skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a similar (but smaller) differential for other medical professionals too. But more generally, when I’ve done high-level comparisons of medical spending between the US and Western European countries, it seems like every single cost element is more or less proportionately higher in the US. It seems like basically everyone is spending money in roughly the same proportions, including on things like doctors’ salaries - everything is just scaled up by ~40% to ~100% in the US, depending on which country you compare it to.
> It's possible that the "solution" just makes things worse/complicates implementing better, longer-term solutions.

I would go further, and suggest that nearly all social interventions make things worse. Extreme caution is especially necessary if the intervention is top-down.
Meanwhile USA has 25x the debris (as of June 2019). Glass houses...

https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/quarterly-news/pdfs/odqnv...

https://www.businessinsider.in/us-russia-china-and-india-sta...
I think you are confusing the freedom with the technologies used to amplify the use of that freedom. This is similar to the current debate about the second amendment. The right to bare arms doesn't mean we give everyone an M60. The freedom of speech doesn't mean that we should give everyone an unlimited megaphone to the world. Licenses for the use of powerful technologies have been pretty effective in limiting the damages they can cause in untrained hands. Maybe the solution to your troubles is a license to broadcast media on the internet.
Wow, why did this fall off the front page? There's no way it wasn't being upvoted sufficiently watching the flurry of initial comments...

Was this discussion blocked? And if so, is there a particular policy it violated? This discussion seems extremely important right now.

@dang can you elaborate?
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Ask HN: How did they make it” type books?
Hello everyone,

I would be interested in finding books that describe "tech trees", similar to what you would find in a lot of real time strategy (RTS) games.

The type of format I am after would be a tree or list of core inventions used to develop early societies.
(Let's say up to the invention of electricity to keep it simple.)
After which, each invention would be described, it's dependencies, the reasons for this improvement and why it was supplanted by another invention, etc.

I would really be interested by A to Z approaches starting from natural resource discovery and collection, to the various transformation processes, the required tooling up to the final invention.

(To my knowledge no books have been published by Mr. Devereaux based on the concept of his blog series "how did they make it" hosted on acoup.blog.)

Thank you a lot in advance!
I don't know why a central authority works better. But it seems to be manifestly true if you look at human history that it works better once you try to scale society beyond the tribe. (At least by my personal quality metric. But I acknowledge that I am strongly biased by the fact that I'm a rich white guy in a society dominated by rich white guys, so I'm definitely open to alternative ideas. But unfettered free speech doesn't seem to me to be working very well, and I don't think that's a reflection of my white privilege. The burden of covid, for example, is falling disproportionately on people of color in no small measure because of denialism. That seems like a bad outcome to me.)
Not the question you asked but: Given that the time lost when you are broken off what you are doing, it often becomes a problem of never making progress. e.g. if it takes you 20 minutes to get back to where you were, if you get an interruption every 15 minutes ...

Solution is to one of the following:
1) Close your door until you are ready for all the interruptions.
2) If no door, put up a sign.
3) Ask people to email the issue and you will get back to them
4) I have taken to showing up early, when there is no one to interrupt me. aka 4 AM, interruptions seem to start around 9, which gives me 5 hours of real work.

When I do need to track time I use a spreadsheet. Easy math, easy record.
> It's a cliche but if we spent 10% of of what we spend on Nukes or drug enforcement on this it would be a game changer.

I think people that say things like this overestimate how much we spend on things like this and underestimate social spending. About 50% of US government spending is health and social services. So even cutting everything else to zero is only a doubling of health and social services. A doubling isn't nothing, but a game changer? And not all (or even most) of that other 50% will be spending you feel is frivolous, so it would be much less than doubling.
Everything is inflated the whole way in the American system.

Universities overcharge in the US. The medical education costs upwards of $800K if you include the cost of lost opportunity had you gone into a different field and worked those years instead. So doctors need higher salaries. That, combined with idiotic market dynamics around medical supplies, means that all medical costs are higher. That in turn means everyone absolutely needs insurance or risk personal bankruptcy.
Going from the USA to a hospital in Thailand is a similar experience.
Everything is so clean!
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I worked on this issue in 2008. My best friend had directed a film called Where the Day Takes You about homeless kids in Hollywood.

A Harvard lawyer I knew added me to her non profit and asked me to produce a documentary about homeless teenagers in Colorado.

I wanted to call it STATE OF NEGLECT and push for an efficient form of social programs ran by the state. My infinitely educated friend, she was a project attorney, had no concept of filmmaking or project management. She tried to put a bad director with no technical production in charge with me.

Harvard lawyer was scared Comcast wouldn’t give us $25 million so she asked me to sanitize the criticism towards state foster programs. Months later, her foundation closed.

