skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's absolutely nothing wrong with selling socks online, and I'm happy that someone is doing it, but you can't convince me that that is innovation worth celebrating.
I think the Clojure job market is pretty good for senior developers but bad for junior developers. Anecdotal evidence, but I saw someone a few months ago who had an active Clojure blog, gave talks on Clojure, contributed to multiple interesting projects on GitHub, but was unable to find a job before literally running out of money and going homeless. That could just be a weird situation, but I almost never see any job listings looking for junior developers, and when I do, they tend to be in Europe/Canada rather than the U.S.
How is this true? If a medical procedure is the only thing between you and death how could you possibly negotiate a fair rate in the free market, especially considering some treatments are monopolies if they have a patent on them. The free market cannot work in health care.
Mind. Blown. I had no idea. Wow. Mystery solved.
Human beings digitize and exchange with each other everything they can. Movies, music, text, audio, and now money. Less middlemen, less friction and less decay (inflation in the case of currency) is usually better. One should not need to sneak peer to peer communications
software and past anyone.
I think it was 2016 that the US handed over control of DNS to ICANN. I think it was the same day the pirate bay domain came back online.
Maybe Docker should copy the successful business model of bash or ssh.
I'd attribute Clojure conference success to the passionate fans, but look at the google trend line:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
>rigger

uh... rigour
"set on course with the sun and let it burn off" - https://laughingsquid.com/why-it-is-more-difficult-to-crash-...
If you could add why you think so, that'd be awesome!
English too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otorhinolaryngology
If the patient chose to see someone who charged $200 vs $50 would the patient pay a different amount?
$100B is not that much money. (Note to self: you just said $100B isn't that much money. Get head examined.) Bezos can aggressively handle it. Gates aggressively can handle it. Buffett can aggressively it. What is so special about the Vision Fund that it wants to put its money in the likes of Uber and WeWork? I would think knowledgable VCs would do their due diligence and avoid these companies.

Investing into Uber at $47B isn't vision.
Sure, it demonstrates a kind of strength and confidence to be open about your weakness. But that's literally what
a vulnerability is: a weakness.
You don't need to look any further than ratemyprofessors.com for a thriving and, more to the point, legal example of this kind of site. So if this practice is going to be illegal, can it at least not be industry specific?
Or the government sets the price and then all doctors are independent contractors to the government, and file for reimbursement for their services rendered. The patient can then pay on their 1040 according to their means, literally solving the problem once and for all like every other developed country.

The solution is right in front of America’s nose, but too many are running around with their fingers in their ears screaming simultaneously about the communists and how much they hate the system they’re advocating for.
I think the problem is that in most places the world over, whether it is legal or not, both laws and regulations surrounding sex work tend to have very misogynistic outcomes.

So they say sex work is illegal, but they mostly arrest prostitutes, not their clients nor the pimps. From what I have read, it's hard to prove a man is a pimp, so this is not entirely due to people simply hating on women.

But the fact that they tend to arrest prostitutes, but not their clients, tends to reflect the fact that in this mostly heterosexual world, most sex workers are female and clients are typically male. There is a general widespread attitude that "men have needs" and it's okay for them to get laid, but women who put out without being married to the guy are an evil and immoral influence and they must be punished.

So when a man and a woman have consenting sex outside the bonds of marriage, whether money is involved or not, a great many people view his actions as fine, but hers as morally reprehensible and in need of punishment. It's really no surprise then that the way these rules (whether laws or regulations) get written and/or enforced all too often reflects that bias.

In an ideal world, we would have rules that protect both sex workers and their clients equally. But we have a very long ways to go to get to that point.

In the interim, decriminalization seems to be the least worst answer, if only because when sex work is illegal, people who are being trafficked can't go to the police for fear of being arrested themselves -- even though they are being forced to engage in this kind of work against their will. It's a huge injustice and we shouldn't abide it.
Privatised medicine is not a free market, conflating them like this is disengenuous.
Come on, didn't a guy just shoot his car into space?
At least as I understand it, "PL/8" had two different components:

(a) a compiler suite including an IR, optimizer, backends, frontends for various languages including Pascal

(b) one of those frontends providing its own PL/I dialect designed for system programming

I think, in sense (b), PL/8 was viewed as an alternative to PL/S, PL/X, etc. PL/8 was used for millicode, and possibly also coprocessors for IO and service functions, whereas PL/X played the same role for the OS proper (at least for MVS / OS/390 / z/OS). Whereas, I think as that paper explains, (a) was at some point retired in favour of writing a GCC frontend for (b), partially because (a) didn't support 64-bit, and I guess reusing GCC was seen as less work than upgrading (a) to have 64-bit support.

