skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A dual system where we chose to have our tax dollars go where we want... why stop at healthcare?

I think a bit of differentiation could be good, but I draw a distinction here. You get to choose among choices available to you. So unless "not paying for the military" was an option written into law by congress, you could not select that option. And it would be unlikely to be offered, for many reasons, not the least of which is that everyone benefits from the military just by virtue of living within the borders of the US.

I don't think it should be a menu where each citizen gets to select from a huge range of options. I think for some things that would work, but there are many things too fundamental to let people opt in and out.
It's fairly trivial to write your own for any language, I have a c version where you simply start the file with "#!/usr/bin/env crun" the guts of the script is:

gcc -x c -ggdb -Wall -Wextra -Wno-main -Wno-unused-parameter -o $out $CFLAGS -include $header - $LDFLAGS <<-CRUN_EOF
#line 2 "$1"
$(tail +2 $1)
CRUN_EOF

Obviously gcc would be replaced with csc, you wouldn't need CFLAGS and you might need a temp file or something.
Hitachi is one of the zaibatsu in Japan. They do about everything under the sun and Hitachi is just an umbrella group name.
US healthcare is totally overpriced. I don’t believe for a single second that they are losing money on Medicare. Maybe in some areas but not on average.
Ideas, protocols, and (except perhaps in the post-Oracle-Java world) interfaces can still be copied. A lot of open source software actually does exactly that with ideas, protocols, and interfaces from closed source software.

What makes open source software "open source" is the source code, which is subject to copyright law. Ideas, protocols, and interfaces are not subject to copyright; only their expressions are subject to copyright.

The Embrace, Extend, Extinguish approach makes things incompatible with the way others do them to cement hold on a large user base that prevents those users from changing their minds later. Sometimes that takes the form of forcing people to reimplement everything in a cleanroom setting, because they can never keep up that way; that's where the GPL excels within the open source world for EEE. Other times, it's by diverging from norms in ways that others cannot follow without breaking their own ecosystems, which is where the GNU project has excelled with its plethora of subtle incompatibilities.
Geology is killing evolutionary biology.

The time-frame established by Geology for the age of the earth is fairly firm.

Yet, our knowledge of the complexity of life keeps increasing.

While we keep uncovering additional scales of complexity in biology, the time in which it was supposed to have randomly occurred remains constant.

We ARE reaching the point (long past it, actually) where the mathematics demonstrate it is highly improbable that life as we know it today could have emerged from nothing in the limited timeframe imposed by the geologists.

To a skeptic, the evolutionist sounds like this:
“It would take my program about 10 minutes to run through 2^N combinations.”

“How long if N was twice as large?”

“Ten minutes.”

“What if N is 100 times as large!”

“Still ten minutes! If you don’t believe me, you’re anti-science.”

“Maybe you’re anti-mathematics...”

“Lalalalla... I can’t hear you... here’s a link to a Dawkins video.”

“Yeah... whatever...”
This used to be true, until bank accounts started to pay 0%, or a very small amount of interest which is less than even the official inflation rate (let alone the unofficial (and more accurate!) inflation rate).

There is not deflation happening right now. There is massive and sustained inflation, which you can see all around you in terms of high quality food prices (meat, cheese, seafood), housing, all forms of education not subsidized by the government, medicine, cars, and on and on.

The reserve currency status of the US dollar is a side effect of the US' relatively brief global hegemony which is rapidly collapsing, plus the reduced global importance of oil which has been priced almost exclusively in USD. There will be many threats to USD from other countries (China, the EU) and experimental technologies (Bitcoin, Ethereum).

Several generations of economists have bought full-on to a failed economic system. We have been seeing many problems with it over 40 years since we removed any pretense of the gold standard,[0] but we have seen it over and over and over with various crises. Anyone who thinks our current monetary system is the best humanity can do is not thinking critically.

[0] https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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There was also an interesting virtual round table discussion about this subject in january. Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOFcJ0-nG10
I like the guys who deliver propane to my front door, and they fill it up more than I get at the supermarket exchanges. Goes by the name of "Gassy Dan's" in Orange County.