In Where the Day Takes You, it was Will Smith’s movie. Tom Cruise’s partner Paula was my best friend’s agent at the time. This and the CIA is how I know about the UFO scientology religion by Kit and Hal.

Of course, Hacker News shadowbanned me for this comment on my other account. Even though I work with the Office of Director of National Intelligence and JASON Group. My friend is currently the Chair of the Defense Policy Group.

Today President Trump is going to free Ross and Drew.

Hackers aren’t marketers who made SaSS and rattle on about series A. There are no hackers here. There are no painters here.

Come to EFNet where real hackers are, not corporate grifters like Y Combinator. I know everyone important in Atherton and SV and the IC.

We don’t need your corporations startup bros and CIA In-Q-Tel fronts. Overthrow everything government, religion and corporations.

Just like the Bavarian Illuminati planned for their sinister conspiracy to enact the Futuristic Past.
When the FBI Spied on MLK
Is there actual evidence that it wouldn't work, or we're making an assumption? That is what makes it work in those places but to say it could never work in North America because of that I think is crazy. I think it would connect more sparsely populated areas to the rest of the continent better than the interstate system. If it's convenient, people will use it, and if it's anything like the Shinkansen, then people will definitely use it.

The biggest problem in the USA specifically is not where the population centers are but simply politics. It's not necessarily that it can't work, it's that there's a lot of money invested into making sure it never happens.
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Same as every year: just around the corner.
I agree 100% in principle, the problem is Mac App Store apps compete with non-Mac App Store apps that have unfettered access, and macOS itself competes with other OSes where unfettered access is expected.

So while I agree in principle, in practice the real result is Mac App Store apps are just getting utterly destroyed in the marketplace, it's truly a slaughter as I've cataloged here (https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/08/07/apples-app-stores-ha...).
Urg that website is so incredibly out of date.
Julia has amazing things for autodiff.
But like not the things listed on that website.

Also python is still doing great with Jax and PyTorch.
I completely agree with this - why is freedom of speech even coming up? You couldn't say this stuff in real life on a street corner, why should it be protected online?
Fallacies of Distributed Gomputing (2017)
For someone working in IT, trying to ban them from the internet could count as "restraint of trade".
That's how those bills work. It was either the most expedient way to get it in a bill or the Carolina congress people were needed to pass it.
Regarding the bad faith actors, HN largely (to my knowledge) self regulates; users can usually smell a promotional-type post &/or comment right away. It's something that keeps me coming back daily compared to other forums that seem to either ignore or prefer this type of content.

Cheers.
> Parler was created because Twitter and Facebook were moderating content.

> If Twitter and Facebook hadn't been moderating hate speech, Parler would not exist.

I don't think it's fair to claim Parler was created because Twitter and Facebook moderate hate speech. For example, the Hunter Biden story was actively suppressed on both Twitter and Facebook, essentially confirming long-held beliefs that social media platforms curate based on political ideology.
Why Not Video Conferencing?
I can't say that I like or use Julia, but just regarding your comment, and because I've seen similar comments about other languages around:

> 2. Julia uses an "end" keyword everywhere, which is imho too verbose (and the corresponding "begin" is missing so it's inconsistent).

This is an absolutely childish approach to comparing or selecting programming languages.

In my eyes, it says a lot about the maturity of software development as a discipline that a big chunk of our debates are at this level.

We should discuss about quality, breadth and depth of standard libraries, quality of implementation of the most common interpreters/compilers, etc.

I don't want to fault you personally, OP, I think this approach is quite widespread, unfortunately, one could say that it's part of our software development culture at this point.
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I see this argument a lot.

The trouble is that emergency care isn't what drives the majority of healthcare spend. What does is actually chronic conditions: dialysis, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, chronic weight conditions.

That's what we need to worry about.

And if there was a real market here, you wouldn't need to shop around because all the people that do, would enforce some level of price discipline on the market.

Think about it. For any good sold at, say, Wal-Mart, say Gatorade, there are some people that want it a LOT, even NEED it, while others are more on the fence. There's only one price on the shelf and it's calculated to get a lot of people buying. So in effect, the people who are more indifferent (want it less) are actually doing a pretty significant service to the people who want it a lot, by guaranteeing the price will be set low for everyone.

There's no reason something like this can't apply in healthcare.
I suspect it is more just volume and support costs. There really isn’t much government financial support at all for the vision impaired, outside of the Veteran’s Administration system.

A friend and I looked at doing a tech product for the vision impaired. The business case just didn’t pencil out, mainly because of TAM.
> violent insurrection against democratic government

Is right leaning content for insurrection?
Sorry I've missed that train. The "right/libertarian" I see censored is much tamer than that, Joe Rogan, Sargon of Akkad, Viva Frey, Academic Agent, Thunderf00t, 1791.
Well spoken. I agree with your assesment about what I said regarding having 'finances in order'. Love and care is much more important than money. Parents need enough money to not have stress (which can affect children).
This is an unconvincing article. If we look past the paragraphs of emotional appeals, the actual results for "technosolutionism" during the pandemic are this:

China created a technosolutionist fix. They implemented it widely with government backing. It was invasive but worked.

