skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in the American system of 'for-profit' medicine. It worked. It never didn't work. I got the surgery I needed. I always got to see a doctor when I was sick.

A lot of talk about the disfunction in the American system misses the point that it is functional. We don't have millions of people dying on the streets because they can't get health care.

We do spend a colossal amount on healthcare here, and there are definitely improvements that could be made. But we also have one of the least healthy populations on the planet.

Realistically to transition the USA to a socialized system you need to make the current system collapse. You won't succeed in major changes to a functional entrenched system like we have now.
Two sentences after the part you quoted it says a belt was around his neck. Later on it mentions that he hung himself from the doorknob.
Name a single consequence of "despair" that is felt 20, 30 years later.

How many times were you despaired in 2000 that you still feel the effects of today? And how many of them are on the same level of importance as a temporary lockdown?
https://archive.is/O02av
> Right now, both "sides" agree that costs are out of control

No, they don't. They both might agree with that statement, but they don't actually mean the same thing by it, so there is no actual agreement in substance. Which is a primary cause of the disagreement over solutions: there is a disagreement about the problem (behind which is also a disagreement about basic values.)
Defold is a great commercial engine used to ship real games, but has its own license "derived" from Apache 2.0. You'll have to understand it before building on the engine.

Godot is a hobby engine with a standard MIT license, but with some major issues that make it unusable for any serious work. I worked with it for 3 months at the end of last year, but had to abandon the project after logging a few serious bugs in the issue tracker.
What you’re calling “fair share” has no clear definition. It’s a goal post that keeps changing with the political winds, as some politicians/voters ask for more and more redistribution. Not to mention it is fundamentally meaningless when a high income person pays far more in taxes than the average person. That does not strike me as “fair” at all.
Unreparable is probably a better description. Macs were very reparable and upgradable until the Retina laptops came out. Each new generation is less upgradable and reparable.
Does it stream video, draw commands, or emulator state?
That’s exciting, I was just looking at the status of this yesterday.
Jonathan Blow on Apple's M1 Processor [video]
Here's an in-hospital mortality chart of flu vs. COVID versus age. The in-hospital mortality is basically equivalent up until age 55+.

https://twitter.com/malkusm/status/1343672439734235136?s=20
Is there really a large enough market that would want to fiddle with an Access db file on their Android phones?
So just like the majority of private US aviation then. Nothing says progress like manufacturing "new" Cessna and Robinson aircrafts in 2020 using unchanged designs from the fifties.
That's what medicare is for--to blow ~$100k on giving grandma a few more months of living death.
I got a chance to use FreeBSD in such 'serious' case:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/freebsd-enterprise...

... I recently added Jails there with Minio inside in each of those jails to serve S3 storage.

Works like a charm.
> Why do you say this is typical?

It looks like I'm just mistaken on this one, it seems that in some markets rent is cheaper.

I think you're right that it's not apples-to-apples though, I suspect that median rental stock is typically less well maintained than it would be if it were owned, in the markets where rent is cheaper. I think most people are indexing their price point on things like square footage, yard, location, etc., and not necessarily all of the factors that contribute to the cost of ownership to the landlord.

> Consider that for any given house, rent must cover the owner's mortgage, so it cannot be less than the purchase costs.

While this is true for owners that buy with a mortgage and then rent the property, I don't think this logic works in general -- it's not uncommon for the owner to own the property outright; this could be an individual that inherited a house or paid off their mortgage, or a large company where they are investing capital in houses instead of borrowing (e.g. a REIT); in that case you have a target yield to clear, but no "mortgage costs" per se.

> I'm not sure I have the energy to stay on top of it every month.

The standard recommendation here is to put your money in an index tracker, which has very low fees and essentially replicates the performance of the S&P 500 or whatever market you want to track. https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/performance/voo would be one.

Anyone who bought the S&P and held it for 10 years made about 14% YoY (more like 10% if you take the last 30 years), and that's not considering the liquidity premium (i.e. you can exit your stock position whenever you need to, whereas selling a house takes time and effort).
Some interesting technical commentary on The Simpsons in 4:3 vs 16:9 here: https://medium.com/disney-streaming/bringing-new-aspects-of-...
Ask hn: Whats stopping Google from removing unskippable ads from YouTube?
Is it due to user backlash, or doesnt make make much impact on revenue?
I've fallen victim to scammer merchants who use Amazon in their name. Before I would just check "Ships from / Sold by" under the Add to Cart button but it's not obvious if it's Amazon official. For example which one of these "Ships from / Sold by" is legit?

