skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For instance, treating some types Leukemia require teams of dozens of caregivers over months-long hospital stays. It seems to me that there's no way a market would make that affordable to the average person, and it seems inevitable you would end up with a two-tiered healthcare system.

I think that's a pretty good and fair point. Clearly the healthcare system in Tanzania is more primitive and leads to worse best case outcomes. Or in other words, the best care you get can here doesn't even get close to the best care you can get in the US. In fact, the US probably has the most advanced care in the world.

The downside of this is that it creates a system in which everything is expensive. Doctors only consider the efficacy and quality of treatment, instead of making trade-offs based on efficacy and cost. I think this is a largely a culture issue, though the Hippocratic oath and the litigiousness of American society are certainly contributing factors as well.

> What's so terrible about single-payer? It seems like it's pretty effective at bringing costs down where it's implemented.

Single payer systems result in inflation of costs and creates individual incentive to pursue inefficient options. If my healthcare costs are amortized through payment from primarily other people instead of myself, I don't care how much money anything costs. From an individual perspective, it would make sense to have doctors spend another million so I can live another month.

Moreover, it incentives risky behavior (smoking, getting HIV, etc) because I personally will not have to bear the financial burden of those choices. The only way to get around this would to to institute caps on lifetime medical credit. And if that happened, people would be screaming about "death panels" and such.

I find it hard to imagine a simple and clear single-payer system that would a) provide individual incentives to maintain health b) not impose exorbitant costs on the majority by the few c) fairly allocate healthcare resources to people who would derive the most benefit.
This is delightful.
Did they ever run any test? For example, open every box and record the accuracy?

If the accuracy is greater than 95% then I don’t see any problems with your actions.
I think the bigger problem is that everyone wants certain kind of lifestyle of which they are inspired from Instagram/youtubers

Even if there was no Instagram or YouTube, we'll still have companies bringing American product to local market and promising better life tho this is amplified exponentially through social media now.

But we must ask ourselves, how many people sporting millionaire lifestyle can this earth take?

No matter where I go, every student is reading the art of hustle, rich dad poor dad, fake it till you make it, dreaming of renting ferraris, living in vilas and jet setting everywhere around the globe, buying whatever they want whenever they want to do some cool thing similar to fidget spinner.

Now, as India and China are growing coming online, everyone there is also inspired by American habits, look at the 3d printing channels, so many channels from developing countries are copying their American counterparts and printing so much ABS/PETG. Now this is simply an example.

It's human tendency to copy those who you think are better than you in your limited worldview. It is justified in mind easily.

So we must ask, can this planet afford everyone to live like an American millionaire?

Edit: Downvotes are raining on me. I am not against America or India or even china, you can replace them with any developed - developing country pair.

I am simply saying at present, planet can't ensure same lifestyle for everyone without destroying itself. Yes, with technological advancement and political will, it will be possible in future, but are we forgetting the article we are commenting on.
To be fair, Elektron boxes and Ableton w/ push 2 have a lot in common. The push provides a similar UI to the octatrack, but expanded and aligned with ableton. Instead of a single row step sequencer/keyboard the push has a grid. And the push has a bigger, but still menu driven screen.
Great suggestion! I'd not heard of the site before. Just searched for smoothie recipes and was shown lots of small blogs/food sites instead of the usual suspects with heavy advertising.
What does "losing all grounds for discussion" mean? Discussion with who? The decision makers responsible? How are we discussing anything with them now? Nobody knows their names, or at least not enough people do. What is the value of discussion with them anyway? Are we going to talk them out of being absolute bottom-feeding assholes?

To be clear I am not advocating vigilante mobs of any sort. I would like to see these people's homes with protesters in front though.
> No sadly not. I'd love to write about it but my English is just not good enough to write a compelling story.

Reads like a monty python sketch.
Since you are asking about performance of some languages, you may find this helpful https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
What is the role of a product manager in a development team?
For what it's worth, my experience has been that many strangers are borderline ecstatic over the opportunity to share their political opinions in a somewhat hostile tone. And many, I'm sure, are not.
> Why isn't the price to the NHS slightly higher, also in part to fund research?

The NHS (via NICE) sets a standard amount that it is prepared to pay for any treatment based on the QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years) it results in. So really a non-generic manufacturer can charge whatever they like, so long as the end result is worth it. In a sense we don't eliminate the mafia, just set the terms of engagement under which they have to justify their pricing. Whether they take that money and spend it on R&D or dividends is the vendor's decision.
like an audio PDF or something.
> and up to 1% cashback on all card payments.

No it doesn't
It may also very well be the case a meteor strikes earth before I finish writing this comment and kills us all. My point is that debate about climate change needs to come from generally accepted perspectives based on concrete data and interpretations. Instead we have millions of people shouting and parroting unsubstantiated opinions that originated from a single person who's obviously very biased in their perspective.

