skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's actually right about exploding costs outside the US. Just as costs have exploded in the US, they have also exploded in most other first world countries (and also many non-first world countries). Source provided below.

Yes, the US has the highest cost. But the ratio between the US and others has stayed roughly the same over the last 50 years (maybe longer--that's as far back as my data source goes). The US pays twice as much as France now because we paid twice as much as France in 1990, and both systems have had costs explode by about the same factor since then.

Here's a table of costs per capita in US dollars for the UK, France, and the US:

Year UK FR US
1980 385 659 1036
1990 782 1458 2700
2000 1561 2686 4557
2010 2871 4048 7939
2018 4070 4965 10586

Here it is, with each country's cost divided by that country's 1980 cost:

Year UK FR US
1990 2.0 2.2 2.6
2000 4.1 4.1 4.4
2010 7.5 6.1 7.7
2018 10.6 7.5 10.2

If you do the same thing with most other EU countries, or OECD countries, or other first world countries, the results are similar. Everyone's costs are going up at rates that are in about the same ballpark.

Source:

1. Go to https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

2. Uncheck "latest data available". This enables the year range selector control.

3. Use the year range selector to expand the range to 1970-2018.

4. The chart will then show the total costs in US dollars/capita by year of health care in 50 countries. You can use the "Highlighted Countries" drop down to narrow that to select a "background" of OECD, EU, Euro Area, G7, or G20 if you want. You can then add individual countries using the list on the left of that dialog.

5. You can change what is shown from total to government/compulsory, voluntary, or out-of-pocket and you can change the measure from per capita to % of GDP.
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“The pennies you save will be the dollars your widow’s husband spends.”
So how does being vegan and taking public transport contradict with being a software developer?

I really think that you're approaching this backwards if you decide "this is the values that I follow" and then try to change every aspect of your life to fit that vision.
It's also an extremely common place to set up a legitimate business.

> More than 50% of all U.S. publicly traded companies and 63% of the Fortune 500 are incorporated in Delaware.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware
Fair enough! I tend to gloss over it because it still has an ICE engine in it, even though Polestar are supposed to be the “electrification” brand.

I got the impression that it was a kind of halo car, intended to be made in small quantities just so that Polestar could brag it was making a 600hp sedan. I believe they’re only making 500 a year, for three years.

It isn’t their focus, and given their strategy, it was obsolete the day they announced it. It feels like they took the Volvo Concept Coupe, put a Polestar badge on it instead of a Volvo badge, and announced the Polestar was shipping a car.

But you’re right, they’re supposed to ship it this year, and if demand continues, they’ll ship it though 2022.
K12 education is generally pretty great in the US, it's just incredibly unevenly spread.

There aren't that many schools on par with Stuyvesant or Thomas Jefferson or Bronx Science (all testing admission) in the world.
Interestingly in dutch oranje is the color but sinaasappel is the name of fruit in dutch.
Python 3 and IPv6 are the poster-children of how _not_ to do a major upgrade. I'm not sure what the right way is, but if the short-term advantages of the upgrade do not outweigh the immediate pain, prepare for the matter to drag out for _decades_.
I guess what this shows is two things:

1. Scaring people into slowing down is a viable way to avoid accidents.

2. Perceived scariness of an intersection is not indicative of how dangerous it actually is.
I prefer magic roundabouts to the strange concoction which I've only ever seen in the Staines / Heathrow area; A roundabout with one road continuing straight through the roundabout. In order to run right you need to be left most lane approaching it. Turning right from the side road, it's ambiguous whether you are supposed to turn right onto the section of the main road going straight through or continue all the way around.
It's opt-out. Here's the email they sent out to admins recently:

You must exclude the extension before you install or update to a version of Office 365 ProPlus that installs the extension for Microsoft Search in Bing. Implementing the exclusion after the extension has been installed will not remove the extension.

• For new installations of Office 365 ProPlus, the Office Deployment Tool may be the best method, as outlined in this support document

• For existing installations of Office 365 ProPlus, modifying the Group Policy may be best. Enable the policy setting Don't install extension for Microsoft Search in Bing, which makes Bing the default the search engine.

• If you use Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (current branch), from the Features section, set Microsoft Search as default to the Off position.

• If you use Microsoft Intune to deploy Office 365 ProPlus, clear the check box Microsoft Search as default on the Configure App Suite pane.
My son learned letters, numbers, colors, shapes, could count to 100 and add two digit numbers as a result of his preschooling and was just beginning subtraction when he entered kindergarten.
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I was speaking of the site itself, not the hosting. It was slow on my phone. I confess that my phone is low end
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At 32-bit you already have a whole 16 number gap per-bit in the 200 millions:

210,828,704

210,828,720
I'm very curious on how 1st party cookies will be used for tracking.

