skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone is always asking why US healthcare is so expensive. People blame it on the insurance companies and the hospitals, but my theory is it’s the providers. I worked at Vanderbilt on their payroll system, and I would regularly see general practitioners making $350,000 a year, and this was 15 years ago! It wasn’t uncommon to see teaching doctors getting paid a million dollars.

I agree it's the providers which are most at fault. Hospitals (as well as drug companies) are providers too though not just doctors. It's hospitals that are charging $4,000 a night for a hospital room and $50 for 2 tylenol which you can pick up at Walgreens for $4 for a 24-pack. Actual examples from my hospital bill when I had my appendix removed a few years ago. The total came to about $50k, of which I believe the portion that went to doctors and surgeons was about $10-15k.
if your standup is taking 30-45 minutes you are doing it wrong.

All you need is: What you did yesterday, what you are doing today, and what you are stuck on/need someone else's time with.

Some clarifying questions/interruptions from others in the stand-up are fine ("yesterday I got stuck on foo and I-" "Was it foo-bar, or foo-quux?" "Quux" "Oh did you try the flibble button?" "Why would I need to do that?" "Well since last month's release if you dont use the flibble button..." etc), but if they go on for more than 30 seconds they need to be shut down and done outside of the standup.

My team has up to 20-25 people in a standup and we're usualy done well inside of 15 minutes.

Other tips are scheduling them before a set time (e.g. before the canteen opens so if you over-run you are late to lunch), or doing them early in the day so they don't interrupt the daily grind too much -> get in at 8:30, get your coffee, 20 minutes email triage -> 10 min standup, and its 9am and you've got the whole rest of the day to do
I agree culture has to shift on its own time - however there will always have to be the brave who are first to peacefully protest, or expose themselves of their beliefs or their nature that they may have had to hid out of fear.

I think most difficult society to counter is that of censorship controls, however even then the population may be quiet and submissive, at the right moment that silence may break in a flash and rebellion occur - and then the control of not knowing who you should fear comes out; the terrifying aspects of this is when you can bring in armed individuals to an area they have no connection to engage in violence - brainwashed to whatever degree, and afraid of repercussions if they don't act as told, that protests or behaviour is seeded by a 3-letter agency by some government painted as an enemy. It's why everyone, especially police and military - those who are at the front lines, need to understand and be taught this manipulation that is possible, especially in heavily controlled societies with system-wide censorship capability; the next Nazi Germany scenario in a modern, high-efficiency scenario, and deployed at scale, isn't necessarily that far off of a possibility. It's why it all needs to come individuals practicing non-violence, and these patterns and mechanics needing to be learned, understood by everyone - or enough of everyone.
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Well, even "thank you" is an abbreviation of "I thank you." :-)
Animals have to act in order to find food, water, mates, escape predators, etc. Therefore, they need a nervous system that includes a fantasy machine that can imagine alternative futures and that includes a choice machine which can initiate actions to realize the chosen future.

Much of human existence consists of poor choices among improbable fantasies.
Minor nit: Soap is not a medieval invention. It has been around since ancient Egypt. One of the most classic soaps is still in production today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo_soap which was the forerunner to Castile soap (I'm not sure how much the Syrian war has affected production, Aleppo was hit hard).
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That's a fair point; you'd do better than either design with a true encrypted filesystem.
It's far too repetitive for me, I find it extremely grating.

It is at least more pleasant to listen to than Frantictictictictictictic tock.
It gets worse. You can modify those permissions, but every single Jira page that involves a permission check (and they get pretty granular) involves a nontrivial query to the user DB (which might, itself, involve a query to a backend like LDAP) to determine if you can do a thing or, critically, see the UI element to do the thing.

Best guidance when I was running Jiras were to restrict access at the network if at all possible, and don't use permissions any more than strictly necessary unless you like 5-10 seconds per page load. In other words, if only your developers need to see your Jira, don't grant only your developer group permissions, set it to "everyone" and lock everyone else out at the firewall.
They created an Ai bot game as well

https://www.facebook.com/Beat-The-Bot-212188996195556/

They give you a character to play, you are given 2 answers one from a bot one from a real person.

