skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It keeps the spacetime continuum together with personal branding, consultant think-pieces and virtual cocktail hour networking while scanning the universe for a more important person to elevator.
> Call me and pickup when I call, or GTFO.

I don't exist at your beck and call. Text me and respect that I have a life beyond hanging on the telephone, or I don't care to distinguish you from the billions of autodialers who are the only ones still rude enough to make such demands on my time.

BTW, cute misspellings. Little jugs got big ears, I suppose.
> I'd say there's around 10 orders of magnitude between the momentum of a rifle bullet and the momentum of a communications satellite at escape velocity.

That's quite an overestimation.

Let's be generous and say a rifle bullet is 50 gram (0.05 kg) and fires at 1.1 km/s, and a communication satellite weighs 5 metric tonne (5000 kg) and escape velocity is 11 km/s. We have 5 orders of magnitude difference in mass and 1 in velocity. As momentum is m*v, total difference is 6 orders of magnitude. Kinetic energy is 1/2*m*v^2, so that gives 7 orders of magnitude difference.*
Does he look older just because he’s spent so much time in the sun? The sun will make you look like a raisin with excessive exposure.
There are three heads to this beast: hospitals, insurance companies, and drug companies. Each swears it is innocent and points to the other two and calls them the problem, but they are all guilty.

You've covered the evil tactics of insurers, but providers absolutely engage in intentional opaqueness, overbilling, and as much screwball behavior as the market will bear. No, the insurance company did not force them to charge $500 for an aspirin and "accidentally" bill in full for a procedure that was discussed as a hypothetical but never actually happened. "Look over there!" isn't going to cut it as an excuse forever.
Supreme Court Removes Barrier to Protecting First Amendment
nice, solved it in about half an hour. At first it looked impossible past the first maybe 5 free characters. I feel like there were a lot of characters that had to be solved sudoku-style by holding up to 4 constraints in mind at the same time, which was tricky.
Gardening for the Common Good
The providers should get paid every month that you’re in excellent health.

Imagine how many cheap cures we would “suddenly discover”.
https://garbageface.bandcamp.com

i call it doom rap / industrial soul / no future.
thanks for checking it out if you do.
Who is making the profits? Most health insurance orgs, mine included, are not for profit. BCBS, Kaiser, Wellmark, etc
There's an alternate N in there!
The cost of taking onboard US customers is always a big issue. Particularly related to insurance. We build open source mobile apps to help people learn about and manage digital security. When we first setup our company in the UK we easily got insurance coverage across the EU and rest of the EMEA for about a few hundred pounds. Want to get if for the US also for a new company? Oh that'll be in the tens of thousands of pounds.
I agree, and you absolutely shouldn't replace a car on the basis of fuel economy savings alone. (Having said that, most people aren't junking their old cars if they have a useful service life left, they're reselling them into the used car market.)

But if you compare a new 1998 car to a new 2018 car of the same class, the 2018 car is absolutely going to be better on fuel efficiency and emissions than the 1998 car. And it's not like they got better at fuel efficiency and worse at user maintainability for entirely unrelated reasons; sticking little computers and sensors in things like the fuel injection system is why they're more fuel efficient/better at emissions. (Yes, the little dashboard display is not saving you anything on fuel, it's not 100% related, but they're not fully orthogonal issues either.
Don't forget Guy Debord who was writing about this in 1967.

"The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than "that which appears is good, that which is good appears. The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of appearance."

"False choice in spectacular abundance, a choice which lies in the juxtaposition of competing and complimentary spectacles and also in the juxtaposition of roles (signified and carried mainly by things) which are at once exclusive and overlapping, develops into a struggle of vaporous qualities meant to stimulate loyalty to quantitative triviality."
> This is the first I've heard if the ISS holding onto satellites, I thought satellites are deployed by the launch rocket and just put into orbit.

Sometimes CubeSats will launch as ride-alongs on the rocket itself (it's more common on rockets not already going to the ISS) and others are designed to be launched from the ISS itself depending on how they're being paid for. In either case they'll wind up in the roughly 51 degree inclination of the ISS.

> Can we go the other way and use the ISS as like an orbital garage to capture and fix satellites?

They can't really capture satellites because very few actually orbit at that level it's mostly the kind of short term cube sats that they launch out not larger satellites. Those live in higher orbits so getting to them to fix is not a small task. Another big hurdle is the orbital inclination changing that is extremely expensive to do, basically everything is placed into it's final orbital inclination at launch because of the fuel requirements to change it once you're in orbit. It's why the ISS is at such a high inclination to begin with, so that it's easier to get to from Baikonur where Russia launches it's vehicles from.
They have sent me a bill for non-preventive services which should have been billed as preventive (aka free), but to their credit I was able to get them to refill with a not-too-tedious phone call.
Because you decide your political beliefs, and reactions to those decisions inform whether or not you continue to hold them.

