skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, it really depends who is hard of hearing or not. Those younger Americans who travel are likely not living in detached homes, while maybe the older ones are.

Curious, as an American who lived in Lausanne (kind of touristic town) for a couple of years and China for ten, I rarely encountered American tourists at all. I’m sure they exist, but they don’t travel in huge groups like Chinese do, so are pretty impossible to pick out.
I don't look at insurance in that way at all. Insurance is just another way for the government to tax me as far as I am concerned. If something goes wrong they will find a way to not help me, whatever it takes, they will find a way. They force me to have it and I just assume that money goes directly into their employees pockets and into campaign contributions. The US is incredibly corrupt and if you want to live hear you need to understand that you can't get sick. If you do get seriously sick or injured you are better off blowing your own brains out.
Back in NT3.x times, for quad-processors machines, and IIRC even NT 4.x with 8-processors machines (like AXEL crazy SMP monsters) Microsoft shipped windows NT as code, and you had to compile it on the machine it was to run on.
> We can't create a German-style compulsory insurance system until something is done about that.

Germany also has, IIRC, a mix of federal (including the basic mandate and baseline standards) and state-level rules for health insurance.
I don't see it that way.

I am very committed to this country (US) and in fact I am also pursuing the citizenship process as a sign of long term commitment to it. The option of going back to EU is certainly something I keep in mind considering my European citizenship, but I don't necessarily look forward to it, at least not more than, say, all the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people planning to move abroad or to a different state when they want to retire and/or switch gears in life. I hope to be a productive member of this society for many decades.

Also, I am paying a massive amount of taxes to the US (effective tax rate in a coastal city can easily get to 40%+ on a tech salary), so I'm not taking advantage of anything at all.

By your logic, I should also question my moral integrity because I am not planning to ever have kids (personal reasons), so I am effectively relying on others to spend their own money/time to raise new human beings that will provide services to me and pay for my social security when I'll be old, which doesn't make any sense.
Perhaps you could find a way to articulate your point about irresponsible parents without so much sexism. Or even better, without any sexism.
Lol, how about 6/5?
I agree, but if you’re a MySQL shop that’s a feature.
The thing with this suggestion is that ATM Instagram is trying to fix how people are getting addicted to the Instagram popularity contest and instant feedback from the likes.
Recently said that is testing the possibility to hide the like count.
This suggestion IMO is another kind of feature for that popularity contest to be on the Famous side of the app.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/instagram-hidden-like-coun...
I can't follow that link but I'll trust you, I was just going off what the documentation had to say: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces

My reading of "Disallow" must be wrong.
My experience dealing with such folks 10 or 15 years ago was that even if the person presented to you as the "provider" was actually the person doing the work (and not just a frontman for others), you were lucky to be able to hold onto them for a year. I see that others here are saying just six months, though.

Also, promises were made which were broken almost immediately. For example, there was a promise made that all meetings would be conducted on US time as opposed to Indian time. But only two weeks into the contract I noticed that our US outsourcing manager was routinely coming into the office late, where before she was always quite punctual. When I asked about this I was told that it was because she was now having regular 3 AM meetings with the folks in India.

We were also told (all of us) by upper management that if the whole thing didn't work out as planned, then WE would be the ones held responsible for this, not the outsourcing folks. You can imagine how well this went down. It became routine for some people to just lie to their bosses about well how things were actually going, all while looking for other jobs elsewhere because they knew it was going to hit the fan soon enough. In one particular case that I remember, I attended a teleconference with a project manager where folks were laying it on the line and being honest about how badly things were going. Then in an immediately following teleconference (which I also attended) this project manager turned around and flat-out lied to his bosses by telling them that everything was going great! He bailed for another job at another company before he really got caught out on this though.

The company finally got wise and cut loose the outsourcing group after a couple of years. But by that time things were in such bad shape that they were considering just tossing out their custom software (which they'd spent decades developing) and replacing it with some kind of package. I don't know how far along they got with that before the big bankruptcy came, though.