You respond to the one you think is best, interesting, took too long to connect me to another 'player' didn't get a chance to actually play yet
I have no need for windows in over a decade.
For iOS there’s something called KyBook which reads that opds link and shows a list of books with cover art, book name, author and tags pertaining to the books subject matter. It does not allow one to search the opds library in anyway. I was able to download a book using the app, and from within the app move the book to iCloud. From within the Files app I found the KyBook folder, selected the book and using share opened it with iBooks and it is now in my iBooks collection. I found the app here https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-ebook-reader-ios/
Could this be caused by a deeply ingrained instinct from our hominid ancestors that associates trees with safety? Like Miles stated, correlation doesn't imply causation. It makes you think though!
> The question is how. China’s imports from the United States only a fraction of the trade going the other way, so it cannot match Washington tariff for tariff. Much of that trade consists of agriculture goods like soybeans, as well as specialized products like Boeing jetliners or the American-made chips for the smartphones China makes.

The question monetary value, but where widgets are physically made made. This simple realisation eludes so many "China Experts" in the West.

Were Beijing to pull an inverse Huawei ban on any company in the West, that company would be dead in a few months no matter what it is. It can crash US stock market, pension funds and assuredly secure the non-election of Trump for the second term.

China is fully capable of economic retaliation against US and can genuinely make it hurt, but it chooses not to because people in Zhongnanhai have no guts for that.

What surprised me most in recent months is that out of all people, the criticism of Xi's overly conciliatory tone with Washington is now coming from people whom you can call Chinese industrialists class. This criticism is quite strong worded, emotional. I never ever saw somebody so up on social ladder here being so openly critical of Xi before.
A book that might be of specific interest for HN’s audience is the recent production for Standard Ebooks I did of Charles Babbage’s autobiography:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-babbage/passages-f...

It covers a plethora of subjects, but devotes a few chapters to the Difference Engine and the political difficulties in getting it funded. Bonus MathML (rendered to PNGs in most readers but real for the Kobo), and all diagrams support both normal and white-on-black dark mode if you’re got your reader set up like that.
it seems illogical to spend a lifetime making decisions on incomplete information and then foregoing the last one.

I mean I get that people make their own choices. I just am confused that more people aren’t interested in having a death of their choosing. Or even consider it. Like, I have a song that I would like to hear as I’m dying. I want to think and reflect on things and feel safe in spite of the incoming end. I am convinced that with a better cultural mindset we could make death a happy, celebrated, communal event that people look forward to in a bittersweet way. The way most people die to me sound sad for all involved, including the dying.
Probably not... any form of partial encryption (ie not the full block device) needs to make sure no sensitive data leaks outside the encrypted parts (/tmp and swap? /var if you only encrypt /home?)

Depending on the implementation the filesystem metadata may also reveal more data than needed. The attacker can probably ignore that 4GB file that wasn't modified for a year (a downloaded ISO image?) but that 20KB file that was recently modified might be that passwords.txt he was looking for..
Agreed. That's why my baseline is at least async support. Every modern browser has supported it for about 2 years now, and regenerator+asynch was the single biggest part of legacy transforms. I did have a second config for legacy, but at my current job was able to drop support, and just show unsupported browsers a message page now.
Well they haven’t invested in Lambda School, so it’s not like they have an incentive to say we have a network effect we don’t have
This is so good, thank you
The US system is somewhat unique and lacks heaps of safety features: I am guessing mostly because a 110V shock is far less dangerous than a 240V shock (Although higher amperages mean higher risk of fire?).

For example for UK, EU and NZ etc: sockets and pins have a variety of features to avoid touching the phase (live) wire with say a screwdriver or knife in hands of a child.

For example, all new circuits installed in New Zealand since 209 must have an Residual Current Detector (the actual rules lead to multiple RCDs per main power board). This will cut the circuit if someone does manage to touch a live wire somehow (current from phase to neutral doesn't match, because some of it is grounded through your body, and the mismatch triggers the breaker. Wayyyyyyy safer than a fuse!
It's extremely unlikely that there's actual collusion. But actors acting in their selfish best interest can definitely look like collusion.
It would only cost about as much as the futile wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to implement Be/CCS solutions at scale to reduce CO2 to pre-industrial levels (280 ppm). The key is sequestration because without that, like the recent virtue-signaling in Africa, growing a bunch of trees in poor soil is pointless: it doesn't stop desertification, increased risk of forest fires and dying/burning trees above ground doesn't capture any net carbon.
"I've seen bears running and climbing trees,"

If you have ever considered outrunning or outclimbing a bear watch these to get an idea of what they can do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hURgA_BNSGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vIwNyqIceE
Everybody needs code review.

