skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article plainly doesn't apply to only a very tiny minority of readers. It's an argument to talented people not to undervalue themselves.

The sensational detail of "a check from Peter Thiel" is blowing the stack here, and flushing everything else the article says out of memory. I think it's worth keeping to the point.
How is this different than the scam where they charge you $300 for what would usually be a $30 dinner?

We need to socialize the healthcare in the USA and put a stop to this crazy billing practices. (Maybe send a few execs to jail too) Canada really has the right idea here, as even if you are making $bank here, you can be fired for any reason/no reason and health insurance will end. IMO this is by design, as it is much more difficult to leave a job if insurance will end.
Assuming you didn't actually care about hermetic builds, the challenge with build2 is that it's c++ only AFAIK. Larger orgs turn into polyglot scenarios (python/bash for scripting/gluing things together, Go for web services, C/C++ for high performance code, now Rust, etc).

You can of course try to use the native solution on each but that makes it more difficult for people to jump between projects/languages as the syntax for describing the build changes. Moreover for centralized build infra this becomes more difficult to orchestrate/co-ordinate because now you have to add remote caching/parallel compilation & whatnot to multiple places (with all the associated challenges of trying to upstream the same set of logical changes into many different projects with their own maintenance schedules/philosophies).
>But of course you'll never hear much about it for obvious reasons.

I heard all about this, and so did lots of people. It was as well covered as anything is these days.
The reasons in the article for the firing, aren't persuasive. The regulatory capture problems predate Muilenburg, and are systemic in the board of directors who like that capture, and so do its shareholders. They don't actually care about trust, if anything they're frustrated by the regulatory capture not working as expeditiously as it once was.
Doesnt single payer "solve" this by having negotiating power. As a provider, You can choose not to take it but you are keeping yourself out of 95% of the market.
I was subjected to bazel on a small project because the manager insisted we use it. The rest of the company used a number of either custom tools or cmake or premske.

It is utter hell when you have tons of third party libraries (internal or external to the company) that you don’t have the source to and it is especially painful when trying to integrate bazels behavior against other build systems. Also bazels packaging and use of internal symlink renaming was a constant source of suffering. Bazel pretty much destroys a number of totally valid work linux commands for looking for so files.

Bazel might be useful in the case of a monorepo with a massive engineering pool AND a massive cloud infrastructure backing that repo to handle all the artifact sharing, but after having used cmake, premake, waf, random perl and ruby scripts, or just checking vs projects into perforce manually, I’d pick any of those before bazel for most projects. I say that having worked on code bases from a few 10s of thousands to 25+ million LoC with teams small, large, and distributed.

Bazel probably has its place but I have yet to find it.
Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2019
Why is that a good thing?

That sounds similar to indentured servitude.

EDIT: I misread the “here” as “Canada”. The US healthcare system has caused me some personal hardships, so I was surprised Canada had something similar. Luckily it’s more sensible.
You see them for what they are, without emotions and judgement and you do what is right.

In your mind, sincerely wish them well. Even if you can do nothing else for them it's OK - you are already doing good in the world.

Most people, when they look at life see it through a haze of memories of the past and worries of the future. To be able to see things as they are is the aim of spiritual practice.
> a desire to honestly explore the pros and cons of that surgery

What if these pros and cons were subjective, and someone decided that in the end, the cons outweighed the pros? Would you cast them as an evil person and exile them from your safe space? Would you accept their opinion, respectfully disagree, and move on?

It seems that you must either abide by the ideology, censor yourself, or be exiled and called a nazi. This goes against everything that a university is about: free speech and open discussion.

> cisgender people who have little knowledge of the emotional land mines they can trigger by simply relying on the "common sense" they have learned over a lifetime.

Correct. Cisgendered people represent the majority of the population. Personally I have had maybe one or two opportunities to interact with a transgender person because they make up a tiny percentage of the population. That is not to say that I refuse to be respectful towards them, it shows that the majority of people don't get the chance to interact and learn what to avoid saying. Is everyone really required to learn all these new words / triggers / etc. in order to appease a tiny tiny fraction of the population? Genuinely curious to know your thoughts.
420 was the price Musk planned to turn Tesla private "funding secured" Musk lied.
Nope, it just means that the US has free speech and there is nothing the government can do about it without massive public backlash.
Actually most developed Democracies have economies that are relatively decoupled from their governments and their politics. Corporations operate relatively autonomously, and it is corporations which fuel the explosive growth we observe.

On the other hand, developing countries often have bloated bureaucracies and corrupt governments that are heavily involved in the private sector and corporate activity.

