skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Want to do something about it? Regulate it.

Like literally, have some government body write a table:

1 pill of 400 mg paracetamol ............ $0.50
1 pill of 800 mg paracetamol ............ $0.60
prescribing medicine (once per day) ..... $4.32
base fee for an ER visit .............. $200.00
5 minutes of work by an ER physician ... $27.43

etc. and impose that as the maximum price that can be charged.

It's not going to happen because "omg socialism", but this is literally how other countries handle it. Possibly with a multiplier that the hospital/doctor can apply within certain limits. If you really need to, maybe even allow deviating from it as long as the patient is conscious, in a position to make that choice (i.e. not emergency care), is explicitly informed that this is above the "official" rate, is informed about the rate, and signs off on it beforehand.

And I'd like to point out that this sort of regulation isn't unprecedented in the US either. Taxi prices are regulated this way in many areas. Apparently, transportation is more important and less suitable to be left to a free market than healthcare...
If you’re in the EU you can refer to the GDPR and request all the data they have on you.
You just reinvented railways.
>Its inconvenient to believe that your health has a larger effect on the world you live in, but it does.

Sure it does, but what do you want to do about it. Do we scold people for picking careers that are bad for their health. Do we shame women who don't have children because it increases their chance of developing breast cancers?

>Furthermore it funnels more and more human capital away from the rest of the economy by raising demand for doctors, nurses, and all other kinds of medical staffing/machinery.

And choosing to watch youtube videos funnels money into advertising and away from the rest of the economy.

Nearly every single individual decision that you make impacts someone else.
I don't see anything denigrating there.

I disagree with Rob though, syntax highlighting is not juvenile, it's cargo cult programming.
Legislation requiring up-front presented costs to be honored and any additional procedures/costs to be cleared with patient consent as they happen (or a consent waiver obtained from the patient with a promised limit or incentive such as overall discount) might be an improvement. Or it may increase costs for the worse. Who knows.
Seconded, I'd never heard of it until this post and read the submission thinking it was some what original or if not original derived from something I'd never read before.

I did not have time to read the original over lunch but found it and saved it for later.

I'm sure like many things in life now that I know about it I'll see references to it everywhere I go.

Derivative or not I really enjoyed it and that poor dev ops lady really struck a chord in me, been there, done that.
Some of my old standbys, yes. Which in particular?
Indeed. Cars form the 80's didn't even last for the 4 year loan.
To use an ORM and not get crap performance you still need to understand sql, and what is happening under the hood.
Today is "don't believe the comments day" it seems. How is an unconscious person meant to be stop an "out of network" nurse assisting? Is there a tattoo that you can get?
> The computational power of the hardware is getting really close to what a human brain is capable of

Why do you say that? AFAIK computing architecture and brain architecture are completely different. How would you even begin to compare their power?
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Those salaries exist around the minneapolis/st. paul area at a few of the larger corps nearby.
Not disagreeing, but the administrative overhead for tracking the cleanup is a lot worse than tracking the production.

The reason by the way I’m suggesting a tax on production is because a product isn’t necessarily a sale: the physical waste still exists even if it just sits in a warehouse before being disposed of.
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I'm patiently waiting to have injuries and sudden symptoms until ER bills become more reasonable and transparent. Until then, if something happens, I guess I'll just die.

-youth of today
this is often because we try to anticipate the conclusion without taking the user along the journey of discovery: feature --> advantage --> benefit.

on landing pages, you want that journey to be quick, but in our rush, we'll cut out important pieces, rather than shortening the individual components.

instead of just "add convenience to your life with our auto magic orchestrator 2000!", you need to say "the best home automation hub" --> "because we integrate with everything and our controller is twice as fast" --> "never worry about turning on your heater, lights and coffee maker again!" --> "buy our auto magic orchestrator 2000!"
Pseudonymity is what you get when you allow people to tightly control their own information. This is what Freenet uses: You have a private key to which you can upload and which you can use as pseudonym in messaging systems.
There's one of these in Cambridge too. It's an completely idiotic idea though. It requires modifying the buses and because it is made of custom concrete blocks made to fairly tight tolerances it is vastly more expensive than a road with rising bollards.
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Those Nespresso bags unfortunately didn't work for me because during the summer I always find worms there.
This is probably a bad idea to mail bags with living worms.
I'd be more willing to accept the security justifications for bad repair-ability if it didn't extend across their entire portfolio and to their authorized service providers. Why do AOSPs have to replace entire mainboards (CPU, memory and all) instead of individual components on the iMac?
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In any case, he's on his way out.
Depending on your goals, another interesting question might be:

"Where could one work as a software engineer that gives the quality-of-life and retirement-lifestyle that I'd get from making $150k USD in the US?"
The Windows Store in Windows 10 has a "one-click" $99 upgrade from Home to Pro, Dell doesn't really need to offer it as a configuration item anymore.
Can We Just Have Medicare for All Already?
It is useful. I don't take it often because it doesn't go my way but I used it once to get to a friends house and it was pretty amazing. Really fast and unobstructed by traffic.
From above:

> It should be noted that John quit the company in 1997 and sold his idea for $50,000
It will be a whole other issue only once we can make waste disposal 100% effective (if we can even expect that to happen). Until then waste is not a trivial problem.
The history of private firefighting is a particularly dirty one.

