skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Show me anything revolutionary that was done by a group of people that weren't obsessed to the point of neglecting the rest of their life

Watson and Crick didn't work very hard, but managed to infer the structure of DNA from data that their competitors had well before them (necessarily, because Watson and Crick basically swiped it).

EDIT: And for that matter Rosalind Franklin, whose data they used, had an active life outside of work as well.
Alec Holowka was a game dev who committed suicide recently after allegations of sexual assault by ex-girlfriend Zoe Quinn. He was the developer behind Night in the Woods. The NitW studio said they've cut ties with him after Quinn's allegations.
Just be quick on the "Stop Loading" button. If the JavaScript never loads, neither will the paywall.

Or prepend "outline.com/" to the full URL.
Seems like time for you to get a subscription! If you read it that many times, it actually provides value for you.
the list is incomplete. they list the active downsides, but they don't list the benefits of patents that don't apply to software, such as: patents protect your investment into the development of the patent. if you need to spend 5 years of research before you got a patentable result, then patents are an incentive to make that research. i can't imagine any software patent that took that much effort to develop.
The difference is that a business is explicitly an adversary; caveat emptor.

Elected officials are supposed to represent the interests of the people. "We choose you to look after things for us."

I'm not saying this justifies business practices, and I'm not saying that any set of elected officials actually do represent their people's interests. But on the face of it, that's the difference.
OT: on mobile the authors bio fills up the entire screen. The headline is beneath the fold.
I read the whole thing and couldn't tell what is that "mistake that costs thousands?"
Effective task switching is a learned skill.. I often find that switching between 2 or 3 tasks a few times over the course of a day, helps me be more productive because blocking is less of an issue and sometimes blocking due to problems needing to be solved, can be iterated on subconsciously while you're forebrain is doing something else.. I think there are parallels with neural networks.. task switching helps make your network generalize better.
My screen is being rampaged by ads I must close this site. Please don't reward this type of website behavior.
Can someone explain to me why paywalled journalistic quality content has become societally unacceptable?

Do you work for free? Do you pirate your software?

There are so many other free outlets of information. But quality journalism (although admittedly not always perfect) has its price.
I've been in this industry for over 15 years. I don't have a single certification. I learnt everything by reading and doing. With your method, I would still know nothing.
> if we don't know what the government is doing, and we aren't going to be told, how are we supposed to hold them accountable?

By voting out of office the elected officials that allowed us not to be told what was going on.

The members of the intelligence committees in both houses of Congress are cleared for everything. If they are too incompetent to spot, for example, when an agency director is lying to them (as Snowden alleges that James Clapper did), then vote them out and get competent ones in there who can do their homework and spot the lies and call the director on them.

But actually I don't think most of them are that incompetent. I think the idea that all this was happening and no elected representatives knew about it, they all just took the agencies' word that oh, no, perish the thought, of course we wouldn't bend the rules, is ridiculous. The elected representatives knew what was going on and let it happen. If you don't like that, vote them out. The same goes if years go by and no information ever seems to come out about what the agencies are doing, and nobody in Congress seems to have any curiosity about it. Oversight is their job. If they're not doing it, vote them out.
We are exploring using Python data classes and typehints directly. This way can remove all dependencies and rely on standard library.

As first step we are exploring marshmallow with data classes like the way we are dealing with jsonschema using pydantic.

In our product we prefer to use as little 3rd party packages as possible and rely on standard library. When we want to use 3rd party package we look at the code and if my team can support and enhance it then only we use, except in some case where package is better than standard library like requests.
> Trust the system you live in,

In a democracy trusting the system ultimately means trusting the rest of the population in theory and trusting the people who actually vote in practise.

If your are ok with that, you can disengage, but you have to understand that system is ultimately the people who are actually voting and that they all may have a different agenda than you.
I’m puzzled by who you think is suffering by having companies stay private like this?

> This is a huge problem because...

Why is it a problem?

Suck it up; if you’re an investor do your due diligence, just like with any other company.
Ok so know that you can go against this.

I was once charged $1,500 for a doctor to talk to me (without ever touching my physical body) to “prescribe” me over the counter motrin....

I then questioned them on this and they said “well it was a prescription” : i said you never even physically touched me. “So im going to tell you what this was worth to me: $50”

They then said “okay we will charge you $297 for the visit”

I said “you made me wait over 45 minites before even seeingg me, at 9:00 pm when i was the only person in the waiting room. NO; im am going to charge YOU $50 for my time wasted”

The dropped the entire bill completely.

Good samaritan hospital in los gatos ca.

(Where my grandmother worked for decades, and after el camino hospital bout them and i was the technology designer for their upgrade)

You can negotiate codes with hospitals.

Source: i have built more than ten hospitals; el camino, good sam, ucsf, nome, sequoia , zucks sf gen, etc...

