skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coverage gaps? Medicare Part C is just another option to get coverage. So you'd take that option away?

And Medicare Part D is prescription drug coverage. You'd take that away?
As long as you order it so the network isn't up before the disk is writable, then no persistent effects could happen from reusing numbers, right? If you can't send out a network packet and can't write to the disk, what other recordable events are there? An attacker writing down numbers observed on the console?
I can't wait for WeWork, the movie. This is going to be great entertainment.
> Negotiated cartel rates and lack of price insurance sure do seem like a plausible component of our health care debacle. But other countries have for-profit providers and private insurance and they don't have these problems. Why is that?

I'm reading your question as slightly rhetorical. If that's the case, and you have some thoughts, you should share them.

For my part, I'd start by looking at the way other privatized systems are managed and regulated, such as Sweden's: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/dec/18/private-heal...

> But what did the last breakdown you look at say about the percentage of our health dollars swallowed by prescription drugs, compared to caregiver salaries, hospital procedures, and long-term care costs?

I'm not making the point that prescription drugs are the largest or even a particularly substantial contributor to the overall number. I'm arguing they're an easy-to-see example of the overall problems that most facets of the current system face.

(By the way, the breakdown another user higher in the chain posted puts prescription drugs at 10% of overall costs, so that's a big chunk.)
I'm normally against prison as a deterrent because it is used against people where it wouldn't work as a deterrent. In cases such as these it might actually work if the execs of such companies were simply jailed for a very long time as though they were about equally responsible as a regular bus driver would be if they were negligent at their job and killed a bunch of people. It just might have a positive effect the next time someone thinks they might get away with cutting some corners.
Part D leverages the competitive nature of private, for profit markets.

As a result, costs for Part D have been much lower than projected.its a very successful program.
That's true. But it will at least give the company a means to clean the slate. The longer they wait with this the harder it will be to recover.
Meanwhile heads rolled at VW for something similar.
All I want is a sticky, permanent header and footer and the rest of the page for text. (without the text going behind the footer/header) Can grid do this? I really don't like using javascript frameworks, I'm trying hard to keep my stuff pure html5/css3.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21292860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293550
Yeah, this would be weird. Doesn't Android Auto just use the account that's already logged in on your phone?
I'm not defending Qatar in general. I'm just trying to suggest, with a real example, that there are cases in which climate change might be preferable to climate change mitigation.

Qatar is an extreme case, but when we think of the climate change issue we seem to forget just how much wealth we got from fossil fuels and therefore, in some sense, how much we benefited and keep benefiting from climate change. But of course it's easier to just click on the downvote button and forget about it.

> Being sustainably poor might also wind up being better than a collapsing state after oil revenues run out.

Oil revenues will run out with efforts to move away from fossil fuels. So the collapse of the country is not one of two options, it will be the result of the mitigation efforts.
Emily Parker Talks Bitcoin and the Realities of Censorship in China
We live in a society where people work 40 hours a week, regardless. If people do a menial task more efficiently, the reward isn't going home and spending time with their family, it's more menial tasks. There is an exception: you might get to go home to your family if you get fired because your department is so much more efficient that you are no longer necessary. But given our society also demands that people do 40 hours a week of menial tasks to eat and live inside, it's hard to argue that's a good thing.

The only way increased productivity lets people spend more time for themselves is if it is on menial tasks outside of work, and most individual consumers won't pay for software, so then you're often into violating people's privacy to sell ads, which again is pretty hard to justify.
The page is from 2017.
Peugeot 208 Electric Test Drive
For a presentation, the non-interactivity might even be more of a feature than a bug.
Seriously? They are paying real money to reduce carbon emissions or sequester carbon.
That's absolutely a marketing message. It's most likely a feature that I don't care about and benefits the company more than me. I don't need my phone to vibrate. If I received a transfer that's a different story.
Got to change my HN password from "dolphin" now. Can't believe they figured it out!
Yes, but the malware isn't required to use port 53 or "plain DNS" at all...

Regardless of what the OS or Firefox or whatever existing app uses, a malicious binary could just use DoH, or just make an HTTP request directly to an IP, or skip HTTP/DNS entirely and fling data out over UDP to an external IP.

