skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the Blues are already "non-profits." That really isn't the issue. The biggest issue is regulation--I've worked in healthcare IT and it sucks due to the regulatory burden and fears that are associated with it. You can't innovate, management won't let you.

The second biggest issue is that they are using archaic technology such as AS/400 systems and trying to ship data around using "file drop." File drop--in 2018! They doubled down on stupid technology choices years ago and continue to fail because of it.

The third biggest issue is revenue. You can't even run a non-profit without revenue. Employees don't work for free!

A related problem is that the company I worked for failed to promote people like me who could solve some of their problems for them. I lost the political battle as a tech lead. Had I been someone with more clout, things might have gone differently. Companies promote all the wrong people, though.

BTW, cooperatives are bullshit--even grocery coops have to have revenue, it's not magic. Coops fail because there's "no one in charge" and without decisive action there is failure.

Credit unions work because they extend credit based on typical fractional reserve models. Members of credit unions own shares based on their deposits.

You can't do use a credit union model with insurance because of how insurance underwriting works. Just look at the healthcare costs of any small company--if one person gets sick, everyone's rates go up. There's no magic as to how this all operates. There's no pool of people size n where n is large enough to fix the problem--which is why universal or single-payer systems are merely an illusion of prosperity while taxes rise to 80% and up! It becomes punitive taxation! Which means no freedom for any of the people living under such a system, and eventually the resultant economic collapse--yes, even in Europe.
This is what was talked about in the book "Redefining Health Care." The employer based model is totally broken.

What you're describing is more open capitalism in health care where everyone is on an open playing field. I use to really believe in this at one point years ago, even when working in Health Insurance.

Today, I'm not even for this compromise. I think it should be taken out of our taxes in single payer. Insurance would still be contracted out to those private insurers (cause America). We might even be able to create a system where people chose which insurance provider they use, but it should be payed for by taxes .. it's there for everyone and everyone pays the same proportion of income and everyone gets the same level of coverage. If something is in short supply, then it's going to need a needs based + lottery system (just like organ transplants currently).

For profit and _non-for-profit_ (not to be confused with non-profits; most health care companies are non-for-profits which is a weird legal area) have no place when it comes to public welfare services. People don't pay individually for private security/police. We don't pay for fire. We don't pay a fee to visit a city park (and I'm against fee based national parks actually). The general good should be paid for equally by everyone to their abilities.
"Aramis, or the Love of Technology" is a fascinating book on the attempted launch of such a system in Paris.

https://www.amazon.com/Aramis-Love-Technology-Bruno-Latour/d...
>Surely "slaves built the pyramids" implies that at least the majority of people involved were slaves.

If I heard "structural engineers built the suspension bridge" I'd simply assume they were involved, not that they were physically responsible for over 50 percent of all tasks.
Most small web sites don’t have the resources for this. Many don’t even know if they will have analytics in the beginning, or info sec.

People tend to set up sites and just stash web logs in the beginning. They then learn later what their business needs are and may decide to post process their logs.

You're suggesting a new site pay all of these costs up front to comply with these regulations, you can’t time shift concerns by collecting data and deciding whether you need it later.

Granted, you could argue that this is bad practice anyway, but many startups work exactly like this, maximum logging early, dropping rention later after beta.

If you are not physically hosting in the EU, how many people want to even read the GDPR? A lot of sites don’t even know where their users are coming from until they run analytics.
I'd completely agree with you, except that some of the customers were actually the same people. As soon as we upped the ongoing costs on a couple of the accounts, both clients changed their behavour and the relationship became a whole lot better for both sides. It's a truly bizarre thing to watch.
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I'm somewhat confused by that article, one of its key pieces of data (saying that a full human genome sequence would cost $90,000 using this technology) comes from an expert comment made on Quora. The Quora post made the $90,000 estimate in early 2016, then updated it in July 2017 to $10,000. This article was written in December 2017, so why does it use the original figure and not the updated one?
"How well have you documented your "helpers" and "glue" and less obvious stuff? Have you documented your goals in the project? Your non-goals and things you know don't work right?"

This two questions really made me think about those two crucial parts. I'll surely let the users know about those with the first release. Thank you.

As for the MFD - I'm following the Microsoft guidelines all the way in hope to keep it a faithful re-creation, but simplified.
An alternative is sites like https://7cups.com where you talk to real people that have undergone training for this. I can't comment on the efficacy though.
Well he did base the calculation on a SV yearly salary. For other areas it will be based on a normal salary for that area.
Good to see the separating of low quality scam ICOs from legitimate ones.
I learned this guideline from a slightly different approach.

