skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employer-based healthcare was won by an alliance of corporate and healthcare industry lobbies against a state healthcare plan in the 1950s when the so-called “free market” healthcare system was failing the public. Prices were increasing and the New Deal corporate powers pacified the public with social security and employer-based healthcare.

Edit: updated 1960s to 1950s per info in replies
> "It is counter intuitive with economic theory"

If you said "It is counter intuitive with Keynesian economic theory", I'd see your point a bit more. But different schools of thought like the Austrians view the importance of short-term consumption differently than what is a sort of textbook model of the world.
A Guardian article says the dig was in August and September. The first 3 episodes in the BBC's brilliant Digging for Britain that aired last week look like they were shot in a similar timeframe. This fossil will covered in tomorrow's show. I think what we'd find is that those associated with the discovery timed their announement with the show airing rather than the BBC dictating it.
The antminer S19j (the j is important) consumes about 3.2kW at 90TH/s
> but history will look at your existence in a bad way

That was really uncalled for.
1 or 2, depends on the kind of modem. VDSL2+ modems might have three, though one of those is the line driver which is zero-delay for the purposes of a computer.
To be fair, you almost never should use the map builtin instead of the pythonic equivalent, list comprehensions.

`print([x + 1 for x in [1, 2, 3])`

I agree that the ruby approach is better in terms of consistency, but most developers will be aware of the conventions python uses.
These sound like reasonable improvements, and maybe not without their own potential vectors for cronyism. I am genuinely interested to read more.
> Replace the display with a compatible 1600x900 panel that has better image quality. The current screen is awful

The TN displays from those days are so bad. Why Lenovo didn't at least have an IPS option for their machines (other than the tablets, which they did), is a mystery to me.

The T430S was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Atrocious. I finally stuck to MacBook Air/Pro at that point.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T430s-N...

In the last couple years, they started putting decent 1080 screens in (sometimes the brightness is lacking, but my T480 is not bad at all), and they have a fantastic 1440p screen in some models.
I'm sorry to hear that. We need your voice. There are people who still haven't gotten "vaccinated" and are under pressure to do so. By speaking up you might be able to save someone else from what you're going through. Please don't let people shut you down. Your personal experience is the gold standard of scientific and clinical evidence. Any pushback you get is irrational and based on fear and ignorance.
That’s inaccurate (IMO) and there’s nothing saying the minimum ‘accrual period’ for earnings is weekly as an exempt employee. Potentially differs by state and I’d be interested to learn of any where it is different, please cite?

It’s quite normal to see people start Tuesday on payroll, finish on Thursday, and they don’t get paid those whole weeks. They typically get those days paid, even if for example you “offboard” by lunchtime on your last day of work.
This. My parents have zero interest in spending their older years in a region that doesn’t speak the language they know, colder, and has simply a different way of life than theirs not to mention their social circle.

I wholeheartedly agree with their choice, and will do my best to help them where they are.
https://www.fr.de/panorama/horror-mandarinennetz-12204896.ht...

seems like you're up for a surprise.
> But I've honestly never encountered this

Boy do I have the perfect example for you then: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelco...
I see nothing immoral in a bear eating a human. It’s just being a bear. But just like any other social animal, as humans we’re of course going to kill that bear so it stops eating us. It has nothing to do with us being superior than a bear. We just don’t want to die like any other animal!

And as humans I see nothing wrong with eating other animals (outside of animal cruelty, e.g. factory farms). As animals, we naturally eat each other. If there is something immoral about this, does that mean a rabbit is morally superior to a fox?
>> look at the survival for various cancers in the NHS vs the US

The figures i can find ignore people who can’t afford to become cancer patients in the US - there’s an unknown, but suspected large, number of people cut out of the figures in the US making that stat unfairly stacked vs UK (where everyone regardless of affordability gets access). The people who can’t afford in the US are typicslly the ones more pre-disposed to adverse outcomes in that statistic.
>In principle, you're correct. In practice ...

It sounds like you are disputing empirical evidence as well as standard economic theory regarding monopsonies.

>The UK public might "adore" the NHS, but they have a pretty poor understanding of how it is funded.

Not really. It's mostly funded with taxation.

They are not so aware of the corruption going on underneath with taxpayer money.

>If the government kept funding the NHS by an extra X percent

"X" percent? Is this a serious point? That "X" is demanded by the public and X is also too costly? Where "X" is undefined?

What is even the point of that sentence?

>The ruling party, being the Tories, that have been "in charge" of the NHS for the majority of its 70 or so years?

A) If it is a majority of years it's a fairly slim majority and B) they werent there when it was set up.

>And who on earth would buy a loss making healthcare system

Somebody who knew that they could start charging either customers or government through the nose and make it fantastically profitable.

