skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the markup is arbitrary. An NPR article notes that the average price paid for the stents by hospitals is $1,153.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/27/6408918...
As an anecdote, I recently went to the hospital suspecting a kidney infecting. I had all the signs (pain on both sides under the skin, smelly urine, a bit of fever that came and went) so I told the nurse I was pretty certain I had a kidney infection.

When the doctor saw me, she took my urine only and when it came back "perfect" she said I definitely did not have a kidney infection, that my pain was probably mechanical.

Two nights later and I couldn't move or think from the fever, the pain in my kidneys was so severe I could barely breathe, and I was fearing I was on the fast-track to sepsis (which I've had before).

Apparently the tech testing my urine sample fucked up, which is why the results came back perfect. The strange thing is, the doctor herself said she was surprised it was perfect, but took it at face value despite my insistence that I definitely had a kidney infection, especially considering I have a history of such infections. Also, when she said my pain was most likely "mechanical", I told her I hadn't done any intense activity lately, and she said I probably slept wrong, ignoring the fact I said I'd had a slight fever-- when they tested me at the hospital I had no fever.

It was a really weird experience. I understand skepticism against a patient's self-diagnosis, but I was claiming a kidney infection-- this is a common diagnosis for women with my symptoms and I've had many kidney infections before so I know what it feels like. Still, the doctor trusted that her three quick tests were perfect (urine sample, temperature, mechanical inspection) and her mis-diagnosis could have caused me permanent damage (kidney scarring or sepsis).
Yes, but OPs point is they will still do this to people who can't get media attention. It continues to be a systemic issue that must be fixed.

Disclaimer: Universal healthcare advocate
What would you do with this power? Let's Encrypt certificates are public and don't involve any knowledge of subscribers' private keys.
Why is that bad? people complain about the enormous costs of accommodation, to which the main solution is simply to build more.
> Industry analysts and consumer advocates say St. David’s has a reputation for exorbitant billing and for trying to collect big payouts as an out-of-network provider.

Sounds just like St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, TX is run by crooks. I like the take-home message that "Faced with a surprise bill or a balance-billing situation, don’t rush to pay any medical bills you receive."
>It's an interesting concept. You need more photos - I need to see how the slats interlock, I need to see photos of how the frame works. My immediate thought was that with a long enough desk (de-sk?) it would bow in the middle.

He doesn't explain it but it seems pretty clear to me how it might work. The slats don't interlock. Underneath each slat are wooden tabs (one on each end) that fit snugly inside the frame. Each frame is sized to fit a certain number of slats.

And a long desk won't bow in the middle because the slats run the short end of the frame, not the long end.
play it now! Before Airbnb shut it down and sent lawyers to me :)
The software industry is doing this somewhat. I know of initiatives at my company where they'll assist with bootcamp tuition if you're interested in becoming a developer. It's up to the discretion of your manager (and theirs usually) whether or not you have a job waiting for you afterward.

Bootcamps are a decent alternative to a college tech degree. Instead of taking out $40k+ in loans, you can escape your poorly paid job by dropping $10k-$20k of your own (or your parents') money. It's usually worth it if you have the means, since your salary will probably double and you'll recoup the cost within a year.

Bootcamp students are basically useless when they graduate, but they can open an editor, write unit tests for dog.speak() and use git. The senior devs on the team they join end up training them. So it becomes like an apprenticeship system where the prospective apprentice shows serious interest by supplying a "modest" payment.
'We saved your life so that you can spend the rest of it in indentured servitude.'
Reads like a breaking Bad prequel in the making
If you are interested in learning why check-handle differs from traditional exception handling, you can read https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf....

If you just feel like snarking, then sorry for spoiling.
The size of that HTML page is 1.4MB...
Any insurance policy will have clearly stated the difference between out of network and in network benefits.
This varies a lot from web host to web host.
I'm not sure if our patient here was quite in a mood for price shopping, with the whole ongoing heart attack thing.
Get some hot sauce or salsa instead. Tons of local brands.
I curious to know the details of his health. He just did an IRONMAN 5 months before. Why was he unaware of the status of his clogged “widow-maker” artery? Why was his artery clogged?
high cholesterol? What does his diet consist of?

