skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> In recent years, study after study has found that living in neighborhoods with abundant green space is linked to positive health outcomes.

But it specifically calls out trees as more beneficial than other green spaces.

> But when it come to promoting human health, not all green spaces are created equal. That’s the conclusion of new Australian research, which finds higher levels of wellness in areas marked by one particular manifestation of the natural world: leafy trees.

So it's not contrasting "nature" vs. "stacked concrete boxes", it's comparing "green space w/o trees" (e.g. a lawn) to "green space with trees" (e.g. a park with trees).
Even with cigarettes, a product that kills its consumer even when used exactly as designed, congress wont' ban them because that would negatively impact a corporation. But you seem to think that corporations don't need to abide by clear-cut rules. they need some kind of "bureau" so that there can be a constant back-and-forth, give-and-take, so that we don't impact that poor, tender corporation. Why is that required, but we don't need a "domestic violence bureau" ? Clear-cut laws seem to work fine for poor people. Why won't they work for corporations?
Being tangentially involved in this project it was my understanding that the devices were financed in large part by the marketing departments of the brands that had buttons, which is why they were tied to brands.
From most of the folks I talk to here and abroad, waiting times for the things you're thinking of are longer in the US. I just spent 3 months waiting to see an ankle surgeon here in NYC and it cost over $1,500 to have x-rays in the office and be told I'm a bad candidate for surgery. A friend had to spend the better part of a month waiting for a mammogram and ultrasound to diagnose breast cancer.

Someone in the dorm next to me in college died of an asthma attack because he couldn't afford the ambulance and took a cab.

The system is still the way it is in the US because of money.
Good point. It would be illustrative to get some examples where a prototypical (but competent) Bayesian and a prototypical (but competent) frequentist would give different answers.

It seems to me that when there really is a known base rate, the answers would coincide.

And if there is no base rate, the Bayesian would guess (but explicitly) or refuse to answer, while the frequentist would give a plausible answer, which, however, very much hinges on the unknown base rate.

In the light of the replication crisis, maybe the Bayesian approach is better.
> Trees are expensive to maintain

Not really. This is just a problem of poorly designed gardens, bad choice of species, and greed.

Trees are valuable and fine wood species are always in risk of being stolen. I said this after seeing this afternoon a street reformed and notice the space left by a big blue cedar and a nice Beech that suddenly dissapeared in the center of the field for no reason. Both around 80 years old and perfectly healthy.

Most people would freak if the bank in their street is robbed but don't even notice when the park in their street is robbed.
Innocent people are killed by the same murderers in both scenarios. In yours, they are also sometimes killed or imprisoned by the state and are therefore at more total risk.
It's not necessarily related to why living near trees improves well being, but I like the idea of Shinrin Yoku, or "forest bathing":
https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20190611/forest-bathing-n...

Nice youtube mini-documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jPNll1Ccn0
Health Facts Aren’t Enough. Should Persuasion Become a Priority?
There's [Foliate](https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/) for reading epub files on Linux.
Kind of ironic that they are testing them by performing domestic surveillance then, huh?
The reason this logic fails is because income and healthcare costs are on different curves but of similar (or far greater in the case of healthcare) magnitude.

Say you start out your career making $30K as a barrista and end up making $150K as a middle manager in your 60s. A single surgery can be $150-$300K and you're more likely to have them when you're older. Cancer patients can cost millions in a given year, again you're more likely to have that as you get older. I don't have the number for a diabetes patient off the top of my head but I think it's 10s of thousands a year.

The income growth curve is far shallower than the healthcare cost curve, and the healthcare cost curve is essentially unbounded whereas for most people income doesn't go all that high. Remember median income in the US is something like $55-$60K. Most people won't ever see 6 figures and if they do, they'll see the very low end of that.
The article mentions a purge of 107k voters in, what I thought, was a reasonable approach to regulating polls.

> In July 2017, more than half a million people were removed from Georgia's voter rolls. Of those, 107,000 were purged because they had decided not to vote in previous elections and they failed to respond to mailed notices from the state.

Ignoring notices from the state often have larger consequences than not being able to vote in a specific district...where you can't prove you live. Even if you were to vote in a general election, you could register without prompting from the state. Ignorance of the law and such, the state did it's minimal duty, in this case.

Given the disparity in numbers being thrown around, it's hard to know what's factual and what's misconstrued.
Either way, informed consent is what US citizens seem to mobilize around. Getting cancer from eating sausage? Shoulda said it was a danger on the box. Removed from the voting roster because you didn't receive notice? Tough.
What about any of the ways to convert epub to pdf yourself? Are they no good?

