skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly the biggest pain in the ass when it comes to trying to price healthcare comes outside office visits. Want to go in for a surgical procedure? You think it's going to cost $X but it ends up costing $X+Y because some complication caused the operation to run 10-15 minutes over the estimated time and now you have an extra unit of time for the anesthesiologist getting billed.

Price transparency is great, but office visits are basically the only thing you can estimate well upfront (there's five CPT codes for the visit, 99211-99215 and it's easy to estimate which one will apply based on whether it's a new/existing patient and the level of history/examination you anticipate requiring). I will stand by my belief that the only way to "fix" healthcare in our country is going full single-payer so citizens don't have to worry about whether they can afford to get treated or not.
I have respect for your work and your writing. But neither your blog nor the OP's is the source-of-truth. It's the documentation which is why I qualified my statement with "meaningfully".

Controlling the hype bubble would have meant rewriting the introduction of the docs, for example, replacing the TODO app with something actually intelligible. This drastic act would also have required buy-in from all the maintainers-- one of whom just posted an article protesting too much the decline of the framework in question.

From an outside's perspective, the damage control seems too little, too late.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921992 and marked it off-topic.
Somewhat hilariously, half of Germany is blurred on Street View.
People can just request it in some countries.
Get on https://gab.ai/
I’m sorry, but you shouldn’t be hating on judges when your understanding of law is so spotty.

Windows is subject to copyright. There doesn’t need to be a license for you to agree to—that would be a contract.

Copyright gives the creator the final say on creating copies of their work. Just because someone gives it away for free-as-in-beer does not grant you a license to create and sell copies. Try recording and selling music from the radio if you dont believe me.

While there are exemptions to the rules like fair use, none of them applied here. If you’re unhappy with the judge, take it up with Congress. Because there is absolutely nothing wrong in the court’s application of current law.
And the worst part about it is that it's incredibly hard to replace the keyboard on the MBP. For most other laptops it's just a screw or two, a few plastic clips, and a ribbon cable to replace it. They're also super cheap for just about every manufacturer out there other than Apple and you can get a new keyboard delivery included for ~$15-$25. For the MBP you pretty much need to get the whole top case as one assembly because instead of just a few clips Apple rivets the keyboard to the case! And it's not just a couple of rivets either, try a couple dozen.

Absolutely insane how not only does Apple make the keyboard just about impossible to replace, but they also make a keyboard that's simultaneously much much more failure prone than any other keyboard that I know of. Here's a great video of a madman actually replacing the keyboard instead of just replacing the whole assembly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMueATtTcQg
> A lot of people against socialized healthcare don't realize that the system still takes extra money from those that pay and gives it to those that can't--just through hospital billing.

It would be refreshing to have a conversation with someone who holds such a position that was willing to say that hospitals should turn uninsured and poor people away at ERs and let them die in the streets. Its at least more honest.
I just switched back to Thinkpad X1 w/ Windows. With Linux Subsystem for Windows, it's been roughly working out. though I am currently maintaining two copies of things - one for Linux and one for Windows for lots of tooling. Not sure how to optimize here. Only been a few days. Re-learning keyboard shortcuts.

Only pain: not having iMessage on laptop.
You can negotiate to settle your bill if you don't have insurance.
Isn't it standard practice to find out which facilities/providers are in your network so you can judge this? I always check before we go somewhere new
Yeah, this applies to all that old Lisp features.
very concept of "shopping around" for healthcare is absurd

No it's not. A very large percentage of medical care is planned, not urgent. There is no reason why price comparison can't happen for those.

A great example of a highly functional healthcare market is vision correction laser surgery. Every time I look around some deal is being offered. Competition is what drove those prices down.

Can you do that with everything? Of course not. But you can do it with a lot of planned medical care.
Then what is the difference between the nursery escape and joining a thread or extracting the value of a promise? Both of these will bubble any error back into the dispatch thread.

Seems like we're just layering indirections (I wouldn't call that an abstraction) for little added value over the existing constructs.
I use one of dells XPS 13 developer edition with Ubuntu on it. It works fine, there are some quirks (sometimes noisy whine when not doing a lot of CPU intensive tasks) and the camera is in a weird location. Outside of that it's worked well for my needs.
I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer.
Surely getting them to talk you through the code would solve that problem.

If its is their own code it shouldn't be a problem.

If it isn't their code and they can still talk you through it, even better - they have managed to understand code that someone else wrote which is probably an even more valuable skill.
Glad to see this subject surface on HN. This is a topic that's near and dear to me, to the point that over time I've accidentally cultivated my closest friendships almost exclusively with people who share this interest/capacity.

