skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaking documents with the intent to "do harm" shouldn't be illegal. You're treading into advocacy of making mal-intent toward The Party a Thought Crime.
What you have described -- a provider who does not try to collect the patient responsibility portion of a bill -- is actually insurance fraud (because the provider has told the insurer the total price for the procedure is $42k, when the provider actually only intends to collect $38k).

I'm not saying that means it didn't happen--things like this are incredibly common--but a reply suggesting you might not have described the full picture and it's possible there is no fraud is not completely out of line or an insult to your intelligence. (I upvoted your original comment, BTW.)
I agree that doctors aren't where the money is going, but that's still a lot more than doctors in the UK earn! https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...
Literally the second sentence of that article says:

> The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led operation
Jeez, what's with the Wikipedia links all the time? People drive by, throw a term around, and leave. How am I committing gaslighting? Am I rearranging the furniture in your house while you're away or something?
The price is also different depending on which insurance company is paying for the service. You’d be shocked to find out the cost of a service if you were willing to pay up front with cash. It’s so much cheaper for everyone involved.
The idea is to get some of the government benefits of marriage without the overhead, i.e. the ability to make medical decisions and potentially lower tax rates depending on income situations.

Past generations of my family were prohibited from marriage because of race. It took a lot of rethinking of what marriage was for them to be granted those rights, ditto for LGBT people who just got those rights a few years ago in the US. There's still no reason why the current definition of marriage is the right definition.
That's self-reported data, rather than anything officially sourced.
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maybe the city in question was a burnt-out husk of its former self

As a joke, I'd say that the actual choice is between a less populated burnt-out husk of its former self, a heavily populated burnt-out husk of its former self, or some degree of truly nowhere.
Geo satellites also do beamforming. See epic ng or quantum.
Patients are fed up with being turned into money bags
It's unacceptable to not bash FB on HN.
What I've done is kinda standardized the solution. I've made all my elements listen for a template tag in the html page that contains <link> tags to the stylesheets I use globally.

<template id="x-global-styles">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="some/sheet.css" />
</template>
Kinda like that.

You can use prefetch in the main header to get all your styles in one shot, before page load, if you want.

Then I make my element, if the template is found, pump the innards of the template into itself so all my styles are available.

I use it in conjuction with tailwind so I can write atomic classes and include my atomic css with every element I desire.

From what I can tell, for the most part, my styles don't get reloaded every time. I could be wrong. They seem to get prefetched, if I use a prefetch, or loaded once, then cached. It seems that no matter how many elements I have on the page there are no external calls to get the stylesheet every time. One and done.

Correct me if I'm wrong here. It's just something I fiddled around with.
There isn't anything specifically wrong with SOAP and for some applications it's still the right choice. As with everything "use the right tool for the job", whether it's SOAP, REST, DCOM, GraphQL, CORBA, ONC RPC, Thrift, DCE, RMI, Avro, or $SOMETHING_ELSE.

That said, I think two major things gave SOAP a bad name and caused people to look to alternatives in many situations:

1. Lack of interoperability between major implementations. One of the whole selling points of SOAP was that you should be able to implement a SOAP service on, say, an IBM S/360 running COBOL, and then consume that service from a VB app running on Windows 2000, in an app that also consumes a SOAP API written in Java running on a Solar box. In reality, issues in the various implementations - whether intentional or otherwise - made it far harder to achieve that lofty goal than it should have been. That was especially true early on. Things got better over time, but that really dinged SOAP and the whole WS-* stack in the eyes of may people.

2. The performance overhead due to XML (both the parsing, and the raw message size due to XML being a little bit verbose).

Arguably a 3rd factor was the apparent complexity of things like XML namespaces and XML schema, although I personally think that factor is a little over-stated. Namespaces and schemas aren't actually all that hard to understand.

Anyway, this industry tends to be very faddish and once JSON came along and became the next big shiny thing that got rid of the verbosity of XML, along with schemas and namespaces, everybody suddenly jumped on the XML-RPC bandwagon and, later, REST.
The scenario being discussed was building a company on top of GCP and being unable to afford $200/month for support costs. Tell me what “mom and pop” shops are pulling in $10k/month from GCP-based software but are unwilling/unable to pay $200/month for the very thing that underpins their livelihoods?

This is akin to saying that a mom and pop laundromat can’t afford insurance, or shouldn’t because they won’t frequently need it.

You’re trying to equate small businesses with hobbies. You’ve now resorted to straw men, slippery slopes, and false equivalency. Maybe consider that if you have to distort the situation this much to make your point, you might just be wrong.

> At the end of the day you probably pissed off quite a few people on here when you called their livelihood a hobby project.

