skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's impossible that everyone out there blogging actually knows what they're talking about, and figuring out which ones do is getting to be a lot of work.
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Shame I can't short Instagram and WhatsApp.
The pre-tax portion naturally comes out of the part of your paycheck you otherwise wouldn't be able to use at all.

The level of discount would therefore be linked to your marginal income tax level, alongside how much your employer contributes to it.

The max a person can contribute to these in 2019 is $3,500 and $7,000 for family.

It is a privilege extended by the federal government.
The myths we tell about history always tend to be so self-serving and belittling of the people who came before us. I'm not sure I want to know what people will think about us 500 years from now
Free and abundant healthcare and education trump anything commerce-related, in my book. You can argue trade can help in those areas too, but strictly speaking it’s not a prerequisite (often it’s even a problem).
This assumes there’s no value in forgetting, but what if that’s wrong? What if forgetting is really really important for reasons we don’t know?

I mean almost everything that happened in history wasn’t recorded, and yet we’re here.
Very few people would happily train someone to take their job. And, some of those people will be vocal about it. The midlevels do the same thing in reverse. It's a stretch to extrapolate this to all "providers" and call that the "core problem" of health expense. How much of your bill do you think goes to the "provider" anyway?.
Loon didn't supply the balloons, they just have a shared supplier.
You're not wrong. It seems oddly petty as it is worded and, to your point, contradicts the stated goal.
That would be cool, yeah. We haven't had anything like that in spaCy so far, but the results from these models can be very good. I think with a good API it could be very useful.
This was my preteens/teens. What a rush that was! Seeing all of those groups/logos and I was on half those sites, and the transition from BBS's to the dawn of the internet, or at least when it started to be used by the public. My fav BBS was Fear and Loathing (in Las Vegas). It had a ton of LD lines to connect to, which was important since it could take many hours to DL a single game as they grew in size/spanning multiple disks, so the lines were full a lot. I learned a lot of area codes lol, as you could usually tell which BBS's were good ones based on the city they were in on the BBS lists. So many hours spent tweaking connection string parameters on the good ol US Robotics to make it dial faster, pause less in between tones, etc., so you could try to connect to a board faster. It was almost like you were hacking the BBS just to connect to it (redialing over and over lol). There wasn't even caller ID back then, so they couldn't prevent you from hammering them. It was like a lottery system whether you connected or not, as hundreds of others were doing the exact same thing at the same time 24/7. Oh, and you had to dedicate a lot of your phone line time to hacking LD codes so you could spend the rest of the time phreaking so you could actually connect/download without paying LD charges. It took a dedicated phone line. It was always fun when someone else in the house picked up the phone and ruined your download. Thank goodness when the z-modem protocol came out with resume functionality. Way better than y-modem or whatever it was before it. lol ;)
I like these changes. Some of my friends hate Facebook for various reasons, and making Facebook's ownership very clear (as opposed to buried in some terms and conditions) may encourage them to choose alternative chat software.
Yeah but public sentiment is one of the things driving policy maker to consider breaking up big tech. If Facebook make sits branding even more ubiquitous than it already is that's not going to work in their favor on this issue.
Sure. I expect we'll lose things here and there, as we have already. But major works are safe, and there's more than enough for any future civilization to establish definitively how we lived.
First, a disclaimer of sorts: I'm really not trying to take away from your central argument, that ER bills are way too high.

Second, another disclaimer: if you were a 1st time parent, I kind of understand!

103F/39.4C is unquestionably a high temperature, but it's almost always part of a viral infection, and ibuprofen and/or paracetamol will almost always reduce it. It's really not particularly unusual for kids to get a high temperature while they're ill, and I literally can't fathom why you'd take a 4yo to the ER for a high temp.

Here in the Europe, we give ibuprofen and/or paracetamol, and wouldn't dream of taking our kids to the ER without a very good reason, such as the meds not bringing the temperature down, or there being a rash, or anything else that raised alarm bells; I'm assuming of course that were there any such circumstances, you would have mentioned them.

