skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A popular server-assisted mobile browser for crappy phones.

Basically one CPU second per web page. 150k pages/second @ peak. 5 million HTTP requests/s. 150 Gbit/s.
The web for 250 million people.

Kinda insane numbers when I think about it now, still. (I left five years ago, after it peaked.)
It's always surprising to me that I an age where it's incredibly easy to have friends in foreign countries, travel to foreign countries, and view media from outside the US people here still think it's normal for the worst thing about a broken leg to be the hospital bill.
What would it mean to have one insurance vs a different one then? That just sounds like nationalized done payer with extra steps
Sure its socialized. Insurance is socialism for profit.

Spread the cost across society but add a profit layer. A huge profit layer. Go check out what insurance employees make.
OK, I'll give you that. But what actually sounds worse, "attention whore" or "creep, pedo and rape apologist"?

The girl is likely going to get out of the scandal unscathed, so in my personal opinion she deserves whatever scorn she has received.

And whether or not the sex happened, is probably irrelevant in the context of this discussion. After all, it wasn't public knowledge on Sep 12.
I would advise you to learn some kind of programming language and look for work for freelance.
The workplace used to be a male space.
While I agree with the sentiment behind the article I think it is disgustingly and unnecessarily subjective. They have stripped their readers of the basic human desire to make up our own minds about what they read. Shame on them. The irony with my comment it that it is not in the least bit objective. Shame on me.
What about astronomy, cosmology, archeology, paleontology, volcanology, evolutionary biology, cladistics, macroeconomics, etc., which do not allow us to "repeat and predict," as you say?

Some of these cases can be rescued by considering "retrodiction"[1][2] as valid substitute for prediction in the right circumstances, but not all.

I personally think the analysis of the Mott problem[3] points the way to the solution to some of these kinds of issues. That is, a prediction can take the form of a likelihood function which assigns high probabilities to certain combinations of events and low probabilities to others. Theories with low perplexity[4] can be considered correct even if they can't make predictions, and the study of such theories can be scientific. But as far as I know I am the only one who thinks so.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrodiction

[2]: https://afdave.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/sir-karl-popper-and-...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_problem

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity
> Messy is right. It's as if competently running a business people want to continue patronizing keeps slipping everybody's minds. No bootstrapped business thinks they can get away with this many gaffes in a row. Because on the very first screw-up, you lose some amount of money, and it's your own money, and it hurts, and you learn. In a startup funded like this, money is just the stuff you throw at stuff, and there's always more where that came from. Obviously the whole VC-funded hyper-growth thing doesn't guarantee success, has a low success rate in fact, but I'm starting to wonder whether those investments actively prevent success in some cases.

Is this how it is, boots on the ground wise though? I've worked for VC funded startups and we never treated budgets as something to be scoffed at and were very cost conscious.
Better than that, each article on the front page has a "hide" button so you can remove (from your view) any that bother you.
That's for specialists appointments and procedures. I agree that there's some of that going on. But the majority of your costs, if you look at your bill, is $100 aspirin, $50 band-aids, etc. That's not the Doctors. That's the hospital/insurer complex.
Agree with everything except the tests. Ususlly do not need those but id did happen couple of times when I wanted to be absolutely sure that the person can work in particular domain. Basically take it home and come back in a week or whenever you feel like. The test was the actual problem but greatly simplified and should not take more then a day to solve so the person gets paid for a day.
If a candidate says accessibility isn't worth the added costs and they're interviewing at Bain Capital, well they're probably a good culture fit and the answer put them in the yes column. If the candidate said that, I don't know, while applying to a prosthetic design company they probably aren't a good culture fit and go in the no column.

Why doesn't the question work?
Exactly. Cost of living goes up, you cant save your way to retirement. Thats the wests biggest problem. All we got in exchange for the average citizen is cheaper flatscreens and shittier toys.

But sure those of us in tech are good.
had a child born in a hospital in the bay area before this law and had the anaesthesiologist send a bill that looked he typed it on his typewriter. Wasn't even one of the official one's you see from a dr's group. No website, no email, just the guy's personal #.
Do you mean "hide them away in a price list you must pay a fee and request by registered mail" when you say "publicly listed"?
You're forgetting that it's the copyright owners who get laws passed.

That's how copyright began in the first place! It was "The Statute of Anne": Restrictions on book printing due to lobbying by the printers.
You COULD play YouTube videos in the background by default in Safari up until about summer 2016. Then, they sneakily added a hook that kills it if it loses focus. But sometimes there's a race condition or something and it doesn't take, so videos will still play audio in the background sometimes, and you could fool it for awhile by requesting desktop version of the YouTube page.