There's also a good wine/beer/tobacco shop nearby: Hi-Time liquor and wine - definitely worth stopping by. More fun than your bevmo-style experience.
Logistic regression of variable length data with dynamic kernel matching
I had totally forgotten about his name even though I remembered watching a bunch of his videos back when I first started learning about blockchain. Thank you for sharing this!
I think tomorrow might be April 1st... just my guess.
I was debt free, then back in debt for 5 years, and am again debt free, minus a company (my own) paid vehicle lease. The difference for mindset is pretty impactful.
What kind of employers even give a shit about accredited high schools? I didn't even graduate high school and I don't think a single person has ever asked about it.
I don’t know that that’s true for most people; often the topics being taught aren’t as important as the skills you’re being taught/exposed to. Many people, especially Americans, never attend college. High school is the only chance before adulthood to socialize with your peers and learn what it means to interact with people of various upbringings. Anecdotally, my sibling graduated with a class of nine from a private Christian school and they are very far behind from a social and educational standpoint when compared to me, who graduated from a normal public high school with a few hundred of my peers. She also never read any of the books I was made to read in high school... I could not fathom the blank spot that has created for my sibling. Maybe I was fortunate to go to school before Common Core, or lucky I had more good teachers than bad but 20 years out from HS I might not remember everything I learned there, but the stuff I do remember helped mold how I think about things.
Oh, no one means abolishing private healthcare suppliers.

The question is whether you should be able to completely opt out of the public healthcare system and go 100% private. Which IMO you shouldn't be able to - otherwise you get yet more fragmentation and higher costs.

But certainly, most healthcare providers would still be private at least for a good while.
SH is now owned by Renesas. As a side note, the recently burned Renesas Naka factory is previously owned by Hitachi, located on Hitachinaka-city.
> Regardless, in Australia fewer will reach that cohort because preventive measures through universal health care are in place. That means widely available cancer screenings will catch malignant tissues before they turn cancerous.

This is an assertion that you're stating as fact, but it's directly contradicted by both the aforementioned study (it's not true that "fewer people reach that cohort") and by existing domain knowledge about how cancer screening actually works.

As explained below, screening people for cancers earlier actually doesn't improve mortality rates significantly. In fact, survival rates are actually roughly flat when adjusted for detection time, because earlier detection mostly catches cancers that wouldn't actually progress to be fatal in the first place.

> Additionally those screenings will be lower cost than the US model

You have this backwards. Screenings for early asymptomatic cancer are actually the textbook example of gratuitous costs.
Some countries do have committes that decide exactly that. And it's a widely cherished and extremely effective social service for new mothers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kela_(Finnish_institution)

Can you imagine? A box full of useful clothes and supplies, decided by government committee, being handed out at the hospital, free of charge, so mother can relax and care for baby! What a nightmare!
It’s not binary is the point.
"The requested page "content/2/8/e1600451" could not be found.", though google confirms the url.

Edit: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02015

"Socially relevant situations that involve strategic interactions are widespread among animals and humans alike. To study these situations, theoretical and experimental works have adopted a game-theoretical perspective, which has allowed to obtain valuable insights about human behavior. However, most of the results reported so far have been obtained from a population perspective and considered one specific conflicting situation at a time. This makes it difficult to extract conclusions about the consistency of individuals' behavior when facing different situations, and more importantly, to define a comprehensive classification of the strategies underlying the observed behaviors. Here, we present the results of a lab-in-the-field experiment in which subjects face four different dyadic games, with the aim of establishing general behavioral rules dictating individuals' actions. By analyzing our data with an unsupervised clustering algorithm, we find that all the subjects conform, with a large degree of consistency, to a limited number of behavioral phenotypes (Envious, Optimist, Pessimist, and Trustful), with only a small fraction of undefined subjects. We also discuss the possible connections to existing interpretations based on a priori theoretical approaches. Our findings provide a relevant contribution to the experimental and theoretical efforts towards the identification of basic behavioral phenotypes in a wider set of contexts without aprioristic assumptions regarding the rules or strategies behind actions. From this perspective, our work contributes to a fact-based approach to the study of human behavior in strategic situations, that could be applied to simulating societies, policy-making scenario building and even for a variety of business applications."
Here's a letter that Ullman signed (5th name up from the bottom) that seems to pretty explicitly condemn apartheid in South Africa [1]. The letter's main argument is that Israel is not an apartheid state (which I guess is something of a controversial topic) but overall the sentiment of the letter reads to me as "apartheid is bad".

[1] http://spme.stanford.edu/scholarsspeakout.html
The comment was comparing two people taking an RV, not a commuter car, to air travel and hotel stays. I failed to mention it but was most interested in how the hotel laundry carbon footprint was a big factor.
US healthcare spending is already far higher than anywhere else in the world. It's not a "quantity" problem, it's an "allocation" problem. Too much is allocated to various middlemen for profit, and generally too much is wasted on care that does not produce good returns in terms of quality-adjusted years-of-life. For example, too much is spent on the elderly and sick, and not enough on maintaining the healthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Kind of a reckless, noob move by someone like the intercept.
They're not just the parent company, J&J owns the vaccine. It's their property.

The world knows the Johnson & Johnson brand. It's one of the top brands on the planet and has been for decades. Most of the world doesn't know Janssen. It's logical to call it the J&J vaccine accordingly, for marketing purposes it makes a lot more sense.

