skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the southern bit of the same county is back in Pacific time because it's nearer to Nevada. It's one of the few counties in the US with multiple time zones.

If you drive from Bend to, say, Winnemucca, you go from Pacific to Mountain and back to Pacific.
Approach pre-trained deep learning models with caution
isn't the problem actually that there is no limit on what they can charge? if i have an accident they won't ask me if i agree on the price, they just charge me while i'm unconscious. i don't get to negotiate prices and the ambulance will take me to the closest hospital, not the cheapest for me.
The missing link here is premium savings. HDHP plans exchange higher deductibles for a nontrivial premium discount. Insurance companies like to assure employers that employees will bank this discount into a tax-advantaged HSA. So the theory goes, a reasonably healthy subscriber will have sufficient savings to meet their deductible.

This falls apart in practice when employees, who are already spread thin financially, elect an HDHP but can't or won't set aside cash to cover expenses.
> With promises it's the opposite situation, errors will be swallowed unless you explicitly handle the rejection.

Yes, I've been bitten by this too, it's certainly a drawback with the design of Promises. I wouldn't describe it as magic though, since both the implementation and the impetus are easy to understand.

> Actually, it doesn't even have to be `readFile` that changes, it might be a function that it depends on, causing bugs further up the call stack.

I don't think it's possible for readFile to become async without at least some change to it (possibly just adding 'async' and 'await' keywords, but at least some change), except maybe a rare case of a tail call.

> even though it seems everything should be fine

In what way would it seem that everything should be fine? If readFile() were changed from sync to async, wouldn't every single call to readFile() in the entire codebase need to be changed, just like if readFile() were changed from returning a string to returning a File object? It's not like most or even any at all of the calls to readFile() wouldn't need changing, then I could see how it might seem like everything would be fine.

> breaks in a subtle way

But this isn't a subtle bug, it completely breaks as soon as readFile() is changed from sync to async, right? No testing, automated or manual, of this codepath would work at all after the change, right? It's not like a cursory smoke test of this codepath seems to work fine, then I could see how the bug could seem subtle.

> I still keep running into dumb situations like the above. I still keep running into dumb situations like the above

You don't seem like a bad programmer, which is why I'm skeptical of the example you gave.
See answer above. A very crude model. Will ship a new one with an explanation shortly.
Yes, you're probably right about the DMCA. Would be a fascinating test case, given the availability of the source under an open license! But of course, will never happen.

I think I more saw it as a challenge to be honest! But if I do get to that point in the future I may take up your generous offer.

Great README docs by the way - spot on in content and delivery!
No, Americans have a long and deeply embedded tap root so they die if they are pulled up.

Nope, sorry, I'm thinking of turnips. Easy mistake.

Yes you can move I guess.

Alternatively perhaps you can give some aggro to your representative and make a public noise so this horrible system you appear to have gets fixed. Bonus: you get to stay in your own country and make things better for everyone else there as well.
I think the Drake equation is fine if you accept that even von Neumann probes are basically impossible to achieve. Space is simply too hard for everything.
> so they need to charge a lot... why? - I honestly don't know.

Does anybody else know the answer to this?

> Doctor's are paid too much... why?

Are US doctors paid too much when compared to say... Japanese doctors? European doctors?
It seems like a strange omission for this article not to mention that the reason health insurance is so expensive in the US is that health expenditures are so high. The US spends more than $10,000 per year per person on health care[1], more than any other country. Clearly, on average, premiums clearly must be higher than the amount paid out on behalf of the customer.

If you want lower premiums, you somehow need to lower the amount spent on health care. The problem is that, perversely, health insurance companies are incentivized to spend more on health care rather than less. By law, they must spend at least 80% of the money collected as premiums on health care costs[2]. The more they pay, the larger the 20% they are allowed to keep.

So if you want to reduce the cost of health insurance in the US, you need to reduce the cost of health care. If you want to reduce the cost of health care, you somehow need to change the incentives so that the big players benefit when the cost of health care goes down rather than up. Failing that, you need to change the system so those big players are no longer in control.

[1] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

[2] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
Same here. Obamacare made my insurance SO much worse, and so much more expensive.
They've been around for nearly two decades now, but I am consistently caught off guard by people talking into well-concealed Bluetooth earpieces. Those are awkward enough.
This. Spreading the cost of something that's getting increasingly more expensive across the populace doesn't solve the fundamental factors that are causing that thing to become more expensive in the first place. It also removes the incentives to fix the underlying issues.
Agreed! After moving to the US I particularly remember how hard it was to find sausages that do not contain any sugar (I can't stand the taste of sweet grilled meat, yuck!). We looked at what must have been 30+ different types of _packaged_ sausages until we found some "kosher" product that indeed didn't list any sugary ingredient. It was eye opening!
They just announced Echo Buds as well, which is exactly that https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F6VM1S3/ref=ods_gw_fnn_xpl_dt_a...
How it would feel like to start developing for Android in 2019
Instructions unclear, it's "free" in my country, and it's still great ? What am I doing wrong ?
No, it's not fair. SIP can be disabled by the user in modern macOS releases.
What makes health insurance cheaper is not paying for as many expensive operations per capita. While there are a host of factors making US health insurance expensive, the critical factor since 2008 is laws: laws which require that the insurance cover patients who will have very expensive operations, and do so at the same rates as other patients.

