skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual difference in susceptibility to alcoholism is big evidence. And the idea that alcoholism might make you have 3% less kids per generation or whatever small difference would suffice when multiplied over a few centuries is very plausible.
I was going to comment the same thing. Pointing to Medicare/Medicaid as examples for why drug negotiation doesn't work is an impressively incorrect line of thought.
Exactly. The typical purchase size at Starbucks is small enough that the CC fees (which are something like 3%, but also have a minimum per-transaction cost which is something like $0.25) are problematic. If all that Starbucks gets out of it is that those people who use their wallet are paying about $0.20 more to Starbucks (and not the CC company) per purchase, that already is a win for them.

Plus, many Starbucks customers go there 5 days a week, so it is easier to get a one-place payment method used. For other places, where one shops once a week or once a month, it would be harder to get people into the habit of using their special payment method for just them.
Now that you don't have to go to a showroom to get them, I'm super tempted to try these out. Anyone have any experience with them?
I think it is unfair to call a dying people seeking healthcare 'moral hazards'
Warren did, with a pretty decent line something like "I've talked to a lot of people about this and I'm not sure I've ever heard someone say they like their insurance. Their doctor? Their hospital? Sure, but not their insurance. People care about having access to the providers they like—they don't care about their insurance".

I had to tune out after that part of the debate. Watching a bunch of candidates, and especially the frontrunner, claim not that MFA was OK but their plan was better, but that MFA is some kind of impossible dream that can't work, just pissed me off too much. Screw them. Seriously.
I guess it would be interesting to know how much the USPS is subsiding them, but I think what makes the NPR example striking is that they are comparing end-to-end prices: some business in China is paying less than $5.69 and the American business would pay $6.30 for the same service.

But I suppose part of the difference is not due to the subsidy but because the China post has lower labor costs for the aggregation work?
It's odd how you classify numerals as languages. Otherwise, great reference.

abacus-machine computingMachine -2700

babylonian-numerals numeralSystem -2000

roman-numerals numeralSystem -900

attic-numerals numeralSystem -600

greek-numerals numeralSystem -300
it literally trashed the /var symlink.
Yeah, I know, it's subjective but I also think the design is awful. It's good software though!
Seeing the earbuds, eyeglasses and now this, this was exactly my thought! Jeff Bezos must be trolling us.
Sure. There are plenty of first-hand accounts of his behavior, a quick Google search will lead you to many.

Here's a link to one I've most recently run into from someone who worked at MIT. Yes, it's a Reddit comment, but if you check out his profile you'll see the user's been on the site for 11 years, has close to 140k karma, and has many posts in the past that refer to his professional career.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d59r46/richard...

>A lot of people are acting like this is just about the Epstein comments. The MIT community was up in arms not just over that but at the mountain of shit Stallman has gotten away with over the last few decades, including crap like telling female researchers he'd kill himself unless they dated him, keeping a mattress in his office and inviting people to lay topless on it, defending pedophilia and child rape. He's been making women at MIT uncomfortable for years

>I wish there were more to tell but it's exactly what it sounds like. He had a mattress in the corner of his office and he'd leave the door open and if you were a woman who happened to walk by or heaven forbid need to talk to him for academic reasons he would find an excuse to invite you to use it

You'll also find other similar stories on that thread.
A friend detests the idea of warehouse clubs (Sam’s or Costco in the U.S., for example) checking receipts as he, the customer, walks out the door because he takes it as being under the assumption that he is a common criminal.
mmm.. it depends. Fucking over these companies is a good way to go. But fucking them over just the right amount so that they continue doing business to pay money is not ok. It creates a perverse incentive in which the government actually wants people to buy cigarettes so it can continue the money flow. You'd think that cigarette taxes go into public health but that's not the case. The problem here is that with vaping, people are smoking less, thus buying less cigarettes and paying less to the government via tobacco taxes. Because vape pods/ejuice/ecig hardware is not taxed like cigarettes.
> back in the day, “ was in fact shift-2 on computer keyboards.

It’s still located there on many international keyboard layouts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#International_variants
Nice. Would you do a follow-up showing how to automatically select corners like office lens or Dropbox do ? (I find the office lens app really really good)
You can buy plenty of stuff from DH Gate or AliExpress with free shipping which usually takes ~20 days.
The money isn't being pissed away into insurance industry profits.

It's being pissed away when the hospital, and the insurer spend 2 hours arguing over how to bill a $500 procedure. Net cost? $640. $500 for the procedure, $35/hr * 4 hours for the paper-pushers.

Net benefit to the patient? Minus $100, out of their premiums. Would you like to pay cash, or discuss with us a financing plan?

