skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar plan and a good income. I am in good health and I make my yearly budget assuming I might have to pay the out of pocket max if I have a health problem.

the usual "gotcha" that people mention is going in for a planned procedure and accidentally receiving care from an out-of-network physician. this makes your out of pocket max irrelevant. I've never had this happen to me and I have no idea how often it actually occurs (outliers are always the loudest on the internet), but it still worries me.
>> Obamacare attempted and does enact a variant of almost every concrete reform imaginable. Whatever you think of Obamacare, you can't deny that it has provided mountains of empirical data about the difficulties and promises of containing costs.

Is there a summary of the findings that gets to the root causes of why healthcare is so expensive in the US? And likewise for the difficulties? It would be a useful read for me. :-)
Calculus is useful roughly to the degree it's able to turn non-linear problems into problems of linear algebra.
You are doing exactly the thing pg talks about in this essay -- making up a fictional version of what the other person said so that you can argue with it.
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I got a large life insurance policy to support my family if I die before the kids are grown.
Don't forget 6 months waiting time for breast cancer diagnoses.

Don't forget over a months waiting time for a simple antibiotic shot, which my friend died while waiting.

Don't forget, can't see a doctor for two freaking weeks for a simple stomatitis.

Don't forget 3+ months and waiting for a freaking endoscope procedure.

For everyone not in critical situation, your country's health care is shit. Don't even deny that it's fucked up.

Thanks god I moved out of that country after my friend died due to sepsis because of the fucked up system that made him wait months to get his antibiotic shot.
Not to mention your workout must be really short.
Correct. The US only had net neutrality on the books for traditional ISPs. However, they were playing relatively nicely to avoid such regulation happening. The mobile arena was fought over data caps and exemptions rather than throttling.
I think the problem with this approach is that it only validates the product if you get customers. The average case probably goes like: spend xxxx on adwords, get 0-1 sales. At this point you don't know if your sales pitch is wrong, your product is wrong, you didn't reach the right customers, if the problem doesn't exist, etc etc.
> There is no such thing as an absolute truth, after all.

In a relative sense, it's true that there's no such thing as an absolute truth, but it's also true that there is such a thing as an absolute truth. However, in an absolute sense — the sense in which, for example, real-number multiplication is commutative — it is only true that there is such a thing as an absolute truth, and the assertion that "there's no such thing as an absolute truth" is simply an error of reasoning.

> And pretending there is, and it's even attainable, is intellectually dishonest.

No. You know what's intellectually dishonest? Asserting that your viewpoint is so obviously correct that nobody could possibly disagree with it sincerely, and that if they claim to disagree, they are simply being dishonest.

Given the self-referential and self-refuting nature of your comment, I'm guessing that it's merely an elaborate joke, intended to expose the moral relativism it ostensibly espouses to ridicule.
>Like isn't this something everyone is fully aware of, despite the human race as a whole not doing anywhere near enough to combat it?

No, at least not in the US. Until very recently the Republican Party and the business community at large denied it was even happening. The current President of the United States is on-record calling it a "Chinese hoax", and has spent his term in office tearing apart as many environmental regulations as he can. There is an entire segment of the US populace that follows this exact line, that either climate change is a lie or it's nothing to worry about.

That's a very large part of why "the human race as a whole not doing anywhere near enough to combat it", that a good chunk of the leadership and the rich in the world's largest economy and most influential nation are devoted to denying or downplaying the problem.
It's the fuel on which Hacker News runs.
It's expensive because it's dedicated bandwidth, not shared, has a SLA, which your residential connection doesn't, and comes with static IP's.

They also put your house on a difference circuit from everyone else in your neighborhood, which has a cost - which explains the ETF if you move away.

In your case, perhaps it's cheaper to get a $2.50/month VPS from Vultr instead of paying all these fees? You get a static IP to, and don't have to play DynamicDNS games.
Unfortunately companies choose Java for conservative reasons which pretty much rules out anything like Kotlin making a dent in Java's mindshare. Most Java shops won't even upgrade beyond Java 8 so switching to Kotlin is a non-starter outside the Hacker News echo chamber.
Right, I think the way to think about this is that common shares are for sharing in the value created at the company over and above the money invested in building the company. If your company spends all that excess value on perks and generating usage, then your common is more likely to get wiped out.
I think the parent comment meant in the general sense, not this specific case.
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Freshpaint works like:

> What I want, past any sort of reasonable business scale, is a constrained set of specific events that I have explicitly decided that I want to track.

and not like:

> here we tracked everything for you, now just sort through it

We collect everything for you behind the scenes, but we will only surface a piece of data if you explicitly ask for it.

This is similar to undo in a text document. While you're editing a document, the entire history is tracked behind the scenes. You don't ever need to pay attention to all of that data unless you explicitly use the undo feature.
IRC is a protocol, Discord and Slack are complete ecosystems. This isn't just a protocol problem; there has to be user friendliness in the full experience.