Put another way: if your issue is that DoH removes your ability to catch DNS requests from malware, your issue isn't with users enabling DoH, or with app devs defaulting their apps to DoH, your issue is with the concept of non-DNS network protocols. Even if DoH was never standardized, an attacker isn't required to make lookups on port 53 as you desire.
The Digital Is Political
Acceleration Towards a Bottleneck
Except, as I understand it, it's more like this:

Hospital bills Insurance Company $XXX,XXX.XX and Insurance Company says, "No, we'll only pay $XX,XXX.XX" so Hospital pays it. What's not mentioned is that it only cost Hospital $XXX.XX for the procedure so while they're complaining that the insurance companies only pay them a fraction of what they billed for the procedure, they're still making a massive margin.

That's not to suggest they don't have real, valid expenses. That's not even to suggest their expenses aren't high but, how would we know? They won't even tell us, the patients, how much any given procedure costs. It all seems like a wink-wink-nudge-nudge between them and the insurance companies to me while the rest of us get screwed.
Yeah, no, not doing that unless I get to security audit their code end-to-end. Have you seen the stories of auto APIs being completely unsecured, or just flat broken?

No password, no.
I stopped using sawfish like a year ago. I had so many customizations for it that I didn't want to switch.
Ask HN: How long is too long when waiting in line before leaving?
I never interpreted it as implying the 'composite object of a book, room, and the person following directions' can't understand Chinese, but rather that the person doesn't understand Chinese.
I mean, why are there people who dedicate themselves and a huge chunk of their time on this Earth to a sports team? Or finding the best food? Or travel to the prettiest most interesting places? Or going to the best parties? There are plenty of those. That's even more of a mystery to me. At least the person building a company is creating something and doing something for others.

Balance has a cost, too. I consider myself pretty balanced. And I'm happy being balanced. Mostly. But I understand that I will never be truly great at anything. As long as I insist on balance, I will only ever be pretty good. Luckily enough, pretty good has been good enough. But still, I wonder what it would be like to pick one horse and ride it.
Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?
They have different use cases. The rule of thumb is to use Flexbox if you're laying out content along the X or Y axis and Grid if you need to lay it out over both the X and Y axes.
What’s the project about?
Brave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy on the Web [video]
No, that's something different, there is a definite state that is visited at a regular interval.

I get your idea of using various periods : If instead of a sum of periodic signals, you do something completely nonphysical like a product cos(x)cos(x/3)cos(x/5)cos(x/7)any_f(x) you can observe indeed that the zero crossings come back periodically. (Edit: something kind of an amplitude modulation may not be so nonphysical after all)
Well, that's also the question -- if they hadn't allowed NSFW content in the beginning, would a different community (an easier to monetize community) have arisen? There's no way to know.
Sounds like part of the problem is that checklists aren't being applied properly, given that checklists are constantly refined and adapted as needed to situations.

Also, checklist aren't just valuable only for high stakes operation. For example, I find use in checklist for ensuring that I have my everyrday carry.. My only problem was that I kept forgetting to use the checklist....
Administration on both the provider and payer side of this system accounts for, depending on the estimates I've seen, 12-17% of total health care costs. You can't in reality zero those costs out (even Medicare's much-vaunted 2% administration cost would shoot up if it had to deal with every patient in the country), but even if you could, you wouldn't have made health care in the US affordable.
Places You Need to See in Galway, Ireland
The Sanders bill plans to pay for Medicare for All with taxes that are much lower than the social insurance taxes in France or Germany. That is pure fantasy. That gives me little comfort that its accurately accounting for costs.
To be fair, engineering dialogue brings out concerns like this on many major programs. The lawsuits happen on the ones where the concerns turn out to have disastrous consequences.
It is presented as a smoking gun, but as an outsider to the industry, I don't have the context. How many messages do pilots exchange? How formal are they? How guarded are they? In other words, was this a major report that was hushed; or one of 100,000 informal messages over company IM, some of which were statistically bound to be negative (or somewhere in between)

I would imagine that in development of ANY complex technology, no matter how ultimately successful, somebody somewhere over some channel will at some point say "Well, THIS sucks". From personal experience, even for systems in the end I'm most proud of, at some point during development, I would've vented frustration...

(this is not to say that 737Max Fiasco / MCAS design / any of this is justifiable; I just don't know how much that specific, seemingly casual message between two pilots, contributes value to conversation...)
I'd LOL if it's just the pilot who gets the boot (to prison).
What about proprietary software?
> Why are you assuming that I would spend less time with e.g. my wife if she were less efficient in performing some menial task?

because "helping many people allocate their time towards activities they actually value" was an important premise I stated in the post you originally replied to? I deliberately excluded stuff that merely improves productivity at work (although not everyone is fortunate enough to have a job where they can just leave at five if the work isn't done).
A couple of years ago I was sorting an uncatalogued batch of old children books. At random I leafed through a thin grey book, from the 1870s, with a beautiful print on the cover of a young boy in furs on a viking ship. Inside was a tender dedication from a grandpa to his grandson. Something about adventure and wonder as I recall.

