skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't even begin to imagine what that must be like. How do you resist such temptation is beyond me.
Glad I moved that place sucks.
The costs are not made clear to the consumer. Usually how it works in the US is you give your insurance information to the pharmacy, then then the pharmacy tells you how much you have to pay. You may be told what portion the insurance paid, but that’s a portion of a cost the insurance company negotiated. You aren’t told what it would have cost if the insurance was never involved.
> You can take better pictures with consumer film cameras from the forties.

That's not exactly a fair comparison. In a film camera, you're essentially replacing the "sensor" every time you add a new roll. '40s film (largely) has terrible dynamic range (far worse than an upmarket smartphone camera), is incredibly noisy under conditions smartphones can handle gracefully. Color film compatible with common cameras had only existed since 1930, and it remained disappointing well into the '70s.
I just listened to Dan Carlin's "Destroyer of Worlds" [1] podcast episode, and it was very enlightening. I was modestly familiar with nuclear history, but still learned a lot from this episode.

[1] https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-...
The scroll is quite frustrating on mobile.
What trick are you talking about? iamleppert's scenario doesn't mention any trick used by a founder or recruiter.
It’s explained in the article. PBMs are responsible for the raised prices.

Which, by the way, is absurd to me as an American. I think at this point most Americans agree there are major flaws in our system, it’s just a disagreement about how to fix it.
Odd. Can't they verify the prescription with the prescribing doctor, and verify your state issued ID? I personally haven't had this issue with Walgreens (but I get a lot of medicines through them, and only controlled substances I've filled were small dosage Norco post-surgery)
> "what happens to the people who bought this image before"

The people who bought it before still have a valid contract that allows them to use the image, so there's no way you can get exclusive rights to an image that others have already been granted rights to use.

If you want exclusive rights to an image, you'll need to get a unique image created for you, which will probably cost you much more than licensing a stock image (since the creator will only be able to get money for their work once).

> Should I just add the unregistered trademark™ symbol somewhere near this image and site name?

I doubt that you can claim an image that you don't own as your trademark.
To some extend. In a way, it’s really heartening that there’s enough of these people that I can keep reading about new ones over the course of my life.
First, forget about netsec or cyber security. It's too niche of a field and usually it's usually seasoned programmers that transition to security. There's little for junior people.

If you think you have aptitude, sign up with https://www.hackerone.com/start-hacking, start finding vulnerabilities, get paid for them. After finding a few vulnerabilities, it'll be so much easier to get a job.

But if you want a high probability of getting a job as a programmer, do https://lambdaschool.com/.

It's an intensive, 6 month, full-time programming education.

The best part: you don't pay unless you get a programming job that pays $50k or more.
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The nuclear armed forces and its supporting structure sure is a scary place.

Working with making new weapons capable of little else but genocide is not for those who think too much about the ethics of engineering.
You can divide whatever enthusiasm you have by three for me.

The content in Europe is woeful compared to the US.
Yes, imposing a schema on arbitrary spreadsheet data absolutely fixes typing errors like this.

It also produces a tool that has the semantics of a formal database and not a "spreadsheet", so none of the biologists in question are going to use it, being biologists and not programmers. We can't fix this with tools. Like the article said, proper scientific rigor is really the only solution.

In some fields (e.g. physics), computation is so fundamental to the research that practitioners are basically computer scientists. We aren't there yet in genetics, nor do we really want to be.
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I'm really interested in a modern version of the Tandy Model 100/200 - Small and portable with a long battery life and usable performance to SSH into cloud machines. Any OS and ISA, but Linux compatible would be nice.
I don't think that's what he was talking about when he tweeted this: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/83908672355241164...
Because you don't know it for everyone.
Well for one corporations have actual people with clearly defined interests and ownership. Who can claim to speak on behalf of the river? At best it gives ownership to the representative to push their interests in an absurd farce like PETA trying to claim copyright on behalf of a monkey who took a picture of himself inadvertently. What is to stop a landowner from claiming what the river really wants is to be a cheap dumping ground for pollutants because it wants to be pretty?
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> every time I go to a new doctor, I have to fill out 15 forms and 15 times I have to write down my ... SSN

No you do not.

Anecdotal: I always leave that field blank and have never been asked for it.

