skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
which "free market" is that?

in the US the "free market" for food continually gets porked up "Ag bills", leaves food deserts in low income areas, subsidizes complete and utter garbage used to feed livestock, and pays farmers directly even though it's not efficient by any means.

despite all of this you almost certainly want this to continue because in the event the ol' "free market" decides that it's not worth, say, maintaining food infrastructure due to a few good years, you'll probably die in a famine or the chaos that comes as a result of it.
This isn't true in my experience. I've witnessed plenty of people in wealthy US suburbs that stock bottled water at home and even stock up on vacation.

They claim it's for the taste and purity.
Just last December, I mindlessly selected my credit card to pay my quarterly property tax, and was hit with a $97 fee. Yeah my fault for quickly clicking through and using my browser autofill, but I was watching a TV show thought it'd be just a few dollars.
I wonder if anyone's tried making bagels with it yet.
Maybe the issue is viewing relationships in terms of points and winning.
Don't visit that site if you value your scrollbar or browser history...
I remember reading some commentary about how losing billions is perversely a good thing to have on your resume, as it implies:

- someone trusted you with billions

- you weren't too paralyzed by fear of risk to do anything useful

- you might even have learned from the experience

Also see The "Parable of the Talents", in Matthew 25:14–30.
also, segment was the O.G. segment alternative https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js
I've dropped it completely except for once every four years, on presidential election night, at a bar, with opposing networks on TVs right next to each other. Great entertainment!
Duke Energy’s solar rebates power private solar system growth
Yes, that absolutely makes sense to me, and to continue GP's analogy - it's a 'pro PC shop', not a 'fix your computer and tell you you need a new mouse mat and thumb drive' shop.

If someone springs up and starts making money providing a static site hosting solution built on top of CloudFlare, that sounds to me like a success for CF, not a missed opportunity.
Closing the Network Gap in LinkedIn
Socialized healthcare works. Capitalistic healthcare works. This ungodly mess we've created in the US that combines the worst aspects of both doesn't work. When everything is secret and there's no actual competition between providers but also no regulatory controls to prevent abuse you get the worst possible results.
There's an distinction made between legalization and decriminalization in terms of sex work (that I think is the reverse of how they're used in regards to drugs). Legalization, to sex workers, implies regulation, licensing, additional taxes charged, etc. Decriminalization means no laws against adults selling sex (except perhaps any standard employment laws, etc.)

It's an interesting distinction, and talking to people about it really brings up the core complaint against sex work, which almost always ends up being a moral one (i.e. that it is not work that should be done, it's wrong).
That seems like a distinction without a difference. He basically called people who think water is a human right extremist (from your link).
The definition of rent seeking is creating nothing of value. They are producing original content. You can pay more to buy the DVD or Blu-ray if you want to own the content outright.
> Offer them a github link with the code if you want to standout.

Make sure it's a private GitHub repo, or you ask first. Many companies prefer their coding tests to not be published online. It happens, it's unavoidable, but companies can often get by with the same test for a while if people don't post them on GitHub too much.
Sarcasm? If not there is nothing stopping you from generating static files using build time queries.
Here in Sweden there is a rule that dictate that local government must provide housing, food, healthcare and education to all people officially living in their region. This rule sits above any potential conditions that they want to impose.

This does not mean workers do not get exploited, or that people won't take jobs they don't want to do in order to escape bare minimum of living.
I apologize, that was not my intent. I withdraw my comment.
There are people who will say "I want to do this for this person in exchange for what they're offering me". There are people who will say "You can't do that. You're hurting yourself". Usually the people in the second group then leave happy having done their job of saving the people in the first group. Then the first group starves.

As a minor, I did all sorts of work over the Internet, and got paid fraudulently over Paypal. Boy am I glad child labour experts didn't get in on that shit. Moralists never really care to help.
> The biggest problem for these sites is maintaining consistent domain names.

https://www.torproject.org/

http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
Sounds like PFAS (a byproduct from teflon production). Researchers struggle to find any humans who don't have it in their bloodstream, even in remote areas. It causes birth defects.

Fun Fact: the "compostable" paper bowls offered by many fast casual restaurants like Chipotle contain this chemical, and will leech into the soil if you try to compost them.

"The Devil We Know" is a pretty unnerving documentary on this subject.
In which countries does capitalistic healthcare work well? Or do you mean just within your theory it works well and that there are none that actually do it?
Sure, but what's your definition of "true"?

Derivable from first principles? General consensus? Observed once and seems to fit with the current model?
This guy ported wolf3d to the Gameboy Color more or less that way (looks like all the game logic is still on the Game it's CPU and just the ray-casting is done on the co-processor)

http://www.happydaze.se/wolf/
Is a phone plan even necessary at this level of usage?