At worst in Europe, we'd take them to the GP the same or next day. And the GP would, without doubt, assume you were a 1st time parent and say "it's viral" and (somewhat) politely kick you out. I've literally been there with a child having a 40C temp, and they weren't arsed. I've been there myself with a temp of 41C, and they weren't arsed.
Hahahahahahaha.

(Hello from the Bay Area)
If the acronym is only about profit then it is both misused and excludes other obvious companies like Microsoft.
There's no reason an insurance provider can't manage a guaranteed cost every year. It's basically just an offset on the risk curve.

You could look at health insurance like a buyer's club (we negotiate prices for a large group of customers) plus a true insurance (the unexpected happened, is expensive). The buyer's club portion can be useful in mitigating expenses for the unexpected.

That said, nowhere in here is there a strong incentive to reduce costs (I go into this in more detail in a different comment on this topic). If you really think about it, an insurer just wants predictability, the actual cost is somewhat irrelevant as long as people can pay it. Because insurance is usually "purchased" and subsidized through your employer, you're somewhat disconnected from that price.

Even if you weren't, you don't really have good alternatives. You can choose the private market (often less good plans without as strong a network) or you can choose no insurance at all. These aren't great choices, and frequently when you're making the "purchase" it's very very hard to know what you're buying.

I've shopped around for insurance, it's quite difficult for them to answer, "I think I might need this thing, how much will it cost me with your plan?"

The whole system needs to be rethought. Likely through a combination of forced transparency, mild price controls, breaking up monopoly-like consortia within the industry and forced standardization of some products to make them understandable.
Regression testing alone would probably cost over a million.
Ask HN: Latency issues for simple multiplayer game?
I am making this game multiplayer: http://jsfiddle.net/PxpVr/16/embedded/result/

I've created the lobby and have basic controls worked out. Now I'm brainstorming on how to sync players' movements. Can anyone help? I know there also come problems with latency, but I'm wondering if a game so simple would have these problems. Thanks in advance

Stack is python/django, postgresql, jquery, using websocket (django-channels) for real-time updates
Well, the website is a right-wing website and challenging Darwin fits their beliefs.
It's a silly dichotomy.

Investors want companies to invest where it makes competitive sense, in the amount that makes competitive sense, and return a dividend (or do buybacks) for all the cash beyond that.

Investors only invest for the dividend/buyback ultimately -- if it didn't exist, every stock would be valued $0.

I think it's perfectly clear to anyone that all of the tech Big 5 are plenty profitable enough to innovate plenty and also provide dividends/buybacks.

The criticism is perhaps valid for a company 1/100th the size of Google, or maybe even 1/10th... but certainly not current Google-size.
> One reason could be that babies around here are (like I was) put into baby trolleys to sleep outside, summer and winter.

Finland? Sweden?
This seems like a smart move. Facebook is getting ahead of potential criticism by regulators that it’s unclear that Facebook owns these properties. Of course we all know that but your average joe probably doesn’t.

It also strengthens its hold on those properties and makes it more part of one company. Harder to “break up” a company that is deeply intertwined. And its more clear to users that when they are using Instagram, they are really using Facebook.

All in all, I don’t get the negativity around this announcement. Makes perfect sense.
That is totally true when the code is behind a feature flag, rather than commented out. Most people can skip commented code just fine, since it looks like... commented out code, rather than comments intended to be read.

But even in the feature flag case, it serves a purpose by allowing old code to be removed in 2 stages rather than 1 (divide and conquer).

It means the old code still compiles, just in case it needs to be reinstated in a hurry.
Most academic research found that, overall, that dividend paying companies actually have more total return than non-paying companies.

https://www.thebalance.com/why-dividend-stocks-outperform-no...

