skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had knee surgery. After weening off opioids, I was put on three different NSAIDs simultaneously -- meloxicam, ibuprofen, and aspirin for blood clots. Two and a half weeks later I was admitted to the hospital for three days with micro-perforations and an infection in the sigmoid colon (diverticulitis). It's impossible to prove causation, but this is not something that young people usually get.

Medical advice: Be very careful with NSAIDs. And be careful when multiple doctors are prescribing you medications.
Because that might add a bunch of code that may or may not be useful. It might be that this is inlined everywhere and so would bump some of code to a different alignment. Perhaps it's timing critical and this saved a few calls. Perhaps they use static analysis only. Or they might have debug versions where they do use the safety checks and then for production versions it's preprocessed out.

There could be plenty of different reason.
We have 300k years of uranium at current usage rates. If we switched over to Thorium the supply is orders of magnitude greater.
> On February 1, 2015 Cunningham announced that the Wiki had been rewritten as a single-page application and migrated to the new Federated Wiki.[6]

I still don't understand the motivation behind this. The "new" SPA is bizarrely unperformant and inelegant. Unnecessary too, since the wiki just serves a bunch of unstyled HTML boilerplate. What was the idea here?
>That is not really his point.

Correct. Thanks for elaborating.
There is always a person or two at the bottom of every thread like this that loves to spew hate towards people that like to share interesting side-projects, usually in a "you are wasting your time because your project has no immediate value to ME, go spend it serving my interests instead" sort of way. Claiming to also be a tinkerer in your public bio on the same website is gross, and IMO fair game to point it out.
That's interesting, because I think my employers (all in Germany) were pretty typical insofar as most of the people in HR were women. And I think that's normal in German companies. Is it really so different in America?
Solar less space efficient even at maximum capacity.
You're absolutely right. No act is ever, under any circumstances in the whole of the history of humanity, the sum of a person. I applaud the kindness and compassion that fills your heart for centering this key insight.

> We are making a choice to punish people for their illnesses.

We are making a choice to punish people for their behavior. Their behavior may be due to their illnesses, but the two shouldn't be reflexively equated. Not unless you genuinely desire society to actively seek to punish illness instead of concerning itself with behavior.

It's perhaps worth remembering that the American public did not turn against institutionalization for no reason. Those places were visions of Hell that would have turned Danté's stomach. These visions were conjured into reality by our Progressive desires to help the less fortunate meeting an inability to do so reliably and humanely at scale.

Good intentions, kindness and compassion and a genuine desire to help, were not enough. I won't fault anyone for being skeptical about that being fundamentally different now.
Cost of transmission is higher than cost of generation.
Science Says: Airplane turbulence can strike out of the blue
Just as I suspected, in a game of rock-paper-scissors, scooters beat cars.
I've seen enough over- or mis-charging "errors" from healthcare billing departments that I'm 100% sure a good portion of them are intentionally committing fraud, knowing that if you call them on it they can just go "oops sorry didn't mean to send that here let me fix it" and not get in any trouble at all. Even if they do it over, and over, and over.
Personally I use LaTeX rather than word, theres a bit of a learning curve though so it might not be suitable for lower levels but for high schoolers+ I totally see being able to use it. Everything word does it does better and most of Academia uses it already.
The Polish labor strike at Jamestown, or, more of the history we weren't taught
See also the "Elephant in Cairo" search algorithm:

1. Go to Africa.

2. Put an elephant in Cairo.

3. Start at the Cape of Good Hope.

4. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately east and west,

5. During each traverse pass:

* Catch each animal seen.

* Compare each animal caught to a known elephant.

* Stop when a match is detected.

6. If you are in Cairo, then there are no elephants in Africa (other than the one you placed there).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_Cairo
Reminds me of Corensic's Jynx.

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

Never used it but the premise of running different possible thread interleavings in parallel and picking the one that crashes seemed genius.
The cost of lithium is a pretty small portion of the cost of the batteries, and in the worst case scenario we can extract an effectively unlimited amount of lithium from seawater; it would make batteries a little more expensive but by that time costs will presumably have fallen much further.
Yes, they are not associated with eachother at all. You will get an activity for:

