skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can tell grandma why she's not going to get that hip replacement or cancer treatment

I'll ignore the flame-bait. I honestly believe that we could reduce regulation and make the poorest better off. I referenced above an example: an Indian hospital has essentially mass-produced procedures for low cost. Things like hip replacements do not take a brilliant surgeon with eight years of medical training; I think breaking the monopoly of the AMA and lowering regulation will allow cheap procedures at prices reasonable to almost all. For those last few, I believe Churches and states ought to shoulder the responsibility. I said nothing of "no health-care", I said that the feds shouldn't do it and that single-payer is a bad solution.

> amend the constitution.

Be careful with amending our founding document to push a policy agenda. This has been rarely done in the past, because if one side does it to suit one agenda, the other will reciprocate once re-elected. Maybe the far left could get socialized medicine, but the right might repeal the 14th amendment birthright citizenship next election.

> Yes, it's the regulations, for sure. Like the ones that keep the air and water clean, and the rivers not-on-fire. And drugs safe. See if we just got rid of that, we'd be in great shape.

What did I say of environmental regulations? We have them to protect the rights of others, and they are important.

With respect to drug safety, I do believe rules could be somewhat loosened, but I also believe some regulation is necessary.

> Even a Koch funded study showed MFA would be +/- 5% of what it costs right now

This is an "alternative fact" pushed by Senator Sanders and Congresswoman Ocasio. [0]

> You take all the money employers are currently spending on employee cover via a combination of payroll and personal taxes, direct it to the Medicare pool and enroll eveyrone.

Americans are generally leery of just "taking the money", "directing it", and "enrolling everyone". That's too heavy-handed an action for the feds to take. I would appreciate a different source for your cost, as the one you mentioned was not correctly represented.

With respect to unit economics, that does not account for quality. Note that the study you cited above mentions the outrageous cost in the abstract. It also mentions that Medicare reimbursement rates are roughly 40% lower than private insurance; where will the extra money come from? That doesn't make the unit economics cheaper, that means private health insurance costs are currently subsidizing low medicare reimbursement rates. The bulk of the "cost reduction" to which you are referring (over 85% thereof) came from provider payment cuts, which assumes the current 40%-below-market rate. That's not better unit economics, that's monopolizing an industry and fixing prices. The remaining <15% came from better drug prices. I will concede that a monopsony tends to lower prices for certain things, but this is not nearly what you claimed.

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2018/08/the-cost-of-medicare-for-a...
Much more controversial, than Russian? At least those poor folks in Palestine have an incompatible religion, which I could not say about Ukraine.
If the kid can press a button on their phone to accept a charge on a credit card, the problem is with someone giving the kid a phone and hooking it up to a credit card, not with the game in question.

Game arcades were the original pay2win. Come to think of it, that's probably why I never played them...
I agree. Nobody should underestimate the Mossad: https://youtu.be/bJujIwtdk8w
It has been sprayed over entire villages in South America to kill all cocaine plants in the area for decades. I'm not aware of any higher cancer rates of these villagers vs the regular populous. I'm not actually sure where all the hysteria over this product is coming from really.
The word comes from the Latin appretiare, 'to price' or 'to appraise'.

'Only I can truly appreciate your suffering and your needs, and so only I can lead you.'

How about that?
Yea gentrification seems like the wrong term for sure.

Honestly, the most worrying though to me is Google. #1 search engine, #1 browser, #1 email provider, #1 mobile platform, #1 online video platform. The concern is with all those places domination google can dictate de-facto standards or push standards that they want.

Gone are the days that one person or small team could keep up and maintain all the standards for a "modern browser". Microsoft even gave up.
The US position is basically the same. Indeed, the US has warned that it may respond with nuclear weapons to cyberattacks.
Good. Leave that nasty shit in the ground where it belongs.
Empirically, what draws laymen to science talks is the star power of the speaker, not the correctness of the talk. A talk by a Nobel laureate will always be vastly better attended then one by a qualified nobody, even if the former is taking an unusual position disputed by other laureates and the rest of the community, and the latter is skillfully presenting the community consensus.
> Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated.

This right here is why I hate Snapchat. I've never seen a more unintuitive UI.
Video: Chrome OS 75 makes Pixel Slate tablet mode animations “buttery smooth”
Check out everydollar.com. I don’t know their privacy policies but in general I trust Dave Ramsey and it’s one of his products.
I appreciate the thoughtful answer. It's interesting to me that a lot of what you mentioned in this comment seem (to me at least) to be some of the core ideals of mindfulness. Out of curiosity, did you arrive at this through another philosophy or have you come to this conclusion on your own?
I think you don’t know much about apartheid or the situation in Israel / Palestine to compare the two.
That example was meant to be funny. That’s not to say there is not evidence of direct intervention in search rankings when the algorithm results were undesireable.

