skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPDATE: It now works for me. I got an email from duck telling me about the feature, so I guess they are rolling this out slowly instead of to everyone at once.
No, the data showing Americans spend more on healthcare than every other OECD country with worse outcomes does that.

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/feature-forum-costli...

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/americans-chall...

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-is-healthcare-so-...

Not even the wealthy get better healthcare with their dollars.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-co...

> GummyBearDoc writes:

> I want to push back on the assertion Scott made that "Certainly rich people in America get good health care." After he published this book in June 2020, Ezekiel Emmanuel published an article in JAMA IM (link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...) called "Comparing Health Outcomes of Privileged US Citizens With Those of Average Residents of Other Developed Countries." He wanted to test the commonly stated trope that a feature of the US healthcare system is that the rich here get the very best care in the world. To do that, he looked at outcomes across six benchmark diseases (heart attack, colon cancer, breast cancer, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and pediatric acute lymphocytic leukemia). He compared outcomes for white people in the 1% of richest counties in the US, 5% richest counties in the US, and average outcomes in 12 rich countries (i'm not going to type them all out but they're places like Australia, Canada, and Germany). The results were...not so great for rich Americans!

> While rich people in the US do better than average people in other rich countries with breast cancer, RICH children in the US have outcomes worse than AVERAGE citizens in 11/12 of this group of rich countries. Rich people in America have about the same outcomes after heart attack that average people in other rich countries have. In other words, in most cases, you're about as well off having a heart attack being the average bozo in France (for example) as you are having one in one of the wealthiest counties in the US. I was pretty shocked when I read this paper.

> The reason I think this is important is because I think it's extremely politically useful sometimes to be able to claim that rich people in the US get great healthcare! People like to imagine themselves as more privileged than they are, and think that, if and when they get sick, they'll have access to this incredible care. So we should reframe from "average care in the US is shitty but care for the upper echelons is the envy of the world" to "average care in the US is shitty, and also in the upper echelons we are about the same as the average person in America's peer countries."

Emphasis on the last paragraph.
I'm still figuring out Home Assistant. I love that it has a real ecosystem and that it seems to have a decent HTTP/WebSocket API (that I just started playing with).

Some things I don't love:

* A lot of the integrations seem half-baked or to not quite fit the generic Lovelace cards. I think to some extent this is an inherent problem in supporting a lot of devices that have crappy, non-standardized APIs. Example: if I bump up the low temp on my Venstar thermostat on the Home Assistant dashboard, Home Assistant will immediately set it back. If I dig through logs, I see the thermostat complained that in auto mode (heating or cooling as needed), the low set point and the high set point have to be (at least) six degrees apart. When I adjust the thermostat through its own touch screen, the high set point automatically raises to meet that constraint. Home Assistant should do the same. I've been meaning to look into fixing it myself, but there seem to be weird things like this on every integration.

* You need multiple automation rules to do almost anything. I think it's common to want the state of one thing to match another (for example, garage door open => sticky notification on my phone, person in driveway after sunset within last 5 minutes or switch on => driveway light on). You need a rule in their YAML DSL to for the off->on transition and another for the on->off. It'd be nice to set a rule that defines a level rather than an edge and have it internally do the transformation. It'd also be nice to define the actions of a notification's buttons inline, rather than as a separate automation.

* The companion Android app's notifications seem to be flaky. At least, they're sometimes slow. I think they can be delivered out of order and possibly are lossy, which aggravates the problem with not having something that just sets the state reliably. I assume it's pretty hopeless to have it reliably be in the right state if your phone was off when a notification was supposed to be delivered or Home Assistant was down on state transition or the like.

* Some things seem to be only checked at startup, so my house has race conditions after power outages. For example, if Home Assistant starts up more quickly than my Yamaha AV receiver (+ network switch + DHCP server), I can't control my home theater setup until I restart Home Assistant.
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If you want to put your money into crypto, you need to see crypto by what it really is: crypto is a scam, not an investment.

Every crypto currency works like a ponzi scheme: people new to the game will lose money and the only way to get back your money is to put more people into the scheme.

If you look what happens every year with crypto, you can get a glimpse about how the scheme works. Prices are low and people start buying, slowly increasing the price. It will continues this way until the price reaches a new record.

When the price hits a new record, people new to the game will start buying, but they are already too late for the game, paying much more that they should. Media will starting talking about crypto, even tv news will talk about it, and mainstream people will start put their money into crypto. Then, suddenly, boom!!!! The price drops. A record drop. People lose their money. Rinse and repeat.