Anyone can ask you for anything, anywhere. It doesn't mean they actually need it, or that you have to give it to them.
Nobody is perfect. GGP seemed to go through a difficult time.
There is also zero chance that I will accept an offer for the amount I need because there are plenty of people who are willing to pay me more than that.
What is your "awakening"? :-)

After working hard for one company for 7 years and only getting 3% raises and feeling the effects of salary compression and inversion. Also I realized the lack of optionality when your skills aren’t a fit for the market.

The first job I detailed above after I left, was a great decision. I chose technology over money - I also met my now wife.

After that company laid everyone off [1], and I did a short stint as a contractor with one of our former customers, I got a job at a horrible company and all of the signs were there in hindsight. But I had never worked at a bad company before then. I had only worked for 3 companies in the past 16 years. I didn’t put that company on my resume and I explained the three month gap ase deciding to take some time off to get situated after getting married.

After that, I jumped shipped from a company as soon as I saw a market opportunity. People worry too much about job hopping. If you interview for a job and they are concerned about job hopping, they won’t give you a job. If they do hire you in spite of your work history you leave. What harm is interviewing? The next job either hires you or you stay where you are until the job hopping stench wears off.

[1] They were very up front with us and the investors promised us that they would keep paying our salaries until they either found a buyer or officially gave us notice. We wouldn’t have to worry about not getting paid while we working. All of us stuck around because why not? We knew based on the tech stack we were using, that we could get another job before our final check cleared.
How about that second paragraph. Seems to echo the reports about weakness in China's big tech companies and speculation over their artificially propped up economy (i.e. massive, debt-fueled, unnecessary government infrastructure projects)
so its time to get rid of the membership then.. cool
Sure, the problem comes later. And it will be very expensive to fix.
Mods, please fix the title. Should be "BitChute".
I’ve tested HC on GCF and GAE standard with the IO launch. Sadly they’re 3-10x slower than App Engine Flex (same vm size on App Engine Flex vs Standard). Even a screenshot of google.com takes 6+ seconds on GCF / GAE Standard vs 2 seconds for Flex. I hope they fix this as spinning to zero is important for me but the latency is too high right now.
Loud swearing doesn't show up on metrics. This drives me insane about Amazon. My behavior won't change, even though my perception of the brand is going down the tubes.

Netflix is also horrible about autoplaying trailers with sound. Maybe I went to netflix.com to check whether something was in the catalog while my spouse sleeps next to me. You do not have the right to pump sounds through my speakers until I hit play.
When did this happen? Did anything specific cause it? What is your life like now?

Lots of questions, but I've never heard this development phrased in a positive way before. It's usually associated with social withdrawal and depression.
Somewhat ironically, the higher up you get on the socioeconomic hierarchy, the less true that is. Both in the obvious way (rich people have these little tokens called "dollars" that will make a surprising number of people and organizations do your bidding, particularly institutions like hospitals, colleges, and politicians), and in a much less obvious way: the most effective approach to acquiring these dollars is to become the monopoly provider for a good that lots of people need, and if you don't have lots of capital to buy up real estate and such, the most effective way to do that is often to seek out psychological desires that people have but don't want to admit they have (for example, being liked by everyone) and provide that.

Yes, this is part of what makes social mobility hard. To move up the socioeconomic strata, you often have to abandon values that were essential to survival or self-worth at lower levels.
Netflix used to have anything the the world practically, on DVD. So much of that didn't move to streaming. My dad has never used streaming, because they don't have the old movies he likes.
Given at least once a week I have to help a blind person or a person in a wheel chair navigate an already challenging built environment. And frequently see someone on a bike-share wobbling the wrong way down a hectic Manhattan street into messenger bikes and yellow cabs, I hope the roll out is considered with these people in mind.
Yeah, "wet lab" is what most people thing of as a "lab". Some fields (lots of the biology and biology-adjacent ones) use "lab" as a logical unit of organization. So Professor So-and-So and their graduate students, postdocs, etc. is "The So-and-So Lab".

"Wet lab" is useful to distinguish people with actual labs vs. my lab, which is just a bunch of people with laptops.

The situation I'm dreaming of, is, for example, it not being my problem when a grad student is having trouble getting software installed on the server. That would be something I'd love a lab manager or dedicated programmer to deal with, but for a small lab, I don't have nearly that level of funding.
Wasn't he also in Star Trek Beyond?
> What salary do you need to maintain a comfortable cost of living

That is a stupid question to ask. For anyone competent that I would ever want to hire, the amount that they need (unless they have a bad gambling habit or have made some terrible financial decisions) will be much less than the amount that they would ever accept.
Interesting because Dallas has quite an art scene, and RoboCop was largely shot in Dallas.
it started a while ago: https://reelgood.com/blog/netflixs-us-catalog-has-shrunk-by-...

