skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, it's easier to do a diagnosis with a car, cars are much better understood than human physiology. Medical science recently discovered (well, recognized) a new organ in the body.

I went to the doctor for a non-specific illness. The doctor ran $3000 worth of tests, and by the time the last of the test results came back, it had gone away. The doctor shrugged and said "Huh, I dunno what that was. Probably some kind of infection".

Some things are more clear (i.e. a broken arm), but if it doesn't heal well and the $1000 estimate for an X-ray and a cast turns into a $10000 surgical procedure plus 6 months of therapy, are you going to expect the doctor to just eat the cost? Are you going to shop your painful broken arm and medical records around to 3 different doctors to get a new estimate?
The financial part of medicine seems pretty unregulated. They can charge phantasy prices and frequently charge for services never delivered without consequences. In other industries this would be plain fraud.
I also like that a system touted for comprehensibility and discoverability has the following very commonly used command:

Get-ChildItem

Guess what it does by looking at its name.

Correct, it lists the contents of a directory! What else could it be? Conversely, if you want to find out what "dir"/"ls" would be in PowerShell, where else would you be looking!

I like the idea of PowerShell a lot (object-oriented piping), but I hope it evolves into something with saner default aliases and better documentation, with easy things accomplished easily.
If Thailand can do it, why can't we?

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/realcost-thailand-surgery
Tell them you want to know the "cash" price.
It's really a blogging platform. I can see why they would need a large sales and customer support department. Whether it was too big, I have no idea.
OneDrive does this and can sync your camera roll. I use it to sync iPhone photos to my desktop and back.

You do need to open the app to sync.
This is not inconceivable. The doctor may know her own fee, but is also ordering services such as use of the clinic, assistants, supplies, and so forth. She has never had to pay for any of those things. She doesn't even know what business entities she's dealing with, possibly an impenetrable rats nest of LLC's. I've read that over half of all doctors are self employed, meaning that their salaries are not a good measure of their incomes.

Were I inclined toward cynicism, I'd say that the purpose of the complexity is to make it impossible for anybody to figure out where the money is going, or who is actually gouging whom. Somebody is gouging us, but we'll never know who, and everybody can claim it's somebody else.

In my view, the only way to get to the bottom of where the money is going, is to manage the whole thing. This may be why nationalized systems cost so much less. The people who are gouging would stick out like a sore thumb.
It is what serde does internally, and I also imagine that you could make something similar in a dynamic language; https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers comes to mind ;)
Cost us $5,500 with "decent" insurance (fortune 200 company, $3k deductible, 20% after that) for my wife to have our first (normal delivery) here in the US of A. God bless America.... 'cause it needs it.
In general, doctors find the system as bewildering as you do. They might be able to give you a ballpark figure but you'll need someone in the billing department for a hard figure (if you can get one at all). Although they will still likely need an exact billing code for the procedure first.
In fact, they know two exact prices: (1) the price they will bill your particular insurance company & (2) the lowest price in actual total they can accept

Unfortunately, there's no benefit to them to tell you (2). And without verifying your exact insurance coverage (i.e. submitting a claim) they have no idea how (1) relates to your eventual out-of-pocket costs (and they're disincentivized from telling you the billed rate in case you're actually another insurer trying to negotiate lower rates).
Loving it. The bullet summaries are very well done.
Personally, I've never seen the value in private functions in the real world. If you are in the same runtime and can see the code, what exactly does a private function offer you other than ensuring somebody has to duplicate the method to manipulate it.

Professionally I've never seen a private function/method that had a purpose or benefit from being private.
It's only upside down when you're using it in a mode such that all screen content needs to be flipped vertically. If you use it as a laptop, the text appears right side up to the user. If you use it as a tablet, the text could be in any of 4 rotations relative to the user.
Right, but Litecoin hasn't repeatedly hit it's transaction cap yet. Litecoin is still unproven as to whether or not it will fail to scale, which Bitcoin has already proven to fail at.

You're splitting hairs and ignoring ZCash. The point is that other cryptocurrencies are better implementations of a blockchain than Bitcoin, even with regards to the block size.
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You're insinuating that x86 isn't useful. Why do you think so? (Not trying to be combative—I'm genuinely curious).
I never had such problems. I asked, they answered (even if they had to go ask their accounting dept). I then asked for a discount, and got one. Doctors' offices are a business, and if they balk, tell them you're going to their [insert name of nearby competitor]. Don't let them get away with pretending not to know - after all, they are perfectly capable of sending you a bill.
From the Article:

> Notice the nuance here: The above paragraph states that “[PowerShell] replaces Command Prompt (aka, “cmd.exe”) in the WIN + X menu, in File Explorer”s File menu“. It does not say “[PowerShell] replaces Command Prompt“, period! The paragraph even goes on to show you how to quickly launch Cmd, and points out that you can revert this default setting to launch Cmd by default instead if you prefer.

and

> So, to be ultra-clear here: All that’s happening is that, in the [Win] + [X] (“Power User’s menu”), or File Explorer’s File menu, PowerShell is presented instead of Cmd. That’s all! Nothing is being removed, your scripts will continue to run just as they always have, the sky is not falling!