I frame it as living more deliberately. Every moment is an opportunity to better yourself, better your position, better your brand, or help others better themselves. Introspection is the means to identify those opportunities and build habits around them.

This concept as a whole is a conversation that, in my opinion, happens all too infrequently. Everyone should try to find someone that they can talk to about this concept because there's a ton of value in being able to vocalize these internal monologues. Talking to someone about your introspective processes and conclusions brings another level of intellectual honesty to the entire process.
Gboard updates the model on-device and sends the updates to Google, meaning no keystroke data needs to be sent to Google while still improving the model with real world usage:

> "[Federated Learning] works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the changes as a small focused update," scientists Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage said. "Only this update to the model is sent to the cloud, using encrypted communication, where it is immediately averaged with other user updates to improve the shared model."

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3188430/artificial-intelli...
According to certain theoretical frameworks... Empirically though there generally isn't any causal relationship demonstrated between corporate tax rates and wages, economic growth, or unemployment in most statistical data.

This is a really big debate in Australia at the moment, a lobby group made up of large corporates (the Business Council of Australia) is campaigning heavily for a tax cut given the recent Trump cuts. So there's been a lot of examination of this data and the best they have is intuitive arguments ("of course if there's more profits you'll have more investment and employment") but they admitted in a Senate enquiry just yesterday that they didn't actually have any demonstrable statistical evidence that tax cuts have caused employment growth, wage growth or increased investment in any developed economy.
link rel=”prefetch/preload” in webpack
obviously when a user goes to download the recovery disk from Microsoft, this does not happen directly: his requests are received by his ISP and then the last non-microsoft device asks the first microsoft device for the file. From then on the ISP starts receiving a stream of bits. And the ISP then distributes them on to the original user. Cables and optical fibres are also physical media. Furthermore the ISP will also have distributed all the requisite SSL handshakes, such that the stream from the perspective of the user can be effectively seen as branded with the Microsoft logo (optionally displayed with a secure lock symbol depending on the browser)...

Now if we all realize that ISP's are allowed to shamelessly distribute the recovery disk branded as authentic M$ warez, the judge might have been made to understand that it was not obvious for Lundgren that he would be forcefully fleeced.
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I disagree with that definition of racism.

Racism is the application of social traits, be they positive or negative, across an ethnicity of people, with little to no concern for the individual.

Stating something about African Americans along with fried chicken or watermelon is racist. Assuming, that because someone is black that they must like this is racist.

In my case, it was the said assumption that "brown and black all suck the test of welfare". The unstated assumption was that they were all lazy, and "us poor working whites" should have had access to it.

Racism also goes into "positive traits" too. Stating,"Well you're Asian, so you must be good at math." Is also racist.

In the same light, but if we talk of Men or Women, its roughly the same but called Sexist. Instead of making a decision based upon racial generalizations, its sexual generalizations.
No. It is like the government grants you fully vested rights in a property -- and then takes them back.

Conventionally, you need a court with an Article III judge for that to ensure due process.
I made this Webpack loader a couple of months ago for a project where we wanted to use Webpack, but had some assets that needed to be built with a proprietary command line tool that didn't have an available Webpack loader. I recommend using dedicated Webpack loaders when possible, but this allows you to quickly convert existing shell-based build pipelines to Webpack without needed to create Webpack loaders first.
It's absurd, but as long as it's politically untenable to go all the way to something reasonable, things like this which will presumably be a lot easier to defend is still better than nothing - a huge proportion of medical needs are not emergency care, after all.
I'd argue they've already started going down the "doesn't feel much like JavaScript" road when they started introducing things like fat arrows. I agree that it is bad.
I believe Erlang inherited its pattern matching from Prolog term unification since Erlang was prototyped as a DSL using Prolog's op built-in predicate (plus other Prolog parsing DSLs such as definite clause grammars).

[1]: http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?predicate=op%2f3
I don't remember attacking you personally, so I'd appreciate if you didn't attack me. I'm not going to engage with this kind of response.

I'll just close by saying yes, I have read much of what you mention, and maybe that says something about you that you would immediately assume and then attack based on wrong assumptions. Maybe some time for some introspection?
And Prolog as well, which strongly influenced Erlang's design. (The original Erlang was written in Prolog.)