Unlike a protected class, which you cannot choose to be a member of. Being of a political party is not a protected class, nor should it be.

The "most vulnerable people in our society" are the people who are discriminated on things they are, not things they do. Gab users are not the most vulnerable, because they choose to be who they're judged for.

It's viscerally insulting to see that point misunderstood, because it belies a fundamental misunderstanding of large portions of how society functions in practice. Because of what you said, and people who believe what you've said, people suffer. That's hard to confront on HN, because you don't expect it.
"I trust AVG"

Problem #1 :)

It's open source software. I promise in the thousands of people that look at that source code they would know if there was a virus before AVG XD
Never buy Epson printers (2016)
Keeping in mind, it can be both brilliant _and_ pretentious, especially in different paragraphs.
Not all mosquito spread disease or bite humans and the ones that do are not a major part of important ecosystems. When DEET was used heavily it didn't collapse any ecosystems. If we eliminate those species, the non-spreaders will fill the niche while eliminating major human suffering. It is not comparable to killing any sparrow sized bird.
"Rationality" is similar to "effectiveness", in that it's value-neutral. The existing movement named "rationalism", of course, is made of people who have particular values.
True that’s right. I was just highlighting the spin that SQLite puts on the returning idea. What a really cool feature and db
Bitcoin still doesn’t provide any significant value
outside of black market purchases, though.
The increase in value is due to an increase in hype and a lot of people hoping to get rich quick - not due to increased practical adoption.
Governments aren’t going to let it replace currencies they can control - and to be honest, I’m not sure we’d want it to - somebody’s always in control, and I’d argue it’s better to at least know who they are (see any HN comments on “flat” organizations). It’s just a bunch of wasted energy to arbitrarily move money from one set of traders to another.
The Myanmar military could pretty much do what it wanted in terms of military activities, but while Myanmar had an elected civilian government it was arguably reasonable to accept assurances that a civilian education institution was free of military interference. However now that this institution is controlled and run by a military government that is clearly not a reasonable assumption.
You just need to go back to the 1990's, when Usenet and BBSes were still active.
KYC and AML laws are a type of warrantless mass-surveillance that is antithetical to a free society that values privacy rights.

They are also extremely ineffective at stopping crime, while imposing enormous economic and human costs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/lsk4ui/kill_your_custo...
The executives, board members, and middle management at all of these companies. I've worked with some of the companies you named, they have lavish offices and gravy train jobs for everyone and their crony friends. Yes, they're "not for profit", but that doesn't mean no one gets (insane) bonuses. Checkout their 990s sometime to get an idea at the excess of cash being pocketed.
This is fantastic. It is the homelab version of Google shifting workloads around the globe based on the cost of energy/cooling.
I live from an info product. So does a big part of the publishing industry. I learned to do something (move to Germany) and I now help others do the same. I thought of doing the same about motorcycle travel but it's not really that difficult.

Am I missing something?
And for thousands of years the churches have been saying, "The culture isn't going to give you that."
STARTcraft – Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial
Does this include older books, say 100, or even 1,000 years old? Anyone know?
Yet there are groups here that tend to downvote certain not necessarily evil views to oblivion. For example if you support capitalism and in context write your opinion in favour of some events, expect a rain of downvotes or if you dare to criticise Apple. Quite ironic.
The guy who created the Vorbis codec explains why this really isn't the case and why high sampling rates with ultrasonics actually are bad for playback quality. https://web.archive.org/web/20120306150922/https://people.xi...

I would really encourage blind testing of one's assumptions about audio quality. Foobar2000 has this super nice ABX plugin that can handle automatic conversation to different codecs and or PCM sampling rates and depth from lossless sources. https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx

I can personally recognize full bitrate mp3 (this ancient codec maxes out at 320 kbps where it still sounds colored). This is a well-made pre-configured test https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...

But move on to anything more modern than mp3, such as Apple's AAC encoder (there's a ton of bad AAC encoders out there) or Vorbis with VBR settings averaging at 256-320 kbps. You'll find it very hard to spot the lossy encodes in a blind test. Opus is astonishingly good at even lower bitrates.
The Great Québec Blackout
I knew about that little caveat/scam going in. So I spoke with hospital billing and confirmed that the hospital did accept our insurance. But I also discovered that any other doctor that works on you during the birth will bill separately and will need to accept your insurance.

I asked the hospital who the anesthesiologist would be and they said they had no way of knowing because you use whoever is on duty when you give birth.

So there was literally no way to figure out if all of the birth would be covered. And it turns out, the anesthesiologist that happened to be working that day was not accepted on our plan. They billed us for $4k (even though he botched the epidural, causing us to need an emergency c section.)

We had to decline to pay it a few times before they said they would work it out and accept the lower amount from our insurance.
...I wait 3-5 years...

