skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emergency room costs are less than 10% of the total in the US. A popular, credible figure is 2%.

In any case it's less than 100%. And even if it were 100%, wouldn't transparency provide substantial, concrete benefits?

Really, I'm not sure how "some customers won't shop around" works as an argument against public knowledge of price and quality.
> One of the biggest problems with US health care is that it's usually impossible to find out what treatments will cost before having them.

I've had places laugh and hang up when I asked about pricing and paying cash, while others give me exact figures and a discount for cash. Maybe this law will at least start us down the path of pricing transparency.
/Looks at wind power 1/5th the cost of coal, and still falling

/Looks at batteries 1/5th the cost of what they were 10 years ago, and still falling. Just another 1/2 reduction to being cheaper than an ICE engine

Yeah.... even if this made diesel cleaner than baby smiles I don't think this is going to save diesel.
If that were true, so what?
All professional languages reach C++'s complexity, which probably is not as complex as PL/I or Algol 68W were for their time.

Python is my favourite example to pick up on this.

Target at beginners and deemed as simple, yet I doubt anyone is able to know Python semantics since version 1.0 and by looking at a random codebase is able to state what is the minimum Python version required to run the code without errors.

Also I very much doubt anyone knows Python's library cover to cover.

Languages get complex because real world has complex needs.

Even Go, the new poster child of simplicity, now has quite a few warts, because not everyone doing software like Google.
Or, you know, use DNSSEC.
As long as markets decide who dies there is still hope. When a government decides who does it is absolutely final.
Thanks for taking the time to ask.

My primary concern is that instead of polishing the features that have already been released, the platform is trying to do too many new things. Some of that stuff is cool (k8s monitoring integration, though EEP is too expensive for me, and my Grafana dashboard does basically the same thing), while some of it seems a bit bloated (SAST/DAST for example, which was a few lines of code to implement ourself).

I really want the core Github replacement use-case to be as ergonomic as Github is. And the CI/CD piece is also great, but still has plenty of rough edges (e.g. Environments are a great feature, but I still can't clean up stale ones, which makes the environment list basically useless).

My experience with support has been a bit lackluster; e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897644.

General reliability in CI/CD is not great; I'd say something like 0.25-0.5% of my build jobs fail from intermittent infrastructure failures (mostly gitlab runner/API issues from what I can tell), which wasn't a problem when I was using Jenkins.

Ops is still a significant concern; site reliability has improved in the last year, but that's not saying a lot; it's still a fairly frequent occurrence to get errors during/after a deploy. I'm not sure if this problem would be better or worse if I self-hosted, as I don't know how hard it is to run a GL instance (seems like it's hard, given how often the gitlab.com site has issues).

Performance has also improved in the last year, but the site is still on the slow side (e.g. compared to contenders like gitea).

Oh, and the pricing model is a bit broken -- all of the other SaaS platforms that I use let me pay monthly (at a higher rate); when I was evaluating paying for gitlab.com vs. doing self-hosted EE, I really wanted to pay for my team to use the hosted offering for a few months to see how things went, but I wasn't prepared to lock in for a year, so I didn't end up trying out the hosted paid offering.

None of these points in isolation is enough to make me leave the platform and go back to Jenkins, but they are enough to make me pay close attention to the alternatives.
traffic sucks, people leave their office at 3:30 just to avoid traffic, but _everyone_ is doing it , so they still get stuck in traffic...
Ask HN: What are the resources for web programming?
I am completely new to programming. I don't anything about computer science like Erlich Bachman. I want to change my career to web programming at the age of 30. Please suggest me good resources to start with.
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I would like to thank America for being the world pharma profit center, as well. It is impossible to give away antibiotics for 30 pence a dosage if not for the American paying $50 per tablet.
There is a tectonic plate boundary in Indonesia such that the ocean depth between Asia and Australia is several km below sea level. In fact, the evidence of sharp biogeographical divide between Asia and Australia (Wallace Line) helped establish support for the idea of plate tectonics.

During the minimal sea level, the peninsula of Asia included Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, while Australia included New Guinea, and the sea almost to (but not connected to) Timor. The minor islands of Indonesia (and Sulawesi) remained disconnected from either continent. The resulting gaps, however, would have been smaller: you could have crossed the straits without losing sight of land.
getting it now -- 1023am PST
I wrote a triangular arbitrage bot for cryptocurrencies on Binance, and made like 0.01 ETH with ~0.3 ETH. I think that was just luck though, because all three trades would never go through right away because the price anomaly that caused the arbitrage opportunity would be gone before I could make all three trades. So I ended up holding some sketchy coins that happened to go up relative to ETH before I sold them back.