The difficulties I mentioned in my original post are those in which the Government is heavily involved. Corporate investment in properly functioning nations are free from (public) political hindrances.
The current hacker news meme is that bad management of any kind is due to MBAs, where in reality a bad manager is a bad manager and an MBA has nothing to do with it.
That article is from 2009. I believe a few years later fingerprinting was scrapped again due to public backlash. Now they're implementing it again due to EU regulations.
This story follows an undocumented person who was previously deported for a felony related to stolen property.

>He had been previously deported to Mexico over a nonviolent felony involving the receipt of stolen goods at an auto shop...

The person then re-entered the US and was located with the help of their social media posts.

>ICE ultimately arrested the person after he “checked in” to a Home Depot on Facebook.

I see nothing wrong here.
Aand I just learned that long-touching the spacebar was a thing. Seems like something that should be more obvious from the design.
Why is what a good thing?
Your parenthetical about smoking means we should be cautious. The dangers of smoked meat only became known relatively recently.
One issue we hit with our CI, and mix of build systems is this - given a changelist, find out which targets needs to be built, and which one needs to be tested on pre-submit, and which on post-submit.

With that, we end up paying so much extra time building everything over and over without need, and then not building things that we ought to.

So that's one reason to switch, but at the same time lots of people simply do not get it. To them it seems intrusive, new, opinionated, and makes them not happy to use it. I've used it for 2+ years at google, and yes initially - was WTF is this? Then it hit me... And I'm sure the same is for buck, pants, please.build, gn and other similar systems.

At the end of the day, you need way to express "end to end" your build graph, from any single individual source file, shell script, or configuration downto building your executables, deploying them, etc.

It's an industry tool, that needs to be looked, and if it takes 5 people to support it, then it takes 5 people to support it, but you won't be wasting other peeople's time on issues like - "Why this build in the CI did not trigger?", why it takes, and wastes my time (waiting for presubmit), etc.

Yes, it does not come for free, but it's worth knowing and trying it out at least.

If nothing else, here is the takeaway - Try to use a system with static graph, where relationships are known before you start building things. It's not always there, e.g. your #include "header.h" file is dynamic, but bazel forces you to express even that, and later it catches it whether you've done it, and breaks unless it's fixed.
Gödels incompleteness theorem guarantees all abstractions are leaky.

Try explaining the intrinsic meaning of written language in written language. You can't close the loop without making the result trivial.
First, no he didn't. He issued an EO directing CMS to implement the rule, which doesn't go into effect until 2021 and is facing pretty significant legal challenges. The fact that it's an EO and not a bill is likely part of the reason why its vulnerable to lawsuits.

Second, health care experts don't seem to think much of the new rules, since there's little evidence anyone price shops for care, especially since, regardless of published prices, they're not the ones paying for them; they pay indirectly, through premiums. I think price transparency is a good thing and the rule is a good thing, but I don't think this is "huge".

Third, the "obvious reasons" snark at the end of your comment poisons what would otherwise have been a valuable contribution to the thread.
Sure. With a budget airline I can get cheaper flights in Asia too. The aforementioned flight from Singapore to Hong Kong (1-8 March) is 87 USD on Jetstar.

My point was that even though the regular flights are similarly priced in the US and Asia, the quality in the US is so much worse. I now see that my attempt at explaining this discrepancy had some flaws, but what other explanations do you suggest?

The fact seems to be that even the best US Airlines are significantly worse than the ones in other places. When the best rated ones are hovering around average, there is something wrong.
Similar to Diagnostic Imaging - firms will aggressively market MRI/CT/PET ownership/co-ownership schemes to physicians, which become a license to print money very quickly.

Such doctors who participate in schemes, entirely unsurprisingly, order multiple standard deviations above their expected imaging needs.
If I came out and said "Blackearl: Your country sucks and you should move out of it", I don't think you'd think it was very helpful advice.

I think coming out to the internet, sharing some personal anecdotes about racism and personal issues, and maybe publishing problems you've experienced personally can help. Not only for teaching others about the issues you yourself face, but also for helping keep ones emotions in check and meditating upon your own issues.

Obviously, this discussion thread exists to criticize Japan and bring forth issues. But in order to be more helpful to everyone involved, its more beneficial to be more specific about what can, and can't, be done to fix certain issues.

With regards to your specific point: giving up because of cultural norms is defeatist and doesn't seem helpful in any case. Now I'm not Japanese, nor have I ever been to that country. But it sounds like Japan is a functioning democracy, so publishing opinions and raising issues is definitely the way to move forward in that kind of political system. The people must be aware of a problem (and agree that it is a problem) before you can ever hope for the politics to change.
Top Popular Stores That Accept Amazon Gift Cards Online for Cash
Or you can just straight up arrest a citizen and ask why they spoke ill about the police on WeChat: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1208469511051075585
But socialised medicine is insane, right?

