skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just linked the Schedule of Benefits from OHIP in another comment I made, but your comment made me curious to look it up.

Z176 - Repair of lacerations - up to 5 cm = $20.00
Note: Wound closure via tissue adhesives (such as cyanoacrylate) is payable at 50% of the appropriate fee.

Meaning, in Ontario, your procedure would have cost us $10. I'd have to look through to see what other costs would be incurred for the ER visit, but suffice it to say, it's probably well under $6,000.

Oh, and that's $10 CAD, which is like 2 Freedom Bucks. ($7.52 USD)
I don't see why genetic engineering like the Impossible Burger can't let us have our cake and eat it too.
A few years ago I was accidentally emailed movie pass subscriber numbers Alo g with a ton of financial information. (I have a very short Gmail address that is a common fisrt and last name).. I didn't delve into the details too far but the high level summary primed me to expect this day much sooner than it actually ended up being.
is it practical to use fully-qualified domain-names everywhere, which means no search path or ndots entries are needed.

it can be interesting looking in nameserver logs for hosts making successive queries for variations of FQDNs based on their search paths, and/or A vs AAAA lookups.
How does this work with institutions like Kaiser? Are their hospitals not technically hospitals? Or are the physicians all technically contractors there?
"Ultimately it doesn't matter _that much_. You're going to get old, you're going to lose your health eventually, and then you're gonna die."

Sure, but probably not at 40, so you've kind of refuted yourself. Speaking as someone who flipped from renter to homeowner at 42.

Saving up for 20 years in an index fund and then buying as much house as you can pay for in cash seems like a reasonable plan to me, if you make the sort of money people on HN claim to.
> but in the era of 0% interests or negative interests, buying a house in a Big City

You’re contradicting yourself here. Remember, a loan from a bank is technically renting the money from the bank. So unless you’re paying cash, you’re renting something. Plus, with a loan, you’re taking on insolvency risk (e.g., you lose you’re job and can’t pay the mortgage).

Your comment on selling if you face economic difficulties is just as contradictory - what happens if you are laid off in a recession, when it is harder to find buyers and the price is lower?

There are risks either way, they are just dressed up in different clothes. Make sure you understand those risks as opposed to repeating things that just sound good .
That’s disgusting of them to do — disgraceful part of the country
This is a bit lower level as it's only concerned with serializing, but a package I wrote called json_syntax[1] will take @dataclass or @attr.s classes decorated with type annotations and build encoders and decoders for them.

It also handles Union types reasonably well and lets you put in hooks to handle ugly cases. It's used in production on a system with a big complicated payload, and I designed it to be easily extensible if the standard rules don't work for you.

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/json-syntax/
The FDA is intended to be this with teeth - clearly it has rather corrupted. What makes you imagine a private organization would be better?
Personally, I'm just there to see what makes the link on HN so interesting. I don't seek out articles on paywalled sites directly. When I stumble into a paywall, I just close the tab and look at other headlines on HN.
My guilty pleasure is to binge play a day-long game of Civ or Minecraft every 2 months or so. Really helps to switch gears in the brain away from business / social obligations / continuing education / exercise / outdoors / etc. Extremely non-productive waste of time from a societal point of view, but I feel like it helps me recover.
Thank you, that was a fantastically detailed explanation! I didn’t realise that there was a world download in the video description, thanks for pointing that out!
It's not libertarian. The US system is cronyism, statism at its finest, possibly illegal. Honestly, I think with current US laws and a willing political force, a lot of top players in the current US healthcare system could be punished, even with the death penalty (especially if reinstated at the federal level).

Dreams aside, in order to have a free market healthcare, which is what informed libertarians want, you need to abolish medical license, the FDA, patents and many other State's interventions. There is a reason why the healthcare system in the US is insane, and it's because the laws are made so that cronies have the monopoly on your health. Neocons are pathetic when they defend the current system.

Without the free market (the real one, not the scam you have in the US), healthcare will be a mess more than any other industry and at that point is better to have a single payer, universal system, because in the end they have the same problems of the current US system but at least you don't get ruined.
Medicare for All! Please fix this, America
I reverse the order of every email I write before sending it. As in, I write it then put the last thing I wrote first, because it necessarily has more thought put into it. Same with paragraphs.

BLUF works when the power relationship between the speaker and listener/reader/writer was established prior to the communication.
I used to watch a lot of https://www.youtube.com/user/weldingtipsandtricks for fun and the impression I got from this guy was that welding school and certification tests are hard and require verification of exactly the kind of good welds you describe.
Or, increase psychological incentives by saying "raises for people who make it a year" or "signing on bonuses only for people who make it six months."