Point is, this was there by default, and they intentionally sabotaged it to force you to use their paid service. This is shitty malware-like behavior and I do not want to encourage them. I would not give them a single cent and I happily spent time to defeat it, because fuck them.
Negotiating good decisions is a skill kids and maybe most people don't have and generally are not taught.
I've sold out.

I don't care about the last 10% potential. This market is fucked
I suggest referring people to http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/. It has some very good explanations of the flaws in a lot of pro-globalization economic arguments.
The precautionary principle should strongly characterize -all- plastics as unsafe

It really bothers me to see people making such rash statements, because they serve more to spread fear and panic more than anything else. Just looking at some of the comments here, it seems this microplastics thing is approaching mass hysteria. There is absolutely no doubt that plastics have contributed greatly to an increasing quality of life over the century or more since they've been invented. If you don't believe me, compare what it was like to live in the early 1800s or before.

The overuse of disposable plastics is certainly problematic, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
When I make a glaze reduced down from balsamic vinegar, it doesn't mean I think the glaze is somehow worse or better.
under the academic publishers' system, now that I'm out of school I don't even have access to a paper that I coauthored. very thankful for scihub and Elbakyan
ElectroSense – Collaborative Spectrum Monitoring
If they go down that's be a big pita.
I understand the feeling but I think this is too zero-sum. You know who has the most positive reactions by far to men doing healing work in men-only circles? Their wives/girlfriends. Not because the men somehow become more 'feminine' or lose power, but usually because they get something that they badly needed and were stuck about for a long time.
Ask HN: How do I search through pages linked from HN?
Most of the posts here on HN are links to pages on other web sites. How do I find pages featuring particular words among these?

E.g. I'd like to find an article on digital signal and processing which probably had the words like "signal" and "filter" in its text but all I can remember about the title used on HN is that it probably didn't feature either.
You can have emotionless warriors or you can have emotional pacifists. You might even have emotional warriors, but emotionless pacifists is a hard sell.

If the State monopolizes violence to the point that we can’t hash things out with our fists, and there’s no room in our society to emotionally vent, then what’s left? It’s not like violence disappeared from society, it just takes different forms when suppressed.
> You need to approach this kind of important topic in the Scroogiest, wet-blanketiest possible way.

Why? We're not and should not be robots.
Do you have any reading (books, blogs, etc) on this concept of reactive vs reflective thinking? I don't think I've ever seen it described this way and it nails a verbal description to something I've desperately tried to describe to myself and teach other people for years...
https://github.com/dworkin/dgd and https://github.com/dworkin/lpcssh
Sorry to hear that. I posted a somewhat disagreeing response to you, but felt your response was reasonable and respectfully put. I have never downvoted anyone due to simple disagreement--that is what replies are for. Downvoting, imho, is for content with an improper tone or context--abusive, off topic, or what have you.
I have had similar problems. The algorithm they use is not perfect.

My Nexus One used to fall back to 2G whenever my 3G got below like two bars, it was so annoying. And also there would be a temporary outage while it switched. I eventually learned how to hard disable 2G, and service improved greatly, because even one bar of 3G was better than 2G.
It actively impedes success in every environment that I've seen it in, and the only difference is that some companies have such a compelling product that they're able to be successful in spite of the problems brought about by "hyper-growth".

Somewhere core to the problem is that providing good direction is hard. Hiring good people is hard. Making sure good people are working together in the right direction is hard. "Hyper-growth" basically trivializes all those things so that you're hiring as fast as you can, which keeps you from meaningfully on-boarding people, and leaves a bunch of people without good direction.

The knock-on effects of that dynamic can be disastrous. Low morale due to shapes of listlessness. Late stage integration issues due to folks working for long periods in sporadic threads that need to be woven together. Political infighting as too many people with not really enough meaningful work to do start getting creative for their own ends at the expense of others or the organization.

I have been around and in a lot of "hyper-growth" startups, and not one of them that I interacted with operated remotely close to a well-oiled functioning organization.
Yes, it is growing. Today Clojure hosts more conferences than Rust, Swift, Elm, Erlang, F#, Haskell, Elixir, OCaml, ReasonML and soon the number may exceed number of Scala specific conferences. It will probably never become as popular as Javascript/Typescript or Python and Ruby but it is slowly and steadily growing.
the only way to fix this is to save enough money to haver "another" rent payment on your bank account. sadly that does not work for everybody (thats even more sad than the banking system the us has. I live in germany and I never seen a check)
'Yogababble' is more than a bit offensive to people who take Yoga as a spiritual and religious practice seriously. It shows how little the author knows about the culture they're referencing.
Not true. It was just unpredictable what aspect he would go off on.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer
These out-of-network bills have successfully been challenged and a law passed to address them in NY (https://www.dfs.ny.gov/insurance/health/OON_guidance.htm; I think).