If anything, I think an HTML version that you can view right on the website would be the best format addition. It's always interesting to me when a website doesn't offer a browser-native document format as an option to view text.
Wow. There's just too much irony in a medical school telling students to use religious vaccination exemptions because the insurance they provide doesn't cover their mandated vaccinations.
Get it set properly, then splinting and time. If you're sure you (or someone around you) knows how to set it, you maybe want to go that route. But if it's not set right, and you splint it there, that may not work out so well...
That can hardly be blamed on GitLab though. The setting to make something public is clearly named "public", and the description is:

> The project can be accessed without any authentication.

Meanwhile, Jira almost seems to aim for misunderstanding.
What about making the middle-aged middle-manager subsidize a retired grocery clerk's health costs?
Amazon doesn't seem to have that feature in their app, though. The closest thing is a buy again section, but it doesn't hit the mark (to me):

(1) Many of the items aren't consumable items. On my page, there is a wall clock, a power strip, and an instant pot.

(2) The ordering of the items appears to be based mostly on what I bought recently rather than what I'm likely to buy over and over again consistently. (Or likely to need right now.) It could allow me to choose, but it doesn't. It could choose for me intelligently, but it isn't doing that because #2 on the list for me is a year's supply of allergy pills that I bought 3 months ago.

(3) There isn't a streamlined purchase process. The buttons just add them to my cart. (Though this could have something to do with my not having enabled one click ordering on my account.)
I think is bad for instagram and whatsapp credibility. Facebook has the lowest credibility among the 3 brands. Makes no sense. People literally say i hate fb, thats why i use instagram. And people say, I hate fb messenger, which spies on them.
Until a tax holiday happens and suddenly your enemy has 50% more resources than you.
I live in the United States and in June of last year I was told to make a appointment with a ear, nose, and throat doctor. So I called and was told the earliest they could see me was in October.

I started chemo before my original appointment with that doctor. (Yes, it was mouth and neck cancer)
> The EGC/ground is a safety measure that creates a ground fault current path which enables overcurrent protective devices (like breakers and fuses) to operate.

This is NOT TRUE!! You've said it so many times in this thread, and it's just not true.

A lot of people are tying to correct your mistakes, but you're not fixing them. Please do so, you are misleading a lot of people.
No. And I would expect anti monopoly laws legislation to outlaw this in any halfway civilised country (altho I wouldn't hold out much hope for America).

"The toaster oven will only accept certain co-branded bread and other marked-up food products: any attempts to cook other food will throw an error message; “Unauthorized Bread.”"

Barely fiction: Keurig, Juicero.
> In 2016, U.S. GHG emissions were 20.15 metric tons CO2-equivalent per person

Is that per year or per average lifetime?
>Blame accepted. But in general, this is the sort of thing we need to watch for

And imo Bruce is still an authority to report it. We all make mistakes. His transparency is breathtakingly refreshing in the era of 'fake news' and talking head blogs.
I think that's a different statement than the one you said earlier.

Society should accept a little crime to be free != evaluate the true cost of crime.

So if there's a neighborhood that has the potential to sell Condos for $1.7M each but currently has houses that are $50k and we find out that the crime in the area is keeping that value so low - should we go after the thieves for stealing $1.7M from homeowners?

I'm just saying because that's one of the ways you add up the "true cost of crime".
Sure.

They parked a visible radar blimp over I95 outside of Baltimore and operated it for a couple of years. What’s the difference between “test” and “really using it” when the tests last that long?

There are many loopholes for domestic stuff too. A National Guard member controlling the thing for example.
Fta

> This method filters about 20 kilograms of water per square metre of membrane per hour, which is not quite as quick as polymer membranes.
Here in Germany it's less than 20. I think it was between 10 and 15 € for a finger.
This includes an expert's opinion, albeit a succinct one.

I wish they'd do technical/industrial things in a similar fashion. Make appointment, bring piece, get xray, wait a few minutes, leave with xray image/dataset. For cheap. Require bagging for contamination reasons.
> still no "ground" at the pole...

Yes there is. The neutral is bonded to ground, via an actual metal pole in the ground.

In your house is the same thing: The neutral (and the ground) and attached to a metal pole in the ground.

And the earth itself completes the circuit.
Those business and administrative records were kept on paper which lives for a long time. Now they are transitioning to computers and while it's easy to store all business transactions of a business on an usb-stick, that usb-stick, and basically any digital storage medium we have now, deteriorates over time and will become unreadable in a matter of decades.