You're saving money at both ends! Not only are you not buying X-rays, but it's also fairly likely that by the time a condition is serious enough to cause you pain, the only option left will be to pull the tooth. Extractions are definitely cheaper than fancy procedures like root canals, fillings, and crowns. At some point you might have no teeth remaining, and you won't have to worry about the issue at all!

Modern dental x-rays involve minuscule radiation levels.
It wasn't the metal that caught fire, it was the hydraulic fluid. You still wouldn't want to use water on that though.

Everyone down thread is commenting like the aluminum caught fire. That's not what the article says:

"A piece of machinery containing molten metal caught fire"

It's really hard to get aluminum hot enough to combust if it's in a big blob. Powder on the other hand...
Agreed. I have a monthly donation automatically taken out of my account
I recently bought a house in a wooded area. In the backyard was a large old tree that I could not identify. After much searching I figured out that it was a chestnut tree! The article says they are the "perfect tree", but the chestnuts are incredibly sharp and tough. Very painful to step on.
If you go back 20 years, there were plenty of available CPU cyles that were unused. They could productively be used for stuff like SETI@home and Folding@home.

But newer CPUs, screens, storage devices, and therefore entire computer systems have gotten very very good at not using power when they're idle. Probably a lot of this was because of the EPA Energy Star program.

What you advocate would probably increase total power consumption. Dedicated ASICs used by the "power hungry mining operations" are overall more energy efficient than using otherwise idle cycles on general purpose CPUs.
> What if "missing the drone ship" means "hitting Chicago"?

It doesn't and never will. The rocket is never on a trajectory that will hit Chicago (or any other populated area). The splashdown point of the ballistic trajectory is always over the ocean, until the final burn puts it on the drone ship or landing pad. If that burn doesn't happen for whatever reason, it crashes in the ocean (and that has happened in the past).
European here: we have all of those.
Or maybe a text message is just a much more practical and less disruptive form of communication with, you know, another human being. You're being quite judgemental on other people and ascribing behavior just because they happen to communicate in methods that you find inappropriate. Not very constructive.
San Francisco's Poop-Patrol Boss Made $380K and Has Been Charged with Corruption
> To me, using function keys is un-apple-ish.

To add to this point, I don’t recall using the function keys for anything other than adjusting brightness or volume or similar functions that aren’t associated with application specific features.

> I have command, control, and option keys that allow me to be quite expressive without moving my hands away from the home area of the board.

This is true, with the Command and Option keys providing many choices of keyboard actions if one learns about them. But in general, macOS is not as keyboard friendly as Windows (or Linux), where many things have keyboard access by default across applications. But this is digressing from the function keys and Touch Bar points.
I was just finishing my implementation of this in the console when I saw your comment!
Take a look at this: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/hospital-price-... It's not a nice interface, but it's raw pricing data for 1400 hospitals.
hey neighbour

also this! we've gotten really lazy around here, so we just take and cut. here's our new RegExp() for that, as @elbab below would definitely agree if he knew which way to read it. easy does it:

3^24#1.

fun fact: i actually once took a semester of arabic just out of curiosity how an rtl language with all vowels omitted works perfectly fine for a lot of people, and nobody says is looks like regexp.

EOT = Fin 0x04
eot:for i:EOT. EOT

(kelasquez out)
Yeah I definitely get that. I've never done a puzzle of this type before, but I have done a hell of a lot of logic puzzles (thanks to the Simon Tatham collection among others) so I was able to figure out a good attack vector. I agree, it wasn't easy to find where to start nor where to make progress in the beginning. Lots of data to ingest.
Not just the cars ... maintaining the economy that creates those jobs that make new new stuff, and let people pay those new prices ... while wasting the old, and paying/maintaining someone expert enough to keep them running.

Also fixing, improving: you gain that knowledge for yourself and share it with others. Instead of remaining a one-trick-pony. How many people even know how to change an oil filter? Hell you may wind up paying someone to change your battery. How crazy is that? Winding up tightly dependent.
Meanwhile in developing countries, health care is hassle-free and low cost.

I spent 24usd for an invasive procedure and meds in Taiwan. I’m honestly happy I left the States years ago because I’d probably be in debt at this point.
They indeed do, except that's complete bullshit.

Wikipedia says first Ubuntu release was in 2004.

In 1999 the first on Z were SLES and Turbolinux, and after that Red Hat came on board. Red Hat wasn't liked back then because they resisted standardization (see history of LSB).
Why should I care about your input on the quality of the solution? Do you have a personal or professional stake in it?
Cubes at imaging is really decent nowadays, this article shows images of a refugee camp.

https://www.ft.com/content/c7e00344-111a-11e8-940e-08320fc2a...

