skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as most of these discussion they go from "these number are impossible!" to "but wait! there's algebra!" without really providing a framing context of what's going on.

this is what's going when the article say "slides smoothly in toward 2"

https://www.google.com/search?q=(x^2%2B2x)/x

and this is another common example, which "slides" toward a different number (which is why when you see the division alone is "undefined" and only acquires value in context)

https://www.google.com/search?q=sin(x)/x

but beyond the "just apply limits" party trick it's the implication however that's the most interesting part, and I'll use the words from here[1]:

> Things that appear to be zero may be nonzero in a different dimension (just like i might appear to be 0 to us, but isn’t)

[1] https://betterexplained.com/articles/why-do-we-need-limits-a...
I’m puzzled why you thought this comment would be interesting for the general reader.
The perils of publishing without a fact-checking net
so use this only when the title is very bad.

My standard: I only email the mods about such when the title is very bad and the piece has also gotten some traction. Otherwise, it's an excessive and pointless burden on their time.

I made my opinion clear. It stands here for the edification of whomever happens to see this post on HN. I made the remark when the article was newly submitted, so the submitter was still able to make edits to the title if they wished. They didn't do so.

/my line of thinking as to why I chose to handle this the way I did.
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Dogs help keep multiracial neighborhoods socially segregated
Can We Revive Empathy in Our Selfish World?
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There is something inextricably human about this sort of anecdote though, like modern reenactments of the drowning of Hippasus by the Pythagoreans after bringing up irrational numbers.
I don't think it's necessary to be so careful. If they can't take a joke I don't wanna hang out with them.
You have a point. But certainly, we could do better, especially since it's such an important tool. I'm certainly not disputing the concepts. They're necessary. But the tool? In that context "what if" doesn't feel like a bad idea either.
Likely explanation: Costs of living went up, wages did not.
I'm surprised it's the first time it's come up, with how popular kitboga's been.
I think it's probably more of a psychological issue. I doubt even a Roman emperor would really care if he got this disease, since he wouldn't know about the cure. It'd be God's will, or something, and he'd die in a warm bed with warm memories.

If you or somebody you cared about suffered from this disease, and knew a cure existed, and knew that cure was out of your reach because you didn't have the money to pay for it (or lived in a system that privatized gains and socialized losses), you'd feel a great deal of emotional pain. You wouldn't die the same way.

Saying $2.1M is a bargain because the other solution is $23.2M is like saying the $SOCIAL_MEDIA_APP terms and conditions are fair because they're available and you should have read it in full as a preteen. It doesn't account for human nature and gives a cold shoulder to factual reality. It's not kind or empathetic to a lot of people, even if it is fair and just. That's where I think why people talk past each other a lot about healthcare.

Full disclosure: I am a software engineer in the U.S. who had his life saved about 32 times in the E.R. in Canada from supra-ventricular tachycardia. I grew up in lesser means and I might be dead or my family bankrupted had I grew up in the U.S. and paid the fair ER fees each time. So I owe Canada my life, and a blood debt I really can't pay off in my lifetime. I'm certainly not unbiased.
It's also kind of NSFW.

Hello, haters. A NSFW warning is a detail of etiquette on the internet. It has nothing to do with being judgy about the content. It is solely about protecting someone's job while they surf the internet.

Thanks.
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That is an incredibly low friction interface to our documents. /s

What are the odds they have access logs going back to 2003?
>These are not defined in a strict mathematical sense, and they don't actually exist, but the phenomenon certainly does.

That's my point, I'm disputing the central assertion that these phenomenon actually model reality.

>For example, hordes of Twitter users have self-selected who they follow until they're exposed to opinions that agree with their own. This is and has been happening out there, in the real world, to real people.

You can always point to people who unfollow others when exposed to world-view-contradicting opinions. But it hasn't been shown that they always do it, or do it for the same reason in every case. people can and do exhibit contradictory behavior, or have the wrong information, or are simply enjoying the drama, or are trolling, etc. The existence of these and other factors, which are just observations (not models) of human behavior, go against the nice and easy explanations of someone being in a bubble.

We like to put people inside neat little boxes with labels on them. Like you said - " Events occur independently of what names and categories we give them.".
>At First American, security, privacy and confidentiality are of the highest priority and we are committed to protecting our customers’ information.

is such a meme.

Things will continue this way until there are serious repercussions for entities carelessly handling data.
there is no such thing as a "fair price"
Well, afaik most SQL dialects, drivers and programming languages support parameterised and prepared statements...

Has there ever been ANY reason to use string concatenation instead of parameterised / prepared statements? I think there should be not one single tutorial explaining sql with string concatenation...

