skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My story is sort of similar too.

Many years ago, I noticed my power bill was around $190 when it should have been closer to $120. I wasn't home for most of that month, and I know I turned off everything I could. I didn't even have the refrigerator running. I talked to my neighbors who had heat and everything on in their apartment and their bill was $110.

I called the power company who said there's nothing wrong and that I need to have someone "look at my apartment." I got another bill for $190, while everyone else's were low $100s. This went on for 6 months. My bills were always $190ish. I had a $190 bill near the end of spring when I just had my windows open for air.

I looked at the meters and found they replaced one meter, which happened to be mine. I called several times asking if they replaced it, that my bills were ridiculous for what I was doing and to look at it.

No word back on anything then my bills went from $190 a month to $15. So instead of saying anything, they just started to cut my bills down for what I overpaid. When I called asking why my bills were lower, they just said because I overpaid my previous months bills. My bills were around $15 a month for close to a year afterwards...

So stupid. They ended up discounting me for a few hundred more than I should have been, but I had to cut a few things out of my budget just to pay for something I wasn't using, but needed.
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Nah, I think Google has documented my integrity well enough to make that a non-starter :)
eh in germany driving the ambulance is free - if you really need one. of course there are people who call the ambulance without too much reasons and even than as long as the amublance doctor will allow you to take the drive to the hospital you would still be on the safe side.
I wonder why people run slack stand-alone. I run it as a pinned tab in my browser and with browser notifications it works great. Very few issues running it this way and performance seems good.
It's not possible to make a web-based email client that speaks to the IMAP/SMTP server directly. Only a "native" (electron can do this) client can use those protocols.
Lovely... but works in < 90% of browsers [0], so it's kind of for academic consideration only for now.

[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid
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No other industry entirely hides the end price you'll pay, or even an estimate, until after you have gone through the service. It's a sad state of affairs but not something we have to be stuck with; most of the time we could get these numbers ahead of time.

ER visits are difficult in their own ways; you can be brought in unconscious and go through treatment you can't agree to, you can be close to death and the time it takes to check costs could impact if you live or not. This means you'd want to do something like fixed costs for these services but with good medical coverage for everyone those fixed costs could be what people do in place of insurance.

I don't have an answer other than universal healthcare. There are reasons that this can't happen at the moment and it's still difficult to implement in a way that works across the board. This is a hard problem and will take a lot of effort to get right
> it's plain falacious bullshit.

fallacious
it does, if you take the ride and are allowed (if you are healthy you probably need to pay) to take the ride.
I doubt it, hospitals were already required to make those prices available, the change is that they have to make them available on the internet.

While hospitals are already required under guidelines developed by CMS to either make publicly available a list of their standard charges, or their policies for allowing the public to view a list of those charges upon request, CMS is updating its guidelines to specifically require that hospitals post this information. The agency is also seeking comment on what price transparency information stakeholders would find most useful and how best to help hospitals create patient-friendly interfaces to make it easier for consumers to access relevant health care data so they can more readily compare providers.

One reason to doubt it is that an awful lot of people live within reasonable distance of 1 hospital, and almost everyone else lives near busy hospitals.
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It’s predicated on the HMO model where you pay a copay and your insurance company negotiates the rates. Under the guise of consumer choice insurance companies have expanded copays and coinsurance to shift the burden to the insured. Out of network Hospitals and doctors balance billing needs to be outlawed. They should only be able to balance bill up to the Medicaid rate.
Wow if accounting/finance can't find that level of embezzlement the CIO is the least of their problems.
Hospital corporations and insurance corporations are not your friend.

You shouldn't have to do this in a first world country, but:

* Go to the ER without ID

* (optional) Ask how much it will cost

* (optional) They do not give prices, as a matter of policy

* They must treat you by law

* Afterwards, offer a cash payment you deem reasonable

* They will accept or decline it

Transaction complete.

For non-emergency care and prescriptions, get cash quotes up front, pay in cash, and order discount online prescriptions from canada, a first world country.

For chronic medical conditions, leave the US and immigrate to a first world country.
Consider Dovecot's mdbox maybe?
“Brainwashed” is a bit harsh. We put up with this because it’s necessary to work within the constraints of the system.
The start of the release notes sounds like the start of an infomercial ;)

"Are you tired of your existing compilers?
Want fresh new language features and better optimizations?
Make your day with the new GCC 8.1!"
Most devs going into management need to spend less time coding and more time communicating. Another thing is I've found doing testing is a good way to see the quality of what people are doing.

