skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best time to test your documentation is when onboarding new people. Unfortunately, this means that a concerted effort to update and expand documentation should be made before new people start. Else, they will waste their and the team's time on things that don't require an external perspective to fix.
So why did they bother with the law?
Is there a scheme of the electric circuit available?
Sublime Text vs. Atom vs. Visual Studio Code vs. TextMate vs. RubyMine vs. Vim
Oh wow I did not know the US helathcare system was broken..said no one ever.
I found the book R for Data Science (which is free http://r4ds.had.co.nz) to be a very good introduction to R with Tidyverse.
Interesting! Can you point to any references?
> Just don’t have kids. Everything else is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Developed countries already are below reproduction rates. My country of birth is nearly at the very bottom.

You're sort of preaching to the choir here.
Can confirm. Had a procedure (hernia repair) and at the time of setting it up my insurance was in flux. I asked for the cash price to move things along and was quoted just ~7k all up. Insurance ended up covering it but received one of those invoices were it starts at over 20k before the magic "discount" gets applied.

I have been assuming the magic discount is some sham the insurance companies push for to scare people into believing they would not get it if it weren't for the insurance.

It's BS IMHO to not be advertising the ACTUAL cash amounts they would quote somebody..
It would be cool if the live broadcast screen was showing UTC time rather than all the other random times.
The bare minimum is to have bachelor's degree in engineering, no matter what engineering field. You have that, you are an engineer, you don't you'rr not. Regardless of the career you choose after graduation.
Huge numbers of companies use Oracle software and are never sued. Moreover Google wasn't using it, that was kind of the point - they were reimplementing it. There's a lot of over-generalization from a single case here.
People are the problem.
While that’s an important angle, the highest it ever got in the US was ~45%
I would hope that we could find a way to decouple reproductive rates from women's education. Otherwise a very strong argument could be made for placing severe restrictions on education for women in most of Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, etc, all of which are experiencing catastrophic declines in their native populations.
Most, but not all. That is the entire point: Excel is never safe in any configuration.
For anyone wondering:

> Argus Panoptes (All-seeing; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος Πανόπτης) or Argos (Ancient Greek: Ἄργος) is a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology. The figure is known for having generated the saying "the eyes of Argus", as in to be "followed by the eyes of Argus", or "trailed by" them, or "watched by" them, etc.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_Panoptes

> Argus Panoptes or Argos was a hundred-eyed giant in Greek mythology. He was a giant, the son of Arestor, whose name "Panoptes" meant "the all-seeing one". He was a servant of Hera; one of the tasks that were given to him was to slay the fearsome monster Echidna, wife of Typhon, which he successfully completed.

* https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Argus_Panopte...
Musicians dont get a seat at the intellectual table
Who said anything about killing extra children ? They are just proposing 100,000 rupees for limiting to one baby. or some minor economic disincentives for more than 2 babies, on top of which are already there in practice and naturally for even 1 baby.

By your logic, if we needed more babies you would stop educating women ? Education and baby making are orthogonal issues.
Comics Cope With the L.A. Riots : Comedy: African-American stand-up comedians probe for deeper understanding in a South-Central club https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-11-ca-1176-s...

Bill Hicks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHvwBwTnAc (Recorded November 22, 1992 - June, 1993) (LA Riots - April 29 – May 4, 1992)
Please don't defend Medium. Just, don't.
Not in the electrical industry. Maybe in other types of facilities, but in electrical, we need reliable, continuous, and cheap ways to provide power. Nothing beats coal and natural gas[0]. Obviously though Natural gas is cleaner so we're making moves to expand that. Hence why it takes up 30% of our generation as opposed to like the 5% of green energy. So what you see in the article I listed, while coal is being used less, natural gas is being used more.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48596
Yeah, came here expecting to hear about an update from Inkle Studios. (I checked them out anyway since Heaven’s Vault is one of the most kind-blowing games I’ve ever played, and they do have a new game out! Their ink language is worth a look.)
> actively doing something to impair sleep quality.

Like reading hacker news in the evening.
It does seem like an odd choice given that Creative Commons specifically recommends against it[0]. That alone would make me unlikely to use this project.

0. https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
I wonder if the hyper taxonomization of genres is something specific to our era.

When I was a kid we barely distinguished between horror and thriller but nowadays books are written on the subtle differences between slipstream and new weird, and the subgenres of fantasy and sci-fi are legions.

Maybe it's Wikipedia's fault.
Can People Still Play the Same Games as They Get Older?
Notwithstanding that this would be a good thing (education I mean), economic development and lifting people from poverty, alongside widespread access to contraceptives, has had a strong impact on fertility rate in the 1st world and in the long-run influenced attitudes on education as well.
The R tooling is clumsy

I really like the R tooling. What do you find clumsy about it?