In much of the world, I'd just use a pay-as-you-call SIM, probably with it set to automatically top-up. The price of calls varies widely, I have one aimed at immigrants which charges €0.005/minute for some international calls but is expensive for local calls, but it's appropriate for "emergency" phone use.
Highly recommend zero water or another in-house filter. In Mountain View, CA or South San Francisco - one zero water filter last me hundreds of gallons. In Mesa, AZ it only last me around 50 gallons but that is still competitive with a water and ice except that you don't have to drive the water back to your house.
Plastic surgery is capitalistic healthcare.
> The tap water in the vast majority of the US is superior to bottled water.

I'm surprised this myth gets repeated so often on HN. It's not true- the standards for purified bottled water are quite high[0].

[0]https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/bottled-water...
one of my employees told me a funny story.

I was telling him about the experience of the terror of mid-2002 - layoffs everywhere and a really tough job market, stock market post-collapse, massive rise of offshoring in actuality but more importantly the nearly-universal assumption among business leaders and investors that eliminating US employees was the way forward, the entire career looking incredibly iffy, etc.

He was in highschool at the time, he says. The highschool guidance counselor was doing their thing and he was interested in computers, softwarer, etc. She told him that programming was all going to India so he should do something else like law school or business.
Who is "we"? People are blaming Boeing for trying to pass an airplane that's significantly different from a 737 as a 737. Pilots are rightly pissed off. MCAS is a completely new invention that's exclusive to 737 Max. Boeing was ethically in the wrong for passing the plane off as any old 737, because they wanted to save money due to re-certification costs. The flying characteristics of the 737 Max are different from 737, due to the bigger engines (another cost cutting measure as the engine efficiency is proportional to the size). They introduced dynamic instability, in that the airplane has a tendency to pitch up at an increasing rate when increasing power at take off. Boeing, rather than addressing this issue early on, created MCAS as a bandaid, another cost saving measure. The AoA sensor sampling wasn't redundant, a neglectful cost saving measure and oversight. The sensor disagreement light, a critical safety feature, was sold as an optional package.

My point is, there are a lot of technical and ethical oversights you are glossing over. There is a reason why all the 737 Max are grounded and have been grounded for months. These crashes weren't simply due to lack of pilot training. There were multiple ethical and technical oversights and negligence by Boeing that resulted in these tragedies.
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Here’s the report the NYT drew much of their data from: https://health-access.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ha-ab72...
Unfortunately there's lots of money in convincing Americans to vote against their best interest. Expect to see lots of "socialism is bad/will destroy America" propaganda in the future. My guess is socialized medicine will be branded as some kind of evil force and demonized.
This is trivial to add. Can you open a ticket?
Github can ID project dependencies and notify devs when one of them is vulnerable to a CVE. They could more easily find licenses for all project dependencies also, they just don't. Github could id private repos using GPL code for non-gpl licensed projects. Github could even automatically apply the correct GPL license and make the projects public, which would satisfy the license.

By failing to do so, Github really seems to be encouraging copyright infringement.
Several groups are working on engineering fungi to digest plastics, seems like a great idea to me.
Made me immediately think of the Nelson ha ha gif

Also reminds me of a doctor complaining that the highest paid doctor at his hospital is a consulting radiologist. Who works M-F, 9am to 5pm and doesn't see patients ever.
> it's not only the men causing it.

One thing I find fascinating about humans is that we are so compulsively cultural that we will actively propagate cultural practices that are harmful even to ourselves. When you are young, you absorb whatever culture is around you completely uncritically, and then you immediately turn around and start broadcasting to the next generation.

Cultural changes and evolves, of course, but it's really hard to uproot a norm or more once it's settled in, even if it's one that causes you personal pain.
According to Sony, the PSVR breakout box isn't doing much in the way of processing. It just handles 3D audio and warping 2D video for the headset (and the opposite for TV display of what the headset displays if the game doesn't provide its own feed).

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-what-...
I don't know about purity but the taste can indeed be better than tap.
It worked well in the US until around 1990.
> It is interesting that while CalTrain is over crowded at commute times and struggles with having enough capacity, the light rail system is underutilized.

True in San Jose—VTA is one of the least functional public transit systems in the entire country—but not in San Francisco. The state considers Muni Metro to be overcrowded, in fact: https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/CCTS_FebWorkshop_Brea...
I recently did the NWTA weekend retreat with the ManKind Project and found it a surprisingly profound experience. I would recommend it for most men I’ve known. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.

