skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all of the problematic uses of facial recognition, this isn't one. You are already in a context where your identification must be verified. Who cares if they establish that identity with a precanned passport image? It isn't like there is any new data available here.
Whatsapp is having problem delivering downloads now (at least where I live)
There are free alternatives to Sendy et al.

I've used phplist feeding to AWS SES for many years now without issues.
I never found any. I read "What's in the box" and was trying to parse it:

> Every pi‑top [4] comes with 12 pi-top component modules comprising programmable sensors, buttons and LEDs to bring your inventions to life.

Okay, so pi-top [4] is the main thing in the box. Thus there are 12 pi-top component modules, so I guess it's a variety pack of sensors and buttons? Well, how many of each, and what are they?

> You connect these to your pi‑top [4] using a Foundation Plate that fits snuggly underneath it.

We further learn the pi-top [4] is a thing, and this plate fits it.

Obviously, I can infer that it's the case with the CPU, but this product is trying to introduce people to programming.

It's amazing that a company can put up a product page that never plainly explains what you're buying. And this is shockingly common.
> I guess an American making $100k in the US would not easily consider a $70k job in Europe, because it immediately seems like a downgrade. ... Not everyone bothers to go into details, like cost of healthcare

If you're making $100,000 at a job in the US your healthcare is being covered - often entirely - by the company you're working for.

Somehow this point is routinely ignored on HN in these discussions. Good paying jobs in the US almost always come with great healthcare coverage. Employers cover half the people in the US with health insurance. On average the higher your pay, the more of your insurance cost is likely to be paid for by your employer.

That style of higher income healthcare coverage and its tremendous qualities, like very expeditious access that embarrasses countries like Canada (which have superior overall systems), is why the US healthcare system still exists as it does. Higher income voters that don't want to give up what they have.
Curious to hear more details on this, but this is my current understanding:

First, exit tax is not just contingent on citizenship, but also on long term permanent residency, so I am effectively already under that rule, citizenship or not. Also, while the exit tax is for sure draconian, it doesn't mean you'll have to necessarily pay a huge amount, it merely depends on the unrealized gains you have in your assets. In my case that's relatively small since I'm not a homeowner and I've been paying capital gain taxes all along.

Second, most countries in the world (including the one where I have EU citizenship) have tax treaties with the US so that individuals who pay income or other taxes in a foreign country where they are resident for fiscal purposes will effectively obtain a foreign tax credit against the US taxes, avoiding double taxation. Since taxes in EU are higher than US, one wouldn't have to pay anything at all to the US. I've been dabbling with the US foreign tax for years myself due to some passive income generated in my home country, and I've always been able to claim full credit for it when filing my US taxes.

Third, my plan would not be to "work next" somewhere in EU. When/if I decide to leave (which may be never), with 7 figures in assets I should be able to live a modest lifestyle out of passive income in my original EU country (very cheap cost of living), so taxes would be minimal, if any at all.
Do you have much experience with middle class life in the U.S. outside certain dysfunctional big cities?

For a household with employer-covered health insurance, which is most households, out-of-pocket spending (employee contributions + cost sharing) is about $3,000: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2.... For a median household, the German health insurance tax of 7.5% (employee portion) would be more than that.

Most people in both countries don't go to college. In the U.S., the ones who do have a median monthly payment of $220: https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics. That's about 5.5% of median income for college graduates 0-5 years out.

As to housing, the median new house in the U.S. is twice as big as the median new house in Germany: http://demographia.com/db-intlhouse.htm.

As to retirement, the German pension system is not particularly if at all more generous than Social Security.

Offsetting those benefits is the fact that Americans make a lot more money at the median. Adjusted for purchasing power, the median American makes about $5,000 per year more than the median German. That's enough to pay for the extra out-of-pocket health insurance and student loans, and that's not even accounting for the American's much lower taxes.
I read somewhere France still has colonies somewhere in Africa.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? If someone is wrong, it's great to provide correct information in a factual way. If you can't or don't want to do that, it's fine to post nothing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Clojure for Lispers (Rich Hickey, Boston Lisp Meetup, 2008)
We moved to Drip from Mailchimp since their policies are not great. Drip is far more functional and less then half the price but not quite this cheap
not being able to see prices ahead of time is probably the biggest problem... but it also stinks that with or without insurance, you appear to pay about the same total cost.
There are many such interfaces - including free options like phplist...
There's a big range between maximising revenue and 'this service can't afford its administration costs'.