(actually, I think it started prior to that... maybe when they started to push people away from DVDs by almost doubling the cost)
It's the same in every industry and every domain. A new grade needs a few years of practice before he can contribute well to any real project.

However companies don't always have dummy projects for years, just to practice and drop afterwards.
This is not a chicken and egg problem. At least not for large organizations. If you read this line:
The department that built the product had recently come into existence, and they hired a team of developers without having a technical person on staff to vet them.

This is clearly a management failure. If you start a new department you should at least try to seed it with experienced employees from other parts of your company, even if they're on a loan.
For reference, how did you get $427?
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I had this experience with imaging (MRI), cost 10% more with insurance than without.

I asked a friend in the healthcare industry about this - they said that since insurance companies negotiate all the services at once - the insurance company is trying to lower the total cost for the whole insured pool, this often means that they will marginally overpay for high margin services in order to get big discounts for the really costly things. The hospital makes more gross margin, and the insurance company lowers it’s total spend. The offshoot is that individual people may bear the brunt of this grand bargain...

No idea if it’s true, but had a ring of truth to it...
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Not sure if anyone covered it here yet, but Netflix doesn't take user feedback. They've stated that they base their decisions on whether or not to include new features based on how many users click on it. People complained to hell and back about them putting in auto play videos, but it was included because so many people clicked on that feature. Same is going for these ads, they know people don't want them, but they hide behind their click metrics as an excuse for going forward with it. Many, many people will quit Netflix over this, I wonder if it will noticeably hurt their profits.
I 100% agree.

I went to a dealer to buy a car in cash (well, a cashier's check). They had a touch-screen computer with all their forms for me to fill out. It came to a credit approval/application form, and I refused to fill it out because I wasn't opening a loan. The lady assured me it was "standard" and that it wouldn't be used for anything, because I didn't need the loan/credit. I kept refusing, and she kept insisting they only needed it because the software required it to continue. After this impasse, I stood to walk out, and she suddenly changed her tune and somehow "figured out" how to bypass the form. Classy.
In California at least, there are two conflicting doctrines. They use the English common law riparian rule mentioned above alongside a doctrine of "first come, first served." It gets quite complicated.

A lot of water rights stuff was hashed out in Fresno County, which has a rich and interesting history.
I started ChatterBox as a side project to the actual business I started. www.heychatterbox.com

Clients are all lawyers or medical/health services like Spas and Chiropractors. Marketing is all done by email. Everything in the service delivery is outsourced or automated. All I do is send some cold-outreach campaigns each month and process the client invoices at the end of the month. Just about past $500. If I focused on it more I'm sure it would grow a lot.
> Political

I've got no beef with US immigration other than hearing repeated horror stories over the years from moderately reputable sources.
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Does the insurance cover pre-existing conditions?
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I think it needs more than a close friendship. The true solution to loneliness is a lasting and intimate relationship with a romantic partner. That is something I believe has become truly hard to find.
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Just quick goto for potential shopping list. Similar are available on alibaba (don't have link/time now).

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-most-powerful-pocket-...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-lapto...
I have many friends and family members that frequently complain about the high cost of their health care and insurance premiums. Yet most of them are leading unhealthy lifestyles, a mix of bad diets, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, etc. There seems to be a big disconnect in their head between how they live their lives and how much it affects their health spending.

Sure, it would be nice if pharmaceutical drugs cost less, and if copays were cheaper. But it would be much better to not need either of those to begin with.
People tend to forget that say, Kodak Portra 400 is a technological marvel and pretty recent too. (2010)
I guess it looked something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFrVoG-edFc
It at least remembers the 'mute' icon on auto play videos now. That was broken for a while. Still, it's infuriating.

It opens with a huge header image with a brief sentence or two about the thing it's showing you. You're three words in reading and the intro text disappears into a minute-long preview that spoils the show. What the hell?