I worked in a computer repair shop for a while. The boss charged the customer $75/hr. I got paid $10/hr.
Later I was an auto mechanic. Shop rate was $80/hr. When I left, i was getting paid $16/hr.

So basically I learned that if I was working for myself, I could charge 5x the rate I was being paid, and customers won't think it's unusually high.
I don't disagree, but I observe that if the interests of getting the lowest cost were aligned with the insurance company, and if the complexity of billing was a significant cost factor, it should be well within the capabilities of the insurance company to simplify the billing (by simplifying the requirements) in order to lower overall costs. And yet here we are :-)
Does CA require reporting handoffs to remote drivers?
Windows compatibility was always a checklist feature meant to convince anxious Windows users that switching would be fine. In practice hardly anyone bothered with it. And this was when the PC mattered more. If they're switching today I don't think they'll care at all about Windows compatibility (and it might not even be an issue since Microsoft seems to be switching to ARM as well).
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The average person never gets the opportunity to be an early investor in startups. You could buy 10 bitcoins when they were $1. You couldn't buy Google stock until after they were successful.
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So you have choice of running Windows or BSD, etc.
There is a group in UK (Matt Loose's group) that I think is working a lot on read-until. I haven't really kept up with it. I think the key for read-until to work is ultimately probably going to be better hardware as you need to be able to analyze the trace signal and compare it against a database fast enough to tell the device to kick it out. There are plenty of software optimizations that can be done to compress the signal or extract relevant regions, but the comparison to a database will be difficult to do fast.
In my experience, a few systems (tens) I came across used centOS on the compute nodes, and RHEL on service/login nodes. Sometimes I would come across some custom thing (e.g. one of the big systems in China uses Kylin). But the RHEL and/or CentOS choice is by far the most popular.
The Kaiser facility is very close to that UCSF facility next to the 101 on Owens street.
Each rare disease is rare, but it is not very rare to have a rare disease. There are just thousands of rare diseases. For example, it is estimated that 6-8% of the EU population has a rare disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_disease#Prevalence
Okay, but you're just one data point. Don't make a bigger deal of it than it is.

Since the books are well-used, that pretty obviously shows that the library is popular and doing a good job at serving some customers.
It's like someone did this on purpose to surprise Robert Frost (he favors fire).
Wow. Despite the utterly insane complexity of a regex of that size, it doesn't seem to do an insane amount of branching. Maximum depth of choices seems to be about 4, which is less than a lot of other regex examples I've seen here.

That being said... That regex is just noise. Nobody can tackle it all at once or by themselves, unless they specialise in just regex. It's 6599 characters, at least on my system. So at a wild stab, its the equivalent of 4,500 lines of obfuscated code.

You can't audit it, you just kinda have to trust it, and hope.

But with something like regexper, I can at least read it.
It could also be that differences in academic performance (I'm assuming academic is the performance you were referring to in your comment) are not accurate metrics for identifying the effects of differential brain organization.

In scenarios like that, it's also difficult to control for the impact of different level of support for students in academic matters. For example, focused support for under-performing students compared to relatively relaxed support for students meeting expectations.

I could probably also see the impact of different psychological factors associated with being adopted by a family on a different continent being hard to control for.
Updated my post - The introduction provides a decent overview of other studies (and and their limitations) suggesting the same results.
Cancer care at Kaiser was outstanding. They may be spending the money on extra staffing and facilities, not just pocketing it.

The only place where I believe Kaiser falls short and gives the impression of pinching pennies is mental health care.
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Is it an HMO? Because those can bankrupt you if you go out of network...
OK, here's the thinking behind the negativity towards personas:

it is an unnecessary abstraction that makes you think it's helping you, but actually impairs your ability to deliver good tools.

To really deliver good tools, you need to get as close as possible to the actual user, ideally becoming one. I found that having a manager in the user company "gather user requirements" and deliver them to us in meetings (sometimes requested by clients thinking it would reduce costs) dramatically degraded what we could deliver and increased schedules and costs, compared to having the devs talking with and sitting next to the users for even an hour. (and yes, we did talk to the mgrs as users for their specific needs too)

Personas are an even worse level of abstraction than talking only to the managers.

You must focus on the very details of the interface where the rubber meets the road, not on some 3rd- or 4th-level abstraction.

Even in you get all the micro-details and include then in your "Jane Persona" abstraction, it won't help you interpolate the data sets from Task A and Task C to figure out how to implement Task B any better than looking directly at your two data sets. And, talking to actual user "Jane Real Person" will beat both of those options, because you'll probably learn something new.

