skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were two of them next to each other. Is that common at all?

How close is "next to"? Aircraft tend to have multiple lights, many symmetrically positioned. And when it's closer than you think and maneuvering, it may look as if the lights are moving non-linearly. Disappearance of a light can be explained too - the plane maneuvered in a way that its wing or fuselage blocked your view of the light.
Aren't you paying for insurance against the exact same thing that happened to the couple in the linked article?

You're paying for coverage against a $250K bill for an unexpected health problem, not coverage for routine care.

I've paid for car and home insurance for over a decade, but have gotten no paying from either, but that doesn't mean that I haven't gotten value out of it. I'd still purchase that insurance even if it weren't required.
> [US healthcare] needs to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch...

Here are some numbers, just to provide perspective: [1]

The worst recession in recent history (2008-09) featured a drop of US GDP by -2.5%.
The US healthcare spending per capita is about twice as high than EU average.
US healthcare spending is about 17% of GDP.
Which means if we somehow manage to fix it and bring it to average European levels, that would represent a drop of -8.5% GDP
We haven't seen GDP drops like this since WW2.

So... I seriously doubt "rebuild from scratch" will work. We need a gradual, systematic cost cutting program spread over 10-15 years. And why aim at EU average? Let's make it the world's most efficient, while we're at it.

[1] quoting from memory, feel free to google & correct me
Well, that was the Republican plan. They were up front about it. Trump voters can't complain.
> Makes sense to go single payer

Government as a single buyer of services from private health care providers. What's the problem?
It's an UFO until it's a drone. (Joking)
In your place, I'd work through a basic algorithms + data structures book first, doing the exercises etc before attempting leetcode.

Learning via attempting leetcode problems directly seems suboptimal, like trying to learn calculus by taking timed exams vs working through a basic text first.

my 2 cents. fwiw.
A related read:
Swiss bank employees who are domiciled outside Switzerland are exempt from Swiss banking secrecy laws.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/10/18/a...

Also at https://archive.is/lbO8j
What states can’t yse it?
Well, then it's certainly camera shy.
There is no wisdom to impart. There are 2 countries in the world who do not have public healthcare: the US and Liberia.

The US does not have public healthcare because of a lack of wisdom, it’s because of greed. Literally anything other than what you’re doing now is better. Roll the fucking dice on public health policy and it will be better than what you have now. It’s not a lack of wisdom, you aren’t even listening to the wisdom that surrounds you, it’s a complete lack of empathy for the sake of greed!
What, were people swearing in the comments and putting Easter Eggs in the releases?
Somehow other countries have figured it out. Europe has a wide variety of systems from mostly private to completely public but none is even remotely as insane as the US.
mypy can be used to achieve the same effect, but I would also like the ability to enforce types at run-time, and it would be great if more tools made use of PEP 484.
"To posh to push", was also a saying a generation ago.
Sadly, this is probably the right answer.
Oh my god, talk about bad energy. I don’t think I’ve seen a purer example of inept “leadership”. This sounds like a human and a company to stay away from.
Where exactly in the Bible does it say that?
Python designers have some thoughts on this :)

$ python -c "import this" | grep purity
Although practicality beats purity.
The man went to school for biblical studies. Now I don't have a grudge against anyone with a BA in biblical studies, but I'm not going to respect their opinion on whether something requires quantum or nuclear science.
"nd why aim at EU average? Let's make it the world's most efficient, while we're at it."

Yes setting impossible goals from the start is a good way to be successful. Not.
Recently had an x-ray and an MRI done on my leg. My out of pocket cost was at least around $600. I'm not exactly sure what my health "insurance" covered. You never know what your insurance will cover until the bill arrives. What are my options? I don't have free choice. I have two plans offered by my employer. Shit and Shitty. Worse, they found nothing wrong with my ligaments. The x-ray was a waste. I was told to keep a "pain journal" of any specific movements and positions that cause discomfort.

Tear it down. I rather have the peace of mind that I am just covered no matter what, even if it means I pay a bit more in taxes. Let me focus on work and life. Not healthcare.

I do understand the problems this creates for a healthcare system organized around private insurance. I get this will have a negative impact on the economy by putting those companies out of work, but I'm deeply unsatisfied with this system. Even finding a doctor on my plan can be difficult.
> it has the data structures that other languages just can't compete with

mind elaborating?
Of course they would be paid, just like doctors are paid everywhere there's universal health care available.

Access to a functioning justice system, as it ensures everyone access to laws, is arguably a human right, and yet no one ever says police, judges, or public defenders are slaves. Why is health care different?
Python has typing now and you can check your program against these types by using mypy
And the more granular the time-based caching is within that system the more likely that mine time skew can kill cache.