There is research on digital storage mediums that have archival capabilities. I hope that they will become cheap enough to get into widespread use. Note though that claims for archival capabilities and actually having archival capabilities are different things. We might wake up one day, realizing that the technology we used to store data for the long term actually deteriorated more quickly than we thought, with tons of stuff lost. The only way to combat that is to use multiple different technologies.
Going fullscreen video on Mac OS. Chrome's fullscreen switch is almost instant, Firefox's is quite laggy.
Memes, Brands, and Missions
I don't understand why I can't mute certain people or group DMs when I can mute channels. Sometimes I need push notifications if I'm messaged from a specific person, but can't/don't want to be bothered by other specific people. There are ample productivity reasons for implementing this feature aside from the added bonus of tamping down on harassment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892569
https://github.com/steamroller-airmash/airmash-server

good luck.
Xrays are not universally good. It's always exposure to ionizing radiation.
1. Between this incident, and the recent revelation that a Forbes contributor pretended to author a puff piece pre-written by Jeffrey Epstein's PR team [0], maybe the default reaction to any Forbes contributor piece should be "wait for confirmation from other outlets".

2. I love that Facebook's first official response to Schneier's prior blog post was a HN comment, causing Schneier to remark, "surely there is a more official news channel that Facebook could have chosen to use"

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-ep...
Part of the stuff that's not being said is that our current nuclear capabilities are all 1960s era technology and safety standards. While it pains me to say this, it does deserve a technology refresh, for the safety factor among many other things.

As always, we don't need a 1000 nukes, just enough to pack a punch if we were nuked first, and no more.
Corporate first, but there are very many users with the free version for smaller groups, which is what's the problem.
I can't fathom this level of good will afforded to the DOD, the history of the US govt's intelligence services _must_ earn them zero presumption of innocence by now right?
Hi Sandeep.
I’m sorry to know about your illness.
I saw your post in hacker news. I have a hearing impairment and I feel lucky.
I share with you my Github repository so you can know my coding skills and of course I love Flutter.

Bests
Alex

http://github.com/alexrvarela/
Show HN: Quickly Filter Through Who's Hiring Posts
Hi all,

I made this tool to sift through all the who's hiring posts. You'll need node / npm, but it works locally. It includes 2019 data. In the future, I hope to include all who's hiring posts with better graphs to visualize it.

You can download it and play with it from here:
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And if you do, I'd love feedback! Including code feedback. There's some stuff that I haven't followed.

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It's even worse for us non Americans. American public is generally more okay letting us get tested on. And we don't get to vote against it.
Have you tried FBReader (https://fbreader.org/). The Android version has so far met my needs, and the Linux version works well (in my opinion).
Then they are just quoting you the "insurance price". Think about it, how could it possibly be more expensive to cut out the middle man?
China can start selling their U.S. treasury bonds, no?
Once the technology is proven out they could sell the equipment to law enforcement.
The OP didn’t write that the doctor provided ibuprofen, the $700 was just for the doctor’s time.
Thanks, what do you mean "otherwise wouldn't be able to use at all"? You mean the government gets it?
There is absolutely no purpose to these purges, except to stop legitimate voters. Considering these are people who did not vote in some prior elections, it seems unlikely that they would now suddenly start voting multiple times. Plus, of course, in-person voter fraud is basically non-existent: there is about one case for every ten million votes, and almost all of them are due to negligence.

"It's the law" is also a strange argument when it's the law that's being criticised.
Yep. I’ve got a bunch of mix cds that are just gone and a lot of pictures that were hosted on personal websites that never got captured by internet archive.
Apples and oranges. Banning Google in China meant that its product (user data) couldn't be produced in China. That's unfortunate but they still have users elsewhere in the world and on VPNs. On the other hand ad sales _to_ China have continued growing ever since the ban.

Huawei (or any smartphone company) has no alternative to chips that license US technology.
As a kid I loved "Motel of the Mysteries," reimagining the discovery of our culture today as if it was Howard Carter opening King Tut's tomb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/07/15/i...
This sounds like a Clockwork Orange solution. Hasn't it already been proven that brainwashing techniques don't break the habit so much as they create neurotic responses along with a whole lot of chronic fear (generalized ptsd) instead?
> it is a thing and signals the start of a trend

Saying the pledge of allegiance in school has been around since I was a kid in the 80s though, and I'm fairly certain it's been this way since basically forever. So IMO it doesn't seem like it's the "start" of anything.
s/employees/executives

Power-law distribution in stock-based compensation.
well if "fascism can best be understood as bringing the methods of imperial rule in the colonies into the metropole." Then aside from the obvious imperial attitude of 'its ok since the DOD is developing this for non-americans,' americans themselves might be worried about the future implications of this technology.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27/074.html
Google’s main source of revenue generation wasn’t happening in China, and Google still had room to grow in other countries around the world.
Fabiano Caruana vs. Tesla Model 3
Music equipment is why I still have floppy drives, as well.

My Yamaha PSR-700 series workstation keyboard uses floppies as its primary memory, and still works fine.

Its replacement, Yamaha PSR-SX700, is coming out in October 2019 at MSRP of $1,999, and is not fundamentally different. (And if I use the 90s version to control Korg Monlogue / Deepmind / etc to get the sounds, then the marginal value of the new instrument goes way down).

