skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you simply did not read the pricing page, that explicitly says that it's going to bill you that, and that you do whatever you want with it. And /or have never used a VPS service before . You are quite literally renting space and CPU time on their servers, that they are keeping (mostly) free and reserved for you.

You don't complain that you were charged $200 for renting a parking space and never using it, no reason for this to be different for servers.
Or you could do what literately every other country in the world does, and have price controls.
Quoting the wiki article for penile bone:

> The baculum (also penis bone, penile bone, or os penis, os genitale or os priapi) is a bone found in the penis of many placental mammals. It is absent in the human penis, but present in the penises of other primates, such as the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Note that the glibc release mentioned there (2.32) has been released only two months ago (https://lwn.net/Articles/828210/), and its release notes don't mention time_t now being 64 bits. The glibc manual page linked to by that answer (https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/64_002dbi...) says "at this point, 64-bit time support in dual-time configurations is work-in-progress, so for these configurations, the public API only makes the 32-bit time support available", which probably means in practice that 64-bit time_t is still not available for common 32-bit configurations (unless you want to lose binary compatibility with all existing software). I haven't been following this Y2038 work, but it's probably been postponed for a later glibc release (perhaps even the next one).
Perhaps it's worth educating yourself on possible reasons. r/politics and HN are not the best places to do that, to put it mildly.
While the numbers are from a decade or two ago: yes, I'm pretty sure the top 10% in the US pay more taxes than the average person in Germany. But that's really not a large factor for most people because they're by definition not in the top percentage of the country.
bingo, the kick backs work in a similar feedback loop. My insurance only covers long term rx from CVS. If I go somewhere else, they stop covering it after about 3 fills.

CVS is more expensive then my warehouse club price.
Sure but I think we do ourselves a disservice when we step back from the actual issue and start talking philosophically. We need to focus on the specifics of what is being asked of us and what that is preventing. Otherwise we'll never agree on anything.

Mask use is an individual issue in that it protects other individuals around you. Your right to throw punches stops at my nose. Suppose that we did nothing and let it spread. There would inevitably be a whole lot of people going around spreading it to people who don't want to be infected. This would be the case regardless of how individuals chose to self-isolate. People would go to the grocery store sick and breathe on everyone else there. This is the normal MO when in Flu season.

So it is an individual issue in the sense that as an individual I need to be able to buy food safely, and your choice to spread this unimpeded would infringe on that fundamental right.

And at the end of the day we're weighing the inconvenience of wearing a mask and staying home when sick for a few months versus the inconvenience of wheeling an oxygen bottle around with you for the rest of your life. If you have a cogent argument for why I should be stricken to save you the inconvenience then I'll listen.
I showed this once to a non-techie friend, and they were excited to use it. My little demo covered the difference between F and Shift+F to show how it is case sensitive, and I navigated through multiple pages without using a mouse. I assured them that they don't need to learn all of its commands, and they can open a cheat sheet on any page just by typing a question mark.

This non-disruptive introduction into Vimium made me think about my old Firefox setup. Back in the XUL days, I was hoarding dozens of add-ons that altered the Firefox UI to the extent that others could not use my browser anymore. They would click on a link and wonder why it is not working while my browser would amass many new tabs at a customized, designated place. The browser worked as I intended, but the extent of my customizations made it unusable for regular Firefox users.

Therefore I think that these new, more limited extension APIs offer an overall better experience for end-users. Maintaining usability for "regular users" should be the upper bound for the amount of customization an extension API provides. If it goes beyond that, it seems to get out of control.
England did get conquered by people of Viking descent much later: the Normans.
You can have ads, you just don’t get to violate user privacy.

AdWords became big without invasive profiling, it was once google bought double click that they went all in on destroying any hope for privacy on the internet.
Running javascript provided by a site that's not from an authenticated source is... a pretty significant risk to certain people.

To the author: please turn on TLS for your site. It's free.
"We Don't Hire Blacks"
Seems like a form of thought policing which didn't apply to yourself. Hyperbole that I trashed his career and "not a good look" also appears like an off topic attack.
Just because you CAN connect something to the internet doesn't mean that you SHOULD
Why not also predict the error of the error prediction, and correct for that too? /s
I'm being a bit tongue in cheek , you can get round trip flights to London for 400$ or so.

No one should die due to an inability to pay. Even if you have a great job , you can still lose it
Those compliance costs are in the best interest of large pharmaceutical companies, they lobby for it. If these regulations did not exist, small companies would be destroying the disproportionate profits to be made from generic drugs.

