skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like you willfully misunderstood my argument, as talking about journalists shooting kids is some obvious caricature.

Society is held together by people's values and individual adherence to shared rules - aka culture. Kids, like everyone else (eg cops), are acting out cultural norms, being mostly defined by mass media.

Entertainment media mostly consists of easy-to-write fight scenes where the main characters dispose of some endless supply of nameless "bad guys". A few hits or shots, that one is gone, move on to the next one. No scenes showing henchman #17 hugging his kids goodbye that morning, or henchman #31's parents grieving. Just purely transactional force-of-will violence - sound familiar?

Furthermore, news media then glorifies shooting events when they do happen, showering the perpetrator with attention and making sure they go down in infamy - it's actually a quite precocious way to get one's 15 minutes of fame.

And of course there's that other uncomfortable issue of why school environments cause kids to want to kill their peers in the first place!

But there's no straightforward approaches to those, and they're held in place by entrenched incentives (lazy writing, clickbait advertising, ass-covering school administrators), while the people speaking up for the inanimate objects are easy to write off.
Talking about Threema‘s failure is rather premature... It may not be as big as it could have been, but it seems to have a stable income and a solid product. I‘d say it‘s doing fine as a company.
> If everyone flours the rules, the economic hit will be smaller

Only assuming that there's no economic hit to a rampant pandemic spreading death, hospitalisation and illness. Which is a barking mad assumption. It never was "illness vs economy" you either have both good, or you have neither good. They can't be separated.
That's because most common dental procedures are relatively straightforward and the mechanical processes of the mouth are relatively well understood compared to most of the rest of the body. Plus most dental procedures are elective in the sense that you can usually just have an offending tooth pulled if it gets too bad, so for most people there's a price ceiling that is much lower than say a lifesaving heart procedure.
Have you ever paid for GPL-licensed software?
Tangentially related - does anyone have any experience cooking basmati rice in newer Zojirushi (Micom/IH models)?

I've been looking at getting one and the info varies, even the official one for the same model! I can do it on a stove top, not an issue, just wanted to kill two birds with one stone.

Also, while at it - any opinions on the pressure cooking mode in NP-NWC/NVC models? Looks tempting... but gimmicky at the same time.
That’s strange. My experience with /r/cscareerquestions and other online forums has been excessive cynicism about everything, especially stock options.

The catch is usually when people are asking about RSUs of public companies or other relatively liquid and predictable compensation, in which case equity comp should definitely not be valued at $0.
Vocational schools already exist, if students want to attend one, they already can. Liberal arts schools are very intentionally not that.

It is certainly possible to learn broad range of subjects outside of a structured environment, but it is improbable, which is why we value structured educations.
how come in Europe credit score isn't really a thing and everything works fine? that's another thing that needs to go
Just think if Google actually decided to "take the day off"

...like I did a dozen+ years ago: https://antipaucity.com/2008/01/09/what-if-google-took-the-d...
In India you have these government run hospitals. Entry is essentially free and so is the emergency / opd treatment. For procedures they charge peanuts compared to private sector. The only thing, there is a waiting list and hygeine is not always a priority.

There is an AIIMS hospital in Delhi and I had the misfortune of taking a relative there for treating surgical infection. It was brutal. We got in line around 9 am. Had to put the patient on a gurney and wait. Around 3 pm slowly our place reached to the inside emergency ward. Around 7 pm we finally were attended by an intern. Took 6 pricks to insert a catather then a senior resident was called in to help. Around an hour later the medication started to do some work. Around 10 pm more medication was administered. We ended up asking the doctor to let us go because it was 12 am and we needed to consume some food, pee.

Never again. This was around 5 years ago and I hope things have improved for the sake of patients.
Well, in all seriousness smashing things does send a bad signal to everyone and motivates companies to look for other options. Paying peanuts for hard work is certainly bad but not having jobs in the first place is even worse.
> The free market just doesn't work when there is very little elasticity in consumption.

Should we have single-payer markets for auto repairs, then? Or how about toilet paper, especially in a pandemic? Both of those are very inelastic, yet socialism has a particularly poor record of producing either reliably.

> I've been on the receiving end of a $15K air ambulance bill (thankfully covered by insurance) as well as the out of network specialist at an in-network hospital. The latter is particularly galling. What are you supposed to do, interrogate every person that comes in the room?

Yes, this is frustrating. It also has very little to do with a free market. Health care (and health care billing and insurance and medical devices etc.) have been regulated into oblivion, to the point that the prices make no sense and are more like Monopoly money than anything real.