I used Python and ccxt.
If the only action your AI takes is to hold bitcoin I've been running an AI for many years.

Capital that you can not leverage is a disadvantage.
When I eat certain foods I have to blow my nose. Is that an immune response? Dad also had this problem.
Even if that were true, the greater part of "assessment" is in selecting which "cold, hard, well-known facts" to mention, which not to mention, and what weighting to place on them. The facts don't tell you that. Humans make those choices, and there are infinitely many to choose from.

Your description of how we moderate HN isn't really accurate. When a story is nothing but partisan politics, we may kill the thread—though more often users flag it first—but those are just the easy cases. The difficult cases are when a story is both on topic for HN, like this one, but also has overlap into intensely political areas, like this one. Then our job becomes more fine-grained, trying to support thoughtful, specific discussion and dampen generic flamewars.
This is a good blog post to link to those that actually believe Joy Reid in this case

http://ws-dl.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/2018-04-24-why-we-need-m...
A problem that people have pointed out in the past about cryptocurrency exchange arbitrage is counterparty risk: different prices on different exchanges may be taking into account the possibility that the exchange won't allow withdrawals, will delay the withdrawals, or doesn't have enough assets to satisfy all of its obligations. A large number of cryptocurrency exchanges have defaulted and/or restricted withdrawals in the past. So, an arbitrage strategy might appear very effective yet result in holding cryptocurrency or fiat currency on an exchange that won't allow it to be withdrawn or redeemed as expected.

This could happen because of fraud by the exchange, fraud against the exchange, hacking of the exchange, or regulatory risks where other financial intermediaries stop working with an exchange or regulators threaten to punish an exchange if it processes certain transactions.

Some people have suggested that because arbitrage opportunities are pursued aggressively, most price differences between cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency exchanges that persist are probably mainly due to people taking account of counterparty risk. In that case you could still profit some of the time by betting that a risky exchange will remain solvent, but you might be taking a larger risk than you realize.

Another interpretation is that some apparent cryptocurrency arbitrage opportunities are really opportunities to earn a premium for helping people evade capital controls and other regulatory restrictions on moving money around. For example, there are lots of people in China who would be happy to pay you a premium if you'd accept a payment in China and make a corresponding payment in Canada. In that case you might feel like you're being a clever arbitrageur but you're largely receiving a payment for helping someone circumvent regulations¹.

(The implicit moral opprobrium that might be read there isn't intended, but I think it's interesting to consider how cryptocurrencies can sometimes make people feel very clever when they aren't, in fact, the cleverest ones in the situation!)

(¹ which isn't necessarily unreasonable to describe as arbitrage)
I get compile-time warnings or runtime errors when I create unhandled promises. What more is needed?
“Formal verification” for Rust code -- does that actually exist yet, or do people just hope/assume that the language will be proven consistent and that awesome theorem-checking tools will emerge eventually?

I agree that Rust has a great model that seems to lead to very solid code, but “formal verification” is a high bar to clear.
I realise new buildings are carbon intensive, but does anyone have the knowledge to do a back-of-the-envelope comparison of carbon emissions if these super-commuters were to move in to high-density housing that enabled them to walk or cycle to their jobs.
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This seems like a short-term problem. It would be like saying Netflix doesn't have content worth streaming, besides documentaries. A lot of people originally had this opinion of Netflix streaming services, and over time they fixed it.

Fixing movies is a bit more difficult. It requires in some cases larger and maintained budgets, and possibly even eventual increased subscriptions costs, or new revenue models to sustain it. However, all indications seem to indicate this is a path they are willing to go down.

In terms of quality material though, or gaining knowledge in how to improve it, or updating the interface to highlight bigger must watch films vs smaller films, I don't think this is an unsolvable problem for them.
This misses the point of the article. It's short-sighted to say that he's reinvented CSP given that the entire concurrency model in Go is based around CSP, and the author is already aware of it. The article is more related to RAII, scope, lifetimes, etc. than any model of concurrency.
> Cloudflare blocks Tor users by default

Incorrect. We do not block Tor users by default and we massively changed our handling of Tor a very long time ago.
Fair enough, and Python is a good example, but I'm guessing Scheme and Smalltalk managed to stay relatively simple over time, although I don't know how much of that would be chalked up to lack of mainstream support.
Right now I have one of (or the?) fastest HFT bot on gdax -- I define "fastest" as being on average the first bot to re place maker orders at best when the price moves. With 1 being the first order in line it's currently averaging 1.39 on price changes -- so it gets a ton of matches.

The bot uses a NN for predicting the price. I've been working on it for 3 months and so far the bot is profitable.

If anyone out there is interested in this space I'm looking for a partner. Also open to business offers.

