skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I've never found a programming language where SQL didn't have some tedious tasks. There are always lots of little edge cases and error handling etc that never seems to be fully covered by the libraries. That said, for a CRUD type app, I usually default to node.js unless the requirements would exclude it for some reason, then I'd move to Go, but generally I avoid writing new Java anymore, not that I think Java is bad or evil, I just prefer other languages.

For node we use the pg-format package to format most of our queries and then the standard pg package to execute queries. It is honestly one of the easier and cleaner ways methods I've used. I am not a big fan of ORM's and find a lot of them add way to much complexity for too little benefit, so I am a big fan of either stored procedures/functions or straight (but safe) query building.

I have written code in node.js, Go, C & C++, Java and Python to manipulate data in different sql databases and they all have some form of tedious tasks in relation to the SQL integration.
A lot of this is explained by Camels and Rubber Duckies.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
It's random from a user experience perspective.

There are many times when a practice will quote you a much higher cash price just because you don't have an insurance company negotiating for you.

I have privileged foreign friends with private "worldwide insurance" from a European provider, but it is just a reimbursement scheme. So they appear uninsured to American providers and have to float potentially extremely large costs which might not actually get reimbursed.

And then things like birth control aren't insured by their "worldwide insurance" nor some dental work deemed cosmetic, and these people aren't surprised their great "worldwide insurance" doesn't cover those things because their state run insurance wouldn't cover those things either, but confused why the cost is so high in America.

I have to tell them that "privileged" people in America don't pay those costs, and explain to them how dangerous or ill-advised acting uninsured in America is.
I do have insurance. That was my deductible.
As someone in a similar age group and position, I enjoyed your rambly thoughts. It gives me the warm fuzzies to hear about your hard work, satisfaction and gratitude.

I'm right there with you in feeling grateful to be part of a generous and intelligent community. I feel lucky to be able to make a living doing what I love to do, and even though the business can be tough, it's a joy with so many bright colleagues around the world.
“Network” isn't PCI Complaint. I don't even have a server. Do I have to comply?
Lawsuit: Autopilot didn't prevent Model 3 from driving under semi at 68 MPH
if you are upset over their pay imagine how you must feel about those in public service, let alone their pensions. you can pull down those numbers being a city manager and get over 100k in pension to boot!

the medical profession is not easy and i don't begrudge them their fees.
Science doesn't care what you think.
> If you had insurance it wouldn’t have been so high.

Not true, most people's deductibles are more than what they charged him.
I don't think it's functionally equivalent to suppression of their free speech rights, because I don't believe in free speech as an abstract virtue of society, I believe in free speech as a check on the powers of an oppressive government. If you want to tell people about the faults of the government and organize resistance, you're never going to get the support of established media channels, regardless of whether you're in a democracy or a monarchy or a communist state. But it is still important that you be able to set up person-to-person communication networks and hold meetings of like-minded people and try to persuade people to your cause without being imprisoned.

I think al-Qaeda's speech acts are difficult to distinguish from a genuine homegrown resistance/revolutionary movement, and I worry that laws that criminalize advocating its ideology can also be used to crush a budding resistance movement and censor the spread of material the government finds embarrassing.
If people did pay, would hospitals lower their prices? Is the market that competitive? If not, where would the extra money go?
Software engineering is a field that evolves and you need to stay up to date. It's far from the only field like that.

When you get out of school (or whatever path you took), you are knowledgeable about the current state of things. If you're an entry level engineer, chances are you'll have people teaching you what you don't know, mentoring you, and generally expect you to learn with them. Of course, as high as software salaries are these days, your expectations then are still lower than the older folks. Chances are you have less things to pay for outside of student loans in the US.

As you get older, you can do 2 things: you can passively coast as long as you can, or you can actively keep yourself up to date. If you choose the later, your knowledge stays current and you keep adding experience, making you more and more valuable. Short of health issues getting in the way, that will never stop. You just keep getting better.

If you passively coast though, what you know becomes less and less relevant. For the first couple of years, experience gain >> the part of your knowledge that is outdated, so you still go upward. There's a limit to that. That 35-40 yo line, assuming you started in your early to mid 20s, sound about right for when you lost more than you gained. And thus you're no longer worth the price of admission you're likely expecting to pay for your kids/mortgage/401k/whatever. And that's when things get rough.

