skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it make more sense to sell batteries directly? Are they going to win more revenues by "bundling" the rest of their EV with batteries compared to selling to other EV makers directly?
I was in Philadelphia last year and had a bad fall and had to get about 10 staples in my head. I went to a local urgent care center and the total cost was $150 without any insurance.
What's so bad about renting forever ?

I am a millennial, I am not planning on buying a house pretty much for ever, I don't see it be a problem
Like I said, just because some art challenges, but not all art does. Some of it is just beauty and emotion for beauty or emotions sake. Some it was just art for a paycheque. Just because it's not your cup of tea doesn't mean you should discount is as not being art. I find "Black Square" neither invoking of emotion, nor of beauty, it doesn't appeal to me nor does it challenge me in the slightest, it feels far more pretentious than artistic, it seems of an intensely low effort and it says nothing at all about the human condition, but I won't discount it just because I don't understand why it speaks to you.
However, sunk costs are sunk costs. There's a reason we have that term in economics in the first place.
Unfortunately, under the current system, price and quality of care are relatively uncorrelated. Which makes sense as we learn how arbitrary pricing is.

But as I understand how medical billing actually works, if only a single patient uses an MRI machine in a year, they would pass on the entirety of the cost to the single patient. But a hospital that uses the MRI constantly spreads the cost across all patients. In the latter hospital, they would also have better outcomes since they have more experience and specialization in the procedure.

This is also the opposite of how it would work in a market-based industry. In an auto-shop, I know how much I can charge for any service, and before buying equipment and personnel to expand my services, I determine if it is worthwhile to invest the capital.
They actually brought that hyperbole up to one of the supporters and they asked "well, so what did that person do that he would shoot them?"
the idea is that it was a false flag attack to lure the US into intervening in the 6 day war on behalf of israel; its appeal to antisemites, sympathists of liberty sailors, american opponents of israel, or even just trolls should be pretty obvious
I guess that’s the difference between Wikipedia and using it :)

How the French government finances insurance is orthogonal to how consumers purchase outpatient care.

The capsule summary is that patients go to the doctor. The pay 100% of the visit cost. The insurance company reimbursement is 80% of “reasonable and customary “ value that is widely known. Et voila, functioning price discovery without a dystopian society.

(There are some caveats. If you’re indigent, the government gives you a special card that allows the provider to bill the insurance directly. You can buy private insurance that covers your 20% and doesn’t require as much reimbursement hassle at the cost of constraining your provider choice. And naturally none of this applies to inpatient hospital admissions)
Did you mean DNS server instead of DHCP server? What has DHCP to do with any of this?
Is that nationalism or just a background knowledge that your whole family could wind up in a prison camp if you say the wrong thing?
I think OP is referring to the Middle East.
Another Facebook killer? 4329847328943298th time's the charm!
(EXPLETIVE DELETED! I try to avoid low-content comments, i do, but goddmnit it pisses me off to hear them say, "Oh the poor patients will be so confused!")
I find it entirely believable that there may have been life on Mars, and even that some of it survives today in extremophile microbial form.

That doesn't make this guy's conference poster any less silly, though.
A C union is a sum, but not much of a type, since it's never checked (not even at runtime like Python) and using it wrong in your code will silently corrupt your program.
There are many possible causes for tinnitus. One potential cause is muscle tension in the neck, in which case the tinnitus should go away when the tension is relieved (through massage or some other means). I'd recommend just looking into various potential causes until you find the one (and hope it's something you can do something about).
> Coming from the perspective of pretty much hating Visual Studio I was pretty sceptical about Visual Studio Code until I read that Erich Gamma was involved in it.

Following on the comment you quote, I assume so!
> The onus should be on Starlink to (a) not do that

Why? Astronomers have no more claim to ownership of the sky than Starlink does.
We already have estate and property taxation, though. It's not like wealth taxes don't exist, they're just levied at specific times or on specific kinds of assets.
> There's a lot of tax advantages that you get by owning a home as well.

If adding together mortgage interest paid for 12 months + property taxes paid for the year together is less than the $12k single filer standard deduction, are there any tax benefits to owning a home?
Make is like the Lisp of the build world. It's powerful and you can build anything with it, but it won't be compatible with anyone else's stuff the way it would be in a more opinionated system, so you can't leverage other peoples' work much.

I used make for decades, then switched to CMake, got burned too many times, and now I've moved on to Meson. There really isn't a good build system for C/C++, which is a shame :/
> The platform says it will never sell user data and relies on "the generosity of individual donors" rather than ads.

