skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not certain about the collapse, but it will certainly take a reduction of political polarization and less "repeat the lines of the party or radio host" mentality. But things have changed radically in the past already, look at the ADA and the end of segregation. So all hope is not lost, organized America can be strong and work in its best interest sometimes.
That completely defeats the purpose of using hydrogen instead of methane.
https://youtu.be/YawBzT1sE6E?t=2790

It's likely they had thermal cameras available. There is a lot of video of police helicopters using thermal imaging to track people they are chasing.

The audio I linked to makes me think they tried to use it but couldn't see the object.
Where there's money to be made there's controversy...
The question is: where is the money going?

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spending-explorer...

>Are doctors too well paid?

https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2020-compensation-overvie...

https://www.kaptest.com/study/mcat/doctor-salaries-by-specia...

Based on what US doctors have to go through to start earning that pay, I would not say they are paid too well given the alternatives available to a person smart and driven enough to become a doctor in the US. For example, I would advise my kids that finance/tech/law/engineering has better a better pay to lifestyle ratio than becoming a doctor. Giving up your 20s and early 30s is an enormous sacrifice.

>Or maybe it is just the price of really good health care.

I suspect this is the price of a small number of people getting really good care, while a somewhat larger number of people get decent care, and then a very large number of people get (or do not) get care, and when they do, it is with very high variance of quality.
Neat, and creative, but..

> You can mount a remote repository’s branch locally, and any subsequent changes made to the files will be automatically committed to the remote.

This is not a “feature” I would ever want. That alone activity dissuades me from wanting to try this.
Short version: Plugging in a USB mouse automatically downloads (edit: installer stored on device) and runs the Razer Installer as SYSTEM, when it runs it lets you open a folder-selection dialog; right click and run powershell as administrator!

And Razer's initial response on Twitter to this: "Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Let us assist you with your concern. Send us a DM with your case number so we can escalate it to the relevant team." -- Wow, just wow
My understanding here is that the post exposure treatment is recommended ASAP however unless multiple bites to head or neck, public health England guidance states administration can be next day.
Don Everly, Older Brother in Groundbreaking Rock Duo, Dies at 84
What's a little decapitation between friends?
How Dutch Gouda Cheese Is Made
Whenever I read about expensive (human) rabies treatment I wonder what the cost would be if the person had gone to a veterinarian instead. I’m assuming the treatment is more or less the same? But if my dog were bit by a rabid animal I’m certain it wouldn’t cost me $20,000+ for treatment.
> Maintainer accepts it on the premise that behavior B is a good change.

This requires that:

1. The patch come with no commentary that says it's a WIP; and/or

2. The maintainer(s) do not read any attached commentary (when and why did we stop reading commit messages?!); and

3. The maintainer(s) do not read/care that the patch is wrong.

----

In short: your scenario works only when everyone does their job poorly.
Life Before Unicode
Depending on the timing of the bus schedules, you could just about make it from Maine to Florida in a day—actually over 30 hours but definitely to the Carolinas from Maine within 24 hours.
Cool, the third version of FUSE for Windows …
When some rust belt county has healthcare employment as they only thing keeping it going at all, those workers are part of it.

The point is that there’s no magic bullet here. There’s no mustache twirling trillionare villain that we can shut down and get the UK’s spending numbers.

Cutting healthcare spending significantly, which I think we should do, would cause hardship for a huge number of people and entire regions on the country.
How about reading more carefully before being so patronizing. I just said Intel likely has less than 90% market share now. I never said AMD has 90%. Sheesh.
Hmm, I wonder if one could use differential privacy to make mathematically certain that no individual data point could leak. Although that may not be a strong enough guarantee
Could you expound about nowadays practices regarding best software architecture practices.

Where I live (France), using DDD is highly regarded on the job market. Employers take you more seriously when you can talk about DDD principles and practices, especially as a JavaScript developer.

Any resources ?
Thanks Trump for passing that executive order, now we get to see their prices.
What then would be the plan for a 7+ day disruption to the power grid?

At the moment, the backup plan is generally diesel generators, and the transport grid is independent of the electrical. Going full battery changes the risk profile quite substantially.
This story is revealing an important point about the health care system, but it only tells half the story. The other part of how broken the system is, and why pricing varies so wildly, is due to bad faith negotiations on the insurers' side.

Many insurers negotiate with a hospital by saying: "We are only going to pay 25% any bill you send us." If the hospital doesn't play ball, the insurer kicks them out of their network, and effectively denies the hospital customers. The hospitals that can't afford to lose those customers is incentivized to quadruple their prices just to get the insurer to cover their costs.