It’s beyond question that Google manually intervenes in Search results in some cases. That could be entirely innocuous or concerningly dubious. The question is exactly how, how often, and should they be accountable for it?
Part of it is the whole battle royal system plays on sunk cost fallacy pretty hard. Depending on how long you last you get pretty invested in a given game, and if you get killed over some bullshit mechanic (and there are a LOT), the first thing you want to do after screaming is jump back into another 5-15 min game, because it will be different this time of course.

In games where you respawn and can keep trying to play well an entire game, if you have a couple bad matches you are probably going to stop playing for the day. I know people who've only won fortnight a couple of times yet still play religiously, chasing that dragon, screaming at the TV when they get eliminated by a single point blank shotgun blast. I tried to get into fortnight but it seemed pretty unhealthy, imo.
How do they differ from international terrorists then?
Safari has even removed Do Not Track because it can be used for fingerprinting.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari_release_not...
This is how it will play out:

1) MS will sue Lenovo.

2) China will threaten MS with consequences including no access to China market.

3) MS will withdraw the lawsuit and lick its wounds.
A random number generator is still better than an arbitrator, who more often than not sides with whomever has the most money.
Someone needs to tell the currently sitting Australian government, whose very own (now, not then - they are on high rotation) prime minister brought a lump of coal into parliament in 2017 and said "Don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you. It’s coal."
Don't underestimate the power of politics to subvert the will of the market in order to prop an industry up long passed its expiration date. In the same way political parties are able to leverage gerrymandered districts to remain in power, entrenched industries are able to do the same to beat back more efficient, cheaper technologies.

For example:
https://www.hcn.org/articles/coal-wyoming-lawmakers-extend-l...

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2018/06/trump_orders_ene...
Kids don't actually care about the token (skins, clothing brands, basketball shoes, ...) in question. They just care that the token is scarce enough to differentiate the haves from the have-nots. It's all about status.
My DS came with Pokemon Yellow, F-ZERO, MarioKart SuperCircuit, Metroid Fusion and Fire Emblem. They are all among the greats on Gameboy.

In fact, I'd say one of the things that helped the Gameboy succeed was that it had so very many good games.
Where I work, we’re still using jQuery. Why? It works and everyone on the team understands it, even the backend guy who hates doing UI stuff. We looked at React and Vue, and they’re great, but it would be a nightmare to get everyone on the same page and wouldn’t solve the problem of keeping our front end lightweight.
Career Debt
Aren’t arrow functions and “use strict” attempts to fix common gotchas?
Ceres is about 2.5AU from the sun, has more water than Earth and the mass of 0.00015 Earths. The ort cloud is 1,000-100,000 AU away.

I am making the assumption that we will have a much stronger preference for water closer to Earth, and we aren't talking about large gravity wells.
Your comment had enough info that I was able to Google the answer: when you switch to vi mode, C-w gets switched to vi-unix-word-rubout. Override it in .inputrc.
Show HN: GitHub Repos with 1337 Stars
"Clearly not obvious it is not topic"?

A perfectly valid opinion, but it's manifestly not clearly not obvious it is on topic.
It's true though - saying the person serving food would still exist if you didn't order the meal is like saying that someone else will burn that gasoline if you don't. It's true, but it doesn't absolve you from responsibility. You're still creating demand and contributing in some fractional way to the problem.

The logical endpoint of "humans inevitably cause catastrophic destruction" doesn't have to be "kill all humans" though. It could be, "make sure we're worth it". Can we build a society so amazing, so transcendent, that it was worth the destruction of our ancestral ecosystems? If so, then let's get cracking. If not, well then yes, maybe then we really ought to be thinking about suicide.
Argo Events – The Event-Based Dependency Manager for Kubernetes
https://argoproj.github.io/argo-events/

Argo Events is an event-based dependency manager for Kubernetes which helps you define multiple dependencies from a variety of event sources like webhook, s3, schedules, streams etc. and trigger Kubernetes objects after successful event dependencies resolution.
That might be enough for what they are doing. At least it will allow them to spy on whatsapp messages and parts of the system that Whatsapp can access (contacts etc)
Do you know about curl/wget? Each one does pretty much the same thing as the other, but you can start a religious war by suggesting that one is preferable.

Anyway, either of them will let you mirror a website so you never have to worry about it going down.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19905363 and marked it off-topic.
LOL tell me more about the market for tractors I'm all ears
There's a ton of overt misogyny and sexism in the U.S., nothing "subconscious" about it.
You're talking about a government that has a long track record of assassinating and abducting people in other countries, including Western liberal democracies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu#Disclosure,_a...

Whatever lines there were, they have long been crossed.
4chan uses conntrails and star movements to find live stream of flag
You are welcome. It is part of what is known as the "actualism method" (that I am putting into practice for many years now) as described here: http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/richard/articles/thismomento...