If I had my way, I'd have a high-deductible (at least $10k) universal single-payer system supplemented by individual private insurance. Most routine costs would be paid directly by patients at the point of care, and providers would have to suck it up to figure out what their prices actually were.

That would actually give us much more of a free market than we have today, despite the large welfare-state component.

EDIT: Meant to include a link to the classic Arrow paper about health economics.[1] My own comment about it is that third-party payers are the only robust reason for increases in health costs over time. We see that in every market where third parties subsidize transactions between first and second parties: health care/insurance, tuition/student loans, even housing/subsidized mortgages.

[1] http://public.econ.duke.edu/~hf14/teaching/socialinsurance/r...
This is pretty cool. Reminds me of https://instacalc.com/
Haskell Documentation with Haddock: Wishes'n'Tips
This guy is a complete badass. They've tried to kill him multiple times and then he turns around and bamboozles them into giving up all the details? Brilliant.
I think there are different use cases, from an fully automated Lego factory to a fully automated clay-house printer on Mars.
Offa’s Dyke: Britain’s unmarked ‘no-man’s land’
I consistently tell my dentist to make treatment decisions as if this were her mouth/teeth. Of course, I'll never know if that gives her a license to "go profitable" over "go optimal", but I'm also extremely unlikely to go chase multiple opinions over a cracked tooth or filling.
> complexities

This. Does anyone know if the Founding Fathers discussed the evils of complexity in law back during the conventions in Philadelphia? Is that a more modern day problem, or is it as old as parliament itself? I don't remember reading anything that said the dangers of complexity in law was on their radar.

Businesses are guaranteed to take advantage of complexities in law. I don't think this is well enough known. Any and every added complexity will therefore be taken advantage of, and should be considered in passing a law, and every law should have some type of way to "expire" itself, so that it can be removed (and the resulting complexity), when the reasoning for such law is gone.

Complexity around healthcare laws is the textbook example.
Price discovery doesn't help you. If you get knocked out, heart attack, your arm cut off, whatever (i.e. a lot of the expensive stuff) you just go to the nearest hospital, no consumer market finagling is even possible other than trying to live near a good hospital.

Other times with chronic conditions where theoretically price discovery could help, the problem is that you need care badly so all the chronic care providers jack up the prices super high beyond what is needed. Treating this as a market in any way is a crazy system. If the government pays market rate, they jack it up even more. So the solution has to be that the government has to set the prices either directly or by negotiating with an entire population at its back and no competitors (i.e. monopsony in the public interest).
Risk rise in pandemic hit fintech sector
Climate Change Likely Culprit for Aggressive Skin Disease Found on Dolphins
-Japanese Furikake rice seasonings, also Nori seeweed wraps, Edamame

-Seafood is very different in tropical countries from temperate countries.. Temperate fish like cod are not usually available in canned/dried form.

-The russian non alcoholic drink "Mors", also birchwater.

-Persimmons

-Cashew Apples

-Exotic citrous like Pomellos

-Durians
I think I can explain it looking at some of the comments on the similar discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25487130

It is the same as acting and sports -- people look the handful of winners, ignore the field of dropouts, and think they too can become a winner. They see AirBNB and think their startup is the next AirBNB.

Also much like acting and sports, there are a constant stream of new entrants who have not learned the lessons.

I want to be fair here -- I work at a startup and I love it. But I value my equity at zero and nothing more. I chose to work at a startup because I get to do cross-functional work rather than get stuck into a silo of a silo at a large company. I took a significant paycut from a large company salary and a significant upside cut from when I was a founder in exchange for more accelerated learning and exposure to all parts of the company.
your ethics don't agree with my ethics therefore you're a sociopath, got it.......totally concrete rational argument there.
MacHack was like that, into the early nineties.

You had close, personal contact with top Apple engineers, for three days. They were quite unpolished. Very different from Apple's presentation, these days.

Quite small; maybe only a couple hundred folks.

Lot of fun.
Introduce a ceiling on the total amount of federally subsidized student loans that a person can get in a year. The ceiling steps down every year, until the loans have completely gone down. Start the first ceiling 2 years from now, so students and institutions have time to plan for the change, and complete the phaseout 8 years from now. That's how I'd do it.

As for how you would do it, you'd have to convince your congressional representative that reform is worth doing, and is worth the inevitable political cost to them. Making loans somewhat harder to get will inevitably make universities upset with the politicians (as universities are the ones that actually receive the bulk of the financial benefit from these loans). For this reason, I see this reform as unlikely to happen, at least as I described it. You would have to pair it with more direct funding for universities.
That's was amazing.
hi! i'm a writer and would love to chat w/ you about random street view. any chance you could shoot me an email @ sophie.haigney@gmail.com?
Ignore all nutrition studies without a control group
> The existing health insurance industry is far from free market. Try getting a price for a procedure or visit beforehand.

