skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just described Loss Aversion perfectly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Another overhyped autonomous deployment. Just a gimmick like the "autonomous" Lyft ride I had in Vegas, where the car had two people instead of one in a regular run of the mill yellow cab
Yes, many people who advocate for "single payer" intend that to mean eliminating any private-pay option.
This works reasonably well for things like vision care because they're entirely opt-in. Patients who aren't satisfied with the prices they're being quoted can realistically choose to keep wearing glasses instead.

No one in their right mind is going to decide that the going rate for chemotherapy is a little steep right now so they're going to sit with the cancer for a year or two and see if the prices come down.
I don't think you can launch non-signed apps when S Mode is on. Does not matter, if you installed them when it was off.
For this reason, I'm beginning to think that we do in fact have "universal" healthcare in that anyone can turn up to the hospital and be treated despite their income. For those who don't pay (or don't have insurance) the hospital spreads that cost out over their other patients and likely marks up the price to insure against non-payment. So we end up with an unregulated mess where any one hospital has to insure themselves (in the form of passing on costs) against the percentage of patients that will simply never pay.

Given that this is going on, why not just switch to a single payer system and spread this out over a much larger population rather than each hospital trying to insure against it?
That's one Oktoberfest Maß for you ;-)
On Windows, I'm using Chocolatey package manager :
https://chocolatey.org/

zstd is among the available packages.
Oh, people are up in arms about other single-serve items as well. Bottled water and excessive plastic packaging are two most ridiculous examples of what our economy has created.

Keurig cups are special though, being the archetype of a business completely fucking people over on multiple layers. Beyond all the plastic waste, there's also aspect of vendor lock-in and (recently) DRMing the coffee making process.
Graph Ricci Curvature
> Which is to say don't propose something until you understand the unintended side effects. You can get your desired result but while making everything worse.

I think the American experiment in trying to provide market health care has demonstrated that you can, in fact, have a 'free' market for healthcare, while making almost everything about that healthcare worse.
> But the hospital doesn't know if the birth is going to be uncomplicated until it actually happens. If the hospital gives out only a projected price...

The hospital can totally give a realistic, projected price: It can know what the probability of a complicated birth will be, and it is also able to amortize that over all the uncomplicated births.

There's no sane public-policy reason it should be structured like a reverse slot machine: you pull the lever, get a fixed prize, then find out how much you'll pay for it.
They get to serve in the devil's cabinet.
I do agree that the tax is useful but it needs to go further.

Re: Gp point. How do you think the government can determine wasteful disposables?

There's cars that only last 5 years instead of 40+. (Apparently replacing metal with plastic cut costs but increases maintenance costs). Is a car lasting 5 years, a wasteful disposable? What if it's still functional but needs replacing with more plastic? At 10 cent a car, why would this discourage car companies from 1 year car use?

What i see is that the gov will need a big agency to determine which disposable is wasteful (non biodegradable/recycable?) vs those that are not. Either that or the agency approve exceptions which may not be cheap either?

My proposal means the costs of environmentally friendly products are reflected in the price instead of a tax. By making companies take back waste.

A car with plastic will cost a lot to dispose of, just like a lot of plastic products. Now imagine if all products were replaced with aluminium and glass. Less disposable costs.

Edit: in economic terms. The waste is an externalised cost by companies. My proposal privatises it.
Ah, I didn't know, thanks! I'll have to re-test.
I remember a hyperbolic readme or other such txt file for Postgres in the far-away long-ago time when everyone was on Slashdot. The author had written one of the most enthusiastic lovenotes to software I'd ever read, and that includes Stephenson's "In The Beginning Was The Commandline." It was a Thomas Wolfe level of ejaculatory keenness. I'd love to read it again if anyone else knows where I can find the file. So, even if there aren't actual Postgres reps, there are most assuredly evangelists.
This is the same as saying that the value of cigarettes is the same as what it would cost to pay a smoker to stop smoking.

With Facebook users, it can't be ignored that, in not all but many cases, we are talking about behavior that ranges from slightly compulsive to downright addicted.
I recently heard the following analogy:

IaaS => Owning a home

PaaS => Bed and breakfast

Serverless => Hotel room

Lambda I guess would be like using the coffee pot in a hotel room? Don't worry about power, don't worry about beans. Every time you come into your room it's ready to go, just press "on".
Behind every brain is a successful neural network. Or at least that's the promise of connectionism.
There is a network effect to consider, too. The initial group may require $1k, but the asking price would likely drop as the remaining number of users does.
You can do things like that on LinkedIn? I've only ever gone to the page to see job listings and update my profile for potential recruiters.
"Employers, quite rationally and of their own free will, choose to offer health insurance as a benefit"

Sorry, it's because of tax breaks, not pure rational free market. All the rest of what you describe are unintended consequences of that non-free-market tax break that seems like such a good idea on the surface.
translation: "an amplifier that sounds pleasant and warm, not harsh like a transistor."
They are in a position to judge which types of care are and are not cost effective and can refuse to cover the latter.

