skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your entire argument is based on the assumption that healthcare is a free-market which it is obviously not. The mechanisms of price discovery are not present to all players in the market. When there is an unbalance in information in any market it will always be detrimental to the player with less information. The way to fix the problem is to create a free-market.
Foam served in a plaster cast of the chef's mouth
Sure but it generally involves someone fleeing a country where they committed the crime.
Fascinating. I have some questions I'm hoping you can answer. Can you speak to the narrative of administrative bloat in US hospitals? Are doctors paid relatively less in other countries? And is there any chance that the high pay is needed to counter-act overly stressful working conditions in the US (vs., say, the UK's NHS?)

I'm also curious about doctors' personal expenses. If most of their salary is going towards rent or homeownership, short of situating a hospital on something like a kibbutz... maybe there is some sort of rent subsidy -- or tax break for landlords that give a 10% rent discount / for banks that give a medical professionals low interest home loans -- that could be enacted. It could allow doctor's effective salaries to stay the same, but medical prices to drop?

I'm afraid you are going to say that doctor's biggest personal expense is student loans for medical school! If medical-school-debt were to be wiped out, do you know how much salaries could drop in terms of objective price without changing doctor's effective income?
I couldn't do physically modelled audio synthesis in real time on ANY processor of that era.

Now I can do a ton of it, though not enough to represent a full orchestra.

And I could not compile 600k lines of C++ in 4 minutes on any processor of that era.

Now I can.

The fact that desktop environments have gotten "heavy" has essentially zero impact on the compute-heavy tasks that are important to me. If I was a video editor (I'm not), the same "progress" would apply there too.
So? "Google's responsibility" != "Google Inc" != "official Pixel warehouse"
I know. Pirated copies of Adobe Flash Creator created an entire generation of animators. A shame that no real worthy successor has appeared.
It is a lot of learning - you have to both run gitlab-runner on NixOS _and_ Nixify your project to get caching.

If you climb the learning curve that far though - you'll be hooked.
When I bought a DVR, some cable networks were starting to speed up scenes of shows in order to fit in all of commercials.[0] I think this started in the late 90's but that's just my personal recollection. I did spot a Reddit thread pointing out this issue seven years ago. I suspect some scenes are cut from syndicated shows for the same reason.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/cable...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/2vwgk9/tbs_spee...
But where do all those best practises and recourses and advice and learning come from? It's trust and laws and government and society. Crypto enthusiasts claim that these can be solved independently of any governing framework, but my point is that you can only solve it for a given blockchain, and anyone can create a blockchain, so what's the process by which any blockchain becomes the de-facto standard? And if your answer is "Everyone just settles on that one" then what you have just described is government.
Death by Indigestion. More companies die of indigestion than starvation
The real pain comes from when there's zero ways to do a thing.

I'm tired of config languages. Just be a library.
I think we have seen the same drama in newspapers. More ads. Even whole cover page, is an advertisement. Reduced readership, and unlikely to attract more due to high advertising volume.
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’
Evergrande and Kaisa Have Defaulted, Fitch Says
People lie about this kind of stuff all the time. Every day. And no, there's usually no penalty for it because proving that something didn't happen is even more difficult than proving that something did happen. And even when the person freely admits that they lied there's still usually no penalty.
Fighting fIRe with fIRe Infrared Floodlight Solution
The Gig Economy’s Days in Europe Are Numbered
Consider some numbers:

Let’s say that the bond rate is 2%, 1% goes to the bondholder, 1% goes to the treasury. Apple bonds the property of Joe’s plumbing for $1M with a 1 year duration. So Joe The Plumber either pays $10k a year to both Apple and the treasury, or takes $1M and moves.

If Joe can’t pay, then the banks will gladly lend against the property, because the payout is guaranteed. They will also very gladly lend for purchase of a new property for the same reason.

The system is actually no different to Joe. He still loses his property either way if he can’t pay the property tax. But now he has a liquid asset with zero transaction cost, so it works out a lot better for him either way.