Though the way I scan the code during review does change by how much I know and respect the author on a technical level.

That correlates with but is not identical to their formal seniority.
Medical providers have to create positions just for people to bill insurance

It's the same in Canada. Billing doesn't go away under single payer. Sure it's likely less complex, but someone still needs to do it.
Human: I'm a huge football fan - the Eagles are my
favorite team!

Knowledgable model: I've always been more of a fan
of the American football team from Pittsburgh, the
Steelers!

While an impressive improvement from "I like football too," this stilted attempt at incorporating relevant information ends up coming off as "how do you do, fellow humans!?"
What negative externalities do you have in mind?
This is another study that makes me wonder what the real cause may be. Areas with trees, in an urban setting, tend to be more expensive locations. So, is it the the trees, or the higher socio-economic status?

In suburban and rural areas where trees are more common, even if the cost of living is low, everything is less dense, people tend to have larger dwellings at lower prices, etc. So, again, is it the trees or the other covarying factors?

Are there any studies like this that transform an area into a green space (with trees, I suppose) and show pre/post outcomes? Ones that weren't driven by the community? (Where that could indicate it was simply a nicer more cohesive community, with that as the cause instead of the green stuff)

That said, this is the sort of result that feels like it should be true, but then those are the results we should most be thorough about our methods to avoid confirmation bias. Research is hard!
>I would agree with him that there are some serious issues with the Google/Leetcode/2nd-year-CS-trivia style of interviews.

I think both you and your parent are in violent agreement.

It's not as if many people who were in FAANG haven't admitted there are serious issues with the interview process. Even advocates of the process are open about it.

No one has found an interview process that lacks serious issues. Hiring people solely on the basis of major contributions to software has its own serious issues.
Whatever it takes, I say.
>No matter the language you use, there are common patterns. Someone who has been programming for years generally picks up a new language quickly (because of this). So should a programmer with 30 years of experience in C and 1 year in rust be paid more than the programmer with 5 years of rust experience? Absolutely. Those 30 years they were learning to program, to debug, to solve problems. The skills translate.

Tell this to HR/recruiting departments.

I'm a highly experienced C developer with some python and JavaScript experience on the side yet can't get any jobs on those as HR/recruiters will just filter my resume out every time due to "insufficient python/JS experience".

HR has no idea how programming skills and experience translate across languages, they're just trained to filter out people based on buzzwords.

On the other side, everybody is looking for people already versed in the languages they need right NOW and aren't gonna take the chance on someone proficient in other languages hoping they'll master the new ones soon enough. Too risky for business.
That's not what they're doing, though. The costs will likely be minimal.

Spreads used to be much higher, sure, but that was not because there were no HFT shops around back then.
Putting the patient into medical debt also causes harm
Chandrasekhar Limit
Wow, this is a pretty poor article. Mixing up intentional (throttling) vs unintentional (unfinished) decisions and describing these as "hidden networks" which is supposed to be the intersection of "Seems like network effects" and "Doesn't seem like network effects."

Is this a joke?

Telling that the biggest conclusion I came away with is that rich people are mostly rich due to luck and circumstance.
Here's a contrasting story.

On holiday in Rarotonga, our 2 year old got a chest infection.

We made it way up the hill to the hospital. A stray dog watched from the side of the road as we drive into the parking area. No one in sight. Eventually we saw someone who pointed us to a building wherein sat the duty doctor.

Super efficient, trained in new Zealand, she examined the sprog, diagnosed him and gave us the appropriate meds. No waiting, all sorted in less than 20 minutes.

Finally she said apologetically that we would have to pay - $2.50.

She took the money and out it into an old fashioned money box and cheerily sent us on our way.
They have all sorts of modern features more conducive to discussion and community-building like notifications that someone @mention/replied to you and even editing your post -- features that people generally like. If you don't think that's "fun", fair enough, but I also enumerated other benefits like their broader appeal.

Any community that only has a mailing list could benefit from experimenting with a proper forum. I've seen this experiment broaden a community time and time again as you move away from only selecting for the type of person who likes mailing lists. And notice that HN isn't a mailing list either.

For example, I would imagine that the sort of people interested in high-quality ebooks extend beyond mailing list loving super-techies. Even a subreddit would be a nice option.
You don't bury the trees underground to store their carbon.

You bury them in buildings. As lumber.