The whole pipeline (data collection, data processing, trading bot, backtesting, model training, etc.) is built on golang, aws, and training with keras.

Shoot me an email [redacted]
I found the domain name funny and interesting. But you're right, it's not the best idea to keep it. I'll find some other name soon :)
> I appreciate (and agree with) your concern for the disabled, but letting the government be in charge is a recipe for making everything worse.

Except we have pretty much the entire developed world's healthcare systems to debunk that claim. They have similar life expectancies, medical outcomes, infant mortality, access to care, wait times, etc. for half the cost.
A nice 8 hour mix with no odd breaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk26FUe38y0
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I found it an interesting idea and writeup. It'd be good to see what could be done in a language that implemented this - concurrency only allowed in the context of nurseries. On the downside, though, I think there's a lot of concurrency patterns that could only be implemented by creating a nursery near the top level of the application and passing it around all over the place, thus getting you pretty much right back where you started.

Want a web app that sets up some long-running thing to run in the background while the request returns quickly? Well then you're going to need a nursery above the level of the request which is still available to every request. I don't see what that gives you above conventional threading. Oh, and you'd also need to implement your own runner in a thread to have a task failure not bring down the whole application.
No, it's been that way long before Oracle took over.

It's because the two projects had different starting goals, and thus attracted different audiences. MySQL was designed to be small and fast, while sacrificing consistency and integrity. Postgres was intended as an enterprise class DB from day one, with the expected robustness, integrity, and feature set. It led MySQL on features for many years, but lagged on speed.

During the .COM boom of the 90's, the flurry of startups cared more about speed and ease-of-use, and were willing to sacrifice consistency. Thus it became the default choice for most open-source projects and web development. Because of this, a whole ecosystem of support and tooling developed around MySQL, which reinforced the industry trend.

As to performance, Postgres has long since bridged that gap. As to ease of setup/config - Postgres was never difficult in the first place. The perceived complexity was due to its more robust feature set and security model. There was certainly more to learn, but honestly, it was never so terribly difficult as some people then and now seem to view it.
Are there any Android launchers out there that water the OS down to the basics? A launcher to kinda simulate what https://www.blloc.com/ and https://www.thelightphone.com/ are doing would be cool.
FWIW, this is also true in Boston. I commute from southern NH to Harvard Sq. every day. Unless you have two substantial incomes, or are ok with sub-par schools and a tiny space, it's hard to live close to most economically dynamic cities.
Wouldn't this be a prime target for new mass transit options?
You are not alone in this.
I've attempted to fight insurance denials. They're pretty final, too.
> Is there a reasonable alternative?

What most other countries are doing: Fund healthcare from tax money.

The middle class will anyway pay for the healthcare of those who can't pay for themselves. In other countries they pay in taxes, in the US they pay for it in their own higher medical bills.

This is a matter of an opinion of course. But most Europeans would opine that the American model is the unreasonable alternative.
AAPL up 1.1%.

Seems the markets already believed Apple would lose this one.
Walking/biking to work is shorter than most imagine
It's worse to have focused productive time on the wrong thing than it is to have meetings that clarify requirements and goals.

I've watched a lot of very highly paid people dive into deeply technical and interesting problems that nobody needed a solution to, and fight to protect their time so they could finish. That wastes more time and money than meetings.
I'm like this too, and I hate it - because it means I can't reliably get those four hour blocks.

Not having a schedule isn't a good thing, it just means that if you're ever in an environment where outside factors become significant (new job, new child), your productivity gets fucked.
Nope.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/about/strat_comm.html
Author didn't mention it but you can then list available fonts with `brew search font-`
It's not Apple's great software. Most of Apple's software is shit (as opposed to 3rd parties who write OSX apps).

It's the fact that it's mostly-decent hardware running a mostly-compliant POSIX OS that looks enough like GNU to make it usable (and compatible with web servers).

If someone, ffs anyone, made a decent, reliable Linux laptop, Apple would lose the dev market in a month.
Thanks for letting me know! I never really thought of that issue :) I will keep that in mind next time.
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I don't think it would really work. Each of those countries developed their versions of healthcare based on the needs of the country at that time. It isn't like those countries were identical in size, population, gdp, etc. and then choose their healthcare scheme on a whime. The U.S. would have to design a plan that would work for the U.S. We are so polarized as a society right now we couldn't plan our way out of a paper bag if we needed to without getting into a fight.