South Korea created a technosolutionist fix, which was less invasive than China's. It was implemented widely with government backing. It also worked.

Apple/Google created a technosolutionist fix. It was not implemented in the US and did not receive government backing. It did not work. The article claims this disparity is really because South Korea is "homogenous" and "trusting".

The US instead attempted to implement "proven measures" that "relied on the public . . . to adhere to them." This also did not work, for the reason technosolutionists said it wouldn't: the public didn't adhere to them.

What part of this is supposed to show that "technosolutionism isn't the fix?"
I fail to see how pushing the most extreme speech into the shadows improves anything...
NTD maybe
Ask HN: Is it true that “What happens in a Zoom stays in a Zoom?”
There was a thing that happened during a Zoom call. I'd like to prove that it happened. Is there a way to contact Zoom for the video recovery? Should an employer be keeping a record of Zoom calls somehow for a certain number of days? Or are they totally private and any evidence of wrongdoing lost like tears in the rain?
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I wonder how the odds stack up against the odds of a human being hit by a meteorite? Those kind of odd's/statistics I can get my head around.
This is a much more likely explanation but in all non-scientific accademic fields it's usually more important to come up with a narrative that's appealing to the general public or the political class than with an accurate narrative. Hence the explanation that makes the most sense but is less "Wow"-inducing will be swept under the rug.

There are plenty of fields where we entertain "mysteries" that have perfectly rational explanations but settling the question once and for all with a rational argument would dry up the funding stream for accademicians and could have other undesirable consequences on some countries' political narrative.
It is. The history as most voters perceive it is: crime was high and rising fast in the 70s and 80s, until we got "tough on crime" in the late 80s and early 90s, and crime finally started declining once all the criminals knew we'd be tough. So they conclude that the modern American justice system is what's causing crime to decline, and are concerned that being "soft on crime" would make crime start spiking again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of mass incarceration, but you can see where the skepticism of reform comes from. It's impossible to overstate how bad things were perceived to be in the 90s.
Degoogling My Life
On youtube

Joe Rogan, Sargon of Akkad, Viva Frey, Academic Agent, Thunderf00t, 1791
Or for extra irony, ClosedAI
> Call me the n word all you want. But if you threaten my life you should be stopped.

Are you actually black? Because if you were I would think that you of all people would understand that calling someone (let's not mince words here) a nigger is threatening their life. The problem is not so much if I call you a nigger as if I say to my friend bubba, "Hey, what do you think we oughtta do 'bout that uppity nigger over there?"
There is empirical evidence face coverings (of basically any fabric) reduce transmission rates. It's not like a respirator where there's a testing guarantee that if you're in an atmosphere full of infectious agents you'll be fine, but spreading or catching a virus is a game of probabilities and masks reduce those probabilities.
Kinda. It's the difference in entropy, mostly driven by electron affinity. In the thermite reaction, the Fe-O bond is fairly strong - rust is quite stable. But the Al-O bond is stronger. Hence once you kick it hard enough to break that FeO bond, it drives the reaction.
Look on the bright side: it is speculative, and doesn't consider counterfactuals, etc.

Luckily, fine folks like aaomidi walk among us. Not many of them, but some.
Even better, store array A instead as a bit set, take the complement, then return the number of trailing zeros plus one.
Sounds like you need to do core exercises: crunches etc.
I realized over the past few years that there is no "natural" price for anything. It's 100% set by competition.

Economic research confirms this. Mergers result in higher prices due to less competition.

What we need is way, way, WAY more competition in healthcare. 10x as many providers, 10x as many clinics, with prices posted on the wall. When they start losing business, they'll notice.
> That was 20 minutes before.

:)

JFTR, My actual Top5 list of FLOSS apps is:

1. MuseScore

2. Blender

3. SolveSpace

4. AzPainter

5. OpenOrienteering Mapper
Focus on what do you want to achieve and what you are looking forward.
Looks like it triggered the flamewar detector. This usually happens if a post has more comments than votes, and the post did not reach the minimum threshold (40 points).
Massively agree. Also hate repositories that have issue templates that ask the same reworded question. I typically start writing it out and then just give up cause I can't think of how to answer the same question without just copy/pasting. You still get the typical "how can fix, not work?" issues so why overdo it? Should be simply:

1) What's wrong?
2) What's correct?
3) Reproduction
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!

I'm familiar with some subset of coding and number theory, so you can assume at least some more knowledge (Galois Fields, or basics of RS codes for example).