Those help a lot.
"if i want to leave where i am i can just give my landlord the appropriate notice and leave, if i owned where i live i then have to find someone to buy my house before i can leave, which could take weeks or even months"

"Giving the appropriate notice" generally means months, I would think. Not usually less than a month. Renting a decent apartment where I live generally means agreeing to a lease. My landlord demanded two months notice even if I was moving at the end of my lease, and the penalty for moving out at any other time would be draconian.

Conversely, people can and do move before selling their house, even though I'm sure it's a hassle and expensive to do so.
You're amusing basic human nature (competition, survival of the fittest, nepotism, and yes, greed) can be overcome.
They are all salaried employees, so Kaiser can work from a 'fixed cost' perspective ( as told to me by a surgical nurse ).
> feudalism 2.0

That phrasing is awesome - you nailed the problem perfectly!
RNG in Super Mario 64
I suspect the Solow residual comes mainly from gains through minimizing inventories and reducing the amount of idleness workers have.

The value of energy and technology is important for societies designed around nation states which occasionally require the energy and technology to be repurposed for war. It could be said the history of modern warfare is using energy and metallurgy to shoot projectiles further and further.

It’s obviously unsustainable, but leaving the arms race requires multilateral agreements to do so.
Fun chilly pop song for Friday the 13th
It's also opt-in. Sounds like fear mongering with clickbait. I don't see a problem with tracking I know about and can turn off at will. It's the tracking I don't know about and can't do anything about that's the issue.

"Students who download the Tide Loyalty Points app will be tracked only inside the stadium, he said, and they can close the app — or delete it — once they leave the stadium."

Jesus, I just realized it was the New York Times ...
When trying DDG again for a while, my use of g! gradually increases as a necessary tactic to surface what I'm looking for. When it gets to over about 80% I go back to using Google again with a sigh.
> the concurrency model of these ML libraries is not dependent on a CPU

Gotcha, my bad.

> Please at least learn some fundamentals about NNs and ML frameworks before contributing a long, uninformed response.

My apologies. It's not like I enjoy wasting people's time, starting with mine. It was an honest mistake, point taken, and thanks for explaining.

If you have a somewhat 'definitive' book or chapter/resource to share on "understanding concurrency"... please do so. I'm eager to learn, and I'd wager many reading such a thread.
Why Aren’t There More Designer Founders?
I’m not really imposing this on anyone else just voicing my thoughts on how I may choose differently given second chance. I’m happily married so know the pros and cons. Fact of it is I was never gunning for marriage. I dated my wife for a very long time and she eventually gave me an ultimatum. I didn’t want to leave her so I married her. That said I think it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. However, it’s challenging because I’m also selfish and want to focus on myself and my interests way more than couple stuff. Fact is I don’t need any of that stuff you listed. I make plenty of money, I don’t give a shit what my family or friends think, I really sometimes wish I had the resources I have now without the responsibilities that come with wife, kid, family. It’s probably the definition of mid life crisis.

I’m thankful to be happily married. I know a lot of people in similar situations but not happy and refuse to put their kid through a broken home or they don’t want to lose half or the social/family shame part. It seems miserable.
if it didn't we wouldn't be using passwords ...
A lot of my friends think this way but have changed their mindsets after getting stable jobs. One thing to note is that being exceptional and having a conventional life aren’t mutually exclusive. I used to think that I should always be moving from one startup to another in hopes of striking it rich. That is until I realized that a high paying software job might bring me more fulfillment than trying to start my own thing. I got tired of making things that didn’t pan out and wanted to be a part of something bigger, like a billion dollar company that’s been in business for more than 2 years total.

In making the switch I’ve learned that in my rebellion to live like everyone else in my field, living life the way I thought I wanted, I was ignoring the draw of happy normalcy I longed for in the present. I began to feel like I was chasing old goals to somehow please my former self and was guilting myself into thinking that any new goals that were compromises. I eventually got over it when I felt comfortable letting myself be happy in the present and less afraid of being able to reassess and change opinions I convinced myself were strong enough to hold me throughout my entire life.
That sounds nice. As an American, I often catch myself feeling guilty when I'm resting. Though learning more about "mindfulness" has helped me be more OK with enjoying it. But then I sometimes feel guilty for not being mindful enough more often! Go figure.

Also, not sure if your "commandment" phrasing was intentional, but it made me chuckle a bit. The concept of "observating the Sabbath" by resting seems does seem to be a bit relevant to this topic.
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I agree with your post but wanted to add an important caveat:

Houses do NOT appreciate - the property (land) does.

There are rare exceptions for historical reasons (e.g. a Frank Lloyd Wright house), but otherwise this is fairly fundamental.

