skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Everyone, and not particularly insurance companies though they usually bear most of the blame in the public eye.

The most noticeable one is pharma though. If the US allowed for free drug importation from overseas, you would slash healthcare costs in an unprecedented way. The only thing needed today to reduce the problem significantly is for the government stop doing something.
This is a serious problem if you have to take over during disengagement. If you spend most of the year not driving you risk falling out of practice, and then the one time you must rely on your own skill is in an unusual situation requiring you to exercise good judgement at speed. I would expect most disengagements to result in accidents because of this.
> It shows his bias, which is a clear conflict of interest,

It only shows bias if there is evidence that the feeling confessed arose prior to the assembly of the dossier.

> The fact that it was not disclosed shows that either the leadership of the FBI was overzealous or also very biased

Or that the history of back-and-forth with FISC over FISA applications led them to believe that, in the totality of circumstances, this is not information that FISC would consider material in the application.
It's not at all apples and oranges. Jeff Bezos became the richest person in the world in a large part due to short changing his employees. The two are linked together.
> If patients are being charged this much for anything, the money must be going to someone? Who's making all the money? Drug companies? Hospitals? Health insurance? Doctors or nurses? Why don't people honestly follow where the money end up and actually solve the problem once and for all. Increase the supply of X or many other bottlenecks by deregulation and result in decreased price?

There are a lot of reasons for the inflated costs, but a big one is the way the billing system itself works.

Legally, providers have to charge patients the same amount in an initial bill, regardless of insurance status. They can reduce it later, but they can't bill different amounts.

Medicare and Medicaid reimburse less than COGS, which means that providers start off by losing money per patient on publicly-insured patients. To stay afloat, they increase the amount they bill, so that private insurers essentially cover the difference.

Uninsured patients are collateral damage here - they end up paying the sticker price that's intended for insurers as a highball starting point for negotiation. The insurers end up paying something around 3-10 times what Medicare pays, but less than the sticker price.

This system is unfortunately unlikely to change, because any efforts to increase price transparency would decrease Medicare's ability to pass on costs to private insurers, and they would oppose that heavily.
The number of truly innocent people bitten by venomous snakes in the United States is essentially 0.

99% of them were doing something incredibly stupid and got what was coming to them.

Edit: Why are people downvoting this? Anyone who grew up in an area with snakes should know this is 100% fact. The truth is that there's essentially 0 venomous snake bite danger in the United States whether you're being an idiot or not. You can reduce that even further by simply not being an idiot.
>"HN is a relatively small community, and should use justifiable words, and beware of cognitive biases and unfairly ganging up."

Providing feedback is most certainly not "unfairly ganging up" . Common courtesy is just that - a common widely accepted norm. It's pretty much the antithesis of a personal "cognitive bias."
I don't mean to make to big a stretch here, but shouldn't the advertising companies also be held morally culpable for exacerbating CTE?

I mean the NFL had an incentive to increase the hits and blows to make it more entertaining, to draw more people, to sell ads.

I do see a future, where, unless the sport changes, companies will start pulling their ads from football games.
So everybody is going to go out and buy new phones and cameras?

Also, using Meltdown and Specter as examples, can these companies actually build cryptographically secure devices. It's easy for a manufacture to say "Our device is secure", and it's easy for the judge to say "You go to jail for life", but it creates a big mess in the legal system when we realize 3 years later that someone extracted the private key from a device, framed somebody, and that person had been put in the electric chair between now and then.
You can know the current time if the decay rate of the pulsars is characterizable and you have a reference rate->time (eg: on date X pulsar was 1.45266363mhz and decays 1.6ns/hr)
Medical care is a commodity, and aren’t we all often faced with commodities we cannot afford?

People who cannot afford medical care have no right to demand it from anyone. Maybe someone will be empathetic enough to offer charity; friends and family may choose to band together and fund a sick person’s medical care. But even a poor person’s necessity does not change the fact that healthcare is a service and a good provided by a third party.

No matter how much some starving kid needs food, he doesn’t have a right to steal someone’s wallet or hold up the local convenience store to obtain it. If I were in that position, maybe I’d end up choosing to steal since it’s the least immoral choice under the circumstances, but that does not make it a moral choice, or suggest that I have not violated someone‘s rights in pursuing my own needs.
I think this is why cheap solid-state LIDAR is critical to this goal. It’s currently too expensive and bulky for this kind of use, but if you can embed a few dozen LIDAR units in a car for under $1000, you get some really accurate telemetry that’s not affected by adverse weather. Cheap solid state LIDAR is gonna be the invention that powers the next industrial boom.
It's neat to see the progress even if you don't know where it's going. I wouldn't call it a 'review', though.
I don't think people are going to enter their destination for every trip. So, people will still do some driving even with self driving systems.

