skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently suffered a knee injury that cost into the six figures and required experts to help me with insurance billing. I think we need to remove restrictions regulating how new doctors are trained, and how many new doctors and other medical professionals get lice sed each year. I would even get rid of the requirements to have a license.

I don't think it should require $320k in student debt to become a doctor. I think that traps people who may switch careers later into a career they dislike. The only reason the prices are that high is that a limited number of schools control a monopoly on healthcare education.

I saw that insurance companies are legally capped to only keep 20% of each dollar spent on healthcare. A competitive insurance company could keep less of course. I also saw that out of each dollar spent on healthcare, 23% goes to prescription drugs, 22% to doctors, 20% to office and clinic visits, 16% to hospitals. https://www.ahip.org/health-care-dollar/

Prescription drugs should not be as expensive as they are either. This is due to overly strong patent laws preventing competition and stifling innovation. Each new drug is the end result of an avalanche of human work through centuries and the one little idea that advances things slightly should not be long term locked up by a patent. This greatly slows the creative avalanche. I think we would see far more new drugs at a far lower cost if we did away with patents. Science should not be owned by any individual or group.

The cost of healthcare is ballooning and is out of reach of many people and bankrupts many more. The number one cause of bankruptcy in America is medical bills. Healthcare costs as a share of GDP have grown from 5% in 1960 to 18% in 2018. This shows that the cost itself is the problem, not just insurance companies. https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expendi...

How can we solve healthcare's cost while improving outcomes and getting face time with medical professionals for patients? I am proposing we allow many more people to enter the field by removing artificial regulations preventing competition. This is a standard approach suggested by economists... https://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3...

As an entrepreneur, I would like to see doctors innovate with new business models in healthcare... Unfortunately business models are strictly regulated in this industry just as supply of medical professionals is regulated.

What are your thoughts on how to solve the problem of the very high cost of healthcare?
Exactly. Monopolies ought to be regulated to ensure a free market.
ActiveRecord Should Ask for More Than ID
Sounds like rampant title inflation at the very least.
If Apple can't make a profit skimming 7.5% surcharge on billions of sales then they should get out of business of running an App Store and let someone else do it.

In a free market situation someone will build a thriving business with such economics.

Monopoly power over iOS users is the only reason Apple gets away with murder (i.e. skimming 30%).
Good thing we don't need to stop at that viewpoint :)
the same could be said about a lot of dictators. these guys make it so that there is no other option (by killing opponents) for the country.
We must protect ourselves from threats from without and without. It doesn’t make one any more or less important than the other.
As others have said, must be an exception!

My dad got my mum a Lada in the late 80's as it seemed a good deal ... that thing was horrendous and always breaking down.

Another joke from that time "Why do Lada's have heated rear windscreens? To keep your hands warm while you're pushing them"
> This is the original vi philosophy. It means you don't have to rewrite anything.

Users will need to rewrite many things, if they use multiple platforms.

> Any new program you install, if it can send/receive text on STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR, then you can use it in vi.

Except even the unix toolspace is not cross-platform, despite POSIX.

Minimalism is good, but the OSes failed to provide good, composable, cross-platform tools.

By the way, Neovim's :terminal command enables more scripting and re-use of the many unix tools. w3m and lynx are much more useful if you can overlay editor keybindings over them instead of writing a pile of code to use their (insufficient) CLI APIs.
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"Failing over" in this context most likely means either migrating to some replica (say doing a dead master mysql promotion) or spinning up some backup storage system to serve master reads/writes.
GitHub Down?
For the past hour I've noticed new Github issues disappearing as I made them. Signed out, and now I'll get brought to dashboard. If I click anything I get redirected to "/session". I have 2FA enabled.
The governments stats basically have to be kept. Running the system requires all of the necessary data to already be collected for other purposes, and their stats are drawn from that.

The stats you provide are collected by an institute looking to further their ideology. They come from a far smaller data pool,and their collection method seems rather suspect. For example, they're asking the actual practitioner rather than anyone involved in scheduling.
> Healthcare is much closer to auto repair than software development.