I think (a) may have had some shared history with IBM CSet / VisualAge / XL C compilers, in their pre-LLVM form. But, given the later got 64-bit support long before LLVM came along, why was (a) retired for lacking 64-bit support? Pure speculation on my part, but I suspect that there was a fork/divergence at some point, and the PL/8 compiler ended up being a completely different body of code, even if some of it had contributed to IBM's other compilers. (And, that contribution may have been in the form of ideas or concepts rather than actual code.)

(I'm sort of piecing together bits of information IBM has released here, so I may be wildly wrong in my speculations. I've never worked for IBM, so I don't have any inside info on this.)
> The math part of your brain never shouts equations at you

I'm not so sure. When I don't understand something, often mathematical or related concepts, that I want to understand, sometimes it won't let me go. And I wouldn't say that all my internal "calculations" on the topic can be distilled into thoughts.. in fact, that's why I don't understand it. There are symbols "shouting" at me to form a relationship that I don't fully grasp yet. They are more like images, but non-visual.. they don't yet fall into semantic categories that allow me to express them until I understand them, or you could say that when I learn to express them they take on semantic categories. Either way, non-verbal thoughts definitely occupy unexpected parts of my concentration at pretty regular intervals. Not sure that counts as "shouting" but it's maybe similar.
The screensaver hot-corners lock-screen already exists.
A third option that can still be single pass is the Smalltalk way, where the stack frames themselves are first-class objects: the closures then keep a reference to the stack frame and the GC won't collect any live stack frames, which will contain closed-over variables.
I’d use a similar response to another commenter for this one as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21096376
Games are often CPU limited these days: updating game state from one frame to the next is one of the hard problems of modern game development. I don't think splitting the work between two consoles connected by such a slow link would work very well.

The other hard problem is building the instruction chain (the term is escaping me at the moment) which gets sent to the GPU. This would have to be duplicated on each system.

The most workable solution would be to have one system do nothing but update game state and send it to the other system, which just does rendering. Limit yourself as much as possible to one way communication. Hopefully the game state system would do a lot of GPU compute for physics etc, otherwise its GPU would be idle. Furthermore, there are a lot of single threaded bottlenecks in both game state and render, so you'd lose out in parallelism. (Many modern systems fix this problem by rendering frame N (which is read only on state N) while simultaneously computing game state for frame N+1. (which is also read only on state N) Since both operations are read only, their single thread bottlenecks are different single thread bottlenecks, which helps parallelism dramatically.) Overall you'd be getting a very minor boost in performance from doubling the hardware commitment; certainly no better than 50%, but I'd ballpark probably closer to 25%.

It's an interesting idea, but one which is ultimately destroyed by the unrelenting iron fist of Amdahl's Law.
> Here's an apartment in Nairobi that's $62.50 USD per month.

I should research this; I was told $800 for two bedrooms.

This one's $430 (1 bedroom). So I have no idea, but there's probably a massive range. Could be neighborhood, could be having security and power. I'm not sure.

https://deals.jumia.co.ke/1-bedroom-in-westlands-pid4154172
What's even more interesting (to me, at least) is that venting might not be helpful.

"Does distraction or rumination work better to diffuse anger?
Catharsis theory predicts that rumination works best, but empirical evidence is lacking."

[0] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/PSPB02.pdf
Big disclaimer IANAL but I do work in Health IT.

If this really has you irked and you want to do something about it you can file a formal complaint.[1] I would have to think that a call from the OCR would get a practice thinking more about their patients’ privacy and that must be a good thing.

I think it is unlikely that they are breaking any laws. The practice likely posted their Notice of Privacy Policy, and you may have even signed something. Once you allowed them to share your health data, your right to revoke that consent is largely dependent on if the data is considered sensitive (ie substance abuse and mental health data) and your state and local laws.

It is shocking to me how far removed people are from the ownership of their health data. I’m really passionate about changing that. If anyone is interested in working on this problem feel free to reach out.

1. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials...
> 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.

Most of the world's most successful nations have socialized health care, and seem to be doing just fine.

God knows I don't want a Soviet system. But the term "socialism" seems to refer to any sort of universal health care or public safety net these days, so when pundits start claiming that those things are a slippery slone to Stalinism, it's a problem.
Yep, I’d put money on Google Translate interpreting the English wrong in the first place. I’ve just tried a bunch of variations on “don’t patronise me.” and these are the results:

"Don't patronise me.” -> "No me patrocines.”

“Don’t patronize me.” -> "No me patrocines.”

"Don't patronise me!” -> "¡No me patrocines!”

“Don’t patronize me!” -> "¡No me patrocines!”

