skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your Math background, if I may ask? I want to know how mathematically mature one has to be to attempt the exercises.
Won't work, I'm afraid! And the project leader has already shot down that request in the past. See here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/standardebooks/mo...

It should still work if you transfer it over USB, but if you're trying to do it all wirelessly, simply download the EPUB and convert it to MOBI, and you should be good to go.
There's no way minified js plus compression isn't smaller than just compression alone. It's not possible.
But if it heals wrong, the fix is to have it broken again by a specialist and constrained. it hurts as hell and costs 3x as much. Hence, going back to the point about large deductibles for simple procedures being total bullshit..
But the framing is interesting.

I agree that "they started it!" won't make for a very interesting discussion, but talking about which facts the press focuses on, and which it ignores, could be.
That forum is amazing! Thanks for the primary source! That said, two quibbles/questions:

Those same threads have logins like "indebt4life" and "kids2feed", which matches what I've heard from doctor friends: the length and cost of medical training and insurance are so brutal that the folks gatekeeping are themselves in an unhealthy lifestyle and don't want it to get worse. In other words, and benefits of gatekeeping accrue to the school and hospital complex more than the individual practirioners.

Separately, what's the breakdown of specialist labor costs vs drugs and equipment? My experience has been that the crazy bills are for stuff , not people.
I can't speak to Medicare/Medicade but the general idea is this: Doctors and the things they use/services they provide have a cost associated with them. Insurance works by spreading risk. Guy who breaks his wrist essentially takes money from the pool that wasn't used by the guy who hasn't been to a hospital in 6 years. So far everything is fine.

When you have people who exist outside that system of resource reallocation, the doctors have to find ways to ensure they're still getting enough money to cover their costs. One way they can do this is by suing patients who don't pay, but that takes time and more money and doesn't always work. Another option, would be that they then raise their rate to the insurance companies because they know that the insurance companies can afford it since they have such large pools of money. The insurance companies then raise the rates for everyone buying into the resource reallocation pool, and eventually everything spirals out into our current non-system.

Is it more complicated than this: yes, but that's the elevator pitch on it.
If it was so easy to diagnose then why didn’t you do it yourself?

What you are paying for is piece of mind and expert advice.

What would you do if someone wanted your expert advice on something you told them your fee and then solved their problem in 5 minutes and they balked at paying you?

This is the old saw about $1 for the work and $999 to know where to hit the machine with a hammer.
I recently took my GF to the ER because she had been stung by a bee and was worried she was allergic. She was feeling dizzy but once we were in the ER she started feeling better. They basically took her vitals, waited 30 minutes or so, gave her a steroid, and then sent us home. They told us it probably wouldn't be very expensive as she was uninsured.

Later the bills arrived: $1300 from the ER ($1900 minus a $600 uninsured discount) and $600 from the PA who saw us. Insane!
Do not use ring or rustls
You can sideload the files via USB, just copy the files over to its internal storage and it will appear on the home screen.

You can also associate a Kindle with an email address, and email files to that address. The file appears as part of your cloud collection.

For sideloading, the books need to be azw3 or mobi. For emailing the book needs to be mobi. In either case epub is not accepted.
I wrote out a whole response and did a search to double check myself, and honestly this is a much more comprehensive source. It has everything I was going to say and much much more: https://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Bear-Attack.

Still:

- stay calm

- don't run

- know when you're in bear country, and talk or sing at a good
volume, especially in thick foliage

- brown vs black bears _do_ behave differently, know how to ID them

- read the guide I linked!

- talk to rangers if they're available wherever you're going

I've seen bears running and climbing trees, and it's simply incredible what they're capable of. Above all, cultivate a healthy respect of them before going into their home...
Thanks for the downvotes guys.

Next time someone mentions that they had a negative experience about being attacked or some such I'll be sure that the HN community does not encourage learning by asking about it.
> things like birth control aren't insured

Why would you use insurance for something you know you are going to need? I got new glasses and an eye exam and they were surprised I didn't pay via insurance? Why would I want to pay extra to insure for something I know I will need to get? This makes no sense at all.
Are there any good, open source e-readers out there?
The copyright system was never intended to serve the common good. Rather, its basis was the "Statute of Anne". It was about censorship and regulation of the book trade.

For more information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

Now, it said already back then that its intent was the "encouragement of learning", but the intent was very thinly veiled.
I live in Canada and have waited 4 months for a specialist at great personal cost (but not financial cost).

I have also seen my mother suffer for 6 months on a surgery wait list and then recover slowly and painfully in a room with 4 other people who were constantly screaming during the night. And she was a lucky one because the hospital was so overcrowded that other patients were living, sleeping, and recovering in the literal hallway. Google "hallway medicine Ontario" to see I'm not making this up.

