skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The capitalist solution is......

GROUPON

This speaks to the opacity of pricing in the healthcare industry. There should be a price list at the door of the hospital for common services.
Yeah it's not like something 'bad' is going to happen.

I typedef function pointers when they get too verbose. Otherwise not. But it's not the mole hill I'd choose to die on either.
Their class interests are directly opposed to those who most need universal healthcare.

That's not even wrong. The only people whose interests are against those who would benefit from universal health care are those who work in the insurance industry. Literally everyone else would benefit from universal health care because it contains the damage wrought by the externalities of illness and injury.

Employers benefit from universal health care because they no longer need to manage health benefits for their employees. This also removes a barrier to hiring, allowing employers to hire more employees with less risk.
Not really. Everyone not involved with healthcare pays the price.

If the US paid the prices for care that other countries pay (pick any developed country you want, it'll be less), everyone could get a tax cut and universal care. It would save US governments money.
> Non ionizing radiation is safe.

Perhaps a better statement would be, "Non ionizing radiation is safe when RF exposure guidelines are followed."
Perhaps a game? Perhaps of minimizing inter-city walking/swimming/flying physical travel, for time travelers whose position when time traveling is anchored to the plate? So "Start at city A. ... Now, fly to Mumbai, and ride it time-forward across the Tethys Sea to Asia. Then fly to D, time-backwards to Gondwana, and fly to E (goal). Distance flown: N km. Distance drifted: N km. Time traveled: N Ma."

Note that the existing app can simultaneously show more than one city. I missed that at first.
Cool, requirements management is coming!

Not cool, it’s only in Ultimate. No way am I going to be able to get my company to shell out for that.
That doesn't stop them from shutting things down. The result is the same: You no longer have it. An offline wallet would help, if you can avoid jail.
“Would this person’s attitude make them more unpleasant to work with than others I could be representing in my already limited time”, or something to that effect.

Someone who spends their free time hacking university printers to distribute white supremacist propaganda and is a proud member of the “Gay Nigger Association of America” trolling group would likely not pass.
The double-whammy of AMP meets reddit nagging requests to launch the app really grinds my gears
Google launches an open-source version of its differential privacy library
I'd imagine the hope is "burn baby burn" so next quarter you hopefully have positive cash-flow.
US attorneys general have launched an antitrust investigation of Google
If either you or the posters above linked to primary sources it would help a lot. Anyone can make proclamations but where are the references??
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http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7e7aa9473f454fcca664d3a668e0b117

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7e7aa9473f454fcca664d3a668e0b117
I would love to know how I could price discriminate when I was in crippling kidney stone pain.

Price transparency is only a minor issue.
I would imagine it's pretty self-evident that other companies' examples of anti-competitive behavior don't absolve Google of their own wrongdoings.
Andreas Klinger: How to Manage Remote Engineering Teams for Scale [video]
You’re mixing up two different things: costs, and who pays the costs. There is little reason to believe that lack of “socialized medicine” is responsible for the higher costs, because publicly-run health systems are actually in the minority as far as universal health care systems. For the most part they rely on private service providers just like the US. (And insurance company profits account for a tiny fraction of the overall cost difference—tens of billions out of $1.5 trillion in higher costs.)

The problem in the US is that healthcare is expensive, so we can afford less for the same money. It’s the same with things like public transit or education. If it costs New York seven times as much to build a subway as it does Paris, New York will just have less miles of subway. Likewise, the US spends as much public money per person on healthcare as in European countries already. But that same amount of money doesn’t cover everyone.
Not sure how you read "Swift’s approach to string length isn’t unambiguously the best one" and interpret it as "Swift got it wrong."

The author's substantive criticism of Swift's String/Character/etc. types seems to be complications arising from the dependency on ICU (such as not necessarily being able to persist indices across icu4c versions).
It's such a basic question that it would be better to do an internet search or read the wikipedia article on the topic. You might as well ask why heart attacks are a big deal.
You're right about Node, but I think it's a bit apples to oranges because they're suited to different use-cases. Rails is great for mostly static sites. Node is great for mostly dynamic sites. It's almost as simple as that.
Yes, that's exactly what I said. You read it exactly backwards.

There's not enough money, for government, to pay all the Dr.'s etc, at current rates. Healthcare workers of all sorts will need to either have a pay reduction or be laid off, in order to bring spending in-line with how much other countries spend.
Whose “class interests?” Who do you think pays for universal healthcare in Europe? (If you guessed people making under $75k/year you guessed right!)
Server Utilization Is Nonsense
>The casual drone operators I know in Australia make use of the official app here to stay abreast of options

I'm in Australia and all the "casual drone operators" I've seen DGAF and just fly the buzzing menaces wherever they want, including in National Parks.

