skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I read that too - just cherry picking here:

> All adults have tests and follow-up visits to prevent and treat everything from iron deficiency to H.I.V. It’s all free. If people don’t show up for their appointments, she makes sure their team finds out why and figures out what can be done.

It's common sense why they have better results and outcomes than we do here... Our system is optimized for capitalistic profit. I've got insanely good insurance and I still have no idea how screwed I am if I go to the doctor or especially a hospital. Although I've only had one major billing snafu years back I have real anxiety about going to the doctor here.

And hell, even if I go my PCP is going to be stuck in an "all or nothing" mentality where it's either OTC or getting in their own conflict with my insurer... ie: "If I can't justify this test with your insurer..."

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Costa Rica's model is better than America's. The reason for this is because it's not optimized for profit, it's designed from the ground up to optimize for patient outcome.
> These prices are <25% of the insurance "discount" prices

There are some clever insurance companies whose entire model is "tell the hospital you don't have insurance, get the cash price, pay it with this debit card we give you."
This is why equality often ends up being a race to the bottom. If you disallow rewarding exceptional behavior and people, or only let everyone have the same thing, then there's just no way around the reality of limited resources and the inherent inequality of genetics and interest/effort.
But if you declare bankruptcy you can clear your debts but not the tuition one. You're stuck with it for life (or until you pay).
Their value is in shipping fast.

If competitors are working on the same feature and manage to roll it out of the door first, that spells trouble.

First version of Twitter was an almost complete re-write because of performance issues. But since their concept was dead simple, they had to get market shares fast else someone else was going to be there first.
It doesn't know. You can identify a wrong answer without knowing the right one.

I can tell you 1 + '1' is wrong in python, but can't tell what you meant.
> Is there any reason why this kind of windfall shouldn't be illegal? I realize it isn't, but is sure seems like it should be.

because our senators and congress critters are all on the buy for really cheap... it's not even hidden. something like medicare for all is the thing that makes sense but has a hard time finding traction because the people that it will negatively impact have the means to buy those politicians out.
‘Every message was copied to the police’
I heard a theory on some podcast that the ulterior motive here may be to try to incentivize more R&D into Alzheimer's pharma. This approval is thus a green light signal.
Is karma the line where the social-ness is drawn? I mean, I've been on here for a while and haven't even recognized anyone in any meaningful capacity by their handle. 100% of my interactions on here have been with strangers that have and will remain as strangers, as I am also a stranger to them.
The details I remember, the one he wanted to challenge was the Red Knight (I think) and the other detail of the story that I remember was whoever was going to challenge him initially didn't have any armor and kept collecting pieces from other knights that he defeated along the way.

I think it might have been Gawain now that you mention it. Pretty sure it started with a G so I kept thinking Gallahad.

EDIT: Found it! Sir Gareth!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth#Le_Morte_d'Arthur
Android is actually pretty secure. If you trust Linux kernel (which I think you do since you trust lxc), then you can trust Android.
Live blog: Microsoft’s 2021 Surface event
That’s the problem. China will not invade Taiwan explicitly. They will gradually ramp up integration over a decade in small steps that the world will except until it is too late like for Hong Kong.
I thought that site used to be reputable but sounds like a shill.
Have a look at my first link. FSF did not certify the phone, because they did not receive the units yet. Purism is struggling with delivery due to the supply chain problem. Nevertheless, FSF recommends Librem 5 every year, and they never recommend anything requiring binary blobs. I have no doubt it will be certified (later rather than sooner).
is a total mischaracterization of what I was saying. In fact, it's essentially pulled from thin air.

You did refer to "marginalization" of (Republicans') access to medicine. It was unclear whether you were only referring to the effect of well established federal drug policy and standards of the medical industry or a more specific/deliberate marginalization effort.

The corruption of the news media is in their choice to mock and literally laugh [...]

Ah, well I'm not aware of that, but that may be because I typically rely more on text-based media than video.
So 1x devs exist? I agree.
Pathdreamer: A World Model for Indoor Navigation
Voters not wanting to pay for comprehensive care for everyone is a 4th head. The current system of healthcare is great for allocating different amounts of healthcare to different classes of people, so that it is great for 20 to 30% of people, okay for 20%, and not good for 50%, and that is why it persists.

There is no reason Medicare should be restricted to those over 65, or why Medicaid is implemented differently (and reimburses providers more poorly than Medicare). Or even Tricare. We have at least 3 different taxpayer funded healthcare programs specifically so not everyone can get access to equal care, but so that various classes of people can get healthcare proportional to their political power (which usually scale with money, but also votes in the case of old people).
> Good points. Maybe educators need to consider updating their metaphors -- any of these could work.

Why do you assume that educators are at fault for the lack of understanding? It seems you are willing to make any excuse for students failing to grasp a straightforward concept that is present in everyones' lives from childhood onward.

