skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, do we expect the rise of medical tourism options to put downward pressure on pricing for medical procedures in the US?
If you divide the CEO compensation increase by the number of employees in the company you'll see that it itself is not particularly relevant in employee wages.

For example Tim Cook earns 133M/yr which is $976 per employee. ... and this probably massively overstates the figure due to contractors.

Or Sundar Pichai with $86M/yr which is $676 per employee (again... not counting contractors).

Obviously it's more if you include more executives, but the number of top executive companies is basically a constant and at large companies it still ends up being not very large per employee.

This isn't to say that it isn't a concern but I don't see how to justify the belief that the executive compensation at large companies is a major factor in the overall wage market.
There are plenty of KGB troll accounts commenting on this story. They are now most active as they have to do their job of discrediting the story and direct the narrative towards doubt: eg false flag, etc

But the evidence is staggering and it obviously doesn’t work
People need to stop downvoting every single comment on here. This is a good faith argument, regardless of your feelings of fb/apple
> Under its provisions, social media services will not be allowed to remove content or block accounts if the content on them does not break Polish law.

> If a special court rules in favour of the plaintiff and the internet service does not obey the ruling it can subject to a fine of up to PLN 8 million (EUR 1.8 million) imposed by the Office of Electronic Communications.

This is an incredibly progressive move by Poland! Such simple, but powerful, legislation. The United States currently has FOSINO (freedom of speech in name only), but a law like this would actually make freedom of speech meaningful, in a land where online censorship is rampant.
This is great. I have always wanted to build this for myself ever since i read Bret Victor. Good work
It's hard to see how anyone could extol the virtues of a "free market system" where behavior like this exists. It is pervasive in American health care. Just search for "orphan drugs" if you are insufficiently outraged. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/18/this-...
Facebook is a vampire cultivating and feeding off of our most extreme emotions. If Apple is selling garlic, I am buying.
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Indeed. It's very different. Thanks for the clarification.
It was taught in mine. Lots of focus on stuff like gender issues, discrimination, and academic dishonesty (don't cheat or plagiarize, etc). The guy who held the ethic course also held the course in abstract computer science. He most definitely would've been displeased had his students used what he taught them to write malware targeting journalists!
When I joined LinkedIn 4 years ago, the JavaScript infrastructure was a mess. We had a tool called `just` that integrated with the existing Java infrastructure, including Node version and dependency management, but it was a bit of a hack that predictably became a core part of the foundation.

Worse, onboarding took longer than it needed to, because every new hire had to learn the alternate "just" universe. I can't begin to count how much time was wasted because people subconsciously fell back to the "normal" npm or Yarn commands they were used to, mysteriously putting their project into a bad state, costing them and support engineers valuable time.

We've been able to replace that legacy infrastructure with Volta and Yarn, and working on JavaScript projects finally feels like a first class citizen.

What I appreciate about Volta is two things:

1. It treats the _entire_ toolchain (including npm or Yarn) as important, not just the Node version.

2. It's fast. Like, really fast. Tools like nvm never previously felt slow to me, but now that I've used Volta for the better part of a year, going back feels like they're running in molasses.
Out of curiosity, what's the name of your condition?

I have a friend where this could apply.
Pedantic: It is a strawman. A strawman is when you take your opponent's argument and instead recast it as a much weaker version so it's easy to tear down.

In this case the actual argument I've heard made is "Experts on TV (in addition to, I might add, Bill Barr, the current US Attorney General) are saying that the hack was from the Russians because investigation insiders said it had hallmarks of known Russian hacking groups" which is being recast as the much weaker argument, which I've never heard any serious expert actually make, of "Experts on TV are saying that the hack was from the Russians just because it's such a complicated hack".
I find this idea interesting, but I'm extremely skeptical. If we are thinking about this as being a startup, how can we outsource the cost of building the hospital to the doctors and nurses? That way you might be able to build a billion dollar business by tricking people into owning all the downsides while you own all of the profits?