It feels like the reason it’s popular is mostly just people not wanting to update skills

I have the opposite view. I find its the people who complain about R because its a bit different are the ones who are inflexible about learning new skills.
The government downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic and allowed marches, concerts and meeting of big groups of people (the VOX political party meeting for example). The government also seized the healthcare competences of the autonomous communities, only to be revealed that they were incompetent, and make old people die in assisted living facilities.

There is an all time high unemployment in young people…

You can’t take the prices of the last year when many people started working from home, and leaving big cities, and hence rent has decreased.

Left leaning propaganda is pretty much alive in Spain, where you can’t criticize the left without being labeled as “facha” (as this case).
I'm on the same page as the other commenter here, except stronger.

Avoid tidyverse like the plague, except when you can't, or when you don't actually care about the sanity of your code and are happy copy/pasting pre-prescribed snippets without needing to understand let alone modify them.
I don't think it's mandatory for people on tourist visas to come to the U.S. so some portion of visitors probably don't have it.
Right, that's the opinion that supports the FDA here, that probably most readers are used to hearing. It is, however, decreasingly the universal consensus among doctors, scientists, and others, there is much more dissent these days, opinion that the FDA is approving drugs they shouldn't be -- as demonstrated by the very unusual resignations from the FDA committee. Those scientists thought it was more questionable than your story.

As far as patient advocates, as many pieces point out, one of the historical things was AIDS activism for availability of drugs. I was struck by this from a recent piece about ACT UP, from one of the activists at that time:

«Today, Franke-Ruta is a journalist, and she spoke to Schulman about the wider implications of some of act up’s success. “I don’t think that we realized at the time that this was part of the broader gutting of the FDA that we’ve seen since; that there was a lot of political agendas that we just happened to be in sync,” she said. After President Donald Trump touted the promise of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19, the F.D.A. issued an emergency-use authorization for the drug, which was shown to be useless for the purpose. (The agency withdrew the authorization three months later.) “Sometimes it seems like it’s gone too far in the other direction,” Franke-Ruta went on. “But there’s a really strong pharmaceutical lobby against the FDA as well that I don’t think we were aware of.”»

And from the article's author, editorializing a bit:

«In retrospect, one can ask whether act up’s victories on the research front pushed the F.D.A. too far. The drugs-into-bodies approach to fast-tracking—the use of “surrogate endpoints” (like T-cell counts or viral load), for example, rather than clinical benefits in actual people—can be valuable, especially for patients who are facing death and have no good alternatives. This approach at least offers desperate patients a chance, while allowing scientists to gather meaningful data. But, today, a number of drugs, for everything from asthma to periodontitis, have won approval before benefits in human patients were established, and critics argue that drug approval is too often based solely on benefits shown in biomarkers rather than in bodies. “Right to try” legislation, meanwhile, enables the sale of drug candidates without even involving the F.D.A. When restrictions are weakened, experimental drugs—many of which end up proving useless or worse—become harder to distinguish from effective medicine.»

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-act-up-cha...
We should consider private taxes just the same as public taxes.
Almost all of these are issues with floating point in general, I'd say. Some are with naive implementations of Excel functions, fair enough (for example variance as (sum x_i^2/n - (sum x_i/n)^2) that are indeed better implemented in R or Julia.

IEEE 754 just has unintuitive properties.

Kahan (the "father of IEEE 754") has a rant (among many others) about Excel as well, and how it tries to hide some of the floating point complexities more or less successfully:

Floating-Point Arithmetic Besieged by “Business Decisions”

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ARITH_17.pdf
I did mention both a mundane case (shopping) and a specialised case (web conferences and technical documentation). Which is to say, I am interested in the experiences of web developers, but not, for example, of naval officers or fashion models. A common language would give me access to a larger pool of web developer experiences, just as is would give anyone who is into fashion access to a wider range of experiences of similarly-minded people. The absence of a common language prevents that.

> Let’s just not pretend that there is a trade-off

There are several assumptions behind this position.

One, that there are human experiences that require a very particular natural language to be expressed. That you need a whole unique system of phonology, morphology, syntax, etc. to be able to express your experience. I am not sure that this is the case.

The other is that the co-existence of a multitude of languages allows us to capture and communicate human experiences better.

Finally, as the life goes on, and the language — any language — evolves, we lose access to the previously expressed experiences anyway. So one language or many, we won't preserve human experiences.
We can hope all of them!