A big thing about management is knowing how to keep people engaged and motivated, with freedom to be creative but enough oversight so they're kept on track and not lost. You'll have to experiment with this. Also importantly different people need different guidance, so the experienced old hand needs little advice just steer them in the right direction, where the new guy needs daily help.
This isn't at all accurate.

There was no treatment for his condition beyond palliative care. He was on life support for the rest of his life, no matter what anyone did.

His doctors, whose duty is to the patient, determined that it was more harmful to artificially keep him "alive" (he was in a semi-vegetative state due to serious brain damage) than to disconnect his life support and allow him to die.

The offer of "care" in another country (the Vatican) was simply palliative care: they intended to simply keep him alive on life support indefinitely. There was no treatment for his condition.

His doctors, quite rightly, concluded that transport to another country would do him no good and would instead cause more harm.

The court case was between his doctors and his parents. The UK government had absolutely nothing to do with it.
"There's profit in confusion."
>Patients can face steep bills even when they didn’t receive treatment.

how come people receive bills without treatment? Honestly, I just don't get it. No treatment, no bills.
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I believe this is the fundamental issue, from Amazons PoV: this altruistic project with nice goals is abusing a network nuance, but most other actors using this capability are likely to be bad actors.

I don't think Amazons reasoning was "oh, lets help dictators dictate", but more "hey, isn't this a potential security hole ripe for abuse that would make us look incompetent?".
I don't understand your reasoning.

In my opinion, classnames should say what the HTML element represents, and a stylesheet contains the definitions for styling and sizing.

Your HTML should not include information about the size of an element. Your HTML document should represent the content & structure of your document. Your stylesheet is then responsible for layout, design, color and dimensions.

It is all about semantics. See: https://maintainablecss.com/chapters/semantics/

By writing the column sizes in the HTML, you're effectively reinventing inline styles
I agree completely, although I highly suspect we would refer to different "sides" as the ones intent on "breaking government".
Seems to be a proprietary application so app privacy went out the window already.
Sounds much less hardwarey
Would love to be able to self host this though and access it through the browser... That'd be awesome.
I have never seen this “parallel IC track” work well. Basically the problem is, it is dramatically harder to advance on the IC track than on manager track. A demigod of compilers could easily be making less than a director, and there are a lot more directors than “demigod” ICs. After some point, the atmosphere becomes so rarefied and criteria so fuzzy that most people would be much better off in terms of both money and organizational influence if they just bit the bullet and became managers earlier. It’s a different job, to be sure, but it’s not actually that hard once you focus on it and emphasize the people aspect of it.

So my advice to those considering the switch is: if you are motivated by money and influence, management is basically the only option to advance without killing yourself. If you are motivated by technical challenges and couldn’t care less about the “people” stuff, however, be an IC, with the understanding that your growth will stall well before that of your former peers who went into management.
IBM awarded a further $36.5M to 'stabilize' failed Phoenix pay system
True, and someone who is a great salesperson probably has skills that are optimized for the context of sales. But another aspect of getting promoted is that a person is given oversight of new kinds of activities, where teams work with different cultures and different rules. I've seen some sales manager succeed by being bullies to their sales team. But I think it is a disaster when someone attempts to bully a tech team. So what works in one context fails in another context. I've tried to describe this previously:

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Every industry has certain euphemisms for the least savory aspects of its business. In sales, there is the secretly ugly phrase, “goal-oriented.” That sounds pleasant, doesn’t it? If I point at a woman and I say, “That entrepreneur is goal-oriented,” then you probably think I am complimenting her. But if I point at her and say, “That entrepreneur is a lying, manipulative, soulless psychopath who brutally exploits labor from the eleven-year-olds she employs in her sweatshops in Indonesia,” then you probably think I am insulting her, unless you are a libertarian. And yet both statements mean about the same thing: that she is someone who is willing to do whatever is necessary to ensure the success of her business.

When I read about Milburn online, I’d seen testimonials from his colleagues in which he was often described as a goal-oriented salesperson. That probably meant that he was a master of manipulating other people’s emotions. He knew all the tricks: praise, shame, laughter, anger, promises, guilt, threats.

Whether his use of these tools was conscious or unconscious is, of course, unknowable. But it doesn’t matter much. A lifetime as a sales professional left him with an arsenal of psychological ploys that had become second nature to him.

