skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do the obesity rates look like in those countries? You cannot compare a country like Sweden or Finland to the United States when they have completely dissimilar obesity rates, the main driving force behind healthcare costs.

A close example to a region with high obesity rates would be the UK and the obesity epidemic has been straining the NHS for years: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/04/obesity-putt...
In the ProtonMail Threat Model document[1], in the "What ProtonMail does not guard against" section, you should add "Dissenting Opinions".

I know of at least one case where a vocal right-wing personality had his account removed because he listed it as his contact.

I understand ProtonMail is a private company and can do what they want. So they should be honest about not being a safe place for dissenting opinions.

[1]: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/
Is it low? My last bill said I averaged 5kwh/day last month, my February bill averaged 7kwh/day. That's gas heating and hot water though.
There's also three Strawberry, Californias!

Found that out the hard way when I went to meet a fried at the general store in Strawberry, and wound up a few hours away from him.
Did you upvote it?
For those complaining that they need it sorted by date:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelani/codelani/master/langs.csv \
| awk -F "," '{print $NF, $0}' \
| sort -n \
| sed "s/^[^ ]* //" \
| less

This will fetch the CSV, copy the date to the front, sort it, then remove the date.

There are a lot of entries that don't have dates. If you want to remove them, pipe the result through:

grep -v ",$"
And a bonus. Now you can harvest my data too when I am behind you in the line at Starbucks.
> Adding a bunch of sick people raises the costs for everyone

Sick people without health insurance still get healthcare. They just don't pay, go bankrupt, probably cost the system way more than if they had preventative care paid for. Then they get a medical bankruptcy, the hospital eats the cost but raises prices on everyone else to stay afloat. Now, they might have a higher mortality rate and so end up not costing as much as if they had insurance from the beginning, but I think a large amount of the cost of the uninsured is already priced in.
Your claim here is basically incorrect.

"Parcel select" is a service for large mailers who deliver packages, in bulk, to multiple post facilities in the US, near to the destination of the package and have the USPS do the "last mile delivery". Does China Post have a fleet of trucks, in the US which moves Chinese packages to a closer US postal delivery facility. I believe not.

Moreover, if China did have such a service, someone, China or the US is subsidizing it since individual shippers in China, not doing any aggregating themselves get a rate equivalent to large shippers in the US who aggregate and must pay the costs of this themselves.

"“Parcel Select” is the registered trademark name for the Postal Service’s economical ground delivery service for packages entered in bulk, including those entered at desti­nation facilities. It is designed for and generally used by large- and medium-sized parcel shippers. Parcel Select mailers pay postage that reflects the degree of work-shar­ing they do in presorting their parcels and/or drop shipping their pieces at a destination facility located closer to the delivery point. Mailers are responsible for transporting their Parcel Select pieces to a destination bulk mail center (DBMC), destination sectional center facility (DSCF), or a destination delivery unit (DDU) for business and residential delivery."

https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2007/html/pb22219/kit...
This is assuming we act before any of the global homeostasis mechanisms break due to the CO2 levels (jet stream, thermohaline cycle, methane clatharates, etc. etc.), in which case it'll take far more money (and research).
Most apps these days will say something like "collect anonymous usage statistics to improve product quality" with an opt-in. Does that satisfy you?

Both Apple and Google are using differential privacy in different products to do this, Chrome for example, collects telemetry via provable differential privacy.
No need to green-light spaghetti—there's always plenty of room on the wall.
It’s likely the reason why real wages have been stagnant over the past few decades while total compensation has grown quite vigorously.
Oh thanks I missed that -- looks like they came out two months ago, awesome!
I would sooner wear a ring than watch. Anecdotally, I have plenty of friends who agree with me

(Granted I wouldn't wear this for privacy reasons, but I really dislike wearing watches)
Similar to my personal relationships! I'd rather hear about a possible problem, so it can be addressed, than not hear about it.
In my opinion a lot of societal problems that we have exist because we don't shame people for bad decisions any more. 100 years ago the idiot in the village knew they were the idiot. Sure their life sucked. But now all of the idiots of all villages form their own little filter bubble and convince each other that they are the smart ones and that the rest of the world got it all wrong. Sounds like an improvement until you realize that this is the mechanism behind anti-vaxx, flat-earth, obama-birther, climate-change-denial and so on. Or in other words a lot of modern stupidit y that actually kills people.

So yes, I think clearly saying "I think you are stupid for wearing google glasses and I will not have a beer with you as long as you do" is a mature response. At that point they have to decide if they want to have google glasses or friends.
> If they shouldn't be in prison then they probably won't make a worse babysitter.

Prison does not rehabilitate the vast majority of criminals. That's not it's purpose.
> Elephant Chateau (http://elephantchateau.com) deliver the 3 highest grades of tea direct from Ceylon mountain estates with the option for plant-based pyramid bags (soilon) or a free stainless steel infuser.

