skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t need to socialize medicine, just make all HMOs and providers non for profits which would mean they have to reinvest everything into their core services rather than posting returns for investors.
Au contraire, a Marinara Trench sounds delightful!
I don't know about you, but I don't use react because I don't know how to use it.

I think it would be more interesting to read about people who know how to use it, have used it, but now choose not to.
> Institutions such as public schools and the Boy Scouts that do not require celibacy have had very similar problems.

All have one thing in common: adults with unchecked power over minors.
A two tier system actually sounds pretty good to me. I've mentioned in other comments that government probably should provide emergency care (like fire and police).

"You can't on the one hand complain about the rising price of healthcare in the US, how it's moving further out of reach for everyone, and at the same time complain that the socialized program 'pays below market rates.'"

I think that American people (probably more than any other country) value freedom of choice more than "cost cutting." Also, the idea of reducing costs by a government simply taking over the market really stinks of tyrannical authoritarianism in these here parts. It's distinctly un-American (like it or not).

Strangely enough, freedom of choice (i.e., increased supply along with low switching costs and price/value transparency) generally also leads to cheaper prices. I'm pretty sure that reforms in those types of areas are what would most easily get support from American people.

Yes, we could just go along with what other countries have done, but dang it, America is a leader. America champions freedom. If you want a better system (and I'm sure just about everyone in America does, I know I do) those are the things you have to sell.
Dairy is facing strong headwinds given that americans consume 93 less gallons of dairy per person less than they did in the 1980s.

Just not enough people consuming dairy to justify such a huge industry
I've seen people succeed in a big way with message bus architectures and I have seen them fail in a big way.

The master symptom I've seen is that people queue work and that work never gets unqueued. It's amazing how many real-life systems fail with the same symptom.
Multiple people have been confused by what you were saying, so maybe some editing/rephrasing is needed?
I tried the game, and it wasn't my cup of tea--I'm more of a civilization kind of guy. However, reading about how the game is evolving as a social destination is fascinating. Reminds me of MUDs back in the day, except it's way more popular and way more mainstream.
This would be an example of a class action lawsuit and not an antitrust lawsuit, no?

Antitrust lawsuits are brought by the government itself, not consumers.

For example, Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Incorporated or United States vs. Microsoft Corporation.
Partly Cloudy: Architecture
You have misunderstood. I don't have a problem with regards to you saying something like, "I represent Instapainting, which is a competitor and we used CNNs..."

Your response to this particular thread made it seem like you were somehow connected to the OP and if one didn't read the link properly and distinguish it, might just seem like the OP is linking to their product's version of CNN powered paintings.
The data you mention would be valuable for someone who figures out how to use it to actually make profit. Until now, Uber hasn't.
Shell scripting for processing text. You can often get so much done with so little code and effort.

Also on a semi-related note, I think as a self taught programmer, it's easy to get stuck on things that seem cool but are just procrastination enablers (I know, I've been guilty of it for 20 years). Like, if you're about to start a new project and you want to flesh out what it's about, you really don't need to spend 5 hours researching which mind map tool to use. Just open a text document and start writing, or get a piece of paper and a pen. It won't even take that long.

I spent about 1.5 hours the other day planning a substantially sized web app. All I did was open a text file and type what came into my head. For fun I decided to record the whole process too[0]. I wish more people recorded their process for things like that because I find the journey more interesting than the destination most of the time. Like your journey of eventually finding message queues must have been quite fun and you probably learned a ton (after all, it lead you to message queues, so it was certainly time well spent).

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/live-demo-of-planning-a-real-...
100% agree.

The file properties window is worse than useless, especially if you want to do anything like editing ACLs. The multi-column menu is clunky and why is it the default setting to allow icons to overlap each other making them impossible to work out what it is.

I am forced to use OS X regularly enough and I still find finder a constant annoyance to the point where I feel like I am being gaslighted when I say I don't like it.
The confusion seems rooted in the relatively common word "monologue" which etymology seems to imply was a 17th Century French "back formation". Interesting how much that bit of word play seems to confuse things centuries later.
> ... did not take into account the downside risk.

Web 2.0 companies in a nutshell
The Side Effects of Vaccines – How High Is the Risk?
It has been decades since I read the High Frontier, but as I recall on of the ideas was that the stations were initially there (in simplified form) to allow for Orbital Power Satellites to be deployed and serviced.

It would be nice if we could deploy such, assuming we manage to avoid them being used as microwave weapons.
A Fortune Teller in a Modern Metropolis
Waste of time to read.

TL;DR: I do not use React because I choose not to
What a completely bizarre opinion on Rachel Carson. How many deaths did she prevent by pointing out the health drawbacks of spraying the world in DDT and other non-specific chemicals dangerous to life?