And that 1% to the treasury could replace the entire income tax revenue of the country.

But it’s just an idea; there are things I’m not sure about.
They are damages so, indeed, it is unfair to compare them to fines, as all damages are tax deductible. I stand corrected.

I am not trying to claim that the situation is illegal, merely that it is immoral (thus the human part). Putting aside the laws and codes, paying to fix a situation that you created through negligence should not be a normal business expense IMHO.

I resent the idea that you can pay you way out of almost all situations unless the victim is richer than you.
i've played with some libraries recently in julia that followed this strategy;
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-cliffordalgebras-jl/71...

and I was surprised at how high dimensionality you could go. I'd like to see a c++20 version.
you would be wrong, most gentoo users are not going to be okay with prebuilt
Good. Yes, earlier this year someone shared it again and the post from a former QA Engineer at Borland jumped out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26018033
Well I for one optimized an authorization module of an enterprise application written in Delphi by getting rid of standard library strings. Speedups where 100x-1000x, accelerating application startup time from minutes to maybe 3 seconds.
I bought a Nokia T20 a few weeks ago. It's great! I guess it's not available many other regions. Does everything my iPad does, but I can install Firefox and an ad blocker!

The aspect takes some getting used too, but given I watch a lot of TV and movies on it, it's probably better than the iPad.

https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_au/nokia-t-20?sku=F20RID1A04...
Please provide evidence of it happening on a regular basis.
https://github.com/JSybrandt/MOLIERE
You are thinking as a developer in 2020s, not one in 1990s (or earlier). Memory was incredibly precious: 16-bit x86 had 64KB segments, so if your data didn't fit in, it would be a lot slower. People used nibbles (4 bits) because the extra instructions dealing with bit twiddling was worth the cost.

Basically, no sane programmer in the 90s would be happy with a string type that wasted three bytes per object.
This is part of Microsoft's core culture. Bill Gates championed the philosophy of doing anything it takes to get ahead, as long as there's some argument that it might be legal.
Anecdotes:

Anders is a bit of a childhood hero of mine.

I got the BLS Pascal 1.2 and the shock of coming from line-based interpreted Microsoft BASIC to full-screen editor with lighting fast compiler in three keypresses (Ctrl-X, C, Return) is hard to describe. (Full-screen editing and compilation representing two quantum leaps).

Studing the internals of the BLS Pascal (Z80, Nascom 2) literally boggled my mind with the genius of the code which was unlike any other Z80 code I had read.

I was fortunate enough to meet the still young Anders at the "Herningmesse" where he was demonstrating Compas Pascal (running a Maze generator to attract eyeballs). He was very nice but I was too shy to ask the really good questions :)

I'm still actually chasing this. I have never managed to get a working version of BLS Pascal 1.3 but I know it exist (help would be most welcome - the one Google find you is corrupted).
> I see no difference between private insurance and government run except the government is constantly lambasted for overspending and medicare seems to have the lowest operating costs and payouts to healthcare providers.

Contrary to popular understanding, relatively low (sometimes impressively low) overhead & even fraud rates is the norm for US government social programs. This is one case where pop-culture "common knowledge" diverges wildly from reality.
> I don’t see anyone claiming that words are bad.

That's what the sales pitch is for icons.

> are usually configurable to use both

Don't forget all the uses of icons where it is molded into the button. Take a look at your car's dashboard.