And the "Shop" button takes me to Amazon?

My skepticism radar is going off.
Instead of giving me a fish you taught me how to fish in this case thanks. I know how the answer and picked up what is now an obvious method for figuring it out myself next time. Much obliged
I used to think I knew a lot about what parents ought to do.

Then I became a father.
A phone has more surveillance capabilities than anything announced today.
Wouldn't really call it a suburban hellscape. Seems quite nice all in all. [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Nevada,+Iowa+50201/Ames,+Iow...
The brotherhood of "we can all band together to pay for each other" falls apart when the line to McDonald's is wrapped around the corner in my eyes.

If you take in over 3,500 calories a day of pizza, soda, cheeseburgers, or candy then follow it up with little to no exercise/movement, you are contributing to the "health insurance crisis".
I think you might have been joking. But, seriously, can you buy a pair and split them with a friend? Or do you have to pair both ear buds to the same device?
I think Warren said it right in the last debate I also have never met anyone who likes their health insurance. Medicare for all is supported by 72% of people according to polls. I think it is time we go for it.
‘Narrator’ Windows Utility Trojanized to Gain Full System Control
> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people. Now, you can argue it's the morally correct course of action, or those people who will be forced to foot the bill (upper middle class taxpayers) are more capable of doing so, but you cannot credibly claim with a straight face that it will make anything cheaper. In fact, the opposite will occur.

Having every person under the same plan that has the negotiating power of 327.2 million people will definitely drive costs down. Don't want to pay what the government says it is going to pay? Good luck finding customers then, because the government is bargaining on behalf of all of the customers in the US.

People who say this stuff are the same people who proclaim there is no solution to a problem that the only occurs in the US. Literally, every Industrial Nation has addressed this problem for much lower costs with better out comes.
Regardless of the value proposition of this product, can we take a moment to appreciate that these glasses have way more going on in them while also costing about the same as luxottica frames?

What a racket
And the counterpoint is the number of closed stores is not a good metric to judge the people making these decisions. In fact, judging the number of closed stores may well be the entirely wrong metric to judge them by.
And that's why you gotta look up the nutritional information if you want to make good choices. A salad isn't just a salad at a restaurant.
The Sony 1000xm3 already have noise cancelling in them. They are expensive at $230, but also way ahead of the pack in both sound quality.
> In PC culture, victimhood is somewhat idealized

I don't even think this is true. It sounds like a strawman used to deny and vilify actual victims.
Who is Galaxy Brain?
I read that article when it came out, and I still don't really understand the obsession with putting a "tech" or "non-tech" label on companies.

Besides that, there are companies that do not satisfy the author's definition that are pretty clear "technology" companies (e.g. Intel).

What explanatory power does the label have?
Amazon is under the (mistaken?) assumption that the Echo was popular for any reason besides the fact that it makes playing music super easy.
>> we save 3.5 million pounds of waste from entering landfills

3.5 million pounds? Of tiny strings and staples? Wouldn't that require literally billions of teabags to reach 3.5 million pounds saved?
Tech Salaries in 50 US States – Where Would You Earn the Most?
I was going to add C++ to the list, but I see that it's listed as cpp.

It's lists c-- correctly, so I don't know why C++ would be any different.
> Knock on wood but, myself and pretty much everybody I know has insurance covered ~75% through our full time employers.

That is money that would otherwise be given to you in the form of salary, so, yeah, you're paying for it even if it doesn't seem like it.

Historically, the main reason for employer-provided health insurance in the U.S. is that it provided a loophole to increase effective employee compensation in a tax-free manner.
Buttered, salted popcorn is "unprocessed" by the standards here. It's a whole grain, mechanically churned cow's milk, and a mineral you can scrape off the ground in many places. All three ingredients have been consumed for thousands of years and over that time have only been altered by selective breeding (assuming you buy the non-GMO stuff.)

Despite being "unprocessed," it provides poor nutrition and hits the right buttons for compulsive overconsumption.
I disagree: There's over 200 million adults & 96% cell phone usage, which would translate to about 2 million disabled at 1%. If they even get 1/10 of that, assuming a device cost average around $700, you're talking about $140,000,000 per upgrade cycle. That seems more than enough to build in decent accessibility. And they get about 44% market share, so that's actually about $660,000,000 per upgrade cycle, which, if measured in cash of $100, is literally tons of money in profit!
Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the Making of a Whistleblower
Perfect! Make sure you speak up so the AI can understand you and Amazon doesn't have to hire more poorly treated minimum wage employees to listen and figure out what you're saying
> US's predominant eye wear monopoly (via insurance/out-of-network frames)

> an insurance system that's designed to benefit only Luxottica (via their stranglehold of both insurance companies AND lens producers).