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry...

From-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

>A review article in The Lancet states, "research has shown that exposure to DDT at amounts that would be needed in malaria control might cause preterm birth and early weaning ... toxicological evidence shows endocrine-disrupting properties; human data also indicate possible disruption in semen quality, menstruation, gestational length, and duration of lactation."[38]

>Other studies document decreases in semen quality among men with high exposures (generally from IRS).[88]

>Studies are inconsistent on whether high blood DDT or DDE levels increase time to pregnancy.[65] In mothers with high DDE blood serum levels, daughters may have up to a 32% increase in the probability of conceiving, but increased DDT levels have been associated with a 16% decrease in one study.[89]

>Indirect exposure of mothers through workers directly in contact with DDT is associated with an increase in spontaneous abortions[87]

>Other studies found that DDT or DDE interfere with proper thyroid function in pregnancy and childhood.[65][90]
Mothers with high levels of DDT circulating in their blood during pregnancy were found to be more likely to give birth to children who would go on to develop autism.[91][92]

There are other less toxic alternatives to DDT for mosquito control and Rachel Carson helped open our eyes to the fact that they are needed.
It's still the same damages. Apple is taking money from a transaction between users and developers. It effectively comes equally from both sides of the transaction.

It's just like a sales tax, who does it come from, the consumer or the retailer? It really doesn't matter, the effect is the same.

The only problem is if it is accounted for twice. If it adds $10 to a transaction, you can't say both the consumer and developer are each harmed by $10. Better to say each are harmed by $5.
I am having hardtime understanding if this can even be called a monopoly? Assume there is a Amart if it lets other vendors sell their products in its store on the condition that there is a small price they have to pay in order to put their products on its shelves in return they dont need to pay rent and they get the benefit of customers who love to shop at Amart could this be considered a monopoly? Also who is responsible if there is a defect in the product? the vendor of the said product or Amart?
There's also (on desktop at least) a lot of open space on the sides of the article that would've been a great place for, you know, some pictures of "good" v. "bad" architecture.
There was so much to enjoy in Embassytown: the Hosts, the Metaphors, the Festival of Lies, biorigging, Immer, the super-cerebral ending. Anyone come across anything equally juicy recently?
It seems that when uMatrix blocks some of the resources the website expects, it pegs one of my CPU cores and uses a gradually increasing amount of RAM.
Reductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy, it's a perfectly valid logical argument (that applies in this case).
You have to remember your search results are personalized for you.
20th century.
Big Talkers
I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you want me to make an argument for bias? Why?
It's telling that architects feel the need to list their beautiful creations to keep them from being torn down by the philistines.
Are the Restatements, law review articles, Black's Law Dictionary and the paywalled scientific literature cited then 'de facto law'?
The trick is teaching your kids about that culture and how to look out for it. Fortnite makes it hard. When I was growing up it was trading cards, sneakers, or latest video games. My parents taught me tough turkey on occasion. In-app stores are the new status symbol that parents now need to understand and now educate the next generation.
Their willingness to listen to reason and step outside their bubble is limited, unless doing so lines up with their politics.

I certainly hope current SCOTUS justices have a solid grasp of history and what happened to the last SCOTUS justice who acted in a manner you're suggesting. And this is an institution that (also, as history would have it) does a pretty good job giving a wide berth to precedent.
Doing that search gave me a Quora link as the first result, and then two links to infowars...which is an awful result.
This reminds me of a product I saw linked in HN, at least once, but I think it deserves a mention since it serves some of the same audience:

https://www.steadymouse.com/

Disclosure: I have no relationship with the dev, just think it could be useful for some folks. I almost recommended it to a colleague before thinking better if it since it would infringe on them.
Being exposed to adults who "don't give a shit" about what they say online has seriously influenced younger kids. I can understand though - they never asked to be in the same space as an 8 year old in an 15+ game (not specifically on about Fortnite). I don't see a way out of this situation soon without some serious cultural upheaval.
I couldn't find a reference in the text -- is the title a riff on "Sermons in Stone", a fictional book written by the antagonist of The Fountainhead?[1]

(Yes, I read it, go easy on me.)

[1] Link has SPOILERS, so you were warned: https://www.shmoop.com/the-fountainhead/ellsworth-toohey-tim...
> Would it be better to base the course on the up-to-date flavor? Yes, if resources allow that.

I'm not so sure. Java is a popular language both in industry and for teaching, but I'm glad they taught us the ancient and unpopular Common Lisp first.