"Do not patronise me.” -> "No me patrocines.”

"Do not patronize me.” -> "No seas condescendiente conmigo.”

“Do not patronise me!” -> "¡No me patrocines!”

"Do not patronize me!” -> "No seas condescendiente conmigo.”

Word-sense disambiguation seems to work if you write “do not” instead of “don’t” and use ‘-ize' spelling, it fails otherwise.
I think sleep/hibernate is reliable on MacOS and maybe windows.

I wonder about linux though.

Typically commercial OS vendors have enough money to pay someone to make resume work. But all the crazy corner cases might be too much for reliability on linux.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Honest question. If I ask a doctor "will I be billed for this procedure," and they straight-up can't or won't answer me, what's going on? Whose fault is that?
That requires actual domain expertise outside of being able to hack together a webapp, though. Learning what you need to know about the dog-walking industry takes something on the order of weeks. Learning about medicine, finance, etc. is actually difficult.

The startup I work for is in property insurance, and while the software we've written is cool, the business hasn't gone belly-up yet since we have good insurance analysts, actuaries, lawyers, salespeople, etcetera.
The just copied it from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autorecessive.svg
Well consider the median American, or the bottom 20th percentile in health American. They are likely to be overweight and maybe have diabetes. I’m not saying those are caused by microplastics, but it could be. There’s no cohort of people we can compare that isn’t exposed to microplastics.
Legalising it can also have unintended side effects. When prostitution is legalised, the demand often outstrips the supply, leading to an increase in human trafficking.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1986065
Just don’t let Uber / Lyft for sex workers go in and disrupt it.
I don't know how to feel about it. Some Japanese aquaintances have liked to point out that that the difference in salary between top execs and low-level employees is much smaller in Japan. I usually counter that IMO personal experience USA companies pay salaries 2x to 3x more than Japan so I don't really care the boss makes 1000x more given they're paying me more as well.

I have no idea if that translates over the entire workforce though.

As a software engineer, starting software engineers in Japan start at ~$25k a year. Same ballpark as fast food jobs.
There are European countries where it's 14 too!
I am not overly familiar with Clojure, but is it possible to be expert at Clojure, and not be able to parlay that into some other JVM language job? It might be a bit depressing, but I would think that one could take a Java job in a pinch if one had one's back against the wall.
Hmm, honestly we don't have any connections into those. Would love to connect with you if you can help us.

Interestingly, some of our initial pilots chose us not so much for privacy but for pricing. Segment's pricing doesn't work if you have a lot of free users (free games, online bloggers etc. There was a hackernews thread on this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220518

We want to compete on the privacy angle but looks like the pricing might get us the initial downloads.
The majority of risk lies outside of Segment and they are damned serious about the risk they own
None of those worked. Remember that "condescendiente", as I showed in my first example, doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.
I had that game for the 32x. You could get the car airborne, lock the brakes and leave skidmarks in the air.
Water purification tabs, straws, and bottles are not practical unless you are in an extreme environment to find clean water (hikes, for example).

- They tested awful. Iodine tablets have an awful taste after. We often use orange flavored powder to hide it.

- They are expensive in third world countries. You have to use one tablet per liter, and it costs about 10 cents USD per tablet. In comparison, you can buy a 1L plastic bottle of water for 30 cents.

- it takes about half an hour to work, so you can't use them immediately.

- Even if you buy those straws, they have a maximum lifetime before you have to replace the filter (about 1000l). You will need to replace about twice a year if you were to use as the daily drive.
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That's because a bunch of new grads looked at their job prospects in 2008 and decided they should stay in school studying something like law. Someone with several years of experience more than that cohort should do well as long as there's a skill discrepancy between the cohorts.
I used to try to keep reminding people of this fact, but then gave up. Words change in meaning, and ‘third world’ as a term has reached critical mass and means ‘developing’ now, at least in the U.S.
AR goggles for dogs, with remote-controlled training and control characters.
DockerHub used to be one offering that made them some cash. This is now being commoditized by major cloud providers.
Do you have your sign reversed on that inequality? If the water comes from municipal sources, and the standards are higher for bottled water than tap (clearly stated in the link), then the quality of bottled water can be, at worst, equal to tap water.
And it wasn't very productive, which is why I added the "why?" at the end.
Right, I'll get on repealing Medicare, EMTALA, and now Balance Billing legislation before I can legally offer a sane bill. /s

The proposed solution to balance billing is linking the "out of network rate" to the FAIR health claims database. It keeps the insurers honest and allows competition at the market rate.

If you gut everyone, hospitals will close and access to care will shrink.
Just for clarity, I have no qualms about stretching the plane.

It's building in a new control system and not telling the pilots about it that seems crazy to me.

