skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand this in general. My bank in the Netherlands charges me a $5 fee per month and everything else is free. My bank in Japan doesn’t charge me anything, but if I make more than 3 transfers per month I pay around $2 per transfer.
Indeed. That's why we have raised a seed round and doing this full time as a serious business. We are passionate about privacy but understand that we cannot have a good shot while doing this part-time.
It's certainly not better.
I agree that the filter is where the most value is, but it’s wrong to assume that the publisher is providing it. They’re not. The science community is the ones providing it — for free.

Same with publishing templates. The science community itself provides the style guides and style templates. The publishers provide printing presses. That’s it.

The scientific community can decide to abandon the publishers, and start competing journals, which will automatically transfer the heft away from the original and to the upstart, because it is the community that provides the value.

This may sound idealistic, but this has already happened. The linguistics community abandoned Elsevier’s Lingua and replaced it overnight with Glossa. The linguistic community’s success, then inspired the mathematics community to abandon Springer’s Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics and replace it with Algebraic Combinatorics.

This path is traveled. The pattern established. In 2019 it’s just much easier to start a publication since you need very little economic capital.
As someone who ALSO does these interviews, it sounds like you're doing more harm than good. Interviews are never the place for adversarial questioning or psychological games. If you wouldn't feel comfortable writing your questions and their answers verbatim in your interview feedback, you shouldn't ask them.

Getting a useful signal is as much about the interaction as the questions, and if you're acting like a jerk then the most appropriate response for a strong culture fit is for the candidate to not want to work with you. Which is probably not something you're capturing very well.
Issues with Enterprise Cloud and SaaS Pricing
Surprised you didn’t mention the ubiquitous bring-your-own-container 1 baht water vending machines in Thailand too, which as I understand it are doing ad-hoc filtering:

https://m.alibaba.com/product/137674491/Water-Vending-Machin...
> asking out MIT undergraduates

Oh horror! How can a man be so depraved, so devoid of any common decency, so enthralled to his animalistic desires as to ask out a MIT undergraduate! Who'd even think such thing is possible in our enlightened time. We all thought we are way past MIT undergrads being asked out, but here we go again.
WeWork Landlords in London and New York Are Bracing for a Market Fallout
Sounds like sexual assault

Given the author's lack of concern, I think they are very opaquely alluding that the man must have secretly enjoyed it, therefore not sexual assault.

That these encounters bothered him enough to write, that they stayed with him after he moved on, highlights the ways sexual solicitation created new feelings and emotions that were anything but momentary.
Ready, Fire, Aim: U.S. Interests in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
If you have money, you can buy a small water filtering unit for the house that gives you drinkable “tap water”. We had one in our fridge in the early 90s in Bangkok.
Again, that sounds like reverse causation...
Tesla, Elon Musk found to have engaged in unfair labor practices
I suppose I’m of the view that any sort of license requirement limits supply and so the enforcement of kitchen safety at the threat of losing your restaurant license isn’t all too different. Taxis medallions are a contentious topic so perhaps it was a poor analogy.
Interesting how it similar to pressuring of undocumented immigrants in states like AZ by making it illegal to rent housing to them, etc. Holier than thou self enjoyment and total lack of compassion and power tripping is the same across the continents and issues. Instead of helping the vulnerable groups let's make their life as miserable as possible short of openly hunting them down. Though it seems that is what the border militia is doing in the US.
Absolutely it is effective. Of course, it presupposes consultative decision making as a cultural norm.

The idea of a single person owning any decision cuts a lot of crap, blame-shifting, and responsibility-dodging. The idea that you are expected to gather input from those that have it, and synthesize that into the best decision you can, makes information flow up the organization where it does some good.

The “disagree and commit” works both ways. I once had an issue that I felt very strongly about and made a “disagree and commit” phone call to a VP 3 levels above me on an issue I had been intimately involved in. I stated a coherent case. He heard me out with respect. I executed a plan I disagreed with. Life went on.

Also, in cases where I was the decision-maker, when things went bad, I knew who to go to when creating Plan B. When you own the decision, you own the recovery plan.

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Edit to add: W.r.t. egos, the cultural norms play a role there, too. At the time I was there, people outside Intel viewed Intel people as arrogant — but inside the company that exact same behavior was not viewed that way at all. Being very direct and expecting clear thinking was just the way we interacted. It was kind of an inside joke that once you had absorbed Intel meeting culture, going to, say, a PTA or church board meeting would drive you nuts and you had to be careful not to seem abrasive when all you were trying to do is surface issues in a clear and cogent way.
The economic exploitation underlying the need for women (and to a lesser extent, young men) to prostitute themselves is central to the subject, and highlighted well by this essay. Chris Hedges did a very moving interview with Rachel Moran about her experiences as a prostitute that describes these issues. Trigger warning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2pE-Uoh6I
Or look at the Sci-Hub Wikipedia page.
I wonder how likely one was to get mugged walking the streets at night as opposed to being propositioned. It's not clear that night-time streets are a "public space" at all. I'd buy his notion of "public sex" if it happened during the day and prostitutes were mixed in with the vegetable stands, but the examples seem very weak.
I'll counter with a hypothetical way to clean up greenhouse gases using fossil fuels.