Sounds like this isn't envisioned as a profit-making business, either. I'd happily donate some money to have a place my friends and family can easily hang out online that isn't trying to sell us to anything.
Ask HN: Going from manager to executive. What should I know or learn?
Recently I got promoted to executive level. What is the difference and what skills do I need to acquire?
You don't really have to look much further than the US public opinion and media messaging on Israel to verify that there is a double standard in place here.

Is criticizing a government's actions tantamount to racism against the people under that government's rule, or is it not? Phrase the question around China or Israel, and you will get two different responses from many people.
Same, but I also don't know what to look for. I probably wouldn't know an insect fossil if I saw it. So even though the Mars structures look like noise to me, they probably would even if they were fossils.
I mixed up Snowden + Assange, thank you for not being mean. :)
> (though I left fairly young)

how is it reasonable to take your anecdote as a decent reference point for somebody who has grown up in china, speaking mandarin, and learning about the world through CCP-funded public schooling?
Notes on Moving from Vim to Emacs
Bogus stuff here.

Will explain why in a later comment, you have to think through the embodied energy flow and materials required to transport etc...as well as solar capacity factor domestically and globally.
What does it mean to develop something in Computer Graphics?
What does it mean to develop something in computer graphics? I have an idea of "programming" an animation of a story that I wrote in third grade, just for a fun side project between school semesters. In the case that you're wondering, the book is based on the life of two humanoid gems having a life together.

As for my technical knowledge base, I'm in the middle of teaching myself C++/OpenGL, and some mathematical curve and spline representations. It might also be worth noting that I've had a couple of internships programming, but only in python (building web crawlers) and javascript (writing automation tests), and I'm also a mathematics major. Any advice from someone (anyone) with more knowledge on this topic would be much appreciated.
So a quick way to check reality is by looking at behavior, so say you wanted the "best" care for something no matter the costs. Most people would fly to the U.S from wherever. That is telling you something.

I agree the "general" care like broken bones etc its probably all the same, but healthcare innovation is done in the U.S. So it is kind of moot to say "its good here"... yes after the innovation trickles its way over to your country.

Lastly, one of my best friends is studying to become a doctor, in fact is a resident now. He is getting paid the princely salary of $55k after 15 years of studying and he has many years to go before he's able to really realize any gains.

To make the profession a civil servant's position is insanity.
This isn't the case. All the main financial institutions in the Channel Islands and IoM are global so they KYC properly. More to the point though: the information-sharing is pretty much gold standard (bank accounts have been shared for a while but now beneficial ownership of companies is shared too).

The only way to avoid tax is to permanently move there. And, if you are familiar with either of those locations, you should know that the punishment fits the crime.

Also: it is far bigger than Luxembourg and Cyprus. Malta is basically a haven for financial fraud. Ireland is basically a tax haven now. And basically all of the East European nations are targets given the weak controls of their financial institutions (and Denmark as it turned out).
> Bingo. My partner works in revenue cycle management (arguing with insurance companies to pay their bills) for a large hospital chain, and even she can't get accurate prices for procedures. She can walk down the hall to the finance department, and ask them, but even they can't figure it out.

That's because they are not properly incentivized. It is very simple to solve this problem: charge them with fraud. Same way as a doctor who overbills Medicare would be charged with fraud.

We had this kind of things before Enron - CEOs pretended that they cannot possibly know if the numbers in the accounting documents were correct because it was oh so complicated. Now, however begrudgingly, they do sign off on the books and since they are personally responsible they have all the needed incentives.
And I disagree with the beauty or emotion product labeled as art. It's not art. That's what I'm saying.
One of the things you sign when you visit a doctor or hospital says that you'll pay whatever insurance doesn't cover.

I've seen maybe 10 versions of this and none list any limits.

If you were charged $1T you might be able to challenge it in court.

If you simply don't pay, the bill collectors will start harassing you, and your credit score will suffer.

I'm not sure at what stage they are allowed to take your wages etc.

Medical bills are a leading reason for bankruptcy in the USA.
Yes WFIRST[0] is currently in the works.

JPLRMA[1] is investigating low cost mirror for space observation although they are primarily focused on the outer planets of our solar system.

[0]https://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/
[1]https://www.nap.edu/resource/13117/App G 19_Enceladus-RMA.pdf
Chrome is doing literally the same thing as Microsoft: https://www.chromium.org/developers/dns-over-https
Even if you speak the local language it can be difficult to get proper care. You essentially have to know what you need yourself.
> missing at the peak of the 2013 flu season by 140 percent.

Can someone decode what this actually means? Was their estimate of flu cases 140 percent higher or lower than the actual amount (or maybe lazily meant "at 140 percent", so, estimate was 40 percent low), was the peak offset by 1.4 months (or 14 months??), something else?
Then why did the financial sector campaign heavily against Brexit, and most of the employees in that sector vote against it? Brexit would make it much harder for Europeans to use British financial products.