> The real problem might be that computer files are intangible, abstract entities, making it harder for students to fully grok the model.

The real problem might be that they just aren't college material.
How is this different from namecoin?

Namecoin was one of the first Bitcoin spinoffs, and it’s arguably the only other coherent known use case for “the blockchain” besides money.
The XPS - and most other laptops - lacks the professional grade pen digitizer though as well as the 120hz display. Pretty sure that makes up for quite a lot of this price difference.
Tesla's ‘FSD’ Isn't What Elon Musk Says It Is. The Government Is Calling Him Out
McDonalds operates in the U.S. both in corporate-owned and franchise models. Internationally I am not so sure if there are franchise models, but I know that corporate owns many of the high profile restaurants internationally.

But even in franchises McDonalds keeps a tight leash on many aspects of the business (menus, processes, ingredients, and many labor standards), and so in many ways corporate McDonalds is responsible (practically, even if they argue not legally) for the operations at even the franchises.

Interestingly, in the U.S., McDonalds owns most of the land under the franchise restaurants, and actually earns more if its profits on rent than on franchise fees or selling ingredients:
https://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burg...
When I was there, the locals (at least the young folk who dabbled in fast food) much preferred Quick, which was a local fast food competitor.

I never saw a single Subway in Grenoble, Paris, Tour or Lyon.
To be fair, under stress and lack of sleep intelligence does go down and it only takes one mistake.
Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi
it's not anything specific to lastpass, because it's an issue with how chrome was(n't) isolating extensions. That's just the pw manager extension they picked for proof of exploitability. Any password manager that has a chrome extension that prefills passwords has the same issue.
Note that tooth decay and gum disease are strongly linked to sugar consumption, high sugar consumption causes diabetes, and Alzheimer has been linked with type 2 diabetes. I don't know how popular this hypothesis is these days, but that's a possible link.
Is it illegal to state you don’t have insurance when you do? Or is this product not considered Insurance in the legal sense?
I got a refurb Kindle off Woot for like $40 that has forward/backward buttons on both sides of the frame - outside of the screen itself - that have tactile feedback. I think they marketed it so you can use it one-handed.
Introduction to Isolated-VM in Node.js
Time to bring back Firefox Hello?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3102890/goodbye-hello-firefo...
Mexico City is absolutely fantastic, lots of greenery, amazing food, unique culture, welcoming people, lively nightlife, truly a megalopolis.

$2k is not a lot but should be enough for a good life. An apartment can rent for about $600 USD a month (surely you can find cheaper or much more expensive).

If you can, I recommend living in Condesa.

Finally, if you are employed elsewhere i.e. not in Mexico, you can live indefinitely in Mexico and pay no local income taxes. Lots of foreigners do this.
Apple makes hardware that is extremely durable, I and others use MacBooks that are getting close to 10 years old. I really doubt people will use the Framework for longer.

The main reason people buy new phones and macbooks is not that the old ones stop working, it's that the new ones are desirable, they are even slicker than the one you've got.
I'm not looking to block anyone. I want this to be open. And I don't want a confusing license. The code is pretty unobscured on npm so its less convenient but the source is free for anyone who can be bothered to go that route.

My reasoning is more that this is my side project, and I have limited time, and this seems like a good experiment to see if I can make OSS sustainable for once and also allow me to target help (my free time) towards users who are most invested in the project.

In the future I would like to open the repo but it might be tied to hitting a sponsorship amount or perhaps an extra service/product on top for those that want it.
> it's not some evil plot to screw you in particular

It might not be an ‘evil plot’, but corporations routinely support wage suppressing measures.
Nothing, its MIT, go wild :)
Michigan Plans First U.S. Charging Road for Electric Vehicles
I see comments like this quite often without any suggestions for how it would happen practically. Let's talk Los Angeles, for example - where would you put light rail lines to sufficiently cover the low-density 400+ square miles of city sufficiently well to be better than cars? How would you acquire the requisite property & rights of way to run the lines? How would you fight the guaranteed NIMBY protests from local voters? Where would you get the tens of billions of dollars it would take?

"Fixing" a city is hard. And I haven't seen too many examples of it actually done, in comparison to cities that were built with public transit in mind from the beginning.
A lot of conventional BI was focused on 'single player' mode -- basically an analyst running analysis at their computer and maybe dropping that graph into a presentation. This fundamentally limited the usefulness of of BI results (they got stuck in time and rarely updated in) and made follow-ups hard since the graph was no longer connected to the data source.

All the while things like Google Docs and Slack made collaboration around documents and ideas much easier with @mentions, threads, etc.