How can they connect one website's cookies to another's?

All I can think of is fingerprinting, but afaik you can't really be sure "who's that" since fingerprinting filters people out, and isn't good enough to target a single individual.

I guess they can improve it, but there are ways to work around it too, it will probably be easier to fix fingerprinting than blocking 3rd party cookies.

Its seems that if 1st party cookies were as good they would have switched to it by now.
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> Fantasy, sure, but nobody outside the US would even consider that a remotely plausible premise.

Sounds like you've never had a friend or family member die because the NHS found a reason to refuse treatment for their non-terminal cancer. At that point, if you don't want to die, your options are actually more expensive than in the US.

Yes, this happens - a lot more than people on HN like to admit. It's one of the reasons that the UK has one of the worst success rates for cancer treatment out of all of Europe.
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I don't understand how the turbo roundabout is any different than a typical two-lane roundabout. It looks like a regular two-lane roundabout from that picture in your link.
Would look much nicer done up as a Dragon 32 :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64
> Forcing integration, which would mean forcing people to live in certain places

Not sure I follow. Busing was premised on the exact opposite of this?

I’m all for structural change on many fronts, but I’m not sure that private schools should even exist. It’s hard to build successful, high performing universal services, and especially for education, if the wealthy can just construct a separate, parallel system that becomes a social marker for perpetuating elite status.
>Agree, but this does not improve the quality of the sentences uttered by the members of this "school"

I agree, and nobody has claimed otherwise. Ideas that come from a school are not necessarily more or less valid than any others. There are some schools of thought I agree with, and others I disagree with, and I think that's the same for many lay people like me and many philosophers too.

>Well, in German language there is the word "Geisteswissenschaft" which includes philosophy

I think it can be argued that Marx was engaged in Wissenschaft (Patrick Murray argues this, for example), but I don't know if the same could be said about the Frankfurt School, at lesat not on the whole.
The demand for healthcare is infinite. Even when there are marginal improvements in treatment, patients and physicians want the best.

The ability of national health systems to say “no” is one of the big levers to controlling cost, in the US, that control is quite fragmented.
And Twitter was a service to share SMS text messages of max 140 characters.

I understand that what you describe is what Instagram was, but given what they have both become, they actually have little functional difference.
Roman graffiti from Herculaneum and Pompeii in particular shed some light on early vulgar Latin, suggesting that already that the regional homogeneity of the vulgar register was already breaking down by the time of the Plinian eruption. Given the large volume of uncovered graffiti, it is fairly easy to discern several trends, notably the loss of written dipthongs (æ->e, oe->e; comparably au->o), losses of final unaccented consonants and medial vowels.

http://ancientgraffiti.org/about/ is an excellent resource specifically for Herculaneum and Pompeii, but it also links to broader collections to which the project has contributed.

There are interesting aspects of graffiti throughout the Roman Empire. Children (or exceptionally short adults) practised writing on walls; some taller people's graffiti showed not just literacy but familiarity with Virgil and even decent command of Greek and other second languages. Conversely, numerous graffiti are supporting evidence for partial Latin literacy among speakers of other languages, even among celtic-language informal epigraphers in the west and northwest in the first decades CE. It seems likely that these influences "accented" day-to-day Latin, perhaps comparably to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish .

A couple of centuries later and one could see a clear split between the classical register and early Vulgar Latin. Appendix Probi is interesting, and some examples are listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin#Evidence_of_chang... which also draws some comparisons with Romance languages. (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_Probi )
This comes close to that:
https://bellard.org/jslinux/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss
> This has helped me understand why folks think that I'm so often trolling: I wish for my opinion to be shown silly, because I'm so confident that it is a stupid opinion, because all of my opinions are stupid silly opinions.

If you're not telling people that this is your purpose, then you are not arguing in good faith. If you're playing devil's advocate, you should say so.

There's a big difference between, for example, arguing with someone that the earth is flat, and saying something like: "I'm going to pretend I think the world is flat, and I'd like you to try and convince me that it is not." That gives someone the opportunity to either play your game or not play your game. Otherwise, you're in danger of convincing people you're an idiot, rather than someone who simply likes to argue unusual positions.
> ADHD (particularly the attention side, as an adult)

I take it that means hyperactivity wasn't one of your symptoms? I have the suspicion that I suffer from ADD (you basically described the same life I've had), but the hyperactivity part makes me unsure of myself.
I think the problem is less for doctors than companies. Doctors have to personally face their patients. You can only take being an immoral asshole so far.