That is, until something can be put into production, it is not a superior product.
I was just in the US and I couldn't drink the bottled water, basically, due to it tasting terrible. The San Francisco tap water was surprisingly good when filtered, and I did find a brand called "Iceland Spring" or something similar that was good. Evian also has a consistently good taste.
Or you could not have insurance play games where they pay less because something is done on the same day.

We used to have this in Radiology. If a patient came in for a Cancer restaging CT, payers could pay 100% of the chest, 50% of the abdomen, and 25% of the pelvis.

Just because these were done on the same day doesn't mean it's any faster or cheaper to interpret each of those portions. Yes there's some savings in the technical components (placing the IV etc), but it takes me just as long to read the three scans if they are done on one day or 3. Why should I take a 125% hit when I'm providing a convenience for the patient by doing all their scans on the same day?
I thought that the authors point is a description of an interesting change in social behavior in 1850's Paris, focused on the change as experienced by people walking along public streets.
It's easy to say "expect the US expectation of care, turnaround time, and time-to-service to decrease drastically", but many people in the US have terrible turnaround time, terrible time-to-service, terrible expectation of care. They simply can't access decent care in less than six weeks without breaking the bank, or can't access decent care at all. If we're looking at maternal mortality, for instance, the US just sucks by all measures. If we're looking at infant mortality, we're a total failure. And that's before we're getting to the cost part, where you go to the hospital expecting to push out your normal kid in a normal way and get a normal bill, but then it turns out the person who put in your epidural at 3 am was out of network and you didn't ask because you were, like, busy, and you picked your hospital and your OB and everyone else beforehand and made sure they were in-network.

Having been through the US pregnancy and birth wringer, I can compare the US standard of care with the rest of the world's standard of care, and we suck. Cost more, cut more, die more, and spend six hours a week on the phone half the weeks calling a provider, getting a referral, calling the insurance to approve the referral, calling back the original provider. I made four phone calls for every appointment after 32 weeks because of a minor and common complication that had zero effect on the birth except having to get that f*(&ing approval to see the only doctor in two states who would deal with the thing reasonably.

And at the VA max wait for a primary care appointment is 20 days.
Wow. Yeah, what a convoluted way to say "many things happen in the streets".
What's their take on reverse osmosis?
Not to mention 25000 pure Clojure libraries to add to those inherited from Java.
Insurers will deliberately not credential physicians on their plans when trying to keep networks deliberately narrow.

I and others have been denied enrollment because the "panel is full". Narrow networks are not always because the physician doesn't want in. Sometimes it's a deliberate insurance strategy.
Thanks for your comment, it's cool of you to share your journey with us. Unfortunately iFeelio on Android doesn't seem to work well anymore, if at all... :-(

Edit: Moodflow seems like it could be good so I'll try that. Just in case this helps others.
WD'IMNSHO'M?
> This would logically imply that the standards for bottled water are <= the standards for tap water, at least in those locations.

That’s not how logic works. That there are instances of municipal water supplies whose quality is sufficient to meet bottled water standards doesn’t tell you anything about minimum standards for either municipal supplies or bottled water.

Further: I would expect quality of municipal supplies to vary widely. A city built on the side of a mountain with access to springs can just provide that water, and it’s still from “municipal” supply.
Well... it's good in many ways, but on the other hand my local water supply still has Cr(VI)
Why would an idea exist other than to serve a purpose, and why would that purpose be distant from the mindset which benefits the most from it?
There is always a non zero probability of mankind extinction but within hundreds of years it should be fairly, fairly low
> If you follow the runaway trim procedure, you recover.

In the Ethiopian crash the crew followed the runaway trim check list but didn't recover. The issue seems have been that the aircraft was going to fast so they couldn't turn the manual trim adjuster. But that isn't mentioned on the runaway checklist (http://www.b737.org.uk/runawaystab.htm)

OK a different crew might have figured that and slowed down but not crashing should not be that tricky really.
I have mixed feeling on Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. First and foremost, I recognize it's essential good in providing journal access for all and it's reformation of academic publishing. However, I can go to Library Genesis, and download just about any book I want, load it on a kindle, and am good to go! Does this hurt small time publishers and de-incentivise authoring niche technical works? Particularly for the niche technical topics, authoring a book is not possible as a full time job, and I wish there were a good mechanism to promote the creation of this type of work.
Ask HN: Artifacts in front end projects. How do you do?
One the lessons I learned during my years of Java development was that we had one single artifact for all environments. Later on I learned about the 12 factor app (https://12factor.net/) and how other languages/frameworks adopt that same approach which is great.