How is this a thing? Couldn't a startup come in and trounce them by offering $10 frames and lenses? The optics aren't that complicated, and frames are... plastic?
Because google is so much more trust-worthy about privacy?
> it is even supposedly what Christianity teaches, which seems to be pretty important in this country

Ah, the old "I'm not a Christian and think it's stupid and backwards, so this argument won't work on me, but maybe this argument will work on you and you'll do what I want" approach.

Good luck with that.
I think deactivating SIP is necessary to use non-supported graphics boards (e.g. NVIDIA) which aren't uncommon for video editing.
Any former GEAC systems folks here?

You'll notice the list has ZOPL, but is missing ABL (Automated Banking Language) which ran several banking operations in Canada in the early 80's.
> > so they need to charge a lot... why? - I honestly don't know.

> Does anybody else know the answer to this?

They don't _need_ to. But they do charge a lot because they can -- they know that doctors can afford to pay it using future earnings. And now we're back up the stack in terms of explaining high costs.

Part of it is the Baumol effect as explained by Tabarrok et al [1]. But I believe most of it is due to the nature of the healthcare industry when there are no govt-imposed limits on prices: there is no incentive for hospitals and doctors to lower their prices, since they are not in competition with each other for patients. The insurance industry is just passing the cost to the employers. I could even argue that this explains some of the wage stagnation -- costs went into health insurance premiums.

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/sp...
https://codelani.com/languages/go.html
Just added. Hope it doesn't break anything as that's the first Javascript I've added to an otherwise static site. Please let me know if that works!
I admire your pedantry, but there's a clear distinction between these things and what dawg- referred too. One is a product with a behaviour that is clearly understood, and not proprietary (for the most part). More importantly, it's behaviour is not under the control of anyone else.

I can see why you might think this line is a little restrictive and arbitrary. Collectively we've already gotten used to running so much software that we have little to no oversight over, so this seems like such a small thing.
Your argument here is that you trust Mark Zuckerberg's statement because Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't lie, because if Mark Zuckerberg lied, he would get into lots of trouble, and therefore to avoid getting into lots of trouble, Mark Zuckerberg obviously tells the truth.

I have trouble with this logic.
Also, I'm not quite clear - what are the consequences for lying to Congress?
Why would a Brit know anything about the visa system in the UK (unless they were a solicitor)?

NHS isn’t perfect. But its cost structure is miles more navigable and we’ve found wait times better.
My main thing with this is it kind of works well for digital minimalism - no need for notifications or tracking of my body but get the benefit of adding to-dos or looking up quick things without looking at a screen.

I hate smart watches cause I wear a normal watch, you know, something i never have to charge and is always on, amazing concept and I don't want to constantly be pulling out my phone, I prefer to keep it in a bag. This kind of gets that middle ground of answering quick one off questions (which I use my Google Home for now, but not out and about) as well as add to-dos and other things. Connecting this with Ifttt can probably do other cool stuff to.

Though, this is not a mass market need, it just happens to fill my specific need.
Why you don't have any customers, with Rob Fitzpatrick, author of 'the Mom Test'
Eventually this will evolve into a system where you can just think of what u want and an AI assistant will go and do it for you, optionally presenting results within your field of vision, or if you're not an oldtimer, directly to your brain
The article discusses this - SIP often disabled in this industry to install unsuppoted graphics drivers.
I don't think they messed that:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/25/20882636/amazon-echo-stud...
/e/ is LineageOS + MicroG already. Seems like a LineageOS downstream distro with bunch of defaults and some Cloud stuff (can be self-hosted) and an Appstore other than FDroid. Oh and they’ll sell you preflashed phones.

So basically AOSP for less technical people interested in privacy. Seems harmless so far.
> A particularly infuriating example of this is bookstores that demand you turn in your bag at the desk. I just walk out.

Downside is that they probably then think Aha, well done Brian, stopped him in his tracks...
React-iOS-PWA-prompt – Native style prompts for Add to Homescreen on iOS
So, is this like a competitor to LoRa?

https://lora-alliance.org/
I don't know how to feel about this. On one side are the privacy implications.

On the other hand, 16 year old me would have loved this. This is the pervasive computing of sci-fi made real. All information is just a tap away. Control lights or run a compute job using a custom Alexa Skill.
You don't need locking primitives for a deadlock. Await is sufficient.
It would be cool to be able to attach it to different frames. The default one looks low quality.
Second MF. While expensive, their individually bagged teas use cotton muslin.
Added. Please let me know if that works or breaks. Thanks for the feedback!
Ok... I don't remember bringing up smart phones

Here's some reading:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-o...

When your entire argument is based on a very basic, widely used logical fallacy no one is going to take it seriously. I understand the point you're trying to make, but that isn't what's being discussed
What makes dogs so special and successful? Love
I think you missed a zero. About $80 per citizen. Still a negligible part of premiums though.