In the past, fire companies would show up and demand payment before putting out fires. If a payment couldn't be made, the company might negotiate the purchase of the burning property at a steep discount.

Later, insurance companies hired brigades to only put out fires on insured properties. Fire companies might have fought or sabotaged one another in order to win the right to put out a fire and get paid for it.

While it isn't perfect, and it's often underfunded, I definitely prefer the system we have now.
Google definitely prefers regular content over high depth, lengthier stuff. Honestly, I suspect all sites and services with algorithms do, there's a reason popular YouTube channels tend to have a very consistent schedule.

But hey, if you're writing more detailed content, then that's something I'm happy to see as a reader. The constant push for speed above everything else is exactly why so much content online is poorly researched and barely fact checked, and Google favouring quickly written stuff is likely a good reason why the media has fallen so far recently; everything's about trying to beat the curve on search engine results and social media sites.

Kudos for not going the same way.
There are indeed some shady vape juice providers as I mentioned. Some even included heavy metals. People should research what they are buying and where it comes from.

As for vaping itself causing cancer, I would be interested in seeing the studies and who is funding them. Applying any heated material to your tissue can increase the probability of cancer, just about as much as walking in the sun for a short period of time. This is still substantially lower risk that sucking tar/smoke that is radio-active, which all cigarettes are.

If someone outlaws vaping, I will help my son avoid said laws until such a time that people snap out of it.
Sure, I'd agree. But this brings up the idea of autopoiesis, and then I think things get really murky.

One question that interests me is this: Does intelligence have as a prerequisite a living system, such as a cell? If so, what is our definition of the living system and why is that important? If not, what abstract qualities of intelligence are we really trying to capture?
I would imagine regulation is a lot of what stops competing on price like everything else.
The US in particular has developed a culture that says it's not only unacceptable to point out the negative externalities created by a business, but downright unpatriotic.
I feel HN really needs to start making a distinction between salary and compensation. Especially for mid level to senior deva, equity and bonus can make up over 50% of total compensation, changing the nature of the question and the conversation.

For example, every dev I know in the bay area nets over 150k in total compensation
Sure you can, but HN is not GDPR-compliant, so you'll just get pointed at the public API.
I think the unspoken need is to protect the organisation (and maintainers) from the plague of recriminations and identity politics.
FYI it's from 2015 but there's a dump in the BigQuery public datasets: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/fh-bigquery:hacker... (along with a bunch of other interesting things)
"it’s like a cache" is what we’ve been saying as the default description for years. When did you last interact with the freenet community?
I don't care who his friends are.
I don't find people interesting because of the company they keep or track their career because they interviewed someone.
Galafinakis isn't worth fawning over because he mock-interviewed Obama. Baskets wasn't interesting either.

Any guy quitting facebook (who can sign up again for free in a heartbeat, it's zero risk) is an event, granted. Might as well talk about the time someone quit selling on eBay or had a video removed by Youtube or went to Ohio. It doesn't mean anything until you sensationalize it. This indicates that it is not news, but raw sensationalism.
Regardless of insurance, when you offer to pay cash hospitals will often slash the price considerably. If the hospital has to use a debt collection agency, then they're looking at getting a small fraction of the list price back - sometimes an order of magnitude less. They're willing to negotiate accordingly.
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It works in 36 out of 37 modern OECD nations, with the US paying the most, and more than double all the other nations which have the government negotiate a better price.

Even in our own VA system, their negotiated prices are lower for drugs than the Medicare part D program, barred from negotiating (and with large pieces managed by private companies).

I think your skepticism should primarily be directed to wondering if private systems can ever negotiate a fair price in healthcare products and services.
> You'd want to be among the last people on the road to adopt a lighter car

Make all the delivery vehicles that have no people in them really light first
Insurers are both victims and beneficiaries of a system in which people are terrified to go without medical insurance, but where that medical insurance often doesn't meaningfully protect you.