So floppies it is.
Having the fortune of growing up at the exact moment all of this was happening has formed and shaped who I am today. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Much Ado About a Little More Housing
While that's true, the vast majority of things we record are not worth keeping for long time frames. There's still a lot of stuff that gets printed on metals, stones, archival media, etc. Not to mention we have modern archival methods that didn't exist back then. Barring a simultaneous complete and total collapse of all civilizations on Earth, we'll still be passing vastly more information on to future generations than previous generations ever did.
Agree.
I have never heard Medieval used in, say, Indian history where different timescales are used to denote historical periods - e.g. Vedic period, Ancient, Sultanate and Mughal periods, British raj etc.
There better be a $300k+ payday at the end of a doctor’s training, otherwise I don’t see how the gauntlet they get put through is worth sacrificing their best years (20s and early 30s).
Hopefully when Brexit is complete, you can return to the true colors as god and the Queen intended.
I would highly recommend the move Hummingbird Project which does a pretty good job of what it takes to build this kind of networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DweHM0Gnc
> Given the disparity in numbers being thrown around, it's hard to know what's factual and what's misconstrued.

Considering they destroyed evidence to cover their tracks, it's not that hard
https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f63538b035d3f
Glad to see someone actually comment and not just downvote haha.

> Many free-market oriented people would disagree that we've let the free market run amok, as measured by the percentage of the economy that the government spends directly or controls through price controls.

I agree with this actually. The federal government does move the pieces quite a bit and there's definitely people who think it could be even more free. Though to be fair, I'm thinking about this in relation to other countries like some in Europe, for example. In that context, I get the sense the US is more scared of regulation and in general prefers letting the market decide.

For example, plastic bags. The UK has introduced a charge on them, and is going to enforce a ban soon. In the US you see less action in this direction, and the general trend I see to fight the issue is "lets educate the population so they crate demand for alternative options".

IMO, what the UK is doing is progress— they've identified the moral obligation to take better care of the environment and through policy they're altering the market to work towards it. The US seems to prefer to "progress" according to market demand. If this idea is to be made policy, first it has to be demanded by the market. I could be wrong though ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

This is of course at a Federal level, because at a state and municipal level I do hear of more independent action taken in the US.

> I would agree that a stress on philosophy in economics would be helpful, but people like Hayek wrote in a philosophical way having seen the societies that adopted ideas of Marx and found even further dysfunction.

That's true. I'm not arguing for the adoption of societies modeled after the ideas of Marx, which are notoriously vague. I'm more just making the case that there's previous literature reflecting on what "progress" is, and arguing that perhaps it's not just increasing GDP without bounds.
I think that Trump has a particular negotiating style, which is to be all over the map. You're a wonderful person, and he's delighted to have the opportunity to do something wonderful with you; then you're the dirt under his shoe and there will never ever be a deal with someone as wretched as you; the terms of the deal will be one thing, then something else much less favorable to you, then the deal is off, then it's back on but the terms are different. I think it's a schtick that he's used in real estate for a very long time, to get the best deal he can out of people who get tired of being yanked around and just want a deal to get done. I think it's very much improvisational and seat-of-the-pants.

What you're asking (whether Trump knew this as a consequence and pushed for it) would be much more like deep strategic thinking. I don't think that's his style.
Time share business. Usually a Complete ripoff.
At least another person has learned what is a Forbes contributor.
Now I want to listen to it. Why not put it somewhere on the Internet? Maybe it will bring some joy to a few more people. Worst case scenario it will get ignored (it will get one listen from me though).
There's a difference between China banning Google from operating in China, and China sanctioning Google. The latter would prevent any company that does business in China from doing business with Google, effectively cutting Google off from most major companies in the world.

This is what the US did to Huawei. Huawei was already effectively banned from selling in the US market, and it didn't impact them that badly. They could still sell in China, Europe, India, Africa, etc. But being sanctioned by the US meant that they couldn't buy from critical suppliers, meaning they wouldn't even be able to manufacture their products in the first place.

The reason why China hasn't retaliated against a company like Apple, which would be devastated by any Chinese sanctions, is that long term, such a move would scare off other companies. Everyone would try to limit their supply-chain exposure to China, just as Chinese companies are now trying to do with the US.
Another big inconvenience for almost no benefit. I wonder how many of these the public will absorb before a backlash occurs.
I don’t really see the point in some fancy archival medium when so much data now is already stored in cloud-based servers with redundancy and constant hardware maintenance on a global scale.

I think there would have to be an apocalyptic event to cause knowledge about significant events, people, and ideas to be lost.

Paper and archeological history is absolutely riddled with holes, which doesn’t speak well of its durability.