> iPhone uses icon+word on the launch screen

Only for some items. The bottom row on my iphone does not have text. Of course <cough>everyone knows</cough> that the needle in circle launches the browser. Sure.
Your kidneys are probably mentioned in the small print.
Packed structs with char fields of 8 bytes or so are still common.
Since we're showing things off, I made this in POV-Ray https://youtu.be/KU7V3UkRNy0

I actually made it several years ago, probably around 2007, I only re-rendered it and uploaded it to YouTube recently. I always felt there was a rather painful skill ceiling in POV-Ray. Sure, people have done some really amazing things with it, but going from something fairly simple like this to something really impressive required a level of magic and time I could never get out of POV-Ray.
A log4j story in three parts
Reddit is literal evil. Last time I used the new Reddit, the up vote scores and comment counts change in real time on the screen. Like what the fuck.
Serious question: Can you make "Netflix money", er, "FAANG money", as a Lazarus developer?
Your friend's wife and you are absolutely not antivaxxers. You're the folks that we're trying to protect with herd immunity via vaccination, because you cannot get a vaccine.

I'm sorry you're being judged, that's awful.
Janet

https://github.com/janet-lang/janet

https://janet-lang.org/
It's funny that you say this, I've been meaning and trying to go through the various pdfs and other ebooks I've stockpiled. I usually look at a book's title and go "oh, that looks incredibly useful" after having briefly skimmed the contents and unless I'm immediately working with it, I shelve it.

It's peace of mind that I have the material, but I've noticed that various items in there are either old or not as good/useful as I had thought prior. Your comment has given me a bit more impetus to try to focus on deleting stuff (pdfs, ebooks, bookmarks).
Thank you! I'll give it a go right now.
You can’t watch videos on nebula without signing up - which makes you the product, just as you are on YouTube.
from the look of it, you will need to have the handshake resolver installed and replaced as your local dns resolver. With that it will return you a the public key address on the bittorrent DHT which can be solved by some torrent client.

There it should have a torrent info payload that your client can turn into a ordinary torrent, where you can proceed to download the files, and can open in your browser on your local filesystem.
No. Mansplaining is used almost exclusively by women who think they are better than men, usually to try and shame men for explaining things that the woman either (a) clearly does not know or (b) is pretending to not know.
All,

How does the performance on these compare to similar VMs at other clouds? Anyone here on HN published benchmarks?

Thanks in advance,
Barry Elisson
Iirc, zeronet used to not have bitcoin before the craze, so this would be like early zeronet I guess
I see lots of instructions on how to set up a system on the website, but nothing which tells me why this software would be useful.
Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 4: how algorithms are implemented
> The ancient Greeks definitely had no technology that would have allowed them to do that

Sure they did. Bronze is not that hard to work with. Simple silica (sand) abrasives cut through it quite well. Lapping makes things nice and flat. Accuracy is defined by your skill with tools.

Hand sheet metal layout is a real skill even in the modern world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DypIDbAVTc
> With that perspective, I don’t think that 23 crates is terrifying. I’m going to look them all over and either pick one, or write the 24th crate myself. The result is the same either way.

In a fine-grained ecosystem, the problem is transitive. You aren't just picking one from 20+ for each of your direct dependencies, you are also trusting that they in turn did just as much diligence as you did in picking their direct dependencies and so on. Curation and pruning would at least help mitigate the scope of the problem.

> ... or write the 24th crate myself.

This is a good example of the xkcd joke about standards proliferation. If I found myself in this situation, I'd prefer to keep the 24th private to my own package. DRY has its limits. Sometimes you've just got to specialize.

I'm aware of the irony in saying this in the context of mmap. But in this case, a thin wrapper that reflects the system call's semantics ought to be available in a common `posix` crate that others may freely rely upon to build their higher-level services. There's no good reason for e.g. ripgrep to have to pick and choose among a dozen flowers for it.
Better AND Worse? Streaming video. The convenience of on-demand and a sort of a la carte experience that we've always been clamoring to have since the days of "regular" Cable TV are here. And while that's nice and convenient in manys (i.e. high-quality streaming feeds of many kinds of both live content, popular shows/movies, and past/old movies and shows).

The downside is now it's a huge pain in the ass to remember what streaming network has what, in some cases down to which show's seasons exist where. Example? Yellowstone TV series (w/ Kevin Costner). You can watch the first 3 seasons on Peacock. But Season 4? Only on Paramount Network. Oh and don't get confused with Paramount Network versus Paramount+.