The proposed alternative is to give tremendous power to an organization with less conflicted responsibilities.
No it doesn't. You're ignoring hardware.
As in it's made of plastic? Ooof, I retract my statement.
It would be interesting to compare prices with countries with free government sponsored medical care. In NZ I know they work out the cost, and if you aren't a resident/citizen you have to pay the bill.
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That might be true in some places, but what's the solution for places where tap water is not safe for human consumption?
Yup, it's worked nearly all over the modern world, for years and years. The last thing I want in healthcare is more startup maniacs trying to "disrupt and innovate" when there is a clearly viable alternative.
Perhaps irrecoverably so for me.

It is well past time. FB have repeatedly demonstrated who they are.
Sure, and we can debate that, but it's not what I was responding to. The idea that he had technically served his sentence, but is on parole, makes no sense.
I, for one, welcome our new hemimastigote overlords.
There's nothing about this that excludes that work as well.

But, there's nothing to say that the upstream distro would accept the changes. Google has more stringent requirements that a general distro, and you're choosing to follow those requirements (at the benefit of Google's automated scanning). It's totally your choice.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft on Azure.
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When did you last look at Freenet? When did you last check the moderated discussion boards? (FMS)

There’s a lot of original non-scum user content on Freenet nowadays.
A recent episode of An Arm and a Leg podcast explains this pretty well (https://armandalegshow.com/why-health-insurance-actually-suc...). In many areas of the US, health networks are effectively local/regional monopolies and can pick and choose which insurance providers they accept. So there is effectively a "single seller" system for services that are in high demand.
He said he served "additional parole" on top of his time served.
For those who would like to watch the world collapse, I really recommend the podcast Ashes Ashes: https://ashesashes.org/
> It works in 36 out of 37 modern OECD nations

The rest of the OECD has universal healthcare, but not necessarily fully public healthcare (the model vary considerably.)

Which just means that there are lots of good proven models that the US could adopt.
I think OP meant he was able to get the extra $5k removed from the bill after the fact.... not the nurse removed from the operating room.
I've re-purposed my Keurig into a hot-water dispenser (and occasional refillable-k-cup coffee dispenser). It works well for me for that purpose.

Buying the actual K-Cups is very expensive and wasteful. Though in a pinch or in certain circumstances (workplace, etc) I'll keep a few handy that I got on sale or cheaper in bulk.
It makes me sad that there are places in the world where people have to pay to go to an emergency doctor. I know it’s a political hot topic but all that aside doesn’t most people deep down inside think that every fellow human should have the right to free doctor?
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An AWS region or an AWS availability zone?

You should always make everything multi-AZ whenever feasible.
Doesn't have to be government _paid_, just regulated. Literally saying "you can't charge more than X for service Y". It isn't unprecedented either, see taxi tariffs in some areas.
At least for those of us in the healthcare space, HIPAA compliance demands it.

The regulations and the attack risk aren't always in alignment unfortunately.
I use Nespresso at home. But I also like that in different bars/cafes coffee is different.
I like dealing with data that's line-denormalized like this since it's a lot easier to manipulate with simple things like grep and awk.

If you do too, and you find yourself dealing with JSON a lot, take a look at gron [0], it takes JSON and denormalizes all the structure into a line-oriented equivalent.

% echo '{"root": {"left": [1, 1.4, 2, 2.88], "right": ["a", "b"]}}' | jq .
{
"root": {
"left": [
1,
1.4,
2,
2.88
],
"right": [
"a",
"b"
]
}
}
% echo '{"root": {"left": [1, 1.4, 2, 2.88], "right": ["a", "b"]}}' | gron
json = {};
json.root = {};
json.root.left = [];
json.root.left[0] = 1;
json.root.left[1] = 1.4;
json.root.left[2] = 2;
json.root.left[3] = 2.88;
json.root.right = [];
json.root.right[0] = "a";
json.root.right[1] = "b";

[0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
The issue is picking the users that are manually checking for updates. This used to be a precaution people applied onto their system, now it can actually make your system less stable.
Oh let's be very clear: Go is actively, explicitly anti-FP, anti-expressiveness, anti-brevity. Those are simply not its values. And any attempts to write Go in FP style will be considered unidiomatic Go.

And the missing ternary will be the least of your problems. Do you enjoy `map` and `filter`? Sorry, the "go way" is to use a for loop every time. Reimplementing map on every type where you need it is considered best practice in Go. Have a problem with that? Expect a snarky comment about your priorities.

This can all be pretty frustrating when you've experienced the joys of more expressive languages.

Go has good concurrency primitives and is fast. That's what it's good at. Those are the reasons to use it. Temper your expectations accordingly.
Even if Facebook has a 50% reduction in rev, they'd likely be breaking even, and not touch their massive cash reserve.