On top of that most situations with disengagement have not resulted in crashes. Really it's failing to pay attention during normal driving that's most often at fault, a 'buzzing you need to pay attention now' system solves most of the problems even if the car is not driving it's self.
At least in US you get the medical treatment first and then they hand you a large bill to pay. In poor countries the hospitals will turn you away until you pay a significant sum in advance (not exaggerating it has happened to me).
Yeah, I disabled that rule for that specific game :]
I've heard multiple times that medical care in USA is pretty expansive if you don't have insurance. But I had no idea to what extent, until someone posted comments section form amazon's page for fish antibiotics. People are buying those for them self (well, still it's amoxycycline), just check any comment, most of them have something like: my 'fish' is better, $300 saved.
That's just inhumane.
In this case, he was a witness. The FBI selectively disclosed the available information they had from him and about him to the FISC in a way to bias the court's decision.

How would you like the FBI to make a similar case about you or your favorite politician to the FISC? The FBI is there to protect our rights, not infringe on them.

Many of the FBI officials who had approval authority had at least an apparent conflict of interest and should have recused.
Also a high rate of insulin resistance. You can't stay on an NFL diet after you retire. The NFL should get retirees a free pre-made meal plan and gym membership.
Where did the audio of the attack come from then? Was it just random, completely safe background noice?
You need sensors, primarily cameras, on the cars. Some of them are already there, ok.

Then you need to stream that data to a sort of cockpit at a distance, reliably and with minimal delay or lag spikes. Cause you know, otherwise you might kill the occupant(s).

It doesn't seem an easy problem to me, at least not if you want to make a business out of it.

Just for comparison, and maybe someone can correct me on this, aren't military drones more or less just uses for bombing and they're not supposed to run into opposition? I don't think fighters are remote controlled.
The code is available here:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/

Key components:

## Zircon

Zircon is the operating system's foundation: it mediates hardware access, implements essential software abstractions over shared resources, and provides a platform for low-level software development.

For example, Zircon contains the kernel, device manager, most core and first-party device drivers, and low-level system libraries, such as libc and launchpad. Zircon also defines the Fuchsia IDL (FIDL), which is the protocol spoken between processes in the system, as well as backends for C and C++. The backends for other languages will be added by other layers.

## Garnet

Garnet provides device-level system services for software installation, administration, communication with remote systems, and product deployment.

For example, Garnet contains the network, media, and graphics services. Garnet also contains the package management and update system.

## Peridot

Peridot presents a cohesive, customizable, multi-device user experience assembled from modules, stories, agents, entities, and other components.

For example, Peridot contains the device, user, and story runners. Peridot also contains the ledger and resolver, as well as the context and suggestion engines.

## Topaz

Topaz augments system functionality by implementing interfaces defined by underlying layers. Topaz contains four major categories of software: modules, agents, shells, and runtimes.

For example, modules include the calendar, email, and terminal modules, shells include the base shell and the user shell, agents include the email and chat content providers, and runtimes include the Dart andFlutter runtimes.
Companies definitely are implementing remote control but they don't like to publicize it because it runs counter to the "autonomous" narrative.

In America cars have an important cultural role as a symbol of freedom and the idea that your "autonomous" car is centrally monitored and controllable is not a very good selling point.

But yes, all "autonomous" cars will absolutely have remote control functionality of some kind, at least a kill switch.
I am pretty sure even in places with socialized medicine, they don't always pay for experimental treatments. Walter White had insurance in the show, but they refused to pay for an experimental treatment he wanted to get. That will always happen, and needs to happen, in any insurance system; we can't just pay for every quack treatment just because someone who is sick hopes that it would work.
All of those things are sucking up a bit of the excess money, and most of the rest of it is that the sticker price is largely fiction, since either your insurance company will negotiate a lower price, or you will be bankrupted and end up settling for a smaller amount.

You can probably find articles for "X is driving the cost of health care up" for at least 6 different values of X, and the more I've personally dug, the more I found that all of those contribute and there's not obviously a single X that contributes to more than say 20% of the difference between the US and other wealthy countries.
The only sites I can find in reference to “DUMB” are truly mad. Do you have any resources which aren’t trying to get me buy gold, guns, and bibles? The problem with th tinfoil set isn’t that they’re always wrong, but that it’s impossible to sift through the dross for kernels of valuable information.