It's an upgrade in some ways but offset but incredibly frustrating and annoying experiences trying to figure out where shit lives in order to watch it.
In this case it's more like, "can't a CEO walk down the street knowing his employees are safely shielded from better work opportunities"
Thank you!

I do think there is a way - since the beautiful WebTorrent (https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent) can do so in browser. I'm keen to see something like this in a normal web browser (if possible as an extension even), hopefully developed by someone with better skills than me haha!
There's an excellent book, quite relevant, called "Overcoming Organizational Defenses" by Chris Argyris.
Apologies to my old classmates at the university, when during the computer lab sessions I would telnet(!) to their machines and launch at random times xneko and/or xsnow. Seeing their surprised and puzzled reactions from a few rows behind was one of the best silly laughs I've had in my life!

(If you happen to be one of them, track me down, I'm thanking you for your inadvertent participation and will invite you to a well-deserved nice meal.)
I'm all for embracing the invariants of eventual consistency, but an internet addressing system without an authoritative (i.e. centralized) truth is practically useless.
CPU cycles were also incredibly precious. It's a tradeoff. In the 80s and 90s you also had smaller caches so iterating over a string to determine its length was more expensive (more likely to hit RAM) than "just" reading its length parameter and carrying on with your life.
What track record of breaking assurances are you referring to?

We're going in circles. This was already referred to in my original entry into this thread, 5 or 6 levels up.

The fact that the U.S. may keep some of its assurances to some parties (if in fact this is the case) does not obviate the fact that frequently and brazenly breaks many other assurances it makes in this regard. It is this, much bigger fact (which is pretty obvious and doesn't need substantiation as to the particulars) which takes precedence.
I don't think it's them being cheap, I think they're reacting to a flood of questions. My very first question when I saw this was if logback was impacted. As soon as I found OP's comment, I could relax and eat breakfast.
We already have those leagues now... they're just called rec leagues.

One issue I could think of is women playing a sport which has considerable groinal contact, such as basketball. I'm sure there is some amount of women players who would not be comfortable with men essentially grinding up on them in the paint. For those without experience, if you are offensively in the paint a typical strategy is to shove your butt out into the defenders groin to create space.

By making all sports coed you invite the potential for more sexual harassment, especially at the lower levels of competition due to the close skill levels between minimally athletic men and moderately athletic women.
While 'competing' may not be a good word for it, there's an argument to be made that some software belongs in the commons. This sort of signature/certificate infrastructure is a good example.
So why not have it hosted by a public entity? Maybe entrust a couple large libraries with operating and cross-mirroring repositories?
No need if it still works. It would probably take a breaking change in containers itself for conex to really need to update.

There may be another similar extension if you're of the "completely working code must be updated for it to be of good quality" mindset though.
Ah, although, TF-IDF is still good to know. Semantic search hasn't eliminated the need for classical retrieval techniques. It can also be used to select a subset of words to use to create an average of word vectors for a document signature, a quick and dirty method for document embeddings.

Bag of word co-occurrences in matrix format is also a nice to know, factorizing such matrices were the original vector space model for distributional semantics and provide historical context for GloVe and the like.
You may be right. It looks like some states have specific rules for credit cards. For example, in some states businesses can't charge credit card processing fees.

However, many businesses charge late payment fees.

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/can-merchant-ch...
Sure, and then they made sure it couldn't connect so that it didn't wipe itself, but somehow it still connected to send security alerts to her and manipulate her Gmail account.

Stop making excuses for her. Take a moment to think critically. It's a heaping steaming pile of obvious bullshit.
> I no longer hold the view that our media deserves the first amendment protection that it does.

Free speech is the only thing that makes it slightly possible to not parrot the official government narrative.
They are describing what they'd do to write a paper to "whitewash the staggering amount of wealth and power is held by American oligarchs," so, a list of things that should appear plausible to the reader, but which are fundamentally misleading. Ignoring PPP is a great way to get numerical differences without QOL differences, as you point out.