And why is this feature so often not working for identifiers like table names?

I would love to hear opinions to that...
Actually, tzakrajs is correct. These therapies are just like any other medication as far as their discovery and production are concerned. It requires enormous amounts of resources to discover them. The problem is that once you know the process for an effective therapy, it's relatively easy. So it's critical that access to any information regarding the process used to produce the therapies be as restricted as humanly possible. This is not because drug companies are dastardly profit mongers. (Although that is certainly part of it.) But it's more because we have to fund the research that found that process somehow.

People laud places like Cuba because their health care is head and shoulders above the rest of Latin America. (Above even the US in some cases.) But here's the thing, the Cubans simply take all of the research that everyone has done and give it away for free. I understand. Their duty is to their people, not Pfizer. I get that. Here's the thing is though, if everyone does that then the research funding dries up, and the rate of discovery slows. (And yes, I understand that Cuba does its own research and contributes drugs to the global knowledge base as well. Drugs for Hep being a notable example.) But the balance of value is in the drugs researched and discovered by everyone in the world, not just the drugs researched and discovered in Cuba. So what happens when the rest of the world slows down? Well, Cuba gets less overall value too. That, eventually, would hurt the Cuban people just as much as it hurts everyone else.

It's relatively easy to take any therapy and use it on your own if you are a state level actor. As someone who had to do business in the health care sector for a long time, I can tell you that with authority. If the Cubans, for example, want to use this badly enough, they will. No amount of complexity will confound Cuban researchers. That's just life. At the same time, it's a very destructive practice under the present circumstances that drug research finds itself in. A more responsible approach would be some sort of global conventions on how to proceed if we want such a system.
It's hard to imagine a time before hierarchical file systems.
Russia and other nation state actors are pursuing a coordinated attack on American tech champions like Google. Google gets criticized for minor privacy issues while Saudi Arabi and Russia murder American and European journalists and whistleblowers.
There is a no-sail zone quite near the coast of Grenada due to an active underwater volcano. The volcano is called Kick 'em Jenny and has sunk numerous boats over the years. On one instance it sunk a boat and killed 60 people.
This is an old article but still very applicable today http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html For the products that failed, did you follow those steps? What is the main cause of the failures (any commonalities between them)? I would say don't give up, but also look critically and have mentors look at the failures so you don't repeat your mistakes.
The no commission model RH is providing is awesome and if they found a way to sustain that business model, great. The amount they have saved me (an avg trader with 25-50K) is well worth them selling my trade data to other firms. Sometimes their system is a bit glitchy. I'm sure as time goes by things will get tightened up. I mostly trade derivatives. If I open a 4 legged trade with 400 contracts that would cost me $300 in commissions on my old broker (TD Ameritrade) to open and an additional $300 to close it. Totally free with RH.
I got a lot of mileage out of git with "do work on my own individual branch, never use `--force anything` even if a blog post on the internet says to, and don't rewrite history."

Reading just enough of the git-scm book to get a basic mental model of staging, branches, and pushing/pulling from a single remote (aka the things new people actually probably trying to do with git) can serve you well enough. I've since worked on teams that expected WIP commits to be squashed, used multiple remote repos, etc, but the above should be all the git most of the people complaining about git actually need.

git remote add origin git@yabbadabbadoo:org/team
git checkout -b feat/my-work-branch
# do work
git add -p .
git reset HEAD accidental-file.txt
git commit -m "Add sweet feature"
git push -u origin feat/my-work-branch
git pull origin feat/my-work-branch

I feel like there are two big reasons git gets the rap it does separate from any actual interface issues:

1. People tend to mess up with a tool more often when they are still getting acquainted with it. When things get hairy, people tend to just try random fixes so they can get back to work which makes the problem hairier still.

2. git might be one of the first tools someone uses that expects end users to map their mental model to it rather than trying to fit their pre-existing mental model.
Horrifying. There should be someone with authority to give orders to turn back to private expeditions to prevent these issues that occur when private expeditions compete without regulations.
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Webstorm? VS? VSCode? Any others options you think are better?
It definitely depends on the couple. Currently, I am working and my spouse is not. During our most recent talk about budgeting a few months ago, we took this into account when figuring out appropriate amounts of fun money for each of us. Specifically, since I am out of the office/house for lunch/dinner less often, and my hobbies (programming/baking) are inexpensive, I neither need nor want as much fun money, and I would rather they have it available instead.
afaik Windows has supported forward slashes for a very long time (I want to say at least since WIN 2K).