But if you play your cards right? There's no problem.
How much profit does Amazon show?
[citation needed]

This is a common talking point that smells like an oversimplification.
We use Dokuwiki at work. It's simple to set up, needing only PHP and a web server, and integrating logins with active directory is easy. No need for a RDBMS. We also have some plugins like Bureaucracy (for creating forms), Include (to include a page inside of another page), Tag (for adding tags to pages), and Wrap (for adding some nice CSS style options and info boxes).
Why Thursday and not Friday?
> I mean, it sounds like the real real solution is to bury trees deep inside the earth.

Which is effectively what oil and coal are. Hence why we need to stop digging them up and burning them first.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to dig a deep hole to extract carbon from the ground at the same time and you're digging a different deep hole to put it back in, when you could save yourself a lot of trouble and just leave it there. (And burn the wood to generate electricity if that's cheaper than alternatives like solar and nuclear, which it isn't.)
Greenland Is Melting Away Before Our Eyes
No, it's used to encourage skepticism of his factual claims.
Wow, hadn't seen that before, thanks!
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We’re you able to re-sell the phones later on? At a loss, break even or even a profit?

Or was the ultra-low-end phone market only existent because of buyers for this market?
I have to agree here, when I was working in C# and in the Microsoft stack it is pretty nice. But I still remember it had some tedious tasks around data mapping etc. C# was one place were I did use an ORM I liked, specifically dapper, it wasn't perfect, but damn it was fast and easy to use.
> I refused to pay it. It was the first time I did not pay a debt and the first time I was sent to collections. I refused based on principle, and not because I couldn’t afford it.

Why not at least pay a portion of it that you would have felt was sensible?
William Osman tried to build a mechanical display around these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96TtG5FCTU
This really was a clash of systems- the CIA was concerned red art, literature and movies would become avantgarde for the western society, so it tryied to create its own "western" culture program. Subsidizing book authors, movies and music suddenly makes sense in this total secret-war.
imo Stadia needs to switch to a Netflix style subscription-model to be financially viable (from a consumer standpoint)
>"play games, earn rewards." "watch videos, earn rewards"

"pay money, take the bagel". Violating such a contract by intentionally and knowingly skipping or falsifying the delivery of your part of the exchange looks to me like a fraud [IANAL].
No, the people who keep paying insurance companies to inflate prices to insane levels are the problem.
And what if that price is too high for any uninsured to afford?
I find it funny that people scorn the pursuit of economic profits, but complain that the other "better" activities aren't given economic rewards.

Ultimately "Corporate Profits" produce the economic value that people desperately want, and participating in the creation of something people want _should_ be a prerequisite for getting economic value in return.
I would recon life threatening emergency medical care accounts for a small fraction of overall healthcare. Even comparison shopping for birth is virtually impossible and one has 9 months to do it.
Amazon has demonstrated its ability to show a profit. Uber and Lyft have not.
People saying, 'We should pay for the things I do in the economy, but not something someone else does, "out of principle"' is an opinion that exists in reality, it's just an unbecoming and non-constructive one.
Activists Would Rather Preserve Tom's Diner Than Let Its Owner Retire in Peace
Are you thinking about 240V circuits which used to use 3-wire circuits but now use 4-wire? The US run split-phase power to homes with +120V and -120V hot legs and neutral connected to center tap of transformer. Each 120V circuit uses one of the hot legs.

For 240V, can use 3-wire circuits by getting 240V between the +120V and -120V legs. There are 3-wire grounded plugs (hot-hot-ground) and non-grounded (hot-hot-neutral). Modern 240V wiring uses 4 wires, hot-hot-neutral-ground, which allows making 120V for low-power electronics from one hot to neutral.
With a hand injury one might lose fine motor skills, they should be taken seriously by patients and physicians. In any other first-world country the physician would have taken an x-ray, treatment cost would be nominal, there is some form of universal healthcare in place, but in America you have a choice! Your money or your range of motion!

More worrying is that people support the racket! A tuning fork, like a barefoot doctor in 1950s China might have used is a good idea! You despair about the possibility of sanity in American healthcare.
I struggle to see how the past five or ten years could ever be seen as a "golden age", if so then the future must be bleak.

I would argue that too much of the content that is paid for is created purely to generate page-views to carry advertising.

Those people who are motivated to share knowledge and opinions sincerely are crowded out by click-bait.
If you prefer a low effort / high noise comment environment that rewards puns, there's always Reddit
Funny, I have a sister in Canada and a sister in Switzerland, neither of them have had trouble getting ultrasounds. My wife's grandmother is also in Canada and was treated the same day for her broken hip.