The problem is health care companies. To them patients are just faceless entities with wallets. The executive making decisions screwing them over never have to see their pain.

There is a parallel to Nazi Germany here one could use. The reason concentration camps were made was because it was mentally taxing to just gun down innocent people day after day for normal soldiers. Concentration camps in contrast got organized so that the victims had to pick up the dead ones and car them off. All the ugliness was out of view for the evil people running the show.

It was easy for Nazi bureaucrats to kill people with the stroke of a pen. Just names on a list. Never had to see somebody choking or bleeding to death.

Hence you get a big problem when power is moved away from doctors to companies. In this example e.g. the doctor while immoral may not have been quite as immoral had it not been for a company actively pushing him to provide patients.

Private enterprise should not be allowed to provide financial incentives to doctors. Who the doctor sends their patients to, should be entirely decided by medical necessity and not influenced by a potential for profit.
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I think it just is a regular two-lane roundabout? We have one of these nearby me in Cleveland, it works pretty well.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B027'58.2%22N+81%C2%...
I did try snapchat but I couldn't stand it, I only had one contact (and "Team Snapchat"! yay) and ultimately got rid of it.
I was pretty surprised by how common this type of behavior is on Kaggle. I work in machine learning and data science, but I don't use Kaggle much because it quickly became clear competitions boiled down to who could eek out the last hundredths of a percent in accuracy from models trained for weeks on multithousand dollar machines, and because the behavior described in the article was surprisingly common.

That said, the site is a fantastic resource for datasets. Lots of fantastic data uploaded both from old competitions and by the community.
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It's orthogonal to the linked story, but I attended a dinner the other night where the presentation was on advances in MS research.

The speaker, an MS researcher and clinician, noted among other things that we've been really really wrong about how many folks in the US have multiple sclerosis - like, by a factor of 2. There are lots of reasons for this, but it's not JUST the lack of easy diagnostic tests.

Until relatively recently, there were NO real therapies for MS, so doctors were hesitant to make the pronouncement. Add to this that a diagnosis of MS would qualify as a pre-existing condition, and would prevent the patient from getting health insurance (pre-Obamacare, anyway), and would absolutely put the kibosh on life insurance.

So there were real world consequences, and they were therefore hesitant.
In fairness, this applies equally to all things one can install SSH clients on.
That’s because several major pharmaceutical companies are head quartered there - not because the actual research is done there.
Do you continue paying yourself rent after the mortgage is paid?

And how is the rent "income" not offset by an equal rent expense?
The big issue of ports like these is not the tutorial but to justify that to your boss.

From enterprise to a self run startup you have to see if it’s worth it .
True, but my point was that incorporating in Delaware doesn't prevent the GDPR from applying to you (for EU customers). It's true that taking action against a non-EU company for GDPR violations is harder, but not impossible.
First, that's not entirely true. We just moved out of a half-duplex that we could have bought if we wanted to (the owners decided to sell it near the end of our lease term).

Second, in the case they are different kinds if properties, comparing them on cost alone isn't valid.
Oh goodness. He is trying to tell us that scientists cannot use this to keep the public aware of nuclear war threat. I didn’t even see one negative of having the clock in the article. Just saying over and over science is not politics.
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> Private enterprise should not be allowed to provide financial incentives to doctors.

One side of the coin. Pharmacy benefit management companies should be scrutinised for their choice of drugs included in an insurance policy and how they price them, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management#Co...
In order to counter these risks, we prefer going to doctors and hospitals that are so busy (and highly regarded) they don’t have time for bullshit.

Of course it helps being in a large city with many options and excellent insurance. Without this, I’d probably be getting g second and third opinions constantly.
The Convergence of Science and Religion – Charles H. Townes (1966) [pdf]
I don't think ISP are a bigger threat to ad blocking than google, even if US ISPs have a very bad reputation.
Waterboarding of detainees was so gruesome that CIA officials wept
Part of the problem is that making the "right" decision requires knowing the future.

Sometimes procrastination is actually valuable. I've had many situations where I've been putting something off for a long time, and then eventually it turns out I didn't need to do that thing after all. Doing it would have ended up being a waste of time.

The problem is that you can't predict which things are important to do early and which ones you should wait on.
Hanger Lane Gyratory System - the most frightening roundabout in the UK (or possibly anywhere) - https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/ealings-noto...
After spending 4 years around people high on prescription amphetamines in an engineering school, here’s my impression as someone who was mostly sober: (during the day anyway)

They look (to me) like they just make that effect where some people get hung up on certain classes of ideas way stronger, if it happens to be video games you won’t get anything done but if it happens to be math then you’ll probably get very good grades.

