skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for the immigration statistics Eurostat is the source to go to:

1. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
2. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

While it cannot definitively be proven why somebody moves to X country and becomes a citizen, obviously it is for the benefits. In Europe, STEM workers typically get paid less, and often one needs an advanced degree (unless an internal company transfer occurs) due to the Bologna Process, which is a pan-European degree (education requirements) recognition agreement that applies to Americans too. So, one becomes a citizen for the values and the benefits.

It is clear that the article that you linked is talking about cost liability under contract, especially since it is coming from a "health payer organization". This includes the mentions of surprise billing, which are often classified as out-of-network, but under contract. Likewise, out-of-pocket costs in the article are being mentioned with respect to people insured and what was covered under contract.

You can get screwed financially as a cancer patient on Medicare. I personally have 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system. One of them is very rare and I cannot go on a Medicare Advantage plan, as it would be an HMO with severe network restrictions. Once you go on a Medicare advantage plan, you effectively cannot go back to traditional Medicare (and also cannot get a Part B Medigap plan, because medical underwriting is allowed, even post ACA).

The problem is that traditional Medicare does not have out of pocket limits, and you can be subject to several tens of thousands of dollars in liability for prescription drugs once you hit the Medicare Part D prescription catastrophic coverage level, especially if you require an orphan drug.

For me, I require subcutaneous immunoglobulin and it is the only medication that has ever worked for me or put me in remission and I have tried about 10 different medications, plus combinations of them. It is literally my only option. Even intravenous immunoglobulin in the hospital (Medicare Part B), when optimized, was ineffective and never put me in remission.

I have Medicare due to disability and I am working now (I can keep Medicare for life technically if I pay the premiums every month). But, if I was living in the US, my yearly medical costs would be around $40,000-60,000/year on Medicare.

There are articles about this on the Kaiser Family Foundation website on Medicare Catastrophic Coverage liability. It happens to a lot of cancer patients and also people with rare diseases.

This is one of the reasons why I don’t live in the US, and the primary reason why I don’t live in the US is because of healthcare. Being able to work (with better protections--critical for me) and not having to worry about healthcare is worth living in Europe.
When my vote != everyone else's vote that is not a democracy. Just because everyone gets a say but we listen to these people more doesn't mean you have a democratic system. If anything you can for sure say it's not democratic.
YC supports TripleByte, and TripleByte should be told by YC that they should stop doing this egregious stuff.

If YC does not ask TripleByte to stop, YC is implicitly endorsing the behavior.

If YC does make the request, and TripleByte agrees, then the scumminess stops. This clearly has not happened. (Or the request was not forceful enough.)

If YC does make the request, and TripleByte disagrees, then YC should publicly distance itself from TripleByte.

It’s like a milder version of what YC must do if a YC startup, say, starts making murder drones. YC doesn’t control what YC-affiliated startups do, but they have a lot of influence. In certain cases, YC is morally obligated to exert that influence. If they don’t, then they are complicit, and they hurt their own brand.
> We can sell and ship within the EU as if it were one big country.

Is that really true though? To my understanding, there are still laws such as the European packaging & packaging waste legislation (PPWD) that require registration in each country you're selling to. The exact law differs from nation to nation as well, so you still require knowledge about each jurisdiction before you can safely sell to other EU members.

Also, while sending products directly to consumers shouldn't be much of an issue, I would imagine that there is some re-packaging / re-labeling needed if you'd actually want to have your German product in the supermarkets of Spain.
Not the page, the API (which returns HTML fragments for incorporating into the page).

And if you can't think of anything worse, you're not trying very hard.
> ...the input lag is just too high to play competitively

Do you have any numbers to support that? I have seen your argument before, but I'm yet to see it quantified. I don't see how Stadia would be slower than any other games whose ground-truth 'state' lives on a server somewhere, which I think is the majority of games these days[1]; trusting the client to faithfully maintain state is a no-no because of cheating. If anything, I would expect Stadia servers' ping-times to be better than most.

I don't expect Stadia to work very well with Super Smash Bros were frame-perfect parries/combos are expected (at he highest level) - but for the rest of us who do not qualify for a spot on an e-sports team, it works well enough.

edit: So I went and looked for the numbers - PCGamer[2] says that Stadia is about 60-80ms slower than PC for Tomb Raider and Destiny 2 (eg. 63ms PC / 125ms Stadia @1080 Stadia gets worse at higher resolutions and on TVs, obviously)

1. The games I play, which are rather limited.

2. https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-how-stadias-input-lag-compares...
Fair enough. I will modify the above to say that its stupid in my opinion. And i sincerly hope that i am really proven wrong. It would be tragically costly if i am proven right
Let me give my own personal experience as one of the first few people through the doors.

1. I loved their interview process. It was enjoyable. Coding, coding, coding. I was offered a job with Triplebyte as well as other places.