But, in the first place, these bills were never really valid: in no other market am I informed of the cost after I have received services. This fact is why the law was passed, though it shouldn't need to have been passed. The "contract" is already unenforceable.
That second sentence breaks the HN guidelines badly. Would you please stop doing that and follow them instead? I don't want to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see, thanks for your idea, it's really helpful!!!
The diagram explaining recessive genes uses blue for unaffected and red for affected. In an article about recessive genes for blue skin...
This is extremely welcome and much needed change BUT please, everyone reading this, pay attention to the fact that IF you get healthcare through your employer (aka "Group" health plan), this regulation MIGHT NOT APPLY to you and your plan if your employer did not purchase the plan through the ACA marketplace!

Group health plans are, EXEMPT, from most state regulations. I know it does not make sense and sounds unbelievable but unfortunately your employer has more lobbying power than you do!

As a result you, the employed, could still be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills with little recourse (because you are employed and don't qualify for financial relief) and can have your wages garnished, which WILL be exercised by the provider if you refuse to pay the bill.

The providers are OON precisely because they make more money that way and there's little reason for them to be in-network (they have nothing to gain by being in network!)

So if you go to the ER today in an ambulance - that's highly likely to be OON - and have your XRays and/or CT scans read by a radiologist that's also highly likely to be OON and attended to by specialists that are also highly likely to be OON, you ARE on the hook for everything unless you're lucky enough to have a CA state regulated health plan.

Most individual plans purchased through the ACA marketplace are required to be in compliance with the regulations of the state that the employee is resident of.

Group health plans are not.

If your employer did not purchase the plan through the ACA marketplace, even if the plan is ACA compliant, it might not be required to comply with the regulations of the state that the employee is resident of as long as it's in compliance with current federal regulation of health benefits.

This can take a lot of employees by surprise, specially employees of multistate employers where the employer chooses the cheapest plan in compliance with current federal regulations without necessarily looking into state level details.

I put in some details here: https://www.quora.com/In-the-US-the-majority-of-people-under...

I really hope each of you take measures to decouple health insurance from employment.

How do we, in this day and age, still think, an employer has the right to solely dictate the standard of care we receive?

Please, if you think it's logical to so severely and tightly couple health insurance with your employer, let's have a discussion.
Fortunately, there's https://whereisscihub.now.sh
As someone who grew up in the USSR, I do agree that socialism would be extremely bad for America and I don't want it here. I believe it'd cause the eventual collapse of the country, much like we've seen with the USSR and for the same reasons. I do not believe that the state is any better at spending my money than I am myself.

The issue here is not capitalism per se, because US healthcare system is not capitalist in nature. Capitalism requires pricing mechanisms and competition in order to work. That's the part that's fundamentally screwed up in US healthcare: there isn't any downward pricing pressure until the prices get to truly baffling levels and there's no real competition. The Trump administration is beginning to work on creating it (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/upshot/trump-drug-prices-...), but so far without any visible result. While (if it works) this is a good start, I'd like to see some kind of downward pricing pressure on the services as well. E.g. I should not be required to pay 5x as much if I'm not covered and paying out of pocket. This disproportionately affects the poor, quite obviously: break a leg and you could end up paying $50K or more (whereas insurance would pay $5K, if that). Introduce a "favored nations" clause on that as well: if I'm paying out of pocket, I should be paying your lowest "insurance" negotiated rate.
I worked there a few times. Will never return. Was at all times a terrible experience.
I think the toilet example is quite realistic, thanks for your guys help!
You'd have to use a crawler or make a basic one to curl and grep
ClickLock: Lock your Mac in just one click
Sure! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ironize
So the police created homeless sex workers? How does this not worsen the blight in the city?
* put some bottled water into the DNA sequencer/fluorescence microscope I mean
That is a euphemism I used because I think anyone reading the article can infer what I meant and I wanted the focus to be on productive resources for people to learn how to think adaptively instead of what to think about these issues.

In my opinion learning how to be adaptive in personal relationships and not pushing narratives onto the other is the most productive approach.

This is why I don’t think the two are similar in nature, although I think it’s great you brought it up so that everyone can judge for themselves with as much info as possible upfront.
> Boeing's design and US-centric expectation of pilots didn't prevent US Air 427 from crashing. Literally everyone in the world expects pilots won't pull back on the yoke at stall. Yet these U.S. pilots did that.