Richard Branson is one example (Virgin Healthcare sucked £2 billion out of NHS coffers, yay for crony capitalism).
How can accounts be distributed? What would prevent impersonation?
Unless you are a citizen of the same state the corporation is, you’ll need a lawyer when they file a removal petition to have the case moved to federal court on the basis of diversity jurisdiction.

And if you don't consult a lawyer to prepare for small claims court, you stand a decent chance to be blindsided by that or something else.
After the Spanish Flu and now COVID-19, I think it's time we admit that deaths in a pandemic are fully susceptible to Goodhart's Law. It may be best if each country's number of deaths is kept under wraps until everything is over.
Web3, Moxie, Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram: Why Decentralization Matters
but if that were so - how often is the MVP awesome but you know the final product would suck really bad?
I like that the Ruby community has embraced the fact it is no longer cool.

I recently interviewed for a ruby/rails job where the dev team had come from a previous start up that tried to port an existing Rails app to a React/Microservices one with disastrous results. For this job they were relishing coming back to a monolithic Rails app. I hope this trend continues!
> What incentive does the country have to under report COVID deaths? Get some glorious trophy from the west on its stellar COVID management?

It's about incentives and costs at every level. If the person filling out the death paperwork writes covid, does that require more work than not writing covid (paperwork, cleaning, testing, etc)? Does it bring shame to their work, their colleagues or facility or community?
> Google fired the workers in 2019 after they organized against the company’s contracts with immigration detention agencies.

Wooow. That was at the height of ICE being shown as deeply corrupt and racist child abusers. (They still are, but it hasn't been used as a stick to beat Biden with because 'reasons').

>the NLRB issued a federal complaint against Google for illegally firing and surveilling the four software engineers

Illegal surveillance. By fucking Google. Scary scary shit.

> Kara Silverstein, Google’s human resources director said that she “like[d] the idea” of the op-ed, but that it should be executed so that “there would be no fingerprints and not Google specific.”

So, she knew how uncool/illegal that looks. Schwifty.

Looking at how other outlets have covered this - looking at you, NYT - it's pretty fucking awful that the best coverage is coming from Vice.
I love this:

> the “sky sailors” (as naval aircrews are called in the French Navy)
Well there’s a continuum of offerings, some having lots of custom control of the training pipeline and on the other side things like CustomVision that try to make it easy / hide the complexity. We consider ourselves even further to the “hide complexity” side, since we try every domain automatically vs. making you choose, re-train automatically, etc. Initial feedback from our users is that even recall vs. precision is something they don't want to have to think about.
In addition, we don't limit ourselves to only vision - we'd like to be the one stop shop for ML as a service.
It has not been true for 10+ years.

Affordable Care Act (ACA) outlawed denying insurance to anyone, regardless of how much their future healthcare expenses will be.

It is one of the reasons that everyone complained about ACA increasing health insurance costs - it had to because more people were getting more healthcare.

ACA also outlaws pricing insurance on anything other than age, smoking status, and location. Even the pricing due to age is capped so that the premium for the oldest (riskiest) age is only allowed to be 3x the young age premium.

ACA also implemented out of pocket maximum for in network care, so that there is a maximum cost per calendar year you would be responsible for. Recent law that went into effect Jan 1, 2022, extends this out of pocket maximum to all healthcare providers in the US if it is an emergency.

Finally, ACA also instructed an appeal process if you think the insurance company is denying payment for treatment justified with evidence:

https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision...
From the only randomised controlled study of masks... https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.long

"The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm, with the rate of ILI statistically significantly higher in the cloth mask arm (relative risk (RR)=13.00, 95% CI 1.69 to 100.07) compared with the medical mask arm. Cloth masks also had significantly higher rates of ILI compared with the control arm. An analysis by mask use showed ILI (RR=6.64, 95% CI 1.45 to 28.65) and laboratory-confirmed virus (RR=1.72, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.94) were significantly higher in the cloth masks group compared with the medical masks group. Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%."
Why not do crosssigning like matrix?
Frankly, I have no idea. I'm not a native English speaker myself, just picked that phrase up.
> Those are picture of a Cambridge roundabout,

I realised it minutes after posting it when I noticed the driving was on the left (as opposed to right in NL) :-). The architecture is very close to those in the NL though which fooled my lazy eyes. Pedestrian islands, enabling free movement of cyclists with clear markings etc.,
> Do you think universal healthcare would affect pharmaceuticals?

Yes, I would think a massive fundamental change in the healthcare system would have an effect on Pharma. But who knows what that would look like

> I think it would not be relevant to the vaccines as we would still spend money on R&D under the pandemic threat.

