skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were briefly a mess, while insurers worked out the numbers - what to charge, how many young healthy folks would take the penalty, etc.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/obamacare-health-insurers-se...

> That report instead finds that the Obamacare market has continued "stabilizing," and that insurers are "regaining profitability" despite continued political uncertainty over the health-care law.

For a bit of anecdotal data, my premiums went up 2% last year, after 17% the previous year. I also got a $500 refund as they'd exceeded the 20% non-medical costs cap.
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The embassy in Benghazi was mostly there to operate a gun/weapons running operation involving Khaddafy's (Quadaffi's hell if I know) former arsenal through Egypt and into Syria and elsewhere. The people that did all this have massive, massive blood on their hands. Do I even need to say the Clintons and their "Foundation" are neck deep in the blood?
You didnt ask, but the main disadvantage is that they dont support new language constructs as fast as the standard Go compiler.
Accounting is in on it. Everything they do here is cooking the books. They give the auditors doctored spreadsheets for everything.

It's pretty funny to me. I don't give a shit because I'm just riding this out until I have to get something else or I get a few more clients for my startup.

Oh, everyone's 401k got stolen by a friend of the CEO's kid. So that was nice.
It's funny that guy would say that because, because of the wars the USA and its greatest ally begin, we have to deal with millions of economic immigrants now, which are seriously hamstringing our system. So I'd say it's kinda the opposite
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Your statement makes no sense. You can decline to participate in the current system. And there are so many ways healthcare could be better in non-life-threatening situations.
The normal Uber workplace is the office where the app is developed, drivers never visit so they are not part of the normal work place. That argument or some other one that is equally dumb on it's face but might work in a court of law
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I cannot get over how odd "in network" is for everyone outside the united states. For emergencies we all just go to the nearest hospital. They see us. They treat us. Or they stabilize us and discuss whether we should transfer to another hospital for better/faster treatment. There is no discussion of in or out of networks.

Stories like this make me very happy that I no longer live in the US. The constant fear of a surprise medical bill is a stress I don't need.
> Electron would be a deal breaker - but I'm weird

Guess I'm weird too.
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Nice! I haven't seen these before. There's also a brand of puzzles called Schmuzzles that are based on an escher lizard and tile. I would say the difference between these and our torus-based puzzles is that they employ a tessellation cut with repetitive piece shapes such that the image is guiding the construction (as all pieces fit in all places). In our puzzles, each piece only goes one place as they each have a unique shape. Our Klein Bottle and Cross-cap puzzles is are a new idea (to the best of my knowledge).
If you mean this, it's written in C++ https://desktop.telegram.org/

If you mean this, it's written in Swift https://macos.telegram.org/
Before you get too excited about possible performance wins, note that gccgo turns out to be much slower than gc (the standard Go compiler) on a lot of real workloads. Here's one such benchmark, taken recently, though it's admittedly a microbenchmark [0]. Dave Cheney found similar results, though quite a while ago [1].

gccgo didn't support escape analysis for quite a long time, which meant that the performance cost of the increased heap allocations absolutely dwarfed whatever performance gain you got from GCC's smarter optimizations. I think it's recently gained support for escape analysis—it's actually quite difficult to find information about this, and whether you need a compiler flag to enable it, etc.—but I don't think that's going to tip the performance scales in gccgo's favor. EDIT: See below: 8.1 ships on-by-default escape analysis!

The primary motivations for gccgo, at least to my understanding, were a) having a second reference implementation that could find bugs in gc and the language specification, and b) support for esoteric platforms that will likely never make it into gc. The announcement of gccgo has more information about its motivation, though it makes some claims about performance that haven't stood the test of time [2].

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/mjTmIkWKZ6...

[1]: https://dave.cheney.net/2013/11/19/benchmarking-go-1-2rc5-vs...

[2]: https://blog.golang.org/gccgo-in-gcc-471
Yeah, they are easy to repair, but I think the main point is that they are plentiful. I don't think a few little projects like this are going to put a dent in the overall market supply.

At least, I hope they don't.
Thanks for the response. This is exactly where I want to go, I just need to clear existing debt first.
The San Diego county government reports that mosquitoes are an issue in Southern California, including near the ocean, and specifically including aedes: https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/deh/Vector/pd... Similarly in other socal counties https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20...