It's not a perfect system by any stretch and it's much better than nothing but I bet upper-middle-class and above citizens in the USA enjoy better care.
Yes market cap is share price * shares outstanding. The shares that are bought-back are destroyed, lowering the number of shares outstanding, increasing the per-share price.
Thank you for putting project Vesta into perspective.

As a layman in this field I can only observe, that topics regarding climate change and carbon sequestration appear alot more frequently here than a year before. I can only guess, that more people are realizing that there's a need for change. But there's no clear path forward.

So every project providing even a small chance for success gets into the news. I don't know if that is good or bad, but it's fricking hard to get a good picture of the current situation and what projects are worth investing in...
People here hinting at outdated technologies are mentioning things like Fortran. I'm 41 and some of those things are technologies my dad used. So it seems that people are off by one of two generations.

I went through phases with PHP, C#, SQL, and then many years mainly focused on JavaScript and Node. I did some Angular and a little React with recently C++ and Lua on the side. I built about 90% of a Docker orchestration system. The front end stuff I am most familiar with at this point is Vue. I have been looking into decentralized technologies in the last few years like IPFS and dat etc.

It might be nice to have more experience with Kubernetes or Go, but the experience I do have is still relevant. And if I needed to pick that stuff up for a job I could learn it.

But anyway I think that the idea that older developers don't have relevant skills is false.
HN is not immune to this phenomenon. It just has its own versions.
Fascinating topic. Unfortunate that a voice in the back of my brain has to say "Oh I bet if they good at this they'll just use it to target ads better"
I found this interesting article on the situation. They say 1/3 are profitable, 1/3 are break even and 1/3 are losing money. And a lot of those losing money are in rural areas. And "In general, hospitals lose money on Medicare and Medicaid patients, but make up for that by charging private-sector insurers more."

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/hospitals-mad...
You pay at the entrance, not at the exit. Also, standards of care, facility costs, and compensation for medical professionals is much lower.
This is a really good short educational video about the invention of television:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyHAev_qJNU
Your taxes already pay for emergency care.
"non-profit" doesn't mean "doesn't make money" its just rules on how you have to spend that money.

There's nothing saying a non-profit can't raise prices of service and then expand the hospital to buy a new wing, or better equipment or hire more doctors. They need the money to provide their services.
Ah, an obscure catch! Most of the 8" floppies were soft-sectored though I believe the original ones were hard sectored. I only once ever used a hard-sector drive + media.
I have read elsewhere, but cannot find a reference right now, that insurers typically pay only a percentage of any bill and expect the provider to accept it in final settlement. The percentage gets negotiated around.

If this is true, then it makes sense that the providers inflate their original bills so that when they get the proportional settlement, the amount they receive is reasonable.

The claim was that individuals settling directly are merely caught in the crossfire.

If this is true, then it's not the providers being unreasonable.
Curious about what maintenance was required: looking for new programs? Installing new programs? Actual interaction with phones? Culling broken devices?
If they set up shop somewhere other than San Francisco, they wouldn’t have to.
Remix is looking for an engineering manager to join our team
Apparently, the original 8" floppy, IBM's nicely named "Diskette 1", held around 240 KB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#8-inch_floppy_disk

> it was IBM's 1973 introduction of the 3740 data entry system[24] that began the establishment of floppy disks, called by IBM the "Diskette 1", as an industry standard for information interchange. The formatted diskette for this system stored 242,944 bytes
I punched holes in the corners of my 5.25" disks and kept them in a ring binder.

Then there were things like fdformat ... because software had a very close relationship with the hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)
On the other hand, that's timing the market. But as the common wisdom goes, time in market pays better. Or does it? Do these companies know something that we don't? Is it different when you have piles of money?
South Korean chip giants face 'strangling' from Japanese export curbs
Quantum Measurement for Beginners
China has extensive fab capacity down to 28nm and in-country access to processes as low as 16nm. That puts them roughly where we were in 2011. They also have market access to 10nm and will likely have market access to 3nm before the US has in-country access to it. Furthermore, the actual location of those advanced fabs are all in SE Asia, particularly Taiwan and South Korea. Tech transfer is inevitable, market access will continue to exist in peacetime, and in the event of any conflict they will simply take what they want. Meanwhile, the US is basically stalled around 7nm and has been for quite some time.