Houses technically depreciate because they require maintenance just like cars do (although with a much friendlier slope).
If you're unhappy with NYT, consider their mainstream-educated-conservative counterpart, WSJ. NYT had a porous paywall for a long time, intentionally. WSJ has always been on lock-down. In both cases, it's a strategy, not do-goodery, but regardless NYT is no bad actor in this area.
That's a really tall order. To have science - in general, since if that happens with climate it probably happens with other areas - to be decoupled from politics is to significantly change our current practices of governance. Hopefully for better - but it's a hard task to do.
Does this mean $HMNY will go back up???
All currently nuclear armed nations are in violation of the NPT, so...
For every 100 people with great startup ideas and no access to capital, there's at least 1 with an idea that will never work that gets funded I suppose.
Eye care is mostly a monopoly where luxotica owns the market.

Warby parker, zenni, etc are the disruptors.
Moving a website from AWS to a desktop at home isn't apt to save money, as your power bill will increase by $20 to $50 a month.

Transitioning to shared hosting in the single digit cost per year category is more likely, no need to pay a premium to serve HTML.
Since the physics are known it's probably going to be easier to simulate from first principles.
Well, but maybe an 80% loss doesn't matter as we only absorb x mg of minerals. You know?

This might not matter for humans if we don't know how much we can absorb, it might not be a percentile but rather than a cap and we pee or poop the rest out.
That book is referenced directly. Instead of a whole book about it this book spends barely a chapter.
Knteresting
> Please stop this. You're just buying into the false narrative, pushed specifically by media companies, that "you can't disengage". This specifically serves their purpose of creating content for the sake of conflict, in order to make money off your attention.

You're creating a false dichotomy; being engaged with the political process is not the same thing as consuming a lot of media. Provided you're getting high-quality news you don't need to spend a ton of time to get a good grasp of the issues.

> Trust the system you live in

The "system you live in" is other people who are choosing to be engaged with the political process and shaping it based on their desires. If you chose to disengage, that doesn't stop their participation, but it means your interests aren't represented. That's your prerogative, but as OP says, it's an active endorsement of the status quo - you're choosing not to participate because you're happy enough with how things are for you right now and don't feel the need to affect change for others.
> How much does theory help you properly weld?

A ton.

The metallurgy of welding is complex. When performing a bespoke weld, you have to know what type of filler metal to use (it frequently is not identical to the pieces being welded...), heat pre-treatment, heat post-treatment, and range of available current for the job. All of those factors vary with the job. While the reference texts can help you, you have to at least know enough to figure out where to look. Then you need to have enough practice to to recognize when things go wrong, and how to correct it.

Much as in the current programming industry, the problem is people coming out with an education on paper, yet not actually knowing either the theory or practice the of welding.
An Indigenous Man Who Declared His Own Country
I get the general feeling that KP tends to under-prescribe care, but other doctors definitely over-prescribe care. That's what the financial incentives are for each anyways.
Heh, Brood War is FAR more micro intensive than SC2, mostly by virtue of the game interface; terrible unit pathing, 12 unit selection limit, no "smart casting" etc. Add to that more cumbersome macro mechanics and the game is much more difficult and twitchy to play effectively than it's successor. Though I'll agree that SC2 is faster paced, especially with the 12 worker start since LOTV

WC3 was more hero focused, like MOBA's, which of course had their start in WC3 as custom maps.

It is of course ironic that Blizzard inadvertently spawned a genre that ended up crushing them in a field that arguably they also pioneered, e-sports.
DevOps didn't exist... fella, let me tell you something, when I started, color screens were not the norm and you kept your homemade double-sided 5 1/4" floppy disks ( thank-you paper hole-punch ) in a plastic flip-top container with the contents written on the label in black sharpie.
The whole system of massive school debt and massive salaries for doctors resting on the AMA artificially limiting the supply and scope of doctors? Yea I'd say so.
Maybe he was paid to transfer the work to China, in an espionage kind of way.
Homebrew Maintainers: Avoiding Burnout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

Without a switch to range voting, approval voting, or one of the condorcet variants, the party system will remain broken into two corrupt halves.
Yea probably true. Didn't really expect my post to get the attention it has. Probably could have worded it better.

My parents were careful with money, but not necessarily frugal. I think part of it was the fact that my mom (and probably my dad at least at one point) had a pension to look forward to. I've thought before a lot on how that probably changes the calculus quite a bit.

I seem to have picked up some pathological fear of not having enough, so I probably live excessively below my means.

Growing up, I didn't even know that normal people could invest money in the stock market. Even now, I have friends that look at me sort of funny when I mention having a significant amount of money in the market. Usually they ask why I don't do something useful to it like buy a nicer house, car, etc.
The keyword in the previous person's comment is attention. It's attention that is incapable of multi-tasking. It really just bounces from one thing to the other and attention is sort of what drives consciousness and directs it where to go. But the rest of the brain is doing a ton, such as memory encoding to both working and long-term memory. It's also doing things like language, motor, emotional processing, etc. as well as all the things more peripheral to consciousness like senses, time, vitals, etc.