I've had distributed systems perform unreliably in the < 30s range even with ntpupdate syncing in place.
There’s always ethical ways to generate money, too. Opt in generosity is proven to be viable.. see: Wikipedia, All of Patreon, Etc
> What I know is that before ACA, my health insurance was about $150 a month. Now it’s $650 a month

The health insurance industry is a middle man that provides no services and only acts to raise prices. The whole industry needs to die, yesterday.
I think that’s debatable. France for example goes to great lengths to preserve local food culture and the protection of locally produced heirloom foods.

The US government couldn’t care less. If everyone decided to eat only TV dinners and shelf stable snacks that would be A-OK, even desirable because that kind of thing leads to GDP growth. France would never allow it.

US governments are borderline contemptuous of tradition, and tend to court radical reinventions of basic needs. That leads to people getting hurt, but is great for the economy.
Correct, and they share data across countries and offices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Health_Insurance_Card
I'm getting sick of hearing people complain so much about Python's type system. I'm actually in favor of strong typing, but some people grossley oversell its value - especially on HN.

The overwhelming majority of code I work with is in Python and I can't remember the last time I encountered an issue caused by invalid types. Static analysis tools, good documentation, and peer reviews (things that should be part of any critical code development) almost always prevent those sorts of issues.

Strong typing is great. Just don't exaggerate its effectiveness.
Please stop reposting this to Hacker News.
Amazon to develop former Detroit Silverdome site into $250M distribution center
Types are very important for writing large scale software. Proceeds using `int` for most of the things in the program
I don't look forward to this day.

What many people don't realize is that the majority of new medicine is patented and created in the US. Once it's released, governments that have socialized health care create generics and get around these costs, mostly because they don't have to put any money into R&D.

The world of medicine will be in trouble without our system, because govetnments are really not that good at innovation.

Socialized medicine is great for simple checkups, but breaks down as you get older and need major surgery.

I really don't want the government making these life or death decisions.
Maybe they’re testing tech that tricks pilots and tracking systems into seeing things that aren’t there, or things that distract the sensors and pilots so the real craft can make a hasty escape.
Here you go, works great.

https://github.com/iamadamdev
"It's complicated" is a phrase to dodge facts. Here's some balance. The US has done a bunch of terrible things to other countries, they aren't a good and righteous nation, none are, and neither is China.

There are ghost cities in the US, to say there are none in China is ridiculous. You can do quick search and turn up many respected news sources reporting this.

One side of the argument has been heard for decades, we thought China was quaint and had an old quiet society that respected traditions.

The other side we are just now starting to hear (from respected news sources, other governments and yes vloggers), is that China has been hiding it's true nature. And that is the garbage.

Just go look up what is going on in Hong Kong right now. Or go look up how the current leader of China declared himself ruler for life. That is what despot does.
The problem I'm afraid isn't the 6% margin, but the regulations that inhibit a truly competitive insurance market. To start with, state-based insurance is a legacy that makes no sense today.

I'll gladly pay 6% if insurance companies went to bat on cost instead of half-colluding with providers, and innovated.
Nice choice. Also, great blog; your `whoami.md` is quite a read. Thank you for sharing! Keep it up!
What makes DO tier2?

I use 1 linode for personal stuff, but otherwise, I'm all in on dedicated baremetal. From my perspective, DO is just another cloud vendor.
Slack is a superset of IRC, except for the protocol not being open.

The UX in slack is not easily replicated in IRC (for example, how does/can global search work in IRC?)

Therefore, it is actually correct to say IRC is objectively worse in those measures. The only measure that IRC beats slack is the open protocol (which, if I'm being honest, not many users care,ala most existing chat services moved to private protocols and haven't lost all their users to IRC or xmpp).
Is that relevant when comparing parsing json with parsing literal objects? I don't know much about JavaScript engines but I'd expect that parsing literal objects in code is also blocks the main thread.
Private insurance makes those decisions already (care rationing), as does the government when you’re on Medicare (government run healthcare with very high approval ratings from those on it [per Gallup and AARP]).

You’re hand wringing over a system that is already here, and your fears are unfounded. If you want more drug R&D, up the funding for the National Institute of Health; it’s then publicly owned, and you’ve cut out yet another middleman (drug companies).
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Could be some technology being tested to fake out both pilots and sensors, like a mirage/decoy? Allowing real planes to escape or stealthier craft to not get attention.
W in SWPL stands for white. Their readers are mainly White virtue signaling middle class.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff_White_People_Like
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Honestly, a free market might even be better than what we have (though something like single-payer would be ideal). As usual, we have the weird half-assed worst of both works policy solution that comes from neither self-consistent solution being palatable to the electorate.
> I don’t like calling it a human right. That implies the doctors are enslaved to provide care. No rational and highly intelligent person will pursue medicine as a career if it’s going to require 12 years of education before conscription into unpaid labor.