Dont let their coding depts fuck with you - take a stand.
Yeah I would imagine because most trips to the hospital aren't planned. I'm not flying to India or anywhere if I have a fever/flu and just need to get looked at.

I would definitely fly somewhere for a planned surgery.
Fact-Checking Technical Claims
In a cloud, X * Y != 1x (X * Y)

Actually, X * Y is massively higher than 1x (X * Y)
The think the accurate statement is that 1% or product lines have had a shipment sampled. The FDA is not in the business of performing QA testing, that is the job of the manufacturer. It is better to think of them as a legislative body.
SF6 – Climate change: Electrical industry's 'dirty secret' boosts warming
I've considered it.
My mom worked in medical records at a small hospital. The way she explained it to me was that insurance companies negotiate prices way down, and expect to. So in order to make enough money to cover costs, the hospital has to put astronomical sticker prices on everything so that insurance can "talk them down" to the actual price they expect to receive.

Mostly our healthcare system is completely fucked and we should all feel bad.
Totally valid point.
huh, how so? downvotes on a single comment won't impact you at all. i'd also like to know what you mean.
The problem is one of underestimating the vastness of what we don't yet understand. We know extensively (nearly completely) about physics and basic chemistry at the unit level. As we increase the complexity, we know less and less. Protein folding, hormone interactions, DNA, getting there but lots of unknowns. Go up another few levels and you get to entire organisms like yeasts, which we can model reasonably well. Plants and their soil environment is several levels of magnitude more complex yet.

Using shit will get you an outcome you can count on. Trying to formulate things otherwise is sure to get whatever you are testing for, but likely to miss something important that we won't understand for years to come. That's happened more times than I'd care to count.
It still mildly infuriates me that the link text doesn't simply expand the acronym. Infinitely better:

Bottom Line Up Front: A military standard to make writing more powerful
Git history suggests it’s been around for a year. It’s not super interesting really, clearly there’s a poke here that someone felt this feature was worth a press release and their more established competitor just “meh, here”’d them.

Also, cql is now implemented by like 5-6 nosql databases and is becoming the implicit standard (Cassandra, cosmosdb, datastax, yugabyte, etc).
Leaky coax is perfect attack vector for bad actors.
The perfect three section military email: (typically from a subordinate to a superior)

1) BLUF statement of the subject at hand.

2) Details section that gives in-depth explanations and references to relevant military regulations as to why BLUF statement is correct / best course of action.

3) "The Way Ahead" section that gives recommended next steps or possible future issues to be aware of.
Don't get generic drugs unless you absolutely have to. You are legally unable to sue if you get life altering side effects from the drugs. Which seems even worse after this news story.
In theory, couldn’t you then compile a Rails app into a one-liner? (Seems the max line length varies, but is at least hundreds of thousands of characters in most OSes)
I do the same, but it's not a protest, it's because I literally can't pay. They have sued me though, and they won, but nothing happened after the lawsuit closed. This country is headed towards mad max territory.Yippee ki yay boys, I'll see you on the road.
What does the programming environment look like? I couldn't find anything from my phone without hitting an email wall.
The Guardian and the media all benefited from his actions, something he likely took into account when crafting a plan to establish his celebrity.

Profiting from unprosecuted crimes in exile is despicable in my view.
The reason is so that there aren't "boutique" private practices. Keeping the rich people in the same boat as the poor people is actually quite important for the long-term health and welfare of the system. Members of the Canadian parliament have the same healthcare system as anyone else. Thus they aren't terribly tempted to cut it.

If private insurance was allowed (in Canada), the elite would have expensive plans that had physicians only caring for a few people each, and so on. This worsens the care in the general system but more importantly, it splits the interests of the elite from the general public.
> Before Snowden you could say that TLAs were surely reading everything, but no one took that seriously

If this is true (I'm not sure it is, "no one" is a pretty strong claim), why not?

> it happened, and now we have to decide if what Snowden did is good or bad

No, we don't. We only have to decide if, given this additional information we now have about what the government is doing (if it was additional to you--it wasn't really additional to me, I had for years assumed that something similar was going on even if I didn't know every little detail), we should do something about it. That doesn't require us to pass judgment at all on Snowden.
Sorry no, Watson was completely obsessed. I doubt their "toxic" work environment would be lauded today.

The whole point here is not to find one or two nitpicking examples of some lounging geniuses that stumbled into something but rather the larger trend that massive impacts take narrow person to work. Sometimes that even allows for you to take a bike ride everyday. The point is the same.
Does anyone else find this business arrangement between the DME provider and the hospital to be fishy?

> they dispense the product on Breg’s behalf and Breg follows up with its own bill.

