skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean US produces recently the 57% percent of new drugs.

https://media.xconomy.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2014/0...

I am not sure this explains the discrepancy between the healthcare cost between US and Switzerland.

More in depth analysis:

"There were two causes of this massive increase: government policy and lifestyle changes.

First, the United States relies on company-sponsored private health insurance. The government created programs like Medicare and Medicaid to help those without insurance. These programs spurred demand for health care services. That gave providers the ability to raise prices. A Princeton University study found that Americans use the same amount of health care as residents of other nations. They just pay more for them. For example, U.S. hospital prices are 60 percent higher than those in Europe. Government efforts to reform health care and cut costs raised them instead.
Second, chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and heart disease, have increased. They are responsible for 85 percent of health care costs. Almost half of all Americans have at least one of them. They are expensive and difficult to treat. As a result, the sickest 5 percent of the population consume 50 percent of total health care costs. The healthiest 50 percent only consume 3 percent of the nation's health care costs. Most of these patients are Medicare patients. The U.S. medical profession does a heroic job of saving lives. But it comes at a cost. Medicare spending for patients in the last year of life is six times greater than the average. Care for these patients costs one-fourth of the Medicare budget. In their last six months of life, these patients go to the doctor's office 29 times on average. In their last month of life, half go to the emergency room. One-third wind up in the intensive care unit. One fifth undergo surgery. "

https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs...

You can read the rest it is very informative. I still don't think that healthcare cost in the US is caused by the rest of the world not paying their fair share in drug discovery.
There is still gnash I guess, but I've not used that in many years. It's a shame Adobe didn't open source flash when they EOL'd it.
1. Condoms break

2. Some people are allergic to them

3. There are some activities that you really don't want to do with a condom

4. How about we just don't fucking shame people for not wanting to use a condom as long as both (or all) parties agree. Especially when there is a drug like prep.
This is the exact feeling that I have had recently when trying to cut the phone addiction. I deleted all games and social networks from my phone, then turned it to black and white. It's still tough since I can just go to reddit or hacker news on the browser, not much I can do about that since even flip phones have internet. The interesting thing was that my phone pick ups remained the same for a week or so, but the time on my phone when dramatically down.

The disturbing part is that even weeks later, if I am really bored I will reach for my phone and pick it up. There just isn't much to do on there anymore, so I put it down. I think I'm going to start leaving it places altogether so I lose the habit of having it on my at all times.
With Lidl and Aldi I'm happy to shop nearly every day because their stores are small so I don't waste all that much time in them.
AssemblyScript, the TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler, looking for contributors
After Creed came out, it has become part of the English lexicon, more or less. Kinda like what Rocky did for "yo".
repeating https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536630
You can still install flash right? So the flash experiences aren't getting lost necessarily.

Lots of Shockwave Era stuff getting lost though I agree. Also flash games that require a server backend
I don't find reviews to be a substitute for demos; there's always a strong element of "if you like games like this then..."

I pretty much only buy Steam games on sale now, not (just) because I'm a skinflint, but because I've learned the expensive way that I'll uninstall most games within half an hour or so or starting them. Even well-reviewed ones. Even ones that won Game Of The Year.
Funny to see an article promoting the use of Apple Device Profiles on the front page.

There was just an article last week on the front page describing how installing device profiles is unacceptable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20514833
http://archive.is/deoU1
poor performance is not a pre-requisite of bad experience. in reality it's a combination of UI & UX that contributes the most to bad experiences. not poor performance.

so don't focus on poor performance when there is no effect. and even when there is a marginal effect, UI & UX matter a lot more and could even negate the poor performance aspect.

so my point: UI&UX > performance. almost every single time.

all of this is based on various analysis i have done for a whole slew of clients dating back to 10 years ago.
Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
What is your favourite (video or written) tutorial for beginners – in any technology?

Mine is Django Girls Tutorial (https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/) because it does not assume any prior knowledge and has a good balance between the big picture and small details.
Where did you go to med school?
Best case we bleed all the money out of equifax and they go away.
Thanks for the advice! I generally like to keep emails as plain as possible (I do not enjoy the collection of signature images/company logos that accumulate at the bottom of long email chains), but I do try to format important points with bold/color when appropriate.

I have gotten into trouble being too concise in emails! Some people are quite sensitive to requests when they are too short, sometimes it helps to soften the request with a compliment or explaining the extenuating circumstances
I've never heard about bold being shouting. Where is that? IME, all-caps is shouting and bold is merely a type of delineation.
The "open" challenge is quite restrictive as it only applies to the following countries: "Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom United States of America"
Business Intelligence Lead
Always sanitize.
Have you tried asking for credit limit increases on all of your cards? You may be going over your utilization ratio (typically anything over 30% will deal I your credit score down) of your credit limits are too low.
> How about we just don't fucking shame people for not wanting to use a condom as long as both (or all) parties agree. Especially when there is a drug like prep.

