skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the director of the hospital's billing department told her that all past bills must be payed before they are able to remove the stent

That's nuts.

What has changed about healthcare in the last 20yrs to drive up the cost of insurance premiums and pretty much everything?
somewhat off-topic, but if you'd like a hardware hack to disable the perpetual vehicle tracking in most modern cars, its actually a component of OnStar in GM vehicles. BMW Assist and others are patterned off the same technology as it all comes off the boat as a single embedded package from China. Its a cellular modem with a header for your OBD and ECM and data line for your info-tainment. its NOT built into the info-tainment.

on GM Vehicles You're looking for a metal box under the passenger side footwell, about the size of a cable modem. newer models have it in the trunk on the right or left side. You can remove the box, open it up, and inside will be a riser card with 2 or 3 connectors for a cell antenna. theres no SIM card.

Pull the riser and you wont get any error codes. Confirm the hack by pressing the OnStar button (or whatever your car calls it.) it will ring, but no one will pick up.

this will NOT affect your bluetooth ability OR your backup camera. thats actually part of the infotainment.

this WILL however disable the SOS button and the automated SOS on airbag deployment signal as the riser doesnt exist to make the call.
I think that's pretty well correct, but my preference has been the opposite in terms of more concepts vs cognitive complexity. I find that to do the same stuff with react and redux and so on, you end up decoupling and abstracting in such a way that the 5 or concepts in something like Angular or Vue end up being a more manageable mental model. In the sense that the main purpose of React is lost in the weeds of trying to managing the modularity of your app.
31 year old doctor died from it. That raises some alarms for me when media is saying it is like the flu. Do a lot of 31 year old doctors die from the flu?

I seriously hope China can contain this.
The senate passed a bill to study moving various electrical digital systems back to analog/manual control:

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/senate-passes-cybersecurity...
> deeply into taking a variety of drugs

The enormous range of drug-effects, motive, and context surround drug use renders this statement near meaningless.

So many are reductive when it comes to drugs, it's a disservice.
They're doing it on paper so the Toyotas of the world can continue to claim to be zero waste. That's the product. The pellets seem to be a "recycled product" without a real world use, other than being able to claim your turbine blade was recycled.

The company's landing page even brags about the process using blockchain as a selling point. In what is essentially crushing fiberglass.

It's a sham. Google turns up pages of paid PR pieces and reputation generating sites. They list potential uses of the pellets produced, but not a single real world example of an actual sale or use. No published info on adding value to an LCA. Or it being worth the energy expended to actually crush/process them after shipping the blades cross country.

They're a landfill substitute that provides a certificate, a paper trail, and good PR.
I doubt I’ll be getting a Nobel prize anytime soon, but I appreciate the sear, even if not meant entirely in jest. We are trying to explain it and refining our models rapidly. My concern is that much of public discourse has come down to arguing about “how much money to give to government entities to fix the weather.” A large part of this is because the science isn’t “settled” as it is so often claimed.

Really, we’re trying our best but science is messy.
Google denies Chrome tracking allegation, explains use of ‘X-Client-Data’
Stop buying apple or google products
I'm talking about an ideal to strive for, so of course this is rare.

If you want to do management long term and manage bigger and bigger teams without burning out this is what you need to strive for and ultimately impliment aspects of this if you can't impliment it fully.

For bigger teams you even need people with superior management skill sets in order to delegate.
I’m sorry but the name of the database needs to change. It’s like if I named my company “Disgusting Bug Company” then expected everyone to ignore the fact I named my company after a gross creature. Call it “RockSolidDB” and you get the same point across without invoking gross bugs.
That’s not true. Localities provide 45% of school funding, while states provide another 45%, and the federal government provides about 10%: https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/fut...

Local funding is in fact uneven. But state and federal funding is primarily directed to eliminating those disparities: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/alfresco...

> The paper then examines changes in finances over time—both within and across states— and evaluates how spending levels have changed for school districts that serve students of different races. Spending differences have largely disappeared. Spending levels across districts have converged; most remaining differences in spending are between rather than within states.