But yes, some people are happy to personally pay the costs for others to enjoy their services.
ActiveStereoNet: Deep learning for active stereo systems
European Heatwave Sets New Temperature Records
Really cool! Thanks!
The BLS numbers break down the access, participation, and take-up rates for public and private workers, as well as union and non-union, full time and part-time. There’s a very handy table.

For all workers overall, access is 72%, take-up is 73%, so overall participation is 52%. Thats Table 1, Row 1.

Of course sub-populations like part-time workers have lower access and take-up, but they are included in the average for All Workers.

See Table 1 on Page 6 of the BLS numbers. The claim that “benefits are rare” is demonstrably false. Benefits are rare for certain sub-populations of US workers, but not rare overall.

Real wage are stagnant (not clear if those real wages are accounting for increased employer share of medical benefits) from the 1970s. Real household income is not stagnant, particularly since 2010.

(Edit: Household income vs individual wages — perhaps household income rising reflects mainly the participation rate increasing? Which would be a negative effect on individual wages.)

Again, the point is about recent increases in suicide rate in the context of a 2008 recession.
Hopefully people will finally learn their lesson about buying DRMed stuff....

but I doubt it.
Emergency healthcare is free. Cancer treatment might be free, but good luck seeing the specialists needed to get that treatment without some very explicit charity.
I would imagine it's a necessity in Thailand because you're significantly less likely to have access to a kitchen and you're much closer to a "communal kitchen" in the form of street food or a canteen. In the US because of strict zoning regulations restaurants are not usually allowed within walking distance of the communities they serve, and so any use of a restaurant must be treated as a special occasion. And because of similar zoning rules and apartment design standards the vast majority of living arrangements will come with a kitchen that is large enough to allow someone to prepare meals for at least themselves.

You're actually pointing out a side-effect of how the US as a whole generally designs for sprawl and social isolation rather than for tight-knit communities like in Thailand.
Interesting quotes from the article:

> Speaking with NPR, disease prevention expert William Dietz of George Washington University stressed the links between overdoses and suicides. Both may occur amongst people “less connected to each other in communities” and are tied to a “sense of hopelessness, which in turn could lead to an increase in rates of suicide and certainly addictive behaviors.”

> McHugh echoes Dietz, concluding, “There's a tremendous amount of overlap between the two that isn't talked about nearly enough.”
What about the 60% of Americans who have health insurance through their employers? The median American spends about $3,000 a year on premiums + out of pocket expenses: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2.... That's less than what most would pay in mandatory social insurance taxes in Europe.
What do you think teachers are actually teaching? One of the very, very important skills kids learn is how to be socialized - how to behave with others in a social setting, how to be quiet and pay attention when that is appropriate, how to settle conflicts. These are all skills you can and should be learning in school. This is what teachers do, they don't just drill you on the three Rs.
But it has a much higher subscriber limit than Mailchimp's free tier, in exchange for losing many of the power features. (Tinyletter is where I moved my own mailing list to when I hit the ceiling: https://tinyletter.com/gwern )
Large scale military conflict would boost US GDP by a lot. Other than that, not really.
yeah, its like buying shitty instant coffee for 25cents - sure you saved 100x and technically did get coffee, but none of it was enjoyable.

p.s. - sendy relies on having a cronjob running, which makes it very ill suited for docker. there are ways to run a sidecontainer in k8s that can do the cron part, but what a giant hassle and waste of running resources. was not a fan.
Footage of six-gill at 528 meters from inside the sub last saturday
Why curious? Is there anything to make you believe there is foul play?
Folks, the equation is quite simple: the US is a high-risk, high (financial) reward society. Unlike the EU, it's optimized for the upside: you have many opportunities to create wealth for yourself (and sometimes for others). The EU, conversely, is optimized for the downside: you may not have too many opportunities to climb high, but even if you are the bottom, life can still be relatively comfortable.
So, for the averaghe person, the European system is likely (almost definitely) better.
For risk-craving entrepreneurs, the US is better (although some other places may have even more and bigger high-risk opportunities nowadays).
For you? You decide!
How to better spend coins on Reddit?
I'm not even at odds with the idea that the US playing world police has done good for the world. I'm merely pointing out that when you allow anyone to be world police, you can't do that without some form of accountability. You simply cannot trust people to do good things and hope they won't abuse their power, because with no accountability, they will.

And that's what's happening right now. We have detention camps on the border because there's no accountability for power abuse, we have an entirely unnecessary campaign of bombing that murders children in Yemen because nobody will put their foot down and hold Saudi Arabia accountable. China has detention centers (disguised as "vocational schools") because nobody will hold them accountable. Pharmaceutical companies can jack up the price of insulin 700% over 20 years (FTR, inflation over the 1996-2016 time period was 53%) because there is no accountability.