For real though, solarpunk at least has a nicely growing scene on Bandcamp. There's a compilation album of various artists simply called "Solarpunk".
To make it sound like they're doing something about an issue (healthcare) which continually ranks highest on American's priorities without actually disrupting the status quo?
Just like Quora at its early age.
Many don’t fully cover the USA due to the exorbitant costs.
"If you don't have riches, you don't get stitches"
How do you power your outdoor cameras? Just drill a hole for a PoE cable?
Can you just say "I don't want to use my insurance at this stage and I want the price from last time?"
> Plus Excel is everyone's default database and form software.

This is one of many, many things that is terribly wrong with Excel. It is arguably well suited for neither of those applications. I will continue to do my statistics in R, and be very glad that I do not work somewhere with either CFOs or powerful accountants ;-).
That's what I'm doing right now.

The company I'm at had this process for doing salespersons commissions that would take days to do. It was painful to watch the process the first time I was trained on it. They were sorting rows manually in excel, exporting csv's from the ERP software.

Over a couple of months I worked automation into the project using SQL queries and vba/python, I even automated sending out all the personalized reports to each salesperson. Showed it to my boss last week (he had to run the reports this month) and he was blown away by how much time and energy it saved.

It felt so good to reduce a process that took days to do down to a couple of button clicks.
Das Valdez (part of NASA Spaceflight - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ ) is streaming it on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/dasvaldez
One big thing missing last I worked on Excel/VBA is the ability to write test cases.
> I really don't understand how that's possible at all

The MBA-ization of healthcare - they realized they could, so they did. Mostly because the business processes around medical billing have become so convoluted, with so many layers of middlemen, that it's essentially impossible for a layman to understand and reason about.
So you paid more on insurance? And the bill while on insurance just happened to be inflated so much that the deductible came out to be the price of the procedure the first time around? That sounds like fraud.
Huh maybe not - I thought being able to show you could cover expenses while there (so insurance) was part of the questions on entry or when submitting for the waiver.
I never understood why people thought that not showing UTC might be a good idea. With UTC anyone in the world only needs to know their own timezone (and DST status) to convert it to local time instead of having to know their own plus whatever timezone the event is referencing (which is the actually tricky part).
I agree that some processes are top down. My point was just that the choice to learn a national or global language is often bottom up.

I think saying "US culture is awful" weakens your point. US culture is extremely diverse, from The Rock to Jeff Koons. It's also central to the twentieth century. Dismissing it all as awful doesn't make much sense.
the only way to prevent Excel from converting date-like number values into 'real dates' is to format the number values as text. or escape each and every number value so this doesn't occur.

this is not just a workaround - it's recommended by Microsoft. because you literally cannot turn this functionality off.

how is that not an "Excel issue"?
The Police Called It an Accident. She Turned to 1-800-Autopsy
> Reality: most end users make fully rationale [sic] decisions to optimize their time and energy to get their work done.

Not true in my experience. Most end users act in ways that are both less secure and less convenient than they could.

Either because they don't want to make the upfront investment (in setting up a password manager for example) or because they simply don't know any better.

Wore still, surprisingly many more advanced end users believe in security through inconvenience: rotating passwords, timed logouts, etc.
How does that work? Who paid the rest of the 200K? Seems like a crazy amount for something that mostly goes ok in the modern world.
In my personal experience, American privatized healthcare has absolutely skewered libertarian dogma.

In a public health system waste is considered bad, and we would work to lower it.

In the private system waste is called shareholder value, and we work to increase it.

edit: I phrased this poorly, but certainly stand by my point. If anyone would care to discuss this or educate me, I am always open to change my mind.
If you delay payment you probably have to help pay for those that will not.

One reason that stitching up minor cuts is so expensive could be that those who need that treatment (e.g. because they were in a fight) are statistically less likely to ever pay their bills…
Technically, our taxes are used for all kinds of stuff we don't directly benefit from and you can argue that the insurance premiums we pay are paying for someone else's treatment.

I think another argument is that it'll be less effective (ex: longer wait times, etc) and that people will abuse it, ex: in Canada, I used to see people show up to ER because they were sneezing and I've seen people wait forever to get a doctor, etc, you're much less likely to do that if it costs you something.
> There are enough places on the web built to hog your attention; keep you scrolling and checking your feed, hoping for a new like or retweet. WriteFreely gives you the space to think for yourself again, free from alerts, feeds, and the distractions of classic social media.

I think within a decade we all are going to come back to blog/personal sites and ditch social media. The easier we make people to set up self hosted blogs, faster will be the switch. I know general public does not give a shit about this but a man can hope.
Wow, very neat! I'm happy to see you implemented it as a TUI.

While I know this isn't the focus of this project, I think we need a TUI browser that can run the modern web and there just doesn't seem to be anything out there, other than brow.sh, but the author hasn't had time to push that over the finish line.
Gigaoctet and Megaoctet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)
So, how much of a premium would that plastic surgeon get? Even if it’s $50k ($2k per millimeter of stitchwork), that still leaves over $40k to explain.