Obviously Kansas still spends less than California, but everything is much cheaper in Kansas too.
To what effect?
Elon Musk wants to connect your BRAIN to a computer this year
Not replying to you per se, but: also, don't waste your time creating something that won't be eroded by competitive forces. That's not you, that's me.
You generally don't get technical interview performance feedback because technical interviews are constrained by the interviewer to put themselves in a technically confident light against the candidate. The interview is as much a crapshoot for the interviewer, because they might be less/more/similarly skilled to the candidate, but they absolutely cannot reveal themselves to be less skilled because they would undermine their status if the candidate gets hired. So interviewers stick to the same random technical question that they feel very confident of, answers to it are studied. The myth is that this posed problem is a general test of skill for the candidate, but the primary motivation is for the interviewer to maintain the appearance of professional dominance. Hence the technical discussion is kept to a narrow problem domain. Obviously there is a spectrum here, and it's more true when the interviewer feels insecure. Only when the interviewer is very skilled/confident relative to the candidate do people go off script and give advice. I confess this is how I have seen it from both sides of the interview, I'm no saint either.
There's a difference between GAAP EBITDA and made up EBITDA. A significantly positive GAAP/actual EBITDA means that the business is long term viable. Existing shareholders and/or creditors might get wiped out, but in the event that happens a viable business should rise from the ashes.
I'm not sure it's reasonable to put blame on celebrities (athletes or otherwise) for hawking crappy things. A lot of the things people spend "more" on are mediocre product, excellent branding (Apple, Gucci, Range Rover, the list goes on). A celebrity endorsement is just more of the same - branding.

And I appreciate your diplomacy (seriously), but a lot of athletes have their intelligence underestimated because they are minorities and only went to college for one or two years...but mostly because they are minorities. The notion that someone young and African-American who can jump out of the gym might also be really smart is not something that's common to consider unfortunately.
> am skeptical as to the utility of it to the consumer.

Yeah, me too. It definitely seems like more of a way to look like the industry is doing something without actually reducing costs to the end patient.

Our daughter went to the ER and was administered ibuprofen. We got an itemized invoice. Insurance paid $9 for one pill.

So going forward, I guess I'll be able to ask how much the pill will cost, then...haggle? Tell them not to give my daughter medicine?

Just seems like we're going backward...
Thats exceptional, I wonder if it was a really clever optimization they found or if it was a really lazy bloat they let into an earlier build.

It reminds me of a great hack where game developers used to hide a large memory allocation early in the game development process and when they ran into memory constraints towards launch they'd just comment out the line and instantly save the day. Artificially constraining the memory caused intermediate development to be more frugal and ultimately allowed them to get where they needed to be by the end of it.
> It's insane to mix car traffic and people.

It is not. Non-car traffic just needs to be prioritized properly, that is being more important than car traffic. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf
Im not into astrophotography but this is a very very cool product that you’ve made. I hope you’ll grow it and give life to other cool things as you’re clearly very talented
Wow that all sounds so amazing! Thank you very much for sharing!
It depends. Do you include Taiwan in China or not? If not, then yes.

In fact, U.S. is the largest manufacturer of semiconductors. In 2018, nearly half of the total semiconductor market was occupied by firms based in the U.S., according to the Factbook2019 of SIA.
Yes, I think I misread the person I was replying to in retrospect, and agree.
You actually believe those numbers? They are straight out of Winnie the Poo’s office ... a brutal dictator.
This. It took me one single experience of being threatened after sharing feedback to never want to do it again. Lesson learned.

Once you've been a hiring manager and reviewer long enough, it becomes obvious that, while the intent behind giving feedback is good, the reality of it is messy, and provides no consistent upside to the company.
I don't think anybody envisions a desirable exit path. This is a subject I am not an expert in and not willing to dive into in this larger discussion.
How much is the experience learned worth?

Besides, life stinks if you break it down like this.
This syntax already exists in the language. If you want users to be able to use the obj() syntax you can already give them a closure for obj. Allowing it for user-defined types too removes an artificial syntactic distinction.
Helpfully, my state will allow you to search tax records by VIN or name.
Cross Entropy and KL Divergence
A related aspect of organization and making decisions is meetings.

Meetings, other than 1 on 1 meetings/collaborations, are best for making decisions, NOT for sharing information.

Information sharing relevant to the decisions to be made should happen before the meeting via group emails (or possibly through a software tool like Jira) with questions and responses. Written information is easier to reference, quicker to search through, and can be multiprocessed in that multiple people can share information or ask questions simultaneously. If additional information is needed after the fact, you can email after the meeting.

Going into a meeting about building a feature or product for example, you should know the constraints on that, and be able to weigh them in making the decision. When is it due? Who is available to work on it, who will test it, who will maintain it, and who is it for? What aspects/functions are necessary, and what are merely desirable? What resources are available? Why is the feature being added? How might it be constructed?