Taken together that means that we have at most an 8 year lead on what is in play literally right now in china. Given their investment level it's pretty likely that they will hit parity within two years. And Huawei was first to market with a 7nm CPU design. This is what you term a "secure long-term advantage"?
That is simply not a significant aspect of the article. In fact, I didn't see it there at all, though I only skimmed it.
This is what happens when you outsource graphics to people without making sure they understand what you are talking about.
Facebook gets closer to letting you type with your mind
Building a React Native Chat App – Part Three: Online User Count
Google had a Earnings Per Share of $14.21 in the recent quarter. Google can return a dividend or share buyback of up to that amount. They can say that they have plenty of good ideas and are working on them but just don’t have $20 Billion dollars worth of good ideas. Apple and Microsoft are strongly viewed companies that give dividends.

Due to the 3 classes of Alphabet shares, I’m not hanging my hat on this happening due to how voting rights are structured. Probably won’t happen with Facebook or Snapchat either for the same reason.
> you can pull down those numbers being a city manager

Where? NYC's mayor doesn't even make those numbers.
Interesting to note that Switzerland has a system of mandatory health insurance that Obama care was partially based on.
Well, I'm not one of those "not if Steve Jobs was alive" guys, but reportedly, for instance, when Steve Jobs came back to Apple, they had a lot of products with poor differentiation, and he did this:

http://www.howtoanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Steve...

They create one option in each category. That's all.

5 is really kind of pushing for one consumer focused product if you don't want your buyers to feel like they could've made a better choice, or at least feel like they've missed out on something:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

In general, people like a few good options. Given a lot of good options, they can get an equally good outcome, and feel less good about it at the end.

I think Apple has banked on that in the past, but not so much with 5 active models of iPad, in my opinion.
Where were all these compiler/interpreter tutorials 20 years ago? All I had was Jack Crenshaw's guide and The Dragon Book!

Happy to see all these materials with different perspectives.
It's usually much cheaper to live outside of a city than inside.
$100 bill surpasses $1 bill in circulation for first time in U.S. history
Flight Incidents and Engine Failures
Very informative. Thanks.
Because instead of being a smooth unit the bone has broken edges, and with vibration its moving rapidly within the surrounding flesh; its kind of like having an electric knife embedded in your flesh.
US withdraws from nuclear treaty with Russia, prepares to test new missile
Intel Goes Barefoot as It Leaves the Omni-Path
This is only half true. Yes, the dynamic reconfiguration features has been in trunk for a while but ZooKeeper 3.5 which is the first GA release to include this has only been released 4-8 weeks ago.
OK, following your logic, when is too much, too much? Remember that prices are not disclosed before treatment. Would a million dollar bill be reasonable?
> Various doctor associations (AMA et al) have strangled supply side of healthcare

To add more details to this here's something I recently read about the supply constraint and its origins.

> Then as now, Medicare reimbursed hospitals for a significant share of residents’ salaries. The Balanced Budget Act established limits on those reimbursements, effectively fixing the number of funded residents at 1996 levels. (In 1999 Congress amended the limit for rural hospitals only, increasing the numbers of funded residents at those hospitals to 130 percent of 1996 levels.) Essentially, the law stipulated that if a hospital wanted to expand its pool of residents, Medicare would not pay for it.

How could such a provision make it through Congress? Lawmakers received cover from the American Medical Association (AMA), the Association of American Medical Colleges, and other major stakeholders in American medicine who endorsed caps on funding for residents and other graduate medical education programs. In March 1997, months before the Balanced Budget Act was enacted, the AMA even suggested reducing the number of U.S. residency positions by approximately 25 percent — from 25,000 to fewer than 19,000. “The United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians,” said the AMA and other physicians’ groups in a joint statement. Since most states require at least some residency training for medical licensure, reducing the number of residency positions would curtail the supply of doctors in the U.S.

Fast forward two decades, and what once seemed like a glut now looks like a shortage. The growth in the number of residency positions — and thus the number of doctors — slowed after the passage of the Balanced Budget Act. From 1997 to 2002, the number of residents in the U.S. increased by just 0.1 percent. Although the number of positions has increased since then, each year thousands of residency applicants fail to secure a position. Factor in an aging population and a projected increase in demand for health care services, and the U.S. is now forecasted to experience a shortage of 46,900 to 121,900 physicians by 2032. Absent a meaningful response from Congress, it will be doctors — particularly residents — and their patients who pay the price.

https://undark.org/2019/07/25/looming-doctor-shortage/
If they knew the costs before being charged, you could make a stronger argument. As it is, they are not being charged for expertise, but for being ignorant of the costs.
It's hardly unusual to wait weeks for non-life threatening issues in the US, especially for specialists or in rural areas.

https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/1178

> Previous studies have shown that the average wait times to see a neurologist are increasing. The average wait time for a new patient to see a neurologist in 2012 was 35 business days, up from 28 business days in 2010. The average wait for a follow-up visit in 2012 was 30 days, up from 26 days in 2010.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-rel...