I wouldn't otherwise argue for price controls, but if you give these companies the gift of keeping competition from the bottom out, you need to account for that, because competition is the only thing keeping a lid on prices in a free market.
This process has nothing to do with sintering - it's a new material for FDM that supports electroless nickel plating.

The hypothetical medical application is probably to seal a surface and/or apply functional coatings, eg various antimicrobial structures.
I've been writing a picolisp-like lisp interpreter[1] and I have really noticed this too. I added a length built-in just because recursion wasn't working properly, but if I had continued without the important functionality for too long, I would have needed to implement many more functions (and the lisp still would be missing important things).

[1]: https://github.com/ErmineII/mapL
It's called medical tourism. If you don't have (and in some cases even if you have insurance) you can any necessary surgery done in Singapore:

https://www.health-tourism.com/medical-tourism-singapore/
They have worked under Gnome wayland for while. I don't know about KDE though.
Countdown 2020
There's a huge hidden cost to price controls through - they don't promote innovation as much as markets do. The US develops over half the world's new pharmaceuticals, if we imposed price controls today, we would have fewer life saving medications tomorrow because the companies couldn't afford to do as much R&D.
This is highly relevant to HN users.
The causation does exist but in a different direction (see the GP's post about storks and chimneys).
I love this form of theology. Maybe the rib spawned the woman, similarly to how a woman gives birth to a child, without perishing herself.
While the headline certainly is having a device like this needing to be ground open the other privacy concerns are quite possibly worse.

Being able to track both the name of who bought it and the location of someone using a device like this has got to be a near classic example of private information that hurts no one but could severely damage a person if it got out.
previously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Pirat...
I love the idea of Vim shortcuts in the browser, but I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the permissions these extensions require. I get why it's necessary for them to work, but giving access to all history/tabs/browser data feels a bit intense.
Why does ChromeOS have all of the stuff that this project claims to be developing? Are they using proprietary touchpad drivers?
I was always told we pay high prices to support research, which has been proven to be BS time and time again. The drug companies spend way more on marketing.

The capitalist market driven research only creates expensive drugs that treat wealthy people. India is coming up with a cheap paper based covid test, using governemnt backed research. Other countries are leaving us in the dust on results and research.
This is amazing. The uncanny valley is almost entirely gone; the people actually seem real.
Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change by Neil Postman [pdf]
There is, as the statisticians would say, a confounding variable: we all lived through the 2016 election.
And very legal.
Looks ok for me (Firefox 81 on Linux): https://i.imgur.com/7Pxmwyn.png
Drilling down, there's a PDF: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA788-1.html

Looks like for human insulin Germany is 1/12th the cost.

There's a lot of pricing theater going on in the US too. The MSRP seems to be a game of psychological anchoring the manufactures are playing with the insurance companies, who always get a discount. But that is a whole other kettle of fish.

"First, the manufacturer prices available in the MIDAS data do not reflect rebates or other discounts that might have been applied after drugs left the factory; we expect that, in many countries (and particularly in the United States), the net price paid for drugs was lower than the reported manufacturer prices shown in our results tables."
In India it is a big industry 'medical tourism'. You'll get a 5-star hospital with a trip to Taj Mahal bundled for free.
This seems on par or worse than what the Sacklers did.

But because this is a multiheaded beast with no clear villain to blame, nothing really happens. Congress are to blame.
Render runs on multiple VM providers (including GCP and AWS), and soon on bare metal. More info on geographies here: https://render.com/docs/regions
Opportunity lost or not, we're sticking with it, including preparing for a new release in the next few days (see our testing pre-release at https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/releases/tag/v2020.1...).
This is from Sept. 20th:
"Even though insulin is not included among the drugs covered by the rule, the Trump administration Thursday issued a request for proposals seeking plans from private companies on how insulin could be safely brought in from other countries and made available to consumers at a lower cost than products here."
This is in regards to a law that allows states to import drugs from Canada at lower prices than they are sold here. So it looks like the administration is working on it.
see also: Friedman's 1999 paper - "Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine" https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aos/10132034...
Can you describe how selfishness comes into play? I want everyone to be able to purchase at the lowest price and don't want them to be limited to buying only from the US.
My 11 year old had little interest in World War II until he saw the series “World War II in Color” on Netflix. He’s watched every episode and now reads books on the subject.

https://www.netflix.com/title/70254851
I've tried Tridactyl, Vimium, Saka Keys, Vimium C, and Vim Vixen. Of these, I found Vimium C to work the best and have the least overhead. Tridactyl added a consistent overhead of around 100 milliseconds when loading page, while Vimium and Vimum C added only about 20 ms of overhead.