Thanks so much for your thoughts!
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I have nothing to add on this procedure, but fecal transplant turned out to be remarkably successful, so it makes sense that researchers would want to try again here.

According to Wikipedia, fecal transplant was used as far back as 4th century China, with the modern treatment dating back to 1958. A 2013 study on the procedure was stopped early due to the high effectivness (81% cured after 1 procedure, 90% cured after 2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy#History

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gastroenterology_hepatology/...
I am sure they do. We have great respect for segment. However, at some point/scale a company needs to take ownership of their their user-data.

Yes, some events may go to 3rd party vendors (analytics, advertising) but not everything goes and those often have PII removed. We want Rudder to be the point where you decide and enforce what goes where.
Many countries don’t do it that way, including many with ostensibly universal healthcare. (Germany has 100+ different insurance companies, for example.)
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That reminds me of a series of blogposts a while back about "the power of two choices", where you randomly pick/sample two nodes and pick the one with the least contention.

The claim is that it results in pretty decent behavior under load while avoiding some problems caused by delayed information.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/963420
> What about ... which do not allow us to "repeat and predict," as you say?

"if you can't repeat and predict, stop calling it science" seems like a nice bright line.

For what it's worth, there is science meeting the "repeat and predict" definition that can be done in each of the fields you list.
Intentionally buying and using a secure device isn't what that phrase is about. Benjamin Franklin wasnt arguing against safes.
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My dual socket Xeon desktop half a decade ago idled at 94W.
The US Is Not “Saudi Arabia’s Bitch” – Instead, Saudi Arabia Is a US Client
It entirely depends on if they are independent and work for themselves, and therefore know their contracted rates with the insurance companies. If the physician in question is an employee or a member of a large health organization, it's entirely possible someone else does those negotiations on the person's behalf, so they would have literally no idea.

By law, we can only charge one price to all payors. We cannot charge variable numbers; however, you can accept less money than charged. Medicare will pay what they pay; they don't care what my charge is. However, other payors (private insurance) will pay various amounts which are usually higher than Medicare. If I set my top price too low, I'm leaving money on the table. However, I cannot "enter the negotiation" even with a cash-paying-patient legally without charging the top-line price.

These top line charges are called "Chargemaster" rates. I can probably get a hold of my institution's charge master schedule and figure out what they'd charge you, but as one of literally 200 radiologists in my current practice, I have no say in those rates at all.
A lot to unpack there, so I'll restrict myself to a single remark: your suggestion that the polarization metric used in the last paper was developed post hoc in response to Trump's election doesn't match the publication timeline.

The method[1] used in the last paper has been around since the 80's and has been used to study polarization since at least the 00's. It's a popular method used in many papers; you can even get the raw data and code as an R package if you'd like to hack on it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)

[2]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wnominate/index.html
She's named a criminal by those who stand to lose money from Sci-Hub, aka the greedy publishers and suits who try to profit off the scientific community.
Neat article. My only gripe is that the cost is a function of how much content you scrape. If 3 minutes turned into 30 minutes it would cost more, regardless of the tech stack. Also, since web scraping is IO bound the only thing that really matters is how fast GCP compute servers can download the content.
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I am thinking of another question:

The boeing model, apart from MCAS, has traditionally been "the pilot decides"

Would this shift towards the airbus model (the plane decides)?
I use mu4e + offlineimap with emacs. I highly recommend taking the 1-2 hours to set it up if you're an emacs user. Well worth it.
Also make sure to implement your own programming language & OS for the game to run on. While you're at it you should figure out how best to craft transistors to create your own CPU. But don't make use of anyone else's ideas, you should figure this all out on your own. In fact, don't read this comment, it might give you ideas
Priming is one of the psychology topics worst afflicted by p-hacking. Almost every prominent priming study has gone down in flames during the replication crisis. Consistent, repeated propaganda has real effects, priming doesn't.
Quite a feat for a story that's more than a year old to just make HN.
There are far fewer devs with server-side JavaScript experience. When it comes to server-side for small startups, the syntax is irrelevant compared to the maturity of the ecosystem. Look how much of the web is still Wordpress.
It’s even more of a serial killer movie because it revolves around a serial killer story within a story.
Yes, people are different, you need extremely flexible standards to accommodate this. Right now the standards are far too rigid, and we have enough data now to know that on average they harm boys far more than girls.
iPhone exploit could allow permanent jailbreak for millions of devices
I think you're referring to deionized water. Deionized (DI) water is water that where all ions are removed. This is not safe to drink.

Distilled water is boiled and recondensed water, which leaves you with pure H2O (no minerals etc). It's safe to drink but pretty bland.