I didn’t say anything about anyone’s livelihood. You’re the one pretending that small businesses bringing home $120k/year can’t afford a $200 monthly support bill.

I bet the guy who started this thread about GCP’s support cost has made a sum total of <$1000 from his “startup”. Likely <$10. Hobby.

I don’t care if “quite a few people” got pissed about my comment. People with egos that delicate shouldn’t use social media.
Ah, I failed to consider that. The original post is correct.
> Your response was the whataboutism that Assange shouldn't be extradited because the US committed war crimes.

Where did I say that?
I've had similar not /great/ experiences. I ended up on a conference call with one of their staff to work through some limitations. Some basic interface fixes were required, especially when it came to some Blocks implementations -- sad to say this was ~6 months ago and those changes still haven't happened.
"The Second Sex" by Simone De Beauvoir is on here twice. I'd recommend if you're looking to read an existentialist book by the same author - check out "The Ethics of Ambiguity" which is an attempt to form an existentialist ethics, and is short, and good. Tbqh "The Second Sex" is a bit dry for modern tastes - even though it is important. I'd recommend reading something like Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" if you want a better feel for modern feminism.
I don't get the point on complaining over the "mindshare size" of the faang products. As, I don't think it's a thing you can complain about. If it were, the french would be right to complain about English mindshare globally (they can complain but they can't sue). Also, you can compete locally with faang, like China and Russia are doing. Admittedly they use restrictions on foreign tech, but you also need to have high quality products that are catering for the local market. EU are the ones that feel uncomfortable being dominated by US tech companies, but it's not like they don't have options.
> In my view, the only way to reduce the cost is to figure out where the money is going.

It isn't going to any specific place. The system is designed to destroy price sensitivity, so everything is overpriced and everyone is charged for things they don't actually need.

When there is a bill for $58000, it's not that the procedure costs $1000 and there is this one place receiving the remaining balance we could just cut out. It's that the procedure would cost $1000 only everything that should have cost $20 was charged for $200 and then 500% more steps were performed than were necessary.

Trying to play the blame game is pointless because everyone will come up with a reason to justify their high margin or unnecessary step and the truth is nobody is innocent. What's needed is to actually make purchasing decisions based on price. If one provider charges $58000 and the other charges $56000, the patient should know ahead of time that there is a $2000 price difference, and actually pay the entire $2000 less by choosing the less expensive one.

Do that and there is price competition, and the provider that does the work of eliminating unnecessary costs for you will be the one with the lowest price. And once you have someone offering to do a $1000 procedure for $1000, who is going to pay $58000?
Like the Iraq Warlogs, or DWS scandal.

Even leaks like the Stratfor files are certainly in the best interests of the "little guy," if anyone actually gives a shit about them.

But if "all a man is, is what others say of him," then by watching the news, Assange is just a Russian agent.
Who are these people who are 'familiar with the matter'? Look at the people 'familiar with the matter' regarding the apple/et al spy chip story. How can we, as consumers of news, ever know if there is any kind of truth from these anonymous sources, or if they are just trying to nudge either public perception, or key players(wikileaks, ecuador, etc) in a certain way?
It's not an easy mountain but it's of a substantially lower degree of difficulty than the high Himalayan peaks. It's harder than the lower Ecuador volcanoes for reasons of elevation and other factors and has glaciers, etc. like they do but the weather tends to be better than mountains much further north or south. (I've climbed other volcanoes there but only made it part way up Chimborazo.)

ADDED: i.e. so it's not unthinkable for a person in good physical shape who gets some winter hiking experience, has a fair bit of experience hiking up mountains overall, gets some glacier skills, and goes on a guided climb. Of course, people react to altitude a lot differently.
> It dinged my wife's credit so bad that we were recommended to not put her on our mortgage application.

I've been through this sort of thing, and it's ridiculous. Medical bills shouldn't be able to affect one's credit rating.
Great response! I love talking in terms of analogies so this is great! Unfortunately, I don't think your assembly line manager analogy really gets to the heart of what the problem might be. Lets unpack the original cyber security argument:

1) Cyber security is really hard, and it might normally take someone a full university degree, plus several years of experience before they might understand at a high level what kind of strategies are often employed.

2) This minister has no education or experience.

3) Without any education or experience, the minister will not understand exactly what they are responsible for, fail to make good decisions, or otherwise perform poorly.

There are a few key difference between your assembly line analogy and the argument above.

1) The existence of a reasonable best-alternative. It is possible for one person to obtain domain knowledge on cyber security, as well as the knowledge required to perform ministerial duties. In your auto manufacturer example, it is near impossible for any one person to have experience on an assembly line, engineering, marketing, law, and accounting. Lacking this, it might be more reasonable with auto manufacturers to try and select someone who has reasonable breadth, or maybe depth in a couple domains, but might not have depth across all domains.