Replace concrete (which produces CO2) in new buildings with wood (which sequesters it) and you've tackled quite a bit of carbon emissions.
Thank you for knuthing Knuth for us.
Sure, but this article cites a large study that seems to correct for a lot of variables. Might be more productive to discuss specific aspects of the study you think are flawed.
The real problem is that the x-ray costs 400. It doesn’t have to be that way
That's the kind of bar you trip over.

We can do better than that.

There's a lot of cognitive dissonance around "why are you creating your own when X exists" and then saying, "Well I don't have to do a good job on X because it's free. If you don't like it make your own."

We can't actually handle an infinite number of solutions in a space. If I enter that space and do not leave, I'm carving out territory whether I want to or not. There's an opportunity cost to me producing a library, the way there's an opportunity cost of throwing a party (don't think so? Throw a party the same time as your friend's birthday party and see how that goes over). And like a party, you owe it to your guests to put in a modicum of effort. They are perfectly entitled to badmouth you if you show up and do a lousy enough job.

Showing up is step one. It's the most important step, but it's not the only important step.

If I were going to hire full timers to maintain a piece of FOSS software, I think I might start with a designer. You need conceptual coherence and a designer is one of several ways to get that. Next I might hire a toolsmith. Someone to create a coherent system for contributing. If there's any money left over after that I'd start courting some of my most prolific contributors (although they may be prolific because of the project they work on, and taking them off that project may kill the oracle.)
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Same problem here. We used to use it at my company to order paper towels when we were running low. It was super convenient but the pricing varied so much - the same paper towel bundle could range from $22 to $37 depending on the day.
I feel like a few things are going on.

1) LLVM has made it easier to build JITed or even compiled languages than ever before, that will run on multiple platforms while having decent performance.

2) Languages like Rust have come along (tying back to point 1) showing that there can be more to languages than the C/C++s and the Javas etc of the world (yes I know we've had stuff like Haskell and Lisp for a long time but they've never broken into the mainstream, despite how much I wish this was otherwise).

3) Various projects like Crafting Interpreters, Jon Blow's work on Jai, plus other smaller languages like Zig have made people better understand "this isn't as crazy hard as I thought".

I sort of hope we see a proliferation of new and interesting languages that explore idea spaces the way Rust is exploring memory safety (including the hope someone explores gradual safety the way we've started to see gradual typing).
How about just spending a few tens of thousands making Gmail fast again?
Idk, doctors in France are literally 10x cheaper and the standard of care is actually higher. The US has a big cost control issue even for your PCP.
They say in the article that the study corrected for a wide range of variables including age, income level, etc.
Finally, someone said this. It's very rare to see putting some blame on doctors for such exorbitant medical prices in the US. I have made several comments about that on HN describing similar observation that I found. A recent example was when I went to see a doctor for ear infection. She put a otoscope in my ear, looked at it for one minute, prescribed me some anti-bacterial, and wrote up $250 for the service. The first time I came to the US, the same thing happened (I have had ear infection occasionally). I went to a hospital in NJ because my host family at the time drove me there. I didn't have insurance and they sent me to the ER department. I was charged $500.

In the US, the journey to become a doctor is made unnecessarily complicated and once people become doctors, they do gatekeeping and make sure it's equally as hard for others to become one. But the reality is that the physicians who treat garden-variety diseases can be trained much less expensively. No wonder physicians make loads of money while complaining about their massive student loan. My gf is a medical resident; my host parents in the US are both doctors; I have so many doctors as acquaintances; and I know that what they do is NOT even remotely difficult in terms of intellectual demand (only physically tiring and emotionally draining sometimes when you have to deal with difficult patients). I, as a programmer, would switch my salary with them in a heartbeat (regret leaving medical school in after second year in my home country, though I hated it at that time because of the sheer amount of rote memorization one had to do) and I do believe what I do everyday requires at least equally tasking mental load than what doctors do.
I wont try to interpret this accurately without help BUT it looks like the government profited 100B on 600B in loans? https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

16%?

its also important to remember that a bunch of banks were forced to take bailouts against their own wishes, as either a precautionary measure, or possibly as marketing spin to make it look like everyone was in equal trouble. https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/main/list/stress_tes... Some banks literally didnt have a choice, the government said "you are taking this money."
What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack
This is fantastic, and immediately I want to try and contribute engineering time to it. I've tried reading Gutenberg ebooks before and gave up because of how inconsistent and unreadable they could be.

Is there a wishlist of tools/software out there that someone could contribute to?