When you know Common Lisp, you're well prepared for most of the Amazing New Features that slowly trickle into Java, since Common Lisp already had most of them.
It's not usually the architects themselves, it's more an intelligentsia thing.
If fossil fuels are the detritus of extinct plants, then plastic is just as "natural" as coal and oil ... in either case, it's a waste/byproduct of a life form/ecosystem that no longer exists.
More to the point, rushing execution in order to meet economic promises, and arbitrary cost-cutting, are symptoms of large systems. Capitalist, socialist, same diff, when it comes to the behavior of bureaucracies.
> Why pay coverage for things you'll never use? Same reason I'm paying for your broken arm. That's how insurance works. Spreading the risk.

Insurance is supposed to hedge against risk. You might need a broken arm; I will never need a hysterectomy or birth control (especially not the type covered by insurance).

> localized monopolies, such as rural hospitals, that can charge whatever they want because insurers have no alternative.

And if the rural hospitals then shut down due to not being able to cover costs?

> Why force people onto the same plan? Single payer doesn't do that, necessarily. Again, Medicare. There's a HUGE market for Medicare supplemental insurance

The definition of single-payer is in the name - there is a single entity which pays for insurance. A single payer. That means, definitionally, no private/supplemental insurance, no cash payments, no nothing. Experimental treatment may not be covered by private insurance, but at least it can be purchased with cash. A single-payer system definitionally precludes a cash option.

> Yeah, Medicare is single payer, right?

Wrong; see above. Medicare is also subsidized in no small part by higher-paying patients; because it often reimburses at below-market rates, private coverage is necessary to pick up the slack.
I've worked directly with enormous systems that you have likely personally used that were not only highly coherent and well designed, but also message oriented in architecture.
John Siracusa flogged a particular dead horse idea few care about (spatial Finder) to death.
Whether DRM-based price discrimination "allows the manufacturer to sell the device at a lower price point" or allows the manufacturer to sell the device at a premium price point is the heart of the dispute. You can't know whether it's one or the other without modeling whether the contrapositive holds (i.e. if DRM then lower prices -> if not DRM then not lower prices), and doing that is extremely difficult.

In general, though, I'd argue that historically such price discrimination (i.e. via contracts, copyright, etc) has usually served to inflate prices. You usually only find such price discrimination in non-competitive markets.

In any event, anyone who says that it leads to lower prices is at best misleading. It can theoretically. In a competitive market the question is irrelevant because if it led to higher prices people would change suppliers. The question really only matters in situations where the market isn't particularly competitive.
You mean that nucular radioactive stuff emitted by my microwave? Not in my backyard.
"Why I don't use a hammer (when I need a screwdriver)"
Some of the most complex systems in the world use a message bus. The entire car and air industry come to mind.

Being able to see a message between systems and have an analyst figure out whats wrong and what it needs to be is an awesome way for a developer to actually code.
I can go somewhere else to buy potatoes if I don't like how one store handles them. An iPhone owner can't go off to the Microsoft, Google, or Amazon stores if they don't like the version in the Apple store. They have a monopoly on apps for iOS devices.
MISP 2.4.107 released (a.k.a. similar objects review, yara native export)
Then throw it into space, whatever the direction. The universe is so vast, even if the entirety of the earth was garbage it would be nothing compared to it ;)
There’s nothing illegal about having a monopoly, but by the same token, you don’t have to have a monopoly to run afoul of antitrust regulation. This is an oversimplification, but the Sherman Act was about monopolies, while its later companion the Clayton Act was about anticompetitive practices.
The first step to knowing how to use something is using it.
Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera
"Did you think costs just go down while people get paid the same or more?"

Isn't the whole argument that our system is inefficient and therefore expensive? Get rid of the inefficiency and doctors should still get paid the same, no? Again (I think we are going back and forth in different threads here), free markets are great at doing that. We should try it with health care.
It might be taken up as a feature for POS companies as a competitive advantage. I can hear it now... "The point of sale is your last chance to leave a positive impression with your customers. This feature will keep your store in their minds as they consider their shopping habits back at home. Buy the Acme integrated POS system and make your management, staff, AND customers happy".
While I do still run into this exact problem, I do think I've learned something along the way.

Basically, it boils down to: commit to either doing most of it yourself, with carefully considered bits of outsourced help, or go for an outsourced solution and deal with the bits you need to change.

The former usually is more fun, and probably works best for stuff you need to work on (as in, alter) over time.

The latter is less fun, but if you can handle working within the boundaries presented and if the thing you're doing is throwaway or relatively unchanging, it's probably the best way to go.

When it comes to CRUD web stuff, for example, I find that Wordpress is often the best way to go, even though I hate most of it with a passion. But the fact is that with just a few plugins (Advanced Custom Fields primarily!), it's often one of the best solutions available for a typical website, especially if it has news/blog type stuff and if it's not mission-critical to yourself or the client.