In terms of features, I think Tridactyl is the most feature complete, but I found Vimium C to be more enjoyable to use. For example, Vimium C seems to produce better hints (e.g. fewer cases of hints for something you can't click on), when compared to Tridactyl. I also prefer Vimium C's "Vomnibar" over the Tridactyl interface, especially with a bit of tweaking to the theme.
This, I remember my grandfather learned to repair watches this way
Netlify Edge Handlers: Simplify A/B testing and localized content
To put this in perspective: I am from Slovakia (Europe). I am type 1 diabetic. NovoRapid (10 x 3ml) costs 73€. My insurance (which is required in Slovakia and costs me about 70€/month) covers 64€. That means I pay only 9€. I usually get one package every three months. That means insulin costs me 3€ per month. Average salary in Slovakia is currently 13100€/year.
The Frost Tapes: 1. The Next President
> In addition, water is infiltrating the single-shell tanks.

> A DOE study finished in January 2019 found that 24 single-shell tanks were being infiltrated with 12 to 1,000 gallons each annually, the IG audit report said.

> The water makes it difficult to determine if the level of waste in the tanks is dropping, which could indicate more active leaks.

I can see why old, giant tanks of waste might have trouble keeping stuff from leaking out. But why is it hard to keep water from getting in?
> stuff like this

Do tell!
There's a guideline on this site to assume that the poster is acting in good faith and not to take the worst interpretation of what someone is saying.

They almost certainly meant there is no difference rather than it being the true opposite.
Another great study: "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials" BMJ 2003; 327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1459

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Abstract

Objectives To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge.

Design Systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

Data sources: Medline, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases; appropriate internet sites and citation lists.

Study selection: Studies showing the effects of using a parachute during free fall.

Main outcome measure Death or major trauma, defined as an injury severity score > 15.

Results We were unable to identify any randomised controlled trials of parachute intervention.

Conclusions As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.
> many people, apparently, believe that things which have a 20% chance of happening will never happen and those with an 80% chance will always happen

It could be the counter-intuitive nature of probability, but I wonder if it might sometimes just be that, psychologically, people have trouble accepting the idea that nobody really knows.

You look at a site like FiveThirtyEight, you know the site is run by an expert, and you know that multiple sources of data have been fed into number-crunching computers. You've seen other situations where this type of process nails it. You have a strong desire to know the answer, and that biases you toward believing that you do. The idea that something so important is unknown is unpleasant, so you reject it.

About the difficult of grasping the basic concept, if you've ever seen the TV show Card Sharks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_Sharks), a key part of the game is that contestants see a card which is face up, and they have to make bets based on whether the next card drawn is higher or lower. In that context, they have no trouble understanding that if the face-up card is a 5, the next card is probably higher (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A) but it could also be lower (2, 3, 4).

Essentially, I think people can understand that unlikely things happen, but where they have difficulty is seeing/admitting that this is one of those situations.
I'll only talk about healthcare here, because this could degenerate into a flamewar otherwise, and I want to avoid that. Also, I'm no expert on politics, economics, or healthcare, so I'm open to any corrections. I'll try to remain as neutral as possible.

People have different thoughts about economic policy with regards to healthcare. Additionally, there are some cultural concerns.

For one, conservatives feel that liberals are too idealistic and don't have a good plan for actually paying for socialized healthcare. This is most commonly used against Bernie Sanders. Liberals argue that "competition drives down cost" is equally, if not more, idealistic.

Second, in places with "socialized" healthcare, health is thought of as society's responsibility, not the individual's responsibility. This conflicts with the American notion of individuality. Conservatives argue that the US's culture makes socialized healthcare infeasible without costs ballooning out of control, because people are selfish and don't care to protect their health. There is plenty of debate on this matter.

I'm guessing that healthcare is not the most important reason that conservatives vote Republican. Although it seems like a huge issue, there are other issues that might make someone choose one side over the other, even if they disagree with their side's healthcare policy.
I still have no idea what this project is trying to do exactly.

I always got decent multitouch on linux (when the touchpad is even recognized, but that's another problem).
I think the term for this is "location transparency" and it tends not to work well in practice. A local function call and a RPC call over a network have very different performance characteristics and failure modes; trying to abstract away the differences can be a bad scene.

A previous journey down this road:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...
Nice article with a high level overview. It puts in words some concepts that have been floating around my mind for a while now.

It has many points, but at least for me it specifically ties in to the current conflict of control around the monetary/payments system. The battle of who has control over the flow of payments. This is partly pro-KYCAML vs anti-KYCAML, but also just a problematic lack of a sane permission system.