They would spend money, but it's not hard to envision a world where we didn't have multiple fully tested, safe & effective vaccines in less than a year.
I'm not sure if the the piece side continues to have bearing when the hashes are all in a Merkle tree on uniform 16k blocks.

"Enforcing these encodings also help make it more likely that two people creating a torrent from the same files, end up with the same info-hash and the same torrent."

In the discussion of backwards compatibility, it appears that v1 collections of identical content encoded with different piece sizes will all become the same v2 collection when upgraded.
Most NFTs are still made on the Ethereum mainnet which has huge gas fees indeed. There are alternative protocols which make it cheaper but it's a pain (and expensive) to move over to those protocols.

There are some projects working on reducing this though, for example zkSync is doing some really interesting work on a layer2 solution that feels like you're staying on the Ethereum mainnet but the fees are highly reduced thanks to the zkRollup algorithm.

I saw my friend mint an NFT for $1.40 the other day just to showcase the work zkSync has been doing, at this cost it'd be super interesting for real world uses beyond just art provenance.
As a controls engineer who deals with CDRH regulations for laser sensors, laser engravers, and and laser cutters on a regular basis, the crap that some light shows get away with is criminal.

The lasers used in light shows are only allowed because they're moving; if you looked directly down the beam while it held still your blink reflex would not save your vision. Fortunately, you've got natural liquid cooling: your cornea is bathed in tears and your retina is surrounded by fluid-filled tissues, so there's a safety window of a few milliseconds while the laser pans across your eyeball too fast to cause dangerous temperature rise. If the laser beam slows down - if the encoders/resolvers on the galvanometers register insufficient change in the mirror angles - the controller will shut off the laser.

I don't have sufficient trust in my own professional, methodical, high-quality work using top dollar equipment to open up a machine without safety eyewear and lock out/tag out procedures; I have even less trust in products for the lower-margin, faster-paced entertainment industry. On top of that, it would not surprise me if a camera sensor has slightly less heatsinking compared to human eyeballs...but the fact that the safety margin is so thin that cameras can be damaged makes me not want to go to a light show!
OpenCV has wheels built for all common platforms so it should be fine now. If your platform or python version is too new/old/unsupported then yeah, you can forget about building it and use another platform/python version.

To be honest, it's always this dice roll with most things on pypi. If there are wheels for you, golden. If not, you better hope it's a pure python package or it doesn't pull any outside libs. Things are getting better though with solutions like cibuildwheel.
Yes, that companies don't like unions and do what they can to discourage unionization isn't newsworthy. Finding a company that encourages unionization would be newsworthy!
This is true of COVID "cases" and deaths as well.
Sorry, it was an tongue in cheek comment not appropriate for HN. I believe the problem with censorship through the veneer of hate speech should be obvious. Only way to hinder corporate and state censorship being extended is if the factions that supported it come to their senses. They are far greater in numbers than those that thought it through.
Fixed that number some minutes after posting, missed a couple of magnitudes there :)
There's a couple of interactive graph visualization software out there that could be used instead of static dot file generation.

(One of the advantages of DOT is that it's a pretty common de facto standard for describing graphs, so you can import it into most graph manipulation libraries and mangle it further using that.)
Well, it's certainly handy when using a mobile client that doesn't have a "Past" button, like Materialistic :)
Healthcare is consumer product. That is not the issue. The issues are:
- information asymmetry & credence good
- negative selection
- lack of standards
- lack of oversight
Well, the fun thing is that at the moment you expire you can be sure that you sucked the least in your life but some young and inexperienced coder will still look at your code and ask “Who wrote that shit?” :-)
I understand!

Yesterday I was mad just by reading the Wikipedia page about Pfizer; I then ended up in a revealing documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Blood_(2013_film) which now is in netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/70268209 and got even more mad.

I think the "The Fourth Estate" lost trust on their readers as we are doing ourselves with the people around us, and this is not doubt a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
While helping ICE traumatize kids for life, and illegally surveilling employees who quit over it.

Ew.
Clojure has to do the same thing to interface with Java: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/javadoc/clojure/lang/IFn.h...
Then that should include suicides from lockdown inflicted mental distress
Pfizer says omicron vaccine will be ready in March
You sound all over the place. It’s not clear what’s not working and what your arrangement is.