Also, can a wound sized 2.5cm or less that can be stitched up be complicated to stitch? I would think/guess many of them would be glued nowadays.
Nobody. You aren't ment to pay the price they charge.
The people who get screwed the hardest are the underinsured (in all cases) and those who have high-deductible plans with coinsurance and HSAs (and have some acute issue).

I work in radiology and entered a few common procedures I see a lot in our data on https://turquoise.health/ (also linked in the Twitter thread). Then I entered information for our own HDHP+HSA plan. Guess what, having insurance costs you 40-60% more if it's an acute issue. So if you're healthy, you have zero incentive to use your insurance if you suddenly need a CT of something. The rub of course is if you pay cash, it doesn't count toward your multi-thousand dollar yearly deductible, so if it turns out to be a chronic issue you just shot yourself in the foot. But if it doesn't, you just burned thousands by using your insurance when you didn't have to.

It's a complicated issue and anyone who says they have the solution, including "just make it free / just have the government pay for everything," is either being disingenuous or doesn't understand the problem. As was stated in the Twitter thread, running a hospital 24/7 is astronomically expensive. Everyone has their finger in the pot trying to get paid for their services in a world of increasingly small reimbursements. Attending physicians as resident-run hospitals will sleep overnight while getting paid literally half a million dollars a year. Insurance companies will just decide not to pay something and will spend years in court to defend their right to pay whatever they want, down to and including $0. Vendors will charge tens of millions of dollars to implement monolithic thick-client applications where everything is so configuration-heavy that you literally can't have a test environment because it won't match. Interoperability is managed by a text-based standard named HL7 that if you're not familiar with, will make you rip your hair out. The standard itself is ignored by every organization who ends up with their own flavor, so every app needs to be configured to support nearly any value in nearly any field. Hospital IT is staffed by people making $40k/yr who don't understand modern computing, and run by executives with no technical background.

Every single entity and company involved in healthcare is complicit in the end result, which is skyrocketing patient costs with at best no change in patient care or patient outcomes.
The insurance company negotiated a lower bill.
Summary from https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/seccd5016d31/...:

> This documentation provides details about how security technology and features are implemented within Apple platforms.
A tree has so many benefits, not just capturing CO2 and de-pollution. They're natural air conditoners, maintain temperature, maintain water, they help the soil, help smaller plants nearby, help a whole ecosystem, let alone fruits that are literally super food (minerals, vitamins, fibers, ..), above all when it's local (producers exporting fruits obviously pick them too early in their maturation)
They have to put some label on it, if it doesn't fit engineering or science then art it is.
something to maybe remind people who are making that statement:

The US spends more as a percentage of GDP on healthcare and has the lowest life expectancy of all developed countries[1]. They are already spending their hard earned money on other peoples treatments, they are just getting less bang for their buck.

1. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
This seems to broadly conflate CS and Software Engineering. The differences have been covered elsewhere. Stuff like cognitive vs. physical science, (mostly) thinking about thinking instead of thinking about things, or quotes like "A computer is to computer science as a telescope is too astronomy." To be fair, the fact that a lot of us got CS degrees, but really ended up doing software development probably doesn't help clarify matters. The university I went to had a separate degree for Software Engineering and, frankly, it looked pretty boring to me. Even though I was a full-on coder before I got there. Perhaps there is no hope?
A lot of people (hundreds of millions) in rural India will never leave their state of birth to settle elsewhere. Ties to land are too strong and cost of moving is much higher than western countries. The attitude towards free movement is just not like what we are familiar with.
Not sure about that. It is my understanding that Excel only tries to guess the type of an input if it has not been explicitly specified by the user.

The problem with "things that look like dates being interpreted as dates" comes from not specifying that a column has type "text".
We were talking about Texas, I brought up Germans in Texas and you responded to that -- so I found an article about the history in Texas. I can find other articles from other parts of the U.S., but at this point I feel like you've shown whatever I find, I think you have your mind made up about, as you say, "American history as you understand it", and are uninterested in historical evidence that might complicate that.

As I understand it, the history is more diverse and complicated than you understand it. I shared one source to that end, you dismissed it because it didn't match your preferred narrative.

But again, my main point was not that one sentance.
“Is There an App”
No one. The rest just evaporates. The original bill has little relation to the actual costs the hospital has to recoup.
Isn't insurance also paying for other people's health care?
So I watched it yesterday, based on your comment.

I'm not sure if this movie is funny (it's very subjective) but, thank you.

That's one of the most original movie I've seen in a long time, it's so clever and unpredictable.

Really, thank you :-) !