Especially around using environment variables: one artifact that gets its values from the environment being served on makes sense. For backend.

But for frontend development I quickly realized that doing this nowadays is simply overkill. With most of the projects I've worked on recently we are deploying to S3 with Cloudfront in front of it.

Which makes environment variable substitution part of the deployment life cycle: you generate your assets to the environment they are going to be deployed and that's cool. Any secrets in it (Sentry, Newrelic, Calibre, whatever) gets bundled in.

What are thoughts on that and how do you do your front end bundling?
Nobody said he was a hero in this thread, it was stated that he had a strategy. Whether you like it, or it was ethical, is besides the point.
I've no experience with Scientology, except having a college professor who mentioned it occasionally. But I have done lots of work with est/Landmark, and some with NWT, Tony Robbins and NLP. Plus a bunch of random New Age stuff, and lots of psychedelics.

I'd say that NWT was the least aggressive about membership recruiting. And est/Landmark was the most. Because their goal is indeed to have everyone do their work. And they're pretty upfront about it.
I am a happy Segment user, however their handling of a recent data breach did leave a bit of a sour taste. They took several days to get back to me with a definitive answer as to whether our customer data that we collected was compromised by the internal breach.

I am keen to look at competitive product where we may have more control over the data collected and can manage the risk ourselves.
Wow I feel like gaming back in those days was the Wild West. So cool to edge up the competition with custom hardware
Sounds like they “prune” non-competitive providers with likely inflated rates. WAI
Peanut allergies. And I imagine mushrooms weren't qualified as "store-bought" because there are plenty of lethal wild mushrooms.
Pricing: Honestly, we haven't figured out the business model yet. Like other open-source products, it will likely be a combination of support + enterprise features (like HA, auto-scale etc) but again we don't know what those enterprise features would be.

Ratch up Pricing: Good question and not sure how to answer. Our vision is to be like other open-source companies like Mattermost, ES. Our base version (which would work for 90% of users) would be free and under open-source license. But I do understand your concern - maybe there is a way to put that in the license (that the base version will be perpetually open-source)

- Here is our company page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/rudderlabs). Our lead investor is S28 capital (Partner: Shvet) - they have also invested in Mattermost (an open-source slack competitor)
> Like said by the other poster, long-term priming is not proven nor disproven:

If there is no evidence for it, there is little reason to be concerned about it at this point given how much research has gone into it.
I believe sulfates in the blood can cause it to turn green.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfhemoglobinemia
You got it. The flâneur is knowingly intruding into the space of the street workers, but bringing his bourgeoise morality with him.

He also says (without evidence) that the complainant is likely a customer of the male prostitutes rather than an observer, who happens to have had a bad encounter. I really don't know where he gets this from.
That piece is an excellent example that sometimes meaning is lost in too flowery language. I genuinely don’t know what he was trying to get across. I’m also not interested.p in blather.
I tend to disagree that RAII is used only used for memory. We've RAII wrappers for locks, file handles etc. all the time in our code base.

Also it's impractical to only have POD structs i.e. structs with no pointer pointing to the free store.

Good otherwise.

Nice colours and theming though :)
How to Fix Germany’s Ailing Economy
Well, she's technically not a criminal until she has been found guilty in a court of law. Right now, it doesn't appear like she had charges, but she should probably stay out of the US + EU.
Seriously though, if you applied cold rationality to healthcare and did not let human dignity get in the way, we would treat the healthcare industry more like an auto-repair shop or a veterinarian office.
Many Vaping Illnesses Linked to Black Market 'Dank Vapes' or Other THC Products
It's not a cult. Not even est/Landmark is a cult. You could say that it's a movement. I've only been near one cult: Heaven's Gate. And that was something to run away from.
>emotional weight of the person’s experiences, just cannot count for much.

I'm not talking about the emotional content, I'm talking about the recount of actual happenings (re: facts), of which the article is overwhelmingly composed of. Perhaps you should read it.

Edit:

> I disagree very strongly about all this

You should remove the emotional weight from your arguments, though I'm not sure what your argument is exactly. Perhaps it is that there's nothing to be gleaned from the world of human experience that can inform policy in democratic institutions? It begs the question.
I'll save you a click: the "barbarism" in the clickbait title is incorrect usages of "technological advances such as artificial intelligence where the law of the strongest prevails over the common good" (article's paraphrasing, not Pope's words).
> You are getting WORSE care for the same price when you see an NP or PA.

