skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sounds like a solvable problem

Every problem, including death can be solved if enough effort is put into it. The question is which problem is worth solving.

The problem of price transparency is just not worth solving - because the main issue people have with healthcare in the U.S. is the price.

No one complains that they got better after going to the E.R.

People complain that they got their wages garnished by a collection agency after going to the E.R.

Shopping for the cheapest price might feel like a solution, but if you really think about it, it's really not.

> You would a primary doctor (at a known rate) who would say "You need X, Y, and Z now" and then refer you to a reasonably priced location

A few questions:

1. What does the primary physician gain out of telling you that and that too for a known rate which will likely be less than what they can charge for an actual medical consultation? Who pays for it? It's not an office visit - it's a "pricing consultation" and no insurance currently pays for "pricing consultation". They pay for medical necessity visits. Even if you paid for that out of pocket because you have liquidity/cash on hand, which most of the U.S. does not, the primary physician has only so many hours in the day and their time is definitely better served seeing someone unwell/running a fever than helping you haggle pricing.

2. NO primary physician is going to tell you specific procedures of what a specialist is going to do. First, they don't know how. Second, it does not make sense for them to. Maybe they can give a rough idea what you might need. Try asking your primary physician what ointment to put on your rash. Unless they are your childhood buddy, you get a referral to a dermatologist. Even the, they will highly recommend you see a dermatologist (or right now, a lab test because COVD19 can express as benign rashes).

3. We still have not addressed the core issue of why something that costs "EUR x" in most of the EU costs "EUR 500x" in the U.S.

The problem of why something in the U.S. costs 400x of what it does in other countries even after accounting for subsidies, is a problem far worth solving.
Hilarious. Long time Thinkpad fanboy here until I finally needed Lenovo support and it took 1 month to get a faulty part fixed under a next business day support plan.

The replacement was faulty. Replaced again (a little quicker this time) but there were still problems. They consider their job done. Never shopping Lenovo again.

Then for a new role I got a brand new XPS 13. Put Ubuntu on it and everything Just Works(tm). Very happy Dell user now. (Shame the sticker price is so high but it is a quality system.)

Also the Lenovo performance was never as good as it should have been. It turns out while it had a then current generation CPU it was a cheaper version than the competitors.
What's hard about transporting it? The US manages to ship these just fine [1]. These casks can be transported via semi truck and shipping container [2]. Maybe Europe doesn't have as good waste container standardization.

1 https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

2. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/avery-w2/images...

Replies in comment, since HN is limiting my work VPN or something like that.

> Is this a straw man or did you really not understand what I wrote?

From your comment:

> No, it stays on side because it's either not transportable (see Asse)

You explicitly brought up ease of transport.

> I also put something in there. This word in the brackets. You might have googled it up where you'd come upon pictures like that: https://media1.faz.net/ppmedia/aktuell/1203828188/1.3595409/.... Instead, you chose to ignore the complete rest of the comment and all the comments I wrote before and only wrote a completely irrelevant answer to something you did not understand. Congratulations for this derailment.

You claimed that transportation was a barrier to storing nuclear waste, by cherry picking one specific failure. And I refuted this claim by pointing out that plenty of the world's largest nuclear operators transport waste just fine. This isn't derailment, quite the opposite.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
"veterans don't like the Red Cross ... he always got the same answer: the doughnuts."

For my dad it was the apples. "Shriveled and all dried out."
Tons of nominally asset-rich people find themselves with negative cashflow and in a personal debt crunch, even with positive net worth (or plausibly positive, depending on what assumptions you make about values in an illiquid market). You're going to see a lot of this in the near future as the real estate market implodes.
It's very weird to argue with someone well-informed who seems to be (much) more of a modernist than I am. Cheers.
I've seen a quite a few cases to back up your assertion about final rejections based on Alice (or other subsequent 101 cases).
In aggregate, the systems of governance and human rights that we endorse for the world will have a direct impact on our lives in the long run.

If you think you're marginally more likely to be arrested and prosecuted for littering because of super secret iMessage collection... why not consider the marginal effects of turning a blind eye to (and contributing to the economic expansion of) an illiberal, anti-democratic power that, in your words, does "far worse to their own people than the US"?

They seem to already be comfortable collecting your data as they please and influencing various levels of your government. What harm could it do to enthusiastically profile yourself for them?
I use WeChat to talk to friends in China, (I live in HK) and I noticed that last year, especially when the protests were intense, many of my posts just didn't show up. These were mostly pictures unrelated to the protests. I had the sense that anything coming out of Hong Kong was just hidden by default.
> But the key question is -- do you live in or have any connection to China? If not, then I would go with the CCP surveillance because there is no obvious mechanism for such surveillance to harm you directly.