I'm just joking of course... the idea that the market can optimise every problem is simply incorrect. There isn't a move fast and break things for doing startup hospitals, it's simply a problem that central planning can organise effectively. Unfortunately, the American allergy to government means your healthcare system costs twice as much per capita for the same outcomes.
This is a common enough situation that there are companies that will loan you the money to help pay for options and deal with tax liability, using the shares as collateral. I haven’t used one myself and am not a lawyer or financial advisor. One for instance:

https://www.esofund.com/blog/exercise-loan
Why do you think tptacek's thinking "makes the false claim that the mathematical rigor is unnecessary in cryptology"? It doesn't seem to me like either the article or the comment talk about mathematical rigor.
We still need up-front transparency on what codes will be billed to whom, from whom, and for how much. I want a comprehensible restaurant-like menu. And we need to break up regional monopolies so that there's actually a choice of provider. Further, agreements to pay whatever, whenever, before any diagnosis need to be banned as contracts under duress.

If we want the free market approach to work, we need to make it possible, easy even, to make informed decisions among competitors.

But fixing this is increasingly feeling intractable, and this pushes me further and further towards believing a single-payer (maybe not exactly, but that's the buzzword) system is the better fix.
Blog post from 2014: https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

That's more of an admonishment, but at least they recognized the problem ...
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> At best, that's a rules engine. Nothing fuzzy.

It is a rule engine, with fuzzy rules.

The advantage is that it's easy to express vague rules in a clear way: "if the rice is too hot, stop the heater", vs "if sensor a > 0.44 and sensor b < 3.19 and sensor c >= 0.33 ...".

It disentangles the rules operating on linguistic variables from the functions which express those values.
True, but I would imagine that a lot more time has been invested in LuaJIT, since this is just the first release of the Ruby JIT. Plus isn't Lua better suited for optimization, from the get-go?
Oh for sure. A modern story like this is The Boys where Butcher pursues his vision of justice to no end. To a man who seeks to right a deep wrong this seems prudent within the context of a fantasmal story about the plight of super heroes into super villains. I've debated with a number of people whether Butcher is an anti-hero and I've found most people don't think so. The jurisprudence of his actions largely boiled down to, "He was trying to do the right thing, right? Sometimes you must disregard the system to attain real justice. That doesn't bother me as much as it bothers you." My takeaway was that we no longer fear the King Henry archetype, whereby an individual dawns the mask of judge, jury, and executioner. As long as justice is perceivably served then the means may not be laudable but they are passable. I don't know if this translates into how people view the real world and interpret real life events, but if it does then it's quite curious.
I agree, that expectation is absolutely the problem. A liberal arts education is not and has never been intended to be a job-training program.

The trope that kids should "go to college so they can get a job" has elements of truth but is wildly misleading when most interpret it to be a causal relationship. I don't blame post-secondary academics for this -- this is mostly a cultural problem. The last couple generations have been raised with a cultural expectation that 'success' equals 'college-bound', and secondary school advisors are not willing to rock the boat by suggesting anything otherwise.
This is the scary bit - the truth is irrelevant because nobody has any means of holding the perpetrators to account.
I think that hints to how these pay bands come to be within a company though, it's not a transparent and liquid market with a bid/ask spread and a clearing price. In practice the company decides a band that they think gets people in the door. HR gets involved, and management settles for a 0-2% inflationary increase YoY rather than the marginal rate.

If you combine this with one employer bordering on a monopsony for buying a particular category of labor - then pay won't move in proportion to productivity.
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IMO, this is confusing completely different things. This is a list of projects to try if you want to learn more advanced programming. They're all handy if you're an entry-level developer looking to improve your skills, or want to really dig into a new language with something more involved than Hello World, or are just bored. Nobody ever said they had any connection to profitable business ideas.
I think that's how Krita (a painting app) pays the bills. The code is GPL, and most Linux distros package it for free. But on the windows store, they have a for pay version for some relatively low price (€25 or such). It's not a billion dollar business like Photoshop, but apparently it pays the salary for a few full time employees.
You should check out SecFi - they helped me out of a similar snag (non-recourse loan).
You should compare the actual effective taxation rates. For example, high earners in Norway get taxed about ~8% higher than comparable earners in California but that comes with affordable healthcare, education, and government-backed pensions that people can actually survive on.
AmigaOS was Canadian. We all know that's like halfway to being british. :)

Rox is a great theatrical production but I want to encourage people to spend some time with RiscOS ... it becomes less and less normal the more time you spend with it. You can do shell scripting with BBC Basic for instance and the coding styles honestly look closer to some elaborate preprocessor language than Basic.

RiscOS is essentially what I think would happen if you took a bunch of programmers and threw them on an island in 1985, told them to write an operating system and that you'd be back in a few years.

Meanwhile, an occasional soiled computer book would wash on the shore like tanenbaum's operating system book with 80% of the pages missing and the programmers pieced together incomplete passages based on conjecture and consensus like a bunch of biblical scholars with a torn ancient codex.