Use of ultrasound imaging to measure the thickness of the inner walls of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain. Increasing carotid artery intima-media thickness, or CIMT, indicates a build-up of fatty deposits, known as plaque, in crucial arteries to the heart and brain. Plaque build-up in the arteries, which is usually affects adults, can restrict the flow of blood, causing heart attacks or stroke.
Facial Recognition in Stores Can Spot Angry Customers
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Probably more, since your cable company (sorry, that should read broadband provider) will raise their rates to make up for the lost revenue in TV services.
Supply of doctors is definitely an important issue. But prices are high not because they can't find doctors. It is high because they have no real competition. When someone is suffering from a heart attack what options do they have than to go to the nearest hospital? Even in non-emergency situations people chose to go to the healthcare provider nearest to them. Also even if we assume people magically able to chose any healthcare provider in the country by teleporting themselves. On what basis they are going to make decision? Prices of healthcare services are opaque and almost secret until they surprise you with 6 figure bill.

That is why i laugh at republicans (Ben Shapiro et al) argument that healthcare competition is what making it the "best" in the world. Don't compare it with restaurant business.
Yea, I really like Go because it isn't C++2049. I was able to get writing it quickly, and I don't have to think too hard about what the right (read: most clever) way to implement something is given all the language features. I like to just write code and I think a post here said it best, Go gets out of the way and lets you build.
I believe this is explicitly discussed in the doc:
https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
Because price negotiations aren’t disclosed and are privy between hospitals and insurance provusers.

The real crux is that point, the patient is removed from pricing and so the whole market becomes distorted. It’s like going to a store without price tags and complaining that your bill is much higher than you expected.
Even if news programs report the news in an unbiased fashion people are bound to have personal opinions and express them on their own time.

In response to "Writing from America & I can assure you that conservatives will absolutely keep needed medicine out of the hands of those who require it, if you let them"

Wouldn't it be a greater crime to ignore this? It seems as if the only reason you don't want a fairness doctrine is not because its a terrible idea but because it wouldn't be effective enough at distorting reality to the peasants.
I've been told it's physically impossible to make a bigger collider (any physicists around?), which is partly why the LHC was such a big deal, it's the end of a technological path. We can make different types of colliders though.

Edit: Nope I'm wrong.
First reaction: Hmm that's not so bad.

Second reaction: It doesn't seem as bad because it's put in context of "40k" - in reality that's still pretty bad.
Nice to see generative art discussed on the frontpage. :)

I think the next several years will be really interesting for generative art. Consumers are getting more interested in it, and some of our tools and collective knowledge has really grown since the days of Flash and before. In some cases, we are revisiting old techniques with new & easier-to-use hardware, like AxiDraw pen plotters. It's allowing artists to iterate more quickly and become better curators of their output.

Open source and online tools like Glitch are helping share knowledge and ideas, and together the community is pushing each other toward more and more interesting results (conceptually, algorithmically and aesthetically). The community (mostly Twitter & IG) is one of the things that makes generative art so fun to be a part of.

Totally shameless self-plug: you can follow my own generative art on IG below [1]. I hope to set up an online print shop in the coming months.

[1] - https://www.instagram.com/mattdesl_art
Do you have any plans to make the code publicly available?

If not, I understand. This would be a really great open-source project that could be trained to automatically produce transcribed plain-text that could be copy-pasted into other applications.
If it's an NSA honeypot it will still be a positive thing for 99% of use cases.

Also, why would they do this? It's smarter to compromise the existing CAs.
The point is that the bill won't just go away for other people, regardless of how much profit is made and whether costs are already covered by the hospital.
> And even though some are only "silenced", if you happen to join an instance that is blocked by a lot of other instances, then nobody will see what you are writing.

If you are on a "silenced" instances you can still be directly followed by users on the instance doing the silencing and they will see all of your posts on their Home timelines. From what I've seen, any boosts/replies by those users following you to your statuses still make those individual statuses eligible for them to show up on Federated feed on that instance, even if your every post is not eligible.

Arguably the game is the same whether or not you are on a majority "silenced" instance: the more people that directly follow you the more likely you show up in people's Home timelines and thus the more likely you show up in Federated feeds. You don't necessarily need to know if a remote instance is silencing your instance if you make enough friends on that instance that are directly following you.

I'd also argue that worrying about which Federated feeds you show up on is counter-productive in Mastodon. As with Twitter, it's better to reach users in their Home timelines, with direct relationships, or in some cases on Local Timelines for interesting interests, than to ever count on Federated feeds. Many instances the Federated feed isn't that useful (too busy, for instance) and people don't bother checking it anyway. (My main account is currently the only user on a small instance and the Federated feed is mostly repetitive with stuff on the Home feed and so I check it very irregularly.)

Instance "suspensions" obviously are a different matter entirely, but I don't feel like it is worth worrying about "silences".