The problem with using them as an adult is that success as an adult has more to do with effective socializing and less to do with ability. People high on these things are the worst to be around. There was one guy I thought I hated the whole time I was in college and he got off this stuff and it turned out he was an awesome person sober! Most of the other people I know who were on the drugs are similar.

I’m not saying amphetamines are bad but there not magic either. Personally I think the psychoactive effects of chocolate and coffee are plenty for most people and it’s all about managing it.
Mostly the new gTLDs (actually I think the ccTLDs are at fault, but I'm going to whine anyway) mean I no longer know where to put the dots in a domain name. Is it CoolBanan.as? CoolBana.nas? Cool.Ban.an.as? Fuck it, I'm going to the grocery store instead.
This reminds me of one of my favorite philosophy papers:

Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked? by Douglas Husak

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23562447?seq=1

Rough summary: there is a high crash incompatibility between SUVs and other cars, imposing unreasonable levels of risks upon the smaller cars.

Simple example (not form the paper): a tank crashes into a car: everyone in the car dies. Had the tank been a regular car, no one would die.
In most places there are a lot of restriction on building houses, so i would argue that housing is more finite than land. If you have planning permission in the UK, your land will be worth a lot more than land without.
If you live or learned to drive somewhere that doesn't have them I can understand being confused or scared by it. I love them but frequently see people stop in the middle of one because they think they need to yield to those entering
It's fear mongering.
What do you mean when you say hyperactivity makes you unsure of yourself?
Those US stories are outliers as well.

If a lot of people in the US can’t afford treatment, then why does the US lead the world in several cancer outcomes? If people were just dying for lack of treatment, that would make outcomes far worse.
All of that can be done with local server logs,complete with pretty graphs and reports.
> When you buy a print copy, it also has adverts. The price you're paying is subsidised by the adverts, it doesn't completely cover the costs.

For print and online the advertising covers the cost and the subscription is just a bonus on it, same thing you said but from the end users perspective. Why pay a bonus for nothing?
Brit from Ontario here and have to agree. The problem is roundabouts were never on the Canadian drivers test until a few years ago and no one knows the rules.

Plus, the Canadian design of putting the pedestrian crosswalk, right at the roundabout and having cars stop in the roundabout to yield to a waiting pedestrian adds additional risk.
I tried searching for that, but couldn't find a very good example. I don't see why that wouldn't work, though: just split into more lanes before you enter the roundabout.

Although it appears that Dutch traffic design tries to avoid intersections with more than 4 directions. Better merge a couple of them before the intersection.
It's not dishonest, whether something is good or bad is never absolute. Something that is bad for someone is not necessarily bad for others.
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I'd suggest using webp over gif. Maybe avif in the future, and APNG is supported in places.

With that in mind, you can still create gifs easily with:

convert *.png animation.gif # optionally use -delay between pngs, or -loop to limit the number of animations
ffmpeg -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' out.gif # optionally with -framerate N

Not sure why anyone would do it in python (again, use something else than GIF if possible), but it's cool there is a library for that anyway :)
I doubt people with means are going to want their children to waste time being transported from the rich side of town to the poor side. I would just move one town over.
> and know exactly what's on your computer front to back

That's assuming you read all that firmware code already...
> however, the roundabout provides a better throughput of traffic than other designs and has an excellent safety record, since traffic moves too slowly to do serious damage in the event of a collision. In 2010, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program concluded that the roundabout reduces injurious crashes by three quarters.

One of the hardest things in local democracy is that the best traffic patterns are often also traffic patterns that are unpopular with motorists. Sometimes that is directly linked (e.g. “road calming” where narrowing the road forces drivers to pay closer attention to their surroundings) and sometimes it’s just that the aggregate statistics are counter-intuitive (e.g. “road diets” where trading 2 lanes in each direction for 1 each direction + center turn lane often has no impact on total throughput).
Reminds me of the story in Invisible Cities - a young man dreams of the perfect city that contains all of his favorite things. By the time he arrives at the city of his dreams, he is an old man and sits off to the side with the other old men, who have moved on from the dreams of their youth.
Newton gave it: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

Imho, indigo and violet are the same thing (at least very close), and cyan is missing, so red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet would have made more sense

But of course it's indeed quite possible the language shifted and it made sense in Newton's time
At least Python3 brings an improvement. I still can't think of a good reason I should spend any time trying to figure out IPv6. Maybe my external router has to think about it, but that is about it.

Edit: If you down vote me please say why I should care about IPv6
Click and flip one yes, click and drag many no.
The Microsoft chart in this comic is still pretty accurate:

https://bonkersworld.net/img/2011.06.27_organizational_chart...
That was the one! Glad to hear it's still chugging along.