skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say don't underestimate and write off medication.

You can master the art of balancing medication intake to fit your needs.

Sadly, the biggest roadblock in that case is having to deal with doctors and pharmacists who just won't give you what you need.
With single payer healthcare, that money goes to the government, which is bad.

In the current US system, that money goes to private companies, which is good.

Don't bother questioning this because it's axiomatic. It has ceased to be merely political theory; it's now core to many people's identity. Any threat to that status quo is a personal, existential threat.
No, but it's far easier to see what the hell an R script is doing versus an Excel file. And there's just a ton more that R can do that Excel can't. More powerful plotting options, more tools like Random Forests or mixed effect models. And has less issues with floating point.

Excel is good for accounting tasks because that's what it and other spreadsheet software were originally designed for. Data science tasks are tacked on.
I believe the problem in any society is that the older generation relies on the younger to care and/or subsidize costs of said care for the older as their health declines. That breaks down when population starts declining.
Do we actually get to see anything or is this just a heavily marketing-laden landing page? Perhaps I overlooked something.
Nope. That seems to be one of the reasons why they are so sturdy. Nothing susceptible to rusting inside.

Some Roman concrete piers have actually hardened further through the constant action of the waves, so they are now harder than they were in antiquity.
You could say the same thing for any salesperson.
The whole broadcast has been a disaster.

Makes me appreciate even more how good of a job SpaceX has done with their broadcasts.
"Astronaut 001, licence to thrill"

This is comically cringeworthy :)
> It was pesticide free because of you put chemicals on the plants it would get into the water and hurt the fish.

Funny how on a smaller human scale ("our bass will die and our food production will be in danger"), the problem and solution seem obvious. Once you scale it up to world terms, where you're only lightly polluting a very large amount of animals, humans no longer instinctively comprehend it. Much like empathy and compassion only hold a group together up to a certain size.
And it was approved by the TVA, so...there's that.
> or I'll FEED MYSELF TO SHARKS

Highly likely that you won't. Standing there, ready to go, your survival instinct will go into overdrive and suddenly living a bit longer regardless of the pain won't seem so bad.
I think it's quite condescending of you to think I'm some naive, little child who's seen nothing of the world.

Perhaps you should first learn how to be polite and first try to ask questions, before assuming everyone is dumber than you.
There is a case where forest growth is providing a positive feedback to climate change. The boreal forest is slowly replacing tundra on its boundary, which reduces the albedo in the Arctic.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-011-1064-7
The Problem of Evil (2015)
I can sort of see some arguments for this conclusion, but I've never read any comprehensive argument or guideline explaining why intrusive containers are a good idea, and how best to use them. Do you have something like this?
Summary: Monoculture tree planting can actually degrade the environment. Reforestation of a natural forest environment is good.

If planting x trees is an incentivized metric you can end up with most of the trees dieing or with a monoculture forest that degrades the land.
Part of the problem is that software project decision makers view software projects as far more mutable than physical engineering projects.

In a billion dollar construction project, everyone understands that if you want to change the design or significantly expand the scope halfway through, you're going to have a heck of a lot of increased costs & time.

In software, it's very common to add scope or major design changes at any stage without understanding that the same cost and time increases will apply.

For example saying 90% through the project:

-Software: "we need a 2-way interface added between the complex software we're building and some other complex software"

-Building: "We need an enclosed concourse built between our new building and the next building over across the street."

It is obvious in the later case that there will be a lot of extra time & cost. While in the former, higher level decision makers on a software project don't understand the comparable difficulties.
Yes and: Balance exercises.

I was active. Bike commute, some weights, jogging, hiking, stretching.

I had to do some physical therapy (before and after surgery). Part of their assessment is balance & stability.

I was shocked to learn I had none. Eg I couldn't hold onto one foot and balance on the other leg.

Now I recommend everyone starts PT no later than 40 yo. If only for assessment and tuning.
Every EU country I know of (whch doesn't cover all 27, so...) has covered more than just emergency care. Payment is quite different, in germany so the costs are shared 50/50 between employer and employee, soe for unemployment and social security. Would be nice to know where you live.
It only takes one bad apple to spoil the lot. There’s always one.
I think someone claiming the British created time might not be 100% serious.
Frigate is just wonderful.

Coupled with Coral TPU it manages to perform pretty well on Raspi4.
> And then, most employees have given at least 1 month of their salary to the dam.