Tell that to the forcibly disappeared political dissidents, or to the Uyghurs who are being "re-educated" as we speak.

And remember, even if you're not connected to China now, that can always change in the future.
Why are people slapping Static Site Generators to all the problems?

Imagine you build an e-commerce website that has ten thousands of products, that can be accessed by example.com/products/{product-slug}. Now what is making more sense:
1. Generating ten thousands of .html file for each products in the DB
2. Use routing in Nuxt like this "/products/$productSlug" and query for $productSlug in the database

To me the (2) approach is a clear winner here. And the performance only depends on how fast your API can query a single product from the database, which is pretty fast 99% of the time.
Seems off to call someone’s reply unsubstantial when their very argument is that a simple model is sufficient.

Of course developers are going to build high-margin housing. But why is it high margin? Because there is high demand and low supply. “Luxury” housing is only marginally more expensive to build than “affordable” housing. The expensive parts of development are the land, labor, and construction materials, not the light fixtures, appliances, and flooring. Shouldn’t we be celebrating that developers are building a much better product then they could be if they cut a few corners?

To the second point, developers are not in collusion to keep supply down, and the suggestion is absurd on the face of it. They are developers. They make money by increasing supply. The more they develop, the faster they develop, the more money they make. Developers generally sell properties once they finish them and move on, because they are not in the business of property management. Maybe there’s a non-absurd argument to be made that property management companies are in collusion to keep supply down, but they aren’t. Aside from the fact that it’s illegal, it would be impossible. There are too many of them and the market is too fragmented for a cartel to form, and defecting is too easy.
Had an x1 yoga in my backpack, padded backpack. Backpack fell off the desk and fell like 4 feet to the floor. Laptop was totalled - screen totally trashed etc. Was under warranty so got the whole thing replaced so it was back to like new within a week. But anecdotes are still just anecdotes lol.
I don't know how helpful it is to use the word resilient at all if we're talking about catastrophies like this. I mean, the International Space Station is pretty resilient, but if the population of earth is wiped out in a super volcano, it doesn't matter anymore, right? I'd still call the ISS resilient though.
I just tried it on Facebook Messenger, and it would only work when switching to a encrypted chat (which kind of makes sense).

Kind of outrageous to criticize WeChat and leave out Facebook, when it clearly wants to join the party. I realize Facebook doesn't implement the same degree of censorship as WeChat, but to be fair, I live in Japan, and even for me the joebiden.info is censored.
Why is anyone surprised by this? We should ban chinese apps.
To add to this point, the goal for end-to-end encryption by default was January (said in December):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21765008

But there have been other times where "soon!" have been given over the past three years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I like Matrix and think Signal makes some serious mistakes for no apparent reason, but yeah, the repeated "Matrix is just as good and more free we swear!" is...maybe not the right thing to say, yet.
Seems funny that the "conspiracy theories" that got sites like ZeroHedge banned from twitter are now the very theories being floated by the secretary of state.

Say what you will about Pompeo et al's true intentions, but the fact that truth is often not known with certainty at the time of publication is something all media outlets have to grapple more seriously with these days.
The differences are: (1) with Facebook it's a private company doing the censoring and there's no issue with that, no First Amendment issues at all, unlike WeChat where the censoring is heavily linked to the government; (2) Facebook at least tells you when a message can't be sent but WeChat fails silently.
I find the Dell touchpads and keyboards superior.
On the flip side, reorganizing a codebase totally fucks the git history.
Have you read that study? It's over-extrapolating from shit data with a overly fancy mathematical model. I don't fault the authors for trying, it is an interesting attempt, but I weight their results substantially less heavily when forming my world view.

Not to mention which, some estimates of asymptomatic case rate go up to 50% (others substantially less so, it probably depends both on age range and what you define as asymptomatic)

By the way, direct link to the study is https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020....
Can't wait for Elon Musk's Starlink constellation over all of China.
Next will be stealth missions to drone in Starlink internet boxes "transceivers" to as many citizens as possible.

Will getting caught with one result in the death penalty ?
Only one appears to allow for E2E without the help of a third party. If person A and person B are technically capable and want to run their own servers and use their own clients, without involving a third party, then Matrix appears to allow for that. With Signal E2E is only available if persons A and B involved Signal in the process, including using Signal's software. Matrix appears to be just a protocol. Theoretically, there is no need for users to involve the Matrix organisation in their E2E communications.