It says that the bill was 20X more expensive than it shouldn’t have been. I can’t even imagine having to pay that when I go to the doctor. The NHS isn’t perfect, but it’s damn good.
You should check out Last Week Tonight. It's a comedy show that makes fun of various departments and it is still on air.
It is neither a big win nor a great improvement. At the time of need of essential goods/services price transparency is not as helpful as you make it seem. The American health system is so complex, has so many competing interests, and so many negative externalities that I doubt any one new regulation can be anything more than superficially beneficial to patients.

I suggest the obvious reason this new regulation doesn’t get as much press attention as you’d like has less to do with Trump and more to do with its futility.
For anyone wanting to make similar comparisons: I checked returns flights between 1 and 8 March next year.
Congratulations on being able-bodied.

I have arthritis and literally cannot fly anymore because I can't afford tickets with enough leg room to not be in crippling pain for the entire flight. I've had to miss important family events because of this.
> More people need to learn that if you leave your bubbles and talk to people, you'll find that they are actually indeed people too, and not caricatures you read about on outrage-bait new articles.

I often find the people that make this case are in their own bubbles, they aren't aware about. Like the notion LA and NYC are bubbles, and the midwest is "real America." Even though LA and NYC contain huge amounts of economic, racial, and LGTBQ+ diversity, and what many politicians consider "real America" to be a homogenous group.
Christmas and New Year’s Break: Weeks of December 23rd and December 30th
Research Data Management in Health and Biomedical Citizen Science
This is actually the impression I got from the medium post: he didn't reveal any viewpoints that would risk exposing him as not being part of the in-group, whether or not he actually held any.
There is a more interesting article in Scientific American and other places that humans evolved requiring an hour of vigorous exercise a day to avoid metabolic diseases like diabetes and dementia. Our closest relatives chimps and gorillas dont require vigorous exercise.
the second "here" in the Canada sentence is referring to the USA, so the poster is saying it is a bad thing.
Mitochondrial division conserved across species
How do you know the MCAS issue is the only one the plane has? Given the hands off regulation, maybe there are other similar shortcuts taken?
I think you should assume incompetence instead of malice.

> Fathollahi, the Manhattan Specialty Care physician, didn't answer our questions about the bill. Neither did Dr. Shawn Khodadadian, listed in state records as the CEO of Manhattan Gastroenterology.

Because they CAN'T. Why didn't NPR publish their response, which is likely along the lines of how they are forbidden to discuss patient charges and procedures?

It's far more likely this was a mistake that will end up costing the doctor 25k when the insurance company hires someone who checks for things like this, which they will.
This is the danger with high level frameworks, everything is abstracted away, and with a dynamic language like python the black magic can go very deep.

If you've ever taken a look at something like Flask or Cherrypi, the difference is very apparent.

That said, I've been doing some Rails lately, after years of Django, and I'm finding the experience to be worse from a readability point of view. Metaprogramming everywhere, modifications of language constructs ... It gets very confusing very quickly. Could be simply a lack of experience of course.

In parallel, I've also been using Go and the experience could not be any different. So much easier to understand what is going on, but so much boilerplate code!

It doesn't look like it's possible to have both ease of use and explicitness...
>Less clear has been why physical activity affects the brain in the first place.

I think the studies are looking at this backwards. Physical activity should probably be looked at as the natural state of humans and ask why lack of physical activity affects the brain.

Then it probably makes a lot more sense, the brain is comprised of cells, just like muscles, that are either anabolic or catabolic. A lack of physical exercise is going to put all cells, including brain cells, in a catabolic state the same as muscle atrophy will waste away muscles due to lack of physical activity.

Cells are cells, they are where energy is made, they are binary only existing in anabolic or catabolic states and never simultaneously existing in both states. Lack of exercise put the cells in catabolic states and long term catabolic states lead to metabolic/energy production problems in the cells. So naturally if you consider lack of exercise as the natural state of humans, sure it will appear physical activity improve brain function.
Saw the first Model 3 I've seen in the wild today (north of England though I see a few S's on a regular basis), pretty pretty car in the flesh, the white looked lovely though like all white cars in winter I bet it's a bastard to keep clean.

I get what you mean about the car of the future, it glided past silently (couldn't hear it through my motorcycle helmet) like something from the future.

Would be the car I buy if I ever went 4 wheels.
It's a problem, but not a failure in design. The language is old. It started with features from that times and evolved to add more modern ones. Removing the old ones would break the world. Why do you thing you can still use == and declare vars without keywords in JS ?

Even in the p3 transition, the community screamed to not remove them. Did you know we removed % for a few versiond ? We had to put it back because of all the complaints.
So Memcached, Redis, and Postgres are all dangerous to use because they are written in C?

Does your blanket statement apply to C++ and other C derivatives as well? If so, we lose MySQL, Oracle SQL, MS SQL. Basically every database written more than a decade ago.