Small nitpick: The Vandermonde matrix actually isn't square. It's a (k × n) matrix, (where typically k ≠ n). Therefore, it can't be invertible.

I see that many codes contain a parity bit (for example the extended Golay code), however I don't see how the operation of recovering "the missing number" could be implemented in terms of a code and its encoding/decoding algorithms.

I've found this on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3492967/3868157

It describes a way to recover the missing number by constructing a Vandermonde matrix using the given numbers. This would correspond to constructing a generator matrix of a specific RS code [1].
However, after this I'm not so sure about the relation between encoding/decoding and recovering the missing number.

In the end they also factor a polynomial (that could be something analogous to the error locator polynomial?).

[1]: although I'm not sure if it's strictly an RS code
If you have TPM and BitLocker and didn't changed the system settings, bypassing login screen is equal to bypassing BitLocker.
I think that is absolutely a fair criticism. Personally, I rarely run into an issue where I absolutely am bottlenecked by a slow loop. But this sort of thing drew me to Julia in the first place.

There was also an R update in ~2017 that introduced some JIT speed-ups for loops, which made a noticeable difference.

If this is a problem you run into often, I suggest converting your object to a data.table. You can pass a function row-wise over the object very quickly:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25431307/r-data-table-ap...
> it is still very much the most powerfull country and will probably stay, if not number 1, at least in the top 3 for at least the rest of our lifetime.

That's funny. What do you really know, about where that power/wealth mostly comes from? Because last time I checked, it actually depends in almost every aspect on what the rest of the world thinks of the USA (including, not in the least important part, it's currency).

I'm even pretty sure that you would be surprised (probably even shocked) if you know how much business the USA does mostly covertly (if not clandestine) abroad, and what amounts of money are involved in that.

This is what I can tell you with a pretty good degree of certainty: during the last decade or so, plenty of the less-than-savory project, run by the USA abroad, have either dried up or been exposed/dismantled/destroyed. I have personally seen several of those go bust.

Less clear, and also with ant causation would be hard to prove, it did "miraculously" coincide with the USA ramping up their anti-Russia rhetoric.

Even a bigger step into speculative territory, one might even suspect that at least some of the turmoil at home in the USA, may have something to do with their most criminal elite no longer being as capable of getting their "fix" abroad, having to resort to exploiting the local population.

Either way though, I'm pretty convinced that most Americans overestimate how their economy has much intrinsic value .. if anything, I'd say it's more or less already bankrupt. Which is probably why we see all these wars, in order to prevent some key players from ditching the Dollar as trade/reserve currency. But that's all borrowed time.
Also the sorry state of tech skills in tech companies
Better how? What science? Do you have a citation? Most comparative diet studies are only observational with multiple confounding factors and no proper controls.
Realy interesting I have badly scared cornea from Sarcoidosis in one eye - I wonder if this would work for me
Actually... breaking O2 bonds and breaking hydrocarbon bonds both consume energy. The energy "comes from" the formation of water and CO2.
Even I am surprised:

Appendectomy: MSDRG 343: at Kaiser in Santa Clara: $56,000

Appendectomy: MSDRG 343: at Holston Valley Medical Center, TN: $4,700

Our healthcare system is even more broken than I ever imagined.
The equivalence is not in the persecution but on the validity of an heuristic that that dictates you are an asshole if a powerful majority says you are.
Hydrogen smelting.

http://www.fchea.org/in-transition/2019/11/25/hydrogen-in-th...
Show HN: A Windows 7 CSS framework? This is unreal
Fair, but as far as controlled experiments are possible in this kind of thing, it doesn't get much better than two kids with a shared birth parent and the same adoptive parents/environment.

Anyway, you're not wrong about the chaotic environment that is child rearing— the other side of this coin is sets of identical twins with differing sexualities, eg: https://kinseyinstitute.org/news-events/news/2019-07-26-twin...
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I guess they meant in expression blocks (for, while, struct ...).
I also landed on similar pages and now I am confused about SOCK5 proxy vs HTTP proxy vs SSL proxy as outlines in the links above.
Study: Low-carbon policies can be balanced to benefit small firms and households
>These considerations show that atmospheric O2 stores energy originating from the sun, and that the heat of combustion in air can be regarded as fossil solar energy

Neat
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That's my problem with the fediverse, I'm more far-right that far-left and I find nobody that share my opinions on the fediverse. Until it changes to be more open-minded, I will have to find my way elsewhere.
Blind man regains sight thanks to Israeli startup's synthetic cornea
Wouldn't that be offloaded to the sector that is producing the negative externality? If you are mining, you are using electricity.

If that electricity is coming from fossil energy, then that tax is already paid. If you are mining in a country that generates its energy with solar power, doesn't the argument of "bitcoin bad" become shaky?
Are you expecting people not to try and crack the site if you just tell them not to? lol