Also, is buying back stock really any different than a dividend? I would say that it is, but only in the sense that most of that buy back money gets transferred to employees in stock grants.
"they only took social media detoxes once a month, by the 2020s older people that were already addicted to the novelty of social media only did detoxes once every six months and this was considered a privilege for the most mental health conscious people with a modern social support system"
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We just use emoji for that now :sunglasses:
And since impressions often matter more than reality (particularly in politics), it may also force some actions by Xi.
You need 8 figures to retire. $30k/year (poverty level) over 30 years is only $1M.
MU* isn't very similar at all to PBM. No arc, no plot, no NPCs, no aggregation, no adjudication. Supports far fewer people in any given scene. Generally only has one or two people logged in. Non-freeform "rooms". The scenery may be literary but the players generally are not.
You mapped out a trajectory you think things are going to follow. Things change. No more technology transfer. Protecting IP is the key to what happened yesterday.
From the the people I know and know about, getting into medical school is a very high bar. Getting through is hard though doable if you could get in and devote your entire life to it. You probably won't get the specialty you want if it's one of the more generally desired ones, but you might.

What is an isn't a high bar is all relative.
I don't understand how this isn't a bigger story. This purging is massive, and smaller purging arguably had a bigger effect on the 2016 election than any Russian interference.

It was most recently pulled off in Georgia as well:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/10/georgia-elec...

In Georgia, Kemp won by ~58,000 votes, yet in a similar tactic, they:

> • In the three months leading up to election day, more than 85,000 voters were purged from rolls under Kemp. During 2017 668,000 voters were purged, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

> • Of those 2017 numbers, investigative reporter Greg Palast told Salon, 200,000 people left the state, died or moved out their district, making them legitimate cancellations. However, through litigation, he got the entire purge list. “Of the 400,000 who supposedly moved, our experts will tell a court that 340,134 never moved – wrongly purged,” Palast told the Guardian, saying people had been purged for not voting in an election or two.

> • Furthermore from 2012 to 2016, 1.5 million voters were purged – more than 10% of all voters – from records, according to a 2018 report from the Brennan Center for Justice. In comparison, 750,000 were purged from 2008 to 2012.
Slack has refused to implement user blocking for years
Is this move ego driven? Instagram and WhatsApp are thriving because they are disassociated from Facebook. I think this can potentially hurt the other two apps.
Safeway? Walmart? Target? Shop-Rite? Hannafords? I could go on...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20597115
Personally, I love and welcome this new era of StagnationTalk because it brings to light much of what is true in the Holocene: time limited, organizations persist with the teleology that they serve the existence of the organization, and not a higher purpose, that we are limited with information in our transactional decision-making and need to step-up the grid/infra with more intelligent digestibility of fresh information. innit interestin
no, that's the whole point
Spacy also has one of the best documentations that I have come across. I really like the use of Tufte-style notes for code examples. https://spacy.io/api
That famous background makes me nauseous ever since the first time I saw it (and not due to the context of being used for XP)
The assumption is that they are attempting to get ahead of any potential criticism by regulators regarding it being unclear that Facebook owns these brands. It's probably not a consumer-driven decision.
Recently some robocalls have been showing up as foreign numbers rather than from my own area code and prefix. Maybe that is some kind of progress... or maybe the robocaller's call spoofing wasn't configured properly. ;-/

It is surprising that carriers accept spoofed local numbers from robocallers.

I guess it's like ISPs who happily accept packets originating in their networks with source IP addresses from the other side of the world.
It's not funny, it makes sense. Imagine what would happen if you are living in zone 3+, and your friend/partner lives in zone 3+ on the _opposite_ side of London. You could easily have a 90 minute travel time between those two points. In most places a travel time that long would count as being in another city.
I should have known, Wikipedia knows everything.

I didn't know that disk = diskette was a British thing! And I am British. So I guess that makes sense.
This type of thing is one of the main reasons I moved to Mexico.
I remember getting excited about 2400bps.