It's being pissed away when the hospital buys bus ads, and the insurer buys superbowl ads. I've not seen a single hospital ad in Canada... Because the hospitals weren't competing for my business.

It's being pissed away when a hospital tries to sneak in a $100 bill for two aspirins, and justifies it by citing how much they spend on charitable care. (Hint: That charitable care is the hospital writing off some other poor bastard's $100 bill for two aspirins.)
The quality of care is already so low that you're better off financially and health wise just flying to Europe, or fleeing to Canada.
I'd consult goodreads.com (ownded by Amazon) to meet your criteria of matching experience with respect to genuine reviews, similar book recommendations, etc.

It's not a flashy service by all means and has definitely been neglected by Amazon since the acquisition; the community makes it what it is, and it is a very high quality community!
To be honest, '/e/' is also not that easy to search for.
For one thing, it hasn't been called "Cyanogenmod" for about three years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS
They would. The actual value that developers make is only a fraction of what they re paid in US. Look at wages in Europe, eastern europe or china which dont have a bubbly market and get paid the market fair price. Its very difficult for internet companies to make actual profit value when everything is locked down by behemoths sucking all the revenues. Besides , VC subsidies is what attracts developers to SV
Perhaps this is a good reason:

>Literally, every Industrial Nation has addressed this problem for much lower costs with better out comes.
Czech Intelligence Blames China for Major Cyber Attack
They are to the FBI, which is where this stat is from.
You might want to educate yourself to the actual problems that we have.
"Medical schools/the AMA are artificially limiting the number of students and residents for their own ends (keeping wages and scarcity high) so they need to charge a lot."

That is the peril of this type of analysis. Clinician cost is only 20% of total healthcare spend. Your premise is flawed so your conclusion is invalid.
From my understanding, suicide rates among indigenous Australians are similarly high, particularly in remote communities. I suspect many of the same factors are at play.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21070315 is a related post.
If I try to build up a history of bookstores as I remember them as a consumer, at one point there were many small stores. A mall may have 3-4 book stores, all taking around the same space as any other retail store. There were also 'used' book stores and some niche stores around. When you didn't know what to buy, you browsed the generic stores and pretty much they all had the same content, if you sought out a niche/used store, you'd often get a personalized set of recommendations.

However, the Barns and Nobles and Chapters found out that if you knew what you wanted, and gambled on going to a small generic or even niche bookstore, you often had to put the book on order or get something you didn't want. They capitalized on this by stocking much more books than a smaller place could hope to hold. They still could on the surface handle the browsing public, so they quickly put the smaller generic stores out of business, and forced many niche stores out too.

They still have the issue though, that while a small generic may be able to stock the selection for around 80% of requests, and the larger stores 95%, Amazon immediately would sell you the book, either sending it out to you quickly or seemlessly putting them on back order. Also, in the early days, the unfiltered reviews and recommendations based on the other buyers of the books were great in identifying if you really wanted to buy the book anyways.

While Amazon now is facing issues with recommendations, 10-15 years ago it was hugely different, and provided a seriously better customer experience. What I've actually noticed, is that if any small niche bookstore has survived until now, they actually are starting to provide a real differentiated experience. A small, curated selection of books, that I feel easy to browse and I feel they've been filtered already. I also don't know off hand without leaving this and searching, wether barns and noble is still in business.
Does the bag have to be held by chemical means? Mechanical hold, for example a thread would work too.
Oops, my bad! I was thinking of going from Secaucus station, another big NJ train station, from which they are in opposite directions.
Trusted Types are definitely designed with safe-by-construction APIs in mind. A primary use case is to write a safe-by-construction library that internally declares and uses a Trusted Types Policy that your CSP headers declare that they trust.

If none of the policies in your CSP headers declare a createHTML method, then you can be confident that innerHTML can't be used anywhere in your app.

You still want the other policy methods because there are other unsafe sinks in the DOM. For example:

const scriptElem = document.createElement('script');
scriptElem.src = someUntrustedInput;
document.body.appendChild(scriptElem); // arbitrary code execution!

There's a number of these sinks, and they have legit important use cases, but you want to be able to sustainably review all such uses. For example, you could make a Trusted Types policy that will only accept a small number of constants for script urls. That way you can still create script elements to e.g. implement lazy loading of code, but you're certain that those APIs will not be used by an attacker to load unknown code.
The movie was reasonably entertaining, and a stellar cast. I agree about skipping the first couple books were not as well polished - I'm glad I did not start there.
Elma gets $3.2M for a digital-first health insurance play
> But the current political climate in the US is incapable of dealing with any kind of multifaceted problem.

I fear this may be true of all political issues now.

Sound bites and catch phrases that way oversimplify complex issues to the point of absurdity seem to sway a lot of voters.
It appears that it would depend on the keyboard.

