skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's assume that emergency medicine should be provided by cities in the same way as other emergency services like fire companies. What's the argument for doing it that way for all medical services, including the ones that are not time sensitive and allow you plenty of time to shop around and choose the provider with the best combination of price, distance, scheduling availability, etc.?

Because for a lot of people, there is no real choice involved. If there's one hospital around for hundreds of miles, they realistically don't have the option to go to one further out when their job expects them to be available for work every single day. Not to mention that requires every hospital to offer every service and to have every type of specialist for every type of disease.

Medical issues don't operate like a grocery store. You can't just walk into a hospital and choose between Name Brand MRI or Store Brand MRI. It requires a level of knowledge that most people don't have. It's knowledge I don't have! And something I'd prefer to never have to think about when I have other shit to deal with in real life.

> This is hardly the only circumstance where there are many variables. Should the government buy everyone the same car because there are so many different choices between prices and safety ratings and fuel economy and performance? How does that even help, since the solution space is the same and government knows less about your priorities than you do?

Your analogy falls apart because the government does make mandates for cars. Things like safety features. And you're trying to compare buying a car which is a fairly small subset of considerations for the average person versus trying to purchase medical assistance which is an incredibly wide field encompassing multiple types of examinations, surgeries, biopsies and more. When you're looking for a car, you have some properties of a car which are easily understandable. When you're searching for medical assistance, most people only vaguely know what's actually wrong.
Your examples aren't Powershell commands, they are Windows command line utilities and could be run from command prompt. Real Powershell commands are quite intuitive, support pipelines and are object driven. Give it some credit! For example:

Install-WindowsFeature Biometric
Please be careful with your terminology here.

When we talk about metrics, especially in a business context, we are talking about numerical quantities that can be tracked and unambiguously measured. A metric that can't be measured, or that nobody agrees on the measurement of, is no good as a metric, in this context. Are we agreed on that part of the definition of a metric?

> determining the consequences of your actions

That is an entirely different thing.

> measuring anything

And that is yet another entirely separate concept. You can weigh a course of action without measuring anything.

> It seems to me that if you are definitely rejecting that, then you have no personal values.

In most situations in life, you must make a decision without any chance to know the results of your actions. Can you know in advance the result of picking a career, or taking a job, getting married, moving to another country, or voting for a particular candidate? Of course not. The number of decisions in life that are repeated, and where a numerical, measurable value is available to guide your decision making over time (which is what is meant by tracking metrics in a business context) are a vanishingly small minority of the decisions we must make.

Unless you calculate a utility function before crossing the street, or having breakfast, I don't think you really mean to argue for what you appear to be arguing for.
Nope, it really was intended to be a broader generalization.

That book seems interesting. Oddly enough I'm a jazz musician, but I never learned theory. I mean, I understand scales and chord symbols, but never learned anything beyond that in a formal way. Comparing myself to players who have studied theory, my limitations are that I can't compose or arrange, and I struggle to improvise over complex chord changes.
I know you probably mean it as a compliment to K&R, but you shouldn't compare K&R with S&W: while both are opinionated, the advice in K&R is coherent and sensible!

S&W is a bizarre book: it's a pleasure to read because the authors are both excellent writers, but they don't know anything about grammar so their advice often makes no sense. Seriously, read it again (it's a short book) and count how many times they actually follow their own grammatical advice (their advice not about a technical grammar point is usually sound, and you should, for example, omit needless words). My opinion is that you should take S&W as style exemplar, but not a style guide.

Geoffrey Pullum's article 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice explains all this better than I can: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/50years.pdf
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> The nature of medical care doesn't allow for "users" to decide rationally. This is primarily due to the lack of domain knowledge concerning medicine. If you have a lump somewhere, and a doctor wants to X-Ray/Biopsy/Open You Up, you generally don't know which one is best. So prices don't help at all.

How do prices not help? You at least know how much you'll have to pay, which is certainly relevant information. You still may not know which one is best (no guarantee that it's the one that costs more), but what solution are you proposing to that anyway? Even if the government was paying for your medicine, how would that help you choose which doctor to listen to?

> When you are under, you don't get to consent to the actions of the surgeons ,anesthesiologists or whomever else they decide to bring in to assist.

Which is why it may make sense to have an insurance plan that fully covers emergency services regardless of network. But emergency services aren't the majority of medical costs.
Thank you for making this! This is the best find for me this whole week. I have been learning keyboard and one things I really missed was having a place like this to practice sheet music and learning to sightread music. There are tons of expensive/paid service but nothing beats this. This is perfect. This along with https://www.musictheory.net/lessons is enough for me to learn most things I need. :)
In the jungles of Central America, there are an unbelievable number of square pointy hills covered in foliage.

