skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that the hospitals don't turn you away if you are in need of urgent care. That statistic is looking at patients who avoided regular healthcare due to lack of insurance. Which is a problem.

And if we're looking at that, you have to look at the other side of the coin. Socialized healthcare systems have much larger wait times and you can find deaths attributed to those, so it's disingenuous to say ZERO people died in countries that have universal healthcare.

More research needs to be done before enforcing such a system on a wide scale in America. There has been data suggesting deaths and suffering related from long wait times in Canada. Then you have the increase of Canadians coming to America to escape the wait times. As well what we've seen with VA and ObamaCare wait times.

> 25,456 and 63,090 Canadian women may have died as a result of increased wait times between 1993 and 2009

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/bacchus-barua-/wait-times-cana...

Basically you trade the fear of going into debt and not getting healthcare vs wanting to get healthcare and not being allowed to for an arbitrary amount of time. There are more pros and cons to each system, but my point is that socialized healthcare systems has it's fault and certainly does cause deaths in some instances.

> 19.8 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment

> across the 10 provinces, the total number of procedures for which people are waiting in 2018 is 1,082,541

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...
>but if you're only buying it for a few months to avoid being wiped out in case the worst happens, then you probably don't care about that.

Right, as I said though, the coverage is retroactive to the day you lost your health insurance. So if you have a heart attack a month and a half after losing your job, you can buy COBRA after having the heart attack, and you won't have to pay for the heart attack.
I have single payer healthcare and a healthcare insurance as a perk from my employer. It cuts waiting time to see specialists for some conditions from some times many weeks to one or two days. It cuts waiting times for surgery from 90 days in the public system to 20 with my private insurance. That’s it.

I believe this is around $400/year of which around half will count as a taxable benefit. I think it’s unavoidable that there will be a market for this type of premium services, and I don’t mind. The public healthcare has to operate efficiently on cost so doctors and equipment needs to be fully utilized and patients thus need to queue. A doctor I can se within 24h doesn’t have a full schedule, so is likely an underused - and thereby a luxury - service.

Whether a healthcare system is “fair” isn’t a simple question, but whether it’s sane can be answered by a few test questions such as “can a contracting a serious medical condition eve be a financial disaster?”.
Tips for resource forecasting in project management
PostgreSQL and The great development modernization debate
IIRC, the article from the HN post on AMP Stories the other day mentioned the Washington Post as a charter featured participant.
The book "Private Empire" by Steve Coll is excellent on this. Unbearably frustrating at points, because it seems that Exxon were well aware of the issue and there were some suggestions rolling around that would have made them trailblazers in renewables, but they were just too risk-averse.
Hell, I can predict who will die with 100% accuracy. All of us.
It was developed by multiple people "hacking" on it over the "net", back when "the net" was far from being ubiquitous, and so using it for collaborative software development was still special.

Before "nethack", there was "hack", but I don't know much about that, except that it was a clone of "rogue", the original "rogue-like". There is some history here: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hack
I don't know how you could read the article you linked and come away with that conclusion.
Note that when I wrote this, the headline here was still the NYT's headline.
It should be “SEAL” (all caps), not “Seal”.
I think its already relevant for Tesla. You can't buy replacement parts and wrench your own fix, you have to buy a totaled Tesla to pull parts from and you void your warranty, unlike any car ever made in the past 100 years but right in line with the tech sector anti consumer practices we let slide.
"Sully level pilot"

Sully didn't do anything hard from a piloting standpoint. He made the right decision to ditch in the Hudson. Once that decision was made, it was just a long glide. Plenty of room. He had the full Airbus flight control system doing most of the work. Read "Fly By Wire", by Langewiesche, which goes into this in great detail.

The Ethiopian Air pilots faced a very tough problem. They were nosing down for an unknown reason, the standard recovery procedure didn't work, and they didn't have much altitude.
> Fox tends to be less objective than WP and NYT

I get where you're coming from, but if you're not a card-carrying progressive then this statement feels egregiously false. The Washington Post was at the forefront of the Covington debacle. NYT pushes editorials about how mixed race dating is bad (from a "woke" perspective), among other crazy, far-left ideology.

What gets me about this whole subject is that everyone I know who watches Fox News knows that they're watching partisan spin, even the elderly ones. It's kind of a theater of overblown, right wing outrage that they're willing participants in. Most people I know who watch CNN think that it's objective, which couldn't be further from the truth.
It would be better if we had a community here that could handle discussing topics like this in a sensitive and respectful way.
Its going to get worse too before it gets better - you know the underwriter was in there manipulating the market the last couple of days trying to prop the stock. When that's gone, look out.
Books: Operating Systems/Database/Networking/Computer Security/Computer Architecture textbooks, Software Engineering textbooks (Clean Code, Design Patterns, Designing Data Intensive Applications, Domain Driven Design as a short list off the top of my head)
Yes, it is here [1].