Getting a peek into the relationship between an old man and his grandson, well over a hundred years ago, was really something. It enlightened the otherwise mundane job of sorting these books for me.

It made the book some much more than an example-document of 19th century children literature, and turned it into historic artefact of children culture.
You can block these using uBlockOrigin. Look for "annoyances" blocklists in the Filter List settings, especially Fanboy's Cookie List
My first problem is that "a server" only tells me it probably listens on a socket.

Is it a web server, a web framework, a PBX, telnet or general TCP, UDP or Unix socket support functions? Which protocols does it run? Is it a library? Is it a daemon?

It says so little, it could be literally anything.

I guess it has something to do with HTTP and I guess it's a library/framework because I guess a web developer wrote this, but only because it mentions JavaScript and doesn't specify further. But these are still just guesses, I wouldn't know from the text alone.

> works out of the box with modern Javascript

Does it work with other languages too, just not out of the box? If not, the "out of the box" doesn't add anything here. Doesn't similar code work out of the box anyway?
Do be sure to check that any new country will pay for the same thing.

Single-payer/socialized healthcare can mean “Just Saying No” to expensive interventions.
The leading number was automatically stripped, but you can edit the title now and add it back in.
AES-128-CTR on my laptop is 4.8GB/sec per core. I'm sure something producing random enough output for simulation can be built that is as fast as memcpy, but would anything real be affected by the difference?
It's this kind of problem, but it's not the same problem; the Linux problem under discussion happens at a point during the boot when /var is not yet accessible/writable.
I don't like this because they may unknowingly introduce a biased form of triage.
Developer Burns CD with His Apple Watch
I take it to mean he think there's an issue with the sim, not the real aircraft.
There's absolutely no information in what manner MCAS was misbehaving.

It's very possible this is being completely blown out of proportion.
Sometimes people die and there is no one to blame. The tendency to find a scapegoat is strong and human and needs to be resisted.

Maybe someone should go to jail here, but I doubt it.
If I remember correctly it grew out of frustration with glibc size which turned into research into how to make a libc as small as possible. No DJB involved.

> Not that much happening since then, I think he's mostly CCC-ish-blogging these days.

Latest release was last year and the changelog[1] suggests it was a group effort.

Do I smell a personal dislike for the author?

[1] http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/changes-0.34.txt
hmm .. so do you think Reddit is going to hit the same issue soon? I wonder if Reddit will ban all NSFW subs within the next year or two.
https://github.com/icecc/icecream
I'm not obliged to provide a better story. I have the right to request a workaround. It seems OP must not have posted a paywalled article without workarounds in the first place.
Bazel, the tool, is fantastic. Haven't had a better build tool that I've seen yet. The build rules are awful. Almost every single rule is broken in some catastrophic way and, as is typical with Google open source, it is very difficult to ask for things to either be fixed or designed differently.

Major examples: rules_python flat out does not work for python 3, rules_docker does not work without python 2, rules_proto cannot generate stubs for languages, you cannot specify third party deps at a package level and there is no explanation as to why (they will say it would destroy hermetic builds or reproducable builds but that doesn't make sense when you think about ways to support both).
Plasma compression fusion device ignites curiosity over nuclear fusion
Not GP but my question when I read this was “why not Express tho” and “modern JS” (as in ES6 imports etc) did click.
Dang some cool ideas in here.

Yeah trying to figure out how to annotate the schema was a big motivator for inventing the meta identifier system. Thought about using COMMENT for documentation, but once you have meta-ids, I thought it was cleaner to just put schema annotations in a different table.

Yeah I think the LISTEN/NOTIFY system in PostgreSQL is a bit primitive. Still working on that part of the project. We got NOTIFYs to propagate up through nginx over a WebSocket and get them into web-world that way, but that section of the project is still fairly immature.
If you don't need the thing, why are you waiting in line to begin with? If you don't have anything better to do... wait.
Show HN: Example deployment automation with Kubernetes and GitHub actions
My favorite by far is

y++; // Bump y

Instead of

y++; // Do we need error checking for top of y axis?
> I don't think it lessens the achievement at all.

I was not implying that "the fact that the system has been rebooted lessens the achievement", I said none of it. I was just wondering about details of the system and technical accuracy of the statement, isn't it the point of posting on HN?