We'll always need someone to watch the watchers, basically. Because if we don't, they'll abuse their power and trample on the rights of others. And I know the original post was about healthcare, but this still holds true. All of these things are happening at the cost of the standard of living of the average person, because those in power are not accountable to those they represent.
Actually the vast majority of humanity wants aggressive action on climate solutions but US government subsidizes overwhelmingly go to oil production not clean energy. If market forces were actually able to play out, there would be faster movement than there has been. I say this as someone very much in favor of governmental solutions to problems like health care, climate change, basic infrastructure, education and recognize that markets often fail to address certain types of problems. I am not a small or anti government libertarian by any measure.

I just think we have reached a critical mass of support with most people wanting solutions that if the cynical manipulation of the argument and disingenuous “debate” that is only trying to cast doubt to keep the oil money flowing were to stop the market would act fast.
What is your opinion on the selfie wide angle correction Android does for faces? https://people.csail.mit.edu/yichangshih/wide_angle_portrait...
Paying for news only rewards paywalls.
Anything good coming out of this stopped at Trump's breaking the agreement. I am afraid we are delaying something very bad in that region.
People here are talking like the government is trying to do something bad. If this were goldman sachs instead of facebook, we'd be cheering. The financial system is complex and having the wrong incentive systems (regulations) in place can lead to trememdous harm throughout the world. If you were working when the 2008 recession hit, you're familiar with the kinds of issues that financial regulation works to deter.
There's value (and power?) to the length of stay though. It's a good starting measure to see which countries can you just hop on a plane to without a visa, but after getting off that plane, what if you want to stay for a while? The UAE passport allows 30 days in Korea or Japan, while many other visa-exempt passport holders have 90 days. The Schengen zone is a special case where the entire group of countries together allow at most 90 days every 180 days. As a tourist traveling between those countries, it would be useful to not need to leave the EU every 3 months, and go back after another 3 months.
If I go for routine bloodwork do I know exactly what bloodwork to order for, or the codes to request? Do I know when to discern between MRI, Xray, or ultrasound diagnostic? I find this hard to believe.
If Dropbox goes down, then something serious may be going on.
Can Brain Training Improve Reading Speed?
You can call your doctor's triage line if they have one and they can usually diagnose food poisoning over the phone and call in a prescription if you need one. Otherwise there is urgent care which is cheaper than the ER.
All you have to do is tell your manager their code will only be accepted once it meets the team standards. ;)
I'm on homelab. It's for fun.

It's the same reason why we have cars that have hundreds of horsepower when you can't drive above 65 mph on most highways and even accelerating fast can get you a ticket for "exhibition of speed". It's for fun, and a lot of the people on homelab use it to learn for their job.
The government is still bound by law, and unless he formally removes them from the restricted entity list there isn't much choice on how to proceed. It is not legal to special case Huawei, they must act fairly within the entire class of restricted entities.

Trump frequently gets tripped up on this - he wants to make decisions with immediate effect. He would be more effective if he played off it, "I'd love to fix that but we have to follow process first...".
This gives me a lot of confidence in their crypto currency.
The submitted title was "Drop in US life expectancy trend not seen since 1918 influenza epidemic". A moderator changed it because it broke the site guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Submitters: Cherry-picking a detail from an article is editorializing, so please don't do that. If you want to say what you think is important about the topic, please do so in a comment, where your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's.

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>This has got to be the most egregous case of pot calling the kettle black I've read in a while.

I know Britain extracted lots of wealth from India tho, the European continent became quite rich through colonisation efforts and once they had enough stimulus to fuel their economies, they became industrial powerhouses.

Not all country have such dynamics, Europeans really need think it through. Why Europe is rich and India is not? Why US can't offer free healthcare when Europe can.
Maybe a good time to invest in the VIX?

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EVIX/
That's a dangerous one. The builder asks, is this insulation inflammable?
The US did a really great job teaching Iran about the consequences of developing nuclear weapons with how it's handling of North Korea. Libya is also relevant.

No nukes: bullying and aggression, potential overthrow of your state.

Nukes: friendly letters, personal visits to your territory, standing down on military posture.

Iran would be fools not to develop nuclear capabilities just based on their observations of the consequences for failing to.
The biggest problem is large companies blocking small servers... otherwise it would not be that hard
Couple Plants an Entire Forest over the Past 20 Years – Growing 2M Trees
How did an intern prescribe something to you? That should not be possible. Also, codeine isn't a treatment for strep. They should have given you antibiotics after diagnosing a throat swab.
I don't see how the only reasonable response to such a stupid question amuses you. If they had responded with an emphatic yes they would have been crucified in the media immediately.
I know about the categorical imperative, but people aren’t saints. They follow incentives. The fix is to create incentives that make it easier to behave better, not chastise people for doing what benefits them.

