skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's fine, but it doesn't address the fundamental problem of US health care costs, which is --- regardless of "who pays" --- "why does it cost so fucking much".

A doctor named David Belk set out to find answers to this question. He presented what he found at http://truecostofhealthcare.org/. You can start with the introduction (http://truecostofhealthcare.org/introduction/) or skip straight to the conclusion (http://truecostofhealthcare.org/conclusion/), or explore his findings on a category-by-category basis.

Or, if you prefer, the LA Times ran an article a while back that examined the single case of a dislocated shoulder: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-12/medical-eq...

A deep dive into the specifics is well outside the scope of a comment on an HN thread that's already gone off the front page, but the summary is that the US system has a large number of profit-motivated groups involved in every step of the health care system, and those costs balloon rapidly as a result, and health care recipients are the least powerful group politically so none of this is changing for the better.

Based on the findings like these and the plethora of other articles I've read on the subject, I'm extremely skeptical of a < 5.7% profit margin number for the health industry. Given that that figure seems to be coming from companies' self-reported profits, I'd bet there's some Hollywood accounting going on.

Either that, or all the US health care corporations are really impoverished, every article on the subject that has faulted obscene profits is wrong, and all other countries are somehow propping up a rather large section of their social services with tax rates only marginally higher than the US overall rate.
Okay. So maybe the multiplier of my salary to get a doctor's salary is 5 or 6 instead of 2 or 3.

The multiplier of my salary to get a health insurance CEO's salary is also now, what, 200 or 300 instead of 100?
Also his 2014 Reith lectures (a BBC institution): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/6F2X8TpsxrJpnsq82h...
Demikernel: A library OS for kernel-bypass devices, now with Rust TCP/IP stack
Hm, good thing that doesn’t apply to certain other, high profile, leadership jobs.
Nobody cares about your fetish porn and cocaine now. If you ever decide to run for president, suddenly a lot of people will care, and by then that info is already in the wrong hands.

You can play the statistics game and say that this will never matter for 99.9% of people, but when multiplied by all people who have info that'd hurt them if it became public (everybody!), it makes for a very powerful tool for oppression.
If we're going to contrive an instance that will result in a gender gap then why not just say we hire only 3 people? That would be a perfectly contrived example that would illustrate what you're trying to say.

Beyond your contrivances, I take issue with you suggesting that employees can (or should) be rated on a linear scale. Companies have very specific needs and maybe a candidate who is a "2" on your scale is a "10" at fulfilling what the company needs.

I'll say again too that the value of diversity doesn't need to manifest itself in every individual.
Seems like a stretch. A Facebook web ad isn't sent "to" an email address.
After "dialing" 01189998819991197253 on the OP website and your's, I can say this one was easier and consequently faster to input the number correctly.
I didn't claim WUC is a terrorist org, but it has a clear separatism agenda, which aligns with ETIM's goal even if there's no verifiable link between them. Personally I'm skeptical, considering how rampant misinformation is nowadays.
"But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down." -- David Foster Wallace, This is Water

https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
Take my upvote. The Office (S06E03).
There are a lot of books that really deserve more than a magazine article or summary. You get context, examples, maybe some history, and so forth.

But they could probably be, say, 75 pages rather than 250. The problem is that the economics and practices of the publishing industry--and, in all fairness, the expectations of most book buyers--are built around 250-300 page books. So authors end up padding out their 75 page book to 250+ pages.

Philip Greenspun wrote the following in 2003. It was in the context of blogs as an alternative but the reality is that books still carry a certain gravitas that online publishing usually doesn't have.

"Let’s go back to the beginning. The commercial publishing world supports basically two lengths of manuscript: the five-page magazine article, serving as filler among the ads; the 200+-page book. If you had a 20-page idea and didn’t have access to the handful of “long-copy” magazines in the U.S. (old New Yorker, Atlantic, etc.), you could cut it down to a meaningless 5-page magazine piece or add 180 pages of filler until it reached the minimize size to fit into the book distribution system (cf. any diet book or business bestseller)."
As others have said, some people like to spend 20-30 hours/week training for an Ironmmn, others spend much more than that in front of the TV watching Netflix.

How's that different from working 80 hours/week IF you enjoy it? Just don't force others to do the same.
Cereal Masturbation – National Geographic
Seemed pretty likely that a response would be made after watching the video interview with Time posted yesterday.