That depends if it's those people bearing the full cost of buying PrEP, or if they expect the state/insurance companies to do it for them.
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
> It's a matter of having some sense of personal responsibility really.

This exact phrase was used to spin the deaths of thousands of gay men as a personal failing not many years ago. Stop doing it.
Honest question - do you find generated code to be useful? I've always had a very strong bias against it, due to the fact that implementation details can vary so widely.
Has Venice ever had a major problem with "urban campers" such that they would've had these laws? I live in a place not dissimilar from Venice, lots of tourists to pan-handle from, and we've had similar problems. It's unfortunate that they clobbered tourists with such an excessive fine, i.e. shouldn't first-timers be shown lenience in case of simple ignorance and misunderstanding, but the fact folks will find lenient areas, flock to those areas, and that ends up causing problems for the folks that live in the area.
An interesting idea. What else might this be applicable to? Social networks?
Interesting!

But is there ever any reason for doing this today, over zip ties or velcro ties?

I'm guessing no?
Is this a common opinion? I find bold text to be very helpful since it emphasizes the most important part.
And same with Safari :/
Thanks for the insight! I wonder if ability to resist creep[0] has ever been much of a goal when formulating wire insulation. Or is this "plastic flow" a different phenomenon than creep? For installations that are intended to be long-term (inside walls, buried under ground or concrete, etc.), it seems like the failure mode you describe would be really annoying to fix.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creep_(deformation)
I am not an expert in the subject, but as far as I understand most countries in the world are party to the Byrne convention.

One of the details that this stipulates is that works are automatically copyrighted upon creation – even if you don't register work with the copyright office it still holds protection.

This means that any picture, text, or other work in a tangible medium that you share without permission could be considered potentially infringing, and leave you open to a lawsuit.

There are defenses you can argue, but that would only be after the lawsuit has already started, potentially costing you time and money for legal representation.
>citing the example of rising difficulty of credit card fraud now that the credit card companies are held wholly liable for it.

The people that are held liable for credit card fraud are, ultimately, the merchants. If someone uses a stolen credit card, it's the merchant who is left without any money after shipping their goods.
Tess satellite uncovers 'first nearby super-Earth'
There are countries (such as the UK) where it's not so easy to get hold of firearms. Having said that, though, I am not sure how easy it is to get hold of a Taser here either.
As noted above, the other differences are that you don't know what type of piece you've located (if you've even managed to locate one).

So taking your analogy, and saying an AlphaStar game lasts 5 minutes, at 60 fps, thats 18000 frames. Kriegspiel games average about 50 moves total (or 100 half moves).

So lets tally these up: SC2 has 18000 frames where on visible turf, full knowledge of occupant enemy pieces are available. Kriegspiel has 100 frames where there is no such concept as visible turf of enemy pieces.

Deduction of if and which piece is occupying a square is the only way to have knowledge of the enemy, and the probability for the deduction to be correct drops significantly after each move.

With such a small amount of information available, the problem becomes significantly different.

The key to successful machine learning is available data. There is so little data that the model you are training will collapse or overfit quite quickly and become useless.
Our plastic bags may not have ended up in the ocean. But they were turning up in canals, trees, parks, etc.
On my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and FF 67.0.1 it have launched fine after a second try, while the first one just froze
If I start messing with a page in Builder, does that make it difficult to go back and start coding like normal again on it?

For instance, if I want to do the page layout first in Builder, then jump in and make one of the components into a messenger with sockets in the code, then tweak a component’s position and add a few more, then jump back into the code - is that a possible workflow?

Ideally I would want to use Typescript and React.
Regular buses aren't that convenient, but BRT/guided buses are great. The intervals between buses can be very short, and there's flexibility in the areas outside the busway.
If anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, in this day and age and in a developed country, catches an STD for not using condoms when they should, you can be certain it's their lack of personal responsibility.
Nice job. I think these graphs depict Perl's "sphere of influence" in IT with respect to time much better than the original article's depiction.
"sorry but your lack of initiative in wasting company time is what decided us to let you free"

- HR in an alternate universe
But it really doesn't need to be.

Maaaaaybe birth certificates should be public, but why should who owns what car be public? Or who lives at what address?
Like sitting on stairs and eating their own sandwich. What would happen to Venice if thousands of people go there and eat their own sandwiches?

You have to respect the city where you go with not taking your own food!!
/sarcasm

They didn’t brew their coffee in the middle of the street anyway.
Because we haven't eradicated HIV but just slowed it down, it is the perfect situation for it to develop drug-resistance.
Were normal shop plastic bags really big enough for your bins? I'm using the same number of full-size bin liners as I was before the ban, and the same number of bags in my smaller bins (which are almost wholly the meat bags).