Maybe your diet/genetics/clothing choices are just not as attractive to the mosquitoes in your area - I've seen huge differences in mosquito attention between individuals within a group.

It's also typical that reaction to mosquito bites decreases with age after adolescence (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2571626) so maybe you moved as your reaction to mosquito bites disappeared (and maybe you can visit home again).
I have seen more technical damage done by nice and competent people deferring to bullies in the workplace than by legitimate disagreements expressed passionately.
GP made the claim that 63% of SF is renters. While you are correct that there are those who wish they had a vote who cannot, the power is actually in the hands of current renters if they would vote.

This assumes that the claim that 63% of SF is renters is correct. I don't know the truth of that.
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Yes, prices in the USA seem totally out of control.

I pay a significant amount in the UK in tax towards the NHS ( I think about £7500 a year of my tax goes towards it) but that's nothing like what I'd pay in the USA.

It's not just the system there that is poor, it's how expensive it is in addition.
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On the topic of structure, I think it's also vital in building an effective culture. Culture is important to retention; especially for those veterans with lots of valuable, day-one knowledge. Without some kind of belief structure that keeps existing workers and new hires on the same page, how can you possibly work toward the same goal effectively?
Yes, the cost is there, but it's much lower per treatment. Mainly because the medical/insurance complex makes less money off healthcare.
It's just the BS you sell when your cronies first get rich by supplying the military and then get rich again by supplying the rebuild. The destruction and lives lost are externalized costs of doing business. And terrorism is big business for those guys.
While I don't dispute that this article lists good knowledge to have, I don't think it qualifies as useful career advice (which seems to be the intention).

Want to stand out in web development? Specialize in something useful that few other people are. The best way to do that is to learn some technology that all your peers hate.

"Pfft Java? Nobody uses Java anymore, you should learn Vue.js instead it's the new hotness" + "Companies are still hiring Java programmers" -> Learn Java, the herd is going away from it but the demand is still there.
Registration opens May 8th.

I went through a few of the registrars and got error messages that the TLD wasn’t supported.

Godaddy of course has a solidly gouging pre-registration price.

Set an alarm to park park park.

Edit: Godaddy isn’t straight up gouging. Seems like dictionary words are much more expensive than made up words or non-dictionary brand names.

Name.com somehow has a “buy it now” option in the 10k+ range. Curious how that works.
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Should healthcare be a for-profit venture?
May be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10669131
The last "practical" environment that was really batteries included, as far as I can tell, was Macromedia Flash. It lives on as Haxe, the FlashDevelop IDE feels like a blast from the past (it feels so lightweight!) and it supports quite a few platforms (web, mobile, etc). But it's awfully niche now.
> into thinking paying ~$450 / month per adult for basic health insurance with high deductibles is a bargain because it "saves" them from $100,000+ hospital bills in an emergency scenario

It is, though. Insurance is expensive, but it's not a scam. That money tends to go mostly for care, overall. Someone has to pay it.

It's true that on the whole, the US tends to overpay for care and that other systems tend to get similar results for less cost. But that's a constant factor on the insurance payment.

Obviously many of us think making this an individual burden is a bad idea: obviously it's regressive and burdensome for the bottom of the income distribution, and more subtly it's a moral hazard for the healthy, who are tempted to forego insurance figuring that they don't need it and thus pushing the cost of providing care disproportionately onto the sick and the elderly.

But again, someone has to pay it. There's no magic wand here that makes health care cheap or free. Health care is expensive, someone's got to write that check.

> In 2017 I had to spend thousands of dollars in tax penalties for not having insurance. Welcome to the US!

Because someone has to pay it, and you didn't!
Not using that data also makes the ads expierence for people significantly worse.

And I prefer seeing good ads over bad ones
It's safe to assume Kara wrote this article.
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That may be changing soon: https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/practice-management...
The GDPR applies to people in the EU. You don't have to be an EU citizen.
For example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/us/no-savings-found-in-fl...

> Because the Florida law requires that applicants who pass the test be reimbursed for the cost, an average of $30, the cost to the state was $118,140. This is more than would have been paid out in benefits to the people who failed the test, Mr. Newton said. As a result, the testing cost the government an extra $45,780, he said.
Nice! This has a ton of potential and I really like the way that you've approached things here.