The same applies to smaller 'units' of code. Every time you add code that isn't your own, you add limitations and risks, but in practice it's often worth it. The skill I'm trying to improve is to know when to make what choice in this regard.

(to be clear, when I choose Wordpress, I'm basically accepting that almost the whole thing is a dumpster fire. Most of my work then involves isolating myself from the resulting mess, whether by avoiding WP's templating/querying system, or making sure a site runs on its own server. And yet it's still worth it at times)
I was a huge fan too. I had a lot of containers set up on three different machines and they all got wiped out last week. I haven't put in all the work to rebuild them yet and I'm losing the wherewithal to keep putting up with Firefox.
>I think the plane will fly without MCAS with a new type rating, and where pilots specifically train on the stick feel during a power on stall.

Maybe. Keep in mind MCAS was a system put in place to mitigate a catastrophic risk. If you remove it, you no longer have that mitigation - meaning you either have to argue that increased training can be a substitute (I would be skeptical of that if I was a regulator) or come up with something else. It's a shitshow.
All of these situations are unique, but most of the time the benefits are awarded on a per job basis. So if the plan is to hire 2000 people, the reward will end up being divyied out depending on how many of the 2000 people are hired.
... and they keep the other 98% alive
The Master Switch by Tim Wu describes this "gentrification" process (though not with that term since it doesn't seem to be the best term for this). Further, the book shows how it happens systematically whenever a new invention initially leads to greater freedom. Radio, TV, etc have all suffered the same fate. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in digital freedom, though its message isn't exactly uplifting.
I don't think they can just do that with ISOs? Pretty sure the valuation has to be audited iirc
Beard oil is fantastic for making your beard feel softer and more manageable. For controlling shape, beard balm is generally even better, but I'm still learning to work with it; the one I have is basically a pomade.
Interestingly, this kinda works out:

Medicare spending is ~20% of US HC spending. So if we wanted to expand medicare to cover all HC spending we'd need to 5x the tax. 2.9% * 5 = 14.5 or basically what the tax is in Germany.

Obviously lots of caveats to that calculation, but it's a nice "in the ballpark" sanity check.
The class starts today if anyone is interested in enrolling: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
We're down to the wire in Minnesota. If you want to see the bill happen, call your reps today. A vote could happen as soon as tomorrow, but only if the noise level is high enough.
You might have too high of an expectation what it means to lead a good life given your own drive. That itself is a part of "work or other productive endeavors define worth of people" culture I think. This is a good stance (consequentially) to have in society when unproductive members are a drag on everybody else.

But the main premise of UBI is that you just don't need economic output from all the people you have. So the only question remaining is how it would affect those people, the ones lacking the drive and ability to become useful. That is not the question of societal judgment -- if UBI ends up funding lots of mindless candy crashing it is only bad insofar as it affects the person. If they are satisfied, that's the end of the question.

I agree that a sudden transition for people who worked whole life and are finding themselves in effective retirement might be harsh, but the alternative here is sudden job loss and poverty, which is more immediately dire.

Might be a question to be resolved with data and studies I suppose. But my expectation (given that you don't need people to be economically productive anymore) is that benefit of having free time will be positive on balance, and the negative outcomes would be just another logistical challenge of education and motivation.

Consider also all the people in golden chains, who had ability and drive (which is arguably just another form of ability) to get good jobs, but who would rather apply those talents to something else.
Why are you trying to prove that fungi are sentient? You're just being disingenuous. The core issue is the fact that we kill and eat animals that feel pain and emotions (the "vegan debate", whatever), something that seems wrong at face value. How about addressing that instead of hiding behind annoying semantics? It's obviously what the OP meant.

Look at your sibling comment for an example of a comment made by someone who actually cares about discussion and not winning stupid word wars. You both said the same thing in essence, but they don't come off as a prick.
> This whole “study” is based on data gathered through a “viral Facebook quiz” in which people provided self-assestments of their own skills and learning process.

The quiz (which you can take yourself at http://archive.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/) measured syntactic competence with various tasks that were carefully tuned and based on prior peer-reviewed research [1, sec. 2.4]. At no point did quiz respondents provide self-assessments of their linguistic ability, beyond demographic information like identifying their native language and year of first exposure to English.

[1]: https://l3atbc-public.s3.amazonaws.com/pub_pdfs/JK_Hartshorn...
Worth noting that that's an introduction to GNU make, which, while the most common implementation, isn't the only one out there.
As long as you have a design that a P.E. signed off on, you are fine in the eyes of the court. Your insurance company might have a different opinion though.