> It almost seems to me that I really need multiple accounts on multiple instances to ensure that I can get what I want -- but since the client is tied to the instance (as a web sever), that's a difficult trick...

It's easy enough to just open multiple tabs in your browser and tab between them, if that is what you want to do. There are also some native clients with good multi-account support.
From what I understand, Linux let’s you configure independent namespaces for network, disk, CPI, etc separately. Though sure entirely what lxc allows you to configure. Whereas zones have a more one-to-one mapping of namespaces so it’s easier to secure. Just what I picked up from using Joynet’s Triton system. I really enjoyed the zones interface on smartos, decent JSON api and cli tools, built from the ground up on ZFS datasets. Jails are terrible in comparison by not really having a good standard api interface, imho.
> To be pedantic, nothing is more energy efficient than electric heat.

No, this is not true, if you are referring to electrical resistance heating.

Heat pumps transfer energy from one source to another. For home heating, for instance, they are about 5 times more efficient than resistance heating.
Self-Sovereign Identity and the Corrupt Internet
Try

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0401010

(maybe with some Wikipedia lookups along the way) by one (arguably the greatest) of its masterminds.
The American Budweiser is different than the original Czech Budweiser sold in the rest of the world (a much better beer, which is distributed as "Czechvar" in the US for trademark reasons); the only connection it has to the Czech Republic is that Adolphus Busch stole the name.
Overview of innovations that brought gene therapy to the clinic
Went to the ER on the advice of my doctor. Went to my insurance's website to find an ER that accepted my insurance.

Got there and asked at admittance, "Do you take my insurance?" Was assured they did.

Got a big bill a few months later and it turned out the doctor working in the covered ER was not covered by my insurance.
I think you got downvoted for saying that full-disclosure is irresponsible.

Many people I've talked are in favor of full-disclosure and think that coordinated disclosure is long term dangerous as large companies with the resources to actually develop secure software are not sufficiently incentivized to do so under coordinated disclosure.

Edit: I've also noticed on HN that sometimes I will get downvoted really hard for no clear reason and then two weeks later HN will magically transform my downvotes into upvotes. Not really sure why that happens, maybe a wave of bot banning?
You're being downvoted because it looks like your bringing in irrelevant information about her being transgender. Edit your comment putting the actual explanation first. The fact that shes transgender is only secondary, if that.
The constitutions of the USSR and Nazi Germany had similar provisions. The constitution of China still does. These things aren’t magic, and authoritarians find ways around them.
> Lots of abstract classes such as "Processor", "Context", "Box", "Request" and so on, with no real meaning.

This is a completely false dichotomy. Just because a feature can be misused doesn't mean it's not legitimately useful. Generics make the language easier for the user, but are harder for the implementors. Most language designers / implementors recognize that this trade-off is worthwhile, and therefore nearly every other popular typed language has them. The Go implementors are the only ones against doing it, because, well, they would have to implement it, and they're concerned that it will make the codebase too complex for them to maintain. (Their sympathizers are against it too, which is still a mystery to me.)
How is a regular person who has other things to do than to read and understated all the details and traps of his health insurance supposed to navigate this insane system?

From what I read going to a hospital is pretty much a gamble that has a certain probability to bankrupt you and there is pretty much nothing you can do about it.

There should be bipartisan agreement that these practices are just not acceptable and that there must be a way for a patient to get binding information upfront.
Nope—same name but different breweries. http://business.time.com/2014/01/27/where-a-budweiser-isnt-a...
I don't see why one would assume that Netflix had enough funds at the time to secure rights for longer periods of time. Obviously it is Netflix's interest to have as much content for as long as possible, so the only explanation for why they secured rights for as long as they did was because they didn't have sufficient resources.
> Google, Facebook, Twitter, Patreon and others were able to grow to the size they did based on Safe Harbor provisions that exempted them from libel laws under the premise that they were neutral platforms that allowed anybody to post content etc

Google, in particular, did not, because web crawler results are not user-submitted content and thus are not within the scope of the CDA safe harbor.

They are, instead protected from libel a way that is open to, and frequently used by, newspapers: they mostly (i.e., in the form of search results) report what amounts to “X person said Y”, which is (to the extent it is true, whether or not Y is true) absolutely protected from libel in the US. And that would be true even if they preferentially promoted (or even exclusively carried) content favorable to (or, alternatively, disfavorable to) one viewpoint.
> Everyone else isn't playing dumb Trump is just living it.

Trump is just living it? Why did you add that part? I pointed out that the results looked odd. When I opened up the comment section, every other comment was saying nothing was odd. Those comments you're referring to didn't exist yet. Now that I've seen them, yes, they do bring up an interesting point.