2. The guy with the beard is a huge dick. I think his name was Amon?

Anyway, I ended up not being interested in Triplebyte after dealing with the beard. It doesn't surprise me that they are getting a reputation of being scummy af if he is still involved. Harj was great.

Get rid of Amon. I can almost guarantee he is behind the scummy practices.
I think this happened basically:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x81M3g3zjXc
Sort of a goal of mine has been to bounce off the ISS APRS digipeter at least, but building a satellite aiming rotator setup has been my hangup, although in theory I could try handheld yagi? I would like to make a rotating setup though for general satellite work tho.
He was our CIO. This was ~2011. Effectively, he was getting steak dinners from vendors, and using that to make decisions. These questions were either from ignorance or worse, malice, to force us to vendors.

This (public) medical company went out of business roughly a year after.
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.1
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 2Gb
Storage 120G

Lenovo T61 (2007)

I use it for system builds for my open source project.
I wonder if people just are not as good at being stimulation free and alone with their thoughts.
Are court cases enough? https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...
Even without GraphQL, you can accommodate both sets of needs. I said as much. I'm also saying that the argument about the user-facing tech stack is bogus.
In rx soviet block saying "it's like Chicago" here when there was some sort of crime spree going on was very common and still is. Maybe because of old gangsters, not sure.

But it sure was exotic seeing American music coming and videos talking about murder and shooting like it's a cool thing.
The Brexit referendum in 2016 was merely advisory and non-binding. The real implementation was done by Parliament.
This is not restricted to Adobe Lightroom. Many other companies are ignoring older versions and in some cases the file formats have been changed to force people to update. Symptoms are different but root cause is similar.

I have an older version of Sketch. Due to my use case, not a designer, I have no need to pay them actually. Lately I needed to use it, and none of the new templates work making my paid version of Sketch useless.

At least my old version of Acrobat still works with new and old PDFs.
Every time I see an "ł", I think there's something on my monitor, or dead pixels. I definitely tried to remove the debris from my monitor with my thumb before realizing it was an "L with stroke" haha :)
We redo elections every ~4 years in the US and UK to see if people changed their minds, don't we?
The path dependency of the human nervous system, and all its derivative constructs, is remarkable to contemplate next to the great motions of the world.
Yeah your marriage could be saved if only you had bugged your wifes phone. Honestly what the fuck is wrong with Indians and shit culture there
Why would YC tell TB to stop increasing growth and revenue? They're a VC, that's what they want, of course they'd be endorsing it. It doesn't hurt their brand, again because they are interested only in making money, and founders are similarly interested in a VC that pushes their company to make more money. That you as a bystander (not even a customer) don't like it is inconsequential to both YC and their portfolio companies. See my response to another comment in the thread for more context.
Can you provide some insight on why distant relatives living in other cities would need to be jailed for this? I can't even think of a way this could be justified for the law when it was created initially.
Free Kevin!
Tell others "Merry Christmas" on Hacker News - add your location
There is a great map someone built to show voting by neighbourhood in sf. They are nationally the most liberal homeowners.

https://electionmapsf.com/#
No, it's just bad policy. The correct design on modern "intelligent" buses is very simple. You standardize a class of device, and then you implement that class, OS vendors supply a class driver that works, out of the box, with every device in the class.

USB Mass Storage is the worst case of that approach (vendors with different ideas of how to solve it just agreed to differ and the standard offers all combinations of their preferred methods) but it's still better than the alternative.

Other approaches are crazy, they produce a worse user experience and usually introduce perverse incentives that make life worse for everybody.

If there are in fact "issues" with "vanilla USB" you don't fix those by having every single vendor hand roll their own attempted workaround and ship each of them.
How is an approach that results in a working device "crazy", where one that will sometimes NOT "not crazy".

The user does not give a flying fig about your "moral high ground".

They just want their drive to work.
Seattle (currently). Love this community. Thanks all!
And “classes in C” is really just a matter of agreeing on a convention. GObject and COM are object systems that have C implementations.

I suppose it’s a mental thing when you’re “below” the abstract object system instead of getting to treat them as tangible things unto themselves. Like how C doesn’t really have strings — they’re pointers or structs and so you don’t get any sort of encapsulation that’s not enforced by convention. You have to maintain the invariants or only use methods that maintain them.
If the people cannot afford healthcare, shelter, and other basic needs is it fair to assume that they are not medical professionals, builders, or (e.g.) farmers? If not for compensation how do you propose they obtain healthcare, shelter, or other needs without good will? After all, taxes ultimately don't guarantee fundamental needs are met; production does.