That doesn't always work out as well as you might think. A number of years back Medicare told hospitals they'd no longer pay for UTI treatment, unless the provider could prove that the patient had the UTI when they were admitted. This made sense, because hospital-acquired UTI is a big thing.

The thing is, what hospitals had to do to defend against this was to test everybody being admitted to prove that they already had the UTI. So from Medicare's point of view they were saving, but from a broader perspective they were pushing unnecessary costs (unnecessary tests) onto providers which increased the total amount being spent on healthcare.
Arcadia (Clojure in Unity3D)
This is spot on; likely compulsively downvoted by folks in denial about their FB addictions.
> And the zstd binary itself includes a dictionary trainer (zstd --train). Building a pipeline for handling compression dictionaries can therefore be reduced to being a matter of gluing these building blocks together in relatively straightforward ways.

What happens if your user data trained dictionary ends up storing user data and you receive a GPDR destruction request?
If you keep your LI profile up to date and have in demand skills, people will be knocking down your door to give you money. I've found all my best jobs from LI contacts tbh.

It was a wasteland for a while but in my opinion has rebounded.
You are missing one critical point though: If I through my own free will decide that I want a different plan I need to come up with that $1000 difference that my employer is kicking in for me. If I could get that $1000 back to spend on my own I'd have the ability to choose a $1300 plan instead of the $1200 plan (for $1100 because of the factors you sight), that extra $200 out of pocket is much more affordable than the extra $1200 I have to come up with now. Or maybe I don't want all the perks of my work plan would want a $1000 plan that doesn't cover something in the work plan.
It's a little more nuanced compared to water bottles. Coffee powder needs to be kept in a sealed container to be 'fresh' (apart from expiry). So if you don't drink coffee often, pads could be a more sensible choice.
I'm approaching this from a monetary/value perspective. Linkedin has helped me professionally, to make fresh and professional connections, whereas FB has always been about stale/past connections. You may very well be right about the old foggies part, but professionally it is great.
I don't think there are many places outside repressive states where private healthcare is actually banned? Even the UK's extremely centralized NHS runs alongside a private system. It actually has the effect of making the private system cheaper since they don't have to cover everything or everyone.
If you read the full article there are many examples of real systems being migrated with their associated wins.
Ask HN: Is anyone working on AGI on a promising idea?
We're approaching 2019 and hopefully someone among us is already working on the winner idea to solve the human intelligence puzzle?

Can it be yours? What are you working on for AGI?
I had no real reason, I was just throwing ideas out. A carbon tax by the amount produced is the most fair. The point would be to make all polluting activities uneconomical, but there is still the problem that in a democracy this will be deeply unpopular because the rich will likely be able to continue to afford some amount of pollution.
> Employers, quite rationally and of their own free will, choose to offer health insurance as a benefit because it attracts and retains talent better than other similarly priced incentives. The fact that you're hesitant to take a leave reveals that it's working.

This is false. Offering insurance as compensation started during WWII when wages were frozen by the government. Employers found other ways of attracting workers.

There is also the fact that employer-provided insurance is almost entirely untaxed. A dollar in direct employer insurance is essentially a dollar directly to healthcare spending. If it goes through to the employee, that's reduced to at most $0.70 due to payroll taxes, and often much lower. This provides and incentive for both employers and employees to prefer employer-provided insurance.

Compared to these, the effects you described are negligible.
If she doesn't know the backup's been set up, in her mind, yes.
Would you rather count production at a factory or wander around landfills attempting to estimate the same data after people throw the packaging away?
Do you believe it is not possible to alter the usage behavior of a person addicted to a substance with money?

The cost might be unreasonably high to get them to stop, but it might be possible.
Do they? Are you sure? Who? The UK's single payer system coexsists OK with private care. It's not a necessary part of the process.
This is something that has been used for Surface products for a long time and it hasn't been an issue as far as I know.
Universal-Care citizen here. Let me explain how it works. It's definitively not "first in, first served": when you reach the place, you get "pre-examined" by a doctor, who estimates the urgency of your case. Fast, like, in minutes. He assigns you an "urgency level". You then have to wait more or less depending on that. I don't know the exact algorithm they use, but I would assume it's some kind of weighted queue. If you go to ER with a headache, you will have to wait for a long time.
> Hospitals are required to treat the uninsured, but the government doesn't actually compensate them for that.

What percentage of hospital budgets is lost to this?