My own anec-data: every place I've ever lived I've needed a much larger bin than could be suitably lined by anything other than a picture-frame bag from The Range. Same with pretty much every other person's house I've been in as well. Not questioning your use case, but I honestly can't picture having a bin that small that a Sainsburys carrier would be at all useful anywhere other than a bathroom or for a tiny corner in a bedroom.

That being said, I stand by the point I was alluding to: extra bin liners that are actively paid for is surely less impactful than endless extra bags for shopping, or which only a handful will properly be recycled as bin bags?

(As a kid in a 4 person household, I remember our under stairs cupboard basically being full of carrier-bags, they weren't in a landfill, but they certainly weren't all being put to any acceptable use as our "small trash bag" requirement was orders of magnitude less than the number of bags coming into the house.)
And kevlar jeans are very common for motorcyclists nowadays (I have a pair and they are pretty comfortable).
Why not, in most not ass backwards places you can get free condoms.
Maybe it should not cost $1300 a month for no good reason in the US.
Does roger have any relation to aleister crowley?
This is false. Paying my credit card on time for several years boosted my score by a ton. It took my score from 0 to 700s in about two years after opening my first card, then two more, then increasing my credit limits on all of them and load balancing my expenses to keep under the 30% utilization rate. As a business owner, a good credit score is worth its weight in gold.
My favorite bar in Tokyo (in the whole world?) was a place like this, called Track Bar in the Ebisu neighborhood. $8 seating charge, no photos or talking above the music allowed, then you can sit at the bar and drink inexpensive but quality whiskey all night and listen to whatever the bartenders/DJs were playing. Lots of rare cuts from the 60s thru the 00s. I also ended up having nice conversations with plenty of other patrons. Most were there for the music as well, a mix of locals and tourists, very friendly vibe. I wish I had a comparable place in NYC.

As a side note, the secret to drinking in Japan (or anywhere), known to alcoholics but not to many regular folks, is starting or finishing your night with a little bottle of vitamin C drink. Helps your liver digest the alcohol. I started buying Emergen-C packets when I got back to the States and it's been a game-changer. Routine colds also seem to be less intense...
write-only is more on the programmer than the language.
Back when there were no apps like Slack or Microsoft Teams etc Email was probably the only platform for everyday conversations within an organization. But now you hardly need email for day to day trivial conversations within a group.
Of course you need Email for a formal organization-wide communication and for all external communications for which you need to put some effort in composition and formatting.
1. Expose the Government.
2. Run from the Government.
3. Profit.
> I don't mean for this to be blunt, but since we're talking about work, if I want to persuade you of something, it's your job to listen to me, because my persuasion will be aimed at accomplishing company goals! So we are both on the clock here, not just you.

It's also your job to read emails from your coworkers. What might be a very efficient process for you, might not work for others. It sounds like you love wasting everybody's time on the companies dime; not just yours.
https://www.velcro.com/legal-and-privacy/dontsayvelcro/
I was trying to work out why on earth you would need to wear a metal conductor whilst erecting a fence and then I realized that you mean the sport of fencing. Ha, ha.
Nice! I have been looking for something like this but for Android, in an attempt to break out of Google Maps Location tracking. For now the only solution I found is to store all my history with GPSLogger but that is not very "search friendly". Any plans of a port?
This is not a hard problem to solve... Personally I use YNAB[1], but there are plenty of other options out there.

[1]: https://www.youneedabudget.com/
Stop buying from EB Games then! :P

I haven't bought a game from a bricks-and-mortar store since Diablo 3 came out.
Why hello George what can I do for you now
Ask HN: Is there a web framework that is focused on stability and LTS?
If you were to build a web application that should last the next 10-15 years, what technologies would you choose?
What a snide reply. Is it necessary to be a doctor to have an opinion on healthcare policy?
No it's not. The CO2 and methane that causes warming doesn't have effects on health (at least at current levels), and conversely smog actually cools the local area by blocking sunlight rather than warming it.
Just wait for 10 years and it'll be too hot for anyone to protest for any length of time in the open air. Sorted!
to prove their authenticity.

Ironically, it makes them stand out as obviously being from out of town.
We don't give antibiotics prophylactically, except in the circumstances where it is seen as warranted:

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

(I'm talking about the use in humans there)
That’s not what the article is arguing at all.

It came across to me as arguing for stronger conservation efforts, because even if we manage to stop human-led global warming, that doesn’t mean ecologies will just stick around.
Such as?