...Milburn truly had a genius for the strategic use of anger. If he sensed the risk of losing control of the conversation, he would indulge in another outburst. If I were to ever switch over to the Dark Side, I would want to study with him. His techniques were fundamentally dishonest and manipulative, but that is probably what made him so good at sales. And his tactics were probably an effective way to drive a sales team, but I sincerely believed that such tactics were the wrong way to run a software development team. Especially when doing something cutting-edge original, like we were doing, I think open and honest communications were extremely important. (I have worked with many companies where the sales team was both friendly and successful. One does not need to use abusive tactics to have success in sales. Indeed, the sales manager who relies on abuse is typically more interested in aggrandizing their own success, rather than the success of the company they work for.)

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
I recently had a spot appear in my vision. Went to my GP same day, the receptionist called around to get me into a local optometrist who determined it was a detached retina, she called and got me into the local hospital as an emergency case. It was busy but I got my first treatment that evening.

The entire journey, my green OHIP card was all I needed, no insurance forms, no pre-approvals, no extra charges. 5 hospital visits with 3 treatments so far.

I'm flabbergasted when I talk to American friends and family and they all seem to think two things:

1. Canadian health care "is terrible, people die waiting in emergency rooms"
2. The US system is by far the best and that's why it's so expensive
Do you mean "rump kernels" or "Rumprun kernel"?

The former is a set of kernel libraries derived from NetBSD, and the latter is a Unikernel built based on the former. gVisor is different in a couple of ways: 1) gVisor is written from scratch using Go for its memory and type safety; 2) gVisor tends to be compatible with Linux which most people use. In theory, gVisor can be restructured as a Unikernel, but we still like to pertain the ring privilege boundary for additional isolation. We are working on an academic paper which will have more details.

I work on gVisor (TL/M and Co-Founder).
> only a custom app like Signal can perform domain fronting.

Or curl, or openssl s_client. I'm still trying to understand domain fronting, and exactly what is being disallowed now. Do all of my CDN requests have to have identical Host headers and TLS server name indicators now? What if they're mismatched? Does the TLS handshake still succeed, and the traffic just doesn't get passed through the CDN server?
> (1) This is hardly a strong security model. Proper security cannot be guaranteed by simply hooking API calls in user-space alone.

The thing you're talking about is not a security model, it is a (reliable) mechanism that can be used in the implementation of security models.

> (2) With this framework in mind, developers now need to worry about yet another layer of indirection. Assume <application> was tested to work on Ubuntu, that fact alone is not sufficient to assume it will keep running under gVisor.

This is true of existing container technologies. An application running under Ubuntu on bare hardware will potentially not run in an Ubuntu Docker image. You'll need to test it extensively.

> (4) This is strongly coupled with internal Kernel implementations. It will not be easy to port and maintain this across different Kernels.

I don't understand this—gVisor is a userspace application and is not itself tied to kernel implementations the way a kernel module would be. The interface gVisor exposes is the Linux syscall ABI, which is the thing Linux tries very hard to hold stable. There are multiple production reimplementations of this ABI (Windows Subsystem for Linux, FreeBSD's Linuxulator, Solaris's branded zones). You'll need to add new features if you want them, of course, but holding at a specific emulated kernel version is totally fine.

> From user-space? hold my beer.

ptrace (with PTRACE_O_EXITKILL from kernel 3.8+) is designed to be reliable for this.

Also, if you don't trust it, just set everything to SECCOMP_RET_TRACE, which kills the process if there is no ptracer.
Maybe that adapter gets so popular that a phone designer comes up with the revolutionary idea of integrating it into the phone itself.

Those who were around during the days of early 'home computers' - think Commodore bread boxes, Sinclair door stops etc - might remember the evolution from those devices which generally lived in a jungle of cords emenating from their sides and backs, connecting them to power supplies and peripherals to the more streamlined versions which came later - Commodore 128D, Amstrad all-in-ones, various species of MSX and yes, the original Apple Macintosh - which had most of the essentials built-in. Having one of those on your desk really separated you from the plebs who still lived in the jungle.

Apple seems to have forgotten that part of its heritage.
2 is hypothetical as none of the fronts are doing this, and even if a front "could" that doesn't matter as the fronts in question do not. We can agree that if this was happening then it would be an issue.