However, if a second insurer comes along and negotiates the same way, but says they'll only pay 50% of the hospital's stated cost, the hospital makes a tidy profit on the insurer's dime. (Remember: quoted price = 4 * cost. If insurer pays (quoted price * 0.5), then the hospital makes a 100% profit on that insurance transaction.)

What's been created is effectively an endless positive feedback loop to negotiate prices upwards, fueled by rampant information asymmetry and profit motive.

We desperately need some kind of government intervention against this in the US. I'm convinced that single payer would fix this in a fucking jiffy.
my pet peeve with typing UIs is that they often break on mobile and cause the rest of the page to jump up and down as the text is being typed and inevitably lines get added or removed.
I don't know anything about desalination but from what I've seen on YouTube, desalination does not result in clean water and powder table salt. It results in water and very salty water. What do we do with this very salty water? Apparently, it isn't safe to just dump it into the water source...
I love that all the discussion here is about the license I wrote and not about the actual project, which is a completely terrible idea and something I created as a lark.

Why did I not spell this out in the blog post? For my own amusement. I also think it shows that licenses really don't matter all that much as some people think, they are not computer code.
Hydrocarbons have 100 times the energy density. We have the technology.
we will eventually find a use for positive means

I don't have anything to add to the argument, but this phrase stood out to me. It's a dangerous assertion to make especially in this area, because just as eventually we will find a way to externalize the negative effects, leaving only the positive means to capitalize.

So maybe "the limits of physical law" should not be what drives this discussion?
Going into this article I thought it would be a site that captures TV audio streams and runs a speech recognition, and how does it handle the computing and potentially SR API costs. But - spoiler - it turns out it captures closed captions provided by TV networks and saves them.

That struck me (a) as an example of something relatively simple that has a huge importance - keeping politicians accountable and governance transparent and (b) an example that accessibility technologies - while hugely important for differently able people - are important for much wider audiences as well.
But the video is not shown.
Hydrogen is their last gasp. Good riddance! Of course it'll never happen because there's supposed to be a water shortage.
To be clear, in this case there appears to have been fraud ie actual falsification of data. That’s very different from the broader replication crisis, which is more of the shape of unknown parameters. The two get blurry in some places due to eg publication incentives pushing people’s interpretation of legitimate data into semi-fraudulence. But there are still two ends (at least) on the spectrum of non-replicable science.

I think framing it in this lens is helpful because it points toward a solution: capturing more of the parameters more explicitly and varying them more deliberately. If we just say, “oh x y z studies aren’t replicable, field [x y z] is bullshit,” we are ending our inquiry prematurely. We are ending it at the falsification of Newton’s initial theory and saying that because leaves fall at a different rate, that gravity doesn’t exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Rice
>People know not to buy magical cure-all patent medicine from an old-times salesman with a handlebar mustache, but they don’t know to avoid miracle essential oils pitched by their cousin who just joined an MLM. Same story, different minor details, larger scale than ever.

Very, very true. Human nature at it's bare essential has hardly changed. We're essentially cavemen and women with (slightly better) manners posturing in ill-fitting suits.
The obese and sedentary problem is one argument against public health care that made me really take pause on my beliefs.

In places where public healthcare exists, there is also a huge amount of voluntary personal health responsibility. People look after their health, and expect the same of their neighbors. The current state of Americans would be an unreasonable burden on public healthcare.

That being said, taxes pay so much for healthcare, that we'd probably still be able to pull it off.
Yes some salaries are absurd in US. Look at programmers, no other country pays that much. Look at CEOs, same thing. By not capping salaries with reasonable caps we just completely broke the system (edit: I wrote market but meant something more like system), and it will be hard to revert that. But it may not be bad to have doctors that care more about their patients than their money, I've met my share of absolutely inhumane doctors and MD students.
Probably the best tool the NSA has put out in years
> ICE vehicles catch fire.

It seems like this happened spontaneously. Do ICE vehicles ever spontaneously combust? Disconnecting it from a charge isn't really abnormal use.
product liability truths are a third-rail in market capitalism

translation: mass market products are responsible for a very large portion of the total economic GDP, and by definition, touch the lives of millions (or more) people each day. Product liability is a system of law where the brand holder does have financial responsibility when things go wrong. Truth, obviously, is the real effects of the products on people, living things, and our common environment. A third-rail is a real-live, high voltage carrier of power for trains, but the term is used to convey something too powerful to even slightly touch, at the risk of death and destruction. In colloquial political talk it means that a appointed official or elected official could be terminated by broaching the topic in public.

from an "Economist magazine point of view" some products do cease to generate profit after restrictions or penalties on the market, which is "deadly" to profit.

depending on your world view, many products today, like gas-driven cars, are actually toxic from the beginning, yet have so much economic and daily importance that it is collectively tolerated, until it is not.