* Amazon

* Amazon Inc

* Amazon LLC

* Amazon Services

* Amazon.com

* Amazon.com LLC

* Amazon.com Inc

* Amazon.com Services LLC

* Amazon Warehouse
How many person-years have we lost to COVID-19 and how many have we lost due to excess suicides in the last 12 months?
I Googled ISA model but it didn't make sense to me in the context of monetizing this site. May you expound on this?
I never thought about it that way. A few months into COVID, I started taking every other Friday off, and it's felt like a huge increase in free time. Using your metric, I've cut my work days by 10% but increased my free days by 25%, which definitely helps quantify the larger difference.
I've come to similar conclusions as you.

> the anticipation and research heightens the joy of actually getting the thing

I've found that the research and thinking process is often the most fun part, and that I can replace that little dopamine hit from buying a bunch of cheap crap by window shopping for nicer, more expensive things for the future.

Then when I am finally ready to buy something nice, I've already done most of the research to know exactly what I want/need.

It also helps filter out stuff I don't really need or care about, since I tend to forget about that junk if I don't impulse buy it. Put junk in your cart but don't buy it until you sleep on it, and 9 times out of 10 you realize you don't really need it or even care about it once the novelty is gone.

I end up buying less throwaway crap, and I end up mostly very pleased with the nicer things I do buy.
> Journalistic integrity isn't as strong of a concern simply because it's not the journalists who write headlines.

Shouldn’t it still concern them? If I wrote a piece about Obama making a hard choice to fund orphanages or schools and it got a headline “Obama yanks funding from orphans” then I’d be pissed. Journalistic integrity of headlines needs to at least be somebody’s concern.
Politically Europe is ahead of us. Most of it is driven by urbanization ratio in the population. Once you pass about 80% urbanization under representative governments like ours, one side always wins. The reason we have the infighting is because we are near, but not at, that juncture. We also have the internet for fake news, etc that was not prevalent when those other countries reached this juncture.
Definitely. I can trivially design an unemployment system that has zero fraud: we just never give out any money at all. We have to balance fraudulent payments against deserving recipients who don't get the money.

I used to work with the people who made GetCalFresh: https://www.getcalfresh.org/

The basic problem they addressed was that a lot of people who qualified for food stamps didn't get them because it was too hard to apply. You either had to fill out an intimidating set of paper forms or a quirky and intimidating set of web versions of paper forms. GetCalFresh basically just applied the lean startup playbook: make something very simple, drive people to it with ads, and, as Paul Graham suggests, they did things that didn't scale. Initially, they filled out the paperwork by hand. Then they kept adding automation for filling out and faxing in PDFs. They talked with users, removing barriers and solving problems. Rolling out county by county, they've made a huge difference. Average online application time dropped from 45 minutes to 8. Last I checked, they were helping tens of thousands of people per month.

I think it's fantastic that all of these people previously going hungry are now getting fed. But for years they weren't, and there are still plenty of deserving recipients who aren't. A lot of what GCF is doing is taking information the government already has and giving it back to them. Why is that necessary at all?

I get why unemployment is still a mess. But given the power of networked computers, eventually I'd like to see all safety-net programs get rid of the need to apply at all. For a lot of pandemic layoffs, it would have been possible for state governments to contact people who were probably eligible, have them confirm a few details, and start sending them the money. And as a bonus, a proactive system like that would be much harder to scam.
No one is asking for one size fits all. Just a uniform set of guidelines that leaders form using public health, scientific and economic experts and that is then promoted as the right thing to do. This nonsense of having an expert stand at the podium and say we need to be wearing masks and then the president standing up and saying he's not going to wear one and it's not a big deal has been very, very destructive.

Regardless of the initial mistakes of not promoting mask usage, once we knew that masks could help significantly, all our top leadership should have been on board and encouraging use through example and word. They were not and that alone has likely contributed to many thousands of unnecessary deaths.
Me too. I've always felt that 5 - 6 hour days would be ideal. This assumes though that I have a short commute.
Here is a video about him giving stocks to the employees in the company.He's got an interesting story as well.

https://youtu.be/HyHVLq-KtFo
Even if you've got a really inaccurate clock, you can still accept synchronous protocols like SPI and I2C where the bus master provides a clock signal.

Every chip brand would have their own protocol and provide their own programming hardware that could speak it.
Progressive ideology is literally the opposite of what you suggest here.
I find this absolutely insane, and I know that you are right because there is a cluster of nurses in a nearby county with the same attitude. It is a sever cultural problem with the nurses. They should be more educated than this. Specifically if they have been snowed about Bells Palsy, that's just them believing BS anti-vaxxers bad data interpretation.
> I read it as "suicide-inducing isolation is not necessarily preferable to risking COVID spread".

That interpretation is absurd and.far-fetched, as it's based on a couple of suicide cases that happened within a cruise ship whose crew was, for no reason, subjected to solitary confinement for months just because their employer felt no need to repatriate their crew.