Mindfulness is actually 180 degrees opposite, as it leads to a form of (acute) emotional distancing. Having done Vipassana in the past I can also say that from experience.
There are so many specialized areas that are useful, like common design patterns, basic data structures, various algorithms, transactions, multithreading, parallel processing, etc.

Too many things to list, but I agree with a poster below that suggested looking at the course offerings for a computer science degree. You might be able to find outlines of the courses to get specific topics.

On a day to day basis, code coverage is something that more people should use when writing unit tests to ensure they have tests that execute all their code.
I clicked on it b/c it made to the front page and I read the entire article but I can't understand why he doesn't like to use react.
I have a different issue with the "cabin overheat protection": claiming that it is to "protect dogs and children" when, even if working as intended, it could allow a car to reach a temperature dangerous to children, is highly irresponsible -- even if Tesla also said that you should constantly monitor the temperature to ensure that it is safe. There's no justification for this sort of dissembling.
I'm sort of going through this dilemma. I'm not a superstar level and probably do better in other roles.

One trick is to go into teaching. It requires considerably less problem solving skill. You just solve a set of problems once then reuse that solution for the next class. You'll still have enough industrial experience to teach better than most.

One thing I'm trying is to switch to similar but junior technical roles. Try game development maybe, or something like testing, system analysis, support.
Tesla made a bold trade off and it was a clear win - until they stopped replacing the failing units.

But now the "good will" repairs are over, the smug attitude of the article is more or less deserved.
BLAS is a set of subroutine interfaces that originated in Fortran, but can be implemented in any language; most mainstream implementations use one or more of Fortran, C, C++, assembly, and DSLs.
They did a whole batch of testing and a bunch of those struts failed at similarly abysmal fractions of rated load. Is that really "industrial grade"?
Most of my friends who are religious about FIFA stopped playing online a couple years ago for the exact reason you described. FIFA is terrible about how they nerf players, if someone has a low stat it's like they are having a stroke when given the ball and half the time they loose control, despite the fact that the player is indeed based on a professional soccer player who can dribble the ball down the field blindfolded. RNG really has no place in competitive video games.
First they came for the guys who drive F-150s and I said nothing because I'm BOWTIE TILL I DIE
What about pieces that are written with a not-so-subtle ideological axe to grind? Let's take fundamentalist Christianity, for example https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/humans/wheres-the-evi.... Would that qualify as "intellectual curiosity"? As far as I can tell, OP is the same genre of wild speculation, only written from a fundamentalist feminist perspective.
No, the only way to recover as far as I can tell is to do the roller coaster thing.

From what I can make out MCAS points the plane at the ground, so it accelerates - I don’t know if it also increases thrust but if it’s meant to be anti-stall maybe it does?

The only way to reduce load once you’re at those speeds with a faulty plane (as far as I can understand it) is to keep pointing to the ground and move the trim control a bit, pull up again (which reintroduces the load) to gain altitude, then point down again and repeat until you’ve defeated the unsafe aircraft.
Russian Man Jailed for Buying F-16 Manuals, Claims They Were for Flight Sims
> Before someone says something about government surveillance of fiber cables.

Anything that goes unencrypted over the internet is (a) public and (b) liable to be changed by anyone on transit. It's like a travelling wikipedia article.
Okay then what’s stopping someone from starting another company and selling the same product at a lower price?
Can you run voice filters with Skype for interviews?
Are you saying that they're algorithmically downweighted and that you manually turn that off when it seems appropriate?

Interesting, I thought the feed was just based on chronology + votes! How quaint of me. Is there anything written anywhere about how the feed algorithm works generally?
Remember the Digital Video Disruptors? Now They're Mostly Just TV Suppliers
How many does Arby's employ at $50K a year? For that matter, how many does Arby's employ full time?
Particularly the S — the Single Responsibility Principal. So much messy, convoluted code is convoluted because it lacks a singular, clear purpose, and bundles up multiple responsibilities into one section of code, be that a module, class, or whatever is appropriate to your language.

They're all good, and you'll get good insight from them all, but I think that first one is more important and has provided me more value than all the rest. I think Liskov substitutability would be my second pick.
As far as I know, prior to Brown v. Board, most states (50 of them) legally gave equal rights to blacks and whites. The reality was different.

Joint custody is not the same as equal custody. Courts will almost always assign joint custody, but rarely equal custody and almost never primary custody to the dads, at least where I live. That's not tender years presumption; that's simple sexism. Typical arrangement is 3 nights dad, 4 nights mom.

That, in turn means a massive windfall for the mom.

In the cases I know which were settled out-of-court, the men were told, in essence, they had little chance at equal custody due to gender and sexism by the courts. In at least two cases I know, the dads were the primary caretaker before the divorce.