My intuition tells me that this relationship may have generated a little side hustle for the hospital, which if it really occurred would be extremely illegal. That reporter should dig a little more.
I've spent my whole career working for hospitals primarily dealing with cost data.

There's not much incentive to create a sensible pricing structure because very few patients actually pay the posted prices. Most revenue comes from the government or insurers, and neither of them give a fuck what you charge for a sling. Hospitals have limited resources, and dealing with insurers is a big enough operation as it is. Most chargemasters are created by multiplying acquisition cost or Medicare rates by some absurd number (typically 8-10) and calling it a day.

Frankly, I see this whole thing as a red herring. I get why people get upset about it, but if you ended this practice then the money would just shift somewhere else. Hospitals are mostly non-profits with small margins, so the money has to come from somewhere. Instead of charging 10 times cost for everything they would just dump it all into a generic fee. This kind of stuff isn't actually relevant to the core problem of why healthcare is so expensive in the US.

It's definitely not a scrooge mcduck caricature situation. Like I said, most hospitals are non-profits who post their financial statements online. You can probably go look at your local hospital's statements to see what kind of margins they're working with. There are exceptions, but I'd bet they're pretty low.
I don't know if it is because how I was raised or a limitation of my brain but past a certain difficulty of problem I am completely unable to solve it without pen and paper
I'd just as soon watch NYT implode into bankruptcy like some bovine retail company butchered by private equity.

I'd like to hear about NYT going the way of Radio Shack or Toys 'R' Us. Blown to smitherines like some useless, misbegotten brand from yesteryear.

NYT presents a middling coverage of utility journalism that does manage to faithfully regurgitate wire service items, but its priority is race baiting, gender political ideology that has waxed into something worse than Fox News.

15 years ago, I couldn't have imagined I'd be comparing NYT to the likes of Fox News, enumerating it's ranks as on par with scum like Bill O'Reilly and fucking Glen Beck, but here we are.
Yet! Give it time, we'll add a peripheral port soon enough
For whatever reason, the cost issue is completely missing from the dem primary debates on healthcare. Everything so far has been focused on health insurance coverage, and the candidates are really just debating what is the best way to cover more people.

A world where 100% of Americans are covered under the existing healthcare system is still a disaster because everything still costs so much between premiums, deductibles, copays and coinsurance. And on top of that, patient responsibility is still largely unknown until post treatment.

If you look at the cheapest Bronze plans on the Obamacare market, you're probably looking at $400/month for the premium with a $7500+ deducible for a single person. If someone is coerced into buying insurance and they can barely afford the premium, how is that something worth celebrating?
I would suggest that it's not "single threaded", either.

Comparing consciousness to how a CPU processes instructions is very poor analogy, because to this day, because the nature of consciousness is still a complete mystery to science.

I mean, we can think about stuff, but we don't think about them one after the other. We're thinking all of the time, but we tend to focus on what's immediately interesting to us. Consciousness is a pretty complex thing to unravel...
That's good feedback! The challenge is:

1. There are six tutorials (2-5 minutes each) to learn the basic vocabulary.

2. It's possible to finish them all in one session, but I don't expect anyone to do that

3. I've currently avoided using cookies to save/restore progress within the tutorials, because children in schools often will use the same computer.

You do make a very good point that it's a bit much to ask people to sign up just to try the tutorial. I'll think about removing that constraint (while informing the user that they'll lose their progress when they leave).

Thanks for making time to check this out.
Over 10 years to prepare, still not ready. Poor risk management.
Funny sketch on this topic from CollegeHumor, about a year old: https://youtu.be/YBO_7UezpbY
I would be happy with simple text tags over things I see, for location-based knowledge. Like proper nouns, life pro tips, distance, reminders, object relationships, adverts (need to pay for it somehow), snapshots (upload photo), etc. AR doesn't need to involve graphics (besides the recognition aspect).
A significant chunk of software is a dead simple one off and does not need much in the way of design or maintenance. At the other end you have software that risks human lives and or billions in damages.

Picking the right process for where each project fits on that continuum is surprisingly difficult. Cowboy coding can be anything from a horrific idea to the most efficient setup, unfortunately people are rarely flexible enough to know the difference.
I only see it considered unacceptable on Hacker News.
Good feedback -- the email wall is a downer.
I'll let folks try the environment without signing up.

Thanks for taking a look at the site, much appreciated!
Well, we do tend to set a bad example for the kids.
yes, because that's open source aka linux
Then it should be easy for the thread originator to provide a citation. I’m not willing to buy the book to look for citations I don’t expect to be there. My bet is that the book doesn’t really say what was presented and that it gives a rather more reserved statement about metabolic adaptation.
Emigration is hard, and emigrating somewhere remotely decent is even harder (because everyone wants to do the same thing as you). I’d also wager that the people who truly need to leave have the least means to do so. Getting into Canada or Western Europe requires at least a college degree, and probably being in a sought-after field. And by that point, you’re probably doing okay in America (for now). I mean, I live comfortably, although even good insurance and a high salary isn’t a guarantee that you’ll be okay. I’ve thought of moving, but the difficulty (logistically and psychology) and the fact that I really am comfortable make it unrealistic at the moment.