That said, I fail to see how his behavior is antisocial. He’s creating far more wealth in his current job than he could in the EU. If he ever moves back, he’ll bring millions of dollars with him and inject it into the local economy.
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> "is this an emergency enough to justify a $2K medical bill?"

Yep, that's how you think about medical problems as an American. Get used to it.
My partner is a teacher here in Ontario Canada. We couldn't be more against this idea.

Sure, your example of conflict resolution seems nice but there is no crisis of "who started it" that needs this level of intrusion. Truth is these classroom conflicts almost never have a clear cut instigation point. I guarantee you a bully will figure out how to egg another student on outside of the camera's view and then slyly provoke that student when the tape is rolling. These conflicts start outside, on the sidewalk, last week, on the internet ect. These are complex social dynamics that are best dealt with using the teacher's training and experience combined with addition school staff when needed.

Her classroom is a friendly place where students learn a second language. It must be protected from this.
> By the way, maintaining even a brain in cryostasis is expensive compared to such experiments.

Not really. You can maintain a brain in an LN2 tank for like $100 a year: LN2 is one of the cheapest fluids around. Very very few biology experiments come anywhere close to costs like that.
You know that ERs also provide service to the poor in the civilized world, right? And we don't bankrupt the poor for the privilege of living.

"subsidized price" for heath care is the most horrible and obnoxious shit yet.
I'm always extremely disappointed by the marketing of extremely expensive engineering kits and robots towards education. Most of the practical learning to be had is in figuring out how to make the thing work.

The kits become little more than elaborate toys with a few extra steps added to make the student feel like they did something. However, all they did was follow instructions. For at least 90% of what engineers do on a regular basis, following carefully tested instructions is not one of them.
> The US is a pretty terrible place to live if you're poor however.

That's simply not true. The poor in the US have one of the world's most expensive welfare states. It's the next ~20%-25% or so above the bottom 25%, that have it worst. Those people don't get free access to healthcare because they earn too much.

The US has a very advanced welfare state and safety net for the poor. The US spends more of its economy on its welfare state than either Canada or Australia, and is in the upper half of the OECD in that regard. The US welfare state is also rapidly growing, whereas most other developed nations are seeing their welfare states shrinking.

The US poverty and homelessness rates are both superior to Canada and France. The US provides free healthcare for the bottom 25%, along with countless other massive programs involving food and shelter for the poor.
FWIW, half of this country desperately wants to be more European in our approach to government, so I'm not sure where your generalizations are coming from. And this site has a healthy population of Europeans who clearly have a chip on their shoulder about American geo-political dominance, so, you know, "both sides..." and all that.
If only Apple reported it's own takedowns - a.k.a. censorship of the competition on the app store. Anyone remember how they retroactively changed their policies to "takedown" Steam?
In the Hacker News case there isn't a GET request on the page, it's triggered by the javascript so this would not happen
Middle to upper middle ranks are still mostly men in many instutions, so much so that its well known that male nurses statistically advance faster than female nurses into middle to upper-middle nurse management. If one were to attribute it to competence and dedication, this would mean that by and large only men are capable of extreme dedication, competence, and ruthlessness. Is this the conclusion we wish to garner? That simultaneously men are systematically oppressed but also the only sexual demographic inherently capable of consistently achieving excellence?
We’re talking about total sum per head. Not average.

So saying some people pay less and some more is ignoring the fact that you are actually as a whole paying much more.

It’s arrogantly individualistic to assume that “others might pay more therefore I should continue to support this horrid system”
Not always; in California, for example, property taxes were vitiated by Prop 13, and so the state budget covers most of education costs (60%), which in theory should mean less local variation. In practice it means schools in wealthy districts hold "bake sales" where rich parents make sizeable donations (like auctioning off their timeshare in Tahoe) to their kid's school. The result is the same - schools full of rich kids have plenty of money, schools full of poor kids don't.
Try 7.5mg of remeron/mirtazapine next time.
I'm more than a vaguely capable software engineer, which is probably why this is still attractive. I have little patience for DevOps- and SysAdmin-type tasks. I think "reasonably motivated" part is the value-add here. If I'm just a hobbyist, and my inclination is towards having a grass-roots experience, then yes, I'll source the parts. But if I'm just trying to get something done (especially if I don't have a 3D printer), then I often just want to get things in a prefab package.
This is incorrect. You can see specialists for free as well. There are no restrictions on treatment.
The US has had a troubled relationship with Iran for some time.