This is going to turn into weirdly most interesting stories for the NBA in a long time.
I was wondering why there was no easy way to access embedded images on their mobile site. This is so much worse than expected.
When it comes to programming it's usually based around American English (e.g. in CSS 'colour' (British English) is 'color'), so American cultural context
Not if the first step of updating the code is updating the documentation to reflect the intended state after the code update, preferably with embedded doctests that form part of the definition of done for the code changes.

Sure, if documentation is treated as an afterthought it tends to reflect that attitude.
The poster you are replying to is a troll, likely. I'd disengage with the poster and not continue the conversation, as they do not tend to comment 'in good faith'. Their HN profile bio as of 8pm GMT states:

"When you read a HN article about some despot in a foreign land having the intellectuals lined up and shot it seems irrational. When you read the comments and you realize the despot might be on to something."

'Ironic' calls to do violence to others for their beliefs and words do not let one assume that the person calling for such pseudo-violence is trying to anything other than get a rise out of people. I'd suggest cat videos instead of wasting time with them.
Conversely, being at work twice as many hours won't get you twice as much work; and even if you actually work twice as much you probably won't even know twice as much.

...And in an organization with thousands of people there's more knowledge than even a hundred people can fully absorb. So I don't think this particular criticism is fair.
I had experience working with ArchiveTeam on the G+ shutdown.

1. They're AMAZING.

2. They're not superhuman.

3. Major archival projects take time to prepare, set up, and execute.

4. Only public content is even potentially accessible. Much can get lost.

AT did a stellar job with G+, it's still a far cry from the access that was provided when Google hosted the content.

Google actively and by all appearances deliberately thwarted and frustrated archival efforts. This was a tremendous disappointment. It's quite likely Yahoo will do similarly.

If you want your own control over archives, you're going to want to use / run tools directly yourself.

TL;DR: AT is a huge benefit, but it's not a total solution.
LucasArts had a very strong bent towards not putting you in a fail state.

My understanding is that Sierra was intending to be more fair as time went on, but they had a bias against playtesting so there were still some big goofs that got through.

I think all of the first 5 KQ games had ways to lose items that would later be needed to win.

KQ VI had a branching path and if you picked the "easy" branch you were unlikely to end up in a very unwinnable state, but there was no indication at the time of the branch that you were doing so (IIRC you were about to be burned alive and you could either use some maid's clothes to put out the fire, destroying the clothes, or cast a spell that required boiling some water, using up some component). With a hint-book it took me several attempts to make it through the "hard" path.
How can image services avoid hosting child pornography? If a user submits an image of themselves at age 17 and lies about their age, can the host be held liable for distributing illegal content? That seems like an existential business risk for any site that hosts nsfw. There’s no viable way to check a user’s actual age (when depicted) under current business models. And what is and isn’t nsfw?

It all sounds complicated.
Does CCPA say anything about email marketing beyond how you obtain or share the address with others?
not latest, but nightly FF. That's a pretty big non-starter.
It's the same plot to “And Then I Thought I Was A Fish”
Why did you give me links to Big 5 then, what is your point? How does a personality test demonstrate intrinsic sex differences? It doesn’t, and your well documented source says so clearly and explicitly.

I’m sorry I made you angry, there’s some miscommunication going on here. I’m not convinced we’re talking about the same thing because you haven’t brought anything to this conversation that demonstrates there’s evidence of intrinsic sex differences when it comes to career choices, you’ve only pointed to known cultural differences.

I agree with you that there are cultural differences.
I agree for the common case, but CSS grid even for one axis can be better, especially for gutter/gap.
Eh, I don't know. Posting content under the terms that it will be licensed under cc-whatever seems pretty different from trying to relicense software you have paid a company to use.
To do that math effectively, you'd have to look at which parts of a health insurance company's structure are essentially waste caused by health insurance being private, and zero all that, and I'd presume that's a large portion of premiums. The CEOs are just the most obvious example.
discomfort. We got too used to comfort. That uncomfortable situations with (and mostly) other people is the thing that brings fear (of rejection). And yes, some of that fear comes from our tribalism. We used to live in tribes (even in the Bible) and if you got thrown out of your tribe it's a serious thing.
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Doing boring things that are important and face uncomfortable situations makes the cut for a great founder (and for achieving objectives in life).
How did bringing media attention to the issue fix it, if WireGuard is the one that backed down?
Thinking about stuff like this is fascinating in the context of just how much massively more of a big deal its going to become very very soon.

Specifically, if you draw the trend line on the size and price of kuka/fanuc/abb robot arms, and you put UR's models in there for today, we are really only 3 - 5 years away from you having a robot arm sitting on your kitchen counter that you can script to make your coffee for you.