Finally, be ruthless about moving forward in meetings to get to decisions. If a couple of people agree on something, and begin to quibble over the details? Ask if anybody is opposed to that general idea or has a better one to offer. If not you have made that decision, and can decide on the details, but if so, the detail discussion is premature. It's quite probably also premature if you haven't decided who is going to work on it; the point is you want to nail down the higher level decisions, not get lost in the weeds.
They won't swap you to a 737-MAX if they don't own any of that aircraft. Delta, your example, does not have any in service and has not ordered any. It's not hard to find out which airlines use the plane and which don't.
Linux Kernel Module Rootkit – Syscall Table Hijacking
The gap is there in DC, which gets special federal funding. DC is spending over $30,000 per student. DC schools are so bad that you should wonder if excess funding somehow makes things worse.
"(Note there are reasons to use EBITDA"

What are those reasons? I've taken several accounting and "business from legal pov" classes in my life, and still I don't really understand why it's such a prominent metric. Like, either you use proper profit, or you use turnover - EBITDA has always seemed such an artificial inbetween to me.
N.Y. residents not allowed to apply / extend Global Entry
I think the progressive loading feature of FLIF/FUIF/JXL would be really interesting for WebGL. WebGL games already have asynchronous resource loading and incremental image decoding/texture upload just by virtue of using the available APIs. One could get a pseudo texture streaming effect by default (although no unloading of textures...)
React was a mistake of the last decade. React itself is a great academic idea (i.e. pure functions, composability), but the whole React-Redux boilerplate mess (I dare not call it an "ecosystem" because that word implies harmony of some sort) is the the result of an entire generation of code monkeys and job seekers who didn't design their technology stack with any real engineering consideration, but rather on the basis of tool popularity, feeding a vicious cycle of "lean startup" companies spending a glut of VC money looking for the fastest way to hire more React code monkeys because they think "that is how you do engineering".
> It's probably impossible for a lossless file format to do that, even for commonly occurring images.

It's actually provably impossible using a simple counting argument. A lossy algorithm can conflate two non-identical images and encode them the same way while a lossless algorithm can't, so on average the output of a lossless algorithm is necessarily larger than a lossy one because it has to encode more possible outputs.
Both Microsoft and Apple ignored my emails regarding them serving HTTP downloads from HTTPS pages. I guess they'll pay attention when this sort of security feature gains enough traction.
Eh, you should clarify that this is not an AOSP lockscreen. It looks like Huawei's EMUI, which is quite heavily modified and might simply be a translation error.
I totally agree. People say that a take home project is terrible, but most people I talk to who aren't recent graduates also dread live coding algorithms that will never be used on the job.

The place I'm at now asked me if I wanted to come in and code as round one of interviews or code up a little something on my own time for a couple engineers to review.

For me, it was a no brainier to code at my comfy desk at home for a few hours. Going into the city would have been an hour each way and about $50 worth of gas and tolls. I would much prefer not to bother with all that unless and until somebody has looked at my work closely enough to decide they are interested.
Not exactly the same, Enid Blyton (for instance) has a strong presence in some former British colonies.

Whereas in England she's a bit of an embarrassment to be forgotten.
Why oh why is this not a per device setting? Is it really inconceivable I might like or dislike the feature in different environments?
Honestly the non paid take home projects are much better. The three interviews I’ve done them for stand out as the best interview processes I’ve been a part of. They actually check for real software skills.

The time you spend on-site grinding leetcode with some Google engineer is non-paid as well, so let’s not pretend it’s really any different.
> conversational prostitution

Do you grow your own food? If not, you are partaking in prostitutional farming.

Do you make the write the books you read? If not, you are paying for prostitutional authors.
I get your point, but I personally really like the name. It really sticks with me.
Then you have my girlfriend who rates everything a 3/5 because it's average or to be expected. 4/5 for particularly good service. And nobody gets a 5/5.

I think star systems are a waste of time.
My favorite part about this story is that they would have actually let the football game keep running if so many people hadn't been calling in about it:

> NBC executives had originally ordered that Heidi begin at 7:00 p.m. EST, but then decided to allow the game to air to its conclusion. However, communicating this revised plan to the technicians running NBC's master control proved impossible – as 7 p.m. approached, NBC's switchboards were jammed by viewers phoning to inquire about the night's schedule, preventing the planned change from being communicated.
I wonder if Starliner software too was outsourced to India like 737 Max. In contrast, all of SpaceX R&D is in the US, and the hiring bar is pretty stratospheric (pun intended).
Intermediate answer: maybe, if you use Visual Studio to maintain a framework.

I guess the classic "Why I Hate Framewoks" rant was Benji Smith and not Joel Spolsky?

https://medium.com/@johnfliu/why-i-hate-frameworks-6af8cbadb...
Even if he doesn't remember you, I'm sure he'd be happy to hear from you.
Not really worth improving the pipeline of candidates you don’t want.
I don’t know anyone except the non-engineer non-programmer management types that gives a damn what anything is called. I respect the CockroachDB team for sticking to their guns on this.

Anyway, just call it CrDB, it’s an accepted alias. And everyone needs to stop complaining about the name each and every single time.
You don't have to refine your models, you have to have even a hypothesis for where the extra energy is coming from if it's not the greenhouse effect. If you had something remotely credible then there's a lot of vested interests happy to shower you with money and show the world. All you have to do is show where the extra energy is coming from.