Some did a subtraction of the code and others did a bitwise AND.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character#How_control_...
If you're going to say I can't care about my privacy in relation to Alexa because of some other unrelated privacy concern then yes, it would be a whataboutism and I would call you out on it, as I would in any debate, because that is how civilized discourse works. If you have a genuine, logical argument I'd like to discuss. Unfortunately most people on this site seem to like downvoting relevant points they feel emotional about and arguing without actually making any effort to understand anyone else's point.
In a remarkable coincidence, someone will post the exact same comment in 2039:

>The difference is wework saw what the marginal costs could be, and had a specific roadmap to drive investment into bringing them down. FutureTechCo fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on its business in any meaningful way. Especially without being the owners of their infrastructure.

What I'm telling you is, how do you know what Wework's roadmap is? You don't.
Fun fact: the delete character was designed to be all 1s in order to allow for human errors: "If a character was punched erroneously, punching out all seven bits caused this position to be ignored or deleted" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_character
Economic actors make decisions at the margin.
Was it the one where he also assigns a probability rate to his prediction? i.e. "Trump will be removed from the presidency - 90%", and then at the end of the year he calculates all his predictions (which are True/False by nature) and weighs them based on how certain he was to determine a marker of how accurate he is.
>> It starts out with that title trying to piggyback on Marc Andressen's famous article.

Do you mean this?

https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...
For a company with the resources FB has, it's remarkable how out of touch they are.
https://codelani.com/languages/actionscript.html

Jobs: 2

How times have changed.
There is also https://grapheneos.org but I haven't tried it myself yet; I have spoken with the author a few times and it looks like an interesting project.
Pretty sure you're the one who has it backwards, and extended periods of darkness and/or vitamin D deficiency have causal factors in suicide.
Uber has used fixed up front pricing for years.
You're right. It's just the potential rewards of owning an entire protocol are far too great for companies to resist sadly.
I was thinking something similar, and it occurred to me, "what if the actual long-term value of Uber is less than $0?" If it's true that Softbank is still underwater on their Uber investment, then they have a big problem. If Uber (or a company like it) were trying to IPO in a post-WeWork environment, they would do considerably worse than they did, I think.
Oh I meant it in a different way, maybe I could rephrase:

You have a tendency to notice things getting worse that you personally experience. When you're younger you have had less time to experience something you care about declining than when you're older which leads to a cognitive bias where it seems that things were generally better when you were young.

However old you are, there were plenty of things in decline when you were young that you just didn't notice or care about because you never experienced them at their best and are much less likely to experience them. So many people have experienced Star Wars because it's super culturally relevant, but slide down that scale and there will be tons of things your parents saw the decline of that you might not even know existed.
Malpractice insurance is < 3% of total healthcare cost in the US. Considering malpractice occurs and has an actual cost, not even all of that is wasted.
Romania. Thanks for the response!
The AMA is a cartel, and we (in the US) are all suffering for it.
One ring to bring them all…
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I usually hand them my card and ID right when they walk up, so I guess I've never experienced this
If you're going to buy an old-style rifle thats true, I rarely see A1 or A2 style uppers anymore. Its about as dated as the Mini-14 design as well and thankfully eliminated.
2020 Every Company Is Becoming Software

2030 Every Company Is Becoming Smart Contract
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Just no. I'm not willingly giving Amazon even more access to my data.
Interactive Fretboard reveals guitar chords, modes, scales and arpeggios
I always look at the money.

If research that goes against the interests of a huge multinational oligopoly has an r value less than 0.1 it's probably true.

Saying that you should just exercise more is literally an opinion taken from a Coca Cola commercial: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/cokes-unc...
Update: Fixed

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Note -- HN included the ) and ; in your link, so clicking it doesn't work properly.

I appreciate your cause and it'd help if it was easier to check it out
Specifically I'm questioning this bit:

> Pressing CTRL simply sets all bits but the last 5 to zero in the character that you typed. You can imagine it as a bitwise AND.

If that were the case then CTRL-(any column) would result in the first column.

Edit: I suppose at this point terminal emulators are just hardcoding in CTRL modifiers rather than the truly emulating what a hardware terminal would have done.
Here is an example of the "Irish Setter" query:
https://open.quiltdata.com/search?q=irish%20%2B%20setter

You would type "irish + setter" in the search box.
Landlord giant pumps the brakes on WeWork expansion
No matter what language you are using, concurrency happens in instructions, interrupts, cores, caches, devices, virtual memory mechanisms, etc, not even getting into GPU architecture. In C you have direct control over these things, you can make the system as concurrent as you want.

In Javascript you have a little window into this through whatever the layer below provided you. So Javascript by definition has a (small) subset of the concurrency you can get in a systems language.