Are you allowed to fly drones over people in Australia? Because they do that too.
It's very laborious to do statistical analysis on paper.
I think this is a lot of why the 50s and 60s is remembered so fondly by many people in the United States. Of course there were lots of major problems at that time and a lot of that fondness is just nostalgia, but I think there are legitimate reasons to think that way. The amount of turmoil and first hand mistakes that generation had to live through early on in their lives was pretty staggering, and I think the high stakes consequences and first hand experience of what it means to make unnecessary risks, while also experiencing the unavoidability of risk, lead a disproportionate number of people in that generation turning out as good/effective leaders and team members. Basically I think that whole hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create bad times thing is probably true, and it probably applies as much to economic bubbles as it does to politics/times in general.
Google Employees Say Their Careers Were Stymied After Reporting Harassment
Perhaps an argument for focusing on doing a few things well?

I work for a GitLab shop, but we don't use the bugtracker (Jira) or wiki (Confluence), we mostly don't use the CI (Jenkins is just more flexible), and we definitely don't use the container stuff. We currently do use the review workflow but at various points have considered moving to a different tool for that as well.

So yeah, we would have been fine with a GitLab that did less— a lot less, and instead prioritized supplying first class integration points and supported plugins for other best-in-class tools.
Thanks! I messaged some of my teammates to see if they can take a crack at it.

Thanks for the issue!
Did anyone else read that whole article waiting for the reveal that it was generated by GPT-2?

Ok fine... I skimmed it
SaaS Founders Weigh in on Their 16 Biggest Growth Mistakes
A lot of "bot protection" systems have javascript proof of work (like cloudflare) which is just laughable. It has come to the point where you have to add a delay on proof of work solution since your bot solves it much faster than an average user would.

The anti bot bullshit needs to stop. Put some verification or hard captchas around sentive pages like login but don't fucking blanket everything under recaptchas and proof of work nonsens - your website turns into hot garbage that no one enjoys using.

Here in SEA captchas and anti-bot protections pretty much ruin the web in PC bangs. reCaptcha is the fucking worst and renders the web completely unusable. If I go play some video-games I play more of "find that storefront" than a video-game that I came to play. Some places are wising up and installing bunch of browser extensions to prevent/solve captchas automatically but those don't work for program embedded captchas.
Because (good) ruby is elegant enough to be self-documenting and informative on its own without needing go look somewhere else to figure out what it does.
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It uses an LCD, a lowres super twist shit one and it uses a CCFL backlight which eats battery. So replacing it with a different active matrix LCD with LED backlight can improve battery life and quality (double res)
Just to be clear about this an entity doesn't have to be a provider or insurer to be bound by HIPAA or HIPAA-like regulations. Generally companies that contract with or for "covered entities" are going to be required to sign contracts that bind them to the same rules as the covered entity.
Sorry but some one else already did that before you (http://startpage.com).
Gitlab is slow. It’s so unbearably slow, even their official server. Guys, why should a static content load after page loading is done? Page loading done, and the code still loads with a loading circle. Why? Just compare it with github. Average 500ms makes a huge difference.

Also gitlab UI is a huge mess. It got all the features, sure. But the UI is not that user friendly. Don’t use flat the wrong way. Use contrasts for buttons PLEASE. Github is sort of flat and their interface is great with adequate use of contrasts.

https://imgur.com/a/EIlV7ri
I agree this issue hasn't been prioritized as high as it should. I meant to indicate that with "This bug took too long to fix." but I should have said it took to long to schedule.

We concluded the same internally recently and hence the focus on bugs and wider community contributions in 12.4. We overly focussed on getting the DAG https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/directed_acyclic_graph/ and Merge Trains https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/merge_request_pipelines/pipeli... out the door and missed a bad bug, we're sorry.
Aristotle thought that democracy required some level of maintained equality to be stable. Madison thought that elites should run a democratic republic so that economic equality wasn't needed.

We expanded the concept of who has franchise, but never expanded the equality. A certain level of economic and educational equality was assumed by the founders when they constructed a government where only landed gentry could vote.

You can't have it both ways. The current system will keep skewing towards pitchfork-ville until elites realize that it's in their self interest to decrease the level of inequality.
Top Super Human Who Survived Living in Trees
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How Does Antarctica’s Only Native Insect Survive Extreme Cold
Isn't option c to start a company that does what you believe in? A lot of social purpose companies seem to be doing pretty well these days.

If you dislike fossil fuel companies, build one that obsoletes their business model (e.g. Tesla). If you dislike mining operations for employee mistreatment, start a company based on fair trade products (e.g. Fairphone). And if you care about these causes, support them with your wallet and evangelize them.