Are you talking about taxes?
Way to make people trust that normally important correction less by posting it where it doesn't apply.
> the incentive on everyone is to find ways to lower the cost of healthcare

why is this? Here in Chicago all govt run institutions are out of money with out of control budget overruns. eg: public transport( CTA) , usps ect. Not to mention pensions/pension debts which have spiraled out of control.
Just buy insurance if you are worried about it.
Do they have just a plain stream without commentary?
Been looking to start blogging, I feel it's making a slow comeback (along with RSS!) this looks great.
"Memory leak in gnome-shell JavaScript bindings"

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3410651

"GNOME Shell Performance Improvements in Ubuntu 20.04"

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gnome-shell-performance-impro...

"Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10"

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-perfor...

When I complain about GNOME performance, I am not making it up, learn that and bye.
Well since Apple cables don't last very long you probably don't have a good one either...
From the outside the Canadian healthcare system looks good. But I have friends in Canada who complain that it’s very very hard to get an appointment for a basic check up. They have to wait anywhere from 2 to 6 months. Also, they just end up going to emergency for anything. Your experience might vary. The same with UK also I hear.

I am no big fan of the American healthcare system but I don’t think any country (don’t bring up Switzerland and Singapore as examples, they are too small and don’t have the diversity, size and complexity of the US) has demonstrated an ideal healthcare model.
> "For me, Piracy is not trying to avoid paying for it, it's about trying to get it."

Sad thing is it's not even always about location exclusive dealings, either. It wasn't terribly long ago that I was prevented from paying for access to content available on Amazon's streaming services because my "platform isn't supported".

(I use Linux, and whatever DRM they used at the time wasn't available on Linux, and before anyone tries to tell me "Just use Windows then", the answer is and always will be "NO!" Been there, done that, quit Windows for very valid reasons, ain't goin' back ever. Period, full stop, end of story.)

So, yeah… Their "anti-piracy measures" actually lost them a sale that would have likely turned into a repeat customer, and as a consequence, they're one of the streaming services I actively avoid even looking at.

Instead of focusing on punishing those who will never pay them, they should seriously think about not punishing those who would willingly pay (as DRM really only hurts the honest customer).
I switched from engineering to programming because of pay, but I can tell you the word Software Engineering is not exactly real unless you are doing some safety critical C or assembly.

Whenever you have abstraction, you have lost what it means to be an engineer. There is really only 1 way to engineer something as you end up optimizing for various quality metrics, most often cost.

There's only 1 correct answer for a bracket. You want it cheap and as strong as it needs to be.

How many correct answers in my code? Do we optimize for clean code? Fast code? Do we change programming languages or go with a familiar highly supported code? There are 2 similar libraries, which do we choose?

Programming is a hybrid of science, art, tradition, and authority. I think it pays better because of this complexity.

That being said, I'd trust an engineer to program something before I'd trust a programmer to build something.
Testosterone, yeah. Many say it's much better than wasting away for a decade longer.
That doesn't have anything to do with the subject: a uncomfortable report was buried.
Yes, but often different contexts.

Let's say my volunteer org wants to keep track of events, who volunteered in them, etc. and wants to give an award to the volunteer who gave the most hours. How do you do that in Python? Why would you?
I can't speak for other ex Yugoslav republics, but Bosnia and Herzegovina is in permanent state od limbo, for 25 years, and probably for the next 25. Corruption is rampant, nationalistic retoric abundant...

One of the main reasons we are a failed state is Dayton peace agreement. It awarded war and genocide. Just imagine post WWII Germany, splitted in two parts, one ruled by ex facists, still denying holocaust, the other part ruled by self serving, corrupt, thieves and bastards (can't say they are better than facists, because all of them got into power and got rich during the war)

The whole region will have half of the population (from year 1991), in just a few decades. Young people/families will never return...
And then even if you do pay, and the show you want is available on one of the services you're subscribed to, you often get a worse experience than with a torrent.

I have a 4k screen, but Netflix's DRM only allows 4K in Microsoft Edge, on Linux I'm stuck with 720p which looks awful on that screen. Amazon Prime Video has ads (for their other shows, but still) and an awful user interface, and so on.

I find it incomprehensible why Netflix still does that since clearly it does nothing to prevent piracy: Every new Netflix show is instantly available as 4K torrent.
If you get to the point that you are using r and python, it should be because you are doing working with larger data sets, or it’s specifically sophisticated.

If you can learn a language, you could constrain type conversions easily once you have for knowledge.

Its not like there aren’t painful gotchas in other tools- it’s an issue if you aren’t aware of them and if they impact your work.

If it’s big, unusually complex, you probably want a DB before analysis.