And no I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about. It sounds like you learned concurrency in Javascript, and define concurrency in terms of Javascript primitives. But that's merely a guess on my part.
Yet Indy is using BYD electric buses for their new Red Line rapid transit. The line just opened a few weeks ago.

Be interesting how it'll function during the cold weather - there were problems with these buses that BYD is scrambling to fix.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/201...
Even in Norway?

Also murder has a super low recidivism rate.
Zenni, eyebuydirect, goggle4u are all in this space and provide cheaper glasses. It seems like new ones keep starting, then slowly raise prices, leaving a gap for a new minimum cost provider.

Eyeglasses are an interesting example of a market failure - customers have been paying 10x the actual price for an important item, for 20+ years, and the market hasn't fixed it.

In Beijing I used to just head down to Panjiayuan Zhaojia Glasses City and get pairs for ~15 bucks. Rest your head on a machine that reads your prescription, pick out frames, bargain, 30 minutes later you have your glasses.

In the US glasses are medicalized, which hides the reality that glasses are really cheap and simple to make; for people without money this causes real harm.
Trusted Types lets you do exactly this!

You explicitly list the trusted types policies that you allow on your page, and if none of them declare the createHTML method then there is no way to set innerHTML (even inside some a new version of some obscure dependency of a dependency, or in some script that an intern plopped into the page, or in some five year old code that seemed reasonable at the time that you've totally forgotten about... (not like that happened to me recently))
In urban cities like SF people use Uber just as frequently. It isn't a once a week or once a month purchase. Point is Uber shares a lot of the same purchasing behavior as a Starbucks customer (low dollar, high frequency) and would stand to benefit from a similar wallet app. I believe Uber is also working with some cities to be the app to buy public transit tickets from, so there is some path forward to using an Uber wallet to buy other things.

And again, as I pointed out in my original comment, Starbucks is not just saving per coffee transaction fees - they are monetizing $1.6 billion worth of balances.

They even consider "old" balances that haven't been touched in a long time an asset vs liability (e.g. forgotten gift cards become free money).
> And with no camera or display, you stay in the moment.

In other words, no one will ban you from their bar like they did when you wore your Google Glass.
Do you have any proof of that? Because your article about Buffet is neither about Dimon, crypto, or rich people investing in the latter.

In fact, I'd say Buffet understood Goldman was undervalued when it plummeted during the height of the housing crisis, because Buffet understands financial operations. That behavior is not contradictory to anything Buffet has said, nor is it proof Dimon invests in crypto.
Not at all.

AWS, or rather S3 was a pet project of one of the very early Amazon employees who wanted to do something fun. It wasn't really taken seriously or had deep strategy at first. Once it's started to gain traction, Bezos realized the enormous potential and full-steamed-ahead AWS.

Then it took many years for Amazon retail to actually start using AWS products in any meaningful way.
I'm asking because I can't imagine doing it. I hold my phone to my ear if I have to take a call in public.

And I described a scenario that would be annoying to me at least (random coffee shop person saying their song name out loud to play it instead of just using their phone screen). Maybe its just a matter of different cultures though . I'm from the southern US, so it's normal to talk to strangers and people judge others for manners.
I'd like to know what their support model is. Will phones pre-loaded with /e/ continue to receive security/version updates? Since this is a fork of LineageOS, I'm guessing they don't get automatic updates from upstream.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13539552
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I once used that by accident to find the encoding of a games' sprites. Due to a fluke I had it set to 27 characters wide and while scrolling through, I noticed an ASCII representation of a bike + rider that appeared in the game. Its outline was relatively easy to spot because transparent pixels were encoded as zeroes, so the background appeared in the readout as periods.
They may even create value, but creating cash has become much more difficult in the 2010s.
If it is a name it gets capitalized. If it is an adjective derived from the name (abelian, cartesian, euclidean, ...), it depends on the language, the author and the literature around the word.
AltStore
Ears-on with Amazon’s new Echo earbuds, framebuds, and ringbud
I'd use them in any place that wouldn't feel weird to have a phone call. In practice, this generally doesn't include the middle of a coffee shop due to the noise, or for that matter even a particularly busy sidewalk.

But a less busy area while walking the neighborhood? Sure
> I don't want to hear one thing about negotiating power. That is a debunked line of reasoning. Medicare/Medicaid cover more people than many single payer systems in other countries

That's... not true at all. In European countries, single payer covers almost everyone, and the government has negotiating power to drive down prices. This is proven workable and effective in many places, including Canada. Literally every other industrialized nation has solved this problem.

If you don't agree with universal healthcare, fine, whatever, but don't go throwing around clearly obvious falsehoods.

This is like one of those "we can't solve it" arguments like gun violence where literally every developed country except for the US has solved it.