Case in point from a US perspective: Recently having been annoyed with Gmail I decided to go to a paid mail provider and settled on ProtonMail. I wanted to avoid paying with my debit card tied to my bank account. I try to avoid this because I hate hate hate auto debiting with the fire of a thousand suns. Not that I have any particular reason to distrust ProtonMail as a company, but I shouldn't have to trust anybody. It's my money and it should never leave my account absent my explicit approval. Imagine if the OS gave RW access to any process that requested it. And then you try to upgrade the filesystem to have even basic permissions, and the OS says "What's the problem bruh, you don't trust me?"

After a few days of researching this in my spare time, one method I tried to purchase from ProtonMail was a brick and mortar purchased Visa gift card. That did not work, I think because they are Europe based. I have had that same problem for instance trying to buy from gog.com in the past. Another method I researched was setting up a crypto wallet (I am a novice here) and purchasing Bitcoin (so a USD -> BC transaction). The Bitcoin payment processors I looked into all required SMS verification, presumably due to KYCAML. Another option which I did not try would be to mine my own Bitcoin. I did not even attempt this because my understanding is that it's no longer cost effective and/or timely on a GPU.

So I finally just gave in and used my debit card. It's annoying and sad but I have other things to do than research for hours every day trying to route around the damage of the legal system I live in. It's disappointing to me that US taxpayers pay their taxes to subsidize this nonsense, and that US legislators and courts continue to entrench this system. I don't see it changing anytime soon though.
Was zero until Hernan de Soto let some of his go, 500 years ago.

Might it have been a major vector of smallpox?
Nightmare fuel.
But how do we know that the root comment had not already succumbed to Poe's Law?
Dumb question, doesn't cooking also kill parasites just as effectively?
Eddie Van Halen Dead at 65
Because while that vibe may be an accurate representation of how things are portrayed on social media, it's not an accurate representation of reality. Without writing an expository essay:

1. Healthcare is actually hard at scale.

2. The incentive structure in the US (read, follow the money) is one which is against the public good.

3. There are many many many landmines of technical debt within the current US system which cannot be papered over or solved easily even if you waved a magic wand and got full buy-in for single payer universal healthcare tomorrow.

It's true in some respect that Republicans have taken a general stance against universal healthcare in American politics, but the idea that Democrats have any meaningful and decent strategy for fixing it is a misnomer. At best, we have some politicians who have said the correct words to convey the right sentiments, but no meaningful plans.

As to why this issue is so much worse in the US than elsewhere, that's its own separate essay, but largely comes down to the structure of healthcare mandated by the government since the 1920s, especially after the formation of Medicare and the passage of Part D combined with first mover disadvantages as much of the rest of the world had the opportunity to radically structure their healthcare infrastructure differently post WW2 while rebuilding inclusive of the cost of rebuilding, while the US did not. In a fit of irony, the US footed the bill and drove economic levers to help cement universal healthcare into much of Europe while failing to implement it at home. Even now, part of the complication is that the outsized pricing of healthcare in the US acts as a partly disconnected subsidy on the cost of healthcare elsewhere in the OECD.

After having worked in this space and seeing how completely and utterly fucked the US healthcare system is internally from a technology/records keeping perspective, to the entire payment processing flow, to the way we track and report healthcare incidences, the entire system is broken badly and needs a total overhaul, but that's a much bigger ask than incremental improvements which don't really move the needle much. The US healthcare system is (literally) a legacy codebase written in an esoteric language held together with fears and sorrows because the hopes and dreams already died. The only feasible way to fix its myriad bugs is a complete rewrite, but doing so will form it's own set of technical debt and bugs.
Disappointing to not see .NET Core support in 2020
Private healthcare system is always expensive for the public.
> For example: try moving the mouse in a small circle (perhaps the size of the "Y" logo above)

Holy shit, you're right! I never noticed! There goes my plan to play old FPS games (like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) on Linux without any major hassle…
This made me laugh, SCNR.
This site isn't compatible with "Go Back With Backspace" [1] extension by Google on Chrome.

Everytime I hit backspace, it will just go back.

I assume it's because it doesn't use standard text area and didn't take consideration there might be a conflict in hotkey.

Here is the code from that extension about how it detects the "editable" elements, if it helps: https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fclients2.googl...

Please fix it if you can, thanks.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/go-back-with-backs...
Some brits travel to France for surgeries :)

An EU Greece is probably best option.
Link to the mentioned framework “Remix”: https://remix.run/
Face masks: what the data say