As an alternative to good will, you seem to be suggesting that the powerful members of the state force others to help, either directly (particularly in a healthcare setting) or through forceful confiscation and redistribution. While that may solve the problem of poverty (the efficacy of various redistribution schemes is not what I'm particularly interested in here) the idea that it's somehow indicative of a more enlightened society seems backwards. A society that freely and voluntarily gives seems more civil to me.

Further, your last sentence doesn't lend much support. While unfortunate circumstances may create a culture of pity, forced redistribution may create a culture of malice and hostility. It may (and, from what I have seen, does) relax any conscientious call to action with the simple excuse, "eh, the government takes care of that."
Fairness equally, according to your definition of “fairness” and “equally”
If you actually have the time and you go to the royal museum at Greenwich you can see that all of Harrison‘s clocks are still functional. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen as an engineer
"I am interested to know, apart from learning to program and developing/designing software solutions, what makes a software engineer an 'engineer'."

Nothing. "Software engineering" is something anyone can attempt to engage in. It seems to conjure up an image of something better than bad programming. But unlike, say, mechanical engineering, there is no professional certification required to call oneself a "software engineer". The fact that this hobby/job is an unregulated practice may have something to do with the ubiquity of bad software. Some of the best programmers, e.g., Arthur whitney, have referred to programming as being like "art". The programmer who started this site in fact wrote a book called "Hackers and Painters".
These clauses are used by lawyers in civil disputes (divorce etc.) to speed up the legal proceedings by making it a criminal case, and to reduce the number of adjournments. Criminal conviction is not the real end here, it is a pressure tactic to get the civil judgment.

Note that India does not have a robust tradition of out-of-court settlement etc.

Conviction rates are misleading. They do not shed light on how and why these IPC clauses are invoked.

Another oncoming danger is POCSO - parents might use child molestation clauses against each other in civil disputes like divorce. See a recent judgment of Kerala High Court related to this instructing lawyers not to invoke this clause for frivolous purposes:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/pocso-convicti...
>> This probably makes sense for insanely simple editing

Yes.

An example would be extracting or eliminating segments from a video recording.

>> Just imagine this - you put some text on top of your video. In 5 minutes you want to move the text a bit lower.

Sure. It's understood that once rasterized, further edits are nearly impossible.

However, it's not that a similar thing is unseen elsewhere. If I delete some text from a document, save, and close the application, and in 5 minutes, I want to get it back ...

If the user wants to keep the original, they just use "Save as ..."

The added complexity of 'project' based workflows is not worth for all edits.
It's also a pretty catchy song. But yeah it messes with my brain that is working hard to parse English. It's interesting. If a language is clearly not English I don't have the same issue.
I'm looking into what's happening with this email. We definitely did not decide to re-email people invited a long time ago as a growth tactic. That would be shitty. I think the email is a reminder that's supposed to be sent a few times after someone is invited. I'll update when I know what's happening.
Acting rationally does not preclude one from being a shitty company/person/whatever. They’re doing something sketchy, and we’re allowed to be mad at them for it. The fact that it’s better for their bottom line is not exculpatory.
I dug out my login to comment on this:

>There are some regulations regarding medical data (Eg, HIPAA) but security seems like an afterthought in most hospitals at best.

I worked as a developer for healthcare/hospital websites and the company I worked for took it far more seriously than the hospitals did. We had to babysit them constantly on potential violations and actual violations. The average hospital has at least a dozen different HIPAA violations each and every day because in the end convenience almost always trumps security when a person is stressed and busy. And those were just the violations I was privy to as their web developer - undoubtingly there were even more that I couldn't have been aware of.

When we dropped support for IE8-10 it was a major issue at nearly every hospital we worked with and we couldn't convince them to finally upgrade until lawsuits started happening.

https://www.hipaajournal.com/upgrade-internet-explorer-to-re...

HIPAA compliance is a checkbox and actual security doesn't mean anything because actual security is too inconvenient.
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The cloud is just someone else's computer in a data center in new Jersey about to be hurt by a hurricane.
Your description "people nobody wants" does not match parents "nearly all were for fake numbers" (bots).
Can I ask why? I'm using Reeder 3 and the only thing that I feel like I'm missing is that more recent versions of MacOS support adding an RSS feed from the browser. So I have to cut-and-paste the URL into Reeder.

I use Feedly as the source and read with NetNewsWire on my iPad. There's a NetNewsWire client for the Mac that now supports Feedly but it doesn't support vi commands for quickly paging through articles. I don't use a keyboard on my iPad so it's fine that it's different than the Mac.
Completely agree!

Subscriptions cost future hassles and distraction, as well as the money. I'm busy. No subscription, no deal :D
I have an HP-Agilent J2300D, probably around the same age as myself. It runs some Win98 embedded edition and is used for network and telecom line analysis and has all sorts of niche features and interfaces like t1/e1, V.35, RS-449. It would probably cost me 10x what I paid for this device to get similar interfaces for a modern PC. I do use it and the software it came with for some proven to I work on and the other day, used XMODEM and a null modem cable to transfer some files to my main PC. Really neat device, sadly most of the ports aren’t visible to the OS.