I read a comment on a forum where someone said programming in it reminded them of GEM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)) but I haven't spent any significant time programming applications on either system so I can't really confirm.
Are you referring to a Light Field Camera?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera

If so, Lytro made a camera based on that tech.
Has anyone got one lying around?

(It draws a mere 100kW at the wall, I'm guessing no)
Just as a heads up in case you or anyone else reading this is in this position. For the uninsured, if your treatment is directly related to Covid-19, you would be covered under the Covid-19 HRSA program described here. https://www.hrsa.gov/CovidUninsuredClaim
To be clear, I wasn’t defending or promoting facebook. I agree they’re harmful. Just explaining the logic of not treating speech critical of white men the same as hate speech, because I didn’t find the prior explanation adequate.
> Fuzzy Logic is mostly a marketing term

And it's a terrible marketing term. If it had been called "continuum logic" instead, there'd probably be much less disdain.
That's awesome! Really cool to see another knowledgeable fan of Muay Thai on this forum!
there seem to be alternatives for e.g. non emergency surgeries. this organization has prices listed which include follow ups, anesthesiologist, etc.

https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/

they also seem to have a lower risk of infection compared to the national average:

https://surgerycenterok.com/faqs/

i'm not sure what could account for that. i was thinking that maybe because they are incentivized to provide the procedure at the baked in rate that there's a strong incentive to get patients out of surgery successfully as best as possible (to free up another bed, etc), but i'm not sure what their demand is like.

a more macabre hypothesis is that hospitals don't care much about patients who end up in their own ICU as it's just additional billable coverage, so the precautions aren't as strict.
The magnesium alloy ThinkPads and some Dells use is far more durable than aluminium because it's harder so doesn't bend on impact. It's also less likely to scratch. I've seen countless scratched Macbooks over the years.

Plus unibody designs mean the whole laptop body needs to be replaced if there is damage instead of just replacing a single panel. High end Dell laptops are almost modular in comparison.
Why can't a hospital tell me how much an xray costs then? If I come in with a broken arm, why can't they tell me how much it will cost to get it xrayed yet the dentist can do the exact same thing with a broken tooth?
> we think is trying to take the world back 10 or 20 years

That's like someone from the oil industry claiming using renewables is like going back to the 19th century.

Privacy is (hopefully) the future, not the past.
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To a very old and entry level camera.
How does Threema differentiate itself from open protocols like Matrix or XMPP? Why might someone choose Threema instead of Matrix or XMPP?
I feel most comments here fail to separate hospitals and insurance. And that could be separated even more (pharmaceuticals, for example as a separate category).
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Would be more useful to map based on reported muggings and pedestrian-car collisions, since that’s what you’re actually trying to avoid and we have really good data for them. But previous attempts to build similar apps have been shut down as “racist.”
Would you be open to doing an interview? If yes, how do I reach out?
All of Craig's reasoning over the Skripal case were pretty well documented in his blogs. I'd definitely be interested in what parts required mental gymnastics.
I just checked Metacritic. The reviews seem great on some platforms.

Skimming the bad reviews for last gen consoles. Some complaints aren’t about issues relating to weaker machines. It seems like there’s some group think or hive mind stuff going on.
But I really wish people understood how difficult it is to get to "nothing happened." Pilots put in hundreds of hours, and the plane landed, so "nothing happened." The 20 hour surgery went well and the person survived, so "nothing happened." Etc. etc.
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Optimists here would claim that this is slightly less of a joke than the status quo.
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I read a few tweets where people describe what they’re going to be playing around with in terms of new tech over the holidays. Figured I’d ask HN.

P.S.: It is also completely fine if you don’t plan to do any projects over your holiday break.
Humans will still be needed for agriculture production, but if enough people aren’t fed yet we’re able to produce enough food, you use taxes and benefits (EBT, SNAP, higher minimum wages) to fix the allocation issue.

This isn’t rocket science.
As a heavy apple critic, who refuses to buy an iPhone. Facebook is 100% in the wrong here. Apple is not blocking jack shit. Apple is just forcing Facebook to ask permission before exploiting their users. This will be harder on android because google is gonna want to make an exception for themselves. But that won't exactly stand up in court.

This entire debacle is making me lean towards switching to an iPhone just for this feature alone.