IRC can be part of a solution but it's not a solution on its own.
#2 is wrong. Founders don't get preferred stock. The link even says so:

"Typically, investors get preferred stock, and founders and employees get common stock (or stock options)."
Remote job / WFH hygiene for mental sanity
Here is what I generally practice, perhaps not on all days. I work 3-4 days remote, and need these to maintain sanity.

Curious to know how others practice?

- Always find time/means to accommodate regular sanitizing tasks: exercise, meditation, reading, repeat
- Lists tasks for the day first thing in the morning, set approximate time slots
- Use "commute time" (e.g. 1.5 hrs) to learn something new
- Make sure to proactively "ping" and interact with colleagues everyday
- Do not miss company meetings such as engineering sync. Things discussed here translate into tasks
- Empathize & respect off timezones
- Spend time in "catching up" & reviewing actual tasks (e.g. code review) from colleagues in a
different timezone. This could be the first thing in the morning, just so you know what you
have to work on. For instance, this could be GitHub/Jira issues & PRs
- Be proactive on GitHub/Jira issue tracking, updating, commenting, PRs
- Email hygiene - respond within 6 hours, so it doesn't crossover timezones
- Slack: respond immediately; if not available, turn off. Snoozing yourself can be annoying to colleagues
- Post to daily updates. It forces you to not slack continuously, and everyone knows what you work on
> We can waive this month as a courtesy

That would be the goal.
Ask HN: PR Reviews at Fang?
Curious if anyone from FANG is willing to share experiences with their PR reviews. Obviously not asking to reveal anything confidential, I'm just curious how intense they can be (if at all). What are commonly flagged patterns? How nitpicky can they get? How heavily is logarithmic performance weighed? Thx in advance
Yep, that s also how science works: it predicts the future based on a model. Quick trick to know if it s a science or not: if it has the word science in it it’s not. (Eg social science)
The original quote is economic policy not simply monetary policy. This is because Greece was facing an austerity crisis as a result of directives from the euro group.
Send them two copies as well as self addresses stamped envelope and a letter requesting them to date stamp one copy and send it back to you. They will do so.
Bitcoin is ridiculously anti-privacy. The public ledger of every single transaction throughout history coupled with everyone knowing exactly how much funds you have in your wallet is kind of absurd from a consumer standpoint.
on its face, I don't think this is as crazy as you make it seem. it's just that the complexities of medical billing has become too much for the doctor to understand and convey to the patient.

can you think of any other role where a professional interfacing directly with customers wouldn't be expected to at least estimate how much the service will cost them?
You'd be carving out an exemption for ~55% of homes. See [1] and [2]. I don't think that really solves the problem, either, because you're still punishing people who want to move to California and disincentivizing new home construction. It would be better than what we have today, though.

[1] https://www.infoplease.com/us/california/housing-statistics-...

[2] https://journal.firsttuesday.us/californias-rate-of-homeowne...
I've been waiting for something similar to this for a long time. There's a lot of questions & topical discussion that don't fit well into issue.

I wasn't able to find GitHub page covering this feature, so the link to to Next.js's repo discussions.
Duplicate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386096
> you could pre-generate a finite lookup table and get an O(1) algorithm on that class.

If I remember my numbers right there are ~6.67 * 10 ^ 21 valid puzzles so if you want to generate and store that table, I am afraid your Amazon S3 bill will be a bit on the higher side. According to https://www.bernardmarr.com/default.asp?contentID=1846 , the ‘Global Datasphere’ in 2018 reached 18 zettabytes. IOW, your little lookup table would consume all the storage in the world.

So yes in theory you are right of course, it's doable but in practice it's not.
How do you handle opening ports to a ROS publisher inside a Docker container, when you don't know the port numbers in advance?
Same, Crown Heights to Midtown. Would time my commute so I could get a seat and pull out my laptop to just code with no emails or other stuff coming in. Probably some of the most productive time. You just have to be good with heading in early and living far enough away to get on subways when they are relatively empty further out from Manhattan.
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He does acknowledge that later in the piece, although I don't know it matters one way or the other. The article is about pitching, not the truth of any particular claim.
Quality libraries built with a statically typed object -oriented language designed with mutability in mind. See the puroblem?
Great to see an article on mycorrhizal fungi! They’re an essential and under appreciated part of our ecosystem.

Admittedly though this article is a very skimmed over purview of mycorrhizae’s roles. Their contention that EM fungi store more carbon than AM fungi, for example, is dubious, but I’ll have to dig into the source paper to see their citations.

The realty is both AMF and EMF will sequester carbon. AMF for example produce a substance called glomalin which is a carbon store and soil glue basically, but in soils where mycorrhizal fungi are present, glomalin alone can make up up to 30% of the soil carbon. And glomalin effectively only comes from AMF (from the genus Glomus). Hence my hesitation to accept that EMF are responsible for more carbon sequestration than AMF.