I'm really sick of being told things are impossible in the US that are normal in other developed countries.
It's easy to evaluate the quality of an apple and there are dozens of substitute goods (other fruit). It's not easy to evaluate the quality of an ultrasound machine, the staff required to operate it, and their interpretation of the results. Depending on the medical issue, there may not be a substitute good (procedure).

Medicine does not work with market principles.
Or they hit the stock lottery jackpot and have retired, or moved into management, or marketing, or started a sandwich shop.

But I do think there's a bit of generational shift that the stereotype of outdated engineers haven't caught up with. When I started out in the mid-90s, anyone more than a little older than me didn't have a CS degree and had come up in a world without source control, continuous integration, automated testing, iterative development processes, open source libraries, etc, etc. So in some ways they were from a different planet than the next generation. Although the tech du jour still changes quickly, programmers in their 40s these days still have a comparatively small gap when it comes to education and development process.
It's probably not that it's hard to type sed -i but that they can not change URLs so easily. It might be price indexing engines, external partners authorized to edit certain paths, and any number of other things.

If parts of your audience blocks ads then it's probably a good idea to test your web site with uBlock installed, just as you already test with Safari and MSIE.

It's specifically not a good idea to rely on the block list maintainers who will have a hard time separating earnest bug reports from all the bogus ones who think they've found a clever way to avoid blocklists.
... and for less money
"Independent clause" doesn't mean "unrelated thought," it's grammar terminology for a phrase that makes sense as a simple sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_clause
Carbon Sequestering would ideally happen by plants at sea, the biomass then bee wrapped up and plunged into the crushing depths where it would remain stored.
A virtual reality website from the time before Oculus
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_vs_predator
The difference is the 40 year may not want to work for 15+ years to build up his nest egg. The guy who started in his 20's can basically coast...
Can you explain how you think academia was corrupt here? As far as I know, all the investors in Rothenberg Ventures were honest people who got ripped off.

Case studies of bogus companies are interesting in their own right, such as the HBS study of Enron [https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=36626]. I think a detailed case study of Rothenberg Ventures would be worth reading, especially for people thinking of investing in flashy, smooth-talking, pop-up VC firms.
Single payer is the best way to solve these issues though.
Comparatively speaking (to a hard drive) a 3.5" disc is still pretty "floppy."
Yup, I am trying to email it.
hmm, it's been 4-5 years since i really did any perl but i remember it being way more confusing than that. maybe i was just a noob.
Usually the Enterprise version is twice as big, 100x the price and 1/4 as reliable.

Better support though.
Again, this is pure speculation. You have approximately 0% of the information available to the people who make these decisions, so why bother guessing? It's boring and pointless.
Portland, OR is a great candidate for this, IMO. In the city is "Forest Park" which is more like a forest than a park. There are tons of trails, and you're less than an hour from dozens of trails in the Colombia River Gorge.
Did your insurance go up after the fact?
Sure. But learning a new framework is like 100th on the list of hard parts of being an engineer. Its new incantations but ultimately the loop of solving business problems with automation is precisely the same.

100% of my team had basically zero C++ experience before joining. Our application is developed entirely in C++. I didn't care one bit because learning the programming idioms is so trivial compared to the actually hard stuff.
FCC bans spoofed text messages and international robocalls
This is why you should carry around a live recording -- they're fine with that.
Environmental Assessment for SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy at Kennedy Space Center [pdf]
It could be that overpopulated places make people anxious and places with trees are usually less populated.
Here is an excellent in-depth explanation of the concept from one of my favorite educational YouTube channels - Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/v5OANXk-6-w
The non-VentureBeat press release: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/open-source-photo-video...
and the relevant GitHub link: https://github.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/tree/master/hashi...
One really nice thing about single-payer back in Ontario was public salary disclosure, aka, the sunshine list. Since most physicians essentially work for the government, if they make over 100k/yr, the salary is public knowledge. Hint: Canadian doctors aren't eating dirt, by any means.
I litterally wrote that I don't how management values what I value.

I also never wrote that the article is wrong, I wrote that I didn't find it convincing.

I'm simply observing that after more than ten years developing and learning the craft, I still find myself not able to correctly know the old tools, and instead I merely have an idea of some that exist, and I'm sometimes able to google the correct one.