Oh, I know. I've tried getting prices in the past. Traditional providers can't do it. One thing that has opened my eyes is using a Direct Primary Care (DPC) provider. I pay $75 a month for direct access to my doctor (email, text message, cell phone etc.). The access is great, but an unexpected side benefit is that a large percentage of their patients are un/underinsured. They can quote the prices for most common procedures from memory.

The other day I was getting a blood test and they asked if I wanted to bill my insurance or pay cash for it. I asked about the cost and they said "two-sixty". My response: "For two hundred sixty bucks we better bill the insurance. They laughed: no, $2.60 (it was an add on to another test for my physical). When I got home I googled pricing - the exact same test normally bills for around $65.

We do not have a free market. Other countries seem to have solid solutions for "socializing" medicine. I can't think of any highly functional system that is a free market. I don't even think that one is possible without people dying in the streets. Thus the best way forward is to try what has been successful elsewhere.
tl;dr: 43% might be right.

Saxby talks about £1.5M from Apple and according to https://fxtop.com/en/historical-currency-converter.php?A=150..., £1.5M is just about $3M which I guess clears up the $3M number.
Is that the right metric? What about grief? People don't mourn more for parents who die in their 50's than in their 80's. I mean, I guess I'm willing to believe that some deaths "matter" more than others as an abstract idea, but I'm always suspicious when people try to cite metrics like this. It sounds more like an attempt to downplay inconvenient facts than a genuine concern for the optimization of human suffering.
What are you proposing as the alternative? Even after major catastrophe we would still want to be involved in the trivialities of OSes, as we are now amid the pandemic.
Not that Dir, I mean as in .methods/.instance_methods (or dir(instance) in python )

I fixed it in my original comment
> a discount voucher for a USB-C charger

I believe they lowered the price on the bricks for everyone, not just new iPhone buyers.
How would I actually go about doing this? By default I can see that the process binds to localhost:8443, which is not accessible via other devices. Running the following command doesn't seem to work either:

galene -http 0.0.0.0:8443

Using a nginx server as a reverse proxy, I have the following that works for HTTP but not WebSocket:

server {
server_name galene.domain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:8443/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}

listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/natfan.io/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/natfan.io/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}

Thoughts? Happy to move this to Github if that's easier too.
Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm
Yes, they are compiled just like the final exe, only they become dynamic libraries that I load with libdl. On subsequent builds, they are loaded again, unless the macro changed.
>Coming from India, the dominant flavour of Europe is some sort of white, Christian group, possibly with a dash of Islamic influence, but mostly monotheistic branches of the same family. There is some variety in languages, and food depending on the climate.

I'd say that this is the same reductive view that Europeans have of India, for comparison.
Doctors disagree about medical treatment too. At least with the dentist you'll know how much each opinion costs.
I wonder what prompts people to use such fonts on their websites
On the other hand, try calling ahead to various dentists in order to find the one that has the cheapest price for the procedure you need to have done. Surprisingly difficult. Not as impossible as in other aspects of healthcare, but I spent hours and hours and mostly didn’t get the details I wanted
At least our glorious American leader openly tells his millions of followers to voluntarily poison themselves by injecting disinfectants. We have a much more open society!
> On the other hand, I don't think it's a healthy situation if companies need to own the entire hardware platform to be safe from another company's whims.

That's the risk you take working on someone else's platform. If you don't like it, start your own or conform to the new, privacy-enhancing features.
Plastic scrap value is near zero [1] when compared to Aluminum

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fZ0f_O...
Because they can't imagine a world where people skip phones when they do crime, or
First Party Data and Consent Management
And often every price the dental office provides you is an estimate, as once they enter each procedure’s code the insurance may price that work above or below the estimated price. That’s dental, which often isn’t life or death. If you’re in an ER or ICU you’re not processing “by golly, can I afford saving myself or should I negotiate the hospital’s Tylenol?”
It's worse than that, my wife got one of these bills from a provider who was never in her hospital room. The bill ended up getting waived but it was for more than the rest of the stay.
And Amazon validates it on its hardware
IPOs are rare. Most exits come in the form of private acquisitions. You don’t hear about the latter group in the news because they’re usually much smaller companies.