I agree, though, the masses are exploited (us included), and it’s troubling.
Not really an issue unless the one liner itself has single quotes in it, or perhaps you're using Windows?
Upcoding is extremely common and almost never comes with any consequences. It's routine for staff at the hospital to add line items for things that never actually happened. I've personally seen procedure codes for neuropsychological testing in the ER when the staff never completed those exams, as an example. The billing codes require very specific actions to have taken place in order for the insurance companies to reimburse. It's not often done out of malice, the codes added are likely what should have taken place but the hospital staff are overworked and end up cutting corners.
The idea being that Nature (more specifically evolution/natural selection) has demonstrated a remarkable tendency to converge on closed-cycle ecosystems when left to her/their own devices.

An idiom about never taking down a fence one knows not the provenance or reason for comes to mind.

Not that I'm saying I entirely agree with the viewpoint myself, but the rate of catastrophic unintended consequences we facilitate (I.e biodiversity crisis, creation of superbugs, introduction of invasive species) through artificial selection pressures tends to elicit pause at the suggestion we just "toss some minerals in and be done with it".
Has anybody ever hired a high powered attorney to challenge medical billing in the US? This feels like something one or two successful lawsuits could change really quickly.

Hospitals seem to have done an amazing job of charging just enough after insurance for the upper/middle class to be willing to pay to avoid hurting their credit scores, but so much that everybody else just doesn't pay and files for bankruptcy if anybody ever comes after them.
Just a reminder for those reading: you don’t need to pay medical bills, nothing is going to happen except a bad credit report.

Go to the hospital, let them bill you, and then throw the bills in the trash.
The trouble is that in an emergency or urgent situation, you can’t really shop around for service. “I’m having a heart attack, but can we try the hospital in the next town over? Their cardiologist is cheaper.” Bike service is a leisurely afternoon; emergency medical care is not.

It shouldn’t cost that much in the first place. You shouldn’t need to shop around for health care, and you shouldn’t be bankrupted by an emergency. Why people aren’t marching through the streets right now is beyond me.
Disengagement is orthogonal to voting. You can be disengaged from politics but still vote for representatives who will be engaged on your behalf.
Which flip phone?
>> BLUF is most used when officers are talking to non-officers.

I have seen it used by staff officers to quickly convey important information to commanders who need to make decisions and don't have time to read a novel of details.

Commanders need important information first and supporting details second. BLUF is an ideal format for this since it emphasizes concise, prioritized communication.
still difficult to implement as you aren't developer
Dropbox as just a cloud drive fit the description, and perhaps the fact that they are more than that and have since stuck around that it fits the quote too?
>The assumption is that the non-officers need to know what to do, but do not need to know why they need to do something.

I spent almost 2 decades in the Army. Its a terrible assumption. Except for combat situations, other emergencies, or really trivial tasks, everyone should know why they are doing something. It is physically impossible to make a non-stupid person care about a thing of which they have no knowledge. From my experience, the one thing that has the greatest impact on a person's ability to do a good job is a genuine desire to accomplish whatever their objective is. If they don't know what that objective is, they simply aren't going to give a shit. They might get it done adequately, but the military is a self-proclaimed meritocracy, so one would think that isn't enough.

It has been at least 50 years if not 100 since the majority of enlisted people didn't have a decent education. Now its incredibly common for enlisted Soldiers to have an undergraduate degree. Education isn't a guarantee of competence, intelligence, or even anything remotely useful, but that goes for officers and enlisted personnel.

Yet the military still insists on operating like they did in olden times when the average enlisted person was an illiterate farm hand. Their primary business is the physical enforcement of political interests (AKA combat), so in some ways it makes sense for them even though it also hurts them. However, businesses should be careful when evaluating their methodologies for civilian use, because there are certainly a ton of drawbacks.

The reason the US military is one of the most capable fighting forces in the world has more to do with technological sophistication (created by civilians) and a near unlimited budget than it has to do with the leadership of the military, the horrific bureaucracy that the leadership created/maintains, or the frequently alleged magical, inherent superiority of the American soldier.
Oh, that's a completely different discussion altogether! I agree with you though.
Just FYI, Warren is backpedaling heavily on Medicare for All. She released her “healthcare plan” the other day and it its full of obvious outs and hedges away from M4A. Sanders is the only candidate still really fighting this fight.
On the plus side it created a monopoly, all those ramen profitable companies had no way to compete!