I’m always happy to explore ideas on the fringe, but based on reason, rationality, and ideally something like evidence rather than people screaming “sheeple” at me.
which is all the more surprising considering Steam and many of its games work on Linux, which is case-sensitive!
> He is also the person behind PuTTY

I thought I recognised that name from somewhere. I once had to hack the PuTTY sources for an internal project and it was quite an enjoyable experience due to how cleanly written the code was. I was always a fan of PuTTY but I'd gained a new appreciation for it that day.
it will be no match for my anti-anti-scrambler tech.
Right. For example, the UK has free education, but there's a British show [1] whose plot involves a man who does shady, illegal things so he can pay for a prestigious boarding school for his son.

[1] forget the name -- the one with the grandma constable
Fair enough, the logistics of different facilities might allow more leeway in some than others - but in the FC where I work now, they're not very flexible about moving people around unless immediate business needs and stow rates allow it (for indirect roles at least.)

Still, I don't think employees should have to ask at all - Amazon should regularly rotate their FC employees through various roles, even within a workday. Doing so would improve performance, attentiveness and morale across the board, reduce repetitive strain injuries, and give each employee an idea of how various roles interrelate.
Sure, but there's degrees of moral responsibility. Shouldn't the spectators, should the player's parents etc.
I see 2 reasons. One, the whole point is to fully turn the driver role into a perfectly efficient commodity to reap rewards of zero marginal cost like typical tech companies. Two, remote driving probably involves some life threatening amount of lag.
Only in the United States. Are we Great yet?
Academind is a good place to learn web-related things including HTML+CSS+JS, Angular, React and Vue

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w
Hair will be harder in the sense it requires a lot more CPU power. Making realistic hair in video games has been a challenge.
When developing for iOS, you "serve at the pleasure of the King".
> The thing is, he only wanted to go to the "best" doctors, which his insurance didn't cover. He also refused to let his friends pay his bills.

Yup, cancer treatment in the UK in particular is incredibly appalling. Compared to the US, patients have very little control over their treatment options, and it's very easy to get the NHS to refuse to cover your treatment because you haven't followed the one of the treatment plans they determine for your case.

Incidentally, that's one of the reasons why cancer survival rates in the UK are so much lower than in the US, even when you include people who can't afford ideal treatment in the US.
I do not see how the etymology of these words being a layout-metaphor argues against them having more semantic value now? The way you describe a footer makes it sound like the last block of text of any article (being at the bottom) is by definition the footer. Which is of course not the case: it is used for certain types of content.

Your own book uses <asides> very heavily[0]. They are not just literally aside the regular flow of the document (actually, about that, see the next paragraph), the type of content in them is different - it is reserved for tangential stuff like jokes or deeper information that would interrupt the pacing of the main narrative.

Aside about asides in your book: I bought the epub version when it came out, and although it was a symbolic purchase (I had read the whole thing already as you wrote it), I somewhat regret the format choice due to the sorry state of epub readers. Not all of them even support the aside tag. The one that does (the Firefox Epubreader extension) does not keep a margin for the aside but inlines them. This really disrupts the flow of the text. In traditional book layouts that use the full margin for the text, these asides would be printed as a smaller footnote at the bottom of the page. Surely with the right bit of code one could generate such a layout, based on the semantic meaning of <aside>. But like I said: epub readers are in a pretty sorry state. Should have gotten the pdf instead[1].

[0] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/introduction.html

[1] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/sample.pdf
Perhaps someone was just throwing down a really slick bassline.
“Cutting hedge” is my favorite typo of the week!
The dossier was bought and paid for by the DNC. It had a partisan origin which was not disclosed. Steele's time was bought and paid for by the DNC.

The FBI officials had clear conflicts of interest, but I guess they thought they could get away with it since its all classified.
It continually amazes me how tech people are blindsided by this problem. Every time. It's practically the entire reason that the Gartner hype curve is a thing:

1) New technology X appears.

2) Technology X develops quickly as the first 80% of gains are achieved.

3) Tech "luminaries" incorrectly extrapolate the rate of progress into a distant, glorious future; write breathless commentaries about how Technology X will eat the world in N years!

4) Technology X stagnates at the 81% progress mark, as it becomes clear that the green-field progress rate cannot be sustained.