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall/
Thanks for that. It's coming back. I now remember I've seen that article but I wasn't thinking of it when I wrote but another one on the same or similar matter. Seems I've concatenated both together in my mind even though they were written decades apart.

That said, the original articles seemed conceptually important to me at the time so at least some of the info stuck. It'll be interesting to see if the technology eventually makes into mainstream. I'd put money on it that it will.
If I recall, it did stay at around 12k altitude for a stable period of flight where MCAS was being successfully neutralized. It's in the Ethiopian report. The airspeed was way above limit, though, which would make everything harder, including the manual retrimming.
When you collect as much data as Amazon, you can start attributing incremental worker time spent picking/carrying down to the SKU level. This means that cost of worker time is less for things like books (a picker can carry many and move quickly) while a 60" TV might require two pickers moving slowly.

Better attribution of cost means more margin to play with and cost savings that can be pushed onto customers in a fairer sense - especially if your pricing is automated.

Interestingly Kiva may then selectively reduce the costs associated with bulky goods as they're probably better at moving big stuff and travel faster/shorter.
Yeah, it's really bad when insurance covers only 60% of even the insured!
Please explain how socialized will pay for it. Or more accurately, why. Treatment for some things is expensive, eventually we have to say that some treatment isn't worth it. Cancer can get expensive, and some treatments cost a lot of money while only adding a few weeks to lifespan. Why should those be paid for? Note that adding a few weeks is an average measure - some people die of treatment, some get "cured" and live for a few years.

Now turn the table, you are the one with cancer. There is an expensive treatment that might or might not work, but it is the only hope left. How much is this wroth to you?
10G is a very slow speed at this point. But yes, there are very good use cases for FPGAs.
DTrace is life-altering.

I keep hoping that someone will build a dtrace(1) CLI that transpiles to bpftrace.
Yup, tried that until boss yelled at me. You can say any estimate that's low enough, or you'll get a stern "that's too long", or even "bullshit". After boss left my 3 team members piled on me to make the estimate 5 days instead of my 2 weeks, saying it can be later extended. I said then why not make it 2 weeks and shorten layer. No response.

The task could take 5 days but it's a lottery. A bugfix in a convoluted system.

I would go with the 5 days, but I don't trust the boss. He never takes responsibility for any setback.
I would be surprised if there weren’t several Chinese companies trying.

It would be really funny if one was Huawei.
There's that angle, yeah, but it's the creation of a single point of failure that I was thinking about. And not even in all that tech-centric a way.

My hometown used to make a sizable chunk of the US's fasteners, and there was real concern during the Cold War that dropping a single bomb on it could cripple the entire nation's industrial capacity. Here, it seems like there may be an unacceptable strategic risk that a bomb dropped on Moline, Illinois could cripple the entire nation's food production capacity.
Ask HN: Where can I do a self-study math degree online?
My background is in CS and I’m currently working as an ML engineer, but I’m very eager to go back for a PhD soon.

In the mean time, I’ve noticed my maths isn’t as strong as I’d like it to be. That aside, I’ve also taken a big interest into calculus.

Are there any online courses (free or non-free) that would allow me to learn mathematics either through self study, or as a MOOC? I’ll gladly take undegrad level courses. I just want something structured.

I’ve found that even trying to really study through books things like number theory, proofs, and integration takes huuuuge time investments. I feel like this will be less so with a structured course and teacher.
If you are new to WebRTC it is a really amazing technology, and lots of powerful things can be built with it. It isn't just a technology for conferencing, you can build powerful P2P software that works on all platforms (including your browser!)

You can see it in use in places like IPFS[0] so come check out the examples[1] and build something cool.

We also would love to chat! You can find us on Slack[2], while this channel was started for Pion there is a lot of interesting general WebRTC conversation going on.

----

I am excited to announce that v2.0.* has officially landed and stabilized! Multiple large production users have migrated to it and we fixed all the bugs we found along the way.

This was a really big release, you can see the full release notes[3] are some exciting parts though.

* Unified Plan and Plan-B support

* QUIC Support

* WebAssembly Support

* ICE Regular Nomination (better support for NATs)

* Massive SCTP performance and reliability improvements

* API Cleanup to better match the WebRTC Spec

We are also starting work on v2.1.* which so far will include the following. If you have a feature that you think is important we would love to hear!