Always go as close as you can to the source. Abstraction is often just a good way to fool yourself.

[edit: redundant repeated words ]
I'm not trying to start anything here. What are some examples of clearly legitimate ICOs?
Thank You HN:Update on my old post
2 years ago I had posted here about my situation here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793978

I was 24 at that time and my life was in a very bad condition.This is an update to follow up on my previous post.

The advice and counselling I received in the post was really helpful and practical.It helped me develop a new perspective in life.I am much more positive and optimistic today.

Fast forward 2 years,I am in a much better position now compared to those days.I went back to college and finished my degree.I practiced programming and worked for a guy who was a full time freelancer.I worked with PHP/JavaScript,Native android app and Windows forms development(with C#),though none of the projects I worked on can be used in my personal portfolio as I was only a subcontractor.I still have so much to work on.

I would like some advice this time on my career.I aspire to be a Independent freelancer/remote worker.I can work in the above mentioned technologies.Not having a portfolio is preventing me from achieving this goal.I need some serious advice regarding this.Any help offered is appreciated.If you have any projects to be built,I am available for hire.My email id is in my bio.

This short post is to thank everyone who had replied.Your words were really helpful and helped me a lot in bettering my life.Please carry on your good deeds.
Archive.org has lots of old books which I've used in family history research. It looks like they have 3 distinct scans of the one you linked.
So wait, engineering has no value, progress should only come from research departments at big corporations, we should never engage in anything outside of product and ad work, and anyone who applies research is stealing time from their employers.

Maybe, just maybe, we're starting to demand more of career software engineers. Maybe, just maybe, it's time for folks to stop grousing about how value-driven they are and realize that bad engineering is more expensive than good engineering over even medium term timescales.
Ditched my BlueShield PPO for Kaiser and costs went down dramatically. There's tons of costs to be saved in healthcare and glad to see the private sector making an effort.
I believe they require a disengagement rate. I am not sure if that would extend to remote drivers or not.
CBT is an evidence-based practice that has widely been proven to work.

However, it doesn't take that many machine learning algorithms or Nvidia GPUs to send someone an email/facebook message/SMS "in the morning" asking them to be in a good mood.
Thanks for the explanation! I have only hardware with no FPU (teensy 3.2) or single precision FPU(teensy 3.5)... I suppose in that case it would be better to write a fixed point implementation?
The french constitutional court does exactly that. Send the law back to parliament.
I'm downvoting you because you stated this as if it is a fact for everyone. We're in a small group plan and paying about the same for Kaiser as we are for Blue Shield, not "much higher". So, I think here's it's more "your mileage may vary."
Many BlueCrosses (they're not one company, they're all independent) are _non-for-profits_ which is totally different from a _non-profit_ or 501(c)(3). They can still lobby as a non-for-profit and the whole model is pretty much weird legal bullshit anyway.

Also another reason you couldn't start a big non-profit is because insurance companies are limited in reach by state/region. Sadly, that's one of the few things keeping them in check. If that regulation was removed, you'd see all the Blues and other companies start to merge into only two to three mega companies, similar to cell phone providers.
I'm not sure the motivation was as ill-intentioned as you indicate. Yes they spun it off the but I don't think Google was re-structured into Alphabet (and subsidiaries) for this reason. Waymo is a self driving car business, Google is a search engine that provides online services. I don't think the two overlap in a way that makes sense to club their businesses together into one quarterly report.
Thanks for sharing! You’ve talked about your ontology, can you explain a bit more about how you build it?
Because they accepted beyond ridiculous scores without any real proof, or even skepticism? In like every game this dude has a record in his score is impossibly higher than 2nd place. And these aren't even games or records which have been around for a couple weeks so that you can argue there's room for improvement.
One of my biggest concerns with Matrix was the amount of device data that it exposes.

It's extremely easy to fingerprint the devices that someone is using (it literally tells you right within Riot) and by design could make it easy for someone to track you or target your device if there are any known exploits for it.
We're in an age where the old keepers of the "facts" are being challenged (academia, news media, politicians, intelligence agencies, etc.). The internet has decentralized information in ways that we never predicted, and it's only going to accelerate.
Try this: https://gist.github.com/shakna-israel/83b84cd8465d131f968690...
Also, the number of employees these three companies have, put together, mean that setting up a non-profit health provider and using it to provide employee coverage saves them money in their normal businesses.

Amazon might decide to make their own networking hardware or their own power generation for their datacenters to save money, but they spend more money on headcount than on datacenters, and a huge chunk of the headcount expense goes to health insurance companies.
How high are your taxes in your socialized medicine nation? What are the knock-on effects of those high taxes in terms of economic stagnation, poverty, etc? I am so sick of the "but muh socialized medicine rocks" while others are paying for your problems and having their mobility curtailed by YOU without any acknowledgment regarding the real situation.