ordinary product liability, like "body burden" long lived chemistry rubbing off from sofas or children's toys, live in a gray area in markets where a change in public opinion or regulatory framework can alter the product and its market quite a bit at any time.

since steady profit over time is a de-facto definition of social power, there are multiple layers of second or third order actors that delay, deny and obfuscate any change in status quo, and are paid real money to do so.

activists, educators, researchers and regulators that try to change the status quo of products with facts about toxicity are then "touching a third-tail"

source: research on electronics products life-cycle worldwide
Quite so. As written, it's a null statement. To be enforceable, a license has to be written by one party such that another party may acquire rights in exchange for accepting the terms. This is how licenses become contracts.

Simply reading the words "Don't use it" does not bind you, because there is no grant of use; there is no offer or exchange of value, so no contract has been formed, and the statement is at best advisory. It is equal to writing "All rights reserved", which is to say, you retain whatever rights pre-existed under statutory and common law, such as right of fair use and so forth, and anything due to Github's ToS.

Engineers often fall into the trap of thinking the law is a programming language. It isn't, mercifully.
“It’s said” — by whom?
Inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Why wouldn't you want to use the VirtualBox guest additions?
It's GPLv2 licensed and brings additional features that make using the VM easier.
Yes, perhaps today. People who discriminate are always confident in the moral justifications behind their prejudices.

All I see is just another group of folk devils that people feel the need to create to separate out people they don’t like.
US healthcare professionals at the top of the pile make 3-4x as much as equivalent posts in the EU IIRC. A huge amount is going in salary costs.

Another huge chunk is spent on the bureaucracy of administrating the payments system, with patients, hosptials, insurers and general practicioner offices all fighting over payments. This is a deadweight cost that other systems don’t have to carry.

Drug costs in the US are much higher than elsewhere, as (I understand it) medicare & medicaid are prevented from negotiating the prices they pay the in way national healthcare systems do in the EU & a myriad set of obfuscatory tactics are used by drug companies to maintain much higher prices that are achievable elsewhere.

& probably lots of other little things too. But those are the big three I think.
Is #lang really Racket's USP?

I vaguely get that the idea is an extension of the Unix "shebang" convention to files which define modules. It might be preferable to a system based on file extensions or file associations (it's certainly less brittle). I guess the question is whether it's better than directives of the form "import(lang, file)", in other words, explicitly naming the interpretation language for each file that's imported. Naturally one could set a default so that a plain "import(file)" would do the right thing. A project full of files in extremely heterogenous languages would make make #lang more appealing, but it would also be possible to build some kind of file association system within Racket—personally I would prefer to put the #lang info in the filename or the path than stick it ("intrusively") into the file.
I'm also using flashcards and the Anki app to memorise syntax. I got sick of looking up the difference between list.append and list.extend and all kinds of small things. Hope it helps...
Two things.

First, your argument makes no sense even if we make the most grossly uncharitable assumptions about the sentiments of middle eastern immigrants. 5% of the middle east is only about 12 million people, and presumably not even 100% of those people are going to end up Europe. Even if every single one of those people had illiberal sentiments, they wouldn't make a dent on the electorate (and, as immigrants new to the region and therefore without strong historical/institutional inertia, would have a hard-to-impossible time effectuating change via extra-legal avenues).

Second, Immigrants aren't selected uniformly from the underlying population; they largely self-select. At least in the USA, the average Iranian immigrant is far more friendly to democracy, the rule of law, and secular government than the average white conservative. The greatest threat to liberalism in Germany is AfD, etc.
The last time I checked afghanistan had an infant mortality rate of over one hundred. That's a hundred babies dying per thousand live births before the age of five I think.

I know once you get infant mortality rate down to about five, the last five is very difficult to make go away but a hundred? That is such unnecessary pain and suffering that should be relatively easy to reduce.
Not all fires are created equal. The problem with battery fires is that they are hard to put out. The surest way how to put out an EV is to drop it into a big water tank and let it soak for days.
Lol the syntax is basically Ocaml with a tad less noise.
Can you not access the tweets being discussed here?
If they go straight up they come down at terminal velocity, but if they go up on a shallower angle they maintain a lot of speed. Mythbusters: https://mythresults.com/episode50
I had the same experience while living in the US. Fortunately my insurance covered the shots (though there was no way to be sure of this at the time), so I “only” had to pay about $1000.

It’s worth noting that the survival rate for symptomatic rabies isn’t just “very low” but basically zero. There are one or two known cases of people who made miraculous recoveries, but there is no treatment protocol known to be even slightly effective once symptoms appear.