Virtually all the men's rights groups lobby for default equal custody. A majority of the opposition comes from feminist groups.

The majority of men in this situation voted for Trump over Clinton, and believe it or not, would still vote Trump over Warren, despite agreeing with Warren on quite literally everything else.
Americans can opt-out of airport facial recognition [video]
Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords
Male income peaks around 6' to 6'1".[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/the-fin...
Some people think it's a feature, not a bug: https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/the-ingenious-reason-snapch...
Somehow fortnight got away with having one map for this long
That is an absolutely fascinating application that I've never considered before. One could design all sorts of experiments, not just exclusively spatial reasoning.

Imagine allowing a class of undergraduate students to participate in a version of Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment and draw their own conclusions as to potential flaws in its methodology.

Or, as a philosophy student: allow students to engage in a real life rendition of Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment, where a student "competes" against his or her classmates and various versions of text generation algorithms from simple Markov chain generators, to OpenAI's GPT-2 and beyond.
Yes, I have used TrackIR. It's just an IR camera and some IR LEDs. My laptop has both of those built-in. It just seems odd that with nothing more than that, plus a trivially cheap pair of shutter glasses, I could achieve the appearance of a full holographic display - and this isn't already mainstream. Or even widely demoed. Or even, apparently, a little Github repository somewhere. And yet it's apparently widely used in medical imaging. What gives?
This project is great! It's really exciting work, and I love that you open sourced it!

I think you're getting so many confused people because of your new domain expertise in playing with strobes for the class.

Most people are assuming you're synchronizing a bunch of cameras at very low latency and high speeds with a long lived light, but it appears you're using a dark room with a strong, short strobe as a shutter instead.

The real hack (if I understand correctly) is using your global shutter to take in a consistent point in time.

Maybe adding a non-global shutter image to compare and contrast the value of that hack would work in conveying how it works? Maybe a video too? In infrared?

These two changes can really help quickly communicate the work you're doing and get more people interested.

Either way, great work, excited to see what else you make!
You aren’t making a very clear argument. I think what you are arguing is that modern agriculture does not capture its externalities so any supposed productivity improvements are not as valuable as they seem on the surface.

I’m sympathetic to that argument but if that is your stance you need to provide some evidence towards it. Otherwise you are fighting the very real benefit of the caloric argument for modern agriculture with nothing but buzzwords.
To add insult to injury, this is from the April 2019 Stanford law review:

"Almost half of all the coal produced in the United States is mined by companies that have recently gone bankrupt. This Article explains how those bankruptcy proceedings have undermined federal environmental and labor laws. In particular, coal companies have used the Bankruptcy Code to evade congressionally imposed liabilities requiring that they pay lifetime health benefits to coal miners and restore land degraded by surface mining. Using financial information reported in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission and in the companies’ reorganization agreements, we show that between 2012 and 2017, four of the largest coal companies in the United States succeeded in shedding almost $5.2 billion of environmental and retiree liabilities."

https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/bankruptcy-a...
Fans of the movie Hackers (1995) will recall Dade Murphy reading the first line of Howl in his advanced English class.

The Beat culture of the 1950's was absolutely the predecessor to the hacker/cyberpunk culture of the 1990's.
Some factories (iron smelting, for example) actually use the chemical reactions from coal as part of their process, so that won't change.
The trope of "money doesn't create happiness" applies only to people who already have their financial freedom. I completely agree that aspiring to get a bigger house or a nicer car when you already have a big house and a nice car is pretty shallow and speaks to an underlying inferiority issue that more money won't cure.

The rest of us on the other hand would be anywhere from a little to much much happier if we had student loans, mortgages, kids' educations, and retirement savings all taken care of.

The prospect of having to slog through life in a glacial pursuit of these things fills me with dread. For me there isn't much of an option beyond becoming successful as an entrepreneur. It's not even so much about the money but having complete ownership. Having to work until 65 running a mildly successful business that I built seems like it shoild be much more gratifying than slaving away to enrich others.
> However, it's impossible to really know for sure as the server component for calls is a proprietary black box.

I thought that changed after migrating to WebRTC? Although I haven't tried to spin up my own Signal server, modify the APK and see what works and doesn't work.
They consciously choose to buy the tractors that has software with TOS because they perform much, much better for the grain harvesting use case. FWIW, there's undoubtedly some level of "the Deere salesman who was captain of my high school wrestling team when I was a sophomore on JV will be extra nice to me at the Elks Club if I buy the deluxe model" type dynamic going on in a lot of cases. Human factors exist in every rural community, and I'm sure many an unnecessarily fancy tractor has been sold over the years.
I would say if you bought a Tesla roadster you were an early adopter.
Iowa has confirmed multiple cases of a dog disease transmitted to humans