If it's anything less then 95%, I don't see how the assistance of an out-of-network nurse could possibly cost $5,000.
I don't believe that's true.

What serious single payer proposals have been put forward that would eliminate private-pay, private insurance, or private care?

I've never seen one.

In fact, almost all "single payer" health systems that exist in other countries have private care and private insurance options. For example, such options are available in both the UK with the NHS and in Canada.

I've never once spoken with an advocate of single payer who wants to eliminate private pay, private insurance, or private care.

I am also an advocate of single payer, and I wouldn't advocate eliminating any of those things.
The Landry students referenced here -- "those who had spent more time in traditional schools" -- were not necessarily "completely average students". As the legend of T.M. Landry grew, high-performing students and their parents lobbied to get in. Maybe being affiliated with T.M. Landry boosted their chances in a way unrelated to merit, but it's also very possible these students were capable of success no matter where they graduated from. The NYT story [0] says this:

> The student in the most viral video, who spent only a short time at Landry, is in his first semester at Harvard. Other Landry students have been admitted to Harvard over the past three years, but the university declined to provide information on their status.

> For yet other Landry students, particularly those who spent multiple years at the school, the results after graduation have been disappointing. Some have withdrawn from college, or transferred to less rigorous programs.

In any case, we've long known before T.M. Landry that students who have below-par academic credentials on paper can succeed in the Ivies. Jared Kushner, one of the most powerful men in the country right now, was accepted into Harvard despite reportedly having a mediocre GPA and test scores: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-ku...

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/tm-landry-college-prep...
I find it the same too. Professional and about new and fresh connections. Positive input.
To add to this, they are detecting it based on how it has altered the orbits of other things over a long time, and not based on its direct gravitational effect. Which gives you an idea what its orbit should be, but not where it is within said orbit.

That gives them strip of sky to search through. A strip that unfortunately goes past some bright things - like the Milky Way.
Did they leave Hawaii only because of the price of milk or because staple goods in general were more expensive than other places? In this case the market is working but it is a market where cities compete on cost of living, not milk. In that case moving makes sense.
Eclipse 4.10 released
Dopamine would be chemical in this case (probably? I'm not a neurologist..)
I have a small experiment to discover if AGI is already a solved puzzle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18720482
Employers offering health insurance as compensation is a legacy of wage controls from WWII. Employers were prohibited from paying market-level wages so they offered health insurance. It is entirely a result of non-free-market government controls.
But, you want a more social experience while you listen to music.
standard GDPR cop out disclaimer that's something about needing to keep the data for technical reasons

I wish I knew more about it, but that's what I keep hearing.
I live in Adelaide, and use it everyday to commute. I live around almost end of the north eastern suburbs, but my travel time is still lesser than few who lives closer to city, thanks to O-bahn. I enjoy my bus ride everyday, the views of Hills, Parks and River on the way are beautiful and refreshing.
My memories of thermodynamics are old and full of gaps, but from what I remember both steps, if performed at "normal temperatures, necessarily produce a waste of energy.
The first step, i.e. using electricity to drive a heat pump, is efficient only if the temperature differential between the cold body and the hot one is small. On the other side, conversion of thermal energy into electricity is efficient only if the temperature differential is large.
How does Malta overcome this problem?
There isn't a single EU health care system. Each country still does their own. Maybe each US state could do their own, but there are huge concerns about freeloader problems since we have unrestricted movement between states in the U.S. From what I've read the systems of European countries are being threatened by the freeloader problem that increase immigration as of late has caused.
Don't use it as a social network, only talk to recruiters.
> So it's very hard not to just abandon Ansible and go with this new shiny tool.

Huh? No it's not, not yet. It's clearly marked as alpha software.
Their focus on slim and fashionable devices fits in with their whole product architecture. Fashions change, so Apple devices get replaced with newer ones often. So, why bother to make them last long? They shave every possible millimeter off the dimensions of phones and computers. This means that the devices have thin, easily cracked surfaces and more heat problems inside, leading to short lives. With the computers, they mitigate the customer outrage that would result from the heat-related breakdowns after a few years by getting the customers to anticipate the planned obsolescence. The warranty business is also a huge pot of gold for the company: with the marginal cost of a device so far below the average cost (which includes product development and promotion), the value of the warranty to many customers is so far above the cost of replacement products to Apple, any extension in the average product lifetime would drop the value of Apple by hundreds of billions.
If you're flashing via the UEFI interface itself (which can have a very fancy terminal), the firmware might need to be signed. I bet Microsoft will not share the signing keys.
FoundationDB Fault Tolerance Demo [video]
A tube amplifier sounds very different when clipping (i.e. try to amplify the signal past the maximum the amplifier can produce), and this is used to create distortion, most notably for electric guitars.