2) Certain jobs such as that of an assembly worker, do not require as much education and experience as working in cyber security, and as such, it is easier for a manager to have a conceptual model of what is required from their role, without having performed the job themselves.
Pretty much. They'll argue that the negotiation is part of the "value" they add, but beyond that in many cases they're merely rent seeking.
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Russia airing the dirty laundry through a side channel is MUCH more benevolent than the other things (like blackmailing our world leaders) they could do with this.

I don't think all of Wikileaks' revelations are from Russia, but even if they all are - and Russia had selfish motivations - it was a benevolent act toward the world. Truth is power, and revealing the truth to the powerless is never an evil act.
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Doable in principle? My impression was that the author doesn't argue against this. He claims it's unlikely to be doable in practice. That's the whole point of the article.
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Leaky database of SMS text messages exposed password resets and two-factor codes
IMO a good balance between never resetting 2FA and resetting 2FA with a simple call to tech support: The customer calls in to reset it, you then wait 24 hours, and attempt to contact them through all known contacts for them at the end of 24hrs. If they then approve the reset OR you can't contact them (i.e. lost phone) THEN reset it. Sorry if I wasn't very clear.
Is a PR campaign in progress against Facebook ? Lots of negative articles in a short period of time.
It's times like these I wish I could afford a boat!
I'm not "finding a way to dismiss" it, I'm just applying some skepticism to the hearsay about the geopolitical affairs of, of all people, spies.
Please feel free to share a valid argument in favor of FB and its actions, if you can find one.

I'm sure you will be upvoted, for creativity if nothing else.
My thoughts exactly. It's easy enough to hide infringement of a patent like this that I doubt they'd ever be able to enforce it anyway. Did they forget that journalists scan patent filings, especially from big, newsworthy companies?
Tulsa's geographic upside is the nearby Ouachita Mountains. There's hiking, climbing and caving, moreso than in nearby cities like Dallas or Wichita.

The downside is five snowy days per year and eleven above 100 Fahrenheit, and occasional cases of scary spinning sky triangles. This rules it out for me.
Where is it preached in western society that the inherent value of men is zero? Men can raise children too and last I heard it usually takes a man to help create that child also.
I think it's just an easy way to get clicks these days.
Statewide aggregates are not always super useful. Portland, Oregon is really different from Burns, Oregon, for instance.
Even before we knew how nasty facebook behaves behind closed doors, I would have found this creepy. Not that I'm surprised companies are doing it...the profit available to whichever company grabs the most data about people is huge, so there will always be huge resources devoted to figuring out more and more about people (even details they've chosen not to share).

I used to be somewhat naively optimistic about companies like Google and Facebook. I knew so many people who worked at those places, and I had such positive feelings about their ethical core...but, in hindsight, that optimism and that faith was poorly placed. They're companies that make money entirely based on the profitability of violating people's privacy. Of course they're gonna be evil; evil is where the money is in the advertising industry.
"While a conventional computer with N bits at any given moment must be in one of its 2N possible states, the state of a quantum computer with N qubits is described by the values of the 2N quantum amplitudes, which are continuous parameters (ones that can take on any value, not just a 0 or a 1)."

If nothing else, that seems to me to be the clearest description of quantum computing I've seen.
> I actually believe he was ardently an American patriot

Assange is Australian.
> Facebook puts a tax on being human, on trying to exist outside of a social vacuum.

I don't know what "trying to exist outside of a social vacuum" means. I also don't know what type of "tax" Facebook puts on being human that isn't levied--to at least some extent--by every other technological advance (telegraph, phone, internet, email, SMS...)
Many hospitals like to have their physicians as contractors or consultants.

For bonus points, not all hospitals require their physicians to be in the same network as the facility, so you can get an "out of network" bill for the ER doc at an in network hospital.

Or, to get even more ridiculous, I went to a large chain urgent care. They had labs in house. I got a blood draw there as part of a physical from the PA-C. And an out of network bill. Lab ABC, owned by healthcare provider ABC, inside an ABC urgent care, was somehow out of network, in contrast to the facility and the provider. Cue a $600 bill...
I think you're arguing in your first and second paragraphs against relationships, not marriage. The question is why marriage is declining within relationships.

Your third paragraph partially addresses that, but I disagree: effectively nobody is having weddings beyond their means, or feeling required by society to do so. Plenty of people have modest weddings, you just don't hear about them, because fewer people are invited to a small wedding than a big one, so there are fewer people who have been to a small wedding than a big one.