In the US we have historically enjoyed economic mobility and very loose class structure. That corporations have gamed the system is something that needs to be addressed. But to have prosperity and real freedom means that we aren't working via "collective" rights and aren't just a bunch of dumb Matrix cucks fooling ourselves like Europeans seem to be.
> I would like to not discuss it over Internet because

So you would like to make your statements, but not to have them challenged?
The could really use a bunch of "try it" links or examples to show what it can do.
The primary reason we used them was the pretty cool 'ring' LAN that was X25 based -- since everything else was X25/X29 (Transpac) it was a natural choice. Remember back then available ethernet was still coax.

And speaking of root -- on the Pr1me was also 'root' as a system engineer, and I remember fondly the day I messed up the parenthesis in a macro, and ran a tool that proceeded to memset() and erase the whole of the shared memory on the machine. That was about 30 people who all called.... the system's engineer (me!) to ask what was going on! Needless to say, it was blamed on a cosmic ray.

When we switched to HP it took quite a while to get the same level of performance with HP's own X25 hardware/software. It's also the one and only time I ever played with X25 socket() API.
For all those still unsure about running an ICO in the US:

> "The ICO is an illegal offering of securities because there is no registration filed or in effect with the SEC, nor is there an applicable exemption from registration," the complaint said.

The complaint was filed by the SEC in Dallas and the court ordered an emergency asset freeze of the company and it's two co-founders.

If you're considering an ICO, please attempt to understand your legal obligations and risks. The window of ICO free for alls looks like it's ending.
I'm with Kaiser and my favorite thing compared to the PPOs I've been with in the past is the integrated IT health records. Any doctor, specialists, ER, can see my whole history of ailments and drugs and lab test results. When my doctor orders up a specialist or a pharmacy I don't have to re-explain anything, it's all in the system. I'm sure it helps reduce medical errors.
I agree with you. Although it seems intuitive that only a human could assist with complex mental issues, the mind is very strange and susceptible to these hacks.

There's no reason small children should feel comforted by a stuffed animal, but they do, and it can provide an experience very much like human contact for them.

I went through several bouts of extreme depression, and I might only be alive because I discovered the joy of breaking ceramic plates. I have no idea why the destruction of dinnerware gives me so much joy, but if things ever get too much for me, I just go to target and buy a few dozen dishes. I then take them to my local dump, which has a cement cliff you throw your trash over into the pit. I toss the plates like frisbees, and watch them sale 20 or 30 feet to the cement floor. When they crash they make a tremendous noise, like when a server accidentally drops a bunch of dishes in the kitchen at a restaurant. Except out at the dump the sound is much much louder and cleaner. Sometimes I throw one plate up really high like a clay pigeon and try to hit it with a second plate, which I only have a couple times. I've probably wasted several thousand dollars doing this.

The point of my long ramble is that strange things can save you from depression. There is no reason a chat bot can't work for some people.
You could until someone gets sick and needs medical services, hoping they don't go bankrupt due to their lapsed coverage due to non-payment.

The biggest problem I see are the costs. The healthcare industry can't even tell you why costs differ on so many levels of services. The industry isn't transparent and they'll fight this because it's too profitable for them.
Don't believe that shit. I worked through an agency once where I was the subcontractor for several projects. One time the account rep was lazy and sent me the customer's contract and failed to remove the rate he was charging for my work. I was charging $150/hr. He was charging the client $400/hr.

People will pay a premium for something they value. In that instance I actually won out eventually. It turns out the agency was really shitty at managing projects and that particular client got in touch with me directly. He agreed to pay me $400/hr if I gave him priority. I did, and he started referring me to other businesses who would also pay that rate.

So don't kid yourself about how much people will pay.

Edit: These clients weren't in the Bay Area.
I love the graphics. I would like the equivalent for Python and the GNU flex (lexer) RE's.

No... wait.... I know what I want! I want a sphinx extension that allows me to include an RE in a Python docstring and have it render as a railroad track graphic in the generated documentation:

some_re_string = r'ab[0-9]*z'
""":regex: Any string starting whith 'ab', followed by
digits, ending with 'z'.
"""

That should be able to go pick up the documented string and render a railroad track diagram along with the text in the generated documentation.
Laws can be changed.
What are you saying here? That it does not classify as a hash function (determinism, uniformity, various forms of collision resistance, one-wayness) or that it is not a hash of the contents?