The problem with health insurers isn't their profits (though that's a popular political talking point), but rather it is the part they've played in creating/enabling all the inefficiency in the current bureaucracy.
I think this is a really great point, as often the HN answer is "hire better developers". The majority of companies outside the HN bubble are full of very average developers. ORMs work well in that sort of environment as it allows them to be productive, and any performance issues can be tackled by the less-average developers on the team.

A while back, I worked with a client who's stack was predominately Java but due to company policies paid 25-50% under the going rate for decent developers. This caused two problems: not being able to hire enough developers, and some of the hires not being great.

We solved that problem with a technical one: the stack moved to Clojure powering backend services with Node.js on the front end. The coolness and newness of those technologies at the time meant they could make hires. Ironically, now the demand for those technologies means they command high salaries and they're back at square one.

Bit of a long story, but my point is that sometime you need to solve people problems with technology and technology with people.
"No, I wanna copy Apple now!" -- Amazon, to Google, overheard by a confused Apple employee who thought they were copying the other two.
I think it also shows the stunning level of mass delusion in the SV VC space.

To this day I don't know whether the people who throw around and parrot the valuations actually mean it.

I mean, take the price of a small portion of an asset that is illiquid and in short supply, and assume the same price would apply for valuing the whole?

This sort of crap wouldn't fly amongst kids in kindergarten, so I'm astounded that it is being perpetuated on this scale.

I really feel like a massive reality distortion field has been pulled over our eyes by the inflow of easy money.

I don't know, it feels like deja vu. The same mistakes were done in the early 2000s, then 2008. Except we all think that back then people were idiots to not see it.
I buy a lot more books from Amazon than I did before Amazon existed. The reasons are simple:

1. I can get pretty much any book ever printed, not just newly printed books.

2. Prices are usually better.

3. The friction to buying them is very low.

If I want to buy books by the lot, such as every book in a series, I usually go to ebay.
Dear god, man. The woman was "the life of the party" and went to the gym every day, and she DIED a few days after this fall. And your argument is the problem is that she was lonely and a consumer tech device won't fill the hole in her life?

This is the coldest of cold takes.
ok so let's hear it then? How would you do this better? very curious to know.
Im surprised the glasses model isnt bone conducting. It would make sense to combine bone conducting headphones and glasses.
> There's very little reason to disable SIP otherwise

This…is not true. It's not just Hackintoshes, it's ANY hardware that lacks a SIP-compliant driver. Avid editors use a lot of hardware, hence frequently MUST disable SIP.

But sure: blame the user.
Just added column sorting by clicking the headers. But your solution is great too! Thanks!
"Day 1 Editions are designed to bring you our most innovative ideas faster. By choosing to participate, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute feedback that informs future product ideas and development."

So compared to for example Apple, they are taking a different approach with this product.
The gdpr applies to Google's operations in europe.
I don't understand what you're saying. Who is saying anyone helped anyone else when children's hands were chopped off in the Congo?
I mail ordered from TeeGschwendner (https://www.teegschwendner.de/en) for years, and their quality is very solid. I stopped because our local yarn store (!) had a truly excellent looseleaf tea selection.

Sadly, going to an upscale tea place in an urban area does not guarantee you decent tea, nor are places consistent. There are places that have nice blacks and greens, but utterly miserable rooibos (this is quite common).
It would be nice to have hearing aids based on this concept. That way you can hide a nice microphone, larger batteries and a better DSP chip.
So if google glass people were glassholes what do we call alexa people ?
I actually don't care much for dogs and I think it's unfair to people like myself who think of them as nice but meaningless.

Dogs are like farming. It's either your life or just something in it.
I guess HN and similar platforms could fit into the social media box, broadly. Taken extremely literally, they are mediated social environments. But I would absolutely make a distinction between sites like HN and "real deal" social media.

Social media companies like Facebook and Twitter measure success by things like user engagement and time spent on the platform - and their design principles are optimized to max out those measurements. That's how they create more value for advertisers and make billions of dollars.

This site is a social experiment in creating civil online discussion. Facebook and co. are a social experiment in hacking human behavior to create compulsive users who consume advertising with (measurable, trackable, hackable) enthusiasm.

I don't think HN would get much buzz for an IPO. :)
My regular glasses already keep me in the moment by forcing me to toggle a light switch with my finger. This marketing is such nonsense. They're really reaching to find some utility in something that provides very little.
They are covered %100, they won't feel the bad they're making.
For consumers, it was more like NT and didn’t support the devices or software you would want.

For business, it was too IBM to succeed. The company was going through rough times, and the sales executives would always push high margin mainframe.
I agree with all of this, which is why I said I think a single payer system is the best way to go, but the parent mentioned insurance being cheaper, which it would not be.

The total cost of the whole system is lower per capita when everyone participates, but the cost to certain participants is much higher, depending on what the system looked like before.