Why did price drop? Because people who owns large amount of crypto sell a large amount of crypto making other people with less crypto think prices will drop and this starts a waterfall, everyone starts selling except that people new in the game. With everyone selling so fast, prices drop fast and people new in the game, that do not anticipate this move lose money.

My advise for you is you need to buy now, with prices low, just after the crash. Wait your crypto double the value and sell. It doesn't matter if price will triple ou more. Don't be too greedy. Sell your crypto when it doubles the value, wait for the new crash. Rinse repeat.
Good thread timing. I was literally just about to deploy a toy proof of concept rails app this afternoon and start having some people on my team play with it.

Good excuse to try something else instead. What's everyone's favorite for semi-idiot-proof one click style rails app deployments these days?
If it's safer on balance than average drivers (for some reasonable definition of "safer"), I think the answer is "yes". Do you want to expose your children to unnecessary risk? I don't posit that it is safer or that it should be legal, but we should frame the conversation in terms of actual safety metrics and not cherry-picked incidents. Of course, our media isn't equipped to facilitate these kinds of nuanced conversations, which is a bigger and broader problem.

EDIT: Seems like my "data-driven decision making" advocacy really struck a nerve with the cherry-picked anecdotes and rhetoric crowd. :)
This. So much this.

It’s 2022. We still have meat flavoured train drivers and they have a massively constrained set of complexity to navigate.
Yes, you massively do as well.

I was particularly picking at the GP saying there's practically no difference between Navalny and Putin.

I wanted to bring up murdering your own citizens to win elections, killing journalists and dissidents worldwide as an example of difference between the two but then I realised GP probably doesn't even know about that or chooses to believe it's evil western propaganda.

Not much point in discussing facts of life with brainwashed people.
Thats an unfair summary. The video also cleared up some simple facts that are often missreported and unjustly simplified in favor of a feel good frame.

Like grazing sites being interchangeable with farmland. So something like https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets which pictures almost everything that isnt a forest as possible agriculture land.

Same with what types of calories are fed to cows especially. As in for humans indigestible byproducts of industrial agriculture. For example, this is the "corn" we speak about in this context. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maissilage Used in both cow and pig feed. Here a picture
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Sonsbeck...
Its the shredded plant. The stuff that gets also used in biogas plants.

Calling these lies by omission out is not something that needs stricter "factchecks" that are less focused on facts to protect people from unwanted conclusions.
> doesn't like coding so doesn't code

What's the part that she doesn't like? It makes a bit of a difference whether she's complaining about incidental chores, or the core approach to the profession.
I first heard this on the Sam Harris podcast. If I remember correctly he explained it as a function of our memory saving the myth and _then_ the "fact". It is easier to recite the 1st part of the memory so some people forget the "fact" and thus beleive the myth more strongly.
Why would anybody ever use it then? If you have to monitor it and it does a bad job (in situations documented in that video), what is the value? I recognize that it does better in other situations, like open highways, but if you have to keep your hands on the wheel anyway, what is the benefit to the driver compared to older technology like assisted cruise control?
These days when I'm near a Tesla on the road I use the same caution as if driving near an obviously drunk driver. Give them lots of space and prepare for them to act unpredictably.
Copyright only covers melody and words, not harmony. Weird quirk of our system.
I agree that the lessons learned section is pretty weak. I think that the root cause of the incident was poor code quality, and in particular, using a weekly typed data structure (String) to pass data between system modules that each interpreted that data differently.

The suggested learning was that more testing should have been done, but as a solution, more testing is a cop out. A real solution is to develop code in a language that supports a robust type system, and then using that type system effectively in development.

Not an easy solution, so in the short term, we'll have more testing, and more bugs.
Dgraph’s Future
How are you claiming this? There are tons of research publications from the likes of Google, Facebook etc. Does Tesla ever publish AI/ML research?
My understanding is that Legitimate Interest is something defined by the GDPR lawmakers, not the IAB. If so, and now it appears that LI is not a valid legal basis, then every business operating in Europe needs to be concerned with this ruling, not just adtech.

For example, HN probably collects my IP address under LI. Now it may be illegal for it to do that.
Soon-to-be-dad here, I’m going to give this a spin.
So far I really appreciate that I can just open the app and have a look, no account creation or anything. Truly a breath of fresh air.
It looks quite clean too, nice work!
As someone who's heavily bought into the Apple ecosystem, I'm surrounded by Unix all the time, technically. On my wrist, in my pocket, on my lap. And I'm surrounded by Linux, too, at least at work. But Linux on the desktop? How delightfully absurd!