The concern is probably that satellite images could be used to identify and keep track of Rohingya and other ethnic minority settlements in jungle areas, and target them for attacks like the ones the military have been carrying out since 2017.
IIRC, even if we could, we can do better. For example a Saturn V engine is around 5,000 parts, though we've lost the knowledge to assemble them. However, a contemporary study of that found that, with modern manufacturing techniques, you can build an equivalent today with just 40 parts.
Nawh, I always get permission before playing on grassy turf and never speculate if an incomplete course would still be playable. Next, I'd never win a beard-growing challenge. Finally, he has way, way more cash in his wallet; so if you ever need to break a 20.
Here is some more information about the orchard.

http://skylinechestnuts.com/about2.html
It’s fascinating to me that the CD didn’t enter my household until the mid-90s. It speaks to exactly what the woman in the video said about cartridges and tapes. I can’t say that I know why it took more than a decade for CDs to become common place, but I do find it fascinating.
Sure, emissions are undeniably better (unless you have a VW, haha) but this is only a net gain if the car gets scrapped, not sold into the used market like you say most people do - that way we have the old smoker still driving around, plus the new one and all its manufacturing costs.
The only real gain is for the new car buyers psychologically - they get to feel like they're doing their part, buying their way to a greener planet.
What’s the best device for capturing point clouds in the sub $500 range?
did you consider somebody else ?
for example sutter health has a price list for common things online https://www.sutterhealth.org/for-patients/health-care-costs-...
I'm afraid HQ closed around 8 years and 56 days ago. :-)
We should certainly be upset that a giant bank is effectively advising them not to create cures.
Yeah in the case of water on burning kitchen oil it just makes a big fuel-air bomb if the oil is atomized enough. Kinda like one of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i20zvZ-3MMw

Note the initial dispersion of some atomized material followed by a triggered explosion some time later.
From what I understand, Firefox has a lower precision timer, which means you need to do more cache timer repetitions; try increasing it to 400,000, it should look more like the demo (though it still doesn't generate two entirely separate curves).
Kaiser is amazing. Other than no surprise bills that you mentioned they also have your full history that is accessible to all doctors and to you. Also no scammy $200 new patient copays etc
It's a bench top display projecting directly into the camera. Similar to the one presented below, which provides a bit more context about how the display works.

https://light.princeton.edu/publication/hil-holography/
Hydraulic fluid under pressure is a class B fire than can very quickly escalate. Sand bags aren't going to be doing much in those situations

https://youtu.be/aj8-JlRqoWc

If you have molten metals class D powder suppression is needed. I'm amazed the old NUMI plant doesn't have both ready for action.
Bettelheim argues that the violence depicted in fairy tales is valuable, and it stands quite in contrast to the children’s books sold today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Enchantment
You don't need any tokio or async/await to use mpsc. It's in the standard library and works just fine with a thread spawned with a closure to work on.

It's split into a read half and a write half so you don't have to worry about copy or clone, as an execution context will only have one or the other. I guess you clone the write half to give it to multiple producers, but that's not a huge deal.

The example here for instance doesn't look any more complicated than using go channels, and it's a full executable example you can start by clicking the run button.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/mpsc/fn.channel.html
I think she is one of the brightest I've found communicating to laymen on social media platforms, but I agree, she definitely blurs the line of "anti-establishment entertainer" and "educator/professional" in her communications. I still don't think I could come to any conclusions about her without trying to understand how she communicates with peers outside of social media.
Throttling Twitter traffic in Russia: how they do it and why it doesn't work
Disrupting the operational tempo and capacity of these fringe groups doesn't mean you end up solving the problem for every person.
I absolutely would have expected that the API exists to do this w/o human intervention. And given Windows, A way to do it via Group Policy & Active Directory.

I'm a strong believer, however, in making sure the user has visibility and control into it, so both methods (manually add/remote/check status & API) ought to be available.
In a moment of levity, check out Dogen's dramatization of having a child in Japan as a westerner.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl5WSGs5bGs
indeed. previously on prison break:

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shoyer on Oct 26, 2019 [–]

The practical counterpoint to Dex is Jax, by many of the same authors: https://github.com/google/jax
I’m optimistic that we’ll eventually be able to figure out how to build practical tools [..] The biggest challenge may be trying to fit them into Python syntax.

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(isn't that a golden blast from the past. i'm a bit lost in precedence rules for 'practical' in this pearl, but i love it anyway. i hope all that optimism and the power of positive thinking came to fruition.)
Can anybody tell me the resolution of the cameras on this satellite? Would it be better than the resolution of the images available from Google Maps? How much resolution is needed "to monitor agriculture and fisheries"?
Could mRNA ever cure my colour deficiency? Or do I misunderstand the biology?
I was similarly amazed to learn that a couple of years ago, after borrowing a concert recording CD from a library marked "Recorded in West Germany ©1983." One that the disc was in such great condition after 3 decades, and two that I had modern devices still able to read it. The same could not be said for many other types of digital or analog media...