Abandon a stone city for 1000 years in the jungle and it gets pretty unrecognizable.
Eh, lots of people work under the table as it is. How hard could it be to get some of that in cryptocurrency?
Action Park's most notorious rides mostly had design flaws that made it quite easy to hurt oneself. The Cannonball and Tarzan Swing dumped riders into ice cold water from about 15 feet, temporarily paralyzing many of them. Alpine Slide had no speed regulator to prevent a rider from taking a curve in excess of the max speed, causing a ton of cart flips and literal slides down the concrete, tearing off wide patches of skin. Surf Hill's runoff area was too short to prevent riders from slamming head first into the minimally-cushioned wall (like gymnastics pads).

Although the rides were dangerous, the most lethal attraction was actually the simple wave pool. The problem was the huge size of the pool and large crowds, making it difficult for lifeguards to see everyone. Then the waves made it harder for lifeguards to see who was underwater from a wave vs from exhaustion or lack of skill. And plenty of the guests had literally never been in a pool before and lacked any swimming ability.

With all that said, Action Park was fun as hell.
I wonder why Wisconsin went through the trouble vs some incrementing id. It seems like it was understood 2 people could end up with the same number so the last two digits were added. That would rule out the benefit of unique ids without requiring a single central system to ensure uniqueness.

It does make it harder to fake an id, perhaps that was the motivation.

Edit: Some more interesting info for the states that implement this. Also, TIL Illinois drivers can appear to have the exact same DL number. http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone
AI in Wildlife Conservation
Peasants Quest (although it’s not that new)

Fester Mudd - Curse of the Gold

Broken Age
> please vote for medicare for all

No thank you. I've helped people with medicare and it's the worst health insurance I've ever encountered, with insane rules and brain-twisting billing practices.

I have absolutely no desire to inflict this on the entire country.

When you are promoting medicare - have you actually tried it? Are you speaking from a position of knowledge?

I have, it's terrible.

But worst of all it doesn't fix anything!!! The problems with healthcare in this country are that hospitals and doctors will need to take a pay cut, and we'll need to fire a lot of people in order to save money.

Medicare for all, at current payment rates, will just cause havoc.
Ask HN: How to deal with online harassment/defamation with my employer?
My ex-girlfriend who (I thought) I was still friends with has been making out of context defamatory posts about me on various incel subreddits. I'm a fairly high-ranking employee at a big corporation. When I confronted her about this, she threatened to post the same content to my employer's social media channels, along with a made up story about how I subjected her to sexual and emotional abuse. Her stated goal was to get me fired from my job. I took screenshots where she discusses her plan.

Although it has been a year since we were last together, she initiated not one, but two relationships with me. She wanted to get back together even though I was already in another relationship, which she insisted I end, because of "how pure" our first relationship was (there were no allegations of abuse). I never treated her with anything but the utmost respect. I have lots of old texts to back this up.

Is a restraining order a good way to proceed in this situation? I used to live in another state, but I recently moved here for this job. Would the order prevent her from contacting my employer across state lines? I am assuming her other online harassment is a lost cause.
Wifi Chua is a human version of that. It is a public database of wifi passwords that even integrates with iOS such that it will log you directly into the network.
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In my longer runs I’ll consume a gel at the first hour mark and then ever 30 minutes. This can be for up to 4 to 5 hours. Gels allow me to consume a controlled amount of carbs without consuming too many calories. I’m not sure about cycling, but in ultra running gi issues are one of the main reasons for dnf’s. The funny part is on runs longer than 6 hours, I supplement gels with mashed potatoe burritos.
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Thank you for the excellent feedback.
Pretty mind-blowing. Any Haskell experts want to attempt a point-free version of the function that calculates the next generation for an arbitrary matrix in Conway’s Game of Life?
> If object X has 9 methods I want to reuse in object Y, making X a component of Y still requires me to re-implement those 9 methods in Y, even if they are just pass-throughs.

That is also not universal. In Ruby, for instance, one can write:

class Y
def method_missing(m, *args, &block)
@x.send(m, *args, &block)
end
end
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> Loops are a foundational operation. Instead of a loop you could use a function/operator overload, which would just call another function which contains the loop

That's incorrect, you can always replace a loop with a recursive function (e.g. as you do in Erlang where there aren't explicit loops)
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This is too much like when John McAfee et al ranted about how the Michelangelo virus was turning the antivirus world upside down because of it's ultra sophistication.