I was not as early to the BBS scene as some of my friends, but I had to start at 300bps, even though my first model was rated for 1200.

There was a known issue with the serial port on the Apple //c I was using that I had to get fixed before I could even hit 1200.

In 1990, my roommate and I split for an HST so we could cut our long distance bills downloading Postscript fonts for our Macs at the time. This was before long distance got super cheap in Canada (we were calling a BBS in the US).

We were crazy obsessed with hoarding those fonts. Looking back, it was a ridiculous waste of time and money.
Where will China get the money to buy their agricultural goods? Their food prices jumped 7.7% in June, likely caused by the outbreak of the African swine fever in the country’s pig herd [1]. China has some serious pressure being applied to them, and no wiggle room.

1. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/china-and-the-swine-...
The NATO treaty is that every member will spend 2% of GDP and nothing about per person or per capita. This keeps it fair for countries that are less wealthy.
It's not safer, it's more useful. You run out the hot, neutral, and switched hot. That lets you use a light switch to control an overhead light/fan without killing the fan.
I bet sales of one-time use glass and metal bottles will increase! Also note that: "The ban does not apply to any flavored drinks like soda, iced tea or coffee and juice."
So maybe people will drink less water instead.
There's a bit of scaremongering in the headline; these are being tested domestically by the DOD use outside of the US. The DOD isn't allowed to conduct domestic surveillance.
The Romans also used human pee to clean clothes.
Your predecessor's fora. This is the meeting place of phreakers and warez enthusiasts. Not as random or as clumsy as a public tracker; an elegant platform for a more... civilized age.
>A doc in a box urgent care would essentially do that.

Yeah, and urgent care facilities usually have working hours like 8AM-8PM. Because, you know, those are the only hours people every get minor sicknesses.
History of Balloons and Ballooning (2017)
I think that giving the system designers too much credit and in any case, I think dismissive of fact or conceptual knowledge, which are key to being able to ask questions about topics.
could you share where you purchase them now?
Even FETs that have a published SOA, it often ends up being roughly "don't spend more than about 10% duty cycle in the linear region" because FETs have been so strongly optimized for switching applications.
I also try to avoid ORM's but ditching them makes mapping to struct/objects cumbersome. How you deal with mapping joins in Go and node.js?
The quantity doesn’t matter as much as the medium. I suspect digital mediums are one of the most fragile and least likely to survive.
Most likely nothing Google makes other than their ad platform could be considered positive investment.
Let me check...
My friend's BBS had a dungeon style role playing game (this is around 1986), so you could waste quite a bit of time playing that game.

The best "purchasable power up" in the game was an "All You Can Eat"... which ran out very quickly, so not quite what was advertised.
Vancouver (and to a lesser extent Seattle, Washington, DC & Atlanta) do a great job mixing the urban forest and density. Many European cities do as well. Living in concrete boxes doesn't mean there has to be a dearth of trees. It's just most North American cities don't really invest in their trees (heck they don't even invest enough in our kids, so trees are pretty far down on the priority list).
We recently moved to an apartment that is front facing the street with trees that you can see through the windows, and might be obvious but we're usually in much better mood than before, I think it's important to consider these things. The vibe of having a bit of nature and natural light changes things completely, might even inspire you to create more things. We used to live in apartments that were mostly surrounded by concrete and it was honestly a bit depressing. I suggest that if you have the opportunity, even if you have to pay a bit more, try to go for it, the quality of life improves tremendously.
Google, not exactly a small company, did experience an effective ban in China, and had to stop operations there.

I don't remember any major panic about it, and not even a spectacular NASDAQ crash due to that.