Looks their Release Notes writer did a poor job of explaining this, so all hell broke loose and now they forced the "Commandline" Blog Team to write a blog post screaming in CAPS and with Underlined words and Big Fonts (and even more confusing language and punctuation), to tell everyone - what they really meant to say - in their release notes.
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It's essentially what serde is doing internally. As an author, you don't have to do any of the work, though. I struggle to imagine how a dynamic language could provide equivalent functionality without the call side becoming more complex.
Performance is a feature.
No, it would just take some more creativity on the part of the doctor/clinic/hospital. Perhaps in the form of "pro bono" work where they waive the standard fees for their work.
The most recent so called "segwit" change set that core pushed out recently looks to have strong enough opposition to it that it will never activate and the Bitcoin Ultimate implementation has strong support among a vocal and growing group of users. I would be surprised if core holds the control it currently does in a year or two.
I can't believe a doctor or hospital would agree to such a commitment. If the doctor wants to do an extra test or procedure to make sure the treatment is working as expected, then he's in a bad spot -- he either does it for free, or he faces malpractice liability if there is a bad outcome, regardless of any contract you may have signed with him.
Well, it's basically a Googler's hobby project, so you can't expect any 'official' confirmation, but there's no reason it shouldn't run on any x86 Chromebook.
There certainly was a phase where many threads about basic software (curl-type stuff, init systems, ...) had comments that felt like endless repeats of "it is 2016, stop writing new C code and just use Rust", which I personally found annoying. I either tuned it out or it has gotten better recently, and I don't think it was a organized effort, just a common pattern.
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An accounting rep with no idea what the bill would be? I'd laugh at them and ask for someone who was actually from the accounting dept. Don't put up with that garbage.

What would your reaction be if you went to a dealer to buy a new car and he claimed to be unable to come up with a price?
That's a great point I heard a lot recently
What was the out of pocket? Thousands of dollars, correct?

How many bills did they send you and for how long?
How many billing errors were made?

This is not normal in a developed country.

My favorite part is when they bill the baby for the cost of its own birth against its own seperate deductible.
not trying to prod but just curious what was the general nature of that question she asked?
> But to "make it" I'd have to suck up to a slimy industry that just wasn't worth it to me.

Wow! Didn't know that about the DJ-ing Industry. My nephew is all into the EDM scene. 15 years old. Should I break it to him, or let him find out himself?

Also, you are a software engineer I take it? If not, what is your current profession? Just curious :)
One reason for the bizarro healthcare pricing situation is that hospitals can claim the writedown (difference between huge fake price and actual price) as a loss when filing taxes. A few changes to the Internal Revenue Code would help put a stop to this.
Same. I spent 20 minutes on the phone with someone, got frustrated, and asked flat out, "are you telling me there's no way to know how much I will pay for this procedure until after it's done?". The answer was "yes".
> Is one over the other a big enough deal at a beginner level

No, at a beginner level it's not, there are many guides that explain the differences at a beginner level, and you can go through those in a few hours at most, for example http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.html

But, if you start working now on a Python 2 project and that project starts growing significantly, then it will be hard to convert the codebase. That's why you can see people saying that they didn't switch yet, it's not that they don't know Python 3, it's that upgrading large legacy code bases is hard (not only in Python).
Direct link to (redacted) complaint: https://www.scribd.com/document/335725243/Pompliano-v-Snapch...

The General Allegations reads like the synopsis of a Silicon Valley episode.
just got email for this, I did interview for Google and I'm over 40, (wonder how they got my info). I passed the interview but was shut down at the committee, very much doubt that age was a factor.
I'm actually not sure that they know (2), as I've read a number of articles and posts which say that almost no healthcare organization uses cost accounting.
> The problem is that output is in many cases a very crude measure of effort.

Unfortunately, businesses and companies are mostly concerned about output. Does the line below sound familiar?

> I don't care how you do it. Just get it done.
Get-ChildItem also works on things other than directories. And Powershell understands both ls and dir!
My point is that's a broken attitude. I think Alan Kay likes to say software is a pop science and in pop science you bet on stuff because there are no other indicators of importance other than popularity.
I wanted to play around with PowerShell, but the learning curve looked a bit too steep.
Introducing Kotlin Support in Spring Framework 5.0
Is there any updates on the JIT work from 2014 to help speed up raw performance of Erlang?

[1] http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1402914329...