5) Technology Y appears! Huzzah!
Why? - Isn't that obvious? A simple two second hickup in the cellular connection could kill everyone in the car.
Not the nurses. Definitely not the nurses.
If the dominant motivation wasn't to make the big games more interesting, I don't know what it would be! Although "evil laundering" is definitely something that we have to watch out for, it isn't always practical to hold people responsible for their entire supply chains when we could otherwise go straight to the actual problem-causers.
Because people can make choices collectively and that affects all of us.

No man is an island. If people choose to engage in activities that end up affecting negatively the rest of us through externalities such as pollution, corruption, and the destruction of economic value, sorry, but historically people don't just stand by idly and let others destroy the societies they've built.
I like the naming even more than the architecture! :-)
The bit that puzzles me is their store strategy. Apple sets up an app store and the money's rolling in. Google sets up an app store and the money's rolling in. Microsoft sets up and app store, and even removes the feature to disable it in enterprise versions of the OS ... and the last thing I heard about it, they've been paying developers big money to port some of their applications to the Microsoft store. I wonder if they're doing much more than breaking even.

Of course they're at a disadvantage as a desktop OS because their app store is competing with being able to download and install programs from the web.

But I still wonder, if they're focussing on home users, don't they need to offer a bit friendlier to developers if they want people to write apps that they can charge the home users for?
The old joke is "Communism is an amazing system, it's a shame no one has ever tried it" - in reference to the fact that Communism in places like the USSR wasn't really what the original proposers of it as an idea where suggesting.

I think the same applies to libertarianism, it sounds good and clean but in reality human systems are like humans, messy chaotic and fickle.

I think when it comes to regulation of a company you need the carrot and the stick, the carrot is "good PR and been seen to be a good corporate citizen that treats staff well results in betters sales" and the stick is "If you break the law their will be consequences and these are the laws".

The problem with western markets (at least in my country (the UK)) is that we've moved away from the stick towards the US model of laissez-fair capitalism.

Of course people then make the argument "Well the US model can't be that broken, it's the number one economy in the world" without considering the last century historically.

The US is a massive economy but it also didn't get trashed in two world wars that nearly bankrupted it and was ideally placed to capitalize on them, it had all the advantages of the late industrial revolution/western civilization and vast amounts of resources.

It would have been hard for it's economy not to succeed.
Facebook gets states to give notice before responding to FB-related requests
It's interesting to see this reduction in labor demand is coupled with new lows in the unemployment rate.

There's a shortage of labor but employers don't seem to be willing to pay more to incentivize more people to enter the workforce (which is partially reflected in the so called "shadow" unemployment rate, which is higher). An increase in the minimum wage will cause one of two things to happen, both net good IMO: either employers to invest more in capital / automation or cause them to give all current and new employees a raise.
The log chart is used to hide volatility.
Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide
Ask HN: Why can't the USA have a simple, straight-forward insurance?
I was in Europe for a while and every citizen in most EU countries are covered by the Govt. - no questions asked. Even the medicines are provided. It might be a little more expensive (guess it's a part of the tax), but there is no concept of things such as co-pay, max out of pocket.You are simply fully insured for everything. Why is it so hard to implement this in the US?
Employee-owned is very different from employee-managed.

I recall VW put a single member of labor on their board; it broke the company as other members courted the vote of the uninformed labor rep, giving up perks until labor costs were bankrupting the place.

Companies operating in a competitive environment have to be pretty efficient. Optimizing a company for employee benefits is pretty much at odds with that. I know, they will all be more loyal etc. But that's different from lowering product cost and controlling profit margins. You fail to make payroll even one week, the game's over.
Setting aside the fact that you're conflating voluntary theft with involuntary medical catastrophe, we're only as good as our weakest link. To your point, when people in society suffer, society as a whole suffers.
I disagree, the problem is with the public and the government above all.

There is economic consensus on healthcare costs already. Pharma is one of the biggest by far.

This is an interesting thing for me as non-american, because both Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul blame the limitation of pharma for very high expenses in the american economy. They are opposite spectrums for state action but both agree on the same issue, and neither has consensus to solve the problem.

Why? Because it has to be politically unprofitable for everyone else in the middle to say "We are going to open up importations and lose a bunch of pharma jobs". That I put on the public.
Lots of people get bit! 7000 to 8000 a year [1], more than handgun deaths. Death from the bites is rare thanks to, among other things, antivenom!

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/snakes/