If we look at the brain like a computer that interacts with the world as well as interacted with, I like to imagine that the brain is very complex and running many parallel processes. Like a computer, it has many parts of the interface to the world. Eyes are the screen, ears are the speakers, muscles are the mouse and keyboard, etc. I like to think of attention as the cursor; sort of a single process that directs what the user is interacting with.

I'm positive that is much too simple of an analogy because it still leaves the question: why can't consciousness control multiple attention cursors simultaneously? In many ways, it does in which consciousness can pass things off to automatic processing, like triggering muscle memory and other previously strengthened pathways. But, I think the why there's not multiple attention processes running is still a big question yet to be answered. I think neuroscience still has a lot to be understood before we'll be able to answer it sufficiently.
The defenestration of Snowden.
Let’s not forget that back in the day, geeks use to buy Computer Shopper for the ads. I know I subscribed to InCider and later MacWorld for the ads and would mail out the cards in the back for more information. How else were we going to find out about products we wanted?

Even today, I find a lot of the ads for tech podcasts informative the first time I hear them. I would have never known about BackBlaze, Hover or SquareSpace if it weren’t for podcast ads.
My girlfriend fell skiing and tore her ACL. We were taken down to the mountainside clinic. They were just gonna do a basic check and give her some Advil and a brace.

I asked how much it would cost. They said they were not ALLOWED to tell me. Which is different than not knowing. I told them what insurance I had. They said many people came in with that insurance. I asked how much of the procedure is normally covered. Also apparently a secret.

I just can't see how it's legal to bill someone for services received while refusing to give information on what it will cost. If the bill had been $50k what recourse would I have had?
> I find it really impressive that such a large organization runs anything on Python. Isn't the speed optimization potential immense? Does the amount of Python involved just not matter compared to image data?

Usually, that's exactly the story: there are certain hot spots that account for the vast majority of your processing time.

I work on an optimization engine that evaluates financial plans.

We have a ton of business logic that is not performance sensitive, and we decompose those objects into flat, regular primitives so they can run in a tight loop that does the actual simulation.

We optimized that using numba and get quite acceptable performance.

But let me revisit what you asked:

> I find it really impressive that such a large organization

In a large organization, you need to find people with the right skillset, and if someone is a subject matter expert (mathematician, statistician, etc.) they often know Python. If they can read and understand your code, they can directly check it for correctness.

Or they can load modules into Jupyter and work with them. Have a lingua franca is itself very powerful.
Yes, water fast as opposed to the much rarer and riskier “dry fast” in which ones relies on the body fat dissolution for hydration.
But it's the literal opposite of heads-up; you lower your view and stare at the radio to see the camera. If you were looking at the mirror and it was adding to the normal reflection you're already seeing, that would be heads-up.
Mammalian Hybrids
It’s worth writing a long article about. In the US there’s no cost conscious party that does price shopping or similar to bring the costs down. There’s only cost pushing parties. Hospitals pushes it to insurance, insurance to employers and employers to the govt as a tax write off. The person getting the treatment only looks at where the “best” care is. That is usually a code word for finding the most expensive hospital my insurance will cover. Insurances don’t have the power - and also they mostly don’t care - to negotiate with hospitals. Employers have to provide coverage by law. So they do the least they can to satisfy it. Who in this system keeps the costs in check?
“The people” are not the entirety of the system. The mechanisms in place for aggregating the inputs from the individuals also has an impact. There is no canonical “most democratic” way to do this, only a variety of different democratic mechanisms, which can produce different results even if the individuals made the same choices.

That isn’t to say that people don’t have a responsibility to endeavor to vote well.
If you read American history there are all kinds of shady things that the CIA have done. You might be surprised to learn the lengths they will take to protect American interests.
Business models that rely on being able to exploit workers who are desperate for income by compensating less than is required to survive in the expensive cities where those businesses operate will fail. This is not a bad thing.
Shit like this makes me incredibly grateful for the NHS. It's one of the best things about the uk and I'm incredibly proud to be joining it next month.
Adding insult to the injury. Im sorry for your loss...

We lost our first, and er visit costed us much less. Few thousands... Didnt have the energy to fight that time...
I think this is the thing that confuses people. I don't expect things like Windows Hello (facial recognition system for login) or convertible laptop features to ever work on Linux. I'm pretty careful not to spend extra money on a machine with those kinds of features. It seems like common sense to me, but that's really just because I have a pretty good idea of what Linux supports and what it doesn't.
Add it to Zwift.