The primary advantage of a national health insurance scheme is that it can ration its care for expensive operations, and people won't be able to yell "Greed, greed!" at insurance companies as a scapegoat (ignoring that the profit margins sit at about 4%, which is not exactly the sort of health insurance savings that would fix anything).
Are these not just bluetooth headphones that have glasses?

"A single charge delivers a day of intermittent usage at 60% volume. Intermittent usage includes 40 Alexa interactions, 45 minutes of music, podcast or other audio playback, 20 minutes of phone calls, and 90 incoming notifications over a 14-hour period. Alternatively, a fully charged battery will last up to 3 hours of continuous audio playback at 60% volume. Actual battery life will vary depending on device settings, features utilized, environment and other factors. Fully charges in about 75 minutes."
That's basically what the Surface is, and the vast majority of people who own them use them as laptops. At that point, why not just use a laptop?

I've done a fair amount of dev work on the iPad, if you have a good SFTP friendly editor like Coda, you can do development work on a remote server, but ultimately you are tied to that server for a build environment. It works fairly well, but since remote shells tend to disconnect in the background it can be frustrating to build stuff.
Shirley published a paper in 1991 showing that low discrepancy samplers worked well in a ray-tracing context. So I wouldn't say that's particularly new.
> By the very nature of energy, oil prices CAN'T triple without all other energy sources also tripling.

This is false. You can't freely substitute oil with nuclear-generation as price vary. There are a huge number of cars and airplanes and plastics production that depend on oil.
Ti Kuan Yin is a very approachable oolong that is widely available.
The number of new cars, new iphones, large houses, and other luxury purchases suggests otherwise.
In many cases US doctors make 2x (or more if you're a specialist) than their European counterparts. The outcomes are not materially better in most cases.

(Also, I'm just picking on one small reason for healthcare costs, the point is that is just one of many)
You specifically said,

>SN misuse will stop once the USA has a secure national ID that is free and easy to get (don’t have to go to a DMV).

It looked like that nebulous "no DMV" was a core criterion. I recommend you would flesh out ambiguous criteria like that more as you did in the follow-up.
IANAL but the claims appear to be about one device filtering which photos it sends to other devices based on identifying the photographic subjects (people, buildings, or animals) and forwarding photographs that contain certain subjects to particular other devices wirelessly. Shotwell is just an application which supports filtering based on manually applied labels, not an image-classifying AI with a wireless network stack.

Setting aside prior art for a moment, it seems like a pretty far stretch to say that classifying files according to metadata and uploading them to Flickr or Pinterest is equivalent to identifying the subject of a photograph and making it wirelessly accessible to another local device.

Is anyone, I mean anyone, here unaware of software prior to 1998 that would filter files into different folders based on, say, ID3 tags, EXIF data, or file timestamps?
Are there any legitimate glasses with a camera instead of a microphone?
> According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills three million people every year worldwide. This will rise to ten million annual deaths by 2020

We're up to 7 million according to the CDC, not 10:

> Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year[0].

Sagan predicted 7 million in growth and we only saw 4 million. That's a ~40% overstatement. And in the very next sentence from the CDC:

> If the pattern of smoking all over the globe doesn’t change, more than 8 million people a year will die from diseases related to tobacco use by 2030.

While we're on the subject of skepticism and 'baloney detection' whenever somebody says X will happen in Y years there's usually a bit of baloney in there. It's a well-meaning practice to present bad scenarios to create social change but it happens so often that when somebody says "The oceans will rise X feet in Y years!" I get skeptical. Then I get in trouble for being skeptical which just makes me more skeptical...

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
Didn't they also announce AirPods. In your glasses, which you normally wear, wouldn't be an extra device.

Personally, I'm happy wearing an Apple Watch, overlooking the fact that Siri needs a lot of work.
Yes, a year or two ago I grabbed job listings from sites like Indeed and LinkedIn and trained a very crude basket of models. No one ever seemed to use it so I hadn't touched it since then. Time to refresh that, thanks for the feedback! Interesting points about ADA and I'll try and bring in some of those back channels.
Open Offices Are a Capitalist Dead End
I'm assuming this uses some sort of bone conduction to allow you to hear alexa without having to have earbuds, but still keeping it quiet to others. I wonder how well it's implemented.
Thanks! I have searched my browsing history somewhat thoroughly as well as links sent to friends. I can't rule out that it was on Medium but I'm certain I found it more than a couple of months ago (definitely a whole season ago)... Maybe it was reposted later?