> Britain’s financial services industry, the country’s biggest tax earner, risks being cut adrift from its main export market - the European Union - after Brexit.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-finance/britai...
Of all the political groups that we should be worried about catering to regarding best course of action for deployment of space communication tools, the flat-Earthers should be at the absolute bottom of the concern pile.
there are other ways to deliver internet
FWIW, the definition of homeless: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/11302

"34,000 students were living in New York City’s shelters, and 73,750 were living 'doubled-up' in temporary housing situations." https://www.the74million.org/article/nycs-homeless-student-p...
Same happened to me years ago, when I uploaded my son playing a piano piece written in the 1800's. Immediately locked. What a complete joke.

It's theft and someone should be criminally prosecuted.
Considering the students were allowed contact with an American and allowed the free access to the Internet and software you describe, I conclude they were children of the elites of the country.

Probably they were given this education so they could learn to deal with westerners and potentially to improve their training for cyber warfare and intelligence gathering in the west.

I'd bet within a few miles of the experience you enjoyed that there were families starving in substandard housing.
I would really like to know which country was that...
Yes, I know; that's what I do. But it seems like a very strange default way to handle it given that it includes things like your inventory which are very much specific to any individual project. It would be like if Firefox shipped with its default profile location in /var or /usr/share and suggested that if you really wanted to then you could use a local configuration to move your bookmarks into your home directory.
If you are a stubborn troglodyte like me and have your own secure DNS solution in place, then you can add the following domain to your local DNS to always NXDOMAIN: use-application-dns.net to tell the resolver to use local network DNS settings. And then of course, null route all the DoH resolvers.

I am somewhat curious what the fallout would be if ISP's decided to NXDOMAIN that domain. Would they get in any trouble?
Chipmunks?
Yeah, I can understand being concerned about the genre taking up too much of the pie, preventing other kinds of movies from getting funding. But also a little bit of sour grapes.
There was considerable controversy surrounding the events and the actions of the crew and leadership. There was a Navy court of inquiry, conflicting accusations of dereliction of duty, cover-ups, whitewashing, official reprimands, etc. Google up 'Pueblo court of inquiry' but keep in mind it's a massive, contentious and inconclusive clickhole.
This is why due process is needed. These platform companies should be regulated after a certain size to enforce proper arbitrage.

Arbitrarily cutting off people's livelihoods is completely unacceptable. It should be innocent till proven guilty. The burden of proof should be on the one making allegations.
Signal to noise ratio is the limiting factor in these observations. Decrease the signal and suddenly whole sets of galaxies fall below the noise floor.
Have the options improved for targeting iOS and Android with HTML5 games? “Use Cordova/PhoneGap” were the recommendations last time I looked.

It seems the OP uses NW.js/Electron to target desktop, but I can’t see that they target mobile yet. Curious to know how they’d do this if needed.
When are they going to replace SteamVR with OpenXR runtime? Valve are one of the major backers of OpenXR, yet their SteamVR still uses their pre OpenXR, so called "OpenVR" API.
I agree both are bad. I just believe most would prefer the evil that primarily stays within its own borders to the one that constantly wreaks destruction abroad.
> Your insurance will pay for it either way

This is an assumption based on a very good insurance package. Most have out of pocket co-pays . So yes, we have to gross it up by the co-pay percent and discount it by the Annual deductible limitt, but generally the point stands. If I can save enough money I might travel away from the monopoly. Until that data is transparently available I can't optimize that scenario w/ my own choices.

> which won't even be given back to you in form of lower premium

Systemically it will eventually if insurance companies are competing with eachother for your business
> I still don't understand the virtue of being a "serial entrepreneur", especially with no indication of what businesses were created.

They certainly should have elaborated a bit. It's Bill Gross from Idealab. He has a long entrepreneurial history and quite mixed record of meaningful successes and spectacular failures.

"Prior to Idealab, Gross founded GNP Loudspeakers (now GNP Audio Video), an audio equipment manufacturer; GNP Development Inc., acquired by Lotus Software; and Knowledge Adventure, an educational software company, later acquired by Cendant."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_T._Gross

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealab
Also we can make plastic from waste fish scales now!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/bioplastic-made-fr...
I'm a Chinese national working in the US. I have never heard of this kind of punishment.

Can you provide any evidence?
Well are you asking me to setup infrastructure or to design you a website? The first is deterministic and I can certainly give you a fixed price/timeframe to set up your web servers/DNS/etc.