* TURN Support

* User configurable JitterBuffer

* Re-negotiation (allow multiple Offer/Answer)

[0] https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-webrtc-direct

[1] https://github.com/pion/webrtc/tree/master/examples

[2] https://pion.ly/slack

[3] https://pion.ly/knowledge-base/release-notes/webrtc-v2.0.0/
Earlier in that essay he talked about a "coup". So I suppose he should be charged with insurrection as well.
I don't recall much discussion of home-schooled kids. Unless the parents are deliberately limiting the children's socialization with peers their own age, I'd expect that it doesn't matter.

The common misconception is that kids emulate their parents to become successful adults. Where in actuality, kids emulate other (sometimes slightly older) kids, in order to become successful kids.
The link you included says the opposite of what you're implying.

> under the circumstances the captain's decision to ditch into the Hudson River was the better choice, documents released Tuesday by a federal safety panel said

> He also would have had no way of knowing that he would be successful, and therefore would have been risking the possibility of a catastrophic crash in a densely populated area.
There was! But I can't for the life of me remember who or what the site address was.
This was disproven. And is a major plot point in the movie about Flight 1549 (Sully).

From Wikipedia:

> The NTSB used flight simulators to test the possibility that the flight could have returned safely to LaGuardia or diverted to Teterboro; only seven of the thirteen simulated returns to La Guardia succeeded, and only one of the two to Teterboro.

> Furthermore, the NTSB report called these simulations unrealistic: "The immediate turn made by the pilots during the simulations did not reflect or account for real-world considerations, such as the time delay required to recognize the bird strike and decide on a course of action." A further simulation, in which a 35-second delay was inserted to allow for those, crashed.
Emphasise the privacy violations and don't mention the sexism and HN will like you more.
I would just be happy with a change that allowed me to not keep repeating the type identifier all the time. Something like:

int foo(int x, y, z, float a, b, c) { ...

instead of

int foo(int x, int y, int z, float a, float b, float c) { ...

Yes, you can pack things like that into a struct sometimes, but not always. From talking to folks who were on the ANSI committee at the time, there was some reason why the first example wouldn't work. Some parsing ambiguity, but I forget the details.

It's distressing to see new languages (like D) adopt this verbose style as if it were some well thought out idea. It wasn't, it was just a consequence of the new declaration style that the ANSI C committee adopted.
This is over the line and breaks the HN guideline against taking threads further into generic flamewar. Please don't do that. This somewhat-specific flamewar is bad enough as it is.

Also, please stop using HN for ideological battle. We've given you a ton of warnings about that already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
3% energy growth is unsustainable in the long run; at that rate we are about 1000 years from using more energy per year than the sun emits in totality:

2015 energy usage 110PWh for the entire year[1]

That works out to ~1.8e13 W average power.

Total output for the sun is about 4e26 W[2]

This works out to about 44 doublings, and 3% growth is a doubling every 24 years which means we need to surpass Kardashev II in 1000 years.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
2: https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/MatthewTsang.shtml
Isn't gentrification the opposite of what's been happening to the Internet? Previously, only a small, well-educated minority was online, but now the Internet has never been more accessible to the masses. With a cheap smartphone and data, even rural Indians who make a fraction of the average person in the West are able to have access to the Internet, while previously you need an expensive computer, an expensive modem, and the required knowledge.

And let's not get into the cost of server and hosting, which have never been so low.
Jesus, that's incredible. If we regard modern automation as effectively replacing slave labor, that's the equivalent of having 100 human slaves doing hard physical graft on behalf of each and every person 24 hours a day.
At that point, one might as well start mentally breaking down the Larger System into smaller Sub Systems and the Contracts between them.
As a liberal, this sort of thing drives me nuts. It's like my side has completely ceded the ground of both economic liberty and economic opportunity to conservatives, because neoliberalism has made "capitalism" such a dirty word on the left. As liberals, we should own the conversation about small business. Sigh.

Being trapped as the vassal of a giant corporation just to not-die is in direct opposition to the very concept of liberty. Being able to quit your job and create your own business is an essential freedom. But liberal politicians are unwilling to market that way, and so the neoliberal political class gets to argue for the preservation of a system that benefits the wealthy and the corporate at the expense of the liberty (and wallets!) of ordinary people as the "free market". Feh.
>If I wrote a textbook which explains some badly written and archaic laws really well, and lawyers and judges started to look to it as the de facto law, should that void my copyright?