People say these companies are too big to compete with, but they used to say the same thing when these companies are created. Feel free to strike, but remember you can also vote to your feet, your wallet, and your labor.
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Socialized Medicine might solve the payment problem for people that can't afford it but I lived under the Canadian System of Health Care (OHIP) and much prefer the Health Care I have in the USA (TX). The service/quality of care I receive in the USA is far superior in my opinion.

Here is a breakdown of Ontario, Canada's debt.

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

>Health and education together account for more than 50% of Ontario's spending ($61.3B and $29.1B, respectively)

If you don't mind paying incredibly high taxes for health care or having other people subsidize it for you, then you will probably enjoy socialized medical care.
Congrats Darren! Can't wait for your next one to come out of stealth mode.
Colonizing another planet deprives humans of resources which could be spent improving Earth, and the most likely outcome is catastrophic failure of the colony. All this to live in a sh*thole for which humans have no adaptation. Raising children in such an environment is borderline abuse.
Drastic oversimplification. Many of the showcase playa art pieces are funded by grants supplied by the org. Also, while it contradicts the codified principles, there are no shortage of attendees who believe that the gifting thing is reciprocal/transactional and not unconditional.
Tesla sales in Norway are down quarter over quarter. See http://eu-evs.com.
Which common parts of the science stack are still partially two-only?

Conda ships on 3.7, and I'd consider it the definitive "scientific" stack.
Populism is always decried as unserious by media because they are biased towards status quo.

FDR was elected four times being a democratic populist.

EDIT: the paper does mention right wing populism specifically. It's dangerous because it's antidemocratic by nature.
For Elon, I don't think a tweet implies an acceptance. He frequently goes back on things he says on Twitter.
my largely medically uneventful labor, induction, and unplanned c-section birth at a bay area hospital two years ago cost me a $500 copay, but the insurance paid amount was somewhere in the neighborhood of $38k.

i also exclusively pumped for a year, which cost a few thousand dollars. the pumps alone were $1200. then replacement parts, accessories, random necessities.. can't even count the time and the calorie investment involved (i was eating upwards of 1000 extra calories a day to prevent weight loss).

throw in gear and clothing and...going past $50k for the first 18 months doesn't seem so unrealistic?
A better analogy: Accessing a website is like calling up a business and asking whichever employee answers for information.
Admittedly I have never tried the real hardware, only emulators. I wasn't even aware of the Lynx's existence during my youth until years after its demise. I have seen the unit on a few occasions out in the wild though. On paper, the hardware looks amazing and was way ahead of any portable game system at the time. Not only could it display in color, but it also supported scaling and rotation effects.

The story of its creators, Epyx, is a sad one though. Epyx was traditionally a software company, not hardware, having released hit games like "California Games". They signed a deal with Atari that basically gave Atari the rights to delay releases of Epyx software for any QA issues Atari found.

Atari was being run by Commodore founder Jack Tramiel at this point, and he was known for his shady business practices. Atari abused this part of the contract with Epyx, forcing Epyx to delay their software releases until the company was bled dry. And then Atari took what was left of Epyx for a bargain, including ownership of what would become the Atari Lynx (originally the "Handy"):

Facing financial difficulties, Epyx sought out partners. Nintendo, Sega, and other companies declined, but Atari Corp. and Epyx eventually agreed that Atari Corp. would handle production and marketing, while Epyx would handle software development. Epyx declared bankruptcy by the end of the year, and Atari essentially owned the entire project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx#History

I am glad that Atari imploded a few years later. Good riddance.

Sega also ended up lifting a lot of the Lynx's design for the Game Gear after the Handy was pitched to them by Epyx.

There is also an amusing story about how Epyx's pitch to Nintendo of Japan went terribly wrong, though I can't find it now.
How I dream of more serious sponsorship in the ruby community.

I think people underestimate how much python shops are suffering right now over the V2 to V3 transition. I recently turned down a gig that was basically just going to be upgrading python services for the next several months.

I've personally preferred much of ruby's tooling and package management to Python's, and I've always hoped that bigger money would come into the community. That said, Ruby has done incredible, not knocking the accomplishments of the community in any way.
> Provides an elevated user experience that customers love as measured by NPS.

What's NPS?
>You couldn't turn it loose to populate a website or argue on forums without any human oversight, so it at most represents a cost reduction in the output of BS, not a qualitative shift.

It might be getting closer than you think: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ (Note can be nsfw, meta sub has best-of highlights)

Still a lot of complete nonsense but this is just a hobby project (not mine)
> todo app directly against POSIX abstraction

So, a text editor?
> Plus Google only exists from scraping content, but I believe their TOS includes "don't scrape our content".

Yes. This is EXTREMELY frustrating.

Of all companies to prevent scraping, Google is the most ironic.