Signal: - cannot run own server - writing clients discouraged; centralised control preferred

Matrix: + can run own server + writing clients encouraged

Ideally, what persons A and B might want is a protocol that allows for peer-to-peer connections without passing traffic through the third party. The server might be merely a point of rendezvous to enable one person to discover the network address of the other. For example, person A contacts person B's rendezvous server for person B's address, port, etc. Then person A makes direct connection to person B. Once that peer-to-peer connection is established there is no more need for the server. No traffic passes through it. It could even be shut down.
I think it's partially cultural as well, though. Americans are all about their individual freedom and "rights", even when it puts others at risk. It's a joke, and really, at times, this country seems like one big death cult.
Why? PGP works. (That alone puts it above its supposed alternatives.) It has existed for 30 yrs. That's 30 years of being exploited and patched.

PGP (GnuPG at least) is lightweight. I don't need an Electron dependency or a multi-megabyte chat room in the same application (address space too?) that supposedly keeps my private keys safe.

PGP is spoken by everyone, every programming language, having implementations on even ancient operating systems and architectures. Every email client worth its salt can use PGP. Emacs can decrypt and encrypt GnuPG-encrypted files seamlessly; other editors have plugins to do the same.
> The problem is health care is nothing close to a free market.

It's not a problem, it's a feature.

In free market health care, those who can't afford care, die.

We as a society have agreed that's not acceptable and hence the regulations, EMTALA being one
This makes me wonder if it has to do with the OS/driver configuration.

I've always run the trackpoints as PS/2 mice in Linux which is basically the legacy compatibility mode, and I don't use the touchpad. So I'm not running the Synaptics driver at all, and I do remember when I tried using the Synaptics driver on the X250 @ my previous employer it was very frustrating until I got rid of that and got things back in old-fashioned PS/2 mouse emulation mode. I wasn't having problems with drift, it was more click behavior and acceleration curves being very wonky.

But maybe if you're driving things at the Synaptics driver level there's a tighter integration and the OS/driver plays a bigger part in recentering the trackpoint. I'm just speculating here.

They've all been bulletproof used as PS/2 mice.
And yet ornithologists understand birds much better than birds understand themselves.
I've heard the argument that if the choice was between your brain and your phone, your phone more likely to give up juicy secrets and accurate information.
I volunteered for the Red Cross for about 3 years in the 1990s and probably heard this two dozen times from from random people when they saw the logo.
The error bars on solving a math problem (or writing a program, or anything else) are not infinite unless you make the mistake of stretching them to the point of encompassing absolute certainty that a solution is found.

Almost no software development task is like proving or disproving P=NP: often, they are like homework problems. And, like uninspired homework problems, it is often a matter of grinding through a process with all due attention to the details.
do these exist yet?

My understanding is those are still in development and haven't yet been pushed to the world.
The New Irrelevance of Intelligence [pdf]
I was in your shoes about 2 weeks ago. I also learned vi first and have been using it regularly for a couple of years now but was curious about emacs. At home, I installed spacemacs which uses vi keybindings. For work due to some security stuff I went with vanilla emacs, with evil mode installed (evil also adds vi keybindings).

I spent 2 evenings picking it up and getting my dot files in order. I primarily wanted to use org mode and only use it for that at the moment, I’m still using vi for coding because of a vimrc that lets me navigate the code base at work really easily but org mode has made task tracking a joy and also it auto-prepares my agenda based on my org file. All in all, I’d say it’s a worth a shot and you also get to keep vi keybindings, which is nice.
I’ve found tide-mode + rjsx-mode was mostly sufficient to bring me back to emacs after a short time with vscode
Its a euphemism for spying then.
The economy CAN function when people are dying left and right. It functions every year, with a huge percentage of the population suffering this sort of personal tragedy.

Of course, activity will decline even in the absence of a lockdown, but far less than if nearly the entire population is forced to shelter-at-home for an indeterminant length of time (all the while failing to build herd immunity).
I'd been to the Neiman Marcus in SF maybe.... once a year when in lived in SF. And a few times in Newport Beach over the last 20 years. I've never seen more than a few people per floor.

It's not surprising to me they are going under. I don't know who their market was. It was all very high end. But, seeing almost no one in those giant stores always seemed like the end was near.
Also, if you're a Prime Minister going for a swim...
We went through this. When 2008 hit the company stopped providing free sodas and bottled water for our office of only about 30 people. I was damn close to just buying them myself but it was crazy how upset a few people making moderately insane amounts of money would get over not getting a $1/day benefit.
On the basis that there is no automatic censorship of user content shown to me via iMessage. I am highly certain that my friends can send me arbitrary (within technical reason) text and images and not get censored. This is not the case with WeChat in China right now.

Given societal norms I think there is a strong expectation that my iMessages will not be censored in the near future either.

This means there is little incentive for NSA to train and develop an actionable automatic censorship application.