Or worse, you've loaded your dashboard and are about to click into starting the show you left off on, only for the hero image/preview to load and shove the page down three inches. Your click now opens a new, unrelated show. You frantically click 'back', only to end up on the page prior to netflix.com. When you re-load Netflix, the show you accidentally clicked is now in the 'continue watching' section — right where your desired show is. !@#^*!)#
When asked for previous salary I tell them my "current compensation". In this I include employer contribution to health care, retirement benefits, vacation time, office perks, etc. All of these are nebulous enough to where I can get to whatever number I want.

If they really want to see my W2 it's probably not a good fit. As a jobseeker, I have to trust what an employer says and they're not extending me the same courtesy. I mean can I see the W2s of my coworkers to verify I'm not getting ripped off?
The charge is more than some cheap OTC medicine you might get prescribed

I've had both similar, and opposite, experience in the U.S.

My wife has a prescription for an OTS drug. Getting the prescription filled with insurance costs $35. But buying it OTC costs $22-25, depending on the store.

I have a prescription for an OTC drug. Getting the prescription filled with insurance costs $3.55. But buying it OTC costs $10-$12.

It's like they always say in health care — ask questions, keep records.
Thank you - I wondered if it was just me.
I'm having serious doubts about the authenticity of this story if you know or understand anything about what the Bolsheviks did to intellectuals in this era, I think you would to.
Probably because of the crackdown on other companies with a lot of H-1B applicants like Cognizant, Infosys and Tata. There are a fixed number of H-1B visas available every year, so if it gets harder for some companies, it gets easier for everyone else.
Yes. This is, to put it plainly, pseudo-scientific bullshit.
Related: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Anecdata warning . Took paper Rx to a very large chain that has a one word name beginning with a W and was told they wouldn't quote the cost of the prescription without scanning the Rx. And destroying it so I couldn't take it anywhere else.
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Should've thought about that before implementing h264 support in Firefox, back in the days where Mozilla was still a relevant vendor in the browser market. At this point in time, such articles seem hypocritical.
>A poor workman blames his tools

This phrase is used far too much when defending buggy or user-unfriendly software. A good workman forced to use bad tools won't have a great time.

I think Excel is better than its competitors but I'm not very familiar with academia. If what other users mention about being forced to reenter already complete data into Excel, which then arbitrarily converts entries into dates, is true, this is absolutely an issue with the tool and/or bureaucracy.
> I have no idea what you want me or others to do, even after reading this 3 times.

I think that's actually pretty clear. Keep pushing for free and open standards. Oppose lock-in and patent protection racket.
GoodRx is strictly against selling personal medical data.
Reference. https://support.goodrx.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005228506-Pr...

"GoodRx does not sell information regarding your drug prescriptions and medical conditions that are linked to your name, contact information and other personal data you provide us."
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I used to feel that Netflix was an amazingly good deal at $10/month. Now I feel like it's just barely worth that much and if there are many more user hostile UX changes I might just bail out entirely. So much of their current interface seems designed mainly to hide the fact that they don't actually have that much good content.
Another exempt group is the chronically ill - if have diabetes or thyroid disease or anything else that requires regular medication you don't pay. It's clear that most prescriptions are written for this group.
Yep. The one surefire way of becoming a startup millionaire as an engineer: save and invest consistently. I recommend that everyone read "The Millionaire Next Door" in their 20's, and actually follow it.

In 20+ years in the industry, the only equity that ever paid off didn't even make up for the pay cut that I took to go there. We don't talk about all the losers.
>Netflix used to be a neutral pipe

Netflix has never been a "neutral pipe". Their business model is to curate/acquire/create content that people will pay a monthly fee to watch. How does that in any way resemble an ISP?
At least for some people, urgent hunger passes after a few days. My brother has done a few full fasts and after a week he didn't feel hungry anymore. YMMV.

There was another incident, a case study in the early 70s, where a very obese man went on a full fast under researcher supervision and lost all his excess weight in a year or so.

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf
This is just my experience but I found the previous system far better. I discovered a surprising number of new shows that I liked under that one, shows that I might not have found through other means. In contrast, the new system has been utterly useless and I have learned to completely ignore the percentage scores. The scores are really out of whack with what I like and leaving feedback hasn't improved the matching in any noticeable way.
Among other things with puppeteer we do screenshot generation
using GKE on Google Cloud @ https://screenshots.cloud/ scaling up and down running instances depending on demand. We keep browser instances running constantly as the startup time is significant. I will be interested to see what the startup time is for puppeteer on this, will definitely be giving it a try.
That would be super impressive if he was still programming at the age of 92. The resume does say "Health: Excellent", but still.