Having said that, I currently use system-wide adblockers on my android so even if facebook was to try, they couldn't get this info (granted, I don't have fb installed).

Edit: as far as I understand it:

- you must ask for permission before gathering/serving personalized data/ads

- you must NOT disable any features of the app if the uses says no (similar to the tracking cookie stuff in EU)

- you can still display generalized ads that are not personalized.

(I am replying to a comment because I want to add on to it, not because I am debating against it)
I'm not sure if it is. That effect requires the majority to make no distinction (wrt desirability) between halal/kosher and regular.

I don't think people are as indifferent to "being the product", or are becoming less so.
This seems like a fun, slightly expensive craft project but not a serious bicycle. Or maybe the problem is that it's a little _too_ serious of a bicycle.

$400 for just some tubes, glue, and dropouts, plus another $800-$2500 for the other parts needed to turn the frame into an actual bicycle, plus however much you value several days of labor, and then from their FAQ...

> How long will a bamboo bike frame last? It’s difficult to say. If you care for your bike as you would for a musical instrument...

Care for your bike like a musical instrument?! They can't be serious. That instrument had better be a steel triangle.

> Are Bamboo Bicycles strong enough? Absolutely! Over the hundreds of bamboo bikes built, they have travelled thousands of miles

Is that 10 miles each? That's not very reassuring.

> If you crash, won’t you get splinters? Likely, yes

Oh fun.
The BLS stats might be a good place to test those estimates:

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151251.htm#st

Again, note that I’m not saying you can’t make a good living elsewhere - having spent the first 15 years of my career doing that, it’d be odd - but that it’s not a simple ticket to being rich or even especially upper middle class. The pay scales definitely drag down, there are fewer jobs (and thus promotion opportunities), and they’re concentrated in the higher cost areas of low cost states.

Still solid, no question, but not a gold ticket. Note that many of the things the person I originally responded to are expenses which don’t scale down: if you live in a rural area your house is cheap but the two cars your family needs cost the same, computers and other consumer goods are only slightly less, etc. Those private schools are cheaper but not dramatically so, etc.
This was a serious discussion my wife and I had when we were deciding to have a kid. The maximum out of pocket for both of us could easily wipe out my savings.

It felt really fucked up to have this discussion in what is supposed to be a first-world country. Like we were talking about alternatives like hiring a midwife or a doula because it would be cheaper. I don't even think that would be a discussion in most second-world countries.

The whole system is outrageous.
If the company went through bankruptcy after he purchased the shares and was subsequently re-capitalized and then became successful, his shares would have been canceled in the recapitalization. Likely by dilution to minutia.

Regardless of the method, the company would be required to inform all shareholders of such events. I'd be curious to know how the corporate books were managed at the time he purchased the shares.
Ha, I was just like you, just recently starting to look away from GMail, though mostly because of all the incessant and obtrusive ads.

I am using protonmail now, which has the option for a bunch of aliases that I really like, the web interface works fine though it's missing bells and whistles - I do miss the smart grouping of GMail! - and you get to use custom domains. It also provides encryption and you can even get VPN to go with it. Here's all the options you get per tier: https://protonmail.com/pricing

Still an early user, but so far quite happy with it!
It doesn't hurt them by taking money out of their bank. That's what I'm saying, anything that harms the public in an indirect way, is unlikely to provoke a reaction.
That pic is 100% gorgeous and the sort of thing that got me tinkering with Linux desktops in the first place.

Still, there's only so long I want to wrestle for..
Only 6$ an hour where I live, not bad.
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you can still go with jruby and have best of both worlds.
How exactly is this like GoDocs? I don't see any information about types, functions, or similar. Seems like yet another agglomerator site with very basic details
Computer History Museum had one when I stopped by about 10 years ago. Not certain if operational as anything other than a cozy bench. Anyone know?
Until you write a procedure that walks a structure using cons/car recursion, ha. :)
This is true really only because it was impossible to have one at the time given the communications infrastructure. It was still the worst human rights situation they could possibly create. The peasantry weren't living their lives in freedom, they were human trafficking victims (or as they were known at the time, 'serfs').
> then literally any action is permissible

What's permissible now is whatever doesn't harm or constrain upper classes.

We've decided that essential workers should work and the higher classes should be sheltered and they can dispatch the expendables to sustain themselves.

Your moral analysis is pretty much in support of whatever the Pajama Class decides is right.
Public services in India, especially ones interacting with people en masse are terrible. No recourse but to go to private hospitals.
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