1. Swimming
2. Transition #1 (Swim to Bike)
3. Cycling
4. Transition #2 (Bike to Run)
5. Run

They are completely disconnected. Not linked, or "related" to eachother in anyway. It just shows that you went for a swim, a run, a cycle, a run, and another run. (Transitions show up as runs). Worse yet, it has a hard time linking you together with other people because they are separate events. So you might have raced with someone else but you were starting a bike while they were finishing a swim, so Strava's algorithm gets confused and can't link you together like it does when you run marathons together and stuff like that.
Judge sides with Pentagon and Amazon in cloud bidding case
You ever see those projects where they generate biofuel from algae growing ontop / against building using special build tanks? Its really cool.
Which currently supported OS limits extensions to three letters this day? Only EOL'ed Windows versions come to mind, but these are not relevant for a new file format.
Tor's New Anti-Censorship Team: Defending the Open Internet
This is neat though I don't seem to be able to link more than 2 nodes together.
Hah! So did I! I'm working on Mirth Connect right now.
Actually IEC62304, which describes Sw development lifecycle for medical devices, was precisely written in answer of the Therac accident. All medical devices with Software you use nowadays has to follow IEC 62304.

It does not mean that medical device SW is perfect or bug-free, but it means that the manufacturer should demonstrate some level of risk management, verification and validation to the regulatory bodies before being allowed to sell a new product. It is not perfect but you should not get sick because someone pushed some untested bug fix on Friday night and you have an exam on Monday morning on an untested SW release, the process would not allow it.
But the tiny learning curve made them so accessible. Back then you could introduce a wiki for your team and start churning out project documentation right in a meeting. Where the wikis back then didn't hold up was for long term documentation sites. If your wiki would only have a short shelf life it was an awesome collaboration tool.
A certain number of these surprise bills are fraudulent as well.

I had to go to the ER during the middle of the night. Saw the doctor for 10 mins total. A few months later, I got a bill from the physician on duty saying they were out of network; it was for a shade under $1000.

I called the insurance company, and they said, the hospital had a history of sending fraudulent bills, that they had already paid the physician AND previously had sued the hospital for sending these fraudulent bills and obtained a legal settlement enjoining them from doing it.

In another incident, my wife's OBGYN kept sending us small bills, $29, $74, etc. even though we have paid our co-pays. I called them up and asked what the bills were for, and they honestly couldn't tell me-- saying they would call us back. Which they never did. Which I assume meant, "you caught us lying."
I’ve always wondered about something, yet have never found anyone discussing it online. So maybe some smart people can help me out:

a lot of people install solar on their rooftops. Much of the time this is done with the assumption that it will pay off financially because energy prices are currently at a certain rate and will continue to rise.

But here’s my question: If its financially advantageous to install solar on your roof, wouldn’t it be greatly more financially advantageous (given the main cost for solar installation is the labor) for energy companies to install solar at scale? And if that’s the case, wouldn’t the energy companies eventually do this, which, given macro market laws of supply and demand, would eventually cause the price of electricity to go dramatically down for their end consumer, thus eliminating the financial benefit of privately installed roof top solar for homeowners?

I live in the southwest, and based on online calculators it “makes sense” from a 10 year outlook to pay the money now and install solar on my home, but that’s only if the energy prices don’t fall. But nobody seems to even think that’s a possibility.
New building standards don't affect existing buildings. And they're not optional, so the tax isn't an option for non-compliance.

Forcing existing landlords to retrofit to new building standards isn't even done for safety purposes, so it certainly isn't going to happen for energy efficiency.

And calling for this to now be a thing, well, I can't think of a better way to get entrenched interests to suddenly lobby hard against every single new building reg.
Your exam notes are sent to billing, who, using the notes tries to determine which billing codes are correct. Obviously they have every incentive to “up code” and get the most amount of money.
In my area, the energy is generated by another company for 0.02/kwh, but PG&E charges a 'transmission charge' for use of their lines that brings the per-kwh price to their generation price. Okay, you think that that's their right, and transmission does cost money. However, if you decide to use their generation (dirty of course), they conveniently 'waive' the transmission fee.

I spoke with my legislator about this and he told me (and I quote) 'the PG&E lobby is strong' before ignoring me.
The Newgate Calendar is another great resource for this type of early records of crime and 'justice':

https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-newgate-calen...
I could see a use case for something like this to temporarily share a picture or other file on a web message board, for instance.
There's a stat that goes around that says something like "10 billion people can't live at Western standards of living". What it doesn't mention is that the "western" expenditure is massively inflated by Americans being unable to muster the small amount of collective action required for them to benefit from well insulated houses, safe/efficient cars etc.
Are you a concerned citizen? From the article it seems like it is not that cheap and that the batteries can work for only few hours so they will still need other resources. I wouldn't be so worried, it will just be another tool in the arsenal of energy generation which will all reduce to similiar costs but with different advantages and disadvantages. Fossil will be reliable but dirty, sun will be not reliable but clean, nuclear will be clean but risky etc. There is not going to be such a big change over all just maybe a slightly different make up but with the growing population and need for energy nobody is going to loose anything.
I don't understand health care in the US.