I agree with the sentiments of some of the other commenters -- it's much less troublesome to match on tuples (Erlang) and predicate clauses (Prolog) than it is to match on JavaScript objects. With tuples/clauses, the constructor syntax mirrors the pattern matching syntax, so it's trivial to read the code at a purely syntactic level to debug pattern matching issues, and this would simplify automatic static analysis as well. As soon as you can add "fields" to an object at arbitrary (non-local) points in the code, local syntactic analysis becomes intractable.
Definition of injustice are pretty broad and situational, wouldn't you agree? And besides, breaking down the actual phrase, it means to act within the "correctness" of the political climate du jour. Depending on the power brokers you subscribe to, that could mean a variety of things. Not aimed at you, but the overblown sense of agency and importance that people give their own definitions seems to be part of the problem.
I mean, yea, you check with your insurer first? How could the hospital possibly have information about how much each insurer would cover considering there are literally hundreds? This seems like a "perfect is the enemy of good" situation
This is exactly what I learned after years of developing around meetings. Block your time first. And block your time based on your tasks you have to complete.

Sure you can't completely rewrite the billing system from scratch in an hour, but you CAN stub out the new architecture. Then each hour after that you fill in a method.

I feel needing 4-9 hour blocks of time means you AREN'T focusing, not that you are "IN THE ZONE"
Completely disagree. Providers are not all the same. Some doctors are so incompetent they should not be allowed to practice, some are excellent. People should have full information on their providers, including costs, to be able to make informed choices.
IceBear: ice energy storage
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The Board Of Directors has structured Tim Cook's pay so his pay is dependent on shipping specific amounts of iPhones. This would be a good plan if the goal was to boost the stock price for the few years that iPhone seems innovative, compared to anything that Samsung can come up with. This strategy did work for several years, look at 2013 and 2014 and 2015 and 2016. But the same strategy amounts to a plan for allowing the company to collapse in the long-term. Where are the new products? Where are the new ideas? Some people point to the vast cash reserve that Apple has and they view this as a source of strength: "Apple must be doing something right to have that much cash on hand!" But a large pile of cash can also be read as a weakness; in particular, it can be seen as a lack of ideas. For comparison, consider the last time Apple had super fat margins and a product that was light-years ahead of the competition: the 1980s. Apple did not pile up cash at that time, because it was still investing in the future. Profits were reinvested in new products. The leadership could see where the future was going, and they chased after it aggressively. The difference between then and now is obvious. Apple has a huge amount of cash, but they have no ideas about how to invest it. Tim Cook is a good operations guy, he has some talent for optimizing the supply lines between China and the West. But he has no ideas. And nowadays, given the growing number of problems, I think we have to wonder if he fully deserves his reputation for being a good operations guy.
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List prices should be a good relative predictor for comparing cost.

The problem is it's not a good predictor. I'm sure you've seen articles that say the cost of an MRI can vary between $500 and $5000. Those are the list prices.

For a given insurer, the contracted rate is probably pretty similar with the $500 rate being only marginally discounted and the $5000 rate heavily discounted.
You're absolutely right, a simple UPS would be sufficient for my needs. I'm beginning to wonder if that is all I'm missing from my setup.
I’ve been saying for a while that until and unless people start advocating for the repeal of EMTALA (the law which requires ERs to treat everyone), there isn’t any debate over whether we should have socialized medicine, merely over how.
>>Netflix didn't kill theaters

You left out rude patrons using mobile phones during a show and cheap large flat screen tvs as causes for its decline
I like this.

Last year I went to my dermatologist for a routine check up and they frooze 1 mole on my leg:

$ 600 for the visit

$ 600 for freezing the mole
My point was when it comes to topics that matter there is little difference in the 2 powers.
What really needs to be published are the actual prices paid.
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I made the same type of arguments about fat arrows but everyone told me to stop whining and I'd get used to it. Years later fat arrows still feel like a bad syntax choice.
You can't just use a windows restore disk to get a new windows installation. When installed, it will ask you for your license key, and will not function fully until you have done so.

The only thing this guy was doing was making it so customers don't have to download the iso on a USB or CD themselves, and recycling e-waste in the process.
The link to MS's licencing terms for refurbishers was added after my comment, not before.
Microsoft sought restitution of ~$400K but was denied it by the judge: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/15...
Is this really such a bad thing for developing countries ? In India, for instance , powerful people use twitter to call for rape and murder of their opponents regularly and politicians justify rape. These are just a small minority of people -- however they are extra-ordinarily vocal and their "free speech" scares all the decent people.

Of course , Social Credit score has no place in western liberal democracies but maybe Social Credit score is not a bad idea for developing countries where ignorant people outnumber educated people ,where depraved medieval traditions still hold sway.
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There are theaters in Canada that have it, too.
> I mean, yea, you check with your insurer first?

If you're checking with your insurer to find the price, then that makes the hospital's listed prices meaningless, which is the entire point of this comment chain.
> Even in the time travel examples, the code paths unrelated to the ub can't be touched.