Feel very silly having lost it because even when I read it I knew I'd want to read it again. I'll go back to scouring my history if no leads turn up here!
Wait a minute -- this actually seems too good to be true.

It offers "Bose Active Noise Reduction Technology" in wireless earbuds, when even Bose doesn't offer noise cancellation in wireless earbuds -- or anybody else as far as I can tell.

(AirPods, Bose SoundSport, Jabra Elite -- none do noise cancellation. Bose offers the larger QuietControl 30 buds [1], but the tech is still in a bulky "headband" connected by short wires.)

So... is "noise reduction" different from, or weaker than, the "noise cancelling" which Bose products already provide?

Or is Amazon actually somehow producing/licensing a product better than anything Bose itself sells, and for only half the price?

Something isn't adding up here... but I want it to be true, because I've been wanting a pair of genuine wireless noise-cancelling earbuds for so long now!

[1] https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earphones/qui...
I was coming here to see if there were any comments on this and if I might leave one.

It seems like a sketchy real estate company is a little bit less consequential than a medical device that doesn't work (potentially killing people).

But I find the two points interesting as: What will it take for the Silicon Valley community to start being openly critical of a company and that's OK?

For example if you leave comments on here that are skeptical of any given company or its prospects, even rightfully so, you may get a lot of push-back and people assuming you're some kind of mean jerk. But once the founders are shown to be actual frauds, the tone changes to what it might have been in the first place, had we had a bit more healthy skepticism and less "ra-ra, new companies good" kind of blind faith.

In that I rate Theranos and WeWork to have something in common. They tipped these ocassionaly overly polite scales towards admitting that some companies act in bad faith.
Free markets don't work with the information asymmetries involved in healthcare.
Amazon Echo Auto – Add Alexa to Your Car
Cultural whiplash takes many forms. This kind of dualist thinking minimises one take to promote another. Shouldn't we be able to consider two (Or more) things to have merit at the same time?

In the words of Bender, you want me to do two things??
They do subsidize through rates. The UPU is set up so that the last mile of a receiving country is charged to the sender as if it were in the sender's country. This is made up from other revenue the carrier in the receiving country makes.
Excellent article. A relevant link would be the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) https://sfdora.org/

Back to the article, lots of gems, like:

>Today's researchers can publish not only in an ever-growing number of traditional venues, such as conferences and journals, but also in electronic preprint repositories and in mega-journals that offer rapid publication times.

Did I just read a very normal point of view of a researcher putting on equal footing electronic preprint repositories and mega-journals?

The BOAI Open Access preachers surely can't believe their eyes :) Heresy! (No researcher was involved in the BOAI flawed definition of green OA as archiving and gold OA as publishing.)
I'm really conscious of sharing half my conversation with something. I don't even like talking on the phone in public. Not a fan of all these devices that are only powered by voice.

I really wish Google Glass had been a success.
No, long before AWS, Amazon intentionally re-invested all of the excess revenue that would be reported as profit back into the business instead (expanding capex and opex).
Active duty military members do not get healthcare at the VA. The VA is reserved for veterans.

That said, as a recipient of VA healthcare I don’t pay a dime. Some vets do but I have a service-connected disability rating above the threshold for free healthcare for life. Prescriptions, ER visits, physical therapy, etc are all covered.

I have a friend who was a nurse at the VA who told me they loved working there because there’s never a hesitation to order a test due to insurance coverage. If my doctor feels that something is important, they order it.

Whether it’s migraine medication, PT due to some jaw issues or a vasectomy, they’re all covered for me.

There have been some complaints about VA service in the past but in the 10+ years I’ve been using them it’s been a breeze.
I wonder why the downvotes. Hackintoshes generally have SIP disabled. Maybe all those video editing workstations were hackintosh machines.

There's very little reason to disable SIP otherwise, unless such "damage" was performed by some specialized software.

I didn't mean "google is intentionally killing hackintosh systems".
Fair enough I guess. If the Lisp macro system only sees parsed s-exps, in principle you still need to figure out for yourself what kind of construct you are dealing with on a higher level of abstraction. Nim's macro system seems to be operating on a higher level of abstraction in that regard.
The "bags" that they're alluding to are "Tea Forté" - but they're carefully avoiding naming names. It's pretty easy to tell that the material is plastic.