O'boy. What doctor do you go to?
So WSL is just "an excuse to insert telemetry and ads"? That's a very original POV.
Felix Salmon unquestionably knows what he's talking about.
Not only that, but Angie's List covers services that only reach a small market. So a fake review for any individual product has a much small potential reach.
> The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with

This seems entirely reasonable. I'm okay with this.
Appstore had 12 billion USD revenue. So around 3.6 billion to hire app reviewers, server, office etc? Right...
It's so funny but it's so true. I do feel it takes a similar degree of ad hoc research though, if you have the ability to learn how to program an app with certain degree of complexity then I believe you have the capacity to search, find and judge information pertinent to fitness and diet. Of course, it's not as easy as googling "how to be fit" and clicking on the first 5 articles.
I can access GitHub.com here (Austin,TX), but it's taking forever.
He has data you have an anecdote. Guess which one is worth more?
SQLite adopts a code of conduct
And Kaiser has 7 minute primary care appointments, and a high rate of physician burnout.
what do you think they’re developing in China and Russia right now? What’s to stop China from forcibly reuniting Taiwan and Russia Ukraine?

Without a deterrent, nothing. If we stigmatize building deterrents/weapons the other countries will step in and project their own values on the world because they’ll have to strength and technology to do so.
Having worked at Amazon, there's a perception even internally that he's actually reading those emails. Obviously it's possible that it's just assistants, but it's not just externally that that perception persists.
Welcome to research and statistics. The most accurate answer is probably something like: "the effect of strawberry intake on HIV antibody testing is not significantly different than zero based on current evidence". There very well may be an effect it's just so small we can't tell it from the noise.
How Magecart skimmed 300k Credit Cards in the last months
Ural was not a BMW. It was a Russian product based off an (old) BMW design. There’s a difference. Construction and materials don’t naturally follow just because they liscensed a design.
the main page at p5js.org uses a tonne of CPU, might want to have a look at that
End of the Tech Bubble?
In this context, "failing over" means switching the active system to a replica. Which means their primary data storage system had some issue, and they were switching to a secondary data storage system, which hopefully contains the same data (replicated in real time, or nearly real time). Clearly that switch didn't quite work as expected, otherwise it would have taken just a couple of minutes before everything went back to normal...
This is precisely the issue that was raised by anyone with enough knowledge to accurately describe metadata prior to the legislation being implemented.

This metadata retention, in combination with the encryption-breaking legislation being currently put in front of parliament, shows the Australian government (both sides, given the lack of resistance from the opposition) as some kind of data-worshipping paranoiacs.

It makes me feel that Australia, due to its steretypical laid-back attitude and disinterest in politics, is being used as the tip of the spear for other countries (5-eyes members primarily) to use as precedent for implementing their own such surveillance states.

References:

George Brandis "explaining" metadata:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbtgULCY5zk

Article from 2014 about risk of scope creep for the metadata retention laws:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/metadata-laws-open-to-scope-c... (December 2014)

What metadata retention looks like:
https://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2015/02/19/418355...
There is a US lawsuit about this right now that had already been accepted by the Supreme Court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper
> The article also claims that "unexpected mortality" of 1.1% of its portfolio could bankrupt it. If a lot of people die suddenly, this could cause another economic crisis in the US.

Isn't that just a feature of insurance companies. My understanding is most large insurance companies are too big to fail and are an unexpected event from being insolvent and needing a taxpayer bailout.

As long as everything runs within the parameters they set up, they are fine raking in the premiums. Anything out of bounds and they are bankrupt. And as they tighten the parameters to squeeze out more profits, the less room they have for error.

Whether we like it or not, private insurers are backstopped by the government. A prime case of privatized profits and socialized risk.
>Aggressively suing people over copyright infringement is sometimes required by copyright law.

No it never is, EVER. This is a myth people use to give companies like Apple cover for the aggressive actions

This myth has been debunked countless times, yet it still used by fan boys

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
You mean Comcast knows how to do responsive support at scale but chooses to reserve it for an undocumented system?
FICO Plans Big Shift in Credit-Score Calculation, Potentially Boosting Borrowers
Having a skid plate covering (read: protecting) the oil pan seems like a good design to me.
These aren’t necessarily the best I’ve seen, but, as requested, they’re the most mind blowing:

Restrepo

Citizenfour

Grizzly Man

Up

The Farmer’s Wife
Just a warning that this is one of the modules that's licensed under the controversial "Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause" license.
Dirty money (drugs, corrupt politicians, gangsters) is THE elephant in the Western Room. Everyone keeps ignoring it as long as the money keeps flowing into real estate, companies/start ups.
Its a queryable list of single board computers. Not a database tech for single board computers
I recently replaced the screen on my 2017 iPad 9" via parts from Aliexpress. I was surprised by how thin the display glass is. It appears to be designed to fail.
It is exactly what I hoped it is: a searchable database of single-board computers -- think raspberry pi and similar.

There's far more than I expected -- there are apparently 270 in the database.
> That doesn't prevent launching a new ship.