Running a probe for 15,364 days without even a single bit flip or poweroff would be an extraordinary miracle that exceeded all reasonable expectations, not simply the grestest accomplishment.

Please don't assume that every technical statements/questions imply undervaluation, criticism or attack, regardless of how common they are in tech.

Thanks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rolph

pinch was discussed as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21286679
Then you're going to have to give me some examples. All in all I think doctors and medical scientists are more important to the world than the vast majority of us (since we have to make it an either/or for the sake of argument), so get specific.
> It makes everyone a little smarter

> One thing Dan did here that I really appreciate was to document the commands he ran at each stage. This can be a great lightweight way to spread knowledge around a team. By reading this commit message, someone can learn quite a few useful tips about the Unix toolset:

> [..]

In the spirit of making everyone smarter: simplicity matters. Using the combination of find -print0 and piping that to xargs -0 is much easier than the mentioned abacadabra of characters.

From the xargs(1) manual:

> The options are as follows:

> -0 Change xargs to expect NUL (``\0'') characters as separators,
> instead of spaces and newlines. This is expected to be used in
> concert with the -print0 function in find(1).
use the following attr on the element and put it on top for the header and bottom for the footer.

position: fixed;
At the risk of sounding hippie, "tedious" and "boring" are emotional reactions to the chores, and not attributable to the chores themselves. We don't have to do that.

"Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness." ― James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest

Not that I've remotely mastered it, but I think there's a lot of wisdom in there.
> the World Uyghur Congress

How suspicious that a person talking about mass abuse is part of the group being abused. /s

The WUC is not recognized as a terrorist organization by anyone except China. China labels anyone who disagrees with them as terrorists, particularly religious groups (hello Falun Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong).
> The Sanders bill plans to pay for Medicare for All with taxes that are much lower than the social insurance taxes in France or Germany.

The US has much weaker non-healthcare social insurance than France or Germany, and a much larger per-capita economic activity to tax, so lower social insurance taxes for equivalent healthcare seems to be expected rather than suspicious.
I read it as self-deprecation. Something people do to take the edge off of bad news.
To put it differently, Knuth's perspective is that of someone who's fundamentally a programmer at heart, but also happens to be a supremely competent/skilled mathematician. There are not many people like that (Bill Gosper comes to mind).

In this paper, which is worth reading even if you've never heard of backtracking before — Knuth introduces backtracking with a very simple example that he then deeply analyzes to great effect — you can get a sense of this from the very first page:

> Sometimes a backtrack program will run to completion in less than a second, while other applications seem to go on forever. The author once waited all night for the output from such a program, only to discover that the answers would not be forthcoming for about 10^6 centuries. A "slight increase" in one of the parameters of a backtrack routine might slow down the total running time by a factor of a thousand; conversely, a "minor improvement" to the algorithm might cause a hundredfold improvement in speed; and a sophisticated "major improvement" might actually make the program ten times slower. These great discrepancies in execution time are characteristic of backtrack programs, yet it is usually not obvious what will happen until the algorithm has been coded and run on a machine.

> Faced with these uncertainties, the author worked out a simple estimation procedure in 1962, designed to predict backtrack behavior in any given situation. […] during subsequent years, extensive computer experimentation has confirmed its utility.

He spends 4 pages (one-fourth of the paper) gently introducing backtracking, then a page making a mathematical formalism out of it, then the method falls out almost naturally. The method is elegant and almost too good to be true: instead of doing your backtracking (systematically trying every possible way to extend a partial solution), at each step just pick a random way to extend the partial extension. Continue till you get stuck or find a solution. (You're basically going down just one random path of the search tree.) The cost of this path, weighted by appropriate probabilities, is an estimate of the cost of the backtracking program.

Two corollaries show the worth of the formalism, then he refines the method to work better in practice, etc. The motivation is always better tools for the working programmer, but he's happy to, e.g. introduce generating functions and differentiate them, when needed.

> Furthermore, the game [hand calculation] is worthwhile, because it gives insight into the behavior of the algorithm, and such insight is of great use later when the algorithm is eventually programmed; good ideas about data structures, and about various improvements in the backtracking strategy, usually suggest themselves.
How are you handling privacy and people's criminal records? I find the US-style background checks very invasive, rarely helpful and absolutely counter to offering second chances to people who want to get back on their feet. How will your business deal with these things?
Supporting Efficient Snapshot Isolation for Hybrid Workloads [pdf]
I get that a formatter should reject syntactically incorrect code, but I question why it's syntax error in the first place. Coming from using black with python, I generally leave the trailing comma there but for the compiler to care seems weird when there's a standard formatter available.