The reason that '427 pilots aren't blamed is that it's unclear that with perfect inputs that the plane was recoverable. We also excuse them a bit because the situation became unrecoverable in a matter of seconds since it manifested, instead of a longer time with the MCAS upsets.
We should all be happy for the public release of this exploit more than happy it exists. The alternative is that law enforcement and other bad actors might have knowledge of this exploit that the public doesn’t.
South Africa Bans Bulk Collection. Will the U.S. Courts Follow Suit?
I mean, maybe to you it's a placebo effect, but I know I can at least smell the chlorine in my tap water... which I suppose isn't strictly "taste" but basically the same for the point of the discussion.
That's a tradeoff that will always exist, and cannot be eliminated. The question is where you set the tradeoff for various systems.
In many places in SE Asia, Nestle "gallon containers" are sold at a premium compared to locally purified water (often 3X - 4X the price), but I would be curious to see side-by-side water analysis results...
Should you learn R or Python first? Quiz
Your don't need to people just do... I've kinda always assumed or connects to olden days and efficient storage and memory use. Male is a four character string, 1 is an integer.
Google should give people a chance to adapt to their work culture instead of rejecting them.
...another guy telling people how they OUGHT to spend their money. "I would have..."

::eyeroll::

It's an investment. Their top priority likely isn't eliminating diseases. Nor do most investors think it's wise to compete against Google.
The requirements are meant to discourage people who won't cut it. Everyone else has to make it through the interviews.
Ask HN: Can we make this site less annoying on mobile?
The links to comments, posts and the various too nav are super hard to hit accurately on my phone. Would any admin be open to implementing an improved UI for smaller viewports? I’d gladly donate the time to implement it, if that’s of any benefit?
I think the implication is that calling her a female anything is skipping past her individual contributions as though she's the token female in this story, hence "reduction". I don't entirely agree that those headlines are a reduction, but that's what they meant I think.

Edit: maybe "the next Aaron Swartz" is slightly better
are frequent uti's sign of bv?
Regulation is about setting the terms about when it's legal

(the US is kind of an outlier in legalization of prostitution anyway)
You are agreeing with fnordsensei. :)
oh wow i had no idea, kudos to her!

for those interested in old prints there is also http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/ and http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ which i highly recommend.
As someone with ADHD, this feels rather accurate. Thanks for the explanation!
A PHP stack can maybe help you get acquired by Facebook, like a COBOL stack could ease an acquisition by an old insurance company.
My utility providers (Ireland) charge 2-5% less if you setup payment by direct debit here, so they at least agree with you.
> It really drives home the point that if you want to legislate ways to protect sex workers, you should actually talk to sex workers and not make up feel good bs that can harm people.

There's a tiny but really interesting museum in Amsterdam set up by a former sex worker that explains exactly this. The safety regulations they're looking for really aren't all that different from how cities regulate taxis.

Like driving a taxi, sex work can be a dangerous job because they're alone with a client, often at night, and with a fair bit of cash on them. A lot of time the clients are drunk, which makes them more likely to be violent. And, because many of the workers are immigrants, there's a risk they're being exploited by someone taking a significant portion of their earnings.

Allowing credit card transactions, issuing taxi medallions, requiring worker background checks, and, most importantly, having police who actually investigate crimes reported by workers, has gone a long way to make driving a cab a much safer occupation than it was two decades ago.

I'm not sure about credit cards in de Wallen but they have a medallion-like system with the booth rentals.
dark.fail should host that link

there is also ENS for holding distributed domain names using Ethereum (yes, same concept as Namecoin)

of course both of these solution require non-standard software that many people don't have yet
> Language experts caution even students against using the service.

Well duh. The whole point of studying a language is to.. be able to know it?
I didn't cite that large document. Claiming that I did is not arguing in good faith.

The particular example of creationism comes from the Texas GOP's platform. https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/06/28/the-texas-repu...

You can certainly see echoes of it in the national platform. That is no mistake.
Anything that gets the US to single payer is fine.
Netflix also wrote about the drawbacks on this approach https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-edge-load-balanc...
This appears to be the paper:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.9b08290
you can manually tell it to view recent posts first and get what you're looking for

Of course, when you do that, you get overwhelmed with thousands of obnoxious reposted political memes, and if you unfollow the people posting them you miss out on important life events

Facebook lets you make lists of friends and view posts from that list chronologically too, but it only gives a couple days' worth of posts from the lists, so that ends up being pretty useless too

EDIT: I should note that it'll automatically go back to its own evil sorting algorithm pretty often, so you have to keep clicking on "Recent First" again and again
BTW I've chosen to mention ibuprofen right because it's harmless unless you are taking it for too long. Nevertheless I believe its common alternative - paracetamol (acetaminophen) ought to be mentioned as it's plain deadly and can be considered much more dangerous (in terms of how easy it is to harm yourself severely) than MDMA.
Well, we live in a world that's bombarded with UV, so there could be some drawback to living in an environment artificially shielded from it. Both may be nonsterile, but that doesn't imply they are the same.