Designing a website on the other hand, isn't deterministic. That mandates lots of requirements gathering and suffering through iterations where the peanut gallery criticizes every CSS choice and demands minor CSS tweaks until some arbitrary "feel" is achieved.
From some estimate they have about 80 million members. Because becoming a party member is a prerequisite to any degree of success in China, both in business or government. Being a member one has to abide by very strict internal party rules (not the kind of code of conduct/ethics you are thinking). It is a completely top-down organization. You don't get to decide your party leader, sorry!
I might believe it but I never hear anyone worrying about google having their data other than my fellow computer nerds. Your average American not so much. I hear a few of them talking about not putting anything on facebook that you don't want someone to see, but other than that they don't have a clue.
In most cases, no.
and they will be replaced after that
One problem is (for better or worse) home ownership stands in for a forced savings account, especially for retirement. If you rent forever but also max out your 401k or Roth then cool, if you’re renting and also not saving for the long term then...
I kind of hate this idea.

It's one thing if companies want to find out what people are saying about them so they can improve. However, I'd be surprised if that's how it is used.

This feels more like a way to measure the effectiveness of their astroturfing or low-key marketing efforts.
"Could drive down the cost of hydrogen and double the range of battery-electric vehicles worldwide"

This point hints at the likely Achilles heel: an aqueous electrolyte that is partially decomposed during charging, releasing hydrogen. Hydrogen evolution means that the energy efficiency of charging the battery is limited. Hydrogen release is also a potential safety hazard. Finally, it means that the battery system can't be sealed; the battery needs to be able to release gas build-up and accept additions of water to restore what has been lost from the electrolyte.

Limited charging efficiency due to hydrogen evolution has been a sticky point for other battery chemistries in the past. Nikola appears to be trying to spin this as an advantage. "Buy a battery and get a hydrogen source for free!" But then you need expensive infrastructure to capture, store, and use the hydrogen.
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Just in time for Archer's finale.
FWIIW I've always had tinnitus, and the Wim Hof Method does absolutely nothing for me regarding tinnitus (pretty cool trick for athletics though). Glad for you you've found some relief, but the other side of the coin is if you eventually get used to it.
Good idea in principle, however, did you even try to run a test before releasing it to the public?

For a particular term I get the following words having "positive" sentiments: boycott, punishment, greed, backlash, protesters, damaging, upset.

How in hell is that positive?
Thanks! We made extensive use of Canvas caching and only redrawing if things changed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/...
whacking the side of a TV also was a common "solution" for TV's back in the CRT days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/2b3cpi/why_...
> It's funny how alcohol is objectively the far more dangerous and destructive drug, yet weed gets treated more harshly.

There's also the angle that weed is federally illegal, so smoking it demonstrates an attitude that compliance with rules is optional and subject to personal judgement. Someone with that attitude is probably more likely to choose to not comply with security procedures or secrecy commitments.
Essentially. It's an inconvenience for individual astronomers who time-share on telescopes that sometimes a blob of Starlink passes and sometimes it doesn't. If the full constellation is launched and disbursed, everyone will be inconvenienced about equally, so the fairness issue goes away. And the degraded signal can be cleaned up with digital processing factoring in knowledge of the Starlink node positions.
Simple event stream processing with Strimzi
Having dated several people from the mainland, this is not my experience. Which isn't to say we always agree on PRC politics, but the idea that they uncritically buy the Party line is simply wrong.

If mainland Chinese people are mindless drones incapable of independent thought, why does the PRC need to invest billions of dollars every year in monitoring and policing what people say and think?
you're getting downvotes because your original comment sounded like a general fact ("it never worked." (probably not your intention).
That's probably way too low given todays prices. The NYTimes has a good calculator for understanding if renting or buying is a better deal:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

What you will notice if you play around with it is that the decision is most sensitive to "What Does the Future Hold", in particular to the home price growth rate. If you expect that to even stabilize (let alone decline) then renting is almost always a better deal.

Now, that being said, I expected home prices to stabilize back in the early 2000's and didn't buy in SF, so I have been fooled before.
The Myth of the Frivolous Female Spender
American social media censors in tons of ways that harm our children too. Is your outrage properly calibrated here?
I wouldn’t be so sure,

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
there are other ways to do astronomy
It's very reasonable to take that anecdote as a decent reference.

I grew up in China, speak Mandarin and mostly learned about the world through CCP schools.

Most of the kids and their family (and even teachers) are critical of CCP.
If the interest + itemized deductions are > 12k, then yes. E.g. do you give to charity...etc.
Different VAT categories exist though. Not every country uses them but it's a tool in the toolbox. On the other hand, taxes in a lot of European countries are regressive.
You are not a worker of YouTube. You just used the service and contributed some content. A professional association would be more appropriate.