> The average wait for a new patient seeking an appointment with a dermatologist in a major metropolitan area is 32.3 days, according to a recent survey conducted by Merritt Hawkins.
New Memory Technologies Poised for High Volume Production
I remember being confused because all my 3.5” disks were High Density so they had a “HD” stamped on them. I was pretty sure they were hard disks and the old 5.25” were floppy.
Not to take away from what you did but the Apache Foundation actually has Ratis which is a Raft implementation: http://ratis.incubator.apache.org/
>The near-total lack of transparency in healthcare pricing is a key reason we have the highest costs in the world — roughly twice what people in other developed countries pay.

Nope. We pay around what you'd expect given our consumption in other areas. See https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/11/19/why-everything...
I did but got lost in my own mind and the solo business is obviously a lot harder ( if you're just a grunt programmer).

Without maturity, a strong social network and discipline every solo venture will end up in isolation and depression.

But I still try the usual side projects that get started and not finished like everybody else. :)

Right now, I just wish I would find something 80% business and 20% tech with a feedback loop comparable to a plumber ( work for a day or 2, when it's done its really DONE. Move to next job )
That ISN'T cool, that's quite dangerous, because if it was indeed broken, that may cause harm. Rule #1 of being a doctor is violated.

X-ray imaging on a finger is virtually harmless. Using a tuning fork to vibrate a potentially broken bone and causing a patient to feel pain is not harmless.
And the alternative to depending on those codebases is.....?

Write your own? Don't build out the feature? What, exactly do you propose?
Kinda hard to take his word when all the images are blurred in 90% of their surface.... lol

You could have uploaded an image of my router's dashboard and I wouldn't have known what I was looking at
Not much, considering that Alphabet is a part owner of StarLink...

In fact, the easiest way to invest in StarLink is to buy Alphabet stock.
A very insightful article by AH!

The only thing is that you can hit network effects after someone else and still win. Like bacteria cultures in a pond. By the time you lock horns you’re both worth a lot.

PS: @dang please fix HN to not zoom during doubleclick on iOS 12+! It’s one meta tag, but without it we iOS users can’t select and edit text!!
It is also clear that not every technology is permanently hoarded or seen exclusively as a military advantage.

If the Chinese were known to have stockpiles of Mustard Gas (a bio weapon not otherwise applicable to civilian life), then perhaps the US having exclusive knowledge of a cure or preventative substance would be a military advantage.

Your premise is that AI at its current stage is equivalent to a cure for cancer. I disagree.
"Exposure to grass was, surprisingly, associated with higher odds of psychological distress."

I'm guessing it's the constant maintenance of a lawn that stresses people, and in this case, other people's lawns. That or you're a youtuber or streamer, and the constant sound of lawn equipment is driving you nuts.
He seems to really be overcomplicating its construction with all those fancy 21st century electronics when in reality you can build it with early 20th century materials.

I wonder if a camera obscura would be enough to create the focused image instead of having to bother with lenses.
Set appropriate expectations before you watch this video, it was definitely educative and entertaining, but the emphasis is on 'tried'. I was a little disappointed that it didn't actually end up working.
Could you imagine working retail where you have to be on your feet hours a day with no break? You have no choice.

I get to sit or stand when I want (I have a motorized, adjustable standing desk). I can go for a run mid-day if I want. I can hit the gym if I want. I have any number of options. If I choose to sit in front of the computer all day, that's usually MY fault (but to be fair sometimes there's a launch date looming that results in me working extra).

It's all about choice. I have that. Many professions don't.
Restarting crashed apps (ads can load their own awful code), tapping periodic "are you still watching", swapping between apps during certain hours for more revenue
> My experience has been that the crazy bills are for stuff , not people.

That could just be an accounting trick, since you're more willing to pay for stuff than people.

(On topic: obviously, there's many reasons for costs, doctors isn't the only one)
> Also, the opportunity cost of sitting around with a broken hip waiting to be seen

This example is bad. New Zealander here: a broken hip will be fixed in reasonable time, and I think if you have private insurance it likely would be diagnosed, fixed, and recuperated in the same hospital.

Private insurance does help if you need a hip replacement. On public, you will wait for a long time, and you will be in pain for a long time. Private is much more proactive at replacing a hip early.

However hip replacement is that common that I strongly suspect you would be financially better off paying for it when you need it (whether poor or rich).

If you are from the US, you should take care before projecting any experience you have of hospitals upon other first world countries. I think your system is so severely broken you cannot reasonably model anything about a foreign system.