skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that in the US you are paying a doctor for 300-500% more because you may be comparing unlike costs. If many doctors in foreign countries are state subsidized throughout their education, and the educational system itself is state subsidized, and they are operating in state subsized facilities, that you are supporting through taxes.

> the exact same level of care

Medical care and medical standards are not the same per country.

> doctors are charging for routine, unremarkable services.

Most doctors are floating 10 - 20% uninsured/charity cases, and a number of patients that skip out on bills. They also have their own facilities, staff/payroll, and their own personal salary, as well as malpractice 40k a year (depending on specialty).

I do not know a doctor (and I know many) that makes near what the MBA "nonprofit" executive types at the local "nonprofit" hospital cartel make.

> It's not just hospitals charging ridiculous amounts

If you wanted to make your text more accurate specific to doctors you'd examine the differences between in-network rates, and out-of-network rates, malpractice expenses, and capping out-of-network rates to a multiple of medicare.
Special Artists
Murders aren't really common enough for this to say much unless your high school class was exceptional in some way.
But that doesn’t solve the problem for the people in those situations. It’s just saying that those jobs are deserving of slave wages
First of all, small ground telescopes, ones that are cheaper than a single sattelite launch, can still do plenty of meaningful research.

And timesharing a telescope doesn't work well for certain kinds of research. For example if you want to observe a set of object every night to watch for variability, having a ground telescope you have complete control over is probably better than trying to get the timeslot you need on a space telescope every night for however long you need.
> and not even once talk about how maybe the police are at fault for being at the whim of children on the the Internet?

The police arrived at the home after reports of urgent violence. The homeowner exited the home with a gun in hand and the police de-escalated the situation without shots fired on either side.

What do you suggest they do differently in this case? They can’t just assume calls are false and ignore them.
Given they’d never admit to it and that the phone number showed up, it’s very likely
great*
Yes, mistakes are another word for bad choices. How many violent criminals are making good choices?
Thanks for the reply, that image is pretty compelling,

It seems that space based telescopes could be substantially larger than Earth based telescopes, based on not having to build a structure to support their weight then?
> "He went out the house with a gun, because he heard someone was on his property," Fitch explained. "He sees all these cops around him, and they ask if he is Mark Herring, 'put your hands up,' so he tosses the gun away from him to show he's not a threat, and [put his] hands up."

If not a SWAT team, a large armed response.
A Model 3 is cheaper over five years than a Camry Hybrid considering total cost of ownership [1].

The cost to install an EV charging station can be as low as $500, but if it does cost more due to having to have your load center/breaker panel replaced, the US government has a 30% tax credit up to $1000 to offset the costs.

The Tesla Supercharger network is extensive [2], and continues to grow by the week; charging at one takes ~20-30 minutes. Other networks with less coverage are available for Teslas (with an adapter) and non-Teslas alike.

It does't hurt that jurisdictions continue to enact deadlines for combustion vehicle bans [3].

[1] https://insideevs.com/features/521424/tesla-model3-camry-hyb...

[2] https://supercharge.info/map

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
"sale". We dont know who the buyer is, if any real money changed hands, or even something as basic as the number of Super Mario 64 boxes "graded" by Wata Games.

Just a reminder, the previous record holder Mario sold at Heritage Auctions and graded by Wata Games was purchased by Jim Halperin - owner of Heritage Auctions with a seat on Wata Games board, pure coincidence Im sure! https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/how-this-ultra-rare-c...

"Jim Halperin, owner of Heritage Auctions and one of three buyers"... "Halperin sits on the advisory board for Wata Games"
How collectors differentiate one mass produced item from another?
It's called caller ID. Don't trust an anonymous source. From the article it sounds like swat in tennessee responded to a call from the UK? That part seemed fishy.
Many of those who commit crimes that could result in the death penalty are either in a high risk scenario (e.g., drug dealers) who face worse fates on a day-to-day basis.

It’s understandable why the death penalty isn’t such a harsh deterrent for everyone.
It's usually called the 'tragedy of the commons'.
It takes no effort to yell "fire!" in a crowded venue. Some very easy things are very harmful, humans have to learn not to do them.
So what exactly do you think the police shouldn't have done here?
Economic darwinism for the small businesses. Economic socialism for the big companies.
I'm amazed with the amount of ignorance in this thread from people who've never run a restaurant yet alone run a business for that matter.
"In mathematics and science, PISA 2018 suggests that gender differences are generally small (Figure 15). Boys outperformed girls just by five score points in mathematics, on average across OECD countries, and girls outperformed boys in science just by two score points...

The picture is very different when it comes to reading. In all countries and economies that participated in PISA 2018, girls significantly outperformed boys in reading -- by 30 score points...