Amen. I’d love to see a rebrand to Rakudo and Pumpkin, where the latter is Perl5 plus some long-overdue backwards incompatible changes, but also 99% compatible.
Haskell supports both. The documentation explains the two pretty clearly, IMO:

quot :: a -> a -> a

integer division truncated toward zero

rem :: a -> a -> a

integer remainder, satisfying

(x `quot` y)*y + (x `rem` y) == x

div :: a -> a -> a

integer division truncated toward negative infinity

mod :: a -> a -> a

integer modulus, satisfying

(x `div` y)*y + (x `mod` y) == x

Here's an example

ghci> (-340) `divMod` 60
(-6,20)
ghci> (-340) `quotRem` 60
(-5,-40)
>the industry and consumers forced their hands with fast update cycles with meaningful feature adds.

Yeah, sure. To hell with reliability, let's have features instead.

Reminds of chinese android forks.
Healthcare is much closer to auto repair than software development.

Sure, on a car that's running that you can't turn off, with parts you can't replace, a maintenance history you can't see, and an ECU that actively misrepresents what's going on.
I mean, that already happened. I know I haven’t taken Yelp reviews seriously for years.
For javascript mod I use these:

function modn(a,b){ return a-Math.round(a/b)*b }
// this returns in the cycle -0.5 to 0.5

function modp(a,b){ return a-Math.floor(a/b)*b }
// this returns 0 to 1 (times the cycle `b`)

They can actually run faster than the % operator for some reason, although not if put on Numbers prototype which is still quite slow on latest engines.

I ran a quick check on possible rounding differences with % - compared results of a few million very large random number inputs:

For positive Integers modp(a,b) returns identically to a%b

For positive reals 8% of returns differ by about 1 ulp.
Fake review services have already figured out how to slow-drip reviews. If you put a mediocre product on Amazon and buy reviews, there will be no legit review history to compare against either. It's a tough nut to crack if the fake reviews are linked to real purchases already.
How often do you purchase an app? How often do you purchase everything else?
Thank you. Im setting up a signature campaign website
"there should be 'compensating upside' for the few drugs that do make it to market to ensure investors continue to fund companies’ uncertain R&D efforts"

Ok, then open your books so we can see why you're pricing the way you are. Obviously, given all the recent attention this has gotten, the industry is not being very transparent about this. Why has no "outsider" been able to connect these dots and why are you (the industry) preventing them from doing so?
Before all the trolling about Microsoft starts up, does anyone have current information on what these systems are?

In the enterprise space, a 'data storage system' could be an Array or a SAN or a lightpath etc, with usually quite long failover times. For an org like GitHub I'd think more like an object store (an Array-of-Hosts, if you will) or whatever storage mechanism holds their database files. Do they self host this sort of thing or is it an AWS/GCE/Azure service?

FWIW, all git commands are working fine for me (create a branch, push, colleagues can fetch my branch), but the UI doesn't show my branch & nor can I review/comment on PRs.
Experienced similar issues with a 20x annual spend on Apple gear. After a laundry list of issues with Apple Business and some repairs we switched to buyint from a procurement partner (CDW) and moved device repairs in-house via Apple Self Service so that we aren't stuck with overpriced flat-rate depot repairs.

Like the iPhone Upgrade Program, it's probably best for businesses to lease devices from Apple than to deal with all the nonsense around repairs.
They're your own goalposts:

> Actually Trump and the Republicans ran on a platform of price transparency, but Senate Democrats can block and have effectively blocked

The Democrats cannot block a piece of legislation that doesn't exist. You yourself set up the criteria and you've failed to meet it.

> I replied to someone who falsely claimed that "Republicans who are supposedly for markets don't push for price transparency".

Quite correctly. You cannot link to the Republican legislation that supposedly tackles this issue while they continue to control all three branches (inc. both houses of congress) because there is no legislation. They're tried nothing and accomplished even less.
That's pretty frustrating. I had a related experience where I needed antibiotics. As it was the weekend, I just went to a local walk in clinic. The person in front of me did not have insurance and his cost to see the doctor was $90. I had insurance and my out of pocket was initially $45, a couple weeks later I got the remainder of my bill for using out of network: $135. So in total I was charged double the individual without insurance plus the cost of my medication.

It seems that a major driver of insurance and medical costs is that doctors are allowed to charge different pricing for the same service. In this case, paying a monthly fee for insurance ended up costing me more.
So then you oppose the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act, you believe that car dealers should be allowed to deny you a warrany claim because you had your car serviced at some place other than the dealership

If you do not like that policy you should just choose not to buy a car?