There are DSP effects that can simulate this as well, of course.
The 10-2 treasury yield spread looks like a good indicator, with the exception of 1994/1995.

In 1995 there were fears of a recession due to the Fed increasing rates further: "Indeed, if there is a risk to what is generally seen as a solid if not glowing outlook for the stock market this year, it is that in its effort to rein in growth, the Fed might push interest rates too high, forcing the economy into recession." [1]

The Fed put the brakes on raising the Fed Funds rate in 1995 [2]. Subsequently from 1995 - 2001 the S&P 500 index went from 465 to 1425 [3]. I wonder what made 1995 different than 2018. Being in tech, one obvious thing leaps out which is increased investment in capital related to the commercialization of the Internet, the dot com boom and bubble [4]. In 2018, is there a new opportunity to spur growth again, or will 2018 be another 2006, 2000, 1989, etc?

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/03/business/outlook-1995-mar...

[2] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

[3] - http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-yea...

[4] - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dotcom-bubble.asp
We know you can pay drug addicts X to quit their addiction with drug testing to check.

But X can be less than the amount it costs for them to buy the drugs.

People are weird.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/hooked-patterns/2015...
While the exact prices may not be exposed, estimates from past customers can be found online without much difficulty. If you seriously think that a hospital charging trillions of dollars is a possibility, I don't think you're writing comments in good faith.

Prices negotiated with insurance companies are negotiated under conditions very different from an uninsured patient. For example, risk of non-payment is drastically higher among the uninsured. This had to be offset by charging a higher rate so those losses are made up on patients that do pay. If you offer to pay for medical procedures in cash and immediately then you can usually negotiate the price down to a fraction of the list cost.
The american way is not a free market. The employer tax break on health insurance is a significant manipulation.
It’s easier to spend money that wasn’t in your wallet in the first place. It’s when you start taking it out of the wallet that people react.

Seems to me that there's an application of this idea to early stage startups.
Here's a project using actual VF display tubes as an amplifier: http://www.hpfriedrichs.com/radioroom/vfd/rr-vfd.htm If you look at the wiggly plate current curves he measured, there should be plenty of harmonic distortion for tube audio enthusiasts.

My 1970s HP oscilloscope contains several Nuvistors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvistor), which are nearly as small. 17mm x 10mm dia.
My goto: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html

Create a script for something you're currently typing out by hand.. Then use those commands for a script.. Expand from there.
Assuming 8 hours of use a day, this would last at least 10 years. Does audio equipment suffer less from the disposable electronics culture that we have with computers?
That's irrelevant to this argument. The amount you have to pay an addict to stop using something does not give you the value of that thing.

Gambling should be easy. Casino gambling has an obvious negative value to gamblers because most gamblers lose most of the time. If it costs me $X to pay a gambler to never enter the casino again... I don't see any connection between that cost and the "value of gambling in casinos".
I'm curious, and I didn't see any other mention of it in the thread : why do you consider `lambda` to be flawed ? Is it because it has the same scoping rules as functions, and that you consider these scoping rules inappropriate for lambda expressions ?
Are you aware of any YouTube-equivalent? Something that allows you to search user-generated/submitted content and content feeds and has a builtin player to display them.
a MITM can trick your server into thinking there are no updates, and no error will be raised
A single fabricated story that slips thorough can be a people are flawed problem. 60 stories from a fraudster, discovered by a colleague who investigated on his own money, got no support from superiors and had to fear for his job. That, is an organizational problem.

> What do you suggest they should do to prevent this happening in future?

First step would be to admit that they have an institutional problem.
Blaming a single individual and the "frailness of the world" is not a step in the right direction to prevent this from happening in the future.
>Its my coffee, I don't want anyone else drinking my coffee.

If we're concerned with the environmental impact of K-Cups this isn't really a solution. You need something that scales for the communal group instead of just individual consumption. If you're just talking about coffee for yourself you could just as easily recommend everyone brings their own beans and keep and aeropress at work. Or just make pourover for themselves by keeping some kalitas in the kitchen.
I think this is because the culture is quite different in DK compared to the US. There is an expectation of how it will work which is very different by everyone involved.
Alright, I confess, your interpretation was the same as my immediate hot-take reaction, but then I stopped and said waiiiiiit a sec, they can't literally mean, all the data, right? They must mean, like, "my data" in the sense of that stuff above, right?

Only now does FB reveal themselves to the be treacherous jerk they've always been and abuse whatever leeway you give them. Use recovery phone number for marketing? Why not!
“ our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large.” What someone is willing to pay and “benefits” they receive are not the same thing. Someone already touched on it—people are willing to pay a lot for heroin, but few would claim heroin is beneficial.
now that would be an interesting study
or sex. Or food.