Perhaps surprisingly, the large gender gap in reading performance observed amongst 15-year-olds in PISA virtually disappears amongst the 16-29 year-olds who were assessed by the OECD Survey of Adult Skills."

I continue to find these PISA results mostly mysterious. It's not a coincidence: ALL countries report better reading score for girls. But it's also not easy to explain (see results for adults).
I know, I’ve done both too.

Why isn’t there a flood of ex-restaurant workers becoming software engineers? Because getting over that hump is really hard, statistically speaking.
The industry already has solutions for this in the form of schema and interface definitions that generate glue code for you:

- gRPC, protocol bufffers

- OpenAPI, Swagger, JSON Schema

- Apache Thrift

- Apache Avro

- Cap'n Proto

- IDL, Microsoft IDL, Web IDL

- etc
> is to pretend that hyper mobilization of a quasi military is okay.

To stop a shooter? Yes it is.
I'd argue that anyone who has the skills & resources to make use of the "secret sauce" to compete wouldn't be stopped by having to reverse-engineer a binary driver?
Are you at the risk of being sued by companies that you give a "fraudulent" score to (correctly or incorrectly), maybe a class action? Is this one of the reasons why there is no public version of your tool?
People are obsessed with that siphash paper, and they're obsessed that Java hashcodes do not do the siphash mitigation, but I don't know if any of it matters. People are obsessed with thinking it matters though.
Every time I read something like this, the author turns out to be a regular drug user. I don’t necessarily have anything against that, but, having been sober my entire life, and having experimented heavily with natural hallucination methods such as lucidity, I seriously doubt that this level of intensity is possible. Aside from actual near-death experience (been there), it is extremely hard to hold onto even mild sensation without breaking lucidity. And if it takes drugs to get there, then don’t call it meditation, and don’t blame meditation for the side effects.

I’m not an expert, but, for the others like me, I think the best you may hope for in meditation is the ability to not be bothered by thoughts and distraction, the zen master being Grigori Perelman, who would not let a million dollar prize distract him from picking mushrooms.
> "Pokémon" is identical in both the singular and plural, as is each individual species name; it is grammatically correct to say "one Pokémon" and "many Pokémon", as well as "one Pikachu" and "many Pikachu".

Interesting, did not know this
From the article:

"developers of Stockfish have terminated their GPL license with ChessBase permanently"

https://www.debian.org/social_contract states:

"The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons."

Thus, is Stockfish no longer DSFG?
As a point of comparison -- let's say kids prank a random non-cop into going over to a guys house with a gun. Who gets in trouble, and why the difference?
You can reasonably know that shooting a person with a bullet will cause injury or death. Telling them to drop their weapon and surrender does not usually cause injury or death.
This is the correct response. Yeah, sure, tactics could change to “analysis before action” but then you lose responsiveness when you need it most. Maybe there’s a balance, but I don’t think it’s worth it. The real answer is to litigate the fuck out of any dipshit who commits the act of “swatting.” It really is like starting a fire, the potential damage is immense.
How come it’s all crickets at Apple when it comes to this?
>Have you considered that margins are tighter than you think?

If they can't give a decent wage [1] then they were not a viable business to begin with, regardless whether they can find some poor souls to work for them. If it takes a mandatory minimum wage to reveal that and bring their demise, so be it - let them stop putting a band-aid on part of the economy and have better businesses take their place.

[1] Which is not the same as: a wage someone will capitulate and agree to work for - there are always e.g. unregistered immigrants, single mothers working 2 jobs, people in emergecy desperately needing anything they can get, kids who just see it as a temp gig to get some pocket money but otherwise live with their parents, and so on, that are desparate for near substinence - or even below substinence...
1. Some situations are highly sensitive, and 2. any decision-making process for a fixed budget has a precision-recall tradeoff.
I can’t find any articles that say an actual SWAT team was dispatched. This article and the one it sources both say that police responded to a call. They have stock photos of SWAT teams and they talk about “swatting” but this sounds more like local police rushing to the scene.

The homeowner actually went outside with a gun in hand to confront the police, but they de-escalated the situation without shots fired. The man died of a heart attack from the stress of confronting the police with a gun, not from being attacked by an actual SWAT team.
Who said anything about death peanalty.

There's a lot of evidence that once a punishment is big enough, it makes no difference on deterence, but that's very different from saying punishment vs no punishment is the same.
You also have to communicate the penalties to people. "Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret!"
A significant development in the Circle/USDC/stablecoin drama
The Handshake Deal Protocol (2016)
Like with everything, all that matters is whales. The kind of person who eats lunch out every day doesn't care if it's 20 GBP or whatever, so they'll keep paying whatever it costs to eat whatever they want. What'll happen is places without enough whales, like low foot traffic, will poop out or become ghost kitchens.
This "article" was "sponsored" by AWS. It's a paid ad.