What about all those Window managers that copied from NeXTSTEP?
Does this just disable logging for the device you install it on, or the whole Apple account? What about Siri on Mac, HomePods, etc?
Is There a Human Blueprint?
> It goes on to show a partial solution of getting in touch with your primal emotions (beating the shit out of each other).

Should be clear that the way the characters go about this is an awful, awful solution.

The reason it is beloved by many is that the simplistic story encourages "deep" interpretations.
This version fails on a JS error for me, but this one works:
https://sergi4ua.pp.ua/diabloweb/
Depends how safety conscious you are looking to be. Freighter shipping, military installations, and aerospace often still use lacing cord because it causes less abrasion, or zip ties and velcro ties won't pass flammability/vibration/temperature/[insert] testing.
I used Perl for many years, and still do. My bias is now toward Python for scripting, because the young all seem to know Python. But for example to write a script to be run on Linux that will talk to SQL Server, I will use Perl, since DBD:Sybase works, and I don't feel like fussing around to find and configure a Python equivalent.
The ‘Lost’ Village of Baltistan
I work at an 1100 bed hospital, the largest in Western Canada. We have 7 buildings on site, which is a lot of square feet. Additionally, when an insurance company sees the government as a client, I'm sure the pricing gets jacked a bit.
Another option is of course to simply not use an iOS device.

Having to download some third-party thing to disable it, really shouldn't be necessary. There should be a simple setting in iOS to turn Siri's listening on or off.
>The article says the average englishman used 6 sheets a day, so a modern laborer is spending under $10/day on paper.

Somehow it must be put in the equation that "the average laborer making 6-12 pence a day" that "could purchase up to 75 sheets of paper with a day’s wages" likely had NO use whatever of the paper as he/she wouldn't know how to read and write.

In any case, a single day labourer's wage covered the expenses for the paper needs for more than twelve years (the article says that the average consumptions were 6 sheets per year, not per day), now, did you spend more or less than $12 for paper last year? (and - as a side note - compare the expense for pencils and ink against those for a modern - crappy BTW - inkjet printer cartridges)

On the other hand, if it was so cheap, most probably we wouldn't have needed some 350 years for the demonstration of Fermat's last theorem ;-).
Editions that actually come with all the content, including the stuff they held back to trickle it out over the next ~3-6mo, usually are more like $80-100 at launch. That seems to be how they've (the game companies) dealt with inflation. But yeah if you game way behind the times and don't do the latest hot multiplayer games, like I do then you rarely pay more than $30 for a game, average probably closer to $15-20 for non-indie games (lower for those, of course).
Comprehensive guide to starting a software YouTube channel
You might want to look into a RTOS.

Each task has its own stack, and can communicate with other tasks with mailboxes or shared memory (with a lock).

You'd have a task for each of the things you mention: debouncing a button, drive the display from a buffer, and application logic.

The application logic then doesn't have to worry about bounces, how long it'll take to drive the display, etc.

Modal screens over static screens is orthogonal to this though. You'd need to build a priority scheme, and only pass down events to the current on-screen view.
Are you sure you like video games?
Isn’t this simply a case of tourists and cities overburdened by tourists clashing?

As more people become more mobile this will only deteriorate.

It could also be these cities developing a museum mentality for their historic city centers. In museums it is indeed not allowed to eat and drink and people are not surprised by this and wouldn’t be surprised by someone thrown out of a museum for cooking coffee inside of it. If you start viewing your historic city center the same way you would a museum suddenly these bans make total sense inside your mental model.

In many ways you have to treat it like some weird kind of outdoor museum anyway, at least if it’s as overrun by tourists as cities like Florence and Venice are.
"There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it."

That is a python design principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python

Now there are multiple (sometimes very confusing) ways to import stuff in python, so I am not quite sure if this principle is being followed.

https://realpython.com/absolute-vs-relative-python-imports/
Altitude and dryness are only two factors. The other major one is the relative calmness of the atmosphere. The air is stable and calm because the "ground" is flat for many miles around at Mauna Kea, and the mountain protrudes extra high above the local "ground". Before light pollution really kicked into gear, Mt. Wilson and Mt. Palomar were also pretty good because the ground is flat upwind: The Pacific Ocean.

Sites in the middle of mountain ranges aren't necessarily any good - you have to see what's upwind of the site. The high plains near Denver, CO are no good because the Rockies are upwind, for example.

The technical term in astronomy circles is "seeing" if you want to learn more.
> You might end up having to actually pay a little bit for it, though.

How old are you? I'm from the 90's, I'm from the generation that was on MSN all the time. My parent would have never let me pay for anything online, with no access to credit cards...

There's no ways they would have paid 5$ a month for a social networks, even if "all my friends were on it", which wouldn't be true, just like Runescape in the past.