Discussion here: https://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/23123-when-did-window...
Even within the US it will out of reach to most people even with insurance.
Do you about David Hockney’s research and theories about how the old masters used pinhole cameras and projectors to trace their subjects? Could be a really interesting aspect to add to your game play. Just did a quick search and found this rough summary - well worth exploring Hockney’s ideas. https://www.liveabout.com/camera-obscura-and-painting-257825...
In a capitalist free market, sure, but people argue that that's not what healthcare should be.
This resonates with me quite a lot. I played World of Warcraft very obsessively in high school and got extremely good at the game. I remember a quote from a Nat Geo documentary on professional StarCraft players from South Korea: "I'm number 1 in one field because I'm trying my best, and I know if I put all of my effort into another field, I will also excel. So I'm not depressed or frustrated, I would rather be confident". For me, my prior experience has given me a deep-seated confidence that I can become great at anything I put my mind to (barring any genetic prerequisites)!
> No, it’s not. Medicare is legally restricted from negotiating drug prices. Yes, that’s a ridiculous law.

This misleading misconception gets brought out on nearly every discussion of pharmaceuticals on Hacker News.

Medicare doesn't negotiate rates; the insurers who provide Medicare coverage for pharmaceuticals negotiate rates. This makes sense, because Medicare doesn't provide coverage for pharmaceuticals, so it would be a misalignment of incentives to have them "negotiate" rates that they're not paying. The insurers, on the other hand, have the incentive to drive the prices as low as possible, because pharmaceuticals are fungible goods and the lower the price, the more money they can make.
I live near a Navy air Base and am concerned by the amount of unfiltered pollution spewed out by cargo and fighter jets.
According to https://sa.www4.irs.gov/modiein/individual/index.jsp you can phone the IRS at +1 267-941-1099 . Anyone else needs to have a copy of your signed SS-4. It's not clear whether it has to be a wet ink signature or not.
I'm not sure I would take Bukowski's take as normative on anything at all.
NYT obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/obituaries/murray-gell-ma...
Sure, but "failure" isn't "dropping the bar on your throat"... that would be catastrophic failure that shouldn't really happen (and not even a spotter could save you). When I lift, "failure" is usually just "can't lift the bar to the top" so there's more than enough strength to lower it a bit to tilt it...
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I think that's May 2019, not May 19th. From the bottom: This entry was posted on Friday, May 24th, 2019
>WebOs and it's absolutely amazing OS. I wonder why nobody is using it in smartphones.

It used to be [1], but was a victim of HP's incompetence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pre
The article, and comments so far, focus on income only. This is the easy part. A lot of people have savings or investments going in. Perhaps one is renting and the other owns a house. This is where it gets tricky. Especially considering it would be prudent to lay plans that also work well in the event of a divorce.
Yeah! I find git to be easy to understand conceptually, but the CLI is unintuitive and sometimes inconsistent. I often know exactly what I want to do, but don't know how to phrase it in a git command.
E.g. Let's use Mongo!
I got a chuckle out of it. Maybe because it's Friday though...
I'm disappointed they collected the leaves by hand.
I thought the article was going to say they can measure the gold-content in leaves using drone imagery
Be sure to use limit orders! It feels like the execution price of their market orders can be looser than expected at times.
That's one hypothesis I suppose.
Well, the most famous Warcraft 3 mod is DotA; it always had very different gameplay from the base game, and it was eventually made into a standalone game (Dota 2) as well as inspiring many copycat games (like League of Legends). Now the same is happening in turn to Dota 2 with the popular mod Dota Auto Chess, which is even more different in gameplay than DotA was from Warcraft; it was recently announced that both the mod's original creators and Valve have separate efforts to make it into a standalone game. Similarly, in a slightly different genre, quite a few famous FPS games started as mods: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, DayZ – even PUBG, the game that set off the battle royale craze (it was based on a DayZ mod).

In other words, mods can effectively serve as "early development" versions of what eventually become new games, while being developed in bazaar style.
OK. I agree. An exception is when the article is interesting, but it has a bad title.

Anyway, I have also posted similar complains in the past without emailing the mods. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523326 (warning: read the comment first :) )
> To bring down the cost? I'm confused as to what you are getting at: are you trying to say that if a therapy of infants and children exists at some cost determined by the producer of the therapy that Medicare is obliged to pay that price immediately and perform that therapy on the affected infants/children?

Medicare, with only a few exceptions[0], only covers people above a certain age (typically 65+).

The original article is about a disease that affects infants. Almost no infants are eligible for Medicare.