And even if we blindly assume those suicides were due to lockdowns, let's put in perspective that those two suicides are dwarfed by the close to two million covid19 deaths so far.
Working on https://jobsindevrel.com, a job board for developer advocates and devrel jobs. So far it’s only cost ~$310: $300 for a nice lifetime deal on the job board software and $10 for the domain.

I haven’t launched it yet, but starting to build up the Twitter (https://twitter.com/@jobsindevrel) and the mailing list so that when there is some actual traffic coming in, it should (ideally) be profitable pretty quickly. Hoping to launch next month!
This is sad to see that the professional network is being sunset. I hope someone picks up the torch. Instead of shutting down all the data on the hard drives, perhaps there is relevant data that can be shared?

Over a decade ago, a friend introduced me to Blender and I was stunned such an incredible software was free! I wanted to go into 3d animation and build video games, but my career plans changed. I'm happy with what I do, but sometimes I wish I spent my days drawing.

Thank you to the Blender team for their hard work and inspiring minds!

Edit: I know Blender is not shutting down. I was commenting on the Blender Network
Apple could keep around a hidden diagnostic port, like they do on Apple Watch and HomePod.
FreeBSD/Bhyve Based K8s Clusters – Kubernetes on Top of FreeBSD
I think GP means that people should want to use the app because it can save them from having to pay late fees, not that people need to use the app. Like saying "Yelp, cannot go to a restaurant without it".
Very similar - and posted earlier! The GitHub one has some nicer effects.
> Kind of a non-sequitur, no? I was talking about toy drones.

Batteries are regulated, as is the type of paint used in kids toys.

Even with regulation companies still try to sneak in lead paint(!) and batteries occasionally burst into flame.

No regulation would mean parents would have to carry around lead paint test kits...

Review sites cannot keep up with the deluge of brands, and some aspects of product quality, such as longevity, are impossible for reviewers to adequately test in a reasonable amount of time. (A review that certifies a dish washer model last sold 10 years ago will indeed last 10 years isn't of much use!)

And in regards to a comment below, those toy drones likely charge with USB!
I'd not come across FlatBuffers before, but they do seem interesting for some use cases, especially when you're highly performance sensitive.

https://codeburst.io/json-vs-protocol-buffers-vs-flatbuffers...
It's money. Has to be. Why else would they annoy their users?!
That's a description I would agree with, but isn't what they said. I'd still say, despite the lack of reparability and upgradability of modern Apple devices (or owner reparability), they're still hardly "disposable". They still last a long time, and their prices (while better than in the 00s) are still high enough that you wouldn't want to replace an MacBook Pro every year unless you really liked spending money (or had a buyer lined up).
Do you have any plugins, maybe a SEO one, that may be active?

Core Gutenberg should be super fast, we test it with Wait But Why posts. But a plugin could be adding some sort of loop that's slowing things down.
We did a half ass job. Everybody outside of East Asia did a half ass job or less.
> I quit using them because I didn't like the sluggish/underwater feel.

Thanks for posting this -- I thought it was just me.
They are basically completely different substances? Unless you wish to reduce your model to such an extreme low-resolution view of the facts as to call all substances sharing the name "vaccine" as being the same thing.

For Moderna and Phizer, even the technology of producing the vaccine is completely new and different. The specific genetic contents are different regardless of the technology anyway.
I've been using a 2013 MBP since early 2014. I did replace the battery and trackpad, but it is otherwise original. It still works very well, and in many cases it is as fast or faster than my i5 2019 work MBP.

In any case, I would not consider Apple computers "disposable".
Yes, I considered this. The sentence is phrased somewhat ambiguously, which is why I said she's being loose with the facts. But the links she provides neither back up the claim (all are speculative), and 3/4 are not specific to Florida, so I think it's a fair critique given the forceful nature of the statement, and the fact that she's calling out Levitt for his own past speculation.

The link to Levitt's supposed comments to the governor is broken, so we can't verify what he actually said in detail. However, if you follow the other links, you can see that she is not above taking comments out of context when it serves her purpose. In the comment about about 10 deaths in Israel, it's fairly clear that Levitt is not making a bold claim about the distant future -- he's saying that given the case counts at the time, it would be surprising to see more than ten deaths, not predicting ten deaths in Israel, ever.
Organic meats found to have the same greenhouse impact as regular meats
I sense a confusion of the terms hotel and hostel. That 's' separates worlds.

As a young lad (on a tight budget) I stayed in youth hostels in Europe and USA as well. Those (at that time) not only were equipped with shared bathrooms, but also commonly with bunk beds in dormitories (separated by gender -- yeah, such were the times) and usually expected you to take on chores. I enjoyed my stay as it allowed me to go to places I couldn't otherwise afford and meet like-minded young travelers, but it would be impossible to mistake those places for hotels.
Bad lockdowns are bullshit. Australian bands are playing full on shows these days no problem because they did/do it with discipline.
Taxes. We tax the wealth. Aggressively, by raising rates, closing loopholes, and pressuring tax havens.