So all of these bugs will become real :)
Well you can very easily yourself figure out whether I'm responding directly to you or someone else: did you sincerely consider the implications of your comment when you made it? Did you imagine the people that would be affected? If the answer is no then I'm responding directly to you.
Our team had a blast at techcrunch
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Well it seems they may have caught some of the breaks, and then suppressed knowledge of them...
In an organization I've worked at we used to write good commit messages, about 9 years ago, before we started using Github. Then our good commit messages turned into good PR intros. I think Github and Gitlab etc are fantastic, but I'm a little sad that so much valuable information has been divorced from the git repository itself (and of course, the ultimate fate of those PR intros across the open source world depends on the companies hosting the repo.)

Personally, rightly or wrongly, the fact that I can't use Github/Gitlab to contribute to Django and Emacs prevents me from trying to make contributions to those projects. Similarly I find the insistence on using email to send patches, frustrating, when I know PRs (MRs) work so well. However, I guess Emacs and the linux kernel are keeping their good commit messages in their git repo and not losing them to a hosting company.

Maybe there should be tooling for automatically converting a PR intro to a commit message.
I would start with a data model then you can use this if you want to convert to c#: http://json2csharp.com/
I'm saying that a doctor's contribution to society is a lot more than a health insurance CEO's and yet that is not reflected in their salary.

It wouldn't surprise me if doctor pay was a larger factor in healthcare costs. But doctor salaries are an inherent cost of healthcare, and while we can certainly lower their salaries, it's not entirely clear to me what a fair salary would be.

Health insurance CEOs, and indeed most of what a health insurance company does, are not only not inherent costs, but active blights on the healthcare system. A fair salary would be zero, with fines for literally killing people. So they're much higher priorities than doctors for the axe.
Yeah absolutely but if you are running a simulation/test would you deliberately inject some random sensor failure if you are doing your tests for something else?

It is not clear what they were testing - perhaps they were indeed testing the MCAS system with sensor failures, but if so I probably wouldn't have expected such a surprised resction from them. It seemed like it was totally unexpected and unexplained, which is not a reaction I would expect if they were testing this.
Check this out: https://www.notion.so/gug/Todo-cafe7661e92b4fc1aebb7bcb3c103... I think node.js and Flutter can get you your MVP in one week assuming you can clearly articulate your idea.
People were doing this with Java applets 20+ years ago. The first thing I noticed is I can't copy-and-paste.
That's 100% a marketing message.
Q: "What can a human do that a machine cannot?"

A: "Answer that question."

Mark Miller pointed out, "A Computer's Perspective on Moore's Law: Humans are getting more expensive at an exponential rate."

https://web.archive.org/web/20160316014939/http://www.caplet...

If there's nothing we can do that they can't..?
That's jumping to conclusions, isn't it? It doesn't require a conspiracy for Mozilla to remove a feature.

It wouldn't even make sense for this to be part of a conspiracy, since this doesn't affect the list of search engines included by default.

According to the related forum discussion, it sounds like the blog post was imprecise and the change only affects search add-ons, not adding search engines via browser menus: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/deprecation-of-opensearch-xm...
Take a look for yourself:

https://gamasutra.com/view/news/300313/Scribblenauts_dev_sha...
Sorry? I give something under one license, you redistribute it under a completely different license, without my permission.

Why is it so important whether money transactions were involved?
Yes, part of the usual process of making a tiny binary is jettisoning much of the overhead that debuggers depend on in order to find their way through an external program. Not just the debugging symbols themselves, but things like section header tables and maintenance of linked stack frames in the running code. Dumping all of that saves space, at the expense of making the resulting binary more and more opaque.
Reid Technique
You can use Boost in C? Is this something that's commonly done? I thought Boost was for C++
I mean I know it's been a while since the device had been released, but what was Apple expecting? People wouldn't find it?

I'm just sick of seeing stuff like this. They invested at least tens of thousands of dollars to develop a custom component like this for the obvious purpose of keeping power users out. To me, this is another case of Apple not caring at all about their customers.

I remember the days of the iPod where users could flash their own firmware to the device they purchased. I remember not liking some features they added to the iPod OS and being able to downgrade to retain old features. I understand the desire to dumb things down for your average user. I understand wanting to provide quality software alongside your hardware. What I don't understand is why do I not own the hardware I purchase? If I flash my own firmware, do what you want. Block me from downloading new updates, remove my access to any Apple-provided content. I don't care, just let me load up what software I want.