It's loose tea in a finely perforated plastic pyramid with a paper leaf on top as a handle. They're marketed to people willing to pay extra for the appearance of the bag.
Is there even a single non-political way that plan buyers can, even in aggregate, do something about this?
SuperUser is enabled by default on openJDK, but it's incredibly simplistic vectorizations being done as can be seen in the article the person above posted.
We’re just gonna pretend Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada etc. don’t exist?
Replying to both (am the original questioner, and thanks for the answers) I'm a brit and to be precise, the NHS is free at point of use, not free. Just to be clear.

It's also now underfunded, but it's still a system I'll literally fight for.
> that not everyone who cares about parking complains.

To that point people who complain are often the canary in the coal mine for larger issues. I am a big complainer. Typically in the end I get thanked for bringing things to a businesses attention. And I am a good customer. My largest 'reward' to date was a $5000 amount from a large german car manufacturer. They said 'we have never done this before'. What I said started out as a complaint. At first they were not really responsive. I finally brought home (successfully) that I was doing them a favor and that their dealer (a luxury car dealer) did not handle things the way they should have with a recent transaction.

I complain all the time at Whole Foods (where I spend a ton of money). Things just jump out at me. That said not everyone is me. Will say that I have owned a small business in the past. For every person that voiced a complaint there could be a hundred who don't open their mouth honestly. That's what I have found.

People think they shouldn't complain in a restaurant as another example. No the restaurant would rather have the complaint than you not returning or telling others. It's their chance to make things right and buy loyalty. Same story 'thank you for bringing this to our attention here is a $100 gift certificate'.
Great design to optimize for gliomas. Probably not a problem for people in their 20's but I wouldn't recommend these for anyone past 40.
I'd be concerned about high schoolers addicted to caffeine.
> An entire generation is draining their savings to keep up with premium costs.

Knock on wood but, myself and pretty much everybody I know has insurance covered ~75% through our full time employers. I think my portion of my insurance is about... $100/mo? I've never had to use it way/shape/form in the past... 5-10 years.

Isn't the truth that the most unhealthy people are what drives health care costs?

It'd be interesting to see a visual of who uses their insurance and how much of it they use. Let's not forget that lack of exercise, obesity, and heart disease are rampant in America.
I realize the avg YC visitor will not want to hear this, but when you are taking care of

1) literally tens of millions of foreign nationals that have washed up on America's shored with all manner of maladies and even diseases that never existed in the USA before, and others that have been eradicated for decades, and all those people bring in multiples of their family members with all manner of other maladies and are of elderly age, who then immediately go on medicare and social security. And illegals the emergency rooms for any and all maladies since all of them are of course criminals (regardless of whether you want to split legal hairs, they are still violators or both the rule of law and committing major offenses against the society and people they are parasitizing).

2) The population is full of clusters of immensely unhealthy populations like blacks that are wildly disproportionately affected by specific diseases like sickle cell and kidney diseases and also lead wildly disproportionately unhealthy lifestyles with obesity rates off the chart all around the south in particular.

3) Our corporation captured government is utterly corrupt and politicians and the health sector is too busy lining each others's pockets to actually provide any real leadership of the country neither have any loyalty to anymore and are just trying to get rich off faster than the next guy before the music stops.

Just look at the stocks of health industry companies before and after "Obamacare" passed that was a massive last minute bait and switch pork barrel profit maker for the health industry, while essentially plundering hard working Americans to pay for the healthcare of millions of foreigners that have been imported into the USA against the enslaved American population's will … because having the product of your work taken from you to support the life and lifestyle of others against your will and under threat of violence and ruin is nothing but slavery.

So here wer are, paying twice as much for half the health care we got just 10 years ago when it was said it was bad, but at least millions of foreign nationals are taken care of at the American tax slave's cost.
No it's not. Actors are meant to pretend to be different people.

The CEO isn't supposed to be pretending to be a different person.
Yeah, this has fewer sensors, but is 100% still a monitor-the-world-and-phone-home device. Glass delivered a lot of additional functionality via the camera and AR capabilities.

It was glib, but still- much of the utility is gone, leaving more or less just a monitoring device.
I didn’t realize “late stage capitalism” meant removing subsidies that distort the free market.

For most of history meat was considered a luxury. In many countries it still is.

For what it’s worth, I’m all in on lab grown meat. Hopefully in 20 years we’ll look back in time and see how barbaric factory farming was.
It isn't what "most" people want. It's what the rich people in power want.
The sad thing, or at minimum odd thing, is that we're few years away from the positive differentiation factor being "you'll be talking to a human".

In fact it should be made illegal to have people who's livelihood depend on a platform to be left at the hands of shit auto replies. If large scale comes at the cost of injustice, maybe large scale shouldn't be a thing.

Youtube, Amazon Seller Central, and many others are terrible examples of what future holds for a lot of people.