I haven't gotten to the article yet, but I'm pretty sure this is intended as a criticism or the article.
nobody thinks Einstein was beneath us because he didn't have an iPhone

if something "shouldn't exist" in a time period it has nothing to do with judging those people as inferiors, its simply the timeline of the development of technology (or our misconception thereof)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8048136/
You're suggesting each user maintain their own DNS lookup table?
> Food produces nourishment over time

No, it doesn't.

Agricultural real estate does, and it is an asset.
Yes, that would indeed be very ignorant if that is the sum total of your knowledge.
Interesting.. I have fluttering. I assumed my potassium intake is a lot lower than before (less potatos for example...). How do you get you potassium?
Ownership and Mutability Patterns in Rust
It's not primarily about the bytes. Heap allocating RAII style strings can absolutely kill performance. And they are baaaad for modularity. It's all in my OP, why do I even repeat?
I use this:

(defun get-file (filename)

(with-open-file (stream filename)

(loop for line = (read-line stream nil)

while line

collect (parse-integer line))))
Anecdote time.

I live in NYC and went to CVS recently. Picked up the following:

* 12 pack of Bounty paper towels

* a box of Q-tips

* contact lens solution

* 6 pack of Smart Water

Cost me over $50 bucks. This sucks.
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
Yes and no - DMT (https://github.com/lmatteis/dmt) is implemented into this so you can use a single hash in the DHT for the 'site', but that will be updated to point to a new torrent infohash on every update.
Maybe they are alluding to the fact that GEOS was using graphics mode for the GUI (which makes drawing the UI slower and requires more memory, thus arguably would require a more powerful machine) where C64OS is using text mode (plus the graphics split mode) which arguably is more suited to the C64.
But it's a pretty imperfect approximation of minimal needs, both because it doesn't guarantee a roof and adequate food supply everywhere people live on $2 PPP per day, never mind clean drinking water and education for the kids, and because lots of people at that income definitely do get diseases from poor living conditions and diet (and if they do, even basic generic drugs are at least a couple of days' income). And let's be honest, for the most part we had huts and meat in the Neolithic era - expecting unprecedented accelerations in economic growth to get people back to that level isn't asking very much!

And my original point wasn't to say that the threshold was necessarily wrong so much as to contest the idea that there was something unusual about describing people above that very low standard as "very poor". Now, sure, the same PPP-adjustment imperfections creep in and some people on $6 a day actually live recognisably lower middle class lifestyles (albeit without any foreign travel or car) but the whole point of the comparison is lots of the stuff fast food workers in the West can afford - at least if not being hammered by student debts or SF rent - is out of reach for nearly half the world.
Indeed, she did copy this story directly from an anonymous poster on Reddit, other than making up some details that don't even make sense given the rest of her story. And yet people still believe her.
We're talking about name resolution on the internet. Some source of authority is required to keep the overall system sound. Said another way, if two people query the same name and get categorically different answers, or reliably non-deterministic answers, the system is unsound.
Funny you should choose that particular example, that's the one formula I could never remember in gradeschool until on a whim while bored at my part-time job I used what I'd just learned in calculus to derive it (yep, with integration). Once I understood where each part of the formula came from, I never forgot it again.
A number of times the past few years I have tried turning on the FM radio in my car just for old times sake, or if my phone is dead or something. A vast majority of the time, I will flip through all 6 programmed channels on my radio and every single one is on ad-break.

So I decide to sit on one that I'll just wait through... but then I realize I've sat there for what feels like 5+ minutes (longer than one average song) still being bombarded with ads and justifyingly so decide that radio is no longer for me, and so off it goes for another year.
Humanity on the Precipice (Toby Ord)
Very cool and actualized proof-of-concept. "Decentralization" beyond a marketing term.