This is why people were mad at Sony in the PS3 days. Maybe I'm rambling. Just put a diagnostic port in the device and save some engineering money that would be better invested in cooling your laptops or providing a standard, widely adopted port like USB C in your phones. Don't focus on the things that will just detract users from your platform.
Can’t really go wrong with python + Django (or flask if you want to stay minimal). Sounds like you’ll need auth, so Django should support that out of the box.

Both will integrate easily with Postgres, and for flask, take a look at the peewee ORM.
Most libcs aren't cross-platform; there is mingw, which provides an alternate libc on windows. I'm not actually sure why the libcs aren't cross-platform; I'm currently working on one which plans to support freebsd, linux, and windows.
It is a pretty good password. Just "hunter" is no good because it has no digits, so of course you'd add a "1"... but wait! It's actually a 2! That's the pro security twist the hackers won't expect.
Information is not infinitely compressible. In fact, for lossless compression, it’s proven that we can’t do much better than we already do. At some point you just need more storage. However we are several orders of magnitude away from the physical information density limit (surface of a black hole).
Are we using the same definition of "tedious"? This is what I get:

Tedious: too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.

"Too" long as in "longer than I'd like." Tiresome. Monotonous. Those sound like the opposite of enjoying the ride to me!
I've been working from home for the past year, after previously taking the bus to work downtown. It's mostly an improvement, but I do miss the commute—especially when I'd go early in the morning and get off the "wrong" stop to walk across the river, through a riverside park, back across the river, and still be the first one in the office. I really miss that.

The afternoon commute with the traffic jams, buses packed with students, noise... nope, never missed that.
This is a really convincing argument. I was with the parent commenter until I read this; I was like, this is totally PR stuff! But hadn't considered offline situations, or host switches. Thanks op!
>Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal.

As someone who has never had any trouble maintaining inbox 0 I have to ask, why?
found this to convert json to sql creates:

http://pojo.sodhanalibrary.com/ConvertJsonToSQL

and your selects, updates etc

http://convertjson.com/json-to-sql.htm
Should note that glibc now supports c11 threads. AFAIK there was some problem with their initial specification that caused them to want not to implement them, and c18 amended that so they're now comfortable supporting them.

Also note that openrisc has been mostly superceded by risc-v, which afaik glibc and musl both support; don't know about the other libcs.
It only seems that complicated because you’re applying weird HN pedantry on fairly reasonable laws. This isn’t an existential business risk unless you’re straight up ignoring CAM you’ve been made aware of.

This is a constant source of work for these providers, but complicated this is not.
I'm about seven months out of having gone through a similar process with Google+. What I'd contributed specifically was in trying to create some structure and process for people and organisations hoping to migrate both content and communities from G+. Success was mixed, but it was, I think, better for what we'd managed to do.

A large part of that was setting up informational resources with an eye for future migrations to use, learn from, and adapt these. In particular:

https://social.antefriguserat.de is a wiki focused (principally) on the G+ migration, but with some generalisable principles. Please feel welcome to visit and add to it. (I'm the principle editor/admin.)

One of the huge wins we had was a third-party end-user tool for data export. I'm checking to see if there's a similar Yahoo Groups product.

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus is the "Google Plus Exodus" but wink-wink "public liberation exodus" subreddit for discussion. I've already posted several items on the Yahoo Groups shutdown. Again, for an out-of-band regrouping channel, it's an option for Yahoo Groups users.

I also need to follow up with EFF and some other groups I'd talked to briefly about the issue of migration off public web services.
Here's an older video about the run-up to Intel's Drone 100 simultaneous attempt. It's the most comprehensive overview of the coordination that I have found. It shows some screenshots of their custom drone control software. In this generation they used 4 pilots for 100 drones; Intel currently holds the world record for simultaneous drones controlled by a single operator at 500 drones, so they have taken a couple steps since this video was made in January 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-js5zn-I0

Edit: found a link for Intel Mission Control. Download it and try it out yourself?

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28715/Intel-Missio...

Edit2: Found a screengrab of the so-called ControlCenter v0.1.6-3-gf79c79. It's pretty hard to read but it's there at 1:06. Also in that same Intel 500 drone video is a screengrab for some software by Ascending Technologies GmbH at 0:40, which Intel bought in 2016. They appear to have created the Falcon 8 drone, which Intel also acquired in the deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOd4-T_p5fA

http://www.asctec.de/en/intel-acquires-ascending-technologie...
Google was literally funneling people to its own services via its search results and had no similar linking for other services. The court's decision seemed reasonable.
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>A normal person would be retiring at 65 or so.

Mark was 62; maybe you’re thinking of Larry, 75?
What’s the easiest/best way to host python+flask?