Playing "what if" all day and talking about doomsdays isn't going to help. I don't understand why there isn't a greater focus on the thousands of people who are dying every year right now from pollution caused by fossil fuels. This is undeniable and very actionable and easy to get behind.
Why did Microsoft let the Flight Simulator franchise go to the back burner for so long?

I know these vast corporations have to focus but it is still a mystery to me why they let it go. Does anyone have any idea what the thinking was? What has fundamentally changed for them to want to get back to it?
Next step. Have the pi auto close your windows
I pulled a prank at the office with my RPi.

I built a very simple circuit to listen to 5V pin of HDMI and I hid RPi and the circuit under the desk of a colleague after work and turned off video output of RPi.
Colleague's laptop -HDMI> RPi -HDMI> external display.
when the colleague comes to work and turn on the laptop, my RPi turned on its video output and external display showed the website I made for the occasion.
While 150+ years of GHG emissions have put us in a terrible situation, reducing emissions or even reaching zero emissions will not solve climate change much like removing your foot from the accelerator would not prevent a car crash.

The current 415ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere will break havoc for centuries to an unknown extent. Self sustaining climatic systems have already been triggered (Arctic ice, methane, etc) and due to climate lag the changes we are seeing in the climate today are from the emissions from about 40 years ago. Bad news is we have emitted more GHG in the last 40 years than the previous 150 years before that.

Finally we don't really know for sure how much warming there is today since the cooling effects of aerosols have been difficult to calculate, and there is some debate whether the preindustrial baseline picked by the IPCC is correct. We could already be at 2ºC of warming today.

If anyone wants links of all that just ask.
Walmart sells their own brand for about $0.20 each, the "name brand" ones are about $0.60-80 here. I have a diabetic friend whose insurance will only pay for 2 strips per day and he buys the remainder from walmart (and has 2 meters because the insurance-provided one is a different model that doesn't work with the walmart test strips).
> Knowing for a decade in advance ... that's too soon to "get your affairs in order"

It's never too soon to "get your affairs in order". What if you have a car accident later today and end up in a paralyzed state? I don't mean to be grim, but this is what Advance Directives are for (also known as a Living Will).

As long as you are well, you probably should re-evaluate this every 10 years. If you're in your 30's, you probably want as much as possible done to bring you back if something bad happens. But if you're in your 50s or 70s, you may prefer a different trade-off. By default, the healthcare providers must do everything they can to treat you but undergoing invasive (and risky) procedures may not be worth it and leave you with a worse quality of life.

Example: you fall hard and fracture your hip. If you're in your 30s, you probably want to get surgery and get put back together. Your body is strong, it is likely to recover well. But that same problem in your 80s might be better handled with pain medication and other ways to maintain a quality of life. At the same time, if the accident is something like getting paralyzed, you may have various preferences as to how long or how much effort you want to be put into maintaining you (eg. if you are in a vegetative state).

Here's a more detailed guide and pointers to prepare your own documents:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health...
Creating an LLVM Sanitizer from Hopes and Dreams
I've seen a friend with Type 1 diabetes quietly and quickly go from someone who practices law competently to someone who can barely manage to stab herself when she realizes she's having a blood sugar issue. Dosage is hard when you're crashing.
I'm giving my son a classical education with it. Using Retropi

Every now and then we play "Daddy's games", so he has NES megadrive, and MAME (PacMan mainly). As he starts to master those, I'll add the next generation to it. If we've played some of the same games, hopefully it gives us some form of common framework, and him an interest in how he could code something similar i.e. a gateway in to computers. If he decides he doesn't like it, that's fine too.

So far it's goign well - we set off on the adventure 6 months ago when he was 4. I'll also get another microUSB card and try trhe same with my daughter when she's a bit older (currently she's 2).
Ouch. I thought I was being cutting, but you win hands down.
Funding momentum is shifting to private sector research financing. Apple may spend on order of $10B on research this fiscal year.

But even higher dollar outlays will not solve the problem of the "chasm". An invention made under laboratory conditions requires a lot of finesse before it becomes a mass market consumer product. And product design and go-to-market strategy are not skills found in your typical inventor's wheelhouse.