[2] http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2014/frej-drejhammar
There is a lisp dialect on rust https://github.com/murarth/ketos and it doesn't need GC!
> also ordering services such as use of the clinic, assistants, supplies, and so forth

For things like moles, a big chunk is the pathologist's professional fee, as well as the technical fees for whatever additional studies may be needed. "It's just a mole" can become "I'm very sorry, but you have melanoma, we'll be excising most of your cheek on Tuesday."
That's because it is a transfer from the laserdisc pressing
> impossible

That's certainly not true. Try it. I've negotiated with a lot of outfits who claimed their prices were not negotiable. That's just a crock.

A good friend of mine is a successful businessman, and certainly does not need to negotiate. But he negotiates everything - it's entertainment for him. I'm constantly surprised at the amazing deals he gets on supposedly "non-negotiable" items, including medical bills.
I think you can interpret "like you" in a few different ways. Someone can be "like you" if they share common values, even if they have completely different background, interests, personalities, etc.

I don't want to speak for him, but I believe Sam's point is that those are the people that you forge the strongest bond with.
Agree that the phrasing could have been a lot clearer, but really, Microsoft removing cmd just doesn't pass even a basic sanity check. I remember seeing the original news articles and just ignoring them as obviously rubbish. It's pretty sad to see so many tech news sites & aggregators just pick-up and run with stories like that which anyone at all knowledgeable about the subject area would immediately know is hyperbole.
I haven't ever got a surprise legal bill, and I have a fancy famous lawyer that you've heard of. I don't think there's any comparison.
I believe they have to give you a written estimate, and if costs are gonna exceed that by 10 or 20%, they have to get authorization from you, and so on. Completely unlike health care.

And yeah, there is a "book value" for repairs (body and mechanical). Sometimes they can do it faster, sometimes much faster. They're charging you retail price for parts, not wholesale. Etc. Of course you can negotiate and save money, but it's worlds different from health care.
IMO, Medium (like Twitter/Blogger) is about self-expression, not publishing. Medium should optimize more for fostering self-expression and community discussion and decouple from Twitter.

Perceived consumer demand to fix publishing is overstated and solves the wrong nonproblem. Consumers arguably like fake news and click-bait, deriving self-reinforcement and entertainment value.

I wonder if hiring content marketers to write in verticals with high paying affiliate programs could get them profitable without compromising their social mission.
God, will Python 2 just die already?
This should be much higher. Thanks!
Part of that is because of insurance companies. They don't know exactly what your coverage is in all cases so they know what they'll send to the company but how much they pay will vary a lot from person to person often by a lot.
The creator of Bitcoin very much disagreed with Peter Todd's view. In 1999 people thought sending video let alone HD video over the Internet was totally nuts and impossible. Then YouTube happened and now we have HD video streaming to the extent that cable companies are worried it is going to put them out of business.
"Shopping around" is often a fantasy because you will very rarely actually get a price.
My mother needed a wheelchair, we went to Amazon and bought a $300 one instead of the $6000 one the insurance company wanted us to buy. No difference that we can tell.
Every word is just a word. It's kinda tautological, really. Words aren't something that "just exists" — they are invented by humans to communicate, to give names to concepts they share. Some concepts can be perceived as a thing or a property. Like "chair". Pretty much everyone I speak to knows what "chair" is. What they mean by "chair" still varies, but it is more or less similar. The same is true for many "non existent" things, like "blue horse". Because you probably mean by "horse" what I mean by "horse", and you mean by "blue" what I mean by "blue". You could draw it, for that matter.

It is less true and more arguable for more abstract concepts like "true" or "moral". Or "abstract" for that matter. Because it's hard to define them. They are "meta-concepts" so to say. Properties of properties. Meta-things.

It is the least true for "god". Because this concept does not necessarily mean a thing or a property, some people can actually mean by that something that cannot be defined. Of course it can be real, of course it can have fundamental impact on environment, it can be the environment, it can be creator of environment, of both space and time. Or it can be an actual car in the actual driveway, it doesn't really matter. But only extremely ignorant people think that everyone who uses the word "god" means the same thing by "god" as they do. There are hundreds of religions and philosophies, thousands of denominations, millions of opinions. Essentially, it is just people who understand each other using a word understandable to one another, that doesn't (and shouldn't) really make sense to anybody who is of different school of thought. Like "catamorphism" means nothing to a farmer. Except there are much more meanings out there.