If the Berkeley West Lab subsidiary of J&J produced the vaccine, nobody would call it the Berkeley West Lab vaccine.
^ this.

I find the idea of being fed a story fascinating because a successful story feels more real than life itself and I'm not sure you can separate the two (life and the stories we tell ourselves). Once you can see it for what it is, that it's just a story, it breaks the illusion. But a really powerful story sucks you back in time and time again, and sometimes, you forget that you were being told a story in the first place.

And now after typing the above paragraph I sit wondering how many stories I currently believe are real, are just stories after all. Money being one of the most powerful.
Youtube has been displaying prominent banners on their homepage for the past several months promoting identity-politics centric content by token members. These videos were down voted to oblivion. The community clearly doesn't like their woke agenda (including I). Quickly the videos comments and ratings become disabled. I can't help but think this new feature to disable down votes is somehow a sinister way to take away the power of people to signal their disapproval of driving narratives.
Added two new providers to the benchmark. You can now check AWS Cloudfront and AWS Amplify on the list
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I thought this was an April Fools joke at first.
A long while back, my brother worked for a local "non-profit" health insurance company. Same part of the building as some of the lawyers. They'd brag amongst themselves in the break room about the various ways they'd managed to avoid responsibility for paying a big claim. He ended up quitting his job because he couldn't stomach working in that environment.
I am the OP, so along with your "bullshit detector", I'm afraid your eye for details may also be due for a service.

A stage IV of any single one of the myriad subtypes of cancer is not a representative example of all cancers, let alone a guide to their stage distribution. Cherry-picking one, and then grossly distorting its stats, tells us nothing.

The simple fact is, a very senior doctor, whose job is to diagnose cancer, observed that US institutions have a disproportionately large collection of late-stage presentations to study.
Appears to be an April Fool's joke.
Microsoft $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply augmented reality headsets
Any ideas how he is collecting the data? They are extremely on the ball about banning tradebots in game.
Fwiw, I'll never go back to a regular mouse and I don't suffer from RSI. Vertical mice and trackballs are _just_ better ergonomically. My wrists never feel fatigued and it's very relaxing.
Entirely different in fact. Pfizer doesn't own BioNTech, they're business partners. J&J owns Janssen (for 60 years now), the vaccine belongs specifically to J&J.
As some one born and raised in Bangalore, These kind of projections have been done for long. They don't happen, and there's lots of reasons for that.

For starters I honestly believe to have genuine upgrade of infrastructure and living standards, you need to increase people's income levels. While there's steady upwards income mobility in Bangalore, it's still no where near to cause leap frog progress.

The remainder of reasons go beyond the scope of discussion of a small HN comment. They have lots to do with insane levels of corruption, and socio-economic attitudes of people. Enough money already exists, is sanctioned and spent to leap frog infrastructure to DisneyLand levels. But nearly negligible actually gets spent, needless to say the dishonesty in quality of work done.

Beyond this we just need to acknowledge nearly everyone here(including the common man walking on the street) is corrupt and just wants to loot and scoot at the expense of destroying things for everyone.

The other part just continues. Bangalore is not even a city, its really more like a mix of at-least 4 districts, gradually absorbed in to the original 'Bangalore' city. People will keep coming into the city, and jobs keep arriving. Since the already dismal state of spending, and progress. No new cities can be built in other places, so people continue to arrive. Real estate prices go up, there is no where near Sanitation infrastructure, or Electricity or even roads. But investors keep buying out lands a decade in advance. And people with no discipline or inclination to play this game just have to pay up high rents or pay 2 - 5 times the cost of a home. All this for access to schools, hospitals, career etc.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1471-5740...

via http://foodsafetytalk.com/food-safety-talk/2012/6/25/food-sa...
> JWST, its replacement, has been in a warehouse for thirty years

JWST development was started in 1996 (25 years ago), so it can't have been in a warehouse for 30 years. The detailed design phase was ongoing in 2007 and assembly of the primary mirror was only completed in 2016 (dates from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope).

Perhaps you're thinking of the National Reconnaissance Office telescopes that were offered to NASA in 2012 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...)? Those are similar telescopes to Hubble in some ways, and one is being used for the WFIRST mission.