I’m not surprised to see so much pushback and gatekeeping here from other men, or suggestions that encouraging men to find spaces to “talk about their feelings” are a radical feminist ploy to subvert true masculinity, but I am saddened by them. That attitude reflects a deep sickness that is at the heart of what makes it so hard to be an authentic, open man in today’s culture. MKP and similar organizations are one of the few healthy forces I see working against this.
> But the minute you start picking facts for context, or analyzing the facts, you're inherently incorporating your personal views.

That's not "subtle manipulation", that's bias. Calling it "subtle manipulation" disingenuously implies that journalists unscrupulously distort or change the news. Context & analysis is inherently biased, no surprises there, but you're approaching substance-free cynicism when you say stuff like "Journalists don't believe it's their job to talk about why something may or may not work, but they really want to."
If we are going to pay just as much with socialized care through taxes, with less options. Why do we want to switch instead of making changes to the current system?

I think a better option would be to slowly get rid of the insurance companies, since they are a middleman creating bloat and drastically increasing the costs of everything.

The true costs of medical procedures and care would then be charged (and as a result, go down).

The free market would further reduce the cost of surgeries that are common (like Lasik and many plastic surgeries that have reduced in cost over the last decade due to the free market/competition) through competition.

There would still be surgeries that are needed and expensive because there just aren't enough doctors that perform them or the free market hasn't been able to reduce the cost. This would be where insurance comes in and would cover certain surgeries and procedures.

I don't know anything that the government runs well and I certainly don't want them in charge of my healthcare. Socialized care is great for checkups, when you aren't that sick, and are young.

It falls apart when you get old, need specific surgeries/procedures, and are denied by the government because it's not necessary.

I have elderly relatives that live in Canada and use the Canadian system for all checkups, but come over the border for major surgeries because the wait time is just too long.

I lived overseas in Europe and Asia (all with socialized healthcare) and saw many sub-standard hospitals compared to the US.
If your geniune goal is to protect sex workers, you would not do so by working on general labor rights, because those rights do not apply to sex workers.

If you want the government to protect sex workers you, almost by definition, need to make sex work legal. In reality, you might not need to go that far. The effectivness immigration policy of sancuary cities and safe harbor laws for reporting drug overdoses show that it is possibly to provide services (including law enforcement) to criminals; but building and maintaing the nessesary trust with the community is very difficult.
I haven’t jail broken a phone since the 3G, I just don’t see a compelling reason to anymore. The reason I did it then was to get around the tethering restrictions that att had at the time, but now I can’t really think of any features that I would want my phone to have that it doesn’t already.
Indigenous peoples who are less connected to the global economy tend to have 4x+ the gut microbial diversity. Would be interesting to study the link between microplastics and the microbiome.
I subscribed to the updates and it's great! I recommended it to other people and they're also glad with it. Thank you for sharing your work.
Switzerland and a few other countries have fully privatized medicine. You don't hear about them dying from preventable diseases.
In my town it doesn't seem to be aware of the roads that taxis can use but which are closed to 'normal' traffic.
No wonder about the results. “The water tested was purchased in the U.S., Kenya, China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico and Thailand” - so basically just third world countries without strong food safety regulations.
Indeed. Hacker News, Hubris Views.
> Why is an interesting question.

I'd speculate that office workers are often interacting with things that can't easily be outsourced or don't make sense to outsource fully. Billing, HR, support, legal, accounting, marketing, advertising, PR, and dozens of other things.

The wealthiest (and many of the largest by employee count as well) US corporations today are largely software companies. Facebook is software, its ad network is software. Google's search engine is software, its ad network is software. Most of the value in AWS is in the software services. Software has comically fat margins typically. It affords staff bloat that most any other type of business does not. It's also incredibly hard to undercut via simple industrial methods like dumping (as in the steel or aluminum industries).

If you look at the ways you can beat a US manufacturer on making a pair of shoes for Nike or steel or an electric fan or office chair or toaster, those methods will not work well against Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Salesforce, Oracle, AWS, Adobe, Workday, Intuit, ServiceNow, et al. I'm not putting my data in China's cloud with their version of AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean or Linode even if it costs 1/4 as much. I'm not using their Cloudflare. I'm not running my CRM software in their cloud. And so on.
If every successful business is eventually copied by open source, can we really blame big companies for protective practices such as customer lock-in?
I don't think I understand the desire or the concern here. Look around the BBQ in the back yard at any party anywhere in 'merica and you'll find the guys hanging out and chatting away from their wives. Look at sports teams in your high schools, colleges, and local clubs and you'll find men hanging out together. Look at Men's bible study groups or similar if that's your thing. Go to the local men's barber shop and find a bunch of guys getting haircuts. Invite your buddies to your place to watch the game...
The system in India works for the middle-class and upper. They have fairly elastic supply of doctors so it balances out. Some of their surgical outcomes have higher performance than American surgeries, particularly some heart surgeries. Cheaper, faster, better.
Switzerland. Netherlands. In one ranking they are the best systems in Europe.
> It has a small active community