As so, I'm stating that when I see a graybeard with actual knowledge of fundamentals that I still totally lack, well, I respect that, and I _hope_ that he's not unemployable because if it is the case, I fear that our industry is doomed to produced always more buggy software due to a lack of basic understanding.

And I think than faced with no evidence from the article or you, it's well within my rights to be skeptical.

So, thank you for the unwarranted condescendance.
It depends upon the medical issue, how much you can afford, and how much you know about the downsides if you should have the issue.

If it looks straight, a hairline fracture will heal properly if unstressed for a few weeks. Probably not a huge risk if wrong.

You could constrain a broken finger yourself if you are any good at looking up information and applying it.
Amazon made $2.62 billion in the last quarter, and $3.5 billion the quarter before that.

Amazon makes a ton of money, and (quite transparently I might add) they plow a lot of their earnings from some of their businesses into investing into their other businesses, which is what most investors want.

This is completely different from Uber and Lyft, where it's not clear that their profit potential supports their current valuations.
This is true. Leafy neighborhoods also tend to be wealthy enclaves.
Accounts newer than 2 weeks show up as green.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#green-...
> If you had $25B to start a company what idea would you tackle?

Medical. I would provide FDA approval process funding and indemnification for medical devices.

Medical is rife with areas that could be disrupted by startups. The blocking limitation is that you can't afford the funding to get clearance for your product.
Hardly. Right now, the left frames it as, "Quickly! Throw as much money as you possibly can into this giant black pit and the earth might not explode!". They don't mean to sound like a doomsday cult, but they do.
I still remember my first Linux was Slackware on a stack of 3.5" discs downloaded from a BBS.
If we're speaking about punctuation, there really needs to be another mark in between a period and exclamation point, something that means what you said is sincere.

Responding to a text by saying "Thanks." or "Thanks!" is so different. If I was talking to someone and they gave a compliment, I'd want to say a sincere "thanks", but there isn't a way to do that in a text that doesn't come off as weird.
Then how do you explain countries like India where it's drastically affordable and high quality at the same time?
BTW does Kindle let you load your own DRM-free ebook files instead of buying books on Amazon? I use a PocketBook (pocketbook-int.com) which emulates a mass storage device and lets me read everything. I once considered buying a Kindle but heard it won't let me load bare files this way. Is this true?
By paying even $0.01 you acknowledge the validity of the debt and then it’s much easier for them to sue you and get a judgement.
Strongly agree!

There are an almost unlimited number of things to do with money. Even if you have lots of money, the number of good opportunities exceeds the amount of cash. It doesn't even have to be high-risk acquisitions - Just anything that will get a good return.
Thanks for this, I have been trying to remember the term 'confocal microscopy' for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_microscopy
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Thanks! I've been looking for a website with free French ebooks for quite some time...
Yup, it just seems like some random unsubstantiated theory being touted by VCs who want to show they're smart.
There are us companies that do this too, on a limited scale. In my opinion, there is no real reason you can't learn this way.

Teaching math this way is likely perfectly fine for middle school
Oh man, the ending to Coco just got even sadder...
All the OP (to whom I oddly can’t reapond) has is anecdotes, so I’ll offer an opposing one. I was homeschooled. I just finished a (real) STEM PhD. My sister was also homeschooled. She holds a (real) masters degree.
Neither of my parents went to college. The idea that homeschooling produces an inferior education rings hollow to my ear.

Growing up, our family was lower middle class.
Our lack of financial resources combined with my parents limited formal education makes it difficult for my to understand why homeschooling is infeasible for most. The biggest downside is probably an inferior socialization.
Oh man, I didn't realize this was a thing! Thank you for sharing :)
Thanks, Raleigh is definitely in my top 10. I'm currently living in Texas so my nature options are pretty limited. I do appreciate not having an income tax though.
Those numbers do seem to be a bit higher than the national salary averages for physicians [1]. However, physician pay only amounts to something like 8% of total health care costs [2]. I'm not saying that doctor pay at Vanderbilt isn't driving up their healthcare costs but this doesn't seem to be the whole story when it comes to national healthcare costs.

[1] https://www.merritthawkins.com/news-and-insights/blog/job-se...

[2] https://jacksonhealthcare.com/media-room/news/md-salaries-as...
Is it more, or less unbecoming than charging $756.00 to take someone’s temperature?