> entitles the government to take over ownership

Yes, successful or not, yes. Companies and their services exist within society, benefiting from our collective infrastructure, and society has absolute and final power over them. They are not people, with rights. Our economic system gives them extraordinary freedom to pursue wealth. That freedom is not a right. Capitalism is not morally equivalent to inalienable human rights.
Ugh, does anyone else find writers writing about writers or writing insufferable?
We are happy, relieved and amused to announce Common Lisp on Platform.sh (2019)
You seriously don't consider fever an adverse reaction?
Its "production" ready as there's minimal bugs and they are not actively developing new features. Docs are extremely thin tho.
Personal skincare routine assistant https://bomiapp.com/

Spend most of the second part of the year developing a solution for people that are struggling with skin care consistency. Launched one month ago, still trying to build a community and see if people will be willing to pay for a service like this.
If your goal to provide as little value to your employer as possible without getting fired?

If you're getting paid the same hourly rate it's still a win to work less.
The speculation that UFOs are alien craft is more rational and plausible than most 5G conspiracies or Qanon crap TBH...
Is there a story of a Common Lisp workflow on VSC by any chance?
Buy a different phone, apples position on this has always been very clear
The AL-31 was first put into service in 1981, and of course that isn't the same version that is being built under licence (not stolen - they bought the rights to it).

That being said, the WS-10 is thought to now be operational, and has been fitted on operational airplanes successfully for almost a decade. So that fits perfectly with them being at 70s/80s level of tech for established, used engines.
A link to something similar (but not the same) https://experiments.withgoogle.com/chrome/globe
I didn't suggest that the technology should be rushed and I agree that a careful approach can save more lives. But what constitutes "careful" matters here. For example if a city chooses to offer robotaxi discounts to people with bad driving records (before some cutoff date to avoid perverse incentives) then even an average taxi fleet could be a net-benefit even though the taxis do not perform better than the general population. And that's just in terms of lives saved, not counting the other benefits of having cheap transportation.
Since you didn’t provide additive information I reaffirm lockdowns are bullshit.
The idea is that every scenario has AI is above humans as a basis.. yet it never occurs that an above level of intelligence would reach difference objectives than obedient destruction.
I built a tool [1] for collecting audit logs from all your SaaS tools (Dropbox, Github, Okta, GSuite, Zendesk, etc) and pushing them into your log collection tool of choice (Splunk, Sumologic, Elastic, etc). It solved a personal pain point I had but I was never able to find any customers for it.

[1]: https://logsnitch.com.
> ...many ancient societies had a notion of jubilee years, where all outstanding debts were forgiven and debt-servitude eliminated.

Even if ancient accounts are accurate then is there evidence such debt forgiveness was carried out ? And if so how consistently?
> because basically no one goes to public libraries anymore

Is this a German thing, an urban thing, or really a true statement universally? I ask because prior to covid lockdown, we made at least weekly trips to our public library and it always had a steady stream of patrons.
Lonely at the Summit: Leaders need help too
In which states exactly can't both parents demand custody rights?
He made his billions from profits, the part of the value generated by workers’ labour that isn’t paid to workers but instead appropriated by owners.
I'm saying there would have to be a civil war because half the country sees little daylight between European style universal healthcare and communist totalitarianism. States threatened to secede over the ACA, and that was far from "universal healthcare."

The only way we can have true progressive/social democratic policies in the US is if that half is no longer a part of the country and no longer able to sabotage attempts to implement those policies when they gain power.
Awesome thanks that’s really helpful! Reading the article I had to google what a “focus puller” was, like did they have their hand on the lens turning the focus wheel the whole shot down the hallway? That video explains it much better.

Though I’m not sure why in Contact the focus puller had to be painted out of the entire shot, maybe they couldn’t get behind the camera in the hallway?
Way back in the early-ish days of iPhone (around the 4 and 4s), I created an app called TenTwenty.

It allowed you to quickly and easily share your location with anyone. Also gave weather conditions at said location and nearby landmarks to look for in order to help find it. Worked cross platform as well.

Everyone who used it thought it was great. However, not a whole lot of people used it. Originally sold it for 99 cents and eventually switched to a free, ad-based version.

Made about $1000 in total over a couple years and pulled it from the app store once Apple implemented pin drops and location sharing natively.
It's time to build developer tools
self similarity recognition ? intelligent agent, as the AI itself, would represent a form a sibling.
"Right now, both "sides" agree that costs are out of control, but generally disagree on what reforms to make. This is the case for many other subjects in politics - the sides might agree with the problem but disagree on the cause or solution."