Climate scientists have observed a massive amount of extra energy, come up with an explanation and tested it. All you've done is say it's not that.
Why? Is there a definition of engineering that does exclude software development, or is membership required to become one?
You don't need to understand hooks to use react.
I just upgraded and got 'Failed to load module script: The server responded with a non-JavaScript MIME type of "text/plain".' from my S3 through CloudFront.

Seems like it's not adding 'type="text/javascript"' to <script> in index.html. When adding this manually, everything works.

Just FYI if others upgrade and seem to get the same errors.
Get kids. Or do voluntary work at your local orphanage if you're not ready to have your own. That will cure your arrogance, your narcissism and your self-importance way faster then any book, video or shrink/therapist you might wanna read/see. The fact that your actions have a direct consequence on another life is an eye opener.
It will be interesting to see how these benchmarks look with more memory.

Could it be that Windows just eats more base memory than Linux, and the benchmark apps do not have enough memory to run under Windows?
Winter Precipitation: Graupel
Bug report for you...

Expected: "Hello, World!"

Actual: "Hello World!" (missing comma)

See spec:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program
I used to agree, but the name actually seems to have an ironic marketing benefit: Everyone ascribes Cockroach's success to its technical merit. I've never heard Cockroach criticized as another dumb web dev trend caused by marketing and fads.
Seems like overkill, and just a shiny new toy to play with for this use case. Stackoverflow.com uses SQL. You aren't exceeding stackoverflow. In a couple of years they'll migrate back, or to something else.

The whole point of cdb is to enable things like Google scale. But all I ever see on it are random devs spinning up three nodes and being so proud.

Which is too bad because I'd love to see someone pushing its limits, and betting mission critical services on it that nothing else could handle.
In a Taekwondo dojang I used to attend, the instructor had a sign on the wall that listed four rules one of which was to accept humility, the opposite of narcissism. And that is what you need to learn, accept humility. Perhaps join a martial art gym and get your butt kicked a few times.

I also did some boxing and it was incredibly intimidating stepping into the ring with some seriously scary dudes who knocked me around like a rag doll. But you take the lumps and learn from them. I took a lighthearted approach when boxing. Most of the dudes going there really wanted to be prize fight winning boxers whereas I wanted the exercise and fighting experience. So I'd spar with some welterweights and do my own commentary as I had my ass kicked. "And Ramirez comes in with a quick right... thwomp... followed by a jab... thunk..." I had fun. I didn't get mad, upset or take it personally. After a while I got better and could land shots as my focus and speed improved. Then the gym closed and I didn't bother to go somewhere else.

And I practice similar at work. I've learned to point out and laugh at my mistakes to coworkers which eases the frustration. I accept that I'm not perfect yet I have confidence in my skills and I always tell myself there is more to learn. Bragging is just hot air. Brag through your work. And I have had a lot of excellent compliments through my career and that keeps me being the best person I can.
My wording could've been much better, for me its less about condemning celebrity endorsements but taming various tech and consumer fetishes which I ultimately deem as harmful to society.

For example, investing in start-ups is good but raising gluttonous amounts of money with a terrible product or business plan is bad. If we have a bunch of articles glorifying industry outsiders parking their money here, it will raise a reciprocal amount of Uber and dollar shave club clones which take away from "more-worthy" projects.
OTOH they monopolize the market of people who do like cockroaches
Sad thing we have little insight on microcode and the exact way machine code gets interpreted, for all we know there might still be a resulting bug from any step asm to execution.
Not in western democracies. Australia and Japan are the 12 and 20th least corrupt in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#2...
But it's an indication of the companies value of an employees time, in that it's one sided. If they're paying an existing employee to babysit me, that's a cost to them that demonstrates at least some expended effort.

I'd consider this to be pretty important for a salaried position.
Just experienced heavy amounts of this in Chicago, and had no clue what to call it. It feels really weird, like rain that bounces off of you.
Legend is the more common usage in the US in my experience. Map key, like car park, seems a bit more awkward to American ears but is self-explanatory and obvious in it's meaning.
Scott Alexander has an interesting blog post about this:

Official statistics say we are winning the War on Cancer. Cancer incidence rates, mortality rates, and five-year-survival rates have generally been moving in the right direction over the past few decades.

More skeptical people offer an alternate narrative.

[...]

Suppose a certain cancer is untreatable and will kill you in ten years. If it’s always discovered after seven years, five-year-survival-rate will be 0%. If it’s always discovered after two years, five-year-survival-rate will be 100%. Better screening can shift the percent of cases discovered after seven years vs. two years, and so shift the five-year-survival rate, but the same number of people will be dying of cancer as ever.

This post tries to figure out which narrative is more accurate.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-m...
How would the evaluation of any codec be hampered by any open source license?