I wouldn't be too upset about a link to an AWS blog post, but this approach (masquerading as a neutral tech-news article) is slimy imo.
Regional hospital systems also see the writing on the wall - expand large enough, or be displaced by one of the true behemoths.

HCA has what, 186 hospitals?
Is it? I am asking a real question. How many people are saved by rapid police response vs. killed inadvertently? Where is there data that could be used to answer that question?
It's similar to MTG cards. That's what happens when you have a large fanbase plus considerable disposable income
It’s staged just like the NFT auctions. Bootstrapping demand by fabricating a sale between two cooperating parties.
I worked a few fast food and restaurant jobs 10+ years ago and we were auto clocked out at closing, but were still required to clean up. I never did and I got let go 2 times for not working for free.
There’s no winning for the cops.

It’s a really hard job where you have to walk the correct route through a protocol in an emergency, often while being in danger yourself
Socializing those things would also make basic entrepreneurship much more practical and make failures of entrepreneurship much less harmful (such as the many restaurants that fail in their first year), hugely benefiting the economy as whole.
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Swatting doesnt seem to be as big a thing in any other countries besides the US. There seems to be something peculiar to the US style of policing that makes swatting more dangerous.
> There is a reason they send SWAT and not a regular officer

None of the articles say they sent a SWAT team. It reads as though police officers simply responded to the call. I think the term “swatting” and the stock photos of a SWAT team are misleading a lot of commenters.
I left myself a lot of latitude when I referred to this as a potential "language/library feature".

typedef struct { /* TODO */ } arb_int;
arb_int *new_arb_int(void);
void delete_arb_int(arb_int *);
arb_int *arb_int_add(arb_int *, arb_int *);
arb_int *arb_int_sub(arb_int *, arb_int *);
arb_int *arb_int_mul(arb_int *, arb_int *);
arb_int *arb_int_div(arb_int *, arb_int *);
bool arb_int_gt(arb_int *, arb_int *);
bool arb_int_lt(arb_int *, arb_int *);
bool arb_int_gte(arb_int *, arb_int *);
bool arb_int_lte(arb_int *, arb_int *);
bool arb_int_eq(arb_int *, arb_int *);
This depends...

I've had an argument here about SMS for 2FA... Someone said, that SMS for 2FA is broken, because some companies misuse it for 1FA (for eg password reset)... but in essence, a simple sms verification solves 99.9% of issues with eg. password leaks and password reuse.

No security solution is perfect, but using a solution that works 99% of the time is still better than no security at all (or just one factor).
Not trying to sound unsympathetic to those with struggling businesses, but: I don't get why there were so many restaurants in the first place.

Everywhere I've been, it seems like there's literally 10+ restaurants per square mile. In cities it's 100+, not exaggerating. And it's not even unique restaurants either: in my local town there are multiple Mexican restaurants, Italian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, American restaurants, with a lot of overlap in the menus.

Why? My parents hate to cook and get takeout almost every night. And even they don't get every restaurant, in fact they like to get the same few. Meanwhile, I cook for myself and almost never get takeout because it's healthier, cheaper, easier, and even IMO it usually ends up tasting better anyways. It's mostly common knowledge that the restaurant business sucks to get into anyways. So why are there so many restaurants?
Prices are rising.
Which one has the most nostalgia. And super Mario 64 revolutionized 3d controls at the time, rather pivotal game.
Surely it depends on the income level? There are people for which a $20 USD lunch everyday or close, is nothing to write home about.

In fact their time can be far more valuable (into what money they can command by doing some extra work), so that the opportunity cost between cooking and buying lunch to make it not worth to cook.
That doesn't make any sense, given that they didn't change anything about the license, and the termination clauses are part of it.
This seems plausible. My first thoughts were (1) fraud like you said or (2) money laundering.
All it would take is one good PR against libtorrent
While you wait, Xournal++ might be useful to try.
Yeah, people are essentially mad at the police for showing up.
Due diligence would have to still require a team showing up, but how aggressively the team behaves needs to be based on any actual data/evidence they can gather on-site, rather than operating on assumptions.
Even with the $50 ribeye, that four-top is still generating $200 on food per turn, more than the grandparent's original $120 estimate.

Maybe my view is skewed from seeing prices in expensive cities, but I think the beef alone at a good steakhouse is gonna run you more like $75-$100 per person, and that's not even for the high-end wagyu (which will probably run $150-$250 for most cuts). Then add another $10-$30 per person for appetizers and side dishes, and maybe dessert on top of that.