I see that a trade war is a war of attrition, but I don't see US industry as more vulnerable than Chinese in this regard.
Thinking that moving from on prem to AWS for instance is now you end up with “AWS Architect” who were old school net ops guys who only know how to do a “lift and shift” and end up costing clients more. Because they pattern matched thought AWS was just an implementation detail and they could just set up everything like they would on prem.
This comment isn't really in the spirit of hn. Don't make fun of someone for not knowing something. Educate them!
Looks interesting, thank you. Have you used it yourself? If so how do you deal with queries like: 'my' private messages from a single user.
You could argue the opposite is true: 20 years ago, there were dangerous misconceptions about how some body parts work. Many chemical pathways were completely unknown. Medicine and biology both evolved a lot in the 20 years.

The big picture however is still valid. Concepts and paradigms hold for decades. We still use TCP/IP. Computers still use the Von Neumann Architecture.

Looking at the details however, AWS is just a fancy GUI over time sharing on a mainframe.
C# is just new syntax for concepts that are older than I am.
While mobile brings new challenges, you now don't have to deal with the challenge of customers connected through a 330 baud modem.
Excellent separation of concerns (feature vs implementation), totally clears things up in my head, and I agree with you now.

Do you write/blog/tweet? Your clarity and ability to see through things is fantastic. I'd love to follow your work.
The best BBS when I was young were the ones that were only online for certain hours, because the op's parents wanted to use the phone during the day.
FYI, even if you had broken your finger the treatment is almost always splinting and time. Most doctors wouldn't do an x-ray or a vibrating test. Does it hurt? Splint it, come back in a week. Next.
Ancestry Digitizes Millions of Holocaust Records
I lead a crusade against commented out code and refuse to accept any PRs at work with commented out code. It makes most code search tools useless and adds tons of visual clutter (especially for our colleagues with ADD/ADHD)
Did he really unironically post a link to adequacy.org?

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For those less familiar, feel free to browse adequacy.org, or just read this gem:

http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147....
> The end of the INF pact leaves the US and Russia with just one nuclear arms agreement, the New START Treaty, which governs strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems for each side. If New START isn't renewed or extended by 2021, the world's two largest nuclear powers would have no limits on their arsenals for the first time in decades.

Except logic (if it could for once be applied to the military). The strategic arsenal is basically a doomsday device that blows up half the world. You only need a certain number of missiles to do that and we have built way more than needed. So, New START or not, the US should just come to it’s sense and drawdown it’s nuclear arsenal for those common sense economic reasons. The threat of total annihilation is just as good at 200% of necessary force as it is at 1000% of necessary force.
Have you checked out https://www.pika.dev/cdn ?
It's a corporate communication tool. Harassment, etc. should be dealt with at the corporate (or legal, if required) level. It doesn't make sense to allow people to block their workmates. It's for work, not a dating app. Tinder needs and has blocking, Slack does not.
Yes, lately I have noticed that always feels a bit cumbersome working with it. Where those built-in DBMS SQL or NoSQL?
Reminds me of this: https://www.vox.com/health-care/2019/5/10/18526696/health-ca...

"Clark had to decide: Should she take Lily to the emergency room?

She called a poison control hotline and the answer was yes ...

But Clark knew that the emergency room can be expensive.

...

“I’m weighing my options,” Clark says. “She could have a seizure at any moment. It felt terrible, as a parent, to be in the position of having to do that.”

Clark and her husband decided to give Lily some activated charcoal at home and drive to the emergency room. But they wouldn’t go inside.

Instead, they pulled their car into the second row of the parking lot, about 100 feet from the entrance. They start playing The Little Mermaid on the car’s TV screen for Lily to watch. And they waited.

“We were just sitting there, facing the door and watching Lily,” Clark says. “We chose the second row because we wanted to be close to the entrance, but also trying to look inconspicuous.”

The Clarks waited in the parking lot for a few hours, and Lily didn’t show any symptoms. They drove home without setting foot in the emergency room."
To sell them as carbon credits, you’d have to bury the logs or something — otherwise they might burn, or their mass would be absorbed by other animals/fungi/bacteria which would eventually convert the carbon into CO2.