I will admit that I have not read up on those countries healthcare plan but I think it is a lot more complicated than saying lets copy X countries plan. If you made a big change there would be a lot of second and third order effects that we would have to deal with and we may not like those out comes.
These days, HFT mostly relies on buying uninformed flow and avoiding toxic flow. You need low latency but that race to zero is well underway. There's been some decent consolidation purely around gaining access to retail order flow.
So your guy makes $8,957,005,000 daily?
Also from your linked article:

"Getting anything other than true emergency care in an emergency department tends to be an expensive, fragmented way to receive care and should be avoided if any other reasonable alternative is available," Wilensky said.
You're presuming that consumers have the ability of easily making a switch to other healthcare centers. This is divorced from the demographics of healthcare in the USA, because the problem is that the sickest and oldest patients incur by far the most costs. Many of these individuals are unable to get to even their own hospital effectively, never mind doing market research and trying out different centers many more miles away. Simply put, there is far less ability for consumers to choose in healthcare, even if this step by Medicare is one small step in the right direction.

By far, the most sensible system is to have a single-payer, universal healthcare system. Prices can be set nation-wide for drugs, our gov't can bargain and negotiate with providers, and most importantly: healthcare professionals will mostly not operate on a fee-for-service basis, which is a perverse incentive divorced from the Hippocratic oath.
I recently had an opportunity to move out to the Bay Area with my current job (I am currently at a satellite office). The commute time combined with CoL and a few other factors made the decision easy to not go. I currently have a 3 minute commute and I would honestly lose my mind if I had to commute 90 mins one way. I have also been seeing a general rise of articles mentioning how many people are leaving, how insane the commutes are becoming, and general unpleasantness of living there if you aren't in the top 10%.

Don't get me wrong, I fully enjoy the area when I visit but unless there are significant changes I don't see myself ever being able to move there.
Generally people are hesitant with things they are unfamiliar with, it's true, but that's different than being afraid of it. They've learned to ignore Windows error messages, but they were probably once terrified of what they meant (usually nothing, which is why they're ignored). They aren't afraid of Linux, they just don't see any advantage to learning how to deal with it like they did for Windows, and that's because it doesn't really have any.

My thoughts on Linux litter my comment history. Some of it is inflammatory because it really bothers me that no one has built a half-decent alternative to Windows for my own needs, let alone those of all the various use cases out there, but people will insist that they have and then ignore the reasons you give them that they haven't.
Do you have time for a brief, 15 minute interview sometime? I'm a UX Designer and I'm currently developing an app along these lines.
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agree with you on alot of this, but:

> you won't find any Netflix films among them. But the cultural significance of films like La La Land, Star Wars, even the the Fast and the Furious franchise will outlive us all.

You also won't find the 'popular excitement' that is late-night tv guest appearances, supermarket checkout magazines, radio spots, entertainment news, social media 'influencers', and so on, reminding us of the 'significance' of the netflix produced items either..

when hollywood itself is determining what is culturally significant, and neflix is basically a 'rogue studio', this is hardly surprising..

also much less working class/rural/elderly people aren't plugged in to netflix, so you don't have the same level of 'total' market penetration either..
Yes, but I would put housing density above mass transit in efficacy.
What high-density housing?
Thanks for giving credit where it's due and your own work. I note that landru posted a GIF which is ironically much nicer than the video:

https://twitter.com/landru79/status/988807933243863040
My old neighbor in SF and commutes to Cupertino for work. So many people in the company do it, that the company has set up a hotel where employees can sleep if they don't want to head back to SF. His girlfriend is not happy about that arrangement.

Actually when I lived in SF, it took me over an hour to get to work in SOMA. We joke and call the outer Richmond the SF suburbs, because it takes as long to get to downtown from there as from the actual suburbs of most cities.
Needed is a strong word, but what this provides are guarantees when reading the code. Much like you know that control flow will come back to the function you're reading after calling another function. We didn't need to know that control flow will resume in the calling function, but it turned out to be very useful.
I did say if. Macros often aren't the right choice, but there are times when they're appropriate, and on the premise that the new syntax would be good and responsible, it's great to not have the headache of monitoring compatibility tables for 2+ years.

When you get to the scale of enterprise software, though, I'd agree with you that the best thing to do is probably not to allow any macros at all. The inevitable abuse at the hands of inexperienced developers would quickly overtake any gains from more responsible macros without perhaps some clever and/or toilsome code review processes.
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The problem with these questions is that those who talk don’t know and those who know don’t talk. No one who has a working strategy wants to say anything interesting about it in public.
> You need to know the outcomes of those procedures at that facility, compared to other facilities, to have any possible way to judge them.

How about ... both? Knowing "outcomes" AND pricing would allow me to made an educated decision. Lacking one, or the other? Not so much.
So like if you go into a building there are signs that say "Max capacity..." So this is only happening because there is no such department rule that applies to entire cities/counties.
Not just deniers. Gab is full of straight up holocaust apologists. Posts explicitly praising Hitler are frequently near the top.