I feel like it's pretty hard to walk away from a good steakhouse spending less than $80 or so, even if you have nothing to drink. And the more common case is probably quite a bit more than that...
A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew
> Because if everyone raises their prices, the wage increase then effectively makes no difference.

This only holds if a restaurant's costs are entirely wages, but actual average labor costs for restaurants (at least in the US) are only about 30%.
All of that costs money. Are we as customers willing to pay for it? While a lot of us on HN can afford the price increases, not everyone else can.

I have a feeling that wage increases will come, but there will be less employees and the remaining better paid employees will be augmented with technology in order to serve more customers ie more automation
The article does define swatting as a large armed response as opposed to a SWAT team responding, but it's splitting hairs.

The guy walked outside to a squad of officers aimed at him. Whether they were SWAT or not seems mostly irrelevant.
Well, Zig isn't memory safe (as implemented today; they could add a GC), so it's not a good example of a Rust alternative in this domain. But I agree with your overall point, and would add that you could replace Zig with any one of the dozens of popular memory safe language, even old standbys like Java. The point is not to migrate to one language in particular, but rather to migrate to languages in which memory errors are compiler bugs instead of application bugs.
I suspect he would define it as anything the untrained eye would find syntactically indistinguishable from Forth.
"Underrepresented" is in parentheses. So I'm interpreting this as saying that the policy is not specific to members of underrepresented groups, but was crafted with underrepresented groups in mind.

I think it does matter whether you're a member of a group that is mistreated as a group vs. whether you are mistreated as a person; it's easier to be confident that you're understanding the situation correctly if there's a lot of data about an entire group vs. a claim that you individually are unsafe/mistreated (which could just be "I am mistreated because my community is ostracizing me for having committed a crime" or whatever). It is obviously possible to be mistreated as a group even if you are from a local-majority group (cf. apartheid in South Africa).

As to why they mentioned it even if it's in parentheses - there's a link to a page, and elsewhere on the page they mention that it's a cultural value to include more people from "underrepresented groups" in their definition (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#gitlabs-...).
Need actual evidence there is a shooter beyond just a phone call.
They don't use docker but podman.
So does Signal IIRC.
I agree that safety & security are frequently conflated, but I don't think the important aspect is that there's no analogy between IT & construction.

IT safety = construction safety. What kind of cracks/bumps does your bridge/building have, can it handle increase in car volume over time, lots of new appliances put extra load on the foundation etc. IT safety is very similar in that way.

IT security = physical infrastructure security. Is your construction safe from active malicious attacks/vandalism? Generally we give up on vandalism from a physical security perspective in cities - spray paint tagging is pretty much everywhere. Similarly, crime is generally a problem that's not solvable & we try to manage. There's also large scale terrorist attacks that can & do happen from time to time.

There are of course many nuanced differences because no analogy is perfect, but I think the main tangible difference is that one is in the physical space while the other is in the virtual space. Virtual space doesn't operate the same way because the limits are different. Attackers can easily maintain anonymity, attackers can replicate an attack easily without additional effort/cost on their part, attackers can purchase "blueprints" for an attack that are basically the same thing as the attack itself, attacks can be carried out at a distance, & there are many strong financial motives for carrying out the attack. The financial motive is particularly important because it funds the every growing arms raise between offence & defense. In the physical space this kind of race is only visible in nation states whereas in the virtual space both nation states & private actors participate in this race.

Similarly, that's why IT development is a bit different from construction. Changing a blueprint in virtual space is nearly identical from changing the actual "building" itself & the cost is several orders of magnitude lower than it would be in physical space. Larger software projects are cheaper because we can build reusable components that have tests that ensure certain behaviors of the code & then we rerun them in various environments to make sure our assumptions still hold. We can also more easily simulate behavior in the real world before we actually ship to production. In the physical space you have to do that testing upfront to qualify a part. Then if you need a new part, you're sharing less of the design whereas in virtual space you can share largely the same design (or even the exact same design) across very different environments. & there's no simulation - you build & patch, but you generally don't change your foundation once you've built half the building.
Its just me seeing if others are interested in a monthly feedback session. My normal acct is escot
This may be true for the death penalty. But it certainly doesn't generalize to all punishment.

Are you saying that punishing bad behavior consistently won't deter criminals? That flies in the face of common sense that I don't believe claims of "no evidence".

Most children do have a concept of consequence. They certainly understand that calling police will be traced back to them. I was a kid once, they're not as stupid as you think.
Instead of looping through things I split items, process in parallel, and then join.
Money laundering? Seems obvious to me.