Ever since they emerged from that bankruptcy (and then only barely, after enduring great pain) they've been looking for a buyer, but with no great success. They've finally found one now, though, except that one of the conditions of the buyout is that all of upper management is going to lose their jobs. Oh well!
Cached paths is usually pretty cheap for adding new nodes, but it can be quite expensive if you need to be able to move non-leaf nodes around (caveat: I've not looked at their use-cases here, I don't know if moving non-leaf nodes is an important matter) especially if the forest is deep rather than (or as well as) wide.
For some people, I think it's actually exciting for them to think about how independent they are and how nobody can spy on them or trick them out of money because they consider themselves to be so worldly and knowledgeable about such things. And maybe they are compared to their families or the people they deal with during their day-to-day. I've known plenty of people (myself included at times) who get some of their feelings of self-worth from this sort of thing. But because it's more of a fun or emotional or ego-boosting thing than a rational thing, they'll often make big bold binary blanket statements about all the products they refuse to buy or web sites they refuse to go to or companies they refuse to patronize. And that's all great, actually, as long as it's rational and based on facts rather than some narrative in their head. We need more skeptical people, we always do.

But it's not always rational, and sometimes it is more like they're LARPing through some exciting narrative about the world, and in that narrative they're the heroes who know stuff that the normies don't. They're more like survivalists living an adventure in their head than rational people making rational choices. And that's where people can also get into trouble, both for having a false sense of confidence about their ability to avoid risk, and for giving others bad advice based on excessive confidence or rose-colored glasses about the same things.

I'm all for better security practices based on ever more openness, but I agree 100% with your example: people are kidding themselves if they think just because they run binaries built by other people from open source, it's almost as good as if they had personally inspected every line of code themselves. And when people are making those sorts of utopian statements, it's generally coming from the LARPing survivalist narrative part of the mind rather than the skeptical rational part of the mind and should be viewed with that much more skepticism. Not rejected, but just considered with an extra dollop of skepticism, because they hopefully at least mean well.
yes! wow i forgot that. blast from the past.
You can typically try to work out a deal with the billing department which might be a payment plan, cash payment in exchange for a discount (easier to get if you have bad or no insurance), or a combination of both. But once they send it to collections, good luck.
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Along with other commenters here, I've given up on trying to have a perfect lawn. As long as it's green, it's fine with me. I'm also trying to gradually reduce the amount of property given over to lawn by a little bit each year as I expand beds of native plants. In my experience here in the Mid-Atlantic region the upkeep in terms of time between a lawn and garden bed is pretty much a 1:1 tradeoff. Occasional weeding and a one-time day spent planting annuals in the Spring is about the same as having to mow every 1.5 weeks.
Same here! I can't remember if I did the moving mouse thing, but I definitely opened the CD drive to unfreeze the computer.
You’re not wrong. However, given the facts that most of the people on HN are from the Bay Area and that Socialism is the soup du jour, the down votes shouldn’t be surprising.
What's strange? From his perspective, it's the same as if all of the neighbors quit the HOA and stopped following the rules that he believed in. Would you like to be freed from your national taxes and laws if it meant you had no protection against your neighbors violating those laws?
It isn't legalizing heroin, or else we'd have nationwide formal public health strategies for harm reduction. What we have is a strategy that seems like it was custom-built to maximize harm to public health.

We should hand over the reins of drug policy to the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and task them with minimizing harm, instead of the abject failure we have now with police running the show.
> Almost all languages allow you to link to a C module.

no, almost all languages allow you to call into your operating system's native dynamic library format.

That this binary was originally built with C, C++ in extern "C", fortran, ADA, D -betterC, Pascal... does not matter at all.

C just happens to be the most popular language for building those...
On my second try, 1:58.
> But the fact that we are becoming increasingly accustomed to talking to people who appear to be staring at our necks is even creepier, in my opinion

There have been a few comments now that mention people looking at necks instead of eyes as being creepy.

Now I wonder if anyone finds it creepy to talk to me in person, because I usually look at the speaker's mouth, not their eyes, at least when they are speaking. (I'm not actually sure where I look when I'm doing the speaking).

Looking at the mouth allows better error correction if the conversation is competing with noise.
This might depend on what you consider a “regular bank” but every bank and exchange I’ve ever come into contact with requires documentation and vetting to ensure that I am who I say I am and that I’m not not laundering money, and if the police come with a warrant they get everything they ask for.

I think you might be thinking of specific banks and shell company schemes in Panama and not what most people would describe as a regular bank.
I think you are right but I still think two steps would make the system much saner:

- Price transparency

- One price for the same service. The practice of charging $500 to the insurance but $10000 to the uninsured needs to stop. Maybe it's fine to vary by a few percent but there is no other market where the same product costs 20x more depending on who pays. If the excuse is that this is to compensate for non payers then let's pay for this from a separate pot.
> All they had to do was implement a nested set pattern for their groups

I've been told a million times that SQL is declarative, meaning you say what you want, not how to get it.

I've also been told a million times that I need to write my queries in a specific way, or use a specific data structure, or add hints for the query optimizer. Otherwise it'll pick the wrong "how" for your "what".