Especially since their goal is to organize the world's information, it shocks me that there's no way to get access to this organized information from machine to machine.
Or, realize how much work you actually need the worker to do, and stop insisting on 40+ hour work weeks. Pay them for the work they are doing, not their hours. That's what salary positions are SUPPOSED to exist for. If they complete their tasks quickly, then let them go home.
If the subject of the article wasn't pompous enough to go out of his way to refer to himself as a 'Nobel Prize Winner' in circumstances that didn't warrant it, I'd agree.
It is inappropriate for organisations like cloudflare to leverage their position within essential network infrastructure to start editorialising what passes through their network.

No, I think it's entirely appropriate.

"Don't troll" and methods for dealing with trolls has been a thing all sites have done since the internet was invented. I don't see any difference here at all.
Well why don't we find a part of it where everyone has the same answer? Something that's dog/human nature agnostic?

Philosophy fails on this count and thus I would argue fails to be a foundational framework for Science, math or logic.

I would argue that science, math and logic serve as foundational frameworks for religion, ethics and the rest of the soft sides of philosophy.
Probably in real estate. You can make good money still if you are a savvy buyer.
That's because Bali formed just a few million years ago, very recently in geological terms!
Thanks for your response.

I can also relate to having to nearly abuse caffeine and energy drinks just to reach a point of relative mental clarity for difficult problem sets or serious programming work before I was able to be professionally diagnosed.
What about if you're a hiring manager for a software company in Japan or Korea?
Look at WCAG 2 (web content accessiblity guidelines) they specify tags and elements common screen readers will understand to help make you site accessible.

This is a really good resource: https://accessibility.18f.gov/

A lot of frameworks now have some accessiblity built in if you add the correct attributes.
True story. When I was an overnight computer operator, the guy working the other nights had a second job working in a package shipping warehouse. He’d come in, fire off a bunch of jobs, go to his second job, return at lunch time, fire off the next batch of jobs, and then be back before any of the rest of the office came in for the day to catch up on the rest.

He got caught because the timing didn’t quite work out and he was always behind in the morning. They checked cameras because of it and he admitted it when confronted.

I remember thinking a simple batch script could have done that job but I was smart enough not to write it. I hadn’t thought of writing it and then just getting a second job...
You can redefine what is 'public', or require login to see those information anyway.

If anything, the ruling could just push websites to hide information even deeper.
Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner
> We pay some of the highest rates in the world, even in highly populated areas.

It's a misconception that sparsely populated areas are more expensive to cover than highly-populated ones. That's actually the opposite, it's much easier to cover a highway than a dense city center.
OpenVIII – Open-Source Final Fantasy VIII Engine
No different to all the other laws a citizen is expected to obey.

That's why there are tax agents and lawyers.
SoftBank is asking for the WeWork IPO to be put on hold
> If you don't mind paying incredibly high taxes for health care or having other people subsidize it for you, then you will probably enjoy socialized medical care.

I have no problem with my bracket (32%) going up to 50-60% or so if it means I don't have to worry about my parents getting the kind of care they're getting now under the American system.
That's not asymmetric, any nation could do it. Also, the Reddit farms wouldn't have to sleep, because the writers could work in shifts.
It doesn't take considerably more time.

At this point, all the code I write is 2/3 compatible, and the things that annoy me are all py3 only features. Backwards compatibility stuff is pretty easy. Most of the easy problems are easy, and six has solved all the hard ones for like 7 years.

And I've been writing some of my code 2/3 compatible since 3.4.
WhatsApp isn't compromised though, regardless of its parent entity. They'd rather have the user base not generating data for anyone than an independent WhatsApp.
Gitlab is a great product for self-hosting a GitHub-like service and I'm grateful for its existence. Having said that, I'm not a big fan of their bait and switch approach to feature creep. Every time I try to update our GL I end up in a world of hurt.

No straight upgrade path when you skip major-ish releases. I end up wasting a day sifting through cryptic issues and docs from vague error messages.

Suddenly can't commit because now my branch is "protected" and failed a deploy pipeline I didn't implement courtesy of GL's "vision".

Not to mention all this comes at the cost of increased complexity and resource usage.

I wish there was a "thanks but no thanks" setting to keep our instance the bare minimum without having to adopt features whole hog every time they get inspired to incorporate the next "big" thing.
Maybe I'm just a practical, basic, person but I don't understand a single thing about that article. Then I read the HN comments hoping for clarity, and came out even more confused...
In the US, all transactions to/from a financial institution of $10,000 or higher (including cash) must be reported. Same applies if multiple transactions on the same day reach that limit. So all attempts to cash out will be hard to avoid tracking. Also, attempts to structure transactions to avoid this, like $9999 per day, is illegal with jail and fines applied.
If you get a bill but don't actually pay it does it still have a five-figure price tag?