I'm curious to hear if anyone has had an experience with the "invention services" industry. The few insiders I've spoken to seem to be more interested in revenue generation via litigation, than actually ever developing a product! Seems like a service ripe for disruption...
If you want to get rid of it, the chrome plugin named Momentum is nice.
> The firmware are encrypted and protected, it is not so easy

Excuse me if I sound ignorant but... aren't you able to put the ECUs into a special bootloader mode where you can dump the encryption/protection?
How come there are no startups disrupting this market and producing it cheaply?
Not yet, the acquisition strategy would be my next logical step I think. I am not aware of Heroku elements, will check it out. Thanks.
Tesco prints expiry dates in Julian days
Interesting. Maybe Revolut's paid accounts work out well for it or it's able to earn profit from certain services.
many years ago I wanted to do the same, a socialized browser. At the time I was a heavy user of google reader that had a social reading list like what you described. I imagined that the social reading experience can be integrated into a browser.

But I found out (on google reader) that my physical friends have drastically different interests from mine. They have no interests in my shares and one friend even complained that I spammed her. And actually, most of my friends don't read.

Eventually I didn’t work on this idea. I felt that it won’t be too much different from sharing on Twitter. I still have my UI mock-up for the project though.

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/87...
So far I’ve been using Excel and Pandas to maintain/pipeline my data, but I feel like a database might be a better way. I’m not sure about built in data mining tools, as I’m used to writing them myself. Also, most of my pipeline configs are in json format so I’ve been thinking about MongoDB.
My next resume

Summary

- Expert at solving XYProblems
Its also the same direction government funded healthcare would need to go. Ultimately if one or two companies captured the entire market like this, then we socialized medicine by having the government pay these companies, I'm actually curious how that's practically different than government owned entities doing the same thing.
Most of the request is encrypted. Suppose you type https://foo.example.com/bar?baz#quux into your browser

Most TLS (TLS up to 1.2) will tell anybody who is watching that you visited foo.example.com including the SNI foo.example.com your browser sent to tell the server which name it was looking for and the certificate the server provided to prove it is really foo.example.com. But it will encrypt bar and baz and quux isn't sent over the wire it's just used internally by the browser and any Javascript.

That's the difference between "dotancohen looked at webMD" and "dotancohen looked at this article about sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men".

In TLS 1.3 the certificate is encrypted, a snooper can still see you asked for foo.example.com but not whether this server in fact presented a certificate for that name.

eSNI (currently under active development as an addition to TLS 1.3) encrypts that part where your browser asks for foo.example.com, since your browser also did a DNS lookup for foo.example.com we need to encrypt that too for it is make any real difference which is being done under DPRIVE.
It's refreshing to look at the comments on this post and see discussion surrounding not just the linked item, but also other similar items that people are either personally involved in or prefer over the one linked.
Encrypted DNS=⇒Privacy? A Traffic Analysis Perspective
We can both cherry-pick history all day long, but back in the real world, the Prime Minister of Israel does not campaign with a white supremacist
IoT coffee maker remotely hacked into ransomware machine, network gateway
In order to fix a price with your competitor, the only thing you need is an information channel with them.

The price in itself carries information, so, I would not be surprised if in many cases not conversations are happened between the parties, but all the necessary information exchange have happened through the prices. That would be very difficult to police.
UK IT contractors, how to use LinkedIn to find contracts
I wonder how many years our file systems will remain usable.
I suppose this is quite relevant here: https://words.steveklabnik.com/the-culture-war-at-the-heart-...

> However this also allows authors to reserve rights for commercializing their work later on and it's an absolutely fair arrangement.

They could've also used AGPL for that. A popular option.

The license says, "For purposes of this license, commercial purposes is the incorporation of the Allen Institute's software into anything for which you will charge fees or other compensation." Does that include ads? It certainly seems to include donations. And I suppose requiring attribution could be seen as "other compensation". It's kinda broad, but even if it was strictly "don't sell this standalone", it still wouldn't be FOSS or open source imo. It's fine for studying the code, but it's not any better than "source available" software, such as UE4. And if do study the code, you'll have the same legal landmines to deal with as when studying "source available" code. I'd even say that UE4's license is better, because at least it doesn't cause confusion over whether it's open source.

> No reason to denigrate their work because of that.

I don't think anyone did. They just said it's not open source, which seems like a fair assessment to me. Saying that Windows isn't open source doesn't denigrate Microsoft's work either. Open source doesn't mean good, and proprietary doesn't mean bad. This volume-viewer
just isn't open source, regardless of its quality.
Why didn't you use a querybuilder (like knex) that is db agnostic? Here users are stuck with MySQL.
In other news, China poured more concrete between 2011 and 2013 than the US did in the entire 20th century.
Show HN: I Built Hacker News TV
I’ve taken to watching Twitch streams, off work pilots playing M$ Flight Sim. They tell some of the most interesting stories. But what interest me the most is the sequences they perform. Try checking some of their streams. Can’t recommend one off hand, all are equally good.
Xbox and the casual games market is something Microsoft leadership better understands now.
Question: For someone who does not know either Rust or Zig, would you say that Zig also has tools that help the programmer protect from data race conditions (I have read that Rust is helpful in this regard)?
You cannot be 'too clean' health experts warn
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I loved MS FS back in the day!