There are just some really rich people (or averagely-rich people with really rich extended families) who pay to have fancy weddings because they can.
is china promoting those apps? android has a dozen with million of downloads (and very good quality) but all started less than a year ago.
I'm guessing Kolmogorov
I think playable is meant more in a "we can have a fun game" sense and less of a "I can be competitive at a high level" sense. Even the former becomes hard at higher latencies.
This is the stagnation of paying your scientists poorly.

All the same. If there are no jobs for scientists, salaries drop, the oversupply isn't going to go away anytime soon. What's this STEM shortage they are talking about in Washington?
if this is not illegal, why even have a CIA? why shouldn't the government just pay facebook for data access?
> The only reason it's not illegal is that we never had the technology so no reason to worry about it.

The technology was available for as long as people have had smartphones and social media, smartphones specifically due to their geolocation capabilities. I'm just surprised if they only just now started doing this.
Really not an expert here but Red Hat did acquire and open source VDO from Permabit which has similar functionality AIUI.
It's quite easy to pass properties between elements and build entire apps out of Web Components. Many have been doing it for years.

Yes, it requires not just using plain markup - but template systems or JSX+VDOM are really good at this, and there's a huge choice in libraries. SkateJS is a library that allows you to plug-in several renderers to build components. LitElement uses lit-html. Polymer, Svelte, Vue, and Angular (the last when compiled to Custom Elements) have their own...

There also is a chance at standardization with the Template Instantiation proposal from Apple.
I usually make the joke that Google / Facebook are the NSA.
Like I said, I never worked at Facebook. I only bought the stock!
Yes, it is naive. Is it acceptable for Target (or FB or Google) to know that a girl is pregnant before she has shared the news with her family?

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/06/big-data-whats-even...

Human beings have a right to privacy and right to control who knows their personal information.
I suspect it's news providers chasing a popular wave of outrage because they know people want to read articles about Facebook doing something sketchy. Reminds me of the flood of negative articles about United Airlines in the wake of the incident with the guy getting dragged off of the plane.
It certainly does not require unwarranted assumptions, the proposed approach is consistent with the well-known turkey scenario.

From the experience of feeding a turkey can infer that being slaughtered is a rare event, and that the likelihood it happening exactly tomorrow (without having access to a calendar) is not necessarily 0, but is below a certain rate - and it's definitely not likely to happen three times in the next week. Surviving for 180 days is reasonable justification to assume that, on average, turkeys get slaughtered less frequently than every 60 days, i.e. that the likelihood of Thanksgiving suddenly arriving tomorrow isn't 50% but rather something below 2%.
Maybe find a different shop? I've had mechanics that acted the way described, but I called around and found one that would give me an upfront price for a diagnostic and then called back with a detailed plan for parts and labor to do the required work. I've lived in a number of cities in the US and always managed to find one that does this over the phone.
I'm not sure how much of it is _because_ of my marriage, but I definitely don't have a ton of free time. Those have been pretty well spread over the whole adventure and we were actually on WIC/foodstamps when we had our first kid.
How so? Downstream distros can end support whenever they want.
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But how could you 'remember' the DWS scandal if WikiLeaks were illegal to read :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-beYBLrkNAg
Plenty of people dispute this narrative, myself included. The DNC never took any action against the Sanders campaign, despite some disgruntled emails by some DNC staffers venting about Sanders.
Do you think they don't?
Two instances of getting it wrong doesn't negate the entire news organization. That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There isn't any news organization that hasn't ever got an article wrong.
>If you can't fully conceptualise every concept thought up by feminist sociologists then your just not "on our level" and "so triggered".

The concept that masculinity can have negative effects while not itself being negative isn't something that should take a great deal of effort to comprehend. There are entire male created social complexes like "gentlemanly behavior" and "chivalry" built around the pretense that inherent male traits have both positive and negative aspects.

The problem here is not that "feminist sociologists" are talking down to men and making them quail in fear -- men have no problems whatsoever speaking their mind in regards to criticising women or feminism. The problem is that men who oppose feminism often don't even bother to approach its concepts on their own terms at all. The feminism they oppose mostly doesn't even exist, or at best they're attacking the fringe and not the mainstream.

If you have a problem with the concept of toxic masculinity, for example, all I and the "feminist sociological agenda" (or whatever) ask is that you bother to find out what the term actually refers to. Cribbing from Wikipedia:

stereotypically masculine gender roles that restrict the kinds of emotions
allowable for boys and men to express, including social expectations that
men seek to be dominant (the "alpha male") and limit their emotional range
primarily to expressions of anger.

...that's not an attack on men, masculinity in general or on any healthy masculine traits.