Is there any practical difference between a declarative language with a Sufficiently Dumb Compiler, and an imperative language with weak features and an awkward syntax? However I'm forced to write it, we all know I'm really trying to do is get it to LOOP first over these items here, and not those there.

What's the point of being declarative if common tasks require us to bend over backwards to design our schema/queries/indices/hints in exactly the right way, in order for it to be performant on two popular SQL databases (when that's even possible)?

Even if the vaguely-English-like syntax that's completely unlike any other computer language weren't problematic for those reasons, it seems that the lack of abstraction is a complete buzzkill. These two databases require different implementations for "nested groups", but there's no (remotely portable) way to define a CREATED NESTEDGROUP to allow for a similar interface.

Of all the languages I have to use, SQL are the ones I hate most. From decades of writing SQL, I can say GitLab got one thing absolutely right: it's easiest to just treat it as a family of incompatible proprietary languages. It's easier for me to target JS and the JVM from the same program than two different SQL databases from the same queries.
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I had completely forgotten about the mouse-wiggling trick! It's just one of those things I used to do without thinking about it. It makes sense that an event loop was waiting for an event to fire.
That would harm my neighbors' property values, in their estimation.

It's very hard to change major rules because they require majority votes but a quorum is usually impossible because most people don't care enough to change the status quo.
Golem has GPUs for very cheap on its network so ask here https://www.reddit.com/r/GolemProject/ or https://twitter.com/golemproject?lang=en.
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Good to know since the police in that same state may be carrying their personal cellphones on them at the same time they interact with people...
Personal attacks and name-calling, as here and in your previous two comments, are not ok on HN. We ban accounts that do that. It's great if you're providing correct information, but please edit out the swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for a well thought out reply.

If we incentivize people to procreate responsibly rather than reward all procreations(tax break, better quality of life, UBI) rather than create punitive measures, then we will be able to hasten meaningful change..

I would like to see robotics and automation in farming. I think this would move us away from chemical warfare on environment. With more automation and hedonistic lifestyles, UBI etc..plus anti-aging/life extension and ways to clone/preserve our best genetic material(and combinations/permutations thereof), why should there even be a desire for biological procreation. There will be no more clock ticking.
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They spend 11 and the us spends 17%. Do you think German health care somehow gets more expensive if they spend more on their military?

By the way, compare EU military spending to the US, not that of one country.

> The combined military expenditure of the member states amounts to just over is €192.5 billion. This represents 1.55% of European Union GDP and is second only to the €503 billion military expenditure of the United States. The US figure represents 4.66% of United States GDP.

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

Unless the EU wants to have military places all over the world like the US and equally extraordinary military expenses, for whatever strange reason, far outspending anyone located near Europe, that sounds like plenty enough money for the military. Of course, it seems to me the US uses much of that money for what elsewhere might be called "socialism" and "central economic planning" because doing so directly would never fly with the American public. So it's labeled "defense" and then it's fine.

> Americans finance the drug research that pushes the world forward.

I see claims like that a lot because for some reason some (few but vocal) Americans seem to take personal offense at any suggestion something might not be "the best", I have yet to see even a bad source for it, never mind a good one.

I can tell you German health care is shit too in so many ways that I'd be hard pressed to recommend it as a model to any nation, but according to the actual data it seems it's still better than the US system. Disclosure: I'm German but lived and worked in the US for a decade.

I also think cost alone is not a good path of argument. Costs on an economy level are circular - they are somebody else's income. Also, much of health care is "optional", whatever level people want. The more important point is what does that money flow achieve. According to the analysis I am aware of it achieves less, in the US, on average.

And US military spending since WWII wasn't and isn't high out of the goodness of American's hearts either. The US spend that much because it was beneficial at least from the point of view of those who got to make those spending decisions, and I'm sure they didn't have "foreigners" interests in mind but their own.
Both will eventually merge into the same thing, so I struggle to see a real difference.

In a free market, the assumption is that everyone is a rational actor that will work in their own self-interest. People that want to maximize returns are behaving as you'd expect; someone not wanting to maximize profit in a free market would be considered an irrational actor.

Which, well, there lies the problem. For a lot of markets, maximizing profit comes at a very human cost. For healthcare the profit incentive is to have as many barriers to avoid paying individuals as possible because their profiteering is orthogonal to your well-being in most cases.

This is also why many markets can be considered short-sighted because it's easier to make returns now than it is to gamble on long term growth, which results in smash-and-grab style of corporate takeovers.