Does the calendar sync up to the various calendar providers (Google, Apple, etc) as well?
Shouldn't most of these be standard skills that a web developer should know? I think _not_ knowing these things would make you stand out more than if you knew them (albeit, negatively). Perhaps I'm missing something...
Looks like they solved those issues in 8.1

GCC 8 provides a complete implementation of the Go 1.10.1 user packages.
The garbage collector is now fully concurrent. As before, values stored on the stack are scanned conservatively, but value stored in the heap are scanned precisely.
Escape analysis is fully implemented and enabled by default in the Go frontend. This significantly reduces the number of heap allocations by allocating values on the stack instead.
> When calloc return value is not stored (or used), how could it be accessed or even freed at all? I think compiler is right to remove whole call.

The calloc return value _is_ used, to calculate the return value.
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That doesn't really excuse the political cowardice of undermining the system while leaving most of it in place.

I guess we are pretty screwed though, there's no willingness to prop up the buy side of the market and no willingness to make regulatory changes that would negatively impact incumbents on the sell side.

(the fair, "market based" approach to decreasing medical costs in the US is to dramatically increase the number of doctors and mid-level providers).
UK courts have had judicial independence since the Act of Settlement. Governments don't appoint judges - now via an independent panel since the Blair govt abolished the Lord Chancellor, but even then govts didn't have influence or appointing powers.

The courts quite often upset UK governments (of whichever party) when they strike down bad laws via judicial review, or by finding some aspect of government policy illegal.
Sounds like DO is going to have the cheapest k8s service out there!
Sorry but neither the article nor the subject can be said to pique "intellectual curiosity".

Working hard and winning an unheard of competition? Yeah very fascinating.

Understand that anyone can rewrite their past to draw out a cock and bull story of succeeding against all odds. Want to hear mine? This is fairly banal. A narrative like this is best reserved for people who succeed in affecting something bigger than themselves or are at the very top of their profession.
Dying while waiting is just a stupid argument based on a distant truth. You do wait considerably longer for non-life threatening procedures in Canada than you do in the US. That's the big sell of a medical system that cost 2 to 3 times yours. Hair transplants require less waiting.
My hypothesis is that salespeople do best without strong managers. So when a poor-performing salesperson becomes a manager, the sales team is forced to step up to the plate and give it their all because the manager isn't carrying the team. But when a high performing salesperson becomes a manager, the team rests on the manager's performance and individual effort decreases.
That sounds a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job#Plot
> How do lawmakers in the USA convince people that this is acceptable?

They don't; it's a lot easier to channel blame for the problem in the wrong direction than to sell the system as acceptable, so that's what they do.
Sure, but it's that risk/reward pendulum that determines Hollywood's "original" output, and BHC here is a good reminder that what can be perceived to be very original to us the audience can still fit well known genres/forms that Hollywood studios may not perceive to be a risk.

It's also maybe an reminder that Hollywood can only bottle that Lightning every so often. "It's a standard buddy cop film, but with Eddie Murphy, so it's the first funny buddy cop film," only really works once.
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“It's because most people in the US are brainwashed (note: I live in the US) into thinking paying ~$450 / month per adult for basic health insurance with high deductibles is a bargain because it "saves" them from $100,000+ hospital bills in an emergency scenario.”

What are the other options? Most dont choose their health insurance based on belief in one system or another.

I agree there are plenty in the midwest, with conservative views, who believe in conservatism to unhealthy levels, no thanks to the crack pots they listen to on the radio.

The only person I’ve heard who felt the american healthcare system was the best in te world was in a speech by GW Bush. His speech was answered with silence because the audience was in such shock.
Great, I'll try those.
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I'm not a lawyer either. You make a good argument. If anyone wants to try it, be prepared for a long, expensive court battle with many appeals. There are many other arguments and I don't think the law is clear enough.
I've never met anyone (of either party) who thinks that stories like this are acceptable. The issue, as always, is how do we fix it? Pointing to European democracies merely shows that it can be done, it doesn't necessarily offer a blueprint for how to make it happen in a country with very different size and culture.

Bernie Sanders' "medicare for all" is the plan I've seen get the most support. If we got single payer healthcare, it would probably happen that way. It would cost $1.4 trillion per year[1], which is more than everything the government currently spends outside of entitlement programs. Adding this much spending without raising revenue would more than double the annual deficit.