That's a ridiculous Shapiro-esque take. Are programmers enslaved by accessibility requirements? Are constructors and building owners enslaved by handicapped bathrooms and wheelchair ramps? Not to mention, the thing you're describing already exists and is one of the least controversial parts of healthcare. Doctors are required to provide care, even above and beyond the Hippocratic oath. They cannot discriminate against their patients in many circumstances. Generally this is agreed to be a good thing.

Healthcare as a human right does not mean that people are forced to become doctors and forced to provide care. It means that the available care should be distributed to everyone, just like the ADA means that available resources must also be distributed to give some level of equity to people born with disabilities. All humans deserve an equal footing, and should not be responsible for bad things happening to them which are not their fault. Disabilities are an obvious and clear example of that. Healthcare is similar.

I have no particular stance on healthcare as a human right but you're being atrociously uncharitable in representing it.
You can do it at really low load levels, but you'll lose performance consistency. mmap'ing files over a real filesystem of any kind is super complicated.

The access pattern isn't optimized at all for flash or HDD or etc... however it does work super well if that mount happens to be a DAX mount over persistent memory.
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You're confusing spending with production :P. This money would be spent elsewhere. Calling a number GDP is highly deceptive...
I don’t think Datadog falls into that category..
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Glad you made it out
I honestly have to disagree. It does seem incoherent but if you read the intent behind each sentence he seems to be telling a story with some bitter moments from his past scattered between his profile and comments. I would usually be quick to point out weirdness but I can logically follow each of his comments. Please consider jmg2 may be sick or unwell.
I would imagine that a large percentage (especially older people) won't configure wifi either, so the motivation to use open hotspot (especially that it doesn't take that much effort to implement it) is actually higher.
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I am very keen on picking up some $DDOG shares tomorrow when it IPO'S. As part of my DevOps consultancy I recommend DataDog to nearly all my clients. They check all the boxes in one unified platform:

[X] Server / cloud resource monitoring and alerting [https://www.datadoghq.com/dashboarding/]

[X] Logging [https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/]

[X] APM (application performance) [https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/]

[X] HTTP/API endpoint checks and alerts [https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/]
It's a OSS project, so if there is feedback filing an issue on the docs or submitting a PR is hugely beneficial. The docs team has a single full-time technical writer and the rest is contributions from the community.
Although fair enough in general, New Relic is public with a market cap of $3.5b, and given my experiences with New Relic and Datadog, I wouldn't be surprised if Datadog was easily worth twice New Relic. :) (Certainly they're a lot more than twice as nice to use...)
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You're not paying for that through premiums, taxes are. Your increase is due to the cost of care increasing, blame your doctors and their MBA-run hospitals charging $500 for a 10-minute office visit.
>The world of medicine will be in trouble without our system, because govetnments are really not that good at innovation.

Medicine is not like building a factory, completely different capital model for Medicine is about "discovery" there is a universal truth out there (yes there is differences in genes not making it perfectly universal) , and advances in medicine is figuring out this discovery.

It actually appears most of our medicine discoveries use basic research that is governmentally funded and not privately funded.

Pretty much you are applying top down ideology that government is bad no matter the situation or context.
Before memcached had a monotonic clock people would end up with immortal objects (underflowed TTL's) because ntp would start after memcached and make a huge adjustment due to the hardware clock being really off.

With the restart code, people could run a kernel upgrade and reboot while the daemon is down... so if this ends up causing a huge clock adjustment you're screwed.
Could you share the details of your experience? My experience has been quite the opposite.

I have been using Semmle daily to automate much of the vulnerability discovery process and I am extremely satisfied.

We run it over millions of lines of Java code and have not yet run into scale or perf problems.

Developing custom queries and defining security invariants in a logic language is, quite honestly, a joy.
when I wanted a 4K, I made sure it wasn't a smartTv for the reasons outlined in the article and comments. hard to find, but walmart had their own dumb 4k tv
I think the speed of the Ferrari in this case is referring to the speed of development in a scripting language (not the speed of programs written in the language), and the protection of a tank is referring to the protection from certain classes of errors that static typing gives.
An anti-gravity engine could be used to allow the use of quantum levitation to stabilize the craft in the earth’s magnetic field.
Agreed.

I used to have Verizon $50/7GB/unlimited plan (no contract) which was essentially unlimited high speed for me since this was roughly my monthly usage. My total payment per month after taxes was $55/mo.