Again, this is true even if they intercept, decode, analyze, commit physical action on the basis of the analysis, and store every one of my messages.
Oh nice. Ghost Fleet looks like the 2015 version of Red Storm Rising.
Could have tried in India...
Is this a straw man or did you really not understand what I wrote?

Nobody want this shit. There is no place to transport it. None. We have to sit on it for millennia. Transport is not the issue here.

@your edit: >You explicitly brought up ease of transport.

I also put something in there. This word in the brackets. You might have googled it up where you'd come upon pictures like that: https://media1.faz.net/ppmedia/aktuell/1203828188/1.3595409/...

Instead, you chose to ignore the complete rest of the comment and all the comments I wrote before and only wrote a completely irrelevant answer to something you did not understand. Congratulations for this derailment.

EOD.
It may be irrational, but I have a visceral hatred for people who make something free online and then take it down after they find a way to charge for it, especially if the community they were posting it on collaborated with editing, feedback, and suggestions.
been buying nothing but Thinkpads for years now, after a very positive experience with the X220 in the first place. My last thinkpad is a X1 carbon, and while it's a trade-off (thinner, less ports, no upgrade possible for RAM), the build is really solid (the keyboard is almost just as good as any other thinkpad's), and the case is a mix of metal and carbon fiber and feels extremely nice all around. It's also trivial to change the battery by yourself, this thing opens up for servicing with just a few screws. Really happy with my purchase.

I only run Linux on it, and I have never had any issue with hardware support (except fingerprint sensor which I do not use anyway). Note that I have heard that Linux support on X1 Carbon Gen7 is somewhat poor (the only one so far with such issues).
A single logical qubit is composed of multiple physical qubits in order to achieve some level of error correction and fault tolerance. Scaling the number of qubits is one of the hard problems with true quantum computers.
> meaning it's absolutely impossible to communicate with Chinese people from the outside world, aside from a very small number of carefully vetted services like WeChat.

I've never heard it phrased this way before, dangerous indeed.
And, since batteries have volume, more space. People buy SUVs despite the size because you get extra space. A battery Ads weight and reduces space.
Here’s the relevant lines of my config. https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs...

I thought it was a bit laggy at first, but when I went back to VSCode, I noticed that all the issues I thought were emacs problems were present in vscode as well.
> our models are each wrong in some way

Yes.

> Paradigm shifts happen when a new model (theory, paradigm, etc) that is "less wrong" conquers an older incompatible model that is "more wrong".

If you had left out the word "incompatible", I would have agreed with this as a description of what happens as science progresses,
though I would still not like the term "paradigm shift" as a term for it.

But you included "incompatible", and that makes a huge difference. By your definition, for example, no paradigm shift has happened in physics since Newtonian physics replaced Aristotelian physics, because "incompatible" requires that the old model not be usable as an approximation or special case of the new model. I realize you don't mean "incompatible" to mean that, since you say:

> Of course I consider Newtonian Dynamics to be incompatible with GR

And I disagree with that, for the reason I gave above (and have stated several times elsewhere in this discussion). The reason I consider that factor so important is the same reason Weinberg, in his review of Kuhn's book, took Kuhn to task for ignoring it: that ignoring it means ignoring how progress is made in science: by coming up with new models that still take advantage of all the true things we learned from the old model. As Weinberg says, if you have one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's Equations on it, you may have to worry about it going out of style, but not about its becoming false. But Maxwell's Equations are "wrong" and "incompatible" by your definition, since they're classical, not quantum, and classical electrodynamics is now replaced by quantum electrodynamics.

So your definition basically agrees with Kuhn that no progress is ever made in science; all we can do is lurch from one paradigm to another, each incompatible with the last and throwing away all the knowledge we gained from the last. And in the transition from Aristotelian physics to Newtonian physics, that is what happened. Whatever true things Aristotelian physics had taught people, nobody has been taught since we got rid of it. The same is not true of Newtonian physics. And it will not be true of GR, QFT, or the Standard Model in some future time when we have found a new fundamental theory to which those are all approximations.
Any which language do you use for web apps if I may ask? Let me guess. Rust.
Your statistics don't support your position, that people's natural reaction to the virus would reduce economic productivity as much as the lockdown does.
I once ordered a braille copy of a book, thinking I'd keep it on the shelf and maybe dip into it now and then, and pick up some braille. The non-braille copy of the book, which I already owned, was pretty small, not even an inch thick.

What arrived was a box half as tall as me, lugged up my driveway by a delivery driver for whom I feel bad to this day. Inside the box were 8 huge, oversized binders containing the text of the book.

My wife gave me a very serious look and said, "we don't have room for this in our house." Yeah. That was quite an experience.
Force-Directed Graph Layout Optimization for Multiple Edges Between Two Nodes