"Tax the rich to pay for it," Bernie says! Okay, sounds good. His supporters will point to how the top marginal tax rate in the 1950s was 91%[2], and everything was great during that post-war boom. Here's the problem: regardless of the tax laws or rates, the US federal tax revenue has always been 15-20% of GDP[3] (we are currently at 17.3% of GDP). This figure has not changed since 1945, even as the tax law has been wildly changed many times over. That's not to say that nothing can ever change this figure -- it is different in other countries after all. But numerous attempts to change it by manipulating marginal tax rates have failed, and there's no reason to think that Bernie's tax-the-rich plan will do any better.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/news/economy/sanders-medicar...

[2] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law
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The thing that also confuses me about your insurance is that it doesn't even seem to cover the whole amount? I mean what the fuck.
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Without seeing the ferrule to ferrule contact it's hard to say if the termination is really dirty. Yes the jacket is dirty. What they have done that is a cardinal sin is running the fiber between equipment through the center of a rack rather than around or above.

I hope whoever installed that has a good cletop, fiber scope, set of ferrule sleeve cleaning swabs, push click cleaning tool.

Also hard to say if it's dirty or bad without seeing the back/internal side of that patch panel. Knowing city governments it could be anything from a dreadful mechanical splice to a perfectly done core alignment fusion splicer with 0.01 loss.
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I think you'd be surprised what is left out when people come from unconventional backgrounds.
Yeah, they write it off as a bad debt then you end up with it on your credit report for 7.5 years. Good call.
They may be labeled as ads, but they still appear at the top of the search results as if they were search results. The only difference is that there's a small word with the url line that says "ad"; otherwise looks exactly the same as the results. Having ads presented in such a way I choose to interpret that as breaking that promise. Especially considering with an ad blocker the Google experience feels much different.
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One of these skills is apparently "making a website that's completely blank on my phone" (FF for Android with uBlock Origin).
> your 90 day password expiration rotation schemes

Those scenarios are almost always a bad employer policy, in which case it's their data the password is protecting.
Adding to this: learn soft skills:

- check yourself before blaming others, it might eventually be an issue in your code

- beware of premature optimization. Spend that time on defensive code, comments and tests. Optimize based on measurements, not feelings

- take notes when getting tasks and make sure you don’t miss anything

- ask questions when stuck but don’t ask things before at least googling them once

- under promise and over deliver

- be nice and never argumentative

- be humble when getting criticism and be merciful when giving one

- count to ten before sending an angry / escalation email

- understand that some people need to have things explained to them slowly and more than once, be patient

- have some backbone eg, if your manager is wrong, tell them (in private!) but accept if they don’t agree, they have the final word.

- be proactive and communacte your status and plans even if not asked to

- don’t work yourself to death, have limits
The Planck results are really the most problematic, so we will see if that changes over time.
iab is the "thing" that somehow standardized banner dimensions and file sizes in the 90s.

they do have some good standards, that focused on user privacy, which are abandoned by now. mostly they spend the 2000s trying to standardise hit-the-monkey rich media banners and were widely ignored while google stole all Ad money by dictating the direction they wanted instead (and thanks to that period every site in the world snitch you to google analytics)

now iab is trying to lead how Ads will confirm the publisher secured gdpr consent. but again google is already on their own thing.
> While hospitals are already required under guidelines developed by CMS to either make publicly available a list of their standard charges...

This requirement is useless, though. The "standard charges" don't reflect reality. My wife receives regular infusions in an infusion center. They bill $3k to insurance each time. Insurance pays about $400, which the hospital happily accepts. That $3k number is what an uninsured patient would be asked to pay, and it's the number they'll list as the standard charge, but it's complete, invented bullshit.
I have Chrome users for browsing, personal email, work email and Slack. I had Slack in a separate Chrome window, in a pinned tab. I noticed that changing to my communications space was slow. By eliminating windows one-by-one, I discovered, the culprit was the Slack pinned tab. I tried the Slack standalone app instead, and that slowness is gone. I can't explain why, but the standalone native app may actually perform better. I think it's worth checking out.
Thanks.. Have added it.
Never heard of that last one, sounds amazing.
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Most people wouldn't care unless there was a performance difference between the two.