Ultimately even if we did have price transparency for healthcare all of the issues would still remain. It just can't work as a free market and going further in that direction is just pouring salt on a rotting wound.
> You're imagining this to be more friendly than it is -- "can't pay for emergency medical care" in the US is a euphemism for "got a bill from the hospital, couldn't pay it, so the hospital sold the debt to a collections agency and wrote the account off as a loss", not a reference to a forgiveness program.

As someone who's family has been in that situation before, not it is not. We had a $35,000 bill forgiven entirely because we couldn't afford it. The process was certainly stressful, distressing, and we shouldn't have a system where it happened in the first place. That doesn't change the fact that the end result was forgiveness.
Americans are a prideful people that share commonalities such as fear of an unknown and distrust of governing institutions.

As such, you cant really gain consensus with them by talking about other countries and what Americans are missing. You have to flatter their ego and avoid bruising it, make ideas seem homegrown.

I’ve reintroduced legislative changes in the US modeled after the exact laws that I helped pass in European area countries. In America it absolutely has to appear as an original idea that Americans came up with first and independently.

There really is an art to consensus.

edit since I am rate-limited for the next two hours: I am referring to the people in power that matter for the next decade
> The keyboard was just awful, the trackpad was worse, the battery management totally sucked, and the screen was annoyingly low resolution.

Perhaps thats why they did not include peripherals this time around. One of the big selling points of the Pi 4 is the 4K output. Providing anything less than a 4K screen would probably lock users into a disappointing product.
I send hundreds of thousands of emails using SES per day and haven't had any trouble. As long as you have DKIM set up correctly (and DMARC if you have a dedicated transactional email domain) the deliverability is pretty high. When you reach a large enough daily volume you will need to provision a pair of dedicated IPs but they are only around $25/mo
Did they disclose when they will be in stock again? Did you ask?
I'm sorry for your local insects. Not much nectar or pollen in typical wood chips.
Systems that provide value over long periods of time with zero input are the opposite of tech debt. Compound interest?
That reminds me of this twitter thread about our healthcare system. There are absolutely heartbreaking stories on there. The one that really sticks in my mind is the parents who were paying off and earlier ER trip and were literally waiting in the parking lot of the ER again with a fevered child, waiting to see if seizures started or the fever broke.

https://twitter.com/AllOnMedicare/status/1124042436345569286
Archived article: http://archive.is/nD0O9
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My HOA has a weird rule where the lawn rules do apply to the front only, but also mandate a maximum 4ft fence height in back so you can't have privacy and so can't put anything your neighbors don't like in the back.
QA model that determines the response by reverse-engineering the question
I understood them to be saying they were unsettled by the dissonance of it.
You didn't spell started correctly both on here and on quora aka thanks for the low effort canned response. Maybe try addressing their points directly. This is bad PR for you.
I'd be tempted to switch to TI just for that website.
Yes I keep a crt around for hotd and duck hunt. :) I intend to make a multi-system arcade cabinet some day to clean up the games area.
People can decide whatever they want, but if they're wasting money on eating out when they don't have much money, I don't feel bad for them.

I thought it was a common sentiment that eating out is something you do as a special occasion.

I'm not here to tell people how to live their lives, but I've been on both sides of the poverty line. Eating in is a great way to save money. The exception is certain fast food places that are close to the same expense (value menu at McDonalds or Taco Bell)

I'm beginning to think I'm an outlier here though. I don't really like food. I just want to not be hungry. I could eat the same thing for weeks. I usually skip lunch, I eat cheese and jerky every morning for breakfast, and one big homecooked meal for dinner.
The fungus itself will be more radioactive than background.

I don't believe neutron activation is significant anywhere on Earth outside the containment of a fission reactor, power research facilities, or nuclear bomb tests. So mostly, places slowly become less radioactive over time unless you get radioactive particulates from one of the aforementioned sources, or from a natural concentration, and release them into the environment somewhere.

Bio-accumulation can occur, such as the naturally radioactive potassium in a banana, but that's just shifting around the radioactive materials already present in the environment.

Wherever you dump the fungus, or the ashes of the fungus, will be more radioactive than before. So a bio-remediation plan would likely grow fungus, separate most of it from the soil, and allow the remaining fraction to regrow, repeating as necessary. The separated fungus would be burned, and any radioactive fractions removed from the exhaust gases and dissolved in liquid or crystallized somehow. The ash would be vitrified into glass pellets.

And then it'd probably still be less radioactive than an asphalt parking lot. But okay, seal it all up inside a drum and forget about it for 10000 years anyway.