It doesn’t have a trackpad which is mildly annoying. Luckily I have some serial mice sitting around, if I’m not using the PC-serial port for something else. I’ve heard of people replacing the hard drive with an SSD, which I may look into as well.

I have some older computers (and some peripherals even older) but I don’t really use them outside one off projects.
So, while individual pieces are fairly simplistic (and even amateurish, to a technical artist), taken as a whole they create a context and evoke a mood -> impressionism!

Is that a way to understand it?
Sounds like you wear them down.
There's an internet provider (usually unknown / changing) behind every VPN provider. Whichever VPN provider you use, you may be implicitly trusting any of the good provider at any point in time.
I am sure there are a handful of rent seeking startups trying to figure out how to make sure you pay a subscription for planting that seed also.
Lady Macbeth and the fear of powerful women
Well, it's painful for me to read that. Is there any chance I could get you on the phone to talk about what we're doing and how to make it not scummy? (That offer goes out to anyone reading this). Email me at ammon@triplebyte.com, and I'll find a time to talk. Our mission (helping people get jobs based on the job skills they have, not what their resume says) is something that I think is really important.
That was my experience with Satisfactory as well. Factorio's greatest gameplay achievement is taking away mundane things once you've mastered them to the point of mind-numbing repetition. It's a sliding window, whereas Satisfactory just keeps piling on more layers of complexity without really abstracting anything away, save only for the running around with a chainsaw to keep your generators running.
Indian iPhone factory apologizes to workers for mishandling wages
The Curl Year 2020
Gun control and the Second Amendment and Obamacare seem to be a clear examples where conservatives use the court to override the democratic will of the people overturning legislation. Campaign finance reform as well. There are numerous examples (FDR and the New Deal come to mind) where the court overrode the democratic will to favour more conservative positions. Of course I am just a casual observer, not an expert, so I may have missed some cases.

Regarding Roe v Wade (which I’ve read is widely seen as a bad decision) I agree that it’s unseemly. I also agree that in recent years too much social engineering has been routed through the Supreme Court.

I won’t dispute that most constitutional courts around the world are conservative or ideologically neutral, since they are aware that they can interpret the law as written, and not act as a pressure release valve against the dead hand of their “Founders” as they know that their populations can amend their constitutions if there is a pressing need.
There's a handful of ethical AI tropes I hear over and over. The (made up) story about Target predicting a pregnancy before she knew, the concern of using it to predict parole, face detection not working with dark-skinned people, and the trolley problem. Every talk is some permutation of these. I would love to hear actual solutions, guidelines, and deeper threads of research.
I suppose before I give a thorough response, why compare the apple to the watermelon?

I personally have no clue who the engineers are on this earth that architect a fly-by-wire system. Actually, the complexity and critical nature of it is so beyond developing a UI, that anyone would know the difference.

Now read the last statement above again. Outside of tech, is it truly true that anyone would know the difference? Or are we just ‘IT guys’ to the rest of the world. To fight amongst ourselves over titles, when we ourselves appreciate the differences, can only happen if we are trying to attain external validation.

Case study:
Developer A: I am a software engineer at Facebook

Developer B: I am a software engineer at Boeing

Developer A: Billions use my software

Developer B: People die when I make bugs

The problem is not that Developer A and B don’t understand or appreciate the difference. The problem is the rest of the world doesn’t, therefore the industry has zero status. I’m arguing we are manifesting a frustration internally amongst ourselves from the greater sin of lack of respect given to us from outside.

Which brings me to my final point. If there is internal resentment, that a Facebook engineer makes more than a Boeing engineer, then we failed as an industry in not compensating appropriately. If the manifestation is from unfairness, we should examine that. If the Surgeon gets paid less or the same as the Podiatrist, and is resentful and bitter, we need not turn a million stones to find the crux of the matter. And, suddenly, the surgeon yells ‘that foot doctor can’t hold a scalpel if their life depended on it’. Lamentations of a deeper problem amongst ourselves.

All emotions are valid here, as the injustice is consistent and real. For most part, I am trying to distill the dialectal argument into it’s rhetorical form.
I'm a bit curious about how you're being undercut in the labor market and simultaneously being priced out of the housing market. You seem to be implying that uncontrolled immigrants are earning less money, but buying more expensive homes.
> We definitely did not not decide to re-email people invited a long time ago as a growth tactic.

The old double negative.
I don't give to charity because pity... I give because I'm given an incredible life. I am thankful for my provision and in turn I feel the desire to share with no expectation of return. I feel liberated, happy, and it's truly a joy one can not describe when you see the fruit of your work elevate someone else's life.