Despite sometimes being billed as such, JWST can only be partly considered a replacement for HST. HST has ultraviolet observing capabilities (wavelengths a short as ~90nm), while JWST observes primarily in the infrared, with some capability to wavelengths of 600nm. There's some overlap (in the 600nm-1600nm range), but JWST can observe out to about 28,000nm (28micron) wavelengths. The JWST wavelength range is perhaps more comparable to that of the Spitzer Space Telescope (particularly the IRAC and IRS instruments, covering 3.5-40microns; MIPS covered out to 160microns). The LUVOIR concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Ultraviolet_Optical_Infr...) would probably have the better claim to being an HST successor, given its proposed UV capabilities.
This is Youtube's revenge for users not loving the Rewind 2018 video
The "Make in India" campaign launched in 2014 and the government still has nothing to show for it. What makes you think things will be different now?
In the middle of battle:

Your Windows is updating, do not turn off your computer.
Someone in India said they'd give you a billion dollars if you just give them...nope. I'm out. Seen this one one YouTube too many times already.
i won’t mind not seeing all of the “how could six people dislike this video?!?!” comments.

doesn’t seem worth it though.
This was could be true but its April Fools too
So I might be a good joke Lol
That steering committee has condemned RMS as well now.
>Hogwash, most European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Japan are not micro-countries

Australia: population less than 10% of the US.

New Zealand: population about 5% of the US.

Japan: Population about 33% of the US.

Canada: Population about 10% of the US.

Yes they are.

If you want to talk about states individually deciding to provide healthcare for their citizenry, then I think there is a comparison to be made.

Do you think that the people in France would give up their French healthcare for one that was provided by the EU? The answer would be no.
good luck getting videos of the hong kong protests with a ByteDance YouTube!
This is somewhat similar to how I tend to exercise when I go hard at it. If I'm feeling down or I'm feeling dull pains I intensely workout and always feel better afterwards. I like to imagine I'm pushing the pain out with a rewarding kind.
Heard the Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF say they make most of their money on elective procedures.
I don't actually subscribe to the "JS is a bad language" meme (and maybe the meme has died off a bit, partially thanks to typescript), but implicit coercion is one thing that people cite, with behavior exactly like that nontransitive Golang case.

Also see this minitalk (which actually gets some things wrong because of confusion on how the terminal interpreter behaves but is still amusing):
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Goldman Sachs is close to offering Bitcoin to its wealth management clients
Hard to row without having a boat, unless of course you're talking about rowing machines. Which do you recommend?
It wasn't "authorized for communications".

It was always a junk ISM band, eg used for industrial applications that radiate interference.

Companies can use it on the condition that they accept any interference.
Just noting that someone on HN says that considering the Mona Lisa a better piece of art than squares-and-circles nonsense "an uniformed position to take". Art people have been a consistent source of absurdity in my life!
Not pinning the onus on individuals, but instead addressing the leverage points such as the corporate emissions regulations and enforcement mechanisms that exist today.
no vim keybindings :(
That reminds me. A loved one died of cancer. All involved would have preferred that they died in 6 months instead of 2.5 years. Because the final 2 years of their life was filled with painful treatment that left everyone involved stressed, anxious, and saw a loved one slowly decline.

Optimizing for those extra 2 months is not a goal we should be striving for.
I switched from i3 to GNOME because I found it so keyboard friendly and simple. I never needed Fibonacci ratio sized windows in practice, just workspaces and easy window sizing and switching. What do you find that awesome has over GNOME?
Thanks! Will try on weeekend
Oo, both X11 and wayland support. Will try.
Kitty as well.
Yes, it does. I think most of the various silly awards they have nowadays don't do it, but at least the original Reddit Gold award before all that other stuff does elevate a post or comment.
PayPal just announced that it's letting users pay in crypto...I have heard few more RIAs & wealth managers offering such options....
> Tags: April 1, double take, pasta
I think vitamin B6 is supposed to do it. I had symptoms in one wrist. Was pretty bad. I started taking a B Complex (B50) a couple times a day and it went away within a week. Some C would probably also help.
Thanks, I'll double check the kernel sources in my distro (I'm using Fedora 33).
Because that's how good we are as a society at efficiently allocating capital and operating supply chains. Regulators have to sign off before you can administer it to anyone but you can ramp up your production in parallel with the approval process.

It's actually an incredible achievement.
And then what? Amazon has then told all its employees that their plight is less important than making a poor joke at the expense of our competitor. Those employees are people with feelings.
Italy makes Covid-19 vaccine mandatory for all health workers
Idling downhill costs less gas but may lead you in the wrong direction for a short while, vs going over a hilly route where you must accelerate uphill more often.

As a simple, unimaginative example. I'm sure you can think of others if you put in the time.
This is simply so google can exert more control over its platform and control the narrative.

Hate to be so cynical but watching what happened to reddit seeing some similarities here at youtube.

It’s almost like Google (and others) want to tell you which videos are good and should be watched and pretend to have user interaction.

TV 3.0
This is a failure of leadership to ensure that a quality product is being delivered by the system they're responsible for.

I'd usually be pretty forgiving especially when there is a high degree of novelty.

Maybe this particular vaccine is novel and that benefit of the doubt should be extended in this case, I'm not sure though.

It's also possible this is common variation but we never hear about it.