[0] none of which apply here
So, I mostly agree on the costs of the '08 bailout, there's a lot of cases where problems of too much leverage become easy to solve if you have enough reserves, and my understanding was that the fundamental problem of '08 was too much leverage causing a downward spiral where everyone was forced to sell into that spiral. The private sector solution would have been to let that spiral go down much, much further before recovery; that would have caused a lot more pain and misery (and if we compare to past panics, probably wouldn't have made the resulting economy that much healthier) - The government is in a unique position because it credibly has infinite reserves and therefore can set a price floor (I mean, houses fundamentally have real value. People can live in them. but leverage can force the private sector to dramatically undervalue those real assets due to a lack of liquidity.)

Buffett's investment during the time were an example of what the private sector can do (and my opinion, as a shareholder of brk.b, who is otherwise not a finance expert, is that the man wasn't nearly greedy enough when others were fearful, but even berkshire doesn't have unlimited reserves.)

I think the big mistake of '08 was 'bailout with insufficient regulation' - if the government does need to do a bailout, that bailout should come with rules to prevent that sort of thing from happening again, and I think that there wasn't enough of that rule making after the '08 crisis.

I was just making a more general statement about the role of government in response to what I thought you were implying by pointing out the differences between how an investment in a failing company (that then doesn't fail because of your money) is accounted for differently than an investment in another person's health or education, even if the latter may net more.

In general I think the government should mostly stick with things that the private sector can't do well. The private sector is really bad at investing in things like healthcare and education for the poor that make people go from being net consumers to net producers. Government should largely focus on the things that government can do effectively but that the private sector can't do effectively. Usually this means providing services to the indigent and providing regulation (not direct ownership) of markets. But there are obviously exceptions, and I agree that '08 was one of those, it was a market failure that was big enough that the private sector couldn't really handle it, and I think direct interference was a net positive, even if I think the government could have done a much better job of it.
That makes the hierarchy sortable. Same applies to dates - you can sort 2019-05-24, but not something like 5/24/2019.
Just as a pedantic point, (nothing to do with the topic at hand), if a study has not been replicated, and you cannot lay your hands on the replicated data...

then it's pretty much the same as a "...hypothesis that hasn't been tested at all...".
> We have robust public and private medical research universities.

We have a few that give treatment for some things. That does not mean everyone can get treatment; they are not just free hospitals.
I'm a casual GitHub user, and for me the fork button enabled me to grab a copy of some other repo, make changes , commit to my github repo without perturbing the main project and still keeping an online history at github. Its a step above just downloading the zip file and below getting commit rights to the original project. If I just made a personal branch, then I would have everything but the online backup because I couldn't commit.

One example is used by many online learning companies: they provide some baseline of code for use in a course. you need to get it to use in the lessons (edit: and make changes that you want to save). You can download a zip, clone or fork the repo. zip and clone don't get you the online backup.

It would be interesting to see how many people use Github for the reasons cited in the article (using a fork as staging for a pull request) or like I do.

As I wrote this, it made me realize I am a parasite on GitHub and the projects I fork, since I rarely contribute back (mainly because I don't have anything useful).
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That doesn't make sense to me. Why would a company sell anything at a loss without some kind of complementary benefit? That's something that would lose all their investors money and have the company go bankrupt.

The companies have some leverage. They can hire PR firms to basically say, "Our new drug X treats disease Y. Your country Z doesn't want to pay to help those suffering from Y". If people afflicted by Y can garner enough influence to pressure their government's health department to get X, then they might get that.

If you want proof whether or not big pharmaceutical companies lose money by selling to countries outside the US, then try to find out if they would support a bill that forbids US pharmaceutical companies from selling at a price below what they charge Medicare.

The comparison to a burger chain is interesting: I remember reading that McDonald's makes money from real estate as opposed to burgers here on HN a while back [0][1].

[0] http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-beyo...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14158772
Some ideas of what you can measure...

Software is usually written to help reduce effort. Measure effort with and without the software. Reduce effort usually means better bottom line for the company which give you a great positive for your next performance review.

Meaure the usual software engineering metrics, ie defect count, defect closed, velocity, delivery timing etc.

I think that everything that we do in a company has a cost for the company. At the most basic level, you and I cost money as the company is paying us money for the work we do. You need to think from that perspective.
Aesthetics? How about ergonomics? In the same vein as "alert fatigue," having too many panels on a dashboard (or too many lines on a graph, etc) can overload the user, and obscure the real issues.

> show me everything so I can see at a glance

Yes, exactly, at a glance, not after scrolling through five pages. With careful dashboard design, you should be able to see a problem area actually "at a glance," and then drill-down to pinpoint the actual cause, faster than you'll find it scrolling through a single large dashboard.

I admit this is something of an ideal to aim for, and it can take a lot of time and effort to achieve, which may not be available. However, it will pay off in the "Oh my god something is wrong in production right now" scenario if you can take that time.