What they weren't saying though, was that Michelangelo was a STONED virus clone with the "Your PC is now Stoned!!!" printing payload turned into simple disk overwriting procedure (very common at the time), and the trigger was changed to a particular date instead of a random once-a-week average odds. It's worth noting there were already at least a dozen STONED variants by the time MICH showed up on the scene. All of them were simple opcode changes just to evade the existing scan strings. Not sophisticated.

In other words, Michelangelo wasn't the sophisticated world altering virus the antivirus folks were ranting about at all. And while the trigger date was about a birthday, it wasn't chosen because it was also Michelangelo's birthday or whatever. It was hugely marketable for the antivirus companies when promoted as such, though.

History repeats.
There have been similar research around pickle juice and endurance athletes.
Creativity is bad for UI design (2018)
great now i just need a mechanic who will do the entire conversion
I would go to my boss, show him the posts and inform him about her threads. I will assume that he will take your side and that he will ignore her posts if there are no merrits to her claims. By being proactive you will take the heat out of her actions.
Can you give a concrete example of something that you feel takes longer to implement on js then in cljs?
Would this include foods that are naturally anti-inflammatory? Or are those minor in normal/healthy amounts and thus not detrimental to training?
Took me a while to figure out it was a fork of Ubuntu. Does System76 maintain its own aptitude repos? What custom software does it come with (if any)? What architectures does it support? What is the default desktop environment? There's no detail anywhere. No screenshots either.
Infact, the Spanish built a temple on a hill in Cholula only to be discovered that it was actually a Pyramid!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Cholula
Dr Sarah E. Hill: ‘A blind spot about how the pill influences women’s brains’
Bureaucracy fixing software issues is quite common. One story i have heard is that in the early days of railway reservation computerization in India, there were storage issues on the servers. The solution : cut the advance booking time from 90 days to 45, where it stayed for many years.
Therefore let's flag any content that mentions it on public forums, so only the bad guys keep doing it completely unchecked as they have been for over a decade, and we continue not doing anything about actually fixing it?

Hey let's ban all youtube content about the use of tools like ettercap while we're at it.

In fact let's just make any research or discussion of security and pentesting illegal and bury our heads in the sand.
I can't speak with specially on those features. But so far, if I want something from js or a npm lib it's I straight up just use it via interopt. Is there a reason that doesn't work here?
I'm just saying that the way the article is written, it comes off as similar to 16th century theory of imbalance of humors [1].

It's just a very surface level explanation, lacking in substance as I said. There's something more concrete going on and this article didn't even attempt to illuminate it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism
There was an issue a few years ago in Tulsa where the sheriff was deputizing political cronies with minimal training, and one of them,a man in his 70s, fatally shot someone.

https://nyti.ms/1aPwG91
You should pick up one of the many books on this topic if you haven't.

From what I have read, the only thing specifically you can do is light therapy. Buy a light specific for this.

Moving obviously has the biggest impact.
Also, PowerShell comands themselves come with aliases, like cls for Clear-Host

And it's not arbitrary reason . PowerShell is closer to a OOP language than other shells.
I would definitely file a complaint with your local police, if for no other reason than to have it on record. Chances are they wont be able to do much to stop it, but if she persists you may be able to persue civil action to recoup any lost wages and or damages resulting from her online harassment.
Thanks. I updated my post. I don't really do Windows command-line, so it's easy for me to conflate the two.
The employer is never forced to make bad business decisions. They get to decide what is better for the company: taking that contract, or having all the protesting employees continue to work for them.

Doing it your way can actually cause much worse business decisions. If employees don't give any verbal feedback, only quitting, then the employer might take a hot-button contract and suddenly have multiple important workers quit all at once, losing far more money to replace them than the contract was worth.
We have extensive evidence that humanity had strongly influenced the Amazonian rainforest including a type of anthropogenic soil called "black soil".
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Where do all the censored developers go?
> It might even come to the point where admissions office take into account the high school you attended to calculate an effective grade

"Might even come to the point"? They do this now. They've been doing it for many, many years.
how to trust this?
> Medical providers not being able to provide the total cost for a non-emergency procedure up-front but then expecting people to pay whatever price they make up after the fact is practically fraud. The fact that it leads to outrageous costs is entirely predictable.

I’d like to turn the question around and ask folks who believe that the healthcare problem is one of not enough market freedom: what’s an example of a country that gets a free market in medical care right, from your perspective?