Besides that nitpicking, it’s great to hear this dataset is now available tho because, amongst other things, it’ll be incredibly useful for helping predict good matches between mycorrhizal inoculant and any particular ecosystem of interest. Or for example, in my case, when hunting for new wild sources of mycorrhizal strains I can now make more educated decisions on where to collect samples.
The seller is going to pay as they are the most likely to lose the money if the sale goes south. The smarter ones would increase the price to account for it (if possible).
Are you sure about that? It doesn't fit what I understand and I've talked to a friend who works for Comcast and he says the only difference is the customer support.

The rep I talked to and the price I gave $156/mo does not include a static IP. That was something like $10/mo more.

Sure, the firmware they tftp to my modem will be different but it's not giving me dedicated RF bandwidth on the exact same RF hardware path that existed before I got the firmware. It's the same uplink channels. This can be confirmed by using a splitter, attenuator, and looking at the RF signals directly in the frequency domain over time with an with a software defined radio (see: http://superkuh.com/pictures/docsis3_cable_ziggo_2017-10-08-...).
If the police are to be believed (well, one cop who studies this kind of thing), about 90% of drivers choose their speed based on road conditions. Only about 10% are religiously following the signs.
Of course you can. The regulated exchanges would (best case) just automatically remove the 0.00000001 BTC from the receiving wallet, or (worst case) freeze out the entire wallet indefinitely, while they send it back on the next block.

The regulated exhcanges have multiple forms of identification too so the recipient is screwed even if they manage to move it all before that happens.
It depends entirely on where you live. Out West there is no waiting and I've never experienced any of what you're talking about.

I've only heard stories about how it is in the East, I've never met anyone first hand that has experienced it, or really hates it.
Pretty much the entire point of a UBI is the "U". It's not meant to be need-based. Everyone - billionaires and destitute alike - gets it.

H1B visa holders pay state income taxes, sales taxes, and state disability insurance. They're considered residents for tax purposes at the federal and state levels which means they pay taxes on worldwide income, just like citizens and green card holders. Why should they be ineligible? That would be a repeat of SSI/Medicare, which they also pay but may never collect.
Are you talking about a mobile phone data plan, or a hardwired ISP-ish data plan? I'm about 99% sure that the specific classification this fight was over only applied to the latter, not the former -- there was never any "neutrality" in this sense for mobile data.
I can't disagree with anything you said. But I think it goes without saying that any bit of economics can't really be fully encapsulated in a couple paragraphs. We're painting with broad strokes and of course there are more variables at play.
I remember using the Boehm GC in C++ in 1989. I wrote a Symbolics Lisp to G++ compiler called XL when. I was at Fuji Xerox and PARC and used it to convert Statice, the first object-oriented database, from Lisp to C++. The server side was a transactional block server and didn't do much consing, but the code flow for the Lisp side did not conveniently map into the C++ stack/ctor/dtor model of memory allocation, so I used the Boehm GC. sadly, the compiler, XL, got lost in a tar fire.
How many people need to run DOS apps at 2020 processor speeds? I get that there are legacy systems at banks and power plants running DOS, but practically by definition they don't need 2020 speeds.
and then not pack them...
He earned that much because the value of BTC skyrocketed. He was a small time pot dealer.
What about all the time that takes? If you have kids you need/want to get home as soon as possible to provide help as well as actually see them. Doesn't matter how many games im playing during that time
but it says "No jailbreak required!"... I thought that meant only appstore apps where allowed on your device...
When I first read the headline, I thought the article was about how the iPhone itself was dying.

I'm surprised to see the NY Times have such clickbait-ish headlines. Mods, maybe change the title on HN?
I noticed that it only inlines the base64 for the first pictures/"above the fold", and then loads the rest async. Clever.
You can do chores during your workday if your workday extends by a similar amount of time. That’s basically the definition of flextime, and I’ve never heard of work from home without flex (how would you check).
This offhand comment took me back:

"Now you can buy an AT, with a hard disk, complete and ready to roll for $6,000."

I couldn't afford an AT when I got my first computer; I spent $1,200 on a Leading Edge Model D, an 8088 with 512K of RAM, no hard drive, and two 360K floppies. Then I had to figure out how to have it set up a RAM disk on every boot for commonly used programs since loading them from the floppy drive was so slow. But even a 10 MB hard drive was beyond my means at the time.
> Would you buy a GPU that you could safely run Furmark on 24/7 if it was limited to, half or 3/4 of the clocks?

Given that modern GPUs have complex frequency scaling algorithms that take temperature and power usage into account when setting clock speed, there's a good chance that a modern GPU will do exactly that.