Given copyright only exists under the law, in the rare case that this happens, a sensible fudge would be to make a compulsary purchase of the copyright for the assessed market value, so it can become public domain. Much in the same way as you would do for any other property when you need to build municipal infrastructure through it. The law is essentially municipal infrastructure anywazy, so it isn't that much of a legal stretch.
This is what is great about it being a lifetime appointment.

There is literally nothing else for these folks to strive for except being well regarded in the history books, so they can finally do what they regard as the best thing to do.
Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Assume Positions in League of Legends
> Why does any of this matter, even in the slightest, when talking about "Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone" which is what this post is about.

So I need to explain to someone who doesn't think that it matters that it matters to me?

The fact that a post is about something else has never prevented people who take the time to comment on HN (an unpaid endeavor) from voicing an opinion on something related or ironic in some way.

> nor does an employee of a company have to use their services (especially if they spun up their domain, website, whathaveyou before working for the company) for any sort of personal project.

You are right it is not codified into some law. But as a general rule it makes more practical sense for an employee to use the employers products especially if they are posting a comment on a blog about another service that the employer offers where it's easy to see (such as I did) that they are not using the employers free primarily product that they are known for.

Why should the employer not expect that their employees use their free product (which jgrahamc does use of course for his personal domain JGC.ORG ..).
Exactly. But such training should not be necessary because this problem was created by Boeing.

Pilots really should have extensive emergency training, but that doesn't mean it's ok for the manufacturer to Add a new failure case to a previously fine aircraft.
The inefficiencies of the health care system are only tangential to whether it is paid by employer-subsidized insurance, medicare, the VA, the NHS, or by manna from heaven. The biggest problem is the sheer bureaucracy of the thing.

Fortunately, some gains appear to be occurring to side-step the entrenched hospital provider networks. A huge number of urgent care centers have begun springing up, at least in this area, which are perfect for everyday healthcare needs. I can walk in with no appointment, pay the $25 co-pay, and see a doctor about bronchitis or poison ivy or get stitches for a minor wound or an x-ray without waiting an absurd amount of time in an overburdened emergency room, or waiting a week for my primary-care to have an open appointment. For the most part, if you tell them what is wrong, they will do what you ask.

It's more like going to get your car fixed, or taking your dog to the vet.

Then again, I'm not on a whole battery of prescription drugs, which seems to be increasingly unusual, so I don't have to deal with the hassle of going back regularly to get chronic prescriptions re-issued.
To be fair the 'cost innovation' would be 'how do we make cover yet more expensive' because private insurers have you in a bit of a bind, don't they? It's 'pay up or die.' That's the alternative you're proposing, is it not?
WSL is currently horrendously (unusably, IMO) slow. WSL2 promises a 20x speed up, but it was already 100x slower than native Linux at some actually-realistic workloads that happen all the time when you're developing (e.g. `git grep`), so it's probably still too slow to be tolerable.

I had the opposite problem of wanting to develop some stuff for Windows from a Linux environment, and I settled on running a linux VM and copying binaries over by scping to WSL, which works reasonably well.
Even technologies that are not direct spinoffs often benefit greatly. For example the Apollo onboard computers created demand for smaller computers, accelerating development of integrated circuits and dropping their price. Some credit Apollo with singlehandedly dropping IC prices from $1000 to $20 [1]. If it wasn't for Apollo we likely wouldn't be on this forum.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_ci...
> It's in the shop's interest to use an antipattern that obscures detail so you don't reflect on where your money is going, and possibly choose to spend less.

On the flip side, any grocery store that does this will automatically get my business, because I like this feature.
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/vestigal-design-is...
The only thing this demonstrates is the sheer idiocy of dividing ideas by "sides" or party lines. Real life has complex interactions that don't get captured by this.

I suspect the "right" is actually sincere. But it so happens that ideas giving more power to private businesses tend to disproportionally benefit larger businesses over the smaller ones (this is a natural advantage of having scale and capital). The ideas surgically targeted to benefit smaller businesses? The "targeted" aspect tends to pattern-match to the "left", so they get rejected. The end result looks like the "right" was dishonest, but IMO it's just the ass-backwards stupid fixation on ideology over problem solving that causes this. And the same thing applies to the "left".
some study said that 150 trees per living human being would alter the atmosphere a bit

let's get ready
Having used fabric in the past, I've always found it just as easy to use a shell script and make files.

There's always some level of bootstrapping a project (installing packages/software, compiling libraries and dependencies) where it's easier to just to write a shell script than to program python to do. E.g. How do you get fabric installed on a system?

There's also been this longevity of sorts that Make seems to have gotten right. People just keep going back to it because it's simple.
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