Many IPO-track companies are growing fast and attracting serious investment, so they pay engineers top dollar. They want to maximize chances of getting to IPO so they don’t benefit from cutting corners on a few engineers.

If you have The opportunity to join an actual IPO-track company then go for it. The catch is that many startups will claim to be headed for IPO, so you have to look at actual growth and TAM and make your own judgments.
There is the idea that being the stronger side in a constant state of conflict with a neighbour for decades suits Israel economically, despite the human cost on both sides. Combined with national service, it creates a highly credible testing ground for public and private development of defence products, technologies and services, which are extremely valuable exports.

A country of its size and only relative recent independence, is punching well above its weight being the 8th largest arms exporter in the world over the last decade.[1]

[1] http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/toplist.php
The deal between the government and private colleges is that those private colleges are training our critical workforce and adding net value back into the system by increasing lifetime earnings and economic growth.

The government guarantee on debt dollars right now is absolute. Schools get paid no matter what, and have no liability for actually providing an ultimately valuable service.

Here’s an alternate arrangement. The school and government together co-guarantee the debt. Students’ monthly payments start 1 year after graduation or after the first year of less than 50% enrollment, payments are strictly calculated based as a percentage of income, and after 10 years of payments the government guarantee is retired. Any remaining balance on the loan then becomes dischargeable in bankruptcy and the school is liable for any unpaid balance.

Or something along that lines. The program should be structured in a way that the government is only guaranteeing debt that is in proportion to the earnings power actually achieved, and the school becomes liable for debt that is out of proportion with the actual earnings power achieved.

Of course it’s a law of averages. Certain students will fail due to no fault of the school but overall a private school should be responsible for providing measurable value in proportion to its tuition charges.
Continue to remind people that incomes have held stagnant with the rise of post secondary education – Meaning that the promise of higher incomes as a result of higher education from decades ago never materialized.

The vast majority of students are only taking on these loans because they have been lead to believe that their income will increase, more than offsetting the cost of the loan. But we know very well now that it doesn't play out in practice. As we educate away those flawed ideas from history, those with profit motive will be scared away, leaving those who are there for education's sake. When only they are left, costs will start to align with what education is actually worth.

Then again, a diamond remains forever, so perhaps you cannot educate the educated.
Disks, man. Where are your disks??? Compute by itself is next to useless for anything serious. You need data. What do you need a compute node for if you don't have any data? You could just do it client-side in the browser.
Can envision this turning into “let us track you for free access” or pay some sort of monthly subscription for denied tracking + access. If socially engineered in just the right way, would not be surprised if majority of people would allow this.

Now I wonder if this goes against an App Store policy somewhere or if this is one way Apple will combat such an attempt.
Non-static IP, all done via dns updates. Never had an issue.
15-minute Santa: a game about Seattle’s land use
I was working on a health insurance related startup for awhile so I would say I know more than the average person about the space, and even I get surprised on a regular basis by the absurdity in this field.

For example, I was finishing up an advanced degree program between September and January and my University decided to terminate my health insurance in September. Without telling me. In the middle of a pandemic. When I discovered this last week, I attempted to buy health insurance directly from insurers and was informed that I could not get coverage until January 1st of 2021 as I was "outside the eligibility window". They literally won't sell active coverage to me at any price. Apparently you only have two months after losing your insurance to be able to buy new insurance before having to wait until specific times in the year. I can buy home insurance, liability insurance, car insurance, and any other type of insurance whenever I want but god forbid I try to buy health insurance 61 days after an arbitrary point in the year. I effectively cannot go outside until January 1st as if I get covid and have to go to the hospital I'm screwed.
Xfinity Mobile, at least in Illinois, is a Verizon MVNO. So presumably their wifi network just gives them negotiating leverage for their carrier arrangement.
Palantir and Gaia-X
As an end-of-year treat from the A/B Street (https://abstreet.org) team, we made a game where you deliver presents around Seattle. Instead of focusing on how people use roads to get around, this game focuses on where people live vs where they shop. When zoning keeps these separate, you -- er, Santa -- might have a harder time.

This is a light-hearted response to the idea of 15-minute cities, where people can reach most amenities by foot. We're also building a more serious tool (https://dabreegster.github.io/abstreet/side_projects/fifteen...) to understand how cities could evolve. If you have thoughts about how software can get people usefully involved in that conversation, please let us know!

Everything we're building uses OpenStreetMap, so if you want to see this game or walkshed tool work in your city, open a Github issue. Ideally include public data for land use, like https://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/cur..., so we know how many housing units each building has.

Happy solstice,
-Dustin

Previous HN about A/B Street: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605048