We universal healthcare advocates have a couple of dozen examples lined up to support our perspective, what about from the other side?
A few years ago when I tried it, I got frustrated with it very quickly when I found out macros are not allowed in ClojureScript. I think you should either write JavaScript directly or compile to WebAssembly from some better language. Transpilation has always seemed to end in failure.
Moved to California.

Used to live in Canada (eastern ontario) and this became intolerable.

Living in shitty weather conditions and trying to compensate with artifical means never really worked for me.
I think the point was that there are multiple different reforms that are important, and why health care over another. What if there is a candidate that is for health care reform, but against something else you consider important, but there's another candidate that's for the other reform, but against health care reform? Or there is a candidate that is for health care reform but also for other things your are strongly against?
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Very cool! Some thoughts:

1. As a replacement shell, it's not scriptable. If you haven't already, you should make it such that you can do one-shot commands from a regular shell without entering the full environment. For example:

igloo crypto connect <name>

2. There is no highlights section on the website talking about why this project is awesome. You need examples of things that any IT person will instantly recognize as gold.

3. I was having trouble navigating the docs section from a mobile device. Desktop interface works perfectly, though.

4. Change your about page. You're denigrating yourself, and making yourself and the project look weak. This project is an amazing accomplishment, so present it and yourself as such!
You can shorten

d="m27 23-27-27v4 27 27h4v-27h46v27h4v-27-27-4z"

to

d="m27 23-27-27v58h4v-27h46v27h4v-58z"

The cubic bezier curve in your second version seems like some kind of strange artifact.
In my experience this just doesn't hold for errors originating from a library. Because a good library interface should mostly be a black box it makes it really hard to understand the underlying cause of an error from something like a networking library or a database library without logging everything. God help you if you have client code that must be able to return errors originating from a library or from the client code itself.

Stacktraces are probably the single most useful tool in debugging any issue and their absence in Go is one of my only enduring gripes with the language.
Detention of children over Hong Kong protests raises questions on legal process
Amusingly, the author of that book (Brian Harvey) was my professor for my first CS class, in 1996, where we used this very edition of SCIP.
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That's a little unfair—the APL version in that video isn't point-free.
So you know for sure that consensus around https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf... is impossible to reach?
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10 miles a day? running? you do realize that's like way outside the mean right?
This article doesn't actually list any self-claimed "fundamental deficiencies". There's a reason that C (any many other languages) have been using pre and post conditional loops for over fifty years - because it's what the machine actually does, and they are straight forward to follow.

The article mentions "A C programmer would write", and then shows two nested for loops. This is almost correct, but I think any good C programmer would write this once as a method or a macro, and then calling it is as simple x + y, without the snake-oil.

In either case, both are going to execute something like

.loop
CMP r0, r1
JNZ .end_of_loop
ADD r2, r1
; move some memory around
JMP .loop
.end_of_loop
;

And what does that look like... oh wow it's a loop.

The J language was written in 1990. It's now 2019. The language is just wrong.
It doesnt ban fake content. There are no guidelines or terms for separating legit content from lies. It merely bans criticism from anonymous bloggers and independent news sources that aren't part of the mainstream media.
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You can't standardize until people agree.
The trivial part isn't the code it's what is acceptable to everyone.

If people don't agree then it by definition does not belong in the stdlib.
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They are certainly fit to survive in the wild, but a farm is more likely to raise the Stephen Hawking of Salmon.

Fit is relative, and surviving well in the wild is just as arbitrary as surviving well in in s farmZ
The China Ship: the beginning of modern globalisation
Fun fact -

You NEED vitamin C to breakdown complex carbs.

You can actually survive WITHOUT vit C if you eat only meat. If you were eating a ton of carbs but not also supplementing Vit C you probably drained yourself of it.
Because everyone needs something different and failure is your domain: https://middlemost.com/failure-is-your-domain/
I usually had no more than 3-4 disposable plastic bags saved up as bin liners.

Now I have to buy bin liners, as well as the occasional reusable plastic bag. The reusable plastic bag has 4x the plastic content of the disposable ones.
340 VMs is maybe at most, 2 racks of equipment.

So figure 4 racks, 2 racks in each of 2 locations. That's not even 500k in equipment. Telecoms run 'tandem' and that is good enough even for 911 infrastructure.

10gb of decent quality internet at each location is another 2x 5k per month. Power space etc. and remote hands is 2k x 4 racks is 8k per month.

So 500k capex plus 18k per month. And how much are they paying AWS?