Whenever I get to choose between NP/PA or MD I will always choose the former. MDs are typically overworked and condescending. Most of the time I already know what the problem is and just need a prescription from them. When I tell that to MD they get offended - I am a dumb patient and MD is a demigod with superior intelligence. Hence I'm supposed to act dumb to make sure I don't offend MD's brittle ego who will otherwise retaliate by billing for some extra "nontrivial" visit.

If I see a nurse or a PA the person will speak with me like an equal, take the time to examine, won't hide their reasoning from me, maintain open notes, etc.

> the hospital gets either equivalent (Oregon) or about 85% of that paid to a physician

People shouldn't be going to hospitals (with rare exceptions). People should be seeing NPs through CVS Minute Clinic, One Medical, Future Amazon Clinic, etc. When you walk in to CVS clinic to see an NP you just pay a flat $45 without insurance. That's how it should be for most care.

The fact that anyone (MD or NP) is being reimbursed over $75 for a short visit (let alone more realistic $300-500) is simply a flaw in the system that needs to be fixed. MDs (or midlevels) don't create enough value to be reimbursed that much.
Seemingly Disconnected Things (2016)
> companies that exaggerate their prospects sell at higher IPO prices

If anything I think it's that they easily raise VC money, which then inflates the IPO price because people compare it against what VC's paid for it. WeWork VC value was about 4x what the IPO marked thought it might be worth.

> raise as much money as possible at the IPO

Seems more like the smart money is looking for dumb money to follow it, and a way to convert their VC held shares back into dollars via a liquidity event.

But yes, a large post-IPO jump could be considered money left on the table, since people will pay for it, but the company didn't get it - the people buying at the IPO price then selling pocket that money.
I give the Pope credit on trying to keep up with tech. I clicked expecting to find something completely out of touch or off basis, and was pleasantly surprised.

The more people talking about the effects of filter bubbles and the effects of our currently internet connected lives the better. I hope this opens a wider discussion with people who have less of a tech background, and encourages them to become more aware of the effects it has.
I only very recently came to the realization that my emotional numbness was caused by the emotional distance & neglect I experienced as a child. I'm still working through it, but I do think part of it was in part due to my immigrant parents believing that emotions were reserved for girls and not boys.

Believe me, it's not a fun place to be, and I hope new parents do realize how important it is to teach young children how to make sense of their emotions.
Any place that accepts insurance is bound by the terms of the insurance contract, which usually includes a most favored nation clause, meaning that you won't accept cash payment for less than the negotiated reimbursement from the carrier.

Similarly, you cannot charge less than you accept from Medicare/Medicaid.

What we can do is bill you, then write off whatever is equal to the highest contract we have. People in private practice approve this not infrequently; but corporate and mega groups have removed individual decision making and stripped us from pricing discretion. These are the pains of 3rd party payers.

I advise everyone who has an HDHP or no insurance to find a reasonable cost direct primary care. The subscription is often much cheaper than you'd think.
There can be a lot of psychological pressure. "Don't you want to get to the bottom of this? If we don't figure it out now, this could come back and be worse." Or with a kid, "The responsible thing to do would be to rule out (cancer or whatever)."

It takes a lot of courage and knowledge to say yes, my child is in pain, and I will decline additional medical treatment and testing and just wait it out. I have declined a lot of tests and some interventions. I can do this because I have a physician in the immediate family who I can call for a second opinion at any time, and I read said physician's medical journals, and I have academic access to journals so I can do some of my own research and decisionmaking. And maybe I'm a little hard-hearted or hyperrational or something, and I can plan out a course of watchful waiting and stick to it much more than other people I know.
Technically (1 + (x/12))^12 != (1 + x)

In this case where x = 1% (or .01) they're so close it almost doesn't matter. For x = 10% it's a lot clearer.

That said, it's also not equal to (1 + y) ^ 12, where y is whatever value is needed to have (1 + y) ^ 12 = 1 + x.
So that's interesting. Behaviorism, for instance, was actually an oppressive "science" of the 20th century because it was ideologically opposed to even acknowledging the existence of subjective mental states. The proponents of Behaviorism felt that subjective mental states were inherently unscientific and they wanted to turn Psychology into a respectable science.

Behaviorists were operating under the misconception that something can't be both subjective and objective at the same time. It took Cognitive Psychology to rescue us from this sorry state of affairs. But for years, those who wanted to do Cognitive Psychology academically were blocked from publishing and getting tenure, etc., by the entrenched Behaviorist establishment.

These days we know that via using FMRI, for instance, psychologists and neuroscientists can often determine objectively more about some of your own thoughts than you yourself might know. Or they can sometimes know what you will come to decide before you believe yourself to have decided. Etc.

But certain mental states (i.e., phenomenal ones) seem to have an inherently subjective component that cannot be studied objectively at all. Or at least that's what someone who believes in the "hard problem of consciousness" will say. Others will say, "Pshaw!"
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