If it’s repetitive, or advanced modeling/ml: python/r
Canada has enormous hydroponic vegetable growing operations. They're quite impressive. I don't know really why they have built so much more than the US, but my theory is that there may be regulatory issues with importing fresh food from the Salinas valley, where much of the American vegetable crop is grown, and hydro is the best way to grow in the Canadian climate.

One company you can check out is Windset Farms.
"Who's right doesn't matter, who has the power does" --Thuycydides (b. 400 BC)
People say taxes would go up because every plan for single payer would involve taxes going up. Pretty much no one things you can squeeze major cost efficiencies out of the system.
Where I live piracy is people on the street selling media with pirated content (currently, DVD-R and all... but there was a time when it was diskette or even tape too).

Sometimes they sell it for MORE than the original, so why people buy the pirated one?

Because the pirated one is often:

easier to pay (just hand over the cash instead of international wire).
better support (often the piracy dealers double as tech support!)
better patches (often pirated content is patched with fan patches, DRM removal, and whatnot)
better translation (often pirated content include fan translation).
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> Excel doesn't alter data without being asked either. What it does do by default is try to change how the data is displayed.

This is easily falsifiable. In a "general" cell, when I enter 0002, it gets changed into 2, not just in display, but in actual content. When I change the cell type to text, it'll still be 2. Only if I enter 0002 after changing the type to text is the content kept.

Similar when I want to have the text 3/17 or SEPT1 in a cell, I have to format it before typing or the data does get altered. If you try setting it to "text" after you typed it, you'll get some number that's not very useful to you.
Didnt egypt take on loads of debt, invade Ethiopa, get absolutely defeated, and then have their government collapse, which was the event that allowed the British to take over?

I'm no fan of colonialism, but does Egypt really count when they were basically already a modern western power?
This is an attitude that I really hope leaves the industry eventually, because in truth people use security through obscurity all the time. Using it exclusively or in place of real measures is when it becomes a problem.

Ask any IT professional who's had to patch zero days on internet-exposed systems whether they think changing the default port is useless, and practically all of them will tell you that it at least cuts down on logs, and means that you almost definitely won't get hit that first day with all the other people by script kiddies scanning the internet. Not posting your internal network diagrams, even though your security is 'open design', means that when someone sends the right email and breaches your perimeter, they still have to scan for what to go after. Additionally, this belief is almost exclusively held dogmatically by the private sector - classified government networks don't get hacked nearly as often as even your air-gapped corporate ones. Obscurity is never a replacement for 'true' security measures, and should only be added on after, but for a system you actually want to protect in the long term some amount of is often very useful.
A hand/chest mounted device to conveniently inject those at the right time would be great :D
Could Ketogenic Diet Be Helpful with Brain Cancer?
Gwynne Shotwell is the coach in this hypothetical, while Musk is just the mascot.
Thanks — that accords with my intuition but your detailed explanation is excellent.
Even those who have insurance end up paying a lot out of pocket and if the insurance provider decides to not pay the bill it gets chucked onto you and that can easily run in the 100000's of dollars.
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)
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I use R and Excel daily. Excels graphs are simpler to make than a customized GG plot, but an ice cream sandwich is easier than a sundae with whipped cream and sauce and a cherry.

Different levels of difficulty and customization for different applications.
They do understand, they just want to not-pay.

If construction companies figured out they could outsource labor to countries with far lower currency values and thereby not-pay for extra labor, they'd do the same.... oh wait...
I follow a bunch of wildlife photographers.
I don't understand what the issue here is or what you want me to learn, those seem to all be bugs that were already fixed. If there are additional unfixed problems that others aren't aware of, and you're not making it up, then please mention those, and maybe I can help you get them reported.
> Western people already reducing their numbers

It’s a good start. Let’s keep it up!
My indian friends travel to india to get routine medical procedures. My understanding is that you get priority if you have a pressing concern but long wait times for procedures that can wait.
>"That Canada hates their system and you have to wait for days to get seen."

I would not call that I hate the whole Canadian system, but parts of it for sure. Especially the ones when they let you wait for months for some things. Some people died because of it. All because the guvvamint only allows for so many procedures per period allowed. The rest does not fit into budget.

However you will find enough of deaths in the US that can be attributed to a lack of money as well.

Depending on how one gets sick the may hate Canadian system or the one in the US.
A former space shuttle manager at NASA (now president at Virgin) told CBS:

"It's a small community. I know dozens of people who work at Blue Origin, I know dozens and dozens of people at SpaceX, and we all used to work together at NASA. And I wish every single one of them the best.... Because all of us together is what's going to get humans into space and our culture to recognize that space travel is the foundation for the future for everyone..."