I'm not a Trump supporter. I'm not a republican. And nothing I said indicated that Google was out to get conservatives. There was no reason to bring up the Google image story or say anything about Trump in your reply.
Especially when the one body empowered to remove him sits idly by and does nothing.
I was going to respond saying that most hospitals are nonprofits and aren't actually making a great profit margin off this sort of overcharging. But then I looked it up and St. David's, despite having a religious nonprofit-sounding name, is actually owned by HCA Healthcare, which is a for-profit that has almost 4x'd its stock price over the past five years while acquiring more hospitals to grow. So, yeah, this one is about corporations squeezing money out of people because they can.

sources:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-transactions-...

https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE:HCA
There are midterms coming up. Vote for change and don’t vote for anyone who took one cent from the insurers.
Hey Duncan! I’m one of the nion maintainers. These are great questions! The answer to this specific one is that currentUser follows the JSONAPI spec. Which means we don’t really need to know the shape of the response, because they’re all the same! We then normalize the data in nion so you can use it as you expect. JSONAPI is not required for nion, you can use whatever you like including REST. We have several adapters that come built in to nion, including REST and JSONAPI.
> which would ultimately lead to regulation

Why would acting as a publisher lead to government content regulations? Do we not have freedom of the press guaranteed by the Constitution?
I used to have a $75 netgear router at my house. I changed the local DHCP settings to give out a raspberry pi's internal as DNS. I run dnsmasq on the pi and resolve local hosts that way. Ever internal service in my house uses HTTPS and I have about a dozen.
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That's just nuts. As patient you go in blind and can just hope for the best.
You're just trading off energy spent cooling denser cities vs. increased transportation in less dense cities.
There are different horror stories from different systems. Bottom line is that access to health care professionals and equipment is a scarce resource, and any resource management process whether through governmental regulation, or individual funding, insurance program, etc will be faced with managing access to that resource one way or another.
The power of companies. They write words and numbers on a stamped letter and now it's god spell.

I once played dumb to an importer abusing fees, after monthes of bouncing mails to different people babbling the same thing over and over, then dealing with a 'lawyer firm' who behaved the same (basically nobody knew precisely what they were talking about). They suddenly accepted to give me a rebate of NN%. So I received a new bill with 100$ - '80$ promotional deal' = 20$ (normal fee). A very partial grin ensued.
From my experience, no human at the hospital has any idea whether they will accept your insurance or not. The doctors certainly don't. They just report things into the bill-processing system which occasionally delivers patients a crazy $100,000 bill.
I think it's in there in the "waveguide" tech. iFixit has a pretty good write on on their tear down and they mention this.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Magic+Leap+One+Teardown/1122...

Also...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/teardown-of-magic-leap-one...
Is that legal under US law?
This is a good observation and I share the sentiment.

AI/ML is great at optimizing what you're currently doing. While it can also find correlations and connections that you may miss without it, it's unlikely that it will make any radical recommendations.

IMO this is ok because AI/ML can evolve into that capacity - you have to take baby steps after all.

But in the interim, it's definitely something to watch out for - you don't want to take away the element or principal of randomness out of life - it's at the core of how we operate, innovate, and (almost quite literally) how we evolve.
You also get choice, ability to cancel stuff you don't like, avoiding ads (at least for now, and then you can cancel if it starts back up again), access whenever you want wherever you are, etc. Many more benefits than the old model.
Andrew Moore Steps Down as Dean of CMU Computer Science
Yeah, this is the obvious approach. Just make "check EXPR handle BLOCK" syntactic sugar for the "if err != nil" idiom. It's totally clear to the reader what's going on.
Here is a reminder that in the US, we pay much more and receive far worse outcomes than any other first world nation, by any metric you care about: life expectancy; infant mortality; incidence of chronic disease; obesity; incidence of addiction; etc.

Then consider we are the only first-world nation in which medical bankruptcy is not just a thing, but a profound source of anxiety and genuine risk.

What do we get in exchange for worse care, worse lives, and risk of financial ruin...?

A "free market" like the one functioning in OP's case. Oh, and in the time since the ACA passed? Record private industry profits.

It's not just Trumpism sh-tcanning this country.
Czech Texans tended to settle in Central Texas which traditionally doesn't use sauce on their meat.

East and South Texas use sauce.
> So basically, when you talk about 'day one' air combat operations against a peer-state adversary

Is that a realistic threat? A peer-state adversary? Is it a legit concern the USA will need to enter into air combat against a country?