2017 earnings:

* 40B of Rev

* 5.5B cost to rev

* Gross profit of 35B

* Operating Income of 20B

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/fb/financials?query=income-sta...
Could be. I haven't thought too deeply about what happened when.
Guessing:

- They'd been running the two systems in parallel and comparing their outputs for months. By the time the pulled the plug, they were confident that PostgreSQL was working fine.

- They had written systems to copy data from the MonogoDB-backed service to the one running on PostgreSQL. Once they started treating PostgreSQL as the official store of record, they'd be faced with either writing another system to mirror PostgreSQL back to MongoDB or committing to lots of double entry. Either of those sound painful.
I'm getting into hand-wavey territory here, IANAprofessional in a related discipline, etc., and my personal leaning is towards socializing public services such as medicine already. So disclaimed...

I think "only (any large organization) can negotiate a better price" is a little misleading on the surface. On a macro level it should, in theory, be true, and should already be happening with private insurers; when I've looked at my own EOBs, they consistently will list a service, a coding, a billed price, an "allowed" price that is always much less than the billed price, and the amount paid (which predictably matches the "allowed" price). And yeah, when we're watching politicians pontificate, we end up having strong opinions about the total price of healthcare and its effect on the economy.

That said, does anyone _really_ make personal healthcare decisions based on the macro effect on the economy? I personally doubt it.

I posit that the vast majority of US citizens and residents wouldn't care if the annual healthcare spend changed by US$200 million, but any individual American cares A WHOLE LOT if you bill them personally for US$100,000 and their insurance doesn't cover it (or much of it).

It seems to me that a much better approach to this entire conversation is "let's drastically reduce the number of Americans forced into bankruptcy because they or their dependent got sick". My own inclination is that that'll require government intervention, because the incentives for a for-profit insurance company are to pay out as little as possible, but I'm open to anything that addresses that problem.
No disagreement here, plenty of idiots on bikes too!
Your opinions must be considered too, so maybe we only force how packaging and ads look like.
well Elixir might have being a good decisions :)
OK, but the other parts in the K-cup also need to be thrown away too because of this part?
> My intent was to challenge your statement that google are better package maintainers than Debian, specifically w.r.t. reproducibility of builds.

Ah, I believe there's a misunderstanding coming from misreading of my statement: what I wrote is that the _reason to upgrade_ would be the _belief_ that they are better, and that if you restrict yourself to _certain measures_, they probably can, by throwing more money at the problem. I hoped that he latter part of my comment probably makes it rather clear that Google wouldn't actually be better as far as I'm concerned. Even from purely technical perspective, I'm fairly sure Debian is willing to support many architectures Google will ignore.
I'm interested to know what kind of heat pump they are using to get up to molten salt temperatures. The only off-the-shelf high temp heat pumps you can find are generally supercritical CO2. To get a high temperature differential with phase change heat pumps, you typically need to use multiple stages or have a very high compression ratio (read: quite expensive compressor). The picture in the background looks like maybe a ceramic turbine?

Anyone who has any information on this, I'd be interested to hear more about the details.
people are down voting because there is a political war going on between "criminals" and "prudes". People that want strong decency laws and those that want freedom regardless of decency. Simply put , there are many gray areas on many different dimensions
I find myself in the same boat. I've spent more from my HSA this year than I put into it (and I put in $6900) while I'm nowhere near hitting my deductible ($6K) because for whatever reason the insurance only thinks I've spent $2.7K. During this time I've tried to shop around, find the least expensive option (none of my medical needs this year have been urgent) and it's been impossible. Nobody can tell me. "You'd have to talk to our billing department, and they probably can't tell you anything until the doctor is finished."

I am now firmly in the single payer camp. Medicare for All, I guess. To the insurance companies and medical billing industry, and even doctors, I say: "Sorry, not sorry, when this train comes through try to remember you did it to yourself."
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> The Phoebus cartel created a notable landmark in the history of the global economy because it engaged in large-scale planned obsolescence to generate repeated sales and maximize profit.

> The cartel conveniently lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours (down from 2,500 hours) and raised prices without fear of competition. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours.
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Interestingly, 2007-2009 is exactly the period during which Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox, Github, Spotify, Quora, Evernote and Kickstarter were founded.
I like the disconnect between this reality and the "consumer driven health plans" being offered by employers
Shouldn't the max price of services (not things like RX of course) be different depending on the cost of living in that area? You'd need different prices in different areas otherwise the prices might be too expensive in some areas and too cheap in others. If the prices set are too cheap, you might see more people using the ER for non-emergency purposes, which would be bad for the people that need to use the ER for actual emergencies.
Because rich, white, men make all the rules.
Yes, and we should wary of anyone who proposes to forcfully enslave others for simply excersizing their liberty to consume drugs w/o a permit from a prescriber.
Ah, you're this kind of person, I see: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha.
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