From what I can tell general consensus seems to be that all of those systems are pretty stable and not dangerous because of their language choice.
We've tuned the title above for this audience. If there's a better one that represents the point of the article, happy to change again.
You should, but the United States has a non-rational aversion to anything that has the word 'social' in it because they believe it will lead to communism. It's ridiculous and that a whole nation (or at least a substantial part of it) can be so bamboozled is a mystery to me but that seems to be the root of the problem. The number of people that voted for the Republicans only to end up with their healthcare decimated is way larger than the difference between the two parties in the last election and yet, here we are. And 'Obamacare' isn't even close to what some other countries are capable of, countries much less wealthy than the USA in terms of the stronger catching the weaker.

It is a ridiculous situation but it looks as though it will have to get a whole lot worse first before it can get better again.
Medical care is a product like any other. When it's 100% free, you have no disincentive to use it. Unfortunately, there is not a single thing in the economy that is immune from the laws of supply and demand. So if you want to have the government pay 100% of all medical bills and do nothing to prevent using it, you'll have never-ending increases is costs.
While caches and maps share many of the same underlying properties, they serve very different purposes. Caches generally come with configurable size limits, eviction policies, and collision handling (overwriting is a simple solution). They are in no way designed to be durable data storage mechanisms.
Trump won in part because his Internet ground game was better. Look for the Dems and everyone else to not only copy but improve on that, fake news and trolling included.

Prepare to be force fed propaganda like a fois gras goose every election year. Welcome to the future.
If you linger over a link the ad won’t suddenly appear. Most likely it’s mousedown, move ad under cursor, change href before onclick fires, follow new link.

It’s just too perfectly timed for it not to be some event handling trickery.
> In the first case, I do believe it's disrespectful of the freedom to do with one's body as one pleases

You aren’t allowed to harm yourself. You could argue that you should but under current laws we protect people from that, mostly.

Also doctors have to perform these surgeries in which case their oath would mandate we are certain this procedure isn’t causing harm.

And finally and perhaps most importantly. These surgeries can be performed before the age of 18.
Bloomberg's own campaign site promotes universal coverage and specifically promotes adding a public option to the ACA. (Disclaimer: not a Bloomberg supporter and don't plan to be, I just know how to use Google to find stuff like this out.)
'Unlimited resources' are exactly the thing we don't need shaping a democratic election. Shame on you and anyone else seeking to work for such a firm. Ill take my downvotes, this is bedrock ethics.
Kettlebells have gotten a very bro-ey reputation but there are some great exercises that are a good mix of cardio and mental focus. Regular swings can get boring but learning to do snatches was punishing, yet fun, while forcing me to pay attention to my technique. Would definitely recommend it.
Stack Exchange settles with the mod that sued them
This is fraud, they where fleecing the insurance company and the patient just went along for the ride. The whole point of insurance companies is that they are supposed to be motivated by their own financial interest to fight against schemes like this, so it's shocking that they paid up.
All non-emergency medical bills should be legally null.

That is, if you go to a doctor's office, they can try to collect payment upfront, but if they send you a random bill after the fact without your explicit price consent, it doesn't have to be paid. Similarly to how I can send a bill to y'all for the privilege of reading my post (and justify by saying it took me years of expensive training to obtain this knowledge), but you shouldn't be required to actually pay me, of course.

Emergency medicine OTOH should be socialized - everybody is covered in the US by Medicare. For every emergency admission facility can charge Medicare for all up to $X (say $300 in Kansas and $500 in San Francisco) and have to make do with that money. Patient gets between 0% and 30% copay depending on whether they are trying to abuse the system or came with a legit reason. This is the same as Kaiser today, but on a National scale.
It basically means dike-ster (from dike-sitter), someone who lives on or near a dike. The -a is a remnant of an old grammatical case.
No, because there are extreme penalties and disincentives to overbill. Also, payers are not strictly payers in the US, they are what is known as HMOs, they are incentivized to bring healthcare costs down or at least slow the rise.

Healthcare costs will inevitably rise in the US however, as labor is scarce, practioners are scarce, people are increasingly unhealthy and older...we are in for a massive healthcare cost spike due to economic conditions and blaming HMOs is emotional and politician inspired at best. Its like blaming insurance companies for a rise in car crashes.
I think https://www.cscareerhackers.org/ will be helpful. It’s a discord server dedicated to helping you improve your cs career.
Given the size of the US military budget and their propensity for black projects (which given they are a democracy they kind of have to do since almost everything in the regular military gets released/leaked) I'd be positively amazed if they didn't have a serious black program for this stuff.

Given the risk/reward and how cheap it is to do compared to a single B2 or a handful of F35's at least.
If I guessed just 6 simple numbers correctly for the powerball I'd be a millionaire!