“I depend on them to survive right now”

What does that mean? Are they funding (paying you)? Are you working for free based on a vague promise?
Look at Set.of and Map.of. Lots of overloads to avoid allocating the vararg array.
That's great to hear! Yes, we've wondered across the same sort of idea with your "DONATIONS.txt" file. I post updates when I can to the Matrix chatroom:

#openfare:matrix.org

But feel free to follow along however!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181672/
After 14 years of eating a plant-based diet my partner got a cat. Then I started buying the cat raw meat. Shortly after I became an omnivore again. I still try to minimize meat for my own health and the climate, but it’s hard to argue about the ethics of meat eating while feeding an obligate carnivore.
Blockchain is not necessary to accomplish and does not enhance the utility of any of the things you've mentioned.
I don't disagree, but this is the situation teachers are in. The parents should be buying the hygiene products, but aren't so teachers are trying to fill the gaps. It is a inefficient solution to a problem that should be addressed by someone else, but they are the ones that have to deal with it in order to do their regular job.
Could also be rephrased: let's focus on the company that was probably colluding with its competitors to keep wages artificially low[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...
Rob Pike has published several great papers about sam, the Plan 9 text editor he wrote.

1. General overview of the editor; maybe scroll to the "Implementation" section here: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Some of the references at the end of that paper may also be relevant or interesting.

2. Tutorial for the command language: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf

3. And explanations on structural regular expressions that sam uses: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf

4. Pike's paper representing Acme, the (sort-of) follow-up editor of sam: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
Also keep in mind all of our perception or judgements about who is more superior are being made by...humans
This is one of my favorite artists! It's so great to see him referenced here!
Thank you.

Developers like you are few and far between. I find it painful when others devs constantly re write working code, instead of moving forward. It’s so easy to trash what is there. Very few have the maturity to work with existing code without complaint.
High-risk Covid gene more common in South Asians

They say around 60% of people from South Asian backgrounds and 15% of people of European ancestry carry the high-risk version of the gene.

They estimate the risky version of the gene is present in about 2% of people from African-Caribbean backgrounds and 1.8% of people of East Asian descent.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59165157

I'm surprised how little press this study got. What is the explanation for the lack of coverage I'm missing?
How to Set Boundaries as a Startup Developer
every sizeable Java project has a multitude of languages (annotations, XML-based, JSON-based, ...) for configuration, data exchange, etc. Sometimes even 'improved' versions of Java (functional Java, Kotlin, Scala, ...) or use of code generators.

Macros don't necessarily make the program not more difficult to understand from a programming side: an average programmer can write more domain specific code, without the need to understand the technical details. It might make sometimes the maintenance harder, when the implementation of the macro needs to be understood.

Example: the CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) has for the programmer an interface, which is largely based on macros. These make the programming with CLOS easier, than without. The average developer does not care how they are implemented, but they use the macros do describe classes, generic functions and methods. Those could be written in an object-oriented notation, but with much more effort. It's easier to learn the macros, than the object-oriented interface.
Isn't the point of paying for an exception that you then have a permissive license and no longer have to comply with the AGPL?
Different team of people, all working in the same company, correct?
If you and the person you transfer to agree to reverse the transaction, you can, sans transaction fees.

If not, then it sounds like someone actually does want irreverability.
The US system isn't too bad, the main problem with it is capitalism. Under capitalism, you can't have a true democracy. The rich can always influence the public (Manufacturing Consent) or outright buy representatives. You have to keep wealth more distributed to avoid this, which means we need a system that doesn't so heavily reward and enable accumulation of wealth. I like many of the ideas of Mutualism [0]. Primarily the emphasis on credit unions, the limits on private property, and worker democracy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
What other metrics are there for a processor in gaming, if not (compute) power per core, as well as core count?

Sure, a gaming computer doesn't need 8 cores as much as an encoder, but AMD's single core performance is right up there with Intel, for much less money.

Disclaimer: AMD fanboy and stockholder
It's a corner of a room, as seen through a pentagonal hole. The pentagonal hole is the planar pentagon ABCFD. The corner of the room is at E, where 3 planes meet. ED, EF and EB are the visible parts of the edges where two of the planes meet. The only constraint on the shape of the pentagonal hole is to be possible to be positioned such that, from the viewer point of view, the vertices B, F, D to be seen as if they are on the edges of the room corner.
Now instead of npm packages abusing SemVer unless you use non-default --save-exact behavior as an attack vector, we can import modules from URLs without subresource integrity unless you use non-default lock file behavior! Great! We learned nothing!
Everyone I know who works in VDI complains about latency. My wife’s whole company uses virtual desktops, and anytime she’s working from and I look over her shoulder I shudder, it’s incredibly noticeable.
I'm not blaming races, I'm just saying the people are different. Even white Americans and Canadians are not the same.

Per the CDC:

Among men, the prevalence of obesity was over 8 percentage points lower in Canada than in the United States (24.3% compared with 32.6%) and among women, more than 12 percentage points lower (23.9% compared with 36.2%)

In the United States, the majority of the nonwhite population is black or Hispanic for whom the prevalence of obesity is higher than it is for the white population (3). Among nonwhite Canadians, the largest group is comprised of East/Southeast Asian persons for whom the prevalence of obesity is lower than it is for the white population