He also described Branson as "happy, excited... But that excitement is really infectious. And so the whole crew is feeling it."

Saturday Jeff Bezos posted a picture of Richard Branson on Instagram, with the message "Wishing you and the whole team a successful and safe flight tomorrow. Best of luck!" (And Elon Musk tweeted out a video of Branson too.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/branson-flight-signals-confiden...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKHsLENB-n/

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1413736778658459649
EE here. In electronics there are hardly liabilities but still the design work is way more based on evidence and understanding rather than fads, hype and opinions.
Lot of the anecdotes like yours probably stems from a deliberate propaganda campaign started by US Health Insurance companies. This is quick npr podcast about it-
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931990578/why-americans-have-...
Centrifugal force is a function of angular velocity, and atmospheric density varies with the weather and seasons.

From the paper imglorp linked to: "in reality the von Karman criterion defines a line whose altitude varies with position and time (because of variations in atmospheric density due to solar activity) and with the lift coefficient of the spacecraft."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651...
This is the kind of reductio ad absurdum nonsense I was hoping to avoid.
Right, but the vast majority of self-employed people are going to be "Einzelunternehmer" or maybe in a GbR
Yes, I meant in order to be able to point ff doh at the local resolver.
Probabilistic data structures are used when certainty is not needed.

Bloom filters for example can serve as a filter: to work only on 50% of the data to effectively speed up your calculations by 100%.

If 50% of your misses are bloom filtered away, you got rid of 50% of your lookups to storage.

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In fact, most cryptography only works off of probability. Not only keys or RNG, but also on routine algorithms like finding a prime number.
Use the tidyverse and use the cheatsheets for dplyr and the book R for Data Science. If you're trying to use primarily base R, you'll be limited and hamstrung. Tidyverse is the modern framework of choice.
Neat, I actually prototyped something like this a few years ago to see how closely I could reproduce parametric polymorphism in C using macros, and it ends up looking a lot like Ada generic packages. The only difference from your style is that I have a "clever" hack to support generic-functions as well and the error messages preserve those names, so your example from github would look something like this:

#include <stdio.h>

#define P
#define T int
#include <vec.h>

int compare(int* a, int* b) { return *b < *a; }

int main(void)
{
vec(int) a = vec_init(int)();
vec_push_back(int)(&a, 9);
vec_push_back(int)(&a, 1);
vec_push_back(int)(&a, 8);
vec_push_back(int)(&a, 3);
vec_push_back(int)(&a, 4);
vec_sort(int)(&a, compare);
foreach(vec(int), &a, it)
printf("%d\n", *it.ref);
vec_free(int)(&a);
}

I really should finish that writeup some day.
So what would have been a good solution?
What is considered as "can wait" can be pretty insane sometimes.
What disinformation campaign? Elizabeth Warren’s proposed healthcare plan would cost $52 trillion over 10 years, with $20 trillion in new federal spending: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/01/elizabeth-warren-releases-pl.... Warren estimates that $52 trillion is about what Americans would spend on healthcare over that time frame anyway.

When the candidate “with a plan” estimates that single payer wouldn’t reduce costs, does it take a “massive disinformation campaign” to convince people that, by the time all is said and done, costs would go up significantly?
This seems pretty cool. I've been interested in getting into blogging and moving away from WordPress. I checked out Jekyll and it's a pain to add media to a post so this looks like a great alternative. It would be nice if there was an online demo you could try out before setting it up.
This article doesn't really back up its contention that "Internet" is a bad name. It says, briefly:

>Some of us call the whole thing The Internet, when technically, the internet is — as once unfortunately put — a “series of tubes,” or the physical infrastructure which enables digital communication.

But that's not true. The Internet is the inter-network: A network of networks. And a network includes the nodes in the network. So "The Internet" refers to every internet-connected host in the world, including the internet-connected software on those hosts.

The author suggests "Mosaic" as an alternative name for a bunch of reasons. But Inter-network, "Internet", the network of networks, seems better, since it's both technically correct, and equally (or more) evocative of what the internet is, and should be.
Depends, I worked for a few life science companies and was quite surprised with the VB adoption.

Basically it grew out of the fact that many of these companies are focused on Windows, given the software of the data readers and laboratory robots.

So it is quite common to have Visual Studio licenses around.

A common pattern for the history of many VB packages I found out across the business units, was software that started in Excel, alongside VBA macros, and eventually was ported into VB.