> Modern power management is smart enough to figure out when you're running a power virus and it will downclock to those safe levels, while us normies can get competitive clocks when running our real-world code.

Which is perfectly fine, as long as the clock speed behavior is disclosed (which it is).

What isn't fine is a product running at such a high speed from the factory that running certain workloads damages it.
My understanding is the limits come from OSM. They seem to be relatively accurate, at least in my area. The display doesn't always change exactly where the sign is, and sometimes it's off by a quarter mile, but usually it's closer than that.
ISOs can't be over 90 days by law. You can do non-quals for 10 years but you'll lose half of it on taxes on exit. Pick your poison.
I wasn't aware of that story, thanks for mentioning it!

For anyone else that is curious, it was in 1958 and here[0] is a link to a PDF

[0] https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/hope-diamon...
It's definitely different circuits, and you definitely get dedicated bandwidth. You won't burst anymore either (a thing you get with shared lines), but you'll get 100% of your allocated bandwidth all the time, even if you peg it out 24/7.

You can do a traceroute and see the reverse-dns names of the hops you go through too.

Also remember, TCP has 8Mb of overhead per 100Mb, so you'll get maximum theoretical speed of 92Mbps on a 100Mbps line.
Actually that’s probably an excellent idea as well.
Unless the alternative includes forks to the eyeball, it could hardly be worse.
It might be necessary for higher level self-driving, but AFAIK Tesla isn't doing that due to patent issues. Autopilot is just very fancy cruise control, and you're supposed to be in charge. You'd be expected to change the cruise control set point manually when you enter a construction area.
I would suggest there's a good chance you don't have a good picture of your floor / ceiling. I'd ask around as much as humanly possible to find what these numbers roughly are. It's much harder to move up in salary after you started low. That, and PTO often seems firm, but is negotiable.
I watched a few of the lectures in the past. I was really impressed with his teaching skills but the quality of some of the videos was really bad it really took away from the learning experience. Really wish there could be a professionally recorded version of him.
> Recursion == looping. Any looping construct, recursive or otherwise, that doesn't require a literal max iteration count implies Turing completeness.

There are other ways to restrict looping constructs other than literal max iteration counts to avoid Turing-completeness; structural induction in Coq, LEAN, and Total Functional Programming is one example.
Tools designed for a statically typed object-oriented language where mutable state is encouraged. I don't see the value for a language like Clojure.
It's interesting how many of those things rely on certain businesses being open 5 days a week at least.
To save you a click, what @dang says in the first link is:

Please don't copy/paste comments on HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio and makes for pain when we go to merge duplicate threads. If you want to refer to something you posted elsewhere, please use a link.
Better still, when you see a split discussion, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can merge them. We'll make sure your comment ends up in the winning thread.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
My doctor does not have any full time staff. He does not accept health insurance directly though is in many networks so you can submit claims for reimbursement.

I tend not to because he’s so cheap it’s not worth the hassle.
I came here to say this also. You can’t reject the return, you need to accept it and then it’s on the buyer to return the item to you.

If it comes back with parts missing, you can do a partial refund. Buyer can still do an A-Z claim, but you’re in a much stronger position, especially if you have proof of how you sent it and how you received it.
We didn't apply to YC with the idea of Freshpaint. We were initially a Postgres performance optimization tool.

> but if retroactive event streaming is the only USP I think that should be easy to reproduce for Segment

Retroactivity has been the main differentiator between Heap and it's competitors for seven years now. None of them have been able to successfully copy it yet. Mixpanel launched an autotrack feature, but later shut it down.

> Freshpaint is probably not compliant with GDPR as of now

We are GDPR compliant. In fact, Fitz helped form an industry working group on GDPR with the IAB while working at Quantcast a year ahead of GDPR coming into effect.
Sad story, though not uncommon. I heard many eBay horror stories involving buyers' scams.

Frankly, selling anything on Amazon is crazy. But if you do have to, vet your buyer. Look at their previous purchases and feedbacks. Avoid the quick deal that will blow in your face.

The bottom line is that eBay (and Amazon too) are more focused on the buyers. Buying on eBay is great, because you have 100% buyer protection. There's no seller protection at all.

I'd recommend sticking to either local selling apps (like Craigslist etc.) where you can verify the buyer (though stay safe and do it somewhere public), or through online communities that manage access and feedbacks (there are several on Reddit and Facebook).
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There’s one risk that seems to be being missed:

Fraud by delivery company staff. Someone might choose to risk their job for a verified $2k+ package. Moreso if they ended up with a truck full...
How can you stay a small time anything with $60 M in returns on the cash in your mattress?
Of course the purpose of "hard" is to reduce the interval. When I hit "hard", I'm saying that I don't remember this well enough and need to see it more often.

If you hit "hard" on a card, and then months later it re-appears, at which point you now remember it well and hit "good", doesn't it reset the state of that card back to normal?