According to wikipedia, this new one will feature "Azure AI". What does that mean?
MyUS.com does the best job in that regard: they are registered as exporter and they open EVERY package and verify it. Their postal code even gets you 0% sales tax on any US webshop. Their service costs as much as regular UPS/FedEx/DHL delivery would cost you...
Pi Zero Streams Video from “Fake” Security Camera
> Extrapolating the trend of the last 30 years, there is evidence that computers will be able to solve every task a human can using pattern matching. If that isn't AGI, it might turn out to be better than intelligence.

Only if the trend lasts and is applicable to every human task. Those are pretty big assumptions.

> If someone finds an objective function for deciding what decision parameters are important AGI could be upon us very quickly.

And if that function doesn't exist, because the real world (not a board game) is messy, dynamic and complex?

> As a postcript, I think people radically overestimate human intelligence.

Individually maybe, but as a group we're pretty damn impressive. I think you're radically underestimating the species. But this has been the case for strong AI proponents since the 1950s. AGI is always 20 years and one good algorithm away.
The idea is their pharmacy can negotiate with drug companies. "Give us a good deal on everything or we get generics instead of you for everything we can get elsewhere" (that is but one type of negotiation)
Same in Georgia. I loved Kaiser (but my current employer doesn't offer it).

It was great being able to go to one facility to see a doctor, a specialist, get tests, and fill a prescription.
More pointedly competition only works when it exists.
Study: Vacation (after-) effects on employee health and well-being (2012)
Ranking Corporate Culture with AI and Machine Learning
> The company is one of several so-called challenger banks taking advantage of the growing shift among consumers toward handling their finances on a smartphone.

As opposed to handling their finances on a website, like people have been doing for the past decade? Even the smallest credit unions have apps these days. What is "fintech" about this?

> The branchless bank is now making £4 on each customer it signs up to the platform, versus a £15 loss per customer last year, according to a company spokesperson.

Where's the GBP 2.5 billion valuation coming from then? There's not much detail at all in the article. I don't want to default to cynicism, but this seems like a company whose profile fits the current SV hype train, puffing up valuations and eventually taking the company public, all before a single penny of profit has been made.
The neck-and-neck race between DR-DOS and MS-DOS 3, 5, 6 and beyond
The inherent weakness of any and every society is always going to be the government. As the entity with the monopoly on force, the corruption and influence on government from interest groups will necessarily be the weak point in the system.

It's incredibly hard to generate the political will of many people who will slightly be hurt by something against the will of the few who will be significantly hurt even if the aggregate damage is far greater for the many than the few.

Almost all legislation follows this sort of calculus: zoning laws, tariffs, minimum wage, etc.
Because not even that quote supports the headline here. This is not what Tether said, it's what Bitfinex'd said, a blogger that posts way too many assumptions for me to take them seriously (even though I think a bunch of what they say hits the nail).

The headline is a pure invention not related to the article.
"The paper isn't a real academic paper and itself also marketeer noise" is one of the options I've outlined as a debate position. But let's be clear: we started by calling research "phony" over something that would've been trivially clarified by reading a short paper. In order to even get to that point, I have to acknowledge that maybe you get to call research "phony" without seriously implying fraud. I have a hard time taking that as a serious, bona-fide argument.
It would be so cool if the Native Americans independently discovered the Method of Loci (or something similar)! If so, I wonder if they also developed the same rules of thumb as the Greeks/Romans, like: space your loci apart, always view your loci from the same angle, store a fixed number of items at each loci, etc.

I'm aware of one interesting example where someone created a memory palace around an object that's not a building (or a route along a street). IIRC a person became blind and wanted to write a book, so s/he stored plot points at different parts of an intricate vase s/he was familiar with. (In medieval Europe, the fingers of the left hand were also used for memory purposes.)

Using a stylized bird gives you readily apparent loci: the beak, the head, each of the three feathers of each wing, etc.

Magnifying the bird and turning it into a path is clever, since your sense of place, amount of fatigue while walking, and on which side the sun hits you, would all help cement the route in your memory.
The way the center core changed course makes me think that it was pre programmed to avoid destroying OCISLY in case landing became impossible. Is this correct or just naive thinking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBw6KvU51BE
Honestly? Free Market Evangelists who think that price controls on medication is socialism (but coal subsidies for outdated jobs in West Virginia is "American").
You don’t let people start up the service if it will exceed a cost quota. For ec2 that should be easy since the cost ticks at a constant rate and can be extrapolated in advance, but yeah other usage based services like s3 and network traffic that won’t work.
You mean like Obama did for his entire 8 years?