-journey-mastery-...
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but here goes anyway...

Why does hitting the enter key not "go into directory" or "open file"?

Because Return renames the file. To open the file or directory you use Command-O, just like you'd use Command-P to print the file.

I can't even see a path tree to know where I am in the filesystem out of the box.

View > Show Path Bar. Or, Command-Option-P

Search, by default searches the entire system not the directory I'm in

On my machine it searches where I am. Just tried it.

The default presentation is some weird list of random stuff from my system, recent files and temporary files and assorted irrelevant garbage. I had to fuss with options for quite some time just to get this to be intelligible.

Sounds like you're using a Mac from 1987.

What the hell are all these colors? Why would any sane person want to group their files by color?

I do it all the time. If I'm going through a bunch of files that I need to deal with later, I'll tag the files for one client yellow, and another client blue, and another client green. When it's time to do something with those files I just type "green" into the search, and all of those tagged files just show up.

Also, while the tags are color-coded, it's not about the colors. It's file tagging. You can tag a file "Client X" or "Taxes" or "Animals" and then search for all files tagged Taxes modified in the last three months of a particular file type. The colors are just a place to start.
Ok, we'll switch to that from https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/05/13/world/europe/ap-....
And a tip for anyone trying to defend Sweden - calling this rape shows your bias right away - that word is just used to discredit him.
He has a blog: https://foone.wordpress.com/

He uses twitter for shorter, quick posts. A "micro" blog, if you will.
"Redefine transportation" is going a bit far. Maybe the public realizes Uber's basically a taxi company without any taxis...
Thanks for posting this. I'm generally biased against DRM as it tends to enable abusive business practices, but you've made some solid points I wish people engaged with better in the discussion.

The liability angle is particularly interesting here - I didn't really consider that part of the drive to DRM everything might be pressure created by regulators. It's obvious in the case of autonomous driving, but not necessarily elsewhere. Then again:

> Who would the EPA go after if it had caused emissions issues?

Would they really go after Deere? I never checked this, but I think in case of cars, end-users are liable for the modifications; if the company has tests proving that the model under investigation meets the regulatory standards in its sold configuration, then they're off the hook. Why would the same thinking not apply to farm equipment?

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In the perfect world, it would all work itself out. In the real world, while the farmers have every incentive to extract as much performance as physically possible from their equipment, JD - like every business - has a lot of incentive to screw farmers over. Competitive pressure is a traditional protection against too much abuse of customers, but it doesn't really apply all that much when you have a small amount of providers. DRM itself is, in its general form, a mechanism for creating a localized alternative reality, in which you can attach colour to bits[0]. It allows businesses to enforce arbitrary rules in their products - rules that would be impossible to enforce in pre-computer reality. This is open for abuse, and also kind of destroys the protection of competitive pressure - attach DRM to something, and its complementary commodities stop being commodities. Customers lose their traditional protection from abusive tendencies of for-profit businesses.

There must be a better way, one that creates a fair balance between interests of sellers and buyers, but I too don't know what it is.

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[0] - https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Interesting you should say this, as I've found Google News to be "desperately local", to the point of excess. I'm all for regional news and mixing things up, but typically when I've traveled somewhere within the UK perhaps for a weekend, Ithen get inundated with totally inappropriate news from the area for ages, until I proactively block it!

Their algorithms can suggest amazing insight at times, but when you suddenly get stuff like "Local council changes bin days in Huddersfield" it's clear they have a long way to go to understand news relevance, especially when you were just passing through.
Sorry, must have been hungry when I posted that! Not autocorrect, just an old-fashioned spelling issue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19897250
Again, a consumer using something doesn't justify anti-competitive behavior with companies. If the bar for antitrust was whether or not a person bought it, then there wouldn't be a need for antitrust law.
People thought we couldn't make a dent in the ocean's resources too. My gut tells me there'll always be some sort of catch...
Err no.. I disagree. I’d rather hire someone with strong fundamentals but with minimal knowledge of the stack over someone who can cobble together a solution using the stack/framework but has unclear fundamentals.
There are definitely some confounding factors other than architecture to account for. At least in Boston, new construction isn't replicating the century-old triple decker (of course, truly doing that would take a century of wear and tear). So I have to wonder how much of that price premium comes from having brand new stainless steel appliances and on-site gyms instead of creaky floors and questionable wiring. And then it seems to me, just wandering around town, the "modern" new construction is priced well above market price (lots of units sit vacant for a long time, with many eventually adding deal-sweetening offers like a month or two of free rent).
>molecule : gas = person : humanity, a person has personality but a large mass of persons has a behavior of its own, an inertia that you can't change as an individual.

It's interesting, and there's a lot of truth to it; but I really believe the truth is somewhere in the middle and I would be much more careful not to want to cheapen the heroes of the world. Certain people do have a willingness to put themselves at risk to seek virtue.
Try getting a quote on the price of a baby delivery from a hospital before you go.

https://youtu.be/Tct38KwROdw
SpaceX is claiming in the neighborhood of $1500/kg to put something into LEO. If you want to put a structure on the order of billions of kilograms into orbit it would make more sense to get that mass from something already out there and park it in high orbit instead - and space-based mining technology doesn't exist yet.
> Amazon is the second largest private employer in the US, they seem to be fine with paychecks.

I think the bigger issue is unionization. In Canada, many Fedex workers belong to a union. Pretty sure that is non-existed at Uber.
The UK trial was not on the rape charges (there was no permitted discussion of the evidence or total lack of it). The ruling was over whether the UK was bound to extradite given the Swedish government's refusal to interview Assange in England or indict him in Sweden. The tortured legal conclusion was basically that the UK couldn't definitively conclude the Swedes were acting in bad faith, and they couldn't be entirely sure that Assange was only being extradited for questioning (technically illegal).