I live in Argentina, that's like being the most-dysfunctional and mentally challenged cousing in an already dysfunctional extended family (South & Central America).

We have lots of issues with health care here, _specially_ for those that work on our own (I don't exactly work on my own, but working for a foreign company is more or less the same).

There are lot of stories going around (some of them I know first hand because some relative's kid has a rather strange syndrome, and getting their health care org to cover that was an impossible task) but still, the "You broke your leg here's a 50K bill" kind of story I often get from the us is a total and utter madness.

I kind of enjoy in a bewildered amusement these public displays of lobbying, thought.
You can start with AST and go to the back-end. Yes, parsing/grammars tend to be boring.
Seems fair. You have to roll it out to someone first, so why not roll it out to the users who are not paying for their service.
I agree. We already have JPEG, a format that can be used without obvious patent problems. I don't think the world needs a format with obvious patent problems.

Saving some bytes is nice, but when people are streaming videos and audio, shaving off a few bytes isn't worth the endless lawsuits.
And? You think that an average person could do any of these?
Parity 6 is Parity-6.0.0
Not the original commenter, but I assume they're talking about a travel insurance product. I think this sort of thing is fairly typical:

https://www.globaltravelinsurance.co.uk/single-trip

"GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

1. United Kingdom

...

2. Europe

...

3. Worldwide

All countries outside of the above (except those within Area 4).

4. North America, Central America & The Caribbean

Due to the increasing unsustainable cost of medical treatment in this Area, we regret to confirm that we are no longer offing[sic] travel insurance under this product for trips to Area 4."

(Although note that the policy, like most, excludes areas where the Foreign Office has explicitly advised against travel, which I guess may well include Sudan.)
Hands-on with new Sigma 'FP' – a compact, full-frame mirrorless camera
Every time Under Armour buys an app it completely stops growing or improving the app. Any fitness app developers out there need to know that selling to Under Armour means the end of your app.
I dunno. Based on what's on show here I'd rather buy their product than yours if you were competing.
Kaze Emanuar is part of the team that produced this decompilation.
Pentagon races to track U.S. rare earths output amid China trade dispute
Yes, they are. Slow and hardly as expressive or rich as python/r counterparts.
This complaint is real cute, but the trite answer is that this is how things have worked for a long time. Awareness of it is spreads for a while whenever high-profile events receive media and blog coverage, and perhaps the exploitability of this has increased compared to several years ago when products that opened up various HTTP-accessible servers were less common (or secured by obscurity).

This isn't necessarily an excuse to not explore mitigations through consensus in future browser behavior -- after all, that process of loose but eventual consensus of incremental UX and airquote "security" improvements is how SOP and CORS and C-S-P came about [1] and the cookie saga evolves [2][3].

But consider that legitimate uses of cross-domain requests to localhost exist (e.g. an OAuth callback endpoint), while also keeping in mind that users from all walks of life are, perhaps unbeknownst to them, are managing LANs of computing devices running dozens of servers, often with modern encryption such that communications between the program and the remote server are becoming harder to intercept and oversee, and lack a comprehensive capability to monitor, analyze, blacklist, whitelist, or snipe traffic in a way that's not cumbersome or borderline user-hostile. Such is the world where we've arrived. Etching away on one or two widely deployed corners of it won't fix the overall landscape, even if it may significantly reduce the change of "drive-by" exploitation through websites accessed through commonly used browsers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12408328#12408680 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13689697#13691022 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19853090#19855518
Are these being produced using renewable materials and how will they be disposed of after their lifetime (up to 10 years iirc)?
solar panels (the panels themselves) are made of silicon, which is sand, so aren't a huge concern.
From the outside it sounds like, whatever the database is, it has far too many critical services tightly bound within it. E.g. leader election implemented internally instead of as a service with separate lifecycle management - pushing the database query processor minor version forward forcing me to move the leader election code or replica config handling forwards... ick.

From the description/comment it also sounds like the database operates directly on files rather than file leases as there's no notion of a separate local - cluster-scoped - byte-level replication layer below it. Harder to shoot a stateful node.. And sounds like it's tricky to externally cross-check various rates, i.e. monitor replication RPCs and notice that certain nodes are stepping away from the expected numbers without depending on the health of the nodes themselves.

Hopefully the database doesn't also mix geo-replication for local access requirements / sovereignty in among the same mechanisms too.. rather than separating out into some aggregation layers above purely cluster-scoped zones!