So BI can be a lot more useful if it is
1\ accessible anywhere (not just desktop or a crappy mobile app)
2\ collaborative -- bringing the mentions, shared questions, and ability to make decisions together
3\ not crazy expensive (looking at your tableau + looker)...because at these high price points the tool ends up not getting offered to everybody, it ends up being more limited in who gets access and hence less useful across a company

Full disclosure, I built Zing Data which is an app for mobile first business intelligence and is free for small teams. Works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Google BigQuery. https://www.getzingdata.com/

Would love any feedback folks have -- we're actively improving it and I'm sure this community has a lot of great ideas!
That was an exercise in anti-Catholic bigotry on the part of Twain. "[I]t is to be considered a shameful period piece, written at a time when it was acceptable and even laudatory to be a Know-Nothing and make up slanders about the Catholic Church"[0]. It also exposes Twain's childish faith in democracy.

[0] https://gloriaromanorum.blogspot.com/2008/07/connecticut-big...
The more information you have the better a position you'll be in - always. If you have an extremely stressful event in your life then making sure that finances isn't also a stressor is important for your mental health and, by extension, your physical health. A perfectly valid way to react to being underpaid is to say "the job security is worth this difference in salary while I sort out this other problem in my life" - but in that case it's you that's making the choice that the difference is acceptable. Everyone staying mum on salary only causes companies to be able to get away with exploiting introverts and people with low self-confidence.

If salaries are public it isn't a super rare case where friendly coworkers will help to build you up to asking for that promotion.
Everyone says that. But it's pretty clear that healthcare services themselves just cost an obscene amount of money no matter who's paying.
Why use $400k threshold for taxing “the rich”
In one of the early episodes of 99% Invisible they look at the Oxo vegetable peeler. The conclusion is that by pursuing accessible design, they improved the experience for everyone, which is a theme they regularly return to. It's something I try to think about when "designing" an experience, partially because it narrows my focus quite a bit and is much less overwhelming that trying to think of the myriad ways something might be approached.
Like almost everything in parenting, it’s more complicated than you would first think. My toddler knows our elderly dog went to the doctor and died because she was sick. But when he asks ‘why’ I have to clarify that: she was sick but not the same way he gets a cold; that the doctor tries to make people feel better too; that she’s not dead in the way replaceable batteries die; and that her grandparents won’t die when they get a cold even though they also get sick.

I avoided the rookie mistake of telling him that the dog went ‘to sleep’ (because then he might worry that he’ll die if he goes to sleep too). But there were a dozen other considerations that I also had to make, up to the point of changing our wording when batteries or electronics ‘die’ from now on.
> What exactly is their revenue model?

Seems they're still trying to figure that out.
I switched one linux to pipewire and it was seemless. Worked with airpods right off the bat.
Lucky for me I didn't post very much on Twitter so it wasn't too bad to just manually delete them one at a time.

I'm using shreddit to edit and then delete my comments on Reddit. It has worked out pretty good for me so far.

I deleted my FB account maybe 8 years ago but didn't think to delete my posts first.
And cut off the phone from SafetyNet? That would hurt SafetyNet adoption and be bad for Google, which is presumably why they didn't do it for OnePlus.
>A sunk cost fallacy is only applicable if the assumption is the venture would result in failure.

The sunk cost fallacy is not really about what the venture would actually do. One could be said to have fallen prey to it even if they double down and the venture eventually succeeds.

What's important is that at the time of the decision (a) the path doesn't seem to be working, and (b) they think "but I've spend too much to quit now".

This is more likely when one assumes it can still has a chance to succeed, than if they assume it will inevitably result in failure. Nobody that assumes inevitable failure would decide to continue.
Yes, it is similar. Since kids these days aren't allowed to go outside and play, they are driven everywhere. I noticed that my child had zero sense of which way home was, so I started playing a game. Stop at a random corner (with no traffic behind me), and as "which way is home?". It took a while, but now I get good answers all the time.

I myself purchased a road atlas a few years ago, for getting to unfamiliar suburbs on the other side of Chicago. The main use I have for google maps is traffic information.
The thing about the "they'd just descend into VR" is that you must explain why one hundred percent of all entities capable of doing that decide to do that.

Moreover, even if you do descend into VR, if you have a civilization capable of safely doing that, you need to explain why 100.0000...% of them never say "hey, I sure could have a lot more VR resources all to myself if I just sent this probe over to that star system over there and converted it into computronium".

By the time you get to this level, you don't need to worry about "planets that will instantly kill you".

Some sort of "singularity" where they escape our universe would explain the emptiness of the sky. However, every year the places where such a thing could hide in our physics gets a bit narrower, and we have literally zero reason right now to believe that such a thing is possible. I have no problem speculating, but I prefer to keep the grounded and ungrounded speculation clearly delimited, and right now this is definitely on the ungrounded side.