Nah, I really want my next PC build to run Linux. But that'll have to wait a while ... just paid $4k for a vacation. My girlfriend wasn't sympathetic that $4k would pay for an awesome rig instead.
I think you two just proved my point
So much spice. A continuation on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30119165
Nobody's going to check that all the collected data has been deleted. But if it turns out that someone has retained data about me (or any other individual) that they claimed to have deleted, then they're in violation of a clear court order, and are eligible to be clobbered with a fine.
I hope it follows the AdaCore model or a model that allows for similar industry customer support for the early adopters who put their businesses on the line. Is there a successful high-integrity software or safe software product out there to base this on? Just curious.
> Spyware is illegal. So it’s just a matter of defining the data collection practices of internet companies as spyware.

I’ve seen this phenomenon before but never so explicitly. When you can’t convince someone that something is bad, you re-define it as something they do consider bad.

Some examples I’ve seen:

- Some speech is so hateful and racist that its opponents wish to define it as “violence”.

- Facebook offers advertisers the ability to target the demographics their ads reach. Some have tried to term this as “selling your data”.

In this case, it’s clear the average person doesn’t hold data collection in such low esteem as yourself, so you must redefine it as “spyware” in order to convince them.

This subtle shift is in interesting to me, but it leaves me unconvinced. Words are not violence. Facebook does not sell data. Data collection is not the same as spyware.
“responsibility to provide health care coverage for all” can mean lots of different things to survey respondents, and does not imply single payer, which is but one way of implementing this.

I would also probably respond “yes” to this question, but there are indeed other solutions.
Google should not be rolling out unannounced changes, but Mozilla increased their risk by not pinning the HTTP version.
Grep flags – the good stuff
How is this any worse than smartphone tracking today? What does it matter if I buy technology that tracks me because I feel like it'd be useful to me?
I can't tell you the number of times I've wished there was a subreddit or a facebook group for the types of content I'm interested in, only to find that there isn't. Not because the content doesn't exist, mind you.

Link aggregators are also very much part of the problem. Besides the astroturfing, they tend to favor the lowest common denominator in content. Popular vote just doesn't seem to be a good way of surfacing quality content, especially not with the social incentive of winning internet acclaim for submitting a good result.

HN does surface the odd gem, but why can't I pick one of those and say "Hey, this topic interests me, show me more like this"? I'm currently working on build something to that effect, and so far it seems at least reasonably possible.

RSS was good in one way, but it also sort of turns everything it comes into contact with into a blog.
> collective action motivated by hatred of elite rigging the system... is dangerous to those elite.

It's not.

The elite are largely shielded from the volatility of the masses.

It's the "middle class" whose retirement, pensions and life savings are tied up in the market that end up getting hit the most.
Yeah, I suppose. I wonder if it's more that they're teetering on the edge and then some traumatic experience just bounces them in.

Based on personal experience I've had times when I've felt like I've veered towards cuckoo land and it's usually been from trauma.

Like, at some point last year I started to lose the plot.

All of the stuff I wanted to do with my life just disappeared - universities gone, work gone, study groups gone, travel very restricted or gone. And the supermarkets started putting up barriers and everyone put stuff on their face, the pubs were closed, people started walking in weird directions around shops and talking about "social distancing" and making stuff illegal and blah blah blah.

And it just fucked with me, it made me feel schizophrenic, because I just don't get this as a response to coronavirus. It felt like, well, you have a 1% chance of dying, maybe 10% if you're in an at-risk group, so just kill yourself now (remove everything that makes life worth living) to avoid the risk. And all I could do is just think about all of the downstream long term permanent effects.

It made me think - is there something underlying this? Like, are the government pushing this because they know something worse is coming down the line (is this a trial run to protect against sars-cov-3 that wipes out 20% of us?). But why are other people just going along with it?

And all the time what seemed like _everyone_ was wandering around acting as if this thing was super bad, and here's me just like, trying to get on with it. I remember walking around empty streets, closed up stores, and just thinking like, what? why? am I in a dream? And it went on for months and months, a year.

Then I'd just be wandering around in a haze, and the cause and effect was disconnected, and meh. It's hard to even word it. I just had some sort of episode.

I've snapped out of it now, but I mean really I've only managed to do that because I'm quite disconnected (I don't work a 9-5, my country has quite lax restrictions, etc).