Of course, this is all far far easier said than done given the available open source building blocks. Fun problems while scaling like crazy :)
> What you need are windows with low solar heat gain coefficients (SHGC), which is mostly independent of insulation. Or you can get window treatments that are shiny on the side facing the window.

In the desert by me people use substantial awnings on the exterior putting the windows in shade. It's a lot cheaper than fancy window treatments and in my experience far more effective. Provides more space to mount solar panels too.
Have they said anything about PWA support? If PWA is supported and on par with Chrome on Android this would allow a lot of PWA-compliant web apps (like Twitter, Gmail, and many more) to be ready to go right away. While not "native" the app ecosystem would at least have a chance to be there at the time of release.
There are other limitations as well. Amount of lithium available, # of cycles before you have to replace the batteries, and so on.
> Any ideas?

Yes, there are two things that probably contribute here.

One is (as you guessed initially) "storing only a small percentage of the total energy output and giving a diluted price with the partial storage cost spread over the total output." The majority of the solar generation can be consumed immediately without taking a trip through the battery. The battery capacity is needed to serve peak demand periods in the late afternoon/early evening, which last just a few hours.

The other is that you are probably lowballing the number of charge/discharge cycles at 2190. Unlike EV batteries, stationary batteries for grid demand don't ever need to "supercharge" at high rates or rapidly discharge for high acceleration. Careful moderation of charge/discharge rates can give double or more lifetime compared to identical batteries that undergo fast charging and discharging.
Even on AMD you can have awful problems. The modeset xorg driver froze for me for a month until someone finally told me there's also the radeon xorg driver, awful.
This is garbage. Contrary to popular belief, remission is in fact common in schizophrenia, so n=2 demonstrates precisely nothing. In addition, there is no evidence that schizophrenics have any brain dysfunction other than that caused by taking neuroleptics for decades.
Chess doesn't encourage spending money.
It would definitely be a good preparation for academic life after school. Personally I wish I had learned it at school time. How much better and nicer could my notes have been, knowing how to make a really well document, in contrast to loose sheets of paper flying around and being discarded after the school year. Granted, some people are good at taking clean notes and bringing them into order. At school time I was not. A good computer workflow would probably have sparked my attention to detail even with school notes.
If global sunlight conditions change drastically, we're probably screwed regardless of how we're generating our power. Think crop failures, ecosystem collapse etc.
Yes, there are quite a few attacks on default local credentials for home routers because of this. Now if only home routers were better about actually following through on changing credentials..
HIPAA requires providers to give you access to your data. Not perfect, but hardly a silo.
Not really, maybe I should write something. It's a thought I frequently have in the depths of Excel Hell. I thought for a long time about why Excel is so frustrating to me. I think fundamentally it comes down to Excel putting the spreadsheet ahead of the data.

If the data was clearly separated from the spreadsheet itself then the logic becomes much easier to reason about and test and the data is no longer susceptible to the Excel data loss.

The display layer really needs to be logically separate from the data. For example if I change a column format from text to number and back I should not lose the leading zeros in the actual data.

Spreadsheet tools are great visual programming environments but they are lousy databases. The data layer in Excel leaves a lot to be desired but there's really no reason a spreadsheet has to be so limited.

Basically I'd like to see some kind of hybrid SQL(database) client/Spreadsheet UI/Pivot Table builder where all three concepts are first class.
There's a lot of cheap money floating around in China as well. This is funding business models like that of Ninebot, who is the manufacturer for a lot of these cheap scooters.
Another Chinese company that had a similar business model is Ofo, which essentially went bankrupt a few months ago after raising over $2B in funding for dockless bikesharing.
+1 for healthfit. So glad I discovered it! I do exactly the same as you. I bar any other fitness apps from writing data directly to Apple Health (but allow them to read), with the exception of my Withings scales that are allowed to only write weight data.

Apple Health has really come into its own as of late, and I'm pleased for it to be my central health-oriented repo. It's so so pretty in iOS 13 too.
I mean, I think if you can run real Linux programs, and a lot of your "daily use" stuff works with touch, you can connect a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo when you need it. (I already keep one in my car.) And being Linux, you can probably script a bunch of stuff (when using your keyboard) to "just work" when you're not using your keyboard.

The important part is you won't need to special case what you can run on a phone versus what you can run on a desktop. A lot of stupid/simple Windows apps I wish I could run on my phone. But even if you are on Windows Phone you could only run apps meant for it.
Well depends on the timeframe you are looking at. Hydro can do a lot more cycles than li-ion batteries.
Thanks for the conversation and clearing this up. Glad to hear this is no longer the approach.