I stupidly switched to Fi because I liked the idea of unlimited data sims. Now I pay $85/mo after taxes and never use the data on the additional sims.

I was excited seeing the announcement - but this offers me personally no benefit.
Patent fees?
I've never done anything close to that scale of migration, but I also can't really imagine taking an approach that feels like a huge migration.

I feel like I would try to strangle the old app (putting proxies in front and redirecting endpoints as they're rewritten) rather than swapping it out wholesale.

At that point I don't know if it really counts as a migration as much as just development.

Any thoughts on that approach? Is that what you have done, or was it a more holistic swap over?
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Ruby is absolutely fine, even today. I've moved away from it and towards TypeScript and Kotlin mostly because I was always a static typing sort of person (most of my open source Ruby projects, like my OpenAPI 3 Rack framework[0], heavily used dry-types to give me some semblance of safety) but Rails 6 is really good if you're of a brain to enjoy Rails and the language itself is hard to criticize, IMO, when put up against JS (outside of TypeScript) or Python.

[0] - https://github.com/modern-project/modern-ruby
And US productivity increased 15% during the outage.

Maybe social media should be turned off on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as suggested in Ready Player One.
Lunchclub raises $4M from A16Z for its AI warm intro service
The difference is whether you willingly join or not.

You choose to go to church, clubs or spend money at businesses.

If you're part of a union... chances are you don't have a choice.

The difference is that with the "churches, clubs, businesses" - when they do wrong... people go elsewhere (IE: Ask the Catholic Church).

With Unions? You're forced to stay with the Union if you want to keep the job.

IF the union is "mandatory" or the Church is - I think both of those situations are wrong.

If a union is truly worth the fee... it shouldn't be a the end of a gun (Government/Corporate/etc mandate, forced fees, etc).
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That's exactly what it does, though since it's resuming a monotonic clock the actual code was a bit more complicated...

To find out how long it was down, it notes system time into the state file on shutdown. On start it checks the current system time and adds the delta to the monotonic timer and resumes. Objects exceeding TTL are removed appropriately.
Rust is an interesting language with a fantastic community, but it was created to (and mostly does) very "boring" things.
Switch to Kotlin and watch your productivity rocket! And you'll feel like the last 2 decades haven't been a waste. I work for a FAANG where we're making that move and it has been wonderful.
Lack of static typing and explicit destructors are two things that keep me from using Python for anything but toy scripts that I can monitor myself. It's a shame, because the syntax and built-ins are expressive, readable, and powerful.

It's also slow, but I can deal with slow. Machine time is often cheap, while developer time is expensive.
tons of things are eating the world. it depends on your world.

c/c++ are out there, crushing it.
so is python
and javascript
and java
and go
and c#
and so on and so forth.
Python, the World's Okayest Language.
Reports may be credible, but the reporting on that reporting less so. The way I understand it, some people saw some thing, FLIR saw some thing, a ship radar is claimed to have seen some things, but there's little to actually connect these observations as being the same thing.

My current best theory is that pilots were seeing a reflection on the surface of water and got confused because FLIR had a possibly unrelated and buggy interaction between an internal reflection in optics and tracking software.

(As for the radar thing, I hear it being said that there was a radar that saw someting, but no concrete information is being presented.)

Now take it from the other way around. Say it's aliens, or supernatural beings. Then why on Earth would they behave in an exact way that makes the FLIR footage indistinguishable from a camera auto-tracking a reflection on its own optics? Why exactly this pattern?
In 2009 California SC ruled that Balance Billing for emergencies is illegal
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-supreme-court/1001051.html

In 2017, a state law extended it for non-emergency services
https://californiahealthline.org/news/you-are-now-protected-...

The bill in question is for self-funded health insurance which is pretty rare
https://californiahealthline.org/news/for-millions-of-insure...

Overall Summary
https://www.benefitspro.com/2019/07/11/hospitals-block-calif...
Not only "they admit", but Python _is_ actually strongly typed.

You probably meant to write "statically typed"
That's actually what I meant: using both the name of the type to figure out what it does. I'm not claiming there's a single implementation given the type. Indeed I don't think that's possible in any signature that's not totally just type variables; here we have Bool and [] as base types so there are operations on them that the function can perform by baking in knowledge of these two types.
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It's hard for many to acept not knowing something. Or to make a joke from it: It uses propulsion we know to be impossible.
“six in 10 gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides”

This is part of a trend in “deaths of despair” in the last few decades. People are killing themselves more with guns, alcohol, and (especially) drug overdoses.

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/anal...

Gun violence by homicide is actually down considerably since its highs in the 80s and 90s.

Edit: the bigger part of this is also that deaths due to motor vehicles are also way, way down due to improved vehicle safety. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/17/guns-...