Wrong. Clojure community is only smaller in comparison to mainstream languages: Java, JS/TS, Python, Ruby, Go. Today it has more conferences than Haskell, F#, OCaml, Elm, Elixir, Erlang. More meetups and more podcasts. Just this year alone there were announcements for Clojure confs in India, Brazil, Canada, Russia and Belgium (and these are just for new ones)

> many abandoned libraries

Wrong. Clojure emphasizes modularity and composability, library that supposed to be doing one thing and well is usually just that. Besides, Clojure is also legendary for stability and backward-compatibility. I don't know any other language where you can pick a project of a few years old, update a few dependencies and still expect it to work. You don't have to re-write things every time TC39 gets browsers to support yet another Javascript feature.
Read this passage from one of the Clojure libs https://github.com/candera/causatum#liveness-advisory to understand why Clojure libs don't get updated very often.

There are hundreds of Emacs packages that people still download and use but they haven't seen any updates for decades. Does that make them "abandoned"?

> no killer app

Wrong. Clojure often offers multiple choices for any domain. Being hosted makes it even broader. Yes, some knowledge of the language you're trying to interop with is required, but you don't have to be an expert to successfully build and maintain things.
If someone doesn't qualify Figwheel, Re-frame, Fulcro, Lacinia, etc. as "killer apps" I don't know, maybe they are just pathologically ever unhappy.

> painful tooling

Wrong. Again. It used to be difficult, because only Emacs used to have nice support for Clojure. Today you can write Clojure in Emacs, IntelliJ, Atom, VSCode, Vim, Eclipse. And tooling is a lot nicer in comparison with other tech stacks.

So no, Clojure has never "lost the momentum". It is still growing, but less rapidly. The ecosystem has reached levels of hedonic adaptation, where people are just happily using it without too much excitement and/or frustration. Clojure has become a "boring" language. It just works. And arguably it is probably the best tool for what it is made for.
Doctors and their lobbying organizations have be complicit in all this. Despite not getting that the over class sees them as 'the help'

That said it's really only most but not all of the older generation of doctors that happily sold out their patients and younger doctors to the medical industrial complex.
They need to test blood and urine.
I felt more satisfying in performing the job than managing team and getting status updates.

I never applied for PM roles,my suggestion is ,just talk to any PM's and get a feel for the job.

Alternative option is to see how your development work is fitting into larger context, switch to different projects so that you can see real business value in action ,not in papers.
Why are you approaching this as a competition or a battle? You clearly haven't been doing management for more than a few years if this is your perspective.
Would something this calibre qualify for the $1M bug bounty?
The incentives are very different. When the doctor says injections or implants will set you back $X it's not a matter of life and death. Or even health at all. You can choose to wait and save up. When the doctor says you need medical treatment that costs $X you're going to have to come up with a way to get the money even if you go broke trying. And that's assuming you're lucky/healthy enough to even be given a chance to price shop.

It's hard to go broke getting boob jobs. It's exceedingly easy (in US) to go broke getting even the most basic of health care.
"It's like, 'how much more black could this be?' and the answer is 'None. None more black.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell_the_Glove
I know people who married their same-sex partners and own guns. Not only can the two sides live together, they can live together in the same person. But for some reason, only the partisan bickering gets attention.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's hard to get out once we go there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wish we could have something akin to the laws that protect people from drug prosecution for bringing someone to an er for an overdose for sex workers who are raped to come forward and prosecute without fear of prosecution while we figure out how to inact realistic laws that actually protect victims of trafficking and don't turn willing sex workers into trafficking victims or criminals
It is worrisome to me that people can consider Facebook a platform for misinformation, while major establishment media companies can freely publish articles deliberately trying to muddy the waters every, single, day.
Not at all. I'd say the motivation for talking things through lies on a spectrum between brainstorming and bitching, and people have a need for both, just be aware of which one you're doing. A complaint can be stoic.
GamerGate, male suicide rate, incels, falling male graduation rates, mass shootings.
Maybe I'm dumb - Can anyone tell me why PHP vs JS for a "generic" web application?

\In 2019 there are far far far more developers with real experience developing in Javascript vs PHP. There are obviously a lot of other factors in considering the base dev language, but unless you can make a strong case for PHP vs JS, I'm picking JS every time because in the generic case they both meet my needs but a lot more devs work with JS vs PHP. This is not a moral argument, but rather a practical one. What is the practical argument for PHP?
Spinners usually say this to distinguish themselves from automated spinning tools.
> more than willing

Who said that and when?
Stoicism is tragically misunderstood by most people.