Of course they can. UB licenses the program to do anything including re-write any part of itself.
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Why? To me it seems pretty aligned with the "feel" of destructuring.
YouTube killed it's new subscription videos feed a few years ago, it's no longer possible to get a single combined feed of new videos from all channels you're subscribed to. The only alternative is to export the entire subscription list in OPML format (youtube at least provides this) and import them into a feed reader.

I stopped subscribing to channels on YouTube after this and only subscribe in my RSS reader, because it was too difficult to manage synchronizing subscriptions between the two.
Microsoft doesn't provide recovery/restore discs for download. Microsoft provides installation images that require and prompt for a valid product key and license to use the software (except Windows 10).

Most OEM Restore/Recovery media do not prompt the user for a product key. They either have key/license hidden on a recovery partition on the machine, stored in the firmware, or hardcoded on the disc.

It's unclear how his disc worked but what is clear is that he was not a licensed software distributor and did not have the rights to distribute Microsoft's media.

If someone gives away 100 free books, that doesn't give you permission to make copies of their book and sell them with the caveat that only people who received one of the free 100 books could buy them. How is this different?
I’m really confused on what a “counterfeit operating system” would be. The only thing I can think of is some Linux distro made to look like Windows.
I have one of these provided by my employer - spacebar broke within a couple of months.

Also, I kid you not, the 'H' key was not functioning on one in the Regent Street Apple store I was using while waiting for an iPhone battery replacement.

Essentially, you have to avoid getting any detritus on the keyboard of any kind. I no longer eat any snacks or sandwiches at the computer, which is probably a good thing anyway.
`request.statusCode == 200 && { body: {} } || request.statusCode == 404 && 'Not Found' || throw new Error('Something happened')`

This is basically what they could translate into without having if/else or nested ternaries.

I'm not sure if it is much better than either but I like it more.
With renewable energy on the rise, the next major technological hurdle is the so called "Duck Curve" or "Nessie Curve", where Solar Energy drops dramatically after 3:00pm but air-conditioning units need to keep running till well after nightfall.

In short: Renewable Energy is great, but its produced at a time when people don't need it. As such, there have been major investments into energy storage, such as Lithium Ion Batteries, Compressed Air, Pumped Hydro, Redox-Flow, and more.

IceBear is an energy storage tech for the air-conditioner. It runs the air-conditioner when power is plentiful: either at night (when wind energy is strongest) or even during the noon-sun if you've got enough solar panels. Then, the stored ice refrigerates the home for the next 6 hours (commercial unit) or 4 hours (home unit).

Here' is their product sheet for the IceBear 20 (Residential Unit): https://www.ice-energy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ICE-BE...

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Comparisons to the Tesla Powerwall:

* IceBear only works on the air conditioner, while PowerWall works for whole home energy. But PowerWall also needs an inverter + additional equipment, while IceBear simply plugs into existing air conditioning units. Pricing isn't transparent, but it sounds like IceBear is overall cheaper.

* IceBear still needs ~300W to operate to move the stored cold energy to the ducts. It simply reduces the energy usage later in the day, rather than eliminate it.

* IceBear20 is estimated to have ~28kW-hrs of energy storage. PowerWall is 13.5kWhr.
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The author appears to have reinvented Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).

http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf

The (simplified, and as I understand it) gist of concurrency in CSP is that the program is expressed as a series of parallel (PAR) and sequential (SEQ) operations.

Everything in a PAR block will run in parallel and all their outputs will be collected and fed as the input to the next SEQ. Everything in a SEQ will run sequentially as a pipeline until the next PAR. Every PAR must follow a SEQ and vice versa, as two PARS or SEQS next to each other will simply coalesce.

eg.

PAR
longCall1
longCall2
longCall3
SEQ
reduceAllThreeResults
doSomethingWithTheReducedResult
PAR
nextParallelOp1
nextParallelOp2

etc.
Louis Farrakhan. Joy Reid. Hillary Clinton (who once famously called young black males ‘predators.’) Joe Biden, who called Barrack Obama a “clean, articulate” black candidate in contrast to the implied “uncleanliness” of one of the first black presidential candidates, Jesse Jackson.

Then there is the soft bigotry of low expectations that’s famous among the left: “oh, these people are of a certain. race, so we don’t expect them to be able to pass this test or accomplish this goal.”

Bigotry and racism on the left is not as obvious, but I would argue, even more insidious.
I think this is the price Microsoft offers to its largest partners. The defendant wasn't selling direct to consumers, he was selling to used computer dealers, so I think the OEM comparison is decent.

To be clear, I think the overall result here is an despicable perversion of justice, and I think US copyright law desperately needs to be reformed to include a more expansive version of fair use. I'm just explaining the way it works under current law.