In no way it's likely you mean by "god" what I mean by "god". Or somebody else in this thread. Many people are not even sure they know what they mean. Or maybe they mean multiple things depending on whom they speak to. Even within catholic church the understanding of the God varies from "powerful old man sitting on a cloud" to "all of the Universe at all moments of time at once, nothing less, nothing more". And these are only relatively simple meanings — they can be put into words, can be defined, which isn't invariably true.
I've tried asking multiple times (for non-emergency procedures) and each time they've said they don't know. (Kaiser)
I have one of the earlier samsung Chromebooks with the exynos processor. I flashed Linux to it no sweat (I did not have to open it up or anything), but the graphics drivers were terrible and I was forever stuck on some 3.x kernel because not all the hardware drivers had been mainlined (or something). I couldn't even watch 480p non-fullscreen YouTube videos at 10 fps - that's how unusable the Linux drivers were. I was able to get Stepmania to run on it just for kicks, and it got < 2 fps. Literally worse than a 1st-gen Raspberry Pi.

So... don't rely on it unless you know the drivers are in order or don't need any realtime graphics.
I don't keep tabs on them all, but in terms of technical aspects I think Monero stands the most likely to be a good substitute for the Bitcoin users.

ZCash seems popular, but it's privately-run with a U.S. based company and can pull some strings to assist in de-anonymizing users. They basically claim no liability for it's users which means it may be too comfortable with authorities for Bitcoin users.

Other than that I think Ethereum has the best chance in terms of market traction to take off as a true international currency.
Conversely, if you want to find out what "dir"/"ls" would be in PowerShell, where else would you be looking

Not so hopeless (although if you ask for detailed docs it opens a browser for you,internet required):

PS C:\Users\xxx> help ls

NAME
Get-ChildItem

SYNTAX
Get-ChildItem [[-Path] <string[]>] [[-Filter] <string>] [<CommonParameters>]

Get-ChildItem [[-Filter] <string>] [<CommonParameters>]

ALIASES
gci
ls
dir
Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to market by 2020
That's part of its charm, like the two state undo buffer
Sure it is. Auto shops have a labor rate. Say, $150/hr. That's the price. For parts, you'll pay the same markup as the next guy. You can negotiate, but you can negotiate ANYTHING.
Nitpick: Redux-ORM is _only_ about managing relational data in normalized form locally. (Technically, it's not even Redux-specific - you can hand it any plain JS object to work with.) It doesn't do any remote requests or syncing.

That said, it's a great abstraction for handling relational data, and I'm a huge fan of it.
How's that "free" market workin' out for y'all?
This is the tip of a really trashy iceberg when it comes to general healthcare costs.

Not only is consistent prices by patient a problem, but prices by procedure and by hospital has a huge range as well, as documented many times. An operation can cost $10K at one place and $100K at another. This isn't news though.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cos...

What isn't talked about is this: when you want to get a procedure done, and your insurance will cover it the same at each place, how do you choose your hospital? Location is usually a big factor. You'd also probably want to go to the place with the best facilities. What ends up happening is that hospitals will build these expensive facilities in good locations to attract, for lack of a better term in this story, customers. Billion dollar construction projects. Do you think their prices went up or down during this build?

That all is raw cost. Now throw in what you pay. If your insurance covers the 95K of the 100K, but won't cover any of the 10K, you're going to choose the 100K procedure. The health care insurer eats that 95K and then raises their prices across the board. Everyone nationally loses, except for that hospital, which is now closer to paying off its new facility.

This situation in reality is much murkier, and I skated over plenty of details I'm sure, some I didn't even realize I skated over.

Now, state of the art medical facilities are a good thing on their own, but there's a game being played here with the prices of the facilities themselves and how they are paid for. With the lack of transparency, we aren't really able to determine much.

All of these dynamics come from the complexities of a system that badly needs to be simplified, regardless of if you think it should be done by the government or privately. You can probably already see here how a single payer system or some sort of direct proportionality costs could make a big difference. I can't say I have the solution, but I think this part of the narrative is often missing.
An insurance free market would fix this. Everyone knows that.

Except, of course, you shouldn't be able to buy over state lines. That's for your protection for some reason.

And once everyone has free market insurance then everything will be fine. You'll be able to choose the plan that can help you cover your bills.

Your bills will still be generated by a labyrinthian and byzantine system that no one including the people in charge of running it actually understand driven heavily by profits, phases of the moon, insanity, and corn prices.

But you'll have free market insurance (sort of)! So everything will be fine!

Realistically, I get the feeling that we've found new ways repeatedly to direct our system down blind allies to the point where I wonder if we can ever find our way back out without a massive disaster/collapse.
How is that one upping at all? That seems quite reasonable and accidental.
I would be interested to know why you are being downvoted.
Hmph. Mine is 2 days / 18-20 hours per day.
You are right, but it seems to me Erlang became _popular_ somewhat recently when functional programming started getting attention. CouchDB was the first major project in Erlang that I'd come across, and that was around 6-7 years ago.
What a bone chilling read.
We are very close to boiling over in the usa.

Extreme violence in our cities and a trump supporter was tortured live on a video stream just today.

People are angry about everything. Its frightening.
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