If I were one of the truckers or whatever and someone was telling me "do this or I'll turn your life upside down" I'd probably be into batshit theories too. If I were in Australia or NZ I don't even think I'd be alive, lol.

I mean, we're still doing some of this shit.

I now know that my countrymen would lock me in a box for months on end to add 1% to their life expectancy. It seems totally horrific when I write that down, but yet people still openly discuss this as if it's some totally normal thing like buying a big mac or whatever. Just odd.

Sorry for the monologue.
California is a Democrat-run state.

> The stakes were especially high given that Gov. Gavin Newsom, who campaigned for governor on the promise of single-payer, has been notably uninterested in the bill

Just watched this seemingly highly relevant video yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
On iOS you can use adguard or blokada and integrate it into Safari.
No prob. I haven't. Also I make more money the more traffic laws, enforcement, and cameras that come out (it drives consumers to seek ways to become educated about police and camera presence), so really it's in my interest to support you ironically.
I concur.
I tried to learn language like C, python... but could never make any progress. However, ironically I made serveral scripts for botting in MMORPG that I played. I could spend days perfecting and running them. It was the shorterm reward for botting in games that kept me going. Meanwhile learning to code is like walking to a destination that you don't know when you are going to reach. It feel like a chore and mentally challenging.
If you don't have any need for bleeding edge devices, Openhab still works on a rpi4 as an alternative to HA. I like that I can just install it as an apt package onto an existing rpi with other things and java just does its stuff, rather than dedicating the entire rpi4 to it or running in a container.
Do you ever dive into a PowerPoint file by hand?
Disclaimer about this guy Ogan, if you track his online accounts it’s very anti-Tesla auto-pilot/self-driving. Rightfully so in some situations.

Also he is a investor in a Chinese competitor to Tesla (EV and self-driving abilities). Take his words with a grain of salt.
idk, I might consider my self slightly biased because I like the fly.io team, but fly.io has a really simple story for deploying docker images. It'll build them for you, host them, give you secure ssh access, handle connecting to other instances via nice "friendly" names...

I ran several things in Heroku and besides having a point-and-click Postgres product and add-ons Fly can run your app pretty easily. Unless those are the things which you mean that make Heroku super simple.
Please don't cross into personal attack. You don't need it to make your substantive points, and it poisons the ecosystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
I drive a tesla with FSD in an urban area and based on what I've seen it do, I am 1000x more scared of some rich boy driving his new lambo around hitting a pedestrian than my Tesla while on FSD even with noone in it (if that were possible)
Mix of things mean I haven't changed it (yet)
- As you point out having on a shared server isn't great. I do want a separate device for DNS, I don't want the network down because the 'everything server' needs a reboot.
- aand when it breaks I don't tend to be in the mood to fix it. Usually late in the evening when watching telly. It usually needs a reboot or `pihole-FTL.db` has gotten to several GB in size and needs deleting. But I'm sure it's getting closer to being unrecoverable.

I've also got it doing DHCP so every device gets a <hostname>.<network>.uk domain, plus it handles some static records as well. Means it's not just a quick swapout, need to find and migrate the custom stuff I've done to it. Most of this should be in a git repo but unsure if all of it is.

The joys of overcomplicating home networking!
It's been a while --- but most scientists consider a significant asteroid strike to be a near certainty --- they just can't say when. Based on *known* asteroids, the probability by 2300 has been calculated at about 1 in 2000.

But don't relax just yet, we find previously unknown asteroids all the time. Just last year, one (2021 UA1) flew by Antarctica undetected until after it has passed at a distance of about 1400 miles.

But even if we detect one, there is no real working plan in place to try and deflect it. Thanks NASA --- this is why we give you the big bucks!

Physicist Stephen Hawking, in his final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, considered an asteroid collision to be the single biggest threat to the planet.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34813628/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34161818/

Also the meta-study submitted is certainly creative in their understanding of the studies. For exmaple:

> Using the OxCGRT and the World Bank datasets, our regression analysis reveals that containment policies have a significant direct effect in reducing the fatality rate of COVID-19 pandemic.

Becomes:

>A stricter lockdown (1 stringency point) reduces deaths by 0,1% after 4 weeks. After 8 weeks the effect is insignificant.

(the 0,1% comes from nowhere on the paper)
CFA III or just took the CFA?
Looks cool and relevant!
Microsoft recently acquired Activision for $68B. But why?
The vaguely dystopian technology fueling China’s Olympic Games