I was actually about to return to the UK when the incident occurred, and I got the final shots there (100% free, no questions asked).
> You assume that their current market position is because they dropped the ball rather than a deliberate choice to step back from being the prominent leader.

A business willingly choosing to make less money and get out competed by competitors? Why did they then attempt to create a windows phone then pull it after failure?
Do you have a ref for any state that is eliminating magnets? I hadn't heard ...
https://www.crossmeta.io/fuse-for-windows/ ?

Edit: also on HN’s front page right now: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
Really nicely put.

Yep we're British founders so would love to expand to Europe in the future. Sadly won't be for a couple of years though - lots of work to be done first in the US!
You've changed your argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28262425
I feel that's all I'm asking from anyone who solves a problem: just share your discovery and work so far to save me duplicating your work. If someone has taken the effort to interpret an API and it isn't completely accurate for my use case I'm going to say thank you and share any steps I needed to take to set it up myself. If no steps are taken I'll open a PR on the Readme highlighting that it has been tested working on my OS to minimize ambiguity. This is collaborative open source development.
More likely "it's said" - a claim that some unspecified people said something, expressed using a phrase people often interpret to mean "it is generally believed that..." or "there is a saying that goes...". GP sarcastically said sure "it's said" that x occurred, I heard it all the time as I was growing up.

It's not good journalism. If someone said something, say who said it. If it's an anonymous source say so. "It's said..." in an article like this means "I vaguely think this has been said somewhere but I can't be bothered to check or quote my sources".
Yes. Electrical fires are not unusual in ICE vehicles. It's extremely rare that the ICE part catches fire by itself.
Such a wonderful tool, but hardly accessible to beginners.

First, you have to install it, which if you don't use anaconda is going to be full of the usual gotchas.

Then you need to launch it, which because "-m" is broken on jupyter for windows, means people will have an extra hard time.

And then, once everything works, new commers still have to understand they need to create a notebook before entering any python code, find it back in their weird FS browser implementation and get how to execute and create cells.

Not a problems for any dev, but in class, it can quickly become a burden. Thanks to pyiodine, you can now use jupyter directly in the browser with no install at all:

https://notebook.basthon.fr/

Even using sqlite works :)

This is going to open so many doors for education.

I still think there is a room for a python scratchpad tool that would:

- be provided with a standard installer (exe, deb, .app) as well as with pip

- start with a fully operational shell (no need to create a file) but you can save it later

- show big buttons for common notebook operations near each cell such as "run", "add", "run and add", "delete", "duplicate" and "move"

- gui to deal install packages (and deal with venv when you decide to)

- use the currently activated virtualenv automatically
This is quite an interesting article, from an unexpected source for a tech piece, but I am really disappointed that it never mentioned probably the most famous previous effort at wafer-scale integration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-scale_integration

... as backed by Sir Clive Sinclair: Ivor Catt's Anamartic Ltd.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x5as.htm

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

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/8199/Anamartic-Limite...
Am I reading this correctly and does it indeed say that your chances against Delta are lower with the vaccin than without? Or is it just a more minor concern that needs addressing eventually?
Is the Pandemic Ruining Our Empathy?
Paying someone more than what their counterparts in other countries get is not breaking the market.

Good luck incentivizing the smartest kids to go through the torture chamber that they have to in order to become a doctor without the high pay potential. I suspect, proportionally, many smart parents and kids have already chosen to avoid careers in medicine due to the coming squeeze in pay.

The better way to decrease labor costs is to increase labor supply. Make it so you do not have to sacrifice your 20s to become a doctor. Make it so kids are not looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt by the time they are a doctor and in their early 30s when they need to be thinking about starting families.

There is no physical limitation why we cannot start preparing kids for careers halfway through high school and have them working by 25. Or why residency spots are so limited so there is a cap on how many doctors are added.
Legal, regulatory, and economic environments have been “imported” before. I’m not sure how well they actually work in practice but the Colón Free Trade Zone and the Kazakhstan Astana International Finance Center, come to mind as examples. Even Hong Kong, to some degree, started as an “imported” legal system.
TypeScript/JavaScript with VSCode and Chrome.

I find JavaScript to be very accessible, because it can be run in the browser. No extra tools required and if you want, you can get immediate visual feedback by, for example, manipulating the DOM
Unfortunately things have been structured so that stupid people, in large enough numbers, can reduce your quality of life - and there is nothing you can do to stop it. For example: consider the combined effects of the 401K, disinterested investors, and a compounding 2% inflation target.
Related: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-talk-about-books-you-ha...
Yes, but none of the findings of fact were overturned. The judge had been interviewed, which was the issue, not that the facts were in dispute. In the settlement, Microsoft also allowed PC manufacturers to adopt non-Microsoft software.