Seem like a terrible, anti-consumer position to me
That sounds unsustainable and bad capitalism.

Free services mean a few people will overuse and abuse.
Discourse is one of my go-to examples of a terrible site that I will actively avoid. The find in page is terrible. It makes it impossible to find anything ever. Octoprint moved its documentation there and I'm really unhappy about it.
Doctors and the health care industry have better lobbyists than auto mechanics.
You forgot shareholder value.
AP, CMS, and any other grown-up style guide would eschew goofy punctuation in company/brand/band names.
They've been having some problems with data storage for the past two hours (which probably includes saving new issues).

You can check the current status of the site here: https://status.github.com/messages
This seems like a genius 4d chess move trolling other codes of conduct in light of what happened with FreeBSD and other open source projects
Friends taking care of friends... can you feel the love ;)
Show HN: I made _api – an autogenerated CRUD API built on LowDB and ExpressJS
I disagree. Smart watches like FitBit or Apple actually do stuff, self driving cars do actually drive, Elon Musk's submarine hyped as much as blockchain, seriously? Blockchain businesses have achieved practically nothing.
There’s another post on HN about it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271180
I'd like to see a field indicating whether the vendor has upstreamed its kernel modifications. I rarely build kernels from scratch, but others do, and being able to easily do it helps me gauge whether a community will grow.
Sort of - the reality is that with the scale Apple is at, they aren't able to hire enough people anywhere near as smart as Rossmann to work in their stores repairing laptops - he's easily a 100x technician.

Absent that, the only way to provide a reliable service is to make it very process-based - Run this procedure to find which of these 5-6 components in the device is most likely faulty, replace it with a new one by following this standard procedure, then run this automated QA test and if it doesn't pass, replace the next most likely component until it passes.

It probably costs Apple a lot less to do their warranty/applecare repairs in this way, replacing whole boards at a time, than to try and hire enough people who could do board-level repairs.

It does suck for people who are out-of-warranty and have a minor fault like in this case though - and Apple should have a better solution for them. Arguably if it's a minor fault, they should charge a minor fee to fix it even if their solution is replacing a whole component.

Apple also seems to be trying to restrict third party repairers (and not just for security-critical components), which is indefensible IMO.
One piece of advice I got when porting my SaaS to Enterprise (on-prem) was NOT to create an "enterprise" branch in the source code, but instead just use one big GIANT flag such as
an environment variable "ENTERPRISE". Two branches SaaS and Enterprise will lead to pain down the road while at the outset it may seem like a good approach.

Tom: what tools did you use to build the OVF Enterprise image? How would you approach it today?

Second, did shipping all source code in plain text to enterprise clients concern you? My application was in PHP, so the source was not compiled. My thinking was, have an Enterprise License Agreement that basically says, "you can't modify, disassemble, or distribute the source code."
I was used to always buying on Amazon in Europe and I never had issues. Then I moved to the US and the whole experience is so much worse. Counterfeits, opened/unsealed packages, disappearing packages, 1 day delivery fee paid and package arrives 5 days later and so on.
It's as if it was a different company.
I think it's obvious that it's their SQL storage that holds the website up that is pretty much in read-only mode, and has been for a couple hours now, not the git repos themselves.
What if the other one isn't a cesspool because of high fees - that filter it? What if that's what people actually want from iPhone and App Store and is the reason people prefer Apple? How is it fair to Apple - since it might be their competitive advantage?
And why is his data more legitimate than my data? And don't bring up the so called "bias" because of factors unrelated to the study. Every study has bias, including the numbers ori_b is touting.
The 50% may or may not be true, but your personal experience says very little about that overall statistic.
"Apple faces massive short supply on the Genius Bar"
Why is that?
> The stats you provide are collected by an institute looking to further their ideology.

Proof?

> The governments stats basically have to be kept. Running the system requires all of the necessary data to already be collected for other purposes, and their stats are drawn from that.

You trust a government entity to accurately report data that's not in it's best interest? When has that ever happened?
TL;DR: this solution works on mobile without a browser plugin.
Manufacturing Landscapes
Show HN: A RIFF parsing and manipulation library
They called shawarma poutine "brilliant", so "cultural appropriation" was probably meant approvingly.

Whether or not you agree with the concept, cultural appropriation seems pretty easy to understand. Some things have deep meaning to people, like religious symbols. Other things don't, like most food. Also, many people don't like caricatures of their culture. That's about it.
Well for the poor sods fixing it in the US, it's still Sunday evening...
There's an option on Tumblr desktop settings to disable endless scrolling. It's still terrible that it's only desktop mode, but it's still usable like that on mobile.