As far as the Swedes go, the Swedish government discussed the case when it closed it for the first time. If the government hasn't been public about the case since it was re-opened by a political appointee, perhaps it is because there is zero evidence against Assange. We know this because the pretext for re-opening the case was the "discovery" of new physical evidence (a broken condom) that lacked any of Assange's DNA. This is all public knowledge, btw. Funny how it isn't discussed much in the press.
But what if there’s nothing to purge? What if the church itself is the catalyst for creating predators?

The fact that this problem has spanned generations tells me that this isn’t something you can purge, it’s fundamental to the way the church operates. Ask a man to be celibate and then give him unquestioned, divine power over individuals? Of course you’re going to have a predator problem!
The site guidelines ask you not to make insinuations about things like astroturfing and brigading. People typically reach for those explanations to account for behavior they dislike, like people expressing an opposing view, when a much simpler explanation almost always suffices: divisive topics are divisive.

If you're really concerned about it you can email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. But please avoid casual insinuations of nefariousness, because those are a problem in their own right—they erode community. And from everything I've seen, having looked at it a lot, this is actually a much bigger problem than the underlying phenomenon people are worrying about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've written about this a lot if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
The downside of message busses is that they can be really hard to debug for third parties. I run into this in SystemD, where a process will hang at startup waiting for a particular signal, and I have to hunt down all of the locations that signal could have been generated from to see which one failed. Much much harder than the old system where you would find the line you stalled on and then read up a few lines to see what it was trying to do.
So you are willing to die of something easily treatable for $100,000 because there exist people in the world who can't afford treatment?
MCAS is not there because of maintaining pilot type rating.

The plane's airworthiness certificate depends on certain behavior while approaching stall and the new larger and more forward engines on the MAX changed the behavior of the machine in such way that would make it very difficult for the crew to bring the nose down at high angles of attack and high thrust.

The engines on the MAX are forward of the CoG, so they are pushing the nose up as you add thrust - exactly what you do not want when approach a stall. MCAS has been added to help with this - to help the crew push the nose down in such situation by using the stabilizer trim.

The older NG doesn't have this issue because the engines are both smaller and more to the back, so the pitch-up moment is smaller, even though it is still present. This is an inherent issue with underslung engines, all planes with engines mounted under and ahead of the CoG have this issue.

>If it is the case that 737 MAX is not actually airworthy without a functioning MCAS then Boeing has fucked up an order of magnitude worse than even they appear to have at this point.

That's BS. By that logic no Airbus or any fly-by-wire plane could ever be certified - they actually require the computer augmentations to fly. Even the 737 NG has a similar trim system that automatically trims the plane depending on speed, angle of attack and what not.
I'll have to add `git reflog` for instances where you've felt that you've completely screwed up something as one can always move back to a previous state. I think this is essential.

A useful one that I'll add is what I call the sword command:
`git log -S<word>`
This one allows one to list commits that contain a particular change. This has been useful in tracking down old changes
They don't have to care about their workers in this case. Studies also say that such work environments are also hugely detrimental to both employee retention and productivity, and health.

Corporations have incredibly difficultly a. not following short term fads (Facebook did this so it must be good) and b. not trading long-term losses (productivity, sickness, retention) for short-term gains (less real-estate == cheaper) that get outweighed by those losses.
Tamagotchi Have Returned to Bewitch a New Generation
And more widely; languages that burden the programmer with such extraneous grammar in the first place.
Uber fell about 10-11% and the broader market measured by, say, VTI, fell about 2.5%. Big difference.
> Why did they buy Whole Foods? They could have easily opened up a few hundred grocery stores too.

Opening up a few hundred stores is an expensive, time consuming endeavor. In contrast, creating a ride sharing app and promoting it a bit seems like something that a large tech company could pull off much easier.
Beyond Meat seems to be doing well.
> Engine horsepower, for example, can be increased by a software update.

How do you see this as an asset? Deere designed a part that's capable of doing something and your software chokes that back unless they poney up.

In manufacturing we have the same thing. You buy a CNC machine that comes equipped with 16mb of memory, but only 2mb is usable. If you want all 16mb (which already exists soldered to your motherboard) you need to pony up thousands of dollars for a 16 digit code that unlocks the added memory.

And you're trying to tell me that by requiring the manufacturer to share that code is bad for the consumer? Yeah, you don't sound like a shill or anything.

And no, Deere shouldn't fix that under warranty. It's the same with cars. You can do that trick to a Honda with a resistor in-line to the MAF sensor and it will run the car lean, giving the illusion of more performance while wearing out the engine and burning the combustion chamber way too hot. Should Honda fix that? No way! Should Honda let the customer do it anyway? Of course they should! Should Honda share the schematics with the customer so they not only realize that it's a bad idea, but also know WHY it's a bad idea? Yes.

Your argument is straw man. If you didn't have secrets you wouldn't need DRM. DRM doesn't protect anyone except the edge-case of idiots who shouldn't mess with the tractor even if you gave them the repair manual anyway. It's strictly to protect Deere.
More important than any specific technique or tool is that you get an experienced mentor to look at your work once in a while and point out the obvious things relevant to the specific project that you don't know you don't know. Seriously, you'll probably save a few months of work in the first ten minutes of talking to a senior developer about your hobby project.

Talk to someone with many years of experience, though, otherwise you'll most likely get sent on a quest for beauty of implementation that has nothing to do with the goals you're trying to achieve. Sadly, that is a lesson that takes a long time to internalize.
This is mostly true. But, for example, they’ve interviewed Trump in the Oval Office. So not entirely un-credentialed.

You’ll say; This says more about Trump than it does about Breitbart.