(Side not, not targeted at you mattmanser but just to prevent me posting another message, it's really tedious to attack someone engaging in grounded speculation by pointing out that ungrounded speculation exists. Yes, it's possible that humans are just uniquely stupid and there's some easy mechanism to create and escape into infinite energy subuniverses and half the planets in the universe have had dozens of alien civilizations already do so, it's possible that aliens are using energies we've never even heard of to communicate, and it's possible that psychic waves are radiating right through us this very second telling us how to do it, but that's ungrounded speculation. It doesn't mean that we must therefore give up all grounded speculation because "what if, like, the aliens are all psychics that escaped into the ninth dimension? you can't prove they aren't, man.")
I think COVID lockdown made keeping social media usage to a minimum really difficult. I noticed that I started to watch chatting streams on Twitch as a crutch for not being able to socialize outside. Socializing over a video call with your friends are also difficult because you're not left with much topics to talk about.
minor correction;
It’s 10k DKK (about 1500$) in cash equivalents… So you have to “eat your bricks first” (as the saying goes for those who own property).
Yes, many dark patterns use similar justifications.
What Data Can Learn from Design
How does content-addressing help implement a better name server? If the system is fully distributed you're gonna have a lot more than one person deciding that they are @bob
You're still at a stage in life when more academic complexity is considered an
unequivocal good, even as no non-research job overlaps with any of it. Sooner
the better is realizing there aren't enough hours in the day to dabble in
theoretical CS while cultivating the professional relationships and non-CS
things that actually make money.
There a tiny slither of the global population, which in no ways constitutes "One of the biggest opportunities in technology right now".
> in comparison to cities that were built with public transit in mind from the beginning.

Tokyo and Paris were built with electrified, public transport in mind from the beginning?

Really?
Asteroid Spotting
Rich guy complaining about another Rich guy. I don't care. If this was a small app developer complaining, I would care. The more little devs complain, the more can come together and sue the crap out of Apple. 1 big Co suing another big Co = nobody cares. Tim isn't helping the small developers, he just wants to make more money for himself. Small devs will still get screwed.
For a lot of basic crud software something is very wrong if there is even a possibility of having a 10x engineer. I worked on a project that was basically just forms. Should have been really basic, anything a junior engineer could build. Nope! The 10x engineer instead built out his own form library. Incredibly difficult to use, obviously undocumented, extremely buggy. To build static forms with a little bit of validation. So yeah he was a 10x engineer because he made everyone else a .1x engineer.
I can understand how he ended up with that kind of accusatory tone. Existing solutions either come with severe compatibility issues(official Emulator, QEMU, etc.), or vaporwares with great demos(Project Astoria) or are really sketchy borderline malwares(rest of it - my presumptions) that does wonders.
HL7 FHIR is a counterpoint. A comprehensive, well specified REST API based on JSON.
Public pay information doesn’t require equality.

If you actually are better then you’ll negotiate better pay.

You’re saying the equivalent of “I don’t want a free market. If other people have the same information I do then I won’t be able to benefit off the information disparity and have to compete on merit”
How can you get that kind of confidence? I imagine a slightly more advanced civilisation than ours can send a telescope far enough to use parallax. Are there better options?
> I do think that Brave would be 100% in the clear (same with any browser or extension) to "MiTM", modify, or refuse to display any part of any web page.

Taken literally this would mean that browsers would be allowed to re-write, either actively or by deleting sections, the actual content of articles. Surely there has to be some expectation that what a person publishes on the internet will be faithfully represented? And if faithful representation of the original is respected for the writing, why shouldn't it be respected for the writer's business/advertising arrangements?
Agreed, but this would help force developers to deal with treating secrets with the care they should have been treating them with all along, in my opinion.

PowerShell's [SecureString] type is something of a step in the right direction, although its execution is lacking in some respects.

In any case, stack traces should _always_ be treated as secrets.
Community matters. In this case Python community around data science is huge.
Oh, the memories, I loved VB6.

I remember when my father had to use medicall services billing program supplies by a natinal health insurance company, and he had some problems with it.

Luckily, I was a student in Bucharest and I went to their headquarters to play middleman between my father and their "informatician".

This "informatician" was the sole architect, UX designer, developer, tester, release manager for this program -- VB6+ access.

I sort of helped him debug the code, he built me a special version and handed it to me on a CD.

The program was ok UX wise and blisteringly fast.
Years later, they hired this corrupt company that built software for the State and produced a horrendous program, that took terrible and just the startup took 15 minutes (parsing hunonguous XML and inserting it line by line into a local sql database, as far as I remember reading the logs).

The contract ran into HUNDREDS or millions of euros.
Granted, the scope of the program was a bit wider.
Nor as good.

A USA Today article is going to lightly touch on a topic I'm interested in. The comments are likely to go into some interesting details.

Plus I just hate the web experience right now. HN is a predictable, quick, silent, ad-free experience where the layout doesn't shift.
There is swift language tooling for vscode, if you’re so inclined.