3 seems just wrong. Where does the DNS lookup take place? Why would the fronting server look up the SNI entry?

Are you 100% confirming that the encryption takes place using Souq's cert? Obviously it isn't going to display in a browser, but I'd wonder if there was something else you could do with it.
My personal opinion is that this should be illegal. Prices for the same treatment should be equal regardless of patient or insurer. The insurance repayment policies could differ, but at least the base pay won't seem completely made up.

Disclaimer: I only lived in the US for a year.
I grew up on the coasts and for a long time would have believed that. People might hate the system but they will comply and work within it.

Living in the midwest has changed my mind, here people need the system to be true because it is the basis for their entire way of seeing the world. They listen to Rush adn to Fox News...and they accept it at a philisophical level. They rely on being told it because otherwise they would have to confront a lot of realities all at once. I don't see brainwashed as a slight, I see it as said with compassion and sadness.
I think one side has explicitly stated it as their goal, hasn't it?
Why is that preferred for you, may I ask, over running it as a local desktop software?
An small library for viewing static HTML is nothing compared to a virtual machine and dynamic rendering engine constantly causing unnecessarily high demand on memory, CPU and battery.
How delivery speed scales – is red tape really that bad?
Hehe, or, they will will get replaced as soon as they learn enough to find a better paying position.
It’s really a triple choice: 1. Shirtfront the stupidity
2. Build the relationship
3. Avoid the whole thing and work with people who are on the same wavelength
Cool new/improved warnings:

> The -Wrestrict option introduced in GCC 7 has been enhanced to detect many more instances of overlapping accesses to objects via restrict-qualified arguments to standard memory and string manipulation functions such as memcpy and strcpy.

> The -Wold-style-cast diagnostic can now emit fix-it hints telling you when you can use a static_cast, const_cast, or reinterpret_cast.
But why is it a crutch for me to use a password manager? What's my non-crutch alternative?
Why should stitches be free? Of course they arent, its being paid for under your country’s healthcare model. The cost is harder to see to the individual but its there. I’m all for universal healthcare but comparisons like this are deceiving.
That was in response to the claim that if C has a feature, it "probably exists in every language most programmers are familiar with".

"Most programmers" are not familiar with these. (A bit sad in the case of Modula-2).
The hospital can’t turn you down if you walk in with a medical emergency but they will charge you for it and if you don’t pay they’ll only patch you up until you’re no longer an emergency.
There is a big difference between a VC firm offering services like recruiting, technical support, etc. to portfolio companies and Partner 1 is partners in a side business with his old college buddy and post-funding, Partner 1 says, "Use this firm to do XYZ". There are a couple of issues, but for most, especially first-time founders, VCs on your board, especially the lead, has a disproportionate amount of influence over a CEO. Secondly, Partner 1 should disclose this to his own VC fund / LPs; it's like any other conflict of interest disclosure you would make at any other job.

I haven't heard of this type of issue, more often it's use this law firm or recruiter or whatnot. Oftentimes they have relationships, get discounts, dinners / perks, etc. It's along the same lines as the $2,000 post-close dinner / night out many VCs come to expect.
The individual markets were already a mess.
That may be the case in an "emergency" that threatens your life. But if you come to the ER with something that doesn't fall into that category? Something life changing like a detached tendon in your hand that will* render your hand permanently useless for life if not fixed within a few days? No insurance? Fork over 50% of the cost of the surgery, upfront, before they'll do anything about it. (this happened to somebody I know)
BBC's Cunk on Britain. Diane Morgan's brilliant faux naif character - Philomena Cunk - quizzes experts on various topics. If you liked the Ali G spoof interviews with various celebs you'll love this. Look for the Brian Cox interview on YoutTube. If you like it, head for iPlayer...
If you have network access early enough in the install and/or boot processes could you not pluck some random bits from a web service to pump more entropy into the RNG's pool?

For paranoia you could host your own fairly easily instead of using a public one: have a machine that is publicly visible respond with random digits from its own entropy pool, have it use one or more of various methods to keep that pool topped up (local interrupt timings, a hardware RNG, ...), use request hashing with a "secret" key if you are worried about the general public draining your entropy pool or available bandwidth.

And if it can't see the entropy service for any reason (it is booting in an environment where the rest of the network is completely cut off, or perhaps the entropy service is down) then fall back to just doing what-ever is done now.
Also just learned about Agoo. Great to see progress in this area:)